Monthly Archives: August 2014

13% Trust U.S. Government – as Sirens Sound

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“There’s no follow-up to the jaw-dropping assertion that only 13 percent of US citizens believe government ‘can be trusted’ to do the right thing. These are not normal numbers. These are Soviet Union style numbers. Or numbers that might have generated from a poll of Chinese during the depth of the starvation generated by Mao’s ruinous Great Leap Forward. For the longest time, we’ve been told that the horrible numbers associated with US Congress – confidence is reportedly in the single digits now – must be tempered by people’s affection for their OWN congress-people. But if these larger numbers are to be believed, then the lack of support for Congress must be a fairly accurate assessment.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35545/Anthony-Wile-13-Trust-Government–as-Sirens-Sound/

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U.S. government waging war on school bake sales?

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“The homemade brownies, cupcakes and Rice Krispies treats that parents prepare for these fundraisers will come under extra scrutiny because of new federal regulations that took effect July 1.  The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 puts the USDA in charge of monitoring whether schools meet the new healthy meal standards. The USDA also has the authority to set nutritional standards for all foods regularly sold in schools during the school day, including vending machines, the ‘a la carte’ lunch lines, school stores and the traditional K-12 bake sale.  More bake sales are offering processed, pre-packaged goods because the nutritional contents are clearly labeled.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/is-the-government-waging-war-on-bake-sales-152746335.html

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Jeffrey Tucker: Life Without the McDouble

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“That we were born now and live now to enjoy the massive beneficence of the struggle of thousands of years to bring us things like the tomato, beef, cheese, bread, and to wrap it all up in a tiny package and make that available to us for a dollar in nearly every city in the world, that this comes to us with no work on our part, is a gigantic privilege afforded us by virtue of accident or providence (depending on your religious views). To whatever force you attribute your good fortune, we should recognize it as such.  The McDouble does not appear in nature. That we can laugh at it, put it down, sneer at it, and even denounce the company that brings it to us is a wonderful privilege of the ungrateful.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/life-without-the-mcdouble

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Russia takes aim at McDonald’s burgers as U.S. ties worsen

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“McDonald’s burgers and shakes may become the latest victims of worsening ties between Moscow and Washington after a Russian consumer watchdog agency accused the U.S. chain of sanitary violations.  McDonald’s Corp , which opened its first Russian restaurant in Moscow in 1990, became an iconic symbol of flourishing American capitalism during the fall of the Soviet Union.  But its Golden Arches may be in the Kremlin’s crosshairs as ties between Moscow and Washington have fallen to their lowest point since the end of the Cold War with consecutive rounds of U.S. sanctions over Russia’s role in the Ukraine crisis.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/russian-consumer-watchdog-seeks-ban-mcdonalds-products-090124454–sector.html

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Russia to block US agricultural imports

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“Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hit back hard against countries that have imposed sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, ordering trade cuts that an official said would include a ban on all imports of agricultural products from the United States.  White House spokeswoman Laura Lucas Magnuson decried the move, saying ‘Retaliating against Western companies or countries will deepen Russia’s international isolation, causing further damage to its own economy.’  Russia last week banned the import of apples and some other fruits from Poland, saying this was because of sanitary concerns.”

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-russia-block-us-agricultural-imports-192324674–finance.html

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Ron Paul: Why Won’t Obama Just Leave Ukraine Alone?

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“On Friday, President Obama requested Congressional approval to send US troops into Ukraine to train and equip its national guard. This even though in March, the president promised no US boots on the ground in Ukraine. The deployment will be funded with $19 million from a fund designated to fight global terrorism, signaling that the US considers the secessionists in Ukraine to be ‘terrorists.’  But let’s not forget that this whole crisis started with the US-sponsored coup against Ukraine’s elected president back in February. The US escalates while it demands that Russia de-escalate. How about all sides de-escalate?”

http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/august/03/why-won%E2%80%99t-obama-just-leave-ukraine-alone.aspx

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Washington Opened The Gates Of Hell In Iraq: Now Come The Furies

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“Ironically, the bloodthirsty ISIS is comprised of fighters who were first enabled by the misbegotten Bush maneuver known as the ‘surge’; then armed and trained by the CIA for the campaign against Assad;  and now brandish the best weapons that any ramshackle jihadist group ever had.  And yet America’s ‘peace’ President is sending the bombers back in because there is a ‘humanitarian crisis’ involving a religious sect no American has ever heard of, stranded on a mountain top that has nothing to do with the security and safety of the citizens of Lincoln NE and Spokane WA.  Has not the American war machine turned the entirety of Mesopotamia and the Levant into a humanitarian crisis?”

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/washington-opened-the-gates-of-hell-in-iraq-now-come-the-furies/

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US Evacuation in Libya Shows Ill Effects of US Interventionism

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“The American foreign policy elite should learn something from the recent humiliating evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya – amid the chaos of tribal civil war in that country – but probably won’t. Since World War II, this bipartisan elite has thumbed its nose at the traditional US foreign policy of strategic independence and military restraint overseas, which was initiated by the nation’s founders and lasted through the most of the republic’s history. Then the second great world conflagration demonstrated to the elite that new interdependence among nations somehow made that policy obsolete. Really?”

http://original.antiwar.com/eland/2014/08/05/us-evacuation-in-libya-shows-ill-effects-of-us-interventionism/

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Justin Raimondo: Sneaking Back Into Iraq

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“Yes, folks, it’s another ‘humanitarian disaster’ staring us in the face – and, we’re being told, we have little choice but to go in and save the day. We’ve already sent in hundreds of Special Forces to ‘advise’ the nearly nonexistent Iraqi army we spent billions arming and training. The military infrastructure is there, ready and waiting.  So what should we do to help Iraq stave off an invasion by ISIS, which is now holding some 40,000 Yazidis in the northern part of the country?  The answer is: nothing. Not every problem has a solution. Not every mistake – in this case the mistake of invading Iraq in the first place – can be rectified.”

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/08/07/sneaking-back-into-iraq/

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U.S. “Humanitarian” Bombing of Iraq: A Redundant Presidential Ritual

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“As all of this demonstrates, there certainly are some heinous, violent people in the world: often including America’s closest allies and the ones who unleash the violence documented here, as well as those at whom that violence is directed. But perhaps some perspective and serious skepticism is warranted the next time we’re relentlessly bombarded with messaging about The New Greatest Villainous Threat in History – and especially manipulative accusations that opposition to U.S. military attack is indicative of support for those New Villains – as a means to secure acquiescence to the next bombing campaign.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/08/08/us-bombing-iraq-redundant-presidential-ritual/

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