Tuesday, August 9, 2011
August 09 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The London Riots - NEVER Underestimate The Power Of 'Hooliganism'
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[After the commentary... The MC5 AKA 'The musical wing of the White Panther Party' tell us about the 1967 Detroit riots, 'The Motor City Is Burning'. Courtesy of the respective artists.]
In light of the commentary... a couple of money quotes that may help some folks understand the similarity of circumstances between then (Detroit 1967, Newark NJ, Harlem NY...) and now:
"(Reuters) - Anger at high unemployment and cuts in public services, coupled with resentment of the police, contributed to an explosion of violence and looting..." (src)More in yesterday's news report (@ Razed By Wolves) where you'll also find an interview with a Tottenham London community activist on the topic and much more.
"Tottenham is an area of mostly poor minorities; a significant portion of the population is black. “How many black people have to die around here?” one of the youths, referring to Mr. Duggan. He would only give his name as Pablo. “I hate the police,” he said." (src)
» It's just like Television... Someone rates this stuff. Yesterday the Dow fell 634 points. For every stock that rose at the New York Stock Exchange, more than 69 fell. Gold ended at $1,720 and Silver made it to $39. Meanwhile the Republicans are screaming for the president to produce a plan, but in reality congress makes the 'plan' (hence the problem, S&P and Moody's didn't care for their plan, calculated to resolve a little over half the FOUR TRILLION dollar debt, and rammed it through so they wouldn't be required to show everyone their corrupt sides during next year's presidential election cycle) and the president executes it. Also, Secretary of the Treasury Geithner who has been dunned by the Republicans to resign, said he's not going anywhere.
Standards & Poors elaborates on their reason for downgrading US debt obligations:
“We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.” — Page 4, Standard & Poors Research Update, August 5, 2011
S&P Insists US on Bi-party’s Cooperation to Overcome Debt IssuesFurther readings:
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S&P Sovereign Debt Committee Chairman, John Chambers told that US lawmakers of both Democrat and Republican parties work together to confront the nation debt issues and turn the nation towards the progressive economic path as it was did in 1980 to overhaul the factors which had the US economy into critical position by a strong compromise and firm cooperation of both parties. This is a main problem that has to be concentrated by US law makers, without any political motive, to overcome the financial crisis and regain the status AAA as a risk free borrower in Standard & Poor rating list.
As you have enacted a bill in the floor of the Congress on eleventh hour of deadline to save only around $2.1 trillion instead of #4 trillion, you have done a part of job to overcome the nation’s debt burden not a full of it. Five governments have regained their AAA status after losing it, it has taken them between 9 to 18 years to get it back. Generally one loses its rank AAA, cannot get it immediately, said S&P Debt Committee Chairman, Chamber. [In Full]
August 7, 2011» Today is recall election day in Wisconsin for six Republican state senators. If three end up being replaced the state's laborers will be in a good position to take the governor and mop the factory floor with him for attempting to eliminate collective bargaining rights for unions in the state. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and a number of states face, or have faced similar strongarm legislation recently.
The S&P Downgrade of US Debt: What it Means
by Richard Wolff
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S&P downgraded the US national debt because these economic and political dimensions (see the rest of the article) of the US today guarantee a worsening of the nation's debt. Thus, a basically political problem is looming for those lenders who purchased and now own the debt obligations of the US (i.e. Treasury securities). The political problem is this: how long will the mass of Americans accept not only an economic crisis bringing unemployment, home foreclosures, reduced real wages and job benefits, but now also cutbacks in government supports? [In Full @ Commondreams.org]
» When you arrest more than twelve hundred junior grade officers and issue six warrants for army generals and one for an admiral, there might have been a coup plot... against the government of Turkey. It was apparently being organized on FaceBook and other internet sites.
» There have been three days of riots in and around London over the shooting of a 29 year old African-British father of four in Tottenham. Buses and building have been burned, stores looted, and all the police can do is issue empty statements saying they'll look into the cause and call the rioters "Copycats and Criminals". Sure. Some. There always are. But there are also massive numbers of impoverished and disenfranchised youths and adults around the city as well. The police nor any authority seems to care to address THAT issue.
8 August 2011» California is moving to a new electoral vote standard. A new bill introduced by governor Jerry Brown will make it a "winner takes all" approach to how the votes get delegated... relegated.
London riots: Looting and violence continues
Police have condemned a wave of "copycat criminal activity" across London in a second night of looting and disorder following riots in Tottenham.
