Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday 14 May 2013


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We no longer live in a free society. Having traded our freedoms for a phantom promise of security, we now find ourselves imprisoned in a virtual cage of cameras, wiretaps and watchful government eyes. All the while, the world around us is no safer than it was a decade ago. Indeed, it well may be that we are living in a far more dangerous world, with the government itself

Imagine a mass murderer who killed people to make a point... This monster wannabe was attempting to re-enact the role of a previous monster/mass murderer... I"m talking about the man Tamerlane Tsarnaev may have been named after.

Local resolutions have helped advance many issues, including war opposition, when they've been passed in large numbers.

By Andrew Schmookler
Benghazi Talk: Call It Out for What It Is
The Republicans are about one thing: getting more power for themselves, regardless of how much that pursuit degrades the country. Two items in the news of yesterday reminded me of the need for us to keep this consistent pattern in mind, and to respond to it appropriately-- i.e. like we're in a battle in which the stakes are as high as they can be.
For more than a decade, the Guantanamo Bay prison has been a blot on America's conscience. President Obama vowed to close it but acceded to congressional demands to keep it open. Now, an emerging humanitarian crisis -- a mass hunger strike -- is drawing only scant attention.

The electorate, or at least the white electorate, routinely and knowingly puts murderers into political office. Murder is a sign of strength. Murder is a symbol of resolve. Murder means law and order. Murder keeps us safe. Strap the criminal into the gurney. Plunge the needles into veins. Haul away the corpse. It is our Christian duty. God Bless America!

By Paul Craig Roberts
Gangster State America
Since January 1, more than 400 tons of gold have been drained from COMEX and gold ETF holdings in order to satisfy world demand for physical possession of bullion. Again we see that institutions of the US government are acting 100% against the interests of US citizens. Just who does the US government represent?

Five Questions with Blackfeet author, Stephen Graham Jones.

By Gary Lindorff
Patience is a disease
New poem by TCBH resident poet

By Robert De Filippis
Do We Need Religion?
Religion is getting a bad rap today. Do we need it or can we do just fine without it?

Who will stand up for us, for the people? Is there anyone who is going to out this crime of the century? Remember, way back when, Cyrus said to Olivia that the White House has been stolen before and it will be stolen again. Was he referring to Bush W. 2000? Are there any truth tellers in this whole hot mess of characters?

We know it's stupid to damage the resources we depend on to survive. We would all agree not to poison the air, water, or land. We won't poison our food. If or when we find out that some of the things we do harms the environment ... we don't "regulate" those activities ... we stop doing them.

Being a reporter, I learned that you can ask anyone about anything and, generally, that person is going to tell you even more than you want to know and certainly more than you would ever write down. Being a reporter also taught me to never waste a word, to write lean.ost importantly, it taught me to get it right. People can say about my stories, oh that was so clunky and stupid. But they can't say it's wrong.

More and more often citizens using smartphones to videotape police doing wrong are making a difference. This article offers some tips on how to raise your chances of successfully recording a video and getting it out virally.

In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes.

If the value of the dollar were lower we would export more and import less, bringing our trade closer to balance. If the deficit hawks were really concerned about our children's future, they would be focusing on the over-valued dollar, not yelling about budget deficits.

I thought this was the home of the brave and land of the free! Why do we seem content to roll over for this crap? For some time now, I have seen this fundamental shift quickly escalate. I have watched my fellow citizens eagerly give-up huge swaths of liberty and freedom in exchange for vague promises of increased security. Why? Have we lost all common sense along with our druthers?

By Seymour Patterson
The Weakening Case for Austerity
There have been a slew of articles discrediting austerity as the pathway to economy recovery. But there have also been many articles denouncing stimulus. I have written a few articles against austerity citing its failure under SAPs in Africa, and in the EU in countries like the U.K., Greece and Spain. Flawed research and condemnation of Keynes have been used to support austerity arguments.

Student loans amounting to more than $1 trillion exceed the total outstanding credit card debt in the U.S. Students actually spend their loan money on surviving as consumers in a tight economy, while learning skills needed for the economy of the future. On the other hand, the already too-big-to-fail banks have used the government's free money to become even more obscenely powerful.

