"Julian Assange and Pfc Bradley Manning have done a huge public service by making hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. government documents available on Wikileaks -- and, predictably, no one is grateful."
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/10/12/the-shameful-attacks-on-julian-assange/67440/
"We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities." Edward R. Murrow
Saturday, December 4, 2010
AMAZON REMOVES ACCESS TO WIKILEAKS
Why Amazon Caved, and What It Means for the Rest of Us
http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/why_amazon_caved_and_what_it_m.php
GT's comment on this article:
"@JAMES and any others that consider Wikileaks and its owners 'criminals'...
Julian Assange is a true World Hero for his expose of the massive corruption and criminality that now exists at the highest level of governments around the world.The TRUE CRIMINALS who are in the highest positions in the United States Government took an OATH to PROTECT OUR COUNTRY AND ITS CITIZENS from ENEMIES, WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
Instead, they have BECOME our country's most TREASONOUS enemies by destroying our medium of exchange (and the world's reserve currency) and thus, our economy, and others are going to collapse soon due to HYPER-INFLATION.
They have STOLEN THE ASSETS of the country and passed them out to the already WEALTHIEST AND GREEDIEST among us, all for nothing but GREED and POWER.
They have exhibited not the slightest intention towards 'PROTECTING' our country, so any thought that the Wikileaks distribution of the PROOF of their criminality CAN'T POSSIBLY be thought of as 'damaging our National Security'.
That is the position of a fool who is brainwashed by the never ending xenophobic propaganda of THE STATE, which cares little for the population that it uses as its 'cash cow' to fund its evil policies of aggression against its 'made up' enemies created to keep the populace in a state of fear and dependence on the government's military might.
You will soon see the result of the damage done by George W. Bush's criminal policies and the further continuation of the damage by the Obama administration that has done the OPPOSITE of all that Mr. Obama 'pledged' to do before his election to the highest position in our land.
Corporate and Financial companies are raping our land in every sense as they 'buy' our so-called 'elected' representatives who then make laws that increase the ability of these corporate criminals to further pillage what is now left of our once great country."
Friday, December 3, 2010
DESPAIR IN VERY HIGH PLACES
The American empire is about to sink in a sea of red ink. The debt-driven economic cataclysm is going to hit. The empire will be crowded out, along with economic growth.
The welfare-warfare state is going to become the welfare state. Then it will go bust. Long before it goes bust, the voters will decide not to fund the military-industrial complex's lucrative game plan. When push comes to shove, the voters will shove the American empire away from the trough. This will end the dreams and schemes of the faceless experts who have quietly directed the ship of state ever since 1921. Their gravy train will come to an end.
This could not happen to a more deserving bunch of people
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north916.html
The welfare-warfare state is going to become the welfare state. Then it will go bust. Long before it goes bust, the voters will decide not to fund the military-industrial complex's lucrative game plan. When push comes to shove, the voters will shove the American empire away from the trough. This will end the dreams and schemes of the faceless experts who have quietly directed the ship of state ever since 1921. Their gravy train will come to an end.
This could not happen to a more deserving bunch of people
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north916.html
PRACTICE EXERCISE TO SEE WHAT YOU WILL NEED WHEN SOCIETY COLLAPSES
HAVING RECENTLY MADE A PHYSICAL RELOCATION AND ENCOUNTERED SEVERAL MAJOR INCIDENTS THAT DETRACTED FROM A SMOOTH TRANSITION, I LEARNED JUST HOW PREPARED I WAS FOR A COMPLETE SHUTOFF OF ALL THE 'CIVILIZED' SERVICES THAT WE ALL ASSUME WILL BE AVAILABLE.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE NECESSARY FOR MOVING MY EQUIPMENT HAD AN EMERGENCY SURGERY WHICH STOPPED EVERYTHING.
THEN, AN EARLIER THAN USUAL, AND HEAVY, SNOWSTORM HIT AND HAS LEFT ABOUT THREE FEET OF SNOW EVERYWHERE WHICH IS NOW TURNING TO PACKED SNOW AND ICE MAKING ALL MOVEMENT VERY DIFFICULT.
WE HAD A FOUR HOUR POWER OUTAGE AT 4AM JUST TWO DAYS AGO. MY ELECTRIC BLANKET STOPPED WORKING BUT I HAD PROPANE HEAT. IF IT HAD CONTINUED I COULD HAVE PUT MY PERISHABLE FOOD OUTDOORS IN THE SNOW.
I WOULD STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT ALL OF YOU RUN A PRACTICE SCENARIO FOR AT LEAST ONE WEEKEND WHERE YOU SHUT OFF YOUR ELECTRICITY, WATER, AND NATURAL GAS FOR TWO DAYS.
THIS WILL IMMEDIATELY SHOW YOU WHAT TOOLS YOU NEED TO PROVIDE ALL THE THINGS YOU TAKE FOR GRANTED.
YOU MAY LEAVE YOUR REFRIGERATOR AND FREEZER SUPPLIED WITH ELECTRICITY, BUT SHOULD TAKE OUT WHAT FOODS YOU THINK YOU WILL NEED FOR THE TWO DAYS AND STORE THEM OUTSIDE THE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE.
