Beck's Restoring Honor Rally: Thousands Expected To Attend, Civil Rights Leaders Protest Event

I have been expecting this - not this rally per se, but some charismatic figure emerging to 'lead the nation'.



Why have I been expecting it? Easy: because, not to mince words, the US is the most fascist place on Earth and far more primed than Germany was for some charismatic, 'unifying' figure to emerge and take centre stage, in a decaying country in economic trouble.



I couldn't see Palin pulling it off and I had never heard of Glen Beck until last week, but now I have and have seen what has happened out of apparent nowhere (in most peoples' minds).



Same with Hitler and the Nuremburg Rally, just US-style.



OK Beck might turn out to be a fizzer, I hope, but he has all the 'right' ingredients - he is a 'good' orator.



He is charismatic, intensely nationalistic, an egomaniac, popularistic, deluded, corrupt, at least sociopthathic and he makes no rational sense whatsoever.



In "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) Hitler presages Nazi Germany (he wrote it in gaol) including that his DREAM (nightmare) would ruin Germany, but he went ahead and led millions to destruction.



Whether or not Beck has a similar intuition I don't know, but I did and do know that all who mocked Palin were missing something - which I have tried to point out several times here, to no effect.



I hope I'm wrong, but ....
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Stewart RIPS Glenn Beck's Civil Rights Rally: 'I Have A Scheme' (VIDEO)

Just goes to prove the doctoral dissertation I was writing at the Romainian School of Economics.



Hot air is the most valuable commodity on this jumble of elements, organic and inorganic molecules - though it does seem somehow rather organized, with one fatal flaw - hot air.



Even though it is so abundant, even though anyone can have and use it - you don't have to mine for it or work for it at all - it is very valuable.



No one would accept my thesis, but now I have Beck as proof - not only do politicians, evangelists, etc. get rich on it, it can start wars and mass destruction.



Then the corporations, for instance, come along to make a fortune, with 'reconstruction'.



And it's all due to hot air, comprized of fantasy, delusion, craziness and even insanity.



It's a cosmic joke.



I think I'll have a shot at reformulating "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" and call it The Lemmings Theory of Everything".
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Aijalon Gomes, American Imprisoned In North Korea, Returns To Boston

A couple of days ago I was virtually on my own in the worst thread I have ever seen in HP.



I could not believe I was in HP, with even some 'moderators' vilfying Jimmy Carter.



I won't leave you to guess what was being said about N Korea and Kim Jong Il, because I'll shortly give the link to a Tea Party on steroids, Sarah Palin would have felt quite at home.



A few times I nearly quit in disgust, but I'm glad I hung in because news of the release came in, I posted it and it went dead quiet.



This is not bragging on my part - after all I've never remotely achieved what Jimmy Carter has over his life-time. In my view he was one of the best and unluckiest presidents ever - not just unlucky, because he was schemed against.



I was just glad to be there the day the vitriole died.



Anyway enough from me - except in the thread of course.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/26/kim-jong-il-china-trip-no_n_695219.html
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Stewart RIPS Glenn Beck's Civil Rights Rally: 'I Have A Scheme' (VIDEO)

The trouble with you Stewart/Obama lovers is that you don't listen to what Glen Beck actually says.



Oh no you just listen to Stewart and believe this progressive propaganda that's taking over the world and all the media.



Did Glen say that he was Jesus, Gandhi and King rolled into one?



No he didn't.



It's a leftist smear campaign, a conspiracy against the truth by secret members of the organized Communist Party of the World and I happen to know that Stewart is a top man in that - don't let his vile humour disguize that, beneath are very serious men like him, millions of them and maybe more women - I'm not sure about that - who meet secretly at some location which they are too devious to reveal. But I do know it's encoded in things people like Stewart say.



I and a group of fellow computer specialists are working on this as a counter-group to Wikileaks, which is the latest in the extreme Left's take-over of the world.



Glen Beck is above all that arrogance - that's the point he was making when he mentioned other good men like Jesus, Gandhi and King.



Listened too rightly, he was expressing his humility. Like Jesus he is above pride - WAY above that and beyond honesty. That's the truth.
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Stewart RIPS Glenn Beck's Civil Rights Rally: 'I Have A Scheme' (VIDEO)

You have sprung me puaan.



You are the first person ever to realize that my nick is a joke - a combination of Quixote and the fact that I am useless with hotkeys.



Fancy folks thinking I don't have a sense of humour - just don't often use it in HP.



I could have written a serious rebuttal of Beck, but I thought humour would be more effective - prompted by Stewart and Colbert ... and my love of Monty Python, for instance.
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Stewart RIPS Glenn Beck's Civil Rights Rally: 'I Have A Scheme' (VIDEO)

I used to like Jon Stewart and even that Colbert bloke, but his diatribe against Beck is a step too far - perhaps two steps or more. They have gone way down in my humble opinion.



Can't they see that this is totally different from what that black guy did, it's sheer coincidence that Luther King picked the very day and location chosen by my dear leader Glen Beck, the great pink hope of mankind and maybe some womenkind who realize the TRUTH.



