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06/02/13
State Department Terrorism Report: Upping the Stakes for War
by Stephen Lendman
According to Washington, terrorism is what they do, not us. Defending independent sovereignty is called terrorism. So are legitimate responses to Western/Israeli-sponsored attacks.
Incidents manufactured out of whole cloth are called terrorism. In October 2011, Iran was falsely charged with plotting to kill Saudi Arabia's US ambassador (Adel al-Jubeir).
No plot whatever existed. So-called plans "never progressed" because they're were none. The entire scenario was fabricated. At issue is falsely claiming Iran represents an existential threat.
It's done to build a case for regime change. Washington tolerates no independent governments. It wants subservient pro-Western ones replacing them.
According to Washington, terrorism is what they do, not us. Defending independent sovereignty is called terrorism. So are legitimate responses to Western/Israeli-sponsored attacks.
Incidents manufactured out of whole cloth are called terrorism. In October 2011, Iran was falsely charged with plotting to kill Saudi Arabia's US ambassador (Adel al-Jubeir).
No plot whatever existed. So-called plans "never progressed" because they're were none. The entire scenario was fabricated. At issue is falsely claiming Iran represents an existential threat.
It's done to build a case for regime change. Washington tolerates no independent governments. It wants subservient pro-Western ones replacing them.
Dodd-Frank's Mass Murder Mandate Is Treason: Crush It!
LaRouche Political Action Committee
May 28—As of this week, the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LaRouche PAC) escalated its campaign for reinstituting Glass-Steagall with the release of a devastating new exposé of what is demonstrably a mandate for genocide against the American people—the Dodd-Frank law.
In summary:
● Dodd-Frank codifies into U.S. law an international financial agreement, established no later than April 2009 in London by the G20 nations, to subordinate the banking systems of all member nations to the maintenance of the current international financial system.
May 28—As of this week, the LaRouche Political Action Committee (LaRouche PAC) escalated its campaign for reinstituting Glass-Steagall with the release of a devastating new exposé of what is demonstrably a mandate for genocide against the American people—the Dodd-Frank law.
In summary:
● Dodd-Frank codifies into U.S. law an international financial agreement, established no later than April 2009 in London by the G20 nations, to subordinate the banking systems of all member nations to the maintenance of the current international financial system.
06/01/13
Natan Blanc: Heroic Israeli Refusenik
by Stephen Lendman
Israel's a rogue terror state. It's been so from inception. It's history is blood-drenched. It's a global menace.
It's current government is its worst ever. It prioritizes state terrorism. Palestinians live in the eye of the storm.
Children are indoctrinated to be warriors. They're taught to hate. They're brainwashed to view Arabs and Iranians as existential threats. With some exceptions, conscription is mandatory at age 18.
Under-age youths may enlist. Child recruitment is done informally. Women serve like men. Israeli citizens and permanent residents must comply. Arabs are excluded. They may volunteer if they wish.
Classroom education teaches children to view military service as "noble and worthy." When too young to understand, they're brainwashed to accept militarism and belligerence as normal and necessary. They're falsely told Israel's survival depends on it.
Israel's a rogue terror state. It's been so from inception. It's history is blood-drenched. It's a global menace.
It's current government is its worst ever. It prioritizes state terrorism. Palestinians live in the eye of the storm.
Children are indoctrinated to be warriors. They're taught to hate. They're brainwashed to view Arabs and Iranians as existential threats. With some exceptions, conscription is mandatory at age 18.
Under-age youths may enlist. Child recruitment is done informally. Women serve like men. Israeli citizens and permanent residents must comply. Arabs are excluded. They may volunteer if they wish.
Classroom education teaches children to view military service as "noble and worthy." When too young to understand, they're brainwashed to accept militarism and belligerence as normal and necessary. They're falsely told Israel's survival depends on it.
Murder, Inc: Official US Policy
by Stephen Lendman
America does it wholesale and retail. Obama's wars increase body counts. They mount daily. Special forces death squads in over 120 countries add their own.
