--- In political-research@yahoogroups.com, "Sean McBride"
<smcbride2@...> wrote:
I will, even managed to find it on the Havard site after a while
without your link. Not now though, I have my own reading list at the
moment, I am trying to get at possible roots in the discussion of the
multiculturalism vs the melting pot, that has been fascinating me for
quite some time now. Or more precisely the US scholor's position in
the debate that multiculturalism is a(n elite sponsored) strategy to
divide the masses in little enclaves that then fight each other.
What really puzzles me though is the statement by Cravatts:
"The characterization of pro-Israel lobbying byorganizations and
high-placed government officials as "manipulation"-coercive,
underhanded actions whose end result would not otherwise honestly,
fairly, or reasonably be achieved-this language is the very tone that
has drawn such immediate and thunderous denunciation of the piece."
Isn't this somehow business as usual in politics?
-b
>
> 24 -- a TV series starring Kiefer Sutherland.
>
> I watch almost no TV of any kind -- I find it more profitable to
keep pressing the "J" key in Google Reader -- but someone I respect
recommended 24 to me. I am nearly through the first season on DVD
from Netflix, and am impressed: tremendous visual energy, powerful
soundtrack, brilliant plotting, strong characters, subtlety and nuance
in its portrayal of intelligence methods and issues. If you haven't
seen it, I recommend renting the first disc for the first season and
see if it clicks in your head.
>
> I would go so far as to suggest that 24 breaks entirely new ground
in the long-form narrative genre in any medium -- TV, movies or
novels. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the series, and
am hoping that it maintains the same level of quality throughout. 24
is more effective, just on the level of action, than many very
expensive Hollywood movies. This is better than one expects TV to be.
On IMDB's scale, I would rate it 10 stars.
>
> Kiefer Sutherland just signed a contract which will pay him $40
million for continuing the series for a few years -- he deserves every
penny.
>
> Two other TV series with some redeeming value I've enjoyed over the
last few years -- Deadwood and Monk. Sopranos was engaging for awhile
-- now it is like something that has gone very bad in your
refrigerator. Disgusting. I'm really surprised the Italian
Anti-Defamation League isn't up in arms about this travesty. This is
not an appealing culture on any level.
>
> One problem with 24 -- the non-stop torturing of one's nerves can
almost be too much. The creators of this series have refined this
kind of psychological stimulation to a fine art and a science.
>
> Richard Cravatts? He strikes me as an intellectual third-rater --
not worth a second of my attention.
>
> With regard to the Mearsheimer-Walt paper: I urge people to make up
their own minds. Read the full copy of the paper carefully here:
>
> http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011
>
> Then track the actual behavior and words of the Israel lobby for a
few weeks or months at sites like:
>
> 1. Jewish World Review <http://www.jewishworldreview.com/>
>
> 2. Commentary <http://www.commentarymagazine.com/>
>
> 3. The Jewish Press <http://www.thejewishpress.com/>
>
> 4. Forward <http://www.forward.com/>
>
> 5. JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs)
<http://www.jinsa.org/>
>
> The Israel lobby is very loud and very conspicuous, and its agenda,
as expressed in its own words, is impossible to miss. The Israel
lobby is driven by a level of fear and hostility towards most of the
world (I believe the operative term is "xenophobia") that is very
difficult for the average person to begin to comprehend. The Lobby
expects -- stridently DEMANDS -- the United States to slay all its
enemies, regardless of the political and economic costs to Americans.
There is a major catastrophe brewing over this mess which is probably
going to end badly for everyone.
>
> The endorsement by the mainstream Jewish lobby (the Conference of
Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations) of Christian
Armageddonists like John Hagee raises the possibility that Zionism has
metamorphosed into the world's most dangerous apocalyptic suicide
cult. Hagee, like all messianic Christian Zionists, is an extreme
crackpot. I just finished reading his latest book in horror. He
believes that Jerusalem is destined to become the capital, not just of
the world, but of the UNIVERSE. If America gets in the way of
building Greater Israel, it will be nuked. Perhaps it's time to start
thinking about deporting dangerous characters like John Hagee, who are
eager to destroy the United States on behalf of a mystical cult
centered in Israel. By associating itself with Hagee, the CPMAJO has
certainly made itself an organization of interest in the world of
potential terrorist threats.
>
>
> LeaNder <l.l.hahn@...> wrote:
> 24? hours a day
>
> Another question mark:
> Why is now the main culprit CIA, who got all his intelligence on
Iraq's WMD's wrong?
> (this is not at all what it looked like). I keep reading it over
here too, everywhere.
>
> Only Bramford comes to mind, telling us how eager Tenet was to let
Bush have what he needed. ...?
>
> See e.g. Board discussion on the article below:
>
> http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=85851&bheaders=1#85851
>
> "It is the samelogic that used to put the CIA at the center of all
evil until 9/11 andthe non-being (c. 2003) of Iraq WMDs exposed them
for the incompetentdoofuses that they were--and likely still are."
>
>
>
> http://hnn.us/articles/23498.html
> History News Network:
>
> The Paranoid View of History Infects Harvard
> By Richard L. Cravatts
>
> Mr. Cravatts. Ph.D., a lecturer at Boston University, Tufts
University,and Emerson College, was the director of publications at
Harvard'sKennedy School from 1976-78.
>
> " The characterization of pro-Israel lobbying byorganizations and
high-placed government officials as"manipulation"-coercive,
underhanded actions whose end result would nototherwise honestly,
fairly, or reasonably be achieved-this language isthe very tone that
has drawn such immediate and thunderous denunciationof the piece."
>
>
> >
> > 24
> > 9/11 Part II
> > automated content analysis
> > automated knowledge discovery
> > automated stylistic analysis
> > Brian Jonestown Massacre
> > Christian Zionism
> > clickstream analysis
> > data mining
> > false flag terrorism
> > global superintelligence
> > global warming
> > Google Reader
> > Israel lobby
> > Judeo-Christian fascism
> > multiverse
> > music fingerprinting
> > neoconservatism
> > neoliberalism
> > Pandora
> > peak oil
> > Philip Pullman
> > recommender systems
> > screen scraping
> > self-fulfilling Armageddon
> > semantic markup languages
> > semantic wikis
> > southern California coast
> > tennis
> > text mining
> > Thomas Jefferson
> > V for Vendetta
> >
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