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("Word of the deaths of officers will bring cheers at troop movies or in bivouacs of certain units," wrote Marine historian Col. Robert Heinl, Jr., in 1971. "In one such division... fraggings during 1971 have been authoritatively estimated to be running about one a week.") Still, credit must be given. Increasingly poorly remembered, Vietnam is now one for the ages. After so many years, Afghanistan has finally emerged as a quagmire beholden to no other war. What an achievement! Our moment, Afghanistan included, has proven so extreme, so disastrous, that it’s finally put the unquiet ghost of Vietnam in its grave.
And here’s the miracle: it has all happened without anyone in Washington grasping the essence of that now-ancient defeat, or understanding a thing. The "lessons of Vietnam," fruitlessly discussed for five decades, taught Washington so little that it remains trapped in a hopeless war on the Eurasian mainland, continues to pursue a military-first policy globally that might even surprise American leaders of the Vietnam era, has turned the planet into a "free fire zone," and considers military power its major asset, a first not a last resort, and the Pentagon the appropriate place to burn its national treasure. After Vietnam, the U.S. at least took a few years to lick its wounds. Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and the author of The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s as well as The End of Victory Culture, runs the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com.
If demand is down so sharply then why doesn't the price follow its trend?
Iran cuts oil supplies to Germany 11 April 2012, 17:26 (GMT+05:00) Azerbaijan, Baku, April 11 / Trend D.Khatinoglu / Iran cut oil export to Germany after halting crude oil supplies to Spain and Greece in recent days, Press TV reported.
Federal Reserve market animation. I used to say manipulation, but this 'turkey' died Thanksgiving 2011. And it's only a zombie now. Note that Every time the commodities take a dive, they immediately get ramped back up. With Deflation, the Central Banks are irrelevant. All they can do is talk, and devalue the currency. And with the massive $1.7 Quadrillion in debt derivatives they can't even devalue anymore....at some point the zombie will just plunge to zero or lock up....anytime now.
If only speculators were required to take physical possession of their purchased commodity.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
The battles fought there (Virginia) after Grant took command of the Army of the Potomac were a close first approximation to the useless slaughter of the western front in the First World War, with one crucial difference: they weren’t useless, from Grant’s and the Union’s perspective, because they formed one part of a broader strategy. Grant is said to have described that strategy in the homely language he preferred: “I’m going to hold the cat down, and Sherman is going to skin him.” That was exactly what happened, too. Grant’s job was to pin down Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia, respectively the Confederacy’s best general and its toughest army, so that neither one could be spared to the more vulnerable western front. Meanwhile Grant’s opposite number, Gen. William T. Sherman, marched an army from Tennessee through Georgia to the sea, and then north through the Carolinas toward Virginia; his job was to shatter the Confederacy’s economic and agricultural systems, cripple its ability to feed and supply its armies, and make it impossible for the South to keep fighting. That was why Sherman’s “bummers” stripped the country bare, leaving behind memories that are still bitter today, and it also explains a detail that rarely gets mentioned in any but the most technical histories of the Civil War: in the course of a months-long campaign that took him through the heartland of the Confederacy, Sherman fought only two significant battles.
Grant got the glory, and earned it fairly, but Sherman may have been the 19th century’s most innovative military thinker. When he came face to face with a Confederate army, whenever the strategic situation allowed, he evaded it, slipped past it, got behind it, and threatened its lines of communication and supply, forcing it to retreat in disarray. Long before anyone else, he grasped that it’s not necessary to fight a pitched battle to win a war, and that a force that can move fast, get behind its enemy, and target the vulnerable territory behind the lines can cripple the ability of the other side to wage war at all. Most of a century later, that approach to war came to be called “blitzkrieg;
...Finally, to guarantee all these things, the British government would have been forced to accept an occupying force in Britain, and permanent military bases would be signed over to the new imperial power in Britain and its remaining colonies. That, by and large, is what happened to defeated nations in the wars of the 19th and 20th centuries. Now compare that list to the relations between Great Britain and the United States from 1945 to the present. That’s the thing that can’t be mentioned to this day in polite company: the British empire ended in the early 1940s when the United States conquered and occupied Britain. It was a bloodless conquest, like the German conquest of Denmark or Luxembourg, and since the alternative was submitting to Nazi Germany, the British by and large made the best of it. Still, none of Queen Victoria’s prime ministers would have tolerated for a moment the thought of foreign troops being garrisoned on British soil, which is where thousands of US military personnel are garrisoned as I write these words. That’s only one of the lasting legacies of the Gasoline War.
