[Peace-discuss] Greenwald: Those Irrational, Misled, Conspiratorial Muslims

[C. G. Estabrook]

I thought they made clothes (and artsy ads).


On 5/26/10 1:23 PM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
>
> [S]ources tell ABCNEWS the anthrax in the tainted letter sent to Senate
> Majority Leader Tom Daschle was laced with */_bentonite_/*. The potent
> additive is known to have been used by only one country in producing
> biochemical weapons -- Iraq.
>
> Bentonite sounds ominous. Something like Kryptonite, Green Kryptonite, but
> from some high tech place where evil genii lurk and plot new ways to kill us
> and tell us dirty lies. This potent additive is a kind of clay. It's dirt. A
> particularly slippery and sticky clay, bentonite is used in the mud that is
> used in the drilling of oil wells, and it is added to animal diets to absorb
>  mycotoxins that might be in corn or other cereals. I have a particularly
> close past relationship with Bentonite, having unloaded many tons of the
> stuff in its typical 100 lb bags, and having been totally soaked in it
> several times. Bentonite isnt much different from any othere nondescript grey
> clay. Perhaps one of the most important characteristics of bentonite is how
> uninteresting and grey it is. But in the hands of a MSM journalist, this
> heretofore-believed-to-be-innocuous stuff now becomes a deadly weapon in the
> hands of terrorist. Particularly when mixed carefully with the inorganic
> solvent "dihydrogen oxide", it could become a mud pie. Here's
> mud-in-your-eye. ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook"
> <galliher at illinois.edu <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> To: "David Green"
> <davegreen84 at yahoo.com <mailto:davegreen84 at yahoo.com>> Cc: "Peace Discuss"
> <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>>
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Greenwald:
> Those Irrational, Misled, Conspiratorial Muslims
>
>> This seems to be Super Propaganda Week over at the Times, when the
> usual day-in
>> day-out preaching of the Official Word gives way to New Revelations
> of the
>> Depravity of the Enemy, against which only Obama and Petraeus stand
> like the
>> Spartans at the Hot Gates (not the SecDef ) - and need an extra
> $33.5B to do it.
>>
>> Greenwald's article is devastating to the propaganda structure, but
> he might
>> have added that in US planning for the Long War - the domination of
> energy
>> resources in SW Asia - Pakistan has particular importance. With 2/3 the
>> population of the US and a larger army, Pakistan could be a major
> road block to
>> US control of the region if it should decide to oppose it actively.
> That's why
>> the US is so concerned to "protect" Pakistan - whether Pakistanis
> like it or not.
>>
>> In fact, they don't: more than 80% of Pakistanis see the US as the
> greatest
>> danger to their country, and they are undoubtedly right. The US will do
>> anything - anything - to prevent effective opposition from Pakistan
> to US
>> control of Mideast energy resources.
>>
>> On 5/26/10 10:49 AM, David Green wrote:
>>> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/26-7
>>>
>>> "The New York Times this morning has a particularly lush installment
> of one
>>> of the American media's most favored, reliable, and self-affirming
> rituals --
>>> it's time to mock and pity Those Crazy, Primitive, Irrational,
> Propagandized
>>> Muslims and their Wild Conspiracy Theories, which their reckless
> media and
>>> extremists maliciously disseminate in order to generate unfair and
> unfounded
>>> hostility toward the U.S..."
>>
>>>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/world/asia/26pstan.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes
>
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/world/asia/26pstan.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes>>

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