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9/27/2003
Mercs: Increased Demand for Whores of War :.Mercenaries are training to do the kind of work the US Government can't afford to have its own soldiers doing. And in a couple of weeks some of them will be shipping out to places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
But why are private armies in demand? It mostly boils down to overstretch. US forces in places like Iraq cannot keep up with the work.Related: Mass Layoffs in August :.About 134,000 workers lost their jobs in 1,258 mass layoffs nationwide last month, up from the 128,103 employees who were fired in 1,248 such actions in August 2002, the bureau said.
posted by Kevin at 3:38 PM
Scientists 'Program' DNA Molecules To Self Assemble Into Patterned Nanostructures :.Afraid of nukes? Phewey. A nuclear weapon only explodes once: "Our goal is to use DNA self-assembly to precisely control the location of other molecules," said Yan, a molecular chemist working as an assistant research professor in Duke's computer science department.
"The big promise is that if we can increase the size of our lattices we can template nanoelectronics onto them and make useful devices and circuits at a smaller scale than has ever been done before," added LaBean, a molecular biologist who is also an assistant research professor of computer science.
Yan and LaBean are the tiles' principal designers. Their work in DNA computation shows that the tiles' self assembly into structures can be programmed, according to the researchers. "The tile itself is easy to modify by changing strands, so we can program the tile again and again for other purposes," Yan said.Related: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us :.Part of the answer certainly lies in our attitude toward the new - in our bias toward instant familiarity and unquestioning acceptance. Accustomed to living with almost routine scientific breakthroughs, we have yet to come to terms with the fact that the most compelling 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology - pose a different threat than the technologies that have come before. Specifically, robots, engineered organisms, and nanobots share a dangerous amplifying factor: They can self-replicate. A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.
posted by Kevin at 3:25 PM
Iraqphotos.com :.A couple of days ago, I said I couldn't even shake a stick at all the insanity related to the out of control situation in Iraq. Well, iraqphotos.com has made it their mission in life to keep track of it all.
posted by Kevin at 3:16 PM
More JFK Theories: All These Secrets Are the Same SecretBarr McClellan is trying to pin the murder of JFK on his former boss, President Lyndon Johnson. And Brad O'Leary and L.E. Seymour are spinning a bit of a different yarn. Besides the fact that the Kennedy administration ordered the execution of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem, O'Leary and Seymour think that some milieu of French narcotics traffickers, Vietnamese operatives and New Orleans mobsters murdered Kennedy. Fine. Watch the left hand as the right hand directs you to the truth...over there. Indeed, there may be some of the truth over there. What we can't lose sight of, however, is the fact that the full resources of the U.S. intelligence community have been employed in covering up the JFK murder, and ensuring that the consensus opinion of the single shooter theory remains in force. In other words, this operation was not carried out by an individual, or a small group of individuals. This operation was large and the media, the congress and just about everyone else slurped it all up. Obviously, the single shooter theory is dumb, as are most of the mainstream explanations of the JFK murder. As this becomes obvious to larger numbers of people, we should expect ornate and robust explanations that will, once and for all, lay to rest the mystery of the JFK murder. Of course, all of that is just more of the Matrix being thrown into your skull. Look, They don't blow the heads off of U.S. presidents in public unless there's a damn good reason for it. Now, ask yourself, cui bono? Who benefits? Who died, and who made a killing? Do I think drugs are a part of it? Yes, but the drugs are just a piece of the much bigger puzzle. What we are bumping our heads up against here is what we are always bumping our heads up against: the fiat currency based, fractional reserve, global banking system. Most people are just too damn stupid, or afraid, to notice. Let's take a look at analysis from Cedric X on Presidential Executive Order 11110. Please indulge me with this long quote: On June 4, 1963, a little known attempt was made to strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the government at interest. On that day President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110 that returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without going through the Federal Reserve. Mr. Kennedy's order gave the Treasury the power "to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury." This meant that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation. In all, Kennedy brought nearly $4.3 billion in U.S. notes into circulation. The ramifications of this bill are enormous.
