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Karl Denninger helped found the Tea Party in reaction to what they initially termed “unfair practices” by the government. He believes the same phenomenon is occurring today, although it seems to be occurring on the other side of the political spectrum. Somehow this Tea Party founder has seen through the slanted news coverage depicting the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters as slacker heroine junkies that are smearing their feces all over America’s park monuments and spitting on cops. It’s only from experience that Denninger recognizes the effect of warped news coverage and the special attention given to the craziest people with the most colorful costumes and the most extreme political views.
It seems counter
Continue reading Tea Party Founder Supports Occupy Wall Street
Admiral Mullen testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday about Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence direct involvement in an attack on the US Embassy in Kabul on September 13th. Pakistan has stopped denying that these connections between the ISI and the Haqqani network exist, instead announcing that it doesn’t do any good to say such things about allies in the open. It seems we should forget the fact that saying such things in private hasn’t done any good either. You may notice from a previous article, “The Pakistani People are Going Insane!”, that this author has certain opinions about the complexity of Pakistani public opinion and how it relates to reality.
In my experience, you
Continue reading An Open Secret About Pakistan Revealed to the World
Radical Tea Party Republicans have decided to use the nation’s debt ceiling in a stark raving mad display of brinkmanship that has given the financial world the jitters. We all know this, but the fact still remains that it shocked the financial and political world that any politician would be crazy enough to hold the debt ceiling hostage as a negotiating tool, let alone a whole group of insane politicians all serving in the same Congress.
The debt ceiling is set as a limit on the amount of money we pay for debt already incurred. Deciding not to raise the debt ceiling is like deciding to call up your utilities and say you aren’t
Continue reading Debt Ceiling Brinkmanship Caused Drop in U.S. Credit Rating
As Barack Obama grew up, they didn’t call him Barack, or even Obama. Our President used to be known as Barry and the USS Barry, an Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer, happens to symbolize President Obama’s laid back military philosophy. What do I mean by laid back? Well first of all, France is leading this one. I’m sure this fact will be the butt of many jokes, but I think it’s a perfect sign of the times. I’m like most Americans in that I never had a taste for drawn out land wars, but now we’ve shared this distaste with everyone in the Middle East. The Arab world has seen enough armed Americans
Continue reading USS Barry Sends Over One Hundred Tomahawks into Libya
The United Nations Security Counsel just authorized the use of a no fly zone as well as any other measures necessary to protect civilians up to, but not including actual occupation. It looks like the UK, France and the US will be enforcing the no fly zone as well as any protective military action in Libya unless NATO can come to a unanimous decision over the military operation. The main hurdle to NATO engagement in the now authorized no fly zone over Libya is Turkey. A long time member of NATO, Turkey has deep and complicated ties to the Arab world, although some believe the recent Arab League endorsement of a no fly zone
Continue reading UN Security Counsel Authorizes No Fly Zone Over Libya
Qaddafi has continued to cling to power even as Libyan rebels gather forces and weapons to defend the territory they have and inch forward towards Tripoli. Qaddafi has sent his son’s well equipped battalions, who are grimly motivated by either ideology or the threat of execution, to take back Libyan towns under rebel control. They have not been successful so far. Although the town of Zawiya has suffered several counter attacks and Libyan forces even occupied parts of the town, rebel forces have continued to take the town back; despite air attacks by Qaddafi’s air force. A Libyan jet was recently shot down by rebel forces revealing two charred bodies.
I personally wonder the
Continue reading Gadhafi Slaughters his People…Gbagbo Follows his Lead
Extremely brave protesters in Egypt have once again demonstrated a new dynamic across the Middle East. Arab’s around the region are losing their fear of police sticks, tear gas and even bullets. The streets are filled with people 30 and younger who have been living under the rule of Hosni Mubarak their entire lives. Some fear the Muslim Brotherhood is going to take over Egypt, disavow the peace treaty with Israel and begin an Islamic government, others believe everyone in Tahrir Square simply wants smart phones, BMWs and all kinds of other Western goodies, but once again the truth lies somewhere in between.
A post Mubarak Egypt will most likely honor it’s peace obligations
Continue reading Egypt Going Down?
Congressman Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, pulled out the worn Nazi label last week claiming the GOP utilize the same tactics of infamous Nazi and master propagandist Joseph Goebbels. He claims that repeating a lie over and over until the people believe the lie is a classic Nazi tactic being used successfully by Republicans who claim health care reform is actually a government takeover of health care. When confronted about comparing Republicans to Nazis, Cohen claimed he didn’t say the GOP had similar political views as the Nazis, they only made use of similar tactics.
