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Latest Articles: Resistance
Hillary's Late Hit
Post Date: 2007-07-27 06:05:23 by Ada
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When, in the South Carolina debate, Barack Obama said he would meet with the leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran and North Korea in his first year as president, he stepped into a cow pie. Hillary pounced, declaring that in a Clinton White House, there would be no promised first-year meetings with any dictator or enemy of the United States. The morning headline in Miami roared that Obama was open to meeting Fidel. In the Jewish community, word was surely being moved that Obama had opened the door to a face-to-face meeting with Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a Holocaust skeptic who has predicted the Israeli state is not long for the Middle East – and should be transplanted to ...
Tales of Angst, Alienation and Martial Law: Roasting Marshmallows on the American Reichstag Fire to Come
Post Date: 2007-07-26 22:11:40 by kiki
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In this summer of angst and grim foreboding about what further assaults against common sense and common decency the Bush Administration might inflict upon the people of the world, how many times during the day do those of us -- still possessed of mind, heart and conscience -- take pause, hoping we've seen the worst of it, then, fearing we haven't yet, attempt to push down the dread rising within us, so that we might simply make it through the day and be able to rest at night? Accordingly, those who have been paying attention are aware that the outward mechanisms of martial law are in place. We shudder knowing that Bush has issued an executive decree that grants him dictatorial power ...
Just Bought 2 Ron Paul Yard Sign from the HQ site
Post Date: 2007-07-26 13:49:50 by IndieTX
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I was tired of seeing NO signs anywhere for Ron Paul so now there will be some in my working class all-white neighborhood. I bought them today on the net. Hopefully neighbors will ask me where I got them. It was just way too much hassel to print the sign and take it to Kinkos...it is well worth 12 bucks for 2 signs
Go for it!
Galloway expelled from Commons after clash with Speaker
Post Date: 2007-07-25 09:00:54 by robin
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Galloway expelled from Commons after clash with Speaker By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent Published: 24 July 2007 George Galloway, the firebrand left-wing MP, was suspended from the Commons for 18 days last night after a stormy debate that saw him thrown out of the House amid angry clashes with the Speaker, Michael Martin. Mr Martin took the highly unusual step of "naming" Mr Galloway and ordering him to leave the Commons chamber amid stormy scenes during a debate on the Respect MP's conduct. Mr Galloway spoke for more than an hour as he tried defend himself against a move to suspend him for failing to disclose his links to Saddam Hussein's regime. But MPs ...
SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN - 'I Am Not Afraid of Death'
Post Date: 2007-07-25 08:20:32 by robin
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DER SPIEGEL 30/2007 - July 23, 2007 URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,496003,00.htmlSPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN'I Am Not Afraid of Death' In an interview with SPIEGEL, prominent Russian writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn discusses Russia's turbulent history, Putin's version of democracy and his attitude to life and death. Jurij Filistow Alexander Solzhenitsyn SPIEGEL: Alexander Isayevich, when we came in we found you at work. It seems that even at the age of 88 you still feel this need to work, even though your health doesn't allow you to walk around your home. What do you derive your strength from?Solzhenitsyn: I ...
DISCOURSE ON VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE
Post Date: 2007-07-24 01:35:44 by richard9151
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This is an interesting, but long, paper. I have posted only a small part of it, but it is certainly worth a long look. In fact, all of the site that this is from is worth a long look. Enjoy. La Boétie's Discourse of Voluntary Servitude is remarkable, and has been used in a large number of famous works. You will shortly understand why. First written about 1552 or 1553, it fits remarkably well in America given that voluntary servitude is enshrined in federal law by the so-called Thirteenth Amendment. La Boétie also had Rose Wilder Lane's central insight that humans are free by nature. Possibly, the most important lesson we can learn from La Boétie's ...
The more people are controlled, the less contented they become.
Post Date: 2007-07-24 01:14:11 by richard9151
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"A country may be governed with justice, And a war may be won with cunning, But people can only be mastered by following them. How can this be known? By looking! The more people are controlled, the poorer they become; The poorer they become, the more restless they get; the more restless they get, the more forcefully they are restrained. When people are forcefully restrained, their defiance becomes ingenious. And the more ingenious their defiance, the stranger are the things that happen. Now when strange things begin to happen, laws and regulations become stricter; Then stricter laws and regulations mean more criminals and fugitives. Soon everyone is either a criminal or a ...
Demanding Accountability
Post Date: 2007-07-23 10:05:22 by robin
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Demanding Accountabilityby Senator Russ Feingold Sun Jul 22, 2007 at 07:28:42 AM PDTThe last time I posted on Daily Kos, it certainly generated a lot of interest, even though many people disagreed with what I had to say. I read all of the comments and I know many of you disagreed with me. As always, I appreciate how honest and passionate the Daily Kos community is about the issues that matter and even when we don’t agree it was important to have the civil exchange that we did. After that last post, you really got me thinking. While I still am not convinced that Congress should pursue impeachment, you made some great points about how important it is to hold this administration ...
