tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1811494089861009048..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Playing the Game of EmpireUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84164014318957714612011-05-03T20:04:08.201-07:002011-05-03T20:04:08.201-07:00"I am NOT Albertosaurus, but I do think Roger...<i>"I am NOT Albertosaurus, but I do think Roger Hollis was a Soviet agent."</i><br /><br />Thanks for the reply. I've read Wright's <i>Spycatcher</i> and other things that make the case for his being a spy but can't make up my mind. He seems such an unlikely recruit, with little evidence of any ideological or political passion in college or after. But then, it might just be that his cover was better. I need to read <i>The Defence of the Realm: An Authorised History of MI5</i>, which supposedly makes the case against him being a Soviet agent.Kylienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86931635129214210862011-05-03T16:03:08.077-07:002011-05-03T16:03:08.077-07:00"Hmm...more fat rednecks drivelling on about ..."Hmm...more fat rednecks drivelling on about "the game of empire", "false flags", conspiracy theories, and other gibberish put in their head by overheated kooks."<br /><br />Hmmm...a 40 y/o childless married man acting snarky in the comments section. I'm sure that the sexually frustrated 20 y/o men that infest his immature forum are impressed. If only I was as successful as Udolpho...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33277320389415782482011-05-03T15:50:37.179-07:002011-05-03T15:50:37.179-07:00Whiskey: Steve, what do you want? Only Trump and a...<b>Whiskey:</b> <i>Steve, what do you want? Only Trump and a few other figures will call it like it is, Obama is still claiming "Pakistan is our ally."<br /><br />It's total BS. But its religion for folks like Obama.</i> <br /><br />Whiskey, I know it sounds crazy, but you must <b>not</b> attempt to analyze current U.S.A. policy towards Pakistan without taking into account Obama's <a href="http://isteve.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-many-serious-white-girlfriends-has.html?showComment=1271656229200#c7522389484639434832" rel="nofollow">homosexual love affair with Chandoo</a> [pictures <a href="http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&tbm=isch&q=chandoo+obama" rel="nofollow">here</a>] - to include a trip they took together, to Pakistan, in 1981 - and Hillary's <a href="http://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=hillary+clinton+huma+abedin+site%3Awww.freerepublic.com" rel="nofollow">homosexual love affair with Huma Abedin</a> [Huma's parents were <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1924323/posts" rel="nofollow">born in what is now known as Pakistan</a>, although Huma herself probably works for Saudi intelligence].<br /><br /><br /><b>tommy:</b> <i>The bullshit from conspiracy theorists over the burial at sea has got to stop. Lets be honest, even if bin Laden's body was recoverable, the claims of a plot wouldn't stop.</i> <br /><br />On the other hand, I would very much like to know whether there was an autopsy performed [by the medical team on the USS Carl Vinson], and, if so, whether there was any evidence that nephrologists [and/or kidney-transplant surgeons] in Pakistan had been tending to Osama all these years.<br /><br />If Osama had spent the last decade as a patient in the care of Pakistan's "best and brightest", then that would be just one more nail in the coffin of [any possible notion of] Pakistani trustworthiness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59593200179927223482011-05-03T15:20:53.637-07:002011-05-03T15:20:53.637-07:00Ok, having been here awhile, I think I can summari...Ok, having been here awhile, I think I can summarize Whiskey in one sentence: He likes to live vicariously through our men in uniform because it makes him feel better about his admitted Beta-tude.Hapalong Cassidynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26555951823331263602011-05-03T14:15:13.840-07:002011-05-03T14:15:13.840-07:00i continue to maintain the birth certificate the w...i continue to maintain the birth certificate the white house released was pretty fishy. i can totally believe obama was born in hawaii and is eligible to hold the office he holds. the birth announcement in the newspaper from 1961 seems good enough to me. but what is obama hiding on that document?<br /><br />i'm totally sketched out by the presidential hold obama put on his own official documents immediately after he was elected. i'm sketched out by how neil abercrombie was hell bent on proving obama's eligibility then 1 week later admitted the document couldn't be found - with the democrat machine officials in hawaii trying to explain it away that state law prevents them from showing it to anybody, even the governor, when in reality, those records are given out all the time, for instance, in the little league world series to prove that the kids are of the correct age. liberals at princeton protected michelle obama in the same way, for a while, before realizing, she wasn't actually the nominee for president.