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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
May 19 10:34
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EPA scientists say manmade carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are contributing to a warming of the global climate — and as such represent a threat to human welfare. But a leading climatologist says his research indicates that CO2 poses no threat to human welfare at all, and he says the EPA should revisit its findings.
May 19 10:33
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Four gorillas found dead in Rwanda’s Karisimbi area probably died of extreme cold, the New Times reported, citing Rica Rwigamba, head of tourism at the Rwanda Development Board.
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So much for global warming, right?
May 19 10:32
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Richard Russell, the famous writer of the Dow Theory Letters, has a chilling line in today’s note:
Do your friends a favor. Tell them to "batten down the hatches" because there’s a HARD RAIN coming. Tell them to get out of debt and sell anything they can sell (and don’t need) in order to get liquid. Tell them that Richard Russell says that by the end of this year they won’t recognize the country. They’ll retort, "How the dickens does Russell know — who told him?" Tell them the stock market told him.
That’s pretty intense!
May 19 10:31
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Dear Mayor Villaraigosa,
I was dismayed to learn that the Los Angeles City Council voted to boycott Arizona and Arizona-based companies — a vote you strongly supported — to show opposition to SB 1070 (Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act).
I received your message; please receive mine. As a state-wide elected member of the Arizona Corporation Commission overseeing Arizona’s electric and water utilities, I too am keenly aware of the “resources and ties” we share with the City of Los Angeles. In fact, approximately twenty-five percent of the electricity consumed in Los Angeles is generated by power plants in Arizona.
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Arizona provides 25% of the electricity used by Los Angeles. The recent boycott against Arizona by Los Angeles may backlash into rolling blackouts with no ENRON to take the blame for them.
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May 19 10:28
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The Precinct Judge of Elections at North Union 4 in Fayette County says she mistakenly gave 175 people 2 ballots this morning. She claims she thought the Special Election to fill the vacancy in Congressional District 12 required her to give a seperate ballot for the Primary and the Special Election. As of now, it is unknown the partisan breakdown of the 175 voters
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If the government cannot prove the accuracy and honesty of the election by which they claim authority over the people, then the people are neither legally nor morally obligated to obey that government’s dictates nor to pay its bills.
May 19 10:25
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Contrary to the commonly held scientific conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer, a scientist who has written more than 150 peer-reviewed papers has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming soon.
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"Have that heretic burned at the stake! No, wait, that makes CO2, right? How about drowning? Can we drown the heretic?" — Saint Al of the Gore
May 19 10:18
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And ABCNNBBCBS wonders why only 9% of America watches their news shows.
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May 19 10:15
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This is how travelers to the United States are being treated, and why our tourism is in melt-down.
I washed the soundtrack through the computers to make it easier to hear what the goon with the uniform is saying, and here is the mp3. PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH ALL YOUR STATE TOURISM OFFICES AND NEWSPAPERS!
UPDATE – Bumped it back up to the top as a counterpoint to Obama’s speech protecting illegal immigration.
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May 19 10:13
By: poorrichard
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While I’m a firm believer in the teachings and earthly mission of Christ, I do not subscribe to the idea of the 1000 year, utopia Millennium. It’s a deception that is being promoted by Zionists to suck in fundamentalist Christians to do their bidding and bring about their New World Order "utopia". The Zionists WANT to create a huge, world wide conflagration between Muslims and Christians and the big happy Christmas present at the end of this deadly destruction is the return of the "messiah" and a thousand years of bliss, happiness, and peace with Christ sitting on a throne in Jerusalem. The "rebuilding of the temple" is part of the Zionist script.
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May 19 10:12
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Captured Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi has said that while in Morocco, suspected Israeli or US agents had given him a list of people to assassinate in Tehran.
May 19 10:09
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After last night’s election results, there’s no doubt that the electorate has contempt for Washington incumbents and the political establishment. Virtually every media account dutifully recites the same storyline — that these results reflect an “anti-incumbent” mood — but virtually none of these stories examines the reasons for that “mood.” Why do Americans, seemingly regardless of party affiliation or geographic location, despise the political establishment?
