http://www.pakalertpress.com/2012/09/11/energy-drinks-are-more-dangerous-than-you-think/

so much going on today...Israel/US , libya fallout, the weird film and this just came my way late last night, not a peep from the MSM, big surprise....http://theintelhub.com/2012/09/13/president-of-italian-supreme-court-calls-for-international-criminal-investigation-into-911-attacks/

and this, the best 9/11 vid to show your doubting thomas friends...http://thegic.org/video/911-best-vid-ever#

Mossad behind anti-Mohammed film that has sparked murder and mayhem in mid-east?

Immediately after Obama's 'snubbing' of Netanyahu, a spate of anti-American violence breaks out over a strange film-linked to one Sam Bacile, a film-maker and real-estate agent, who seems to be neither. Efforts to establish his historicity and identity in America or Israel seem to have hit a dead-end....

follow the story here and here and see the 14 min. long trailer of the film here.

Warning, in addition to insulting Islam, lovers of fine movies and acting are also likely to be scandalized.


Coupled with Netanyahu's trying to publicily shame Obama into attacking Iran over it's likely building of their own Nukes to counteract any future American/Israeli threats, and his willingness to give Romney [a more naive, tractable - in Bibi's mind] the upper hand in the run-up to the election by showing Obama as 'weak on Zionism', seems to mark a new low for Bibi and Israel and American-Israeli relations.

Also from the excavator blog:Masking the many faces of U.S. foreign policy requires the annihilation of reason and common sense, as well as the censorship of contradictory evidence.

The murder of American ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens by Washington's Jihadist terrorists is only the latest demonstration of the schizophrenic nature of U.S. policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Ambassador Stevens was killed by the same Al-Qaeda elements in Libya that Washington and its allies sponsored as part of a larger military effort to overthrow Gaddafi.

Tony Cartalucci writes in his article, "US-Backed Terrorists Murder US' Own Ambassador in Libya":

"Not only has US policy been exposed as not "promoting democracy" but purposefully spreading destabilization, violence, and terrorism, but the exact same militants behind the death of the US' own ambassador are literally leading US efforts to visit the same violence, destabilization, and chaos upon Syria."

President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared "Mission Accomplished" regarding their Libyan mission way too early, an error that former President Bush also made in his illegal war against Iraq.

Upon hearing the news of the alleged death of Gaddafi at the hands of a mob, Clinton famously stated, "We came, we saw, he died." Clinton's new statement should be, "We lied, we kind of saw this coming, and we definitely died."

The writer "b" of Moon of Alabama says:

"Hillary Clinton's and the other state department furies who had urged the U.S. to attack Libya and who are also behind the drive against Syria are now confronted with the ruins of their policies. They carry at least some blame for yesterday's deaths."

It is still not clear who actually killed ambassador Stevens and three other Americans. I thought Washington had full control over the Salafist terrorists and Al-Qaeda pests in Libya and Syria. Are they turning against their master? Or is this another false flag, as some analysts have asserted? Could both attacks on the U.S. embassies be false flags?

Obama and the Democrats: Our only hope for the future, or another 1% control scheme?

Obama and the Democrats: Our only hope for the future, or another 1% control scheme?

Obama and the Democrats: Our only hope for the future, or another 1% control scheme?

In order to understand that the D's are not just 'good light', or 'watered down goodness', one has to understand just how far the reach of the 1% has captivated and emasculated a party already known for its spinelessness.

I'll bullet the prime points of anti-democracy which I believe shows them to be more evil than lesser.

*Obama signed on for indefinite detention of any American labeled a terrorist [definition to be supplied by WH as need fits [eco-terrorists, occupiers, you name it, the label will fit], There goes (along with his nauseating continuation, support and use of the patriot act) any semblance of differing on Bush on the roll-back of civil liberties the country was founded on. Plus the new drones and willingness to assassinate extra-judicially, any aforementioned terrorist. Where does that put us ahead of the evil Bushco-years on that point.

*Obama loves monsanto: he has hired 2x's now I believe Monsanto toadies and bootlickers to top Ag spots. Determined to control the seed stock of the civilized world and pollute the rest - and Obama has been there for them. While michelle putters in her organic WH garden we are geetting increasing pro-Monsanto agenda from WH.

