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Abortionist murdered in Church

[ 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 [...]

Questions for the Federal Reserve

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Audacity: Obama promises Arabs Jerusalem

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, [...]

Brotherhood of Darkness – Bush/Clinton

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 [...]

Obama Motors to Diversify?

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 [...]

Torture Policy of Bush/Cheney hurts US troops

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Aldous Huxely’s Prescience

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 [...]

If you’re not petrified, you must be asleep

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 [...]

The Audacity of TORTURE

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 [...]

It’s all laughs at the White House these days

[ 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. [...]

Home Bible Studies Illegal in USA?

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 [...]

Beware of Abraham Foxman…

[ 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 calls for “indefinite detention” of thought criminals

Obama the Propagandist…

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Should Obama Control the Internet?

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

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 [...]

North Korea’s Nukes: Paid for by the U.S. Govt

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 [...]

Who made Obama the czar of Israel?

[ 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 [...]

Dick Morris: Israel betrayed by US?

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 [...]

Psychological Warfare Technologies

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 [...]

Euthanasia and the Federal Deficit

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 – still persecuted in Israel

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 [...]

Obama preaches “values”

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’s turpitude

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 [...]

13 Utilitarian Torturers

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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 [...]

US Arms Supply Terror

[ 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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Planned Dollar Collapse almost here

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, [...]

U.S. military: Heavily armed and medicated

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 [...]

McChrystal – Obama’s Hatchet Man?

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 [...]

Tortuous Dick Cheney

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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Creating a world of snitches

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 [...]

The Leaven of Herod

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 [...]

Could this happen to you?

What’s happened to the USA?

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Oxymoron Obama

[ 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 [...]

Federal Arrogance

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 [...]

Bush-Obama Wars

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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