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Antiwar.com Original Articles : We Interrupt This Column...

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 16:52:51 +0000

"Of course none of this is to defend the war criminal Obama's decision to implement regime change." Exactly ... and who are you to dare comment about Libya? You never lived there. You never saw what I saw. You are clueless about the history. Try this on for size: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeiAs4Br-_k&fe... I bet that you will not watch it fully.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : We Interrupt This Column...

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 08:48:29 +0000

Thanks Mick, but the fact is that Antiwar has never been a platform for free speech. For years it was totally forbidden to mention 9/11 and NOW you have to tread very carefully if you question the weird conspiracy theory that 19 Arab box-cutter-armed, non-pilots totally defeated N American defence systems, directed solely by a man dying of kidney disease in Pakistan. Yes Osama bin Laden died at least ten years ago. What is the correct word to describe Justin and all who believed their "gubbermint"? Idiot?

Antiwar.com Original Articles : We Interrupt This Column...

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 05:36:43 +0000

RT is one of many directions to go in. Alex Jones for a bit on "the wild side". Jeff Rense for a smorgasbord. The Daily Telegraph for a feed of British "right wing" stuff. FKNews for a satirical view, Global Research. PressTV. Common Dreams. The list is virtually endless and Atlas Shrugs off those who do not survive, there is no place in Ayn Rands/Justins world for those who fail in the raw world of libertarianism.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : We Interrupt This Column...

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 04:29:06 +0000

A beef of mine is that libertarians are too extreme/doctrinaire; thus you mob doctrinaire/fundamentalist/individualists will NEVER allow even the thought that can and have been rulers for the common good. You, Rick, feed your governments war propaganda, in total ignorance of facts. FACT: Libya was the most prosperous and liberal country in Africa ... but you hate liberals, as all 'good' libertarians do, so destroy. I asked Justin a straight question about Assad/Syria, but he refuses to answer. FACT, since the utter destruction of Libya, Syria is the only country in the ME where real libertarianism still flourishes, in such important terms as Druze, Sunnis, Shi'as, Kurds, etc. living side by side in a secular state ... yet you, Justin and YOUR government portray Assad as a monster. You side with the thugs who want global chaos.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : We Interrupt This Column...

Sat, 2 Jun 2012 03:56:04 +0000

My first comment has been deleted, so whoever runs Antiwar is giving a false impression. In my first comment I challenged Justin/Antiwar to have another look at 9/11 and his draconian version of Ayn Rand. It all got deleted ... at least from what I see now in the comments section ... so you, Rick, have been denied information. You may or may not have agreed with me, but of course you cannot "get it" - either way - when you are not allowed to read what I wrote. gsealey was able to read my first comment, before it got deleted; so take a lead from him.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : We Interrupt This Column...

Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:25:52 +0000

I already asked Justin about initiating discussion, but I got no response. Maybe you will have more luck. There is that saying that if you go on doing the same thing over and over again with the same lack of success, then .....................

Antiwar.com Original Articles : We Interrupt This Column...

Fri, 1 Jun 2012 06:55:42 +0000

BTW I have been with Antiwar for maybe ten years, despite my differences with your brand of Libertarianism, Justin e.g. Noam Chomsky is a 'social libertarian', and I have donated in the past; but this latest appeal of yours to keep you employed is falling on deaf ears. You write, "At times, a vast weariness nearly overcomes me, and I just want to take to my bed, close my eyes, and forget. Yet I can’t forget the cries of the wounded, the victims of American "liberation," the ghosts of those slaughtered in the name of our endless "war on terrorism." They haunt me even as I sleep.' It is not just all about you and your abstracted sympathy. I pulled burned and wrecked bodies from house fires and car crashes, when I served in a fire brigade. I lived in Libya for a while, where everything I knew is now destroyed and where people I knew are probably dead ... but I do not recall you ever praising Qadafi for making Libya the most prosperous country in Africa. Straight question. What is your opinion about Assad/Syria?

Antiwar.com Original Articles : What Does Ron Paul Want?

Fri, 18 May 2012 09:37:18 +0000

So what does this prove? RP is totally ineffective? No one has taken him seriously, despite decades of being very well paid by the system he says he wants to abolish ... and now he has a son sucking off the public teat too. What sort of Ayn Randian, Libertarian wants to BOTH destroy the Washington hand that pays him AND start a dynasty in Washington?

