Rainbow Revisited
Christopher Bollyn at American Free Press via Rumor Mill News - Coming to America: 9/11 - The Big Lie - a translation of a book that has sold 200,000 copies in France should be available here by the end of September. Amazon advertises it as The Big Lie: The Pentagon Plane Crash That Never Happened with no price yet and 3 to 5 week availability. [grabbe]
Meyssan's books claim that a military faction in the U.S. government used remote control to guide two aircraft into the twin towers and that a U.S. cruise missile - not an American Airlines jet - smashed into the Pentagon. While thousands of articles about Meyssan's theories can be found on the Internet, only 2 articles have appeared in the U.S. mainstream media, and these have avoided engaging the substance of his arguments.
www.get113to138mpg.com has disappeared. It was there on Saturday night. Du-de-du-da du-de-du-da. You are entering the Twilight Zone.
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk - The Case against War in Iraq - appears to be a shortened version of Dr. Paul's September 4 speech, Arguments Against a War on Iraq.
Remember, we do not know exactly how long this conflict will last. It could be a six-day war, a six-month war, or six years. We ought to listen to the generals and other military experts, including Colin Powell, Brent Scowcroft, Anthony Zinni, and Norman Schwarzkopf, who are now advising us NOT to go to war. They understand that our troops have been spread too thin around the world, and it is dangerous from a purely military standpoint to go to war today.
Ron Paul at LewRockwell.com - Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty - a speech given to Congress on September 5. U.S. imperialism has many bad unintended consequences.
Thomas Jefferson spoke for the founders and all our early presidents when he stated: "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none..." which is, "one of the essential principles of our government." The question is: Whatever happened to this principle and should it be restored?
We find the 20th Century was wracked with war, peace was turned asunder, and our liberties were steadily eroded. Foreign alliances and meddling in the internal affairs of other nations became commonplace. On many occasions, involvement in military action occurred through UN resolutions or a presidential executive order, despite the fact that the war power was explicitly placed in the hands of Congress.
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There's little doubt that our role in the world dramatically changed in the 20th century, inexorably evolving from that of strict non-interventionism to that of sole superpower, with the assumption that we were destined to be the world policeman. By the end of the 20th century, in fact, this occurred. We have totally forgotten that for well over a hundred years we followed the advice of the founders by meticulously avoiding overseas conflicts. Instead we now find ourselves in charge of an American hegemony spread to the four corners of the earth.
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And now, the debate rages over whether our national security requires that we, for the first time, escalate this policy of intervention to include "anticipatory self-defense and preemptive war." If our interventions of the 20th century led to needless deaths, unwinnable wars, and continuous unintended consequences, imagine what this new doctrine is about to unleash on the world.
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A non-interventionist foreign policy would go a long way toward preventing 9/11 type attacks. The Department of Homeland Security would be unnecessary, and the military, along with less bureaucracy in our intelligence-gathering agencies, could instead provide the security the new department is supposed to provide. A renewed respect for gun ownership and responsibility for defending one's property would provide additional protection against potential terrorists.
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Countries like Switzerland and Sweden who promote neutrality and non-intervention have benefited for the most part by remaining secure and free of war over the centuries. Non- intervention consumes a lot less of the nation's wealth -- and with less wars, a higher standard of living for all citizens results. But this, of course, is not attractive to the military- industrial complex, which enjoys a higher standard of living at the expense of the taxpayer when a policy of intervention and constant war preparation is carried out.
Harry Browne at World Net Daily - Overlooking the obvious - Government doesn't work. Amen.
It's natural for someone to want to improve society -- to reduce crime, to shield children from drugs, to make America safer, to improve education or health care.
And it's understandable that most people turn to government as the way to make those improvements. After all, with government, you don't have to persuade everyone to rearrange his life to make society better. You just pass a law or start a new government program -- and everyone will have to do what the government says.
Why will everyone have to obey?
Because government is force. It has the power to impose by coercion what you or I can do only through persuasion.
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Because government is force, it never produces the results promised for it.
Adam Jackson at The South Bend (IN) Tribune - Rainbow Revisited - a retelling of the story of the murder of Grover "Tom" Crosslin and Roland "Rollie" Rohm at Rainbow Farm. [cures-not-wars]
Channel4000.com - Man Convicted After Talking About 'Burning Bush' - don't talk about the president getting his just desserts in Sioux Falls, SD. You'll end up in jail.
Salman Rushdie at The Sydney Morning Herald -
Ironic if Bush himself causes jihad 
- Osama bin Laden has not
managed to convince the entire Arab world to attack America, just a
few crazies. Starting a war with Iraq might just do the
trick. [grabbe]
Of course the suicide bombings are vile but, until the US persuades Israel to make a lasting settlement with the Palestinians, anti-US feeling will continue to rise; and if, in today's highly charged atmosphere, the US embarks on the huge, risky military operation suggested by the Vice- President, Dick Cheney, then the result may well be the creation of that united Islamic force which was bin Laden's dream.
Saudi Arabia would almost certainly feel obliged to expel US forces from its soil (thus capitulating to one of bin Laden's main demands). Iran - which recently fought a long, brutal war against Iraq - would surely support its erstwhile enemy and may even come into the conflict on the Iraqi side.
The entire Arab world would be radicalised and destabilised. What a disastrous twist of fate it would be if the feared Islamic jihad were brought into being not by the al-Qaeda gang but by the President of the US and his close advisers.
Harry J. Smith - 4D Model: Tesseract - a four-dimensional cube that you can rotate in any plane with your mouse. Requires Java. [grabbe]