pink slime & chicken nuggets....delicious. www.bestfoodfacts.org/main/food_for_thought/0/108 ""Pink Slime" in Chicken Nuggets? 02/22/2012 After an inquiry regarding mechanically separated chicken in chicken nuggets, we asked Dr. Casey Owens from the University of Arkansas for some clarification. She maintains that this is not the process used to make nuggets. Best Food Facts: Why is mechanically separated chicken used? Dr. Owens: "Mechanically separated chicken (MSC) contains proteins that are useful for other products. It takes on a fine, pasty texture, so it can be formed into a desirable shape. Consumers should note that products using MSC typically have a higher fat content." Best Food Facts: In this video, the people say that the pink in the meat is from blood, that eyeballs are mixed into the paste, etc. What is the truth? Dr. Owens: "First and foremost - there is NO chance of eyeballs being in the chicken, because the head is removed much earlier in the process. In the Jamie Oliver video, you can see there is no head on the chicken he presents to the children - the same is true in processing facilities. Mechanically separated chicken is made using the meat left after the breast meat and legs are removed - meat found between the ribs, near vertebrae, around joints, etc. as well as some fat, connective tissue and skin (if there is any that remains on the carcass). There will also be trace amounts of bone, which provide calcium - but bone content is monitored closely as only so much calcium is allowed in MSC. Lastly, some of the meat will appear darker in color becasue it either came from legs (dark meat) or is bone marrow (if bones are broken in the process, some marrow can come out)."
Without grinding, crushing or pulverizing the bone itself, a machine removes edible tissue from beef and pork bones. If the resulting bits have more than 150 mg of calcium per 100 grams (indicating the presence of bones) they must be labeled "mechanically separated" meat. Tyson: We don't need no stinkin' inspectors cause all our chickens are safe to eat.
Then the markets (minus Federal Reserve) would not function. Specs are lubricant/shock absorbers. Which is why volume is critical and why the Finnacial channels refuse to talk about Volume at all. BTW, it's OK with me if the markets do not function. They're zombies now anyway.
"In due course, their instinct for self-preservation will become suppressed, as other, opportunistic, idealistic or heroic motivations move to the forefront. The progression is the same everywhere: first the people ask, then they demand, then they come and they take. For now, talk of revolution is restricted to those, both in the West and in Russia, who use it to justify their budgets for fermenting or suppressing revolt, respectively. They are, in both cases, a waste of public money. The Future is Ours! But if this dynamic were allowed to develop, then much more would be lost. Under Putin, Russia has become more stable and more prosperous. The cities have become more vibrant, and life has become better for many people, not just the ones at the very top. In striking contrast to the USA or the European Union, Russia is solvent rather than bankrupt. Putin gets the credit for these achievements. The slogan of his "United Russia"—"The future is ours"—is overweening and pompous (and, inadvertently, reminiscent of the Third Reich!) but, in some part thanks to his efforts, Russia does have a discernible future in a way that the US and the EU do not. The Future is... Oops! Given that this is the case, one would expect the more thoughtful people in the US and in Europe to simply stand back and watch, hoping to learn something. Yet mindsets are slow to change, and some of them are still operating with their illusions of imperial power intact. Some of them are seeing orange, and thinking that there might be an opening to smuggle a neocon like Gary Kasparov into the Kremlin. But to a great many Russians their ruse of promoting "freedom and democracy" is already transparent: what they want to do is to destroy Russia's sovereignty. They almost succeeded in destroying it in the 1990s; they won't get that chance again. Now is not their time to try to influence Russian politics; now is their time to shrivel up. -Dmitry Orlov
On the other side of May 2005, the financial move to make is extinguishing debt....;} "City alleges bank misrepresented risk By Brian Duggan - RGJ.com Reno is suing Goldman Sachs, alleging fraud against one of Wall Street’s largest investment firms. The city claims Goldman persuaded Reno to issue $210 million in bonds in a specialized market that the bank claimed was safe even though it knew it could turn toxic. Reno is seeking arbitration against the bank through the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, basically a private court for financial institutions.
