James O'Keef'e's Allies in NPR Sting Accuse Him of Doing a Hit Job

Something Nice From New Jersey

To help you forget that James O'Keefe hails from there

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It becomes obvious when you read Howard Kurtz' report at the Daily Beast that the two primary allies at the dinner meant O'Keefe did a hack hit job, because they were planning a type of hit themselves, just a classier one.

They also say they were in general going to take on other organizations who might take donation from the Muslim Brotherhood with I suppose the idea that the recipients might not treat the Muslim organization too nicely and pave the way for it to gain respectability.

So two other investigative hit men were on a job but O'Keefe even shocked them with his creepy, sloppy tactics.

I guess you've won some kind of prize Jimmy Boy, but I don't think you want to brag about this one.

See  "Allies Accuse James O'Keefe of 'Hit Job' in Undercover NPR Sting"

‘Secret farm bill’ primed for passage in debt deal

As a way to get years more money to farmers written into law despite heavy opposition from many, Congress members are working up a plan to put the legislation into the bill being that will be submitted for an up or down vote by a super- committee.

We are enticingly told that the payments may change from grants to crop price insurance and therefore no longer dole out grants to people who don't actually  farm just because they own former farmland, but that can encourage overproduction and hurt 3rd world farmers and the environment. 

I'd like to think that more sunlight on the process would be good, but the super committee route isn't the way to clear the clouds.  In fact  it was specially  devised to.obscure and give cover to Congress over debt. 

We may be seeing more secrecy gimmicks from them in the future.  They hardly need that with most of the American press focused on celebrity pairings and breakups, sports, and the Republican debates.

The debates are exposing how truly unacceptable some of the GOP candidates are, so they are of some use at least.

A person though shouldn't need to read some insider DC paper to know controversial legislation is quietly being slipped into an up or down vote bill.

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The Orange County Register invades an #occupy encampment.

Okay.  It's not all bad
See:

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Another PG&E pipe ruptures under pressure testing!

I bet you're thinking you've heard about this one because there have been so many failures lately, but unless you heard about one on Monday Nov 7 in which unleashed a landslide onto a Bay Area freeway you'd be wrong.

One reason we are hearing about so. many failures this year is that in earlier years other means were used to determine pipeline integrity.  Those means were shown to be spectacularly inadequate when a pipeline erupted in San Bruno in September 2010.

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Judge: Prop. 8 donors have no right to anonymity

Throwing out the arguments by backers of CA's Prop 8, a District Judge said that only small endangered groups should receive protection from public record of donations, not backers of winning elections.

Prop 8 supporters had complained of boycotts and other problems after donations  were recorded and placed on the Internet by the California Secretary of State's office in accordance with the law.

Some small groups in the past had been allowed to secretly collect money if their members and donors faced threats for their association.
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An accidental social media phenomenon emerges from the Occupy Oakland general strike

Heh!
The revolution will not be televised, but it will be live-streamed! 

One important item in this report refutes #OPD's whine that they all alone have to contend with people from all over all by themselves.

OakFoSho identifies officers from many different cities working at #oo exactly how they should share the burden.p  This report was made on the day of the general strike, yet days later the Oakland police were complaining that they shouldered the responsibility keeping order over people from many cities while never mentioning that they were receiving help from many cities. What BSers they are.

Look below my blog for post about #opd's whine about having to deal with outsiders. 

Effin' liars!

See report at:  http://bit.ly/uSJn8b

More Trade War: Both Russia and China Are On The Attack Towards America, And Guess Who's Helping Them!

Our New Master?

China and Russia Intend to Win the Technology War -- by stealing American technology

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Now it emerges that Russian and China are stealing American technology, yet still the GOP and their allies support them.

Recently, the WSJ showed how China dumped cheap, inferior solar cells in the US ruining Solyndras chance to sell enough higher quality solar energy products which forced them into bankruptcy.

We blogged about that here. We also read in another issue of WSJ that China fully intends to take over all emerging technologies leaving the US as an impoverished nation.

At least, via war Europe did that to themselves in the 40s. It wasn't a specific plan of the US to destroy them.

China is taking over because of massive governmental subsidies, a tactic they are planning to continue to use.

