Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Stan Cohen's `Folk Devils and Moral Panics' was a brilliant and subtle exercise in grounded theory
A folk devil is a person or group of people who are portrayed in folklore or the media as outsiders and deviant, and who are blamed for crimes or other sorts of social problems
A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order.[
Prof. Scott A. Bonn of Drew University talks about his important new book: Mass Deception–Moral Panic and the US War on Iraq which makes a statistical case and a rational case that BushCo statements led the American public to support the invasion and occupation of Iraq.(podcast)
A moral panic is the intensity of feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order.[
Prof. Scott A. Bonn of Drew University talks about his important new book: Mass Deception–Moral Panic and the US War on Iraq which makes a statistical case and a rational case that BushCo statements led the American public to support the invasion and occupation of Iraq.(podcast)
Monday, January 10, 2011
Gene Sperling Added to Obama Staff as National Economic Council Director
Sperling was a principal negotiator with then-Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers of the Financial Modernization Act of 1999, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Gramm-Leach-Bliley repealed large portions of the depression-era Glass-Stegall Act allowing banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge.
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Evidence of an American Plutocracy: The Larry Summers Story
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Should Economists Reveal Who Pays Them?
Gramm-Leach-Bliley repealed large portions of the depression-era Glass-Stegall Act allowing banks, securities firms and insurance companies to merge.
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Evidence of an American Plutocracy: The Larry Summers Story
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Should Economists Reveal Who Pays Them?
Body of Wife of Senior White House Official Found in Burning Car
Rosa DeLauro owned the house in which Rahm Emanuel lived rent-free(illegally) during House sessions for five years.
Ashley Turton, as DeLauro's chief of staff, probably wrote the checks to pay bills on that condo and would be privy to "extra" expenses.
“One issue is whether Emanuel, who served in the House with DeLauro until early January (2009), should have listed the room either as a gift or as income on his congressional financial disclosure forms,” Washington-based correspondent Andrew Zajac wrote in the Chicago Tribune on Feb. 24, 2009.
Ashley Turton, as DeLauro's chief of staff, probably wrote the checks to pay bills on that condo and would be privy to "extra" expenses.
“One issue is whether Emanuel, who served in the House with DeLauro until early January (2009), should have listed the room either as a gift or as income on his congressional financial disclosure forms,” Washington-based correspondent Andrew Zajac wrote in the Chicago Tribune on Feb. 24, 2009.
Pentagon Child Porn Scandal:
A major federal investigation has found that dozens of military officials and defense contractors, including some with top-level security clearances, allegedly bought and downloaded child pornography on private or government computers.
nothing to see here
nothing to see here
Coup d’état - The Historical Framework of Globalization
Silently, and carefully hidden from public scrutiny, a coup d’état occurred in 1913 in the United States of America.
The results of this bloodless coup are being felt today on a truly global scale. With careful, detailed planning, representatives of the most powerful financial institutions in both Europe and the United States succeeded through the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act (also known as the Glass-Owen bill) in radically and permanently altering the foundations of the nation as a whole.
The results of this bloodless coup are being felt today on a truly global scale. With careful, detailed planning, representatives of the most powerful financial institutions in both Europe and the United States succeeded through the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act (also known as the Glass-Owen bill) in radically and permanently altering the foundations of the nation as a whole.
Haves versus Havenots
Luxury outlets saw an 8.1pc rise from a year ago, but discount stores catering to America’s poorer half rose just 1.2pc.
Sunday, January 09, 2011
These are Budget Tables from the govt. and cover their budget projections until 2020(pdf)
Interesting information which isn´t covered. For example they aim to increase receipts AKA taxes by 45% by 2015 and almost 100% by 2020.
Total lalaland stuff as usual from this bankrupt mess.
Total lalaland stuff as usual from this bankrupt mess.
Special exemptions to be written into Freedom of Information Act
The Royal Family is to be granted absolute protection from public scrutiny in a controversial legal reform designed to draw a veil of secrecy over the affairs of the Queen, Prince Charles and Prince William.
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One of the happiest moments a FOIA requester has is when he (or she) wins a FOIA appeal and gets to see what exactly the government was trying to hide.
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One of the happiest moments a FOIA requester has is when he (or she) wins a FOIA appeal and gets to see what exactly the government was trying to hide.
Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline Remains Shut Down
Saturday, January 08, 2011
Gabby Giffords was clearly a very courageous woman talking with MSNBC so calmly after her office was vandalized after her health care reform vote
Rep. Giffords is one of the biggest champions of solar energy in Congress and has worked during her time there for national energy reform that will dramatically scale up our use of renewable energy.
