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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
August 17 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Provocateurism? It's Much More Than That - On The OBSOLETE War Games In The Korean Peninsula
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 August 17 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Provocateurism? It's Much More Than That - Notes On The OBSOLETE 'War Games' In The Korean Peninsula[Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 10:39 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥  Twitter This Commentary |
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» What would you think if the Mexicans decided to hold war games that featured the invasion of the U.S. as a "national security" exercise? The U.S, the South Koreans, and six allied nations are holding their two week long semi-annual war games on the border of the Koreas with 60,000 troops. Do note there are so many active military troops in North Korea that the only way the West could ever win a war with the North would be in a Nuclear War. More in the commentary.
» In the last of the Wisconsin recall elections yesterday the two Democrats under fire successfully defended their seats, still leaving the Wisconsin Democrats one vote short of a majority in the state legislature.
» Yemen's president Saleh, still in a Saudi hospital, says he intends to return to the capital of Yemen soon, and when (or "if", the West and the Saudis are doing their best to dissuade him from starting a civil war) he does, his stated intention is to turn over the government to his vice president who is already running... the capital Sanaa. Meanwhile, the rebels control almost every other major city and town with the US having taken full charge of our war on al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which is based in the country.
» Want fries with that promise? President Obama is in Illinois this morning where he has claimed he'll deliver a comprehensive job creation plan next month which will most likely include stimulus funding... which of course the Republican majority in the house, who control the purse strings, will torpedo... Leaving them hated by workers across America but smug in their mal-contrived 'win'. Meanwhile, as the president's speech seemed to focus on the federal deficit, no details of the job creation plan were spelled out. More at the Washington Post.
» The Libyan rebels have cut the highway from Tunisia to Tripoli at the city of Zawiya and there is fighting for control of the oil refinery there (go figure...). The NATO/CIA assisted 'rebels' have apparently begun an offensive from the East as well. They are only 30 miles outside of Tripoli which actually puts them in the city's suburbs.
Meanwhile, the use of disinformation and propaganda in wars has begun to wear a little thin on some commentators:
"The current processing of the information on Libya and Syria has marked a turning point in the history of war propaganda..." [ More: Journalists who engage in war propaganda must be held accountable]Here's some more critique of the reporting from and about Libya specifically:
Five months into the bombing campaign, it is no longer possible to believe the initial official version of the events and the massacres attributed to the "Gaddafi regime". Moreover, it is now essential to take into account Libya's legal and diplomatic rebuttal, highlighting the crimes against peace committed by... ...political leaders of the Atlantic Alliance [More]Even as the UN Secretary-General finally 'confronts' what NATO has done with the Libya resolution:
"The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by reports of the unacceptably large number of civilian casualties as a result of the conflict in Libya...
...He once again reiterates his strongly held belief that there can be no military solution to the Libyan crisis. A ceasefire that is linked to a political process which would meet the aspirations of the Libyan people is the only viable means to achieving peace and security in Libya." [In Full]
In light of all the war-related news, do note that the Pentagon and it's 'friends' in industry need your money.
For instance NATO has 1.2 million military personnel in Afghanistan (enumerated by province) which could not survive without continuously sucking taxpayers dollars like the vampires they are. Without your money they're simply lost: "Leon Panetta warns of 'loss of mission focus' should the Defense budget face further cuts"
That's not all... They seem to be losing money like a bunch of drunken soldiers on leave:
The AP revealed Tuesday that according to a report prepared at the request of former top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus, nearly $360 million in contract money for reconstruction and combat support had been lost to the Taliban, criminal groups, and local leaders since the war in Afghanistan began (AP, Politico, DT). A senior U.S. military official in Kabul told the AP that only a small percentage of the money had gone to the Taliban (ed. That's because most of it went to NATO's corrupt 'friends'), and that it represented only a fraction of the $31 billion in contract payments examined by the task force that conducted the review. And an audit issued Monday by the U.S. State Department and Defense Department found that the firm DynCorps International had failed to provide nearly 60 percent of the trainers for Afghan police that it had promised in a $1 billion contract signed in December 2010 (AJE, AFP). [More and links @ Foreign Policy]
In OTHER News:
'Tahrir Moment' on a global scale anyone?
The "Indignados" of Spain say on September 17th they will set up camp outside the Madrid Stock Exchange to match... #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, which is apparently going global. More @ Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters (and don't forget to bring a tent...)
Adbusters has also noted that another kind of encampment begins in Washington, DC in early October:
October 6 2011 | Human Needs, Not Corporate GreedOctober 2011 is the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan and the beginning of the 2012 federal austerity budget. It is time to light the spark that sets off a true democratic, nonviolent transition to a world in which people are freed to create just and sustainable solutions."I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza to demand that America's resources be invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation.
