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Disturbing 2008 Global Peace Index Report
Post Date: 2008-05-29 06:07:35 by Stephen Lendman
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Disturbing 2008 Global Peace Index Report - by Stephen Lendman The Global Peace Index (GPI) was launched in May 2007 and claims to be the first study of its kind ranking nations according to their peacefulness. Last year's report covered 121 countries. The latest increased it to 140. Australian entrepreneur Steve Killelea conceived the idea and won some dubious endorsements. Among them, the Dalai Lama. He served as a CIA asset from the late 1950s until 1974 and may again be in tow if the Bush administration's awarding him a Congressional Gold Medal last year and closeness to him now is an indication. Other endorsers include Jordan's Queen Noor; another member of her royal ...
Pols shouldn't be in the business of deciding what we need
Post Date: 2008-05-29 03:30:39 by mirage
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I guess the proposal for a new tax on Massachusetts colleges with big endowments is, as they say at the Statehouse, a "nonstarter" — for the moment. But if I were the leaders of those colleges, I wouldn't relax. The mentality that led to the proposed 2.5 percent tax on endowments of more than $1 billion is alive and spreading like a virus. It's the mentality that says government gets to decide how much you, your business or your institution "needs." Anything more than that, you don't really deserve, and they can take it away — all so they can swell with false pride at their "compassion" in giving other people's money to those they ...
IMMIGRATION KILLED MIAMI, FLORIDA: ONE WOMAN’S STORY
Post Date: 2008-05-28 16:37:43 by James Deffenbach
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Thirty years ago, Miami, Florida flourished as an All-American city. Mothers strolled along palm-shaded sidewalks while tourists basked on beaches filled with white sands and sunshine. Americans spoke English and communities sported Old Glory in their yards while the Dolphins reigned as one of the NFL’s finest teams. Today, after the Cuban refugee invasion, drug gangs and unending illegal immigration, Miami may as well be Dakar, Senegal the rectum of the world. The following interview gives you an idea not only what happened in Miami, but what every city in the United States faces with our third world immigration invasion sponsored by our U.S. Congress. “I used to live ...
If European-Americans have any doubt about where they stand with John McCain and the RNC...
Post Date: 2008-05-28 00:05:36 by X-15
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....check out the "official" groups being pandered to and observe who is noticeably absent as a named group: Join GOP Groups African American, Asian Americans, Catholics, Entrepreneurs, Faith & Values Group, Hispanics, Jewish, Seniors and Retirees, The Health and Fitness Group, Veterans, Women, Youth & Students Discuss Issues Arab American, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders, Education, Energy, Faith and Values, Health Care, Jewish Community, Jobs and Economy, Legal Reform, Mormons, Native Americans, Nominations, Safety and Security, Small Business Owners, Social Security, Tax Reform, Veterans and Military Families, Young Professionals
Obama's White Supporters
Post Date: 2008-05-27 14:25:30 by X-15
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Eds.: Re the West Virginia primary, the New York Times reports that “The number of white Democratic voters who said that race influenced their choice … was among the highest recorded in voter surveys for the entire Clinton-Obama nomination fight. Two in 10 white West Virginia voters said that race was an important factor in their vote, and more than 8 in 10 of them backed Hillary, according to surveys of voters leaving the polls.” Of course, if 20% of white voters were willing to acknowledge that race was a factor to a pollster, we can assume that the actual percentage was much higher. Clinton beat Obama even among educated whites (a group he has won in other venues and in ...
John McCain speech in Denver interrupted by protesters!!
Post Date: 2008-05-27 12:24:04 by X-15
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Couldn't be happening to a more deserving control freak. Maybe he will blow up before his speech is over...
Sexpot Virgins: The Media's Sexualization of Young Girls
Post Date: 2008-05-27 08:26:08 by PSUSA
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Professor M. Gigi Durham discusses the corporate media's sexual objectification of girls and how to help young women fight regressive media messages. Tools In 2006, the retail chain Tesco launched the Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit, a play set designed to help young girls "unleash the sex kitten inside." Perturbed parents, voicing concern that their 5-year-olds might be too young to engage in sex work, lobbied to have the product pulled. Tesco removed the play set from the toy section but kept it on the market. As M. Gigi Durham points out in The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It, Tesco's attempt to sell stripper gear to kids ...
Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico
Post Date: 2008-05-27 06:06:03 by Stephen Lendman
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Plan Colombia Heads for Mexico - Stephen Lendman It's called "Plan Mexico," or more formally the "Merida Initiative," and here's the scheme. It's to do for Mexicans what Plan Colombia has done to that nation since 1999, and, in fact, much earlier. Since then, billions have gone for the following: -- to establish a US military foothold in the country; -- mostly to fund US weapons, chemical and other corporate profiteers; it's a long-standing practice; in fact, a 1997 Pentagon document affirms that America's military will "protect US interests and investments;" in Colombia, it's to control its valuable resources; most importantly oil ...
To Win over Jewish voters, Obama will Undergo a Circumcision live on TV
Post Date: 2008-05-26 20:13:31 by tom007
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To Win over Jewish voters, Obama will Undergo a Circumcision live on TV Holocaust™ News Service Washington DC Senator Barak Obama (D-Il), faced with ever sharper questions about his lack of true allegiance and support for Jews, today announced that he would undergo a circumcision live on TV, to show the Jewish voters in America his undying and rock solid support for any and all things Jewish. "I have heard the questions about my lack of absolute support for anything and everything the Jews want and I feel that in order to win over, once and for all, the Jewish voters in this country, that the best way to prove that I am True Jew, through and through, is to get a circumcision ...
MEMORIAL DAY
Post Date: 2008-05-24 10:12:53 by boonie rat
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MEMORIAL DAY Memorial Day is their day, isn't it? It is supposed to be the day a grateful nation pauses to quietly thank the more than one million men and women who have died in military service to their country since the Revolutionary War. Or is it the day the beach resorts kick into high gear for the summer season, the day the strand is covered by fish-belly white people basting themselves in coconut oil, the day the off-season rates end and the weekend you can't get in a seaside seafood restaurant with anything less than a one hour wait. Or is is one of the biggest shopping center sales days of the year, a day when hunting for a parking space is the prime sport for the holiday ...
China mobilizes to save lives & rebuild
Post Date: 2008-05-23 14:41:36 by X-15
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The People’s Republic of China suffered an earthquake of immense proportions on May 12 in the southwest province of Sichuan. One week later, the toll of known dead had risen to more than 40,000 and was expected to keep growing. Some 3 million people have been left homeless. The rescue and relief effort has been immediate and huge. By the eighth day, despite blocked roads, landslides and deadly aftershocks in the mountainous area, rescuers had reached all 1,044 villages hit by the quake. More than 150,000 soldiers were deployed in rescue and relief. Some 250,000 people were being treated for injuries, most caused by collapsed buildings. After a week, people were still being pulled out ...
When Survival of White People Is at Stake, There’s No Place for Morals
Post Date: 2008-05-23 03:10:15 by X-15
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In short, the imperatives of existence should be given priority over other concerns — however important they may be — including liberal and humanitarian values, support for human rights and democratization.** There is little disagreement that every European derived leader, organization, community and individual has a duty to help ensure the continuity of the European derived people. But in a world where the long-term existence of white people is far from certain, the imperative to exist inevitably gives rise to difficult questions, foremost among them this: When the survival of white Americans conflicts with the morals of the same, for example, is existence worthwhile, or even ...
Guest opinion: Raza studies gives rise to racial hostility
Post Date: 2008-05-23 03:03:01 by X-15
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As a former teacher in Tucson Unified School District's hotly debated ethnic studies department, I submit my perspective for the public's consideration. During the 2002-2003 school year, I taught a U.S. history course with a Mexican-American perspective. The course was part of the Raza/Chicano studies department. Within one week of the course beginning, I was told that I was a "teacher of record," meaning that I was expected only to assign grades. The Raza studies department staff would teach the class. I was assigned to be a "teacher of record" because some members of the Raza studies staff lacked teaching certificates. It was a convenient way of circumventing ...
"GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC REPORTS: THINGS YOU'VE SUSPECTED BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK!"
Post Date: 2008-05-22 12:06:49 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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"GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC REPORTS: THINGS YOU'VE SUSPECTED BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK!" A Series Authored by Walter J. "John" Williams "The Consumer Price Index" (Part Four in a Series of Five) October 1, 2006 Update (September 22, 2004 Original) _____ Foreword This installment has been updated from the original 2004 version to incorporate additional research on earlier changes to the CPI. The source for most of the information in this installment is the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which generally has been very open about its methodologies and changes to same. The BLS Web site: www.bls.gov contains descriptions of the CPI and its related methodologies. ...
Today's food crisis isn't a blip
Post Date: 2008-05-22 12:01:50 by angle
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For anyone wondering where food prices are really headed, the news that Beijing has begun buying up farmland in Africa and South America offers a troubling hint. When China began acquiring oil fields in the 1990s, it signaled both the end of China's self-sufficiency in oil and the start of a competition between China and other big oil importers that helped push crude prices to their current record levels. That the world's most populous nation now seeks to lock up pieces of foreign food production not only confirms that China has reached the end of food self-sufficiency as well, but suggests that Western hopes for a quick end to today's food-price crisis could be overly ...
Bush plays the Hitler card
Post Date: 2008-05-21 12:24:18 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing," wrote Alexander Pope. Daily, our 43rd president testifies to Pope's point. Addressing the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's birth, Bush said those who say we should negotiate with Iran or Hamas are like the fools who said we should negotiate with Adolf Hitler. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared, 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is – the false comfort of appeasement. ..." Again, Bush has made a hash of history. Appeasement is the name given to what Neville ...
Which McCain would be president?
Post Date: 2008-05-21 12:02:56 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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As the no-holds-barred battle for the Democratic presidential nomination mercifully nears an end, renewed attention is being focused on the several John McCains bearing the Republican armor. Having written that I cannot vote for Barack Obama because he is an extremist on abortion who refused to save even a sudden live baby resulting from a botched abortion, I also have concerns about the consistency of some of McCain's positions. The First Amendment being the foundation of our constitutional self-government, I recall McCain's comment about the McCain-Feingold "clean elections" law that directly and significantly silences the opinions of a range of advocacy groups at ...
Militarized Police Celebrate Killing Americans
Post Date: 2008-05-21 09:49:47 by christine
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A former US Army tank driver asserts that two figures depicted on the side of an APC SWAT tank that was recently used to protect cops from the deadly threat of women and children during the raid of a West Texas polygamist retreat actually represents the amount of people killed by police. Gary Roberts, a veteran Army tank driver in the 80’s, relates to us the fact that the two figures etched into the side of the US M113 Armored Personnel Carrier denote "kills," as in how many people the SWAT unit has killed. The other image appears to depict a vehicle, according to Roberts. A close-up of the image on the APC. Roberts appeared on The Alex Jones Show today to confirm the ...
Is 2008 to be a Transformational Election?
Post Date: 2008-05-21 04:04:43 by mirage
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This is supposed to be liberalism's year. We hear it from all sources on all points of the political spectrum. A miserable and disillusioned electorate, an energized base, an opposition both confused and demoralized - the 2008 election, we're assured, is the left's to lose. We hear talk of a transformational election, like that of FDR in 1932 and Reagan in 1980. An election that imposes a new political template across the country as a whole. Or in this case, reimposes it, since the "new" template would in fact be nothing more than another repetition of FDR's New Deal socialism and water. Republicans appear to concur. Newt Gingrich, back from wherever it is aging ...