With the stroke of a pen, Mr. Kennedy was on his way to putting the Federal Reserve Bank of New York out of business. If enough of these silver certificates were to come into circulation they would have eliminated the demand for Federal Reserve notes. This is because the silver certificates are backed by silver and the Federal Reserve notes are not backed by anything. Executive Order 11110 could have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level, because it would have given the government the ability to repay its debt without going to the Federal Reserve and being charged interest in order to create the new money. Executive Order 11110 gave the U.S. the ability to create its own money backed by silver.
After Mr. Kennedy was assassinated just five months later, no more silver certificates were issued. The Final Call has learned that the Executive Order was never repealed by any U.S. President through an Executive Order and is still valid. Why then has no president utilized it? Virtually all of the nearly $6 trillion in debt has been created since 1963, and if a U.S. president had utilized Executive Order 11110 the debt would be nowhere near the current level. Perhaps the assassination of JFK was a warning to future presidents who would think to eliminate the U.S. debt by eliminating the Federal Reserve's control over the creation of money. Mr. Kennedy challenged the government of money by challenging the two most successful vehicles that have ever been used to drive up debt - war and the creation of money by a privately-owned central bank.Now, with all of that fresh in you mind, look at this excerpt from Barry and the Boys, by Daniel Hopsicker: �You referred to the gentleman Barry worked for, David Ferrie. I knew Barry had some unusual financing because he owned two airplanes by the time he was eighteen,� said one of Seal�s employees, pilot Joe Hurston.
�I�m going to tell you that there is a lot more to this that meets the eye,� this man continued. �I had an airplane that crashed, with seven souls aboard, one of whom was a representative of the US Treasury Department. My aircraft was screwed with, and I�m still very concerned for my family�s safety.�
This individual, with some obvious concerns, was with Seal when he played his role in the Watergate Scandal, when he was arrested less than two weeks after the bungled burglary by CIA Cubans like Frank Sturgis, with 13,500 pounds of plastic C4 explosives destined for anti-Castro Cubans in Mexico.
�Mena is very real,� Hurston concluded, before declining to talk further, at least on the record.
�And what did happen back then is tied to that. And you mess with �72, and you�re messing with Mena. And Mena is tied right in to current stuff. So there is a strong connection, and you should be aware of it.�
�You mean, this is all somehow connected?� we asked.
�Touch one, you�ve touched them all,� he stated solemnly. �All these secrets are the same secret.�All these secrets are the same secret... Weapons sales, which perpetuate war, death and fear, the global trade in illicit drugs and a central banking system that ensures that an ever expanding balloon of debt financing payments will be taken out of the hides of people everywhere.... all of these secrets are the same secret. So, at the end of the day, after all the French connections have been made, after all the shady New Orleans mobsters have been ground into dog food, and every conceivable theory has been laid to rest, we will be no closer to understanding the true nature of Kennedy's assassination than millions of stunned Americans were on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. And that's the way They like it.
posted by Kevin at 3:01 PM
Reader Comments on Rising PovertyAn anonymous Cryptogon reader sent these comments: The percentage of Americans living in poverty rose to 12.1 percent from 11.7 percent in 2001... the poverty threshold income level for a family of four with two children is $18,244 per year. According to the government numbers 1 out of every 8 families is living at the poverty level. The government defines poverty as $18,000 a year for a family of four. This is insane! I make $24,000 a year as a single person and I sleep under my desk. So while "poverty" rose, what happened to CEO pay? Since 1980, the average pay of regular working people increased just 66 percent, while CEO pay grew a whopping 1,996 percent. According to Business Week, the average CEO of a major corporation made 42 times the average hourly worker's pay in 1980, 85 times in 1990 and a staggering 531 times in 2000. (Compare your salary's growth to a CEO's with the calculator in their webpage.) Well, I'm sure those top-flight, high-powered PHBs are worth every penny. In an SEC filing Tuesday, Delta said it expects to lose more than the $397 million it lost in the same period last year. The airline lost $1.3 billion over the entire year: [CEO] Mullin's appeal for government aid comes after Delta revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it awarded its top executives millions in bonuses last year. Mullin received a $1.4 million bonus. The airline also moved to make sure the pensions of top executives are safe if the company does file for bankruptcy sometime in the future.
