Tag: editorial
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yankee doodle deadly
from tv news lies: Here they come again – the Sousa bands, the waving flags, the cheering crowds, and the fabulous fireworks. Ah, yes, it’s Yankee Doodle time again in America. So let’s get ready to party. It’s just that I really don’t understand what we’re celebrating. I don’t really understand why millions of people…
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is everything seemingly spinning out of control?
from ap: Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism.Horatio Alger, twist in your grave. The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in the American psyche is under assault.…
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uss 9/11, ‘incompetent’ criticism & the o.c.t.
US christens ‘9/11 steel’ warshipfrom bbc: Thousands of people have gathered in Louisiana for the christening of a US warship built partly from steel salvaged from the World Trade Center. The twin towers in New York were destroyed in the hijacked planes attack of 11 September 2001. Friends and families of 9/11 victims were among…
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9/11: dna, warnings & the unravelling story
9/11 victims identified from new dna findsfrom guardian: A fresh effort to identify victims of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre is under way in New York following the discovery of fragments of human remains in the area around Ground Zero… “We’ve made numerous links to previously identified victims,” said Adams. “We also…
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ron paul: florida, louisiana, illinois & beyond
video: ron paul at msnbc debate in florida from youtube: Ron Paul fielding questions at the MSNBC Debate in Boca Raton, Florida at Florida Atlantic University on January 24, 2008. ron paul shunned in blatantly unfair msnbc debatefrom paul joseph watson: According to those that recorded the time afforded to each Republican candidate during last…
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liberal’s ron paul problem
from dennis perrin: The liberal attacks on Ron Paul, fueled by a recent hit piece in the New Republic, are so transparently cynical that it almost makes me smile. Almost. To quote James Ridgeway, liberals can be and often are the meanest motherfuckers around… What bothers liberals… is that Paul is the only presidential candidate…
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‘charlie wilson’s war’ imperialist propaganda
second thoughts on ‘charlie wilson’s war’ from chalmers johnson: When imperialist activities produce unmentionable outcomes, such as those well known to anyone paying attention to Afghanistan since about 1990, then ideological thinking kicks in. The horror story is suppressed, or reinterpreted as something benign or ridiculous (a “comedy”), or simply curtailed before the denouement becomes…
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would democrats waterboard atta?
a ridiculous editorial from investors business daily asks the musical question: would democrats waterboard atta? aside from framing the question within the phony left/right paradigm & believing jack bauer bullshit, it completely neglects to mention the fact that we had identified mohammed atta before 9/11 thanks to ‘able danger’. from investors business daily: The question…
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news on the march
american labs mishandle deadly germsfrom ap: American laboratories handling the world’s deadliest germs & toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work. american lockdown: law enforcementout of control & beyond the palefrom carolyn…
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9/11 isn’t ‘over,’ mr. friedman
from jerry mazza: ‘9/11 Is Over’ by New York Times’ columnist Thomas Friedman is as ignorant if not as pernicious as its misguided view of 9/11’s tragedy. It is symptomatic of the worse elements at the Times those writers who waffle between administration ass-kissing and stands for faux-boldness like the above one, which is in…
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thomas friedman: 9/11 is over
from new york times: Not long ago, the satirical newspaper The Onion ran a fake news story that began like this: “At a well-attended rally in front of his new ground zero headquarters Monday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani officially announced his plan to run for president of 9/11. ‘My fellow citizens of…
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black ops: conspiracy & 9/11
from clyde wilson: Our late friend Murray Rothbard used to point out to those who scoffed at “conspiracy theories” that history is indeed full of real conspiracies, and that often conspiracy provides a more satisfactory explanation for an event than the “lone nut theory” that is popular with government spokespersons. The continuing drumbeat of speculation…
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the 9/11 lie is in critical condition
from op-ed news: There was a time, not long ago, when daring to question the official account of 9/11 was risky business. One was almost guaranteed to be attacked as a “crazy person” or a “traitor” or a “terrorist sympathizer.” Times have changed. At this point, less than 20% of the population believes they were…