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Must read thread, insider story from badjoe: My History and why I left the Free Republic.
Post Date: 2007-04-25 00:58:49 by Ferret Mike
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It is with a very heavy heart I am writing this. A little about me first. I am sixty six years old. I have been told since I was a kid I wouldn't live past forty, because of a supposed heart condition. Somehow I beat those doctor's predictions by 26 years so far, not by being careful, but by living to the fullest. You know "Eat, Drink, and be Merry. For tomorrow you may Die". The Lord knows I have had a really full life. I made a few changes because of my condition. I gave up going to medical school and went to Optometry school because I figured the work would be less stressful, and it was. I finished my schooling in 1959 and became a truly political person in 1960 ...
Wolfowitz Hires Prominent Lawyer in Fight to Stay at World Bank [there's no evidence that he raped Shaha says Uncle Bob]
Post Date: 2007-04-24 18:17:58 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Wolfowitz Hires Prominent Lawyer in Fight to Stay at World Bank By STEVEN R. WEISMAN Published: April 24, 2007 WASHINGTON, April 23 — Paul D. Wolfowitz, signaling anew that he will fight for his job as World Bank president, has enlisted a prominent lawyer who defended President Bill Clinton against accusations of sexual misconduct to help convince the bank’s board that Mr. Wolfowitz has done nothing to justify being ousted. Robert S. Bennett, the lawyer selected by Mr. Wolfowitz, said in an interview that before the bank’s board acted on charges of ethical lapses, he and Mr. Wolfowitz wanted more time to prepare a case showing that the bank president had acted properly on ...
Work on Baghdad wall continues despite premier's opposition
Post Date: 2007-04-24 07:42:51 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Work on Baghdad wall continues despite premier's opposition dpa German Press Agency Published: Monday April 23, 2007 Baghdad- The construction of a three-mile wall around a Sunni neighbourhood in Baghdad continued Monday, the military spokesman for the Iraqi government said, despite Premier Nuri al- Maliki's opposition to the plan. Qassem Atta confirmed the US military's plan to form a 3.5-metre- high concrete wall to enclose Adhamiya district, where tit-for-tat sectarian violence is threatening to spiral out of control. He also insisted that Iraqi citizens had requested that walls be erected between neighbourhoods for security considerations, and so the work on the Adhamiya ...
Every time I think I find hope, it gets dashed.
Post Date: 2007-04-22 13:45:32 by robin
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Every time I think I find hope, it gets dashed. Category: Generic Right Wing Idiocy • Politics and Partisanship • blind outrage Posted on: April 19, 2007 10:09 PM, by Mike Dunford Watching Keith Olbermann tonight, I learned that Karl Rove said something nauseatingly dishonest when asked about the decision to go to war in Iraq. When asked whose idea it was to launch a preemptive war in Iraq, Rove replied - and I'm not making this up - "I think it was Osama bin Laden's." OK. I wish that I had made that one up, but I can't honestly say that it really surprised me. Rove has revealed, time after time, that he has absolutely no scruples when it comes to pushing ...
Video: Gonzales’ Amnesia (The Daily Show)
Post Date: 2007-04-21 20:57:15 by robin
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Video: Gonzales’ Amnesia The Washington Post reports that Alberto Gonzales used the phrase “I don’t recall” and its variants 64 times during the five-hour hearing, “treat[ing] the committee to a mixture of arrogance, combativeness and amnesia. Even his would-be defenders on the Republican side were appalled.” Last night’s Daily Show featured a video compilation highlighting the absurdity of Gonzales’ “amnesia.” Jon Stewart: “After weeks of mock testimony, there you have it. Alberto Gonzales doesn’t know what happened, but he assures you what he doesn’t remember was handled properly.” Watch it: Here’s a sampling of ...
Is BAC a paid propagandist?
