@teewolfe
Your claim that this great fuel HHO is being suppressed is just nonsense.

For you perhaps.
Why have we seen nothing more in the news about the research with HHO
being done on the Hum V ?  Why have auto producers not switched to
liquid propane gas?  Could not possibly be related with the oil moguls and
their hold on the world, could it ?

drbhelthi:

The breadth and depth of your conspiratorial
accusations is truly impressive. I like this most
recent about HHO.

The idea is that by breaking water down into
something called HHO gas. This new form of water
creates “magnacules” instead of regular molecules.
Increased energy output is created when this stuff is
used as a fuel.

But this fuel is just one small application of his
view of the universe. Santilli claims that Einstein
cheated in his research on relativity et al and the
universe is a much different place than we are led to
believe.

Problem is that not only are his views widely denied
by the physics community but he has not shown any
physical proof of his claims. Nor can he explain how
he gets more energy from using magnegas than he
spends creating it in the first place. In other
words, as a process, magnegas uses more energy that
it gives out.

Santilli also claims there is a worldwide conspiracy
to deny recognition of any research work that might
show “accepted beliefs” are wrong. E.g., Einstein
cheated but that fact is being kept secret by the
world community of scientists.

Your claim that this great fuel HHO is being
suppressed is just nonsense. Santilli publishes
anything he wants through his own journals. There is
no one and nothing to keep him from showing this
wonderful HHO fuel to the world.

@JSD, January 1
“ - - the whole world has to become willing to spend the trillion or several
trillion dollars necessary to learn how to do this.”

Disagree.
Two methods of operating an automobile without gasoline have been
discovered.  One via electricity, by Nicola Tesla in the 1920s.  One, more
recently via the conversion of water into HHO, for use in internal combustion
engines.  Trillions may have been spent in order to suppress both of these
discoveries.  Two years ago, the USArmy was advertised to have let a contract
for adapting HHO to an army vehicle.  I read this only once in the news.  About two years ago.  S.O.P.

Meanwhile, Japan put an HHO car on the road.  I wonder if this event were
related with the “very unusual” earthquake and tsunami that resulted in the
burn through of the three Nuke Generators at Fukushima?  Shortly before he
died, Ben Rich stated that the US could already do all the wonders listed in
the Buck Rogers comic book series.  Also, the huge diesel engines that drive
the water pumps in all three nuke plants sustained broken crankshafts
immediately after startup.  A former engineer of these huge Auxillary Power
Units explained to me that NONE of such APUs are properly maintained,
anywhere in the world, for 20 second startups, IAW international law.  Each of
the three Nuke plants at Fukushima had a burn through, shortly after the
water-pump engines failed.  Contrary to news releases.  Of course.

The U.S. is not tremendously dependent on oil from the Mideast.  The main motive of the games being played there is to at least in theory have the power to throttle the flow of oil to China, Japan, Korea, India and other countries that depend on importing it.

I don’t think a Manhattan project is necessary here, in any case.  We know how to make cars that get 50 MPG and better, how to insulate houses and use solar energy to cut home consumption of energy in half, and so on.  Our waste of energy and our addiction to oil is a choice. 

And as far as the ruling class is concerned, it doesn’t hurt that it’s an excuse for war, imperialism, and a police state.  They like that sort of thing.

JSD ~~~~.

One of the best if not the best comment on the need for an American policy
that is honorable and practical that I have read on a website.

Kuds JSD.

@teewolffe
“But to be honest, you guys seem pretty whacked out to me.”

Yes, you make that pretty clear.  Redundantly.
I have not blamed Friedman with anything.  People who are acquainted with his brand of journalism have done an excellent job without my assistance.

“Garbage in, garbage out.”  Yes, I first heard that Fall 1962 via an IBM course.

Teewolffe:  “Oh yeah? Who says so? Prove it. “Extraordinary charges require extraordinary proof.” 
Your “extraordinaty charges” simply reflects your ignorance of American history since 1945, and the first iteration of “Operation Paper Clip.”  I regret that you are ignorant of the history of NAZIs in the USA and the influence they have had on the conversion of the USA into NAZIism.  “America´s NAZI Secret”, “Hitler Was a British Agent,” “Secret Societies of America´s Elite,” provide abundant information.  The video at
  http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=8252175042329977626#                              also provides sources of documentation that you can verify, if you can stop playing with your computer long enoudh.  And, delay writing additional, ignorant, rather emotional blogs on Truthdig that reflect your personal opinion, without documentation.

