October 3, 2006
THE THINKING SPOT
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Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be pages!
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The "F" Word and How To Escape From Its Clutches - So we're here. No more shilly-shallying about whether America is beginning to resemble a fascist society. We're now plopped right down into it.
http://www.crisispapers.org/essays6w/escape.htm
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WAR
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What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world: ........................Robert E. Lee, in a letter to his wife, 1864
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Cheney Channeled Ghorbanifar (After All)
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/index.html#2450
IRAQ EVAC. PLANS PREPARED - plans for a massive and quick U.S. military evacuation from Iraq have been drawn up
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=153183
Iran: Khomeini's 'killer poison' returns - the letter refers to a military commander's call to pursue nuclear weapons to be deployed against Iran's hostile neighbor, Iraq.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HJ04Ak02.html
Musharraf U-turn on Taliban - Retired Pakistani intelligence officers could be running the Taliban insurgency against coalition forces in Afghanistan,
http://tinyurl.com/mk4p8
Kissinger Gives Bush Bad Advice on Iraq - The Bush administration’s main advisor during the war has been Henry Kissinger.Kissinger, convinced the Bush White House that any troop withdrawals from Iraq would start a wave of public pressure to pull out all U.S. forces from Iraq.
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1825
POLITICS
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" Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way." -- Jean Anouilh, playwright (1910-1987)
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Religious Right Strangely Silent About Foley - Odd, isn’t it?
http://tinyurl.com/qth43
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"When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt." -- Robert T. Pirsig, author and philosopher (1928- )
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The ridiculousness of the Extreme Christian Right
http://tinyurl.com/kf7ar
Calls Increase for Hastert to Resign Over Foley Scandal
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/03/142231
Boehner throws Hastert under the Bus
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2006/10/boehner_points_.html
Why Capitol Pages Fear Retaliation - they recognize that divulging what Foley did to them could kill their hopes for future careers in politics.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/100206.html
Pages being threatened - A former male House page from Louisiana has received threats since reports surfaced Friday that former Rep. Mark Foley sent him inappropriate e-mails, another congressman said Monday night.
http://tinyurl.com/rs5b8
ELECTION ISSUES
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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men: Voltaire...... François Marie Arouet (1694-1778)
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Polls Find Dems Have Good Chance to Take Senate (If They Can Get Out the Vote)
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/index.html#2446
This Republican isn't so upbeat - For Bush's friends and the wealthiest top 2 percent, things may look good, but for most of us on the other end of the elephant, something stinks.
http://tinyurl.com/ermvh
Scandal May Further Alienate Republican Base - two key constituencies: Christian conservatives and suburban soccer moms being pushed away from the GOP with this scandal
http://tinyurl.com/mxtn5
Kucinich introduces HR 6200 “hand counted, paper ballots, counted and posted at precinct"
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/02/18317344.php
ECONOMY
Debt addiction: The crime of the century
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/3/132346/742
Report: Job Cuts Soar in September
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/03/D8KH668O1.html
FEDERAL RESERVE FEARS HONEST CURRENCY
Article One, Section 10, of the U. S. Constitution says, “No State shall make any Thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.” It has never been repealed.
http://americanfreepress.net/html/federal_reserve_fears_honest_c.html
Beijing holds whip hand over slowing US - As the US economy falls into recession in 2007 and economic growth slows in China, relations between Beijing and Washington could completely unravel - which poses much greater economic risk to the United States than to China.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/HJ04Cb02.html
911
Powell says he was fired!
http://tinyurl.com/lk49p
Rumsfeld, Ashcroft said to have received warning of attack - The State Department's disclosure Monday that Rumsfeld & Ashcroft were briefed within a week after then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was told about the threat on July 10, 2001, raised new questions -McClatchy Newspapers
http://tinyurl.com/kvyqy
Tenet Recalled Warning Rice
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/031006Tenet.htm
Condi busted on her own personal State of Denial
http://tinyurl.com/j2xk6
Rice Loyalist Headed 9/11 Commission Probes - Bob Woodward's State of Denial provides evidence of the politicization of the 9/11 Commission's investigative process, as well as then national security advisor Condoleezza Rice's likely role in burying evidence.
