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The Coup Americans Don't Know About, and Washington's Plan to Destroy Venezuela's Democracy
By Dave Lindorff
Open Letter to the People and Leaders of Iran from the People of the United States
Sign here.
It has come to our attention while observing the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the United States government that a group of 47 U.S. Senators are attempting, against the will of the majority of the American people, to sabotage any agreement due to their hope of creating additional conflict between our country and the people of Iran.
We would also like to bring to your attention that many people in the United States are aware that the United States government is in violation of a treaty approved by the Senate and signed into law. The treaty imposes an affirmative obligation on the United States and all other countries possessing nuclear weapons to act to diminish and eventually eliminate all of their existing nuclear weapons as a condition for relieving non-nuclear countries of the need to acquire such terrifying weapons. The official name of this treaty is the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons or NPT.
We also wanted to bring to your attention that under the U.S. Constitution, (Article 6, Clause 2), any treaty approved by the Senate and signed into law "shall be the supreme law of the land" in the United States.
Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty requires the United States as a nuclear power to: "pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a Treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control". (our emphasis)
We wanted to make sure that you were aware that the U.S. Constitution, recognizing the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as the supreme law of the land in the United States, requires government officials to carry out two specific tasks:
First, to eliminate the U.S. nuclear arsenal under its Treaty pledge of "general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control;"
And second, to "pursue negotiations in good faith" with other nations for the achievement of nuclear disarmament.
As things stand, the United States is in violation of this "supreme law of the land."
The United States is not ridding itself of nuclear weapons. It possesses thousands of operational nuclear weapons that it is not destroying. In fact, it is in the process of improving their capability, deploying them on updated fighter aircraft, and other land-attack missiles, aircraft carriers and submarine platforms at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars in new government funding.
The United States also provides more than $4 billion in military and economic aid to the state of Israel although Israel refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or allow outside inspectors, and does not deny that it possesses a considerable arsenal of nuclear weapons. We are not aware of any call by U.S. officials insisting that Israel sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or begin liquidating its own nuclear arsenal.
We, the people of the United States, are also aware that Iran as a signatory to the same Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has the absolute legal right, as do all signatory countries, to develop a nuclear capability for civilian energy purposes.
Article IV of the Treaty states: "Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes."
As a side note, we are also aware that when your country was ruled by a monarch installed in power in 1953 as a consequence of a CIA led-coup against the then constitutional government in Iran, the policy of the U.S. government was to encourage the development of an Iranian nuclear program.
We hope that this letter enriches your understanding that the spirit and content of the Open Letter by 47 Republican Senators does not conform with the views and desires of a broad section of public opinion inside the United States.
Their real aim in scuttling and sabotaging the current negotiations between the United States and Iran, perhaps unprecedented in the form they have chosen, is to create more conflict including the danger of military action against Iran.
Be assured that the last thing the American people want is war with or against Iran.
Initial signers
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General • Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman • Brian Becker, ANSWER Coalition • Cindy Sheehan, peace activist • Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, Executive Director, Partnership for Civil Justice Fund • Heidi Boghosian, Esq., Constitutional Rights attorney • James Lafferty, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles • Debra Sweet, Director, World Can't Wait • Chuck Kauffman, National Co-Coordinator of Alliance for Global Justice • Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst • Eugene Puryear, Party for Socialism and Liberation • Medea Benjamin, co-founder, Code Pink • David Swanson, WarIsACrime.org • Juan Jose Gutierrez, Vamos Unidos, USA • Malachy Kilbride, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance • Imam Mahdi Bray, American Muslim Alliance • Phil Wilayto, author and editor, Virginia Defenders Newspaper • Don DeBar, Host, CPR News • Arturo Garcia, Alliance Philippines • Radhika Miller, Attorney, Washington, D.C. • Rev. Claudia de la Cruz, Rebel Diaz Arts Collective (RDACBX) • Kim Ives, Haiti Liberte • Benjamin N. Dictor, Attorney, New York, NY • John Beacham, ANSWER Chicago • Phil Portluck, Voices4Justice72.com • Preston Wood, ANSWER - LA • Mike Prysner, March Forward! • Jeff Bigelow, labor organizer • Gloria La Riva, National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