It was the NAZI leadership of NASA that elevated Hubertus Strughold to “Chief of Space Medicine, NASA.”  Strughold murdered innocent Jewish and other folk with his worthless experiments at the extermination Stalag in Dachau, Germany, WWII.  It was the NAZI leadership of NASA that covered for him, and blamed his supervisor.  A typical NAZI stunt that has been repeated a few thousand times since 1944.  It was the NAZI leadership of NASA, with assistance of the GHWBushSr entourage, that established Hubertus Strughold Day in Texas.  One special day in Texas that celebrates a NAZI murderer of innocent Jewish and other folk.

drbhelthi:

First of all, it was and is my understanding that the
subject we are discussing is the U.S. actions in Iraq
and how Thomas Friedman advocated all of them like a
lackey lap dog! I’m just paraphrasing but I think
that’s about it.

I’ve no idea why you and moonraven want to stray off
into how the U.S. was and is committing genocide and
colonialism against the American Indian.

I’m sure you and I and probably moonraven agree on
the injustice, horrors and atrocities committed
against Native Americans since the day Columbus set
foot on “New World” soil.

I see post after post on this thread saying what a
moron and moral midget Friedman is and how he somehow
should be held responsible for the “colonialism” and
“genocide” of the U.S. in Iraq.

Well, that’s garbage thinking in my opinion. As they
say in Computer Science circles, “Garbage in. Garbage
out.” I can’t keep track of all the nonsensical
assumptions stated as fact here. Give me a break.

In your writing I see quotations marks all over the
place without a hint of what they mean. Are you
quoting someone? Doesn’t seem so.

Then you go off:
“...colonialism began to be spread to 3rd world
countries after the NAZI-
clan transferred their HQ from Berlin to D.C.,
Alabama, and Texas, via
“Operation Paper Clip,” essentially, 1945.”

Oh yeah? Who says so? Prove it. “Extraordinary charges require extraordinary proof.” You offer NO proof. No evidence. No documentation.

By the way, it was moonraven who identified his
writing in that post as a poem. I was merely showing
respect by calling it the same.

But to be honest, you guys seem pretty whacked out to me.

@teewolffe
“For you, maybe, it’s a personal truth: The truth of how you feel.”

Perhaps, your comments also reflect your feelings, rather than facts,
comrade teewolffe.

If you are Caucasoid, you cannot possess the experiential repertoire of the
offspring of the original indigenous of what are now the American
continents.  Unless, you grew up within a family on what is now called an
“Indian Reservation.”  Even now, oil and precious metals are being stolen
from this folk on legal “Indian lands.”  Which equals continued, profound
racism, by the USGOV, worsened by the “Obama administration.”

Perhaps, your description of moonraven´s “poetry,” in your second
paragraph is reasonably accurate, as moonraven´s compilation would be
more accurately categorized as “prose.”  However, in my experience, the
items listed in the prose are factually accurate.  Everyone acquainted with
DU ammunition knows of its influence on children conceived, born and who
grow up in its deadly presence.  Which facts have not been publicized
openly in ”public news media,” since they were overtaken by the C.I.A.

Colonialism with genocide was initiated by the queen of Spain´s initial
emissary, Columbus, followed up by hordes of assassins from Europe. 
Reduction from 12-15 million to 250,000 is readily classified as genocide.
Which colonialism began to be spread to 3rd world countries after the NAZI-
clan transferred their HQ from Berlin to D.C., Alabama, and Texas, via
“Operation Paper Clip,” essentially, 1945.  Furtive activities of the CIA have
been redundantly revealed by honorable “Whistle Blowers” since the 1970s. 
The Obama administration removing American soldiers from Iraq?  Perhaps
temporarily transferred to the borders of Syria and Iran.  With 50,000 contract
“staff” and marines attached to the U.S. Embassy in Iraq ?  Via covert
arrangement with Iraqi government officials, under the guise of “kicking out”
American soldiers. 

“I see you guys on the margins of the far right and ultra left. Always wrong
but never in doubt.” Per teewolffe.
Comrade teewolffe, your summary statement seems to describe your
opinions as well as, perhaps more so, than those toward whom you direct
the comment.

moonraven:

First and foremost you seem to identify yourself as a
racist. Not sure why that gives you comfort or
anchors your rage.

