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"Everything that Richard Nixon did to me, for which he faced impeachment and prosecution, which led to his resignation, is now legal under the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)." Daniel Ellsberg.
"Everything that Richard Nixon did to me, for which he faced impeachment and prosecution, which led to his resignation, is now legal under the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)." Daniel Ellsberg.
Debt itself has become the obsession du jour: the problem is not the sufficiency of debt or even its costs but the defective structure within which debt subsidizes profitless waste. We love our waste, it makes us feel human: right now the world’s economies are at the point where debt can just barely stretch to fill the waste gap. We can just barely afford the costs of the debt, provided we put to use every sort of extraordinary tactic to manage them. We add more debt, we borrow our way out of it, we shuffle it around: running faster and faster to remain in one place.
Debts can be managed this way only because the state can always run faster: as long as there is a marginal return somewhere within the debt-y universe the system will continue to lend to itself ever-larger nominal amounts. Unfortunately, the real capital that the debt is supposed to represent diminishes while the claims made against capital increase. The efforts to manage debt by ‘renewing’ it become counterproductive. Adding debt becomes another form of waste with costs that cannot be met.
The only presidential candidate who has vowed to axe the NDAA provisions is Ron Paul. If you support any other candidate, ask why they are supporting the gutting of the Bill of Rights under the Orwellian umbrella of GWOT (global war on terror).
I recall an amusing scene where a suddenly stricken 18th century aristocrat calls out for his lawyer rather than the local leech.
I'm tellin' ya.
Thank god my bleeding ulcer caused by my migraine was fully documented at hospital and that I'd been in hospital for the same before And most importantly that I predicted the migraine that I got in hospital...;}
Critics maintain that the bailout is leading to the creation of many “zombie” banks, which are completely dependent on the ECB for finance and are reluctant to provide credit either to each other or to businesses.
There has been no bail out.
These people are criminals who should be brought to justice. But in the Greece of today, it will not happen”. One final source told me shortly before posting, “The Bank of Greece is naked in this matter. We ask them for the reasons why this has happened, and they claim to have no knowledge of such things. This is ridiculous. This could not have been done without their cooperation. There is nobody now in Greece we can trust”.
The illegally denied default of Greece entered a dramatic new phase this afternoon with the revelation by mainstream Greek public health website Health News that, shortly before midnight on March 8th – the eve of Greece’s psi completion on Friday March 9th – on average 70% of public utility funds in varous large, interest-bearing accounts at the Bank of Greece were raided. These included most of the State’s regional hospital budgets, various universities and (it is alleged) at least one utility company.
The shortfalls came to light late last week and this morning as various hospital purchasing cheques in particular began to bounce. The monies – estimated by one source to total some 1.4 billion euros – appear to have been used to pay off the tiny minority of private sovereign creditors
Debt itself has become the obsession du jour: the problem is not the sufficiency of debt or even its costs but the defective structure within which debt subsidizes profitless waste. We love our waste, it makes us feel human: right now the world’s economies are at the point where debt can just barely stretch to fill the waste gap. We can just barely afford the costs of the debt, provided we put to use every sort of extraordinary tactic to manage them. We add more debt, we borrow our way out of it, we shuffle it around: running faster and faster to remain in one place.
Debts can be managed this way only because the state can always run faster: as long as there is a marginal return somewhere within the debt-y universe the system will continue to lend to itself ever-larger nominal amounts. Unfortunately, the real capital that the debt is supposed to represent diminishes while the claims made against capital increase. The efforts to manage debt by ‘renewing’ it become counterproductive. Adding debt becomes another form of waste with costs that cannot be met.
A decline in nominal price of petroleum is no cure: temporary declines allow price-thwarted demand to rush back into the markets and push up the price. This decline-push dynamic remains in force until the ability of customers to meet the high price price is exhausted, when the credit runs out.
Having emptied our accounts at the gasoline pump, the returns on our non-driving endeavors are insufficient to service the debt needed to drive … or do much else.
What is underway is a margin call against the entire unproductive enterprise.
Law-abiding taxpayers are treated like criminals while the criminal class of financiers and State apparatchiks are free to loot and pillage muppets and taxpayers alike.
