Tuesday, April 10, 2012
April 10 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Introducing A Kink Into An Election Year With No Federal Budget For The Last *One Thousand And Seven Days*
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«o» Talks about the Iranian nuclear program are scheduled to happen in Turkey but the Iranians and Syria may boycott the discusion.
«o» The son of the Shah of Iran is trying to convince the American government and NGOs to back his "opposition party". He is not a hero of post revolutionary Iran. More.
«o» A double bombing in the Western Afghanistan province of Herat has left ten dead police officers and intelligence operators. Over the weekend there were around five ISAF forces killed and a larger number of Afghan police.
«o» North Korea has a three stage rocket on the stand ready to launch a satellite by the end of the week, but the US, Japan, South Korea and other nations say that's not the purpose of the launch. The US is claiming it's a test of a rocket that could possibly hit the far northwest corner of US territory such as the Aleutian Islands... implying a nuclear weapons delivery system.
«o» The senate, which has gone ONE THOUSAND AND SEVEN days without passing a budget (the whole Obama term) has been upbraided by the "Senate Parliamentarian" who has informed that August body they cannot keep stalling on bills introduced but are required to act on them and if a bill is voted, it can be passed by a simple majority... which may allow the senate Democrats to throw the budget ball into the Republican court right around election time.
In OTHER News:
Good morning America... This Twitter DM from a friend in Barcelona Spain (Female grad student... Age unknown. #Indignados) greeted me this morning.
"A young man die today for a rubber ball in his head. I don't like this new Spain... I don't like nothing right now."I think this needs no transliteration.
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Monday, April 9, 2012
April 09 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: California's Budget - It's As Big As Some IMF Nation Budgets And It's Getting Slashed Like Them
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«o» There's a new tactical arrangement for night raids by ISAF forces in Afghanistan. Those forces are going to be garrisoned at night, with the Afghan "Special Forces" thugs we've trained doing that dirty work instead... Unless of course ISAF forces are called in to 'critique and assist' them.
«o» With two days to go before a ceasefire begins the Syrian rebels have rejected a demand by the Syrian government that they lay down their arms. Government forces are using artillery and aircraft against three cities ostensibly 'in the hands' of the rebels, whose strategic, tactical, and operational base is in Turkey... which has led to this cross border incident:
Turkey: 3 wounded from Syrian gunfire over border«o» The Iranians have offered to make a deal to stop producing their 30% enriched nuclear material and scale back their R&D efforts if there is an international agreement to provide materials and technology from other 'controlled' sources. For your information, weapons grade nuclear material is around 90% enriched, the Iranians have 30% enriched, and the West wants them to have no more than 15% enriched. The law of diminishing returns ABSOLUTELY applies here. It's a light-year leap from 30% to 90% and would require a HUGE investment of time, money, equipment, and low grade nuclear materials to produce weapons grade Plutonium, and the Iranians simply do not have the resources.
By Selcan Hacaoglu, Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey says Syrian forces fired across the border at a refugee camp, wounding a Turkish translator and at least two Syrian refugees.
A government official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with government rules, says Turkey immediately summoned the Syrian charge d’affaires and asked that the fire be halted. [More]
«o» The US has deployed a second aircraft carrier group in the Arabian Sea outside the Persian Gulf and are 'patrolling the coast for piracy' from Aden to Somalia. It's the fourth time in ten years the US has had two carrier groups, which cost millions of dollars a day to staff and operate, in that area.
«o» Republican presidential nomination contender Rick Santorum is off the campaign trail visiting his daughter who is ill. The next Republican primary is in Pennsylvania, Santorum's home state.
Meanwhile the Republication 'Super Delegates' says no matter how you add it up Mitt Romney is going to clinch the Republican presidential nomination.
It's over, and Mitt Romney is going to be the GOP nominee for president.In OTHER News:
That's the growing consensus among Republican National Committee members who will automatically attend the party's national convention this summer and can support any candidate they choose.
Even some members who support other candidates begrudgingly say the math doesn't add up for anyone but the former Massachusetts governor.
"I would be surprised if Romney doesn't get the number he needs," said Jeff Johnson of Minnesota, who supports former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Bob Bennett of Ohio was more blunt.
