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Helping INN WORLD REPORT
They are in dire need of money. I guess it costs a few simoleons to put on TV shows, even "public access". The address from the website where you should send $10 or a gazillion or whatever is: INN World Report 56 Walker St. New York, NY 10013
Why governments are the chief perpetrators of terrorist incidents
Of course it is very inconvenient to just wait for a response, so there is a tremendous incentive to stage false flag terrorist events on a timely and cinematically compelling basis. As a result, while there are actual terrorists, their amateur contribution to the totality of "terrorist" events is vanishingly small. The most transparent practitioner of this policy of provoking violence and/or conducting false flag operations is the state of Israel. The most enthusiastic student of this strategy is the policy elite of the US. But every large state must be held capable of this approach, and likely guilty, since plausible deniability is so easy to engineer.
Where his "lack of vision" might come from
Kathy, it's not that exactly. It's an attitude ... an attitude that has taken over this country. It's not entirely his fault. It started with my generation. Seeing our parents working themselves to the bone and then dropping dead of a heart attack or stroke. Then those in my generation. We get our degree and work for years in some company and then are told we are no longer needed and tossed aside like some old shoe. Sam Smith had one of his "Pocket Paradigms" which I will quote part of here.
I thought of this and said to my self 'He's right'. Then today I saw an elderly gentleman in the local supermarket. He was pushing a cart with a crutch... the other in the cart. A few things inside. Mostly house brands. I thought to myself, though I do not know his story, probably a retiree living on a fixed income. May still have his pension, if he is lucky. Worked all his life for the same company but now is most likely living from check to check. Sam is still correct but I don't think he understands why. A young person these days would have to be blind or living under a rock somewhere not to see how they are treated if they "play the game". If that was where you were right now, would you see things any different? When 50 percent of the income is held by one percent of the populace. When getting a degree means being unemployed or under employed in the field of your choice. When it comes time to retire I am not saying in anyway his attitude was correct or the recruiters are not slime. But can you see where his "lack of vision" might come from? And if he is black or Latino, it's multiplied by a factor of ten...
BPing on Americans
How long does it take them to make that much? A couple of hours?
Hardly lurid at all
This is an interesting post, and hardly has any lurid descriptions of sexual acts. A good read.
Generally exuberant
If ARNold were a Democrat would he be vilified as much as the mayor of New Orleans or the Louisiana governor. Mainstream news media has been generally exuberant in their praise of ARNold as being Johnny-on-the-spot.
War underway
Mark your calendar today as the day the Bush Administration declared war on Iran. The official declaration of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and its Quds Forces as proliferators of WMD and sponsors of terror, respectively is perceived by Iran as a declaration of war. As ridiculous as the US declaration is, its enforcement will severely undermine the Iranian economy, if not cripple it. The US hopes this negative economic effect will create unrest within Iran's very youthful population and consequently create instability within the government. There have been stories of late of large uprisings against Iran's Leaders taking place on university campuses within Teheran. If true, the government may have to quell internal dissent quickly before it spreads to the general population. In the meantime, I suspect Iran will have instructed its proxy agents: Hezbollah and Hamas to begin attacking the US and US interests within the Gulf region. Attacks against US Allies are also highly probable e.g. NATO in Afghanistan and Israel. Iran will not and cannot let this declaration go unchallenged. They will not let the Regime whither on a drying vine. When reports start to surface of the use of more sophisticated weapons against said targets along with a higher frequency and intensity of attacks, one can conclude the war has begun.
Of bongs and Bilderbergs
10) ThinkProgress 9) Muslim Student Association 8) CodePINK 7) American Civil Liberties Union, National 6) Family Research Council 5) Center for American Progress 4) League of the South 3) MoveOn.org 2) Universities and Colleges 1) Media Matters for America Be sure to immediately add these to your Favorites or Bookmarks. They seem to have left off our friendly (sporadic) nightly (guerrilla) news service, INN, appearing often on Public Access (cable) television, usually at 3:30 PM Tonight's INN report had a segment with the author of a new book about the Bilderberg association. He is convinced that 9/11 was allowed, if not initiated by the Bush Regime, and that furthermore, the "War on Terror" is actually a war against US, intended to eliminate all of our rights and freedoms to render us helpless to stop the Bilderberg plan for a North American Union (Canada, America and Mexico), followed by a global government with appointed leaders and a single currency. Also, the purpose of Bilderberg is not "morals" but control of money and natural resources. No US president is selected without Bilderberg backing, in fact, nearly all have been members (except for Bush II, who is I suppose too retarded, but is surrounded by Bilderberg handlers, so that's ok...) I wonder if there is any *real* American spirit left to fight for our freedoms, or if that was another myth which was intended to lull us into complacency while we were robbed blind.
