February 2012
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US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR NOW REDUCED TO SOVIET... →
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by SIMON BLACK
February 6th, 2012
In one of the most shamefully disingenuous reports we’ve seen in years, the US Labor Department released the latest employment figures on Friday showing that the headline US unemployment rate had fallen to 8.3%.
Champagne and sound bites were pre-positioned in Washington as the self-congratulatory praise flowed like the bubbly. President...
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Please spread the word on the Homs, Syria...
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More than 100 people were reported to have been killed yesterday in the Syrian city of Homs as security forces continued their efforts to take back opposition-held areas on the eve of a vote by the UN security council on a much-disputed resolution on the country.
Hundreds more were killed in shelling of the city, according to the the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human...
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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via theprospectofvanishingforever)
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A Timeline of the US/Israel threat to attack Iran
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2/1/2012 - The neocon Bipartisan Policy Center calls on the US do ”whatever it takes” to stop a nuclear Iran: ”Iran could develop nuclear weapons capability in 2012.”
1/31/2012 - US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper announced that “Iranian officials… are now more willing to conduct an attack in the United States”
1/31/2012 - Israeli President Shimon...
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Iran warns Arab countries not to replace its oil →
From an Indian news site:
An excellent short summary of the current Iranian-Western standoff regarding the proposed Western oil embargo set for July.
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Could the world handle an Iranian oil crisis?
by Brad Plumer 02/01/2012
Lately, oil markets have been jittery over fears that Europe’s new embargo on Iran could spark tensions in the Persian Gulf. So how would the world cope with an Iranian oil crisis, if it came to that? A new paper explores our options — and none of them are pleasant.
In theory, the E.U.’s embargo on Iranian oil imports,...
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State of Denial in Coming War Catastrophe →
By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com
30 JANUARY 2012
The world economy is in the tank, and the Federal Reserve’s decision to extend its zero interest rate policy to, at least, the end of 2014 proves it. What will happen if the fragile world economy also has to deal with a war with Iran? That should have been the big headline coming out of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, but what...
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End of Privacy →
“A direct assault on Internet users” is what the ACLU is calling it. A U.S. House committee has already approved HR 1981, a broad new Internet snooping bill.
And get this — it’s also authored by SOPA sponsor Lamar Smith.
They want to force Internet service providers to keep track of and retain their customers’ information — including your name, address,...
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GOOGLE CHANGES ITS PRIVACY POLICY: ANOTHER... →
by SIMON BLACK
February 2, 2012
If you’re like almost every single Internet user on the planet, you probably use Google for something. Maybe Gmail, maybe Google search, maybe Google Docs, maybe Google Voice… or maybe all of the above.
Google recently began circulating a new privacy policy that will take place effective March 1, 2012. With so many services ranging from a new social network...
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Doug Casey on the Coming War with Iran →
(Interviewed by Louis James, Editor, International Speculator)
L: Doug-Sama, I’ve heard you say you think the US is setting Iran up to be the next fall guy in the wag-the-dog show – do you think it could really come to open warfare?
Doug: Yes, I do. It could just be saber rattling during an election year, but Western powers have been provoking Iran for years now – two decades, really. I...
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Watchsayyrnevers:
YOU ARE NOT CATTLE.
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“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the...”
– Sinclair Lewis
An American Visionary
In 1930, Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first writer from the United States to receive the award. In his Nobel Lecture, Lewis lamented that “in America most of us — not readers alone, but even writers — are still afraid of any...
The Department of Defense can't account for a... →
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$2 billion of DoD’s Iraq War spending unaccounted for (oops) source
» Audit time! With the Iraq War’s chapter effectively closed, now’s apparently a good time to look back at all the money we spent there. There’s a problem, however: Of the $3 billion the Iraqi government set aside for the Department of Defense to use for reconstruction between 2004 and 2007, approximately...
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Survival Insights of an American Genius →
by Wayne M. Thomas
Many people remember the book Walden as the story of a hermit living in a hut who survived on twigs and berries in the Concord, Massachusetts woods. Its author, Henry David Thoreau, was no hermit, but a survivalist and philosopher who personified the best of American values of self-reliance, simplicity, love of the land, individualism and defense of personal liberty against...
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'No imminent data loss' for Megaupload users, says... →
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Google to censor Blogger blogs by country →
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Florida Primary Results: A Pattern Emerges →
January 31, 2012 at 7:57 pm Greg Laden
So what is the pattern? A horse race. I suspect this is going to be a horse race through Super Tuesday, at which time the horses will count up the delegates. I also suspect that Gingrich will stay in this race as long as it is mathematically possible even if it would require a bolt of lighting to possibly win.
I no longer think Santorum is a...
January 2012
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Breaking: #Oakland Arrestees Tortured #ows →
anonymissexpress:
by AoT, Jan 31, 2012, via @Lisa_Lockwood
I just got word from a friend of a friend about the conditions that arrestees from the actions. It isn’t pretty, in fact it’s disgusting.
“Just got out of Santa Rita Jail last night the prisoners from the Oakland Commune were being denied medications (some had seizures) while the guards said they didnt care if they died. Some people...
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While We Were Watching… →
by Charles Goyette
January 30, 2012
The State of the Union is treated with utmost seriousness by the dominant news media. All four major TV networks and the cable news channels carry the event. My local newspaper devoted most of the front page and big chunks of the inside pages to its coverage: photos, accounts, sidebars, response, and analysis.
But it’s actually a spectacle that crowds out...
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Robert Reich Trashes Newt Gingrich →
by Robert Wenzel
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012
Reich says that even if Gingrich has a 10% chance of beating President Obama, if Gingrich gets the nomination, it’s too much of a risk for Democrats to want a Gingrich nomination. He sees Gingrich as that much of a nutjob. Reich writes:
…no responsible Democrat should be pleased at the prospect that Gingrich could get the GOP...
Power Elite Doings →
An excellent, thought-provoking discussion. Not to be missed.
bankerpigs:
Podcast: Lew Rockwell talks to Bob Wenzel about Ron Paul, the establishment, government insider-trading, and the scary economic future.
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Who Owns The Internet? →
by NPR STAFF January 30, 2012
While the Internet may aid the spread of democracy, democracy doesn’t necessarily mean a free and open Internet. In her new book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, Rebecca MacKinnon, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and co-founder of Global Voices, a citizen media network, investigates the corrosion of civil...
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Megaupload Users May Lose Files Stored On Service →
by EYDER PERALTA for npr
January 30, 2012
Many of the files stored by the millions of users of the cloud service Megaupload could begin losing their files on Thursday. The AP reports that federal prosecutors said Megaupload paid third parties to store data and now that authorities have freezed Megaupload’s accounts, it can no longer pay those providers. The providers said they would...
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What really happened at #OccupyOakland - Read my... →
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By baked420 | via @TurboKitty
For the internet, here’s a first-hand account of Occupy Oakland on 1/28/2012, because the news never tells the full story. I’ll tell you about the street battle, the 300+ arrests, the vandalism, the flag burning, all in the context of my experience today. This is deeper than the headlines. No major news source can do that for you, but Reddit...
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Warnings of the Creation of Police State from... →
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Lots of links in this article. I am only halfway and find it very interesting
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