tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93133972026-04-05T11:55:37.305-07:00An Online Journal of News & OpinionGlenn A. Primmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14759512203394453159noreply@blogger.comBlogger417125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313397.post-86815421568688146212024-05-23T13:16:00.000-07:002024-05-23T13:16:18.133-07:00

Do presidential boors deserve immunity?My dad, bless his soul, was a lifelong acolate of the Arby's food chain. Why? Becase they alone provided horseradish as a side flavoring to their beef offerings.  Horseradish.And as such are affiliations born. For others, it may be ketchup. (I've heard that Donald Trump likes  excess ketchup on his beef, but precisely which - Heinz, Hunt's,

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WE DIDN'T START THE FIREBelgiium wakes up to it's troubled past / BBC News"White superiority" was one of the founding principles of English capitalism and colonialism, and was a guiding ethos (rule) of the British East India Company, which of course became the British Empire, which itself was the largest empire the world has ever known. The results can be seen across the globe. Obviously,

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It wasn't supposed to be this way ... When I was a lad, I lived in a place that had a tire swing across the creek and a dairy next door that delivered warm milk every morning in glass bottles. I had a smart, faithful dog and I learned to swim in the town pool. There was a Fosters Freeze up the road and I thought that life would always be like this. When I was in junior high, after I gave a

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DOSE'S SHE OR DOES SHE NOT? Dear Readers, I've been off the radar for some time, but the brouhahah about de Russkies and der Trump have dragged me back in. Like you, I have been perplexed, but after spending some months searching for answers, there came a moment, a few thousand pixels, and suddenly it becomes clear that I'm not alone. I was originally lead to this website from a link on

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A QUICK GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED The 'electors' of the electoral college are not free agents and were actually pledged at their STATE'S PARTY CONVENTION earlier this year. Electors are party drones (big donors, half-drunk fatcats, plugged-in technologists, political insiders, media shitheads, etc) pledged to their political PARTY and not necessarily to any "favorite son" (as they used

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A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From: Tomas Young I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands

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The Continuing Saga of the Keystone Kops, Part >9000 "Bolivia denounced the “abduction” of President Evo Morales and alleged that international law had been violated after his plane was grounded and searched amid a false rumor that NSA leaker Edward Snowden was on board. "The jet took off from Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, almost 12 hours after it was forced to land there when

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GOD WILLS ITThe unevolved primates who represent the Republican Party have been making a concerted effort to deny women - and even young girls - control of their own bodies. They have thrown up roadblocking legislation, publicly insulted women who merely want medical care and, perhaps their most hideous crime, castigated victims of violent rape as sluts and worse.From DailyKos, here's a list of

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Everybody loves their sleek, shiny iPhones; they stand, sit, sleep in lines for up to 48 hours to be in position to grab an iteration of the newest cellphone at their favorite Apple outlet. The last model iPhone was released a mere 16 months after it's predecessor, and it wasn't even that much of an upgrade - in fact, it's not even technically a 4G phone (it's a marketing gimmick, a little "white

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Assuming that the collapse of the American experiment in democratic republicanism is indeed just around the corner, what can we expect in the world of the future? It's said that only fools and charlatans - or neoconservatives - predict the future ("We will be welcomed as liberators!"), but we're going to run the risk of being called as such, and hazard a guess as to the general outlines of an

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 Octupy participants practice at Pasadena's Singer Park in preparation for    their appearance in the world-famous Pasadena New Year's Rose Parade.  Photo credit: gpfoto The at least 160 or so Occupy camps around the country may be abandoned and the thousands of Occupants dispersed hither and yon (to the no doubt immense relief of the financial 1% being protested

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Michael Moore reports: his past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and goals of the movement. It was attended by 40+ people and the discussion was both inspiring and invigorating. Here is what we ended up proposing as the movement's "vision statement" to the General Assembly of Occupy Wall Street: We

