Wherein support for a free internet = support for child pornography. OBVIOUSLY. - Ed.
“Even as the Bush righwingers are smelling defeat in the air, they are allying themselves with American law enforcement agencies in an attempt to completely censor and control the Internet usage and reception inside the United States.
Many people are aware that the American media is controlled; that negative news never get printed and governmental decrees are made public, tarted up as news stories but the internet has proven a mighty thorn in their side. Real material is on the internet and the fake government planted stories are torn to pieces so the Attorney General set up a special study group inside the Department of Justice to study internet usage and determine how it could be controlled.
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11.01.2008
The US State Department will eat our brains
Touche! - Ed.
The U.S. government decided to extend its “war of ideas” to the popular Internet sites, forums, chat rooms and blogs in the Russian segment of the global network. This was announced by the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, James Glassman, and refers to the State Department’s Digital Outreach Team program. The program has already been tested on Arabs, Afghans, and Iranians. Under this program, specially trained people go to foreign Internet websites, and debunk myths about American politics as well as, “refer people back to factual documents.”
I often talk to fellow citizens on different forums and blogs about various topics, including the United States. We discuss different issues. For example, is the war in Iraq a sufficiently convincing illustration of the American peace-loving foreign policy, or should this image be reinforced with some sort of small victorious Pakistani campaign? Or this: why is the practice of promoting democracy limited to the planet Earth? I must say that during the debate, my conversation partners often reach conclusions that the U.S. State Department would find very unpleasant. The problem is certainly caused by the fact that none of the forum’s visitors have access to “factual documents.” It’s equally caused by the fact that there are no State Department employees among us. The best we’ve got are the “fifth column” and grantees that scrounge at the American Embassy.
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The U.S. government decided to extend its “war of ideas” to the popular Internet sites, forums, chat rooms and blogs in the Russian segment of the global network. This was announced by the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, James Glassman, and refers to the State Department’s Digital Outreach Team program. The program has already been tested on Arabs, Afghans, and Iranians. Under this program, specially trained people go to foreign Internet websites, and debunk myths about American politics as well as, “refer people back to factual documents.”
I often talk to fellow citizens on different forums and blogs about various topics, including the United States. We discuss different issues. For example, is the war in Iraq a sufficiently convincing illustration of the American peace-loving foreign policy, or should this image be reinforced with some sort of small victorious Pakistani campaign? Or this: why is the practice of promoting democracy limited to the planet Earth? I must say that during the debate, my conversation partners often reach conclusions that the U.S. State Department would find very unpleasant. The problem is certainly caused by the fact that none of the forum’s visitors have access to “factual documents.” It’s equally caused by the fact that there are no State Department employees among us. The best we’ve got are the “fifth column” and grantees that scrounge at the American Embassy.
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Iran warns of Israeli plots in the region
Iran's Foreign Minister urges regional states to remain vigilant about Israel's plots and interference in other countries' internal affairs.
"We witness (Israel's) interference in the Caucasus, Lebanon and Palestine which is aimed at mounting conflict and damaging interests and territorial integrity. Regional countries should remain vigilant to fight conspiracies,” Manouchehr Mottaki said in a meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Ali Babacan.
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum regional meeting, which opened in Istanbul on October 30.
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"We witness (Israel's) interference in the Caucasus, Lebanon and Palestine which is aimed at mounting conflict and damaging interests and territorial integrity. Regional countries should remain vigilant to fight conspiracies,” Manouchehr Mottaki said in a meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Ali Babacan.
The meeting took place on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum regional meeting, which opened in Istanbul on October 30.
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Obama's Birth Wrap-up
It is one of my pet peeves how psyops emails close with DEMANDS and ACCUSATIONS to forward the email, and that if you don't follow their DEMANDS you are somehow UNPATRIOTIC or ASHAMED OF GOD or some such nonsense. It wouldn't surprise me if these psyops emails serve as some sort of tool to measure how obedient the sheeple are, by tracking their circulation via illegal surveillance operations of our email subject-matter lines. Furthermore, you can sometimes find curious things like this embedded in the emails, kind of like psyops-artist graffiti, I guess. I have a better idea: just DELETE them. - Ed.
