Meanwhile, the Canadian federal government blocks UN's Indigenous People Rapporteur from entering Canada.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Conservative Thinking Wrong?
There may be something wrong with how conservative-minded people think.
Intelligence Study Links Low I.Q. To Prejudice, Racism, Conservatism
Also, to treat such afflicted, a beta-blocker may inhibit the abnormal fear response, according to a study published in Psychopharmacology.
Propranolol is a beta-blocker used to treat heart disease and it may reduce implicit racial bias. Medicalxpress News
Friday, March 23, 2012
US Regime Decay Continues
Iran has no nukes.
Repeat: Iran has no nukes.
According to Reuters, the United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran's nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead.
Further, Reuters reports:
Current and former U.S. officials say they are confident that Iran has no secret uranium-enrichment site outside the purview of U.N. nuclear inspections. They also have confidence that any Iranian move toward building a functional nuclear weapon would be detected long before a bomb was made.
So why the sanctions against Iran's oil industry? It would seem the US empire is on a path to smash itself.
Sanctions drive up oil prices, hurting global economy. In the current global economic circumstances, countries cannot afford to engage in self-destructive actions.
China and India have already signaled opposition to tighter sanctions. Due to the severance of Iran from the global banking and SWIFT wire transfer system, any Iranian oil being purchased will not first go through global market exchange. Other currencies or gold will have to be used for trading with Iran. More than anything else, the dollar monopoly on oil exchanges has kept the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency and now that monopoly is quickly coming to an end. US has granted waivers to ten EU states and Japan, but not to South Korea, and those countries will not be able to use the US dollar for buying Iran's oil. So the US inflicted a wound on itself, to accomplish nothing. If more nations ignore the US-ordained sanctions against Iran and continue to import Iranian oil, they will have to dodge the US petrodollar monopoly by using gold, further damaging US-directed sanctions, and that could mark the end of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
One line of argument is that sanctions are imposed to placate the regime controlling the State of Israel and persuade them not to launch a military strike.
Wise leaders in the US, if there are any who are not traitors, should cancel any sanctions that are going to bring disaster to US status in the world.
As for the regime in the State of Israel . . . if they do something so stupid as to launch an attack on Iran, that's their problem . . . and they can burn in the retaliatory fire.
Repeat: Iran has no nukes.
According to Reuters, the United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran's nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead.
Further, Reuters reports:
Current and former U.S. officials say they are confident that Iran has no secret uranium-enrichment site outside the purview of U.N. nuclear inspections. They also have confidence that any Iranian move toward building a functional nuclear weapon would be detected long before a bomb was made.
So why the sanctions against Iran's oil industry? It would seem the US empire is on a path to smash itself.
Sanctions drive up oil prices, hurting global economy. In the current global economic circumstances, countries cannot afford to engage in self-destructive actions.
China and India have already signaled opposition to tighter sanctions. Due to the severance of Iran from the global banking and SWIFT wire transfer system, any Iranian oil being purchased will not first go through global market exchange. Other currencies or gold will have to be used for trading with Iran. More than anything else, the dollar monopoly on oil exchanges has kept the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency and now that monopoly is quickly coming to an end. US has granted waivers to ten EU states and Japan, but not to South Korea, and those countries will not be able to use the US dollar for buying Iran's oil. So the US inflicted a wound on itself, to accomplish nothing. If more nations ignore the US-ordained sanctions against Iran and continue to import Iranian oil, they will have to dodge the US petrodollar monopoly by using gold, further damaging US-directed sanctions, and that could mark the end of the US dollar as the global reserve currency.
One line of argument is that sanctions are imposed to placate the regime controlling the State of Israel and persuade them not to launch a military strike.
Wise leaders in the US, if there are any who are not traitors, should cancel any sanctions that are going to bring disaster to US status in the world.
As for the regime in the State of Israel . . . if they do something so stupid as to launch an attack on Iran, that's their problem . . . and they can burn in the retaliatory fire.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
US Dupes Continue to Buy the Lie
Check the 23 February 2012 issue of Time magazine for statements by US farmers who actually believe that the US attacked Iraq in order to "liberate" it.
Instead of buying rice from farmers in the US, the country that invaded and slaughtered over a million innocent Iraqi people because of fictitious "WMDs," Iraq is buying rice from Uruguay and India.
"That's just not right," the 63-year-old [Ray] Stoesser fumed. "If we've got some rice to sell, they ought to pay a premium for it just because this is the country that freed them."
"You would think with all that we've done over there, there would be a way to get them to do business with us," said Ronald Gertson, who grows rice in Lissie, Texas.
It was imperialist war criminal aggression, dummies, and you're not going to profit from it.
Instead of buying rice from farmers in the US, the country that invaded and slaughtered over a million innocent Iraqi people because of fictitious "WMDs," Iraq is buying rice from Uruguay and India.