I read your poem. It’s like a string of factoids that
you cherry pick from the world. You string ‘em
together and for me they add up to a very narrow,
very select choice of “facts” and then claiming
you’ve proved your point.

Your assumptions of colonialism and genocide in Iraq
and then somehow hooking them to Friedman is a bunch
of hooey. It’s bullshit.

But it’s your opinion and I respect it as that. Just
don’t try to tell me it’s some kind of “truth”. Cuz
it ain’t. For you, maybe, it’s a personal truth: The
truth of how you feel.

That’s great, but that’s all it is. I’m not a member of your church, amigo, so don’t expect me to kneel down and say, “Huzzah! The truth at last!”

You’re wrong. You’re wrong about colonialism and genocide. You’re wrong about Friedman. And apparently you’re unable to debate the issues.

Not so fast, trolltea.

You are the white guy here, Custer.  And I am all those Indians surrounding you.

Facts were posted re:  Iraq in my poem.  Apparently you cannot read.  One more illiterate gringo goon bites the dust.

RIP.

moonraven:

I accept your surrender. See, the thing is that guys
like you are full of bluster but hard up for facts and
well reasoned positions.

Everything is either black or white. I see you guys on
the margins of the far right and ultra left. Always
wrong but never in doubt.

Cheers.

...prove the U.S. is I will gladly concede that colonialism is genocide…

AMERICA’S GREATEST CRIME IS RADIOACTIVE GENOCIDE
Allen L Roland’s Radio Weblog
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=37167
October 13, 2007

America’s greatest crime against humanity is radioactive genocide particularly
against the children of Iraq who are the innocent victims of our illegal war,
occupation and economic rape of Iraq ~ We have the blood of countless
innocent children on our hands and it will take generations to remove the stain
of our illegal and inhumane transgressions : Allen L Roland

Currently, more than 50 percent of Iraqi cancer patients are children under the
age of 5, up from 13 percent. Children are especially vulnerable because they
tend to play in areas that are heavily polluted by depleted uranium.

[...]

_______________________________

as for perspective: one has heard of virtually every police brutality committed
against the Occupy movement; here on TD, on Democracy Now, in The Nation,
Mother Jones, from the mouths of Left/Lib talkers: Thom Hartman, Ed Schults,
Randy Rhodes.. et al -  approved Left Gatekeepers - however, this horror: DU
poisoning - apparently planned and systematic, when studied in detail, is
rarely, if ever, even mentioned

true, it’s hard to prove a negative (i.e. the absence of something), but
suspicions are widely aroused, and to ignore such suspicions as ‘conspiracy
theory’ is a cheap dismissal of the case and crass dismissal of the victims

teewoofer:

Sorry, pal.  You didn’t do your homework and I am not about to do it for you.

Keep livin’ in your gringo goonsquad pipedream.  You clearly are incapable of anything else.

But next time, wipe before posting here.

moonraven:

You seem to have missed my point completely. Must have been my error. The truism that colonialism equals genocide is irrelevant in this issue. Why?Because the U.S. is committing neither.

I ask again: Please show me, as in define the terms, why you think the U.S. is a colonial power in Iraq.

Make your case. If you prove the U.S. is I will gladly concede that colonialism is genocide. In fact I already do. Colonialism is a form of genocide. 

But you haven’t. It’s merely an assumption that’s being made here. In fact, the terms “genocide” and “colonialism” are being used rhetorically as “buzzwords”. They obscure the issue and enrage…a lot of heat and smoke but no light. Better to reason than froth with rage.

By the way, I’m all out of opium. Could you lend me a bit?

Arabian Sinbad:  If I included every genocide I could think of I would be typing the list from now to doomsday.  You can read my thoughts on current European colonialism on http://ravensdriftingcloud.blogspot.com
in the Epilogue of Pursuing Pessoa.

@ moonraven

Excellent posts! I particularly concur with your point on genocide. But to your lists of genocides you forgot to include the French genocide in Algeria, over one million killed. Also, the British genocide against people in third world countries during their era of colonialism. Only an omniscient God would know the exact number of this one, because it was done slowly, piecemeal over a long period of time. In fact, Britain and France are the greatest perpetrators in modern times not only of genocides, but also in firmly establishing neocolonialism as an evil system to replace classical colonialism in third world countries in Asia, Africa and particularly in the Middle East.

INTIMATIONS OF THE NEXT WORLD

23.