posted by Kevin at 2:03 PM
White House Compromises CIA Asset as Payback :.Valerie Plame is lucky that she is an intelligence analyst. If she had been a case officer or an independent contractor, she would already be dead. In fact, I'm surprised They didn't kill her and frame her husband, Joeseph Wilson. If you think that kind of thing doesn't happen to people who refuse to go along with the program, think again. The children are killed to make a point to others who are considering thought crimes against Uncle: A minor flap has been brewing since syndicated columnist Robert Novak, citing "two senior administration officials," reported in July that Joseph C. Wilson IV was married to a Central Intelligence Agency specialist on "weapons of mass destruction" named Valerie Plame. Wilson is the former diplomat sent by the CIA last year to check out allegations that Iraq had purchased uranium from Niger. He caused the Bush administration no small embarrassment by stating, in a July 6 op-ed, that he'd reported "it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place."More: CIA Seeks Probe of White House :. Don't believe there's any real animosity here. Consider the full name of the CIA facility: SHELBY AMENDMENT NO. 3050 (Senate - June 26, 1998) page: S7289. SEC. 307. DESIGNATION OF HEADQUARTERS BUILDING OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY AS THE GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH CENTER FOR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE. (a) Designation: The Headquarters Building of the Central Intelligence Agency located in Langley, Virginia, shall be known and designated as the 'George Herbert Walker Bush Center for Central Intelligence'.
posted by Kevin at 1:22 PM
9/26/2003
Get Chipped(TM) :.Applied Digital Solutions, Inc., an advanced technology development company, today announced that New York City's first subdermal VeriChip(TM) "chipping" procedure was performed yesterday (September 24, 2003) at the Company's lower Manhattan Authorized VeriChip Center.
posted by Kevin at 10:12 PM
Independent Replication of Mizuno's Cold Fusion Reactor :.Professors Jean-Fran�ois Fauvarque and G�rard Lallev� from the "Laboratoire d'Electrochimie Industrielle" of the CNAM (Conservatoire National des Arts et M�tiers) in Paris, have replicated the cold fusion process devised by Mizuno and tested repeatedly by Naudin.
posted by Kevin at 6:56 PM
Levi Strauss Enters Final Round of North American Layoffs :.I say we pay a 13 year old Malaysian girl 50 cents per day to be the President of the United States: Struggling jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co. said on Thursday it would close its remaining North American plants and cut nearly 2,000 jobs, completing its long exit from the U.S. manufacturing business that began more than 20 years ago.
posted by Kevin at 1:04 AM
Iraq Situation Devolving by the HourI can't even shake a stick at it anymore. Civilians killed. Government officials killed. U.S. tanks blowing up cars driven by journalists. UN pulling out, basically indicating to Bush, "You broke it, you fix it."
posted by Kevin at 1:00 AM
CTO Loses Job After Microsoft Report :.The chief technology officer of computer security firm AtStake, which consults for Microsoft Corp., has been fired after taking part in writing a report criticizing Windows as posing a national cybersecurity risk, an associate said on Thursday.HA! Microsoft Chosen as Exclusive Homeland Security Contractor :.I shit you not, it's nearly Miller Time. Very few stories actually send a shiver down my spine, but this one did. It's obvious that we're all being set up for a very hard fall: The Homeland Security Department has chosen Microsoft Corp. as its preferred supplier of desktop computer and server software, according to a statement issued late Tuesday. The move is a significant development in the government�s ongoing merger of 22 agencies and comes as officials are selecting various technology companies� products as de facto standards for the department. HA! HA! U.S. State Department Visa Processing Brought Down by Virus Attack :.An attack of the Welchia worm lead the US Department of State to shut down its system for filtering visa applications in search of potential terrorists
A computer virus has hit the US Department of State, affecting the performance of the government's information technology system that manages visa approvals, according to reports.
