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Latest Articles: Editorial
The Grand Delusion
Post Date: 2007-11-11 18:03:11 by statusquobuster
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The Grand Delusion Joel S. Hirschhorn With an endless, futile and costly Iraq war, a stinking economy and most Americans seeing the country on the wrong track, the greatest national group delusion is that electing Democrats in 2008 is what the country needs. Keith Olbermann was praised when he called the Bush presidency a criminal conspiracy. That missed the larger truth. The whole two-party political system is a criminal conspiracy hiding behind illusion induced delusion. Virtually everything that Bush correctly gets condemnation for could have been prevented or negated by Democrats, if they had had courage, conviction and commitment to maintaining the rule of law and obedience to the ...
RIGHTWING COMMUNIST MEDIA CAVING
Post Date: 2007-11-10 20:57:03 by robin
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Regular readers may recall that recently I did a piece called “Your Papers, Please!” It chronicled some of the “false flag” operations in which Washington attacked the American people to create a phony justification for government by perpetual emergency and perpetual war. Since then, I have seen again a 1990 movie based on a Tom Clancy novel entitled, “The Hunt for Red October.” A Soviet submarine commander is defecting to the United States with his vessel. Sam Neill, his XO, asks him whether the Amerikanskis will let him live in Montana. Sure says Sean Connery. You can live anywhere you like. Then I think I’ll live in Montana, says Sam, get a pickup, ...
Once Upon A Time In Old America
Post Date: 2007-11-10 16:07:08 by robin
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Once Upon A Time In Old America by: Guest Author Sat Nov 10, 2007 at 15:53:17 PM EST copyright © 2007 Judith Moriarty We are living in a state of selective amnesia or fearful denial? "The easy credit which created the subprime crisis in mortgage lending has now spread to the hedge fund industry. The troubles at Bear Stearns prove that Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson's assurance that the problem is 'contained' is pure baloney. The contagion is swiftly moving through the entire system taking down homeowners, mortgage lenders, banks, rating agencies, and hedge funds. We are just at the beginning of a system-wide breakdown." . . . "To a large ...
Rudy and Bernie: B.F.F.’s
Post Date: 2007-11-10 09:12:48 by Steel
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The past seven years have given us some helpful hints on what we want to avoid in the next president. I’m starting to make a list. Whenever you read that a candidate “values loyalty above all else” — run for the hills. Loyalty is a terribly important consideration if you’re choosing a pet, but not a cabinet member. How about if this time we try for a president who would recruit gifted people who can accomplish great things, as opposed to a room full of dopes who will never write tell-all memoirs? Loyalty is on our mind today because of the indictment of Bernard Kerik, the really, really loyal former New York City police commissioner. Rudy Giuliani, who was ...
My Favorite Song
Post Date: 2007-11-10 01:48:35 by tom007
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Amazing Grace
Post Date: 2007-11-09 22:04:32 by robin
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Amazing Grace Published by cyrano2 at 11:26 am under American Nightmare, Raping the Earth, American Illusion, Fascism, Souless Capitalists, Species Extinction, Capitalism, American Delusion, Corporatism, False Consciousness, Imperialism, Savage Capitalism, American Empire, Moral Rot, Impending Doom, "Free" Markets, Resource Wars Cyrano’s Journal Online and its semi-autonomous subsections (Thomas Paine’s Corner, The Greanville Journal, CJO Avenger, and VoxPop) would be delighted to periodically email you links to the most recent material and timeless classics available on our diverse and comprehensive site. If you would like to subscribe, type “CJO ...
Hate Laws: Braid Your Own Noose
Post Date: 2007-11-09 22:00:40 by robin
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In West Virginia, a young black woman named Megan Williams was horrifically tortured and raped for days. Six white men are charged with the crime and could get life in prison if convicted. Prosecution has not filed hate crime charges. They say it would complicate the case and be difficult to prove-especially since Megan already knew at least one of her attackers. But some activists want the hate crime prosecution. Malik Shabazz, co-founder of Black Lawyers for Justice, organized a Nov. 3 "National March Against Hate Crimes," in West Virginia to demand it. Rev. Al Sharpton joined him. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), however, refused to ...
The Ugly Truth
Post Date: 2007-11-09 21:57:09 by robin
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The Ugly Truth By Rip Rense 11-9-7 I was watching "Ugly Betty" recently---much the way one stares helplessly at the corpse in an open-casket funeral---and I got to thinking ugly thoughts. It's easy, really. Most people do it all the time.Ugly, I realized, is as American as hindquarters the size of car doors, and McBurritotacofelafels, and Christmas. Nothing is much uglier than the Christmas, where kindness and fun have been gnarled into psychotic trillion-dollar greedslobber. Christmas is an avalanche of ugly, but that's fitting because for Amerryguns, ugly is the norm, the starting point, the exalted goal. The American Dream is nothing but ugly, nothing but craven ...
The American empire is falling with the dollar [Yeehaw!]