"Look, Gov. Romney's going to be the nominee, and he's going to have enough votes," said Bennett, who is publicly neutral but said he supported Romney four years ago. [In Full]
Say it ain't so Joe! (McCarthy)
FBI Sees American Universities Infected by Foreign Spies
“We have intelligence and cases indicating that U.S. universities are indeed a target of foreign intelligence services,” Frank Figliuzzi, Federal Bureau of Investigation assistant director for counterintelligence, said in a February interview in the bureau’s Washington headquarters.” [BusinessWeek [h/t: RiskIntel]
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Friday, April 6, 2012
April 06 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: If The Hustlers Hucksters And Socipaths Don't Ruin It... President Obama Signs The Jobs Act
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«o» Yesterday president Obama signed the Jobs Act which loosens up credit and insurance on government contracts for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Will the hustlers and hucksters move in on those government insured loans?
«o» Attorney General Holder came up with the required three page single spaced justification as demanded by the 5th circuit court judge who took umbrage at the president's pronouncement that the Ryan budget bill had a number of constitutional no-nos within it and was an attack on the underpinnings of American society.
Meanwhile, the Europeans are confused by our "Supreme" judicial jurisprudence:
Europe is scratching its head over possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down President Obama's signature legislative achievement. As the judiciary and the Obama administration trade legal barbs over the high court's authority, the idea that health care coverage, largely considered a universal right in Europe, could be deemed an affront to liberty is baffling.«o» A UN brokered ceasefire has been declared in Syria and the Assad government has signed it willingly, but right now Syrian forces are attacking a number of suburbs of Damascus and the city of Homs attempting to secure territory before the ceasefire takes effect next week.
"The Supreme Court can legitimately return Obamacare?" asks a headline on the French news site 9 POK . The article slowly walks through the legal rationale behind the court's right to wipe away Congress's legislation. "Sans précédent, extraordinaires" reads the article. In the German edition of The Financial Times, Sabine Muscat is astonished at Justice Antonin Scalia's argument that if the government can mandate insurance, it can also require people to eat broccoli. "Absurder Vergleich" reads the article's kicker, which in English translates to, "Absurd Comparison." In trying to defeat the bill, Muscat writes, Scalia is making a "strange analogy [to] vegetables." [More @ Atlantic Wire via Yahoo!]
«o» There's a virus attacking Apple computers. But as has been noted by a number of computer savvy pundits over the years, don't call Apple for advice. They'll only direct you to call the company that supplied your antivirus software. Are they working on a patch to plug that security hole? Who knows? Unlike MicroSoft, Apple doesn't like to talk about those things with the public.
«o» Iran has thrown a wrench in the works on the UN sponsored Palestinian-Israel talks by inviting the meeting to Tehran or Damascus instead of Turkey (where the West is currently hosting the folks staging the destabilization of Syria). Considering both of those countries would be involved in those talks, and the significance of those countries in the region, the talks COULD fall apart if that suggestion isn't honored by the UN.
«o» In Greece the suicide rate has tripled since IMF mandated austerity measures were enacted recently.
Yesterday... A 77 year old retired pharmacist shot himself in the head during the morning rush-hour near Syntagma Square.
“I see no other option for a dignified end before having to scavenge through the garbage for my food,” (in other versions "I find no other solution than a dignified end before I start searching through the trash for food," [src]) the 77-year-old retired pharmacist from Karditsa wrote in the note found on him after he shot himself to death in Athens' main square yesterday morning.His note stated:
"After paying into my pension for 35 years, the government has rendered it too small to survive..."
His suicide sparked demonstrations, recriminations, and a public debate on its significance. As people took to the square in commiseration and anger, Prime Minister Lukas Papademos expressed sorrow.But it IS right inside the ECONOMIC and SOCIAL acculturation of the OECD nations...
“It’s tragic that a fellow man has ended his own life," he said "In these difficult times for our society, we, both the state and the citizens, have to support the people next to us that are in distress."
The public suicide as a political statement is highly unusual in Greek political tradition.
“I have to say this is a little out of our political culture,” says Michalis... [Christian Science Monitor for more]
Yours truly is speaking of what can only be described as victims of an affluent society where people are semantically informed throughout their lives that they are somehow worth more than an Indonesian garbage dump dweller. However, the Indonesian doesn't have those suicidal thoughts because their society, family and friends don't consider them outcasts or 'disposable' because life has dealt them that hand.
