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Sunday, September 11, 2011
America's corrupted major media
Date: September 12, 2011
Subject: MEDIA (MainStreamMedia - aka MSM)
What Passes for Journalism and Opinion in America - by Stephen Lendman
On the 10th 9/11 anniversary, a September 9 Washington Post editorial highlights what readers hungry for news and information face. Titled, "Ten years after Sept. 11: The gains outweigh the mistakes," it says:
"(C)onventional wisdom (suggests) "We will be hit again" to "Osama bin Laden won by provoking us into a decade of overreaction."
Fact check
Bin Laden had nothing to do with a US state-sponsored attack. Criminal militarists, in fact, planned permanent war on humanity "overreaction."
America "made big mistakes over the past decade...But the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon alerted Americans to genuine dangers that only a relative few had previously noticed."
Fact check
Americans only are endangered by rogue government elements, not "crazed Arabs" wanting to harm them.
"The overreaction argument holds that al Qaeda goaded the nation to curtail civil liberties and construct a monstrous homeland security apparatus while bungling into adventures abroad that birthed new enemies...."
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Why They Hate Us by Laurence M. Vance
"Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. . . . America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world." ~ George W. Bush, address to the nation, September 11, 2001
"They hate our freedoms: our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other." ~ George W. Bush, address to Congress, September 20, 2001
Of all the lies of the Bush administration used to justify the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this one has proven to be the most enduring – and the most wrong.
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Two Flavors, No Principles
Larken Rose
Website: Larken Rose
More About: Political Parties
Serves you right, you unprincipled, hypocritical boneheads.
No, it's not that I support Obama and his collectivist agenda. It's that I don't support his collectivist agenda or your collectivist agenda. In fact, in principle I don't see a shred of difference between the agenda of the "R" megalomaniacal parasites and the "D" megalomaniacal parasites. If you're a loyal Republican, you're not actually against wealth redistribution, or nationalizing industry, or trashing the Constitution--you just want your narcissistic crooks to be the ones doing it.
You think it's horrible for "government" to rob productive people, to give money to those who didn't earn it? Yeah, me too. But to pretend to be principled when whining about having to fund coerced pseudo-charity, only to then turn around and advocate that people be forced to fund mass murder instead (in the name of "national security"), is the height of hypocrisy. In short, your Democrat neighbors are merely doing to you what you want to do to them: using the violence of the state to coerce you into supporting their beliefs and values.
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The Dead, the Dollars, the Drones: 9/11 Era by the Numbers
09-10-2011 • www.wired.com
September 9, 2011 | Ever since the Twin Towers fell, the United States has been at war. The costs of that decade of conflict have been unimaginably high: trillions of dollars spent, hundreds of thousands of lives lost. The numbers are almost too big to grasp, let alone quantify. The graphics below are our incomplete attempt to do so.
These figures are also a way of showing the radical transformation the U.S. military has undergone during the 9/11 era. Drones, once an afterthought in tactical plans, have become a central component, flying millions of hours in combat. Special operations forces have added tens of thousands to their ranks. Bomb-resistant armored vehicles, absent from the American arsenal in 2001, are now a primary means of battlefield transportation — even as Afghanistan’s militants find new ways to render them irrelevant.
We know how many American troops have been killed in this decade’s wars. How many Afghans and Iraqis have lost their lives isn’t clear. The United Nations only started keeping reliable statistics on Afghanistan’s casualties in 2007. The estimates for the number of dead Iraqis vary by 1,000 percent or more. And even if these conflicts last another 10 years, the final toll may never be known.
You can dive into the data behind these graphics — and check the sourcing of the numbers we’ve used. The chart below is interactive. Mouse over the year headings and the data blocks to view additional details.Read Full Story