"That's just not right," the 63-year-old [Ray] Stoesser fumed. "If we've got some rice to sell, they ought to pay a premium for it just because this is the country that freed them."
"You would think with all that we've done over there, there would be a way to get them to do business with us," said Ronald Gertson, who grows rice in Lissie, Texas.
It was imperialist war criminal aggression, dummies, and you're not going to profit from it.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Literary Awards to Boost Christmas Gift Sales
Canadian Literary Awards are being dispensed, just in time for the Christmas shopping season, by the arbiters of the culture industry and their publishing industry cronies.
It is safe to assume, even without having read any of the winning works, that nothing disruptive to the dominant economic order will receive commendation or emolument from the media mafia enforcers.
On the government payroll, the winning authors collect for what one might well suspect is the usual politically correct distractions from what literature with guts would present.
No novel with a theme critical of the corporate-socialist oligarchy and their pseudo-progressive flunkies is going to be awarded financial subsidy by the Governor-General or any of the government "arts councils."
Instead of grinding out "literary" crud for their government sponsors, the winning hacks should get off the government suck dole . . . and write with fire in the belly and rage against the machine.
It is safe to assume, even without having read any of the winning works, that nothing disruptive to the dominant economic order will receive commendation or emolument from the media mafia enforcers.
On the government payroll, the winning authors collect for what one might well suspect is the usual politically correct distractions from what literature with guts would present.
No novel with a theme critical of the corporate-socialist oligarchy and their pseudo-progressive flunkies is going to be awarded financial subsidy by the Governor-General or any of the government "arts councils."
Instead of grinding out "literary" crud for their government sponsors, the winning hacks should get off the government suck dole . . . and write with fire in the belly and rage against the machine.
Friday, October 21, 2011
US Withdrawal from Iraq at Year End
US troops are not leaving Iraq because the US regime wants them out. They're leaving because the government of Iraq refused to let them stay.
Obama: U.S. war in Iraq ends Dec. 31.
The troop withdrawal is required by the Status of Forces Agreement negotiated with Iraq by the Bush administration. The agreement was ratified by the Iraqi parliament prior to Obama's inauguration, and expires at the end of the year. Officials had been discussing the possibility of maintaining several thousand US troops in the country to train Iraqi security forces. Ostensibly, the Iraqis wanted some US troops to stay but would not give them legal immunity, a key demand of the administration.
The only reason US troops are not going to be staying in Iraq is because the Iraqi government refused to agree that US soldiers would enjoy legal immunity if they commit serious crimes while in the country, such as killing Iraqis without cause.
If the government in Iraq granted immunity, the US troops would stay. In denying immunity, the new Iraqi government has in effect indicated that the US lost the war.
Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent and hundreds of thousands of people killed . . . so that bankers and munitions dealers could profit.
What else was accomplished?
Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons were not seized . . . because he did not have any.
There was no revenge on Iraq for the WTC attack . . . because Iraq had nothing to do with the WTC attack.
There was no punishment of Iraq for supporting al-Qaida . . . because Iraq did not support al-Qaida; Saddam Hussein was a bitter enemy of al-Qaida.
At this point, there is no indication of huge profit accruing to the US from oil in Iraq . . . perhaps because the government of Iraq represents people that the US tortured, shot, burned, mangled and maimed, for no good reason.
Obama: U.S. war in Iraq ends Dec. 31.
The troop withdrawal is required by the Status of Forces Agreement negotiated with Iraq by the Bush administration. The agreement was ratified by the Iraqi parliament prior to Obama's inauguration, and expires at the end of the year. Officials had been discussing the possibility of maintaining several thousand US troops in the country to train Iraqi security forces. Ostensibly, the Iraqis wanted some US troops to stay but would not give them legal immunity, a key demand of the administration.
The only reason US troops are not going to be staying in Iraq is because the Iraqi government refused to agree that US soldiers would enjoy legal immunity if they commit serious crimes while in the country, such as killing Iraqis without cause.
If the government in Iraq granted immunity, the US troops would stay. In denying immunity, the new Iraqi government has in effect indicated that the US lost the war.
Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent and hundreds of thousands of people killed . . . so that bankers and munitions dealers could profit.
What else was accomplished?
Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons were not seized . . . because he did not have any.
There was no revenge on Iraq for the WTC attack . . . because Iraq had nothing to do with the WTC attack.
There was no punishment of Iraq for supporting al-Qaida . . . because Iraq did not support al-Qaida; Saddam Hussein was a bitter enemy of al-Qaida.
At this point, there is no indication of huge profit accruing to the US from oil in Iraq . . . perhaps because the government of Iraq represents people that the US tortured, shot, burned, mangled and maimed, for no good reason.
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