So do covert CIA agents. They're licensed to kill. They do it globally. FBI assassins operate domestically. Doing so belies their "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity" motto.
They don't prevent crimes. They aid and abet them. They commit them. They're political police. They subvert democratic values. They menace freedom. They're agents of repression.
They support wealth, power and privilege. They're state-sponsored terrorists. They kill with impunity. They were involved in the Boston Marathon bombings. The official story doesn't wash.
America does it wholesale and retail. Obama's wars increase body counts. They mount daily. Special forces death squads in over 120 countries add their own.
So do covert CIA agents. They're licensed to kill. They do it globally. FBI assassins operate domestically. Doing so belies their "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity" motto.
They don't prevent crimes. They aid and abet them. They commit them. They're political police. They subvert democratic values. They menace freedom. They're agents of repression.
They support wealth, power and privilege. They're state-sponsored terrorists. They kill with impunity. They were involved in the Boston Marathon bombings. The official story doesn't wash.
Global Warming Will Be Hell, Dramatic New Data Indicates
Eric Zuesse
A World Bank researcher has found what may be the most ominous evidence yet of the impact that global warming will have. (Since 97% of climatologists say that it is happening, the operative phrase here is "will have," not "would have": global warming is happening, and will almost certainly keep getting worse, for reasons that scientists have documented extensively.) This evidence indicates that global poverty will soar as a direct result of global warming.
Already the hottest countries - the ones nearest to the equator - are overwhelmingly the poorest countries, averaging only about 2% of the per-capita annual incomes of countries like in North America, Europe, and Australia, and Japan, all of which are more than 3,000 miles from the equator. Global warming is going to make the climates in the richer countries more like the ones already are near the equator. Given the established relationship between climate and income, the signs of a sharp long-term economic decline in nations such as the U.S. are clear.
A World Bank researcher has found what may be the most ominous evidence yet of the impact that global warming will have. (Since 97% of climatologists say that it is happening, the operative phrase here is "will have," not "would have": global warming is happening, and will almost certainly keep getting worse, for reasons that scientists have documented extensively.) This evidence indicates that global poverty will soar as a direct result of global warming.
Already the hottest countries - the ones nearest to the equator - are overwhelmingly the poorest countries, averaging only about 2% of the per-capita annual incomes of countries like in North America, Europe, and Australia, and Japan, all of which are more than 3,000 miles from the equator. Global warming is going to make the climates in the richer countries more like the ones already are near the equator. Given the established relationship between climate and income, the signs of a sharp long-term economic decline in nations such as the U.S. are clear.
News
05/30/13
Execution, says
father of man FBI shot; govt says he attacked
The father of a Florida man with ties to Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan
Tsarnaev said Thursday that his son was slain "execution-style" by FBI agents
last week in Orlando. Some news reports Thursday, quoting FBI and law
enforcement sources, said Todashev was unarmed when he was shot.
Syria’s opposition won’t attend international peace talks -
Video
The best hope yet for ending Syria's civil war has suffered a serious
setback. The main opposition group said it would not take part in talks in
Geneva in the coming weeks. President Assad says he would send negotiators, but
he did not talk up the prospects for peace in a TV interview this
evening.
NEW
LAWSUIT: Massive Human Rights Violations at Mississippi Prison - Video
East Mississippi Correctional Facility is hyper-violent, grotesquely filthy
and dangerous. Patients with severe psychiatric disabilities go without basic
mental health care. Many prisoners attempt suicide. This video is the story of a
young man who succeeded.
Turkey finds sarin gas
in homes of suspected Syrian Islamists – Video
Turkish security forces found a 2kg cylinder with sarin gas after searching
the homes of Syrian militants from the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra Front who were
previously detained, Turkish media reports. The gas was reportedly going to be
used in a bomb.
European
council promises to comb U.S. wheat for Monsanto GMO strains
The European Commission said Thursday it has asked EU member states to check
imports of wheat from the United States which may be tainted with a genetically
modified strain made by US agrochemicals giant Monsanto.