Gullible? Uninformed? Nowhere to turn?
Humdinger
Based on perfect reasoning
Communist claptrap? Odd... That's exactly what Hitler said every time someone raised concern about his policies. Particularly when those policies involved military aggression and people being locked up for the rest of their lives. Funny that... Wonder if it means anything? Of course it never seems credible to compare anyone to Hitler no matter how startling or realistic the similarities. No, it's just 'trendy' to cry Nazi. Not that I'm saying your claims aren't credible, comparing Bush to Hitler is absolutely nothing like calling any statement expressing doubt or displeasure with the status quo Communist propaganda. That's unerringly accurate, based on perfect reasoning, and is always 100% justified regardless of the subject matter which is obviously why you did not bother to include any. Well maybe not 100% justified. After all the passing of various minimum wage, child labor, equal rights, and religious freedom laws are now American staples rather than the communist plots they were first made out to be. But you are still so incredibly right about the Anti-American cries for democratic process and constant challenges to the President's constitutional authority to remove from law all that which limits his authority including the constitution. Oh, when I say it out loud it doesn't sound so right. Um, okay so you're still right about how everyone on the site hates God, what with their prayers for America to be saved from war and tyranny. Wait. Prayers. Hmm. Okay, so you're wrong about everything except the occasional promotion of gay and lesbian rights. You're right about that, except that you're just plain wrong to call it wrong. I don't swing that way but if two consenting adults want to roll in the hay that's nobody's business but theirs. And marriage? It's a ceremony and the conferring of legal status. Since church and state are separated for democratic purposes the tenets of religion should not hold sway over the legal designation. Especially not when it's going by what a single religion says. Now that I think about it I'd like it if you'd go away and not come back. You had a chance to prove you had an opinion that mattered based on something you read for more than 5 seconds but you basically blew it.
Deliberating before decisions
I agree with you in general. But it's also true that people of good intent often need to read up on something and spend some time considering it before they make a decision. I wish that had happened with the first version of the PATRIOT Act after 9-11-01 Even in my own fitter youth (when my thinking seemed faster, and my memory clearer) there were some matters I didn't feel ready to make decisions about for YEARS, myself. No matter how hard I tried to dig into them. It's a general rule of thumb that good people MUST be more cautious and deliberate in their decisions, than bad folks usually are. Notice how Bush has always played up his own 'decisiveness' on many matters...
They've narrowed it down to 755,000 suspects
Gee, d'ya think?
Choice fantasy
I know exactly what you mean. Suggest you read Morford's column today, but especially the comments We had been watching Planet in Peril on CNN and reading environmental info on TruthOut and finally Hal had too much and not even halfway thru the Daily Show, switched over to Nightmare Before Christmas. He adores the music of Danny Elfman. A change for the better. Fantasy, but choice fantasy.
Einsatzgruppen in Iraq
Well, it seems to me the present state of battle in Iraq, house to house search and destroy, is much like the infamous Einsatzgruppen campaign. While it is difficult to know the truth of WWII because of a winner take all conclusion, the 'dreaded' Einsatzgruppen are said to have summarily executed any thought to be enemy sympathizers. Sound familiar? I suppose it is considered impolite to criticize our boys in Iraq. It just seems like a glaring similarity. Isn't it about 10,000/month now? Are insurgents evil people? I know these are difficult questions. You know more than I. I fear for the good people of Iraq. God help us all.
Media offers the anti-truth, and nothing but
Presidential load
Bush must be s----ing in his pants.
Complimentary
Every time my toilet overflows I head for higher ground until the shitnami has subsided. From now on I will name the highwater mark after you. I mean that as a compliment too.
Dictators on discount
Bush has said a lot of things that can be discounted. I guess that makes Bush a dictator.
"Christians" and "Jews" are exemplary on this point
Those who lost their half-million dollar homes should get spit from the government. They can jolly well foot the bill including temporary shelter themselves. No trailers ... nothing. They chose to live where they lived and were willing to pay a pretty penny for it, so tough cookies. After all, that is what FEMA did for the poor in New Orleans.
Oh Brother !! And "Christians" and "Jews" are exemplary on this point ...NOT. Talk about your self-righteous hypocrisy. What do you call what we have been doing in Iraq, what we did to Dresden, and Vietnam, what Israel has been doing to Palestine. Give me a break.
