country:united states of america

William Blum :: Anti-Empire Report, Number 106
http://killinghope.org/bblum6/aer106.html#link-5

I’m sure most Americans are mighty proud of the fact that Julian Assange is so frightened of falling into the custody of the United States that he had to seek sanctuary in the embassy of Ecuador, a tiny and poor Third World country, without any way of knowing how it would turn out. He might be forced to be there for years. “That’ll teach him to mess with the most powerful country in the world! All you other terrorists and anti-Americans out there — Take Note! When you fuck around with God’s country you pay a price!”

San Francisco Chronicle’s Julian Guthrie: John Keker of Keker & Van Nest Relishes The Fight In The Courtroom (TLR Note: A repetitious, trite, and banal Keker. Is PG&E behind Guthrie’s free PR? )

Please see @:
http://lesliebrodie.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/san-francisco-chronicles-julian-guthrie-john-keker-of-keker-

TLR’s developing story on John Keker, Keker & Van Nest and Lance Armstrong, please see @:

►http://lesliebrodie.blog.co.uk/2012/05/22/lance-armstrong-andre-birotte-tony-west-keker-van-nest-elliot-p

TLR’s coverage of Keker & Van Nest, please see @:

http://lesliebrodie.blog.co.uk/tags/keker-van-nest

TLR’s coverage of John Keker, please see @:

http://lesliebrodie.posterous.com/tag/johnkeker

http://lesliebrodie.posterous.com/tag/johnkeker

Amid Confusion, TLR to Investigate Whether Former U.S. President Bill Clinton “Eventually Pardoned” an Innocent Man (TLR Note: Filed Under Keker & Van Nest’s Nonsensical Nonsense)

Keker & Van Nest avers :

“United States of America v. Lobbyist: We defended a prominent lobbyist charged with corrupting the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Our client, who was eventually pardoned, was acquitted at trial of all counts except one, which was tossed out in a post-trial motion.” (emphasis added)

See source @:

http://kvn.com/Lawyers/Peters-Elliot

See also @:

http://lesliebrodie.posterous.com/amid-confusion-tlr-to-investigate-whether-for

TTYtter | le blog à Ollie
http://www.oliviertripet.com/blogollie/2011/05/ttytter

un client #Twitter en Perl!

►http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter

#cli #linux via @keltounet

The NDAA: A Clear and Present Danger to American Liberty | The Indypendent
https://indypendent.org/2012/03/01/ndaa-clear-and-present-danger-american-liberty

Yes, the worst things you may have heard about the National Defense Authorization Act, which has formally ended 254 years of democracy in the United States of America, and driven a stake through the heart of the bill of rights, are all really true. The act passed with large margins in both the House and the Senate on the last day of last year – even as tens of thousands of Americans were frantically begging their representatives to secure Americans’ habeas corpus rights in the final version.

It does indeed – contrary to the many flatout-false form letters I have seen that both senators and representatives sent to their constituents, misleading them about the fact that the NDAA destroys their due process rights. Under the act, anyone can be described as a ’belligerent". As the New American website puts it,

"[S]ubsequent clauses (Section 1022, for example) unlawfully give the president the absolute and unquestionable authority to deploy the armed forces of the United States to apprehend and to indefinitely detain those suspected of threatening the security of the ’homeland’. In the language of this legislation, these people are called ’covered persons’.

“The universe of potential ’covered persons’ includes every citizen of the United States of America. Any American could one day find himself or herself branded a ’belligerent’ and thus subject to the complete confiscation of his or her constitutional civil liberties and nearly never-ending incarceration in a military prison.”

And with a new bill now being introduced to make it a crime to protest in a way that disrupts any government process – or to get close to anyone with secret service protection – the push to legally lock down the United Police States is in full force.

Onward-Marching Christian Soldiers
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/02/23/onward-marching-christian-soldiers

The man who launched Whitehead’s career is Rousas John Rushdoony, perhaps the leading theocratic Christian thinker of the 20th Century. Rushdoony (who died in 2001 at the age of 84) headed the secretive Chalcedon Foundation in Vallecito, California, and was the founder of what is called the Christian Reconstructionist movement. “Reconstructionism” asserts that in order to pave the way for the “Kingdom of God,” the world must develop theocratic republics ruled by “Biblical law.”

Rushdoony’s magnum opus, The Institutes of Biblical Law, was published in 1973. It opposes democracy and argues that the Ten Commandments and the Biblical stories of their adjudication in Old Testament Israel provide the only legitimate legal blueprint for society.

Although few adhere fully to Rushdoony’s view, such prominent conservatives as Howard Phillips and Robert Billings credit Rushdoony’s work as the intellectual catalyst for the Christian Right. Billings, a founder of the Moral Majority, once said, “if it weren’t for [Rushdoony’s] books, none of us would be here.”

Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
http://www.theonion.com/articles/iran-worried-us-might-be-building-8500th-nuclear-w,27325

Amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, Iranian officials said Wednesday they were increasingly concerned about the United States of America’s uranium-enrichment program, fearing the Western nation may soon be capable of producing its 8,500th nuclear weapon. […] "Obviously, the prospect of this happening is very distressing to Iran and all countries like Iran. After all, the United States is a volatile nation that’s proven it needs little provocation to attack anyone anywhere in the world whom it perceives to be a threat.

À qui profitent les psychotropes ?
http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/en-partenariat-avec-books/20120203.OBS0550/a-qui-profitent-les-psychotropes.html

Que se passe-t-il ? La prévalence des maladies mentales est-elle si élevée, et continue-t-elle d’augmenter ? Ou bien savons-nous mieux reconnaître et diagnostiquer des troubles qui ont toujours existé ? Ne sommes-nous pas simplement en train d’étendre les critères de diagnostic des maladies mentales de telle sorte que presque tout le monde en ait une ? Et qu’en est-il des médicaments aujourd’hui à la base des traitements ? Sont-ils efficaces ?

L’industrie pharmaceutique soutient bien d’autres spécialistes et associations professionnelles, mais Carlat demande pourquoi « les psychiatres arrivent systématiquement en tête des spécialités quand il s’agit de soutirer de l’argent aux labos ». Sa réponse : « Nos diagnostics sont subjectifs et extensibles, et nous avons peu de motifs rationnels de choisir un traitement plutôt qu’un autre. »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders

PIERCE O’DONNELL — FRAUDSTER WITH PRIOR CRIMINAL RECORD / NOW DEFENDANT IN USA V PIERCE O’DONNELL — WAS ASKED TO DISCLOSE ALL KNOWN INFORMATION, IF ANY, RE SHAM CHARITY CALIFORNIAALL

SEE COMPLETE STORY @ :
http://lesliebrodie.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/pierce-odonnell-fraudster-with-prior-criminal-record-now-def

The best American wall map: David Imus’ “The Essential Geography of the United States of America” - Slate Magazine
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/01/the_best_american_wall_map_david_imus_the_essential_geography_of_the_united_s

The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See
Made by one guy in Oregon.

By Seth Stevenson|Posted Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at 7:38 AM ET

American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps designed by large, well-known institutions: National Geographic (three times), the Central Intelligence Agency Cartography Center, and the U.S. Census Bureau. But earlier this year, the 38th annual Best of Show award went to a map created by Imus Geographics—which is basically one dude named David Imus working in a farmhouse outside Eugene, Ore.

Cartographie Etatsunis Visualisation

Pierce O’Donnell — Fraudster with Prior Criminal Record — Seeks to Narrow Scope of Evidence in United States of America v. Pierce O’Donnell; Plans to Blame Alleged Criminal Conduct on Bipolar Disorder

http://lesliebrodie.blog.co.uk/2011/12/21/pierce-o-donnell-a-fraudster-with-prior-criminal-conviction-see

Hendrik Hertzberg: People(s), Invented : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2011/12/peoples-invented.html

The top two contenders for the Republican Presidential nomination have been having a mouth race to see which of them can more fervently pledge to outsource the making of a vital element of United States foreign and national-security policy to a foreign government. The venues have ranged from an interview in Sheldon Adelson’s mass-circulation, right-wing Israeli tabloid Israel Hayom (Romney) to an appearance on a New York cable channel (Gingrich). The most immediately important audience, however, is in faraway, Jew-challenged Iowa, where end-of-days evangelicals impatiently await the ultimate Republican caucus they call the Rapture.

Innovation & management, par Neal Stephenson | World Policy Institute
►http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation

Today’s belief in ineluctable certainty is the true innovation-killer of our age. In this environment, the best an audacious manager can do is to develop small improvements to existing systems—climbing the hill, as it were, toward a local maximum, trimming fat, eking out the occasional tiny innovation—like city planners painting bicycle lanes on the streets as a gesture toward solving our energy problems. Any strategy that involves crossing a valley—accepting short-term losses to reach a higher hill in the distance—will soon be brought to a halt by the demands of a system that celebrates short-term gains and tolerates stagnation, but condemns anything else as failure. In short, a world where big stuff can never get done.

#espace #recherche #court-terme

Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute
►http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starvation

Neal Stephenson sur le rôle de la SF dans l’innovation.

Most people who work in corporations or academia have witnessed something like the following: A number of engineers are sitting together in a room, bouncing ideas off each other. Out of the discussion emerges a new concept that seems promising. Then some laptop-wielding person in the corner, having performed a quick Google search, announces that this “new” idea is, in fact, an old one—or at least vaguely similar—and has already been tried. Either it failed, or it succeeded. If it failed, then no manager who wants to keep his or her job will approve spending money trying to revive it. If it succeeded, then it’s patented and entry to the market is presumed to be unattainable, since the first people who thought of it will have “first-mover advantage” and will have created “barriers to entry.” The number of seemingly promising ideas that have been crushed in this way must number in the millions.

