Friday, July 29, 2011

What You Need to Know About the Internet Snooping Bill (and How You Can Protect Yourself)

http://lifehacker.com/5825746/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-internet-snooping-bill-and-what-you-can-do-about-it?utm_source=Lifehacker+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7b7079387f-UA-142218-1&utm_medium=email

Basic Self-Defense Moves Anyone Can Do (and Everyone Should Know)

http://lifehacker.com/5825528/basic-self+defense-moves-anyone-can-do-and-everyone-should-know?utm_source=Lifehacker+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e7ec5974e2-UA-142218-1&utm_medium=email

ANDY BOROWITZ DOES IT AGAIN

July 28, 2011

China Puts US on eBay

‘Government Sold Separately,’ Sales Listing Says

BEIJING (The Borowitz Report) – Showing its impatience with the debt ceiling stalemate in Washington, China today took the extraordinary step of putting the United States of America on eBay.

Officials at the online auction site said they believed it was the first time a major Western nation had been listed for sale there “if you don’t count Greece.”

In Beijing, the Chinese Finance Ministry said that it had considered waiting until August 2 to see if the US would ever pay back its multitrillion-dollar obligations, but ultimately decided to cut its losses.

“We think we’ll attract a buyer on eBay,” the Ministry said. “Say what you will about the US, it’s still one of the top fifty countries in the world.”

The sales listing for the US contains some interesting information, such as China’s description of the former superpower as being in “fair to average condition.”

The listing also includes the stipulation “government sold separately,” which the Finance Ministry took great pains to explain.

“We thought that including the government in the sale might turn off potential buyers,” the Ministry said. “Plus, the US government isn’t ours to sell anyway – it’s owned by the Koch brothers.”

With no bidders in the first 24 hours on eBay, China admitted that it would be challenging to unload the US, but it still held out hope that a buyer would step forward: “We’ve got our fingers crossed for Zuckerberg.”

At the White House, press secretary Jay Carney said that he understood China’s decision to sell the US, but warned that a buyer would have to turn up on eBay before August 2: “After that, the Internet gets shut off.”

Friday, July 22, 2011

MATT TAIBBI: Corporate Tax Holiday in Debt Ceiling Deal: Where's the Uproar?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/holiday-in-scambodia-20110720?print=true

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: An Economy Destroyed The Enemy Is Washington

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28654.htm

"The American people and their wants and needs are not represented in Washington. Washington serves powerful interest groups, such as the military/security complex, Wall Street and the banksters, agribusiness, the oil companies, the insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, and the mining and timber industries. Washington endows these interests with excess profits by committing war crimes and terrorizing foreign populations with bombs, drones, and invasions, by deregulating the financial sector and bailing it out of its greed-driven mistakes after it has stolen Americans’ pensions, homes, and jobs, by refusing to protect the land, air, water, oceans and wildlife from polluters and despoilers, and by constructing a health care system with the highest costs and highest profits in the world."

Banks to Pay $25 Billion Bribe For Immunity

States Negotiating Immunity for Banks over Foreclosures
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28642.htm


ONE COMMENT FROM BELOW THE ARTICLE:

"Are we to understand that the "States" are to "Press Collect" on the fraudulent, larcenous & criminal Banks to the tune of $25 Billion so that Banksters can avoid jail & being sued by their victims ?

Thus the "States" will receive a much needed cash injection BUT wasn't the initial wrong done primarily to everyday individuals & families ? Millions of people have been foreclosed upon ; lost everything ; suffered financially, psychologically & are probably still suffering in an economy still on its arse with 10%+ unemployed & huge numbers under-employed & on minimum AND minimal wages but What Is Their Redress in the midst of this criminal insanity ?