One reason why media mavens seem reluctant, even unable, to grapple with this question is because it so plainly falls outside their familiar, comfortable narratives.
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Actually, the corporate media cannot talk about the reasons for public anger with government wrongdoing without talking about their own complicity in said wrongdoing.
Needless to say, the blogs are not compromised by such guilty associations.
The corporate media won’t admit that either!
May 19 10:02
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People all over America are discussing freedom’s future. In short, they are worried. In fact, many are actually talking about State secession. In coffee shops and cafes, and around dining room tables, millions of people are speaking favorably of states breaking away from the union. Not since the turn of the twentieth century have this many people thought (and spoken) this favorably about the prospect of a State (or group of states) exiting the union. In my mind, this is a good thing.
May 19 10:01
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Gonna still be quoting Emerson when they lock me up
May 19 10:01
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In this digest: a) Videos about the ongoing popular resistance including in Nabi Saleh, Sheikh Jarrah, Beit Jala, Italy etc. b) Four actions you can take for this week including support for the Free Gaza movement, c) several analytical articles that sheds light on what is going on in the land of apartheid including a critical article by Azmi Bishara on Salam Fayyad’s plans for a Palestinian statelet.
Videos about popular resistance
May 19 10:00
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Many reported that Noam Chomsky was recently stopped from entering Israel. This is false. Totally false. He was prevented from going to the Palestinian city of Ramallah by Israeli forces. This important distinction highlights among other things that Israel controls the borders into occupied Palestinian areas, a large part of the problem.
May 19 10:00
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Washington – The so-called Museum of Tolerance slated for construction on the oldest Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem has resulted in the exhumation of more then 1000 people laid to rest there, Haaretz’s Nir Hasson reported Tuesday.
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Now, to put this in context, imagine the media reaction of the Palestinians decided to put up a museum commemorating the Nakba, and wanted to dig up a Jewish cemetery to do it?
May 19 09:58
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On Tuesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that she had brokered a draft agreement, finally winning over a reluctant Russia and China and big footing a compromise that upstarts Brazil and Turkey struck with Iran on Monday.
“This announcement is as convincing an answer to the efforts undertaken in Tehran over the last few days as any we could provide,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, describing the agreement as a “strong draft,” according to the Times.
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May 19 09:53
By: chartist
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Stocks trading in Shanghai are off 25% from their cyclical bull market peak 0f 3500 which was reached in the summer of 2009. A decline of more than 20% is viewed by many as bear market territory. According to The Vanguard Group “there’s no agreed-upon definition of a bear market, one generally accepted measure is a price decline of 20% or more over at least a two-month period.” Shanghai now qualifies.
May 19 09:49
By: poorrichard
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Whoever steps forward to take on that pit of vipers known as the Fed is on a suicide mission.
Obama could go the route of that carpenter from Nazareth that kicked the moneychangers out of the Temple and was killed for his efforts.
Or he could take the route of Andy Jackson, who closed down the 2nd National Bank of the US and got shot for his efforts, but not killed.
Or Lincoln, who was opposed to an Independent US Treasury, but refused to pay usurious rates to finance the Civil War, so he printed US greenbacks and was murdered by an assassin’s bullet.
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May 19 09:43
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Obama is on TV right now trying to explain why illegal immigrants should not be harassed or even asked to provide identification to prove they are supposed to be here.
Meanwhile, as this TV new report shows, it isn’t just Mexican laborers crossing that open border!
May 19 09:39
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Firzli starts by blaming the current mess by the "complacency" of national governments towards large financial corporations and their acceptance of the "progressive phasing out of control mechanisms presented as necessary for the ‘modernization’ of national economies." After an accurate description of Carter Glass and Henry Steagall’s drive for the 1933 bill, Firzli, in a clear reference to today, notes that "the law stopped abuse for over six decades… from 1933 on, ‘sellers will no longer be evaluators’ and ‘lenders ceased to be advisors.’" [backtranslated from the French]
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May 19 09:38
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Finally someone speaks the truth. In an interview with Spiegel Magazine, former Bundesbank chief Karl Otto Pohl, says it how it is: "Without a "haircut," a partial debt waiver, [Greece] cannot and will not ever [repay its debt]. So why not immediately? That would have been one alternative.
