There are rich people paying rich people to tell the middle class to blame the poor for their problem… It’s called “Television”, and the “Mainstream Media”.
Meanwhile, WalMart. a company with a “GNP” larger than many nations is subsidized for it’s slave wages by the Federal government because a large percentage of WalMart workers rely on federally funded food stamps and un-supplied by the company health care.
“All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know …Until Now.”
March 29 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Imagine There Are Two Soldiers In Afghanistan… A US Marine And An Afghani Being Trained By Him Who Wants To Kill Him
A Synopsis Of This Morning’s News… H/t to ChrisM my MP3Angel for supplying the audio files.
[After the commentary, in light of the passing of Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs… His son Randy, and Joan Osborne, with a reminder for us all. “We’re only passin’ thru”. Courtesy of the respective artists.]
Breaking: Tim DeChristopher, the prisoner of conscience who ‘disrupted’ a BLM land auction intended for oil and gas interests, was moved back to the MINIMUM SECURITY CAMP late on the night of Wed March 28th, after FCI Herlong, the BOP office in Washington, DC and members of Congress received thousands of phone calls… from YOU!
Peaceful Uprising will not stop investigating this situation because the most important questions remain unanswered: Why was Congress involved in moving Tim into isolated confinement, and who ordered the investigation?~~Peaceful Uprising Press Release
«o»Nightlights over Afghanistan - Due to the tendency of the ISAF’s Afghan miliary trainees to kill their trainers US troops sleeping quarters will be segregated from the Afghani troopers with sentries in place.
«o»The final day of the US Supreme Court hearings on ObamaCare did not focus on whether the boilerplate left out of the multi-part bill that would normally state the rest of the bill will remain in force if any other part is declared void by the court, which means we should expect an all or nothing decision. There will be a test vote tomorrow and then the justices go into committee. More.
«o»The coup in Mali continues to hold under what appears to be a ‘conservative government’ with the US and other nations holding back on approval. One reason may be the neo-colonial government it overthrew was much friendlier to mining interests, with the current regime considering nationalizing the industry.
«o»In Congress the Simpson-Bowles amendment went in front of the House yesterday but only thirty eight members voted for it. Today the draconian Ryan budget goes to the floor. The federal budget is required to be complete by April first… Good luck.
«o»The US and South Korea are holding their annual joint war games with live ammo right on the North Korean border even as negotiations with North Korea regarding aid continues. There are 9,000 US Marines and 1,000 South Korean troops engaging in this exercise… a reduction from previous years.
RIP Earl Scruggs:
Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at age 88
By Chris Talbott, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It may be impossible to overstate the importance of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly recognizable and as intrinsically wrapped in the tapestry of the genre as Johnny Cash’s baritone or Hank Williams’ heartbreak.
Scruggs died Wednesday morning at age 88 of natural causes. The legacy he helped build with bandleader Bill Monroe, guitarist Lester Flatt and the rest of the Blue Grass Boys was evident all around Nashville, where he died in an area hospital. His string-bending, mind-blowing way of picking helped transform a regional sound into a national passion. [In Full @ Salon]
In OTHER News:
If the description is correct, it seems like a congressman is trying to intimidate (Tim) DeChristopher for wanting to return money. To amplify the punishment because of an email is cruel. That the punishment is to place DeChristopher into solitary confinement is even more inhumane. In fact, it is what a fascist country would do to a political prisoner.
Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, who was given a two-year sentence in prison for making fake bids in a Utah public land auction that was later found to be corrupt, has reportedly been moved to solitary confinement after a member of Congress contacted the Bureau of Prisons.
Peaceful Uprising, a climate change activism group which DeChristopher co-founded, states in a press release posted on March 27:
On the evening of Friday March 9th, Tim DeChristopher was summarily removed from the minimum security camp where he has been held since September 2011, and moved into the FCI Herlong’s Special Housing Unit (SHU). Tim was informed by Lieutenant Weirich that he was being moved to the SHU because an unidentified congressman had called from Washington DC, complaining of an email that Tim had sent to a friend. Tim was inquiring about the reported business practices of one of his legal fund contributors, threatening to return the money if their values no longer aligned with his own.
According to Prison officials, Tim will continue to be held in isolated confinement pending an investigation.There is no definite timeline for inmates being held in the SHU — often times they await months for the conclusion of an investigation.
It has come to our attention that William Koch entered into an antitrust settlement where his company, Gunnison Energy, and SG Interest, a Texas energy company, conspired to orchestrate the bidding at a BLM oil and gas lease auction in Colorado. They memorialized this conspiracy in a memorandum of understanding that was subsequently revealed by a whistleblower.
The Department of Justice settled the matter by having each company pay a $275,000 fine, and allowed the conspirators to retain their successful BLM oil and gas leases, without any personal consequences. Tim was charged with conspiring to defeat the Act that created the auction, (a felony) and for making false statements to the Government (also a felony).
