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Latest Articles: Editorial
HELP, I'M STONED, WHO SHOULD I VOTE FOR?
Post Date: 2007-04-30 20:45:41 by Dakmar
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Short Answer: John Kerry Long Answer: If you like the job George W. Bush is doing as President, you should go ahead and vote for him. But if you ask HIGH TIMES, that's a bad idea. We think he lied about Iraq being a war of last resort, and that's too big a lie to let pass. Now, maybe you have faith in the President, and don't think he would lie about a war. Fair enough. But first, stop and think about America's other war, the one we're fighting (and losing) in Colombia, the one that targets and arrests cancer patients at gunpoint, the one that's filling our for-profit prisons, the one that's denying first-offense non-violent pot smokers college loans, the one ...
5 Cancers InThe American Body Politic
Post Date: 2007-04-30 20:01:48 by Brian S
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(1.) Above all else, the United States of America is a Dictatorship of the Rich. Wealth is the absolute God of America and no other gods shall appear before It. 99% of the national/international policies of America are orchestrated by Gods and Goddesses with astronomical wealth (i.e., the one percent pig, pig rich). Politics is an army of enablers who are part of the problem, not the solution. It has always been so. Look at moral cockroaches like Happy Hillary Clinton or Judas Joe Lieberman. They do everything but lick the feet of their Greek God like masters. In Dante's Inferno, they would be about 5 levels down with their Bush/Republican soul mates. (2.) For the last 20 or so years ...
The Empire of Lies
Post Date: 2007-04-30 18:55:44 by BeAChooser
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The Empire of Lies Guy Sorman The twenty-first century will not belong to China. The Western press is full of stories these days on China’s arrival as a superpower, some even heralding, or warning, that the future may belong to her. Western political and business delegations stream into Beijing, confident of China’s economy, which continues to grow rapidly. Investment pours in. Crowning China’s new status, Beijing will host the 2008 Summer Olympics. But China’s success is, at least in part, a mirage. True, 200 million of her subjects, fortunate to be working for an expanding global market, increasingly enjoy a middle-class standard of living. The remaining 1 billion, ...
Latino, African-American violence on rise since riots
Post Date: 2007-04-30 12:47:42 by mirage
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FIFTEEN years ago on April 26, 1992, widespread civil unrest erupted in Los Angeles, following the not-guilty verdict in the trial of the four white police officers accused of using excessive force in the arrest of a black motorist named Rodney King. What have we learned about race relations 15 years after the Los Angeles riots? Today Los Angeles is more racially diverse than ever and certainly one of the most diverse U.S. cities. And yet all is not well. Inter-ethnic violence in today's L.A. is centered upon the targeting of African-American residents by Latino street gangs operating with the goal of eradicating African-Americans from "Latino" spaces. The murder of ...
VIEW: America’s sleeping media —J Bradford Delong
Post Date: 2007-04-29 23:42:39 by tom007
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VIEW: America’s sleeping media —J Bradford Delong Where Hiatt sees a press corps that was a little too cowardly about overseeing the Bush administration, Frankel sees a press corps where a sloppy and confusing process is nevertheless doing a reasonable job. I see a very different picture I want to deviate from my usual economic theme this month and focus instead on the system by which the press — mostly the American press — covers government nowadays. But perhaps this is not too great a deviation, for the behaviour of the press affects not only politics, but economics as well. Consider an editorial written in March by the Washington Post’s editorial director, ...
Why Women Hate Hillary
Post Date: 2007-04-29 20:38:09 by Horse
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Hillary wants to be more like a man in her demeanor and politics, leaving some basic tenets of feminism in the dust. She is like patriarchy in sheep's clothing. We sat around the dinner table, a group of 50-something progressive feminists, talking to a friend from England about presidential politics. We were all for Hillary, weren’t we, he asked. Hillary? We hated Hillary. He was taken aback. Weren’t we her base? Wasn’t she one of us? Why did we hate Hillary? Of course, a lot of people seem to hate Hillary. According to some polls, anywhere from 39 to 50 percent of respondents claim they’d vote against her no matter what; her “negatives” continue to be ...
CIVIL LIBERTIES IN AN AGE OF TERROR
Post Date: 2007-04-29 15:03:29 by robin
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SPIEGEL ONLINE - April 26, 2007, 06:36 PM
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,479668,00.htmlCIVIL LIBERTIES IN AN AGE OF TERRORHow to Balance Freedom and Security
By Dieter Grimm
The world after 9/11 has led many Western countries to rethink their security policies, but where does the limit lie between protecting citizens and eroding their civil liberties?
AFP
The March 2004 terrorist attack on Madrid's Atocha train station The terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, on trains in Madrid, on the subway in London and Tokyo, the suicide-bombers in Israel and Iraq have dramatically increased the demand for security, not only in those societies ...