May 19 09:34
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Shove that leaking pipe up their ass?
May 19 09:33
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As Hillary Clinton tries to start yet another war with Iran, a reminder of the lies used to start the war with Iraq.
May 19 09:33
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"All war is based on deception." — Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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As Hillary Clinton tries to start yet another war with Iran, a reminder of the lies used to start the war with Iraq.
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May 19 09:29
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed concern over reports that the U.S. and EU are preparing unilateral sanctions against Iran in addition to a draft Security Council resolution currently being discussed.
May 19 09:27
By: disinter
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As far as Germany putting a ban on all naked short-selling, it will suffocate many legitimate market makers and make the markets less liquid and efficient, and make them much more volatile. It will do nothing to make it easier for Greece or the other PIIGS to pay their bills. Naked short selling has nothing to do with the PIIGS crisis. The PIIGS are in crisis because of their own doing.
May 19 09:27
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Some 37 Jewish members of the Democratic caucuses meet with US president, urge him to increase his personal involvement in the administration’s Israel-related policies.
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The above 37 members of Congress, voted into office by AMERICAN voters and paid and supported by AMERICAN taxpayers, need to be shown the door because America needs leaders who will put America first, second, and third. At this time of national crisis, nobody in government should indulge the luxury of solving Israel’s problems, let alone forcing the AMERICAN taxpayers to pay for it all!
Below you’ll find a list of Jewish Americans who are Democrats or Independents in the 111th U.S. Congress.
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
LAW OF THE LAND
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Constitution takes hit
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Feds: Nightstick at polls ‘not prosecutable’
Commission demands to know why Obama administration gave Black Panthers free pass
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The Kagan connection to controlling the Net
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Kagan: Yes, government can ban books
Obama pick grilled by Supreme Court for supporting free speech censorship
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Democrat calls Kagan abortion memo ‘troubling’
1997 writing urged President Clinton to back ban on late-term procedures
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GOP dilemma: Fight Kagan or go along?
‘The problem is the Democrats don’t do that, and so you unilaterally disarm’
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Farah announces campaign to fight Supreme Court takeover
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ELECTION 2010
Rand Paul wins GOP Senate nod in Kentucky
‘I have a message from the tea party – we’ve come to take our government back’
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‘Magic bullet’: Arlen Specter booted from Senate
Party-switching incumbent unable to overcome primary challenge from Sestak
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Murtha aide holds on to seat for Democrats
Critz coasts to victory in Pennsylvania’s 12th District
–Washington Examiner
Arkansas: Lincoln in runoff, Boozman wins GOP nod
Incumbent Democrat has backing of Obama, Bill Clinton
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NEWS ANALYSIS
No, this isn’t an ‘anti-incumbent’ year
Narrative a ‘smokescreen designed to get Obama through some tough news cycles’
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A dip in value for Obama endorsements?
Specter’s loss casts doubts on president’s influence, popularity within party
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IN THE MILITARY
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Marines battle back on Confederate flag tattoos
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HOMELAND INSECURITY
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U.S. government lauds, funds 9/11 mosque
Census pays $582,000, State Dept. praises terror ‘front’ in video
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Report: Failures in Christmas attack mirror 9/11
Congress says systemic errors allowed man to slip aboard U.S.-bound jetliner with bomb
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Somali terror suspect loose in Texas?
DHS alert to law enforcement indicates possible travel to U.S. through Mexico
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FEMA objects to faith-based volunteers?
Church members asked not to wear religious T-shirts for video about tornado cleanup
–Associated Press
FAITH UNDER FIRE
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Crackdown on Christians ramping up
Analyst: Deportation orders reflect fear Muslims will convert
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FROM JOSEPH FARAH’S G2 BULLETIN
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Pakistan moving away from war on terror
Strategy shows Muslims lack spirit to fight co-religionists
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Intel briefs: Bull’s-eye put on Israel’s nukes
Arab interests want IAEA review of program
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White House blocks chef’s tweets about state dinner?