Consider Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian who self-immolated and sparked a 'revolution' in his country.
He didn't commit suicide because he was forced to sell oranges on a street corner for a living despite his higher education. He committed suicide because the Tunisian government (at least the municipality where he lived) prevented him from doing even that.
In Western industrial society, our learned behaviors prevent us, psychologically and emotionally, from digging trash if we have to, leaving a population prone to suicide, substance abuse, and psychological health problems as the end result.
Further, we are all programmed from birth not to bite the hand that feeds us so to speak, but when the 'food' stops showing up we won't bite them... we attack each other.
I mean Mexican illegals (workers just like us) ARE the reason we don't have jobs right?
That's what we're told, and that's what we want to believe because we cannot believe that the people who created the system as it is, did it ALL for themselves.
Believe it...
The Simpson "Cat Food Commission", the US government's response to an IMF demand that the OECD nations cut their national deficits by a large amount has yet to cause the massive disruptions and dis-ease in America, but similar plans are the direct cause of the turmoil we are now seeing in Greece and Spain which have enacted those plans.
By reading the newspapers you'd think those country's government just 'thought it up', but it was agreed on by the IMF just a couple of years ago that it would be done in all the member nations... Including America.
Meanwhile, the Globalized Rich left note of appreciation on the night table for you after screwing you for the last 24 hours:
Darling,
It's been fun but let's be honest. You'll never win the lottery.
On the other hand, the chances are pretty good that you'll slave away at some miserable job the rest of your life. That's because you were in all likelihood born into the wrong social class. Let's face it -- you're a member of the working caste. Sorry!
As a result, you don't have the education, upbringing, connections, manners, appearance, and good taste to ever become one of us.
In fact, you'd probably need a book the size of the yellow pages to list all the unfair advantages we have over you. That's why we're so relieved to know that you still continue to believe all those silly fairy tales about "justice" and "equal opportunity" in America.
Of course, in a hierarchical social system like ours, there's never been much room at the top to begin with. Besides, it's already occupied by us -- and we like it up here so much that we intend to keep it that way.
But at least there's usually someone lower in the social hierarchy you can feel superior to and kick in the teeth once in a while. Even a lowly dishwasher can easily find some poor slob further down in the pecking order to sneer and spit at.
So be thankful for migrant workers, prostitutes, and homeless street people.
Always remember that if everyone like you were economically secure and socially privileged like us, there would be no one left to fill all those boring, dangerous, low-paid jobs in our economy.
And no one to fight our wars for us, or blindly follow orders in our totalitarian corporate institutions. And certainly no one to meekly go to their grave without having lived a full and creative life. So please, keep up the good work!
You also probably don't have the same greedy, compulsive drive to possess wealth, power, and prestige that we have. And even though you may sincerely want to change the way you live, you're also afraid of the very change you desire, thus keeping you and others like you in a nervous state of limbo.
So you go through life mechanically playing your assigned social role, terrified what others would think should you ever dare to "break out of the mold."
Naturally, we try to play you off against each other whenever it suits our purposes: high-waged workers against low-waged, unionized against non-unionized, Black against White, male against female, American workers against Japanese against Mexican against... [In Full]
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
April 05 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary
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«o» The General Service Administration which had been busted blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars on Las Vegas parties and more by the Department Of Justice a while back are about to get roasted... The Republicans are going to hold hearings. There have already been firings and people falling on their swords over it. But there IS a silver lining... More
«o» Five alleged terrorists who are claimed to have been involved in the planning and operation of the 9/11 attack have agreed to be tried as a group at Guantanamo. Expect very little media coverage.
«o» The US Marines are going to discharge sergeant Gary Klein of their meteorological division, a right wing nutcase, over statements he made on his facebook page and elsewhere referring to the president as a domestic terrorist.
More from Reuters:
(Reuters) - A federal judge refused on Wednesday to block disciplinary action against a Marine who criticized President Barack Obama on Facebook and called him a "domestic enemy" in a posting to an internal military network.«o» The Taliban is on the warpath again with a bombing in a Northern province of Afghanistan near the Pakistan border killing 10 people including three US troops. They have also raided an Afghan security forces compound. The native security and militia forces there were all killed.
