Things I read today 03-01-09

The rich get richer, the poor get prison - Article
Making criminals out of the poor.

Washington clarifies storm-related unemployment benefits - Story
You should have the resources to get through anything to go to work.

How to reap the benefits of a layoff - Story
A fluff piece that states "reap the benefits" and "you're not alone".

Canadian soldier charged with murder in death of Taliban fighter - Story
This one makes me warm and fuzzy; we don't have soldiers, we have mentors.

CBS newsman's $70m lawsuit likely to deal Bush legacy a new blow - Story
Remeber Dan Rather, the CBS scapegoat. More here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98451972

Police accused of firing Taser into head of innocent man - Story
More bad policing.

Insomnia costs Quebec billions annually, study says - CBC News
Everything has a price - productivity? What kind of life is it?

Pinter staged his own funeral - CBC News
Making sure that the public knows - "Brand, 50, never forgave his father for leaving his mother, Vivien Merchant, for Fraser in the 1970s."

2009 Begins - The Dark Wraith
What do you want and deserve?

Chavez Reflects on Past and Projects Future in End of Year Speech - Venezuela Analysis
Go Hugo go!

The unjustifiable destruction of the environment - by Fidel Castro Ruz
It comes down to 'Money' or 'Planet'.

4 B.C. men rescued from ski hill's out-of-bounds area - CBC News
Obey or pay.

Males of All Species are Becoming More Female - Blacklisted News
Where are my balls?

Blaming the Victims - The Dominant Media Vilify Hamas - by Stephen Lendman
The blame game to justify killing.

Propagana pick of the week
Israeli Offensive Kills Senior Hamas Commander - Voice of America
Resistance is futile

Canadians get tax-free savings account - Government site
Invest, please invest - note the large buzz words meant to hypnotize you into buying. And this is a government website.

Things I read today 02-01-09

This frail man instilled change


An Interview with Thich Nhat Hanh

If you cannot change the way of thinking, you cannot change the problem. A time for ACTION

A Social Definition of Class - By Susan Rosenthal
An interesting read on a subject that goes much deeper. Note that the working class has the option to take back everything.
If this link does not work the first time, try later, her site goes up and down.

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED

Interview with Documentary Filmmakers Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain

Venezuela support for Canadian Indigenous people - Letter
Letter to President Chavez from Canadian First Nations leaders.

Would They Be Planning to Use Troops Against Americans If They WEREN’T Stealing Our Money? - Blacklisted News
Military in your back yard.

LBJ's 'Treason' Tapes - Blacklisted News
Just a reminder that politicians act in their own best interest.

The US Army Document That Proves the US is the World's Number One Sponsor of World Terrorism - Blacklisted News
A must read.

Study: Cell phones cause heart disease, kidney failure - Blacklisted News
How many cell phones do you have?

A torch-wielding crowd forces Icelandic TV program featuring PM off air - Blacklisted News
At least they are doing something.

CDC To Hold A Meeting in Ashland Oregon Because of the High Number of Children Without Shots - Blacklisted News
So one can opt out of the shots for various reasons but then a meeting will be held to talk them into it?

Commentary: Thank you, Gov. Blagojevich - CNN News
Innocent until proven guilty.

'Safety' Remark Gets Muslim Family Kicked Off Plane - Fox News
This is what we have become. Disgusting fear that permeates and judges everyone.
More here "the airline followed federal rules and did nothing wrong" - "At the end of the day, people got on and made comments they shouldn't have made on the airplane, and other people heard them," Hutcheson said. "Other people heard them, misconstrued them. It just so happened these people were of Muslim faith and appearance. It escalated, it got out of hand and everyone took precautions." - WTF is wrong with everyone?

Hamas calls for revenge as Israel hits Gaza again - Reuters
Sounds like the media is trying to make this sound like the attack on terrorists. They seem to have separated Islamists and Palestinians.

Fox News ticker: 'Let's hope the magic negro does a good job' - Raw Story
That is awesome - any doubt that Fox is antagonistic, devious etc.?

Paulson 'blames global imbalances for credit crisis' - Raw Story
Oh, I get it, it was China, Iran, Venezuela whore were to blame. Because they were saving and not buying. That it was not a fault of the system but needs globalization.

Five dead in suspected US missile strike in Pakistan: officials - Raw Story
Pakistan is too busy with the Mumbai aftermath to really say anything about the U.S. seemingly going where ever it wants.

German Chancellor Merkel defends Israeli onslaught on Gaza - Article
Let us not forget that Hamas was democratically elected.

Australian university review proposes student vouchers - Article
Education is a business.

Things I read today 01-01-09

Happy New Year


Greenville Journal: Crisis and the Crossroads of History: The Need for a Radicalized Citizenry - By Dr. Steve Best, PhD
What can I say, great read and I was thinking mostly the same things.

