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Dear Bureau of Labor Statistics: please pay careful attention to this case study of how your CPI “inflation” gauge, hedonically, seasonally-adjusted or otherwise, is completely inaccurate, and how what you record as 0% inflation is really 72%. As Consumerist points out, for the latest example of “stealth inflation” we go to Sodastream, where as part of a redesign of its proprietary line of flavoring syrups which “cost the same” the actual bottle contents are now not only smaller but also diluted.

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2015/10/232015/10/22

Chuck Spinney: Benghazi, Libya, Dysfunctional Congress, End of All Checks and Balances

07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Hill Letters & Testimony, Officers Call

The Republican antics in the hearings of the Benghazi Committee in the House or Representatives are a good example illustrating how broken American politics have become. The clear aim is narrowly political: to embarrass Hillary Clinton (and President Obama) for partisan reasons, while avoiding the roots of the larger Libyan debacle that flowed from the US led intervention. Accounting for the deeper causes of the Libyan debacle is off limits, because just about everyone’s hands are dirty: Our bombing campaign was supported by the Republican neo-cons and their humanitarian interventionist allies in the Obama White House, as well as a majority of the Republican congressional leadership* and most Democrats in Congress. So, the Democrats have tried to present the hearings as yet another anti-Clinton witch hunt for the parallel reason of partisan domestic politics.

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2015/10/232015/10/22

Mongoose: US Government & Monsanto — a Joint Crime Against Humanity

01 Agriculture, 03 Economy, 07 Health, 11 Society, Commerce, Corruption, Government

WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Government Planned To “Retaliate & Cause Pain” On Countries Refusing GMOs

If information about our food needs to be concealed from the public domain, then something has gone seriously wrong with the food industry.

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2015/10/232015/10/21

Berto Jongman: DEA Secretly Enables Drug Epidemic

07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Law Enforcement

DEA Secretly OKs Killer Quantities of Oxy and Morphine

The feds could choke off the supply of pills flooding American streets tomorrow. Instead, they let Big Pharma crank out 300 tons of it last year. The federal government is actively fueling a killer drug epidemic behind closed doors.

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2015/10/172015/10/16

Mongoose: Tom Cruise as Barry Seal on CIA Running Drugs via Arkansas — the End of Clinton & Bush Candidacies?

Corruption, Government

One of the biggest and fiercely kept “fog facts” in America's Dirty Linen Basket – one for which any further revelations for both political parties is absolute dynamite with ample portions of nitroglycerine thrown in for good measure – has been made into a feature film, starring of all people Tom Cruise.

Here's a promo snippet.

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2015/10/172015/10/16

YouTube (2:53) Senator Frank Church – “No Place to Hide” – Secret Intelligence as Foundation for Tyranny in America

Corruption, Government

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2015/10/172015/10/16

Tom Engelhardt: Fog of Intelligence

Corruption, Government, Ineptitude

The Fog of Intelligence (Or How to Be Eternally “Caught Off Guard” in the Greater Middle East)

1,500. That figure stunned me. I found it in the 12th paragraph of a front-page New York Times story about “senior commanders” at U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) playing fast and loose with intelligence reports to give their air war against ISIS an unjustified sheen of success: “CENTCOM’s mammoth intelligence operation, with some 1,500 civilian, military, and contract analysts, is housed at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, in a bay front building that has the look of a sterile government facility posing as a Spanish hacienda.”

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