YOU MUST NOT USE ELECTRICITY OR NATURAL GAS FOR HEATING OR COOKING UNLESS THE ELECTRICITY IS PRODUCED BY YOUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM OR SOME OTHER FORM OF 'SELF-PRODUCED' ELECTRICITY (WIND POWER, SOLAR, HUMAN POWERED GENERATOR, ETC.).
IF YOU HAVE A GENERATOR, YOU CAN ONLY USE WHAT FUELS YOU HAVE ALREADY STORED FOR THAT PURPOSE. BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT STORED GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL AS IT GOES BAD AFTER ONLY A SHORT TIME AND WILL FOUL CARBURETORS WHICH WILL REQUIRE TAKING THEM APART AND CLEANING THEM, LABOR YOU DON'T WANT TO DO IF YOU CAN PREVENT IT.
I WOULD NOT TRUST STORED GASOLINE MORE THAN THREE MONTHS, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS MIXED WITH ETHANOL.
YOU MAY ONLY STAY IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE WORLD BY BATTERY POWERED RADIO, TV, ETC. IF YOU HAVE A CB, OR HAM RADIO, YOU CAN ONLY USE THEM IN BATTERY POWERED MODE.
I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU LEAVE YOUR TV TURNED OFF FOR THE DURATION OF THE EXERCISE TO SIMULATE THE LOSS OF INFORMATION OR TIME FILLING ENTERTAINMENT. YOU WILL QUICKLY SEE WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR 'EXTRA' TIME.
CELL PHONES MUST BE SHUT OFF. THEIR POWER SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR EMERGENCY USE ONLY. CONSIDER THAT THEY MAY BE USELESS OR ALL CIRCUITS BUSY IN A MAJOR CATASTROPE.
WATER HAS TO BE OBTAINED OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE'S INDOOR PLUMBING. THIS MEANS YOU HAVE TO GET THE WATER OUTSIDE AND CARRY IT IN.
THINK ABOUT WATER PURIFICATION IF YOU ARE NOT ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE THAT IT IS NOT CONTAMINATED.
NOTICE WHAT TYPE OF CONTAINERS YOU HAVE. I SUGGEST FIVE GALLON CONTAINERS WITH SPOUTS FOR DISPENSING THE WATER OVER YOUR SINK.
BATHING CAN ONLY BE DONE WITH THIS WATER. I SUGGEST 'SPIT' BATHS, BUT IF YOU WANT TO HEAT THE WATER USING PROPANE TO TAKE A TUB BATH, YOU WILL LEARN MUCH.
NO SHOWERS UNLESS YOU HAVE SOME TYPE OF 'CAMPING' TYPE SHOWER THAT YOU CAN HANG IN YOUR BATHTUB/SHOWER.
COOKING CAN ONLY BE DONE WITH PROPANE OR WOOD FIRE OR A PROPANE OR BRIQUET BARBQUE.
TOILETS CAN ONLY BE FLUSHED WITH WATER YOU BRING INTO THE HOUSE FROM OUTSIDE, SO TURN OFF YOUR WATER SUPPLY TO THE TOILET.
YOU CAN ASSUME THAT DISPOSAL OF TRASH BY GARBAGE TRUCKS IS NOT AVAILABLE, SO NOTICE HOW MUCH TRASH YOU PRODUCE, AND WHAT KIND IT IS, AND ASSUME YOU WILL NO LONGER HAVE A TRASH PICKUP SERVICE.
IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN OF ANY AGE, THEY MAY NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE OR IT'S SURROUNDING PROPERTY DURING THE EXERCISE EXCEPT TO OBTAIN NEEDED SUPPLIES FROM THE IMMEDIATE AREA SURROUNDING THE RESIDENCE.
FOR CITY DWELLERS, YOU MAY NOT LEAVE YOUR APARTMENT BUILDINGS, OR YOUR HOUSES.
FOR COUNTRY DWELLERS, YOU MAY EXPLORE YOU OWN LAND, BUT NOT THAT OF OTHER PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS.
ONLY IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT STATE, OR FEDERAL FOREST LAND IF PERMITTED, OBEYING ALL LAWS ABOUT REMOVING WOOD OR OTHER NATURAL SUBSTANCES. ESPECIALLY OBEYING ALL HUNTING LAWS (FOR NOW!)
DO NOT LET THE CHILDREN'S COMPLAINTS DISSUADE YOU FROM THIS EXERCISE.
IF THE OLDER CHILDREN LEAVE THE HOUSE IN REVOLT. DO NOT LET THEM COME BACK UNTIL THE EXERCISE IS THROUGH. YOU MAY WANT TO NOTIFY THE LOCAL POLICE OF YOUR EXERCISE IF YOU HAVE PARTICULARLY REBELLIOUS CHILDREN TO PREVENT THEM FROM ACCUSING YOU OF CHILD ABUSE.
DO THIS BEFORE THE EXERCISE BEGINS TO KNOW HOW THE POLICE WOULD TREAT THE SITUATION. BE SURE TO GET CONFIRMATION FROM A HIGH LEVEL POLICE OFFICIAL...NOT JUST SOME RANK AND FILE OFFICER.
IN A 'REAL' SCENARIO, YOUR CHILDREN WILL NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO ACT, AND THAT THERE WILL BE NO ESCAPE FROM THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
YOU ARE NOT BEING 'CRUEL' TO THEM. YOU ARE PREPARING THEM FOR THE INEVITABLE OUTAGES THAT WILL OCCUR EVEN IN THE BEST OF TIMES.
