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Declaring War on ‘Political Islamism’ Post Date: 2012-05-07 19:24:30 by Brian S
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Like George W. Bush, Mitt Romney has responded to his lack of foreign policy experience by surrounding himself with clever neoconservatives who are now looking forward to expanding Bushs global war on terror into what neocon ideologue William Kristol calls a U.S. war with political Islamism. In a Washington Post op-edon Thursday, Kristol dismissed President Barack Obamas phased military withdrawal from Afghanistan and his statement that this time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end as foolish wishful thinking. Weekly Standard Editor William Kristol. (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore) It would be wonderful ...
Buchanan: A Decade Of War -- For What? Post Date: 2012-05-04 12:28:05 by Brian S
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"My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war," said Barack Obama from Bagram Air Base. "Here in the predawn darkness, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon. The Iraq War is over. The number of troops in harm's way has been cut in half, and more will be coming home. ... The time of war began in Afghanistan, and this is where it will end." Interesting comment, that last. If "the time of war" is at an end, does that rule out U.S. military action in Syria or war on Iran? Setting aside the 14,000-mile round trip to Afghanistan to do an end zone dance on the anniversary of Seal Team Six's ...
Obama Caught In Osama Killing Lies! Post Date: 2012-04-30 22:25:51 by whyofcourse
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Dr. Ron Paul: The Costs of War Post Date: 2012-04-30 15:56:11 by Brian S
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This month Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced the addition of some 1,900 mental health nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers to its existing workforce of 20,590 mental health staff in attempt to get a handle on the epidemic of suicides among combat veterans. Unfortunately, when presidents misuse our military on an unprecedented scale and Congress lets them get away with it the resulting stress causes military suicides to increase dramatically, both among active duty and retired service members. In fact, military deaths from suicide far outnumber combat deaths. According to an article in the Air Force Times this month, suicides among airmen ...
The Dark Side of America Emerges From the Shadows, Rears its Ugly Head Post Date: 2012-04-29 19:48:49 by Brian S
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There is an unsettling element of our society that's always been present. However, it's one that's kept its true nature and intentions partially hidden under the guise of seeming normality. Individuals within that element were seen as somewhat manipulative, authoritarian, overly critical and intolerant of others, and self-righteous, but relatively harmless. In recent times this side of America has emerged as an arrogant, domineering force that is determined to reshape this entire society to fit its own demented ideology. This is the dark side of America; it's that select element in which morality, ethical behavior, integrity, empathy and honor, among other principles and ...
Demographic Suicide: Why Republicans Can't Stop Alienating Hispanics, Women And Young People Post Date: 2012-04-27 15:32:35 by Brian S
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What are the three demographic groups whose electoral impact is growing fastest? Hispanics, women and young people. Who are Republicans pissing off the most? Latinos, women, and young people. Its almost as if the GOP cant help itself. Start with Hispanic voters, whose electoral heft keeps growing as they comprise an ever-larger portion of the electorate. Hispanics now favor President Obama over Romney by more than two to one, according to a recent Pew poll. The movement of Hispanics into the Democratic camp has been going on for decades. What are Republicans doing to woo them back? Replicating California Republican Governor Pete Wilsons disastrous support almost ...
Suppression: The Israeli Government & 60 Minutes Post Date: 2012-04-27 12:45:23 by Brian S
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As one who has been harping for years on the Israel lobby's unique ability to silence critics of Israeli policies whether they work in politics, the media, academe or anywhere else, I can't say that I am surprised by the brouhaha surrounding Sunday's 60 Minutes broadcast of a Bob Simon report on the treatment of Palestinian Christians. It was a powerful segment which revealed that the Christian population has diminished dramatically in recent years as Palestinians left for other countries. The exodus is not the result of Israeli policies that specifically target Christians and drive them from the place Christianity began. It is rather the oppressive policies toward ...
