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"...you are incapable of producing anything but turgid babble, occasionally leavened by a 'humor' so arch that there are gargoyles mounted on top of it." --Jim Tourtelott, Assistant Attorney General, Legal Services, Austin, TX
(Thusly dissed by a lawyer, of all people--a representative of the most damnably indecipherable dialect of the Orwellian Babelese Languages plaguing American law, culture and politics, which we must tediously dissect with tweezers on a daily basis for our very functioning--so I think I'll really have a case of the "vapours" now. Golly gee wilkers.)
"First, we let government programs, the tax code, and special-interest-driven regulation slowly kill private markets. Second, we have government take over each area as it collapses: first health care for the elderly, then the poor, then the kids, then the near-elderly. Lather, rinse, and repeat until government controls it all."
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena."
Albertus Magnus
Please check into the posts of, oh, Chris Lostaglia's libertarian angle on things, Chuck Walker's cerebral flex Headmuscle site, BeastRabban's fantastic blog on theology, Church history, science and religion, Nicholas over on his insightful and accidentally created What the ...?! blog, April The Hyacinth Girl, Ilíon's curious Iliocentrism, RB Glennie's Anatomy of Culture, Kathy Shaidle's delightful Five Feet of Fury, the hilarious adventures Girl on the Right and her loyal companion chihuahua, Bug. And it's always a kick over at Steyn's place (though I think he has the summer off as well). Lastly, never let the sun go down on the last day of the week without checking into William A. Jacobson's Legal Insurrection.
........ back to the administration's word and deed regarding Israel, as possibly contrasted with its true inner feelings about her security: The difference matters not. Indeed, the administration's coddling of Islamic nut houses yields a situation that might be termed what is called a "distinction without a difference." The point is that if you argue against this coddling of the Sons of Allah and worry about continued terror resupply to Gaza and other areas actively engaged in trying to destroy Israel, or wonder aloud why $400,000,000 in US taxpayer dough is now flowing to "Gaza relief" efforts, you'll be quickly told by more than one administration supporter the ultimate fallback position to all the above: Israel should not even be there in the first place. So why try and posit what the administration is thinking here?
By the way, do you doubt this view is common? It's interesting that the voices saying this are getting bolder and more a-historical by the hour of late (with this administration) even if the general anti-Semitic feelings were always present in some others. Doubtful this anti-Israeli attitude came about all of a sudden. It's just some voices are a little louder nowadays.
Israel is now in grave danger, whether by some kind of strange default, or by outright design, and only ill tidings can come from backing her into tight corners.
Egypt to look more like Saudi Arabia April 4
The Muslim Brotherhood is pushing for the establishment of Saudi style 'modesty police' to ensure that behavior it classifies as 'immoral' does not take place in public.
( Let's see ; we have 'Xians' flogging Biblical Inerrancy { Judaism}, IDF and USAF flogging 'radical Islam' fearmongering, 'missionaries' in jail for promoting Xianity in islamic countries, 'evangelists' selling fear of witches and hate of homosexuals in Africa,military Crusaders in Afghanistan, and Saudi-sponsored Taleban peaching hate of moderate muslims. Can attacks on moderate Protstants [ anti
State Religions/Theocracies like the churches of Rome, Canterbury and Salt Lake City] be far behind in this global rush to Fascism ? Wrong term ? Look up info on totalitarian/authoritiarian use of religious mindwashing.
Would the New World Order use such ? 'New' is itself a lie.)
Cultural Marxism: The Doom of Language
Under the Nazis, their prominent leaders were well-read. Goebbels boasted of his library, complete with all the works of Edward Bernays, most notably his Propaganda. He implemented Bernays’ program with great success. When this was discovered after the war, propaganda was redefined as P.R., “public relations.”For their fanatical followers and the rest of the masses who decided to stay, anti-intellectualism was decreed. Books were burned, the media censored. French words were purged from their vocabulary. Free speech became dangerous, as even children were spies for the state.
The universities became centers to regiment thought. In a nation acclaimed for its scholarship, this betrays either their madness or a diabolical agenda – the blueprint used by all the totalitarian dictators.
Eventually, many renowned scholars fled and brought their unique heritage to America.
Verbal Engineering
In 1949, George Orwell, unfurled his vision of a nightmarish future in 1984. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.” Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, learned something about his world: When words are eliminated from the common vocabulary, the thinking of the common people becomes limited.
Later, his novel showed how perceptions are manipulated when the definitions of fundamental words are changed, i.e., peace becomes defense which then becomes war – a classic illustration of Hegel’s dialectic. Here, the thesis – or status quo – refers to the current usage of the word. When it undergoes a slight change in meaning towards its antithesis, a new synthesis is born. If enough incremental changes occur, eventually the antithesis is established.
Because the term “Hegel’s dialectic” is missing from our common vocabulary, many of us have no awareness of this prcocess in continual motion. Instead, we think every change occurs naturally.
Obama's Gulf of Benghazi Incident
Something about it always struck me as a stretch, but the words of Muammar Gaddafi, repeated endlessly in the media and from the White House, seemed to portent doom in Benghazi.Now Steve Chapman has put the lie to the Obama claim that military intervention was needed to prevent near-genocide in Benzhazi. As Chapman documents, the speech by Gaddafi on which Obama relied and relies not only did not state that there would be mass murder, but actually stated that there would not be mass murder (emphasis mine):
In his March 26 radio address, Obama said the United States acted because Gadhafi threatened "a bloodbath." Two days later, he asserted, "We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi -- a city nearly the size of Charlotte -- could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world."
