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The Government's List of "Anti-Government" People
Should the U.S. government be building a list of people whom a stranger has concluded based on as little as a moment's interaction are "anti-government"? Look at this photo of a U.S. Census laptop. There's a box to check if a respondent is reluctant to participate in the census.
The next screen wants the census interviewer to explain the potential interviewee's reluctance:
Notice that there is a box for hostile or threatening. That seems important. There are boxes for just not interested or too busy. There is a box for those who object that too many personal questions are asked. The basics all seem to be covered. But the Census employee is to check multiple boxes, "all that apply," and one is "Anti-government concerns." What does that mean? What do Census workers think it means? It clearly means something other than reluctant to give the government this information. To be "anti-" the government sounds like someone is in favor of overthrowing the government. And a government that thinks purely in terms of violence would inevitably interpret such a desire as one in favor of violently overthrowing the government. But surely nobody tells a representative of the government that they favor its violent overthrow unless they don't really take themselves seriously and are not actually a threat. So maybe this "Anti-government concerns" box is equivalent to "Seems nuts," but what sort of training does the survey taker have in mental health? The serious question is what lists your name goes on if somebody marks you down as Anti-government.
Talk Nation Radio: Carl Gibson on Shutting Down the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Carl Gibson is currently engaged in a Green Jobs March from Philadelphia to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., as part of a campaign called ShutTheChamber.org. You can join the march virtually by uploading a photo on their website, or you can join in reality at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce across from the White House at 10 a.m. Friday, May 24th. Gibson is lead organizer of ShutTheChamber and cofounder of USUncut. He discusses the damage the U.S. Chamber does to our political system pushing environmental destruction, wars, and the plutocratic concentration of wealth. Gibson says that small businesses paying dues to local chambers that themselves have little in common with the U.S. Chamber end up funding assaults on small businesses, as the local chambers fund the state chambers which fund the U.S. Chamber -- an institution that also serves to funnel vast quantities of unaccountable corporate money into politics.
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By John Grant
Austria warns against arms shipments to Syrian rebels
By EUBusiness
(VIENNA) - Austria has warned its 26 European Union partners in a letter against providing weapons for rebel movements in the Syrian conflict, said a press report to be published Tuesday.
The foreign ministry in Vienna confirmed late Monday that a document had been handed over to the European Union in Brussels, but did not give details.
Die Presse newspaper said that Austria believes arms shipments to the rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would be "a violation of international law, the basic laws of the European Union" and "of the principles of the United Nations charter concerning non-intervention and the use of force".
They would also violate UN Security Council resolutions concerning Al-Qaeda, it said.
In the letter Austria warned that groups like the Al-Nusra Front, which is "close to the terror network", were acting among the rebels, Die Presse said.
Following a move by France and Britain, the Islamist group, which has become one of the most feared fighting forces in Syria's two-year-old conflict, will be subject to a global asset freeze from Tuesday.
European Union sanctions against Syria are up for renewal at the end of the month, with France and Britain pushing for a lifting of the arms embargo so the rebels can receive weapons.
Die Presse said the letter warned that a lifting of the arms embargo would also lead to an end of all sanctions which can only be extended unanimously by all 27 EU members.
Those who lift the embargo would then also be responsible for unfreezing Assad's foreign bank accounts, it said.
Finland, Sweden and Baltic nations Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are also opposed to lifting the embargo, while most other EU nations, including Germany and Spain, have so far failed to clarify their positions.
Connecticut Advances Conversion from War to Peace Economy
The Connecticut legislature has sent to the governor to sign a bill that would create a commission to develop a plan for, among other things:
"the diversification or conversion of defense-related industries with an emphasis on encouraging environmentally-sustainable and civilian product manufacturing. On or before December 1, 2014, the commission shall submit such report to the Governor and, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to commerce."
The commission "shall Advise the General Assembly and the Department of Economic and Community Development on issues relating to the diversification or conversion of defense-related industries" among other things.
Obama's War on Free Expression
Obama's War on Free Expression
by Stephen Lendman
It's the most fundamental right. Without it all others are endangered. Obama's waging war to destroy it. He's done so throughout his tenure.
He targeted AP. He did so unjustifiably. A previous article discussed it.
Israel Heads Closer to War on Syria
Israel Heads Closer to War on Syria
by Stephen Lendman
Syria is Washington's war. It was planned years ago. It began in early 2011. No end of conflict looks near. Escalating it appears likely.
Israel's very much involved. It abhors peace and stability. Its history reflects belligerence. It's a direct threat. It borders Syria.
Syria News May 22
Syrian and Hezbollah Fighters Push Qusayr Assault - NYTimes.com
Hezbollah sends new fighters to bloody Syria battle - Yahoo!7
Syria: Turning Point in the Battle of Qusayr - Al Akhbar English
VIDEO (Arabic): FSA Colonel: Shiite/ Alawite Villages Will be Wiped Out if Qusair Falls - YouTube
Syria: Main al-Nusra Front commander killed in Qusayr clashes - PressTV
Footage from rebels shows Iranian munitions in Syria - The Times of Israel
U.K. Pushes EU Blacklisting of Hezbollah Military Wing - WSJ.com
Tripoli braces for the worst as fighting enters fourth day - THE DAILY STAR
Baalbek residents back Hezbollah in Qusair fight - THE DAILY STAR
Israeli military chief issues stark warning after Syria, Israel trade fire across border - Fox News
Syrian army says captured Israeli Jeep is proof of aid to rebels - FRANCE 24
VIDEO: Israeli Jeep Used by FSA Terrorists Found in Qusayr by the Syrian Army - YouTube
UN mediator: Syria government, rebels preparing for peace talks - NBC World News
Syria submits five names for possible peace talks - AFP
Syria Opposition Signals Tough Line on Peace Talks - ABC News
Syrian National Coalition to partake in 'Friends of Syria' talks - Ammon News
Iran wants in on Syria peace conference - AFP
Turkey's green light to Iran role in Syria talks a welcome step - todayszaman
Lavrov warns of hidden obstacles in upcoming conference on Syria - Russia Beyond The Headlines
Russia's Lavrov on Solving Syria through Diplomacy (Text of Interview) - Informed Comment
Armed, Bearded Syrians Flourish In Southern Turkey - al-monitor.com
Three Chemical Weapon Specialist Answer Questions About Chemical Weapons In Syria - Brown Moses Blog
Tensions Rise as Barzani Closes Syrian-Iraqi Kurdistan Border - Al-Monitor
Barzani warns PYD over its Syria policy in deepening row - todayszaman
Border Arrests Reveal Disunity, Conflict Among Syrian Kurds - Al-Monitor
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Final Push for Signers & Donors for NY Times Full Page Ad
by Debra Sweet The timing could not be better for our message to appear in The New York Times. We are making a major push today for $9,703 to place the ad immediately for publication on stand-by this week. President Obama will give a major speech Thursday at the National Defense University in Washington, reportedly about drones and Guantanamo.
