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Corporate Destruction of Free Markets Rules Us
By Ralph Nader | October 30, 2014 The ruling dogma of our political economy is corporatism. Corporatism claims to draw legitimacy from the free market theory that all vendors who do not meet market demands will go under. Corporatism uses this illusion to exert power over all aspects of our political economy. Free markets, corporatists […]
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Interview 963 – The BFP Roundtable on the Marketing of Islamic Terror
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2014-11-01%20BFP%20Roundtable.mp3"][/audio]On this edition of the BFP Roundtable the panel gets into a lively discussion on the marketing of the "ISIS" brand of "Islamic Terror." But if the terror boogeyman is the product, then who's the customer and who are they buying from? Join Peter, Sibel, Guillermo and James for an uncensored conversation on terror, black ops, boogeymen and blowback.
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Ukraine’s Elections: Stabilization Through Eradication
November 1, 2014 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - Curiously, Didier Burkhalter, Swiss Foreign Minister and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Chairperson-in-Office, congratulated Ukrainians for their elections of the parliamentary assembly and hailed them as another important step toward "stabilization." It is a curious statement considering the nature of the electi
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US Destroying Syria’s Oil Infrastructure Under Guise of Fighting ISIS
November 1, 2014 (Maram Susli - NEO) - The US is considering bombing pipelines in Syria, which it claims is in an attempt to cut off the huge profits being made by ISIS from captured oilfields.The Independent quotes Juli
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It's not as if Democrats have lacked for strong, articulate guidance as to what they could and should be telling the American public
The most intellectually rigorous of the progressive messaging theorists, George Lakoff, has brought out a new-for-2014 version of his classic Don't Think of an Elephant!by KenI've plunked the new edition of George Lakoff's Don't Think of an Elephant! atop this post because my copy arrived in the mail today.
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The good and bad of the 2014 Waterloo Region municipal elections
Subsequent to the October 27, 2014 Ontario municipal election, I wanted to offer my list of the good and bad of the Waterloo Region municipal election results, with a focus on my community of Waterloo. The good: - Dave Jaworsky, the candidate elected as Waterloo mayor really worked hard for the job, knocking on over […]
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What is there not to hate about Halloween?
About a Boy's Fiona (Minnie Driver), Marcus(Benjamin Stockham), and Will (David Walton)by KenYou're probably thinking this is going to be one of those spoilsport anti-Halloween diatribes. And it's true that when a friend mentioned on the phone this afternoon that he might be venturing out this evening for the parade (meaning, of course, the world-famous Greenwich Village Halloween Parade), I didn't know what to say.
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Tracy Twyman - Hour 1 - Clock Shavings: Demonic Confessions
Tracy R. Twyman is an American non-fiction author, born in Kansas City, Missouri. She writes about esoteric history. She is probably best known for her books The Merovingian Mythos and Solomon’s Treasure. In recent years she has pioneered what she calls "Alchenomics," the study of the relationship between alchemy, economics, and the evolution of money through the ages, which culminated in her book Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge.
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More Tribal Fighters Executed in Iraq; 119 Killed, 77 Wounded
Because Iraqis like to shop on the weekly prayer day, Fridays are an opportune time for bombers to attack markets, particularly pet shops. Today was no exception. Also, there were more reports of executions of Albu Nimr tribe members in western Iraq; however, only a few militant deaths were reported. At least 115 people were killed and 59 more were wounded.
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The Kaufman Tautology
The revised PAGES2K Arctic reconstruction used 56 proxies (down three from the original 59). Although McKay and Kaufman 2014 didn’t mention the elephant in the room changes in their reconstruction (as discussed at CA here here), they reported with some satisfaction that “decadal-scale variability in the revised [PAGES2K] reconstruction is quite similar to that determined by Kaufman et al.
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Bowling for Meltdowns
By JOHN LaFORGE | CounterPunch | October 31, 2014 Weakening radiation standards; a cap on accident liability; reactor propaganda vs improvements; old units running past expiration dates; revving the engines beyond design specs …. You’d think we were itching for a meltdown. The Environmental Protection Agency has recommended increased radiation exposure limits following major releases. […]
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If Steve Israel Can't Even Beat A Thuggish Republican With 20 Criminal Indictments....
The Staten Island Advance is a lot like Staten Island-- and far more conservative and parochial than NY-11 as a whole, which also includes some relatively enlightened parts of Brooklyn (as well as some equally backward Mafia-oriented neighborhoods, particularly in Bay Ridge). And the district as a whole has been changing demographically as more immigrants move in. In 2008 McCain beat Obama in NY-11, 51-48%.
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Genuine, Handcrafted, Man-Made Government
From the beginning, it was to be “Russia’s Vietnam.” First the administration of President Jimmy Carter, then that of President Ronald Reagan was determined to give the Soviet Union a taste of what the U.S. had gone through in its disastrous 14-year war in Southeast Asia.
