Latest Articles: Neocon Nuttery
Military Shreds F-14s
Post Date: 2007-07-02 15:27:02 by Eoghan
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A mechanical monster grabs the F-14 fighter jet and chews through one wing and then another, ripping off the Tomcat's appendages before moving onto its guts. Finally, all that's left is a pile of shredded rubble - like the scraps from a Thanksgiving turkey. The Pentagon is paying a contractor at least $900,000 to destroy old F-14s, a jet affectionately nicknamed "the turkey," rather than sell the spares at the risk of their falling into the wrong hands, including Iran's. Within a workday, a $38 million fighter jet that once soared as a showpiece of U.S. airpower can be destroyed at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz., the military's ...
US 'arming PKK against Turkey'
Post Date: 2007-07-01 19:55:21 by Eoghan
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Four defected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) say the US is providing arms and ammunition for the militant group. The four defectors, who entered Turkey through northern Iraq, in a news conference on Sunday said that they witnessed American armored vehicles had delivered weapons to PKK guerillas in Mount Ghandil in northern Iraq. They also confessed that remote-controlled landmines used by the militants in Turkey are being trafficked in through northern Iraq. Landmine attacks have become a hallmark of PKK offensives against Turkish army since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The militants plant the explosives near the roads and detonate them by mobile phones ...
Reshuffling the Deck Chairs on the National Review cruise.
Post Date: 2007-06-28 16:44:04 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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I am standing waist-deep in the Pacific Ocean, indulging in the polite chit-chat beloved by vacationing Americans. A sweet elderly lady from Los Angeles is sitting on the rocks nearby, telling me dreamily about her son. "Is he your only child?" I ask. "Yes," she answers. "Do you have a child back in England?" she asks me. No, I say. Her face darkens. "You'd better start," she says. "The Muslims are breeding. Soon, they'll have the whole of Europe." I am getting used to such moments, when holiday geniality bleeds into--well, I'm not sure exactly what. I am traveling on a bright-white cruise ship with two restaurants, five bars, ...
Glenn Beck on open borders and the NWO
Post Date: 2007-06-27 12:00:36 by Jethro Tull
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I’m amazed. This amnesty issue has really lit his fuse. He is openly discussing the NAU, the NWO, the global debt scam, and the SPP. He's sounding like one of us on this illegal invasion insult. And yes, I'm fully aware of his neocon background, but I'm inclined to give him a Rosie O'Donnell, 911 Truth Pass. So, until proven otherwise, his comments are welcome.
Military reviews placing special ops on U.S. soil
Post Date: 2007-06-26 23:41:43 by rack42
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. military command in charge of protecting the homeland asked the Pentagon earlier this year for a contingent of special operations officers to help with domestic anti-terrorism missions. Military sources told The Examiner that U.S. Northern Command, established at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado in 2002, requested its own special operations command similar to ones assigned to overseas war-fighting commands, such as U.S. Central Command. A spokeswoman for NorthCom this week issued a statement to The Examiner saying, "This capability resides in every other geographical combatant command and would allow the commander of U.S. Northern Command to deploy these ...
16-year-old smacks O'Reilly around
Post Date: 2007-06-26 20:49:05 by Mekons4
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O'Reilly was going off on a school in which the commencement speaker mentioned sex and drugs. Kid comes on, says he was AGAINST sex and drugs, and then reads from O'Reilly for Kids. In which Bill says an honor student toking a joint on Saturday night was no different than a surgeon having a martini at night. Bill-O went OFF on the kid, and says, you should READ the book. The kid says, I did. And you said it. Bill-O cut off his feed. Turns out Bill-O had WARNED the kid not to read from his own book before the interview. If you missed Olbermann tonight, make sure to catch the re-run. A great show.
OMG, Coulter just said Scooter should walk because witnesses' memories differed
Post Date: 2007-06-26 20:06:10 by Mekons4
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Asked why Scooter should be pardoned, she actually said because the jury was wrong and the testimony from different witnesses differed. This is a lawyer? Bwahahahahaha. BTW, Chris Mathews had her on for an hour and made her look like a total idiot to everyone except the John Birchers and YAF punks gathered behind her.
Attorney general wins "sitting duck award"
Post Date: 2007-06-25 15:17:01 by Ferret Mike
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales won American newspaper columnists' annual "Sitting Duck Award" for being an easy target. "This is our way of saying thanks for the low-hanging fruit," said Samantha Bennett, vice president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist. Gonzales was widely ridiculed for his appearance before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in April to answer questions about the firing of eight U.S. attorneys amid accusations they had been dismissed for political reasons. Asked to explain his role in the firings, Gonzales said, "I don't recall" or "I have no ...
