The Gulf

...until after the elections. Neither party wants this crisis to be in the forefront, and, unfortunately, the American people, rather than enduring the initial inconveniences to transition to green energy, are more than willing to buy the "story" that it all just disappeared.

From Twitter

" SamSeder: hey who’s got 5 minutes to kill I am testing an audio
stream here http://bit.ly/bVtap6 feedback on sound quality and player please"

nothing using firefox, opened with Opera using Amarok after a 3 minute wait.

tell people what browser to use and which audio player to try.

you know i usually use linux SUSE as my OS.

The Tears of Gaza Must Be Our Tears

By Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges made these remarks Thursday night in New York City at a fundraiser for sponsoring a U.S. boat to break the blockade of Gaza. More information can be found at www.ustogaza.org.

August 09, 2010 "Truthdig" -- When I lived in Jerusalem I had a friend who confided in me that as a college student in the United States she attended events like these, wrote up reports and submitted them to the Israel consulate for money. It would be naive to assume this Israeli practice has ended. So, I want first tonight to address that person, or those persons, who may have come to this event for the purpose of reporting on it to the Israeli government.

I would like to remind them that it is they who hide in darkness. It is we who stand in the light. It is they who deceive. It is we who openly proclaim our compassion and demand justice for those who suffer in Gaza. We are not afraid to name our names. We are not afraid to name our beliefs. And we know something you perhaps sense with a kind of dread. As Martin Luther King said, the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice, and that arc is descending with a righteous fury that is thundering down upon the Israeli government.

You may have the bulldozers, planes and helicopters that smash houses to rubble, the commandos who descend from ropes on ships and kill unarmed civilians on the high seas as well as in Gaza, the vast power of the state behind you. We have only our hands and our hearts and our voices. But note this. Note this well. It is you who are afraid of us. We are not afraid of you. We will keep working and praying, keep protesting and denouncing, keep pushing up against your navy and your army, with nothing but our bodies, until we prove that the force of morality and justice is greater than hate and violence. And then, when there is freedom in Gaza, we will forgive ... you. We will ask you to break bread with us. We will bless your children even if you did not find it in your heart to bless the children of those you occupied. And maybe it is this forgiveness, maybe it is the final, insurmountable power of love, which unsettles you the most.

read here
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26115.htm

Nuclear Carriers on the Move

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama

By Arno J. Mayer

Dear Mr. President:

August 09, 2010 "Counterpunch" -- As Commander-in-Chief you have ordered the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier U.S.S. George Washington to carry out major naval exercises off the coast of Japan and the Korean Peninsula before proceeding, most likely, to other exercises in the Yellow Sea, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula to the east. One of the world’s largest warships, the George Washington is accompanied by some 20 armed vessels and submarines, scores of aircraft and helicopters along with thousands of naval, ground, and air personnel.

You have also ordered the deployment of the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Dwight Eisenhower and U.S.S. Harry Truman to cruise or patrol in an open-ended theater of naval operations in the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf. Both these carriers likewise are hubs of large strike forces consisting of numerous warships, military aircraft, units of the armed services, including special commandos and amphibious landing craft.

Given the scale and reach of this projection of raw military power—reminiscent of the comparatively paltry gunboat diplomacy of a not-so-distant past—I was wondering, Mr. President, whether it wouldn't be wise for you to give the American people, the United Nations, and the rest of the world a reasoned statement of the need for such an oceanic display of America’s naval, air, soldierly, and electronic might at a time when the United States seems bent on continuing to act as a global policeman in the four corners of the world.

continue reading here

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26114.htm

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the first comment reads:

"What a dark age we now inhabit!"

The Suffering of Fallujah

By Robert Koehler

August 09, 2010 "Huffington Post" -- Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Fallujah . . .

And so it turns out that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, though not until we arrived and started using them.

Along with whatever else we did to Fallujah -- exacted collective punishment on a defiant city (a war crime) in November 2004, killed thousands of civilians, shattered the infrastructure (nearly six years later, the sewage system hasn't been repaired and waste flows in the streets) -- we also, apparently, nuked the city, leaving a legacy of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality and genetic abnormality.

Freedom isn't free. Remember when that was the go-to phrase of the citizen war zealots among us, their all-purpose rebuttal when those of us appalled by this insane war cited civilian casualty stats? Discussion over. Thought stops here.

This is the power of language. Call it "war" and along come glory, duty, courage, sacrifice: the best of humanity writ large. The word is impenetrable; it sets the heart in motion; God makes an appearance, blesses the troops, blesses the weapons. Operation Iraqi Freedom: They'll greet us with open arms.

At what point do we learn our lesson, that "war" is a moral cesspool of horrific consequences, especially, and most troublingly, unintended ones?

Thus last November, a group of British and Iraqi doctors petitioned the U.N. to investigate the alarming rise in birth defects at Fallujah's hospitals. "Young women in Fallujah," they wrote, ". . . are terrified of having children because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies or missing limbs. In addition, young children in Fallujah are now experiencing hideous cancers and leukemias."

The official U.S. response was that the doctors' letter was anecdotal: There have been no studies to verify that anything is truly amiss in Fallujah, beyond the devastation caused by U.S. troops and bombs. Now that has changed.

read here
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26112.htm

What collapsing empire looks like

By Glenn Greenwald

As we enter our ninth year of the War in Afghanistan with an escalated force, and continue to occupy Iraq indefinitely, and feed an endlessly growing Surveillance State, reports are emerging of the Deficit Commission hard at work planning how to cut Social Security, Medicare, and now even to freeze military pay. But a new New York Times article today illustrates as vividly as anything else what a collapsing empire looks like, as it profiles just a few of the budget cuts which cities around the country are being forced to make. This is a sampling of what one finds:

Plenty of businesses and governments furloughed workers this year, but Hawaii went further -- it furloughed its schoolchildren. Public schools across the state closed on 17 Fridays during the past school year to save money, giving students the shortest academic year in the nation.

Many transit systems have cut service to make ends meet, but Clayton County, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta, decided to cut all the way, and shut down its entire public bus system. Its last buses ran on March 31, stranding 8,400 daily riders.

Even public safety has not been immune to the budget ax. In Colorado Springs, the downturn will be remembered, quite literally, as a dark age: the city switched off a third of its 24,512 streetlights to save money on electricity, while trimming its police force and auctioning off its police helicopters.

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Does anyone doubt that once a society ceases to be able to afford schools, public transit, paved roads, libraries and street lights -- or once it chooses not to be able to afford those things in pursuit of imperial priorities and the maintenance of a vast Surveillance and National Security State -- that a very serious problem has arisen, that things have gone seriously awry, that imperial collapse, by definition, is an imminent inevitability? Anyway, I just wanted to leave everyone with some light and cheerful thoughts as we head into the weekend.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/06/collapse

What the New York Times Forgot to Mention

The Story of a Deported Texas Student Awaits Obama in Dallas

By GREG MOSES

While the New York Times Monday morning proclaims that the Obama administration is not deporting college students whose parents brought them to America at a young age, the President is headed toward a fundraiser in Dallas Monday night where one such case is well known.

Dallas real estate developer and immigrant rights advocate Ralph Isenberg bought tickets to the fundraiser with President Barack Obama so that he can plead for the speedy return of a young deportee from Texas. Isenberg has been working for several months to secure the return of 19-year-old Saad Nabeel who was deported to Bangladesh with his parents in early 2010.

If the New York Times is correct about what the Obama administration is trying to do, then the deportation of Saad Nabeel was a big mistake. He had lived in the USA since age three, completing grades six through twelve in Texas. When he was deported at age 18, Nabeel was studying electrical engineering on full scholarship at the University of Texas at Arlington.

"I plan to tell the President that if he is looking for a poster child for someone who has been unfairly treated and who we need to do right by, then Saad Nabeel is perfect," said Isenberg Saturday in a telephone interview with the Texas Civil Rights Review.

"There are multiple legal issues that we can pursue to try to get Saad back in the country," said Isenberg. "But the quickest solution by far would be to pass a DREAM Act that includes an amendment for young persons who have been recently deported. Other legal issues would require lengthy legal actions--and the wait would do no good to Saad."

