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            <title>Barack Obama and the Cult of Personality</title>
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;A &amp;quot;cult of personality&amp;quot; is created when the media casts a leader in a heroic or godlike image, combined with unquestioning praise and flattery for that person even though they have accomplished nothing in their political career.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A hallmark for dictatorships throughout history, cults of personality have been used to dupe the public ( primarily the youth ) into believing they&amp;#39;re part of a movement, when they are fed empty slogans which they parrot without question.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Barrack Obama a covert muslim communist, His role in the historical drama that is being played before us, is he will preside over the U.S. Perestroika, socio-political restructuring, further police state inegration under the ficticious threat of more terror.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The elite overlords&amp;#160;who promote him, want to further humiliate the U.S. by slapping us in the face ( adding insult to injury ) with a Muslim President and whose name ryme with Osama, that is if you follow the official story line or myth of the war on terror.&amp;#160;I know them like the back of my hand, I think like they ( elite overlords ) do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;An extreme example of &amp;#39;cult of personality&amp;#39; is the dear leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il where he is&amp;#160;practically worshipped as god of the&amp;#160;peasants and armed forces&amp;#160;of North Korea.&lt;/p&gt;
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            <title>Kinsey Sex Crimes and Fraud: The Cover-Up</title>
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;Kinsey&amp;#39;s fraudalent&amp;#160;human sexuality research was in fact Rockefeller Foundation sponsored sexaul liberation, social engineering&amp;#160;for the purposes of socio-political control and enslavement of the&amp;#160;sheeple (see eugenecist&amp;#160;Aldux Huxley&amp;#39;s concentration camp of the mind ),&amp;#160;that serve the elites very well.&amp;#160;Couple this with rabid eugenecist&amp;#160;Margeret Sanger&amp;#39;s ( planned parenthood founder&amp;#160;)&amp;#160;promotion of abortion - was also sponsored by this tax free foundation. All this points to the fact that our culture is run by elites in power&amp;#160; following occult traditions, doing the bidding of the dark side.&lt;/p&gt;
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/election08/89686/?page=entire&amp;amp;ses=2775959302c64807a93024488f1ab497&quot;&gt;http://www.alternet.org/election08/89686/?page=entire&amp;amp;ses=2775959302c64807a93024488f1ab497&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.5625em;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;storyheadline&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.5625em;&quot;&gt;The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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		&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/authors/8612/&quot; title=&quot;View all stories by Brad Reed&quot;&gt;Brad Reed&lt;/a&gt;, 		&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/&quot;&gt;AlterNet&lt;/a&gt;. Posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/ts/archives/?date%5BF%5D=07&amp;amp;date%5BY%5D=2008&amp;amp;date%5Bd%5D=01&amp;amp;act=Go/&quot; title=&quot;View all stories published on July 1, 2008&quot;&gt;July 1, 2008&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 1.25em;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;






	
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			A shorter version of our long national nightmare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a lot of ways, choosing the Bush administration&amp;#39;s 10 greatest
moments -- disastrous failures, all -- is about as pointless as picking
out your 10 least favorite hemorrhoids: There are entirely too many of
them, and taken together they all add up to a throbbing mass of pain.