This is one of the major tactics they used against Solyndra. Not only were the solar chips they produce inferior making them appear cheaper, but the Chinese subsidies for every chip, and massive subsidies for emerging technology altogether, made Chinese chips too attractive.

(Wait for the suckers that bought them to find out how expensive the replacements are when they fail.)

But all emerging technologies in China are getting the massive subsidy treatment.   And the Wall Street Journal has a solution for this problem.

Capitulate!

Yep, join the enemy!

Move to China and get some partners and get subsidies from your new government of choice..

Let your fellow Americans at home become a third world country.

It's clear that Wall Street and like minded businesses are really into this. It's the Republican way to join the enemy.

But now the next level of economic warfare on the US by China and Russia has already been reached. Russia and China don't even need to legally obtain or create the latest technology. They can steal it from the US!

And who defends China and Russia's technological war against us?

The GOP.

You've heard how incensed they are about the Obama administration's efforts to save Solyndra from cheap inferior Chinese solar chips, but in a very important way they are also supporting Russia's trade warfare against us.

It was determined most likely that Russia was behind the hacking theft of the East Anglia emails on Global Climate Change research, which were then sent on to GOP groups to craft enormous lies about the real intent of the scholars who were studying climate change.

The Guardian at the time said that Russia would like more climate change as it would warm up their massive arctic region to more development and resource extraction.

But in the US more of our nation would suffer under the same warming. As we saw this summer, we could have intense drought and fires or massive flooding from the same climate manipulation.

And how did the GOP react? Not by putting out the warning that Russia would like to see a decline of the US, but by creating a hue and cry making false claims of data manipulation together with Russia who would love to destroy the US and our economy through allowing our nation to suffer debilitating climate disturbance while it receives milder winters.

I don't see this changing now that it has been shown that Russia is deliberately stealing our best technology along with China.

Why do the GOP hate America?

Maybe we should change their name to, I don't know, "Belgium"?

This is not going to change unless Americans tell the GOP to stop supporting nations that have virtually declared themselves economic enemies of the US.

2nd Vet Hurt at Occupy Oakland event Was Simply Trying to Get Home

Kayvan was not even protesting at the time he was beaten but was within site of his home which he was trying to reach so he could go to work in the morning. He was trying to explain the circumstances to the police when they decided this was a man they could beat and get away with the deed.  Go Oakland police. (Note: Not Intended to be actual sentiment.)

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Oakland Police Complaining About Out of Towners Again.

Same old same old.

After Oscar Grant was killed and crowds gathered they whined it was mostly out of towners, ignoring the fact that the people were taking advantage of their constitutional right to assemble in solidarity with their fellow Americans anywhere your city, my city, Wall Street.

But after seriously injuring two American veterans they are trotting out that old canard again.

Oh oh look they're coming from out of town!

And they got numbers!  2/3rds of those arrested were from elsewhere.  The total number of arrestees they are talking about though are only 103.

Other info in the article notes that over 6000 extra people arrived in Oakland via one BART station alone that day.  If the cops only arrested 103 out of a crowd of definitely over 6000 and possibly double that number that was one peaceful crowd, especially when you can be arrested for simply staying around after one person lights a fire, or throws a firecracker according to statements in the news report.

The reporter may have recognized what a Nixonian word game was being played, but didn't mention it.

And how about that Wells Fargo bank?  Moms and kids arrive and by the time three women close their accounts the employees shut the doors as if it were a combination depression era run on the bank, and an attack by the Symbioneze Liberation Army. (70s era terrorist group that kidnapped Patty Hearst remember?)

Jean Quan would do best to keep quiet and away from appearing to suggest she supports the police commander too much. He seems to be turning into a later day Spiro Agnew.

See Contra Costa Times article on which I am commenting go to:  http://bit.ly/tveUo3

Latest Gaza Flotilla Diverted To Israeli Port

The latest attempt to break the seige of Gaza has ended closer to their goal than any had reached in a long time.  Israeli military announced a peaceful boarding as reported by Al Jazeera. 

