Today on Fox News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, guest host Stuart Varney tried to “put out something positive about Iraq.” He suggested that since Iraq is “now fighting itself,” America is “in a way, winning and preserving our interests.”

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As the conservative Washington Times notes, a “fullscale civil war in Iraq would likely spread into neighboring countries — something that happened time and over the past century” — and would “conservatively speaking create hundreds of thousands of additional refugees — who would become an additional pool of recruitment for jihadists.”

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Keeping Africans in chains while herding Westerners into the same prison cell

Bono’s latest efforts to dodge taxes and invest in the very capitalist franchises he supposedly rallies against prove that he is one of the leading characters in a puppet show that, far from helping emaciated kids in Ethiopia, serves only to keep the third world in chains while herding Westerners into the same debtor slavery prison.

It’s commonly acknowledged that of the estimated $500 billion that has been poured into Africa over the last 40 years, the majority has gone no further than ruling dictators who keep the money and use it to bankroll their opulent lifestyles while their disease ridden subjects starve to death and are infected with AIDS from poisoned vaccines generously donated to them by billionaire philanthropists who advocate mass population reduction and genocide.

The only way to truly elevate third world is to give them the tools to build the infrastructure necessary for modernization.

But the World Bank/IMF/Globalist doctrine is not about improving the status of third world countries, its about bleeding westerners dry in the name of fighting poverty and AIDS and then siphoning off the profits to their own dirty cronies. Bono is a figurehead for this policy and was even in contention for the World Bank crown before losing out to arch Neo-Fascist Wolfowitz. (more…)

Less than two weeks after chickenhawk Dennis Miller complained on Hannity & Colmes that what’s wrong in Iraq is we’re not brutal enough to the insurgents, armchair warrior Michael Reagan, substituting for Sean Hannity, announced last night (12/20/06) that the US is too worried about “upsetting people” and should take “the gloves off of our military, let them go in and win the war the way they need to win the war.” Reagan didn’t explain what that meant or how it should be done but it’s likely he didn’t know, himself. He never served in the military. Those who have, like General John P. Abizaid and Colin Powell, advocate no such thing.

The purported subject of the discussion was the latest tape from Zawahiri calling for the US to negotiate with him about the insurgency in Iraq. But talk quickly turned to the Iraq Study Group’s recommendation of negotiating with Iran and Syria with an implication that the ISG report egged on Zawahiri.

As a nice change, the guest was reasonable, non-partisan and more interested in ideas than in throwing soundbite-sized flames at Democrats. Kenneth Ballen, of Terror Free Tomorrow, quickly told Alan Colmes that the tape was unrelated to the ISG report. Lee Hamilton, co-chair of the ISG, is on Terror Free Tomorrow’s advisory board. However, Ballen was steadfastly against the idea of negotiating with Iran and Syria. (more…)

BUSH ‘DEVIL HORNS’ PIC HITS WIRES…” blared the headline at the right-wing Drudge Report.

The site suggests that an Associated Press photograph of President Bush, credited to Lawrence Jackson, had intentionally been taken at an angle, or otherwise changed or cropped by the news organization, to portray the president in an evil light. Bloggers were quick to put their own spin on the charge by the Drudge Report, which follows several recent press photos that had come under fire for various forms of alteration.

A commenter at Hot Air had this to say of the “horns” shot:

It’s not the photographer. Lawrence Jackson is a good photographer with no history of this type of thing, but the cropping is obvious. Why would you crop a photo almost to his chin, and then so high above his head unless you were purposely attempting to frame in the “horns?”

It is unknown at the present time if the AP has issued a public comment about what, if anything, was done to the picture of the president. (more…)

Film avoids assassination conspiracy questions but Yoko Ono’s cryptic quote lets suspicions linger

The U.S. vs John Lennon is an ultimately uplifting story of how one man put his hard earned fame, fortune and adulation on the line, neutralized the nagging voice of ego and gave up everything including eventually his life to affect change and take on the behemoth of the criminal Nixon administration.