*The unbelievable willingness to let WS off the hook, even after the levin committee 'gift-wrapped' a prosecution, Holder and co, obviously won't go after Goldman Sachs or any other major Banksters - but they got Wesley Snipes for tax evasion!!!whoopdee do!] The evidence is in, the banksters ripped us off, took massive trillions of bailout money, sent 9 trillion of to European banks and then bonused themselves in the billions I believe [added together] for a job well done. If that is not a sell out to wall st. [that dwarfs bus's by a factor of 3-4] I really do not know what is.

IS it still a democracy when neither the party in charge, or the 'opposition' raise a peep when the largest heist in the world goes down? I mean yeah - you are voting - but is there any connection here between the vote/campaign promises and the results? Any? Once Obama put wall st. insider Timmy G. (evil slur meant to suggest vapid 'jazz artist' kenny g. intentional ;-)) in place we knew where this train was headed.

*Health care...I distinctly recall being relieved that O was going to go for single payer - which at the time 65% of Americans supported, and in a Democratic act of spinelessness exceeded only by the failure to impeach Bush for lying to america re: WMD and false flagging us into war in Iraq obviously for oil, we got a tepid bill that FORCES Americans to give yet more money to the same non health care industry that helped ruin our current system.
Are a few things better - sure. are there any caps? no, only preexisitng conditions are tied to the same rates as those without, so everyone's already excessive insurance premiums are or have already gone up. The most evil, uselss, non-value added segment of American health care has just been rewarded for their decades of screwing us, with MANDATORY allopathic insurance. As a user - nearly exclusively of natural medicine calling it insult added to injury doesn't quite sum it up.

*Jobs/Green - Energy independence: his debacle in supporting a big contributor of his has tied his hands in much of the green development, but a timely and serious mea culpa, then used as an intro to the bully pulpit, could have had him every week hammering the public/media and congress - into doing the will of the people, make energy independence a 10 yr goal, and tie it, logically to a create green jobs bill. This is such a no-brainer on every front....but instead we got lukewarm bills pushed half-halfheartedly. A massive failure in an area we desperately needed on every front.

Blaming obstructionist R congress is so lame, especially when considering Reagan [his favorite president (!?!?!?!?!?!?) went right over the heads of congress to the people who by phone calls forced unwilling congress-folk into going with his plan. Obama has traded the presidents most powerful tool, the bully pulpit for lame community organizing, can't we get along with republicans excuses.

Community organizing is fine, in it's place, but we are a country at war with a 1% trying to [and quite successfully I might add] rob, dis-enfranchise/undemocratize and dis-empower us, and the goodwill and hope for change we had after his election was in retrospect a sick joke.

*Pro-Corporate/1%er foreign policy: same old as bush, got us out of iraq quicker - but let his generals blackmail [literally see B. Woodwards book] him into an Afghani quagmire that continues to ignore the fact that Pakistan is the source of terrorism in the region and that fighting radicals willing to live in caves has never worked well for england, the soviets or us. Never, oh but the real reason we are there was actually let slip by Gen. Petraeus - 'we can't leave now, we found a trillion $'s of minerals'.

*Money out of politics: flat line

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Yes - the Dems still push for the lefty wedge issues, as the R's do for the right, but I propose IT IS ALL A SHOW in terms of the above points. Not that the reps and senators don't believe there respective wedge positions, which rally the passions and pocketbooks of so much of America, but a show in the sense that the real nuts and bolts of what the 1%/plutocrats want they get no matter which party is in, they know the only price to this game, is not overly support either side too long, and let the wedge issues fall as they may, so the 1% can live to rip us off & manipulate us another day.
Thus the neo:lib/con coup that has overtaken the parties and Presidency is an evil with no real lesser or greater in terms of America's future as a democracy.

I do not for second think Obama is an intellectual lightweight like Bush was [or played so masterfully for 8 years] he is smart and maybe would do serious structural good if he could. Why he can't we can speculate, but the bottom line is he had 4 years to try and get the country turned around, and I watched closely to see how hard he tried...and not once did he use the bully pulpit in a way some who really gave a damn, or wanted to fight would.


