Iran Makes Mideast’s Best Supercomputer (and it runs on Linux!)

Check this out!  This is bad news for the Empire.  Such computers can, of course, be used for weather research and forecasting, but more to the point, they are, among many other uses, exactly the kind of capability ones needs for air defense integration and (wink, wink) nuclear research (including, possible, explosions simulations). This also goes to show that, just had been the case with South African, the US embargo no Iran just made the country more self-sufficient (according to official...

Happy WMD Day, warmonger slag

Under the rising sun dirty yellow children play And in the red pagoda mamasan is praying Blood wasted saving face, ancestors are looking on As they wave their silver samurai underneath the big gun Hiroshima, no one could imagine Not the victors nor the victims Pitiful survivors nor the pawn of a man Who had the button under his hand No one would believe it God, God is on our side, he placed the power in our hands To teach the yellow peril, this is christian mercy Harry, harry give em hell,...

The Iowa Scam-a-thon, more of the same.

HA! How pathetic can ABC get, even after supposedly resetting their own poll, to sling a half-assed obfuscation against the wall like this sack of crap, when even their own online poll is a blowout. Now that the debate's over, it's time to consider the winners and losers. Who do you think won the Republican debate? Ron Paul - 24,059 Mitt Romney - 3,473 Rudy Giuliani - 2,742 Nobody. I'm waiting for Fred Thompson or Newt Gingrich to enter the race. - 2,493 Nobody won. I'm voting Democratic. -...

Ron Paul is Not a 9/11 Kook.

Here a critical interviewer from Live Leak puts him on the spot about it. I can't tell you how many times I've heard or seen Warbloggers accuse Ron Paul of being a 9/11 kook or the number of times I've seen 9/11 kooks say that Ron Paul is a 9/11 kook like them, but just can't admit it because of his position. That's bull. Right off the bat they are calling him dishonest. Just my personal opinion having met the man 3 or 4 times, but I don't believe he is. I think that if Paul did agreed with...

Ron Paul: ‘We achieved much more in peace than…unconstitutional, undeclared wars’

Ron Paul rocks 'em in the ABC debate this morning to wild applause as he denounces America's intervention in Iraq and calls for immediate withdrawal. Poor old Mitt Romney is left sputtering, "have you forgotten 9/11?" Attention Romney's tutors: Qaeda in Afghanistan. Baathists in Iraq. These things are different. How is Mitt supposed to be a God one day when he's not even a man today?

John Soltz and the Daily Kos “Netroots” – Hypocritical Cowards

Check out this video: "Dissident" group leader threaten to have man's career ruined and have him imprisoned for disagreeing with them in public. So the Daily Kos set is holding their Hillary Clinton love fest and a reservist stands up and offers them all the money in his pocket if they can show him where Iraqi civilian deaths haven't gone down since the surge started working. (Apparently none of them read the newspaper because the Associated Press cited a 23% increase in Iraqi civilian deaths...

Sibel Edmonds: I assumed the enemy was foreign

I've put together a quick 5 minute highlight reel of a recent speech by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds from the American Library Association conference The intro is: "I had taken the oath to protect my new country, against all enemies, and this was my chance to serve my country. I assumed the enemy was foreign... Within a few months, i came across some serious issues. Wrongdoing. Some of those would be considered criminal, within the FBI. Some of those involved security breaches, 911...

The Ongoing Medicalization of Torture

from Luke Mitchell at Harpers Two weeks ago, Michael McConnell, the director of national intelligence, appeared on Meet the Press and confirmed the two-pronged strategy.He was clear about what was forbidden—but perfectly unclear about what was permitted.That was step one.Step two was to claim that these unnamed and unnameable techniques had in fact been approved by unnamed and unnameable medical professionals