The picture says it all I think, not that anyone should be surprised because that kind of chart (the one on the right) is exactly the same kind of thing the Bush II tax cuts looked like, just extended.
The first thing I thought was I just need to order a rust-red colored version of this and I'm wandering around looking like Pyramid Head. Best part, I'd often, by default, be doing this during bad weather, such as when a tornado siren is going off :D.
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Considering the CIA's successful efforts to destabilize Iran, Hayden's comments are grotesquely ironic.
In 1953, the CIA launched Operation Ajax, a coup designed to overthrow Iran's democratically elected president, Muhammad Mosaddeq. The CIA promptly installed the monarch Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Shah's secret police, SAVAK, were trained by the CIA and Israel's Mossad and were as brutal and terrifying as the Nazi Gestapo in World War II. The CIA provided the Shah and his sadistic secret police with lists of communists and other political dissidents to be tortured and assassinated.
<embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d6-w0oHw4-E&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="475" width="600"> </object> </p> By the late 1970s, the CIA was actively working to depose the Shah and install a radical Islamic government in Iran. In 1980, students in Iran revealed a memorandum from then National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance recommending the destabilization of the Iranian government by using Iran's neighbors. F. William Engdahl (A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order) and Robert Dreyfuss (Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam) have provided details on this destabilization process. The authors suggest the CIA planned to use Iranian Islamists to destroy the communist forces inside the country, support the CIA's Mujahadeen (later al-Qaeda) in Afghanistan and spread Islamic fundamentalism in the Soviet Union.
Rockefeller operative Brzezinski met with Saddam Hussein - who would later become the devil incarnate - in July 1980 in Amman, Jordan, to discuss joint efforts to destabilize Iran. For all his cooperation with the CIA, Saddam would suffer a particularly vicious destabilization program that would result in the murder of more than a million of his fellow countryman, including 500,000 children.
In addition, according to author George Crile, the CIA actively supported Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war (while Israel covertly supported Iran) in an effort to destroy both countries and create a staggering body count. "We didn't want either side to have the advantage. We just wanted them to kick the shit out of each other," said Ed Juchniewicz, Associate Deputy Director for Operations at the CIA at the time, Crile states.
By 2007, the CIA was engaged in black operations inside Iran. In addition to propaganda, misinformation, and financial manipulation secretly signed off on by then president Bush, the agency began working with terrorist groups inside the country. Former UN inspector Scott Ritter and others have documented how the CIA worked with MEK (Mojahedin-e Khalq-e Iran) to unleash a wave of bombings inside Iran.
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Under the Bush effort to destabilize Iran, Ahwazi Arab and Baluchi groups and other dissident organizations have received ample U.S. largess (Seymour Hirsch's sources say Bush set aside close to a half billion dollars for the covert terrorist campaign). Since 2008, the scope and severity of the Iran destabilization campaign has increased significantly and includes the participation of not only the CIA but also the Pentagon's the Joint Special Operations Command.
<embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xy0DY6D9-uI&hl=en_US&fs=1?color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="475" width="600"> </object> </p> Hayden, as former CIA boss, is well aware of this sordid history, but his task is to mount the corporate media and further demonize Iran. The attack Iran campaign is now in high gear. Hayden's propaganda is designed to inculcate the American people to the coming reality of dead babies and further mass destruction in Central Eurasia, a plan long ago sketched out by Zbigniew Brzezinski and the intelligentsia of the New World Order.
I just played through the whole first level (I am at the beginning of level 2 now) and WOAH is this game great. I mean, I have and have played some of Turok 2, Turok Rage Wars, and Turok 3, but this one's fantastic... a bit different from the later ones. It's not as insanely hard as Turok 2, and I do like the jungle setting too. There are lots of great touches like how music changes when you go under water or in a cave, etc. The huge, exploration-heavy levels are of course the best thing about the game, and I love that stuff, particularly with the game's good onscreen automap. I like FPSes where you're not just running from room to room shooting people, but spend more of your time exploring and finding things and solving puzzles than you do shooting... and this game is definitely like that, like a Jedi Knight 1 sort of. Turok 2 is like this but it goes farther with it, too far, and ends up just being impossibly hard. Turok 3 is much more linear and railed, and tries instead for a more Half-Life (or Jedi Knight, minus some of the exploration) style of the game being a sequence of canned encounters... great game too, and it does still have exploration, but different from either of the first two. Rage Wars of course is an arena shooter, Quake 3/Unreal Tournament style.
It does have a lot of platform jumping, which is of course tough in first person (Jedi Knight helped with this problem by having a third person camera you could use, so though the game had a good bit of jumping, it was easier than Turok...), but you get used to it I think.
Oh, and did I mention that the sound effects and graphics are both great, better than I expected? The dinosaur howls can be creepy sometimes when you're low on health, where are they going to come from next...
Finishing up what amounts to my sixth full-length book [following the scifi trilogy, the bland fantasy stand-alone, and the novel of indeterminate genre], which acts as the opening chapter in a series of, as it were, fantasy doings. It's got intrigue, magical realism, steampunk, invalidated prophecies, female main characters, and other such things of that nature!
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