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Latest Articles: Editorial
No More Anonymous Food
Post Date: 2007-08-02 17:58:42 by Ferret Mike
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At a potluck dinner last night, in the midst of local skirt steak, Montauk scallops, a frittata made with the year’s first potatoes, and a salad made with the year’s first tomatoes, the conversation naturally turned to the origin of our foods. The guests included a farmer, two winemakers, and a fisherman, as well as a nurse, several writers, and others who don’t directly make their living from food, but were happy to speak about it. More than ever, it seems, people are talking about where their food comes from. It must have something to do with the recent news about contaminated food imported from China and other nations whose food safety laws seem equally porous. Food ...
Why Do They Hate Us? Start With John Bolton
Post Date: 2007-08-02 15:01:16 by Brian S
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Does former UN Amb. John Bolton – now with the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) — still speak for Dick Cheney? The new British government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown must be scratching its collective head over that question given the truly unbelievably arrogant and threatening op-ed Bolton, a Cheney protege, published in Wednesday’s Financial Times. The column’s title, “Britain Cannot Have Two Best Friends,” refers to what Bolton calls “a clear decision point” for Britain — to choose between the United States and the European Union or, as he refers to it, the “European porridge” of which he so clearly disapproves. ...
Truth Still a Casualty with Tillman
Post Date: 2007-08-02 06:10:53 by Ada
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The old saying that "the first casualty of war is truth" seems to be alive and well. The most recent example is a batch of newly-released military documents (obtained by the Associated Press, via a FOIA request) related to the death of Pat Tillman. For those that might have been purposely avoiding the news for the past several years, Tillman gave up a lucrative career as a football player in the NFL, and joined the Army after the "9-11" attacks. He became a Ranger, and was later killed during a firefight in Afghanistan. Now, the question resufaces: "Killed by whom?" Two key points arise from the new revelations about the incident. One, various witnesses agree ...
Toxic trailers for hurricane victims? Heckuva job, FEMA
Post Date: 2007-08-02 02:04:34 by kiki
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Paul Stewart and his wife, Melody, lost "everything we owned in the span of a couple of hours," when Hurricane Katrina swept through their home in Bay St. Louis, Miss., nearly two years ago. In December 2005, they were relieved when the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) delivered a new travel trailer that would become their temporary home. That relief, however, was short-lived. Within days, Paul's eyes and throat got scratchy. He started coughing. Melody awoke with a bloody nose. One morning, they found their pet cockatiel barely able to move. Last month, in testimony before a House committee, Paul credited the bird, Cici, with saving their lives. Their ...
I know I have posted this before but excellence deserves an encore
Post Date: 2007-07-31 22:48:02 by tom007
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YouTube has Republicans on the run: GOP claims that YouTube is biased show how out of touch with the people Republicans are.
Post Date: 2007-07-31 15:12:13 by aristeides
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YouTube has Republicans on the run GOP claims that YouTube is biased show how out of touch with the people Republicans are. July 31, 2007 6:20 PM The Republicans are, I believe, making a gigantic mistake in running away, scared, from the internet. They're running away from voters - and their money. The latest indication of their fear of the internet is their attempt to fink out on the YouTube/CNN Republican debate. The party line - as we see from Rush Limbaugh and others - is that YouTube is biased. That's patently absurd. That would be like the Democrats saying that mail is biased because the Republicans made the first and best use of it. If internet video is biased, it is a ...
Committee of 300 (aka Olympians)
Post Date: 2007-07-31 01:39:58 by richard9151
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This committee of 300 is modeled after the British East India Company's Council of 300, founded by the British aristocracy in 1727. Most of its immense wealth arose out of the opium trade with China. This group is responsible for the phony drug wars here in the U.S. These phony drug wars were to get us to give away our constitutional rights. Asset forfeiture is a prime example, where huge assets can be seized without trail and no proof of guilt needed. Also the Committee of 300 long ago decreed that there shall be a smaller-much smaller-and better world, that is, their idea of what constitutes a better world. The myriads of useless eaters consuming scarce natural resources were to be ...
Admissions of Guilt
Post Date: 2007-07-30 01:51:13 by richard9151
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Beware the man who makes broad moral judgments. The man who says, "everyone lies sometimes," is a liar. The man who says, "everyone steals sometimes," is a thief. The man who says, "everyone cheats sometimes," is a cheat. Every individual who confesses his life is better with a government than it would be without one, is essentially dishonest, incompetent, unhealthy, unreasonable, or without confidence in his own ability to supply his own needs and live successfully in this world. People who need people are parasites. Lice need people. The expression, "it's only human," is almost always used to excuse some vile or grossly inhuman behavior. ...