We can do this together. We will be the beginning." [More @ october2011.org]
Why should all this be occurring you might ask?
Because the economic 'crisis' America and other Western nations are experiencing is simply "Business as Usual".
Not only is it business as usual, Capitalism Is The Crisis!
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
August 16 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Bad News And The Good - The Good News Is The Republicans Cannot Beat Barack Obama
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August 16 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Bad News And The Good - The Good News Is The Republicans Cannot Beat Barack Obama In The Presidential Election [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 10:26 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥ Twitter This Commentary |
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» The president is in Iowa this morning discussing the development of rural jobs. In his speeches he repeatedly has noted that the Republicans are more interested in beating their opponents than the good of the nation. Tomorrow he will be in Illinois.
» The 'Great WHITE Hope' Texas governor Rick Perry, lording over a state whose economy runs on privatized prisons is intending to make stump speeches in the Carolinas, Florida and the Southern tier of the US.
» There were fifty five separate well-coordinated attacks across Iraq yesterday including a rocket and mortar attack on the "Green Zone" by the Shiite militias as notification to the U.S. that IF it decides to stay past the December deadline (which IS inevitable), with or without the permission of the Iraqi 'government', the attacks will only become more common and most likely worse.
» France and Germany are meeting today to discuss their collective economic situations and the future of the European Union. Right now Italy, Spain, Ireland and Greece's economies are putting pressure on the union's economic structure, with Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark talking about dropping the Euro for their own regional currency.
They kept the cell phone service on yesterday and civil liberies group MAY call off legal actions at least while the FCC investigates, but there IS a war between BART and the hackers and backers of Anonymous in San Francisco due to BART's shutting down of their underground cell phone relay service in an apparently illegal attempt to disrupt a planned legal protest over BART police shootings of unarmed or 'subdued' civilians.
Yesterday's protest over the shutdown and the concurrent police state response 'took out' the Civic Center BART station and it's Muni services along with three other stations (Civic Center, Powell, Montgomery and Embarcadero from 5:15 p.m. to somewhere near 8 p.m.) with just 150+- protesters and a MASSIVE police presence. The question of whether BART can tamper with common carrier communications services without public notice may still end up in court... most likely a federal one. Pictures and more at San Francisco IndyMedia.
Background and rundown in yesterday's report (redirects to Razed By Wolves).
In OTHER News:
You remember the "Sons of Iraq"? the US-formed Iraqi 'civic group' that was supposed to help stabilize Iraq acting as neighborhood watches and militias for the benefit of (and on the payroll of... When they got paid... a common complaint that eventually caused their all-but-dissolution) the U.S. government? Even as recently as yesterday, some of those 'sons' were assassinated in an Iraqi town.
Since that plan did not work out for us... What do we do in our OTHER dirty war?
The "Sons Of Afghanistan"... in it's infancy:
SIRAQULA, Afghanistan (AP) — The local Afghan leader's community meeting was off to an unpromising start. Hours after the meeting, called a shura, was supposed to begin, only seven old men waited at the gate of U.S. Marine Patrol Base Salaam Bazaar in the northern part of Helmand province.Just in:
Frustrated, Naw Zad District Chief Said Murad Sadtak chastised an Afghan army commander.
"Why did you not invite more people?" he demanded. "It was your task to tell the people and make sure that they come to see us so we can discuss their problems. It's kind of a waste that I am here."
The army commander had invited locals to the small fortified camp, but sometimes those invitations were extended during gunfights when soldiers and U.S. Marines were using private Afghan homes and farmers' poppy fields for cover.
Sadtak continued to complain and his American mentor, U.S. Marine Maj. Aniela Szymanski, moved to the old man's side.
"Maybe we should welcome those who have come to see you," she said gently.
[More passive-aggressive threats here]
Marvel as the lead CIA field agent fires on his own forces with a .75 caliber recoilless rifle and a .55 caliber machine gun.
Gasp as Air America B-26s the CIA made to look like Cuban planes come under fire too.
Wonder at the CIA-Mafia collusion to kill Castro, Richard Nixon's role in the invasion preparations, the use of American pilots.
...And remember...
The same kind of murderous idiots are leading the 'rebels' in Libya right now!
