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• l'art pour l'art - resistance

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  I have not done one of these in ages - so all of you keep reminding me. I thought it being the weekend of America's birth, i would do a resistance theme. If you are new to the l'art pour l'art series, see below: Preface: Halliburton/Death Start Explained l'art pour l'art Part I l'art pour l'art Part II l'art pour l'art Part III - Treasure

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• Victory Declared Yet Again

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  Posted By Cernig Marie Colvin of the London Times has two linked reports today about how swimmingly things are going for the Iraqi army in Mosul, the offensive that wasn't. American pro-occupation pundits are ready to declare victory all over again (and again, and again) of course - with one even uncritically acclaiming Nour al-Napoleon's

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• McCain Threatens Bombing China Over U.S. Flag Sales (satire)

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  Posted by Brad Jacobson On the heels of news that millions of American flags are actually imported from China, Republican presidential nominee John McCain addressed the issue this Fourth of July morning outside a flag factory in Fredericksburg, Virginia. "All options must be on the table to deal with China's infiltration of our flag market,"

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• Iran's Nuke Letter "Nothing New" Say Leakers

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  Posted By Cernig Anonymous Western officials have leaked what they say are aspects of Iran's letter to EU chief negotiator Javier Solana, charging that the letter is "nothing new", although the Western governments involved have declined to discuss the letter's contents "on record". The anonymous officials told the NY Times that:

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• Founding Fathers turning in their graves... Happy 4th

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  [ Revolution] Our Dear Leader decided to commemorate America's birthday by desecrating the home of one of its founders and the author of the Declaration of Independence. Bush descended on the home of Thomas Jefferson to add insult to injury: "CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia - President Bush invoked the memory of Thomas Jefferson Friday in welcoming new

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• Renowned bigot Jesse Helms dead at 86...

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  Not much to add.

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• Judge Rejects Bush’s View on Wiretaps

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  [ Typewriter] Posted by Kathy More on domestic spying from Eric Lichtblau at NYT. Emphasis mine. WASHINGTON — A federal judge in California said Wednesday that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the “exclusive” means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government’s claim that the president’s

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• PBS and NBC's Symbiotic Sins of Omission

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  Posted by Brad Jacobson On Tuesday night, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and Newshour with Jim Lehrer presented two telling examples of how omitting information shapes public perception with regard to civilian casualties. With Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, Williams explored the possible outcome of a U.S

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• Get Smart

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  Posted By Cernig David Ignatius writing at the Washington Post yesterday confirmed Sy Hersh's revelations about US covert action inside Iran, but characterised those covert efforts as being piecemeal and directionless - the kind of "Get Smart" comedy-of--errors operations we should have expected from the cakewalk crowd

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• Mission Accomplished ala Lieberman and Schieffer

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  Posted by Jeff Huber Back in a day not too long ago, Bob Schieffer was one of two remaining television journalists with a hint of spine (the other being Keith Olberman). Every other TV news head in America was afraid of making Condoleezza Rice cry on camera and was just plain afraid of Donald Rumsfeld, but not Schieffer

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