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  • Democracy Brings Hamas into Power   18 years 18 weeks ago

    Last year, fundamentalists won in Iran and Palestine and fundamentalists scored as much as allowed in Egypt or Saudi Arabia.
    A perfect output for the Bush doctrine : after all, fundamentalists won in the US the year before...
    The Bush Administration don't want Hamas to change : they'll try to ostracize the organization as efficiently as they did with Arafat. Likud leaders also want Gazatopia to fail - expect more provocations before elections in Israel.

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  • Mad Cow USA   18 years 18 weeks ago

    Sorry, but we pulled it off the web at the request of our publisher Common Courage Press when the 2004 paperback was publshed. However, the book is available through the usual sources including our organization. Try your favorite library, it's free!

  • Where's the meat, gang?   18 years 18 weeks ago

    As for myself, I don't have time any more to regularly check up on these forums, or much anything else in life either. It's terrible.

    All of my hobbies have gone by the wayside, too, except for one of them, which I can sometimes sneak in just a bit of. (It is one in which I can easily pick up and put back down in a second, if needed.)

    In fact I risk being severely negligent of my general duties as a human (to the other humans I am around and deal with), just stopping to write this in here right now.

    I wish I had time for all of this. So much has gone by the wayside though just in the name of survival and being responsible for all of the things there are to take care of in life. Wish I could say I was relaxing on the Riviera right now, but I've got to keep the ship in good order (and keep it from getting any holes in it), and that seems to be the main priority for me right now in life.

    (There's too much trouble in the world for anyone to relax too long on the Riviera, anyway.)

  • Where's the meat, gang?   18 years 18 weeks ago

    I was just trying to reply that I agree with Maynard's comment that the new forum layout is a turn-off to interaction in this forum and that in itself was a problem: it took me a good ten minutes after logging in to figure out the page wasn't updating properly and I needed to do a complete refresh (Ctrl-F5) before I could even reply. But that's nothing compared to not seeing a fith of you post while you're typing it!

    The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
    -Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Poll, Bush, politics   18 years 18 weeks ago

    380. What an "eavesdropping" really mean.(1/27/06)

    Do you think the agents only limit to eavesdrop your phone? Do you expect terrorist will say, "You bomb the Golden gate bridge tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock" in communication? It maybe words such like, "Tomorrow will be zero hour. The real match will begin." But was it more likely about a football match or a boxing show? How do you save lives by listen to these vague words? If you think with brain, you know the matter is not that simple limited only to a secret "eavesdropping".

    A warrant of "eavesdropping" means much more. With it agents can start a search on "suspects". A search on your home, your financial records, tracing, interview your friends.... This is something government and media never tell you.

    To my experience it means much more. The harassing in Internet. The car trouble. Feds create car trouble so they can install instrument in the car to eavesdrop or tracking when you send it for repair. Feds block the drainage to create a flooding to see if you have valuable things to hide, property problem..... Finally, to prove they are correct, Feds plant, frame, murder to eliminate evidence.

    A lot of people may have encountered such problem without aware of truth because Feds are professional criminals. But our founding father know the danger of power abusing from internal. They made the Constitution to protect us from the corrupt official. That's why a court search warrant is so strict which demands evidence.

    D.O.J. uses a beautiful decoration to violate the law. If it succeeds, the foundational Constitution bypassed. Civil rights will be seriously damaged. Terrorists may kill a few people but can't rob the freedom from Americans. Bush is worse, he took away the civil rights from all citizens. He is more dangerous than the terrorist.

  • The dark side of US   18 years 18 weeks ago

    354. Another air crash to cover up (11/2/05)

    On 10/22, a Nigerian jet carried 117 passengers crashed shortly after takeoff. I believe it was another swift reaction to my accusation of the four recent air plane accidents.(see #352) But how could they response so quickly on same day? Because to prepare the article of 10/22, I did a google search about "plane crash" on 10/21 to collect information. The surveillance team expected I would write about their crime. To make the air crash a common events, they created another one. Nigeria is picked up as a sacrifice because it's a weak country.