Post Date: 2007-04-21 16:55:20 by Paul Revere
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I don't really care what people say about political issues on a message board, so one viewpoint or another doesn't bother me. But I do care if I think someone is merely a disruptor, with nothing but contempt for a site and the people who are there. BAC appears to be a paid shill. He puts enormous amounts of time into compiling his run-on posts, and he's sure to be doing it other places, too. Which is most likely? 1. He works for the Republican Party, or one of its elected or appointed members. 2. He works for some branch of the federal government, and spreading disinformation is his job. 3. He's just a douche bag with too much time and too little brainpower.
Oh, the Irony: Crazy McCain Has Campaign Ads Running on "Jump the Shark"
Post Date: 2007-04-21 13:44:42 by Arator
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Can nutty McCain's campaign do anything right?
Noble Resolve '07: 4 days of simulated terror
Post Date: 2007-04-20 21:05:44 by Eoghan
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From April, 23 to April 27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a four-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” ten-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a “foreign nation.” This week Dick Cheney has also been warning of the “very real” threat of a nuclear attack on an American city. Could the Nobel Resolve drills be used as a screen for a false-flag attack to be blamed on Iran, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, or sheep-dipped Americans like Adam Gadahn? The drills are being run by Joint Task Force Command (JTFCOM), Northern Command ...
White House Renews Gonzales Backing (heckofa job)
Post Date: 2007-04-20 14:14:08 by robin
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(04-20) 11:05 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush White House called embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales "our No. 1 crime fighter" Friday, a day after Gonzales' often halting explanations for the firings of eight federal prosecutors brought additional demands for his resignation. "He has done a fantastic job in the Department of Justice," deputy press secretary Dana Perino told reporters traveling aboard Air Force One as President Bush headed for a speech in Michigan. Gonzales had gone to Capitol Hill Thursday with just one mission: to placate Republican and Democratic senators dissatisfied with his account of how eight federal prosecutors were fired. ...
Rove trying to scare people again
Post Date: 2007-04-19 21:06:05 by Mekons4
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Rove warns of threat of terrorism Political strategist raises specter of attacks in U.S. if military pulls back abroad By Jim Carney Beacon Journal staff writer ALLIANCE - Presidential confidant Karl Rove painted a bleak picture Wednesday of what would happen if the United States walked away from the global war on terror. ``We are foolish if we think we can turn away from this threat and draw inward, and they will not come,'' President Bush's chief political strategist told an audience of about 400 at the Mount Union Theater. ``If we lose, they will follow,'' he said. Rove's appearance brought out about 25 protesters, who walked in front of the theater prior to ...
THE "CRAZIES" TAKE OVER (PNAC chart)
Post Date: 2007-04-19 00:27:01 by robin
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When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the world hailed the end of the Cold War. The U.S. and the Soviet Union would have billions of extra dollars to spend on education, health care, infrastructure upgrades, and job creation. The term used in the U.S. was the "peace dividend." While most of the world was celebrating a future of world peace, the U.S., with little fanfare, began to write the last chapter of its book on taking over the world. Today, the results are evident to anyone, except mainstream America, who is still in a state of denial. To them, the Cold War is still being enacted, but with different players. The decades-old battle of East vs. West has turned 90 degrees to a ...
Secret Iraq memo leaked by civil servant
Post Date: 2007-04-18 08:57:26 by Eoghan
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A secret Downing Street memo detailing talks between US President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair was leaked by a civil servant, the Old Bailey has heard. David Keogh passed the memo to a friend, Leo O'Connor, at a local dining club in Northampton. But police were called in when political researcher O'Connor placed it in papers for his boss, Anthony Clarke, Labour MP for Northampton South, to see, the jury was told. David Perry QC, prosecuting, said the reason the memo was leaked was to bring its contents into the public domain. But the record of the April 16, 2004, meeting in Washington was sensitive and was concerned with the US and UK policy towards Iraq. ...
John Derbyshire: Last Action Hero
Post Date: 2007-04-17 22:54:50 by robin
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John Derbyshire: Last Action Hero When last we read charming old pervert John Derbyshire, he was advocating the execution of the British naval hostages for treason. Today, of course, he’s calling the students of Virginia Tech cowards. Why didn’t they fight back, he wonders. Had he been in that situation — though, of course, he can’t be sure — he thinks he probably would’ve rushed the gunman, disarmed him, and subdued him with a Vulcan nerve pinch. Yes, yes, I know it’s easy to say these things: but didn’t the heroes of Flight 93 teach us anything? Yes: if you bravely fight back you will all die anyway. Spirit of Self-Defence [The Corner via Swampland] ...