Glen Beck is NOT white, he is pink and sometimes reddish when passionate about saving personkind or, for instance, if he has been out in the Sun too long. These two sub-truths alone, or as united as Glen is going to make homo erectus, are direct evidence that Glen Beck is psychic and was born to lead us all. He knew, perhaps from even before he was conceived, or imagined, that Martin Luther King was going to steal his day.



This giant of a hominid stands at the top of Creation and proves, once and for all, that our fine species is totally different from chimps and all other animals.



He proves, beyond all reasonable doubt, that with him as our head, we verily shall have dominion, yea even over the entire universe ... oh ye of little faith draw near. Don't listen to doubting Thomases like Jon.
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Obama Iraq Speech To Signal Shift To Afghan Focus

Good grief, aside from Vietnam (and maybe some countries I can't think of) the US has never withdrawn from any country - hence 700+ miltary bases around the world, which are probably bankrupting you.



This 'withdrawal' from Iraq is basically nonsense - 50,000 troops remain, plus maybe even more private contractors, in well-established bases. George Orwell would have a field day with this, especially as nearly all military personnel are combat-trained. Obama has just changed the label. Smoke and mirrors.



And small consolation for those who actually got back to the US (are not still in Kuwait), because now many of them will be off to Afghanistan presumably.



Imagine if you were a career soldier who got sent to Afghanistan at 18 ten years ago - god knows how many rotations - then at 28 got sent to Afghanistan. Already no one in history has probably served longer at war.



For the US, though not others, WW2 was over, in both theatres in about five years.



What are you folks thinking about?
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Kim Jong Il China Trip: North Korea Leader Visits Ally

I can't resist, I just can't:



Hasn't it gone quiet round here since Jimmy Carter's "mission accomplished".



It used to be a hive of activity, but even TheFabOne and MIKEinNYC seem to have succumbed to some deadly bee virus that's taken their stings away.



And what has happened to such 'moderators' as Witkacy and Krek, who were never short of snide remarks and may have been deleting some of my posts?



How on Earth they got to be 'moderators' eludes me ... if their comments about the situation had been about most other situations, they would have been flagged out of existence.



And who is going to flag me now, if all these armchair warriors have run away?



Turned out that Kim Jog Il hadn't run away ... perhaps he had some pressing business to attend to, apologized and left instructions. Who knows, but several 'pundits' claimed to know ... and about a lot of things which they knew nothing about, nor wanted to know.



I was not going to come back here - the most disgraceful dealings with a subject I have ever seen in HP - but I couldn't resist when the news broke that Jimmy Carter had succeeded.



And I confess that I felt a great sense of satisfaction that silence had descended - perhaps they've all gone off to have a Tea Party where they'll feel more at home.
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Kim Jong Il China Trip: North Korea Leader Visits Ally

The prisoner has been released and is on his way home, so what are all you mockers, etc. going to do now?



I'd hope, but don't expect, critics of Carter to retract and apologize. Even less likely is modifying any of your views on N Korea.



At least I have the satisfaction of having been pretty much on the ball overall.
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Kim Jong Il China Trip: North Korea Leader Visits Ally

I really can't stand the blind prejudice, hatred and sick 'humour' being expressed here.



Korea was invaded by Japan, then invaded again five years after WW2 by the US and the Korean War split the country in two.



Some say that Afghanistan is the US longest war at nearly ten years, but that's wrong, there has been war against Iraq, counting sanctions, for nearly twenty years ... but even that pales into insignificance, because the Korean War has lasted nearly sixty years and the US still occupies the south of the country and has deliberately isolated the north - pretty much an attempt at genocide.



The north could not possibly have survived - and I don't mean just the regime, I mean the entire population - without strong leadership and friendship with China and the former Soviet Union.



You folks doing the vilifying know nothing about N Korea apart from what you get spoon fed by the MSM and Washington spin.



Obviously none of you know history and maybe some of you couldn't say exactly where Korea is.



It's seldom that I write this strongly, but honestly some of you sicken me. Bloody war-mongers the lot of you, including some who are against the Afghan war at least.
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Kim Jong Il China Trip: North Korea Leader Visits Ally

Totally agree with you and then some.



That poor country! Invaded by the Japanese, shortly followed by the US invasion which split the country in two.



Some say that Afghanistan is the US longest war at ten years. It's not. The Iraq War started in 1991 and, including years of sanctions (a form of warfare), it's actually so far lasted for nearly twenty years. But even that isn't the longest because, including sanctions, the Korean War has so far lasted nearly sixty years - no peace treaty was ever signed.



N Korea could not possibly have lasted without strong leadership and friendship with China. The population would have been starved out of existence.



I can't sand the ignorant people who post here and vilify countries and peoples they know nothing about ... nothing of history, nothing of geography. All they know is what they are fed by the US propaganda machine and their own hateful proclivities.
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How Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists to the Radical Right

You are SO wrong.



