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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.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

5 January - Surfing Timeless Stories

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How to fight liberals: Imitate them

Impressed by the effectiveness of the liberal Center for American Progress, a group of conservative journalists and operatives are preparing to engage in their own sincerest form of flattery — launching an advocacy group with a similar name and mission but very different target.
Part assault on CAP and part homage, the Center for American Freedom’s goal is to wage a well-funded assault on the Obama White House and the liberal domination of partisan online media.

 Dems will paint Romney as candidate of one percent:

Censorship of Facebook, what's next?

June 30 2010   William Hodges has long been a critic of the Obama Administration, but recently while posting a news article, his facebook account was deactivated, and merely 12 hours later an FBI agents and Secret Service Agents interviewed him and all his friends on facebook.

This is what occupation looks like in the Holy City of Jerusalem.

There is something to that image, of a second grader on a chair in a spare police office, his feet not reaching the floor, his face a blur of tears and mud and snot, his heart pounding, and all he wants is to go home, to be far away from these frightening men, some of whom are nice but some of whom are yelling, all of whom are keeping him from his Baba, his Daddy, all of whom represent so much that is wrong in his young life, why his mother cries at night and his brother can’t build a new house and his sister can’t get to university in the morning and his Baba’s friend was shot — it is an image that makes the breath catch in the throat

I Don't Believe a Word This Government Utters...Especially in Regards to Bin Laden and 9/11

 May 7 2011  I don't trust known liars. I don't trust a government that launched a middle-east strategy based on a boogeyman and fabricated connections to a terrorist organization with a leader whom the US trained. I don't believe it is all a coincidence that high level officials were warned to not fly that day, or that Norad didn't scramble planes, and flight tapes were crushed and destroyed and thrown in garbage cans

And, I am sick of being called a 'conspiracy theorist' when the evidence contradicts their own claims and bolsters the case for logical scrutiny and a truly independent investigation. The killing of Osama Bin Laden has not been proven, and if we had him in our custody, that would have been very simple to do.

Why the hell didn't we? 

pod said...
It has taken a long time, but there are now some people willing to speak the truth about 9-11 and Bin Laden. Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the USA army War College, has said in an interview that he is 100% CERTAIN that Israeli Mossad did the attacks on 9-11. The interview is on youtube. Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik, a top US government insider has said that Bin Laden died in 2001 and that 9-11 was a False Flag operation. Dr. Pieczenik is willing to testify before a grand jury and reveal the names of people whom he knows were involved in 9-11. The website veteranstoday.com has the story and there are videos. The people of Afghanistan and Iraq are owed a sincere apology for the destruction of their countries. The real terrorist need to be brought to justice.
May 7, 2011 10:44 PM 
Mouser said...
http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/bbc-claims-osamas-yemeni-wife-says-kidney-failure-all-better-now/ “TIME June 30, 2008 By Massimo Calabresi Which is closer to dying: Osama bin Laden or the CIA’s effort to catch him? Nothing has characterized the fruitlessness of the hunt for the al-Qaeda leader so much as the recurrent — and mostly inaccurate — reports that he is seriously ailing, or even at death’s door. In 2002, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said bin Laden had kidney disease, and that he had required a dialysis machine when he lived in Afghanistan. That same year, the FBI’s top counterterrorism official, Dale Watson, said, “I personally think he is probably not with us anymore.” Since then, of course, bin Laden has appeared on multiple videos looking healthier than ever.” This is government/MSM damage control. Without kidney transplantation, a patient is cannot get off dialysis. Ask a nefrologist – one who passes Les Visible’s Litmus test (about the truth of 9/11). Osama bin Laden died in December 2001 of renal failure as reported in multiple daily papers in Pakistan. Mouser
May 7, 2011 11:34 PM 
The 'Stability' of U.S. supported puppet dictatorships 
Jan 26 2011  how much time does the Mubarak regime really have left? 
Iraq: The gloves come off
The US has invested too much in Iraq to let Nouri al-Maliki tear the burgeoning democracy into pieces.
Robert Grenier
Former CIA station chief Robert Grenier heads ERG partners, a financial consultancy firm.
Abu Isra has been transparently uncomfortable in sharing any authority with the Iraqiyya bloc, the largest vote-getter in the last elections, and has essentially reneged on many of the elaborate power-sharing arrangements reached in the so-called Irbil accords, which facilitated formation of his government. 
His recent actions have served to strip the veneer of legitimacy from his past policies, and have revealed those past actions as the precursors to a naked power-grab. Beginning with the sudden and summary arrest of some 615 alleged Baathists, including many of Maliki's political enemies and conducted while the final push to evacuate the last of the US troops was conveniently underway, the Iraqi prime minister has gone on to press politically-motivated terrorism charges against Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi, a Sunni Islamist and a prominent member of Iraqiyya. At the same time, the Shia Maliki has moved to orchestrate a parliamentary no-confidence vote to oust Sunni deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq, another prominent member of Iraqiyya, ostensibly over a personal slight. Other political opponents have awakened to find tanks around their homes. 

