Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Saturday, 1 June 2013


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Eric Holder should resign. I say he should resign rather than be fired because it is totally obvious that Holder has been

How does race, class and gender impact our reaction to the victims of disasters? Does the media white wash disasters rendering black victims invisible?

question on whether Attorney General Eric Holder should go.

For several decades, mainstream U.S. journalists have fled from the career-threatening label "liberal," even to the point of destroying honest colleagues who got in the crosshairs of the Right. The story of the late Gary Webb and his Contra-cocaine revelations was a troubling case in point.

Most cigarettes are NOT tobacco or just tobacco...as Commercial Media would have us think.

Japan halts imports of U.S. wheat after USDA's shock finding of genetic pollution from GMOs
Is the house of cards beginning to fall? Unfortunately, this is going to have a huge impact on non-GMO farmers.
Faced with a Eurasian integration frenzy stirred by China's relentless westward-ho strategic and trade expansion, the US response is essentially a military bid to control all routes for Chinese energy imports. Yet Washington cannot escape the great escape from Atlanticist-dominated trade, commerce and finance. The New Silk Road(s) will be built by emerging Asia -- not by a fearful, declining West.

At the front of the political madness enveloping the United States are anti-government, anti-science extremists who reject evidence of global warming and block any response to this existential threat. But the disconnect between environmental destruction and today's humanity goes deeper.

Back then, the school systems were set up according to "townships." The State was divided by counties which were, in turn, divided into townships and each township maintained a school. These were simple one-room buildings containing desks, a wood-fired heating stove, and either a bell tower or a little hand bell, according to what the district could afford.

It is perhaps not too late to take another look at McCain and the post-Vietnam POW issue while many veterans of that conflict are still alive. It might also help to discredit the Senate's leading warmonger. Either way, it would be a reckoning that is long since overdue.

The European Union advised member states Friday to test certain wheat shipments from the United States, and South Korea joined Japan in suspending some U.S. wheat imports in response to the recent discovery of unapproved genetically modified wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon. The E.U. consumer protection office said in a statement that it was "following carefully the presence of this non-authorized GM [genetically modified] wheat in Oregon in order to ensure that European consumers are protected from any unauthorized GM presence and make sure that the E.U. zero tolerance for such GM events is implemented."

By Danny Schechter
We Steal Secrets, The New Movie About Wikileaks Infuriates Wikileaks
AFIlmmaker Danny Schechter Looks At the New Film On Wikileaks-- Who does it serve?
By Bob Patterson
Got Dueling Perceptions?
Does using the phrase "conspiracy theory" in a political discussion indicate the same result as when a chess player says "check and checkmate!"?

The vast majority of Americans currently want the Guantanamo Prison closed and all prisoners either freed or relocated. One congressman from Georgia has vehemently claimed recently that he wants to keep the status quo. Other Americans think that the prisoners who are dangerous should be moved to Georgia. The suggestion has been made to close the School of Americas and to use that building for the 60 or so so-called dangerous

The husband of Vampire Diaries actress Shannon Glass is being quizzed by the FBI in connection with ricin-laced letters that were sent to President Obama and Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York. Glass raised the alarm after finding a container of what appeared to be ricin in their fridge. FBI agents were seen removing items from the New Boston, Texas, home of a man identified by neighbors as Nathaniel Richardson, an army veteran.

Violent thunderstorms spawned tornadoes that menaced Oklahoma City and its already hard-hit suburb of Moore on Friday, killing a mother and her baby, and officials worried that drivers stuck on freeways could be trapped in the path of dangerous twisters. At a little after 8 p.m. CDT, two of the storms were passing through Oklahoma City's southeastern suburbs, including Moore, he said. Those two storms were headed toward Norman, with the other storm southwest of the Oklahoma City. Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City was shut down as it sheltered 1,200 people. Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company reported that 53,000 customers in the Oklahoma City area were without power.

Every once in a while politicians do something so wrong, substantively and morally, that cynicism just won't cut it; it's time to get really angry instead. So it is with the ugly, destructive war against food stamps. food stamps are in a very real sense an investment in the nation's future -- an investment that in the long run almost surely reduces the budget deficit, because tomorrow's adults will also be tomorrow's taxpayers. So what do Republicans want to do with this paragon of programs? First, shrink it; then, effectively kill it.

By Adnan Al-Daini
Let's Invest the Billions of Taxpayer Pounds Poured into British Banks in the People and Future of Britain!
Let us escape from the straightjacket imposed by the "moneymen" and conventional economics. We need to take the money back, gradually, from the banks, and invest in the people and the future of Britain. Sometimes, the obvious and simple thing to do is also the right thing to do.
New White House Petition - Forward to 99,999 of your closest friends.

