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America's Little Wars Are Draining Us In A Big Way
Post Date: 2010-09-03 14:19:47 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — You have to wonder exactly what you're supposed to say in a week like this one, as President Barack Obama officially declared the end to the U.S. war in Iraq and most Americans breathed a tempered sigh of relief. You have to say Obama did a good job with the speech — dignified, fair, balanced — rightly praising the American troops for their courage and resolve, going out of his way to mention President George W. Bush favorably, and deliberately placing the onus of responsibility on the next war, Afghanistan. An American like me who was against the war from the start for all the obvious reasons — no reason to attack Iraq for al-Qaida's attack on us; ...
God’s Tea Party
Post Date: 2010-09-03 14:16:56 by Brian S
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Glenn Beck is better than most nationally syndicated talk hosts. While right-wing radio mainstays Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity offer little more than Republican talking points, Beck regularly eschews such hackery, instead warning of the “progressivism” that exists in both parties or even the perils of blind partisanship. It’s hard even to fathom Limbaugh or Hannity saying what Beck did at CPAC this year, “I have not heard the people in the Republican Party yet admit they have a problem… I don’t know what they stand for anymore.” But after last weekend, I’m not quite sure what Beck thinks the Tea Party should stand for anymore either. Beck called ...
Obama’s Mission Accomplished Ends War of Lies
Post Date: 2010-09-02 13:36:20 by Brian S
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Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- We were warned there would be no ticker-tape parade, no soldiers kissing nurses in Times Square, no spoils of war. What we got was a president so somber and worn, it looked as if he needed a good rest, even though he just got back from one. No amount of rest could have made it more palatable to announce the end of what began as shock and awe, but then turned shockingly awful. More than 4,400 American lives lost in Iraq so far, more than $700 billion spent, and what do we have to show for it? Yes, Saddam Hussein and his murderous sons are gone, Iraqis have held up fingers stained purple to indicate they’ve voted, and there’s a hospital here, a school ...
Anti-Thiefism Not Anti-Semitism
Post Date: 2010-08-30 19:33:09 by Brian S
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Prior to Zionism, Jews have lived with Arabs and Muslims and it was not easy to tell who is a Jew and who is a Muslim :::::::: Judaism : Great Religion Kidnapped by Zionism. At the outset it has to be made clear that Zionism is not Judaism. Judaism is a sacred religion meant to purify the sole of hate, greed and evil. Zionism is a political movement meant to conquer the world politically and economically using Judaism and the plight of the Jews to achieve these objectives. It creates a sad feeling that a respectable institution such as YaleUniversity fell in such trap when it held a conference on Anti-Semitism blaming Muslims for the rapid growth of this phenomenon as if Israel's and ...
Could Ground-Zero Mosque’s Backers Be Worse Than AIPAC’s?
Post Date: 2010-08-30 12:55:09 by Brian S
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Former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffer M.J. Rosenberg told the Israel lobby to “pull the plug” on activities fanning the “anti-Muslim explosion that has seized this country over the past month.” The former insider charges organizations such as AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and assorted neocon outfits with having “set the stage” for hysteria by demonizing Muslims in the name of “advancing their Middle East Agenda.” This strategy has been decades in the making. Many in the mainstream media play roles assigned by the lobby long ago. Glenn Beck consulted ...
LEFT WING KOOK SAYS:: Glenn Beck Cult Holds Creepy Revival at Lincoln Memorial in DC [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-08-29 22:14:38 by Brian S
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People gathered Saturday in DC at the Lincoln Memorial as part of an event that Glenn Beck was hosting. The rally was a hybrid neocon pep rally/religious revival, consisting of pictures on a giant TV screen of famous moments from American history, along with inspirational music, waving flags, and talk of destiny and God from a loudmouth Fox News preacher who hides the insincerity in his eyes behind a thick layer of glasses while weeping in breathy sobs to mask his laughter.
A speaker at the event even said "Glenn Beck is one of America's most trusted and honored citizens."
