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this is the first proper political blog ive read (found it by accident while putting off school work) and i can say that it has really opened my eyes about the bush administration and cleared up alot of stuff i already knew. good blog!
Regarding your statement, "I do not believe in conspiracies as they would require intelligent members throughout in order to succeed. History has not seen such a case yet," I offer as a counter-example the US Federal Reserve System. The FRS is hugely powerful, was brought into existence by a relatively few people, and has been controlling this country since 1913. Anyone who doesn't understand the Fed, how it came into being, how it works, who owns it, and the power that it has, cannot understand US history since then or what is going on now. The film "America: Freedom to Fascism" by Aaron Russo deals with many of the same questions that you raise and it explains that those who control the FRS are behind it all. A good starting point to learn about the Fed is "http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve2.htm."
Two books with greater detail are "The Case Against the Fed" by Murray Rothbard and "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin.
This is really a great article. Notice all the venom from the people that want to stifle freedom of thought in America without any evidence of their own. Here is a link that goes right to the source of the problem. The privately owned federal reserve bank and its owner's implementation of a new world order. We want answers this time not political slogans and sarcasm. Interestingly the the pentagon accounting office was destroyed on 9/11 the day after Rumsfield admits the pentagon losing trillion$. The robbery hypothesis has been overlooked.
http://www.fdrs.org/resources.html
more info on wtc7
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You good for nothin faggets need a life instead of posting all this B.S. on the internet.
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mail a bag of puke to the white house drown bush in vomit drown you scum little nazi drown. what in the hell has happened to the usa? Stand up to the petty tyrant or lose everything. Restore sadaam bush and nazi kin to prison ... reapeat, reapeat, send
it is easy for people in Europe to point fingers at America. But it is always America doing the dirty work and dealing head on with the issues no other country will take on. Nationalist americans know now the ungratitude of foreign countries for saving their butts. The USA should have conquered the world with our only real ally, Britain, after WW2. We would have settled all the nonsense and saved ourselves and the rest of the world.
Yes, you make a good point, but why is that a bad thing. The National Socialist economic model of corpratism and deficit spending brought Germany out of the depression quicker than anyone else. In America, it took a war.
War found us, the US did not go to find war. Thank God that the "Bush/Cheney/Rice Regime" are determined to win this war, and not whine about it. Too bad that the Left (e.g., liberals, democrats, CNN) battles the US while we battle the terrorists.
I completely agree with Tony's simple and straight-forward analogy. If it looks, walks and talks like a duck, it must be a duck. Simple heuristics.
As a German residing in Australia, an Anglo-centric country, over the past 13 years, I have witnessed a radicalisation of politics that my history lessons as a child in Germany were meant to prevent. I notice many of the hallmarks of rightwing totalitarianism that my Australian friends don't. Why? Put simply, neither the US nor the UK (& dominions) ever had to engage in the soul-searching brought about by defeat. Archaic nationalism and Machiavellian geopolitics have continued unabated in the "Anglo" mindset, survivors of 19th century thinking. They had just not been so out in the open until the rise of Thatcher and Reagan.
This mindset includes notions of eugenics as well as the conviction that democracies need to be controlled by an elite via the means of public relations (= propaganda), an essentially feudal idea.
Jill, I should enlighten you about the fact that the Nazis very much admired and acknowledged British and American endeavours in fields such as "racial hygiene", propaganda and aggressive imperialism and set out to emulate their successes. I would also like to remind you that a lot of the predicaments the US have "helped" "incompetent" nations out with are merely the (longterm) effects of their very own policies, intended and/or unintended. Imperial Germany used to think about itself as similarly selfless, did it not bring culture and progress into the world?
Don't make the mistake to identify fascism with a racial stereotype. Fascism describes a corporatised totalitarian society run by an absolutist oligarchy. The German version also incorporated messianic tendencies. In the case of the current US regime I think this fits the bill quite nicely.
Remember Sigmund Freud's 1933 quote, when the Nazi's had started burning books?
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books." Sigmund Freud
How many years past until the Nazi's started burning people? Until Freud too had to flee?
I hope Jill is correct that the horrors we in the USA have done in the name of capitalism, democracy, and freedom (over the span of several Administrations) are not a path to worse horrors still, but rather a necessary evil. On the other hand we ought not to become too complacent.
There is something profoundly immoral for a latte-sipping, upscale Westerner of the postmodern age like yourself flippantly evoking Hitler when I think of the countless souls lost to the historical record who were systematically starved and gassed in the factories of death of the Third Reich.
Hitler hijacked an elected government and turned it into a fascist tyranny. He destroyed European democracy. His minions persecuted Christians, gassed over six million Jews, and created an entire fascistic creed predicated on anti-Semitism and the myth of a superior Aryan race.
Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination.
The slander not only brings a president down to the level of an evil murderer, but elevates the architect of genocide to the level of an American president. Do the ghosts of six million that were incinerated — or, for that matter, the tens of millions who were killed to promote or stop Hitler’s madness — count for so little that they can be so promiscuously compared?
When Europe orders all American troops out; when Japan claims our textbooks whitewash the Japanese forced internment or Hiroshima; when China cites unfair trade with the United States; when South Korea says get the hell off our DMZ; when India complains that we are dumping outsourced jobs on them; when Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinians refuse cash aid; when Canada complains that we are not carrying our weight in collective North American defense; when the United Nations moves to Damascus; when the Arab Street seethes that we are pushing theocrats and autocrats down its throat; when Mexico builds a fence to keep us out; when Latin America proclaims a boycott of the culturally imperialistic Major Leagues; and when the world ignores American books, films, and popular culture, then perhaps I should be worried. But something tells me none of that is going to happen in this lifetime.