But unfortunately, history demands that we at least make the effort so
that future generations will understand why we perform voodoo rituals
cursing Bush&amp;#39;s memory before we go to bed every night.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Narrowing
down the Bush administration&amp;#39;s various debacles to a mere 10 was no
easy feat. In fact, I expect that many people will express dismay that
their least favorite moment was left off the list. &amp;quot;How could commuting
Scooter Libby&amp;#39;s sentence not even make the top 10??!!&amp;quot; I can hear some
of you shrieking already. Well, I&amp;#39;ll tell you. Essentially, I tried to
rate each Bush disaster by two main criteria: its body count and its
damage to the country&amp;#39;s reputation. So while Bush&amp;#39;s awkward &lt;a href=&quot;http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Bush_massages_German_Chancellor_Merkel_at_0718.html&quot;&gt;groping&lt;/a&gt;
of German Chancellor Angela Merkel may be personally humiliating to
everyone, it doesn&amp;#39;t have the same heft as, say, the Iraq War.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But
for those of you who insist on seeing your least favorite moment get
its due, here is list of every honorable mention I could come up with: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html&quot;&gt;warrantless wiretapping&lt;/a&gt;; Valerie Plame; Scooter Libby&amp;#39;s sentence commuted; Bush &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/08/02/BL2005080201070.html&quot;&gt;believes&lt;/a&gt; Rafael Palmeiro is innocent; soldiers face &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701172.html&quot;&gt;neglect&lt;/a&gt; at Walter Reed; signing statements; the Kyoto treaty &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8422343/&quot;&gt;ripped up&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31019-2004Jul31.html&quot;&gt;loyalty oaths&lt;/a&gt;; the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/04/politics/main586761.shtml&quot;&gt;fake turkey&lt;/a&gt;; a staged &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172186,00.html&quot;&gt;teleconference&lt;/a&gt; with troops, staged &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/25/AR2007102502488.html&quot;&gt;FEMA press conference&lt;/a&gt;, extraordinary rendition, support for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/08/tech/main1109280.shtml&quot;&gt;junk science&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201686.html&quot;&gt;endorsement&lt;/a&gt;
of neo-creationist &amp;quot;intelligent design&amp;quot;; inaction against global
warming; record oil prices; record budget deficits; record trade
deficits; record number of Americans without health insurance; two
recessions; no-bid contracts; bin Laden still at large; the Federal
Marriage Amendment; stem cell research &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/19/stemcells.veto/index.html&quot;&gt;vetoed&lt;/a&gt;;
waterboarding ban vetoed; &amp;quot;Last throes&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;Old Europe&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;It&amp;#39;s hard
work&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;Bring it on&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;Yo, Blair!&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m the decider&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m the
commander guy&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m a war president&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;This is the guy who tried to
kill my dad&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Vote2008/story?id=4481249&quot;&gt;So&lt;/a&gt;?&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/video/us/2002/02/25/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html&quot;&gt;Let the Eagle Soar&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;; John Bolton; Kenny Boy; Harriet Miers; John Roberts; Sam Alito; Blair &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/jan/09/Iraqandthemedia.politicsandiraq&quot;&gt;talks&lt;/a&gt;
Bush out of bombing al-Jazeera; Cheney shoots some guy in the face; the
Military Commissions Act; Jose Padilla arrested and held without charge
or access to counsel; endless tax cuts for the rich; let&amp;#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4181187&quot;&gt;waste&lt;/a&gt; a shitload of money by sending people to Mars and let&amp;#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48543-2004May22.html&quot;&gt;hire&lt;/a&gt; some Heritage Foundation staffers to rebuild Iraq.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And with that, let&amp;#39;s go onto our 10 worst moments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10: Bush Gets Re-elected&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;BRAD1&quot; src=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimage_brad1.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a way, Bush&amp;#39;s re-election was even more depressing than the shady &lt;a href=&quot;http://edition.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/16/election.harris/index.html&quot;&gt;shenanigans&lt;/a&gt;
the GOP used to get him elected in 2000. See, back then Bush ran as a
&amp;quot;compassionate conservative&amp;quot; who promised to be a &amp;quot;uniter, not a
divider&amp;quot; who would run a center-right administration like his father
did. By 2004, the myth of Bush the Uniter had been demolished by his
exploiting the 9/11 terror attacks for political gain, by dropping &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,58748,00.html&quot;&gt;poison pills&lt;/a&gt;
into bills to make Democrats vote against their own proposals, and by
supporting needless and divisive initiatives such as a constitutional
amendment banning gay marriage. On top of this, the Bush re-election
