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Latest Articles: Editorial
Bhutto Killing Caps West's Year of Failure
Post Date: 2007-12-28 22:15:46 by robin
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - December 28, 2007, 11:57 AM
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,525670,00.htmlWEST WINGBhutto Killing Caps West's Year of Failure
By Gabor Steingart in Washington
Ongoing difficulties in Iraq. A Taliban offensive in Afghanistan. And now the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan. For the West, 2007 has been a year of failure and missteps.
The following sentence is the most bitter compliment imaginable: The Thursday assassination of Benazir Bhutto is a huge, shocking and possibly even historic triumph for the enemies of democracy. Even worse, the attack was the gruesome culmination of what has been a successful year for ...
Buy Some Stuff, Enslave Somebody
Post Date: 2007-12-28 17:58:32 by robin
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Buy Some Stuff, Enslave Somebody By Josh Rosenblatt, Texas ObserverPosted on December 27, 2007, Printed on December 28, 2007 http://www.alternet.org/story/71173/ Years from now, when the story of our corporate age is told with the clarity of hindsight, I'm guessing one of the phrases scholars will keep coming back to is "plausible deniability." The tale will capture our era's wide disparities in wealth, and its almost universal indifference to the rampant mistreatment of workers from countries less fortunate than our own. After all, when we buy a product -- a piece of fruit, a new suit, an iPod -- how many of us really comprehend what was required to bring that ...
Benazir Bhutto: From the Oxford Union to her Last Rally in Rawalpindi
Post Date: 2007-12-28 14:09:38 by robin
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The world is debating the political fallout from Benazir Bhutto's assassination -- from fear of chaos in Pakistan to the impact of her death in Iowa. There is already no shortage of analysis about the national security implications of her death, but I want to write about the young woman I met in England before she became a player on the world stage. She was at Oxford. I was at Cambridge. And by a strange coincidence I became president of the Cambridge Union and she became president of the Oxford Union. The anomaly of two foreign women heading the two unions meant that we ended up debating each other around England on topics ranging from British politics to broad generalities about the ...
Norway: The Country of Peace Meets the Religion of Peace
Post Date: 2007-12-28 00:46:50 by X-15
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Thorbjørn Jagland is a former Prime Minister of Norway from the Labour Party, currently President of the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament. In April 2006, Jagland wrote an essay warning against the dangers of Islamophobia. According to him, paraphrasing the Communist Manifesto, a specter is haunting Europe – the spectre of Islamophobia. He fears that this could give rise to a new form of Fascism. Curiously, at almost the same time as Mr. Jagland warned against rising "Islamophobia," an article in Aftenposten newspaper warned that "youths" are in the process of destroying Norway's capital city, Oslo. Young girls are raped, schoolchildren are threatened ...
Happy Holidays From Tom 007
Post Date: 2007-12-27 20:41:38 by tom007
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Life 'better' under Saddam says vicar of Baghdad
Post Date: 2007-12-27 14:20:31 by tom007
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Life 'better' under Saddam says vicar of Baghdad Joanna Sugden Life was “better” for Christians in Iraq under the regime of Saddam Hussein than it is today, according to the only Anglican vicar working in Baghdad. Canon Andrew White, vicar of St George’s Church in the capital of Iraq told Times Online that day-to-day life was ‘a lot easier’ for Christians when the vicious dictator Saddam Hussein was President of the country. But he said he still believed removing him was the right thing to do, for the sake of the long-term future of the country and its inhabitants. “It is still very difficult ," he said . " Not like it was under Saddam, it ...
America's Fascist Coup Owes to Bush's Nazi Grandfather
Post Date: 2007-12-26 23:45:11 by robin
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Naomi Wolf, author of "10 steps" speaks publicly for the first time about legacy of modern-day tyranny Author Naomi Wolf, who made headlines earlier this year after she identified the ten steps to fascism that were being followed to a tee by the Bush administration, spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about the origins of what we see unfolding today, Prescott Bush's attempt to launch a Nazi coup in 1930's America. Speaking on the Alex Jones Show, Wolf said that she was first alerted to begin researching America's slide into fascism when her friend, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, warned her that the same events that laid the foundations for the rise of ...
State of the World 2008
Post Date: 2007-12-26 23:06:04 by robin
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State of the World 2008 by BARBARA CROSSETTE [posted online on December 24, 2007] Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations' top troubleshooter and mediator for more than a decade in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Africa and Haiti and the chair of a panel that produced a landmark report on the limits of UN peacekeeping, has often been an incisive and unrelenting critic of American foreign policies. But for many around the world, he ranks as a touchstone wise man in international affairs. He was recently invited to join The Elders, a small private group of global statesmen and former government leaders. Brahimi, now a director's visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, ...
Diversity killed the U.S. space program
Post Date: 2007-12-26 19:58:09 by X-15
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One of the most disgusting and shameful things that the past forty years of political correctness has forced on America is our virtual abandonment of the jewel in America’s crown, the ultimate goal of all humanity –manned space flight and the spread of mankind throughout the stars. According to Breitbart News: “NASA is on track to return humans to the moon by 2020 and set up a lunar outpost to serve as a springboard to explore Mars, officials said Monday. ‘Our job is to build towns on the moon and eventually put tire prints on Mars,’ NASA’s Rick Gilbrech told reporters here, one year after the US space agency unveiled an ambitious plan to site a solar-powered, ...
The US and the Roman empire
Post Date: 2007-12-26 12:10:53 by robin
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FT.com's most popular story of the year reported a warning that the US is on a "burning platform" of unsustainable policies and practices. It came in an August report from David Walker, head of the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of the US Congress.
In an Financial Times interview, he drew parallels with the end of the Roman empire. There were "striking similarities", he said, between the US's current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including "declining moral values and political civility at home, an overconfident and overextended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government". He condemned current US policies on ...
Abiogenesis, Atheism, and Evolution
Post Date: 2007-12-25 19:02:11 by Alan Chapman
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What most people think they know about science can be described as a comic-book understanding combined with Happy Hour gossip. A cursory review of talking points from Creationist websites exemplifies the ignorant and narrow-minded world view held by many. If you want to understand science then talk to scientists who conduct scientific research. Read their writings, listen to their lectures, and watch their presentations. Reification (anthropomorphic fallacy): Creationists reify God by ascribing human-like characteristics to natural phenomenon. They confuse order and complexity in man-made things with order and complexity in natural things. Without a scientific understanding of how things ...
The Greatest Gift For All (Paul Craig Roberts' Christmas Message)
Post Date: 2007-12-25 13:56:53 by Red Jones
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The Greatest Gift For All by Paul Craig Roberts Christmas is a time of traditions. If you have found time in the rush before Christmas to decorate a tree, you are sharing in a relatively new tradition. Although the Christmas tree has ancient roots, at the beginning of the 20th century only 1 in 5 American families put up a tree. It was 1920 before the Christmas tree became the hallmark of the season. Calvin Coolidge was the first President to light a national Christmas tree on the White House lawn. Gifts are another shared custom. This tradition comes from the wise men or three kings who brought gifts to baby Jesus. When I was a kid, gifts were more modest than they are now, but even ...
A true Christmas story
Post Date: 2007-12-25 07:38:28 by freepatriot32
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when my brother was six years old my dad hit a deer with his truck and got him right on the head and broke the deers nose.So he put it on the back of the truck and brought it home to clean it and cook it up.He pulled in about 10 seconds before my mom and brother did so my dad went and put down the gate of the truck and out plops the deers head and the first thing my brother saw was the blood RED nose of this deer.Now keep in mind this is about the 8 or 9th of december. As soon as my brother saw that he ran down the street shouting as loud as he could MY DAD KILLED RUDOLPH MY DAD KILLED RUDOLPH.He was doing that for a full minute before they caught him and got him back home and my dad spent ...
Thank The Internet For Saving US From Our 'Leaders'
Post Date: 2007-12-24 23:01:05 by robin
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As we look back on 2007, we thank our computers hooked up to the Internet that hooked us up to one another. Without this unlimited communication device-Bush and Congress would have destroyed our constitutional republic. For the past 20 years, their lies, incompetence and sheer greed proved more powerful than the will of American citizens. The military-industrial complex and corporate America dictated this country's path. They own the media which feeds us the news they demand. They buy the Congress via huge financial perks. Men like McCain, Kennedy, Specter, Martinez, Hagel, Reid, DeLay, Cunningham and others routinely forgot their oath of office or responsibilities toward our country. ...
ARE THE GLOBALISTS OUT TO GET RON PAUL?
Post Date: 2007-12-24 16:15:26 by wakeup
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"Warning! As you know, I always give you my best jokes in these pieces. This one will contain no humor. Will the conspiracy for world government assassinate Dr. Paul? That is the stark question now before us. Since the Paul campaign started to take off, I have been hearing agonized comments to that effect from his supporters. So far, I have said nothing, hoping they would subside, but now comes an authentic reporter citing “reliable sources” from inside. He is Daniel Estulin, an author who lives in Spain, and whose welcome, new exposé is The True Story of the Bilderberg Group (Walterville, OR, Trine Day, 2007). The Bilderbergers meet at least once a year. Somewhere in ...
The new world order that threatens Uncle Sam
Post Date: 2007-12-23 13:47:04 by robin
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The new world order that threatens Uncle Sam America's next President faces the daunting task of countering Russia and China as they aggressively challenge struggling Western liberal democracies Henry Porter Sunday December 23, 2007 Observer Two events last week make me wish I could have just a few words with American thinker Francis Fukuyama. The first was Time magazine giving Vladimir Putin the accolade of person of the year. The second was the purchase by the China Investment Corp of nearly 10 per cent of American bank Morgan Stanley as it announced the write-off of $9.4bn in bad debts In 1992, I met Francis Fukuyama when he was touring his book The End of History and the Last Man ...
Yertle Turtle's Wedding Day Photo
Post Date: 2007-12-22 19:57:03 by tom007
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Is there a Santa Claus?
Post Date: 2007-12-22 19:52:42 by scrapper2
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Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps. "DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. "Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. "Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' "Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? "VIRGINIA O'HANLON. "115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET." ...
George W. Bush as Marie Antoinette: "Let Them Go Ice Skating in Maine"
Post Date: 2007-12-21 01:13:58 by kiki
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In January of this year, President Bush in his State of the Union Address -- true to his oil industry roots -- stood foursquare against oil prices that were beginning to retreat dramatically. They had already touched $49.90/bbl a few days before. He declared that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would be doubled from 750 million barrels to 1.5 billion barrels. What was not fully understood at the time by the public and the press, was that the announced increase, coming only weeks after OPEC's declaring that it would cut supply to world markets, would be interpreted by OPEC and oil interests at large, that for this administration the retreat in oil prices had gone far enough. Practically ...
This a good Christmas Present, the New Line Of Powerful LED Flashlights - here's a photo of one
Post Date: 2007-12-20 20:00:55 by tom007
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Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler
Post Date: 2007-12-20 13:56:30 by gengis gandhi
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Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler Failure Beyond Finance Events are driving us now, not personalities or even policies. Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, and the other characters in the headlines might pretend that they are managing things, but the truth is that problems in the financial sector have spun wildly out of control. The wheels are coming off and we are in that long sickening moment of sideways sliding motion when no attempt at steering will avail to avoid the crash. That it is happening at the very height of the Christmas season, when events have previously been controllable -- the season of manufactured Santa Claus rallies and $50 million bonuses -- shows how perilous the ...
Impeachment or Treason Trials – Treason trials are easier!
Post Date: 2007-12-20 13:51:33 by robin
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Impeachment or Treason Trials – Treason trials are easier! By Maher Osseiran I am all for impeachment but I am also a realist. Impeachment has been so politicized that it lost its edge as a legal tool. Also, what is being used to back up present calls for impeachment is in the eyes of many Americans – based on polls - a necessity of the times and thereby have political implications and some wiggle room. We do not want the impeachment process to drag and end up with the likely slap on the wrist; we want the criminals, all of them, out of office and in jail. Is there such a crime, so clearly apolitical, so clearly in violation of the legal code that would allow a meter maid in ...
Christmas Wish List For America's Future
Post Date: 2007-12-20 13:40:09 by robin
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As we enter the Christmas countdown, children across America hope Santa grants their wishes when the sun rises over the horizon on December 25th. Bright eyes and expectant faces hope for a new doll or a special game. With adults, they might wish for a new shirt, a special set of golf clubs or fine jewelry. For the homeless or jobless, a hot meal may bring relief from the frustrations of this season of the heart. For the lonely, maybe a kind word could bring a smile. Christmas means a time of giving, receiving and fellowship. It's a time of renewal as a certain child, Jesus, arrived on this planet with a special message of kindness, understanding, love and compassion. If you notice, ...
Holiday Season Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2007-12-20 06:19:53 by Stephen Lendman
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Holiday Season Hypocrisy - by Stephen Lendman Christmas is observed December 25 by Christians and others celebrating the spirit of the season while for those of the Eastern Orthodox faith the holiday falls on January 7. It's to honor the birth of Jesus Christ even though it's widely acknowledged not to be his birthday. Along with its religious significance, the season is also for other celebratory events like winter festivals, parties, family get- togethers and Kwanzaa from December 26 - January 1 for Africans Americans to reconnect to their cultural and historical heritage. Jews as well celebrate the season with the Hanukkah Festival of Lights. It's to commemorate their ...
Yertle Turtle Winter Driving Hints
Post Date: 2007-12-19 20:49:43 by tom007
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