With Beck being inserted into the mainstream consciousness as the "patriot" opposition to Barack Obama and his ...
Kill Them!
Post Date: 2010-08-29 18:48:26 by Brian S
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Michael Enright, a 21-year-old college student, slashed a NYC cab driver in the face and neck because this man was Muslim. Enright is being held in a psychiatric ward. If he is mad, then the United States is also insane. Enright's assault merely mirrors what we, as a nation, have done for nearly a decade. The United States has responded criminally and incoherently to what happened on September 11, 2001. Lopped of our twin members, downtown, we also lost our authoritative voice. Two days after that disaster, George Bush grimly declared, "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." Six months ...
Glenn Beck's Hypocritical Revival
Post Date: 2010-08-29 13:54:18 by Brian S
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The talk sensation looked more like a televangelist at his “Restoring Honor” rally this weekend, but his preaching about unity only proved that his biggest adversary is himself. The Rev. Glenn Beck staged a religious revival on the National Mall in Washington yesterday. His “Restoring Honor” rally sidestepped politics, instead offering a tribute to the troops and calls for a new Great Awakening, proclaiming “We’ve got to go to God Bootcamp,” to the applause of hundreds of thousand of followers. But the most striking thing about Beck’s heartfelt evangelism was its hypocrisy. “We’re dividing ourselves,” Beck lamented. “There is ...
The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party
Post Date: 2010-08-29 13:41:42 by Brian S
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ANOTHER weekend, another grass-roots demonstration starring Real Americans who are mad as hell and want to take back their country from you-know-who. Last Sunday the site was Lower Manhattan, where they jeered the “ground zero mosque.” This weekend, the scene shifted to Washington, where the avatars of oppressed white Tea Party America, Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, were slated to “reclaim the civil rights movement” (Beck’s words) on the same spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had his dream exactly 47 years earlier. Vive la révolution! There’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless ...
The Uncircumcised Israel Lobby
Post Date: 2010-08-27 19:49:33 by Brian S
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At a recent gathering of the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States, thousands join in Jewish/Israeli dancing and singing, cheerily wave Israeli flags, speak a fair amount of Hebrew, and express a great love for all Jews. They also praise Jesus, baptize their children, and cite the New Testament, because they're evangelical Christians.The potential impact of Christian Zionism in the coming years is hard to overstate. Christians United for Israel claims more than 400,000 members—and as the Jewish Telegraph Agency noted, that's just "the largest organization representing what are believed to be tens of millions conservative evangelical Christians who support ...
Why Are Palin, Gingrich, and Fox News Doing Bin Laden's Work?
Post Date: 2010-08-24 12:59:34 by Brian S
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I have been told by Fox commentators Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich that to be a good American I should detest Muslims. After all, it was Muslims from Saudi Arabia who steered the airplanes into the Pentagon and the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. And now they want to build a mosque at ground zero! But by their own logic, shouldn't I detest Palin and Gingrich? After all, they work for Muslims. It's true. A Saudi royal prince is, after Rupert Murdoch and his family, the second largest investor in NewsCorp., the company that runs Fox News, employs Palin and Gingrich and Glenn Beck and which recently gave a million dollar donation to the Republican Party. That's right: the same ...
Gingrich Stokes Mosque Flap to Buff Moral Image
Post Date: 2010-08-23 12:32:11 by Brian S
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Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Thirty-six years ago, the director of the liberal Republican House caucus urged me to see a promising young congressional candidate from Georgia; reluctantly, I did. That was Newt Gingrich. He didn’t disappoint. Bright, energetic, effusive, he spent a couple of hours extolling the need to transform his party, embracing the anti-Richard Nixon progressive Republican governor of Virginia, Linwood Holton, as a role model and civil rights as a central cause. It took him two more elections to finally prevail. It wasn’t much longer before Holton and civil rights were in his rear-view mirror. This flashed back as the remarkably durable Gingrich leads the protests ...