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The hoaxers have claimed that this certificate is a fake, but have yet to produce any evidence to back that claim up. Their approach, straight out of the Napoleonic code, is to make continual accusations and demand that the accused prove their innocence. They hope that simply by repeating a claim often enough, useful idiots will come to believe it. But here in the United States, we follow the principle that the ACCUSER must prove the accused guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt. What that means is that when the Swift-Boaters accuse Barack Obama of fraud, it is they who are required to provide proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Otherwise, we as citizens are obligated to ignore such baseless accusations, and certainly refuse to forward them along to everyone in our mailing lists (as these spammed emails always insist we must do).
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The hoaxers have claimed that this certificate is a fake, but have yet to produce any evidence to back that claim up. Their approach, straight out of the Napoleonic code, is to make continual accusations and demand that the accused prove their innocence. They hope that simply by repeating a claim often enough, useful idiots will come to believe it. But here in the United States, we follow the principle that the ACCUSER must prove the accused guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt. What that means is that when the Swift-Boaters accuse Barack Obama of fraud, it is they who are required to provide proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Otherwise, we as citizens are obligated to ignore such baseless accusations, and certainly refuse to forward them along to everyone in our mailing lists (as these spammed emails always insist we must do).
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Making America safe for the world
A specter is haunting the world, a specter of a dangerously growing gap between the United States presidential candidates' promises to make America safer on one hand, and an increasingly poorer, more unstable and more dangerous world on the other.
Six years after the Bush Doctrine of pre-emption made its debut, America's "war on terror" remains open-ended (now in three separate theaters of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan). As the financial tsunami - made in the US - is leaving no nation behind, both America and the world are far less secure than before.
Meanwhile, America is losing influence both among its friends and foes.
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Six years after the Bush Doctrine of pre-emption made its debut, America's "war on terror" remains open-ended (now in three separate theaters of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan). As the financial tsunami - made in the US - is leaving no nation behind, both America and the world are far less secure than before.
Meanwhile, America is losing influence both among its friends and foes.
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Coastal Maine tide change a mystery
BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine—Meteorologists are baffled by rapid tidal changes along the Maine coast, which damaged some boats and piers.
Witnesses say low tide turned and became high within a matter of minutes on Tuesday afternoon. The changes occurred six or seven times. The National Weather Service says reports from several locations indicated that water levels fell and rose from 4 feet to as much as 12 feet during the event.
In a public information statement, the weather service says the cause "remains a mystery and may never be known."
KBR 3Q profit rose 35% as revenue climbs
Recession? No recession in the "Engineering and Construction" business (wink wink). - Ed.
Engineering and construction firm KBR Inc. said Friday its third-quarter profit increased 35 percent, led by strong revenue from a company it bought this spring.
Net income rose to $85 million, or 51 cents per share, in the three months ended Sept. 30. That compared with $63 million, or 37 cents, a year earlier.
Oprah sees her own presidential vote dropped by touch screen voting machine
'I went back to check it, it had not recorded my presidential vote!', Says Terrified, Potentially Disenfranchised Queen of Television...
"It will only get worse..."
A few years ago I wrote a post in which I said that Ann Coulter promotes hatred of "liberals" that is comparable to standard forms of ethnic and religious bigotry; that her violent tribalistic rhetoric acts as a sort of corrosive acid dissolving the bonds of democratic society. I'd like to take a moment to look at a case study of precisely the sort of bigotry I was talking about, a bigotry that we'll see indeed parallels standard prejudice.
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Still no medical records from Palin. What's the holdup?
ABC News Kate Snow reports: Governor Palin's campaign still has not released any information regarding her medical records despite frequent requests from the news media and the campaign's own assertion that they would release this information soon.
On Sunday morning, Palin spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt told ABC News that the campaign had planned to release information on her medical history early this week.
Today is Wednesday.
ABC News has asked every day this week about the status of the release of information and received no updates from the campaign. It is unclear what is holding things up.
10.31.2008
Speaking of Colorado...
Fireball passes over Colorado.
This fireball occurred at 7:29 PM MDT over central Colorado. I have received over 100 witness reports, from Casper, WY in the north, Albuquerque, NM is the south, the Western Slope to the west, and the Front Range to the east.