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Swedish FM: “I’ll be Happy to Send Liberman IKEA Furniture”
IMEMC News & Agencies | October 31, 2014 Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Margot Wallstrom, today, said she would be “happy” to send Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman some IKEA furniture. PNN reports that Wallstrom’s comments, made during a recent CNN interview, came after Mr. Lieberman, in denouncing Sweden’s decision to recognize the Palestinian Authority (PA) as […]
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Ray McGovern Arrested, Prevented From Entering NY YMCA to See Petraeus Event
Our friend and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern arrested, prevented from attending NYC discussion panel with David Petraeus, Max Boot…
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–Omar Khadr, child soldier tortured by US, writes op-ed urging fellow Canadians to resist security laws that trample human rights, and uses his own case as a prime example
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GMO Fight, Tesco Tizzy, Royal Troll – New World Next Week
Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Oregon’s GMO Labeling Campaign Breaks Spending Record
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With Less Than a Week, GMO Labeling Trails By Six Points in Oregon Measure 92 Poll
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Israeli Forces Confine Gaza Family to Home, Occupants Later Killed in Attack
Defense for Children International Palestine| October 29, 2014 Eight members of the Wahdan family, the youngest only two years old, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Gaza after Israeli forces confined them inside and used their home as a military base. On July 17, Israeli soldiers raided a home where 15 […]
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Jack Blood Show – October 30 2014 (W/ James Evan Pilato)
Hour two: James Evan Pilato of Media Monarchy
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Michael Mann On Climate: There's Very Little "Burnable Carbon" In Our "Budget"; Emissions Ramp-down Must Start Now
-by Gaius PubliusOne of my hats is as a climate interpreter to the interested lay person. I have something of a science background and can read the papers "in the original." Another hat is as an occasional interviewer for Virtually Speaking.
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With a Government this Vile and This Secretive We Need to Ask Questions
By Dave Lindorff | This Can’t Be Happening! | October 29, 2014 A few days ago, I published a short story linking to a PRN.fm radio interview I did with noted international law attorney Francis Boyle, whom I pointed out was a drafter of the US Biological Weapons and Anti-Terrorism Act passed into law in 1981, […]
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ISIS: the Useful Enemy
By ISMAEL HOSSEIN-ZADEH | CounterPunch | October 31, 2014 The dark force of ISIS is apparently an invincible and unstoppable war juggernaut that is mercilessly killing and conquering in pursuit of establishing an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In reality, however, it is not as out of control as it appears. It is, indeed, […]
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Richard Grove on the Meria Heller Show (Oct 29, 2014)
Discussion/Review of Peace Revolution episode 85, our interview with Bill Binney and the surveillance society. Here’s the link to the hacker video which I forgot the name of during the interview: http://youtu.be/hqKafI7Amd8
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“Time Is Running Out” – Syria Edition
By Nima Shirazi | Wide Asleep in America | October 30, 2014 In mainstream political commentary, urgency is key. When crises arise – or linger – those in the media, in tandem with politicians and think tank apparatchiks, urge the government to do something, to act, oftentimes by military means. Drop bombs here! Send weapons […]
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FBI pushing for new domestic and global internet hacking powers
By Robert Bridge | RT | October 31, 2014 In a move that watchdog groups are calling an unconstitutional power grab, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is reportedly looking to rewrite the espionage rulebook, giving it the authority to hack into computers at home and abroad. With little public debate and congressional oversight on the […]
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South Korea: Deputy Secretary General Touts Asian, Global NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
October 30, 2014
Multilateral security cooperation: ”From conflict to cooperation”
Opening remarks by NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow at the Seoul Defense Dialogue, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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DCCC In New Hampshire-- More Help For The Conservative Kuster And Less For The Progressive Shea-Porter
I got another email from "Nancy Pelosi" (read: the DCCC) this morning on behalf of New Hampshire conservative New Dem Ann Kuster. She's in the D+3 district that Obama won with 54% in 2012, not in the district next door that has a PVI of R+1 and which Obama only won with 50%. That's the district Carol Shea-Porter has.
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US military spending hits 5 year high
Press TV – October 31, 2014 US military spending has dramatically surged, reaching its fastest rate in the past five years despite the planned withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. According to a new report by the US Commerce Department on Thursday, the military spending for the third-quarter of this year has increased by 16 percent. […]
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NYPD arrests, ‘brutalizes’ peace activist McGovern ahead of Petraeus speech
RT | October 31, 2014 The New York Police Department has detained prominent peace activist and former CIA agent Ray McGovern, with witnesses saying he was “yelling in pain” during arrest. McGovern was detained ahead of a David Petraeus speech that he planned to attend. McGovern was detained before the start of a talk between […]
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Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments
by Judith Curry
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Ukraine’s Thieves and Nazis: From ‘Russian Propaganda’ to Parliament
October 31, 2014 (Eric Draitser - NEO) - With the final votes being counted in Ukraine’s parliamentary elections, early results show an unsurprisingly strong showing for the country’s oligarchs, while neo-Nazi candidates score significant victories of their own.Though the democratic character of the elections is certainly in doubt, the inescapable reality is that the new government in Kiev is
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NATO: Rebellion in the Ranks?
