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MS-13 is an American Gang, we exported it.

Do you think there should be limits on your self defense from any would be assailant by the government?

A gun is an equalizer and a deterrent. Grandma can defend herself from Bubba. Bubba has to think twice about an armed would-be victim. That will not happen with a knife or a phone call.

A gun is a tool. A tool which is violent by nature because we live in a violent world not a world of angels. Violence can come from many different places or people or institutions. Violence from the government. Violence from a mob or Violence from foreign would-be invaders. All have a common recourse of action and the gun has the infamy of equalizing any encounter. No standing army can hold America because Grandma can shoot Private Bubba.

This is part of Humpty-Trumpy's "Making America Great Again" by eviscerating all those "job killing" regulations like:
* roll back protecting the environment: clean air/clean water, allowing coal companies to dump into rivers
* roll back privacy and corporate limitations in communications: killing net neutrality
* remove banking regulations https://www.washingtonpost.com...
* remove protections for Seniors in Nursing Homes: https://www.democracynow.org/2...
* giving National Park lands to developers: https://www.vox.com/energy-and...
and dozens more ever frighting yet to be seen "de-regulations" that reduce citizen rights, protections, and hand our wallets to corporations. All the while the GOP protects Trumpty by replaying a slow motion Saturday Night Massacre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
People, the only way to change this is campaign finance reform. It has to start at the State level. The GOP is worried about a midterm slaughter and the Kock Brothers alone are using $400M to try and change past performance: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/2...

We put a man on the moon.

To develop ICBM's precise enough to drop a nuke on every town in the USSR or China over 25,000 people.

The stories that actually come true are the ones where people had a problem and then engineers and others tried very hard and found a way to solve it. Y2K, peak oil, population bomb, Manhattan project, The Cold War, Apollo 11, smallpox iradication, Sovaldi, hyper loop, artificial intelligence, LED lighting, etc., etc., etc.

Uh huh. And are you going to limit your beef consumption to free range steers from the nearest Amish farm, until the "free market" finds technical solutions to all the problems I mentioned?

Didn't think so.

"Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights reports over 120 journalists have been killed since 2000"
You can learn more about atrocities in Mexico at: https://www.democracynow.org/t...

The problem seems to be that they don't honor the secret code that pervades US journalism: Don't offend those in power. Whether they be advertisers, government, powerful corporations or individuals, etc. Mexican journalists have been heroic in reporting despite the grave danger they face. We need that courage everywhere.

But overall, there are too many idiots on both sides that refuse to listen to the other sides ideas

Do not attempt to make a false equivalence here. The only reason it might seem that way is because one side has a massive persecution complex fed by an outrage machine dedicated to hyping that noise for profit and the other 'side' (described as the reality-based community by Karl Rove) treat such as cases as just another minor news event.

NYC: Linda Sarsour Faces Death Threats Ahead of Her CUNY Commencement Speech | Democracy Now!
Princeton professor who criticized Trump cancels events, saying she's received death threats
Shakespeare in the Park featured a Trump-like Julius Caesar, and right-wing media freaked out - Vox
Greg Gianforte Pleads Guilty To Assaulting A Journalist : The Two-Way : NPR
GOP pressured NPR into firing a journalist who reported on their bigotry / LGBTQ Nation
Lawmakers across the US are finding ways to turn protesting into a crime - Vox
Tom Price commends police who arrested journalist asking questions
GOP rep goes after activist by writing letter to employer | TheHill
Sinclair Requires TV Stations to Air Segments That Tilt to the Right - The New York Times
Oklahoma Governor Signs Anti-Protest Law Imposing Huge Fines on “Conspirator” Organizations
FDA Denies Ordering Employees to Switch Television Monitors to Fox News Channel
FCC to investigate, 'take appropriate action' on Colbert’s Trump rant | TheHill
Jury Convicts Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions During Senate Hearing | HuffPost
Fordham U. blocked formation of pro-Palestinian group: suit - NY Daily News

False,They had recounts in all those states.

By your own claim, there was no valid recount in Michigan. And Pennsylvania's wasn't completed either.

In Detroit it was found there was enough significant voter fraud that they were unable to do the recount. The fraud in Detroit appeared to favor Hillary heavily. Michigan was unable to complete a recount that was demanded and paid for by the Jill Stein and the Green party because of how poorly the heavily democratic counties handled votes and counted some ballots 8 times election night. Parts of Michigan that there wasn't obvious voter fraud went strongly to Trump.