Patrick J. Buchanan: Rubio, Tomorrow's Man -- Or Yesterday's Post Date: 2012-04-27 11:51:52 by Brian S
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Among the GOP victories in 2010, none was sweeter than that of Marco Rubio. The charismatic young Cuban-American challenged Gov. Charlie Crist in a Senate primary, ran him out of the party and swept to victory by 19 points in a three-way race. Among those mentioned as running mates for Mitt Romney, it is Rubio who generates the most excitement. That he is young, Hispanic and conservative, and his place on the ticket might secure Florida, are the cards he brings to the table. So it was a surprise this week to see Rubio being chaperoned over to the Brookings Institution by Sen. Joe Lieberman to take final vows as the newest neoconservative. John Quincy Adams' declaration that America ...
Yet Another Reason Why Today’s Unions Suck: Dues Devour Wage Increases Post Date: 2012-04-27 07:15:00 by CZ82
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Yet Another Reason Why Todays Unions Suck: Dues Devour Wage Increases LaborUnionReport On the eve of Obamas NLRB unleashing its new rules giving unions the ability to hold ambush electionsthat is, the evisceration of employers ability to question or challenge unions in their quest to cherry-pick voting unitsmore data was just released by the Bureau of National Affairs that calls into question why anyone in their right mind would pay dues to a union today. In addition to the $369 billion in underfunded union (private-sector) pension plans, the abundant evidence that unions kill companies and destroy jobs, todays unions are doing such a miserable job at ...
5 Things "Mad Men" Can Learn From Occupy Wall Street And 3 Tips Madison Avenue Can Offer OWS In Return Post Date: 2012-04-26 23:46:38 by lucysmom
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There he is, a former six-figure "Mad Man" sleeping at night in front of a Bank of America branch in Manhattan to show his solidarity with the Occupy Movement and showing up regularly over the past seven months at his task of painting his near-famous cardboard protest signs at various Occupation sites in the city -- then manning his laptop to consult with advertising clients. Why and how these circumstances came about for this man and its lessons serves as a survival tale, a source of inspiration, and an education in applying corporate skills to help bring about societal change for all of us... whether we are revolutionaries or bystanders. The person at hand is David ...
Legacy of Occupy Wall Street? Green funds see more green Post Date: 2012-04-26 23:29:48 by lucysmom
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The Occupy Wall Street movement might be fading from the headlines, but its impact is still being felt in at least one area of the asset management industry. "As a result of the Occupy movement, we saw more inquiries from clients interested in socially responsible investing," said Matthew Patsky, chief executive of Trillium Asset Management LLC, which manages $1 billion in socially conscious investments. Mr. Patsky, speaking Tuesday in Washington, D.C., at the Investment Management Consultants Association's annual conference, has done extensive research on the overall Occupy movement and its various participants. On an anecdotal level, he noted that one of his high-net-worth ...
A Farewell To Superpowers Post Date: 2012-04-26 18:11:27 by Brian S
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Goldman Sachs via economist Jim ONeill invented the concept of a rising new bloc on the planet: BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). Some cynics couldnt help calling it the Bloody Ridiculous Investment Concept. Not really. Goldman now expects the BRICS countries to account for almost 40 percent percent of global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050, and to include four of the worlds top five economies. Soon, in fact, that acronym may have to expand to include Turkey, Indonesia, South Korea and, yes, nuclear Iran: BRIIICTSS? Despite its well-known problems as a nation under economic siege, Iran is also motoring along as part of ...
What Latin America Can Teach Us Post Date: 2012-04-26 09:40:09 by lucysmom
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IN a Bertelsmann Foundation study on social justice released this fall, the United States came in dead last among the rich countries, with only Greece, Chile, Mexico and Turkey faring worse. Whether in poverty prevention, child poverty, income inequality or health ratings, the United States ranked below countries like Spain and South Korea, not to mention Japan, Germany or France. It was another sign of how badly Americans are hurting their middle class. Wars, famine and violence have devastated middle classes before, in Germany and Japan, Russia and Eastern Europe. But when the smoke cleared and the dust settled, a social structure roughly similar to what existed before would always ...
