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Published: Feb 26, 2012
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Post Date: 2012-02-26 09:15:13 by A K A Stone
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#2024. To: A K A Stone (#0)
I voted for him in 2008, by the way, since the wish-fulfillment motif moved me, and also because of the horrifying McCain-Palin opposition. In office, then, Mr. Obama quickly proved to be a different breed of porpoise than the voters bargained for. He let the Wall Street privateers run amuck another four years, aided with colossal infusions of conjured-out-of-nothing "money" from the Federal Reserve. He let loose the demons of a high-tech totalitarian "security" state with every sort of electronic surveillance, citizen data-mining, and drone spying that innovation allowed. He stood silent like a Banana Republic store mannequin after the supreme court decided that corporations could buy elections (he could have pushed loudly for legislation or even a constitutional amendment to redefine corporate "personhood"). And of course, he continued to prosecute the absurd war in Afghanistan where, after nine years, US forces are unable to accomplish the only aims of being there: to control the terrain and to moderate the behavior of the people who live there. Kunstler Taliban call Haqqani Network a 'conjured entity' By Bill RoggioSeptember 9, 2012 The Afghan Taliban derided the US's announcement that it would add the Haqqani Network to the list of terrorist entities and claimed the designation was an attempt to divide the group. The Taliban released the statement yesterday on its propaganda website, Voice of Jihad. The statement was signed by "The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," the official name of the Afghan Taliban. In the statement, the Taliban claimed that there is "no separate entity or network in Afghanistan by the name of Haqqani," and that its overall leader, Jalaluddin Haqqani, is a member of the Quetta Shura, the group's top leadership council. Read more: www.longwarjournal.org/ar...haqqani.php#ixzz265322TUu
#2027. To: A K A Stone (#2026)
Is Jacques Hebert a Frenchy or a Canuck?
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