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Latest Articles: Editorial
Christmas In the Trenches, 1914
Post Date: 2006-12-25 12:10:10 by tom007
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Christmas in the Trenches, 1914 Printer Friendly Version >>> By the end of November 1914 the crushing German advance that had swallowed the Low Countries and threatened France had been checked by the allies before it could reach Paris. The opposing armies stared at each other from a line of hastily built defensive trenches that began at the edge of the English Channel and continued to the border of Switzerland. Barbed wire and parapets defended the trenches and between them stretched a "No-Mans-Land" that in some areas was no more than 30 yards wide. British troops in the trenches Life in the trenches was abominable. Continuous sniping, machinegun fire and artillery ...
And So This Is Christmas (Cindy Sheehan)
Post Date: 2006-12-25 10:39:42 by christine
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Monday 25 December 2006 And so this is Christmas, And what have you done? Another year over, A new one just begun. - John Lennon Today is the 21st birthday of my youngest child, Janey. It is the third birthday that she has "celebrated" since her oldest sibling, Casey, was killed in Iraq. My other son, Andy, turned 21 the year Casey was killed. Carly, my oldest daughter, turned 24 the year after Casey was killed ... the same age he was when BushCo sent him to die in their oil war for profit. In the one letter that Casey was writing three days before he was killed in the ambush that took the lives of six other soldiers, he expressed regret that he wouldn't be home for ...
ATLANTIC YARDS QUESTIONS (eminent domain)
Post Date: 2006-12-24 16:11:14 by SmokinOPs
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December 14, 2006 -- Imagine: a $4 billion shot in the arm for Brooklyn - bringing 22,000 new jobs over the next decade, another 5,000 permanent jobs and $5.6 billion in tax revenues over 30 years. Plus, 8 million square feet of space in some 16 new buildings designed by Frank Gehry - for apartments, offices, stores and a new hotel. There's more: Such as eight acres of open space and, best of all, a new arena to host the Nets basketball franchise. All in a long-moribund stretch of land just aching for revival. It's called Atlantic Yards, and it's slated to get a final go-ahead next week from the Public Authorities Control Board. There's no legitimate reason the board ...
Electromagnetic and Informational Weapons: The Remote Manipulation of the Human Brain
Post Date: 2006-12-24 00:34:39 by richard9151
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Editors Note: We bring to our readers this carefully documented review article by Mojmir Babajek. While the text deals with a number of complex scientific processes, the implications of these findings are far-reaching. The arsenal of electromagnetic and informational weapons, used to manipulate the human mind of targeted individuals or populations, is an integral part of the weapons system of the New World Order. The US military possesses a sophisticated arsenal of psychotronic weapons which could be used both domestically and internationally. Electromagnetic and informational Weapons could be used in conventional wars theatres, without the knowledge of the enemy. It is therefore ...
'What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today?'
Post Date: 2006-12-23 22:05:22 by innieway
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In two days, a third of humanity will gather to celebrate the birth pains of a Palestinian refugee in Bethlehem - but two millennia later, another mother in another glorified stable in this rubble-strewn, locked-down town is trying not to howl. Fadia Jemal is a gap-toothed 27-year-old with a weary, watery smile. "What would happen if the Virgin Mary came to Bethlehem today? She would endure what I have endured," she says. Fadia clutches a set of keys tightly, digging hard into her skin as she describes in broken, jagged sentences what happened. "It was 5pm when I started to feel the contractions coming on," she says. She was already nervous about the birth - her first, ...
What the Heck is a Paleoconservative and Why You Should Care
Post Date: 2006-12-23 17:34:35 by 82Marine89
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Have you ever noticed how enthusiasts of all sorts frequently speak a language that is completely unintelligible to the rest of us? For example, computer geeks . . . err . . . enthusiasts have their own language as do gear heads . . . err . . . hot rod enthusiasts. Wonkish political obsessives like me are guilty of the same thing, I am afraid. I don’t know a gigabyte from RAM or a header from a flathead, but I can rattle off the various shades of conservatism in Rainman-like fashion. I was reminded of this tendency recently when I published an article on paleoconservatism and abortion. The article was originally published at Intellectual Conservative, and later published at ...