http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/rice_loyalist_h.html
CONGRESS
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"Politics is the only endeavor for which no previous experience is considered necessary..." -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Hastert may have just days to save his job; "The next 24 to 48 hours will be critical for Hastert and the House leadership." Finger-pointer Boehner and admitted adulterer Henry Hyde mentioned as replacements. Fine choices.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061003/3hastert.htm
As recently as 10:50 AM EST Tuesday, Foley still logging into chat account with screen name linked to scandal
http://tinyurl.com/qnym7
Analyst suspects Foley contributed ‘bribes’ for cover-up
http://tinyurl.com/kcyxe
Republican Pedophilia - A Long but Distinguished List
http://tinyurl.com/ok5bj
Why did Hastert not preserve the chain of evidence on Foley's computer?
http://tinyurl.com/fd9wa
Hastert Yanks Press Releases On Efforts To ‘Keep Kids Safe in Cyberspace’ From His Website
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/021006_b_Hastert.htm
Foley's Gay Agenda City's Worst Kept Secret - The real wonder of the Mark Foley scandal may be how it stayed under wraps for so long. Messages showed up on an anonymous blog called Stop Sex Predators.
http://tinyurl.com/nnaxn
Tom Reynolds used children as shield at his press conference to avoid questions about Foley
http://tinyurl.com/rlfc4
Hastert, Cheney, Bush and Boehner Go Easy on Pedophiles and An Adulterer Accused of Beating His Mistress, Half His Age
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/116
DOMESTIC
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The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing: John Adams
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8 Million American Workers Just Lost the Right to Organize
http://tinyurl.com/ksd7b
Will Americans Seek Repeal Of Constitution Killing Enabling Act? With the end of the U.S. Constitution and the impending passage of George W. Bush's own Enabling Act - Will Americans focus on what really matters and seek a repeal of HR 6166?
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/031006seekrepeal.htm
RICE INDUSTRY: KEEP GENETICALLY ENGINEERED VARIETIES IN THE LAB
world markets close and prices plummet after unapproved GM rice escaped from field trials
http://www.newswithviews.com/Smith/jeffrey15.htm
INTERNATIONAL
Rumsfeld Attends Defense Minister's Conference in Nicaragua - Rumsfeld is in Central America for two days of talks with his counterparts from more than 30 countries across the Americas.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-10-03-voa1.cfm
Intruder caught at British PM's residence 03 Oct 2006 An intruder armed with a knife was arrested after scaling a wall and getting into a secure area of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's official London residence, police said.
http://tinyurl.com/j2xk6
Clinton top recipient of money from 27 industries
http://tinyurl.com/lk49p
MILITARY
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"A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves." - German proverb
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U.S. is recruiting misfits for army / Felons, racists, gang members fill in the ranks - "We're looking for high school graduates with no more than one felony on their record," one recruiter said.
http://tinyurl.com/hrkno
Wounded soldiers 'get appalling health care'
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/031006soldiers.htm
Arms sales record as firms duck controls with 'flat-pack' weapons By the end of the year, military spending is estimated to reach $1,058bn (just take a look at the numbers and how profitable war is for the defense contractors.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1886021,00.html
MEDIA AND JOURNALISM
Fox News had Foley emails, didn't run story
http://tinyurl.com/n3t6z
Time To Unleash Dateline NBC On The Republicans
http://tinyurl.com/nhtbv
EDITORIALS - OPINIONS
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"The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other." - Marya Mannes, writer (1904-1990)
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The Bushies want to run the world, but they don't know enough about the world to actually achieve anything other than damage and chaos.
http://tinyurl.com/pu8mq
“Torture Wasn't Enough, Defending A Child Sex Predator Shows Their Complete Moral Bankruptcy”... LBush: Oh yeah, I forgot - I raise money for the enablers of child sex molesters.
