a mom against the einsteins enabling slaughter

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SHE ROCKS.

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I don't even want to think about this.

There was ample coverage of the loss of a US F-15 fighter jet over Libya Tuesday, and it always came with reassurances that the crew was safe. Less safe, however, were a group of Libyan civilians who came to the aid of one of the crew.

That’s because the civilians who met the plane’s weapons officer and offered him fruit juice while he waited to be rescued were attacked by US Marines during the brief ground incursion meant to rescue the crew. Some of the reports suggest the Marines arrived in a V-22 Osprey attack helicopter and opened fire on the crowd with it.

Six Libyan civilians were shot in the attack, including a young boy who local hospital officials say may lose his leg because of the attack. The weapons officer had been found in a sheep field and was met by the civilians, who were backers of the anti-Gadhafi rebellion.

The incident is news not just for the tragic outcome, but because despite the explicit UN prohibition on “occupation troops” being spun as a broad prohibition on ground troops, US Marines were indeed on the ground, in Libya, in a field full of sheep.

The pilot was initially picked up by rebel soldiers, who the Marines reported treated him “with dignity and respect” before handing him over to the troops. It does not appear there was any incident with regards to him. The Marines have yet to comment on the shootings in the recovery of the weapons officer.

The F-15 was flying out of Italy at the time of the crash, and officials are blaming a system malfunction. It is the first aircraft reported lost since the US and France started the Libyan War on Saturday. An F-15E Strike Eagle costs approximately $31 million.

I want a BATH in a REAL tub and I want it NOW.

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love, 99
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what is wrong with this picture? — UPDATING

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Hmmm?

U.S. President is warning Libyan leader that his forces must stop attacking innocent civilians or face military action.

If you can't answer this question instantly, I'm torn between ordering you away from my blog forever and begging you to live here.... [from 11am today]

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NOON-THIRTY UPDATE:

The French air force destroyed Libyan tanks and armored vehicles on Saturday, the first shots fired in a U.N.-mandated military intervention to protect civilians from attacks by Muammar Gaddafi's forces.

A French defense ministry official said "a number of tanks and armored vehicles" were destroyed in the region of Benghazi, with initial action focusing on stopping Gaddafi's forces from advancing on the rebels' eastern stronghold.

"Rebels"... pfeh....

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1:15 PM PDT UPDATE:

American warplanes, ships and submarines prepared to launch a furious assault on Libya's limited air defenses Saturday, clearing the way for European and other planes to enforce a no-fly zone designed to ground Moammar Gadahfi's air force and cripple his ability to inflict further violence on rebels, U.S. officials said.

"Rebels"... pfeh... talismanic words....

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Just a word about the multifarious other pushbutton revolutions in progress: People are being slaughtered and no UN mandates, no French and American airstrikes... pig shit smeared across the globe. Right now.

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7:05 PM PDT UPDATE:

The U.S. and European nations pounded Moammar Gadhafi's forces and air defenses with cruise missiles and airstrikes Saturday, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising that had seemed on the verge of defeat. Libyan state TV claimed 48 people had been killed in the attacks....

Fuck.

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MIDNIGHT PDT OH SHIT UPDATE:

Moscow regrets the attack from a range of European countries on Libya which is being conducted "with reference to the hastily adopted UN Security Council resolution," official spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich said on Saturday....

China regrets the multinational military strike launched against Libya, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

"China has noticed the latest development in Libya and regrets the military strike against Libya," Jiang Yu said, adding that China did not agree with resorting to force in international relations.

Part of me hopes this turns into a serious disagreement, but, of course, that's suicidal....

For the record, this might be the source of the downed plane in the "rebel" city that we were assuming was Gaddafi's and setting this whole attack in motion. MIGHT be. Sarkozy's trying to get France behind him again... baaaad poll numbers... but then... the French are NOT as gung ho behind their president's military adventurism as Americans are... hey... can I say "used to be" yet?

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love, 99
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turn OFF your tv

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I am NOT kidding. You turn it on to begin with because you want to be hypnotized. You don't want what they're hypnotizing you with, but you can't tell what that IS.

Contrary to a popular misconception — that hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep — contemporary research suggests that hypnotic subjects are fully awake and are focusing attention, with a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness. Subjects also show an increased response to suggestions.