I am not saying that the Middle East was ever a completely peaceful part of the world, but ALL of the conflict you see today was caused by Western colonialism - British and French before WW2 and most recently by US and Israeli aggression, i.e. since WW2.



The ONLY reason - or by far the main reason - that you have the impression you do of Islam (which I doubt you know anything about), is because of mainly US interference and invasion.



You may not like to hear it, but it's a fact ... and so is what wrote MikeWebster who posted before me.
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How Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists to the Radical Right

It is the same 'god'. Islam and Christianity are both essentially Judaic religions. That's why the Old Testament figures so strongly in both derivatives.



The fly in the ointment is that all sqabble amongst themselves - between their respective religions AND within those relgions - about the characteristics and personality of this 'god'.



Some say it is a 'god' of peace and love, whilst others say it is a 'god' of vengeance and punishment, and all things in between, with more than a few people are pure Orwellian double-thinkers, believing in both extremes.
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How Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists to the Radical Right

Excellent article - it can be applied everywhere, to greater or lesser degrees, under different labels for the same phenomena.



Hitler and Stalin were surface enemies, but pretty much identical in personality.



In my view it all comes down to personality - in particular personality disorders - whether in those who head countries, religions, corporations and so on, or in the millions of people who follow them.



I'll leave aside how such personalities are formed, because there is plenty of information on such matters.



So just thanks for your article.
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Did Einstein Set Science Back 100 Years? We're Not As Insignificant As He Thought

Yes the supposition that there is a 'god' could be one way out, but there are others, including saying, "We don't really know enough yet."



And why do you believe in Big Bang - or I assume you do - because there are huge problems with it, which get worse the further we can see beyond what more or less assumed as "the edge of the universe".



Steady State is a much more plausible theory which fully allows for local change, but overall stasis, e.g. if one or several dozen trees fall in a forest, it doesn't alter the fact that it's a forest and others will take their place, i.e. overall stasis. Plus the theory does not need a variety of 'strange entities' to 'support it', such as 'black holes', 'dark matter' and so on.
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Did Einstein Set Science Back 100 Years? We're Not As Insignificant As He Thought

OMG Robert, are you going to be in trouble.



I am not a scientist, more of a philosopher, but I wrote a similar piece yours and got pounced on.



Rather than Descartes - who I love - I used Kant to try to explain that time and space are of our minds, not of things external to us, which we can never know in-themselves. I pointed out that Newton realized that, as Hume put it, "If it wasn't for our passions and emotions, we could have no idea of a substance." And he how he showed that 'heat' is not a something-in-itself.



OK I've only read the first few comments, but I know where you are coming from and the likely reaction (same happened whhen I queried the validity of Darwin)



I tried to explain how General Relativity might kinda work, but I'll leave that aside - no room - and got clobbered.



Best of luck!



I got to be accused of solipsism, though the people using versions of Johnson's rebuttal of Berkeley clearly did not know what the term means - but they mocked me, though Johnson was the fool, even if Berkeley went a bit far.



I mentioned that the Michelson-Morley experiment caused a crisis of faith - a void - which Einstein falsely filled with the virtual-substance 'time'. And boy did I get hammered for that
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Darwin May Have Been WRONG, New Study Argues

The really strange thing going on in this debate is that a lot of it is Lamarkian.



Lamark postulated that the motive force for evolution is acquired characteristics deriving from an animals' needs, e.g. that giraffes evolved gradually by stretching their necks to reach higher folliage - someone, I can't recall who, actually used that example in support of Darwin.



Others have supported Darwin by Lamarks' other postulates concerning the environment in which an animal lives, such as having open space leading to birds evolving to take advantage of it by gradually growing wings - which is the thesis simultaneously being debunked, or at least being said to be either redundant, or complementary with competition.



One person called me a sh*t and a mOron for simply saying that debate is ongoing and that Darwin hadn't been proved, but had previously used a Lamarkian notion of evolution coming about by taking advantage of the environment - something like that.



It got me thinking that actually there isn't a lot of difference between Lamark and Darwin, because he thought that finches were evolving into different species on account of living on different Galapagos islands but they weren't at all.



And of course Lamark was proved wrong by the Soviet Union which took him as doctrine and failed badly, by abandoning genetics - which came much later than Lamark and Darwin, though Mendel was more or less contemporary.



Strange debate indeed.
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Darwin May Have Been WRONG, New Study Argues

OK might as well throw another pebble in the pond, but the link I'm providing pretty much corresponds with what I think, but wouldn't have the space or skill to write:



http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/01/new_scientist_says_darwin_was.php
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Darwin May Have Been WRONG, New Study Argues

I might get some flack from this, but I think Darwin was wrong - still a better set of ideas than Creationism, for instance.



However his main claim to fame is "The Origin of Species", inspired by observing different forms of finches on the Galapagos Islands, but that was no evidence for new species evolving - one crterion being that different species can't breed with each other, except rarely as with horses and donkeys - result mules which can't breed amongst themseves.



