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Article by John on March 11th, 2009 at 10:52 am Image via Wikipedia Cenk Uygur has a post over at Huffpo that nails down the real issue with CNBC that Jon Stewart so skillfully mocks in the video contained in the post immediately below this one: I have a close friend who works at a business news station — and here is the worst kept secret in show business — it’s all [...]
Article by missy on November 5th, 2007 at 11:56 am Did you know we were bombing Syria? From the Jerusalem Post (via Jill at Brilliant at Breakfast) we learn that U.S. Air Force jets – bearing among their armaments tactical nukes – bombed that alleged nuclear development site in Syria two months ago. Not Israeli jets. U.S. fighter jets: The September 6 raid over Syria was carried out by the US Air Force, the [...]
Article by missy on September 6th, 2007 at 9:20 am Too much truthiness in the news this morning. First, from the WaPo, Experts Doubt Drop in Violence in Iraq: The U.S. military’s claim that violence has decreased sharply in Iraq in recent months has come under scrutiny from many experts within and outside the government, who contend that some of the underlying statistics are questionable and selectively ignore negative trends. … Intelligence analysts computing [...]
Article by John on April 27th, 2007 at 11:52 am Hope you all missed most of the debate like I did (way too scripted and boring). It wasn’t worth watching except for one person. And that person is Mike Gravel. Timothy V. Gatto over at OpEd News wrote:
The surprise and the best I’ve saved for last. Out of the blue comes Former Alaskan senator Mike Gravel, who besides adding a little comic relief with his expressions and his biting wit, brought a breath of fresh air to the debate. He came out swinging about George W,’s “fraudulent war”. He then said that some of the candidates including Joe Biden want to tell the Iraqi’s how to run their country. He said that “Biden had a certain arrogance”. The best part of the entire evening for me was this statement from Senator Gravel when asked about the three most important “enemies” of the United States: MR. GRAVEL: We have no important enemies. What we need to do is to begin to deal with the rest of the world as equals, and we don’t do that. We spend more as a nation on defense than all the rest of the world put together. Who are we afraid of? Who are you afraid of, Brian? I’m not. And Iraq has never been a threat to us. We invaded them. I mean, it is unbelievable. The military-industrial complex not only controls our government lock, stock and barrel but they control our culture.
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