Backgrounder at The Daily Beast: History Held HostageNational Security Archive
Top Secret CIA 'Official History' of the Bay of Pigs
Washington, D.C., August 15, 2011 - In the heat of the battle at the Bay of Pigs, the lead CIA field operative aboard one of the transport boats fired .75mm recoilless rifles and .55mm machine guns on aircraft his own agency had supplied to the exile invasion force, striking some of them. With the CIA-provided B-26 aircraft configured to match those in the Cuban air force in order to provide a "plausible denial" of the U.S. role in the invasion, "we couldn't tell them from the Castro planes," according to the operative, Grayston Lynch. "We ended up shooting at two or three of them. We hit some of them there because when they came at us...it was a silhouette, that was all you could see."
This episode of 'friendly fire' is one of many revelations contained in the Top Secret multi-volume, internal CIA report, "The Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation." Other revelations include new information on the CIA's collaboration with the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro as part of the invasion plan, Richard Nixon's role in the invasion preparations, covert efforts to orchestrate the defection of top Cuban officials, Anastacio Somoza's quid pro quos for providing cooperation, and the use of American pilots in the attack on Cuba.
Pursuant to a Freedom of Information lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive on the 50th anniversary of the invasion last April, the CIA recently declassified four volumes of the massive, detailed, study--over 1200 pages of comprehensive narrative and documentary appendices.
The Archive posted all four volumes today, along with a comprehensive synopsis of the new information contained in them. [Visit the documents]
Last, but certainly not least:
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The in-flight entertainment on some planes run by Australian airline Qantas currently contains a somewhat unusual offering -- a movie that purports to elucidate the mysteries of female sexual pleasure.
The 50-minute French film "The Female Orgasm Explained," which includes naked scenes, is carried on long-haul "Video on Demand" aircraft in the airline's "The Edge" channel -- complete with a warning that it is for mature audiences only."In general programs are selected according to quality of content, box office/ratings, topicality and Qantas customer demographics,"Qantas said in a statement, adding that programs were screened by their program team before licensing."With the Edge, we source programs that are out of the ordinary across all genres."Airline crews are able to block content to the seats of minors and at the requests of their parents, it added. The film will be run until November. [Get 'on it' here]
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Monday, August 15, 2011
August 15 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Then Came Ron Paul - The 'Outlaw' Candidate Who Speaks For The OTHER Republicans
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August 15 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Then Came Ron Paul - The 'Outlaw' Candidate Who Speaks For The OTHER Republicans [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 10:48 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥ Twitter This Commentary |
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» The Republicans had their pay-to-vote straw poll over the weekend in Ames Iowa for the presidential contenders from their party and Michelle Bachmann got a six thousand plus vote majority of the approximately seventeen thousand total votes available, with Ron Paul just two hundred votes behind... accruing the two approximately 14,000 votes. At that point Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the presidential race. Newt Gingrich and the others ran in the single digits. Next is the Republican Caucus in January.
» President Obama is on a "magic bus" trip to Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois to speak with the citizens of those states, then off to Marthas Vineyard for a vacation. If you're expecting the president to create jobs for Americans you might note Marthas Vineyard is well know for running it's summer tourism trade on Dominican Republic immigrant workers.
» Rebels in the Western part of Libya are making gains and have managed to hold ground in the port and crossroads town of Zawiya, thirty miles from Tripoli, against government forces. The Libyan government has notified the residents of Tripoli to prepare for fighting.
» Reports say Syrian government artillery has barraged the city of Latakia on the coast but the government adamantly denies it. There are 4 other cities under siege despite the fact that it's Ramadan and it's not Sharia-like (ie. Kosher) to make war during the time, but the Baathists are secular Muslims and their religious doctrines match the needs of the state... just like America and it's 'Christian' churches who casually gave new meaning to 'thou shalt not kill' when they ALL (including synagogues) re-defined 'kill' as 'murder' allowing the US government to draft without recourse American Jews and Christians for the Vietnam war.
» In Iraq five different cities are under attack by Shiite elements in the run up to the government's decision whether or not to allow US troops to remain in country past December. If they decide to do so, the leader of the Shiite majority in the country, Muqtada al-Sadr has vowed immediate and full scale war... Something the West is not very good at. In light of the recent purchase of thirty five or so F-16 fighter jets by Iraq from the US, it's unlikely the US will leave them without US protective forces... connect the dots. War.
From Foreign Policy Magazine:
At least 70 people were killed and dozens more wounded in a series of terrorist attacks throughout Iraq on Monday. The attacks shattered a period of relative calm that had descended during the Ramadan holiday.» In Lahore Pakistan a US aid contractor, Warren Weinstein, has been kidnapped.
In the worst incident, two bombs exploded in a crowded jewelry market in the city of Kut, killing 35. Bombs also exploded in Kirkuk and Baghdad, Tikrit, Najaf and Baquba. Gunmen also targeted leaders of the Sons of Iraq movement in Diyala province.
Interior Minister officials have banned street parking in the cities targeted, fearing more attacks.