And the repetition of sound bite memes is only the most obvious. There are malignant themes and stupefying cultural tropes and poison archetypes and symbolism and boatloads of id engagement and that immortal flicker rate, all working to turn even the most resistant personalities into completely compliant drones. It staves off the perception of the need to deal with difficulty, staves off dealing with difficulty—be it the mountain of laundry or the mountain of responsibility for making a good world. It is a big relief for people aching for respite from any number of unhappy pressures.

Well, so is a novel. So is knitting. So is tackling the uncomfortable problem and putting it behind you.

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love, 99
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i need to bring something to your attention

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I am not so sure that anyone in Libya was really that unhappy.... I'm trying mightily to stay off the pushbutton revolution circuit, not fall for it and not knock myself out to sniff down every last whiff of evidence to present to you that things are NOT as they seem to those in consensus trance, those listening to the bleatings from headlines anywhere and any way they seep into any aspect of consciousness... usually functionally subliminally. I want to remind you that we are no longer a nation of people who will leap to discern this sort of thing. I want to confess to you that one of my favorite sites has so bitten into this Spreading Democracy 2.0 crap that I cannot even bear to click-in to look at the blather... from a really intelligent bunch....

Don't mistake my avoidance of losing my cookies for apathy, that's all.

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Give the money to WikiLeaks for blowing the whistle and for causing the controllers to start pushing buttons to distract us utterly from WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning, before our heads stop spinning.

The celeb-studded shows were part of the extravagant lifestyle of the dictator's sons, whose splashy parties and out-of-control spending have angered their countrymen, many of whom wallow in poverty as the Gadhafi clan benefits from the country's oil riches.

Yeah, well, if they think ousting their goofball dictator and his over-the-top sons is going to improve things, they're in for a shock.

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love, 99
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at least it will be obvious now even to diehards

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I mean, I don't like admitting I know people who go there every day for their news.

The Huffington Post is privately owned by its two co-founders, Huffington and Kenneth Lerer, as well as investors. AOL's statement said the directors of each company and shareholders of the Huffington Post have already approved the [sale to AOL], which is expected to be completed by the middle of the year.

Originally a politics blog aimed at Democrats, the Huffington Post branched out into celebrity coverage and turned itself into one of the biggest pieces of real estate in online news media in the US, rapidly overtaking more established media organisations such as the Washington Post by deftly utilising the internet to exploit untapped markets.

Huffington has said that her site made a profit in 2010 for the first time. The New York Times reported that Huffington Post executives estimate that the site will generate $60m in revenue this year, compared with $31m in 2010.

Maybe now people will grok that this is MSM we're talkin'... brain sucking mass hypnosis... brought to you by space lizards... sliming you from every corner of "civilization", INCLUDING the intertubes.

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love, 99
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hey! you know what? BULLSHIT.

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If you follow the link at the link, you will bump into a twenty-minute video introductory to a series of interviews on Peak Oil and a Changing Climate. This is sort of a mashup of the gang to be trotted out for us over the coming couple months. We will be hearing from Richard Heinberg, Nicole Foss, James Howard Kunstler, Dmitry Orlov, Noam Chomsky, Bill McKibben, Greg Palast, Thom Hartmann, Jean Laherrère, and Mike Ruppert... assuming we can muster the juju to put up with it, that is.

Listen. I'm SICK of progressives. I'm sick of their fucking video mashups and lectures and documentaries and endless bursts of "scholarship" that has a hard time standing up to real scrutiny and preaching to the choir and their everlasting half-hearted petition drives and their ever-lasting whole-hearted fund raising efforts... their goddam motor mouths... their frickin' esteemed positions in major universities and in the media, ALL of it. I mean, do NOT EVEN get me started on the comments appending all these.

DO they think we are so stupid as to not notice that they never DO anything to deserve our esteem? Our time? Our ears? Our eyeprints? Do they think they can just keep up with all this palaver for the rest of time... which, granted, isn't long...? I don't think a one of these people, except maybe Palast, could ever be induced to ACT, to LEAD, to MAKE this stuff get handled. This palaver has been coming at us without much in the way of letup for a decade or two, no? WHEN do they put it together that jawing in front of the masses doesn't CUT it? They expect to bask in their celebrity and punditry without any ACTUAL risk, even though they welcome any amount of PERCEIVED risk. Inflates the esteem quotient considerably... which keeps the donations trickling in.