And how can we hope for much less expect change in America, when the 2 parties are, at the level of federal leadership one party gives us: NAFTA, Indefinite detention/Assassination of Americans (cause the administrations secret panels think they might be terrorists), a budget that adds 12 'T'rillion in debt. And refuses to use the bully pulpit ala LBJ and Reagan to force needed change that the people want! Oh, and refuses to prosecute criminal Banksters in the largest heist known to mankind, when the senate hearings [by their own party!!!) give the AG a 'gift wrapped' case. And refused, even when again given a gift-wrapped catalog of impeachable offenses of worst President ever,oversees from a mere 20 miles away, the 23 hr/day torture of a whistle-blowing private,  sweeps it under the rug so they can not appear to mean and divisive before an election."

And the other party lies us into a war, that we borrow money from china to pay for, gives us the treasonous patriot act, Allows said banksters to have 3 trillion to give to europe and themselves as bonuses, open up a just over the border int'l torture center, has a VP and top adviser complicit in outing a CIA agent, lowers taxes on wealthy which loans from china have to pay for, earlier back we have the treasonous Iran-Contra.

Sadly you expect that level of criminality and contempt from the Republicans, from Nixon on, but a close examination reveals a pattern, ALL the structural changes made have been for the worse, all benefit the founding of a police state (as treatment of the Occupiers and pvt. Manning shows) and the pockets of the 1%.

We no longer have the country I was born into, it is as simple and sad as that. You can be detained without trial, known reason and disappeared just  like in Pinochet's Chile.

Our economies have become 3rd world, and our laws re: civil  liberties, right to assemble - effectively gone, freedom of the press, there but unused - except in the underground [and got to far and you will be holed up in an embassy relying on the good graces of a 3rd world president for sanctuary from....America!

I am afraid the 1% and the Military/Industrial Complex took careful notes as to what/how and why the Vietnam protests were as effective as the were. They seemed to vow never to let their power get away from them again, and they have succeeded, based primarily, in hindsight on manipulating us through fear and wedge issues.

The awful realization I had last year of the 1% needing only to cajole, fool, blackmail or threaten c. 500 people to effectively control the country has only grown as the most likely/simple explanation to what has happened to our 2 parties.

They have proved time and again who they work for, and for the answer to that we need only examine the recent words Mormon ex-Bishop Romney (of all people), and when the job is not only not getting done, but to the contrary, we are being undone, we just need to fire them. Both Parties. As soon as possible.

Do I hope to sway this election - or am I likely ?  Not really at all but will I stand back and condone Obama's continued rape of the constitution in the name of Bush's war on terror?

People on the other side of either party wonder how bad it needs to get till the other side gives up on their obviously failed and 'evil' leaders and party, that time, sadly is demonstrably past. We need to ditch both. Go ahead and, vote your lesser evil if you really must, but is it not past the hour to plan for taking back America, how many more elections will you keep doing it?  And can anyone pretend anymore that the 2 parties are 'on our side'?

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Solutions to come next week, after the conventions are over.
Has Obama really signed extra-judical assaination and disappearance  of americans into law? http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11264-john-cusack-and-jonathan-turley-on-obamas-constitution#.UEJvHM3ZXlE

15 things you probably wish Dems and Reps DIDN'T agree on

Are the wedge issues, just a tool to manipulate us into easily manipulated camps, this artilce explores the frightening amount of common ground between the '2' parties.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11289-closer-than-you-think-top-15-things-romney-and-obama-agree-on:

it used to be you could make something of a case for sticking with the democrats...but since Clinton...

Republicans and Democrats, like Romney and Obama are of one mind on many more things than they disagree about. From war and empire to their policies on Big Ag, Big Energy, “clean coal and safe nuclear power,” and the war on drugs their areas of agreement are vast and troubling, and perhaps far more important than the rhetorical and stylistic differences highlighted by US political campaigns.

Too much agreement between Republicans and Democrats has always been bad news for those at the bottom of America’s class and racial totem poles.