Your entire post is an outright lie.
Story

Actually, your post is leaving out something. Who was in charge. So let's see, we have Republicans all over, allegedly, yet they couldn't ensure a fair and honest election?

Oh wait, they're the ones who gerrymandered the state.

No wonder they couldn't ensure fair and honest elections statewide. No wonder we can't trust them. Maybe they didn't count 75,000 votes.

Also remember, the only outright evidence of election rigging was by the DNC, not Trump or Russia.

Oh really, and yet you provide none of this evidence.

Already, you're suspect with your own false claims.

Why do you have a bug up your ass because the Prime Minister of Canada

I have a "bug up my ass" about Canadians and Europeans trying to persuade American voters to persuade them to be more like them. Here, it was Beauregard, a Canadian, who was making fun of Trump, and I think it's valid to point out how rotten his own leadership is.

The dictator's dead, can't you let it go?

Unfortunately, the ideology behind Castro isn't dead, and it guides popular mainstream US politicians.

Whether Google really is violating the law, the prosecution itself is a convenient means of suppressing opposition. Google was "with her" all the way. Could this be a payback from the Trump's Administration?

Or, the other way around, has the previous Administration sat on it because Google was all for the Democratics? Worse, maybe, Google's unprecedented cooperation was due to the subtle blackmail in the first place?

Whatever the answers to these questions, I'd rather they not be asked at all — there should be no thoughtcrimes for the government to prosecute. At all.

Discrimination may be stupid and unethical, but it should not be illegal.

To show that this is not new, look back at the first reporting of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case by NBC. Who was caught editing audio to make George appear to be racist instead of answering a dispatcher's question, they lightened his photos to make him appear to be white instead of Hispanic, and instead of displaying current pictures of Trayvon Martin pulled pictures of him as an elementary school kid instead of a 17 year old 6'1" young man who enjoyed MMA.

Oh my, you can go back further than that. Like with OJ Simpson, and at least you'll have an older example. Or even further.

Besides, Zimmerman? He is a racist. There's a reason he lost his suit. Seriously, that idiot could have avoided being a killer of another human being if all he'd done was gone to the pharmacy instead.

Cherry picking and editing are common tactics for media propagandists in the US. If you were fooled, shame on you.

You forgot law enforcement. And other forms of Planting evidence and corruption.

I'm sure you meant nothing by the oversight.

Plenty of lawsuits have been won against these media outlets for various civil reasons. Off the top of my head, ABC and CNN have both had to issue public apologies and retractions in the last month and a half for doing this, or would have faced even more civil suits.

Oh, you should learn about Fox.. So bad, the White House had to apologize to a foreign country for believing Fox News. Editing video since 1984.

You know, a company that hired a PR firm to slut shame people critical of one of their hosts. Looks like that is getting out.

So are you happy yet?

I never go to the NYT anymore, they seem like a CIA outlet. I go to the Guardian, but rarely read the main articles because they are so biased in favor of the current power structure. The best news in the US now is from Democracy Now. https://www.democracynow.org/

As long as the news is coming from giant corporations, it is never going to be anything other than "perception management".

But I'm also cognizant that separating domestic from foreign activities is no longer a good way to define the various agencies' behavior.

It is when your couch is more likely to murder you than a terrorist. You're falling into the same authoritarian mindset that you have to surrender your Constitutional rights because it means somewhere, sometime, some pedophile might get away with it if law enforcement can't search his computer with a warrant.

Stop doing that. And that's putting the fact that the worst purveyor of violence and terrorism in recent worldwide history is the United States aside entirely.

UN GA just days ago adopted a resolution finally admitting that Ukraine is a victim of the Russian military aggression.

For better or worse, the part of the United States' electorate, to whom you want to appeal, view the United Nations with skepticism. So, instead of appealing to a questionable authority, try the following argument...

Imagine, Americans, Mexican government declaring Trump's election "a coup", his assemblage of generals — a junta, which placed the Latinophobic Nazi in power, contrary to the wishes of most Americans. Out of concern for the brotherly nation, Mexican government is encouraging volunteers to cross into California, Arizona, and Texas to help the local Spanish-speaking "self-defense" militias protect themselves against the White English-speaking bigots, who've persecuted the Spanish-speaking minority for years. In places stolen from Mexico before, these polite volunteers in military uniforms without any official insignia are already organizing a referendum to leave the US and join Mexico.

Patriotic Americans attempting to resist the invasion are denounced as racists and shot at with military-style efficiency. Although officially Mexico is not a party to this "civil war", its troops are regularly encountered on the battlefields — all of them are then found to have been "on leave" from their units. Artillery bombardment of American forces seems to originate from across the border, but no one can say for sure.

