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The civil rights movement ended up victorious because it was accompanied by black violence: the Black Power movement, Malcolm X (whom Martin Luther King came to have good relations with -- he saw the tactical advantage of there being both of them), black riots in the cities. The powers that be in the U.S. decided that they would have to accommodate the blacks if the country were to be governable.
Just as Gandhi and the Congress Party in India ended up victorious because their movement was accompanied by violence: Bose's Indian National Army, the widespread rioting throughout India after the Congress Party leaders were imprisoned in 1942 (Viceroy Lord Linlithgow said that that violence was as great as India had seen since the Great Mutiny), the mutinies of the Indian Army and the Royal Indian Navy provoked by the Red Fort Trials of the leaders of the Indian National Army in 1946. British authorities decided that, if they could not rely on the army and navy in India, the game was up.
Most of the Christians under Sassanian rule were Nestorian heretics, were they not? How did the Sassanian government regard the Nestorians? (The Roman government, once it became Christian, was, if anything, more hostile to Christian heretics than it was to non-Christians. I don't know how the monophysite Christians who predominated in Syria and Egypt regarded the Sassanian invasion circa 614, but I know they did not oppose the Arab conquest later in the century. As a matter of fact, the Jews in Palestine also welcomed the Arab conquest. They seem to have regarded the Muslim Arabs as very much akin to Jews. I suspect that is a lot of the reason why many of the Palestinian Jews converted so quickly to Islam.)
If they kill Snowden, they make a martyr out of him and assure that his movement will not die with him.
Obama is no leader. He's a figurehead for the people with the real power, the national security state and the corporocrats.
Snowden is having a big effect on public opinion, especially among those under 30: Obama's Approval Ratings Have Taken a Huge Hit After Scandals:
We would do better to adopt the ancient Athenian system of appointing representatives by lot, at random from the whole body of citizens.
Remember how Bill Clinton told Monica Lewinsky that their telephone conversations were being eavesdropped on by a foreign government.
Syria Polls Find Most Opposed To Arming Rebels:
I can't think of how many times the U.S. government said Fidel Castro had to go.
It's surprising how much support there is for Greenwald and Snowden on Daily Kos now, and how outnumbered the defenders of the administration on this are.
I think Snowden has indicated that he supported Obama in the 2008 election.
I suspect he, like me, just wants a change from the party duopoly with its uniform policies that has governed our country for so long.
Take me. The last time I voted for a major party candidate for President was for Bush the Elder in 1988. I was too busy in law school to register to vote in '92, but, if I had voted, it would probably have been for Perot. In '96, I voted for the Libertarian Brown. In 2000, I voted for Buchanan, then of the Reform Party. In 2004, I voted for Nader. In 2008, I voted for Libertarian Bob Barr. In 2012, I contributed to Ron Paul's primary campaign, and ended up voting for Green Party Jill Stein. Every election, I voted for the candidate who I thought would best advance my two priorities: antiwar and civil liberties. Does that make me right or left wing?
They even call Norman Finkelstein, who has never hidden the fact that he is the son of former extermination camp inmates, a Holocaust denier.
And one isn't supposed to suggest -- on sites like Daily Kos -- that this failure was a bit too convenient for the people who failed (look at what happened to the NSA's budget after 9/11) not to suggest the thought that the failure was deliberate.
Good business. Should attract a lot of attention (and customers) to The Guardian in the coming weeks and months.
I just hope that he has ensured -- and made it known to the right people, as a means of insurance -- that he has arranged for the material to be published even if something unfortunate should happen to himself.
It's hard to offer a helping hand without outing yourself when you're living in a surveillance state.
What did they think of the way Aaron Swartz was hounded into killing himself?
I have neither a Facebook nor a Gmail account. Maybe other people should consider imitating me.
Notice how Twitter is not cooperating with the PRISM program?
How ironic.. Finkelstein is the son of Holocaust survivors, who were both in Nazi camps, the mother in Majdanek and the father in Auschwitz, something he has certainly never denied.