Japan's
Nikkei tumbles 5%; French jobless total hits new high - as it happened
Japan's stock market has tumbled again, as fears over the country's stimulus
package and the hit shares in Tokyo.
05/29/13
Japan
cancels U.S. wheat order on GMO fear
Japanese authorities have canceled a tender offer to buy wheat from the U.S.,
after unapproved genetically modified wheat was found in an Oregon field,
Reuters reported on Thursday. Other major wheat importers South Korea, China and
the Philippines also said they were monitoring the situation
GMO
lose Europe – victory for environmental organisations
Monsanto will halt production of genetically modified corn in all of Europe,
except Spain, Portugal and Czech republic. The agribusiness multinational states
not to spend any more money on trials, development, marketing, court cases or
anything else to get GM corn accepted in Europe.
Increasing
Your Odds of Survival
Today, most Americans believe that the United States is on the verge of a
total economic collapse and will soon be entering another Great Depression. The
government believes it as well. However, unlike most Americans, the government
is prepared as evidenced by DHS recent purchases
Teacher
facing discipline for reminding students of Constitutional rights
An Illinois community is rallying around a teacher who is reportedly up
against disciplinary action for informing his students of their rights
guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment before the high-schoolers answered a survey
regarding their personal behavior.
05/28/13
Super
Tuesday: Dow closes at record high
U.S. stocks surged Tuesday as investors digested stellar economic data that
appeared to put the housing and financial crises far in the rearview
mirror.
Texas
Police Tase Overweight Asthmatic to Death in Drug Raid That Uncovers No Drugs
Another casualty of the drug war.
On May 16th, Forth Worth police entered the home of Jarmaine Darden, 34, in
search of cocaine. The raid, which does not appear to have uncovered any
cocaine, ended with the 34-year-old father dead after police tased him multiple
times.
Police
Shoot & Kill Grandfather While Responding To Burglary Call - Video
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – A grandfather checking on his neighbor is shot and
killed by Fort Worth police. early Tuesday morning near Woodhaven Country Club,
in east Fort Worth. The victim lived nearby and heard his neighbor’s burglar
alarm. Jerry Wayne Waller then went outside to see what was going
on.
The war on terror
and the fate of US democracy
The speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the National Defense
University in Washington, D.C. last week has revealed not only a crisis within
the Obama administration and increasingly bitter conflicts within the highest
echelons of the state, but also, and most profoundly, a historic crisis of class
rule.
European powers lift
embargo, move to arm Syrian opposition
On Monday the foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) met in Brussels
and agreed not to renew the arms embargo against Syria. This will allow each
European country to directly arm the Syrian opposition fighting Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad, which was previously forbidden...
Food
comes first in the fight against austerity
200 members of the Andalusian fieldworker union SAT in the Spanish state
organized a "food expropriation." They walked into the local Carrefour and
Mercandor supermarkets, loaded their trolleys with rice, beans, potatoes,
bread--and left without paying a single cent.
The
smash-and-grab agenda
International Socialist Review columnist Phil Gasper explains why the ruling
class austerity agenda has been discredited--and at a terrible toll in human
lives.
05/27/13
Suspicious
death of two FBI agents creates controversy - Video
Two well-trained Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents who were
involved in the killing of a Boston bombing suspect have suspiciously died. The
FBI said in a statement that 41-year-old Christopher Lorek and 40-year-old
Stephen Shaw were killed on May 17 as they fell out of a helicopter into
water.
Wall
Street Lobbyists Literally Writing Bills In Congress
I try to be cynical, but I can’t keep up. Not only is Congress punting
rulemaking to captured and compromised regulators, Wall Street lobbyists are now
actually drafting the bills. “Wall Street writes its own laws” used to be a
useful polemic, now it’s a statement of fact.
Study
shows dangers of BPA chemical used in plastic packaging
Bisphenol A is used to line drinks cans and in tests affected the way genes
work in the brains of laboratory rats. Further evidence has emerged showing that
a chemical used widely in plastic packaging and the lining of drinks cans may be
harmful to health.
