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Great article. The only thing I disagree with is describing those visiting Americans in 1994 as "auspicious". There haven't been any "auspicious" Americans in over a century, in government NEVER.
RUSSIA REPORT: PUTIN
by Sharon Tennison Friends and colleagues, As the Ukraine situation has worsened, unconscionable misinformation and hype is being poured on Russia and Vladimir Putin. Journalists and pundits must scour the Internet and thesauruses to come up with fiendish new epithets to describe both. Where...
Fred; A Liberal in a designer "Che" T-shirt is not a Leftist.
Syria to allow UN inspect 'chemical weapon' attack site - BBC
"The Syrian government has agreed to allow UN inspectors to visit the site of a suspected chemical weapon attack outside Damascus, state media report. The move came shortly after a senior US official told reporters there was "very little doubt" that a chemical weapon had been used by governm...
Did anyone see this about fake protesters? http://www.jonathanturley.org/2013/06/12/turkish-police-caught-staging-fake-riot-by-protesters/
The Sultan Caliph Tayyip the First
"After a night of violence, traffic returned to Istanbul's Taksim Square early Wednesday, with taxis, trucks and pedestrians returning to the streets. A heavy police presence stood off to the side, near a new barricade erected before dawn to prevent riot police from firing tear gas into t...
The United States needs to start adhering to the Nuremberg Principles.
"The Military Draft' by Haviland Smith
"Representative Charles Rangel of New York has long been an opponent of the all-volunteer army. Over three decades, he has repeatedly (and unsuccessfully) introduced legislation to reinstitute the draft. His motivation is simply that "the poor, black and brown shouldn’t be the only America...
Maybe the Russians will decide to kick some French ass.
Syria, France, Gaza, Natanyahu and Obama
"After almost twenty months, Syria's internal war appears to be approaching a decisive stage. Since early October, rebel forces have been on the offensive in key theaters, while regime forces are stretched thin, increasingly on the defensive, and giving ground. The conflict is evolving from ...
The American people (if there is such a thing) have been endlessly dumbed-down in schools where "all the children are exceptional" except for the truly exceptional who attend different schools that are either private or resident within public schools. The rest have grown to something called adulthood on a diet of; action movies, reality TV, social media half thoughts, hip-hop, etc. As a result the average potential elector has almost no span of attention, little knowledge of anything but the trivia of their daily lives and an inability to find almost anything on a map. I agree but this is what the Republic has wrought.
"A republic if you can keep it..."
Republics may or may not be democratic. They may be more or less democratic. They are not monarchies, although monarchies may be democratic. My father delighted in telling people (often me) that the United States was not a true democracy. He considered true democracies to be governments r...
Col. Why is the shell at the end of the video marked with the English/Latin alphabet instead of Cyrillic? It states they are Russian made and stolen from the Syrian Army.
Martyrs Brigade in Syria has 120 mm. mortars
You can pick this thing up after you have fired, toss it in the back of a pick up truck and be far gone before the counter-battery fire arrives whether that counter-battery fire radar is the German "Cobra" or not. pl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1938_mortar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
I suggest a drone strike on their meeting place. They are obviously terrorists. Anyone who has given them money should be tried for giving them material support.
WINEP discusses strategems for starting war with Iran.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) is part of the galaxy of infuential groups that do AIPAC's serious work outside the electoral field. In this video, they are seen hosting a discussion of ways and means with regard to the possibility of staging a false flag or other provo...
I think "Liberal" would be more accurate than "left". One would be hard pressed to find a "Communist" or a "Socialist" in the modern Democratic Party.
The Democrats ignored massive dissent on Jerusalem. - Reason.com
"Although Democrats adopted a plank supporting the constitutional overturning of Citizens United for the sake of democracy, they managed to ignore their own party rules and delegate voices this afternoon when amending the party platform. DNC Chairman Antonio Villaraigosa announced the party ...
The U.S. government is not going to ignore Russia's and China's vetoes in the Security Council. Assad will remain in power for now and Hillary can run around bitching and moaning.(About all she is good for.) O/T Col.Lang: Any thoughts on the proposed Pacific pivot if it entails arming Hanoi to irritate the Chinese?
"U.S. intervention in Syria appears unlikely, say officials" Washpost
"... the Obama administration is resisting scattered calls in Europe and from the Free Syrian Army rebels to provide weapons and to establish an internationally protected humanitarian corridor or a buffer zone for displaced Syrians inside their country. “The bottom line is that [such protect...
A stunning victory! We drove tanks through small arms fire all the way to Baghdad.
"Operation Bonehead' By Richard Sale
Author of Clinton’s Secret Wars The Aspen Security Forum meets every summer and features notable foreign policy officials such as Admiral William McRaven, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), and Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the U.S. military’s cyber war efforts. During a ...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/26/157943/assad-hands-control-of-syrias.html Assad hands control of Syria's Kurdish areas to PKK,sparking outrage in Turkey. This is getting more interesting all of the time.