I'm waiting to hear from returning activists as to how abusive that "peaceful" boarding was. Some earlier ones that Israel self described as peaceful the activists complained of abusive behavior by Israeli military as well as thefts of their personal effects.

Al Jazeera report: http://bit.ly/u4gxNH

Homeless People in Fresno and Their Allies say, "Stop the Evictions!" #occupy

Unhoused people have basic needs. #Occupy say give that to them instead of just sneering at them.  There but the grace... go you and I

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Republicans Were For Massive Solyndra Loans Before They Were Against Them !!!

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Proven, though the craven reports on this I read in NYT did not have this information.  The George W Bush administration and most of the GOP committee members calling for an investigation of the Solyndra-Obama scandal were the ones who set up the program and approved Solyndra's enrollment in it.   But they won't be letting reality get in their way because they have oily Koch brothers millions supporting as false ad campaign.  So they can let the Koch brothers stop green energy and you can pay $10 a gallon for gasoline, all the while the GOP has already chosen a foreign country's side in a trade war.  China is dumping subsidized solar chips on the American market which ruined Solyndra's ability to sell superior product, and instead of working with the Obama administration on protecting our green energy market, they, like always, want to use it to sell us out, not only to China, but to those who would enslave Americans to Big Oil.

Herman Cain Translated: If You Don't Let Rich, Powerful Black Men Harrass Women It's "High Tech Lynching" Excuse me. I have to Vomit Now.

WashPo reports that Herman Cain uses the Clarence Thomas defense.  After I vomit and shower this could send me out to an occupy event again. 

Thanks GHW Bush for validating sexual harrassment by powerful men whether black, white, or orange when he chose and then stood by the odious Mr Thomas while president.

See report on how women must submit to being sexually harrassed by powerful black (and by extension any color -mustn't be racist you know) men:

http://wapo.st/t7MOsM

Netanyahu Furious After Newspaper Leaks Israel's Plan To Attack Iran Or Did It?

A Kuwaiti paper said to have made a habit of printing reports allegedly based on info slipped to them by government insiders has reported that Netanyahu is considering striking Iran's nuclear facilities. 

But did the Israeli government plant that story as a kind psychological attack on their enemy.

So asks The Guardian newspaper which has run numerous articles itself calling for an attack on Iran or warning the US of nuclear danger from the Middle Eastern Nation.

Then they blame Obama's supposed secret plan to bomb Iran for their warmongering.

This reminds me a lot of the New York Times in 2002 pushing for the Iraq war.

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I am very disappointed in The Guardian.

I would also be very shocked if Israel did attack Iran.

They do their own wartime dirty work? 

Why would they when the whipped puppy nations of Europe and the Americas (and Australia) will ruin their economies and kill off their people to serve Israel's agenda?

Hey, Frank McCourt! Peter O'Malley Wants His Team Back.

First there was the Walter O'Malley family and they brought the Dodgers to LA and everyone smiled and said it was good.  But then Walter (who also ran the LA Times IIRC) grew sick and died.

Some time afterwards Peter and the O'Malleys announced they would have to sell the Dodgers because they couldn't afford to properly take care of the team and off it went rapped up in brown paper to FOX. 

We didn't think much about that, but in those years FOX was more known for being the home of The Simpsons than for it's nacent propaganda cable channel.

Little did we know.

FOX does a lot of sports so shouldn't they be good at it?  I guess they're good at extracting big bucks from them.

The network headed by the creepy Aussie gnome sold the team to the creepy gnome from Boston and his wife.  Who have run the stadium into the ground while they leached money from the team.

There was apparently an agreement that money not be extacted from the team but all excess receipts be used to improve its stadium, it's now legendary how the Dodgers became the McCourts' piggybank while they let the stadium deteriorate & didn't provide adequate security.

Luckily, these days, teams are bought by groups of people pooling their Cheddar, and Peter O'Malley can get back into the sports biz assisted by Al Gore's friend Ron Burkle.

So we may be seeing the backside of Parking Lot Smurf and his exwife at least.  That'll be a good start.

I think FOX sold the Dodgers to McCourt because he promised to let them have a lot of business with the team.  And they ignored his bad management style, to keep those deals going.

Maybe now though, the Dodgers  can get back to just being a great team.

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