Antiwar.com Original Articles : What Does Ron Paul Want?

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:58:31 +0000

OK Ron, but it does puzzle me that you know a lot about what I wrote, but want $250 from me to make a "badass website/blog". Why, with your knowledge, do you not already have your own website/blog? Why do you want me to give you $250, when I have offered Antiwar at least $1000 for enabling open discussion? Antiwar is a well-established website/blog, so why would I be interested in your proposition? If, perchance, Antiwar does allow open discussion, then my offer would be a far better 'investment' than your offer. As it happens Antiwar HAS become more open ... a couple of years ago posts, like mine, were censored ... but now I am able to post such links as I have. How, pray tell, could you construct a better website/blog than Antiwar, or any number of alternatives to the MSM?

Antiwar.com Original Articles : What Does Ron Paul Want?

Fri, 18 May 2012 06:19:57 +0000

OK Justin, Antiwar, here is a deal concerning you asking for donations every 3 months or so. I pledge at least $1000, IF you enable full discussion of 911 + enabling discussion of how and why Ron Paul and Alan Greenspan are both disciples of Ayn Rand. Neither you, Justin, nor Ron Paul has ever addressed "inconvenient facts" about 911. Neither of you are likely to, but prove me wrong on both of my conditions for donating at least $1000. You do not have to take http://www.911truth.org/ fully on board. You are welcome to completely dismiss http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/bbc_wtc... And, as a true libertarian, you are totally free to rubbish http://ae911truth.org/ And you are free to deny the ideological links of RP and Greenspan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sou2RkjVya8 http://www.zimbio.com/Libertarianism/articles/woB...

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Catching Rachel's Drift

Sat, 12 May 2012 03:07:08 +0000

Yes Mick. And Justin seems awfully confused, or really is confusing for others, whilst clear in his own mind as to what "to the right of Ayn Rand" means? I was not raised in the US and so I have little first-hand experience of decades of vilification of 'the left', socialists, liberals, progressives, moderates and the conflation of all as "commies". Seems that Justin fits in well with the bye-gone(?) era of McCarthyism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism Maybe that is what being even more 'right' than Ayn Rand is? In conventional terms - even within the propagandized US - Justin's claim be be 'extreme right' can only really mean fascist. Weird to say the least. Mind-bending. No way will Justin admit that his fascist government at least allowed Sept eleven - nor Ron Paul. Extreme libertarians simultaneously want total freedom from any form of government, but also defend Washington to the hilt, when it comes to the red flag that has 'justified' all current wars. How can anyone be "anti-war" AND refuse to examine pretexts. Orwellian.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Catching Rachel's Drift

Sat, 12 May 2012 02:29:53 +0000

Always an arbitrary 'starting point' for every historical trajectory and/or narrative posing as THE history. I am with you John and so much more you could no doubt cite ... me too.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Promises to Keep

Sat, 5 May 2012 04:23:33 +0000

Stupid, but clever too. Like all psychopaths. The PNAC contains just about all the stupid/clever psychopaths who strive for the NWO. Google PNAC. http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprin... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_...

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Promises to Keep

Sat, 5 May 2012 04:14:54 +0000

How does one explain this, straight from a live broadcast by the BBC? How did they have prior knowledge, likewise Larry Silverstein and others who took out some form on insurance before the event? The only certainties are that Osama bin Laden has nothing to do with it, nor 19 "box-cutter terrorists". At least nine were still alive after the event, if not now. Who, within the inner circle, would want a witness to survive? The BBC tried to scrub this: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/bbc_wtc... But it somehow still survives on YouTube.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Promises to Keep

Sat, 5 May 2012 03:48:58 +0000

Good analysis Justin, very good. Your mention of Bradley Manning is especially telling. The overall hypocrisy of with Washington/Wall Street cabal is mind-boggling, unless understood in an essentially fascist context. I have taken issue with your (as I see it) rather extreme 'libertarian' stance and oft dismissal of socialists like myself - though there are 'libertarian socialists' and I suppose I am one of that ilk. It's sad, if not tragic, that propaganda issuing from Washington and such satraps of empire like London and Paris, drives a wedge - often with nationalistic elements - between ordinary people of essentially good nature. As an outsider (I am in Australia) but well-informed, I see this especially manifested in the US where, throughout the Cold War and beyond, the drive has been to polarize/divide and conquer, both internally and externally, e.g. the chaos inducing wars in the ME. A great paradox in the Washington ruled US is, on the one hand, the PNAC/NWO and the general thrust for obliterating other states (including the states comprizing the US) whilst appealing to a loyalty/nationalism towards Washington. And it worked.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : The Truth Behind the Official Story of Finding Bin Laden