Japanese share
sell-off a sign of growing financial instability
The sharp drop in Japan’s Nikkei stock market index last Thursday and
subsequent global share sell-off have highlighted mounting instability in world
financial markets. The Nikkei went down by 7 percent and then showed
considerable volatility on Friday, before ending the day marginally
higher.
05/26/13
The
New Crime of Eating While Homeless
Houston’s tidy-uppers aren’t waiting for a world-class event to rationalize
going after homeless down-and-outers. They’ve preemptively outlawed the “crime”
of dumpster diving in the Texan city.
Let
Us Mourn The Millions America Slaughtered, Then Mourn US Soldiers
This veteran is waiting for the year in which the Veterans For Peace, in its
Memorial Day Press Release, states that Veterans mourn first, the lives America
took in poor countries, both the civilian men, women and children and the
patriots that fought our illegal and criminal invasions since
1945.
Preparing for the Collapse
of the Petrodollar System
Over the last several weeks, there have been many news headlines containing
the words "Iran" and "nuclear capability." If you listen closely, you can almost
hear the drumbeats of a fresh war in the Middle East.
Consumers
Will Soon Have Devices In Their Hands To Detect GMO and Toxic Foods
Every human being on every developed nation on Earth, whether living in a
rural or isolated area, in the middle of a large city, or near an industrialized
area, now has some 700 contaminants in their body- pesticides, pthalates,
benzenes, parabens, xylenes, endrocrine disrupting chemicals...
05/24/13
Japan Radiation
Widely Contaminates Pacific Marine Life
Traces of radioactive cesium from Japan’s crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
power plant have been found in water and plankton collected from all 10 points
monitored across a vast stretch of the western Pacific.
US Gov: Walk
Slow
Forty years ago US hospitals had a kinda, sorta, informal word of mouth
“policy” to “walk slow” when a dying no-pay patient “Coded.” This “allowed” the
patient to go ahead and croak before the life extending heroic measures arrived.
It was that way because it was always that way.
Kanye
West, "New Slaves" and a Long Tradition of Locking People Up for Profit
Projecting his latest music video onto the sides of 66 buildings around the
world over the weekend, Kanye West debuted his new song, "New
Slaves". He rapped:
-
"I know that we the new slaves...
Meanwhile the DEA, teamed up with the CCA
They tryina lock nasses up, they tryna make new slaves
See that's the privately owned prison, get your piece today
They prolly all in the Hamptons, braggin 'bout what they made"
On the eve of March
against Monsanto Senate shoots down GMO labeling bill
As 200,000 people prepare to march against Monsanto, the Senate has
overwhelmingly rejected a bill that would allow states to decide if genetically
modified food products should be labeled.
05/23/13
Marijuana:
The next diabetes drug?
Toking up may help marijuana users to stay slim and lower their risk of
developing diabetes, according to the latest study, which suggests that cannabis
compounds may help in controlling blood sugar.
Why
Disinformation Works — Paul Craig Roberts
Have you ever wondered how the government’s misinformation gains traction?
What I have noticed is that whenever a stunning episode occurs, such as 9/11 or
the Boston Marathon bombing, most everyone whether on the right or left goes
along with the government’s explanation, because they can hook their agenda to
the government’s account.
05/22/13
Russia
Issues “Extreme Danger” Warning As Alabama Death Toll Rises
Russian Maritime issued an “Extreme Danger” warning for vessels nearing the
U.S. Port of Mobile Alabama, as the death toll rises from an environmental
disaster related to flowering Bt gmo cotton. So dangerous, are Bt toxins,
scientists warned that Monsanto crops are harmful to mammalian
blood...
China
Destroys 3 US Shipments of GM Corn
According to a report released today by GMWatch, China destroyed three
shipments of GM corn imported from the US. The first two shipments are
referenced on the website of the Zhuhai Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine
Bureau...
Why
Does Monsanto Need an Army of Mercenary Soldiers?
The Monsanto Company likes to proclaim that they are the good guys, here to
selflessly feed the world, help with sustainable agriculture, and, as if those
lofty goals are not enough, champion human rights across the
globe.
