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Analysis: WikiLeaks Battle: A New Amateur Face Of Cyber War?
Post Date: 2010-12-09 12:59:07 by Brian S
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LONDON (Reuters) – The website attacks launched by supporters of WikiLeaks show 21st-century cyber warfare evolving into a more amateur and anarchic affair than many predicted. While most countries have plowed much more attention and resources into cyber security in recent years, most of the debate has focused on the threat from militant groups such as al Qaeda or mainstream state on state conflict. But attempts to silence WikiLeaks after the leaking of some 250,000 classified State Department cables seem to have produced something rather different -- something of a popular rebellion amongst hundreds or thousands of tech-savvy activists. "The first serious infowar is now ...
How Can a Religious Person Justify Being a Slumlord
Post Date: 2010-12-08 15:34:49 by Brian S
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The pious Orthodox Jew who is also a notorious slumlord—now there's a touchy subject, especially inside the large and diverse community of Jews in New York. After the Voice published its series this spring on the city's 10 worst landlords, which included some religious Jews, Rabbi Jill Jacobs tackled the topic, writing a column titled "When the Slumlords Are Us" for the Forward. This was already a familiar subject for the Conservative rabbi and activist. "When I was working at a housing-rights organization while doing my rabbinical training," she tells the Voice, "the No. 1 question I got from tenants was, 'Why is my bad landlord a religious ...
Julian Assange’s EgoLeaks
Post Date: 2010-12-08 14:57:10 by WhiteSands
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WikiLeaks is the journalistic equivalent of the art world’s Piss Christ — a product of the cynical postmodern West.
Julian Assange, the public face of WikiLeaks, is, among many things, cowardly. Courageousness would involve meeting with Iranian dissidents, Russian journalists, Pakistani Christians, or Chinese human-rights activists — and then releasing any confidential information that they might have about the torment institutionalized by their countries’ authoritarian regimes. That would be risky to Assange, however, since such governments do not customarily go to court against their leakers; they gulag them — or liquidate them.
So, instead, Assange navigates through the European ...
Israel: Using Wikileaks to Build a Straw Man
Post Date: 2010-12-08 14:09:25 by Brian S
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From the day the first batch of Wikileaks appeared in the international press, the Israelis were crowing "this is good for us". Seizing on documents demonstrating that some Arab leaders bear ill-will toward Iran, the Israeli spin machine went into action. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted that “Our region has been hostage to a narrative that is the result of 60 years of propaganda, which paints Israel as the greatest threat”, claiming that Iran had, in fact, eclipsed the Palestinian issue as the number one concern of the Arab World. Another prominent Israeli official gloated that "Iran was now ten times more important than Palestine" and that it ...
Dream Act Makes Children Pawns
Post Date: 2010-12-07 22:35:55 by WhiteSands
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Immigration: Congress is expected to vote on the Dream Act on Wednesday, providing a path to citizenship to millions of illegal immigrant youth. It's a bad precedent that uses kids, costs taxpayers and invites new amnesties. After years of failing to sell mass amnesty to voters, the open-borders lobby has turned to tugging at Americans' heartstrings, presenting treacly stories of illegal immigrants brought here as children who then bettered themselves here. Somehow legalizing this group ahead of all the other people awaiting immigration visas legally is supposed to specially benefit all of us, even though the most obvious beneficiaries are the individuals themselves. But out of ...
Obama sells out the left: a Republican win on taxes
Post Date: 2010-12-07 01:50:29 by WhiteSands
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There really is no other way to say it: the Republicans won, the liberal Democrats lost, and the president sided with the Republicans. The subject, of course, is an agreement to extend all the Bust tax cuts. The president tonight announced a "bipartisan framework" for agreement on, among other things, to extend the Bush tax cuts for two years. A Republican House aide tells me tonight it is "a damn good deal." And so it is, from the perspective of conservatives. As they've been demanding, all of the Bush tax cuts are extended for two years. The estate tax that was due to pop back up to a rate of 55 percent was retained, but with a $5 million exemption and at a rate ...
