the einsteins at PNAC are at it again

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This has heavily to do with why I'm trying mightily not to obsess on the pushbutton revolutions in full swing right now.

In a distinct echo of the tactics they pursued to encourage US intervention in the Balkans and Iraq, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives appealed Friday for the United States and NATO to "immediately" prepare military action to help bring down the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and end the violence that is believed to have killed well over a thousand people in the past week.

The appeal, which came in the form of a letter signed by 40 policy analysts, including more than a dozen former senior officials who served under President George W. Bush, was organised and released by the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), a two-year-old neo-conservative group that is widely seen as the successor to the more-famous – or infamous – Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

Warning that Libya stood "on the threshold of a moral and humanitarian catastrophe", the letter, which was addressed to President Barack Obama, called for specific immediate steps involving military action, in addition to the imposition of a number of diplomatic and economic sanctions to bring "an end to the murderous Libyan regime".

In particular, it called for Washington to press NATO to "develop operational plans to urgently deploy warplanes to prevent the regime from using fighter jets and helicopter gunships against civilians and carry out other missions as required; (and) move naval assets into Libyan waters" to "aid evacuation efforts and prepare for possible contingencies;" as well as "(e)stablish the capability to disable Libyan naval vessels used to attack civilians."

I know the place of their birth and it ain't in the GORGEOUS courage and transcendent love of the people rising and being slaughtered for it. No, no, no it ain't. I'm trying not to talk about it too much because I think I might go postal from more people reporting as though this were a sporting event and more citizens waxing so smugly confused about it all.

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hopes for foreclosures to start ramping up again

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I have a really bad headache.

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He picks the weirdest things to try to keep up appearances with.

Caught between their boss’ anti-lobbyist rhetoric and the reality of governing, President Barack Obama’s aides often steer meetings with lobbyists to a complex just off the White House grounds — and several of the lobbyists involved say they believe the choice of venue is no accident.

It allows the Obama administration to keep these lobbyist meetings shielded from public view — and out of Secret Service logs kept on visitors to the White House and later released to the public.

There are a growing number of wuwu types stumping for us to forget our government and start arranging new ways to handle things that just completely leaves them out. I originally thought that might be a more palatable approach and leave us in better shape than with a just straight up revolution, but that it would require more eye opening than I think the nation is prepared to sustain. It just hit me how much WORK it would be too. So. It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen, despite items about deaths in our Middle East melee and everything you ever wanted to know about the Oscars but were afraid to ask popping up side-by-side in the MSM, to include here on the tubes, you fucking filthy debauched swine.

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count olaf keeps popping into my head whenever i think of this

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Don't ask me to explain myself. Either you see it or you don't.

Old Uncle Dave left the Lendman linky about the scene in Egypt, which I think you should read from start to finish, but I lifted the bits I found most salient for us to consider:

— universal rights weren't specified nor were free and fair elections defined; Washington won't tolerate either anywhere, including at home ...

As part of Washington's Greater Middle East Project, [Obama's real agenda] includes neutralizing opponents, securing unchallengeable imperial control, preventing democracy, rigging elections to assure it, militarizing the region strategically, exploiting its resources and populations, orchestrating events covertly, and deciding how and when they play out.

In Egypt and throughout the region, they look similar to US-orchestrated color revolutions in Serbia (the 1990s prototype), Georgia (Rose), Ukraine (Orange), Myanmar (Saffron), Tibet (Crimson), Iran (Green), and currently perhaps Tunisia (Jasmine), and elsewhere in the Middle East, color-coded or not.

They all have a common thread: what the Pentagon calls "full spectrum dominance" for total global, space, sub-surface and information control. Whether it succeeds, however, remains uncertain given America's declining world influence and stature, including on Cairo streets. ...

— for sure no democracy according to Reuters quoting a National Security Council participant saying:

"What the US isn't saying publicly is that it's putting its power behind (Egypt's) generals. The goal is to stack the deck in favor of the status quo — a scenario that removes Mubarak, yet is otherwise more about continuity than change."

In other words, Obama's "orderly transition democracy," substitutes rhetoric for constructive change neither he nor others in Washington will tolerate. As a result, people power faces imperial Washington and Egypt's military, united against populist change. ...

