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Paul will pull an upset there.
If you google the site and check the cache the old page shows up exactly as it appears in Mr. Blumenthal's screen capture and is dated Sept 1, so it was definitely changed between then and now.
Please consider sending a message by voting for RP in your state's primary. That means registering as an R for a day if your primary is closed. I won't tell anyone. Promise.
"Who cares?" is the right answer. It's none of America's business what goes on in Libya. Most Americans couldn't even find it on a map, Americans only care because those that want a military base in Libya have conditioned them to care. Nobody cares.
Which also - imo - seems to beg the question, what exactly was Assange complaining about? While not being his characteristic articulate self he ended up saying "forget the Jewish thing."
What it sounds like Assange's essential point was, which was lost in the "Jew Hater" hubbub, is that Pro-Israel forces at the Guardian put the interests of Israel over the interests of the US. And this is supposed to be a "conspiracy theory"? So by extension is the influence of the "Jewish Lobby" in the US a vicious "conspiracy theory" too? Along the same lines as faking the moon landing? And Jews aren't in powerful positions in Hollywood and the US media either, right? Another vicious antisemitic conspiracy theory. Uh huh. Like there is anything wrong with that in the first place.
Breaking "News": Julian "America Hater, Hand Bloodier, 9/11 Mossad Double Agent, Swedish Semi-Rapist" Assange earns a new title to add to his collection: Jew Hater.
If Obama is being led by the Arab street, then why hasn't he cut the Dictatoraid?
Another Military Keynesianism Cultist that doesn't understand the broken window fallacy.
Broder really seems to grasp what Eisenhower was saying, doesn't he?
Noninterventionist foreign policy means he's been influenced by Ron Paul.
yes. I became curious after 9/11 and started to wake up after listening to Alex Jones on NPR and going to infowars, which introduced me to people like Lew Rockwell and Paul Craig Roberts which led to Antiwar.com, etc. I had never even heard of Zionism until some time in 2004 when Infowars created a myspace page and some people flooded the comments with a bunch of weird stuff about numerology and Zionism, accusing him of being a Zionist shill and whatnot. It was quite... strange.
There are/were folks on Glenn Greenwald's blog who helped immensely when it came to providing me with educational materials wrt I/P, e.g. Mooser, plus the constant swatting down of Reich Wing Israel-first trolls by other regular posters.
Mostly from doing google news searches on information about Ron Paul, who woke up millions of Americans by hammering foreign policy and backs it up by voting nay in 400+ to less then 5 cheerleader resolutions in the house . Go figure.
LRC.com / Antiwar.com / Counterpunch / AmCon leads to Glenn Greenwald / Uri Avery / Philip Giraldi / Pat Buchanan / etc. leads to Mondoweiss.
That Smedley Butler, look at what he screwed up for himself.... instead of becoming an invisible million dollar whore he became a part of American history. What a maroon!
Awww, how cute, a plutocratic wedding. It's like Harry Potter with Jews. Chelsea is Hermoine the mudblood and Mezvinsky is a rich Ron Weasley. The Zionists are Death Eaters.
Those Zionists and their damn tree fetish. The Zionists are always only one sapling away from peace and understanding. I would hate trees if I were a Zionist too. Trees are antisemitic, they went and naturally arranged themselves into neat rows and columns, making it look like people actually lived in "the land without a people" before Zionist Jews breathed life into the desert.
Antisemitic trees contradict the Zionist Version of history so it's no wonder Israelis have such a tree fetish and take such pleasure in uprooting them and planting their own trees.
Assange seems to be optimistic about an eventual tomorrow being a good day for many:
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Did you find this on The Onion? I lol'd at the Turkish demonizing, I wonder if it is enough to sour the Turk-Israeli nuclear espionage racket. It seems like only last year Philip Giraldi did that interview in AmCon with Sibel Edmonds, and now the Turks are a**holes. Don't ever turn your back on Israel.
Sorry. Not brought. Given. Our gift. DU is the gift the keeps on giving, and giving. It has billions of years of give left.
Their bodies must not be able to handle all the Freedom and Democracy we've brought them.
So the rapture isn't impending if Sestak wins? Good to know. You're sure, right? Kristol is too smart for Bauer anyway. Kristol knows the Messiah won't be coming anytime soon because Kristol isn't in Israel, so he can lead Bauer around by those nose. Kristol is so clever.
American's are not pro-peace, if we were then we wouldn't be at war all over the world.