New dissident crusher vehicle introduced for the D&R conventions... This recently reorganized, months-old ICE Homeland Security Investigations (formerly known as ICE Office of Investigations) should really be on the radar of anyone because this year they are apparently 'filling in the gaps for the Secret Service' at NSSEs like G20, NATO summits and the Republican and Democratic national conventions. (unfortunately the Secret Service is now a part of DHS, not Treasury.) The Federal Protective Service, which likes to take photos around the Twin Cities (see my 2010 Fort Snelling Undercover Fail video, classic times) is now part of some weird directorate but briefly passed through ICE after being removed from the General Services Administration. The HSI Special Response Teams are seemingly the top layer of a lot of things, from the war on terror / war on drugs motif, to the Super Bowl, to whatever the hell they are planning to do to hongpong.com/archives/201...estigations-great-justice
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Targe wrote:Extinction Protocol is reporting that Russia is moving troops close to Iran border and may fight to defend it if West attacks. I can't find any evidence of this on any other news site though. http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress. ... an-border/ I've seen it. The USSA/Israel/NATO/GCC can not attack Iran until it has both the Caucasus and the Syrian/Lebanon Coastlines secure. Azerbaijan has stated that Israel can not use it's air bases. Turkey the same. Same with the Saudis. And Iraq. Russian warships heading for Syria: Russian military source A Russian soldier is seen on Smetlivy warship (file photo) Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:35AM GMT Share20 A high-ranking source in the Russian defense ministry says several Russian warships are on their way to the Mediterranean Sea to guard Syrian coasts for the foreseeable future. “A decision has been made to deploy Russian warships near the Syrian shores on a permanent basis,” the state-run RIA news agency quoted the source as saying on Friday. The source added that the Russian destroyer Smetlivy, which is patrolling waters off Syria now, will be replaced by another warship from Black Sea Fleet in May. The official says several warships are on their way to the Mediterranean.
Israel’s supposed ‘left’ newspaper had a piece published today by their resident right wing scholar, Avi Shavit. For years he has written critical articles about Israel’s zionist left, I imagine thinking of himself as an expert for simply sharing office space with a handful of them….. * BUT, * He always seems to be wrong about whatever topic he decides to write about. THIS article from +972 gives a pretty good picture of the man I am talking about and his writings. * Today he outdid himself, both in literary style and content; in other words he has no idea what he is talking about. His article is based on the premise that Grass’ profound moral failure and the Zionist left’s profound failure to respond are a bad sign. They show that leading intellectuals in the West and Israel are no longer capable of defending Israel. Perhaps he should accept the fact that even the zionist left has opinions that differ from his own. Perhaps they are not defending Israel because Israel is WRONG. It’s mighty pompous of him to speak for a group that he obviously abhors. It’s also mighty confusing to try to understand why he is not on the payroll of the Jerusalem Post rather than HaAretz’s. http://desertpeace.wordpress.com...th-in-gunter-grass-words/ nice to know that everyone in Israel understands that Jpost is a nazi rag....8D
Print US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan US soldiers take positions after racing off the back of a UH-47 Chinook helicopter during an operation in Khost Province, Afghanistan. Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:18PM GMT Share120 LAST UPDATE An American helicopter belonging to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has crashed in troubled eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports. According to local Afghan officials, the chopper crashed on Thursday night in the country’s eastern province of Khost. ISAF has also confirmed the incident. However, no further information has been released concerning the cause of the accident or possible causalities.
Busy place, Khost....;} "US spy drone goes down in eastern Afghanistan Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:0AM GMT Share An American spy drone has crashed in Ghazni province in the east of war-ravaged Afghanistan, Press TV reports.
