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Too late for free trade
I don't think Government made the bridge collapse. I think Corruption made it collapse. Just as corruption can and does exist in the private sector big and small. You can have corruption anywhere. Everywhere you go people are trying to cut costs and make themselves more money by screwing some one out of their share. I see it everywhere. It's like a disease. Yes I know that the Free Market doesn't exist the way the Von Mises Institute would like, sorry, but there can be no free market on this new global plantation coming down the Superhighway of stolen sovereignty. It can never be fair again, it's too late. The playing field is completely unbalanced. Our most precious commodity is lost and I am not talking about gold. Human resources in America have been taken for granted. The time for talking of a Free Market was before American companies left/deserted America.
Nagasaki and a nuclear energy renaissance
Converting the troops
Came across this article On evangelicals in the military
Don't forget testing
A rephrasing of the question might be 'can you come up with a plausible-sounding reason to imprison the innocent with zero tangible proof of either malevolent action or intent on their part? Wouldn't this be wet-dream type stuff for Bush-Cheney? If we MUST adopt this technology, how about we test it on Bush and Cheney FIRST? make decisions and he's in charge of oversight too
The fox will run the U.S. chicken house, AND tell us if any chickens go missing
Squeeze 'em out
cleansing' after demolitions in W. Bank
Palestinians almost NEVER get permission to build ... 20 people in a household and they want to build on to their house on their land? Nope! Let them get really uncomfortable and move to another Arab country if they don't like it! How many visited New Orleans?
Just keeping my eye on things
Iran and Syria unite to defy US pressure
All I have to say about this Be safe~
Oh I'm sorry. Here it is. I'm not worried. Just keeping my eye on things :) I have my rum and coke ready to watch the fireworks. Hugs Yahoo and Google(Well all major email service providers-Oh as well as whatever you post on blogs and things like Craigslist) reserve the right to warehouse ALL email transmissions of its users. The PATRIOT Act allows for them to be able to turn over any relevant information to the government without the email users consent. (Read the terms of service) So I say certain things but not others because I'd never want anyone I love in the military to get in trouble. Or me for that matter
Native wisdom
I think you're doing a pretty good job, with your political work.
Fascinating to meet
I'm not social about hardly anything, and certainly not about my Darwinism.HA HA! You not social? I some how doubt that. Why I bet you two would be fascinating to meet and get to know.
ummm...with you guys, the wait would be worth it
Voodoo weaponry
More voodoo weaponry. Just what is a "safe distance"? Looks like a WMD. But, of course, in our hands it would only be used to bring "democracy" to those we deem need it.
Animal Farming
Re Always has been, always will be Well said Helen and Harry. Funny thing about Chinese justice... it also seems to compliment their national human organ donation program very well. "All pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal than others." Animal Farm, George Orwell
Not to be nitpicking or whatever (... okay, so I'm nitpicking), but I
think that the "Animal Farm" quote was (only mildly paraphrased)While "all ANIMALS are equal, some yet (certain classifications) are still more equal than others,"This observation, of course, was verbally being established with a straight snout by a member of the "more equal" supreme ruling pig community. Now, while there were certainly "more equal" and "less equal" pigs throughout that whole tale, a central dramatic focus was, indeed, primarily on the fact that ALL the pigs living at the Animal Farm were defacto more equal than any other non-pig species (with Orwell casting the story's party of pigs as the authoritatively socialist, tyrannically administering, bureaucratically commanding class of superior co-equals). You could just see the newspeak right around the corner. (There now, see? When I pee in it, it tastes so much better!)
Two women shall be grinding at the mill
Before you become inexplicably preposterous, facetious and cynical, examine my non-fiction book for free in Google Book Search, then put these Bible verses (which are prophecies) in your "rapture-is-a-racket" pipe and smoke it: "Then shall two women be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken , and the other left." Messiah Jesus (the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 24 verses 40 & 41). "I tell you in that night there shall be two men is a bed, the one shall be taken and the other left. Two women shall be grinding together, the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two men shall be in a field, the one shall be taken, and the other left". Messiah Jesus (the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 17, verses 34, 35, & 36). Also the Apostle Paul expounds upon what Jesus said in his first epistle to the early Thessalonian church at Chapter 4 verses 13 through 18 and in his first epistle to the Corinthian church, Chapter 15, verses 51 thourgh 57. Before you begin to make a mockery of anothers belief as a Christian, be sure that you are aware of their Lord and Savior's words and of His Apostle. I woud not have you irresponsibly ignorant as a contemporary writer of what the New Testament scriptures say on the topic. The book which I wrote was to inform and prepare people in our contemporary society to have themselves and their loved ones become rapture ready.