HERE IN IDAHO, WE HAVE HAD ICE STORMS THAT LASTED FOR WEEKS (1996) AND KNOCKED OUT POWER FOR DAYS. EARTHQUAKES, TORNADOES, ETC ARE COMMONPLACE EVENTS.
YOU MUST BE PREPARED TO SURVIVE WITHOUT THE HOPE OF ANYONE ELSE COMING TO YOUR RESCUE.
THINK ABOUT HOW MUCH FOOD YOU HAVE STORED.
THINK ABOUT HOW TO WASH YOUR CLOTHES AS YOU SOIL THEM.
DO THIS EXERCISE AND DO IT NOW, BEFORE IT IS THE REAL THING AND YOU FIND OUT YOU ARE UNPREPARED.
ONE OF THE PEOPLE NECESSARY FOR MOVING MY EQUIPMENT HAD AN EMERGENCY SURGERY WHICH STOPPED EVERYTHING.
THEN, AN EARLIER THAN USUAL, AND HEAVY, SNOWSTORM HIT AND HAS LEFT ABOUT THREE FEET OF SNOW EVERYWHERE WHICH IS NOW TURNING TO PACKED SNOW AND ICE MAKING ALL MOVEMENT VERY DIFFICULT.
WE HAD A FOUR HOUR POWER OUTAGE AT 4AM JUST TWO DAYS AGO. MY ELECTRIC BLANKET STOPPED WORKING BUT I HAD PROPANE HEAT. IF IT HAD CONTINUED I COULD HAVE PUT MY PERISHABLE FOOD OUTDOORS IN THE SNOW.
I WOULD STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT ALL OF YOU RUN A PRACTICE SCENARIO FOR AT LEAST ONE WEEKEND WHERE YOU SHUT OFF YOUR ELECTRICITY, WATER, AND NATURAL GAS FOR TWO DAYS.
THIS WILL IMMEDIATELY SHOW YOU WHAT TOOLS YOU NEED TO PROVIDE ALL THE THINGS YOU TAKE FOR GRANTED.
YOU MAY LEAVE YOUR REFRIGERATOR AND FREEZER SUPPLIED WITH ELECTRICITY, BUT SHOULD TAKE OUT WHAT FOODS YOU THINK YOU WILL NEED FOR THE TWO DAYS AND STORE THEM OUTSIDE THE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE.
YOU MUST NOT USE ELECTRICITY OR NATURAL GAS FOR HEATING OR COOKING UNLESS THE ELECTRICITY IS PRODUCED BY YOUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM OR SOME OTHER FORM OF 'SELF-PRODUCED' ELECTRICITY (WIND POWER, SOLAR, HUMAN POWERED GENERATOR, ETC.).
IF YOU HAVE A GENERATOR, YOU CAN ONLY USE WHAT FUELS YOU HAVE ALREADY STORED FOR THAT PURPOSE. BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT STORED GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL AS IT GOES BAD AFTER ONLY A SHORT TIME AND WILL FOUL CARBURETORS WHICH WILL REQUIRE TAKING THEM APART AND CLEANING THEM, LABOR YOU DON'T WANT TO DO IF YOU CAN PREVENT IT.
I WOULD NOT TRUST STORED GASOLINE MORE THAN THREE MONTHS, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS MIXED WITH ETHANOL.
YOU MAY ONLY STAY IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE WORLD BY BATTERY POWERED RADIO, TV, ETC. IF YOU HAVE A CB, OR HAM RADIO, YOU CAN ONLY USE THEM IN BATTERY POWERED MODE.
I STRONGLY SUGGEST YOU LEAVE YOUR TV TURNED OFF FOR THE DURATION OF THE EXERCISE TO SIMULATE THE LOSS OF INFORMATION OR TIME FILLING ENTERTAINMENT. YOU WILL QUICKLY SEE WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR 'EXTRA' TIME.
CELL PHONES MUST BE SHUT OFF. THEIR POWER SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR EMERGENCY USE ONLY. CONSIDER THAT THEY MAY BE USELESS OR ALL CIRCUITS BUSY IN A MAJOR CATASTROPE.
WATER HAS TO BE OBTAINED OUTSIDE YOUR HOUSE'S INDOOR PLUMBING. THIS MEANS YOU HAVE TO GET THE WATER OUTSIDE AND CARRY IT IN.
THINK ABOUT WATER PURIFICATION IF YOU ARE NOT ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE THAT IT IS NOT CONTAMINATED.
NOTICE WHAT TYPE OF CONTAINERS YOU HAVE. I SUGGEST FIVE GALLON CONTAINERS WITH SPOUTS FOR DISPENSING THE WATER OVER YOUR SINK.
BATHING CAN ONLY BE DONE WITH THIS WATER. I SUGGEST 'SPIT' BATHS, BUT IF YOU WANT TO HEAT THE WATER USING PROPANE TO TAKE A TUB BATH, YOU WILL LEARN MUCH.
NO SHOWERS UNLESS YOU HAVE SOME TYPE OF 'CAMPING' TYPE SHOWER THAT YOU CAN HANG IN YOUR BATHTUB/SHOWER.