Israel News - Mar 12, 2015
POLL: As Israel vote looms, centre-left pulls ahead of PM Netanyahu's Likud - Yahoo News
Israel Elections 2015: Social And Economic Issues, Not Iran, Dominate Political Race - ibtimes.com
Israel Election: Pocketbook Issues Trump Security Concerns - newsweek.com
Herzog claims Israel's economy is suffering due to overfocus on defense, vows only to raise defense budget if social needs are met - Arutz Sheva
Isaac Herzog says he trusts Obama "to get a good deal" with Iran, favors two state solution for the Palestinians - The Globe and Mail
Herzog: I'll evict settlers but only in an agreement and after talking to the settlers themselves, I may appoint an Arab minister - Arutz Sheva
Herzog: I want to unite, while Netanyahu divides - Ynetnews
Zionist Union unveils party platform - Ynetnews
VIDEO (English Subtitles): Isaac Herzog official election ad - YouTube
As Election Day Nears, Benjamin Netanyahu Talks of a 'Worldwide' Effort to Defeat Him - NYTimes.com
POLL: Netanyahu Support Among Democrats Plunges After Iran Speech - newsmax.com
Benjamin Netanyahu to blame for security failures, worsened relationship with US, former Mossad Chief says - Jerusalem Post
Netanyahu leads a nation with its own nuclear secrets, the country now has about 200 nuclear bombs and missile warheads - Washington Post
Jewish Congresswoman says Israeli voters should oust Benjamin Netanyahu for damaging the country's relationship with the U.S – Forward.com
Benjamin Netanyahu retreats on Palestinian state - Jerusalem Post
Netanyahu apologizes for campaign ad after union vows not to vote Likud - Ynetnews
Tens Of Thousands Attend Anti-Netanyahu Rally In Tel Aviv - huffingtonpost.com
Lieberman says Israel should execute Arabs who carry out deadly attacks, although the death penalty is on the statute only one person has been executed in the country's history - Reuters
Israel's Arab political parties have united for the first time - The Washington Post
POLL: Defying calls to boycott next week's vote, turnout among Israeli Arab voters is projected to rise (VIDEO) - CSMonitor.com
VIDEO: Israel's Arab citizens brandish new electoral power - euronews
Head of joint Arab-Israel party Ayman Odeh: the surprise of the 2015 campaign - i24news
Israeli Election: Interview with Head of joint Arab-Israel party Ayman Odeh - newsweek.com
PA president Abbas voices support for Joint Arab List in Israeli elections - Israel Hayom
With eye to Israel's election, Palestinian Authority trying to prevent flare-up of tensions in West Bank - Jerusalem Post
PA holding 50 Islamic militants, fearing terror attack will give election to Likud - Haaretz
Concerns Rise Over Plots to Oust Abbas - US News
POLL: Gaza Residents Blame Hamas for Palestinian Division - The Tower
U.N. inquiry on Gaza war crimes seeks delay of report to June: statement - Reuters
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Which Party Do You View Iran Through?
Most people in the United States have little contact with Iran or its culture. Iran comes up as a scary threat in the speeches of demagogues. A range of debate is offered between obliterate it and pressure it into compliance with our civilized norms, or at least the civilized norms of some other country that doesn't obliterate or pressure people.
So how do Americans view Iran? Many view it, like all governmental matters, through the lens of either the Democratic or the Republican Party. The Democratic President has come to be seen as on the side of preventing a war with Iran. The Republican Congress has come to be seen as pushing for that war. In this framework, something remarkable happens. Democrats begin recognizing all of the arguments against war that ought to be applied to every war.
Liberals and progressives are full of talk about respecting their president and their commander in chief and following his course to tame the Iranian threat, and so forth. But they are also pointing out that war is optional, that it is not a justifiable last resort because there are always other choices. They are pointing out the undesirability of war, the horrors of war, and the preferability of a diplomatic resolution, indeed the generation of friendly and cooperative relations -- albeit in some cases as a means to fighting another war with Iran as an ally. (This seems to be Obama's scheme for using war to fix the disaster left by a past war.)
