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THE PATRIOT MICROCHIP, is to be implanted in terrorists. The implant is specifically designed to be installed in their foreheads; when properly installed, it will allow the implantee to speak to God instantly. [FONT=’Arial’,’sans-serif’][/font] […]

Late Night: Wedding Song By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related Posted on Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 01:19:55 AM EST Tags: (all tags) Share This: “The Wedding Song” from Bob Dylan’s Planet Waves album, great lyrics. It’s […]

Tamil Nadu politics and its galaxy of cine stars A small temple in Tamil Nadu’s Rajapalayam town saw an unusual crowd last week - a gathering of diehard Rajnikanth fans who prayed fervently that their icon decides to enter politics.
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Well, fearless readers, I am stumped. The Obama organization has just announced a new hire. From the Washington Post: The Obama campaign announced on Monday that it has chosen Patti Solis Doyle to a key general election post, making her the first prominent Clinton official to make the leap to the […]

I’ve been debating internment and the Terrorism Act with my councillor, George Ashcroft, over at his place. Despite being a Conswervative, he supports the detention without trial of “terrorism” suspects for a month and a half. I’ve pointed out some serious flaws in the Terrorism Act such: Section 3 says that if […]

In an editorial yesterday, the Guardian said that President Chavez of Venezuela had performed a “handbrake turn” when he called on the Colombian guerrilla organisation the FARC to cease its armed campaign and release all hostages, reversing his previous position. Problem is, this is completely false. Chavez was repeating his established […]

Iraq Ain’t No Insurgency, Says Former Petraeus Aides By Noah Shachtman - Cross-posted at Danger Room Iraq cooled from a raging boil to a slow simmer, thanks mostly to tactics taken from the military’s counterinsurgency manual. Or, at least, that’s the accepted wisdom. But a group of military thinkers and Iraq veterans says the established […]

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The ridiculous extremes of pseudo-secularism Posted on June 17, 2008 by B Shantanu Fellow blogger Varnam recently wrote two posts on how learning Sanskrit is now considered to be a “communal” activity and something that might put you at odds with the “secular” brigade. In the first one, he pointed out: […]

At Least His Jumper’s Better Than Rondo’s by 100%InjuryRate | 11 mins ago For reasons that I better not get into, I actually attended the same high school as our current President. Some people who went there went on to become President, […]

By Reidar Visser (www.historiae.org) 16 June 2008 Monday 30 June 2008 could be one of those fateful dates in Iraqi politics that will remain mostly unnoticed by the outside world. 30 June is the new deadline set by Iraq’s electoral commission for forming coalitions for this autumn’s provincial elections. The deadline […]

Holy city, unholy mess Posted on June 17th, 2008 In trying to please ultra-Zionists, Barack Obama is ignoring Israel’s long-term interests
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links for 2008-06-17 June 17, 2008 at 2:31 am · Filed under del.icio.us Save vs. Death: The Masque of Red Death promotional art (tags: Vincent-Price illustration movie 1960s kitsch graphic-design art) Economist’s View: Polanyi’s “The Great Transformation” (tags: economics controversy academia history social-norms social-sciences) How to Save the […]

It’s the morning after for my very first release, “Demon Inn.” I had a great time writing about McKenna and Aidan, but I also loved writing about Murphy’s Corner, their hometown. I think most areas have places that are reputed to be haunted, but there are several places around the world that seem […]

Kush’s First Grow HPS SOIL… by masterkushner Yesterday 11:54 PM 2,112 103,866 Post Your Pics Publish your photos, if it makes your mind tingle put it up - - - Gardening Gardening everything else […]

Diane MacEachern - Big Green Purse June 16, 2008 Filed under: Marketing, Sustainability, Video — Mario Vellandi @ 5:35 pm [Video Link for Email/Other Subscribers] Here’s Diane, author of Big Green Purse, talking to marketing experts at Sustainable Brands 08 in Monterey, CA on June 2, 2008. She […]

The North Pacific Gyre and Garbage Island June 15, 2008 Filed under: Sustainability, Video — Mario Vellandi @ 6:01 pm Vice magazine is putting out some fantastic video journalism covering culture, lifestyle, politics, the environment, and other topics. I really look up to them for great inspiration. If you’ve met me, you’ll […]

Prof. Ashish Nandy, India’s leading intellectual acknowledged as the founding fathers of postcolonial studies has recently got a new ‘identity’. According to the Gujarat Police he is now an accused in a criminal case supposedly for ‘promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth […]

No powerful nation has ever invaded another to remove malevolent dictator, install democracy, help their poor, prevent Civil War or any other benevolent REASON. Those are EXCUSES Imperialists need to plunder others’ resources.
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Yes, I hate politics. That may surprise some of you. After all, I administer The Liberty Papers, and you’d be likely to wonder why someone who administers a political blog can hate politics so much. But politics is a dirty, nasty business, and nothing makes that more clear than the Stormfront fiasco. Back […]

