Paradigms Lost
The administration’s abrupt transition from complacency to near panic on the rise of ISIS recalls Donald Rumsfeld’s famous dictum. But before the dictum, first the panic. The New York Times captures the sudden shift in attitude in its opening paragraphs of an article by Mark Mazzetti and Helene Cooper:Earlier this year, President Obama likened the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria to a junior varsity basketball squad, a group that posed little of the threat once presented by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.Now there was no more talk of amateur opponents. Indeed the media outlets were playing up ISIS threats to the president’s hometown of Chicago. The rest of the NYT Mazzetti-Cooper article examined the debate over the seriousness of the threat without reaching a conclusion. Donald Rumsfeld warned there would be days like this: a man must always expect the unexpected.
But on Thursday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called ISIS an “imminent threat to every interest we have,” adding, “This is beyond anything that we’ve seen.”
( That's hardly citing a paragon of moral rectitude...or honesty.
http://www.thepanelist.net/opinions-culture-10084/1252-the-real-victor-in-iraq-monsanto
Part of the infamous 100 Orders, Order 81
mandates that Iraq’s commercial-scale farmers must now purchase
"registered” seeds. These are available through agribusiness giants like
Monsanto, Cargill Corporation (a private company) and the World Wide Wheat Company (also private), but Monsanto is far and away the most significant player in the registered seed market.
Monsanto’s seeds are
“terminator” seeds. This means they are inherently sterile, and any seed
they produce does not give birth to more plants.
The technology behind
registered seed is called genetic modification, and genetically modified
(GM) seeds supposedly can’t reproduce, though “drift,” via wind
currents and bird consumption, has resulted in a great many instances
where GM crops ended up in fields where they were not planted.
And how does THAT work, anyhow ? It seems contradictory. Rummy held major shares in Monsanto - which continues to dominate the 'Obama' administration, so forget partisan preference )
WHITE FLIGHT
The shocking thing to me about white flight was how fast it would happen sometimes. Real estate agents had a method they’d call blockbusting. First the agent would convince a seller on a block to sell to a black family, usually in secret so other neighbors wouldn’t have a chance to weigh in. Then when the neighbors find out and sell off their houses en masse, the agent would buy up the devalued properties at a huge discount, then sell them back to black families, who had few other options for housing, at a huge markup. It was quite a racket they had going.
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---------------------------------------------------------Suspended St. Louis County Officer Dan Page Made Rounds on Rightwing Radio Shows By Rachel Tabachnick, 2014-08-24 19:34:03 <-- --="" all="" front="" page="" section:="" topic:="" topics=""> St. Louis Police Officer Dan Page drew national attention when he shoved CNN's Don Lemon during a broadcast of the protests in Ferguson, and again, just a few days later, when a speech Page gave to the St. Charles/ St. Louis Oath Keepers emerged. That speech revealed his paranoid and conspiratorial worldview, but it wasn't a one-time event. Page has been making the rounds on rightwing radio and podcasts over the last several months, including an interview with Rick Wiles on TruNews, on the John Moore Radio Show, and on Caravan to Midnight with John B. Wells. While it would be easy to dismiss these interviews as fringe, they represent a worldview that has been mainstreaming with the help of groups like the Oath Keepers, Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), Gun Owners of America (GOA), and the John Birch Society (JBS). Following is a short video clip of one of the segments, the link to my recent PRA article on Dan Page, and the complete audio/video from the three interviews. http://www.talk2action.org/story/2014/8/24/19343/9656 ----Cop Who Shoved CNN Host Don Lemon Lassoed in Another Conspiracy Rodeo By Frederick Clarkson, 2014-08-23 22:38:21 <-- --="" analysis="" christian="" front="" of="" page="" right="" section:="" topic:=""> Rachel Tabachnick broke an important story [http://www.politicalresearch.org/2014/08/23/audio-officer-who-pushed-cnns -don-lemon-claims-theres-a-military-plot-for-one-world-government/] this evening showing that the rant by Officer Dan Page that got him suspended from the St.Louis County police force -- was not his first conspiracy rodeo. The topic [ http://www.trunews.com/thursday-july-10-2014-ret-sgt-major-dan-page/#JUKSy 9jtw7zQtyvR.99] for a recent appearance on rightwing conspiracy radio TruNews was: Retired U.S. Army Command Sgt. Major Dan Page tells Rick why he thinks 2015 is the start date for a series of actions to collapse the USA so that a global regime can emerge. http://www.talk2action.org/story/2014/8/23/223821/128 ----Exile Excitement: Some Fundamentalists Seek Escape From Decadent Society By Rob Boston, 2014-08-21 10:00:31 <-- --="" all="" front="" page="" section:="" topic:="" topics=""> OK, now we've done it. Those of us who advocate things like separation of church and state, secular government, LGBT rights and self-determination when it comes to issues of sexuality have really torqued off the Religious Right - so much so that some of them are thinking of going into exile.Don't get too excited. It's not like they are going to flee en masse to some forgotten island or anything. Rather, some folks on the far, far right of the theological spectrum seem to be contemplating a type of "internal exile." They'd hole up in a fundamentalist denomination until this current age of wickedness blows over. http://www.talk2action.org/story/2014/8/21/10031/0579 ----Controversy Over White Nationalist GOP Candidate Still White Hot By Frederick Clarkson, 2014-08-19 00:11:26 <-- --="" action="" front="" page="" section:="" taking="" topic:=""> The 2004 Constitution Party candidate for president Michael Peroutka's current race for County Council in Maryland -- as a Republican -- it is still one of the white hot [http://www.talk2action.org/story/2014/7/31/233039/691/Front_Page/White_Ho t_Controversy_for_a_White_Nationalist_GOP_Candidate] political stories of the summer. In recent days, not only did Salon.com publish Paul Rosenberg's groundbreaking story [http://www.salon.com/2014/08/16/gops_post_racial_fantasy_secession_delusi on_and_the_truth_about_americas_most_hateful_dividers/] about how Peroutka epitomizes the problem of race in the Republican Party, but The Baltimore Sun and the news site Maryland Reporter have already advanced it. The Sun followed-up [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bal-pac-establish ed-to-defeat-peroutka-in-anne-arundel-co-20140817,0,348971.story] on Salon's disclosure of a new PAC -- StopPeroutka.com [http://stopperoutka.com/]. Maryland Reporter further reported [http://marylandreporter.com/2014/08/17/prominent-dems-set-up-stopperoutka -com-pac-and-website/] the names of the leading Democrats behind the innovative anti-Peroutka site. The news site also ran a column about how the GOP has "a Peroutka problem." http://www.talk2action.org/story/2014/8/19/01126/2048
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