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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Huge 8.8 earthquake batters Chile, 78 dead
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Residents walk by debris after 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday in Santiago de Chile early Saturday Feb. 27, 1010, The quake hit 200 miles (325 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Santiago.
Aliosha Marquez / AP
Chileans on the streets of Santiago after an earthquake of 8.8 magnitude struck on Saturday.
Cars are pinned under a collapsed building after a major earthquake
struck in Santiago
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SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck south-central Chile early on Saturday, killing at least 78 people, knocking down buildings and triggering a tsunami.
Residents walk by debris after 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday in Santiago de Chile early Saturday Feb. 27, 1010, The quake hit 200 miles (325 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Santiago.
Aliosha Marquez / AP
BBC VIDEO OF CHILE EARTHQUAKE
Chileans on the streets of Santiago after an earthquake of 8.8 magnitude struck on Saturday.
Cars are pinned under a collapsed building after a major earthquake
struck in Santiago
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Justice Dept. Reveals Missing E-Mail Files T0/From Bush Torture Lawyer John Yoo
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Large batches of e-mail records from Justice Department lawyers who worked on the 2002 legal opinions justifying the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation techniques (TORTURE) are missing, and the Justice Department told lawmakers Friday that it would try to trace the disappearance.
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“One of the approved harsh interrogation techniques was force-feeding detainees with e-mails. That’s where they went. I never imagined you would need those e-mails. Sorry.”
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Large batches of e-mail records from Justice Department lawyers who worked on the 2002 legal opinions justifying the Bush administration’s brutal interrogation techniques (TORTURE) are missing, and the Justice Department told lawmakers Friday that it would try to trace the disappearance.
It’s been discovered that many e-mail messages to and from John C. Yoo, who wrote the bulk of the legal opinions on torture were missing.
“We were told that most of Yoo’s e-mail records had been deleted and were not recoverable,” officials said in the footnote.
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“One of the approved harsh interrogation techniques was force-feeding detainees with e-mails. That’s where they went. I never imagined you would need those e-mails. Sorry.”
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Sarah Palin says health summit would have been better with beer
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Bipartisan health care reform negotiations would be more productive if lawmakers just had a buzz, according to Sarah Palin.
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“Hey, Americans, I get paid big bucks by FOX for saying these retard things. Get a load how I said, “pop some tops”. Ain’t that the cat’s meow, ya betcha?” (wink, wink)
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"Pop some tops, ya betcha!" (wink, wink)
Bipartisan health care reform negotiations would be more productive if lawmakers just had a buzz, according to Sarah Palin.
"Maybe these guys should have popped some tops off some [Miller Genuine Draft beers] and gotten really down to business and gotten the work done," Palin recommended.
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“Hey, Americans, I get paid big bucks by FOX for saying these retard things. Get a load how I said, “pop some tops”. Ain’t that the cat’s meow, ya betcha?” (wink, wink)
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The Excuses for Keeping U.S. Forces in Iraq For Ever
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George W. Bush and the Neocon Crusades
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With the deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of next year creeping nearer, the U.S. has to find some way to convince the Iraqi government to allow a continued military presence, which is the likely outcome despite the U.S.-Iraq status of forces agreement containing the deadline.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Small and large planes can be flown into buildings by remote control
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Fiction by Chimp
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Fiction by Chimp
First Rough Story Draft
A man who has not shown signs of being distraught and who has not had unusual political leanings or affiliations, gets into his small private plane, takes off and thirty minutes later crashes into a government building killing himself and a couple of people in the building.
His alleged suicide note appears on the Internet giving his reasons for the crash and suicide. He is supposedly upset with this particular branch of the governments for problems it has caused him personally.
Later, we learn that the pilot has a company dealing in secret government projects involving the remote control of drones, pilot less aircraft most often used by the military for spying or missile attacks.
The pilot’s acquaintance in the hangar where he parks his small plane and who also owns a plane, has worked closely with the crash pilot on some secret military projects.
This acquaintance’s company was once investigated by the SEC for its role in the suspicious number of “put options” on two major airlines, speculation that a company’s stock will fall, in the days before the planes of these airlines were hijacked and crashed into large buildings causing the deaths of thousands.
We now go to the Pentagon and learn that not only are they able to fly drones by remote control, but they can also fly any aircraft with 95% accuracy. This includes small private aircrafts or large airliners.
In another scene, we learn that, at one time, the crash pilot’s acquaintance worked on retrofitting five large modern airliners with remote controls. There were no airline logos on the planes. Otherwise, the interior of the plane was a fully functional passenger liner.
We finally learn that the crash pilot learns of his acquaintance’s involvement in the crash of four airliners into major buildings causing the slaughter of thousands.
The black ops people are alerted. The crash pilot’s aircraft is retrofitted for remote control navigation. The crash pilot is drugged and strapped into a similar plane as his with the his same markings and loaded with extra fuel containers. The suicide note appears on the Internet. The government makes no attempt to remove the note as evidence in a criminal investigation.