Vladimir Putin, the wily strategist of Russian revanchism, is well on his way to reconstructing the Warsaw Pact. That, at least, is what the pundits of The Washington Post are making it out to seem. Last week, Jackson Diehl penned a column on how Putin has driven a wedge between NATO and its easternmost members. […]
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The Chickenshit Lobby Is Mad As Hell
Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel – can we ever escape the endless kvetching of its partisans? In the media, in both houses of Congress, on the campuses and in the streets, Israel’s fifth column in America is everywhere, making its presence felt. From Chuck Hagel’s confirmation battle to the public relations campaign accompanying their latest Gaza […]
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Porkins Great Game ep. 2 Crisis in the Caucasus and Mysterious Crashes
On this edition of Porkins Great Game, Christoph Germann and I focus primarily on the conflicts brewing in the Caucasus region. First, though, we take a look at the new head of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg. We explore how the media has crafted a particular image of the former Norwegian Prime Minster as an anti-war Russia-friendly NATO head. Christoph explains how this is merely a cosmetic change for the military alliance, pointing out the fact that the real power of the coalition lies with the Supreme Allied Commander, who is, of course, alw
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Mass Graves in Western Iraq Drive Casualty Figure up to 470 Killed
At least 470 people were killed across Iraq today and in recent days. At least two significant mass graves were discovered in Anbar province. Also, Human Right Watch believes that 600 prisoners were killed near Mosul in June. Another 18 people were wounded.
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Why Does The FBI Still Refuse To Release Their Investigation Of David Joyce's Cocaine Abuse?
Andrew Rayburn (r) bought some sports teams, a jet and a crooked congressman (l)Some people say Ohio Congressman David Joyce has kicked his cocaine addiction and is no longer a substance abuser. But not everyone who knows Joyce agrees. Joyce became so obsessed with 2 Live Crew when he was on a jihad against their music that started...
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Themes and Memes ep11, Divergent movie review
Another teen novel trilogy turned movie series is here. Divergent is reviewed by Adam and Aaron in this podcast. It seems that dystopian futures are all the rage amongst the youth these days. What predictive programming purpose might this and similar films be serving?
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It's when we Americans are put to the test that we show what we're really made of -- say howdy to ebola lawyers
Yes, the tireless David Sipress is still manning The New Yorker's "Daily Cartoon" beat. (You can click on today's offering to enlarge it.)by KenI know I'm taking a certain liberty in tacking David Sipress's New Yorker "Daily Cartoon" for today onto a post that's actually concerned with getting tough on ebola. But really, terrorism, ebola, it's all the same thing, isn't it?
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Interview 962 – New World Next Week with James Evan Pilato
Welcome to New World Next Week — the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
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How many TRILLIONS did the Pentagon “lose”? – QFC
In this edition of “Questions For Corbett” James fields your queries on the importance of drills, the Pentagon’s missing trillions, Prescott Bush and the Union Banking Corporation, government-run human experiments and much more.
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Pre-traumatic stress syndrome: Climate trauma survival tips
By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | October 29, 2014 Climate depression is real. Just ask a scientist. – Madeleine Thomas Wow. Here I was, hard at work on my long promised post on clouds, and I spotted this article on twitter. Much easier to write about this one than about clouds. At Grist, Madeleine […]
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UK media hypes up RAF interception of Latvian plane
RT | October 30, 2014 Two Royal Air Force jets reportedly threatened to shoot down a Latvian cargo plane, rushing at supersonic speeds to intercept it, after the plane failed to respond to air traffic control over Kent in Southern England and sent authorities into panic mode. “I am instructed by Her Majesty’s Government of […]
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Antonio Buehler Found Not Guilty After Austin Cop Breaks Blue Code of Silence, Testifying on his Behalf
By Ben Keller | PINAC | October 29, 2014 From left to right, surprise witness Jermaine Hopkins, an Austin police officer who testified on Antonio Buehler’s behalf, attorney Millie Thompson and Antonio Buehler, who was found not guilty for a 2011 case where he was arrested for photographing Austin police. Deliberations in the trial of […]
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As Giants Win World Series, Unruly Mobs Dampen the Glow of Victory
–Giants win the World Series in taut Game 7, and idiots brawl in celebration on the streets of San Francisco…
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–free speech rights roundup:
–UC Berkeley student group withdraws invitation to Bill Maher, but Chancellor overrules them
–a year after being jailed for journalism, Roger Shuler describes the price he’s paid, and comments on the exposure of judge Mark Fuller as a wife-beater -
Jeb Bush Could Never Defeat Ted Cruz In A Primary
I'm on record: the crazy extremist base of the Republican Party will not be denied again-- no more McCains or Romneys, not in 2016. They will settle for nothing less than an unapologetic, loud'n'proud fascist. And the folks who set their agendas have decided: Ted Cruz, the senator further right than Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, Hideki Tojo, Augusto Pinochet, Vidkun Quisling, Pat Robertson or anyone else I might have left out. They will not be denied.
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SodaStream closes illegal settlement factory but remains actively complicit in the displacement of Palestinians
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel | October 30, 2014 Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists today welcomed the news that SodaStream has announced it is to close its factory in the illegal Israeli settlement of Mishor Adumim following a high profile boycott campaign against the company. “SodaStream’s announcement today shows […]
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