‘Game of Thrones,’ NBA Game 7 to do battle
Tough choice Sunday night: Watch the “Game of Thrones” episode entitled “Battle of the Bastards” or the deciding Game 7 of the NBA Finals. …read more
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‘Dory’ makes for a good movie, but not a good pet
“Finding Dory” should bring in a big box office for Disney and Pixar, but could also have a big impact on the environment it portrays. …read more
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Top NSA Officials’ Reaction To 9/11: “9/11 Is a Gift To The NSA. We’re Going To Get All Of The Money We Need, And Then Some” … “
What was the NSA’s reaction to 9/11 … the greatest intelligence failure in history?
After all, overwhelming evidence shows that 9/11 was foreseeable. Indeed, Al Qaeda crashing planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was itself foreseeable. Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission said that the attack was preventable.
And a top NSA whistleblower says that the NSA had all of the information it needed prior to 9/11 to stop the attacks. The only reason NSA didn’t share that information with other agencies is because of corruption … in an effort to consolidate power. And see this.
As a high-level NSA whistleblower notes in a brilliant new documentary coming out in September (the best documentary I've ever seen), the reactions to 9/11 by the number 2 and number 3 official at the NSA were:
“9/11 is a gift to the NSA. We’re going to get all of the money we need … and then some”
and
“We’ll milk this cow for 15 years”
How can this be true?
Because mass surveillance has nothing to do with preventing terrorism.
Read This Before The Government Uses The Orlando Shooting To Start Another War
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,
Late Thursday evening, the Wall Street Journal reported, 51 State Department officials signed a statement condemning U.S. policy in Syria in which they repeatedly call for “targeted military strikes against the Damascus government and urging regime change as the only way to defeat Islamic State.”
“In other words,” as Zero Hedge summarized, “over 50 top ‘diplomats’ are urging to eliminate [Syrian Pres. Bashar al] Assad in order to ‘defeat ISIS’, the same ISIS which top US ‘diplomats’ had unleashed previously in order to … eliminate Assad.”
This gordian knot created by United States foreign policy — and intensified by that same policy — means not only could war with Syria be on the horizon, but if that happens, the U.S. could be facing a far more serious threat.
While discontented officials used what’s known as the “Dissent Channel” — “an official forum that allows employees to express opposing views,” State Department spokesman John Kirby explained in the WSJ — Saudi government officials employed more direct means to press their interests with the U.S. in Syria.
In a meeting with President Obama on Friday, Saudi foreign minister Adel al Jubair asserted, “Saudi Arabia supports a more aggressive military approach in Syria to get Assad to agree to a political solution,” as CBS‘ Mark Knoller tweeted.
al Jubeir says Saudi Arabia advocates release of 28 classified pages on 9/11 attacks so his country can respond to “any allegations.”
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) June 17, 2016
Of course, this meeting and the push for increased military force couldn’t be more timely to drum up public support, as a heated national debate has ensued following the deadly attack on an Orlando nightclub purportedly carried out by Omar Mateen — who pledged loyalty to ISIS as he killed 49 people and wounded over 50 others.
Despite the CIA’s report acknowledging it found no tangible connections between Mateen and the so-called Islamic state — also released on Friday — the narrative concerning his ISIS ties saturated mainstream headlines for days, almost certainly cementing the link in the public’s mind.
Disgruntled politicians eager to overthrow Assad — thus also carrying out Saudi goals — can now facilely flip the script to assert deposing the Syrian government is necessary in the fight against everyone’s enemy, the Islamic State.
“Failure to stem Assad’s flagrant abuses will only bolster the ideological appeal of groups such as Daesh [ISIS, etc.], even as they endure tactical setbacks on the battlefield,” the WSJ reported the dissenting cable stated.
But concerns about bloating ISIS’ following borders on comical, except for the potential waterfall of repercussions from carrying out targeted strikes on the Syrian government, considering the U.S. government, itself, once expressed the desire for the rise of an Islamic State to aid in the overthrow of — you guessed it — Assad.