More than 100 people have been arrested as officers were attacked, police vehicles damaged and shops looted.
Disorder spread to Enfield, Walthamstow and Waltham Forest in north London and to Brixton in the south of the city.
Home Secretary Teresa May has cut short her holiday to return to the UK following the disorder... [Continued]
In OTHER News:
From Foreign Policy Magazine' AfPak Channel; The Big Fool said We'll 'Press On':
In televised remarks following the downing of a CH-47 helicopter carrying 30 U.S. troops Saturday, including elite Navy SEALs as well as eight Afghans, President Barack Obama yesterday promised to "press on" in Afghanistan, while a Pentagon spokesman said the helicopter's destruction, believed to have been caused by a rocket-propelled grenade, "does not represent any kind of watershed or trend" (Reuters, AP, AFP, BBC, Bloomberg).Funny, I don't recall there were any displaced people in Afghanistan before we arrived.
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In other Afghanistan coverage, the Times looks into the failure of many villages built to house Afghanistan's returning refugees and internally-displaced persons, [In Full With Links]
[Afghan woman begs near ISAF base, Kabul]
Why am I not laughing?
Last but not least, the House of Representatives ends a longstanding program in civics... Since they're not particularly 'civil' anyway, as seen recently in the debt ceiling brouha, it's all just as well because it will assuredly save some innocent kids from this fate, typical to children alone, around predators:
In 1983, two lawmakers were censured by the House of Representatives for having sexual relationships with teenage pages. Rep. Dan Crane, R-Ill., admitted to sexual relations with a 17-year-old female page, while Rep. Gerry Studds, D-Mass., admitted to sexual relations with a 17-year-old male page. (as well as the more recent scandal involving Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla.) (src)
House leaders end page program
By Molly K. Hooper
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced their joint decision to end the House page program.
As of August 31, 2011, the program - that employs nearly 70 high school students to serve as messengers and couriers on the House floor and around the Capitol complex - will be no more, according to a joint statement issued late Monday afternoon. [More]
Remember... They only call it class war when we fight back.
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Monday, August 8, 2011
August 08 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Knowledge IS NOT A Reward For Itself - Case In Point 'The Western Economic System'
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» Things have NOT gone well over the weekend on the global financial markets. Congress thought it did the job with their dysfunctional debt limit bill but the REST of the world thought otherwise. Meanwhile, Standards and Poors and Moody's financial rating agencies lowered the credit rating of US debt.
The reaction to all this is the price of gold went up fifty dollars over the weekend to about $1700 an ounce and S&P's/Moody's actions are still rolling across global trading floors with the Dow already down 200 points today. More in the commentary.“We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act.” — Page 4, Standard & Poors Research Update, August 5, 2011
And if THAT wasn't enough to knock the markets down...
Breaking... more homeless people... soon:
S&P downgrades mortgage giants Fannie Mae, Freddie MacThat means the cost to the holder or purchaser of the typical US mortgage is due to rise dramatically.
By Peter Schroeder
The fallout from the nation's credit downgrade continued Monday, as Standard & Poor's announced government-sponsored housing giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were also getting their top rating slashed. [In Full]
In regard to the "Nuevo Homeless", 46 million Americans now live on food stamps, and homeless tent city camps are springing up nationwide.
Let's check in on Lakewood New Jersey with a travelogue of the local homeless tent and shack city by the British newspaper Daily Mail.
The Tent City of New Jersey: Desperate victims of the economic slump forced to live in makeshift homes in forestIt's notably the local homeless census results were just released where I live. The population is up 22% with a sharp spike upward in the youth population. It's notable most of the people surveyed in follow up interviews were employed and housed HERE when they became homeless, NOT 'transient' as the city government likes to say.
2nd August 2011
In scenes reminiscent of the Great Depression these are the ramshackle homes of the desperate and destitute U.S. families who have set up their own 'Tent City' only an hour from Manhattan.
More than 50 homeless people have joined the community within New Jersey's forests as the economic crisis has wrecked their American dream.
And as politicians in Washington trade blows over their country's £8.8 trillion debt, the prospect of more souls joining this rag tag group grows by the day.
Building their own tarpaulin tents, Native American teepees and makeshift balsa wood homes, every one of the Tent City residents has lost their job. [In Full and Illustrated]
Remember that... The people you see homeless are likely to have been your neighbors.
» One of the "problems" with Afghanistan is you can't use the smaller attack helicopters for air cover because of the altitude. But you CAN use a larger, slower moving helicopter to cover and supply back up... Unfortunately, that has had tragic results... "SEAL Team 6 members among 38 killed in Afghanistan" when their helicopter was taken down by a rocket launched by... someone.
» Iran is still announcing they will release the two UC Berkeley hikers and everyone waits with bated breath.
» It is the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima Japan and in light of the Fukushima disaster at least one of the Hiroshima survivors society members, who have traditionally not taken a stand, has made an anti-nuclear statement.
» On the East coast thirty seven thousand or so Verizon landline workers are out on strike over medical and pension benefits. They say the company is trying to turn the 'benefits clock' back to the 1950s for them.
In OTHER News:
The Answer Is Unbelievable~ Why was Leonard Peltier, in his late sixties, put in Solitary confinement last month? You WILL NOT believe it.
It looks like they shot the "wrong guy" in Tottenham England, an impoverished to working poor community on the outskirts of London... How long till it happens in YOUR town America?
The police released a statement concerning the incident that left Mark Duggan 29-year-old local father of four dead, but it says nothing that sheds any light from their side on the incident"(Reuters) - Anger at high unemployment and cuts in public services, coupled with resentment of the police, contributed to an explosion of violence and looting..." (src)Riots turn London into a war zone
"Tottenham is an area of mostly poor minorities; a significant portion of the population is black. “How many black people have to die around here?” one of the youths, referring to Mr. Duggan. He would only give his name as Pablo. “I hate the police,” he said." (src)
Sunday, August 07, 2011
LONDON (AP) -- Police deployed extra officers on London's streets to prevent a repeat of the rioting and looting in a deprived area amid community anger over a fatal police shooting, as new disturbances broke out in another district of the city late Sunday.
A peaceful protest against the killing of the 29-year-old man in north London's Tottenham area degenerated into a Saturday night rampage, with rioters torching a double-decker bus, destroying patrol cars and trashing a shopping mall in the nearby Wood Green district.
Disturbances broke out late Sunday in Enfield, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) north of Tottenham. TV footage showed riot and mounted police patrolling the streets, and there were also images of smashed shop windows, and police with dogs detaining at least one man.
There were also reports that a police car was vandalized in Enfield. Sky News television reported that several hundred young people were on the streets causing trouble...
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...In Saturday's violence, several buildings were set ablaze. TV footage showed the double-decker bus in a fireball and mounted police charging through the streets trying to restore order. Police said 26 officers received injuries, most if not all apparently minor, and made 55 arrests, including four Sunday. The majority of arrests were for burglary; other offenses included violent disorder, robbery, theft and handling of stolen goods.
London's fire department said it dealt with 49 "primary" fires in Tottenham... [More]
The situation is still in flux. Wikipedia already has an entry and it's active. There's also been an interview with Tottenham activist Stafford Scott
The Free, an online Anarchist blog based in Britain has continuing coverage..
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Friday, August 5, 2011
August 05 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Should You? Warren Jeffs To The FLDS - They Dont Allow The State To Sanction Their Marriages
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[After the commentary... Sorry could NOT resist. Dan Baird. Courtesy of the respective artists.]
Please Note: There are three other Cabale News commentaries on the topic of state-mandated removal of children from their families.
April 15 2008 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: First They Came For The FLDS Children - The Feds And TexASS CPS Take The Children From Their Mothers After Incarcerating Them All In Circumstances Which Are The Closest Thing To Shipping People To Concentration Camps Since Hitler Walked The Earth (Go)
April 21 2008 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: An Aside On The FLDS/American Culture Clash - Cultural Conflicts Have Always Existed, But Can We Get By Without Tearing Each Other Apart? An Example From Nevada Indian Country... (Go)
April 23 2008 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Semantics Is A Remarkable Science, And The Government KNOWS How Well It Works... For Instance, Take The Words "Texas" And "Child Protective Services" (Go)
Which yours truly followed up in a post titled: Violations Of Spirit & Intent (Go) (In light of a San Angelo Texas district court judge blocking sect parents from reuniting with kids despite a State Supreme Court ruling). Much more about the state of Texas' abuse of children under their care at that post... Expect the same for children removed from their families in Warren Jeff's Arizona.
Now... to the news:
» The first sound you hear is someone blaming someone else... Yesterday the global financial markets took a header and it's all being blamed on European nations not having had enough money to bail each other out. As the markets stagger back this morning the job numbers came in with a 1/10 of 1% rise in employment. NOT a recovery.
