Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday 7 May 2013


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A wide ranging interview exploring the many aspects of the 8.5 Million plus sociopaths in the US. There are some shocking and frightening facts in this interview.

By Chris Hedges
The Death of Truth
WikiLeaks shone a spotlight into the inner workings of empire -- the most important role of a press -- and for this it has become empire's prey. Those around the globe with the computer skills to search out the secrets of empire are now those whom empire fears most.

The FBI is portraying its bungling of repeated Russian warnings about Tamerlan Tsarnaev as "requests for information." But Russian intelligence was not asking if Tamerlan was going to "join unspecified underground groups." It was telling the FBI. Russian intelligence was not asking if Tamerlan was a "follower of radical islam." It was making an affirmative statement.

Three stories were aired Sunday night: Counterinsurgency Cops, Robin Hood, and Invisible Wounds. The first two pieces advanced the anti-government billionaires' agenda with almost Orwellian efficiency. The third was less driven by that agenda, although it also reflected the biases which big-money interests have built into the institutions of journalism and politics.

Few things are more ludicrous than the attempt by advocates of US and Israeli militarism to pretend that they're applying anything remotely resembling "principles." Their only cognizable "principle" is rank tribalism: My Side is superior, and therefore we are entitled to do things that Our Enemies are not.

A Soldier's Story: Bush, Cheney and the Lies That Killed

By Kathy Malloy
Gunslingers
Dozens of dead school children in Newtown last December. Dozens more shootings of children every month since. When does it stop? Will our society ever value children more than bullets? Must we wait until their tiny bodies pile all the way up to heaven before we have any sensible regulation of these death machines?

By Steven Jonas
Bombing the Constitution
The Boston Bombing has brought about serious loss of life and multiple serious injuries. However, in the long-term the most serious outcome of it may the bombing that it wreaked upon our Constitution. And that is what this column is about.
Like the Gypsy Rose Lee of Justices, O'Connor performs her version of "Let Me Entertain You" not in minutes, but years, dropping a veiled hint here, trailing an innuendo there, encouraging her audience to think she'll take it off, take it all off, without ever revealing much of anything.

By David Glenn Cox
The Right to Belong
The propaganda networks will trumpet 165,000 "new" jobs and that's Winston Smith's way of telling you, everything is so much better now. Come out; come out where ever you are! Ollie, Ollie Ocean free!

Internet hackings in six banks in 2012 -- Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and PNC -- should send shivers down everyone's spine. Internet hackings have also been reported at Living Social, Google, Lockheed Martin, Visa, Sony, Nasdaq, Charles Schwab, MasterCard, CIA, FBI, The Pentagon, Symantec, Adobe, Yahoo, and the AP twitter account.We must work and organize against internet voting.

Humans are wired to have such a strong desire to feel safe and secure, our brains will "short circuit" to give us the false belief that we are in control

State governments across the United States are slashing funding for services for the mentally ill. The unsurprising result is more mentally ill people without homes. Alabama plans to close most of its psychiatric hospitals. Where will those patients go? They will join their fellow sufferers on the streets. While 6 percent of the general population is severely mentally ill, one-third of homeless people have untreated mental illnesses. The New York Times wrote in 1998 that there were so many mentally ill homeless people in Berkeley, California, "it's like a mental ward on the streets."

The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health is turning its back on the so-called bible of its field. In a statement, the institute said it will start doing research in a way that ignores the categories in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is commonly known as the "DSM," plus a number to indicate the edition. This just weeks before the American Psychiatric Assoc plans to publish the 5th edition of the DSM.

Living near a toxic waste site may represent as much of a health threat as some infectious diseases, a study in three developing countries finds.

On a recent morning at my corner café, I ordered two Americanos (they were out of drip) and a flaky, buttery calorie bomb of a pastry to start my day.

n his role as Google's chief internet evangelist, Cerf has spent much of his time thinking about the future of the computer networks that connect us all. And he should know. Along with Bob Kahn, he was responsible for developing the internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, that underlies the workings of the net. Not content with just being a founding father of the internet on this planet, Cerf has spent years taking the world wide web out of this world.

By Suzana Megles
Who Is the Real Predator?
I guess there will always be a difference in opinion re our "stewardship" of the earth and its animals. Some people think its all right to exploit animals. In my opinion, this makes those people the real predators - not the animals.

Government promoted debt at the front door and used their own investment assets through the back door to fund that promoted debt. In this fashion they:

The truth is something that needs to be told. Manning, I believe, is ready to accept whatever punishment is doled out, but I believe that the punishment should be measured. The truth is that Manning put his personal security at risk to tell the public what the truth really was. This is an exceptional person. I don't believe he is a traitor, rather I think of him as a patriot.

