Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Framing the issues


"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing.The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods." -H. L. Mencken

- (1880-1956) American Journalist


"The True Gentleman is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others, rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe." - -- John Walter Wayland - 1899





Don't Worry, There's Plenty of Oil

Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
Yes, there's still oil in the ground. We just can't afford it. In broad terms, the peak oil analysts were right. But the fossil fuel industry is winning the PR battle.
archived August 28, 2012

Climate - Aug 28

Staff, Energy Bulletin
-Arctic sea ice reaches record low, Nasa says
-Arctic sea-ice melt record more than broken, it’s being smashed
-This isn't just natural variation – it's caused by global warming
-Along with the Arctic ice, the rich world's smugness will melt
-As Arctic Ice Reaches Record Low, Meteorologists Name Humans 'Dominant' Cause Of Climate Change
archived August 28, 2012











US Intelligence Community Report
America Planning for a Post-Israel Middle East?

Franklin Lamb

An 82 page analysis concludes that the American national interest in fundamentally at odds with that of Zionist Israel.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32304.htm




GOP senators plan resolution promising support should Israel strike Iran

By JTA

Republican senators plan to introduce a non-binding resolution pledging military, economic and diplomatic backing for Israel should it strike Iran.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32307.htm




United States Offers Azerbaijan the Northern Area of Iran in Exchange for Participation in War: Report

By StratRisks

The belief of some experts in the United States are ready to attach to the Azerbaijan territory of northern Iran, populated by ethnic Azeris in exchange for participation in a military operation against Iran on the West, has found a new confirmation.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32313.htm




Iran Calls for Nuclear Arms Ban Goes Unreported

By Alice Slater

The New York Times, which has been beating the drums for war with Iran, just as it played a disgraceful role in the deceptive reporting during the lead-up to the Iraq War, never mentioned Iran's proposal for nuclear abolition.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32308.htm




Engineering Consent for an attack on Syria
Syrian Rebels Claim to Take Over Chemical Weapons

By Elad Benari

The Syrian rebels says that they have taken over a military base and found missiles with non-conventional warheads.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32312.htm



King-making' in Syria
Britain and US Plan Syrian "Revolution" From Istanbul

By Damien McElroy

America has set aside $25 million for political opponents of President Bashar al-Assad while Britain is granting £5 million to the cause of overthrowing the regime.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32309.htm




The Western Onslaught Against International Law

By Paul Craig Roberts

Propaganda is important in the inculcation of trust in authority.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32303.htm




The Emperor Has No Clothes

By Paul Balles

How would you like to live under someone's boot?  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32306.htm




US Troops Plotted to Kill Barack Obama

By AP

Four US soldiers plotted to assassinate Barack Obama and overthrow the government, a court has heard.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32301.htm



The Mirage of Our Lives

By Chris Hedges

The lie of globalization, a lie that impoverishes us all to increase corporate profits.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32302.htm




The Program

Must Watch - By Laura Poitras

Mr. Binney described details about Stellar Wind, the N.S.A.'s top-secret domestic spying program begun after 9/11
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32305.htm




Installing Totalitarianism
America is no longer a democracy

By Fred Reed

People speak of the onrush of the police state. I think that many do not understand how fast it comes, or how thorough it will be.  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32310.htm




Final Evidence: The USA Has Gone Crazy

Video

A deaf preschooler in Grand Island, Nebraska, has been prohibited from signing his own name because school administrators believe the gesture he uses looks too much like a gun.  
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32311.htm

 
Afghanistan: 8 Insurgents, 1 Afghan Soldier killed in Badakhshan Operation

 At least eight Taliban insurgents and an Afghan soldier were killed in a security forces operation in northern Badakhshan province 





Twelve killed, scores injured by suburban Damascus car bomb (PHOTOS, VIDEO):  At least 12 people have been killed and another 48 injured as a car bomb detonated at a funeral procession in Jaramana, a suburb of Damascus. The men being buried are reported to have been supporters of the Bashar al-Assad government. 




Civilians crushed in own homes in Syria's Aleppo:  The hospital mortuary received the corpses of four people on Tuesday, including the crumpled remains of a woman and a young boy, crushed to death when their homes collapsed over their heads. 




Syria's rebels starting to wilt:  The best that rebel commanders can now hope to achieve is to draw the regime into a quagmire. 



Syrian Rebels Claim to Receive Battle Training on Turkish Border:  Fighters of the Free "Syrian Army" (FSA) leave the Apaydin camp in the southern province of Hatay after daybreak to cross the border into Syria and fight the Al-Assad regime, only to return back to the camp toward evening, Abu Hussein, the commander of an FSA unit, told bianet. 




