Posted in Babylon, Fascism, Politics, Propaganda on Mar 8th, 2010
A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully
by Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic Monthly
Why is the national security community treating the “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010,” introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration’s choices in the aftermath [...]
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Rep. Massa describes a confrontation with Emanuel in a shower: “I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me.”
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Posted in Babylon, Fascism, Politics, Propaganda on Mar 6th, 2010
Good Americans from sea to shining sea are grappling right now with how to mentally process what they’re witnessing in Washington, D.C.
The spectacle of a far leftist president literally forcing socialized medicine down the throat of an unwilling center-right America is reminiscent, perhaps more than any other contemporary metaphor, of date rape.
A man determined to [...]
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Posted in Babylon, Fascism, Politics, Propaganda on Mar 3rd, 2010
“Coffee Party” Founder Is Obama Campaign Operative
Billed as an alternative grassroots movement to the Tea Party, which has been for the most part absorbed by mainline Republicans and Neoconservatives, the “Coffee Party” promised to wake up politically minded Americans and offered a different avenue for the freedom movement.
However, the so called founder of the Coffee [...]
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Posted in Babylon, Fascism, Health, Politics on Mar 3rd, 2010
[ The Wall Street Journal writes that ObamaCare is so unpopular that Democrats have to break the rules to pass it. ]
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Abuse of Power
‘An undemocratic disservice to our people and to the Senate’s institutional role.’
A string of electoral defeats and the great unpopularity of ObamaCare can’t stop Democrats from their self-appointed rendezvous with liberal destiny—ramming a [...]
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The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.
McConnell’s not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows about social engineering. He’s the nice-seeming guy who’s willing and able to use fear-mongering to manipulate [...]
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IS AMERICA BECOMING A POLICE STATE?
By Chuck Baldwin
There is a classic story about how no one had been able to capture a herd of wild hogs that was rooting up crops from numerous farms. It got so bad that rewards had been posted for anyone clever enough to corral the critters. But even this resulted [...]
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Posted in Babylon, Fascism, Politics, Propaganda on Feb 27th, 2010
CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens’ rights
Tthe federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government’s become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to [...]
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Posted in Babylon, Fascism, Politics, Propaganda on Feb 27th, 2010
Cybersecurity bill to give president new emergency powers
The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation.
According to an aide familiar with the proposal, the bill includes a mandate for federal agencies to prepare emergency response plans in the event of a massive, nationwide cyberattack.
The president [...]
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Posted in Babylon, Fascism, Politics, Propaganda on Feb 26th, 2010
[ The irony, of course, is that the so-called "Patriot Act" is anything but patriotic, since it undermines the Bill of Rights and makes criminals out of all those who might question the government and its ongoing propaganda and disinformation campaigns. ]
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The Senate Wednesday evening passed a one-year extension to the Patriot Act, a Bush-era [...]
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