Around 1 AD most Jews lived in Egypt and Syria. A minority lived in (the geographical region known as) Palestine and a small minority of those staged an uprising against the Romans in 66 and 132 AD. After that, most of the Jews in Palestine converted to Xianity or sold their property and emigrated to other parts of the Roman empire.
Israel was re-invented by an ethno-nationalist movement in the 1800's. They REALLY don't like to be compared to other ethno-nationalist movements.
So has anyone worked out a quantitative business plan for this project? Seems to me it would produce very expensive iron and way more cobalt and platinum than we have a use for.
This story [eppc.org] offers an alternative to Moore's take
profoundly dishonest and misleading on a scale that even the very skeptical viewer cannot begin to appreciate without a careful analysis of each of the individual pieces that make up the narrative....
a patchwork of vague allegations, insubstantial insinuations, unrelated events patched together, and outright non sequiturs.
Sounds like Bush's BS promoting the Iraq conquest and colonization.
the only thing hindering peace in the Middle East is the Palestinean refusal to acknowledge Israel's right to exist.... It's almost as if there are some Muslim's who think that they are "too good" to share a piece of real estate with Jews.
When have the Jews ever acknowledged Palestine's right to exist? They have been systematically wiping Palestine off the map since the mid-1940's. Don't take my word for it, ask your local Zionist. In particular ask them about "sharing" with Muslims - they'll laugh in your face.
I have one that lights up constantly. It runs on springs & gears, no batteries. Not sure where the light comes from or why they don't make them any more.:>(
"Faux News" - Wow, I haven't heard that one before. Are you saying they make things up? Or is it something else, like presenting the news with a different perspective that you disagree with? Have you actually ever watched them to form an independent opinion
I don't TV, but looking at their website, they have an official US govt. (when right wing) perspective. They tell us what the rightists say about environmentalists, ragheads and leftists, but there are few quotes from environmentalists, ragheads and leftists.
Funny, is there any other news site that needs to claim "Fair and Balanced" at the top of their page?
Wow, thats completely contradictory to what Nasreen Barwari, an Iraqi cabinet member, has been saying. She states figures such as 4000 women killed in "honor" killings under Saddams rule and women living in most of Iraq under strict Islam ways.
I meant the pre-Saddam constitution wasn't too bad, or so I've heard (what actually goes on out in the boonies is another matter). A least it had historical legitimacy.
Whose idea was it to write a new constitution from scratch? This has caused a lot of problems and the result may not be better than pre-Saddam.
I think that the US Government is past the point of no return on the propaganda thing. It depends on two concepts: that the rest of the world trusts the good things that they hear about America, and that the rest of the world isn't smart enough to find out the truth themselves.
A lot of them are on the receiving end of US foreign policy, they know the truth.
c. Iraq wouldn't have been an issue if (2b) hadn't happened.
And how did (2b) make Iraq an issue?
(2b) was just a (hoped for) excuse to grab the Iraq oil "Prize" as Dick called it.
We're not picking on Muslims because of their religion -- that not only goes against our core beliefs, but it serves no useful purpose.
It serves the purpose of getting free real estate for non-Muslims in Palestine. Which in turn gives you a base to dominate the oil-rich region.
Why are we rebuilding Iraq?
Give us a quantitative list of what you have rebuilt compared to what you have destroyed - I think it would be pretty insignificant, and that doesn't count the tens of thousands of innocent people killed or maimed by your "shock and awe" bombing.
I don't think I've ever seen anything like this ("avenging angels sent by The God Himself to fight the evil of terrorism") reported in the mainstream media:
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Around 1 AD most Jews lived in Egypt and Syria. A minority lived in (the geographical region known as) Palestine and a small minority of those staged an uprising against the Romans in 66 and 132 AD. After that, most of the Jews in Palestine converted to Xianity or sold their property and emigrated to other parts of the Roman empire.
Israel was re-invented by an ethno-nationalist movement in the 1800's. They REALLY don't like to be compared to other ethno-nationalist movements.