Probes into Mortgage Based Securities, Credit Default Swaps & Collateralised Debt Options & all the other Mumbo Jumbo will NOT address the core issues like the Debt-Bondage of millions of people & the inherently immoral selling & trading the DEBT of these hard working people by an unconscionably avaricious few. Tax payers & people with mortgages - very often the same people, are being robbed TWICE plus they are at the receiving end of "Austerity Measures" !!! No one with a normal brain could make this SH!T up !!

I thought I'd got used to being angry & apoplectic at the conduct of these Ba$tard Bank$ter$ but I'm feeling dizzy with fury !

Ladies & Gentlemen, I'm speechless. "

Thursday, July 21, 2011

ANDY BOROWITZ STRIKES AGAIN...BULLSEYE!

July 21, 2011

GOP Propose Replacing Social Security with Letting People Eat Cake

So-called ‘Mob of Nine’ Proposal

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – A group of GOP congressmen calling themselves The Mob of Nine have added a new wrinkle to the ongoing budget negotiations as they put forth a proposal today that would replace Social Security with letting people eat cake.

Their proposal, contained in a bill called the National Cake-Eating Act of 2011, would substitute seniors’ monthly Social Security check with what they called “an easy-to-follow cake recipe.”

“Right now, it’s hard to find a consensus about how to cut the national debt,” said Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis). “But one thing’s clear: everybody enjoys a good piece of cake.”

But even as the group put forth their proposal, their was dissension among The Mob of Nine about how large the pieces of cake that people were to eat should be, with Rep. Ryan leading the faction who favors a sliver rather than a slice.

“When we say piece of cake, we mean a very, very small piece of cake,” Mr. Ryan said. “We’re not talking about a Newt Gingrich piece of cake.”

Rep. Ryan also warned fellow GOP House members against supporting the so-called Gang of Six bipartisan budget proposal: “If you support that, I must warn you, you are flirting with reasonableness.”

He said that to pass muster with Tea Party members in the House, any budget proposal would have to pass the Tea Party litmus test: “That means it must be 100% free of logic or math.”

In other political news, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) said her migraine headaches would not hinder her ability to lead: “I can go for months without using my brain.” See Andy Borowitz LIVE with special guest Alec Baldwin!

Get a free subscription to Borowitz Report here.

THE SCUM RISES TO THE TOP

Bachmann's husband got $137,000 in Medicaid funds

Presidential candidate has often blasted growing welfare programs

Bachman's hypocrasy knows no bounds.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43570552/ns/politics-decision_2012/t/bachmanns-husband-got-medicaid-funds

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

POLICE TO BEGIN iPHONE IRIS SCANS

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-crime-identification-iris-idUSTRE76J4A120110720

Sorry, Soldiers, I Don’t Thank You For Your Service.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28627.htm

http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance250.html

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: GOLD vs MONEY

http://www.martinarmstrong.org/files/Gold%20v%20Money%2007-19-2011.pdf

CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINK

CHRIS HEDGES: America's Disappeared

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28618.htm


"The only way the rule of law will be restored, if it is restored, is piece by piece, extradition by extradition, trial by trial. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, former CIA Director George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice and John Ashcroft will, if we return to the rule of law, face trial. The lawyers who made legal what under international and domestic law is illegal, including not only Rizzo but Alberto Gonzales, Jay Bybee, David Addington, William J. Haynes and John Yoo, will, if we are to dig our way out of this morass, be disbarred and prosecuted. Our senior military leaders, including Gen. David Petraeus, who oversaw death squads in Iraq and widespread torture in clandestine prisons, will be lined up in a courtroom, as were the generals in Argentina, and made to answer for these crimes. This is the only route back. If it happens it will happen because a few courageous souls such as the attorney and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, are trying to make it happen. It will take time—a lot of time; the crimes committed by Bianco and the two former officers sent to prison this month are nearly four decades old. If it does not happen, then we will continue to descend into a terrifying, dystopian police state..."

