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by Hobb Sat 22 Aug 2015 - 21:03
I keep a text document on my desktop called 'scrap' where I put stray ideas, translations I had to do, and interesting quotes (often related to the media or crime as I find those old habits hard to kick). Here is a data dump of that file. I might edit it later to make prettier...
we do belong
to the songs we carry on
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"The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination." HP Lovecraft
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Shortly after the post ran, Berdahl says she got a call from board of governors chair John Montalbano, the Royal Bank of Canada executive whose $2-million donation created her teaching post.
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But that the white eye-lid of the screen reflect its proper light, the whole Universe would go up in flames (ignite) - Burnel
Build your films, on white, on silence, and on stillness - Bresson
...the frenzy of the wall... - Sartre
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Capitalism works to libertarians because whenever it doesn't work it's not really capitalism.
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As Evola puts it: “In most cases, savage tribes should not be considered as precivilized states of mankind, but rather as extremely degenerated forms of remnants of very ancient races and civilizations. Even though the above mentioned particulars are found among savage tribes and are expressed in materialistic, dark, and shamanic forms, this should not prevent us from recognizing the meaning and the importance they assume once they are brought back to their true origins. . .. These forms coincide with what I have called the ‘spiritual virility’ of the world of Tradition” (Revolt Against the Modern World, p. 46).
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15. “This explains why the first generation of Egyptologists was led by devotional religion to recognize in the features of pharaonic regality those of the Antichrist or of the princeps huius mundi” (Revolt, p. 43, n.
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I can imagine a fleet of robotic railguns floating from balloons in the Venusian upper atmosphere, hooked up to air compressors that compress its CO2 into dry ice bullets that get fired toward Mars and the Moon. "Attack" other planets with Venusian atmosphere.. interesting, I like it.
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They were in a stretch of Antarctic sea called the Banzare Bank, known among mariners as “The Shadowlands” because it is among the planet’s most remote and inhospitable waters, nearly a two-week journey to the nearest major port.After being spotted in Antarctica, the Thunder bolted north toward the “Furious Fifties” and “Roaring Forties,” a perilous strip of latitudes spanning the Southern and Indian Oceans. Winds there routinely top 70 miles per hour in storms. Waves reach 60 feet tall.
Fishing boat captains have their superstitions, sweet spots and, in gillnetting, their signature style — distinguished by knot ties, net grids and rope splicing. Familiar with the unique characteristics of nets from the Thunder, Captain Chakravarty ticked off a 72-point list for the investigators. Before leaving, he handed over some of the Thunder’s nets. He took the rest of them, having been warned that they might be sold on the black market.
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Žižek engages in a kind of frantic monologue, and at one point he names his three favorite films: King Vidor’s The Fountainhead (this really surprised me), Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, and Veit Harlan’s Opfergang.
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"Encouraged & influenced by Norval Morriseau, he has developed:
vocabulary of strong pattern relationships
richly embroidered
expressive linear elements.
bold defined figures
fluid silhouette outlines,
subdivided into cellular units.
the application of
tributary crestings
vibratory filaments,
creates forms which generate or radiate energy,
and occupy/describe space.
Founded upon the characteristic physical qualities of the various animal and bird species, his imaginative interpretations of the necessary spiritual qualities have the stamp of conviction."
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Your memory is a monster. It summons with a will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you - John Irving.
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Mars took over from Atlantis as being the great industrial myth of the twentieth century.
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the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy). Brutality, artificiality and innocence/idiocy: these are the very qualities that excite us most when we contemplate trash.
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The CIA-run Phoenix program, for example, “liquidated” up to 41,000 communist cadres. In fact this program liquidated tens of thousands of civilians who had the bad luck to be located in Viet Cong controlled territory, a sort of ‘eliminate the VC rice tax base’ (farmers) that was patently criminal. My post Vietnam experience filling a Special Forces intelligence slot cast some little inside perspective on the Phoenix scheme, nothing quite like rubbing elbows in training with SF Vietnam veterans who were not precisely proud of the organization’s legacy in support of CIA operations.
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In a word, he was a man born to obey, and this self-annihilation suited his passive temperament. Men such as he are the materials of which a formidable army is formed. They are the arms of the service, obeying a single head. Is not this the only really powerful organisation? The two types of fabulous mythology, Briareus with a hundred arms and Hydra with a hundred heads, well represent the two kinds of armies; and in a conflict between them, which would be victorious? Briareus without a doubt !
En un mot, c'était un homme né pour obéir, et cette annihilation de lui-même allait à sa nature passive. C'est avec ces gens-là que l'on fait les armées redoutables. Ce ne sont que des bras au service d'une seule tête. N'est-ce pas là l'organisation véritable de la force? Deux types ont été imaginés par la Fable: Briarée aux cent bras, l'Hydre aux cent têtes. Si l'on met ces deux montres aux prises, qui remportera la victoire? Briarée.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude - Jules Verne
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Workers are a many-headed monster which every one should oppose
An Essay on Trade and Commerce (1770)
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Martin Luther King: “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.“
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To have a state-run justice system is to reach a certain level of civilization. To many humans the experience of this will be a sense of order. To many humans their experience of such as system will be as a para-military occupation force.
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However, at the same time the movement was deliberately divisive. 99 vs. 1: there is a real enemy. The problem in this regard I encountered at a number of different occupations I went to. One of the big issues was always whether the police are part of the 1 or the 99 per cent. I do not have one answer on that. It had to remain an open issue. In some places it makes sense to think of them as part of the 99 per cent because they were facing all kinds of budget cuts etc. On the other hand they were also functioning as agents and defenders of the 1 per cent. So the very place where the division was policed, as it were, became an antagonistic site where the question of difference remained unresolved in a useful way.
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“I wept. I felt rage today. I was mad at you, Mike {Rupert}, going out this way. It was too similar to Gary Webb, to Jim Hatfield the Bush biographer. I don’t want this pattern. Tell me it’s not the fate for writers of deep truth, to die, alone, shooting their brains out, because they went deep and hard after the invisible forces, the slithering stag. The hunter became hunted by the dragon.
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In considering the context of the Kennedy assassination its critical to have an in depth understanding of the CIA during that period, on who worked in what part of the Agency and in particular what type of projects they worked on.
As an example, I recently saw a post describing Howard Hunt as a 'paramilitary officer'….that is truly off the mark. It is true he worked within the Plans Directorate and most specifically inside the P-P group, which included *political action, propaganda and paramilitary*. Hunt’s specialty was *political action*, essentially courting and sustaining Agency surrogate groups – for short think “carrying the money”.
Comparing him to true *paramilitary officers* such as Rip Robertson would be a real stretch, even comparing him to *paramilitary trainer, counter intelligence officer and operations specialist* David Morales would be just flat wrong.
In talking of Angleton and Harvey, its important to understand that they shared some of the same jobs at different points -including *counter intelligence* – and both were some of the few officers fully aware of the Agencies’ *technical services* tools- MKNAIOMI - such as truth serums and various drugs and poisons.
Both men were also very much connected to the Office of Security which in turn had its own connections to *professional criminals* such as smugglers, safe crackers and strong arm types. Those are the kind of guys you need if you are breaking into embassies, kidnapping couriers and blackmailing the other side for code books and related cryptographic devices.
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"Make a Law, Make a Business" — Old New Jersey street saying
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A young man has been fatally crushed after a statue erected in honour of Pope John Paul II in northern Italy fell on top of him.
The man, (21) Marco Gusmini, died instantly and a second man was taken to hospital after the 30m sculpture fell on top of him.
The sculpture, near the town of Cevo, has a large curved cross with a large statue of Jesus Christ fixed to the top.
It was designed by sculptor Enrico Job and erected to commemorate the Pope’s visit to the area in 1998.
John Paul II and his predecessor Pope John XXIII, are due to be canonised on Sunday.
It is the second death from a falling crucifix in Italy. In 2004 it was reported that a 72-year old woman had been crushed to death by a 2 metre tall metal crucifix in the town of Sant’Onofrio.
Fri, Apr 25, 2014, 16:19
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“No unmixed strategies are valid.”
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Unemployed, obviously, and with time on their hands to cluster around anything that resembled hope.
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Trash80, YMCK, MGMT, and I Fight Dragons Nullsleep and Tangible Anamanaguchi
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The major drug crimes show now that the Vancouver once the cocaine capital of Canada has shifted big time into corporate Calgary and the tar sands. The conservatives also have told the RCMP to keep their hands off Alberta.
BigBlueMarble
@120 plus Yeah if the RCMP arrested all the cocaine users in Alberta who would do all the work in the Tar Sands and the rest of the Alberta oil patch?
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There was a longer time in those days for young men to be in the warrior phase, where a lot of homo-social romantic attachments were formed before hetero-sexual encounters
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SOuthpark/libertarian explosion of offensive terms and incidental, objectified representations of women, gay men and various racial groups
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Self-selection experiments also proved that not only did rats choose diets which promoted growth, but that during pregnancy and lactation they chose diets particularly suitable for the chemical needs of pregnancy and of lactation.
Coprophagia, infantophagia,autophagia, placenta eating, bone eating, and ouronodypsia may all serve self-regulatory functions.
In some instances such self-selection appetites are so precise that they can be used for a bio-assay of preparations that influence the activities of various glands of internal secretion.
