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If you want to know if a war is coming, don't listen to what the politicians are saying. Instead, keep an eye on where ships, troops and equipment are headed. Right now, there are quite a few signs that intense military preparations are being made for war in the Middle East. By April, there will be multiple aircraft carrier groups in the Persian Gulf. Large numbers of U.S. troops are being massed within striking distance of Iran, and it is being reported that U.S. aircraft are heading to the Middle East in numbers not seen for years. So does all of this mean that war is coming? Not necessarily. Perhaps the Obama administration is just trying to scare Iran into giving up its nuclear program. Perhaps the Obama administration is just trying to convince Syrian President Bashar Assad that it is time to step down. But the fact that such intense military preparations are being made right now is certainly very, very interesting. Usually wars are planned long in advance. The truth is that military planning does not begin when the politicians stop talking. In just about every major military conflict in modern times, forces have been moved into position long ahead of time.If you want to know if a war is coming, don't listen to what the politicians are... more
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Colin Powell warned the Bush administration about their twin Wars of Error with the Pottery Barn Rule – “You break it, you buy it.” Unfortunately, the Bush and Obama administrations chose long term leases with options to wreck the US economy.Colin Powell warned the Bush administration about their twin Wars of Error with the... more
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On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq Khan, who was killed with his 12-year-old cousin when a car in which he was riding was hit with a missile fired by a U.S. drone. As I noted at the time, the report contained this extraordinary passage buried in the middle:
Asked for documentation of Tariq and Waheed’s deaths, Akbar did not provide pictures of the missile strike scene. Virtually none exist, since drones often target people who show up at the scene of an attack.
What made that sentence so amazing was that it basically amounts to a report that the U.S. first kills people with drones, then fires on the rescuers and others who arrive at the scene where the new corpses and injured victims lie.
In a just-released, richly documented report, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, on behalf of the Sunday Times, documents that this is exactly what the U.S. is doing — and worse:
Full Story: http://peacerally.org/pakistan/u-s-drones-targeting-rescuers-and-mourners/On December 30 of last year, ABC News reported on a 16-year-old Pakistani boy, Tariq... more
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Congress Is Demanding That The FAA Make Room For The US Drone Fleet
We reported yesterday that the past decade has seen unprecedented growth in the number of U.S. drones flying the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan.
With unfettered access to the occupied air space and burgeoning technology, the American UAV fleet has swelled beyond what was imagined before the wars.
Now, with ground operations concluded in Iraq and scheduled to end in Afghanistan by 2014, those new drones will be coming home and their pilots will need a place to fly them and train.
Which could be why Congress is calling for the accelerated use of unmanned drones in U.S. air space.
Steven Aftergood at FAS dug up the authorization bill before the Federal Aviation Administration requiring the agency to put “a comprehensive plan to safely accelerate the integration of civil unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system” within nine months.
The bill goes on to say “The plan… shall provide for the safe integration of civil unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace system as soon as practicable, but not later than September 30, 2015.”
The bill calls for numerous test ranges to be operated in conjunction with NASA and the Department of Defense, use of drones in the Arctic, guidance system improvements, and an assessment of the “catastrophic failure of the unmanned aircraft that would endanger other aircraft in the national airspace system.”
This bill follows up the Army's January directive to use drone fleets in the U.S. for training missions and "domestic operations."
And both of these initiatives are mandated in the NDAA (section 1097) that calls for six drone test ranges to be operational withing six months of that bills signing December 31.
http://www.businessinsider.com/congress-passes-law-for-drones-us-2015-2012-2Congress Is Demanding That The FAA Make Room For The US Drone Fleet
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By Andrew Jones
Saturday, February 4, 2012 15:43 EST
A Republican lawmaker in Arizona is hoping his state creates a holiday celebrating caucasian people.
According to CBS affiliate in Phoenix, state Rep. Cecil Ash made his request felt on the Arizona House floor this week during a discussion about Latino Americans in Arizona.
After Rep. Richard Miranda suggested that the state should have a Latino American day, Ash made his statement.
“I’m supportive of this proposition,” he said. “I just want them to assure me that when we do become in the minority you’ll have a day for us.”
