Verified Warnings From Former U.S. Presidents About the “Invisible Government” Running the U.S. With “No Allegiance To the People” — from Conscious Life News

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”- George Santayana Past presidents of the United States and other high profile political leaders have repeatedly issued warnings over the last 214 years that the U.S. government is … Continue reading

WikiLeaks / Bradley Manning trial date set for February 2013 / WikiLeaks suspect faces charges that he ‘aided the enemy’ by leaking thousands of documents to the whistleblowing site [WHAT enemy? Great Britain, 1776?]

A military judge presiding over the court martial of the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has set the date for what is likely to be the biggest whistleblower trial in US history. Judge Denise Lind set aside six weeks for the … Continue reading

Navy Seal account of Bin Laden raid contradicts White House claims / No Easy Day, to be published next week, raises questions over whether Osama bin Laden presented a clear threat to US forces — from UK Guardian

I really hate to post this but I did Deconstruct a Time Magazine Grand Golden Narrative of the raid (from anonymous official sources, of course) and inferred from the name of the mission that the mission was NOT Capture or … Continue reading

Everything You’ve Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong / Attendance: up. Dropout rates: plummeting. College acceptance: through the roof. / My mind-blowing year inside a “low-performing” school — from Mother Jones

“SPEEK EENGLISH, TACO,” THE GIRL with the giant backpack yelled when Maria asked where to find a bathroom. The backpack giggled as it bounced down the hall. It had been hours since Maria began looking for a bathroom. Anger boiled … Continue reading

From Capetown, South Africa: “Mining for Stories” — about the 34 miners killed and the issues –By Imraan Coovadia from The New York Times [I didn't know most of this and so I'm not sure whether I am sad, shocked or stunned.]

THE 34 miners killed by the police earlier this month in a wildcat strike at a Marikana platinum mine, in northern South Africa, were immediately engaged as bit players in various morality tales. Marikana reminded some of the 1960 police … Continue reading

Will the UK governing coalition collapse, causing new elections this fall? / UK Liberal Democratic Leader Nick Clegg demands emergency tax on Britain’s richest people / Lib Dem leader tries to persuade his Tory coalition partners rich should shoulder greater burden of the economic pain — from UK Guardian

Britain’s wealthiest people should face an emergency tax to avoid a breakdown in social cohesion as the country fights an “economic war” caused by a longer than expected recession, Nick Clegg has said. In the first interview by a senior … Continue reading

Nuclear row splits French government / François Hollande under pressure over economy, eurozone treaty and minister’s comments that nuclear power was the future — from UK Guardian

[For context, next-door Germany is phasing out all its nukular power plants -- and under a conservative Chancellor Angel Merkel.] Cracks have appeared in the new French government after a Socialist minister made a gaffe about the future of nuclear … Continue reading

Hurricane Isaac: Louisiana faces serious flooding as levee overflows / Officials search streets for residents who remained after evacuation order as storm pushes on towards New Orleans — from UK Guardian

[ARE THINGS PRETTY BAD IN THE USA? READ THESE TWO SHORT STORIES ABOUT TWO WHO COULD NOT FLEE ISAAC BECAUSE THEY HAD NO MONEY! EXCERPT: "In the lower ninth ward, a sprawl of largely ramshackle one- and two-storey homes, which … Continue reading

Universities and their inventors earned more than $1.8-billion from commercializing their academic research in the 2011 fiscal year, collecting royalties from new breeds of wheat, from a new drug for the treatment of HIV, and from longstanding arrangements over enduring products like Gatorade — from Chronicle of Higher Education

[I have always wondered why there is always Gatorade on the sidelines. I also wonder how much FEDERAL MONEY went to these "places of higher learning" and what royalties the taxpayer is therefore getting? I am also beginning to think … Continue reading

The Flores Fight: Austin’s Role in Booting Out the Texas Cherokee / As President of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau Lamar offered Texas Indian tribes a choice between “total extinction or total expulsion” — – from AustinPost

[is this some aberrant protein strand of DNA in the Human Genome or something? Haven't we heard this same damned thing over and over again in history: expulsion or extermination of populations?] Austin History By Jeffrey S. Kerr In the … Continue reading

Samsung hits back at Apple but shares tumble after smartphone patent ruling / South Korean group urges consumers to shun Apple as its market value suffers multimillion dollar fall — from UK Guardian

[Courts of The One Percent, By The One Percent and For The One Percent. And even then, some animals are more equal than others. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell.] Samsung has hit back at arch-rival Apple as investors wiped $12bn … Continue reading

US troops escape criminal charges for incidents that outraged Afghanistan / Burning of Qur’ans and urinating on corpses in Afghanistan led to allegations against six US army soldiers and three marines — from UK Guardian

[Another sign of the looming apocalypse. Read "The Ugly American" (1958) or view the film of the same name (1963) that was an allusion to Vietnam when we had fewer than 1000 "boots on the ground" there (military advisors).] Six … Continue reading

Rachel Corrie’s death (a protester run over by a bulldozer) was an accident, Israeli judge rules / Judge finds no fault in military investigation that cleared defence force of responsibility for protester being killed by bulldozer

[Yet one more sign of the looming apocalypse...Stalinist Fascism is alive and well in the world. Everywhere.] The death of the pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie was not caused by the negligence of the Israeli state or army, a judge has … Continue reading

Togolese women call for sex strike to put pressure on the president / Demonstrators against electoral reforms call sex strike to pressure men to challenge the president’s growing power — from UK Guardian

[There are many ways to dissent, resist, occupy and strike ] The female wing of a civil rights group is urging women in Togo to stage a week-long sex strike to demand the resignation of the country’s president. Women are … Continue reading

Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists / Water scarcity’s effect on food production means radical steps will be needed to feed population expected to reach 9 BILLION by 2050 — from UK Guardian

Leading water scientists have issued one of the sternest warnings yet about global food supplies, saying that the world’s population may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages. Humans … Continue reading