Would you still say, it is a civil war — Americans fighting other Americans?

Her arm was blown off by a propane-tank IED built by the protesters.

You mean you believe any horseshit the cops will throw at you, and they've thrown a lot this year. Same sheriffs department has on its most wanted list a person who disarmed an agent provocateur, not the agent who was assaulting people (pointing his AR-15).

But that's okay, just to let you know we're all friends here, I actually own some oceanfront property near the Standing Rock reservation, which I'm willing to sell you at a cut rate....

There was no "gaming of the DNC system". This is one of these stupid political memes that flourish because people are ignorant about how things work.

Other than the laughably limited debate schedule, and the early primary calendar front-loaded with conservative southern states to give the most conservative candidate an early boost. Which were known about a year before the Podesta emails were released. Which means you're either woefully ignorant on a subject you're commenting on, or are a sophist.

I know, because when this came up I took the time read the party bylaws.

And how about their charter, which calls for neutrality and not for picking one candidate over another?

So getting mad at the national committee for playing favorites is like getting mad at rural voters for not voting for you -- it misses the point.

No. It's the entire point.

If you don't like the power insiders wield then take it away from them. Which means becoming an insider yourself. That's the problem with being anti-establishment: winning means becoming what you hate.

You go crosseyed writing that?

Hillary's problem is that she ran like she was running for prime minister, by cultivating the party base and power brokers.

You got that half right - she sure did cultivate those donors. The base, she DGAF about, aside from getting endorsements from party hacks leading organizations like the SEIU who endorsed the candidate opposed to free education, a $15 minimum wage and universal health care without bothering to ask their members to vote.

Iraq is directly linked to 9/11 through the Anthrax attacks. You simply cannot separate the two attacks from each other.

The first batch of Anthrax attacks that were mailed out were sent out just about a week after 9/11 (Sept 18th), and from the New Jersey neighborhood where a 9/11 hijacker cell had operated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://www.historycommons.org/...

Not only that, the CIA learned through interrogations of high level Al-Qaeda members that Saddam's secret police had been working with Al-Qaeda, and providing them with biological weapons such as Anthrax, and training on how to use it. This was collaborated by Israeli intelligence about a meeting in Prague that occured between Al-Qaeda operative Mohamed Atta and Iraqi intelligence where anthrax was handed off.

https://www.democracynow.org/2...

We know Saddam had been working on mobile biological weapons labs thanks defectors who were brave enough to risk everything and give us that information.

Finally, it's worth noting that while most of the anthrax attacks were either from the Ames strain which could have been domestic, or harmless fake anthrax, the stuff that was mailed out to Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy came from a different strain that could not be identified. It was highly refined and much more deadly. It is not believed by anyone to have come from the US.

They just use different language. Instead of "rigged", use the words "voter suppression".

Except voter suppression IS are real thing - or there would be nothing for courts to overturn. Again and again and again...

http://www.democracynow.org/20...

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

https://www.thenation.com/arti...

I mean... either those laws WERE voter repression... or it's a secret conspiracy buy judges in various US states against the Republican party's attempts to... hmm...
Wait... hold on... there must be a way to paint this as a conspiracy against old white conservatives instead of the people they are actively trying to keep from voting.

But why even bother with that... when "UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT" puts it so much more succinctly:

After years of preclearance and expansion of voting access, by 2013 African American registration and turnout rates had finally reached near-parity with white registration and turnout rates. African Americans were poised to act as a major electoral force.
But, on the day after the Supreme Court issued Shelby County v. Holder, 133 S. Ct. 2612 (2013), eliminating preclearance obligations, a leader of the party that newly dominated the legislature (and the party that rarely enjoyed African American support) announced an intention to enact what he characterized as an âoeomnibusâ election law.
Before enacting that law, the legislature requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices.
Upon receipt of the race data, the General Assembly enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans.
In response to claims that intentional racial discrimination animated its action, the State offered only meager justifications.
Although the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision, they constitute inapt remedies for the problems assertedly justifying them and, in fact, impose cures for problems that did not exist.

Oh... and by the way... while you're cherry picking through wikipedia... You do know that other people can read that and point out that your worm is showing?

I mean... I'm not even talking about you quoting THIS as a proof.

Earl Mazo, a reporter for the pro-Nixon New York Herald Tribune, investigated the voting in Chicago and "claimed to have discovered sufficient evidence of vote fraud to prove that the state was stolen for Kennedy."[43]

Which IS proof, but only for the paranoid conspiracy theory bias among Republicans.