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Crisis And Collapse Unfortunate but Inevitable

http://theinternationalforecaster.com/International_Forecaster_Weekly/Crisis_And_Collapse_Unfortunate_but_Inevitable

There has been an inevitability since August 15,1971, that America and the western world would move from crisis to crisis until the financial and economic system eventually collapsed.
For those who have been objective over those years what we are seeing today is no surprise.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Total War Against Human Thought Declared

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1504.htm

I WATCHED ALL THE VIDEOS...THEY ARE WORTH WATCHING...
BUT PAY ATTENTION AS YOU WATCH THEM AND YOU WILL LEARN
MUCH ABOUT HOW YOU PERCEIVE THE WORLD AROUND YOU AND
HOW EASILY YOU CAN BE MANIPULATED BY THE MEDIA AND OTHER
POWERS IN THE WORLD TO THINK...AND BELIEVE...WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO BE THINK AND BELIEVE.

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: THE GREATEST BULL MARKET IN HISTORY

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3932687/The-Greatest-Bull-Market-In-History-Martin-Armstrong

570 PAGE ONLINE BOOK...DOWNLOAD AND SAVE IT

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: CLARIFICATION

http://www.martinarmstrong.org/files/Clarification%2007-15-2011.pdf

CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINK

GT HAS BEEN BUSY

I AM TRYING TO REMODEL A TRAILER WHICH IS A TAXING EXERCISE ON MY BODY AS I AM A PHYSICAL WRECK WITH REPLACED KNEES, BROKEN BACK AND LOTS OF ARTHRITIS.

SO, AFTER A DAY OF BENDING, KNEELING AND SQUATTING...WITH THE AID OF KNEE PADS AND MUCH DETERMINATION TO GET THE JOB DONE, MY BODY TENDS TO SEIZE UP WHEN I QUIT FOR THE DAY AND ALL IT WANTS TO DO IS LAY IN BED.

THE MIND GETS TIRED TOO, SO I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIND THE ENERGY TO READ ALL THE ARTICLES, OR POST AS MANY, AS OFTEN AS USUAL.

I WILL DO MY BEST TO GET MORE POSTED AS MY PHYSICAL DUTIES BECOME LESS TAXING ON MY OLD BODY.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

TO THINK ABOUT

"Wise men don't argue with fools, because people from a distance can't tell the difference."

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Bernanke: Gold Isn’t Money

http://www.nysun.com/editorials/when-gold-isnt-money/87421/

The Fed Chairman, Ron Paul Clash Over the Dollar

Ron Paul vs Bernanke: Is Gold Money? - July 13, 2011

NOT ONLY HUMOROUS, BUT A BRILLIANT IDEA!

TIME Magazine Ranks Borowitz Report #1 in its Best of Twitter
Borowitz Report
July 13, 2011

New Law, ‘No Politician Left Behind,’ Would Pay Congressmen Based on Performance

Controversial Law Draws Howls of Protest from Lawmakers

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – A government think-tank today proposed a controversial new law, “No Politician Left Behind,” which would pay congressmen solely on the basis of performance.

The law, which was proposed by the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Government, “would make a serious dent in the Federal deficit because few if any congressmen would ever have to be paid,” said the Institute’s director, Davis Logsdon.

“Right now, congressmen get paid even when they storm out of budget negotiations in a hissy fit,” Mr. Logsdon said. “Under this new law, the rule would be, no budget, no paycheck.”

The idea of being paid per accomplishment drew howls of protest from lawmakers, many claiming that if the law were enacted it would result in their financial ruin.

“If passed, this law would be tantamount to the establishment of ‘Work Panels,’ which would determine whether individual congressmen are accomplishing anything,” said Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA). “I, for one, would be in deep, deep trouble.”

“I’m fairly sure that this law is unconstitutional,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). “Now, I have never actually read the Constitution, but if this law were passed I would probably be forced to read it or live in a cardboard box.”

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said that creating performance standards for lawmakers was “an insult to the institution of Congress.”