Back in 1875, Frederick Douglass observed that it took a war among the whites to free his people from slavery. What then, he wondered, would an era of peace among the whites bring us? He already knew the answer. Louisiana had its Colfax Massacre [5] two years earlier. A wave of thousands upon thousands of terroristic bombings, shootings, mutilations, murders and threats [6] had driven African Americans from courthouses, city halls, legislatures, from their own farms, businesses and private properties and from the voting rolls across the South. They didn’t get the vote back for 80 years, and they never did get the land back. But none of that mattered because on the broad and important questions of those days there was at last peace between white Republicans and white Democrats — squabbles around the edges about who’d get elected, but wide agreement on the rules of the game.

Like Douglass, the shallow talking heads who cover the 2012 presidential campaign on corporate media have noticed out loud the remarkable absence of disagreement between Republican and Democratic candidates on many matters. They usually mention what the establishment likes to call “foreign policy.” But the list of things Republicans and Democrat presidential candidates agree on, from coddling Wall Street speculators, protecting mortgage fraudsters and corporate wrongdoers to preventing Medicare For All to so-called “foreign policy,” “free trade,” “the deficit” “clean coal and safe nuclear power” and “entitlement reform,” is clearly longer and more important than the few points of mostly race and style, upon which they disagree.

15

Although unemployment is the highest it’s been since the Great Depression, the federal government should NOT enact any sort of WPA-style program to put millions of people back to work. Under Democrat Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s, Depression-era unemployment was tackled head on by direct federal hiring to dig subways, build roads, schools, parks, sewers, recreational facilities and public buildings. Oblivious of this history, Democrat Barack Obama maintains that only the private sector can or should create jobs.

14

Medicare, Medicaid and social security are “entitlements” that need to be cut to relieve what they call “the deficit.” Republicans have been on record for this since forever, though they claim not to want to mess with the Medicare people already over 65 are getting. One of the first acts of the Obama presidency was to appoint a bipartisan panel stacked with “deficit hawks” like Republican Allan Simpson and Democrat Erskine Bowles to recommend raising retirement ages and cutting back Medicaid, Medicare and social security, and pass a law directing Congress to have an up or down no-amendments vote on its recommendations. Fortunately the “cat food commission”, as it was called, was deadlocked and offered none. But Obama and top Democrats, most recently House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi continue to express their readiness for some kind of “grand compromise” with Republicans on this issue.

13

Climate change treaties and negotiations that might lead to them should be avoided at all costs. The differences between them are only style. Democrats admit that climate change exists and is man-made, Republicans say it’s a myth. But both ignored the Kyoto protocol and Obama like Bush before him, has worked tirelessly to delay, derail and boycott any actual talks that might lead to constructive international climate change agreements.

12

NAFTA was such a great thing it really should be extended to Central and South America and the entire Pacific rim. Again, there are differences in style. On the 2008 campaign trail, Obama sometimes mumbled about renegotiating parts of NAFTA, and such. But even before the primaries were done, press reports had him assuring the Canadian government this was only campaign rhetoric, raw meat for the rubes. In four years he has pushed NAFTA-like “free trade” corporate rights agreements with South Korea, most of Central America and is now secretly hammering out something called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement [7].

11

Banksters and Wall Street speculators deserve their bailouts and protection from criminal liability, but underwater and foreclosed homeowners deserve nothing. Well, maybe not exactly nothing. Republicans think underwater homeowners deserve blame for forcing banksters to offer millions of fraudulent high-interest loans were then re-sold to investors around the world. Democrats think underwater homeowners deserve empty promises of help that never quite arrives for most of the foreclosed, the about-to-be foreclosed, their families and communities. But both agree on free money for banksters and speculators but no moratorium on foreclosures and no criminal investigations of mortgage and securities fraud.

10

Palestinians should be occupied, dispossessed and ignored. Iran should be starved and threatened from all sides. Cuba should be embargoed, and Americans prohibited from going there to see what its people have done in a half century free of Yankee rule. Black and brown babies and their parents, relatives and neighbors should be bombed with drones in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and similar places. The politicians and corporate commentators have a misleading name for this. They call it “foreign policy.” The realistic term for it is global empire.

