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Brewing a Conflict with China
Post Date: 2012-05-02 15:44:11 by tom007
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Brewing a Conflict with China By Paul Craig Roberts May 01, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- Washington has pressured the Philippines, whose government it owns, into conducting joint military exercises in the South China Sea. Washington’s excuse is that China has territorial disputes with the Philippines, Indonesia, and other countries concerning island and sea rights in the South China Sea. Washington asserts that China’s territorial disputes with the like of Indonesia and the Philippines are a matter of United States’ national interests. Washington has not made it clear what Washington’s stake is in the disputes. The reason Washington cannot identify ...
Why Living In The American Empire Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be
Post Date: 2012-05-02 10:32:45 by tom007
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Why Living In The American Empire Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be The Daily Reckoning | Apr. 3, 2012, 6:57 AM | 6,374 | 40 Share on Tumblr [Pin It] A A A army supply drop parachutes The U.S. Army The Army drops supplies in Afghanistan The Daily Reckoning URL The Daily Reckoning features Entertaining Ideas on the Economy, Markets, Gold, Oil and Investing Strategies Recent Posts Preparing for a Lengthy and Unpredictable US Dollar Crisis Is It Time to Buy a House? Time to Accumulate Gold and Silver RSS Feed The Daily Reckoning Preparing for a Lengthy and Unpredictable US Dollar Crisis Is It Time to Buy a House? Time to Accumulate Gold and Silver RBA Cuts Deep ...
Robert Fisk: Iraq's road back from oblivion
Post Date: 2012-05-01 16:52:21 by tom007
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Robert Fisk: Iraq's road back from oblivion Memories of sectarian war, kidnapping and child killing are fading. It is safer. But nine years since Saddam's fall, Robert Fisk meets many who feel they have lost their homeland Robert Fisk Author Biography Tuesday 24 April 2012 "Al-Qa'ida killed two of our men here two days ago," the cop said. "Then they called us up to tell us the name of their operation – on a police radio!" We were standing in rebuilt Fallujah, where the police request all foreigners to call by for an escort. We got six, one wearing a ski mask. You get the idea. As a police colonel said later: "Al-Qa'ida [is] still here, they ...
Jamie Scott Enyart (Why RFK was Not A CoverUp)
Post Date: 2012-05-01 10:28:16 by tom007
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Jamie Scott Enyart Jamie Scott Enyart was born in 1953. On 6th June, 1968, Enyart, a 15 year old high school student, a high-school student, was taking photographs of Robert F. Kennedy as he was walking from the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel to the Colonial Room where the press conference was due to take place. Enyart was standing slightly behind Kennedy when the shooting began and snapped as fast as he could. As Enyart was leaving the pantry, two LAPD officers accosted him at gunpoint and seized his three, 36-exposure rolls of film. Later, he was told by Detective Dudley Varney that the photographs were needed as evidence in the trial of Sirhan Sirhan. The photographs were not ...
Why are we not rebeling? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2012-04-30 04:29:03 by titorite
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So what is keeping us from rebelling? Honestly at this point shouldn't we be getting our local boys and starting off on local scales to kick out the corrupt city locals and start working our way up through municipal, state and onto federal levels of change.... They cheat. We will never have justice under this system. The current system will only see us as subjects to be ruled rather than citizens in control of their own destiny. So what is holding us back from rebelling against this foul system of government????
The inequality that ate American democracy
Post Date: 2012-04-28 09:56:50 by tom007
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The inequality that ate American democracy We can all expect to lose because economics (and inequality) guides and trumps politics, says author. Although activists have spoken out, the inequality gap in the USA is becoming deeply institutionalised at a time when America has its most nominally progressive president in decades [AFP] New York, NY - In July of 1936, Langston Hughes, the great black American poet first published in Esquire some lines that have never been forgotten. Among them was this: "Let America Be America Again", a salute to the American dream that had, until then, left poorer Americans and minorities behind. So memorable was his phrasing that, in 2004, John ...
Israel's former Shin Bet chief: I have no confidence in Netanyahu, Barak Yuval Diskin accuses Israel's leaders of misleading the public on Iran, says they are making decisions 'based on messianic feelings.'
