05-15-09
- Seeing the Matrix:
- Paul Craig Roberts: Who Rules America? (informationclearinghouse) "A president who does a good job for the ruling interest groups is paid off with remunerative corporate directorships, outrageous speaking fees, and a lucrative book contract. If he is young when he assumes office, like Bill Clinton and Obama, it means a long life of luxurious leisure. Fighting the special interests doesn’t pay and doesn’t succeed."
- The Curious Case of the Establishment Liberal: Condemning Torture, Condoning Mass Murder (strike-the-root)
- Obama Following the Reagan/Bush Playbook:
- Obama Nominates Superfund Polluter Lawyer To Run DOJ Environment Division (thinkprogress) Moreno is now general counsel for GE, which "has been a leader in the effort to roll back the Superfund law and stave off any requirements for full cleanup and restoration of sites they helped create."
- Military-Industrial Profiteers:
- Jeremy Scahill: Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama (alternet)
- Ray McGovern: 'Ugly' Questions for Gen. Myers (commondreams)
- Why Doesn't Obama Want Us to See What's in the Photos? (mcclatchy) (google images)
- Wilkerson: Cheney Ordered Torture of al-Libi to Produce Iraq Link (firedoglake)
- Former Blackwater Guards Doing the Same Murderous Thing in Afghanistan (wsj)
- The Biggest Theft in History:
- Lendman: Reviewing Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt:" Part V (sjlendman) -- See entry on 05-13 for part IV (Lendman: Reviewing Ellen . . .).
- Man-Made Diseases:
- Tamiflu Developer: Swine Flu Could Have Come From Bio-Experiment Lab (abcnews) -- I suspect that this notable researcher is parsing his words carefully so as to not say the virus was deliberately released in a town in nowhere, Mexico, where people are reluctant to go to doctors until their illnesses become critical, near a swine farm that could be later conveniently be blamed for being the source, even though WHO had not had ANY reports of sick swine until a swine herd in Canada was given the flu by a human.
- M97: The Owl Nebula (apod)