“We can’t go on
living in shame,
breaking the rules
of the game.”
Robbie Robertson

This solstice the sun
rises over fields of blood:
Iraq, Syria,
the 60 thousand dead in
Mexico’s new Dirty War

against its people:
student protesters gunned down
on a highway in
Guerrero just last week, and
narco gangs have the green light

to massacre folks
going home for Christmas on
Veracruz buses.
The gringos withdraw their troops
from Iraq, leaving a huge

embassy (the size
of El Salvador), thousands
of mercenaries
and a sectarian war
exploding everywhere.

In Cairo: army
exceptionalism and
privilege pitted
against the demands for rights
yields a mounting death toll and

no gentle good night;
sticks and stones against billions
in gringo weapons.
“The U.S. just buys countries”,
says my nephew Max, “That’s their

foreign policy.”
Once paid for, the people are
ducks passing in a
shooting gallery: Target
practice. In Panama, 5

thousand victims of
new U.S. weapons come back
to their barrio,
a piquant patchwork mola
of souls stitched by Kuna hands.

Teewolfe:

Too much tea laced with opium put you in a stupor from which I doubt you will return, but:  ALL colonialism is GENOCIDE (neo or viejo).  I Didn’t originate the phrase, but Jean Paul Sartre did.

You need to read even the tea-diluted definition of genocide on the U.N. site, and pull your thumb out of your mouth—not to drink more opium-laced tea, but to start speaking with a conscience.

If what the U.S. did and continues doing through its mercenaries to Iraq isn’t genocide, then nothing is genocide—not the Holocaust, not the even bigger holocaust of 200 plus million of my people in The New World (sic), and not the genocide against 1.5 million Armenians by the Turks that just created the big flap between Turkey and France because France passed a law making it illegal to deny the genocide against the Jews in WWII and the Armenians by Turkey in WWI. 

(They should have expanded that law to include many others but that would be hitting too close to the home bone, since they participated in others besides the Vichy policy of ratting out the Jews.)

I say why not pass a policy here on Truthdig to make denial of genocide an immediate cause for being booted off the site. 

Don’t fuss and snivel, there’s no jail time and huge fine like in France now.

Take your medicine like a man, and wise up.

Friedman is only a ghostwriter for the 21st century psycho-drama but I must remind us canucks that we are joined at the hip with the US and are at present under the complete thumb of our very own neo-con and I know none of this resonates south of the 49th but we are just as guilty of facilitating the horrors of total continual war as the people in the states. Friedman is only symptomatic of the complete moral bancruptcy of the darkness we inhabit.

I’ve never understood the vast appeal of Thomas Friedman.  Woody Allen’s Academy of the Overrated would be the perfect place for him.

... or deep behind the NYT’s paywall.

Anarcissie 12/23 8:45 am

I think Friedman’s prominence is due to the unique effervescence and self-
assurance with which he conveys the belief that the US is the #1 democracy that
can never do wrong and will always succeed. This is music to the ears of those in
power, to big interests, and to the large numbers of folks who are desperately
trying to hang on to that illusion. In that sense and within that world, his
prominence is big.  Outside of that, I don’t know that he is seen as an intellectually prominent figure.

@felicity
Accurate ideas.  Congrats.
GHWBushSr. with assistance of the C.I.A. established all the dictator-types in the
Mid East, excepting Gadhaffi, especially the Saudi family, of which Osama bin
Laden was his prize employee.  Osama bin Laden was on his death bed during the
9-11 events, and even the F.B.I. found no evidence that he was involved in 9-11.  He
died three months later, of renal failure on 19 Dec. 2001.  He had received two kidney
transplants, neither of which took, and two years on dialysis.  The Hollywood production, allegedly in Pakistan, of the Kenyan, Obama, was just one more of his numerous frauds.  Even if every member of the SEAL team were murdered, the identity of the person they allegedly murdered will eventually leak out.  Perhaps sooner than later.