crew &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3222-2004May30.html&quot;&gt;ran&lt;/a&gt;
one of the nastiest and most negative campaigns in recent memory. The
low point in the whole affair came when administration allies and
surrogates took to the airwaves to falsely &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21239-2004Aug21.html&quot;&gt;accuse&lt;/a&gt; Democratic candidate John Kerry of lying about his service in Vietnam, even claiming in one instance that he intentionally &lt;a href=&quot;http://mediamatters.org/items/200408200005&quot;&gt;shot himself&lt;/a&gt; to get out of the war.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason for this historically negative campaign was obvious: As Paul Krugman deftly &lt;a href=&quot;http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E2D7143EF937A1575BC0A9629C8B63&quot;&gt;observed&lt;/a&gt;
at the time, Bush had &amp;quot;no positive achievements to run on.&amp;quot; But this
didn&amp;#39;t stop more than 59 million Americans from voting to give Bush yet
another four years to build on his already-impressive resume of
negative achievements.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9: Alberto Gonzales&amp;#39; Congressional Testimony&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;BRAD2&quot; src=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimage_brad2.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One
of the Bush administration&amp;#39;s favorite pastimes over the past eight
years has been gleefully urinating in the faces of the other two
branches of government. This tendency is best exemplified by
Ex-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales&amp;#39; appearance before the Senate
Judiciary Committee to answer questions under oath about whether a
group of eight federal prosecutors had been &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/usa-timeline.php&quot;&gt;fired&lt;/a&gt;
for partisan reasons. Essentially, all of the attorneys in question had
exemplary performance records but were targeted because they did not
prosecute several so-called &amp;quot;voter fraud&amp;quot; cases to then-presidential
adviser Karl Rove&amp;#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0312-01.htm&quot;&gt;satisfaction&lt;/a&gt;.
When the Senate Judiciary Committee called then-Deputy AG Paul McNulty
to testify about the firings, he claimed that all of them had been
dismissed due to &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020600732.html&quot;&gt;performance-related issues.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; About a month later, Gonzales &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070307/oppose07.art.htm&quot;&gt;penned&lt;/a&gt; an editorial for &lt;em&gt;USA Today&lt;/em&gt;
reiterating McNulty&amp;#39;s claim that the attorneys were fired for
performance reasons and called the entire controversy an &amp;quot;overblown
personnel matter.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After it emerged that six of the fired attorneys had actually been given &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/17/AR2007021701509_pf.html&quot;&gt;positive job evaluations&lt;/a&gt;,
Gonzales rushed up to Capitol Hill to perform damage control. He said
he &amp;quot;regretted&amp;quot; saying that the fired attorneys had lost his confidence,
and then went on to say that he had no idea why the attorneys had been
targeted for dismissal. Additionally, Gonzales said there was nothing
at all improper about the firings, despite the fact that he admitted
that he had &amp;quot;limited involvement&amp;quot; in the ordeal. Gonzales also
responded to questions by answering &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t recall&amp;quot; a total of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041900192_2.html&quot;&gt;64 times&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although
several GOP senators called on Gonzales to resign in the wake of his
testimony, Bush said Gonzales&amp;#39; performance had &amp;quot;increased my confidence
in his ability to do the job&amp;quot; and that he would stay on as attorney
general.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the fun didn&amp;#39;t stop there. When the Senate Judiciary Committee hauled Gonzales back to testify about his frantic hospital &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1622832,00.html&quot;&gt;visit&lt;/a&gt;
to get a fresh-from-surgery John Ashcroft to approve Bush&amp;#39;s warrantless
wiretapping program, it resulted in the sort of clown show that would
have put Barnum and Bailey to shame. The lowlight came during a classic
&lt;a href=&quot;http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/003759.php&quot;&gt;debate&lt;/a&gt;
between Gonzo and Arlen Specter over whether Ashcroft could have
effectively performed his duties as attorney general while he was under
heavy sedation. After Gonzales finally stepped down in August 2007,
Bush stamped his feet and cried that Gonzo had had &amp;quot;his good name
dragged through the mud.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;8: North Korea Conducts a Nuclear Test&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In his 2002 State of the Union Address, Bush &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020129-11.html&quot;&gt;stated&lt;/a&gt;
forthrightly that &amp;quot;the United States will not permit the world&amp;#39;s most
dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world&amp;#39;s most destructive
weapons.&amp;quot; And to show how serious he was, Bush decided to invade Iraq,
a country whose vast stockpile contained precisely zero weapons of mass
destruction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But while Bush was busy freedomizing the Iraqis, North Korea -- a country best &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atimes.com/koreas/CG14Dg03.html&quot;&gt;known&lt;/a&gt;
