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The King Of Karaoke
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 Posted - 09/02/2007 : 11:21:47
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You've all read the potential for martial law stuff I've posted. Well, the talk on the net about something big happening is heating up. This may be a very interesting month. I'm hearing something big is going down by September 21. I've heard simultaneous dirty bombs to be detonated in San Francisco and LA. This could be the catalyst to invade Iran.
Here's another indicator that something is in the works. The invasion of Iran was supposed to go down in April but there were several things that stopped it. The military build up is still in place so something is planned. I do not believe the elections in 2008 are going to put a stop to the PNAC plan.
"We Are Going To Hit Iran. Big time"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/1/183018/1527
by Maccabee
Sat Sep 01, 2007 at 03:50:24 PM PDT
I have a friend who is an LSO on a carrier attack group that is planning and staging a strike group deployment into the Gulf of Hormuz. (LSO: Landing Signal Officer- she directs carrier aircraft while landing) She told me we are going to attack Iran. She said that all the Air Operation Planning and Asset Tasking are finished. That means that all the targets have been chosen, prioritized, and tasked to specific aircraft, bases, carriers, missile cruisers and so forth.
I asked her why she is telling me this.
Her answer was really amazing.
Maccabee's diary :: ::
She started in the Marines and after 8 years her term was up. She had served on a smaller Marine carrier, and found out through a friend knew there was an opening for a junior grade LSO in a training position on a supercarrier. She used the reference and the information and applied for a transfer to the United States Navy. Since she had experience landing F-18Cs and Cobra Gunships, and an unblemished combat record, she was ratcheted into the job, successfully changing from the Marines to the Navy. Her role is still aligned with the Marines since she generally is assigned to liason with the Marine units deploying off her carrier group.
Like most Marines and former Marines, she is largely apolitical. The fact is, most Marines are trigger pullers and most trigger pullers could care less who the President is. They simply want to be the tip of the sword when it comes to defending the country. She voted once in her life and otherwise was always in some forward post on the water during election season.
Something is wrong with the Navy and the Marines in her view. Always ready to go in harms way, Marines rarely ever question unless it’s a matter of tactics or honor. But something seems awry. Junior and senior officers are starting to grumble, roll their eyes in the hallways. The strain of deployments is beginning to hit every jot and tittle of the Marines and it’s beginning to seep into the daily conversation of Marines and Naval officers in command decision.
"I know this will sound crazy coming from a Naval officer", she said. "But we’re all just waiting for this administration to end. Things that happen at the senior officer level seem more and more to happen outside of the purview of XOs and other officers who typically have a say-so in daily combat and flight operations. Today, orders just come down from the mountaintop and there’s no questioning. In fact, there is no discussing it. I have seen more than one senior commander disappear and then three weeks later we find out that he has been replaced. That’s really weird. It’s also really weird because everyone who has disappeared has questioned whether or not we should be staging a massive attack on Iran."
"We’re not stupid. Most of the members of the fleet read well enough to know what is going on world-wise. We also realize that anyone who has any doubts is in danger of having a long military career yanked out from under them. Keep in mind that most of the people I serve with are happy to be a part of the global war on terror. It’s just that the touch points are what we see since we are the ones out here who are supposedly implementing this grand strategy. But when you liason with administration officials who don’t know that Iranians don’t speak Arabic and have no idea what Iranians live like, then you start having second thoughts about whether these Administration officials are even competent."
I asked her about the attack, how limited and so forth.
"I don’t think it’s limited at all. We are shipping in and assigning every damn Tomahawk we have in inventory. I think this is going to be massive and sudden, like thousands of targets. I believe that no American will know when it happens until after it happens. And whatever the consequences, whatever the consequences, they will have to be lived with. I am sure if my father knew I was telling someone in a news organization that we were about to launch a supposedly secret attack that it would be treason. But something inside me tells me to tell it anyway."
I asked her why she was suddenly so cynical.
"I have become cynical only recently. I also don’t believe anyone will be able to stop this. Bush has become something of an Emperor. He will give the command, and cruise missiles will fly and aircraft will fly and people will die, and yet few of us here are really able to cobble together a great explanation of why this is a good idea. Of course many of us can give you the 4H Club lecture on democracy in the Mid East. But if you asked any of the flight officers whether they have a clear idea of what the goal of this strike is, your answer would sound like something out of a think tank policy paper. But it’s not like Kosovo or when we relieved the tsunami victims. There everyone could tell you in a sentence what we were here doing."