<br /><br />i'm sketched out by the lack of experts who have handled and examined the physical document itself which the white house claims to have, especially as that would be standard operating procedure for all other controversial documents. i guess we forget the fraudulent documents dan rather produced for bush. (we can all do a quick detection for the liberal opinion on this matter, if we go to google and type in "dan rather fraud". the autocomplete blanks out after you get to the "u" or "d" in fraud. before that, it offers all sorts of completions of your phrase. steve noted this similar effect on pat buchanan.) forget academic researchers or forensic experts, even the secret service does a better job evaluating forged bills.<br /><br />when the white house released the birth certificate i simply assumed it was legit. until the next day when multiple non-birther, non-conspiracy nut professional graphic artists and computer printing industry people said that the file was highly strange and looked altered. again, was it a deliberate troll? a sloppy forgery? we need more analysis.<br /><br />not to diverge totally, but do people realize the FBI has locked most of their surveillance files on MLK? ostensibly they watched him to find evidence that he was a communist sympathizer, but ended up finding out all kinds of hugely embarrassing stuff about him that would blow major holes in his mythos. appeals that "The government would not lie to us about that" and "Too many people in on the conspiracy for it to be true" don't seem to work here to defend obama, since the US government is already protecting at least 1 other guy in this exact manner.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61195287298481922312011-05-03T13:48:34.091-07:002011-05-03T13:48:34.091-07:00reading around the web, apparently there is little...reading around the web, apparently there is little room for a person like me, open to the idea that bin laden was just killed a few days ago by US forces, but skeptical until i see more evidence.<br /><br />it's a highly charged issue and it seems you can only be on one side or the other. simply asking for some more evidence lumps you into the kooky, hopeless ranks of the people who will never accept any amount of proof.<br /><br />extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. after 10 years, 1 trillion dollars, and hundreds of american soldiers killed, the official story is that bin laden was discovered, attacked, killed, and dumped in the ocean all in less than 24 hours. certainly i believe they ran...some kind of operation. they've been running operations in paksitan for years. certainly i believe they killed...somebody. was it bin laden? it's totally possible the white house has the goods, so let's see them. i can accept it's true with a reasonable amount of corroborating data, so go ahead, show it.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-61267916850957058392011-05-03T13:23:22.337-07:002011-05-03T13:23:22.337-07:00i want to see whiskey and udolpho go head to head ...i want to see whiskey and udolpho go head to head on the microphone, WWF style. then after they're too angry to even bother yelling anymore and boil over into primal rage, they can start throwing wild punches.<br /><br />this match is scheduled for one fall.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-68771625010457050172011-05-03T11:23:33.711-07:002011-05-03T11:23:33.711-07:00Hmm...more fat rednecks drivelling on about "...Hmm...more fat rednecks drivelling on about "the game of empire", "false flags", conspiracy theories, and other gibberish put in their head by overheated kooks.<br /><br />You don't actually know what you are talking about. Your thoughts come not from those with experience in high level affairs of state, but from lifelong failures tormented by paranoia. You don't know any of the diplomatic or security thinking behind, say, dumping his body at sea, whether it was debated and how intently, who was consulted--but that's okay, because your mind reading powers are in perfect working order!<br /><br />Just taking this one, small issue (not terribly significant--Osama is dead wherever they bury him), you look like fools. Uninformed, you march forth with an opinion! That there are a dozen possible innocent explanations for any detail (and a thousand reasons why you'll never know one way or the other), you won't let that stop you! You will lurch straight for the one most likely to give you that endorphin rush you crave!<br /><br />What your brain is doing isn't thinking at all--it is the reflexive brain activity of the addict in the presence of his drug. One cannot reason an addict out of his addiction, though. The cycle is usually only broken when the addict's behavior removes the last support from under him. Unfortunately in the realm of politics this normally never happens--people just spend their whole lives believing increasingly woolly nonsense.Udolpho.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12976984423336975944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38069029719037713332011-05-03T08:22:55.674-07:002011-05-03T08:22:55.674-07:00I am NOT Albertosaurus, but I do think Roger Holli...I am NOT Albertosaurus, but I do think Roger Hollis was a Soviet agent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19474884131112994562011-05-03T06:51:35.922-07:002011-05-03T06:51:35.922-07:00I'd be interested in good accounts of Sunday&#...I'd be interested in good accounts of Sunday's events that are heavy on sourced facts. Here are a few articles.