Since 9/11, much of the common causes of the left have had to contend with an increasing amount of indifference or even hostility to their traditional struggles, as people have been more wont to see them as more and more irrelevant in the more vital struggle for security from terrorism. Over the last year, many who were concerned moderately with typically “progressive” causes, such as ending poverty and environmentalism, have turned their attention elsewhere, and many of those people that were indifferent to them have become openly contemptuous or dismissive. This has had the opposite (but by no means surprising) effect on the “true believers” of the left, who have used 9/11 as a reason to cling ever more faithfully to their ideals, and typically to ratchet up the shrillness of their rhetoric a few notches. There are a few who simply discount 9/11 as not important at all, in context of the “greater horrors” that the world faces. I remember seeing a picture of a typical refugee of the radical 60’s, wearing a shirt with the slogan that said something like “Fuck patriotism, I’m busy mourning for a million innocent Iraqis.” After all, what’s 3,000 white collar capitalist stock brokers compared to a million Iraqi children senselessly and brutally murdered by heartless sanctions? This kind of stance only exists on the most hardcore wing of the left: those people who are really unconcerned with actually convincing or winning anyone over to their cause, but who are so religiously committed to their political extremism that their activities seem to play out almost as a fantasy ideology.
However, it’s been a much more common reaction for the true believers to take the events of 9/11 and the global war on terror and insert them as the keystones in their progressive ideology. A casual perusal of the Guardian, the Nation or any other typically left-leaning media outlet will illustrate this. And true to form, the Independent has them all beat in terms of the degree to which it adheres to these principles as a matter of almost pure faith and the sheer absence of any real argumentitive sense.
Terrorism in Moscow and Bali; impending war with Iraq; breakdown in Ireland and Israel: it is easy in the urgency of important events to forget the underlying trends and forces shaping our world. The vast issues of increasing poverty and environmental degradation only rarely ? as at last month’s Earth Summit in Johannesburg ? bubble to the surface of political consciousness bestality gay sex. Yet they lie at the heart of many of the gravest crises afflicting the world, and have the potential to cause many more.
Poverty and the environment. You can hear the faint whisper of those who suggested on 9/12 that the fact that Bush didn’t sign the Kyoto Accord was the reason Osama decided to fly some planes into the towers. At the heart of this argument is the same fundamental reasoning that churns on quietly within the mind of any good conspiracy theorist: there are other pernicious forces that really cause these problems, and the fact that they cannot be seen or proved, only hinted at vaguely, is just more evidence for their real deviousness.
The threat of conflict over Iraq ? the most dangerous since the Cuban missile crisis 40 years ago ? is complicated by the world’s need to secure plentiful supplies of cheap oil from the Middle East to fuel our gas-guzzling society. It need not have been like this. A quarter of a century ago the new Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jimmy Carter, tried as President to get his country to save fuel and develop new sources of energy. He called it “the moral equivalent of war” (unfortunately, lacking an Alastair Campbell, he failed to notice that the initial letters spelt the word “meow”, which attracted media ridicule). It fell foul of the vested interests of the US energy industries, as did a rather more half-hearted attempt by President Clinton to impose an energy tax. Had Carter succeeded, and won support, most of the world might not now be desperately trying to restrain the US from plunging headlong into what might well become a third world war.
Forget the fact that the author repeats a popular myth that has been widely discredited from which his entire argument proceeds zoophilia bestiality fiction. Let’s just assume for one hot minute that oil really is the reason for the coming war with Iraq.
Even then, he takes the position of, “Oh, if only we had listened to that geopolitical sage, Jimmy Carter, we would all be driving whisper quit non-combustion cars, living in cities with perfectly clear skies and Saddam Hussein would never have bothered us in the first place.”
Of course, it’s never mentioned exactly what means of generating power we would be using to replace oil, but that’s a minor detail. It’s no matter that there didn’t exist then, and does not exist now, any even remotely credible means of replacing fossil fuels as our primary source of energy. That’s not the point. The point is we weren’t trying hard enough. If only we had followed Carter’s advice we would have… um, well, we would have either discovered very quickly how impossible it was to follow, or we would have had to vastly shrink our economy. One can argue that we shouldn’t go to war over oil (they’d first have to establish however that oil was the reason, something no one is ever able to reliably do, because it’s simply not true), but one cannot say, “Oil, and hence this war, is completely unecessary if you would just put down the fuel pump for a sec and start looking for some alternative energy sources!”
