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Radio Address by the President to the Nation (A MUST READ)
Posted by humint to blogblogginaway
On News/Activism 12/17/2005 8:48:06 AM PST · 27 of 343

Radio Address by the President to the Nation (A MUST READ)

OUTSTANDING SPEECH -- Thank you for posting the transcript!


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Don't get us mixed up Ahmadinejad is not, REPEAT not, the epitome of Iranian people's aspiration ...
Posted by humint to parisa
On News/Activism 12/16/2005 10:39:02 PM PST · 43 of 198

What I ask of everyone here is to be fair to the people in Iran.

Do me a favor and draw a decisive line between the Iranian people and the Iranian regime... I applaud you and your vague articulation but you have stopped short. There is far more that needs to be said. If your community has a cancer and needs a surgeon then I beg you to speak to a doctor. All you have done here is hasten the coming of a butcher. Answer all of the questions you could ever imagine such a doctor might ask, IMMEDIATELY. Your worry that your “loved ones” might be confused with your “hated ones” is very real indeed, but only you can insure your loved ones safety, not us!

Iran and its people are losing the window of opportunity for council and are quickly approaching an aggressive Western intervention. The world DOES realize the situation in Iran but they are waiting for more responsible Iranians to comprehend and even suggest the necessary next steps. Stop underestimating the world's comprehension of Iran's strife and begin the long march to end it. If you wait too long, no surgeon will have time for you. I write these words with high optimism for the future of Iran. The historical resilience of your nation and fervent demand for democracy by your countrymen for more than a century demonstrates, beyond any reasonable doubt, that Iran and Iranians will survive either therapy. So I ask again, for the sake of clarity, who are you calling for, a surgeon or a butcher? Draw a decisive line between the Iranian people and the Iranian regime right here, right now. Thanks,


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Don't get us mixed up Ahmadinejad is not, REPEAT not, the epitome of Iranian people's aspiration ...
Posted by humint to Mr. Silverback
On News/Activism 12/16/2005 9:49:19 PM PST · 40 of 198

"I want a hippopotamus for Christmas...only a hippopotamus will do!"

Merry Christmas!!!


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True Fanatic
Posted by humint to Dajjal
On News/Activism 12/16/2005 9:19:41 PM PST · 15 of 32

"From the beginning of time, humanity has longed for the day when justice, peace, equality and compassion envelop the world. All of us can contribute to the establishment of such a world. When that day comes, the ultimate promise of all divine religions will be fulfilled with the emergence of a perfect human being who is heir to all prophets and pious men. He will lead the world to justice and absolute peace. O mighty Lord, I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the promised one, that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace."

the one...


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Lancing the Boil
Posted by humint to DogByte6RER
On News/Activism 12/16/2005 1:57:41 PM PST · 14 of 25

In the face of that growing ulcer of discontent, we quietly kept on killing terrorists, promoting elections in Iraq, pressuring Arab autocracies to democratize, and growing the economy. All that is finally lancing the boil, here and abroad — and what was in there all along is now slowly oozing out, making the cure seem almost as gross as the malady.

What's funny is, this is exactly what the Iraqi-Americans I know are saying these days. Not these words of course but what these words mean. VDH has his finger on the pulse! Excellent post...


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Dissidents, Rebels and Terrorists: the lexicon of our times
Posted by humint to humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/16/2005 1:21:51 PM PST · 2 of 2

Haaa Ha!


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Dissidents, Rebels and Terrorists: the lexicon of our times
Posted by humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/16/2005 12:50:32 PM PST · 1 reply · 135+ views


humint ^ | Friday, December 16, 2005 | humint
Engineers and survivalists who dabble in politics and philosophy will certainly appreciate the following statement, the rest of you… listen up. Reality is analog while language is digital! In other words, any given word in any given language is just a reference point, a symbolic measurement if you will, of a human experience that references one or more concepts on an infinite continuum of reality. In situations where life and death is a function of comprehension, the human mind creates more and more reference points to describe and thereby differentiate life threatening situations. For example, typical Americans commonly use only...

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US court orders Iran to pay 126 million dollars to Beirut bombing victims
Posted by humint to TheZMan
On News/Activism 12/15/2005 11:08:22 PM PST · 8 of 9

My ill-informed question is... what right does a US court, who does not dictate foreign policy, have when it comes to demanding reparations from a foreign country?

This ruling, as I understand it, relates to funds belonging to the Iranian government residing in American bank accounts that have been seized. Instead of returning the funds in the event of a U.S. policy change toward Iran, the victims of Iran's global terror campaign have a legal claim to those funds before any of it would be returned to the Iranian government. There was some resistance from the State Department about local rulings like this one a few years ago because, you are right, they do limit future American foreign policy options. The seized funds were a bargaining chip, but now... everybody knows you can't bargain with an uncompromising and self destructive regime like the one in Iran.


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US court orders Iran to pay 126 million dollars to Beirut bombing victims
Posted by humint to humint
On News/Activism 12/15/2005 8:12:13 PM PST · 5 of 9

US court orders Iran to pay 126 million dollars to Beirut bombing victims

The embassy bombing killed 63 people, including 17 US nationals. Anne Dammarell, a former US Agency for International Development employee, who was wounded in the bombing was the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit. "This lawsuit is our way of fighting back," she said in a statement. "It is the only way we have to make Iran accountable for the incredible pain it inflicted through its support of Hezbollah."

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What is "Globalization" Globalizing?
Posted by humint to TIADaily.com
On Bloggers & Personal 12/15/2005 7:29:35 PM PST · 3 of 10

When a man sees that there are unlimited opportunities before him and that hard work and effort bring rewards, he is implicitly taught that he is in control of his own fate. And when he is continually rewarded for taking that control, he is implicitly taught that it is possible for life to consist of unobstructed enjoyment rather than resignation to duty.