Imagine a world in which there was no United States during the last 15 years. Iraq, Iran, and Libya would now have nukes. Afghanistan would remain a seventh-century Islamic terrorist haven sending out the minions of Zarqawi and Bin Laden worldwide. The lieutenants of Noriega, Milosevic, Mullah Omar, Saddam, and Moammar Khaddafi would no doubt be adjudicating human rights at the United Nations. The Ortega Brothers and Fidel Castro, not democracy, would be the exemplars of Latin America. Bosnia and Kosovo would be national graveyards like Pol Pot's Cambodia. Add in Kurdistan as well — the periodic laboratory for Saddam's latest varieties of gas. Saddam himself, of course, would have statues throughout the Gulf attesting to his control of half the world's oil reservoirs. Europeans would be in two-day mourning that their arms sales to Arab monstrocracies ensured a second holocaust. North Korea would be shooting missiles over Tokyo from its new bases around Seoul and Pusan. For their own survival, Germany, Taiwan, and Japan would all now be nuclear. Most Americans know all that — and yet they grasp that their own vigilance and military sacrifices have earned them spite rather than gratitude. And they are ever so slowly learning not much to care anymore.
I just finished reading the whole GAO report you referred to. Ugghhh. It's horrible.
However, there is NO conclusion that the presidential elections were 'rigged'.
It's not that I don't agree with you in principle, but when you make such stupid statements, it casts a pall over all us left-wingers. We lose credibility. You are feeding the enemy. You should do better than the people you criticize to gain some integrity.
We might all gain from Jim Kunstler's remarks at the recent PetroCollapse
conference.
http://www.kunstler.com/
spch_pet...rocollapse.html
This point is particularly compelling:
"The last thing that this group needs is to get sidetracked in paranoid conspiracy politics, such as the idea that Dick Cheney orchestrated the World Trade Center attacks, which I regard as just another form of make-believe."
This is a bit of a tangent so pardon me in advance. When I read anyone making a comparison between the current administration and the third reich I can't help but be reminded of G.W.'s Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and his dealings with the Nazi regime. It's fascinating history. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/
st...1312540,00.html
You and I think too much alike Toni.
Likely we are both missing some important truths. We'll have to compare notes if we are still blogging ten years hence.
Still, the coincidences between the two regimes, distanced only by a short window in time and an ocean, are remarkable at a minimum. Frightening times! Keep up your good thinking/writing. dave
Duncan,
we invest on what we know.
Philip, Joe, Ray,
it is these comments that uplift my spirit tremendously.
A.Masi
if the plane was not level one of the wings would have sheared off before the impact - leaving debris. The worst terror attack in US history, and no pics with debris? A Pentagon without surveillance cameras. It is all too odd for me.
Marc,
your direct language is always a refreshener to me.
Making war as a way to paper economic crisis is an old formula. The hyperinflation preceded world war II. Strange, the crash of NASDAQ bubble, another form of hyperinflation, preceded the war in Iraq. This is not a coincidence. It was planified and damn useful to make forget the ENRON's and WORLDCOMM's that the monsters in Wall Street, these criminal bums based in New York created.
About the photo comparing the damage at the Pentagon to the size of the Boeing airliner... you can't assume that the plane was horizontally level when it hit the building... it may have been making a banking turn at the time of impact in which case the wings would not have been parallel to horizon. I would expect that such a scenario might explain the narrow zone of impact.
I run my own business and have always voted republican. I voted for Bush in 2000. After seeing what he did during his first term I voted for Kerry in 2004. I have now figured out that the Dems have been bought off as well and I have decided to move my manufacturing to Thailand and my money to Euros and gold and never return to America. It is blogs like yours that changed me from what I was. You do make more of a difference than you might think.
Unfortunately, we, all humans, are cursed to believe our own mythologies as honest-to-God truth. Bush included. Myself included. We all are utterly incapable of understanding that what we "know" to be true is only our best contrived mythology based upon fragmentary actual information at best.
However, I can honestly say that I have no idea of the truth or falsity of any of the assertions of your article. I am also painfully aware that my perceptions are colored and influenced by those around me (mass psychology, if you will) and I constantly do my best to free myself of the same. In pursuit of that, I have read and will carefully evaluate your evidence and arguments on the merits to the best of my ability. I suspect that when finished I will "know" less than when I began. That's a good thing because I'll begin to learn what I don't know and can then begin to fill in those gaps with further evidence from whatever source. Full and complete knowledge and understanding is a bad thing because you do not know what you don't know, hence, the search for further evidence or knowledge stops and you're stuck with your current world view or mythology.
Would that more people would take my approach.
In my old age, 51, I've learned that I'm less certain of my youthful bias and dogma, that there is less black and white and more grey, colors and nuance in the world, that things are rarely as they seem, and that truth really is stranger than fiction. In that regard it's an amazingly interesting beautiful rich tapestry of a world we live in.
Joe
State of Utah.
thanks to israel
From
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/0...=rssnyt&
emc=rss
"Bush is a torturer, a violator of human rights and a murderer, who does not respect United Nations resolutions, international treaties or the sovereignty of peoples, as in the case of Iraq," said Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is one of the protest organizers. "He is not welcome in Argentina, and he should be repudiated."
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I would also add that Bush & co is not welcome in Asia.
Besides, We just simply stop using American products; yes, including Coca Cola...
Indeed; one can’t fight the similarities; then and now; money or assets (on the ground, in the ground, wherever) talks
People ask, why the Jews were rounded up and gassed; seems simple to me; an asset strip exercise (substantial transfer of wealth, from those who had it, to a nazi elite, that didn’t) with gargantuan size; they had there assets stripped from them; then were worked to death or gassed, straight after the train ride
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