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4. Let’s assume you don’t want to be a bully, and you are having a debate. You notice that the person you are debating is getting upset. Leah Libresco suggests you ask what your opponent thinks is at stake in the debate. She puts it memorably:
I’ve tried using this kind of approach in non-philosophical fights (with varying success) to keep forcing myself to ask “What is this person protecting?” I’ve tried explicitly reframing whatever the other person is saying to me as “Watch out! You’re about to step on a kitten!!” and then working out what the kitten is. This way, intensity in argument isn’t necessarily aggressive or insulting, and it’s not something I need to take personally. It’s just a signal of how passionately my interlocutor loves the thing they think I’m about to blindly trample on, and I’d best figure out what it is sharpish.
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The earliest example of this is the Camel News Caravan on NBC, where as a result of the sponsorship of Camel Tobacco, only Winston Churchill was allowed to smoke in any of the reports (due his exceptional iconic status), and cancer coverage was forbidden. The visual requirements of a new televised news service also meant great restrictions in content, for there was simply not the infrastructure to obtain film coverage of events taking place across the world. Rather than summarize them vocally, they were omitted.
This problem diminished as more portable means of recording video were devised, but the commercial unpopularity of news coverage was still a problem in the sixties. CBS Reports, which President of CBS Fred Friendly had once promised to keep on air, was threatened by his successor, James Aubrey, who reportedly said in a board meeting: “You can see, Mr. Chairman, how much bigger our profits could have been this year if it had not been for the drain of news,” (at page 346).
In an intelligent twist of events, Russia’s then leader, Nikita Khruschev, negotiated an interview with CBS, which both paved the way for a new kind of televised journalism, where it was not the stars of Hollywood, but the old men of Moscow and Washington who took the limelight, and facilitated the Russo-American dialog that brought the beginnings of the Cold War into the full-focus of the American television audience. JFK was the first president to truly embrace the new media, live coverage took a sharp and tragic turn as he became the first ever person to be murdered live on television, sparking a similarly novel period of four-day, non-stop coverage.
Canadian journalist Neil Compton, who after comparing US television coverage to Canadian, observed that the “great networks” seem to express a “massive political consensus,” and that “they are commercial to a degree which even an outsider used to television finds overwhelming,” (at page 381). To Compton, these two phenomena were “not, of course, unrelated,” and he concludes that anyone relying on US network coverage of the Vietnam War “would have been far less well informed than his Canadian counterpart,” despite US coverage being more frequent.
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BG: What is your reaction to the firing of Peter Arnett?
AO: CNN didn't take this action last summer because they felt it would raise too much of an uproar. They hoped they could do it in such a way as to keep it off of the radar screen, so to speak. Peter was a different case from myself and Jack Smith. He was a very prominent personality.
His firing was a direct result of Pentagon pressure. Perry Smith [a retired major general and former CNN consultant who resigned in protest over the Tailwind report] told the Wall Street Journal last July that CNN would not get cooperation from the Pentagon unless Peter Arnett was fired.
BG: What is your feeling about Arnett's refusal to stand by the Tailwind report?
AO: Arnett is a good reporter who doesn't accept Pentagon disinformation. He is a legend in this business, but he made a Faustian bargain. In saving his job, he destroyed it.
BG: What is the broader significance of Arnett's firing, as well as CNN's cave-in on the Tailwind report and your own dismissal?
AO: It is sad how the CNN executives caved. They will do anything to stem the flow of information and keep themselves protected. There is something so amiss within the executive ranks that nobody thinks there is anything improper in State Department spokesman James Rubin being married to CNN's chief reporter on the Kosovo War, Christian Amanpour.
The military and veterans' groups not only determine what CNN covers, but who covers it. That the military should have veto power over the employment policy of the networks is alarming. The message is: fall in line, otherwise, you're history. Above all, don't mess around with national security issues. It is absolutely chilling. I see the fallout from CNN's capitulation on Tailwind continuing.
*****Jane Fonda**********
She was next taken to visit an air defence installation on the outskirts of Hanoi. There, she was asked to climb onto the seat of an anti-aircraft gun — which she did without thinking. As soon as she’d hopped off, she exclaimed: ‘Oh my God. It’s going to look like I was trying to shoot down U.S. planes!’
It was too late: the picture went round the world. When she arrived back in the U.S. — in coolie hat and Vietnamese pyjamas — she was greeted with cries of ‘Hanoi Jane’ and accused of being a traitor.
‘What is a traitor? What is a patriot?’ was her angry retort. ‘I cried every day when I was in Vietnam. I cried for the Vietnamese and I cried for the Americans, too.’
William Manchester, editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper, called for her to be tried for sedition and shot. A Congressman suggested her tongue be cut off. Jane decided the trip to North Vietnam had changed her life.
One night, she stood naked in their bedroom and told Hayden she wanted to have a child. She said that in North Vietnam she’d met women who’d been in labour during the air strikes. As the bombs fell, they’d cry: ‘Nixon, we fight you with all the joys of a woman in childbirth!’
Jane thought if she and Hayden had a child, it would express solidarity with Vietnam. First, however, they decided to get married. The smell of pot was heavy in their living room as they exchanged vows. Outside, Hell’s Angels — friends of her brother — encircled the house because Jane had been receiving death threats.
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The point here is that in the Sturm und Drang of Weimar Germany—and around the world at that time —there was an explosion of left cultural activity, linked, for better or worse, with Soviet and international Communism.
Paraphrasing Eric Hobsbawm (1988)—a later-generation German and cosmopolitan Communist—I once proposed a historical typology of red internationalists: the Agitators (often freelancers, ‘changing their countries more often than their shirts’); the Agents (working for a state or party, whether openly or clandestinely, whether as propagandists or as spies); and the Communicators (creating/instrumentalising/empowering mass action by providing relevant publics with information, ideas, son et lumière). It then occurred to me that these types need not just follow one another in succession; they could also coexist simultaneously, as forms or aspects of internationalist activity within each historical period.
*********Hollywood's Top Military Advisor believes Nam was winnable except for Hippies and Liberals
UNHERALDED VICTORY
The Defeat of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, 1961-1973
We won the war on the battlefield…only to lose it in the political arena. Woodruff clearly and trenchantly separates a bad war from the good warriors who fought it. It’s about damn time. From my position as Hollywood’s top Military Advisor, I’m going to spend some time shoving this book under the turned up noses of a whole platoon of screenwriters and directors.
Dale A. Dye, Captain, Marine Corps (Ret), Advisor for Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, and Forest Gump
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Austerity & Allah Kissing in a Tree
He decides that the Great Depression is actually a punishment from God for disobeying God’s law, and how are we disobeying God’s law? Well it’s because we are trying to regulate the economy, we are trying to take matters into our own hands. Well we just have to completely trust God, and those he chooses, men like Henry Ford and the CEO of US Steel and so on.
Harry Bridges was a major, major labour leader here in the United States. And they just saw him the Devil Incarnate, and began to organise against him. And that’s what this group has become — and are to this day. They still see God’s interests as those of the absolutely unregulated free markets — a very sort of macho, muscular Christianity that tends to serve the interests of those involved. . . .. . .
In Muslim liturgy, the deals cut in the souk become a metaphor for the contract between God and the faithful. And the business model Muhammad prescribed, according to Muslim scholars and economists, is very much in the laissez-faire tradition later embraced by the West. Prices were to be set by God alone—anticipating by more than a millennium Adam Smith’s reference to the ‘invisible hand’ of market-based pricing.
The Muslim Brotherhood hails 14th century philosopher Ibn Khaldun as its economic guide. Anticipating supply-side economics, Khaldun argued that cutting taxes raises production and tax revenues, and that state control should be limited to providing water, fire and free grazing land, the utilities of the ancient world. The World Bank has called Ibn Khaldun the first advocate of privatization. [Emphasis added.] His founding influence is a sign of moderation.
In the 1950s, as the brotherhood gained political momentum, it opposed President Gamal Abdel Nasser as much for his decision to nationalize the Egyptian economy as for his fierce secularism. Muhammad, says Yasser Abdo, a Muslim Brotherhood member and a former economist at the International Islamic Bank for Investment and Development in Cairo, "believed in the private sector as the basis of productive activity," with a "limited" state role.
Today, brotherhood parliamentarians remain anti-statist and staunchly antitrust, citing a verse in the Qur'an: "He who brings commodities to the market is good, but he who practices monopolies is evil." Not that any member goes as far as questioning the OPEC cartel.
In the days of the caliphate, Islam developed the most sophisticated monetary system the world had yet known. Today, some economists cite Islamic banking as further evidence of an intrinsic Islamic pragmatism. Though still guided by a Qur'anic ban on riba, or interest, Islamic banking has adapted to the needs of a booming oil region for liquidity.
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"“What Iran’s government really should do is leave the economy to the private sector,” Mr. Pirouz said."
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An Al-Jazeera cameraman detained and tortured at Abu Ghraib recalls beatings, threats and photos of torture victims used as screen savers on military PCs.
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I wrote a memo that shared with them the ultimate secret about secrets in Washington: that “practically everything that our government does, plans, thinks, hears and contemplates in the realms of foreign policy is stamped and treated as secret — and then unraveled by that same government, by the Congress and by the press in one continuing round of professional and social contacts and cooperative and competitive exchanges of information.
The governmental, political and personal interests of the participants are inseparable in this process. Presidents make “secret” decisions only to reveal them for the purposes of frightening an adversary nation, wooing a friendly electorate, protecting their reputations. ... High officials of the government reveal secrets in the search for support of their policies, or to help sabotage the plans and policies of rival departments. ... Though not the only vehicle for this traffic in secrets — the Congress is always eager to provide a forum — the press is probably the most important.
