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| | A woman has been sacked from her job as a bus driver because she flipped off the President's motorcade. This got me thinking about the time he was caught on tape doing a "smile for the birdie" after he won the governorship of Texas. Lesson: he can dish it out, but he can't take it. |
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| | We've often heard the old saying of, "To the victor goes the spoils", and history has taught us the winner always writes the story. Can we trust the story being told to us by the White House, knowing they employ 3,000 public relations firms? In part one, we define and examine several of the most common terms used like "terrorist" and "freedom fighter", and we end with "unlawful combatant" and "prisoner of war". |
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| | Definitions are of little value unless they can be applied to living examples. We begin to comare the arguments against Hizb'allah, Hamas, and Al-Qaeda agaisnt "other" terrorist groups - like the Sons of Liberty and the Minutemen of the American Revolution. You thought these were "patriots"? Think again. According to the way the Bush White House defines "terrorists" and "unlawful combatants", our forefathers were terrorists. "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." |
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| | In this final segment we investigate a few more rules that dictate the Geneva Convention's "prisoners of war" definition, we compare terrorism by Hamas, Hizb'allah to the Minutemen and Sons of Liberty. We also follow the money trail and discover who was financially supporting our founding fathers, not unlike Iran and Syria backing Hizb'allah. There's an old saying of "those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it", and we desperately are ignorant of our own "terrorist" roots. |
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| | While watching the second Bush press conference in a month, he said we were in Iraq to bring democracy. As soon as the words left his lips, I was asking myself an uncomfortable question: "Is it possible for a hypocritical nation to export democracy?" Using the Preamble of the Constitution, I had my answer. |
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| | In the final segment of "Kleptocracy, Cronyism and War Profiteers: Too Many Hands in the Cookie Jar", we tie up the loose ends by looking at T.S. Ellis, the federal judge who vacated the Custer Battles $10 million penalty, investigate why the U.S. government isn't pursuing contractor fraud in Iraq while whistleblowers are, and finally wrap up the kleptocracy, cronyism and war profiteering in our political system. |
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| | If you watch the old black and white informational PSA (public service announcements) films documenting the progress of Allied troops during World War II, you can learn a second story if you're paying attention. As I sat and watched the landing at Guadalcanal, I kept thinking, "something's not right here", and I was correct. This lesson is also something we need to learn in today's wartime climate. |
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| | A Pakistani Muslim man wrote an article in which he misrepresented Christian scripture. As I started to respond, I realized I was being religion baited for political gain. Too many work hard to create a wedge issue, and Islamofascism has become the GOP poster child. Does it have to be this way, and is Islam really the problem? |
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| | If one views the think tank players and the special interest groups, the Christian water gets murky with "favors". The problem is the GOP has created an intense evangelical climate of fear against Islam; it has paved the way for the new "Crusades" in the Middle East. The fact is "Christians" in power have deliberately fashioned this image for political gains and favor paybacks, making many incredibly rich at the expense of multiple nations. The co-conspirators in the picture have become the voices of Christian talk radio, whether by accident or intentional design. It's time to see the truth for what it is. |
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| | In this series called "Kleptocracy, Cronyism, and War Profiteering: Too Many Hands in the Cookie Jar", we look at how the main stream media provides cover for the White House, the release of propaganda reported as "news" through paid pundits and federal employees, and introduce the "Presidential initiative to combat international kleptocracy", while reviewing some of the White House's questionable guests. |
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