9

Africa should be militarized, destabilized, plundered and where necessary, invaded by proxy armies like those of Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi or Kenya, or directly by Western air and ground forces, as in Libya. President Georgia Bush announced the formation of AFRICOM, the US military command for the continent which has officially swallowed all US civilian diplomatic presence. But only a black US president, even under the cover of “humanitarian war” could have invaded an African nation and openly dispatched special forces to Central Africa.

8

US Presidents can kidnap citizens of their own or any nation on earth from anyplace on the planet for torture, indefinite imprisonment without trial or murder them and neighboring family and bystanders at will. To be perfectly fair, there are distinctions between Republicans and Democrats here that don’t amount to differences. Republicans Cheney and Bush got their lawyers to say these things were OK and did them. Democrat Obama got Congress to enact “laws” giving these acts a veneer of fake legality, something a Republican probably could not have done.

7

Oil and energy companies, and other mega-polluters must be freed to drill offshore almost everywhere, and permitted to poison land and watersheds with fracking to achieve “energy independence”. The Republicans say “drill baby drill” but it seems only Democrats can chill out enough supposed “environmentalists” to make this happen. Obama campaigned on restricting offshore drilling four years ago, and reversed himself just before the BP oil disaster in the Gulf. The White House cooperated with BP in lying to the public about the extent of the disaster and has shielded BO from paying anything like the value of actual damages incurred to livelihoods, human lives and the environment.

6

The FCC should not and must not regulate telecoms to ensure that poor and rural communities have access to internet, or to guarantee network neutrality. Republicans have always been in favor of digital redlining, against network neutrality. Barack Obama claimed on the campaign trail he’d take a back seat to nobody in guaranteeing network neutrality. But he appointed as FCC chair a man who helped write the infamous Telecommunications Act of 1995, which gave away the government-built internet backbone to a handful of immensely powerful telecoms like AT&T and Comcast, and flatly reversed himself on network neutrality. The Department of Justice was forced to stop the ATT-T-Mobile merger by a storm of public outrage, but approved the Comcast-NBC deal.

5

Of course there really ARE such things as “clean coal” and “safe nuclear energy”. Again these are things Republicans have always pretended to believe. At the 2008 Democratic convention Democrat Barack Obama joined them, declaring he intended to be the president of “clean coal and safe nuclear energy.” Obama is building a wave of 33 nuclear plants across the country, the first two in mostly black and poor communities of Georgia and South Carolina where leaky existing nukes are causing cancer epidemics. The people know these things are myths. But Republican and Democratic candidates for office, all the way down to state and county officials seem not to.

4

Immigrants must be jailed and deported in record numbers. To be really fair, one should note that on this issue Republicans talk a mean game about sending them all back and jailing tens or hundreds of thousands along the way. But only President Obama has walked the walk, deporting over a million immigrants in his term in office, often with little or no due process and after housing many for months in atrocious privatized immigration prisons.

3

No Medicare For All. Forget about it eliminating the Medicare age requirement so that all Americans would qualify.. Republicans never wanted Medicare even for seniors, let alone everybody. Six or seven years ago Illinois State Senator Obama was telling audiences that if they elected Democrats to Congress, the Senate and the White House, they’d get single payer health care. But once in office he excluded Medicare for All from the proposals on the table, and enacted a national version of Massachusetts RomneyCare, requiring everybody to purchase private health insurance or be penalized.

2

No minimum wage increases for you, no right to form a union, no right to negotiate or strike if you already have a union, and no enforcement or reform of existing labor laws. Again, Republicans have always opposed minimum wage laws. Obama promised to boost the minimum wage his first two years in office, while he still had majorities in the House and Senate. But he didn’t do this, or pass legislation beefing up the right to organize unions, which has been eroded under Democrat and Republican administrations alike.

1

The 40 year war on drugs must continue, and even mention of the prison state is unthinkable. There are 2.3 million people in US prisons and jails today, a per capita total that beats the world. Politicians of both parties wag their fingers in multiple directions. But as Michelle Alexander points out, if the US prison population were rolled back to say, only 1 million, the level it was about 1980, this would mean one million jobs, as contractors, sheriffs, cops, bailiffs, judges and functionaries of all kinds would have to go out and find real jobs.