Allied with Washington, the Pentagon and US intelligence, [Egypt's military] supports power, not populist change, a dark reality street protesters better grasp to know what's coming from a post-Mubarak regime. Unless challenged, promised reforms will leave entrenched policies in place, enforcing predatory capitalism with police state harshness, what Americans also endure under friendly-face leaders.

Lendman advises the people of Egypt not to just pack up and go home, but to see this through to avoid being nailed. Yes. They'll have to lose many thousands more or rally many millions more before Washington backs off.

There is NO doubt about that.

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It seems at least some protestors are not done, but the army is sure trying to make them be done... and people have been cleaning up as though it's done... and partying as though it's done....

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i do not doubt it

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Except Mubarak isn't taking it lying down. I look for him to be assassinated very soon. This repeated unleashing of thugs, whether uniformed or plain clothes, and looting and burning and terrorizing, is all about wresting his dictatorship back from the puppet masters who want to retire him. Leaving aside the part about how the puppet masters have no business using the people to accomplish their ends, now that they have, Mubarak STILL is slaughtering people to keep power.

If you drop all the craziness being whipped up and complicating things, the bald fact is that the power elite want Suleiman and they are going to get him. I believe there is a slim chance the people will be able to change that, but in case they do, the power elite have ElBaradei lined up.

Any way you slice it, it's awful, EXCEPT for the beauty of the Egyptians standing up against this level of existential terror, and despite the despicableness of those it benefits the most, Mubarak must go, for EVERYONE'S sake. He does not seem to be willing to ACTUALLY budge while he yet breathes, so they're going to have to fix that fast... unless, of course, they PROFIT from his extermination on the way out.

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No. Really.

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They will have found someone destitute willing to die to make his family rich, promising to shoot him before the police can get their hands on him, and Mubarak's declaration that he will die on Egyptian soil will come to pass.

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murderating fuck

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In a joint committee meeting on fugitives in October 2005 [LINK] in Tel Aviv between Shaul Mofaz, the then-Israeli defence minister, and Nasser Youssef, the PA minister of interior, the PA was asked to kill al-Madhoun.

Mofaz: “[…] Hassan Madhoun, we know his address and Rasheed Abu Shabak [chief of the Preventative Security Organisation in Gaza] knows that. Why don't you kill him? Hamas fired [Qassam rockets] because of the elections and this is a challenge to you and a warning to Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas, the PA president].”

Youssef: “We gave instructions to Rasheed [Abu Shabak] and will see.”

Mofaz: “Since we spoke, he has been planning an operation, and that's four weeks ago, and we know that he wants to strike Qarni or Erez [another border crossing between Gaza and Israel]. He is not Hamas and you can kill him.”

Youssef: “We work, the country is not easy, our capabilities are limited, and you haven't offered anything.”

Mofaz: “I understand that nothing has been accomplished in the [Gaza] Strip.”

Less then a month after this meeting, on November 1, 2005, al-Madhoun was killed in his car by a missile fired from an Israeli Apache helicopter over the skies of Gaza. The attack also killed a wanted Hamas activist and wounded three other people.

The very next day, Mofaz, who by that time was in Washington, pledged to ease the lives of Palestinians and to pursue peacemaking with President Abbas.

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oh, well, now they've got my attention

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Salient as heck.

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if you won't take it from me

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Maybe you'll take it from the irascible old fuck who's been at this the longest?

Bradley Manning didn't do it, and they're not going to take the intertubes away from you. No way.

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yes, whut do they want this information for?

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I can't think of any use to which it could be put by good guys. I fail to see how it makes us more secure or how it contributes to amity among nations. I can, on the other hand, see clearly how it would create the ability to force government officials to do whatever the bearer of such information wants, and how it could keep good puppets from political threat. I don't think you should fool yourself this behavior is limited to foreign governments and candidates. If you have this information on people, you can frame them for dastardly deeds with impunity. You have total control.

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i've been thinking this for quite a while

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That the so-called PIIIGGS are not bankrupt. Their BANKS are. The only one that has dealt with it properly is Iceland. You should really listen to this Keiser Report. It puts things in perspective.