I'm talking about you failing to read the full section. Like this part.

In Illinois, Schlesinger and others have pointed out that, even if Nixon had carried Illinois, the state alone would not have given him the victory, as Kennedy would still have won 276 electoral votes to Nixon's 246 (with 269 needed to win).
More to the point, Illinois was the site of the most extensive challenge process, which fell short despite repeated efforts spearheaded by Cook County state's attorney, Benjamin Adamowski, a Republican, who also lost his re-election bid.
Despite demonstrating net errors favoring both Nixon and Adamowski (some precinctsâ"40% in Nixon's caseâ"showed errors favoring them, a factor suggesting error, rather than fraud), the totals found fell short of reversing the results for either

Of all the presidential candidates, Jill Stein is the only one who stands for justice.

Vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka was also arrested.

Their civil act of disobedience has earned my vote.

And if it's not a crime in the country where the person being sought is staying, it's generally not extraditable. Canada is one such country where the treat with the US allows Canada to refuse to extradite such a person. Another reason in the same treaty is if the extradition is of a political nature:

Article 4, section 1, subsection iii

(iii) When the offense in respect of which extradition is requested is of a political character, or the person whose extradition is requested proves that the extradition request has been made for the purpose of trying or punishing him for an offense of the above-mentioned character. If any question arises as to whether a case comes within the provisions of this subparagraph, the authorities of the Government on which the requisition is made shall decide.

Additionally, Canada can refuse to extradite in cases where the death penalty is in play unless the US agrees beforehand not to seek it, of if such judgment is made, not to follow through with it. And in the case of minor children, extradition can be refused if it is determined that such extradition

ARTICLE 5

If a request for extradition is made under this Treaty for a person who at the time of such request, or at the time of the commission of the offense for which extradition is sought, is under the age of eighteen years and is considered by the requested State to be one of its residents, the requested State, upon a determination that extradition would disrupt the social readjustment and rehabilitation of that person, may recommend to the requesting State that the request for extradition be withdrawn, specifying the reasons therefor.

ARTICLE 6

When the offense for which extradition is requested is punishable by death under the laws of the requesting State and the laws of the requested State do not permit such punishment for that offense, extradition may be refused unless the requesting State provides such assurances as the requested State considers sufficient that the death penalty shall not be imposed, or, if imposed, shall not be executed.

It can be argued pretty easily that Snowden, Manning, and Assange all have a defense under Article 2.1(iii) to have safe haven in Canada, since the whole mess has taken on a HUGE political angle, overshadowing everything else. Unfortunately, Obama's kill list has no geographical limit - it's fine to kill Americans anywhere in the world, even in the USA, in violation of their constitutionally protected right to due process. Looks like Obama is taking a page from Bush's "the constitution is just a damn piece of paper" playbook and ran with it.

Have you ever listened to the daily _independent_ news radio program Democracy Now? Stream it a few times if you don't live near a local station that broadcasts it. I listen on a local (community-supported, not wide-scale public) radio station. The team does a great job with multiple interviews (not just a few talking heads) from out in the field - where stuff is happening, but also with a range of award-winning journalists from all over the planet.

It's easy to criticize the reporting of details, but this is an intense story that has not received enough attention on main stream media.

Just snipits from a timeline:

http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...

These events have been reported by a range of medial outlets, but in limited air time:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22d...

Too much mainstream coverage is given to the 2016 presidential election than many other current events of consequence.

Have you ever listened to the daily _independent_ news radio program Democracy Now? Stream it a few times if you don't live near a local station that broadcasts it. I listen on a local (community-supported, not wide-scale public) radio station. The team does a great job with multiple interviews (not just a few talking heads) from out in the field - where stuff is happening, but also with a range of award-winning journalists from all over the planet.

It's easy to criticize the reporting of details, but this is an intense story that has not received enough attention on main stream media.

Just snipits from a timeline:

http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...

These events have been reported by a range of medial outlets, but in limited air time:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22d...

Too much mainstream coverage is given to the 2016 presidential election than many other current events of consequence.

Have you ever listened to the daily _independent_ news radio program Democracy Now? Stream it a few times if you don't live near a local station that broadcasts it. I listen on a local (community-supported, not wide-scale public) radio station. The team does a great job with multiple interviews (not just a few talking heads) from out in the field - where stuff is happening, but also with a range of award-winning journalists from all over the planet.

It's easy to criticize the reporting of details, but this is an intense story that has not received enough attention on main stream media.