The virus shut down the State Department's Consular Lookout and Support System (Class) on Tuesday, according to published reports from Reuters and the Associated Press. A State Department representative CNET News.com reached on Wednesday would not confirm that the system had crashed but indicated that IT personnel were working on a problem.
posted by Kevin at 12:47 AM
Questions, Questions, Too Many Questions: Moussaoui Case Dropped :.Prosecutors have agreed with Zacarias Moussaoui's lawyers that all charges against the terrorism defendant should be dismissed but only to hasten an appeal that challenges his right to question fellow al-Qaida prisoners.
posted by Kevin at 12:44 AM
9/25/2003
Standard Operating Procedure: 'Terrorist' Group Under U.S. Protection :.Do you get it yet? No? Well then think back on the CIA's treatment of Al Qaeda during the 1980s and that should refresh your memory. But it's not just Al Qaeda. This is how the U.S. operates EVERYWHERE: Soldiers from Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne Division are providing security for several members of an Iranian paramilitary group that the U.S. State Department lists as a terrorist organization.
The paratroopers are guarding a compound at Nasir Al Wa Salam that U.S. officers said is the home of a handful of members of the Mujahedin-E Khalq or MEK -- also known as the People's Mujahedeen. Members are free to come and go.
The MEK is dedicated to overthrowing the Iranian government and conducted attacks on Iran during the 1980s and 1990s. The group was nurtured by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, whose country fought a war with Iran in the 1980s. Now, with Saddam gone, the MEK's 4,000 to 5,000 fighters are in a strange limbo.
They are stuck in Iraq without support and cannot return to Iran. Many were educated in the United States and Britain, but if America took them in, the country probably would face charges of hypocrisy, given its war on terrorism.
posted by Kevin at 9:46 AM
Gold Hits 7-Year High :.By 1515GMT, spot gold closed at $390.40/391.10 per troy ounce after spiking to a high of $393.30 -- not seen since mid May 1996. That compared with $387.00/387.80 at the New York close on Wednesday.
Analysts signaled even more gains, after a period of consolidation, with prices over the psychologically significant $400 barrier looking increasingly likely.
posted by Kevin at 9:18 AM
9/24/2003
TR Comments on Helen and Scott NearingSeveral days ago, I told TR, a fellow researcher and long term Cryptogon reader and contributor, about an article I had read in Mother Earth News (Oct/Nov 2003) about Helen and Scott Nearing. I was struck by the Nearing's insights into where society was headed, even as far back as the 1930s. The parallels to today are chilling. TR has been reading their book, The Good Life, and sent over some comments that I am sure you will find interesting. Oh yeah, keep in mind that living like the Nearings is now illegal in most areas in the United States: I've been reading a very dangerous book. It's called "The Good Life" by Helen and Scott Nearing. These people saw this thing coming down in 1932! Of course, in the 30's it really was down. But still, back then they had certain freedoms that are gone to us today. We've lost our most basic freedom: the right to affordable land. In 1932, the Nearings bought a 65 acre parcel for $1100. That's $12,600 in today's currency! They never dealt with any bank and they built a very comfortable slipform stone-masonry house from rocks gathered on the property. No building inspectors were ever involved. They also never worked one day at a job. Money was made by selling maple syrup and maple sugar. The Nearings grew all their own food and bartered with neighbors for services and supplies. Their goal was to work 20 hours a week and devote the rest of their time to reading, writing and living. They wanted to create a life that would be Good in both its means and its ends. They achieved their goal and wrote about it in their book, which is an effective and entertaining mixture of biography, philosophy and how-to. I HIGHLY recommend it!
