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Obama Authorizes Use of Drone Airstrikes in Libya...
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Neutral Poll Indicates Over Half Of Democrats Are 'Truthers'
Recent suggestions that many Republicans are 'Birthers' has brought to light another poll, which in its time received scant attention.

University of Ohio and Scripps Howard conducted the poll in 2006.

"How likely is it that people in the federal government either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East?" the poll asked.

A full 22.6% of Democrats said it was "very likely." Another 28.2% called it "somewhat likely."

That is: More than half of Democrats, according to a neutral survey, said they believed Bush was complicit in the 9/11 terror attacks.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/22/2011 18:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Furthermore, the Democratic Party at large doesn't want people to think the implications of this all the way through.

This was part of the reason they did everything they could to blame Sarah Palin before it became generally known that Loughner was a truther... and suddenly changed course to "we need to be above it all" when it looked like it was starting to become public.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 04/22/2011 19:30 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Bilderberg Insider: Kissinger Calls For US Ground Invasion Of Libya
Despite the fact that the United States is embroiled in three major conflicts and can barely service its own gigantic debt, with Standard and Poor this week indicating the US will soon lose its triple-A credit rating, top globalist and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recently told fellow elitists at three different globalist confabs that the US needs to launch a ground invasion of Libya and keep the war running for at least another year.

According to veteran Bilderberg journalist Jim Tucker, whose sources have proven routinely accurate in leaking discussion topics shared by globalists at their regular meetings, Kissinger gave almost the exact same speech at three different conferences over the past two weeks, firstly during an April 8-10 get-together at the George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs, then at an Aspen Institute session on “Values and Diplomacy” at the National Cathedral, and finally during the Bretton Woods II conference in New Hampshire.

“Kissinger, visibly depressed, gave a rationale for the war on Libya that the TC (Trilateral Commission) and its brother group, Bilderberg, want to keep rolling, according to an inside source who has proved reliable for years. Both groups want the war extended through 2012 to generate turmoil throughout the Middle East and pressure the United States into attacking Iran on behalf of Israel. Which would also produce huge war profits,” writes Tucker.

With President Obama keen to oversee more “mission creep” in Libya, by sending unmanned drones to intensify the air bombardment, Kissinger made it clear that the ultimate intention was to do what Obama specifically promised would never happen, a US ground invasion.

Entering the 10th year of the occupation of Afghanistan, and with US forces still tied down in Iraq, by April 4 American taxpayers had already shelled out an estimated $608 million dollars to pay for the intervention in Libya. The expenditure shows no signs of abating as the Obama administration signals its intent to deepen U.S. involvement even as ratings agency Standard & Poor announced Monday that the U.S. risks losing its AAA credit rating because of the government’s inability to reduce the budget deficit.

Kissinger’s call for a ground invasion is symptomatic of the way globalists use America’s military muscle to pursue madcap geopolitical objectives while the country itself withers and dies. State governments across the country are now saying they cannot afford to pay police and firefighters as local communities are shut down, so how on earth can the Obama administration justify spending what will eventually amount to billions of dollars to intervene in a civil war in North Africa?

“In all three speeches, Kissinger played the reluctant damsel who was firmly convinced that the United States must put boots on the ground in Libya—among all the wars that the U.S. is already involved in,” reports Tucker.

In addition, Kissinger was keen to voice his displeasure at the fact that certain media publications, which the globalists normally rely on to keep such information under wraps, had leaked the news that Al-Qaeda terrorists were playing a key role in helping the Libyan rebels and NATO fight Gaddafi. This information “being forced into the national press makes it more difficult” to sell the invasion of Libya, Kissinger said, according to Tucker’s source.

The endgame of the war in Libya is to further isolate Iran in preparation for a US-led attack carried out in the name of protecting Israel. Kissinger was keen to make the connection between Libya and Iran in his speeches, claiming that Gaddafi’s conduct “may tempt the Iranian regime to speed its development of a nuclear weapon. Rogue states have to remain convinced of our determination to resist nuclear proliferation.”