for being home of the world&amp;#39;s worst government -- steadily built up its
nuclear capabilities and eventually conducted a nuclear test in October
2006.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oopsie-doodles!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While there is a great deal of
dispute over whether the North Korean test was actually a successful
test, it seemed clear that Bush&amp;#39;s strategic doctrine of ignoring our
enemies until they meet every one of his demands has failed somewhat
spectacularly. Naturally, Condi Rice &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/21/AR2006102100296_pf.html&quot;&gt;declared&lt;/a&gt;
that the test was actually a significant win for Bush administration
policy, thus proving once again that down isn&amp;#39;t just up for the Bush
administration, but sometimes sideways as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7: Colin Powell&amp;#39;s Bogus WMD Presentation at the U.N.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;BRAD3&quot; src=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimage_brad3.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For
those of you who are too young to remember, there was a time when Colin
Powell was an internationally respected diplomat and military leader
who was seen as the sort of rare Republican straight-shooter who also
had a fine sense for global sensibilities. Indeed, at the time of
Powell&amp;#39;s appointment to the State Department, the BBC &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1073212.stm&quot;&gt;described&lt;/a&gt;
him as Bush&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;trump card&amp;quot; and as &amp;quot;a national hero whose charismatic
image bridges America&amp;#39;s racial divide.&amp;quot; But little did anyone know that
Powell&amp;#39;s public image as a renowned warrior-scholar would come crashing
down to Earth less than four years after his appointment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In
February 2003, Powell gave a presentation before the U.N. Security
Council that was instrumental in convincing both the American public &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=29471&quot;&gt;and large swaths of the international community&lt;/a&gt;
that Saddam Hussein had large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction
that posed an immediate threat to global security. During his speech,
Powell told scary tales of mobile biological weapons labs, chemical
weapons stockpiles and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32110-2003Feb5?language=printer&quot;&gt;aluminum tubes&lt;/a&gt; that could be used in a nuclear weapons program. All of these claims turned out not only to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4654048/&quot;&gt;wrong&lt;/a&gt;, but based on sourcing that even Powell &lt;a href=&quot;http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3D9143FF934A25756C0A9629C8B63&quot;&gt;acknowledged&lt;/a&gt; was &amp;quot;deliberately misleading&amp;quot; in some cases.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And
what&amp;#39;s more, Powell knew how shaky a lot of the intelligence was before
he made his infamous presentation to the United Nations. As Bob
Woodward &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh062505.shtml&quot;&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt; in his book &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.powells.com/partner/32513/biblio/9780743255479&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Plan of Attack,&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Powell had deep doubts about an intercept between two senior members of
the Iraqi Republican Guard that vaguely sortakindamaybe might have
mentioned something along the lines of using vehicles for bioweapons
labs. Yet despite reservations about the intel, Woodward reports that
Powell &amp;quot;decided to use it&amp;quot; for his U.N. presentation anyway. Ditto for
an &amp;quot;inferential&amp;quot; report on Iraqi Scud missiles that Powell acknowledged
had not been seen by anyone.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Years after feeding bogus intel to
the Security Council, Powell said his performance was a &amp;quot;painful&amp;quot;
&amp;quot;blot&amp;quot; on his record. Well la-tee-da. I&amp;#39;m sure that&amp;#39;s a fine comfort to
the hundreds of thousands of people who died needlessly as a result of
Powell&amp;#39;s Security Council boo-boo.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;6: The Terri Schiavo Affair&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;BRAD4&quot; src=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimage_brad4.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In
what will no doubt go down in history as one of the craziest things our
federal government has ever done, the U.S. House and Senate both passed
an emergency law to save the life of a woman who had been near-brain
dead for more than a decade. The case of Terri Schiavo, who collapsed
in her home and who later lost oxygen to her brain after her doctors
misdiagnosed the cause of her collapse, was undoubtedly tragic for
everyone involved; it was also undoubtedly none of the federal
government&amp;#39;s business.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After numerous state courts had sided with then-husband and guardian Michael Schiavo and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2536-2005Mar26.html&quot;&gt;ruled&lt;/a&gt;
that Terri&amp;#39;s condition was irreversible and that her feeding tube could
be removed to end her life, the Christian Right launched into an epic
freak-out the likes of which America has not seen since &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm&quot;&gt;17th Century Salem&lt;/a&gt;.
