QUOTE:
Five Things You Should Know About the ‘Torture’ Memos
By Judge Andrew Napolitano
The memos describe in vivid, gut-wrenching detail the
procedures that the CIA apparently inquired about. The
memos then proceed to authorize every procedure asked
about, and to commend the CIA for taking the time to ask.
Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Economy On The Ropes
By Mike Whitney
The real economy is sinking fast and, with it, any
hope for a quick recovery. Policymakers are
completely at a loss. The public knows that things
are far worse than they are being told. Continue
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QUOTE:
Somalis Say Illegal Fishing By Foreign Trawlers Drove Them To Piracy
By SHASHANK BENGALI
The international community is shouting about piracy.
But long before this, we were shouting to the world
about our problems," said Eid, a bony-cheeked former
lobsterman with a bushy goatee. "No one listened."
Continue
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Condi Rice Pulls A Nixon:
When the President Does It, That Means It is Not Illegal
By Cenk Uygur
Condoleezza Rice was recently speaking at Stanford
when students asked her an excellent question on
waterboarding and torture. They have her answer
on tape and it isn't pretty. Condi Rice absolutely
pulls a Nixon. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Swine Flu?
A Panic Stoked in Order to Posture and Spend:
By Simon Jenkins
Health scares enable media-hungry doctors,
public health officials and drugs companies to
benefit by manipulating fright. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Copyright (C) 2009 by F. Scott Sinclair. All Rights Reserved.
OP-ED
Does something smell fishy to you? Does the Swine Flu
pass the smell test? Why wasn't there a worldwide warning
given for the ordinary (seasonal) flu that killed 36,000
Americans (and 500,000 internationally)? If something is
too good to be true, it probably is. And in this case scenario,
I believe they're trying to justify something: spending on
vaccines, drugs purchased (past and present), etc. or
whatever. But the smoke screen isn't working, whatever
it's intended purpose. Logic and common sense would tell
you to concentrate your energy and resources on
the prime killer and most virulent flu strain. Now
isn't 36,000 deaths (500,000 worldwide) a more
formidable and virulent flu pandemic than the
minor Swine Flu death toll of less than 100 people
(+or -)? You do the math... Did the authorities and
the complicit news media warn you to wash your
hands, wear a mask, close schools and businesses,
send million of doses of antiviral drugs to hospitals
in every state when 36,000 people died last year?
Did the world community panic over a half
million deaths? Nothing. Not a decibel of warning.
Yet, there are lots of dead bodies strewn about
graveyards because of the so-called benign seasonal
flu. Thus, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell
you that there's something rotten in Denmark, and
that's putting it mildly, my friends. If you can't put
2 and 2 together, then all I can say is: good luck,
you'll need it. Nuff said. I hope so... Boy, they must
think we're stupid. Whatever...
**********************************************
QUOTE:
ONE NATION, TWO SYSTEMS OF JUSTICE
BY TED RALL
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
PHOTOGRAPHY BY NOVELIST F. SCOTT SINCLAIR
********************************************************
QUOTE:
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*********************************************************
QUOTE:
And last, but not least: George Carlin videos. Check them out...!
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
IT'S UPSETTING TO KNOW THAT COMMON DECENCY & SENSE DON'T GO HAND IN HAND WITH MORALITY. YES, THAT'S RIGHT, TORTURE IS AN ACCEPTABLE PRACTICE NOW...!
Copyright (C) 2009 by F. Scott Sinclair. All Rights Reserved. This is a view from one of the highest places in Thailand. The Wats (Buddhist Temples) are surrounded by hills and valleys, and as you can see: lots of trees--a perfect jungle.
Capturing the early morning mist and fog in the air, ran chills up my spine. Absolutely chilling to the bone. One should take a jacket with them when venturing into the mountainous areas of Northern Thailand. Just click on the picture if you like to enlarge the photo.
Capturing the early morning mist and fog in the air, ran chills up my spine. Absolutely chilling to the bone. One should take a jacket with them when venturing into the mountainous areas of Northern Thailand. Just click on the picture if you like to enlarge the photo.***********************************************************
QUOTE:
Reclaiming America’s Soul
By Paul Krugman
Never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed
everything our nation stands for. "This government
does not torture people," declared former President
Bush, but it did, and all the world knows it. Continue
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters
by David Michael Green
What we're seeing, is a political movement that is
utterly bankrupt, literally and figuratively, and is
desperately searching for any sort of remotely
plausible line of attack, but only managing to
make itself look absurd in the process, at least
outside of Appalachia. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Where's My Change?
By Ralph Nader
The corporate chieftains have easy access to the
White House and the new President, whether these
bosses come on missions demanding power or missions
of beggary for bailouts. When will he meet with the
leading heads of consumer protection groups with
millions of dues-paying members who could give him
the base to hold accountable and regulate the
democracy-denying, economy-wrecking corporate
supremacists? Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
This Is A Must Listen
The Financial Barbarians at the Gate
Guns & Butter Interviews financial economist and
historian, Dr. Michael Hudson.The history of banking
and the criminalization of the banking system; tax
policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism
via the monetary system; - similarities with the
Roman Republic; what measures labor should take.
Continue
*********************************************
QUOTE:
No Light In The Tunnel A Housing Crash Update
By Mike Whitney
Why is the press misleading the public about housing?
The housing market is crashing. There are no "green
shoots" or "glimmers of hope"; the market is worn to
a stump, it's kaput. Continue
********************************************
QUOTE:
The Cancerous Rot at the Center of the Empire
By Jacob G. Hornberger
My question is: Why limit torture to suspected terrorists?
Why not expand it to suspected murderers, drug
dealers, robbers, and kidnappers? After all, can’t
those types of people commit just as heinous an
act as terrorists? Continue
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Why Does America Have a Drug War?
By Jacob G. Hornberger
Given that most people agree that the drug war
has failed to achieve its supposed purpose after
decades of warfare, an important question arises:
Why is the drug war still being waged, especially
when we consider all the collateral damage that
this federal program has produced? Hasn’t the
time arrived for Americans to demand an immediate
end to the war on drugs? Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Jane Harman: Angry, Partisan, Civil Liberties Extremist
By Glenn Greenwald
Rep. Jane Harman -- once the most vigorous
Democratic cheerleader of Bush's NSA warrantless
eavesdropping program -- is rip-roarin' angry today.
Apparently, her private conversations were
eavesdropped on by the U.S. Government! This is
a grave outrage that, as she told Andrea Mitchell
just moments ago, demands a probing investigation:
Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Torture Used to Link Saddam With 9/11
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Olbermann: Congress Debates Fresh Investigation of Interrogations
***********************************************
QUOTE:
CIRCLE OF BLAME
BY TED RALL
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Obama Has Missed His Moment
By Chris Hedges
Barack Obama has squandered his presidency. He
had a fleeting moment to challenge the casino
capitalism and financial recklessness of our economic
and political elite. He could have orchestrated a
state socialism that would have provided a safety
net for tens of millions of Americans faced with
dislocation and misery. Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
From Bunker Hill to Baghdad
Pinter's Dispatch to Obama
By Mike Whitney
"The crimes of the United States have been
systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but
very few people have actually talked about
them. You have to hand it to America. It has
exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power
worldwide while masquerading as a force for
universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly
successful act of hypnosis...It's a scintillating
stratagem." Continue
********************************************
QUOTE:
American Exceptionalism
Torture Whitewash from The Dark Side
By Pepe Escobar
Without accepting full responsibility for torture -
and illegal, pre-emptive wars - and without
accountability, there can be no catharsis in
America. Obama is enough of a smart operator
to know that if his "going forward" is perceived
like "look the other way", this whole thing will
come back to haunt and even destroy his presidency.