President Obama loves leaks, despises whistleblowers
With the revelation that the Department of Justice secretly obtained two months of The Associated Press' telephone records and used security badge access records to track James Rosen's visits to the State Department, along with a warrant to search Rosen's personal emails, there has been a rush in the mainstream media to declare the DOJ's actions to be part of what they claim to be President Obama's aggressive pursuit of those who would leak secret information to the press.
For example, The Washington Post describes the DOJ's investigation of AP as "part of a pattern in which the Obama administration has pursued current and former government officials suspected of releasing secret material. Six officials have been prosecuted, more than under all previous administrations combined."
Meanwhile, The New York Times states that the investigation "comes against a backdrop of an aggressive policy by the Obama administration to rein in leaks. Under President Obama, six current and former government officials have been indicted in leak-related cases so far, twice the number brought under all previous administrations combined."
The New York Times and The Washington Post are propagating a false narrative, one that depicts Obama as some sort of crusader hell bent on plugging all leaks. The reality is the Obama administration has either authorized or acquiesced to the leak of information that is deemed politically beneficial, while relentlessly investigating and prosecuting those who reveal information that reflects poorly on his administration and the U.S. government.
It is ironic that The Washington Post and The New York Times claim that the Obama administration has aggressively pursued leakers seeing that both media sources have happily provided Obama administration officials with anonymity so they can leak classified information favorable to the President without consequence.
Somehow, The Washington Posts' June 1, 2012, report on the Obama administration's use of cyber warfare must have slipped through the cracks at the White House and the DOJ. The Washington Post reported that the U.S. and Israel were behind Stuxnet, the cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities. Prior to this report, there had been speculation that the U.S. and Israel were behind the attack, but no official confirmation. Confirmation was provided to The Washington Post by an official "speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe the classified effort code-named Olympic Games."
These cracks must be enormous to have let the three dozen current and former Obama administration officials who contributed to The New York Time's expose on drones slip through them. On May 29, 2012, The New York Times revealed that Obama maintains a 'Kill List' and that he counts all military-age males killed in drone strikes as combatants unless proven innocent posthumously. Regarding the president's indiscriminate counting method, one official "requested anonymity to speak about what is still a classified program."
Meanwhile, the Obama administration has charged six whistle-blowers, a term apparently not in The New York Times's or The Washington Post's editorial vocabulary, under the Espionage Act. These six individuals have revealed government waste, fraud, and abuse, acts of aggression, torture and war crimes. Yet, it is those who have revealed the criminal activity that have suffered prosecution by the Obama administration while those who actually committed the crimes have gone unpunished.
On Feb. 22, 2012, in response to Obama's deserved glowing praise of journalists in Syria, Jake Tapper asked White House press secretary Jay Carney, "How does that square with the fact that this administration has been so aggressively trying to stop aggressive journalism in the United States by using the Espionage Act to take whistle-blowers to court?"
The Obama administration has sent a clear message. Government officials and journalists who wish to work together to create news stories through the leak of classified information that portray the president and his administration in a positive light should have no fear. And to the journalists and whistle-blowers thinking about publishing that other kind of classified information, be prepared to have your emails read, your phones tapped without your knowledge and your life and career turned upside down.
Bachman is a professorial lecturer in Human Rights at the School of International Service at American University.
Antiwar.com Sues FBI After Secret Surveillance
Antiwar.com is taking the FBI to court.
The website's founder and managing editor Eric Garris, along with longtime editorial director Justin Raimondo, filed a lawsuit in federal court today, demanding the release of records they believe the FBI is keeping on them and the 17-year-old online magazine.
Antiwar.com says this is one more example of post-9/11 government overreach, and a stark reminder that the First Amendment has been treated as little more than a speed bump on the road to a government surveillance state. The lawsuit is particularly timely, considering recent scandals in which the Department of Justice secretly seized months of journalists' phone records at the Associated Press, and did the same and more to a FOX News reporter, while the IRS is acknowledging it singled out conservative groups that criticize the government for extra scrutiny.
Suddenly, the press is more aware than ever that the state has the ability to secretly monitor its activities, heretofore thought of as constitutionally protected from government interference and intimidation.
"Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of our democracy, whether it's AP or Antiwar.com," said Julia Harumi Mass, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, which is representing Antiwar.com in the case. "FBI surveillance of news organizations interferes with journalists' ability to do their jobs as watchdogs that hold the government accountable."
The suit was filed on Tuesday at the United States District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. Both Garris and Raimondo live and work in the San Francisco Bay area.
Are Japanese Bonds Signaling Trouble?
Are Japanese Bonds Signaling Trouble?
by Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed the disconnect between soaring markets and troubled economies. Liquidity driven markets only skyrocket so long.
What can't go on forever, won't. No one's sure when. Eventually the music stops. When that happens, watch out. Signals provide clues.
The Reason for Hunger Strikes-from Northern Ireland to Guantanamo
By Ann Wright
I'm in Northern Ireland and yesterday on May 20, 2013, I spoke with several members of the Northern Ireland Parliament. With over 100 prisoners in Guantanamo on a 100 day hunger strike, the Obama administration would be wise to talk to some of them too--about the importance and legacy of hungerstrikes.
In 1981, Pat Sheehan was one of the Maze Prison hunger strikers-a hunger strike that brought huge international attention to the Northern Ireland "Troubles," with the goal of forcing the British government to treat those imprisoned as political prisoners, not criminals. Hunger strikers demanded the right to wear civilian clothes, the right to education and recreational opportunities, freedom from work obligations, and a set of other benefits not afforded to other inmates.Pat was on the hunger strike for 55 days and still alive when the hunger strike was called off by the prisoners.
Bobby Sands became the most famous of the 10 who died during the hunger strikes when he was elected to Parliament while on the hunger strike-Francis Hughes, Raymond McLeish, Patsy O'Hara, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Thomas McElwee, Michael Devine also died.
After one prisoner died from his lung punctured from a feeding tube through the throat, the British ended force feeding those on hunger strikes. The British government eventually granted most of the hunger strikers' demands. Public opinion changed dramatically in favor of those imprisoned and on the hunger strike.
Now Pat Sheehan is a member of the Northern Ireland Parliament. The Good Friday Peace Accord brokered by the Clinton administration brought to a close, a violent chapter in British and Northern Ireland relationships. The Peace Accord allowed former political prisoners to become part of the political process.
One never knows the future of those who have been imprisoned for political crimes--after peace talks, many may become political leaders, like Gerry Adams and Pat Sheehan. No one can predict the future paths of those in Guantanamo, but one can be assured that the continued imprisonment of those cleared for release from Guantanamo is disastrous for the individual and for the United States.
