The Proliferation of Space Warfare Technology

The Proliferation of Space Warfare Technology

By Matthew Hoey
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12526
Global Research, March 3, 2009
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists - 2008-12-11

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Jim Rogers: Let AIG Go Bankrupt, Not America

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29476319/site/14081545


Jim Rogers: Let AIG Go Bankrupt, Not America
Companies:American International Group Inc
By: CNBC.com | 03 Mar 2009 | 04:24 PM ET
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Why isn"t the oil industry bailing out the auto sector? End of Suburbia: Who Killed the Electric Car?

Importance of The Big Three

SGeneral Motors, Ford and Chrysler weren't labelled the Big Three just because they produced the most vehicles in North America. As giant employers, they had big influence, energizing entire economies with their big union wages and benefits packages. As giant manufacturers, they created style. Status was instantly signalled by black Lincolns and pink Corvettes. Seatbelts, reduced vehicle emissions and electric cars had to wait until the carmakers were good and ready. As giant political contributors, they had big power. The L.A. Times recently calculated that since 1990, the auto industry as a whole has donated $100 million US to Republicans and $34 million to Democrats.

This would explain why, on Thursday, US President Barack Obama stated that:

SWe are committed to the goal of a re-tooled, re-imagined auto industry that can compete and win Millions of jobs depend on it. Scores of communities depend on it. And I believe the nation that invented (whoops) the automobile cannot walk away from it.

Collapse of The Big Three

GM, Sthe nation's biggest domestic automaker said Thursday it lost $30.9 billion for the full year and expects to state in its upcoming annual report whether its auditors believe the company remains a going concern."

SGM's loss for 2008 was the deepest among Detroit-based carmakers. Ford lost $14.6bn, while Chrysler, controlled by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, fell $8bn into the red.

SThe automakers were promised a total of $17.4 billion in direct loans from Washington and they had to present restructuring plans by Feb. 17, 2009, if they wanted a second installment. While Ford opted out of the process, saying it doesn't need a loan just yet, the plans GM and Chrysler came up with are costly.

SGM said it would need up to $30 billion from the U.S. Treasury Department to continue operating. GM has already received $13.4 billion of the money, but the other $16.6 billion would be new. Chrysler wants $2 billion on top of the $4 billion it has already received and the $3 billion it is expecting from Washington.

Profits for The Oil Industry

In 2008, five of the relatively smallest Oil and Gas Companies in the world; Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips reported record profits of over $123 billion.

So just one year"s worth of profits for the oil industry is approximately three times what the auto industry is asking for in their bailout package. If these five companies bailed out the US auto manufacturers, they would still be able to report billions in profit.

Exxon Mobil's staggering $40.6 billion earnings for 2007 Sbeat its own one-year-old record for the biggest corporate profits ever by 3 percent. Put together with the announcement by the No. 2 U.S. oil company, Chevron, of an $18.7 billion year, up 9 percent over 2006, plus the earlier results of Shell and ConocoPhillips, and that's more than $100 billion in profits from four companies.

And just last month, Exxon Mobil reported the largest annual profit in U.S. history, Smaking $45.22 billion on the back of record oil prices The company reported total revenue in 2008 of over $477 billion, giving the company a profit margin of about 9%.

Auto Sector Bailout

That gives us a pretty good idea of what type of numbers we are dealing with, so here is my question: Since the oil industry is making record profits and the auto sector is on the verge of bankruptcy, shouldn"t the oil industry, instead of the US citizen, bailout the auto sector, especially considering how interconnected their business models happen to be?

The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and The Collapse of The American Dream (1:17:37)

Who Killed the Electric Car? (1:32:27)

Keep in mind that if you apply the Iraq war multiplier to the bailouts, then all bets are off. Just wanted to through that out there.

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A New Afghanistan Nightmare

When US envoy to Afghanistan , Richard Holbrooke met with Afghanistan s democratically installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on February 14, he may have just learned of the historic significance of the following day. February 15 commemorates the end of the bloody Russian campaign against Afghanistan (August 1978-February 1989).But it is unlikely that Holbrooke [...]No related posts.

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Arizona Legislators introduce Internal Passports/ Real ID

HB 2507Introduced byRepresentative Pancrazi, Senator Aguirre: Representatives Ableser, Meza AN ACT amending sections 28-3001, 28-3002, 28-3101, 28-3165 and 28-3171, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending title 28, chapter 8, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 28-3007; relating to driver licenses. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE) Be it enacted by the [...]No related posts.

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Trial of senior Khmer Rouge figure to open in Cambodia

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/17/asia/17cambodia.php


International Herald Tribune
Trial of senior Khmer Rouge figure to open in Cambodia
By Seth Mydans
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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Internment Camps Readied For Mass Illegal Alien Influx?

Internment Camps Readied For Mass Illegal Alien Influx? Texas officials say contingency plans are in place for collapse of Mexico, policy only covers law enforcement needs, does not address humanitarian issuesPaul Joseph WatsonPrison Planet.comWednesday, February 11, 2009The news that Texas officials are working on contingency plans to deal with a sudden influx of illegal [...]No related posts.