According to declassified documents obtained by Judicial Watch last year:
“If the situation unravels there …read more
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Noam Chomsky On The Breakdown Of American Society & A World In Transition
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by C.J.Polychroniou via Truth-Out.org,
The US is facing uncertain times. While it remains the only global superpower, it is no longer able to influence events and outcomes to its liking, at least not for the most part. Frustration and worry about the risk of upcoming disasters seem to far outweigh US voters' hopes for a more rational and just world order. Meanwhile, Noam Chomsky argues, the rise and popularity of Donald Trump is occurring due to the fact that US society is breaking down.
In this exclusive interview with Truthout, Noam Chomsky addresses contemporary developments in both the United States and around the world and challenges prevailing views about class warfare, neoliberalism as the outcome of economic laws, the role of the US as a global power, the status of emerging economies and the power of the Israel Lobby.
CJ Polychroniou: Noam, you have said that the rise of Donald Trump is largely due to the breakdown of American society. What exactly do you mean by this?
Noam Chomsky: The state-corporate programs of the past 35 or so years have had devastating effects on the majority of the population, with stagnation, decline and sharply enhanced inequality being the most direct outcomes. This has created fear and has left people feeling isolated, helpless, victims of powerful forces they can neither understand or influence. The breakdown is not caused by economic laws. They are policies, a kind of class war initiated by the rich and powerful against the working population and the poor. This is what defines the neoliberalism period, not only in the US but in Europe and elsewhere. Trump is appealing to those who sense and experience the breakdown of American society — to deep feelings of anger, fear, frustration, hopelessness, probably among sectors of the population that are seeing an increase in mortality, something unheard of apart from war.
Class warfare remains as vicious and one-sided as ever. Neoliberal governance over the last thirty years, regardless if there was a Republican or a Democratic administration in place, has intensified immensely the processes of exploitation and induced ever-larger gaps between haves and have-nots in American society. Moreover, I don't see neoliberal class politics being on retreat in spite of the opportunities that opened up because of the last financial crisis and by having a centrist Democrat in the White House.
The business classes, which largely run the country, are highly class conscious. It is not a distortion to describe them as vulgar Marxists, with values and commitments reversed. It was not until 30 years ago that the head of the most powerful union recognized and criticized the “one-sided class war” that is relentlessly waged by the business world. It has succeeded in achieving the results you describe. However, neoliberal policies are in shambles. They have come to harm the most powerful and privileged (who only partially accepted them for themselves in the first place), so they cannot be sustained.
Neoliberal policies are in shambles. They have come to harm the most powerful and privileged, so …read more
Source: Noam Chomsky On The Breakdown Of American Society & A World In Transition
Making ‘The Unthinkable’ The New Reality – Hogs To Slaughter
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by HardScrabbleFarmer via The Burning Platform blog,
America is a third world country, it’s just not ready to accept that reality yet. Politically it is thoroughly corrupted, economically it is too deeply indebted to ever extricate itself, morally it is without direction, rudderless in dangerous seas and heading for the rocks.
The divides between the wealthy and the impoverished too wide to ever cross, the races and generations set against one another deliberately, provoked hourly by the very people who should be doing everything possible to unite them, armed to the teeth, seething with rage, neutered or enraged by pharmaceuticals, depending upon the age and gender, divided by sex, generations of fatherless children at every level raising up children who have no connection to anything that isn’t coming from a glowing screen- and all the while deliberately it seems, provoking hostility with every nation, every race, every people and persuasion in order to stir up a seething cauldron of slights and revenge for the coming reckoning.
Those once magnificent buildings will burn and the swarms that dwelt there will fan out, like flames across the face of the old nation looking to settle the score, imagined or real.
Last night I had a dream. One of the last things I did before I called it quits just after dark was to feed the hogs. I stood on the tailgate of the truck and emptied bags of watermelon rinds and soft mangoes, wilted heads of lettuce, bunches of carrots, apples, sweet yellow hothouse peppers imported from Holland, strawberries by the gallon, string beans, potatoes, cabbages and onions. The sows stood up on the fence rails and lifted their snouts to me to pet, their way of thanking me for the meal although they’d waited all day long for it.