Just snipits from a timeline:

http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...

These events have been reported by a range of medial outlets, but in limited air time:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22d...

Too much mainstream coverage is given to the 2016 presidential election than many other current events of consequence.

Have you ever listened to the daily _independent_ news radio program Democracy Now? Stream it a few times if you don't live near a local station that broadcasts it. I listen on a local (community-supported, not wide-scale public) radio station. The team does a great job with multiple interviews (not just a few talking heads) from out in the field - where stuff is happening, but also with a range of award-winning journalists from all over the planet.

It's easy to criticize the reporting of details, but this is an intense story that has not received enough attention on main stream media.

Just snipits from a timeline:

http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...

These events have been reported by a range of medial outlets, but in limited air time:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22d...

Too much mainstream coverage is given to the 2016 presidential election than many other current events of consequence.

This just in: http://www.democracynow.org/20...

Fact check? Not. Google whores for hillary http://www.democracynow.org/20... http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... https://theintercept.com/2016/... https://aeon.co/essays/how-the... http://thehill.com/policy/tech... http://observer.com/2016/08/te...

... as though I'm going to trust a mega-corp for the truth.
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
https://capitalresearch.org/20...
https://www.spreaker.com/user/...
http://observer.com/2016/08/te...

Her long history with Wal-Mart and being the wife of former Arkansas governor Bill Clinton, and the namecalling you brought up notwithstanding, are virtually sideshows compared to war with Russia. This war will probably take the form of her promised "no-fly zone" and "safe zone" in Syria which even she (privately, to her bankster funders) admits will "kill a lot of Syrians" and require ground troops. What is a no-fly zone? Dr. Jill Stein, also running for US president, has clarified what that means:

Hillary Clinton has said she would like to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, which basically means we are going to war with Russia, because that's what you do when you impose a no-fly zone, is you shoot down people that are in that airspace. And remember, we have 2,000 nuclear weapons now, between us and the Russians, on hair-trigger alert. So, this is certainly a very dangerous territory, where Hillary Clinton has continued to beat the drums of war with this idea that we are showing strength and leadership, but leading us in exactly the wrong direction and a very dangerous direction.

Hillary Clinton's hawkishness is bound to cost the US trillions. Continuing Obama's wars (which are all of G.W. Bush's wars plus more wars via drones in a couple countries Bush didn't attack) would do that without adding new wars. But Clinton's belligerency is why the Intercept notes "Robert Kagan and Other Neocons Are Backing Hillary Clinton". A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for more war, more extrajudicial assassination, and that includes killing women and children whom Clinton is so keen to convince us she cares about. This merely builds on the wars she's voted for or otherwise supported (Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc.). She may be more gentle-toned than Trump but she's the more lethal choice than Trump too. Donald Trump's wide ignorance and many bigotries, as ugly and reprehensible as they are, are being pitched loudly to distract one from considering Sec. Clinton's lethal record of injustice. Fortunately, as I'm sure the Democrats will be happy to attest to should Clinton lose again, there's more than 2 choices for US president.

The Chinese were paid for their labor and then went home afterwards.

I'll try to remember that the next time I visit China Town in San Francisco.

What happened to Allied civilians who were in Japan when they sneak attacked Pearl Harbor? Oops, they went into internment camps too.

That justifies violating the constitutional rights of American citizens of Japanese descent by locking them up and confiscating their property? That mistake cost taxpayers $1.6B in reparations.

http://www.democracynow.org/1999/2/18/wwii_reparations_japanese_american_internees

BZZT BZZT INCONVENIENT TRUTH, DOES NOT COMPUTE, DOES NOT COMPUTE

You're stupid. No surprise there. :)

A video edit comparing what Hillary Clinton claimed to what James Comey claimed after the FBI investigation highlights the distance between the two quite well and puts a fine point on the part where Comey says that if this had been anyone else who did what she did they might not get the same cushy response from the FBI she got.

And keep in mind that the US has very unclean hands here, according to Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor who would know what tools the NSA has available to look into this.

But of course the veracity of the documents leads us to the real story. Nobody claims the DNC emails were faked, just like nobody said the Snowden revelations were untrue. This helps us focus on what those documents show: Bernie Sanders was not lying to us when he said, "I told you a long time ago that theâ"that the DNC was not running a fair operation, that they were supporting Secretary Clinton.", and that he requests far too weak of a solution to remedy the problem (getting rid of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chair of the DNC). And the emails show us that the DNC were telling amenable media outlets (such as NBC, if I recall correctly) which stories to not publish because they made someone they cared about look bad. Julian Assange's interview on Democracy Now is worth reading, it's quite revealing about how nasty the Clinton campaign is, sourcing the unnamed "experts" who told Robby Mook, Clinton campaign manager, that "Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails" and "are releasing these emails for the purpose of actually helping Donald Trump".

