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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I don't watch the Sundy morning babble on shows

I figure if I miss anything important some blog that I read will pick up on it. So this is what I'm reading:

Obama signs weapons procurement reform
Published: May 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM UPI

Last update - 05:49 24/05/2009
'Israel won't yield to U.S. demands, won't halt settlement construction'
By Haaertz Service


Al Qaeda recruits back in Europe, but why?
Four men say their training experience in Pakistan wasn't what they hoped for. Anti-terrorism officials wonder if they're just biding their time, ready to strike in Europe.
By Sebastian Rotella
LA Times
May 24, 2009

Go to the LA Times search function and put in "israel settlements" and compare the titles of the articles to the title on the Haaretz (an Israeli newspaper) article above. It doesn't surprise me that LA is fed a bunch of bullshit when it comes to Israeli settlements, or the Al Qaeda and Iran fear is ramped up. I'm sure that AIPAC has a huge fucking office in LA.

May 23, 2009
Easy bets with other folks' cash
By Chan Akya
Asia Times

Elite Colleges Are Promoting a Culture of Selfish, Cutthroat Behavior and We Are All Paying the Price
By Peter Schmidt, AlterNet. Posted May 23, 2009.
The results are campus environments where disregard for society is socially accepted, where misguided students are encouraged to become worse.

The House That Taxpayers Built
Posted on May 22, 2009
By David Sirota

Rising unemployment raises threat of social crisis: World Bank
Sun May 24, 2009 7:27am EDT
Reuters

The last article cracked my ass up. If you don't know why that is you haven't read the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein yet.

I'm also still reading The Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis © 1998


Fires, floods, earthquakes and who knew that LA had a tornado alley?

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