Paul Krugman @ the New York Times put it this way:
"Consider one crucial measure, the ratio of employment to population. In June 2007, around 63 percent of adults were employed. In June 2009, the official end of the recession, that number was down to 59.4. As of June 2011, two years into the alleged recovery, the number was: 58.2." [In Full]Which leads to this headline from Dean Baker @ Center For Economic and Policy Research:
Employment Rate Hits New Low as Economy Creates 117,000 Jobs in JulyBut about those markets...
The Labor Department reported that the economy created 117,000 jobs in July and revised prior months’ growth up slightly to bring the average over the last three months to 72,000. This rate of job growth is below the 90,000 a month needed to keep pace with the growth of the labor force. Consistent with this fact, the employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) fell slightly to 58.1 percent, tying its previous low for the downturn. While the unemployment rate edged down to 9.1 percent, this was entirely attributable to people leaving the labor force... [Full Analysis]
Wall Street suffers worst selloff in two years
[fwiw, the Christian Science Monitor calls it three years "...sharpest drop since 2008")
By Angela Moon
NEW YORK Thu Aug 4, 2011(Reuters) - Investors fled Wall Street in the worst stock-market selloff since the middle of the financial crisis in early 2009 in what has turned into a full-fledged correction.
The Dow and the S&P tumbled more than 4 percent on Thursday and the Nasdaq lost 5 percent on fear the United States is staring at another recession and that Europe's sovereign debt crisis is swallowing two of its largest economies.
Analysts predicted further losses even though stocks have fallen on nine of the last 10 days. Two-year Treasury yields fell to a record low as investors sought safety in short-term government bonds.
"People are throwing in the towel because they can't find relief on any front," said Milton Ezrati, market strategist at Lord Abbett Co. in Jersey City, New Jersey, which manages $110 billion in assets.
The S&P 500's drop puts it more than 10 percent below its April 29 high, considered a correction. Nearly 14 billion shares changed hands, the busiest trading day in more than a year. Decliners beat advancers on the New York Stock Exchange by about 19 to 1... [More @ Reuters]
» The temporary FAA bailout agreement has been accomplished. But when congress comes back into session expect more 'aerial' fireworks regarding the sticking point that left the FAA without funding... Unionization rights.
» TurkeyBurger manufactured by the Agribiz giant Cargill has killed one person and has severely poisoned seventy five others nationwide over the last few months due to Salmonella contamination. Federal inspectors knew about it two MONTHS ago and didn't even bother to say anything until two WEEKS ago. More at the Washington Post.
» We can't kill Muammar al-Gadaffi but we CAN kill his children (or not...) - Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son Khamis has now become the 3rd of Muammar al-Gadaffi's children killed according to reports. This apparently happened near the Tunisian border, in a NATO airstrike.
From the International Business Times:
Friday, August 5, 2011Note the "...32nd Brigade which is a band of well equipped..." trope. NOT an army brigade... a 'band'. Got that?
Rebels Claim Gaddafi's Son Khamis Killed in NATO Airstrike
By Carl Bagh
A rebel spokesman claimed that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son Khamis was killed in a NATO airstrike on the Western town of Zlitan.
However, the Libyan government has denounced the report, calling it a "false news" and an attempt by the rebels to cover the death of civilians in Zlitan.
According to Al Jazeera, Mohammed Zawawi, a spokesman for the rebels, said: "Overnight there was an aircraft attack by NATO on the Gaddafi operations room in Zlitan and there are around 32 Gaddafi troops killed. One of them is Khamis."
NATO has not confirmed the death of Gaddafi's son Khamis but is currently looking into the report.
The Libyan government has accused NATO of bombing civilian sites at Zlitan.
Khamis Gaddafi commands the Libyan army's 32nd Brigade which is a band of well equipped 10,000 soldiers... [There's More]
» Texas governor Rick Perry is throwing a politically charged Christian rally in Houston this Saturday with all the political leadership and notables of the Christian Right invited. So far none of the political leadership, or president hopefuls, have signed on. Only 1/8 of seats at the Houston AstroDome have been taken.
In OTHER News:
Does president Obama sleeps with the enemy? (Do Bears shit in the woods?):
Obama Nominates Top Advisor To Tea Party Senator As U.S. AttorneyBut Moooommm! Do I Haaaaavvvvee To?
President Obama nominated a very odd candidate to be the next U.S. Attorney in Utah, the chief legal advisor to the Senate’s most radical tenther, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT): President Barack Obama tapped Sen. Mike Lee’s legal counsel to be the next U.S. attorney for Utah, [Details]
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
The ruling elite has created social institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance.