"American Exceptionalism" doesn't mean what you seem to think it does. It's not "American Betterism". Look it up some time if you're interested in knowing what the words you use mean.

In brief summary, it's the idea that the US has a special responsibility to act in accordance with the principles of freedom and democracy because it was founded not as an ethnic group, but based on those principles.

You mean the principles of selling billions in weapons to Saudi Arabia - the beheading capital of the world, executing people for sorcery - or allowing child rape on military bases? The principles of supporting coups of democracies - most recently Honduras and Ukraine?

Look it up some time if you're interested in knowing what the words you use mean.

If you're interested in not being a complete shit-for-brains, ray, you might want to do something about your willful ignorance before you prattle on about what others should know. Has Russia spent the last 30 years expanding the Warsaw Pact to Mexico, Canada and surrounding islands after promising not to? Is Russia murdering people with robot planes on the other side of the planet from them?

Has Russia run a worldwide kidnapping and torture program, that was so brutal it even shocked Bush? Is Russia trying to spy on the electronic communications of every person on the planet, the way the NSA has? Nope, nope and nope.

Windows is a trinket, other news is much more significant:

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Dear Americans,

Your president lied about the killing of Osama bin laden. Seymour Hersh explains his essay.

Poor Jeffrey Sterling sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Fuck you guys.

Windows is a trinket, other news is much more significant:

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Dear Americans,

Your president lied about the killing of Osama bin laden. Seymour Hersh explains his essay.

Poor Jeffrey Sterling sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Fuck you guys.

Dear Americans,

Your president lied about the killing of Osama bin laden. Seymour Hersh explains his essay.

Poor Jeffrey Sterling sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Fuck you guys.

CAPTCHA: denial

Dear Americans,

Your president lied about the killing of Osama bin laden. Seymour Hersh explains his essay.

Poor Jeffrey Sterling sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Fuck you guys.

CAPTCHA: denial

Dear Americans,

Your president lied about the killing of Osama bin laden. Seymour Hersh explains his essay.

Poor Jeffrey Sterling sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Fuck you guys.

Dear Americans,

Your president lied about the killing of Osama bin laden. Seymour Hersh explains his essay.

Poor Jeffrey Sterling sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Fuck you guys.

most of her significant wins have a cloud of large-scale voter suppression over them.

http://usuncut.com/politics/ne... http://www.democracynow.org/20... http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

When your guys is losing, there is always "large-scale voter suppression."

Actually, she's not winning free and clear; most of her significant wins have a cloud of large-scale voter suppression over them.

http://usuncut.com/politics/ne...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

And at least in NY that likely would have disproportionately older people (it seemed to hit people with old registrations more) and minorities (because they always get hit the worst by voting issues). Aka Hillary's base.

Whatever you think of Hillary's politics she won because more people wanted to vote for her and more people did vote for her.

The door to this was left open when 191 million voter records were leaked, making re-registration with edited details trivial. The earlier scandal over the DNC voter records being open allow for specific targeting of those not supporting Clinton which is the demographic reporting issues.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/...

Quite simply, yes, there's overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty

Ok, lets look at the first piece of evidence from that link.

Shelly Berry shared on Facebook that she had proof her New York voter registration was changed. Her registration was switched from Democrat to unaffiliated and she was told the change was made in 2012.

So Hillary's dastardly plan to rig the primary by specifically suppressing Bernie supporters began four years ago?

Otherwise do you have any idea how many people would need to be involved to mess with enough registration records to really affect the democratic primary? That's a 9-11 truther level of conspiracy theory.

Sure there are problems with the US's voting system, it's a disorganized mess, it may be worse this year or it might just look worse because of the extra scrutiny.

But voting issues + your favourite candidate not winning aren't the same as "overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty".

Actually, she's not winning free and clear; most of her significant wins have a cloud of large-scale voter suppression over them.

http://usuncut.com/politics/ne...
http://www.democracynow.org/20...
http://thinkprogress.org/polit...

And huge number of affidavit ballots cast in New York have simply not been counted.

Across the country, voters that have long been registered Democrat have discovered their registration details tampered to make their participation in closed primaries impossible. The door to this was left open when 191 million voter records were leaked, making re-registration with edited details trivial. The earlier scandal over the DNC voter records being open allow for specific targeting of those not supporting Clinton which is the demographic reporting issues.

http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/...