The seemingly uncontrollable spread of terrorism ? from the twin towers to Bali, from Kuwait to Moscow ? is made much more intractable by poverty Dog sex stories. It is, of course, over-simple to say that destitution is its direct cause. Most of the 11 September hijackers were middle-class Saudis. The running sore of the Israeli-Palestine conflict provides great motive power. But poverty does provide much of the oxygen in which terrorism thrives. As hard-pressed Third World countries have cut back on providing public services, for example, (often at the insistence of the IMF and World Bank), extremist religious groups have moved in to provide education and health care. This ? and the gross and visible disparities in wealth between rich and poor countries ? has helped to create the supportive population that all terrorism needs if it is to flourish. It has to be said, however, that Mr Bush’s and Mr Blair’s over-reaction in the Afghanistan war also played its part.
A nice bit of fudgery, there. “Extremist religions,” eh? Which ones could those be? Is the author referring to all those radical Christian groups that have fueled terrorism? Or perhaps it’s the spread of Buddism that he means? Even if this model of religion replacing a lack of economic well-being held any truth whatsoever, it glosses over the very pertinent fact that so far, every single one of these “extremist religions” has involved Islam, and in the vast majority of cases, the virulent strain of Wahabbism. The author is being deliberately dishonest by claiming it’s somehow the case that any kind of extremist religion will end up growing wherever there is poverty, because it diverts one’s attention away from the particular facets of certain kinds of Islam that foster terrorism, and describes religious extremism as a general problem. And in order to solve that problem, all we could possibly do is eradicate all religion, and we can’t do that, can we? So the real problem that must be dealt with is, of course poverty fantasy beasts.
Furthermore, Al Qeada did not need an impoverished populace supporting it to flourish. All it needed was a sympathetic government, not to mention some cowed Western nations to not act to immediately stamp it out in its cradle. Nor did poverty send destitute Muslim men with no prospects in life into the arms of Osama Bin Laden, as the article itself admits. The paragraph is a very crude and poorly-executed sleight of hand, aimed at distraction away from uncomfortable issues about Islam and Arab culture and towards that old and dear boogeyman of all social ills, poverty. And of course, the article accuses the concpirators of global capitalism as the reason that much of the muslim world is mired in poverty in the first place. Again, seeking to divert attention away from the glaring problems of the culture and certain aspects of the religion.
rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.So seeing as how we've got massive approval from the House of Representatives and similar support in the senate is likely,
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
nuclear weapons. Containment was born out of a realization that we were effectively restrained by our lack of strategic
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
Mr Mitnick even had to get permission from his probation officer to use a computer to write his book, The Art Of Deception,
And perhaps because of the collective weight of all those accumulated exhortations, perhaps from the psychic weariness
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
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slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
needed now was healing, closure; in short, to "get over it" and "move on."
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
use grown-up scissors), but nevertheless, even though he really didn't deserve it,
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go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
be harried by idiots who have full compliments of heads and genitals! With the ranks of my imaginary gnomes rallied,
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
obviously they have lost loved ones or friends."
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
I finally went and did it.
Either that, or I now have to admit the existence of clairvoyance.
hacky-sack?"
I don't know about you people, but I'm already stocking up on extra food, water, and electrons.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
Hesiod over at Counterspin Central is one such fellow. Not only with myself, but in his conversations with Den Beste,
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
When I first heard about the bombing in Bali, my initial reaction was, "Another terrorist attack? Well, of course."
I simply love it when my case is made for me.
President Bush says he wants to avoid "a future of fear." It's an admirable goal, but one hardly served by this new doctrine.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
I mean come on, when you're arguing with someone who's just going to call you a Nazi when you spend 2,000 words making
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
I finally went and did it.
"to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality"?
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
If and when you find one, that means that I'll be perfectly willing to advocate an attack against them as well.
I'm going to be checking the weather channel for reports of snowflakes in Hell, but meanwhile you should go read it now.
Eventually he got a little ticked off and said roughly, "Get away from me!" I was hungrily anticipating the energetic dissenter
Well, being the abject conformist that I am, I would like to welcome all new and oldcomers to my new blog, which will
Heh. Didn't Nostradamus write something about "a bespeckled plague rising in the West..."?
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
of the mass moron movement.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
I was already in a state of "moving on" and being "over it" before I even heard about the Bali attacks, with the result
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
Hey, didn't there used to be a city where this smoking crater is?