The comment produced some laughs from his fellow lawmakers who thought Ash was being facetious. However, he revealed later that he was not joking.
“Yes, I think it was appropriate,” he said. “It was appropriate for the mood that was in the House and I think that if and when the Caucasian population becomes a minority, they may want to celebrate the accomplishments and the contributions of the Caucasian population the same way.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/04/az-gop-lawmaker-wants-a-holiday-celebrating-white-people/
WATCH: Video from local CBS affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona.
http://www.kpho.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6699503
"I took the time to edit this post as it originally said 'White People' no where in the interview or his words was that said!!!" The young lady that was spoken to on the street said 'Yes' they have their Cinco de Mayo, so why can't we have something for whites, so I ask, does St. Patricks day not count??? Can we agree on a holiday called Americans Day, we are after all a 'Melting Pot'By Andrew Jones
Saturday, February 4, 2012 15:43 EST
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By David Edwards
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 22:05 EST
Mitt Romney may have won the Florida Republican presidential primary, but Chris Matthews is still not a fan.
The MSNBC host argued on Tuesday that the candidate couldn’t connect with the American people because his wealth meant he did not have a “yearning to do better.”
“There’s nothing in this guys face, nothing in his background that suggests a yearning, an immigrant’s aspiration — if you will — for a better society,” Matthews ranted. “He’s got all he wants. His family has got all they want. They’ve gotten their take.”
“And by the way, when you spend your money — when you’re sheltering it overseas, when you’re hiding your money from the tax collector so that you can have an even fatter life, you know, you don’t really identify with the person out there that’s trying to scrabble along and make it in our society, who is a true patriot, left, right or center. Why are you hiding your money overseas if you are a patriot? It seems like you are part of the problem — in fact, you are one of the bad guys.”
He continued: “He has not identified with the revolutionary struggle of this country for its last 200 years. It is not anywhere in his bones, a revolutionary, anywhere in his bones, is he dissatisfied with the America he was born to — he was born to that weird small portion of America that had it happened to him. He says he didn’t inherit it, he inherited everything: his education, his status, governor, father head of an auto company. Everything about him basically happened to him.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/?p=381680
Watch this video from MSNBC, broadcast Jan. 31, 2012.
"Damn Chris, Get After It!!!!" =)By David Edwards
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 22:05 EST
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Supreme Court Building Covered in Giant Dollar Signs
On the eve of the second anniversary of the much-despised Citizens United ruling, activists with the Other 98% and Backbone Campaign put a giant dollar sign light projection on the Supreme Court building to protest the ruling that undermined government of, by and for the actual people by defining corporations as people and money as speech.
http://other98.com/citizens-united-anniversary-we-lit-supreme-court-with-giant-dollar-signs/
"Damned Koch Suckers!!!!"Supreme Court Building Covered in Giant Dollar Signs
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U.S. Involvement in the middle east did not begin on 9/11. Watch this documentary and learn the facts. http://youtu.be/4eBv4UKXkA4U.S. Involvement in the middle east did not begin on 9/11. Watch this documentary and... more
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By Reuters
Monday, January 23, 2012
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States is still flouting international law at Guantanamo Bay, despite President Barack Obama’s election pledge to shut the facility, the United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Monday.
“It is ten years since the U.S. Government opened the prison at Guantanamo, and now three years since 22 January 2009, when the President ordered its closure within twelve months. Yet the facility continues to exist and individuals remain arbitrarily detained – indefinitely – in clear breach of international law,” Pillay said in a statement.
Former President George W. Bush set up the camp at a U.S. naval base in Cuba after U.S.-led forces invaded Afghanistan to expel al Qaeda which had launched the September 11 attacks in 2001.
Eight prisoners have died at Guantanamo, two deaths ascribed to natural causes and the rest classified as suicides, and many detainees have said they were tortured. Only six trials have been completed in 10 years.
“While fully recognizing the right and duty of states to protect their people and territory from terrorist acts, I remind all branches of the U.S. government of their obligation under international human rights law to ensure that individuals deprived of their liberty can have the lawfulness of their detention reviewed before a court,” Pillay said.
