1. Oh, of course the military should never have to be cut at all, should it? How vile.
“Citing deficit, Obama freezing federal worker pay
Obama announces two-year pay freeze for federal employees
The two-year freeze would apply to all civilian federal employees, including those working at the Department of Defense, but would not affect military personnel.”
2. Of course they didn’t. There was no possibility they ever would:
“No evidence that WikiLeaks releases have hurt anyone”
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/28/1947638/no-evidence-that-wikileaks-releases.html
3. “The Big Lie: Governments Have to Save the Big Banks
Many of the world’s top economists and financial experts have said that the too big to fail banks are destroying the world economy, that they must be broken up in order to restore stability, and that small banks can easily pick up the slack and make all of the loans which are needed needs. See this, this and this.
And yet many people still believe the myth that the giant banks have to be saved at all costs.
How could that be?
Well, as Adolph Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf:
All this was inspired by the principle–which is quite true in itself–that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/11/big-lie-governments-have-to-save-big.html
4. “The Stench of US Economic Decay: Russia and China Dump the US Dollar
On Thanksgiving eve the English language China Daily and People’s Daily Online reported that Russia and China have concluded an agreement to abandon the use of the US dollar in their bilateral trade and to use their own currencies in its place. The Russians and Chinese said that they had taken this step in order to insulate their economies from the risks that have undermined their confidence in the US dollar as a world reserve currency.
This is big news, especially for the news dead Thanksgiving holiday period, but I did not see it reported on Bloomberg, CNN, New York Times or anywhere in the US print or TV media. The ostrich’s head remains in the sand.
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The American government only has resources for wars of aggression, police state intrusions, and bailouts of rich banksters. The American citizen has become a mere subject to be bled for the ruling oligarchies.
The police state attitude of the TSA toward airline travelers is a clear indication that Americans are no longer citizens with rights but subjects without rights. Perhaps the day will come when oppressed Americans will take to the streets like the French, the Greeks, the Irish, and the British. “
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22150
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John Cole notes an added irony of the furor over this latest disclosure: “I have a hard time getting worked up about it – a government that views none of my personal correspondence as confidential really can’t bitch when this sort of thing happens.” Note how quickly the “if-you’ve-done-nothing-wrong-then-you-have-nothing-to-hide” mentality disappears when it’s their privacy and communications being invaded rather than yours.
I’d note an added irony: many of the same people who supported the invasion of Iraq and/or who support the war in Afghanistan, drone strikes and assassination programs — on the ground that the massive civilians deaths which result are justifiable “collateral damage” — are those objecting most vehemently to WikiLeaks’ disclosure on the ground that it may lead to the death of innocent people. For them, the moral framework suddenly becomes that if an act causes the deaths of any innocent person, that is proof that it is not only unjustifiable but morally repellent regardless of what it achieves. How glaringly selective is their alleged belief in that moral framework. “
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/11/29/various_matters/index.html
