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"Where is the U.S.-Iran Confrontation Headed?" Obama Doubles Down
Post Date: 2011-10-16 16:45:57 by tom007
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"Where is the U.S.-Iran Confrontation Headed?" Obama Doubles Down By Stephen M. Walt October 15, 2011 "FP" -- I had planned to write about something else this morning, but the simmering confrontation with Iran keeps intruding. For starters, President Obama is standing firmly behind the administration's allegations, but without offering any new evidence to support them. This approach isn't going to wash, however, especially if journalists do their job, start asking a lot of probing questions, and don't allow themselves to get spun by "anonymous" sources and inside leaks. Add to the mix a New York Times story -- clearly based on briefings from U.S. ...
The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America
Post Date: 2011-10-16 16:34:43 by tom007
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The Rise of the Regressive Right and the Reawakening of America By Robert Reich October 16, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- A fundamental war has been waged in this nation since its founding, between progressive forces pushing us forward and regressive forces pulling us backward. We are going to battle once again. Progressives believe in openness, equal opportunity, and tolerance. Progressives assume we’re all in it together: We all benefit from public investments in schools and health care and infrastructure. And we all do better with strong safety nets, reasonable constraints on Wall Street and big business, and a truly progressive tax system. Progressives worry ...
The Myth of American Exceptionalism The idea that the United States is uniquely virtuous may be comforting to Americans. Too bad it's not true.
Post Date: 2011-10-16 15:25:28 by tom007
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FEATURE PRINT | TEXT SIZE | EMAIL | SINGLE PAGE The Myth of American Exceptionalism The idea that the United States is uniquely virtuous may be comforting to Americans. Too bad it's not true. BY STEPHEN M. WALT | NOVEMBER 2011 Over the last two centuries, prominent Americans have described the United States as an "empire of liberty," a "shining city on a hill," the "last best hope of Earth," the "leader of the free world," and the "indispensable nation." These enduring tropes explain why all presidential candidates feel compelled to offer ritualistic paeans to America's greatness and why President Barack Obama landed in hot water ...
Occupy protest critics exploit anti-Semitism Panicked conservatives are labeling the Occupy protests as 'anti-Semitic' in an attempt to break up the movement.
Post Date: 2011-10-16 09:36:11 by tom007
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Occupy protest critics exploit anti-Semitism Panicked conservatives are labeling the Occupy protests as 'anti-Semitic' in an attempt to break up the movement. MJ Rosenberg Last Modified: 16 Oct 2011 10:12 inShare Some far-right conservatives are labelling the Occupy Wall Street protesters as 'anti-Semitic' based on an anti-Semitic assumption that Jews run Wall Street and the global banking system [GALLO/GETTY] An ugly old tradition is back: Exploiting anti-Semitism to break the backs of popular movements that threaten the power of the wealthiest one per cent of our population. It is being used to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has conservatives in a state ...
OCW: Targeted, But Who Is The Enemy?
Post Date: 2011-10-16 00:49:10 by christine
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Our first real sign of political violence was during the disturbance at the Smithsonian when Patrick Howley of the nocon rag, American Spectator, led an attack of agent provacateurs on the Smithsonian. Our thanks to Charlie Grapski for catching Howley, one of many preparing to push peaceful protest into political violence on behalf of corporate greed. Here at Veterans Today, we are running a pool, waiting how long it will be before SITE Intelligence, the Mossad mouthpiece or Canada’s National Post begin publishing articles of support from Al Qaeda that they conveniently “find on the internet.” Our other pool is when the Molotov cocktails and rock throwing starts, funded by ...
Is George Soros behind Occupy Wall Street?
Post Date: 2011-10-15 21:51:50 by tom007
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Is George Soros behind Occupy Wall Street? permalink email story to a friend print version Published: 14 October, 2011, 22:01 George Soros (AFP Photo / Brendan Smialowski) George Soros (AFP Photo / Brendan Smialowski) TRENDS: Occupy Wall Street TAGS: Markets, Crisis, USA, Employment, Banking, Culture, Economy, Finance Billionaire hedge fund big-shot George Soros could have helped get the Occupy Wall Street movement off the ground, as donations from the pocketbook of the Budapest-born financier have been tied to the ongoing movement. Spokespeople for Soros have rejected claims that the billionaire helped fund the movement both directly or indirectly after radio host Rush Limbaugh ...