The rabbit hole goes still deeper. We didn’t have to stop at these fifteen points of Democrat-Republican agreement, but you get the idea. Just as in Frederick Douglass’s day, the more Democrats and Republicans agree, the worse it is for the rest of us.

There was a time when black America had its own principles, and formed the immovable leftmost rock of the American polity. But in the 21st century, that rock has been dissolved by a tide of corporate money. With the rise of a cohort of black corporate Democrats and a right wing black Democrat in the White House there is no longer even any vaguely leftish influence on Democratic party politics. The House Progressive Caucus is the biggest in Congress, with over seventy members, but is powerless and irrelevant. Except for stylistic flourishes, the music they listen to and the color of some faces, the differences between Republicans and Democrats seem to exist mostly in political marketing campaigns and inside our own heads.

Bruce A. Dixon is managing editor at Black Agenda Report, and a member of the state committee of the Georgia Green Party. He can be reached via this site’s contact page, or at bruce.dixon(at)blackagendareport.com.
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This article/interview speaks for itself. from truthout.org

John Cusack interviews Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley re: the Obama admin's descent into what can only be called treason to the Constituion and us, The People.

Pt 1 in our expose on the Democratic side of 2 party system run by the 1%.

Stay tuned for local Democratic Party leader Wanda Harris who has graciously offered to do an op-ed this week.

cartoon copyright by brian mcfadden http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/109162

And now for the Democrats....

Last week I focused on sharing the low down on Republicans - as much as an ethical response to their collective blindness on some many issues, This week it is Obama and the Democrats turn.

Yes, Just as the truth of the Republican Party is a shock to many of the Party faithful, so to the Democrats have an, often below the  mainstream media radar, underbelly and infrastructure that both reeks and is rotten and often leaves the lefty faithful resorting to 'but he (Obama) and they (the Party) are at least better than the Republicans. America can no longer  - and indeed since at least Bush II, plainly so, afford these 2 Parties and their corporation controlled agendas. It is just that simple.

Both parties are toxic and no longer remotely resemble true Conservatism or Liberal/Progressivism. They are beholden to those who fund there campaigns the most, and that is not 'the People'.



I am collecting my sources now and I would appreciate other sources for review and possible inclusion at lindil6@gmail.com for vetting and possible inclusion.

My avowed goal is not to promote any 1 party but to destroy the 2 current ones and get people looking, thinking and discussing where to go and what to do for honest government.

Almost done with Taibbi's Bain/Romney article. It is truly a must read.

Vulture capitalism hardly does it justice. They/he didn't just feed off the weak and dying, they raped, looted and destroyed the lives of 10's of K's if not more of workers and their pensions and families, all so Bain and Romney could walk a way with 100's of millions of completely deceptive 'business advisement'.


The fact that he is not in prison for life and instead running for office of POTUS is a horrific indictment of our media, legal system and the pathetic Republican party for even letting him run, much less giving him the nomination.

Frankly I think he got it, because he was the wealthiest, least principled and best liar of the bunch. He is bush's polar opposite; wickedly savvy, a pious hypocrisy that even sr. demons probably take note of and a willingness to pull off any heist on sheer bluff and hubris and paper thin legal veneers.

God, really, no spare lightening bolts for this kinda thing?....sigh..guess He wants us to see things for ourselves and act like grown ups, not shell shocked children afraid to call their guardians out on pure evil and. Monsanto & Exxon-Mobil,  watch out seems you have serious competition in the most evil, fiendish of all Babylon corporations race.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/greed-and-debt-the-true-story-of-mitt-romney-and-bain-capital-20120829

Taibbi is to be commended on trying to time the article to take the hot air out of any post-Convention updraft there may be. Not sure if the main stream media's editors will allow any coverage of this, but who knows, maybe it will get good coverage in Iceland and we will pick up on it a couple years later....

Look for our coverage of Obama's continuation of Bush's treasonous war on the American citizenry, clean gov't and the 'right' of federal law enforcement to disappear you, like any other terrorist.

Already invoked unsuccessfully [well partially - the intimidation factor was advanced, but an honest judge ordered him released after a week] against a Marine Vet in Richmond Va.

- the angry indy 
: pulls no punches and tells no lies
[and if he is proved wrong, will actually cop to it].