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Israel's urgent warning
Israel HAS to stop the Arab peace efforts!!! This will be an attack that will be blamed on Hamas, perhaps?? More Israelis dressed as Arabs?? It's a favorite tool these days. E13
Alibis to justify the Bush-Cheney Reich
Mr. Chuckles
In favor of sex
Sexual abstinence is bad for you
JR Mooneyham
Walk Like a Kryptonian WTC photos
one picture (part of what I believe is the core of the tower is visible behind the front row of buildings) (large size of previous photo) and the whole page these are from is worth a look. SirJ
Sankara Saranam's Real Secret
I thought the piece was interesting. The web site seems hokey in the way that the piece criticizes as characteristic of spiritual con games!? OTOH, the piece stands by itself as a thoughtful comment on the concept of happiness in the context of our dominant and very sick worldwide society of materialistic liars and deniers. "The Secret," the movie especially, but also the book, edited by Rhonda Byrne, is the latest fad in the New Age subculture. I find the New Age subculture is both entertaining and very sad. Of all the sadness that I encounter the New Age system of fantasy and denial is the most gut wrenching for me. How could so many people expend so much good intention with so little effect? How could they be so clever and obtuse at the same time? My criticisms notwithstanding, I am curious enough to have put the book on my wish list on Powell's as a possible reading project. All my wish lists are public viewable at the Powell's site by using my e-mail address herb
> The Real Secret > By Sankara Saranam > > Health and wealth never made anyone happy. That goes for Rhonda > Byrne, Oprah, > Jack Canfield, and the rest of ‘em. > > They tell you otherwise because they, like so many of us, > desperately want to > believe happiness can come from things as ultimately meaningless as > possessions, a large bank account, or a whole body. > > They tell you otherwise because, like missionaries battling their > own gnawing > doubts, their belief receives cheap assurance the more nods they > can get from > people poorer and sicker than them. > > They will tell you their rags to riches life stories, leaving out > all the > details except that they were poor, they applied the snake oil they > are now > trying to sell you, and got rich. > > They will tell you how to brew the snake oil for yourself. They > will hold > snake oil seminars just in case you couldn’t figure things out or > motivate > yourself enough from reading their books. > > They will even tell you that you can scientifically test their oil, > because > by the time you do they will have long since cashed your check (and > realized > they are no more happy, and perhaps a bit more unhappy, than they > were before > they conned a few million people) and you will have long since sold > their > book on E-bay for twenty-nine cents. > > And just who are they, really? Through the annals of history, they > have > always been with us. They are not merely the authors of The Secret. > “They” is > another word for graft. Graft used to be the monopoly of monarchs and > organized religions. Now, all graft masters bow to commercialism. > > They will tell you that happiness comes from belonging, just don’t > be too > critical of the beliefs of the narrow clique to which they want you > to belong. > > They will tell you that happiness comes from giving your power > away, from > idolizing people. Masses and conferences will be instituted to give > you a > chance to meet your idol. And just when you were sure there’s no > chance > you’ll ever become an idol yourself, they’ll institute American Idol. > > They will describe in detail how to disempower yourself, all the while > calling their lesson self-empowerment. > > They will teach you how not to look within and call it meditation, > how not to > think and call it mindfulness, and how to be as miserable as you > possibly can > be and call it joy. > > They will instruct in an irrational sense of personal > responsibility because > it places an unreasonable burden on the individual and frees their > conscience > of their own irresponsibility to others. They will never speak a > peep about > shared responsibility, because that would mean sacrificing all of > their > excess wealth (of which there’s billions). > > And all they absolutely must not do, if they want to continue being > liked, is > challenge our sense of self. > > Graft we have seen, but even Judeo-Christian graft masters never > called their > mythic saviors and heroes wealthy or wealth-seekers. The churches > of the > world certainly sought wealth, but they were far too discreet to > say that > serving God was about getting rich. > > But today’s graft masters don’t bother with a modicum of shame or > modesty. > They are deadly honesty. L. Ron Hubbard was an early pioneer of > shamelessness, but not to be outdone The Secret author, in one > stroke of her > pen, equates herself with the founders of Western religion, whom she > calls “prosperity teachers.” > > Notice how there were no female prosperity teachers back then, > though there > was a lot of female property? Too bad Abraham never taught his > servants the > secret. Anyway, when was the last time you counted a man’s > happiness, not to > mention godliness, in his heads of cattle, wives, sons, and slaves and > concubines? Being hungry and thirsty is no fun, but not being > hungry and > thirsty is just being at zero. It’s not a fountain of bliss; it’s > just the > negative release from a kind of discomfort that gets worse with > time. Thus > poverty, while being a negative, does not mean wealth is a > positive. Saying > otherwise is The Lie. > > The Hebrew patriarchs, if they even existed, did not have running > water, > electricity, or pumps to get water out of the parched earth. They > didn’t even > have shovels, and they certainly didn’t have millions of adoring > fans. Not > one of the “dream team” behind The Secret would trade places with > any of them. > > Especially because, last I checked, Abraham’s godliness was > measured in what > he was willing to sacrifice, not horde. As for Moses and Jesus being > millionaires... sigh. > > Did you ever hear the story of the Mumbai family that lived in a > shanty > village? I’ve been to Mumbai in the summer and smelled the reek of > shanty > villages. They are crowded, rat infested slums that make St. Louis > city look > like a pleasure cruise. The head of this particular family got a > job and was > able to move his family to an apartment building. A few months > later, he > moved his family back into their leaking shanty because his wife > missed the > community support and kinship. Anyone could just walk into her > shanty home, > and she loved and missed it. > > One apparent secret is that the happiest people in the world are > largely the > people who, by the standards of a Western lifestyle, had little to > be happy > about. The rest of the happy people that happened to have some > money were > smart enough to look for their happiness in their self-knowledge - > a self > that identifies with others and knows itself in everyone and > everything. It’s > the one place to find happiness that we all already know about, > which is why > we have to repeatedly pay people to help us forget it. > > And now we come to the real secret: the only secret is the truth we > want to > forget. > > Meanwhile, population increase mathematically means less wealth for > everyone, > no matter how many lies you affirm to yourself. It also means more > war, more > global warming, and sadly, more popularity for books that help us > forget our > responsibility for whatever disaster awaits us. > ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- Tortured in training
I will try and answer your question as to why such a technique was used. We were told such techniques were used by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese to try and break American pilots into confessing war crimes. But getting an exposure to this torture did not seem to be of any benefit that would help us survive real captivity. We were also told that this was a new training technique, and I found out later from new arrivals in Vietnam that this particular technique was discontinued. I have often wondered if any real study was done on those who had undergone this type of torture to see what if or any lasting effects this had later in life. Wishing you all the best... Richard
UK rejects stamps honoring war dead
McQueen is desperate for the Royal Mail to make real stamps out of his replicas. "The idea of bending down to pick up a letter and that those who have died who look out at you seems immensely powerful. It seems we can have stamps to mark winning the Ashes Useless Eater
spitting-image.net AIPAC's reward
after Israel provokes war with Russia
From the people all you politicians in DC took money from, here is your reward! Kathy Fisher
Put America first, second, third, and fourth in priorities
I fully agree with the article on taking back the country, and needing only 20% of the people in the streets to bring about change. I think the first thing is to get those politicians out of those offices in Washington, and start too with the local ones, they are just as bad, maybe not as badly compromised. A grassroots campaign in every state should do it. I am in Maryland, and we have reps here that aren't worth the time of day, most of what they do is try to find more ways to tax people. I haven't seen a decent one in thirty years. I would not be surprised to find the MD reps have been compromised by back door deals in Washington. Any, I mean any politician that does NOT put AMERICA first, second, third, and fourth in priorities, does not deserve the privilege of serving the citizenry in such a trusted capacity. That's enough ranting for me, hehehhehe, Incidentally, I REAAAALLY like your site. Donations will be forthcoming. Danny A.
Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae: Now officially capsizing
"Large investment portfolios held by mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may imperil the broader economy and should be "anchored" to their affordable housing mission, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday."from Bernanke: Fannie, Freddie threaten economy to your page, Looters in the White House. ... anonymously yours, name withheld
Purge instead of surge?