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That’s how it’s done, in barroom style: an official playing bureaucratic tennis, protecting his boss; a reporter preying on the knowingness of his source.
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Clearly, from the perspective of the public interest, there are and always have been both good and bad leaks, true and illuminating betrayals of secrets as well as false and conniving ones. On the path to war in Iraq, high officials of the Bush administration leaked classified but far from reliable information about W.M.D.’s, then pointed to its publication as “evidence” of its truth. When no W.M.D.’s were found, they used the same flawed secrets to justify their misrepresentations. But reporters could not expose this skullduggery until they obtained contradictory leaks from disheartened intelligence officials.
When is a leaker a true whistle-blower, risking his personal security to inform the citizenry and preserve the public’s interest? When is a leaker a mendacious opportunist, out to advance the narrow interests of himself or his boss? When does a leaker become so appalled at the self-serving actions of his colleagues that he crosses the line to shine a light on them? Is there a reliable way to distinguish among the many varieties of that genus peculiarly indigenous to Washington, the leaker?
Prosecutors of the realm, let this back-alley market flourish. Attorneys general and others armed with subpoena power, please leave well enough alone. Back off. Butt out.”
1971 - I remember President Johnson standing beside me, waist-deep in his Texas swimming pool, recounting for more than an hour his conversation the day before, in 1967, with Prime Minister Kosygin of the Soviet Union at Glassboro, N.J., for my "background" information, and subsequent though not immediate use in print, with a few special off-the-record sidelights that remain confidential.
2007 - When I wondered casually how Kosygin was being second-guessed so readily, the president proudly revealed that, thanks to a global network of sophisticated intercepts, he could hear everything being said among the Soviet leaders then dispersed in different parts of the world. Like the reporters who appeared at the Libby trial, I received such information on my source’s terms; I could use Johnson’s observations to analyze the summit discussion without naming him, but I could not refer to his techniques of eavesdropping. Those were the rules of the game.
-Max Frankel Major NYT reporter
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The Obama administration has pursued more leak investigations than all previous administrations combined, charging government officials and contractors under the 1917 Espionage Act designed to punish spies, not to crack down on conversations between government employees and reporters. Lowell suggested that there is a double standard.
“Lower-level employees like Mr. Kim are prosecuted because they are easier targets or often lack the resources or political connections to fight back,” he said. “High-level employees leak classified information to forward their agenda or to make an administration look good with impunity.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/ex-state-dept-adviser-to-plead-guilty-in-leak-to-fox-news/2014/02/07/6c71a644-900d-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html
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Gibson decided to give the NSA a four-hour window to comment, so the agency had an opportunity to disavow the story. By British standards, the deadline was fair: long enough to make a few calls, agree a line. But for Washington, where journalist-administration relations sometimes resemble a country club, this was nothing short of outrageous.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/01/edward-snowden-intelligence-leak-nsa-contractor-extract
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During President Clinton’s second term, this ad was posted on a wall in the Pentagon:
“ENEMY WANTED: Mature North American Superpower seeks hostile partner for arms-racing, Third World conflicts, and general antagonism. Must be sufficiently menacing to convince Congress of military financial requirements. Nuclear capability is preferred; however, non-nuclear candidates possessing significant bio chemical warfare resources will be considered. . . .”
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March 7, 2001; Mending the Military; A major issue during the 2000
presidential race was the state of the military. The Democrats said it was
fine, the Republicans said it was broken. OK, what is it?
Bill Clinton was not much liked by the American military. A telling story
currently circulating among the troops noted that when president George W.
Bush leaves his helicopter, the marine always stationed right outside
salutes
the debarking president. And as the president walks away, the marine turns,
still at attention, to face the president's back. When Clinton was
president, the marine just saluted and didn't turn around. Now most people
will not
recognize two interesting aspects of this seemingly innocuous scene. Many
navy veterans will note that it is customary for marines to move that way in
the presence of a superior officer. This goes back to the days of sailing
ships, when the captain would be on deck during a battle, all his
subordinates in the vicinity would always face their boss, the better to
receive instructions. This stance is still considered a sign of respect,
even
though it no longer serves a practical purpose. What most people missed was
that during the Clinton presidency, the marines stopped doing this, and
resumed it when George W Bush became president.
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sociologists have long been aware of a tendency for communities to define prohibited behavior so as not to exceed their capacity for controlling it
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Thomas Edison 1915:
"preparation for war is not military work, but should be done by shrewd businessmen in an economical way.... The soldier of the future will not be a soldier, but a machinist; he will not shed his blood, but will perspire in the factory of death at the battle line."
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"tiger cages" of South Vietnam to abandoned warehouse code-named the Salt Pit in Afghanistan and "The Hole" in Somalia.
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The sculpture 'America's Response Monument subtitled De Oppresso Liber', which is Latin for ‘to liberate the oppressed’, the motto of the Green Berets.[15] A piece of steel from the World Trade Center is embedded in the base, is a life-and-a-half scale bronze statue currently located in the West Street lobby of One World Financial Center opposite Ground Zero in New York CityIt is the first publicly accessible monument to special forces.[1] The land for the monument was donated by a private Wall Street firmand commissioned by an anonymous group of Wall Street bankers.[5]Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld displayed a photo of the modern soldiers on horseback during a news conference on November 15, 2001.
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When Sham, born during Syria’s civil war, uttered her first word recently, it conveyed a great deal about how devastated her country is. “Enfijar,” the toddler said. Explosion. "One child interviewed for the Save the Children report, 8-year-old Noor, summed up his experience: “What do I remember of Syria? Blood. This is it.”
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'spirit’ of the original real or fantastic being that the image had an actual ‘spirit’ life in the world of the dead.
So pervasive was this belief, that one aristocrat of the Han dynasty was accused of plotting rebellion in the next world because of the range and number of military burial figures which he had acquired.
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Asked for comment on the released documents, Edmonds’ March 2010 statement included;
“Chicago was the center of it all. Chicago was the center of the foreign espionage activity, and the center for money laundering, and also a major heroin distribution center. Celebi was a key player, but Dennis Hastert, Mayor Daley, Robert Creamer and other US officials also helped facilitate these activities.”
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
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Gunfire has its own language. Suppressing fire, the purpose of which is to pin you down, sounds undisciplined; it wanders back and forth over you without much aim. It is searching and random and somehow doesn’t seem as deadly.
Accurate, aimed fire is a different story. It has a purpose to it. You know as soon as you hear it that somebody has you in their sights. The shots come with a rapid-fire focus that underscores their murderous intent. Somebody is shooting at you. It becomes intimate and fear inducing…
The enemy machine gunners hammered at us with accurate bursts. As their bullets struck home, they spoke to us infantrymen as clearly as if they had used our native language. Message received: these were not amateurs in the hills on our flanks. (p. 77)
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Psyops was fun! I loved our AV vehicles. We could take control of any airwaves we wanted, broadcast TV and radio, mix and edit footage. Fun! I was part of the 245th Psychological Operations Co. (Airborne) out of Dallas Texas. I went on two training rotations with the 82nd Airborne in ~93, one at that Ft in Kansas (or Missouri) where Elvis did his basic training, and the other at Ft.Bragg.
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aquamanile (plural aquamanilia or simply aquamaniles) is a ewer or jug-type vessel in the form of one or more animal or human figures. It usually contained water for the washing of hands (aqua + manos) over a basin, which was part of both upper-class meals and the Christian Eucharist. Historically the term was sometimes used for any shape of basin or ewer so used, regardless of shape. Most surviving examples are in metal, typically copper alloys (brass or bronze), as pottery versions have rarely survived.
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Ritual =
1) Remove current animal/domestic vitality
2) Replace it with plundered foreign/external vitality
3) Act of violence to trancede // make permenat, immortal // rebound violence to solve existenial crisis //conquest & consume
4) Return to Mundane real with extenal power intact
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. “Let Mao Tse-tung’s thought occupy all positions; use it to transform the mental outlook of the whole of society; sweep away all ghosts and monsters; brush aside all stumbling-blocks and resolutely carry the great proletarian cultural revolution through to the end!”
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As Lyndon LaRouche said in a recent discussion,
"The problem is, people make the Hitler Nazi movement as the problem of that period, rather than seeing the Hitler Nazi movement as an instrument of the forces, an expendable instrument of the forces who caused the problem and were directing it. Hitler is dead. The Nazis are generally dead. But! The people who created them as an instrument are still alive, and are on the verge of taking world power today.
"I would add to that," he continued. "People exaggerate the significance of the Hitler Nazi movement, which was a terrible thing in its time, but it was a creation, a puppet of a much larger force, which was temporarily embarrassed at the end of the war, when Hitler was defeated, but came back in the name of being our 'necessary anti-Communist allies.'
"That's the truth of the matter. There's no difference between the people, of the financial group, which are Anglo-Dutch Liberal and French Synarchist, who created Hitler, and created that intention, and the crowd behind Rohatyn today. That's the concept. That's the truth of the matter."
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Among all my patients in the second half of life - that is to say, over thirty-five - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
anima - the 'demon-woman of mythology [who] is in truth the "sister-wife-mother", tthe woman in the man, who unexpectedly turns up during the second half of life and tries to effect a forcible change of personality'.
