The City of Spokane Has Sued Monsanto for Decades of PCB Poisoning

By Karina Brown, Courthouse News

The agribusiness giant made and sold PCBs for nearly half a century, though it knew they caused cancer and birth defects, according to a new federal lawsuit.

READ MORE» http://www.alternet.org/environment/city-spokane-has-sued-monsanto-decades-pcb-poisoning?akid=13381.1921897.DuSbUj&rd=1&src=newsletter1040866&t=21

Hey Billery!!!!........

Bernie's Recipe for Beating Hillary: Sanders Drawing Historic Crowds in Dem Primary History

This is a big part of why Sanders has now edged out Clinton in New Hampshire polling.

The first poll showing Bernie Sanders actually leading Hillary Clinton in the crucial state of New Hampshire was released this week, and Sanders leads Clinton 44 to 37. A big part of this traction is coming from the enormous crowds that come away inspired, and the publicity stemming from these events.

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernies-recipe-beating-hillary-sanders-drawing-some-largest-crowds-dem-primary-history?akid=13381.1921897.DuSbUj&rd=1&src=newsletter1040866&t=2

9,350-Year-Old Stonehenge-Style Monolith Found in Mediterranean Sea

A submerged, 39-foot-long (12 m) monolith has been discovered in the waters off the coast of Sicily at a depth of about 130 feet (40 m).

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-stonehenge-monolith-coast-sicily-03121.html

The Social Cost of Capitalism

By Paul Craig Roberts

Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42601.htm

"Lone Wolf" Terror and the PsyWar on American Public Opinion

CNN and other news outlets are again working with intelligence and/or military psywar personnel to essentially "brainwash the American public".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42603.htm

Ron Paul: Russia is a Scapegoat

Video

Western propaganda has been turned on Russia, conceivably in aid of profiting from the so-called military industrial complex.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42605.htm

The Partisan Disease

I have come to the conclusion that partisanship is a mental illness.

It is clear to me that partisanship is an unbalanced condition rooted in unreality and non-truth; a mental dis-ease characterized by self-aggrandizement and projection of all things undesirable onto the "others." And the truly disturbing thing about it is that with the steadily increasing polarization of our political process the leadership of our nation is increasingly in the hands of mentally ill people.

A person who is committed to unreality is pitiful. But such a person who is determined that everyone around them should acknowledge their unreality as truth is a menace. A group of such people banded together to force their unreality on society is a disaster.

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Beware of This Contagious Disease: Chronic Partisanship!

Partisanship is not a figurative expression, but quite real. It is, in fact, an actual chronic disease. If you know someone who has come down with the conservative or liberal version of this infection, take heart: there is a cure! People who have trouble telling the difference between female law students and prostitutes don't have to suffer any longer. Nor do people who have the compulsion to pitch tents in front of banks thinking they're "occupying" them.

This disease has reached the highest levels of our society -- congressmen, presidential candidates, even Clint Eastwood. Yet it's not recognized by the American Medical Association and is minimized by just about every doctor as if it were a common cold.

More @ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cooker/beware-of-this-contagious_b_1907846.html

America: 'The Leading Terrorist State And Proud Of It'

By CJ Werleman

To acknowledge our sins would be to acknowledge the US is as barbaric and uncivilised as those the US pretends pose an existential threat.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42570.htm

The Corporate State Will Continue its Inexorable Advance Until We're Locked into a Permanent Underclass

They will continue to exploit the nation, the global economy and the ecosystem. And they will use their money to hide in gated compounds when it all implodes.

By Chris Hedges / Truthdig April 29, 2011

http://www.alternet.org/story/150790/the_corporate_state_will_continue_its_inexorable_advance_until_we%27re_locked_into_a_permanent_underclass

Trump's Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System

By Mike Whitney

How often does a fatcat billionaire-insider appear on TV and announce that the whole system is a big-fat scam run by crooks and patsies?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42572.htm

Psychopaths and Sociopaths are hardly ever stupid.

The Brookings Institute Plan to Liquidate Syria

By Mike Whitney

August 06, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Counterpunch' - Here’s your US foreign policy puzzler for the day: When is regime change not regime change?

When the regime stays in power but loses its ability to rule. This is the current objective of US policy in Syria, to undermine Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s ability to govern the country without physically removing him from office. The idea is simple: Deploy US-backed “jihadi” proxies to capture-and-hold vast sections of the country thereby making it impossible for the central government to control the state. This is how the Obama administration plans to deal with Assad, by making him irrelevant.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42559.htm

I think this is closer to the truth...........it will affect the dollar, but it is a long way from collapsing.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-26/china-seen-winning-reserve-currency-endorsement-in-imf-s-review

A little more on the Carter quote...........

