By GARETH PORTER - Counter Punch

Fifty years after Dwight D. Eisenhower’s January 17, 1961 speech on the “military-industrial complex”, that threat has morphed into a far more powerful and sinister force than Eisenhower could have imagined.  It has become a “Permanent War State”, with the power to keep the United States at war continuously for the indefinite future.  

But despite their…

Shadow war.



When I wrote the post below -- "Yogi Berra was right. Rumor of a big, bad ATF bust early next week." -- around midnight last night, I was acutely aware of the slippery ground upon which this shadow war for the…

In a decade or two, will people view two-dimensional television as outdated, much as we view black-and-white footage today? Japan hopes that the leap forward will occur twelve years from now, with the World Cup being presented in life-size, holographic form, BLDGBLOG writes:…

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January 19, 2011

JP Morgan is the largest processor of food stamp benefits in the United States.

  JP Morgan has contracted to provide food stamp debit cards in 26 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.  JP Morgan is paid for each case that it…

Regarding this - http://moneywatch.bnet.com/economic-news/blog/macro-view/enabling-state-bankruptcy-gathers-support/3017/ - NOW would be a very appropriate time to bring up CAFR's (see my earlier post on those) to the politocos (and watch 'em squirm.)

45 and I'm Tired…

Hmmm…on the subject of rights, it seems to me the question to be asked is if we have them, and if so are our government masters obligated to recognize them.

The answer to both questions is NO.…

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CHUCK -

I want to make sure you saw this note from last month.

Pfc. Bradley Manning is in his sixth month of solitary confinement. Manning is accused of giving documents to Wikileaks, but he has not been convicted of that or any other crime. Yet he spends 23 out of 24 hours a day completely isolated, with severe restrictions on his social…

I am absolutely hotter than the hinges of Hell over this...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=xprnw.20110118.CL31921&show_article=1

And to think that this TREASONOUS DECISION was executed on the same day that Chinese President Hu arrived in the U.S.

It's over, boys and girls......get locked-and-loaded FOR…

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Steve Quayle has got them

Israeli Gas Masks M-15's donated with all…

Could this be the beginning of the "Red List" round-ups???  Seems a little toooooo co-incidental [given the times], if you get my drift.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41170643/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts

First rule of diplomacy - when matters between two countries gets bad enough, it's time to send in the "A" team.  Ergo, Chinese President Hu is in DC.  (And he didn't show up for American-ized wonton and egg-lolls.)

Nope, he's in town (messenger boy that he is to his masters) to get eyeball-to-eyeball with certain power brokers in our [infamously corrupt] government and corporate arenas to start laying down some new ground…

Another 'rat' deserting the ship.  Given the crisis state of the economy and the seriously 'low morale' problem in the Nation on whole, the announcement is just a little too timely(?), albeit without any real reason being given for the departure.

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=193709