‘He’s done interviews with the N.Y. Times and NPR, revealing bits and pieces of the menu’
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INVASION USA
Calderon condemns Arizona law on U.S. visit
Mexico’s president says policy ‘is forcing our people to face discrimination’
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Obama: ‘We are defined not by our borders’
‘Let us stand together, let us face the future together, let us work together’
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Arizona official dares L.A. to stage boycott
Threatens to shutter power grid over mayor’s pledge to sever ‘resources and ties’
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‘Send them wetb—s home’
Bar owner in Georgia displays controversial support for Arizona
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Bush-era memo hinders challenge of Arizona law?
Concludes police have ‘inherent power’ to arrest illegals for violating federal law
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Class action filed against Arizona’s new statute
ACLU, immigrant groups seek redress
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
by Jeff Gates / May 18th, 2010 (1)
Why kill Anwar al-Awlaki, an American who inspired the Times Square Fizzler and advised the Crotch Bomb Sizzler?
This Islamic preacher is “out there.” No doubt about it. So is Christian preacher John Hagee.
Hagee promises his flock a Rapture that will beam them up to Heaven. But not just yet. First God’s Chosen People must recover Jerusalem.
Remind me: isn’t the status of Jerusalem THE most contentious and volatile issue in the entire Middle East?
Hagee is much loved by the Likud Party wingnuts that have never shown any desire for peace with an indigenous population that has been ethnically cleansed, imprisoned and …
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by Maryam Sakeenah / May 18th, 2010 (1)
Writing of Mr. Jamshed Dasti, the infamous Pakistani former minister found to be in possession of a fake graduation degree, recently re-elected to the assembly in a popular vote, is one of those moments in my erratic writing career when I feel utterly tongue-tied, run out of vocabulary.
Jamshed Dasti may be just another ‘poor player strutting his hour upon the stage’, but he is certainly not an anomaly. He typifies a kind. He and the many others of his ilk who occupy the seats of power are mere symptoms of a deeply flawed, perverted, politically immature and democratically stunted order. …
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by Gilad Atzmon / May 18th, 2010 (3)
The Israeli Interior Ministry on Sunday denied entry to Jewish American linguist Prof. Noam Chomsky turning him back from the Allenby Bridge border crossing in the Jordan Valley. Seemingly, the moral ash cloud that is pouring out of the morbid Jewish ghetto known as Israel is not going to clear. It is there to stay.
On the face of it, Chomsky’s border incident shouldn’t take us by surprise. Israel is the Jewish state and as such it operates as a synagogue of great magnitude. The synagogue is an exclusive entity, it only allows in those who fit. …
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by Ramzy Baroud / May 18th, 2010 (0)
When the Soviets concluded their pull out from Afghanistan in February 1989, the United States government abruptly lost interest in the country. A devastated economic infrastructure, entrenched poverty, deep-rooted factionalism and lack of international aid caused the country to descend into complete chaos. Internal violence also worsened, but it was no longer an American concern. All that mattered was that the Cold War rival had been defeated. Mission accomplished.
Afghanistan remains the starkest illustration of how poor countries are used, then betrayed when their usefulness runs out. But Afghanistan is not an exception; US relations with many other countries, including Pakistan, …
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by Norman Solomon / May 18th, 2010 (3)
If President Obama has his way, Elena Kagan will replace John Paul Stevens — and the Supreme Court will move rightward. The nomination is very disturbing, especially because its part of a pattern.
The White House is in the grip of conventional centrist wisdom. Grim results stretch from Afghanistan to the Gulf of Mexico to communities across the USA.
“It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills,” President Obama said in support of offshore oil drilling, less than three weeks before the April 20 blowout in the Gulf. “They are technologically …
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by Stephen Lendman / May 18th, 2010 (2)
It’s common practice in America. A government-Wall Street cabal caused the financial crisis and subsequent fallout. Now debated financial reform is a stealth scheme to let bankers self-regulate. Rogue Democrats rammed through health reform to ration care and enrich corporate providers. Defense, technology, and related firms profit hugely from permanent wars, and a regulatory-free Washington — energy industry alliance lies at the root of the Gulf disaster, by far America’s greatest ever environmental calamity, worsening daily with no fail-safe, or perhaps any, way to stop it.
