Iran's Nuclear Ambitions And America's Misguidedly Dismissed Countervailing Option

"...As for "the threat of a belligeren­t Iran", very precise interests - sections of the industrial­-military complex, the Republican party as a whole, the Israel lobby, the majority of corporate media - have been cheerleadi­ng for a strike on Iran for years...."

The Pentagon-A­rab Spring love story

By Pepe Escobar

Nov 2, 2011http://www­.atimes.co­m/atimes/M­iddle_East­/MK02Ak01.­html
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Charges dropped against first reporter arrested at Occupy Wall Street

NOVEMBER 4, 2011 11:17 AM
Columbia Journalism Review

Multiple Missteps Led To Drone Killing U.S. Troops In Afghanistan

Do you really think the people who make money selling these drones care about a few casualties­?

Northrop Grumman profit up nearly 50 percent

April 23rd, 2009

http://www­.armybase.­us/2009/04­/northrop-­grumman-pr­ofit-up-ne­arly-50-pe­rcent/
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Yeah, so who took over these Bozo's jobs?

Top Farc rebel leader Alfonso Cano killed in Colombia
SATURDAY 5.11.2011 | 14:25

The Irish Times - Saturday, November 5, 2011
How the 'merchant of death' was snared

Stiglitz nails it again

The Globalization of Protest
Joseph E. Stiglitz
2011-11-04

"NEW YORK – The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become global, with the protests engulfing Wall Street and cities across America....

...The rise in inequality is the product of a vicious spiral: the rich rent-seekers use their wealth to shape legislation in order to protect and increase their wealth – and their influence...."

So what happened in Oakland yesterday?

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Occupy Oakland General Strike Nov. 2, 2011

Busted! Occupy Oakland police infiltrators exposed on video.
OCTOBER 30, 2011 BY JEREMY BLOOM

Michael Moore To Visit #OccupyDenver Thursday Afternoon (VIDEO)

WOOOOOT!
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New shoes

Yup, I got new dirty-filthy-hippy-commie-liberal socialist shoes.

Winter time in San Diego just means I have to wear socks with my Birkenstocks.

My favorite thing about Birks might be that they call a wide shoe "normal", "for normal, sturdy feet" (kind of funny because an arch as high as mine is not "sturdy," it needs support, and those silly foam arch supports you can buy to put in other shoes are a fucking joke if you have feet like mine.

Birkenstock calls what is normally a women's width (a B is a normal women's width) "narrow", "for slim, slender feet," which totally makes me giggle since some asshole shoe salesman told me he "might have some boxes in the back" that would fit me. The fucker, as if I hadn't endured enough torture finding shoes that fit a EE width with a high instep and arch and and a decidedly NOT wide heel. My swim coach used to call me "paddle-foot," nice if you are a duck, but humliating for a teenaged girl.

I wear a boys size and boys shoes are crap for women's feet. Eeek, women's shoes are crap for women's feet, which sort of helped me to give up on women's shoes, the painful, ridiculous things. I made the mistake as a young adult of buying a pair of women's work shoes that were too narrow and after 2 days they pinched a nerve and it took six months for the feeling to come back in two toes. When a shoe salesman says to me, "Oh, they'll stretch," they get a murderous look and a good talking to from me. They usually walk away, hanging their head in shame.

I bought my first pair of Birks 28 years ago, and I have one pair that is 13 years old and has been re-soled 3 times and I have 2 pairs that have had the footbed liner replaced. My other shoes haven't been outside their boxes in years.

Why isn't this toad completely irrelevant?

Rove Misses Security Experts' Assessments Of Climate Change

I saw these and I just couldn't resist using them this morning. I saw the video of Rove and thought of this one:



And some of the commenters at Huffington Post really need to be sprayed: