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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.
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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

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Eleven charts that explain what's wrong with America.
 
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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."
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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.
 
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.

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

 
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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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Saturday, July 9, 2011

9 July - Netvibes ( Private )

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(90) Americans for Prosperity: National feed


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(280) LaRouchePAC

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(392) GigaOM


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Storytelling and Social Networks: Why Twitter Beats Google Plus

Audrey Watters Sat Jul 9, 2011 20:00 
twitter_v_gplus.jpgStarting next week, SpongeBob SquarePants will come to Twitter with a story specially made for the micro-blogging platform. Here's the pitch from Nickelodeon: "The Ice Race Cometh: A Twitter-Tale, was conceived and developed for Twitter by the SpongeBob SquarePants writing team and will run from Tuesday, July 12, to Friday, July 15. The story will be told via multiple tweets and images throughout each day to set scenes and advance the action involving SpongeBob and his friends as they prepare for The Bikini Bottom Great Sleigh Race." Tune in, or retweet, or something.
OK, I realize that ReadWriteWeb is not your go-to site for SpongeBob SquarePants news. And normally, the notion of SpongeBob - on Twitter or elsewhere - is probably the sort of pitch that most tech bloggers would roll their eyes at and ignore or delete.
But with the flurry of interest over the last week-and-a-half over Google Plus and questions about its potential implications for Twitter and Facebook alike, I've been curious to see how some of the storytelling efforts we've seen on Twitter may or may not transfer to Google's new social network.
What sorts of storytelling forms will we see on Google Plus? Will they build on some of the wonderfully creative endeavors on Twitter? Will authors have a stronger voice on Twitter or on Google Plus? Will they be able to better engage with readers in one network or the other?

Collaborative Storytelling on Twitter

ulysses_ss.jpgSpongeBob is quite a latecomer to Twitter in that regard, and an awfully commercial one at that. As more companies and brands start to broadcast their stories on Twitter, it may be that the noise becomes overbearing and the format dull. But in the meantime, we've seen a number of innovative uses of Twitter for storytelling. The works of James Joyce and Shakespeare have been retold in short snippets, for example, and artists like Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton have utilized Twitter for collaborative storytelling projects, engaging other users in helping create new stories, 140 characters at a time.
Twitter is well-suited for that. Thanks to the public nature of the service and of course to the hashtag, anyone can easily add a line to a story - an online version of the Surrealists' exquisite corpse game, where users can contribute one line, without any clear sense of where others plan to take the narrative. Crowdsourcing creativity, if you will.

The Rise of Storytelling on G+

This morning, Louis Gray tagged me in a post on Google Plus for a new tradition in-the-making - a Saturday Story Circle. The idea behind the #StoryCircle (he used the hashtag to mark the post) is to share a short story and then tag other people so they too can post on the topic.
In some ways, this feels rather akin to the memes from the early days of blogging or from Facebook status updates: everybody post on this pre-ordained topic, change your profile picture, and so on. The use of the hashtag to mark the nascent tradition draws from Twitter, true, but the rest seems rather conventional. This raises several questions: how will we track stories and memes on Google Plus - the hashtag? And (how) will we develop new conventions for storytelling on the site?
spongebob150.jpgThe notion of storytelling on Plus is intriguing as the new social network has introduced a new form for chronology and for networking. Unlike Twitter, for example, the posts on Plus aren't simply a stream. Comments bump old posts back to the top of your feed. And there are more granular controls with sharing, so the stories we tell needn't be de facto public.
That emphasis on privacy and control is something that Google highlights, and sure, there are definitely stories we'd be better off not sharing with everyone on the Internet. But the open and public nature of Twitter - along with the short, rapid-fire updates, has given rise to some interesting new ways of creating stories.

Something Old, Something New

As it stands, the stories shared on Google Plus feel an awfully lot like blogging. As in, here's my story: feel free to comment. That's not necessarily a bad thing. But it's not really a new thing. I'll include the standard "It's still early" caveat here, of course, because I don't mean to say that after 10 days we've seen the creative culmination of G+. No doubt new forms of collaboration will appear. Humans are clever that way.
But it's too easy (and too elitist) to mark the arrival of SpongeBob to Twitter as "the end days" for creative expression there. Indeed, it's still early with our experimenting with the shorter, collaborative format. Echoing all those who say they're not giving up on Twitter, I'd say that even with my enthusiasm for Google Plus, I'm still keen to see more stories crafted on Twitter - pineapples under the sea notwithstanding.
Discuss
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