Two Heads Of The Same Coin - "Elvis Bin Laden" And "Wiki-Israel"
In 1977 Elvis Presley, "King of Rock and Roll", died. Since his death, sightings of Elvis around the world have numbered in the tens of thousands. In 2001 Osama bin Laden, CIA asset and critic of Israel's policies in Palestine, died. Since his death several video tapes and a string of audio recordings have been attributed to him. In a sense, bin Laden has become "Elvis bin Laden," the "King of Terrorism". However, unlike the real Elvis, whose musical legacy will live forever, the legacy of "Elvis bin Laden", the "Al Qaeda" organization and the illusory underground Tora Bora "terror-plex" is only kept alive by the charlatans of the military-industrial complex and their media partners.
We all know the situation “that guy” is getting himself into. Outside of the extremely unlikely event that he simultaneously wins the lottery and learns to balance his finances, his life will become a perpetual game of cat-and-mouse with debt collectors and repo men. He will sigh dejectedly every time his phone rings, knowing that most of the time it is another account representative calling to dun him for a past-due bill.
In the end, he will lose all of those nice things he bought and still owe significant sums of money for them. He’ll probably have to file for bankruptcy, and he’ll be lucky if he can sign up for phone plan or get a checking account for a decade afterward.
"In 20 years, this is the first time the weather has turned this cold. Most of the trees will be lucky to survive, let alone produce flowers," said Dung. At this time last year, his garden was a splendid red carpet of peach blossoms and most of them had already been sold.
For 20 years I was a front man at the BBC, anchoring news and current affairs programmes, so I reckon nobody is better placed than me to answer the question that nags at many of its viewers — is the BBC biased? Whatever the United Nations is associated with is good — it is heresy to question any of its activities. The EU is also a good thing, but not quite as good as the UN. Soaking the rich is good, despite well-founded economic arguments that the more you tax, the less you get. And Government spending is a good thing, although most BBC people prefer to call it investment, in line with New Labour’s terminology.
All green and environmental groups are very good things. Al Gore is a saint.
David Redick Activist Post Politicians, ‘Progressive’ activists, NeoCon Imperialists, and bankers worldwide love to spend money and love the unending supply of it...
Awareness is growing around the world that the Wikileaks-Julian Assange theater of the absurd is radically inauthentic – a psyop.
Wikileaks and its impaired boss represent a classic form of limited hangout or self-exposure, a kind of lurid striptease in which the front organization releases doctored and pre-selected materials provided by the intelligence agency with the intent of harming, not the CIA, nor the UK, nor the Israelis, but rather such classic CIA enemies’ list figures as Putin, Berlusconi, Karzai, Qaddafi, Rodriguez de Kirchner, etc. In Tunisia, derogatory material about ex-President Ben Ali leaked by Wikileaks has already brought a windfall for Langley in the form of the rare ouster of an entrenched Arab government.
Stuart Littlewood takes a close look at the subtefuge, obfuscations and double talk of British Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, a card-carrying Israeli stooge who on a recent visit to occupied Palestine deceitfully professed his commitment to justice in the Holy Land while pledging to stand by Israel and defend its war criminals.
A Japanese rocket carrying supplies for the International Space Station successfully lifted off from a remote island Saturday on a mission designed to help fill a hole left by the retirement of NASA's space shuttle program.
On Tuesday night the Irish PM won a motion of confidence in his leadership. Two days later - after a botched pre-election cabinet reshuffle that threatened his coalition with the Green Party - one of his own junior ministers, Conor Lenihan, was again calling on him to quit. When Mr Cowen did not immediately sack his critical minister, it was clear he had lost his authority within the Fianna Fail party.
Ellen Strickland, 80, says she was fired from Home Depot because of her age
BY Thomas Zambito
Saturday, January 22nd 2011
An 80-year-old Home Depot checkout lady known as "Mom" to co-workers says she was canned over a 6-cent screw.
But Ellen Strickland says her September firing had more to do with her age than the screw. She's suing the home-improvement giant for age discrimination in Queens Supreme Court.
"Her lawyer, Esther Goldbas, says Strickland was fired despite "a flawless record."
Strickland "performed an action that was common practice among store employees....Plaintiff was the only employee terminated for this action, while younger employees were not," the lawsuit claims."
One- sidedness? That accusation coming from folks who don’t even recognise the existance of the ‘other side’. How could attrocities be committed against a people that do not even exist?
As I've previously noted, interest rates have risen both times after the Fed implemented quantitative easing. Graham Summers points out that food prices have also skyrocketed both times: As Abdolreza Abbassian, chief economist at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), put it, “We are entering a danger territory.”
As the Wall Street Journal, Tyler Durden, the Economic Policy Journal and others note, inflation in food prices isn't limited to developing nations, but is coming to the U.S.
More than 5,000 people rallied in Amman and other cities after weekly prayers on Friday against Jordan's economic policies, demanding "bread and freedom" and that the government resign.
"(Prime Minister Samir) Rifai, out, out! People of Jordan will not bow," protesters chanted as they marched from the Al-Hussein mosque in central Amman to the nearby municipality building.
"Our demands are legitimate. We want bread and freedom."
Police handed out bottles of water and juice to the demonstrators, who carried banners reading, "We demand social justice and freedom", "No to oppression, yes to change" and, "We need a national salvation government."
President Barack Obama has begun to look toward what is likely to be a tough reelection fight in 2012, and the political strategists around him are making clear that he must jettison what’s left of his modest reform agenda if he’s to have a chance.
One of the first items over the side is any approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that might, in any way, upset the powerful Israel Lobby. So, Obama is calling in many of the “usual suspects” to reframe his policy in a way that won’t make him a target of the Lobby, as Lawrence Davidson notes in this guest essay
Reports coming out of Lebanon today suggest that Walid Jumblatt, the leader of the Druze-dominated Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), is going to back the March 8 political bloc led by Hezbollah, effectively giving them enough seats to form a majority government.
A number of Western officials, but particularly within the US, are condemning Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s attempt to delay the seating of parliament to allow more time for investigations into the fraud in September’s vote. The concerns are that with no parliament seated, Karzai is able to move essentially without any checks on his power (beyond the 150,000 NATO troops occupying Afghanistan, of course), but at the same time very real concerns exist about the September vote, which by all accounts was one of the most crooked in recorded history.
Britain believed that then Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was an "armour-plated bullshitter", former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's communications chief Alistair Campbell was quoted as writing in 1998, The Guardian reported Thursday. The UK newspaper quoted Campbell as saying in a recently published diary "We had a meeting with [Ehud] Barak, who was OK but not everything he had been cracked up to be. He said he was pessimistic because Bibi was a total bullshitter."
"Tony Blair thought the Israelis bugged him during his first visit to the country," Campbell went on to write in the in the second volume of his diaries.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York bought $8.36 billion in Treasury debt on Friday, adding to the $312 billion the central bank has bought already since August.
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Former British PM says 'we have to get our head out of the sand' because Islamic Republic 'disagrees fundamentally with our way of life and will carry on unless met with determination and, if necessary, force'
"I say this to you with all of the passion I possibly can -- at some point the West has to get out of what I think is a wretched policy or posture of apology for believing that we are causing what the Iranians are doing, or what these extremists are doing," said Blair, who serves as the Quartet envoy to the Middle East.
Walking Away From Million-Dollar Mortgages
Whether it is their residence, a second home or a house bought as an investment, the rich have stopped paying the mortgage at a rate that greatly exceeds the rest of the population.
More than one in seven homeowners with loans in excess of a million dollars are seriously delinquent, according to data compiled for The New York Times by the real estate analytics firm CoreLogic.
Deadbeat Millionaires...
Video - Reagan behind the scenes on Iran Contra - Saturday Night Live
Starring the late Phil Hartman, who does a BRILLIANT job as Ronnie...
"The red countries are where we sell arms. The green countries are where we launder our money."
Don't skip it - This is fucking hilarious...
Keith Olbermann made his (unsurprising) disdain for outgoing Senator Joe Lieberman clear on his Wednesday show, calling Lieberman a "delusional liar" and saying, "good riddance."
Olbermann did a segment on the news conference Lieberman held, where he announced that he would not run for reelection in 2012 and compared himself to John F. Kennedy. But his real scorn for Lieberman emerged in all of his plugs for the segment before it aired.
In one of them, he said, "don't let the delusional liar door hit you in the delusional liar butt on the way out." In another, he said, "goodbye, Joe Lieberman, and good riddance." And in still another, he accused Lieberman of "lying even on the way out the door."
Policymakers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers. Unlike cities, the states are barred from seeking protection in federal bankruptcy court. Any effort to change that status would have to clear high constitutional hurdles because the states are considered sovereign.
Working Villages International Swadeshi, or "localized economics," is a concept developed by Mahatma Gandhi. At the beginning of the 20th century, India began importing cheap factory-made cloth from England, which forced thousands of local weavers and spinners out of work. The result was dire poverty and social chaos...