When I finished I broke down the cardboard boxes and rolled up the empty plastic bags and then filled their troughs with fifty gallons of fresh, cool water. The Moon wasn’t quite full and Mars just beneath it, glowing like a jewel, and in the distance the large thunderheads were tipped pink from the last rays of the distant Sun, barn swallows streaking across the top of the orchard feasting on the mosquitoes that came to life in the cooling air.
I thought about these hogs, always hungry, always anticipating the next feeding and how easy they have become to manage since I discovered that simple secret. They will sit patiently waiting for me to bring them food rather than try and escape and find something to eat on their own. They are spoiled by their good fortune, fattening themselves on the food I bring them until they produce the things we require of them- piglets to sell and sausage and bacon to eat. I cannot imagine that the people who have managed to gain control of the levers of power in this world have not only learned from these kinds of lessons, but perfected the intricacies of human manipulation; psychological, pharmaceutical, social and spiritual.
Source: Making ‘The Unthinkable’ The New Reality – Hogs To Slaughter
So You Didn’t Get Rich…
By Tyler Durden
Submitted by Mark Ford via InternationalMan.com,
Waa! It’s not fair!
We baby boomers were told that if we worked hard and saved, we could spend the last quarter of our lives living comfortably and free from financial worries. Our parents told us. Our employers told us. Even the government told us.
How often, during our years of toil, did we daydream about those future days? The leisurely breakfasts, the afternoons golfing, dinners with friends, weekends with our grandchildren…
(Note to younger people: Don’t stop reading. What I’m saying here applies to you too—in spades!)
But now that we are reaching retirement age, the promise is beginning to feel like a fraud.
For many of us, a financially secure, worry-free retirement no longer seems possible.
Not to worry. I’m going to give you my best advice on how to create a very attractive retirement from what looks to be a seemingly impossible financial situation.
After scaring you with some numbers in this essay, I’m going to spend the next installment telling you how to fix anything you may have been doing wrong. I’ll also give you some realistic suggestions for acquiring wealth—no matter how much you have to start with—while you are still willing and able to work for it.
Finally, I’ll give you an idea for how you can retire very comfortably—and very soon—on a modest income. And by “modest,” I mean less than $40,000 per year.
What Happened to the Dream?
What happened, fellow boomers? How did we fail? Did we work too few hours? Too few years? Did we spend more than we should have? Or fail to save… or save too little? Did we invest poorly?
What happened was a combination of “surprises.” Some predictable. Some not so much…
1. We worked hard, but we didn’t get meaningful wage increases.
As a group, we boomers worked more than we were required to throughout our careers. Not only did we work more than 40 hours per week, our productivity nearly doubled between 1979 and 2013 (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics).
And we are still working hard. According to the Current Population Survey, the full-time working boomer aged 55-plus is still averaging 42.4 hours per week. (The most recent data is from 2013.)
The problem was that, over the long haul, our wages did not keep pace with inflation.
From 1948–1979, wages adjusted for inflation rose 93.4%, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The wage rate increases were beating the slow rise of inflation—big time.
Now look at what happened in the late-1970s…
In 1979 (some sources say as early as 1972), wages went flat. For the next 35 years, as we boomers passed through our late teens, 20s, 30s, and 40s, real wages increased only about 8%.
And since 2009, the tide has reversed. Real hourly wages are once again on the decline.
So while our bills continued to rise, our take-home pay, in real dollars, didn’t—and still doesn’t—keep pace with inflation.
2. We saved less and less.
According to various sources, the average boomer has had an average annual disposable income of $24,000. The problem is: We …read more
Source: So You Didn’t Get Rich…
"Hack The Pentagon" Program Unveils Hundreds Of Security Gaps
By Tyler Durden
Perhaps in light of the fact that hackers were recently able to steal $81 million from the account of the Bangladesh central bank held at the New York Fed, or as a result of the Fed admitting several data breaches over the past few years, the Pentagon decided to finally get around to testing the security of its network.