This defense doesn’t clear Cohen of anything. Invoking the Nazi label on this issue is inherently misleading and nothing more than
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The maniac that shot a Congresswoman and dozens of others in Tuscon, killing six, has put a temporary hold on American political dog fights around the country. Although this assassin’s reasoning had no basis in reality his perceived connection to American political vitriol spinning out of control is a perception that has become reality. Only temporary in duration, the usual snipers that dominate America’s political arena have fallen silent out of respect for the dead. After only a matter of days, though, the finger pointing about which party contributed most to such a violent political climate has primed the engine of political hatred to start up again with new political high ground to be
Continue reading A Maniac Strikes at the Heart of American Politics
Recent elections in the Ivory Coast have been disputed with the incumbent, President Laurent Gbagbo, claiming victory while his opponent, Alassane Ouattara, is recognized by the UN and the international community as the real winner of the elections. Steam has been gathering from surrounding nations to confront Gbagbo and remove him from office. His supporters won’t make this easy, but they haven’t visited violence on their leader’s political opponents yet. The United Nations is making moves to recognize Ouattara as the legitimate leader of the Ivory Coast government while surrounding African nations are meeting about taking steps to form an intervention force consisting of military forces contributed by West African nations.
Gbagbo remains defiant
Continue reading A Test of African Stability
The current lame duck session of congress has revealed the true nature of American politics. Republicans easily held the new START treaty up and stretched their legs after the recent election victory by demanding an extension of the Bush tax cuts. Sticking by their delusional political philosophy and claiming the expiration of the Bush tax cuts would blunt the recovering economy, the GOP pretended to only have America’s interests at heart. In reality, Republicans have chosen which issue is the most effective in holding on to voters while gathering more and have then made that issue a priority.
All other issues of importance to America’s interest can now be blocked as a way of
Continue reading Lame Duck Haggling Reveals Two Party Game
Anybody remember David Stockman? He served as Ronald Reagan’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 1981 to 1985 and he oversaw one of the greatest tax cuts in American history. He’s had a change of heart it seems. According to figures Stockman is touting around the political talk show circuit, the wealthiest 5% of American Households was worth $8 trillion in 1985. Only 25 years later, that same top 5% of wealthiest Americans is today worth $40 trillion. Stockman goes on to explain that this net worth gain from $8 trillion to $40 trillion over 25 years for the top 5% of Americans is more wealth than the entire human race
Continue reading Reagan Tax Cut Architect Against Extension of Bush Tax Cuts
George Washington warned our fledgling nation in his farewell address to the people of the United States to beware the dangers of factionalism. It seems obvious that George Washington’s fears became fully realized when our nation tore itself apart. Northern and southern brothers took up arms against each other many years ago, but did the threat of factionalism end there? Has it ever gone away?
The hateful divisive atmosphere that pervades our country is simply George Washington’s nightmare realized. After Civil War came and went with horrible loss and pain, we now have the disease of factionalism paralyzing our great nation from within. When I say this threat paralyzes us from within, I mean
Continue reading The 2012 Election Begins
We may have a case of the GOP and the Tea Party counting their eggs before they hatch, but it seems they will definitely have some eggs hatching in the House and Senate, although they’ll be rotten ones in my opinion. When politicians run for office during a midterm election with the intention of accepting no compromise whatsoever, it seems America’s taste for a deadlocked and useless legislative branch has returned. Only the results of the 2010 midterm election will paint a real picture of American opinion, but
Continue reading No Compromise! The Conservative Contribution to Democracy?
The last decade has been a painful and confusing one and although it has taken nine years since 9/11 to fully blossom, American fear and hatred of Islam has become a threat to the United States Constitution and all of our freedoms. If that sounds shocking or confusing to some readers then let me be clear again. No religion is a threat to the U.S., especially not Islam. Islamic fundamentalists are a scourge to the global community, but the same goes for the fundamentalist sect of any religion in our country. A recent surge of religious intolerance towards Muslims, only a white capped wave reaching up from an ocean of fear, threatens the foundation
Continue reading The Constitution vs. Fear
For some reason most Americans have no trouble forgetting our original rationale for unilaterally invading Iraq in the spring of 2003. The threat was imminent, the danger thoroughly documented and the need to act with extreme violence undeniably strong only 19 months after 9/11. Afghanistan didn’t satisfy the American public’s hunger for massive military action in Muslim lands that any politician knew would be gold in the 2004 presidential election. The only problem is that everybody is forgetting that the threat turned out to be anything but imminent, the thoroughly documented danger actually completely circumstantial evidence that lowered the global stature and respect of Colin Powell, one of our greatest statesman.
Now that the
Continue reading A Seven Year Lie We Learned to Believe
There is never a good time to start a senseless military conflict that results in thousands of people killed or injured, but as far as North Korea is concerned, it’s now or never. Let’s just hope that strategic and tactical realities will prevent this country’s isolated and brainwashed state apparatus from crossing a dangerous line. Already responsible for a successful nuclear weapons program as well as attempts to share it with other totalitarian regimes, this ideologically warped dictatorship recently sank a South Korean vessel and killed 46 sailors before throwing a diplomatic temper tantrum about being caught red handed. Pyongyang then successfully intimidated the United Nations into watering down its condemnation of the sinking by not naming North Korea as the perpetrator when all investigations consistently pointed north.
