Shopping Mall on Flickr.A new shopping mall in Summerlin, Nevada...

sin título by selfnonself on Flickr.

Vegas Strip Bellagio to Palazzo on Flickr.

The Vegas Strip from Bellagio to Palazzo as seen from Rampart Casino in Summerlin, Nevada. June 2011.

Hey anyone who just might read this, please take a moment out of your day to just remember and give thanks to all those soldiers who defended are country, died defending our country, and are still defending our country.

Whether or not you support the war, they still are fighting for everyone here in the great USA and without them who knows where we would?

Freedom is not free…

Shopping Mall on Flickr.

A new shopping mall in Summerlin, Nevada June 2011.

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Between Shit and Piss We Are Born - Anaal Nathrakh

Quality metal here. I love the clean vocals when the chorus kicks in, reminds me of Strapping Young Lad.

I really like the United Kingdom’s nutrition labels. It simply color codes things as healthy, moderately healthy and unhealthy. It’s simple, quick and intuitive.

Unfortunately, the US has a pretty powerful food lobby that would almost certainly block anything this simple, but there’s little doubt that we need a new way to label the nutritional value (or lack there of) in our foods.

(via GOOD)

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CIA Assassination, Regime Change, Mass Murder and Saddam

Another very good example of a CIA-organized “regime change” was a coup in 1963 that employed political assassination, mass imprisonment, torture and murder.  This was the military coup that first brought Saddam Hussein’s beloved Ba’ath Party to power in Iraq. At the time, Richard Helms was Director for Plans at the CIA. That is the top CIA position responsible for covert actions, like organizing coups.  Helms served in that capacity until 1966, when he was made Director. In the quotations collected below, the name of the leader who was assassinated is spelled variously as Qasim, Qassim and Kassem.  But, however you spell his name, when he took power in a popularly-backed coup in 1958, he certainly got recognized in Washington.  He carried out such anti-American and anti-corporatist policies as starting the process of nationalizing foreign oil companies in Iraq, withdrawing Iraq from the US-initiated right-wing Baghdad Pact (which included another military-run, US-puppet state, i.e., Pakistan) and decriminalizing the Iraqi Communist Party. Despite these actions, and more likely because of them, he was Iraq’s most popular leader.  He had to go! In 1959, there was a failed assassination attempt on Qasim. The failed assassin was none other than a young Saddam Hussein. In 1963, a CIA-organized coup did successfully assassinate Qasim and Saddam’s Ba’ath Party came to power for the first time.  Saddam returned from exile in Egypt and took up the key post as head of Iraq’s secret service. The CIA then provided the new pliant, Iraqi regime with the names of thousands of communists, and other leftist activists and organizers. Thousands of these supporters of Qasim and his policies were soon dead in a rampage of mass murder carried out by the CIA’s close friends in Iraq. Iraq is once again a target of US “regime change.” Despite that, precious little is being said by the corporate media about how the CIA aided and abetted political assassination, regime change and mass murder, all in the name of putting Saddam’s Ba’ath power into power for the first time in Iraq. One thing is for sure, the US will find it much harder to remove the Ba’ath Party from power in Iraq than they did putting them in power back in 1963.  If more people knew about this diabolical history, they just might not be so inclined to trust the US in its current efforts to execute “regime change” in Iraq. - Richard Sanders

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