President Obama would be wise to call former hunger striker and now Northern Ireland Parliamentarian Pat Sheehan!
About the Author: Ann Wright served 29 years in the US Army/Army Reserves and retired as a Colonel. She also worked as a US diplomat for 16 years and served in US Embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia. She resigned from the US government in 2003 in opposition to President Bush's war on Iraq. In 2006, she was on a delegation to Guantanamo, Cuba to challenge the US prison at Guantanamo.
Tales in a Kabul Restaurant
By Kathy Kelly
Kabul--Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the "The Afghan AtrocitiesUpdate" which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces. Even with details culled from news reports, these data can't help but merge into one large statistic, something about terrible pain that's worth caring about but that is happening very far away.
It's one thing to chronicle sparse details about these U.S. led NATO attacks. It's quite another to sit across from Afghan men as they try, having broken down in tears, to regain sufficient composure to finish telling us their stories. Last night, at a restaurant in Kabul, I and two friends from the Afghan Peace Volunteers met with five Pashtun men from Afghanistan's northern and eastern provinces. The men had agreed to tell us about their experiences living in areas affected by regular drone attacks, aerial bombings and night raids. Each of them noted that they also fear Taliban threats and attacks. "What can we do," they asked, "when both sides are targeting us?"
Jamaludeen, an emergency medical responder from Jalalabad, is a large man, with a serious yet kindly demeanor. He began our conversation by saying that he simply doesn't understand how one human being can inflict so much harm on another. Last winter, NATO forces fired on his cousin, Rafiqullah, age 30, who was studying to be a pediatrics specialist.
"A suicide bomber had apparently blown himself up near the airport. My cousin and two other men were riding in a car on a road leading to the airport. It was 6:15 AM. When they'd realized that NATO helicopters and tanks were firing missiles, they had left their car and huddled on the roadside, but they were easily seen. A missile exploded near them, seriously wounding Rafiqullah and another passenger, while killing their driver, Hayatullah."
Hayatullah, our friend told us, was an older man, about 45 years old, who left behind a wife, two boys and one daughter.
Although badly wounded, Rafiqullah and his fellow passenger could still speak. A U.S. tank arrived and they began pleading with the NATO soldiers to take them to the hospital. "I am a doctor," said Rafiqullah's fellow passenger, a medical student named Siraj Ahmad. "Please save me!" But the soldiers handcuffed the two wounded young men and awaited a decision about what to do next. Rafiqullah died there, by the side of the road. Still handcuffed, Siraj Ahmad was taken, not to a hospital, but to the airport, perhaps to await evacuation. That was where he died. He was aged 35 and had four daughters. Rafiqullah, aged 30, leaves three small girls behind.
And Jamaludeen knows that those girls, in one sense are lucky. Four years ago, he tried to bring first aid as an early responder to a wedding party attacked by NATO forces. Only he couldn't, because there were no survivors. 54 people were killed, all of them (except for the bridegroom) women and children. "It was like hell," said Dr. Jamaludeen. "I saw little shoes, covered with blood, along with pieces of clothing and musical instruments. It was very, very terrible to me. The NATO soldiers knew these people were not a threat."
Kocji, who makes a living doing manual laborer, is from a village of 400 families. His story took place three weeks ago. It started with a telephoned warning that Taliban forces had entered the Surkh Rod district of Jalalabad, which is where his village is located. That day, at about 10:00 p.m., NATO forces entered his village en masse. Some soldiers landed on rooftops and slid expertly to the ground on rope ladders. When they entered homes, they would lock women and children in one room while they beat the men, shouting questions as the women and children screamed to be released. On this raid, no one was killed, and no one was taken away. It turned out that NATO troops had acted on a false report and discovered their error quickly. False reports are a constant risk. - In any village some families will feud with each other, and NATO troops can be brought into those feuds, unwittingly and very easily, and sometimes with deadly consequences. Kocji objects to NATO forces ordering attacks without first asking more questions and trying to find out whether or not the report is valid. He'd been warned of a threat from one direction, but the threats actually come from all sides.
Rizwad, a student from the Pech district of the Kunar province, spoke next.
Twenty-five days ago, between 3 and 4 a.m., twelve children were collecting firewood in the mountains not far from his village. The children were between 7 and 8 years old. Rizwad actually saw the fighter plane flying overhead towards the mountains. When it reached them, it fired on the twelve children, leaving no survivors. Rizwad's 8 year old cousin, Nasrullah, a schoolboy in the third grade, was among the dead that morning.
The twelve children belonged to eight families from the same village. When the villagers found the bloodied and dismembered bodies of their children, they gathered together to demand from the provincial government some reason as to why NATO forces had killed them. "It was a mistake," they were told.
"It is impossible for the people to talk with the U.S. military," says Rizwad. "Our own government tries to calm us down by saying they will look into the matter."
Riazullah from Chapria Marnu spoke next. Fifteen days previously, three famers in Riazullah's area had been working to irrigate their wheat field. It was early afternoon, about 3:30 p.m. One of the men was only eighteen - he had been married for five months. The other two farmers were in their mid-forties. Their names were Shams Ulrahman, Khadeem and Miragah, and Miragah's two little daughters were with them.
Eleven NATO tanks arrived. One tank fired missiles which killed the three men and the two little girls. "What can we do?" asked Riazullah. "We are caught between the Taliban and the internationals. Our local government does not help us."
The world doesn't seem to ask many questions about Afghan civilians whose lives are cut short by NATO or Taliban forces. Genuinely concerned U.S. friends say they can't really make sense of our list - news stories merge into one large abstraction, into statistics, into "collateral damage," in a way that comparable (if much smaller and less frequent) attacks on U.S. civilians do not. People here in Afghanistan naturally don't see themselves as a statistic; they wonder why the NATO soldiers treat civilians as battlefield foes at the slightest hint of opposition or danger; why the U.S. soldiers and drones kill unarmed suspects on anonymous tips when people around the world know suspects deserve safety and a trial, innocent until proven guilty.
"All of us keep asking why the internationals kill us," said Jamaludeen. "One reason seems to be that they don't differentiate between people. The soldiers fear any bearded Afghan who wears a turban and traditional clothes. But why would they kill children? It seems they have a mission. They are told to go and get the Taliban. When they go out in their planes and their tanks and their helicopters, they need to be killing, and then they can report that they have completed their mission."