This is a great paragraph… under a truly free system, a Citizen’s duty is to maintain individual liberty for all Citizens. There is enjoyment in this kind of duty. Property ownership is an essential liberty, but it is important to note that communities particularly thrive when the entire community holds a strong commitment to the ideals of individual liberty. Take the scenario where a subset of a community, say, a small group of successful entrepreneurs begins to acquire property without the community’s commitment to their individual liberty. The community will not grow together but instead be ripped apart by the thievery of those members of the community who do not respect liberty of the entrepreneurs to own property. So it is good to bestow the highest honors to Citizens who do their duty to protect your liberty as quickly as they do their own. From what I understand, corruption is high in India and corruption is not an easy hurdle to overcome. But if it can be done here in the United States, there is no reason to believe it can't be done anywhere else in the world... India has a very bright future!


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AMERICANS ENGAGE [IRAN] I
Posted by humint to humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/15/2005 6:23:22 PM PST · 11 of 11

SOURCE: Pour-Mohammadi and the 1988 Prison Massacres -- Update 15-DEC-2005

Families of some of the executed prisoners told Human Rights Watch that in September 2005 the new government started to reconfigure the Khavaran site and that makeshift gravestones, put in place by the families, have been destroyed. They said that the government is preparing for a major overhaul of this area to destroy any evidence of burials.

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Politely Eliminating Israel
Posted by humint to mal
On News/Activism 12/13/2005 7:31:32 PM PST · 5 of 7

ARTICLE: …Since 1993, Israelis have shown themselves, in the words of the philosopher Yoram Hazony, “an exhausted people, confused and without direction,” willing and even eager to be duped by their enemies. All they need are some overtures, however unconvincing, that they will be freed from war, and they barely can restrain themselves from making concessions to mortal enemies.

This is a great paragraph... It is one of the best articulations I’ve read about the “stress-strain relationship” between “terrorism and democracy”. Democracies are systems based on rational compromise. Terrorism is diametrically opposed to rational compromise. So it is no wonder that democracies project the desire to compromise with uncompromising terrorists. The sad fact is that democracies represent the will to surrender more efficiently than they represent the will to win. What is certain; the fight for a rational world has gone global and it must be won, decisively. Democracies must do what is necessary so that my children and theirs are not doomed to a dark age, a world in fear of thugs and thieves and without freedom. Thank you for posting this…


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Mercedes-Benz opens base in Iran
Posted by humint to B Knotts
On News/Activism 12/10/2005 5:18:25 PM PST · 17 of 17

What "factory deal?" Did you read the article? This is about opening a dealership in Iran.

ARTICLE:Mercedes Benz and Iran Khodro Diesel have established a joint company in Iran.

IRAN KHODRO was founded with registered capital of 100,000,000 Rls. on 18 Aug., 1962 . by Mr. Hadj Ali Akbar Khaiami, Mr. Ahmad Khaiami, Mr. Mahmood Khaiami, Mrs. Marzieh Khaiami and Mrs. Zahra Sayedi Rashti in Ekbatan street in Tehran.

It is a public joint stock company with the objective of creation and management of factories to manufacture various types of vehicles, parts, selling, and exporting of them. Now after 35 years, we continue to design and manufacture automobiles and buses as the largest vehicle manufacturer in the country, and try to supply for domestic demand , penetrate into world markets, go deeper into locally parts manufacturing, and eventually, to realize the highly objectives of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

IRAN KHODRO is the largest vehicle manufacturer company in Iran, having an average share of 65 to 70 percent of domestic vehicle production. Registered Capital of IRAN KHODRO by the end of the Iranian fiscal year 1381(March 20, 2003) was Rls. 2,404,687,500,000 for 2,404,687,500 shares, each 1000 Rls.In 1997, IRAN KHODRO broke the record in the 30 years history of production of the company by producing 111,111 units of various passenger cars and vans.


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Mercedes-Benz opens base in Iran
Posted by humint to B Knotts; All
On News/Activism 12/10/2005 11:13:55 AM PST · 13 of 17

It's just unfair to imply that DaimlerChrysler is a bunch of Nazis, because of Germany's trade policies.

You are absolutely right. The real way to deal with this factory deal is to check it against the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act, and if it complies... or not – we should all... Boycott Benz. They must know that they [Mercedes] are sponsoring the economy that sponsors the government that is the most active sponsor of terrorism. The support for terror does have and origin!... Thanks Mercedes!

NEW MERCEDES MARKETING SLOGAN:

We don’t make militant martyrs, we make them stronger. Mercedes Benz…



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The Audience Goebbels Wanted
Posted by humint to Logic Times
On Bloggers & Personal 12/10/2005 9:41:29 AM PST · 3 of 3

Two enemies reeling from strategic defeats, each in their third year battling the United States, employing propaganda in a last ditch effort to convince the public that good things, not bad things, are happening. The only difference is that in 1943, no one in the United States of America echoed the words of Joseph Goebbels or even dignified his New Year’s Eve broadcast with a response. In 2005, not only does Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri hear an echo in the United States, he hears a chorus from the political Left.

Welocme to the information age... stay on your toes!


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Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Unknown, Unknowns
Posted by humint to DevSix; Dog Gone
On Bloggers & Personal 12/10/2005 8:32:15 AM PST · 4 of 5

Donald H. Rumsfeld was sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense on January 20, 2001. Before assuming his present post, the former Navy pilot had also served as the 13th Secretary of Defense, White House Chief of Staff, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, U.S. Congressman and chief executive officer of two Fortune 500 companies.

Secretary Rumsfeld is responsible for directing the actions of the Defense Department in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The war is being waged against a backdrop of major change within the Department of Defense. The department has developed a new defense strategy and replaced the old model for sizing forces with a newer approach more relevant to the 21st century. Secretary Rumsfeld proposed and the President approved a significant reorganization of the worldwide command structure, known as the Unified Command Plan, that resulted in the establishment of the U.S. Northern Command and the U.S. Strategic Command, the latter charged with the responsibilities formerly held by the Strategic and Space Commands which were disestablished.