They never did solve that ICE killing in LA couple months ago. And ICE has been shown their place in the CartelGun Running/FBI Informants are Cartel Leaders Case.....;} ICE in other words is just a fancy Federal MERc outfit, probably given orders by Blackwater/Xie/Acadamie MERCS. And I'll look that up about the SS not being Treasury any more. The SS does not take orders from the FBI or anyone else. But the SS does love it's Colombian booze and prostitutes....;} Title: Breaking: Misconduct alleged against Secret Service agents Source: AP URL Source: hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... &SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Published: Apr 14, 2012 Author: JULIE PACE and FRANK BAJAK Post Date: 2012-04-14 10:43:00 by SJN
ISAF has also confirmed the incident. Helos are getting hard to come by in the Afghans. Even further becausde high ranking officials are now making sure a X number is always OnStandBy for transport out of the country....;}
Some Ecuadorian children, many of them indigenous, are subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking in Colombia. Illegal armed groups forcibly recruit children to join their ranks; an international organization estimates that at least 10,000 children participate in illegal armed groups. Members of gangs and organized criminal networks force relatives, acquaintances, and displaced persons – typically women and children – into conditions of sex trafficking and forced labor, including in the illegal drug trade. Colombia is a destination for foreign child sex tourists from the United States and Europe, particularly to coastal cities such as Cartagena and Barranquilla. This is an embarrassment to the US on multiple levels. If the charges are true, DHS should be advertising for one or more open positions in the Secret Service. Update: I had forgotten that the Secret Service was moved out of Treasury and into the Department of Homeland Security. I’ve corrected it above. Update II: The shooting incident involved an agent from the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, not the Secret Service. The Post included it because the agent was on the advance security team for Obama’s Asia summit, and I didn’t read it closely enough. Thanks to reader Marilu for the correction." None of this alphabet soup knows their territory. You're looking at future gangs of the USSA....;}
Assymmetric Secret Servicing Initiative: Obama's Colombia Visit Found To Subsidize Local Alternative Monogamy Market Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/13/2012 23:35 -0400 Obama may not be the most successful president when it comes to creating jobs at home, but when success is measured by the number of blowjobs outsourced abroad, he may be truly second to none, as his visit to Colombia proves before it has officially begun. According to the AP, "A dozen Secret Service agents sent to Colombia to provide security for President Barack Obama at an international summit have been relieved of duty because of allegations of misconduct." Relieved here being a perfectly randomly selected verb. All joking aside, here is how Politico framed the 5 political benefits (with or without friends) that the Colombian visit was supposed to embiggen. We can probably trim that list to one: endless humor for the late night stand-up comedy circuit as well as hours of rhetorical poetry waxing by Obama's political adversaries.
I saw that story last night. I'm not sure what to make of it.
Read more: www.thebostonchannel.com/...detail.html#ixzz1s231EPAr The whole scandal was exposed when the SS didn't pay one of the hookers, and she reported it to the local police. Further evidence that the Obama administration abuses women. Deadbeat dicks.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Further evidence that the Obama administration abuses women. Deadbeat dicks. Every day, Obama is acting more and more like a good capitalist.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Tet Offensive (Kabuk version) underway.
It takes years for the Praetorian Guard to get compromised. Note the total lack of connection with the 4 bombs exploded?
From the moment he puts Geithner/Summers/Ruben/Dimon/Blankfein in place and signals the Military is good to go, a week after the election.....the only surprise is how craven the man is.
Further evidence that the Obama administration abuses women. Deadbeat dicks. So, if the Secretly Serviced had only paid the woman, everything would've been A-OK?....;}
This tells you everything you need to know about the state. The fish head is rotten...long ago. I don't think they have enough helos in Kabul to transport all the officials that will be hanged immediately after the US Ambassador leaves. US Embassy under attack now.
Taliban Pakistan release 1200 prisoners. Inspector General details troubling statistics April 13, 2012 Each U.S. diplomat in Kabul is limited to no more than one bottle of hard liquor, three bottles of wine and two cases of beer per day. This stunning information is contained in the report of the State Department’s Inspector General dated February 10, 2010 (report #ISP-I-10-32A). The findings were so controversial that the Inspector General felt compelled to conduct a follow-up inspection last year. In his updated report in June 2011, he vaguely found that some additional restrictions had been added, but he refused to list them, apparently because the alcohol limits per diplomat remain outrageously high. As our inquiry revealed, this is only the tip of the iceberg....
# 1. Taliban launch raids on Kabul and other Afghan targets BBC News - 3 hours ago The Taliban carry out co-ordinated attacks on embassies, parliament ... news agency reported that the newly built Kabul Star hotel was on fire. 1. Afghanistan attackers take over hotel, police say CNN International - 2 hours ago 2. Taliban hits Afghan capital, other cities in rare coordinated attack Washington Post - 30 minutes ago # BREAKING NEWS - KABUL HOTEL UNDER TALIBAN GUNMEN ...