If adopted by Congress and signed by the President, the DREAM Act would offer citizenship options to youth who were brought to the USA by migrant parents. When Isenberg approaches the President in Nabeel's behalf, he will also be representing the opinions of Saad's young friends who are this week preparing their returns to college life.

"I feel like everything that has happened in the past year was unnecessary," explains Chris Anderson, one of Nabeel's high school friends contacted by the Texas Civil Rights Review. "Saad was brought to America by his family when he was a young child. He lived like every other American by going to school, getting a job, and spending time with his friends and family. Everything that he knew and loved was in the United States, and one day he was just uprooted from college, thrown in jail for over a month, and shipped to a foreign third world country that he has no memory of."

http://www.counterpunch.org/moses08092010.html

August 9, 2010

What is to be Done?

By DAVID MICHAEL GREEN

I often receive email from readers which goes something along these lines: “Thank you for your article identifying the problems with American politics and government. But what are the solutions?”

I am flattered that anyone would expect me to be able to solve that mystery, while being simultaneously chagrined that I don’t think I have very much in the way of good answers. In part that may be because I’m not smart or creative enough to solve that problem, anymore than I’m equipped to cure cancer or discover a unified field theory of physics. But in part it is also because the problem itself (like curing cancer or theorizing physics) is very difficult. The evidence for that is that no other progressive that I’m aware of is offering a serious solution. It’s not like we on the left are spending our time these days debating the merits of multiple proposals on the table. Or even one...

Consider the magnitude of the problem, to start with. American society and government is, it seems to me, in the worst shape its been in since at least 1932. Unparalleled and unmitigated greed of astonishing proportions has turned the federal government into a feeding trough for special interests, on an epic scale. This has produced what is essentially an economic war on non-elites for the last three decades, which has succeeded in dramatically redistributing wealth upward, so that the US now resembles any good banana republic or feudal society in this regard. More or less all policy decisions during this era have been oriented toward that one goal, certainly including those concerning taxes, subsidies, trade and labor relations, not to mention our uncontrolled military spending and wars. Even so-called welfare state program expansions like Bush’s prescription drug plan or Obama’s health care initiative are really massive feedbag redistributions of public wealth to corporate actors, dressed up with enough trinkets for the hoi polloi so as to appear that their purpose is to improve the health of real Americans.
http://www.counterpunch.org/green08092010.html

Free Democracy

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/conservapedia_founder_...

Okay now I'm pissed.

I want you to search for
"HOW AMERICA LOST THE WAR ON DRUGS"

Ben Wallace-Wells Rolling Stone How America Lost the War on Drugs

SLATE called it the Smartest Drug Story of the Year By Jack Shafer Posted Friday, Nov. 30, 2007

TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime highlighted it as How America Lost the Drug War
By Jeralyn, Section Crime Policy
Posted on Sun Dec 02, 2007

Then search for this article on-line and EVERY post links to "RS 404 NOT FOUND".
Why? Did RS succumb to "national security interests"? Were they "served"? Eh?

IF YOU CAN FIND ANY ON-LINE SOURCE FOR THIS ARTICLE, please POST HERE and SPREAD FAR AND WIDE.

You can ask RS here. You can also write TalkLeft or other sites that wrote about this RS article and see if we can find out WHY it has been scrubbed. I will volunteer to post the pdf of the print version on BTV if we cannot unearth why this VERY IMPORTANT STORY was YANKED from the tubes. (I have the paper edition - heh - bet you do too)

See you in the gulag, Sederistas!

For background see www.soaw.org School of the Americas Watch

IF you FIND THIS STORY in its ENTIRETY some where on-line STILL please share!

:):(

The Pentagon, trying to free up cash in the face of a yawning U.S. deficit, unveiled a series of cost-cutting measures on Wednesday that will shed thousands of jobs and shut down an entire military command.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the shakeup would show Congress that the Pentagon would spend tax dollars wisely during tough economic times and address long-standing concerns about wasteful expenditure.

But Gates warned in some of his strongest language yet against any future effort to actually cut overall defense spending, which is still growing, but at a much slower rate than it did in the years after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

"My greatest fear is that in economic tough times that people will see the defense budget as the place to solve the nation's deficit problems," Gates said.
(from)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67855620100810

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The writings on the wall just read it you F*ck. WE CAN'T AFFORD PERPETUAL WAR

Recently issued consumer warning against menopausal herb, black cohosh, by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (DVFA) may be based on false pretences according to a US-based herbals expert.
The DVFA warning issued last month warned consumers off black cohosh due to unspecified liver toxicity concerns and cited black cohosh as Aristolochiaceae when it is in fact known as Actaea racemosa (formerly Cimicifuga racemosa).

Steve Dentali, chief science officer at the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), said it was possible black cohosh was being blamed for potential problems that were linked to Aristolochiaceae.

“There is no real botanical connection between black cohosh and Aristolochiaceae which is a different plant family from where black cohosh resides,“ Dentali said.

(continues)
http://www.nutraingredients.com/Regulation/Counterfeit-to-blame-for-Dani...

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As girls are getting their periods at seven the backlash against long term use of :proven herbs' gets into high gear. Read between the lines on this one ladies.
My sister got breast cancer from Hormone replacement therapy from the drug companies. Her Doctors admitted they gave her Cancer with too"hot' a formula..."" Yea and calcium and B vitamins are not good for you either!""

Global warming is cutting rice yields in many parts of Asia, according to research, with more declines to come.

Yields have fallen by 10-20% over the last 25 years in some locations.

The group of mainly US-based scientists studied records from 227 farms in six important rice-producing countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, India and China.

This is the latest in a line of studies to suggest that climate change will make it harder to feed the world's growing population by cutting yields

We haven't seen a scenario where daytime temperatures cross over a threshold where they'd stop benefiting yields and start reducing them”

In 2004, other researchers found that rice yields in the Philippines were dropping by 10% for every 1C increase in night-time temperature.

That finding, like others, came from experiments on a research station.

The latest data, by contrast, comes from working, fully-irrigated farms that grow "green revolution" crops, and span the rice-growing lands of Asia from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu to the outskirts of Shanghai.

Describing the findings, which are published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), lead researcher Jarrod Welch said:

"We found that as the daily minimum temperature increases, or as nights get hotter, rice yields drop."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10918591

The problem with Kellogg’s tainted packaging has been solved, US federal authorities said yesterday – as the company confirmed the chemical responsible for the huge recall is not used in its European operations.

http://www.ap-foodtechnology.com/Packaging/Kellogg-packaging-problem-res...

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I find this story is not in the MSM.. 28 million "toxic " boxes of cereal sounds like a big deal to me. AND the Europeans don't allow for this in their market place.
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some history
http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Quality-Safety/Kellogg-issues-massive...

If the dems cant get enough support to END the Bush Tax Cuts it is time to end "our" support of the Official Democratic party..

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Has anyone noticed how slowly BP plans to pay off it's first 20 million?
I don't hear the president arguing for a more rapid paydown. I guess he was smitten by the Bitch of Britian and his friends who donated so much to his Campaign.

The world is melting. floods are killing thousands and The US doesn't have a New energy policy? take some of those Savings that Gates fears so much and get on with Public Programs that Promote safer energy...

solar,wind, Algae or whatever.

snip

The FCC wasn't too pleased that Google and Verizon are trying to dictate policy, however. Commissioner Michael J Copps said: "Some will claim this announcement moves the discussion forward. That's one of its many problems. It is time to move a decision forward – a decision to reassert FCC authority over broadband telecommunications, to guarantee an open internet now and forever, and to put the interests of consumers in front of the interests of giant corporations."
Net neutrality campaigners say Google's response is contradictory, hence the negative response to the Verizon pact. Despite its proclaimed commitment to net neutrality, Google has proposed a future where ISPs can build and charge new networks as they wish.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/aug/10/google-verizon-net-...

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Maybe it is time to switch to Credo Mobile, and www.all2easy.net/

Mayor Bloomberg has given up hope of asking New York voters in the fall to approve nonpartisan elections, after the idea failed to win support from key decision-makers in town, sources told City Hall Bureau Chief Adam Lisberman.