The Department also has refocused its space capabilities and fashioned a new concept of strategic deterrence that increases security while reducing strategic nuclear weapons. To help strengthen the deterrent, the missile defense research and testing program has been reorganized and revitalized, free of the restraints of the ABM treaty.

Mr. Rumsfeld attended Princeton University on academic and NROTC scholarships (A.B., 1954) and served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor. In 1957, he transferred to the Ready Reserve and continued his Naval service in flying and administrative assignments as a drilling reservist until 1975. He transferred to the Standby Reserve when he became Secretary of Defense in 1975 and to the Retired Reserve with the rank of Captain in 1989.

In 1957, he came to Washington, DC to serve as Administrative Assistant to a Congressman. After a stint with an investment banking firm, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois in 1962, at the age of 30, and was re-elected in 1964, 1966, and 1968.

Mr. Rumsfeld resigned from Congress in 1969 during his fourth term to join the President's Cabinet. From 1969 to 1970, he served as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity and Assistant to the President. From 1971 to 1972, he was Counsellor to the President and Director of the Economic Stabilization Program. In 1973, he left Washington, DC, to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, Belgium (1973-1974).

In August 1974, he was called back to Washington, DC, to serve as Chairman of the transition to the Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. He then became Chief of Staff of the White House and a member of the President's Cabinet (1974-1975). He served as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Defense, the youngest in the country's history (1975-1977).

From 1977 to 1985 he served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and then Chairman of G.D. Searle & Co., a worldwide pharmaceutical company. The successful turnaround there earned him awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript (1980) and Financial World (1981). From 1985 to 1990 he was in private business.

Mr. Rumsfeld served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Instrument Corporation from 1990 to 1993. General Instrument Corporation was a leader in broadband transmission, distribution, and access control technologies. Until being sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld served as Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, Inc., a pharmaceutical company.

Before returning for his second tour as Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld chaired the bipartisan U.S. Ballistic Missile Threat Commission, in 1998, and the U.S. Commission to Assess National Security Space Management and Organization, in 2000.

During his business career, Mr. Rumsfeld continued his public service in a variety of Federal posts, including:

* Member of the President's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control (1982 - 1986);
* Special Presidential Envoy on the Law of the Sea Treaty (1982 - 1983);
* Senior Advisor to the President's Panel on Strategic Systems (1983 - 1984);
* Member of the U.S. Joint Advisory Commission on U.S./Japan Relations (1983 - 1984);
* Special Presidential Envoy to the Middle East (1983 - 1984);
* Member of the National Commission on Public Service (1987 - 1990);
* Member of the National Economic Commission (1988 - 1989);
* Member of the Board of Visitors of the National Defense University (1988 - 1992);
* Member of the Commission on U.S./Japan Relations (1989 - 1991); and
* Member of the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission (1999 - 2000).

While in the private sector, Mr. Rumsfeld's civic activities included service as a member of the National Academy of Public Administration and a member of the boards of trustees of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the National Park Foundation, and as Chairman of the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, Inc.

In 1977, Mr. Rumsfeld was awarded the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.



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Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Unknown, Unknowns
Posted by humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/10/2005 8:04:14 AM PST · 4 replies · 156+ views


humint ^ | 10 December 2005 | humint
Donald Rumsfeld, in 2004 tried to provide a Copernican concept to the American people but found himself without a vehicle to deliver it. The MSM was unable to translate the ideological depth of Mr. Rumsfeld’s high-level explanation of the war in Iraq at the time. What he said, I imagine, is virtually impossible to understand in a shallow sound bite therefore his detractors seized on his quote as an error in leadership. Not because it wasn’t genius, but because they were incapable of understanding him through MSM sound bites. Do an internet search on “Rumsfeld unknown unknowns” and you’ll find...

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Islam, Democracy and Iran
Posted by humint to humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/09/2005 11:05:27 AM PST · 12 of 12

SOURCE: BTTT, Bump

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Iran's C-130 Crash & The Sanctions [Iranian blogger on the crash]
Posted by humint to F14 Pilot
On Bloggers & Personal 12/09/2005 8:36:46 AM PST · 4 of 6

This regime should go away before more people die in other tragedies! Although I would not be surprised to hear about Chernobyl like incidents from now on!

Interesting point Winston... I've thought for some time that with such a low standard for the safety of Iranians and Iranian society in general, a mishandled power plant could cause significant civilian loss of life. While I'm confident that these Russian designed plants have all the requisite safety features, it is still reasonable to assume that lack of funding for maintenance could cause serious problems down the road. If the Iranian regime can't keep planes its planes in the air while oil prices are high, making money hand over fist, then how could one reasonably expect them to maintain a power plant when oil prices normalize? The answer is, they shouldn’t.


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Why We Can't Pull Out of Iraq... Yet.
Posted by humint to jbamb
On Bloggers & Personal 12/08/2005 2:02:33 PM PST · 2 of 2

[Pull out] ...after a permanent government is in place and when they are ready to be mostly responsible for their own security. The time is coming relatively soon, and most have thought that after this next round of elections, troop reductions would begin to occur. Look for the anti-war left to start claiming credit for the execution of a plan that has been in place for years.

They will sick-seed in hijacking public opinion only if we lack the intellect to secure the debate. You're on the right track. Good commentary.


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The American President is Just a Servant!
Posted by humint to AmishDude
On Bloggers & Personal 12/08/2005 1:52:28 PM PST · 7 of 7

I just wanted you to know I didn't read a word of this.

Which is demonstrated in the value of your commentary...


