First, a link to the translated Al Qaeda message. Then Chuck Spinney's commentary on the rmessage (there is no assurance it is actually from Bin Laden, who may be long dead). Finally, a Phi Beta Iota comment that will outrage the lame of mind and resonate with every average American.
Journal: Americans Have Been Taken Hostage–And How to Free Us All and Restore the Republic
11 Society, Ethics, Government, Reform
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Dylan Ratigan|
Sep. 14, 2009, 1:33 PM
The American people have been taken hostage to a broken system. It is a system that remains in place to this day. . . . . . . .
It has become startlingly clear that we as a country, and I as a journalist, had made a grave error in affording those who built and ran those banks and insurance companies the honorable treatment of being called capitalists. When in fact the exact opposite was true, these people were more like vampires using the threat of Too Big Too Fail to hold us hostage and collect ongoing ransom from the US Government and the American taxpayer.
This was no unlucky accident. The massive spike in unemployment, the utter destruction of retirement wealth, the collapse in the value of our homes, the worst recession since the Great Depression all resulted directly from these actions.
Phi Beta Iota: The following accompanied the story: “Ratigan departed CNBC last spring under circumstances many believe were not he result of his contract coming up for renewal but because he started speaking out against what he was seeing from his perch at CNBC.” Our own comment: had John McCain listened to his better angels instead of the Bushies bent on wrecking the Straight Truth Express, he would be President today. All he had to do was respect the inherent common sense of the House conservatives and tell President Bush (Junior): “over my dead body will you bail out Wall Street.” See ELECTION 2008: Lipstick on the Pig for our October 2008 recommendations, as well as the prefaces by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Thoma Hartman, Tom Atlee, and our own “Paradigms of Failure.” America is a wreck because we have given up our Integrity. All it takes is one simple fix: the Electoral Reform Act of 2009.
Remarks by Robert Steele at the Economics, Intelligence, & Transparency Conference, NYC 13 September 2009
09 Justice, 09 Terrorism, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Ethics, Law Enforcement, Reform
Economics, Intelligence, & Transparency Conference
New York City, 13 September 2009, 1400-1430 EST
Planned Remarks for Robert David STEELE Vivas
9/11 discussion was yesterday, it is however central to today’s reflections
9/11 was about predatory economics, failed intelligence, and zero transparency
I only have 30 minutes to speak, but I can stay for an hour after that on the side
I’m going to cover three areas briefly.
First, my take on 9/11, partly as published in my second book, partly new stuff
Second, my take on what is happening right now between Wall Street and Washington
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Journal: Microsoft Creates Open Source Software Foundation
Commerce, Reform, Strategy, Technologies
September 11, 2009 7:10 AM PDT
Microsoft sets up open-source foundation
Microsoft has created the nonprofit CodePlex Foundation to target increased communication between open-source communities and software companies.
Citing an under-representation of commercial software companies and their employees in open source, the CodePlex Foundation aims to work with particular projects to bridge the gap between the open-source and commercial worlds.
The Redmond giant has contributed $1 million to the foundation and has filled out its board and advisory panel with many Microsoft staffers, including Sam Ramji, who is leaving Microsoft as its open-source point man but is also becoming CodePlex Foundation's interim president.
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Journal: Pigion Beats Broadband, DNI Blows $20B
Commerce, Government, Reform, TechnologiesWith a tip of the hat to MILNET, these two stories go so very well together, they had to be combined her.
Telkom says it cannot be blamed for slow broadband services at a Durban-based company which claims a pigeon can carry its data bundles faster. . . . . . . . In total it took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds for Winston the pigeon to fly to Hillcrest and to upload the data from the card on to the call centre system. By that time, the ADSL transmission of the same data size was about 4% complete.
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Reference: Citizens Rule Book
11 Society, Civil Society, Ethics, ReformAmerica has been dumbed down with deliberation, not only in the schools, but in the legal system. Citizens have a right to not only find anyone not guilty REGARDLESS OF THE “LAW” but also to overturn the law itself in the face of the common sense of the jury.
Event Report: 9 Sep 09 GMU N Va Economic Liberty Series
Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Policies, Reform, True Cost Meme
Mr. Rockwell is a very gracious and well-spoken person. He delivered a prepared speech that will be posted online by the Ludwig von Mises Institute at some point. Our bottom line up front: the hard-core Libertarians are a one-trick-pony with an obsessive focus on one thing and one thing only: all against the State. Sadly, despite a great deal of hand waving about Austrian economists, there is not much in the way of economic reflection visible, and the gentlemen was specifically unable to address a question about a natural alliance between the Libertarians armed with scarcity-centered Austrian economics, and the Greens, armed with Ecological Economics, Natural Capitalism, and “true cost” accounting; nor was he able to engage with a subsequent question on a natural alliance with those interested in Evolutionary Living.
Mr. Rockwell, who served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Ron Paul and is now Chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute at a time when it is experiencing extraordinary growth and drawing a great deal of attention, sought to do several things with his planned remarks:
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