Iran
helps Syria build paramilitary force
A new Syrian paramilitary force of men and women, some trained by Iran, has
started to become active in the central province of Homs, observers say.
President Bashar al-Assad's regime has put together a new paramilitary force of
men and women, some trained by key ally Iran, to fight what is now becoming a
guerrilla war, a watchdog says.
05/21/13
America’s
Bubble Economy Is Going To Become An Economic Black Hole
What is going to happen when the greatest economic bubble in the history of
the world pops? The mainstream media never talks about that. They are much too
busy covering the latest dogfights in Washington and what Justin Bieber has been
up to.
05/20/13
This
Crisis Will Be Over 30 Times Bigger Than Greece
Japan has fueled much of this latest rally in stocks, driving the marketing
first with promises of money printing by the Prime Minister in November 2012,
and then a massive $1.2 trillion QE program announced by the Bank of Japan last
month.
05/19/13
Syria
ready to unleash missiles on Israel
SYRIA has put its most advanced missiles on standby with orders to hit Tel
Aviv if Israel launches another raid on its territory.
05/18/13
Washington
Signals Dollar Deep Concerns — Paul Craig Roberts
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of
events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the
Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE).
Pentagon tells US
Senate wars will continue for decades
The Pentagon claims that “war on terror” legislation gives it sweeping powers
to wage war around the world without congressional
authorization.
Pew report shows
decline in retirement security for most Americans
The study predicted increasing wealth inequality for each of five successive
age groups as they approach retirement.
FBI director
continues cover-up of contacts with Boston bombing suspects
Knowing he had nothing to fear from the Senate committee, FBI Director
Mueller defended the FBI’s handling of the Tsarnaevs and failure to alert state
or local authorities.
'90%
of Guantanamo prisoners are innocent people sold to US Gov' - former
detainee
The current Guantanamo hunger strike began on February 6th. More than 140
navy medical workers were recruited to treat the strikers. Some of them were
forced to feeding. Murat Kurnaz, former Guantanamo detainee, who had been
tortured for more than four years, gave an interview to the Voice of
Russia.
Al-Qaeda's
Syrian wing takes over the oilfields once belonging to Assad
Up to 380,000 barrels of crude oil were previously produced by wells around
the city of Raqqa and in the desert region to its east that are now in rebel
hands - in particular Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda off-shoot which is the
strongest faction in this part of the country.
05/17/13
"Mom, they did bad things
to me" - insider at OKC airport shares shocking info on alleged TSA
abuses
“A woman in her late 30’s or early 40’s approached me and asked if I could
help her,” Stacy recalls. “She told me that ‘those people in the blue uniforms
took my daughter in that back room and she’s been gone for a long
time.’”
Has
TSA surpassed IRS as most hated gov't agency?
I remember a time when the Internal Revenue Service was the most reviled and
despised agency in the government arsenal. Don't worry, IRS, you're still up
there near the top--but now you have some serious competition.
Obama’s media shield law
makes prosecuting journalists even easier
United States President Barack Obama is encouraging Congress to take up a
media shield law that was abandoned at the start of his administration, but
critics of the bill say it might make it even easier for journalists to be
subpoenaed by the government.
Russia dismisses uproar over
arms sale to Syria
Russia has criticized the international media for blowing Moscow's weapons
cooperation with Syria out of proportion, stressing that Russia only supplies
defensive weapons to the Arab country.
US
Suspends Constitution in Permanent World War on Terror
Two disturbing developments have occurred in the last couple of days that
have gone relatively unnoticed compared to the recent IRS, AP, and Benghazi
scandals.
05/16/13
Billionaires
Unchained
Today, politics is a rich man's game. Look no further than the 2012 elections
and that season's biggest donor, 79-year-old casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. He
and his wife, Miriam, shocked the political class by first giving $16.5 million
in an effort to make Newt Gingrich
Past News
05/15/13
Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
Hungary has taken a bold stand against biotech giant Monsanto and genetic modification by destroying 1000 acres of maize found to have been grown with genetically modified seeds, according to Hungary deputy state secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development Lajos Bognar. Unlike many European Union countries, Hungary is a nation where genetically modified (GM) seeds are banned.