In addition to developments in Libya, Jim Tucker appeared on The Alex Jones Show today to divulge the fact that Kissinger and his fellow elitists were determined to run the price of gas up at $7 dollars a gallon via a combination of soaring oil prices and a crumbling US dollar. To ensure Americans have their living standards lowered as part of Bilderberg’s planned “post-industrial revolution,” the middle east needs to be kept in a permanent state of flux, causing energy costs to remain unstable.

Expanding the conflict in Libya will undoubtedly be a central focus of the upcoming Bilderberg meeting which is set to take place in the resort city of St. Moritz, southeastern Switzerland, from June 9-12. Although the exact location of the conference has yet to be pinned down, it’s widely expected that the luxurious 5-star Grand Hotel Kempinski will be the site of what promises to be one of the most important Bilderberg meetings in recent years.

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Indeed, when attempting to book a room for the period in question via the hotel website, a message pops up saying the hotel is closed, all but confirming it as the location for Bilderberg 2011. However, Bilderberg have been known to change their plans at the last minute in a bait and switch to throw journalists off the scent.

Tucker, who has been hunting Bilderberg for no less than 36 years, has released his Bilderberg itinerary for the 2011 meeting.

It is important to stress that Tucker’s Bilderberg sources have proven accurate in the past, particularly before the 2008 spike in oil prices, an event that was crafted by Bilderberg at their 2005, 2006 and 2007 conferences.
Posted by: Omolurong Ghibelline1929 || 04/22/2011 14:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Losing in Libya?
Posted by: ryuge || 04/22/2011 09:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Glick: Obama's altruistic foreign policy
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Marine from MN tackles school reform
By George Will
Posted by: ryuge || 04/22/2011 09:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Notice how he carefully avoids the obvious answer?

Dissolving or severely restricting the teachers union. Banning it from using union dues for political purposes is another. Restricting it (and other public unions) to only bargain on wages is yet another.

Minnesota is not a right to work state.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/22/2011 10:34 Comments || Top||

#2  collective bargaining=closed shop
see - mafia protection

For those who argue that if everyone didn't pay why should they get the 'benefit' of representation, that's exactly what we have with our large segment of citizens who don't carry the tax load and ride the system. Give us the principle and stick to it.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/22/2011 11:55 Comments || Top||


Jurassic President
But Obama is not in the early 21st century, or not in the same 21st century the rest of us inhabit. Instead, he’s preserved in the amber of an echo chamber where the romanticized version of the thirties seen through the new-agey 1970s is paradise. In his circles, denying this vision is akin to insisting the sky is made of cheese.

I don’t share his view, but I can understand it because we do move in intellectually similar circles.

As an author and, further, a science fiction author, and as someone who has moved in and out of academic circles over the years, I know that artists, academics, and self-described intellectuals have self-selected themselves into an almost parallel universe of leftist chic and wishful thinking.

In that universe, if only Carter had served a second term, we’d have all-green-energy, caring, helpful, gentle, earth-loving communities, no competition, and a mandated minimum wage of $100 per hour that somehow works perfectly and doesn’t bankrupt any businesses.
Posted by: Beavis || 04/22/2011 08:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If, like the restored velociraptor, he weren’t such a danger to the modern world, one would be tempted to feel sorry for our Jurassic President, wandering around in a landscape he can neither perceive nor understand because all his senses and training show him a world that no longer exists — and perhaps never did.

*snicker*
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2011 12:02 Comments || Top||


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Dhimmi 101
Posted by: Beavis || 04/22/2011 09:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Klavan is pretty wired tight to say the least. I appreciate him.
Posted by: newc || 04/22/2011 15:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Hilarious.
Posted by: Secret Master || 04/22/2011 20:01 Comments || Top||



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