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Revisiting 'Argo', Hollywood's CIA-Supported Propaganda Fable
Through his dogged pursuit of declassified government documents, VICE News reporter Jason Leopold has revealed that the CIA was directly involved in the production of Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning, propaganda fairy tale Argo. Argo, along with other productions like an episode of Bravo's Top Chef , the USA Network series Covert Affairs; and CIA-related documentaries on the History Channel and
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If Robert F. Williams could speak to BLM...
If Robert F. Williams could speak to Black Lives Matter militants, he might remind them of this central problem in any organized liberation struggle... the problem of the supported network of collaborators. "I learned in Atlanta that Mr. Elijah Muhammed had made quite an impression and that many Afro-Americans are learning, to the consternation and embarrassment of the black respectable
Left Analysts: Clinton Presidency Would Be More Criminal and Murderous Than Anything Trump
Many left analysts from all sectors predict that a Clinton presidency would mean savage wars like nothing nationalist Trump would do. Trump “the Fascist”: Backdoor Backing of a Political Psychopath Named Hilary Clinton April 12th, 2016 James Petras Want Endless War? Love the U.S. Empire? Clinton’s Your Choice February 3, 2016 Marjorie Cohn Hillary Clinton: the Queen of Chaos and the
Keeping the Arabs Divided --Gowans blog
From The Bannerman Report, written in 1907 by British prime minister Henry Campbell Bannerman: “There are people (the Arabs, Editor’s Note) who control spacious territories teeming with manifest and hidden resources. They dominate the intersections of world routes. Their lands were the cradles of human civilizations and religions. These people have one faith, one language, one history and
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A Plague of Sheep
Elinor Melville’s book, A Plague of Sheep, is a scary story about the Valle del Mezquital, a valley north of Mexico City. Spanish colonists arrived there in 1521. Melville describes the tragedy that occurred between then and 1600. The valley is located at high elevation in a tropical region. It has a cool and arid climate. Valle del Mezquital means “a valley where mesquite grows.” It got thi
The Natural West
Dan Flores is an environmental historian. His book, The Natural West, focuses on the region of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains. This ecosystem has been radically changed in the last 300 years, and a number of these changes have resulted in irreversible degradation. Flores has a misty vision of restoring the West, and his work explores issues that contributed to ecological imbalances.
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Chain of Title
David Dayen, an excellent blogger based in Los Angeles, has a book out, Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. His Tumblr blog links his articles and appearances (Salon, The Intercept, The Fiscal Times, The New Republic), but if you've read his work over the years, you're aware of the time and effort he's spent covering this subject. A
National Poetry Month 2016
April is National Poetry Month. I'll link the wonderful Favorite Poem Project, as usual. This year, I thought I'd post one of my favorites: Poetry By Marianne Moore I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine. Hands that can grasp,
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The Ultimate Reality Show / President Donald Trump
The Donald with AttitudeI used to think that America had achieved the pinnacle of H.L.Mencken’s famous quote about the eventual election of a moron with the disputed election of George W Bush but that was just a rung above the growing possibility of a President Trump. Donald Trump represents the last desperate hope of an American electorate who have been left out of the political process and have
My Organic Juicing Optimal Health Program
Since I am a disabled navy veteran with a service related pulmonary disability related to Asbestosis, my wife Keiko has implemented an organic juicing optimal health juicing regimen which we have done daily for over six months which has resulted in remarkable health benefits including weight loss, energy gain and immune system improvement: Allen L Roland. PhD Keiko's Optimal Health Juicing Pla
Grim Reaper In The Sky / Drone Assassinations With No Accountability
Sooner or later we will all have to come to grips with the collateral psychic damage we have wrought in the Middle East with our Drone assassinations on both innocent victims as well as the perpetrators themselves ~ for chaos reins on both sides when accountability ends: Allen L Roland, PhD “If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.” ~ Paulo Coelho Post-Tra
The Unseen Enemy PTSD Continues To Take Its Toll
U.S. Army Soldiers on Patrol in Vietnam in 1966 / Wikimedia During the Vietnam War, as well as subsequent Wars, the U.S. military plied its servicemen with speed, steroids, and painkillers to help them handle extended combat ~ but this symptom oriented approach has only delayed the ravages of PTSD as well as the true extent of soul damage and suicidal ideation that occurs as the result of drug enh
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CDC Admits Flu Shots Fail Half the Time
