Recommended Reads
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Josh Green's Atlantic piece on Hillary and then the follow-up on the fall of the Hillary campaign.
This National Geographic article is a bit frightening, and won an award for science reporting.
I always liked this old New Yorker piece on "The American Religion".
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U.S. Inflation to Approach Zimbabwe Level, Faber Says
May 27 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy will enter “hyperinflation” approaching the levels in Zimbabwe because the Federal Reserve will be reluctant to raise interest rates, investor Marc Faber said.
Prices may increase at rates “close to” Zimbabwe’s gains, Faber said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Hong Kong. Zimbabwe’s inflation rate reached 231 million percent in July, the last annual rate published by the statistics office.
“I am 100 percent sure that the U.S. will go into hyperinflation,” Faber said. “The problem with government debt growing so much is that when the time will come and the Fed should increase interest rates, they will be very reluctant to do so and so inflation will start to accelerate.”
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"United In Hate"
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Interesting to pull an older post where the talk was about 5 million new jobs and it would cost only 150 billion?
And Obama and congress have spent somewhere around 15 trillion and we have not even seen 1 million new jobs.
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Strange clouds seen all over the world, check out these pics
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...seen-world.html
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http://books.simonandschuster.com/Go-Down-...n/9781416557067
True account of Clyde and Bonnie.
Just finished the unabridged audiobook.
It's fascinating.
WSS
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http://books.simonandschuster.com/Go-Down-...n/9781416557067
True account of Clyde and Bonnie.
Just finished the unabridged audiobook.
It's fascinating.
WSS
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Go-Down-...n/9781416557067
True account of Clyde and Bonnie. Just finished the unabridged audiobook. It's fascinating. WSS
In a similar vein, I recently read biographies about Billy The Kid and James Dean. I knew little about them - especially about their 'legends' - and found both books to be enlightening.
In short, neither man's real life closely mirrored their legend.
Always interesting to read different - maybe the true spins, maybe not - on so-called famous people.
On another note, I just finished Frank McCourt's, "Angela's Ashes". In short, the best book I've read since "Atlas Shrugged", which I read a long time ago. "Angela's Ashes" is THAT good.
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Rahm Emanuel's Mideast Mission.
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WHO declares swine flu pandemic
# FLU PANDEMIC -- Swedish government official tells BNO News that the WHO has declared a global swine flu pandemic
# URGENT -- BNO News confirms that the World Health Organization has raised the pandemic alert level to its highest level. Details to come.21 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters
# BULLETIN -- WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION RAISES PANDEMIC ALERT LEVEL TO ITS HIGHEST LEVEL, DECLARES SWINE FLU PANDEMIC. Level 6
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June 11, 2009
Influential liberal sees the light on Obama
Ed Lasky
Marty Peretz has been a leading liberal light for many years from his post at the influential New Republic. He was wholeheartedly in Barack Obama's corner during the campaign. I criticized him for his views and for spinning for the Obama campaign-particularly when it came to the issue of one of our most beleaguered allies, Israel.
However, in the last few weeks, Peretz seems to have had an epiphany. Obama is not what he thought he was. Peretz has published one piece after another taking the Obama administration to task over its foreign policy approach. His latest target is our Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, about whom I have been writing since the campaign.
Ambassador Rice's position was raised to Cabinet rank, and she seems to have as much foreign policy influence -- if not more than -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She pushed for participation in Durban II, pushed for America to join the disgraceful Human Rights Council, and (during her maiden speech at the UN) called for Israel to investigate itself for war crimes. She deflected criticism from supporters of the American-Israel relationship by promising that American would lead to a transformation of these international meetings and groups from being anti-Israel and anti-American. They would no longer be sinecures for our adversaries.
Peretz finds her record one of broken pledges and one of failure:
Given his following and weight in the world of liberal Jewish thought, perhaps his growing awareness will be a leading indicator.