“We have spent millions of dollars, some of it out of our own pockets, to get to Washington,” he said. “We did not come here to be treated like teachers.”

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: THE FATE OF GOLD AND OIL

http://armstrongeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/armstrongeconomics-is-paulson-next-panic-trade-070411.pdf

CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINK

Friday, July 8, 2011

Fourth of July Lies

This fourth of July article is a call to those people of the USA who can still think critically to stop merely talking about changing the US and hence, the world, and start doing it by creating resistance movements against the beliefs and practices that foster going into countries and homes to kill the people and take their resources.

Be it under the ruse of something called democracy, humanitarian intervention, the war on terror or the war on drugs these programs and their labels delude and deceive in order to manufacture consent for war, torture and theft that profits the small group of men and women who really rule the world. If you believe in ideals such as freedom and self-determination than fight for it here and now in your own country, state, city and neighborhood because the greatest Fourth of July lies told is that this is a free country that liberates “others” so we can remain “free” here.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28482.htm

Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President By Chris Hedges

The impending disasters that await us, ecological and economic, are already visible on the horizon. If we do not sever ourselves from established systems of power, if we do not become in every action we undertake agents of rebellion, then the ecological, economic and, finally, human distortions that arise in times of confusion, suffering and collapse will overwhelm us.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28481.htm

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Free Speech – At a Price

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28454.htm

"We were never “given” what freedoms we do have, certainly not by the framers of the Constitution. Recall that the Bill of Rights was not part of the original Constitution. It was added after ratification, as ten amendments. When Colonel Mason of Virginia proposed a Bill of Rights at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, it was voted down almost unanimously (Massachusetts abstained). Popular protests, land seizures by the poor, food riots, and other disturbances made the men of property who gathered in Philadelphia uncomfortably aware of the need for an effective central authority that could be sufficiently protective of the propertied classes. But such popular ferment also set a limit on what the framers dared to do. Belatedly and reluctantly they agreed during the ratification struggle to include a Bill of Rights, a concession made under threat of democratic agitation and in the hope that the amendments would ensure ratification of the new Constitution.

So the Bill of Rights was not a gift from that illustrious gaggle of rich merchants, land and currency speculators, and slaveholders known as our “Founding Fathers.” It was a product of class struggle."

Torture Crimes Officially, Permanently Shielded By Glenn Greenwald

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28459.htm

"In August, 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder -- under continuous, aggressive prodding by the Obama White House -- announced that three categories of individuals responsible for Bush-era torture crimes would be fully immunized from any form of criminal investigation and prosecution: (1) Bush officials who ordered the torture (Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld); (2) Bush lawyers who legally approved it (Yoo, Bybee, Levin), and (3) those in the CIA and the military who tortured within the confines of the permission slips they were given by those officials and lawyers (i.e., "good-faith" torturers). The one exception to this sweeping immunity was that low-level CIA agents and servicemembers who went so far beyond the torture permission slips as to basically commit brutal, unauthorized murder would be subject to a "preliminary review" to determine if a full investigation was warranted -- in other words, the Abu Ghraib model of justice was being applied, where only low-ranking scapegoats would be subject to possible punishment while high-level officials would be protected."

"...the U.S. Government has effectively shielded itself from even minimal accountability for its vast torture crimes of the last decade. Without a doubt, that will be one of the most significant, enduring and consequential legacies of the Obama presidency."

Libya: Unending American Hostility By William Blum

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28453.htm


"As to what attracts young people to violent extremism, consider this: What makes a million young Americans willing to travel to places like Afghanistan and Iraq to risk their life and limbs to kill other young people, who have never done them any harm, and to commit unspeakable atrocities and tortures?
Is this not extreme behavior? Can these young Americans not be called "extremists" or "radicals"? Are they not violent? "

Casey Anthony Child Murder Verdict Proves American Insanity

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1498.htm

What these insane Americans are failing to note in their propaganda media driven uproar is that it wasn’t the Jury that acquitted Ms Anthony; it was, in fact, their own Constitution, the single most important document to freedom ever conceived, but which is now under an assault so great many wonder if it will be able to survive the many grave crisis’s facing the United States today.

