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Latest Articles: Editorial
Reading the Tea Leaves of Today's Biggest Broadcast Idiot
Post Date: 2008-02-17 02:52:27 by tom007
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Reading the Tea Leaves of Today's Biggest Broadcast Idiot One of the great unknowns in politics is whether Big, Fat, Conservative Broadcast Idiots hold any remarkable sway over their audiences, or, like the great apes at the zoo, they're merely there for people to gawk at and listen to for amusement, and as a way to kill an hour or so. With any luck that question will be answered this election year, as the biggest, fattest, most conservative broadcast idiot of them all ventures into the even more mysterious jungle of openly and stridently opposing his party's candidate for the Big House. I write, of course, of Rush Limbaugh, he of 13.5-million weekly listeners who, it would ...
The scourge of global neoliberalism and the need to reclaim democracy
Post Date: 2008-02-16 21:57:12 by robin
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The scourge of global neoliberalism and the need to reclaim democracyBy Henry Giroux and Chronis PolychroniouOnline Journal Contributing Writers Feb 15, 2008, 00:19 After 30 some years of neoliberal policies, the class war on behalf of the rich is getting more ruthless and more vicious, prompting Naomi Klein to use torture as a metaphor in order to capture and describe the ruthlessness of the re-emergence of neoliberal shock therapy in the latest and most powerful book she has written, titled The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. The insidious class warfare launched by the rich against the working poor and the middle classes is creating Orwellian dystopias, lauded in ...
Editorial: "America The Pimped"
Post Date: 2008-02-16 18:59:44 by chuckadkins
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This was originally published on my Blog. ------------ First up, A Special Comment by Keith Olbermann. My comments to follow. In case that don't work, here's the URL to the video: Click Here for Video FULL Transcript: Democrats in the House of Representatives are closing the shop down tonight, until a week from Monday… leaving President Bush twisting slowly in a wind of his own creation. Our third story on the Countdown: the FISA bill — and the retroactive immunity for the telecom giants that helped Mr. Bush illegally eavesdrop on Americans — will thus just sit there, unacted upon, not even a temporary extension which the Republicans and Mr. Bush refused, ...
War is the health of the State
Post Date: 2008-02-16 12:56:08 by PnbC
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War is the health of the StatePosted by Ryan W. McMaken at February 15, 2008 09:41 PM In 1956, Murray Rothbard came out in favor of Adlai Stevenson against Eisenhower. Why? Because Stevenson was the relatively anti-war candidate. Eisenhower was the establishment Cold War candidate in favor of war forever, and welfare forever. Stevenson was also in favor of welfare forever, but since he was against endless war, Stevenson was actually the candidate for less government. Rothbard knew that war is the biggest of big government programs, and the candidate that opposes it is almost inevitably the de facto small-government candidate. Raimondo's most recent piece shows quite clearly who ...
Feminist at the End of Her Rope
Post Date: 2008-02-14 19:34:16 by A3rdrightwing
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Feminist at the End of Her Rope By Henry Makow Ph.D. February 13, 2008 What better example of stupid, self-defeating behavior than the latest advice of a veteran feminist? In an article entitled "Marry Him" (Atlantic Monthly, March 2008) Lori Gottlieb advises her sisters to "settle"--marry anything in sight...and fast. This kind of abject surrender, while satisfying in an "I told you so" way, is also sad. Millions of women who outsourced their common sense and trusted the media, their teachers, their leaders and their society are now high-and-dry. They were told they could have it all but most can't. There are three times as many single women in their 30 ...
The First Muslim-Born Leader of the West (Obama) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-02-14 15:16:07 by X-15
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If I had been asked two months ago “Which Western country runs the greatest risk of electing a Muslim-born leader and how soon do you think this is going to happen?” I would have bet on the Netherlands somewhere in the next decade. Today, it looks as if the first Western country with a Muslim-born leader might very well be the United States next year, when President Barack Hussein Obama enters the Oval Office. The Europeans do not mind being surpassed. Obamania has struck Western Europe. Two weeks ago, in an attempt to explain Europe’s enthusiasm for Mr. Obama, the left wing German weekly Der Spiegel pointed out that the Illinois senator is the most “European” of ...
Valentine Present to the Good Ladies Here
Post Date: 2008-02-14 01:16:26 by tom007
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The Rise of the Imperial Class; McCain is their avatar, and war is their mother's milk...
Post Date: 2008-02-11 19:44:59 by Brian S
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Matt Welch, the new editor of Reason, gave a talk at the Cato Institute about his new book, John McCain: The Myth of a Maverick, in which he sums up the grave danger to the republic represented by the McCain campaign. Welch remarked that McCain is part of the "imperial class," pointing to the politico-military legacy of his father, an admiral, to underscore the point that the putative GOP nominee is revving up his motor to become the most militaristic American president since at least Teddy Roosevelt – perhaps the most belligerent ever. I agree with him about McCain, but what I want to focus on is the rise of this "imperial class," which seems like a good moniker: ...
What Do You Think Of This
Post Date: 2008-02-10 23:13:15 by tom007
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www.zeitgeistmovie.com ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Official Release - Full Film Just watched the first part. What do you think?