No what he was observing was the potential in genes to allow different characteristics to manifest in differing environments - something Mendel was working on with experiments with peas and pretty much forgotten until modern genetics developed.



We humans have been taking advantage of genetic potential for thousands of years, e.g. a Maltese Terrior looks nothing like a St Bernard, but they are of the same species, ditto for cattle, sheep, horses, etc.



I have to keep this brief, so I'll just mention that there are gaps in the fossil record and apparent 'sudden' appearances of new species.



There is no explanation for this, so what I'm saying is that we still don't know how species originate, though I maintain Darwins' theories are an advance, but should not be taught as 'gospel' and this latest research gets us no closer to knowing what really accounts for specification. We simply do not know.
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The Craziest Beliefs Shared By 'One-In-Five' Americans (PHOTOS)

F&F - I think Stan is closer to the facts.
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The Craziest Beliefs Shared By 'One-In-Five' Americans (PHOTOS)

Nope.



True story, albeit from England over fifty years ago.



I'd just started high school (12) and had just had my first lesson in a science class about the solar system.



I was enthralled. Nothing like that was ever talked about at home and, aside from Bibles and a few other related ones, mine were the only books in the house.



Anyhow I rushed home full of excitement and told my father what I'd learned.



He got very angry, scoffed at the idea that the Earth is a globe and that it goes round the Sun.



I got a "good hiding" out of it - a fairly frequent occurrence.



He was a fundamentalist/evangelical christianist, preacher, chapel leader and quite successful small businessman you see. Naturally I never tried talking about anything of substance subsequently and, at about that time swore an oath to myself that I would never be like him - and I haven't been, though creating my own identity was hard and long ... decades, I was that screwed-up in so many ways.





England has changed a lot since then - and Australia where I am now - but the US hasn't, so I'm not surprized by any number of weird beliefs so many Americans have and what, to many other Westerners see as mass pathology, e.g.Mormon missionaries and Jehovahs Witnesses are regarded as nut cases by nearly everyone ... and Billy Graham types.
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Social Security: The Republicans Are Right

If it's any consolation to you lot, whilst in an earlier post I said that things were relatively OK in Australia, the UK and Europe, I didn't have room to say that your Chicago School stuff caught on with conservative politicians just about everywhere and it won't be too long before we're all in the same boat.



It's just that what some of you disparage as 'socialism' - and the Real Keynes (I'll explain later if necessary) - was too deeply entrenched to get as easily destroyed as in the US.



In Britain Margaret Thatcher was a great chum of Reagan (and fan of Ayn Rand) and she started the rot that's spread like the plague in the "Western World" (which includes Australia in all important senses).



So, if it's any consolation, we'll all be in the same boat sooner or later - much sooner if Iran gets attacked.



Labels get complicated, but in Australia the Liberal Party = Reps (more or less) and the Labor Party = Dems (more or less) and these days, as in the US, they are two sides of the same coin.



Krugman wouldn't get any more of a look-in here than he does in the US - just to illustrate the point.
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Social Security: The Republicans Are Right

This is not completely on topic, but very related and something I think people should know about:



http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/779.html
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The 8 Most Overrated People In History: You'll Never Believe Who Made The List (PHOTOS)

Can't dispute the choice of the over-rated, but I really would be in trouble if I compiled a list.



It'd start with all founders of religions,then of other ideologies and , well, my head is swirling with other contenders, so I'll just pick one Alexander the (Un)Great. Oh what the hell, might as well add Winston Churchill in a military context.



Now I'd better shut up.
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Is China Poised for Implosion? What Would the Communist Manifesto Predict?

Leaving aside that Marx didn't actually have much to say about Communism and that he didn't believe in his own rhetoric about "workers of the world unite", because he despized the lumpenproletariat and actually saw Capitalism as the true revolutionary force, he would not be the least surprized about China.



In his day Russia roughly equates with China in recent times ... and he said that Russia was the last place to expect Communism, because it wasn't sufficiently industrialized (you'll have to read Marx if you don't take my word on what he wrote and said).



And he was right ... forget the popular labellings, the USSR was actually a fascist state, hint NAZI is the acronym for "National Socialist". It was a military-industrial complex and 'socialism' just didn't figure. You have to look to countries more like Sweden to find something approximating socialism, or liberalism and egalitarianism are equally good words - but no room here to explain.



In any case if Marx was alive today he would not be surprized about China ... and please don't confuse Maoism (or Leninism) with Marxism - even Marx wasn't a "Marxist" and point-blank refused to join nascent 'socialist' and 'communist' movements - read the "Manifesto" carefully, it is full of contradictions, but also powerful insights. His main strength was in analyzing Capitalism - try reading "Capital" (Das Kapital) and some Engels wouldn't go amiss.



Whatever: China would not surprize Marx (word limit reached).
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Iran To Mass Produce Navy Assault Boats

OK folks, this time about these fast patrol boats ... and if you look around the site you can see a lot of Irans' naval capability, air capability and so on.



