Marklar's Blog – August 2009 Archive (15)

Darth Cheny whines once again that rule of law endangers national security.

Los Angeles Times

By Josh Meyer

August 31, 2009

Reporting from Washington - Former Vice President Dick Cheney lashed out at President Obama on Sunday, saying the Justice Department's decision to investigate whether CIA operatives broke the law while interrogating terrorism suspects was politically… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 31, 2009 at 3:28pm — No Comments

Scientists Confirm the Effectiveness of The Big Lie - People Will Go To Extraordinary Lengths to Create False Justifications for Government Misdeeds

Washington's Blog

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Adolph Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf:

All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 31, 2009 at 3:07pm — No Comments

How Israel wages game theory warfare

By Jeff Gates

Online Journal Guest Writer

Aug 28, 2009, 00:25

In 2005, the Nobel Prize in Economic Science was awarded to Israeli mathematician and game theory specialist Robert J. Aumann, co-founder of the Center for Rationality at Hebrew University. This Jerusalem resident explains: “the entire school of thought that we… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 30, 2009 at 11:58pm — 6 Comments

The Men Who Stare At Goats - Official Trailer HD

For those who don't get the reference, the men who stare at goats refers to a Pentagon psychic warfare program where people were encouraged to stare at goats while trying to make them drop dead via pure will power. Your tax dollars at… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 30, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Iran "Rebel" Says US Ordered Attacks

By Arab Times & Agencies

August 26, 2009 "Arab Times" -- ZAHEDAN, Iran, Aug 25, (Agencies): A top Sunni rebel who is awaiting execution in Iran said on Tuesday that his militant group received orders from the United… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 27, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

swine flu vaccine Baxter linked to Dyncorp´s mercs h1n1 patents - (VIDEO)

Added by Marklar on August 21, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

We approach others’ children at our peril

Times Online

From The Sunday Times

August 16, 2009

Jenni Russell

There’s just one element of the stories of my childhood that fascinates my own children. It’s not the absence of mobile phones, or the idea of a world before the internet. It’s the fact that so many of my small crises ended in the same way: with my being rescued by the kind intervention of an unknown man. Whether… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 19, 2009 at 4:30am — 5 Comments

John Pilger's The two sides of Barrack Obama speech.

Thank god for thoughtful and intelligent investigative journalists in the MSM like John Pilger and,..uhm,...uh,..............well, there's,....uh ,................oh crap, we're in trouble aren't… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 14, 2009 at 4:32pm — 2 Comments

An open letter to a friend about Obamacare - Original Article.

This is a question I received by email from a close friend of mine after we had been talking on the phone about the ballistic reaction by the MSM to the "town hall gun nut" - and my response of course.

-----Original Message-----

From: REDACTED

Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:59 PM

To: Mark

Subject: Confusion..

Back a couple months ago, you were saying that the "tea parties" were… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 13, 2009 at 2:30pm — 3 Comments

Good News For a Change? - FBI seizes police files in Katrina bridge shootings

FBI seizes police files in bridge shootings

by Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune

Friday August 07, 2009, 8:45 AM

Sgt. Gerard Dugue had been assigned to investigate the shooting of a man, possibly by police, in Algiers in the days after Katrina hit. The man's charred remains were later discovered in a burned… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 11, 2009 at 9:24pm — 1 Comment

The world according to Marklar - Semi-Original Humor

Thoughts, quotes, ponderings and hallucinations

by Marklar

August 10th, 2009

ALL marriage is gay marriage – just ask any guy who’s been married for 20 years the last time he saw a vagina.

Religion is the meth-amphetamine of the masses, if it were an opiate you’d never see such hyperactive gyrations from TV evangelists.

Jell-O is nothing… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 10, 2009 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

What Should Be Public? - What Should Be Private?

The Progress Report

by Fred E. Foldvary, Senior Editor

August 9, 2009

The scope of government has escalated during the past 100 years, so that government now dominates the economy. There was a rollback in the old Soviet Union and its satellites, but otherwise the ever greater dominance of the state continues, leaping with each crisis such as the Great Recession of… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 10, 2009 at 12:29pm — No Comments

Associated Press will sell you a license to quote the public domain

BoingBoing Posted by Cory Doctorow, August 2, 2009

James Grimmelman sez:

"The Associated Press -- which thinks you owe it a license fee if you quote more than four words from one of its articles -- doesn't even care if the words actually came from its article. They'll charge you anyway, even if you're quoting from the public domain.

I picked a random AP article and went to their "reuse options" site. Then, when they… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 5, 2009 at 2:31am — 2 Comments

Sodomized to Protect Our Freedoms

Alternet

By Allan Uthman, Buffalo Beast.

Posted August 3, 2009.

Would we really need debate on the torture question if we discussed the numerous acts of sodomy instead of the nuances of waterboarding?

"Yasser tearfully described that when he reached the top of the steps 'the party began. … They started to put the [muzzle] of the rifle [and] the wood from… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 3, 2009 at 1:00pm — 4 Comments

Christians Largely Mum on Torture

consortiumnews.com

By Ray McGovern

July 31, 2009

Anyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center.

Who but the cowardly crew leading the “Christian” churches can be held responsible for the… Continue

Added by Marklar on August 2, 2009 at 3:00pm — 8 Comments