And if it walks and talks like a whitewash, that's
because it must be ... a whitewash. Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Nicaragua - A Nations Right To Survive
Video - A Documentary Film
By John Pilger
John Pilger's 1983 film about the small nation of
Nicaragua and its right to survive investigates
the corruption in Central America. Pilger describes
the achievements of the Sandinistas and their
"threat of a good example". Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
PHOTOGRAPHY BY NOVELIST F. SCOTT SINCLAIR
********************************************************
QUOTE:
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*********************************************************
QUOTE:
And last, but not least: George Carlin videos. Check them out...!
*****************************************************
Reclaiming America’s Soul
By Paul Krugman
Never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed
everything our nation stands for. "This government
does not torture people," declared former President
Bush, but it did, and all the world knows it. Continue
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters
by David Michael Green
What we're seeing, is a political movement that is
utterly bankrupt, literally and figuratively, and is
desperately searching for any sort of remotely
plausible line of attack, but only managing to
make itself look absurd in the process, at least
outside of Appalachia. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Where's My Change?
By Ralph Nader
The corporate chieftains have easy access to the
White House and the new President, whether these
bosses come on missions demanding power or missions
of beggary for bailouts. When will he meet with the
leading heads of consumer protection groups with
millions of dues-paying members who could give him
the base to hold accountable and regulate the
democracy-denying, economy-wrecking corporate
supremacists? Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
This Is A Must Listen
The Financial Barbarians at the Gate
Guns & Butter Interviews financial economist and
historian, Dr. Michael Hudson.The history of banking
and the criminalization of the banking system; tax
policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism
via the monetary system; - similarities with the
Roman Republic; what measures labor should take.
Continue
*********************************************
QUOTE:
No Light In The Tunnel A Housing Crash Update
By Mike Whitney
Why is the press misleading the public about housing?
The housing market is crashing. There are no "green
shoots" or "glimmers of hope"; the market is worn to
a stump, it's kaput. Continue
********************************************
QUOTE:
The Cancerous Rot at the Center of the Empire
By Jacob G. Hornberger
My question is: Why limit torture to suspected terrorists?
Why not expand it to suspected murderers, drug
dealers, robbers, and kidnappers? After all, can’t
those types of people commit just as heinous an
act as terrorists? Continue
**************************************************
QUOTE:
Why Does America Have a Drug War?
By Jacob G. Hornberger
Given that most people agree that the drug war
has failed to achieve its supposed purpose after
decades of warfare, an important question arises:
Why is the drug war still being waged, especially
when we consider all the collateral damage that
this federal program has produced? Hasn’t the
time arrived for Americans to demand an immediate
end to the war on drugs? Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Jane Harman: Angry, Partisan, Civil Liberties Extremist
By Glenn Greenwald
Rep. Jane Harman -- once the most vigorous
Democratic cheerleader of Bush's NSA warrantless
eavesdropping program -- is rip-roarin' angry today.
Apparently, her private conversations were
eavesdropped on by the U.S. Government! This is
a grave outrage that, as she told Andrea Mitchell
just moments ago, demands a probing investigation:
Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Torture Used to Link Saddam With 9/11
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Olbermann: Congress Debates Fresh Investigation of Interrogations
***********************************************
QUOTE:
CIRCLE OF BLAME
BY TED RALL
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Obama Has Missed His Moment
By Chris Hedges
Barack Obama has squandered his presidency. He
had a fleeting moment to challenge the casino
capitalism and financial recklessness of our economic
and political elite. He could have orchestrated a
state socialism that would have provided a safety
net for tens of millions of Americans faced with
dislocation and misery. Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
From Bunker Hill to Baghdad
Pinter's Dispatch to Obama
By Mike Whitney
"The crimes of the United States have been
systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but
very few people have actually talked about
them. You have to hand it to America. It has
exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power
worldwide while masquerading as a force for
universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly
successful act of hypnosis...It's a scintillating
stratagem." Continue
********************************************
QUOTE:
American Exceptionalism
Torture Whitewash from The Dark Side
By Pepe Escobar
Without accepting full responsibility for torture -
and illegal, pre-emptive wars - and without
accountability, there can be no catharsis in
America. Obama is enough of a smart operator
to know that if his "going forward" is perceived
like "look the other way", this whole thing will
come back to haunt and even destroy his presidency.
And if it walks and talks like a whitewash, that's
because it must be ... a whitewash. Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Nicaragua - A Nations Right To Survive
Video - A Documentary Film
By John Pilger
John Pilger's 1983 film about the small nation of
Nicaragua and its right to survive investigates
the corruption in Central America. Pilger describes
the achievements of the Sandinistas and their
"threat of a good example". Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
PHOTOGRAPHY BY NOVELIST F. SCOTT SINCLAIR
********************************************************
QUOTE:
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*********************************************************
QUOTE:
And last, but not least: George Carlin videos. Check them out...!
*****************************************************
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
A REMARKABLE VOICE...! THAT IT IS: YES, THAT'S THE VOICE OF SUSAN BOYLE--A "REAL LIFE, JOY" TO HEAR.
QUOTE:
Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009...
38,596,832 views
BritainsSoTalented
I Dreamed a Dream: Video -
47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her
performance in the auditions for Britains Got
Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Senior Bush Figures Could be Prosecuted for Torture, says Obama
By Ewan MacAskill and Robert Booth
He said his attorney general, Eric Holder, was conducting
an investigation and the decision rested with him. Continue
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Publish and Be Damned, Mr Cheney
By Philippe Sands
The acts you authorised constitute torture, with all
the consequences of criminality that follows. Bring
on that honest debate, I say. Put your money where
your mouth is. Call for all the evidence – all of it – to
be put before the US Congress or an independent
investigation. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
The Housing Bust Takes Center-stage
By Mike Whitney
The housing market is going under and it's going
to drag a good part of the broader economy along
with it. Stocks, too. Continue
*********************************************
QUOTE:
Stock Market Bulls Have Got it Wrong, Warns Nouriel Roubini
'Dr Doom' predicts further shocks in the market
By Nick Clark
Nouriel Roubini, the so-called "arch bear" economist
who predicted the current financial crisis in 2006, added
further gloom yesterday after he wrote off recent rises
in global stock markets as no more than a dead cat
bounce. Continue
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Big Bank Profits are Bogus!
Massive public deception!
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.
First, I’ll give you the big-picture facts. Then, I’ll
show you how big U.S. banks are painting lipstick
on some of the fattest pigs ever raised. Continue
*********************************************
QUOTE:
When We Are Led to Believe a Lie
Gregg Shotwell
We are led to believe a lie when leaders degrade
labour in honor of false profits. Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
The Pulitzer-Winning Investigation That Dare Not Be Uttered on TV
By Glenn Greenwald
The New York Times' David Barstow won a richly
deserved Pulitzer Prize yesterday for two articles that,
despite being featured as major news stories on the
front page of The Paper of Record, were completely
suppressed by virtually every network and cable news
how, which to this day have never informed their viewers
about what Bartow uncovered. Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Will Obama Wash Bush's Dirty Laundry?"