The airplane takes off and crashes into the government building. The pilot body is burned and thus no autopsy.
The ending serves two purposes. One, the crash pilot is silenced so he can not reveal his knowledge of the hijacked airliners and two, the new “homegrown terrorist” becomes a greater American fear making it hard for congressmen to vote against reauthorizing the Patriot Act as the vote takes place a week later.
DISCLAIMER: This article is a work of fiction. Any and all names, characters, pictures, scenes, places, locations, locales, business establishments, organizations, associations, groups, entities, dominions, states, nations, governments, beliefs, circumstances, conditions, and events portrayed in this story, text, writing, symbol, image, or illustration are either fictitious or fictitiously used. Any resemblance to real or actual person (living or dead) are pure coincidence. Any resemblance to real or actual character, characters, picture, pictures, scene, scenes, place, places, location, locations, locale, locales, business establishment, business establishments, organization, organizations, association, associations, group, groups, entity, entities, dominion, dominions, state, states, nation, nations, government, governments, belief, beliefs, circumstance, circumstances, condition, conditions, event, or events that exist, exists, existed, have existed, or will exist are pure coincidence. Any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence.
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Democrat Tells Congress Republicans “You’re all owned by the insurance industry”
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Today, the House of Representatives debated the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act, legislation that would repeal the 65 year exemption health insurance companies have from anti-trust regulations.
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"We all know that the thousands of corporate lobbyists own congress. But it's our little secret. We don't want the American people to find out that we take care of our big political doners, the large corporations, first. If there's anything left, we'll throw Americans a bone. If you don't like it, eat cake!"
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Large corporations own and run Congress. The American people get shit
Today, the House of Representatives debated the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act, legislation that would repeal the 65 year exemption health insurance companies have from anti-trust regulations.
Speaking on the House floor this afternoon, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) lambasted Republicans for being “a wholly owned subsidiary of an insurance industry,” prompting an offended Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) to lodge a complaint.
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"We all know that the thousands of corporate lobbyists own congress. But it's our little secret. We don't want the American people to find out that we take care of our big political doners, the large corporations, first. If there's anything left, we'll throw Americans a bone. If you don't like it, eat cake!"
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Trillions for War And None For The American People
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By Chimp
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By Chimp
In 2001, George W. Bush attempted to destroy Social Security by turning the people’s money over to Wall Street. Then, 9/11 happened and Social Security was saved for the time being.
If the money had been given to Wall Street as planned, would our government have bailed out Social Security after Wall Street collapsed in Bush’s last year in office?
Remember, millions of people lost their entire retirement investments when Wall Street fell or when people like Bernie Madoff scammed them.
Republicans have been trying to do away with Social Security since it’s inception as it gives too much power to the “little” people. It gives the old and sick food, housing and medicine, which Republicans feel it makes them too strong politically.
Today, again, Republicans and some Democrats are taking up arms to destroy Social Security and Medicare.
They have trillions of dollars to throw away on stupid, unnecessary and illegal wars and trillions to give back to the wealthiest Americans in tax breaks but none of the money poor people invested for their retirement and medical care after they reach old age.
Did you know that the wealthiest Americans this year made more money than they did in 1995 - 15 years ago?
American taxpayer money is being wasted in unending wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and others we don’t even know about yet.
Billions are given each year to the State of Israel so they can kill Palestinians.
Unnecessary billions will be spent on missiles in Eastern Europe to scare Russia and by saying they are really aimed at Iran and North Korea.
Billions are spent by the government on fake bird flu and swine flu pandemic vaccines.
Yet, there is no money - even though Americans have had this money taken out of their paycheck - to take care of the American old, poor, disabled and hungry.
Sarah Palin and other Republicans spoke of Obama’s “death panels”, but these are the real death panels. Destroying Social Security and Medicare will pronounce the death sentence of millions of old, poor, disabled Americans.
It would be genocide on a scale never before seen in this world.
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US Defense Secretary says "Peace is a threat to peace"
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Gates Calls European Mood a Danger to Peace
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This is probably why Obama and the Pentagon decided to place US missiles in Eastern Europe facing Russia, after all. The US wants to encite the Europeans by showing how dangerous Russia can be (after inciting Russia with the missiles).
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Gates Calls European Mood a Danger to Peace
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who has long called European contributions to NATO inadequate, said Tuesday that public and political opposition to the military had grown so great in Europe that it was directly affecting operations in Afghanistan and impeding the alliance’s broader security goals.
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This is probably why Obama and the Pentagon decided to place US missiles in Eastern Europe facing Russia, after all. The US wants to encite the Europeans by showing how dangerous Russia can be (after inciting Russia with the missiles).
See "Peace Is Not In The Best Interest Of A Stable Society”
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The Drive to Eliminate Social Security in America
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THESE PEOPLE ARE THE REAL DEATH PANELS! DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE MEANS "KILL OFF ALL THE OLD AND DISABLED PEOPLE!"
