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George W. Bush’s Horrific Legacy
Post Date: 2017-05-31 10:28:53 by Deckard
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As part of the drive to drive President Trump from the White House, some “never-Trumpers” are rehabilitating George W. Bush as a relative “moderate” and thus whitewashing his war crimes, notes Lawrence Davidson. By Lawrence Davidson There is an ongoing reality that is destroying hundreds of thousands of lives in the Middle East. And though most Americans are ignorant of the fact, and many of those who should be in the know would deny it, the suffering flows directly from decisions taken by Washington over the last 27 years. President George W. Bush announcing the start of his invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003. Some of the facts of the matter have just been presented by ...
Trump Submits to Neocon Orthodoxy
Post Date: 2017-05-31 10:24:17 by Deckard
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Exclusive: In his Mideast trip to Saudi Arabia and Israel, President Trump sought some political safe harbor by tacking toward neocon orthodoxy and jettisoning his campaign promises of a more rational strategy, writes Daniel Lazare. By Daniel Lazare With astounding precision, Donald Trump zeroed in on the worst possible Middle East policy option in his recent trip to Saudi Arabia and made it his own. He rebuffed the efforts of Iran’s newly elected moderate government to open up communications with the West and instead deepened America’s alliances with decrepit autocratic regimes across the Persian Gulf. President Donald Trump is escorted by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of ...
Government Hype Helps Terrorists
Post Date: 2017-05-31 09:16:51 by Deckard
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The Department of Homeland Security makes terrorism more effective by exaggerating the threat it poses.John Kelly, the secretary of homeland security, seems to be moonlighting as a publicist for ISIS. How else to explain his fearmongering warnings about terrorism on Fox News last Friday?"I was telling Steve on the way in here," Kelly said, referring to Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy, "if he knew what I know about terrorism, he'd never leave the house in the morning." Kelly's remarks, which seemed designed to put a damper on everyone's plans for Memorial Day weekend, complemented the efforts of terrorists, who aim to provoke an emotional response that ...
Court to Grandma: You Shouldn't Lose Your House Just Because Your Dumb Son Sold Some Weed There
Post Date: 2017-05-31 09:12:25 by Deckard
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Four years after the Philadelphia District Attorney seized her house without ever charging her with a crime, a 72-year-old grandmother has prevailed at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, where justices strengthened protections for property owners against civil asset forfeiture. In a unanimous opinion issued last Thursday, the Philadelphia Supreme Court tightened the rules for seizing property, ruling that, although police and prosecutors have the authority to take property used in illegal activities, there must be clear evidence that the property owner knew of and agreed to the crimes. Under civil asset forfeiture laws, police can seize property suspected of being connected to a crime, even if ...
The Lessons of Sgt. Pepper’s 50 Years Later: Stop Fighting One Another and Focus on the Real Enemy
Post Date: 2017-05-31 08:35:14 by Deckard
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“Count me out if it’s for violence. Don’t expect me at barricades unless it is with flowers.... What’s the point of bombing Wall Street? If you want to change the system, it’s no good shooting people.”—John Lennon The more things change, the more they stay the same. America is still wrestling with many of the same problems today—endless wars, civil unrest, campus riots, racial tensions, police brutality, divisive politics, overreaching government agencies and threats to freedom—that it struggled with 50 years ago when the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The hippies of the Sixties Generation who embraced flower ...
'What was your reaction when your father was f***ing Monica Lewinsky?' Philippines president Duterte hits back at Chelsea Clinton after she criticised his 'joke' about troops raping women
Post Date: 2017-05-31 08:27:42 by cranky
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Rodrigo Duterte on Friday told his soldiers they could rape up to three women Chelsea Clinton, daughter of ex-US President Bill Clinton, hit out at the remarkDuterte said he was being sarcastic when he made widely-criticised comment Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte angrily hit back Wednesday at Chelsea Clinton for criticising remarks he made about rape by aggressively asking her what her reaction was when her father's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky was unveiled. Duterte on Friday told soldiers they could rape up to three women, in a speech aimed at reassuring them of his full support as they enforced his newly imposed martial law on the south of the Philippines. 'Not funny. ...