It's actually very simple: whatever the state or Federal government does to you, that's legal. Whatever action you take to protect your rights is illegal....
Perhaps the closest analogy for these resurgent warmongers are the economists who failed to predict even the vaguest problems with the sub-prime mortgage market, let alone the global financial crisis.
Yet somehow they still shamelessly populate the airwaves, spouting predictions and judgments, which unfathomably never end with the anchor saying: "Mmm. We're going to interrupt you to hear from a cauliflower, because you've got to think it knows more about this stuff than you."
And so with the creatures of the US military-industrial complex, somehow able to pick themselves up from the what should have been career-ending humiliation and call for more of the same. They clearly possess some bizarre, Weeble-style self-righting mechanism, and at some level I suppose you have to admire the chutzpah.
Given the lack of success of the American experiment with deregulation, it is beyond belief that the cure for what ails the American economy is going to be more deregulation: "Bill Black on How the Jumpstart Obama’s Bucket Shops Act is Just Another in a Long Series of Fraud-Promoting Legislation" Also: "Bill Black: “The only winning move is not to play”—the insanity of the regulatory race to the bottom"
And what you'll wait long and hard for this from the Zionist/USSA MSM:
"retired History professor Milton Cantor, a very distinguished historian of left-wing political movements in the United States, sent me a copy of a long, thoughtful letter he had sent to Senator Carl Levin. In three tightly written single-spaced pages, Cantor detailed the series of votes Levin had taken in the Senate that in one way or another expanded the autocratic power of the presidency and eroded what have always been thought to be the core rights and protections of constitutional government,
most notably the Great Writ, as the writ of habeas corpus is called. On the same day that I received the letter, I read a blog post [I cannot now recall which of three or four different blogs was its source] that included a very striking graphic illustration of the size of the military budgets of the twenty or so most geared up nations. Not surprisingly [I actually already sort of knew this], the United States spends annually ten times as much on defense as its nearest competitor, China, and all in all about half of all the money spent on the military world-wide.
Something about these two bits of information coalesced in my mind, and I realized that I was seeing a perfect representation of America's hegemonic imperial status in the contemporary world. Overwhelming military dominance abroad is complemented by the establishment of an imperium at home. The government now asserts openly that it has the right to kill anyone in the world it deems a threat to its imperium,
even if that person is a citizen of the United States. The only restraints the state now recognizes on its actions are instrumental -- the opportunity costs of military action, the deleterious effects on the members of the volunteer armed forces.
This is the reality with which we live, and it does not appear that it will change for at least a generation, perhaps longer. To be quite honest, I do not believe there is anything any of us can do to change this reality. robertpaulwolff.blogspot.ca/2012/03/big-picture.html
The Israeli operation was facilitated by highly-placed Zionist agents within the US government, military, and intelligence spheres. If Buzzy Krongard is a suspect in the crimes of 9-11, the question that needs to be answered is: Was Krongard acting as an agent for Israeli military intelligence at Alex Brown and the CIA? The evidence indicates that he served as an agent for Israel in both positions. Alvin Bernard Krongard, born 1936, is the son of Raphael Harris Krongard and Rita Keyser Krongard. Both his mother and father were born in Baltimore to Jewish immigrant families from Poland/Russia. His first wife, Patricia Lion, was also Jewish.
While Krongard’s Jewish roots are never mentioned in the various articles about him, his Jewish ethnicity clearly plays the key role in his efforts to support Israeli enterprises in the US. When a high-level person like Krongard conceals his Jewish roots while actively serving the state of Israel it indicates that he is seeking to hide his true identity and loyalty to a foreign state.
For such a person to be the administrative chief of the CIA says a great deal about the degree of Israeli penetration of the US intelligence community.....
Mayo Shattuck stayed on at Alex Brown, but resigned suddenly the day after 9-/1(1). While it is clear that Krongard jumped ship because he knew that the BT Alex Brown merger would soon fail, why did he go to work for the CIA? What we do know is that Krongard had worked closely with computer companies spawned by Israeli military intelligence.
