Tue Feb 09, 2010 at 00:36:09 AM EST
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Neither has a big impact on employment. Dean Baker notes that Democrats have for years argued -- righteously and correctly when they campaigned in early 2007 (not so long ago!) for increases in the minimum wage -- that what President Obama's proposed $5,000 plus per new worker tax break would in effect be, a moderate decrease in the cost of labor, will have little effect on demand for labor:
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Tue Feb 09, 2010 at 00:07:00 AM EST
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The School of Authentic Journalism is actually the School of the America's for unwitting naive journalists who are seduced into providing information about the activities of events worldwide to Peter Ackerman, Freedom House and a host of right wing organizations and individuals with whom Ackerman is closely asssociated.
The School of Authentic Journalism is supported by Matching Grants from Peter Ackerman's International Center for Non-Violent "Conflict". Jack Duvall who will be teaching "students" at the School is a member of the ICNC.
Peter Ackerman is a close associate of Neo-Con Michael Ledeen. They write articles together.
Peter Ackerman is a promoter of "freedom" in the Ukraine and the Orange Revolution. The Orange Revolution was reversed this week.
Ackerman's support in 2004 for Conflict in the Ukraine based on the idea that the 2004 elections were fraudulent helped result in the installation of a capitalist, free market president Viktor Yushchenko. This week voters voted again for Viktor Yanukovych who Peter Ackerman seems to believe stole the election the first time. Did he steal the election the first time?
Jack Duvall who hob-nobs with the likes of CIA directors, neo cons and other people of the far right is a teacher there at the school, promoting and teaching the value of Conflict.
Duvall, who along with Peter Ackerman who has supported the training of Anti Chavez Venezuelans in the "art" of "Non-Violent Conflict" will be teaching young and old journalists on how to create CONFLICT in nations that Freedom House, Narco News and the ICNC feels need more freedom. Nations like the Ukraine. Nations that more often than not have an alliance with perceived antagonists of the United States. Nations like Iran, Cuba and Venezuela.
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Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 08:54:48 AM EST
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I've been thinking about this for awhile, since things are changing a lot now. Giving away my fruit trees.
I bought them last year. An apricot, a pear, a Braeburn apple, and a crabapple to pollinate the Braeburn and be beautiful in the spring. And a Stella cherry, because I always wanted to have a cherry tree, but they run forty feet tall and need another one to cross-pollinate. Stella cherries are dwarf cherry trees, only run fifteen feet or so I think. (post-publish edit; they are also self-pollinating)
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Thu Feb 04, 2010 at 22:14:34 PM EST
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Am I reading this right?
"In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee today, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told representatives that American citizens can be assassinated by the US government when they are oveseas.
Blair said the comments were intended to "reassure" Americans that there was a "set of defined policy and legal procedures" in place and that such assassinations are always carried out by the book."
Just don't go overseas. Well, it's no clear if you can be assassinated while in the country. Blair didn't say U.S. Citizens in America aren't being assassinated.
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Thu Feb 04, 2010 at 18:47:22 PM EST
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What looks like an essential new blog, Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch, "will keep track of current efforts at relief and reconstruction with an eye towards ensuring that such efforts are oriented toward the most urgent and important needs of the Haitian people, and that aid is not used to undermine Haitians' right to self-determination." It's being done by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, whose co-directors are Dean Baker (he of the excellent blog on economic reporting, Beat the Press) and Mark Weisbrot. Very righteous and needed, if you think the key to reconstruction, heck construction, is democracy and sovereignty. The most recent two posts are . . .
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Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 23:33:38 PM EST
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(OPEN THREAD)
Or a pre-crisis, post-intellectual primer.
Remedial; for you old folks at home(s). Listen for the Beatles sample. No hints. Xtra credit paid in psilocybes at teh meetup.
