Saturday, September 27, 2008

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~ Owen

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A Playful Rebel Is Dead

Paul Newman

January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008

(Video)

Ross Perot Charts – The Imminent Financial Challenges Facing Americans

Scott Horton Interviews Dahr Jamail

September 17th, 2008

Dahr Jamail, reporter for IPS News, discusses:

· the Winter Soldier testimonies,

· the critical dehumanization process in waging war,

· the intentional tactics the military uses to foment these views,

· the complete black-out of the Winter Soldier testimonies by the U.S. corporate media,

· “drop-weapons” used by soldiers to frame dead civilians as enemies in Iraq,

· lies told by recruiters to brainwash young soldiers,

· the lie of the success of the “surge” in a much more fragmented political situation in Iraq and

· the horrific situations soldiers deal with everyday in Iraq

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Ron Paul Rejects Endorsing McCain

“He supports nothing that I stand for…”

(Video)

Special Comment

“Americans have many fine qualities. A capacity to see ourselves as others see us is not high among them.”

~ Patrick J. Buchanan

A DAWNING REALITY!

Guns vs. Butter

Washington’s Militarized Warfare State

With All Eyes on the Bailout, House Passes Trillion-Dollar “Defense” Bill

Joshua Holland reports for AlterNet: “On Wednesday, the House passed a mammoth defense bill by a 392-39 vote. It's expected to clear the Senate with little difficulty next week.It was part of a trillion-dollar stop-gap measure to keep programs running through next March, allowing lawmakers to skip town without passing a final budget. The Associated Press reports, ‘The legislation came together in a remarkably secret process that concentrated decision-making power in the hands of a few lawmakers.’

In keeping with the tradition of recent years, Bush held a gun to his own head and threatened to pull the trigger if his demands weren't met. According to the AP, ‘To earn President Bush's signature rather than a veto, House and Senate negotiators dropped several provisions he opposed. They include:

· a ban on private interrogators in U.S. military detention facilities and

· what would have amounted to congressional veto power over a security pact with Iraq.’

In other words, Congress also maintained recent tradition, swearing not to give Bush a blank check and then whipping out their pens and signing a blank check.”

How Major US Neo-Imperialist Wars End

Dr. Robert Higgs

(Video – app. 1 hr)

Future of Freedom Conference, 2008

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Paul Zanetti, Australia

Day of Reckoning

Patrick J. Buchanan

Patrick Buchanan asks the question,“How did the United States of America, the richest nation on earth, whose economy represents 30 percent of the Global Economy, arrive at the precipice of a financial panic and collapse?”

Patrick Chappatte, Cartoons on World Affairs: The Geneva daily "Le Temps", Sunday edition of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, weekly cartoon for the International Herald Tribune

Arch-Neocon Joshua Muravchik: “..if McCain is president, there will be an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.”

Jim Lobe reports: “I attended a debate between Harvard Prof. Steven Walt and veteran neo-conservative and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) fellow Joshua Muravchik at the Nixon Center Thursday evening. Most notable for the unfortunately abbreviated time I was there was Muravchik’s certainty that ‘if McCain is president, there will be an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.’ The way he said this also conveyed that it could well be item number one on McCain’s agenda.

He also asserted that ‘McCain is by history more of a neo-con than Bush’ (no quarrel there) and noted that his service as chair of the International Republican Institute (IRI), a creation and beneficiary of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), helped steer him in that direction. ‘I would expect from McCain policies (that) I would like,’ he said just before his observation about McCain’s intentions vis-a-vis Iran.”

Washington Deploys “Tripwire” Troops To Israel

Gayle Putrich of the Army Times reports: “U.S. European Command has deployed to Israel a high-powered X-band radar and the supporting people and equipment needed for coordinated defense against Iranian missile attack, marking the first permanent U.S. military presence on Israeli soil.”

Pakistan Tells US to Stay Away From Its Border

British Troops 'Will Leave Iraq Within a Year'

Senior British Defense Official: No More British Troops to Be Deployed to Afghanistan

US Finds Emboldened Russia Holding the Cards

AP reports: “After a month of bitter exchanges over Russia's war with Georgia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came face-to-face Wednesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and discovered Moscow's cooperation on Iran and North Korea may no longer be a sure thing.”

FIRST SPACEWALKER: China Joins The "Club"

“Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder

respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

~George Orwell~

PERSPECTIVE

HE'S BACK! Ross Perot Sponsors New Public Interest Website

Lest we forget - An extraordinarily prescient video interview with General Norman Schwarzkopf and Robert Gates - Deputy National Security Advisor to Former President George Bush Sr.

Why Invading Iraq Was A Very Stupid Idea…

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