1. Pay attention, all you bad-faith tea-partiers:
“A Tea Party to Nowhere
Most Tea Partiers claim to want smaller and cheaper government, less interference from Washington in their daily lives, and fewer programs that are intended to socially re-engineer the nation. So far, so good, but then comes the huge failure to comprehend that is as wide as the Grand Canyon. Most also want a strong, assertive national defense and are supporters of an aggressive foreign and security policy.
Tea Partiers have unfortunately been fed a line of hokum by politicians aided and abetted by the mainstream media. They fail to understand that it is precisely the interventionist defense and foreign policies that are driving the bad things they see in government. It is easy to forget that when Bill Clinton left office in 2000 there was a budget surplus. Ballooning defense and security spending since that time, all accomplished without raising taxes, has been the engine of growth for a $13 trillion national debt, a total that increases by $4 billion every day. The United States now accounts for 45% of the entire world total for military spending, euphemistically referred to as “defense.” The Pentagon budget has gone from $432 billion in 2001 to a projected $720 billion in 2011, not including the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Federal Government is twice as big as it was in 2001 and there has been the creation of major new bureaucracies at the Department of Homeland Security and the office of the Director of National Intelligence, neither of which can be regarded as a model of efficiency.
Fueling government growth is the fearmongering that has been artfully encouraged by Democrat and Republican alike. Fear of terrorists, fear of unruly foreigners, fear of the unknown. Fear that unless something is done and more money is spent, the United States will be destroyed by a nameless, faceless threat. The Tea Partiers should instead understand that terrorists will only tear down the United States if we Americans help them to do so. Irrational fear of a small group of men hiding in a cave in Asia is what drives larger government, the infringement of civil liberties, and more taxes and regulation.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=907
2. Good:
“Report: Turkish PM May Sail to Gaza Himself
Erdogan Would Bring New Flotilla, Turkish Navy With Him
Israel’s formidable military has roughly the same budget as Turkey’s, but as a member in good standing of NATO Turkey could also call upon much of the international community if its Navy is attacked on such a mission, making it unlikely Israel will choose to solve an accompanied aid delivery militarily.”
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/05/report-turkish-pm-may-go-to-gaza-himself/
3. “Israeli Warships Seize the ‘Rachel Corrie’
Everyone Arrested as Irish Aid Ship Captured”
http://news.antiwar.com/2010/06/04/as-rachel-corrie-nears-another-israel-clash-looms/
4. “Predator B drones deployed on Texas-Mexico border”
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/101449-predator-b-drones-deployed-on-texas-mexico-border
5. “Israel’s Policy of Killing Civilians
Killing civilians has been State policy in Israel since 1948. It’s not about “tragic mistakes”, there’s no “deep regret for the incident”. Killing civilians is what Israel has founded itself on with the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and this is what allows it to live.
What is to be added to this is the outright impunity Israel enjoys, because it consitutes de facto the largest American military base on the planet.
By connecting Israel’s innermost policy of killing civilians to its outright impunity, we understand precisely what happened on the Freedom Flotilla ship.
On January 1948, the founding fathers of Israel, Yigal Allon and Ben Gurion, declared that “there is a need for a brutal reaction. We need to be accurate about those we hit, if we accuse a family we need to harm them without mercy, women and children included…. There is no need to distinguish between guilty and not guilty”. ”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19564
6. “US-Israel: Gaza Aid Convoy Attack Reveals the Real “Axis of Evil ” Facing the World”
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? 
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