COOKING CAN ONLY BE DONE WITH PROPANE OR WOOD FIRE OR A PROPANE OR BRIQUET BARBQUE.
TOILETS CAN ONLY BE FLUSHED WITH WATER YOU BRING INTO THE HOUSE FROM OUTSIDE, SO TURN OFF YOUR WATER SUPPLY TO THE TOILET.
YOU CAN ASSUME THAT DISPOSAL OF TRASH BY GARBAGE TRUCKS IS NOT AVAILABLE, SO NOTICE HOW MUCH TRASH YOU PRODUCE, AND WHAT KIND IT IS, AND ASSUME YOU WILL NO LONGER HAVE A TRASH PICKUP SERVICE.
IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN OF ANY AGE, THEY MAY NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE OR IT'S SURROUNDING PROPERTY DURING THE EXERCISE EXCEPT TO OBTAIN NEEDED SUPPLIES FROM THE IMMEDIATE AREA SURROUNDING THE RESIDENCE.
FOR CITY DWELLERS, YOU MAY NOT LEAVE YOUR APARTMENT BUILDINGS, OR YOUR HOUSES.
FOR COUNTRY DWELLERS, YOU MAY EXPLORE YOU OWN LAND, BUT NOT THAT OF OTHER PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS.
ONLY IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT STATE, OR FEDERAL FOREST LAND IF PERMITTED, OBEYING ALL LAWS ABOUT REMOVING WOOD OR OTHER NATURAL SUBSTANCES. ESPECIALLY OBEYING ALL HUNTING LAWS (FOR NOW!)
DO NOT LET THE CHILDREN'S COMPLAINTS DISSUADE YOU FROM THIS EXERCISE.
IF THE OLDER CHILDREN LEAVE THE HOUSE IN REVOLT. DO NOT LET THEM COME BACK UNTIL THE EXERCISE IS THROUGH. YOU MAY WANT TO NOTIFY THE LOCAL POLICE OF YOUR EXERCISE IF YOU HAVE PARTICULARLY REBELLIOUS CHILDREN TO PREVENT THEM FROM ACCUSING YOU OF CHILD ABUSE.
DO THIS BEFORE THE EXERCISE BEGINS TO KNOW HOW THE POLICE WOULD TREAT THE SITUATION. BE SURE TO GET CONFIRMATION FROM A HIGH LEVEL POLICE OFFICIAL...NOT JUST SOME RANK AND FILE OFFICER.
IN A 'REAL' SCENARIO, YOUR CHILDREN WILL NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO ACT, AND THAT THERE WILL BE NO ESCAPE FROM THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
YOU ARE NOT BEING 'CRUEL' TO THEM. YOU ARE PREPARING THEM FOR THE INEVITABLE OUTAGES THAT WILL OCCUR EVEN IN THE BEST OF TIMES.
HERE IN IDAHO, WE HAVE HAD ICE STORMS THAT LASTED FOR WEEKS (1996) AND KNOCKED OUT POWER FOR DAYS. EARTHQUAKES, TORNADOES, ETC ARE COMMONPLACE EVENTS.
YOU MUST BE PREPARED TO SURVIVE WITHOUT THE HOPE OF ANYONE ELSE COMING TO YOUR RESCUE.
THINK ABOUT HOW MUCH FOOD YOU HAVE STORED.
THINK ABOUT HOW TO WASH YOUR CLOTHES AS YOU SOIL THEM.
DO THIS EXERCISE AND DO IT NOW, BEFORE IT IS THE REAL THING AND YOU FIND OUT YOU ARE UNPREPARED.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
THE AMERICAN RULING CLASS...A VIDEO/MOVIE 90 MINUTES
SCROLL DOWN BELOW THE COMMENTS TO SEE THE VIDEO
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26932.htm
This "astonishing," "coruscating" satire poses the question: Is it better to rule the world, or to save it?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26932.htm
This "astonishing," "coruscating" satire poses the question: Is it better to rule the world, or to save it?
In this first of its kind “dramatic-documentary-musical,” essayist Lewis Lapham and an all-star cast (including Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Altman, James Baker and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.) take two young Ivy-League graduates on a tour of the corridors of power. This “astonishing”, “coruscating” satire poses the question: Is it better to rule the world, or to save it?
Appearing on the screen are a range of leaders and commentators from across the political spectrum, among them: the late Robert B. Altman, James A. Baker III, Bill Bradley, Harold Brown, Hodding Carter III, William T. Coleman, Jr., Walter Cronkite, Barbara Ehrenreich, Vartan Gregorian, Doug Henwood, Mike Medavoy, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., John Perkins, (a.k.a., the economic hit-man) Samuel Peabody, Pete Seeger, Lawrence H. Summers, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., William Howard Taft IV, the late Kurt Vonnegut and Howard Zinn.