I remember when I first read The Petraeus Briefing. I was like, cool, good for Petraeus, but isn't he a rabid neocon and hero to neocons? Perhaps I should take with a little salt. After all, I read Petraeus was going to get the 2010 Irving Kristol Award from neocon central, the AEI. It didn't make any sense. WTF was going on here I asked myself? And then I read this.
The photo. Petraeus is one ambitious neocon.
Jeff Huber at Pen and Sword blog has been saying that Petraeus is going to be running for Pres for years now.
You may be scratching your head because I've never seen Greenwald describe himself as a leftist or a rightest or anything, although he seems to associate largely with "lefties". He seems to revel in his ambiguity in that regard. I don't blame him. He has a Libertarian streak, or at least he seems to have a soft spot for nonintervention. He agrees with Ron Paul on a lot of things he considers important, e.g. PATRIOT Act, MCA, Iraq and Afghan War, FISA, Federalism, Israel, etc., Greenwald engages his comment section and has said as much (about Ron Paul anyway).
He is def not PEP.
no no no. It's only okay to joke about rounding up Jews and putting them on trains for deportation to concentration camps or any other aspect of the holocaust, mentioning the gas part somehow crosses the line. You're only allowed to make holocaust if you're an "anti-Zionist" Jew, otherwise you need a stern lecture on sympathy and "socially acceptable" behavior. Folks like Bill Kristol can tell you what's socially acceptable and what isn't.
I beg to differ sir I am actually quite hilarious sometimes, and since I am not a "lefty" I actually derive very little of my political "humor" from race baiting. "Socially acceptable" conversation in America allows for casual discussion of never-ending war, military intervention, indefinite detention, slavish devotion to Israel, the use of torture, etc. so I really could care less what others refer to as "socially acceptable", because I don't accept it. Socially acceptable has degraded to primal tribalism, pre-magna carta caveman levels, in the US. And as far as sympathetic friend, WTF is that even supposed to mean? Let me ask you something, what goy on the street do you care about the truth re: Israel and Palestine anyway? Are they all paying attention? Flocking to Mondoweiss? No, they aren't. But hey, maybe I am really the one who is unsympathetic and hateful or something, and not the millions of Americans that think others are subhumans...
You know what? I'm kind of miffed right now, I should have just trolled Annie instead of making a bad joke.
That sucks for you, you should pull that stick out of your ass next time. Or watch Family Guy. They have a few, they also subversively shill for Israel on occasion as well. That must be because they have a sense of humor. Humor is a good thing, but I guess I can try your way too. Is there any room on the other end of your stick?
Only if I can borrow your "Scared because the Goy are coming to load the Jews on trains" metaphor to go along with it. It was always funny to me when you used that one. Walking the line on holocaust jokes is tough for ignorant American goy like myself.
"And just how does he do it?" You may ask.
Simple, by either channeling the millions of Zio-Zombies I've done battle with over the years, or the Ziostomping mooser, because mooser is funny!
What part of my post made you think I wasn't joking? Two of the first three words of the post being "self-hating Jews" wasn't enough of a hint that the post was a joke?
200 people crammed in a dark room to talk about "Jewish Perspectives" and you don't expect anyone to "go there"? Come on! The "inappropriate" jokes write themselves!
Oh wait, nevermind. Thankfully Goldberg and Peratus were there to talk some sense into all you haters and save yourselves from yourselves.
Hi Phil,
Life is full of strange coincidences, isn't it? Here is another one. Isn't it funny how Israel-first Dershowitz is throwing Israel-first Rep. Jen Schakowsky (D) - Pro-Israel Jew - under the bus for "not sufficiently supporting Israel" right after all this flotilla hubbub that has soured relations between Israel and Turkey?
Alan Dershowitz endorses a Republican
The line is supposed to be that "she supports J Street and therefore isn't 'sufficiently devoted to Israel'" (you know the line), but for some reason, I keep thinking back to Philip Giraldi's interview with Sibel Edmonds in AmCon from Nov 2009.
AmCon Interview:
So, Sibel Edmonds mentions Schakowsky by name and mentions that Schakowsky may have been compromised by Turkish agents using hot lesbian love, while also making it clear she is unsure whether or not she was actually blackmailed/compromised. Down the road, Isreali pirates kill Turks, relations between Israel and Turkey sour, and Dershowitz throws Schakowsky, a woman whom Sibel Edmonds called out as possibly being compromised by Turkish agents, under the bus for not being "sufficiently pro-Israel".
What a funny coincidence, probably nothing to see there...
Another Game Changer?