President Obama, You Are Wrong"
By Keith Olbermann:
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment"
Takes on President Obama's decision not to prosecute
CIA Interrogators for torture. Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Behind the US Banks’ Profit Reports
By Barry Grey
The banks are continuing, with the blessings of
the Obama administration, the same predatory
policies that generated massive fortunes on Wall
Street and eventually plunged the US and world
economy into the deepest crisis since the Great
Depression. Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
‘America Lives in a Fascist State’ – Trend Forecaster
By Russia Today
The merger of corporate and government powers
in modern America is plain and simple fascism,
believes Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends
Research Institute and publisher of Trends Journal.
Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Bailout Indignation
How about a test of your injustice barometer?
By Ralph Nader
You might think that the reckless, avaricious, giant
corporations, having shrunk the economy, cost
millions of jobs and then demanded that taxpayers
be dunned for years into the future for multi-trillion
dollar bailouts, would show contrition, regret, or
self-restraint of their power over Washington. Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
The Tower of Basel
Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency
By Ellen Brown
Do we really want the Bank for International Settlements
(BIS) issuing our global currency? Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
The West’s Hysterical Reaction to North Korea
By Scott Ritter
While both North Korea and Iran have come under
strong international criticism and sanctions for their
respective nuclear and missile activities, it should be
noted that neither nation has acted in a manner
which violates international law. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Hopebroken and Hopesick:
A Lexicon of Disappointment
By Naomi Klein
All is not well in Obamafanland. It's not clear exactly
what accounts for the change of mood. Maybe it
was the rancid smell emanating from Treasury's
latest bank bailout. Or the news that the president's
chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, earned
millions from the very Wall Street banks and hedge
funds he is protecting from reregulation now. Or
perhaps it began earlier, with Obama's silence
during Israel's Gaza attack. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Home of the Barricaded, Land of the ‘Fraid
By David Michael Green
There are few statistics as stunning as the following
simple, single number: The United States spends
two times more on its military than all the other
countries of the world, combined. Yes, that's right.
All 200 or so of them. Combined. Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
"Water Boarding Is Torture"
Richard Armitage: 'Maybe I Should Have Quit'
2 Minute Video
Richard Armitage, the former US Deputy Secretary
of State, tells Avi Lewis on Al Jazeera's Fault Lines
why he should have resigned from the Bush
administration over its lack of respect for the
Geneva conventions. Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
The Year of Cockeyed Optimism
"The foundations of our economy are strong"
By Mike Whitney
Consumer spending is down, housing is in a shambles,
and industrial output dropped at an annual rate of
20 percent, the largest quarterly decrease since
VE Day. The systemwide contraction continues
unabated with with no sign of letting up. Continue
********************************************
QUOTE:
The Crisis That Could Bring Down Obama
By Ruth Conniff
The President, understandably, points to signs
of hope and encourages Americans to be optimistic
about the economy. But when do we move from
healthy confidence to a confidence game? Continue
*********************************************
QUOTE:
US Has Won a Huge Victory
US Aircraft and Elite Navy SEALs Defeat Three Somalis in a Lifeboat
By Glen FordWhat a weekend for American foreign policy!
The United States Navy, backed up by warships from 20
other nations, knocked off three Somali guys crouching with
rifles in a lifeboat tied by a rope to a U.S. destroyer. To
hear the U.S. corporate media tell it, the Americans had
won a huge victory over the forces of evil. Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Can Spain Really Prosecute George W. Bush Aides Over Torture?
By Johanna Neuman
Spain argues that it has jurisdiction in the case because
five Spanish prisoners at Guantanamo Bay allege
they were tortured. And human rights organizations
in the United States agree. Continue
********************************************
QUOTE:
94 Years of Serfdom
By Paul Craig Roberts
The only free Americans today are those who can
work off the books or who can live on public welfare.
Continue
********************************************
QUOTE:
Is America the New Russia?
By Martin Wolf
Is the US Russia? The question seems provocative,
if not outrageous. Yet the person asking it is
Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the
International Monetary Fund and a professor at
the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
America’s 20% Unemployment Rate
By Carlton Meyer
The Department of Labor’s website shows an
unemployment rate of 16% for Feb. 2009. It
explains why these unemployed Americans
are not included in their official unemployment
rate: Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
US News Media Fails America, Again
By Robert Parry
Watching Glenn Beck of Fox News rant about
“progressive fascism” – and muse about armed
insurrection – or listening to mainstream pundits
prattle on about Barack Obama as the “most
polarizing President ever,” it is hard to escape
the conclusion that today’s U.S. news media
represents a danger to the Republic. Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
"Liquidate the Banks; Fire the Executives!"
By Mike Whitney
While Congress approved a mere $700 billion
in emergency funding for the TARP, Geithner
and Bernanke deftly sidestepped the public
opposition to more bailouts and shoveled another
$3.3 trillion through the back door via loans and
leverage for crappy mortgage paper that will
never regain its value. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Revive Lincoln’s Monetary Policy
By Ellen Brown
The bankers had Lincoln's government over a
barrel, just as Wall Street has Congress in
its vice-like grip today. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Keith Olbermann's Scathing Criticism of Obama's Secrecy/Immunity Claims
By Glenn Greenwald
The fact that Keith Olbermann, of all people, spent the
first ten minutes of his show attacking Obama for
replicating (and, in this instance, actually surpassing)
some of the worst Bush/Cheney abuses of executive
power and secrecy claims reflects just how extreme is
the conduct of the Obama DOJ here. Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
No End In Sight
By Mike Whitney
China, Russia, Venezuela and Iran have already
called for a change in the world's reserve currency.
It won't happen overnight, but the momentum
is steadily growing. Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Bernanke's Financial Rescue Plan:
The Glide-path to Destitution
By Mike Whitney
The United States defaulted on its debt in 1933
when Roosevelt took office and pulled the country
off the gold standard, thus, shrugging off the claims
of foreign investors who were assured the US
would honor its obligations in gold. The dollar
plummeted. Bernanke's muddled strategy has
the nation walking down that same path once
again. Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Should We Kill the Fed?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The Fed was the greatest single contributor
to the crisis that unfolds before us," Woods writes
of today, and "more dollars were created between
2000 and 2007 than in the rest of the republic's
history." Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
How Freedom Was Lost
By Paul Craig Roberts
Americans no longer know what freedom is.
Historically, the definition of a free person is
one who owns his own labor. Serfs and slaves
were not free, because they do not own all of
their own labor. An income tax is inconsistent
with the historical definition of freedom. Today
in America government has a claim on every
person’s labor, just as feudal lords, the government
of that time, had claims on the labor of serfs and
nineteenth century plantation owners had on slaves.
Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
PHOTOGRAPHY BY NOVELIST F. SCOTT SINCLAIR
********************************************************
QUOTE:
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*********************************************************
QUOTE:
And last, but not least: George Carlin videos. Check them out...!
*********************************************************
Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009...
38,596,832 views
BritainsSoTalented
I Dreamed a Dream: Video -
47 Year old Susan Boyle wows the judges with her
performance in the auditions for Britains Got
Talent, singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables.
