Posts Tagged ‘ terrorism ’

More Terrorism Theatre From the FBI

Sep 29th, 2011 | By | Category: Politics
Looks like the U.S. government dodged a bullet today, thanks to the FBI... Rezwan Ferdaus of Massachusetts was arrested this morning. He was accused of plotting to blow up the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol using remote-controlled aircraft armed with explosives. According to the FBI, they've thwarted another dastardly plot. Except that once ...read more

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How Not to Stop a Terrorist

Jan 26th, 2011 | By | Category: International, Politics
As Glenn Greenwald predicted, terrorists have attacked the next most logical target. A suicide bomber has caused the death of nearly three dozen people in Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport by attacking a crowded area not subject to rigorous security measures. Mr. Greenwald expected the next terrorist bombing to take place in the crowded ...read more

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Endless Targets for Terror

Dec 10th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
The Number of Potential Terrorist Targets Is Essentially Infinite Terrorists seek to kill people and/or destroy property in pursuit of a political goal. They may exercise some discrimination in selecting targets, but because people and vulnerable property are everywhere in the United States, they have a wealth of potential targets—there are ...read more

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The FBI’s Stalinist Homeland Security Theater

Dec 3rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International, Politics
The FBI’s Stalinist Homeland Security Theater “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” — George Orwell, Animal Farm A few days after bombs ripped apart two apartment buildings Moscow, residents of ...read more

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The Forest, the Trees and the TSA

Nov 29th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, International, Politics
With all the naked viewing and groping going on, I wonder if this is the United States of America or the back room of an adult video store. We have two major problems here, the TSA and its intrusive unconstitutional invasions of our rights, and the bigger question of why ...read more

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Airport Sexual Assaults Don’t Increase Security

Nov 22nd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
A recent CBS News reported a poll (taken between November 7 and November 10) in which 8 out of 10 of the 1,137 adults surveyed answered the following question “Yes”: “Should Airports Use Full-Body X-Ray Machines?” Poll results change over time as information is released and people revise their opinions. It may ...read more

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Make War Your Friend, Part II

Jan 25th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
Q.: What about Iran? A.: I'm desperately looking for the time to visit Iran while that's still possible. But my take, from reading and talking to overseas Iranians, of whom there are more than a million in North America alone, is that attacking it would be insane. One reason is that ...read more

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Make War Your Friend, Part I

Jan 24th, 2007 | By | Category: Macro Economics
With the advent of yet another year, we take a close look at the most powerful and least welcome driver of geo-politics-war. As in the misnamed yet overarching War on Terror and in the more specific War in Iraq and, maybe, coming to a theater near you, the expanding New ...read more

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