"That’s what’s missing. A real sense of purpose. What’s missing is the answer to what the hell are we doing out here threatening this country with all this power? Last night in the galley, an ensign asked what right do we have to tell a sovereign nation that they can’t build a nuke. I mean the table got EF Hutton quiet. Not so much because the man was asking a question that was off culture. But that he was asking a good question. In fact, the discussion actually followed afterwards topside where someone in our group had to smoke a cigarette. The discussion was intelligent but also in lowered voices. It’s like we aren’t allowed to ask the questions that we always ask before combat. It’s almost as if the average seaman or soldier is doing all the policy work."
She had to hang up. She left by telling me that she believes the attack is a done deal. "It’s only a matter of time before their orders come and they will be sent to station and told to go to Red Alert. She said they were already practicing traps, FARP and FAST." (Trapping is the act of catching the tension wires when landing on the carrier, FARP is Fleet Air Combat Maneuvering Readiness Program- practice dogfighting- and FAST is Fleet Air Superiority Training).
She seemed lost. The first time in my life I have ever heard her sound off rhythm, or unsure of why she is doing something. She knows that there is something rotten in the Naval Command and she, like many of her associates are just hoping that the election brings in someone new, some new situation, or something.
"Yes. We're gong to hit Iran, bigtime. Whatever political discussion that are going in is window dressing and perhaps even a red herring. I see what's going on below deck here in the hangars and weapons bays. And I have a sick feeling about how it's all going to turn out."
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CIA Mind Control Operation MK-ULTRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46RI2twVao
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remig
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 11:42:51
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The King Of Karaoke
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 11:44:55
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http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/pol/406814963.html
Securities & investment banking
www.financialnews-us.com
Mystery trader bets market will crash by a third
Renée Schultes
16 Aug 2007
Carry trade unwinds as yen hits one-year high
An anonymous investor has placed a bet on an index of Europe's top 50 stocks falling by a third by the end of September, as world equity markets plunged for a third day and volatility hit a three-year high.
The mystery investor has bought put option contracts on the DJ Eurostoxx 50 index that will result in a profit if it plunges to 2,800 or below by the end of September. Based on the 2,800 strike price, the position covers a notional €6.9bn, and potentially even more using a market price of about 4,100 when the trades were done on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The identity of the investor is unknown but market sources speculated it was either a large hedge fund hedging itself against deepening losses, or a long-only fund manager pressing the panic button to protect its gains.
The investor has bought a total of 245,000 put options on the index. The September put option with a 2,800 strike was the most popular DJ Eurostoxx 50 contract yesterday, according to data from Bloomberg.
Volatility in European equity markets has risen sharply this week as investors cut back on the amount of risk they are taking. The VSTOXX index, which measures the volatility of the DJ Eurostoxx 50 index, hit 34 this morning, which is more than double its three-year average.
Similarly the volatility of the US stock market was trading at almost three times its three-year average, hitting 30 yesterday.
However, both indices continue to trade below their 2002 highs.
European stock markets were trading down almost 3% at by 13:00 GMT today, after large drops in Asia and Australia overnight. The Australian market fell 300 points at one stage when futures trading was suspended for over an hour and traders were forced to hedge positions by selling physical stocks rather than futures.
An analyst at Goldman Sachs JB Were in Australia wrote: "I think I shall remember this day as the day that I saw the market go to hell, look into the abyss - didn't like what it looked like and then came screaming back up as far away from there as it could get. ... It was a truly spooky day and I’ve seen a lot over the last 20 years but today will be one that anyone who saw it will never forget. But this is what market bottoms are made out of."
The rise in volatility and risk aversion has also contributed to a sharp appreciation in the Japanese yen, which has been used to finance the so-called carry trade, where investors borrow in a low-yielding currency to invest in one with a higher-yield.
Analysts' belief that the yen carry trade is set for a major unwinding has intensified today as the Japanese currency continued to rally in morning trade.
The yen strengthened today as it broke through several psychological barriers. The yen hit 113.60 against the dollar by 12:35 GMT, the first time in more than a year it has dropped below 114. The yen was substantially up against the dollar from yesterday, when it traded at above 116.
Simon Derrick, head of currency research at Bank of New York Mellon, said: "With any hope of even a brief bounce emerging in the yen crosses evaporating in the fierce glare of another horrible close in New York, it is clear that the vicious, self-reinforcing, downward spiral we were worrying about is already firmly established."