Government-Generated Plots
Post Date: 2011-10-14 16:48:14 by christine
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Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? Can the federal government take credit for saving us from a plot of its own creation? Tonight, has the federal government kept us safe or does it just want us to think that it has kept us safe? Since the tragedy of 9/11, numerous crazies and low-level copy-cats have engaged in criminal behavior which they hoped would result in the deaths of innocent Americans and somehow advance the cause of jihad. If you ask the leadership of the FBI, most of whose field agents are tireless, dedicated, Constitution-supporting professionals, it will tell you that it has foiled about seventeen plots to kill Americans during the past ten ...
An Actual Craigs List Personals Ad --To the Guy Who Tried to Mug Me in Downtown Savannah night before last.
Post Date: 2011-10-13 14:29:47 by gengis gandhi
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To the Guy Who Tried to Mug Me in Downtown Savannah night before last. Date: 2010-09-27, 1:43 a.m. E.S.T. I was the guy wearing the black Burberry jacket that you demanded that I hand over, shortly after you pulled the knife on me and my girlfriend, threatening our lives. You also asked for my girlfriend's purse and earrings. I can only hope that you somehow come across this rather important message. First, I'd like to apologize for your embarrassment; I didn't expect you to actually crap in your pants when I drew my pistol after you took my jacket.. The evening was not that cold, and I was wearing the jacket for a reason.. my girlfriend was happy that I just returned ...
Conservative Fundraiser Wants To ‘Clear K Street Of Protesters’ By Hitting ‘A Few With A Car’
Post Date: 2011-10-12 23:11:11 by tom007
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Conservative Fundraiser Wants To ‘Clear K Street Of Protesters’ By Hitting ‘A Few With A Car’ | Today, hundreds of people marched in downtown Washington, D.C. as a part of the of Occupy D.C. demonstration. Conservative fundraiser, consultant, and Principal at The Consultant Group Nathan Wurtzel reacted angrily to the protesters, tweeting that his plan to “clear K Street of protesters” is to “hit a few of them with a car“:
The Seven Biggest Economic Lies
Post Date: 2011-10-12 23:02:38 by tom007
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The Seven Biggest Economic Lies by Robert Reich The President’s Jobs Bill doesn’t have a chance in Congress — and the Occupiers on Wall Street and elsewhere can’t become a national movement for a more equitable society – unless more Americans know the truth about the economy. Here’s a short (2 minute 30 second) effort to rebut the seven biggest whoppers now being told by those who want to take America backwards. The major points: Tax cuts for the rich trickle down to everyone else. Baloney. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush both sliced taxes on the rich and what happened? Most Americans’ wages (measured by the real median wage) began flattening under ...
The fast and furious plot to occupy Iran
Post Date: 2011-10-12 21:09:14 by tom007
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The fast and furious plot to occupy Iran Tehran would have to be terminally foolish to try to snuff out an ambassador on US soil, author says. P Washington is looking to increase sanctions on Iran as a result of the plot to kill a Saudi Ambassador [EPA] No one ever lost money betting on the dull predictability of the US government. Just as Occupy Wall Street is firing imaginations all across the spectrum - piercing the noxious revolving door between government and casino capitalism - Washington brought us all down to earth, sensationally advertising an Iranian cum Mexican cartel terror plot straight out of The Fast and the Furious movie franchise. The potential victim: Adel al-Jubeir, the ...
GOP Candidates Blame 30 Years Of Rising Income Inequality On Barack Obama And Single Moms
Post Date: 2011-10-12 21:01:59 by tom007
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GOP Candidates Blame 30 Years Of Rising Income Inequality On Barack Obama And Single Moms By Pat Garofalo on Oct 12, 2011 at 9:35 am One of the most prominent grievances of those protesters in the 99 percent movement is America’s growing income inequality. The level of income inequality in the U.S. is currently the worst it has been since the Great Depression; over the last three decades, “the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of households have risen only slightly, on average, while the incomes of the top 1 percent have soared.” Since 1979, “the gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest fifths of the country more ...