Post Date: 2012-04-27 20:09:59 by tom007
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Israel's former Shin Bet chief: I have no confidence in Netanyahu, Barak Yuval Diskin accuses Israel's leaders of misleading the public on Iran, says they are making decisions 'based on messianic feelings.' By Barak Ravid Tags: Iran Shin Bet Benjamin Netanyahu Ehud Barak Iran nuclear Get Haaretz on iPhone Get Haaretz on Android Former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin expressed harsh criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Friday in a meeting with residents of the city of Kfar Sava, saying the pair is not worthy of leading the country. "My major problem is that I have no faith in the current leadership, which must lead us in an ...
The Last Best Chance for Campaign Finance Reform: Americans Elect By Lawrence Lessig
Post Date: 2012-04-25 17:43:48 by tom007
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By Lawrence Lessig Apr 25 2012, 4:23 PM ET The corrupting influence of money in politics is the most serious issue the country currently faces. Should we continue to allow a handful of people to control the fate of our elections? amelect.jpg The current top three declared candidates on Americans Elect: Buddy Roemer, Rocky Anderson, and Laurence Kotlikoff / Wikipedia & Boston University There are some who believe, as CurrentTV host Cenk Uygur put it at Netroots Nation last year, "[t]here is only one issue in this country: Campaign finance reform." Some who believe this are, like me, on the left, and see every issue that we care about -- from financial reform, to climate ...
Dick Morris: Media ruined Bush because Iraq war coverage was too harsh (Ya Cant Make It Up)
Post Date: 2012-04-25 15:57:41 by tom007
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Dick Morris: Media ‘ruined’ Bush because Iraq war coverage was ‘too harsh’ By David Edwards Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:30 EDT Print Fox News contributor Dick Morris Topics: dick morris ♦ President Barack Obama ♦ president george w bush Conservative Fox News contributor Dick Morris is asserting that the news media “ruined” President George W. Bush’s presidency because coverage of the Iraq war was “too harsh.” During a Wednesday morning segment with Morris, Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy pointed out that Arthur Brisbane, ombudsman for The New York Times, recently complained that the paper had been more critical of President ...
The Feds Close a School
Post Date: 2012-04-25 15:17:42 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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In the early morning hours of April 2, federal agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the IRS, in full battle gear, swept down on 1600 Broadway in Oakland, CA and did the unthinkable: they closed a school. When the Feds left later that same day (under the protection of the local Oakland Police Department), they carted away several office computers, file cabinets, and dozens of marijuana plants. Oaksterdam University had been operating legally in Oakland since 2007. The brainchild of entrepreneur Richard Lee, Oaksterdam was a trade school of sorts whose part-time professional faculty provided educational services that detailed the science, law, and commercial opportunities ...
REPORT: The Secret Service Agents Were Too Drunk To Get It On With The Colombian Prostitutes
Post Date: 2012-04-25 13:58:46 by tom007
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REPORT: The Secret Service Agents Were Too Drunk To Get It On With The Colombian Prostitutes Grace Wyler | Apr. 25, 2012, 11:48 AM | 1,462 | 6 A A A More details are starting to emerge about the 'wild night' of partying in Cartagena, Colombia that has engulfed the Secret Service in a growing prostitution scandal. The Washington Post reports today that some of the men involved are arguing that they did know the women that they brought back to their hotel were prostitutes. Moreover, some of the agents have reportedly said they did not have sex with the prostitutes because they "were so drunk that they fell asleep immediately after bringing the women to their rooms." ...
Wells Fargo Protest In San Francisco: Dozens Arrested Outside Shareholder Meeting (PHOTOS)
Post Date: 2012-04-25 13:42:16 by tom007
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Wells Fargo Protest In San Francisco: Dozens Arrested Outside Shareholder Meeting (PHOTOS) Wells Fargo Protest San Francisco By TERRY COLLINS 04/24/12 09:49 PM ET AP SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators from across the country descended on San Francisco Tuesday in an attempt to crash banking giant Wells Fargo's annual shareholders meeting. Several dozen people representing community groups had bought company stock and were allowed inside. Police said 24 people were arrested, including 15 for disrupting the meeting while inside the standing-room-only gathering of nearly 300 people. Demonstrators outside the Merchant's Exchange Building in the city's ...