Here's a quote from the "The Good Life":
When we moved to Vermont we left a society gripped by depression and unemployment, falling a prey to fascism, and on the verge of another world-wide military free-for-all; and entered a pre industrial, rural community. The society from which we moved had rejected in practice and in principle our pacifism, our vegetarianism, and our collectivism. So thorough was this rejection that, holding such views, we could not teach in the schools, write in the press or speak over the radio, and were thus denied out part in public education. Under these circumstances, where could outcasts from a dying social order live frugally and decently, and at the same time have sufficient leisure and energy to assist in the speedy liquidation of the disintegrating society and to help replace it with a more workable social system?--- Here's to assisting "in the speedy liquidation of the disintegrating society!" I'll drink to that.
posted by Kevin at 2:23 PM
Switzerland Considering National Gun Registration :.Switzerland's minister of justice has called for national gun registration in a country held up by U.S. gun-rights advocates as a model for armed societies.
posted by Kevin at 12:11 PM
OPEC Agrees to Surprise Oil Output Cut :.Man, there's just no end to the great economic news! But that's ok, the Cheney and Bush clans will be keeping the winter chills at bay by burning logs made out of rolls of one hundred dollar bills as you go bankrupt paying for gas: OPEC producers on Wednesday agreed to a surprise cut in oil supplies that could raise fuel costs this winter and hamper economic growth.
The cartel decided to reduce output for 10 members, excluding Iraq, by 900,000 barrels a day to 24.5 million barrels daily from November 1, said the oil ministers of Kuwait and Iran.
posted by Kevin at 8:06 AM
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posted by Kevin at 7:44 AM
MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange) :.Do you ever get the feeling that They're just doing stuff now in order to rub our faces in it? If I had come out, a few weeks ago, and said that a new law enforcement datamining/surveillance system called MATRIX was under construction, even you guys, who are basically nuts, would have emailed me and gently suggested that I should seek psychiatric care. So, for those of you keeping orderly records of The End, this one should be at the front of your I-Shit-You-Not-File: The perverse dream of integrating law enforcement, military intelligence and vast databases of virtually everything done by virtually every citizen is coming to fruition, only under state, not federal, auspices.
DARPA's dreaded Total Information Awareness (TIA) program, formerly administered by convicted felon and Republican hero John Poindexter of Iran-Contra fame, may have been de-clawed by Congress, but it lives on at the state level in an incarnation called, ominously, the MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange).
There's a lot to dislike in this new end-run around Congressional oversight. For one thing there are federal dollars behind it -- four million from the Department of Justice -- which makes it clear that the Feds will be expecting a payoff.
It also appears that the scheme is geared more towards data mining in quest of garden-variety criminal activity than anything to do with international terrorism. When you combine that with federal interest, it's hard to resist seeing the MATRIX as a sneaky way for three-letter agencies to keep tabs on ordinary folk and their foibles, side-stepping restrictions on domestic spying instituted since the Church Committee.
posted by Kevin at 7:14 AM
9/23/2003
Ward Hunt Ice Shelf Breaks Apart :.The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up, scientists in the United States and Canada said on Monday.
They said the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, on the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's Nunavut territory, broke into two main parts, themselves cut through with fissures. A freshwater lake drained into the sea, the researchers reported.
posted by Kevin at 2:42 AM
9/22/2003
Smackdown: Dollar Falls Sharply, Pulling Down Stock and Bond Prices :.Just wait until the reality of what is happening sets in. Put this in your "jobless recovery" pipe and smoke it: The dollar fell sharply today, pulling down stock prices on Wall Street and across Europe and Asia, after global economic policymakers at a weekend meeting endorsed "flexibility in exchange rates."
Bond prices also dropped sharply in New York as traders feared foreign investors would sell United States Treasury securities to cut their losses from the decline in the dollar's value.
Many economists and policymakers have long argued that the dollar must weaken further to redistribute global growth from an unhealthy reliance on the United States. The International Monetary Fund, which is meeting in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, said last week that "imbalances" in the global economy, including the large American trade deficit, threatened the global economic recovery.