The Cat's Blog
Always has been, always will be
Well said Helen and Harry. Funny thing about Chinese justice... it also seems to compliment their national human organ donation program very well. "All pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal than others." Animal Farm, George Orwell
I will respond this week-end, I am just to busy this week... Another example of Social Darwinism. Always been a stupid idea.
An idiot or a shill
by David Leonhardt, New York Times This guy appears to be either an idiot, or a shill for Republicans or some part of US industry. For he goes to enormous lengths to avoid any reference at all to the modern democracies of the world which possess universal healthcare, and end up spending less overall on healthcare than America, while getting healthier and longer-living citizens than America, too. How are these stats and facts not relevant to his subject? They blow his entire argument out of the water!
Straight skinny
Never seen that before. Pakistan was the box ticked.
I doubt you'll be back to see this, but a news article at unknownnews has a link to the original news source and is about the actual news event. Other items are commentary from ordinary people, like you, expressing their opinions. The difference is that they don't send random emails to websites that they haven't bothered to really look at. If they do so, the email is usually about something that has very little to do with the site and is simply an expression of the writer's views. I do commend you for your lack of profanity and your ability to spell and write a coherent sentence; both are noticeably lacking in most of the critical comments I've seen. Perhaps you could channel that energy into creating another site expressing your own views, one that focuses on good news and how wonderful America and its leaders are. There are a million sites like that, but you could make it one million and one. Cordially,
Backup blame
If GOP is unable to stick the blame for the Iraq disaster on the Dems there is always the UN if it falls for Bush's sudden love for UN involvement.
Birth of the new Middle East
Well, my goodness, that IS a surprise.... and poor Condi is not going to get the "birth" of her "New Middle East" and her two States so quickly after all, not even with her friend Fayyed in power.... !
Colored
Now that they are pretending to play nice, we can see how far Israeli apartheid and terror tactics (terrifying West Bank citizens as paratrooper graduation exercise!) goes ...
British state-sponsored terrorism
Then there was the intriguing episode when British soldiers were arrested (last year I think) dressed as locals and driving around in a civilian vehicle with bombs in the car.
Chinese justice
It keeps a lot of others from doing the same thing. The Chinese newspaper just had an article where they announced they were looking into corruption. Those guilty had exactly 30 days to confess and seek mercy, otherwise ... They got 2000 confessions.
Downward social mobility
This shift brought ***** the genetic predisposition towards being smarter, working harder, reducing violence, and saving money ***** to the lower classes, finally allowing humanity to 'take off' productivity-wise. According to this guy, downward social mobility (where you get ever poorer) is apparently a GOOD thing...Grrr. As the subject he's theorizing about is pretty nebulous and open to interpretation, basically the media can push any idea they like there and it'll probably be adopted by the masses for a couple generations to come. As the elites will see this theory as legitimizing past, present, and future excesses on their part, I suspect this idea will be lauded across-the-board, and its author lionized and bequeathed large sums of money. L. Ron Hubbard knew starting a new religion was one way to wealth. Another may be coming up with a plausible-sounding scientific explanation for why the rich deserve to sit atop the rest of us. This author should be appearing on Fox News any minute now. In dusty archives, a theory of affluence Use our New York Times login unk.news and password unknown
Destabilized and "restabilizing"
Is it possible that Iran and Syria would strike first? My answer is a definite NO. Why would they? It would be suicidal. Even though the US is overstretched I'm sure that our "hegemonic", it's our time for world domination, leaders could still do some very effective air strikes while feeling no qualms about using nuclear weapons. Why would Syria or Iran risk that? Do they want to be destabilized? On the subject of "hegemony," I feel really curious about what steps the Iranians have taken that indicate "Iran's quest for Middle East hegemony." What they seem to be doing is restabilizing their country. They are working, for example, on their electricity problems, trying to up their exports As for the other Middle East countries striking out on their own agendas, what "agendas" do they have? Iraqis just want the US out so they can also start restabilizing after being utterly destabilized. Surely, the same goes for Afghanistan. How about Lebanon and Syria As for "Shia and Sunni hegemonic interests," what's that all about? Please tell me. Even conservative Muslims have been interested in promoting Islamic unity including the people Osama bin Laden associated with. Muslims have also talked about religious tolerance for a long time. Actually, the populations of most of the countries in the Middle East have BOTH Sunnis and Shias and they are all managing pretty well on this front as far as I can tell. No doubt, the news stories coming out of Iraq about sectarian violence, even if untrue, are still disturbing to Muslims. I'm sure all of the countries of the Middle East hope that Iraq can emerge from the dire straits it is in as soon as possible and in ONE piece.