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The American President is Just a Servant!
Posted by humint to humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/08/2005 1:48:59 PM PST · 6 of 7

Monroe Doctrine, 02 December 1823

He argued and finally won over the Cabinet to an independent policy. In Monroe's message to Congress on December 2, 1823, he delivered what we have always called the Monroe Doctrine, although in truth it should have been called the Adams Doctrine. Essentially, the United States was informing the powers of the Old World that the American continents were no longer open to European colonization, and that any effort to extend European political influence into the New World would be considered by the United States "as dangerous to our peace and safety." The United States would not interfere in European wars or internal affairs, and expected Europe to stay out of American affairs.

Although it would take decades to coalesce into an identifiable policy, John Quincy Adams did raise a standard of an independent American foreign policy so strongly that future administrations could not ignore it. One should note, however, that the policy succeeded because it met British interests as well as American, and for the next 100 years was secured by the backing of the British fleet.



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The American President is Just a Servant!
Posted by humint to humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/08/2005 1:42:00 PM PST · 3 of 7

President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, 18 January 1918

I. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.

II. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.

III. The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.

IV. Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety.

V. A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined.

VI. The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will secure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in obtaining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the independent determination of her own political development and national policy and assure her of a sincere welcome into the society of free nations under institutions of her own choosing; and, more than a welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished from their own interests, and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy.

VII. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored, without any attempt to limit the sovereignty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No other single act will serve as this will serve to restore confidence among the nations in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act the whole structure and validity of international law is forever impaired.

VIII. All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions restored, and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty years, should be righted, in order that peace may once more be made secure in the interest of all.

IX. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality.

X. The peoples of Austria-Hungary, whose place among the nations we wish to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity to autonomous development.

XI. Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.

XII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.

XIII. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant.

XIV. A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.



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The American President is Just a Servant!
Posted by humint to humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/08/2005 1:17:30 PM PST · 2 of 7

HO CHI MINH – THE DAYS OF AUGUST – 329, 330

Clearly, in Ho Chi Minh’s mind, the United States could play a key role in fending off the challenges from other world powers, and he had sought to exact every advantage from the tenuous relationship he had established with the OSS in the spring of 1945.

President Roosevelt endorsed the idea of moving COI to the Joint Chiefs. The President, however, wanted to keep COI’s Foreign Information Service (which conducted radio broadcasting) out of military hands. Thus he split the “black” and “white” propaganda missions, giving FIS the officially attributable side of the business—and half of COI’s permanent staff—and sent it to the new Office of War Information. The remainder of COI then became the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) on 13 June 1942. The change of name to OSS marked the loss of the “white” propaganda mission, but it also fulfilled Donovan’s wish for a title that reflected his sense of the “strategic” importance of intelligence and clandestine operations in modern war.

But Ho must have already sensed that his efforts had borne little fruit. Sometime in mid August, he had written one final letter to Charles van, his friend and associate with AGAS who is now preparing to return to the United States.

The Air Ground Aid Service (AGAS) coordinated a number of different efforts to recover Allied fliers, primarily American, supporting various guerrilla groups who did so on the Allies behalf.

It was good for everyone, he remarked, that the war was finished, but he felt badly that his American friends would be leaving him soon. “And their leaving,” he said, "means that relations between you and us will be more difficult."

Although in retrospect, his remarks appear prophetic, they were fully in character with his understanding of that nature of the world in the future policies of the United States. As the Pacific war came to an end, he viewed the United States as a crucial but enigmatic factor in his country’s struggle for national independence. As a capitalist country, it represented a potential opponent of the future world revolution. On the other hand, President Roosevelt had emerged during the Pacific war as one of the most powerful and vocal spokesmen for the liberation of the old west peoples of Asia and Africa from colonial rule, and Ho apparently held out the possibility that Roosevelt’s policies would continue to shape the U.S. attitudes after the close of the war.

Ho’s dual vision of the United States as a beacon for human freedom and a bastion of global capitalism was graphically demonstrated in the resolution issued by party’s central committee at Tan Trao in mid August. On the one hand, Ho felt that U.S. dislike of might prove useful to the parties struggle to prevent the return of the French to power in Indochina. On the other hand, it changes rose between the capitalist powers in the USSR, Washington might decide to make concessions to Paris in order to enlist the French and an effort to prevent the spread of communism.


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Iran's Ahmadinejad says Israel should be moved to Europe
Posted by humint to West Coast Conservative
On News/Activism 12/08/2005 12:18:44 PM PST · 32 of 43

Iran's Ahmadinejad says Israel should be moved to Europe

The hallmark of horrid leadership: It has worked in Iran for 26 long years…

  1. Dilute discussion of your own failures
  2. Maintain some aura of authority by institutionalized public dependence and suppression of truth
  3. Create and emphasize an external demon
  4. Insure the public has no ability to confront said demon without the state
  5. Repeat until the a revolution or said demon sweeps you away

Ahmadinejad… we won’t be your demon any more! Change or you will be changed.


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The American President is Just a Servant!
Posted by humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/08/2005 11:23:10 AM PST · 6 replies · 113+ views


humint ^ | December 08, 2005 | humint
The role of President in America, arguably the most powerful role on earth, is that of a Public Servant. And while I doubt a person fit for the role would forget this fact, I sense some of my fellow Americans have. Therefore, it is incumbent on me as a Citizen to re-introduce my fellow Americans as well as our nations’ enemies to this concept in both word and deed. It is essential that we all know and are comfortable with this concept; the leader of the free world is a Public Servant. Some of you, friends and enemies alike, may...

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Iranian Arrested In Florida Sting [Iranian Air Crash "Sanctions" Context]
Posted by humint to Sidebar Moderator
On News/Activism 12/07/2005 10:32:55 AM PST · 14 of 14

This link doesn't match up with the thread

ICE AGENTS ARREST IRANIAN IN PLOT TO ILLEGALLY -- EXPORT U.S. FIGHTER JET COMPONENTS TO IRAN

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. – Jesus Torres, the interim Special Agent-in-Charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Miami, today announced the arrest of an Iranian national on charges of attempting to illegally export restricted military components for the F-14 fighter jet aircraft to Iran.