If Democrats are the big spenders, why do Republican states get the money?
Post Date: 2010-12-05 18:29:51 by Brian S
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One of the co-chairmen of President Obama's bipartisan debt reduction council recently got in trouble for telling a women's advocacy group that Social Security had "reached a point now where it's like a milk cow with 310 million tits!"If you guessed it was the Republican co-chairman and not the Democrat who said it, you would be right—it was former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson—but therein hangs a tale. Republicans have a near monopoly on complaints about government spending. Dozens of new Tea Party candidates were elected to Congress on a promise to clean house. But data going back two decades—to stick to Simpson's crude metaphor—show the milk is ...
Republican Grown-Ups Return--to the Tea Party's Irritation?
Post Date: 2010-12-02 19:08:23 by Brian S
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Well look who strolled back into town? The Republican grown-ups. And the Christmas presents they are bringing the country? A nuclear arms treaty with the Russians. Higher taxes. Earmarks. And a warm embrace of Hispanic immigrants, including the illegal ones. [See a roundup of editorial cartoons about the Republican Party.] I support most of these policy choices, and so I’m cheered to see it. But I wonder what you Glenn Beck-Tea Party types are thinking. What happened to that election you thought you won? The Republican big guns in foreign policy led the march, as five former GOP secretaries of state published a broadside on the op-ed page of The Washington Post, calling on ...
WikiLeaks vs. the Political Class; Why they hate Julian Assange...
Post Date: 2010-12-02 17:18:24 by Brian S
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Rep. Peter King characterizes WikiLeaks as a “terrorist” organization, but who’s the real terrorist-supporter? Wasn’t it Rep. King who signed a statement of support for the “National Council of Resistance,” a front for the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), which appears on the State Department’s list of designated terrorist organizations? The MEK has killed American diplomatic personnel, and is described as a fanatic cult by many observers: its supporters, who adhere to a weird combination of Marxism and Islam, were succored by Saddam Hussein in Iraq before the US invasion, where they still persist (under US guard) to this day. King’s support for ...
Ed Rollins: Palin, I knew Reagan. You're no Reagan.
Post Date: 2010-12-01 16:30:13 by go65
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(CNN) -- The first date is over. Not much happened. President Obama and his new governing partners, the House and Senate Republicans, met at the White House along with the Democratic leaders and discussed the unsolvable issues between them. Even though they made no decisions and both sides went their separate ways, they agreed to start negotiations on extending the tax cuts. That in itself is the beginning of a positive process. They actually talked to each other and talked of a plan for action. As with real dating, both sides have to get along or nothing will happen. So maybe this situation has more in common with an arranged marriage. The American voters are the substitute parents, and ...
Analysis: Hard Case For U.S. Against WikiLeaks's Assange
Post Date: 2010-12-01 00:41:31 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - U.S. authorities could face insurmountable legal hurdles if they try to bring criminal charges against elusive WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange, even if he sets foot on U.S. soil. The Justice Department is investigating a series of leaks of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents that the whistleblower website has provided to news media and made public on its own website. But three specialists in espionage law said prosecuting someone like Assange on those charges would require evidence the defendant was not only in contact with representatives of a foreign power but also intended to provide them with secrets. No such evidence has surfaced, or has even been alleged, ...
God Bless Wikilieaks and God Bless Julian Assange
Post Date: 2010-11-30 18:04:16 by A K A Stone
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We should all be thankful that the web has given birth to sites like wikileaks. It allows people to expose governemnt corruption, murder abuse and every evil imaginable. Thanks to Julian helping to shine the light onto a dark place. May he continue to shine the light of TRUTH on the evil in goverments around the world. Hope he stays safe. You folks do think the truth is good don't you? The truth shall make you free. Please do post interesting leaks that you come across.