Federal regulators closed United Western Bank on Friday evening, ending the $2 billion thrift's long struggle to raise capital and survive. United Western is the state's largest bank failure since the collapse on April 10, 2009, of New Frontier Bank, a $1 billion bank in Greeley. The FDIC on Friday also took over Bank of Asheville, based in Asheville, N.C., with $195.1 million in assets, and CommunitySouth Bank and Trust, based in Easley, S.C., with $440.6 million in assets.
The liberal blog-o-sphere is a buzz this morning and it appears the spin is to blame it all on the Comcast merger. No one is talking about what Keith O said about Lyin Joe less than 24 hours before he got sacked. “don’t let the delusional liar door hit you in the delusional liar butt on the way out.” “goodbye, Joe Lieberman, and good riddance.” he accused Lieberman of “lying even on the way out the door.”
Linked for the USDA, which has apparently been forced to admit they are responsible for at least some of the mass bird deaths reported across America this winter.
Still players held out hope, because EwalletXpress were sticking with their “technical” issues as the reason for the unavailability to players, but why just US players? Clients of EwalletXpress started realizing after days and days of no change in their accounts that the days of EwalletXpress were coming to an end because the “big bad wolf” huffed and puffed and confiscated their money! That’s right, the Federal Government once again seized a payment processor and yes Virginia, kept all the players money!
The USDA's Wildlife Services Program, which contracts with farmers for bird control, said it used an avicide poison called DRC-1339 to cull a roost of 5,000 birds that were defecating on a farmer's cattle feed across the state line in Nebraska. But officials said the agency had nothing to do with large and dense recent bird kills in Arkansas and Louisiana.
A key congressional oversight committee announced Friday that it was opening an investigation into the basis of a decision by the Pentagon's health plan to deny a type of medical treatment to troops with brain injuries.
The ProPublica and NPR investigation also found that senior Pentagon officials have worried about the high price of the care, which can cost more than $50,000 per patient. Some studies estimate that as many as 400,000 troops have suffered traumatic brain injuries in the war zones, though only a small percentage of them would need a full-scale program of cognitive rehabilitation therapy.
In the second part of a special BMJ series, Brian Deer reveals a secret scheme to raise huge sums from a campaign, launched at a London medical school, that claimed links between MMR, autism, and bowel disease.
My response to the unexpected confirmation that ASSANGE & SHAMIR - DISINFORMATION AGENTS?, is reproduced below. This case once again underscores the fact that the beleaguered public, wildly searching for leaders and guidance among the alternate media and the various dissent-chiefs who dominate it, simply cannot trust anyone to be who they claim they are just because they play dissent.
It takes a great deal of time, money, and manpower to assemble such a vast body of knowledge about hundreds of millions of people. Hiring half the country as spies is not feasible; it takes a creative solution to cover these kinds of legal and resource gaps.
Enter Facebook. Originally conceived by Mark Zuckerberg et al as a means for college students and alumni to connect, the gargantuan social network has become a worldwide phenomenon. Its influence on human civilization has been remarkable, a prime example of the power of the internet and global interconnectedness. It has applications beyond count—from gaming to genealogy research to targeted marketing. As many people have learned one way or another, it can also be an incredible stalking tool.
In one case, several students apparently took off their clothes and were naked in the classroom. In the second incident, a boy and girl reportedly engaged in oral sex in front of their classmates.
Flint indicated that the suspended teacher, whose name was not released by the school district, was present for both of the incidents.
Both men were suspected, independently, of turning State secrets over to two top agents of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Steve J. Rosen and Keith Weissman who seemingly transmitted them to the Chargé d’Affairs of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Naor Gilon. The FBI investigation pinpointed the facts, but failed to qualify them. Were such secrets provided freely or as part of an information swap? Was espionage committed or was it a leak? Did the outing of these secrets damage the United States for the benefit of its Israeli ally?
No one should ever be discouraged from filing complaints in fear of lawsuit from the state. If this bill is way to do that. I hope it backfires. People have a right to redress their grievances if they feel they have a legitimate complaint. If this bill is an attempt to silence people so they will not file complaints against state agencies because they violated their constitutional rights. Then we can see abuses by the government with impunity if this bill becomes law. This bill must not make to the committee.
Physicist and the former ISRO chairman, U.R. Rao, has calculated that cosmic rays — which, unlike carbon emissions, cannot be controlled by human activity — have a much larger impact on climate change than The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims.
Announcing the failure of two days of negotiations, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said no new date for another meeting had been set. She blamed what the six consider unrealistic demands by Iran — an end to U.N. sanctions and agreement that Iran can continue to enrich — for the disappointing results.