After he joined the CIA as counselor to the director, Krongard soon became engaged in setting up the CIA venture capital firm called In-Q-It (In-Q-Tel) that was supposed to keep the agency abreast of computer technology. How much Israeli software do you think found its way onto the CIA computer network under Buzzy Krongard’s reign? In Oct 1999, the WaPo reported on the genesis of In-Q-Tel:
A lot of people wondered what DCI Tenet had in mind a year and a half ago when he brought in Wall Street heavyweight A B “Buzzy” Krongard to serve as his “counselor.”
9/11 is a prime example of what Indira Singh calls “extreme event risk.” In the months prior to the attack, she was working on a program capable of providing data in real time to prevent these types of events from happening. She had pitched this very idea just one week before 9/11 at In-Q-Tel Headquarters (CIA) in Virginia, giving a final presentation for an ICH (Interoperability Clearinghouse) project code named “Blue Prophet.” Indira explained to CIA why she was supporting ICH in this project.
She told the In-Q-Tel team, “The intelligence and other agencies need this now.” One of the men with CIA looked at Indira with what she describes as the “blackest, coldest look anyone has ever given her.”
They weren’t interested in Blue Prophet’s software for interoperability or risk, but rather the data it would produce because the data would point in the right directions. That data was very predictive, producing quality real-time intelligence. This is one week before 9/11. If In-Q-Tel already had this capability, it’s no wonder they would be wary of someone like Indira – the woman from New York in Risk Management who resided a few minutes’ walk from the Twin Towers.
Panetta says polls cannot dictate Afghan war plans.
Does anyone remember Dick Cheney saying, in response to exit polls during the 2006 elections which showed that only 17% of Americans supported the Bush administration's policy on Iraq, that "I don't think any president worth his salt, can afford to make decisions of this magnitude according to the polls...This president does not make policy based on public opinion polls"?
I seem to remember a lot of people who now support the Obama administration's policy in Afghanistan blindly were pretty upset with Cheney's obvious contempt for democracy and the will of the people...
The big New York Times story on the Afghan War today (3/27/12) focuses on public opinion in the United States, which is now dramatically anti-war: 69 percent think we shouldn’t be there.
An interesting point argument is raised later in the piece, when two sources make the argument that the war wouldn’t be so unpopular if Barack Obama would just do a better job of selling it:
Indira showed up with what she called, “A major Ground Zero attitude.” She was supposed to be on the 106th floor of the WTC on 9/11 but instead responded as a civilian EMT that morning. This was very personal for her. Charlie understood and nevertheless made the arrangements for a debriefing at the Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) in April 2003.
During the debriefing Indira was asked by a member of the Secret Service, “Is Ptech PROMIS?”
“I already knew what had happened to Danny Casolaro, and they were asking me if I had copies of Ptech,” Indira told FTW.
Danny Casolaro was the investigative journalist mysteriously “suicided” in a West Virginia hotel room while investigating the theft of PROMIS software. Casolaro’s investigation had uncovered a shadowy network he called “the Octopus” that seemed to have its hands in everything from drug trafficking and money laundering, all the way up to political assassinations and coups d’etat. When Casolaro’s body was discovered, his arms were violently slashed and all the documents he traveled with were missing. He had told friends and relatives if anything happened to him they shouldn’t believe it was by accident.
Being asked such a loaded question, she responded with her Ground Zero attitude saying:
“You have a copy of the software, why don’t you tell me? This is not about the software guys, ok – was it a PROMIS? It was a place you could hide a PROMIS, a place you can drop a PROMIS.”
Indira told FTW, “I was going to use Ptech software for risk surveillance at JP Morgan – Duh!”
Wonder how many Chinooks we have left in the Afghans.
report of Chinook shot down Mar 26. Helmand Province 30 US dead.
With unexplained action in Uruzgan.
BTW, to the 20 or so USans doing Zargawat, once Sgt Bales is said to be the Only killer, you become expendible....just sayin'....;}
How will the U.S.-British enterprise recover from the latest in a series of insults to the Afghan people?
The people of the U.S. and Great Britain get the message. In a recent poll, 61% of citizens want U.S. troops home immediately. Only 19% oppose that decisive action. In Great Britain, 75% oppose the Afghan war effort.
With negligible public support and tottering economies, how can Obama and Cameron conceive, even for a moment, that withdrawal will last through the 2014 timeline?
Indira Singh was/is one of those who were 'out of place' on 9/11.