Iraq is currently debating whether to ask U.S. troops to remain in the country past a December deadline. [In Full]
Mr Weinstein was working as the Pakistan country director of Virginia-based development company J.E. Austin Associates. He described his work as supervising a four-year $11 million “competitiveness project”, funded by the American government, which was involved in dairy, horticulture, furniture, and medical equipment projects. [More @ Telegraph UK]Meanwhile, in Afghanistan:
A group of six Taliban suicide attackers fought their way into the Parwan provincial governor's compound Sunday north of Kabul, killing at least 22 people before the attackers were subdued (NYT, AJE, Tel, AFP, WSJ, Post, BBC, Reuters, AP). The militants, who detonated a car bomb at the compound's entrance before storming in, struck as governor Abdul Basir Salangi, a former insurgent commander who fought Soviet forces and an ally of Afghan president Hamid Karzai, was meeting with officials to discuss the security situation in the province. [In Full, with links]
In OTHER News:
If you commute in the Bay Area of San Francisco, BART MIGHT be running a little slow in the evening rush as "Anonymous" plans to hold a demonstration at the Civic Center station in response to BART having shut off cell phone relay service from their platforms and other facilities for three critical hours last week attempting to disrupt a planned protest of a slew of shooting by BART police of unarmed civilians.
It's notable that BART Police ARE NOT like New York and Boston Transit Police... Full fledged members of a well-trained municipal police force, but are hired, and work for, BART. They are basically glorified ARMED Guards on public patrol. Over the weekend, Anonymous committed "Black Fax Bomb" and other computer based attacks on BART's website... Leading to the theft of BART's user database with name, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of many employees and BART users. That list of users is public.
More here: Anonymous punishes BART - defaces website, leaks user data and here: BART Calls In Feds After Hack Exposes User Info, Another Cell Block Possible For Protest Monday.
National Lawyers Guild lawyers will be standing by at the protest today in the event of arrests to supply legal assistance.
If you potentially need that assistance, the hotline information is Here.
Remember... This Afghani woman did not need to beg before we made war on her country:
(PLEASE try to keep your government from killing all the 'dusky natives'...)
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Friday, August 12, 2011
August 12 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: New Millenial Job Creation - Who Does It? We Do It... Locally
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August 12 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: New Millennial Job Creation - Who Does It? We Do It... Locally [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 16:31 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥ Twitter This Commentary |
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[After the commentary, a native of Hacklebarney Iowa, Greg Brown (his website) with a song about a guy who makes his own way. Courtesy of the respective artists.]
» For the next four days Ames Iowa is host to the Republican presidential debates. There are eight potential candidates but Ron Paul got the standing ovation when he demanded not only ALL U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq but a drawdown of forces deployed overseas in in general. Today the candidates are going to appear at the Iowa state fair also in Ames over this weekend and tomorrow there will be a straw vote where people will pay to vote (!?!) for the candidate of their choice... Meanwhile Ames Iowa is cashing in.
» The British government has cancelled the immediate hiring of a New York and LA police chief to help with their 'gang' problem. Things were generally quieter last night around Britain except for a couple of incidents in Manchester and elsewhere. France has offered to send help restoring order (I'll put my money on the street kids Vs the French Foreign Legion anytime). Due to the British surveillance camera state there are pictures of many of the rioters and there have been 1700 arrests so far, including a couple of people charged with murder... one 16 year old girl, and another person who killed an older man said to have been defending his property.
In light of the recent 'disturbances' Britain's Tourism Board has updated their TV commercial:
More press on the British riots below the fold...
» This is one of the places the British government's social services and job creation money went... Britain has cancelled a decades old program to catalog and identify Unidentified Flying Objects. The archive will be maintained just in case.
» The Obama administration has decided to take a bus trip across America speaking with Middle Americans and stumping for Obama's presidential run next year... instead of calling Congress back into session to do it's job and standing by for bill signings and making recess appointments.
» Five more Americans have been killed in two ambush incidents in Afghanistan. Half way through this month it has been the deadliest month so far for US forces in that invasion. It WAS Predicted... "The 2011 "Weather Report" For America's War On Afghanistan - It's Going To Be A Stormy Blood-Soaked Year"
» Mattel has announced that it will issue a Commemorative Farah Fawcett Barbie doll which will undoubtedly NOT be 'anatomically correct'. Farah Fawcett had a normal human-size waist.
In OTHER News:
Yesterday yours truly published the list of Republicans picked for the congressional "Budget Deficit Supercommittee".
Here's an update on the Democrat's picks... Sic 'Em!