Now, we may have a lot of reasons not to like Obama (and I don't) but his being a "love child" from the 60s shouldn't be one of them.
President Barack Obama has begun to look toward what is likely to be a tough reelection fight in 2012, and the political strategists around him are making clear that he must jettison what’s left of his modest reform agenda if he’s to have a chance.
One of the first items over the side is any approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that might, in any way, upset the powerful Israel Lobby. So, Obama is calling in many of the “usual suspects” to reframe his policy in a way that won’t make him a target of the Lobby, as Lawrence Davidson notes in this guest essay:
VOTERS are today being urged to lobby their MPs to back a bid to give the people of Britain a say on whether they want to stay in Europe.
YouGov poll finds 84% of British public agree that woods and forests should be kept in public ownership for future generations
Chicagoans shivered through the coldest weather in two years Friday. A morning low of -4 at O'Hare and -1 at Midway marked the first time city thermometer readings had dropped below zero in more than a year. A -3 or lower temperature hadn't occurred at O'Hare since January 16, 2009.
It was the most heavily snow-covered west and northwest suburbs which bore the brunt of the chill. Morning lows dropped to 14-below at Weather Bug sensors in McHenry County's Harvard, 13-below at De Kalb, 12-below at Rochelle, 10-below at South Elgin and 9-below at Algonquin, Schaumburg and Carpentersville.
Sicily’s Mount Etna roared back to life for several hours, bombarding its eastern slope with missiles of hot lava.
It's not just birds that are dying! Sad!
The Torah, after all, was supposed to be a light upon humanity. But when it becomes, thanks to those rabbis of Satan, a tool for genocide, there is obviously a huge catch-22 hanging over Judaism’s conscience.
Saman Mohammadi Truth Excavator
In anticipation of President Obama's State of the Union Address, representatives of both parties have reached out to each other and made special arrangements to sit together while the President delivers his speech. The symbolic gesture is seen as a sign that both parties have learned an important lesson about civility after the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona earlier this month.
People are blaming the abrupt departure of Keith Olbermann from MSNBC on that company’s merger with Comcast and Olbermann’s loss of the protection and patronage of Jeff Zucker, the former head of NBC programming. MSNBC says that the issue has nothing to do with Comcast.
It seems Olbermann is too extreme for US television. Webmaster's Commentary:
An Albuquerque jury handed down a not guilty verdict for the Seattle man who refused to show his ID to TSA officers at the Sunport. Phil Mocek was arrested in late 2009 after he wouldn't show his ID, and then used a camera to videotape an altercation with TSA officers. He was facing several charges, including failure to obey an officer and concealing his identity, but the jury found him not guilty on all four counts. A small victory! The worm turns.
Editor's Note: When in doubt . . . just make it up. Reuters
Concerns that the Federal Reserve could suffer losses on its massive bond holdings may have driven the central bank to adopt a little-noticed accounting change with huge implications: it makes insolvency much less likely...
"The Bureau of Prison's inhumane Communications Management Units have been operating without oversight or fair process for over four years. Under the Bush administration, it was startlingly clear that Muslims and political activists were to be treated as threats to national security, irrespective of any wrongdoing. Sadly, this [the Obama] administration seems to have embraced that notion as well and continues to deny fundamental rights to CMU prisoners."
Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Saeb Erekat says more than 100 countries will support a resolution at the UN Security Council against Israeli settlement projects.
An Oklahoma boy got in trouble during an assembly at Parkview Elementary when he made a simple hand gesture. No, not that one. The first grader just made the childhood symbol for a gun, pretending he was shooting. This is something we, at least guys, have always done.
Widely respected MSNBC commentators like Keith Olbermann, Rachael Maddow and Ed Schultz are brilliant and informed. They can’t possibly have missed the plight of the Palestinians. Like Helen Thomas they have had to censor themselves.
Curve Ball isn’t some anonymous Iraqi informant telling lies to the CIA. It isn’t even the professional liar working for CNN who inspired this piece. Curve Ball is the CIA. The CIA is the Lie Factory, the saturation of our news media with its highly-paid liars. It has to lie to conceal its massive failures in the game of its own invention. Created to prevent another Pearl Harbor, the charitable version is that it has failed to detect anything of importance, from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the Second Pearl Harbor by the Mossad. The real version is the CIA couldn’t keep the Soviet Union afloat anymore and participated in 911 with the Mossad. Like its Jewish sister squad, it is capable only of destroying people and foreign governments but not of one decent, moral job.
Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie will end his quest to prove President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii because it's against state law to release private documents, his office said today.
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