Appearing on the screen are a range of leaders and commentators from across the political spectrum, among them: the late Robert B. Altman, James A. Baker III, Bill Bradley, Harold Brown, Hodding Carter III, William T. Coleman, Jr., Walter Cronkite, Barbara Ehrenreich, Vartan Gregorian, Doug Henwood, Mike Medavoy, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., John Perkins, (a.k.a., the economic hit-man) Samuel Peabody, Pete Seeger, Lawrence H. Summers, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., William Howard Taft IV, the late Kurt Vonnegut and Howard Zinn.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Financial Meltdown on Wall Street
CREDIT TO WERNERUL FOR THE LINK:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22050
Excerpt from Introduction to The Global Economic Crisis. The Great Depression of the XXI Century
by Michel Chossudovskyhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22050
Saturday, November 27, 2010
DON'T FEEL 'OBLIGATED' TO GO BROKE FOR CHRISTMAS
GARY NORTH'S TIP OF THE WEEK
Gary North's Tip of the Week - November 27, 2010 Christmas Traps
=====================================================
When I find a really good article, I pass it along. I have
nothing to add to this one. It is on how you can get sucked in
by the "Christmas Spirit" and wind up in trouble in January.
http://www.garynorth.com/snip/1026.htm
The temptation to overspend is always part of Christmas. Do
not succumb. Black Friday is over. I hope it was not Red Ink
Friday for you. If it was, get a grip.
Gary "Less Is More" North
Gary North's Tip of the Week - November 27, 2010 Christmas Traps
=====================================================
When I find a really good article, I pass it along. I have
nothing to add to this one. It is on how you can get sucked in
by the "Christmas Spirit" and wind up in trouble in January.
http://www.garynorth.com/snip/1026.htm
The temptation to overspend is always part of Christmas. Do
not succumb. Black Friday is over. I hope it was not Red Ink
Friday for you. If it was, get a grip.
Gary "Less Is More" North
Next Up: a "Flat Tax" for the Rich...THEY WON'T STOP UNTIL THEY HAVE IT ALL!
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26914.htm
OR
http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson11252010.html
"Here’s how I think the plan is intended to work. Given the fact that voters have already rejected the flat tax in principle, it can only be introduced by fiatunder crisis conditions. Alan Simpson, President Obama’s designated co-chairman of the “Deficit Reduction Commission” (the euphemistic title given to what is in reality a “Shift Taxes Off Wealth Onto Labor” commission) already has suggested that Republicans close down the government by refusing to increase the federal debt limit this spring. This would create a fiscal crisis and threat of government shutdown. It would be a fiscal 9/11, for the Republicans to trot out their “rescue plan” for the emergency breakdown of government.
The result would cap the tax shift off finance and wealth onto wage earners. Supported by Blue Dog Democrats, President Obama would shed crocodile tears and sign off on the most right-wing, oligarchic, anti-labor, anti-black and anti-minority, anti-industrial tax that anyone has yet been able to think up. The notorious Flat Tax would fall only on wage income (paid by employees and employers alike) and on consumer goods (the value-added tax, VAT), while exempting returns that accrue to the wealthy in the form of interest and dividend income, rent and capital gains."
OR
http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson11252010.html
"Here’s how I think the plan is intended to work. Given the fact that voters have already rejected the flat tax in principle, it can only be introduced by fiatunder crisis conditions. Alan Simpson, President Obama’s designated co-chairman of the “Deficit Reduction Commission” (the euphemistic title given to what is in reality a “Shift Taxes Off Wealth Onto Labor” commission) already has suggested that Republicans close down the government by refusing to increase the federal debt limit this spring. This would create a fiscal crisis and threat of government shutdown. It would be a fiscal 9/11, for the Republicans to trot out their “rescue plan” for the emergency breakdown of government.
The result would cap the tax shift off finance and wealth onto wage earners. Supported by Blue Dog Democrats, President Obama would shed crocodile tears and sign off on the most right-wing, oligarchic, anti-labor, anti-black and anti-minority, anti-industrial tax that anyone has yet been able to think up. The notorious Flat Tax would fall only on wage income (paid by employees and employers alike) and on consumer goods (the value-added tax, VAT), while exempting returns that accrue to the wealthy in the form of interest and dividend income, rent and capital gains."
Friday, November 26, 2010
The US of A Breaks the Soviet Record for length of war in Afghanistan
http://www.salon.com/news/afghanistan/?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/11/26/afghanistan
OR
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26922.htm
"US presence in Afghanistan as long as Soviet slog The Soviet Union couldn't win in Afghanistan, and now the United States is about to have something in common with that futile campaign: nine years, 50 days.On Friday, the U.S.-led coalition will have been fighting in this South Asian country for as long as the Soviets did in their humbling attempt to build up a socialist state."
OR
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26922.htm
"US presence in Afghanistan as long as Soviet slog The Soviet Union couldn't win in Afghanistan, and now the United States is about to have something in common with that futile campaign: nine years, 50 days.On Friday, the U.S.-led coalition will have been fighting in this South Asian country for as long as the Soviets did in their humbling attempt to build up a socialist state."
TO THINK ABOUT...
"It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people," Sen. J. William Fulbright
How to avoid both the naked body scanner and TSA gropes!
http://farmwars.info/?p=4672
"If everyone who flies takes Matt’s lead in this and follows his example, we can effect change. He made it through without being irradiated or sexually assaulted by TSA. Read the account, and listen to the recording to see how he accomplished this. Then think about what would happen if others started doing this, en masse."
"If everyone who flies takes Matt’s lead in this and follows his example, we can effect change. He made it through without being irradiated or sexually assaulted by TSA. Read the account, and listen to the recording to see how he accomplished this. Then think about what would happen if others started doing this, en masse."