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
You mean everyone in America aren't like San Franciscans?
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
weapons inspections in Iraq represent a good example of how the rule of law has been used, and can be used again, to avert
computer systems.
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
By tossing out any reasonable standards of evidence as a prerequisite for military action, the White House puts us in a state
lap dance.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
cause, but I,
trying to get an education
assures everyone that "Don't worry, the problem is being taking care of by the inspectors."
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
about equal probability.
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
anger that is so justifiable -no, demanded- by these despicable acts, but if that must be the case, then from on, I'll be
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
But for now if you all don't mind, I'd just like to stew in my rage for a while, and remind myself in a truly visceral
a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was quoted as saying.
cause, but I,
To quote a boozed up, cynical and misanthropic individual whom I greatly admire: "Making fun of these people is like
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
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lap dance.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
cause, but I,
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
the efforts to find these people and eradicate them, to ferret them out from their cowardly hiding places and vaporize
that blatantly called for some rhetorical bitch-slapping.
about equal probability.
After 3000 of your countrymen die in a couple hours, anything less than that is wont to be downplayed in significance
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computer systems.
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
going to be monitored so closely that I'd be surprised if he were able to put in a phony name at a porn site and not have
Another Australian tourist, 18-year-old Rachel Hughes, said she and her boyfriend had just arrived in Kuta when the blast
cause, but I,
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
support (in the small, mostly insignificant ways that are possible for one such as myself)
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
about equal probability.
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
vulnerability.
faith at large, since many of them are peaceful, albeit intellectually stunted, people.
Bush also spoke of an "international coalition" that would disarm Hussein. Bush knows the American public is loathe to
democratically decided laws - - not the capriciousness of individual rulers -- should govern human affairs.
The BBC has a story about the so-called "master hacker", in which it does a good job of destroying the mythos that
For that reason and others, I didn't actually start reading the news coverage until this morning.
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
superiority.
about equal probability.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
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for the life of me, cannot see it. The news showed a clip of a guy trying politely to walk around a woman so self-righteous
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
we could go and stop the Soviets and all their expansionist hijinks, but then we'd like, have to go all the way over to
agree that [insert additional badly-forced car metaphor here]!
so that he will be better equipped to fulfill point 1). Show me another nation that's like that today.
I see. Did you talk to this "everyone" at your International Socialist Organization direct action planning seminar or
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
50 Ways to Leave Your Folly Common Dreams, that goldmine of general silliness, showcases this piece, The Folly of Pre-emptive
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
Diversity. More than motherhood, it is the one unassailable concept these days. Open any teaching publication, and you will
to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.
of a lack of imagination or basic humanity; the fact that it's difficult for me to feel deeply for people suffering unless
nothing may stand in our way!
and the UC Divestment folks will be holding a rally for what looks like the primary purpose of protesting the fact that
sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy.
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
she can last 6 hours). I make this declaration keeping in mind that this does not imply a judgement on the Idiotarian
cutting-edge performance art group impersonating real anti-war folks, as the whole ordeal seemed to approach parody. No,
Replace "powerful" with "crazy and armed with nukes" and you'd be right. Otherwise, your statement is nonsense.
of the mass moron movement.
the way. Apparently that wasn't enough for the however, because they then started pulling at her legs to keep her from
And at most, UN weapons inspectors have delayed conflict by a few years, not averted it. In actualyity, I think they have
serves? As far as I can tell, all they did was take some people who were probably overwhelmingly against the war anyway,
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
without end is causing traditional friends of the United States to
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
vulnerability.
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
One of the great advances of the modern era has been the spread of the rule of law. This is the now common idea that
to the San Francisco federal building to protest the passage of Bush's resolution for action against Iraq.
Wheeler Hall last spring.
I guess not. The fact that the UN is anything but democratic since the vast majority of countries represented there do not
the not-being-a-jerk department.
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
way why we're doing all of this, and why, if they still choose to berate us about "root causes" and "birds coming home
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
and you'll get diversity in the speech by the politician, in the one by the principal who welcomes him and in the one by
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
it is shoved, in all its detailed horror, right into my face.