Serzhik Avasappian, age 40, is charged in a criminal complaint in the Southern District of Florida with violations of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C., Section 2278) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (22 C.F.R., Sections 121.1, 121.3, 123.9, 127.1). The complaint alleges that Avasappian attempted to export these military components to Iran without obtaining the required export license from the U.S. State Department.

Avasappian, who held himself out to be a Tehran-based broker attempting to purchase parts for the Iranian government, appeared in federal court today in Fort Lauderdale for a detention hearing. ICE agents arrested Avasappian in an Embassy Suites hotel room in Miami on September 19, 2003, after a meeting with ICE agents in which he inspected F-14 components to be shipped to Iran, the complaint alleges. ICE conducted this investigation jointly with the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.

"Keeping sensitive U.S. military components from falling into the wrong hands is one of the highest priorities of ICE," said interim Special Agent-in-Charge Torres. "While these components may appear relatively innocuous to the untrained eye, they are tightly controlled for good reason. In the wrong hands, they pose a potential threat to Americans at home and abroad."

According to the criminal complaint, ICE agents began negotiating with Avasappian in January 2002 over the export of military components to Iran. Among other things, the parties discussed the unlawful export of F-14 fighter jet parts, C-130A aircraft electrical and avionic upgrades, as well as the purchase and transshipment of helicopters to Iran, the complaint alleges.

During the course of the negotiations, Avasappian faxed the agents a list of components for the F-14 fighter jet totaling $750,000, the complaint alleges. In subsequent communications with the agents, Avasappian allegedly requested that they provide him with a “test” shipment of 120 F-14 fighter jet components valued at $38,000.

Although warned by agents that these controlled items could not be legally exported to Iran, Avasappian stated that the components could be shipped to Italy, where they could then be placed on an aircraft destined for Iran, according to the complaint. The complaint alleges that Avasappian said he was willing to come to the United States to finalize the “test” deal, and that if the deal was successful, he would purchase additional components valued at $750,000. On September 16, 2003 Avasappian arrived in Miami on a flight from London.

While being processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspectors at the airport, Avasappian told inspectors that his intended business in the U.S. was to discuss the purchase of medical equipment and equipment related to chemical protection, the complaint alleges.

On September 19, 2003, ICE agents held a meeting with Avasappian in Miami in which he allegedly discussed the purchasing process used by the government of Iran. He also discussed the agreed-upon “test” purchase of F-14 components and the method of transporting these goods to Iran, according to the complaint.

After being shown several F-14 components by ICE agents, the complaint alleges that Avasappian agreed to contact Tehran to request the transfer of $15,000 to a bank account designated by ICE agents, with the remainder to be paid to agents upon the successful delivery of the F-14 components.

ICE agents arrested Avasappian in his hotel room shortly thereafter. After he was advised of his Miranda rights, Avasappian agreed to waive those rights and spoke with the arresting agents. According to the criminal complaint, Avasappian admitted knowing that what he was attempting to do was illegal. ICE agents found documents relating to the proposed transaction between the mattress and box spring of the bed in Avasappian’s hotel room, the complaint alleges.

Clarification... BTTT bump


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FOREIGN OUTSOURCING OF CRITICAL MILITARY PARTS ( PATRIOT ALERT! )
Posted by humint to Robert Drobot
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 1:54:14 PM PST · 6 of 14

“We have fully realized not only the purely military and commercial benefits but also the political advantages of bilateral cooperation and this U.S.-Poland ... program in particular,” said Col. Stan Prusinski, chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation at the embassy. “A project that brings about savings to U.S. taxpayers, creates jobs in both countries, and generates favorable publicity in Poland is a dream come true.”

This is great news... There are plenty of stories about outsourcing that make my skin crawl but this one is great. This is a dream come true!


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ElBaradei to 'Post': No nuclear 'smoking gun' in Iran
Posted by humint to SmithL
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 1:23:06 PM PST · 12 of 26

Having acknowledged the IAEA's failure to detect Iran's nuclear energy program more rapidly, he noted that the agency was immensely hampered by a tiny budget of just $120 million per year. With these "shoestring" resources, it was nevertheless expected to "oversee approximately 900 nuclear facilities in 71 countries. We are only as effective as we are allowed to be," he said.

Of those facilities, how many belong to exposed proliferators? The IAEA must re-evaluate its list of priorities. If you want to move up in the world in terms of funding, use some funds to make the IAEA a serious Nuclear WATCH DOG. Only 7 out of 22 nuclear and weapons sites identified as locations “in need of investigation” in Iran are resolved... In my mind, the IAEA has a 32% on its Iran proliferation score. I think this score develops a strong case for Nobel Prize retraction...


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Shift in geopolitics has US linking Central Asia to the Subcontinent
Posted by humint to CarrotAndStick
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 12:58:43 PM PST · 10 of 19

After the Cold War, political pressure from the US Congress led to the creation of a separate bureau of South Asian Affairs. And now, as it focuses on Afghanistan’s stability and warily eyes China’s growing influence in Central Asia, the Bush Administration has begun to see the advantages of creating a new regional approach that brings South and Central Asia together.

I really enjoy reading post-Cold War speculations. The planet really has not grasped how significant the thaw is. We're talking about a new world order where real partnerships can occur that mutually benefit each. I get a strong sense that the same folks that didn't understand why the Cold War had to be won are the ones so ready to retreat in the face of success. The opportunities on the horizon should be making the markets scream with optimism... but they still haven't caught on yet. My bet is that it’s because there hasn't been enough post-Cold War speculating. Great Post!


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Tehran schools closed due to smog
Posted by humint to F14 Pilot
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 12:40:00 PM PST · 21 of 29

Petrol is heavily subsidized.