Jimmy Carter Is Correct that the U.S. Is No Longer a Democracy

http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/03/jimmy-carter-is-correct-that-the-u-s-is-no-longer-a-democracy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGreanvillePost+%28The+Greanville+Post%29

Calling out the hypocrites.........

Iran calls for Israel's nuclear disarmament

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says now that his country has accepted strict curbs on its nuclear program, it’s time for Israel and the world's other nuclear powers to begin their disarmament.

In an article published in The Guardian on Friday, Mr. Zarif argues that while non-nuclear-weapon states, like Iran, have “walked the walk” to conform with the non-proliferation regime, states possessing destructive weapons have hardly even “talked the talk” and rejected the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) and customary international law.

http://news.yahoo.com/iran-calls-israels-nuclear-disarmament-182055986.html

Agreed!

2 or more sides to a coin.......no matter how good your intentions, you will offend someone..........

A Company Copes With Backlash Against the Raise That Roared

There are times when Dan Price feels as if he stumbled into the middle of the street with a flag and found himself at the head of a parade.

Three months ago, Mr. Price, 31, announced he was setting a new minimum salary of $70,000 at his Seattle credit card processing firm, Gravity Payments, and slashing his own million-dollar pay package to do it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/business/a-company-copes-with-backlash-against-the-raise-that-roared.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth®ion=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

Donald Trump......YOU'RE FIRED!........lol.

"What's Up?".......a reprise with words........

Linda Perry just sings the shit out of this one!

Supply and Demand in the Gold and Silver Futures Markets

By Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler

July 28, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - This article establishes that the price of gold and silver in the futures markets in which cash is the predominant means of settlement is inconsistent with the conditions of supply and demand in the actual physical or current market where physical bullion is bought and sold as opposed to transactions in uncovered paper claims to bullion in the futures markets. The supply of bullion in the futures markets is increased by printing uncovered contracts representing claims to gold. This artificial, indeed fraudulent, increase in the supply of paper bullion contracts drives down the price in the futures market despite high demand for bullion in the physical market and constrained supply. We will demonstrate with economic analysis and empirical evidence that the bear market in bullion is an artificial creation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42497.htm

A little history..........

The Making of the American Police State

How did we end up with millions behind bars and police armed like soldiers?

By Christian Parenti

July 28, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Jacobin" - How did we get here? The numbers are chilling: 2.2 million people behind bars, another 4.7 million on parole or probation. Even small-town cops are armed like soldiers, with a thoroughly militarized southern border.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42499.htm

I'll bet you didn't know that........

Ancient Greeks were wary of zombies

http://www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2015/07/28/Ancient-Greeks-were-wary-of-zombies-Pitt-archaeologist-finds/stories/201507130125

There's also Erdogan, but we like him. Assad is friends with Russia and any friend of my enemy is my enemy also.

Syria: America’s “Inherent Resolve” to Destroy Another Sovereign Nation.

An infernal hypocrisy.

“We should expect conflicts in which adversaries, because of cultural affinities different from our own, will resort to forms and levels of violence shocking to our sensibilities.” (Department of Defense, 1999, with thanks to William Blum.)

One quote has reverberated throughout the United States decades of decimations of the lands of others. Journalist Peter Arnett, reporting from Vietnam, in a piece published on 7th July 1968, quoted an American officer saying of the provincial capital B?n Tre: “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” He was referring to the decision to bomb and shell the town no matter what the cost of civilian lives, in order to rout the Vietcong.

http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/07/26/syria-americas-inherent-resolve-to-destroy-another-sovereign-nation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGreanvillePost+%28The+Greanville+Post%29

Global Thug State

By Matthew Harwood

July 27, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - “A shadow government has conquered twenty-first-century Washington. We have the makings of a thug state of the first order.” No two sentences more clearly and disturbingly summarize what Tom Engelhardt’s Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World is about: a Leviathan national-security state rampaging around the world in pursuit of perfect security and creating chaos wherever it puts its grotesque girth down.