At an Oxford alumni meeting in New York in 2001, I heard Susan Rice militantly defend U.S. military action in the Kosovo War. She repeated all the Clinton administration's lies about genocide.
Manning is the boy who said the emperor has no clothes.
That couldn't be allowed to go unpunished.
Also, bear in mind that Islam is also a universalizing outgrowth of Judaism.
Funny he should mention Buddhism. I am starting to practice meditation/mindfulness now, and the teacher, if not actually a Buddhist, is certainly heavily influenced by Buddhism and mentions its doctrines all the time. I have to admit, I find it makes more sense than the Catholicism I grew up with. (Although, as someone from an Irish Catholic background, I am reluctant to renounce Catholicism, primarily for tribal reasons: my ancestors suffered so much for it.)
Braverman's view of how one should regard Zionism strikes me as very Buddhist. The thing to do about wrong things we have done in the past is to accept the fact that we have done them, not suffer because of that, but instead resolve to do better in the future.
I got the impression from reading the second edition of Black's book that he was Goldstoned, and that that was why he repudiated the first edition.
But even that second edition speaks for itself.
About that lost world, Stefan Zweig's Die Welt von Gestern [The World of Yesterday] is a great book.
It would have been highly significant. Black's book The Transfer Agreement is not the only book that emphasizes how fragile the economic position of Germany in the early months of Hitler's rule was. You can also read it in a standard history of Hitler's early years in power like Heinz Höhne's 'Gebt mir vier Jahre Zeit' ["Give Me Four Years"].
If the boycott had been allowed to succeed, there is every chance Hitler's government would have fallen.
The true whackjobs are the people who think they were killed by the people the government blamed.
I think the reason for the hysterical reaction to Wikileaks is that the Arab Spring really unnerved the powers that be.
I didn't say it was proved. I said "it seems" and "there is a strong case". If you want to see what the case is, read the chapters on Oswald and Ruby in Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination by Richard Belzer and David Wayne. When I read their book, I found their case for this persuasive.
I must assume you have not read Newman and Horne, or you could hardly say that. The books are precisely recitals of tons of documentary and medical evidence.
Ruby/Rubenstein was Mob all the way. It seems he was ordered by his Mob superiors to murder Oswald. There's a strong case that he was involved in organizing the JFK assassination, was supposed -- with his Dallas Police connections -- to make sure Oswald did not survive his arrest, failed in that task, and therefore had to obey the order to kill Oswald to make up for that failure.
Correction: title of Horne's five-volume work is Inside the Assassination Records Review Board.
Mary Pinchot Meyer was also killed by the CIA, precisely because of what she knew about JFK's assassination and was threatening to reveal. The case for this -- and it is a convincing one -- is made by Peter Janney in Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer & Their Vision for World Peace. Peter Janney is the son of one of the CIA officials involved in the conspiracy to murder Mary Meyer.
John Newman makes a powerful circumstantial case in the paperback edition of his Oswald and the CIA that the man who did the detailed planning for the assassination and who was in charge of the running of Oswald as a government agent was none other than James Jesus Angleton, chief of counterintelligence at the CIA and also the CIA's liaison to Israel. Angleton had close relations to what became Israeli intelligence from as early as his days as OSS station chief in Italy in 1944-5. One of Angleton's big coups in his career was obtaining and releasing the text of Khrushchev's secret 1956 speech denouncing Stalin. He was given that text by Israeli intelligence.
The reactor at Dimona went critical on Dec. 26, 1963.
A decent person would react to being shown such a film or photo with indignation, and proceed to do exactly the opposite of what the powers that be are demanding that he do.
You don't have to have a detailed theory of what exactly happened to know that what the Warren Commission told us was a pack of lies.
But, with the passage of time and the emergence of more and more evidence, we're gradually getting a better and better idea of what really happened. If you want to know what really happened, you will get a pretty good idea by reading the books I mentioned elsewhere in this thread: James Douglass's JFK and the Unspeakable, John Newman's Oswald and the CIA, and Douglas Horne's five-volume Inside the Assassination Records Bureau. They provide evidence.
It's difficult to sum up all of what they say in a form that's short enough to put in a thread like this. But they all say this: JFK was murdered by the national security state.