Decision at Aleppo?
"Ms. Nuland also indicated that the United States was not reconsidering its stance against military intervention, saying, “We do not think pouring more fuel onto the fire is going to save lives.” And she drew a sharp distinction between Aleppo and the Libyan city of Benghazi, where fears of ...
I wonder what New York would be like if it had remained New Amsterdam?
Anglo-Saxon?
Yes; Magna Carta, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, our law's roots, our literature's roots. Pull your heads out of your asses. Mister Darcy was Anglo-Saxon (Norman), sort of. pl
http://www.thenation.com/article/harvard-boys-do-russia?page=0,0# It seems the Russian kleptocrats had some help.
CIA looking for cover on Syria
"One of the products of CIA collection efforts is a problematic opinion about the rebels. Firstly, says the spy agency, the number of rebels is smaller than what is perceived in the West. Secondly, the rebel leadership was massively infiltrated by radical Muslim Brotherhood elements. Some...
www.nomiprins.com/thoughts/2012/7/15/the-real-libor-scandal-by-paul-craig-robert-nomi-prins.html Another interesting take is this article that postulates the rates were rigged to help government bond markets.
Habakkuk on the Libor Scandal
In the wake of the eruption into full public view of the scandal over the fixing of LIBOR, as 'Harper' noted in a post some days ago, the Financial Times called for a return to the full separation of retail and investment banking, such as prevailed in the U.S. under the Glass-Steagall Act ...
"They" forgot that Exxon owns the Republican Party.
The US Embassy is Mursi's BFF.
"... the kind of relationship they are currently building with the Muslim Brotherhood as the rulers of Egypt and a possible influential force across many countries in North Africa and above all in Gaza. "Of course, this relationship did not start today; I mean over the past few years the ...
Reuters: Sanford Police Chief fired over Trayvon Martin case.
Open Thread - 20 June
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Yes the legal principle of "Falsus in unum Falsus in Omnibus".
Zimmerman again
""As uncomfortable as it is, I want you wearing one," Zimmerman told his wife Shellie. Zimmerman's urging came as he was receiving death threats and his Sanford, Fla., neighborhood as well as much of the country was outraged by the shooting of the unarmed Florida teenager. The conversation ...
This ain't Greece. This movement isn't even a year old yet. The rough removal of peaceful protestors will build support random violence and window breaking will lose it.
To Be Fair, He Is a Journalist: A Short Response to Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc | Revolution by the Book : The AK Press Blog
Some of this is personal to me, in the interest of full disclosure. I have friends in Oakland. They’re brave and awesome. Seeing them stand up to police repression and attempt to take an empty building while people sleep in the streets was exciting and invigorating for me. It was a welcome sight...
Russia says "NYET" so far.
Army Deserters fight Assad in Syria
"Dozens of soldiers and security forces were gunned down by suspected army defectors in southern Syria, a deadly ambush that comes as President Bashar Assad increasingly appears unable to manage the crisis, activists said Tuesday. Monday's hours-long clash in the southern province of Daraa ca...
Well, it's impossible to defend Ghaddafi. He needs to go for a myriad of reasons and one of them is because he got the George W. Bush seal of approval.
U.S. launches $157 million worth of democracy at Libya
Citizens of Raytheon are united in joy! "I've authorized* the Armed Forces of the United States to begin a limited military action in Libya," Obama said during a visit to Brazil. "That action has now begun." Admiral William Gortney told reporters in Washington that US ships and one British subm...
Dear Z; It's been downhill since Nixon.
Brown note
From the local beat, here's what our new Democratic governor plans to do about raising taxes on the rich: The incomes of the wealthiest 1 percent of Californians grew 81 percent from 1978 to 2008, while those in the bottom 20 percent dropped 11.5 percent, according to the nonpartisan California...
Double those government unemployment figures and you will be closer to the truth.
Two-Tier Recovery Watch
Michael Powell: >Corporate Profits Are Booming. Why Aren’t the Jobs?: To gaze upon the world of American corporations is to see a sunny place of terrific profits and princely bonuses. American businesses reported that third-quarter profits in 2010 rose at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion, the st...
Maria would look good in burlap sack.
Gear Guy’s Q&A: Rheumy Thumbs, Narrow Feet and Tired Arms
TENNIS.com gear editor Bill Gray and his technical advisors will answer your equipment questions every Friday. Click here to send one of your own. Before we get this week’s questions, a comment on Maria Sharapova’s threads. A few readers took me to task for saying in a previous blog that what...
Unfortunately it's a lot more than three Senators.
You Won't Be Missed
You know who I won't miss when they lose their seats? Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska is leading the charge to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gasses, and today she got some support from across the aisle: Three Democratic senators signed onto Murkows...
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