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Senior Bush Figures Could be Prosecuted for Torture, says Obama
By Ewan MacAskill and Robert Booth
He said his attorney general, Eric Holder, was conducting
an investigation and the decision rested with him. Continue
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Publish and Be Damned, Mr Cheney
By Philippe Sands
The acts you authorised constitute torture, with all
the consequences of criminality that follows. Bring
on that honest debate, I say. Put your money where
your mouth is. Call for all the evidence – all of it – to
be put before the US Congress or an independent
investigation. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
The Housing Bust Takes Center-stage
By Mike Whitney
The housing market is going under and it's going
to drag a good part of the broader economy along
with it. Stocks, too. Continue
*********************************************
QUOTE:
Stock Market Bulls Have Got it Wrong, Warns Nouriel Roubini
'Dr Doom' predicts further shocks in the market
By Nick Clark
Nouriel Roubini, the so-called "arch bear" economist
who predicted the current financial crisis in 2006, added
further gloom yesterday after he wrote off recent rises
in global stock markets as no more than a dead cat
bounce. Continue
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Big Bank Profits are Bogus!
Massive public deception!
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.
First, I’ll give you the big-picture facts. Then, I’ll
show you how big U.S. banks are painting lipstick
on some of the fattest pigs ever raised. Continue
*********************************************
QUOTE:
When We Are Led to Believe a Lie
Gregg Shotwell
We are led to believe a lie when leaders degrade
labour in honor of false profits. Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
The Pulitzer-Winning Investigation That Dare Not Be Uttered on TV
By Glenn Greenwald
The New York Times' David Barstow won a richly
deserved Pulitzer Prize yesterday for two articles that,
despite being featured as major news stories on the
front page of The Paper of Record, were completely
suppressed by virtually every network and cable news
how, which to this day have never informed their viewers
about what Bartow uncovered. Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Will Obama Wash Bush's Dirty Laundry?"
President Obama, You Are Wrong"
By Keith Olbermann:
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment"
Takes on President Obama's decision not to prosecute
CIA Interrogators for torture. Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Behind the US Banks’ Profit Reports
By Barry Grey
The banks are continuing, with the blessings of
the Obama administration, the same predatory
policies that generated massive fortunes on Wall
Street and eventually plunged the US and world
economy into the deepest crisis since the Great
Depression. Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
‘America Lives in a Fascist State’ – Trend Forecaster
By Russia Today
The merger of corporate and government powers
in modern America is plain and simple fascism,
believes Gerald Celente, the founder of the Trends
Research Institute and publisher of Trends Journal.
Continue
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QUOTE:
Bailout Indignation
How about a test of your injustice barometer?
By Ralph Nader
You might think that the reckless, avaricious, giant
corporations, having shrunk the economy, cost
millions of jobs and then demanded that taxpayers
be dunned for years into the future for multi-trillion
dollar bailouts, would show contrition, regret, or
self-restraint of their power over Washington. Continue
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QUOTE:
The Tower of Basel
Secretive Plans for the Issuing of a Global Currency
By Ellen Brown
Do we really want the Bank for International Settlements
(BIS) issuing our global currency? Continue
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QUOTE:
The West’s Hysterical Reaction to North Korea
By Scott Ritter
While both North Korea and Iran have come under
strong international criticism and sanctions for their
respective nuclear and missile activities, it should be
noted that neither nation has acted in a manner
which violates international law. Continue
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QUOTE:
Hopebroken and Hopesick:
A Lexicon of Disappointment
By Naomi Klein
All is not well in Obamafanland. It's not clear exactly
what accounts for the change of mood. Maybe it
was the rancid smell emanating from Treasury's
latest bank bailout. Or the news that the president's
chief economic adviser, Larry Summers, earned
millions from the very Wall Street banks and hedge
funds he is protecting from reregulation now. Or
perhaps it began earlier, with Obama's silence
during Israel's Gaza attack. Continue
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QUOTE:
Home of the Barricaded, Land of the ‘Fraid
By David Michael Green
There are few statistics as stunning as the following
simple, single number: The United States spends
two times more on its military than all the other
countries of the world, combined. Yes, that's right.
All 200 or so of them. Combined. Continue
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QUOTE:
"Water Boarding Is Torture"
Richard Armitage: 'Maybe I Should Have Quit'
2 Minute Video
Richard Armitage, the former US Deputy Secretary
of State, tells Avi Lewis on Al Jazeera's Fault Lines
why he should have resigned from the Bush
administration over its lack of respect for the
Geneva conventions. Continue
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QUOTE:
The Year of Cockeyed Optimism
"The foundations of our economy are strong"
By Mike Whitney
Consumer spending is down, housing is in a shambles,
and industrial output dropped at an annual rate of
20 percent, the largest quarterly decrease since
VE Day. The systemwide contraction continues
unabated with with no sign of letting up. Continue
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QUOTE:
The Crisis That Could Bring Down Obama
By Ruth Conniff
The President, understandably, points to signs
of hope and encourages Americans to be optimistic
about the economy. But when do we move from
healthy confidence to a confidence game? Continue
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QUOTE:
US Has Won a Huge Victory
US Aircraft and Elite Navy SEALs Defeat Three Somalis in a Lifeboat
By Glen FordWhat a weekend for American foreign policy!
The United States Navy, backed up by warships from 20
other nations, knocked off three Somali guys crouching with
rifles in a lifeboat tied by a rope to a U.S. destroyer. To
hear the U.S. corporate media tell it, the Americans had
won a huge victory over the forces of evil. Continue
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QUOTE:
Can Spain Really Prosecute George W. Bush Aides Over Torture?
By Johanna Neuman
Spain argues that it has jurisdiction in the case because
five Spanish prisoners at Guantanamo Bay allege
they were tortured. And human rights organizations
in the United States agree. Continue
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QUOTE:
94 Years of Serfdom
By Paul Craig Roberts
The only free Americans today are those who can
work off the books or who can live on public welfare.
Continue
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QUOTE:
Is America the New Russia?
By Martin Wolf
Is the US Russia? The question seems provocative,
if not outrageous. Yet the person asking it is
Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the
International Monetary Fund and a professor at
the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Continue
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QUOTE:
America’s 20% Unemployment Rate
By Carlton Meyer
The Department of Labor’s website shows an
unemployment rate of 16% for Feb. 2009. It
explains why these unemployed Americans
are not included in their official unemployment
rate: Continue
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QUOTE:
US News Media Fails America, Again
By Robert Parry
Watching Glenn Beck of Fox News rant about
“progressive fascism” – and muse about armed
insurrection – or listening to mainstream pundits
prattle on about Barack Obama as the “most
polarizing President ever,” it is hard to escape
the conclusion that today’s U.S. news media
represents a danger to the Republic. Continue
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QUOTE:
"Liquidate the Banks; Fire the Executives!"
By Mike Whitney
While Congress approved a mere $700 billion
in emergency funding for the TARP, Geithner
and Bernanke deftly sidestepped the public
opposition to more bailouts and shoveled another
$3.3 trillion through the back door via loans and
leverage for crappy mortgage paper that will
never regain its value. Continue
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QUOTE:
Revive Lincoln’s Monetary Policy
By Ellen Brown
The bankers had Lincoln's government over a
barrel, just as Wall Street has Congress in
its vice-like grip today. Continue
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QUOTE:
Keith Olbermann's Scathing Criticism of Obama's Secrecy/Immunity Claims
By Glenn Greenwald
The fact that Keith Olbermann, of all people, spent the
first ten minutes of his show attacking Obama for
replicating (and, in this instance, actually surpassing)
some of the worst Bush/Cheney abuses of executive
power and secrecy claims reflects just how extreme is
the conduct of the Obama DOJ here. Continue
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QUOTE:
No End In Sight
By Mike Whitney
China, Russia, Venezuela and Iran have already
called for a change in the world's reserve currency.