These are the stories being told here. NATO and its constituent nations may have other accounts to give of themselves, but they aren't telling them very convincingly, or well. The stories told by bomb blasts or by shouting home-invading soldiers drown out other competing sentiments and seem to represent all that the U.S./NATO occupiers ever came here to say. We who live in countries that support NATO, that tolerate this occupation, bear responsibility to hear the tales told by Afghans who are trapped by our war of choice. These tales are part of our history now, and this history isn't popular in Afghanistan. It doesn't play well when the U.S. and NATO forces state that we came here because of terrorism, because of a toll in lost civilian lives already exceeded in Afghanistan during just the first three months of a decade-long war – that we came in pious concern over precious stories that should not be cut short.
Kathy Kelly, (firstname.lastname@example.com), co-coordinates Voices for Creative Nonviolence www.vcnv.org She is living in Kabul for the month of May as a guest of the Afghan Peace Volunteers (http://ourjourneytosmile.com/blog/)
Photo caption: Twelve children killed in the Kunar province, April 2013
Photo credit: Namatullah Karyab for The New York Times
Reinventing Guatemalan History
Reinventing Guatemalan History
by Stephen Lendman
History reinventors support despots. Social democrats are vilified. Crimes of war, against humanity and genocide are sanitized. They're whitewashed. They disappear in plain sight.
Wall Street Journal columnist Mary O'Grady tried reinventing Guatemalan history. She failed. More on that below.
Supreme Court Colludes with Monsanto
Supreme Court Colludes with Monsanto
by Stephen Lendman
It's no surprise. Michael Parenti calls America's High Court its "autocratic branch."
It's notoriously pro-business. It's longstanding. In Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railway (1886), it granted corporations legal personhood.
Iran War Weekly - May 20, 2013
Iran War Weekly
May 20, 2013
Hello All – It's official. After almost a year of no progress in negotiations between "the West" and Iran about Iran's nuclear program, last week's meetings in Istanbul confirmed that there would be, indeed, no progress until at least after Iran's presidential election, which will take place on June 14th. Whatever the outcome of the election, it is likely that the post-election resumption of talks (if any) will take place in an international landscape greatly altered by the fighting in Syria.
Syria News May 21
Battle in Syria Pulls Hezbollah Further Into Assad's War - NYTimes.com
Obama voices concern to Lebanon on Hezbollah role in Syria - Reuters
Syria Says the Army Restores Security and Stability to Most of al-Qseir in Homs- SANA, Syria
Senior Hizbullah Official Killed in Syria Fighting - Israel National News
FSA: Mustafa Badreddine Leading Hizbullah Operations in Qusayr — Naharnet
Hariri slams state inaction over Hezbollah role in Syria - THE DAILY STAR
Tensions over Syria convulse Lebanese city again, 5 killed - Reuters
Attacks kill 95 in Iraq, hint of Syrian spillover - Yahoo! News
Iraqi campaign boosts Iraq-Syria border security - Al-Shorfa
Tribal and Islamist clashes in Syria reveal deep divisions - The National
Syria's Raqa opposition chief kidnapped, NGO says - afp
Video shows Syrian Islamists flogging men over illegal marriage - Yahoo! News
VIDEO: Sharia in Syria - whipping of men - LiveLeak.com
VIDEO: Evidence Of Iranian Arms Provided To Syria In The Past 18 Months - Brown Moses Blog
VIDEO: Syria crisis: 'Iraqi Shia fighters' join regime in battle - BBC News
VIDEO: Syria's makeshift oil refineries: 'It is like hell' – guardian.co.uk
Friends of Syria to push for peace conference - AFP
Russia: Assad foes must come to Syria meeting without conditions - Reuters
Syria top priority as Saudi crown prince visits Turkey - Alarabiya.net
William Hague hints at veto of Syria arms ban - FT.com
Syrian opposition meets in Madrid over conflict - AFP
Syria, Russia, and the S-300: Military and Technical Background - canadafreepress.co
VIDEO: The coalition of peaceful change forces welcomes peace initative for Syria - YouTube
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CIA: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
There's a contradiction built into every campaign promise about transparent government beyond the failure to keep the promises. Our government is, in significant portion, made up of secret operations, operations that include warmaking, kidnapping, torture, assassination, and infiltrating and overthrowing governments. A growing movement is ready to see that end.
The Central Intelligence Agency is central to our foreign policy, but there is nothing intelligent about it, and there is no good news to be found regarding it. Its drone wars are humanitarian and strategic disasters. The piles of cash it keeps delivering to Hamid Karzai fuel corruption, not democracy. Whose idea was it that secret piles of cash could create democracy? (Nobody's, of course, democracy being the furthest thing from U.S. goals.) Lavishing money on potential Russian spies and getting caught helps no one, and not getting caught would have helped no one. Even scandals that avoid mentioning the CIA, like Benghazigate, are CIA blowback and worse than we're being told.
We've moved from the war on Iraq, about which the CIA lied, and its accompanying atrocities serving as the primary recruiting tool for anti-U.S. terrorists, to the drone wars filling that role. We've moved from kidnapping and torture to kidnapping and torture under a president who, we like to fantasize, doesn't really mean it. But the slave-owners who founded this country knew very well what virtually anyone would do if you gave them power, and framed the Constitution so as not to give presidents powers like these.
There are shelves full in your local bookstore of books pointing out the CIA's outrageous incompetence. The brilliant idea to give Iran plans for a nuclear bomb in order to prevent Iran from ever developing a nuclear bomb is one of my favorites.
But books that examine the illegality, immorality, and anti-democratic nature of even what the CIA so ham-handedly intends to do are rarer. A new book called Dirty Wars, also coming out as a film in June, does a superb job. I wrote a review a while back. Another book, decades old now, might be re-titled "Dirty Wars The Prequel." I'm thinking of Douglas Valentine's The Phoenix Program.
It you read The Phoenix Program about our (the CIA's and "special" forces') secret crimes in Eastern Asia and Dirty Wars about our secret crimes in Western Asia, and remember that similar efforts were focused on making life hell for millions of people in Latin America in between these twin catastrophes, and that some of those running Phoenix were brought away from similar sadistic pursuits in the Philippines, it becomes hard to play along with the continual pretense that each uncovered outrage is an aberration, that the ongoing focus of our government's foreign policy "isn't who we are."
Targeted murders with knives in Vietnam were justified with the same rhetoric that now justifies drone murders. The similarities include the failure of primary goals, the counterproductive blowback results, the breeding of corruption abroad and at home, the moral and political degradation, the erosion of democratic ways of thinking, and -- of course -- the racist arrogance and cultural ignorance that shape the programs and blind their participants to what they are engaged in. The primary difference between Phoenix and drone kills is that the drones don't suffer PTSD. The same, however, cannot be said for the drone pilots.
