Nothing to See Here!

The official story is absence of evidence is evidence of absence, there was no environmental contaminant because all the right tests didn't show 'em, so move along, move along.

feeding the hand that bites you

Surprise, surprise, a leader of LulzSec, the originator of Low Ion Cannon, is an FBI mole.

bringing order to the galaxy

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Americans have been increasingly socialized to equate inattention, anger, anxiety, and immobilizing despair with a medical condition, and to seek medical treatment rather than political remedies. What better way to maintain the status quo than to view inattention, anger, anxiety, and depression as biochemical problems of those who are mentally ill rather than normal reactions to an increasingly authoritarian society?

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don't worry, be happy

Skynet loves you and has your best interests in mind.

one definition of insanity

...you keep doing the same thing over expecting a different result.

But who am I kidding? A lot of people made, and continue to make, a pile of money off the last collapse.

if they didn't exist, the bank$ters would have to bankroll 'em

the Black Bloc

...The presence of Black Bloc anarchists—so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property—is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state. The Occupy encampments in various cities were shut down precisely because they were nonviolent. They were shut down because the state realized the potential of their broad appeal even to those within the systems of power. They were shut down because they articulated a truth about our economic and political system that cut across political and cultural lines. And they were shut down because they were places mothers and fathers with strollers felt safe.

Black Bloc adherents detest those of us on the organized left and seek, quite consciously, to take away our tools of empowerment. They confuse acts of petty vandalism and a repellent cynicism with revolution. The real enemies, they argue, are not the corporate capitalists, but their collaborators among the unions, workers’ movements, radical intellectuals, environmental activists and populist movements such as the Zapatistas. Any group that seeks to rebuild social structures, especially through nonviolent acts of civil disobedience, rather than physically destroy, becomes, in the eyes of Black Bloc anarchists, the enemy. Black Bloc anarchists spend most of their fury not on the architects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or globalism, but on those, such as the Zapatistas, who respond to the problem. It is a grotesque inversion of value systems.

Because Black Bloc anarchists do not believe in organization, indeed oppose all organized movements, they ensure their own powerlessness...

Fortunately for Wall Street, it seems likely the Company already has.

masters of the obvious

The government has lied to everyone to keep money rolling into the Endless War machine?

Ya think? But I guess to be a lie you have to actually believe it in the first place.

anticipation

some needs to tell the Editors likely the silence speaks volumes

Answer: It's like Military Intelligence

Question: what is a "pro-life liberal"?

I thought all liberals are pro-life by definition.

lib·er·al/ˈlib(ə)rəl/
Adjective:
Open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

Planned parenthood and contraception are life affirming and hence pro-life.

But do not think 'pro-life" means what some think it means. Apparently it means mindlessly consuming all resources in a blind genetic rush towards a Malthusian catastrophe. You know, like a third nuclear World War over food, water, and fossil fuels.



Now that's something the Church understands.

Here be Dragons

Agreed

getting the cash train rolling

This may not just be noise to placate the Democratic base. Now that Wall Street's backing Mittens the Laureate might view raising the possibility of future prosecution as a way to get the bank$ters more invested in his re-election.

final solutions

If pythons and anacondas are destroying the Everglades ecosystem, why not just tell the good ol' boys they can shoot as many as they want for as long as they want. Maybe offer a few bucks bounty per square foot snakehide.

not a money making enterprise

Dr. Krugman's beef is that the Republicans and the Democratic austerity crowd don't understand what money is. It is NOT gold buillion sitting in a vault. It's about as real as points in bowling- and the point is to score points, not sit on the ball.

That is, if the goal is to make points in the game and not change its nature completely.

even a stopped clock is right twice a day

Newt is a cynical hypocrite, and doubtless would use the space program as a cash cow for his cronies, like they've used the Osprey.

On the other hand, his rhetoric is correct on this.

Humanity has to expand itself off the surface of the planet if it wants to survive and evolve into something better. The essence of the problem is that real space exploration requires design and implementation of self-supporting independent colonization, which is a no-starter here on Earth.

On the other hand (and in the multiverse there's always another hand), with the track record of pushing aircraft that fall out the sky and pointless military bases even the Pentagon doesn't want, salamanders like Newt shouldn't be trusted when trying to unveil New Frontiers for pork.

friendly takeovers

what Company needs to buy companies when they can get candidates relatively cheap right now?

what it was intended for

no surprises here

WASHINGTON -- Nearly a decade after Congress created the Department of Homeland Security to prevent other 9/11-style terrorist attacks, a bipartisan group of experts says it is time for the agency to shift its focus from foreign enemies to working with local governments and the private sector so it can secure the border and critical infrastructure from homegrown threats.

"The growth of our expectations of domestic security, and the evolution of threats away from traditional state actors toward non-state entities -- drug cartels, organized crime, and terrorism are prominent examples -- suggest that the DHS intelligence mission should be threat agnostic," said a report by the Aspen Homeland Security Group, which is co-chaired by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

"Though the impetus for creating this new agency, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, was clearly terrorism-based, the kinds of tools now deployed, from border security to cyber protection, are equally critical in fights against emerging adversaries,"' the report continued...

"Threat agnostic" means all you scofflaws out there.

Luna, beotches

Talk is cheap, Newton. Whiskey costs money.

class traitor

George Soros:

Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros told Reuters Global Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland that he still supported President Barack Obama, but predicted voters would not be very enthusiastic about the 2012 elections if former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was nominated by Republicans.

“Well, look, either you’ll have an extremist conservative, be it Gingrich or Santorum, in which case I think it will make a big difference which of the two comes in,” he said. “If it’s between Obama and Romney, there isn’t all that much difference except for the crowd that they bring with them.”

But he acknowledged that a major difference between Romney and Obama would be their potential Supreme Court nominations and their stance on taxation...

“I personally believe that when it comes to policy, you shouldn’t be pursuing self-interest, but the public interest. And I think that the income differentials are too wide and ought to be narrowed.”

After all, the intelligent predator protects its prey.

the sludge must flow

One supposes it's easier for the Laureate to pretend to block the moneymaker when he knows he's not seriously slowing the flow:

TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s $7 billion Keystone XL oil pipeline still will move ahead with an alternate route after President Barack Obama’s decision to deny a permit, investors, public officials and analysts say...

with an unspoken 'nyah-nyah nyah nyah-nyah'

slave labor as the 'Merikan Way

...a shorter Steve Jobs to the Laureate.