“Where credible evidence exists against Guantanamo detainees, they should be charged and prosecuted. Otherwise, they must be released.”
Obama had planned to move some detainees to the United States, but Congress blocked funding for that plan and tightly restricted all transfers out, demanding his administration must notify congressional intelligence committees and guarantee the prisoner will not engage in terrorism.
Pillay urged Congress to enable the administration to close the camp.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/23/u-s-flouts-law-at-guantanamo-despite-obama-vow-u-n/
(Reporting by Tom Miles)
"So how bout it BO... Got anymore BS Campaign Slogans???"By Reuters
Monday, January 23, 2012
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States is... more
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"Ok BO!!! You 'Announced' all kinds of BS, but in the light of Day, Honestly, what have You and Your Administration really Done???"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10178233
"Yeah I know, I may be crucified, but really, is your life better today than it was 4 years ago????""Ok BO!!! You 'Announced' all kinds of BS, but in the light of Day,... more
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He makes his money the same way I make my money. He makes money by moving around big bucks, not by straining his back and going to work cleaning the toilets or whatever it may be. He makes it shoving around money. I make it shoving around money. If you look at the 400 highest incomes in the United States, they average $220 million. Something like 90 of them are effectively unemployed. They have no earned income, and that number has gone up over the years.
It’s the wrong policy to have. Nothing wrong about Romney doing that. He will not pay more than the law requires. I don’t fault him for that in the least, but I do fault the law that allows him and me, earning enormous sums to pay over all federal taxes at a rate that is about half what the average person in my office pays.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/01/23/409332/buffett-romney-money-shoving/
"Well Now!!! I find it hard to disagree with Mr. Buffett, what do you Folks think???"He makes his money the same way I make my money. He makes money by moving around big... more
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Twenty-eight years ago, in a highly disputed trial, an all-White jury convicted former Black Panther Assata Shakur of the murder of a New Jersey state trooper. In 1979, while serving a life sentence, she escaped from prison and eventually resurfaced in Cuba, where she was granted asylum and has lived ever since. But the U.S. government has continued to pursue Shakur, regularly increasing the bounty on her head and classifying her as a “domestic terrorist.” Last May the Justice Department issued an unprecedented $1,000,000 bounty for the return of Assata Shakur, 58, who continues to maintain her innocence. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/bizzareweird/43051-assata-shakur-former-black-panther-speaks-from-exile-in-cubaTwenty-eight years ago, in a highly disputed trial, an all-White jury convicted former... more
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I am pretty sure I posted this last year, but it is well worth watching again. My friend who turned me on to this Video is an Agnostic. I was like Dude you would be the LAST person I would expect a Rod Parsley forward from.
He then went on to explain how Reverend Parsley breaks down the Federal Reserve in easy numbers and facts. Forget the guy is a Preacher and listen to the first 5 minutes. I guaranteed you will forward the Video to everyone you know!
The Powers that be KNOW as long as they can keep us arguing about BS like food stamps they can keep robbing us blind.I am pretty sure I posted this last year, but it is well worth watching again. My... more
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– It’s a process that comes with a price tag – the American way not just from farm to food, but from farm to fuel.– It’s a process that comes with a price tag – the American way not... more
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Babies? Kitty cats? Mentos-soda geysers? This entertaining clip about the most dangerous ruling in America* has it all. Watch:
*This statement is purely our opinion, even though we’re pretty sure it’s true.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10176368
"Lets be serious here, Corporations are Not People!!!!!!!"Babies? Kitty cats? Mentos-soda geysers? This entertaining clip about the most... more
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Posted by From the Studio
Thursday, January 12, 2012
The DNC doesn't even have to produce their own ads anymore. They can just slap together the words of the other GOP candidates to point out why Mitt Romney would make a terrible President.
http://wegoted.com/blog/default.asp?NID=961
"I know of another Billionaire that I worked for that did this Same thing... Many folks lost their jobs that they had been working at for over 25 years... This is really Not a Big Surprise, most of these Rich 1% really Hurt the common folks, day to day!!!"Posted by From the Studio
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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