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Bill O'rielly : Why left fears Sarah Palin , "She's a strong contender "

Bill sums it all up , he uses stats from independent (conservative sources ) to make... more

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Italian miracles

We must admit that Italian politics has made some real miracles. Berlusconi certainly... more

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Monty Python's Killing Joke ?

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The importance of being centrist? Pt.2

Benjamin Jealous: the left is too quick to forgive

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Liberals Lack the Courage to Combat Racism

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Citizen Radio: Health Insurance CEO, "We killed people-- on purpose."

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Few wrong ideas

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 caused a political disorientation in Europe. The... more

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The Fifty Top U.S. War Criminals Who Need To Be Prosecuted

NOTE : I KNOW THIS IS EMBARASSING TO THE HILT FOR A NATION THAT PRIDES ITSELF ON BEING HOME OF THE BRAVE & FREE BUT REALITY REARS ITS UGLY HEAD; WHAT CAN I SAY BUT PLEASE RATIONALIZE THE DIGNITY NEEDED TO ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION BY REMEMBERING THAT GOLDEN RULE WE ARE ALL SUPOSE TO APPLY AS A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF OUR HUMAN NATURE ? YOU KNOW THAT PESKY…”DO UNTO OTHER” STUFF !

Compiled below, in hopes that it may be of some assistance to Eric Holder, John Conyers, Patrick Leahy, active citizens, foreign courts, the International Criminal Court, law firms preparing civil suits, and local or state prosecutors with decency and nerve is a list of 50 top living U.S. war criminals.

These are men and women who helped to launch wars of aggression or who have been complicit in lesser war crimes. These are not the lowest-ranking employees or troops who managed to stray from official criminal policies. These are the makers of those policies.

The occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have seen the United States target civilians, journalists, hospitals, and ambulances, use antipersonnel weapons including cluster bombs in densely settled urban areas, use white phosphorous as a weapon, use depleted uranium weapons, employ a new version of napalm found in Mark 77 firebombs, engage in collective punishment of Iraqi civilian populations - including by blocking roads, cutting electricity and water, destroying fuel stations, planting bombs in farm fields, demolishing houses, and plowing down orchards - detain people without charge or legal process without the rights of prisoners of war, imprison children, torture, and murder.

Because each of the people on this list should be nonviolently protested everywhere they go (more on that below), I have organized them by location. Please post updates on where they are as comments ;)

CALIFORNIA

1. John Yoo: Professor of Law at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley, California, with house at 1241 Grizzly Peak Blvd., Berkeley, (but a lawyer with the Pennsylvania bar from which he should be disbarred and would be if enough people demanded it) counseled the White House on how to get away with war crimes, wrote this memo promoting presidential power to launch aggressive war, and claimed the power to decree that the federal statutes against torture, assault, maiming, and stalking do not apply to the military in the conduct of the war, and to announce a new definition of torture limiting it to acts causing intense pain or suffering equivalent to pain associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in loss of significant body functions will likely result. Yoo claimed in 2005 that a president has the right to enhance an interrogation by crushing the testicles of someone's child. Yoo has been confronted in his classroom: video, and defended by the Washington Post, and again confronted in the classroom.

Additional collaborators:

2. Robert J. Delahunty, Yoo colleague, should be disbarred in NY

3. Patrick F. Philbin, Yoo colleague, Deputy, should be disbarred in D.C. and MA

4. Jay Bybee: federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, headquartered in San Francisco, California (but Bybee based in Las Vegas), counseled the White House on how to get away with war crimes, including by helping Yoo draft the memo linked above. He signed not only torture memos but also a memo purporting to legalize illegal and unconstitutional wars. BYBEE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED. He works, among other places, at the James R. Browning Courthouse, 95 7th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, - This is a giant marble building in the center of the city represented in Congress by the Speaker of the House.NOTE : I KNOW THIS IS EMBARASSING TO THE HILT FOR A NATION THAT PRIDES ITSELF ON BEING... more

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Mr BURNS vs OBAMA : TOTAL RECESS

Mr. BURNS vs OBAMA “The American empire has not altered under Barack Obama.... more

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MYTH: “You Can’t Talk about My Religion!”

FACT: “Yes I can.” Religious people tend to think of their religions as,... more

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Men Are the New Women (A Solo Poledance by Sexa Rubelucia)

Around this time last year, I had sex on the balcony of a friend’s apartment. I... more

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Sexo Grammaticus of The1585.com on Calling People Stupid

Go to http://the1585.com/1585callingstupid.htm to read the related article. And be... more

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On Performative Masculinity

For all the attention focused on how what they’re supposed to do is hard, women... more

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The 1585: calling people stupid since 2006

When a good friend of the site was in elementary school, there was a day when the... more

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Sociopolitical philosophy for sexy geniuses.

The 1585 Hall of Frequently Misused Terms Sometimes, rhetoricians (people who... more

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Gay leaders furious with Obama - Not the Change Gays anticipated?

Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to deliver the... more

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Illinois HIGH court rejects attempt to remove governor

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Liberals voice concerns about Obama - Not enough "change"?

Liberals are growing increasingly nervous – and some just flat-out angry –... more

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News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- WTH?? BUT... they still LIKE HIM!

Please take time to actually read this...

Today The New York Times reports that criticism of Obama from the left has been "muted" thus far. Yet the paper nonetheless buries that observation inside a long story devoted to the idea that Obama has "deeply frustrated liberals who thought Mr. Obama's election signaled the rise of a new progressive era."

Meanwhile, over at The Politico, Ben Smith notes accurately that the angst on the left is largely a fiction, adding that "the bigger, and a bit harder to dramatize, story is probably the one about how happy the left is with him." Yet Politico nonetheless felt obliged to run an entire piece claiming that liberals are monolithically "nervous" and "flat out angry" about Obama.

The problem here is this bizarre need to decide one way or the other whether the entire left is or isn't irrevocably dismayed with the Obama presidency and whether it has or hasn't completely given up hope on it.

This is fairly straightforward. Some liberals have concerns about this or that particular appointment or this or that particular policy statement. They're voicing those concerns. That doesn't make "the left" as a whole unhappy with Obama's entire presidency. Those same liberals are happy about other things Obama's doing, and many of them are generally optimistic. Believe it or not, people can simultaneously entertain more than one opinion about Obama's evolving administration.

The problem here is the desire that the news orgs have to tell a simplistic story about those poor, sad, delusional lefties whose silly idealism blinded them to Obama's "pragmatism" and "centrism." You can understand why centrist and right-leaning commentators are pushing this line: They're hoping to discourage Obama from attempting big liberal initiatives by hailing him as pragmatic and centrist, the ultimate D.C. establishment seal of approval.

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USA shifts to the left

This is a pictoral representation of the change that has come to America in the last 4... more

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