SNL alum on Obama: "What a f**king asshole" [Jon Lovitz] Post Date: 2012-04-24 17:29:47 by Capitalist Eric
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Jon Lovitz, an early Saturday Night Live cast member, had some harsh words for President Barack Obama over the weekend. In an interview with Clerks director Kevin Smith, Lovitz, a registered Democrat who voted for Obama in 2008, bashed the president for his class warfare rhetoric and the notion that the wealthy dont pay their fair share in taxes. This whole thing with Obama saying the rich dont pay their taxes is fucking bullshit, and I voted for the guy and Im a Democrat. What a fucking asshole, Lovitz said. First they say
You can do anything you want. Go for it. So then you go for it, and then you make it, ...
Doug Casey on Pseudo-Intellectuals [Socialist and NeoCon Losers] Post Date: 2012-04-23 18:18:57 by Capitalist Eric
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So Doug, what's on your mind this week? Doug: Intellectuals or rather, pseudo-intellectuals. I'm talking about a certain class of people who are not just a stereotype, but are a real group, who think and act in certain ways. They are a genuine menace. They're like worms or termites, eating away at the foundations of civilization. It's important to be clear on who and what I'm talking about here, because obviously being a person of intellect can't be a bad thing I'm not advocating mindlessness. L: The Collins English Dictionary defines an "intellectual" as: 1. A person who enjoys mental activity and has highly developed tastes in art, ...
Breivik, Netanyahu Share Same ‘Mania,’ Says British Author Post Date: 2012-04-22 18:08:13 by Brian S
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A former correspondent with the BBC, known for his criticism of Israel, has compared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man currently on trial for killing 77 people in a bomb and shooting spree last July. Alan Hart, a longtime sharp critic of Zionism and of the State of Israel, said both men share the the mania of victimhood. The main thing they have in common stems from the fact that they both live in fantasy worlds of their own creation and talk a lot of extreme rightwing nonsense, he wrote last week in an article entitled What do Breivik and Netanyahu have in common? in which he compares the mass murderer ...
Obama's 2.5 Percent Stall Post Date: 2012-04-22 17:45:38 by We The People
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Wall Street headlines are full of fears of a springtime stall for the already subpar economic recovery. And if that weren't bad enough for Obama's re-election chances, a spate of new polls show Mitt Romney's economic-approval ratings are far outdistancing the president's. Even while the headline surveys basically show an Obama-Romney tossup, it will be very difficult for Obama to pull out a victory this fall. Traditionally, incumbents who poll below 50 percent are in trouble. And with Obama consistently in the mid-40s, he has a tough uphill climb ahead. Of course, a subpar recovery has kept the president's re-election hopes in doubt for some time. Former Bush economist ...
Argentina's Oil Grab Is Timely Retort To Rampaging Capitalism Post Date: 2012-04-22 17:13:01 by Brian S
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Suppose the British government knew that a key shareholder in Centrica, our last great British energy company and owner of British Gas, was to sell its stake to Gazprom, so making Russian state ownership inevitable. I hope that, in this scenario, the government would expand the provision of the Enterprise Act that allows Britain to block takeovers that are against the national interest to include gas and nuclear power. (The act is currently confined to defence, financial services and the media.) I'm pretty certain that Centrica chairman Sir Roger Carr, also president of the CBI, shares the same view. No country can be indifferent to the ownership of strategic assets and thus the use to ...
Obama’s ideal government: California Post Date: 2012-04-22 14:42:30 by We The People
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In a must-read Wall Street Journal interview with Joel Kotkin, the demographer explains the disastrous economic policies that have caused almost more 4 million people to leave the state than have arrived from other states. He explains: The new regime his name for progressive apparatchiks who run Californias government wants to destroy the essential reason why people move to California in order to protect their own lifestyles. Housing is merely one front of what he calls the progressive war on the middle class. Another is the cap-and-trade law AB32, which will raise the cost of energy and drive out manufacturing jobs without making ...