Online activist organizations that identify with the Democratic Party are actually doing remarkably well at arguing against a war with Iran. They've largely dropped the President's own rhetoric that baselessly claims Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, preferring to rail against the danger of Republican warmongering. That's a reality-based position held by neither Party -- the Republicans don't claim they're starting a war and the White House doesn't generally focus on accusing them of it. Yes, these groups are still pushing the idea that Republicans disrespecting their president is an even bigger deal than starting a war, but when they turn to the topic of war they truly sound like they oppose it and understand why we always all should.
If you see Iran through that left-Democratic lens, that is if you are opposed to Republican efforts to start yet another unnecessary catastrophic war, this one with Iran, I have a few ideas I'd like to run by you.
1. What if President Obama were opposed to efforts to undermine and overthrow the government of Venezuela? What if Republicans in Congress were ridiculously claiming that Venezuela was a threat to the United States? What if the Republicans were writing letters of encouragement to the leaders of coup attempts in Venezuela to let them know that they had U.S. backing regardless of what the State Department might say? Would you oppose the overthrow of the Venezuelan government?
2. What if Congress had sent a delegation to instigate a violent coup in Kiev, behind the back of the State Department and the White House? What if pressure was building toward a war with nuclear Russia, and Republican leaders of Congress were eagerly fanning the flames while the White House pursued the alternatives of diplomacy, demilitarization, ceasefires, negotiations, aid, and the international rule of law? Would you oppose U.S. Congressional support for the rightwing coup government in Ukraine and its antagonization of Russia?
3. What if President Obama gave an eloquent speech acknowledging that not only is there "no military solution" in Iraq or Syria but that it's wrong to keep saying that while pursuing a military solution? What if he pulled U.S. troops out of that region and out of Afghanistan and asked Congress to fund a Marshall Plan of aid and restitution, at a much lower price tag than the troop presence of course? And what if Republicans introduced a bill to put all the troops back in? Would you oppose that bill?
4. What if the Congressional armed "services" committees set up panels to review kill lists and ordered men, women, and children targeted and murdered with drone strikes, along with anyone too close to them and anyone with a suspicious profile? What if President Obama accused Congress of violating national laws on murder, the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Conventions, the Kellogg Briand Pact, the Ten Commandments, and the lessons of the past that show such reckless actions to generate more enemies than they kill? Would you protest drone kills and demand the elimination of armed drones?
Here's what worries me. There are some positive signs right now and were some in late 2013 and at moments since. But the anti-Republican-war movement of 2002-2007 may not be matched again until the U.S. President is again a Republican (if that ever again happens). And by then, President George W. Bush's wars will have long passed without any penalties for those responsible. And President Obama will have increased military spending and foreign presence and privatization, given the CIA the power to wage wars, eliminated the practice of gaining UN approval for wars, ended the custom of gaining Congressional sanction for wars, established the practice of murdering people with missiles anywhere on earth (and armed half the earth's nations with similar ability), while continuing to spread violence and weaponry through Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and on and on.
One last question: If you had a chance to oppose things you dislike, even though they're the result of bipartisanship, would you?
Talk Nation Radio: Michael Schwartz: Israel's Wars Are for Oil
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The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) invites you to attend the "Stop the Wars at Home & Abroad!" conference, to be held May 8-10, 2015, in Secaucus, N.J, just outside New York City.
More and more, we can see how all the problems of the world are connected. The trillions of dollars being spent on wars-for-profit abroad could be used here at home to rebuild our cities, educate our youth, employ our jobless, repair damage to the environment – and try to make up for the endless suffering the Pentagon is inflicting on people around the world, most of them people of color, the vast majority of whom have nothing to do with threatening us or anyone else.
Some of the connections are even more striking. Some of the very same kinds of military equipment used in Iraq was seen this past summer on the streets of Ferguson, Mo. Surveillance drones developed for use by the military are now being used by domestic police departments. The endless "war on terror" is being used to justify taking away our civil liberties here at home. Wars for oil in the Middle East keep fossil fuels flowing, accelerating the climate change that threatens all humanity.
This conference will be an opportunity to meet and network with activists from across the country and learn about the many struggles going on today, both at home and around the world. Speakers with decades of experience will be joined by members of the new generations of activists who are bringing fresh energy and ideas into the movement. Together, we will learn from and inspire each other.
Most conferences cost many hundreds of dollars to attend, but UNAC organizers are doing their best to keep this one affordable for young activists and working people. Don't miss this unique opportunity to expand your knowledge, make many new progressive friends and build the movement for fundamental social change.