Kenya Banning of GMOs http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Videos.php/2013/05/19/banning-of-gmos
05/13/13
The
12 Most Pesticide Polluted Fruit and Veggies
Pesticides have been linked to cancer, neurological problems and possibly ADHD. Protect your family by eating chemical-free produce and avoid these pesticide polluted fruits and vegetables. According to the United States Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the following fruits and vegetables are the most commonly eaten -- and most commonly full of chemical. Use these tips to limit your risk of ingesting pesticides, too.
05/08/13
Report:
Ohio Is Illegally Throwing Poor People In Jail For Owing Money
12/29/12
Final Step to Fascism?
National Defense Authorization Act Passes
" the new law will give the right to have the U.S. military basically make any American citizen “disappear” for offenses that are never even made public. Also, if a friend or family publicizes your disappearance, they also will be detained. Radio host Ralph Schoenman says “if anybody helps you with a taxi ride or attempts to give assistance to your family in the circumstances of your disappearance, they too can be detained. THIS is the architecture of the fascist state.” Say goodbye to your civil liberties, folks. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will be put into law this week in Washington, D.C.
11/22/12
‘Dynasty
of Death’ (Part 2)
Videos
06/01/13
Marc
Faber on the state of silver, gold, and commodities
whysilverandgold
"We could easily go back to a gold standard but they would have to revalue gold to something like a million dollars an ounce..." - Marc Faber
"We could easily go back to a gold standard but they would have to revalue gold to something like a million dollars an ounce..." - Marc Faber
05/29/13
Noam
Chomsky: Wrecking nature for short term profit
docdissent
Denver, Colorado at an event organized by community radio station KGNU (http://kgnu.org). Noted social critic Noam Chomsky talks about the willful and reckless destruction of the environment by the US and other Western nations. Corporate-run governments have abdicated their responsibility toward protecting the welfare of their citizens and are rushing the world toward climate catastrophe. More from this event at KGNU.org Free Speech TV (freespeech.org)
Denver, Colorado at an event organized by community radio station KGNU (http://kgnu.org). Noted social critic Noam Chomsky talks about the willful and reckless destruction of the environment by the US and other Western nations. Corporate-run governments have abdicated their responsibility toward protecting the welfare of their citizens and are rushing the world toward climate catastrophe. More from this event at KGNU.org Free Speech TV (freespeech.org)
05/28/13
FLUORIDEGATE
An American Tragedy - a David Kennedy film
Zimmermania
FLUORIDEGATE the movie is a new documentary film that reveals the tragedy of how the United States government, industry, and trade associations protect and promote a policy known to cause harm to our country and especially small children, who suffer more than any other segment of the population. While the basis of their motivation remains uncertain, the outcome is crystal clear: it is destroying our nation. WWW.FLUORIDEGATE.ORG Play List from The Fluoride Action Network - Fifty Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGdEidQU6ZM&feature=share&list=UUbZGCljWmswTqX5VoYhHxSQ
FLUORIDEGATE the movie is a new documentary film that reveals the tragedy of how the United States government, industry, and trade associations protect and promote a policy known to cause harm to our country and especially small children, who suffer more than any other segment of the population. While the basis of their motivation remains uncertain, the outcome is crystal clear: it is destroying our nation. WWW.FLUORIDEGATE.ORG Play List from The Fluoride Action Network - Fifty Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGdEidQU6ZM&feature=share&list=UUbZGCljWmswTqX5VoYhHxSQ
05/20/13
IS
THE GOLD AND SILVER MARKET CORNERED?
ScrapGoldUniversity
In his brilliant and insightful lecture Barry Lynn relates a statement by MSNBC's Mad Money host Jim Craimer: "If there was every any doubt in your mind that we have a government of, by, and for the corporations, if you thought for a second that we were not right back in the gilded age, if you had the least ounce of faith in our regulators do the right thing, you should give it up right now."
