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Capitalism: A Hate Story

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“In Year 1 of Obama, two fat cats named Michael Moore and Harvey Weinstein released a movie. Their magnum opus was ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’. The unsubtly sarcastic point after the colon was that capitalism was an unmitigated bag of evil. And to reaffirm the faith of capitalism-haters in the evils of capitalism, here was a movie put out by a bunch of corporations owned by millionaires.  The traditional image of the anti-capitalist as a ragamuffin who dies of consumption in his garret has always been at odds with the real image of the anti-capitalist as a rich man or the son of a rich man.  The man of the people is rather often stuck at the bottom of the top of the pole.”

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/02/capitalism-hate-story.html

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White House Considering Top Female Treasury Official for Federal Reserve Post

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“The White House is considering nominating the top woman at the Treasury, Lael Brainard, for one of the vacant seats at the Federal Reserve, amid criticism over the role of women in the administration, people familiar with the matter said, WaPo is reporting.  Note this would not likely be the Fed chair position. In addition to naming a new chair for the Fed, as WaPo reports, Obama must fill as many as four open seats on the central bank’s board.  Is this a bone thrown to women because it is going to be Summers as Fed chair nominee and not Yellen?”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/09/breaking-white-house-considers-top.html

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A war the Pentagon doesn’t want

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“They are embarrassed to be associated with the amateurism of the Obama administration’s attempts to craft a plan that makes strategic sense. None of the White House staff has any experience in war or understands it. So far, at least, this path to war violates every principle of war, including the element of surprise, achieving mass and having a clearly defined and obtainable objective. They are repelled by the hypocrisy of a media blitz that warns against the return of Hitlerism but privately acknowledges that the motive for risking American lives is our ‘responsibility to protect’ the world’s innocents.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/us-military-planners-dont-support-war-with-syria/2013/09/05/10a07114-15bb-11e3-be6e-dc6ae8a5b3a8_story.html

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Assad did not order Syria chemical weapons attack, says German press

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“President Bashar al-Assad did not personally order last month’s chemical weapons attack near Damascus that has triggered calls for US military intervention, and blocked numerous requests from his military commanders to use chemical weapons against regime opponents in recent months, a German newspaper has reported, citing unidentified, high-level national security sources.  The intelligence findings were based on phone calls intercepted by a German surveillance ship operated by the BND, the German intelligence service, and deployed off the Syrian coast, Bild am Sonntag said.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/08/syria-chemical-weapons-not-assad-bild

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U.S. Intelligence: Syrian Government Didn’t Launch Chemical Weapons

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“We regret to inform you that some of our former co-workers are telling us, categorically, that contrary to the claims of your administration, the most reliable intelligence shows that Bashar al-Assad was NOT responsible for the chemical incident that killed and injured Syrian civilians on August 21, and that British intelligence officials also know this. In writing this brief report, we choose to assume that you have not been fully informed because your advisers decided to afford you the opportunity for what is commonly known as ‘plausible denial.'”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/high-level-u-s-intelligence-officers-syrian-government-didnt-launch-chemical-weapons.html

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How has this not led to outright revolution yet?

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“These days, you could put ‘safety and security’ in front of just about anything and get people to readily comply.  After all, who is against ‘safety and security’? Only criminal terrorists, apparently.  This is now the easiest way for governments to exact their agendas… whether it’s invading new countries, monitoring all Internet activity worldwide, or bailing out the big banks at taxpayer expense.  Apparently the citizenry has become so scared that we collectively lay down and let governments walk all over us.  This NSA debacle, which is only getting worse and worse, shows beyond all doubt how brazen and unabashed their tactics will be.  And not a single utterance of remorse or reform.”

http://www.sovereignman.com/trends/how-has-this-not-led-to-outright-revolution-yet-12679/

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The feds pay for 60 percent of Tor’s development. Can users trust it?

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“The NSA’s sustained attempt to get around encryption calls into question many of the technologies people have come to rely on to avoid surveillance. One indispensable tool is Tor, the anonymizing service that takes a user’s Internet traffic and spits it out from some other place on the Web so that its origin is obscured.  So far there’s no hard evidence that the government has compromised the anonymity of Tor traffic. But some on a Tor-related e-mail list recently pointed out that a substantial chunk of the Tor Project’s 2012 operating budget came from the Department of Defense, which houses the NSA.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/06/the-feds-pays-for-60-percent-of-tors-development-can-users-trust-it/

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Jeffrey Tucker: How to Fake a Fast Food Strike

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“There’s every indication that people outside the restaurants protesting didn’t actually work for the place they were protesting. It was a classic ‘rent-a-mob’ situation, and the rent was being paid by political activists whose agenda has nothing to do with helping the average burger flipper. These were mostly media stunts cooked up by the Service Employees International Union, which bused in these so-called workers as a fulfillment of a little charade and subsequent media blitz. The SEIU coordinates these protests with various professional worker groups and in conjunction with the press to make the biggest possible splash.”

http://lfb.org/today/how-to-fake-a-fast-food-strike/

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Why I think the NSA is lying

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“It’s IMPOSSIBLE for the NSA to have cracked everything. And my assessment is that this is an intimidation campaign. The NSA wants people to think that they have this capability. And if everyone thinks that the NSA is Big Brother’s Big Brother, all-seeing and all-knowing, then not only will everyone be terrified, but everyone will simply stop using encryption. After all, why bother going through the hassle of encrypting/decrypting if the NSA can still read the contents of your email? It’s in the NSA’s interest for people to think that the agency is almighty. I don’t buy it. These people are seriously vile. But they don’t have superpowers.”

http://www.sovereignman.com/trends/why-i-think-the-nsa-is-lying-12675/

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Obama tells Russian LGBT activists he is proud of their work

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“President Barack Obama on Friday told Russian rights activists that he is ‘proud of their work,’ saying Russia must remember to let civil society function freely.  Meeting with nine activists, including two representing LGBT groups, Obama said ‘it’s important to remember that in every country, here in Russia, in the United States, around the globe, that part of good government is making sure that we’re creating space for civil society to function.’  This included ensuring ‘freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and making sure that people can join together and make common cause around the issues that we care deeply about,’ he added.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/06/obama-tells-russian-activists-he-is-proud-of-their-work/

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