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[ To give you some idea of how cynical I've become of our "government" these days, I would not be surprised to learn that this assassination was intended to frame the "Christian right" in this country -- and to further the Homeland Security Department's allegations that those who oppose abortion are to be regarded [...]
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Obama promises Arabs Jerusalem will be theirs
Official: President said Palestinian state with holy city capital ‘in American interest’
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM – President Obama and his administration told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting last week the U.S. foresees the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, [...]
TORONTO – Former President George W. Bush called ex-President Bill Clinton “his brother” and the two rarely disagreed in their first-ever appearance together on stage.
The Republican and Democratic ex-presidents defended each other at a Toronto forum on Friday, disappointing some in the crowd of 6,000 who expected a more heated debate.
Bush said [...]
U.S. Aims For Balance As GM’s Owner
Washington Post: Officials Say Administration Will Focus On Repairing Companies, Not Overseeing All Decisions
The owner of a car company can decide how many cars to make, to paint red, and to send to Maryland dealerships. The Obama administration, which plans to buy about 70 percent of [...]
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In Brave New World non-stop distractions of the most fascinating nature… are deliberately used as instruments of policy, for the purpose of preventing people from paying too much attention to the realities of the social and political situation….
Only the vigilant can maintain their liberties… A society, most of whose [...]
The Worst Is Yet to Come”: If You’re Not Petrified, You’re Not Paying Attention
by Aaron Task in Investing, Recession, Banking, Autos, Housing
The green shoots story took a bit of hit this week between data on April retail sales, weekly jobless claims and foreclosures. But the whole concept of the economy finding its [...]
Torture and the American Conscience
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Torture is a violation of US and international law. Yet, president George W. Bush and vice president Dick Cheney, on the basis of legally incompetent memos prepared by Justice Department officials, gave the OK to interrogators to violate US [...]
[ The lovefest between mass media and the Obama administration has become a footsie-affair now... Robert Gibbs is the smugly smiling face of American tyranny... ]
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Robert Gibbs gets a lot of laughs in his briefings
The United States is facing its biggest financial crisis in ages. North Korea is blowing up nukes. [...]
SAN DIEGO — A local pastor and his wife claim they were interrogated by a San Diego County official, who then threatened them with escalating fines if they continued to hold Bible studies in their home, 10News reported.
Attorney Dean Broyles of The Western Center For Law & Policy was shocked with what happened [...]
[ Like the Wizard of OZ, pulling back the curtain of the ADL is a solitary person who uses stentorian language to intimidate anyone who dares question secular Israel's policies. Beware of Abe Foxman -- the denier of Armenian genocide, the feral advocate of "Hate Crimes" legislation, and the relentless persecutor of Christians everywhere. [...]
Obama the Propagandist…
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A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data.
—By Steve Aquino
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill [...]
Hold the Torturers Accountable Or else we’ll all be held accountable
by Rep. Ron Paul, May 26, 2009
While Congress is sidetracked by who said what to whom and when, our nation finds itself at a crossroads on the issue of torture. We are at a point where we must decide if torture is [...]
by Paul J. Watson
Amidst the cacophony of condemnation from all sides following North Korea’s second nuclear bomb test, there has been no mention whatsoever of how the secretive Stalinist state got its weapons in the first place – they were paid for by the U.S. government.
Both the Clinton and Bush administrations played [...]
[ The audacity of all this is simply breathtaking... Could you imagine if the tables were reversed and the UN made such demands on the USA? What would be the response of Americans? ]
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U.S.: Jerusalem’s status subject to negotiation
By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent
The U.S. State Department said Sunday that the [...]
By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com on May 24, 2009
From Caroline Glick, deputy editor and op-ed writer for the Jerusalem Post, comes alarming news. An expert on Arab-Israeli relations with excellent sources deep inside Netanyahu’s government, she reports that CIA chief Leon Panetta, who recently took time out from his [...]
Government Experiments on U.S. Soldiers: Shocking Claims Come to Light in New Court Case
By Bruce Falconer, Mother Jones
They say government scientists messed with their minds. Now, veterans who were the subject of top-secret experiments want answers.
Their stories are a staple of conspiracy culture: broken men, suffering hallucinations and near-total amnesia, who [...]
So we have a short-term problem and we also have a long-term problem. The short-term problem is dwarfed by the long-term problem. And the long-term problem is Medicaid and Medicare. If we don’t reduce long-term health care inflation substantially, we can’t get control of the deficit. So, one option is just to do nothing. [...]
Messianic Jews petition High Court to immigrate under Law of Return By Cnaan Liphshiz Haaretz Online
Three Messianic Jews on Wednesday petitioned the High Court of Justice to force the Interior Ministry and the Jewish Agency to allow them to immigrate to Israel under the Law of Return, and halt what they call [...]
Which values, exactly, does Mr. Obama refer to in this propaganda message to the troops?
[ Blech... So what does Mr. Obama mean by the word "values"? Does he mean "values clarification," the prevailing mode of teaching "situational ethics" in humanist indoctrination centers (i.e., public schools)?
Or maybe he's thinking of the values [...]
Pelosi: Nothing more to say on her CIA allegation
WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she won’t talk any more about her charge that the CIA lied in 2002 about using waterboarding on terrorism suspects.
“I have made the statement that I’m going to make on this,” she told reporters at [...]
Read the article for an explanation (link below):
Dick Cheney, vice president (2001-2009) David Addington, counsel to the vice president (2001-2005), chief of staff to the vice president (2005-2009) Alberto Gonzales, White House counsel (2001-2005), and attorney general (2005-2008) James Mitchell, consultant George Tenet, director of Central Intelligence (1997-2004) Condoleezza Rice, national security advisor [...]
[ The following would be ironic but the USA is unquestionably and without exception the world's largest arms dealer. See this table. ]
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Taleban are using weapons ‘supplied by US’
The Taleban have been using rifles and ammunition that were supplied by the US to the Afghan Army, it was claimed yesterday.
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Day of reckoning looms for the U.S. dollar
Alia McMullen, Financial Post
The U.S. dollar’s day of reckoning may be inching closer as its status as a safe-haven currency fades with every uptick in stocks and commodities and its potential risks – debt and inflation – are brought under a harsher spotlight.
Ashraf Laidi, [...]
Prescription pill dependency among American troops is on the rise
In deploying an all-volunteer army to fight two ongoing wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon has increasingly relied on prescription drugs to keep its warriors on the front lines. In recent years, the number of military prescriptions for antidepressants, sleeping pills, and painkillers [...]
by Prof James Petras (see link below)
“The Deltas are psychos…You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force…”, a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980’s. Now President Obama has elevated the most notorious of the psychopaths, General Stanley McChrystal, to head the US [...]
It’s a pity this video isn’t of Mr. Cheney or the other miscreants who advocate this sort of monstrosity…. Utilitarian logic is the bastard child of the Enlightenment — the end never justifies the means.
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Town halls hire citizen snoopers as young as SEVEN to spy on neighbours and report wrongs
By Lucy Ballinger Children as young as seven are being recruited by councils to act as ‘citizen snoopers’, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The ‘environment volunteers’ will report on litter louts, noisy neighbours – and even families [...]
Donald Rumsfeld covered Iraq briefing papers with Biblical texts
Donald Rumsfeld, the former US defence secretary, provided George W Bush with top secret intelligence briefings on the Iraq war that featured cover pages adorned with Biblical quotes.
By Alex Spillius in Washington
According to a report in GQ magazine the religious texts were [...]
What’s happened to the USA?
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[ This comes from the man who has pushed for the largest government budget deficit in the history of the world? Of course the national debt is "unsustainable," so why does Mr. Obama and his cabal push the USA more and more into debt? This is FISCAL INSANITY -- or is it really ECONOMIC [...]
For the first time, neither sales nor property nor income taxes are the largest source of money for state and local governments. The federal government is.
Tincture of Lawlessness
Obama’s Overreaching Economic Policies
By George F. Will Thursday, May 14, 2009
Anyone, said T.S. Eliot, could carve a goose, were it not for the [...]
Obama Considers Detaining Terror Suspects Indefinitely
By EVAN PEREZ Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on U.S. soil — indefinitely and without trial — as part of a plan to retool military commission trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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