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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 ...
Has the Battle for America Begun?
Post Date: 2008-05-16 17:49:23 by christine
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This article contains several forecasts, including the possible start of a major war with unforeseeable consequences, if the U.S. should happen to attack Iran . Of course it is in the nature of forecasts to be speculative. There are also forecasts that are intended to serve as warnings and thereby contribute to preventing the events under analysis from ever taking place. The world’s financial elite, long having made their homes in the metropolises of Western Europe, also with a major branch in New York City , may be the party that is really behind what could be an attempt to start World War III by pitting the U.S. against the Asiatic land powers, most notably Russia The elite have ...
Grow Them Young, Pay Them Well - Anti-Chavistas, That Is
Post Date: 2008-05-16 06:22:56 by Stephen Lendman
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Grow Them Young, Pay Them Well - Anti-Chavistas, That Is - by Stephen Lendman Who said crime doesn't pay? Read on. The Washington-based Cato Institute is all about "Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and Peace," or so says its web site. It's been around since 1977 preaching limited government and free market religion with plenty of high-octane corporate funding for backing. It better have it for the award it presented on May 15. It was to a 23 year old fifth year Venezuelan law student at Universidad Catolica Andres Bello. Yon Goicoechea was the fourth recipient of the "Milton Friedman Liberty Prize" in the amount of $500,000. For what? What else. For serving ...
The “W-Word”
Post Date: 2008-05-15 21:47:18 by X-15
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So there is a dirtier word than "nigger," and that word is "white." How else to explain the political establishment's consternation over Hillary Clinton's statement in a USA Today interview that she is more electable than Barak Obama because she has more support from working-class white people? This, according to a Democratic Party leader quoted by Peggy Noonan, is "unleashing the gates of hell." According to an Obama supporter quoted by Noonan, "Even Richard Nixon didn't say white, even with the Southern strategy." Noonan herself adds, “To play the race card as Mrs. Clinton has, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are ...
Fascism, Corporate State's Achilles Heel
Post Date: 2008-05-15 21:36:42 by christine
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Last week we looked at a couple of the horrors of our fascist system. Of course there are many others. Monster corporations control that system, and they have long since proved that they will do anything they can get away with to maximize that control, even including the murders of millions around the world. Is there anything we can do to defeat concentrations of power so vast? Consider that these fascist corporations have a large, soft, vulnerable Achilles heel. Yes, they are in bed with the government – their top executives go back and forth between both sides of the bed – to such an extent that it no longer is possible to tell who is impregnating whom. But there still is a ...
"Plea for civility" thread at TOS2
Post Date: 2008-05-15 16:06:20 by X-15
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LOL!!! Damn, they're shredding Palo, and she didn't even post anything on that thread. That's some real cannibalism going on there....
The Cult of the Presidency
Post Date: 2008-05-15 13:19:57 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Who can we blame for the radical expansion of executive power? Look no further than you and me. "I ain't running for preacher," Republican presidential candidate Phil Gramm snarled to religious right activists in 1995 when they urged him to run a campaign stressing moral themes. Several months later, despite Gramm's fund raising prowess, the Texas conservative finished a desultory fifth place in the Iowa caucuses and quickly dropped out of the race. Since then, few candidates have made Gramm's mistake. Serious contenders for the office recognize that the role and scope of the modern presidency cannot be so narrowly confined. Today's candidates are running ...
Obama is Just Another New World Order Prick
Post Date: 2008-05-15 00:51:46 by Old Friend
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Quantifying hate
Post Date: 2008-05-14 14:27:28 by X-15
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Is Oklahoma a haven for hate? Has the highly publicized movement to control illegal immigration spawned a climate that welcomes, even coddles extremist groups, providing opportunities to push their agendas? Oklahoma long has been a "hotspot" for extremist activism, according to a national watchdog, and the latest data on the rise of such groups throughout the U.S. and in Oklahoma continue to be worrisome. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks trends in hate movements, has found that the number of documented hate groups operating in the U.S. has grown 48 percent since 2000, up to 888 last year. The increase is attributed to illegal immigration issues and is most notable ...
Attention West Virginia: Barack Just Gave You The Finger
Post Date: 2008-05-14 14:21:18 by X-15
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Barack Obama's failure to campaign in West Virginia past some stopping by appearances was not so much a gift to Hillary's campaign as it was a very calculated step to not show his lack of appeal to white blue collar workers. The roll over of 28 delegates to Hillary was an in your face statement that he's about to win as well as a middle finger to the residents of that state that after he wins he won't be needing them or visiting them. It is reverse racism masquerading as efficient politics. I'm from West Virginia. I grew up there in towns like Williamson, Welch, Bluefield, and Princeton. I came back after the military to go to law school at West Virginia University. ...
