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opit Commented on BlogNews by opit

2009-06-22T01:26:29Z

Blast. Guess this method of posting is more deceptive than I allowed for. Usually I can get link previews on the tooltip to verify links. Guess I'll have to remember to do that.

opit Commented on Too Thin to Illuminate by Todd Gitlin

2009-06-21T23:56:25Z

I like the way Sort of Buddhist thinks.
Let's go back to the 'what's wrong with small' part first.
Nothing. Microfinance is the lifeblood of local transactions. Any time the state controlled money monopoly fails, people are forced to adopt other solutions. The problem with that is lack of convertability across localities causes outsourcing problems for thing not available locally.
That is, of course, the problem with big states. They impoversh profit centers defenseless before their rapacity. Nor has much changed since Marie Antoinette and her 'let them eat cake' ; bureaucracy has no limits to growth save starvation. That includes transnationals : now hitting the wall of monopoly and a situation where the old rules no longer work.
The how or when we're about to find out, as state and country governments no longer can pay for services.Water monopolies are well placed here,although poisoning the supply means the potential user base will drop sharply. What's that about ? End of an Era on my Links page under Water - wealth and power : if the damn thing doesn't show a 404 error. Then it's scroll through and I doubt the patience for that.
Nothing that isn't in the file there anyway : just not separated out.
Hydraulic Empire : Wikipedia just in case nothing else works.
Best I get back to work transferring information.
Opit's LinkFest! http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/ going to opitslinkfest.blogspot

opit Commented on Dick Cheney, and....torture, the CIA docs, the New Yorker, and Valerie Plame by chthonic

2009-06-21T04:22:45Z

Back again. I'm going over to Bluebloggin because I gave them what for re: jumping to conclusions that the U.S. should be 'supporting' Iranians : this from people who can't help themselves.
Anyway, I just noticed this on an online newsdesk
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22875.htm

opit Commented on Dick Cheney, and....torture, the CIA docs, the New Yorker, and Valerie Plame by chthonic

2009-06-21T04:01:49Z

Thanks for the tip. Novak. I think I'll pretend I don't know who he was.
Saw a summary I haven't dug into yet - movie and website both. http://www.leadingtowar.com/?gclid=CJal0bj67JkCFR0Sagodg1tzRw

opit Commented on ALLAH AKBAR by nemokc

2009-06-20T23:59:08Z

I 'get it'. I recall stories about Ahmadinejad that were exposed as complete mistranslations by an organization dedicated to perverting foreign language speeches. Spiegel in Germany were awake on that one.
The election is about the president : a guy without supreme power. Every time someone is reported winning who the U.S. hasn't yet subverted..."It's a fix!"
It's a fix alright. It's a fix that an election about some joker nobody would ordinarily care about is suddenly a cause celebre. Bullshit.
The mullahs were and are in charge. The rest is window dressing : sometimes called...wait for it...Kool Aid!

opit Commented on A Progressive Fundraiser for the CIA by Rutabaga Ridgepole

2009-06-20T23:42:08Z

Telling a story and having nobody believe it because it flies in the face of everything they are told by a 'Free Press' owned by just a few companies...or isn't reported...that works.
Didn't you listen to Eisenhower or JFK ? Bad boyz, bad boyz...
Maybe you watched Nick Cage's movie about gun-running. Money makes the world go round. Following it is standard police procedure : reality fiction ?

opit Commented on Dick Cheney, and....torture, the CIA docs, the New Yorker, and Valerie Plame by chthonic