Iraqiya: Backing Maliki spells trouble

John Farnham (54) Wednesday July 21, 2010, 9:07 am
opitslinkfest.blogspot.com>Topical Index >Opit Online After Downing Street was formed because the Brits knew "the facts were being fixed around the intelligence". There is a movie and website 'Leading to War' detailing the ever-changing pack of lies. Valerie Plame on the Middle East Nuclear Threat desk of the CIA with information being funneled from contractor Brewster-Jennings was an impediment to the staged scenario written especially for Richard Cheney by people outside the CIA, who would not cooperate sufficiently to enable his deliberate fantasies. The same crew worked on posing Ahmadinejad of Iran as a racist bigot and fool. This placed a fake Leader - he isn't in charge - in a clown suit by the simple expedient of deliberate mistranslations of his speeches, as reported in Speigel years ago. People seeing this coming have desperately tried to prepare the way for exposing the ongoing program of lies which enables these fantasies. Tom Engelhardt of Tom Dispatch deserves special note, but he is one of many. CASMII tries to promote a whole collection of articles showing how the system of perverted 'news' and 'framed' speeches works. Global Research.ca 's Prof. Chussdovsky has an incredible index of information on the military complex. All of this in context with BBC broadcasts into Iran and known foreign Black Ops squads and mercenaries assassinating military and government leaders. If you read Sibel Edmonds or Bradblog you'd know who these NATO/Turkey/Mafia CIA hirees come from. Usually their work is spun into the al Qaeda fantasy. What may not be popular with many here is that he has information speaking against the AWG 'Deniers' frame : as do I. Russian intelligence noted over 2 1/2 years ago they thought an attack on Iran was imminent. But Israeli nuclear armed subs - 3 - have headed for the Persian Gulf only in the last few weeks.
Wednesday July 21, 2010, 9:15 am
Correction : It's Chuffdovsky who has links to articles outside the Politically Correct representations of Climate Change. He has disclaimers about the organization not being responsible for the content. 
other person's comment
George Bush Sr. when visiting Iraq was almost killed by a car bomb placed in his car.
It was found minutes before he entered the vehicle. 

John Farnham (54)
Wednesday July 21, 2010, 10:03 am
You're right****. But that piece of information is only sauce on the cake. Only somebody from outside the US as I am could say that what I believed was that Clinton was the one hot to invade Iran and it was merely the pretext to do so.( If that implies 911 a 'False Flag' : that doesn't mean the idea is wrong ! The crime scene investigation - wasn't. And the much maligned Taliban never refused to hand over Osama : they required judicial process including particulars substantiating the allegation before they would do so. The whole thing stank. Bin Laden is Saudi royalty who close personal friends of the Bush family. The FBI escorted his family out of the country a week after 911. )
PakAlert had a wonderful rundown including names and bios of parties with an interest in this sort of activity.