Data has been recovered from the following Network cameras:
US Army document reveals plan to take 7m acres in SE Colorado
TRINIDAD, Colorado — The Pentagon has been planning since at least 2004 to acquire almost 7 million acres in southeastern Colorado, forcing more than 17,000 residents off their land to establish the largest military base in the world, according to documents obtained in a federal court case.
The unprecedented acquisition of 6.9 million acres, or 10,800 square miles, of private and public land would result in a military reservation larger than some states, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New Jersey. The multi-service battlefield would be more than triple the size of the enormous White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, which at 3,200 square miles is currently the largest military installation in the United States. It would undermine the whole southeastern corner of Colorado east of the Rockies destroying the last intact shortgrass prairie remaining in the American Great Plains.
via Pimpin Turtle
The unprecedented acquisition of 6.9 million acres, or 10,800 square miles, of private and public land would result in a military reservation larger than some states, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New Jersey. The multi-service battlefield would be more than triple the size of the enormous White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, which at 3,200 square miles is currently the largest military installation in the United States. It would undermine the whole southeastern corner of Colorado east of the Rockies destroying the last intact shortgrass prairie remaining in the American Great Plains.
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Blair has 'rolled over' to avoid arrest and jail
CONFRONTED WITH HIS COMPLICITY, BLAIR 'ROLLED OVER' AND EXPOSED THE OTHER RATS
London, 30th October 2008: It can now be revealed that former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has 'shopped' the world-class financial criminals in order to avoid being arrested and sent to jail for the rest of his life. Fellow world-class criminal George W. Bush Jr. and his key White House staff were informed in the afternoon of 29th October that Blair had divulged EVERYTHING – identities of those involved and of bank accounts and coordinates – and that, accordingly, the present phase of the geocriminal gangland operation to hold the whole world to ransom has been DEFEATED.
Specifically, Blair, confronted with proof of his own involvement in these crimes, 'rolled over' on his comrades-in-crime and informed those tasked on the command of Her Majesty The Queen with procuring the Settlements releases and getting to the bottom of the global epidemic of gangland conspiracy to seize the assets of the whole world, that the following parties were engaged in these massive criminal operations:
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London, 30th October 2008: It can now be revealed that former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has 'shopped' the world-class financial criminals in order to avoid being arrested and sent to jail for the rest of his life. Fellow world-class criminal George W. Bush Jr. and his key White House staff were informed in the afternoon of 29th October that Blair had divulged EVERYTHING – identities of those involved and of bank accounts and coordinates – and that, accordingly, the present phase of the geocriminal gangland operation to hold the whole world to ransom has been DEFEATED.
Specifically, Blair, confronted with proof of his own involvement in these crimes, 'rolled over' on his comrades-in-crime and informed those tasked on the command of Her Majesty The Queen with procuring the Settlements releases and getting to the bottom of the global epidemic of gangland conspiracy to seize the assets of the whole world, that the following parties were engaged in these massive criminal operations:
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US foreign policy in need of reassessment
If you are keeping score of U.S. President George W. Bush's foreign military adventures, under "Somalia" you should probably chalk up another one for the Americans in the "loss" column. But the latest developments in Somalia are not only fascinating for what they tell us about the misconduct of American foreign policy in recent years.
Somalia seems to offer more intriguing evidence about how governments often must come to terms with militias, insurgent forces and other such informal armed groups in countries around the Arab-Asian region – and the roles these entities play where formal governments appear unable to deliver the basic requirements of statehood.
China backs Iran SCO membership
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao says his country sees no obstacle to Iran's membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
"We believe that there is no problem with Iran's membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and we support the idea," Wen Jiabao said during a meeting with Iran's First Vice President Parviz Davoudi on Thursday, IRNA reported.
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"We believe that there is no problem with Iran's membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and we support the idea," Wen Jiabao said during a meeting with Iran's First Vice President Parviz Davoudi on Thursday, IRNA reported.
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Rice to Israel after elections
Hmm. Whatever for? - Ed.
Jerusalem - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intends to arrive in Israel immediately after next Tuesday's elections.
U.S. State Department officials have held talks with Israeli representatives in an attempt to set a date for her visit.
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Jerusalem - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intends to arrive in Israel immediately after next Tuesday's elections.
U.S. State Department officials have held talks with Israeli representatives in an attempt to set a date for her visit.
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They made a killing: The use of knowledge of coverts ops in the stock market
Via Cryptogon, who reports a Homeland Security ping after posting this. - Ed.