Marine Sergeant Gary Stein, 26, a meteorologist stationed at Camp Pendleton near San Diego, filed suit on Tuesday, saying the Marine Corps was violating his right to free speech. A Southern California congressman has rallied to his defense.
The Marines have said they initiated discharge proceedings against Stein after he posted political statements about Obama on a Facebook page he runs called the "Armed Forces Tea Party."
Military experts have said that by associating the name of his Facebook page with the Armed Forces, Stein was essentially putting himself in the position of publicly expressing his personal political opinions while in uniform, which Defense Department rules prohibit.
But at a hearing on the lawsuit in San Diego, District Judge Marilyn Huff said he also came under scrutiny for anti-Obama comments he posted to the military's internal network for meteorological and oceanographic information.
Huff said the online message posted by Stein read: "As an active-duty Marine, I have sworn to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Obama is the economic enemy, the religious enemy, the domestic enemy." [More]
«o» In Morocco an activist rapper involved in the democracy movement whose name transliterates to "The Outraged" has been arrested for a song about police corruption. He may spend three years in prison for that song.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
April 04 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Federal Insider Trading Law - Today It Gets A LITTLE Harder For Your Elected Officials To Be Corrupt
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«o» ROTF ROTF! Constitutional clash! Yesterday President Obama had lunch with the Associated Press where he called the Ryan variant on the federal budget a Trojan horse for radical change and a challenge to the basic value of the Constitution. THEN a federal judge on the 5th circuit court took umbrage at the president's deconstruction of the budget and it's constitutional implications so he ordered the Justice Department to deliver a three page single space brief by tomorrow stating where the president thinks he has the right to make statements regarding the budget's validity under the US Constitution.
It's worth noting that president Obama has a degree in constitutional law, but it's unlikely he'll argue that brief himself.
It's ALSO worth noting no federal court complained when Obama essentially declared private Bradley Manning, accused of leaking materials to WikiLeaks guilty... before the private was even arraigned, also circumventing court procedures, and potentially tainting Manning's trial, now in progress.
«o» Mitt Romney pulled a hat trick yesterday and won the Republican primaries in Maryland, Washington, DC (Rick Santorum wasn't on the ballot in DC), and Wisconsin, where Romney only had a 5 point margin. Santorum says he's going to hang in until the convention which MAY cause a brokered vote with Santorum's delegates 'for sale'. The price being including planks of Santorum's campaign platform in the Republican presidential campaign.
«o» You don't go at us... we won't go at you - The US and the Afghan government talks on ending night raids by ISAF troops in the country's communities appears to be moving towards some sort of deal considering the Taliban aren't attack ISAF bases as often.
«o» The 'cradle of American democracy' France has gone full Islamophobe and has rounded up all known 'radical Islamists' to be deported and no one with any record of activities in that realm will be allowed in the country in future.
«o» Today president Obama will sign the new law banning congress, the presidential staff, and other top government officials from making profits in the stock market on insider tips. Expect no enforcement... except perhaps of the selective nature by congressmen with axes to grind.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
April 03 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: It's A Police State Because It's A State Dedicated To The Police - The USSC 'Strip Everyone' Ruling
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«o» In our not-so-secret war on Yemen's citizens with the Yemeni government's assistance, the 'government' claims it killed forty three "al-Qaeda rebels" (Note the Weasel Words @ Foreign Policy's Middle East "Channel" below) in air raids... The chances of them ALL being al-Qaeda is about nil. The strike probably wiped out a whole tribal family with one or two of them having been somehow affiliated with the Yemeni insurgents who are attempting to take down the government.
Yemeni airstrikes kill 43 al Qaeda fighters as militants blow up oil pipelineAlso, in Nigeria, a "Joint Task Force" is pursuing the Islamic militant group Boko Haram who are ALSO alleged to be al-Qaeda... A phrase that now appears to be re-branded to mean they're Muslim and in opposition to Western Ways, as opposed to the original usage meaning literally, "The Database"... of Muslim CIA fighters working for the US and NATO.