Hagee to apologize to Catholics
Post Date: 2008-05-13 15:21:29 by X-15
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The Texas megachurch pastor whose past comments about the Catholic Church have caused headaches for John McCain for over two months will issue an apology to Catholics later today, according a top Christian conservative. John Hagee, pastor of San Antonio's Cornerstone Church, will send a letter to Catholic League President William Donahue expressing "deep regret for any comments that Catholics have found hurtful." "After engaging in constructive dialogue with Catholic friends and leaders, I now have an improved understanding of the Catholic Church, its relation to the Jewish faith, and the history of anti-Catholicism," Hagee wrote in a letter running just over two ...
An Oil Addicted Ex Superpower
Post Date: 2008-05-12 21:19:41 by Old Friend
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Nineteen years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall effectively eliminated the Soviet Union as the world's other superpower. Yes, the USSR as a political entity stumbled on for another two years, but it was clearly an ex-superpower from the moment it lost control over its satellites in Eastern Europe. Less than a month ago, the United States similarly lost its claim to superpower status when a barrel of crude oil roared past US$110 on the international market, gasoline prices crossed the $3.50 threshold at American pumps, and diesel fuel topped $4. As was true of the USSR following the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the US will no doubt continue to stumble on like the superpower it once ...
Why Israel is the world's happiest country
Post Date: 2008-05-12 21:03:10 by Old Friend
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Envy surrounds no country on Earth like the state of Israel, and with good reason: by objective measures, Israel is the happiest nation on Earth at the 60th anniversary of its founding. It is one of the wealthiest, freest and best-educated; and it enjoys a higher life expectancy than Germany or the Netherlands. But most remarkable is that Israelis appear to love life and hate death more than any other nation. If history is made not by rational design but by the demands of the human heart, as I argued last week , the light heart of the Israelis in face of continuous danger is a singularity worthy of a closer look. Can it be a coincidence that this most ancient of nations [1], and the ...
Let's Be Honest
Post Date: 2008-05-12 19:51:17 by Red Jones
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Let's be honest: I don't know many Blacks. But the ones I do know, I like. Good people who work hard and love their families and their fellow man. Different from me, but then, I am different from them. This does not stop us from respecting each other—in fact, our differences increase our respect for each other, for though we are very different, we care for many of the same things. I see them as just nice people. It's the people I don't know, don't want to know, and would never get near that I don't like. I absolutely despise—and yes, let's be honest—I hate them. They stink, they are without morals, character, or honesty. Evil to the core, they ...
General Motors Has Announced A Revolutionary Car Airbag System, All Car Owners Must See
Post Date: 2008-05-11 22:54:02 by BIGBUCKS_BADEYE
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The Last Trench
Post Date: 2008-05-10 08:29:46 by boonie rat
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The Last Trench As they walked through the bodies strewn throughout the overran trenches, one officer could not help but comment on the composition of the dead laying everywhere: "Old men with silver locks lay dead, side by side with mere boys of thirteen or fourteen. It almost makes one sorry to have to fight against people who show such devotion for their homes and their country." Silver haired men lay across the bodies of thirteen-year-old children piled in clumps or scattered individually where a last desperate stand had been made. The blood of both meeting in one final offering to freedom, liberty and homeland. In clumps they lay with bodies broken, mangled, and torn by ...
Africa: A Tragic Continent
Post Date: 2008-05-10 05:31:13 by christine
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President Bush's trip to Africa and promise of increased foreign aid will do little or nothing to solve the ongoing tragedy in most places on the south-of-Sahara African continent. Kenya is on the brink of a civil war. Over 1,000 people have been killed and another 300,000 made homeless. Rebels have invaded Chad. In the Darfur region of the Sudan, millions of people have been displaced in a genocidal war. Ethiopia and Eritrea threaten war again. Somalian warlords are in a pitched battle. Zimbabwe, once an independent, thriving jewel on the continent, now ruled by a tyrant, is on the brink of disaster, experiencing a 66,000 percent rate of inflation, expected to be over 100,000 percent ...
Assaults on Teachers: Not Just for Crackers Anymore
Post Date: 2008-05-10 04:48:40 by RickyJ
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One of the unwritten codes for white teachers teaching in public schools has been that when it comes time to discipline a black student, the task should be left to another black teacher or administrator. This is to avoid the possibility that the student might mistake the discipline for just another display of the Eurocentric-White-Power-That-Rules-the-World-and-Keeps-All-People-of-Color-Enslaved-Hegemony. Sometimes, however, a white teacher needs to make requests in the classroom, like telling a poor, disadvantaged student to turn off the blaring music on his iPod. There are classes and workshops for teachers on how to do this “sensitively.” While being interviewed on National ...
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