2009-06-20T23:27:17Z

I'm not sure I get your point : though I noticed NIEs defusing the 'threat' of Iran surfacing at inconvenient times for the continuation of the narrative.
Who do you think is running 'false flag' ops there right now, BTW? The PNAC gameplan does call for constant harassment of Russia and proxy states while killing off competent governments in oil states. Not that the election would change anything regardless. The mullahs are no more running for office than is the Fed.
That Val Plame operation sure was a corker. Out a CIA NOC ; the penalty for which is death ; sacrifice Libby after jailing Judy Miller for not revealing source information...Brewster Jennings network blown and who knows how many undercover contacts terminated 'with extreme prejudice'...Val's husband sent on a cuckoo mission to provide disinformation about nuclear purchases of garbage materiel...all while Cheney sets people to work providing bogus 'intel' and suppressing rational reporting and spinning yellowcake into WMD.
Just like reactor fuel today.
I'm sure the Russians are going to set up a nuke threat on their doorstep with the one country which has worked towards nuclear nonproliferation !
I love Noam Chomsky on this : he rips off the sheet and reveals the b.s. bare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTGf4X_Qjew

opit recommended Beyond Paradox: Painting With A Broader Palette by Synchronicity

2009-06-18T02:01:05Z

opit Commented on Arizona border zealots, white supremacists, and Janet Napolitano by wendy davis

2009-06-20T22:57:24Z

Dug this one. Nice catch.
This reminds me of the rotten stories about Bush that I didn't want to believe when Texas bloggers gave a 'character reference' little shy of horns and pitchfork in days gone by.

opit Commented on Iran: where is the United Nations? by Joseph Chez

2009-06-20T20:14:56Z

The point about the United Nations is well taken : I hadn't seen it elsewhere.
My general impression of United States attitudes to other peoples are unfortunately negative : candid commentary would violate TPM etiquette!
One should not think of Iran's election as an event happening in isolation perhaps : but what is the sudden international concern for an event not even touching the power structure of the country ?
I recall years of demonizing Ahmadinejad. Whatever he is really like I don't know : but I promise you I am quite convinced popular conception badly needs to have a 'mis' prefix. This is not accidental. The 'press' might as well be 'press gang' for all the independence of view left.

opit Commented on A Dangerous Game: Playing Politics with Iran by Orlando

2009-06-20T07:57:56Z

Another of those blasted Canucks chiming in. Of course, I actually do use the net to get opinions from all over. I really don't care if the person at the other end is purple with yellow polka dots - as long as a brain is in evidence.
That's the silliness here. 99.44% of the time the U.S. doesn't give a flying f**k how anybody else's election goes. Nor is this one about power : the mullahs have that.
No, it's part of the game to make s**t up and put on airs about something for which the 'reporting' is straight out of Rove's playbook.
Some can see it. I liked this piece
http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/iranian-elections-the-%E2%80%98stolen-elections%E2%80%99-hoax-by-prof-james-petra/

opit Commented on The Media, Failed States, Dogfights, The Beatles, and an Acid Trip. by miguelitoh2o

2009-06-12T17:51:45Z

Was there a convention and everybody jumped on the bandwagon ? TomDispatch I can understand writing about dysfunction - or Sibel Edmonds - but even Dr. Juan Cole can't tolerate the strength of koolaid dished out by house corporate organs in their pursuit of Pentagon/Psyops-approved b.s. these days. Orwell is a household name ! http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog/ is where I posted related articles.

opit Commented on Laura Rozen: Iran May Be About To Dump Ahmadinejad. Meanwhile, American and Israeli Neocons Hope Mad Mahmoud Wins by M.J. Rosenberg

2009-06-12T05:14:54Z

How much of that $165 Bn budget is from the U.S. ? $30 Bn That's a lot of shekels to spin out of American pockets to defend nuclear-equipped Israel from the scary Iran that really must be a terrible threat because there must be something else besides concentration camp victims in Gaza to defend from.
Of course, the CIA said no way twice recently re: Iranian nuke weapons program and Russia chortles at the gullibility of people who think they'd set up a nuke threat in their own backyard.
The schmucks here still don't know that yellowcake isn't fissile materiel ! Or that Plame was outed to keep Brewster-Jennings from exposing Cheney's B.S. about Iraq.
'Deja-vu all over again.'
Juan Cole has a piece up reaming out the stupidity of people who won't fact-check Dick. Come to think...so do I !