Pa^2 Patois

**Time to Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry | Truthout**
- **http://goo.gl/mo2jo**

**Montana State Supreme Court: Citizens United Not Welcome Here | Truthout**
- **http://goo.gl/m4hQ7**

(H/t to Dr. Roy Schestowitz )

**Farewell Michele | FP Passport**
- **http://goo.gl/MJ0aL** - On the Soviet Union:”What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.”  Bachmann will now return to her [normal job](http://dia.so/1LF safeguarding the nation’s national security secrets.

**Richard Stallman Was Right All Along**
- **http://goo.gl/7p9qG** - The crux of the matter here is that unlike the days of yore, where repressive regimes needed elaborate networks of secret police and informants to monitor communication, all they need now is control over the software and hardware we use. Our desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, and all manner of devices play a role in virtually all of our communication. Think you’re in the clear when communicating face-to-face? Think again. How did you arrange the meet-up? Over the phone? The web? And what do you have in your pocket or bag, always connected to the network?This is what Stallman has been warning us about all these years - and most of us, including myself, never really took him seriously.

http://youtu.be/5JgfQq5DLYc

**parislemon • Dear Google+**
- **http://goo.gl/dTpWg**

This won’t be happening here.

all creatures [great and small] - http://goo.gl/lyaHQ - CHEETA the chimpanzee, who starred alongside Tarzan from the movies of the 1930s through to the 1960s TV series, has died at the age of 80.

Firedoglake - http://firedoglake.com/ - In 2010, over 350 members of the House agreed to a bill designed to punish China for their currency manipulation. In 2011, 68 members of the Senate agreed to a similar bill. But in a year-end report to Congress, the Treasury Department voiced their disagreement, refusing to label China a currency manipulator, instead opting for softer language around their failing to “reform” currency operations

Glenn Greenwald: The Real Reason the GOP Primary Is a Pathetic, Incompetent Clown Show | | AlterNet - http://goo.gl/DS26S - But how can a GOP candidate invoke this time-tested caricature when Obama has embraced the vast bulk of George Bush’s terrorism policies; waged a war against government whistleblowers as part of a campaign of obsessive secrecy; led efforts to overturn a global ban on cluster bombs; extinguished the lives not only of accused terrorists but of huge numbers of innocent civilians with cluster bombs and drones in Muslim countries; engineered a covert war against Iran; tried to extend the Iraq war; ignored Congress and the constitution to prosecute an unauthorised war in Libya; adopted the defining Bush/Cheney policy of indefinite detention without trial for accused terrorists; and even claimed and exercised the power to assassinate US citizens far from any battlefield and without due process?