As history has all to often shown, an American public whipped into fear and/or anger stand always eager to shred to the very protections given to them in their Constitution by their Founding Fathers for whatever “remedy of the moment” put before them by their elite masters.

Casey Anthony Verdict a Victory for the Constitution

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/07/05/casey-anthony-verdict-victory-for-constitution/

GOOD ARTICLE...ODD THAT IT COMES FROM FOX NEWS

FOR ALL THE 'MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKS' NOW SHOOTING THEIR MOUTHS OFF EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD

“A reasonable doubt is not a mere possible doubt, a speculative imaginary or forced doubt . . . on the other hand, if after carefully considering, comparing and weighing all the evidence there is not an abiding conviction of guilt, or, if having a conviction, it is one which is not stable but which waivers and vacillates, then the charge is not proved beyond every reasonable doubt and you must find the defendant not guilty because the doubt is reasonable. It is to the evidence introduced in this trial, and to it alone, that you are to look to that proof.”

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

MARTIN ARMSTRONG: The next 4.3 years

The next 4.3 years
We the people vs them
borrowing from the rich
to keep socialism going

http://armstrongeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/armstrongeconomics-borrowingfromtherich-063011.pdf


"There is a risk of a decline in gold into early 2012. This will be suggested by a year-end close below $1423. To create a sustainable correction, gold would have to close below $1337 on a monthly basis. The same number in silver is to be found at $26.40. A year-end closing below $30.90 will also signal a retest of support in early 2012. "

Paul B. Farrell: 7 reasons U.S. needs a Good Depression now

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/7-reasons-us-needs-a-good-depression-now-2011-07-05?link=home_carousel

Don’t raise debt ceiling, save us from worse later

Saturday, July 2, 2011

The Militarization Of The US Police Force

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28426.htm

The Largest Street Gang in America (THE POLICE)

THE VIDEO (PART 1) WILL REPULSE YOU, BUT WHEN IT'S THROUGH, PLAY PARTS 2THROUGH 6, WHICH WILL MAKE YOU WANT TO DO VIOLENCE TO THE POLICE

ALL PARTS ON YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH9k8L3oDa4&feature=related

OTHER WEBSITES TO SURVEY:
MYSPACE.COM/BOILINGFROGS101
FLEXYOURRIGHTS.ORG
POLICEABUSE.COM
RATEMYCOP.COM
GOOGLE: COPWATCH

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: A World Overwhelmed By Western Hypocrisy

ONE OF PCR's BEST EVER ARTICLES

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28431.htm

THIS IS A REPEAT POST OF THE PCR ARTICLE BELOW THAT IS BEING CORRUPTED BY BLOGGER'S GLITCH

BLOGGER IS SCREWING UP AGAIN

JUST REFRESH THE PAGE AND QUICKLY CLICK ON THE URLS THAT DISAPPEAR PARTIALLY DUE TO THE MALFUNCTION IN BLOGGER'S PROGRAMMING.

I CAN'T FIND A SOLUTION TO THIS GLITCH AND BLOGGER IS NO HELP WITH PROBLEMS OF ANY KIND.

Long Hours, No Rest: Overworked Americans Still Dreaming of Vacation

http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11570/the_new_bargain_in_the_us_long_hours_for_low_pay/

Will the incredible productivity of the global economy be democratically organized so that all of humanity can benefit with enriched lives? Or will a tiny global elite reap all the benefits while the rest of us feel increasingly enslaved?

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: A World Overwhelmed By Western Hypocrisy

THIS IS ONE OF PCR's BEST EVER ARTICLES

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28431.htm

There is nothing left of the American character. Only a people who have lost their soul could tolerate the evil that emanates from Washington.