"I hear that the Canadians are hiring Cisco and Google to build another Great Firewall. The Great Firewall of Canada."
I live near the border and I have a pair of wirecutters. I just need to Google a map of where the wires and fibres go.
Yeah, there are lots of people advocating nuking Islamic people and ethnically cleansing non-Jewish Palestinian.
Good old Yank free speech.
"Stop censorship, eliminate the SLC funding that enables CIPA."
Yeah, free speech for all those bad guys in the Yank gulag in Iraq, Afghanistan, GITMO, etc.
Maybe they would prefer to be in Cuba or China or Iran.
what you can't do is incite others to genocide or hatred against an identifiable group
How about wiping Palestine off the map?
you dont have to go read the entire story.
YDHTRTFA
"(Business 2.0)"
So has anyone worked out a quantitative business plan for this project?
Seems to me it would produce very expensive iron and way more cobalt and platinum than we have a use for.
no space property rights are not murky at all. He who has the most guns wins. ...
Same as it was in the wild west.
Or Palestine, 1945-48.
Think of the penguins!
Oh, won't anybody please think of the penguins!
Plus the dude will spend most of his time sleeping, eating, housekeeping, suiting up and writing reports for management.
I have a Polaroid flashlight, a Sunbeam lavalamp nitelite and a Bell+Howell nose hair trimmer.
Sounds like Bush's BS promoting the Iraq conquest and colonization.
When have the Jews ever acknowledged Palestine's right to exist? They have been systematically wiping Palestine off the map since the mid-1940's. Don't take my word for it, ask your local Zionist. In particular ask them about "sharing" with Muslims - they'll laugh in your face.
I have one that lights up constantly. It runs on springs & gears, no batteries. Not sure where the light comes from or why they don't make them any more. :>(
I got a laugh out of what is considered funny +4 here.
I don't TV, but looking at their website, they have an official US govt. (when right wing) perspective. They tell us what the rightists say about environmentalists, ragheads and leftists, but there are few quotes from environmentalists, ragheads and leftists.
Funny, is there any other news site that needs to claim "Fair and Balanced" at the top of their page?
How would you describe their perspective?
We should be able to rate stories by bogosity, and it should not be limited to 5. This one should be in the thousands.
Was he democratically elected or installed by the "liberators"?
I meant the pre-Saddam constitution wasn't too bad, or so I've heard (what actually goes on out in the boonies is another matter). A least it had historical legitimacy.
Whose idea was it to write a new constitution from scratch? This has caused a lot of problems and the result may not be better than pre-Saddam.
"Baghdad's Propaganda Apparatus," offers a detailed analysis of the regime's efforts to co-opt Arab journalists with cash and gifts
:>)
The freedom-loving Yankee liberators wouldn't do anything like that.
There *are* still enough good things about the United States to be proud of.
Nothing comes to mind.
I think that the US Government is past the point of no return on the propaganda thing. It depends on two concepts: that the rest of the world trusts the good things that they hear about America, and that the rest of the world isn't smart enough to find out the truth themselves.
A lot of them are on the receiving end of US foreign policy, they know the truth.
c. Iraq wouldn't have been an issue if (2b) hadn't happened.
And how did (2b) make Iraq an issue?
(2b) was just a (hoped for) excuse to grab the Iraq oil "Prize" as Dick called it.
We're not picking on Muslims because of their religion -- that not only goes against our core beliefs, but it serves no useful purpose.
It serves the purpose of getting free real estate for non-Muslims in Palestine. Which in turn gives you a base to dominate the oil-rich region.
Why are we rebuilding Iraq?
Give us a quantitative list of what you have rebuilt compared to what you have destroyed - I think it would be pretty insignificant, and that doesn't count the tens of thousands of innocent people killed or maimed by your "shock and awe" bombing.
I don't think I've ever seen anything like this ("avenging angels sent by The God Himself to fight the evil of terrorism") reported in the mainstream media:
Too looney even for Faux News?