Wall Street Journal Executive Resigns Over Yet Another News Corp. Scandal (More Press Corruption and Smoke and Mirros From The Propaganda Machine Thai is The US Media)
Post Date: 2011-10-12 20:55:23 by tom007
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Wall Street Journal Executive Resigns Over Yet Another News Corp. Scandal By Travis Waldron on Oct 12, 2011 at 8:10 pm One of the top executives at the European branch of the Wall Street Journal, the flagship newspaper at Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corporation, has resigned amid a growing scandal that has called into question the paper’s journalistic ethics and jeopardized its reputation. Adding to the scandals News Corp. is already facing in Europe — alleged phone hacking, bribing of public officials — and a potential criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, the Guardian reported today that Andrew Langhoff, the European director of Dow Jones and Co. (the ...
Matt Taibbi Lists The 5 Things The Occupy Wall Street Protesters Should Demand
Post Date: 2011-10-12 20:28:01 by tom007
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Matt Taibbi Lists The 5 Things The Occupy Wall Street Protesters Should Demand Linette Lopez | Oct. 12, 2011, 4:00 PM | 1,462 | 39 A A A inShare8 matt taibbi Image: wiki commons The man who called Goldman Sachs a "great vampire squid" has some advice for Occupy Wall Street. Not that he doesn't think they're doing things well. In fact, he thinks the logic behind the protester's lack of demands is ingenious. But if they were to figure out their specific demands. Here's where he, per his article in Rolling Stone today, thinks they should start: 1. Break up the monopolies. He's talking about the 20 or so "too big to fail" companies in our country ...
Panic of the Plutocrats
Post Date: 2011-10-12 20:11:44 by tom007
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Panic of the Plutocrats By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: October 9, 2011 Recommend Twitter Linkedin comments (603) Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints Share It remains to be seen whether the Occupy Wall Street protests will change America’s direction. Yet the protests have already elicited a remarkably hysterical reaction from Wall Street, the super-rich in general, and politicians and pundits who reliably serve the interests of the wealthiest hundredth of a percent. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Paul Krugman Go to Columnist Page » Blog: The Conscience of a Liberal Related Protest Spurs Online Dialogue on Inequity (October 9, 2011) Times Topic: Occupy Wall Street (Wall St. ...
The class warfare the rich don't understand
Post Date: 2011-10-12 19:54:42 by tom007
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The class warfare the rich don't understand The Masters of the Universe evaded responsibility and defiantly demanded more sacrifice from their victims, says author. Heather Digby Parton Last Modified: 10 Oct 2011 09:43 inShare27 Email Article Email Print Article Print Share article Share Send Feedback Feedback Listen to this page using ReadSpeaker Taxes for the rich are at 35 per cent, the lowest ever in comparison to 1960, when it was 91 per cent [EPA] "Those who own the country ought to govern it." - Founding father, John Jay There have been rumblings in the corners of the Tea party movement for some time, but the minute president Obama announced that he was going to ask ...
Nobody's gonna make Herman Cain talk about foreign policy if he doesn't want to (Comic Relief Timeout)
Post Date: 2011-10-12 19:03:51 by tom007
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Amerislump Decline Watch: Cocaine Use on the Decline F.P. on TV Keating on Washington Journal Zambia and China A Setback for the Dragon Nobody's gonna make Herman Cain talk about foreign policy if he doesn't want to Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 12:43 PM Share Given the lobster-tank logic of presidential primaries, pizza tycoon Herman Cain's recent unexpected rise in the polls means his fellow candidates are likely to try to tear him down in the coming days, starting at tonight's debate. But it may be harder than one might think to catch Cain in any flubs resulting from his lack of foreign-policy background. Cain's strategy so far seems ...
A tangled tale _ The New Irainan "Threat"
Post Date: 2011-10-12 18:47:14 by tom007
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A tangled tale Posted By Stephen M. Walt Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 11:17 AM Share For the record: I don't know if there was a genuine Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the United States. Let me repeat that: I don't know. And neither do you. All we know is that the U.S. government claims to have uncovered such a plot, involving an Iranian-American used-car salesman who allegedly was getting direction from some part of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. This dangerous criminal mastermind reportedly thought he was paying a Mexican drug cartel to conduct the actual attacks, when he was in fact dealing with an undercover DEA agent. As I said, none of us really know ...
Occupy Wall Street: Who Wants to Hijack the Movement?