TPC: THE HANUKKAH MASSACRES - By Gary Corseri
The time for action is now. Why do we accept?

Diagonal interview with Hugo Chávez: “The people must have a real possibility to govern”
A ray of hope in our predatory world.

World bids a relieved adieu to a rocky year - Story
The illogical hope of a New Year? Shopping was down, oh no. Where is this relief coming from?

Montreal: One of the safest cities in Canada - Story
Note the inference that it is due to the police.

White House says Castros not treating Cuba well - Reuters
We all suffer and the Americans have not been treated particularly well. Propaganda central. Don't believe in another system, capitalism is the only one that works.

Israel ordered to allow journalists into Gaza -Story
Ordered by their own Supreme Court.

Mark Steel: So what have the Palestinians got to complain about? - Article
Good article, read and THINK.

Mich. University Puts Out Banned Words List - Story
Controlling the speech but this is not a bad list as a lot of these are buzzwords used to hypnotize the public.

Sci-fi tanks meet prehistoric rockets in Gaza - Story
David vs. Goliath. Watch the video and listen to the non-lethal, riot control capabilities.

The police are here to protect YOU


Comply or else


Roland W. Burris, a Low-Key Pioneer - NY Times
Note that since this man is 'clean' they refer to him as 'boring' 'not a terribly exciting figure' - Propaganda folks, closing your mind to this good man.

As hard times bite, Cubans show little appetite for celebration - Story (if you can call it that)
Another propaganda filled piece.

Sound Waves For Brain Waves; Researchers use ultrasonic pulses to control the brain - Blacklisted News
Mind control through sound waves.

A dumb-ass comment left on CBC - DeAnna wrote:Posted 2009/01/01 at 6:20 AM ET

2009 hope. I hope Canadian news agencies report more good news than bad news. We know politicians are all crooked. We know our children are dying in Afganistan. We know the environment in tandem with the economic recession is a world wide mess. So why not some good news concentrating on regular Canadian citizens and people around the world who just by going about their 'little' lives do offer hope and good news. Enough with a page of downer headlines. Methinks people will be checking out the news less and less in 2009 because it offers no hope, just more bad news. Where is the balance, eh?

She wants a complaint free world - she wants to dig her head in the sand and forget that there is something that needs to be done, changes that need to be enacted. She wants to trust those in power to do it for her and to make it all better.

US rescue averted 'financial collapse': Treasury - Raw Story
More propaganda to start your new year. To make you think that the bailout is doing something; that there is oversight and that there is a ray of hope.

The Canadian Nixon - Story
More on the weasel. An older story about Stephen (weasel) Harper.
Came from reading this - Watch the videos.

Suspicious packages force evacuations in Aspen - MSNBC
Now why won't they disclose the letter or package contents? More FEAR here
Update here
Note that it is now bombs and ransom. Hmmmm

Things I read today 31-12-08

TPC: The absurd persistence of domination: Of speciesism, capitalism, and shaking their foundations - By Jason Miller
Time to come together and enact change.

Michael Parenti - The Struggle for History


Questions From a Worker Who Reads - Bertolt Brecht

Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished
Who raised it up so many times? In what houses
of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?
Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished
Did the masons go? Great Rome
Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom
Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song
Only palaces for its inhabitants? Even in fabled Atlantis
The night the ocean engulfed it
The drowning still bawled for their slaves.

The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not have even a cook with him?

Philip of Spain wept when his armada
Went down. Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Year's War. Who
Else won it?

Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man?
Who paid the bill?

So many reports.
So many questions.

TantCJO: a word | this and my absence - by sadi ranson-polizzotti
A great read on what I feel are the pains of awakening.

NFL Encourages Fans to Send Text Messages to Security Staff to Report Troublemakers - Story
Be compliant.

U.S. Treasury agrees to buy a stake in GMAC - Blacklisted News
Now as 'bank' status, does that mean that GMAC can be less transparent?

US lobbying firm quietly ditches Pakistan People’s Party - Blacklisted News
We used to like you but you're about to get attacked.

Ex-cop debuts first 'KopBusters' trailer - Raw Story
This is awesome.

Ten Questions every US Citizen should ask themselves in 2009 - Rights and Freedoms Documented
What are your questions?

U.S. Losing 'Secret' War in Somalia - Blacklisted News
So many secrets.

National Guard Soldiers to Usher in New Year at Times Square - Blacklisted News
To instill fear and security.

Gaza relief boat damaged in encounter with Israeli vessel - CNN News
Note the wording, now check this Mainstream media propaganda?

Things I read today 30-12-08

Creating an "Arc of Crisis": The Destabilization of the Middle East and Central Asia - by Andrew G. Marshall
Read and THINK. You don't think that everything is coincidence do you?