Really? Obama implied that, absent our intervention, Gadhafi might have killed nearly 700,000 people, putting it in a class with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. White House adviser Dennis Ross was only slightly less alarmist when he reportedly cited "the real or imminent possibility that up to a 100,000 people could be massacred."
But these are outlandish scenarios that go beyond any reasonable interpretation of Gadhafi's words. He said, "We will have no mercy on them" -- but by "them," he plainly was referring to armed rebels ("traitors") who stand and fight, not all the city's inhabitants.
"We have left the way open to them," he said. "Escape. Let those who escape go forever." He pledged that "whoever hands over his weapons, stays at home without any weapons, whatever he did previously, he will be pardoned, protected.""He lied us into war." Could very well be, but you will never hear it in the mainstream media.
‘I Am Leading a War Against the British Empire’
One Month to Act
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Iran’s leaders continue to defy the international community’s demands to stop uranium enrichment activity, and are in fact enriching more aggressively than ever before. While heads of state around the globe debate even more sanctions against Iran — none of which have worked in the past — Iran’s clerics speed toward becoming one of the most dangerous regimes on the planet.
They continue to enrich uranium at the Natanz facility (which currently has enough enriched uranium stockpiled for one nuclear bomb), while producing new centrifuges that can enrich uranium six times faster. They are increasing yellowcake production at the Gchine uranium mine. The mine currently has a design capacity of 21 tons of yellowcake per year, about half as much as is needed to produce the 55 pounds of 93% enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb.
They have a nuclear fuel facility in Isfahan capable of producing 10 tons of nuclear fuel annually, and sufficient plutonium for two nuclear weapons a year.
The Arak heavy water plant — built in violation of the nonproliferation treaty — is near its completion, though the West assumed this would not happen until 2015. This facility will be capable of producing significant amounts of bomb-grade plutonium.
As will the Bushehr nuclear power plant, which is set to go live with the help of Russia this coming summer.
At the same time, the Revolutionary Guards are making significant progress with the country’s missile delivery system, concealing their efforts within the space project they have embarked upon with North Korea. The Shahab-3 missile is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, and can currently target Tel Aviv, Riyadh, U.S. bases in Iraq, and the Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain.
The Guards’ goal is to be able to deliver a nuclear-tipped missile anywhere in Europe.
Who is to blame for Iran’s growth into a nuclear power? Sadly, it is the West — whose politicians worked tirelessly for three decades to appease the mullahs. This had the effect of buying Iran the time it needed.
- I sure don't know where your 'intel' is coming from. Have you looked into the American-supplied genesis of Iran's nuclear program and the terms under which they operate via the internationally agreed upon NPT - whose Third Pillar seems violated in an incessant series of 'reports' later debunked? What about the 'coincidence' that signatory states have been so warred upon economically - sanctions -that it makes no sense whatsoever for a country to comply with its terms ? India saw that clarly enough. Yet this would seem your source for informed valuation: the public represntations of the country which has made a policy of harassing former client states who have had the temerity to reject their foreign imposed dictators. In that context, the actions of Obama exceed those of Bush ; just with different spin management to 'make the medicine go down' better with the home supporters of foreign murder. No do you seem aware of foreign policy which is consistent past the 'differences' of partisan politics and presidents. http://faculty.uccb.ns.ca/cis/cis6.htm http://www.transcend.org/tms/2010/05/the-npt-and-the-nuclear-power-trap/ http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/india-has-fallen-into-npt-trap-bjp/articleshow/3453014.cms Certainly in this context in which Iran is supported by neighbouring countries - including Turkey - one might wonder at the acceptance of representations of the danger of Iran in a context where it is supplied fuel and technology by the very people who were so aggressive in rejecting U.S. nukes in Turkey that they preciptated the 'Cuban missile Crisis'. And Putin,acting as Russia's leader, rejected proposals for missile sites in former Eastern Bloc nations to 'defend from Iran' so vehemently that he dclared any attackon Iran would be construed as an attackon Russia itslf. Yet this is ignored and construed as unreastic...proposals to use acual, real and verified WMD against that 'risk' which the IAEA has rebutted in over 4000 inspections ! This presumably threatens a state - Israel - which manufactures weapons and has known nuclear capability : the dictates of Mutual Assured Destruction mysteriously inoperative. This isn't even a pretense of valid 'risk analysis.' I refer you to the tall tales about Iraq for comparison : where the making of fertilizer from yellowcake lying all over Iraq as an overwhelming danger when Nigerian importations was flagged as an intolerable risk, analysis from the CIA front company 'Brewster Jennings' mysteriously unvailable due to the absence of Valerie Plame/Wilson, head of the CIA's middle east nuclear threat desk due to her being 'blown' via Libby/Cheney. It is in the context of http://www.leadingtowar.com/watch_online.php and of http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node showing that nothing has changed regardless of reality that my call is determined as 'the country that cried Wolf'...or more properly 'the US suspects'.
Opit
June 23, 2005
NPT Conference Ends in Failure: Diplomatic Disaster Opens Nuclear Trap-Door
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