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Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything
Post Date: 2007-10-31 10:53:56 by gengis gandhi
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Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything By Tim O'Shea 10-30-7 Aldous Huxley's inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe described by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all bonds, all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or ...
The Recantation of Dr. Watson
Post Date: 2007-10-30 11:18:26 by Rupert_Pupkin
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PJB: The Recantation of Dr. Watson posted by Linda by Patrick J. Buchanan For Dr. James Watson, 79-year-old co-winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for medicine for his discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, October marked the nadir of a brilliant career. The month began with Watson headed to London to promote his new book, “Avoid Boring People: Lessons From a Life in Science,” and to lecture to a sold-out audience at the prestigious Science Museum. An author’s dream tour. Last week, his lecture was canceled, his tour terminated, his 40-year tenure as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island came to an end. Across Britain, he was being denounced as a ...
Getting your victims to love you (Israel Plaestine)
Post Date: 2007-10-29 21:38:03 by tom007
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Getting your victims to love you Dr. Azmi Bishara October 28, 2007 If you want to understand the magnitude of the Palestinian tragedy and the depths of their dilemma take a look at the recent decree issued by the Israeli Ministry of Education which in essence asks Jewish and Arab schoolchildren to sign the Israeli declaration of independence as part of the celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel. In a statement distributed to the schools the ministry's Society and Youth Administration set the following objectives for the jubilee: "To commemorate the passage of 60 years since the establishing of the state of Israel in the Arab and Jewish educational ...
Scott Ritter: Calling Out Idiot America
Post Date: 2007-10-29 20:28:56 by tom007
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Scott Ritter: Calling Out Idiot America A Dig led by Scott Ritter The ongoing hand-wringing in Congress by the newly empowered Democrats over what to do about the war in Iraq speaks volumes about the level of concern (or lack thereof) these “representatives of the people” have toward the men and women who honor us all by serving in the armed forces of the United States of America. The inability to reach consensus concerning the level of funding required or how to exercise effective oversight of the war, both constitutionally mandated responsibilities, is more a reflection of congressional cowardice and impotence than a byproduct of any heartfelt introspection over troop welfare ...
Rudy Giuliani shows his Ignorance of the Second Amendment
Post Date: 2007-10-29 18:06:38 by Alan Chapman
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During a town hall meeting in northwestern New Hampshire last week, presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani told a former police office: "You have a constitutional right, that is protected, to bear and carry arms. It is the Second Amendment. If someone disagrees with that, you have to get the Constitution changed." Since Mr. Giuliani is a former federal prosecutor and these individuals' knowledge of the Constitution appears to be limited to reading court cases, the author decided to use a United States Supreme Court case to show prospective voters, who care about gun rights, that Giuliani is totally ignorant of the nature of the Second Amendment. In 1875, in the case of United ...
Lead - The Other White Metal
Post Date: 2007-10-29 10:22:59 by christine
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Do you know why ducks have flat feet? From stamping out forest fires. Do you know why elephants have flat feet? From stamping out flaming ducks. Ok, ok ... it's old and it's juvenile, but it was funny the first time you heard it - admit it. Here's a new one - let's see if you think this one is funny: Do you know why WhirlyBen Bernanke has flat feet? From stamping on gold and silver. No? No, I didn't think it was funny, either, until I really got to thinking about the spectacle this past Friday and how frustrated Ben and his buddies must have been. Now that was funny! WhirlyBen's feet have to be sore today. All he got for his efforts was a new, all-time low for the ...
No Blood for No Oil (OR Read It and Puke)
Post Date: 2007-10-29 08:08:39 by angle
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Excerpt: ...the tightness in oil inventories (which freemarketeers invoke to 'splain the spike in oil prices whenever Cheney growls) isn't some Natural Law we have to just live with, but rather the result of a conscious policy by oil companies to suppress supply, reap unprecedented profits, and miserably fail, by the way, to reinvest those bazillions into increased refining capacity. The other is by Jack Miles, the Pultizer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography, who wrote a tremendously illuminating and deeply depressing piece on TomDispatch.com called "Endgame for Iraq Oil?" The Great Game that Bush and Cheney have really been playing all along in Iraq -- making war ...
Who is the enemy?
Post Date: 2007-10-28 23:48:10 by 82Marine89
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The National Guard, albeit only 1500 of them, are on our borders. Unarmed. Yet during these recent fires in San Diego the National Guard carried their M16A2 rifles with a magazine inserted. I'm not sure if they have ammo, but they are carrying weapons. Kind of makes one wonder who our governments, both state and federal, view as the enemy.
Miss Earth 2007 Competition kicks off
Post Date: 2007-10-28 21:05:52 by tom007
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Miss Earth 2007 Competition kicks off www.chinaview.cn 2007-10-28 16:31:08 Print Top five candidates pose for a photo during the first round of preliminary contest of the Miss Earth 2007 Competition that was kicked off in Batangas Province of the Philippines, on Oct. 27, 2007. The annual competition is attended by candidates from over 90 countries and regions, and the finals are scheduled to be held in Manila on Nov. 11. Top five candidates pose for a photo during the first round of preliminary contest of the Miss Earth 2007 Competition that was kicked off in Batangas Province of the Philippines, on Oct. 27, 2007. The annual competition is attended by candidates from over 90 countries ...
Syrian "Nukes"? Not So Fast... (Updated)
Post Date: 2007-10-28 20:26:49 by tom007
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Syrian "Nukes"? Not So Fast... (Updated) By Noah Shachtman EmailOctober 27, 2007 | 10:09:00 AMCategories: Nukes Weapons_6002_crop So what did the Israelis really blow up in the Syrian desert last month? The conventional wisdom says it was a partially-built nuclear reactor, maybe constructed with North Korean help. Arms Control Wonk Jeffrey Lewis isn't so sure. The New York Times' Mark Mazzetti and Bill Broad have two very good stories on the suspect site in Syria — one placing the leaks about the site in context of Administration internal debates over North Korea; the other reporting on new satellite imagery showing that North Korea has wiped clean the site. I am ...
No evidence Iran is making nukes: ElBaradei
Post Date: 2007-10-28 20:03:24 by tom007
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I have not received any information that there is a concrete active nuclear weapons program going on right now," the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told CNN. "Even if Iran were to be working on a nuclear weapon ... they are at least a few years from having such a weapon," he said, citing assessments by US officials themselves. "At this stage we need to continue to work through creative diplomacy ... as I don't see any other solution than diplomacy and inspections," Mr ElBaradei said. The White House on Saturday rejected any parallels between its Iran rhetoric and the run-up to the Iraq invasion, after fresh sanctions on Tehran and ...
Head of UN nuclear agency calls on Bush to ease Iran rhetoric
Post Date: 2007-10-28 20:00:57 by tom007
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Head of UN nuclear agency calls on Bush to ease Iran rhetoric By Brian Knowlton Published: October 28, 2007 E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size WASHINGTON: Mohamad ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, urged the Bush administration Sunday to soften its rhetoric against Tehran, even as a prominent Democratic senator said he feared that U.S. military action was drawing "precariously close." The comments by ElBaradei and Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, the senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, came in response to the administration's recent tough talk, including President George ...
Are Young Girls Dressing Too Revealingly? (With A Picture!!!)
Post Date: 2007-10-28 12:57:59 by tom007
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Among pint-sized cheerleaders, itty-bitty beauty queens, and in the malls of America, the sassy-sexy look isn't just for teens anymore. Some say younger girls are going shorter and barer -- taking their cues from characters like the Cheetah Girls, the Pussycat Dolls and the Bratz dolls -- and some observers are saying they've had enough. Related Stories Celia Rivenbark, a mom who hit her breaking point with the shrinking fashions, wrote a book called, "Stop Dressing Your Six Year Old Like a Skank." "The moms are buying it, the dads are buying and maybe on some level the parents think, 'Oh that's cute, that's harmless, that's innocent' -- but ...