Nancy Pelosi names her picks to ‘supercommittee,’ completing 12-member debt panelFor more information see: A who's who of the debt supercommittee, also at the Post.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday filled out the final three slots on the joint deficit committee by selecting three members of her leadership team to the panel.
Pelosi (D-Calif.) chose Reps. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.), Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), giving the panel the highest-ranking African-American and Latino lawmakers in Congress with Clyburn and Becerra, respectively. Pelosi reiterated her call for Congress to consider “the grand bargain” of major entitlement cuts matched with increased taxes.
“We must achieve a ‘grand bargain’ that reduces the deficit by addressing our entire budget, while strengthening Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Our entire Caucus will work closely with these three appointees toward this goal, which is the goal of the American people,” Pelosi said. “Because the work of this committee will affect all Americans, I called last week for its deliberations to be transparent; the committee should conduct its proceedings in the open.”
Clyburn is the No. 3 Democratic leader and Becerra is the No. 5 member of her leadership team. As the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, Van Hollen is an adjunct member of leadership and previously spent four years as the party’s campaign strategist as the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. [More at the Washington Post]
Out of work Bubbie? You need a job and STILL believe that either of the Parties of Millionaires will help develop them, instead of simply calling you a bum as they get on the plane to their condo in Dubai?
From the Christian Science Monitor:
What can Congress do to create jobs? Five Democratic proposals
What can Congress do to create jobs? Five Republican proposals
More coverage of the British riots and their aftermath:
British Prime Minister Cameron has denounced the rioters as 'immoral.' But...
Which leads, inexorably, to this Open Letter To David Cameron's Parents:(PM Cameron said in Parliament) We need to show the world, which has looked on, frankly, appalled, that the perpetrators of the violence we have seen on our streets are not in any way representative of our country – nor of our young people.Lawmaker responses hinted at a stark divide between two prevailing opinions on the cause of the riots, Mr. Glover writes.
We need to show them that we will address our broken society, we will restore a... stronger sense of morality and responsibility – in every town, in every street and in every estate.
According to Cameron and many others, a lack of responsibility is to blame. "Young people smashing windows and stealing televisions is not about inequality," Cameron said. "When you have a deep moral failure you don't hit it with a wall of money."
On the other side was Labour leader Ed Miliband and many other Labour politicians, who argue that there is a link between "inequality and social order" and that the riots are a result of a deep disparity between Britain's upper and lower classes.
The past week could have been "disastrous" for Cameron, but he managed parliament well today, Glover writes. But those on both sides of the political spectrum need to tread carefully, he says...[In Full, Christian Science Monitor]
An Open Letter to David Cameron’s ParentsAlso See:
August 10, 2011
Dear Mr & Mrs Cameron,
Why did you never take the time to teach your child basic morality?
As a young man, he was in a gang that regularly smashed up private property. We know that you were absent parents who left your child to be brought up by a school rather than taking responsibility for his behaviour yourselves. The fact that he became a delinquent with no sense of respect for the property of others can only reflect that fact that you are terrible, lazy human beings who failed even in teaching your children the difference between right and wrong. I can only assume that his contempt for the small business owners of Oxford is indicative of his wider values.
Even worse, your neglect led him to fall in with a bad crowd. He became best friends with a young man who set fire to buildings for fun. And others...
There’s Michael Gove, whose wet-lipped rage was palpable on Newsnight last night. This is the Michael Gove who confused one of his houses with another of his houses in order to avail himself of £7,000 of the taxpayers’ money to which he was not entitled (or £13,000, depending on which house you think was which). Or Hazel Blears, who was interviewed in full bristling peahen mode for almost all of last night. She once forgot which house she lived in, and benefited to the tune of £18,000.
At the time she said it would take her reputation years to recover. Unfortunately not.
But, of course, this is different. This is just understandable confusion over the rules of how many *houses* you are meant to have as an MP. This doesn’t show the naked greed of people stealing plasma tellies... [More Dunning Follows]
These riots reflect a society run on greed and lootingAs a last note on the topic, it must be said that the British police do NOT seem to be happy with PM Cameron's strategy for dealing with what any police officer KNOWS, in the final analysis, is a SOCIAL problem, NOT originated from someone indelibly and genetically branded a "Criminal Element":
David Cameron has to maintain that the unrest has no cause except criminality – or he and his friends might be held responsible
Seumas Milne
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 10 August 2011
It is essential for those in power in Britain that the riots now sweeping the country can have no cause beyond feral wickedness. This is nothing but "criminality, pure and simple", David Cameron declared after cutting short his holiday in Tuscany. The London mayor and fellow former Bullingdon Club member Boris Johnson, heckled by hostile Londoners in Clapham Junction, warned that rioters must stop hearing "economic and sociological justifications" (though who was offering them he never explained) for what they were doing.
