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Merry Christmas: Santa Arrested in Austin for Chalking the Sidewalk!

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What can I say; it’s a slow news day.  Merry Christmas everyone. From the Huffington Post: Officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety arrested a man dressed as Santa Claus in Austin Friday on charges of criminal mischief after writing with chalk on the grounds of the state Capitol building, the Austin American-Statesman reports. … Read more

Coming to America…Biotech Salmon!

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The FDA always has your back.  This government agency, which is well known for corruption (watch the movie Burzynski), seems to be inching closer toward approving a biotech salmon product called AquAdvantage Atlantic salmon egg.  Sounds tasty!  From Reuters:

(Reuters) – A controversial genetically engineered salmon has moved a step closer to the consumer’s dining table after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday the fish didn’t appear likely to pose a threat to the environment or to humans who eat it.

AquaBounty officials said they were caught by surprise by the news that its product was a step closer to approval as years of controversy had followed the company’s application for a go-ahead from the regulator.

Hahaha.  Even the company itself was surprised its product could get approved so easily!

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Petition to Deport Piers Morgan Hits the 25,000 Threshold

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When I first heard of this petition I thought it was kind of amusing, but I never expected it to reach the 25,000 number required for a White House response so fast.  In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a petition get there so quick.  This was only created two days ago on December … Read more

The Police are Now Protesting in China

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When the police feel cheated by the system, the system is in serious trouble (I mentioned how police started protesting in Greece in my article The Global Spring).  It doesn’t matter what country in the Western world you live in, corrupt financial oligarchs and others have hijacked all these economies and are stealing everything.  It … Read more

We Are Legion: The Story of Anonymous

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I watched this movie last night at the precipice of the end of the world and it blew my mind on so many levels.  I had no idea about the history of this movement or even any of the central players involved.  It’s sad what many of them have been put through just to send … Read more

Another Day, Another Questionable Bank Settlement

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Good thing everyone is now distracted and divided on the whole gun debate so the banksters can once again get off with a slap on the wrist for financial crimes against humanity.  For those that have forgotten what LIBOR is, I wrote about it in my piece My Two Cents on LIBOR-GATE.  This is how the CFTC itself described LIBOR this summer:

The American public and our markets rely upon the integrity of benchmark interest rates like LIBOR and Euribor because they form the basis for hundreds of trillions of dollars of transactions and affect nearly every corner of the global economy,” said David Meister, the CFTC’s Director of Enforcement.

Now here is the punishment for rigging the most important interest rate in the world.  From the NY Times:

It has also charged two former UBS traders with crimes that include conspiracy, wire fraud and violation of antitrust laws. The subsidiary will pay a $100 million fine, and the traders, if extradited and convicted, could go to jail. But the deal leaves UBS itself relatively unscathed. In all, it will pay $1.5 billion to settle allegations of rate-rigging that span nearly a decade and implicate the bank and its bankers far beyond the wrongdoing of two rogue traders.

According to the investigation by the Financial Services Authority, the British regulator, 40 individuals at UBS, including 11 managers, were directly involved in rate-rigging that was carried out to boost trading profits, while at least two more managers and five senior managers were aware of the practice.

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Tam’s Burgers: Just Another Small Business Killed by Bureaucracy

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As I noted yesterday in my article, FCC Rule Change Would Favor Big Media, the trend here in America is to push small and medium sized businesses into bankruptcy one way or the other to allow further monopoly control of all aspect of life to the mega corporations.  This is intentional, and your “representatives” in … Read more

Piers Morgan Does it Again! The Guy Can’t Help but Embarrass Himself

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Good ol’ Piers Morgan never disappoints!  The British “journalist,” who was run out of the UK for publishing false news stories is at it again; embarrassing not only himself but also his profession, as well as further damaging whatever credibility still existed at mainstream media propaganda outlet CNN. All year, Piers has been on a … Read more

FCC Rule Change Would Favor Big Media

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Here we go; more centralization, consolidation, and corruption as America barrels its way toward serfdom.  The best part of this saga is that Obama was one of the most vocal Senators against such rule changes when George W. Bush was in office, but not a peep from him now.  Bernie Sanders (Vermont Senator) and Michael Copps (FCC commissioner from 2001 to 2011) wrote an excellent Op Ed in Politico.  Here are excerpts:

A cornerstone of American democracy is a free and open press providing diverse viewpoints. As Thomas Jefferson said in 1823, “The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted to be freely expressed.” In America today, however, a trend toward corporate media consolidation is drowning diverse opinions and eliminating local control.  In 1983, 90 percent of the American media was owned by 50 companies. Today, 90 percent is controlled by just six corporations: General Electric, News Corp., Disney, Viacom, Time Warner and CBS.

The Federal Communications Commission may be on the verge of making a bad situation worse. It is considering a rule change that would clear the way for even more media consolidation. All Americans should be deeply concerned.

The failed 2007 bid to change the rules came after a similar 2003 effort to weaken the limits on cross-ownership that prevented a handful of media conglomerates from completely dominating ownership of the news outlets in our communities. Those proposals met with 3 million public comments, 99 percent of which opposed the FCC’s proposal.

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The Section Preventing Indefinite Detention of Americans without Trial Removed from Final NDAA Bill

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While the Feinstein-Lee Amendment wasn’t perfect, it was a small step forward as I outlined in my piece:  My Thoughts on the Feinstein-Lee Amendment to the NDAA.  Amazingly, this small victory has been stripped out of the final bill by our “representatives.”  If this doesn’t prove without a shadow of a doubt that this government is criminal and wants the power to lock up citizens without trial I don’t know what will.  From the Huffington Post:

WASHINGTON — Congress stripped a provision Tuesday from a defense bill that aimed to shield Americans from the possibility of being imprisoned indefinitely without trial by the military. The provision was replaced with a passage that appears to give citizens little protection from indefinite detention.

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