[political-research] Europe Breaks With Bush Over Iran

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
Europe Breaks With Bush Over Iran France, Britain and Germany would be willing to begin talks with Iran even if it has not suspended its nuclear enrichment programme. It is likely Russia and China will join them. Bush's Iran strategy has failed. Unless he plans to attack Iran unilaterally,

[political-research] Rolling Stone interviews a Diebold whistleblower

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
Rolling Stone interviews a Diebold whistleblower In what is perhaps the most astonishing turn of events in the ongoing Diebold fiasco, a new article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone -- with extensive information direct from a named former company consultant -- makes one of the most damning

[political-research] Fwd: Spanish nutty conspiracy theory - Rmail

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
xymphora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "xymphora" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Spanish nutty conspiracy theory - RmailDate: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:20:22 -0700 The latest fun out of Spain concerning the Madrid bombings is a right-wing conspiracy theory from one of the accused, a Spaniard named Jose

[political-research] Enough With the 'One God' Stuff

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
Enough With the 'One God' Stuff In the world today, one ancient religious ideology, monotheism, stands out as especially dangerous, repressive and loony Source: http://www.alternet.org/story/42025/ __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS

[political-research] Re: Ratzinger and comments on Pipes list

2006-09-24 Thread LeaNder
Sorry again I have not paid enough attention on proofreading.With "non-christian elements" I mean Greek elements/Hellenistic elements.The first attempt of cleaning these elements out of the Christian (Catholic) faith is of cause Reformation not Protestantism.Besides, I have to use the html

Re: [political-research] Ratzinger, Pipes, Nazism and Zionism

2006-09-24 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis
As for Ratzinger's pretensions to being an intellectual and a devotee of reason -- what could be more absurd. If Ratinzger truly respected reason, he would find it necessary as a matter of intellectual honesty to abandon all the superstitious mumbo jumbo and claptrap which has elevated him

Re: [political-research] Ratzinger, Pipes, Nazism and Zionism

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
David Ray Griffin was one of the foremost exceptions I had in mind when thinking about the depredations of theology. Theology can be occasionally interesting when it exhibits some kind of literary, poetic, imaginative or philosophical brilliance. But folks with this kind of talent usually focus

[political-research] Thus spoke Bernard Lewis

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
Thus spoke Bernard Lewis On September 22, 2006, Iran was supposed to attack Israel and perhaps the entire Western world. And why precisely on this specific day? Because it is the 27th day of the month of Rajab (in the year 1427, according to the Muslim calendar), the same day Mohammed ascended

[political-research] The Theocons

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
[Regarding the Roman Catholic contingent of emergent Judeo-Christian fascism.] The Theocons Iread Damon Linker's new book, Theocons, reviewed today in the NYT by Adrian Wooldridge, a while back in proofs. It's the most comprehensive analysis and take-down of the theocon set around - from an

[political-research] Natural Language Processing for State Security

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
Natural Language Processing for State Security Roland Piquepaille writes Obviously, computers can't have an opinion. What comptuers are very good at, though, is scanning through text to deduct human opinions from factual information. This branch of natural-language processing (NLP) is called

[political-research] Googleyness: Inside The Google System

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
Googleyness: Inside The Google System (Richard MacManus/Read/WriteWeb) Googleyness: Inside The Google System — For some great weekend reading, check out this Fortune magazine article that gets inside the great Google brain. Some extracts that I enjoyed... Later in the article it states that

[political-research] War on Iran Makes Perfect Sense

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
War on Iran Makes Perfect Sense To the neocons, since they aim for maximum chaos, says Paul Craig Roberts Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts175.html __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Intelligence

[political-research] The Cheney Cabal

2006-09-24 Thread Sean McBride
The Cheney Cabal Gordon Prather on the scheme for war against Iran Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/prather/prather53.html __._,_.___ SPONSORED LINKS Intelligence