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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 ...
So What About Iran?
Post Date: 2007-10-21 01:12:26 by tom007
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So What About Iran? by Uri Avnery A RESPECTED American paper posted a scoop this week: Vice-President Dick Cheney, the King of Hawks, has thought up a Machiavellian scheme for an attack on Iran. Its main point: Israel will start by bombing an Iranian nuclear installation, Iran will respond by launching missiles at Israel, and this will serve as a pretext for an American attack on Iran. Far-fetched? Not really. It is rather like what happened in 1956. Then France, Israel and Britain secretly planned to attack Egypt in order to topple Gamal Abd-al-Nasser ("regime change" in today's lingo.) It was agreed that Israeli paratroops would be dropped near the Suez Canal, and that ...
Who Needs Terrorists?
Post Date: 2007-10-20 00:22:18 by kiki
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Who needs terrorists? We can scare the shit out of ourselves, thank you very much. We have Bush's wet dream of an End Times scenario where he would like to usher in World War III before, according to him, the Persians, start some trouble in a few years. We have Rudy Kazootie telling us that untold hoards of dark skinned demons are out to kill us all and we better elect him so he can incinerate them over the next eight years. We have Michele Malkin, who prefers going house to house to threaten and scare the sneaky wretches who need assistance with exorbitant medical costs. How dare they! We have the banks and credit card companies that make it easy to borrow and spend and allow ...
Iran's UN envoy: U.S. nuclear arsenal worries world
Post Date: 2007-10-19 21:57:18 by tom007
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Iran's UN envoy: U.S. nuclear arsenal worries world UNITED NATIONS (IRNA) -- Iran's permanent representative to UN Mohammad Khazaie said here on Wednesday that Iran, the only victim of chemical weapons in contemporary era, is highly motivated for efforts aimed at a world without WMD, adding thousands of nuclear warheads at U.S. arsenal worry world nations. Khazaie made the comment at a meeting of the UN General Assembly's 1st Committee, allocated to surveying disarmament and international security. The Iranian Ambassador expounded on Iran's basic policies in that respect, Iran's stands regarding usage of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, and the assault of ...
Someone, operating under a special chain of command within the United States Air Force, just stole a nuclear weapon.
Post Date: 2007-10-19 00:52:00 by tom007
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Someone, operating under a special chain of command within the United States Air Force, just stole a nuclear weapon. ATS Premium Article by Chuck Simpson Some History Barksdale Missile Number Six deserves far more public attention than it's received to date. Missile Number Six is potentially the major story of at least this year. Until 1968 under the Airborne Alert Program, informally called Operation Chrome Dome, the Air Force routinely kept about a dozen strategic bombers with nuclear weapons flying at all times. One predictable result was crashes and incidents. In 1968 the Department of Defense published a list of 13 serious nuclear weapons accidents that occurred between 1950 ...
Cheney Targets Iran
Post Date: 2007-10-19 00:47:20 by tom007
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Cheney Targets Iran The vice president is angling behind the scenes for another war in the Middle East Robert DreyfussPosted Oct 18, 2007 12:02 PM Sometime early next year, Dick Cheney is planning to start his third war in the Middle East. According to a wide range of Washington insiders — from Cheney sympathizers to anti-war activists — the vice president is angling behind the scenes for yet another unilateral military action, this time aimed at toppling the clerical regime in Iran. "It's an open secret," one leading analyst of Iranian relations tells Rolling Stone. Even though America remains bogged down in twin conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the insiders add, ...
Will Bush Cancel The 2008 Election?
Post Date: 2007-10-17 23:10:59 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Will Bush Cancel The 2008 Election? http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/31/2874/ It is time to think about the “unthinkable.” The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election. The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don’t know. But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention. The real ...
After the end of empire: The sun sets early on the American Century
Post Date: 2007-10-17 16:14:45 by aristeides
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After the end of empire The sun sets early on the American Century The ‘American Century’ only began 60 years ago. But it seems already to be over, with the disaster of Iraq forcing some of the United States’ ruling elites to realise that its hegemony has been severely weakened. But nobody seems to know what to do next, or even how to behave. By Philip S Golub The disastrous outcome of the invasion and occupation of Iraq has caused a crisis in the power elite of the United States deeper than that resulting from defeat in Vietnam 30 years ago. Ironically, it is the very coalition of ultra-nationalists and neo-conservatives that coalesced in the 1970s, seeking to reverse ...
Where is the false flag terror attack???
Post Date: 2007-10-17 12:25:19 by Mister Clean
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Well, the TOPOFF terrorism drill started yesterday in Portland and there was no false flag terror operation to coincide with the excersise. Once again, the doom & gloom conspiracy crowd who speculated that a real terror attack would occur at the same time of the drill were wrong.
Missing Warren G. Harding
Post Date: 2007-10-17 11:50:35 by Alan Chapman
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n the aftermath of that ghastly horror called the Great War, Warren Gamaliel Harding ran for president and won. His platform: Return to normalcy. He was the dark-horse candidate, but won 60% of the vote. Among his first actions was to pardon Eugene Debs, the socialist candidate, who had been jailed for opposing the war draft. He reduced taxes, deregulated, and generally calmed down the country after a culture-wrecking, budget-busting war, and assured a time of great prosperity. Harding resisted intervening at all in the recession of 1921, and it thereby went away rather quickly, as all recessions will tend to do. He signed the peace treaties which formally ended WWI, and sought world naval ...