When his predecessor Ken Livingstone linked the riots to the impact of public spending cuts, it was almost as if he'd torched a building himself. The Daily Mail thundered that blaming cuts was "immoral and cynical", echoed by a string of armchair riot control enthusiasts. There was nothing to explain, they've insisted, and the only response should be plastic bullets, water cannon and troops on the streets.
We'll hear a lot more of that when parliament meets – and it's not hard to see why. If these riots have no social or political causes, then clearly no one in authority can be held responsible. What's more, with many people terrified by the mayhem and angry at the failure of the police to halt its spread, it offers the government a chance to get back on the front foot and regain its seriously damaged credibility as a force for social order.
But it's also a nonsensical position. If this week's eruption is an expression of pure criminality and has nothing to do with police harassment or youth unemployment or rampant inequality or deepening economic crisis, why is it happening now and not a decade ago? The criminal classes, as the Victorians branded those at the margins of society, are always with us, after all. And if it has no connection with Britain's savage social divide and ghettoes of deprivation, why did it kick off in Haringey and not Henley? [More, Guardian UK]
We can't be ordered to police in a certain wayGood On Him!
Now is not the time for police to use water cannon and baton rounds, writes Sir Hugh Orde, president of the Association of Chief Police Officers. Such tactics should only be used in very specific circumstances and we will not rashly deviate from the British model of policing
One of the greatest strengths of British policing is that operational decision-making is conducted not by politicians, but by professional chief police officers who have spent their whole career in policing. While David Cameron today referred to some of the more extreme measures available to us, they are not new, and responsibility for their deployment remains entirely a matter for chief officers. There can be no confusion here at all; it is a fact that we cannot be ordered to police in a certain way but we will be held robustly accountable for what we choose to do or not do.
As one of only two officers in the country to have ordered the use of water cannon and baton rounds in public-order policing, my professional judgment is... [More @ The Guardian]
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Thursday, August 11, 2011
August 11 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Before We Examine The Problem Lets Redefine What's Going On - Neo-Tribalism And The Young
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In light of the commentary, and the comparison to the Arab Spring... This from al-Jazeera:
From [Pen-L], the Progressive Economists Listserv:In the heart of Toxteth, Liverpool, a mysterious statue appeared in the early hours of July 30 It was a monument to Mohamed Bouazizi, the young Tunisian man who, after being humiliated by police, had set himself alight in an act of protest that was to inflame the simmering rage of hundreds of thousands of people. Last Thursday, in the London borough of Tottenham, the British police shot and killed a 29-year-old black man named Mark Duggan. The following day, the monument in Toxteth - a district that had been the site of racially-fuelled social unrest in the 1980s - disappeared, the monument's artist told Al Jazeera.
The Liverpool city council was unable to comment on whether it was responsible for having the monument removed, as they were swamped trying to deal with the riots, which spread to Liverpool over the weekend.
Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation, and the uprising that followed, happened in a very different context to the British riots... [In Full]
Youth Unemployment In Europe
In June 2011, more than five million young people between 15 and 24 years in the European Union were unemployed. The rate of youth unemployment in the European Union amounts to 20.5%. By far the highest youth unemployment rate is reported from Spain, where in June nearly half (45.7%) of the youth aged 15-24 years were unemployed." More statistics follow....
NOW...In The News:
» Yesterday the US stock market's Dow Jones average dived five hundred and nineteen points. Gold went through the $1,800 mark but settled below it. The Irish and French banks have had bad news for the financial markets even as the Swiss government begins to consider printing more Francs to reduce the value of their currency which some claim is overvalued in relation to the US dollar and the Euro. Other European banks are buying Italian and Spanish bonds to support those countries economies.
» It took sixteen thousand police officers to keep London quiet overnight, but in Manchester and North Nottingham there were attacks on the police. Prime Minister Cameron, upset at being recalled from his vacation, has called for the use of Water Cannons and Plastic Bullets... The first time those crowd control weapons have ever been used on the mainland of Britain, but used quite often in the Northern Ireland wars. The burning question... What is wrong with British youth?
An interview with Darcus Howe might be able to answer much of that... If Britain's parents and gentry are really listening (doubtful). The BBC may never re-run the impassioned news interview he gave the other day, but DemocracyNow! interviewed him yesterday:
"There is a mass insurrection. And I’m not talking about rioting; I’m talking about an insurrection that comes from the depths of society, from the consciousness, collectively, of the young blacks and whites, but overwhelmingly black, as a result of the consistent stopping and searching young blacks without cause," [Interview Here]There's much much more in the commentary where you'll find out nothing's really wrong with with the youths at all. They're just responding in kind to industrial society's MASSIVE failures..
