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9/11 was Sad but this is Genocide, right?

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:51:26 GMT

clipped by: joejoepmc
clipper's remarks: Less than 3,000 people died in 9/11

Since 2001, nearly 1,080,000 people have died from MEDICAL ERRORS

Who are the terrorists now?

PS - this is from 2001!

Clip Source: jama.ama-assn.org

more Americans are killed in US hospitals every 6 months thandied in the entire Vietnam War, and some have compared the allegedrate to 3 fully loaded jumbo jets crashing every other day.²Widely disseminated quotes include, "medical mistakes kill 180 000people a year in US hospitals"³ and "medical errors may be the5th leading cause of death."⁴ If these inferences are correct,the health care system is a public health menace of epidemicproportions.

Tags: terrorists, terrorism, healthcare

Medical Error is Big Business $$$

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:28:53 GMT

clipped by: joejoepmc
clipper's remarks: Who is profiting from your death... I wonder where all that money goes?

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Medical Errors Cost US $8.8 Billion, Result In 238,337 Potentially Preventable Deaths, Study Shows

1.1 million patient safety incidents during the three years studied.

Tags: terrorists, healthcare, news

Dangers of "Group Think" Evident in March to War

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:33:36 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: These are characteristics of most all groups, especially highly charged political parties which are easily recognized here. Note the silence of individuals plays a key role in conformity. Speak up!

Collective Rationalization reminds me of the "group think" that led America to war against Iraq (per the neoconservatives preconceived plans), even though it did not harbor terrorists or attack the U.S., just because Bush and Cheney, after 9/11, said so.

This same "group think" is within the entire story of 9/11 and the Collective Rationalization for a continued "war on terrorism" to invade other countries at will. GROUP THINK MUST BE CHALLENGED TO PREVENT UNJUST WARS.

Number 8 (did not have room to clip) is here:

Mindguards: Some members appoint themselves to the role of protecting the group from adverse information that might threaten group complacency.

Clip Source: www.cedu.niu.edu

Group Think

Janis, I. L. & Mann, L. (1977). Decision making: A psychological analysis of conflict, choice, and commitment. New York: Free Press.

Eight Main Symptoms of Group Think

Illusion of Invulnerability: Members ignore obvious danger, take extreme risk, and are overly optimistic.

Collective Rationalization: Members discredit and explain away warning contrary to group thinking.

Illusion of Morality: Members believe their decisions are morally correct, ignoring the ethical consequences of their decisions.

Excessive Stereotyping:The group constructs negative sterotypes of rivals outside the group.

Pressure for Conformity: Members pressure any in the group who express arguments against the group's stereotypes, illusions, or commitments, viewing such opposition as disloyalty.

Self-Censorship: Members withhold their dissenting views and counter-arguments.

Illusion of Unanimity: Members perceive falsely that everyone agrees with the group's decision; silence is seen as consent.

Tags: war, political parties, group think, psychology

McCain Volunteers Instructed to Accuse Obama of Terrorism

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:10:38 GMT

clipped by: Wisco
clipper's remarks: The Time article tells us:

With so much at stake, and time running short, [VA state GOP Chairman Jeffrey M. Frederick] did not feel he had the luxury of subtlety. He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points -- for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary." It is also not exactly true -- though that distorted reference to Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. "And he won't salute the flag," one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born." Actually, we do; it's Hawaii.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

According to Time, McCain campaign staffers in Virginia are teaching volunteers to see Barack Obama as having terrorist 'friends,' and then providing these volunteers with arguments for persuading voters that Sen. Obama, like Osama Bin Laden, shares responsibility for bombings of the Pentagon.

The report from inside the McCain campaign brings to light an alarming fact: while McCain tells his supporters publicly to refrain from violent rhetoric, he continues to teach his volunteers rhetoric designed to elicit violent responses.

The report confirms that the McCain campaign has staked its chances of winning the Presidency on convincing the public that Barack Obama is on the wrong side of the 'War on Terror' and, therefore, his victory in the Presidential election would put the power of the White House in the hands of terrorists.

Tags: news

McCain's Terrorist Connection - From His Own Website

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:49:25 GMT

clipped by: Jorjor

Clip Source: www.suntimes.com

Ayers haunts McCain

QT 2008 Vote Count Countdown Update:

JohnMcCain.com announced last week that Leonore Annenberg, widow of ambassador and philanthropist Walter Annenberg, is endorsing McCain.

It is not mentioned that former Weather Underground radical William Ayers has served on the Annenberg Foundation charity board.

McCain . . . Annenberg . . . Ayers . . .

Is McCain palling around with terrorists again?

Think about it.

Has McCain ever denied that he's a terrorist?

Enough said.

Tags: mccain, election, politics, terrorist, obama, ayers

2 Nuns Listed as Terrorists by Baltimore Cops

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:20:58 GMT

clipped by: nedhamson1
clipper's remarks: Who would have thought that efforts to legitimately protect ourselves result in return of enemies lists and labeling anyone who you disagree with as a "red and a commie", oops, I mean "terrorist. Guess that's what made and still does make the Bill of Rights an important part of US Democracy.

