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Archives: October 2007
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Oct. 31, 2007:
Today I caught a pedophile
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: As I looked up the street I watched for the girls to pass the parking lot, and lo and behold, I saw them run to the other side as if something scared them. Sure as hell, a few minutes later I see this same man walking towards them -- no limp this time.

Oct. 31, 2007:
News as a carefully designed feed-lot experience
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: It isn't just that CNN and the rest of the world wide propaganda industry are totally out to lunch reality-wise, it is that they deliberately present a false image so that, in effect, the viewer unconsciously feels disrespected by having an authority contradict their EXPERIENCED sense of reality.

Oct. 30, 2007:
Look at it
by Don Nash, Unknown News

Oct. 29, 2007:
Who loves ya baby, Part 2
by Don Nash, Unknown News

Oct. 29, 2007:
Treasonous pied pipers of American politics
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The election of a new President in 2008 will not change anything, just as the election of a new Congress in '06 changed nothing. Every candidate vying for the office of President is beholden to foreign and corporate interests, and despite their rhetoric to the contrary, none has any intention of changing anything.

Oct. 29, 2007:
Halloween with the Santorums
by Kevin Good, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The names of those who did not participate in the Halloween Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week were noted by zee Homeland Security Department with the warning, "Be Afraid, be very afraid."

Oct. 28, 2007:
The war of terror
by Don Nash, Unknown News

Oct. 27, 2007:
Psychoactive drugs are almost certainly part of Bush's torture routine
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Imagine being blindfolded, stripped naked and freaking on a mix of acid and speed -- while torturers bring out snarling dogs to nibble on your nuts, and intermittently flip the switch to electrify the jumper cables strategically clamped to your flesh.

Oct. 26, 2007:
Gullible? Uninformed? Nowhere to turn?
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: ''They can do want they the hell they want here at home, it can crash for all I care, in a month my ass is out of here and I'm going to Iraq."

Oct. 26, 2007:
Stopping the violence in Iraq using nothing but violence
by Pavel C., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: It is too late to withdraw. We have invested five hundred billion dollars already, and we cannot leave that behind. Instead we must make Iraq the 51st state in the Union, whether they want to or not.

Oct. 26, 2007:
It never rains in Southern California
by Don Nash, Unknown News

Oct. 25, 2007:
Media offers the anti-truth, and nothing but
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Having seen it over and over again, I have come to expect the professional new media to provide information that is so totally slanted and couched in terms deferential to "authority" that it is 180 degrees from the truth, and is thus, Anti-Truth.

Oct. 25, 2007:
Spraying for cockroaches in government
by JR Mooneyham, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The super-villains may try to collapse America that way, out of sheer stupidity or malevolence, but there are other powers in the world besides them -- powers which I believe will step in and start spraying pesticide if the cockroaches get too thick.

Oct. 23, 2007:
Obliterating Iraq's infant insurgents
by Chris D., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: When holding lives directly in one's hands, stupidity should never be tolerated. Not for doctors, not for lawyers, not for cops, not for teachers, and certainly not for generals. Somehow I doubt anybody in the military is having their license to kill revoked or even suspended pending an ethics committee review.

Oct. 22, 2007:
War's orgy
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: We're having some fun now!

Oct. 21, 2007:
Keeping America safe from artists and musicians
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: These foreigners are likely not just dirty, badly dressed sexual deviants who don't know their instruments, they are probably terrorists, or have close ties to terror suspects, or are related to people who are known to have ties to terror suspects or people associated with networks of suspicious persons who know actual terrorists.

Oct. 21, 2007:
Hoarding ammo at the Alamo
by Pavel C., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The Bush Regime does not believe in "free markets" any more than they believe in freedom or human rights for all mankind. They believe in government bailouts when losses happen, and private profits in boom times. Their "free market" mantra has no basis in reality.

Oct. 20, 2007:
Uncomfortably numb
by Chris D., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: I might be a day behind or so (occupational hazard of the night shift) but I read in the paper that The Other Butcher of Baghdad gave some stiff and harshly worded warnings to Turkey about invading Iraq while pushing further for a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. These warnings included the allegation that Turkey was about to start WWIII.

Oct. 19, 2007:
President Relevant
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: "I am relevant. Yes, I am."

Oct. 18, 2007:
On the apparent paradox of big things with no witnesses
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Time sanitizes truth. As professional investigators well know, the period just after a crime holds forth the opportunity to reveal the truth, but with each passing hour, day, week, month, year, decade, that possibility becomes increasingly remote to the point of impossibility.

Oct. 18, 2007:
Iran, Israel, and the whole Middle East is locked and loaded and ready to go
by The Canadian, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The game in the Middle East is running its final diplomatic course.

Oct. 15, 2007:
America's coming war with China
by Leon Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The corrupt economic and political leadership of the United States must be ousted and replaced with those whose priorities are that of the American people, not Wall Street nor any of the myriad domestic and foreign lobbies which presently influence policy making in Washington.

Nothing short of this will save us from endless war, economic ruin, and martial law imposed by the corporate-fascists in Washington and their rubber stamp Congress.

Oct. 15, 2007:
A thing of beauty?
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: This is Our Lady of the Military-Industrial Complex. Isn't she lovely? Isn't she dignified?