I'm posting this because many appear to imagine that Iran would be a push-over like Iraq after the first invasion and a decade of sanctions. It is not that I am pro-Iran per se, but I am against an attack and possible escalation to WW3, so the more people know about Iran the better:



http://www.iranmilitaryforum.net/index.php?topic=5278.15
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Iran To Mass Produce Navy Assault Boats

OK folks - especially those doubting Krar drone bomber capability - here is something to think about



http://www.iranmilitaryforum.net/index.php?topic=5257.30
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Social Security: The Republicans Are Right

What?



"

they allowed DC to loot that money and spend it elsewhere."?



"They" did not know what was going on - most of what went on is only coming out now.



You are blaming ordinary people for what successive administrations have done, what some trust funds have done, what various pension schemes have done ... and of course Wall Street and the big banks. Oh and the failure of the MSM to report what many must have known and, of course, shonky economists of the Chicago School variety.



I don't know if you are too young to understand, or too old and comfortable; but as sure as hell you are blaming the wrong people for things they had no control over and little informationabout.
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For Shame! Fear Is Back, With a Vengeance

I commented in support of your post, but it got deleted ... happening to me quite a lot lately.
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For Shame! Fear Is Back, With a Vengeance

Spot on LB.



It's something that dawned on me a few years ago and not just about the US, but everywhere to some degree.



The USSR (now Russian Federation) was really fascist and so too China of course ... anywhere that comes under the definition Mussolini articulated applies, i.e. a "bundle" of government, corporations and the military-industrial complex.



Even Sweden is fascist in essence, though no danger to anyone and the term 'socialist' is apt ... but never forget that NAZI is an acronym for "National Socialist".



Clearly, unfortunately, the US is the greatest current danger - including to itself - and g-d help us all if a charismatic orator of Hitler-like abilities ever gets to be president, then you'd wish Sarah Palin got elected!!
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Corporate Rotten Eggs

I wonder why I'm the only one to comment on a clearly significant set of information?



I get what you are saying, though I actually live in Australia, because we have had similar problems and still do, though here I suppose we have better inspection regimes, because a lot of malpractice by battery hen operators has been dealt with and "free range" eggs are increasingly available, albeit that "free range" really just means that the hens aren't caged, but congregate freely in large sheds.



Also there has been a crack-down on what we call "intensive piggeries" - I used to work in on for a while and at least that one was not quite as bad as some - so it is possible to do something.



Perhaps the difference here is that most of the media report these kinds of issues and so there is more public awareness and interest. Have you been able to get your article published in the MSM?



In any case, keep up the good work.
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The Case for Attacking Iran's Nukes

In what way is Iran a "strategic threat"?



Clever piece of writing though, beginning with throwing a few crumbs to those with some concerns about Israel and passing reference to Palestinian rights - glossed over - but sullied by making it seem as though the US has only recently put pressure on Israel, whereas for decades there has been total support, with occasional show-piece cosmetic and rhetorical criticisms.



But even if you were right that the US is, or has tried to be an "honest broker", there is no warrant nor evidence to point to Iran as a "strategic flashpoint".



In what way? All you use is the old canards we've been hearing for years.



Your opening paragraphs were just a launch-pad for a vitriolic distribe against Iran, culminating in the the ridiculous equating of Iran with Nazi Germany, even bringing the old warmonger Churchill into the affair ... yes he had the flair to unite British people when under attack by Germany, but obviously you know nothing of his past activities, why was marginalized and swiftly dumped after WW2.



When has Iran ever attacked anyone else? Do Iranians believe they are the "master race'? You don't have a leg to stand on, so you just recycle unfounded Washington and Tel Aviv accusations to 'justify' attacking Iran, i.e. mass murder, not to mince words.
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Hamid Karzai: U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Private Contractors Engaging In Terrorist, Mafia-Like Activity

All I know about Karzai is what I read in the MSM - which I automatically distrust, until I do my own digging around, which I haven't in his case.



No matter: he is right on this one. Mercenaries aka 'private contractors' should go and the draft should be re-introduced - NOT because I want more Americans killed, but Cheney and Rumsfeld were evil geniuses (sic) who'd learned from the Vietnam War that the draft brought home to millions of Americans what was really going on and led to mass protests.



Now the general public is mute - who cares when you have an army of people who probably couldn't get any other job, augmented by immigrants hoping to get citizenship and mercenaries who are basically rogues who'll do anything for money ... and I seem to recall that Cheney, Rumsfeld, or both are deeply involved in Halliburton, Blackwater, or whatever companies employ these mercenaries.



Perhaps someone with a better memory than I can clarify this.



Whatever, on a historical note, a significant factor in the end of the Roman Empire was employing mercenaries, when Roman citizens lost interest in forming legions.



But I re-iterate that I don't want more Americans to die in these futile wars, it's just a fact that when the general public HAS to deal with being drafted resistance grows.
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Iran Unveils Unmanned Bomber, Dubbed 'Ambassador Of Death' By Ahmadinejad

Well that should putpaid to the sick jokers here, even though there are similar ones in Youtube comments. F&F
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Iran Unveils Unmanned Bomber, Dubbed 'Ambassador Of Death' By Ahmadinejad

Not sure how to phrase this, without being offensive.



