Robert Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing

Conrad Black: My prison education

Many Jews unsettled over Harper holiday greetings

Does this mean Stevie will be sending me an Easter card next year?

Great UK Property Investment Opportunity

Vancouver RE: Where multimillionaires love to buy a shack

Mish: How global trade can collapse

Move over Albert: Wun-Yi Shu says time and space can be converted into one another, with a varying speed of light as the conversion factor

Andrew Bacevich: America's insane intelligence community and failure of the Western way of war

If you ever needed convincing that the world of American “national security” is well along the road to profligate lunacy ...

China Becomes World's Second Biggest Economy

Meantime, the main business of American business is, with the aid of bought politicians, to loot the Treasury and export capital, technology and jobs to China.

Mish: On Keynsian clowns

Canadian team finds wreck of the Investigator

The Investigator, under the command of Capt. Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, had been dispatched from Britain in January 1850 on a mission to rescue an earlier expedition led by Sir John Franklin, which had gone missing after setting sail from Britain five years earlier.

Like Franklin's earlier mission, the 122-ton Investigator became stuck in the ice and the crew was forced to abandon it after two years -- though the expedition was later miraculously rescued. ...

Paul Craig Roberts. 2017: When Globalism Runs Its Course ... The Year America Dissolved

Kevin Boyle: WIKILEAKS/WIKIPEDIA: TRUTH serving LIES (with CIA/MOSSAD oversight)

War against Iran more likely — thanks to Wikileaks

Wikileaks' estranged co-founder becomes a critic

Boston University Emeritus Professor Angelo Codevilla on how to join the ruling class Professional prominence or position will not secure a place in the class any more than mere money. In fact, it is possible to be an official of a major corporation or a member of the US Supreme Court (just ask Justice Clarence Thomas), or even President Ronald Reagan, and not be taken seriously by the ruling class. Like a fraternity, this class requires above all comity - being in with the right people, giving the required signs that one is on the right side, and joining in despising the Outs. Once an official or professional shows that he shares the manners, the tastes, the interests of the class, gives lip service to its ideals and shibboleths and is willing to accommodate the interests of its senior members, he can move profitably between our Establishment’s parts. If, for example, you are Lawrence Tribe in 1984, Harvard Professor of law, leftist pillar of the establishment, you can “write” your magnum opus by using the products of your student assistants, Ron Klain and Barack Obama. A decade later, after Klain admits to having written some parts of the book, and the other parts are found to be verbatim or paraphrases of a book published in 1974, you can claim (perhaps correctly) that your plagiarism was “inadvertent,” and you can count on the Law School’s dean, Elena Kagan, to appoint a committee including former and future Harvard president Derek Bok that issues a secret report that “closes” the incident. Incidentally, Obama ends up as President and Kagan a justice of the Supreme Court. Not one of these people did their job: the professor did not write the book himself, the assistant plagiarized instead of researching, the dean and the committee did not hold the professor accountable, and all ended up rewarded. By contrast, for example, learned papers and distinguished careers in climatology at MIT (Richard Lindzen) or UVA (S Fred singer) who question ‘global warming” are not enough for them to be taken seriously. For our ruling class, identity always trumps. ... http://www.mlteaparty.org/acodevilla.pdf

Plagiarism in Quackademia: intellectual theft, cover-up and reward at the Harvard Law School

We already know we can't trust most media, so why should we trust a guy named Julian Assange [Wikileaks founder] whose bio reads like a script for a Lifetime movie?

Wikileaks founder "constantly annoyed by that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11"

Another New World Order shill.

Media dupes and war enablers: Wikileaks "Revelations" Will Comfort Warmongers, Confirm Conventional Wisdom

Safer, longer-lasting Solid state batteries for cars?

Webster Tarpley: Obama is Preparing to Bomb Iran

UK Law chief to probe KGB agent's claim that David Kelly was 'exterminated'

China Surpasses US in Energy Consumption, While The Malthusian Crackpots of The Obama Regime Fiddle with Cap and Trade

We're still taking a break here, but when the US is striving so hard to commit suicide as an industrial power, we were unable to refrain from posting a link to this report on the astonishing development.

Angelo M. Codevilla: America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution

The Can-Speccy Is Taking a Break The prospect of not updating a Web page every day has acquired an irresistable charm. I'm off. The World will have to carry on as best it can without my critical oversight. Quitting the Web is -- as Mark Twain said of quitting smoking -- easy: I've done it hundreds of times. So I may be back, and if so, perhaps with a different format. Anyone who may be interested, can check here for an update once in a while.

WaPo: A hidden world, growing beyond control -- America's world of spooks, assassins and secret agents

Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States. ...

The police state: the ultimate stimulus program: everybody to be employed spying on one another.

David Cameron on British/US relations

Web traffic for Poop Murdoch's Timesey slumps

Bias and bigotry in American academia

Institutionalized racism in the US -- against whites

Conrad Black granted bail hearing

Deepwater Horizon suffered critical systems failures at time of blowout

Under withering questioning during Monday's resumption of the joint Coast Guard-Department of the Interior inquiry into the BP Gulf of Mexico well blowout,, the rig's chief engineer revealed the possibility that alarms and other critical systems were bypassed or not functioning at the time of the explosion. ...

Bertone said on the night of the explosion, he heard no general alarm, there were no internal communications and no power to the engines, and none of the Deepwater Horizon's backup or emergency generators were working.

"We were a dead ship," he said.

Because there was no power, the crew was unable to engage the emergency disconnect system that would have halted the flow of oil from the wellhead. ...

Deepwater Horizon: power backup systems failed after explosion

BP Considers New Plan to Permanently Seal Well

BP considers "Static Kill" of GOM well

Israel claims success in pushing the US toward war with Iran

How's Rupert Murdoch's paywall working out at the Times of London?

... not only is nobody subscribing to the website, but subscribers to the paper itself--who have free access to the site--are not going beyond the registration page. It's an empty world.

Approval of Obama drops to 28 percent in Arizona

China now world's largest energy consumer

The Oil Drum: BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - the Testing Continues

EU to subject Britons to chilling new 'Big Brother' surveillance and investigation powers

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