Archive for September 2010
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Wednesday 29th September 2010
Dicking Afghanistan: Where Obama Went Wrong
3:15 pm | Afghanistan | Obama | Comments: 2
Washington Post ace Al Kamen has an outtake from Woodward’s new book that shows how Obama was on the wrong foot on Afghanistan from his first days in office:
“It wasn’t until well into the Obama presidency,” Woodward writes, that vet
Monday 27th September 2010
Uncle Sam’s Devotion to American Soldiers
9:22 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 5
The above cartoon is from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles’ sketchbook today.
Folks should photocopy this cartoon and pass it around audiences when politicians give speeches prattling about their devotions to those “who made the ultimate sacrifice for their nation”…..
Sunday 26th September 2010
MP3 of my “Police State USA” interview with Antiwar’s Scott Horton
11:11 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Obama | War crimes | Wiretapping | wool | Comments: 1
Scott Horton and I had a zippety time thumping the usual suspects here. (Antiwar.com Radio) The Bush and Obama administrations both took a hiding.
Wednesday 22nd September 2010
Obama: 9/11 Made Us Stronger
1:44 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Lying | Obama | Terrorism | wool | Comments: 2
from the new book of White House insiders’ leaks to a Washington journalist -
9/11 worked out great for Leviathan and the political class, but it has been hell on the freedoms and taxpayers of America.
Monday 20th September 2010
Britain Formally Proposes to Re-Institute Serfdom
10:15 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | dictatorship | wool | Comments: 7
This British proposal is one of the most audacious power grabs of this century:
The UK’s tax collection agency is putting forth a proposal that all employers send employee paychecks to the government, after which the government would deduct what it deems as the appropriate tax and pay the employees by bank transfer.
The CNBC article quotes [...]
Sunday 19th September 2010
Winning Hearts and Minds and Fingers in Aghanistan
2:56 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Lying | War crimes | Comments: 5
The latest PR challenge in Afghanistan…
Wednesday 15th September 2010
Abolish the Phony Privacy Board
10:36 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Democracy | FBI | Obama | Patriot Act | Ron Paul | Surveillance | Terrorism | Uncategorized | Wiretapping | Comments: 13
Washington Times September 16, 2010
BOVARD: Abolish the Phony Privacy Board
Panel was designed to rubber-stamp constitutional infringement
by James Bovard
President Obama has failed to make any appointments to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. This board epitomizes the charades Washington has played since Sept, 11, 2001. Instead of stocking the board with [...]
Tuesday 14th September 2010
Federal Make-Work Betrays Teenagers
12:19 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
from the June issue of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily magazine -
Federal Make-Work Jobs Betray Teenagers
by James Bovard
Politicians now pretend that government spending can solve any and all ills. Sloshing out federal funds for local summer job programs exemplifies this delusion.
Uncle Sam first began bank-rolling summer jobs for urban teens in 1964. [...]
Monday 13th September 2010
9/11 Commission Report Burnt on 9/11
3:18 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Lying | wool | Comments: 5
The 9/11 Commission was one of the biggest frauds of a fraudulent decade. Here’s an excellent list of sources from “Washington’s Blog” on why the Commission’s report was a scam. (H/t Tom Blanton) Here’s a piece I did a few years ago detailing some of the charades of that farce of an “independent” commission. [...]
Thursday 9th September 2010
The True 9/11 Legacy: USA as Valhalla for Torturers and Government Secrecy
1:44 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Elective Dictatorship | Lying | Secrecy | Torture | War crimes | Comments: 7
The Ninth Circuit court of federal appeals embraced the Obama and Bush administration’s spurious arguments that Americans cannot be permitted to know the details of Bush-era torture. But the court, in one of the most optimistic moments in recent judicial history, declared that its decision “does not preclude the government from honoring the fundamental [...]
Wednesday 8th September 2010
9/11 “Government Blowback Day” Brochure
9:49 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 4
Larry Ludlow and his cohorts at San Diego Complete Liberty have put together an excellent brochure for their protest at the USS Midway in San Diego on Saturday. (Details available here).
The brochure is available in PDF. Unfortunately, I am not savvy enough to figure out how to put a PDF file [...]
Tuesday 7th September 2010
Washington Post: Pervasive Israeli Spying in the U.S.
7:43 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 4
Jeff Stein, the ace reporter who writes the SpyTalk blog for the Washington Post, has an excellent post on the profusion of Israeli spying operations in the U.S. Stein notes:
Israel
Monday 6th September 2010
Helping Afghans Drown
1:35 pm | Afghanistan | Democracy | Comments: 5
If only Toles had written the word DEMOCRACY onto the anvil, the cartoon would be perfect.
(from today’s Washington Post)
Thursday 2nd September 2010
Government Online Surveillance and Your Bad Attitude
10:07 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Central Intelligence Agency | FBI | Surveillance | Comments: 1
This great Dilbert cartoon perfectly captures how surveillance breeds distrust.
The feds are spying on us left and right, and yet politicians whine that we don’t trust the government.
At least not everyone’s a damn fool on that regard. (No - this isn’t the cue to recite the Pledge of Allegiance….)