Suicidal to Stay in this Market
Post Date: 2017-05-31 07:59:35 by U don't know me
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Suicidal to Stay in this Market-Charles Nenner By Greg Hunter On May 31, 2017 By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Renowned financial and geopolitical analyst Charles Nenner is doubling down on his prediction last year that the financial markets will crash in the fall of 2017. Nenner says, “People not positioned correctly may lose everything.” Nenner points out, “We all know they say the market goes up 8% on a yearly basis. That’s based on the fact if I draw a line through the markets, it shows 8%. I don’t think anybody realizes how much we are above the line. In order to get back to 8%, we have to go much below the line . . . So, it’s total nonsense to say ...
Google, Facebook Are Super Upset They May No Longer Be Able To Sell Your Internet Data Without Permission
Post Date: 2017-05-30 19:35:30 by Tooconservative
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Google and Facebook are actively trying to stop a proposed law that would force them to acquire consent from users before collecting their personal information. The “Browser Act,” introduced May 18 by Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, mandates that people must explicitly give permission to internet service providers (ISPs) and websites wanting to use their browsing history and other data for business purposes. “I think it is necessary to get our consumers the strongest toolbox possible to allow them to control their virtual presence,” Blackburn told The Daily Caller News Foundation (TheDCNF) in an interview. ...
Researchers test ... self-destructing moth pest --- in cabbage patch
Post Date: 2017-05-30 18:41:56 by BorisY
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May 29, 2017 Researchers test self-destructing moth pest in cabbage patch By MARY ESCH ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Researchers in a New York cabbage patch are planning the first release on American soil of insects genetically engineered to die before they can reproduce. It's a pesticide-free attempt to control invasive diamondback moths, a voracious consumer of cabbage, broccoli and other cruciferous crops that's notorious for its ability to shrug off every new poison in the agricultural arsenal. "It costs $4-5 billion a year globally to manage this pest," said Anthony Shelton, a Cornell University researcher who's been studying the species for 40 years. "If you ...
Delingpole: Climate Mob Threatens Trump – ‘Quit Paris and You’re Toast!’
Post Date: 2017-05-30 18:25:51 by cranky
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The international climate mob have made President Trump an offer he can’t refuse: “Stay in Paris – or the U.S. gets it!” Among the threats made so far, should the president honor his election trail promise to quit the UN Paris climate agreement. The U.S. will lose $6 trillion worth of jobs in “clean” energy. The U.S. will become a “rogue country”. The U.S. will be removed from Angela Merkel’s Weihnachtskarte list. The U.S. may become the victim of further weaponized handshakes and other typically Gallic “your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries” insults from prepubescent Mummy’s little tough boy President ...
5 Highly Respected Financial Experts That Are Warning That A Market Crash Is Imminent
Post Date: 2017-05-30 13:45:30 by U don't know me
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5 Highly Respected Financial Experts That Are Warning That A Market Crash Is Imminent By Michael Snyder, on May 29th, 2017 If everything is going to be “just fine”, why are so many big names in the financial community warning about an imminent meltdown? I don’t think that I have seen so many simultaneous warnings about a market crash since just before the great financial crisis of 2008. And at this point, you would have to be quite blind not to see that stocks are absurdly overvalued and that a correction is going to happen at some point. And when stocks do start crashing, lots of fingers are going to start pointing at President Trump, but it won’t be his fault. The ...
In The Land of The Free, California Farmer Fined $2.8M for Plowing His Own Field
Post Date: 2017-05-30 06:20:01 by Deckard
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The California farmer who became the poster child for EPA reform under President Donald Trump is being fined $2.8 million by state and federal regulators for plowing his own field in Tehama County. According to a story in the Redding Record Searchlight: “The case is the first time that we’re aware of that says you need to get a (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) permit to plow to grow crops,” said Anthony Francois, an attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation. “We’re not going to produce much food under those kinds of regulations,” he said. However, U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller agreed with the Army Corps in a judgment issued in June 2016. A penalty ...
Your Handy Guide to Camping in Forbidden Places
Post Date: 2017-05-30 06:13:00 by Deckard
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Under the stars and under the radarSome years ago, when I lived in Flagstaff, Arizona, I answered a knock on the door of my house to find my buddy Bryan and a fellow I'm almost willing to swear was the backwoods character Gabby Johnson from Blazing Saddles. It seemed they'd been cut off by a wildfire from their unauthorized long-term camp at the head of Sycamore Canyon. Did I have any gear to loan them so they could squat elsewhere in the forest?The two ended up living in one of my tents for a couple of months. Several of my friends have been known to throw down a sleeping bag under the radar, often in a place or at a time that violates various regulations. But Bryan, a sometimes ...