The mayor's operatives had hoped to convince a majority of the 15-member Charter Revision Commission to back the idea at its Wednesday meeting, after weeks of quietly leaning on members for their support.

But the lack of enthusiasm from newspaper editorial boards -- and Rev. Al Sharpton's weekend decision to oppose it -- led Bloomberg to decide today not to pursue the idea again, sources said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2010/08/mayor-bloomberg-n...

Party leaders, many civic groups and minority lawmakers vocally disagreed, saying nonpartisan elections would let rich outsiders buy their way to popularity without proving their ability to active party members.

Swine flu pandemic over, says world health body
Woman sneezing The majority of cases in the UK have shown only mild symptoms

The swine flu pandemic has been declared officially over by the World Health Organization.

The body said it was moving to the "post-pandemic phase" after many countries, including the UK, had scaled down their emergency measures.

WHO director general Dr Margaret Chan said the virus had "largely run its course".

Millions of people were affected across the world by the infection after it emerged in April last year.

But the pandemic - the first for 40 years - proved much less deadly than many had feared.

In the UK, more than 450 people died, but that was well short of the 65,000 predicted as the worst-case scenario.

The decision by WHO reflects the fact that the virus is only circulating at relatively low levels, in most cases on par with seasonal flu activity.

In a telephone news conference, Dr Chan said: "The world is no longer in phase six of the pandemic alert. We are now moving into the post-pandemic period.

"The new H1N1 virus has largely run its course."

The WHO still said health officials should continue monitoring infection rates - as there is still a chance they could rise again - as well as updating their plans on the basis of what was learnt during the pandemic.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10930023

he said dealing with the flu was one of his big problems and he wanted the Professional left to pat him on the back. Yea right and that deal with big pharma for no single payer was another of his big success stories.
I am critical because that is part of MY job description

amateur left . I do it for the love not the money .

died with some merchant of death how fitting.

Plane crash kills former US senator

A private jet believed to be carrying nine people, including a former US senator and the former head of Nasa, has crashed in southwest Alaska, killing at least five people.

Ted Stevens, the former Republican senator, died in the crash, a spokesperson for his family said on Tuesday.

The fate of Sean O'Keefe, the ex-Nasa chief and the head of the defence contractor EADS in North America is not clear, following the over-night crash....
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/08/2010810153819579751.h...

I do so agree Repetition Is The Key...

Victory for Greater Yellowstone Wolves!

Rodger Schlickeisen, Defenders of Wildlife to me
show details Aug 6 (4 days ago)

Big Win for Wolves!

A federal judge restored Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies.

This huge victory is thanks to your dedicated support and that of people like you who wrote federal and state officials, attended hearings and contributed generously to support our work.

Learn more about this win for wolves and the challenges still ahead.

Spread the word: Tell others about this victory!

Dear Druidmorrigan,

Late yesterday we received some great news: As a result of a lawsuit brought in federal court by Defenders of Wildlife and other conservation groups, wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies are again protected under the Endangered Species Act.

A federal judge in Montana sided with Defenders and other conservation groups, overturning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to remove gray wolves in the Northern Rockies from the endangered species list.

This is incredible news that will save the lives of hundreds of wolves that would have otherwise been targeted and killed in hunts this fall. And it opens the door to developing a science-based plan that will ensure wolf recovery continues in the Northern Rockies.

This hard-fought victory would not have been possible without the hundreds of thousands of Defenders activists like you who wrote federal and state officials, attended hearings and supported our legal fight and on-the-ground work financially. Thank you so much for making this victory for wolves happen!

This legal decision is not only a win for wolves, but also for science-based conservation -- the judge clearly ruled that recovery decisions for our most vulnerable wildlife must be based on science, not politics.

Although this victory means that wolves in the Northern Rockies will regain federal protections, the fight for their recovery is far from over.

In fact, this is just the beginning of another potentially more difficult chapter in the continued battle for wolf recovery.

We must continue our on-the-ground efforts to prevent conflicts between ranchers and wolves, counter anti-wolf misinformation in the media and work with all stakeholders to ensure these wolves fully recover and can then be legitimately delisted.

You made this victory possible -- and we’ll need your help to continue our important work for these wolves.

Learn more about this win for wolves -- and the challenges that lie ahead.

Thank you for all your efforts!

Sincerely,

Rodger Schlickeisen
President
Defenders of Wildlife

Nasrallah unveils 'Hariri proof'

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has tried to implicate Israel in the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister.

In a video address to journalists from an undisclosed location on Monday, Nasrallah said he had evidence to prove Israel's complicity in al-Hariri's assassination in Beirut, the Lebanese capital....
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/2010891991920480.ht...

Israel razes Negev village again
Al-Arakib is one of 45 Bedouin villages not recognised by Israeli authorities [Joseph Dana]

Israeli authorities have reportedly used "unnecessary force" to demolish the homes of Bedouins in a village in the southern Negev desert, according to a witness.

Joseph Dana,a writer and filmmaker living in Jerusalem, told Al Jazeera the village of al-Arakib was bulldozed in the early hours of Tuesday morning - for the third time in three weeks.

"We were jolted from our sleep at about 05:00am (0200 GMT) by roughly 100 to 200 border police officers in full combat and crowd dispersal equipment.

"The police quickly rounded up the 30 or so activists away from the temporary village structure which was rebuilt in the past few days. Unnecessary force was used to control the activists and several minor injuries were reported," Dana told Al Jazeera.

Al-Arakib, which had about 40 homes and 300 residents, is one of 45 Bedouin villages not recognised by Israeli authorities.

It was demolished in late Julyby the Israel Land Administration, briefly rebuilt with temporary shelters, then destroyed again last week.......
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/20108108292506226.h...

House approves more agents, drones on border

In a rare moment of bipartisanship Tuesday, the House approved $600 million to pay for more unmanned surveillance drones and about 1,500 more agents along the troubled Mexican border.

Getting tougher on border security is one of the few issues that both parties agree on in this highly charged election season. But lawmakers remain deeply divided over a more comprehensive approach to the illegal immigration problem, and it's unclear if Congress will go beyond border-tightening efforts....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9214673

Red Dawn, first PG-13 movie, is release

On this day in 1984, the action thriller Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze, opens in theaters as the first movie to be released with a PG-13 rating. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which oversees the movie rating system, had announced the new PG-13 category in July of that same year.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/red-dawn-first-pg-13-movie-is...

http://motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/drug-war-six-acts

This NPR audio of an interview with Ben Wallace-Wells appears to be 'not working':
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18155280

Wow. It is weird.

Antibiotics' efficiency wanes due to global spread of drug-resistant bacteria

Gene giving high levels of resistance to drugs found in increasingly prevalent intestinal bacteria

A new gene conferring high levels of resistance to almost all antibiotics has been found to be widespread in forms of gut bacteria that can cause potentially life-threatening pneumonia and urinary tract infections.

In just three years, says Professor Tim Walsh of Cardiff University who discovered the gene, it has grown in prevalence from being rarely observed at all to existing in between 1% and 3% in patients with Enterobacteriaceae infections in India.

"It is absolutely staggering," said Walsh. "Because of international travel, globalisation and medical tourism, [the gene] now has the opportunity to go anywhere in the world very quickly."....

Alarmingly, there are only two antibiotics that still work against NDM 1-producing bacteria, and the likelihood is that they will also be overcome before long.

"In many ways, this is it," he said. "This is potentially the end. There are no antibiotics in the pipeline that have activity against NDM 1-producing Enterobacteriaceae."

Even if scientists started work immediately on discovering new antibiotics against the threat, he added, there will be nothing available soon.

"We have a bleak window of maybe 10 years, where we are going to have to use the antibiotics we have very wisely, but also grapple with the reality that we have nothing to treat these infections with.

"It is the first time it has got to this stage with these type of bacteria....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/11/antibiotics-efficiency-dru...

Josh Silver
August 5, 2010 09:26 AM

Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It

For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times reports "could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege."