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CIA Mind Control Operation MK-ULTRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i46RI2twVao
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 11:45:45
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Originally posted by The King Of Karaoke
You've all read the potential for martial law stuff I've posted.
um, no. we haven't
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The King Of Karaoke
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 12:00:43
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You don't want to then. Bush has himself set up to become full fledged dictator if another 9/11 type event goes down. It's under the "Continuity of Government" plan. More craziness.
We've - in a sense - been under Martial Law since the fifties(earlier?). The "Presidential Directives" or "Executive Orders" are the main indicators this.
Google "Continuity of Government".
Or Youtube it! http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vrr6wZ3HnZg
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CIA Mind Control Operation MK-ULTRA
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 12:05:09
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I heard watching youtube videos shortens your life expectancy.
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 12:29:56
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mr.biscuitdoughhead
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 12:32:22
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and Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.
Into the sea, you and me, all these years and no one heard. |
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The King Of Karaoke
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mr.biscuitdoughhead
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 12:44:05
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Lincoln wore a funny hat.
Into the sea, you and me, all these years and no one heard. |
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 12:47:25
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see?
i don't like his beard, tho.
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 16:20:32
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Now its back to Bush is a mastermind. For awhile he was no more than a willing dupe. If it wasn't for youtube, we'd never be able to keep track.
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The King Of Karaoke
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Posted - 09/02/2007 : 21:21:56
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You suck.
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Posted - 09/03/2007 : 00:00:55
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If tomorrow all the things were gone I’d worked for all my life,
And I had to start again with just my children and my wife.
I’d thank my lucky stars to be living here today,
‘Cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can’t take that away.
And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I’d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land God bless the U.S.A.
From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee,
across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea,
From Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA,
Well, there’s pride in every American heart,
and it’s time to stand and say:
I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.
And I’d gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today.
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land God bless the U.S.A.
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The King Of Karaoke
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Posted - 09/03/2007 : 10:10:57
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The British troops are pulling out of Iraq, while Bush is visiting it. I makes me sick that he banned media coverage of coffins arriving home during the war, and now he's visiting the troops. What a c*nt.
"I hate how the reptile dreams it's a mammal. Scaley monster: be what you are!!" - Erebus. |
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i liked it better when you posted youtube links of downhill skating KOK
"I am a troll.. and a fag." -LBF |
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Posted - 09/03/2007 : 10:50:51
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The next war?
Arnaud de Borchgrave
September 3, 2007
BERN, Switzerland.
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070903/COMMENTARY/109030018/1012
After a brief interruption of his New Hampshire vacation to meet President Bush in the family compound at Kenebunkport, Maine, French President Nicolas Sarkozy came away convinced his U.S. counterpart is serious about bombing Iran's secret nuclear facilities. That's the reading as it filtered back to Europe's foreign ministries:
Addressing the annual meeting of France's ambassadors to 188 countries, Mr. Sarkozy said either Iran lives up to its international obligations and relinquishes its nuclear ambitions — or it will be bombed into compliance. Mr. Sarkozy also made it clear he did not agree with the Iranian-bomb-or-bombing-of-Iran position, which reflects the pledge of Mr. Bush to his loyalists, endorsed by Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut Independent. But Mr. Sarkozy recognized unless Iran's theocrats stop enriching uranium to weapons-grade levels under inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), we will all be "faced with an alternative that I call catastrophic."
A ranking Swiss official privately said, "Anyone with a modicum of experience in the Middle East knows that any bombing of Iran would touch off at the very least regional instability and what could be an unmitigated disaster for Western interests."
Leaks about the administration's plan to brand Iran's 125,000-strong Revolutionary Guards a global terrorist organization is widely interpreted as a major step on the escalator to military action. Belatedly, Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, has signed a contract with Lockheed Martin for the training of 35,000 elite guards to be assigned to protect the kingdom's widely scattered oil installations. With 25 percent of the world's oil reserves, Riyadh has earmarked $5 billion to train and field as soon as possible a high-tech force. Eighteen months ago, the desert kingdom was jolted by an al Qaeda terrorist squad that managed to penetrate the first two layers of defenses at Abqaiq, the nerve center of the entire oil infrastructure.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now stated publicly his country holds the key to the conditions of a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq, much criticized by the United States for his lack of leadership, and who has been deserted by half his Cabinet, is much praised in Tehran, where he has gone twice in 11 months to confer with Iranian leaders. Mr. Ahmadinejad also says Iran is ready to fill the power vacuum in Iraq following a U.S. withdrawal. "The political power of the occupiers is collapsing rapidly," he said, "and soon we will see a huge power vacuum in the region."