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I refuse to call a bad person by their given name because often that name is too good for them,
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So how many bits are in this instance of H1N1? The raw number of bits, by my count, is 26,022; the actual number of coding bits approximately 25,054 — I say approximately because the virus does the equivalent of self-modifying code to create two proteins out of a single gene in some places (pretty interesting stuff actually), so it’s hard to say what counts as code and what counts as incidental non-executing NOP sleds that are required for self-modifying code.
So it takes about 25 kilobits — 3.2 kbytes — of data to code for a virus that has a non-trivial chance of killing a human. This is more efficient than a computer virus, such as MyDoom, which rings in at around 22 kbytes.
It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two.
dna - program stored on disk
rna - program loaded in RAM
protien - image output from RNA program
amino acid - pixel in frame buffer
fuctional group of cell - is application that listens to a socket
organism = computer with IP address
For those not familiar with molecular biology, DNA is information-equivalent to RNA on a 1 to 1 mapping; DNA is like a program stored on disk, and RNA is like a program loaded into RAM. Upon loading DNA, a transcription occurs where “T” bases are replaced with “U” bases. Remember, each base pair specifies one of four possible symbols (A [T/U] G C), so a single base pair corresponds to 2 bits of information.
Proteins are the output of running an RNA program. Proteins are synthesized according to the instructions in RNA on a 3 to 1 mapping. You can think of proteins a bit like pixels in a frame buffer. A complete protein is like an image on the screen; each amino acid on a protein is like a pixel; each pixel has a depth of 6 bits (3 to 1 mapping of a medium that stores 2 bits per base pair); and each pixel has to go through a color palette (the codon translation table) to transform the raw data into a final rendered color. Unlike a computer frame buffer, different biological proteins vary in amino acid count (pixel count).
To ground this in a specific example, six bits stored as “ATG” on your hard drive (DNA) is loaded into RAM (RNA) as “AUG” (remember the T->U transcription). When the RNA program in RAM is executed, “AUG” is translated to a pixel (amino acid) of color “M”, or methionine (which is incidentally the biological “start” codon, the first instruction in every valid RNA program). As a short-hand, since DNA and RNA are 1:1 equivalent, bioinformaticists represent gene sequences in DNA format, even if the biological mechanism is in RNA format (as is the case for Influenza–more on the significance of that later!).
OK, back to the main point of this post. The particular RNA subroutine mentioned above codes for the HA gene which produces the Hemagglutinin protein: in particular, an H1 variety. This is the “H1? in the H1N1 designation.
If you thought of organisms as computers with IP addresses, each functional group of cells in the organism would be listening to the environment through its own active port. So, as port 25 maps specifically to SMTP services on a computer, port H1 maps specifically to the windpipe region on a human. Interestingly, the same port H1 maps to the intestinal tract on a bird. Thus, the same H1N1 virus will attack the respiratory system of a human, and the gut of a bird. In contrast, H5 — the variety found in H5N1, or the deadly “avian flu” — specifies the port for your inner lungs. As a result, H5N1 is much more deadly because it attacks your inner lung tissue, causing severe pneumonia. H1N1 is not as deadly because it is attacking a much more benign port that just causes you to blow your nose a lot and cough up loogies, instead of ceasing to breathe.
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Remember Simone Weil’s hatred of the Roman Empire and what it did to Europe’s cultural richness and diversity: “If we consider the long centuries and the vast area of the Roman Empire and compare these centuries with the ones that preceded it and the ones that followed the barbarian invasions, we perceive to what extent the Mediterranean basin was reduced to spiritual sterility by the totalitarian State.” As Weil’s biographer, Simone Pétrement, comments, “The Roman peace was soon the peace of the desert, a world from which had vanished, together with political liberty and diversity, the creative inspiration that produces great art, great literary works, science, and philosophy. Many centuries had to pass before the superior forms of human life were reborn.”
Joseph Schumpeter who `in 1919, described ancient Rome in a way that sounds eerily like the United States in 2001: "There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome's allies; and if Rome had no allies, the allies would be invented . . . The fight was always invested with an aura of legality. Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbours."' We have only outdone the Romans in turning metaphors such as the war on terrorism, or poverty, or Aids into actual wars on targets we appear, often, to pick at random in order to maintain turbulence in foreign lands.
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petrichor, n.Etymology: < petr- (in petro- comb. form1) + ichor n.(Show More)
A pleasant, distinctive smell frequently accompanying the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather in certain regions. Also: an oily liquid mixture of organic compounds which collects in the ground and is believed to be responsible for this smell.
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For instance, although the huge demonstrations in the UK against the Iraq war in 2002/3 did not stop the war, in 2007 because of the way Tony Blair lied the country into war, Gordon Brown gave up the royal prerogative traditionally exercised by the prime minister to declare war without parliamentary approval. In March this year Green Party MP Caroline Lucas proposed the 'Parliamentary Approval of War Act' (09/03/2011) calling on the government to introduce legislation to make it mandatory that any decision to commit our troops to war should be approved by parliament.
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Recent reports from the front indicate that Muslims captured by Serbs have
their throats cut, while Serbs captured by Muslims are circumcized, one side
inflicting real death, the other only symbolic death
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Beati in regno coelesti videbunt poenas damnatorum, ut beatitudo illis magis complaceat.
The Blissful in the celestial region view pain of the damned, so that their bliss can become major in comparison
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“Some Refuse the Loan of Life to Avoid the Debt of Death” - OTto RanK
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In the English aristocracy, "piracy and war gave place to trade, politics, and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord; the law-lord to the merchant and the mill-owner; but the privilege was kept, whilst the means of obtaining it were changed."
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Nietzche had postulated that in art there was a "Dionysian" urge for self immolation and passion which intruded on the "Apollonian" urge for symmetry, construction and conquest, the union of the two finding it's expression in the medium "tragedy".
This Dionysian, suicidal urge is certainly present in the Rock n Roll genre , with it's death cult (Hendrix, Morrison, Cobain) and in film, which is preoccupied almost exclusively with murder and violence, but the framing narrative itself is triumphalist, on the radio with "freedom rock" and the pop format and especially in film with the ubiquitous "Hollywood Ending".
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"From the Indin's point of view, 'white man' is not a race, it's a psycho-social disorder." – Sequoia Chesterfield
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Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity. - IF STONE
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‘When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. You’re always running into people’s unconscious.’
- M. Monroe
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The beacon of the Enlightenment's lighthouse revealed as the spotlight of a concentration camp watchtower, the single headlight of a battered car whose tires are slick with entrails and gore, the cyclopean glow of the TV in every home.
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> Organised crime is very clearly a far more powerful factor than most people
> give credit for. This was recently summed up in a post to the cia-drugs list
> by Brian Downing Quigg who quoted a paragraph from former DCI, Bill Colby's
> investment newsletter written shortly before he was suicided: "Strategic
> Investment Newsletter - Sept. 1995: "The Latin American drug cartels have
> stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people
> believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of
> government."
Right. What i’m saying is that Wachovia ALONE handled ~$125 billion per year in shady cash from Mexico from 2004-2007. And that doesn’t even count the money that stayed in cash, went to the Bahamas or stayed in Mexico.
The volume of cash handled in the Wachovia case also suggests something on the order of $125 bn per year being laundered by a single method. Some is still physically hauled as bulk cash.
That’s a LOT of money, and a lot more than we’ve discussed. The GOM has hired the ex-CIA group to find additional monies laundered by Wachovia. Same group are being used against British Tobacco.
Criminal proceedings were brought against Wachovia, though not against any individual, but the case never came to court. In March 2010, Wachovia settled the biggest action brought under the US bank secrecy act, through the US district court in Miami. Now that the year's "deferred prosecution" has expired, the bank is in effect in the clear. It paid federal authorities $110m in forfeiture, for allowing transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling, and incurred a $50m fine for failing to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine.
More shocking, and more important, the bank was sanctioned for failing to apply the proper anti-laundering strictures to the transfer of $378.4bn – a sum equivalent to one-third of Mexico's gross national product – into dollar accounts from so-called casas de cambio (CDCs) in Mexico, currency exchange houses with which the bank did business.
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16. Diablo | April 16th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
I was in from 2000-2006. Drive around any military town and there are countless pay day loan places. Every car lot and mortgage company has a sign out that says something like “E-1 and above instant credit approval”.
The reason is that as a federal employee, all they have to do is make one phone call and your wages get garnished. I even had my garnished by a company I didn’t do business with and it took forever to get that fixed.
As an E-5, I used to fight with my immediate command over the fact that they refused to do needed training on personal finance. For a lot of us enlisted, the military is the first time they have a paying job. If I sat down with our records, easily 90% of our personnel problems started off with bad debt getting out of control for these kids.
Then again, for the military, there is a huge incentive to hold onto to people. Indentured servitude is basically systematically used in a lot of different hob classifications. Most of the nukes I knew that stayed in were eyeballs deep in debt and couldn’t afford to get out.
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Nicknamed guanacos, after a llama known for its habit of spitting, the ubiquitous water cannons cleared away people as if they were human garbage, leaving the streets glistening, clean and empty.
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"Can I quit now?" Brown wrote in an infamous e-mail to a fellow FEMA
staffer in the middle of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. That is pretty much
the philosophy: stay in government just long enough to get an impressive ti
tle in a department handing out big contracts and to collect inside informa
tion on what will sell, then quit and sell access to your former colleagues.
Public service is reduced to little more than a reconnaissance mission for future work in the disaster capitalism complex.