Has America Been Crippled By Intellectual Idiots?
Post Date: 2012-04-25 12:15:25 by gengis gandhi
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Has America Been Crippled By Intellectual Idiots? Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/25/2012 09:21 -0400 Free Money George Soros Guest Post Reality Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt-Market Has America Been Crippled By Intellectual Idiots? As far back as I can remember, the overarching message of the American social atmosphere has been one of idolization. Oh to one day join the ranks of the “professional class”; that 5% to 10% of our culture which enjoys unparalleled respect and an assumed position of knowledge, so much so that they are rarely even required to qualify themselves to anyone besides their own compatriots. The goal of every person I knew ...
The Enemy Within Since the end of the Cold War, America has been on a relentless search for enemies. But the real dangers are at home.
Post Date: 2012-04-24 10:26:36 by tom007
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IN OTHER WORDS PRINT | TEXT SIZE | EMAIL | SINGLE PAGE The Enemy Within Since the end of the Cold War, America has been on a relentless search for enemies. But the real dangers are at home. BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MAY/JUNE 2012 The United States is a bit like a 375-pound, middle-aged man with a heart condition walking down a city street at night eating a Big Mac. He's sweating profusely because he's afraid he might get mugged. But the thing that's going to kill him is the burger. Since the end of the Cold War, America has been on a relentless search for enemies. I don't mean a search in the sense of ferreting them out and defeating them. I mean that America seems to have a ...
Is America a Free Country?
Post Date: 2012-04-23 08:20:27 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The “war on terrorism” has inaugurated a new era in the American polity, a sea-change that has not only threatened to overturn traditional limits on government power but also corrupted the political culture – and opened the way to the terminal crisis of the Constitution. In a revealing series of interviews on Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now” program, three individuals targeted by the American surveillance state – William Binney">, former top NSA official, Jacob Applebaum, an internet security specialist who works with WikiLeaks, and Laura Poitras, an Oscar-nominated documentary film-maker whose work has brought her to the attention of US authorities ...
GSA vs. congress
Post Date: 2012-04-22 14:33:30 by farmfriend
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If I Wanted America To Fail
Post Date: 2012-04-21 19:37:25 by sourcery
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The environmental agenda has been infected by extremism—it's become an economic suicide pact. And we're here to challenge it. On Earth Day, visit www.freemarketamerica.org. Video presentation: If I Wanted America To Fail A very powerful and effective message.
Captured suspect reveals Kabul attack details Suspect in Sunday's co-ordinated Taliban attacks says he was member of 200-strong suicide squad trained in Pakistan.
Post Date: 2012-04-19 19:05:45 by tom007
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Captured suspect reveals Kabul attack details Suspect in Sunday's co-ordinated Taliban attacks says he was member of 200-strong suicide squad trained in Pakistan. Mujib Mashal and Qais Azimy Last Modified: 19 Apr 2012 11:06 The Taliban assailants who waged daring co-ordinated attacks across Afghanistan on Sunday were part of a 200-member suicide squad, a lone suspected attacker captured by Afghan foces has reportedly confessed. As new details emerged about the attacks, which included an 18-hour siege on key Kabul neighbourhoods, a senior Afghan intelligence officer told Al Jazeera that the captured attacker had admitted to being part of a larger team tasked with waging similar ...
Rick Perry interested in 2016 presidential bid
Post Date: 2012-04-19 17:28:04 by tom007
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Rick Perry ‘interested’ in 2016 presidential bid By David Edwards Thursday, April 19, 2012 14:36 EDT Print Rick Perry speaks to CBS affiliate in Dallas Topics: planned parenthood ♦ rick perry ♦ Texas Gov. Rick Perry Texas Gov. Rick Perry says he’s already thinking about another attempt at the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. In a recent interview, Jack Fink, a reporter with the CBS affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth, asked Perry if he was “interested” in another presidential bid. “Yeah, I am,” Perry replied. “I love this country and as long as my health stays good, which it is, and my family is supportive then I certainly am ...
Penny Unwise, Dollar Insane (Ron Paul)
Post Date: 2012-04-18 07:54:06 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Statement to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy Hearing on "The Future of Money: Coin Production," April 17, 2012. There is an old German saying that goes, "whoever does not respect the penny is not worthy of the dollar." It expresses the sense that those who neglect or ignore the small things cannot be trusted with larger things, and fittingly describes the problems facing both the dollar and our nation today. For nearly a century monetary policy has been delegated to the Federal Reserve System. Congress has ignored the importance of monetary policy and relegated monetary oversight to the sidelines, considering it less important than such matters as welfare ...
Should the government do your taxes for you?
Post Date: 2012-04-18 04:45:52 by Tatarewicz
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The IRS already has all your financial information, and could theoretically just send you a bill every April for what you owe It's tax day, and as procrastinators across the nation scurry to file their returns, they might be forgiven for wondering, "Why isn't the government doing this for me?" In the more hopeful days of 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised to "dramatically simplify tax filings so that millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in less than five minutes." Obama's proposal bore similarities to California's ReadyReturn program, in which the state sends residents their completed returns, listing the amount they owe or the ...
Greens, Blues, and the Extinction of Distinction
Post Date: 2012-04-17 23:54:11 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Greens, Blues, and the Extinction of Distinction By Derek Turner Ka ngaro I te ngaro a te Moa (“We are lost as the moa is lost”) Maori lament There he kneels, the young, proud, ignorant farmer – posing smiling with his dog and gun, and the unusual-looking predator he has just killed propped up against the fence. It is lunchtime on 13 May 1930, in Mawbanna in north-western Tasmania, and Wilfred Batty has just made melancholy history. The dead lupine creature with the stripes is a thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus – “dog-headed pouched one”) actually a marsupial wolf but inevitably called a Tasmanian Tiger, and Batty was the last man in the world to have ...
Another Hidden Bailout: Helping Wall Street Collect Your Rent
Post Date: 2012-04-17 09:31:02 by tom007
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Another Hidden Bailout: Helping Wall Street Collect Your Rent POSTED: March 19, 10:55 AM ET Tweet Comment 65 foreclosure A foreclosure sign sits in front of a home for sale in Stockton, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Here's yet another form of hidden bailout the federal government doles out to our big banks, without the public having much of a clue. This is from the WSJ this morning: Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are lining up to become landlords to cash-strapped Americans by bidding on pools of foreclosed properties being sold by Fannie Mae... While the current approach of selling homes one-by-one has its own high costs and is sometimes inefficient, selling ...
Corporations That Spent The Most On Lobbying Saw Tax Rates Decline: Report
Post Date: 2012-04-17 09:13:56 by tom007
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Corporations That Spent The Most On Lobbying Saw Tax Rates Decline: Report Posted: 04/17/2012 8:09 am Updated: 04/17/2012 8:09 am Share on Google+ The top eight companies that spent the most on federal lobbying from 2007 to 2009 all saw their reported tax rates decrease from 2007 to 2010, according to a new analysis released Monday by the Sunlight Foundation. The report notes that these top eight firms spent $540 million on lobbying from 2007 to 2009. They filed 332 lobbying reports that mentioned taxes and named 491 different tax bills in those reports. The top eight companies that spent the most on lobbying were Exxon Mobil, Verizon Communications, General Electric, AT&T, Altria, ...
Dan Meridor: We misquoted Ahmadinejad
Post Date: 2012-04-17 08:54:01 by tom007
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Dan Meridor: We misquoted Ahmadinejad We analyse the words and issues central to the dispute between Iran and Israel with Israel's deputy prime minister. T As the US and Europe confront Iran in talks about its nuclear programme, the diplomatic tensions between Iran and Israel remain at boiling point, with threats of an attack on the Islamic Republic by the Jewish state. And there is one expression that is continuously invoked by the Israeli leadership in order to justify its claims that Iran is an existential threat. In the words of Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister: "They are the leaders of Iran who called for a new Holocaust and who vowed to wipe Israel off the ...
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