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Looking for enemies: Venezuela, the Latest 'National Security Threat'
By Dave Lindorff
Seriously? Venezuela is a "national security threat"?
That is what President Obama has reportedly declared today in a new executive order.
And how exactly is poor Venezuela, a nation of 29 million, with a small military upon which it spends just 1% of GDP, one of the lowest rates in the world (the US spends 4.5% of GDP on its own bloated military), a threat to the US?
Ukraine/Russia News - Mar 10, 2015
Chairman and top Democrat on Senate Foreign Relations Committee press Obama on military aid for Ukraine - WashingtonExaminer.com
Corker, Menendez Send Letter to Obama Seeking Report on Defensive Lethal Assistance for Ukraine - US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Schedule of Hearings On U.S. Policy In Ukraine: Countering Russia and Driving Reform, Tue Mar 10 - US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
VIDEO: Sheduled Video of Victoria Nuland Testimony on US Policy Toward Ukraine, Tue Mar 10 - C-SPAN.org
Amid Looming Federal Corruption Charges, Sen.Menendez Pushes White House for Military Aid to Ukraine - dailysignal.com
McCain joins Murphy in Connecticut to call for military support to Ukraine - nhregister.com
VIDEO: Murphy, McCain speak to Hartford's Ukrainian community - FOX CT
German Ambassador: Last Month Obama Agreed With Merkel Not to Send Arms to Ukraine - ABC News
Germany Concerned about Aggressive NATO Stance on Ukraine - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Germany downplays report of rift with NATO over Breedlove comments - Reuters
VIDEO: Exclusive Interview: NATO Commander in Europe Philip Breedlove on Ukraine - watch on - uatoday.tv
European commission president Juncker calls for EU army, says this military development would persuade Russia the bloc is serious about defending its values - The Guardian
Ukraine Crisis: US Sending 3,000 Troops, Heavy Armor To Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania For NATO Military Exercises - ibtimes.com
NATO holds exercises in Black Sea (VIDEO) - uatoday.tv
Russian Navy Spotted In Black Sea Ahead Of NATO Exercise - rferl.org
Russian Jets Run 'Attack Scenarios' on NATO Ships - Washington Free Beacon
REPORT: Russia's Military Options in Ukraine: Gaming a Russian Offensive - Stratfor
VIDEO: A narrated animation outlining six offensive military options Russia could conduct in Ukraine - Stratfor
VIDEO: Stratfor's George Friedman discusses the concept of wargaming with an eye toward the Russia-Ukraine conflict - Stratfor
Putin Says He Decided To Take Crimea Just Hours After Yanukovych's Ouster - rferl.org
VIDEO (Eng subs): Putin on Crimea: The Road to Motherland (documentary teaser) - YouTube
POLL: Surveys showing Crimeans content with secession from Ukraine - rabble.ca
Russia massing sophisticated weapons in Crimea: NATO - Business Standard News
Putin appeals to Southern European countries for EU sanctions relief - LA Times
POLL: Russia's Anti-American Sentiment At Its Worst Since 1988 - valuewalk.com
POLL: Ukrainians support neutrality between Europe and Russia, disagree on war - usatoday.com
Ukraine Says Rebels Violating Cease-Fire - rferl.org
Ukraine accuses rebels of using heavy weapons near Mariupol - Yahoo News
Ukraine president says 64 soldiers killed since Feb 15 ceasefire - Yahoo News
Separatists say Kiev considering Donbass republics' proposals - Russia Beyond The Headlines
VIDEO: Female rebel fighters take part in Donetsk beauty pageant - RT
Poroshenko: Quarter of Ukraine's industry stopped because of war - UNIAN news
Ukraine hopes to get its industry connected with global market, but faces isolation and crisis - AP
Ukraine's Economy Is Worse Than It Looks - Bloomberg View
Exclusive: IMF assumes Ukraine to get $15.4 billion from creditor talks - Reuters
Separatist leader Zakharchenko announces nationalization of Zasyadko mine where 34 miners have died this week -EN.Censor.net
VIDEO: Ukrainian miners protest against Ukraine's government intentions to close down 12 state mines - uatoday.tv
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A Global Security System: An Alternative to War
World Beyond War has just published a short book titled A Global Security System: An Alternative to War.