It won't happen overnight, but the momentum
is steadily growing. Continue
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QUOTE:
Bernanke's Financial Rescue Plan:
The Glide-path to Destitution
By Mike Whitney
The United States defaulted on its debt in 1933
when Roosevelt took office and pulled the country
off the gold standard, thus, shrugging off the claims
of foreign investors who were assured the US
would honor its obligations in gold. The dollar
plummeted. Bernanke's muddled strategy has
the nation walking down that same path once
again. Continue
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QUOTE:
Should We Kill the Fed?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The Fed was the greatest single contributor
to the crisis that unfolds before us," Woods writes
of today, and "more dollars were created between
2000 and 2007 than in the rest of the republic's
history." Continue
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QUOTE:
How Freedom Was Lost
By Paul Craig Roberts
Americans no longer know what freedom is.
Historically, the definition of a free person is
one who owns his own labor. Serfs and slaves
were not free, because they do not own all of
their own labor. An income tax is inconsistent
with the historical definition of freedom. Today
in America government has a claim on every
person’s labor, just as feudal lords, the government
of that time, had claims on the labor of serfs and
nineteenth century plantation owners had on slaves.
Continue
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QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
PHOTOGRAPHY BY NOVELIST F. SCOTT SINCLAIR
********************************************************
QUOTE:
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
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QUOTE:
And last, but not least: George Carlin videos. Check them out...!
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Monday, March 23, 2009
ENOUGH ALREADY...?! KEITH OLBERMANN LAYS IT ON THE LINE, FULL FORCE: A SPENDID RANT IF I'VE EVER HEARD ONE. ATTA BOY, KEITH!
QUOTE:
Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" on Bank Bailout
Video
Olbermann calls for the firing of bank executives and
more stringent bank regulation. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Launching Lifeboats Before the Ship Sinks
By Paul Craig Roberts
The New York Times reported that “the dollar plunged
about 3 percent against other major currencies” in
response to the Fed’s announcement. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Captured By The Debt Spider
By Ellen Brown
If governments everywhere are in debt, who are they
in debt to? The answer is that they are in debt to
private banks. The "cruel hoax" is that governments
are in debt for money created on a computer screen,
money they could have created themselves. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
The Big Takeover
By MATT TAIBBI
The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's
about power. How Wall Street insiders are using
the bailout to stage a revolution. Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Myth America
By Cindy Sheehan
Since this country was founded, it has been governed,
or controlled by the Robber Class. Some people
call our “Lords,” the Ruling Class, the Oligarchy,
the Kleptocracy, or Plutocracy. Some call our system
Cronyism, a Democratic Tyranny, Soft-core Fascist
State, or if you are a member of the Robber Class or
Blinded Robbed Class, you call it a Democracy, or
Republic. Continue
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QUOTE:
Didn’t We All See This Coming?
By Timothy V. Gatto
This isn’t the first time that capitalism has failed.
Every time it fails we use a form of temporary
socialism to shore up the economy. When things
start to return to normal, we give everything
back to the capitalists. Why is that? Continue
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QUOTE:
We're on The Verge Of A Major Crisis : Ron Paul
Video
Ron Paul discusses the AIG bonus controversy.
Continue
*********************************************
QUOTE:
Barack Obama and the Altar of Greed
By David Michael Green
Barack Obama is dumber than a bag of
hammers. Continue
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QUOTE:
Obama’s Moment is Passing Quickly
By Dave Lindorff
He should promptly demand Geithner's and Summers'
resignations, and should also fire the CEO of AIG,
Edward Liddy (as 80% owner of AIG, the US has the
power to do that anytime). It would also be a good
idea at the same time to fire the CEOs of all the
leading banks that are at this point surviving on
government bailouts. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Our Shame
Cindy Sheehan
It is our shame that we as a nation complacently
sit by and allow the audacity of the atrocities of
empire to continue in our names. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
The "Card Check" Hullabaloo
By Mike Whitney
Big business has launched a no-holds-barred
propaganda blitz against the Employee Free
Choice Act. Their goal is to scare people into
believing that if the bill passes it will trigger
higher unemployment and a deeper recession.
According to opponents, there's even the threat
of creeping socialism. The truth, of course, is
far less dramatic. The Employee Free Choice
Act or so called "card check" simply makes it
easier for unions to organize. Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?
By Paul Craig Roberts
After Washington’s trillion dollar bank bailouts
and trillion dollar gratuitous wars for the sake
of the military industry’s profits and Israeli
territorial expansion, there is no money for
Social Security and Medicare. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
We Have Seen the Enemy…
By Timothy V. Gatto
When did political dissent become a reason to
end up grounded at an airport because you found
out at a most inconvenient time that your name
had been mysteriously added to a “no-fly list”?
When did the American government begin building
FEMA camps and what exactly is their purpose?
When did Congress become the rubber stamp
for policies of reading the correspondence and
listening in on the conversations of the American
public? Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
Preparing for Civil Unrest in America
Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases
By Michel Chossudovsky
Obama's populist rhetoric conceals the true nature
of macro-economic policy. Acting on behalf of Wall
Street, the administration's economic package,
which includes close to a trillion dollar "aid" package
for the financial services industry, coupled with
massive austerity measures, contributes to
precipitating America into a bottomless crisis.
Continue
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Israel’s American Chattel
By Paul Craig Roberts
How is the United States a superpower when it cannot
appoint the official who oversees the National Intelligence
Estimate without the approval of the Israeli right-wing
government and its American agents? Continue
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QUOTE:
Of Patriots and Assassins
By Pat Buchanan
"The tactics of the Israel lobby plumb the depths of
dishonor and indecency and include character assassination,
selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record,
the fabrication of falsehoods and an utter disregard for
the truth." Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
How To Destroy the Government in Three Easy Steps
By Joe Brewer
Here's your very own how-to manual for getting Big
Government out of the way so you and your buddies
can horde all the wealth to yourselves and build your
empire.. Continue
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QUOTE:
The Parable of the Shopping Mall
By Alexander Cockburn
The savage reverses for capitalism, the gaping wounds
in its pretensions, comprise the single most salient
feature in the world today. Whether in the collapse in
the western banking system, the agonies of post-Soviet
economies like the Baltic and Eastern European Republics,
the rubble of Indian neo-liberal policies, the economic
mantras of an entire generation are going up in smoke.
For the left it should be a time of unrivalled opportunity.
Continue
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QUOTE:
The Failed Presidency of Barack Obama
By TA Frank
How the president's timid response to the economic
crisis failed to capture America's populist outrage.
Continue
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QUOTE:
Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout
By Amy Goodman
Obama has surrounded himself with financial advisers
who are too cozy with Wall Street, like Summers and
Geithner. It's time to direct the stimulus to the people
who need it, to those whose tax dollars are funding it.
Continue
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QUOTE:
Will He Sell Himself Into His Own Defeat?
