Things I've Found, August 6, 2012

Wausau WI Police Dep't. Calls Out Its MRAP Armored Military Vehicle After Drive By Shooting

Note: I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. (No, we all live in Wisconsin now.)

The signs of the police state now enveloping the people of the United States are all around us. From the Patriot Act to the Military Commissions Act to the NDAA s.1867 to endless Executive signing orders, the threat to our liberties has never been greater. And the source of most of these threats is not an external enemy, it's our own government...

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Japans remembers Hiroshima bombing

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Watch what happens when Guns are banned in Australia

Note: "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms... disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." ~Thomas Jefferson

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IT'S A MATTER OF TRUST - PART ONE

Note: How many times do we have to be told?

The fact that 86% of American adults have never heard of Jamie Dimon should suffice as proof regarding the all-encompassing level of ignorance in this country. As the world staggers under the unbearable weight of debt built up over decades, to fund a fantasyland dream of McMansions, luxury automobiles, iGadgets, 3D HDTVs, exotic vacations, bling, government provided pensions, free healthcare that makes us sicker, welfare for the needy and the greedy, free education that makes us dumber, and endless wars of choice, the realization that this debt financed Ponzi scheme was nothing but a handful of pixie dust sprinkled by corrupt politicians and criminal bankers across the globe is beginning to set in.

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Kevin Spacey amazing imitation

Note: I LOLed

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NY State: Standard Chartered Hid $250 Billion in Iran Deals

Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the state's department of financial services, said Standard Chartered Bank reaped hundreds of millions of dollars of fees by scheming with Iran's government to hide roughly 60,000 transactions over nearly a decade.

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Chemotherapy can backfire and boost cancer growth: study

Note: Isn't this what the "quacks" have been saying all along?

Cancer-busting chemotherapy can cause damage to healthy cells which triggers them to secrete a protein that sustains tumour growth and resistance to further treatment, a study said Sunday.

Researchers in the United States made the "completely unexpected" finding while seeking to explain why cancer cells are so resilient inside the human body when they are easy to kill in the lab....

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India Blackout & Knight Algo: US-India CYBER WAR Over Iranian Oil Purchases in GOLD

Note: At least as believable as the official story.

India is a leader in software engineering. This sector represents more than two millions direct jobs and 4 to 6 million indirect jobs. Bangalore, called Silicon City, is the Mecca of Indian IT. A $76 billions business in 2010, aiming $225 B in 2020. Indian companies engineered a great part of American Banks' trading programs.

Two days after a cyber-attack against the Indian nuclear power plants, one of the biggest players in Wall Street's electronic trading, Knight Capital Corp., saw its trading software create chaos in the ratings of 140 shares on NYSE. I bet your hot dog against my lamb curry, that Knight's software has been "made in India".

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Speaks for itself

Straying of teh Res...

And we all know where that leads...

Iran is challenging both the U.S. and Israel in a region of the world that we and our allies have long dominated. If they are allowed to get away with it, other “rogue” nations will get ideas, and then there’s no stopping the unraveling of the “world order” we have worked so long and hard to maintain. We may bankrupt ourselves in the process, drive the price of oil up to $200 a barrel, and start World War III—but confront them we will, of that you can rest assured. It’s only a matter of time. ~ Justin Raimondo

Iran, like Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, North Korea, Zimbabwe, the Sudan and many other countries, rejects the status of a “second-tier” country. These countries refuse to accept the authority of the Empire.

They have thrown off the yoke of colonial oppressors and have charted their own independent courses on the world stage. Their peoples are like runaway slaves who have established their own modern maroon colonies and as such are viewed as a threat to the orderly administration of the New World Order.

And they must be brought back under control, lest they serve as dangerous examples for those peoples still enslaved. ~Centre for Global Research

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This is not to say that I think there is anything admirable about Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, North Korea, Zimbabwe, the Sudan and all the rest, but if you had been on the receiving end of the foreign policy of the people who now stand in judgment of them, say that of the United State, Britain and France, you might be acting like a bit of a terrorist yourself.

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We should never, ever forget that we're ruled by psychopaths, deeply disturbed, sick shits who formulate viciously destructive policies while posing with smiles in expensive suits. ~piglipstick

Not Much To Say About Iran

I applaud and cheer whenever people resist. Resistance is fertile. I also believe if anyone can pull it off the Iranians can. They've done it before, even if it did get hijacked.

On the other hand, as encouraging as the narrative is, and make no mistake, it is a narrative, I have been around long enough to know that no one not directly involved really know what's going on.

Eleven months ago Seymour Hersh wrote about a $400 million program to destabilize Iran which Congress approved late in 2007. At the time nobody but fringies like Glenn Greenwald and Justin Raimondo paid much attention. Paul Craig Roberts is another one who was paying attention and reminded me about other "colorful" revolutions...

President Obama is correct to say what's going on in Iran is up to the Iranians to settle. The fact is, however, he is not discussing what was done with that money and how much does what's going on on both sides bear the stamp of "Made in the USA"?

As in the previous “color revolutions” that seem to tirelessly capture the romantic imagination of US journalists, elites, and the propagandized population, the warm embrace of the US empire is firmly guiding the “spontaneous” Iranian uprising against last week’s election results. While I do not and should not--nor should any other American--care in the slightest who rules a country some seven thousand miles away, when the fingerprints of the US empire show up on these dramatic events overseas it is very much my business. ~ Daniel McAdams

At some point you have to realize that everything you see on managed media is a lie at worst, a half truth at best.