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Breaking news from the Financial Times: Financial Rat Indicted "Rajat Gupta, the former head of McKinsey [Group hedge fund], will face criminal charges as soon as Wednesday for allegedly passing Goldman Sachs earnings data to Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund manager, while serving on the bank’s board, people familiar with the matter say." The aforementioned Raj Rajaratam was convicted earlier

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Citizens gather together at a strategy meeting at Occupy LA Photo credit: gpfoto BAM. Occupy LA brings results, by ghod! Local independent television and former PBS affiliate KCET reports: "Other than general statements of support, City Council members did not debate the merits of Occupy LA's goals or the main crux of the resolution, which supports "the continuation of the peaceful

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During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt reminded the American people of the existance of the economic royalist class, how they unworthily captured control of the democratic process, and if we are to remain a free people, we must fight back. Do not doubt that it is truly a war of one narrow class who would be masters of the world against the larger other, that of the greater body of

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By George Friedman Classical political economists like Adam Smith or David Ricardo never used the term “economy” by itself. They always used the term “political economy.” For classical economists, it was impossible to understand politics without economics or economics without politics. The two fields are certainly different but they are also intimately linked. The use of the term “economy”

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U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Newman, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion,4th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army Europe, watches the sunrise after a dismounted patrol mission near Forward Operating Base Baylough, Zabul, Afghanistan, March 19, 2009.(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Adam Mancini/Released)By George Friedman U.S. President Barack Obama will give a speech on Afghanistan on June 22. Whatever he says, it is

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Marines assemble for night-ops Photo Credit/USMCBy George FriedmanThe past week has been filled with announcements and speculations on how Osama bin Laden was killed and on Washington’s source of intelligence. After any operation of this sort, the world is filled with speculation on sources and methods by people who don’t know, and silence or dissembling by those who do.Obfuscating on how

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Are the death pictures of Osama Bin Laden fakes?Not to be a party-pooper, but people are beginning to question the authenticity of the death pictures of Osama Bin Laden that CNN and other news outlets have been using on the web and in broadcasts.Among others, posters on the infamous prankster site 4chan are claiming to have found the source images for two of the images being touted by CNN as

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By George Friedman U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking at West Point, said last week that “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should have his head examined.” In saying this, Gates was repeating a dictum laid down by Douglas MacArthur after the Korean War, who urged the United

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Friday 18 February 2011 by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed Peaceful protesters outside the capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Rob Chandanais / Flickr) Did you hear about the uprising? Not the one in Tunisia, or Egypt. No not the one in Libya, though what has been happening there is certainly riveting. Thousands of

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Egyptians of all religions and class celebrate in Tahrir uponnews that Pres. Mubrak has resigned. Photo by Alan Buu/Lightmediation.Feb 11, 2011, Cairo. Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman delivered the following statement Feb. 11: “In the name of God the merciful, the compassionate, citizens, during these very difficult circumstances Egypt is going through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided

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So far, the military has enjoyed good relations with the protesters.That could change very rapidly. Photo by Alan Buu Red Alert: The Egyptian Military's Options February 10, 2011 The decision by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak not to resign seems to have shocked both the Egyptian military and Washington. CIA Director Leon Panetta spoke earlier as if his resignation was assured and a

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By George Friedman Julian Assange has declared that geopolitics will be separated into pre-“Cablegate” and post-“Cablegate” eras. That was a bold claim. However, given the intense interest that the leaks produced, it is a claim that ought to be carefully considered. Several weeks have passed since the first of the diplomatic cables were released, and it is time now to address the

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“The Job-Killing Touch”: How Carly Fiorina Wrecked Hewlett-Packard and the Bell Labs, and Set American Science Back By Decadesby Richard Rapaport Wednesday, 29 September 2010 09:50That Carly Fiorina was a one-woman wrecking crew during her tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard is a scandal that the Republican Senate standard bearer is spending millions to try and blunt. Running on her executive

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