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SCRAP
we do belong
to the songs we carry on
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"The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination." HP Lovecraft
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Shortly after the post ran, Berdahl says she got a call from board of governors chair John Montalbano, the Royal Bank of Canada executive whose $2-million donation created her teaching post.
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But that the white eye-lid of the screen reflect its proper light, the whole Universe would go up in flames (ignite) - Burnel
Build your films, on white, on silence, and on stillness - Bresson
...the frenzy of the wall... - Sartre
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Capitalism works to libertarians because whenever it doesn't work it's not really capitalism.
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As Evola puts it: “In most cases, savage tribes should not be considered as precivilized states of mankind, but rather as extremely degenerated forms of remnants of very ancient races and civilizations. Even though the above mentioned particulars are found among savage tribes and are expressed in materialistic, dark, and shamanic forms, this should not prevent us from recognizing the meaning and the importance they assume once they are brought back to their true origins. . .. These forms coincide with what I have called the ‘spiritual virility’ of the world of Tradition” (Revolt Against the Modern World, p. 46).
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15. “This explains why the first generation of Egyptologists was led by devotional religion to recognize in the features of pharaonic regality those of the Antichrist or of the princeps huius mundi” (Revolt, p. 43, n.
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I can imagine a fleet of robotic railguns floating from balloons in the Venusian upper atmosphere, hooked up to air compressors that compress its CO2 into dry ice bullets that get fired toward Mars and the Moon. "Attack" other planets with Venusian atmosphere.. interesting, I like it.
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They were in a stretch of Antarctic sea called the Banzare Bank, known among mariners as “The Shadowlands” because it is among the planet’s most remote and inhospitable waters, nearly a two-week journey to the nearest major port.After being spotted in Antarctica, the Thunder bolted north toward the “Furious Fifties” and “Roaring Forties,” a perilous strip of latitudes spanning the Southern and Indian Oceans. Winds there routinely top 70 miles per hour in storms. Waves reach 60 feet tall.
Fishing boat captains have their superstitions, sweet spots and, in gillnetting, their signature style — distinguished by knot ties, net grids and rope splicing. Familiar with the unique characteristics of nets from the Thunder, Captain Chakravarty ticked off a 72-point list for the investigators. Before leaving, he handed over some of the Thunder’s nets. He took the rest of them, having been warned that they might be sold on the black market.
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Žižek engages in a kind of frantic monologue, and at one point he names his three favorite films: King Vidor’s The Fountainhead (this really surprised me), Sergei Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible, and Veit Harlan’s Opfergang.
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"Encouraged & influenced by Norval Morriseau, he has developed:
vocabulary of strong pattern relationships
richly embroidered
expressive linear elements.
bold defined figures
fluid silhouette outlines,
subdivided into cellular units.
the application of
tributary crestings
vibratory filaments,
creates forms which generate or radiate energy,
and occupy/describe space.
Founded upon the characteristic physical qualities of the various animal and bird species, his imaginative interpretations of the necessary spiritual qualities have the stamp of conviction."
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Your memory is a monster. It summons with a will of its own. You think you have a memory but it has you - John Irving.
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Mars took over from Atlantis as being the great industrial myth of the twentieth century.
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the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy). Brutality, artificiality and innocence/idiocy: these are the very qualities that excite us most when we contemplate trash.
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The CIA-run Phoenix program, for example, “liquidated” up to 41,000 communist cadres. In fact this program liquidated tens of thousands of civilians who had the bad luck to be located in Viet Cong controlled territory, a sort of ‘eliminate the VC rice tax base’ (farmers) that was patently criminal. My post Vietnam experience filling a Special Forces intelligence slot cast some little inside perspective on the Phoenix scheme, nothing quite like rubbing elbows in training with SF Vietnam veterans who were not precisely proud of the organization’s legacy in support of CIA operations.
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In a word, he was a man born to obey, and this self-annihilation suited his passive temperament. Men such as he are the materials of which a formidable army is formed. They are the arms of the service, obeying a single head. Is not this the only really powerful organisation? The two types of fabulous mythology, Briareus with a hundred arms and Hydra with a hundred heads, well represent the two kinds of armies; and in a conflict between them, which would be victorious? Briareus without a doubt !
En un mot, c'était un homme né pour obéir, et cette annihilation de lui-même allait à sa nature passive. C'est avec ces gens-là que l'on fait les armées redoutables. Ce ne sont que des bras au service d'une seule tête. N'est-ce pas là l'organisation véritable de la force? Deux types ont été imaginés par la Fable: Briarée aux cent bras, l'Hydre aux cent têtes. Si l'on met ces deux montres aux prises, qui remportera la victoire? Briarée.
The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude - Jules Verne
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Workers are a many-headed monster which every one should oppose
An Essay on Trade and Commerce (1770)
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Martin Luther King: “Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.“
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To have a state-run justice system is to reach a certain level of civilization. To many humans the experience of this will be a sense of order. To many humans their experience of such as system will be as a para-military occupation force.
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However, at the same time the movement was deliberately divisive. 99 vs. 1: there is a real enemy. The problem in this regard I encountered at a number of different occupations I went to. One of the big issues was always whether the police are part of the 1 or the 99 per cent. I do not have one answer on that. It had to remain an open issue. In some places it makes sense to think of them as part of the 99 per cent because they were facing all kinds of budget cuts etc. On the other hand they were also functioning as agents and defenders of the 1 per cent. So the very place where the division was policed, as it were, became an antagonistic site where the question of difference remained unresolved in a useful way.
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“I wept. I felt rage today. I was mad at you, Mike {Rupert}, going out this way. It was too similar to Gary Webb, to Jim Hatfield the Bush biographer. I don’t want this pattern. Tell me it’s not the fate for writers of deep truth, to die, alone, shooting their brains out, because they went deep and hard after the invisible forces, the slithering stag. The hunter became hunted by the dragon.
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In considering the context of the Kennedy assassination its critical to have an in depth understanding of the CIA during that period, on who worked in what part of the Agency and in particular what type of projects they worked on.
As an example, I recently saw a post describing Howard Hunt as a 'paramilitary officer'….that is truly off the mark. It is true he worked within the Plans Directorate and most specifically inside the P-P group, which included *political action, propaganda and paramilitary*. Hunt’s specialty was *political action*, essentially courting and sustaining Agency surrogate groups – for short think “carrying the money”.
Comparing him to true *paramilitary officers* such as Rip Robertson would be a real stretch, even comparing him to *paramilitary trainer, counter intelligence officer and operations specialist* David Morales would be just flat wrong.
In talking of Angleton and Harvey, its important to understand that they shared some of the same jobs at different points -including *counter intelligence* – and both were some of the few officers fully aware of the Agencies’ *technical services* tools- MKNAIOMI - such as truth serums and various drugs and poisons.
Both men were also very much connected to the Office of Security which in turn had its own connections to *professional criminals* such as smugglers, safe crackers and strong arm types. Those are the kind of guys you need if you are breaking into embassies, kidnapping couriers and blackmailing the other side for code books and related cryptographic devices.
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"Make a Law, Make a Business" — Old New Jersey street saying
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A young man has been fatally crushed after a statue erected in honour of Pope John Paul II in northern Italy fell on top of him.
The man, (21) Marco Gusmini, died instantly and a second man was taken to hospital after the 30m sculpture fell on top of him.
The sculpture, near the town of Cevo, has a large curved cross with a large statue of Jesus Christ fixed to the top.
It was designed by sculptor Enrico Job and erected to commemorate the Pope’s visit to the area in 1998.
John Paul II and his predecessor Pope John XXIII, are due to be canonised on Sunday.
It is the second death from a falling crucifix in Italy. In 2004 it was reported that a 72-year old woman had been crushed to death by a 2 metre tall metal crucifix in the town of Sant’Onofrio.
Fri, Apr 25, 2014, 16:19
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“No unmixed strategies are valid.”
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Unemployed, obviously, and with time on their hands to cluster around anything that resembled hope.
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Trash80, YMCK, MGMT, and I Fight Dragons Nullsleep and Tangible Anamanaguchi
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The major drug crimes show now that the Vancouver once the cocaine capital of Canada has shifted big time into corporate Calgary and the tar sands. The conservatives also have told the RCMP to keep their hands off Alberta.
BigBlueMarble
@120 plus Yeah if the RCMP arrested all the cocaine users in Alberta who would do all the work in the Tar Sands and the rest of the Alberta oil patch?
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There was a longer time in those days for young men to be in the warrior phase, where a lot of homo-social romantic attachments were formed before hetero-sexual encounters
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SOuthpark/libertarian explosion of offensive terms and incidental, objectified representations of women, gay men and various racial groups
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Self-selection experiments also proved that not only did rats choose diets which promoted growth, but that during pregnancy and lactation they chose diets particularly suitable for the chemical needs of pregnancy and of lactation.
Coprophagia, infantophagia,autophagia, placenta eating, bone eating, and ouronodypsia may all serve self-regulatory functions.
In some instances such self-selection appetites are so precise that they can be used for a bio-assay of preparations that influence the activities of various glands of internal secretion.