It’s too big even for the major media to ignore; to wit, on May 15, …
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by Alexia Eastwood / May 18th, 2010 (5)
Building alternatives to the dominant market economy is a project that begins in the imagination. A two step programme to overcome the mental straitjacket of the free market model is an instructive starting point for building an economy that provides for the needs of people whilst operating within ecological limits.
The first step is to overcome the naturalised appearance of the self regulating market system, and to challenge the underlying assumptions upon which it is based; the second is to recognise that there are other forms of economy in existence both throughout history and in the current age. Our current market …
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by Jennifer Matsui / May 17th, 2010 (8)
Novelist Margaret Atwood’s decision to travel to Tel Aviv to share a literary prize worth a million dollars has ignited a controversy in which the septuagenarian author and vice-president of the literary human rights organization PEN International has come under fire by Palestinian rights activists. Ms Atwood’s acceptance of the Dan David Prize, whose previous laureates include Al Gore and Tony Blair, is viewed by Ms Atwood’s critics as a betrayal to the ideals she supposedly represents, and an unwitting endorsement of Israel’s race exclusive policies.
The Canadian author’s insistence that refusing the blood-spattered trophy would be tantamount to “censorship” rings …
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by Ron Jacobs / May 17th, 2010 (27)
I just finished watching a television ad for somebody running for a congressional seat in South Carolina. The man was either a Republican, Tea Partier or both. The bulk of the ad’s thirty seconds was an attack on “socialized medicine” coming from Washington, DC. Now, of course most of us understand that the health care reform known as Obamacare is anything but socialized medicine. Yet, there is a sizable minority of US residents who honestly believe it is. This misunderstanding of what socialism actually is can be attributed to a few things, foremost among them …
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by Tom Burghardt / May 17th, 2010 (1)
When Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen and 30-year-old son of a retired senior Pakistani Air Force officer was arrested in the failed plot to detonate a car-bomb in Times Square May 1, U.S. counterterrorism officials and their stenographers in the corporate media proclaimed a “connection” between Shahzad and the far-right jihadi outfit, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
Never mind that such “evidence” relies on the thinnest of reeds: that Shahzad had recently traveled to Pakistan, was allegedly in “contact” with the TTP and had even received “training” from a sectarian, clan- and tribal-based organization wary of outsiders who nevertheless, allegedly “approved” …
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by Michael Collins / May 17th, 2010 (10)
There is no viable solution in sight for the out-of-control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. The stunning failure of British Petroleum (BP) raises the question — are these oil giants too big to exist? Are they too dangerous to function in our presence? BP has four permanent deep water structures and 28 boreholes operating at a water depth of greater than 5000 feet in the Gulf of Mexico. What’s next?
British Petroleum (BP) had the resources to drill the well but lacked the planning and ability to deal with its failure. The oil giant’s …
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by Jonathan Cook / May 17th, 2010 (1)
Unemployed computer engineer, Morad Lashin, would like to work in Israel’s Electricity Company, a large state utility, but admitted his chances of being recruited are slim.
The reasons were set out in graphic form this month when a parliamentary committee revealed that only 1.3 per cent of the company’s 12,000 workers are Arab, despite the Arab minority constituting nearly 20 per cent of the population.
The committee’s report presents a picture of massive under-representation of Arab citizens across most of the public sector, including in government companies and ministries, where the percentage of Arab staff typically falls below two per cent of …
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Mark of the Beast
by Rady Ananda / May 17th, 2010 (0)
First, we spit out our coffee over President Obama’s appointments of former Monsanto goon Michael Taylor as Food Safety [sic] Czar and ‘biotech governor of the year’ Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture. Then we choked on our grits when he made Monsanto lobbyist, Islam Siddiqui, the US Ag Trade Representative. Now, the real food movement has completely lost its appetite with Obama’s nomination of Monsanto defender, Elena Kagan, to the US Supreme Court.