The “Boo Hoo” cartoon of Mr. Fish might clarify some of your questions.
http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/mr-fish-boo-hoo/

Although Gadhaffi collaborated “with the U.S.” on several issues, he perceived the
deceit of the Bush Sr. schemes and would not be sucked in.  After the CIA whistle-
blower publicized that the C.I.A. blew up the Boeing 747 over Lockerbie, Scotland,
Gadhaffi was adjudicating repayment of Libya´s unjust payment of damages to
families of the murdered passengers on the 747.  To prevent world embarrassment
this would have caused the GHWBushSr clan, NATO was sicked onto Gadhaffi, and
razed Libya, destroying the most advanced nation in Africa.  Sarkozy, the almost
Frenchman.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHVlU2jHT70&feature=related

While 9-11 was in progress, GHWBushSr was conducting arms sales with the Saudi
family in the White House.  Only two aircraft flew into US skies on 9-12, the day
following; the Saudi family Boeing, and the US jet fighter that escorted them out of
the U.S.  http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=8252175042329977626#

Those of you who balk at the use of the term neocolonialism:

Forget the neo, then.  It’s not new, anyway, so it’s not “neo”.  It’s the same OLD colonialism (another word for GENOCIDE) that the gringos have been promoting and imposing since they became independent from the UK and hence became gringos.

If you think colonialism died, pay a visit to any one of your local Indian reservations.  You will see folks without electricity, running water, health care, habitable housing and jobs.  Then tell me how that is different from colonial encalves such as Soweto, which gringos hypocritically claimed to be scandalized by in South Africa.

Give me a break here.  All the apologists for genocide have done in several hundred years is take their thumbs out of their rectums, put them in their mouths and start sucking.

D. R. Zing:  Good post, except I quibble with this:

“He’s not a journalist. 
He’s a cheerleader
sent by coaches
to titillate the crowd.”

Ugly, titless middle-aged zionist titillates precisely WHICH crowd?

gringos must be harder up than I thought.  Even.

Mr. Cyr - Pox on all their houses.  Kristol - no
liberal he - wrote a letter to Clinton in ‘98
advising him to ‘attack’ Iraq. 

Bush I, throughout the ‘80’s initiated and supported
much of the financing, intelligence and military help
that built Saddam’s Iraq into the aggressive power it
became.

Then, when president, Bush launched the Gulf War
against Iraq -  justified by her attack on Kuwait, of
course.  This all gets very confusing.  Maybe we arm
nations to encourage their aggression (hopefully
against us, or one of our obedient minions?)  We then
must return the ‘favor’ which is one (ugly) way to
keep the merchants of death fat, sassy and very
happy.

RE: ...half a million Iraqi children die as a result of the Clinton siege sanctions,
if that was what it would take to remove one (1) insubordinate U.S. sponsored
sand thug (and ensure an oil deal the people of Iraq could not refuse).

and nothing changes, vis-à-vis hegemonic pro-globalist foreign policy: in just 6
months, NATO perished 50,000-100,000 in Libya, presumably to take out one
‘insubordinate’ and what’s planned for Syria could easily be worse

and, the so-called left-lib-progressive media regurgitates and echos NATO’s
agitprop, designed for wars to fail more states - this, you’ll never see reported in
TD, Democracy Now nor The Nation: Al-Jazeera Top Officials Resign for
fabricating news on Syria -  September 23, 2011 -
http://truthfrequencynews.com/?p=13744

I find Friedman unreadable, which in a way is unfortunate because I’d like to understand the mystery of his prominence.

Re: By David J. Cyr, December 23 at 6:54 am
Re: By D.R. Zing, December 23 at 7:25 am

Two excellent posts that hit the nail exactly on the head.

California Ray,

Pithy and on the mark.  Congrats.

Zing

Friedman makes bucket of money from a lot of different sources writing
klunky prose feigning liberalism on many issues dear to the hearts of
progressives, while at the same time supporting the twenty-four hour
war cycle in the Middle East. 

Read him and rebuke him. 
Rebuke his fake progressiveness.
Rebuke his well-paid sophistry. 
Ridicule his terrible writing.

Don’t buy his books.
Tell your friends not to buy his books.
Don’t buy the New York Times until Friedman is gone.

He’s not a journalist. 
He’s a cheerleader
sent by coaches
to titillate the crowd.   

—Zing

This Robert Scheer article is an example of how liberals use their nuanced approach to maintain liberal faith through malevolent misinformation. In it, Scheer focuses upon Freidman’s manufacture of “Bush” war deceits, while Scheer simultaneously slickly maintains the “Bush” war liberal deceit… in which the 8 years that the Clinton regime laid siege upon Iraq to both economically and militarily degrade its infrastructure and defenses, to make it weak enough to eventually be easily invaded and occupied, are not counted as being part of America’s 21 year long war against the people of Iraq.