Kill a Turk and rest, indeed.
You see, Israel really does want peace. And death to Arabs.
I heard the real reason the flotilla was attacked was because it carried cargo that threatened Israel's very existence. Hundreds of handsome unmarried goy come to marry the Jewish broads away from the Zionism. Part of the Master Plan!
Israel could sink the flotilla and kill everyone on those boats and the house would pass a resolution 400+ to 4 supporting Israel's right to do whatever.
Anyone in the mood for some EPIC Israel felching from a would be US Senator, Ron Paul's son of all people?
link to spectator.org
TLDR Version: Holy Hasbara!
Hey look, Progressive Hero Alan Grayson wants missiles for Israel... This is surprising!
Remember when Ben Yahoo laughed in Obama's face over the land stealing issue? Apparently congress doesn't either.
Who is this we? Are you friends with the Unabomber?
Doesn't Turdy getting your pocket dirty? Because you don't speak for Christians, you only speak for yourself.
Who is this "our" you speak of? You got a turd in your pocket?
What happens after Israel or the US bomb Iran? Why, the US loses the 5th fleet, then it's nuke time, then it's all out war.
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I don't really care what happens seeing as how We the People kind of deserve what's coming to us. All I care about is being able to escape from it, you know? Like when the family member of someone we slaughtered in Iraq kills a bunch of Americans or the Evangelical God Peasants of the Palinstein Horde go on the march. These things will happen when the lights start to flicker out. You can't stop it all you can do is prepare for it.
Deja vu
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I agree. The Left Roots is too busy chasing crumb trophy victories (e.g. passing Romneycare), complaining about how powerless it is, and whining about how it is so scared of Sarah Palin that nothing Obama does really matters enough to not vote for him again in 2012 because the Other Tribe is So Much Worse. They don't need Ron Paul and friends to whine, act like cowards, and cave to the Democrats when the time comes, so they'd might as well call Ron Paul a racist and scaremonger about how he wants to steal abortions and hates national parks. Just look at "won't vote in favor without a public option" Kucinich for an example of typical American progressive caving behavior without the two-minutes of Ron Paul hate.
The netroots and the American Left might be experiencing Obama buyer's remorse now, and come to sites like Salon every day to vent about how "disappointed" they are, but Rahm has them read like a book and plays them like a fiddle. Nobody wants to be the next "you voted for Nader instead of Gore and so the Iraq war is your fault" pariah, so the American Left will fall in line and vote Obama in for four more years.
Obama can go ahead and nuke Iran. He can literally do anything he wants. The American Left puts no limits on Obama's power, not even Glenn Greenwald, they can't even come up with a reasonable absolute (i.e. not relative to Sarah Palinstein) limit on his behavior that would cause them to not support him in 2012 no matter what. No such limit exists to the American Left, and that includes the use of nuclear weapons on Iran. The American Left will rationalize and apologize for any Persian nuking and vote for Hope and Change again in 2012. After all, Sarah Palin would have and will nuke Iran worse.
Philip Weiss states the obvious, but why hasn't such an alignment taken place?
Good luck with your left/right alliance. Try not to get in the way of the spears and arrow the tribal warriors on both sides will be hurling at each other and at you. The best part is that the establishment won't have to do a damn thing either, the left and the right will divide and conquer itself and do the dirty work all by itself, without prompting and for free. Lazy tribal progressives typically prefer an endless bombardment of "Ron Paul newsletter" and "Ayn Rand".
Oh, and don't forget to purge any form of "truther" from your "inclusive", left/right alliance that will never happen. Wouldn't want anyone who questions 9/11 tainting the seriousness of your quickly marginalized movement that will never exist in the first place.
Anyone surprised that Grayson voted yea on starting WWIII? You shouldn't be.
So when will Progressive Hero Alan Grayson be making a statement on behalf of Israel?
I have a funny sounding name and a beard too.
You do? That sounds awfully scary. Can I torture you and your family a bit so that I feel safer? Make sure to smile while I do it so I fell more like a patriot and less like a sadistic asshole.
I don't know about this dude. He has a funny sounding name and a beard. After we, or our good friend Israel or both, mass murder bomb the Iranian's IAEA safeguarded nuclear facilities (and probably a bunch of other stuff, to be sure, and for fun) can we torture them too? We can make a game out of it. It will be fun. You'll see when the photos come out. Maybe. Probably not though because we'll cover them up for your own good... what can we say, our patriotic torturer heroes get bored sometimes and "bend the rules".
