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Latest Articles: Editorial
Like A Rat Running for Daylight: Bush and the Politics of Perpetual War
Post Date: 2007-01-31 15:12:25 by ...
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There is, I think, a misconception about the Bush administration’s military strategy for the Middle East. There is no military strategy. There is only a political strategy. The political strategy is to keep the pot boiling in the Middle East so that George Bush and Dick Cheney can continue to claim the privileges and protections of a wartime presidency. Because peace, truth, and time are the Bush administration's deadliest enemies. As soon as we opt for disengagement instead of victory and the Iraq war is defined as a failure, the Bush administration is stripped of the "war presidency" status that allows it to shield all its actions from public scrutiny by claiming ...
Bush shoots for ‘Jaws,’ delivers ‘Jaws 2’
Post Date: 2007-01-30 21:12:02 by wbales
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West Yorkshire in England has a new chief police constable. Upon his appointment, Sir Norman Bettison made one of the strangest comments of the year: “The threat of terrorism,” he says, “is lurking out there like ‘Jaws 2.’” Sir Norman did not exactly mine the richest ore for his analogy of warning. A critic once said of the flopping sequel to the classic film: “You’re gonna need a better screenplay.” But this obscure British police official has reminded us that terrorism is still being sold to the public in that country — and in this — as if it were a thrilling horror movie and we were the naughty teenagers about to be its victims. ...
DC's Botoxed Golems - Slapstick on Jenkins Hill
Post Date: 2007-01-30 20:19:56 by SmokinOPs
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"You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!" - Henry B. Adams These are trying times for the first branch of government. Ignore the evident knavery and imbecility of the actual legislation Congress produces. Think of the collapse of dignity that has manifested itself in the physical look of the place, and the comportment of its members duly chosen and sworn. We are long departed from the days when the graceful neoclassical architecture of Latrobe and Bullfinch reared itself atop Jenkins Hill (the original name of Capitol Hill) amid the sleepy precincts of a provincial border town. Within recent memory, the ...
NY Times asks Iran about imprisoned writer
Post Date: 2007-01-30 19:52:50 by Max
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NY Times asks Iran about imprisoned writer THIS IS THAT RABBINIC-PAPAL-CALVINIST DOG KNOWN AS "ERROR HAS NO RIGHTS." In Iran, a nation that believes that "error has no rights," the NY Times, the Zionist newspaper that by its silence and omissions obviously agrees with the European Union, Austria and Germany that revisionists have no rights, asks a hyprocritical question of an ayatollah. Michael Hoffman reports: Again! More, ever more arrogant New York Times hypocrisy pours forth from the newspaper that has never raised a word of protest or alarm concerning the imprisonment of writers Ernst Zundel and Germar Rudolf in Germany and David Irving in Austria, daring to ...
Jack Bauer for president
Post Date: 2007-01-30 11:54:58 by SmokinOPs
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There's a reason Fox's "24" is the most popular show on television. It's not just the suspense. It's not just the action. It's not just the great premise, the great writing, the great performances and the great production values. It's because America loves Jack Bauer. We recognize we need him. If you have watched even a few episodes of "24," you realize it's not decisions by the president of the United States that save Americans from disaster after disaster. It's individual initiative and courage displayed by Jack Bauer – the man we're constantly reminded is "expendable." Viewers understand Jack Bauer is the one ...
2012 - The Future of Mankind
Post Date: 2007-01-30 07:55:26 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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The Granada Forum 3 hr 24 min 48 sec - Aug 3, 2006http://www.originsandoracles.com Michael Tsarion gives a talk at the Granada Forum in Los Angeles, 2006.
The Ba-Da-Boom Crew [Cheney]
Post Date: 2007-01-30 01:08:19 by ...
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If you've been following the Lewis "Scooter" Libby perjury trial, I can understand how you might confuse Dick Cheney with Tony Soprano. Cheney's office is beginning to sound a lot like the Bada Bing, minus the dancers. Court has been in session for only a week, and already we've heard about characters being set up (Libby, allegedly, to save political wizard Karl Rove), strung along (media bigwigs, who were to be played like patsies), buried in mud (former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who questioned the raison d'etre of the Iraq war) and ratted out (the famously leak-averse Cheney, revealed to be willing to leak like a washerless faucet when it suits his purposes). ...
He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown (Bush as the Republican's dog)
Post Date: 2007-01-29 12:43:37 by Ferret Mike
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Yep, that’s right, GOP. George W. Bush is your dog, and it’s time you put a leash on him and took him to the pound. It’s not like he was a puppy when you got him. He was, as they say, a ‘mature animal’ when you decided to foist him on an unsuspecting nation. All you had to do was talk to his previous owners, the State of Texas, and you would have found out what havoc he had wreaked in their home. He dirtied their environment, put his cronies in positions they weren’t up to, made sure the corporations had the run of the house when no one was looking – doesn’t any of this sound familiar? It should; it was all right there in his papers. The damned dog ...