Do We Worship the Market?
Post Date: 2007-10-17 11:46:57 by Alan Chapman
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Among other common accusations, we libertarians are accustomed to the charge that we "worship the market." We are lumped in with conservatives, Republicans, and big businessmen, all of whom ostensibly have turned private enterprise into some sort of god to be honored and obeyed regardless of the consequences for humanity. To oppose state interventions in the economy – especially in the form of regulations or welfare – is supposedly the sign of dogmatic fanaticism, but without the saving grace of spirituality. No, our worship is that of cold, hard, inhumane materialism. Ironies and confusions abound from this gross mischaracterization. First off, we do not, as ...
The Song That Is Irresistible: How the State Leads People to Their Own Destruction
Post Date: 2007-10-16 20:49:08 by Arete
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Margaret Atwood's poem "Siren Song" begins: This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beached skulls. Our rulers know how to sing that song, and they sing it day and night. The beached skulls are those of our fathers and our sons, our friends and our neighbors, for whom the song proved not only irresistible, but fatal. The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised — a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o'erleaps its improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide. ...
The End of Exceptionalism
Post Date: 2007-10-16 18:05:14 by Mister Clean
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The End of Exceptionalism The United States has always thought of itself as exceptional, but nowadays we are standing apart for the wrong things. By Fareed Zakaria NEWSWEEK Updated: 3:31 PM ET Oct 13, 2007 Good news doesn't sell. You are unlikely to see a newspaper headline that says no fires in New York City last night. But it's worth pointing out that there are important positive trends afoot in the world. Large majorities across countries and cultures are in favor of democracy, free markets, trade and cultural exchange. If you think back to a generation ago, in the mid-1980s, this is a sea change. Last week's release of the Pew Global Attitudes Survey provides the most vivid ...
California Focus: Our tax dollars turned against us
Post Date: 2007-10-15 13:36:03 by Alan Chapman
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When the Legislature is in session, the Capitol is awash with millions of dollars worth of lobbying talent. You have never seen so many suits per square yard in your life. In Sacramento, nothing of importance happens without the involvement of lobbyists. They draft legislation, find sponsors and co-authors, visit legislators and staff, build coalitions and generally engage in serious horse trading to secure passage of bills favorable to their clients and to crush those that threaten their clients. During the final debate on bills in either the Assembly or Senate chambers, lobbyists are frequently hanging around just outside these chambers passing a note to a sergeant at arms to deliver to ...
An extreme and costly search
Post Date: 2007-10-14 03:21:53 by IndieTX
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In theory, we are all equal. In practice, not so much. Last week, the search for millionaire aviator Steve Fossett, who disappeared a month ago in Nevada, was suspended again after what the Civil Air Patrol described as one of the largest efforts to locate a missing plane in modern history. ... According to The Associated Press, the search encompassed a 20,000-square-mile area, involving Civil Air Patrol pilots from Nevada and seven other states, the Nevada National Guard, the Air Force Rescue and Coordination Center, the state Department of Public Safety and ground crews organized by local authorities. Experts in radar analysis from the Federal Aviation Administration, Air Force, Navy, ...
Buchanan: George W. Bush, Globalist
Post Date: 2007-10-12 19:59:01 by Brian S
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Have the Bush Republicans ceased to be reliable custodians of American sovereignty? So it would seem. President George W. Bush began well. He rejected the Kyoto Protocol on global warming negotiated by Vice President Al Gore as both injurious to the economy and rooted in questionable science. He refused to allow the armed forces and diplomats of the United States to be brought under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. But now President Bush is about to take his country by the hand and make a great leap forward into world government. He has signed on to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which transfers jurisdiction ...
Buchanan: The Scramble for America
Post Date: 2007-10-11 19:05:02 by Brian S
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What is it that distinguishes Bush Republicanism from the Coolidge, Taft, Eisenhower and Reagan varieties? Four major issues come to mind. Bush is a "Big Government conservative" who repudiated the "government-is-the-problem" philosophy of Reagan. His No Child Left Behind program, doubling the size of the Department of Education, and his vast expansion of Medicare to cover prescription drugs so testify. Second, Bush believes in Wilsonian interventionism, including the use of military force, to advance a "global democratic revolution" and "end tyranny on earth." Third, Bush believes in open borders, amnesty and "a path to citizenship" for ...
(Scott Ritter) The Big Lie - 'Iran Is A Threat'
Post Date: 2007-10-11 00:02:02 by robin
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Iran has never manifested itself as a serious threat to the national security of the United States, or by extension as a security threat to global security. At the height of Iran's "exportation of the Islamic Revolution" phase, in the mid-1980's, the Islamic Republic demonstrated a less-than-impressive ability to project its power beyond the immediate borders of Iran, and even then this projection was limited to war-torn Lebanon. Iranian military capability reached its modern peak in the late 1970's, during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlevi. The combined effects of institutional distrust on the part of the theocrats who currently govern the Islamic Republic of Iran ...
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