Bush's "delusion": a psychiatrist's perspective
Post Date: 2006-12-23 10:34:37 by Morgana le Fay
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Bush's irrational consideration of a "surge" in the wake of the ISG report--which apparently defies all credible counsel--has begun to generate speculation regarding his sanity. References to Bush's "delusions" have appeared in the MSM (notable on "Scarborough Country") and throughout the blogosphere. As a psychiatrist, I understandably get concerned when I see clinical terminology bandied about in political discourse, and thought it might be of interest to share my own perspective on this question. First of all, let me state up front that I probably hate Bush as much (or nearly so) as anybody here. I think he has done more damage to our country than ...
DINING WITH SCROOGE
Post Date: 2006-12-22 18:34:24 by DeaconBenjamin
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I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. -- Charles Dickens (December, 1843). Little did Charles Dickens suspect in 1843, when he sat down to write "A Christmas Carol" in the hope of earning enough royalty income to pay off a debt, that his story would become the most popular piece of fiction in the English language. Generations that ceased to read it have seen it performed on stage and on screen, both large and small. I doubt that any other work of literature has been ...
Surviving the New World Order (Be An Outpost of Happiness)
Post Date: 2006-12-22 17:21:09 by Red Jones
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Surviving the New World Order (Encore) December 22, 2006 By Henry Makow, Ph.D. (Originally posted Jan 7, 2006 this is appropriate for the season.) [Memo to Myself] This isn't about storing silver coins or canned food or getting an AK-47. It's about saving your soul not your skin. It's about the tendency to obsess on the New World Order, get depressed and become unbearable. The situation is depressing. A satanic cult controls the credit of the world and rules through myriad proxies. It is determined to destroy civilization and institute an Orwellian police state. You spend hours every day addictively watching for new developments. Your face is pressed up against the store ...
Desperation in the White House
Post Date: 2006-12-22 09:28:25 by tom007
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Desperation in the White House BY JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY jlgalloway2@cs.com The power brokers in Washington spent the week carefully arranging fig leaves and tasteful screens to cover the emperor's nakedness while he was busy pretending to listen hard to everyone with an opinion about Iraq while hearing nothing. Sometime early in the new year, President Bush will go on national television to tell a disgruntled American public what he has decided should be done to salvage ''victory'' from the jaws of certain defeat in the war he started. The word on the street, or in the Pentagon rings, is that he'll choose to beef up U.S. forces on the ground in Iraq by 20,000 to 30,00 ...
When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping
Post Date: 2006-12-22 08:36:59 by Arete
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President George W. Bush has an instant remedy for anything that ails this nation or his failed administration. Go shopping. In the days following the 9-11 terrorist attacks, Bush urged Americans to "go about their business as usual" and "go to the malls" to show they weren't afraid of terrorists. On Wednesday, Bush stood once again before the American people and told them to stop worrying about his war debacle in Iraq and "go shopping." Such statements, famed Boston newspaper columnist Mike Barnicle says, "borders on criminal." Former Republican congressman and now TV host Chuck Scarborough said Wednesday night that Bush may be ...
A Very Dangerous New Year
Post Date: 2006-12-22 06:18:36 by Eoghan
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A “Hail Mary” strategy: Bush, Olmert and Blair could salvage their reputations if a wider war broke out in the Middle East and then broke in their favor. All three leaders could salvage their reputations if a wider war broke out in the Middle East and then broke in their favor. The first two or three months of 2007 represent a dangerous opening for an escalation of war in the Middle East, as George W. Bush will be tempted to “double-down” his gamble in Iraq by joining with Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair to strike at Syria and Iran, intelligence sources say. President Bush’s goal would be to transcend the ...
The Warmonger’s Brigade
Post Date: 2006-12-22 01:33:09 by Burkeman1
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It appears the Bush administration has a real problem on its hands – the war effort is not going well at all and the military is on the verge of "breaking." I do believe I have a plan, which if implemented right away could provide the needed relief Bush is desperately searching for. Desperate times call for desperate measures. If this country is indeed in danger of having to fight the enemy on our soil, it is time to pull out all stops. If the Bush administration is serious about "protecting our freedom" and this is not a war started on lies to increase the bottom line of companies from the Military Industrial Complex, it is time to deploy the Warmonger’s ...