She was supposed to be somewhere high up in the WTC's, but was also a paramedic who went to the Aid Station.
And did software/IT support for JPMorgan.
And assuming you mean 'Krongard' instead of 'Kronard'.
Buzzy Krongard was/is CIA/alex Brown/Deutsche Bank on 9/11. Said $2 million was made on a particular (airline, I think) short that was sitting unclaimed in an account.
Mr Squarcini has said Merah was never an informer for any French security agency.
Le Canard Enchaîné newspaper reported yesterday that Merah and his family were bugged by the DCRI from March to November last year. The bugging ended abruptly, Le Canard said, at about the time of the future killer's meeting with the DCRI agent in November. However, the body which authorises telephone surveillance said later that the bugging began in November and was dropped in February because it revealed nothing important."
A list that puts this issue completely to bed:
1. When under attack, the patsy attempts to reach out for help from his intelligence handler (with plenty of government lies claiming they had no connection in the patsy, no knowledge of him, and no reason to place him on any list of possible dangers).
1a)My Edit: Patsy always has less than a high school education
2 # A patsy assassinated when he could have been taken alive (and then defended himself by stating his mission was authorized by the French government)
3 # A 'radical Islamist terrorist' with no interest in religion.
4 # # The first killer was obviously a different person (based on witness descriptions), a fact ignored by the media and government.
5# Sent to Israel, of all places, using cover provided by a French intelligence agency (the Jewish targets seem to be part of a Zionist plan to scare French Jews to flee to Israel).
7 # Travels to Afghanistan and Pakistan, suspected of training at 'al-Qaeda' training camps, picked up by the Americans, and just sent home?
No, this was an authorized French intelligence operation - coordinated with the American and Israeli governments - to assist in Sarko's reelection (and prod French Jews into helping with the 'demographic problem' in Israel). This is so clear it is not worthy of discussion.
Anyone noticing USSA Media's complete lack of interest in....
"When Murdoch was setting up his BSKYB cable network in England, he had some serious competition. ITV had a digital service called ITV Digital. The British broadcaster was prepared to go head to head with Murdoch's network. As the services rolled out, ITV Digital became subject to furious hacker attacks. The hackers broke the ITV encryption code and distributed it widely allowing so many people to get free ITV service, the venture failed, largely due to the piracy of its service, and Murdoch had a clean road to mega profits with BSKYB...."
8D
"Ray Adams is a name you will hear more frequently as the latest and perhaps most fatal Murdoch - News Corp. scandal emerges."
If you hear about Ray Adams turning and cooperating with the police, that's the end of Murdoch and a heavy blow to News Corp. He's not the entire case but he could make it happen in a hurry if he makes a deal.
Political Washington is Wall Street's best friend. Whatever crooked bankers want they get. Their business model features grand theft. Wealth’s amassed through fraudulent double-dealing.
See the <10% Approval Bi-partisan Congress JOBS (TASBEM;) Bill
Former bank regulator/financial fraud expert Bill Black explained what's at stake in his article headlined, " ‘The only winning move is not to play’ - the insanity of the regulatory race to the bottom.”
He called the imminent JOBS Act passage reminiscent of the "worst anti-regulatory travesties in the financial sphere (that) had broad, bipartisan support." Don't they all, especially in recent decades.
If you had told people a year ago that the most powerful man in mainstream media (MSM) (Rupert Murdoch;) would be called upon to resign in disgrace from News Corp, the $40 billion media conglomerate, they would have laughed.
From Wikipedia: "Edward Louis Bernays (1891 – 1995) is considered one of the fathers of the field of public relations along with Ivy Lee. Combining the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud, Bernays was one of the first to attempt to manipulate public opinion using the psychology of the subconscious.
He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the 'herd instinct' that Trotter had described. Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays as the originator of modern public relations. ..........................
We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issue so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public question; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time"
And if this invisible government should militate against our best interests, who then will report on that?
The media and their paid psychologists can be counted on to call such speculation "conspiracy theory",
of course, with lots of theories about why people believe this.
There even is a book called The Influencing Machine by NPR media columnist Brooke Gladstone www.amazon.com/Influencin...stone-Media/dp/0393077799 which acknowledges "the manipulations of contemporary journalism" but denies the power it has to influence our psychology.