Democrats: 'Particide' In Six Easy Steps
Post Date: 2008-02-10 12:17:52 by Indrid Cold
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Suppose you had a political party you were trying to get rid of. How would you do it? Would you give it some cement shoes and toss it into the bay? Would you roll it up in a carpet and drag it into the trunk of your car in the middle of the night? Would you put out a contract on it? If the latter sounds appealing, no need to get your hands dirty messing with any nasty mob guys from Jersey. I know some very upstanding establishment folks who've perfected a killer formula (pun intended) for particide. They're called Democrats, and they know how to get the job done right. In fact, they've demonstrated it again for the umpteenth time just as I'm writing these words. ...
Australia Pictures by Tom007
Post Date: 2008-02-10 00:04:12 by tom007
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I finally got around to loading up a few pics form the antipodes. Here's my hostel Guess Who? Pretty nice for $30/ night. Plenty of rainbow Lorikeets flighting around with lots of other strange animals and reptiles.
Stood On the Eastern Most Point of Australia Yesterday
Post Date: 2008-02-08 21:16:46 by tom007
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It rained for or five inches a day when I first got to Brisbane ten days ago, so just holed up at my fathers cabin in New Brighton, in a jungle. These birds would fly into the house and beg for food. Had a bush turkey come around every day and saw Cockatoos. Saw road signs for Koala crossings, but never saw any. The rain stopped so went to Byron Bay, Australia's most popular tourist destination, they say. It is the eastren most point of the continent. I did not take any of these pixs. Walked out to the surk on the point and must tell you this was some MAJOR surf slamming into the continent. Quite dynamic. The beaches finially cleaned themselves out from all the flooding that had ...
How He Can
Post Date: 2008-02-08 14:12:51 by Tauzero
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How He Can By Diego von Vacano Wednesday, February 6, 2008; 1:00 PM The Democratic race may be far from over, but last night's results show one thing for certain: Hispanics overwhelmingly support Hillary Clinton. In California, Clinton won on the strength of the Latino vote, and it also helped her in Arizona and New Mexico. Her success is due in part to her positions on the issues and her broad appeal to the lower and working class, where the bulk of Latinos remain. She may have also benefited from Barack Obama's failure to engage Hispanic Americans on the issue of race. It is unfortunate but true: There is some suspicion, competition and uneasiness between Latinos and African ...
Stores' Weak Sales Signal Consumers, Economy In Trouble
Post Date: 2008-02-07 23:49:00 by tom007
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Stores' Weak Sales Signal Consumers, Economy In Trouble By MARILYN MUCH Cash-strapped consumers tightened their purse strings last month as Wal-Mart (WMT) and other retailers released anemic sales figures Thursday. January sales at stores open at least a year rose just 0.2% from January 2007, slightly shy of 0.7% views, said Ken Perkins, president of Retail Metrics. Though 57% beat forecasts, expectations were very low, said Perkins. Only 1% met views, while 42% missed. Shares of almost all retailers rallied Thursday on relief that results weren't worse. The S&P Retail index jumped 3.7%. January's anemic sales still show consumers continuing to struggle with high food ...
Handhelds Become Instant Hit For Maker Of Ultrasound Devices
Post Date: 2008-02-07 20:12:21 by tom007
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Handhelds Become Instant Hit For Maker Of Ultrasound Devices By MARILYN MUCH Shortly after SonoSite (SONO) launched its newest product lineup in December, management knew it hit a home run. SonoSite, maker of hand-carried ultrasound systems, had just begun worldwide shipments of its new fourth-generation M-Turbo and S-Series devices The five new offerings only had 40 days in the field for the fourth quarter. Yet they accounted for more than 30% of the quarter's revenue. This was the most revenue — and the biggest percentage of total revenue — generated by new products in their first quarter of shipping, Chief Executive Kevin Goodwin says. The quarter's revenue rose ...
Hillary Clinton Whitewater & the Chinese (Year of the Rat)
Post Date: 2008-02-07 17:17:02 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Hillary Clinton Whitewater & the Chinese (Year of the Rat)
Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdock Empire
Post Date: 2008-02-07 06:17:12 by Stephen Lendman
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Lies, Damn Lies and the Murdock Empire - by Stephen Lendman For Big Media, truth is a scare commodity and in times of war it's the first casualty, or as esteemed journalist John Pilger noted: "Journalism (not truth) is the first casualty (of war). Not only that: it('s)....a weapon of war (by its) virulent censorship....by omission (and its) power....can mean....life and death for people in faraway countries, such as Iraq." Famed journalist George Seldes put it another way by condemning the "prostitution of the press" in an earlier era when he covered WW I, the rise of fascism, and most major world and national events until his death in 1995 at age 104. He also ...
How would you answer this management course question?
