Season's Greetings

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Happy New Year To All

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This is state of the onion script day.

Since nothing has changed for decades, the following are recent discussions about the annual fantasy fest we Americans love and hate all at the same time.

The SOTU fantasy fest:

The State of The Onion Script

The State of The Onion Script - 2

Tell Me No Lies

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Anonymous hacks FBI - Scotland Yard Conference Call

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Can't win for losing: Keystone Kops Dude arrested for child porn; meanwhile innocent man arrested for child porn when a neighbor hijacks his wifi to download child porn

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Some people see this Chinese activity as a serious financial matter for the USA economy.

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Some analysts think that the US economy is in more danger than it was before the Bush II collapse.

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3,200 abandoned oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico are uncapped and could become a catastrophe at any time (which is a catastrophe in and of itself)

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It used to smell, but things have changed ...

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Science bites demented denial sufferers in House of Representatives ...
when their own puppy scientist's eyes are opened ... healed!

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Latest nuclear lie from Japan "radiation would be quickly diluted in the ocean" ... guess what kiddies water becomes radioactive too ...

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Latest Nuclear Status

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Check Out The Post At Toxins of Power Blog

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Saudi Oil Reserves Overestimated 40%???

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"We Americans will trade you 1 Bahrain for 1 Libya - Hillary Clinton"
Asia Times

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I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own

dig it MOMCOM

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I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own

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dig it MOMCOM

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Meltdown In Japan:

"We are afraid that the water level at [the No 4 reactor] is the lowest," said Hikaru Kuroda, a Tepco official. But he added, "Because we cannot get near it, the only way to monitor the situation is visually from far away."

(Guardian, emphasis added). The United Nations projects that the radioactive plume will hit Alaska by today, California by Friday.

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USA decides to dispense with the propaganda and for once tell it like it is:

According to the official, the U.S. believes a larger evacuation zone should be imposed and that the next 24-48 hours are "critical."

"It would be hard to describe how alarming this is right now," ABC quoted the anonymous official as saying.

(Huffpo, emphasis added).

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Meanwhile propaganda goes to Hollywood:

Connections between the Pentagon and the entertainment industry, first intensified in the 1980s, continue to embed militarism in seemingly non-political products like video games and action movies ... when it comes to the Pentagon-Hollywood relationship since the 1980s -- only in that case, we're now seeing military officials quite literally line-editing scripts to make them more pro-military.

(Your Tax Dollars At Work, emphasis added).

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I updated the post which said that MOMCOM spent about $700 billion a year on "defense".

After that update, the post now says $1.22 Trillion, which means MOMCOM spends the equivalent of about 120 Japan disasters every year (10 per month) on imperialism.

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Japan tsunami and earthquake - Live coverage - Guardian:

"Japan's nuclear crisis is equivalent to number six on the INES scale of nuclear accidents, Kyodo news agency has quoted the French Nuclear Agency as saying.

The INES – International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale – ranks incidents from one to seven, with one described as "anomaly" and seven as "major accident".

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New York Times on nuke disaster

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One wonders if Obama will take his girls swimming in the waters around the collapsing nuclear plants after what Keith Olbermann said:

... even President Obama applauded while trying to pitch the same Doomsday Machines to us two years ago, turned out to be not so safe after all, and there’s no reason to assume our antiquated nukes are somehow even as impervious to disaster as Japan’s obviously weren’t.

(FOK News Channel). FOK is Keith's website at the moment.

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New Oil wars in the mid-east as the peak of oil wars approaches ...

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Elections won't cure the shhhhhh quiet disease
in this post Peak Of Sanity world

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Letter to My Fellow Michiganders ... from Michael Moore

Monday, March 14th, 2011

AFL-CIO Protest Page | Working Families Facebook Event Page | MoveOn Protest Page | Bus Times & Locations | Rachel Maddow Explains Rick Snyder's Attack on Middle Class

Fellow Michiganders (and honorary Michiganders around the world):

The call has gone out and I'm asking everyone who can to take Wednesday off and head to the State Capitol in Lansing to protest the cruel and downright frightening legislation currently being jammed down our throats.