Some investors fear that the dollar's sell-off could get out of hand, destabilizing financial markets. "There is some worry that this could turn into a rout," said Matthew Wickens of ABN AMRO in London.
posted by Kevin at 5:25 PM
SEC Quizzing NYSE Specialists :.Anyone who has ever traded NYSE issues on an intraday basis knows that the specialist system is rife with criminality. The entire point of the specialist system is to make money for the specialist. They routinely disrupt liquidity and screw investors on every trade: Federal regulators have begun interviewing individual specialists on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange about an investigation of possible illegal trading, amid a leadership vacuum at the Big Board.
As the NYSE awaits the arrival next week of a temporary replacement for its ousted chairman, Richard Grasso, sources close to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said the agency's look at the probe is "a very high priority."
The SEC has been monitoring an NYSE inquiry into suspected trading violations by floor specialists, including possibly failing to stand aside in adequately liquid markets and possible "trading ahead" of customer orders, the sources said.
posted by Kevin at 5:20 PM
SF Chronicle: Schwarzenegger's Inner Circle Resembles a Bohemian Grove Toga Party :."...the inner circle of Schwarzenegger's "populist" crusade looks like a Bohemian Grove toga party: Donald Bren, George Shultz, David Murdock, Warren Buffett, and so on."
posted by Kevin at 4:53 PM
9/21/2003
Microsoft Ramping Up to Total DRM Lockdown :.We are gazing straight into The End of general purpose computing as we know it. I had written a massive diatribe on this, but I decided I don't even care anymore. I'm not going to go along with this. And when Microsoft, working together with the fedgov, manages to break all of the standards that allow for the open exchange of information, I will refuse to use those systems and networks. It's as simple as that. The Microsoft� Windows� Rights Management (RM) client is required for your computer to run applications that provide functionality based on Windows RM technologies. Installing this client places software on your computer that allows RM-aware applications to work with Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) to provide licenses for publishing and consuming RM-protected information.
posted by Kevin at 11:52 PM
Iraqi Nightmare Just Beginning, Thanks to the U.S. :.Wow, the U.S. installed puppets aren't wasting any time. Most limits on "foreign direct investiment" have been lifted. Attention, transnational corporations, do you need employees who are willing to work for 10 cents per hour? Thanks to the U.S., Iraq is about to become another low wage slave hell: Iraq's recently appointed finance minister on Sunday announced a radical liberalisation of the economy, but his plans surprised US allies and were attacked by Iraqi business representatives.
The laws abolished almost all curbs on foreign direct investment except in natural resources and allowed foreign domination of the banking sector.
Wadi Surab, a member of the Iraqi Businessman's Union in Baghdad, told the BBC Arabic service the proposed reforms would "destroy the role of the Iraqi industrialist", as Iraqi business groups could not compete in privatisation tenders.
posted by Kevin at 7:23 PM
Warning! You Are Being Watched :.In June, Atlanta bookstore employee Marc Schultz found himself visited by FBI agents after someone spotted him reading an article titled �Weapons of Mass Stupidity� at a local coffee shop. Schultz has dark hair and a beard, and the combination was apparently enough to make someone call the FBI. Schultz says the agents told him: �There�s no problem. We�d just like to get to the bottom of this. Now, if we can�t, then you may have a problem. And you don�t want that.�
posted by Kevin at 4:30 AM
FBI Stunner: No Ill Gotten Gains from 9/11 Short Trades :.I'm nearly speechless on this one. Just bask in this one for a few moments and hold your nose: Somewhere out there are hedge funds or individual investors who profited from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. But they had no foreknowledge of the catastrophes, an FBI spokesman said Thursday.
