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"Today, I Weep For My Country"
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The speech given by Sen. Robert Byrd
Exactly five years ago, on the afternoon of March 19, 2003, mere hours before bombs began falling in Baghdad, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., gave a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate condemning the use of military force in Iraq. As soon as Byrd was...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:40:48
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"If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.": George Orwell - [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:39:43
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Tired of Fear
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I am sick...and I'm tired....
By Hugh Lipsius
01/28/06 "ICH" -- -- I am sick of being told who and what I must fear. For over two centuries now, our administration in Washington has exposed demons, marginalized races of people, described threats, and effectively turned the...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:36:58
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Like Silt in a River
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"What no one seemed to notice . . . was the ever widening gap . . . between the government and the people. . . And it became always wider. . . the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:34:36
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The War Prayer
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by Mark Twain
It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:32:52
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"If we do go to war, psychological operations are going to be absolutely a critical, critical part of any campaign that we must get involved in.": General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:30:56
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"None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it."- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978) US Vice-President, US Senator (D-MN) Source: New York Times, 9 March 1967
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-08 21:29:37
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"In all history, there is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. Only one who knows the disastrous effects of a long war can realize the supreme importance of rapidity in bringing it to a close.": Sun Tzu - (c.500-320 B.C.) name used by the unknown Chinese authors of...
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Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded...
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"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience". - Thomas Merton
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"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-07 06:31:55
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age: Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
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"For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong: Henry George 1839 - 1897
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-07 06:28:52
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"Today, I Weep For My Country"
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The speech given by Sen. Robert Byrd
Exactly five years ago, on the afternoon of March 19, 2003, mere hours before bombs began falling in Baghdad, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., gave a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate condemning the use of military force in Iraq. As soon as Byrd was...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 08:02:47
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For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and in...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 08:01:28
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Elite Policy And The "Axis of Evil"
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By Noam Chomsky
The official story right now is that after having been forced to accept an agreement on dismantling its nuclear weapons facilities, North Korea is again trying to evade its commitments in its usual devious way—"good news" for superhawks like John Bolton, who have...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 08:00:29
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Democrats Okay Funds for Covert Ops
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Secret Bush "Finding" Widens War on Iran
By Andrew Cockburn
Six weeks ago, President Bush signed a secret finding authorizing a covert offensive against the Iranian regime that, according to those familiar with its contents, "unprecedented in its scope."...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 07:56:28
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Since I Gave Up Hope, I Feel Better
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By William Blum
Food riots, in dozens of countries, in the 21st century. Is this what we envisioned during the post-World War Two, moon-landing 20th century as humankind's glorious future? It's not the end of the world, but you can almost see it from here....
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 07:42:59
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Distant Echoes of Vietnam
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The Day I Lost My Innocence
By William P. O'Connor
Old men make the wars, but they don’t fight the fight. The congressmen that declare war are too important to fight, too important and too busy. They are too busy lobbying, too busy collecting the lucrative pensions they have...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 07:41:57
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Is War With Iran Imminent?
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This time, it's more than a rumor...
By Justin Raimondo
The indications of an imminent attack – the latest incident, the steady stream of accusations coming from the U.S. regarding Iranian influence in Iraq, the nuclear charade, etc. – have suddenly taken a more...
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-03 07:40:35
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"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow." Ambrose Bierce
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"Americans love their captivity. There's no responsibility. When you're a captive, you don't have to make a decision about anything, though you have no Liberty. People don't want...
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Rubber Chicken T.V. ad against Pelosi
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The outrageous new TV ad from Shirley Golub, who is so courageously challenging Nancy Pelosi for the Democratic party congressional nomination in San Francisco, speaks for itself. It's an absolute scream.
Rubber Chicken TV Ad: http://www.shirley08.com/rubber_chicken.php
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thehughman1 on 2008-05-01 06:00:03
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