Sat, 5 May 2012 02:36:21 +0000

What an awfully long piece. I'll paste something much shorter, which I wrote in another thread: Osama killed last year! How about died of liver disease in Pakistan at least ten years ago. Documents obtained during that spurious raid! How about more or less common knowledge, for anyone interested. Of course he had no control, the CIA did. His use-value, other than as a post-mortem bogeyman, ended with the ousting of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. No one (now?) really believes that he organized the controlled demolition of WTCs 1, 2 and 7 - virtually simultaneously destroyed, give or take a few hours, in a triple event that's totally unique, even with one steel-framed building. Oh wait. There are those who still believe what Bush & Co told them ... some even before WTC 7 collapsed at near free-fall acceleration. Take a look at the BBC crystal ball: <a http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/bbc_wtc... Any comments?

News From Antiwar.com : Bin Laden Disapproved of, Had Little Control Over 'Affiliates,' Documents Reveal

Sat, 5 May 2012 02:28:42 +0000

Osama killed last year! How about died of liver disease in Pakistan at least ten years ago. Documents obtained during that spurious raid! How about more or less common knowledge, for anyone interested. Of course he had no control, the CIA did. His use-value, other than as a post-mortem bogeyman, ended with the ousting of Soviet forces from Afghanistan. No one (now?) really believes that he organized the controlled demolition of WTCs 1, 2 and 7 - virtually simultaneously destroyed, give or take a few hours, in a triple event that's totally unique, even with one steel-framed building. Oh wait. There are those who still believe what Bush & Co told them ... some even before WTC 7 collapsed at near free-fall acceleration. Take a look at the BBC crystal ball: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/bbc_wtc... Any comments?

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Between Hope and Despair

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 04:46:15 +0000

All going according to plan ... simply(?) Google "neoconservatives PNAC" to see, foretold, the past 20-odd years, the present and the future. Nothing has stopped it and nothing will in anything like immediate terms, BUT even just a cursory knowledge of all past civilizations/empires yields a certainty that there will be a relatively abrupt end to it all. The bad news is that it will be very messy and probably a lot faster than the demize of the Roman Empire. Also it will be truly global - the 'world' of Rome was relatively small - because the Washington Empire is global. Also it will be far uglier because of weapons technologies no past empire came close to having ... with the nuclear aspect, not least the 'civilian' aspect, eg. Fukushima, possibly entailing mass extinctions. I cannot see any other kinds of outcomes, though I can understand younger people retaining hope ... as I did until only about five years ago. All any of us can do, I think, is to try to take care of ourselves and our nearest and dearest.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Why Washington's Iran Policy Could Lead to Global Disaster

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:30:01 +0000

Yes. Juan Cole has a less-than transparent set of agenda, but not hard to discern after reading numbers of his analyses ... bit like Robert Fisk, but with an 'academic' patina on his biasses. Neither are as 'objective' as they like to pretend to be, both are 'closet imperialists' - push come to shove.

News From Antiwar.com : PKK: An Excuse for Turkish Invasion of Syria?

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:35:26 +0000

Actually the Ottoman Empire/Caliphate was quite good. There were none of the 'countries' we know now - which are arbitrary zones drawn on the map by the were in London and Paris, during the early 20th Century, e.g. the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration. It's ironic that European powers want a common market without borders, because that was the Ottoman Empire for centuries, together with freedom of religious expression. For about a thousand years there was little trouble between Sunnis, Shias, Copts, indigenous Jews, Druze, Christian Orthodox and a myriad other sects. It is Western propaganda that the ME has always been at war within itself. The West certainly has been for a thousand years and has been trying to make the East 'just like us' since times of the Crusades. BTW I am not a Moslem, I just happen to know history and that eveything has turned to pot over the last 100+ years, since the West turned to oil to fuel its industrial for of civilization.