For Peetie Wheatstraw and the Music Club
Post Date: 2007-04-28 21:34:08 by tom007
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RON PAUL NOT A MYTH
Post Date: 2007-04-27 21:00:47 by Dakmar
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We published an analysis on “Dollar Myths” in which we criticized spending habits in Washington: "Interestingly, nobody seemed to focus on the fact that there is an unconventional solution to foreigners holding too much of our debt: live within your means and do not issue debt. Such an old fashioned concept would indeed strengthen the dollar. Unfortunately, none of the presidential candidates at either side of the aisle seem to have heard of this notion." We missed that there is indeed a presidential candidate who believes in the old fashioned view to “live within your means.” Our apologies go to Congressman Ron Paul, who threw his hat in the ring on March ...
Pssst...It's A Secret
Post Date: 2007-04-27 09:04:17 by robin
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Pssst...It's A Secret
By Rip Rense
RipRense.com
4-26-7
I'm sitting in a little tea joint in Westwood right now,
and a guy has just walked in---waddled in, really---who preceeds himself.
Which is to say, his stomach enters the room before he does. He is dressed
in a giant hooded sweatshirt which was yellow but is now closer to brown,
and jeans that have not been washed or perhaps changed since Bush first
stole the presidency. He has a beard that was also yellow but is now closer
to brown, and he exudes the sour smell of old socks on a hot day.
This man does not know The ...
Free trade and globalization does not work for America
Post Date: 2007-04-27 08:16:26 by RickyJ
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US MARKETS It is about to become abundantly clear that free trade and globalization does not work for America and if its pursuit is not quickly brought to an end it will be disastrous for America. What is being done to enrich transnational conglomerates in global trade is disastrously wrong for our country. If free trade is such a win-win proposition, why do we keep on losing? When we broke away from the yoke of Europe’s black nobility we knew collectively as a new nation that free trade didn’t work and we knew what the outcome of such nonsense would bring. Yet, since the early 1960s elitists in and behind government have pushed such an agenda. As learned men they have to ...
Vote for Rudy, or You’re All Going to Die
Post Date: 2007-04-27 06:50:17 by Ada
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Let’s just be upfront, the most shameful exploiter of the 9/11 tragedies has always been Rudy Giuliani. While many politicians in both parties have used the attacks to justify their wars, their political campaigns, and their policies, Rudy owes his revived political career to the horrific strike against America on September 11th. While we should admire Rudy for his showing assertion and leadership on that fateful day, it does not give him a free pass to use the 9/11 dead as political talking points. Giuliani’s level of fearmongering exceeded even that of the Bush administration, which is a tough feat. He finally crossed that line when he suggested that America would be more ...
Put Bush's 'puppy dog' terror theory to sleep
Post Date: 2007-04-27 06:39:52 by Ada
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Does the President think terrorists are puppy dogs? He keeps saying that terrorists will "follow us home" like lost dogs. This will only happen, however, he says, if we "lose" in Iraq. The puppy dog theory is the corollary to earlier sloganeering that proved the President had never studied logic: "We are fighting terrorists in Iraq so that we will not have to face them and fight them in the streets of our own cities." Remarkably, in his attempt to embrace the failed Iraqi adventure even more than the President, Sen. John McCain is now parroting the line. "We lose this war and come home, they'll follow us home," he says. How is this odd ...
Don't Fire Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes
Post Date: 2007-04-26 20:14:34 by tom007
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Don't Fire Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes 04.26.07 | 2:00 AM "War, which used to be cruel and magnificent, has now become cruel and squalid." Winston Churchill wrote those words in 1930, in the aftermath of the First World War, which, from a purely technological standpoint, rivals any war in history for both cruelty and squalidness. (The rest of Churchill's famous passage goes: "Instead of a small number of well-trained professionals championing their country's cause with ancient weapons and a beautiful intricacy of archaic maneuver, sustained at every moment by the applause of their nation, we now have entire populations, including even women and ...
Polite Discussion on Zionism: Is it Possible? (amazing read)
Post Date: 2007-04-26 15:04:52 by gengis gandhi
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Polite Discussion on Zionism: Is it Possible? Topic List < Prev Topic | The Zionist philosophizes that the Palestinian is not a human (Israel was a land without a people). The Anti-Zionist argues that the Palestinian is a human being. So what is the moderate viewpoint? The Palestinian is a quasi-human? That seems to be the American Progressive Jewish position. Amazing isn't it? Polite Discussion on Zionism: Is it Possible? Karin Friedemann - ummyakoub @ http://yahoo.com April 25, 2007 World View News Service I found http://www.realisticdove.org/ very interesting because it is the first time I have come across a progressive Jew so honest about his racism. Usually when confronted, ...
One Choice in Iraq
Post Date: 2007-04-26 12:29:23 by BeAChooser
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One Choice in Iraq By Joe Lieberman Thursday, April 26, 2007; Page A29 Last week a series of coordinated suicide bombings killed more than 170 people. The victims were not soldiers or government officials but civilians -- innocent men, women and children indiscriminately murdered on their way home from work and school. If such an atrocity had been perpetrated in the United States, Europe or Israel, our response would surely have been anger at the fanatics responsible and resolve not to surrender to their barbarism. Unfortunately, because this slaughter took place in Baghdad, the carnage was seized upon as the latest talking point by advocates of withdrawal here in Washington. Rather ...
