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Media Subservience: Ignoring The Crimes of America
Post Date: 2011-08-12 15:55:17 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The anecdote is a useful device in broadcast journalism. To illustrate the ongoing recession and a recent spike in unemployment, NBC Nightly News made the effort, as they’ve done a million times before, to expose their viewers to the reality of the economic struggle millions of Americans are enduring. Sharon Tatra, Brian Williams’s voiceover told us, has been out of work since January 2010. Her unemployment benefits run out in six months. Once that happens, “she doesn’t know how she’ll pay rent or buy food.” The segment ends with Sharon in tears, frightened about her future and rueful at the crumbling of her American Dream. It’s a rending portrait of an ...
The Hijacked Crisis By PAUL KRUGMAN
Post Date: 2011-08-12 11:01:12 by tom007
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The Hijacked Crisis By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: August 11, 2011 Recommend Twitter comments (64) Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints Share Has market turmoil left you feeling afraid? Well, it should. Clearly, the economic crisis that began in 2008 is by no means over. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Paul Krugman Go to Columnist Page » Blog: The Conscience of a Liberal Related Times Topic: United States Economy Readers’ Comments Readers shared their thoughts on this article. Read All Comments (64) » But there’s another emotion you should feel: anger. For what we’re seeing now is what happens when influential people exploit a crisis rather than try to solve it. ...
Who decided that NAU supporter Rick Perry was the tea Party favorite?
Post Date: 2011-08-12 10:54:56 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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So I was watching both CNN and Fox this morning and both places are claiming that Rick Perry is the Tea Party favorite. This really confuses me because Rick Perry is everything that Tea Party members on this site and others claim to hate. He's pro-illegal immigration He's pro-North American Union (NAU) He's pro-Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) He's pro-Trans Texas Corridor Less than ten years ago he was the devil incarnate for thee beliefs, yet now he's the Tea Party favorite? If so, then there is no difference between the Tea Party and the Republican party because you just can't get much more establishment than Rick Perry.
Rising enmity haunts China-Japan relations
Post Date: 2011-08-12 02:20:14 by Tatarewicz
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'Friendship poll' shows changing attitudes among Chinese, Japanese BEIJING - There has been a sharp drop in the number of people in China and Japan harboring feelings of friendship toward the other country following a year of often turbulent relations, according to a poll conducted simultaneously in both countries. The findings of the survey, sponsored by China Daily and the Japanese non-profit think tank Genron NPO, were released on Thursday and suggest that the number of Chinese people who like Japan dropped from 38.3 percent in 2010 to 28.6 percent this year. The drop has reversed a six-year trend characterized by increasingly favorable opinions among Chinese people toward ...
Perry to announce White House bid Saturday: media (Do Texans HATE America????)
Post Date: 2011-08-11 18:35:39 by tom007
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Perry to announce White House bid Saturday: media Texas Governor Rick Perry will formally announce this weekend that he is a candidate for the White House in 2012 © AFP/Getty Images/File Brandon Thibodeaux AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) - Texas Governor Rick Perry will formally announce this weekend that he is a candidate for the White House in 2012, joining a packed Republican field vying to take on President Barack Obama, US media said Thursday. Perry, whom polls show running a close second behind frontrunner and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, is a staunch social conservative who has overseen strong Texas job growth since taking office in 2000. CNN and Fox News Channel said ...
Where is a resolution of UN Security Council on imposing a no-fly zone over Britain?
Post Date: 2011-08-11 17:24:35 by Original_Intent
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Where is a resolution of UN Security Council on imposing a no-fly zone over Britain? by Konstantyn Scheglikov August 11, 2011 On Saturday, August, 6th in the suburbs of London, a rebellion of democratically minded progressive young people dissatisfied with the dictatorship of ruling for about a half of a century, Queen Elizabeth II, broke out. They demand respect for their rights, democratic freedoms and reforms in the UK. The international community expressed support for their heroic struggle against the dictatorship of Queen Elizabeth II. The countries of the UN General Assembly require an urgent convening of the Security Council on the UK. EU leaders have expressed concern due to the ...