Wonder when we get a live feed from Kabul. Combo of Sunday news embargo, and everyone in Kabul with their heads down and the USSA not in charge of the situation yet.
Taliban’s Zabihullah Mujahiddd told Reuters that the attacks had been planned for months. Witnesses said suicide bombers had taken over the newly-built Kabul Star hotel, which was reportedly on fire in an area which includes a major U.S. military base, the United Nations office and the presidential palace. Several other attackers tried to enter the Afghan parliament but were engaged by security forces and driven back, an official said. They had taken cover in a building near the parliament and fights were ongoing, parliamentary media officer Qudratullah Jawid told AFP. Gunfire and explosions were reported from at least three areas of the capital, including the diplomatic enclave. As the attacks began, several large explosions and bursts of gunfire were heard near the United States embassy. http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/15/207881.html Alarabiya's the USSA's Arab VOA.
HEY, I won the Google game. Did you mean: Taliban’s Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters that the attacks had been planned for months. Search Results 1. Kabul under gunfire and explosions, Taliban claim responsibility english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/15/207881.html You +1'd this publicly. Undo 2 hours ago – Taliban's Zabihullah Mujahiddd told Reuters that the attacks had been planned for months. Witnesses said suicide bombers had taken over the ... The object of the game is to get just one hit from a search.....LMFAO....8D
The militants also stormed the Star Hotel near Hamid Karzai’s residence in the capital. All foreign embassies in Kabul, the NATO headquarters, and the presidential palace are on lockdown following the attacks.
4/15/12 A very busy day in history. From Dallas to Cartagena The plan is to draw out the negotiations with Iran until after the American Presidential election, at which point the Jew Jackboot won't be pressing on Obama's throat - he will no longer be dependent on their money to be reelected - and sensible, adult negotiations can reach a successful conclusion. Therefore, the Jews have to blow Barry's head clean off before November. Barry's visiting Colombia. Colombia is a hotbed of nefarious activities by 'ex' Israeli soldiers. 2007: "Colombia, Israel and rogue mercenaries" 2012: "Colombia: 8 Israelis suspected of drug trafficking" Remember back in '63 when the ability of the Secret Service to protect JFK was compromised by arranging for them to drink late into the night at a Dallas nightclub? "Misconduct alleged against Secret Service agents":
Google definitely filtering Kabul news.
Gunmen launched multiple attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, assaulting Western embassies in the heavily guarded, central diplomatic area and at the parliament in the west, witnesses and officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying their main targets were the German and British embassies and the headquarters of Afghanistan's NATO-led force. Taliban fighers had also launched assaults in two provinces, a spokesman for the insurgents said. "We claim responsibility for these attacks," said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. Attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade into a house used by British diplomats in the city centre and smoke billowed from the building after the blast, a Reuters witness said. Two rockets hit a British Embassy guard tower near the Reuters office in the city.
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If demand is down so sharply then why doesn't the price follow its trend?
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If demand is down so sharply then why doesn't the price follow its trend?
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If only speculators were required to take physical possession of their purchased commodity.
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"United Russia"—"The future is ours"
immigrants [illegal alien invaders] on the I-5 near LA, which was where this pic was taken according to Copblock. ICE has a large number of staff on the Joint Terrorism Task Forces that do statistic-generating police state busywork around the country, and interestingly this HSI group is now officially becoming publicly distinguished from the rest of ICE -- and the theory of course is HSI would be spun out of ICE to become a freestanding 'directorate', a more modern and insane paramilitary FBI or whatever. 
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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This recently reorganized, months-old ICE Homeland Security Investigations (formerly known as ICE Office of Investigations) should really be on the radar of anyone because this year they are apparently 'filling in the gaps for the Secret Service' at NSSEs like G20, NATO summits and the Republican and Democratic national conventions. (unfortunately the Secret Service is now a part of DHS, not Treasury.)
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According to local Afghan officials, the chopper crashed on Thursday night in the country’s eastern province of Khost.
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But the SS does love it's Colombian booze and prostitutes....;}
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"One of the agents did not pay one of the prostitutes, and she complained to the police," Kessler said.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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The whole scandal was exposed when the SS didn't pay one of the hookers, and she reported it to the local police.
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