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Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Rep. Kucinich, Senator Gillibrand, oh the list could go on and on. What reason do they all have in common to vote yes?
It seems that not much has changed since 1940.
The Pre-Iraq War Lies Conspiracy-Conspiracy : Nice Try, Tony
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By Darryl Mason
Tony Blair has discovered that nobody, but nobody, believes his bullshit anymore, and the possibility of far more hostile attention to come, from signing his country up for the illegal War On Iraq back in 2002, is dampening his trousers and dementing his mind. […]
Fuck No!
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Whoops, Iraqolypse!
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Here’s how BushCo. hoped, and prayed, the War On Iraq would unfold back in 2001 :
Just a few years ago, an overconfident George W Bush administration expected to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, pacify the country, install a compliant client government, privatize the economy, and establish […]
Fox News Poll : Obama’s Leadership Puts Him At The Top Of The Class
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Fox News polls its audience on how President Barack Obama performed during his first year in the White House. More than 473,000 had voted when I did this screen capture :
I saw it on Fox News. It must be true.
This result will unlikely be reflected in […]
Osama Bin Laden Jumps The Shark
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By Darryl Mason
Bin Laden, or whoever is making those tapes, reinvents himself as anti-capitalist, anti-global warming warrior. Or as it will probably be soon known : Greenhadism.
The War On Terror is dying in a flurry of exposed forgeries and outright frauds. There has to be something […]
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No wonder they hate President Obama so much. He’s got a very, very big mouth :
“The Government Accountability Office, the GAO, has looked into 96 major defense projects from the last year, and found cost overruns that totaled $296 billion….indefensible, no-bid contracts that cost taxpayers billions […]
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Barack Obama’s face moments before he went to take the oath of office.
This is a detail from a larger image, which reveals Obama is actually looking at himself, in a mirror.
As I’ve said here before, regardless of the intent, the official White House photography of the […]
First Time: Disapprove (48.8%) > Approve (48.1%)
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Source: Pollster.com. Note that individual dots are individual polls, and the line is the consensus.
Jobs and Jobless Rates: Private vs. Government
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The graph above displays monthly employment levels for the private sector (blue line, left scale, data here) and the government sector (red line, right scale, data here) from January 2000 through December 2009, and shows a pretty bleak job picture for America’s private sector. Since private sector employment […]
Obama is not a Wimp
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Barack Obama gave the appearance of meekly appealing for bipartisanship, only to get kicked in his private parts. Yet, look how courageously he is willing to take on the liberals and his party. Along with Larry Summers and Rahm Emanuel, he can really kick butt. Locale he has […]
Just A Coincidence, Surely?
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January 19 : Tony Blair To Testify At Iraq War Inquiry Over Pre-War Lies
January 22 : Britain Raises Terror Alert Level, Attack “Highly Likely”
“Democrats scramble on health …
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“Democrats scramble on health care after GOP win”. Yeah, good luck with that. Way to crush our spirits. #stupidcancer http://bit.ly/6RDEAA
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Tony Blair looks to be going down for his involvement in the war of lies that preceded the War On Iraq, but it will take a few years. His public shaming begins soon, and hopefully will be followed by a stiff sentence fit for a war […]
Haiti : A Nightmare Beyond Comprehension
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Appalling scenes, as bodies are piled in the street and moved by diggers and bulldozers into trucks for transportation to mass graves.
Hundreds of thousands homeless in a city with no water, no food, nowhere to go :
A two day wait at hospitals, few working toilets or […]
What To Do If Scott Brown Wins in MASS on Tues.
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Chart above shows rising Intrade odds for Republican party candidate Scott Brown to win Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts.
PAJAMAS MEDIA — “A new poll taken Thursday evening for Pajamas Media shows Scott Brown, a Republican, leading Martha Coakley, a Democrat, by 15.4% in Tuesday’s special election for […]
Chile’s Economic Miracle: Free Trade Lessons
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The chart above helps to document graphically what has accurately been described as the “Chile economic miracle.” Up until the early 1980s, when the first round of economic reforms (1974–1983) were starting to have a positive effect, Chile’s economic performance was among the weakest of the Latin American […]
Afghanistan : “International Forces” Handcuffed Then Executed Children
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An extraordinary series of claims leveled at western military forces in Afghanistan that have received a suspiciously thin amount of mainstream media coverage.
News of the massacre was no doubt overshadowed by the priority of covering the deaths of 8 CIA officers by a suicide bomber at […]
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Wow, Glenn Beck finds some subliminal image-laden propaganda he, wow, really likes. Wow :
“WOW! I don’t know who produced this but again WOW! MUST SEE.”
The United States, where major national elections every two years means the re-election campaigns never end.
What the U.S. Can Learn From Iran About Markets
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From “Tackling the Organ Shortage,” in today’s WSJ by Alex Tabarrok:
Millions of people suffer from kidney disease, but in 2007 there were just 64,606 kidney-transplant operations in the entire world. In the U.S. alone, 83,000 people wait on the official kidney-transplant list. But just 16,500 people received a […]
Carter vs. Obama in December of First Year
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In December of their first year in office, according to Gallup:
Approve:
Carter: 57%
Obama: 49%
Disapprove:
Carter: 27%
Obama: 46%
Approve - Disapprove Spread:
Carter: +30%
Obama: +3%
Al Qaeda Agents Of The CIA
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A solid piece of War On Terror hard news by Kurt Nimmo. He lists known or suspected Al Qaeda terrorists who’ve worked for, or been trained by, the CIA :
- Vinnell bombing leader Khaled Jehani (worked for the CIA in Bosnia, Chechnya, and Afghanistan)
- USS Cole […]
WASHINGTON’S NEW MATH, PART II
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Last month we voiced some skepticism over the idea that higher government spending just shy of a trillion dollars for a redo on healthcare would reduce the budget deficit. A month later, this particular strain of our apprehension remains alive and well.
The devil, of course, is always […]
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All the details below are taken from official White House media-distributed photography.
DeNiro, Springsteen, Obama :
No-one can accuse Obama of blowing money on new phones for the White House. Look at this ancient beast of a thing sitting on his West Wing desk.
Obama flag pin worn on […]
Obama And The Bankers
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By Darryl Mason
President Obama sat down with 12 cashed-up-from-the-taxpayers-pocket members of the American banking and financial industry. He told them, in short, to shape up, get their money back out there and spread around the wealth :
So my main message in today’s meeting was very simple: […]
