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Unbelievable!
So back to my earlier question........why would Rand Paul support it? I'll leave it there.
Just an afterthought......is TPP really "Free Trade"?
For me, Libertarianism is an ideal without any consideration for the actuality in a real world. Sorta like the idea of atomic fission on paper which later turned into the atomic bomb....
I was gonna do an edit, but you responded too quickly. I do not know if his support for TPP is or isn't self-serving. The question that comes to mind is......why would anyone who cares about this country and its people support this gawdawful treaty without having something in it for themselves?
Maybe "self-serving" was not the best choice of words, if that's where your focus is. What name would you put on Rand's stance on TPP?
Hmmmm........
Hungry ISIS fighters just want their wives to cook pancakes
By News.com.auNovember 29, 2014 | 9:28am
The IS agency for women, has launched a ‘cookbook’, explaining how to keep jihadists happy and fulfilled by making pancakes after a day of fighting.
http://nypost.com/2014/11/29/hungry-isis-fighters-just-want-their-wives-to-cook-pancakes/
The self-serving agendas may be different , but all these spooks have them. Rand Paul is no exception, imo.
Love cannot be put together by the mind
Love is something that knows no measure, that cannot be put together by the mind, cannot be cultivated, something which is not sentimental, which has nothing to do with emotionalism and nothing whatsoever to do with good works, the village reform and so on. When you have that feeling then everything in life is important, significant; therefore you will do that which is good. But without knowing the beauty, the depth, the vigour of it we are trying to reduce love into something which the mind can capture and make respectable. And the same applies to action, which we are now trying to understand. Action is an endless movement which has no beginning and no end and which is not controlled by cause and effect. Action is of everything - the action of the sea, of the mango seed becoming the mango tree, and so on. But the human mind is not a seed and therefore, through its action it becomes only a modified reproduction of what it was. In our life there is the constant pressure of circumstances, and although the circumstances are always changing, they are ever shaping our lives. What was, is not; what is, can be broken. So can we not sense, feel, this enormous action of life which ranges from the movement of the little worm in the earth to the sweep of the infinite heavens? If you really want to know what this extraordinary thing is, this action, then you must go through it, you must break through the barrier of this action in time. Then you will know it, then with that feeling you can act, you can go to your job and do all the things that are recognizable within the field of time. But from within the recognizable field of time you cannot find the other. Do what you will, through the petty you will never find the immeasurable. - Krishnamurti, Collected Works, Vol. XI,Action
The U.S. Car Manufacturers make 'zillions' of boring car commercials, and
most of us have to 'mute' the boring hyped sound. The russkies make one commercial a year, 3 minutes long, and this is it.
This is an amazing car ad – on ice. You’ll like it. And at the end they
actually give credits and the drivers bow in their cars.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/rv7dGhj5UlA
Washington Plays Russian Roulette
By Pepe Escobar
November 23, 2014 "ICH" - "Asia Times" - These are bleak times. I’ve been in serious conversation with some deep sources and interlocutors – those who know but don’t need to show off, privileging discretion. They are all deeply worried. This is what one of them, a New York strategic planner, sent me:
The propaganda attack against Putin equating him with Hitler is so extreme that you have to think that the Russians cannot believe their ears and cannot trust the United States anymore under any circumstances.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40302.htm
West 'Seeks Russia Regime Change' Lavrov
By RT
November 23, 2014 "ICH" - "RT" - The ultimate goal of the anti-Russian sanctions imposed by some Western nations is to stir public protests and oust the government, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
“Western leaders publicly state that the sanctions must hurt [Russia's] economy and stir up public protests. The West doesn’t want to change Russia’s policies. They want a regime change. Practically nobody denies that,” he told a leading think-tank in Moscow.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40304.htm
As if........
Obama Administration Shielded Banks From Criminal Prosecution, Admits Top Fed Official
http://www.hngn.com/articles/50472/20141122/obama-administration-shielded-banks-from-criminal-prosecution-admits-top-fed-official.htm
"Lord, what fools these mortals be" ............ William Shakespeare
Russia invades Ukraine. Again. And again. And yet again … using Saddam’s WMD
By William Blum
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40275.htm
And in spite of it all, the author is still an Obama apologist. Partisanship dies a slow death.
Too Dumb for Democracy?
Global ignorance vs. local knowledge
By B.K. Marcus
November 187, 2014 "ICH" - "The Freeman."- Should Americans feel bad that we are the second-most-ignorant country in the world? (Italy is number one.)
Our penultimate status made the news recently, after research group Ipsos MORI announced the results of the first international study "to look at the gap between perception and reality" on questions of social policy. The issues included teenage pregnancy, immigration, and unemployment.
The result of the study, as one reporter summarized in the Huffington Post UK, is that "everyone is wrong about almost everything."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40266.htm
12 Steps to Overcoming Addiction to Voting for the “Lesser” of 2 Evils
Led by the Anglo-Americans, this type of mental rot is a global plague, a curse on all nations that practice duopoly.
http://www.greanvillepost.com/2014/11/14/12-steps-to-overcoming-addiction-to-voting-for-the-lesser-of-2-evils/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGreanvillePost+%28The+Greanville+Post%29
LOL
Good article. Why these thieves are allowed to short precious metal futures is a puzzle.
He'll join "thousand points of light" and "I did not have sex with that woman" to make the most perfect comic trio since the 3 stooges.
'Russia Uses Language Washington Understands'
By Finian Cunningham
November 15, 2014 "ICH" - "Press TV"- Has Russia reached the limit of its diplomatic tolerance of the US and its NATO allies? The announcement this week that Moscow is to begin deploying long-range bombers in the Gulf of Mexico - America's own backyard - suggests so.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40235.htm
Deaf and Blind.
What Frightened the USS Donald Cook In The Black Sea?
By Voltairenet
November 14, 2014 "ICH" - The State Department acknowledged that the crew of the destroyer USS Donald Cook has been gravely demoralized ever since their vessel was flown over in the Black Sea by a Russian Sukhoi-24 (Su-24) fighter jet which carried neither bombs nor missiles but only an electronic warfare device.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40222.htm
The Con-man Cornered: Obama and the Democratic Debacle of 2014
By Prof. James Petras
November 13, 2014 "ICH" - The meteoric rise to power of Barack Obama in 2008 was propelled by one of the greatest demagogic US Presidential campaigns of all time: To millions of young Americans, he promised to end the US wars in the Middle East. To millions of working and middle class voters, he promised to end the economic crisis by confronting Wall Street.
To women, he promised to protect and expand their social rights and end the gender gap in wages and salaries. To human rights and civil liberties activists, he promised to end police state surveillance and torture, and to close the Guantanamo concentration camp, which had denied political prisoners a fair and open trial. To blacks, he promised higher living standards and greater racial equality in income. To Latino-Americans, he promised immigration reform facilitating a path to citizenship for long-term residents. Overseas he spoke in Cairo of a “new chapter” in US policy toward the Muslim world. To Russia, he promised President Putin he would ‘reset relations’ – toward greater co-operation.
Obama’s rhetorical flourishes attracted millions of young activists, women and minority voters and leaders to work for his election and the Democratic Party. He won a resounding victory! And the Democrats took control of the House and Senate.
Obama Embraces the Rightwing Agenda
The rhetorical exercise was a massive smoke screen. For his electoral campaign Obama raised over one billion dollars from the ‘1%’ - Wall Street bankers, Hollywood media moguls, Silicon Valley venture capitalists, Chicago Zionists and the Mid-Western business elite. Obama was clearly playing a double game – talking to “the people” and working for ‘the bosses’.
A few analysts cut through the demagogy and identified Obama as the ‘Greatest Con-Man of recent times”, the Washington counterpart of the great contemporary Wall Street swindler Bernard ‘Bernie’ Madoff.
More @ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40209.htm
Lame Duck Out Of The Silk Road Caravan
By Pepe Escobar
November 13, 2014 "ICH" - "RT"- There’s hardly a more graphic illustration of where the multipolar world is going than what just happened at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40202.htm
US putting fake cell towers in planes to spy on people, report says
James Niccolai
The U.S. Department of Justice is putting devices that emulate cellphone towers in Cessna aircraft and flying them around the country to track the locations of cellphones, a practice that targets criminal suspects but may also affect thousands of U.S. citizens, according to a news report Thursday.
The program is run by the DOJ’s U.S. Marshals Service and has been in operation since at least 2007, according to the report in the Wall Street Journal, which cited two unnamed sources. The aircraft are flown out of at least five metropolitan-area airports and can cover most of the U.S. population, it said.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2848072/us-putting-fake-cell-towers-in-planes-to-spy-on-people-report-says.html
Poke, poke and provoke.......I think the West believes that Russia's oligarch mafia will unseat Putin.
You Don’t Protect My Freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy
By David Masciotra
November 10, 2014 "ICH" - "Salon"- Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as “heroes.” The rhetorical sloppiness and intellectual shallowness of affixing such a reverent label to everyone in the military or law enforcement betrays a frightening cultural streak of nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism, but it also makes honest and serious conversations necessary for the maintenance and enhancement of a fragile democracy nearly impossible.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40174.htm
Yeppers......poor Biden didn't get the memo.
Russia’s Vulnerability to EU – US Sanctions and Military Encroachments
By Prof. James Petras
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40188.htm
ISIS is America's Dream Rebel Army
US policy paper reveals desire for construction of full-scale extraterritorial army to invade Syria. Such an army is being built in Iraq and Turkey and it's called "ISIS."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40183.htm
An excellent detailed story about securities fraud and the gov's complicity by Matt Taibbi........
The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106#ixzz3IQh3qmyi
They're at it again!
Debt on Wheels......Subprime Loans and Auto Sales
By Mike Whitney
Can you believe that this kind of chicanery is going on in broad daylight without the regulators stepping in?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40148.htm
Unacceptable..........."I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." Frederico Garcia
"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it?" -- Edward L. Bernays
"War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder." - J. Krishnamurti
"Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." - P.J. O'Rourke
World Bank whistleblower, Karen
Hudes talks about the criminal
banking cartels and how to stop
them.
Almost all countries on Earth have
have gotten maneuvered into a
situation, whereby most of their
taxes go to pay down the interest
from loans made to them by their
Central Banks.
These Central Banks are foreign,
private entities, which are ultimately
owned, to a large degree by a handful
of European aristocrats. This is
something which Hudes aptly calls a
"Total scam!"
She describes alternative, debt-free
models, where the peoples' monies
would stay in their own countries,
which she says would create "instant,
full employment," practically
overnight.
"Go There in Mobs: Vote Everyone in the US Congress Out!"