Tired of America bashing
I don't know where you live, nor do I want too, but I am TIRED of America bashing. Everyone is an individual and does not represent the governments of their particular countries. I do not wish to bash my neighbor over the head with a tire iron, and didn't post an "news article" discussing it ... so who has a problem here? Not me.
Not some "civil partnership" substitute
This news is no big deal up here in Sodom North. It is a true marriage, not some "civil partnership" substitute as they have in Great Britain.
Some U.S. carrier groups withdrawn from Gulf
Is it possible that they would think to strike first at specific targets in the hopes of catching their adversaries off-guard and attaining the upper political hand? ... MORE ...
An economic disaster
Another world-wide depression engineered in the same fashion as '29? Looks like it.
Voodoo warfare
This gives an added dimension to "friendly fire" possibilities.
Helium
Thanks for printing my article on the rabid San Diego Police, from my experiences several years ago there. You can read some titillating accounts of law enforcement crime in my Helium writings. I haven't overstated anything. Just the opposite. The drug-smuggling, terrorist-creating globalists (the Bush family, and their various cohorts) need criminal police thugs to intimidate the populace, until the time when much of them will be done away with altogether.
Dalai Lama
Wouldn't it be nice for Bush if someone would do the same for him? That's flippant but I should clarify that the Dalai Lama is one of my heroes and I think this is another infringement on religious rights in China.
Fields
The Republicans trying to separate themselves from Bush reminds me of WC Fields trying to remove a sticky piece of paper in "The Golfing Specialist." Just as soon as they shake him off of one area, he gets stuck to another.
Calling Coleen Rowley
Regards,
Cindy for President
I keep reading rumors of Cindy Sheehan running for Nancy Pelosi's seat in the House. Well, perhaps a woman's place IS in the House (home), but I was thinking more along the lines of a White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. I really think she could do it. And piss-off all of the msm talking heads doing so!
The Database (DB), part 2
After writing the overview/summary in Part 1, I realized that I still had some questions that bothered me. So in this part, I attempt to answer those questions. Sorry, it’s not as short as I would have liked. As for why (among others) the US, Russia, and China (a neighboring country) have been so interested in Afghanistan, that would be as Wikipedia points out because Afghanistan has huge amounts of gold, copper, coal, iron ore and other rich minerals as well as natural gas, petroleum, and natural gas liquids. In fact, Union Oil Co. of Calif. (Unocal) has been involved in plans for an oil pipeline and natural gas pipeline that go through Afghanistan. Finally, there is Afghanistan’s involvement in illicit opium and hashish production, which some sources say the CIA has been involved in, too. It could provide multi-billions of dollars in revenue. To answer my own questions I will have to do a lot more speculating than I did in Part 1. I am doing it based on the many indications that the video footage on Osama bin Laden (OBL) and pieces said to be written by him have been fake and/or involve serious mistranslation, that the US government has become extremely corrupt and prone to lying and is even out of control, that a massive disinformation and anti-Muslim campaign has been set up by several governments, that many of the Muslims arrested as terrorists have later been released, that non-violent Islamic religious groups/political parties/organizations are incorrectly labeled terrorist groups, and that both the name Al-Qaeda and the information spread about it could be a fabrication produced by intelligence agencies. MY QUESTIONS: Did the US actually keep its proxy war a secret and did the DB guys, including OBL, ever become aware of the involvement of the CIA? I assume that the US did NOT want a “hot war” with the Soviets and given the hostage situation in Iran occurring at about the same time resulting in a lot of anti-Muslim feeling and propaganda, it really WAS important that the CIA’s activities remain covert. Also, since the Pakistan ISI was brought in, it does make sense that the CIA personnel involved did not interact with the mercenaries themselves. I believe this is true with OBL, too, although others have assumed that OBL himself might have come to the US for arms or even been a CIA operative involved in guiding Al-Qaeda in a way the US wanted. From what I’ve read of his life, his parents divorced soon after he was born, his mother remarried, and OBL lived with his new step-family in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. All of his education including whatever university schooling he got before going “off to war” at 22 was in Jeddah unlike some of his half brothers who had some of their education overseas. In other words, he didn’t seem to be a rich, jet set, amoral person. It seems that most of his life in Pakistan near the Afghan border and his work related to the Afghan war, mostly recruitment, was rather small in scale and that the latter part of his life in Sudan and Afghanistan was one of austerity and hardship Also, it seems to me that the DB guys figured that they were doing something honorable in these wars by aiding their fellow Muslims. For them to realize that their efforts had been shaped by the US