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Featured Column: Commentary - May 28, 2006
- The Ghost of Freud and Mr. Rumsfeld
by Mark Faulk
Was it a moment of unscripted, unplanned candor, where Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld forgot the “official version” of the 9/11 story and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth for one brief stunning moment? It was a few words caught on videotape that even the most ardent conspiracy theorist couldn’t have scripted, the political equivalent of Perry Mason getting the suspect (who usually wasn’t the one charged to begin with) to confess to murder on the witness stand, except that on the Perry Mason Show, they always hauled off the confessor in handcuffs. It happened during Rumsfeld’s surprise visit with troops in Iraq during Christmas of 2004 when he made the Freudian slip comment "shot down the plane over Pennsylvania", but a video clip showing the excerpt from his speech to troops, coupled with Vice President Cheney’s ominous comments on Meet the Press just five days after 9/11, news reports of other aircraft seen in the area where United Airlines Flight 93 “crashed,” and the recent movies about Flight 93, have raised new questions about what really happened that day in rural Pennsylvania.
This is what Rumsfeld said when addressing troops on the Friday before Christmas, 2004:
"I think all of us have a sense if we imagine the kind of world we would face if the people who bombed the mess hall in Mosul, or the people who did the bombing in Spain, or the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania and attacked the Pentagon, the people who cut off peoples' heads on television to intimidate, to frighten – indeed the word 'terrorized' is just that. Its purpose is to terrorize, to alter behavior, to make people be something other than that which they want to be."
Just a few days after 9/11, on September 16, 2001, Cheney had this to say in response to Tim Russert’s questions about the administration’s policy concerning hijacked planes:
Vice President Cheney: "Well, the – I suppose the toughest decision was this question of whether or not we would intercept incoming commercial aircraft."
Russert: "And you decided?"
Cheney: "We decided to do it. We'd, in effect, put a flying combat air patrol up over the city;... more
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Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. just signed a new state law that calls for stiff penalties against brokers, clearing firms, hedge funds, and anyone else who sell and then fail to deliver stock to customers, in effect creating counterfeit shares that artificially depress the value of company and shareholders’ stock. On the very same day, it was reported inn the New York Times that the top 26 hedge fund managers all earned over $130 million dollars each, and the top two managers made more than a billion dollars apiece. That’s 25,000 times what the average wage earner in America earned last year. |
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Investing 101 - May 25, 2006 The Circle of Greed: The Cloak of Invisibility by Mark Faulk For every company that the federal government has exempted from following the same laws that every other publicly-traded company has to adhere to, there is another potential Enron waiting to happen. Except this time, we might never know about it... more |
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Commentary - May 28, 2006 The Ghost of Freud and Mr. Rumsfeld by Mark Faulk Was it a moment of unscripted, unplanned candor, where Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld forgot the “official version” of the 9/11 story and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth for one brief stunning moment?... more |
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Global Warning - May 14, 2006 Nothing Seems Right in Cars** by Robin Buckallew Throughout most of the 20th century, America has single-mindedly pursued a one-sided love affair with the automobile. Abandoning a thriving and healthy rail system for the illusory lure of the open road, America has been steadily carving up the... more |
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Blogfest 2005 - May 23, 2006 MySpace is the Devil (Redux) by Mark Faulk I can see the upside of MySpace. As this little commentary illustrates, however, it's the fact that there is no division between those who are there to merely connect on a casual basis and those who are wearing adult diapers (or worse) that's the problem... more |
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This guy walks into a bar and says... - Apr 9, 2006 Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) Gray Like Me: Part 4 by Ken Shade It should be clear to anybody watching the F/X network's "Black. White." that, barring a Biblical epiphany, there is no hope for Bruno. He clearly went into the project with no intent other than to find underpinnings for his bigotry. He can't find... more |