This act constitutes an intervention into the debate over whether to create a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force. In fact, this document should help stimulate a debate over whether to continue with the war approach to global conflicts, authorized or not.
It has become routine to acknowledge that "there is no military solution" even while pursuing military actions as preferable to doing nothing. A Global Security System builds a case for alternative actions, both in a moment of crisis, and on the long-term path toward preventing conflict and developing nonviolent means of resolving conflict.
This book describes the "hardware" of creating a peace system, and the "software" — the values and concepts — necessary to operate a peace system, and the means to spread these globally. This report is based on the work of many experts in international relations and peace studies and on the experience of many activists. A quotation from the first section reads:
"In On Violence, Hannah Arendt wrote that the reason warfare is still with us is not a death wish of our species nor some instinct of aggression, '. . . but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.' The Alternative Global Security System we describe here is the substitute. The goal of this document is to gather into one place, in the briefest form possible, everything one needs to know to work toward an end to war by replacing it with an Alternative Global Security System in contrast to the failed system of national security."
The book is available free online at WorldBeyondWar.org, including the Executive Summary and full Table of Contents. Here is the full PDF version. The paperback is available at your local bookstore or any online bookseller. The distributor is Ingram. The ISBN is 978-0983083085. Buy online at Amazon, or Barnes and Noble. The audio book can be purchased here. The eBook editions (978-1495147159) are coming soon.
Comments can be posted under each section of the book on the WorldBeyondWar.org website. Some of the top experts in various fields will be engaging in conversation in these comment sections. Each book section is posted along with graphics, an audio version, and related actions that can be taken. Check it out!
A teach-in on this topic is planned for 5:00-6:30 p.m. March 20, 2015, at University of the District of Columbia Law School at 4200 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC, as part of four days of events planned by Spring Rising. Speaking will be David Swanson, author and director of World Beyond War; Matthew Hoh, a former State Department official who resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan; and Robert Fantina, author and journalist whose most recent book is Empire, Racism and Genocide: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy.
"New York's 200-Year Conspiracy for Peace"
As a scholarly specialist on the American peace movement, I am sometimes telephoned for background information by journalists writing articles about current demonstrations against war or against nuclear weapons. Almost invariably, they have no idea that the American peace movement has a rich history. Or, if they realize that it does have such a history, they have no idea that that history goes back further than the Vietnam War. This is a very big and unfortunate gap in their knowledge. Actually, the American peace movement dates back two centuries and has involved millions of people (among them prominent figures like John Quincy Adams, Charles Sumner, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Jane Addams, Robert La Follette, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr.). Another relatively unknown fact is the importance of New York State―and particularly New York City―in that movement's history.
Putin Wants to Eat Your Children
If U.S. television and politicians started saying that Saudi Arabia should be bombed because it kills and tortures innocent people, within a week many millions of Americans would demand just that. And because those voices do say that about ISIS, many millions of Americans do favor a war on ISIS.
My point is not that bombs would be worse than the problem addressed and would make the problem itself worse as well, although that's all true. Rather, my point is that most people who favor wars do so in order to blindly support a nation, and in blindly supporting that nation they allow it to dictate which wars they will favor. Although war supporters will give you reasons for the wars they favor, they actually favor whichever wars they are told to favor, and no others. And they'll give you the reasons they are told to believe in as well.
More often than not, the U.S. public is advised to favor a war on a single individual of demonic nature, even though a war against an individual is completely nonsensical. According to nonsensical propaganda, you don't bomb Iraqis; you bomb former-U.S.-ally Saddam Hussein. You don't bomb Afghans; you bomb former-U.S.-ally Osama bin Laden. You don't drone kill Pakistani and Yemeni and Somali children and women and men; you drone kill Al Qaeda Terrorist Number Three, over and over again. You don't liberate Libya from what stability it had; you kill former-U.S.-ally Muammar Gadaffi. You don't attack Panama; you attack former-U.S.-ally Manuel Noriega. Et cetera et cetera.
Well, it's Vladimir Putin's turn, which means Russia is at risk, which means the world is at risk, and yet the rough beast stumbling toward Bethlehem to be born is as oblivious to its conception as any unborn thing or television viewer.