Netanyahu: Lie For Us Or Die By Us
Post Date: 2010-08-22 19:16:19 by Brian S
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The headline does not comprise the framework for peace reported by the national AP and CNN in describing the Israeli stance for successful ’direct talks for peace’ with Palestinian negotiators, but it should … - Instead, we are treated to this: Mr. Netanyahu said a future Palestinian state would have to be demilitarised, recognise Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people and respect Israel’s vital security interests. Some of his demands have already been rejected by the Palestinians. No one—outside of true American believers like Sarah Palin and John McCain, for example—seriously believes that these conditions voiced ...
Tea Party, Conservatives Revere Constitution (Except When They Don't)
Post Date: 2010-08-22 18:48:52 by Brian S
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The Constitution has been a frequent rallying cry at Republican and Tea Party events this summer. If you ask Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul and other conservative politicians, defending that sacred document written by the founders and amended by the people of the United States of America, is No. 1 on their national agenda. Except when it isn't. For instance, there's wiggle room on that 14th Amendment -- the one adopted after the Civil War to guarantee citizenship to blacks and anyone born on U.S. soil. (it also says the Bill of Rights must be upheld by state and local governments, and requires equal protection of all people.) Some conservatives now want to amend the ...
The New Anti-Semitism; Recent attacks on Islam in the United States echo old slurs against Jews
Post Date: 2010-08-19 19:57:54 by Brian S
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After Abraham Foxman waded into the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy, opposing [1] plans to construct an Islamic community center a few blocks from the World Trade Center site, the Anti-Defamation League chief was assailed by critics who charged that the ADL was giving license to bigotry and betraying its historic mission “to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike.” A week after initially coming out against the mosque, Foxman announced that the ADL was bowing out of the controversy, but the damage to the group’s reputation had been done. The problem for the ADL is that there simply isn’t much anti-Semitism of consequence in the United States ...
The Erosion of America's Middle Class
Post Date: 2010-08-19 13:20:25 by Brian S
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While America's super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever. Long-term unemployment is rising and millions of Americans are struggling to survive. The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and the middle class is disappearing. Ventura is a small city on the Pacific coast, about an hour's drive north of Los Angeles. Luxury homes with a view of the ocean dot the hillsides, and the beaches are popular with surfers. Ventura is storybook California. "It's a well-off place," says Captain William Finley. "But about 20 percent of the city is what we call at risk of homelessness." Finley ...
“Playing Tea Party Movement For Suckers”
Post Date: 2010-08-19 13:18:08 by Brian S
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I rarely use the phrase “thinking conservatives” anymore, since there seem to be so few left. But there are still a handful, and one of them has written an enlightening piece about the idiotic kerfuffle over the Burlington Coat Factory mosque in Lower Manhattan. Writing in a conservative Washington newspaper called the Washington Examiner, libertarian Gene Healy argues that the dust-up is a distraction so that conservative voters won’t notice that Republicans don’t want to do the hard and unpopular work of cutting spending. Healy, a vice-president at the libertarian Cato Institute, writes: The “mosque” controversy isn’t about property rights or ...
Glenn Beck – material boy
Post Date: 2010-08-19 11:01:14 by go65
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Glenn Beck may hate socialism and communism, but he showed he shares a materialistic worldview with Marx, Engels and Saul Alinsky in a recent conversation with Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly and Beck were discussing a ruling by an openly homosexual judge overturning the will of California voters who approved Proposition 8, a statewide ballot measure prohibiting same-sex marriage. O'Reilly: "Do you believe that gay marriage is a threat to the country in any way?" Beck: "A threat to the country?" O'Reilly: "Yeah, is it going to harm it in anyway?" Beck: "No, I don't. Will the gays come and get us?" O'Reilly: "No, OK. Is it ...
Those folks don't have any flesh in the game, and should NOT be permitted to vote...