John Farnham (54)
Friday July 23, 2010, 6:48 am
Wasn't that an interesting piece of information that she couldn't persuade Wolfowitz to keep the army. Dismissing police,army and bureaucracy meant that there was absolutely nobody left with experience running a government.
In that context, Bremer's 100 Orders completed the overturn of the status quo and exposed Iraq to exploitation.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=42948
The piece at the Panelist shows that, in fact, destroyed agriculture.
http://www.thepanelist.net/opinions-culture-10084/1252-the-real-victor-in-iraq-monsanto
Water services had already been crippled by sanctions.
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0808-07.htm
The whole edifice of university training and medical support disappeared on the American watch. Coincidence ? To think that, I'd have to believe the Moon was made of green cheese.
opitslinkfest.blogspot.com Topical Index Documents
Post-Saddam Iraq | Desert Crossing ( see YouTube ; Search Cheney ; find his interview outlining why George Bush Sr. did NOT invade Iraq during Desert Storm )
I've heard that referred to as the 'Bible' in Iraq. Most never heard of it or thought it important.
Do you recall the talk that Iraqi oil could finance their own subjugation ?
http://www.afsc.org/Iraq/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/71012
Raed is the son of Riverbend of Baghdad Burning fame and now a resident of the US.His mother briefed Congress on the actions in Baghdad. The last I heard of her she had been in a Syrian refugee camp for 2 years.
Are you seeing the continuity between Presidents' and Congress actions regardless of party ? And did you notice how much slicker the British are at seeming to tell the truth while continuing the facade covering foreign murder.

  1. Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game

    4 Nov 2006 ... Post-Saddam Iraq: The War Game. "Desert Crossing" 1999 Assumed 400000
    Troops and Still a Mess. National Security Archive Electronic ...
    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB207/

  2. MediaShift . News Media Face Challenges in Post-Saddam Iraq | PBS

    24 Jun 2011 ... The U.S. government pumped an estimated half a billion dollars into revitalizing
    Iraq's news media after Saddam Hussein was ousted in 2003. ...
    http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2011/06/news-media-face-challenges-in-post-saddam-
  3.  ( Revitalizing news media. Characteristic Big Lie....psyops ) 

Dispatch from Iraq

That free public libraries are a democratising force is strongly apparent in Iraq, which suffered the near-obliteration of its libraries under the Ba'athist dictatorship.

Under the Saddam Hussein regime, libraries in Iraq, which had tried to meet the needs of the locals, suffered from budget cuts. The public library network collapsed. No new books were edited. Illegal photocopying of books took place. Library archivists lived in isolation from the rest of the world, not benefitting from training. During the invasion of 2003, most Iraqi cultural institutions were burned or looted apart from the region of Kurdistan. The National Library and Archive suffered considerable material and cultural damage, losing about 60 per cent of its archival collections, and the building itself was burnt and looted.

  Powers on George Tenet, the CIA, and the Invasion of Iraq 

June 28 2007

How we got into Iraq is the great open question of the decade but George Tenet in his memoir of his seven years running the Central Intelligence Agency takes his sweet time working his way around to it. He hesitates because he has much to explain: the claims made by Tenet's CIA with "high confidence" that Iraq was dangerously armed all proved false. 

Tenet's overriding goal in his carefully written book is to deny "that we somehow cooked the books" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. If he says it once he says it a dozen times. "We told the president what we did on Iraq WMD because we believed it." 

Tenet's problem is that the intelligence and the war proceeded in lockstep: no intelligence, no war. Since Tenet delivered the (shockingly exaggerated) intelligence, and the President used it to go to war, how is Tenet to convince the world that he wasn't simply giving the boss what he wanted? Tenet naturally dislikes this question but it is evident that the American public and Congress dislike it just as much.  

Manning already understood that people close to President Bush wanted to go after Iraq, and Tenet of course knew it too. Conspicuous among them, in his mind that night, was the neo-conservative agitator and polemicist Richard Perle, an outspoken advocate of removing Saddam Hussein by military force. 

On the very first page of Tenet's memoir, he tells us that he had run into Perle that very morning -- September 12 -- as Perle was leaving the West Wing of the White House. They knew each other in a passing way, as figures of note on the Washington scene. As Tenet reached the door Perle turned to him and said, "Iraq has to pay a price for what happened yesterday. They bear responsibility."