Purge instead of surge? Wig
Update on my brother's murder
Kristopher "Kritter" Hayes
Water tortured
My bad luck, I was captured and taken to a "POW" compound. I was the first of our group of captives chosen to be put into a ditch that was about 3 feet deep, whereupon, 2 boards were placed so that I was in a half-squatting position with my head sticking out of slots that were cut in the 2 boards so my head was at ground level looking like a golf ball teed up. Two interrogators were kneeling on the boards, one in front of my face and one behind my head. The one behind, placed a plastic sandbag over my head and tightened it until my face was flattened while the other poured water down the front of the bag so that each time I tried to breath, all I was getting was water. I panicked and with a huge shot of adrenaline, I was able to lift both interrogators off the boards. They added 4 more interrogators, 2 in front and 2 behind my head. The water was poured again until I passed out. They lifted the bag long enough for me to revive, asked questions that I would not answer except name, rank and serial number. The bag was then put over my head again and the water was poured once more down the front. Same results, I passed out again. Since I would not answer their questions, I was released from further torture. A week later, I graduated from Warrant Officer Flight Training and 5 weeks later, I reported for duty in Vietnam. After about 5 weeks in Vietnam, I suffered from my first panic attack. Not from combat but getting up in front of a night class on the importance of drinking enough water to prevent dehydration. Officers had to give these classes as part of our extra duty. To this day, almost 38 years later, these panic attacks still haunt me. Richard W.
God and Satan
SirJ
Somehow I knew it would brighten your day. SirJ
WISH-TV has a video of an interview with the mother-in-law. She has too much anger in her, and not enough grief. From the hubby's perspective, once he's dead, his daughter will be raised by his ex-wife and his mother-in-law. I'm guessing he blames the mother-in-law for filling his ex-wife with hate for him, and didn't want the same to happen to his daughter. So he took her with him to keep her out of the clutches of Ma Kettle. [Not the best metaphor; The Ma Kettle character was a much more loving person.] SirJ
Déjŕ vu
Didn't Iraqi defectors go this rout supplying now discredited info????
Another CIA caper? The mystery deepens. Wig
Every one of these useless fuckheads
They are absolutely null. They have no effect on law. He is telling everyone that he intends to break the law which he does and not one of these fuckers is actively doing anything about it. Time is way past to get rid of every one of these useless fuckheads. Marvin A.
Straight jacket
Straight jacket? Since big brother may be watching, I'll just say, remember the renditioning to secret torture camps? The electric shock, severe beatings, sleep and food deprivation, sexual abuse, and waterboarding at Abu Ghraib? The innocent victims of phosphorus bombings in Fallujah? xochi Y.
Two words
Very clever. Carol A.
Oh, the American are unhappy
Oh, the American are unhappy. Do they think they're the Soviets who can push around their "allies"? Joerg C.
Insurance paid for Building Seven
The insurance company which paid Silverstein Properties $861 million for the collapse of WTC 7 will be taking one hard look at their award. The demolition of WTC 7 should rank it as one of the largest insurance frauds in history. I haven't heard the fat lady sing yet. This story is far from over. Silverstein may use insurance money to pay bondholders
They did make the pay out: LINK:
Plane hits home, killing pilot, daughter Preliminary investigation indicates plane crash was intentional, officials say SirJ
A revolution with words
People are buying the cheaper car parts and they're still bitchin about the price. Where my husband works, business has really died down!! The house of cards is falling. Hell, but they are buying lotto tickets as fast as the machines can print them! In one dream the cops were being killed by a secret private organization working for the fascists. How bad did it get? Bridges were closed from joining cities. My husband and I just keep running and driving away from this madness in my dreams... something's coming real soon, I can feel it! I know you are having the nightmares too. I'd rather take a walk in the 10 degree weather and hear and feel the wind than look at that sh*t-head is doing a press conference. Don't want to see or hear him! Another embarrassing mess he's made. This time it's the veterans and the shoddy care they're receiving! Such a sin! Such a pity! This bush junta is a curse on the world, let alone our nation. They make us mad and ashamed and we who care and choose to do something walk around feeling bruised and beaten. We have to reach out to our lone source of kinship, this thing we call the internet. It makes us feel not so alone... a revolution with words. They can't take it from us because they need it to see what we are up to. Kathy
I don't understand
Jamaar B.