Posted 4/26/2016 By Barbara Loe Fisher To activate and view hyperlinked references, please click here once and then click any superscripted number below to access a hyperlinked reference, or scroll down to the bottom of the article to view all hyperlinked referencesAmericans have never been big fans of flu shots. During the 2009 “swine flu” influen
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Edinburgh Potholes Come In Threes
I was travelling down Pilton Street North today when I came across a trio of potholes. They were by a bus stop and from the pattern they made I presume the bus braking at the stop has abraided the road, causing them: Note that all three potholes show evidence of having botched repairs done to them, and then the potholes re-forming over the repairs. I have seen this many, many times with potholes,
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New UK Guardian interview with Albert Woodfox, two months after his release
In a UK Guardian article published today, Albert Woodfox reflects upon two months of life outside of prison walls and solitary confinement. The article concludes with the following excerpt: The most disturbing part of freedom, Woodfox says, has been the dawning realisation since his release that in America in 2016 there is very little sense of political or social struggle. When he entered prison i
A3 Newsletter: Broadening the Platform to Correct Past Injustices
A3 Newsletter, February 12, 2016: This is What Freedom Looks Like... Two Months of Liberation WATCH: Albert Speaks at Southeastern Louisiana UniversityWhat a joy it is to have Albert out of prison, after all these years of struggle, it is a rare and special treat to hear his voice on the phone each morning as we review the days schedule and events. In Albert's first month of freedom he stayed bus
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Producing tritium in North Korea
Jeffrey has asked me to post a blog written by Hugh Chalmers, who works with me here in London. It covers possible ways in which North Korea could produce tritium for its nuclear weapons programme. It first appeared in Trust & Verify, which is our centre’s quarterly publication. I’m not going to plug Trust & …
Unilateral or Bilateral Reductions?
The next US president faces lots of questions relating to nuclear weapons and nuclear threat reduction. Here’s one: Should the United States unilaterally reduce strategic forces deemed to be in excess of the Pentagon’s needs, or wait instead for an agreement to proceed in parallel with the Russian Federation? The arguments to proceed unilaterally with …
To Hiroshima (cont.)
An earlier post called on President Obama to visit Hiroshima when he visits Japan for the G-7 Summit on May 26-27. If he fails to visit, the journey begun with a stirring speech at Prague in April 2009 and the Nobel Peace Prize will end with a damp squib. It will be a great disappointment and …
The Advantage of Being the Weaker, Nuclear-Armed State
Doyens of nuclear deterrence strategy during the first nuclear age were convinced that size mattered. The nuclear-armed state with a bigger arsenal, or greater missile throw-weight, or sharper missile accuracy, or more tactical nuclear weapons, or [fill in the blank] would be better off in leveraging outcomes, before and after the balloon went up. In …
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Progressive Music Classics. The Clash: "Something About England"
..By MARC McDONALDWelcome to another edition of Progressive Music Classics, a salute to left-leaning music that champions the cause of working-class people around the world.One of the highlights of The Clash's 1980 underrated masterpiece, Sandinista! is the haunting "Something About England," a song that gives a whirlwind tour of the disasters of the 20th century. Although the song was r
Why Ted Cruz Is Even Scarier Than Donald Trump
By MARC McDONALDI've always thought Bill Maher is one of the most astute observers of U.S. politics and society. But recently, he said something that I have to strongly disagree with: that, as bad a GOP nominee as Ted Cruz would be, he'd actually be preferable to Donald Trump. I suppose it's a moot point, as Hillary Clinton would likely defeat either candidate. But if I had to choose, I'd take Tru
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Ted Cruz Drops Out Of Presidential Race The Same Day Trump Says Accuses Cruz' Father Associated With Lee Harvey Oswald
Remember when Ted Cruz said he was going to fight Donald Trump "ALL THE WAY TO THE END"? Yep, that was just yesterday. But TODAY, Donald Trump mentions that Ted Cruz' father was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald around the time of the JFK assassination, and Ted Cruz IMMEDIATELY drops out of the race. You don't have to put two and two together here. THEN couple it with the fact of doing the
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On the Apparent Death of "EnMasse.Ca"
I think it was a couple of weeks ago that thread was started announcing EnMasse dot CA's tenth anniversary. I thought about contributing a few words but I had nothing celebratory to say. And very few people I wanted to interact with.Now it appears the site is kaput.Oh well.I did learn a lot from rabble.ca/babble and enmasse.ca and even from b n' r. About gay rights and feminism and about Canadian
Surprised About the Catholic Church's Avoiding Its Obligations to Residential School Victims?