Post Date: 2011-10-12 04:45:02 by angK
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Occupy Wall Street: Who Wants to Hijack the Movement? [Translate] Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net October 7, 2011 Media spokesmen for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations claimed that their operation is totally transparent, with everything subject to democratic discussion in a general assembly of all comers. But eyewitness reports from experienced observers on the ground in lower Manhattan indicate a much different reality behind these bland assurances. Forces appeared to be at work behind the scenes to manipulate the protest movement into a posture of supporting the presidential candidacy of Wall Street puppet Obama. Eyewitness observers suggest that the deliberations of the ...
I miss The Reverend Jackson
Post Date: 2011-10-11 18:50:29 by gengis gandhi
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I miss The Reverend Jackson. You could always depend on that bug eyed fruitcake for a good rip or two, perhaps just a little old 'poke chop'...but he's nowhere to be found, after The Texas Faction told him he'd better shut his flan hole or wind up dead or worse. And Al Sharpton is the same. That fat bastard could always be depended upon to make some idiotic slogan with made up words, and no one looked better in a James Brown Wig. Its sad that all our National Fruitcakes were scared off by the robe and bonfire faction, but after all, we knew it had to end sometime. You just don't poke the inbred spawn of a thousand maniacs so many times and walk away a winner. Its ...
Cognitive Dissonance
Post Date: 2011-10-11 13:51:09 by christine
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America’s “War on Terror” has devolved into a perpetual war in which the boundaries are not defined and the enemy is whoever a secret cabal within the Federal government decides. Totalitarian nations throughout history have made war on their own citizens. The United States is doing the same and has in one degree or another for at least 150 years. When Barack Hussein Obama stepped up to the podium and announced the successful assassination of two American citizens on Sept. 30 — Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan — it was proof that America had finally died, Paul Craig Roberts writes. As for Americans, they have been cemented into a state of cognitive dissonance. ...
Liberal Senators Worried About their Old Friend Wickard v. Filburn
Post Date: 2011-10-11 07:48:35 by James Deffenbach
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Liberal Senators Worried About their Old Friend Wickard v. Filburn Fellow Constitutionalists, Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the role of the Judicial Branch in America. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer testified, answering the Senators’ questions for over two hours. You can see the entire hearing HERE. The Justices’ testimony and the Senators’ questions continued the trend of positive messages coming from the Court. We have many reasons to be optimistic about our efforts to overturn Wickard. The questions asked were at least as interesting as the answers. Several liberal Senators asked questions that reflect more ...
Anonymous
Post Date: 2011-10-10 18:14:15 by tom007
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TRANSCRIPT (Care of Cedwyn and boadicea) Citizens of the United States: This is a message from Anonymous. This is a message to the 99%. This is a message to what is becoming the American Autumn. This is a message to the whispers of the revolution beginning to stir in every major American city and in the heart of every afflicted member of the youth. It is becoming obvious that due to certain technical difficulties the revolution will not be televised. It will not be broadcasted. This is quite all right, media, you serpents of the elite for we will go under you. We will go around you. We will go over you and we will go beyond you. You no longer control the floodgates. The era of the ...
China comment on Occupy Wall Street
Post Date: 2011-10-10 07:08:26 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- The Occupy Wall Street protests have grown over the past three weeks into a coast-to-coast movement targeting corporate greed and money influence in the United States. Popular protests are not uncommon these days. From the Arab world to debt-ridden European countries, people are taking to the streets to make their voices heard for different reasons. For Washington, the irony is that the United States, which has long branded itself as a staunch defender of human rights and a force for change across the world, is suddenly confronted by its people defending their own rights from the greedy Wall Street and demanding to change the status quo. Young people, many ...
The Assassination Decider
Post Date: 2011-10-09 18:24:43 by tom007
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The Assassination Decider by Jacob G. Hornberger Statists are continuing to say that President Obama’s assassination of American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki (through his CIA and military forces) was justified because Awlaki was supposedly exhorting Muslims to resist U.S. foreign policy with force and that he was also supposedly engaged in operational activities to bring this about. For his part, Obama is remaining mum on the subject, as are the CIA and the Pentagon. The statists are missing the point, however. What Awlaki was doing or not doing is irrelevant. He’s now dead and nothing can bring him back to life. And his family will be precluded from bringing any wrongful death ...
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