Fallacy Files Weblog Archive: October, 2012
An archive for the Fallacy Files Weblog for October, 2012, it describes and gives examples of logical fallacies from the media and everyday life, applying logic to controversial issues in order to improve critical thinking skills.. Source: Third Presidential Debate: Full Transcript, ABC News , 10/23/2012. Notes: I have edited the transcript to... When it came to Osama bin Laden, the president, the first day in office, I was sitting with him in the Oval Office. He called in the��.
Terror Files: Whats on Osama Bin Ladens Bookshelf
The U.S. government today released dozens of documents recovered from the special operations raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, including now declassified material and 39-English language books. The Office of the Director of National .
Rumsfeld Lies About Iraq and the War on Terror. Again.
Washingtons Blog ABC News reports today on Diane Sawyers recent interview with former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld claims:. What does this mean? Well, as I have repeatedly pointed out, the war on terror in the Middle East has nothing to do with combating terror, and everything to do with remaking that regions geopolitical situation to Americas advantage.. for the administration to focus not on taking down Osama bin Ladens al-Qaeda��.
Muslim radical jailed for selling extremist books and DVDs to 7/7 bombers
An Islamic bookseller has been jailed for three years for distributing extremist material that encouraged terrorism and found its way on to the bookshelves of terrorists including 7/7 bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan. Islamic studies graduate Ahmed Faraz .
Will, Kate and Osama: Jean Baudrillard on Royal Weddings.
���Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world, was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday, President Obama announced... is what must be abolished, that is the object of murder in war���and war itself, in its immense, spectacular death apparatus, is nothing but the medium of this process of the terrorist rationalization of the social���the murder on��.
Rare photos offer look inside Osama bin Ladens remote.
Al-Fawwaz would arrange bin Ladens first television interview for CNNs Peter Arnett and Peter Bergen in 1997 and a sit-down for ABC News John Miller a year later. But before then, al-Fawwaz called on a Palestinian print��.
Yours for a mere ��3m: The booming era of Britains superboat business
The sun is blazing (in the land of the super-rich, I imagine, it very rarely rains). From the on-deck sun-loungers you can see the sea glimmering. And as we motor out of Poole Harbour, fishermen and tourists stop to gaze at us with expressions caught .
No Easy Day: Steven Spielberg meets with ex-Navy SEAL to discuss movie rights
Kohlmann said the former Navy SEAL could now be in physical danger from al Qaeda sympathizers seeking revenge for bin Ladens death, or hoping to gain prestige for themselves. They have a photo of the individual, they have his name, his age, .
Alex Constantines Blacklist: The Path to 9/11: PARTS 9-16
ABC was mugged by reality and struggled to redeem its reputation in the days prior to airing The Path to 9/11, a movie financed in large part by the Longleaf Partners Fund, aka Southeastern Assets Management (SAM). Max Blumenthal... He sheepishly admits that the CIA was in part culpable for the 1993 WTC bombing, since they helped pull known terrorist ���Blind Sheikh��� Abdel bin-Rahman into the country.. His report blamed Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Hillary Clintons new book provides clues about political future
WASHINGTON (CNN) ��� Hillary Clintons ���Hard Choices��� ��� a memoir where the former secretary of state writes about her 2008 loss to President Barack Obama, her reaction to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi and her overarching vision of foreign policy.
Hillary Clintons upcoming memoir to be called Hard Choices
Clintons State Department memoir will hit bookshelves as the former first lady and New York senator sits atop polls about hypothetical candidates as the leading Democratic contender should she seek the presidency. Since leaving the State Department, .
President Obamas adviser Valerie Jarrett says shell stay until the lights.
What hasnt faded is the Washington-wide perception that she has outsize influence.. In his book Leading From Behind, noted terrorism expert and multiple New York Times best-selling author Richard Miniter reported that the president called off.
Hillary Clintons new book provides clues about political.
WASHINGTON (CNN) ��� Hillary Clintons ���Hard Choices��� ��� a memoir where the former secretary of state writes about her 2008 loss to President Barack Obama, her reaction to the terrorist attacks in Benghazi and her overarching vision of foreign.. ���This is what were in it for,��� he said to her, she writes... The search and eventual killing of Osama bin Laden is a story that Clinton regularly uses in speeches and interviews as a success story from her four years at State.
Rare photos offer look inside Osama bin Ladens remote hide-out
Photographs quietly introduced as evidence in the latest major terrorism trial in Manhattan federal court offer a rare look inside Osama bin Ladens lair ��� years before al Qaeda flew hijacked planes into buildings or bombed U.S. embassies in Africa.
New home for George Brandis book collection
Senator Brandis, the self-described ���minister for books, was forced to leave behind a $7000 bookcase in his old parliamentary office upon becoming a minister. As of today, he has new floor-ceiling bookcases to accommodate his eclectic $13,000 collection.
Why we forget
In fact, as I write this, history transpired: The president announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed. I feel as. I can recall in detail what I was doing when I first learned of the terrorist attacks in 2001, and now I will have a memory of.