Now comes the scary part
Centcom says it depends on the good will of host nations. What would any rational adult expect to happen if we used dozens of nuclear weapons one-third to one-half the size of the Hiroshima bomb against Muslim civilians in Iran? We currently have over 550 airplanes stationed in Centcom nations with dozens of facilities and support units. The reactions in those nations could range from cutting off the water to sabotage and terrorism and full scale assaults by armored divisions against poorly equipped base security staff. We would be lucky if our troops got out alive. Now comes the scary part. What if the people who hatched this mad idea of attacking Iran did not care? What if, to paraphrase I.T. workers, "it is not a bug but a feature." What if the plan was to place our troops in such peril that the nation would accept full-scale nuclear war against people who are currently our allies in order to commit genocide? Would you even want to live under a government where the leaders were that insane? Daniel F.
Opening Inner Space What do I call this?
Herb Ruhs, MD
Under the rug
With due aknowledgement of the need for our troops to defend themselves, nevertheless these types of incidences seem to be continually swept under the rug and leaves Americans to conclude terrorists are responsible for all the casualties to civilians. Wig
Skip the impeachment
Tony T., do you really think those few jobs have made a difference to the American people? Just think of the millions who have lost their jobs to outsourcing? The corporate bigwigs just put bigger bonuses in their pockets and the middle class is slowly disappearing. Millions of Americans are without healthcare because all they can find are part-time jobs at Wal-Mart. Part-time employees do NOT have to be covered by health insurance. Millions are homeless because of outsourcing. How do you justify that? Oh Goodie! Some foreign companies have sent a few jobs to us. Are we supposed to lick their hands and wag our tails like good dogs? Bush needs to get his head out of his ass. It's been up there too long. I'm now thinking he should not be impeached. They should haul him away in a straight jacket for the good of all. The country is called pallistine
unsigned barbndeanc@aol.com A heads up P.S.
There is an antiwar.com article today about how the Democrats are ending up as co-owners of the Iraq war (moreso than now even.) If a D wins the White House in 2008 and the war is still going on (hmmm.....maybe not...) then they will be in a bad position. I pretty much give up on them now! And Justin Raimondo's article is teeth-gnashing -- about Obama getting all war-like for Israel. That guy is definitely not getting my vote... I might even stop voting! Regardless of the politics nationally, unless the Demos do something about the war and the constitution then globally America is really fucked. We are no longer moral leaders, but are rather, the worst of the worst. It is a joke for drudgereport.com and the rest to get all lathered up about China increasing their military spending. We spend nearly 1 trillion a year on our military, assuming you include interest on prior war debts and accrued liabilities for future expenditures and obligations incurred. Sooooo..... where was I... following the news with keen interest and kinda figuring that something will break before what I imagine will happen actually does. Sometimes a slow slide turns into a nasty fall. Mr. Chuckles
BBC lost its homework
This is a short vid with the time stamp. I just checked it and it worked fine for me. You need the audio to hear the announcer say the building has collapsed. If that video doesn't work, you can try any of the SEVENTY-FIVE videos now listed. The freedom of the Internet has outdone the censors for the moment. The BBC employee who came up with the dumb "lost my homework" excuse will receive a failing grade on the next evaluation, never be promoted, and likely be terminated at some point using an unrelated "cock-up" to hide the real motive for the firing. SirJ
BBC's precognition will make sense once you watch this video. Listen carefully to what the owner of WTC 7 and leasee of WTC 1 & 2, the twin towers, Larry Silverstein, says: "I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire. I said, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it." And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."I took him a year to reply to a question on what "pull it" meant. He said it referred to the team of firemen in the building. Did "it" refer to the building or the firemen? Quite a few firemen are now on record that they were ordered to have everyone move away from the building because it was either in imminent danger of collapsing, was going to collapse, or was going to be brought down (answers varied with who testified). This page at Prison Planet has quotes from quite a few firemen and others. I like this part at the very end of that page: "At 5:30 p.m., about 20 minutes after the last firefighters evacuated the collapse zone, 7 WTC collapsed. It was the third steel-frame high-rise in history to collapse from fire--the other two had collapsed earlier that day."Well, there you have it: Within a very few minutes of the last firemen evacuating the collapse zone, BBC announces it has collapsed. Curiously wonderful timing on the part of both BBC and the Fire Department, considering WTC 7 was only the 3rd high-rise building to collapse from fire in the history of the world. There hasn't been a 4th collapse. The debris field of WTC 7 is extremely compact, as the photo in the bottom right of this page clearly shows. It's not easy to make tall buildings collapse so totally into a nice compact debris field, even under controlled demotion. Using explosives is no guarantee of making a building collapse as this demonstrates . This is the building Timothy McVeigh attacked. But all the oddities of WTC 7 collapse could just be coincidence. It has been said that a team of government sources who wish to remain anonymous would eventually type out the combined works of Shakespeare given enough time. It too would just be propaganda SirJ
Viva la cab drivers
I can always count on the cabbies. They know shit when they see it. Had a raucous, delightful hour of uninterrupted hate fest for the neocons from both parties It was funny, the employees at the coffee shop were getting in on it too, and we did wave to the cameras on the ceiling as they were pointed in our direction. All these guys go on the internet they know about the 911 truth movement. They read the stuff I send them and write, and they also blog. They are fed up with the lies. A local moron came in and tried to steer our conversation in another direction but we totally ignored his efforts. The topic was way above his head anyway, so he left discouraged. Another man walked in and sat at the table next to us by himself, Mr Redsocks, we called him. Maybe he got the socks for Valentines Day. He gave us discerning looks, so immediately we dubbed him a spy for the other side. We kept speaking our minds, but cab drivers have to go to work, so alas, our talk ended only to be continued another night...
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, Obama, your secret's out! I echo the words of Mike Rivero, Is there any candidate running who is NOT a whore for Israel? Kathy Fisher
Great Spaghetti-Monster deity
H sez "'want to' Oh good lord, no. I'm willing, but that's not quite the same thing." Damn, I'm gettin' simple-minded! Sorry, I didn't introduce the "spin" right Let's see now, how to make it "more appealing" ... Oh, I got it! Instead let's say, "Want to PLAY with this idea now?" (Ya' know, the traditional "Tom Sawyer" technique of participation bamboozlement) (In the meantime, starting about two days ago, I've been time-consumptively distracted by a hurtin' head gasket on my truck. However, if the great Spaghetti-Monster deity of America's quasi-pasta culture looks up at me from the blessed Round-Table, deep-dish plate of benevolence, I should be able to throw out the first brush-strokes of bamboozlement in about 48 hours ... DanD
Sociopathic government
Michael B. Nifong and the sociopathic state by William L. Anderson, LewRockwell.com Which leads to a 10 PART SERIES:
This is relevant to the ongoing saga of the imprisoned border patrol agents who were victims of prosecutorial zeal ALSO, this is interesting because I recall that Unknown News covers "Stinky Badges"... and it appears that the stink goes far beyond the badges Best wishes, Z.
Peter Sellers
Kevin Good
The Mouse North Korea that roared by setting off a nuclear detonation seems to have gotten the aid they wanted from America. The chase for the oil prize looks like the chase scene round and around the Town Square at the end of The Pink Panther. I am the old guy who brought his chair out to watch. I hope it doesn't all end with Slim Pickens riding the big one into Terran like the end of Dr Strangelove. We are just by Chance Being There. Kevin Good
Closing in on mari j wanna
LOL!! I'm not a druggie myself, but perhaps it is time to legalize the product and have at least some control of the trade. Wig
Did anything change last November?
Indeed, Senator, give this nomination due scrutiny before flushing it down the toilet. Your job is to stop nominations like this. Bush-Cheney routinely, repeatedly named outspoken opponents of regulation to regulatory positions while Republicans controlled Congress, and got away with it. This is the kind of nomination that'll show whether anything changed when Democrats took charge. Lance Boyle
Yeah, but what about all the insourcing?