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2006/10/oh-yeah-i-forgot.html
America the Tyranny - Despotism arrives in many forms. It is fascism, after all, that enables authoritarians to control entire populations through the oppression and subjugation using the barrel of the gun and the brute force of the omnipresent police state.
http://tinyurl.com/k8apg
Timeline: Lie By Lie: Chronicle of a War Foretold
http://www.motherjones.com/bush_war_timeline/
HEALTH
BAYER CAUGHT DECEIVING THE FDA - The next Vioxx scandal has now landed on the FDA’s plate.A secret tip to the FDA forced Bayer to admit they had failed to disclose serious safety data.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron10.htm
SPECIAL INTEREST
FLASHBACK: The Strange Death Of The Woman Who Filed A Rape Lawsuit Against Bush
http://www.opednews.com/thoreau1103bush_rape_suicide.htm
Photographer for Hunter Thompson's article on White House child sex ring arrested after Thompson's supposed suicide
http://tinyurl.com/mch4n
Is Olbermann on thin ice?: When Donahue was terminated three weeks before the Iraq invasion, it was MSNBC's most watched program. Canceling your top-rated show doesn't happen often, but it happened to Donahue. Who knows what will happen to Olbermann?
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/447
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"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business." -- Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)
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posted by Stop Fascism @ 6:42 PM
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1 Comments:
Hello SF and all,
The time has arrived to think outside of the box, or else...
I know that many have chosen to write me off as some sort of a quack over the last three years. Now that this country and world have sunk to new lows and many of the things I've warned about have occurred, perhaps fewer will be so quick to scoff at things they don't understand. Neither religious followers nor secularists have been 100% correct and most have been dead wrong about much. Perhaps now more will seek true wisdom and cooperate for the good of all before the Bush-Cheney-Vatican cabal revives the dark ages and puts you all in theological torture camps. Remember that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
Understanding and fixing the failings of politics and democracy for the benefit of everyone, everywhere
Politics is little more than greed, arrogance, falsehood, hero-worship, and injustice taken to extremes and organized into teams (nations, parties, interest groups, etc). It is the struggle for your group, hero, and viewpoint so you can profit at the expense of others. This forces others to do the same in self-defense, causing an endless loop, downward spiral, and no-gain effect. When money, religion, and politics are intermingled, they form a true inescapable trap or bottomless pit. It is the opposite of compassion, cooperation, justice, and wisdom and causes you to expend dramatically more effort, time, and resources than necessary to achieve lesser results than are possible when you simply cooperate and have compassion, empathy, and charity for each other. Harmony and cooperation are on the perfect path, while politics, religion and money are ignorance, strong lies, strong delusion, and utter folly.
The primary, though hidden, purpose of politics is to effectively divide and conquer populations who support and participate in these great delusions. Politics serves to dramatically slow and confound progress towards common and common-sense goals that most people want to achieve. This is one of the reasons why major problems persist for centuries. When people finally cooperate to solve problems for the good of all, problems will finally be solved and stay solved. On the other hand, participating in and supporting politics causes problems to persist and even to reappear later, though they were apparently solved previously. Because of the ability of those who also control money and religion to reverse past progress and prevent true cooperation, politics is a great deception and a trap and the opposite of truth, wisdom, and justice.
There is no true freedom nor freewill in the presence of such pervasive and institutionalized deception and exploitation. People have struggled for millennia trying to form working societies based on these three great follies. Those efforts always eventually fail because the inherent injustice and deception at the root of these concepts always leads to chaos and destruction. How long must it take before verifiable wisdom is finally valued over such long-term and self-evident folly? How much longer will it take for good people to grow tired of such obvious lies and turn away from deceptive leaders and their deceptions?
Remember the sayings:
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good [people] do nothing."
We are all trapped in a web of deception woven with money, religion, and politics. The great evils that bedevil us all will never cease until humanity finally awakens, shakes off these strong delusions, and forges a ...new path... to the future.
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Here is Wisdom!!
Peace…
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