would have lessened their sense of honor. Finally, for OBL to have been setting up Muslim patsies and provoking them into carrying out terrorist acts (entrapping them) would have been totally dishonorable, and Muslims would also be denouncing him. Instead, especially the more conservative Muslims find him admirable. What was OBL doing in Sudan from 1991-1996 and in Afghanistan from 1996-2001 (assuming he died in 2001)? It seems firstly, that OBL had his children with him in Sudan, and he got involved in some large-scale road construction and farming businesses there. Also, one of his wives is said to have divorced him there due to the austere life and hardship. In Sudan, he married a well-connected Sudanese woman. He also continued doing recruitment there for the wars including the Chechnya war. According to Chossudovsky, he attended a meeting with the high-level Pakistani and Iranian intelligence officers who were actually doing the planning for the Chechnya war. Is that why the US government put pressure on the Sudanese to get him to leave? It also seems that he was having health problems Did the DB guys who survived, including OBL, get involved in terrorist activities once they finished their mercenary work? If so, was it related to the blowback idea? My sense of this was that probably like OBL a lot of these guys would have been married with families, probably marrying young as did OBL, he was 17 when married for the first time. So some of the original DB guys would have returned to their families and now be middle-aged. My memory of the years of the Clinton presidency (1993-2001) while living in Turkey is that Muslims were grateful for the positions taken by the US related to Bosnia, Kosovo, and Chechnya. They liked Bill Clinton, so I don’t see any real reason for the DB guys to get involved in anti-US terrorism. Of course, most would not have liked the way Israel treats the Palestinians and the US’s support of Israel. However, that support seemed more balanced during Clinton’s presidency. It is possible, though, that once at home, the DB guys might have gotten involved in protest activities related to local issues in their countries. Protest and terrorism ARE two different things. It is also possible that a few of them became patsies related to false flag operations carried out by their own governments to blacken the names of particular protest groups. Importantly, in 1998 at the height of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, Bill Clinton got himself a big distraction with the Aug. 7 1998 simultaneous bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and with blaming OBL and “Al-Qaeda.” I guess it was time to ratchet up the anti-Muslim propaganda and time for the birth of Al-Qaeda. Why did they pick OBL? Since he did come from a famous family maybe it made it more shocking I did notice, as I checked out the various incidents, that when you read the details, mostly Al-Qaeda wasn’t directly blamed. Usually it was “affiliates” or “local followers” of Al-Qaeda who were blamed. Just what does that actually amount to? Finally, were some of the DB guys hot-headed enough to plan and carry out some small-scale anti-American terrorist acts (by today’s standards)? I suppose so. However, I firmly believe that the big terrorist attacks such as 9/11 and the ones in Bali (Oct. 12, 2002), Madrid (Mar. 11, 2004), and in London (July 7, 2005) definitely were false flag operations and some of the DB guys could have been picked as the patsies since the US had information about them. These big events have ONLY benefited the powers that be. They occurred at “convenient” times and in “convenient” places. They also involved the placement of sophisticated explosives in a very precise and planned way hours or weeks before the incident itself happens. This means those involved must have had the necessary security passes and access that kept them from getting noticed. These indicate an “inside job.” That is exactly why 9/11 is so suspicious and why the incidents in Bali, Madrid (just before an election), and in London were suspicious (see Mike Rivero’s page on this). Also suspicious is that new laws that restrict our liberties, in case we wake up to what’s really happening, are already prepared and ready to be voted on (months of preparation) and ARE voted on within a short time of these incidents. What precognitive abilities modern-day legislators have! The incidents in Bali and Madrid, for example, happened just in time to attempt to sway the non-supportive public in Australia and Spain to join with the US in its pre-emptive and illegal invasion (begun Mar. 20, 2003) or remain in it. In conclusion, I can’t see DB guys going to Iraq to kill their fellow Muslims Of course, not all terrorism is blamed on Al-Qaeda. Scary local Muslim “terrorists” also need to be found. Agents and informants who provoke and provide supplies to angry persons might be able to bring about some action that will get these sorts of patsies arrested and wrongly accused and sentenced. The trouble is that Muslims WILL pay attention to these cases and also to the cases of those arrested and later released because these ARE injustices. More importantly, all of the civilians killed in Iraq and those dying due to the destruction of the Iraqi infrastructure are also injustices and illegal according to the Geneva Conventions. In fact, things are getting so bad that it becomes easier and easier for Muslims to now consider the US, the UK, and Israel occupiers just as they once viewed the Russians and Serbs.