    In 21 days from 8/14 to 9/5, there were four big plane crashes. It was a cover up operation to justify a coming air accident planned between 9/10 to 9/17. (my relatives travel date)

    The next fatal air accident in the world took place 47 days later. (9/5 to 10/22) It was a swift reaction to my accusation that the four air accidents were intelligence operation.

    355. Hurricane (4): Chemical and climate war(11/2/05)

    The chemical used to create a hurricane is possibly a kind of refrigerant. When the compressed refrigerant is released in air, it gasifies quickly and sucks a lot of heat. That's how a refrigerant works. When it is used in a closed cabinet, that plane becomes a cooler of the refrigerator. This was what happened in Greece air plane.

    Freon was a popular refrigerant. Several years ago, scientists said it destroyed the ozonosphere and banned it. It means Freon reacts with part element of air.

    To destroy the ozonosphere takes a large quantity of Freon. I think it was the result when it was used in experiment of a covert climate war. I also believe this is why Bush rejected the Tokyo treaty. The government knew they are altering the weather deliberately.

    Since climate war depends on chemical spreading, how can Feds apply it on other countries? Read the news here.

    Quote, "Treat of shoulder fired missiles prompts action

    By steve Johnson
    Mercury News, 4/8/2004

    Some federal officials hope to modify US commercial planes to fire lasers, launch flares ...... fly at night with lights dimmed to foil terrorists armed with portable missiles.

    While no planes in this country have come under missile attack so far, the government wants to be prepared."

    A device which launches flares also can spread chemical. And how can it avoid being spotted with a chemtrail? Fly at night. All this was in the name of anti-terrorist.

    Anyhow, the proposal was denied by the House due to the high cost. Then I have heard two news.

    One was in newspaper. (I didn't keep that newspaper because at first I didn't realize the real meaning behind it) It said because the fuel cost was too high, commercial airline decided to reduce the flight weight. One way was to reduce the water reserve which used to flush the toilet by half.

    The other one was from a TV news. It said a family was stunned when their roof of the house was broken through by a chunk of ice. Later it was proved the ice was the toilet water of a commercial plane. It said the toilet water released by air plane encountered with a cool air and froze to an ice.

    My allegation is this was an experiment when a commercial plane was reformed to spread chemical. It may also prove my allegation that the chemical was a kind of refrigerant which can freeze certain amount of water instantly.

  • Too Much Fat in Kolata's Coverage?   18 years 18 weeks ago

    Myself, I think the situation is hilarious. Both the results of the study and the reaction to it. When a study supports a popular paradigm, no one questions it, no matter how poorly designed. But when a study adds a new dimensions to the puzzle, those who don't agree with it cry wolf. Lots of us have been saying that the studies done on obesity have missed some amazingly
    obvious confounding variables; yet we like obesity as a villian, so we ignore them. We also favor a few simplistic dietary guidelines to serve as a talisman so we can live forever. When the later is questioned, we cry fowl. How about fair play and critical thinking across the board on studies. Lets try the scientific method for a change. Then again if we as a society didn't make so many Faustian bargains, we would not be so afraid of where we are going.

  • Next Step on the Road Map to Peace   18 years 18 weeks ago

    You share some of my persistent vision for Jerusalem, that of a new state/country open to all and any who are committed to peace. Citizenship would be contingent upon a vow of peace; weapons would not be allowed; citizenship would be revoked and violators would be banished . The borders would grow to accomodate those who participate.

    Present day Israel and Palestine would be stripped of all international support; that support going instead to the new peaceful state of Palestine.

    Of course, the Carlyle group will never permit this to happen.

  • Where's the meat, gang?   18 years 18 weeks ago

    but I wonder if the new layout isn't in part responsible. I'm still not as comfortable with this format as I was with the old boards, and even the older boards. But I'm still trying to get used to it here.

  • Anxious Al Caruba   18 years 18 weeks ago

    As a world class nitpicker, I tend to notice how people clean up their messes and keep others informed about what they're doing. It is good to see how carefully Bob does this. When he goes after Anxious Al, he also gives the guy a chance to comment, AND he fixes up prior remarks which needed some clarification. Kudos!

    Dick

  • Asbestos Lobbying: Everyone's Doing It   18 years 19 weeks ago

    Veterans lobby for, and sick workers against, Sen. Arlen Specter's bill "to [http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34945/story.htm halt asbestos lawsuits and create a $140 billion fund] for compensating asbestos victims":

    Representatives of veterans' groups told reporters that they cannot sue their former employer - the federal government - over asbestos exposure that happened in military facilities. This, they said, was why they in particular needed a compensation fund. ...

    Elsewhere in the Capitol, victims of asbestos-related diseases said they had collected 150,000 signatures, including those of many veterans, against the bill. At a news conference organized by plaintiffs' lawyers, these victims said the fund was designed to write down the liabilities of big companies while discouraging victims from filing claims with complicated exposure requirements.

  • Mideast Oil Reduction Not Meant Literally   18 years 19 weeks ago

    From [http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34954/story.htm a Reuters story]:

    "Realistically, it is simply not feasible in any time period relevant to our discussion today," [[Exxon Mobil]] Senior Vice President Stuart McGill said, referring to what he called the "misperception" that the United States can achieve energy independence. ...

    "Americans depend upon imports to fill the gap," McGill said. "No combination of conservation measures, alternative energy sources and technological advances could realistically and economically provide a way to completely replace those imports in the short or medium term."

  • Anxious Al Caruba   18 years 19 weeks ago

    Out of courtesy I sent the link to this blog post to Al Caruba. Below is his response. Bob Burton

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    Bob: Thanks for letting me know about your blog comments on my recent commentary about Michael Fumento with its referencing of Sourcewatch.org.
    I particularly appreciate the link to my "Credentials" page over at Caruba.com. Who knows, I may get some new business.

    Regards, Alan Caruba

  • What is Sourcewatch   18 years 19 weeks ago

    I would suggest a better place for this enquiry is Sourcewatch itself.

    Try querying the authors of the site on their talk pages.

  • Mideast Oil Reduction Not Meant Literally   18 years 19 weeks ago

    After I read this posting, I did not know whether to laugh or cry so I did both.

    I laughed because the Administration’s attempts to clarify what the President said and why he said bring to mind the saga of Humpty Dumpty.

    I cried because the President of the United States is nothing more than a puppet on a string held by the Saudi Royal family.

    John Hartz

  • Fake News: It's the PR Industry Against the Rest of Us   18 years 19 weeks ago

    Hi Mark, no response from the PRSA at all to either me or this site. Good luck with your investigations. If you post something on your site it would be appreciated if you could post a link here or drop me a line. cheers bob

  • Fake News: It's the PR Industry Against the Rest of Us   18 years 19 weeks ago

    I have to agree with you Bob. Has PRSA offered a rebuttal to your comments? I am going to investigate this issue further.
    PR Blog News

  • Environmental Defense or Nanotech Defense?   18 years 20 weeks ago

    As noted on the page in SourceWatch talk page link above, DuPont have confirmed that their Teflon leather protector - which states that it "works on the nano scale" - is not a nanotech product. Accordingly, I have deleted from the original post those sentences that referred to it as a nanotech product. I have also corrected the article page in SourceWatch.

  • Poll, Bush, politics   18 years 20 weeks ago

    377. Bin Laden acts on behalf of Bush (1/22/06)

    Bin Laden's new tape is obviously a disinformation made from Bush's "Psychological manipulating office". On the purpose to smear anti war movement.