Oct. 15, 2007:
Bush’s defeat victory
by Kevin Good, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: If Bush and company’s case before the Supreme Court is defeated, the Texas conviction and death sentence will stand and a legal precedent will be set, that US laws and courts are not bound by any international laws or treaties, like the Vienna or Geneva Conventions -- and Bush wins.

Oct. 15, 2007:
The more I see of the way things are now, the more convinced I am that Ron Paul is right
by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The US government is trying to control *everything*, at fine levels of detail. They pass "laws" that are hundreds of pages long, without regard for Constitutionality -- or contents, because most Senators and Representatives do not actually read the laws they vote on, the bills are too long and detailed. As they spend two trillion dollars a year, borrowing money they don't have, to do things that are futile or self-destructive, the end is approaching -- and in the end, the "feel good" programs that help people will simply disappear.

So it is now a question of saving ourselves, saving what can possibly be saved.

Oct. 15, 2007:
Congressman Paul is just wrong, wrong, wrong
by Chris P., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Name an issue and Congressman Paul is wrong about it.

Congressman Paul, like Rush Limbaugh, thinks government is pretty much ONLY about police and fire and providing an economic framework that enables the strong to thrive.

Well, I disagree, and I think most Americans disagree if they stop and think about it.

Oct. 9, 2007:
National disgrace!
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: "The slaughter is our gift to you."

Oct. 8, 2007:
Stupid and corrupt Republican leadership
by Pavel C., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: I do not believe Larry Craig is an exception. It may well be that the majority of Senators and Representatives are stunningly unfit for making effective executive decisions, and suffer from grave psychological problems that only their official status keeps hidden. The surprise is that every once in a while the American newspapers and television news shows report the crimes and peccadilloes of these Mental Defectives.

Oct. 8, 2007:
The joys of torture!
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Our Lady of the Military Industrial Complex says, "Torture is war-profitable, so just lie about it and get on with the business at hand!"

Oct. 7, 2007:
Urgent memo from the Reality Liberation Front
by Hazel Burke, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Now we are at the point where vast fortunes wait to be won and lost. One day, those who wager correctly will make huge sums in no time at all -- or be allowed to stay in business -- while those who buy into the government propaganda stand to lose everything in mere hours.

Oct. 6, 2007:
Gangsters in politicians' clothing
by Herb Ruhs, MD, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: There is no meaningful way in which the US can be considered a nation of laws. We are, to a first approximation, a nation of gangsters armed to the teeth and out to loot the rest of the world at the tip of a nuclear bayonet.

Oct. 6, 2007:
Cause and effect, pause and reflect
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: This is the effect a warmongering madman has on the world.

Oct. 4, 2007:
Viewing the world and life as a vast shade of gray
by Chris D., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: In America "WAR" per se is an abstract concept. Except for the Civil War there has never been any bloodshed on American soil. The people here do not know what it is like to have guns and tanks and bombs going off... soldiers shooting anything that moves... seeing those next door blown to bits... their children, relatives and friends tortured, maimed or killed... their houses and cities blown to bits...

Oct. 3, 2007:
Nat'l Guard vets are intentionally denied education benefit
 
Excerpt: "It's pretty much a slap in the face," [1st Lt. Jon ] Anderson said. "I think it was a scheme to save money, personally. I think it was a leadership failure by the senior Washington leadership, once again failing the soldiers."

Here's what happened: Anderson's orders, and the orders of 1,161 other Minnesota guard members, were written for 729 days. Had they been written for 730 days -- one day more -- the soldiers would receive those benefits to pay for school.

Comment: The common cliché is that the Bush administration is incompetent, but this ain't incompetence. It's just plain hating the troops, as a matter of policy. Troops get screwed every which way but loose by this administration, and the screwing is well-planned and flawlessly executed, and never, ever an accident.   Helen & Harry     PERMANENT LINK 

Oct. 3, 2007:
We are not them
by Chris D., Unknown News
 
Excerpt: Two men murder each other. Which one was the criminal? You only get to pick one. Vicious little circle, isn't it?

Oct. 2, 2007:
Propaganda kills
by Don Nash, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: The Bush Reich War of Terror is winding up for a blitzkrieg on Iran. I know it, you know it, and most of the world's barely above literate know it. The Bush Reich propaganda machine is working double overtime to prepare, or should that read dummy down, the American people for Middle East Conflagration Part Deux. Here we go again. If they're successful in pulling a little 'shock-and-awe' wool over our eyes, that will probably engage the civilized world in a War of Finality. Armageddon, so to speak. Russia and China aren't going to stay idle on the sidelines for this one, kids. No how, no way.

Oct. 1, 2007:
The neo-Blues Brothers ride again
by Kevin Good, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: "We're getting the band back together again, man. We're on a mission, a mission from God."

'Joliet' Jake Cheney and Elwood Rumsfeld in their up-armored 'BluesMobile' are getting together the 'Chicken-Hawk War and Blues Review' for another victory tour.

Oct. 1, 2007:
God forbid you might actually want to do something about it
by Kathy Fisher, Unknown News
 
Excerpt: If you blink you miss the reports on the war and world news reports. They carefully sandwich them in with How to get thin, How to buy the right shoes, Where the best restaurants are...

Why? Because they want you to keep consuming, keep going to work, and not think about the real goings on in the world.


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