White House opposes move to declassify report on Iraq's WMDs
Post Date: 2007-06-25 14:33:37 by Ferret Mike
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WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The White House is resisting a move by both Republicans and Democrats to fully declassify a Senate report on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. Republicans say the public disclosure would help show that the CIA made honest mistakes in its 2002 assessment that Iraq owned stockpiles of WMDs, when in fact it no longer did. But the White House believes the declassification would trigger another round of negative news media coverage and Democratic-led congressional hearings, said a Senate Republican, who asked to remain anonymous because of ongoing private discussions. The dispute revolves around an obscure federal panel, the nine-member Public Interest ...
The Great Leader - GW Raps
Post Date: 2007-06-24 19:26:04 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Poster Comment:Dated by about a year, but still good.
ABBA - Waterloo
Post Date: 2007-06-23 21:37:01 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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H-1B video shocker: 'Our goal is clearly not to find a qualified ... U.S. worker'
Post Date: 2007-06-21 18:09:54 by Ferret Mike
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Programmer group posts video of law firm's hiring advice on YouTube June 19, 2007 (Computerworld) -- The high-tech industry can tap big names, such as Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, to argue that the U.S. needs more foreign workers with IT skills. But opponents of the H-1B visa program have a weapon that may prove just as effective: YouTube. The Programmers Guild, a professional organization in Summit, N.J., has posted a video (see below) on YouTube LLC's Web site featuring excerpts from a series of videos that had been posted previously by Pittsburgh-based law firm Cohen & Grigsby PC. The law firm's videos were recorded May 15 during a seminar and apparently were ...
US Congress: Charge Ahmadinejad for inciting genocide
Post Date: 2007-06-20 19:39:12 by Eoghan
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The US House of Representatives passed a resolution calling on the UN Security Council to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with violating international laws pertaining to genocide by calling for the destruction of Israel. Written after the Holocaust, the UN Genocide Convention defines the act of genocide as, among other things, the act of killing members of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the targeted group. It also however prohibits conspiracy to commit genocide, as well as "direct and public incitement to commit genocide." A majority of 411 members of congress voted in favor of taking ...
Iraq Contractor Fraud Said to Be Limited
Post Date: 2007-06-19 18:44:21 by Eoghan
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Fraud committed by government contractors in Iraq is a problem but isn't as severe as some critics have suggested, federal officials said Tuesday. Some House Judiciary Committee Democrats questioned the assertions, saying they felt the Justice Department is dragging its feet in pursuing some cases of alleged fraud. They also said some federal judges appear too willing to seal records in such cases, making it impossible for the public to assess the merits of whistleblowers' accusations. Stuart W. Bowen Jr., an inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, told lawmakers that anti-fraud efforts should be better coordinated, but they nonetheless have had an impact. ``Losses to American ...
Ron Paul Excluded in Iowa [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2007-06-19 17:57:28 by Eoghan
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Iowans for Tax Relief and Iowa Christian Alliance will host a presidential candidates forum on Saturday, June 30th in Des Moines. Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, Tommy Thompson, and Tom Tancredo will participate. Ron Paul, however, will not participate. Why? Because he wasn’t invited. We heard about this forum from numerous supporters in Iowa who asked why Dr. Paul was not going to participate. Those supporters assumed that Dr. Paul was invited. The campaign office had not received an invitation so we called this morning; thinking we might have misplaced the invitation or simply overlooked it. Lew Moore, our campaign ...
David Frum is Back
Post Date: 2007-06-19 11:50:59 by Rupert_Pupkin
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The Axis of Amnesty Is Back, But So Is David Frum By Steve Sailer Steve Sailer writes: David Frum replied at length (1,859 words) to this article here. I didn't see a lot in it, other than the usual point and sputter about You can't say that! But I'm biased so maybe I'm missing something worthwhile. As Dr. Frankenstein used to say: "It's alive!" Just as I warned last week, the Kennedy-Bush-McCain Axis of Amnesty reanimated their patched-together monster in the Senate … although it's definitely not back by popular demand. If this bill were a horror movie, it would be House of Wax II … and not a sequel to the Vincent Price original, either, but ...
Bush aides may have illegally lost e-mail, Dems say
Post Date: 2007-06-18 20:17:21 by Ferret Mike
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Karl Rove and dozens of other White House staffers appear to have illegally routed official e-mails through a Republican group that subsequently deleted them, a congressional report said on Monday. By using Republican National Committee e-mail accounts for official business, senior White House aides may have broken a law requiring them to preserve presidential records, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said in an interim report. "This should be a matter of grave concern for anyone who values open government and the preservation of an accurate historical record," said committee Chairman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat. The ...
Troops Get Archaeological Playing Cards
Post Date: 2007-06-18 19:06:36 by Eoghan
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The Pentagon is sending another deck of playing cards to troops in Iraq - this time showing some of the country's most precious archaeological sites instead of the most-wanted former regime officials. Some 40,000 new decks of playing cards will be sent to troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan - as part of an awareness program so troops can help preserve the heritage of those countries, said Laurie Rush, archaeologist at Fort Drum in New York. It's aimed at making troops aware they shouldn't pick up and bring home artifacts and also to avoid causing damage to sites - such as an incident after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, when U.S. troops built a helicopter pad on the ruins of ...