    Read the following words from bin Landen. It's almost what Bush administration and its spokesman McClellan wanted to discredit their critics: "Un patriot, help enemy..."

    Re: "The voice on the tape said he was directing his message to the American people after polls showed that "an overwhelming majority of you want the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq but (Bush) opposed that desire."

    He said insurgents were winning the conflict in Iraq and warned that security measures in the West and the United States could not prevent attacks there."

    http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060119102809990008&;ncid=NWS00010000000001

    This is exactly what Bush group needed.

    Consider Bin Laden always responded to Bush's needs: when Bush wanted to start war in Mid-east, there was 911. Be aware 911 was activated eight months after Bush was selected to be the president. And this time, when Bush is revealed to spy on its citizens without court approval, and may face an impeach, Bin Laden comes out again to help. "I, the terrorist is here. Bush is right to start war against me. If you oppose this war and Patriot Act, you are helping me and Al Qaida."

    See how he reacts just on time as if he has got an order from Bush.

    Be careful there will be another terror attack, manipulated by US intelligence in the name of Al Qaida. Just like 911, Bali bombing..... This time is to save their puppet Bush and Patriot Act (which will expire in two weeks.)

  • The dark side of US   18 years 20 weeks ago

    353. Hurricane (3) Chemical and Greece air accident (10/27/05)

    When I said Hurricane Katrina and Rita were created by Feds for a framed case, there were sarcasms such like "You mean government has a weather machine?", or "to create a hurricane with a fan?". Those people, either are very ignorant, or most likely, to smear a truth on purpose. Government doesn't use an oven to produce a warm weather or use a fan to blow wind, just like they don't sprinkle the water to make an artificial rain. They use chemical. (see #218. Chemtrail and climate war)

    Control climate generally means control the movement of air stream. By controlling area air pressure or temperature, people can build artificial air passage or air wall, (of course, invisible, but sometimes people saw the chemtrail in the sky) guide the air mass move to area they want. Either it is cold air mass, or warm air mass, or humid or dry air mass.
    Now let's turn on to the crash of Greece air plane which I alleged one of four accidents done by intelligence. It caused my attention for its mysterious situation. Here are news about it.

    Quote, "YAHOO NEWS:
    Cypriot plane crashes near Athens, 121 killed
    By Yannis Behrakis

    A Cypriot airliner crashed into a mountainous area north of Athens on Sunday killing all 121 people on board after apparently suffering a loss of cabin pressure or oxygen.

    "The pilot has turned blue," a passenger said in a mobile text message to his cousin, according to Greek television. "Cousin farewell, we're freezing." "

    http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=ALT.TV.LOST+FAQ+EDITION

    Quote, "Greece Plane Crash Kills All Aboard

    "Shortly before the crash, the jet pilots saw one of the airline pilots slumped unconscious over the controls, ...... Some Greek media reports said fighter pilots also could see oxygen masks dangling inside the cabin."

    http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050814052709990004&ncid=NWS00010000000001

    What took place in the Greece plane seemed as follows: the cabin lost pressure, oxygen and temperature.

    But it's a Boeing 737. One of the most advanced air craft. And the plane has a well designed oxygen supply and pressurization system. So far we have never heard any problem of the insulation broken which caused low pressure that killed the people on board. This was the only one.

    A spokesman for the European Aviation Safety Agency, Daniel Holtgen, based in Cologne, Germany, said: "It is highly unlikely that the loss of cabin pressure alone would cause such an incident. There would have to be other contributing factors." (source, the above Yahoo News)

    What were the other factors? It's a puzzle. Then it came the Katrina and Rita. In a TV news report about a research plane which flew over the hurricane, I caught what the researcher said. He said he couldn't believe it that the air pressure was incredible low outside the plane. It suddenly touched off my mind. I thought Feds spreading chemical to control the pressure of air to alter the weather. If the air pressure could be created so low to astonish the researcher, (it was in open air, air would flow from other area to refill) then what would have happened if it was in a closed cabin? I thought of the Greece plane.

