Worth a Look: Jesse Ventura on US Government

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Former Minnesota governor, navy SEAL, and pro rassler Ventura has a new truTVshow investigating but not necessarily debunking conspiracy theories. This companion to the program, a sort of teaser, dissects such famed objects of unending speculation as the JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations. Ventura concludes that none of those were twisted-loner crimes but rather resulted from conspiracies of varying vastness. Anent the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Ventura asserts that “our government engaged in a massive cover-up” and had “ties to the hijackers.” He ventures that “unanswered questions remain about how the towers were brought down and whether a plane really struck the Pentagon” and that the “Bush Administration either knew about the plan” or “had a hand in it.” Heady, paranoiac stuff, to be sure, but there are even more forthright charges regarding the assassination of Malcolm X, the Jonestown massacre, and the “stolen” elections of 2000, 2004, 2008, and, for that matter, 1980. Believable? Some of it. An action-packed read? You bet. –Mike Tribby

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Al Jazeera: Obama Does Not Get It…

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Obama does not get it

If independent, democratic, governments are formed in the Middle East, they won't follow Washington's orders.

Lamis Andoni

09 Mar 2011 11:45 GMT

Al Jazeera

Barack Obama, the US president, has still not fully grasped the essence of the revolutions underway in the Arab world. He genuinely seems to believe that the people rallying for democracy in the region are making a pro-Western, if not pro-Israeli, statement.

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End operations in Afghanistan, Karzai tells NATO

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ASADABAD, Afghanistan: Emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday urged international troops to “stop their operations in our land”, his strongest salvo yet in a row over mistaken civilian killings.

Karzai's comments came after a week in which a relative of his was killed in a raid by foreign forces and he rejected an apology by the US commander of troops General David Petraeus for the deaths of nine children in a NATO strike.

“I would like to ask NATO and the US with honour and humbleness and not with arrogance to stop their operations in our land,” Karzai said, visiting the dead children's relatives in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan.

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Texas Rally to Vote on Secession from US

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Commentary: Texas secessionists want a revolution and members

Bud Kennedy

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

It's almost mid-March.

Do you know where your Texas lawmakers stand?

If you're from Tyler, your state Rep. Leo Berman gave the OK for a rally last Saturday at the Capitol to promote a November vote on whether Texas should secede from the United States.

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Phi Beta Iota: Texas is not alone.  The most likely states to secede are Vermont and Hawaii, followed by Texas and Alaska.  If the US Government continues on its present course, we speculate that at least ten to fifteen states will evaluate, if not execute, secession options that include the recovery of federal lands, the exclusion of federal forces, and complete tax moratoriums.

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Revolution 2.0: Global Strike Proposed

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Time:  Friday, July 1 at 6:00am – July 8 at 11:00pm

Location:  GLOBAL

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Phi Beta Iota: A one-day global block party or a one-day sick-out would make much more sense.  This is however an important example of both the scale that is possible and the seeding that is emergent.  The times they are a-changing.

 

Israel Wants Billions From US After Sticking It Hard…

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First they stick it to the US generally and Barack Obama specifically on the matter of the settlements, and now they want $20 billion from the US.  Note that the source of this report, “Ynet,” is an Israeli news outlet.

Israel seeks $20 billion in US military aid

Defense Minister sees no immediate threat in Egypt but fears repercussions of Mideast unrest. In Wall Street Journal interview, he says military upgrade can turn Israel into regional stabilizer

Ynet, 8 March 201103.08.11, 10:15

Defense Minister Barak said Israel might request an additional $20 billion in military assistance from the United States in order to prepare for possible threats, given the recent unrest in the Middle East.

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Reference: The Global Democratic Revolution Anew

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The great events in tthe Arab world are part of a wider hidtorical process of worldwide democrativ advance.But the distrous events of the post-9/11 decade have made it far slower and more conflictual than needed, says Martin Shaw*

EXTRACT:  “…everywhere, the unifying thread is opposition to authoritarianism and aspiration to democratic rule; and the sense of a psychological break with the dictatorial past is unmistakable.”

* Martin Shaw is professorial fellow in international relations and human rights at Roehampton University, London, and an honorary research professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. His books include War and Genocide: Organised Killing in Modern Society (Polity, 2003); The New Western Way of War: Risk-Transfer War and its Crisis in Iraq (Polity, 2005); and What is Genocide? (Polity, 2007).

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Phi Beta Iota: One of the most concise, thoughtful, and inspiring summaries of both the present prospects and the recent failed past, all in the context of the past half century.