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So It Begins: Does Proposed US, EU Single Market Augur American Economic Subjugation?

A huge and potentially devastating (for the U.S.) development is being eclipsed by the "disclosures" of career spook Baby Face Snowden. Obama and British PM David Cameron are lining up behind an enormous EU/US trade deal, which would bring the U.S. and the EU into a single market--the largest in the world. This could prove as bad for the U.S. as the Common Market/EU has for the U.K.

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• So It Begins: Does Proposed US, EU Single Market Augur American Economic Subjugation? Jun 18 A huge and potentially devastating (for the U.S.) development is being eclipsed by the "disclosures" of career spook Baby Face Snowden. Obama and British PM David Cameron are lining up behind an enormous EU/US trade deal, which would bring the U.S. and the EU into a single market--the largest in the world. This could prove as bad for the U.S. as the Common Market/EU has for the U.K. Read more »
• Morsi Marches On: Veteran of Luxor Massacre Appointed to Governorship Jun 17 One of the more grotesque aspects of this decades-long undertaking has been watching people hail the advance of fascism as something "desirable" and/or "democratic." Less than two years after the "Arab Spring" ("Muslim Brotherhood Spring" we call it) was hailed as a blossoming of democracy in the Arab world, it is proving to be the installation of Islamic fascism (or "corporatism" as Mussolini called his system) that we said it would be. Read more »
• Wars and Postwars: Germany, The First World War, and the EMU Jun 14 We've spoken often of the pan-German economic plans of Friedrich List, as well as their realization under the Third Reich, in both its above-ground and underground manifestations. We have not discussed the First World War (the centennial of which is approaching), in which German imperialists were firm in their aim of utilizing the post-war to realize their aims of a European economic union, dominated by Germany and used to further their hegemonic goals. Read more »
• Citizen Snowden Jun 12 The leaker of the NSA/GCHQ has been identified as Edward J. Snowden. A career spook, Snowden financially supported the Nazi-linked Ron Paul during the recent presidential campaign. Paul's provo-Utah based Super PAC was funded primarily by Peter Thiel. Thiel's Palantir firm appears to be the creator of the PRISM application. UPDATED ON 6/15/2013. Read more »
• Huffman Aviation a Factor in Legal Struggle over Classified Documents Jun 10 While the media are predictably obsessing on the NSA/PRISM non-scandal, more important secrecy issues have emerged. It develops that some Sarasota-based Saudis who fled shortly after the 9/11 attacks were indeed connected to people implicated in the attacks, including individuals who were part of Mohamed Atta's Huffman Aviation milieu. Read more »
• Planet of the Apps: On the Subject of those “Shocking” Disclosures about NSA/GCHQ Electronic Surveillance (Y-A-W-N!) Jun 7 What is significant about the PRISM function is its probable dual-use by the Palantir firm of Peter Thiel. Thiel--asociated with the Koch Brothers Cato institute--hates Obama. MIGHT THE THIEL CAMP HAVE LEAKED THIS INFORMATION?! Leaking journalist Glenn Greenwald is professionally associated with the Cato Institute. Obama's FBI nominee is the former general counsel for a Palantir client. IMPORTANT UPDATES ON 6/8/2013 and 6/15/2013. Read more »
• Have Turkish Citizens Had Enough of Erdogan’s Taffy? (Viva Attaturk!) Jun 5 Recent days have seen expanding popular protests in Turkey. Turned back by heavy-handed tactics by the country's Fetullah Gulen-dominated police establishment, the demonstrations appear to embody a broader popular dissatisfaction with Erdogan's Islamist government. Far from being "moderate," Erdogan's government has systematically stifled journalistic and political expression. UPDATED ON 6/6/2013. Read more »
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