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The stars are in heaven, not so much Lanny Davis' clients.
His work as a mouthpiece for coup in Honduras is unforgettable and unforgivable.
link to democracynow.org
Then he was spokesperson for the government in the Ivory Coast.
Wherever Lanny Davis goes he as Hugo Chavez said of George Bush, leaves the smell of sulphur.
How is this any different than the LA Times doing a piece as they did a couple of years ago about how Jews are genetically predisposed to be more intelligent?
In Israel you can openly celebrate Jewish wealth and power. In the US it has to be couched in pseudo science.
I didn't see Gilbert Bigio on the Forbes List
Perhaps the wealthiest man in Haiti doesn't like attention:
link to open.salon.com
Reminds me of the two weeks or so the Israeli government sent a medical team to Haiti for earthquake relief. It made the American media, heartwarming tales of humanity staged on billionaire Gilbert Bigio's property.
Then they went home.
We "Frisbeetarians" don't subscribe to the Ten Commandments.
What would you do with us?
Feed us to the lions?
Here's Jane Harman at AIPAC talking about promoting sectarian division in Iran:
link to youtube.com
Here's Democracy Now! on the Guardian and BBC piece on James Steele in Iraq:
link to democracynow.org
If the inmates are fighting amongst themselves they won't be fighting you.
As an atheist in America I'm feeling less secure
But I think I've found a cure
I need to rob some people of their land
Perhaps I'll take Afghanistan
This may upset the people who's land I take
Because they might not go along with the my plans I make
So their will I'll need to break
Which is why I'll need the bomb.
I don't think "The Passion" qualifies as Hollywood film. Gibson funded it himself and picked up all the profits when Hollywood backed away and attacked it, creating a huge buzz for the movie in the process.
Are you suggesting that Hollywood is controlled not by Jews but rather by Jewish men
Who have issues with their wives and mothers?
Ironically, the movie "Ted" begins with Patrick Stewart narrating that Christmas time is the traditional time of year for beating up Jewish kids.
A gratuitous swipe at Christmas and nonJews and playing to the Hollywood stereotypes bullies and their victims.
Had the roles been reversed if it had been Jewish kids victimizing whites or another minority that script would have undergone a rewrite.
I wonder if he'll do his next documentary on his treatment in America.
Are Israeli-Americans who change their names frequently (like their Australian counterparts) detained or do they get ushered past the waiting line?
Reminds me of that Phil Ochs song,
Love Me, I'm a Liberal
link to youtube.com
You and I know that if there was ever a popular referendum on continuing aid and support for Israel it would fail.
Israel's support will never see the light of day of a popular vote or a national poll.
It is no more the will of the people that commands monetary support of Israel than there would be to reinvade Iraq. Probably less.
Why should I have to pay for it?
Let the people who support the lobbying efforts, the coercion and corruption of the political system in regards to Israel/Palestine. Rather saddle the entire nation with the burden of unwinding the misdeeds of a few, let those specifically responsible for it and who benefitted from it shoulder the burden.
Our legal system doesn't allow these people to be brought to court for their actions, though clearly they break the spirit of any sense of justice.
Hopefully in some point in the future our times will be viewed as a dark age of justice.
At least she wasn't tased as John Kerry stood by and did nothing
link to youtube.com
They aren't removing warheads, they never had them.
Many of them are simply pipes with fins and a point welded to them filled with a crude propellant and fired across the border as an act of defiance.
If the roles were reversed, Sundance would have a film about them and applaud their ingenuity.
Looking at some of the "missile" parts I was struck by how crude most of them are. The impact often shows no explosion because they lack a warhead. Their targets are frequently Israeli towns only a couple of miles away from the border.
How many millions are being spent to protect Israelis from what more often than not something little more than the rockets hobbyists fire anywhere else in the world?
There are limitations as to what you can do or say and Michael Moore knows them.
Explain to me what was the purpose of editing the film in the first place?
If you try to hide something it is usually because there is something to hide.
It seems there is no other film of this guard post than from the camera they bought at Radio Shack in 1978. How convenient.
It doesn't seem like a very good spot to put a surveillance camera.
May the spirit of Mario Savio live on at Berkeley and throughout the country:
“There's a time when the
operation of the machine becomes
so odious—makes you so sick at
heart—that you can't take part.
You can't even passively take
part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon
the wheels, upon the levers, upon
all the apparatus, and you've
got to make it stop. And you've
got to indicate to the people who
run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the
machine will be prevented from
working at all”
Perhaps when the dust settles the final revision will show though he didn't have a weapon he seemed to be reaching in his waistband for what looked like a weapon.
A usual excuse given to gun down "urban youth" in America.
For now they have actually revised upward saying the gun was not plastic but metal:
link to theblaze.com
The lawsuit is:
“a disturbing echo of incitement, intimidation, harassment and violence carried out under" the Governorship of Ronald Reagan and by J. Edgar Hoover against... students and scholars on the Berkeley campus ... during the turbulent years leading up to and including the Vietnam War.
Where are all the settlers coming from to fill these new settlements?
Is there that great a waiting list?
After Maher lost his TV show for saying the 9/11 terrorists were not cowards, I heard him being interviewed by I believe Terri Gross waving the flag about his patriotism and claiming to be half Jewish on his Mother's side.
I take it he said the right things to get his show back.
When Bill Clinton was special envoy to Haiti he made sure Jean Bertrand-Aristide and the Lavas Party stayed off the ballot ensuring the ruling elite got their President.
Clinton talks a good game. He's a cynical hireling of the elite.
He had eight years to come up with a peace in the Middle East. He came up short.
Shouldn't the IDF be able to prove their actions were just by providing film of what happened?
What secret negotiations did the Nazi government attempt that we don't know about?
The war objective of the Allies was unconditional surrender, which we negotiated with the Japanese to keep the emperor in power. But what of the Germans? Where there no overtures offered for an negotiated peace? There was Rudolph Hess who's mission was covered in secrecy until the day he died.
It would seem implausible that there weren't others.
There are Ben Hecht's allegations in "Perfidy." It would seem that plausible that other negotiations were initiated to end the war.
The Allies negotiated to feed the Greeks during the German occupation and the Allies negotiated an air drop of food to the Netherlands to feed the population at the close of the war.
Certainly Hitler remaining in power would be unacceptable, but unconditional surrender offered no alternative to end a massively destructive war and Holocaust.
The Battle for Jerusalem began in November of 1917. General Allenby entered Jerusalem the next month.
The British didn't have anything to give away until they occupied it themselves.
I find the concept of "the decline of the Ottoman Empire" intriguing. By what definition had it declined and what are the implications of this decline?
Is decline defined as no longer able to field an army to defend itself from the predations of the British Empire? Is declined defined by the discovery of oil in the Middle East?
Did this decline create a dilemma that necessitated the occupation of Palestine to secure the Suez Canal which had been built 50 years before the Balfour Declaration?
‘If they [the Jews] all gather in Israel it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide’ and ‘They [Jews] are a cancer which is liable to spread at any moment.’
I don't see any concerted worldwide effort to get rid of Jews. Since so many of them live in the United States and Europe it would be a difficult undertaking for a Muslim extremist to presume he could carry out or even imagine.
Where will this "cancer" of Jews spread that they aren't or at least weren't before 1948?
It all seems like it is scripted to play to the paranoia of the Pam Gellar crowd.
The story doesn't hold up.
Did the victims parents call the police? Did they call the Spielbergs?
More likely
Young Steven pulled a prank that an enabling Mother rationalized as some retaliating against anti-Semitism.
"What if the choice was either commit minor vandalism with the extra-chunky or succumb to a life of anti-Semitic persecution?"
It makes for a nice story that Spielberg peanut buttered some bully's window and the bully stopped bullying him.
So apparently the bully was so intimidated by the act of peanut buttering windows in the middle of the night that he never bothered Spielberg again. It hardly seems that the "bully" was much of a threat to begin with.
It is also plausible that young Steven was the bully and his mother makes excuses for his behavior.
If I really felt threatened by someone I wouldn't do something so bold and provocative as peanut butter their windows.
He had no fear of getting caught? He had no concern about what kind of retaliation he might expect if he was? At the very least it shows poor judgement.
Spielberg is a good story teller but this goes beyond the bounds of credulity. Spielberg's entire story is suspect.
The sound of the soldiers marching to the scene gave event a certain Orwellian character. I would imagine these soldiers were not very far from the confrontation but they apparently formed up and marched to the sound of a shouting Palestinian in order to provide the desired intimidation.
Most Americans would have scampered like mice.
Indeed these Arabs are a foreign culture.
In the heady days after September 11, and before the invasion of Iraq. Darryl Issa spoke at a World Affairs Council meeting about his vision to remake the Middle East. Issa spoke of a "Marshall Plan" to modernize and rebuild the Middle East.
In the Q&A that followed I stated that Marshall did have a plan for the Middle East which involved a one state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian issue. I went further to state that without addressing the legitimate issues of the Palestinians especially UN 194 which the Palestinians cannot be required to relinquish how can his vision of a Marshall Plan succeed?
Issa looked at me as though he wished I were dead and said he disagreed. Afterwards I went to shake his hand and thank him for coming but he refused to make eye contact with me. Late a Pro-Israel college professor resigned from the local World Affairs Council board because I was not rebuked for asking the question.
Reminds me of an old Tom Tomorrow cartoon where the Republican candidate was someone simply wearing a Ronald Reagan mask.
All Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Mark Levine and the rest need is one angry sound bite and they will play it more than Jeremiah Wright and Howard Dean combined.
Obama's weakness is that he cannot seem overly aggressive or he will evoke a scary angry black man image to marginal white voters. How many suburban whites are going to vote for Jeremiah Wright?
Mitt took a page from Ronald Reagan and even sounded like him.
White voters like angry passionate white guys. Malcolm X not so much.
"Drinking the Kool-Aid" implies one is doing something unknowingly.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz deserves more credit than that. She knows what she is doing.
She believes the public has "drank the Kool-Aid" and indeed they have.
She believes her position is to do the bidding of her backers and that the public will support it no matter how extreme. War in Iraq - done. War in Iran - we'll get it.
It's like the transformation of American society after September 11 and the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Everyone was wearing camo and "Blackwater" apparel.
Kissinger wrote in his first book that nations become soft without war. Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon are as much about creating a militarized society as foreign adventure. Societies follow the herd mentality.
Once it is put in motion no one can question a War President or Prime Minister.
Talk about symbols evoking an irrational reaction
I'd like to see someone try and burn an American flag again.
Just so we can have a reality check.
How about uttering the words in a favorable tone, Sharia Law, Obama Care, Socialism, and so many others.
Steve Klein, the consultant on the film does business with someone he met for an hour and apparently the only things he knows about him is that he is not Israeli and not Jewish.
Where did they meet, the restroom on the interstate?
Certainly the film's intent was to provoke a backlash and Klein points the finger at the Coptic Christians who would only bear the brunt of the retaliation in Egypt. Steve isn't telling the truth.
Palestinians are Jews who loved their country more than their religion.