July 31, 2011
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.
Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it. A 2010 Gallup poll asked Americans “Do you think the Social Security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire?” Among 18- to 34-years-olds, 76 percent of them said no.
Yet despite their lack of confidence in the availability of Social Security for them, few have demanded it be shored up by more fairly payroll-taxing the wealthy; most appear resigned to having more money deducted from their paychecks for Social Security, even though they don’t believe it will be around to benefit them.
How exactly has American society subdued young Americans?
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4. “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.”
The corporatocracy has figured out a way to make our already authoritarian schools even more authoritarian. Democrat-Republican bipartisanship has resulted in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, NAFTA, the PATRIOT Act, the War on Drugs, the Wall Street bailout, and educational policies such as “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.”
These policies are essentially standardized-testing tyranny that creates fear, which is antithetical to education for a democratic society. Fear forces students and teachers to constantly focus on the demands of test creators; it crushes curiosity, critical thinking, questioning authority, and challenging and resisting illegitimate authority.
In a more democratic and less authoritarian society, one would evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher not by corporatocracy-sanctioned standardized tests but by asking students, parents, and a community if a teacher is inspiring students to be more curious, to read more, to learn independently, to enjoy thinking critically, to question authorities, and to challenge illegitimate authorities. [The Other 7 Reasons...]
Remember... They only call it "Class War" when you fight back
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
August 04 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Unfriendly Rethuglican Skies - The FAA Imbroglio.. Creating Mass Unemployment On Purpose
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» For thirty five thousand dollars a plate it better be some gooooood "Rubber Chicken" - President Obama, whose fiftieth birthday is today, celebrated last night in Chicago with appearances by Jennifer Hudson and entertainment by Herbie Hancock among others. The birthday boy made a couple of long speeches as well. Now he's back to Washington, where things aren't so celebratory. More.
» To wit... Because congress left town on an ill-deserved summer recess without doing their job, the FAA was left without a budget for infrastructure maintenance contractors and other government employed workers OSTENSIBLY due to a dispute over unionization. That means seventy thousand FAA employees alone face a layoff, which would cripple the US air transportation industry. But it turns out congress isn't REALLY in recess technically and there's a push to call at least a quorum back into session for a few hours to hash out a short term extension. Expect resistance. MUCH more in the commentary.
» We've been had! (or maybe the company is making this stuff up to sell their services...) - A report from a private internet security company claims that for the last five years there have been massive cyberattacks on government and corporations in the United States by, perhaps a server system in China, or perhaps it's the Russians making it appear to be China.
» The UN Security Council has issued a "President's Letter" calling for Bashar Assad of Syria to stop killing his citizens. China has threatened to veto any resolution with sanction or military teeth in it. Meanwhile the Syrian government has retaken the town of Hama... at least that's what tanks resting in the middle of a town usually means.
But let's give this another spin... As I put it in a missive to Juan Cole at Informed Comment:
Would it sway your opinion about Syria’s use of their military to suppress a revolt by elements SOME SAY are western financed if I mentioned that one of America’s ostensible allies is doing EXACTLY the same thing right now?» In Iran, the government is AGAIN 'planning on releasing' the two UC Berkeley hikers who accidentally wandered into the country a couple of years ago and were arrested for spying. Word has it they are American Anarchists, and the American right wing knows it... See: "Let ‘Em Rot: “Hiking” Americans Detained in Iran Are Pro-Syrian, Anti-Israel, Far-Left “Journalist” Activists (2009)". Then clean the nasty right wing cookies from your computer.
How about if I throw in the fact that SecDef Leon Panetta, as one of his last acts as director of the CIA over-rode the wishes of that same country’s US ambassador and committed to a drone strike that killed thirty eight civilians and probably qualifies as premeditated first degree murder and felony reckless endangerment/Mayhem?
In OTHER News:
You didn't REALLY think we were leaving Iraq by December this year... Did you?
Iraq’s troop decision encouraging, U.S. saysThis article from VoltaireNet furthers Auntie's long standing hypothesis about the Libyan 'revolt'... Play the Westernized portion of the population (10% more or less) against the tribal and more traditional elements of Libyan society... and only give an international media voice to the ones with the laptops and cellies:
by Ed O'Keefe
BAGHDAD — U.S. officials on Wednesday welcomed Iraq’s decision to negotiate with Washington on keeping some U.S. troops in the country into next year, seeing it as a move toward ending the months-long political stalemate that has complicated U.S. plans for a December withdrawal.
Iraq’s top political leaders agreed late Tuesday that the Iraqi military needs to continue training programs with U.S. forces," [More @ the Washington Post]
Benghazi, The Color Insurrection In DisarrayThe Agricultural-Industrial Complex... They can poison your food and walk away from it:
Thierry Meyssan
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | TRIPOLI (LIBYA) | 2 AUGUST 2011
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The strategy of the West was simple: take advantage of Libya’s normalization and economic opening to form a class of ’golden boy’ technocrats that would end up preferring the American Way of Life to Gaddafi’s Green Book.
As soon as this process reached maturity, the CIA organized the Benghazi events and the media distortion campaign. With their humanitarian discourse, the French and British were placed in the forefront to provide cannon fodder in the case of an eventual ground action. The National Transitional Council was put together by retrieving Americanized members of the ruling class, with the addition of old expatriates sponsored by the CIA ever since the fall of the monarchy, plus Al Qaeda fighters overseen by a Saudi faction.
Although seemingly a mixed bag, this coalition is based on the common history of its individual members. Most have worked for the United States for many years and have switched political affiliation several times over in keeping with Washington’s tactical interests ...
... To carry out this color insurrection, Washington had only one card to play: the corruption of one of Muammar Gaddafi’s companions, Interior Minister General Abdel Fatah Younes. His volte face was the cue for converting the ongoing the political destabilization operation into a military adventure. But, the assassination of General Younes at the hands of his rivals, on 28 July 2011, has caused the collapse of the "rebel army", thereby revealing the artificiality of the National Transitional Council.[Dispatch From Libya In Full]
Salmonella Surge Linked to Meat GiantYou say you lost your job working on computers down at the old server farm Bubbie? You planned on taking two or three jobs AS A SERVER in a restaurant or bar to make the housing, food, and transportation ends meet?
Cargill recalls 36 million pounds of ground turkey.
Meat giant Cargill has recalled 36 million pounds of ground turkey after the CDC found that Cargill's meat samples were contaminated with the same strains of salmonella connected to the recent outbreak. So far, the salmonella surge has caused one death and 76 other cases of illness across the U.S. But since the samples tested had not directly caused any illness, the USDA has not been able to name Cargill the culprit.
[In Full with link to historical news information about the outbreak]
Good luck... You MIGHT get ONE:
Service sector growth slowest since 2010Ahem... yes... and we can only hope our hypothetical friend above finds their own 'soft patch'... of grass to sleep on, or else cardboard and a doorway it is!
NEW YORK Wed Aug 3, 2011
(Reuters) - The pace of growth in the services sector ticked down unexpectedly in July to the lowest level since February 2010 and the number of jobs created by the private sector also slowed, reports showed on Wednesday.
Taken alongside disappointing data on the manufacturing sector earlier in the week, the services data showed an economy that was frustrating hopes for a rebound in the second half of the year after a very weak first half.
"It looks like this confirms that we are in a bit of a soft patch here," [More Gloom... You'll WISH for Doom]
But at least our friend will eat... as a homeless person who can't store food in bulk.... for about 3 of the 4 weeks in any month, with their Food Stamp 'Benefits'. However our not-so-mythical friend better be prepared to pack up early and find a bush to stash their stuff in though, because the USDA and federal government make you do an intensive job search if you need those 'benefits'... and right now, many Americans DO need them:
Which leaves us with the Quote of the Day:
"Four score and a hundred and fifty years ago Our forefathers made us equal as long as we can pay Yeah, well maybe that wasn't exactly what they was thinkin' Version six-point-o of the American way But hey we can just build a great wall Around the country club To keep the riff-raff out until the slump is through I realize that ain't exactly democratic But it's either them or us And it's the best we can do." ~~Steve Earle, Amerika V. 6.0
Remember... They only call it "Class War" when you fight back
[Santa Cruz Ca Lawyer Ed Frey Arrested For Homeless Anti-sleep Law Protest]
(And PLEASE try to keep your government from killing all the dusky natives...)
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
August 03 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Gas Tax - The Republicans Continue Attempting To Destroy The American Infrastructure
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» The Senate went ahead 74-26 and passed the debt limit bill and then they went home to explain to their constituents why they left the FAA without a budget and appropriations to run the federal government for next year undone along with ANOTHER crisis.
Ezra Klein @ the Washington Post's WonkBook:
The primary problem the debt deal will solve was a problem Congress had created for itself. But perhaps there was some relief in concocting a crisis we could actually solve. Because now that it's done and we have almost finished pating(sic) ourselves on the back for, as the Onion put it, achieving "the not-so-great things that can happen in Washington when both parties barely come together and agree to not really accomplish anything," we're left with the problems we do have, and can't seem to solve. We're left with the jobs crisis.[More]» In Syria the government continues to attack the city of Hama among other places with foreign fighters coming into the country to assist the rebels and reports of Iraqi supplied weapons in rebel hands. There has been footage released of Syrian rebels killing alleged government intelligence agents and throwing them in a river. If you're waiting for Arab League intervention, don't hold your breath. The same at the UN where China is threatening a veto.
Equal time... In case you've been watching in disgust or horror as Syria attempts to quell a rebellion in their country (Which many people say is Western fomented) using military troops... They're not the only ones.
But the other country you aren't hearing about is an ostensible US ally:
At least 11 more people have been killed in the past 24 hours in Karachi, and the paramilitary Frontier Corps have been given police powers in the city to help stamp out violence, powers already granted to the paramilitary Rangers (Dawn, AFP, ET, DT, Dawn, NYT, AJE, Dawn, Tel). The Tribune reports that the Rangers appear to be gearing up for an offensive to clear certain areas in Karachi, while Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) head Altaf Hussein said Tuesday that the attacks could become a "massacre or ethnic cleansing" (ET, ET, Dawn, DT). Violence has also reportedly broken out in the Surjani area of Karachi between ethnic Pashtuns and and ethnic Seraikis (ET). [In Full with links @ Foreign Policy]» US air strikes have killed forty civilians in Yemen with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula beginning to consider a move towards the cities.
Speaking of air strikes...
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta... Charges: Conspiracy to commit first degree murder and reckless endangerment:
"The AP has a must-read detailing the strain caused by the timing of U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, not just between the United States and Pakistan, but also between the CIA, who carry out the strikes, and the U.S. State Department (AP).» Remember the fellow who threw the pie at Rupert Murdoch during the British Parliamentary hearings on News of the World's hacking into a murdered girls email account and voicemails? He just received a 60 day sentence... Light by US standards.
The report tells the story of a frantic call from U.S. ambassador to Islamabad Cameron Munter, who must approve all drone strikes, to the CIA in an attempt to avert an imminent strike on March 17. That attack took place a day after CIA contractor Raymond Davis was freed from Pakistani custody, but CIA director Leon Panetta reportedly overruled Munter.
An anonymous official said the strike, which Pakistan alleges killed up to 38 civilians, went forward because, "[the attack] was in retaliation for Davis...The CIA was angry." [Also @ Foreign Policy]
» President Obama's birthday party happens tonight in Chicago. It will be a fundraiser as well. Expect 'stars with wallets' and the rest of the political paparazzi
» When one considers that soldiers (at least in Iraq) are REQUIRED to turn their laundry over to KBR for washing at $100 dollars a load, this is not that surprising... The US military is spending $479,000 per person placed in service around the world. That's almost a half million dollars per soldier.
In OTHER News:
From Foreign Policy in Focus A CIA "officer" stationed in Kabul solves the foreign policy half of the US debt dilemma...
Now that we’ve averted default, I’m no longer worried about immediately losing my job, being stranded in Kabul without a ticket home, or having the Chinese repossess my house. I am worried, however, about the future of our empire. Thanks to the Agency, I’ve been able to travel the world, meet thousands of interesting people, and help subvert their governments. It would be a shame if the next generation of young Americans can’t have the same opportunities I had. [In Full]Your lifestyle is not only killing YOU... It destroys your baby's health before it ever leaves the womb:
"A study by US researchers claims pregnant women with high exposure to magnetic energy generated by electrical items such as hair dryers, microwaves and vacuum cleaners have a bigger risk of asthma in their children. [In Full, Sydney Morning Herald]
"A properly functioning system of indoctrination has a variety of tasks. Its primary target are the 'stupid and ignorant masses'. They must be kept that way; marginalized, and isolated. Ideally, each person should be alone in front of the TV screen watching sports, soap operas, or comedies, deprived of organizational structures that permit individuals lacking resources to discover what they think and believe in, to engage in interaction with others, to formulate their own concerns and programs, and to act to realize them.
This hapless multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions." ~~Noam Chomsky
Remember...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
August 02 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Your Do Nothing Congress Has Done So And Now... Vacation - Visit You Congressman Soon
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[After the commentary Steve Earle asks us is this "The Best We Can Do?". Amerika v6.0. Courtesy of the respective artists.]