<br /><br />New Yorker, May 2 -- <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/notes-on-the-death-of-osama-bin-laden.html#ixzz1LD7FnG6O" rel="nofollow">Notes on the Death of Osama Bin Laden</a>. Steve Coll's observations. Catchy quote -- "Pakistan’s military and intelligence service takes risks that others would not dare take because Pakistan’s generals believe that their nuclear deterrent keeps them safe from regime change [and because] the rest of the world sees them as too big to fail... Pakistan is currently the A.I.G. of nation-states."<br /><br />Washington Post, May 2 -- <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bin-laden-discovered-hiding-in-plain-sight/2011/05/02/AFEljUbF_story.html?hpid=z1" rel="nofollow">Bin Laden discovered ‘hiding in plain sight’</a>. A Washington-based account of the raid.<br /><br />Daily Telegraph (Austr.), May 3 -- <a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/us-wanted-osama-bin-laden-alive-and-didnt-tell-pakistan-about-the-raid-questions-how-he-lived-in-plain-sight/story-e6freuy9-1226048823370" rel="nofollow">US wanted Osama bin Laden alive and didn't tell Pakistan about the raid; questions how he lived 'in plain sight'</a>. Another DC-based account of the raid, based on an interview with John Brennan, Pres. Obama's counterterrorism advisor.<br /><br />A few questions:<br /><br />* Where were the helicopters staged from? Where did they head after leaving Abbottabad? There's been mention of two UH-60 Blackhawks and a Chinook. What were the ranges of the variants used? The nearest corner of Afghanistan is about 220 km from Abbottabad. Can these helos do a 450 km combat mission without refueling?<br /><br />* Brennan stated that Pakistan scrambled jets on learning of the incursion and firefight. What happened then? What were the U.S. plans to deal with possibly hostile PAF fighters engaging the helos?<br /><br />* What were the compound's defenses against air assault? Who manned them, AQ or the Pakistani armed forces? Why were they ineffective?<br /><br />* Was a functioning kidney dialysis machine found inside the compound?AMachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08872008617279528583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6827095252795565392011-05-03T06:36:23.686-07:002011-05-03T06:36:23.686-07:008:13 anonymous: This may be of interest. It coin...8:13 anonymous: This may be of interest. It coincidentally ran a few days ago.<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/world/middleeast/29iraq.htmlJames Kabalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02335302113772004687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78901432729461577572011-05-03T00:36:19.908-07:002011-05-03T00:36:19.908-07:00Anon sez:...and Germany was set on a course of non...Anon sez:<i>...and Germany was set on a course of non-militarism. </i><br>, which the US now routinely complains about. WTF does the US really want?headachenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43331297385216529402011-05-03T00:13:50.501-07:002011-05-03T00:13:50.501-07:00"tanabear said...
Why after almost 10 years ..."tanabear said...<br /><br />Why after almost 10 years has the Justice Department never presented any evidence to a federal grand jury to indict him in relation to 9/11? Hmmm..."<br /><br />If this is what passes for cleverness with you, then count yourself "not clever". Yeah, they engineered the whole 9/11 attack, and killed thousands of american citizens, but wouldn't bother to indict their patsy - because that would be wrong.<br /><br />Perhaps he was never indicted because our government knew full well that - if we ever found him - we would do exactly what we ended up doing with him, i.e. killing him - not trying him.<br /><br />By the way, Al Capone was never indicted for the Valentine's Day Massacre. Does that mean no one thought he was guilty of it?Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-9140864226844644552011-05-02T23:37:10.884-07:002011-05-02T23:37:10.884-07:00So whatever is going on, it isn't due to be re...<i><br />So whatever is going on, it isn't due to be revealed for at least a couple decades yet.<br /></i><br /><br />For almost ten years, people have been saying that Osama bin Laden died around December 2001.<br /><br />If this guy who got shot was really Osama, they could have published an autopsy, DNA data, etc.<br /><br />A birth certificate, a high-profile commando raid - it's all just publicity. Politicians in a "democracy" are always playing for the cameras.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-67701183260186067772011-05-02T23:27:06.991-07:002011-05-02T23:27:06.991-07:00Burial at sea = no autopsy or close look at the bo...Burial at sea = no autopsy or close look at the body. They were trying to hide something.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35205266189915619102011-05-02T22:46:48.744-07:002011-05-02T22:46:48.744-07:00"They can't stand powerful nations that s..."They can't stand powerful nations that succeed despite (or because) not following Islam."<br /><br />Pointless, meaning-free, juvenile drivel.<br /><br />Here's a hint: how would you feel if China occasionally bombed and invaded various American states? No matter what reasons they had, we'd be pissed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77134495220176364002011-05-02T21:58:28.506-07:002011-05-02T21:58:28.506-07:00And why do they hate hate hate America and don'...<i>And why do they hate hate hate America and don't seem to hate hate hate, say, Brazil?</i><br /><br />I'm going to side with Whiskey just a little bit, and say that they do happen to hate hate Europe and hate Japan even though Europe and Japan did nothing to them.