Colorado blizzard strands thousands
Post Date: 2006-12-21 19:43:31 by tom007
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Colorado blizzard strands thousands By KIM NGUYEN, Associated Press Writer 44 minutes ago DENVER - Nearly 5,000 travelers who mistakenly thought they were beating the Christmas rush struggled to find a hotel room or faced another night on the hard floor at Denver's snowbound airport Thursday after a blizzard paralyzed the city. ADVERTISEMENT The storm blanketed most of Colorado under 2 feet of snow, bringing businesses, government and holiday shopping to a standstill, shutting down the nation's fifth-busiest airport and creating a ripple effect that disrupted air travel around the country just days before Christmas. "We can't go home; the highway's closed. We ...
The Rise of Russia and the Coming Resource Wars
Post Date: 2006-12-21 15:58:19 by Brian S
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Russia’s move in rejecting all outside help for the development of the Shtokmas field is a small subtle but potentially dangerous long term warning signal to nations that are low in natural resources, especially to the United States which imports the bulk of its oil. Let’s take this move one step further. If a nation or for that matter certain companies start to feel that the price of the commodity is too low they can hold back on developing new fields or maybe even drastically cut down production in anticipation of much higher prices in the future. Essentially oil, natural gas, coal etc can now be considered as money in the bank and the longer someone holds out the ...
The Need for the De-Zionization of America (and Israel)
Post Date: 2006-12-21 13:04:50 by Brian S
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The inspiration for this article came from watching a program on C-SPAN featuring a panel discussion sponsored by a Zionist Jewish-dominated, Islamophobic think-tank, The Hudson Institute, and the subject matter was "The Need for the De-Ba'athification of Iraq". The panelists seemed to be Iraqi puppets hand-picked by Zionist Jews, for they spouted typically Zionist misleading analogies and agendas. The most obvious reason for this impression was how one of the panelists kept saying the need for the de-Ba'athification in Iraq is the same as how there was and still needs to be a complete de-Nazification of Germany. This is a false analogy as I will explain later in this ...
Delusions Of Victory
Post Date: 2006-12-21 12:22:00 by Brian S
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Having rejected the ISG, Bush is now embracing the manifesto of a rump group of neocons for the escalation of the Iraq war. December 21, 2006 12:22 PM "We're going to win," President Bush told a guest at a White House Christmas party. Another guest, ingratiating himself with his host, urged him to ignore the report of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by James Baker, the former secretary of state and his father's close associate, which described the crisis in Iraq as "grave and deteriorating" and offered 79 recommendations for diplomacy, transferring responsibility to the Iraqi government and withdrawing nearly all US troops by 2008. "The ...
President's Double Down A Bad Gamble
Post Date: 2006-12-21 11:01:19 by Brian S
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Will Rogers said that the first thing you do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. All the signs out of the nation's capital indicate that President George W. Bush -- who's in a very deep hole of his own making in Iraq -- is about to ask for a bigger shovel. The word is that Bush is tilting toward the most dangerous option of all the recommended moves he has on his desk: a temporary "surge" of an additional 20,000 to 30,000 American troops thrown into the bloody agony that's Iraq today. If he chooses this option, it will be against the best advice of the American military commanders on the ground, the unanimous opposition of the service chiefs in the ...
The war is already lost
Post Date: 2006-12-20 23:06:13 by Morgana le Fay
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Ideological zealotry has helped destroy Iraq, revive the Taliban and increase the terror threat Once a war goes badly wrong and its justifications are shown to be lies, to insist that a "democratic" Iraq is visible on the horizon and that "we must stay the course" becomes a total fantasy. What is to be done? In the US a group of Foggy Bottom elders was wheeled in to prepare a report. This admitted what the whole world (Downing Street excepted) already knew: the occupation is a disaster and the situation gets more hellish every day. After US citizens voted accordingly in the mid-term elections, the White House sacrificed the Pentagon warlord, Donald Rumsfeld. The ...