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The Western secret government is still planning genocide

The Western secret government is still planning genocideThere are many indicators that the current rulers of the Wests financial system are not only blocking the introduction of a new financial system but are also still planning to kill billions of people.It is not hard to find evidence of their plans in various news items. They [...]No related posts.

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The Great Derangement: A Late-Night Thank You to Our (Vaguely Frightening) Hate Stalkers

I've recently become aware that I have a few blog stalkers - ie. people who spend inordinate amounts of time blogging about how much they hate my writing (see here, here, here, here and here for just a few recent examples). Evidently, these people have oodles of time on their hands (and personally, I think the funniest of them are those who still insist Hillary Clinton never supported NAFTA, despite Clinton's own repeated public speeches promoting NAFTA). But I just want to give them a shout out - I sincerely love them all, both because they are providing a few extra links to OpenLeft, and because at a level far deeper than meta-narrative navel gazing, they reflect the broader societal anger that I think could make this the transformative historical moment we all want it to be.
On the link score - hey, the more traffic, the better. It's kinda like that exchange from the movie "Private Parts" about Howard Stern. After the station manager says "the average Howard Stern fan listens for an hour and 10 minutes" he then indignantly recounts that "the average Stern hater listens for 2 and a half hours a day." I don't aim to be Howard Stern, but the principle from that exchange is right-on. We'll take the traffic from the stalkers - traffic is traffic, after all, and readers are readers (and check it out - OpenLeft's traffic has been awesome of late).

But beyond just the self-interest of having blog stalkers inadvertently help us with traffic, I want to reiterate that I think the frenzied rage that's out there - whether directed at me, OpenLeft, or at any other progressive institution - is to be expected in times like this.

The country is coming apart, we're handing over $8 or $9 trillion to Wall Street, the government - as I and many others repeatedly warned - is being stacked with those who engineered this crisis, and people are violently angry. And so some of the angriest are desperate for scapegoats and conspiracy theories to help them make sense of it all. My good buddy Matt Taibbi documented this pretty well in his last book - the fringe left (from the LaRouchies to the "everyone is awful" Naderites to the Obama-hating Clintonites) and the fringe right (from the anti-immigrant lunatics to the militia sympathizers to the libertarian ideologues) find common cause in turning their righteous frustration at the Establishment into chest-thumping anger at phantom demons that seem more easy to slay than the massive institutions and powers that have destroyed the country.

And so if I or OpenLeft or any other good progressive institution/voice serves as one of those proxies that seems more easy and fun and tangible to scapegoat than giant concepts like The Government or The Establishment or The System or towering cultural icons like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or George W. Bush, then, at a certain level, that's really OK with me. And I don't say that in any kind of martyr-like, please-fee-bad-for-me kind of way - I mean it sincerely.

If, for instance, the fringe left needs to blame me for Hillary Clinton losing to Barack Obama; or Hillary Clinton stupidly campaigning for NAFTA and the Iraq War; or Ralph Nader not being able to mount a real presidential campaign in a money-dominated system; or Barack Obama not fulfilling his campaign promises; that's fine by me. I can take it, even if I don't agree with it, even if I can acknowledge (like most rational human beings) that such a line of thinking is crazy, insane and absurd.

I can take it because it is entirely predictable in what Taibbi calls "The Great Derangement" - that is, in a country whose political system has made people feel so desperately powerless that they need delusional theories to make them feel they have some shred of control over the nation's destiny. If me serving as a punching bag helps make people feel they have some shred of control or vested interest in political engagement, then that's ultimately a good thing. Indeed, in Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky says that anyone truly committed to organizing and activism and political empowerment needs - at times - to be willing to serve as such a punching bag for precisely this reason.

The anger that's welling up across the country is real and it needs to be channeled somewhere, and if some of it is being channeled here at us, that's ultimately a positive. Why? Because for every one of the stalkers who has gone completely off the deep end - for every sociopath who spends oodles of time writing whacked-out Unabomber-like manifestos blaming me, or another individual writer, or a blog or or the progressive movement for the end of civilization in a country where individual progressive writers and blogs and movements are still incredibly outgunned by the monied Establishment - my guess is that there are 10 people just as angry but far more sane who can be brought into the fold to channel their anger into the kinds of constructive causes and movements that I have devoted my career to, that this community at OpenLeft is all about and that will ultimately bring lasting change to America.

UPDATE: Within moments of this diary posting, one of my most devout stalkers requested that I link to an extra one of his/her stalker posts. The timing, of course, reiterates the stalky-ness of it all. But in the interest of obliging, here's that link calling me a blind Obama loyalist. I'm guessing you'll find it pretty funny, if you've read any of my work.

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Emerging global elite to use new global media to educate global citizens

The following is based on a report by Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media.Elite members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, recently considered a proposal for a new global television network to usher in a state of global governance. The concept strikes some as authoritarian, even totalitarian. But the parent company of [...]No related posts.

