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Buchanan: Is Putin being set up?
Post Date: 2006-11-28 10:10:58 by Brian S
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PARIS – Whoever poisoned Alexander Litvinenko had two goals: a long and lingering death for the KGB defector and pointing a finger of accusation for his killing right in the face of Vladimir Putin. Which leads me to believe Putin had nothing to do with it. In an assassination, one must ask: Cui bono? To whose benefit? Who would gain from the poisoning of Litvinenko? Certainly not Putin. Litvinenko's death puts him, the Kremlin and the KGB, now the FSB, under suspicion of having reverted to the terror tactics of Stalin, who commissioned killers to liquidate enemies like Leon Trotsky, murdered in Mexico in 1940. What benefit could Putin conceivably realize from the London killing ...

Plenty Of Troops To Fight Against the War On Christmas
Post Date: 2006-11-27 23:01:57 by Morgana le Fay
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Signing up to fight the "War on Christmas" may be more popular these days than signing up to fight that other war. Between Bill O'Reilly's ranting and John Gibson's writing, publicity about the non-existent war on Christmas hit a peak last holiday season. Alliance Defense Fund Attorney Mike Johnson says that "About this time every year, our phones start to ring off the hook from people reporting cases of discrimination." According to Johnson, ADF received 400 phone calls last year about incidents that included possible discrimination against Christians. This year, the ADF will once again focus on keeping Christmas in the schools and in public spaces. Over ...

They lied their way into Iraq. Now they are trying to lie their way out
Post Date: 2006-11-27 21:37:31 by tom007
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Comment They lied their way into Iraq. Now they are trying to lie their way out Bush and Blair will blame anyone but themselves for the consequences of their disastrous war - even its victims Gary Younge Monday November 27, 2006 The Guardian 'In the endgame," said one of the world's best-ever chess players, José Raúl Capablanca, "don't think in terms of moves but in terms of plans." The situation in Iraq is now unravelling into the bloodiest endgame imaginable. Both popular and official support for the war in those countries that ordered the invasion is already at a low and will only get lower. Whatever mandate the occupiers may have once had ...

Supreme Court Rejects Maine School Vouchers Case
Post Date: 2006-11-27 11:41:36 by Brian S
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(11-27) 07:41 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up the issue of school choice in Maine, where a state law bars the use of public funds to send students to private religious schools. The case could have provided a platform for a court battle over school choice and the separation of church and state. In Maine, school districts in 145 small towns with no high schools offer tuition for 17,000 students to attend high schools of their choice, public or private, in-state or out-of-state. But religious schools are no longer on the list. Asking the court to take the case, a conservative group, the Institute for Justice, is representing eight Maine families ...

Doing Impeachment Right
Post Date: 2006-11-27 00:44:18 by Minerva
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Success in impeachment should include conviction by the Senate -- requiring the concurrence of two thirds of that body. That means you will need 16 Republicans, assuming the entire Democratic caucus is united, including Joe Lieberman. However good you think your case for impeachment, finding enough votes for conviction will be a daunting challenge. It is certainly true that "fighting the good fight" -- even if it's a losing battle -- is occasionally appropriate. Remember the Alamo. Specifically, remember that the sacrifice at the Alamo served the larger strategic purpose of delaying Santa Anna. More than a vain and feckless sacrifice of lives, it advanced the larger struggle ...

Bring back Saddam Hussein
Post Date: 2006-11-27 00:03:10 by Morgana le Fay
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Restoring the dictator to power may give Iraqis the jolt of authority they need. Have a better solution? November 26, 2006 THE DEBATE about Iraq has moved past the question of whether it was a mistake (everybody knows it was) to the more depressing question of whether it is possible to avert total disaster. Every self-respecting foreign policy analyst has his own plan for Iraq. The trouble is that these tracts are inevitably unconvincing, except when they argue why all the other plans would fail. It's all terribly grim. So allow me to propose the unthinkable: Maybe, just maybe, our best option is to restore Saddam Hussein to power. Yes, I know. Hussein is a psychotic mass ...

Arabic women
Post Date: 2006-11-26 23:26:44 by tom007
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Why They HAte US Or really hate the Government that hate US
Post Date: 2006-11-26 21:51:41 by tom007
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More Foreign Insights By Americans
Post Date: 2006-11-26 21:36:59 by tom007
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American opinions (Depressing and funny)
Post Date: 2006-11-26 21:34:17 by tom007
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Israel, Iran and the US: Who Will be Blamed for Nuclear War?
Post Date: 2006-11-26 20:57:00 by tom007
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Israel, Iran and the US: Who Will be Blamed for Nuclear War? by Prof. Jorge Hirsch Global Research, July 24, 2006 Email this article to a friend Print this article The war on Lebanon may well escalate to the point where the US will use nuclear weapons against Iran, in what would be the first use of nuclear weapons in war since Nagasaki. And the world may well blame the Jewish State [1], [2]. Israel's bombing campaign which is causing immense suffering, is in blatant violation of the Geneva conventions, and deserves the strongest of condemnations. It is especially important for the Jewish community today to distance itself from Israel's immoral government policies and US's ...

Saddam Hussein Cannot Be Hanged Or Pardoned
Post Date: 2006-11-26 17:22:34 by Brian S
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MOSCOW. (Professor Mikhail Barshchevsky for RIA Novosti) - Under Iraqi law, the term for enforcing the death penalty for former President Saddam Hussein expires on December 5. A number of human rights and public organizations have sent requests to the Iraqi government to remit the death penalty. Legally, only Iraqi President Jalal Talabani can pardon Saddam. But this would not be the right move because the former Iraqi leader does not deserve mercy. However, his execution may destabilize the situation in the Middle East. Moreover, the Iraqi court is not independent, and its sentence is dubious for this reason as well. The media have often compared Saddam's case to the Nuremberg Trial ...

IRAQ MORTAR BLITZ KILLS 154
Post Date: 2006-11-26 12:32:11 by tom007
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IRAQ MORTAR BLITZ KILLS 154 BAGHDAD turned into a bloodbath yesterday with 154 people dead and more than 200 wounded. A wave of suicide car bombs and mortar rounds caused mayhem on the streets of the Shia Sadr City slum quarter. They were the deadliest co-ordinated attacks since the US-led war began in 2003. And fears were growing that the Iraqi government would be unable to contain the backlash over the slaughter, blamed on Sunni Muslims. The scale of the atrocity brought angry residents and Shia gunmen on to the streets hurling curses at Sunnis and firing into the air. The slum quarter is home to the anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. They are believed to have ...

MORAL ALZHEIMER'S DAY
Post Date: 2006-11-26 09:50:23 by DeaconBenjamin
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The movie "Avalon" (1991) centers on the life of an immigrant Russian Jewish family. Avalon was a Jewish neighborhood in Baltimore. The story begins on July 4, 1914, but it centers on the early 1950s. The acting is excellent, and the story is believable. The extended family's annual dinner is not Passover but Thanksgiving. I assume that the author was making a point: The cultural assimilation of this family is seen in how it eats together. But this assimilation was more than cultural. It was religious. It was not just the old world's cuisine that they had left behind. Joan Plowright plays the matriarch. She is one of the great actresses of our time. She made the role ...

For Palestinians, a new low
Post Date: 2006-11-25 20:37:11 by gargantuton
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For Palestinians, a new low National Post: Editorial Published: Saturday, November 25, 2006 Even by the standards of Palestinian terrorists, this ranks as a new low. On Thursday, Hamas sent an unusual kind of suicide bomber to attack Israeli soldiers in Gaza. The twist: The bomber, Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Najar, was a grandmother with nine children and more than 40 grandchildren. Her exact age is unknown. But the standard grinning-martyr-posing-with-machine-gun video sent out by Hamas shows a woman of about 60. The good news is that al-Najar was unsuccessful: She didn't kill anyone except herself. And we suppose it's also good news that Hamas is so short of recruits that they must ...

When Votes Disappear
Post Date: 2006-11-25 00:45:04 by Minerva
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You know what really had me terrified on Nov. 7? The all-too-real possibility of a highly suspect result. What would we have done if the Republicans had held on to the House by a narrow margin, but circumstantial evidence strongly suggested that a combination of vote suppression and defective — or rigged — electronic voting machines made the difference? Fortunately, it wasn’t a close election. But the fact that our electoral system worked well enough to register an overwhelming Democratic landslide doesn’t mean that things are O.K. There were many problems with voting in this election — and in at least one Congressional race, the evidence strongly suggests that ...

Dave Lindorff: Congress Should Immediately Terminate the 2001 AUMF
Post Date: 2006-11-25 00:40:15 by Minerva
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Forget Nancy Pelosi's "100 Hours" agenda for the new Democratic Congress. The first thing Democrats need to do when they walk into the Senate and House chambers this January is to vote out a joint resolution repealing the September 18, 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), which was the authorization for the U.S. attack Al Qaeda forces and the Taliban government of Afghanistan. That AUMF has been used, wholly inappropriately and wantonly, by President Bush as the justification for his assault on the US Constitution, for his willful violation of laws domestic and international, and for his unconstitutional usurpation of legislative and judicial power. The ...