Obama: The Great Self-Compromiser
Post Date: 2011-08-10 19:43:07 by Dakmar
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I should have sent President Obama a present for his fiftieth birthday last week, but I didn’t. A lot of things should be but aren’t. Obama should have been an ideal chief of state to reverse the previous twenty years’ self-destructive policies, but he wasn’t. He should have kept a few promises—not to the banks and military contractors, but to the voters. He should have kept the one about ending torture, but he didn’t. He should have kept the implied promise to the middle and working classes to restore their relative earning power to what it was before Ronald Reagan trickled their dollars up to fatten the oligarchy. He didn’t do that, either. Now, a ...
Democracy Died First in Wisconsin - Long Live the Oligarchs
Post Date: 2011-08-10 13:04:38 by tom007
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Democracy Died First in Wisconsin - Long Live the Oligarchs Wednesday 10 August 2011 by: Thom Hartmann, Thom Hartmann's Blog | Op-Ed The Wisconsin recall election was the first major test of the new era in American politics. That new era began in January of 2010 when the US Supreme Court ruled in “Citizens United v. FEC” that the political voice of We The People was no longer as important as the voices of billionaires and transnational corporations. Now we know the result, and it bodes ill for both 2012 and for the tattered future of small-d democracy in our republic. A few of America’s most notorious oligarchs – including the Koch and the DeVos (Amway fortune) ...
Why Expand the Drug War?
Post Date: 2011-08-10 12:14:20 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Here we go again. Amidst all the talk about out-of-control federal spending and debt, what does the U.S. government do? It goes out and spends more money by expanding the drug war in Mexico. Hey, when a federal program has failed to show any success after 40 years, what else would you expect federal officials to do, especially in the midst of a spending-and-borrowing crisis? Even worse, according to an article in the New York Times, the expansion involves “sending new CIA operatives and retired military personnel to the country and considering plans to deploy private security contractors in hopes of turning around a multibillion-dollar effort that so far has shown few results.” ...
Dictator of Damascus By Robert Fisk
Post Date: 2011-08-10 11:38:12 by tom007
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Dictator of Damascus By Robert Fisk Source: The Independent Wednesday, August 10, 2011 Change Text Size a- | A+ Robert Fisk's ZSpace Page Join ZSpace Words, words, words. Bashar al-Assad knows his Hamlet, and he is not impressed. Yes, his isolation grows daily. A day after King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia pulled his ambassador out of Damascus, the Kuwaitis and Bahrainis – we shall naturally ignore, here, Bahrain's own bloody internal suppression – have dutifully followed his example. The Arab League believes that Bashar should "immediately stop" the violence. The UN has roared, though it managed to smear Syria's protesters by calling for both sides ...
Who's Really Downgrading America?
Post Date: 2011-08-10 11:36:04 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The decision by Standard & Poor's to strip the United States of its AAA credit rating, for the first time, has triggered a barrage of catcalls against the umpire from the press box and Obamaites. S&P, we are reminded, was giving A ratings to banks like Lehman Brothers, whose books were stuffed with suspect subprime paper, right up to the day Lehman Brothers fell over dead. Moreover, S&P made a $2 trillion error in its assessment of U.S. debt and used political criteria in making its downgrade. All of which may be true. But none of which is relevant. This downgrade is deeply deserved. For no one really believes the United States is going to pay its creditors back the $14 ...
Yes, It Is a Police State A line has been crossed.
Post Date: 2011-08-10 11:22:40 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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As regular readers know, I’m not one for hyperbole, so perhaps some are thinking that my title is ironic. Nope, I mean it. An accumulation of events in recent months leads me to no other conclusion than that we are in fact living in a police state in the good old US of A. The list of reasons is fairly long, but we can certainly start with our favorite gropers at the TSA. In my ideal world, airline safety would be the responsibility of those with the most directly to lose financially from doing it poorly: the airlines and the airports. But even in a world where government has taken on that responsibility, we should be protected by the Fourth Amendment against “unreasonable” ...
