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The Visionary: Ron Paul
Post Date: 2010-12-20 23:57:43 by Brian S
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The visionary: Ron Paul Question:Considering all spheres of endeavor, who would you nominate as Leader of the Year in 2010? Why? Congressman Ron Paul should be named Leader for 2010. Congressman Paul is a man of character. He does not retreat from his opinion in the face of hostile opposition and corporate-controlled media's "ignore strategy," unlike the rest of the so-called leaders of both major parties. In April 2007, when Fox News hosted the Republican debate held in Florida, there was an effort to assemble an anti-Ron Paul crowd and twice he was booed for his non-interventionist foreign policy. This is a sharp contrast to the feelings of the majority of Americans, ...
NYT's Blow: 'Too Many Liberals Just Want to Whine'
Post Date: 2010-12-19 16:47:58 by WhiteSands
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Charles Blow made some political observations in his New York Times column Saturday that are destined to anger many of his left-leaning readers. Just imagine how the average New York Democrat is going to respond to being told the future of his Party is being jeopardized by the fact that "Too many liberals just want to whine": Now there are twice as many liberal Democrats as conservative ones. Long-term, that may be fine, as demographics work in the Democrats’ favor. But, near-term, this could prove problematic as Republicans and independents grow ever more conservative, and liberals remain by far the smallest ideological group. For one thing, liberalism remains a coastal ...
Oil Spill Hysteria, The Gulf of Mexico suffered remarkably little damage. Why were so many so willing to believe otherwise?
Post Date: 2010-12-18 15:54:18 by WhiteSands
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The day after the midterm elections in November, panelists at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy discussed the various factors that had contributed to the Democrats’ losses—most surprisingly, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. One speaker with excellent Democratic connections in Washington noted that top White House staff were consumed by the spill and its political fallout for much of the spring of 2010. As staffers now lamented privately, this had diverted attention from other pressing issues—above all, the sputtering economy. The political fortunes of the Democratic party were not the only collateral damage from the spill. Gulf coast tourism plummeted, ...
Patrick J. Buchanan: Is This Our America Anymore?
Post Date: 2010-12-17 13:34:01 by Brian S
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Buried in the Oct. 30 Washington Post was a bland headline: "Report Points to Faster Recovery in Jobs for Immigrants." The story, however, contained social dynamite that explains the rage of Americans who are smeared as nativists and xenophobes for demanding a timeout on immigration. In the April-May-June quarter, foreign-born workers in the U.S. gained 656,000 jobs. And native-born Americans lost 1.2 million. From July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010, foreign-born Hispanics gained 98,000 construction jobs. Native-born Hispanics lost 133,000. Black and white U.S. construction workers lost 511,000 jobs. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, from Jan. 1, 2000, to Jan. 1, 20 ...
Exclusive: US Empire Could Collapse At Any Time
Post Date: 2010-12-17 12:36:03 by Brian S
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America's military and economic empire could collapse at any time, but predicting the precise day, week or month of its potential demise is unattainable, according to a former New York Times war correspondent who spoke with Raw Story. "The when and how is very dangerous to predict because there's always some factor that blindsides you that you didn't expect," Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges said in an exclusive interview. "It doesn't look good. But exactly how it plays out and when it plays out, having covered disintegrating societies, it's impossible to tell." He explained that he learned this lesson as events unfolded around him in the ...
John Boehner's Crying: Is He Drinking Too Much?
Post Date: 2010-12-16 13:16:43 by Brian S
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Incoming House Speaker John Boehner's recent interview on "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, where he once again cried publicly, has created a minor controversy among pundits, with observers trying to figure out the cause of his unusual behavior. Is it depression? Or is Boehner simply in touch with his emotions? Does he wear his heart on his sleeve, or does he cry on a dime because he has a tender spot for all things American? While it's impossible to know, some are beginning to speculate that Boehner's penchant for turning on the waterworks might have some connection to his consumption of wine. Liberal MSNBC host Ed Shultz, half-jokingly, called Boehner a "cheap ...
Open Letter to Goldi: (Bill D Berger)
Post Date: 2010-12-14 18:47:43 by Murron
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#107. To: Goldi-Lox (#79) Open letter to Goldi First off, I appreciate the fact that you re-instated my account, although on a probationary status only. Perhaps you actually read the exchanges between myself and Mad Dog that led up to my response, and decided that I was provoked to make my somewhat over-the-top comment to the sleaze-bag. You have been more than gracious by allowing me the privilege of posting again, and under normal circumstances, I would be happy to continue doing so. However, with all due respect, you have capitulated to evil by allowing this once great site to become infested with the likes of mentally disturbed, psychotic, juvenile delinquents like Mad Dog, yukon, ...
The Reemergence of the NeoCons
Post Date: 2010-12-14 13:39:35 by Brian S
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010 "Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell." --Edward Abbey If you believed that the NeoCons disappeared after the 2008 election, how soon do you forget? With the next round in the never-ending beltway two-step, the Republican leadership readies their hold of the House of Representatives agenda. The Tea Party freshmen promise to bring a breath of fresh air to a stuffy chamber. Time will tell if their pledge of hope will pan out. What is known with certainty is that the entrenched GOP leadership continues with their dedication to the policies that exemplify their NeoCon mindset. So what is ...
Exclusive: 'The Fourth Estate Is Dead,' Ex-CIA Analyst Declares
Post Date: 2010-12-11 19:21:14 by Brian S
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Traditional lines of communication between the people and the press have fallen into such disrepair in America that a whole new approach is necessary to challenge the military-industrial-governmental complex, according to a former CIA analyst sympathetic to WikiLeaks. "The Fourth Estate is dead," Ray McGovern, of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, told Raw Story in an exclusive interview. "The Fourth Estate in his country has been captured by government and corporations, the military-industrial complex, the intelligence apparatus. Captive! So, there is no Fourth Estate." McGovern explained that the term the "Fourth Estate," known today as the news ...
Swindle of the year (Stealth Stimulus)
Post Date: 2010-12-10 10:34:59 by go65
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Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 - and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. It will pump a trillion borrowed Chinese dollars into the U.S. economy over the next two years - which just happen to be the two years of the run-up to the next presidential election. This is a defeat? If Obama had asked for a second stimulus directly, he would have been laughed out of town. Stimulus I was so reviled that the Democrats banished the word from their lexicon throughout the 2010 campaign. And yet, despite a very weak ...
Tea’d Off
Post Date: 2010-12-09 19:19:48 by Brian S
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Forfeiting a both-houses Republican victory, rational conservatives ignored or excused the most hateful kind of populist claptrap (e.g., the fetid weirdness of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 Project). The poison they’ve helped disseminate will still be in the American bloodstream when the country needs it least. By Christopher Hitchens•Illustration by Ross MacDonald January 2011 PATRIOT GAMESThe author says of a Tea Party rally, ”I don’t remember ever ...
Why the Obama Tax Deal Confirms the Republican Worldview
Post Date: 2010-12-09 18:48:59 by Brian S
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Apart from its extraordinary cost and regressive tilt, the tax deal negotiated between the president and the Republicans has another fatal flaw. It confirms the Republican worldview. Americans want to know what happened to the economy and how to fix it. At least Republicans have a story -- the same one they've been flogging for thirty years. The bad economy is big government's fault and the solution is to shrink government. Here's the real story. For three decades, an increasing share of the benefits of economic growth have gone to the top 1 percent. Thirty years ago, the top got 9 percent of total income. Now they take in almost a quarter. Meanwhile, the earnings of the ...
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.
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