One sidewalk for men, one for women (Israel Orthodox Jews)
Post Date: 2006-11-24 21:02:29 by tom007
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One sidewalk for men, one for women Ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Shemesh segregates men and women on streets Chaim Levinson Published: 11.21.06, 13:09 After separating the sexes in every possible place, from beaches to busses, the ultra-Orthodox community is taking a further step in its quest for "disengagement." The sidewalks on one of the main streets in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Beit Shemesh have been divided – one for men and one for women. During recent years, a large ultra-Orthodox community has moved to Beit Shemesh. The community has settled in a new area of the city but is gradually taking over older parts as well. The community comprises ...

Why I Support President Bush
Post Date: 2006-11-24 11:49:29 by tinfoil wonderballs
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George W. Bush, at the White House, the evening of September 11, 2001: "We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them." When President Bush said those words I knew that finally the terror states' deniability - their most important protection - was about to end. Sovereign states are responsible for the terrorists they fund, train, and harbor. Terrorists are their proxy weapon against us. For too long these states had been shielded by deniability as Americans, Israelis, and Europeans were murdered and our embassies, barracks, skyscrapers, and ships attacked by the Islamic terrorists that they sponsored. Decades of ...

Lou Dobbs is an idiot, deal with it
Post Date: 2006-11-23 11:10:49 by tinfoil wonderballs
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I have never blamed the poor of Mexico, China or India for corporate America's avarice and our political elites' cowardice. --Lou Dobbs All that is wrong with Lou Dobbs is captured in this quote. He would like to believe what he said, and his intentions I'm sure are quite honarable, but as the late Milton Friedman said, "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programmes by their intentions rather than their results." Trade restrictions are bad, bad, bad for the poor of Mexico, China and India. They are bad, bad, bad for American consumers who have to pay more for Mexican, Chinese and Indian goods. In fact, trade restrictions only help "dominant ...

Free your mind or get your microchips implanted now
Post Date: 2006-11-23 04:43:06 by _ru
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There are numerous posts indicating that even here, even this respected audience thinks within a certain rigid frame. Anything is questioned, but “democracy” is even here still a sacred cow sitting on the altar among lights, flowers and its own shit. Just to stretch your brain cells, try viewing your origin reframed: 1. Authoritarian rule is most natural for both animals and humans, 2. In the beginning of mankind, an empire was gaining strength until all tribes were conquered by force. When the empire had no more competition, pressure on population became quite heavy, 3. A group of wealthy Khazar moneylenders thought of a sophisticated plan to destroy the empire from within, ...

4UM MEN ONLY - Women NO PEEKING
Post Date: 2006-11-23 02:32:52 by tom007
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Two Hundred US Military Vehicles Under Air Escort Head To Anbar Province (Major Operations Underway?)
Post Date: 2006-11-23 01:29:08 by tom007
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Two Hundred US Military Vehicles Under Air Escort Head To Anbar Province Nov 18, 2006 Muhammad Abu Nasr | Free Arab Voice It appears that a major US military offensive is in store for Anbar province as George Bush makes one last push to bring the Sunni heartland under occupation control, with tanks, armored vehicles, trucks hauling heavy pieces and Humvees comprising the 200 vehicle force. In a dispatch posted at 11:46am Makkah time Friday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that massive US military columns were observed driving west through Abu Ghurayb into al-Anbar Province under air escort of warplanes and helicopter gun ships. Eyewitnesses reported that it appeared that the American ...

Dobbs: Populist Tide Has Elitists Running Scared
Post Date: 2006-11-22 19:27:08 by Brian S
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- The midterm elections, which produced the highest voter turnout in more than two decades, resulted in not only the Democratic takeover of both the House and the Senate, but a new political reality that has some free-trade-at-all-cost Republicans writhing in pain. The free-trade orthodoxy, made up not only of Republicans but still a sizeable number of Democrats, appears to be spouting ever-louder lies and disturbing distortions of truth and reality as their desperation over the ascension of the "Lou Dobbs Democrats" on November 7 is becoming more shrill, verging on outright panic. To these media merchants of obfuscation and hollow meaningless language, the very ...

The Only Thing Talk Radio Learned From 2006 Mid Terms is That They Didn't Learn From 2006 Mid Terms
Post Date: 2006-11-22 11:43:10 by Brian S
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Mistakes and failures can be positive happenstance, but only if one chooses to learn from them. But before you learn, you must reassess to find out what went wrong. The Lords of Loud mouthpieces of the White House and GOP were instrumental in helping the GOP score Bush another term in 2004. Probably even more so than not-Governor Blackwell. But even with their soft-ball interviews and private White House meeting with the President, along with an almost entirely right wing media day just prior to the election, the GOP's talk radio arm failed miserably in turning in another victory for their masters. Of course, Sean Hannity will be the first one to interrupt you that he did not concur with ...

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