After much Tasmanian devil-style screeching and hollering from the GOP
base, the Republican Congress passed a bill transferring jurisdiction
of the Schiavo case to federal court. Bush, who seemingly never misses
an opportunity to take a naked ride on the crazy train, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/21/politics/21bush.html&quot;&gt;interrupted&lt;/a&gt; one of his frequent Texas vacations to sign the damn thing into law.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ah, if only he&amp;#39;d been this swift and alert when Hurricane Katrina hit (see Moment #4).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While there were several moments of sheer, unbridled lunacy throughout (Pat Buchanan &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=6949&quot;&gt;calls Michael Schiavo and his supporters Nazis!&lt;/a&gt; Tom DeLay issues &lt;a href=&quot;http://thinkprogress.org/2005/04/02/delay-refuses-to-clarify-threatening-statement/&quot;&gt;threats&lt;/a&gt; against judges who don&amp;#39;t rule how he wants them to! Peggy Noonan &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110006460&quot;&gt;calls&lt;/a&gt; Michael Schiavo supporters part of &amp;quot;culture of death!&amp;quot;), the craziest by far was then-Senator Bill Frist&amp;#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48119-2005Mar18.html&quot;&gt;declaration&lt;/a&gt; that Terri had been misdiagnosed after he spent an hour watching a video of her in his office.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5: Bush and Condi&amp;#39;s Excellent Gaza Adventure&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The
Bush administration can be described as a slapstick comedy with an
unusually high body count: Picture the Three Stooges and the Keystone
Cops duking it out with cruise missiles.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is no better
example of this than Bush and the State Department&amp;#39;s wild adventures in
the Gaza Strip in 2006. As Vanity Fair&amp;#39;s David Rose &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/gaza200804&quot;&gt;reported&lt;/a&gt;
earlier this year, the trouble began when Bush started stamping his
feet and throwing a hissy fit about having elections in the Palestinian
territories. Essentially, Bush&amp;#39;s desire to be seen as a &amp;quot;freedom
president&amp;quot; meant forcing various swarthy third-worlders to vote in
elections that would presumably result in U.S.-friendly regimes around
the world. After Hamas predictably &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/26/palestinian.election/index.html&quot;&gt;defeated&lt;/a&gt;
Fatah in the elections, Bush decided he didn&amp;#39;t like democracy in the
Middle East so much after all, and he had Condi Rice tell Fatah leader
Mahmoud Abbas that &amp;quot;America expected him to dissolve the Haniyeh
government as soon as possible and hold fresh elections.&amp;quot; Apparently,
Condi believed that having an American-backed leader dissolve a
democratically elected government would warm the Palestinians&amp;#39; hearts
to American aims. Long story short: The U.S. government decides to
bolster Fatah by sending them a bunch of arms. Word of these shipments
leaks to a Jordanian newspaper. All hell breaks loose; Hamas defeats
Fatah and proceeds to use the American-supplied arms it confiscated
from Fatah against Israel. The entire ordeal was an amazing
illustration of the administration&amp;#39;s complete inability to anticipate
entirely predictable outcomes. Or as Khalid Jaberi, a commander with
Fatah&amp;#39;s al-Aqsa Martyrs&amp;#39; Brigades, put it: &amp;quot;Since the takeover, we&amp;#39;ve
been trying to enter the brains of Bush and Rice, to figure out their
mentality. We can only conclude that having Hamas in control serves
their overall strategy, because their policy was so crazy otherwise.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Epic, epic fail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4: &amp;quot;Brownie, You&amp;#39;re Doing a Heckuva Job&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;BRAD5&quot; src=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimage_brad5.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, we&amp;#39;re getting into Bush&amp;#39;s real crowning achievements here. The Think Progress blog has done an admirable job of &lt;a href=&quot;http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline/&quot;&gt;chronicling the entire affair&lt;/a&gt;, so I&amp;#39;m just going to summarize the lowlights from its timeline:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aug. 29: &lt;/strong&gt;
Katrina makes landfall, then-FEMA chief Michael &amp;quot;Brownie&amp;quot; Brown warns
Bush that the levees could overflow, Bush gives John McCain a cake.