Toilet or not to toilet
I am so trying to keep a straight face after reading all about everyone's adventures in toiletland. omg... Funniest exchange I have read in a long time and so welcome. What with all in all going on in the so-called real world a laugh is just what I need. Was thinking of adding my 2 cents but decided not to take the "plunge"... Was going to say that next time anyone says we are full of ---- well show them this and it is obvious we aren't, otherwise this would never have come up. Was half thinking of making a crack about flushed with success or it is good to have the lowdown, the real poop on the matter but will try to refrain. (looks innocent, completely fails at looking innocent...) well at least we try harder which makes us number... oh dear...! (My bowl runneth over!) Colbert and Stewart have competition here ... thanks all
So I take it you have been reading the Congressional Record? Well, at least I didn't use Piers Anthony's joke about magical being Whinny the Pooh from the land of Xanth! Oh wait, I just did, didn't I! Oh poot!
Commie claptrap
Pay for your past with the future
The common folk propping up the royal stock holders. They're nothing without you! You people will be robbed in the end any way. Might as well take money from Peter to pay Paul. Pay for your past with the future. What a terrible ponzi scheme. They are using good money to help bad people's bad deals. What a great economy! Raid your 401-Ks, guys, take it all out. Let it crash, freeze your account as you pay it back and then take the rest out and get out of debt all together or you'll loose your shirts... Oh Doris, please go soak your feet! Some will not like me saying this but since I'm very sympathetic toward the Irish cause (the Troubles). Always will be so don't try and change my mind. I despised Churchill sending for sending in the Black and Tans and good riddance to Lord Louis Mount Battennown to royal revitive and inbreeders as ''Uncle Dicky'') got what he deserve. I'm sorry innocent people had to die but it was all the British government's fault. The dictatorial SOBs! never gave an inch. Now as to comparing 9/11 with as what Ms. Lessing says she considers it not as bad as the attacks of the IRA on Britain. Well, that's her opinion. I don't feel the same. I look at 9/11 as a false flag event perpetrated by thieves that took over our country and placed themselves as heads of state and what they did to over 3000 American citizens to get us into a war for Israel as one of the biggest horrors of the world!
Draw your own conclusions
I'm not at all agnostic, though, on "the official conspiracy theory" They want you to think nineteen crazed Muslims with box-cutters wrought havoc on America. And then they want you to stop thinking.
Status quo
Codetalkers
No, unfortunately the fix didn't work. I can't see the favicon in the address line of the browser. I can see the coding line when I check the source of http://www.unknownnews.org/071027-sd.html. The line for linking to the icon is coded the same as http://www.poopreport.com/. The HTML code validation at http://validator.w3.org/ isn't happy with the way either page is coded! To see the validator's error report for your dialogue page click here. For the poopeport.com click here. BTW, what is the part of your code in the <HEAD> section which starts with <! 1-80% 2-Danger 3-Destroying 4-EBBV trying to do? If you want it to be ignored by browsers you should use <!-- at the beginning and --> at the end of what you want ignored. I don't think <! without the two dashes works, although my browser doesn't display your list. This might be messing things up with the validator. It claims you've already closed <HEAD> when it reaches your </HEAD>.
Lip zipper pantomime
Ah, the smell of war stories in the morning.
It's not happening. Just ask ExxonMobil.
One thing this and other articles have failed to mention is that it has not been cold enough in the mountains of North Georgia, North and South Carolina for snow. The mountain snow melt was where a lot of their water came from.
Herb on drought
Shows the true meaning of 'red states' ..but Florida is a bit off.
Could have been awry upstream
Perhaps I've stirred a tempest in a teapot. There are better things to worry about than computer glitches, to be sure, and I maintain that this is an isolated incident on my end alone until shown otherwise by others. I certainly don't want nor intend to malign Sitemeter publicly intentionally. Odom reprinted Sitemeter's direct response, which looks to me to be very straightforward despite his rather feeble attempt at spin. I read thru Odom's blogs about Sitemeter and Google. It sheds no light on the matter at hand, and illustrates how rumors propagate from ill-informed or agendized attitudes and gossip. Some people like to hear their own voice. I did quite a bit of housekeeping on my end just to be sure. I've simply kept Sitemeter enabled and specificclick disabled. I'm happy(er) to report that your page is loading fine today. In the final analysis, there is no real way of knowing what, if anything, was actually wrong. I emphasize: it was one page, one link, not your entire site that "inconvenienced" me. For all we know, this thing could have been awry upstream somewhere in the "series of tubes"...er, Internet. It could be something as innocuous and simple as your server doing its daily maintenance. Or my laptop having a bad hair day. I'm putting this all to bed as an inconvenience, no more no less. Be well, o fearless one. Yours is a yeoperson's task, indeed. Congratulations.