The deal marks the beginning of the end of the Internet as you know it. Since its beginnings, the Net was a level playing field that allowed all content to move at the same speed, whether it's ABC News or your uncle's video blog. That's all about to change, and the result couldn't be more bleak for the future of the Internet, for television, radio and independent voices.

How did this happen? We have a Federal Communications Commission that has been denied authority by the courts to police the activities of Internet service providers like Verizon and Comcast. All because of a bad decision by the Bush-era FCC. We have a pro-industry FCC Chairman who is terrified of making a decision, conducting back room dealmaking, and willing to sit on his hands rather than reassert his agency's authority. We have a president who promised to "take a back seat to no one on Net Neutrality" yet remains silent. We have a congress that is nearly completely captured by industry. Yes, more than half of the US congress will do pretty much whatever the phone and cable companies ask them to. Add the clout of Google, and you have near-complete control of Capitol Hill.

read here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-silver/google-verizon-deal-the-e_b_67...

(please follow the links in the article )

Google-Verizon Pact: It Gets Worse

By Craig Aaron

August 10, 2010"Huffington Post" -- So Google and Verizon went public today with their "policy framework" -- better known as the pact to end the Internet as we know it.

News of this deal broke this week, sparking a public outcry that's seen hundreds of thousands of Internet users calling on Google to live up to its "Don't Be Evil" pledge.

But cut through the platitudes the two companies (Googizon, anyone?) offered on today's press call, and you'll find this deal is even worse than advertised.

The proposal is one massive loophole that sets the stage for the corporate takeover of the Internet.

Real Net Neutrality means that Internet service providers can't discriminate between different kinds of online content and applications. It guarantees a level playing field for all Web sites and Internet technologies. It's what makes sure the next Google, out there in a garage somewhere, has just as good a chance as any giant corporate behemoth to find its audience and thrive online.

What Google and Verizon are proposing is fake Net Neutrality. You can read their framework for yourself here or go here to see Google twisting itself in knots about this suddenly "thorny issue." But here are the basics of what the two companies are proposing:

1. Under their proposal, there would be no Net Neutrality on wireless networks -- meaning anything goes, from blocking websites and applications to pay-for-priority treatment.

2. Their proposed standard for "non-discrimination" on wired networks is so weak that actions like Comcast's widely denounced blocking of BitTorrent would be allowed.

read here

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26121.htm

"The agreement was prompted by news reports that Rite Aid stores in several locations had disposed of confidential customer medical information in easily accessible open trash dumpsters. "
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Health Records Still Treated as Commodities

The Rite Aid Scandal

By BILLY WHARTON

The mega drug store chain Rite Aid recently agreed to pay a $1 million fine to stave off a full investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into practices that may have compromised customer records. The agreement was prompted by news reports that Rite Aid stores in several locations had disposed of confidential customer medical information in easily accessible open trash dumpsters. The story was a minor news blip in the business and health industry pages. However, it raises much larger questions about how the for-profit private healthcare system has transformed the nature of medical records.

Medical Information as Marketable Commodity

Private control of the healthcare system converts patient records and other health related information into highly valued commodities. Competing drug manufacturers, insurance companies and pharmacies all vie for control over the maximum amount of data to improve their own competitiveness. Simultaneously, the incredible amount of private profits generated by the healthcare industry invites fraudulent activities such as medical identity theft.

read here
http://www.counterpunch.org/wharton08102010.html

That's your brother,right ?
I sure hope he wins.. :)

*******

I Love Led Zeppelin But…

August 10, 2010 ..

they didn’t half present themselves as the Artful Dodgers of rock music throughout their tenure as global-shagging rock gods. With a cheeky grin, a sly wink and mutterings of “public domain“, Jimmy Page was something of a sticky-fingered riff lifter. I’ve written about this before and I’m sure you know anyway, but any old blues tune that happened to catch his ear would be lifted in whole before being coated in volume, augmented by a slick bit of frettery and re-packaged as the big new thing. “I got those West Bromwich blues“, as Robert Plant moaned on one of those fantastic BBC sessions. Not that Robert Plant is entirely innocent in the whole thing either…

Jake Holmes. Not exactly a household name, but in the late 60s he was a regular of the Greenwich Village folk scene. In fact, in 1967 The Yardbirds caught him at the Village Theater where they watched him play the tracks that made up his debut album, ‘The Above Ground Sound Of Jake Holmes’. As Holmes put it in 2001.

Con't

http://philspector.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/i-love-led-zeppelin-but/

"Hello to our friends and fans in domestic surveillance."

MMRules

Jake is my brother and the story is true. It seems that he can get some money from this but only for the revenues from the last three years.

As I remember it Jimmy Page was in the Yardbirds at that time and played on the same bill at the Village Theater,which was renamed the Filmore east shortly after that gig. What is often missed in the story was the guitar solo of jake's partner Ted Irwin. This is what really inspired Jimmy Page to "invent' his version of Dazed and Confused. Ironically The musically progressive Mr Irwin is an avid Fox watcher and a big fan of Bill O' Liar. Teddy was My "second brother" and was very important to me and and Ted was a great Teacher and confidant. I can't tell you of the pain I feel when I have to discuss the American State of affairs with someone I once Idolized. Ted returned to his Nashville roots and is afraid of the the intellectual North, probably too much coke and booze is the reason Ted Irwin became so disconnected with reality. Ted is the one who is Dazed and Confused now. Teddy Irwin is a man I love but I just can't stand his politics. c'est La vie.

The owner of an internet service provider who mounted a high-profile court challenge to a secret FBI records demand has finally been partially released from a 6-year-old gag order that forced him to keep his role in the case a secret from even his closest friends and family. He can now identify himself and discuss the case, although he still can’t reveal what information the FBI sought.

more info
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifted/

I cannot fucking wait!

...

http://fleamarketfunk.com/

I was just thinking you might get a kick out of these pictures and silly songs.

Have you read "the Tibetan Book of the Dead" By Evans- Wentz?

The Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State, also known as the Bardo Thodol. The Evans-Wentz edition.
www.summum.us/mummification/tbotd/ -

-Re: Is this the kool aid speaking again? lol
Submitted by Cat Chew on Sat, 08/07/2010 - 10:02pm.

Wow. Bitter and mean-spirited much? Got hyperbole?

Sheesh.-

Thanks for the link...

It is bed time for me but I am glad to see you are around Alice.
This book of the "dead" has nothing to do with Jerry Garcia or does it?
It was just fifteen years ago that he moved on. it seems like yesterday. bon nuit mon cher.

were here... again...on the same thread...

and as Howard Stern said...some of their songs last that long as well... ;)

Nite nite...

I'm just here now, making friends, whilst I watch Princess, the very sick feral cat....umm... die... I think....

sorry for your Animal friend. maybe we will chat tomorrow
if the internet hasn't been hijacked by verizon/google . .

over and out.

on LITA newsgroup when I said I wasn't sad that google Wave went out of commission and I discourage people from becoming googlobotomized...I've always encouraged search engine variations...but some people think google IS the internet..they don't put URL's in the address bar, they put it in google...

Skype let out their IPO the other day,..but I'm waiting for facebook to do it...maybe....if I still feel the same way in 2012..(unless they're faking the expected date)...

http://www.life.com/image/57555521/in-gallery/47251/the-girls-of-roller-...

et. al.

We're going to have to use intuition & telepathy...

to stop an illegal state policy? Where’s the American Zola?

Manning, of course, is the courageous Army intelligence analyst turned whistleblower, who admitted leaking:

* “260,000 classified United States diplomatic cables and video of a (US) airstrike in Afghanistan that killed 97 civilians last year,” and
* an “explosive (39 minute) video of an American helicopter attack in Baghdad that left 12 people dead, including two employees of the Reuters news agency” – “collateral murder” he felt obligated to expose.

It got him in trouble. On June 7, the military in Iraq arrested him, saying:

“The Department of Defense takes the management of classified information very seriously because it affects our national security, the lives of our soldiers, and our operations abroad.”

Defense Secretary Robert Gates called the leak “potentially dramatic and grievously harmful….The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies and Afghan partners, and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that part of the world. Intelligence sources and methods, as well as military tactics, techniques and procedures, will become known to our adversaries.”