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4. Let’s assume you don’t want to be a bully, and you are having a debate. You notice that the person you are debating is getting upset. Leah Libresco suggests you ask what your opponent thinks is at stake in the debate. She puts it memorably:
I’ve tried using this kind of approach in non-philosophical fights (with varying success) to keep forcing myself to ask “What is this person protecting?” I’ve tried explicitly reframing whatever the other person is saying to me as “Watch out! You’re about to step on a kitten!!” and then working out what the kitten is. This way, intensity in argument isn’t necessarily aggressive or insulting, and it’s not something I need to take personally. It’s just a signal of how passionately my interlocutor loves the thing they think I’m about to blindly trample on, and I’d best figure out what it is sharpish.
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The earliest example of this is the Camel News Caravan on NBC, where as a result of the sponsorship of Camel Tobacco, only Winston Churchill was allowed to smoke in any of the reports (due his exceptional iconic status), and cancer coverage was forbidden. The visual requirements of a new televised news service also meant great restrictions in content, for there was simply not the infrastructure to obtain film coverage of events taking place across the world. Rather than summarize them vocally, they were omitted.
This problem diminished as more portable means of recording video were devised, but the commercial unpopularity of news coverage was still a problem in the sixties. CBS Reports, which President of CBS Fred Friendly had once promised to keep on air, was threatened by his successor, James Aubrey, who reportedly said in a board meeting: “You can see, Mr. Chairman, how much bigger our profits could have been this year if it had not been for the drain of news,” (at page 346).
In an intelligent twist of events, Russia’s then leader, Nikita Khruschev, negotiated an interview with CBS, which both paved the way for a new kind of televised journalism, where it was not the stars of Hollywood, but the old men of Moscow and Washington who took the limelight, and facilitated the Russo-American dialog that brought the beginnings of the Cold War into the full-focus of the American television audience. JFK was the first president to truly embrace the new media, live coverage took a sharp and tragic turn as he became the first ever person to be murdered live on television, sparking a similarly novel period of four-day, non-stop coverage.
Canadian journalist Neil Compton, who after comparing US television coverage to Canadian, observed that the “great networks” seem to express a “massive political consensus,” and that “they are commercial to a degree which even an outsider used to television finds overwhelming,” (at page 381). To Compton, these two phenomena were “not, of course, unrelated,” and he concludes that anyone relying on US network coverage of the Vietnam War “would have been far less well informed than his Canadian counterpart,” despite US coverage being more frequent.
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BG: What is your reaction to the firing of Peter Arnett?
AO: CNN didn't take this action last summer because they felt it would raise too much of an uproar. They hoped they could do it in such a way as to keep it off of the radar screen, so to speak. Peter was a different case from myself and Jack Smith. He was a very prominent personality.
His firing was a direct result of Pentagon pressure. Perry Smith [a retired major general and former CNN consultant who resigned in protest over the Tailwind report] told the Wall Street Journal last July that CNN would not get cooperation from the Pentagon unless Peter Arnett was fired.
BG: What is your feeling about Arnett's refusal to stand by the Tailwind report?
AO: Arnett is a good reporter who doesn't accept Pentagon disinformation. He is a legend in this business, but he made a Faustian bargain. In saving his job, he destroyed it.
BG: What is the broader significance of Arnett's firing, as well as CNN's cave-in on the Tailwind report and your own dismissal?
AO: It is sad how the CNN executives caved. They will do anything to stem the flow of information and keep themselves protected. There is something so amiss within the executive ranks that nobody thinks there is anything improper in State Department spokesman James Rubin being married to CNN's chief reporter on the Kosovo War, Christian Amanpour.
The military and veterans' groups not only determine what CNN covers, but who covers it. That the military should have veto power over the employment policy of the networks is alarming. The message is: fall in line, otherwise, you're history. Above all, don't mess around with national security issues. It is absolutely chilling. I see the fallout from CNN's capitulation on Tailwind continuing.
*****Jane Fonda**********
She was next taken to visit an air defence installation on the outskirts of Hanoi. There, she was asked to climb onto the seat of an anti-aircraft gun — which she did without thinking. As soon as she’d hopped off, she exclaimed: ‘Oh my God. It’s going to look like I was trying to shoot down U.S. planes!’
It was too late: the picture went round the world. When she arrived back in the U.S. — in coolie hat and Vietnamese pyjamas — she was greeted with cries of ‘Hanoi Jane’ and accused of being a traitor.
‘What is a traitor? What is a patriot?’ was her angry retort. ‘I cried every day when I was in Vietnam. I cried for the Vietnamese and I cried for the Americans, too.’
William Manchester, editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper, called for her to be tried for sedition and shot. A Congressman suggested her tongue be cut off. Jane decided the trip to North Vietnam had changed her life.
One night, she stood naked in their bedroom and told Hayden she wanted to have a child. She said that in North Vietnam she’d met women who’d been in labour during the air strikes. As the bombs fell, they’d cry: ‘Nixon, we fight you with all the joys of a woman in childbirth!’
Jane thought if she and Hayden had a child, it would express solidarity with Vietnam. First, however, they decided to get married. The smell of pot was heavy in their living room as they exchanged vows. Outside, Hell’s Angels — friends of her brother — encircled the house because Jane had been receiving death threats.
********Interwar Left********
The point here is that in the Sturm und Drang of Weimar Germany—and around the world at that time —there was an explosion of left cultural activity, linked, for better or worse, with Soviet and international Communism.
Paraphrasing Eric Hobsbawm (1988)—a later-generation German and cosmopolitan Communist—I once proposed a historical typology of red internationalists: the Agitators (often freelancers, ‘changing their countries more often than their shirts’); the Agents (working for a state or party, whether openly or clandestinely, whether as propagandists or as spies); and the Communicators (creating/instrumentalising/empowering mass action by providing relevant publics with information, ideas, son et lumière). It then occurred to me that these types need not just follow one another in succession; they could also coexist simultaneously, as forms or aspects of internationalist activity within each historical period.
*********Hollywood's Top Military Advisor believes Nam was winnable except for Hippies and Liberals
UNHERALDED VICTORY
The Defeat of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, 1961-1973
We won the war on the battlefield…only to lose it in the political arena. Woodruff clearly and trenchantly separates a bad war from the good warriors who fought it. It’s about damn time. From my position as Hollywood’s top Military Advisor, I’m going to spend some time shoving this book under the turned up noses of a whole platoon of screenwriters and directors.
Dale A. Dye, Captain, Marine Corps (Ret), Advisor for Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, and Forest Gump
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$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$Austerity & Allah Kissing in a Tree
He decides that the Great Depression is actually a punishment from God for disobeying God’s law, and how are we disobeying God’s law? Well it’s because we are trying to regulate the economy, we are trying to take matters into our own hands. Well we just have to completely trust God, and those he chooses, men like Henry Ford and the CEO of US Steel and so on.
Harry Bridges was a major, major labour leader here in the United States. And they just saw him the Devil Incarnate, and began to organise against him. And that’s what this group has become — and are to this day. They still see God’s interests as those of the absolutely unregulated free markets — a very sort of macho, muscular Christianity that tends to serve the interests of those involved. . . .. . .
In Muslim liturgy, the deals cut in the souk become a metaphor for the contract between God and the faithful. And the business model Muhammad prescribed, according to Muslim scholars and economists, is very much in the laissez-faire tradition later embraced by the West. Prices were to be set by God alone—anticipating by more than a millennium Adam Smith’s reference to the ‘invisible hand’ of market-based pricing.
The Muslim Brotherhood hails 14th century philosopher Ibn Khaldun as its economic guide. Anticipating supply-side economics, Khaldun argued that cutting taxes raises production and tax revenues, and that state control should be limited to providing water, fire and free grazing land, the utilities of the ancient world. The World Bank has called Ibn Khaldun the first advocate of privatization. [Emphasis added.] His founding influence is a sign of moderation.
In the 1950s, as the brotherhood gained political momentum, it opposed President Gamal Abdel Nasser as much for his decision to nationalize the Egyptian economy as for his fierce secularism. Muhammad, says Yasser Abdo, a Muslim Brotherhood member and a former economist at the International Islamic Bank for Investment and Development in Cairo, "believed in the private sector as the basis of productive activity," with a "limited" state role.
Today, brotherhood parliamentarians remain anti-statist and staunchly antitrust, citing a verse in the Qur'an: "He who brings commodities to the market is good, but he who practices monopolies is evil." Not that any member goes as far as questioning the OPEC cartel.
In the days of the caliphate, Islam developed the most sophisticated monetary system the world had yet known. Today, some economists cite Islamic banking as further evidence of an intrinsic Islamic pragmatism. Though still guided by a Qur'anic ban on riba, or interest, Islamic banking has adapted to the needs of a booming oil region for liquidity.
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"“What Iran’s government really should do is leave the economy to the private sector,” Mr. Pirouz said."
$$$$$$$$$$$$$Torture Screen Savers================================
An Al-Jazeera cameraman detained and tortured at Abu Ghraib recalls beatings, threats and photos of torture victims used as screen savers on military PCs.
----------MEdia and Secrets
I wrote a memo that shared with them the ultimate secret about secrets in Washington: that “practically everything that our government does, plans, thinks, hears and contemplates in the realms of foreign policy is stamped and treated as secret — and then unraveled by that same government, by the Congress and by the press in one continuing round of professional and social contacts and cooperative and competitive exchanges of information.
The governmental, political and personal interests of the participants are inseparable in this process. Presidents make “secret” decisions only to reveal them for the purposes of frightening an adversary nation, wooing a friendly electorate, protecting their reputations. ... High officials of the government reveal secrets in the search for support of their policies, or to help sabotage the plans and policies of rival departments. ... Though not the only vehicle for this traffic in secrets — the Congress is always eager to provide a forum — the press is probably the most important.