Beyond Personhood: Why Corporations Love the Constitution More Than You do
"Truth is, there is far more standing in the way of building sustainable, democratic and just communities than corporate personhood. To dismantle corporate rule we have to look at ALL the tools that the U.S. Constitution provides to the powerful few corporate rulers, enabling them to override the needs of local and state majorities and the natural systems upon which we depend. Maybe it's time to do what Thomas Jefferson advised every generation to do and rewrite the Constitution itself.
President Obama has called on Congress to prevent subsidized student loan rates from doubling from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Speaking in the Rose Garden on Friday morning, he called for a quick solution to a problem that would afflict young people already saddled with big loans as they emerged into a very difficult job market. "If Congress doesn't act by July 1, federal student loan rates are set to double. It's like a $1,000 tax hike," the president, surrounded by college students, said. Obama's plan ties the rate to the 10-year Treasury rate, and fixes that loan to the rate when it is issued. It also provides funding to assist struggling students based on their income.

By Stephen Pizzo
On the Road to Hell
Trick Question: What's the difference between Iraq today and Syria today?
By Robert Reich
Economic Storm Clouds Ahead
The main reason stock prices have risen is corporate profits have soared. But that's largely because corporations have slashed their payrolls and keep them low. Which brings us full circle, back to the fundamental fact that wages that are going nowhere for most people.

Whatever events are held, whether formal or impromptu, they will all have one thing in common: no one knows the full story of what happened. The official version put out by the Warren Commission, is long since discredited, but independent investigations have yet to present a coherent alternative narrative.



Latest Articles
Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas arrived in Russia on a four-day working visit late May, 2013. Trade and energy policy are among the topical issues for Prague and Moscow -- 6% increase in turnover is good news for both parties. Infrastructure investment projects like Temelin nuclear power plant could be the cornerstone of successful bilateral cooperation.

Philly Green Party Endorses Campaign to Stop Drone Command Center in Horsham, PA
The members of the Green Party of Philadelphia have endorsed the Campaign to Stop a Drone Command Center in the Philadelphia suburbs.
In life, there's the work that needs to be done, which, incidentally, doesn't usually pay, and the work corporations want you to do to exploit humanity and the environment. That's usually the day job.

IP Battles Are Increasing World Over
Intellectual property (IP) disputes have increased tremendously. As more and more individuals and organisations have started asserting their IP claims, the litigation and court cases have also increased.
Citizens of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Texas form Gulf of Mexico Regional Citizens' Advisory Council (GoM RCAC) and call for oil industry oversight council. Oil industry declines invitation to participate.

Law enforcement need to respect the rights of drivers and not illegally disturb or impede their sleep.

Though I wrote this piece some time back, I believe it was deleted from wherever I posted it. Unfortunately, it needs saying probably now more than ever. I've seen other

bail-ins, derivatives, getting public banking started, Glass Steagall-- and more in the second half of my interview with Ellen Brown-- where we go into further depth.


Best News Links from the Web
Leading world climate change experts have thrown cold water on the idea that planting trees can offset carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, were lying low after the election loss last fall. But now they're giving interviews and talking about Obama's second term, Washington scandals, and an issues summit Mr. Romney is hosting next week at a Utah mountain resort.

Lou Dobbs, Juan Williams, Erick Erickson and Doug Schoen caused a stir on Wednesday after they expressed utter horror at a study which showed that more and more women are the primary breadwinners in the home. Erickson even portrayed the trends as counter to biology itself, saying, "When you look at biology, look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society, and other animals, the male typically is the dominant role." Van Susteren took to her blog and did not hold back, writing, "Have these men lost their minds? (and these are my colleagues??!! oh brother... maybe I need to have a little chat with them (next thing they will have a segment to discuss eliminating women's right to vote?)"

A long-running hunger strike by detainees at Guantánamo has worsened since Barack Obama promised action to close the controversial prison camp in a landmark speech last Thursday. On the eve of Obama's address, there were 103 prisoners on hunger strike, with 31 being force-fed by military authorities and one in hospital. Since then, not a single prisoner has stopped their strike, and now 36 of the detainees are being force-fed to keep them alive, with five of them being hospitalised.

The father of Ibragim Todashev, who was shot by an FBI agent a week ago while being quizzed over his links to the Boston bombers, revealed the extent of his son's injuries in gruesome photographs of his dead body today. Outspoken Abdul-Baki Todashev called for an investigation and possible legal action against the agent involved at a press conference in Moscow where he showed the images of his son's body lying in a morgue with up to seven gunshot wounds, including one to the back of the head. Authorities said they have no reason to believe that Todashev had any involvement in the Boston Marathon bombings. He was arrested in an unrelated incident on May 4 for aggravated battery after he left a man unconscious in the parking lot of a shopping mall. He was reportedly in FBI custody several hours before he was shot.
Posted by Roberto Abraham Scaruffi at 18:32