So, it's like this:The Canadian government released Catholic groups from an obligation to try to raise $25-million for aboriginal healing so that it could hold the groups to other promises they made in the historic 2007 residential schools agreement, a draft of their agreement reveals.In return for paying $1.2-million for healing programs, the 50 Catholic entities wanted to be released from any an
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Sleazy Sell-Out. “Sunny Days”. The Bank of Canada
Sleazy Sell-Out. “Sunny Days”. Part II The Bank of Canada Written by Robin Mathews April 2016We have come upon a brilliant example, here in Canada, of what Anthony Hall calls “imperial globalization” and “the terror economy” (Earth Into Property, McGill-Queen’s, 2011.) Those are terms which describe the move to ‘world government’ by increasingly unregulated (and increasingly crim
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A brief reading of the report of the new Kevin Hall study
Is the insulin theory of obesity over? Well I'd say it's over when people with diabetes using exogenous insulin to cover high-carb diets no longer have to worry about weight gain, and not before. But this is interesting research, and it proves if nothing else that Gary Taube's NuSci research initiative wasn't just set up to confirm his every thought.Kevin Hall discusses his new study here, with Yo
Mediterranean diet score in stable heart disease, and, more thoughts on Ramsden et al.
This news article that made the rounds yesterday demonstrates how confirmation bias keeps the diet-heart hypothesis afloat. Healthy eating key to heart disease After 3.7 years' follow-up, a heart attack, stroke or death - termed a major adverse cardiac event - had occurred in 10.1 per cent of the participants. Such events occurred in 7.3 per cent of the people in the highest Mediterranean-diet
The Tragedy of William Stark, who conclusively proved that eating crap will kill you, by a process of self-experimentation, in 1770, a fact which more people should pay attention to.
How did I not know about William Stark MD? Born in Birmingham of an Irish mother and a Scottish father, he studied philosophy in Glasgow and medicine in Edinburgh and at the University of Leiden before going to work as a doctor in London in 1765."The person on whom these experiments are tried is a healthy man, about twenty-nine years of age, six feet high, stoutly made, but not corpulent
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For once I am going to forgo composing a preamble, thus allowing you to read Paul Craig Roberts' latest super-important column exactly as he intended.
Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China — Paul Craig Roberts May 5, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. Somnolent Europe, Russia, and China Can the world wake up?Paul Craig RobertsOn September 19, 2000, going on 16 years ago, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of the London Telegraph reported:“Declassified American government documents sh
Dear friends, I came across this article last Thursday and the stock market continued its fall on Friday. What's going on? Well the market dropped greatly in January and only recovered in February because the big companies were buying back their own stocks. The only reason I can think of was to convince "mom and pop" that it is safe to invest again, whereupon the big companies could then buy back their stocks during a momentary drop and later sell them at higher prices thanks to "mom and pop's" investments. But the truth of the matter is that the U.S. government has been lying about the prosperity of the country. They claim that there is only 5% unemployment and that all who want jobs have found one. Big lie! Actually there is 23% unemployment. Moreover, about 50% of American "moms and pops" have no money to spare whatsoever. Playing the stock markets is out of the question for them. Ironically, the big corporations have bitten the government's lies hook, line, and sinker. So dear…
This Indicator Is Still Flashing A Bear Market Warning The NYSE just released the margin debt numbers for March and, considering the rally in stocks we’ve seen, it wasn’t much of an uptick. In fact, the nominal level of margin debt remains well below its 12-month average.The 12-month rate of change, which is pretty tightly correlated with stocks’ same rate of change, is also still negative.Now thi
Here below I have stacked three of Paul Craig Roberts' recent blog posts, all on the theme of how the U.S. is driving Europe do the U.S.'s will at the expence of their freedom, wealth, and safety. I strongly suggest that you click on the link provided in the first one. It's a real eye opener!
Washington Is Forcing Its European Vassals To Accept 2nd Wave of Immigrants April 23, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom. Washington Is Forcing Its European Vassals To Accept 2nd Wave of ImmigrantsThe Obama Regime forced the EU to accept millions of refugees from Washington’s failed wars in the Middle East and Africa. Now the
Paul Craig Roberts is just one year younger than me and we both took 4-year degrees from technical universities, mine from Carnegie Tech, his from Georgia Tech. We both took 6 years to get our PhDs, mine in Physics from Brown University, his in Economics from the University of Virginia ...after spending his last year in Oxford. After being a post doc I became a midlevel government employee at the Naval Research Laboratory and Washington, DC, whereas he began as a member of Congressional Staff (also DC) and rose to Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy under Ronald Reagan. At the time I scoffed at Reagan as being a movie actor rather than what it takes to be President of the USA. However, PCR has made the point that Reagan may be the only American President ever to stop a war, rather than start one. And PCR, being an academic had many university appointments and took part in many high-level think tanks, where he met face-to-face all of the neocons that are today pushing for an…
How The American Neoconservatives Destroyed Mankind’s Hopes For Peace — Paul Craig Roberts April 18, 2016 | Original Here | If you wish to receive his newsletter via email go to Original and sign up at bottom.How The American Neoconservatives Destroyed Mankind’s Hopes For PeacePaul Craig RobertsWhen Ronald Reagan turned his back on the neoconservatives, fired them, and had some of them prosecute
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Transparency is hard
Lying about major arms deals to illiberal regimes. Dion, please resign. Trudeau, we expected this of your predecessor. If your hands were tied or your government were pressured by things we haven't seen, such as industry lobby pressure, petitions from other states, or something else entirely, explain it to us. That's called transparency. It's hard, I know.