"The problem," wrote Valentine, "was one of using means which were antithetical to the desired end, of denying due process in order to create a democracy, of using terror and repression to foster freedom. When put into practice by soldiers taught to think in conventional military and moral terms, Contre Coup engendered transgressions on a massive scale. However, for those pressing the attack on VCI, the bloodbath was constructive, for indiscriminate air raids and artillery barrages obscured the shadow war being fought in urban back alleys and anonymous rural hamlets. The military shield allowed a CIA officer to sit behind a steel door in a room in the U.S. Embassy, insulated from human concern, skimming the Phoenix blacklist, selecting targets for assassination, distilling power from tragedy."
At some point, enough of us will recognize that government conducted behind a steel door can lead only to ever greater tragedy.
In an email that Valentine wrote for RootsAction.org on Monday, he wrote: "Through its bottomless black bag of unaccounted-for money, much of it generated by off-the-books proprietary companies and illegal activities like drug smuggling, the CIA spreads corruption around the world. This corruption undermines our own government and public officials. And the drone killings of innocent men, women, and children generate fierce resentment.. . .Tell your representative and senators right now that the CIA is the antithesis of democracy and needs to be abolished."
America: A Modern-Day Sparta
America: A Modern-Day Sparta
by Stephen Lendman
Permanent war is longstanding policy. America deplores peace. Throughout its history, it's waged war annually at home and/or abroad. Today it does so globally.
Giving peace a chance is loathed. Direct or proxy wars rage in multiple countries.
Guantanamo Force-Feeding Constitutes Torture
Guantanamo Force-Feeding Constitutes Torture
by Stephen Lendman
Guantanamo detention constitutes torture, abuse and ill-treatment. Long-term detention compounds it.
Force-feeding increases unconscionable pain and suffering. Doing so violates core rule of law principles.
Syria News May 20
Syrian Army, Hezbollah Move Into Rebel-Held Qusayr - NYTimes.com
Benjamin Netanyahu threatens more Israeli strikes on Syria - Telegraph
Syria ready to unleash missiles on Tel Aviv if attacked by Israel - The Sunday Times
VIDEO: Syrian TV coverage of Army's Military Operations to Retake the Key City of Qusayr - YouTube
VIDEO: Rebels film Qusayr under bombardment - YouTube
VIDEO: FSA Casualties in the Battle of Al-Qusayr - YouTube
EU decision to lift Syrian oil sanctions boosts jihadist groups - guardian.co.uk
Al-Qaeda plunders Syria's oilfields - Independent.ie
VIDEO: The Telegraph visits the oil fields of Syria - YouTube
Syria: Jabhat al-Nusra split after leader's pledge of support for al-Qaeda - Telegraph
Jabhat al-Nusra - A Strategic Briefing - quilliamfoundation.org
VIDEO: Sharia in Syria - whipping of men - LiveLeak.com
Time limits on Syria conference 'counterproductive' – Lavrov - The Voice of Russia
EU more viable model for Syrian Kurds than Iraq's Kurdistan: PYD leader Salih Muslim - ekurd
Assad says no info on journalists missing in Syria - AFP
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Disconnect: Soaring Markets/Troubled Economies
Disconnect: Soaring Markets/Troubled Economies
by Stephen Lendman
Forget everything you learned about markets, economics and finance. Perhaps Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and other noted figures were wrong.
Central banks run today's world. Major ones matter most. Money printing madness controls everything. Love doesn't make the world go round. Liquidity-driven markets reflect the power of bankers to do it.
America Honors Its Worst
America Honors Its Worst
by Stephen Lendman
Presidential Medals of Freedom are awarded annually. They mock what they claim to represent. Many go to deplorable recipients.
Previous dishonorees include GHW Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Robert Gates, Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, Shimon Peres, Margaret Thatcher, Alvaro Uribe, Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, and Alan Greenspan among others.
Why Obama Can & Should Close Guantanamo NOW
by Debra Sweet While promoting the message to Close Guantanamo that we are raising funds to publish in The New York Times, we have been hearing, especially in the Twitterverse, that people think, because Obama promised to close Guantanamo, and says that Congress is not allowing him to do that, the main problem is with Congress.


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Posted on Jan 30, 2012
On Tuesday, New England-based Douglas Company, one of the biggest plush manufacturers in the U.S., unveiled its latest Carte Blanch Me to You brand line: The Tatty Teddy Birthday collection.
The line features seven bears, including: a 6-inch bear with a blue or purple plush star, an 8-inch bear with a gift box, an 8-inch bear holding a chocolate or vanilla cupcake, a 9-inch bear with a plush flower, and a 12-inch bear holding a fabric gift box. The line, which will hit shelves early this year, will be featured in specialty U.S. and Canadian gift and toy stores.

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City of Palms live blog, Day 2 recap
- Posted: 1:49 AM, December 18, 2010
One game into the 38th Annual City of Palms Classic, there was an upset as No. 8 Dr. Krop (Fla.) fell to Norfolk Christian (Va.), 62-60. Bishop Gorman (Nev.) defeated North Port (Fla.), 62-48, and Whitney Young (Ill.) outslugged Melrose (Tenn), 38-37.
There are eight games on tap Saturday, including Christ the King's opening-round game against Christ School (NC) in a battle of nationally-ranked squads.
Here is Saturday's full schedule:
Noon – North Port (Fla.) vs. No. 8 Dr. Krop (Fla.)
1:45 p.m. – Fort Myers (Fla.) vs. No. 15 Milton (Ga.)
3:30 p.m. – No. 4 Christ the King vs. No. 21 Christ School (NC)
5:15 p.m. – Mater Dei (Calif.) vs. Orlando Christian Prep (Fla.)
7 p.m. – Whitney Young (Ill.) vs. No. 11 St. Patrick's (NJ)
8:45 p.m. – No. 10 Winter Park (FIa.) vs. Riverside Academy (La.)
10:30 p.m. – Dwyer (Fla.) vs. No. 16 Bishop Gorman (Nev.)
Dylan Butler will again be at Bishop Verot HS to provide all the details in our interactive live blog. To follow the blog, which starts at 11:30 a.m., simply click below.


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Here are some of my favorite competition prep desserts. Obviously they should still be eaten in moderation, however I feel that one of the biggest downfalls to diets is the feeling of deprivation. This allows you to have a small splurge without over doing it.
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4. Hardboiled Eggwhite Tuna Salad:
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Crocodiles instill fear in most people at any size. But crocodile conservationist, Romulus Whitaker's fear is that the most colossal of these creatures might no longer exist. Rom suspects that human hunting may have selectively killed off crocs surpassing 20 feet in length. A sad fact considering the sophisticated adaptations and body design of crocodiles have helped them outlast even dinosaurs.
In Supersize Crocs, Rom takes viewers along as he sets off on his own hunt to find the last of the leviathans. Venturing to Ethiopia's Lake Chamo, the riverbanks of India's northern border with Nepal, and to the Adelaide River of Australian outback, Rom hits the hotspots of supersize croc habitats as he searches for signs of life among the brackish waters. Rom will share with viewers his insight and fascination with the cryptic world of crocs. Along the way, viewers will learn about ancient croc survival skills as well as how crocs are ideally designed to be the most successful freshwater predator.