Clip Source: afp.google.com

BALTIMORE, Maryland (AFP) — Two Roman Catholic nuns whose non-violent action against nuclear weapons landed them with prison sentences returned home to Baltimore to learn they had been listed as terrorists, they said Friday.

Sister Ardeth Platte, 72, and Sister Carol Gilbert, 60, came back from two weeks out of town to find letters from the Maryland State Police saying they had been wrongfully listed as suspected terrorists in a federal database in 2005-2006.

Tags: democracy, human rights, dumb and dumber, globalism

Even Catholic nuns on US 'terror' list

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:54:39 GMT

clipped by: Seosamh Dalzell

Clip Source: www.middle-east-online.com

The Dominican nuns broke into a US nuclear missile silo in Colorado in 2002 and painted crucifixes with their own blood -- earning Platte and Gilbert prison sentences of 41 and 33 months respectively.

"If they can label us as terrorists, they can label all kinds of people as terrorists," Gilbert said. "So then people become afraid to speak out against what the established government might be saying -- and that is the demise of democracy."

Palin’s Taking Us Back to "McCarthyism".

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:58:08 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: The acrimonious language in Palin’s speeches, take us back to "McCarthyism". We've all known that Rightdiculous columnists and their nastier Right-Wing talk radio hacks have been doing this rhetoric for years. And that their ditto heads have been soaking it up, in the comfort of their living rooms, where they shout obscenities and hateful oratory, alone or among their kind. Now McCain’s, VP choice allows them a place IN PUBLIC to caterwaul their Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter induced RAGE. It must be a catharses for the pathetic souls who have been listening and reading the unadulterated animosity coming over air waves or in print, directed at some unknown enemy. They now can UNLEASH the bottled up hatred, in the open and have a recognizable foe, thanks to the self-proclaimed pit-bull. The wingnut goons behind desks or microphones must be MIGHTY PROUD! “HURRAY FOR SARAH PALIN!” they shout. She’s harvesting the grotesque seeds of hatred, we’ve fervently sewn! ThinkingBlue.blogspot.com

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama

IF you think way back to the start of this marathon campaign, back when it seemed preposterous that any black man could be a serious presidential contender, then you remember the biggest fear about Barack Obama: a crazy person might take a shot at him.

At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent cries of “Treason!” and “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!” as well as the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets,

Palin

Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist

palling around with terrorists

(note the plural noun).

Republicans play the race card?

McCain

recruited as a Palin handler

Tucker Eskew

Carolina

consultant

worked

W. Bush

2000 G.O.P

primary

McCains

adopted

Bangladeshi daughter

slimed by

racist rumors.

passage of Palin’s

speech:

Her

quote

praising

Pegler

columnist

famous for his anti-Semitism, racism and violent rhetorical excess

Pegler

wish

Bobby Kennedy

Some

white patriot

will

spatter his

brains

in public

Tags: obama, palin, mccain, hate, politics, bigotry, mccarthyism

Protesting nuns branded terrorists

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:52:22 GMT

clipped by: zalisan
clipper's remarks: What would Sally Field have done? "Democracy is built on these elements on being able to speak out to speak what we believe is truth," Sister Carol said.

Clip Source: www.washtimes.com

Pair classified by state police; names placed on national list

BALTIMORE | For decades, Sister Carol Gilbert and Sister Ardeth Platte have practiced their Roman Catholic faith with an unwavering focus on world peace. Their antiwar activities even landed them in federal prison earlier this decade for trespassing onto a military base and pouring blood onto a nuclear missile silo.

Now they face fresh infamy as two nuns secretly branded by Maryland State Police as terrorists and placed on a national watch list.

"This term terrorist is a really serious accusation," Sister Ardeth, a nun for 54 years, told The Washington Times on Thursday in the first interview that the women have given since being informed they were among 53 people added to a terrorist watch list in conjunction with an extensive Maryland surveillance effort of antiwar activists.

"There is no way that we ever want to be identified as terrorists. We are nonviolent. We are faith-based," she said.

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:46:51 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "From the start, there have always been two separate but equal questions about race in this election. Is there still enough racism in America to prevent a black man from being elected president no matter what? And, will Republicans play the race card? The jury is out on the first question until Nov. 4. But we now have the unambiguous answer to the second: Yes."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Some voters told reporters that they didn’t want Obama to run, let alone win, should his very presence unleash the demons who have stalked America from Lincoln to King.

What makes them different, and what has pumped up the Weimar-like rage at McCain-Palin rallies, is the violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Palin. Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.” He is “palling around with terrorists” (note the plural noun). Obama is “not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.” Wielding a wildly out-of-context Obama quote, Palin slurs him as an enemy of American troops.