Let’s first take a quick look at, Insider Crimes, Funny Money and Options Rackets:
I had always assumed the entire business of the markets to be a massive criminal enterprise that allowed public participation simply because it made a few people extremely wealthy. But, I wondered, when do the fewest people make the most money in the shortest period of time?
During gaps.
A gap is a sudden, violent change in the price of a stock, future, bond, etc. Gaps are caused by some event that temporarily creates a state of disequilibrium in order flows. Gaps on stocks started to draw my attention because I just knew that insiders (and others) were pre-positioning themselves to profit from those moves.
Senate Projections 10/31
Note in particular the North Carolina races. You can really get a feel for the unhinged quality. - Ed.
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The first of these is in North Carolina, which continues to lean toward Demcoratic challenger Kay Hagan, but where we are waiting to gauge the reaction to Elizabeth Dole's controversial new ad which implies that Hagan, an elder at the First Presbyterian Church, is an athiest. The ad has drawn a harsh reaction from the local media and a Rasmussen poll conducted on Wednesday night, just as the controversy was starting to brew, had Hagan moving into a 6-point lead. But, the Carolinas have a long tradition of last-minute attack advertising, and the only reason it has that tradition is because sometimes such things work. Dole's ad is callous enough that it seems likely to be one of the exceptions, but this remains a race to watch.
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The first of these is in North Carolina, which continues to lean toward Demcoratic challenger Kay Hagan, but where we are waiting to gauge the reaction to Elizabeth Dole's controversial new ad which implies that Hagan, an elder at the First Presbyterian Church, is an athiest. The ad has drawn a harsh reaction from the local media and a Rasmussen poll conducted on Wednesday night, just as the controversy was starting to brew, had Hagan moving into a 6-point lead. But, the Carolinas have a long tradition of last-minute attack advertising, and the only reason it has that tradition is because sometimes such things work. Dole's ad is callous enough that it seems likely to be one of the exceptions, but this remains a race to watch.
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Look Out! Possible Obama Landslide
John McCain desperately wants to frame the final days of this presidential campaign as yet another comeback story, and pundits and pollsters keep wondering if the race is tightening. What’s actually happening is that the prospects for a Democratic landslide are growing.
Look where the candidates are. In the closing days of the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, all the action was in Florida and Ohio. Now it’s in states that George W. Bush carried comfortably, such as North Carolina: Barack Obama was in Raleigh this morning, John McCain was in Fayetteville yesterday, Joe Biden was in Greensboro and Greenville on Monday, and Sarah Palin was in Asheville on Sunday. Or Virginia: Obama held two events there yesterday, while Palin did three on Monday. This is no coincidence. Obama has taken criticism for plowing resources into his attempt to redraw the electoral map. But the epicenter of this campaign has shifted to precisely the states where Obama wanted to expand the Democratic electorate, and McCain hasn’t been able to push it back.
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Look where the candidates are. In the closing days of the 2000 and 2004 campaigns, all the action was in Florida and Ohio. Now it’s in states that George W. Bush carried comfortably, such as North Carolina: Barack Obama was in Raleigh this morning, John McCain was in Fayetteville yesterday, Joe Biden was in Greensboro and Greenville on Monday, and Sarah Palin was in Asheville on Sunday. Or Virginia: Obama held two events there yesterday, while Palin did three on Monday. This is no coincidence. Obama has taken criticism for plowing resources into his attempt to redraw the electoral map. But the epicenter of this campaign has shifted to precisely the states where Obama wanted to expand the Democratic electorate, and McCain hasn’t been able to push it back.
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The 'dirty little secret' of the US bank bailout
In an unusually frank article published in Saturday's New York Times, the newspaper's economic columnist, Joe Nocera, reveals what he calls "the dirty little secret of the banking industry"--namely, that "it has no intention of using the [government bailout] money to make new loans."
As Nocera explains, the plan announced October 13 by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to hand over $250 billion in taxpayer money to the biggest banks, in exchange for non-voting stock, was never really intended to get them to resume lending to businesses and consumers--the ostensible purpose of the bailout. Its essential aim was to engineer a rapid consolidation of the American banking system by subsidizing a wave of takeovers of smaller financial firms by the most powerful banks.
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