Yemen's army killed up to 43 suspected al Qaeda-linked militants during airstrikes in a three-day offensive in the southern provinces of Aden and Abyan. According to the government, forces have reclaimed control of strategic cities that serve as links to the north, including what has become the al Qaeda base in the al-Rahha mountainous region of Lahj. The assault came after two attacks by militant fighters on Yemeni army bases in the area. Al Qaeda has been exploiting instability in Yemen to strengthen its control in the region. According to Mohammed al-Qadhi, a Sanaa-based journalist, "Al-Qaeda [is] using the stalemate in the political process and the continued division of army and security forces...to expand their activities in different southern provinces."
Meanwhile, the al Qaeda-affiliated Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility for bombing an oil pipeline in southern Yemen on Monday... [In Full(with links)]
The movement, whose name in the Hausa language, Boko Haram, translates as "Western education is sacrilege"[9] or "a sin",[11] (wikipedia)But in the fine print... "It was also gathered that new operational order and rules of engagement for assorted criminals, especially Boko Haram and Niger Delta Militants..."
The last refers to MEND, the non-religious Niger Delta rebel group who have only voiced one main demand. That the deal the oil companies made with government of Nigeria and the Delta residents for community improvements in return for utterly taking over the region with oil infrastructure, be implemented. They are also in opposition to the damage the oil companies have done to the overall environment of their homeland.
The Niger Delta villages look like this:
«o» There was a three nation summit meeting at the White House with president Calderon of Mexico, prime minister Harper of Canada and president Obama. The discussion involved NAFTA and trade was the major issue, but cooperation in drug interdiction and military aid for border security issues and more. More from NBC and the Los Angeles Times.
«o» #OccupySanFrancisco was rousted by yesterday by the San Francisco police from an occupation of a two story abandoned building owned by the Catholic Archdiocese. They intended to turn it into a shelter. The Archdiocese stated it had no intention of allowing that to happen.
Meanwhile in Oakland, a farce and a tragedy... Just more proof the Obama administration has lied about every single one of their campaign promises (in this case the claim he would keep a legal hands-off stance on states with laws in regard to medical Marijuana) and the Oakland Police is derilict in it's community duty in so many ways by cooperating with the federal government in regard to that raid, and in spite of their own state's laws..
The feds raid Oaksterdam... A school in Oakland dedicated to teaching the cultivation of medical Marijuana:
"About a dozen protesters upset over the raid gathered out front of the multistory building adorned with a large mural that makes the school one of the neighborhood’s most visible landmarks. The demonstrators held signs demanding an end to federal crackdowns on medical marijuana.But it's #AmericanSpring and the natives ARE restless.. the Oakland Police Department had to escort the DEA operatives through ad angry crowd outside Oaksterdam University after the raid.
Oaksterdam University was founded by Richard Lee, the main backer of the California ballot measure defeated in 2010 that would have legalized marijuana in the state for recreational use. The neighborhood has also been home to several medical marijuana dispensaries, including one founded by Lee." [Continue Reading @ Salon]
Restless MIGHT BE too mild a sentiment when Oakland locals digest today's news and realize the OPD were too busy raiding Oaksterdam university to stop a school shooting.
While the Oakland PD was busy protecting the DEA agents who raided Oaksterdam Associated Press was reporting 6 dead, 3 wounded in an Oakland California Christian university shooting.
This morning, from Reuters:
Gunman kills 7, wounds 3 at California Christian collegeYou KNOW the Oakland Police will blame it on the 'need' to 'assist' the feds because of those criminal pot smokers. or budget cuts, or #OccupyOakland draining their resources, or ANYTHING but their own STUPID 'LAWS'.
OAKLAND, California (Reuters) - A gunman opened fire at a Christian college in California on Monday, killing at least seven people and wounding three after telling former classmates: "Get in line and I'm going to kill you all." [More @ Reuters]
It's called perception management, and the countervailing strategy is to preemptively point out what they're going to say before they say it. Because IF they say it after that, they'll have also have to prove it to make the statement credible, and given the MASSIVE amount of homeland security money plus military equipment aid the area's police departments receive, they'll be truly unlikely to convince anyone except the 'true believers' in their omnipotence.
Those believers will be hard to find in Oakland.
«o» Primary elections will be held today in Maryland, Washington DC, and Wisconsin... There will be a special election later this spring in an attempt to unseat Scott Walker, the anti-labor governor of that mostly Blue Collar state.
«o» The Supreme Court has ruled you can be strip searched at a police station for anything at all. In other words, your right to privacy is no more valid in a local police precinct than it is at an international border crossing.
