Syria is Libya 2.0. Western governments (U.S, Israel, Britain, France) have been arming and backing rebel forces, the same rebel forces that have been attacking civilians. The heavy-handed Syrian gov’t response is due to western agitation, but the media echo chamber on syrian regime change continues, despite being discredited many times.

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/02/lying-with-pictures.html

“There is so far no proof that any artillery has been deployed at all though it is known that mortars have been used by the rebel side. The State Department obviously knows what the pictures really show but is trying to use the lie of artillery deployment against the rebels as a pressure argument for military intervention.”

responding to you calling me a troll, with a churlish remark, was trollish

who is they in this case, I’m not trying to be hostile, I genuinely don’t understand the ire surrounding keystone, and would like to…

wish I was a paid troll…but as the saying goes, ‘the thief expects people to steal from them’

I’m a canadian, and in my opinion, stephen harper is a vassal of u.s. interests, particularly regarding the middle east, and u.s. oil interests

…personally I would love to see the whole petrochemical-debt based empire collapse…

That said, I don’t understand why the keystone pipeline is more deserving of opposition, than the current hystical anti-iran, anti-syria, media narrative, supporting the current war-like regime of geopolitical war profiteering middle-eastern foreign policy mania

…maybe keystone is a safer, more local issue to get riled about…that doesn’t cross any third rails, tilting at windmills and all that…

theres lots of hand-wringing on fdl about various issues, but near silence on all the deceptive pro-war spin on syria and iran

it’s like the ‘dont talk about the germans’ thing from fawlty towers…

if it weren’t for greenwald, there’d be a deafening silence from the left on all the pro-war hysteria right now

the barely visible narrative that can be found explaining why keystone is controversial, is that keystone is a wall street objective, and opposing keystone is a tactical move to oppose wall street influence in washington

maybe I don’t have the lay of the land to understand the objective in opposing keystone, but thus far, the rationale isn’t readily apparent

This is Adelson’s “the enemy of my enemy shtick”, Gingrich is too much of an opportunist hack to let it pass.

Adelson, by bankrolling this is letting the republicans attack themselves and make themselves weaker.

Obama has proven himself such a compliant servant there’s no need to change administrations.

Rule by deception has become the norm, whether for Straussian or other war by deception type practices, the ideological foundations of the west have been poisoned by this kind of mendacious expedience.

Never mind the clash of civilizations narrative, the west has been `progressively` abandoning `enlightenment idealism` for decades now, helped along by a whole panoply of `pre-enlightenment` messianic zealots and fundies. (not just the christian variety)

The Priests of Pot

The above Old testament passage makes the sacredness of this ointment quite clear. Moses and the Levite priesthood jealously guarded its use, and enforced this discriminatory prohibition with God`s commandment that any transgressors be `cut off from his people`. This law amounted to a death sentence in the ancient world.

http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/cc05/kanehb.html

Aside from the `scarcity of resource`, monetary and foreign policy arguments for marijuana prohibition, an older reason Cannabis is illegal, is that it is reserved for sacred religious use, and is not fit for consumption by the ignorant masses.

It’s kind of interesting that Cain’s comments on abortion and population control policies being unevenly applied to blacks seems to have precipitated the feeding frenzy tearing him apart now.

sacred cows and all that…

It’s awfully nice of the BEEB to trot out Phil Jones’ exoneration and apology. (funny that both were considered for inclusion in that editorial.)

There is a wave of talking points circulating the internet today pointing to the ‘koch funded study’ as proof-positive.

The money quote “But climate change is happening. Even Koch-funded climate skeptic studies admit that now.” *har har* comedy gold

ffs, always getting epu’d those rare occasions when I do post
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Saw that silent majority cartoon earlier, and it struck me as ‘the talking point’ that is a succinct response to the MSM failure to cover the protests.

http://digg.com/news/politics/the_silent_majority

Saw that silent majority cartoon earlier, and it struck me as ‘the talking point’ that is a succinct response to the MSM failure to cover the protests.

not sure if this was posted already, but it seems apropos

http://digg.com/news/politics/the_silent_majority

not sure if this was posted already, but it seems apropos

Saw this cartoon years after hearing some rant about how the USSR and the USA were essentially the left and right hand of the same intellectual traditions.

Whether that is completely accurate, I thought the super-state-man image was a good summary.

http://www.designer-daily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/superman.jpg

Much as I don’t like Bernard Lewis’ ‘clash of civiliations’ narrative, I feel it is being made inevitable, not merely as an accident, but by design.

Had a tangent recently about the amount of legal infrastructure that we have currently, that protects the wealthy from the poor and desperate elements of society, but likely not a balanced level of laws protecting the poor from the wealthy and avaricious elements of society.

It’s not a profoundly new insight, but the simplicity of the comment on the imbalance struck me as poignant.

Unfortunately my impression is that revolutions of the past inevitably became suborned to those whose influence was born of affluence, more than passion for good. I don’t hold out much hope for an intellectually balanced set of revolutionary forces to right the scale.