The United States is not alone in trying to prove Mr. Ahmadinejad's geopolitical weather forecast wrong. Saudi Arabia and its five Gulf Cooperation Council allies in the Gulf, Egypt and Jordan, are terrified at the idea of Iraq falling under Iranian domination.
Hoping to head off a U.S.-Iran military confrontation, European countries are still pinning their hopes on major Iranian concessions at the International Atomic Energy Commission in Vienna. Iran is back to cooperating with IAEA — but only one comma or semicolon at a time. The three European Union countries acting as U.S. surrogates on nuclear matters with Iran, and IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, detect progress where the U.S. sees only stalling. Iran is still resisting short-notice inspections of sites that are not officially declared nuclear facilities, and where secret nuclear work is believed to be taking place.
Tehran's only objective at the IAEA and the U.N. Security Council is to head off further economic sanctions from its major EU trading partners. Thus the mantra that its only interest in nuclear matters is as an alternative source of energy in a country already awash in oil taxes credulity.
Both the Bush administration and Israel are painstakingly fashioning a casus belli with Iran. For Israel, the training and weapons support Iran furnishes Hezbollah in Lebanon (now with more rockets of all kinds than it had before the 2006 war when it fired 4,000 into Israel) and Hamas in Gaza (now equipped with Katyusha rockets and a range of 10.6 miles), coupled with Mr. Ahmadinejad's existential threats against the Jewish state, are sufficient evidence to justify air attacks against Iran's nuclear facilities. And for the White House, there is daily evidence of Iran's Revolutionary Guards meddling in Iraq, from improved explosive devices made in Iran to behind-the-scenes dominance in the affairs of the oil-rich south.
Arnaud de Borchgrave is editor at large of The Washington Times and of United Press International.
I'll leave it with this.
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Drugging Children - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3609599239524875493&q=gary+null+drugging+kids&total=5&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 |
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Posted - 09/03/2007 : 17:44:15
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Originally posted by The King Of Karaoke
Bill, did you read the follow up link I posted? The story is bunk.
That being said I still believe Bush(clan) desires an excuse to hit Iran.
http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070903/COMMENTARY/109030018/1012
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you're getting off track again.
skateboarding kok.. skkaaaaaateeobarding... you want to talk about skkkaateeboarding...
watch the little yellow ball... you're getting sleeeepy....
now relax.. breathe deeply.. and imagine you're skatebording in the hills of the hawaii. a cool breeze gently tickling your skin. the smell of the ocean and flowers in the air. everywhere you look are voluptuous, bronze-skinned polynesian women wearing bikinis...
now repeat after me:
"i will never post a Bush or conspiracy-related youtube link again.."
"i am not a troll.. or a fag, though i do have homosexual tendencies.."
"i was wrong about Apocalypto, i will rent it again.."
now you're getting sleeeeepy again...
sleeeeeepppp......
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Posted - 09/05/2007 : 10:18:26
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Cheney Orders Media To Sell Attack On Iran
Fox News, Wall Street Journal instructed to launch PR blitz for upcoming military strike
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Dick Cheney has ordered top Neo-Con media outlets, including Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, to unleash a PR blitz to sell a war with Iran from today, according to Barnett Rubin, the highly respected Afghanistan expert at New York University.
The New Yorker magazine reports that Rubin had a conversation with a member of a top neoconservative institution in Washington, who told him that "instructions" had been passed on from the Office of the Vice-President to roll out a campaign for war with Iran in the week after Labor Day.
"It will be coordinated with the American Enterprise Institute, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Commentary, Fox, and the usual suspects, writes Rubin, "It will be heavy sustained assault on the airwaves, designed to knock public sentiment into a position from which a war can be maintained. Evidently they don’t think they’ll ever get majority support for this—they want something like 35-40 percent support, which in their book is “plenty.”
Rubin subsequently confirmed with a second source that the propaganda coup had been launched and the individual, another top Neo-Con at a major think tank, had this to say about it: “I am a Republican. I am a conservative. But I’m not a raging lunatic. This is lunatic.”
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An organized mass media campaign to propagandize for a military strike on Iran mirrors exactly what happened in late 2002 in preparation for the invasion of Iraq and would be seen as par for the course in anticipation of an attack that presidential candidate Ron Paul amongst other expert observers fear will take place within 12 months.