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That’s how it’s done, in barroom style: an official playing bureaucratic tennis, protecting his boss; a reporter preying on the knowingness of his source.
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Clearly, from the perspective of the public interest, there are and always have been both good and bad leaks, true and illuminating betrayals of secrets as well as false and conniving ones. On the path to war in Iraq, high officials of the Bush administration leaked classified but far from reliable information about W.M.D.’s, then pointed to its publication as “evidence” of its truth. When no W.M.D.’s were found, they used the same flawed secrets to justify their misrepresentations. But reporters could not expose this skullduggery until they obtained contradictory leaks from disheartened intelligence officials.
When is a leaker a true whistle-blower, risking his personal security to inform the citizenry and preserve the public’s interest? When is a leaker a mendacious opportunist, out to advance the narrow interests of himself or his boss? When does a leaker become so appalled at the self-serving actions of his colleagues that he crosses the line to shine a light on them? Is there a reliable way to distinguish among the many varieties of that genus peculiarly indigenous to Washington, the leaker?
Prosecutors of the realm, let this back-alley market flourish. Attorneys general and others armed with subpoena power, please leave well enough alone. Back off. Butt out.”
1971 - I remember President Johnson standing beside me, waist-deep in his Texas swimming pool, recounting for more than an hour his conversation the day before, in 1967, with Prime Minister Kosygin of the Soviet Union at Glassboro, N.J., for my "background" information, and subsequent though not immediate use in print, with a few special off-the-record sidelights that remain confidential.
2007 - When I wondered casually how Kosygin was being second-guessed so readily, the president proudly revealed that, thanks to a global network of sophisticated intercepts, he could hear everything being said among the Soviet leaders then dispersed in different parts of the world. Like the reporters who appeared at the Libby trial, I received such information on my source’s terms; I could use Johnson’s observations to analyze the summit discussion without naming him, but I could not refer to his techniques of eavesdropping. Those were the rules of the game.
-Max Frankel Major NYT reporter
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The Obama administration has pursued more leak investigations than all previous administrations combined, charging government officials and contractors under the 1917 Espionage Act designed to punish spies, not to crack down on conversations between government employees and reporters. Lowell suggested that there is a double standard.
“Lower-level employees like Mr. Kim are prosecuted because they are easier targets or often lack the resources or political connections to fight back,” he said. “High-level employees leak classified information to forward their agenda or to make an administration look good with impunity.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/ex-state-dept-adviser-to-plead-guilty-in-leak-to-fox-news/2014/02/07/6c71a644-900d-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html
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Gibson decided to give the NSA a four-hour window to comment, so the agency had an opportunity to disavow the story. By British standards, the deadline was fair: long enough to make a few calls, agree a line. But for Washington, where journalist-administration relations sometimes resemble a country club, this was nothing short of outrageous.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/01/edward-snowden-intelligence-leak-nsa-contractor-extract
==============**********1990s and the need for War*********=============
During President Clinton’s second term, this ad was posted on a wall in the Pentagon:
“ENEMY WANTED: Mature North American Superpower seeks hostile partner for arms-racing, Third World conflicts, and general antagonism. Must be sufficiently menacing to convince Congress of military financial requirements. Nuclear capability is preferred; however, non-nuclear candidates possessing significant bio chemical warfare resources will be considered. . . .”
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March 7, 2001; Mending the Military; A major issue during the 2000
presidential race was the state of the military. The Democrats said it was
fine, the Republicans said it was broken. OK, what is it?
Bill Clinton was not much liked by the American military. A telling story
currently circulating among the troops noted that when president George W.
Bush leaves his helicopter, the marine always stationed right outside
salutes
the debarking president. And as the president walks away, the marine turns,
still at attention, to face the president's back. When Clinton was
president, the marine just saluted and didn't turn around. Now most people
will not
recognize two interesting aspects of this seemingly innocuous scene. Many
navy veterans will note that it is customary for marines to move that way in
the presence of a superior officer. This goes back to the days of sailing
ships, when the captain would be on deck during a battle, all his
subordinates in the vicinity would always face their boss, the better to
receive instructions. This stance is still considered a sign of respect,
even
though it no longer serves a practical purpose. What most people missed was
that during the Clinton presidency, the marines stopped doing this, and
resumed it when George W Bush became president.
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sociologists have long been aware of a tendency for communities to define prohibited behavior so as not to exceed their capacity for controlling it
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Thomas Edison 1915:
"preparation for war is not military work, but should be done by shrewd businessmen in an economical way.... The soldier of the future will not be a soldier, but a machinist; he will not shed his blood, but will perspire in the factory of death at the battle line."
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"tiger cages" of South Vietnam to abandoned warehouse code-named the Salt Pit in Afghanistan and "The Hole" in Somalia.
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The sculpture 'America's Response Monument subtitled De Oppresso Liber', which is Latin for ‘to liberate the oppressed’, the motto of the Green Berets.[15] A piece of steel from the World Trade Center is embedded in the base, is a life-and-a-half scale bronze statue currently located in the West Street lobby of One World Financial Center opposite Ground Zero in New York CityIt is the first publicly accessible monument to special forces.[1] The land for the monument was donated by a private Wall Street firmand commissioned by an anonymous group of Wall Street bankers.[5]Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld displayed a photo of the modern soldiers on horseback during a news conference on November 15, 2001.
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When Sham, born during Syria’s civil war, uttered her first word recently, it conveyed a great deal about how devastated her country is. “Enfijar,” the toddler said. Explosion. "One child interviewed for the Save the Children report, 8-year-old Noor, summed up his experience: “What do I remember of Syria? Blood. This is it.”
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'spirit’ of the original real or fantastic being that the image had an actual ‘spirit’ life in the world of the dead.
So pervasive was this belief, that one aristocrat of the Han dynasty was accused of plotting rebellion in the next world because of the range and number of military burial figures which he had acquired.
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Asked for comment on the released documents, Edmonds’ March 2010 statement included;
“Chicago was the center of it all. Chicago was the center of the foreign espionage activity, and the center for money laundering, and also a major heroin distribution center. Celebi was a key player, but Dennis Hastert, Mayor Daley, Robert Creamer and other US officials also helped facilitate these activities.”
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
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Gunfire has its own language. Suppressing fire, the purpose of which is to pin you down, sounds undisciplined; it wanders back and forth over you without much aim. It is searching and random and somehow doesn’t seem as deadly.
Accurate, aimed fire is a different story. It has a purpose to it. You know as soon as you hear it that somebody has you in their sights. The shots come with a rapid-fire focus that underscores their murderous intent. Somebody is shooting at you. It becomes intimate and fear inducing…
The enemy machine gunners hammered at us with accurate bursts. As their bullets struck home, they spoke to us infantrymen as clearly as if they had used our native language. Message received: these were not amateurs in the hills on our flanks. (p. 77)
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Psyops was fun! I loved our AV vehicles. We could take control of any airwaves we wanted, broadcast TV and radio, mix and edit footage. Fun! I was part of the 245th Psychological Operations Co. (Airborne) out of Dallas Texas. I went on two training rotations with the 82nd Airborne in ~93, one at that Ft in Kansas (or Missouri) where Elvis did his basic training, and the other at Ft.Bragg.
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aquamanile (plural aquamanilia or simply aquamaniles) is a ewer or jug-type vessel in the form of one or more animal or human figures. It usually contained water for the washing of hands (aqua + manos) over a basin, which was part of both upper-class meals and the Christian Eucharist. Historically the term was sometimes used for any shape of basin or ewer so used, regardless of shape. Most surviving examples are in metal, typically copper alloys (brass or bronze), as pottery versions have rarely survived.
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Ritual =
1) Remove current animal/domestic vitality
2) Replace it with plundered foreign/external vitality
3) Act of violence to trancede // make permenat, immortal // rebound violence to solve existenial crisis //conquest & consume
4) Return to Mundane real with extenal power intact
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. “Let Mao Tse-tung’s thought occupy all positions; use it to transform the mental outlook of the whole of society; sweep away all ghosts and monsters; brush aside all stumbling-blocks and resolutely carry the great proletarian cultural revolution through to the end!”
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As Lyndon LaRouche said in a recent discussion,
"The problem is, people make the Hitler Nazi movement as the problem of that period, rather than seeing the Hitler Nazi movement as an instrument of the forces, an expendable instrument of the forces who caused the problem and were directing it. Hitler is dead. The Nazis are generally dead. But! The people who created them as an instrument are still alive, and are on the verge of taking world power today.
"I would add to that," he continued. "People exaggerate the significance of the Hitler Nazi movement, which was a terrible thing in its time, but it was a creation, a puppet of a much larger force, which was temporarily embarrassed at the end of the war, when Hitler was defeated, but came back in the name of being our 'necessary anti-Communist allies.'
"That's the truth of the matter. There's no difference between the people, of the financial group, which are Anglo-Dutch Liberal and French Synarchist, who created Hitler, and created that intention, and the crowd behind Rohatyn today. That's the concept. That's the truth of the matter."
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Among all my patients in the second half of life - that is to say, over thirty-five - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
anima - the 'demon-woman of mythology [who] is in truth the "sister-wife-mother", tthe woman in the man, who unexpectedly turns up during the second half of life and tries to effect a forcible change of personality'.