At first I thought this post was about another civil war in the US. Silly me, although it's coming soon to a neighborhood near you.
I remember when Mr. Barghouti was a guest on the Daily Show with Anna Baltzer, here is a link to the interview. Unfortunately a Ziocane Addict in the audience had overdosed before the interview and couldn't help giving into to it's Zio-roid-rage and heckled Mr. Barghouti from the audience, telling him to "get his facts straight".
Unfortunately it was Batshit Crazy Zionist Day in the Daily Show audience (i.e. every day. Who else can afford the time and money to go see that show in person besides irreverent do-nothing trustafarian hipsters with nothing but time on their hands?), if it were Irrational Muslim Socialist Day there would have been a raging irrational Muslim in the audience threatening to cut off the pretty young girl Jewish girl's head right there in the studio, her punishment for being so freedom sexy.
Or like a wink and nod relationship. The soldiers in the helicopter knew what to say to get permission to fire, and their superiors gladly obliged them. They know what they are doing and they know they can get away with because American's are too afraid and beholden to militarism to do anything but drop to their knees and worship the gun.
They are all guilty, as are the apologists who make excuses for the soldier's behavior. They have effectively destroyed what American once was and replaced it with New America, based on slavish devotion to military intervention and rejection of the rule of law in favor of authoritarianism. The militants are glad this has happened and love the new arrangement because it excuses them from accountability. That's what it means to be a New American Tough Guy and the New Americans wouldn't have it any other way.
Yup. They know what to tell their superiors in order to murder civilians in broad daylight. They dig the bullets out of dead pregnant women and mutilate their bodies in front of family members, in order to blame their atrocities on "Taliban Honor Killings".
And their coming home to a police force near you.
Interesting that the view count on the videos are being suppressed on youtube. There are over 7000 ratings for one and it has said only 359 views. Looks like they don't want peasants like me thinking this is something to look at.
link to i43.tinypic.com
You have to hand it to the MIC they have done a great job brainwashing my fellow Americans and making them feel beholden to militarism. It's amazing the lengths some have gone to keep Americans asleep wrt everything, to the point where they will apologizing for the actions of the those that steal from them and endanger theirs lives. Happy slaves in love with their servitude.
9/11 really kicked the slavish devotion into overdrive, now our great leaders can sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labor. They've worked so hard for decades destroying the country, they deserve a nation of idiots that apologize for their bad behavior.
Millions of people will parse every second of that video and claim that the attack was "justified" while ignoring the glee that went into it and the whitewash/stonewall that followed. The reason is because that shit isn't a bid deal in the New America, that's just how we roll now dog. American culture has been poisoned and is rotting, fear and militarism rule the day. Support the troops, they fight for our freedom, and apparently make a good time of it. Can you blame them? Just look to the Israelis or Abu Ghraib to see what happens when occupiers and torturers get bored. Poor devils.
So will the bus be aimed at Petraeus after it gets done grinding up Kucinich?
The wheels on the bus go round and round...
Was Sullivan looking through the mondoweiss archive? I remember seeing those pictures on here last march.
OY VEY COMO VA
G**D***** M*****F***!
Oy Very Como Va.
Screwing up a good pun is so embarrassing...
Oy Vey Coma Va!
Did you see that Carlos Santana canceled his performance in Israel, supposedly due to anti-Israel pressure?
link to ynetnews.com
Way to go Carlos!
"There is more value in placing a flower in a rifle barrel than making war, as Jimi Hendrix used to say, musical notes have more importance than bullets."
-Carlos Santana
I love subscribing to comments on mondoweiss, every time I open my email it's like finding a new basket full of ziostomping easter eggs.
This is yet another sign of what Glenn Greenwald blogged about today, the death of the reflexive antisemitism smear. The taboo is disappearing.
Way to go Cast Lead...
Isreal: killing the reflexive "antisemite" smear one atrocity at a time.
Mr. Weiss,
You don't happen to watch Seth MacFarlane's animated sitcom American Dad do you? In the episode Rough Trade he conflates white supremacy with anti-zionism.
"Yeah, I'm a member of the Anti-Zionist Aryan Brotherhood."
Thought you might find it interesting. I think it was pretty disgusting of them to do myself.
Ah, the old Lesser of Two Evils Vote Against the Bad Guys Shtick. i.e. primitive appeal to fear.
That's nice. It's always good to give the reptile brain a workout.
Good to see you've come around a bit on Ron Paul, Mooser.
I always knew your conscious would allow you to properly resolve your cognitive dissonance. Good for you.