These oil and gas companies actually conspired to defeat an identical BLM auction, and made false statements to the Government (according to the Department of Justice). No Oil and Gas executive was charged with felonies and thrown in jail. They were given a token slap on the wrist and went back to drilling. Tim, a peaceful protester, who simply embarrassed the BLM by catching them making big mistakes, is now in a TINY CELL because someone from CONGRESS wants to keep him even quieter? WTF is going on here??
A Synopsis Of This Morning’s News… H/t to ChrisM my MP3Angel for supplying the audio files.
[Note: Due to ‘cockpit trouble’ at KPIG last Friday there was no usable news or commentary audio… Sorry.]
«o»Today is the first day of three special sessions in the US Supreme Court which will be ruling on the constitutionality of the Obama administration’s (mostly unfunded) national health care plan, AKA ObamaCare. Today’s session will hear arguments as to whether the court has jurisdiction to deliver a ruling at all until the plan goes into effect in 2014. Tomorrow the court will rule on a BIG ISSUE… whether the government can force individual citizens to buy a commercial product, which IS what health insurance IS in America. The last day will consist of other arguments. Expect decisions to come down in June… Just at the time US election campaigns are at a peak.
«o»Former vice president Dick Cheney had a ‘last resort’ heart transplant over the weekend. Cheney has had around five heart attacks over the last few years and if this transplant doesn’t take he has little chance for survival. If it does, it buys him MAYBE half a decade more of life.
«o»President Obama is in South Korea for fifty nation talks on nuclear weapons reductions. This comes at a time when North Korea is challenging recent agreements with the US on food-for-weapons reduction by planning a rocket launch.
«o»The Pakistani parliament is in the process of discussing the US/Pakistan relationship. There is a lot of US funding dependent on the re-opening of the Khyber Pass, our primary resupply route for the war on Afghanistan.
In OTHER News: Speaking of our war on Afghanistan…
What is an Afghani life worth to America when there’s worldwide bad PR?
More than usual:
[JURIST] The US government has paid compensation to the families of the victims of a shooting spree [JURIST report] allegedly committed by a US soldier, according to statements made by an Afghan elder. The families of the victims killed [AP report] in the incident received $50,00…0 and the families of wounded victims received $11,000. A US official confirmed that payments were made [CNN report], but refused to comment on the specific amounts. The amounts paid for victims of the shooting spree are significantly larger than what is normally paid to civilian victims of military operations. Civilian victims and their families are typically paid $2,000 for each civilian death and $1,000 for each wounded civilian. [More @ Jurist, with links]
Note that the Pentagon is DESPERATE to rationalize how ONE PERSON in a society that’s HEAVILY ARMED could kill so many people in the wake of claims by the Afghan government and military that up to 20 shooters were involved and air support was supplied. The Pentagon is now claiming the captured shooter Robert Bales didn’t simply ‘pause to reload’, they’re claiming he actually made two trips to the scene of the crime.
Right.
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This is Razer Raygun saying ‘Happy Motoring America…’. Remember:
Capitalism has a gun at your head every moment you’re alive:
“All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know …Until Now.”
March 02 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: They Can’t Find Florida On A Map No Less Uzbekistan - What ARE They Teaching The Kids In School?
A Synopsis Of This Morning’s News… H/t to ChrisM my MP3Angel for supplying the audio files.
«o»The Governors Conference is in progress in Washington DC with the focus on education, and the cuts to those budgets. Apparently there has been a major move on their part towards charter schools.
«o»Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will be at the White House on Monday where he will discuss Israel and US policy towards Iran with president Obama. The prime minister is expected to ask for some sort of reinforcements if they decide, unilaterally, and without warning the US, to attack Iran.
«o»Syria’s army has re-taken most of Homs and Bashar al-Assad’s government has allowed the Red Cross in to deliver aid and more.
«o»The Senate voted down the Blunt Amendment yesterday. That bill would have made it possible for employers to fire employees because they don’t accept mandatory health care programs that exclude birth control.
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This is Razer Raygun saying ‘Happy Motoring America…’. Remember:
Capitalism has a gun at your head every moment you’re alive:
Note Anonymiss Express: Now *this* is a “book” that needs to be burned. Besides dangerous, totally insane. And the people that came up with this need help.
(Reuters) - Millions of healthy people - including shy or defiant children, grieving relatives and people with fetishes - may be wrongly labeled mentally ill by a new international diagnostic manual, specialists said on Thursday.
In a damning analysis of an upcoming revision of the influential Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), psychologists, psychiatrists and other experts said new categories of mental illness identified in the book were at best “silly” and at worst “worrying and dangerous.”
“Many people who are shy, bereaved, eccentric, or have unconventional romantic lives will suddenly find themselves labeled as mentally ill,” said Peter Kinderman, head of Liverpool University’s Institute of Psychology at a briefing in London about widespread concerns over the manual.
“It’s not humane, it’s not scientific, and it won’t help decide what help a person needs.”
The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and has symptoms and other criteria for diagnosing mental disorders. It is used internationally and seen as the diagnostic “bible” for mental health medicine.
No one from the APA was immediately available for comment.