It was Madeline Albright (Clinton’s Democrat regime Field Marshal), who calmly — cold-bloodedly — in a 60 Minutes interview publicly affirmed in 1996 what her and the Clinton regime’s position was: that Clinton was willing to have half a million Iraqi children die as a result of the Clinton siege sanctions, if that was what it would take to remove one (1) insubordinate U.S. sponsored sand thug (and ensure an oil deal the people of Iraq could not refuse).

Sheer is struggling to have voters forget corporate party Democrat complicity in war crimes, in order to condition voters to compliantly continue being corporate party complicit Democrats.

If Democrats were the Solution, we wouldn’t have the Problems.

Jill Stein for President:

http://www.jillstein.org

Voter Consent Wastes Dissent:

http://chenangogreens.org/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=498&Itemid=1

“Saddam was a champeen asshole, but, like Tito, with his iron grip on the Balkans,
at least Hussein kept the people in line.”  James M. Martin

If “keeping the people in line” is your bottom line, your values mesh nicely with
those of the 1%, the New World Order and the nazification of the U.S.A.

I encourage you to broaden your view.

Thomas Friedman is so batshit crazy he gives bloodthirsty blowhards a bad name.

It never really occurred to me to characterize the Iraqi misadventure as “neocolonialism”—excellent!  George W. Bush and the neocons forgot history and, thus, were condemned to repeat it: Not so much in launching the campaigns in the Mideast in the first place (with everyone from Alexander the Great to the Soviets coming croppers in Afghanistan), but in emulation of the British Empire.  Once the Brits got overextended, with resultant suffering of the folks at home due to the expense and loss of human treasure, their empire collapsed.  We are in grave danger of doing the same thing.  Both the secretary of defense and chiefs of staff warned against on-the-ground involvement in places like Egypt and Libya because we simply did not have the resources: we were over-extended.  This allows tyrants to abuse their citizens secure in the knowledge that the Americans cannot stop them.  I think Kim Jung Il knew this.  So did Ghadafi.  When will we ever learn that meddling in other nations’ affairs, no matter what the hope of profit (e.g. oil) always puts us in a worse position than when we began the operations. Now that we have a billion dollar embassy in Iraq, the government we left in charge there is fading, soon to be replaced by another strong man, probably a Sunni.  Of course, this will happen after a civil war, another Viet Nam, only with religion replacing political philosophy.  Saddam was a champeen asshole, but, like Tito, with his iron grip on the Balkans, at least Hussein kept the people in line.

Tommy Friedman: a butthole, arrogant fraud, sycophant, brown-noser, and
doofus. Don’t forget Pulitzer Prize propagandist. And Teewolffe! Back off!!! You
couldn’t eat at the same table with Mr. Scheer, but I see your dish. It’s over there
on the floor in the corner.

Thomas Friedman proves you don’t have to have accuracy or credibility when you’re the worlds most successful windsock.

moonraven - Your comment: “Thomas Friedman is a basic zionist gringo butthole.”

Would you tell us how you really feel?

from the article:  ”...three-time Pulitzer Prize winner often gets it wrong. Hell, the media give themselves so many awards how can they not get it wrong from time to time?

as for the interview excerpt: Corporation for Propaganda Broadcasting, what does one expect?

anyone still so naive they think Tommy or Charlie actually represent a ‘free press’? -  think again; we’ve still got this to contend with: “The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” -  William Colby - Director of the CIA (1973-76)

Following is the letter to the editor I sent to the NYT about the Op-Ed Mr. Scheer writes about.
“Al Qaeda did not want democracy in the heart of the Arab world.” How about did not want foreign invaders”? And how about not a word about oil, as in “It’s all bout oil,” in this essay?”
Donald MacDonald, Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Hey Scheer,

What a load of ultra left retro horse shit.
“neocolonial”? How about defining just what that is
in the case of Iraq?

Ok, you’ve got an opinion and you don’t like
Friedman or his “worldview”. But then you rant to
making a list of accusations that you don’t bother
to document in any way.

That’s nothing but a diatribe, a rant, a screed!
Thanks for your opinion but it was non persuasive.

Thomas Friedman is a basic zionist gringo butthole.

No need to beat around the Bush about him.  Nor mince epithets.

Every since his brief kidnapping in Lebanon many years ago he has run around beating the pots and pans for imperialilsm and genocide while wearing a tutu.