Libel Without Borders
Post Date: 2007-10-27 11:16:25 by robin
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October 7, 2007 ESSAY; Libel Without Borders By RACHEL DONADIO When it first appeared in 2006, ''Alms for Jihad,'' an academic book on Islamic charitable networks by two American scholars, drew scant attention. It sold a modest 1,500 copies and received few reviews. But in recent weeks the book has become an international cause célèbre, after Cambridge University Press agreed to pulp all unsold copies in a defamation settlement. Last spring, Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, a powerful Saudi businessman and banker to the Saudi royal family who is based in Jeddah, sued the publisher over the book's depiction of his family as financiers of terrorism. In English ...
New sanctions against Iran will accomplish nothing
Post Date: 2007-10-26 22:23:57 by tom007
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New sanctions against Iran will accomplish nothing By William O. Beeman The Bush administration declared new economic sanctions against Iran Oct. 25. The sanctions, announced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, like those already in place, will accomplish nothing except to increase international tensions. The new sanctions are an extension of a long-standing failed policy first begun under the Reagan administration, and extended under the Clinton administration. The United States is acting totally alone; it is not supported by any other nation. American dealings with Iran have failed in large part because the United States has never articulated what it wants to accomplish. They ...
Putin denounces ‘madman’ with knife approach to Iran
Post Date: 2007-10-26 22:18:50 by tom007
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Putin denounces ‘madman’ with knife approach to Iran Carter says attack on Iran will be 'horrible mistake' LISBON, Portugal (Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced what he called the “madman waving a knife” approach to diplomatic negotiations aimed at curbing Iran's nuclear program. “To run around like a madman waving a knife is not the best way forward,'' Putin said in response to a reporter's question at a Lisbon press conference Thursday, following talks with Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva. “Why drive the situation into a dead end?” The U.S. claims that Iran's uranium enrichment program is aimed ...
US State Department to require some diplomats to work in Iraq because of lack of volunteers
Post Date: 2007-10-26 22:16:33 by tom007
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US State Department to require some diplomats to work in Iraq because of lack of volunteers The Associated Press Published: October 26, 2007 E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size WASHINGTON: The State Department said Friday it will begin ordering diplomats to serve in Iraq because of a lack of volunteers to work at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the first such large-scale call-up since the Vietnam War. Beginning Monday, 200 to 300 diplomats will be notified that they have been identified as "prime candidates" to fill 40 to 50 vacancies that will open next year at the embassy, said Harry Thomas, director general of the ...
Buchanan: Conservatism is a Tower of Babel
Post Date: 2007-10-26 19:54:52 by Brian S
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"I was conservative yesterday, I'm a conservative today, and I will be a conservative tomorrow," declared Fred Thompson to the Conservative Party of New York, billing himself as the "consistent conservative" in the GOP race – in contrast to ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani. In his defense, Rudy cites George Will as calling his eight years in office in the Big Apple the most conservative city government in 50 years. And, truth be told, Thompson was reliably conservative in his Senate years. But so, too, has John McCain been, and Ron Paul, Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo. Hunter, however, splits with Thompson and McCain on trade. Paul disagrees with all six of them on the ...
Guantánamo Suicides: So Who's Telling the Truth?
Post Date: 2007-10-25 00:27:03 by kiki
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The grim story of the Guantánamo suicides -- the deaths of three men, Ali al-Salami, Mani al-Utaybi and Yasser al-Zahrani in June 2006, and another, Abdul Rahman al-Amri, in May this year -- took another turn last week, when, in the absence of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service's long-awaited report into the deaths, Navy Capt. Patrick McCarthy, the senior lawyer on Guantánamo's management team, declared in an interview that he had personally seen "all four men dead -- each one hanging -- and that the first three men had used sling-style nooses." This is the first time that a representative of the US military has spoken openly about the death of al-Amri, ...
