@3, apparently that piece of garbage did more than just touch. What a hypocritical louse Paterno is for not ensuring this monster was brought to justice.

Posted by: Morocco Bama | Nov 11 2011 20:27 utc | 4

Steve Gowans does post-Gadaffi Libya
In Libya, the end of 42 years of…
http://gowans.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/in-libya-the-end-of-42-years-of/

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Nov 12 2011 0:09 utc | 6

Heard Shrillary’s voice on the radio a few minutes ago and thought I should listen, just in case she had something sensible to say.
Alas, She said “We expect Iran to respond to the serious concerns raised by the IAEA report” ..which added a little more weight to my opinion that when there’s nothing to say, Shrillary gets the job of saying it (if Obama is too busy).
Late last year, William Blum (Killing Hope) penned a polemic with the title In Struggle with the American Mind. In it he relates his first experience of listening to an Obama speech. He says that after listening for 15 minutes or so he was struck by the realisation that “This man isn’t saying anything. He’s mouthing platitudes and cliches.”
One wonders what else Obama and Shrillary have in common.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Nov 12 2011 7:06 utc | 8

Re: the Penn State scandal
Morality in the USA typically begins and ends with condemning the behavior of other people, compartmentalized to a few categories – terrorists, immigrants, pedophiles. Meanwhile, other wrongdoing such as aggression, cruelty, and greed is ignored.
The single best way to demonstrate concern for pedophilia would be to provide substantial ongoing therapeutic and standard-of-living intervention for the victims. But that would require tax dollars.

Posted by: Watson | Nov 12 2011 14:25 utc | 10

@Watson
“Morality in the USA typically begins and ends with condemning the behavior of other people…”
You’ve struck a vein there which I find very interesting.
The Beeb is running this story: America’s child death shame

Every five hours a child dies from abuse or neglect in the US.
The latest government figures show an estimated 1,770 children were killed as a result of maltreatment in 2009.
A recent congressional report concludes the real number could be nearer 2,500.
In fact, America has the worst child abuse record in the industrialised world. Why?

That’s about 20,000 children in the last 10 years.

Posted by: nobodee | Nov 12 2011 16:15 utc | 12

re. bokonon at 1.
That the F Socialists were compromised was evident the minute they started touting DSK as a savior candidate.
DSK could never have been elected.
His father was a tax lawyer in Monaco, he grew up in Morocco and Monaco. He failed the ENA entrance exam (passed by Hollande, Aubry, Royal, et al) and went into academe, the more lowly choice. With a few insignificant exceptions, he has never been elected to anything, only nominated. (Like Kouchner.) He was not a ‘competent’ French politician. All these things might count only for minor sections..but the list goes on…
He is Jewish and his wife is a semi-covert Zionist, French style.
He is extremely rich, or rather his wife is, but that comes to the same thing.
As head of the IMF, living in Washington, it was completely hopeless.
Add in that his reputation not just as a womanizer and seducer – which the Socialist party seemed to blithely accept – but far worse, known to a very large % of the female population of France, the attempt to put him forward was risible.
Sarkozy’s plan was transparent from the beginning, and had things proceeded smoothly, the Stark stood a very good chance of being re-elected. First, DSK would be vilified because he is a caviar socialist, and that campaign had already begun, and was having surprising, tremendous effects. Second, that he is not ‘really’ French would have been trumpeted. Third, just before the first round, DSK would have been discredited with the Carlton scandal (which was known before the NY Sofitel matter but kept on ice) with some extra damnation (e.g. Tristane Banon complaint, and/or others), scattering the Socialist Vote in the first round to abstention / small parties / extremes / Sark himself / Le Pen, etc., thus ending in a duel between Marine Le Pen and Nicolas the First, which he would have won. A remake of Chirac – Jean Marie Le Pen election.
Plans wrecked by what happened at the Sofitel in NY. An accident, a complete, devastating, surprise to everyone.
Diallo, the black chambermaid, saved the French Socialist Party, by knocking DSK away in time for rallying around another candidate.
Hollande will run a lackluster center-leftish campaign, and he will win.
(Barring events like a Euro meltdown between now and then. Though that might even be in his favor.)

Posted by: Noirette | Nov 12 2011 16:52 utc | 14

Re: Cold Evil. Great article, Morocco Bama. Still going through it, but it has some great insights.

Posted by: david montoute | Nov 13 2011 13:08 utc | 16

Some of you might find this interesting.
http://prospect.org/article/bankers-choice

Imagine letting Goldman Sachs and Bank of America select our president—that’s just what’s happened in Italy and Greece.
So Greece has a new prime minister – Lucas Papademos – and Italy looks about to have a new one, too – Mario Monti. To which not just you and I but damn near every Italian and Greek responds, “Who?”
Neither Papademos nor Monti has ever held elective office, or even run for one. Neither has been a minister, sub-minister or even civil servant in one of their nation’s ministries. Neither has developed, or sought to develop, a public following from their careers as economic technicians, chiefly on the European supra-national level. Yet each is about to lead a major nation.
Papademos and Monti are something new under the sun: national leaders elected by the markets. Imposed, not as pro-consels by foreign occupiers, but by the European banking community, by the finance ministers of the Eurozone powers – chiefly, Germany and France. Each has an impressive resume and a good reputation with the centrist political and economic elites of his own nation, but there’s no reason why the person on the street of Rome or Athens should know who the hell they are.
But imagine if the U.S. couldn’t sell its Treasury notes (which has never been a problem, let’s be clear), and the IMF and Germany and China got together and said that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, the Cabinet and the Congress had to go. Imagine that they then designated as Obama’s successor, say, the guy who followed Tim Geithner as head of the New York Fed (I don’t even know who that is), or Robert Zoellick, the American who heads the World Bank. That’s essentially what just happened to Italy and Greece.

I bolded the first part because I found it ironic since we all know that’s how it’s done already, and has been for quite some time. Of course, it’s more than the banks doing the selecting, although the banks have a large part to play in it.

Posted by: Morocco Bama | Nov 14 2011 13:39 utc | 18

Australia, a compliant suborned vassal state indeed …

Australian PM backs uranium for India
AUSTRALIA’S ban on uranium exports to India is set to be overturned, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard declaring the present policy outdated.
Ms Gillard will push for a change in party policy at next month’s Labor national conference to lift the ban, bringing Australia into line with America’s thinking.
-snip-
According to WikiLeaks cables Mr Ferguson (Resources Minister ) told American officials in 2009 that there could be a deal to sell to India within years.

Hmm, let’s see, India has nukes, ICBMs, etc, is NOT a signatory to the NPT, yet remarkably, somehow, India is on the IAEA board of governors ? … yes, remarkably coincidental timing of a major reversal of policy contrary to the NPT but a policy change the US has long saught in order to influence/re-align Indian policy regarding Iran and China …
Hypocrisy and blatant double standards reign supreme …

Posted by: Outraged | Nov 14 2011 14:29 utc | 20

Re the frustratingly aimless EU Bailout…
I stumbled on this unflattering critique at Billy Blog – a site which claims to offer alternative economic thinking
The hypocrisy of the Euro cabal is staggering
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=16898#more-16898
Also, it seems that the EU “crisis” is being used to side-step democratic inconveniences such as “voters” and “elections” – first in Greece when the ex-PM was admonished by the EU for suggesting a referendum to ask the people about their preferred solution – and now in Italy where the President has anointed a senior public servant and economist (coincidentally the Investors choice) Mario Monti, with the title senator for life, elevated him to the post of PM and ordered him to form a national unity government to implement harsh economic ‘reforms’.
http://newsinabox.net/2021/investors-want-mario-monti-to-replace-berlusconi.html
By the time this is over it will be pretty obvious to all and sundry that, globally, banksters and investors are much smarter, and better coordinated, than the governments upon whom we relied to protect us from them.

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Nov 14 2011 15:35 utc | 22

MoroccObama, re: 18 Wall St. has chosen the winner of every election save one over the last 100 yrs.

Posted by: scottindallas | Nov 14 2011 22:27 utc | 24

opss – #24 was scottindallas, not MB (but my question holds)

Posted by: claudio | Nov 14 2011 23:31 utc | 26

Unfortunately the allegations bruited in this Press TV report are eminently believable. It is highly unlikely that there will be convincing explanation for the true cause of death, but perhaps in this case there will be a less melodramatically incredible explanation than was offered in the “Camp X-Ray” deaths at Guantanamo.

Posted by: Hannah K. O’Luthon | Nov 15 2011 9:53 utc | 28

The Surveillance Catalog: Where Governments Get Their Tools

Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The techniques described in the trove of 200-plus marketing documents include hacking tools that enable governments to break into people’s computers and cellphones, and “massive intercept” gear that can gather all Internet communications in a country.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 20 2011 3:58 utc | 30

I knew that us humans were not the only ones is space but how does the transport happens here?

the world exported $331 billion more than it imported in 2010, according to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. The fund forecasts that the global current-account surplus will rise to almost $700 billion by 2014.

Posted by: b | Nov 20 2011 15:17 utc | 32

re 33
I have no informed idea regarding the veracity of this report from the Telegraph,
picked up at Sibel Edmonds’ Boiling Frogs site, but it certainly sounds believable.
The Angry Arab has been reporting the arrest of Israeli agents in Lebanon, one by one, one after another, for ages.
Presumably the same agents. Why would there be a difference these days?

Posted by: alexno | Nov 23 2011 10:45 utc | 34

Join the dots …

A round-up of Israeli spies
Another clue may have pointed to the importance of the signals trail. Last summer, as the spies were being rounded up, a senior man in Unit 8200, the section of Israeli military intelligence tasked with eavesdropping on Israel’s enemies, shot himself in his office. Colleagues blamed “unrequited love”.
Unit 8200
Mystery surrounds suicide of officer from elite intel unit
Four days after Maj. Avia Moshe took own life with a shot to the head from his personal weapon, the circumstances surrounding his suicide remain cloaked in mystery. Moshe held a key (and classified) function in Unit 8200, the elite electronic information-gathering arm of Military Intelligence …

Posted by: Outraged | Nov 23 2011 16:14 utc | 36