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Dagny
D'Anconia
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Thursday, 26 January 2006 |
In this journalistic tour de force, Dagny
d’Anconia reveals the astounding truth behind the Jack
Abramoff scandal – and why Abramoff’s life may now
be in danger. ---JW
Jack Abramoff was a Republican lobbyist. In fact, he has become the
media’s archetype for an evil, greedy, Republican
super-lobbyist.
So I ask you this: In this politically charged environment, and caught
in a scandal, who would you get for a lawyer if you were Jack Abramoff?
The answer of who he got will shock you:
Jack Abramoff’s lawyer is one of the most powerful and
trusted Democrat lawyers in the country. He is not just any lawyer. He
is the lawyer that argued against Bill Clinton’s impeachment
in the Senate. He has represented numerous infamous Democrats over the
years. He is the ultimate Democrat insider for the Clintons.
Common sense tells us Jack Abramoff never would have chosen that lawyer
if he were free to choose.
My conclusion is that the New York Clintons and/or Democrats made a
deal with the New York Mafia to deliver the Abramoff scandal and thus
the 2006/2008 elections.
If this is true, then Jack Abramoff may soon have outlived his
usefulness. He can no longer do lobbying. He will soon have done all
the damage he could do to the Republicans. If the bad guys get a notion
that he could come forward and tell the whole story, then they might do
something to prevent it.
They would try to make it either look like a suicide, or like a
right-wing guy did it to punish him for his damage to the Republicans.
Either story would be entirely plausible to the press, and yet another
way to damage the Republicans. Thus he may soon become more useful dead
than alive to them.
Bringing out this story now, first, is my way to help prevent that from
happening.
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Jack Kelly
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Thursday, 26 January 2006 |
It was no way to treat a lady. Washington Post ombudswoman Deborah
Howell wrote a column praising her paper for exposing lobbyist Jack
Abramoff. She was deluged with so much obscene email from outraged
liberals the Post had to shut down one of its Web sites.
Mr. Abramoff pled guilty earlier this month to defrauding his clients
(Indian tribes who owned casinos) and the Internal Revenue Service.
Ms. Howell's critics were in high dudgeon over a distinction without a
difference. In the 7th paragraph of her story lauding reporter Susan
Schmidt, she wrote: "And (Abramoff) had made substantial contributions
to both major parties."
"I heard that I was lying, that Democrats never got a penny of
Abramoff-tainted money, that I was trying to say it was a bipartisan
scandal," a stunned Ms. Howell wrote in her column last Sunday.
All of Mr. Abramoff's personal contributions went to Republicans. But
the big money was what Mr. Abramoff directed his clients to contribute.
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Neal Asbury
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Thursday, 26 January 2006 |
Below is a speech I recently gave to the Greater Miami Chamber of
Commerce in association with the U.S. Southern Command, Center for
Hemispheric Policy at the University of Miam, Florida International
University, and Miami Free Zone at their “Americas
Intelligence Briefing Series” on China’s Role in
the Americas.
Thomas Friedman of the New York Times asserts in his best selling book
on globalization, The World is Flat, that the world has become smaller
and “flatter” due to the rapid advancement of
Information Technology.
If something can be digitized, says Friedman, it can be zipped around
the world in nanoseconds allowing workers from low cost countries such
as China and India to replace workers from industrialized countries at
a fraction of the expense.
Friedman stresses this “flattening” has resulted in
a more “level” playing field. In fact the cover of
his book has a picture of earth taken from space superimposed on the
face of a quarter symbolizing how small, flat and level it has become.
The concept of a flat world today is as wrong metaphorically as it was
when Copernicus proved it to be literally wrong. Mr. Friedman has
obviously never sold and exported anything in his life.
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WHAT THE ARAB WORLD THINKS OF TORTURE
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Brigitte
Gabriel
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Thursday, 26 January 2006 |
Torture is accepted and even expected in the Arab world. Might makes
right. Arab men – not those nice Arab men you may know who
have immigrated to America, but Arab men living in the Arab world
– prove their manhood by the way they treat their enemy.
After all, it's what Mohammed did to the nonbelievers - Christians,
Jews and Zoroastrians in the Koran - the 'holy book' allegedly
mishandled in Guantanamo prison. Arab Moslem men gain honor by shaming,
belittling, abusing and torturing their enemy in the most horrific ways.
As someone who came from the Arab world and knows how they think, it
frustrates me to see self-appointed self-righteous politicians and
media pundits, oblivious to Arabic culture and thinking, criticizing
America's actions at Guantanamo.
Actually Gitmo is a joke as far as the Arabs are concerned. Prison? You
call that a prison? You know what prisoners call Guantanamo among
themselves?
Al muntazah al-dini lilmujaheden al Moslemin
, The Religious Resort for Islamic Militants.
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Michael
Ledeen
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Thursday, 26 January 2006 |
The Syrian-Iranian terror alliance goes back a quarter-century, when
Hezbollah was created to wage terror war against American and French
forces in Lebanon.
There was a neat division of labor: Syria controlled the territory, and
Iran ran the organization. Hezbollah's murderous successes are
legendary, from the suicide bombings against the French and American
Marine barracks to a similar operation against the American embassy,
all in Beirut in 1983, to massive bombings of Jewish targets in
Argentina in 1992. That alliance remains intact, and provides the base
of the terror war in Iraq today.
Now the Iranians are concerned at signs of cracks in the edifice of the
Assad regime. The Assad family's grip on Syria is weakening, and this
is welcome news indeed, both for the long-suffering Syrian people and
for us.
The Iranians are desperate to keep Assad in power, and Hezbollah armed
to the teeth. Should things go the other way, Iran would lose its
principal ally in the war against us in Iraq.
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WHAT’S HANGING IN YOUR GALLERY?
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Dr. Joel
Wade
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Friday, 27 January 2006 |
On the walls in our home we are putting up a bunch of pictures. We have
pictures of our family, of trips we have been on together, parents,
aunts, uncles, friends. My wife and I have spent some degree of time
and energy selecting these pictures from literally boxes and boxes of
pictures.
We select those pictures that we enjoy looking at, that remind us of
important experiences, good times, and people whom we love at their
best. In this way we honor those in our lives who matter to us, and we
direct our focus upon people, things, and experiences that we would
like to be reminded of often.
We
don’t
have pictures up of people who have been bad to us or hurt us in some
way.
I want you to think for a moment of your own memory; the scenes that
you see in your mind’s eye that remind you of your past
experiences. Your memory is very much like your own personal, internal
picture gallery.
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POLITICAL NASDAQ - - January 20-26, 2006
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Dagny
D'Anconia
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Friday, 27 January 2006 |
On Friday (Jan. 20), Iran announced it would move its funds out of
European banks, and commenced doing so. Back during the Iranian hostage
crisis America froze Iranian assets and they were taking no chances of
the Europeans repeating this.
This was also an attempt for Iran to flex its financial muscle, and
show how weak the Western financial markets were. The net result was an
economic assault on the West's stock markets.
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Dennis
Turner
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Friday, 27 January 2006 |
You know what they say about computers - the minute the newest models
come off the assembly line they're already obsolete, because back in
the lab they've already developed a prototype two generations ahead of
the most advanced commercially available systems.
As the old saying goes, "If cars had progressed as fast as computers,
we would be driving at 500 MPH in a $25 car that gets 2 million miles
per gallon and seats the population of China."
This is relevant to many of us who are interested in burning DVDs ...
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NOW DENNIS TURNER SAYS JACK WHEELER IS WRONG ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
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Humor File
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Friday, 27 January 2006 |
Jack Wheeler has just received this latest email from Dennis
“The Wizard” Turner:
Dear Jack,
In addition to being wrong about Sharon, Gaza, and Hamas,
you’re also wrong about your disbelief in global warming.
You know that in the past, I have been just as skeptical as you, but
unlike you, I can be persuaded by compelling and countervailing
evidence. This Associated Press
news story
is as compelling as evidence can be that global warming is real:
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