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Open Cordoba House

by Propagandee August 31, 2010

Roman bridge leading to the Mezquita, or Mosque-Church, in Cordoba, Spain I got me a bone to pick with Sharif el-Gamal, the developer of the Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan, originally called Cordoba House, on near the site of the former World Trade Center. While there are a variety of groups for and against [...]

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Fear Profiteers And Propaganda Puppeteers

by Propagandee August 24, 2010

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Parent Company Trap www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party Fux News has managed to hoist itself on its own cynical,  hypocritical petard once again, this time over the potential funding of the Park 51 Islamic cultural center.  Jon Stewart [...]

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Afutilestan (VII): The Great Game Revisted

by Propagandee December 5, 2009

President Obama demonstrating the logic of his Afghanistan policy Geography is destiny, Napoleon is reported to have said. I began to appreciate that political truism early on, thanks to marathon games of  Risk I  played as a kid.  According to Wikipedia, Risk was originally released in France in 1957, as La Conquête du Monde—The Conquest [...]

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Neo-Decepticons At It Again

by Propagandee June 29, 2009

Transforming the Middle East, one neocon deception at a time No, this isn’t a review of the new film sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (worldwide 5 day gross $381 million), in which a race of evil alien robots known as the Decepticons return to earth in an attempt to redeem their former glory. Rather, [...]

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Cheney Agrees To Star In Memento Remake

by Propagandee May 27, 2009

Dick Cheney reprising the role of Guy Pearce So where are you?  You’re in some motel room underground bunker. You just – you just wake up and you’re in – in a motel room bunker. There’s the key. It feels like maybe it’s just the first time you’ve been there, but perhaps you’ve been there [...]

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Torture In Context: Update 3 3/4

by Propagandee May 14, 2009

A typical waterboarding session on Darth Cheney’s day off Since my April 22 post, Torture In Context, I’ve noticed a number of people pursuing the same logical conclusion from slightly different angles: The reverse engineered SERE torture resistance training used on various al Qaeda captives was not designed to produce actionable intelligence but to elicit [...]

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Torture In Context

by Propagandee April 22, 2009

Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique” In 1999, Bush‘s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda. (That would include the privatization of social security whose blood [...]

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Palin’s Fatal Fundamental Flaw

by Michael Hart September 4, 2008

McPalin wowed the base* with Rovian rancor and division; what’s new. Maybe Sarah Palin was a fine mayor of Wasilli; I ‘ownt even know. And, if in the performance of her “actual responsibilities” as governor of Alaska, she got a bad cop off the street and spared a family some domestic violence, well that’s wonderful. [...]

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