    I think it is a chemical which is easy to gasify and easy to react with the element part of air (either oxygen, nitrogen or carbon dioxide) and developed to another substance.(either liquid such like water, or solid) Air, after losing part of its element, has lost pressure. The chemical reaction also sucks heat.

    A hurricane needs a warm air mass with rich water vapor. Ocean supplies it. A hurricane also needs big air pressure difference and temperature difference above it. This chemical supplies it. That's how an artificial hurricane developed.

    When that chemical is used in a closed cabin. The low pressure and temperature it created will kill the people inside it. Oxygen may be exhausted as a component in the reaction. That's what happened in the Greece air plane.

    I allege Feds used the same chemical in Greece air accident as they used in hurricane creation. It's not a coincidence when I said the four air accidents was a cover up operation of Feds and Katrina and Rita were created for the same framed case. (to be continued)

  • Democracy Brings Hamas into Power   18 years 20 weeks ago

    The Hamas Charter of 1988 is very frightening when you read it, so is the Likud Platform of 1977, 1996. Statements made by the Likud leader Mr. Binyamin Netanyahu or the leaders of Hamas are very divisive and are undermining the peace process. Hamas has helped raise more money for Israel as well as helping the Likud party get elected into power. The Hamas Charter sounds like a fundamentalist Islamic cleric wrote it. The Likud Platforms sound like a Zionist Lawyer wrote them that graduated from an Ivy League University.

    It is time for the Arab League to help resolve the Palestinian-Israeli Crisis. The role of Arab League should include the following.

    1. Provide financial resources for the re-construction of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
    2. Help the Palestinian government in moderating and communicating their official position with the Israeli government to the world.
    3. Help to defuse the tension between the Arab nations and the State of Israel.
    4. Become an active member in the Peace negotiation between the Palestinians and Israelis.

    Only with the United States government putting more pressure on the Israeli government and the Arab League putting more pressure on the Palestinian government to come to agreeable terms. Making the position of the governments on both sides more transparent for the world to see. This could be done with an official government website dedicated to the Palestinian-Israel Peace Process. The website would create a level forum that everything could be put on the table by both nations for the people of the world to see.

    My Blog http://www.globalcrier.blogspot.com/

  • Environmental Defense or Nanotech Defense?   18 years 20 weeks ago

    The concern for the nanotechnology hazards of Teflon is
    misplaced, in my view. It's an old chemical. There is much more
    detail on this at the wiki discussion page:
    [[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Talk:DuPont_and_Nanotechnology]]

    Dick

    The world's largest leprechaun.

  • NSA Spying/Harassment   18 years 20 weeks ago

    Please see the reply above this, it will explain everything. I will contact these guys, perhaps I can get some help.
    Thanks!

  • NSA Spying/Harassment   18 years 20 weeks ago

    Your comments are very timely. I have filed 2 lawsuits, and now my lawyers have filed motions to withdraw from the cases. They say they have not been intimidated.....I can prove every word I say because I recorded all conversations, which is legal to do here in Arizona. So now I have to find other legal help, but dont know where to go. I now find out after a trip to Washington to speak to people, that the "black bag" company I was working for has a link to the Hamilton bank in Miami, a bank that some of the 911 highjacker money was laundered through. It is a bank that lots of Bush campaign money was laundered through also. Are you catching on now???? No wonder I was constantly harassed about my views about Bush, I guess it is his company....

  • Propaganda - In the Eye of the Beholder?   18 years 20 weeks ago

    BBC also has [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm a report on the Information Operations Roadmap], looking in particular at Pentagon plans for psyops on the internet:

    The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks. ...

    Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.

    "Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads. ...

    When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone.

    It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system.

    "Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system," it reads.

    The slogan "fight the net" appears several times throughout the roadmap. ...

    And, in a grand finale, the document recommends that the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum".