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Max Keiser: You are weak
Post Date: 2012-08-02 16:25:50 by Hmmmmm
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Poster Comment:Max says the 2nd amendment supporters claim that the right to bear arms to protect ourselves from tyranny is a specious argument in that if that was a valid argument we would have already done it. Hmmmmmmm! US using police powers around the globe....
Extremism Normalized: How Americans Now Acquiesce to Once Unthinkable Ideas by Glenn Greenwald
Post Date: 2012-08-01 09:40:30 by tom007
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Extremism Normalized: How Americans Now Acquiesce to Once Unthinkable Ideas by Glenn Greenwald Remember when, in the wake of the 9/11 attack, the Patriot Act was controversial, held up as the symbolic face of Bush/Cheney radicalism and widely lamented as a threat to core American liberties and restraints on federal surveillance and detention powers? Yet now, the Patriot Act is quietly renewed every four years by overwhelming majorities in both parties (despite substantial evidence of serious abuse), and almost nobody is bothered by it any longer. That’s how extremist powers become normalized: they just become such a fixture in our political culture that we are trained to take them for ...
Sudan: Hand Over Bush and Blair, And We’ll Hand Over Omar Bashir
Post Date: 2012-07-31 19:39:43 by tom007
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Sudan: Hand Over Bush and Blair, And We’ll Hand Over Omar Bashir John Glaser, July 31, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment CNN’s Christiane Amanpour asked Sudan’s Ambassador to the UK, Abdullahi Alazreg on Monday whether Sudan will hand over the country’s president, Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Alazreg responded by saying that Sudan is “willing to hand over whomever, provided that America hands over Bush and the United Kingdom hands over Blair.” I must say, it’s a fair point.
Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me That Mitt Romney 'Didn't Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years'
Post Date: 2012-07-31 19:24:10 by tom007
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Harry Reid: Bain Investor Told Me That Mitt Romney 'Didn't Pay Any Taxes For 10 Years' Posted: 07/31/2012 3:46 pm Updated: 07/31/2012 4:47 pm S Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, ratcheted up the speculation about Mitt Romney's unreleased tax returns. WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed explanation for why Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns. According a Bain investor, Reid charged, Romney didn't pay any taxes for 10 years. In a wide-ranging interview with The Huffington Post from his office on Capitol Hill, Reid saved some of his toughest words for the presumptive Republican presidential ...
Robert Fisk: Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy
Post Date: 2012-07-31 15:11:30 by tom007
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Robert Fisk: Syrian war of lies and hypocrisy The West's real target here is not Assad's brutal regime but his ally, Iran, and its chemical weapons Robert Fisk Author Biography Sunday 29 July 2012 Has there ever been a Middle Eastern war of such hypocrisy? A war of such cowardice and such mean morality, of such false rhetoric and such public humiliation? I'm not talking about the physical victims of the Syrian tragedy. I'm referring to the utter lies and mendacity of our masters and our own public opinion – eastern as well as western – in response to the slaughter, a vicious pantomime more worthy of Swiftian satire than Tolstoy or Shakespeare. While Qatar and ...
From the people who brought you the Iraq war... ... a call for US military intervention in Syria that's straight out of the neocon playbook. What could go wrong?
Post Date: 2012-07-31 07:42:57 by tom007
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From the people who brought you the Iraq war... ... a call for US military intervention in Syria that's straight out of the neocon playbook. What could go wrong? By Dan Murphy, Staff writer / July 26, 2012 In this citizen journalism image taken on Tuesday, July 24, a Syrian citizen journalist documents Syrian forces shelling in Homs, Syria. Shaam News Network/AP Enlarge 11 and 36 Earlier this week, an open letter was released by a hawkish group of pundits and foreign policy analysts urging President Barack Obama to immediately take military action against the Syrian regime, warning that if he doesn't, weapons of mass destruction could fall into the hands of ...
CHINA: Romney's 'Hawkish Remarks' In Israel 'Totally Neglect Historical Facts'
Post Date: 2012-07-31 07:32:21 by tom007
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CHINA: Romney's 'Hawkish Remarks' In Israel 'Totally Neglect Historical Facts' The Daily Telegraph | Jul. 31, 2012, 6:24 AM | 219 | 1 Email More A A A mitt romney See Also Mitt Romney 14 Awesome Pictures From Mitt Romney's World Tour Mitt Romney Israel Palestinians Are Calling Mitt Romney A 'Racist' Over His Latest Overseas Gaffe Romney Jerusalem OH NO: Romney Inflames Middle East Tension By Calling Jerusalem "Israel's Capital" Mitt Romney, whose trip abroad to boost his foreign policy credentials has been riddled with gaffes and setbacks, has now been criticised by China over his Jerusalem comments. A commentary by the official Xinhua News ...
A Conspiracy So Immense
Post Date: 2012-07-30 14:16:06 by tom007
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A Conspiracy So Immense Thursday, 30 October 2008 08:29 By Naomi Wolf E-mail Print PDF national_park_service_9-11NEW YORK - Is this the Age of the Conspiracy Theory? Plenty of evidence suggests that we are in something of a golden age for citizen speculation, documentation, and inference that takes shape - usually on the Internet - and spreads virally around the globe. In the process, conspiracy theories are pulled from the margins of public discourse, where they were generally consigned in the past, and sometimes into the very heart of politics. I learned this by accident. Having written a book about the hijacking of executive power in the United States in the Bush years, I found myself, ...
Mexican official: CIA 'manages' drug trade Spokesman for Chihuahua state says US agencies don't want to end drug trade, a claim denied by other Mexican officials.
Post Date: 2012-07-30 13:45:35 by tom007
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Mexican official: CIA 'manages' drug trade Spokesman for Chihuahua state says US agencies don't want to end drug trade, a claim denied by other Mexican officials. Chris Arsenault Last Modified: 24 Jul 2012 14:16 Email Article Email Print Article Print Share article Share Send Feedback Feedback The CIA refused to comment directly on the allegations of complicity made by a low-level Mexican official [Reuters] Juarez, Mexico - The US Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces "don't fight drug traffickers", a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead "they try to manage the drug ...
Death terms in Iran bank scandal Of the 39 people tried for fraud, biggest in the country's history, court orders death for four of those convicted.
Post Date: 2012-07-30 13:42:05 by tom007
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Death terms in Iran bank scandal Of the 39 people tried for fraud, biggest in the country's history, court orders death for four of those convicted. Last Modified: 30 Jul 2012 16:02 Email Article Email Print Article Print Share article Share Send Feedback Feedback The alleged mastermind of the scheme is said to have forged letters of credit from Iran's Bank Saderat [Al Jazeera] An Iranian court has sentenced four people to death for a billion-dollar bank fraud that tainted the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state media has reported. Iranians, hit by sanctions and soaring inflation, were shocked by the scale of the $2.6bn bank loan embezzlement that was exposed last ...
Sorcha Faal is an anonymous blogger whose first article[1] appeared on the website WhatDoesItMean.Com on 22 December 2004. During the past 8 years (2004-2012) Sorcha Faal has penned approximately 1,200 articles that are call
Post Date: 2012-07-30 13:28:53 by tom007
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Sorcha Faal is an anonymous blogger whose first article[1] appeared on the website WhatDoesItMean.Com on 22 December 2004. During the past 8 years (2004-2012) Sorcha Faal has penned approximately 1,200 articles that are called "reports" which have, in turn, been widely reprinted around the world in nearly every language. Sorcha Faal has been described as a conspiracy theorist and has been linked to many other people, titles and organizations but whose true identity has never been proven. Contents 1 Sorcha Faal reports used By U.S. Homeland Security 2 WhatDoesItMean.Com 3 Self description 4 Brief history of the Order of Sorcha Faal 5 Style of writing 6 Reliability 7 Purpose of ...
Horses used against demonstrators in ninth day of Anaheim protests
Post Date: 2012-07-30 13:17:58 by tom007
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Horses used against demonstrators in ninth day of Anaheim protests By Arturo Garcia Monday, July 30, 2012 9:26 EDT Print Anaheim protest screenshot 073012 Topics: demonstrators ♦ police headquarters ♦ police shootings Anaheim police arrested nine demonstrators, at one point using horses against protesters during a march, during the ninth day of protests over police shootings Sunday. The Orange County Register reported that more than 200 protesters took part in the demonstration, which forced some street closures as they marched toward Disneyland before converging on police headquarters. Among them were members of the Occupy Wall Street movement, one of whom filmed officers ...
Chick-Fil-A and the Awakened Two Percent
Post Date: 2012-07-30 01:43:24 by X-15
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If enough of this ...demographic can show support for the free speech rights of a food franchise, causing the lefts' mission to backfire, what else can be just as effectively addressed to the benefit of our people? by Frank Roman One of the most effective tactics of the half-human hard left / progressive crowd is to freeze conservative (NOT neoconservative!) speech and political involvement by intimidating anyone who dares to speak out, donate, or get involved in any way. True to form the radical left intends to make such a frightening example of Chick-Fil-A that anyone who dares to oppose their anti-free speech gay marriage agenda will be immediately ostracized, blackmailed and ...
Keep a close eye on nerds and loners
Post Date: 2012-07-29 20:33:31 by tom007
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Keep a close eye on nerds and loners July 28, 2012 1:00 am Re: "Why do Americans keep shooting their fellow citizens?" Letters, July 23. Eric Bahrt wants to know why Americans keep shooting each other, and concludes that the United States is a sick society. I agree with Eric in general, but there is an explanation. American popular culture glorifies sex and violence, especially through television and movies. America also has a pervasive gun culture. And it has a high percentage of mentally disturbed young people. You will notice that most of these people who shoot up schools, shopping malls, etc, are young guys (and they are always guys, never girls) who are described as shy ...
Understanding Iran's Perception of Syrian Turbulence
Post Date: 2012-07-29 20:13:15 by tom007
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Understanding Iran's Perception of Syrian Turbulence Thursday, July 26, 2012
Ali Omidi Assistant Professor of International Relations in University of Isfahan-Iran
Robert Jervis in “Perception and Misperception in International Politics”, investigates how international political decision-makers perceive themselves, other actors, and the environment; how perceptions and misperceptions can influence their decisions; and how such decisions can influence outcomes in international politics. This issue is very true to Iran's attitudes toward Syrian developments. Explosion in the building of the Syrian National Security Council and the assassination of the Syrian Defense ...
Top Ten Most Distasteful things about Romney Trip to Israel
Post Date: 2012-07-29 14:25:20 by tom007
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Top Ten Most Distasteful things about Romney Trip to Israel Posted on 07/29/2012 by Juan The trip of Republic Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to Israel is in bad taste for lots of reasons. 1. He is holding a fundraiser at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. It is distasteful for an American political candidate to hold a high profile fundraiser abroad, implying a commitment to a foreign country as a means of reaching out to American interest groups (in Romney’s case, Christian Zionists among the evangelicals and the minority of American Jews who would be willing to vote Republican). 2. It is distasteful that Romney has broken his pledge of transparency and declared the fundraiser ...
Racism and ignorance know no nationality Iranian government officials often make bigoted, ignorant statements - but so do many in Israel and the US.
Post Date: 2012-07-29 10:31:17 by tom007
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Racism and ignorance know no nationality Iranian government officials often make bigoted, ignorant statements - but so do many in Israel and the US. L Ehud Barak reportedly described the Shia concept of taqiyya as giving leaders 'permission to lie' [GALLO/GETTY] In late June, when Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi spouted anti-Semitic comments at a Tehran forum marking International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, his offensive rhetoric was rightfully ridiculed and condemned. Rahimi declared his belief that the Talmud, the central holy scripture of Judaism, "teaches [Jews] how to destroy non-Jews so as to protect an embryo in the womb of a Jewish ...
Romney voices aggressive stance toward Iran (Going to war with your children in front of him)
Post Date: 2012-07-29 09:49:07 by tom007
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Romney voices aggressive stance toward Iran Associated PressBy KASIE HUNT | Associated Press – 2 hrs 12 mins ago Related Content Israel's President Shimon Peres, left, and US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney walk during a meeting at the President's residence in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 29, 2012. Romney would back an Israeli military strike against Iran aimed at preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear capability, a top foreign policy adviser said early Sunday, outlining the aggressive posture the Republican presidential candidate will take toward Iran in a speech in Israel later in the day. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) Israel's President Shimon Peres, … ...
NYPD Crimes
Post Date: 2012-07-28 21:43:03 by tom007
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Posted by Alexander Higgins - July 28, 2012 at 6:26 am - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog Confirmed: NYPD Used Excessive Force On 130 Occupy Protesters 9 11 11 9 Share A group of legal experts have published a report which contains 130 cases that can be qualified as police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York. RT – A group of legal experts have published a report which contains 130 cases that can be qualified as police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York. Researchers at NYU and Fordham University have concluded that NYPD officers acted beyond their powers during their intense crackdown against Occupy protesters. ...
Globalists and Neocons: Two potent forces opposing the Assad government in Syria
Post Date: 2012-07-27 16:46:32 by X-15
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Writing in The Guardian, Charlie Skelton has produced a remarkable piece of journalism aimed at unearthing the connections among the Syrian opposition and their friends in high places in the West ( “The Syrian opposition: who’s doing the talking?“). The take home message is that there are two groups of non-Syrians who are promoting regime change: globalists and neocons—two powerful forces indeed. One can certainly understand that there would be disaffected Syrians—there are dissidents in every regime, and especially so in a society riven with religious and ethnic divisions with a government dominated by an ethnic and religious minority, the Alawites. But the ever ...
Money for Nothing
Post Date: 2012-07-27 12:00:10 by tom007
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Op-Ed Columnist Money for Nothing By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: July 26, 2012 326 Comments For years, allegedly serious people have been issuing dire warnings about the consequences of large budget deficits — deficits that are overwhelmingly the result of our ongoing economic crisis. In May 2009, Niall Ferguson of Harvard declared that the “tidal wave of debt issuance” would cause U.S. interest rates to soar. In March 2011, Erskine Bowles, the co-chairman of President Obama’s ill-fated deficit commission, warned that unless action was taken on the deficit soon, “the markets will devastate us,” probably within two years. And so on. Fred R. Conrad/The New York ...
Obama Keeps On Conning America
Post Date: 2012-07-26 19:28:07 by Itistoolate
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Obama Keeps On Conning AmericaWednesday, July 25, 2012 16:06 By John Rolls Lloyd Marcus / American Thinker My 84-year-old dad has nuggets of wisdom which he forgets he has shared with me numerous times. One is about deception. Dad said a snake can swim underwater a very long time, just like a fish. But eventually, it must come up for air. Why? Because it is not a fish — it is a snake. Obama deceived millions to win the White House. All the obvious clues into the true nature of the first black presidential candidate were ignored by the media. Voters were duped into believing Obama when he presented himself as a moderate, a messiah, "the one we have been waiting for." ...
Sen. Sanders: GOPÂ’s function in life is to protect the wealthy By Eric W. Dolan
Post Date: 2012-07-26 09:30:23 by tom007
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Sen. Sanders: GOP’s function in life is to protect the wealthy By Eric W. Dolan Wednesday, July 25, 2012 22:40 EDT Print Bernie Sanders screenshot Topics: bernie sanders ♦ Congress ♦ gop Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday insisted it was important that the Senate rejected the extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy, even though the legislation had no chance of passing the GOP-led House. “I think what today is about is educating the American people,” he explained on Viewpoint. “And the American people are going to sit home and say, ‘Really, at a time when the wealthy are doing phenomenally well, do we really need to give them huge tax ...
Global Crisis: The Convergence of Marx, Orwell and Kafka
Post Date: 2012-07-26 04:13:40 by Tatarewicz
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The global crisis is not merely economic; it is the result of profound financial, sociological and political trends best captured by Marx, Orwell and Kafka. The global crisis is best understood as the convergence of the modern trends identified by Marx, Orwell and Kafka. Let's start with Franz Kafka, the writer (1883-1924) who most eloquently captured the systemic injustices of all powerful bureaucracies--the alienation experienced by the hapless citizen enmeshed in the bureaucratic web, petty officialdom's mindless persecutions of the innocent, and the intrinsic absurdity of the centralized State best expressed in this phrase: "We expect errors, not justice." If this ...
Mayor Bloomberg Says Cops Should Go On Strike Until Americans Give Up Their Guns
Post Date: 2012-07-25 18:28:53 by James Deffenbach
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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told CNN's Piers Morgan last night that he doesn't "understand why police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say we’re going to go on strike, we’re not going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what’s required to keep us safe." We've been hearing a lot of that recently. Earlier this year, The New York Times reprinted a Department of Justice press release and slapped this lede on top of it: “As violent crime has decreased across the country, a disturbing trend has emerged: Rising numbers of police officers are being killed.” Bloomberg and The New ...
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