Big Brother
By Staff and Wire Reports
Jan 21, 2006
By Staff and Wire Reports
Jan 21, 2006
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
Scandal-tained White House adviser Karl Rove admitted Friday Republicans will seek to capitalize on the war on terrorism as a central campaign issue in November.
His admission confirms Capitol Hill Blue reports from November 10, 2005, that the GOP planned to use terrorism as a way to reverse the party's sagging fortunes.
By TONI LOCY
Jan 21, 2006
By TONI LOCY
Jan 21, 2006
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
Lawyers for a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal judge Friday they want to subpoena journalists and news organizations for documents they may have related to the leak of a CIA operative's name.
By Richard Cowan
Reuters
20 Jan 06
By Richard Cowan
Reuters
20 Jan 06
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told Republican Party activists on Friday night that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito was the "worst nightmare of liberal Democrats."
Frist, a Tennessee Republican, made the remark to fellow Republicans during a private tour he gave them of the Senate chamber when the Senate was not in session.
Frist was not available for comment following his remarks.
by Mark S. Tucker
21 Jan 06
by Mark S. Tucker
21 Jan 06
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
Bafflement over the choice of Samuel Alito, water-carrier - a present and prospective function evidenced glaringly not only in his bizarre resumés for choice job assignments but also in his case decisions, a matter of little more than code-kissing prospective and to-hand masters - is even more striking in that its yet a mystery to Liberals.
Recently, semi-syndicated teacher-writer Carolyn Baker took a cheap swipe at Noam Chomsky, calling him a phobic when it comes to conspiracy theories. Ms. Baker lacks a sense of humor.
Chomsky, in his extremely dry wit, has ever referred to conspiracies as not indeed being conspiracies precisely because theyre often so damnably obvious [the true dilemma for both Chomsky and Baker lies in the terms semantic/rhetorical problems, which Ill be covering in a later article], meaning, as any analytical mind discerns, that the much ballyhooed hidden side of conspiracism is not hidden at all.
That is whats before us now: a conspiracy so obvious that its spitting profusely in our faces and we think its raining.
CNN
21 Jan 06
CNN
21 Jan 06
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
(AP) -- After more than a year of delays, the Department of Homeland Security says it plans to launch a preparedness program next month aimed at alerting and preparing children for terror attacks and natural disasters.
The program, called Ready Kids, is scheduled to roll out with TV ads, school programs and other events.
Comment: Comment: Reminds us of the Nuke Drills that used to be held in Florida back in the 50s and 60s. In school there was endless "duck and cover" propaganda drills which explained what to do when you saw the "bright flash".
How many nightmares did that nonsense create? Where has America gone? Shouldn't we have grown up since then?
ZachColeman
The Standard
January 21, 2006
ZachColeman
The Standard
January 21, 2006
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
US government investigators probing Washington's explosive Congressional bribery scandal centered on disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff recently visited Hong Kong, according to a witness interviewed by the authorities.
kronzer.org
kronzer.org
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
The Kronzer Foundation figures prominently in another story today: Jack Idema Case: Shredding Propaganda: Mariah Blake/Tin Soldier
As it happens, clues in the Jack Idema case lead us to Charles Black, associate of Christian Bailey. Charles Black leads us to Christine Dolan, who is named in the lawsuit that we are including here. As the following will show, it seems we have stumbled on some loose threads that deserve more attention than they have thus far received... a peek inside the gangs of COINTELPRO...
by Mariah Blake
Columbia Journalism Review
Jan/Feb 2005
by Mariah Blake
Columbia Journalism Review
Jan/Feb 2005
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
An American Vigilante In Afghanistan, Using the Press for Profit and Glory
In April 2004, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier named Jonathan Keith Idema started shopping a sizzling story to the media. He claimed terrorists in Afghanistan planned to use bomb-laden taxicabs to kill key U.S. and Afghan officials, and that he himself intended to thwart the attack. Shortly thereafter, he headed to Afghanistan, where he spent the next two months conducting a series of raids with his team, which he called Task Force Saber 7. By late June, he claimed to have captured the plotters, and started trying to clinch a deal with television networks by offering them "direct access" to one of the terrorists who, he said, had agreed to tell all.
Comment: Comment: When we consider this version of the story, compared to the version presented by the principals interviewed on Democracynow's radio show, we have to ask the question: Just what is going on here? Is this a "Swiftboat" attack on a guy who was really hooked up with the Pentagon, but who somehow, ran afoul of their agenda? Was he making discoveries about what the Bushcon gang were really up to in Afghanistan, and did he then become a liability?
Many questions...
Democracynow.org
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
Democracynow.org
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
SOtT is publishing this article today - along with several related pieces - because it relates, in a very interesting way, to recent observations we have made about certain websites and individuals operating on the internet. Can we say COINTELPRO?
by Floyd Rudmin
Psychology Department, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
April, 2003
newdemocracyworld.org
by Floyd Rudmin
Psychology Department, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
April, 2003
newdemocracyworld.org
Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:00 EST
"Conspiracy theory" is usually used as a pejorative label, meaning paranoid, nutty, marginal, and certainly untrue. The power of this pejorative is that it discounts a theory by attacking the motivations and mental competence of those who advocate the theory. By labeling an explanation of events "conspiracy theory," evidence and argument are dismissed because they come from a mentally or morally deficient personality, not because they have been shown to be incorrect. Calling an explanation of events "conspiracy theory" means, in effect, "We don't like you, and no one should listen to your explanation."
In earlier eras other pejorative labels, such as "heresy," "witchery," and "communism" also worked like this. The charge of "conspiracy theory" is not so severe as these other labels, but in its way is many times worse. Heresy, witchcraft, and communism at least retain some sense of potency. They designate ideas to be feared. "Conspiracy theory" implies that the ideas and their advocates are simple-minded or insane.
All such labels implicitly define a community of orthodox believers and try to banish or shun people who challenge orthodox beliefs. Members of the community who are sympathetic to new thoughts might shy away from the new thoughts and join in the shunning due to fear of being tainted by the pejorative label.
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How many nightmares did that nonsense create? Where has America gone? Shouldn't we have grown up since then?