Wikileaks and the New Global Order: America’s Wake-up Call
Post Date: 2010-11-30 15:44:54 by Brian S
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The Wikileaks disclosure this week of confidential cables from United States embassies has been debated chiefly in terms either of the damage to Washington’s reputation or of the questions it raises about national security and freedom of the press. The headlines aside, most of the information so far revealed from the 250,000 documents is hardly earth-shattering, even if it often runs starkly counter to the official narrative of the US as the benevolent global policeman, trying to maintain order amid an often unruly rabble of underlings.Is it really surprising that US officials appear to have been trying to spy on senior United Nations staff, and just about everyone else for that ...
Leaked Cables Reveal America’s 'Profound Hatred Of Democracy,’ Chomsky Declares
Post Date: 2010-11-30 15:34:50 by Brian S
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What does the release of over 250,000 secret US State Department cables by WikiLeaks ultimately reflect? "What that reveals is the profound hatred for democracy on the part of our political leadership and of course the Israeli political leadership," Noam Chomsky, renowned American linguist and political dissident, told Democracy Now's Amy Goodman on Tuesday. In the context of Israeli and US policymakers view of Iran shown in the cables, Chomsky said that the perspectives of the leadership stand in sharp contrast to the opinions of the populations they supposedly serve. "[US Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton and [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin ...
Deficit Commission Plan Would Kill 4 Million Jobs, Analysis Finds
Post Date: 2010-11-29 18:31:04 by Brian S
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The preliminary deficit reduction plan recently released by the co-chairmen of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility would kill four million jobs over the next three years, according to a recently published analysis by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). "Using the rule of thumb that a 1% increase in GDP increases payroll employment by 1 million jobs, we estimate that Co-Chairs’ Proposal would thus reduce payroll employment by roughly 723,000 jobs in 2012, 1.4 million jobs in 2013, and 1.9 million jobs in 2014," economists Josh Bivens and Andrew Fieldhouse said in their report, "Fiscal commissioners’ proposal would cost millions of jobs." Bivens and ...
A German's View of Islam
Post Date: 2010-11-29 18:12:18 by sneakypete
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A German's View of Islam This is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read. The author of this email is said to be Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist. A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to ...
WikiLeaks provides the truth Bush obscured [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-11-29 14:46:04 by go65
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Say what you want about WikiLeaks - and I don't much like what it has done - it nevertheless would be useful for its founder, Julian Assange, to follow George W. Bush as he lopes around the country, promoting his new book, "Decision Points." When, for instance, Bush attempts to justify the Iraq war by saying the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein, Assange could reach into his bag of leaked U.S. government cables and cite Saudi King Abdullah's private observation that the war had given Iraq to Iran as a "gift on a golden platter." Iraq now has a Shiite-dominated government and many senior officials who are ominously friendly with Iran. It was always ...
New Republican Congress Emboldens Netanyahu
Post Date: 2010-11-29 14:41:12 by Brian S
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The new Republican-led Congress will be more pro-Israel – but it might not be manifest in foreign aid. The incoming majority leader of the House, for instance, will be Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, a staunch pro-Israel lawmaker, and the incoming House speaker-designate is Rep. John A. Boehner of Ohio, who has outspokenly criticized the Obama Administration for pressuring Israel regarding construction in Judea and Samaria. On the other hand, as The New York Times has reported, newly-elected senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, with isolationist, Tea Party tendencies, bluntly told AIPAC (the influential American Israeli Public Affairs Committee lobbying group) that they were "going ...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING; GOD BLESS EVERYONE HERE AT LIBERTYSFLAME
Post Date: 2010-11-24 23:52:01 by Murron
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From My Family, To Yours!! Have a wonderful day, and God Bless you all.~ Murron "We've come to the time in the season, When family and friends gather near To offer a prayer of Thanksgiving, For blessings we've known through the year To join hands and thank the creator, And now when Thanksgiving is due This year when I count my blessings, I'm thanking the Lord He made you This year when I count my blessings, I'm thanking the Lord He made you" ~ Johnny Cash
Israel-First False Calvinist-Evangelical Theology Encourages Israeli Atrocities
Post Date: 2010-11-23 19:11:10 by Brian S
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Today most evangelical Christians remain silent after more than 60 years of Israeli injustice and brutality against Palestinians. Many praise Israel more enthusiastically than ever! This includes the millions who fanatically follow Zionist pastor John Hagee. Is there any Israeli outrage (maybe starting nuclear war?) that could cause evangelicals to disapprove of the Jewish state? Shockingly, no. The dominant theology of evangelicals today—Calvinism—leads Christians to the belief that we must not “curse” God’s chosen people with criticism, no matter what they do. Such incredible, unscriptural forbearance is rooted in centuries of a Calvinist heresy described as ...
Israel's Culture Of Lying
Post Date: 2010-11-23 14:03:13 by Brian S
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Israeli and Zionist leaders, irrespective of their party affiliation, are proven liars. The former Israeli Prime Minister, Golda Meir, for example, denied the very existence of the Palestinian people, saying "What Palestinians?" In fact, lying has always been one of three pillars upon which Zionism, which many well –meaning historians wouldn't hesitate calling "Jewish Nazism," is based. The other two pillars are murderous ethnic cleansing and land theft. Lying is also a central structural component of the collective Israeli mindset, especially in matters pertaining to the systematic persecution, dispossession and repression of the Palestinians. Lying is ...
There Will Be Blood
Post Date: 2010-11-23 12:21:26 by Skip Intro
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There Will Be Blood Former Senator Alan Simpson is a Very Serious Person. He must be — after all, President Obama appointed him as co-chairman of a special commission on deficit reduction. So here’s what the very serious Mr. Simpson said on Friday: “I can’t wait for the blood bath in April. ... When debt limit time comes, they’re going to look around and say, ‘What in the hell do we do now? We’ve got guys who will not approve the debt limit extension unless we give ’em a piece of meat, real meat,’ ” meaning spending cuts. “And boy, the blood bath will be extraordinary,” he continued. Think of Mr. Simpson’s blood lust as one ...
Jesus For Jews, Or Something Like That
Post Date: 2010-11-23 11:38:45 by Brian S
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There is no way to get on the inside of the who-is-chosen question without unpacking the quirky relationship Evangelicals have with Jews, both embracing them and condemning them to eternal damnation. This has to be one of the odder relationships ever concocted, sort of like those news stories that crop up once in a while about how a cat befriends a hamster. Evangelicals brood over the Jews. Jesus was a Jew. But then He started a whole "new" religion that instantly was in conflict with the Jews. To Us Real Christians (as I once thought of us) there were Actual Jews and then there were Real Jews. Evangelicals' believe that they are also The Chosen People. Some Evangelicals ...
'Tea Party' Trouble On Foreign Policy
Post Date: 2010-11-22 14:49:56 by Brian S
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The "tea party'' agenda in the midterm election focused largely on domestic issues. But the Republican gains in Congress that the movement fueled will have profound foreign policy consequences. Bipartisanship in foreign policy has all but disappeared, and the first victim is likely to be the Obama administration's New START treaty with Russia. This agreement, which is both modest in its cuts and extremely favorable to U.S. concerns, has been the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's attempts to reset U.S.-Russian relations. Although there probably are enough votes in the Senate to ensure the treaty's ratification, a handful of Republicans almost certainly will ...
Patrick J. Buchanan: Who Fed The Tiger?
Post Date: 2010-11-22 12:18:32 by Brian S
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Missiles fired from the Chinese mainland could destroy five of the six major U.S. air bases in the Far East. So states a new report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, adding: "Saturation missile strikes could destroy U.S. air defenses, runways, parked aircraft, and fuel and maintenance facilities. Complicating this scenario is the future deployment of China's anti-ship ballistic missile, which could hold U.S. aircraft carriers at bay outside their normal operating range." Opposite Taiwan, China's missile force has reached 1,600. Beijing is also building rockets, submarines and surface fleets to extend her dominance out to the third chain of ...
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