<br /><br />They can't stand powerful nations that succeed despite (or because) not following Islam.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6685071391121718002011-05-02T21:46:12.584-07:002011-05-02T21:46:12.584-07:00Svigor is asking the same question I have. It'...Svigor is asking the same question I have. It's not that I see any reason to doubt that OBL is really dead. (After this huge media frenzy, having him turn up alive would be a nightmare for the administration, so I assume they made damned sure he was dead.). It's that the burial at sea is such a weird thing to do, in this situation. And the organizations telling the story has repeatedly lied about big things and small ones, so it's not like I can just accept their word as good. <br /><br />So, WTF? Is there some reason why this actually made sense wrt Islamic beliefs or US law or something? Do we do this sort of thing with all the other Muslims we kill?none of the abovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19010076334273930322011-05-02T21:22:32.614-07:002011-05-02T21:22:32.614-07:00Harry:
Another story along those lines was the NY...Harry:<br /><br />Another story along those lines was the NYT's sitting on the domestic spying scandal (massive wiretapping without warrants, basically Echelon turned on the American people) until after the 2004 election. I always wonder about these cases. Are they ideological? Is someone calling in favors somehow to get them delayed?none of the abovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80257834160889418672011-05-02T21:15:21.518-07:002011-05-02T21:15:21.518-07:00@Whiskey: "Its the only response left to us g...@Whiskey: "Its the only response left to us given that enemy nations that HATE HATE HATE America"<br /><br />And why do they hate hate hate America and don't seem to hate hate hate, say, Brazil? Do we ever seriously think about this? And about what the savings in lives and money we'd get if our reputation in that part of the world was better?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43330092024747313682011-05-02T21:11:44.807-07:002011-05-02T21:11:44.807-07:00Diego Garcia actually might not have been a good c...<i>Diego Garcia actually might not have been a good choice for a burial site. At some point the United States may decide to vacate its base, at which point Diego Garcia's original inhabitants would be able to return. The grave site would therefore no longer be inaccessible.</i><br /><br />Not likely - especially since there are no citizens now on the island.<br /><br />Even if this were to happen, it would be trivial to disinter the remains. The Soviets did such for the remains of Hitler in Berlin 25yrs after WWII.<br /><br />I would've used OBL remains as a meatspace honeypot to trap, track and otherwise deal with his most ardent followers. <br /><br />Publicize a remote location as holding the (faux) remains of OBL, so only the most devote followers would trek to the site. Gather full intel on these individuals (photos, video, DNA, etc) and track them after their pilgramage.Better than Diego Garcianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75910607021223892002011-05-02T20:55:41.939-07:002011-05-02T20:55:41.939-07:00Whiskey,
Who cares if they don't like us. We&...Whiskey,<br />Who cares if they don't like us. We'll leave and closer the borders.Difference Makernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21858930021765462602011-05-02T20:37:33.331-07:002011-05-02T20:37:33.331-07:00The bullshit from conspiracy theorists over the bu...<i>The bullshit from conspiracy theorists over the burial at sea has got to stop. Lets be honest, even if bin Laden's body was recoverable, the claims of a plot wouldn't stop. The DNA evidence would be declared phony, the pictures staged (and probably taken at Bush's ranch in Texas), so on and so forth.</i><br /><br />Uh, yeah, conspiracy theorists will always be conspiracy theorists. But explain to me again why they'd do something like this? They want to turn <i>everyone</i> into conspiracy theorists?Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47898662264516462202011-05-02T20:34:04.035-07:002011-05-02T20:34:04.035-07:00Steve Sailer said . . . Amusingly, just last Satur...<i>Steve Sailer said . . . Amusingly, just last Saturday it was finally revealed that Obama Sr. had been kicked out of Harvard in 1964</i><br /><br />Steve, there's an interesting backstory to this. The documents were first obtained by Sally Jacobs, a Boston Globe reporter, in 2009 through a Freedom of Information request; however, she chose to sit on this scoop, possibly to save it for a book she's working on, or for ideological reasons, like Newsweek spiked the Lewinsky story. The story was finally published last week by a small newspaper in Arizona, the Arizona Independent, because Heather Smathers, a reporter there, got it through an FOIA request herself. <br /><br />The story is <a href="http://www2.az-independent.com/2011/04/30/commentary-boston-globes-big-secret/" rel="nofollow">here.</a>Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-582762892065869632011-05-02T20:25:27.223-07:002011-05-02T20:25:27.223-07:00'So, you got a problem with that?', and lo...<i>'So, you got a problem with that?', and looked at me as if I was the KKK.</i><br /><br />He has his inverse analogue right here. I've always felt 9/11 was an attack on NYC, not America.Svigorhttp://majorityrights.comnoreply@blogger.com