Richard Perle Continues To Push Al-Qaeda/Saddam Connection
Post Date: 2007-04-16 11:14:56 by Brian S
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Richard Perle, the American Enterprise Institute fellow who helped build the case for the Iraq War prior to the US invasion in 2003, appeared on CNN's 'Late Edition' with Wolf Blizter last night and continued to cling to the existence of links between Saddam Hussein's regime and al Qaida terrorists. While admitting Hussein's government had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, Perle continued to point to a "direct connection" between the two. "There is evidence of a connect between al Qaida and Saddam Hussein's intelligence," he insisted. Perle also dismissed concerns that no weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq after the war as ...
Cheney: Democrats will back down on Iraq
Post Date: 2007-04-15 16:37:16 by Eoghan
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Vice President Dick Cheney says he is "willing to bet" that Democratic lawmakers will back down and approve a war-spending bill that doesn't call for U.S. troops to leave Iraq. Top Democratic leaders shot back that Cheney has lost all public credibility. With President Bush and Congress in a stalemate — he plans to veto legislation that orders U.S. troops home, which the House and Senate plan to send him — both sides are looking ahead. In an interview broadcast Sunday, Cheney predicted the Democrats will blink. He said Congress will end up passing a "clean" bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without any troop withdrawal timetables. ...
Canada offers forum for lecturer barred from U.S.
Post Date: 2007-04-14 23:07:40 by Eoghan
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VANCOUVER — A highly regarded Iraqi epidemiologist who wants to tell Americans about an alarming rise in cancer levels among Iraqi children will come to Canada instead because he couldn't get a visa to the United States. Unable to travel to the University of Washington, Riyadh Lafta -- best known for a controversial study that estimated Iraq's body count in the U.S.-led war in Iraq at more than half a million -- will arrive at Simon Fraser University in B.C. this month to give a lecture and meet with research associates. "The University of Washington wanted him, but the U.S. denied his entry," said his colleague at SFU, Tim Takaro. "They need to be able to ...
Al-Sarafya Bridge wasn’t destroyed by a trapped lorry but it had been trapped
Post Date: 2007-04-14 15:36:41 by Eoghan
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As our agency expected during the news of destroying al-Sarafia irony Bridge one of the most Baghdad famous traditional areas were destroying the Bridge wasn’t by a trapped lorry as the governmental sources said when they announced the explosion news HAQ agency- exclusive As our agency expected during the news of destroying al-Sarafia irony Bridge one of the most Baghdad famous traditional areas were destroying the Bridge wasn’t by a trapped lorry as the governmental sources said when they announced the explosion news, in which the Internal Ministry admitted today that the body of the Bridge –450 meter length- were completely trapped with explosive riffles that ...
Neocon War Propaganda To Be Investigated
Post Date: 2007-04-13 23:12:59 by Eoghan
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A U.S. House committee has announced it will hold hearings to investigate misleading military statements that followed the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch in Iraq. As reported by the Associated Press, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said an April 24 hearing will be part of its investigation into whether there was a strategy to mislead the public. It will "examine why inaccurate accounts of these two incidents were disseminated, the sources and motivations for the accounts, and whether the appropriate administration officials have been held accountable,'' the panel said on its Web site. The House ...
Conservatives, Neoconservatives, Paleoconservatives: What Next?
Post Date: 2007-04-13 21:53:30 by Peetie Wheatstraw
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Reviewing my summary for an advertisement of a book on the conservative movement soon to be published by Palgrave-Macmillan, I was struck by how contemptuously I had described my subject. My work shows how the conservative movement has descended from any semblance of high moral purpose into a mishmash of think-tanks, media outlets and publications, which seem unrelated to anything that is historically recognizable as conservative. This agglomeration of intersecting, heavily-funded operations was the eventual but not necessarily intended creation of a journalistic clique, one that in the years following World War Two cobbled together a movement that would be called "conservative." ...
