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Latest Articles: Editorial
US security firm ordered to leave Iraq after shooting
Post Date: 2007-09-18 22:52:27 by tom007
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US security firm ordered to leave Iraq after shooting CRITICAL COMPANY: With an investigation under way into the deaths of eight civilians, a top judge said that Blackwater USA could be prosecuted in an Iraqi court AP, BAGHDAD Wednesday, Sep 19, 2007, Page 1 The Iraqi government announced it was ordering Blackwater USA, the security firm that protects US diplomats, to leave the country after what it said was the fatal shooting of eight Iraqi civilians following a car bomb attack against a US State Department convoy. The order on Monday by the Interior Ministry, if carried out, would deal a severe blow to US government operations in Iraq by stripping diplomats, engineers, reconstruction ...
Editorial: America and the Iraq ‘oil grab’
Post Date: 2007-09-18 22:46:02 by tom007
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Editorial: America and the Iraq ‘oil grab’ Former head of the US Federal Reserve and economic guru commanding bipartisan reverence for his grasp of the national economy, Mr Alan Greenspan has put the cat among the pigeons in Washington by saying in his latest book The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World that “the Iraq war was about oil”. His exact words were: “I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows — the Iraq war is largely about oil”. When the Administration reacted angrily, Mr Greenspan himself found it “politically inconvenient” to stick to his clear pronouncement, but his ...
Dept. of Misdirection: With Iraq a Disaster, GOP Goes Crazy Over a Newspaper Ad
Post Date: 2007-09-18 13:08:52 by kiki
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Does anybody really believe the problem with the war in Iraq is too much questioning of those in authority, too much bluntness, and not enough deference to those who have been in charge of the war for the last four years? That's apparently the feeling of all the conservative talk-show hosts and GOP presidential candidates who came down with the vapors over the MoveOn ad that had the temerity to question Gen. David Petraeus. Tens of thousands of dead civilians, nearly 4,000 dead American soldiers, half a billion dollars spent, and the squandering of America's moral authority -- none of that seems to have ruffled their feathers very much. But the ad? Now that has got them royally ...
Iraq expels American security firm
Post Date: 2007-09-17 17:44:35 by tom007
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Iraq expels American security firm By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer 40 minutes ago BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government Monday ordered Blackwater USA, the security firm that protects U.S. diplomats, to stop work and leave the country after the fatal shooting of eight Iraqi civilians following a car bomb attack against a State Department convoy. ADVERTISEMENT The order by the Interior Ministry, if carried out, would deal a severe blow to U.S. government operations in Iraq by stripping diplomats, engineers, reconstruction officials and others of their security protection. The presence of so many visible, aggressive Western security contractors has angered many Iraqis, who consider ...
Blackwater: Banned in Iraq? (Updated Yet Again)
Post Date: 2007-09-17 17:41:48 by tom007
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Blackwater: Banned in Iraq? (Updated Yet Again) By Sharon Weinberger EmailSeptember 17, 2007 | 4:11:00 PMCategories: Mercs After a car bomb sparked a deadly shooting in Baghdad, the Iraqi government announced it would ban uber-merc outfit private security contractor Blackwater from operating in Iraq, according to a news report: Carbomb Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul-Karim Khalaf said eight civilians were killed and 13 were wounded when contractors believed to be working for Blackwater USA opened fire in a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of western Baghdad. "We have canceled the license of Blackwater and prevented them from working all over Iraqi territory. We will also refer ...
Tom007 Has been in Louisiana due to Family Matters and Has been Watching Cable Tonight And
Post Date: 2007-09-16 22:41:55 by tom007
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If Americans are the target of these shows and commercials there is something profoundly wrong with our national discourse. For example, the least laughable show on right now, out of 99 or so channels, is a moderated discussion between Kerry and McCain. Naturally Iraq was the focus. Naturally Kerry said this General said this McCain said that General said that, Bla Bla Bla. No mention of the US idiotic support of Israel's brutal extreamist Lukid parties Jewish superiority racist policies that are the spark of the US involvement of the mess that has consumed Billions of dollars of the American's sweat and blood? None. Did I mention NONE????????????????????? As if we are ...