Unmentioned was the following:

* our attack, invasion and occupation are illegal under US and international law;
* war crimes, including murder, torture, and targeted assassinations happen daily;
* civilian men, women, and children are willfully targeted;
* since October 2001, millions of Afghans have been killed, injured or displaced, their country perhaps the most hellish anyway, devastated by decades of war, deep poverty, depravation, and unimaginable human suffering, mostly caused by America;
* the same holds for Iraq, Pakistan, and nations where Washington wages proxy wars; and
* our presence and imperial aims cause harm, not Manning or WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, exposing truths the public has a right and need to know.

They deserve praise, not prosecutions, compliments, not condemnation, and accolades, not accusations. They’re heros, risking personal harm to disclose disturbing truths, what government and media reports suppress, sanitize and distort, letting warlords plunder lawlessly so war profiteers can cash in, Americans the worse off for it.

In his August 4 Anti-Empire Report (http://www.greanvillepost.com/?p=7246), author William Blum asked

“So please tell me again: What’s the war about?” Lies, of course, about 9/11 and leaders repeating them, Obama for one last August 17 saying:

“But we must never forget this is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which Al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans.”

On July 28, 2010, he lied again, saying: “the region from which the 9/11 attacks were waged and other attacks against the United States and our friends and allies have been planned.”

Rubbish according to Blum, saying:

“Never mind that out of the tens of thousands of people the United States and its NATO front have killed in Afghanistan not one has been identified as having had anything to do with the events of September 11, 2001.”

“The only ‘war of necessity’ that draws the United States to Afghanistan is the need for protected oil and gas pipelines from the Caspian Sea area, (and) establishment of military bases (there), making it easier to watch and pressure next-door Iran (besides being a land-based aircraft carrier to target Russia and China). What more could any respectable imperialist nation desire? Oh, did I mention that the military-industrial-security-intelligence complex and its shareholders” will profit handsomely?

In 1996, America helped the Taliban gain power, funneling military aid through Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence). Oil was the hidden agenda, Taliban representatives visiting Unocal in Houston in December 1997 to negotiate a trans-Afghan pipeline from the oil rich Caspian area. It was nearly agreed, the kicker being America’s refusal to extend recognition, a small courtesy to avoid war, occupation, and a deepening unwinnable quagmire.

On December 14, 1997, London’s Daily Telegraph reported:

“the US government, which in the past has branded the Taliban’s policies against women and children ‘despicable,’ appears anxious to please the fundamentalists to clinch the lucrative pipeline contract.”

On December 4, 1997, a BBC correspondent said “the proposal to build a pipeline across Afghanistan is part of an international scramble to profit from developing the rich energy resources of the Caspian Sea.”

By recognizing the Taliban government, it would have been built and today’s quagmire avoided. Perhaps America’s graveyard also, no invader ever occupying Afghanistan successfully, not the Soviets or British, the UK government suffering its greatest ever slaughter and defeat in 1842, losing 16,000 soldiers and civilians, except one man, historians believing Afghans let him live to recount the horror. As a result, Britain withdrew all its personnel and left, a lesson now forgotten, about 9,500 UK troops deployed with Americans and other NATO forces.

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai was a former Unocal adviser when pipeline negotiations took place. He was also a CIA asset. Unocal claimed it abandoned the pipeline project. Secret talks, however, continued up to a few months before 9/11, Taliban representatives visiting the State Department, CIA, and National Security Council. They even had a Queens, New York diplomatic office, and US officials visited Taliban ones in Islamabad.

The French newspaper Le Figaro also quoted Arab specialist Antoine Sfeir, saying CIA operatives met with bin Laden (a CIA asset in the 1980s) and maintained contact with him until his training camp was attacked in 1998.

America’s fine line between enemies and friends is their willingness or reluctance to obey – do what we say or we’ll boycott or bomb you, a threat with teeth, revealed by Manning and WikiLeaks.

Revealing Disturbing Truths Is Risky

Held initially in Kuwait, a July 29 Baghdad Pentagon press release said:

“US Army officials transferred PFC Bradley Manning from the Theater Field Confinement Facility in Kuwait to the Marine Corps Base Quantico Brig in Quantico, Virginia, on July 29. (He) remains in pretrial confinement pending an Article 32 investigation (like a grand jury or preliminary hearing) into the charges preferred against him on July 5.”

“The criminal investigation remains open….findings and recommendations (will determine) whether to recommend (if) the case (will) be referred to trial by court-martial.” For sure, that’s what’s planned, the Pentagon and Obama administration to throw the book at him or worse unless somehow their plans are derailed.

On August 2, Congressman Mike Rogers (R. MI) told Michigan radio station WHMI that Manning should be executed, saying:

“He release(d) this information to a third party who they say will make the determination that there’s nothing harmful in it, while we know for a fact that there will be people that will likely be killed because of this information being disclosed. That’s pretty serious. If they don’t charge him with treason, they ought to charge him with murder.”

Asked if he should be punished by death, Rogers said: “Yes, and I would support it 100 percent.”

Federal Charges Against Manning

In early July, the Pentagon charged him with four noncriminal offenses, and eight violations of federal criminal law, including one count of violating the 1917 Espionage Act, accessed through the following link:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/07/06/us-will-press-crimin.html#more

Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) charges included:

* eight violations of federal criminal law, including unauthorized computer access and transmitting classified information to an unauthorized third party; and
* four noncriminal Army regulations violations, governing the handling of classified information and computers.

If convicted on all charges, he faces up to 52 years in prison.

The Bradley Manning Support Network

Access it for information about Manning through the following link:

http://www.bradleymanning.org/

Its purpose is to:

“Harness the outrage felt by millions (viewing) the ‘Collateral Murder’ video into a coordinated defense of Manning;

* Raise awareness” about his arrest, charges and likely court-martial;
* “Coordinate” efforts to support him;
* “Collect funds (for a) high-quality” defense;
* “Provide supporters with accurate, updated information as the” pretrial hearing and likely trial progress; and
* “Provide prisoner support for (him) throughout his imprisonment.”

Connected with Assange, he’s more vulnerable, a 2008 classified Counterintelligence Center report placing WikiLeaks on “the list of enemies threatening the security of the United States,” discussing ways to destroy its reputation and effectiveness, saying:

“Web sites such as WikiLeaks.org have trust as their most important center of gravity by protecting the anonymity and identity of the insider, leaker, or whistleblower. Successful identification, prosecution, termination of employment, and exposure of persons leaking the information by the governments and businesses affected by information posted to WikiLeaks.org would damage and potentially destroy this center of gravity and deter others from taking similar actions.”

With Manning in custody and facing trial, score one for the Pentagon, expected to exploit his case to the fullest to set an example and deter others. He’ll likely be convicted and imprisoned, not executed as Congressman Rogers wants.

Law Professor Francis Boyle “believe(s) a treason charge wo(n’t) stick (because) Congress has not declared war.” The best outcome for military resisters he helped defend was to “get them off of prison time, out of the military, or else minimum time served.” He and others also got Amnesty International to designate Capt. Dr. Huett Vaughn, Staff Sgt. Mejia, and Lt. Ehren Watada Prisoners of Conscience (POC).

Watada was the first commissioned officer refusing to deploy to Iraq, saying: “as an officer of honor and integrity, (he could not participate in a war that was) manifestly illegal….morally wrong (and) a horrible breach of American law.”

As a result, he faced court-martial, a possible dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and seven years in prison, but got off thanks to Boyle and others. Before his Article 32 hearing, he publicly called the war illegal. Not wanting that revealed in testimony, the presiding judge declared a mistrial. He’d lost control, knew Watada was right, and had to suppress the truth to avoid an acquittal possibility on constitutional grounds.

Afghanistan is also illegal, Boyle explaining that Congress never declared war. The UN Security never authorized it under Article 51, and the Taliban never “attacked the United States or authorized or approved such an attack.” In public testimony, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and CIA’s then Deputy Director John McLaughlin admitted finding no link between the Taliban and 9/11.

Nonetheless, the Bush administration preemptively attacked in violation of US and international law. Obama is a war criminal pursuing and escalating it, expanding it cross border into Pakistan, and continuing the Iraq conflict and occupation.

