Iran Urges New 9-11 Investigation

http://www.france24.com/en/20100412-ahmadinejad-urges-ban-probe-911-attacks

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Ahmadinejad urges Ban to probe 9/11 attacks

AFP - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written to UN chief Ban Ki-moon, asking him to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, news reports said on Monday.

"The minimum expectation from your excellency is to set up an independent and trusted fact-finding group to comprehensively investigate the real factors behind September 11," Ahmadinejad said in the text of the letter
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Several times Ahmadinejad has questioned the accepted version of the Al-Qaeda strikes on New York and Washington which killed nearly 3,000 people.
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The Right Wing Clarified

We need to collectively manage our situation, as a species, or we will bring on our own extinction. This collective management is what I refer to when I say "government". The "governments" we have now are run by concentrated capital instead of by people. As a result, they are not serving the best interests of most people. The more a government is run by concentrated capital instead of by people, the more to the Right it is, by definition. This is not opinion. Fascism is the ugly side of the Right. This is not opinion either.

I really don't see anything here that is debatable. It is perplexing that so many take issue with it, but I realize that the media, which is run by concentrated capital, has for years worked very hard to get people to go against their own interests: I.E. to the Right.

Based on this, logic follows that those who support the Right are either misled, sold-out or just cynical. Robots might support the Right, but ordinary, non-wealthy human beings? It doesn't make sense.

I haven't labeled anyone here. I have patiently outlined a simple concept as carefully as I can. Logical discussion of it might get us somewhere. Justifications of hostility will not.

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Ron Paul Speaks Out Against Empire

Whole Story:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0410/ron-paul-chastises-gop-conference-conservatives-like-empire/

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Ron Paul chastises at GOP conference: Conservatives ‘like the empire’

By Andrew McLemore
Saturday, April 10th, 2010 -- 6:10 pm
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He was met with both disapproval and applause during the Southern Republican Leadership Conference for describing conservatives as hypocritical when they call for a return to Constitutional values while supporting foreign wars.

The conservatives and the liberals,
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different things. They like embassies, and they like occupation. They like the empire. They like to be in 135 countries and 700 bases.
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except for war. Let the President go to war anytime they want.’ We can do better with peace than with war.
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In a question-and-answer period after his speech, a blogger asked Paul why his supporters seemed so disinterested in the Republican Party.

"The question you should be asking," said Paul, "is, why isn't the Republican Party interested in them? We can get huge crowds with this message."

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A Necessary Function in our Current Society

One necessary function in community is guys in uniform, sometimes with guns.

When it works properly, people are prevented from hurting each other and the community is protected. Such functions should be under the oversight and supervision of the community that employs them. It is when such functions are taken out of public control and performed at a lesser degree of quality due to the extraction of profits, by private entrepreneurial firms, that such entities can become major threats to the community. Examples are the SA in 1920's/1930's Germany, and Blackwater/XE today.

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Misleading Corporate "News" Does Real Damage to the Community Once Again

Whole Story:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/04/07/4126070-context-lies-and-videotapes-the-real-acorn-story
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Context, lies and videotapes: The real Acorn story

News Type: Event — Wed Apr 7, 2010 6:54 AM EDT
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Last week, California Attorney General Jerry Brown released the results of his investigation into the Acorn sting videos by right-wing activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles. The two posted videos that supposedly showed O'Keefe and Giles getting advice from Acorn workers in various state offices on running a prostitution ring involving girls who'd been snuck across the Mexican border. The uproar led Congress to cut off support for Acorn, a community organizing group that worked in poor communities, and crippled Acorn's funding operation. On April 1, Acorn shut down its field offices.
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The unedited video tapes released by the California Attorney General's office last week clear ACORN employees in California of any criminal wrongdoing.
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But the huge tide of negative publicity that followed these videotapes and the coverage they got on Fox? Was bull pucky. It was a dishonest political stunt that bears no resemblance to journalism and no resemblance to the facts. But it worked. This big organization serving poor people and registering thousands of voters and advocating for a higher minimum wage has been shut down -- means be damned, in
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More Progress in Cannabis Law