Obama and the Empire
By Bill and Kathleen Christison
There are indeed forces in both the United States
and Israel that want a clash of civilizations and are
definitely not against further wars, and these forces
are powerful. Obviously, the first nation to be
affected by implementation of this scenario would
be Iran. Continue
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QUOTE:
The TALFBernanke's Witness Protection Program
By Mike Whitney
The TALF and the "Public-Private Partnership" are
another slap in the face of the international community.
They violate the spirit and the letter of the G-20
communique. It will be interesting to see if foreign
holders of US Treasurys endure this latest insult in
silence or if there's a sudden stampede for the exits.
There's a sense that the world is getting fed up with
the Fed's financial chicanery and would like to chart
a different course. Enough is enough. Continue
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QUOTE:
The Financial Sector: "A House Burning Down"
Ben Bernanke’s False Analogy
By Prof. Michael Hudson
The bottom line is that the American public is being
fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt "market
tested" on "response groups" to see which images
fly best) to mislead the American public into
misunderstanding the nature of today’s financial
problem – to mislead it in such a way that today’s
policies will make sense and gain voter support.
Continue
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QUOTE:
“Capitalism’s Self-Inflicted Apocalypse”
By Michael Parenti
The free market does not work. It’s not free. It’s
not really a market; it’s a plunder. And it has
to be done away with. Continue
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QUOTE:
How The World Pimps America
How the US is shifting the financial crisis onto
the rest of the world
By Pepe Escobar
The US Treasury will borrow no less than one trillion
dollars from the developing world in 2009. It will
need even more in 2010. Pepe Escobar argues
the US is indeed in a privileged position: not only
it unleashes a global financial crisis, it then sucks
up money from all over the world, based on the
fact that the US in fact remains the "manager" of
choice of global capitalism. Continue
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QUOTE:
Seven Avoidance Indicators
By Ralph Nader
If the Obamites do not act now when the political
time is ripest, to put into motion forces of
deterrence and prevention, the casino capitalists
of tomorrow will again be able to de-stabilize our
economy. Continue
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QUOTE:
Obama's Economic Saviour Savaged as Keating Lets Rip
By Peter Hartcher
In sum, Tim Geithner is a gigantic fool, the IMF
the gun that can't shoot straight, Alan Greenspan
a bungler. The big US banks were run by the greedy
and the hopeless, the Australian banks by counterhopping
clerks. It's a world of many villains. And only one hero.
Continue
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QUOTE:
Dollar Crisis In The Making
Before the stampede
By W Joseph Stroupe
Increasingly ominous clouds are gathering in what
could soon be the perfect storm against the United
States dollar and against the present dollar-centric
global financial order. Continue
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QUOTE:
The US Is Facing a Weimar Moment
By Robert Freeman
The devastating collapse of the economy after
eight years of Republican rule has left the leadership,
policies, and ideology of the right utterly discredited.
But, as was the case with Germany in 1919,
Republicans do not intend to allow the new government
to succeed. They will do everything they can to
undermine it. If they are successful, the U.S. may
yet go the way of Weimar Germany. Continue
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QUOTE:
Obama's No Socialist. I Should Know.
By Billy Wharton
Socialists know that Barack Obama is not one of
us. Not only is he not a socialist, he may in fact not
even be a liberal. Socialists understand him more
as a hedge-fund Democrat -- one of a generation
of neoliberal politicians firmly committed to free-
market policies. Continue
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QUOTE:
Obedience to Authority in America
A Different Kind of Revolution:
By Mike Whitney
We're at war, and the enemy is not the government
per se, but the super-rich corporatists that run the
government and who prevent the economy from
serving human needs. Continue
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QUOTE:
The American Rome Is Burning
So Let's Attack Iran
By Eric S. Margolis
Compared to America's titanic economic and financial
mess, whatever goes on in Tehran is of pipsqueak
magnitude. The real danger to America comes from
its Wall Street fraudsters, not from Tehran. Continue
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QUOTE:
Homeless Tent Cities Springing Up In US
NBC News Reports
In Sacramento, California, tent cities populated by
the recently homeless have begun springing up in
a scene reminscent of the Hoover ear. This is yet
another sign og bad economic times, and reflects
the need for change, not based on ideology, but
on the practical needs of the people. Continue
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QUOTE:
Exposed Cheney Assassination Squads
By Eric Black
MSNBC reported that Seymour Hersh has uncovered
evidence that Vice President Cheney operated secret
assassination squads out of the White House by using
military personnel without the knowledge of the CIA.
Continue
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QUOTE:
The War is Not Over
By John Ross
The first step in this charade of false closure is
Obama's drawdown. The next is to make the citizens
of the occupying power forget Iraq ever happened -
a brainwashing that has been in process since the
success" of Bush's "surge." One problem though: how
do you brainwash the brain dead? Continue
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QUOTE:
Haircut Time For Bondholders
By Mike Whitney
When George Soros recently said that the financial
system had "effectively disintegrated", it caused quite
a flap. But Soros was not exaggerating. The financial
system has disintegrated. What we are experiencing
now is just the fallout from that event. Continue
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QUOTE:
Reforming the Global Financial System
Flushing the Parasites
By Nikki Alexander
Why rob just one bank when you can rob the whole
nation? And why rob just one country when you
can rob them all? Flushing the global economy of
this systemic parasite begins with understanding
how its debilitating web of debt is manufactured.
Continue
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QUOTE:
The American Criminal Injustice System
By Paul Craig Roberts
The US has the highest incarceration rate and
the biggest prison population of any country in the
world. With 5 percent of the world’s population,
the US has 25 percent of the world’s prison inmates.
Continue
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QUOTE:
Imagine
By Ron Paul
Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the
middle of Texas there was a large foreign military
base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands
of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling
American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they
were here under the auspices of “keeping us safe”
or “promoting democracy” or “protecting their
strategic interests.” Continue
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QUOTE:
US Recession Could Last Up to 36 Months: Roubini
By Jane Wells
The man who predicted the current financial crisis
said the US recession could drag on for years
without drastic action. Among his solutions: fix
the housing market by breaking "every mortgage
contract." Continue
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QUOTE:
Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices
Video and Transcript
The mid-1990s all sorts of silly things were happening.
Professor Fukuyama told us that history had ended,
and so we were building a brave new world where the
Chinese made things out of plastic for us, the Indians
provided customer support when these Chinese-made
things broke, and we paid for it all just by flipping
houses, pretending that they were worth a lot of money
whereas they are really just useless bits of ticky-tacky.
Continue
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QUOTE:
Debt Relief and Regulation
By Mike Whitney
Confidence is not built on inspiring oratory or personal
charisma, but concrete actions to reestablish a rules-
based system that penalizes crooks and fraudsters.
Recovery isn't possible without a strong commitment
to these basic changes. Continue
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QUOTE:
This Is What A Financial Collapse Looks Like
Argentina's Economic Collapse Video
Documentary on the events that led to the economic
collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the
middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%.
Central to the collapse was the implementation of
neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of
billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations.
Continue
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QUOTE:
The U.S. Financial System Is Effectively Insolvent
There is a grave risk of a global L-shaped depression.
By Nouriel Roubini
Even with the $2 trillion of government support, most
of these financial institutions are insolvent, as delinquency
and charge-off rates are now rising at a rate--given the
macro outlook--that means expected credit losses for
U.S. financial firms will peak at $3.6 trillion. So, in simple
words, the U.S. financial system is effectively insolvent.
Continue
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QUOTE:
The Big Dither
By Paul Krugman
Mr. Obama's failure to match his words with deeds.