American forces may refuse to serve, citing US and international law, including Army Field Manual (FM) 27 – 10, incorporating the Nuremberg Principles, Judgment and Charter and The Law of Land Warfare (1956).

FM’s paragraph 498 states that any person, military or civilian, who commits a crime under international law is responsible for it and may be punished. Paragraph 499 defines a war crime. Paragraph 500 refers to a conspiracy, attempts to commit it and complicity with respect to international crimes. Paragraph 509 denies the defense of superior orders in the commission of a crime, and paragraph 510 denies the defense of an “act of state” to absolve them.

These provisions apply to all US military and civilian personnel, including top commanders, the Secretary of Defense, his subordinates, and the President and Vice President. Boyle calls resisting lawlessness “our Nuremberg moment.” Those refusing them and exposing crimes should be praised, not prosecuted.

Manning provided evidence and may denounce the war’s illegality, perhaps using it as a defense. He found crimes, needing to be exposed, acting honorably and heroically doing it as did WikiLeaks by publishing them anonymously.

In edited chat logs posted by Wired.com, Manning admitted “want(ing) people to see the truth….regardless of who they are….because without information, you cannot make informed decisions….” He never considered selling it to foreign powers or anyone, saying: “information should be free….it belongs in the public domain….if it’s out in the open….it should be a public good,” exposing crimes and corruption to generate “worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms.”

That’s honor, not espionage or treason, Manning saying:

“Everywhere there’s a US post, there’s a diplomatic scandal (to) be revealed. World-wide anarchy in CVS format. It’s Climategate with a global scope, and breathtaking depth. It’s beautiful and horrifying. (The documents describe) almost criminal political back dealings. (They belong) in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark corner in Washington, DC (or the Pentagon. Our government is involved in) incredible things, awful things.”

He exposed cold-blooded civilian murders, the public unaware that Pentagon rules-of-engagement (ROEs) target them like combatants in every warfare theater. Waging permanent wars of aggression, America acts lawlessly and recklessly. The public has a right to know. Manning and Assange are heros, deserving plaudits for their courage.

A Final Note

On Sunday, August 8, a public rally will be held outside the Quantico, VA, Marine base, supporting Manning. War criminals remain free uncharged. Manning, an American hero, faces 52 years in prison for exposing their crimes.

Senior Editor Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/

licentious; Zolaesque, in the manner or style of Zola, the French novelist.

bartelby.net/81/13699.html

Told ya! ;)

Mooooo

Free Democracy

becomes the governor...

I'm already disgusted....

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

yes. dammit.

Nobody

.

So weird to see you here...brings up all this "stuff" for me...

but wtf are you talking about shelly?

"What a coincidence that the boners who never post here
new
Submitted by Alice on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 11:51pm."

and as soon as the blog broke then the next thread that showed and there were a bunch of people who haven't been here in moons...

Hmm...but maybe THAT was telepathy? ....that's kinda cool.

but then there was Mel and Chubbs...

and other ones I don't recall now...and I said to myself...

Hmmmm..? (As I often do in life)....

no more than when everyone wakes up when the sun rises...

I believe that I tried to make the point before that circumstance determines action regardless of free will...

but if you wanna see an invisible hand semaphoring subscipt from brain to brain and having that determine their actions you go right on ahead...

you have been wearing your safety gear when skating right?...lol

[tease]

I ended up as the webs mistress, head Non Skating Official (stat keeper) and media contact for the league...

Last year on my birthday ..long story short it cost too much in a lot of ways money, time, pain to be injured.

Plus I'm pretty convinced now that I can't hit people when I'm not mad, and even when I am mad, like I was knocked down once by a team mate and she even felt bad for how hard she hit me and so I would try, she would try even, to get me to re-feel that and I just really didn't have it in me to hit... and especially for something that is supposed to be fun...and I couldn't live with the potential consequences that I'd thought up in my own mind...(Though that injury was real...I am only now able (within the last week, able to sit cross legged on the floor)...it hurt!

that there is proof positive somethings deeply wrong with you...

naw...I've checked in on the blog quite often and just not posted...I assume it's been similiar with others...

however, elections are coming up and that always turns ppls political interest up a notch...

part of the thing I think that puts a lot of the old timers off is the posting of long articles...that used to be frowned upon cuz it screwed up ppl being able to talk...

like a bat out of hell (but real!)....

there are so few and far between posts that I felt like it was an ok time..plus I'm peevish :) I have a very sick cat and a lot of work shit going on for months now and school starts next Monday...plus I have way too many other derby and cat rescue things to do that I'm all in a fuckitall mood.

-however, elections are coming up-

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

(Seriously, do we still call them that? I thought they were called.."We're going to fuck you, and we're going to fuck you hard")

we had the whole place to ourselves...I just like to skate by myself with music...and I like to be on a derby league because those chicks fucking rule...In derby and work I'm always with women...as co-skaters and workers...(I just realized this.)

lol...yes by damn I will laugh at your pain...I'm proud of you for trying...I'm proud of your for your battle injury...

In some cultures...the harder someone hits you the more they respect you...because basically they're saying..you look strong...I think that you can take it...kapow...

Guys know this...especially guys with brothers to wrestle as they're growing up...trust me...I hit my lil brother as hard as I could...and am damned proud of the scars he gave me...

Someone obviously respected you as a warrior...

[grin]

how're you. you have no idea how much I should not be typing this. And now all I can do is not type the next thing. Even if I deleted it I still would have typed it.

Damn I really don't mind all niters if at the end of the night you actually got the shit done but...but.. but...

bye

A veces
pienso en ti
en lo que pudo ser
en tu ternura presa
en las deshoras

-Claribel Alegria

"en lo que pudo ser" is my favorite part. Sometime I'll explain why. Not right now though.

Sounds way too nice Alicia en el pais.

Never have trouble with that shit, but there was a definite hang. I shall hang different things there later b/c...well you know. Sorry about things that are shit Alice.

lol...ya...they still call em that...

we've been playing this game of domination and trickery of the masses as a species for the last 12 thousand years or so...

it's just different now because we're on the verge of becoming something else...something less fragile... something less shortlived...

but I digress...

it's just too bad that the elite are working under false and outdated assumptions...

makes me wonder sometimes if someone is pulling their strings without them knowing it...

that makes me feel way better than I've felt since I stopped...

-pulling their strings without them knowing it.-

If we're all one..blah blah...I don't know what's up with what...But I'll tell you this..I mentally patted myself on the back when I realized I got all the way home from work and didn't know anything about jet blue guy until I put on the east coast feed of jimmy fallon....

I was just talking to you on email and here you are too.. over here...How's it going?

Gotta shut up and study.

Haitian Fight Song is THE BEST all niter song. That's the last you'll hear outta me.

-Haitian Fight Song-

04...but I will have to hear it again...nite gski...Blog

don't even tell me wtf that is...I don't want to know

;( I'm in a "Jet Blue guy" mood. ;}
teahee lol

Sounds like the resume of Glen Beck:

David G. Neeleman (born October 16, 1959) is the founder and former CEO of JetBlue Airways and also founder of Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras.

Neeleman, Brazilian-born United States-based of Dutch and North American descent, was born in São Paulo and lived there until he was five.[1] He attended Brighton High School in Cottonwood Heights, Utah, and attended the University of Utah for three years before dropping out. He served a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In September 2008 JetBlue began operating Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin's campaign aircraft, an E190.

What "Card Check" is about:

...in 2006, the IAM (International Association of Machinists) attempted to unionize JetBlue's "ramp service workers," in a move that was described by JetBlue's COO Dave Barger as "pretty hypocritical," as the IAM opposed JetBlue's creation when it was founded as New Air in 1998. The union organizing petition was dismissed by the National Mediation Board because fewer than 35 percent of eligible employees supported an election.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBlue_Airways

The "crimes" of Mr. Slater:

Steven Slater, 39, was arrested at his nearby home by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police on charges of criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and trespassing.
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/09/2139647/jetblue-flight-attendant-ar...

http://www.troubleworldwide.com/

they are some people who I will help with their show thursday at Lincoln center outdoors.

they are based in Oakland CA and they might think their show is political

most artistic statements have some political content I would Imagine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVHoaTmvBFM&feature=player_embedded

Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing

The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline.