Whole Story:
http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=14766756

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BREAKING NEWS: Washington Expands Medical Marijuana Law
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Senate Bill 5798 allows additional health care professionals including naturopaths, physician’s assistants, osteopathic physicians, osteopathic physicians assistants, and advanced registered nurse practitioners to legally recommend marijuana therapy to their patients. Previously, only licensed physicians
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Why the Right Wing is a Problem.

A primary characteristic of right wing groups and individuals is corruption. This is why many on the Right are referred to as "sell-outs". Willful ignorance is one aspect of corruption. Variable Allegiance is another. The cynicism that pervades the Right Wing is an example of corruption of Spirit. In order for our species to succeed, we must overcome corruption.

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More Anti-American Sentiment coming from the Repugnant Cons

Whole Story:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0404/kyl-threatens-filibuster-supreme-court/

It's an American Thing: Rooting for the Underdog. Some corruptionists have forgotten that:

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There is not yet a vacancy on the Supreme Court but the second-ranking Republican in the Senate is already planning a strategy of opposing President Barack Obama's potential nominee.

Jon Kyl (R-Az) told Fox News' Chris Wallace that Republicans are prepared to fight a nominee who might stick up for the little guy, a position he called "overly ideological."

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CIA using Disinformation Here and Abroad to muster popular support for War

From
http://www.truthout.org/cia-red-cell-document-proves-rule-part-i58202
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CIA Seeks to Influence Opinion on Wars

Wednesday 31 March 2010

by: Daan de Wit | DeepJournal

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: Patrick Hoesly, CIA)

The CIA recommendations for influencing the European public into continuing their support for the mission in Afghanistan is receiving a lot of attention both in The Netherlands and beyond. But in a military conflict, war is only one stage of the struggle. The biggest struggle is for the hearts and minds of the public at large. What's
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or the NATO-led ISAF mission'. The drafters of the CIA Red Cell report fear that the public's apathy could turn into hostility if the fighting this summer - which according to forecasts could be bloody - results in a lot of casualties. This could lead to the problem of politicians listening to the voice of the electorate, such as what happened in The Netherlands. Because of this the authors of the report feel that it is
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it had become the strategy of intelligence services to actively manipulate public perception. In England there is the Directorate of Targeting and Information Operations under the Ministry of Defence. For their 'InfoOps' - information operations
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On America Davies writes: 'The Pentagon has now designated "information operations" as its fifth "core competency", alongside land, sea, air and special forces. Since October 2006, every brigade, division and corps in the US military has had its own "psyop" element producing output for local media.' For the domestic media and thereby often the global media, the Pentagon deploys a 'media Trojan Horse', as The New York Times put it in 2008. After issuing a Freedom of Information request, the paper discovered in 2008 that the Pentagon was the unseen hand behind many of the military analysts in the media that continuously informed the American public over the war in Iraq.

Page 19: 'In May of 2007 it became known that President Bush had signed a document making it possible for the CIA to carry out 'black' propaganda and disinformation campaigns in order to destabilize the regime in Tehran, and America deployed the terrorist groups Jundullah and Mujahedin e-Khalq (MEK), among others, for military action and acts of sabotage.'

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An aside for Tea Party victims, many of whom support Ron Paul's anti-war stance: The MEK is the Marxist / Islamist terrorist organization that was lobbied for by Dick Armey when he worked for DLA Piper.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/5698/the_enemy_of_my_enemy
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As chairman of FreedomWorks, the group credited with mobilizing the Tea Party movement, Armey is the movement’s de facto leader.
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Seeing how the CIA has influenced our own "press" here in support of a war in Iraq, what's with all the right wing hate that's being stirred up in that same "press" now? Just wondering.
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