One of Britain's most senior police officers is to call for all drugs – including heroin and cocaine – to be legalised and urges the Government to declare an end to the "failed" war on illegal narcotics.
Administration officials are studying the lessons of the recent war game, which was set up to devise a way of weathering an economic storm created by war with Iran.
The underlying cause of the current global financial crisis is a system in which there's little personal responsibility for lending decisions. Here's how it all works (or, as we now see, how it doesn't work).
"We will not recover from this for at least five years. If people think that housing values are dropped today it's nothing, housing values are going to go down fifty percent or more from the peak. We're going to come to a point when condominiums in certain markets are worthless.
By deciding to ante up $38 billion for a hopeless bailout of predatory Wall Street hedge funds and the banks that stand behind them, Federal Reserve Chairman Helicopter Ben Bernanke has placed the bankrupt US dollar on a direct course towards the precipice of hyperinflation.
Because if we'd gone to Bagdad we'd have been alone...it would have been a US occupation of Iraq...Once you got to Iraq, took it over, took down Saddam's government, then what are you going to put in its place?"
On 23 Sept 2003, the Defense Department Website called "Defend America" posted a notice for people to join local draft boards.
Possibly some very important dots being connected here. First, how well are you acquainted with the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce? You're certainly well acquainted with its members.
Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx's proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe's drops as fertility falls.
George Carlin gives one of his most salient rants about the state of America. And he's right. Nobody seems to notice, and nobody seems to care. "The owners of America know the truth. It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
Afternoon sunlight poured over the high wooden barriers into the ring, as the brave bull bore down on the unarmed matador a scientist who had never before faced a fighting bull. But the charging animals horns never reached the man behind the red cape.
In 1998, the first phase of research began with the surgical implantation of a simple silicon chip transponder into my forearm. The implant was successfully tested over a period of nine days before its removal.
"The greatest threat now is 'a 9/11' occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities." -- Dick Cheney on Face the Nation, CBS, April 15, 2007
Is the United States provoking war with Iran, to begin while the Congress is conveniently on its August recess? One recalls that it was in August 1964, after the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, that the Tonkin Gulf incident occurred.
"I predict, based primarily on information that is floating in Europe and the Middle East, that an event is imminent and around the corner here in the United States. It could happen as soon as tomorrow, or it could happen in the next few months.
"This is not yet August, but as I think back to Augusts in the past, I think of August 1914, August 1939." This is how Lyn began his address yesterday to a private gathering of some 25 diplomats in Washington D.C. from eighteen different countries.
Should Americans have to give up the Bill of Rights in order to be "safe" from terrorists? Actually, it doesn't matter what Americans think. The trade has already been made--and without any input from the people.
Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.
During World War I, American activist Randolph Bourne had warned, "War is the health of the State."1 His prophecy has proven accurate; the post-1914 years have been an era of total war and the total state.
Perhaps your real life is so rich you don't have time for another. Even so, the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propaganda.
After installing all of my usual apps on Vista I was impressed to see most everything was 100% backward compatible. I expected much of my software to be rendered incompatible.
The whole focus of the media in this case has been on the narrow, inside-the-Beltway question of who leaked information about Plame to the media. Entirely forgotten or ignored has been what this leak was all about to begin with.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports in its March 5th edition that China will soon surpass the United States in the emission of atmospheric CO2.
· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war · Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years · Threat to the world is greater than terrorism
If, as I strongly suspect, the American nation-state is in a terminal collapse, what is to become of its antiquated forms? Will they, like the government under the Articles of Confederation, or the Confederate States of America, simply disappear? Or will they, like Ozymandias' …
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