Bush can always pardon him, like the other crooks
If America preferred keeping children happy and alive rather than miserable or dead, we'd pay more attention to stuff like this. This is good news, UNLESS it causes Bush to make a deal to stop it by agreeing to shut down America's own tracking of rights abuses overseas.... Bush can always pardon him, like the other crooks. But there might be some fine print somewhere that will require a quick trial and conviction for Gonzales, so Bush will be able to pardon him as one of his final acts in office. If such a conviction dragged on beyond the Bush Admin, Gonzales might lose his shot at a pardon (though backroom political deals are always possible with the next admin, too). So Gonzales might even plead guilty to help things along (and get his pardon). At least that's my present understanding of the process, handicapped as I am with my ever dwindling capacity to read up on things due to my worsening vision.
Peebs
Your favicon.ico doesn't show up in Internet Explorer. It does in Firefox. This discusses some of the problems with making it appear. I looked at a couple of websites whose favicon.ico does appear in the web address line. Some have a line like this: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"/> appearing in their page HTML coding. Examples of pages where the icon appear in Internet Explorer using a link reference line: LINK LINK PoopReport uses this line: <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.poopreport.com/Images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> Some websites don't have a visible means of linking to the favicon.ico, as far as I could tell. The icon appears anyway. Examples: LINK LINK Have fun! As long as I take ordinary sanitary precautions, I can't catch PBS, can I?
While they keep voting themselves raises
I really don't care if they tell us it's not there for Social Security and Medicaid. I know one thing, they'd better be prepared to shoot dead a few billion dissatisfied, pissed off people. Not everyone will be willing to take this sitting down. Many will go postal. Do you know what I mean? Compared to W's brain it's HUGE! We have to remember in a world where the masses are constantly being conditioned and desensitized by movies and TV shows like '24' 'Jericho' and Bruce Willis winning the day in the DIE HARD movies That's as far as If their seriousness goes.. Most of the Sheeple really do believe that story about tactical nukes and American Might makes Right. They have no idea and therefore lack the smarts to see the DEEP SHIT this guy has them in and that the ride he will take them on going to cost them more than a movie ticket. On more thinking I have to say about Ritter, I respect the man immensely but I heard him write and speak about his high praise on the Israeli military in the same speech he refers to Sun Tsu's The ART OF WAR and not having to fire a single shot when referring to the idiot Bush and his lack of understanding the enemy. I'm sorry but I fail to understand the love and respect for that idea and at the same time (in his speech) he was praising and respecting Israel. Even if it was in the past. Have I misunderstood him?
Bank error in bank's favor
Britney's world
Well met ....simply unquestioned atrocities and everyone sits and watches to see what Britney is doing next Well met ....simply unquestioned atrocities and everyone sits and watches to see what Britney is doing next.
Hillary Clinton's pussy
I have had experience with CA on mainframe computers from way, way back. They are with out a doubt the "Used Yugo" salesman of the software business.
To me this all has to do with "Stereotypes" and expectations. Women have nearly always been portrayed, rightly or wrongly, as the gentle, caring, warm and affectionate gender. Where as men have been portrayed as the hard, strong, calculating and cold gender. The reality is both genders are pretty much a mixed bag and ether can have some or all of these traits. If it was a man who "off loaded" the cat, this would not be a big deal. People would say "hey...he's a guy...what do you expect ?" Now I'm not a fan of HRC by a long shot, but this is just a tad sexist IMHO. I do not find HRC any more or less cold and calculating than any other politico, mores the pity.
And besides, what does one's pets have to do with being president? LBJ was no sweet heat as far as his dog(s) were concerned, buy he was a far better president than Nixon. As you say, a non issue.
We'll be here all week
Al Gore, Bill and Hillary Clinton go to Heaven and God addresses Al first, ''Al, what do you believe in?'' Al replies: "Well, I believe that I won that election, but that it was Your will that I did not serve. And I've come to understand that now.'' God thinks for a second and says: "Very good. Come and sit at my left.'' God then addresses Bill. "Bill, what do you believe in?'' Bill replies: "I believe in forgiveness. I've sinned but I've never held a grudge against my fellow man, and I hope no grudges are held against me.'' God thinks for a second and says: "You are forgiven, my son. Come and sit at my right." Then God addresses Hillary. "Hillary, what do you believe in?'' She replies: "I believe you're in my chair.''
Edge bloggers
Wow! Wasn't that the lamest, dullest list of 'living dangerously' blogs you ever saw? PCWorld thinks those guys are taking RISKS!?! With what?!? Breaking a nail? Stubbing a toe? It appears PCWorld ***itself*** was afraid of taking the risk of listing truly bold blogs. Like Unknownnews.net. I wonder what's next for PCWorld? Listing the 'sexiest' blogs out there? If the first list is any indication, "grandmashomecooking.com" will be one of the top ten sexiest blogs according to PCWorld. Sheesh!
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