Neocon II: Lie Hard with a Vengeance
Post Date: 2007-06-16 07:46:36 by Ada
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Call it the Leslie Nielsen effect. Your first attempt at a show-biz career fizzles out and dies, but your failure is so quirky and charming that it wins you a whole second career. Think Robert Goulet, Bill Shatner, even John Travolta. America loves a brave second act, particularly one that doesn't mind doing a take or two with egg still on his face. What the Zucker brothers did for actors, the neocons are now doing for politics. In the first six years of the Bush presidency the administration's ideological nucleus -- a tribe of humorless conservative revolutionaries led by Dick Cheney and including the likes of Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Doug Feith and Elliott Abrams -- racked ...
Nightmare at Reagan National Airport: A Security Story to End all Security Stories
Post Date: 2007-06-14 16:58:47 by Ferret Mike
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If you travel enough, you've seen it all -- and possibly some of the awful things that can happen while traveling will have actually happened to you. But nothing I've read about or experienced comes close to what Monica Emmerson experienced while at Reagan National Airport on June 11th while traveling with her 19-month-old toddler. This isn't one of those Catch-22 bureaucratic snafus; this isn't about rules being applied to the letter. This story is mostly about what can happen simply because the authorities in charge decide that they're going to exercise their authority because they can, regardless of whether it's legal or right or makes any sense at all. The ...
Spokesman for President Bush Posts on Free Republic About Immigration Bill
Post Date: 2007-06-14 16:55:12 by Ferret Mike
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A spokeman for the Bush administration sent an e-mail to Jim Robinson and myself confirming the authenticity of a post on Free Republic this afternoon regarding the immigration bill currently before the Senate as having been posted on behalf of the White House. The spokesman, Nicholas Thompson, works for the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Politico reported yesterday that Thompson and Kerrie Rushton, associate directors in the Office of Strategic Initiatives who work under Karl Rove, would be engaging the blogosphere on the immigration bill. Thompson's post is on the thread titled Penalty Mitigation in the Immigration Reform Bill, a vanity posted by philman_36. ...
Bush Honors Victims of Communism
Post Date: 2007-06-12 12:35:29 by Eoghan
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President Bush, honoring the memories of those killed in communist regimes, said Tuesday that their deaths should remind the American public that ``evil is real and must be confronted.'' In dedicating a memorial to those victims, Bush linked periods of totalitarian rule to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. ``Like the Communists, the terrorists and radicals who attacked our nation are followers of a murderous ideology that despises freedom, crushes all dissent, has expansionist ambitions and pursues totalitarian aims,'' Bush said. ``Like the Communists, our new enemies believe the innocent can be murdered to serve a radical vision.'' ...
British paper reports that CIA ghost planes have base in Malta
Post Date: 2007-06-12 10:40:40 by Eoghan
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The British newspaper The Daily Mail reported yesterday that one of the aircraft allegedly used in the CIA’s “ghost flights” to transport terror suspects to interrogation centres was allegedly based in Malta. Malta was, however, excluded from alleged secret detentions and unlawful inter-state transfers. The Daily Mail linked the issue to a report compiled by a European Parliament committee which says the CASA-212 Aviocar in question, registration number N964BW, was on a list of “companies and aircraft used by the CIA for extraordinary rendition flights”. The Daily Mail said that, according to the American Federal Aviation Authority, the plane was operated by two ...
The Neocon Threat to World Peace and American Freedom
Post Date: 2007-06-12 05:57:46 by Ada
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The Bush/Cheney White House, which told the American people in 2003 that the Iraqi invasion would be a three-to-six-week affair, now tells us that the U.S. occupation is permanent. Forever. Attentive Americans, of which, alas, there are so few, had already concluded that the occupation was permanent. Permanence is the obvious message from the massive and fortified U.S. embassy under construction in Iraq and from the large permanent military bases that the Bush regime is building in Iraq. Bush regime propagandists have created a false analogy with "the Korean model" in their effort to sell the permanent occupation of Iraq as necessary for Iraq's security. More than one half ...
Let's Be Kind to Christopher Hitchens
Post Date: 2007-06-11 06:29:17 by Ada
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Let us exercise compassionate conservatism toward Christopher Hitchens – by compassionately refusing to read his embarrassing outpourings, thereby conserving ourselves for more important tasks. You know, it has long been fashionable to criticize Christopher Hitchens for his appalling adherence to the gangsters of the Bush Regime, whom he for many years painted in the kind of bold, heroic tones we've not seen since the heyday of Socialist Realism. And while Hitchens is now trying to get back to where he once belonged to some extent – washing his hands of a war whose failure he now blames largely on the anti-war left and instead shooting a few fish in the barrel of religious ...
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