Buchanan: Bibi's Dilemma -- And Barack's Post Date: 2012-04-18 11:47:10 by Brian S
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"Bibi" Netanyahu was disgusted. "My initial reaction is that Iran has gotten a freebie. It has got five weeks to continue enrichment without any limitation." The Israeli prime minister was referring to Saturday's meeting in Istanbul of the P5-plus-1 -- the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany -- with representatives from Iran. Subject: Iran's nuclear program. After a "constructive" meeting of one day, all agreed to meet again in Baghdad, May 23, and departed. For Bibi, it was a strategic defeat. For Israel's goal is a halt to Iran's enrichment of uranium and the removal of enriched uranium from that country. But ...
Here is something that is wrong and we will need to change it Post Date: 2012-04-09 22:38:17 by A K A Stone
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People in America today are so PC. They are afraid of being called a racist. Blacks can regularly fling around the word "nigger" and laugh about it. If a white says "nigger" then it could be the end of their career. A lot of people are afraid of being called racists because in our past slavery existed. Well guess what it existed everywhere. We weren't the authors of slavery. Because white people have been so hammered that a racist is the worse thing in the world it has led to many problems. Let me explain one of the problems a little bit. We are being over run by a foreign country. They are coming here and breeding like cockroaches. They are projected to overtake ...
If Obama's Supporters Kill Zimmerman Obama Will Lose the Election Post Date: 2012-04-09 22:28:52 by A K A Stone
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There are many threats on George Zimmermans life after his heroic stand against the black attacker Trayvon Martin. Our media is depraved and has branded the attacker a victim. Now there are groups such as the "New Black Panthers" putting bounties on Mr. Zimmermans head. I've even heard audio where they said "dead or alive". We have a black President and Attorney General. They have put their race above the law. Because the Black Panthers are black like them they have decided to give the Black Panthers a pass to date. If George Zimmerman is assassinated by Obamas allies he will certainly lose the election. Obama is to drunk with power and delusional. He has decreed ...
It's a STASI World Post Date: 2012-04-08 19:57:32 by Fibr Dog
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"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you" ~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22 The surveillance state seems to have kicked into high gear in the last few months. Governments the world over are realizing that they've lost control of "the conversation". Even just a few years ago, a video like "Kony 2012", expertly planted by the global elites to turn the tide in favor of a criminal attack on Uganda would have worked. After all, it only took a few grainy aerial photos of some trucks to garner support for an eight year occupation of Iraq killing up to one million Iraqi men, women and children in the "old days". Today, ...
The Talk: Nonblack Version Post Date: 2012-04-08 13:55:29 by A K A Stone
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There is much talk about the talk. Sean OReilly was 16 when his mother gave him the talk that most black parents give their teenage sons, Denisa R. Superville of the Hackensack (NJ) Record tells us. Meanwhile, down in Atlanta: Her sons were 12 and 8 when Marlyn Tillman realized it was time for her to have the talk, Gracie Bonds Staples writes in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Leonard Greene talks about the talk in the New York Post. Someone bylined as KJ DellAntonia talks about the talk in The New York Times. Darryl Owens talks about the talk in the Orlando Sentinel. Yes, talk about the talk is all over. There is a talk that nonblack ...
When you’re ready to sue this is where you ought to start, George Post Date: 2012-04-07 18:43:45 by A K A Stone
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George Zimmerman has been the victim of what has to be one of the most disgraceful examples of journalistic and government behavior in modern history. Newspapers, networks and talking heads have convicted and hung George Zimmerman without the benefit of the truth. Worst of all, our elected leaders have led the lynch mob. Its hard to imagine a greater atrocity than those who have been chosen to represent the people of this country exhibit such gross disregard for the American justice system. George Zimmerman has been maligned, libeled and slandered. Without a doubt attorneys all over are licking their chops and George, when youre ready to file the lawsuits, heres a ...
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