“I think it’s a dangerous gift to be absolutely beautiful.”
– Actress Jeanne Moreau
From the film, French Beauty
Month: July 2008
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From: Prison Planet
Potential next President John McCain’s sick obsession with slaughtering brown people in the Middle East betrayed itself again yesterday when he responded to a question about exporting cigarettes to Iran by saying, “maybe that’s a way of killing them.”
McCain was asked by a reporter, “We’ve learned that exports to Iran increased by tenfold during the Bush administration, biggest export was cigarettes,” to which McCain snapped back, “maybe that’s a way of killing them,” before laughing and chuckling, “I meant that as a joke.”
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKIt316Ajas]McCain “Jokes” About Killing Iranians
Uploaded by tpmtv on Jul 9, 2008
John McCain, July 8, 2008
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Be not astonished at new ideas;
for it is well known to you
that a thing does not therefore cease to be true
because it is not accepted by many.
– Spinoza
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WHATEVER you do,
WHATEVER you say,
Say, say, say
Say it WITH LOVE.
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Watch this crucial concept sung here
Alex Jones: “We’re talking…with the congressman about members of Congress talking about nuking Iran on the floor. …
Ron Paul: “To me, the biggest challenge has been and the biggest eye-opener has been in these last several years is how strongly some of our Christian evangelical groups join in.
That is so disturbing to me. And yet they do. The Christian Zionist groups are urging this on in the name of Christianity!
I mean, they didn’t learn the same Christianity that I learned. I just cannot conceive of this. And yet there are millions that way that are just pushing, pushing this war—and pushing even nuclear weapons in the name of spreading Christian love.”
Alex Jones: “Premeditated mass murder. …”
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from The Alex Jones Show, 7/3/08
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From: Democracy Now!
Congressional leaders agreed to a request from President Bush last year to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing Iran’s leadership. This according to a new article by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker magazine.
The operations were set out in a highly classified Presidential Finding signed by Bush which, by law, must be made known to Democratic and Republican House and Senate leaders and ranking members of the intelligence committees. The plan allowed up to $400 million in covert spending for activities ranging from supporting dissident groups to spying on Iran’s nuclear program.
According to Hersh, US Special Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq since last year. These have included seizing members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of so-called “high-value targets” who may be captured or killed.
While covert operations against Iran are not new, Hersh writes that the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command, have now been significantly expanded.
Seymour Hersh is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist. He joins us from Washington DC.
Michael Franti – Bomb the World
Please tell me the reason
Behind the colors that you fly
Love just one nation
And the whole world we divide
You won’t say you’re “sorry”
“There is no other choice”
God bless the people them
Who cannot raise their voice
We can chase down all our enemies
Bring them to their knees
We can bomb the world to pieces
But we can’t bomb it into peace
Power to the peaceful
Love to the peaceful
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[God’s] love to the peaceful.
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“Blessed are the peacemakers
for they shall be called the children of God.”
– Jesus
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“God resists the proud [Americans],
but GIVES GRACE to the humble.”
– Jesus’ brother, James
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Who would Jesus bomb —
or have us bomb?
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“Love your neighbor as yourself.”
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Tell me President tell if you will
How many people does a smart bomb kill?
How many of ’em do you think we got?
The General says we never miss a shot
And we never ever ever keep a body count
We killin’ so efficiently we can’t keep count
World Affairs Brief, July 4, 2008. Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief
US SPREADING TORTURE DOCTRINES AND TECHNIQUES
Sadly it is no time to celebrate liberty in America, except as an important historical footnote. Patriotic fervor is only displayed in mindless and expensive fireworks extravaganzas mixed with country and rock concerts. Predictably, they all focus on supporting the troops in Iraq. The general public knows little about what is really happening to our nation and most are ignorant of what made this country both free and great–strict constitutional limitations on government power. Having dismantled those restrictions over the last 200 years our government is now becoming the Evil Empire of the world as it spreads violence abroad in the name of intervention and occupation. At home, essential civil liberties of privacy and freedom from warrantless search and seizure are under assault by those who have falsely sworn an oath to uphold these constitutional guarantees. The dark side of government is engaged in torturing prisoners and spreading their sophisticated versions of that evil to eager tyrants in other lands. This week the news broke that the Mexican public is in an uproar over videos showing Mexican police practicing torture techniques on fellow officers in preparation for use on the public—under the watchful eye of an American advisor. Leon city Police Chief Carlos Tornero told the AP that “the English-speaking man in the videos is a contractor from a private US security firm.”July 4, 2008 Once again, we see the increasing role of US mercenaries helping our own government spread torture while maintaining “plausible deniability.”