This made a powerful impression on the director of the CIA:
"I was stunned but said nothing.... At the Secret Service security checkpoint, I looked back at Perle and thought: What the hell is he talking about? Moments later, a second thought came to me: Who has Richard Perle been meeting with in the White House so early in the morning on today of all days? I never learned the answer to that question."
Cheney sent a speech over to the CIA for review making all the old arguments that there was a "link." Tenet tells us that he telephoned Bush to say, "The vice president wants to make a speech about Iraq and al-Qa'ida that goes way beyond what the intelligence shows. We cannot support the speech, and it should not be given." Why did Cheney press this point so relentlessly? Tenet tells a story that helps to explain the motives behind the struggle over "intelligence" between September 11 and the day American cruise missiles began to land on Baghdad, eighteen months later. Only a few days after September 11, Tenet writes, a CIA analyst attended a White House meeting where he was told that Bush wanted to remove Saddam. The analyst's response, according to Tenet:
"If you want to go after that son of a bitch to settle old scores, be my guest. But don't tell us he is connected to 9/11 or to terrorism because there is no evidence to support that. You will have to have a better reason."
The better reason eventually settled on by President Bush was Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. The evidence for WMD turned out to be even weaker than the evidence for "the link," but Cheney, with the full backing of the White House and the National Security Council, hammered without let-up on the horrific consequences of error -- discovering too late that Iraq had nuclear weapons meant that the smoking gun would be a mushroom cloud. It was vaguely believed at the time, by the public and foreign intelligence services alike, that the CIA must have learned something new; why else in early 2002 had Saddam Hussein suddenly become a threat to the world? In fact only one thing had changed -- the American frame of mind.

Editorial: The secret war with Iran

The talk of war against Iran has been going on since before 9/11. In fact a lot of things that have happened after 9/11 seem to have been planned before 9/11. Sources quote U.S. officials as having had plans pre-9/11 to invade Afghanistan and remove the Taliban and capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Individuals who would eventually hold key positions in the Bush administration had long expressed the view that Saddam needed to be removed by military force. Recently, U.S. presidential hopeful Ron Paul has espoused the view that the groundwork is being laid for a potential war on Iran. But is it possible, that we are already at war? 

opit said...
It's complicated. Mossad has been credited with Iranian sabotage in the Jerusalem Post. And of course, Israel owes its existence to UK and US support- though that entails endless supply of military equipment. GW Bush openly declared assassination operations targeting Iranian government and military figures in 2006. And 2 ex defense ministry top persons have languished in Israeli jails for years. Despite the operations of the NPT TRAP defusing the Nuclear NonProliferation threat ( Tehran sponsors international disarmament conferences ) and continued Sanctions by the U.S.Treasury (http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2011/12/19-december-sanctions.html) , shades of past disaster in the Strait of Hormuz (http://alt-f4.org/img/seaoflies.htmland ) and past declaration by Russia of their support of Iran extending to taking attack on their nuclear facilities as an attack on Russia itself (!), moderate eagerness to implement open attack characterized by ex heads of Mossad as stupid. But past transgressions are endless. Check CASMII
January 5, 2012 11:33 AM

No Longer about The Money!! It's Water!!

19 SEPTEMBER 2011 

Qaddafi said: “After this achievement, American threats against Libya will double…. The United States will make excuses, [but] the real reason is to stop this achievement, to keep the people of Libya oppressed.”

 

Iowa’s Choice: Dr. Paul or U.S. bankruptcy, more wars, and many more dead soldiers and Marines

Ron Paul calls Newt Gingrich a 'chickenhawk'

“I don’t want to fight a war that’s unconstitutional, and I’m the dangerous person? You know, when Newt Gingrich was called to service in the 1960s during the Vietnam era, guess what he thought about danger? He chickened out on that, he got deferments and didn’t even go,”

 Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71068.html#ixzz1icPUutmH

 Psywar

Psychological Warfare, Psychological Operations (PSYOP), Black Propaganda, and Aerial Propaganda Leaflets

  1. Revealed: How post-Saddam Iraq lead to a boom in the sex ...

    10 Nov 2011 ... A report entitled Karamatuna (Our Dignity) highlights the plight of young Iraqi
    refugee women and girls since the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2059973/Revealed-How-post-Saddam-Iraq-le

 Tracking Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq

Brookings

For progress and security statistics on Afghanistan and Pakistan, see the Afghanistan Index and Pakistan Index.

