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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (?): Jefferson, Chief Seattle, Helen Keller
By Gary Corseri
I’m 17 or 18 and my parents have decided to buy me a new typewriter to replace the old East German “Optima” I’ve shared with my siblings since junior high! (Not sure to this day how we got an East German typewriter during the Cold War-nutty 50s and 60s, but… it worked well, even if it was heavy as a Volkswagon!) This is to be my “celebration” typewriter—now that I’m first in my extended family to go to college!
I spool the sheet of paper into place, a little past the new, inky red and black ribbon. Sweet, clicking sound as I roll; cold feel of metal against my palm as I slap the shiny return lever! The tactility of it all, the smell of it all!—something our electronically attuned youth will never know in their digitalized shell-worlds. I type from memory:
spying program feeding off itself
Daniel Patrick Welch
The US government’s spying program continues to grow because “it feeds on itself” and the American people should take action against such spying activities before it is too late, says American writer and activist Daniel Patrick Welch.
On Saturday, the New York Times reported the US National Security Agency has been using it huge collections of data on American citizens’ communications to construct sophisticated maps of their social connections.
The US spy agency has been using metadata, GPS locations, and voter records to identify Americans’ locations at certain times, their associates and travelling companions, and other personal information.
The administration of President Barack Obama defended the practice as perfectly legal and reasonable.
“People are clearly angry about it, more angry about the invasion of their privacy than they are fear-mongered into accepting it for national security,” said Welch in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday.
Herman Wallace: Free at Last
by Stephen Lendman
Free to die. More on that below.
Thousands of political prisoners fester in America's gulag. It's the world's largest by far. It operates globally. It's the shame of the nation.
It highlights America's dark side. It's brutally repressive and unfair. It's viciously racist.
It targets America's least advantaged. It systematically denies due process and judicial fairness. It pronounces guilt by accusation. Today's America is a modern day Jim Crow and much more. It mercilessly persecutes its own. It does so abroad against others.
AP Interviews Obama
by Stephen Lendman
him. Doing so was in the White House library. He repeated one lie after another. He didn't surprise.
Lying comes easy to him. He's had years of practice. Growing numbers worldwide don't trust him. More catch on all the time.
It's for good reason. Whatever he says lacks credibility. Perhaps his epitaph one day will read how to lie without really trying. He does it reflexively. It's automatic.
Alex Cockburn once criticized Ronald Reagan, saying:"Truth for him, was what he happened to be saying at the time."
"He went one better than George Washington in that he couldn't tell a lie and he couldn't tell the truth, since he couldn't tell the difference between the two."
Appalling Migrant Worker Conditions in Qatar
by Stephen Lendman
Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani is Qatar's Emir. He heads a despotic monarchal rogue state.
He maintains supreme power. What he says goes. Ordinary Qataris have no say.
State terror defines official policy. Qatar has one of the world's worst human and civil rights record. Democratic rights are verboten.
Torture and other forms of repression are commonplace. So is brutal worker exploitation. Foreign nationals suffer most. According to the State Department's 2012 human rights report: "The principal human rights problems were the inability of citizens to change their government peacefully, restriction of fundamental civil liberties, and pervasive denial of expatriate workers’ rights."
On Blood Rituals
By Gilad Atzmon
Study finds 7 cases of herpes transmitted by Jewish penis sucking ritual.
Haaretz reported today that a couple of weeks ago, New York City Councilman David G. Greenfield introduced a bill that would bar the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from requiring informed consent for metzitzah b'peh.
Metzitzah b'peh (blood sucking) is a Jewish blood ritual where a circumciser (mohel), “sucks out blood from a baby’s penis after circumcision.”
The N.Y. health department has linked several infant deaths to Metzitzah b'peh. Needless to say that the American health authorities’ concerns are more than reasonable. However, not many people are familiar with the history of the political and medical discussion over that particular Jewish blood ritual.
Troy Davis and family live on in new book
Mary Shaw
Jen Marlowe's newest book, I Am Troy Davis
Davis was convicted of the 1989 murder of police officer Mark MacPhail in Savannah, Georgia. Years of appeals were unsuccessful despite significant doubts about his guilt.
Davis's original trial was flawed, and most of the witnesses later recanted or contradicted their stories. There was no physical evidence linking Davis to the crime, and his conviction was based solely on that questionable testimony by witnesses. In other words, there was reasonable doubt as to Davis's guilt.
A Bad Month for the the Dollar
by Robert Bonomo
September was not a good month for the U.S. dollar. The world’s reserve currency is sustained in large part by the Petrodollar, the agreement by the Saudis and OPEC to price oil in dollars and only accept dollars for payment. The US gets a guaranteed demand for its fiat currency and in exchange the US has agreed to protect militarily Saudi oil fields. However, after President Obama was forced to back off his plans to attack Syria in support of the Saudi backed insurgency fighting the Assad regime, one of the pillars of the Petrodollar scheme was shaken to its core.
Saudi Arabian Backed Insurgents Responsible for Ghouta Chemical Weapons Attack
by Stephen Lendman
Russia has evidence proving it. More on that below. A previous article said the following:
On August 29, Mint Press News headlined "Exclusive: Syrians in Ghouta Claim Saudi-Supplied Rebels Behind Chemical Attack," saying:
"Rebels and local residents in Ghouta accuse Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan of providing chemical weapons to an al-Qaida linked rebel group."
Abu Abdel-Moneim lives in Ghouta. He's the father of an insurgent fighter. "My son came to me two weeks ago asking what I thought the weapons were that he had been asked to carry," he said.Some were "tube-like" in structure. Others were like a "huge gas bottle." They were stored in tunnels.
Public Banking Avoids Today's Debacle
by Stephen Lendman
Putting money back in public hands where it belongs would avoid what's now ongoing. It's an idea whose time has come.
It's how to run America's economy. It's about doing it responsibly. It's been done before. It's high time things worked that way again.
Money power in private hands doesn't work. The Fed's been looting America for a century. It bears full responsibility for today's crisis. Its deplorable record explains why. It includes:
- rising consumer debt;
- record budget and trade deficits;
- an out-of-control national debt;
- record numbers of personal and business bankruptcies;
- millions of home foreclosures;
- depression level unemployment, poverty, homelessness and hunger;
- an unprecedented wealth gap between rich elites and ordinary Americans; and
- a hugely unstable economy lurching from one crisis to another.
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