Brown, a Bush hack who had previously worked as &amp;quot;the chief rules
enforcer of the Arabian Horse Association,&amp;quot; also preemptively asks
Cindy Taylor, FEMA&amp;#39;s deputy director of public affairs, if he &amp;quot;can quit
now.&amp;quot; He also declares himself &amp;quot;a fashion god.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aug. 30: &lt;/strong&gt;
Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff learns that the New Orleans
levees had failed, looters run rampant in New Orleans, Bush plays
guitar, then-White House spokesman Scott McClellan says that Bush will
return to his Texas ranch for one more night of vacation before
returning to Washington.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aug. 31: &lt;/strong&gt; Federal relief workers try to evacuate New Orleans residents in what Chertoff describes as &amp;quot;conditions of urban warfare.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sept. 1: &lt;/strong&gt; Bush says, &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.&amp;quot; Brownie says he&amp;#39;s received &amp;quot;no reports of unrest.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sept. 2: &lt;/strong&gt;
Karl Rove begins to enact his strategy of blaming local officials for
the Katrina disaster, Bush tells Brownie that he&amp;#39;s doing &amp;quot;a heckuva
job&amp;quot; and also says he&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;satisfied with the response&amp;quot; of the federal
government but &amp;quot;not satisfied with all the results,&amp;quot; and pledges to
rebuild Trent Lott&amp;#39;s house.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sept. 4:&lt;/strong&gt; Chertoff says that &amp;quot;government planners did not predict such a disaster ever could occur.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And
so on. While watching Katrina unfold live on my television, I suddenly
had the urge to sell all my belongings, purchase several firearms, move
out to a remote cabin in Montana and wait for society to fall apart.
Because hey: If the entire world was going to completely collapse
around me, I might as well have a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tvguide.com/movies/boy-dog/review/118445&quot;&gt;wise-cracking psychic dog&lt;/a&gt; to keep me company.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3: Abu Ghraib&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;BRAD6&quot; src=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimage_brad6.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In its May 10, 2004, issue, the &lt;em&gt;New Yorker&lt;/em&gt;
magazine published an explosive report by renowned investigative
journalist Seymour Hersh detailing the systematic torture of prisoners
by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Administration apologists used two distinctly different strategies to
push back against the inevitable bad press that ensued: One was to
condemn the guilty parties but refer to them merely as &amp;quot;a few bad
apples&amp;quot; who weren&amp;#39;t reflective of American policy; the other was to &lt;a href=&quot;http://mediamatters.org/items/200408310002&quot;&gt;dismiss&lt;/a&gt; the entire scandal as &amp;quot;an out-of-control fraternity prank.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But
it turned out, of course, that the crimes committed at Abu Ghraib
weren&amp;#39;t merely the work of a few rogue soldiers. Indeed, it turns out
that the tactics employed in the infamous Iraqi dungeon were first
taken out for a test &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302380_pf.html&quot;&gt;spin&lt;/a&gt;
at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And what tactics
did those include, you ask? Why, sleep deprivation, stress positions,
sexual humiliation and a technique called waterboarding that is meant
to simulate the experience of drowning. And where did they get the idea
to use these techniques? Why, from &lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/LawPolitics/Story?id=4583256&amp;amp;page=1&quot;&gt;senior Bush administration officials&lt;/a&gt;, of course! With the full &lt;a href=&quot;http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/LawPolitics/story?id=4635175&amp;amp;page=1&quot;&gt;approval&lt;/a&gt;
of Bush himself! As ABC News reported earlier this year, &amp;quot;the
high-level discussions about these &amp;#39;enhanced interrogation techniques&amp;#39;
were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation
sessions were almost choreographed.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amazingly, the Bush
administration tried to justify its decisions by claiming that
waterboarding was perfectly legal and did not constitute torture.