“Was the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, which he did so much to encourage, a “wise choice”?

War of choice where Bush Jr. leaps at the chance to finish the percieved wrong to his dad losing the election via NATO .... Bad move…. sigh

Mr. Scheer’s commentary also reflects on the mentality and judgement of
the NYT and the people that hand out the PP.

Congrats Mr. Scheer.

Ah Mr Friedman ! The personification of the apologist for the status quo and
Another New York Times “Pretty Face”........ for me to poop on !

Takes an inordinant amount ot hutzpah to liken suicide bombers and a ten-year international massacre as bursting “a bubble”!

Friedman’s writings put him in the category of the Bush
spokesman who held a ‘news’ conference at the end of
the ‘invasion’ of Iraq at which he proclaimed the
magnificent victory that we could now acclaim.

A reporter in the room asked but what about the loss of
American lives.  The spokesman brushed off the reporter
thus, “Well, that’s just a number.”  (Any wife, mother,
father, child with a loved one who wants to join the
military to ‘save-America’ should make a note of that
remark.)

Friedman another “Mackerel in the Moonlight”...just don’t get too close.

Truth and bottom line:

Friedman is a textbook sycophant. I’m sure he had the brownest nose in his first grade class.

Thomas Friedman is nothing but a mouth-piece for globalization and Empire. He is a sadistic war-monger.
During the attack on Yugoslavia, he boasted jously that Serbia would be bombed mercilessly to oblivion if it didn’t comply with NATO unreasonable demands.
Many times he rejoiced on the application of raw power on helpless peoples.
His writing skills cannot compensate for the shallowness and stupidities of his argumnents. No matter how skillful a make-up artist is, he cannot make a pig look beautiful!.
No wonder that the power-that-be gave him three Pulizer prizes!!!? What a farce! May be in the near future they will give him Noble peace prize!

Thanx Robert for putting in a nutshell what i’ve been feeling for a long time
especially when even some of my prog friends claim he’s astute and smart. well, if
he’s so damn smart why’d he get it wrong so often. every time i read his column
it’s either skewed, wrong or just lamely establishment [firmly IN the box]. that he
won 3 pulitzers is a frightening show of rewarding mediocrity and that the
committee doesn’t go very far off the beaten track. friedman’s pulizers are as
absurd as obama’s nobel peace prize.

Thanks, R. Scheer, for including some of those Friedman’s pearls of writing I have
missed. The man is not meant to be taken seriously on the subject of politics, 
even when he criticizes Israeli policy. He is himself a bubble bouncing on top of
that rewarding world of bubble journalism.

It comes as no surprise that the New York Times is clinging to the establishment
in these tough times for newspapers. What amazes me is the breadth and depth of
neo-liberalism so that they actually have their own private Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist at their disposal to justify wars they blame on Republicans.

scheer rightly skewers friedman for his cheerleading
role in bringing about much unnecessary death and
suffering in iraq.  but ‘comrade’ hitchens last week
got a pass because he had sympathy for the Kurds.

friedman does not see that educating iraqis about democracy wld have been
more effective and if not effective than war to any degree, wld have still been
better as it wld have saved american an iraqi lives, limbs, and souls.
however, the problem had been that america cld not teach anybody any
democracy, justice, peace, etc., because it itself had none of that.

and u.s, itself participated in setting up an empire in the mesopotamia that
cld be held together only by repression, crimes, etc. tnx

“But that his self-serving feints at the truth can still earn him a place of high regard in the world of journalism is a sad commentary on the profession that has rewarded him so lucratively.”

How very accurate !
Which can also be said about a few hundred similar, journalist-defrauders. 
(Three cheers for those who are becoming honest.)

Both Friedman and “Barack H. Obama“ are similarly expert at twisting ideas and word-phrases, and one wonders if the two are perhaps related ?
Does Friedman also praise Obama for “withdrawing U.S. soldiers from Iraq?” 