Another Triumph For Ambassador Rice:Four especially reassuring elections occurred at the United Nations on Wednesday. So I hasten to bring you the good news.Let me give it to youseriatim:1. Libya was elected President of the U.N. General Assembly. The Libyan minister for African affairs has been designated for the post.2. Sudan as been elected as vice president of the General Assembly. This bodes well for Darfur.3. Algeria has been elected as chair of the Assembly's Legal Committee, known in the U.N.'s streamlined bureaucracy as the Sixth Committee.4. Iran has been elected vice-chair of the Sixth Committee.Susan Rice will have a wonderful time engaging with these men. Especially since the president's Cairo speech, which has changed the world.Some might be tempted to criticize Peretz for his earlier support of Obama. But it does take some moral courage from the perches of Cambridge to criticize Barack Obama, his policies and the people he has chosen to drive our foreign policy. Apostasy does not play well within the crowds that Marty Peretz probably finds himself in on a day by day basis. His turn away from Obama is a welcome step forward. Hopefully, he will be a leading indicator of a wave of disillusion yet to come.
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Anything by Glenn Greenwald.
EDIT: I'm not sure if you have to be a salon.com subscriber to read him or not.............
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This is pertinent to the right wing violence topic, but since that has been declared a crazytown I'll post it here:
PAUL KRUGMAN said:
The Big HateBack in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Conservatives were outraged. The chairman of the Republican National Committee denounced the report as an attempt to “segment out conservatives in this country who have a different philosophy or view from this administration” and label them as terrorists.
But with the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic, closely followed by a shooting by a white supremacist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the analysis looks prescient.
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He committed a crime, and was acting out in violence to change the status quo.
Makes him more of a leftist terrorist.
He had the location and info on the local very conservative newspaper...
Apparently, he was out to get them, too.
He was a nut case.
Go look at the assasinations and attempted ones, and who committed them.
Across the board. The premise of this thread is invalid.
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The only connection they did not bring forward was the Iraqi identity of "John Doe Number Two.
The most positive thing to come out of this fiasco was that Oklahoma State Representative Charles Key is still going strong a decade later, after fighting hard at the time to establish a Citizen's Grand Jury, that was squelched by the government. Today, Key is a leader in the Oklahoma Sovereignty Movement.
Remember Hoppy Heidelberg? He was on the original Grand Jury who quit because the government would not provide real evidence.
But today, since we live in an Orwellian world, the only history is the history that is politically correct.
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Shooting the Messenger
By Mark Hosenball | NEWSWEEK
In February, the Missouri Information Analysis Center, one of several "fusion" centers created after 9/11 to share intelligence among local, state and federal agencies, issued a "strategic report" warning about a resurgence of the "modern militia movement." Last week, on the same day that white supremacist James von Brunn allegedly killed a guard at Washington's Holocaust Memorial Museum, Missouri's police chief informed legislators that the fusion center had suspended production of such reports. Why? Outcry from conservative activists, who felt they were being tarred too. Similarly, in April, Rush Limbaugh and other conservatives badgered the Department of Homeland Security into backing away from a report about growing far-right extremism.
They may talk about it less in public now, but law-enforcment and intel officials tell NEWSWEEK they're quietly scrutinizing threats from the far right just as carefully as those from Islamic extremists. And the danger isn't entirely homegrown. According to published reports, von Brunn attended meetings of the American Friends of the British National Party, a now defunct group that raised funds for the U.K.'s largest far-right movement. The British National Party's leader, onetime Holocaust denier Nick Griffin, recently won election to the European Parliament and has regularly visited the U.S. to speak to extremist groups.
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the site "Snopes.com" has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out whom exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kind of makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby.
David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelsons claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. No one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!
Mikkelsons are very liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their website findings.
To everyone who goes to www.snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line facts, proceed with caution. Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelsons do.
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the site "Snopes.com" has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out whom exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kind of makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby.
David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelsons claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. No one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!
Mikkelsons are very liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their website findings.
To everyone who goes to www.snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line facts, proceed with caution. Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelsons do.
the site "Snopes.com" has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final word' on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to find out whom exactly was behind snopes.com. Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kind of makes you wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers, no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and-pop operation that began as a hobby.
David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal background or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a selfish motivation? The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of snopes.com claiming to have the bottom line facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong. Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across the internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelsons claim to have researched this issue before posting their findings on snopes.com. In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the sort 'ever' took place. No one from snopes.com ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, snopes.com issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!
Mikkelsons are very liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their website findings.
To everyone who goes to www.snopes.com to get what they think to be the bottom line facts, proceed with caution. Take what it says at face value and nothing more. Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always google a subject and do the research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelsons do.
Propaganda at its finest. nice find Cal!
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