So I'll just confine myself to asking you in what way does Iran resemble Nazi Germany?



Hint which countries has Iran invaded? Oh and perhaps you'd like to elaborate on ideological similarities, e.g. do Iranians consider themselves "the master race", do they persecute the many jews who live in Iran, do they have a similar idea to "The Thousand Year Reich" and in what way does the rather reserved and thoughtful Ahmadinejad resemble the blustering Hitler?



Reasonable questions, considering your unsupported assertions.
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Iran Unveils Unmanned Bomber, Dubbed 'Ambassador Of Death' By Ahmadinejad

I can't believe the lack of quality and knowledge displayed by most posters.



Most seem to believe every word Washington and the MSM puts out ... and turn the whole thing into a joke, vilification and ignorant posturing.



The level of ignorance astounds me, such posters have learned nothing from Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan and they know nothing about about Iranian history, nor the ME generally ... nor much about US history it seems.



They are basically cheer-leaders for the neocons, Zionists and other zealots, such as the Rapturists, who would attack Iran tomorrow if was a push-over like Iraq had become after the 1991 invasion and subsequent years of crippling sanctions.



Don't they realize an attack could trigger WW3, or Armageddon, for those who yearn for that?



Oh very funny (not). Iran should develop every kind of deterrence possible AND there is NO evidence that Iran wants to attack anyone, let alone dominate the world like the US does.
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Iran Unveils Unmanned Bomber, Dubbed 'Ambassador Of Death' By Ahmadinejad

I can't really see the point of this video.



Actually it's in rather bad taste - obviously you never saw wht the V1s (Doodlebugs) and V2s did to London ... and it seems you are equating Iran with Nazi Germany, whilst poking fun.



Could be wrong, but that's how your post came over to me.
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Iran Unveils Unmanned Bomber, Dubbed 'Ambassador Of Death' By Ahmadinejad

OK I'll be the odd one out here.



If I had my ideal, there would be universal disarmament, but I don't let that get in the way of reality and part of reality is continual threats to attack Iran - which factually has no ambitions to attack anyone, expand, build an empire, dominate the world, etc. ... unlike the US and it's satraps, like the UK and NATO - and chuck in Australia and a few others for good measure.



Accusing Iran of this seems very much like 'projection', i.e. ascribing ones' own motives to someone else devoid of them.



As if attacking Iraq and Afghanistan were not enough to create chaos, attacking Iran would unleash catastrophe ... quite possibly WW3.



So I say that anyrthing Iran can do to lessen the likelihood of attack should be welcomed.



It is utterly irrelevant whether or not you like the regime, or even really know anything about it, except from Fox and White House propaganda. It is their country and you are naive if you believe that the US invades countries for 'humanitarian' reasons.



So good luck to Iran - and the world in fact - if they develop sufficient deterrence to stop the insanity of starting another war.
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Rupert Murdoch: I Own The 'Sky' In 'Skype'

Sorta off topic, but relevant to all those who complain about having posts deleted.



Seems that one of mine just did, though it's on Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo and Blogger.



However my point is that I am not complaining - though I can't imagine what I said wrong - and I think it would be better if others didn't complain, because I have found HP to be one of the best sites around and, in any case, it's never happened to me before and several similar comments I've recently made have got straight through, i.e. about Murdoch (see below) and I daresay the same applies to most people.



In any case I don't think there is much room for complaint against HP ... and that is not being sychophantic, just honest.
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Rupert Murdoch: I Own The 'Sky' In 'Skype'

Probably not. He just wants anything he can lay his grubby hands on, by any foul means he thinks will work.



Trouble is he has the luck of the devil ... so far at least ... though he has acquired several dubious 'assets', like the "Times" of London and a few more I can't think of off hand. So maybe he'll come undone yet.



At least we have the consolation that he is mortal and will depart some time ... and I bet no one else can step into his shoes and hold his empire together.



I don't wish him dead exactly. I've never got to quite that position with anyone, but I sure don't wish him well.
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Rupert Murdoch: I Own The 'Sky' In 'Skype'

I agree, except that we didn't force him out - or no way I'm aware of.



Seems to me that Australia got to small (in population) for his giant ego, greed and megalomania.
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Rupert Murdoch: I Own The 'Sky' In 'Skype'

My sentiments exactly. F&F
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Rupert Murdoch Lied to Me (Personally)

You should see what he did to the Australian media, before he expanded his empire, then you would not be surprized. In collaboration with the CIA he destroyed the Whitlam government here ... and no that is not a conspiracy theory.



http://www.counterpunch.org/gray12052007.html



Oh and though he is now an American citizen, apparently, he still rules large chunks of the MSM here.



Every time I read or hear his name, I hope he over-reaches and goes bankrupt, or worse.
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Petraeus' Oily Spin About Progress in Afghanistan

I used the wrong word 'involved'.



No need to be abusive Sajwert!