Post Date: 2010-08-18 11:43:44 by Murron
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#115. To: mininggold (#109) mininggold: "Yeah right.... including women, the landless and slaves." goldi-lox: "Those folks don't have any flesh in the game, and should NOT be permitted to vote...specifically the landless. Property owners will vote to ensure that their property rights are left inviolet, and will stay valuable. When the poor (landless) vote, it's to steal the money from those who worked hard to get it....as a hand out. Often they are lazy and contribute NOTHING to society but problems. They are turning a rich vibrant nation of America into the slums they live in. They can't be brought up...they bring the rest of us DOWN. They should forbid ...
Decision Time for Israel on Bombing Iran?
Post Date: 2010-08-17 11:55:43 by Brian S
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The Obama administration gave Russia permission to deliver the fuel rods for Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor in return for their support for U.N. sanctions. The Russians have announced they will begin the process on August 21 and Iran will begin operating the reactor in mid-September. In making this concession to Russia, the U.S. is forcing Israel to decide within one week if they will bomb the site before it is impossible to do so because of the radioactive fallout it would cause. Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton is warning that Israel must immediately decide between accepting a nuclear weapons-capable Iran or a military strike. He noted that in Israel’s previous ...
Why the Mosque Scares the Right
Post Date: 2010-08-16 16:55:50 by Brian S
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There's a cynical reason that people like Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin don't want a mosque built at ground zero, writes M.J. Akbar—it will prove that there's nothing scary about Islam. Can there be any rational reason for such subliminal fear of a house without a door? A mosque has no door; it is always open to anyone. Submission is the guiding force of its spirit and simplicity is its objective. There is equality in the lines of prayer. Servant stands beside master to bow, and at the same moment, before the Lord. Divisions and pretensions dissipate. The whole world, as the great Indian theologian and mass leader Maulana Abul Kalam Azad used to say, is God’s mosque. ...
Obama's Bold Leadership on the Mosque
Post Date: 2010-08-16 15:46:09 by Brian S
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Speaking out on the proposed mosque at ground zero may be politically unpopular or perhaps costly in the short term, but in the end it makes him a president worthy of respect, says Mark McKinnon. President Obama made the right call on the proposed mosque in New York City. Of course he should have spoken out on this issue. And of course he should have done it now. This is the job of presidents. To provide leadership on issues that tear at our moral fabric. To point the way when the winds of controversy whip in every direction. It would have be politically safer for Obama to say nothing. This is a 30-70 issue in terms of support, so he had a lot to lose by speaking out. This was not a ...
Does the Evidence Support an Obama "Meltdown" and "Stunning Decline" in Approval Ratings?
Post Date: 2010-08-16 12:43:20 by go65
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A post by “Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator” Nile Gardiner in Britain’s Daily Telegraph caught my eye recently. The headline aptly describes Gardiner's thesis: “The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown.” I’m less interested here in the 10 key reasons Gardiner promulgates, although a number of them are conjectures rather than evidence-based. I’m more interested at the moment in Gardiner’s premise about Obama’s “stunning decline” (he also calls it a "meltdown," "Titanic-like," and "spectacular political collapse"), in ...
The Zionist Strategy of Demonizing Islam
Post Date: 2010-08-15 20:01:53 by Brian S
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On August 4, 2010, Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine and chair of the Interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives, published an article in Sabbah Report, entitled "Shame on ADL for Opposing Mosque 2Blocks from Ground Zero."Rabbi Lerner's position on the ADL's (Anti-Defamation League) objection to building an Islamic Community Center in Manhattan, near Ground Zero is praiseworthy. But his interpretation of ADL's reasons for resisting such a project lacks insight. ADL leader Abe Foxman's statement: "In our judgment, building an Islamic Center in the shadow of the World Trade Center will cause some victims more pain – unnecessarily – and ...
The Iraq Withdrawal: An Orwellian Success
Post Date: 2010-08-15 19:46:04 by Brian S
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The symbolic end of America's involvement in the war has arrived, but the propaganda rages on By Hannah Gurman APU.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division board a C-17 aircraft at Baghdad International Airport as they begin their journey to the United States, July 13. As the Second World War drew to a close, George Orwell looked back on the various prognoses of war and peace that had emerged in recent years. "All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way," he observed. "People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are ...
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