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The Finance Committee, KPMG, and Section 241
In the 2013 documentary film The Tax Free Tour - excellent doc, highly recommend it - former KPMG accountant Richard Murphy explains that governments hire the Big Four - Price Waterhouse Coopers, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, & KPMG - who write tax laws that benefit both the corps and their clients. According to Murphy, he is still bound not to talk about KPMG client affairs in offshore tax fre
Now is never the time ....
PM Kim Campbell : An election is not the time to discuss serious social policy issues.PM Stephen Harper after Boston Marathon bombing : Now is not the time to figure out 'root causes' of terrorism.PM Justin Trudeau : Now is not the time to link Ft Mac wildfires to the global climate crisis.So when is the right time? Other than, you know, when it's on everyone's mind because a disaster is affecting
The Travelling TPP Roadshow
Brian Innes, president of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) and tireless retweeter of all things canola, suggests canola growers have a TPP friend in Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland because her dad is a canola grower. In a 2012 column in The Atlantic, she mentioned her dad's canola and wheat farm is "seven times the size of Central Park".In his column in the Hill Times a cou
This week in Real Change™
TRADE : Trade minister Chrystia Freeland ‘comfortable’ with decision to approve Saudi arms deal“I’m supportive and I’m comfortable with the decision of our government,” she said.HEALTH : Pharmacare vetoed as costly"Pharmacare is too costly and will not be introduced in this Parliament, says Health Minister Dr. Jane Philpott.""Canada is the only country in the world with a medicare s
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The Origin of Economic Failures and Depressions
The Origin of Economic Failures and Depressionsby Len Hart, The Existentialist CowboyForbidden Planet is a class Sci-Fi tour de force staring Leslie Nielson, Walter Pidgeon and Anne Francis. Released in 1956, it holds up surprisingly well against Star Wars, the Star Trek series and even the most recent digital entries into the genre. The story of Dr. Morbius, re-discovering the technological marve
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Shutting Down The Blog Until The End of Spring
Thank you for visiting. Photo source.Ludwig Uhland - Faith In Spring The gentle winds are awakened, They murmur and waft day and night, They create in every corner. Oh fresh scent, oh new sound! Now, poor dear, fear not! Now everything, everything must change. The world becomes more beautiful with each day, One does not know what may yet happen, The blooming doesn't want to end. The farthest, deep
X22Report: US Preparing A Major Offensive Push In The Middle East
ISIS and NATO are joined at the hip. Title: US Preparing A Major Offensive Push In The Middle East - Episode 942b. Source: X22Report. Date Published: April 11, 2016. Description:United Health Care leaves Obamacare. Yatzenyuk resigns and Biden says Ukraine is a complete success. US corporate media pushing that Putin is ready for a spring offensive in Ukraine, which means the US and Ukraine are read
Former Indian Spy Chief: "Pakistan has a Balochistan obsession"; Russian Report Documents Turkey's Arms Shipments To ISIS; Western Elite's Crusade Against Secular Nationalists Is In Line With ISIS's Genocidal Aims
Full Spectrum Terrorism: NATO in the air and ISIS on the ground. An excerpt from, "Q&A: ‘Pak is having a rough time in Balochistan…’" By Namrata Biji Ahuja, Deccan Chronicle, April 9, 2016: Pakistan has a Balochistan obsession. It is not recent; it’s an old thing. They have a serious problem in Balochistan. I do a lot of Track II dialogue and I met some of these Baloch boys and they
The Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
An excerpt from, "Bronze statue of Wallace" The Alfred Russel Wallace Website: The statue was donated by the Memorial Fund to London's Natural History Museum, where it was unveiled by Sir David Attenborough on the 7th November 2013 - the 100th anniversary of Wallace's death. It has been installed outside the Darwin Centre 2 building (which contains many of Wallace's insect specimens) nea
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