Meanwhile, soldiers write home, clarifying the news-media-fraud of Obama, explaining that the titles of their units have changed, but their mission remains the same.  Meanwhile, soldiers are being moved from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to the borders of Syria and Iran.  (only one guess, as to why, is allowed)

It is reasonable to think that any soldiers that are returning to the U.S. are returning due to rotation dates, not because soldiers are being removed from Iraq.  Soldiers rotating and being transferred are to be replaced by fresh troops, reported as follows: http://www.stripes.com/news/army-units-preparing-to-lead-new-afghan-training-and-advisory-mission-1.163956

Brigade Combat Teams of the following units are scheduled for transfer: 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Carson, Colo.; 101st Infantry Division from Fort Campbell, Ky.; 1st Armored Division from Fort Bliss, Texas; and 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Stewart, Ga.
The Combat Teams are to be called, “Security Force Assistance Teams”. 
Certainly. 
Combat Teams are to infiltrate “indigenous security personnel teams” and wander around enforcing “security” ?  One former Army Ranger, who commanded troops in Afghanistan, has some questions as to how the “assistance teams” will function.
Probably a few hundred other former Rangers also have similar questions.

While Afghanistan is advertised to be their new station, news media print that which is fed to them.  Which, when important, is typically fraudulent.

The least informed but best cocktailed always rule the roost. At least that means he is one of the controlling class because those are the circles Tom Friedman runs in. I’m surprised he isn’t selling Sham-Wow! on TV.

As far as Pulitzers go, he is only one of the most prominent examples of why Pulitzers are worthless. I’ve seen enough other examples of surface-based reportage and very unremarkable or just chance-based photography that I long ago lost any respect for this prized prize.

It was Friedman’s “Flat Earth” book which totally confirmed my suspicions of worthlessness dressed up in a facile mind with promotional hubris. This was and is my field and I realized how totally wrong he was. I realized that he had contacted only the cocktail set in tech companies. They are the ones who least know what they are doing (they have MBAs, the modern equivalent of royal inheritance, to give orders) and that is who he chose to get information from.

He didn’t bother to learn enough to understand the technologies and didn’t do enough grunt work to know the real workers, to know who gets paid what (going down since the mid 90s), who was doing the work and from where. That would require breaking bread with the lower class (real human workers) as opposed to breaking petit fours with executives.

Why can’t it be “The Bob Scheer Show” instead???

It’s a crying shame the kind of crap Charlie Rose allows to be asserted on his “thinking man’s show” without any serious scrutinization.

What condemns Friedman before history is his lack of
empathy for human suffering, the mark of an arch-
conservative. Bush knew what was best for the Iraqi people
- and as a result more than a hundred thousand died, as
many were maimed and/or traumatised, a few million were
displaced and the nation was left in ruins. We’ll see on
Iraq? No: we saw and nothing can erase the horror.

http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-
section/54-54/1244-david-corn-iraq-war-triumphalism-
ignores-dead-civilians

The respect given to Friedman and his fatuities has amazed me for a long time—even his cynicism is shallow and ill-informed—but lately on two occasions he has dared to criticize Israel.  The wind seems to be shifting!  I wonder what occasioned this article at this time, then.

Thomas Friedman is not anyone whose writings or utterances can be taken seriously.  He is the caricature that reminds us that our failed and inept society is on it’s last legs.  What a pitiful joke!

Talking about evil bubbles that we need to burst, I believe that evil Zionist Thomas Friedman is one of the pillars of this bubble!

I hope that Robert Scheer’s excellent article will set us on the path of taking care of our internal evil bubbles!

It will be a cold day in hell before I let Thomas(tell-us-what-we-want-to-hear)Friedman do my thinking for me.

And, are we expected to believe the assertions about Iran’s nuclear weapons program???? Our leadership has zero credibility now. So, it is more than time for the US to fold its wings, bring the troops home and start tending to our domestic agenda.
The only way to bring that point home to the misguided politicians in Washington is to vote for Ron Paul. He may be crazy about other matters but his stand and his commitment to a reduced military posture is clear.
Happy holidays and God bless Truthdig and Robert Scheer.

Friedman is just as wrong on his caterwauling
criticism of Israel. Of course Sheer won’t admit that, most knee jerk leftists won’t. To put it bluntly,there is a good guy and a bad guy in the Israeli and “Palestinian”

( that’s the fiction some Syrian and
Jordanian Arabs call themselves as a propaganda ploy to destroy the Jewish state. That goal is in their 1968 charter.)

and Israel is the good guy.
Friedman’s rant attacking congressional cheering
of Netanyahu as a Jewish plot finally reveals Friedman as he truly is, an overrated journalist and self hating Jewish antiSemite.

That Charlie Rose clip is really something else.

Thank you for sharing Mr. Scheer.

I love the “bubble” analogy.

Outstanding!!!