It seems a shame... They take such good care of their trucks considering the lack of most anything to repair them:
» There has been a double bombing at a truck stop in Peshawar Pakistan, where Pakistani truckers stage for their NATO-paid runs over the Khyber Pass (AKA Sniper Alley). First the attackers bombed the trucks, and when the 'first responders' showed up, a second bomb went off.
If you're religious, pray for these Pakistani truck drivers. They need it.
» AppleCorp is now the most valuable company in the U.S... worth $637 billion dollars. That's about six billion dollars more than EXXON/Mobil. The question that comes to mind is are they polluting the planet as badly as an oil company to develop that worth? Hard to judge... but one thing IS for certain... THEY ARE planet destroyers (equal time for Apple here) as well as sweat shop labor utilizers.
» One other thing... The GOP has announced its picks for the powerful deficit supercommittee:
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has appointed Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) to serve on the deficit supercommittee.
Hensarling will serve as the co-chairman of the supercomittee.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appointed his deputy Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), former Bush budget director Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Tea Party favorite Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) [More @ The Hill]
In OTHER News:
The other day, A Washington Post blog, The Daily Beast, published a particularly nasty piece of anti-Islamic, pro-war on Somalia propaganda by an alleged expat Somali doctor titled: "Under Siege In Somalia - A people plagued by catastrophic famine — and the tyranny of Islamist fanatics".
This morning... A picture of US mercenary 'trainers' in Somalia on the FRONT PAGE of the NYTimes:
[Click the picture for the article]
That means we must be 'going' for it'.
Yours truly did a debunking of the WaPo post in the comments of the Daily Beast article (as Auntie Imperial):
This is a load of BS. Here's the REAL deal!Consider that done.
The title... to be quite plain is: Destroying African Agriculture by Walden Bello, Foreign Policy In Focus
It's about how Western institution CAUSE famine in Africa, and further, how these countries make remarkable recoveries when they tell the World Bank, WTO, and the IMF to shove off.
In regard to the Islamic Terrorism trope. Let us not forget that the Somalis TWICE ousted the CIA led thugs (Here's a picture of them at some unidentified airstrip in Africa... Lookit the guy reaching for his piece under his suit jacket) who call themselves the "Transitional Federal Government' of Somalia.
The CIA's Somalia operations even went so far as to remove the thugs via a US Navy submarine to Kenya after the second ouster. But the Kenyans said they could be prosecuted for certain crimes so they were moved to Ethiopia... More than glad to not only host them, but help in the further destabilization and destruction of their longstanding enemy, their neighbor Somalia..
Last but NOT least... Somalis, portrayed as "Pirates" NOT. More like Coast Guard.
Too bad the West is desperate for extractive resources from Africa but it IN NO WAY excuses the displacement of blame and warmongering that this article does.
All and all this is a piece of propagandistic crap, and I will feature it as such prominently in my morning news report. [The article is here]
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
August 10 2011 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Pretending They Aren't Modern Day Slaves - The House Of Reps Cancels The 'Page' Program
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» London is not exactly burning... due to 16,000 police officers on the streets in a bid to quell a potential fourth night of rioting and looting. But Manchester, (North) Nottingham, Liverpool, and Birmingham didn't fare so well. In North Nottingham a police station was attacked, and in Liverpool and Wooolwich (Woolwich video here) the rioters (insurrectionists if you prefer) attacked the police in the street and prevented the them from setting up cordons.
More details, images, videos and interviews below the fold in the OTHER News.
» The Wisconsin recall elections fell short with only two of the six districts electing Democrats leaving them one vote short of a majority in the state legislature.
» In Michigan the state has cut their budget by stripping students in courses deemed to be job training of their right to USDA food benefits (Food Stamps). That leaves thirty thousand students trying to figure out how to schedule a trip to the local soup kitchen into their class schedule.
» It's just as well that children don't work for employers who are predators and sociopaths - The Page Program which gave high school students the chance to work for their congressman running errands in the House of Representatives has been cancelled. That move will save congress from any more nasty "pervert publicity" and ten million dollars a year.
More in the commentary.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)
» After a 200 point gain yesterday the Dow is currently down 340 and the instability is pushing the price of Gold up $10-$16 a day.
» U.S. drones have killed seven alleged Pakistani 'militants'. That most likely means they were civilians who just happened to belong to the 'wrong clan'.
» In our longest war, the Koreans have exchanged six rounds of artillery fire in the Yellow Sea. Three from the North, and three from the South. Details
In OTHER News:
More details, images, and interviews in regard to the riots in Britain.