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Biden promises Iran talks, toughness

US Vice President Joe Biden says Washington will move toward direct talks with Iran but at the same time warns of a continued tough line.In a Saturday speech on his first foreign trip since taking office, Biden attempted to draw a line between the policies of the new US administration and certain confrontational aspects of [...]

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FAA says Hackers broke into agency computers

Source: Associated PressWASHINGTON Hackers broke into the Federal Aviation Administrations computer system last week, accessing the names and Social Security numbers of 45,000 employees and retirees.The agency said in a statement Monday that two of the 48 files on the breached computer server contained personal information about employees and retires who were on [...]

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Another Individual Stands Up To Illegal Border Patrol Checkpoint Detention

Another Individual Stands Up To Illegal Border Patrol Checkpoint Detention
An individual successfully asserts his rights at an internal suspicionless Border Patrol checkpoint in New Mexico while being illegally detain by overzealous Border Patrol agen...

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Communities making their own currencies

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Diana Felber brought her groceries to the checkout and counted out her cash — purple, blue and green bills that are good at only businesses in western Massachusetts.Known as “BerkShares,” the colorful currency is printed by a nonprofit group to encourage people to spend close to home in the state’s Berkshire [...]No related posts.

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Neocon Columnist Calls For Military Draft, Cites Possible Invasion Of Pakistan

Says new American nationalism needed for survivalSteve WatsonInfowars.netTuesday, Jan 13th, 2009A Washington Times columnist has claimed that a universal military draft is a key necessity if America is to survive throughout and beyond the 21st century.Tony Blankley, also a former Reagan speechwriter, a former Newt Gingrich press secretary, and currently a Fellow at right wing [...]No related posts.

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What in the world? Cult members bidding on Alex Jones' bullhorn?

yes, they certainly have most people trained to only have motor reactions about sex and violence.  we push sports and gangster shows instead of art and learning.  sign of a sick society led to the slaughter by an even more sick, secret society...

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Countering The Marxist Critical Theory

Countering The Marxist Critical Theory

We need to defy Political Correctness at every level. We need to hold PC institutions such as the media responsible for obscuring the truth about the origins of violent crime and those responsible for it in our co...

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National Safety Council seeks total* cell-phone driving ban

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/13/cell_phone_ban/


National Safety Council seeks total* cell-phone driving ban
By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco

Posted in Mobile, 13th J...

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Police Informant's Death Brings New Law, Lawsuit

The murder of a 23-year-old Florida woman in a botched drug buy-bust operation this May could lead to changes in how confidential informants are recruited and used by the state's law enforcement.


23-year old Rachel Hoffman, a recent graduate of Florida State University, was murdered during a botched sting operation earlier this year.
(Courtesy Leon County Sheriff's Offic)

An official investigation found the Tallahassee Police Department had violated its own rules by recruiting Rachel Hoffman, a Florida State University graduate who was facing a drug charge and likely jail time after arrests for marijuana possession, and sending her alone into a dangerous undercover sting without training.

Florida state legislators are putting the finishing touches on a bill they are calling "Rachel's Law," which would tighten up rules on how the state's police recruit and use confidential informants. The law, which was first proposed by Rachel's father, Irv Hoffman, would require police in Florida to be more judicious in their selection of confidential informants and ensure the potential recruit has access to a lawyer.

Its likely sponsors, State Sen. Mike Fasano and State Rep. Peter Nehr, expect the bill to be considered when the legislature begins its regular session next spring. Both are Republican.

Tallahassee Police Chief Dennis Jones has signed on as a supporter of the effort. "We need to do a better job with this," Jones said in September.

Jones' support was perhaps surprising. In the days after Hoffman's murder, Jones made public statements that Hoffman was a criminal who bore a large part of the blame for the botched sting and, by extension, her own death.

"I'm calling her a criminal," Jones told ABC News' Brian Ross in July. Jones said then that he did not accept that his department was in any way responsible for Hoffman's death. "Do we feel responsible? We're responsible for the safety of this community," he said.

Click here to watch the 20/20 investigation of the botched sting. http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5454035

Jones, who was reprimanded as a result of the investigation into Hoffman's murder, later apologized for those comments. "We were placing most of the blame on Rachel Hoffman. I regret that now," Jones said. "It made us look like we weren't taking responsibility for what happened."

Hoffman Parents Poised to Sue Tallahasssee

The two men Hoffman met as part of the May sting are in jail awaiting trial for her murder. One defendant, Andrea Green, has pled not guilty. The other, Deneilo Bradshaw, has not yet entered a plea, according to the court cleark's office.

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Change? Obama Inner Circle Filled With Bilderbergers

By Victor ThornFOR TWO YEARS, Americans have heard an unrelenting mantra of change emanating from the campaign trail. But now that President-elect Barack Obama has begun forming his cabinet, were seeing a cadre of more deeply entrenched insiders than any administration that has preceded it.In regard to key foreign policy advisors, all three of Obamas [...]

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