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I refuse to call a bad person by their given name because often that name is too good for them,
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So how many bits are in this instance of H1N1? The raw number of bits, by my count, is 26,022; the actual number of coding bits approximately 25,054 — I say approximately because the virus does the equivalent of self-modifying code to create two proteins out of a single gene in some places (pretty interesting stuff actually), so it’s hard to say what counts as code and what counts as incidental non-executing NOP sleds that are required for self-modifying code.
So it takes about 25 kilobits — 3.2 kbytes — of data to code for a virus that has a non-trivial chance of killing a human. This is more efficient than a computer virus, such as MyDoom, which rings in at around 22 kbytes.
It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two.
dna - program stored on disk
rna - program loaded in RAM
protien - image output from RNA program
amino acid - pixel in frame buffer
fuctional group of cell - is application that listens to a socket
organism = computer with IP address
For those not familiar with molecular biology, DNA is information-equivalent to RNA on a 1 to 1 mapping; DNA is like a program stored on disk, and RNA is like a program loaded into RAM. Upon loading DNA, a transcription occurs where “T” bases are replaced with “U” bases. Remember, each base pair specifies one of four possible symbols (A [T/U] G C), so a single base pair corresponds to 2 bits of information.
Proteins are the output of running an RNA program. Proteins are synthesized according to the instructions in RNA on a 3 to 1 mapping. You can think of proteins a bit like pixels in a frame buffer. A complete protein is like an image on the screen; each amino acid on a protein is like a pixel; each pixel has a depth of 6 bits (3 to 1 mapping of a medium that stores 2 bits per base pair); and each pixel has to go through a color palette (the codon translation table) to transform the raw data into a final rendered color. Unlike a computer frame buffer, different biological proteins vary in amino acid count (pixel count).
To ground this in a specific example, six bits stored as “ATG” on your hard drive (DNA) is loaded into RAM (RNA) as “AUG” (remember the T->U transcription). When the RNA program in RAM is executed, “AUG” is translated to a pixel (amino acid) of color “M”, or methionine (which is incidentally the biological “start” codon, the first instruction in every valid RNA program). As a short-hand, since DNA and RNA are 1:1 equivalent, bioinformaticists represent gene sequences in DNA format, even if the biological mechanism is in RNA format (as is the case for Influenza–more on the significance of that later!).
OK, back to the main point of this post. The particular RNA subroutine mentioned above codes for the HA gene which produces the Hemagglutinin protein: in particular, an H1 variety. This is the “H1? in the H1N1 designation.
If you thought of organisms as computers with IP addresses, each functional group of cells in the organism would be listening to the environment through its own active port. So, as port 25 maps specifically to SMTP services on a computer, port H1 maps specifically to the windpipe region on a human. Interestingly, the same port H1 maps to the intestinal tract on a bird. Thus, the same H1N1 virus will attack the respiratory system of a human, and the gut of a bird. In contrast, H5 — the variety found in H5N1, or the deadly “avian flu” — specifies the port for your inner lungs. As a result, H5N1 is much more deadly because it attacks your inner lung tissue, causing severe pneumonia. H1N1 is not as deadly because it is attacking a much more benign port that just causes you to blow your nose a lot and cough up loogies, instead of ceasing to breathe.
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Remember Simone Weil’s hatred of the Roman Empire and what it did to Europe’s cultural richness and diversity: “If we consider the long centuries and the vast area of the Roman Empire and compare these centuries with the ones that preceded it and the ones that followed the barbarian invasions, we perceive to what extent the Mediterranean basin was reduced to spiritual sterility by the totalitarian State.” As Weil’s biographer, Simone Pétrement, comments, “The Roman peace was soon the peace of the desert, a world from which had vanished, together with political liberty and diversity, the creative inspiration that produces great art, great literary works, science, and philosophy. Many centuries had to pass before the superior forms of human life were reborn.”
Joseph Schumpeter who `in 1919, described ancient Rome in a way that sounds eerily like the United States in 2001: "There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome's allies; and if Rome had no allies, the allies would be invented . . . The fight was always invested with an aura of legality. Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbours."' We have only outdone the Romans in turning metaphors such as the war on terrorism, or poverty, or Aids into actual wars on targets we appear, often, to pick at random in order to maintain turbulence in foreign lands.
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petrichor, n.Etymology: < petr- (in petro- comb. form1) + ichor n.(Show More)
A pleasant, distinctive smell frequently accompanying the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather in certain regions. Also: an oily liquid mixture of organic compounds which collects in the ground and is believed to be responsible for this smell.
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For instance, although the huge demonstrations in the UK against the Iraq war in 2002/3 did not stop the war, in 2007 because of the way Tony Blair lied the country into war, Gordon Brown gave up the royal prerogative traditionally exercised by the prime minister to declare war without parliamentary approval. In March this year Green Party MP Caroline Lucas proposed the 'Parliamentary Approval of War Act' (09/03/2011) calling on the government to introduce legislation to make it mandatory that any decision to commit our troops to war should be approved by parliament.
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Recent reports from the front indicate that Muslims captured by Serbs have
their throats cut, while Serbs captured by Muslims are circumcized, one side
inflicting real death, the other only symbolic death
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Beati in regno coelesti videbunt poenas damnatorum, ut beatitudo illis magis complaceat.
The Blissful in the celestial region view pain of the damned, so that their bliss can become major in comparison
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“Some Refuse the Loan of Life to Avoid the Debt of Death” - OTto RanK
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In the English aristocracy, "piracy and war gave place to trade, politics, and letters; the war-lord to the law-lord; the law-lord to the merchant and the mill-owner; but the privilege was kept, whilst the means of obtaining it were changed."
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Nietzche had postulated that in art there was a "Dionysian" urge for self immolation and passion which intruded on the "Apollonian" urge for symmetry, construction and conquest, the union of the two finding it's expression in the medium "tragedy".
This Dionysian, suicidal urge is certainly present in the Rock n Roll genre , with it's death cult (Hendrix, Morrison, Cobain) and in film, which is preoccupied almost exclusively with murder and violence, but the framing narrative itself is triumphalist, on the radio with "freedom rock" and the pop format and especially in film with the ubiquitous "Hollywood Ending".
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"From the Indin's point of view, 'white man' is not a race, it's a psycho-social disorder." – Sequoia Chesterfield
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Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity. - IF STONE
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‘When you’re famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. You’re always running into people’s unconscious.’
- M. Monroe
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The beacon of the Enlightenment's lighthouse revealed as the spotlight of a concentration camp watchtower, the single headlight of a battered car whose tires are slick with entrails and gore, the cyclopean glow of the TV in every home.
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> Organised crime is very clearly a far more powerful factor than most people
> give credit for. This was recently summed up in a post to the cia-drugs list
> by Brian Downing Quigg who quoted a paragraph from former DCI, Bill Colby's
> investment newsletter written shortly before he was suicided: "Strategic
> Investment Newsletter - Sept. 1995: "The Latin American drug cartels have
> stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people
> believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of
> government."
Right. What i’m saying is that Wachovia ALONE handled ~$125 billion per year in shady cash from Mexico from 2004-2007. And that doesn’t even count the money that stayed in cash, went to the Bahamas or stayed in Mexico.
The volume of cash handled in the Wachovia case also suggests something on the order of $125 bn per year being laundered by a single method. Some is still physically hauled as bulk cash.
That’s a LOT of money, and a lot more than we’ve discussed. The GOM has hired the ex-CIA group to find additional monies laundered by Wachovia. Same group are being used against British Tobacco.
Criminal proceedings were brought against Wachovia, though not against any individual, but the case never came to court. In March 2010, Wachovia settled the biggest action brought under the US bank secrecy act, through the US district court in Miami. Now that the year's "deferred prosecution" has expired, the bank is in effect in the clear. It paid federal authorities $110m in forfeiture, for allowing transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling, and incurred a $50m fine for failing to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine.
More shocking, and more important, the bank was sanctioned for failing to apply the proper anti-laundering strictures to the transfer of $378.4bn – a sum equivalent to one-third of Mexico's gross national product – into dollar accounts from so-called casas de cambio (CDCs) in Mexico, currency exchange houses with which the bank did business.
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16. Diablo | April 16th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
I was in from 2000-2006. Drive around any military town and there are countless pay day loan places. Every car lot and mortgage company has a sign out that says something like “E-1 and above instant credit approval”.
The reason is that as a federal employee, all they have to do is make one phone call and your wages get garnished. I even had my garnished by a company I didn’t do business with and it took forever to get that fixed.
As an E-5, I used to fight with my immediate command over the fact that they refused to do needed training on personal finance. For a lot of us enlisted, the military is the first time they have a paying job. If I sat down with our records, easily 90% of our personnel problems started off with bad debt getting out of control for these kids.
Then again, for the military, there is a huge incentive to hold onto to people. Indentured servitude is basically systematically used in a lot of different hob classifications. Most of the nukes I knew that stayed in were eyeballs deep in debt and couldn’t afford to get out.
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Nicknamed guanacos, after a llama known for its habit of spitting, the ubiquitous water cannons cleared away people as if they were human garbage, leaving the streets glistening, clean and empty.
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"Can I quit now?" Brown wrote in an infamous e-mail to a fellow FEMA
staffer in the middle of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. That is pretty much
the philosophy: stay in government just long enough to get an impressive ti
tle in a department handing out big contracts and to collect inside informa
tion on what will sell, then quit and sell access to your former colleagues.
Public service is reduced to little more than a reconnaissance mission for future work in the disaster capitalism complex.
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