Movie 'Zeitgeist' - Illuminati Critique Or Psy-Op?
Post Date: 2007-09-16 22:06:41 by robin
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Throughout history, paganism and true religion have struggled for the soul of mankind. This age-old battle is drawing to a close with a magnificent victory for paganism. For the naïve populace, this collective death march is masked as "secular humanism," and "modernism." It is directed and financed by Illuminati central bankers, who are the leaders of cabalistic secret societies associated with Freemasonry and Communism. (see "Rothschilds Conduct Red Symphony" http://www.savethemales.ca/000275.html) They wish to redefine reality so that the human race will serve them instead of God. This is the essence of the "New World Order." In this ...
Greenspan attacks Bush; Iraq was about the oil (on 60 Minutes soon)
Post Date: 2007-09-16 18:22:05 by Mekons4
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AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush’s economic policies. However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,” he says. Greenspan, 81, is understood to believe that ...
Jack Cafferty Mouths Off (I gotta get this book!)
Post Date: 2007-09-16 16:52:15 by Mekons4
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No one has ever accused CNN commentator Jack Cafferty of being a shrinking violet. He routinely sounds off in his own tart, curmudgeon-like way on CNN's popular news show, The Situation Room. Now Cafferty has written his first book, It's Getting Ugly Out There: The Frauds, Bunglers, Liars and Losers Who Are Hurting America (Wiley). Besides calling it as he sees it politically, he tells the story of growing up in a turbulent family in Reno, Nevada, in the 1950s. TIME's publishing reporter Andrea Sachs spoke with Cafferty between shows: Related Articles TIME: You're a brave man. You talk bluntly about a lot of things in your book. Cafferty: Well, I figured that if I was ...
EFP's Expalined and why Iran can't make much of a difference in providing them as they can be made just about anywhere with blacksmith technology
Post Date: 2007-09-15 21:12:52 by tom007
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http://abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/wnt_02_051031.pdf
Geeks Turn Out for Ron Paul
Post Date: 2007-09-15 20:42:01 by tom007
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Geeks Turn Out for Ron Paul By Sarah Lai Stirland Email 09.14.07 | 10:30 AM SAN FRANCISCO -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul was given a warm reception in this liberal stronghold Thursday as Silicon Valley professionals turned out to support his long-shot campaign. At a fundraiser at San Francisco's swanky Palace Hotel, a 40-odd group of Ron Paul supporters paid $500 a head to have breakfast with "Dr. Paul," as they call him. Outside, a large group of supporters chanted their support. Cars honked, and passers-by joined in the chanting. "Ron Paul!" they shouted. "Freedom!" Inside, supporters could hear the passionate chants from the street ...
Iran: 'Bush should face trial'
Post Date: 2007-09-15 20:13:37 by tom007
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Iran: 'Bush should face trial' Khamenei said the US president and other officials should face trial in an international court [AFP] Iran's supreme leader says that George Bush, the US president, ought to face trial for the failure of US policies in the Middle East. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday in a speech at Tehran University that Bush and other senior US officials should one day face charges in an international court "for the tragedies they created in Iraq". "America has failed in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. America's policies have failed in the Middle East region," Khamenei, who has the final word in all Iranian state matters, said. ...
Is a Jewish Glasnost Coming to America?