Obama campaign plane's emergency is detailed (July 11, 2009):
July 7, 2008 was shortly after Obama had clinched the nomination, and just days before Obama cast his vote in the Senate in favor of the FISA "reform" that immunized the telecom companies for the warrantless eavesdropping.
If you actually believe in the Warren Commission's lone nut theory, I'd say you are the one who is being irrational.
"X" in Oliver Stone's JFK was based on Prouty, who advised Stone for the film.
A lot of people could have approved the action in general terms, whereas only a tightly compartmentalized group would have been aware of the precise details of the operation.
JFK fired Allen Dulles.
That JFK was murdered by the national security state, with the CIA being the action agency, has been proved. Read not only James Douglass's JFK and the Unspeakable, but also John Newman's Oswald and the CIA (make sure you read the paperback edition) and Douglas Horne's five-volume Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK. Newman is a retired Army intelligence Major and history professor who knows how to read government documents. Horne is a retired naval officer who was the Chief Analyst for Military Records of the Assassination Records Review Board, an official body established by Act of Congress with subpoena powers.
I wouldn't say LBJ's role in the assassination is exactly proved, but Phillip Nelson's LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination (about to come out in a new paperback edition) makes his central involvement very likely indeed.
How old is Gar? If he is old enough to have reached adulthood before apartheid ended, it would be interesting to know what his occupation was in South Africa. Considering his present work, it probably involved weapons.
The Holocaust ended 68 years ago.
Sure there's evidence. Just read the contemporary accounts cited by Ilan Pappe in The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. There's quite a bit in that book about what happened in Jaffa.
No need to use force. Turning off the aid spigot would probably be enough to make Israel change its policies. And, if that wasn't enough, there are always economic sanctions.
Circa 1985, I thought both apartheid South Africa and the USSR would survive for decades more.
The title of John P. Meier's multivolume work on the historical Jesus is A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus.
Which perhaps makes it significant that Obama said this war (which I think he has yet to name) will have to end sometime.
There was also an article on Medea's confrontation of Obama in this morning's Washington Post (on page A6 or so).
In her Democracy Now! interview, she said she would have to keep that (how she got in) secret.
Amy Goodman did a long interview of Medea Benjamin on Democracy Now! this morning.
Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech of 1978 is worth quoting here:
(Emphasis added.)
Margaret Macmillan's forthcoming book, The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, should be good, since her book on the Versailles treaty (which here in the States had the different title of Paris 1919) was. I wonder whether she will have any special familial knowledge of the events of July-August 1914, as the great granddaughter of Lloyd George. I just now happen to be in the process of reading Imanuel Geiss's Juli 1914: Die europäische Krise und der Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs, which is a documentary history of that fateful month.
Glenn Greenwald posted a piece on this two days ago: Al Jazeera deletes its own controversial Op-Ed, then refuses to comment: The bizarre behavior by the media giant reflects brewing tensions as it seeks to enter the US television market.
That may be changing. Of the 13 Nobel laureates in physics from 2008 on, four have been East Asian (2 from Japan, 1 an American born in Japan, and 1 from Hong Kong).
On Biden, read The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins by former Biden aide (and fellow Irish-American) Jeff Connaughton. With Biden, it's all about advancing his own career.
Also quite a few Turks in downtown Paterson. I once had delicious pide (pita) in a pide salonu on Main Street.
The American people also needs to be told how Syrian Christians support Assad, because they fear what would come after, and they saw what happened in Iraq after Sadddam was toppled.
Mid-1963 was also when the Kennedy administration was successfully negotiating with the USSR the nuclear test ban treaty, and when JFK delivered his address at American University that basically called for an end to the Cold War.
Speaking of dates, the reactor at Dimona went critical on Dec. 26, 1963. Interesting date.
Retired Army intelligence Major and history professor John Newman makes a strong circumstantial case in the last chapter of the paperback edition of Oswald and the CIA: The Documented Truth About the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK that the man who orchestrated the JFK assassination was CIA counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton .
Angleton also occupied the Israel desk of the CIA. He was responsible for liaison between the CIA and Israel. It was Israel which gave Angleton the text of Khrushchev's party congress speech of 1956 denouncing Stalin. Revealing that speech was a big feather in Angleton's cap. Angleton, who grew up in Italy, where his father headed a subsidiary of a U.S. corporation, was in the OSS during World War Two, and in the last months of the war was chief of the OSS station in Italy. His close relations with what became Israeli intelligence began during his time in Italy.
I wouldn't maintain that Israel was the prime mover in the assassination. That was the CIA, possibly acting with the complicity or worse of higher-ups like Lyndon Johnson. But some in Israel could well have been junior partners in the conspiracy. And, as has been said already in this thread, they certainly had reason to welcome JFK's death (as did the CIA, Lyndon Johnson, and many others).
We'll never know the whole truth about the JFK assassination. But, with time, we're learning more and more about it. Recent books about it that I would highly recommend are Newman's book (but make sure you read the paperback edition), James Douglass's JFK and the Unspeakable, and the five-volume Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK, by Douglas P. Horne, a retired naval officer and the former Chief Analyst for Military Records of the Assassination Records Review Board, an official board established by Congress that had subpoena powers.
The reason Ben-Gurion resigned as prime minister in 1963 was that he knew JFK was sending a letter demanding the right to inspect Dimona, and he didn't want to be the one who received that letter.
The 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination draws ever nearer.
The Afrikaners (i.e., a majority of the whites in South Africa) had plenty of tribal identity, and even national myths, like the Voortrekkers.
Gen. Videla, head of the Argentinian junta, just died in jail. His obituary is in today's Washington Post.
But note that Schumer (who wants to become majority leader) is not one of the sponsors of this bill. I regard that as significant.
The place to beat Boxer would be in the Democratic primary. A Democratic Senate candidate is extremely unlikely to lose in California in the general November election.
Unfortunately, it's more and more true that Israel, Canada, the UK, and the U.S. do have similar legal systems.
I see no article on this press conference in today's Washington Post. (There is a photo of Obama speaking under an umbrella together with a brief explanation that it was taken during an Obama-Erdogan press conference, but there's no article, as far as I can see.)
Isn't that something, considering that it was at that press conference that Obama commented on his administration's various current scandals? You would think that would make it supremely newsworthy.
The study appears to have been done by a couple of Swedish free market enthusiasts. And look what countries came out on top!
This study is a very good example of one of the corollaries of Murphy's Law: Prolonged research tends to confirm your conclusions.
I bet the study involved no controls for untruthful responses. So what we get is a study that finds those societies most nonracist where the public declaration of racism meets the most social opprobrium.
Any possibility of Boxer having a serious primary opponent?
I've read contradictory accounts on whether Ataturk was a Dönme. However, even if he was, you should know that Jews in general do not regard the Dönme as still being Jews. When Muslims in Salonika were expelled to Turkey around 1922, some of the Dönme asked the rabbis there to classify them as Jews, so that they would be exempted from the expulsion. The rabbis refused, and the Dönme had to go to Turkey. I believe that the Dönme themselves regard themselves as being both genuine Jews and genuine Muslims (sort of the way the early Jewish Christians regarded themselves).
Under the heavy wealth tax (Varlık Vergisi) of 1942-4, both Jews and Dönme, as well as other non-Muslims, had to pay much higher rates, so high that many of them could not pay and were sent to a forced labor camp. Even those who could pay were nearly wiped out financially. This tax was imposed by Ataturk's successors and party comrades less than four years after Ataturk's death.
The "deep state" in Turkey has always wanted close relations with Israel. But I'm surprised that the deep state retains so much power under Erdogan.
Craig Murray now has a piece up on this development: The Mavi Marmara Murders. Catchy title.
