The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Mike Lofgren on Dysfunction in Our Political Parties
August 31, 2012
Bill talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties. In Lofgren’s view, Republicans have become overly obsessed with obstructing President Obama, and the Democrats suffer from political complacency. Lofgren’s new book is The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted.
Washington Post, September 9, 2012, Pg. 1
A President Cornered
The inside story of Obama's struggle to keep Congress from controlling outcome of 2011 debt-ceiling crisis
By Bob Woodward
Adapted from “The Price of Politics,” by Bob Woodward.
The Message From Both Parties Is That Americans Are Disposable
Institute for Political Economy, 7 September 2012
If political conventions are ranked on a one to ten scale for intelligence, I give the Republican Convention zero and the Democrats one.
How can the United States be a superpower when both political parties are unaware of everything that is happening at home and abroad?
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Have any peoples in human history ever been less represented by their government and political parties than Americans?
The US government represents Israel and the one to ten percent. Everyone else is disposable.
Continue reading “Paul Craig Roberts: Both Parties See Citizens as Disposable”
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In Japan during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami? Radiation exposure estimates now available
The Pentagon says that none of the nearly 70,000 members of the DoD-affiliated population (service members, DoD civilian employees and contractors, and family members of service members and civilian employees) who were on or near the mainland of Japan between March 12 and May 11, 2011, are known to have been exposed to radiation at levels associated with adverse medical conditions.
East Coast earthquake created a ‘new normal'
The quake was centered 3 to 4 miles beneath Mineral, a town of fewer than 500 people about 50 miles northwest of Richmond. Yet it was believed to have been felt by more people than any other in U.S. history.
Last Year’s Quake Shook Up Virginia Nukes
It was the first time ever in this country that a nuclear power station had gone through an emergency shutdown because of an earthquake. In this case it was a rare 5.8 magnitude seismic event with an epicenter a few miles away that ruined Louisa County school buildings, cracked the Washington Monument and shook the North Anna beyond what it was designed to deal with.
Why quake forecast maps often fail
Three of the largest and deadliest earthquakes in recent history occurred where earthquake hazard maps didn’t predict massive quakes, scientists say. A combination of bad assumptions, bad data, bad physics, and bad luck is why hazard maps have failed to predict three of the largest and deadliest earthquakes in recent history.
Earthquake Damage: Are Bad Maps to Blame?
A new study argues that earthquake-hazard maps didn't give engineers and seismologists a full picture of several recent quakes' dangers.
Study links fracking and earthquakes
In hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, millions of gallons of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, are injected into rock thousands of feet underground to extract natural gas. Frohlich said the most likely explanation for the quakes is that once injected, the fluids apply pressure to faults in the area and unstick them.
Fukushima Hangs by the Devil’s Thread
The molten cores at Units 1, 2 & 3 have threatened all life on Earth. The flood of liquid radiation has poisoned the Pacific. Fukushima’s cesium and other airborne emissions have already dwarfed Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and all nuclear explosions including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But at Unit 4, more than 1500 rods remain suspended in air. Called “a bathtub on the roof” by CNN anchor Jon King, the damaged pool teeters atop a building decimated by seismic shocks and at least one hydrogen explosion. The question is not if, but when it will come crashing down.
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Continue reading “Mini-Me: Earthquakes, East Coast, Fukushima Redux + Meta-RECAP”
Mind Control and the “Left – Right” Paradigm
Veterans Today, 4 Sep 2012
EXTRACT:
Anyone with a realistic view would, as I have suggested before, vote in a powerful and charismatic leader, have the Supreme Court disbanded, disband congress, have a realistic constitution written, disband the Federal Reserve, fire 85% of our senior military, 50% of our Officer and NCO corps and reduce military spending by 80% immediately.
We would withdraw from the UN, from NATO, close bases overseas, stop all foreign aid, end all imports from slave labor nations and tax the living hell out of anything brought into the US.
All money that couldn’t be proven to have been made legally, industries that do not create jobs, actual work, would be declared “null and void.”
Most in prison would be released, some treated, sex criminals isolated, others given jobs and educations and forced to live like the rest of us, paying taxes and utility bills.
All public utilities would be seized and turned over to the government, oil companies nationalized, all defense industries nationalized, all drug industries put under continual supervision and forced to spend all profits on government bonds.
Continue reading “Gordon Duff: Mind Control, Lef-Right Myth, Re-Connecting to Reality + Meta-RECAP”
We need to reformulate political power now!
by Tom Atlee
We need to reformulate political power. We need to do it now and we need to focus on it as central to our work on every issue, every vision, every outrage and hope.
Our goal in reformulating political power must be to move from governance that primarily serves the short term profit of the few to governance that primarily serves quality of life for all – including future generations.
In order to achieve this, we need to reformulate political power in at least five ways. All five reformulations need to synergize and support each other if we are to meet our goal. If we fail to reformulate any one of these forms of power, we risk undermining the others and falling far short of our goal.
Here is a quick outline – a draft summary, really – of a possible integrated vision of power reformulation:
Continue reading “Tom Atlee: Non-Violent Reformulation of Political Power”
Huh?
Phi Beta Iota: As President Barack Obama faces what David Gergen calls one of three “choice” or turning point elections in modern US history, one has to wonder where he stands on the subject of the truth. Below the line is a methodical review with many links from retired Marine Corps officer Jim Fetzer, who focuses on the Cheney-dominated US Government at the time. Equally troubling facts can be asserted on the New York end by focusing on Larry Silverstein and Rudy Guliani. If ever a sitting President had a ready-made opportunity for eradicating an opposing political party by enabling the truth to be told about a major event in modern US history, Barack Obama is that President. We do not favor a traditional justice approach here, but rather a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. If Barack Obama were to sponsor The Smart Nation Act, the Electoral Reform Act of 2012, a Truth & Reconciliation Commission on 9/11, and the immediate decriminalization of marijuana and then of all other drugs [with a jobs program equal to the challenge of existing unemployment and emptied prisons with restored voting rights], it would be game over. Then instead of having to fight for credibility and traction every day, he might actually be able to govern in 2013-2016. On the other hand, if President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are intent on demonstrating there is no substantive difference between the two parties that control the electoral process and the disbursement of the public treasury, they should continue to do precisely what they are doing now.
Continue reading “Mini-Me: Marine Officer on 9/11 – The Anomalies Continue to Surface”
