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Howdy!
That is all, carry on.

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sunny a gorgeous today ..
i live in paradise.

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In 1983, the National Film Board of Canada produced a 57-minute film, "Anybody's Son Will Do". Arguably the best anti-war film ever made, and tailored for public television, it scared the hell out of the U.S. military machine, which has done its best to "disappear" it. For years it has been nearly impossible to find a copy, but some kind soul has posted it on YouTube where it can be seen in six segments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DShDaJXK5qo

http://www.countercurrents.org/willers200410.htm

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http://www.harleydbrownforcongress.org/index.html



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The gulf stream dies 2010, and one scientist knew four years ahead
This year the gulf stream ended up in Greenland and brings Europe the fiercest winter in a long time — but it's just the winter it would regularely have according to its latitude.

Some wish to have the global warming back, but apparently the global warming is the actual cause of this effect. The melting glaciers and masses of ice have introduced so much fresh water to the northern seas that the cold current heading south is no longer salty enough to pass underneath the gulf stream as it has done in the past 15.000 years. Saltwater is heavier than fresh water, so if both currents are salty, the warm gulf stream passes over the cold currents. With the cold currents not carrying enough salt, the cold currents block the gulf stream from coming to Europe.

Since global warming keeps bringing fresh water into the seas, raising the sea level and lowering the saltiness of northern seas, it could take hundreds of years for the gulf stream to return to what we thought was normal. That would be when the sea levels have risen and the salt has spread evenly over the planet.

Scientists and the United Nations have been warning for years, that the gulf stream would weaken sometime within this century, with grave consequences for Europe. Only one Russian physicist in particular, Mr. Alexej Karnauchow, made a prediction four years ago that the gulf stream would come to a halt in 2010. He also suggested that Russia could have done something to avoid this from happening: The Soviet Union under Brezhnev had plans to divert big Siberian rivers to the south into the Aral Sea with the purpose of providing the south with more fresh water. It may still be in time to do this in order for the gulf stream to recover.

Nature is slapping European climate pragmaticists in the face: So you thought having global warming would at least make life nicer for you? Nope. Europe is heading for a long-term cooling while the rest of the planet heats up.

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“Corporate liberalism functions via a façade of opposition between a purportedly progressive statocracy and a purportedly pro-market plutocracy. The con operates by co-opting potential opponents of the establishment; those who recognise that something’s amiss with the statocratic wing are lured into supporting the plutocratic wing, and vice versa. Whenever the voters grow weary of the plutocracy, they’re offered the alleged alternative of an FDR or JFK; whenever they grow weary of the statocracy, they’re offered the alleged alternative of a Reagan or Thatcher. Perhaps the balance of power shifts slightly toward one side or the other; but the system remains essentially unchanged.”

This is why the alleged radical Barack Obama can be elected president and we still find economic policy in the hands of establishment “corporate liberals” Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Paul Volcker, Christina Romer, Ben Bernanke, and Robert Rubin. You could see it coming, though: Obama got more Goldman Sachs-connected money than John McCain in 2008.

There’s been some controversy lately over whether it is appropriate to call the Obama administration a “regime.” It’s appropriate in my view so long as you’re also willing to talk about the Bush and Reagan regimes. But what we really should be talking about is “the permanent regime,” the underlying system that endures despite changes in White House occupants.

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The California initiative will be on the November ballot. Various polls last year indicated such a measure enjoyed a 55 percent approval rating. It will certainly be a close run thing, though old people, unable to afford prescription painkillers, are turning with increasing enthusiasm to marijuana. Call the California ballot the second shoe dropping in the “health reform” drama.

People here, in Humboldt County, reckon legalization is not far off and that it spells the end of the 30-year marijuana boom, which was under stress anyway because of one of the oldest problems in agriculture – oversupply. The local weekly, the North Coast Journal, has made a somewhat comic effort to construct a silver lining for the county. It talks hopefully of branding the Humboldt “terroir,” of tours of “marijuanaries.” Dream on. Down south there’s more sun, more water, and very capable Mexicans ready to tend and trim for $15 an hour. The smarter growers reckon they have two years at most. Here, on the North Coast, the price of marijuana will drop, the price of land will drop, the trucks will stop being late model. There’ll be less money floating around.

The New Deal began with an end to prohibition of the sale of alcohol across the United States. The individual small producers of bourbon – some good, a lot awful, or downright poison – shut down, and the big liquor producers took over, successfully pushing for illegalization of marijuana in 1937. How long will the small producers of gourmet marijuana last before the big companies run them off, pushing through the sort of regulatory “standards” that are now punishing small organic farmers?

Counterpunch.com