President Bush met directly with talk radio idealogues at the White House last year to push the Neo-Con agenda. Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Neal Boortz and Michael Medved (pictured below) amongst others all attended and received their talking points straight from the President's mouth.
Considering the history of the sordid "fake news" scandal, where millions of dollars were used to create pre-packaged government press releases disguised as news, along with the Armstrong Williams farce, it should surprise no one that such "instructions" are now being handed out to prepare the public for another military invasion.
The issuance of orders for Neo-Con mass media arms to push for an assault on Iran also puts the U.S. on red alert for a terror attack, whether real or manufactured, which Dick Cheney has already promised will immediately be blamed on Iran no matter who the real culprits are.
On August 1st, 2005 the American Conservative reported that Cheney had tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States. The plan involved a massive air strike on Iran which included the use of nuclear weapons.
The publication reported that, "The response is not conditional on Iran actually being involved in the act of terrorism directed against the United States," meaning that any such attack will immediately be blamed on Iran and any evidence to the contrary will be buried.
The London Times reported on Sunday that the Pentagon had finalized plans for a 3 day blitz designed to annihilate 1,200 targets in Iran and destroy the country's military capability.
Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said.
Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.
Rhetoric regarding a potential military attack on Iran has heated again over the past week, with President Bush having warned of the risk of a "nuclear holocaust" if the country was allowed to acquire nuclear capability.
In a speech last Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that a diplomatic push by the world's powers to rein in Tehran's nuclear program was the only alternative to "an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran."
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad subsequently stated that a U.S. attack on Iran was "impossible" due to U.S. troops being tied down in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yesterday, he claimed to have proof that the U.S. were not planning to attack, bizarrely citing his mathematical skills as an engineer and faith in God.
A January poll by Ipsos found that 40% of Americans thought it likely that Iran would be attacked by the end of the year. The U.S. has stationed three aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, the Nimitz, a nuclear-powered carrier, John C. Stennis Strike Group, and Dwight D. Eisenhower, a relief carrier.
The U.S. government is openly funding and supporting the activities of Jundullah, a Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorist group formerly headed by the alleged mastermind of 9/11, to carry out bombings in Iran and destabilize Ahmadinejad's power base.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard military was recently declared to be a terrorist organization by the White House, another ominous sign that an attack is being readied.
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kathryn
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Posted - 09/05/2007 : 10:27:48
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Idea for you, KOK:
Instead of posting gloomy stuff and trying to save us from the hell-bent US government's underhanded plans, why don't you mosey over to Brian's bachelor party thread and have some laughs? Let Rome burn, baby! C'mon, floop is over there with some tequila and I hear that there's gonna be some good music later on.
the cure make me want to die, but in a good way -- mr.biscuitdoughhead
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Posted - 09/05/2007 : 10:45:49
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Originally posted by kathryn
Idea for you, KOK:
Instead of posting gloomy stuff and trying to save us from the hell-bent US government's underhanded plans, why don't you mosey over to Brian's bachelor party thread and have some laughs? Let Rome burn, baby! C'mon, floop is over there with some tequila and I hear that there's gonna be some good music later on.
the cure make me want to die, but in a good way -- mr.biscuitdoughhead
Probably because I'm fairly sure I'm not invited to any bachelor parties due to my rant's of the past few weeks.
Plus I'm going sk8ing
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"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Former Director, CIA
David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission in June of 1991, addressed a meeting of that organization. 'We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine,' Rockefeller told them, 'and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination [read as 'democracy'] practiced in past centuries.'
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Ron Paul, Duncan Hunter, and Others Silenced at ABC News Debate -- The Media is Selecting the Front Runners
August 25, 2007
Candidate Words % Poll %
Romney 2502 21.0 26%
Giuliani 1995 16.7 14%
Huckabee 1320 11.1 8%
McCain 1264 10.6 8%
Thompson 1221 10.2 4%
Brownback 1052 8.8 5%
Tancredo 922 7.7 5%
Hunter 901 7.6 1%
Paul 751 6.3 2%
Two days ago we found that Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel were not given equal speaking time through our analysis of the debate. Afterwards, we were asked to analyze the Republican ABC News debate by visitors to our site -- in doing so -- we found an even bigger discrepancy in the amount of time the candidates were able to speak.
There were a total of 14,694 words spoken at the debate and 11,928 of those were by one of the candidates. The breakdown in the total number of words can be seen in the table to the right and is displayed alongside the poll numbers that those candidates received in the ABC News poll heading into the debate.