It's a good thing other countries aren't as anti outsourcing as some Americans are....... Just look at some the companies that have outsourced to America... Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Mercedes and so on. Tony T.
Gives new meaning to the term "preliminary reports"
by Richard Porter, BBC News
I know "To be clear, the Salomon Brothers Building is just a different name for Building 7 or WTC 7. Skip forward to around the 14:30 minute mark." BBC reported Building 7 had collapsed 20 minutes before it fell
Curiously enough, the feed from NYC to the BBC was lost a few minutes before the building did collapse. Oh well, stuff happens... The official story of 9-11 is now holier than ever. May the Angel of Truth kick it to the curb where it belongs. Time stamp confirms BBC reported WTC 7 collapse 26 minutes in advance
SirJ
I pray they don't use Condoleezza's genes! It's OK by me if they put Dubya's genes in beans and call it Bush beans, but I do draw the line at Rice rice. SirJ
When interest rates fall
Singing the vegetable opera Pretty "interesting" stuff. And that took me here: Latest count of major US mortgage lenders that have croaked since late 2006: 30 and here: It's a long way down from here and: More Central Banks diversify away from the $ - forex crises to follow Now that is something to think about. If you recall the stock market crash of 2001->2003, the Federal Reserve was forced to lower interest rates to historic levels The effect of 1% interest rates was to in effect, take wealth from savers and ship it to banks and financial corporations who could lend it out at 5% while paying savers 1% or less in interest. This helped make up for the billions/trillions of losses In the 2001->2003 crash, many of the bad debts were spread out so that, on average, everyone lost a little bit (except for shareholders and some bond holders who got killed.) Assuming that trillions, or at least high hundreds of billions are lost in the sub-prime and "Alt-A" real estate mortgage bust, the Fed will be predisposed, and maybe compelled to lower rates again and flood the economy with newly printed money. But this time that trick might not work as well... we'll see about that. At any rate, 2007 is going to be interesting, and I am thinking that this will be another nail in the Bush/GOP coffin. Americans don't give a flying fuck about the CIA torturing ragheads, but when they lose money they get way pissed off. For a brief while, $US will be safer than some other things, including even gold, as we saw late last week. The "bubble" is bursting and we are maybe seeing "cross-margin liquidation", which is when *everything* in a customer's portfolio is dumped by his broker to cover margin losses. However, once the dust settles a bit and the Fed starts lowering rates and printing money...and the Plunge Protection Team gets to work propping up the sick markets, we ought to see a renewed interest in $US devaluation. A recession will make the budget deficits rise again, and we're still spending hundreds of billions (borrowed money) on counter-productive wars (which is off-budget too!) And when interest rates fall...well, it may be Sayonara, Mr. Dollar Bill! Conspiracy toward a globally massive,
"Can we show me what you've got, what you know, and limit the chat to just one of these conspiracies?" Alright, how about this conspiracy "theory" that's actually a working agenda: Currently, there is an incorporated and institutionally encompassing, worldwide mission currently being sponsored (in a very un-Madison Avenue way) by the Illuminati/Bilderbergers/Global Bankers/IMF/World Bank/Masons/Zionists/etc. ( ... by whatever name you may choose to call them, or in other words, them-thar folks whose REALLY in charge of the "authority class" 'cause they got the money, political power, AND trans-cultural infrastructure) to facilitate a globally massive, RADICAL die-off of the human species within the next fifty years or so. Do you want to work on this one? DanD
Which part of "No Child Left Behind" is working?