The newly released documentary film charts Lennon’s progression from outspoken Beatle to iconic rallying figurehead for the Vietnam peace movement of the late sixties and early seventies. The U.S. government’s attempt to deport Lennon and derail the political juggernaut that at one point threatened to organize a road show of protests leading up to the 1972 Republican Convention is presented with an implicit knowing wink to contemporary events. (more…)

A December 17 Associated Press report falsely suggested that Congress would need to pass a law to prohibit the Bush administration from “eavesdrop[ping] on Americans’ electronic communications” without a warrant. In fact, such a law already exists — the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) — and the Bush administration’s apparent violation of FISA has given rise to bipartisan condemnation. The article, discussing what actions Congress could take in response to President Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretapping program, stated that “[t]he president … can veto legislation, including a law demanding the National Security Agency obtain warrants before monitoring communications.”

The AP report also stated that “[w]hen the Republican-controlled Congress adjourned last week, it left the spying program unchecked” and that “[t]he next move falls to the Democrats who take control in January and are considering a proposal to demands [sic] Bush get warrants and others lengthening the time between surveillance and when a warrant must be obtained.” But the article did not mention that FISA already “demands [that] Bush get warrants” and requires that “the National Security Agency obtain warrants before monitoring communications” of U.S. citizens and legal residents who are in the United States. (more…)

Today in a segment on Fox On Line with Bill Hemmer he had two guests on to talk about Joy Behar’s comparing Rumsfeld to Hitler. One of the guests pulled a Gestapo move on the conversation with his rounding up people to send to detention camps.

The following is my transcription between Bill Hemmer, right wing radio host, Mike Gallagher and left wing radio host, Rob Thompson: (more…)

Lies, Lies, Lies features a few audio clips from Loose Change, and was recently given a nomination for a Grammy in the best metal performance category.

Source: 9/11 Blogger

Bush’s and Kerry’s occult group Skull and Bones at Yale University.

NBC news report about Sex scandal involving Bush Sr. whitehouse, and underage male prostitutes. Was not covered on TV much after this.

WASHINGTON — Americans spend more time watching TV, listening to the radio, surfing the Internet and reading newspapers, it seems, than anything else except breathing.

In fact, media use has risen every year since the start of the decade, helped by faster and easier ways to get information and entertainment, according to statistics in a new government report.

Next year, Americans are projected to spend more than 9 1/2 hours a day with the media, though hours spent doing two things at once, such as watching TV and using the Internet, are counted twice in the report.

“There are more TVs than people and there’s a TV, in many houses, in every room,” said Patricia McDonough, senior vice president at Nielsen Media Research. “For teenagers, being on the Internet and watching TV at the same time are not mutually exclusive.” (more…)

At 4:10 p.m. EDT today (December 13, 2006) Neil Cavuto interrupted his “business news” show with this:

Alright. I just want to bring in this alert that’s come into our newsroom right now. U.S. Senator Tim Johnson, he’s a Democrat of South Dakota, has, we’re getting reports that he had a stroke at his office today and is being hospitalized. That’s all we know at this point. Nor do we know the 59 year old’s condition. This happened just today.
Keep in mind that the new senate takes over on January 4 and it’s right now 49 Democrats, 49 Republicans and 2 Independents, but ostensibly it will be a Democratic body.

We don’t know how the fallout from all of this or, again, the severity of Senator Johnson’s condition. We’ll keep you posted.

At 4:14 p.m. EDT Fox aired the FOX NEWS ALERT graphic and Cavuto said: (more…)

Today on Fox On Line Bill Hemmer spoke with Major Garrett, who was reporting from the hospital where Senator Tim Johnson (D-South Dakota) had undergone emergency brain surgery.

Major Garret seemed a bit peeved at the way he was being treated. Apparently he said absolutely zero information was coming out about the Senator’s health and he was barred from the George Washington University hospital Starbucks because he was a reporter. He said this was not unprecedented but it was highly unusual.

The segment then talked about Senator Harry Reid speaking and saying that he had seen the Senator and that he looked good, very good, but he wasn’t going to describe his medical condition. Major Garrett said that Republicans were giving their best wishes but were not challenging his ability to fulfill his obligations (Comment: My goodness, I hope not, he just got sick yesterday) but if his condition turns grave and he would actually die, things could change and shift the balance of the power. (more…)