More than 11,000 health professionals have already signed a petition (at dsm5-reform.com) calling for the development of the fifth edition of the manual to be halted and re-thought.
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From Auntie’s archives, circa 2008
Upping the anti (depressant) - Everything you’d want to know about the non-functionality of anti-depressants
A paper (link) on antidepressants by Kirsch and co-authors published last month in PLoS Medicine has received a lot of attention. The antidepressants studied are the six most widely prescribed approved between 1987 and 1999: Prozac, Paxil, Effexor, Serzone, Zoloft, and Celexa.
The Editors’ Summary explains:
The researchers obtained data on all the clinical trials submitted to the FDA … They then used meta-analytic techniques to investigate whether the initial severity of depression affected the HRSD [Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression] improvement scores for the drug and placebo groups in these trials. They confirmed first that the overall effect of these new generation of antidepressants was below the recommended criteria for clinical significance.
Then they showed that there was virtually no difference in the improvement scores for drug and placebo in patients with moderate depression and only a small and clinically insignificant difference among patients with very severe depression.
The difference in improvement between the antidepressant and placebo reached clinical significance, however, in patients with initial HRSD scores of more than 28—that is, in the most severely depressed patients.
Additional analyses indicated that the apparent clinical effectiveness of the antidepressants among these most severely depressed patients reflected a decreased responsiveness to placebo rather than an increased responsiveness to antidepressants.
The press simplified it further. The MSNBC headline was “Antidepressants may not help many patients”. The Guardian announced: “Prozac, used by 40m people, does not work say scientists”. [In Full]
A Synopsis Of This Morning’s News… H/t to ChrisM my MP3Angel for supplying the audio files.
«o»Thirty years after - The first new US-based nuclear power plant in over thirty years is up for ‘permitting’ today. “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to approve Atlanta-based Southern Co.’s request to build two nuclear reactors at its Vogtle site south of Augusta (Georgia). More at the Washington Post.
«o»The European Union will pass it’s own economic sanctions on Syria and there’s few people left in Homs, the main battleground in the country, besides the Syrian Army and the rebel Free Syrian Army among others being supplied covertly by at least the CIA backed al-Qaeda affiliated Libyan ‘government and it’s ‘army’.
«o»California and New York have caved to pressure and will join in the federal foreclosure settlement offered by the big banks. The banks will put up money to cover a small settlement for people affected by past foreclosures and people currently in the red may be able to have their mortgages bought out for some fixed sum of money… But the bottom line is the banks DO NOT have the titles to the property and much of the foreclosure paperwork was forged… and the banks could get stuck for the full amount of the defaults, so the federal government is bailing them out again.
«o»The Danube river is closed in at least four European countries due to ice and floating ice making it impossible to navigate one of the most important shipping channels in Europe.
«o»Congressman John Boerner is threatening the Obama health plan over whether federal health care funds can be used for… Catholic hospitals and other religiously related medical providers.
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This is Razer Raygun saying ‘Happy Motoring America…’. Remember:
Capitalism has a gun at your head every moment you’re alive:
A Synopsis Of This Morning’s News… H/t to ChrisM my MP3Angel for supplying the audio files.
[After the commentary, Guy Clark. Courtesy of the respective artists and KPIG Radio Freedom California… Earth.]
«o»The Republican debate at Tampa Florida was much more ‘orderly (unlike Travus’ dog) than the South Carolina ‘audience participation’ event. There was no booing clapping or cheering and it WAS boring. Gingrich and Romney stirred it up over who gets money from whom but other than that… The next primary on the 31st is winner take all so look for HUGE amounts of SOMEONE’S money being spent. Details
«o»The European Union has finally caved to the pressure and will enact sanctions on Iran. The EU will embargo the trade in Iranian oil immediately if you don’t have a contract and by the end of 2013 if you do to allow everyone who uses oil or gasoline to get used to the ‘sticker shock’. The Russian are not going along with the embargo saying it’s foolish and will only increase tension in the region, to which the NATO and Western industrialized nations foreign policy apparatchik could only reply… “What’s your point?”. More.
«o»Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shot a little over a year ago by a mentally disturbed young man while shaking hands at an Arizona shopping mall is resigning for recovery reasons. Her last act was to introduce a bill in the House on what to do about intercepting ultralight aircraft over-the-border contraband smuggling is due to be voted on today with passage expected.
«o»Tonight is the State Of The Union address by the President and he may talk about health care, against a backdrop of a Supreme Court ruling against taking on a lawsuit by Republican interests because Justice Sonia Sotomayor allegedly assisted the Obama administration with the health care bill coming up in their court, with Sotomayor sitting on the bench.
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This is Razer Raygun saying ‘Happy Motoring America…’. And remember… They don’t give a fuck about us:
A Message To #Occupiers Everywhere: "Ignore the loyalists, ignore the cynics, keep fighting ...... Shut them down. Shut the entire god damn system down. No one can stop this. I love you all." ~~Redditor Aniadrift
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March 29 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Imagine There Are Two Soldiers In Afghanistan… A US Marine And An Afghani Being Trained By Him Who Wants To Kill Him
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