Mitt Romney clearly dominated the debate in terms of the number of words he spoke. He uttered more than one-fifth of all the words at the debate -- out of nine candidate -- it was more than 3 times as many words as was spoken by Ron Paul.
If the emphasis of the debate was to give more time to the candidates at the top of the polls, they did a good job. You can clearly see that the poll numbers almost exactly reflect the relative polling positions these candidates were receiving heading into the debate.
One could argue that the talking time was deliberately dispersed this way by looking at the differences in talk time between the first half and the second half of the debate. They were adjusting the talk times to reflect their agenda of promoting those high in the polls and silencing those low in the polls. It is obvious when you look at how much Rudy Giuliani was allowed to talk in the second half of the debate -- due to his lack of talk time in the 1st half. Or in how little Tommy Thompson and Duncan Hunter were allowed to speak at the second half of the debate -- due to their abundance of time in the first half.
Candidate 1st Half % 2nd Half % Overall %
Romney 22.5 19.5 21.0
Giuliani 13.1 20.3 16.7
Huckabee 10.9 11.3 11.1
McCain 8.5 12.7 10.6
Thompson 13.0 7.4 10.2
Brownback 8.0 9.6 8.8
Tancredo 7.4 8.0 7.7
Hunter 10.1 5.1 7.6
Paul 6.5 6.4 6.3
We determined the half way point as being the point at which the total number of words spoken by the candidates was half of the overall total.
Ron Paul was clearly silenced the most. His 2% in this Iowa poll may have him hovering near the bottom but he is consistently 2-3% all around the country. The same cannot be said of T. Thompson, Brownback, Tancredo, or Hunter and those candidates were able to speak more than Paul.
There has been no evidence to suggest that the poll numbers themselves directly impact how voters vote but there has been mounds of documented evidence to suggest that the media props up the candidates that are high in the polls so much so that voters are affected. In short -- voters are affected indirectly by poll numbers through the media's emphasis on polls.
This couldn't be summarized any better than Herbert Asher, a political science professor at Ohio State University in his book "Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know".
"Speculation about how polls affect voters has been widespread and contradictory. Some observers argue that polls ... increase the incentives for supporters of the trailing candidate to change their preference... Others emphasize the underdog effects...rally around the candidate the polls show to be losing.... but... Polls have an indirect effect on voters through their impact on campaign contributors, campaign workers, and media coverage..." -- Herbert Asher; Political Science Professor; Ohio State University.
The media's impact on the polls can not be ignored -- they are choosing the front runners, don't you know? If you are upset at how the media is choosing our candidates then promote this article and send it off to your friends.
Critics of my article will claim that the news organizations are giving the voters the candidates they want to see -- they are going by the public opinion polls for pete's sake...
"There are literally dozens of people running for the Democratic nomination. Does each one deserve equal time? Do Ole Savior, Bob Boyer, Wrendo Godwin and all the rest deserve attention equal to Clinton and Obama?" - blogger at DU
That argument is valid and has a lot of traction with the majority of voters but they are just pawns of the system... The candidates the voters want to see are the ones they are programmed to see by the media -- a vicious cycle of Democracy in which the Media has downright control. Besides, the candidates that they invite to the debate should all have equal time.
Leave your comments below as to where you stand on the issue, do you think the media should give equal time to all candidates? Do you think they are choosing the front runners? Do you think the people are getting what they want? Is this good for democracy?
Comments in Response to our ABC News - Democratic Debate Article (Source)
"In a perfect world, the media would focus on issues and not the game of elections." - Magic Rat of Democratic Underground
"This election, as have others before it, is being shaped for us. They are telling us who we should be considering. They control the frequency. If they showed more of Kucinich, more people would know of Kucinich and they could just as easily drop the novelty of Clinton and Obama if they wanted to. The media frames the candidates and the debate and they frame us in the process." - Texas Explorer of Democratic Underground.
What happens when you put up 2 of the same products side by side, only difference between them is the label. Product A gets hours of free advertising time in all the major newspapers, tv networks, and radio stations. Product B gets none. Which do you think the average Joe will buy in to, product B?" - Pawel K
Websites Talking About my Kucinich-Gravel Article
RawStory - ABC News Denies Kucinich Campaign's Bias Complaint
Democratic Underground - Democratic Discussion Forum
NewsBusters.org - Gladnick's comments.
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