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion By Chris Hedges
November 23, 2010 "Truthdig" -- There is no hope left for achieving significant reform or restoring our democracy through established mechanisms of power. The electoral process has been hijacked by corporations. The judiciary has been corrupted and bought. The press shuts out the most important voices in the country and feeds us the banal and the absurd. Universities prostitute themselves for corporate dollars. Labor unions are marginal and ineffectual forces. The economy is in the hands of corporate swindlers and speculators. And the public, enchanted by electronic hallucinations, remains passive and supine. We have no tools left within the power structure in our fight to halt unchecked corporate pillage.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26898.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26898.htm
The Stench of American Hypocrisy, Part 2 By Paul Craig Roberts
Hypocrisy in America is now so commonplace it is no longer noticed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26893.htm
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26893.htm
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
OUR OWN GUV'MINT IS THE REAL TERRORIST
TSA Gestapo Empire By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26902.htm
"Think about it. Would a terror organization capable of outwitting all 16 US intelligence agencies, all intelligence agencies of US allies including Israel’s Mossad, the National Security Council, NORAD, air traffic control, the Pentagon, and airport security four times in one hour put its unrivaled prestige at risk with improbable shoe bombs, shampoo bombs, and underwear bombs? "
Watching the sheople being herded everywhere during this holiday, whether through airport screenings or being encouraged to prepare to rise early and camp out at stores for the big Black Friday Sales, shows how
very willing they all will be when told to line up for the box cars and cattle trucks to be carried off to the 'camps' for 'their own good' when the economy collapses and they are all begging for shelter and food from Big Brother.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26902.htm
"Think about it. Would a terror organization capable of outwitting all 16 US intelligence agencies, all intelligence agencies of US allies including Israel’s Mossad, the National Security Council, NORAD, air traffic control, the Pentagon, and airport security four times in one hour put its unrivaled prestige at risk with improbable shoe bombs, shampoo bombs, and underwear bombs? "
Watching the sheople being herded everywhere during this holiday, whether through airport screenings or being encouraged to prepare to rise early and camp out at stores for the big Black Friday Sales, shows how
very willing they all will be when told to line up for the box cars and cattle trucks to be carried off to the 'camps' for 'their own good' when the economy collapses and they are all begging for shelter and food from Big Brother.
ONCE A WAR CRIMINAL...ALWAYS A WAR CRIMINAL
Bush Lies - Not Just To Us, But To Himself
By Ray McGovern
Nowhere in his memoir, Decision Points, is Bush's bizarre relationship with truth so manifest as when he describes his dismay at learning that the intelligence community had redeemed itself for its lies about Iraq by preparing an honest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. As the Bush-book makes abundantly clear, that NIE rammed an iron rod through the wheels of the juggernaut rolling toward war.
Nowhere is Bush's abiding conviction clearer, now as then, that his role as "decider" include the option to create his own reality.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26903.htm
AND THIS 'CHILLING' ANALYSIS OF BUSH DONE IN 2007 BY JUSTIN FRANK M.D.
(A PSYCHIATRIST)
"His pathology is a patchwork of false beliefs and incomplete information woven into what he asserts is the whole truth... He lies - not just to us, but to himself as well... What makes lying so easy for Bush is his contempt - for language, for law, and for anybody who dares question him.... So his words mean nothing. That is very important for people to understand." [See Consortiumnews.com's "Dangers of a Cornered Bush."]
http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2007/072707a.html
By Ray McGovern
Nowhere in his memoir, Decision Points, is Bush's bizarre relationship with truth so manifest as when he describes his dismay at learning that the intelligence community had redeemed itself for its lies about Iraq by preparing an honest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. As the Bush-book makes abundantly clear, that NIE rammed an iron rod through the wheels of the juggernaut rolling toward war.
Nowhere is Bush's abiding conviction clearer, now as then, that his role as "decider" include the option to create his own reality.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26903.htm
AND THIS 'CHILLING' ANALYSIS OF BUSH DONE IN 2007 BY JUSTIN FRANK M.D.
(A PSYCHIATRIST)
"His pathology is a patchwork of false beliefs and incomplete information woven into what he asserts is the whole truth... He lies - not just to us, but to himself as well... What makes lying so easy for Bush is his contempt - for language, for law, and for anybody who dares question him.... So his words mean nothing. That is very important for people to understand." [See Consortiumnews.com's "Dangers of a Cornered Bush."]
http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2007/072707a.html
Monday, November 22, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
FROM JSMINESET.COM 11/20/10
“Starting December 1 thru April 2011, approximately 4.6 million unemployed workers will begin rolling off of the Federal emergency unemployment compensation and extended benefits programs. If congress does not extend the program, instead of receiving up to 99 weeks of benefits, the unemployed will only be eligible for the standard 26 weeks of benefits. About 200,000 workers will fall out of the programs each week while new job growth will be lucky to exceed 100,000 per month. By the time all the Federal EUC/EB benefits expire, the total will amount to an annualized hit to personal income of $70 billion."
DO YOU THINK THIS WILL AFFECT YOU?
EITHER GUV'MINTS KEEP INFLATING THE MONEY SUPPLY UNTIL IT RESULTS IN
HYPER-INFLATION, WHICH WILL COLLAPSE THE ECONOMY AS ALL CONFIDENCE IN CURRENCIES IS LOST...
OR...
THEY STOP INFLATING THE MONEY SUPPLY AND THE ECONOMY COLLAPSES IMMEDIATELY AS ALL GUV'MINT PAYMENTS STOP AND ALL TAX REVENUES TO GUV'MINT RAPIDLY DECREASE TO ZERO.
EITHER WAY...WE'RE ALL IN FOR SOME VERY HORRIBLE AND DEADLY TIMES NOT FAR IN THE FUTURE.
DO YOU THINK THIS WILL AFFECT YOU?
EITHER GUV'MINTS KEEP INFLATING THE MONEY SUPPLY UNTIL IT RESULTS IN
HYPER-INFLATION, WHICH WILL COLLAPSE THE ECONOMY AS ALL CONFIDENCE IN CURRENCIES IS LOST...
OR...
THEY STOP INFLATING THE MONEY SUPPLY AND THE ECONOMY COLLAPSES IMMEDIATELY AS ALL GUV'MINT PAYMENTS STOP AND ALL TAX REVENUES TO GUV'MINT RAPIDLY DECREASE TO ZERO.
EITHER WAY...WE'RE ALL IN FOR SOME VERY HORRIBLE AND DEADLY TIMES NOT FAR IN THE FUTURE.
Band-Aid Solutions By Puru Saxena
GOOD ARTICLE EXPLAINING HOW THE CURRENT MASSIVE NATIONAL DEBT WAS CREATED.
http://dailyreckoning.com/band-aid-solutions/
http://dailyreckoning.com/band-aid-solutions/
Saturday, November 20, 2010
GO RON PAUL!
"[W]e have to realize that the real problem is that the American people have been too submissive. We have been too submissive. It has been going on for a long time. ... [T]he bill that I have introduced ... is very simple. It is one paragraph long. It removes the immunity from anybody in the Federal government that does anything that you or I can't do.
If you can't grope another person and if you can't X-ray people and endanger them with possible X-rays, [and] you can't take nude photographs of individuals, why do we allow the government to do it? We would go to jail. He would be immediately arrested, if an individual citizen went up and did these things, and yet we just sit there and calmly say, 'oh, they are making us safe.'
And besides, the argument from the executive branch is that when you buy a ticket, you have sacrificed your rights and it is the duty of the government to make us safe. That isn't the case. You never have to sacrifice your rights. The duty of the government is to protect our rights, not to use them and do what they have been doing to us." - -- Ron Paul - (1935-) American physician, US Congressman (R-TX), US Presidential candidate - Source: Congressional Record, Nov. 17, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Jamie Dimon and Robert Rubin: Evasive on "Fraud as a Business Model"
Foreclosure fraud isn't about losing paperwork or having incorrect paperwork. It is about committing fraud and trying to manipulate the U.S. legal system. No one -- not even a bank -- can show up in court with phony evidence.
Banks that committed fraud on the court do not get a do-over. Even if they can show up later with correct documents, it does not erase the original crime of fraud on the court. Anyone who presented phony documents as evidence in court broke the law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-tavakoli/jamie-dimon-and-robert-ru_b_782930.html
Banks that committed fraud on the court do not get a do-over. Even if they can show up later with correct documents, it does not erase the original crime of fraud on the court. Anyone who presented phony documents as evidence in court broke the law.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-tavakoli/jamie-dimon-and-robert-ru_b_782930.html
THE WRITERS ON THE DAILY SOAP OPERAS COULDN'T WRITE A BETTER SCRIPT THAN THIS HORSE SHIT
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/19/nyregion/19rangel.html?_r=1&hp
“I don’t know how much longer I have to live,” said Mr. Rangel, 80, his eyes watery and his voice quivering. But he said whatever time he has, he will spend it trying “to help people and thank God for what he’s given to me.”
AND ALL HE HAS TO DO IS STAND BEFORE HIS FELLOW CRIMINAL THIEVES AND BE 'REBUKED'?
GIVE ME A BREAK!
GIVE ME SOME REAL NEWS, LIKE HOW MUCH WILLS AND KATE WILL SPEND ON THEIR WEDDING CEREMONY. (yes, that's what the Brits call him...'Wills')
YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT REALLY MATTERS TO THE MILLIONS OF STARVING PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD
“I don’t know how much longer I have to live,” said Mr. Rangel, 80, his eyes watery and his voice quivering. But he said whatever time he has, he will spend it trying “to help people and thank God for what he’s given to me.”
AND ALL HE HAS TO DO IS STAND BEFORE HIS FELLOW CRIMINAL THIEVES AND BE 'REBUKED'?
GIVE ME A BREAK!
GIVE ME SOME REAL NEWS, LIKE HOW MUCH WILLS AND KATE WILL SPEND ON THEIR WEDDING CEREMONY. (yes, that's what the Brits call him...'Wills')
YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT REALLY MATTERS TO THE MILLIONS OF STARVING PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD
JIM SINCLAIR COMMENTS ON THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE SITUATION
Posted: Nov 17 2010 By: Jim Sinclair Post Edited: November 17, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Filed under: General Editorial
Filed under: General Editorial
Dear CIGAs,
The unending criticism of the Fed’s action on QE must have its foundation in a belief that has been prolifically communicated to the public by all kinds of media.