UN chief calls for ceasefire as Israel pounds Hamas targets - CBC News
Bringing up tensions in the area.

Israel turns back aid workers en route to Gaza - CBC News
Shooting at aide ships.

Oregon Eyes Taxing Vehicles Per Mile By Satellite - Blacklisted News
Taxation from privately owned roads? Let us not forget that for this to happen, we must all accept that cars will all be tracked. Don't allow them to nickel and dime your ass to death.

Pentagon, Hollywood Pair up for Transformers Sequel - Blacklisted News
Propaganda in movies?

Harold Pinter Nobel Prize Speech 2005
Harold Pinter Nobel Prize Speech 2005. Art, Truth, Politics.

Great Speech -what a loss - - note the use of the word 'combative'.

Why Harold Pinter will not be outlived by his plays - Story
Making sure to attack the dead so people will forget his words. Re-writing history.

With Needed Cash, GMAC Will Ease Lending Restrictions - NY Times
Easier to buy. In the rush to make sure that more people buy their cars won't that create a car bubble?

'A Nightmare We Cannot Afford in the 21st Century' - Story
Brainwashing here?

Gaza relief boat carrying Cynthia McKinney rammed by Israelis - Raw Story
Oopsi Israel. Do you think that having her on board worries Israel?

Lung tumours 'could grow faster' due to processed food - Blacklisted News
Duh and duh again. Learn to cook, learn to live.

Almost one in 10 Floridians are on food stamps - Blacklisted News
10% on food stamps. How much does it take until you say NO MORE!

Avenger212: Israel - A Disastrous Policy in Gaza - By Rowan Wolf
Nice read on the Israeli terrorism.

Things I read today 29-12-08

CJO - Hope, Change, and Pissing in the Wind - By Patrice Greanville and Jason Miller
Brilliant writup of the 'hope' of Obama.

U.S. will give free weapons to Afghan civilians - Raw Story
How good is this?

Big Brother CCTV to spy on pupils aged four - complete with CPS evidence kit - Daily Mail
Growing up accepting being watched and scrutinized.

Pelosi: US must stand strongly with Israel - Blacklisted News
Terrorists must back terrorists.

South America moves toward military integration - Blacklisted News
See what happens. Because of the world we live in, resources must be diverted from the people to military jsut to defend from the like of ...

Cash-strapped states weigh selling roads, parks - Blacklisted News
"Make them pay for everything" hahahahaha "Privatize"

VIDEO: The Robert Rubin Ponzi Scheme and the media silence


Economic Globalization and Speculation Coming Home to Roost - By Rowan Wolfe
Get ready for the swift financial kick to the side of the head.

The Fed’s Two Trillion Dollar Scam Makes Madoff Look Like A Piker - Blacklisted News
Making sure you can't follow the money.

Northcom Combat Team Conducts “Humanitarian Support” Exercise in Maryland - By Kurt Nimmo
Seeing through the propaganda of military on home soil.

Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star - Blacklisted News
Creating a small sun; hope it doesn't go BOOM

False Holocaust love story was to 'bring happiness' to world - CBC News
Why is this news? Because Oprah got duped. Note the title, the extreme judgement and persecution in this story which is really about nothing but a novel. False news and who the f$ck cares.

Anarchists of the world unite - in cyberspace - Story
Wow, the propaganda pick of the day. This is what the activists really need to do... ORGANIZE.

Things I read today 28-12-08

unemployed - a poem by craig bayer

CJO: Experts Question Human Rights Watch’s Venezuela Report - By teo
When we have to watch human rights organizations.

Israel strikes demolish Hamas compounds, kill 192 - Blacklisted News
Israel at it again. Making sure that the democratically elected Hamas no longer exists.

World Leaders React to Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza - Story
Still pissing off Arabs.

500 million gallons of toxic sludge spill in tennessee - Blacklisted News
Nasty.

Internet Sites Could Be Given Movie Like Ratings - Blacklisted News
The first part of converting the Internet. We need Net neutrality.

2 more Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan - CBC News
We just keep telling you about it, keep being patriotic.

Hamas 'bars injured leaving Gaza' - BBC News
Watch what you say; you don't want to be labeled anti-Semite.

D.C. cops caught stealing from Toys for Tots on Christmas eve - Raw Story
I like this - "D.C. police department's outreach coordinator, pleaded with the media for less focus on the crooked officers."

Organizers strip Mexican beauty queen of title after drug bust - Raw Story
Drugs and babes; what are the odds?

White House embarrassment rises with donor scandal - Raw Story
Bush caught again?

Naked man dies after 4 taser shocks - Raw Story
Maybe they were afraid that 'it was loaded'.

International community calls for end to violence in Middle East - CBC News
Yep, propaganda here - "calling on both sides to halt attacks and end the violence that has left more than 225 people dead in less than 24 hours."