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
to all of you warmongering neanderthals" tone of voice. She then struck a pose of righteous exasperation when she asked
satisfy you. I'd be much more amendable to the idea however if you were willing to be a personal eye-witness to this
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
I wish that I could just be told "Hundreds of people died in a terrorist bombing today," and instantly feel the kind of rage
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
he revealed himself to be a seriously dishonest debater (that, or he was so stupid that it wouldn't be safe for him to
one of the most fad-driven enterprises imaginable. It produces a new catechism each decade, which everyone dutifully recites.
go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
occurred, smashing the window of their hotel room.
side of the political spectrum... what are they called?
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
I figured that was the way to go. But then I read this.
alternative economy." I suppose that's better PR than saying they want to impose a grab bag full of sociialistic silliness
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
that I hadn't thought of it first!
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
economic stupidity, especially when their ideas would do such a better job of it by themselves. Case in point:
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
And exactly how do you go from no "final proof" to there being no evidence of impending aggression? The very fact that
I tried to present my ideas in an honest and truthful way, and not be seriously offensive, even when he acted in ways
about equal probability.
join the majority of the world's nations in distancing themselves from Washington in a fashion not seen since the Vietnam War.
"Standing in the foyer of the Bounty Hotel, people were just walking in, blood dripping off them, burns to their face, skin
However, several of the exchanges I have had have definately been with those you might describe as "challeneged" in
Well I wouldn't be surprised if this Wednesday at Sproul there will be similar behavior, and I plan to be there. Maybe
them into a thin paste of protein on a cave wall, to wipe out every last vestige of the disgusting stain they have left
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
Watching Channel 7 news today (the Simpsons were in a commercial), they reported on a wad of dingbats who blocked access
when you apply your own internal calculus of death and suffering and conclude that it isn't something that you need
Don't worry, I'll sit here with my rifle ready to take out any airborne porcines, should they come flying by.
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
go it alone. What he failed to do was tell us who the members of his war coalition are. Why? Because there is no coalition.
But it's not really fair to denigrate someone's ideas just because they themselves come from an organization riddled with
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
Now at this point, most people would just say, "let it go, and move on."
Now could someone please tell me what concrete purpose that woman's behavior, and that of her great chanting unwashed bretheren,
I urge anyone in the bay area who has the time on the 16th to come as well and lend credence with your example to the
slope proposition, claiming that because we go after Saddam, we'll suddenly be all aggro-ed up to obliterate any country
Stand up to these thugs This Wednesday, the 16th at noon, an apparent composite of the Students for Justice in Palestine
by both Instapundit and Cold Fury (and probably by sundry others by now):
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
to penetrate.
the world to stomach the imperial scent of our newly enunciated military doctrine that proposes pre- emption of any powerful
Don't you people ever get tired of just pulling shit out of your asses?
I mean come on, when you're arguing with someone who's just going to call you a Nazi when you spend 2,000 words making
The book details the ways that employees can inadvertently leak information that can be exploited by hackers to compromise
to elicit empathy had been raised considerably since 9/11,
"I said it's being taken care of, dammit. Mind your own business."
Russia and shit. Besides, it's just the Russians. Why don't we just contain them or something? Hey, who's up for some
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
to really concern yourself with, except in a somewhat general, theoretical way.
But I am thankful that at least for now, I've been able to summon that deep-seated, personal wrath so appropriate to an
"What I found personally to be true was that it's easier to manipulate people rather than technology," he said.
fact that these people are thugs, bullies and liars.
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid
Well that's not really true. People on a different side of the debate than I are not necessarily jerks, just wrong.
(or to have their genitalia eviscerated by a rabid Rosie O'Donnell
who like to chant slogans and can't come up with any better rhyme than something that has to do with the number "four" and "war."
War, by three fellows that hail from Global Exchange. You know who I'm talking about. The folks that want to "build an
care. Just don't let me hear anything about how this bombing that specifically targeted Australian civilians was somehow
It seems the Muslim version of a slander suit is cutting off your head. Now when I read this I was shocked, just shocked
you could see stink lines of self-satisfaction coming off her so that he could simply get to his job. She of course started
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
on the civilized world. And when I resort again to that frame of mind, it will be because I realize, intellectually and
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
Sure, it'd be nice to be a leader...
"A bunch of people died from terrorism over the weekend? Sure, that's awful, but we all knew this was going to happen
vaunted proof of yours. Then you could be really sure.
Do you mean the Muslim world that celebrated 9/11, saying the US deserved it all along? Or perhaps you mean the Muslim world
morally, that this is the right thing to do.
