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Posted by Michael Hamilton, Sunday, January 26, 2014Good for your heart
Posted by Michael Hamilton, Sunday, January 26, 2014The Results Are So Gorgeous
Posted by Michael Hamilton, Sunday, January 26, 2014How come nobody bumps into each other?
Posted by Michael Hamilton, Sunday, January 26, 2014how can we sleep at night?
Posted by Michael Hamilton, Sunday, January 26, 2014SHAME
Posted by Michael Hamilton, Sunday, January 26, 2014THIS IS A BULLS EYE!
Posted by Michael Hamilton, Sunday, January 26, 2014Bible Minded??
Posted by Michael Hamilton, Sunday, January 26, 2014Glenn Greenwald: Obama’s NSA ‘reforms’ are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public
Glenzilla (back at The Guardian for a day) ..The crux of this tactic is that US political leaders pretend to validate and even channel public anger by acknowledging that there are "serious questions that have been raised". They vow changes to fix the system and ensure these problems never happen again. And they then set out, with their actions, to do exactly the opposite: to make the system prettier and more politically palatable with empty, cosmetic "reforms" so as to placate public anger while leaving the system fundamentally unchanged, even more immune than before to serious challenge.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, January 18, 2014
Electricity Storage — Exciting Breakthrough!
Posted by Tom Sawyer, Friday, January 17, 2014Peace Activists Admit to Role in FBI Burglary That Exposed COINTELPRO
from Democracy Now ..One of the great mysteries of the Vietnam War era has been solved. In 1971, a group of peace activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and lifted files that helped reveal the FBI’s elaborate program of illegally spying on political groups. The documents, given to journalists at the time, provided the first hints of a secret counter intelligence program, or COINTELPRO, the FBI’s secret program to infiltrate, monitor and disrupt social movements. The burglars called themselves the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI. They were never caught. But decades later, a number of them are coming forward for the first time. The idea for the burglary came from William Davidon, a physics professor and leader of civil disobedience against the Vietnam War. Davidon died last year. Also involved were a social worker named Bob Williamson and John and Bonnie Raines, a married couple with childrenalso here's the NYT story about it .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Wagging the dog in Libya
This is a re-broadcast of something we ran BEFORE Libya was destabilized and BEFORE the insanity in Syria. Now years later, the world is slowly figuring it out. - Brasscheck Let's see... First we had a "no fly" zone. That evolved into bombing missions. But NATO's running it now, not the US, so no worries, right? Now there's talk of putting US troops on the ground. All in support of the noble and downtrodden Libyan "rebels." But what if there are no Libyan rebels? Hint: My money says there aren't any. It's all photo-staged.Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 5, 2014
Taibbi: Yuppie Prohibition League Denounces Pot Legalization
Matt T in RS ..With all the other nonsense going on in this country, it's amazing (but of course expected) that anyone with other things to do would find the time to denounce Colorado's legal marijuana experiment. Yet here they come, luminaries like MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, publishing mogul Tina Brown, and Yale blowhard-in-residence David Brooks, all hot to build a Wall of Decency around the New American Menace. They are the 21st-century version of the Anti-Saloon League, gathering now to denounce the perils of the legal recreational joint. Brown put it this way, in a tweet:Brooks I would expect. Tina Brown?? Used to think she was ok.... read more. . . legal weed contributes to us being a fatter, dumber, sleepier nation even less able to compete with the ChineseRight. Because marijuana, not China's bottomless supply of slave labor, is what's responsible for the West's growing trade imbalance.
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, January 4, 2014
The Peaceful Pill Handbook 2012 Edition
Posted by Michael Hamilton, Friday, January 3, 2014Lethal Injections
Posted by Michael Hamilton, Friday, January 3, 2014SNOWDEN – Whistle Blower, NOT Traitor!
Posted by Tom Sawyer, Thursday, January 2, 2014Robert Parry: NYT Backs Off Its Syria-Sarin Analysis
Parry in Consortium News ..In Sunday’s article – the one below the fold on page 8 – the Times reported that a new analysis by two military experts concluded that the Aug. 21 rockets had a range of about three kilometers, or less than one-third the distance needed to intersect at the Syrian military base northwest of Damascus. The report’s authors were Theodore A. Postol, a professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Richard M. Lloyd, an analyst at the military contractor Tesla Laboratories. The Times noted that “the authors said that their findings could help pinpoint accountability for the most lethal chemical warfare attack in decades, but that they also raised questions about the American government’s claims about the locations of launching points, and the technical intelligence behind them. The analysis could also lead to calls for more transparency from the White House, as Dr. Postol said it undermined the Obama administration’s assertions about the rockets’ launch points.”drip drip .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, December 30, 2013
Congress Cites 9/11 Bush Cover-up, Demands Action « Golden Age of Gaia
from Raya KingPosted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Whether you’re a Bee Gees or Rita Hayworth fan or not…you’re gonna love this!
Posted by Tom Sawyer, Wednesday, December 25, 2013Social Security Is Under Attack
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 23, 2013Social Security Is Under Attack
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 22, 2013A Startling Reminder of What We have Become…
Posted by Tom Sawyer, Saturday, December 21, 2013The Economist’s country of the year: Earth’s got talent | The Economist
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, December 20, 2013TomDispatch: Tomgram: Bill Moyers, Covering Class War
It is for real. The consequences are really grave.Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, December 14, 2013
Seymour Hersh: Whose Sarin?
Hersh in the London Review of Books ..Barack Obama did not tell the whole story this autumn when he tried to make the case that Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack near Damascus on 21 August. In some instances, he omitted important intelligence, and in others he presented assumptions as facts. Most significant, he failed to acknowledge something known to the US intelligence community: that the Syrian army is not the only party in the country’s civil war with access to sarin, the nerve agent that a UN study concluded – without assessing responsibility – had been used in the rocket attack. In the months before the attack, the American intelligence agencies produced a series of highly classified reports, culminating in a formal Operations Order – a planning document that precedes a ground invasion – citing evidence that the al-Nusra Front, a jihadi group affiliated with al-Qaida, had mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity. When the attack occurred al-Nusra should have been a suspect, but the administration cherry-picked intelligence to justify a strike against Assadalso read here how Hersh pitched the story to the Wash Post and New Yorker and they both "passed" .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, December 9, 2013