The reality is that when it comes to dealing with
the banks, the Obama administration is dithering.
Policy is stuck in a holding pattern. Continue
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QUOTE:
Smart Is The New Stupid
By David Michael Green
*************************************************
QUOTE:
Late Night Political Jokes - Late Night Jokes Updated Daily
*******************************************************
QUOTE:
PHOTOGRAPHY BY NOVELIST F. SCOTT SINCLAIR
********************************************************
QUOTE:
A CONVENIENT (I HOPE) TABLE OF CONTENTS OF
F. SCOTT SINCLAIR'S NOVELS
*********************************************************
QUOTE:
And last, but not least: George Carlin videos. Check them out...!
*********************************************************
QUOTE:
A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT LUDLUM BY F. SCOTT SINCLAIR
*********************************************************
Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" on Bank Bailout
Video
Olbermann calls for the firing of bank executives and
more stringent bank regulation. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Launching Lifeboats Before the Ship Sinks
By Paul Craig Roberts
The New York Times reported that “the dollar plunged
about 3 percent against other major currencies” in
response to the Fed’s announcement. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
Captured By The Debt Spider
By Ellen Brown
If governments everywhere are in debt, who are they
in debt to? The answer is that they are in debt to
private banks. The "cruel hoax" is that governments
are in debt for money created on a computer screen,
money they could have created themselves. Continue
****************************************************
QUOTE:
The Big Takeover
By MATT TAIBBI
The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's
about power. How Wall Street insiders are using
the bailout to stage a revolution. Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Myth America
By Cindy Sheehan
Since this country was founded, it has been governed,
or controlled by the Robber Class. Some people
call our “Lords,” the Ruling Class, the Oligarchy,
the Kleptocracy, or Plutocracy. Some call our system
Cronyism, a Democratic Tyranny, Soft-core Fascist
State, or if you are a member of the Robber Class or
Blinded Robbed Class, you call it a Democracy, or
Republic. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
Didn’t We All See This Coming?
By Timothy V. Gatto
This isn’t the first time that capitalism has failed.
Every time it fails we use a form of temporary
socialism to shore up the economy. When things
start to return to normal, we give everything
back to the capitalists. Why is that? Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
We're on The Verge Of A Major Crisis : Ron Paul
Video
Ron Paul discusses the AIG bonus controversy.
Continue
*********************************************
QUOTE:
Barack Obama and the Altar of Greed
By David Michael Green
Barack Obama is dumber than a bag of
hammers. Continue
********************************************
QUOTE:
Obama’s Moment is Passing Quickly
By Dave Lindorff
He should promptly demand Geithner's and Summers'
resignations, and should also fire the CEO of AIG,
Edward Liddy (as 80% owner of AIG, the US has the
power to do that anytime). It would also be a good
idea at the same time to fire the CEOs of all the
leading banks that are at this point surviving on
government bailouts. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
Our Shame
Cindy Sheehan
It is our shame that we as a nation complacently
sit by and allow the audacity of the atrocities of
empire to continue in our names. Continue
************************************************
QUOTE:
The "Card Check" Hullabaloo
By Mike Whitney
Big business has launched a no-holds-barred
propaganda blitz against the Employee Free
Choice Act. Their goal is to scare people into
believing that if the bill passes it will trigger
higher unemployment and a deeper recession.
According to opponents, there's even the threat
of creeping socialism. The truth, of course, is
far less dramatic. The Employee Free Choice
Act or so called "card check" simply makes it
easier for unions to organize. Continue
**********************************************
QUOTE:
Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?
By Paul Craig Roberts
After Washington’s trillion dollar bank bailouts
and trillion dollar gratuitous wars for the sake
of the military industry’s profits and Israeli
territorial expansion, there is no money for
Social Security and Medicare. Continue
***********************************************
QUOTE:
We Have Seen the Enemy…
By Timothy V. Gatto
When did political dissent become a reason to
end up grounded at an airport because you found
out at a most inconvenient time that your name
had been mysteriously added to a “no-fly list”?
When did the American government begin building
FEMA camps and what exactly is their purpose?
When did Congress become the rubber stamp
for policies of reading the correspondence and
listening in on the conversations of the American
public? Continue
*******************************************
QUOTE:
Preparing for Civil Unrest in America
Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases
By Michel Chossudovsky
Obama's populist rhetoric conceals the true nature
of macro-economic policy. Acting on behalf of Wall
Street, the administration's economic package,
which includes close to a trillion dollar "aid" package
for the financial services industry, coupled with
massive austerity measures, contributes to
precipitating America into a bottomless crisis.
Continue
*****************************************************
QUOTE:
Israel’s American Chattel
By Paul Craig Roberts
How is the United States a superpower when it cannot
appoint the official who oversees the National Intelligence
Estimate without the approval of the Israeli right-wing
government and its American agents? Continue
***************************************************
QUOTE:
Of Patriots and Assassins
By Pat Buchanan
"The tactics of the Israel lobby plumb the depths of
dishonor and indecency and include character assassination,
selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record,
the fabrication of falsehoods and an utter disregard for
the truth." Continue
*************************************************
QUOTE:
How To Destroy the Government in Three Easy Steps
By Joe Brewer
Here's your very own how-to manual for getting Big
Government out of the way so you and your buddies
can horde all the wealth to yourselves and build your
empire.. Continue
*************************************************
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The Parable of the Shopping Mall
By Alexander Cockburn
The savage reverses for capitalism, the gaping wounds
in its pretensions, comprise the single most salient
feature in the world today. Whether in the collapse in
the western banking system, the agonies of post-Soviet
economies like the Baltic and Eastern European Republics,
the rubble of Indian neo-liberal policies, the economic
mantras of an entire generation are going up in smoke.
For the left it should be a time of unrivalled opportunity.
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The Failed Presidency of Barack Obama
By TA Frank
How the president's timid response to the economic
crisis failed to capture America's populist outrage.
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Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout
By Amy Goodman
Obama has surrounded himself with financial advisers
who are too cozy with Wall Street, like Summers and
Geithner. It's time to direct the stimulus to the people
who need it, to those whose tax dollars are funding it.
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Will He Sell Himself Into His Own Defeat?
Obama and the Empire
By Bill and Kathleen Christison
There are indeed forces in both the United States
and Israel that want a clash of civilizations and are
definitely not against further wars, and these forces
are powerful. Obviously, the first nation to be
affected by implementation of this scenario would
be Iran. Continue
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The TALFBernanke's Witness Protection Program
By Mike Whitney
The TALF and the "Public-Private Partnership" are
another slap in the face of the international community.
They violate the spirit and the letter of the G-20
communique. It will be interesting to see if foreign
holders of US Treasurys endure this latest insult in
silence or if there's a sudden stampede for the exits.
There's a sense that the world is getting fed up with
the Fed's financial chicanery and would like to chart
a different course. Enough is enough. Continue
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The Financial Sector: "A House Burning Down"
Ben Bernanke’s False Analogy
By Prof. Michael Hudson
The bottom line is that the American public is being
fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt "market
tested" on "response groups" to see which images
fly best) to mislead the American public into
misunderstanding the nature of today’s financial
problem – to mislead it in such a way that today’s
policies will make sense and gain voter support.