Only 165,000 new jobs were created in April -- far fewer than are needed to address existing unemployment and create positions for the millions entering the workforce. More than 11.7 million active job seekers cannot find work. And that figure does not include millions who have given up looking or are severely underemployed. Add them in and real unemployment is at 13.9 percent.

Rush Limbaugh denied that the advertiser boycott of his show after he called Sandra Fluke a slut would cost him anything, but a year later, it's clear that prediction wasn't true. It has, at the very least, cost him his relationship with the radio network giant Cumulus Media. Limbaugh's show is thinking of ending its contract with Cumulus at the end of the year, Politico's Dylan Byers reports. Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey has blamed Limbaugh for advertising losses, while Limbaugh thinks he's just making excuses. Either way, the Fluke controversy has clearly cost the radio host.

It seems like a simple proposition: give employees who work more than 40 hours a week the option of taking paid time off instead of overtime pay. But the idea Republicans promote as "pro-worker" is vigorously opposed by worker advocacy groups, labor unions and most Democrats. These opponents claim it's really a backdoor way for businesses to skimp on overtime pay.

The first use of any ag-gag law in the country, the very first prosecution, has been a resounding failure.

The $85 billion in federal budget cuts known as sequestration are beginning to be felt far from the nation's capital, like at a Head Start program in Pejepscot, Me., that is being closed and a cancer center in Birmingham, Ala., that is looking at layoffs. Kidney patients are losing their free transportation to dialysis centers in Stark County, Ohio, and flood gauges are being shut down on the Red River in North Dakota. Some programs are coping, some are struggling and others appear to be out of luck.

By Zin Linn
Burma needs to probe ongoing rights abuses in ethnic areas
Even though the President Thein Sein Government has been holding peace negotiations and signed ceasefire agreements with various ethnic armed groups, its armed forces are still launching military offensives, and committing widespread human rights violations in ethnic areas.
Those who think Israel carried out strikes against Syria without consulting the US should "go back to kindergarten." Obama's strategy of different tactics only has one aim -- which is not peace in Syria, Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar says.

As mind-boggling as it is, even liberal feminists fail to utilize the most obvious emergency - rape - in their defense of Emergency Contraception.

By Robert Parry
Pushing for War with Syria
The dam holding back pressure for U.S. war in Syria is giving way with President Obama -- like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike -- seeming unable to stop the inevitable. Cheering on the impending flood are many of the same big-name pundits from the Iraq War.

Wouldn't it be great were Elizabeth Colbert Busch to defeat Mark Sanford in the special election for the First District congressional seat in South Carolina? Not really. Steve Breyman explains why a Colbert Busch victory would be a pyrric victory.



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EPA Neglecting Unreasonable Adverse Effect on the Environment According to Beekeepers and Environmentalists
This article is a pointer towards a plea from "Beyond Pesticides," an organization devoted to health and the environment.
These sociopaths in power don't care about those in Syria dying over their diabolical plans. We all know how this will end. More people will die. Eventually we will use military force. Once that happens, it will become a quagmire. This could become Obama's legacy. It could become World War III.


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Don't Just Take Our Word For It | ThinkProgress
The organized opposition to the Gang of 8 immigration bill appears to consist largely of the Heritage Foundation & racist hate groups a poll out just last week found that 83 percent of all Americans and 84 percent of Republicans favor a path to earned citizenship so long as immigrants pay fineThis time, however, something is different. It's conservatives who are lining up to trash the Heritage report. In just the few hours the report has been out, influential conservatives have lined up to discredit Heritage's way-too-bad-to-be-true claims: The Cato Institute Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform The American Enterprise Institute The Kemp Foundation Doug Holtz-Eakin, prominent conservative economist and president of the American Action Forum Haley Barbour, former Republican Nation Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Flake Sen. John McCain Sen. Marco Rubio Rep. Paul Ryan
Onion Reportedly Hacked: Twitter, Facebook Say 'Syrian Electronic Army Was Here'
Hacking news media is nothing new here at OEN. Messages from the Onion's Twitter and Facebook feeds prompted questions about whether the accounts had been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army on Monday. The hacker group claimed responsibility for the posts. The Syrian Electronic Army, which supports President Bashar al-Assad, has claimed responsibility for hacking several news organizations in recent months. It was reportedly responsible for the AP's fake tweet in April saying that the White House had been attacked and President Obama was injured. The group also reportedly hacked accounts for CBS News, including Twitter feeds for "60 Minutes" and "48 Hours."
But the idea Republicans promote as "pro-worker" is vigorously opposed by worker advocacy groups, labor unions and most Democrats. These opponents claim it's really a backdoor way for businesses to skimp on overtime pay. The Sunday airstrike hit a military facility near the presidential palace in Damascus, The New York Times reports. A Syrian official said that dozens of elite troops were killed in the attack, and one military hospital doctor said that at least 100 were dead, with scores more injured.

"A 93-year-old man who was deported from the U.S. for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said."
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