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Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 15:45:55 PM EST
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If the new administration is keenly interested in reversing the misfortunes of that region, it has to understand the uniqueness of every country and appreciate the untold harm inflicted on civilians by the US and other militaries. Only dialogue and truly respecting the sovereignty of Afghanistan and Pakistan can begin to stabilise the fractious situation.
-- Ramzy Baroud, May 14, 2009
U.S. drones killed 123 Pakistani civilians and three al Qaeda in January, the largest death toll ever for a single month. 17 more died today, some low-level militants, most civilians. Apparently the sharp increase in drone attacks is motivated by revenge, for the late December suicide attack that killed seven CIA drone-targeting experts in Afghanistan. All this in the context of the just-released Pentagon budget, which features a 75% increase in funding for drone production and operations.
What a moral low America has reached, to be doing what we are doing to Pakistan's innocent civilians. But the perp country's people and media ignore the crime because, after all, no Americans are dying. Admittedly, we seemingly have no control, so what is the point of protesting? So a quiet but ugly war guided by the lowest of motives, simple revenge, takes over, bullies against bullies, civilians be damned.
US drones killed 123 civilians, three al-Qaeda men in January
Monday, February 01, 2010
By Amir Mir
LAHORE: Afghanistan-based US predators carried out a record number of 12 deadly missile strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan in January 2010, of which 10 went wrong and failed to hit their targets, killing 123 innocent Pakistanis. The remaining two successful drone strikes killed three al-Qaeda leaders, wanted by the Americans.
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Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 13:23:13 PM EST
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WELCOME 2 Thunderdome Da SHITEYSPHERE!
yo fookerz. check it. we meet oop in NYC, get 2 or 3 rooms at the sleaziest joint in Manhattan right. cool. we bring 3 videe cameras, coffee, drink, smoke, valium, meth and wtf.
yo we rant, we spew, we debate, we monologue, we joke, we go psychic-ally insane. We prophesize, we get mad, dark, and twisted . we go mad dark. We multi-personality ize - we act, we lie, we pretend, we get "honest", we philosphise. we plunge daggers into the heart oov boolshite and dip our heavenly golden spoons into the infinite glory! we go scream of consciousness.....
nuttin' boot human.
and fookers, we're american, we're alive, pissed angry, happy, depressed, alienated. We're enthralled wi=th the world, full oov loathing 4 the world, loving the wrold, curious aboout the world, we're questioning the world , society , our place in it. we ponder Our place in the cosmos. we go deep, beyond hunter thompson-esque. we go gonzo squared. we go awf yo.
we reach new frontiers, we cross barriers, we innovate language, we innovate documentary film, we scream and howl, bark ,clown, jester and brawl.
and we play darts
48 hrs straight......we film it ,handheld n' raw, all that manic energy caught on tape. all taping happens in one room. thee udder rooms r for off camera breaks.
It'll be claustrophobic, boundless, tense, tight and loose. All at the same time.
ya wanna prepare soom shite in advance, then prepare soom shite.
who's in?
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Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 12:12:39 PM EST
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroo...
We must mourn the loss of the fallen. This past Sunday another one of our members serving the cause of freedom fell in battle in Pakistan.
Let us give pause and partake in the wonder of prayer, for prayer is our only way of contacting the Holy Father in the name of these brave soldiers of God who go into battle without question, without regret, without concern for their own safety and who simply do their job of making the world one that reflects God's image.
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Tue Feb 02, 2010 at 15:42:37 PM EST
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The Corrupt Red Cross, U.S. Military, Phoney CIA backed NGO's get most ofl the money to do with as they see fit.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/...
AMY GOODMAN: The Associated Press reports that the Haitian government is receiving less than a penny for each dollar the United States spends on aid efforts in Haiti. Thirty-three cents of every dollar goes to the US military?
BILL QUIGLEY: Yes. Everybody who's concerned should take a look at that brief report, because a third of it goes to military response, another third of it is going through and that, that-who knows how much of that money is actually getting into the hands of Haitians? And only one cent.
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
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