Post Date: 2007-09-15 16:50:11 by Zipporah
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First, a confession: It may tell me that I hate myself, but I can't help loving Masada2000, the website maintained by militant right-wing Zionist followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane. The reason I love it is its D.I.R.T. list—that's "Dense anti-Israel Repugnant Traitors" (also published as the S.H.I.T. list of "Self-Hating and Israel-Threatening" Jews). And that's not because I get a bigger entry than—staying in the Ks—Henry Kissinger, Michael Kinsley, Naomi Klein, or Ted Koppel. The Kahanists are a pretty flaky lot, counting everyone from Woody Allen to present Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on their list of Jewish traitors. But the habit of branding ...
Wow, We Suck
Post Date: 2007-09-15 01:07:40 by kiki
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With the Bush administration clearly heading toward a catastrophic attack on Iran with little chance they'll be stopped, now is a good time to consider how much everyone involved in this process sucks. By this I don't mean Bush blah Republicans blah suck. That's far too easy. Any honest evaluation would find significant blame lies elsewhere. I suck I can't emphasize this enough. I won't go into detail because it's so embarrassing, but the difference between what I've done and could have done is gigantic. In particular, it took me decades to figure out how American society works, which is as humiliating as taking thirty years to figure out tic tac toe. And ...
Bush still refuses to admit he was wrong
Post Date: 2007-09-14 19:36:19 by Zipporah
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Well, now we’ve heard from General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker and President George W. Bush, and it appears that the Surge has succeeded — succeeded in guaranteeing that the Iraq War will drag on for the last 16 months of the Bush presidency at a cost of another 1,600 American dead and $13 billion a month. Extending the war, kicking that can down the road, was President Bush’s only strategic objective last January when he came up with the idea of escalating the number of American troops in Iraq from 130,000 to today’s 170,000. Put simply, the Decider wants to hand off the decision to pull the plug on his unwinnable war to someone else, anyone else. ...
The Mystery of al-Qaeda; Bin Laden's latest video throws new light on a murky subject
Post Date: 2007-09-14 11:14:38 by Brian S
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Six years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the entity known as al-Qaeda remains largely a mystery: its intent, its ideology, its leadership, and its inner workings are all largely unknown to the American people. Experts study them and interpret the arcane meanings of their utterances in light of Koranic verses. The president of the United States and his allies aver that they hate us because we're so free, so prosperous, so utterly fabulous – yet still al-Qaeda is, at least in the popular mind, an army of shadows, in the sense that they don't seem quite real. The one major military operation undertaken by them, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, is ...
Can anyone here play better guitar than this kid?
Post Date: 2007-09-13 22:10:18 by tom007
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62 Democratic Senators (BRENT BUDOWSKY)
Post Date: 2007-09-13 17:28:55 by aristeides
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62 Democratic Senators The resounding Democratic victory in the 2006 Senate campaign creates a historic anomaly in which the Senate Democratic Caucus could increase to more than 60 senators, with historic implications for American politics and all three branches of government. The media are simply focusing on the 22 Senate Republican seats at stake in 2008. But the Republican senators considering whether to retire, and the smart K Street money, are homed in on the 2010 elections as well, where another 19 Republican Senate seats are at stake. Do the math. Locked into the fate of one of America’s most unpopular presidents in history, with the national mood favoring a tidal wave of ...
September theatrics at home and abroad
Post Date: 2007-09-13 03:40:00 by nolu_chan
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http://NWAnews.com Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Northwest Arkansas Edition September theatrics at home and abroad Gene Lyons Comes September, the long-awaited Month of Decision on the Iraq war, and all parties with a career stake in the outcome have swung into action. Pretty, perky Katie Couric took her “CBS Evening News” program to Iraq, and who turned up? Why President Bush! What a coincidence that America’s least popular president and lowest-rated TV news anchor showed up simultaneously at a U.S. air base in convenient Anbar province. Next Bush jetted off to Sydney, bragging that the U.S. is “kicking ass” before gravely thanking Australia’s prime minister ...