What is most shocking to many is that the new governor, who ran against the Tea Party and defeated the right wing of his party in the primaries -- and then ran in the general election as "just a nerd from Ann Arbor" who was a moderate, not an ideologue -- has pulled off one of the biggest Jekyll and Hyde ruses I've ever seen in electoral politics.

Governor Snyder, once elected, yanked off his nice-guy mask to reveal that he is in fact a multi-millionaire hell-bent on destroying our state and turning it over to his buddies from Wall Street.

In just 8 short weeks he has:

* Gotten the House and Senate to pass bills giving him "Emergency Management" powers such as the ability to appoint a corporation or a CEO who could literally dissolve town governments or school boards, fire the elected officials, nullify any local law and run your local governmental entity. That company then would have the power to immediately declare all collective bargaining contracts null and void.

* Proposed giving business a whopping 86% tax cut while raising personal taxes by 31%! And much of that tax hike he believes should be shouldered by -- I kid you not -- senior citizens and the poor! He says these two groups have not been "sharing the sacrifice" the rest of us have been burdened with. So his budget proposes a $1.8 billion tax CUT for business and a $1.75 billion tax INCREASE for the rest of us, much of it from the poor, seniors and working people -- even though the top 1% in Michigan ALREADY pay a lower state tax rate than everyone else does!

* Together with the legislature, introduced over 40 anti-labor bills in just the first two months of this session! They have wasted no time and have caught most people off guard. Much of this is being rushed through right now before you have a chance to raise your voice in objection.

These actions are breathtaking when you realize they will drive our already battered state straight into the ground. What we needed right now was an inspiring leader to help us reinvent Michigan and to find creative ways to create new jobs and lift us out of our economic depression. The rest of the country may call what they're experiencing the "Great Recession," but few argue that Michigan is suffering a "one-state Depression."

I know many of you are filled with a great sense of despair and a justifiable loss of hope these days in Michigan. But you must not let things get even worse. You must stand up against these Draconian measures and this outrageous attempt to rip our democratic rights from us by turning our state over to well-paid hacks from Wall Street and corporate America. They see our state as one big fire sale -- and they are licking their chops to get their hands on what is still a state rich in natural resources and industrial infrastructure.

Please show up at noon on Wednesday for our first mega-rally against this insanity. Hundreds of groups are already organizing car pools and buses. You can right now just declare yourself an organizer and get your friends and neighbors committed to being in Lansing. If ever there were a day to call in sick, Wednesday is it (because this IS sick). Students, if ever there were a day to cut class and become a participant in your democracy, Wednesday is it. This event needs to be HUGE -- and I believe it will be if you will simply be there and take a stand.

Much attention has been paid to Wisconsin in recent weeks. Well, they got nothing on what's going on here in Michigan. Rick Snyder is Scott Walker on steroids. There's never been what even the AARP calls "an all-out attack" like this on us. Trust me, you will rue the day you sat home and did nothing while thieves posing as politicians stole your Great Lakes State from you.

Don't let it happen. Be at the Capitol by noon on Wednesday for the largest demonstration the state has ever seen.

Go Spartans! Go Wolverines! Go Everyone Else In Between!

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

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Japan tsunami and earthquake -
Live coverage - Guardian

• Up to 10,000 feared dead in Miyagi prefecture alone
• Cooling system fails at a second nuclear plant
• Japan PM: "worst crisis since WWII"
• 190 people exposed to radiation
• Original quake upgraded to magnitude 9
• Over 250 aftershocks so far

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Cooling System Update At Nuke Power Plants
Experts Explain Worse Case Scenario

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First Ever Nuclear Emergency In Japan
First Ever Core Meltdown In Japan Suspected
"a nuclear meltdown was suspected at the Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant's No. 1 reactor"

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The Gulf of Alaska Quake (1964) made obsolete marine charts of the bottom of that Gulf. Now there is a similar effect from the Japan Quake:

Dr. Daniel McNamara, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told The Huffington Post that the disaster left a gigantic rupture in the sea floor, 217-miles long and 50 miles wide. It also shifted Japan's coast by eight feet in some parts, though McNamara was quick to explain much of the coast likely didn't move as far.

McNamara found the way in which the quake actually sunk the elevation of the country's terrain to be more troublesome than coastal shifting. "You see cities still underwater; the reason is subsidence," he said. "The land actually dropped, so when the tsunami came in, it's just staying."

The enormous tremor also shifted the Earth's axis. According to CNN, the earthquake moved the planet's axis approximately 4 inches.

(HuffPo, emphasis added). Areas of Japan sank lower as the oceans are rising, and some of those areas are now "still underwater".

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New Deep Water Offshore Drilling Permit Granted:

"The well was being drilled in waters 4,234 feet deep,
120 miles off the Louisiana coast south of Houma,
at the time BP's Macondo [Deepwater Horizon]
well blew out in April 2010." (Raw Story, emphasis added)

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Oil Found In Gulf Seafood Exposing Government Propaganda:

"The federal government is going out of its way to assure the public that seafood pulled from recently reopened Gulf of Mexico waters is safe to consume, in spite of the largest accidental release of crude oil in America's history.

However, testing methodologies used by the government to deem areas of water safe for commercial fishing are woefully inadequate and permit high levels of toxic compounds to slip into the human food chain, according to a series of scientific and medical professionals interviewed by Raw Story."

(Raw Story).

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A couple of thousand years before Columbus, people were living in Florida ...
elderly lady discovers human bones ...

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Why would the GOP choose these guys when they have Obama?

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Our pal Mikey likes it in Wisconsin ...

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Everything you need to know about MOMCOM torture ...

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Federal Court Crisis

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Wisconsin approves ex post facto criminal law against Democrats there ...

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MOMCOM minions rush headlong into the abyss

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Wiggy Leaks did it says MI6 operative ...

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Beck says Hillary is crazy for saying Al Jazera is good source
for news (better than MOMCOM) ...

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The evolution of voting machines ...
Indiana Secretary of State Indicted for Election Fraud ...
review a Dredd Blog post of the past on the issue.

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The evolution of scientific doctrine may soon include alien microbe studies ...

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DNC pressures Obama to accelerate Afghanistan withdrawal ...

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Libyan "government" goes Brand X nuts ...

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The Pentagon, in propaganda mode on steroids, inspires pseudo science that threatens the lives of billions

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Is the Obama Administration reading the tea leaves?
(now open to prosecuting war crimes?)

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Wisconsin demonstration (now spreading around the us)
is what the propaganda persona cannot do ...

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Another Whitewash / Cover-up Combo -
the actual cost is a hundred times more ...

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Science Budget To Be Slashed by House GOP;
Warmonger budget increased over last year

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The Consequences of Peak Sanity May Escalate
During The Desperation phase

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The Bush II regime held hands with the regime now shooting down the most citizens in the global wave of protest.

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Washington's Blog has an interesting, detailed post about some of the nations likely to experience this current and growing phenomenon.

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Ecocosmology Blog has a post about the Capitol of Bullshitistan.

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To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," said Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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Newsweek has an interesting take on the Egyptian uprising

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Atlantic Magazine has an interesting lesson about middle east domino theory

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A main street view of middle east uprisings (to add to the interest)

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A UN expert who is a 9/11 Truther gets heat from UN Boss;
The expert replies wondering why everyone is so shrill about the issue;

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Foreign Policy Journal wonders why all the fuss over the matter?

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Olbermann out at MSNBC for getting on MOMCOM's nerves
and of course Comcast had nothing to do with it

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Evidently Keith had been fired once before in 2008

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The scuttle-butt is that he left to start a new media empire, that he was not fired ... expect a link to Keith Blog on a browser near you soon

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Robert Reich says run when you hear the term "improving American Competitiveness" ... does it mean that MOMCOM wants everyone to be paid minimum wages so we can "compete"?

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Just Us Clarence Thomas failed to disclose as much as a million dollars of his wife's income from conservative groups ... a clear and present violation of law

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Professor Jonathan Turley explains why Thomas and Scalia are a problem in our legal system

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New words for the future of the planet

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TSA loses court case against citizen who raises Kane

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DUI Lawyer warns of MADD dangers to constitution

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Jared Lee Lochner Shooting Victim Arrested For Threatening Violence

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