Former Russian Defence Chief Warns About US Nuclear Attack on Iran
Post Date: 2007-01-29 11:37:58 by Brian S
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I think it is one of the most informed professional analysis so far of US intentions to nuclear bomb Iran. He even refers to a "provocation" (or False Flag incident staged by the Bush regime) to fool the Senate and Congress into giving their approval for a nuclear attack on Iran. Bush has already fooled them with a string of lies into approving his war on Iraq. Now Bush is ready to do it it again - but this time the Bush regime is likely to stage a very serious "provocation", as General Ivashov has stated, and blame it on Iran as a justification for a nuclear attack. The article should convince people that now is the time to take action if they wish to prevent a US ...
Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful -- and Smart, Too
Post Date: 2007-01-28 17:57:51 by YertleTurtle
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If "intellectually gifted" is defined to mean people who can become theoretical physicists, then we're talking about no more than a few people per thousand and perhaps many fewer. They are cognitive curiosities, too rare to have that much impact on the functioning of society from day to day. But if "intellectually gifted" is defined to mean people who can stand out in almost any profession short of theoretical physics, then research about IQ and job performance indicates that an IQ of at least 120 is usually needed. That number demarcates the top 10% of the IQ distribution, or about 15 million people in today's labor force--a lot of people. W. H. Brady Scholar ...
Barack and Hillary: Can Israel rely on either?
Post Date: 2007-01-28 13:00:51 by Ferret Mike
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We simply cannot afford to allow a person with incoherent, weak and inconsistent views on national security and foreign policy to become the Democrats' presidential nominee This week three prominent Jews from Hollywood, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg, decided to host a fundraiser for Illinois Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama. According to some reports George Soros is backing him as well. This is not a coincidence: all three of these Hollywood heavyweights were ardent supporters of Hillary Clinton. This spawns the following question: which of these two Democratic Presidential frontrunners will be more effective in the struggle against terrorism and ...
They're Broken Men, So Don't Let Them Take Us To A New War
Post Date: 2007-01-28 12:27:15 by Brian S
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Presidents Bush and Ahmadinejad have lost face at home; now others must forge peaceful settlements in the Middle East Sunday January 28, 2007 There is a striking likeness in the expressions of George W Bush and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran as they confront each other over the issues of uranium enrichment and dominance in the Middle East. It falls somewhere between the chastened and defiant playground bully. This is unsurprising: though not political equivalents, the two are really quite similar. Both had little experience of government or international affairs before being carried to power on a tide of populist, religious conservatism. Neither travelled abroad much, but they both had ...
Kill Them All, Now
Post Date: 2007-01-28 08:44:40 by Redheadedstranger
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[Okay, lads and lassies, let's unlimber those attention spans, shall we? More "classic HAC," although since I didn't write this, I suppose it should be called "classic NSNet" from around 1997 or so. I considered running this with all kinds of caveats and disclaimers, but what the hell? The author probably intended this as comedy, but there's many a true word said in jest. It's not likely to incite anyone to violence, since American White males don't fight any more. They write their Congressman or bitch to a radio talk show host or hire a lawyer to file a malicious lawsuit. I figure that once--just once--I am going to publish what everybody in this ...
Winning the Hearts and Minds of the Iraq People, or Support the Troops
Post Date: 2007-01-27 10:06:35 by tom007
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http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/923/Soldier_Confesses_to_Gang_Rape_of_Iraqi_Teen video removed by the war censors (they hate us cause we're free), but a partial transcript is available at the link.
Mike Whitney: BUSH'S WAR ON PERCEPTION; THE BOMBING OF THE GOLDEN MOSQUE
Post Date: 2007-01-27 09:57:26 by tom007
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Mike Whitney: BUSH'S WAR ON PERCEPTION; THE BOMBING OF THE GOLDEN MOSQUE We’ve heard a lot about the bombing of Samarra’s Golden Mosque lately. Bush has brought it up twice in the last week alone. It’s a critical part of the administration’s rationale for the occupation of Iraq, so we can expect to be reminded of it nearly as often as 9-11. The destruction of the Golden-dome Mosque took place in February 2005 and has been identified as the "catalyzing event" that plunged the country into sectarian violence. That, at least, is just the official version. No one knows really what happened because the administration refused to conduct an independent ...
YEAH, Right George, YOU'RE SOME DECIDER !
Post Date: 2007-01-27 05:15:08 by noone222
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Yeah, Right, George – You’re Some Decider! You’re a decider, George? Come on, get real. You haven’t made a serious decision in your entire life about anything more vital than what brand of beer to guzzle or what grade of cocaine to snort. Strutting around the White House claiming to be ‘the Decider’ is a laugh and a half, George. You said it before and no one cared. You said it again today and it’s just as pathetic. So, just what is it you’ve actually decided? Face, it George, for six years now, you’ve been unable to make a single decision about anything that made a difference to any of us. From day one, others made the decisions and you just ...
Why do people question the holocaust and 911 attacks?
Post Date: 2007-01-26 12:55:50 by Brian S
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People question the holocaust for exactly the same reason they are currently questioning the official version of what really happened on 9-11, because there are so many legitimate questions, and no forthcoming answers.Carefully consider the following questions and comparisons:1. Why do people question the idea that six million Jews were gassed during WWII in places like Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka and Dachau? [It is against the law to question this number in many European countries today and will result in a prison sentence - see here for a list of some of the better known prisoners of conscience at present]2. Why do people question the idea that two planes crashing into two buildings and ...
Venezuela's RCTV Acts of Sedition
Post Date: 2007-01-25 08:35:57 by Stephen Lendman
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Venezuela's RCTV Acts of Sedition - by Stephen Lendman On December 28, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias delivered his annual "greeting speech" to the National Armed Forces (FAN) and announced the operating license of TV station Radio Caracas Television (known as RCTV) broadcasting on VHF Channel 2 won't be renewed when it expires on May 27, 2007. The station played a leading role, along with the other four major commercial private television channels in the country controlling 90% of the TV market, in instigating and supporting the 2002 aborted two-day coup against President Chavez. Later in the year they acted together again in similar fashion as an active ...
Carl Klang: Blinded by the Lies
Post Date: 2007-01-25 06:10:30 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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Ron Paul: Liberty & the gold standard
Post Date: 2007-01-24 19:28:48 by Brian S
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The cost of war is enormously detrimental; it significantly contributes to economic instability by boosting spending, deficits, and inflation...FUNDS USED FOR WAR are funds that could have remained in the productive economy to raise the standard of living of Americans now unemployed, underemployed, or barely living on the margin. Yet even these costs may be preferable to paying for war with huge tax increases. This is because although fiat Dollars are theoretically worthless, value is imbued by the trust placed in them by the world’s financial community. Subjective trust in a currency can override objective knowledge about government policies, but only for a limited ...
Ron Paul for President: What is Free Republic Afraid of?
Post Date: 2007-01-24 18:35:53 by Brian S
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Ron Paul for President: What is Free Republic Afraid of? January 23, 2007Vox Populi By Dan Phillips Since the beginning of the Bush administration genuine conservatives have been taking a beating, but now there is hope. Friday 12 January 07 finally brought some good news for the conservative movement and the cause of authentic conservatism and constitutionally limited government! Rep. Ron Paul has set up an exploratory committee for a possible presidential campaign for the GOP nomination in 2008. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Rep. Paul, he is a Republican Congressman from the 14th District of Texas. In the Congress he is a bright shining light of limited government in a bastion ...
Obama? Yomama!
Post Date: 2007-01-23 19:19:42 by Nostalgia
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Obama? Obama who? What's an Obama? Reasonable questions, all. Pay attention now, because these are the exact, same questions as: "George? George who? His daddy was who?" Or: "Clinton? Who the hell is Bill Clinton?" Come on - surely you remember that George W. Bush appeared quite suddenly from out of nowhere, with everybody in the media conceding him the inside track to the Republican nomination for President, opposing Al Gore? All at once, George W. Bush had the biggest campaign war chest in history and was touted as likely to oust the Democrats and restore Republican rule. When I heard that, my question - almost rhetorically - was, "George who?" Same ...
Buchanan: The X Factor in 2008 – Iran
Post Date: 2007-01-23 10:57:46 by Brian S
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After a weekend in which 29 Americans died and the 82nd Airborne deployed in Baghdad, what the Iraq war will mean to the politics of 2008 becomes clear. Hillary Clinton's early Saturday announcement of her exploratory committee was brilliantly executed and captured front page, cable and network coverage all weekend. But it was a decision forced upon her. Barack Obama, the "rock star," has been poaching Hillary's donor lists and offering Democrats, in the style of New York mayoral candidate John V. Lindsay in 1965 ("He is fresh, and they are all tired"), a post-Bush-Clinton-Bush politics that says, "Goodbye to all that." John Edwards has pitched his ...
Ron Paul: Can We Achieve Peace in the Middle East?
Post Date: 2007-01-22 22:52:10 by Brian S
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January 22, 2007 Former President Carter’s new book about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised the ire of Americans on two sides of the debate. I say “two sides” rather than “both sides,” because there is another perspective that is never discussed in American politics. That perspective is the perspective of our founding fathers, namely that America should not intervene in the internal affairs of other nations. Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign ...
Israel: Rethinking 1948
Post Date: 2007-01-22 22:43:02 by ...
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So, I just finished reading Ilan Pappe's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, and I have to say it is one powerful book. Pappe is a Jewish Israeli historian, professor of Political Science at Haifa University, Academic Director of the Research Institute for Peace at Givat Haviva, and Chair of the Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa. A leading member of the Israeli "new historian" movement, he has published numerous books questioning the traditional Zionist narrative of the creation and development of the State of Israel. This particular book, while solidly based in archival research, is conceived and written as a polemic, explicitly designed to challenge ...
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