THE MOPE:
1. The US Economy is improving and will continue to.
2. Balance sheets of US financial entities have improved greatly.
Therefore they cannot see why the Fed needs to try to stimulate anything.
THE TRUTH:
1. The answer is that the US Economic recovery is stalled. Anything going higher more slowly is starting down on the Economic Accelerator Factor.
The Economic Accelerator Factor (search for this term at JSMINESET.COM) is a law of economics denied now for 30 years.
The answer to number one is that the US economy is looking for a lower low on the next move.
2. The balance sheets of the US financial entities show an improvement based on a total FABRICATION. The FASB sold their soul to Wall Street by allowing the entities in question to make up valuation having nothing to do with true value. The fact that a bank holds a piece of junk to the end does not justify valuing junk at cost. That is moronic and destroys the purpose of accounting and auditing.
MOPE has convinced every Fed detractor that all is well. It isn’t.
Top Republicans and Tea Party members are afloat in public letters and complaints to the Fed, but inherent to the people, about the Fed. As well meaning as these people are, they have no idea what dislocation they will cause immediately.
QE is not right but it is the only tool left for the Fed.
The new bodies in the legislative will prevent any fiscal measures. The final hit of the fan will be the result of well meaning but economically ignorant people.
Assuming the new people prevail over the Fed, gold will go to unimaginable prices as Western society implodes.
One conclusion now is neither the right nor the left has a clue of how serious conditions are. As I have told you for years, there is no practical solution to what many administrations have done. (GT sez: WE ARE BANKRUPT, plain and simple, and the debts have to be paid back one way or another)
MOPE has backfired.
The unending criticism of the Fed’s action on QE must have its foundation in a belief that has been prolifically communicated to the public by all kinds of media.
THE MOPE:
1. The US Economy is improving and will continue to.
2. Balance sheets of US financial entities have improved greatly.
Therefore they cannot see why the Fed needs to try to stimulate anything.
THE TRUTH:
1. The answer is that the US Economic recovery is stalled. Anything going higher more slowly is starting down on the Economic Accelerator Factor.
The Economic Accelerator Factor (search for this term at JSMINESET.COM) is a law of economics denied now for 30 years.
The answer to number one is that the US economy is looking for a lower low on the next move.
2. The balance sheets of the US financial entities show an improvement based on a total FABRICATION. The FASB sold their soul to Wall Street by allowing the entities in question to make up valuation having nothing to do with true value. The fact that a bank holds a piece of junk to the end does not justify valuing junk at cost. That is moronic and destroys the purpose of accounting and auditing.
MOPE has convinced every Fed detractor that all is well. It isn’t.
Top Republicans and Tea Party members are afloat in public letters and complaints to the Fed, but inherent to the people, about the Fed. As well meaning as these people are, they have no idea what dislocation they will cause immediately.
QE is not right but it is the only tool left for the Fed.
The new bodies in the legislative will prevent any fiscal measures. The final hit of the fan will be the result of well meaning but economically ignorant people.
Assuming the new people prevail over the Fed, gold will go to unimaginable prices as Western society implodes.
One conclusion now is neither the right nor the left has a clue of how serious conditions are. As I have told you for years, there is no practical solution to what many administrations have done. (GT sez: WE ARE BANKRUPT, plain and simple, and the debts have to be paid back one way or another)
MOPE has backfired.
UN urges full US torture investigation
The United Nations has called on the United States to conduct a full investigation into torture under the administration of former US President George W. Bush.
The UN special rapporteur on torture, Juan Ernesto Mendez, urged Washington on Tuesday to prosecute offenders as well as senior officials who ordered the abuse of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/151336.html
HUNGER IN AMERICA
In a society which took seriously the value of human life and the future of its children, the spectacle of 50 million people at risk of hunger, including 17 million children, would be a social emergency. Given that the United States once boasted of its ability to feed the planet, the indifference to the growth of hunger at home is a national scandal.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26849.htm
BE SURE TO READ MANY OF THE COMMENTS AFTER THE ARTICLE
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26849.htm
BE SURE TO READ MANY OF THE COMMENTS AFTER THE ARTICLE
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
WE NOW LIVE IN A GIANT FISHBOWL OF PROPAGANDA FROM WHICH YOU CANNOT ESCAPE...SO, YOU MUST USE YOUR BRAINS TO REMAIN SANE
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
Joseph Goebbels Head of NAZI Propaganda
Joseph Goebbels Head of NAZI Propaganda
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
THE COMPLETE SAN DIEGO VIDEO OF THE TSA 'FRISK' OF JOHN TYNER. "DON'T TOUCH MY JUNK"
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
HERE IS JOHN'S BLOG AND HIS VIDEOS AND DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENTS AS THEY TRANSPIRED.
http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html
PART TWO
PART THREE
HERE IS JOHN'S BLOG AND HIS VIDEOS AND DESCRIPTION OF THE EVENTS AS THEY TRANSPIRED.
http://johnnyedge.blogspot.com/2010/11/these-events-took-place-roughly-between.html
THIS WILL HAPPEN HERE AS SOON AS THE ECONOMY COLLAPSES AND DISEASE BEGINS TO SPREAD
Haiti cholera clashes: UN troops shoot man dead
Peacekeepers kill at least one person in clashes as Haitians blame epidemic on Nepalese force
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