Persecution of minorities a lasting legacy of 9/11 says MRG
http://www.minorityrights.org/10998/press-releases/persecution-of-minorities-a-lasting-legacy-of-911-says-mrg.html

In the ten years since the 9/11 attacks, ethnic and religious minorities have been targeted for large-scale human rights violations across the world, ranging from torture and extra-judicial executions to extraordinary rendition and restrictions on freedom of religion, Minority Rights

‘As we commemorate the terrible crimes committed on 9/11, we should also think of the tens of thousands of innocent victims killed in the wars that have followed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan,’ he adds.

#minorités

Raison contre pouvoir : Le pari de Pascal : Amazon.fr : Noam #Chomsky, Jean Bricmont : Livres
https://www.amazon.fr/Raison-contre-pouvoir-pari-Pascal/dp/2851979078/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b

L’#anarchisme, au moins tel que je le comprends, est une tendance de la pensée et de l’action humaines qui cherche à identifier les structures d’autorité et de domination, à les appeler à se justifier, et dès qu’elles s’en montrent incapables, à travailler à les surmonter.

J’aime beaucoup cette définition.

Loin d’avoir « échoué », il se porte très bien. Il est à la source de beaucoup de progrès - très réels - des siècles passés, y compris depuis les années 1960-1970. Des formes d’oppression et d’injustice qui étaient à peine reconnues, et encore moins combattues, dans un passé récent, ne sont plus considérées aujourd’hui comme tolérables. C’est une réussite, pas un échec.

Remarks of President Barack Obama—As Prepared for Delivery—"A Moment of Opportunity" | The White House
►http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/remarks-president-middle-east-and-north-africa

We support a set of universal rights. Those rights include free speech; the freedom of peaceful assembly; freedom of religion; equality for men and women under the rule of law; and the right to choose your own leaders – whether you live in Baghdad or Damascus; Sanaa or Tehran.

Le gag habituel : c’est une liste exclusive. Si vous ne vivez pas dans un des quatre pays cités (par exemple en Arabie séoudite), vous n’êtes pas concerné par ce grand principe.

Remarks of President Barack Obama—As Prepared for Delivery—"A Moment of Opportunity" | The White House
►http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/remarks-president-middle-east-and-north-africa

Bahrain is a long-standing partner, and we are committed to its security. We recognize that Iran has tried to take advantage of the turmoil there, and that the Bahraini government has a legitimate interest in the rule of law.

#orwell

Remarks of President Barack Obama—As Prepared for Delivery—"A Moment of Opportunity" | The White House
►http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/remarks-president-middle-east-and-north-africa

As for security, every state has the right to self-defense, and Israel must be able to defend itself – by itself – against any threat.  Provisions must also be robust enough to prevent a resurgence of terrorism; to stop the infiltration of weapons; and to provide effective border security. The full and phased withdrawal of Israeli military forces should be coordinated with the assumption of Palestinian security responsibility in a sovereign, non-militarized state.

Toujours les mêmes idioties, donc. « Tous les États » ont le droit de se défendre, du moment que tous ces États sont Israël. Tous les États qui ne sont pas Israël ont le droit, eux, de n’avoir rigoureusement aucune capacité de défense militaire.

Remarks of President Barack Obama—As Prepared for Delivery—"A Moment of Opportunity" | The White House
►http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/remarks-president-middle-east-and-north-africa

Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people, and the state of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people; each state enjoying self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace.

Et allons donc.

Lire : L’« Etat juif » contre les juifs, sur le blog d’Alain Gresh :
http://blog.mondediplo.net/2011-05-18-L-Etat-juif-contre-les-juifs

Remarks of President Barack Obama—As Prepared for Delivery—"A Moment of Opportunity" | The White House
►http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/remarks-president-middle-east-and-north-africa

For decades, the conflict between Israelis and Arabs has cast a shadow over the region. For Israelis, it has meant living with the fear that their children could get blown up on a bus or by rockets fired at their homes, as well as the pain of knowing that other children in the region are taught to hate them. For Palestinians, it has meant suffering the humiliation of occupation, and never living in a nation of their own.

Propos scandaleux : les israéliens craindraient pour la vie de leurs enfants, mais les palestiniens ne souffriraient que d’« humiliation ».

Pour rappel, j’avais fait un billet en 2006 à ce sujet :
Loubnan ya Loubnan : L’assassinat sous forme de tableau Excel
►http://tokborni.blogspot.com/2006/11/lassassinat-sous-forme-de-tableau-excel.html

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Guest Post: US Government Seizes Pension Funds, Invades Pakistan | zero hedge
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-us-government-seizes-pension-funds-invades-pakistan

Speaking of broke, faced with what is tantamount to the official insolvency of the United States of America, policymakers have opted to seize funds from the retirement accounts of public sector workers in order to keep the government running.

Wow. America’s leaders are willing to engage in cannibalistic thievery in order to continue funding government operations. I wonder what sorts of operations are so important that they are willing to steal from their own people in order to finance? Any ideas?

Apparently, starting a shooting war in Pakistan was at the top of their list.