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[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon: How ...:     Equally striking, the military seems increasingly ill-adapted to the types of wars that Pentagon strategists agree the United States is most likely to fight in the future, and is, in fact, already fighting in Afghanistan - insurgencies led by non-state actors. While the Department of Defense produces weaponry meant for such wars, it is also squandering staggering levels of defense appropriations on aircraft, ships, and futuristic weapons systems that fascinate generals and admirals, and are beloved by military contractors mainly because their complexity runs up their cost to astronomical levels.

[The Pakistani Spectator] Indian Fantasy of Being an Economic Power | The Pakistani Spectator: there are too many signs of an over confidence (in India) that look more and more like hubris”. Paradoxically, only a false sense of economic growth is spreading throughout India notwithstanding the reality.  According to a survey conducted by the BBC World almost half of all Indians feel that their country’s economic “miracle”

[Pakistan Historian] Hitlers Hindu admirers: India's Savitri Devi Mukherji's homage to ...: The great difference, however, between him and them, is that he embodied the German Soul absolutely, in full consciousness of the laws that have made it the higher Self of Western Aryandom.” And I remembered also the Führer’s words, uttered in one of his early speeches, years before the Seizure of Power1: “God has, in His mercy, given us a wonderful gift: the hatred of our enemies, whom we, in our turn, hate with all our hearts .” And I marvelled at the identity of the spirit animating the two leaders at each end of Germany’s up till now recorded, history: the liberator of German soil, and the liberator of German soil and of the German Soul ”” nay, of the Aryan Soul, to the extent the Aryans of the world are prepared to accept his message and follow him and his faithful ones.

[Brushfires of Freedom Warm Hearts and Move Minds] "What is Right will Always Eventually Prevail": All the phony promises of a government that claims to be able to give you security, health, a job, a house, a car, etc., etc., if you will just give up your defense system—your faith and trust in God as the source of life and freedom—are not going to be accepted. And the result will be the bankruptcy and collapse of the idea that government can give you these things, and the bankruptcy and collapse of those who peddled this idea—because there is nothing behind this idea, no truth to hold it together.

[naked capitalism] The Buyers' Strike in the Securitization Markets « naked capitalism: We have a dysfunctional economy, fueled largely by dysfunctional citizenry informed by these wizards of finance Whalen refers to. It’s a circular feedback loop, and there’s little evidence I see that influence exists to thwart the corrosion.

[Sanibalashehu's Weblog] The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky.: end the chatter about industrial and financial planning, about the lowering, of production costs, economic accounting, crop sowing, and other important state problems as though we were going to decide them.” The whole country might well repeat those last words: “as though we were going, to decide them!” That insolent rebuke: “End the chatter!” welcomed with anything but enthusiasm even by this supersubmissive congress - is the more striking when you remember that the Soviet law defines the age of political maturity as 18 years, giving all electoral rights to young men and women of that age, whereas the age limit for Communist Youth members, according to the old Constitution, was 23 years, and a good third of the members of the organization were in reality older than that. This last congress adopted two simultaneous reforms: It legalized membership in the Communist Youth for people of greater age, thus increasing the number of Communist Youth electors, and at the same time deprived the organization as a whole of the right to intrude into the sphere, not only of general politics - of that there can never be any question!

[indymedia.us main newswire] "Intelligence Chief": / / Given that Revolution Muslim is a hoax website pretending to be Muslim extremists but actually created and run by Joseph Cohen, and given that the now discredited claim of a Pakistan Taliban group taking credit for the bombing attempt came from another Israeli propaganda operation run by the daughter of an executed Israeli spy, I think we can safely guess who staged this fizzled bombing attempt, and more to the point, who was supposed to be framed for it. \ \

[Get the latest news and info on South Asian / Middle East region] Indian Fantasy of Being an Economic Power: According to a survey conducted by the BBC World almost half of all Indians feel that their country's economic "miracle" has done nothing to benefit them or their families. The survey revealed the growing sense of division in Indian society between the newly affluent middle classes and the socially disenfranchised rural poor.

[Watts Up With That?] UK Climate Minister: “Britons Are 'Inherently Sceptical' Of ...: Yes you read correctly, the sole aim of spending countless billions of pounds and destroying the UK economy and sabotaging the UK energy matrix is so the UK government can bask in the warm glow of leading the world by example, taking a moral leadership in the hope that once the UK destroyed itself the world will be so impressed and awed by this national suicide that the world will follow and drink the kool aid next.

[The Money Game] David Rosenberg: Yes, The DOW Could Drop To 5000: basically accusing the ECRI index as fitting the data points to the cycle - not the case, by the way - have a look at ECRI Weekly Indicators Widely Misunderstood that made it to our friend Barry Ritholtz's blog (“The Big Picture”). ...

[blog.engagingtheculture.org] blog.engagingtheculture.org » Is Becoming A Christian Committing ...: God by definition is intelligent.The irony is striking in a passage from Isaiah, “For thus the high and exalted One who lives forever, whose name is Holy, says: ’I dwell on a high and holy place, and also with the contrite and lowly of spirit, in order to revive the spirit of the lowly’” (Is.

[Clusterfuck Nation] Out of Darkness - Clusterfuck Nation: Actually all of that extra work, all of that hard work building McMansions across the USA or all those houses in Spain, all of those loans and all of the new financial instruments created subprime loaning, defaults, and the housing bubble. The law of diminishing returns has become the law of negative returns as far as "work" is concerned.

[tor.com] Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / The Wheel of ...: I think I may swing by the Borders I used to work at and see if I can prevail upon anyone to sell it to me early. Hopefully some people I know are still the managers there.

[The Beacon] Ticking Time Bomb Explodes, Public Is Shocked | The Beacon: Ludwig von Mises explained as early as 1920 why a centrally planned economy could not work as a rational system of allocating resources. The reasons why Social Security, especially its Medicare component, and many other such government programs contain the seeds of their own destruction have been explained time and again.

[TomDispatch - Blog] Tomgram: Chalmers Johnson, Economic Death Spiral at the Pentagon ...: Equally striking, the military seems increasingly ill-adapted to the types of wars that Pentagon strategists agree the United States is most likely to fight in the future, and is, in fact, already fighting in Afghanistan -- insurgencies led by non-state actors. While the Department of Defense produces weaponry meant for such wars, it is also squandering staggering levels of defense appropriations on aircraft, ships, and futuristic weapons systems that fascinate generals and admirals, and are beloved by military contractors mainly because their complexity runs up their cost to astronomical levels.

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[afh blog] The Freake Letters (1995): These men of God often published chronicles of their prison visits with desperate men destined for the gallows, or chopping block, or whatever. These ministers also provided, for a fee, a final statement for the doomed man to read .

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