I learned my history in a Grammar school in England, was born during WW2 and grew up in the aftermath of a country badly bombed, albeit not as badly as Germany, Japan and Russia. Yes and China & a lot of SE Asia got invaded by the Japanese.



But even Spain, surprizingly, stayed out of the military entanglements.



Yes I used the wrong word, but your knowledge of the world/geography must be pretty poor if you believe it was a "world war" in the sense of being invaded, bombed and so on.



Name one place in the US which got bombed.



I can't be bothered to argue any more.



Yes many other countries were involved in a more or less passive sense, but name anywhere in S America that got bombed
About Afghanistan
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Nuke Accident Would Dwarf Oil Spill

What has this got to do with uranium?



The lead problem got recognized and dealt with years ago, hence no more lead-based paints, for instance.



Why this diversion from the topic?
About Health
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Nuke Accident Would Dwarf Oil Spill

And to add:



Depleted uranium will kill you too.
About Health
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Nuke Accident Would Dwarf Oil Spill

It is worth pointing out, to advocates of nuclear power, that uranium is a scarce resource - more so than easily obtainable 'conventional' oil has become (hence deep sea drilling and the Gulf disaster).



Uranium is also toxic to mine and tailings dumps are problems in themselves, see http://www.sea-us.org.au/roxby/roxby.html



Nuclear power is not an option (I am just adding to the article).



In addition I know what radiation sickness is, albeit that mine came from radiation-therapy to cure a cancer and numerous previous X-rays, so did not involve all the toxic stuff from fall-out.



But it took over five years for my immune system to recover and for many strange side-effects to subside, like sudden out-breaks of ulcers and odd results from blood tests.



Believe me: even beneficial radiation is nasty, much like chemo-therapy.
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Israel, Palestine To Resume Peace Talks, Officials Say

Hitting Israel where it hurts, here is the link



http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/918.html



As others have noted, these 'talks' are a farce, so have a look at view from an Israeli who opposes Netanyahu and the apartheid state of Israel.
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When Wall Street Rules, We Get Wall Street Rules

Sad to say, butit will take some really major crisis to wake people up.
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When Wall Street Rules, We Get Wall Street Rules

Dear Mark.



I am in Australia and today there is the general election - and here it is actually compulsory to vote, or get fined.



But I am not voting, because, just as in the US, the two main parties are two sides of the same coin and the best any minor party can hope for is to hold some balance of power, which doesn't amount to much.



I used to be very politically active - in the Labor Party actually - but quit in disgust at the corruption and factionalism.



Then I used to vote Green as a more or less protest vote and I used to try to organize meetings, but hardly anyone turned up.



Good luck if you do better than I did.



Obviously I am not apathetic - else I would not be here - but I have given up trying and now believe that nothing will change until there is a massive crisis that can't be patched-up, either another major war, or a real depression - not that I want either, because millions will suffer, but what else will wake sufficient people up?
About Third World America
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Mark I sympathize with you, I really do, but (in round terms) 30% of people will vote Dem come hell or high water, because they always have and/or their parents did.



Ditto for Rep voters.



Of the remaining 40%, 30% won't bother to vote at all - which leaves about 10% to vote for truly independent candidates.



Please bear in mind that these are rounded-out numbers - just illustrative - but it's the same world wide, as I discovered to my dismay when I used to think along the same lines as you.



I quite like Ron Paul (though I am no Libertarian) and think he would make a good candidate, but he does not stand a snowflakes chance in hell ... nor did Ralf Nader, nor Ross Perot.



Trouble is that the foxes are in charge of the hen coops and the great majority of people are too stuck in their ways, or just plain ignorant, or apathetic.



The "we" you (and I used to) talk about are too few and often divided amongst ourselves anyway.



Sorry mate, but that's the reality unfortunately.
About Third World America
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Trouble is: who will do it?



All those who could are part of the problem ... and no good calling for mass protests, because either you'll never get enough people off their butts or, if you could, then out would come the National Guard and the rest of the full force of "Homeland Security".



These are not the 60s or 70s, though even then there was the Kent State massacre.



These days it would be far worse, or haven't you kept up with "change you can believe in", like Obama approving targetted assassinations of even American citizens, or so I have read.
About Third World America
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When Wall Street Rules, We Get Wall Street Rules

And I bet that millions of devotees believe that Wall Street is their beloved "free market" in action, despite such as the "plunge protection team" and blatant manipulation by the big players in this casino, including inside traders of course, not to mention bought politicians and journalists.



Obviously Obama isn't any more interested in changing this than anyone I can recall since FDR and if history is any guide, then nothing will change until there is a real crash that all the current protection of Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, etc. can no longer function.



Only then might someone like FDR emerge and only then will economists like Krugman be listened to.



Tragic! Absolutely tragic that if what I surmize happens, the current economic situation will seem like a picnic party for millions upon millions of people and not just in the US.
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Israel, Palestine To Resume Peace Talks, Officials Say

Same old and Abbas is not a legitimate president, he just refused to stand down, so what is the point?