Quite simply, yes, there's overwhelming signs that this election is being heavily rigged and in dirty

Alleged public disinterest in the Snowden revelations and their consequences is misreported and misunderstood. I've only ever seen such claims in forums like /. where people can easily post under multiple handles in an attempt to misrepresent their numbers. The international special meetings amongst heads of state (including Chancellor Merkel's self-centered caring about spying involving her equipment), the rush to encrypt things in internal networks (and to publicize such encryption) and user-facing products, and the fear of being seen as indifferent to spying (Apple, Google, and Microsoft have all recently participated in this, one corporate PR "story" from Microsoft was repeated close to this story on /.) are clear counterexamples to the allegation that people don't care. If people were genuinely as indifferent as claimed there would be no point in being seen to care about user's privacy. But I think Glenn Greenwald said it best:

One really interesting aspect of this is, a lot of people ask what really has changed as a result of Edward Snowden's revelations, and sometimes people express the view that not much has, by which they mean that there's not a lot of laws that have been passed limiting the NSA's ability to spy. But one critical change, a really fundamental and significant one, has been that prior to the Snowden revelations, Silicon Valley companies, like Apple and Facebook and Google and Yahoo, were full-scale collaborators with the NSA's effort to collect everything, essentially, to turn the Internet into an unlimited realm of surveillance. And they were able to do that because nobody knew they were doing it, and so there was no cost. Once we were able to shine a light on the cooperation between Silicon Valley and the NSA as a result of Edward Snowden, there was a huge cost to these companies, which was that people around the world would be unwilling to use their services and would instead move to South Korean or German or Brazilian social media companies that protected their privacy. And so these companies needed to say, "We are willing now to protect your privacy by putting encryption products into our products that will not let the government invade your communications and see what you're doing." And there is now a serious wedge between the U.S. government, on the one hand, and Silicon Valley, on the other—not because these companies suddenly care about privacy. They don't care about privacy at all. It's because they perceive it as being within their self-interest to demonstrate a commitment to privacy. And that has created a real difficulty for the NSA and for its allied agencies around the world to be able to intrude into people's private communications.

Hospitals in opposition-held parts of Syria are refusing to share GPS coordinates with Russian and Syrian authorities because of repeated attacks on medical facilities and workers, Médecins Sans Frontières and humanitarian workers on the ground have said.
“Given the number of hospitals that have been bombed since the war started, they do not think [giving GPS coordinates] is going to protect them, rather the opposite,” another official said.

Don't let the title fool you. The WHOLE article does NOT have a word, or phrase suggest that they STOP provide GPS coordinates to Russia AFTER the incident. In fact, as the quote, they have never provided the data.
Further details:
http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-g...

The charity, also known by its French acronym MSF, says repeated attacks against health facilities during Syria's five-year civil war have led medical staffers to ask the group not to provide the GPS coordinates of some sites. This was the case of the makeshift clinic run by the charity in the Syrian town of Maaret al-Numan, which was hit four times in attacks on Monday, killing at least 25 people.

OTOH, the Kunduz hospital was the brightest lit building, with flag were easy recognize AND they provided GPS data, and they repeats the claim that "the strikes continued for half an hour after U.S. and Afghan authorities were told the hospital was being bombed" .
After that, tanks entered and destroyed the evidences.

While no-one know which was Russian or Syrian bombing or "other" airforces (remember the airstrike that killed numbers of SAA soldiers, no one know who did this).

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According to THIS [washingtonpost.com], it's well-educated engineer types who are most likely to embrace terrorism.

Yeah, about that:

https://www.democracynow.org/i...

https://media.salon.com/2015/1...

http://freakoutnation.com/wp-c...

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I'm very shocked that the death of Ian got so little attention or coverage.

When a major event occurs and you don't even hear about it, don't be surprised. It's just the world continuing the way it usually does because we don't pay enough attention to the corrupt bastards in charge. We should all have taken up our torches and pitchforks and marched en masse on the places of power long before now. And by that, I mean the homes of the ultra-wealthy.

Payback is a bitch. The USA stopped Democracy in the Middle East.

You know, as I see the USA's real-politics (realpolitik) explode in our faces, our Middle East presence all for oil and nothing but for oil explode in our faces, I just have to wonder, wasn't there any hint of empathy when these policies were enacted?

None. Jimmy Carter in 1980 expressed the Carter Doctrine and every President since then used it.