Will he find his supersize croc among the three titans of the croc world: the Nile crocodiles, saltwater crocodiles and gharials? Tune in to find out.
To order a copy of Supersize Crocs, please visit the NATURE Shop.
Online content for Supersize Crocs was originally posted February 2007.
it was very strange and i enjoyed it but could you plaese tell me what do they usually eat?
These things are AWSOME!!!!!!!i held a baby croc.and petted an nile croc.THEY ARE LIKE SUPER D DUPER SCARY☺☻♥☺☻♥☺☻♥.
This was a wonderful episode which highlighted the need to protect these rare, older animals of size from being slaughtered by animal-control agencies such as recently happened in Alabama. Game Wardens killed a 28′1″ -long alligator instead of preserving such an incredible animal. I would like to be able to send the pictures of this animal swimming with a large buck in its mouth, and the subsequent photos to Rom.
Totally misleading. I watched for an entire hour waiting for the monster crocidile that never was. Talk about anti-climatic…In the last five minutes of the show Rom concedes that he hasn,t found the Monster but….he,s sure there is one… Rom…do yourself a favor…get a haircut..
???? I am trying to find out the name of the reptile similar to alligators and crocodials ??
They have a long thin mouth….many teeth.TX
um it was ok but i was expecting a little more
to mike daddura… Gharial. u are talking about gharials – native to asia.
@ramina: Depends on the species and size. Smaller specimens feed on small food items – insects, small fish/reptiles/amphibians/mammals. Mid-sized animals feed on, as you might have guessed, mid-sized prey items. Once crocodilians reach a certain size however, most of them can pretty much eat whatever comes their way – large quadripeds (deer/buffalo/etc), turtles (shell and all), and the like. @Mike Daddura: Youre are indeed referring to gharials, a primarily fish-eating species; which grow to quite a large size. There are several varieties of crocodilian – you might also want to check out the Asian Dwarf Alligators and the Tomistomas (false gharials).
Conservation of these animals is, of course, a wonderful thing to attempt; but until people begin to accept the conditions that they live in, these animals have little hope of avoiding persecution upon reaching a size that could seriously threaten people. I have seen one too many attack-reports regarding people who KNEW that crocodiles/alligators were present in a water source (sometimes living by it for years), but never comprehend the danger these creatures represent. When these same people (or their kids/pets) get attacked while swimming in – how you could enjoy yourself swimming in a lake/pond with crocodillians is beyond me – or standing beside these water sources, government (and infact, many local people) immediately become hostile towards the predatory animal that they KNEW was there the whole time. Bottom line: Humans need to recognize their physical weaknesses and learn their role, as opposed to thinking themselves rulers of the planet and killing whatever proves them wrong.
contact me I you want the Pictures with a usable email address. That has to be a HUGE gator to have a whole deer in its mouth! The deer was later found to be a mature Stag and was measured at 11 feet! This alligator was found between Centre and Leesburg , Alabama , near a house ! Anita and Charlie Rogers could hear the bellowing in the night. Their neighbors had been telling them that they had seen a mammoth alligator in the waterway that runs behind their house, but they dismissed the stories as exaggerations. 'I didn't believe it,' Charles Rogers said, but they realized the stories were, if anything, understated. Alabama Parks and Wildlife game wardens had to shoot the beast. Joe Goff, 6′5′ tall, a game warden, walks past the 28 foot, 1 inch alligator 8.5 metres he shot and killed in their back yard.
Still want to move to the LAKE ???
First & foremost….there has never been a 28′ alligator….the maximum size for the american alligator is 14′ and even those are rare. There were reports of a 19′ animal but this is extremely unlikely…that species simply doesn't grow very large. However, there ARE still 20′+ Saltwater Crocodile….while working in northern Australia (near Darwin) I saw at least 4 crocodiles within the 6 meter (20′) range and in eastern India Guiness World Records has confirmed the existence of a 23′ male within a Orissa. So, yes, giants still exist….but most likely only Saltwater And Nile Crocodiles break 20′. The American Crocodile common in Costa Rica and other areas commonly exceeds 16′ (and a few at 18′) in the Tarcoles River and they are easily viewable.
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This is a basic introduction to modern Fortran. At the end of the course, students should be able to write significant programs in Fortran, and to be able to start working on existing programs written in modern Fortran (i.e. in the Fortran 90/95 style). It will not cover obsolete features of Fortran, some of the more advanced aspects, or most of the extensions introduced by Fortran 2003.
In addition to some computing skills, it is essential to know enough about matrices to understand Fortran arrays, and they are no longer taught in A-level Mathematics. For more information, see Matrix Prerequisites.
The first four lectures cover the essential concepts, syntax and use of modern Fortran.
3: Data Types and Basic Calculation
The next four lectures cover the main areas where Fortran is significantly more powerful than languages like C++, and are the key to using it effectively.
7: KIND, Precision and COMPLEX
8: Modules, Make and Interfaces
The next three lectures are a description of how to use derived types as simple structures, and a description of Fortran I/O, which is very unlike all other current languages.
Normally, lectures 1 to 5 are given on the first day, 6 to 8 on the second, and 9 onwards (including some of the extra material) on the third. But the schedule and coverage may be varied to meet the needs of the audience.
These are practical exercises to use the facilities taught; some are questions to answer and others are exercises in writing programs.
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You are advised not to look at these until you are comfortable using the material in the previous lectures. See also the Old Fortran course below, which contains some explanation of older features the course ignores.
This lecture is a brief description of how to use data pointers in Fortran.
This lecture is an introduction of how to use C from Fortran and vice versa, using the portable facilities defined in Fortran 2003. Regrettably, the boundaries between safe use and unsafe usage cannot be explained simply, though using the facilities is not hard.
These lectures are unavoidably complicated, but they include information that may be needed for debugging and tuning.
15: Advanced Use Of Procedures
Programming in Fortran 90/95 by Steve Morgan and Lawrie Schonfelder (Fortran Market, PDF, $15)
Fortran 95/2003 Explained by Michael Metcalf, John Reid and Malcolm Cohen
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"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
More Snippets From My Email
Just discovered your message in my spam folder. Sorry. Birthdate is November 7, 1938. Date of death is still being negotiated. Please attribute to Robert Brault, American Writer, not Robert Brault, American Poet, who is another fellow (and glad of it).
To Carolyn,
It took 72 years, but I've finally been recognized as the "ultimate snuggie." Thank you. I will show your letter to all those who had me pegged for a tea cozy. So glad you like my stuff.