Another thing I noticed is that RT's report on the Putin interview with Larry King used a translator with a deep voice and a smooth translation rather than the geeky-voiced sputterer CNN used. Hmmmmm. I mean, I've only seen some snippets, still hoping the whole thing comes up, but already we are seen to be using the same low tricks we use on Ahmadinejad... the old crap about finding the most unflattering images of people we don't like to help foster negative impressions.

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For those on the feed and any who have been interested especially in certain recent developments, I did quite a few updates last night, so you might want to click in and skim down the page for thrilling and engaging things you'd have missed without this courtesy notice. I mean, if I'm going to be a maniac, I should at least mention it....

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today in that hopey changey thing not working out for us

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Of course we already knew all this, right?

Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe
by David Corn
Wed Dec. 1, 2010 2:47 PM PST

A WikiLeaks cable shows that when Spain considered a criminal case against ex-Bush officials, the Obama White House and Republicans got really bipartisan.

In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. An April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department—one of the 251,287 cables obtained by WikiLeaks—details how the Obama administration, working with Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution.

The previous month, a Spanish human rights group called the Association for the Dignity of Spanish Prisoners had requested that Spain's National Court indict six former Bush officials for, as the cable describes it, "creating a legal framework that allegedly permitted torture." The six were former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; David Addington, former chief of staff and legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney; William Haynes, the Pentagon's former general counsel; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy; Jay Bybee, former head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel; and John Yoo, a former official in the Office of Legal Counsel. The human rights group contended that Spain had a duty to open an investigation under the nation's "universal jurisdiction" law, which permits its legal system to prosecute overseas human rights crimes involving Spanish citizens and residents. Five Guantanamo detainees, the group maintained, fit that criteria.

Soon after the request was made, the US embassy in Madrid began tracking the matter. On April 1, embassy officials spoke with chief prosecutor Javier Zaragoza, who indicated that he was not pleased to have been handed this case, but he believed that the complaint appeared to be well-documented and he'd have to pursue it. Around that time, the acting deputy chief of the US embassy talked to the chief of staff for Spain's foreign minister and a senior official in the Spanish Ministry of Justice to convey, as the cable says, "that this was a very serious matter for the USG." The two Spaniards "expressed their concern at the case but stressed the independence of the Spanish judiciary."

Two weeks later, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) and the embassy's charge d'affaires "raised the issue" with another official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The next day, Zaragoza informed the US embassy that the complaint might not be legally sound. He noted he would ask Cándido Conde-Pumpido, Spain's attorney general, to review whether Spain had jurisdiction.

On April 15, Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), who'd recently been chairman of the Republican Party, and the US embassy's charge d'affaires met with the acting Spanish foreign minister, Angel Lossada. The Americans, according to this cable, "underscored that the prosecutions would not be understood or accepted in the US and would have an enormous impact on the bilateral relationship" between Spain and the United States. Here was a former head of the GOP and a representative of a new Democratic administration (headed by a president who had decried the Bush-Cheney administration's use of torture) jointly applying pressure on Spain to kill the investigation of the former Bush officials. Lossada replied that the independence of the Spanish judiciary had to be respected, but he added that the government would send a message to the attorney general that it did not favor prosecuting this case.

The next day, April 16, 2009, Attorney General Conde-Pumpido publicly declared that he would not support the criminal complaint, calling it "fraudulent" and political. If the Bush officials had acted criminally, he said, then a case should be filed in the United States. On April 17, the prosecutors of the National Court filed a report asking that complaint be discontinued. In the April 17 cable, the American embassy in Madrid claimed some credit for Conde-Pumpido's opposition, noting that "Conde-Pumpido's public announcement follows outreach to [Government of Spain] officials to raise USG deep concerns on the implications of this case."

Still, this did not end the matter. It would still be up to investigating Judge Baltasar Garzón—a world-renowned jurist who had initiated previous prosecutions of war crimes and had publicly said that former President George W. Bush ought to be tried for war crimes—to decide whether to pursue the case against the six former Bush officials. That June—coincidentally or not—the Spanish Parliament passed legislation narrowing the use of "universal jurisdiction." Still, in September 2009, Judge Garzón pushed ahead with the case.

The case eventually came to be overseen by another judge who last spring asked the parties behind the complaint to explain why the investigation should continue. Several human rights groups filed a brief urging this judge to keep the case alive, citing the Obama administration's failure to prosecute the Bush officials. Since then, there's been no action. The Obama administration essentially got what it wanted. The case of the Bush Six went away.