I'm in Georgia and if it weren't for the SS - Secret Service - I'd give ex-President Jimmy Carter my piece of mind - I'd say mean and nasty things to him. But I don't want to be arrested or killed for using my rights.

It's all about Oil. And Im not getting a benefit from it.

Maybe your post is so long you have forgotten what you wrote:

"ou may have been fed this information but it is FUD in every sense of the words. What you are saying is simply not true given the information that I have and, while this may seem an appeal to authority, I am going to trust my experiences, my family's experience, my friend's experiences, and the experiences from the many vets that I am in contact with and have discussed this very topic with (at length). There are so few complaints that I could, quite literally, count them using no more than my own digits. I may not even have to use more digits than are on both hands. "

that is not claiming an exception, it is claiming your anecdotal data is superior to actual reports of abuse, admitted under oath by VA officials, across many VA hospitals and facilities.

Are you saying that the VA is lying about being incompetent?
Are you saying these facts, which contradict your own, and admitted by the Army's Vice Chief of Staff are wrong?

"The Army’s Vice Chief of Staff General Richard Cody admitted on Wednesday there has been a "breakdown in leadership" at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. His comments came three days after The Washington Post revealed that hospital rooms at Walter Reed were infested with mouse droppings, cockroaches, stained carpets, rodents and black mold. "

http://www.democracynow.org/20...

What you call "the slow way" is called journalism. Journalism, like scientific work or any other work worth doing, takes time to do. There are plenty of examples of independent journalism being done well, some have already been shared in this thread by others. Here are some more that come to mind: Democracy Now!, NOW with Bill Moyers and Bill Moyers Journal were both quite well done and worth watching reruns/archives (moreso the Journal), CounterPunch, Harry Shearer's weekly Le Show, and The Real News. All of these focus on issues of importance, get more deeply into those issues via interviews with those who have studied the topic in-depth via investigative journalism and those who work in the field, and leave you with pointers to more information you can study yourself. I'm sure there are so many more examples of this work being done well I didn't list but don't let that stop you from trying various sources and reading books (paper books, not DRM'd proprietary-driven computer-based readers that track you, threaten to cut off your reading, or deny you the other freedoms paper grants). You won't agree with everything you see, hear, and read but the point isn't to manufacture your consent, it's to get you thinking critically about the world outside the allowable limits of debate so often featured in mainstream coverage.

You've got to realize though, that those congressmen are our constitutional representatives. They represent the power of the people in this democracy

I think the OP is referring to the fact that the NSA lied to Congress and the American people when asked about spying, not on Congress, but on the American people:

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans?"

James Clapper: "No, sir."

Wyden: "It does not?"

Clapper: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."

(watch for yourself)

Some Republicans have said He should be fired. Obama said he misspoke.

One might think he should have been arrested. Instead, they arrested the lawyer who asked him why he lied..

We've seen this double-standard applied recently-- no one arrested for torture except the CIA Whistleblower. Leakers getting huge sentences unless their rank is high enough.

If the CIA can get away with spying on Senate computers then that's it. They really are above the law.

They've gotten away with much much worse already. (I started adding links but there are hundreds of them...)

Drones and people are not the same thing. Drones get their targets overwhelmingly from SIGINT provided by the NSA.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQiz0Vavmc

Oftentimes drones are sent to kill based only on a cell phone signature with no other verification. Its how you get circumstances like a hellfire missile being fired at a group of people going to a wedding.

http://www.democracynow.org/20...

The people pushing those buttons have no idea who is being killed by what gets fired. Furthermore all of those enemy combatants killed by drones are only as a result of the government redefining the definition of "enemy combatant" to mean a male between the ages of 13 and 55 in a warzone. Drones kill civilians by an overwhelming majority and the person pushing the button never knows the difference.

They do not need to read it into the congressional record to be protected under the Speech of Debate Clause of the constitution. Listen to the first senator, Gravel, that ever exercised this right speak. He was uncertain of the legal grounds, so he intended to read it into the congressional record as part of a filibuster. This was prevented by process, so he called a subcommittee hearing and read it into the subcommittee record.

This senator now states that the supreme court ruling about his actions protects legislatures from prosecution when divulging state secrets in the interest of public debate.

Watch what he has to say here: http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/12/16/former_senator_mike_gravel_on_putting

I can only find one case where a senator has tried to use this to get out of a DUI and his attorneys are asserting that the senator is protected under the Kentucky Constitution clause, not the federal constitution. The case is set to be heard May 5th of this year.