Buchanan: Broken Army, Broken Empire
Post Date: 2006-12-20 21:09:09 by Brian S
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Dec 20, 2006 The insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan have thus far cost fewer U.S. lives than the Filipino insurgency of 1899-1902. Yet Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker warned Congress last week the U.S. Army "will break" without more troops. We started this war "flat-footed," with 500,000 fewer soldiers than we had before the Gulf War, says the general, who wants 7,000 soldiers added yearly to the 507,000 on active duty. The Army is "about broken," agrees Colin Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Powell believes we "are losing the war" in Iraq, but opposes any "surge" of 15,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops, as urged by ...
TRUE CONSERVATISM VS. NEO-CONSERVATISM
Post Date: 2006-12-20 20:29:13 by Brian S
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The late William Simon, former Secretary of Treasury in the Ford Administration, was not your usual government functionary. As evidence, his 1978 memoirs titled, A Time For Truth, became one of the most influential books of the past 50 years, for it clarified in vigorous prose the disease of governmentalism afflicting America. The Federal Government has been, for many decades now, corrupting our country like gangrene laying waste to a wounded leg, and Simon captured the ideological why and how of this disease masterfully. Simon loved Adam Smith's "system of natural liberty" that built the culture of freedom we knew as a nation prior to 1913. As eloquent as his tome was, ...
Bush warns of more U.S. losses in Iraq (Somebody here can say I Told You So)
Post Date: 2006-12-20 19:14:37 by tom007
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Bush warns of more U.S. losses in Iraq By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent 21 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Acknowledging deepening frustration over Iraq, President Bush said Wednesday he is considering an increase in American forces and warned that next year will bring more painful U.S. losses. New Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in Baghdad that a troop surge was an obvious option. ADVERTISEMENT Bush was unusually candid at a year-end news conference about U.S. setbacks and dashed hopes in the war, which has claimed the lives of more than 2,950 U.S. military members. He said "2006 was a difficult year for our troops and the Iraqi people. We began the year with ...
Remember When LP Used to Be Exciting? (lying and stealing, el pee style) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2006-12-20 11:37:48 by Ferret Mike
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And TLBSHOW, Ferret, ALS and Francis and Beans used to post here? What happened? How did LP get get over-loaded with fat white males who listen to talk radio all day? Granted, TLBSHOW was white and male, but contrary to popular belief, he weighed only one-hundred and thirty five pounds. And he did listen to talk radio all day, but he made his regurgitations of it sound interesting and enthusing, a feat which most of our neo-cons can't pull off. Ferret: Well, you might not have agreed with him on anything, but he was a decent guy. A passive-aggressive male, sure, but he WAS passive most of the time, you must admit. ALS: Now the Lord knows that I despise Jeff Gannon's boy friend a ...
The Inexorable Logic of Impeachment
Post Date: 2006-12-20 00:47:26 by Minerva
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The Inexorable Logic of Impeachmentby BooMan23 [Subscribe] Tue Dec 19, 2006 at 11:43:09 AM PSTI'm used to feeling isolated from the mainstream media and from the Beltway wisdom. At the same time, my track record has been pretty good over the last two years. Whether the subject was Iraq, Israel's war with Lebanon, or the midterm elections, my predictions have been much more accurate than anything you get from traditional media sources. But I am not used to being so isolated from the rest of blogosphere. Nonetheless, when it comes to impeachment, I think I am right and I think my predictions will bear out. Back on December 7th I wrote a diary called Chris and Markos: Wrong on ...
Short Mental Workouts May Slow Decline of Aging Minds, Study Finds
Post Date: 2006-12-19 23:31:22 by Morgana le Fay
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Ten sessions of exercises to boost reasoning skills, memory and mental processing speed staved off mental decline in middle-aged and elderly people in the first definitive study to show that honing intellectual skills can bolster the mind in the same way that physical exercise protects and strengthens the body. The researchers also showed that the benefits of the brain exercises extended well beyond the specific skills the volunteers learned. Older adults who did the basic exercises followed by later sessions were three times as fast as those who got only the initial sessions when it came to activities of daily living, such as reacting to a road sign, looking up a number in a telephone ...
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