Which part is working? The part that says every school funded for "No Child Left Behind" must allow recruiters on campus?? Or is working like the war in Iraq is working? The Report Card for the law?? Report Card: No Child Left Behind
Study says No Child Left Behind falls short Some children left behind? National educational initiative encounters opposition Officials seek changes to No Child Left Behind Critics say law fails disabled kids No Child Left Behind isn’t working E13
Bait and switch
What's the switch?The switch was the change of unconditional meetings to conditional meetings. I still don't quite understand what the US Administration thought they would accomplish by placing conditions on a meeting that they knew the Syrians and Iranians would never accept. This exercise merely confirmed and retrenched the publicly stated positions of both sides. Nothing was accomplished. What is the point of moving your chess piece forward only to return it to its original place thereafter? In the meantime, the House of Saud is now openly displaying its continued diplomatic initiative... I am waiting now for a "Chamberlain" promise that peace can be achieved- yeah, right. The Canadian
Bush the Compassionate
The "worst of the worse" are determined by Bush apparently based on guilt by association or a name similar to one on some unidentified computer. Bush may be vindicated, when he has Padilla (mentally incompetent or not) convicted of something or other. All that reward cash he dished out doesn't appear to have accomplished anything except fatten the saddle bags of Afghan and Pakistani "war lords". Wig
American Nazism
This guy David Hicks has been held for five years without charge or trial, and he is headed to Kangaroo Court. he is now charged with only one count Z
Upside down priorities
Britain can afford 1 surveillance camera for every 14 residents but cannot afford public restrooms Sounds familiar. Upside down priorities. Public property sold off to enrich a few while the public suffer. Britain is 'surveillance society'
CCTV Frequently Asked Questions
Londoners squirm as public toilets grow scarce; new loo is $10
Mr. Chuckles
Less dangerous nuclear warheads
Kathy Fisher
The view from Canada
If yours was a real democracy, the government would ask its people what it needs to do for them. But it's not. It tells its people what they need to do for their country. And what's going to happen if they don't do as they're told. Real democracy: The people decide. A figurehead is chosen to do administrative work and consider policy to put before the people to decide on. Bullshit democracy: You are told what to do by 'Good Old Boys' and various pretty faces put forward by parties that have lost all touch with the common man and women, assuming they were ever in touch in the first place. They say anyone can run, but have you ever heard of a poor President or Prime Minister? Can anyone run without a Party? Do you think that you or I could run? Democracy: Laws, edicts, and policies are made to be debated by all concerned, restricted only by a single guideline. You call it the Constitution. We call it the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Bullshit Democracy: Laws are made to be enforced, not debated. Edicts are made to be followed, not questioned. Policies are formed for concerns that are none of your concern. Debates by groups of any size, no matter how large, must be endorsed by member of Congress beforehand... As countless disenfranchised African-American voters found out, it's not as easy as asking them to sign it. It wasn't important enough. American citizens weren't important enough even to be listened to by their elected officials. The only choice anyone seems to have is who takes away their right to choose. Canada's government has become rife with mismanagement and in some areas putrid with stupidity. However, I believe it still resembles some form of democracy despite the lying and double-dealing. I cannot say the same for America. Is there anything that can be done to improve it? More directly, is they're anything you'd be allowed to do to change or improve it? Chris D.
Poetry across borders
friends gather around fires, telling the truth that's reflected in the embers, of the little that remains eyes that told of resolve yesterday, eyes that have grown up today i can see clearly now, the chains are gone but it's not right, it's wrong, bleeding together sharing tales of forgiveness, truth and lies lost, at what cost it's all wrong, which side were you on, while the world burnt... look underneath - they're gathering behind closed doors, carving out small beautiful spaces, away from the glare, of their all-encompassing lie, whispering a chant that's getting louder, we ain't going nowhere just the here and now, another day - another night gone by ... we're getting closer, we're being split further apart... how do we even begin to communicate, what we've seen and what we've felt this global bond of friendship... because I don't have to have met you guys ((I've been wanting to write for a while, and still follow the site whenever I find a few minutes -- the past few months have just been crazy, working with some good people doing fun things ... big hugs ... !! )) i must go now - I haven't slept in 2 days and have a big deadline to meet tomorrow...
Are your papers and plastics in order?
Note that if you're not permitted to enter a court house you can't defend yourself against all sorts of legal matters JR Mooneyham
Walk Like a Kryptonian
U.S., Iran, Syria at a round table
One phrase sums up this failed meeting: "bait and switch". The Canadian
Is it anti-Semitism?
Are we going to hear the charge "anti-Semite" if AIPAC can't get a university to kowtow to it's programs? Wig
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