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U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is on Sarah Palin’s hit list
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SarahPac Called for Arizona Congresswoman to be 'Targeted'
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Westboro Baptist Response
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U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is on Sarah Palin’s hit list
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SarahPac Called for Arizona Congresswoman to be 'Targeted'
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Westboro Baptist Response
Friday, January 07, 2011
Drone may be coming to Miami-Dade
covered on MEFI
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New Mexican American War Nears: Drones Portend Deadly Attacks!
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New Mexican American War Nears: Drones Portend Deadly Attacks!
Thursday, January 06, 2011
Defense secretary announces billions in budget cuts
In addition, Gates said the Army, Navy and Air Force had found $100 billion of savings that they would retain, allowing them to continue developing major weapons and modernizing their forces over the next five years.
They cut 78 billion but "found" 100 billion to carry on their agenda
hahahahaha
Gates said the budget for fiscal 2012 will be $553 billion.
They cut 78 billion but "found" 100 billion to carry on their agenda
hahahahaha
Gates said the budget for fiscal 2012 will be $553 billion.
An investigation of spending by televangelists wrapped up after three years Thursday with no penalties for the pastors who refused to cooperate
Ha Ha, sounds like The Federal Reserve Won't Tell Congress Were Two Trillion In Taxpayer Money Went
or how about Rove avoids subpoena by fleeing the country.
Or the Morgan Stanley money manager that got out of a hit and run in Vail because he might lose his job
and don't even mention Oliver North or Scooter Libby
But they can get you, slave, for petty crimes and you do the time.
or how about Rove avoids subpoena by fleeing the country.
Or the Morgan Stanley money manager that got out of a hit and run in Vail because he might lose his job
and don't even mention Oliver North or Scooter Libby
But they can get you, slave, for petty crimes and you do the time.
The Ministry of Communications recently announced that China now has 65,000km of highways across the nation, making it the second largest in the world
According to the strategic plan for highway development in 2005,by 2020, China will establish a national highway network, totaling 100,000 kilometers, about the length in the United States today.
Chinese officials say they will limit the number of new license plates issued in 2011 to 240,000 to help control traffic congestion.
Chinese officials say they will limit the number of new license plates issued in 2011 to 240,000 to help control traffic congestion.
Protecting rich old duffers at country clubs from bioterror
One of the press release recommendation:
Move ice-makers to more secure locations where they can be monitored. “So many times these machines are kept out of the way, but ice is a heavily used product,” Olds said.
Move ice-makers to more secure locations where they can be monitored. “So many times these machines are kept out of the way, but ice is a heavily used product,” Olds said.
John P Wheeler III: Former Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force, Member of Council on Foreign Relations,Found Dumped in Landfill
Murdered Bush Aide Was An Expert In Chemical & Biological Warfare & Had Highest Security Clearances!
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At 6:42 p.m., he stumbled into the Hypark parking garage next to the New Castle County Courthouse holding one shoe in his hand and looking for his car.
He told several people he had been robbed of his briefcase including parking attendant Iman Goldsborough.
Goldsborough told Action News that Wheeler seemed dazed and cold. He had no overcoat on and had one of his shoes in his hand and the other on his foot.
He kind of looked disoriented she said.
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Wheeler, as special assistant to Wynne, would have known about the dual nuclear chain-of-command established by Vice President Dick Cheney, bypassing the Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, that resulted in a spate of nuclear surety and security incidents during 2007 and 2008.
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possible disinfo--To the direct reason for Wheeler’s murder, this report says, was this past week’s transport of Iraqi Phosgene poisonous gas aboard a US Air Force KC-767 tanker aircraft from Little Rock Air Force Base en route to Afghanistan that shortly after takeoff had a ‘critical malfunction’ of its aerial spraying computer directed command and control system over central Arkansas causing the deaths of thousands of red-wing blackbirds.
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These aerial spraying planes, this report continues, are based at the Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas that over the past few months have been involved with ‘test dispersants’ of poisonous gasses in the Afghanistan War Theater using chemical weapons stocks obtained from Iraq and held at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, also located in Arkansas. Important to note about the Pine Bluff Arsenal, which calls itself “America’s Arsenal”, is that it is one of the World’s most specialized munitions and chemical-biological defense products and services bases which Russia had previously accused of not fully reporting the chemical agents removed from Iraq, between 2003 and 2008, and taken to the US for testing and subsequent destruction. According to this report, the US relocated from Iraq to the Pine Bluff Arsenal an estimated 63,000 metric tonnes of the poisonous gas Phosgene that is described as one of the most feared chemical weapons ever used due to its ability to literally cause the lungs and respiratory system to explode.