Back when it seemed that this case could become a major international issue, during an April 14, 2009, White House briefing, I asked press secretary Robert Gibbs if the Obama administration would cooperate with any request from the Spaniards for information and documents related to the Bush Six. He said, "I don't want to get involved in hypotheticals." What he didn't disclose was that the Obama administration, working with Republicans, was actively pressuring the Spaniards to drop the investigation. Those efforts apparently paid off, and, as this WikiLeaks-released cable shows, Gonzales, Haynes, Feith, Bybee, Addington, and Yoo owed Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thank-you notes.

Spectacular.

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HUNNERTS OF WIKILEAKS MIRRORS....

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reminder of the depths of perfidy, sinking to which is second nature

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I have heard alternative researchers bitching about how these shows always manage to muddy up their work, even while purporting to uphold it. In fact, I am beginning to notice these productions following so closely on the heels of each new bit put out by these researchers there can't be much doubt that it's the old offers-of-mainstreamizing-the-rebels-to-neutralize-them thing at work. It's sickening how well it works.

I have linked here another exploration of Tesla's stuff that I feel is more edifying than confusing because we find ourselves in the middle of yet another spectacular display of how perfidious billionaires mindfuck the public out of getting the clue, out of advancing into the clean air of actuality. I'm pretty sure this is a completely useless workout of my mangled finger to point, but, hell, maybe something herein or herewith can spark an ah-ha in someone somewhere on Planet Earth.

You never can tell.

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HUNNERTS OF WIKILEAKS MIRRORS....

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if you're too mindfucked to discern

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Might I recommend a small purchase to you?

DON'T KID YOURSELF: Every filthy oligarch on planet earth has it memorized, and the whole reason it was translated was so that WE could fight them. It works even better for the altruistic than it does for the selfish... whenever one manages to rouse himself from his shiftless complacency, that is....

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HUNNERTS OF WIKILEAKS MIRRORS....

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secrets of the man-sized safe

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Think about it. You know what that's about. You do.

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maybe i'm being too cryptic

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I am up past my eyeballs with 'the world' and I try to go off and pay attention to my doctoral degree in Out There, my bodhisattva gig where I find out what people think and how they think and get enough understanding to be able to speak their lingo, and suddenly all that's coming up in my little universe of Out There specialists is THE most unbelievable crap. Some exploitative old witch in Missouri and some UTTER charlatan whose name is known in bliss ninny circles and I'm ready to start batting buildings into the sky in the best tradition of Popeye AFTER his spinach. We are doomed if these people are the ones we must rely on. The ninny exploiters AND the humanity exploiters.

Nato reaches missile shield deal
Alliance agrees to expand Europe-based defence system, but bows to Turkish concerns over naming Iran as a threat.
Last Modified: 20 Nov 2010 | 04:11 GMT

Nato leaders have approved plans to expand a European missile defence system that would protect all of the military alliance's member nations including the US.

Barack Obama, the US president, announced the agreement on Friday at the end of the first day of a summit of leaders from the 28-member grouping in Lisbon, the Portuguese capital.

The system would add security to the US's own system based in North America.

"For the first time, we've agreed to develop a missile defence capability that is strong enough to cover all Nato European territory and populations as well as the United States," Obama said.

He said that the shield "offers a role for all of our allies, it responds to the threats of our times. It shows our determination to protect our citizens from the threat of ballistic missiles".

"An attack on one Nato member is an attack on all,'' he said.

However, officials were careful not to suggest where the ballistic missile threat could come from after Nato-member Turkey raised objections to a system specifically designed to stop attacks from Iran.

Turkey's concerns

"We are categorically opposed to have a country named [as a threat] and our request appears to have been accepted," Abdullah Gul, the Turkish president, told reporters before leaving Ankara, the Turkish capital, to attend the summit.

"Turkey cannot join a project that is aimed at a specific country," he said, stressing that Nato was a defensive alliance aimed at defending its members against any ballistic threat and is not an organisation designed "to intimidate and threaten".

"The project must cover all [Nato] members without exception ... It will not be aimed at Iran, we said it," he said.