Post Date: 2007-11-08 15:39:16 by Mister Clean
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The American empire is falling with the dollar Paul Craig Roberts Online Journal Thursday November 8, 2007 The US dollar is still officially the world's reserve currency, but it cannot purchase the services of Brazilian super model Gisele Bundchen. Gisele required the $30 million she earned during the first half of this year to be paid in euros. Gisele is not alone in her forecast of the dollar's fate. The First Post (UK) reports that Jim Rogers, a former partner of billionaire George Soros, is selling his home and all possessions in order to convert all his wealth into Chinese yuan. Meanwhile, American economists continue to preach that offshoring is good for the US economy ...
Suddenly, Impeachment Hearings Are Looking Like a Strong Possibility
Post Date: 2007-11-08 14:25:32 by aristeides
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Suddenly, Impeachment Hearings Are Looking Like a Strong Possibility by dlindorff [Subscribe] Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 09:39:31 AM PST Kucinich, by bringing his Cheney impeachment resolution to a floor vote in the House, has shaken up the politics of impeachment, and looks like it may end up putting Cheney in the dock. By Dave Lindorff You wouldn’t know it if you just watch TV news or read the corporate press, but this past Tuesday, something remarkable happened. Despite the pig-headed opposition of the Democratic Party’s top congressional leadership, a majority of the House, including three Republicans, voted to send Dennis Kucinich’s long sidelined Cheney impeachment bill ...
Cable TV Competition
Post Date: 2007-11-08 12:22:49 by Alan Chapman
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Remember when the only telephone service you could get was from AT&T? From 1913 to 1984 the company had a government-sanctioned monopoly. The company argued that telephone service, by the nature of its technology, would operate most efficiently as a monopoly providing universal service. Of course, we now know how expensive that lack of market competition turned out to be. After deregulation, phone services exploded while rates plunged. Now it's time for cable TV customers finally to reap the benefits of competition also. In the last twenty years cable TV rates have risen more than twice as fast as inflation, while technologies such as TV equipment, telephone services and Internet ...
WHY MILLIONS OF AMERICANS DON'T WANT SMALLER GOVERNMENT
Post Date: 2007-11-08 10:02:44 by christine
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The answer is simple: Jobs. The answer is also why corporate America won't support Congressman Ron Paul: Big bling with a capital $ sign. Where does that big bling go? Dividend checks from selling out American jobs to commie counties like China. Corporate America no longer represents America, they have dumped on the very people who built them. But, as the middle class is now getting a glimpse of poverty staring them in the face if things don't turn around, they're waking up to the reality that these greedy corporations care nothing about US, only about their hundred million dollar CEO packages. Remember what I said in an earlier column: Hungry bellies make for angry mobs. As ...
Better become a political activist, FAST
Post Date: 2007-11-07 21:21:43 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Wake up Americans or you will lose ALL your rights overnight!!
Jewgenics
Post Date: 2007-11-07 19:08:22 by Tauzero
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JewgenicsJewish intelligence, Jewish genes, and Jewish values. By William Saletan Posted Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007, at 7:54 AM ET Are Jews a race? Is Jewish intelligence genetic? If these notions make you cringe, you're not alone. Many non-Jews find them offensive. Actually, scratch that. I have no idea whether non-Jews find them offensive. But I imagine that they do, which is why Jews like me wince at any suggestion of Jewish genetic superiority. We don't even want to talk about it. Actually, a bunch of us did talk about it, three days ago at a forum at the American Enterprise Institute. The main speaker was Jon Entine, an AEI fellow and author of a new book, Abraham's ...
Nov 7 Market Note - The MMUSDIP is Never Wrong
Post Date: 2007-11-07 13:25:55 by christine
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For those who check in here regularly to see if I have posted anything about the financial markets, I suppose that I must mention the last 24 hours, even though my comment has to be "steady as she goes," an admonishment from my ship-driving days, generally given by the officer with "the con" to the bridge crew during times of distracting events, so as to ensure nobody strays from existing directives. I still don't see them allowing the stock market to crash as almost everybody seems to be predicting. They are creating way too much debt-based credit that they call money for that to happen - it has to go somewhere, after all, and it sure isn't trickling down to us ...
White Privilege and Academic Mindfuck
Post Date: 2007-11-07 12:42:39 by Tauzero
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White Privilege and Academic Mindfuck "If you can stand to hear the words you've spoken/Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools..." --Kipling Whatever its vices, mumbo-jumbo has its uses. One of those, according to historian Nesta Webster, was to conceal from the uninitiated those various sets of putatively important truths possessed by the members of secret societies. Another use has always been to act as a cover for a speaker's ignorance by allowing him to sound learned and wise. Yet a third reason for mumbo-jumbo, and one which has burst upon the scene only within the last few years, is simply to gain assent to lies by means of causing such confusion that listeners ...