Besides Obama has recently pledged support for Israel ... and as for Netanyahu, well we all (should) know what a double-dealer he is and how he regards the US as easily manipulated.



I thought that, if nothing else, Obama was intelligent and maybe inclined to reflect and know a bit about history, but apparently I was wrong.



These 'talks' having been going on for decades, whilst Israel becomes an increasingly apartheid state, continues to confiscate Palestinian land, build walls and fences, launch wars against Gaza and Lebanon, commits piracy on the high seas, etc., with nary a protest form Obama, nor any recent president. And never sanctioned by the UN, because the US vetos.



If it wasn't so serious, e.g. with further attacks on Gaza, Lebanon and possibly Iran, then these 'talks' would be a joke, instead of just a meaningless farce.
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Obama Muslim Myth on the Rise

It's all part of a concerted fear campaign, preparing the general populace for all-out war, which always needs scape-goats, in this case Moslems as a minority in the US and the "big bad wolf" overseas.



Elsewhere I have pointed out that the US is a fascist state, i.e. a 'bundle' of government, corporations and the military-industrial complex ... as defined by Mussolini.



Some shockingly misinformed people have also called Obama and the Dems generally 'socialist'.



All grist for the mill, for the neocons and other warmongers who itch to attack Iran and achieve total global domination.



This may offend many people, but pretty much all that stands against the US becoming similar to Nazi Germany is some charismatic leader who can sway the masses into intense nationalism.



Fortunately I can't see that happening - well certainly not with Sarah Palin, nor anyone else I know of - but the pieces are all in place as a lot of others in HP know and who won't take offence against my observations.



But I bet that the neocons and others who drafted "The New American Century" (similar to the "Thousand Year Reich") would just love to find a latter-day Lincoln (not that I am smearing him) to do what Hitler did for Germany and Mussolini for Italy ... or Saddam Hussein for Iraq, but that's another story, or is now.
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We Are Leaving, But Did We Succeed in Iraq?

I'm not a betting man, but (nothing personal) I don't trust you on this one and I bet my bottom dollar you are wrong, on one condition.



If the US implodes and is, say, the US$ ceases to be the worlds' 'reserve currency', then the US will be out of Iraq and all other 700+ bases around the world ... well something like that scenario, if you get my drift.
About Barack Obama
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Double Dip and Dysfunction

Jennifer11:



If by 'socialized' you mean "National Socialism" (Nazism), then you are not so far off the mark, but I doubt that that's what you do mean.



Sweden, for instance, falls within the ambit of what can be called a 'socialist' country, with excellent health care, a purely defensive military and no global ambitions and no intense nationalism.



Nazi Germany, on the other hand, had a purely aggressive military, global ambitions and intense nationalism and the 'socialism' tag was Orwellian. It also persecuted minorities ... and not just the Jews.



Take a look in the mirror and see which country the US most resembles, e.g. the current persecution of Moslems and intense global ambitions with an aggressive military.



All that's lacking is some charismatic leader of the same stamp as Hitler.



This is bound to offend some people, but anyone of reasonable intelligence will know what I'm talking about and not take offence
About The Recession
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Double Dip and Dysfunction

If you believe that the Dems are 'socialist', then you are sorely lacking in political awareness.



On average the Dems are more liberal and a bit more egalitarian than the Reps, but they are two sides of the same coin and slaves to the corporations, military-industrial complex, Wall Street and the big banks.



And, incidentally, if you mean by 'Capitalism' "free enterprize", then you are sorely mistaken again ... except to some extent during the 19th Century - and look what a disaster that was - "free enterprize" has never existed. There has always been cartels, government intervention, monopolies, price fixing and so on.



What we have now, pretty much globally, is degrees of fascism, i.e. a 'bundle' of government, corporations and the military-industrial complex ... as first described by Mussolini.
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We Are Leaving, But Did We Succeed in Iraq?

Leaving Iraq?



You have to be joking surely?



50,000 troops remain, major military bases have been built, plus the largest 'embassy'/command centre in the world. Plus god knows how many private contractors.



It's just semantics, an Orwellian relabelling.



Why does anyone believe the rhetoric of "leaving Iraq"?
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Petraeus' Oily Spin About Progress in Afghanistan

I meant to say "by attcking Iran".
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Petraeus' Oily Spin About Progress in Afghanistan

War. War. Permanent war. That's all we've had - in greater or lesser doses since WW1 - "the war to end all wars", such was the carnage.



But of course it wasn't really a "world war", it was confined to Europe; but, in short order we had WW2 and that wasn't really a "world war" either, because most countries were not involved.



But what about the possible WW3? Ah ...



Now, under the auspices of the Washington Empire and 'globalization' virtually nowhere is immune and if it happens - say by attacking - everyone will be a loser.



I just came across an essay in Global Research which explains this rather well (and more), so here is the link:



http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20707
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HuffPost

I am an avid user of HuffPost and I daresay most that gets posted will come from thence.

As I am new to blogging I'll just have to learn as I go along