The Cost of Freedom
Post Date: 2007-07-30 01:37:39 by richard9151
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The Autonomist's Notebook The Autonomist's Notebook is a semi-satirical collection of aphorisms, epigrams, and comments on politics, philosophy, and religion. While illustrative of automomist thought, they are not meant to be instructive. They are meant primarily for the edification and entertainment of autonomists as pleasant reminders of the clear and essential principles by which we live our lives and which make them worth living. These are the principles of individual freedom, without which neither human life, in it fullest and noblest sense, nor the fulfillment of its purpose is possible. The Cost of Freedom If you want to be free, it will be the most costly and difficult ...
President Bush Needs To Know
Post Date: 2007-07-29 22:59:53 by kiki
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In the early days of Caller ID, there was a funny joke posted on the Internet. A guy is calling to order pizza and the person taking the order answers the phone, knows who is he, what his latest cholesterol test was, his genetic make up and tells him he can't have a double cheese and pepperoni but a boring, healthy alternative. It made you laugh and hopefully realize that there is a huge web of information available today about everyone. It's powerful and can easily be misused. We are Americans, though. Land of the Free, Don't Tread on Me and all that stuff. We invented liberty. Right? Seems people coming to visit our country -- watch a game at Fenway Park, ooo and ahh over ...
Iraq LOOK AT THIS PLEASE
Post Date: 2007-07-29 22:29:05 by tom007
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The 'right' to discriminate (Israel)
Post Date: 2007-07-29 16:37:29 by tom007
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July 28, 2007 A fixture in the lives of all children who have ever attended Hebrew school is the blue Jewish National Fund (JNF) pushke (or charity box), into which parents and teachers encouraged us to throw our pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. They taught us to perform a mitzvah by giving tzedakah to support the building of the Jewish homeland. Thus, the Jewish National Fund was the Red Cross of Jewish life, a "mom and apple pie" charity doing nothing but good for our people. How times change! Last week, the Israeli Knesset passed, on first reading, the Jewish National Fund bill which allows the JNF to refuse to lease land to Arab citizens. The JNF is a quasi-public ...
Dumb or dishonest? Either way, Gonzo's gotta go
Post Date: 2007-07-29 15:10:13 by kiki
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I have a 4-year-old daughter who has an amazing gift for telling fanciful tales, making them up on the fly to fit any situation. I'm thinking of loaning her storytelling services to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, since it's clear she tells much better stories than he does. I'm not sure I can recall anything so irritatingly painful to watch as Gonzales' testimony before Congress last week. A lot of attention is being paid to Gonzales' account of his 2004 nighttime hospital visit to see then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. Oh, he wasn't there to talk about the Terrorist Surveillance Program with an incapacitated Ashcroft, he was there to talk about another ...
THE COMING MALAISE
Post Date: 2007-07-29 07:54:30 by Arete
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Remember President Carter’s 1979 Malaise Speech? Americans were losing faith in the country’s future, he said. They were closing the door on America's past. President Carter wanted to turn things around. He warned that rising materialism would not “fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.” He said it was a crisis of American spirit. In response to this crisis, Carter wanted the authority to ration gasoline, form an “energy mobilization board,” create a bureaucracy to guarantee that we would “never use more foreign oil than we did in 1977,” set oil import quotas and develop solar power. “These efforts will cost ...
I Think We Al Better Learn Spanish and Move To Paraguay
Post Date: 2007-07-29 00:15:25 by tom007
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The president’s contempt
Post Date: 2007-07-28 16:47:46 by robin
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THE PRESIDENT’S CONTEMPT by Michael Hammerschlag Hammernews.com In Russia, Vladimir Putin has been accused by some of contributing to the poisoning of Kremlin critic Litvinenko, and the recent exposure of another assassination plot against deposed and despised oligarch Boris Berezovsky adds more fuel to the suspicions. But in America, Bush’s guilt in the deaths of over a hundred thousand isn’t a matter of conjecture. The invasion of Iraq has easily cost that, though in America, we only talk about the 30,000 Americans killed and wounded. The coming genocide will likely kick the total number up to a million. The manifest lies, fabrications, and falsehoods that ...
Michael Moore says he's been served with subpoena
Post Date: 2007-07-27 19:34:55 by tom007
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Michael Moore says he's been served with subpoena John Byrne Published: Friday July 27, 2007 Submit to Netscape Print This Email This Filmmaker Michael Moore revealed on Thursday's "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno that the Bush Administration had served him with a subpoena regarding his recent trip to Cuba made as part of his new film, Sicko. Moore told the audience that he was notified of the subpoena backstage. "I haven't even told my own family yet," Moore remarked. "I was just informed when I was back there with Jay that the Bush administration has now issued a subpoena for me." Moore declared that the subpoena was unwarranted, saying, ...