In December 2009, in her capacity as Solicitor General, Kagan intervened in the first case on which SCOTUS will rule involving genetically modified …
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Global Movement Begins the Cure!
by Ron Ridenour / May 15th, 2010 (10)
Presenting the People’s Agreement — “mother earth does not belong to us, we belong to it” — worldwide was the first act of the Global People’s Movement for Mother Earth. This was carried out in May by Bolivia’s President Evo Morales and representative activists from five continents.
Representing 35,000 people from 147 countries, they presented the conclusions of 17 workshops — held April 19-21 at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth (WPCCC) — to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, to the Non-Alignment Movement (now 130 Third World countries) plus China (the world’s second greatest …
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Reviews of Boggs, Rogers, Atwood
by Eric Walberg / May 15th, 2010 (9)
Carl Boggs, The Crimes of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination
Paul Rogers, Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st century
Paul Atwood, War and Empire: The American Way of Life (Pluto Press 2010)
Three new publications from the leading radical British press are the tip of a growing iceberg of passionate pleas for sanity in international affairs. Most of us prefer to stick our heads in the sand as the world goes to hell in a hand-basket, but there are works that can fascinate and uplift, perhaps even inspire us to do something before it is too late.
If what you need …
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Propelled by his father, Ron Paul’s, fundraising apparatus and buoyed by support from tea party activists, Rand Paul easily won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate Tuesday night — a result that seemed unimaginable as little as a year ago.
 
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Cheers erupted among Rand Paul supporters gathered on the patio of the Bowling Green Country Club as CNN projected Paul the winner about 7:45 p.m.
He was winning nearly 60 percent of the vote, with roughly a third of the vote counted.
Meanwhile, the Democratic primary between Lt. Gov. Daniel Mongiardo and Attorney General Jack Conway was too close to call. Mongiardo appeared to be rolling up victories in Eastern Kentucky, while Conway was dominating the state’s urban areas.
Conway maintained an early lead, with more than a third of the vote counted, but much of that vote was coming from Jefferson County, his home base.
Paul’s win — in a race that attracted national attention — marked the second big tea party Senate victory in as many weeks and it’s biggest to date. U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, was denied a place on the ballot in his state’s upcoming GOP primary by a state party convention on May 8.
A year ago Paul, with his libertarian brand of Republican politics, was thought of as a longshot in the race to replace Sen. Jim Bunning, who announced last July that he would not seek a third term.
His main opponent, Secretary of State Trey Grayson, had the support of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other key Senate Republicans who were throwing a fundraiser for him at the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Paul, a Bowling Green ophthalmologist, had the support of a small but passionate network of backers who had worked for his father, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, in his 2008 presidential campaign.
But with anger brewing about government bailouts of private businesses — the animating force in the tea party movement — Paul began to surge in the polls. By the end of last year he had a lead over Grayson and three other GOP candidates who ran limited campaigns.
He sought — and ultimately received — endorsements from the tea party, former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Bunning, who had earlier indicated that he wouldn’t become involved in the race.
While Paul talked about cutting spending, eliminating programs, eliminating earmarks and imposing term limits on members of Congress, Grayson had no choice but to embrace his “establishment” image and oppose Paul on at least some of those issues.
He argued, for example, that term limits would weaken smaller states such as Kentucky and that earmarks were necessary to make sure projects most wanted and needed were being approved.
McConnell endorsed Grayson, as did former vice president Dick Cheney, who has sometimes sparred with Ron Paul over foreign policy.
Grayson tried to persuade voters that Paul’s libertarian ideas were “strange” and “kooky.” But judging from the election returns, Kentucky’s Republican voters weren’t buying it.
The election is likely to send shock waves through Washington, where establishment Republicans have been wary of the tea party movement, while become more sympathetic in recent weeks.
McConnell has scheduled a Republican “Unity Rally” Saturday in Frankfort, where he will formally embrace Paul despite the fact that Paul has refused to say if he would back McConnell for another term as GOP leader.
Democratic primary
On the Democratic side, there could be a reversal of fortunes as well, though that was far from clear Tuesday night.
Conway was seen as the early favorite in the race because of his superior fundraising potential — despite the fact that Mongiardo had better name recognition in polls and performed better in head-to-head matchups.
