According to this report in The New York Times, you and I are paying to train "elite antiterror troops" in Africa:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/world/africa/us-trains-african-commandos-to-fight-terrorism.html
The correct terminology is "death squads".
China does business deals with Africa. The US trains death squads.
And Eduardo Galeano has disavowed The Open Veins of Latin America?
Why? So he can write The Open Veins of Africa?
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
What Broke Washington ???
Here is a very provocative opinion piece in The Washington Post:
Toppling this paralyzed system requires not reforms here or there but a heave-ho. Wherever you think the United States needs to go, we can’t get there from here. Let’s stop beating our heads against the wall. Our government is failing not because of bad policies but because of flawed institutional design. No one is allowed to take responsibility.
Sooner or later, this system will collapse. It’s time to form a movement to rebuild this broken structure.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-broke-washington/2014/05/23/57e67ba2-e033-11e3-810f-764fe508b82d_story.html
What he basically is saying that we need a Savior.
According to Barbara Walters, that's what Obama ad-Dajjal was supposed to be:
http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/12/is-barbara-walters-suffering-from.html
That's what the German people thought they were getting when they voted for Hitler.
And that's what many Americans will do in the 2016 election ... but instead of a Messiah we're very likely to get just another Führer.
Toppling this paralyzed system requires not reforms here or there but a heave-ho. Wherever you think the United States needs to go, we can’t get there from here. Let’s stop beating our heads against the wall. Our government is failing not because of bad policies but because of flawed institutional design. No one is allowed to take responsibility.
Sooner or later, this system will collapse. It’s time to form a movement to rebuild this broken structure.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-broke-washington/2014/05/23/57e67ba2-e033-11e3-810f-764fe508b82d_story.html
What he basically is saying that we need a Savior.
According to Barbara Walters, that's what Obama ad-Dajjal was supposed to be:
http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/12/is-barbara-walters-suffering-from.html
That's what the German people thought they were getting when they voted for Hitler.
And that's what many Americans will do in the 2016 election ... but instead of a Messiah we're very likely to get just another Führer.
Synonyms:
Caesar, dictator, despot, oppressor, pharaoh, strongman or woman, tyrannizer, tyrant
Related Words:
autarch, autocrat, monocrat; authoritarian, Big Brother or Sister, paramount, potentate, totalitarian; caudillo, overlord, warlord; boss, captain, chief, dominator, kingpin, leader, master, overlord, ruler; king, lord, monarch, prince, queen, sovereign (also sovran); baron, czar (also tsar or tzar), magnate, mogul, tycoon; disciplinarian, discipliner, enforcer, martinet, taskmaster
Accidentally Outing CIA ???
What kind of baloney is this? The White House "accidentally" outed a top CIA agent?
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/26/identification-cia-station-chief-afghanistan-reporter
When someone (allegedly Scooter Libby?) outed Valerie Plame, it was a big deal. Why do Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions get yet another free pass from the MSM for doing the same thing?
Because their faux pas allegedly was due to stupidity while Bush's allegedly was intentional?
In spite of all the hype about Obama ad-Dajjal being smarter than Dubya, the results prove otherwise.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/26/identification-cia-station-chief-afghanistan-reporter
When someone (allegedly Scooter Libby?) outed Valerie Plame, it was a big deal. Why do Obama ad-Dajjal and his minions get yet another free pass from the MSM for doing the same thing?
Because their faux pas allegedly was due to stupidity while Bush's allegedly was intentional?
In spite of all the hype about Obama ad-Dajjal being smarter than Dubya, the results prove otherwise.
Monday, May 26, 2014
10 Myths About The Financial Crisis
Scan this report down to the section under the heading "Truth about the Financial Crisis" for a list of 10 myths, mainly about the housing component of the crisis:
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/25/toxic_bankers_captive_regulators_everything_you_think_about_the_housing_market_is_wrong/
It takes a while to read, but it should help you understand how both the government and the MSM distorted our perceptions before, during, and after the crisis ... if we can even say there was an "after" (and not just a calm before the next storm).
When a "regulated" industry captures its regulators and controls most of the aspects of public discussion of its affairs, it can get away with anything. Our protection against this is supposed to be a vigilant executive branch and investigative journalists, but apparently neither of these exists any more.
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/25/toxic_bankers_captive_regulators_everything_you_think_about_the_housing_market_is_wrong/
It takes a while to read, but it should help you understand how both the government and the MSM distorted our perceptions before, during, and after the crisis ... if we can even say there was an "after" (and not just a calm before the next storm).
When a "regulated" industry captures its regulators and controls most of the aspects of public discussion of its affairs, it can get away with anything. Our protection against this is supposed to be a vigilant executive branch and investigative journalists, but apparently neither of these exists any more.
Just Following Orders
Large-scale evil requires surrender of autonomy, coercion by a central authority and a willingness to follow orders.
There is evil, and then there's organized evil. This is a memorial outside the village where my brother lives in the south of France. It is a typical village, quite small, perhaps a few hundred residents. The memorial commemorates three young French civilians who were taken out and shot by Nazi soldiers, either for "crimes" of resistance or perhaps as a "lesson" to the restive civilian populace.
