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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

6 February - Late Links

01_29_2011_Egypt_Protest_071Image by messay.com via Flickr

Images of the Last Uncontacted Tribe on Earth

Farm scams cheat insurers and U.S. taxpayers out of millions

Insurance industry lobbying and federal rules make it tough for farmers to go without coverage. Agents' commissions, which are tied to crop prices and premiums, have tripled over the last decade. The industry keeps the most profitable customers and shifts the riskiest, least profitable customers to the taxpayers. ( Just like health insurance )

Detentions, and Aide’s Role, Anger Egyptians

Mr. Suleiman, who also is in charge of Egyptian intelligence, has shown no sign of discontinuing the practice of extra-legal detention of political opponents — a hallmark of President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly 30-year rule that is a central grievance of the protesters in the streets. 

The continuing pattern is one reason many of the opposition leaders and protesters in the streets say they are determined not to back down until Mr. Mubarak leaves office: if he stays, they say, they risk imprisonment, torture and death.

As Mubarak Digs In, U.S. Policy in Egypt Is Complicated

Tuesday night, Mr. Obama and his top national security aides watched Mr. Mubarak’s defiant speech, in which he refused to resign but insisted he had never intended to run for re-election in September. It confirmed the conclusion they had gradually reached as the protest mounted: Instability would reign until the Mr. Mubarak got out of the way.

“He needed a push,” said one official who was in the Situation Room with the president. When Mr. Mubarak’s speech was over, Mr. Obama called him, for what turned into a tense 30-minute conversation.
Shortly afterward, Mr. Obama appeared in the foyer of the White House to declare that “orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now.” He did not press Mr. Mubarak directly to resign, but Mr. Mubarak’s loyalists clearly interpreted it that way. The next day, government supporters were bused into the square and changed what had been a largely peaceful process in a day of rage, stone-throwing, clubbing and arrests, the most violent so far.

West Backs Gradual Egyptian Transition

The United States and leading European nations on Saturday threw their weight behind Egypt’s vice president, Omar Suleiman, backing his attempt to defuse a popular uprising without immediately removing President Hosni Mubarak 

from power.

American officials said Mr. Suleiman had promised them an “orderly transition” that would include constitutional reform and outreach to opposition groups.

Instead of loosening its grip, the existing government appeared to be consolidating its power: The prime minister said police forces were returning to the streets, and an army general urged protesters to scale back their occupation of Tahrir Square.
Protesters interpreted the simultaneous moves by the Western leaders and Mr. Suleiman as a rebuff to their demands for an end to the dictatorship led for almost three decades by Mr. Mubarak, a pivotal American ally and pillar of the existing order in the Middle East.

Iraqi prime minister won't run for third term in 2014

 

ACTION: Canadians SIGN TO STOP INTERNET METERING

  The CRTC has ruled that it is ok for Canadian internet companies to begin charging putative fees for bandwidth usage. In an era when broadband usage has become integral to our daily lives this is a slap in the face of Canadians who already pay ridiculously high rates for internet use.

U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty finalized

So Much For Small Government - Jan 31 - Comments from Left Field

House panel to hold a hearing tomorrow morning to discuss forcing Internet providers, and perhaps Web companies as well, to store records of their users’ activities for later review by police. 

Chomsky: ‘Why Arabs hate US’

The MIT Jewish professor Noam Chomsky is a famous critic of Washington’s Middle East policy. He always blame the military complex for shaping US foreign policy in the Muslim world while claiming that Israel has no power over US administration. Last year, American author Jeffrey Blankfort  had called Chomsky a hypocrite when it comes to Israel-Palestine problem.
I on the other hand, consider Dr. Noam Chomsky a Crypto Zionist.
Chomsky doesn’t agree with Jeff Gates who believes that Wikileaks is an Israeli Project.

In comments - notes on Israel Lobby’s power and fear in Congress and Senate.

The Revolutions of the Inner and Outer World

 States of consciousness exist very much like the levels in a video game with varying degrees of difficulty, which is why perseverance is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. Possessing faith makes it much easier to do so and you don’t get faith without trials  Full Story

 

 Links for OSINT (Open Source Intelligence)
Internet Training

http://www.onstrat.com/osint

 

Russell Means: Welcome To The Reservation / The United States is one big reservation, and we are all in it.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979023991

American Indian Russell Means gives an eye-opening 90 minute interview in which he explains how Native Americans and Americans in general are all imprisoned within one huge reservation. Means is a leader for the Republic of Lakotah, a movement that has declared its independence from the United States and refused to recognize the authority of presidents or governments, withdrawing from treaties it made with the federal government and defining its borders which cover thousands of square miles in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana.

Means explains how American Indians have been enslaved within de facto prisoner of war camps as a result of the federal government's restriction of their food supply and the application of colonial tactics, a process that has now also been inflicted on the United States as a whole which has turned into, "one huge Indian reservation," according to Means.

Means warns that Americans have lost the ability of critical though, and with each successive generation become more irresponsible and as a consequence less free, disregarding a near-perfect document, the Constitution, which was derived from Indian law.


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