After some early Conway missteps, Mongiardo was able to raise a respectable amount of campaign cash. Relying on his network of grassroots supporters that he formed for the 2004 Senate campaign that he lost narrowly to Bunning, he was able to blunt a Conway TV ad surge that threatened to swamp him.
Recent polls showed the two candidates neck-and-neck, with The Courier-Journal/WHAS11 Bluegrass Poll last week showing Mongiardo clinging to a one-point lead.
Few issues separated the two candidates. But Mongiardo, a Hazard physician, succeeded in making the race one that pitted a rural-versus-urban, have-versus-have not battle against Conway, a millionaire lawyer from Louisville.
In the end, Mongiardo was looking for a boost in his home Eastern Kentucky and in Western Kentucky. Conway was counting on a big turnout in the state’s two main urban areas, Louisville and Lexington, while hoping that support from former Gov. Paul Patton and former U.S. Sen. Wendell Ford would cut into Mongiardo’s advantage in both the east and west.
http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100518/NEWS0106/5180365/Tea+Party-backed+Rand+Paul+wins+Kentucky+Republican+Senate+primary+
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Michael Scott Moore
Truthout
Wed, 12 May 2010 15:48 EDT
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Be prepared for a search of what’s on your laptop as you cross into the United States these days.
Two years ago a freelance journalist named Bill Hogan returned home to Virginia from a trip to Germany and had his laptop seized at Dulles International Airport. U.S. Customs agents reportedly told him he’d been selected for a random investigation. The agents went through photos on his digital camera, he said, and impounded the computer for two weeks.
He was especially angry because "they knew I was a reporter," he said at the time. "They did not seem to give a rat’s patootie."
One underreported aspect of border security in America since 9/11 is that U.S. Customs and Border Protection sees a laptop as a sort of digital briefcase, to be rifled through without a warrant. And court decisions in recent years have upheld the government’s right to prosecute people based on data found on their hard drives.
The latest ruling is by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, which declared last month that child pornography found during a warrantless search of Sandeep Verma’s laptop at a Houston airport in 2008 was material evidence against him.
Of course, Verma was not charged with possessing child pornography until Customs agents searched his laptop and found it there.
Justices on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco made the government’s argument for these searches in an earlier case, also involving child pornography: "It should not matter … whether documents and pictures are kept in ‘hard copy’ form in an executive’s briefcase or stored digitally in a computer," the three-judge panel wrote. "The authority of customs officials to search the former should extend equally to searches of the latter."
Child pornography is obviously a crime and so are the terrorist plots that the CBP claims these random searches are meant to intercept. But is a laptop really just a digital briefcase? What about cell phones, digital cameras, USB sticks, PDAs and now iPads? Don’t they contain enough personal data to require some sort of warrant to examine?
"These highly intrusive government searches into a traveler’s most private information, without any reasonable suspicion, are a threat to the most basic privacy rights guaranteed in the Constitution," argued American Civil Liberties Union attorney Catherine Crump, who led an investigation into the problem.
The ACLU demanded records on laptop seizures under the Freedom of Information Act and found a surprising number of them – 1,500 in nine months – as well as a possible pattern of racial profiling. In mid-2009, the Department of Homeland Security brought out new guidelines, but the upshot was nothing but a limit on the amount of time the relevant agencies could hold a laptop for examination. "DHS’ latest policy announcement on border searches is a disappointment," said Crump, "and should not be mistaken for one that restores the constitutional rights of travelers at the border."
Europeans find the policy impossible to understand. One refrain popular with Washington officials is that Europeans are soft and haven’t learned what it’s like to be threatened by terrorists because Sept. 11 never happened to them.
But Europe lost its innocence about terrorism long ago: Islamists were a problem in the Eastern Hemisphere long before they came to America. France had to contend with Algerian nationalists in the ’60s, and Palestinian terrorists brought mayhem to Munich and European airspace before al-Qaeda even existed.
In a Paris airport, in the ’90s, I once watched a bomb squad calmly clear spectators away from an unattended luggage cart to a distance of 50 yards, loop wires around a briefcase and blow it open. (It was full of papers.) At the time I remember thinking, "This would never happen in the United States." These days Europeans pass through American airports with the same sense of astonishment.
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