Wolfie's Girlfriend: I'M THE VICTIM
Post Date: 2007-04-13 21:05:31 by Mekons4
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Seriously, she said she's the victim in all of this stuff. She never asked for a new job or a raise. I didn't notice the moron returning the $60K raise. This is a woman who needs a right good kicking. $190K a year for doing virtually nothing, and she's a victim. I really hate these people.
"Suicide Bombings" - The Cover Story For US Military Ops In Iraq
Post Date: 2007-04-13 16:11:11 by Eoghan
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Al-sarafiya bridge which, until two days ago, spanned the Tigris in Baghdad, linking Shia and Sunni neighborhoods of the city. "Suicide bombings" are a daily occurrence in Iraq, and are the major propaganda tool used by the US government and its mainstream media to convince the world that there is still some "freedom and Democracy" work to be done by US troops in Iraq. But what if they are a cover for something else? Read this excerpt from a news report from July 2006: Violence may bring partition of Baghdad UK Telegraph 22/07/2006 Iraq's politicians [i.e. Pentagon and Israeli officials] were reported yesterday to be drawing up provisional plans to divide ...
Iranian envoy wounds 'confirmed'
Post Date: 2007-04-11 13:56:38 by Eoghan
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The head of the International Red Cross in Tehran says he saw wounds on an Iranian diplomat who has alleged that US forces in Iraq tortured him. Peter Stoeker said there were marks on Jalal Sharafi's feet, legs, back and nose but he was unable to say if they were the result of torture. Iranian media quoted Mr Sharafi saying the CIA tortured him "day and night". Mr Sharafi was abducted in Iraq in February and released last week. The US denies any involvement in the case. Mr Sharafi, second secretary at the Iranian embassy in Baghdad, says he was kidnapped by Iraqi agents operating under the supervision of the CIA. Iranian state media has quoted Mr Sharafi saying the CIA ...
Wolfowitz To Attend 2007 Istanbul Bilderberg Meeting
Post Date: 2007-04-11 07:47:35 by Eoghan
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In an interview with a Turkish journalist, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz brags of his upcoming attendance of the 2007 Bilderberg Group meeting in Istanbul Turkey, while the journalist who is also set to be an an attendee refers to the elitist confab as a "covert world government." Bilderberg is an annual conference of the global elite, the location of which changes every year. Power brokers from industry, oil, politics, banking, business, academia, royalty and the media get together to secretly discuss the course of the world with no independent oversight or press coverage whatsoever, save leaked details obtained by muck-raking lone journalists like veteran Jim Tucker. ...
How Syria Helped the US in "War on Terror"
Post Date: 2007-04-10 17:53:52 by Eoghan
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And How Bush Said "Thanks" About five years ago I had a visit with Syrian President Bashar Al Asad, a visit when he told me that his intelligence services had uncovered a plot by Al Qaeda that would have killed American servicemen in the Middle East. He turned over the information to the U.S., which was then able to stop the operation, saving the lives of the Americans who were being targeted. When I asked him what operation that was, he replied that, "The Americans asked me not to talk about it, but if they keep calling us a terrorist state, I will talk about it." After I left his office, I asked the U.S. Ambassador to Syria if what he had said was true. His reply ...
"D.C. Madam" Speaks with ABC News
Post Date: 2007-04-09 18:41:29 by Eoghan
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Alleged "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey has given an exclusive interview to ABC News. ABC News investigative correspondent Brian Ross recently interviewed Palfrey, who for over a decade operated what she terms an "erotic fantasy service" in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area, for an upcoming report on "20/20." Last October, federal prosecutors charged Palfrey with racketeering offenses in connection with the business, which she contends was a legal operation. From 1993 to August 2006, Palfrey ran a high-end escort service in the nation's capital, charging a flat fee for 90-minute "dates" with women between the ages of 23 and 55 whom she ...
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