Brann the Iconoclast
Post Date: 2007-07-22 08:10:11 by YertleTurtle
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William Cowper Brann (January 4, 1855 – April 1, 1898) was an American journalist known as Brann the Iconoclast. Born in Humboldt, Illinois, Brann was a highly opinionated, colorful writer, known for the articulate savagery of his writing style. At the time of his death, Brann edited the Iconoclast newspaper in Waco, Texas. He was especially noted for his writings attacking Baptists, Episcopalians, the British, and blacks. He devoted many paragraphs to his hatred of the wealthy eastern social elites such as the Vanderbilts, and deplored their marriages to titled Europeans, which he characterized as diluting their already debased American stock with worthless foreign blood. One of ...
Bribery Network to Bloat War Costs Is Alleged
Post Date: 2007-07-21 16:11:15 by Split
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Federal investigators have uncovered what they describe as a sweeping network of kickbacks, bribes and fraud involving at least eight employees and subcontractors of KBR, the former Halliburton subsidiary, in a scheme to inflate charges for flying freight into Iraq in support of the war, according to court papers unsealed yesterday. The latest conviction in the cases related to the scheme came yesterday, when a former Houston-based executive for an air-freight carrier hired by KBR pleaded guilty in federal district court to dispensing bribes and then lying to federal investigators. The executive, Kevin Andre Smoot, 43, of The Woodlands, Tex., served as a managing director for Eagle Global ...
Comrade Kosciusko’s tiny guide to brainwashing
Post Date: 2007-07-21 01:57:44 by Tauzero
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Historical and Personal Context This is a topic that interested me for a while – I have had some interesting experiences in Poland (some of them as early as elementary school and high school) where a teacher or principal (old, experienced party apparatchik) through fairly short conversation would be able to swap my beliefs 180 degrees. After a while I would be quite shocked, and would wonder for weeks how could something like that be possible. This was not at all a unique experience. All throughout education process in ex-communist countries there were special classes of “defense training” which apart from teaching useful military and survival skills were also pumping ...
Joni Mitchell - Woodstock
Post Date: 2007-07-19 21:53:41 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Poster Comment:This is a clip from the 1969 film "Celebration at Big Sur." The music begins with a sweet little folksy tune "Rainbows All Over Your Blues," by that sweet little folksy singer John Sebastian, but at about 3:30 minutes into the video, Joni Mitchell gives a live, very soulful and powerfully moving rendition of her "Woodstock," a song I still find topical ("..I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the sky/Turning into butterflies above our nation..."). (I was also touched by the editing at about 5:10 of playback, when the ghostly image of her mentor/friend/lover David Crosby is superimposed on hers.)
McCain Loses It and Flees After 9/11 Truth Questions (incredible video!)
Post Date: 2007-07-18 21:10:46 by Arator
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Poster Comment:McCain is utterly destroyed in this video. The man is on the edge of a mental collapse. He's guilty as sin (as is his party) and he knows we know. He may be suicidal. He's definitely delusional. Ain't Karma a bitch? LOL!
Imprisoned Cunningham Outlines Depths of Corruption to FBI
Post Date: 2007-07-18 13:24:09 by ghostdogtxn
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Shivering In The Winter Palace (a call to action)
Post Date: 2007-07-15 22:28:28 by kiki
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I recommend you start stocking up on medicine, food, gallons of water, toilet paper, reading material, Potassium Nitrate, Charcoal powder, and Sulfur. Because soon you will notice that things will start drying up from lack of interstate commerce, shortly after the upcoming Terrah-ist Attack on the NewNited States of Murka. It's already been announced by Michael Chertoff, though he neglected to provide us with a specific date. And today the Justice Department (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Fourth Black Branch of Shadow Government) paved the way for the impending declaration of Martial Law in the wake of said Attack, as provided for in Son of the Patriot Act and the Military Sins of ...
Dead Country Walking - Second Time Around
Post Date: 2007-07-15 20:48:00 by richard9151
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Christine posted this before, but probably not everyone read it, and you need to. Really. So this is the second time around! My name is Edgar J. Steele. This is an extended Nickel Rant. I haven't spoken of this to many but, for the past several months, I have been depressed and in self-denial about the impending death of my father. Beyond Self-Denial Only recently have I realized just how similar my feelings for my father have been to those I possess about America. My father died two days ago. I am traveling with my family to bury him on Friday. His death followed a lingering illness and came hard on the heels of an extended period of near-invalid, then true invalid status, which ...
The Evolution of a New Myth
Post Date: 2007-07-15 14:18:12 by YertleTurtle
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It's fascinating to watch a new mythology, with new mythic characters, evolve before my eyes. I'm speaking of Chickenhawks. I'd argue that all mythic characters, no matter how ancient, are based on people that actually existed. Not just one person, but many. People noticed their characters, and noticed them well. Stories were created about them to educate and entertain the young and old about human nature and society. As the years passed and turned into centuries, the stories were refined and the dross burned away, leaving myths with great truth in them. The Chickenhawks are a perfect example of the aforementioned process. I don't know when the term was first used, but it ...