Diplomats at the summit said there had been intense debate in the run-up to the summit about whether Iran should be targeted as a specific threat in the public document they adopt.

The US had asked Turkey, a Nato-member, to host some of the radar defences and to approve the proposal.

Turkey is mindful of its delicate position with neighbouring Iran and said it would refuse to sign a Nato document that names Iran as the threat in the final declaration.

"Turkey does not want to be the military front for Nato, it wants to be the diplomatic face of Nato in the Arab and Muslim world," Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, said.

"But any state that would dare launch a missile against Europe would be obliterated the day after - so who would be so suicidal as to launch a missile against Europe?"

Nato compromise

Anita McNaught, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Istanbul, said: "The compromise that Nato seems to have arrived at, even ahead of this meeting, is that no countries will be cited and the stress will be on this being a defensive system and not an offensive one.

"[Turkey has] worked extremely hard in this region to deal with the perception of threat among its neighbours, to de-escalate the sense of jeopardy and danger and defensiveness and offensiveness ... that has caused so many problems."

McNaught said that Turkey also wanted to make sure that the system would in no way be used to protect Israel from attack.

"It [Turkey] wants to be clear that this system is for the defence of territories from Turkey's eastern border, westward. It wants to be sure this is not a 'proxy' defence system for Israel." she said.

"It does not want any of the intelligence gathered through this system to be shared with Israel."

'Urgent need'

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nato's secretary general, said that there was an urgent need for the new missile defence system.

"The fact is that more than 30 countries in the world have or are acquiring missile technologies, some of them can even hit targets in the Euro-Atlantic area. And we intend to build a missile defence system to defend against any of these threats."

The expanded system is expected to cost $273 million over the next 10 years, Rasmussen said.

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, who will attend the summit on Saturday has previously fought against the missile shield, saying it was a threat to his country's own nuclear deterrence.

But Nato on Friday decided to invite Russia to join the defence shield, extending its protection across Russian territory.

I'd started out the day just about ready to record a rant, a dharma rant and upload it somewhere I could link you to, just so you could hear the intensity of this, but, no, I gotta save that for when I'm perfectly equanimous or it's worse than not going to help.

So I'm spitting music at you assholes instead.

THESE ASSHOLES ARE NOT FIT TO LEAD. STOP THEM.

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OR here's five hours of space lizard guys talking about NASA, the moon, mars, space aliens if you feel like having yourself a nice long pickle in the brine this weekend.

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OR be a little more modest and only blow two and a half hours on Hoagland's Johnson-killed-Kennedy gig... via the torsion field physics gonna bounce us off the surface of the planet... and he gets to it eventually. He's such a braggart, name-dropper confabulator that I have gotten to know exactly what I can skip, move the bar on the video player exactly as far as it takes till he's saying something again, but maybe people need all that blather to hear what he trots out for us.

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it's all so damn blatant

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But the masses are so damn clueless. I know it's even more aggravating when people who supposedly share your general ideology and are supposedly big stuff end up being as clueless as the masses, but that's what it takes to be big stuff at all.

Are we just entertaining ourselves by keeping our eyes on perfidy after perfidy after perfidy? Or is this all leading somewhere?

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everything is trying to give me a headache today

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It's taking all my Zen not to succumb.

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funny

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In the past few days I've heard people say that if they mention they want it, they've had it and more for years. They wouldn't let you know they're after something at which they will fail, and how great would it be to have millions running around convinced they've been neutralized by such means, or convinced that others have been neutralized by this means. There are way too many people who wish to be gods and settle for everyone thinking they are.

Again: You are not it; it actually is you.

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have a movie

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It'll be loaded with clues.

Or, if you don't know it already, read about the budding of the GWOT in the Reagan era or contemplate some statistics too crazy to believe or do both of those AND watch the movie. Heck! The glory of what is left to us is that we can do these things if we want.

I listened to this David Icke interview last night. I ignore what I think of his wild beliefs, because for all I know they really COULD be true, but it strikes me he keeps talking about stuff that happens right under all our noses, but so few seem to notice, let alone put it together that it's actuality in progress, an actuality about which we should be very seriously alarmed. Just the part about whole populations being body and soul against something the controllers want, and it keeps happening anyway, drives me mad. I never can figure out if it has driven everyone else even further 'round the bend or if they started out that way.