Never mind apartheid, what about genocide? Look at this from Jim Lobe's piece on the conviction in Guatemala of Gen. Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity and how it taints Elliot Abrams:
The latest volume of Caro's biography of LBJ is extremely disappointing. Caro actually accepts the Warren Commission's account of the JFK assassination. He says nothing about the murders in Texas in which LBJ was implicated (a jury in Texas actually concluded, years after LBJ died, that he was involved in the conspiracy to murder Dept. of Agriculture investigator Henry Marshall, who was resisted all attempts to persuade him abandon his investigation of Billy Sol Estes's frauds). While he has a lot to say about Bobby Baker, he says nothing at all about Billy Sol Estes.
Estes died just a few days ago. (His autobiographical account, Le dernier témoin [The Last Witness, i.e., the last surviving witness of the conspiracy to assassinate JFK], has only been published in French, without any English-language translation appearing. In the book, Estes blames LBJ for the assassination, as does the very persuasive book LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination, by Phillip F. Nelson, which is about to come out in paperback.) The Washington Post's obituary for Estes actually mentions the murders of Marshall and others, as well as Estes's connection with LBJ, but does not draw a connection between the murders and LBJ. I guess that's as close as the Pravda on the Potomac dares to get to telling us the truth.
I had been hoping to learn something when Caro finally got around to discussing the attack on the USS Liberty, but I fear he has been coopted and will only give us the orthodox version.
The 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination will soon be upon us.
Godwin's Law becomes ever more obsolete.
The New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe, announced on February 20, 2013, it is selling the paper and its related assets
You're right, Seafoid. That's just the sort of statement that I would expect to see in the prestige Nazi press. In Goebbels's weekly Das Reich, for example. Or in the Frankfurter Zeitung after it was gleichgeschaltet.
When Maher said something that actually made sense (that the 9/11 hijackers, whatever else they may have been, were anything but cowardly,) he was thrown off the air for his pains.
I guess he learned his lesson.
If I correctly understood the reporting on Democracy Now! this morning, the judge in Guatemala who delivered the verdict finding Gen. Rios Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity spoke about the legal liability of those persons abroad who had assisted Rios Montt's crimes. And the people on Democracy Now! mentioned Elliot Abrams as being one of those persons.
It occurs to me that, since Barbara Tuchman was the granddaughter of the elder Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey during the First World War, she must have known from family tradition and from her own grandfather's tales that the Palestinians were not recent arrivals.
The Morgenthau was Henry Morgenthau, Sr., who was born in Mannheim in Baden shortly before Baden became part of the new German Empire and who will forever have a glorious page in history for having protested the Armenian genocide to the Ottoman government while serving as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. Unfortunately, the elder Morgenthau's son, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., FDR's neighbor and Secretary of the Treasury, became quite a committed Zionist, and will forever be infamous in history for his Morgenthau Plan to reduce Germany to poverty after World War Two. Barbara Tuchman, Morgenthau, Sr.'s granddaughter and Morgenthau, Jr.'s niece, was later enough of a Zionist to actually pen praise of Joan Peters's From Time Immemorial. It's hard to believe Tuchman was not enough of a historian to recognize what nonsense Peters's book was.
So Morgenthau's family exhibited as much degeneration as the Ochs-Sulzberger family.
According to the Wikipedia entry on Morgenthau, Sr., he and Adolph Ochs were friends, and together worked to alleviate the plight of the suffering Armenians.
Note that one of the signatories of that petition was "Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher The New York Times." How times (and the Ochs-Sulzberger family) have changed!
Like almost everything Glenn Greenwald writes, his take on the Hawking story is well worth reading.
Glenn Greenwald has aptly criticized appeals to Godwin's Law that try to prohibit comparisons with the Nazis.
As Greenwald points out, Godwin himself does not intend his rule to prohibit such comparisons when they are substantive:
On British Web sites, they call him "Bliar".
Today's Democracy Now! covered the Hawking story.
Hebrew University’s “Monstrous Carbuncle” on Jerusalem Skyline to Showcase Einstein Legacy.
You mean, you regret that he brought himself into the fray because it is so difficult to attack such a man?
Was that a blunder, or was the U.S. setting a trap for Saddam?
RT: Russia - U.S. to convene conference on Syria - Lavrov :
I just finished Scahill's book. It is one infuriating read. It concludes with the assassination of Awlaki's 16-year-old son.
The stuff the U.S. is doing makes the Boston Marathon bombers look like pikers.
Far from being a creation of European colonialists, Syria was already a unity as the Roman province of Syria, which was established by Pompey.
If Clemons wasn't going to say that, would he have gotten on the News Hour?
Even if the surveillance is popular with a majority of New Yorkers, support of it may not be the way to win the primary.
Disappointing, by the way, that a gay politician like Quinn should support discrimination against another minority.
Oberlin was a center of the abolitionist movement, as early as the 1830's.
Western interference in Syria would be as bad news for Syrian Christians as the U.S. invasion was for Iraqi Christians.
If you actually believe Icke's outlandish claim that the real rulers of the world are lizards disguised as people, you should seek medical help.
Now, as a metaphor for what's really going on, Icke's idea isn't that bad.
I quite liked the movie They Live!.
Sibel Edmonds has a new piece on the role of the neocons in this Syria business: Uber-Neocons: The Main Architects of Post-Assad Syria at Work.
The White House is doubling down on its lies, and the MSM stenographers report their lies without any skepticism.
CBS: W.H. on Syria sarin gas claim: Look to regime, not rebels:
NPR: UPDATE: White House Doubts Syrian Rebels Used Sarin:
Funny. I had NPR news on on my radio this morning, and I don't recall any mention of del Ponte's comments.
If it's the rebels, did they cross a red line?
If Scotland votes for independence in next year's referendum, statements by the Church of Scotland are likely to become more independent as well.
As an Irish-American, I generally support Ireland, but I wouldn't dream of claiming that people who do not are somehow morally defective.
And I suspect that the same may be said of most ethic groups in this country.
Interesting fact from Landis's Wikipedia entry:
Doesn't sound exactly like a stooge of the Assad regime.
Hey, I called it! Now (3 days after my comment) the UN says it was the rebels.
Not Wilkinson, but Wilkerson, retired U.S. Army Colonel Larry Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell's Chief of Staff when Powell was Secretary of State.
Note that Wilkerson has no real evidence for his suggestion that Israel is behind the use of chemical weapons in Syria. He bases himself on these considerations: the evidence that the Syrian government is behind it is really "flaky"; Israel has an interest in getting people to believe that the Syrian government is behind it; and Netanyahu's government is incompetent.
Myself, I very much doubt that the Syrian government is responsible. The use of the gas is not in that government's interest, whereas it is in the interest of opponents of that government. But other possible actors besides Israel need to be considered, notably the Syrian opposition, which could well have gotten control of some of the government's stores of chemical weapons.
Unfortunately, that is no guarantee that the military jury at Manning's trial will not impose the death penalty. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the military jury can impose the death penalty for any capital crime, whether the prosecution seeks it or not. And "aiding the enemy" is a capital crime under the UCMJ.
Military juries are composed of officers chosen by the officer convening the court martial. In this case, you can bet we're talking about career officers that the convening authority is confident will vote the way he wants. The defendant at a court martial has the right to demand that one of the members of the jury be a senior enlisted man, i.e., a career sergeant. But career sergeants, especially ones chosen by the convening authority, tend to judge even more harshly than the officers do. A runaway jury that ignores the administration's refusal to seek the death penalty is, I think, a distinct possibility.
Military juries can only impose the death penalty if the jury votes for it unanimously, but I'm not sure that's much comfort in this case.
Kennedy, the Lobby and the Bomb.
Furkan Doğan. An aspiring medical student, no less. Shot point blank while he was filming the antics of the Israeli thugs boarding the ship.
If this bill passes, I wonder how vulnerable it would be to a constitutional challenge in court.
Schumer isn't on that list. I consider that significant.
Demanding that TV shows toe the party line is also reminiscent of the old Eastern Bloc.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s links to CIA operations in Caucasus .
I must correct myself on Chile. According to the Wikipedia entry on it:
In Argentina, about 97% of the population is of European or partial European descent. An estimated 885 of the population of Uruguay is of European descent.
And the dynasty that succeeded the Tudors was Scottish.
Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay have very few Mestizos and Indians, and their populations are close to purely of European descent.
Could their similarity in this respect to Canada and the U.S. (and to Australia) have something to do with climate?
Off topic, Barbara Boxer's bill to allow Israel to continue to have preferential visa treatment even if Israel continues to exclude U.S. citizens has run into trouble in Congress. CQ: AIPAC-Backed Israel Bill Stalls Over Visa Waiver Provision (requires subscription):
The times they are a-changing.
There are a goodly number of blond people in Turkey. Circassians, many of whom are blond, have been in Turkey for centuries. And, as Ottoman rule was displaced from the Balkans during the 19th and the very early 20th centuries, Muslims from the Balkans were driven out, and ended up in places that were still under Ottoman rule.
Another factor: Christians from Lebanon and Palestine tend to emigrate to the West a good deal more than Muslims from those places do. They're better educated and more prosperous. They tend to feel more at home in Western countries. They've now been emigrating for such a long time that a lot of them have family connections already in the West.
The government long denied that there were drills on 9/11, until the evidence that there were became irrefutable.
Oh, and there was a drill going on when the London Underground bombings happened.
Boston terror suspect's uncle was married to CIA officer's daughter and even shared a home with the agent.
Turns out the elder bomber may have attended terror seminars in the republic of Georgia during his trip to Russia in 2012. This according to no less than the prime minister of Georgia. Slain Boston suspect Tsarnaev may have attended terrorism seminars in Georgia – reports.
At the time, the former right-wing, anti-Russian government was in power in Georgia.
But, with his power, why does he stay bought? He has the legal authority to do whatever he wants, and surely he shouldn't feel any moral obligation to continue to do the bidding of the crooks who bought him.
I heard Susan Rice deliver a defense of the Kosovo War at an Oxford alumni meeting in 2001. She repeated all the lies about Serbia having committed genocide before NATO entered the fighting.
The case for the conclusion that the JFK assassination was an inside job seems overwhelming to me. Wouldn't you say the same thing about that conclusion?
Are you, by any chance, not familiar with Operation Northwoods?
Anyway, far be it from me to say that someone believing or having believed that Saddam Hussein was connected with 9/11 -- wrong as I believe that to be -- automatically discredits everything else he has to say.
Whether 9/11 was or was not an inside job, people should be allowed to discuss the possibility. Where we don't know what happened and where the government has manifestly been lying about what happened, as is the case with 9/11, no possibility should be ruled inadmissible a priori.
If we allow the censors to suppress the discussion of the matter, they'll use that to discredit people whom they can associate with the view that they want suppressed, like Falk.
Bradley Manning was mentioned in the second installment of the interview with Jeremy Scahill (whose book Dirty Wars has just been published) on Democracy Now! this morning. Scahill learned that Eric Prince, the head of Blackwater, was about to leave the U.S. in an e-mail that he got from Bradley Manning.
What's to stop Kerry from forgetting, in a year or two, that he ever said this?
If somebody brings this up, his spokesman can call the question "unhelpful".
Could the physician have traveled from Watertown to the hospital along with the dying brother in the same ambulance, and have treated him along the way?
The uncle said in his interview that the family are Chechens. So I guess they were just temporarily in Kyrgyzstan.
So the brothers' radicalization is more likely to be related somehow to the fact that the Chechen rebellion against the Russians was secretly supported by the U.S./CIA and allies.
If they hated Russia, what would turn them against the U.S.? U.S.-Russian relations have soured the past couple of years.
But the family apparently originally comes from Kyrgyzstan. The father found a job in Chechnya, so they moved there.
I wonder if what provoked the brothers' radicalization may not have been resentment of Kyrgyzstan serving as a major terminus for supplying U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
CNN Exposed, Emmy Winning Former CNN Journalist, Amber Lyon Blows The Whistle, Let me repeat that.CNN is paid by the US government for reporting on some events, and not reporting on others. The Obama Administration pays for CNN content:
Ex-CNN Reporter, Amber Lyon: I Received Orders to Manipulate News to Demonize Syria and Iran :
How many people still watch CNN?