This is just one policy in a long list of really bad official Iranian policies. When we say "unfit for command", even the worst suggestions from any American political party sound good when contrasted with the Iranian governments' existing policies. Dirty air might not be the trump card in my mind for a shifting U.S. policy toward regime change in Iran but it could be for any responsible environmentalist. Are there any environmentalists reading this? No, probably not. They’re probably too busy fighting to keep ANWR off the list of resources the U.S. can leverage to become energy “self reliant”.

ARTICLE: All schools and nurseries in the Iranian capital, Tehran, have been closed for two days because air pollution has reached dangerous levels. Two million school children have been given an unexpected day off.



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A FIRSTHAND PERSPECTIVE ON IRAQ
Posted by humint to princess leah
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 11:21:19 AM PST · 5 of 9

CHRIS SPIDLE:

"I am not a political analyst, and I don't have insight into the rationale behind the complex decisions that drive our foreign policy, but I have real-life experiences about what we should be doing in Iraq."

Chris, by sharing your experiences with Americans you're developing collective insight. You're changing the dynamics by which political analysts analyze. This is how our system was designed to function. Thank you for writing this. Please keep writing! PL - Thanks for posting!


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Iranian Arrested In Florida Sting [Iranian Air Crash "Sanctions" Context]
Posted by humint to agere_contra
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 10:20:13 AM PST · 13 of 14

we must destabilise the present Theocracy

Death sucks no matter who dies or how they die. I am not a pacifist but my hatred of death, particularly violent death, encourages me to question and seek out answers. Here’s one way I do it. If we develop a "chain of responsibility" using empathy as a tool we can find out who was responsible if responsibility can be assigned...

I was not one of the mechanics that sent that plane into the air today however I imagine they will be questioned by government agents today. I am not one of the Iranian government regulators who authorized that plane to fly today however I imagine they will blame the mechanics and or U.S. sanctions. I did not impose sanctions on the Iranian regime however I believe the United States government was right to do so because of the destabilizing policies of the Iranian Government. I am not an official of the Iranian regime however I know the Iranian regime is a Theocratic Dictatorship and the ultimate arbiter there is Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. I have never met Khamenei but this is what he says about the United States, a nation I know very well.

  • "Iran considers the United States to be responsible for all crimes and terrorist acts in Iraq and the suffering and misery of the Iraqi people," he said, according to state television.
  • "The Iraqi people may ask the occupiers to leave Iraq by setting a timetable for them ... In the end, Iraq and its neighbors will remain in this region while the U.S. will only be there temporarily," he said.
  • "Your security is our own security and Iran honors Iraq's independence and power," the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying. "We will extend assistance to you in those fields," he added.

True democratic stability exists here in the United States because we conquer threats to liberty whenever they arise. Beyond our borders American leadership has ushered in a kind of health and global prosperity that isn’t realizable in the bygone era of competing dictatorships. I’m not necessarily arguing that the U.S. should begin a crusade against dictators around the world however I am saying that our mere existence is a threat to their existence. The real villain here is Khamenei. If we look, we can see it in this plane crash and we can see it in his words and we can see it in his policies. The MSM is just going to show us the burning rubble… we have to look past it so that this will be one of the last piles of burning rubble. Because… Death Sucks, particularly violent death.


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Iranian Arrested In Florida Sting [Iranian Air Crash "Sanctions" Context]
Posted by humint to FreeManWhoCan
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 9:25:49 AM PST · 12 of 14

"This guy was an idiot.... all he had to do is..."

Maybe you're right... All indications are that the Iranian regime still believes it can skirt U.S. sanctions and get more concessions by behaving badly. Our policies are designed to encourage the Iranian government to change in positive ways, but they just continue destabilizing the region by supporting terror groups, developing offensive weapons systems, buying defensive weapons systems and interfering in Iraq. It's as though the Iranian regimes' playbook has just one play - self destruct! One thing is certain; Iran needs a new coach and a new playbook. If Iran had a representative government capable of joining the community of nations this plane may not have crashed today killing so many non-combatants.


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Iranian Arrested In Florida Sting [Iranian Air Crash "Sanctions" Context]
Posted by humint to Sidebar Moderator
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 7:41:57 AM PST · 8 of 14

This link doesn't match up with the thread. It's on the page, it's just in a section far down on the page. I'm looking for the origingal now to clear things up...

LINK TITLE: The Center for International Trade and Security Export Control Newsletter No. 36

    10. “Iranian Arrested In Florida Sting; Man Accused of Attempted Smuggling,” By Dan Eggen and Douglas Farah, The Washington Post, September 25, 2003


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Iranian Arrested In Florida Sting [Iranian Air Crash "Sanctions" Context]
Posted by humint to Eric in the Ozarks
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 7:36:28 AM PST · 6 of 14

Is the C-130 all that high tech ?

No but the Iranian regime and the MSM are bound to spin this the wrong way if we let them. Our Homeland Security Department did a great job preventing military hardware from going to Iran in 2003. I'd like all of us to recognize them in the context of sanctions enforcement. I'd also like us all to recognize the difference between the Iranian leadership and the people at risk on that plane today.


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Iranian Arrested In Florida Sting [Iranian Air Crash "Sanctions" Context]
Posted by humint to mtbopfuyn
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 7:22:01 AM PST · 3 of 14

And he got into this country, how?

ARTICLE: He lied on immigration forms by claiming to be visiting the United States to discuss the purchase of medical equipment


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Iranian Arrested In Florida Sting [Iranian Air Crash "Sanctions" Context]
Posted by humint
On News/Activism 12/06/2005 7:16:51 AM PST · 13 replies · 730+ views


WP via UGA ^ | September 25, 2003 | Dan Eggen and Douglas Farah
Homeland Security agents have arrested an Iranian man in Florida on charges that he attempted to smuggle $ 750,000 worth of restricted F-14 fighter aircraft parts out of the United States for use by the Iranian military, according to officials and court documents. Serzhik Avasappian, 40, was arrested as part of a sting operation Sept. 19 at a hotel in Fort Lauderdale, where he allegedly met with an undercover agent from the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and an informant, who were posing as weapons brokers, according to court documents. Avasappian "held himself out to be a broker of...