The German soldiers who pulled the triggers were of course "just following orders."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-26/memorial-day-2014-just-following-orders
Nazis accused of war crimes said it at Nuremberg — “I was only following orders.” Soldiers like Lt. William Calley accused of atrocities at My Lai in Vietnam tried it, too.
And now, lawyers for some of the Army reservists charged with abusing prisoners in Iraq say they’re innocent for the same reason. According to Gary Myers, “He did attempt to find out if what he was doing was correct, and he was told that it was.”
Myers represents Staff Sgt. Ivan “Chip” Frederick, who is accused of mistreating and assaulting Iraqi prisoners.
In fact, military law has long recognized that following orders is a legitimate defense — but not if an order was illegal or if “a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known it was illegal.”
So what should a soldier do when in doubt? Military courts have said they should assume orders are legal and follow them.
And defense lawyers say that’s what the accused soldiers did at Abu Ghraib prison.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4909251/ns/nbc_nightly_news_with_brian_williams/t/abuse-defense-following-orders/
And our sons and daughters continue to "just follow orders" at Guantanamo Bay, Bagram Airfield, and all the black sites at which they are "honor bound to defend freedom" with vicious enthusiasm.
I am starting to believe that an American soldier "of ordinary sense and understanding" no longer knows what's legal and what isn't. Clearly his Commander-in-Chief, allegedly a graduate of Harvard Law School, doesn't know the difference ... so how can GI Joe be expected to know?
I don't say this to excuse any of their behavior; I state it because it is a fact with which we should be dealing but are not.
There is evil, and then there's organized evil. This is a memorial outside the village where my brother lives in the south of France. It is a typical village, quite small, perhaps a few hundred residents. The memorial commemorates three young French civilians who were taken out and shot by Nazi soldiers, either for "crimes" of resistance or perhaps as a "lesson" to the restive civilian populace.
The German soldiers who pulled the triggers were of course "just following orders."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-26/memorial-day-2014-just-following-orders
Nazis accused of war crimes said it at Nuremberg — “I was only following orders.” Soldiers like Lt. William Calley accused of atrocities at My Lai in Vietnam tried it, too.
And now, lawyers for some of the Army reservists charged with abusing prisoners in Iraq say they’re innocent for the same reason. According to Gary Myers, “He did attempt to find out if what he was doing was correct, and he was told that it was.”
Myers represents Staff Sgt. Ivan “Chip” Frederick, who is accused of mistreating and assaulting Iraqi prisoners.
In fact, military law has long recognized that following orders is a legitimate defense — but not if an order was illegal or if “a person of ordinary sense and understanding would have known it was illegal.”
So what should a soldier do when in doubt? Military courts have said they should assume orders are legal and follow them.
And defense lawyers say that’s what the accused soldiers did at Abu Ghraib prison.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4909251/ns/nbc_nightly_news_with_brian_williams/t/abuse-defense-following-orders/
And our sons and daughters continue to "just follow orders" at Guantanamo Bay, Bagram Airfield, and all the black sites at which they are "honor bound to defend freedom" with vicious enthusiasm.
I am starting to believe that an American soldier "of ordinary sense and understanding" no longer knows what's legal and what isn't. Clearly his Commander-in-Chief, allegedly a graduate of Harvard Law School, doesn't know the difference ... so how can GI Joe be expected to know?
I don't say this to excuse any of their behavior; I state it because it is a fact with which we should be dealing but are not.
War Does Not Make Us Free
Here are some things to ponder on this Memorial Day 2014:
The conclusion is unavoidable that America’s wars have not protected our liberty but, instead, destroyed liberty. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, “A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
The truth is hard to bear, but the facts are clear. America’s wars have been fought in order to advance Washington’s power, the profits of bankers and armaments industries, and the fortunes of US companies. Marine General Smedley Butler said, “ I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.”
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/05/25/war-inevitable-paul-craig-roberts/
I am no hero, but I've been to war. At the time I would have killed anyone they told me to, but I don't think now that anything I did then contributed in the least to maintaining our freedom. Similar to MG Butler, I was a low-class muscle man for bankgangsters, corporations, and their accomplices in the one percent.
Never again.
The conclusion is unavoidable that America’s wars have not protected our liberty but, instead, destroyed liberty. As Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, “A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
The truth is hard to bear, but the facts are clear. America’s wars have been fought in order to advance Washington’s power, the profits of bankers and armaments industries, and the fortunes of US companies. Marine General Smedley Butler said, “ I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.”
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/05/25/war-inevitable-paul-craig-roberts/
I am no hero, but I've been to war. At the time I would have killed anyone they told me to, but I don't think now that anything I did then contributed in the least to maintaining our freedom. Similar to MG Butler, I was a low-class muscle man for bankgangsters, corporations, and their accomplices in the one percent.
Never again.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Best And Worst Investment Strategies In 2014
Best ... gold.
Worst ... hedge funds.
Worst ... hedge funds.
I guess that's why hedge fund managers are paid so much (or maybe not):
And I also guess that's why China, Russia, and India are buying so much gold, while America is putting so much money into our overinflated stock market:
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