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution . Expertise: ... Think Tank Home; Experts; Fellowships; Research Projects;
www.cfr.org/experts/world/bruce-o-riedel/b4962
Outlook India
Think Tanks in India
India has now moved to a stage where famous foreign think-tanks, particularly those from America, are making a beeline for India. In India, says Sanjaya Baru, who was media advisor to the prime minister in UPA-I, because foreign policy is closely guarded by career diplomats. He tells Outlook, “It’s very difficult for the government to take any inputs from anywhere else unless you are a member of the foreign policy trade union—the ministry of external affairs.” Yet Baru, who’s now with the London-based think-tank Institute for International Strategic Studies, admits that the government is already demonstrating flexibility on this score, something that was evident from a recent seminar on ‘Asian Security’ held by the MEA’s Public Diplomacy division. In the two-day seminar, a select group of academics interacted with officials on foreign policy.
N.S. Sisodia, director-general of Delhi’s IDSA, points to the flip side of the impact of think-tanks: “They could also lure away and denude India’s top think-tanks of their best experts.” Also, as a confident India reaches out to contend with the best brains of the US and elsewhere, it too, will have to prepare itself to the fact that ‘outsiders’ will try to influence policies in key areas. Indeed, the Indian foreign policy establishment will have to put its best foot forward to hold its own against them.
And Now a BJP Ticket for Cash-for-Query Scamster
A grey homogenisation has not yet eclipsed our rainbow palates 
( It made me think of Peter and the Commissar ....committees lack character )

Betrayal of a Nation: Why U.S. health authorities are keeping you vitamin D deficient and who stands to gain

  In a few years it won't matter because dozens of knockoff analogues will have been approved for treating vitamin D deficiency, yes prescription-only vitamin D knockoff drugs to treat vitamin D deficiency, instead of vitamin D, I kid you not.

There Are Over 250 Different Kinds of Fossil Fuel Subsidies We Need to Kill

it should make you wonder why renewable energy has such trouble maintaining even the most modest of tax breaks: The Department of the Treasury’s Section 1603 cash grants program for clean energy projects just expired at the beginning of this year. Meanwhile, of course, the American oil industry alone reaps literally tens of billions of dollars in annual subsidies.

But it's not just the massive yearly tax breaks for Big Oil that comprises the advantage fossil fuels have over renewables–it goes deeper than that. GigaOm has an extensive report on fossil fuel subsidies, which helps to explain: "when an industry has been subsidized for almost a century, as is the case with the fossil fuel industry, the ways in which those companies are supported get numerous and complex. The OECD’s report counted at least 250 mechanisms. Unlike the 1603 Program of the Department of the Treasury for clean power, most subsidies are far more opaque."

OECD and IEA recommend reforming fossil-fuel subsidies to improve the economy and the environment 

04/10/2011 - Governments and taxpayers spent about half a trillion US dollars last year supporting the production and consumption of fossil fuels.

 “Both developing and developed countries need to phase out inefficient subsidies. As they look for policy responses to the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, phasing out subsidies is an obvious way to help governments meet their economic, environmental and social  goals,” said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría. “For this to succeed, we need well-targeted, transparent and timebound programmes to assist poor households and energy workers who might be adversely affected in the short-term. OECD and IEA data and analysis can help guide the process.” (Read the speech in full)
To assist governments’ understanding of the nature and scale of their policies supporting fossil fuels, the OECD has compiled the first-ever Inventory of Estimated Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures For Fossil Fuels. With detailed information of over 250 mechanisms that support fossil fuel production and use in OECD countries, the Inventory will be updated regularly and expanded over time to cover more countries and more support mechanisms.

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12-Apr-2011
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Who’s busiest: working hours and household chores across OECD

Mexicans work longer days than anyone else in OECD countries while Belgians work the least. These are among the insights in latest Society at a Glance, which gives an overview of social trends and policy developments in OECD countries.
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28-Mar-2011
English

Canada’s enforcement of the foreign bribery offence still lagging; must urgently boost efforts to prosecute

Although Canada has recently made progress in investigating the bribery of foreign public officials by Canadian businesses, Canada has only completed one prosecution since it enacted its foreign bribery law in 1999.
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04-Sep-2009
English

Interim Economic Assessment – clarification of annual projections

Jørgen Elmeskov, Acting Head, Economics Department
The calculated calendar year growth rates for 2009 published in the OECD’s latest interim economic assessment are computed by mechanically extending the GDP outturn data up to the second quarter of 2009 ...
01-Sep-2009
English

Spend early on children, says OECD

Governments should invest more money on children in the first six years of their lives to reduce social inequality and help all children, especially the most vulnerable, have happier lives, according to the OECD’s first ever report on child well-being in its 30 member countries.
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04-May-2009
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Society at a Glance reveals evolving social trends in OECD countries