WHY would all the air have gone out of our big push to clean up our act? BECAUSE these fuckers who never shut up never PUT up either. BECAUSE they play games and pile on bogus "science" to try to "prove" that which cannot be proven, but is felt by everyone, is KNOWN to everyone to be true. We're turning our planet into a sewer and it can't support us or most living things much longer if we don't drastically change our ways.

Peak oil is a big so what. It might NEVER actually peak because there very well may be limitless supplies of abiotic oil, but that is moot, moot, moot, moot, moot, because it's FILTHY shit and has to stop. All these "scientists" who have to play around with nothing-close-to-the-truth because the REAL physics must remain IGNORED by the mainstream would better serve by taking long walks off short piers. We. Don't. Need. Oil.

We. Do. Need. To. Clean. Up. The. Filth. And. Squalor. And. Quit. Extinctifying. Living. Things.

NOT rhetorically. The pen is no longer mightier than the sword. The mouth is no substitute for the feet. People VOTE with their feet and if you are watching the feet of this crowd—again, with the possible exception of Palast—you will find them no further away from their desks than yours are right now.

THIS DOES NOT—AND WILL NEVER—FAZE ACTUALITY.

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For any of you who are following my doctoral work in Out There, we have a particularly entertaining interview to listen to tonight. For any of you pooh-poohing it as fairy dust or conspiracy, not doing your thought experimenting to bust open that stanky old cell wherein your brain is molding, just ignore this little link. Not your bag. Not your bag.

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the short answer is no

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So is the long one. Please. I think they blew up the Gulf of Mexico purely to test their powers of hypnosis. Can we get millions to stay wriggling uncomfortably in a toxic environment and keep everyone ignoring their plight? Can we still sell seafood that's poison to people? If not, why not? Who are the ones smart enough to steer clear despite our mesmerism? What works then? More, better, faster, harder mesmerism, or a massive mislabeling campaign?

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When we know damn well the poison is not gone.

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UPDATE:

And so does our government....

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love, 99
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at least FIVE leaks [blowouts] now identified in the gulf

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YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS LINK.

There are three "leaks" so far publicly associated with Deepwater Horizon / Thunder Horse... plus TWO more... and it's altogether conceivable you missed the full impact of my crazed investigations yesterday, so go back and follow those links too... OR listen to the barnswoggle being put out on yer TVs.

Your call.

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BP says approximately 210,000 gallons of oil are spilling into the Gulf per day. But John Amos, a geologist at the West Virginia-based nonprofit SkyTruth, says that at least 1.1 million gallons of oil is leaking out of the well every day. His calculation is based on early NASA images of the slick that showed it covering 2,200 square miles of the Gulf, and on the estimated thickness of oil needed for the slick to be visible from space. "If it really is just 210,000 and they can't handle that—you've got to be kidding me," says Amos, who has tracked the changing estimates of the spill on his blog. "One of the world's biggest oil companies plus the Coast Guard has been beaten by 210,000 gallons a day—do they really want us to think that?"

But even this figure may be on the low end. Under pressure, BP for the first time released video of the sea floor spill site this week. Steven Wereley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, analyzed the tape and told NPR this week that the oil flow is likely closer to 3 million gallons a day. If that's the case, the situation in the Gulf would equal more than two Exxon Valdez spills every week. The Exxon Valdez incident was, until now, the worst oil spill disaster in US history.

And the absolute worst-case-scenario? According to government data on daily production at another Gulf well, the BP spill could spew 6 million gallons per day if the wellhead that's currently restricting the flow breaks.

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I still want to know WHAT externality would cause the oil to gush SO catastrophically if the companies stopped APPLYING the pressure to keep their reservoirs from being fouled...? I don't GET it. Yes, there would still be considerable problem with oil blurping up from the fistulae, as it were, caused by all the drill holes, but it seems to me this would be a much more relaxed and far slower release of crude into the Gulf. No? And wouldn't it be easier to get at these breaks and plug them with balloons until something more sturdy can be applied?

Did they EVER have a way to soundly plug these puppies once they were done with them?

I'M TRYING TO SAY THAT I THINK THIS MESS COULD BE MITIGATED IMMEDIATELY AND STOPPED ALTOGETHER IF THEY QUIT WITH THE BACK PRESSURE ON ALL THE RIGS.

Have I got the concept wrong?

I do KNOW that means giving up their precious oil there, but, well... uhm...?

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I HAVE BEEN DREADING THIS THE MOST.

