This morning, Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, took part in the Armistice Day ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris, France. This is the first time a German Chancellor has done so since the practice began after WW2. France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, called this an "historic act", and indeed it was.


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Various stories are filtering through to me which have pushed my vague sense of disquiet past the point of inaction. I've been hearing about this more and more, from various sources, these past few weeks, and it's beginning to become deafening in my ears.

First, there were those concentration camps being built in the US by Haliburton for " ( Read more... )

I'm really spending a lot of time on this topic lately, aren't I? Hopefully, this will be my last post on it for a while. Nevertheless, I promised I would explain what I actually think happened on September 11th, 2001, and so I do.

Hopefully now I can get back with the happy-making posts. It's been a bit dire here lately.

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Persuant to some posts made in reply to a post I made yesterday, I prepared the following. It's a bit lengthy, but I think by the end, you'll see where I'm going with all of this.

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There are those who say that the US government could never get away with a conspiracy to perpetrate the acts of terror which occurred on September 11th, 2001 and get ( Read more... )

And because I am not insensitive to the fact that Chileans are not the only people to have suffered horrific losses on a September 11th, I feel the need to post this as well:

Loose Change, 2nd Edition.

"As the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, Loose Change has become a magnet for ( Read more... )

I was going to write a new post to this effect, but then I thought, fuck it. I got it down last September 11th, and everything I said then remains pertinent now. So: repost.

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Once again, like clockwork, September 11th rolls around. Once again, we're compelled to reflect upon the horrific events of September 11th, in which the proponents of a ( Read more... )

I recently saw a documentary entitled The Road to Guantanamo. It was in turns chilling, infuriating, and revelatory.

When I was a kid, growing up in Southern Ontario, I always, always had a problem with the United States. Part of it had to do with the fact that I was a fan of professional wrestling at the time. During those waning days of the ( Read more... )

So, as I'm sure you all know, last year, christian wingnut and close Bush supporter, Pat Robertson called for the assasination of Venezualan president, Hugo Chavez. Not surprisingly, no criminal charges were laid against him within the US, though one might reasonably have expected, in a just society, that inciting people to murder, especially by ( Read more... )

Okay, you're all familliar with Halliburton, right ( Read more... )

Now, I've made no secret of my absolute loathing of the Bush administration up to this point. Indeed, I have spoken, at length, about it elsewhere. As such, it should come as little or no surprise that am one of the proponents of the theory that they played an active part in the destruction of the World Trade Centre.

I've done a lot of reading on ( Read more... )