Comments on: Site Updates & Notes

By: buy essay

buy essay — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:41:29 +0000

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By: Greg Bacon

Greg Bacon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:22:11 +0000

How else does one expect Wall Street banks to rake in over 50 billion a year on the Afghan opium trade if we don’t escalate the number of troops which will also be used to keep a heavy military presence around those rich Caspian Basin oil and natural gas fields and to surround Israel’s ‘existential’ enemy, Iran, with American targets?

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By: Jade

Jade — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:37:44 +0000

Wow, I jumped the gun by posting that link while being only 5 paragraphs into reading the Nation article, myself. It’s almost as if the author grabbed the key players in your blog, Sibel, and just spun out a different tale of corruption and chaos. Talk about a brutal article. I don’t see how the President, the military, or anyone else can justify us escalating in Afghanistan or keeping this charade going. We are literally “nation building” by shifting the wealth of US taxpayers to the warlords and favored businessmen over there. Meanwhile, back at home, we’ve seen the largest transfer of wealth upwards in our history and seem hellbent on creating a permanent class of debt slaves. Our troops deserve better than this, we deserve better, and so do the Afghans. I doubt that any of that blood money over in Afghanistan is trickling down to the starving, displaced masses.

By: Jade

Jade — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:55:21 +0000

Sibel – Have you read the latest piece from the Nation about Afghanistan? It compliments the long piece that you wrote recently nicely by bringing in Wardak and some uncomfortable details about how the Taliban is being funded.
It’s here. Cheers.

By: Sibel Edmonds

Sibel Edmonds — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:25:41 +0000

@T: ‘What’s your rule on using clips from your podcasts (for non-profit use to help the site)?’ Of course you/they can use it, as long as BF Post is cited with a link.

@NeoNoetic: Yes we have. The only few rules in place have to do with: comments only by registered users, no more than 2 links, and not too lengthy comments (those that tend to go on for pages!). That’s about it.

By: NeoNoetic

NeoNoetic — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:47:51 +0000

Sibel, have you looked at all the options under the “Settings/Discussion” administration page of the blog to see if something there might be causing the holds?

By: T

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:04:23 +0000

Hi Sibel,

Don’t worry about building the site. The important thing is that it’s there (vs. the MSM who’s never there ).

What’s your rule on using clips from your podcasts (for non-profit use to help the site)?

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By: ZicaTanka

ZicaTanka — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:46:04 +0000

Regarding Goldwag: Ah, the rhetoric of a marginalizer. How can we imagine being part of the mentally normal without marginalizing anyone who points out a problem with the official story of a major focal point in American History. If you have any trouble, just create lists of normal looking people and groups next to obviously evil looking ones. And put the word evidence in quotes a lot. I think it's purely relative psycho-babble myself. The closed systems are the ones, like those of the establishment behind the scenes of so much of what we talk about here, that produce paranoia inducing literature such as this.

By: Kingfisher

Kingfisher — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:56:53 +0000

The Goldwag article is great. Hofstadter nailed the dynamic for the ages when he wrote Paranoid Style, though he was wrong about Barry Goldwater. It has manifested itself on both left and right in our country. Goldwag is dead on about the self importance and closed systems of the truthers.

By: contextofnocontext

contextofnocontext — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:44:21 +0000

Ms. Edmonds,

Thanks again for the hard work. Two quick things I was made aware of today, just in case you missed them:

- More National Security Letter News: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506.shtml?tag=mncol;txt

- Two separate articles referencing the same Richard Hofstadter essay, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” One was a dismissal of the general outrage and distrust of the American public towards any ‘program’ offered to them by the Government written by the Establishment Court Philosopher Paul Krugman (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/opinion/09krugman.html). The other was written by some blogger/author named Arthur Goldwag who, like Mr. Krugman, seems to place anything he deems outside his immediate sphere of influence as belonging to a fringe group. An irate minority of loons, racists and obsessives, of course. It can be found here: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/09/911-truth-and-the-pa.html

The dual reference to that essay and the fascistic pragmatism these particular pimps are preaching made me wonder if they happened to look at the published date of that particular essay (November 1964) and if they made a, clearly unrelated, connection to August 1964 and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. To the masses of people who rose up in protest against the situation that followed, who lost complete faith in the veracity of their elected officials…who saw in the Pentagon Papers a conspiracy amongst the MIC and the moneyed elite to pursue objectives that had nothing to do with the well-being of the American public. But I’m probably reaching. I guess that Hofstadter essay’s just part of the collective unconscious right now. Floating through the minds of the intelligentsia.