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Iranian Alert - December 4, 2005 - Iran and Russia sign $1 bln defence deal
Posted by humint to DoctorZIn
On News/Activism 12/04/2005 7:56:30 PM PST · 5 of 7

Iran and Russia sign $1 bln defence deal - reports

The media is trying to frame this deal as defensive but has consistently glossed over the domestic missile programs being developed in underground tunnels outside of Tehran. When seen in combination with the Iranian governments' offensive weaponization programs and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenie’s drive to put full control of the country in the hands of the most militant former members of the Revolutionary Guard, this is fully consistent with preparations for an offensive war. Rebuffing U.S. requests for ambassadorial meetings is yet another indicator from Iranian officials that they want to take this crisis to its logical conclusion. If anything, this just speeds up the timetable again to facilitate sustentative change in Iran… Could this get any crazier?


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Iran Again Rules Out Iraq Talks With U.S.
Posted by humint to jmc1969
On News/Activism 12/04/2005 5:43:03 PM PST · 2 of 2

"Negotiations with America were not on our agenda," said Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Assefi.

SOURCE: IRAN'S AGENDA FOR THE WORLD, by Amir Taheri -- Arab News -- August 20, 2005

Last week Iran's newly elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave his reply: Democracy? Never! The answer is spelled out in a 7000-word document that Ahmadinejad presented as his government's "short- and long-term programs" to the Islamic Majlis (Parliament) on Tuesday. In it he categorically states that Western "ideas and concepts of government" have no place in Islam. Without using the word democracy, the document states that the new administration "bravely rejects all alien political ideas" as incompatible with Islam.


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IRAN, FREEDOM and INSPIRATION [FREE MP3]
Posted by humint to humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/04/2005 7:58:13 AM PST · 3 of 3

bttt bump


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The Policy of Turkification in Iran
Posted by humint to oslonor
On Bloggers & Personal 12/03/2005 8:45:07 AM PST · 11 of 11

The model for American society is good for US. But you can not copy it to other countries.

It is not uncommon to look at the form and function of the United States and perceive a singular model. But that perception says more about the person perceiving the U.S. than it does about the U.S. You’re approach to understanding American politics is trapped in a belief that politics and war are only the products of competing empires. As I understand your argument, the U.S. is just another empire with imperial problems such as ethnic strife. But you can’t understand American values and goals if that’s how you look at the world. The fact is the U.S. is not an empire! The U.S. government was formed on principles that reject imperialism. American ideology is about managing relationships between cultures to the mutual benefit of each. Therefore you cannot point to one part of the U.S. and say THAT’s “American society”.

Rather you should look at the points where cultures meet each other within the United States. Although I could fill this page with volumes of success stories, it’s only when the relationships begin to fail that U.S. policy steps in. Because ethnic diversity has a dramatic impact on human relations, many types of policy have been proposed. But make no mistake; policies that support racial purity are among the dumbest. Why do I say this, because these ideas are escapist. Your solution ignores the root cause of the problem! We MUST be able to interact with each other, regardless of race!

In any case, race is just one aspect of culture. Where do these ideas of yours stop? They don’t stop, because your empire must be the only empire among empires! But once you’ve conquered your external enemies, you’ll still have to purge the enemy within. Those with impure eye color must be purged… It’s dangerous logic indeed! The only aspect of American ideology that I would like others to adopt is this one:

  • The creation and maintenance of greater human freedom.

That’s it! Under this prescription, race is just one of many variables good government must manage to ensure the mutual success of all its citizens. Any ideas that conflict with this single guiding principle must be fought. This singular belief develops policies that lead to freedom of choice, freedom of religion, freedom to travel, freedom to learn and most importantly freedom to be YOU in a world of people who aren’t you! Like anyone else, I can point to efforts of American origin that were not on the path of greater human freedom but because deviations remind us of the value of freedom, the United States has always found the path again. You have to know the power of freedom because you are a living, thinking person. With true freedom a Muslim can be closer to Allah because he freely chose to be with Allah. The same is true for Christians and Jews. Atheists too are free to be challenged and challenge their beliefs! The list goes on and on… Freedom is power and that’s why the U.S. is powerful, not because it’s an empire with ethnic strife.


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Islam, Democracy and Iran
Posted by humint to PoplarWill
On Bloggers & Personal 12/03/2005 7:24:52 AM PST · 11 of 12

Update on one of the authors -- SOURCE: Iran challenged over US professor -- By Jim Muir -- BBC Tehran correspondent -- Saturday, 1 November, 2003, 18:02 GMT
A senior Iranian official has expressed concern over the continued detention of an Iranian-born American professor. Dariush Zahedi was arrested on suspicion of spying during a summer visit to his family in Tehran. The hardline judiciary has refused to release him even though he has been cleared of the charges, said Mohsen Mirdamadi, a senior parliamentarian. International human rights groups and the US State Department have expressed concern over professor Zahedi's fate.

Solitary confinement

Dariush Zahedi emigrated to the United States in his teens. He is now a political science professor, teaching classes at the University of California. Like many Iranian-born Americans he returned home in June to visit his family. He was arrested in Tehran at the request of the intelligence ministry on suspicion of spying.



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IRAN, FREEDOM and INSPIRATION [FREE MP3]
Posted by humint to DoctorZIn
On Bloggers & Personal 12/02/2005 5:09:08 PM PST · 2 of 3

IRAN_NUCLEAR.wmv : Have you seen this?