Microlending was supposed to focus on the poorest women in a society, but as profit motives have entered in and the money has increased, women are being left out, writes TCBH@! journalist Dave Lindorff

By Tom Engelhardt
David Vine: Baseworld Profiteering
Every now and then, news about U.S. military bases abroad actually gets a little attention. The most recent example: Afghan President Hamid Karzai's announcement that the U.S. will be able to keep nine bases after the 2014 withdrawal of its combat troops.
This looks at the window of opportunity Pakistan has to transform the region as the US prepares to withdraw

The Pakistani's held their parliamentary elections over the weekend and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is poised to return to power. What that holds for U.S. policy and actions in Pakistan could be severely tested.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R/Redneck) has an itch to scratch and it's shaped like the word IMPEACHMENT. He and his fellow Republicans are grasping for something -- anything -- to throw at Obama that would possibly stick long enough to impeach him. If they keep attacking these straw men, one day they'll huff and they'll puff and they'll blow their re-election chances right down!

The Washington Post not only swallowed George W. Bush's lies about Iraq's WMD but the neocon newspaper spat on Americans who dared challenge those lies, especially ex-U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his CIA wife, Valerie Plame.



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Even our life Is not present Is not past Is not future
Is Genocide The Agenda in The United States?
While it is true regarding Reagan's apparent approval of genocide in Guatemala, the same can be said of those presidents following him. Whether they can be considered accessories or more is to be determined in a court of law.
Business/consumer fraud alert! Scam artists using legal tricks to scam businesses out of big money for no goods or services!

If We Love Our Children, Why Are We Dooming Them?
This article questions our failure to do anything to significantly reverse catastrophic climate change and prepare for its resulting disasters.
Christ marshaled apostles to venture the world to do good, sans guns. Why don't we follow in his sandles? Who can build that peaceful clan of do-gooders? Only someone who can preach to the world. Is Stephen ready to lead the Colbert Nation to a better world? Ask him what he's doing about this letter that crossed his pixels a couple days ago. More info from our monks at the worldservicecorps . us web site.

Patriotism, Patriotism, Wherefore Art Thou Patriotism?
Were you born an American? Does that make you a patriot? Do you think you love the United States? Really? Because a couple of random sets of chromosomes got together to produce you by chance in the United States, should that give you a claim on citizenship?

Best News Links from the Web
group of Tea Partyers organized a three-day boycott of Fox News in protest of its coverage of Benghazi, tepid opposition immigration reform, and in general "turning to the left" since the election. A three-day boycott of the network protested a lack of coverage of the attacks on Benghazi, among other things.

This week the Pentagon released a survey estimating that the number of sexual assaults in the military jumped from 19,000 in 2010 to 26,000, just a few days after the Air Force officer in charge of sexual-assault-prevention programs was arrested for battery. The increase is especially distressing because rates of other violent crimes in the military are so much lower than in the civilian world.

House Speaker John Boehner, according to Politico, is obsessed with Benghazi. And last week, after ABC News revealed the revised talking points crafted by the Obama administration following the September 11 attack that left four Americans dead, Boehner demanded that the administration release emails related to these talking points. "The truth shouldn't be hidden from the American people behind a White House firewall," Boehner declared. The GOPers had the story before ABC News. Boehner, though, did not demand public disclosure of the emails until after the ABC News report created new buzz about the emails and the talking points.

The Supreme Court usually isn't friendly toward questionable patents, but it came down overwhelmingly on the side of agribusiness giant Monsanto Monday in a case that's bound to resonate throughout the biotechnology industry. The court ruled unanimously that an Indiana farmer violated Monsanto's patent on genetically modified soybeans when he culled some from a grain elevator and used them to replant his own crop in future years.

Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear that the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially blamed, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. IRS officials at the agency's Washington headquarters sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other aspects of their operations, while officials in the El Monte and Laguna Niguel offices in California sent similar questionnaires to tea party-affiliated groups.

News broke on Monday that the Department of Justice secretly sought phone records of reporters at the Associated Press, likely as part of an investigation into several national security related leaks. The Associated Press released its letter to Holder denouncing the invasion of their records without their consent, calling it an "unprecedented step" and "a serious interference with AP's constitutional rights to gather and report the news."
Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 21:13