Olbermann: All hail the prophetic gut!
Post Date: 2007-07-14 22:08:09 by robin
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Olbermann: All hail the prophetic gut! Explaining Michael Chertoff’s counterterrorism stomachSPECIAL COMMENTYou have by now heard the remark — instantly added to our through-the-looking-glass lexicon of the 21st century, a time when we suddenly started referring to this country as “the homeland,” as if anybody here has used that term since Charles Lindbergh or the German-American Bund in 1940.Michael Chertoff’s “gut feeling.” Which, he took pains to emphasize, was based on no specific nor even vague intelligence that we are entering a period of increased risk of terrorism here. He got as specific as saying that al-Qaida seems to like the summer, but as to ...
(The Love of) War's Culture
Post Date: 2007-07-14 18:40:33 by YertleTurtle
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Paul Krugman, an Op-Ed Columnist for the NYTimes wrote about Mythic Reality and war. Quoting a book by Chris Hedges, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Krugman comments: War, Mr. Hedges says, plays to some fundamental urges. 'Lurking beneath the surface of every society, including ours,' he says, 'is the passionate yearning for a nationalist cause that exalts us, the kind that war alone is able to deliver.' When war psychology takes hold, the public believes, temporarily, in a 'mythic reality' in which our nation is purely good, our enemies are purely evil, and anyone who isn't our ally is our enemy. This state of mind works greatly to the benefit of those in ...
(The Horrors of) Educational Discipline
Post Date: 2007-07-14 14:53:11 by YertleTurtle
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I woke up this morning and realized that I still wasn't completely finished with my ideas about (and I must say) disgust with our educational system. After yesterday's blog, No Child Left, I got several emails from people ranging from confused to annoyed to "right on". One pointed out to me a paper that David Miller (truly a brilliant teacher) gave at the 1998 Conference on Values in Higher Education Stewardship and Opportunism: The Moral Roots of Accountability, entitled: "Nothing to Teach! No Way to Teach It! Together with the Obligation to Teach!" Dilemmas in the Rhetoric of Assessment and Accountability . In that paper, David talks about his experiences at ...
Don't Miss Bug Bash this Weekend
Post Date: 2007-07-13 11:31:34 by Tauzero
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The following is a partial list of Museum events for 2007. July 2007 Don't Miss Bug Bash this Weekend Saturday, July 14 Critters and crawlers will be the featured attraction on Saturday, July 14 at the Museum’s all-day Bush Bash event. You’ll be bug-eyed as you watch a cockroach race. Hold out your hand to one of the friendly bugs in the insect petting zoo. Talk to bee-keepers. There is something for everyone at this event. Bug Bash is free with Museum general admission. Add to your experience by purchasing tickets on-site to the Museum’s newest film— Bugs 3-D —for only $3. This event was produced in partnership with the University of Illinois Extension. ...
How to Impeach Cheney and Bush and Stop WW III
Post Date: 2007-07-12 20:56:45 by Horse
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A good way to break into the mainstream media with 9-11 Truth and our plans to impeach Cheney and Bush would be a 60 second commercial played as part of a local congressional campaign with national implications (i.e. the Pelosi Sheehan race here in San Francisco.) What we would do is to go to http://www.WTC7.net and get a few of the clips of WTC Tower 7 collapsing in 6.5 seconds. Then we have a voice over explaining that Tower 7 collapsed in 6.5 seconds despite the fact that it was not hit by a plane on 9-11. The narrator can point out that the video reveals there obviously was no fire sufficient to cause the collapse and that the smoke was coming from the buildings behind it. The narrator ...
Dead Country Walking
Post Date: 2007-07-12 09:49:35 by christine
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My name is Edgar J. Steele. This is an extended Nickel Rant. I haven't spoken of this to many but, for the past several months, I have been depressed and in self-denial about the impending death of my father. Beyond Self-Denial Only recently have I realized just how similar my feelings for my father have been to those I possess about America. My father died two days ago. I am traveling with my family to bury him on Friday. His death followed a lingering illness and came hard on the heels of an extended period of near-invalid, then true invalid status, which themselves followed a series of medical procedures designed to prolong his life. Before surgery, he was alert, active and full ...
NOT GUILTY! Tom Cryer and Becraft Best the DOJ
Post Date: 2007-07-12 00:56:50 by christine
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According to our court-watcher we can tell you the following: At the start of the trial the DOJ withdrew the felony charges, leaving two counts of willful failure to file. The Constitution and the law were allowed into the courtroom. Although Cryer was able to tell the jury what he read, he was not allowed to show the jury what he read. Cryer was also able to tell the jury what he did not read in the law because he could not find it in the law - the law that made him liable to file and pay the federal income tax. Tom did a good job of explaining to the jury what he read in the Brushhaber, Stanton and Eisner Supreme Court cases about the legal meaning of the word "income" and ...
Damn Yankees - Heart
Post Date: 2007-07-11 22:05:35 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Poster Comment:Take heart, 9-11 Truthers: Magna est veritas, et praevalebit---Great is the Truth, and she will prevail. :)
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