Are We Fighting Terrorism, Or Creating More Terrorism?
Post Date: 2017-05-30 06:07:36 by Deckard
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When we think about terrorism we most often think about the horrors of a Manchester-like attack, where a radicalized suicide bomber went into a concert hall and killed dozens of innocent civilians. It was an inexcusable act of savagery and it certainly did terrorize the population. What is less considered are attacks that leave far more civilians dead, happen nearly daily instead of rarely, and produce a constant feeling of terror and dread. These are the civilians on the receiving end of US and allied bombs in places like Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, and elsewhere. Last week alone, US and “coalition” attacks on Syria left more than 200 civilians dead and many hundreds more ...
The Black and Blue Bill
Post Date: 2017-05-30 06:03:32 by Deckard
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Naturally, the solution to the problem of police abusing their authority is to hold them less accountable when they do exactly that.Leave it to “law and order” Republicans such as Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Ted Poe to evolve such logic. They have put forth the Black and Blue – whoops, Back the Blue – act (see here) which would make it harder to sue run-amok law enforcers in civil court to recover damages resulting from actions undeniably illegal – while at the same time imposing more severe penalties on Mundanes who affront the holy person of a law enforcer than those imposed on Mundanes who do exactly the same thing.As regards the first:So long as ...
Frustrated by Trump's lack of leadership, Ivanka & Jared plot Washington exit
Post Date: 2017-05-29 10:20:32 by Willie Green
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You'd never know it, but it turns out Ivanka Trump isn't exactly loving life in the White House. According to the New York Times, Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, are frustrated by how little they've been able to achieve under her father's leadership, and have agreed to reassess their decision to relocate to Washington, D.C, every six months. The paper adds that Kushner is reportedly so unhappy he's telling friends neither he nor Ivanka have made long-term commitments to the White House, despite serving as White House Innovations Director and special adviser to the President respectively. Kushner's White House role has been under fire this week, when it was ...
United Airlines President Says If You're Uncomfortable In Coach, It's Your Own Fault
Post Date: 2017-05-29 09:05:33 by Willie Green
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The airline appears to have no sympathy with your discomfort. They feel your suffering. They understand your pain as if it were their own. They watch you struggle and they wish they could do something about it. I'm talking about airline executives. And I'm lying. I've been moved, you see, by the words of United Airlines president Scott Kirby. Skift managed to get wind of this thoughts from a recent town hall meeting with employees. I fear you may find some of his sentiments a bit of a drag. Kirby mused this on the subject of coach seats having little to no legroom -- sometimes, the closest measure of this is called seat pitch. "Seat pitch has come down because that's ...
Shia vs. Sunni: The Schism Western Politicians Don’t Understand and Won’t Discuss
Post Date: 2017-05-29 08:22:16 by cranky
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Western politicians rarely acknowledge the schism between Shia and Sunni Islam. There is nothing remotely comparable to this schism in any other religion in the modern world. The Sunni-Shia conflict defines the political structure of the Middle East, from the international rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia to the internal politics of Muslim nations. And yet, Western politicians, eager to portray Islam as a “religion of peace,” speak of Muslims as homogenous. At the hard core of political correctness, Islam is treated more like a race than a religion, a monolithic ethnic bloc like “Hispanics” or “Asians.” Both of those groups are, in turn, diverse ...
Violent Tyrant Rodrigo Duterte Says His Soldiers May Rape Women
Post Date: 2017-05-29 06:21:57 by Deckard
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Phillipenean president Rodrigo Duterte is a violent tyrannical fascist. He’s slaughtered thousands of his own people in an attempt to crackdown on drugs and is now condoning rape by his own soldiers. Three days after declaring martial law in the rebellious southern Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte ordered his troops to crush the militants and gave a speech to inspire them. “You can arrest any person, search any house,” Duterte told the soldiers Friday. “I alone would be responsible” for anything they did under martial law, he said. “I will go to jail for you. If you happen to have raped three women, I will own up to ...