The French spend more time sleeping than anyone else in OECD countries. They also devote more time to eating than anyone else and nearly double that of Americans, Canadians or Mexicans.
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02-Jul-2008
English

Labour market discrimination still a big problem in OECD countries

Women are 20% less likely than men to have a paid job in OECD countries and they earn on average 17% less than men, according to the latest edition of OECD’s Employment Outlook.
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11-Jun-2008
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Canada’s youth labour market outperforms most OECD countries but a small group is left behind

Sustained economic growth and a very flexible labour market by international standards have contributed to rising employment rates and falling overall unemployment for all, including for youth.
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03-Jun-2008
English

OECD reviews Canada’s Economy and its Job Market for Young People

OECD’s assessment of Canada’s economy and its youth labour market are very positive. Economic performance has been amongst the best in the OECD and the employment rate amongst 15 – 24 year olds is well abov
26-Oct-2007
English

Receiving Globalist of the Year award, Angel Gurría stresses the importance of multilateral co-operation

OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría received the first ever "Globalist of the Year" award from the Canadian International Council for his contribution to innovation in global governance and international affairs.
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Why gas mileage has barely budged since 1980

 It’s sometimes suggested that American car companies quit making more efficient cars and trucks after 1980 or so. But that’s not strictly true, according to MIT economist Christopher Knittel. In a new paper for the American Economic Review, building off his earlier research (PDF), Knittel calculates that automakers actually boosted vehicle fuel efficiency a whopping 60 percent between 1980 and 2006. Engine technology got better by leaps and bounds. It’s just that most of those improvements went toward making cars bigger and more powerful — and, as a result, all those advances barely increased gas mileage.

Google Chrome’s ‘sponsored posts’ explained

( They showed up in Chrome too )

Is Google profiting from illegal ads?

Ombudsman1
5/19/2011 7:29 PM MDT
Lets face it, the only reason those drug ads are illegal for the most part is that the pharmaceuticals hate competing with their own products re-imported from other countries.

The low point came when the U.S. Government claimed we couldn't bring in the drugs from Canada because it wasn't safe.

And they said it with a straight face.

Unequal Risks and Benefits for Citizens in Six States on Keystone XL Pipeline Route

"All the power is in the hands of the pipeline companies," said Chris Wilson, an independent environmental consultant from Texas who opposes the Keystone XL. Landowners along the route "are really screwed…there's no one in the government they can call for help."


Nebraskans Outraged Over Rep. Lee Terry's Keystone XL 'Fast-Track' Bill
Nebraskans Prepare for More Keystone XL Controversy, Despite New Pipeline Laws
Special Status May Make Keystone Pipeline Impervious to Lawsuits

Personal Survival Emergency Pack

While everyone else is frantically searching for what they might need for several days away from home with minimal comforts, the person who has a ready-made survival pack can just pick it up and walk out the door, confident in having everything necessary to survive the harsh conditions of a forced evacuation.

   There are just about as many names for a survival pack as there are varieties of the equipment they contain.  There are survival kits, disaster kits, emergency survival bags, bug out bags, emergency packs, disaster survival bags, emergency medical kits, and so on.

  A Survival Pack of any kind should be personal and not just something picked out of an advertisement, paid for then stored somewhere "to keep it out of the way."

Your pack should reflect what you need in an emergency  survival situation. It is perfectly okay to buy a survival pack  pre-made, but open it up and personalize the contents.
 There is always extra room in any survival pack that you might buy.  This is done purposely because everybody has their own personal equipment to add to any stock kit.

( I seem to recall reports of UK ads promoting this - though sunscreen these days may contain dangerous nanotech)

New study shows architecture, arts degrees yield highest unemployment 

While Zero Hedge readers have long known about the eerie phenomenon known as China’s ghost cities (and ghost malls), Australia’s SBS’ Dateline has done a terrific documentary on the topic of “64 million empty apartments in China. 

 

The 23 Best Countries for Work-Life Balance (We Are Number 23)

What constitutes a balance between work and life? The OECD settled on three chief variables: (1) The share of the labor force that works extreme hours; (2) leisure time; and (3) employment rates for women who have children. The United States, which leads most of the world in share of mothers who are working, lagged in leisure time and share of overworked employees.

What Land of Opportunity?

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