This week the NY Times broke the story that “…military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of ‘coercive management techniques’ for possible use on prisoners, including ‘sleep deprivation,’ ‘prolonged constraint,’ and ‘exposure.’ What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners
From: The Raw Story
A new poll of citizens’ attitudes about torture in 19 nations finds Americans among the most accepting of the practice. Although a slight majority say torture should be universally prohibited, 44 percent think torture of terrorist suspects should be allowed, and more than one in 10 think torture should generally be allowed.
The findings of the WorldPublicOpinion.org poll put the United States alongside countries like Russia, Egypt and the Ukraine and lagging far behind allies like Great Britain, Spain and France in how its citizens view torture.
World Affairs Brief, July 4, 2008. Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief
GOVERNMENT KEEPS ENERGY BOTTLED UP
Despite public outrage on the obvious manipulation of gas and oil prices, the government does nothing to prosecute this collusion. It also is doing nothing to open up US oil reserves either offshore or in Alaska. While the President made a token call to open up the Arctic National Wilderness Reserve (ANWR) he did so only to make a political statement, knowing that the Senate would reject it–which they did. The footprint of the proposed drilling site is so small and in such a barren area of the ANWR that no credible argument can be made that this will lead to an environmental catastrophe. See ANWR.org for details on the bogus environmental issues. Even shale oil reserves, which have become viable for oil extraction at current prices, are still locked up by government.
All this may seem excusable given elected politician’s fear of offending the powerful environmental lobbies (supported by both the public purse and major corporate donors trying to make themselves look green). But now we find the government further hindering solar development on raw desert land–prime locations for solar farms.
Dan Frosch of the NY Times writes that “Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years. The Bureau of Land Management says an extensive environmental study is needed to determine how large solar plants might affect millions of acres it oversees in six Western states —- Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah.” That’s bogus. Such environmental studies have long been done on desert land, and it doesn’t take two years to factor in the slight variations from one desert locale to another.
“‘It doesn’t make any sense,’ said Holly Gordon, vice president for legislative and regulatory affairs for Ausra, a solar thermal energy company in Palo Alto, Calif. ‘The Bureau of Land Management land has some of the best solar resources in the world. This could completely stunt the growth of the industry.'” Is this conspiracy or stupidity? The government uses emergency powers to blast through anything they really want to do, and yet with energy, be it solar, nuclear, coal, oil, or gas, they are dragging their feet. I believe there is a hidden agenda to create an energy crisis–to justify some yet-to-be-seen “solution.”
LOVE EVERYBODY!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuAahjFL-mA]Michael Franti & Spearhead
You say you’re a Christian ’cause God made you;
You say you’re a Muslim ’cause God made you;
You say you’re a Hindu and the next man a Jew;
And we all kill each other ’cause God told us to? Nah!
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Related: Michael Franti & Spearhead: “Hello Bonjour” in Belgium
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From: Ron Paul’s Campaign For Liberty
The following statement is written by Congressman Paul about the pending financial disaster. He will introduce this statement as a special order and insert it into the Congressional Record next week. Fortunately, we have the opportunity to debut it first on the Campaign for Liberty blog. It reads as follows:
I have, for the past 35 years, expressed my grave concern for the future of America. The course we have taken over the past century has threatened our liberties, security and prosperity. In spite of these long-held concerns, I have days—growing more frequent all the time—when I’m convinced the time is now upon us that some Big Events are about to occur. These fast-approaching events will not go unnoticed. They will affect all of us. They will not be limited to just some areas of our country. The world economy and political system will share in the chaos about to be unleashed. …
I’m fearful that my concerns have been legitimate and may even be worse than I first thought. They are now at our doorstep. Time is short for making a course correction before this grand experiment in liberty goes into deep hibernation.
There are reasons to believe this coming crisis is different and bigger than the world has ever experienced.