By David Ignatius
Washington Post Friday, February 24, 2006; A15 "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." The acidulous wisdom of Mark Twain speaks to us across the ages, and never more than this week during the great congressional mobilization to save America's ports from the dreaded hand of Dubai.
The furor over Dubai is misplaced on so many levels, but let's start with the supposed terrorist threat. Military and CIA officials will tell you privately that the United Arab Emirates is among the most effective intelligence partners the United States has today in the Arab world. Its operatives are risking their lives to help gather information about al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups. They don't advertise it, and when an operation goes bad -- such as the U-2 spy plane that crashed last June returning from Afghanistan to al-Dhafra air base -- they keep their mouths shut. |
Evidence of Children's UFO and Extraterrestrial Encounters to be Presented at a United Nations Affiliated Conference in Montreal
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Perth, Australia (PRWEB) February 22, 2006 -- A former registered nurse who has worked with hundreds of clients, including many children, will be revealing evidence of their encounters with extraterrestrial beings at an upcoming conference in Montreal, Canada.
After a decade of research as a professional counselor and clinical hypnotherapist, Australia's Mary Rodwell says that there is now enough evidence to conclude that these "beings" appear to come from other planets and other dimensions parallel to our own. She will be making her presentation at the 31st annual conference of the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences (IIIHS) taking place in Montreal May 5th to 14th, 2006. Comment: Sounds like the public is being taken another step closer to being told that ET exists, one of the great manipulations of the 20th century. We are getting indications that "there is life on Mars", albeit micro. Now we'll hear that UFOs are real and they are abducting children and giving them fantastic powers: the so-called star children and indigo children.
Trouble is, there is no free lunch in this universe. You need to work for everything, including your soul, and if telephathy and other powers are dropping from the skies like pennies from the Mother Ship, you can bet the outcome isn't going to be good. A study of anomalous pheneomenon strongly suggests that, one, there is something there and it isn't just swamp gas or people's minds playing tricks on them, and two, that it is more likely to be from another level of reality than from another planet. Abduction, no matter the paramoralisms used to justify it, is never anything but an infringement upon the free will of the victim. Even if they give you a lollipop at the end of the visit. Evil always wears the mask of the righteous: just look at the justifications gien by the Bush Reich for their occupation of Iraq, for their curtailing of basic rights in the US, for torture, etc. They always have "good reasons". Don't think the force behind alien abduction are any different. The pieces are being put into place to make us think our space brothers are coming to help, to save us from ourselves. Forget it. We can only save ourselves. |
By Nat Parry
Consortium News February 23, 2006 Is the Pentagon building U.S.-based prison camps for Muslim immigrants? Evidence points to the possibility.
Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a new target for the administration's domestic operations -- Fifth Columnists, supposedly disloyal Americans who sympathize and collaborate with the enemy. "The administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue Fifth Column movements," Graham, R-S.C., told Gonzales during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Feb. 6. "I stand by this president's ability, inherent to being commander in chief, to find out about Fifth Column movements, and I don't think you need a warrant to do that," Graham added, volunteering to work with the administration to draft guidelines for how best to neutralize this alleged threat. "Senator," a smiling Gonzales responded, "the president already said we'd be happy to listen to your ideas." |
By Joshua Holland
AlterNet February 24, 2006 A new report nails down what we knew all along: If you're a guest on a TV talk show, you're probably a conservative.
Last week, Media Matters released a study demonstrating empirically what we all knew from experience: the Sunday politics shows -- Meet the Press, This Week with George Stephanopoulos and Face the Nation -- skewed heavily towards right-wing guests. The Sunday gasbag fests influence the conventional wisdom far more than their audience -- about 10 million people per week -- would suggest. They shape the way our media frames the news, and determine who is and who is not a credible voice. Pols, reporters and other shows follow their lead. |
by Stephen Lendman
sjlendman.blogspot.com Feb 23 2006 Markets are often the best forecasters since their direction supposedly represents the collective wisdom of the smartest people moving them - the professionals, not the public that just goes along for the ride where they're taken. The way the dominant "players" view the future is how they decide where they want to place their financial bets. Now, however, the financial markets (stocks, bonds and other money instruments) are in a tug-of-war with the price of gold, which is typically seen as a safe haven in times of uncertainty and in the past has moved inversely with the price of equities.
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