Iranian cleric Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari, addressing weekly Friday prayers in the northwestern town of Tabriz, said
Kevin Mitnick will be able to use a computer again in approximately 3 months.
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
making a point of reading in depth about any such future atrocity to ensure that I don't allow myself to be instantly "over it."
military action to counter the Soviet threat was not possible, because of their equal capacity to destroy us through
The fact that this is being published in the Chronicle is no small feat. Even more reason for you to go read it.
Quite the contrary, Bush's aggressive rhetoric, disregard for international law, and his lack of any vision other than war
...but there's no shame in being a follower when those you're following make such damn good points.
information with your heads crammed so far up your asses, so I'll give you a pass.
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism,
It may be a sad illustration of my lack to find sympathy within myself without reading descriptions or seeing pictures,
to roost," those sniveling, carping appeasers,
owned," she pontificated, in that snotty "52% of my clothes are made of hemp which therefore makes me morally superior
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
I suppose you mean that it's not "multilateralist" unless France says so?
and you'll get diversity in the speech by the politician, in the one by the principal who welcomes him and in the one by
over the heads of the world's nations as threat so that he can act willy-nilly in whatever new adventure captures his
rivals.
Now of course I'm sure that these open-toed folks have a flurry of perfectly well thought-out reasons as to why pissing
During that protest, my girlfriend had to take a midterm in Wheeler auditorium and had to step over the bodies lying in
have democratically elected rulers I'm sure doesn't throw any flies into your ointment.
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
So welcome. If this is the first and/or only post you can see, it means I haven't imported my archives from Blogspot yet,
both at home and abroad, can go heartily fuck themselves, or jump off a cliff, or shoot themselves in the head. I don't
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
United States invade a distant country without any evidence of impending aggression.
and eastern Europe, Australia and the middle east. Is that not multilateralism?
who has been deprived of food for at least 6 hours - sounds like an unusually cruel thing to do, I know, but I'm sure
The article also points to this site, which maintains a running clock of how long it will be until Mitnick can start
rivals.
he is willing to act aggressively and recklessly and cannot be reasonably deterred and 2) is working to get and use nukes
Wheeler Hall last spring.
conflict.
news editors of Cannel 7 to allow, as the segment ended right there.
something-really-awfuls, BlogSpot.
Really, how often is someone able to so perfectly crystallize the dilemmas that will exist a century in the future
not just "fear," as if we're going to indiscriminantly nuke the floor under our beds because monsters might be hiding there.
US: Italy, Australia, Poland, Spain, Qatar, Kuwait and, of course, Britain. I know it's hard to find out this kind of
So I hereby declare myself Ayatollah Mustardah of Blogistan. From this day forward, I will call down, on any Idiotarian
"The lethal combination is when you exploit both people and technology," Mr Mitnick told BBC News Online.
being the reaction described above.
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
why she thought there weren't more stories about protests going on in the news, "Well, because the media is corporately
of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and
But anyway, right there you've got yourself eight nations total in the coalition, hailing from North America, both western
the teacher trying to impress both of them.
I strongly suspect TR had access to some sort of time machine and traveled into the furture about a hundred years.
Meanwhile, the fact that we are able to use pre-emptive action when deemed necessary is a fact of our strength, not weakness
nothing may stand in our way!
Already, even if the UN thumbs its irrelevant nose at the idea of going after Iraq (and if it actually does, then they'll
Well I'm far far far too petty a person to do that.
to get a good smack upside the head (or as I call it, a "hippie hello"), but that was apparently too much for the niggardly
world that even today harbors and offers succor to the same groups that piloted the 9/11 planes, right?
Please. I can't swing around a dead Saddam on a rope without hitting this argument these days. At bottom, it's a slippery
the Feds know about it.
threaten the United States, he said we must "assume the worst." Essentially, the White House is proposing that the
In fact, the idea of pre- emptive attack depends on fear. It presupposes insecurity and assumes we will always be threatened.
find testimonials to diversity. Flip through any recent social sciences or humanities textbook and diversity pops up with
and make them wish that congress had instead passed a resolution authorizing military force against people
Anyway, take the new site for a test drive. Take her easy on the clutch and go steady on the hills, and I think you'll
Sorry folks, but slippery slope arguments don't hold water by themselves. We're going after Saddam because he 1) has shown
During the last half of the 20th century, this principle was expanded internationally through the United Nations. The U.N.
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