Author: rbeason

Lew Rockwell – by Rich Wilcke

An unexpected consequence of the fall of the U.S.S.R. was the number of ordinary citizens who poured out of Russian apartments to topple statues of Lenin, the most visible symbols of 70 years of oppression by the Soviet state. In spite of my years, my fantasy is someday to see angry American citizens emerging to destroy whichever of the countless symbols of the oppressive U.S. government they deem to be most objectionable.

Based on the narrative in an engaging new book by Nina Teicholz, among such future hordes of angry and resentful Americans may well be those afflicted with an array of health problems that have come to be known in the past few decades as ‘metabolic syndrome.’  The disorders associated with this pattern are persistent belly fat, high blood pressure, raised triglyceride levels, low HDL (‘good’) cholesterol, and increased blood sugar – all of which indicate above-average risks of coronary heart disease, stroke, and type-2 diabetes.   Continue reading “Justified Anger from America’s Unhealthy”

Independent – by Adam Withnall

Lew Rockwell – by David Hathaway

The imagined look and persona of an agent provocateur in most people’s minds probably couldn’t be further from the truth.  Most would probably picture the obscure, silent individual lurking in the back of the room while doing his best to conceal his identity and his movements.  If you accept that image, you have also accepted the notion that the provocateur is really just peeking in on, documenting, and recording pre-existing criminal activities and shady plans going on around him.  You haven’t faced the reality that the whole show is the production of the provocateur.   Continue reading “Are You Talking to a Provocateur?”

The Daily Caller – by Neil Munro

President Barack Obama’s administration has quietly suggested it is willing to create a two-tier race-based legal system in Hawaii, where one set of taxes, spending and law enforcement will govern one race, and the second set of laws will govern every other race.

The diversity proposal is portrayed as an effort to create a separate in-state government for people who are “native Hawaiians.”   Continue reading “Obama Administration Seeks Race-Based Government In Hawaii”

On This day of celebration, 2014…………tis appropriate that each of us ask ourselves just what it is we Celebrate…….and the why fores which might go along with it….and that account for its being on this calendar day………..

Pres…Abraham Lin……….yes, that man of the US Civil war………actually, his war…….although not often as thought of as such, was the first to designate this day as “think it was……….remembrance day……..”   Continue reading “Love and the maybes”

Lew Rockwell – by Thomas DiLorenzo

One of the tenets of militaristic fascism in America is the oft-repeated slogan that “you don’t have to agree with the wars to honor those who fight them for us.”  Something to this effect is repeated thousands of times during Memorial Day bloviations all across the fruited plain.   And it is all complete nonsense.  “Honoring” paid killers for the state for participating in non-defensive, unjust wars only serves to make it more likely that there will be even more unjust wars in the future.  And it rewards individuals for engaging in some of the most sinful and reprehensible behavior known to mankind.   Continue reading “Some Anti-Memorial Day Remembrances”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Yesterday we showed how Russia and China hold “massive” naval drills in the northern part of the East China Sea (close enough to Japan for us to footnote “ahem Japan and Taiwan”), which in addition to a clear signal to the US (on part of Russia), was sending just as clear a message to Japan (on the part of China). Sure enough, overnight Japan was not too happy with this massive show of force by the two biggest and closest foes near its disputed territory. As a result it dispatched an OP-3C surveillance plane and a YS-11EB electronic intelligence aircraft. China promptly retaliated and as Reuters reports, it scrambled a Su-27, fully-armed with missiles, which came as close as 50 meters of the Japanese fighters – the closest Chinese warplanes had come to aircraft of Japan’s Self-Defense Force according to Japan – in what can only be described as “please take the first punch.”   Continue reading “China Scrambles Fighter Jet, Flies Within 50 Meters Of Japanese Airplanes”

Keithley

Nanotechnology is an important new area of research that promises significant advances in electronics, materials, biotechnology, alternative energy sources, and dozens of other applications. The graphic below illustrates, at a personal level, the potential impact on each of us. And where electrical measurement is required, Keithley instrumentation is being used in an expanding list of nanotechnology research and development settings.   Continue reading “How Nanotechnology Could Reengineer Us”

RT News

The CIA has been bombing Pakistan’s domestic buildings more than any other targets over the past decade of the drone war launched by the US, says the latest research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

Almost two thirds, or over 60 percent, of all US drone strikes in Pakistan targeted domestic buildings,says joint research conducted by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ), a London-based non-profit news group, along with Forensic Architecture, a research unit based at Goldsmiths University, London, and Situ Research in New York.   Continue reading “Over 60% of US drone targets in Pakistan are homes – research”

Common Dreams

Military leaders in Thailand assumed all political power in the country on Saturday after dissolving the country’s Senate, the last democratic institution left standing after the military seized power two days ago.

According to reports, former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is being held in a “safe place” after being summoned on Friday along with nearly 200 others, including prominent politicians, outspoken academics and journalists, said to be “political associates” with the ruling party.   Continue reading “Thai Military Takes Total Control”

Yahoo News – by JOCELYN GECKER and THANYARAT DOKSONE

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s ruling military on Friday summoned the entire ousted government and members of the politically influential family at the heart of the country’s long-running conflict, a day after it seized control of this volatile Southeast Asian nation in a non-violent coup.

There was virtually no military presence on Bangkok’s streets, which were less crowded than usual but still filled with vendors and people heading to work after a 10 p.m. – 5 a.m. curfew the night before. There were no reports of overnight violence.   Continue reading “Thai coup leaders summon influential family”

Lew Rockwell – by Roger Stone

The Main Stream media interpretation of the Watergate episode is a fantastic and grotesque distortion of historical truth. Now, in my new book with my co-author Mike Colapietro, I correct the historical record to show how a weakened Nixon was taken down in a coup de ‘etat led by Gen. Alexander Haig, You will learn who really planned, pushed and executed the Watergate break-in and why there is no “deep throat”. Also revealed is how Nixon brokered a pardon from Gerald Ford before Nixon resigned and what was said in the famous 18 ½ minute erasure in the White House Tapes.   Continue reading “Secrets of Watergate Revealed”

Zero Hedge – by George Washington

Amnesty International conducted a global survey to find out how afraid people were of being tortured by their own governments if they are taken into custody.

The survey shows that the British, Australian, Canadian – and even Chinese people – are less afraid of being tortured than Americans.

Specifically, Amnesty asked whether people agreed with the following statement:   Continue reading “Americans Are More Afraid of Being Tortured By Our Government than British, Australians, Canadians … Or Even Chinese”