Spokesman Ed Cogswell said the FBI has closed its investigation of stock and option trading that took place days before the attacks. He said the investigation turned up "absolutely no evidence'' of anyone with inside knowledge of what would happen.
posted by Kevin at 3:29 AM
Angle Grinder Man :.I say, Angle Grinder Man for California Governor! He wears a baby-blue spandex jumpsuit and shiny gold panties, gloves, cape, boots and goggles. He wields a giant, metal-cutting circular power saw.
Who is Angle Grinder Man?
He is Britain's self-styled "first wheel-clamp and speed camera vigilante cum subversive superhero philanthropist entertainer type person." That's who.
For those not familiar with industrial machine tools, an angle grinder is the saw best suited to cutting through plates of steel, such as, say, the wheel clamps that authorities use to immobilize illegally parked cars in London.Related: Angle Grinder Man's Home PageResearch Credit: TR
posted by Kevin at 2:47 AM
Circle Jerk at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government :.International Relations departments should be thrown off of university campuses. It's a total fraud, and the "big deals" in that area of inquiry come off as dumb to anyone with even the slightest grasp on reality. By the way, if you're against global fascism, you're a maniac AND you're working for Al Qaeda: Al Qaeda, she said, has shifted its mission, even aligning itself with neo-Nazis and white supremacists who are sympathetic to its new focus of fighting a "new world order."
"We know that Al Qaeda is very, very good at finding people who have the right passport and speak the right language" to facilitate a terrorist attack, she said. "They are finding new allies and new sources of recruits."
posted by Kevin at 2:21 AM
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:. Reading
 Fatal
Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture by Andrew Kimbrell
Readers will come to see
that industrial food production is indeed a "fatal harvest"
- fatal to consumers, as pesticide residues and new disease vectors
such as E. coli and "mad cow disease" find their way
into our food supply; fatal to our landscapes, as chemical runoff
from factory farms poison our rivers and groundwater; fatal to
genetic diversity, as farmers rely increasingly on high-yield
monocultures and genetically engineered crops; and fatal to our
farm communities, which are wiped out by huge corporate
farms.
 Friendly
Fascism: The New Face of Power in America by Bertram Myron Gross
This is a relatively
short but extremely cogent and well-argued treatise on the rise
of a form of fascistic thought and social politics in late 20th
century America. Author Bertram Gross' thesis is quite straightforward;
the power elite that comprises the corporate, governmental and
military superstructure of the country is increasingly inclined
to employ every element in their formidable arsenal of 'friendly
persuasion' to win the hearts and minds of ordinary Americans
through what Gross refers to as friendly fascism.
 The
Good Life
by Scott and Helen Nearing Helen
and Scott Nearing are the great-grandparents of the back-to-the-land
movement, having abandoned the city in 1932 for a rural life based
on self-reliance, good health, and a minimum of cash...Fascinating,
timely, and wholly useful, a mix of the Nearings' challenging
philosophy and expert counsel on practical skills.
 Silent
Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth by David Bollierd
In Silent Theft, David Bollier
argues that a great untold story of our time is the staggering
privatization and abuse of our common wealth. Corporations are
engaged in a relentless plunder of dozens of resources that we
collectively own—publicly funded medical breakthroughs,
software innovation, the airwaves, the public domain of creative
works, and even the DNA of plants, animals and humans. Too often,
however, our government turns a blind eye—or sometimes helps
give away our assets. Amazingly,
the silent theft of our shared wealth has gone largely unnoticed
because we have lost our ability to see the commons.
 The
Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics
Guide by John Seymour The
Self Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the only book that
teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony
with the land harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops
and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and
wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more.
 When
Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten
When Corporations
Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated
the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets
and detached them from accountability to the human interest. It
documents the devastating human and environmental consequences
of the successful efforts of these corporations to reconstruct
values and institutions everywhere on the planet to serve their
own narrow ends.
 The
New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques
for the Home and Market Gardener
This expansion
of a now-classic guide originally published in 1989 is intended
for the serious gardener or small-scale market farmer. It describes
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with detailed coverage of scale and capital, marketing, livestock,
the winter garden, soil fertility, weeds, and many other
topics.
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