By the time McCain asks the crowd “Who is the real Barack Obama?” it’s no surprise that someone cries out “Terrorist!”

We all know how self-appointed “patriotic” martyrs always justify taking the law into their own hands.

FINANCIAL TERRORISM

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:45:58 GMT

clipped by: klippety
clipper's remarks: This is only the beginning of the End

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

US Economic Collapse = US Government = Financial Terrorists

[Video]

Nuns, Congressional candidate, Declared to be Terrorist.

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:23:57 GMT

clipped by: citizenbfk
clipper's remarks: This is what happens when you begin spying on all citizens without need for warrants or any controls at all, which has been typical of the Bush White House.

Things like approving torture, holding prisoners in jail for years and years -- indefinite detention -- deprived of all legal rights, not allowed to communicate with their families who might not even know where they went, deprived of visits even from the Red Cross.

It's one step at a time. It's doing things like this we've never done before -- war crimes. First to foreigners, then it seeps into doing it to your own.

Easily done, next, one candidate for Congress arranges to get another candidate for Congress put on the list. Someone in office doesn't like someone: Put him on the list, etc.

Spy on nun's because they're against the death penality. Spy on other political views you don't like - even though the people involved Have Absolutely Nothing To Do With Violence or Terrorism.

Step by step into real fascism.

Vote

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Spying on Activists Discussed at Forum

The 53 men and women wrongly classified by the Maryland State Police as terrorists include two Catholic nuns, a Democratic candidate for Congress, a man who campaigns against military recruiting at high schools and one person who has never set foot in the state

14-month surveillance operation in 2005 and 2006 targeted not just local opponents of the death penalty and Iraq war, as police claim, but a broader group.

"I am not a fringe person, and none of us are fringe people," said David Zirin, a sportswriter and death penalty opponent from Silver Spring, referring to a characterization by former state police superintendent Thomas E. Hutchins at a legislative hearing last week.

Tags: spying

Domestic Terrorists for McCain

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:31:02 GMT

clipped by: Wisco
clipper's remarks: Wow, you whip your crowds up into a frenzy of hatred and then stuff like this happens -- who could ever have foreseen that?

You've got people booing you when you tell them not to hate Obama, you've got terrorists mailing threats to newspapers and campaign offices -- what are you going to do about this John?

Is this really how you want to go out?

Clip Source: www.laobserved.com

I'm told the Los Angeles Times mailroom opened a hand-scrawled letter today that read "death to Obama" and contained a white powder that triggered a call to the FBI and a city hazardous materials team. No one was injured and the powder proved to be harmless. My sources say the letter was addressed to staff writers Richard Serrano and Ralph Vartabedian and included a demand for a retraction to their story this week that detailed flying mishaps early in John McCain's Navy flying career. The nut mail was said to carry an upside-down stamp and language about saving babies in addition to the Barack Obama threat.

* Also: The Palms campaign office for the Obama campaign was evacuated Thursday night due to a suspicious envelope. The LAPD bomb squad and a a HazMat team responded. KTLA

Tags: news

McCain wants Obama to condemn McCain's backlash

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:33:47 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan
clipper's remarks: Statement from the Obama campaign says it all; the last clipped paragraph. Salvage your own sorry ass, John. Palin started it; you condoned it by your silence. And now it's spinning out of your control.

Clip Source: blogs.abcnews.com

Clearly wounded by the remarks of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., condemning the tone at his rallies, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., issued this statement a few minutes ago.

"Congressman John Lewis' comments represent a character attack against Governor Sarah Palin and me that is shocking and beyond the pale," McCain said. "The notion that legitimate criticism of Senator Obama's record and positions could be compared to Governor George Wallace, his segregationist policies and the violence he provoked is unacceptable and has no place in this campaign."

"Senator Obama does not believe that John McCain or his policy criticism is in any way comparable to George Wallace or his segregationist policies. But John Lewis was right to condemn some of the hateful rhetoric that John McCain himself personally rebuked just last night, as well as the baseless and profoundly irresponsible charges from his own running mate that the Democratic nominee for President of the United States 'pals around with terrorists.'

Tags: mccain, obama, politics

'We Were Told We Were Fighting Terrorists; the Real Terrorist Was Me'

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:58:04 GMT

clipped by: mycelium_obscurum

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

I threw families onto the street in Iraq, only to come home and ﬁnd families thrown onto the street in this country, in this tragic and unnecessary foreclosure crisis. Our enemies are not ﬁve thousand miles away, they are right here at home, and if we organize and ﬁght, we can stop this war, we can stop this government, and we can create a better world.

We were told we were ﬁghting terrorists; the real terrorist was me, and the real terrorism is this occupation. Racism within the military has long been an important tool to justify the destruction and occupation of another country. Without racism, soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war.

We never got any explanation for our orders. We were only told that a group of ﬁve or six houses was now property of the U.S. military, and we had to go in and make those families leave their houses.

Tags: racism, iraq war, afghanistan, winter soldier hearings, winter soldier