Senior CFR official: Free Syrian Army needs al-Qaeda support Special:  "The Syrian rebels would be immeasurably weaker today without al-Qaeda in their ranks," writes Ed Husain, a Senior Fellow of Middle East Studies with the CFR, which is considered in political circles to be America's most influential foreign-policy think tank. 




Robert Fisk: 'We believe that the USA is the major player against Syria and the rest are its instruments':  Assad's Foreign Minister gives his first interview to a Western journalist since the conflict began. 



Syrian opposition announces roadmap for post-Assad Syria:  Syrian opposition activists announced they have drafted a political roadmap for the country's development in the event of the ouster of President Assad. The project, initiated by US and German think tanks, is currently being presented in Berlin. 




Syrian opposition leader criticizes US:  The head of the main Syrian opposition group is criticizing U.S. officials for saying it was premature to speak about a transitional Syrian government. The Syrian opposition leader was responding to the U.S. reaction to French President Francois Hollande's assertion that the Syrian opposition should form a provisional government and that France would recognize it. 




Presstitute Alert:
Arab states looking to turn IAEA meeting into referendum on Israeli nukes 




11 Iraqi servicemen killed in separate attacks:  Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and three were severely injured after attack by armed men on a checkpoint in Al-Nabaie area north of the capital, Iraqi security source said on Tuesday. 




Israel's First Drone Strike Inside Egyptian Territory Kills Sinai Bedouin:  Alon Ben David, Channel 10's military correspondent reports a drone strike against an Egyptian target 18 miles inside that country's borders. 



France 'opens Arafat murder inquiry':
Decision follows allegations that deceased Palestinian leader may have been poisoned before he died in 2004. 





Rachel Corrie ruling 'deeply troubling', says her family:  American activist's family vows to appeal against Israeli court's ruling that her death was a 'regrettable accident' 




U.S.: Israeli probe into Rachel Corrie's death wasn't 'credible':  U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro tells Corrie family that Israel's investigation into their daughter's death was unsatisfactory; family is in Israel awaiting verdict in civil suit against Israeli government. 




Glenn Greenwald: How the US and Israeli justice systems whitewash state crimes Op-Ed -  Courts are supposed to check the abuse of executive power, not cravenly serve it. But in the US and Israel, that is now the case 



"I saw the whole beating, it's a good thing that they beat the Arabs..." Video -  Just days after a mob of Jewish Israelis beat and injured three Palestinian youth, one nearly to death, Israel's Ynet news website conducted interviews in Central Jerusalem 




Suicide bomber kills Muslim cleric in Russia:  A woman suicide bomber killed an Islamic cleric and at least five of his followers in Russia's southern Dagestan region on Tuesday as President Vladimir Putin visited another mainly Muslim area and called for an end to religious violence. 



Shocking autopsy: South African police 'shot fleeing protesters in the back':  South African police are facing accusations of mass murder after autopsies on the victims of a bloody crackdown at Marikana platinum mine, showed that miners were shot in the back. Meanwhile, new violence has broken out at the location. 



Archbishop Tutu dodges event over war criminal Tony Blair: " Ultimately, the Archbishop is of the view that Mr Blair's decision to support the United States' military invasion of Iraq, on the basis of unproven allegations of the existence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, was morally indefensible", said a statement from his office. 




Armed Troops Deployed as Hurricane Isaac Targets New Orleans :  Brandishing automatic assault rifles to ward off any threat of looting, the troops in military vehicles took up positions on mostly deserted streets. 




Boehner Says Out Loud He Hopes Blacks and Latinos 'Won't Show Up' This Election:
House Speaker John Boehner is the most prominent Republican to admit, out loud, that his party's strategy for winning in November doesn't suppose that the GOP can win over some black and Latino voters, but hoping they won't vote at all. 




Republicans really should have bought up that billboard space:  This is what the Democratic National Committee is displaying on the digital billboard facing the Tampa Bay Times Forum 




The Courts Will Soon Decide If Police Can Sample Your DNA Without A Warrant:  Michael Risher of the ACLU of Northern California is challenging a California law that requires all felony arrestees to give a DNA sample. 




25 Cutting Edge Firms Funded By The CIA:  It's no secret the Central Intelligence Agency has an investment firm that funds startups that could have a big impact for the Agency. If there is a company out there doing intelligence research, it's likely that In-Q-Tel, the CIA's personal investor, either looked them up or made a check out to them. 




Twitter defies court order to release personal information of Occupy protester:  Attorneys for Twitter have filed an appeal on the behalf of one of their users in the latest installment of;


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