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The Policy of Turkification in Iran
Posted by humint to oslonor
On Bloggers & Personal 12/02/2005 2:02:53 PM PST · 6 of 11

I think you are on the wrong side if you are against nazism.

According to Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Hitler developed his political theories after carefully observing the policies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was born as a citizen of the Empire, and believed that ethnic and linguistic diversity had weakened it. Further, he saw democracy as a destabilizing force, because it placed power in the hands of ethnic minorities, whom he claimed "weakened and destabilize" the Empire, by dividing it against itself.

The Nazi rationale was heavily invested in the militarist belief that great nations grow from military power, which in turn grows "naturally" from "rational, civilized cultures". Hitler's calls appealed to disgruntled German Nationalists, eager to save face for the failure of World War I, and to salvage the militaristic nationalist mindset of that previous era. After Austria's and Germany's defeat of World War I, many Germans still had heartfelt ties to the goal of creating a greater Germany, and thought that the use of military force to achieve it was necessary.

Many placed the blame for Germany's misfortunes on those, such as Jews and communists, whom they perceived, in one way or another, to have sabotaged the goal of national victory, by obtaining a stranglehold on the national economy, and using the nation's own resources to control and corrupt it.

Alfred Rosenberg's racial philosophy wholly embraced the Aryan Invasion Theory, which traced Aryan peoples in ancient Iran invading the Indus Valley Civilization of India, and carrying with them great knowledge and science that had been preserved from the antediluvian world. This "antediluvian world" referred to Thule, the theoretical pre-Flood/Ice Age origin of the Aryan race, and is often tied to Atlantis theories. Most of the leadership and the founders of the Nazi Party was made of members of "Thule Gesellschaft" (the Thule Society), who romanticized the Aryan race through theology and ritual.

Nasism is an ideology that floats on romantic lies. I am vehemenetly anti-Nasism. Unless you mispoke, I wish you nothing but failure in your future. You are my enemy as Hitler was my fathers' enemy.


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Did You Hear What They Said?
Posted by humint to TheRobb7
On Bloggers & Personal 12/02/2005 1:41:17 PM PST · 3 of 4

LIBERTY, Inspires greatness and greatness inspires liberty. Great Quotes!!!
  • "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." --Patrick Henry

  • "A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate."-- Thomas Jefferson


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IRAN, FREEDOM and INSPIRATION [FREE MP3]
Posted by humint
On Bloggers & Personal 12/02/2005 9:38:18 AM PST · 2 replies · 193+ views


humint ^ | 02 December 2005 | VARIOUS
FREEDOM.mp3 --FREEDOM LYRICSFive birds in a tree have a party Singing days down by the city Using time… to enjoy… life and beauty But there’s a shadow on the painting Too nice looking, too much pretending… when… for basic rights some are fighting And there are those with their lives stolen Women and children killed under torture Those in evil prisons falling Friends in pain who’ve lost more than their future Friends who hold night and day to suffer Soldiers of hope smiling through the tears Take some love and share it together We join to force back the...

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Iraq and Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Posted by humint to Kitten Festival
On News/Activism 11/30/2005 11:44:39 AM PST · 5 of 5

This is a very interesting analysis! Thanks for posting it. If we follow this author’s approach and Iraq is to be our base of operations to defeat the Wahhabis then pulling our troops out would be an extraordinarily bad idea. However I do see a problem with this approach. The products we anticipate from the surmised theological competition between Karbala and Qom, the religious centers of Iraq and Iran respectively, are unlikely to be allied to the interests of the United States. With the likes of:
  • IRAQ -“Muqtada al-Sadr has recently emerged as a Muslim Shia leader who vociferously rejects the US-led occupation in Iraq. He is seen by many Shia and politicians as a zealous leader who has chosen the wrong time for this escalation of protests.
  • IRAQ - Abdol-Aziz al-Hakim “When U.S. forces seized control of one of the Interior Ministry's buildings in the Jaderiya region near the official headquarters of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq [SCIRI], led by Abdol-Aziz al-Hakim, they found prisoners who were suffering from malnutrition and on some of whose bodies, signs of torture could be seen”.
  • IRAN -Mahmood Ahmadinejad: "To those who doubt, to those who ask is it possible, or those who do not believe, I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible."

We should expect horribly anti-American policies from the Shiite alliance if men like these continue their ascension to power. Add to that, massive oil reserves under the authority of these vehemently anti-American men. Their logic reveals a competition that would likely result in a scuttled world economy, just to spite the “Great Satan”. At least for now, I suggest we keep the ping-pong table in the basement…


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Iranian Alert - November 29 - Iran president had ‘religious vision’ during UN speech
Posted by humint to DoctorZIn
On News/Activism 11/29/2005 8:28:50 PM PST · 13 of 19

“I felt it myself, too, that suddenly the atmosphere changed and for 27-28 minutes the leaders could not blink,” the transcript continues. “I am not exaggerating…because I was looking. All the leaders were puzzled, as if a hand held them and made them sit. They had their eyes and ears open for the message from the Islamic Republic.”

HaH! Yes they were puzzled... about why an Iranian president would tell them that his government is opposed to perfectly rational suggestions to relieve international concerns over his country's nuclear weapons program.


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How Afghan Captivity Shaped My Feminism
Posted by humint to wideawake
On News/Activism 11/29/2005 3:19:33 PM PST · 15 of 38

Just an excellent, excellent paragraph.

I'm going to break with popular sentiment here and say, I think she is a cultural pioneer. We don't need to agree with all she has done, tried to do or even her motives for doing them but her experiences are extremely valuable. They’re like an American window into another way of life. Most Americans will never leave the United States and that's fine but the ones that have lived, really lived in the ME should stand up and describe it; all that's good and all that's disgusting about it. We can read National Geographic and watch PBS but that’s “fly on the wall” stuff. She lived it and no one can speak to Americans about experiences like Americans can, even when we disagree with one another.

You’re definitely right. That paragraph is excellent…


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