Surge or Merge
Vive La Synergie: Just when we thought the Bush White House had run out of options in Iraq, the BBC uncovered secret documents on perhaps the boldest Hail Mary by an embattled leader in the 20th century. Fifty years ago, with his country in the midst.
Syrian-American seeks to unite faiths
One bookshelf is topped with a row of small flags of the Arab League nations and an American flag at each end.. Mrs. Atassi also discovered what she called ���similarities between Islam and the American conservative movement, especially concerning.
Uproar Over New Yorker Cover | The Maynard Institute for.
An American flag burns in the fireplace, and a photo of Osama bin Laden is on the wall.. Blitt told Nico Pitney of the Huffington Post via e-mail Sunday night, I think the idea that the Obamas are branded as unpatriotic [let alone as terrorists] in certain sectors is preposterous.. Y.) are painting of the Obamas, Jake Tapper of ABC News wrote on his blog.. You may use <swf file=song.mp3> to display Flash files inline; You may insert videos with [video:URL]. Basic.
Colbert Takes On Zero Dark Thirty Torture Controversy (VIDEO)
Note to Hollywood: Dont think you can cancel on Stephen Colbert and get away with it. Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow did just that on Monday, but the media has focused on an act even more brazen than canceling on The Colbert Report..
The Big Lie About NSA Spying | The Big Picture
It launched a number of counter-measures, including a bulk telephony metadata collection program���a wide net that could find and isolate gossamer contacts among suspected terrorists in an ocean of seemingly disconnected data. This blunt tool only.. According to the Sunday Herald, two days before 9/11, Bin Laden called his stepmother and told her ���In two days, youre going to hear big news and youre not going to hear from me for a while.��� U.S. officials later told��.
Vargas Defends Deceptions | The Maynard Institute for.
He disclosed in the New York Times Magazine and in an ABC News interview that he has been in the United States illegally since his Filipino mother put him on a plane for the United States in 1993, when he was 12. In the Times and on ABC,. Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli told me what Jose did was wrong. Its a compelling and.. All that changed after President Barack Obamas speech about the raid to kill Osama bin Laden. When it became a matter of��.
Law Management: Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup
The other was the ruling familys friends and allies the bin Ladens, who, in addition to owning a multi-billion-dollar construction conglomerate, had spawned the notorious terrorist Osama bin Laden. Thanks to the bin Ladens extremely close relationship... Not long after 9/11, Carmen bin Laden, an estranged sister-in-law of Osamas, told ABC News that she thought members of the family might have given money to Osama. Osamas brother-in-law Mohammed Jamal��.
Bin Laden | MetaFilter
I loved MSNBC before the news was confirmed: paraphrase - Were sorry, we dont know what were reporting on yet. we dont want to mislead anyone.. ABC through Al Jazera: intelligence sources, Osama killed last week in a drone attack. A senior Al-Qaida commander has claimed that the terror group has stashed away a nuclear bomb in Europe which will be detonated if bin Laden is ever caught or assassinated, according to new top secret files made public��.
The Lies and Crimes of 911: | Global Research - Centre for.
In the Canadian investigation of the genesis, events and outcome of 911, careful consideration must be devoted to the role and legacy of CIA agent Osama bin Laden as well as to the background of Hamid Karzai, the current.. After all their early involvement in helping to create and cultivate the public mythology of the events of 911, what commercial or publicly-funded news venue would dare now to assume the enormous responsibility of confronting the lies of 911?
WORLD: Egypt Muslim Brotherhood condemns Bin Laden.
(AP) Saudi Arabia says it hopes the killing of militant leader and former Saudi citizen Osama bin Laden will boost efforts to fight terrorism.The Saudi Press Agency carried an official statement Monday expressing hope that bin��.
Russ Mitchell Anchors on Historic Night | The Maynard.
The historic Sunday night announcement of the killing of Osama bin Laden by American forces saw Russ Mitchell in the anchor chair for CBS News, a role that was winning him plaudits from colleagues and admirers and made him the. While Mitchells name was mentioned in early speculation as a possible successor ��� he would be the first African American to be a regular weekday network anchor since Max Robinson on ABC in the 1970s ��� the job is expected to��.
The Orlando Slantnel: THE IDEMA FILE - NEW ARTICLES.
LOVE AND WAR is the unbelievable true story one mans desperate hunt for Osama bin Laden and the woman who was fatally drawn to his side. From the backwoods of New York State, to the confines of an Afghan prison��.
Abramson, Baquet Rise at NY Times - Maynard Institute
ABC News added, Though militants are often suspected in the deaths of journalists in Pakistan, after Shahzads death both a colleague of his and a researcher for Human Rights Watch in Pakistan came forward to say Shahzad had. For a photo distributed after President Obamas May 1 speech announcing the killing of Osama bin Laden, a White House caption reads, President Obama praises the men on the mission against Osama bin Laden, honors the victims of��.