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Sunday, January 1, 2012

1 January - Surfing Political Actors

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The Three Establishment Model of Covert Politics

  we enter the extra-parliamentary domain of parapolitics; informal, non-public organizations in which influence-forming is practiced, often by persons in influential government positions and/or from the corporate world who together make political decisions without oversight.
Liberal
Demonstrates the pervasive influence of Henry Kissinger and George Schultz in many controversial events. This establishment is dominated by Pilgrims Society members, which include Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, John Whitehead, Peter Peterson, Paul Volcker, as well as most key members of the British establishment. The Pilgrims also include a number of early CIA directors and/or close family. 
Conservative
hawkish, extreme-right Pentagon and CIA people 
Zionist
Works through Jewish/Zionist communities worldwide and is heavily influenced by the Mossad and Israeli government. 
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Ron Paul was right about CIA drug deal

Charles (unregistered) December 31, 2011, 08:32 quote

Narcotics are the biggest business in the world. Peter Dale Scott’s American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan, convinced me that the "deep politics" reality of our foreign policy with the Third World since the end of World War II has been narco-centric. We clearly see this in revelations of AIG, Goldman Sachs, and the trillion dollar TARP and Fed bailouts.
AIG’s involvement to US covert operations stretches back to World War II, in its roots as C.V. Starr, the intelligence-related proprietary founded by OSS agent Cornelius Vander Starr. The Starr proprietary was connected to CIA/OSS figures Paul Helliwell and Tommy Corcoran. The notorious CIA fronts connected to C.V. Starr, including Civil Air Transport, Sea Supply, and Air America/Pacific Corp were exposed by Peter Dale Scott in his book Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. It is also a huge financial “pass-through”, whose counter-parties include Goldman Sachs and (not surprisingly) the same major financial institutions that are the top recipients of the US government’s TARP bailout.

Obama was the top recipient of AIG funds and Goldman Sachs contributions. See Charles Gasparino's book, Bought and Paid For: The Unholy Alliance Between Barack Obama and Wall Street.


Who Funds the Progressive Media?

It will be argued that the integral hegemonic function of liberal philanthropy has already deradicalised all manner of progressive social movements, and that civil society media groups need to cut their institutional ties with such financing sources.

4 Trends to Watch for Prepaid Cards in 2012

It's the Inequality, Stupid
 
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Eleven charts that explain what's wrong with America.
 
American Paradox: 18.5 Million Vacant Homes and 3.5 Million Homeless
 
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In the last few days, the US government census figures have revealed that 1 in 2 Americans have fallen into poverty or are struggling to live on low incomes.' Tanuka Loha, Human Rights Now
 
"The “National Defense Authorization Act " (H.R. 1540) repeals the US Constitution. While the facade of democracy prevails, supported by media propaganda, the American republic is fractured. The tendency is towards the establishment of a totalitarian State, a military government dressed in civilian clothes."
THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012. Obama Signs the National Defense Authorization Act
 
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by Michel Chossudovsky: With minimal media debate, at a time when Americans were celebrating the New Year with their loved ones, the “National Defense Authorization Act " H.R. 1540 was signed into law by President Barack Obama. The actual signing took place in Hawaii on the 31st of December.
 
BREAKING: Ohio Govenor Halts Four More Fracking Wastewater Injection Wells After Yesterday’s Quake «
 
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Real Coastal Warriors
The intentional media blackout, and stark contrast of justice compared to what is happening in Brazil, Nigeria and other countries when taking action against oil spills makes what has and continues to happen in the Gulf stand out with grave consequences to the health and welfare of the entire nation. It takes lots of people contacting their elected representatives, the media, and continuing to share and post the truth to make a difference. February is near, and the pressure must remain high for criminal prosecution of BP. We must also continue to push and insist on answers and true clean-up operations of the Gulf of Mexico. The extent of damage that has occurred as a result of the time BP has been afforded by the US Government, assistance by the US Coast Guard, and payoffs from the US elected representatives will go down as a dark and horrible chapter in US history of the administration of the worst man made environmental disaster of our countries history.

16 Burning Questions About The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill That We Deserve Some Answers To

 

Ocean floor in Gulf of Mexico on the verge of collapsing; your thoughts?

World oil production is in the neighborhood of 70M bbl/day, or around 8 billion liters. The total volume of world oceans is somewhere around 1.32 billion trillion liters. We would need to pump oil at this rate for 500 million years to pump out a volume equivalent to the entire ocean (and of course there isn't that much oil). Put another way yet, an entire day's worth of oil pumped (and not all of it is from the ocean floor by a long shot) would reduce the depth of the world's oceans by 22 nanometers; in a year, 8 microns. It's really not as much as you think. The oil is damned valuable even at amounts that a single human can carry, but it doesn't amount to much when placed against the volume of ocean it's displacing -- particularly since Gulf-floor deposits are indeed, as Think_Long suggests, compressed by the sheer weight of the Gulf itself to something more like a sedimentary layer than a cavern.
posted by dhartung at 10:04 PM on May 3, 2010 

I don't know the answer, but if it's anywhere, it seems likely to be here.

 Oil Spill : DeepWounds
The NRDA is a major source of funding for research into the effects of the oil spill. Scientists should eventually gain access to around $400 million in research money from BP, but for now that fund has released only limited amounts because of bureaucratic and political problems

Scientists Warn Gulf Of Mexico Sea Floor Fractured 'Beyond Repair'

The busted BP pipeline is a watershed event like 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the collapse of the Ponzi economy. It is not as dramatic as exploding towers, as poignant as those survivors huddled on rooftops awaiting rescue, or as personal for most of us as the loss of a job or home or even a 401K. The devastation to earth’s life-support system, the killing of a whole ocean ecosystem across the Gulf, will resonate slowly -- this disaster will be a marathon, not a dash. But make no mistake, we will mark these days as the time we started to learn about ecocide, as a turning point in our realization that our industrial, carbon-dependent way of life is ruinous and cannot last. How many more of these wrenching experiences must we endure before we finally get it and change?

Lesson one: We do not stand above and beyond the boundaries of a finite natural realm that runs through our veins as surely as rivers run down canyons to the sea. The “environment” is not something out there -- we breathe it, we drink it, we eat it. We embody it. Kill it and you sentence your children and grandchildren to the toil and suffering of living and dieing on a scorched, contaminated planet of slums.

Lesson two: The term unsustainable tells you the end of the story. What cannot be sustained fails, collapses in on itself. The real apocalypse, not the one imagined by religious zealots but the one happening all around us right now

 
What in the World Are They Spraying? (Full Length)
 
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http://www.facebook.com/WhatintheWorldAreTheySpraying The Chemtrail/Geo-Engineering Coverup Revealed. By now everyone has seen crisscrossing streaks of white...
 

Merry Monsanto | Military Industrial Agriculture

Crop rotation gets little attention, probably due to most consumers having no familiarity with processes behind the supermarkets. Most GM crops are mono-cultures, and are rarely if ever rotated. Mono-cultures reduce biodiversity, having effects far beyond the farm, and unrotated crops stress and deplete the soil. While the terribly important subject of biodiversity is generally ignored in conventional agriculture, soil quality is maintained artificially through mined fertilizers and industrial chemicals. There are quite a few implications for this; the dust-bowl of the US, and creeping deserts of China are but a few. Artificial fertilization requires strip mining, particularly for phosphates, and the effects are harsh. Pollution of watersheds, eutrophication, devastation, and even radiation are effects of phosphate mining. 


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