There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that's OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We'd still be investigating this extraordinary phenomenon.....

what on earth is the EU doing when it cosies up to the Israelis? In a remarkable, detailed – if slightly over-infuriated – book to be published in November, the indefatigable David Cronin is going to present a microscopic analysis of "our" relations with Israel. I have just finished reading the manuscript. It leaves me breathless. As he says in his preface, "Israel has developed such strong political and economic ties to the EU over the past decade that it has become a member state of the union in all but name." Indeed, it was Javier Solana, the grubby top dog of the EU's foreign policy (formerly Nato secretary general), who actually said last year that "Israel, allow me to say, is a member of the European Union without being a member of the institution".

Pardon me? Did we know this? Did we vote for this? Who allowed this to happen?...

..... In 1999, Britain's arms sales to Israel – a country occupying the West Bank (and Gaza, too) and building illegal colonies for Jews and Jews only on Arab land – were worth £11.5m; within two years, this had almost doubled to £22.5m.....
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-israe...

either the cosmos was sending her a message to put the ribs down or don't do gigs with condi rice even if it is for charity.

rightwing radio was saying she faked it because she didn't want to play charlie Rangel's birthday party. now that is far fetched.

and I don't understand why they are always attacked.

put the pipe down TZ and walk away from the blog.

I wish I had a pipe that would get me that oblivious
to reality.
Nettie ( the monster from the Mediterranean) is already booked for the dick cheney memorial service, that damn heart pump is delaying the invasion of Iran already.

Kerry, Torricelli and a Mysterious Frontgroup
Who Mugged Howard Dean in Iowa?
By CHARLES LEWIS

As Mark Twain once put it, "A truth is not hard to kill and a lie told well is immortal."

In the 21st century in the United States of America, it is still astonishingly easy to assassinate a political opponent's character, with little or no accountability or basis in fact. It is hardly new to politics anywhere that money and the messages it buys often create devastating perceptions. But such smear tactics are more serious and offensive when they benefit major "mainstream" candidates seeking the Presidency, are utilized anonymously by mysterious, outside organizations and they occur in the wake of recent, historic, campaign finance reform and new political disclosure requirements. Today, Americans for Jobs released new disclosure forms to the IRS with an additional $337,000 bringing the 527's total receipts to $1 million.

On November 7, 2003, a strange new group no one had ever heard of called "Americans for Jobs & Healthcare" was quietly formed and soon thereafter began running a million dollar operation including political ads against then-frontrunner Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean. The commercials ripped Dean over his positions or past record on gun rights, trade and Medicare growth. But the most inflammatory ad used the visual image of Osama bin Laden as a way to raise questions about Dean's foreign policy credibility. While the spots ran, Americans for Jobs-through its then- spokesman, Robert Gibbs, a former Kerry campaign employee-refused to disclose its donors.

The Dean campaign cried foul, but no one, including the news media, could figure out exactly who was behind "Americans for Jobs." The disturbing mystery was partly solved by Jim VandeHei of the Washington Post on February 11, after reviewing public Internal Revenue Service records filed under Section 527 of federal tax law. Unfortunately for voters and the general public, that legal disclosure information was filed January 30, 2004, nine days after the Iowa caucuses in which Massachusetts Senator John Kerry upset former Vermont governor Howard Dean. Those contribution records were updated again with another $337,000 in donations on March 4, 2004, for a total of exactly $1 million that the group raised.

Continue reading here...
http://www.counterpunch.org/lewis03062004.html

thanks for reminding me Cee Cee. and Gibbs is just a stool I mean tool of the blue dog fake out party. BDFP

Gibbs did what his master wanted so I guess we are back to Obama is not what we hoped for. ..
. My eye drops went up 50% in the last year. yea thats the ticket Obama is hurting the little guy. i still think he thinks he is at Harvard Business school.

Grayson/Weiner or Sanders/ Kucinich for the dems next time around. If we make it around the bend..

US to sell Kuwait Patriot anti-ballistic missile system

"This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a major non-Nato ally which has been, and continues to be, an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East," the DCSA said on its website.

"Kuwait needs these missiles to meet current and future threats of enemy air-to-ground weapons. Kuwait will use the increased capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defence."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10945524

Article on it:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20100811robert_gibbs_s...

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Malloy was all over this last night. (Is Malloy one of our OLDEST Left professionals?)

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I think Gibbs makes no statements as Press Secretary that are his own, but his words and their tone are the words of Barack Obama and Rahm Emmanuel.

But is Gibbs on automatic pilot on this? And is his automatic pilot stuck on UNDOING the Left -- as was Gibbs' job during the 2004 Election when he took money from Kerry et al to UNDO Dr. Howard Dean's campaign?

Dismissing the Left while having private meetings with the Right -- this is the Obama Way now, and Gibbs' arrogant lip-flapping against the Left indicates the obvious mood at the White House: Political EXPLOITATION of the Left is fine; delivering anything substantive the Left wants to see is a "no-no".

Gibbs should RESIGN. He is dismissive and demeaning of the Left while simultaneously being demurely silent about he Rightwing. If his resignation were an issue -- MAYBE then the Obama White House would get the message before the election. (But there is always the Corporatist Mission to make sure the game plan is followed: That the President will get an opposition Congress and allow Corporations to continue to PRIVATIZE the nation. Is Obama making sure that he will deliver that to the Corporate Sector by making sure the Left is alienated completely and does NOT participate and drops out this election?)

THE NEW OBAMA LOGO I suggest: A Platter with Less Than a Half a Loaf of Bread. Because Obama NEVER wants to deliver the whole loaf, even if it would secur full satisfaction to those who voted for him.

But for shure, when Gibbs opens his lips, just remember he speaks for Barack Obama.

"Is Malloy one of our OLDEST Left professionals?"

If John Lennon were still alive he'd be just two years older than Malloy. What I found most offensive about Gibb's assault on us, was the cheap swipe he took at Dennis Kucinich. Yes, Mr. Gibbs, many would rather have Dennis as president than barack. For starters, we wouldn't have to hear your shit.
We just got 900 million from Kuwait for missiles. I doubt, Dennis will get the 20 million he wanted to create the Dept. of Peace.
John Lennon died the year Reagan began his presidency. No one on the left has begun to undo the damage done by Reagan-- or even really challenge that damage. Gibb's, Rahm, and probably also barack would have hated Lennon, and probably Dr. King too.

...I AM SHOCKED!

Garden & Gun Draws Wrath of NRA for Turning Down Ad
But audience reaction shows how mag has bridged 'garden,' 'gun' crowds.

By Matt Kinsman
08/10/2010 -10:22 AM

Recently, the National Rifle Association's member magazine America's First Freedom took Garden & Gun to task for not accepting an ad from the organization. The NRA claimed it was a politically-motivated decision that doesn't stand up for a demographic Garden & Gun claims to serve. According to Garden & Gun, the magazine has a policy of not accepting political ads of any stripe.

"We regret that they chose to write about us without checking their sources with us and were disappointed by their decision to criticize us for refusing their ad without having their facts correct," president and CEO Rebecca Darwin tells me. "From the beginning, we've had a policy of not accepting any political or advocacy advertisement, and in our view this ad fell into that category. The idea that this was controversial is taken out of context as we are, in fact, members of the NRA and clearly run favorable ads of guns and hunting in every issue."
Continue reading here:
http://www.foliomag.com/2010/garden-gun-earns-wrath-nra-turning-down-ad

Rogers named CEO of Johnson Publishing, parent of Ebony magazine
August 10, 2010
BY SANDRA GUY

Desiree Rogers, former White House social secretary and Illinois Lottery director, has been named chief executive officer of Johnson Publishing Company, the Chicago-based publisher of Ebony and JET magazines, the company announced today.

Rogers, who left the White House early this year after two uninvited guests crashed a state dinner in November, had been working as a consultant to the company since June 5.

Linda Johnson Rice, daughter of the company’s founder who held the CEO title, will remain as chairman.

