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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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