The editor of TomDispatch.com, which he launched in November 2001, Engelhardt has spent the last 13 years trying to understand our post–9/11 world, where al-Qaeda’s atrocities in lower Manhattan, Northern Virginia, and a field in Pennsylvania led the United States to shed any pretense of being a democracy and embrace its imperial ambitions without reservation. (Full disclosure: I’m a regular contributor to TomDispatch.com.) The book itself is a collection of TomDispatch pieces originally published between 2011 and 2014, modestly revised and updated, and woven into book form. Whether it’s torture, kidnapping, weaponized drones strikes, special forces’ raids, or the rise of the surveillance state, Engelhardt has been there to document the corruption and savage violence that has seeped into our nation’s policymakers and warriors, who obey no restrictions — whether legal or moral — to their ambitions of total global domination.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42488.htm

Picked Out a Coffin Yet? Take Ibuprofen and Die

By Mike Whitney

“Today we know that the risk of heart attack and stroke may occur early in treatment, even in the first weeks … “There is no period of use shown to be without risk,” says Judy Racoosin, M.D., M.P.H., deputy director of FDA’s Division of Anesthesia, Analgesia, and Addiction Products.”

– FDA website

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42480.htm

Waters was right on with this one............

Central Banks Have Shot Their Wad——-Why The Casino Is In For A Rude Awakening, Part I
by David Stockman • July 23, 2015

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There has been a lot of chatter in recent days about the plunge in commodity prices—–capped off by this week’s slide of the Bloomberg commodity index to levels not seen since 2002. That epochal development is captured in the chart below, but most of the media gumming about the rapidly accelerating “commodity crunch” misses the essential point.

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/central-banks-have-shot-their-wad-why-the-casino-is-in-for-a-rude-awakening-part-i/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Mailing+List+Mid+Day+Thursday

Russia vs. US: Total War is the Obliteration of Reality

Geopolitical Balance Of Power - Atlanticisim Versus Eurasianism

When the methods of Information War in Fourth Generation Warfare are used in Total War, it results in a war upon the psyche, a war upon cognition, a war upon our very conception and understanding of reality. This will be an increasing feature of our relationship with reality.

As global conflict increases qualitatively and quantitatively, it is important to understand the new methods of warfare in which the conflict in Ukraine serves as an excellent case study. Understanding these methods, in combination with a syncretic approach to various competing schools and across several otherwise or previously unrelated fields, has been the key to our ability to accurately forecast any number of events and dynamics in the situation in Ukraine.


http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/07/25/russia-vs-us-total-war-is-the-obliteration-of-reality/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGreanvillePost+%28The+Greanville+Post%29

There's no question that our "leaders" demonstrate a high degree of psychopathy.

Has it always been this way or is it getting
worse?

Video:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/28660.html

A Hidden World, Growing Beyond Control

The top-secret world the government created in response to Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.

- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42457.htm

That's the bottom line, isn't it?

The Death of Sandra Bland and My Fear of Driving While Black

For years I’ve battled a driving anxiety. I want to get over it, but the mysterious death of Sandra Bland after a routine traffic stop in Texas reminds me that in black women’s lives, safety is an illusion.
Danielle C. Belton

- See more at: http://portside.org/2015-07-22/death-sandra-bland-and-my-fear-driving-while-black#sthash.HdeAkl02.dpuf

imo, also.

Single Payer and the Revolving Door

Another benefit of a single payer national health insurance system is that it gets rid of the obscenity of the revolving door between the health insurance industry and the government payer.

There is no revolving door because there is no door.

http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/07/22/single-payer-and-the-revolving-door/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGreanvillePost+%28The+Greanville+Post%29

I think we're in the "taking" stage.

The End of Capitalism Has Begun

By Paul Mason

Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. -

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42401.htm

LOL....you got THAT right!

We Are All Greeks Now

By Chris Hedges

July 14, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Truthdig" - The poor and the working class in the United States know what it is to be Greek. They know underemployment and unemployment. They know life without a pension. They know existence on a few dollars a day. They know gas and electricity being turned off because of unpaid bills. They know the crippling weight of debt. They know being sick and unable to afford medical care. They know the state seizing their meager assets, a process known in the United States as “civil asset forfeiture,” which has permitted American police agencies to confiscate more than $3 billion in cash and property. They know the profound despair and abandonment that come when schools, libraries, neighborhood health clinics, day care services, roads, bridges, public buildings and assistance programs are neglected or closed. They know the financial elites’ hijacking of democratic institutions to impose widespread misery in the name of austerity. They, like the Greeks, know what it is to be abandoned.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42357.htm

The Ukrainian Failed State: Pravy Sektor vs. The Kiev Junta

“Instability and failed states is one of the most favored US methods of maintaining control…”

http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/07/13/the-ukrainian-failed-state-pravy-sektor-vs-the-kiev-junta/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGreanvillePost+%28The+Greanville+Post%29