I have not wanted to say it because, actually, Cubans are not ultimately worth more or less than anyone else, but it's just so awful that we are almost certainly going to slime them so hard they can't get back up, after all these decades of trying to starve them. They SO do not deserve this. I haven't been able to make myself go over to Granma to see what they're saying yet... and I've been thinking about it for weeks.

Maybe I oughta just take a slug of brandy and do it now....

I'll get back to you on it.

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Well, it seems I have girded myself for nothing. Fidel is griping about us being the ones who sunk the South Korean ship and majorly griping about Israel and our treatment of Iran... and the possible health risks of cell phones.

I probably should have married him.

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oh, everything

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Scott Horton of Harper's talks with Scott Horton of AntiWar about lots and lots of stuff. The flotilla massacre, the ignoble treatment of Helen Thomas, and, oh, torture.

Harper's Scott is fence sitting, doing his sound-even-tempered-about-it thing, which by now is BULLSHIT, but he says some good stuff in here anyway.

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Actually, some hours later, I'm losing my feeling of equanimity about Harper's Horton's lawyerspeak. I notice that lawyers, after about the age of 45, become incapable of speaking like PEOPLE anymore, EVEN when not in the office, let alone court. They turn determinedly sophist in there somewhere and can't seem to bust out of it. I've been trying manfully to endure this crap out of him, whether in interviews or on his blog, because he's dealing with important stuff, but he's pissing me off more and more with this... and it's making it so I'm going to have to stop wasting time on him.

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I saw it trying to happen to me and I got the fuck on out, and that's before I started in with the Zen stuff. I can not condemn people for needing their incomes so badly they can't cut their noses off despite their faces QUITE to the extent I do, as I have too many times to count anymore, but IF they are going to stay chained to that income, it is their DUTY not to let this happen, despite the pressure... or they're NOT worth anyone's attention.

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For Immediate Release, June 10, 2010

Twenty-Seven to Go on Trial for Protesting the Obama Administration’s Failure to Close Guantanamo, Plan for Indefinite Detention, and Refusal to Prosecute Torture

Contact:

Jeremy Varon — M: 732-979-3119 — varon@aol.com
Helen Schietinger — M: 202-344-5762 — h.schietinger@verizon.net

WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, June 14 twenty-seven will face trial stemming from arrests at the U.S. Capitol on January 21, 2010 — the date by which President Obama had promised the closure of the Guantanamo detention camp. The human rights activists will hold a press conference outside the courthouse defending their protest, condemning the Obama administration’s continuation of Bush policies, and explaining their use in court of the “necessity defense.” The press conference will be held Monday, June 14th at 8:30 am, across from the Federal District Courthouse (333 Constitution Avenue, NW).

On January 21, twenty-seven people dressed as Guantanamo prisoners were arrested on the steps of the Capitol holding banners reading “Broken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives.” Inside the Capitol Rotunda, at the location where deceased presidents lie in state, fourteen activists were arrested performing a memorial service for three men who died at Guantanamo in 2006. Initially reported as suicides, the deaths may have been — as recent evidence suggests — the result of the men being tortured to death (see Scott Horton, “Murders at Guantanamo", March 2010, Harper's).

“The continued operation of the prison camp at Guantanamo is unacceptable,” Matthew W. Daloisio of Witness Against Torture. “If Guantanamo was a foreign policy liability and stain on the rule of law on day one of the Obama presidency, it surely is eighteen months later.”

“The deaths at Guantanamo show how barbaric US policies have been,” says Helen Schietinger, a defendant in the trial. “We are still waiting for accountability for those who designed and carried out torture policies under President Bush. Obama can’t restore the rule of law if he doesn’t enforce the law.”

The human rights activists plan to mount a “necessity defense” before Judge Russell Canan. “We will be arguing that we broke the law only after exhausting all legal means of opposing a much larger crime—the indefinite detention, mistreatment, and torture of men at Guantanamo and other US prisons,” says Jerica Arents of Chicago, Illinois, another the defendants.

The January protests were the culmination of a twelve-day fast for justice and an end to torture organized by Witness Against Torture in Washington, DC. More than 100 people participated in the fast and daily actions throughout the nation’s Capital.

Futile Gesture #38,423....