The mainstream, sane, serious Joe Lieberman
Post Date: 2007-07-27 18:54:07 by tom007
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The mainstream, sane, serious Joe Lieberman (updated below - updated again) One of the favorite tactics of super-sophisticated Beltway media insiders is to band together and point to anyone who expresses views outside of their narrow orthodoxies and laugh at what crazy and unserious "wackos" they are --- in contrast to the very serious-minded, sane and insightful Beltway elite. The current roster of crazy losers includes Mike Gravel and Ron Paul -- the ones opposed to the war in Iraq and to American military domination around the world. They are insane lunatics, total losers, not fit even to be heard in public discourse among the Serious. Thus, we are treated to an endless ...
The China Syndrome: Silk Road or Silver Road?
Post Date: 2007-07-27 08:09:34 by DeaconBenjamin
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I had one of those First Order experiences people talk about, two years ago, standing athwart the cobblestoned roads of a little city in China called Lijiang, poised at the southernmost end of the Himalayas, in the shadow of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain towering above us at three miles in elevation. Through this millennia-old city courses the Jinsha River, cut into canals that house fish pens to serve the quaint eateries, which serve up fresh-caught perch with yak-meat and beer locally brewed from the Jade Dragon's glacial waters. These cobblestones form the ancient Silk Road, but it dawned on me, standing there and pondering the old city, that "Silk Road" is a misnomer; ...
It Wasn't Me. I didn't Do It!!
Post Date: 2007-07-26 20:31:41 by tom007
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Report: Libby a long-time Israeli intelligence agent
Post Date: 2007-07-26 18:50:21 by tom007
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Report: Libby a long-time Israeli intelligence agent by Wayne Madsen Global Research, July 7, 2007 http://waynemadsenreport.com Email this article to a friend Print this article Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby (Leibowitz) has been a long-serving intelligence agent for Israel's Mossad, according to a veteran CIA "official cover" officer who spoke to the Wayne Madsen Report on deep background. The CIA's Clandestine Service has, over the years, gathered a tremendous amount of intelligence on Libby's activities on behalf of Mossad. Libby served as the lawyer for Switzerland- based American fugitive financier Marc Rich, aka Mark David Reich, who is also known to ...
Iraq: Where Have all the Journalist Gone?
Post Date: 2007-07-26 10:15:03 by tom007
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Iraq: Where Have all the Journalist Gone? News Sophisticate July 24, 2007 During the last 5 years the United States media has been silenced in perhaps the most crucial time in American history. We are currently fighting 2 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet our media coverage is completely lacking 'real' journalistic content. Our news has been domesticated for US consumption. Long gone are the days when we received information from the journalist in the field. Currently in Iraq, our news is being supplied by the U.S. military. Secluded in the Green Zone, the few western journalists in country, crowd together and listen as a US official tells them the stories of the day. Hard ...
Christian Rightist Bush Speechwriter Calls for Attack on Syria
Post Date: 2007-07-26 10:08:36 by tom007
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Christian Rightist Bush Speechwriter Calls for Attack on Syria Plucking Low-Hanging Fruit Gary Leupp July 25, 2007 Neocon officials in the Defense Department call them "low-hanging fruit" — as though countries were produce ripe for picking and eating. The term refers to nations targeted for regime change that might be achieved with minimal strain, at least when compared with the effort needed to topple the regime in Iran. Some neocons are beginning to concede that the effort might not be feasible at this time (not that they would be climbing the tree and plucking the fruit; they’d stand below advising on how it should be done). They’re advocating instead that the ...
Halliburton Income More Than Doubles
Post Date: 2007-07-26 10:03:21 by tom007
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Halliburton Income More Than Doubles AP | July 24, 2007 JOHN PORRETTO Halliburton Co. said Monday second-quarter net income more than doubled to $1.5 billion, lifted largely by a $933 million gain from the separation of its former subsidiary, KBR Inc. The result for the April-June period, which amounted to $1.62 per share, compared with income of $591 million, or 55 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue in the quarter rose 20 percent to $3.7 billion from $3.1 billion a year ago. The oilfield services conglomerate said sales rose worldwide, particularly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Excluding the gain from the KBR split, Halliburton said income from continuing operations in the ...
Brooks Admits He Picked Facts ‘Out Of The Air' To Defend Bush's Iraq Policy
Post Date: 2007-07-26 09:54:13 by tom007
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Brooks Admits He Picked Facts ‘Out Of The Air' To Defend Bush's Iraq Policy Think Progress | July 24, 2007 Yesterday, Media Matters observed that on this week's Meet the Press, New York Times columnist David Brooks admitted to using a made-up statistic in order to argue against withdrawal from Iraq. Specifically, Brooks rehashed the right-wing talking point that withdrawal in Iraq would certainly lead to “genocide,” alleging that 10,000 Iraqis a month would die after redeployment. But Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward quickly forced Brooks' to admit his statistics were baseless: BOB WOODWARD: I mean, you cite numbers which you have pulled out of the ...
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