Despite the fact that, you know, it was deemed illegal 40 years ago by
U.S. generals in Vietnam.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This particular scandal was so bad that even the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jbs.org/node/7023&quot;&gt;John Birch Society&lt;/a&gt; (!!!) concluded that the administration and its flunkies were war criminals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2: 9/11&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;BRAD7&quot; src=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimage_brad7.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The
terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most terrifying and
traumatic moments in American history. Thousands of people perished
that day, all due to an evil act carried out by a group of religious
fanatics who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center, the
Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Penn. But while the loss of life
on that day was indeed a major tragedy for all Americans, what happened
afterward was in many ways more disturbing: In essence, the
politicization of 9/11 caused us to lose our collective minds for a
long period of time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first shot was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.observer.com/node/45522&quot;&gt;fired&lt;/a&gt;
by Karl Rove in a January 2002 address to the Republican National
Committee in which he implored the GOP to &amp;quot;go to the country on (the
War on Terror) because they trust the Republican Party to do a better
job of protecting and strengthening America&amp;#39;s military might and
thereby protecting America.&amp;quot; And sure enough, by the time the midterm
elections rolled around, Bush and his GOP minions were milking 9/11 to
get as many votes as they could. When Senate Democrats tried to extend
union rights for workers in the newly created Department of Homeland
Security, for instance, Bush &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,58748,00.html&quot;&gt;issued&lt;/a&gt;
a pissy veto threat, and then-spokesman Ari Fleischer described the
Dems&amp;#39; proposal as &amp;quot;a step backward, not forward, in protecting the
country.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#39;s just a mild example. Here are some other
choice GOP attacks that accused Democrats of helping al Qaeda win by
not kissing Bush&amp;#39;s ass with the sufficient level of enthusiasm:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;America
sits and wonders why it is that al Qaeda, this ragtag bunch of
terrorists scattered all over the globe, can reorganize themselves. I
think the difference is that al Qaeda doesn&amp;#39;t have a Senate. Al Qaeda
doesn&amp;#39;t have a Senator Daschle.&amp;quot; -- Dick Armey&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;As America
faces terrorists and extremist dictators, Max Cleland runs television
ads claiming he has the courage to lead. He says he supports President
Bush at every opportunity, but that&amp;#39;s not the truth. Since July, Max
Cleland voted against President Bush&amp;#39;s vital homeland security efforts
11 times.&amp;quot; -- An attack ad targeting then-U.S. Senator Max Cleland.
Cleland is a vet who lost both legs and an arm in the Vietnam War.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Al
Qaeda terrorists. Saddam Hussein. Enemies of America. Working to obtain
nuclear weapons. Now more than ever our nation must have a missile
defense system to shoot down missiles fired at America. Yet Tim Johnson
has voted against a missile defense system 29 different times.&amp;quot; -- An
attack ad targeting Sen. Tim Johnson. This one was particularly rich,
since a missile defense shield would have done precisely nothing to
stop the 9/11 attacks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;How dare Senator Daschle criticize
President Bush while we are fighting our war on terrorism, especially
when we have troops in the field?&amp;quot; -- Trent Lott, who freaked out
because then-Senate majority leader Tom Daschle had the gall to suggest
that we&amp;#39;d have to capture Osama bin Laden in order to consider the war
on terror successful.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;(Daschle&amp;#39;s) divisive comments have
the effect of giving aid and comfort to our enemies by allowing them to
exploit divisions in our country.&amp;quot; -- Virginia Representative Tom
Davis, also attacking Daschle&amp;#39;s remarks. Who knew that demanding the
capture of our enemies was tantamount to treason?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20040930.html&quot;&gt;And so on&lt;/a&gt;.
