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The American Elite

by William Blum

www.killinghope.org

Lincoln Gordon died a few weeks ago at the age of 96. He had graduated summa cum laude from Harvard at the age of 19, received a doctorate from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, published his first book at 22, with dozens more to follow on government, economics, and foreign policy in Europe and Latin America. He joined the Harvard faculty at 23. Dr. Gordon was an executive on the War Production Board during… Continue

Added by Jeff on January 7, 2010 at 6:33am — No Comments

Civilian Death Toll in Iraq War

Note: This letter to the editor was published in the Japan Times on 7 January, 2009. Click here for the direct link.

In his Jan. 3 letter, "Unbelievable case against Blair," Paul Middleton seems to hinge his defense of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (whom Gwynne Dyer criticized in his Dec. 22… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on January 7, 2010 at 10:23am — No Comments

So much for airport security...just hide it up your......

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Into Thin Air: The Airport Scanner Scam

by James Ridgeway

First published in his blog Unsilent Generation on 4 January 2010

What will happen if the full-body scanner goes the way of the puffer? Well, there’s always the next generation of security equipment: the Body Orifice Security Scanner, or BOSS chair...

Scan, baby, scan. That’s the mantra among politicians at… Continue

Added by youhavetoforgiveme on January 7, 2010 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

Police Mount Cameras on Officers' Heads

Police Mount Cameras on Officers' Heads

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SUDHIN THANAWALA,

Associated Press Writer

SAN JOSE, California—Grainy cell phone images are often used against cops accused of using excessive violence. Now, officers are being armed with their own cameras.

The so-called head… Continue

Added by Harry Thomas on January 7, 2010 at 6:19pm — 2 Comments

New Twitter Feature on 12160.org

We’re excited to announce several new features that integrate the micro-blogging service Twitter and 12160.org. Spreading the word with Twitter is an effective way to reach a wider audience and increase the membership of your Ning Network. In the coming days, you and your members will be able to:

Automatically push Status updates to Twitter
Share photos, videos, and other content on Twitter without leaving…

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Added by truth on January 8, 2010 at 5:46pm — 4 Comments

Lawsuit: Goldman Sachs bonuses bigger than its earnings

A lawsuit filed against investment bank Goldman Sachs by a shareholder alleges that the company spent more money on corporate bonuses than it earned in 2008.

Shareholder Ken Brown's lawsuit is one of two suits filed against the company this week over its controversial decision to hand out billions of dollars in bonuses even after it was accused of playing a central role in… Continue

Added by Swtnlovabl on January 8, 2010 at 10:20pm — No Comments

Army Imprisons Soldier For Singing

Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Marc Hall was incarcerated by the US Army on December 11, 2009, in Liberty County Jail, Georgia, for recording a song that expresses his anger over the Army's stop-loss policy.

Stop-loss is a policy that allows the Army to keep soldiers active beyond the end of their signed contracts. According to the Pentagon, more than 120,000 soldiers have been affected by stop-loss since 2001, and currently 13,000 soldiers are serving… Continue

Added by Jeff on January 8, 2010 at 10:25pm — No Comments

Amazing cloud roll captured on camera

This amazing picture shows a rare phenomenon called a roll cloud which tend to form ahead of a cold front and can stretch for miles.

Photographer Daniela Eberl took this snap at Las Olas Beach in Maldonado, Uruguay. Photo: NATIONAL NEWS

They are most common when an advancing storm front causes moist air to rise, then cool to the… Continue

Added by Swtnlovabl on January 8, 2010 at 10:32pm — No Comments

Quality of U.S. Temperature Data

The Climate Conspiracy

January 4, 2010

Last night, in near freezing Louisiana temperatures, I was grilling some burgers on my Christmas present from my lovely fiance. As I saw the grill's thermometer read between 350 and 400'F it reminded me of this photo (courtesy of Anthony Watts, Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., and SurfaceStations.org.)…

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Added by Marklar on January 8, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Children's Clothing Murdered In Plain Sight - No Charges Filed

You know the mainstream media exemplifies the green ethic in every way, shape and form. We're told that we MUST recycle, reuse and repair in order to save the planet.