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we're not the only ones they brainwash

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I was just reminded by Old Uncle Dave of how snippets of information you don't even think you see or hear become embedded in your consciousness anyway. We're all pretty damn good at seeing it in, say, an AP piece that has anything to do with Iran. They never fail to mention that the West believes Iran is trying to build a nuke, but very frequently fail to mention that Iran denies it, or any other intensely salient facts surrounding that outrageous bit they stick in everywhere they can. The same thing is true whenever almost anyone is talking about Putin. You almost never even see his name without his old KGB employment mentioned near it... as though this, of itself, is all the proof anyone would ever need to believe heart and soul that Putin is the devil himself, going to do bad evil every chance he gets.

Yer kid could hear somebody say that one table over at MacDonald's, catch the tone, and right there be stamped with the certainty that someone named Putin is a rat fink people like us don't want to abide. Or it might not even be a kid. It could be any one of millions of dirt ignorant Americans hearing the authority of that tone, that audible sneer at the letters K-G-B and take it into their heads that that Russian guy is evil, evil, evil. No clue who he is, what he's done, what the KGB was, none of it, but that dire tone sends the name "Putin" into enemy space in their brains... when they didn't even know they were listening!

How much the more so when, say, Barbara Walters is blathering it in the background on The View over the beauty parlor tv? Or while you're channel surfing on your car radio, looking for some goddam music between the incessant talk shows... stuff you think is shit to begin with still flows into your brain when you don't even know yer paying attention! In fact, if you were paying attention you stood a chance of recognizing it as bunk, or looking it up and thinking about it to decide if it was bunk. It's bad enough when it's coming in neutral, let alone from ANYONE who might remotely be deemed an authority figure, someone higher up the food chain than you are. For most people, this includes anyone with a job in the mainstream media... even if they are from "the other side".

You don't seem to understand that your mind is a couple bajillion times smarter than you are and sucks up information you don't even know you "know" until it is waaaaaay too late.

Same with the space lizards in Washington, D.C.

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I am very staunchly going to bed, and going to will myself to dream of Rachel Corrie's smile, just cry in my sleep for how the people aboard her namesake must be feeling as they defy the Israeli warships trailing them into Gaza. I can't stay up all night bashing my fear and loathing against every surface in my house again.

It doesn't fix anything.

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the state of israel needs to be moved

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ALL of them.
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Another American citizen, Huwaida Arraf, beaten badly... and refused consular services.
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AND TURN OFF YOUR FUCKING TV FOR GOOD.

You stay hypnotized if you don't turn off your tv. Don't just turn it off. Smash it to smithereens.
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ARE you getting anything like this on MSNBC, CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC or even PBS?

YOU ARE NOT. YOU ARE GETTING NONSTOP EVIL LIES.

You can't wake up with that blather ANYWHERE within your hearing.
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the nazis' thing with the occult probably isn't just history

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Quite a while ago I read Dusty Sklar's Nazis and the Occult and I'm here to tell you, this Peter Levenda guy has gone way more deeply into it and taken it quite a bit further.

This interview took place in February 2009, and there are some good points in here about the congruences between extreme socialism and fascism, which might help some of you laboring over the supposed confusion of Tea Partiers, and he makes a couple good points about 9/11, but my favorite points are when he mentions that this is all "theater" and he's very clear about the problem with basing your notions of reality on a consensus with your peers. So DO try to give this a listen. Right click it and maybe download it to yer iPod or whatever it is you carry around for plugging yer ears.

Most entertaining moment is the suggestion that John McCain may be a victim of mind control. I'm here goin' duh, duh, duh! But, er, it's more prevalent than just him. It's everywhere.
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this is not a csi episode

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California just made it into the top ten rankings for governments most likely to fail... beating out Iceland. Am I missing out on news of protests and riots? Has the Governator stepped down?

Or are we riveted to CSI: Federal Reserve, starring Alan Grayson, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Ron Paul, and featuring the ever-lovable old lefty, Bernie Saunders?

The Federal Reserve keeps its power
By Silla Brush — 05/13/10 06:00 AM ET

Populist lawmakers are failing to convert public outrage at Wall Street into tighter controls on the Federal Reserve.

Despite attracting blame for the financial meltdown and great recession, the central bank is emerging with its powers mostly intact and free of political interference.

Instead of submitting to a chokehold by Congress, the Fed is walking away largely unscathed from fights with lawmakers from the left and right.

As Congress revamps Wall Street regulations, Democrats and Republicans have sharply criticized the Fed and its chairman, Ben Bernanke, for lapses in the run-up to the crisis. They have lashed out at the bank for committing trillions in taxpayer dollars to bail out Wall Street.