The two women are known to be good friends.

“Desiree has a proven track record of successful business leadership,” Rice said in a statement.

Rogers will oversee day-to-day operations and be responsible for aligning core business strategies for all of the company’s brands.

Rogers said in a statement, “I consider it an honor to help continue the 68-year legacy of such a phenomenal company and its iconic brands.”

Johnson Publishing, beset by falling advertising revenues, recently started a management reshuffling, beginning with the June 3 announcement that the company is no longer for sale and the hiring that same day of Amy DuBois Barnett as the new editor in chief of Ebony magazine.
Continue reading here:
http://www.suntimes.com/business/2583442,desiree-rogers-johnson-publishi...

John Lennon died the year Reagan began his presidency. No one on the left has begun to undo the damage done by Reagan-- or even really challenge that damage. Gibb's, Rahm, and probably also barack would have hated Lennon, and probably Dr. King too.
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Lennon was a minor player on the left. And only for a short time. Remember he hid out from 1975-1980. Artists like Alen Ginsberg and Pete Seeger were far more involved with the left. And for a much longer time. Some of his songs have been picked up as anthems over the years.

"Take care of the planet and love each other, because we are all one." --Michael Jackson

Her effort inspired Jackson's "Earth Song," a fan started a tree-planting fundraiser:
www.amilliontreesformichael.com

or, go to:
www.americanforests.org

...affordable housing for US.

Rachel Maddow

Tonight

20100811

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and I vote for Gibbs to resign.

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I'll take my slight off line thank you.

according to Rob Shapiro.
This statement by Rob Shapiro was published in the Financial Times and scared the living daylights out of me when I found out about it ... and I am thinking about it every day:

Shapiro:
“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership,” says Rob Shapiro, another former Clinton official, in the Times story. “He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38226

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I can't remember if the Shapiro statement has been posted here. I finally found it in this article discussing Hillary Clinton loyalist stuff.

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ghetto,
I so agree with you. Obama doesn't care about people like John Lennon and Martin Luther jr.

They spoke about Peace and Love. They believed the world could be changed and many people believed so, too. But that was a dangerous thing to do. Not that we really understood it at the time. When I first read that the CIA had a file on Lennon I thought it was odd but now ... OH Boy .... conspiracy theory.

Pres. Kennedy, Bob Kennedy, Martin Luther Jr, John Lennon .... all killed by the lonely gunman.

===And Gibbs must resign. Immediately.

IMO One of our most significant cultural symbols was John Lennon.
He was a symbol of his time. Like Elvis Presley before him.

My two favorite anthropologists (symbolic anthropology ) who interpret the significant symbols in culture are Clifford Geertz and Victor Turner.

"At the University of Chicago, Geertz became a "champion of symbolic anthropology," which gives prime attention to the role of symbols in society. Culture, outlined by Geertz in his famous book The Interpretation of Cultures (1973), is conceived of "a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which people communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life." The function of culture is therefore to impose meaning on the world and make it understandable. As Geertz put it:

The concept of culture I espouse…is essentially a semiotic one. Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretative one in search of meaning. It is explication I am after…. (Geertz [1973] 2000).

The role of anthropologists is thus to try, as far as possible, to interpret the significant symbols in each culture."

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Clifford_Geertz

I go to the Haitien Fight.

(STFU.)

tomorrow before 8. or I die.

Gibbs--stool

hahahahaha :)

The next time you see James in real life tell him fucked up the rhyme.

(off line)

been missing you lots .. we all have

so sorry to hear that Princess is still so sick
I am sending positive energy and vibes to her
and hope she doesn't suffer pain

"We're going to have to use intuition & telepathy..."

Yeah. I better start practicing ...

^%^&* and %^&*&^% to google/verizon et al

but to you
Peace and Love ( cause it is all we need :)
bridge

xo

it.

And that is just wrong.

have appeared on the Jersey Shore. This is serious and the news is incomplete.
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Pakistan is so fucked and millions are effected

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just watched a doco on Mohamed Ali. I remember my black neighbors at the time being so confused about his unwillingness to assimilate and stop being so uppity. I would love to hear Obama reflect on Ali's anti war stance.
Ali is a great man and he was important to the anti war movement. Charlie Rangel's idea to reinstate the draft has merit. if You have to go to war at twenty one might think twice about the need to do the slave masters bidding..
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I still have strong positive feelings for lennon and Pete Seeger. and That Muslim Boxer all share that anti war spirit. I see a common thread in all humans who choose to just say no. Look for people's good points and listen to the People that express this in the way that works for you.

spending so much time on the US Army? She wants it to be an even better killing machine. Where are her values? Oh, that's right; she's a liberal--not a leftist.

Cant wait for a month of stored up reflections. I will get my sunglasses out for sure.

hey oski

tell me yourself - [I liked your highlighted video, on your channel - couldn't understand a word - well... except for those few I could.]
[bye - off again]

in the rights of gay women. I never thought of her as pro army. I saw her interview with the West Point Soldier(female) who decided she wants out. I think that people work for a goal (like being a liberated gay army woman) and then they wake up and say "fuck it I don't want to be part of the killing machine." I am Glad the soldier woke up and is quitting the Army. I see that common thread of anti war and I am hopeful that that story will inspire others to join the peace Corps or something like it..

any way that Nettie Monster of the Mediterrainean said he listens to the Beatles up until the Sargent Pepper time. He said the beatles music got too weird for him.
(Just for that I will always like John Lennon.) I hope someone slips some acid into his hummus before he acts out of his anger and tries to take down Iran.;

Why is Rachel
Submitted by Leah on Wed, 08/11/2010 - 11:35pm.
spending so much time on the US Army? She wants it to be an even better killing machine...
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Brilliant analysis.

While your head is up there you should look for polyps.

suave brasilera. Tranquillo, buenas noches amigo

bed now bye bye

I didn't see the Rachel Maddow thing being about the ARMY.

I saw it as people being trashed by a government machine that was so chocked full of right wing christians by the Bushies that even the top commanders are reticent to confront them for the distruptions they may cause. [Rachel didn't mention this but why else the deley in stopping DADT]

and also

Rachel pointing out in her gentle heartfelt way

that the President is satisfied to let "things" run their slow course

-in all things-

and not standing up for what he believes in

.

So I see Poetry and Art in Rachel's attempt to try and get into Obama's head

and because I like to turn things over and flip them around I apply the frustration Gibbs was expressing

to myself [because I am frustrated lately]

and when I try to share the beautiful moments I saw Rachel Maddow create with the only outlet I know

What's the response?

"Why is Rachel talking about the ARMY?"

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and I'll take my slight offline - night

What's with the vicious attack, CB? Anyway, my comments were more of an observation than an analysis. If she ever became critical of militarism, she would not be working for MSNBC long. Simple point.

to keep me honest...

(you know I haven't watched her in so long I forget how she does that shit...

but anyway, two small pieces of an adderall in the bottom of zip lock baggy.

Ground hog day, by Dante...fucking Gypsy paper. I am weighing my options.

Not really. Bye.

Say something.

in the rights of gay women. I never thought of her as pro army. I saw her interview with the West Point Soldier(female) who decided she wants out. I think that people work for a goal (like being a liberated gay army woman) and then they wake up and say "fuck it I don't want to be part of the killing machine." I am Glad the soldier woke up and is quitting the Army. I see that common thread of anti war and I am hopeful that that story will inspire others to join the peace Corps or something like it..
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I agree pretty. hey, I am a utopian. I dream of a world where we don't waste billions on military spending and wars and so forth. I should have realized who my audience is here and not make crackpot statements that reflect my values.
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Get out of Iraq! And Afghanistan!
Money for jobs
Not for war!

Didn't work out so well.

Does everyone forget? We Need War. How else will we keep population in a "false" balance?

MwahHaHa
Tea Cheers Glory... ;)

clear the hell alergia""?

Prosodically it is definitely wrong, which might be bad karma all by itself.

Even when my eyes were open my brain weren't doin' nothin. OLd. Sleepy. No good drugs with.

Fuckfuckfuck. WAAAAAAAH!!!

here lately, which is probably good.