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Everything is Rigged, Vol. 9,713: This Time, It’s Currencies | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, June 14, 2013Noam Chomsky: Ronald Reagan’s Secret, Genocidal Wars
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, June 8, 2013Kennedy Assassination. 50th Anniversary Commemoration. No One Knows the Full Story of What Happened | Global Research
Read Tom Sawyer's "THE SIXTEENTH MAN"Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, June 2, 2013
Wall Street “Too Big to Fail” Banks and Corporations Are the Real Takers: Count the Ways
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, June 1, 2013Falstaff in Toronto, Antonio in New York: Ford, Weiner, and Shakespeare : The New Yorker
Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, May 30, 2013Dead Kennedys
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, May 29, 2013The Biggest Criminal Enterprise in History | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 24, 2013Jon Stewart Tears Apart Obama, DOJ For Prosecuting Whistleblowers And Pot…
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, May 24, 2013
Another Chilling Leak Investigation – NYTimes.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 23, 2013New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting injures 19 – World – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Sunday, May 12, 2013Former Nixon aide Roger Stone claims he has evidence LBJ arranged JFK assassination in new book
as reported in the Daily Mail ..Esteemed Republican strategist and lobbyist Roger Stone writes in his upcoming book that former president Lyndon B. Johnson set up John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Stone also writes that Richard Nixon and Johnson had a documented relationship with Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer, years before he shot Oswald in the basement of Dallas police headquarters in 1963. Stone, who worked for Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect the President in 1972 and later served in the Nixon administration, writes that Johnson, a congressman at the time, instructed Richard Nixon, also a congressman at the time, to hire Ruby onto the House of Representatives payroll in 1947should be noted that Stone is sort a wack job - but this is in addition to allegations made in Barr McClellan's book (father of Bush II press dude Scott McClellan) .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, May 11, 2013
Money Laundering and The Drug Trade: The Role of the Banks | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, May 9, 2013FOCUS | The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever Matt Taibbi
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 29, 2013BOSTON TRUTH: The “Chechen Connection”, Al Qaeda and the Boston Marathon Bombings | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 25, 2013Bush and His Cronies Bear ‘Ultimate Responsibility’ for Torture — So What’s Stopping Us from Prosecuting Them?
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 25, 2013FOCUS | Our Failed Security-State
Remember: 'Those who seek after both security and freedom, shall have neither'Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, April 24, 2013
When It Comes to Killing in the Name of Religion and Nationhood, Christians Hold the Modern Record
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, April 24, 2013George W. Bush: ‘No Need to Defend Myself’ | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, April 24, 2013Sibel Edmonds on RT Discussing FBI Contact with Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, April 24, 2013
WashingtonsBlog: Boston Terror Narrative Starts Falling Apart
because of deep distrust of allthings corporate media (and b/c of 911 etc etc) I have no idea what happened in Boston, whether the official narrative is true or not - out of curiosity I've been following the counter narratives at various tinfoil hat sites (Infowars, Mike Adams) .. perhaps more on these later - anyway so found this post on WashingtonsBlog (i.e. George) via Nakedcapitalism - its got info from mainstream sources about how the Chechen/Dagistan dudes didn't rob the 7-Eleven, and in an eerie parallel to 911 how authorities were running dog sniffing "drills" during the race (!) - leaning towards believing the gov't this time since i don't see any strong motive for carrying these out, unlike 911 (Peak Oil etc) - Sibel Edmonds in the above video points out the Syria/Russian/Chechen connections in all this.. that Russia is keeping us from intervening in Syria and neocons have been supporting Chechen rebels to put pressure on Russia - this doesn't seem like a good reason to kill + maim innocent people in Boston, at least not for Obama (renegade neocons on the other hand..) - anyway due diligence and all that - Mike B .. read moreUPDATE: looks like we're gonna go to war w/ Syria
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Democracy Now: Allan Nairn Exposes Role of U.S. and New Guatemalan President in Indigenous Massacres
.. read transcript at Democracy Now
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, April 23, 2013
How the NRA Impeded the Boston Bomber Investigation
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 22, 2013Lambert Strether: About the Official Boston Narrative and Whether You Should Trust It
Lambert at Naked Capitalism (scroll down) ..So, about that official narrative and whether you should trust it. In a word, no. Especially you should not trust it when the nice folks from our organs of state security are involved, for the good and sufficient reason that they have a track record of manufacturing the raw materials of narrative — we might call these “events” — to suit their purposes ... [quoting Mother Jones study: FBI terrorist] "Sting operations resulted in prosecutions against 158 defendants. Of that total, 49 defendants participated in plots led by an agent provocateur—an FBI operative instigating terrorist action" ... I retain, perhaps naively, the idea that truth is important[]. We are enmeshed in a fabulously complex system of bullshit and lies, and it’s not possible to combat that system with lies of our own, or bullshit, no matter how good we may be at it; we simply don’t have the budget, or the institutions .. But the truth, at least for “the news,” seems quite difficult to discern. Events are manufactured by state or corporate actors; our famously free press promotes narratives that have at best a discounted relation with reality []. We ourselves, digerati, crowd-source ourselves into witch hunts or go down the Conspiracy Theory rabbit hole .. Leaving aside the human tragedy, in historic terms, the Boston Marathon bombing was not the Battle of the Somme, the Blitz, or the IRA bombings in London. Somewhere in their withered, austere souls, the powers that be must know this, and sense the shoddiness of their performance.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, April 22, 2013
John Zerzan: We Heard Screaming
Zerzan via Anonymous twitter feed ..1966 was a banner year for murder sprees, a break-out year ahead of its time. Although Charles Starkweather killed eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming in 1958, it was ’66 that introduced things to come. In that year Richard Speck stabbed eight student nurses to death in their Chicago apartment; and Charles Whitman left a suicide note, climbed a tower at the University of Texas, and shot fourteen people to death. After a few years’ relative lull, in 1983 multiple shootings by post office workers engendered the term “going postal.” Since that year there have been 35 homicides in eleven incidents involving postal employees. A slowly rising number of workplace killings included, for example, an Atlanta office shooting in 1999: thirteen dead. It was in the late 1990s that the term “school shootings” entered common usage. In Springfield, Oregon in 1998, Kip Kinkel gunned down his parents, then shot 24 fellow Thurston High School students, two of them fatally. More famously, in 1999 two boys at Columbine High near Denver achieved a death toll of fifteen. Several more school rampages followed, along with shootings at shopping malls, such as the nine fatalities at an Omaha mall in 2007. There were 33 killed at Virginia Tech in 2007, and twelve dead at the Fort Hood army base in Texas in 2009, on and on, including the "Batman movie" horror at a Denver suburb this summer and now the CT elementary school body count.. read more
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U.S. data, by the way, is increasingly duplicated in other developed and developing countries. Evidently, the more technological the society, the more likely carnage will occur. And this cuts across cultural differences by and large, underlining the importance of the technological factor. Technology can’t be said to be the only factor, but it is very much related to what I think is the bottom-line reality behind these near-daily rampages: the disappearance of community––face-to-face community.
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, April 20, 2013