I think doing stuff like watching movies that Tsarion uploads might really be helpful... WHILE entertaining.

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WHUT, WHUT, WHUT!?!

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I drifted off to sleep with all kinds of spiritual power dancing 'round my head from listening to the ministering of really interesting takes on energetics for bliss ninnies, filling my head with notions of us hatching from the hard shells our conditioning has built around each of us. Positive as can be in such negative circumstances, and not even smug about it. Now today I not only find out there was a damn rape warrant out for Assange—ludicrous and worse—but that they've dropped it—well, I should hope to spit.... Fuck it! I'm spitting anyway.

ARE YOU MAD? WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Sweden withdraws warrant for WikiLeaks founder
By KARL RITTER (AP) – 4 hours ago

STOCKHOLM — Swedish prosecutors withdrew an arrest warrant for the founder of WikiLeaks on Saturday, saying less than a day after the document was issued that it was based on an unfounded accusation of rape.

The accusation had been labeled a dirty trick by Julian Assange and his group, who are preparing to release a fresh batch of classified U.S. documents from the Afghan war.

Swedish prosecutors had urged Assange — a nomadic 39-year-old Australian whose whereabouts were unclear — to turn himself in to police to face questioning in one case involving suspicions of rape and another based on an accusation of molestation.

"I don't think there is reason to suspect that he has committed rape," chief prosecutor Eva Finne said, in announcing the withdrawal of the warrant. She did not address the status of the molestation case, a less serious charge that would not lead to an arrest warrant.

Prosecutors did not answer phone calls seeking further comment.

Assange had dismissed the rape allegations in a statement on WikiLeaks' Twitter page, saying "the charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing." His whereabouts were not immediately known.

He was in Sweden last week seeking legal protection for the whistle-blower website, which angered the Obama administration for publishing thousands of leaked documents about U.S. military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The first files in Wikileaks' "Afghan War Diary" revealed classified military documents covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. Assange said Wednesday that WikiLeaks plans to release a new batch of 15,000 documents from the Afghan war within weeks.

The Pentagon says the information could risk the lives of U.S. troops and their Afghan helpers and have demanded WikiLeaks return all leaked documents and remove them from the Internet.

Assange has no permanent address and travels frequently — jumping from one friend's place to the next. He disappears from public view for months at a time, only to reappear in the full glare of the cameras at packed news conferences to discuss his site's latest disclosure.

Assange declined to talk about his background at a news conference in Stockholm a week ago. Equally secretive is the small team behind WikiLeaks, reportedly just a half-dozen people and casual volunteers who offer their services as needed.

A WikiLeaks spokesman, who says he goes by the name Daniel Schmitt in order to protect his identity, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Iceland that the "extremely serious allegations" came as a complete surprise.

Apart from the comment from Assange, WikiLeaks' Twitter page had a link to an article in Swedish tabloid Expressen, which first reported the allegations.

"We were warned to expect 'dirty tricks.' Now we have the first one," it said.

Assange was in Sweden last week partly to apply for a publishing certificate to make sure the website, which has servers in Sweden, can take full advantage of Swedish laws protecting whistle-blowers.

He also spoke at a seminar hosted by the Christian faction of the opposition Social Democratic party and announced he would write bimonthly columns for a left-wing Swedish newspaper.

Ya think?

SMACK THESE FUCKERS.

Smack these ones too.

And while yer at it, even though I don't think Bradley Manning is the leaker, you should do what you can to help him.

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google's little problem with their motto

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As you know, Google owns just about everything people like to use on the intertubes, not the least of which is YouTube. Beside their ugly habit of ripping down anything about which they get even bogus complaints, they also suspend [a euphemism for "cancel"] people's accounts with some unhappy regularity. Well. I've noticed something else they do.

They keep the view counts low on videos you know have gotten more views than that. I noticed it with Simmons videos and I noticed it this morning with RT videos. The RT channel has well over twelve thousand subscribers, yet some of their best videos only register a couple of hundred views. I know they are viewed by more people than that. I know also that the more views on a video the more interest in viewing it the masses become. Never mind that I think this is one of the weaker features of the human mentality, it ain't normal that these videos are only registering a few hundred views.

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