In January, Bernanke received the fewest votes in support of his confirmation of any Fed chairman.

But a bipartisan consensus is emerging to protect the Fed’s independence and shore up the private market’s confidence in the central bank.

The Senate approved two amendments this week that are victories for the Fed, and lawmakers are on the way to passing legislation that houses a new consumer protection regulator at the central bank.

“I think there is a broad recognition of the benefits of having an independent central bank,” said Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) last week scaled back a popular amendment requiring new audits of the bank, amid warnings from the White House and Fed that it would compromise the independence of the bank and threaten monetary policy.

On Tuesday, the Senate approved, 96-4, the modified amendment, which would require a one-time audit of the central bank’s emergency lending during the crisis but not provide broader audit power of monetary policy. Shortly afterward, senators voted down, 37-62, a much tougher amendment from Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) that mirrored legislation the House passed in December.

The Fed audit issue was a rallying cry for liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), a longtime critic of the bank and author of the recent book End the Fed, is the main supporter of heightened audits. Paul criticized Sanders for modifying the amendment.

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), the other main supporter of the House legislation, applauded the Senate for passing the modified amendment.

Grayson said he would push for the stronger version to be included in the final bill, but said the Sanders effort is a “significant step.”

On Wednesday, the Fed won its case for retaining broad supervisory oversight of roughly 5,000 banks. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) had pushed for limiting the Fed’s supervision to bank holding companies with at least $50 billion in assets.

Dodd wanted to leave regulation of smaller banks to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

The Senate overruled Dodd and approved, 90-9, an amendment sponsored by Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) that would retain the Fed’s current power over smaller holding companies and roughly 800 state member banks. Dodd opposed the amendment.

“This is an amendment ensuring the nation’s monetary policy is connected to Main Street,” Klobuchar said on the Senate floor.

Bernanke argued a similar case in congressional testimony.

“We don’t want to just be looking at Wall Street,” Bernanke said in April before the Joint Economic Committee. “We need to look at the whole economy, and not only for monetary policy purposes, but also for financial stability purposes.”

The Fed’s argument was aided by vigorous lobbying from the American Bankers Association (ABA), Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and other financial groups.

“This is of absolutely critical importance to the community banks,” said Bert Ely, a banking analyst. “It’s more than just the Fed.”

After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate is also on the path to setting up a new consumer financial protection regulator housed at the central bank.

The Obama administration and full House both supported the creation of a standalone agency. That idea met stiff resistance in the Senate, even as some Democrats continue to push the proposal.

Instead, Dodd outlined a bill creating a largely independent and autonomous consumer office inside the Fed. Senators had also discussed placing the office at the Treasury Department or FDIC.

Crandall said the votes are evidence of a “deep tradition” of lawmakers recognizing the value of an independent Fed.

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What? Are you buying this?
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THE TIME HAS COME TO STOP BEING POLITE.
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beware the ides of march

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You know what? Today is the PERFECT day to be reconsidering this....

Yep.

Yessirreebob.

It is.

It SO helps to understand just how pumped full of shit you have been for your WHOLE life, how perfidious even the BEST education has been in America—the world—for SO long... and WHO is responsible for this... the issue of whom jumps upon an agglomeration of used plastic bottles resembling distantly a catamaran in search of the greater glory of plutocracy itself....
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pickled americans

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Not a frickin' word on the tv news... not even part of one.

As you know, if I'm at my parents'... er, my mother's... house, there is NO escaping the fascist media blaring to the point of vibrating the walls in the other room. Not a damn word.
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this is already a bona fide obummer

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We should be watching like hawks. If they won't take him down, the game is so totally on.

Don't miss Greenwald's take....

pardon me while i vent

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The word "faux" is pronounced FŌ. Like "foe". I'm ready to tear my hair out with all the supposedly literate bozos who try to make it rhyme with "fox" in the midst of their little hate poems to stupid Republicans. I'm beyond tearing my hair out that there is such a news channel and that the stuff they air is aired, but it's having precisely its desired effect, which is outright NOT limited to keeping thick-witted exceptionalists complaisant. It's designed to make formerly lucid people go as batshit idiotic while the powers do whatever the hell they want with the whole world. Congratulations "Liberal Blogosphere". You are hereby pronounced as deluded as those you ridicule.

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aldous huxley speaking pertinently from 1962

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After all, terror has been too useful to too many for too long.