To Cathy,
Your [battle against cancer] gives hope to us all, and I'm honored to make a small [verbal] contribution to your efforts to get others through it as well. I was in Ireland in '76 for my brother's wedding -- he married a girl from the village of Killeagh in County Cork -- and I remember well a few days by the sea in nearby Garryvoe. A covey of white gulls will have to do for my snow geese, but they remain a memory of a little thing enjoyed along the way. Yes, I have run across Mary Oliver's poem and share your appreciation.
To Kathy,
Thanks for liking the quote. Your son probably needs no help from me to appreciate his mom. And if, as you say, friendship fills up the ruts in life's road, I suppose that love fills up the potholes.
To Regan,
Thanks for your gracious words. I'm delighted to know that you have found a bit of intellectual kinship in my writings. If you are inclined toward editorial journalism (opinion), you will find that there are indeed "thoughts left to be thought," included among them every thought ever voiced. The wisdom of the ages is applicable, not surprisingly, to any age, the trick being to rephrase it in the modern vernacular and to associate it with current events and current perceptions. If you knew nothing but Plato, you could mine that vein for your entire career.
With respect to acclaim, I wrote for years for a small side income and no acclaim; today I write for small acclaim and no side income. That is the transformation wrought by the internet. The readership today is enormous, but they have been conditioned to getting their reading free. That is the challenge facing the professional journalist today.
To Linda,
( who wrote "I'm was looking for business quotes and I found you. Thank you - I feel healthier, I have more space and I am more thoughtful - you are cool. You gave me oxygen, a space to breathe and a quick chuckle. Keep at it ... I'm following you :o)
What a neat letter! I've received one or two appreciative notes since starting the blog, but yours is the one I'll carry in my mental wallet. You've summed up everything I could hope to accomplish. Thanks so much.
To Nannette,
It's a generous nature that thinks of another in time of personal hardship. You are thoughtful in every sense. I really do believe that hope can be a healing as well as a consolation, and so might it be with you. Let us hope together for your recovery.
To Liz, (Elisabeth Meister, English soprano)
My humility is challenged by such kind words from one so accomplished. Thank you. The idea that I've kept you from your work is daunting. You have my blessing, of course, to use my quotes on your walls, assuming that you are short, at the moment, on medieval tapestries. I suggest using eraseable crayon.
To Don,
Without the concepts of dark matter, dark energy and dark flow, the Big Bang theory is inconsistent with itself and must be discarded. So cosmologists have assumed the existence of all three and are busy scanning the heavens in search of them. My point is, they might as well be looking for the Blessed Trinity itself. It's a wonder they don't start their day with a sign of the cross: "In the name of Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Dark Flow, Amen."
To Stephanie,
You're gracious to write. Thanks. I expect to keep the thoughts coming, although your words, "... you have certainly provided enough beautiful thoughts to last a lifetime" will suit me fine as a final legacy.
~~ Robert Brault
18 comments:
- Sue said...
Enjoyed reading these today. Thanks, Robert.
=) - January 11, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- BECKY said...
Ditto what Sue said! You must have thousands of e-mails, Robert, thanking you for your wise and/or funny thoughts to keep us going, when sometimes we rather crawl back under the warm covers....
- January 11, 2011 at 9:17 AM
- Lisette du Plessis said...
Hi Robert,
I hope the new year is going well for you. I've been trying to contact you for permission to use a quote of yours in a book I am working on, but having no joy getting through to your e-mail. Would you be able to please contact me at your earliest convenience at: email@example.com
Many thanks, - January 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- Robert Brault said...
Thanks again for your thoughtfulness in commenting so regularly here. Greatly appreciated.
My email count falls far short of "thousands" but I am gratified when anyone takes the time to write a personal note (as you have several times.)
I've sent an email to the address you gave. Perhaps you'll be able to turn it around as a reply.
smiles all,
rb - January 12, 2011 at 5:01 AM
- Lisette du Plessis said...
Hi Robert,
Thanks very much for getting back to me and for the kind permission to use your quote. All the best for 2011,
(Sorry, no luck responding via e-mail) - January 12, 2011 at 12:14 PM
- khushi said...
It's always a pleasure to read your posts...even the ones from your email. Thank you for a year of sharing and hope you continue to give us more of your brilliant thoughts and witty quips/quotes through 2011 too. Have a great year!
- January 15, 2011 at 11:42 PM
- nothingprofound said...
Robert-what gratifying e-mails, so warm, complimentary and well-deserved. I hope your negotiations with Persephone's spouse are going well.
- January 17, 2011 at 5:37 AM
- Maria said...
It's wonderful to find a treasure that we can all share ~ Thank you, Robert!
- January 17, 2011 at 7:17 AM
- Robert Brault said...
Thank you. No doubt 2011 will be another year when I resolve every day to give up the blog and don't.
Persephone, now that's profound!
Thank as always, Maria, and keep warm!
smiles all,
rb - January 18, 2011 at 8:30 AM
I am looking for Job Qoutes and I found you.Enjoy reading your writting.
- February 9, 2011 at 12:45 PM
- Robert Brault said...
Thanks. I'll toss in a few job quotes next time.
rb - February 10, 2011 at 4:16 AM
- cathydear said...
Writing a blog of childhood memories for my adult children, I search for quotes to compliment each memory. Today, I came across your inspirational thoughts, and hope that you don't mind that I used two. Additionally, I have two childhood friends who enjoy adding a FaceBook post of inspiration and I have shared your site with them. Profound, enjoyable, and entertaining...thank you for sharing your insight.
- February 27, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- Robert Brault said...
Took a peek at your blog and am so pleased to be a part of your collection of memories. Thanks. "Enjoyable and entertaining" describes exactly my only goal here.
rb - February 28, 2011 at 6:46 AM
- The Tooth Fairy said...
Bob...did I read it right? Is your birthday November 7? If you are...huh!!! I was born November 7, 1959...wink!!!
- August 27, 2011 at 5:41 AM
- Robert Brault said...
You're kidding! I simply cannot picture you as a Scorpio.
rb - August 27, 2011 at 8:46 AM
- The Tooth Fairy said...
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- August 27, 2011 at 4:11 PM
- The Tooth Fairy said...
hahahaha...Bob, I'm not kidding you. I am a Scorpio Lady...so we definitely have the same traits..."What Robert wants, Robert gets!!!"
- August 27, 2011 at 4:20 PM
- motivational speakers australia said...
I'm pretty sure you still have a lot or should I say, thousands of emails in your mailbox. Well, this is because you have an amazing blog.
- December 28, 2011 at 6:21 PM


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Come and join Michaela's all new beginners' line dance class. It is a fun way to meet new people, learn choreographies and stay in shape. Line dance is usually practiced on modern country and western music, but also on today's pop music. Its steps are simple and don't involve dancing with a partner, so line dancing is also ideal for singles and non-dancers. So get your heels clicking and join the fun!