Petraeus eyes long commitment in Iraq (CAKEWALK ALERT!!!)
Post Date: 2007-04-26 11:33:51 by tom007
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Petraeus eyes long commitment in Iraq By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer 5 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday that conditions in Iraq may get harder before they get easier and will require "an enormous commitment" over time by the United States. ADVERTISEMENT Speaking as the Senate debated veto-threatened legislation to start bringing home U.S. forces in October, Petraeus called the war there "the most complex and challenging I have ever seen." The four-star general, named by President Bush to oversee the recent buildup of American forces, cited some progress in the two months since the troop ...
The Great Global Warming Swindle - Documentary Film
Post Date: 2007-04-26 00:55:12 by RickyJ
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The Great Global Warming Swindle - Documentary Film Accepted theories about man causing global warming are "lies" claims a controversial new TV documentary. 'The Great Global Warming ... all » Swindle' - backed by eminent scientists - is set to rock the accepted consensus that climate change is being driven by humans. The programme, to be screened on Channel 4 on Thursday March 8, will see a series of respected scientists attack the "propaganda" that they claim is killing the world's poor. Even the co-founder of Greenpeace, Patrick Moore, is shown, claiming African countries should be encouraged to burn more CO2. Nobody in the documentary defends ...
Chertoff Uses Totalitarian Comparisons
Post Date: 2007-04-25 23:33:15 by Dakmar
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Michael Chertoff, President Bush’s secretary of Homeland Security, desperately tried to refute Zbigniew Brzezinski’s cogent charge that the administration has hyped the “war on terror” to promote a “culture of fear,” in a recent Washington Post op-ed. In addition to shamefully smearing Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s former National Security Advisor, by associating him with the fringe opinion that the administration plotted the 9/11 terrorist acts, Chertoff also declared, “Al-Qaeda and its ilk have a world vision that is comparable to that of historical totalitarian ideologues but adapted to the 21st–century global network.” This rhetoric makes ...
Neither Conservative Nor Progressive
Post Date: 2007-04-25 11:39:11 by Ada
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This talk was given at the Houston Mises Circle on April 14, 2007. During the 1990s, many of us complained bitterly about rule by the left. We were outraged at how the Clinton administration had so much faith in government’s ability to bring about universal fairness and equality. Government, we were told, would make right all relations between groups, equalize access to health care, curb every corporate abuse, and stop all forms of exploitation of man against man, and man against nature. Except that behind every regulation, every bill, and every central plan, no matter how humane it appeared on the outside, an informed person could discern the iron fist of the state, which the ...
The Oval Office Bunker [Republicans Rip Bush]
Post Date: 2007-04-25 09:23:53 by ...
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The disconnect that is destroying what's left of the Bush presidency was clear in an image from the Oval Office this week. President Bush was sitting warily in his chair, pursing his lips as if he had just eaten a bad radish, as a reporter asked about the performance of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in recent congressional testimony concerning the firing of U.S. attorneys. Prominent Republicans had criticized Gonzales's testimony as evasive and inadequate. But Bush responded blandly that his attorney general had given "a very candid assessment and answered every question he could possibly answer . . . in a way that increased my confidence in his ability to do the ...
BUSH FRETS ABOUT PLACE IN HISTORY
Post Date: 2007-04-24 21:18:24 by Dakmar
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DETROIT -- President George W. Bush is thinking about himself and his place in history. The conqueror of Iraq is pleased on both counts. That assessment brings shudders to the thinking world and more evidence of the depth of his delusions. Speaking to an audience at a high school in Tipp, Ohio, last week, Bush talked about the massacre at Virginia Tech. He didn't mention the violence he supports on a global scale and how that bloodshed nurtures a mentality that violence is a preferred choice in human behavior on other levels. Bush then fielded a few questions. The New York Times reports an audience member asked Bush, "When you go to bed at night, and you see these polls -- ...
A quick reminder about 4um software
Post Date: 2007-04-24 20:18:11 by Dakmar
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In the interest of peace and tranquility I'd like to remind or inform all posters that "vanity" threads can be easily blocked by clicking on the "setup" option at top of page, and then selecting "content filters". Scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll see a bunch of categories you can X on, but you're actually turning them off, articles so marked will not show up in latest comments list.
Did NSA Help Russia Target Dudayev?
Post Date: 2007-04-24 08:39:59 by robin
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April 24, 2007 -- As the world eulogizes former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who died yesterday of a heart attack at age 76, one incident during his presidency cannot be forgotten: Did NSA Help Russia Target Dudayev? By Wayne MadsenCovert Action Quarterly 1997 No. 61, p 47-49. The former Soviet Air Force general knew the rules. When talking on the portable satellite telephone bought for him by his Islamist Refah Party allies in Turkey, he had to keep conversations to an absolute minimum. Nothing less than his life depended on it. Chechen leader Dzokhar Dudayev was especially aware of the capabilities of the Ilyushin-76 aircraft and its A-50 Mainstay radar to pinpoint his phone's ...
VT shooting foretold?
Post Date: 2007-04-24 03:53:57 by RickyJ
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