Dandelion Salad Free Press http://freepress.net June 10, 2008 On Monday, Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) introduced S. 3099, a bill that prohibits the Defense Department from using government funds to spread propaganda. The legislation also mandates reports within 90 days […]

The Times - Robert Mugabe’s militia burn opponent’s wife alive The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and […]

The issue of Arab angst over Israeli influence in the United States has very clearly spilled over into the issue of Barack Obama’s candidacy for the presidency, as recent Arabic translations on WORLDMEETS.US demonstrate. This article from Al-Arab Al-Yawm of Jordan - which is a majority Palestinian country - expresses optimism […]

It turns out choosing a vice president isn’t that complicated after all. Republican presidential candidate John McCain joked on Monday that Google, the popular Internet search engine, had made investigating his list of potential candidates a little bit easier. “You know, basically it’s a Google,” he said to laughter at a fund-raising luncheon […]

If you’re in Oregon or Washington, please join nationally syndicated weekly columnist, New York Times bestselling author, and fellow blogger David Sirota, who is in town for events, tomorrow and Friday, to promote his new book The Uprising. The Uprising is a new book by New York Times bestseller David Sirota about the […]

(I Dare Ya!) I just read TC’s post dismissing Callahan and Chichester, and he’s right… Top GOP Leaders should be sticking with their candidate for the sake of the Party, or at least the Majority status they held in the past. Back in the old days when Republicans worshiped the ground Governor Allen […]

Pie Eyed Political Ideas Department June 11th, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief File this in your It Ain’t Never Gonna Happen file. Category: Vice President, Al Gore, Barack Obama, 2008 Elections, Politics |
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Beirut - The focus continues to be the formation of the national unity government . The allocation of the sovereign ministries seems to be the stumbling block . MP Walid Jumblatt and Speaker Nabih Berri met Wednesday evening and agreed to speed up the formation of the cabinet
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WE’RE READY FOR A BREAK FROM THESE GUYS ALREADY FITSNews - June 11, 2008 - Some people don’t like it, but we’ve always appreciated that extra weekend that falls between the conference championships and the Super Bowl. It’s a chance for us to recharge our batteries before we have to once […]

The Obama is a Muslim smear and the stupid whitey video rumors aren’t the last nasty dishonest rant to test our press corps’s willingness to publish anything. A few months ago I noticed claims being circulated by a fellow named Larry Sinclair making allegations that Obama had sex and used drugs with […]

Oh, Jack Thompson, you poor deluded old idiot. I know Jack’s disbarment hearing is old news at this point but a lot of my readers don’t follow this kind of news on a regular basis. Jack Thompson with his favorite video game Jack Thompson is the florida lawyer who deems himself […]

A few minutes ago I went to Google News and was slapped on the face with this: Does Obama Really Not Mind High Gas Prices (As Observed by GOP)? Ouch. The link was on Fox’s Embed Producers blog, which is written by nine bad motherfuckers. Here are the last five headlines: […]

 distributorcap NY In the 1960’s oil was relatively cheap, in abundant supply and flowed freely. The economies of the US, Japan and Western Europe hummed along and rapidly became dependent their drug energy of choice. The Seven Sisters of the petroleum industry — Esso (now ExxonMobil), Royal-Dutch Shell, Anglo-Persian (now BP), Standard […]

After eight months of the loonie hovering near parity with the U.S. greenback, Canadians still continue to pay more than our American cousins and continue to go south of the border to help the American economy. What is Flaherty going to do about it to help Canadian consumers and traders.
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Politics >> Senator: People Sliming Michelle Obama Deserve The “Hottest Ring In Hell”
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Earlier this year, The Onion made a hilarious video, which jokingly suggests that FDA officials have been smoking lots of weed. Reporters for the Wall Street Journal health blog might agree with the spoof. Since the regulatory agency announced on Monday that it may accept as much as $275 million in funding […]

June 2008 Features On April 8, 2008, the Harper government introduced Bill C-51 as an amendment to the Food and Drugs Act. If passed into law, Canadians will no longer have the freedom to choose between pharmaceutical drugs and natural health products. The two categories we now have, namely drugs and natural health […]

“Vote for me, and I will turn America’s court system over to you.” This appears to be Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s strategy to get religious conservatives to support him, the way they supported Bush in previous elections. MSNBC: McCain Reaches Out but Evangelicals Still Wary I would bet good money that the […]

Economics: Which Way for Obama? June 10th, 2008 by JOE WINDISH Yesterday Matt Stoller posted an analysis of Obama’s Raleigh speech on the economy. Stoller says Obama’s economic philosophy is a “split between a neoliberal Rubin-type policy tone and an embrace of behavioral economics, a new school of thought popularized by […]