In a stunning, newly-available video clip, General David Petraeus, ex-head of the CIA, is seen raging at senior associates about the surveillance which resulted in his forced resignation as director of the US spy agency. Google’s role in turning over all his emails to the FBI is highlighted. The clip shows Petraeus lamenting that he and his aides had not been more careful about guarding their Internet privacy. “I should have listened to Julian Assange” Petraeus says to a stunned audience.
Tip of the Hat to a European contributor who says this is all the rage there.
Phi Beta Iota: We continue to support the reinstatement of Petraeus to the post for which he was confirmed by Congress. We also continue to recommend that a DNI be appointed whose mission is to terminate the DNI and retire every single person now ostensibly employed by the DNI.
The government is out of control as well as local prosecutors trying to make a name for themselves.
Phi Beta Iota: At the federal level, “illegal everything” is directly tied to incentivizing special interests that get 6-20 return on investment for campaign contributions. At local levels it seems to represent a fragmentation of society and an end of generic citizenship.
Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many – they are few.
Occupy 9/11 is emergent. This film, loaded on 1 February 2011, is now going viral. At 2:28:42, this is one of the best documentaries on the topic, and it is free online.
Phi Beta Iota: This is an extraordinary contribution. It is highly recommended for students as well as adult learning clubs; it provides the best “overview” in one place.
Note: Diebold – “Diebold Election Systems” acquired by “Premiere Election Solutions” then acquired by “ES&S” which was acquired by “Dominion” in 2010 (wikipedia).
Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor in Dept. of Nutrition at NYU.
A fantastic overview of the state of the American food system from food safety to marketing to children (Frosted Flakes & Froot Loops marketing budgets = $20million+), corporate lobbying against soda sugar tax, to the “food revolution” of more people demanding local organic foods, farmer’s markets (over 6,132 in 2010), calorie labeling, and much more.
At this mark she mentions that campaign laws are the source of all government corruption and that “we” should run for office, inserting ourselves into the job positions filled with corrupt persons.
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Edible Education: The Politics of Food
Author and former war correspondent for the New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist 