An old guy in the barbershop summed up this election best. Choosing between Bush and Kerry, he said, "is like being asked which of the Menendez brothers you like better." As Paul Craig Roberts wrote, it is "the worst election ever."

What voters need to do is realize we are facing systemic failure. Our vaunted two-party system offers us two choices, neither of whom is fit to be dog-catcher of Podunk, much less President of the United States. It was the same in 2000, in 1996 and in 1992.

For over two years we have been highlighting the potential staged capture of bin Laden right before the election that the Neo-Cons would use as their trump card for four more years of empire abroad and police state at home.

Make no mistake, this is the October surprise we were all waiting for. Bin Laden's scripted comeback beats that of even the Red Sox. In one way we can count our blessings that it wasn't a terror attack, but this is the military grade propaganda which Bush will ride all the way to re-election on Tuesday night.

Its conclusion – that 100,000 more Iraqis have died, most as a result of military action, since March 2003 than would have been expected if the invasion and subsequent occupation had not taken place – attacked the very heart of the Bush administration's last remaining justification for the war: that Iraqis are better off today than they were under former President Saddam Hussein.

The only thing that's important is that we take his advice to not place much importance on whether or not Bush or Kerry becomes his Official Nemesis, and get down to the business of ensuring the safety of his people.

Perhaps Buchanan and Robert Novak are right, and the president plans a quick withdrawal from Iraq and a major change of course after the election. (More on that in a moment.) Still, the lasting lesson of a Bush victory for politicians and bureaucrats will be this: Not only can they lie the country into wars of aggression – which they have known for years – but they don't even have to cover their tracks. The American people succumbed to empire with their eyes wide open.

Four years ago I too enthusiastically supported George Bush because his rhetoric indicated he was going to govern like a Robert Taft Republican. We were wrong.

John Kerry claims to have plans for healthcare, education, jobs, scientific research, the environment, or just about every aspect of life in America. He is, in short, a collectivist. And he wants to raise taxes. He also does not understand that our rights are not "afforded" by the federal government.

The political elites have failed the American people.

The total convergence of U.S. and Israeli interests in the post-9/11 era is a myth that is faithfully perpetuated by the leaders of both major parties – just as it was relentlessly pushed before 9/11.

Israel, far from being our faithful ally, is potentially an enemy: after all, why were they running a spy ring in the Pentagon, if they claim they can get any information they want? What, really, is going on beneath the smooth surface of Israeli-American relations – and why do top U.S. government officials continue to treat AIPAC as anything other than a sophisticated spy operation?

The most important aspect of the use of al-Zarqawi in the imperium's propaganda war is the unquestioned acceptance by the mass media not only that he exists but of his alleged actions. A search of the media shows not a single independent reference to his existence or that ties him to his alleged actions. All the 'evidence' has unnamed or unsubstantiated sources typically with the tag 'it is alleged' or 'it said to be' or 'in all likelyhood' it is the work of Abu Masaab al-Zarqawi. All the references that have been checked have been shown to be false.

The Crossfire appearance goes straight to the reason of why Stewart and the Daily Show are so popular. With the corporate journalism organized around flattering the politicians, instead of challenging them--no matter how outrageous the lies or how bloated the rhetoric--Stewart’s “fake news” ends up being more truthful about the reality of U.S. politics than all the Crossfires and Hardballs piled up in a great steaming heap.

"There is systemic disenfranchisment which I cannot ignore and can only excuse at my peril." If I complain that we have been "electing" virtual dictators with 25% of the popular vote, that some 75% of eligible voters either opposed or did not choose to vote for the current incumbent and his 2000 opponent, I'm apt to be greeted by apoplectic stares. My arguments fall on TV-waxed ears that no longer hear anything beyond the periphery of the easy come-back or shot-put rejoinder. Time for some "studied" responses. Here goes:

1) Technology
2) Epistemology
3) Methodology
4) Theology
5) Etiology
6) Reflexology

In the long run, globalism and multiculturalism are a threat to almost everyone’s ethnic interest because both ideologies actually legitimize and increase ethnic competition. Globalism results in increased competition because everyone has potential access to everyone else’s territory, opening opportunities for plundering another's backyard. Multicultural societies sanction ethnic mobilization because they inevitably become cauldrons of competing ethnic interests.

Is John Kerry really an alternative? Although he is more polished and articulate than Bush, Kerry's record of emphatic commitment to Jewish and Zionist interests offers little reason to believe that, as president, he would chart a fundamentally different policy in the strife-torn Middle East.

In an advertisement issued by their campaign and published in the Jewish community weekly Forward (Sept. 17), Kerry and his vice-presidential running mate, John Edwards, proclaim that "Israel's cause must be America's cause." They also renew their "commitment to a safe and secure Jewish state of Israel," and pledge to "strengthen our special relationship with Israel." In another ad by their campaign (Forward, Sept. 24), Kerry and Edwards proclaim that they "have always stood firmly with Israel," and that "they stand with American Jews on every issue."

The Iranians are about to commit an "offense" far greater than Saddam Hussein's conversion to the euro of Iraq’s oil exports in the fall of 2000.

In 2005-2006, The Tehran government has a developed a plan to begin competing with New York's NYMEX and London's IPE with respect to international oil trades - using a euro-based international oil-trading mechanism. This means that without some form of US intervention, the euro is going to establish a firm foothold in the international oil trade. Given U.S. debt levels and the neoconservative project for U.S. global domination, Tehran's objective constitutes an obvious encroachment on US interests in the oil market.

Questions about Arafat's health have raised Palestinian fears of a bloody succession struggle after his death. He has never picked a successor.

Yup, it looks like Osama bin Laden still has a purpose to serve for our government. First he was the 9-11 Lee Harvey Oswald fall-guy; and now he’s the enigmatic villain fueling our Orwellian perpetual war. I don’t know about you, but something smells very fishy about this story.

Israel and the PLO celebrated the end of their historic struggle by deferring all final-status issues, which constitute the core of the dispute -- occupation, the rights of refugees, Jewish colonies and the status of occupied Jerusalem -- for later consideration. Anyone who dared raise objections, or who pointed out the absolute absurdity of conducting "negotiations" while Israel was busy stealing and settling as much land as it could, was marginalised and branded an "enemy of peace". Suffice it to remind that the result, eleven years since Oslo was celebrated worldwide, is that the conflict is far more complicated, with the two sides locked in the bloodiest and cruellest violence, with no prospect for any possible exit in the foreseeable future.

"Fake New York Times Story Becomes Kerry Smear Tool In Campaign," is the real headline. Al Qaqaa is a good nickname for the dominant media as the Democratic donkeys in their newsrooms produce endless piles of manure. "Crooked Liberal Media Becomes Issue In Campaign," is the story the electorate deserves to hear.

Like the excesses of imperialism everywhere, the US invasion of Iraq will be recorded by history as a huge crime, and the end of US rule in Iraq, like British rule, will have been implicit in its criminal beginning. It won't happen without the Iraqi people's resistance and without the pressure of the people of the United States for a new and sane leadership.

Secret plans for the war in Iraq were passed to British Army chiefs by US defence planners five months before the invasion was launched, a court martial heard yesterday.

Lt Col Warren said US planners had passed on dates for which the invasion was planned. The hearing was told Army chiefs wanted the training for the Army to start at the beginning of December 2002. However, due to "sensitivities" the training was delayed.

The sheeple can’t see that voting is stupid and a scam in the first place. To a sheep, voting and paying taxes is some great privilege, a moral and civic duty. They actually derive enjoyment from this. No greater scam has ever been played on humanity than the illusion of Democracy.

Far from a limited number of pro-Saddam resistance groups fighting coalition forces, well-funded cells and militias representing a spectrum of Islamic groups are now spread across Iraq.

Americanism, the ideology, has meant democracy at home, for some, and a war on democracy abroad. From Guatemala to Iran, from Chile to Nicaragua, to the struggle for freedom in South Africa, to present-day Venezuela, American state terrorism, licensed by both Republican and Democrat administrations, has fought democrats and sponsored totalitarians. Most societies attacked or otherwise subverted by American power are weak and defenceless, and there is a logic to this. Should a small country succeed in breaking free and establish its own way of developing, then its good example to others becomes a threat to Washington.

There are two big problems with this bipartisan scheme to prolong our intervention for another bloodstained year: the first is political. What happens if the elected Iraqi government, however "interim" and "provisional" it might be in the eyes of U.S. officials, asks us to radically accelerate the process that will end in our leaving? As it is, Allawi is already moving against us, trying to make himself seem like an authentic Iraqi nationalist in the eyes of the voters, who are, according to polls, deserting him in droves. If an election were held tomorrow, it looks like the pro-Iranian Abdel Aziz Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), would wind up the big winner.

Calling the Bush betrayal "amnesty lite," the paper came to the conclusion that "John Kerry’s plan is far worse." [Kerry on Immigration, Oct 22, 04, The Washington Times, editorial]

As I wrote in the VDARE.com blog, the difference between giving illegal aliens work authorization and a free non-deportation pass with renewable non-immigrant status—versus giving an illegal alien a green card outright—doesn’t amount to much.

A 72-year-old connection between how the Washington Redskins and their predecessor fare in the game before a presidential election and the election’s outcome puts the Packers in Kerry’s corner. The Packers play the Redskins at FedEx Field on Oct. 31; the election is Nov. 2.

If the Redskins lose or tie the game before the presidential election, the party in the White House gets ousted. A Redskins win is a win for the incumbent party, too. At least, that’s how it has played out in the past 18 presidential elections.

To have any chance of understanding Iraq today, and why America will eventually be beaten and thoroughly humiliated, it is essential to first shrug off every trace of the sickly cloying propaganda continually spewed out by CNN and the ABC, because until you do, you are destined to remain one of the dumb 'sheeple', forever stumbling around in the same paddock of poisoned grass, looking for something more palatable to eat, but unable to find it.

A large portion of conservatives who value integrity are torn between staying home, voting third party or even voting for Senator John Kerry. Due to the many failures of the Bush administration, their deep lack of integrity and inability to adjust for their mistakes, true conservatives cannot vote for George W. Bush.

For months now we've been bombarded with government warnings about possible terrorist attacks to disrupt the November elections. All manner of precautions and safeguards have been instituted by federal and state authorities. The Library of Congress has prepared a report entitled: "Postponement and Rescheduling of Elections to Federal Office.{

In short, American Israeli nexus is a reality which is not hidden in the form of $74,157,600,000 benefits to Israel of U.S. Aid since 1949 (As of November 1, 1997) at the cost of $134,791,507,200 to U.S. Taxpayers.[2] The reality of Israel’s influence can be judged through simple indicators, such as the US support of Israeli terror at the UN and the $34,607,182 given to US congressional leader by pro-Israel PAC from 1978-2000.

Listen carefully as both Candidates speak at their initiation into the Skull and Bones Society:

"Members, as you lay in your caskets and give 'The Oath of Secrecy,' Kerry and I will work together in the months ahead on other issues: We are proud members of Skull and Bones - yet as we act to win the war on perpetual terror, protect our people and do away with jobs in America, we must act first and foremost not as Republicans, not as Democrats, but as Socialists.

The dangers presented by scalar electromagnetic weapons, now being developed by at least 10 nations and several rogue groups, trump the dangers of nuclear weapons by orders of magnitude, and yet these dangers continue to be ignored by governments and the press under a cloak of secrecy that is nearly absolute.

His successful consolidation of power has placed him as the sole figure able to handle Russian affairs. Thus, once again, the unique paradigm of Russian-style democracy has reasserted itself -- with the powerful executive at its head, without any serious challenges to his power and firmly in control of the state's political, economic and security developments.

Our rulers already know everything they need to know. They have calculated their own expected political gains and losses, and they have taken into account the gains and losses that will be reaped--often in cold cash--by the coalition of special-interest groups that supports them in holding onto power. The rest of us can resign ourselves to bearing the full costs, to our bank accounts as well as to our lives, limbs, and liberties, while our rulers feed us noble-sounding lies and promise us an outcome so lovely and implausible that only God could bring it to pass.

Billions are searing in anger at the US government and by indirect complicity at its citizens as well. We are no longer welcome neighbors in the community of nations. To be American is to be scorned and castigated, to be unwelcome in the lands of the exploited and subjugated. The evils done in our name are beginning to have karmic repercussions through out the globe, and the danger now present will affect us all who have been made blind to the crimes against humanity and the planet being committed by the Evil Empire.

Opinion polls show that Israelis are solid in their support of President Bush on Nov. 2, considering him the best ally that the Jewish state has had in the White House.

But Palestinians, who once had high hopes from a Bush administration, now bitterly oppose the president.

The purpose of this paper is to help our friends learn how to identify their allies and keep others at arm's length. It is an object lesson for Palestinians and indeed for all Muslims, and for anyone else who considers it a moral imperative to save the lives of the remaining Philistines, and tear down the obscene wall, paid for with our own money.

"One Nation Under Israel" may be the first historically documented expose of the hijacking of the American Congress. It is a popular lament that, "Congress is out of control," but nothing could be further from the truth. For as Author Andrew Hurley clearly explains, Congress is not under the control of its constituents but of a foreign power.

The right wing's refusal to obey orders is unlike the left-wing conscientious objection. The leftist refusal is a personal stand, the rightist refusal a collective mutiny. On the left, a few hundred refused to serve the occupation, on the right, many thousands, even tens of thousands, will obey their rabbis' orders to refuse. As the chief of staff has warned, the army may disintegrate.

If this President is re-elected, a year from now, as the Iraq war drags us deeper into the realization that it is Vietnam all over again, as our deficit keeps eroding the wealth we take for granted, and the economic scene bumbles toward more good job outsourcing losses, as our borders stay wide open and a new amnesty for illegal aliens is enacted to further hurt our poorest citizens, even those who now like lemmings rush to Bush may finally begin to understand that faith based decision making not governed by real politick analysis is madness.

Many here believe that the issue which has sharply divided the Jewish masses in Israel, creating a civil war-like situation, with the far right calling for soldiers to disobey orders to evacuate and threatening Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with assassination, combined with the past four years of ongoing violence, leaves no space for Jerusalem to ponder any military action against Iran in the near future, and it is in its interest to intensify diplomatic efforts instead. A preemptive attack on Tehran could also open another disconcerting front that Jerusalem can ill afford.

The White House leak about the planned attack on Iran was hastened by concerns that Russian technicians present at Bushehr could be killed in an attack, thus resulting in a wider nuclear confrontation between Washington and Moscow . . . The White House leaks about the pre-emptive strike may have been prompted by warnings from the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency that an attack on Iran will escalate out of control. Intelligence circles report that both intelligence agencies are in open revolt against the Bush White House.

If Kerry wins, this magazine will be in opposition from Inauguration Day forward. But the most important battles will take place within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. A Bush defeat will ignite a huge soul-searching within the rank-and-file of Republicandom: a quest to find out how and where the Bush presidency went wrong. And it is then that more traditional conservatives will have an audience to argue for a conservatism informed by the lessons of history, based in prudence and a sense of continuity with the American past—and to make that case without a powerful White House pulling in the opposite direction.

George W. Bush has come to embody a politics that is antithetical to almost any kind of thoughtful conservatism.

He readily acknowledges that a Republican political leader like Robert A. Taft—a strong constitutionalist and anti-internationalist—was "the greatest congressional spokesman in his time for the conservative political tradition."

What Mr. Williamson means by "conservatism" . . . is what is today called "paleo-conservatism."

Traditional, paleo or "old conservatism" is therefore not identical with libertarianism (which is for unrestrained capitalism and cares little for community and cultural identity) or "isolationism."

I have warned, in the past, about the rising danger of ultra-Zionist right-wing extremism in Israel, and, in view of incidents like this one, it seems somehow ironic that all too many American Christians of Pat Robertson's ilk are encouraging the growth of this dangerous phenomenon.

The new blow to relations between the rabbis and senior IDF commanders came a day after Lieutenat-General Moshe Yaalon, and two senior ministers had denounced the call for refusal. General Yaalon warned in Ashdod that the "insubordination" proposed by the rabbis was " a danger to Zionism".

One of the many ironies of history is that Lincoln now gets credit, verging on sanctification, for doing what he never wanted to do and for producing a political system so radically different from the one he hoped to preserve. If, as he said at Gettysburg, the Civil War was a test of whether the original American system — the “new nation” of 1776 — could “long endure,” it failed the test.

I am constantly amazed by the extent to which the majority of people still believe in the illusion surrounding them. Specifically, we are currently engrossed in the throes of another presidential campaign, which in reality is nothing more than a Secret Society election between two Skull & Bones blood-brothers --- George Bush and John Kerry. What most people don't realize is that when one pledges to join this organization, they make an oath of loyalty to it which transcends family, country, and God. Thus, Kerry & Bush surrendered their souls in 1966 and 1968, and have been bought, sold, and controlled by their elite Globalist handlers ever since.

There is an antidote to this climate of fear. It is nothing new, and Spinoza was one who articulated it best. He said that the only kind of freedom or liberation possible in the realm of necessity is the absence of irrational fear. To Spinoza freedom is nothing more than rational understanding.

The greatest crisis of this nation-destroying illegal immigration invasion stems from the fact that Middle Class Americans cannot escape the consequences. Congress and the president can’t see it because they are insulated, isolated and aloof to this crisis. They are not being affected. However, we don’t live in gated communities. We are unable to send our kids to private schools. We can’t send a chauffeur to buy our groceries. We can’t escape the trash left in our parks by Third World immigrants who don’t know any better. We can’t gain treatment in our ER hospital wards. We can’t escape the TB growing in our country. We can’t escape the crime and drugs. We can’t compete with millions of illegals that will work jobs at $4.00 an hour.

Tom DeLay is a disgrace, a brutal fund-raiser who resembles Robert Torricelli and Alfonse D’Amato, not what a conservative Republican House majority leader should be in my book. Once upon a time, conservatives believed in ideas and individualism, now it seems money and power are what counts. So despite his personal decency, I cannot in all honesty endorse Bush for a second term.

This will be known as a backward time in human history, one that showed not only the worst excesses of Muslim fundamentalism, but that Western societies are constructed to be passive and uncritical. Through this trauma, hopefully it will mean that American hegemony and its implications will be deconstructed by its own citizens.

Combating the crass corporate favoritism and neo-conservative aggression of the Bush administration is a worthy goal in its own right. But because there are many who will oppose George Bush while eagerly anticipating a return to the high times of an earlier neo-liberalism, the struggle to build an alternative globalization will continue for many Novembers to come.

Our fourth look at the 108th Congress shows how every member of the House and Senate voted on key issues, including foreign aid, national defense, and taxes.

A decent resolution of this crisis is presented by Iran, which has offered a sustained, unconditional dialogue, and further extension of the temporary cessation of enrichment activities, strictly as a transitional "confidence-building" measure. It remains to be seen if the Iraq syndrome persists and another major crisis materializes from the vortex of a new, post-Cold War order gone Orwellian.

“The game is clear,” according to Israeli Knesset member Azmi Bishara. “Sharon is designing a non-viable Palestinian West Bank so Palestinians will be pressured to go to Jordan.” If all goes according to plan, he explained, “the pressure will spill over to the east, not to Israel.”

While the terrorist group has gotten a lot of credit in the past for being so crafty and creative, it should not receive such accolades this time. Anyone familiar with the habitual lax enforcement of our border knows it was only a matter of time before al Qaeda, or any other terrorist groups, chose the American southwest as their next infiltration route.

Traditional Jews do not endorse the actions of the Zionist state nor do they favor political support of Israel. Traditional Jews strongly support and commend the efforts of the United States government and its dedicated administration who diligently work to prevent more calamities from occurring in the Middle East. Traditional Jews residing in America are loyal to one country -- the United States of America. Any connection of Jews to Israel only serves to fuel confusion and anti-Semitism.

Kerry then backpedaled in the face of criticism from the powerful Jewish American lobby organization, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He released a position paper titled "John Kerry: Strengthening Israel's Security and the U.S.-Israel Special Relationship." The paper, which is posted at Kerry's campaign Web site, calls for "A Bold Plan: Supporting Israel, Restoring American Leadership." In it, Kerry not only now supports the "security fence," but describes Palestinian President Yasser Arafat as "a failed leader unfit to be a partner for peace."

The only differences between the candidates are ornamental. It is like a multiple choice question in which we are allowed to circle (A) or circle (a). There is no option b. There is no opportunity to answer, "none of the above."

So if the act of voting is not sacrosanct and democracy, despite its “better than all the rest” pedestal, is not the sole—or perhaps even the best—guarantor of liberty, Nov. 2 may be just another day. This election the major candidates agree on the prerogative of politicians to bribe voters with their own money and that the fine print of the presidential job description obligates him to “make the world safe.” These issues are not open to debate. There is no conservative candidate.

How much will this cost? Why do we care about other nations views towards Jewish people? Why are Jewish people more special than others to deserve this kind of special attention? How about protecting the most endangered people alive today (Americans who believe in what the country was founded on)? The best thing that we can do is return to our foreign policy like it was before world war ll. We should stay out of other nation's business unless it impacts America in a negative way. – Matt Baratta

Today political philosophers and others believe that restraining government amounts to restraining “the people.” Jefferson knew better — restraining government liberates people. “An elective despotism was not the government we fought for,” he wrote.

1) not-voting is the popular thing to do - anyone who likes doing what the majority does and being one of the winners, should therefore avoid voting.
2) it's a waste of time - because the outcome of the election is rigged anyway.
3) it's dangerous - because the chance that one vote out of the 84 million cast will affect the outcome is much lower than the probability of being accidentally killed en route to the polling place.
4) voting is immoral because by participating in a thoroughly immoral system, the voter endorses it.
5) voting directly and necessarily violates human rights - every human has this right, and all those logically derived from it; consequently (consequently; no, this is not an exception but it follows directly and expressly) every human being has the right not to be ruled in any slight degree by somebody else; or in other words, no human has any right to rule another.

The bill requires only that acts of physical violence against Jews be recorded, not expressions of anti-Semitism, but you can bet the bill's promoters will soon be pushing to include what they claim are "anti-Semitic" expressions to be reported as well. As press reports noted, "among the attacks that prompted passage of the bill" was "the recent claim by former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad that Jews 'rule the world by proxy.'"

If George W. Bush has the level of faith in Jesus Christ he and his followers claim, he has to make a choice. He cannot serve the Skull and Bones society and Jesus Christ. Both he and Kerry have to make a choice. The fact he admits the secrecy of this organization still lays claim to him should cause the entire country, the entire world grave concern.

The election of 2004 may go down in history as one of the most exciting – but one of the least relevant in arresting the inexorable decline and fall of the American Republic.

Unless we reexamine our policies--our quartering of soldiers in a hundred countries (the quartering of foreign soldiers, remember, was one of the grievances of the American revolutionaries), our support of the occupation of Palestinian lands, our insistence on controlling the oil of the Middle East--we will always live in fear. If we were to announce that we will reconsider those policies, and began to change them, we might start to dry up the huge reservoir of hatred where terrorists are hatched.

Whoever the next President will be, it is up to the American people to demand that he begin a bold reconsideration of the role our country should play in the world. That is the only possible solution to a future of never-ending, pervasive fear. That would be "our" war on terrorism.

Today, there's no real conservative party left in Washington, says Buchanan. Only in tax-cutting do Republicans still hew to their principles. Otherwise, they are just like the wildest-spending liberal Democrats.

"Historically, Republicans have been the party of conservative virtues -- balanced budgets, healthy skepticism towards foreign wars, fierce resistance to the growth of government power.

"No more," Buchanan says. "To win and hold office, many have sold their souls to the very devil they were baptized to do battle with."

1. Dominate thy neighbor
2. Nothing succeeds like success
3. Deceive the world
4. Apartheid rules
5. Thou shalt assassinate
6. Deny, deny, deny
7. We have a God-given right to all of the biblical Land of Israel
8. "No" to Palestinian statehood
9. Money is no object, especially since it's American
10. Our "Only True Friends" will continue to help us

Imagine if another nation's military overthrew the United States government, and its leaders announced that, within a year or two, America was going to be transformed into an Islamic republic. It doesn't require one of the great minds of conservative political thought to recognize the absurdity of such a plan. Yet how different is this from what the Bush administration proposes to do in Iraq?

Iraq is a disaster, an unwelcome catharsis of rage and animosity that has spread from the Sunni Triangle to the rest of the Muslim world. Hatred of America is at an all time high. Thousands of jihadists have been created, ready to die in holy war against the Great Satan. Bush has succeeded in employing more “terrorists” than American workers. Winning hearts and minds has failed throughout a Muslim world that sees an American Crusade to conquer, pilfer, rape and humiliate. The war in Iraq has allowed terror to sprout and thrive throughout the lands of the western world.

Acknowledging that utopia is impossible, I’d settle for a return to the limits of the Constitution, flawed as it is. Even if we had tariffs and a post office (which is the case today). Even if some or many states had laws I don’t like (which is also the case today). The typical American would be far freer vis-à-vis the federal government, and the President would be restrained by Congress’s Declaration of War powers from policing the world. That’s a deal I would take in a heartbeat.

By substituting fiction for reality, the US media took the country to war. The CNN and Fox News "journalists" are as responsible for America’s ill-fated invasion of Iraq as Cheney and Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Perle.

With a sizable percentage of the US population now addicted to daily confirmations of their resentments and hatreds, US policy will be increasingly driven by tightly made-up minds in pursuit of unrealistic agendas.

The FBI has been tight-lipped about the raid, stating only that the seizure was "not an FBI operation" and that it sought the subpoena on behalf of Italy and Switzerland. Indymedia activists speculate those governments were fishing for information on mass protests of the G8 (group of eight most industrialised nations) summits in Genoa in 2001 and Evian in 2003.

"We were basically paying up to US$10,000 a time to opportunists and criminals who passed off fiction and supposition about Zarqawi as cast-iron fact, making him out as the linchpin of just about every attack in Iraq."

If multi-purpose "Zarqawi" did not exist, he would have to be invented. The "Zarqawi" myth straddles pre-invasion and post-invasion, so the neo-cons can use it to justify just about anything.

Despite his negotiations with Iraqi and U.S. security forces, al-Sadr has not moderated his outspoken stance against the U.S.-led occupation. Even after the agreement with Iraqi and U.S. forces, Sheikh Abd al-Hadi Daraji, a top aide to al-Sadr, said that the al-Sadr movement still considers the occupation to be the main issue plaguing Iraq. "Resistance to occupation is legitimate," he advised. "Even the Americans have said resisting the occupation is legitimate. We reject their military presence here."

At the root of the insurgency—the goal of every enemy fighter—is a determination to drive America out. Our presence, our use of tanks, Bradleys, gunships and fighter-bombers, causing inevitable civilian casualties, is recruiting more enemy than we are killing.

That the number of enemy and incidence of attacks have multiplied fourfold in a year forces us to one conclusion: we are losing this war. For the guerrilla wins if he does not lose, and the Iraqi insurgents are not losing.

During the home stretch of the Northamerican elections, Osama bin Laden could prove to be the ace in the sleeve of president Bush. As we speak, Washington is negotiating a highly secretive agreement with Beijing, the Chinese capital, for the eviction of bin Laden from his sanctuary in the turbulent Muslim provinces of China, in the Northwest of the Great Wall nation.

The Jewish identity of many neo-conservatives probably plays an important role in what they think and why they think it, but for most paleos the problem with the neo-cons is not that they're Jewish but that even today they're liberals. Maybe that's why so many liberals who don't like the neo-cons won't talk about the paleo-cons at all. If they did, they'd only call attention to their own flaws as well.

The only question left is the one central to the argument: did the American government, by constantly and solemnly declaring the nation at war against terrorism and repeatedly summoning the rest of the world to join up or else be ranked among America’s enemies actually help or hurt the campaign against the terrorist enemy?

The letter, released Tuesday by a Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy (S3FP), said that the current situation in Iraq could have been much better had the Bush administration heeded the advice of some of its most experienced career military and foreign service officers.

But the administration’s failure to do so has actually fueled “the violent opposition to the U.S. military presence,” as well as the intervention of terrorists from outside Iraq.

Our electoral decisions are based largely on side issues - the past, trivia, matters of appearance - rather than those issues of crucial substance urgently confronting the country. Rather than being addressed when they are first perceived and recognized, these issues tend to be buried, only to fester and inflame into crises when they are mature. Americans have become addicted to being shielded from facing unpleasant truths until it is much more difficult, if not too late, to address them effectively. Why?

George W. Bush and John Kerry both back Israel 100 per cent, and neither man will offer a single word of criticism about Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "disengagement" plan, even though it means abandoning the notion of a peace settlement.

Technically speaking the rest of the world could take up the slack if everyone including Russia and Iran pulled together, thereby pumping enough oil to enable the Zionist Cabal in New York to refuel its flagging American imperial war machine, in order to then attack Iran and possibly Russia as well. Now ask yourself, if you were an Iranian or a Russian, would you rush to increase your oil pumping rates to maximum in order to assist the 'New World Order' drive Abrams tanks across your own sovereign borders, in order to abuse and murder your own unarmed wives and children?

Because of the political ramifications, the Israelis will conduct the main strikes, supported by U.S. aircraft as needed. The aim will be to wipe out any vestige of nuclear weaponry, its delivery system and all the Iranian leaders capable of starting any attacks on Israel (mostly Tel Aviv…too many fellow Muslims in Jerusalem.) Since it would be a problem for Israeli Air Force units to fly round trip from Israel, the solution will be to launch these attacks from U.S. aircraft carriers located in the Persian Gulf area.

John Kerry's antiwar supporters have repeatedly warned that a military attack on Iran is imminent if George Bush is reelected. But Democrats are rattling their sabers at the same target.

On September 24, Barack Obama--the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Illinois, and a shoo-in favorite--suggested "surgical missile strikes" on Iran may become necessary.

"In extreme circumstances, this could put Israel on a collision course with the European Union. Such a collision course holds the risk of Israel losing international legitimacy and could lead to its isolation, in the manner of South Africa," according to the document.

America is opening its doors to "religious minorities from Iran."

Like other federal refugee program contractors, HIAS is paid by the U.S. government to manage the refugee program on a per refugee basis and to hand out millions once the refugees reach U.S. shores.

The comments by Dov Weisglass, Sharon's top aide in charge of relations with the White House, have set off a furor, less because of what he said than because he was willing to say it publicly. Sharon has long been hostile to a Palestinian state, but has preferred to humor the Bush administration over the matter rather than confront it directly.

When you vote for a third-party candidate, you do your share to inflict pain on the loser, but you bring no joy to the winner.

Every dime you send to a political race is a waste of your money unless there is a possibility that your money may conceivably affect the outcome of the race. So, don't spend money on politics unless you think a win is better than a loss. It rarely is.

Are you concerned about anti-semitism against other Semites—do you approve Israeli bigotry against Palestinians?

Do you support Israeli military domination of the Palestinian people?

The foreign policy routinely disparaged as "isolationism" is always on the table. It is the foreign policy most deeply rooted in America's history, heart and vital interests. It is no more going to be "extinguished" than is Christianity. It is our oldest tradition.

Though that tradition may be dismissed by our foreign policy elites as antiquated, selfish and un-idealistic, it is the elites who are out of touch. They do not know the country they live in. They do not know the American people. They never have.

There is growing speculation in Washington that alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden may be making a surprise appearance in U.S. custody just be fore the November election. Alan Abel son, the distinguished writer for Barron’s, a weekly publication of Dow Jones, noted in his column of Sept. 27, 2004, that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld let slip some classified information in a briefing at the National Press Club “that the man we are holding captive is not Saddam Hussein, who, indeed, was deep-sixed beneath the desolate sands, but none other than Osama bin Laden. (In case you’re wondering, it wasn’t Saddam, but one of his many doubles, who appeared before an Iraqi judge following his purported capture.)”

In reality the Afghan presidential elections will be a test not of "Afghan democracy", but of the Bush administration's ability to impose its political order on a country.

"We believe very strongly that the efforts of the Church to divest from companies doing business in Israel, thus penalising Israel for acting in its own self-defence, are irresponsible, counterproductive, and morally bankrupt," the congressional members wrote.

The clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Rev Clifton Kirkpatrick, wrote a letter in response, saying Congress had failed to press Israel to abide by international law.

W, as in George W. Bush, stands for "Wolf in sheep's clothing." This fact is indisputable, we either see it or we deny it and look away. If we see it, we are part of the solution. If we look away, we are actually colluding with and becoming seduced by the evil, which we are feeding by our denial.

There is little relationship between what the administration says is happening and what is happening. We are facing a growing internal resistance, and an expanding internal guerrilla war.

Unfortunately we are also faced with an administration that either cannot accept reality or is too dishonest to admit reality.

As America sinks deeper into its culture of impunity, in which corruption is the norm rather than a deviance, the country's elite will lash out at those who questioned its acts, its morality and its wisdom. But please don't think there necessarily has to be a conspiracy involved. In many case it's just the way they growed.

There are ways to consider these matters without being either gullible or myopic:

1) Stick to the facts.
2) Neither suppress nor exaggerate anomalies.
3) Don't feel you have to have a theory for every fact.
4) Don't have theories that go beyond the facts.

Like Prop 187, Prop 200 requires that applicants for public benefits—meaning welfare—prove their eligibility for them in the form of verifiable identity or immigration documents. Unlike Prop 187, it requires proof of U.S. citizenship as a requirement for registering to vote, and one section requires voters to show a valid photo ID at the polling place.

The real importance of Arizona's Prop 200 is that its victory will show both the people and the politicians which way the political winds are beginning to blow on the long-muzzled immigration issue.

Americans are the most lied-to people on Earth. The global perception of the "Ugly American" isn't that we are ugly, but that we are so clueless about what is going on in the world, in particular the evils committed by the United States Government using our taxes and children behind our backs . . . The Declaration of Independence declares the principle that government derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. I DO NOT GIVE MY CONSENT TO BE LIED TO.

The announced pre-emptive policy of the United States, demonstrated by the invasion of Iraq, attacks in Yemen, and elsewhere, is likely to foster global urges to obtain better weapons, including WMDs. US policy now suggests that no nation with a history of terrorism, or any resident terrorist group, or perhaps even a modest Atoms for Peace program should consider itself exempt from pre-emptive attack. Russia has announced a similar counter-terrorism intent, and others will follow. One seems to have the choice of arming as best one can, or capitulating in advance. Many more will try to arm themselves after Iraq than may have felt that need before.

But the Shanker and Schmitt piece should remind us, whether for a second Bush administration or any other administration, that the way of life that made much of prewar mainstream journalism a stalking horse for the administration's mad policies and outlandish interpretations of reality is still alive and kicking. The rules of the house and the way of doing business are deeply embedded in the journalistic way of life. The allure of the imperial presidency is still powerful. Official lies, official spin, and anonymous officials are the entwined axis of evil of imperial journalism.

Michael Waltzer of Princeton a few years ago wrote in Dissent Magazine that four wars are being fought simultaneously:

1) The first is a Palestinian war to destroy Israel.

2) The second is a Palestinian war to create an independent state alongside Israel, ending the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

3) The third is an Israeli war for the security of Israel within the 1967 borders.

4) The fourth is an Israeli war for Greater Israel, for the settlements and the occupied territories.

The moderates are firmly lined up behind the second and third wars, and the extremists are lined up behind the first and fourth.

"Among one of the most absurd and irrational myths circulated by the orthodoxy of political science is the concept of elite convergence. According to this hopelessly flawed view, the problems of injustice and inequity that destabilize societal order are remedied when opposing factions of the ruling class arrive at an agreement. In truth, elite convergence is the covert galvanization of democracy's enemies. Whether they are in agreement or in discord, a pack of wolves will always devour their quarry. Likewise, the assumption that individual liberties are now safe because its foes no longer quarrel amongst themselves is a self-immolating delusion."

The first report from St. Louis is in - and presidential candidates Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) and David Cobb (Green Party) were just arrested. Badnarik was carrying an Order to Show Cause, which he intended to serve the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD). Earlier today, Libertarians attempted to serve these same papers at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the CPD - but were stopped from approaching the CPD office by security guards.

An interesting point is whether the many members in various Administrations or who hold government positions have declared their members in the biographical data supplied for FBI 'background checks'.

Scroll & Key and Wolf's Head are supposedly competitive societies founded in the mid-19 th century. We believe these to be part of the same network. Rosenbaum commented in his "Esquire" article, very accurately, that anyone in the Eastern Liberal Establishment who is not a member of Skull & Bones is almost certainly a member of either Scroll & Key or Wolf's Head.

There is only two and only two other orders that has the capability and can actually take on Skull and Bones and win. And those two Orders are the Jesuit Order and the Freemasons.

Initially, neoconservatives rallied bravely to The Bell Curve's defense. Ten years later, their comments are surprising to read.

James Q. Wilson defended the book staunchly. (Unusually, Wilson has never backtracked about the importance of IQ—he wanted me to write an article on it for The Public Interest in 2000, but Nathan Glazer vetoed my proposal. That became instead the five part VDARE.COM series called "How to Help the Left Half of the Bell Curve.")

Karzai may not be restricted to Kabul because he is making all sorts of deals with the warlords, with US backing: a UN source in Kabul confirmed to Asia Times Online that oilman Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador, has personally "encouraged" several warlords to clear the way for Karzai. Deal-making of the suitcase-full-of-dollars kind is what Washington used to win the Afghan war in 2001 (usually the deals were with the wrong warlords, as in Tora Bora).

"If the election is close, and I presume it is, the overseas vote could be the deciding factor and Israel could make or break the election," said David Froehlich, former overseas voting coordinator and honorary chairman of Democrats Abroad in Israel.

Weisglass said a deal had now been made with the US Government that, in exchange for the Gaza withdrawal, the US would abandon its promise of a Palestinian state, "with all that entails".

He said Zionism had from the start involved the physical displacement of the Palestinians from what became Israel, but achieving that would require a psychological act of denial of the existence of the Palestinians.

Which do we want . . .

• To have our government make a futile effort to bring peace and democracy to the world – in the process generating such hatred that we live the rest of our lives in a state of siege, with America becoming progressively more like the chaos that exists in Israel and the Palestinian territories?

Or

• Bring all the troops home, end all foreign aid to friends and foes alike, keep out of the affairs of other countries – and restore the peace and liberty that America experienced throughout most of the 19th century?

The leaks are also a shot across the bows of Porter Goss, the agency's new director and a former Republican congressman. He takes over with orders from the White House to end the in-fighting and revamp the troubled spy agency as part of a radical overhaul of the American intelligence world.

"Democracy" is the financial elite's preferred method of deceiving and controlling the plebes.

The media creates the illusion that the candidates are our leaders. In fact, they are members of the elite who also own the media.

Both Bush and Kerry pretend to be opposed. Distant cousins, they are both members of an occult secret society, the Illuminati "Skull and Bones" at Yale. You would think this would disqualify them from "public service."

To further quote Weisglass: "The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process. Effectively, the whole package called the Palestinian state with all that entails has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission – all this with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress. What I effectively agreed to with the Americans was that part of the settlements would not be dealt with at all, and the rest will not be dealt with until the Palestinians turn into Finns."

It is time that America recovered from this blind spot toward the brutality and immoral and illegal behavior of Israel. If not, this will ultimately destroy us, for it unfortunately leaves us with “leaders” who are ignorant, immoral and looking for money and votes, not working for justice, peace or for the long term good of our country. Eventually, our bad deeds in the world, and our support for such evil men as Sharon of Israel will backfire.

Bush and Kerry are Illuminati "puppets" and the Illuminati's ideal ticket. No matter who wins, the Illuminati rule. Kerry's voting record is similar to Bush's on many issues. Even President Bush points out that Kerry voted for and supported Bush's war in Iraq. How much more blatant can they be than that?

With a month to go until the election, the exposure of AIPAC as the vital conduit through which Israeli moles in the government passed sensitive information to Israel is so politically explosive that it's no wonder the White House handed the case to a compliant political appointee and told investigators to "slow down," according to the Financial Times. But it looks like Franklin has single-handedly nixed that plan.

But if the government were able and willing to carry out an effective global “war on terrorism” by means of its present policy of empire and naked aggression (politely called preventive war), would the benefits of that policy justify the costs being borne? Not for a moment.

The terrifying truth about this administration is that even when it has on its side both merit and political motivation to control illegal immigration and protect national security, it chooses to help the illegals instead of its own nation and people.

The result of all this is that Israel is ever emboldened, confident that it can do as it pleases. Other than bleats of displeasure from Arab and international officials, no one will act against it. Never has Ben-Gurion's infamous maxim been more apt: "What matters is not what the Gentiles will say, but what the Jews will do."

Thank goodness responsible national media players have finally gotten wise to the play acting of our political leaders on immigration. Time Magazine, in a major cover story on September 20th, joined the brave Lou Dobbs of CNN in asking American citizens to wake up or get trampled to death by the hordes coming across our borders, now 3 million yearly illegally, a stream that carries deadly terrorists as well as cheap, unskilled labor.

Influential American evangelist Pat Robertson said Monday that Evangelical Christians feel so deeply about Jerusalem, that if President George W. Bush were to "touch" Jerusalem, Evangelicals would abandon their traditional Republican leanings and form a third party.

The problem is that the Iraqi political parties are imported and are generally unpopular . . . Any Iraqi politician who wants a long-term future in his country will have to demonstrate that he is playing a role in ending the US occupation. Those who do not will end up in exile or worse.