» Last night the House passed the bill to raise the debt limit. Now there will be ninety days of meetings by twelve "selected" senators and congresspeople to work out the details to be delivered before Christmas or else... ?
Ezra Klein @ the Washington Post's WonkBook:
It's not just that Congress waited until the last minute, taking an unnecessary risk in a fragile economy. And it's not just that the tough decisions got punted once again. This is a bad bill at a time when the economy -- and the American people -- needed a good one. It's a bill that does too little now, and too little later, and it comes in lieu of an obvious, achievable solution that would have done better.Economist Paul Krugman put it more succinctly and draws a much more severe conclusion:
But with the details understood and the legislation on its way to a quick approval in the Senate, it's worth stepping back and saying what we all already know: This is a terrible, no-good, very bad deal... [Read On]
"What Republicans have just gotten away with calls our whole system of government into question." [In Full]Meanwhile in the 'Peanut Gallery' (in other words, where the 'civilians' get to watch in abject horror):
Protesters arrested for heckling Boehner from House gallery"Charged with disrupting congress."? That isn't disrupting congress... THIS is. More @ Wikipedia
Twenty-two protesters were arrested Monday and charged with disruption of Congress after shouting chants against Speaker John Boehner from a House of Representatives gallery, according to the Washington Post... [In Full]
Now they'll all take an ILL-DESERVED vacation until after Labor Day with appropriations bills, trade bills with South Korea and Colombia, and hundreds of judicial and civil service appointments left hanging:
Within 24 hours, the Senate will follow the House’s lead — passing the compromise deal to raise the debt ceiling and heading out of town for its month-long August recess.More in the commentary.
The August recess is not only the longest break Congress takes all year, but also its most important, as members spend extended time in their district and the political media searches for emerging storylines.
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Polling suggests that members are headed back to districts packed with people who believe Congress is failing them. [More]
» There has been a suicide bomb attack on a 'guest house', meaning a place for travelling dignitaries and business people, in Kunduz Afghanistan. It was followed by a two and a half hour firefight. No word on how many 'guests' were killed but there are at least four dead and ten wounded. It may be that the Taliban is attempting to open a supply route through Uzbekistan, circumventing the less-porous-than-it-used-to-be Pakistan border. More at Foreign Policy's AfPak 'Channel'.
» Farmers, it's time to stock up... Homeland Security is finally moving to get control over the fertilizer ingredient Ammonium Nitrate. (The proposed rules as a direct PDF download from Cryptome.org are here) It also commonly used as a 'low' explosive by farmers for tree stump removal and the mining/quarry industry. This clampdown was supposed to have happened a number of years ago but farming and mining industry lobbying prevented it. For what it's worth, there are more ways to make explosives (US Army Improvised Munitions Handbook Download) than your government could ever prevent.
(Note: This electronic edition of TM 31-210 is anti-dedicated to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein who authored a federal law that makes it illegal in certain circumstances to publish documents just like this one.)
» The new Health & Human Services secretary has announced that funding for birth control and other women's needs will be included in the ObamaCare package (If it ever gets funded by the House) without additional fees.
» The Syrian government has apparently used air attacks in the city of Hama on the first day of Ramadan leaving several hundred people wounded and twenty or thirty dead. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has asked Syrian president Bashar Assad to step down and the UN is also considering that move.
In OTHER News:
Governments don't like competition, and much of the time what looks like it... isn't.
US Court Documents Claim Sinaloa “Cartel” Is Protected by US Government
Green IS the color of money:
Pandering to the loggers: Why WWF's Global Forest and Trade Network isn't working
"This assessment found serious systemic problems, including a lack of transparency and accountability, wholly inadequate rules for membership, instances of weak performance, monitoring and enforcement and an absence of adequate procedures to assess whether the scheme is actually making a positive contribution to forest sustainability." [Via Docuticker]
Last, but not least...
Today is Day 5 of International Dadaism month...
IDM is not one consecutive month, but rather celebrated each year on February 4, March 28, April 1, July 15, August 2, August 7, August 16, August 26, September 18, September 22, October 1, October 17, and October 26. zimzim urallala zimzim urallala zimzim zanzibar zimzalla zam.More zivwohwowie @ Wikipedia
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Monday, August 1, 2011
August 01 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: You Get To A Point Where The Wolves ARE Circling But For Now... Economic Business As Usual
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