Bad news on the doorstep
Stevens famously claimed a few months ago, "The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes." Here's a way to remember the difference: The FBI got all that evidence of bribery and corruption out of Stevens' house on a big truck, but people are sharing this story with each other and calling for Stevens to resign using the series of tubes.
Chertoff's tacit approval of Chiquita's payments to terrorists occurred while he was working for the Justice Department that Tillman wasn't killed by enemy fire
Army doctors suspected Tillman was murdered
As damning as these articles are, they are by the Associated Press, so they somehow forget to mention the elephant in the room: Pat Tillman, America's favoritest, famousest, NFL-iest soldier, was about to start speaking out about the war just before that "enemy fire" didn't kill him. of 9/11 hijackers and most foreign fighters in Iraq
I can't believe I'm typing this
In English: the Iraqi oil workers don't think the Iraq government should pass the U.S.-backed oil law that would sign over Iraq's oil profits to foreign companies. The Bush administration is desperately pushing the new oil law, while claiming that they are motivated not by all those beautiful oil profits, but by a deep-seated need to stabilize Iraq. Because everyone knows the best way to stabilize a Middle Eastern country is to get them to screw over their own people as a personal favor to the infidels.
This is not only the right thing to do, I think it's kind of politically brilliant. It doesn't carry the stigma of a presidential impeachment, plus it's one of the few avenues left to hold the administration accountable, plus ... well, eight more reasons, actually. Top Ten Reasons to Impeach Alberto Gonzales, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Jay Inslee (D-WA).
Jingle Mail
"You don't need to discuss much, Just drop off the key, Lee, And get yourself free" ... Many loans going badly now ought not have been made in the first place. The borrowers will almost certainly not be bailed out unless their paperwork is squeaky clean (i.e. truthful) and they have a realistic chance of paying off a restructured loan. That means that just as the rational decision by The Powers That Be is not to throw good money after bad, and refinance deadbeats, the rational decision by these borrows is to simply walk away The British have a lovely way of understating things when words appear insufficient: "Offering mortgages to poor Americans has backfired badly on the banks." Markets in crisis: will it get worse? Yep. It is said that payback is a bitch, but the bankers will soon be begging for the bitch, eh? Meanwhile, have a look at these beautiful charts, courtesy of Mr. Mike Whitney (one of my favorite alarmists): Mortgage liquidity du jour The American way of expressing *that* is "Oh sh*t!"
They knew better
You're absolutely right. For example, they had all that insider information about Iraq's ties to al-Qaeda and secret WMD caches for which the outsiders at the UN, CIA, and independent security analysis organizations could find no evidence.
Fatherland security cooperation
U.S. and Israel agree to enhance collaboration in homeland security matters The same Israel that SPIES on the US? Or is this just a way of getting more American money to Israel without going through Congress??
EMP's and whatnot
Good bullshit detector! I figured out it was BS after another 20 minutes of research I should've done before posting it. I also emailed the SSRT address on the website, which promptly declared it BS as well (although of course, who'd admit it? nah...) I updated the site. I feel a bit like a schmuck; I've been reading too much on EMP's and whatnot, little too much Alex Jones, forgive me But I stand by the theory that Pat Tillman was executed. C'mon, three shots to the forehead at close range, and no one and nothing else was shot? I don't know about all the cover up details, but that poor man was killed on purpose by American soldiers.
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