We're also told, "waste not, want not" in various forms. People are starving, people are cold, they lack health care. Children go to school without winter jackets and gloves. The mantra of "help the homeless" is drilled into our psyche because, well, because there are more homeless people in this country than ever… Continue

Added by Jeff on January 8, 2010 at 4:48am — 5 Comments

U.S. Launches Military Campaign In Yemen.m4v

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I don't know who he is, but I like him already....

Technically, I had to read this page 'cuz I'm at work...but I would have read it for free:

Rep. Price calls 2010 the Year of the Elephant

MARIETTA - 2010 is the Year of the Elephant, U.S. Rep. Tom Price (R-Roswell) says.

The keynote speaker at the Cobb GOP's Saturday breakfast, Price ripped the President, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leading Democrats, singling Obama out as "philosophically incapable of… Continue

Added by youhavetoforgiveme on January 5, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

The Pictures of War You Aren’t Supposed to See

By Chris Hedges

An Iraqi woman takes her dead son into her arms. The 6-year-old was killed on the way home from enrolling for his first year of school.

War is brutal and impersonal. It mocks the fantasy of individual heroism and the absurdity of utopian goals like democracy. In an instant, industrial warfare can kill dozens, even hundreds of people, who never see their attackers. The power of these industrial weapons… Continue

Added by Tara on January 5, 2010 at 5:51pm — 1 Comment

Court to Cops: Stop Tasing People into Compliance

Photo: Shelley Dubois / Wired.com

The use of Tasers has become increasingly controversial over the last year, following high-profile cases such as the Tasering of a 10-year-old girl who had refused to take a shower and video of a… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on January 5, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Newly Released Memo: Government ‘Minders’ at 9/11 Commission Interviews ‘Intimidated’ Witnesses

12-29-2009

Kevin Fenton

OpEdNews.com

A recently released 9/11 Commission memo highlights the role of government “minders” who accompanied witnesses interviewed by the commission. It was added to the National Archives’ files at the start of the year and discovered there by History Commons contributor… Continue

Added by Marklar on January 5, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

We Need More Of This

Kabul/Jalalabad—Hundreds of people, mostly students rallied in central Kabul and eastern Nangarhar provinces against the killing of civilians in foreign forces operations.

Four civilians were killed during an operation of NATO forces in Baghlan and eleven, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed in eastern Kunar and 13 others were perished in an overnight air raid of NATO-soldiers in Laghman province.

Activists of youth branch of Jamiat Eslah (Afghan Society for Social… Continue

Added by Jeff on January 6, 2010 at 12:11am — No Comments

UN website: AGENDA 21

Added by Sweettina2 on January 6, 2010 at 2:04am — No Comments

Sheeple And Couch Potato's

As I sit here at home I often wonder what makes me different than the rest of America. No doubt I am different than most.

Why do I see Obama as a member of an elite group without concern for the average American, without remorse for sending young men to die in Afghanistan, without empathy, no different than George Bush?

Why do I see the addition of food additives and animal antibiotics and growth hormones and environmental chemical pollution as a direct attack on the… Continue

Added by Jeff on January 6, 2010 at 9:06am — 4 Comments

The Screws Are Coming Loose

I think all of us here have more than entertained the idea that there's a shadow government whose make-up we all ponder. Maybe members of intelligence, the CIA, generals in the military, people like Kissinger, Cheney and Rumsfeld pulling strings behind the backs of feeble presidents who have so many people surrounding them, advising them, that rarely can they really know the truth of anything. In fact they're so insulated from the various sources of information, the media and the internet, that… Continue

Added by Jeff on January 6, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

International Transaction Fees - Due to Purchasing Foreign Apps

It's not my damn fault that this happens. It seems that most of the apps for the G1 are coming from different countries than here in the USA. Most of the technology is gone

to the dogs. I bought a DJ app for a small part 15 FM station, but there is right now

problems with the app, and I wish I can just uninstall it and get a refund.

When you use a debit card for to buy an app there is extra fees being taken out if it's not a

BOFA merchant. So basically the app however… Continue

Added by WTRH-AM-AE on January 6, 2010 at 1:30pm — No Comments