Continue reading North Korean Belligerence
Oil has been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico since last month thanks to a violent explosion on a British Petroleum drilling platform. I write about this because the media is starting to realize this oil leak underwater isn’t going to end anytime soon. In fact, estimations of how much oil is being leaked are in dispute and they will probably continue to be. The sad thing here is that this happens all the time. Nigeria has so many spills per year that it isn’t even news anymore.
The point here is that BP and other oil companies run around the world with special tactics used by special teams of people that systematically take
Continue reading A Gulf Oil Spill to Wake Us Up
Key components in the USA Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of the year, but President Barack Obama is seeking to extend them, reversing his stark opposition in the past to the same provisions. “The president’s reversal on Patriot Act reform is a major travesty,” said Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel for the leading civil rights group ACLU, in an interview with Raw Story. “There have been many, many abuses of power in the last four years.”
Continue reading ACLU: Obama’s reversal on Patriot Act reform ‘a major travesty’
Documents long classified but scheduled to be released at the end of 2009 will not see the light of day just yet thanks to the Obama administration, according to a published report.
Continue reading Obama maintains secrecy for ‘millions of pages’ of intel documents
UK PM Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have proposed a multi-billion-dollar fund to help developing nations deal with climate change. Mr Brown said the $10bn (£6bn) fund should also be used to help developing nations cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Continue reading UK and France Propose Climate Fund for Poor
ISLAMABAD: The Obama administration may be close to reversing course on its current strategy in Afghanistan, after our sources quoted as saying that high-level talks with senior Taliban militants are currently underway.
Continue reading US Involved in Secret Talks with Senior Taliban
Hopes for the Copenhagen climate summit in December have been boosted after it emerged that more than 60 presidents and prime ministers plan to attend. There had been concern that no strong agreement would emerge from the talks in Copenhagen. But observers say the presence of so many leading government figures will radically increase expectations.
Continue reading Hopes for Copenhagen Climate Summit Boosted
Stolen e-mails reveal venomous feelings toward skeptics Electronic files that were stolen from a prominent climate research center and made public last week provide a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes battle to shape the public perception of global warming.
Continue reading In The Trenches on Climate Change, Hostility Among Foes
For some reason the United States and the rest of the western world is doing their best to bury the Goldstone report on the war crimes of Israel and Hamas last year. The main argument I hear against the report is that Hamas’ launching of missiles at Israel from civilian areas made it necessary for Israel to kill civilians in self-defense. Let’s take a hard look at why the current US administration as well as a large portion of the “civilized” world is in search of reasons to justify the killing of civilians in self-defense.
Continue reading Why Obama Buried the Goldstone Report
A friend of mine recently received a call from his mother. She asked him for money. No, her home wasn’t in foreclosure. No, she didn’t need the money because of a lost job or because unemployment checks were about to end. This woman isn’t even being forced out of a comfortable retirement to take a humiliating low wage job. My friend’s mother wanted the money to stock up on survival supplies because she thought Obama was going to destroy the country by this January.
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Rush has already been a champion in the fight against the MSM (MainStream Media for the uninitiated), which is another word for the Liberal media. Now Rush is under attack from what will be called the “Liberal sports establishment”. Rush will now take these “Liberal jock traitors” and put them on a shelf with the MSM and Hollywood. Basically, anyone in the entertainment industry that attacks this man has become part of the Liberal establishment as will I when some people read this post. To his listeners, Rush cannot be racist. Those that think he is racist in anyway just don’t “get it”, as they say.
Continue reading The Rush Won’t Slow Down
I’m really happy for Sarah Palin. If anyone says she doesn’t embody the American dream then they’re blinded by their hatred of her. I’ve always stayed away from Sarah Palin as a subject because shooting fish in a barrel isn’t much fun, but now I can come out and cheer on her smashing literary debut.
Continue reading Sarah’s Springboard
Many people agree with the simple statement that we should give the Afghan people the same effort that we gave the Iraqi people. Does that mean we should butt heads endlessly with the insurgency? That didn’t work in Iraq. Does it mean we should send another surge? That wasn’t the magic bullet either. Does it mean we should bring in another planeload of cash to pay off and arm local militias? That’s what did the trick in Iraq and that’s the only thing that’ll save Afghanistan from the Taliban.
Continue reading Unleashing Dostum’s Dogs
High expectations followed Obama’s election, but expectations were higher and felt by more people around the world when it came to foreign policy. The much lamented apologetic tour he embarked upon did restore lubrication to a seized up international mechanism, but Obama’s actual foreign policy gambits showed little tangible deviation from his predecessor’s. The unilateral swagger of the Bush era was easily reversed, but Obama’s scrapping of Bush’s missile defense plan is truly a step in the right direction. Russia has already reacted favorably by …
Continue reading Obama Foreign Policy Dawns as Neo-Con Sun Sets
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