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Fundraising Dinner and Concert, Dancing and Singing
Drop off your kids at the YMCA and get a night out for yourself.
- Enjoy Blount clam cakes and chowder at St. Luke's School from 5 to 8 pm to benefit the Mustard Seed Missionaries; $7 for adults/$5 for children/$20 for families of four or more.
- The Brown Derbies all-male a cappella group from Brown University performs at 7 pm in the Keats Theatre at St. Andrew's School to benefit its Tomorrow Fund; $15 at the door.
- It's time for children ages 4-10 to enjoy another Kids Night Out at the Bayside Family YMCA from 6 to 9 pm.
- Learn ballroom and Latin dances at the Democratic Club, 186 Roffee St., and then dance the night away from 7 to 11 pm with professional dancer Nelia Lawton.
- Make like an American Idol contestant at "open mic" night at the Coffee Depot, 501 Main St., Warren, starting at 7 pm.


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The stimulus bill Congress passed in February 2009 was supposed to be spent predominantly on infrastructure rebuilding projects.
At an address to AFL-CIO members at Laborfest in Milwaukee on Monday, President Barack Obama pushed an additional $50 billion-plus stimulus bill designed to fulfill the novel task of… rebuilding the country's infrastructure.
Obama warmed up his working class audience by wearing an open-collar shirt with rolled up sleeves, referring to his listeners as "folks," and reminding them of the miserably unprosperous Reagan years, when unemployment plummeted from a Carter-induced 10% in 1982 to 5% by the end of Reagan's second term.
The President's proposed infrastructure spending aimed to rebuild roads, railways, and runways, not to mention public union coffers and Democratic Congressional reelection campaigns.
The bill would be paid for by eliminating tax breaks for oil and gas companies, also known as "raising taxes."
In addition, the President proposed a new federal Infrastructure Bank of unspecified cost and scope that would use tax dollars to borrow private funds to fuel future projects. You know—sort of a cross between Amtrak and Fannie Mae, with all the efficiency of the former and all the transparency of the latter.
Chastising Republicans for their platform of "No, We Can't" and their propensity to oppose everything he suggests, Obama declared, "If I said the sky was blue, they'd say no. If I said fish live in the sea, they'd say no." Actually, if he said never-ending Keynesian spending orgies stimulate long-term economic growth, we'd say no. But close!
Obama announced that he would "keep fighting, every single day, every single hour, every single minute to turn this economy around." (He did not say "every single second"—a guy does need time to get in some golf swings and order shrimp baskets in between bouts of pondering the economy.)
Behold a president whose economic ideas are so muddled that he could pronounce, in his speech, "[A]nyone who thinks we can move this economy forward with a few doing well at the top, hoping it'll trickle down to working folks… just [hasn't] studied our history"; and then, a few paragraphs later, brag, "[W]e've given tax cuts to small business owners… [W]e're cutting taxes for companies that put our people to work here at home." Gee—I wonder how giving tax breaks to companies helps the middle class? Perhaps, when taxes are lowered, wealthy company owners have more money to hire workers? You might almost say that tax cuts cause jobs to "trickle down" to the working class.
When the stimulus bill failed to reduce unemployment last year, liberal commentators snickered at how dumb conservatives were for expecting the bill to have an effect right away. In late spring 2009, when unemployment was at 8.5%, they said, Just wait a few more months. At the end of the summer, when unemployment was at 9.5%, they said, Just wait till the end of the year. At the end of the year, when unemployment was over 10%, they said [8], The stimulus could actually take years to lay bare its brilliant results.
Eighteen months after the stimulus bill was passed, the House Ways and Means Committee reported [9] that more than 2.5 million jobs had been lost.
In order to minimize the egg on their faces a year from now, the Obama administration simply refuses [10] to estimate how many jobs its new not-a-stimulus [11] stimulus bill would create.
Obama's announcement represents a perverse stubbornness to acknowledge that his party's economic ideas simply aren't working. The one thing that might save his presidency would be for him to turn into President Bill Clinton and start governing from the center, but then he would have to admit that he was wrong, which he refuses to do.
The clincher that liberals know they should be following conservatives' advice always comes when they trot [12] out the old canard that "Republican leadership hasn't brought any helpful ideas to the table." That's what they said when conservatives rejected their nationalized health care scheme last year. The claim was belied by dozens [13] of innovative health care reform bills Republicans had introduced in the House that never even left the referral stage.
The Tea Party's Contract from America [14], for one, lists 10 fantastic ideas for strengthening the economy and creating an environment favorable to growth and development, such as simplifying the tax system, imposing caps on annual federal spending increases, and permanently extending the Bush tax cuts. In other words, "no helpful ideas."
Obama's latest tin-eared proposal is final proof, in 12-foot tall, blood-red, block letters for those who still need it, that he doesn't get it: Americans are furious and terrified about the mountains of debt he has piled on top of us and don't believe any of his spending programs have helped the economy.


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Senior Administrative Law Judge Fred Morrison ruled Tuesday that Brasstown store owner Clay Logan did not qualify for a permit to hold animals captive, and that the state Wildlife Resources Commission had no authority to issue a special permit.
WRC should therefore have instructed Logan to immediately release the opossum into the wild where the opossum had been captured, or kill it, Morrison wrote in his order.
Known as the possum capital of the South, Brasstown has rung in the new year by suspending an opossum above a stage and dropping it at the stroke of midnight while fireworks boom in the background.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a lawsuit in December seeking a temporary restraining order, which was denied. Their petition moved to the Office of Administrative Hearings, where the parties agreed to seek summary judgment. Further appeals are likely.
PETA said the Opossum Drop obviously subjects the shy nocturnal animal to cruelty, but argued in its case that the state denies the public its right to enjoy wildlife by issuing permits for what amount to temporary zoos.
On its Web site, Clays Corner issues this note:
The opossum is not actually dropped, it is lowered with great care. We treat our little friend with respect, hold him in awe, and do not inflict any injury or traumatize God's creature of the night.
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Another door knocking session about the Coalition
I've just got home from a door-knocking session in my ward in which we were talking to constituents about the Coalition Government, as well as local issues. 100 survey forms were delivered last night. My ward colleague, Cllr Marilynn Ord, and I called back tonight to collect the replies. We got 25 back. Some more are likely to be posted to me.
We had a similar response on Saturday when we were last out on the doors. Again, the feeling about the Coalition is positive. We had a couple of people today who were opposed to the Coalition but they were Labour supporters anyway (and they hadn't filled in the survey form we had delivered).
From the two days of doing the survey we have 48 replies. When we have 100 replies, I'll produce a running total.
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lets hope it's positive after the next election, because I've a feeling we will be back out of power looking around to see where the democrats have gone, I know best they leave.
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