1. Rogue elements? Yea, like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et.al.
“Former Utah Congressman, current Senate Candidate Merrill Cook Questions WTC7 “
2. “Switch On Your B-S Detector
When government officials open their mouths — and keep it on
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The “national security” policy of the United States has nothing to do with the security of its citizens, or territory: indeed, our foreign policy of perpetual aggression undermines both. What our rulers want to secure is their own rule, over as much of the earth as possible: in short, they pursue their own interests, separate and distinct from the “national interest” – indeed, the two are antithetical in every respect. Their every public proclamation and public relations effort is geared to deny this polarity between their interests, and ours, between the ruler and the ruled. “
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/05/27/switch-on-your-b-s-detector/
3. ““Top Kill” Has FAILED In the Attempt to Plug the Oil Leak Using Mud”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/05/top-kill-has-failed.html
4. “Wall Street Criminals Are Given The “Green Light”: Obama’s Financial Reforms Are Watered Down
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19377
5. “False Findings Intent Upon Triggering Confrontation between North and South Korea
The answer is the urgent need to keep secret from the public that the tragic sinking of the corvette was a result of inadvertent friendly fire by a US nuclear submarine or an Aegis ship or any other naval ship. (See Pyongyang sees US role in Cheonan sinking Asia Times Online, May 5, 2010.)
Public knowledge of US friendly fire would generate a destructive bubble-jet effect of launching waves of anti-Americanism and attendant objections to US bases in South Korea, Japan and the rest of Asia, landing Obama and Lee in trouble. The latter would see his ruling party soundly defeated in June’s nationwide gubernatorial and municipal elections. “
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19387
6. “Who are the real “crazies” in our political culture?
One of the favorite self-affirming pastimes of establishment Democratic and Republican pundits is to mock anyone and everyone outside of the two-party mainstream as crazy, sick lunatics. That serves to bolster the two political parties as the sole arbiters of what is acceptable: anyone who meaningfully deviates from their orthodoxies are, by definition, fringe, crazy losers. Ron Paul is one of those most frequently smeared in that fashion, and even someone like Howard Dean, during those times when he stepped outside of mainstream orthodoxy, was similarly smeared as literally insane, and still is.
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This behavior is partially driven by the adolescent/high-school version of authoritarianism (anyone who deviates from the popular cliques — standard Democrats and Republicans — is a fringe loser who must be castigated by all those who wish to be perceived as normal), and is partially driven by the desire to preserve the power of the two political parties to monopolize all political debates and define the exclusive venues for Sanity and Mainstream Acceptability. But regardless of what drives this behavior, it’s irrational and nonsensical in the extreme.
I’ve been writing for several years about this destructive dynamic: whereby people who embrace clearly crazy ideas and crazy politicians anoint themselves the Arbiters of Sanity simply because they’re good mainstream Democrats and Republicans and because the objects of their scorn are not. For me, the issue has nothing to do with Ron Paul and everything to do with how the “crazy” smear is defined and applied as a weapon in our political culture. Perhaps the clearest and most harmful example was the way in which the anti-war view was marginalized, even suppressed, in the run-up to the attack on Iraq because the leadership of both parties supported the war, and the anti-war position was thus inherently the province of the Crazies. That’s what happens to any views not endorsed by either of the two parties.
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The reason this is so significant — the reason I’m writing about it again — is because forced adherence to the two parties’ orthodoxies, forced allegiance to the two parties’ establishments, is the most potent weapon in status quo preservation. That’s how our political debates remain suffocatingly narrow, the permanent power factions in Washington remain firmly in control, the central political orthodoxies remain largely unchallenged. Neither party nor its loyalists are really willing to undermine the prevailing political system because that’s the source of their power. And neither parties’ loyalists are really willing to oppose serious expansions or abuses of government power when their side is in control, and no serious challenge is therefore ever mounted; the only ones who are willing to do so are the Crazies.
Thus, for the two parties to ensure that they, and only they, are recognized as Sane, Mainstream voices is to ensure, above all else, the perpetuation of status quo power. As Noah Millman insightfully pointed out this week, those on the Right and Left devoted to civil liberties and limitations on executive power find more common cause with each other than with either of the two parties’ establishments. The same is true on a wide array of issues, including limitations on corporate influence in Washington and opposition to the National Security State.”
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/05/28/crazy/index.html