Obama's Bad Example
Post Date: 2008-05-20 03:36:37 by mirage
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Campaign '08: Barack Obama plans to lower our standard of living to fight climate change and make the world love us. The last time you may be able to drive your SUV may be to an Obama rally. Campaigning in environmentally conscious Oregon over the weekend, Obama lit into Republican John McCain's environmental and energy policies. "For him to come to Oregon as an environmental president, but his big strategy is to do more drilling and to have a gas-tax holiday for three months, that's a phony solution," Obama said. Well, increasing domestic drilling and lowering taxes, even temporarily, doesn't sound too bad to us. Obama may prefer having a home where the caribou ...
Save us from the rescuers
Post Date: 2008-05-19 06:34:59 by Ada
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Calls for military action to force aid on Myanmar march us down a dangerous road. The decision by the government of Myanmar not to admit foreign humanitarian relief workers to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis has been met with fury, consternation and disbelief in much of the world. With tens of thousands of people dead, up to 100,000 missing and more than a million displaced and without shelter, livelihood or possibly even sufficient food, the refusal of the military rulers of the country to let in foreign aid organizations or to open airports and waterways in more than a token way to shipments of aid supplies seems to be an act of sheer barbarism. In response, Gareth Evans, the ...
Spinning the News - The FARC-EP Files, Venezuela and Interpol
Post Date: 2008-05-19 06:10:19 by Stephen Lendman
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Spinning the News - The FARC-EP Files, Venezuela and Interpol - by Stephen Lendman First some background. On March 1, the Colombian military (with US Special Forces help) illegally attacked a FARC-EP rebel camp inside Ecuador. US satellite telephone tracking located the site. Washington signed off on the mission. Over 20 people were killed, including 16 or more FARC-EP members while they slept. Key among them was Paul Reyes, the FARC-EP's second-in-command, key peace negotiator and public voice, and lead figure in the Chavez-led hostage negotiations with Colombia. The action was a clear act of aggression and premeditated murder. It's not how the dominant media played it. Hostile ...
Authors Against Obama
Post Date: 2008-05-18 18:47:34 by mirage
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I call for the formation of Authors Against Obama, a group of professional writers who object to crap like this: Mr. Obama’s story first surfaced publicly in February 1990, when he was elected as the first black president of The Harvard Law Review. An initial wire service report described him simply as a 28-year-old, second-year student from Hawaii who had "not ruled out a future in politics"; but in the days that followed, newspaper reporters grew interested and produced long, detailed profiles of Mr. Obama. The coverage prompted a call to him from Jane Dystel, a gravelly-voiced literary agent. . . . Ms. Dystel suggested Mr. Obama write a book proposal. Then she got him a ...
U. S. must revive manufacturing
Post Date: 2008-05-18 14:18:55 by RickyJ
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An advanced nation means an industrialized nation, and an industrialized nation implies a nation that manufactures goods, possesses the highest technology and therefore has a highly skilled and industrious work force. We have been known as the most advanced nation. To be true to this status, we must produce almost all consumer goods, including sophisticated machinery. We should be ahead of the times in manufacturing technology, and our work force should be the envy of all other advanced and advancing societies. All this was true a decade or so ago — but no more. Now U. S. factories are closing every day and thousands of union and non-union workers are being laid off. We import most ...
The shine is off Clintonia 'Yesterday's gone' has new twist for Clintons
Post Date: 2008-05-18 00:28:41 by Ferret Mike
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Barack Obama is like a shot of Botox. Support him, and you take 10 years off your face. You join the cool crowd. You become one with idealistic kids and Hollywood glitterati. Clinton Democrats can't compete. They're on the outside looking in. They used to be hip. They were the bad boys, who scoffed at finger-wagging conservatives. Now, they have traded in their saxophones for a pantsuit. The glamour is gone. Once, their very politics, the simple fact that they registered as Democrats instead of Republicans, made them better than meat-and-potatoes America. They cared more. They were smarter. They knew how to play the system. They were destined to run things. Now they are trailing ...
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