Television News: Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death? [Another Fantastic Read]
Post Date: 2011-08-10 09:05:58 by Eric Stratton
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Television News: Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death?By John W. Whitehead 8/2/2011 "We've got the bubble-headed bleach-blonde who comes on at five. She can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's interesting when people die. Give us dirty laundry." --Don Henley, "Dirty Laundry"Anyone who relies exclusively on television/cable news hosts and political commentators for actual knowledge of the world today is making a serious mistake. Unfortunately, as Americans have devolved into non-readers with woefully short attention spans, newspapers providing even semi-analytical content have found themselves struggling to stay afloat while television, which ...
The American Dream Is Over
Post Date: 2011-08-09 23:46:11 by Itistoolate
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The American Dream Is Over
Summer fun at the Iranian foreign ministry
Post Date: 2011-08-09 18:03:53 by tom007
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Summer fun at the Iranian foreign ministry Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, August 9, 2011 - 10:10 AM Share Tehran responds to the ongoing violence in London: Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast urged the British government to order the police to stop their violent confrontation with the people, IRNA reported in the early hours of Tuesday. Mehmanparast asked the British government to start dialogue with the protesters and to listen to their demands in order to calm the situation down. The Iranian official also asked independent human rights organizations to investigate the killing in order to protect the civil rights and civil liberties. Well played, guys.
Hacker Group Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5
Post Date: 2011-08-09 13:41:16 by tom007
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Hacker Group Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5 Ellis Hamburger | Aug. 9, 2011, 12:59 PM | 1,424 | 9 A A A inShare12 zuckerberg talking Image: AP See Also: anonymous Anonymous Strikes Another Blow For Freedom facebook anonymous Hacking Group "Anonymous" Is Making Its Own Social Network anonymous behind bars FBI Arrests 16 "Anonymous" Hacking Suspects Nationwide Hacktivist group Anonymous, which has been responsible for cyber-attacks on the Pentagon, News Corp, and others, has vowed to destroy Facebook on November 5th (which should ring a bell). Citing privacy concerns and the difficulty involved in deleting a Facebook account, Anonymous hopes to ...
Local Media Fail: News Stations Omit S&P Analysis On GOP Refusing To Raise Revenues
Post Date: 2011-08-09 08:50:36 by tom007
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Local Media Fail: News Stations Omit S&P Analysis On GOP Refusing To Raise Revenues By Lee Fang on Aug 8, 2011 at 7:20 pm When Standard and Poor’s issued its unprecedented downgrade of the nation’s sovereign credit last Friday, the rating agency blasted the GOP’s refusal to raise revenues in a press release accompanying the announcement. As Igor Volsky notes in today’s Progress Report, S&P referred specifically to Republicans when it said: “It appears that for now, new revenues have dropped down on the menu of policy options.” The S&P analysis also stressed that the final debt ceiling deal only reinforced its belief that the Bush tax cuts would ...
Anti-Government Spending Crusader Rick Perry Accepted More Than $80,000 In Farm Subsidies
Post Date: 2011-08-09 08:49:16 by tom007
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Anti-Government Spending Crusader Rick Perry Accepted More Than $80,000 In Farm Subsidies By Guest Blogger posted from ThinkProgress Economy on Aug 8, 2011 at 8:00 pm Falling into line with the Tea Party rhetoric against “out-of-control” government spending, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) is now supporting a move away from direct subsidies to the agriculture industry in favor of an incentives-driven model. But Perry himself has benefited from over $80,000 in farm subsidies over the years and publicly declared his support for farm subsidies when running for Texas Agriculture Commissioner in 1990. After his opponent accused him of wanting to terminate price supports for farmers, Perry was ...
Interesting bios of the SEALS and others lost last nite.
Post Date: 2011-08-08 21:00:52 by tom007
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http://www.wjla.com/pictures/2011/08/photos-of-the-fallen-30-americans-shot-down-in-afghanistan-/kraig-vickers-6223-451.html
The US military's secret military
Post Date: 2011-08-08 17:43:07 by tom007
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The US military's secret military Special US commandos are deployed in about 75 countries around the world - and that number is expected to grow. Nick Turse Last Modified: 08 Aug 2011 06:05 US special forces, like the Navy Seals, are now more actively engaged in more overseas operations[GALLO/GETTY] Somewhere on this planet a US commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say that 70 times and you're done ... for the day. Without the knowledge of much of the general American public, a secret force within the US military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world's countries. This Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has generally been ignored ...
Daily Reckoning readers respond with views of their own
Post Date: 2011-08-08 05:21:41 by Tatarewicz
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The Weekly Endnote: And now, we turn the floor over to our Fellow Reckoners... First up, this one from Charles C... Fight or Flight ??? The Flight is already happening. It is the new "modus operandi" of entrepreneurial efforts. Evergreen on the East Coast, maskers of solar panels, lays off 800 workers and moves production to China. A Wind Generator Company in Sam Diego lays off a thousand and sends production to Mexico. Why Not? Gross profits are immediately generated. Labor costs are lower. No money has to be paid for "Entitlements. Along with this the new technology is handed over to foreign governments. Why not nanotech, genetics, medical technology.... Until this ...
Why Is America Committing Suicide? The US of A on the road to ruin
Post Date: 2011-08-07 23:00:53 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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America is committing suicide. That’s the only explanation I have for the course followed by US policymakers in the past decade, a period in which the US budget deficit has skyrocketed beyond all reason. While we have run up deficits before, some of them considerable by the standards of the day, in 2001 – the year we launched our endless “war on terrorism” – the deficit began to enter new territory. Whereas before it had fluctuated, going up, down, and effectively maintaining a steady state of neutral, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks this country went into debt bigtime, with the deficit climbing steadily, doubling in 2007, and nearly doubling again the next fiscal ...
The Ass Saw the Angel, the A-holes Reached for the Whip
Post Date: 2011-08-07 22:04:18 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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And Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. And God’s anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him. And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand. And the ass turned aside out of the way and went into the field, and Balaam smote the ass to turn her into the way. Numbers 22:21-23 America is in peril. A grim specter from yesteryear stalks the land, threatening to starve hardworking defense contractors. Our current wars might be snuffed out before they reach drinking ...
Can We Please Call A Nut A Nut?
Post Date: 2011-08-07 15:47:00 by Original_Intent
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I must be some kind of masochist because I spend a good deal of my non-writing time watching cable TV. And, with a few notable exceptions, I’m appalled by the relentlessly low journalistic standards I see there every day. Let me give you an example. Earlier this week, three teens attending a summer camp at Virginia Tech told campus police they saw a man carrying what might be a rifle of some kind. As soon as this information reached CNN, it went on air as, you guessed it, “breaking news.” Breaking news, course, grabs viewers’ attention. Since Virginia Tech was not long ago the scene of a horrible gun attack that left many dead, CNN was arguably justified in running its ...
The Retarded State of Public Debate
Post Date: 2011-08-07 13:13:34 by X-15
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As the international embarrassment known as the American debt-ceiling debate winds down and Congress decides on how much more they should rob unborn Peters to cover for deadbeat Pauls, I feel like wiping the shit off my eyeballs after witnessing this endlessly infantile blame game. It’s a repulsive Punch and Judy show of exculpating and implicating, finger-pointing and blame-shifting, of mutual obstruction and, ultimately, of mutually assured destruction. Since there will be no happy ending, this weeks-long “debate” boiled down to a drunken saloon argument over whether we drive into a brick wall at 85MPH or 95MPH. This country’s financial wad is red, white, and blown. ...
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