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George W. Bush tried to destroy Social Security in 2001 by turning the money over to the bankrupt Wall Street Casino and only stopped because of 9/11
THESE PEOPLE ARE THE REAL DEATH PANELS! DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE MEANS "KILL OFF ALL THE OLD AND DISABLED PEOPLE!"
In Washington each new day brings a fresh call to “reform entitlement programs” — Social Security, Medicare, etc., (in Congress, the word “reform” now means to eliminate, or drastically reduce).
Tackling Social Security has been on the to-do list of the corporate elite for years, and they’re not waiting any longer.
After years of promoting this cause, conservative think tanks have now garnered solid support from the political establishment as a whole, which includes the Republican and Democratic parties.
The newest liberal recruit to the destruction of Social Security is Thomas Friedman, the influential columnist for The New York Times.
For political hacks like Friedman — and there are thousands of them — the ONLY solution to curing the U.S. deficit is cutting social services in general, while specifically targeting Social Security and Medicare.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
US can solve all the Middle East problems by invading Saudi Arabia
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By Chimp
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George W. Bush French-kissing the King of Saudi Arabia an old family "friend"
By Chimp
Out of the 19 hijackers blamed for the attack against the United States on September 11, 2001, 14 were Saudi Arabians and the alleged mastermind, Osama bin Laden, was Saudi Arabian.
Saudi Arabia has lots of oil and most of the people are well-off and fat so they wouldn’t fight very hard if at all to defend their country.
The US has all the forces they need in Iraq and Afghanistan to swiftly overtake the small Arab country. The US would leave a small force in Iraq to protect the oil fields and a few troops in Afghanistan to protect the oil pipelines and the poppy fields.
The US could then declare Saudi Arabia the American 51st State, unless Israel objected as they may want to be the 51st and then Saudi Arabia the 52nd.
Afterwards, thousands of American missiles would be deployed to the new State of “Sabia” where they would be aimed at Iran to stop them from any aggression and to protect The American State of Israel.
This strategy would fulfill America’s wet dreams. It would be payback for the 9/11 attack. They would have complete military control of the entire Middle East. They would be defending their closest ally and new state, Israel. They would have all the oil they will need for 100 years. And, there would be peace in Bethlehem.
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Dick Cheney Gets Deferment Once Again, From Death
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Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, hospitalized on Monday after experiencing chest pain, is now "resting comfortably" at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, his office said quoting attending doctors.
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Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, hospitalized on Monday after experiencing chest pain, is now "resting comfortably" at the George Washington University Hospital in Washington, his office said quoting attending doctors.
Cheney has had a long history of heart ailments which necessitated a quadruple bypass surgery with a pacemaker implanted in his heart in the past.
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The Republican God has been trying so hard to “draft” him but he keeps on getting “deferments“.
He is still too busy making money, so he still can’t join the dead.
Besides, many Republicans want him to run for president in 2012.
Maybe the prophecies for the end of the world in 2012 will come true if he is elected. Maybe George Bush was not the anti-Christ. Dodo George Bush was definitely not the president during his eight years in office, that’s for certain.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Is Virginia Republican Claiming Sarah Pailin Was Punished By God?
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Virginia Republican lawmaker:
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Is that Sarah's son or a loaf of bread she's carrying for people to feel sorry?
Virginia Republican lawmaker:
Children with disabilities are God’s punishment to women who previously had abortions.
On Thursday, Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall (R) spoke at a press conference against state funding for Planned Parenthood.
He blasted the organization for supporting a women’s right to choose, saying that God punishes women who have had abortions by giving them disabled children.
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been pushing back against high-profile figures and entities who have been attacking people with disabilities.
Will she speak out against someone in her own party or accept that her retarded son is God‘s punishment?
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Did Alexander Haig attempt a US Coup d’ Etat when Reagan was shot?
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Alexander Haig asserted before reporters "I am in control here" as a result of Reagan's hospitalization due to Reagan’s attempted assassination March 30, 1981.
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Alexander Haig asserted before reporters "I am in control here" as a result of Reagan's hospitalization due to Reagan’s attempted assassination March 30, 1981.
He said, “Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the President, the Vice President and the Secretary of State in that order, and should the President decide he wants to transfer the helm to the Vice President, he will do so.
He has not done that. As of now, I am in control here, in the White House, pending return of the Vice President and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.”
Haig was incorrect in his interpretation of the U.S. Constitution concerning both the presidential line of succession and the 25th Amendment, which dictates what happens when a president is incapacitated.
The holders of the two offices between the Vice President and the Secretary of State, the Speaker of the House (at the time, Tip O'Neill) and the President pro tempore of the Senate (at the time, Strom Thurmond), would be required under U.S. law (3 U.S.C. § 19) to resign their positions in order for either of them to become acting President.
This was an unlikely event, considering that Vice-President Bush was merely not immediately available.
Haig's statement reflected political reality, if not necessarily legal reality.
Haig later said, “I wasn't talking about transition. I was talking about the executive branch, who is running the government. That was the question asked. It was not, ‘Who is in line should the President die?’.”
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