Land Socialism: Playing With Fire
Post Date: 2007-10-24 12:50:58 by Alan Chapman
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How fashionable it is to love nature. Down with industry, development, internal-combustion engines, clear cutting, strip malls, and private ownership. Capitalists do nothing but ravage the beauty of mother earth. The hand of man only strangles and kills. If you agree with the above, you will love the fires that have driven half a million people from their homes in California, and destroyed 1,200 houses. President Bush is dumping your money in the form of aid on these suffering souls, and the flames rage on. In these wretched infernos that consume civilization, we see the truth about nature. It is beautiful when it is controlled and owned and put to our use. When it is left to its own ...
Killer Cliches
Post Date: 2007-10-24 08:47:37 by Zoroaster
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October 24, 2007 Killer Clichés by Charley Reese It's fun sometimes to collect current clichés, which are worn-out uses of the language, such as "at the end of the day." Why can't we just say at twilight or after the sun sets? Another cliché is "you can run but you can't hide." Osama bin Laden has disproved that, and indeed there are literally thousands of fugitives in the U.S. who have successfully both run and hidden. Usually when some politician says "the reality is" or "the facts are," the reality isn't and the facts are fiction. The Bush administration continues to claim that Iran is pursuing a nuclear ...
Could China Crash the US Dollar on a Whim?
Post Date: 2007-10-23 19:22:29 by tom007
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Could China Crash the US Dollar on a Whim? posted on: October 23, 2007 | about stocks: FXI / PGJ / CAF Over the last 30 years, China’s economy has grown at an average annualized rate of nearly 10%. While this statistic alone is jaw-dropping, what is more impressive is the extent to which the nominally Communist country’s economy has become intertwined in the global economy. China now exerts enormous influence over the economies of virtually every country in the world, and a slight change in its domestic economic policy has the potential to send shockwaves rippling throughout the world. Nowhere is this more apparent-and frightening-then in China’s economic relationship with ...
It's Time to Stop Being Taken for Granted - Should Blacks Go Green?
Post Date: 2007-10-22 19:54:22 by Dakmar
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Though eastern talk show hosts might view Berkeley, California, as a hotbed of diversity, census reports show it be the whitest city in Alameda County. According to Berkeley's Health Officer, Dr.Linda Rudolph, it is also a city where life expectancy among whites has increased to 80, while the rate among black citizens of the university town has decreased. The report blamed some of the problems that blacks experience on eco-racism. Their neighborhoods being located near the freeway, for example, has led to an increase in cases of asthma among black residents. The report also cited "the lack of stores carrying fresh fruit and vegetables in southwest Berkeley." A number of ...
But ... things look so normal, Martha!
Post Date: 2007-10-22 11:14:38 by christine
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So you look outside and you say that the world looks just like it did yesterday? Take a few minutes to watch the YouTube videos linked below and then ask yourself whether looks can be deceiving. This proves that the value of American housing now is down about 50% in many parts of the country ... and in just a few months, too. In my book, Defensive Racism, I pointed out that housing dropped to 10% - 25% during Depression I before the bankers really stepped in and started buying with both hands. Depression II will be worse, I also pointed out. Worse. I took a lot of heat for that prediction. Do you think it sounds quite so ludicrous today as it might have in the go-go years of 2003/2004, ...
Iran to donate extra $600,000 for Afghan reconstruction
Post Date: 2007-10-21 01:14:48 by tom007
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Iran to donate extra $600,000 for Afghan reconstruction HERAT (IRNA)-- Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said on Saturday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is to donate an extra sum of $ 600,000 to ECO Fund to help Afghan reconstruction. Mottaki made the remarks at the 17th annual meeting of the Council of Ministers (COM) of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Herat, Afghanistan. Calling for restoration of peace and stability in Afghanistan, he said the Iranian nation and government spare no efforts to help alleviate sufferings of the Afghan people. Both Iranian private and state run organizations have endeavored to rehabilitate the war-stricken country, he said. He ...
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