From ABCNews:
According to an account provided by the IPCC, Duggan was a passenger in a minicab when the cab was stopped Thursday evening by submachine gun-toting officers from Scotland Yard's Operation Trident -- a special operation "dealing with gun crime among black communities, in particular drug-related shootings."Meanwhile:
What happened next is unclear due to conflicting reports by the IPCC and London-based media, which only have basic facts in common: multiple shots were fired, at least one bullet was lodged in a police radio worn by one of the officers and when it was over, Duggan was dead.
Based on the IPCC account, two shots were fired by a single officer. Later, after Duggan was pronounced dead at the scene, the IPCC said a post-mortem examination revealed he had been shot in the right arm but was felled by a single shot to the chest. A non-official handgun was recovered from the scene, but it did not appear that gun had been fired, the IPCC said.
Though the IPCC does not mention other shots being fired, it did confirm another bullet was recovered from the radio worn by one of the police officers. That bullet was consistent with those fired from the submachine guns carried by the officers.
Along with scouring the area for CCTV footage, the IPCC said it is taking statements from witnesses including the driver of the minicab who was not injured but "badly shaken by what he saw."
One witness, quoted in the London Evening Standard, said that police shot Duggan dead as he lay on the ground... [More]
"Speaking from his Tuscan holiday villa, Prime Minister David Cameron – who has finally decided to return home to take charge - declared simply that the social unrest searing through the poorest boroughs in the country was "utterly unacceptable."Unacceptable IS the word... especially if one is talking about the continued LOOTING BY THE economic elite of the British poor's health, labor, and welfare.
The view from the rest of London:
August 9, 2011Also see this local newscast by BBC (most likely to never be repeated) with Darcus Howe, a West Indian Writer and Broadcaster about the riots. Speaking about the mistreatment of youths... including an incident of police harassment that happened to his own son. The money quote:
Panic on the Streets of London
by Laurie PennyI’m huddled in the front room with some shell-shocked friends, watching my city burn. The BBC is interchanging footage of blazing cars and running street battles in Hackney, of police horses lining up in Lewisham, of roiling infernos that were once shops and houses in Croydon and in Peckham. Last night, Enfield, Walthamstow, Brixton and Wood Green were looted; there have been hundreds of arrests and dozens of serious injuries, and it will be a miracle if nobody dies tonight...o
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...Violence is rarely mindless. The politics of a burning building, a smashed-in shop or a young man shot by police may be obscured even to those who lit the rags or fired the gun, but the politics are there. Unquestionably there is far, far more to these riots than the death of Mark Duggan, whose shooting sparked off the unrest on Saturday, when two police cars were set alight after a five-hour vigil at Tottenham police station. A peaceful protest over the death of a man at police hands, in a community where locals have been given every reason to mistrust the forces of law and order, is one sort of political statement.
Raiding shops for technology and trainers that cost ten times as much as the benefits you’re no longer entitled to is another. A co-ordinated, viral wave of civil unrest across the poorest boroughs of Britain, with young people coming from across the capital and the country to battle the police, is another.
Months of conjecture will follow these riots. Already, the internet is teeming with racist vitriol and wild speculation. The truth is that very few people know why this is happening. They don’t know, because they were not watching these communities. Nobody has been watching Tottenham since the television cameras drifted away after the Broadwater Farm riots of 1985. Most of the people who will be writing, speaking and pontificating about the disorder this weekend have absolutely no idea what it is like to grow up in a community where there are no jobs, no space to live or move, and the police are on the streets stopping-and-searching you as you come home from school.
The people who do will be waking up this week in the sure and certain knowledge that after decades of being ignored and marginalised and harassed by the police, after months of seeing any conceivable hope of a better future confiscated, they are finally on the news. In one NBC report, a young man in Tottenham was asked if rioting really achieved anything:
"Yes," said the young man. "You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?"
"Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard, more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."
[In Full @ Commondreams]
"I don't call it a riot. I call it insurrection."In the meantime, in between time, in America, a war on the poor is declared, regardless of color, creed, or national origin. It has been in progress since the country's inception, as a matter of fact it's built into the Constitution, which is why there IS a Bill of Rights (or a number of delegation would have walked out, and stayed out of the Constitutional Convention), but there's never been so obvious an example:
"A Declaration of War on the Poor": Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on the Debt Ceiling Agreement
www.democracynow.org
The veteran broadcaster Tavis Smiley, and the author and Princeton University Professor Cornel West, are in the midst of a 15 city, cross-country trek they have dubbed, "The Poverty Tour: A Call to Conscience." The tour comes on the heels of last week’s controversial deficit agreement. [Video and Transcript @ DemocracyNow!]
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