Post Date: 2008-02-07 02:39:25 by X-15
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From my Principles of Management textbook end-of-chapter assignment: What challenges might confront a Mexicon manager transferred to the United States to manage a manufacturing plant in Tucson, Arizona? Will these be the same for a U.S. manager transferred to Guadalajara? Explain. Yep, X-15 smarted off and told the truth!! I'll know next week how much red ink I received for not being culturally sensitive ;-)
Makow: Our 'Leaders' Are Sex Addicts
Post Date: 2008-02-06 15:58:25 by robin
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Our 'Leaders' Are Sex Addicts By Henry Makow PhD 2-6-8 The world is set to drop into the central bankers' outstretched hand like a ripe peach from a tree. Illuminati bankers are harvesting the fruit of their centuries-old plot to destroy Christian Civilization and trap humanity on a treadmill of greed, sex, violence, trivia and political correctness.They have succeeded because we have no leaders. They select obedient blackmailed perverts to execute their design. I always marveled that Bill Clinton betrayed the dignity of his office and the trust of 300 million people /for a blow job./ But, in retrospect, a sex addict is the rule rather than the exception when it comes to our ...
The Race Trap
Post Date: 2008-02-06 00:36:20 by Tauzero
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The Nation Tue Feb 5, 9:40 AM ET The Nation -- Observing Barack Obama run for president has been like watching a home movie blown up into a glorious, IMAX blockbuster spectacle. It's been more than a little unnerving to see the thread of something so familiar writ so large. But there he has been on TV, in the newspapers and in front of stadium-size crowds, winning the lavish praise of white liberals (you don't get more lavish or more white liberal than Caroline Kennedy's endorsement). At the same time, he's patiently borne the skepticism of his fellow minorities, slowly garnering their support. Every day he risks igniting the wrath of either clan. Run too far away from the ...
A little honesty - not a lot - works for the Swiss right
Post Date: 2008-02-05 23:32:47 by X-15
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Keen cuckoo clock observers will no doubt be aware of Sunday’s election in the gun-toting, bank-ridden concantenated canton-nation called Switzerland. The result was a resounding success for billionaire industrialist Christoph Blocher’s Swiss People’s Party, and for white sheep everywhere. The SVP already holds two of the seven seats on the ruling Federal Council, and is the largest party in the bicameral parliament. As forecast it increased its share of the poll from 27.7% to 29%, continuing its steady progress from the 22% base won in 1999. Ueli Maurer (who is, in fact, party leader - not Blocher) said, “We have reached the highest score ever since this electoral ...
An Ex-Fighter Pilot Confirms Bryanna’s Theory: McCain Is “Insane”
Post Date: 2008-02-04 22:28:30 by X-15
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I have a theory about John McCain based on my twelve years in line fighter squadrons. Bryanna’s right; McCain is insane. The unimaginable sufferings he endured in Communist prisons unhinged him permanently. Flying fighters in the 1980s and 90s, I got to know several Vietnam POWs including some who had been captive even longer than McCain’s five and a half years. All were unbalanced. The ones I knew who were long-time POWs—with one exception and that exception I knew only very slightly—were high-functioning lunatics. Common denominators were trouble with alcohol, cars, divorces, tempers and aggressive flying verging on recklessness—a very unwelcome trait in a ...
Too many rights make a wrong (multi-culturalism in Canada)
Post Date: 2008-02-04 22:21:19 by X-15
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CANADA: It was one of those rare, particularly sunny days in Vancouver in September when, addressing an audience at the University of British Columbia, I suggested that multiculturalism and its partner in crime, moral relativism, were leading to the demise of Western values. "But you must understand," implored a well-intentioned woman in the audience, "multiculturalism is Canada's gift to the world." If Australia is set to follow Canada, then thanks, but no thanks. Call me ungrateful, but we should have returned the gift to Canada long ago. I say that as someone who has long adored Canada. Its politics may be as dripping wet as Vancouver, but the people are warm ...
PSYCHOLOGICAL HANGOVER; IS AMERICA FINISH?
Post Date: 2008-02-04 10:44:22 by robin
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PSYCHOLOGICAL HANGOVER; IS AMERICA FINISH?By Betty FreaufFebruary 3, 2008 NewsWithViews.comOur heads have been spinning with these early state presidential elections. “The inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year,” says another NWV contributor, Randy Murray, is called Electile Dysfunction. They talk about change. What change? We changed from a Constitutional Republic with individual responsibilities to a collective Keynesian socialist society (democracy) with power being given to Washington, D.C. under Republican President Lincoln and most notably other presidents thereafter, i.e. Wilson, FDR, Nixon, ...
Why 'liberal' doesn't quite fit
Post Date: 2008-02-03 13:03:31 by farmfriend
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Why 'liberal' doesn't quite fit Just listen to Democrats, and you’ll hear the p-words (progressive, populist) rather than the l-word. Yet this shift is an embrace of, rather than a retreat from, leftist thinking. By Jonah Goldberg At the recent CNN/YouTube debate, Hillary Clinton was asked to define what a liberal is and declare whether she was one. "You know," the New York senator said, "it is a word that originally meant that you were for freedom ... that you were willing to stand against big power and on behalf of the individual. Unfortunately, in the last 30, 40 years, it has been turned up on its head, and it's been made to seem as though it is a ...
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