By using as its title a 1919 paper on Schizophrenia, where sufferers believe that external forces work to shape our perceptions, it, funnily enough, denies what Edward Bernays himself wrote in his 1928 paper "Propaganda". Keep in mind that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels acknowledged he learned his techniques from Bernays "American" techniques and you get where I am coming from.
The media operates through the energy of the throat chakra, the mind. I sometimes think it exists only to distract us so that instead of working for real change we focus on visual distractions and mindless entertainment.
But, that's ok. The power of the media to shape us is now coming to an end, as we look at forming smaller, more coherent societies and groupings.
This is how I started the article. But now, as I look at the bloated evil being whose actions led to the murder and suffering of so many millions of people, then I know what I really want to say to all the people like him.
No matter how rich you are, or how powerful, or, how long you got away with it. Sooner or later, your karma will catch up with you......;}
March 28, 2012 by Common Dreams Obama Admin Takes Steps Towards More Oil Drilling Shell's oil spill plan for Beaufort Sea drilling approved, seismic surveys for oil off east coast get OK - Common Dreams staff
The Obama administration has taken steps towards increased oil drilling today in Alaska and off the east coat. It approved Shell's oil spill response plan for the Arctic waters of the Beaufort Sea, a move slammed by environmental groups who warn of a likely environmental catastophe if Shell is given its final permits. The administration also allowed today seismic exploratory surveys for oil off the coast of Virginia in the Atlantic Ocean.
“All signs point to environmental disaster if an oil spill were to occur in the harsh Arctic waters — it’s just absurd that Shell’s unproven response plan got the green light,” says Miyoko Sakashita of the Center for Biological Diversity. (photo: Chris Eichler via 350.org) Shell's oil spill plan suggests little likelihood of a blowout and calls for a containment device like the one used in the Deepwater Horizon blowout to be clamped onto the well in the event that Shell's built-in blowout preventer failed.
"If Shell goes there to drill, they will kill the Arctic Ocean along the way—we must fight and stop them," says Subhankar Banerjee, founder of ClimateStoryTellers.org.
March 29, 2012 07:19 EDT CHK theflyonthewall.com: U.S. shale oil drillers told to control natural gas burn, Reuters reports Investors representing $500B in assets want energy companies in the shale oil areas of North Dakota and other states to release the amount of natural gas they burn, considered a a wasteful financial risk, reports Reuters.
Reference Link :theflyonthewall.com 06:31 EDT TOT theflyonthewall.com: North Sea gas leak could cost Total billions, WSJ reports
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March 28, 2012 10:38 EDT TOT theflyonthewall.com: Shell nears deal to sell most prolific Nigerian oil block, WSJ reports
Subscribe for More Information :theflyonthewall.com 08:59 EDT TOT theflyonthewall.com: Total breaks prior day low, next support is at $50.44, then $49.89
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Look for the death of the Beaufort Sea now as Shell, as bad or worse than Total, gets ready to set up shop.
March 28, 2012 by Common Dreams Obama Admin Takes Steps Towards More Oil Drilling Shell's oil spill plan for Beaufort Sea drilling approved, seismic surveys for oil off east coast get OK - Common Dreams staff
The Obama administration has taken steps towards increased oil drilling today in Alaska and off the east coat. It approved Shell's oil spill response plan for the Arctic waters of the Beaufort Sea, a move slammed by environmental groups who warn of a likely environmental catastophe if Shell is given its final permits. The administration also allowed today seismic exploratory surveys for oil off the coast of Virginia in the Atlantic Ocean.
“All signs point to environmental disaster if an oil spill were to occur in the harsh Arctic waters — it’s just absurd that Shell’s unproven response plan got the green light,” says Miyoko Sakashita of the Center for Biological Diversity. (photo: Chris Eichler via 350.org) Shell's oil spill plan suggests little likelihood of a blowout and calls for a containment device like the one used in the Deepwater Horizon blowout to be clamped onto the well in the event that Shell's built-in blowout preventer failed.
"If Shell goes there to drill, they will kill the Arctic Ocean along the way—we must fight and stop them," says Subhankar Banerjee, founder of ClimateStoryTellers.org.