Nearly immediately after Russia accused the US this past summer of not fully destroying Iraq’s Phosgene poisonous gas stockpile the Pine Bluff Arsenal began an ‘accelerated’ disposal programme injecting it deep into the ground in central Arkansas, but which, unfortunately, since this past September, has caused over 500 minor earthquakes to occur raising the concerns of their local population.
More frightening, however, is the claim made in this report that the Americans have also begun shipping ‘massive quantities’ of Iraq’s Phosgene poisonous gas stocks to Afghanistan where when used they will be able to say they had nothing to do with it, and believe no one will be able to prove it either.
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And what did he have in a hidden compartment under his kitchen floor?
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At 6:42 p.m., he stumbled into the Hypark parking garage next to the New Castle County Courthouse holding one shoe in his hand and looking for his car.
He told several people he had been robbed of his briefcase including parking attendant Iman Goldsborough.
Goldsborough told Action News that Wheeler seemed dazed and cold. He had no overcoat on and had one of his shoes in his hand and the other on his foot.
He kind of looked disoriented she said.
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Wheeler, as special assistant to Wynne, would have known about the dual nuclear chain-of-command established by Vice President Dick Cheney, bypassing the Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, that resulted in a spate of nuclear surety and security incidents during 2007 and 2008.
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possible disinfo--To the direct reason for Wheeler’s murder, this report says, was this past week’s transport of Iraqi Phosgene poisonous gas aboard a US Air Force KC-767 tanker aircraft from Little Rock Air Force Base en route to Afghanistan that shortly after takeoff had a ‘critical malfunction’ of its aerial spraying computer directed command and control system over central Arkansas causing the deaths of thousands of red-wing blackbirds.
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These aerial spraying planes, this report continues, are based at the Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas that over the past few months have been involved with ‘test dispersants’ of poisonous gasses in the Afghanistan War Theater using chemical weapons stocks obtained from Iraq and held at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, also located in Arkansas. Important to note about the Pine Bluff Arsenal, which calls itself “America’s Arsenal”, is that it is one of the World’s most specialized munitions and chemical-biological defense products and services bases which Russia had previously accused of not fully reporting the chemical agents removed from Iraq, between 2003 and 2008, and taken to the US for testing and subsequent destruction. According to this report, the US relocated from Iraq to the Pine Bluff Arsenal an estimated 63,000 metric tonnes of the poisonous gas Phosgene that is described as one of the most feared chemical weapons ever used due to its ability to literally cause the lungs and respiratory system to explode.
Nearly immediately after Russia accused the US this past summer of not fully destroying Iraq’s Phosgene poisonous gas stockpile the Pine Bluff Arsenal began an ‘accelerated’ disposal programme injecting it deep into the ground in central Arkansas, but which, unfortunately, since this past September, has caused over 500 minor earthquakes to occur raising the concerns of their local population.
More frightening, however, is the claim made in this report that the Americans have also begun shipping ‘massive quantities’ of Iraq’s Phosgene poisonous gas stocks to Afghanistan where when used they will be able to say they had nothing to do with it, and believe no one will be able to prove it either.
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And what did he have in a hidden compartment under his kitchen floor?
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Technology created 50 rainstorms in Abu Dhabi's Al Ain region last year
The greatest thing about this article is the picture of the pompous Queen with the President of the United Arab Emirates
The Queen's 1957 Christmas message on YouTube
The Queen's 1957 Christmas message on YouTube
Monday, January 03, 2011
Sunday, January 02, 2011
Nick Gillespie: "Enjoy Your Rights While You Still Can"
Reason's Nick Gillespie gave the keynote speech at the Independence Institute's 8th Annual "Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms Party" in Colorado. He was asked to speak on the theme of "enjoying your freedoms while you still can."
Top White House economic advisor warned Sunday that a congressional failure to rise the nation's debt limit early this year would be "catastrophic."
The current debt limit is $14.3 trillion, which Washington is expected to hit in February.
The Air Force's new airborne surveillance system called Gorgon Stare and will transmit live video images of physical movement across an entire town.
Air Force names new drone after Greek she-monster Gorgon: what could go wrong? - Boing Boing
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Houston Police Use Drones to Spy on Public
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Houston Police Use Drones to Spy on Public
Saturday, January 01, 2011
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