The program, called “Hack the Pentagon” invited hackers to identify vulnerabilities on five public Pentagon internet pages in exchange for cash for each security gap exposed. As a result, the 1,410 hackers that participated found 1,189 vulnerabilities, and the first gap was found just 13 minutes after the event began. Out of the 1,189 vulnerabilities, the Pentagon determined that only 138 were valid and unique – “These are ones we weren't aware of, and now we have the opportunity to fix them. And again, it's a lot better than either hiring somebody to do that for you, or finding out the hard way.” Defense Secretary Ash Carter said.
The Pentagon said this was the first time the federal government has undertaken a program with outside hackers attempting to breach the networks, and the total cost was $150,000. Roughly half of the $150k was paid directly to the hackers as bounties, with a range of $100 to the maximum prize of $15,000 for submitting a pair of security gaps.
The program will be followed by a series of other initiatives that promote the communication of security gaps within government networks, including allowing anyone who finds a security gap in Defense Department systems to report it without fear of prosecution – which unless people are hacking the government out of a sense of patriotic duty, presumably pays significantly less than the market for such information. The department will also expand the bounty program to the military services and encourage contractors to allow similar scrutiny.
Interestingly, rather, disturbingly, a recent high school graduate alone found six vulnerabilities.
From McClatchyDC
One of the hackers was David Dworken, who just graduated from high school. He said he worked on the program during his free time, logging in between homework assignments. He ended up submitting six vulnerabilities, but they all were reported by other hackers also.
He said he started getting interested in hacking when he was in the 10th grade. “I took a computer science course at my school and then other students and I were actually just messing around and we found a couple vulnerabilities on my school's website. That's the first thing I did with that,” the future Northwestern University student told reporters.
Even though he didn't qualify for a payout, Dworken said it was worthwhile.
“It also works well in terms of, like networking and getting a reputation kind of thing,” he said. “You know, I'm just in high school. I've had recruiters contact me about internships over the summer.”
Someone tell us that this event, in which 138 gaps were revealed that the Pentagon didn't know about, had more than kids fresh out of high …read more
Source: "Hack The Pentagon" Program Unveils Hundreds Of Security Gaps
A Wake Up Call For International Stocks
By Tyler Durden
Perpetually under-performing international equity markets are testing critical support.
With the selloff in the U.S. stock market this week, it is easy for domestic investors to lose sight of one thing: it could be a lot worse. As in, one could be heavily exposed to international markets and subject to the disproportionate damage that has afflicted many of those markets for almost a decade now. For example, let’s look at the performance ratio between the MSCI Europe Australia & Far East Index, a.k.a., the “EAFE”, versus the S&P 500. After topping out in late 2007, the ratio has been on a relentless decline. And in the past few days, the ratio has dropped to a fresh all-time low, yet again.
This chart is just a reminder of 2 things. First, international equity markets have severely under-performed the U.S. for some time now, largely due to the terrific run in U.S. stocks. Secondly, while the trend will eventually reverse, it shows no sign of doing so imminently.
If we look at the EAFE in absolute terms, we find it at an important juncture in the context of its post-February intermediate-term rally. After bottoming in February, the index was able to break above its post-May 2015 Down trendline in April. This allowed it to pop higher by another 6% or so, temporarily. The EAFE has since dropped back down, testing the breakout point successfully in mid-May before resuming its short-term downtrend in the past few weeks. Currently, it is testing an arguably make-or-break level as it pertains to the survival of the post-February rally.
As the chart shows, the index is presently testing the confluence of A) the top of the broken post-2015 Down trendline and B) the 61.8% Fibonacci Retracement of the February-April bounce. If this area gives way, it will very likely be the nail in the coffin for the post-February rally. Thus, if these international markets wish to extend the bounce, they best get it going right here and now.
Consider this their wake up call.
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Source: A Wake Up Call For International Stocks
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