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“Capitalism’s Self-Inflicted Apocalypse”
By Michael Parenti
The free market does not work. It’s not free. It’s
not really a market; it’s a plunder. And it has
to be done away with. Continue
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How The World Pimps America
How the US is shifting the financial crisis onto
the rest of the world
By Pepe Escobar
The US Treasury will borrow no less than one trillion
dollars from the developing world in 2009. It will
need even more in 2010. Pepe Escobar argues
the US is indeed in a privileged position: not only
it unleashes a global financial crisis, it then sucks
up money from all over the world, based on the
fact that the US in fact remains the "manager" of
choice of global capitalism. Continue
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Seven Avoidance Indicators
By Ralph Nader
If the Obamites do not act now when the political
time is ripest, to put into motion forces of
deterrence and prevention, the casino capitalists
of tomorrow will again be able to de-stabilize our
economy. Continue
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Obama's Economic Saviour Savaged as Keating Lets Rip
By Peter Hartcher
In sum, Tim Geithner is a gigantic fool, the IMF
the gun that can't shoot straight, Alan Greenspan
a bungler. The big US banks were run by the greedy
and the hopeless, the Australian banks by counterhopping
clerks. It's a world of many villains. And only one hero.
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Dollar Crisis In The Making
Before the stampede
By W Joseph Stroupe
Increasingly ominous clouds are gathering in what
could soon be the perfect storm against the United
States dollar and against the present dollar-centric
global financial order. Continue
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The US Is Facing a Weimar Moment
By Robert Freeman
The devastating collapse of the economy after
eight years of Republican rule has left the leadership,
policies, and ideology of the right utterly discredited.
But, as was the case with Germany in 1919,
Republicans do not intend to allow the new government
to succeed. They will do everything they can to
undermine it. If they are successful, the U.S. may
yet go the way of Weimar Germany. Continue
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Obama's No Socialist. I Should Know.
By Billy Wharton
Socialists know that Barack Obama is not one of
us. Not only is he not a socialist, he may in fact not
even be a liberal. Socialists understand him more
as a hedge-fund Democrat -- one of a generation
of neoliberal politicians firmly committed to free-
market policies. Continue
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Obedience to Authority in America
A Different Kind of Revolution:
By Mike Whitney
We're at war, and the enemy is not the government
per se, but the super-rich corporatists that run the
government and who prevent the economy from
serving human needs. Continue
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The American Rome Is Burning
So Let's Attack Iran
By Eric S. Margolis
Compared to America's titanic economic and financial
mess, whatever goes on in Tehran is of pipsqueak
magnitude. The real danger to America comes from
its Wall Street fraudsters, not from Tehran. Continue
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Homeless Tent Cities Springing Up In US
NBC News Reports
In Sacramento, California, tent cities populated by
the recently homeless have begun springing up in
a scene reminscent of the Hoover ear. This is yet
another sign og bad economic times, and reflects
the need for change, not based on ideology, but
on the practical needs of the people. Continue
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Exposed Cheney Assassination Squads
By Eric Black
MSNBC reported that Seymour Hersh has uncovered
evidence that Vice President Cheney operated secret
assassination squads out of the White House by using
military personnel without the knowledge of the CIA.
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The War is Not Over
By John Ross
The first step in this charade of false closure is
Obama's drawdown. The next is to make the citizens
of the occupying power forget Iraq ever happened -
a brainwashing that has been in process since the
success" of Bush's "surge." One problem though: how
do you brainwash the brain dead? Continue
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Haircut Time For Bondholders
By Mike Whitney
When George Soros recently said that the financial
system had "effectively disintegrated", it caused quite
a flap. But Soros was not exaggerating. The financial
system has disintegrated. What we are experiencing
now is just the fallout from that event. Continue
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Reforming the Global Financial System
Flushing the Parasites
By Nikki Alexander
Why rob just one bank when you can rob the whole
nation? And why rob just one country when you
can rob them all? Flushing the global economy of
this systemic parasite begins with understanding
how its debilitating web of debt is manufactured.
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The American Criminal Injustice System
By Paul Craig Roberts
The US has the highest incarceration rate and
the biggest prison population of any country in the
world. With 5 percent of the world’s population,
the US has 25 percent of the world’s prison inmates.
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Imagine
By Ron Paul
Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the
middle of Texas there was a large foreign military
base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands
of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling
American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they
were here under the auspices of “keeping us safe”
or “promoting democracy” or “protecting their
strategic interests.” Continue
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US Recession Could Last Up to 36 Months: Roubini
By Jane Wells
The man who predicted the current financial crisis
said the US recession could drag on for years
without drastic action. Among his solutions: fix
the housing market by breaking "every mortgage
contract." Continue
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Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices
Video and Transcript
The mid-1990s all sorts of silly things were happening.
Professor Fukuyama told us that history had ended,
and so we were building a brave new world where the
Chinese made things out of plastic for us, the Indians
provided customer support when these Chinese-made
things broke, and we paid for it all just by flipping
houses, pretending that they were worth a lot of money
whereas they are really just useless bits of ticky-tacky.
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Debt Relief and Regulation
By Mike Whitney
Confidence is not built on inspiring oratory or personal
charisma, but concrete actions to reestablish a rules-
based system that penalizes crooks and fraudsters.
Recovery isn't possible without a strong commitment
to these basic changes. Continue
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This Is What A Financial Collapse Looks Like
Argentina's Economic Collapse Video
Documentary on the events that led to the economic
collapse of Argentina in 2001 which wiped out the
middle class and raised the level of poverty to 57.5%.
Central to the collapse was the implementation of
neo-liberal policies which enabled the swindle of
billions of dollars by foreign banks and corporations.
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The U.S. Financial System Is Effectively Insolvent
There is a grave risk of a global L-shaped depression.
By Nouriel Roubini
Even with the $2 trillion of government support, most
of these financial institutions are insolvent, as delinquency
and charge-off rates are now rising at a rate--given the
macro outlook--that means expected credit losses for
U.S. financial firms will peak at $3.6 trillion. So, in simple
words, the U.S. financial system is effectively insolvent.
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The Big Dither
By Paul Krugman
Mr. Obama's failure to match his words with deeds.
The reality is that when it comes to dealing with
the banks, the Obama administration is dithering.
Policy is stuck in a holding pattern. Continue
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Smart Is The New Stupid
By David Michael Green
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PHOTOGRAPHY BY NOVELIST F. SCOTT SINCLAIR
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A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT LUDLUM BY F. SCOTT SINCLAIR
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Sunday, March 08, 2009
LOVING KINDNESS: THAI STYLE. LOVE BEYOND THE LIMITATION OF WORDS TO SHOW RESPECT TO THOSE WHO HAVE JOURNEYED THROUGH LIFE BEFORE US: OUR ANCESTORS
Copyright (C) 2009 by F. Scott Sinclair. All Rights Reserved. Click on the picture if you would like to enlarge it.
Thailand is predominantly a Buddhist country, and as you can see by the miniature Buddhist shrine, foreigners and Thais alike love Buddhism immensely. Thais (and foreigners) commemorate the lives of the dearly departed: their ancestors and beloved ones who've left planet earth to embark on a new journey, to the hereafter. Yearly, a special ceremony is done out of love, and respect for the departed, whereby monks perform an annual ceremony to pray for the souls of their ancestors. To respect the departed is a lovely jesture and maintains the family link between the living and the deceased. Loving kindness, that it is... Amen.
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