The Dollar in the Punch Bowl
Post Date: 2007-09-12 17:46:40 by Eoghan
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My name is Edgar J. Steele. This is a Nickel Rant. Some ask why I write financial articles, rather than continually pout over America's general political and social condition, seemingly my normal wont. I have said, straight out, that my financial writings are designed to lure the unsuspecting back to my lair http://(www.ConspiracyPenPal.com) where I then can have my way with them. But there is another reason to carry on about the financial end of things: Economics is just another way of looking at the same old gloom and doom I have been preaching for years. What's more, national economics now is quickening and merging ever more closely with our political and social condition. ...
Most Americans see Iraq war as failure
Post Date: 2007-09-10 23:25:38 by tom007
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Most Americans see Iraq war as failure * * Email * Print * Normal font * Large font September 11, 2007 - 9:09AM AdvertisementAdvertisement Most Americans see the Iraq war as a failure, despite a US build-up of 30,000 troops, an Associated Press-Ipsos poll shows. The survey was released as General David Petraeus, the top American commander in Iraq, told the US Congress that the surge of 30,000 troops had largely met its military goals and that he can see that by mid 2008, the added forces would be gone. That would leave a force of about 130,000. Just 36 per cent in the AP poll said the troop increase has helped stabilise Iraq, only slightly more than the 32 per cent who said they ...
Privacy in 2020
Post Date: 2007-09-10 21:48:50 by tom007
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Privacy in 2020 By Kim Zetter EmailSeptember 07, 2007 | 11:40:52 AMCategories: Privacy 1984_podbrix_playset_3 PCs with a mandatory static IP address. Every car outfitted with a working transponder. A penniless marketplace where every purchase and financial transaction is electronically tracked. Mandatory MySpace pages that every citizen will be required to maintain with up-to-date contact information. These are some of the practices that Robert Gellman, a privacy and information practices consultant in Washington, DC, says will be commonplace in 2020. Gellman makes other predictions about our Winston Smith future as well. He says biometrics and other authentication systems will be a ...
Echoes of Gen Westmoreland and Vietnam
Post Date: 2007-09-10 00:43:20 by tom007
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Echoes of Gen Westmoreland and Vietnam By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington Published: September 9 2007 19:17 | Last updated: September 9 2007 19:17 There is a sense of déjà vu surrounding Monday’s Congressional testimony by General David Petraeus. In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson recalled his top general in Vietnam to defend the war against criticism from Congress. Back in Washington, General William Westmoreland said the military had reached a point where “the end begins to come into view”. There would be “light at the end of the tunnel”, but “mopping up the enemy” might take two more years. Forty years on, General Petraeus will ...
Conservative group: Craig's bathroom arrest is effectively declaration of 'war on the West' (From the "Ya Can't Make It Up" file)
Post Date: 2007-09-08 00:55:42 by tom007
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Conservative group: Craig's bathroom arrest is effectively declaration of 'war on the West' Nick Juliano Published: Friday September 7, 2007 Submit to Netscape Print This Email This Airport spokesman tells RAW STORY police were trying to ensure 'safe' restrooms A conservative group has come to Sen. Larry Craig's defense, saying his arrest in an airport restroom amid allegations he tried to solicit sex was an example of overzealous police profiling and entrapment. The American Land Rights Association, a longtime supporter of the Idaho Republican, is calling for a boycott of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where Craig was arrested in June. The ...
Pope Flies in Style
Post Date: 2007-09-07 23:15:36 by tom007
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Pope Flies in Style By David Axe EmailSeptember 06, 2007 | 8:32:16 AMCategories: Planes, Copters, Blimps blog post photoPope Benedict XVI will ride in a specially outfitted Blackhawk chopper (pictured) when he visits Austria this weekend, Ares reports. The helicopter features lavish new seats emblazoned with the papal crest. And that's not all: Throughout the three-day visit and particularly during the helicopter transits, the heavens above will be secured by Northrop Grumman F-5E air defense fighters of the Austrian air force. ... Says defense minister Norbert Darabos: "The safety of the Pope has the highest priority."
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