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CLUE BATS! ALERT!

February 11th, 2003 | Comments Off

FROM THE DENVER POST.COM From this point on, my comments are in bold. WARNING! Gibberish Alert! The column about to be fisked is apparently not written in English. Tuesday, February 11, 2003 – At the United Nations, they covered “Guernica.” That tells you something. Yeah, what’s happening in front is important. So? Thousands of pages of intelligence reports and hours of speeches, debates, rallies and demonstrations will have their effects, inching public opinion along by degrees. But nothing moves people like art. It’s subversive. Perhaps I slept through art appreciation? Art is whatever the individual believes it to be. Guernica, for example, is a stern warning about what happens when dictators are allowed to attack other nations. Politicians know this. So does Harvy Blanks.Who? Blanks is an actor who can feel it when the audience sighs knowingly, … Read entire article »

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THE YAK OF THE TOWN

February 4th, 2003 | Comments Off

From the February 10, 2003 issue of the New Yorker, a column by Hendrik Hertzberg Caution! This column may cause drowsiness or vomiting. Bold items from this point on are my commentary. The most tasteless passage in last week’s State of the Union Message came about half an hour into the speech, as President Bush was enumerating his Administration’s successes against Al Qaeda. Three thousand suspected terrorists have been arrested, he said. “And many others have met a different fate,” he went on. “Let’s put it this way: they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies.” Talk about smoking guns. You could almost see the President blowing across the upturned barrel of his Colt .45.And people cheered, Hendrik! We WANT our enemies dead, a greasy … Read entire article »

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John Pilger, Lackwit

January 30th, 2003 | Comments Off

From The Mirror PILGER: BLAIR IS A COWARD Jan 29 2003 John Pilger: His most damning verdict on Tony Blair My comments in bold from this point on William Russell, the great correspondent who reported the carnage of imperial wars, may have first used the expression “blood on his hands” to describe impeccable politicians who, at a safe distance, order the mass killing of ordinary people. Hmmm… this is the guy Bismark gave the Iron Cross to. Odd, don’t you think? And he was knighted, hardly done for a foe of imperialism. Perhaps his views weren’t quite so clear cut? In my experience “on his hands” applies especially to those modern political leaders who have had no personal experience of war, like George W Bush, who managed not to serve in Vietnam, and the effete Tony … Read entire article »

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It’s the Jews, the Jews!

January 21st, 2003 | Comments Off

Quoted from HERE in the Gulf News Online. Former U.S. senator and author Paul Findley has said that the September 11 attacks could have been avoided if the United States government had been fair in its dealings with Palestinians and not blindly supported Israel. Well, first, he was a Congressman from Illinois. Second, bin Laden said it was about Saudi Arabia. While visiting Saudi Arabia for the first time to promote his book Silent No More, which aims to rectify the image of Islam in the United States, Findely told a large audience and the media here that in 1990 he advised the Arab Americans to vote for George W. Bush to get fair treatment from the United States but unfortunately when Bush was elected he turned a blind eye to Arab issues. … Read entire article »

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