Of course it’s torture
Post Date: 2007-11-07 10:32:52 by Ferret Mike
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Despite his torturous semantic dodges when asked whether he considered waterboarding torture, Judge Michael Mukasey appears to have enough votes on the Senate Judiciary Committee to have his nomination as attorney general sent to the full Senate. His confirmation is all but certain, and that’s not the travesty some administration critics are claiming. People are so ashamed and fed up with President Bush’s perverse defense of abominable interrogation practices that they saw Mukasey’s linguistic hairsplitting over waterboarding as a deal-killer for his nomination. When asked during Judiciary Committee hearings if he believed waterboarding fit the definition of torture and was ...
Bush's Failure In Pakistan – And The World
Post Date: 2007-11-06 12:25:42 by Brian S
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"Inaction at this moment is suicide for Pakistan, and I cannot allow the country to commit suicide." Thus did President Gen. Pervez Musharraf declare a state of emergency and invoke martial law. The Supreme Court has been dismissed, the chief justice put under house arrest. A thousand lawyers and political opponents have been incarcerated. Human rights organizations have been shut down. Independent news media have been silenced. Musharraf has effected a second coup, the first being his takeover in 1999. Doing so, he invoked Abraham Lincoln: "By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life." Indeed, Lincoln, too, ...
Mukasey Is (Much) Worse Than Gonzales
Post Date: 2007-11-06 09:00:39 by angle
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George Bush's nominee to replace disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, retired Federal Judge Michael B. Mukasey, must be rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the same reason that Gonzales should have been rejected in 2005. Like Gonzales, Mukasey refuses to accept that the president of the United States must abide by the laws of the land, beginning with the Constitution. In fact, the nominee to replace the worst Attorney General since Calvin Coolidge forced Harry Micajah Daugherty to quit rather than face impeachment is actually takes a more extreme position in defense of an imperial presidency than did Gonzales. When questioned by Judiciary Committee chair ...
Don't Enlist
Post Date: 2007-11-05 11:24:57 by Alan Chapman
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Over 181,000 people joined the U.S. military during the fiscal 2007 recruiting year. This is more than joined the military during fiscal years 2006 and 2005. All four of the services met or exceeded their recruiting goals for 2007, as did four of the six reserve components. Why? Why are all these people joining the military? Why, in spite of multiple duty tours, ever-increasing deployment terms, an increase in sexual assaults, post-traumatic stress disorder, the breakup of military families, and the suicide rate, and almost daily reports of U.S. military personnel being killed or maimed in Iraq, are so many men and women joining the military? It could have something to do with the ...
Hegemony’s Cost
Post Date: 2007-11-04 19:41:28 by tom007
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Hegemony’s Cost By Paul Craig Roberts “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." ( Bush, at the Athena Performing Arts Center at Greece Athena Middle and High School Tuesday, May 24, 2005 in Rochester, NY) http://www.prisonplanet.com/audio/260505bushism.mp3 ) 11/02/07 "ICH" --- - When he departs the White House on 20 January, 2009, the current resident will bequeath to the American people and the next administration an interminable war in the Middle East and a depreciated currency. And that’s the good news. It assumes there is a successor ...
Hillary Reveals Her Inner Self
Post Date: 2007-11-04 11:41:27 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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The story isn't that the Democrats finally took on Hillary Clinton. Nor is it that they were gentlemanly to the point of gingerly and tentative. There was an air of "Please, somebody kill her for me so I can jump in and show high minded compassion at her plight!" Barack Obama, with his elegance and verbal fluency really did seem like that great and famous political figure from his home state of Illinois--Adlai Stevenson, who was not at all hungry, not at all mean, and operated at a step removed from the grubby game. Mr. Obama is like someone who would write in his diaries, "I shall point out Estes Kefauver's manifold inconsistencies, then to luncheon with Arthur and ...
Just bot a KAITO 1101 Radio and am HAPPY
Post Date: 2007-11-03 23:20:59 by tom007
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My Grundig, big heavy expensive, was worn out so I was looking for a new short wave multi purpose travel radio. I spent several hours on the net and decided on KAITO 1101, made in China, but made well, as far as I can Tell. This seems to be a superb powerful radio in a very small package. You can charge the AA Ni Cd batteries without taking them out of the radio!, digital tuning, OK sound quality for a small unit and superior signal capturing ability. Dang good device, for about $50. Recommended.
Cheney: Iran war still a possibility
Post Date: 2007-11-03 21:12:24 by tom007
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Cheney: Iran war still a possibility Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:45:41 Hawkish US Vice President Dick Cheney US Vice President Dick Cheney says Washington considers military action against Iran as a possible solution to Tehran's nuclear standoff. "Nobody wants to resolve this by any means other than peacefully, if it is at all possible," Cheney said Friday. During his speech at World Affairs Council in Dallas, he repeated the accusations against Iran, claiming that Tehran seeks nuclear weapons. The American vice president, who was interrupted by anti-war protestors, also claimed that a nuclear Iran would be a threat to US national security. The US allegations have been rejected by ...
Wonder why we never get the truth about 911, the war, Ron Paul, etc?
Post Date: 2007-11-03 17:55:17 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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