In OTHER News:
I KNEW I should have invested in this instead of that ton of Gold Bullion!
Eel market sizzles as prices hit $2k/lb in Maine
By Clarke Canfield, Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fishermen in Maine are cashing in on tiny translucent baby eels that make their way up the state’s streams and rivers each spring.
A worldwide shortage of elvers has driven prices up to an unprecedented $2,000 a pound.
Fishermen catch the alien-looking, toothpick-sized eels in nets and sell them to dealers who ship them to Asia, where they’re grown out to market size in aquaculture ponds. One dealer says a pound of grown eels should be worth around $30,000 on the open market.
Eel prices first skyrocketed last year, making elvers Maine’s fourth most-valuable wild fishery. They were worth more than groundfish, shrimp or scallops.
This year’s high prices have fishermen and dealers on edge about poachers, the safety of fishermen, the secrecy of fishing spots and unwanted publicity... [More Fish Stories]
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Monday, April 2, 2012
April 02 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: It's True! It's ALL About The Money - 'Money'... An Archaic Form Of Exchange Left Over From Another Day
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A Synopsis Of This Morning's News...
H/t to ChrisM my MP3Angel for supplying the audio files.
«o» Rush Limbaugh still spews and there's one less of "Us" on the air. The Current-TV network has sacked Keith Olbermann after a year long contentious relationship. Production values and the broadcaster's lowballed tech support among other things are going to be discussed with David Letterman on the Tonight Show... Tonight.
«o» Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the Middle East trying to whip up support at the "Friends of Syria" meeting for more destabilization in Syria. She says the US will supply communications equipment and 'humanitarian aid' to the Turkish based opposition who DO NOT like the new, more democratic constitution, as they were hoping to take power and usurp the reins of a more authoritarian state. The Saudis just want to give the rebels guns... The US supplies almost every weapon the Saudis own.
It's also notable this is where the West got directly involved in the first place last year with a pirate broadcast station operated IN SYRIA specifically intended to broadcast anti-government information and instructions to our CIA fighters who were already flocking to Syria from Libya.
«o» In Myanmar... Burma... after fifty years of totalitarian rule elections are being held for 44 seats. The followers of Aung San Suu Kyi, whose been in jail or under house arrest for the last 30 years or so took quite a few of those seats but not enough to control the parliamentary government under military rule.
Let it be noted that just because Suu Kyi and her followers have been suppressed for all those years doesn't mean they're angels: "Wall Street Proxy Aung San Suu Kyi's Ascension to Power (West prepares rhetorical grounds for unrest in Myanmar should Suu Kyi lose elections)"
«o» In Pakistan all three of Osama bin-Laden's wives have been convicted, along with two daughters convicted earlier, of immigration violations. They have been fined the equivalent of $140.00 (USD) and will serve 45 days in jail or under house arrest. THey will most likely be deported to Saudi Arabia or Yemen after serving their sentences.
«o» Canada is planning to take their penny out of circulation due to the simple fact it costs more to make ($0.016 manufacturing cost) and handle them than it's worth.
In OTHER News:
NATO's "Active Endeavour" and Drug Trafficking [Voltaire Network]At the onset of the war in Afghanistan, THAT indirect suppression of the crops only made a bunch of opium growers (Mostly our buddies in the Northern Alliance) rich. It's STUPID to think the demand goes away when one constricts the supply.
"NATO is engaged in combating terrorism in Afghanistan (with a UN mandate) and in the Mediterranean (without UN mandate). These operations include tracking down terrorist financing and therefore drug trafficking as well. Yet, Afghanistan has become the largest producer of heroin and the drug is delivered to Western Europe via the Mediterranean, of which NATO has never seized a single gram. According to Oriental Review journal, the facts contradict the discourse, concluding that NATO itself is responsible for organizing and securing the drug trafficking." [An Analysis]
Crop suppression or any other thing they do only makes SOMEONE in the chain of supply rich.
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You can't resolve addiction problems by cutting off the source. Even if you completely eliminated the substance from the face of the planet, the addict would just turn to something else.
Opium smuggling isn't the problem... ADDICTION IS the problem. A social, psychological and medical problem that cannot be solved with guns, wars or police.
And remember... Capitalism has a gun at your head every moment you're alive:
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