The Republicans&amp;#39; &amp;quot;The Democrats Want to Help al Qaeda Kill You&amp;quot; gambit
worked for two consecutive elections before finally running out of gas
in 2006. But even so, the ability of one political party to garner
votes simply by yelling about treason incessantly is incredibly
depressing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pass me that bucket of Freedom Fries, will you?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1: &amp;quot;Mission Accomplished&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;BRAD8&quot; src=&quot;http://www.alternet.org/images/managed/storyimage_brad8.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A
lot has been written about Bush&amp;#39;s aircraft carrier stunt over the past
few years, and with good reason. After all, no other incident better
illustrates how Bush&amp;#39;s presidency was built entirely on hubristic
arrogance, shameless propaganda and a destructive disregard for
reality. In what Noam Chomsky correctly &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20031021.htm&quot;&gt;called&lt;/a&gt;
&amp;quot;the opening of the year 2004 election campaign,&amp;quot; George W. Bush
delivered a so-called &amp;quot;victory speech&amp;quot; for the Iraq War after landing
on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln aboard an S-3B Viking jet
dressed in full flyboy gear.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bush&amp;#39;s posturing as a war hero was, of course, laughable. During the Vietnam War, Bush &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072899.htm&quot;&gt;used his family connections&lt;/a&gt; to obtain a gentleman draft dodger&amp;#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/id/2095256/&quot;&gt;assignment&lt;/a&gt; flying planes in Alabama for the Air National Guard -- a cushy assignment that he &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/bush/articles/2000/05/23/1_year_gap_in_bushs_guard_duty/&quot;&gt;didn&amp;#39;t even do very well&lt;/a&gt;. But no matter! As long as he gave off an aura of steely resolve, and as long as he wore a ridiculous &lt;a href=&quot;http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_digbysblog_archive.html&quot;&gt;outfit&lt;/a&gt; to emphasize his &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh051303.shtml&quot;&gt;manly characteristic&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;quot; our ever-watchful pundit corps endlessly praised him as the gin-you-wine article.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A sample of the atrocities, painstakingly &lt;a href=&quot;http://mediamatters.org/items/200604270005&quot;&gt;compiled&lt;/a&gt; by Media Matters:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;(T)hat&amp;#39;s
the president looking very much like a jet, you know, a high-flying jet
star. A guy who is a jet pilot. Has been in the past when he was
younger, obviously. What does that image mean to the American people, a
guy who can actually get into a supersonic plane and actually fly in an
unpressurized cabin like an actual jet pilot?&amp;quot; -- Chris Matthews&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;A
little bit of history and a lot of drama today when President Bush
became the first commander in chief to make a tail-hook landing on an
aircraft carrier. A one-time Fighter Dog himself in the Air National
Guard, the president flew in the co-pilot seat with a trip to the USS
Abraham Lincoln.&amp;quot; -- Wolf Blitzer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;And two immutable
truths about the president that the Democrats can&amp;#39;t change: He&amp;#39;s a
youthful guy. He looked terrific and full of energy in a flight suit.
He is a former pilot, so it&amp;#39;s not a foreign art farm -- art form to
him. Not all presidents could have pulled this scene off today.&amp;quot; --
Brian Williams&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And in the time since Bush performed this grotesque PR stunt, roughly 4,000 troops have been killed in action along with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iraqbodycount.org/&quot;&gt;tens of thousands of Iraqis&lt;/a&gt;, with nary a WMD in sight to justify the carnage. Heck of a job, all around.&lt;/p&gt;
	
		
	
	
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:17:42 -0700</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;When Texas Child Protective Sevices released statistics showing nearly 60% of the teen girls taken from&amp;#160;FLDS (Fundementalist Latter Day Saints) polygamist sect&amp;#39;s ranch were pregnant or had children, they seemed to prove what was alleged all along; the sect commonly pushed girls into marriage and sex.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But in the past week, the state has twice been forced to admit &amp;quot;girls&amp;quot; who gave birth while in state custody are actually adults. One was 22 and claims she showed state officials a Utah birth certificate shortly after she and more than 400 children were seized from the west Texas ranch in an April raid.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The state has in custody two dozen other young mothers and others whose ages are in dispute. If most of them also turn out to be adults. It would be a severe blow to the state&amp;#39;s claim of widespread sexual abuse.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, it turns out the other 24 disputed minors are adults, the number of actual 14 -17- year-old girls with children could drop to as low as five or six...........&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.charlotte.com/nation/v-print/story/677520.html&quot;&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;....the process of&amp;#160; [ militaristic&amp;#160;foreign policy&amp;#160;] transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; - Sept. 2000, Project for a New American Century, Rebuilding America&amp;#39;s Defenses&lt;/p&gt;
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;The guards kicked, kneed and punched many of the men until they
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