Mr. Lynn's most resent book: Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
In his brilliant and insightful lecture Barry Lynn relates a statement by MSNBC's Mad Money host Jim Craimer: "If there was every any doubt in your mind that we have a government of, by, and for the corporations, if you thought for a second that we were not right back in the gilded age, if you had the least ounce of faith in our regulators do the right thing, you should give it up right now."
Mr. Lynn's most resent book: Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
05/19/13
The
Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right (original version)
joeyess
We're all in this together, folks.
This is a rant about the greed that permeates the American political landscape. In fact the very core of who we are as a nation and a people.
Until we re-regulate our glorious corporate overlords, our condition -the Human Condition- in this country and on this planet remains in the hands of a select group of sociopathic plutocrats that care nothing of their nation and only about their personal fortunes.
Self appointed Masters of the Universe who don't seem to realize that their gene pool has been diminished and dulled by decades of greed, avarice and a sense of entitlement.
All born on 3rd base, swearing they hit a triple.
We Were RIght. They will devour themselves.
My only hope is that the rest of us survive the feast.
We're all in this together, folks.
This is a rant about the greed that permeates the American political landscape. In fact the very core of who we are as a nation and a people.
Until we re-regulate our glorious corporate overlords, our condition -the Human Condition- in this country and on this planet remains in the hands of a select group of sociopathic plutocrats that care nothing of their nation and only about their personal fortunes.
Self appointed Masters of the Universe who don't seem to realize that their gene pool has been diminished and dulled by decades of greed, avarice and a sense of entitlement.
All born on 3rd base, swearing they hit a triple.
We Were RIght. They will devour themselves.
My only hope is that the rest of us survive the feast.
- Green
is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege by Will
Potter
By reading this book you will learn exactly how and why the meme of "eco-terrorism" was schemed up and sold to the public by the government even though it twists the customary definition of terrorism well beyond reason. It's a tightly woven, 250-page narrative (not including its comprehensive bibliography, index and acknowledgements) that, along with analyzing the legislation and court cases, offers an inside look at some of the more daring actions carried out by environmental and animal rights activists. Potter also describes his own experience with the Green Scare, when in 2002 FBI agents sought to intimidate him for distributing leaflets in a Chicago suburb, near the home of an executive with March Inc., an insurance company for Huntington Life Sciences, the animal testing lab. FBI agents visited his home in Chicago and told him they'd put him on a "domestic terrorist list" if he didn't provide information about the people who were leafleting with him. Potter refused to provide the FBI agents with any information, but the encounter spooked him. And yet, it also opened his eyes to the close relationship between the state apparatus and corporations.
- Billionaires
& Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps by Greg
Palast
Here is just a bit about John Paulson from my new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps—An investigation of Karl Rove, the Koch Gang and their Buck-Buddies. There's a comic book inside by Ted Rall with an introduction by Bobby Kennedy Jr. In August 2007, billionaire John Paulson walked into Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, with a billion-dollar idea. Paulson’s brainstorm had all the elements that Goldman found enchanting: a bit of fraud, a bit of flimflam, and lots and lots of the ultimate drug: OPM—Other Peoples’ Money. Paulson’s scheme was simple. Paulson, a much followed hotshot hedge-fund manager, would announce that he was betting big on the recovery of the U.S. housing market... But, in fact, Paulson would be betting against those very mortgages. Paulson himself was the secret beneficiary of the “insurance” on the mortgages. When the housing market went bust, Paulson collected from the duped banks and they didn't even know it.
- Long
Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror by Susan
Galleymore
While the mothers she interviewed possessed views that span the political spectrum, each described how she viewed her child's involvement in war, and how it impacted family, community and country. By also interviewing men engaged in armed struggle in their native lands as well as soldiers speaking about disturbing facts on the ground in the countries in which they had been deployed, Galleymore adds layers of meaning to this unique book. By further relaying her own personal experiences, observations and ruminations along the way, the author manages to write the equivalent of many books in one volume. Long Time Passing provides an insider’s view into the tremulous circumstances of occupation, what emerges is that maternal and human suffering -- both deeply personal and extraordinarily universal,,,
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