Trump Administration Seeks To Deny Gun Rights To Non-Violent “Criminals”
Post Date: 2017-05-29 06:15:06 by Deckard
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Donald Trump was endorsed by the NRA (National Rifle Association) and he assured his voters he’d protect their second amendment right to keep and bear arms. Considering his new desire to keep non-violent “criminals” from owning guns, this flip-flop on values needs to be known. Scouring through conservative alternative media left much to be desired on this, while the left-leaning outlets are having a heyday. The truth is more important than partisan politics, so it bears mentioning that this won’t sit nicely in the belly of those on the political right. But Sessions vs. Binderup is a big deal to anyone who seeks freedom from the continued oppression of ...
MINUTES FROM MASS MURDER Suicide bomber Salman Abedi caught on CCTV in lift to Manchester Arena wearing Ł300 Nike trainers with his hand on trigger of homemade device moments before killing 22 innocent concert-goers
Post Date: 2017-05-28 20:34:34 by cranky
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The 22-year-old fiend was caught arriving at the music venue with his explosive device concealed in a rucksack on his back Suicide bomber Salman Abedi was caught on CCTV heading towards the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester ArenaHe wore glasses, a baseball cap and jeans plus a Hollister puffa jacket — with his left hand holding the detonator for the bomb in his Karrimor rucksack. Minutes later 22 people lay dead after a devastating blast, which followed Monday night’s gig by US singer Ariana Grande. Another 120 were injured. Abedi, 22, was captured on video as he travelled in a lift to the arena from the city’s adjoining Victoria Station. The monster, who claimed benefits ...
A Danger to the World: It's Time to Get Rid of Trump
Post Date: 2017-05-28 19:14:59 by Willie Green
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Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. He does not possess the requisite intellect and does not understand the significance of the office he holds nor the tasks associated with it. He doesn't read. He doesn't bother to peruse important files and intelligence reports and knows little about the issues that he has identified as his priorities. His decisions are capricious and they are delivered in the form of tyrannical decrees. He is a man free of morals. As has been demonstrated hundreds of times, he is a liar, a racist and a cheat. I feel ashamed to use these words, as sharp and loud as they are. But if they apply to anyone, they apply to Trump. And one of ...
Merkel vs Trump: German leader warns that Europe can no longer rely on Donald's America and says its leaders must take 'destiny into our own hands' after stormy G7 Summit
Post Date: 2017-05-28 18:26:41 by cranky
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Merkel came to the realization after what she 'experienced in the past few days'The German leader had spent time with Donald Trump during the G7 Summit 'The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over,' she said Merkel described her frustration with Trump's failure to agree to a deal that would see the US remain in the Paris climate accord as 'very unsatisfactory'Angela Merkel has dramatically signaled a move away from Donald Trump - saying Europe can no longer rely on America.It comes just one day after Trump left a stormy G7 Summit in Italy, in which he frustrated Merkel and the other leaders in attendance with his stance towards security, ...
Scoop: Trump tells confidants U.S. will quit Paris climate deal
Post Date: 2017-05-28 16:04:21 by cranky
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President Trump has privately told multiple people, including EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, that he plans to leave the Paris agreement on climate change, according to three sources with direct knowledge. Publicly, Trump's position is that he has not made up his mind and when we asked the White House about these private comments, Director of Strategic Communications Hope Hicks said, "I think his tweet was clear. He will make a decision this week." Why this matters: Pulling out of Paris is the biggest thing Trump could to do unravel Obama's climate policies. It also sends a stark and combative signal to the rest of the world that working with other nations on climate ...
Mississippi shooting: 8 dead, including deputy; suspect says 'I ain't fit to live'
Post Date: 2017-05-28 13:09:50 by misterwhite
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A Mississippi deputy sheriff was among eight people shot and killed Saturday and a suspect in the murders was in custody, The Daily Leader reports. The suspect, Willie Cory Godbolt, 35, confessed to the The Jackson Clarion-Ledger on video. “I ain’t fit to live, not after what I done,” Godbolt told the paper Sunday after he was apprehended. “Not in y’all eyes, not in nobody else’s eyes.” He said that he went to an address in Bogue Chitto to talk about his children. At some point neighbors called police, and that's when the deputy arrived. "My pain wasn't designed for him. He was just there," Godbolt told the paper as he sat on the ...
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