The Washington Post has a criticism of the U.S. television show "House of Cards" as being unrealistic in its portrayal of a Putin character because the actor is too tall, the White House would never invite the Russian band Pussy Riot (jailed by Putin) to dinner with Putin, etc. If you actually watch the episode it gets a lot more unrealistic than that.
First the Putin character is made so obnoxious that you're supposed to take the sociopathic (hands-on) murderer who's the U.S. president for a nice reasonable guy. Then you're supposed to accept the whole pretense that the United States wants to and can create "peace" between Israel and its victims despite giving Israel billions of dollars of weapons every year and blocking all global accountability for its crimes. Then you're supposed to imagine that Russia and the United States can and should join forces and use those forces to violently bring about a state of nonviolence without ever even considering any of the grievances or injustices at the root of the problem.
Then comes a pretense that is central to the formulaic but muddy thinking that takes the U.S. into wars. When Pussy Riot protests Putin's domestic abuses, the U.S. president declares that he will follow their example and "stand up" to Putin. This equation between protesting domestic crimes and threatening military hostility from abroad is absolutely insane but absolutely standard in war propaganda.
And why does the President feel obliged to "stand up" to Putin? Because of how the negotiations had gone earlier in the program. The U.S. asked for Putin's help in "bringing peace" to the Middle East, and Putin said OK but I'd like you to take your missiles that are directed at Russia out of Eastern Europe. The President said he would pull out a small unspecified number but his doing so would have to be kept secret. Putin replied that such a bargain should not be secret and there would be no accountability if it were. And the U.S. President at that point freaked out, determined that Putin was an obnoxious jerk who ruined parties, imposed himself on the First Lady, and generally made everyone hate him as much as humanly possible, and therefore Russia deserved nothing and the world would be condemned to a greater likelihood of nuclear war.
You won't find that account in the Washington Post but you will see it if you watch the program. Or if you read U.S. magazines you'll find something similar. If you read U.S. books you'll find the same themes. If you listen to your Congress members you'll get the same general line. A war went from unpopular in 2013 to popular in 2014 because of some ugly videos of murders and the redirection of the war toward the murderers. Vladimir Putin is being set up as the reason for a popular war even as hostility is being provoked in Ukraine and throughout Eastern Europe.
This could be the last such set-up if we quickly learn our lesson and pull it back, or if we don't.
Lee Camp points out to me that the song Pussy Riot sings at the end of the show has some interesting words:
Focus: Hillary Clinton - Mar 7, 2015
Clinton created multiple email addresses on private server, data show (VIDEO) - Fox News
VIDEO: Hacker exposes Hillary Clinton had multiple private emails - Fox News
Source: Top Aides Used Clinton Secret Email Accounts at State Dept. - gawker.com
Hillary's State Department used personal email widely, cited nine times by its own inspector general for improperly use - The Daily Caller
Clinton Wants You to See Her E-Mails, Except the Ones She Didn't Hand Over - Bloomberg Business
A Hillary Clinton Email That the State Department Could Not Find - The Atlantic
Clinton e-mail review could find security issues - The Washington Post
Experts tell Gawker: Hillary's shoddy private e-mail security is a potential national security disaster - Hot Air
Clinton Email Domain Hosted by a Company That Was Hacked in 2010 and Had Data Redirected to Ukraine, IP Address Reveals Link to British Virgin Islands - TheBlaze.com
6 questions that still need answers in the Hillary email controversy - The Washington Post
Hacker "Guccifer" first discovered Clinton's backchannel path - The Smoking Gun
It could be very long time before Hillary Clinton's State Department e-mails see the light of day - The Washington Post
Exclusive: Internal cable from Clinton State Department office barred use of personal email - Fox News
Hillary's State Dept. Forced The Resignation Of An Ambassador For Using Private E-Mail - TheHill
VIDEO: State Department Briefing: Hillary Clinton Emails - C-SPAN.org
White House was not aware that personal account was Clinton sole method of email and that she wasn't keeping a record of her emails at the State Department - AP
White House alerted to potential Clinton email problem in August - POLITICO
VIDEO: Press Secretary Josh Earnest Asked About Hillary Email Scandal - ijreview.com
Associated Press Threatens Legal Action Over Request for Hillary Clinton Information - NYTimes.com
Benghazi investigation gets boost with Clinton email revelations - Bloomberg
Dems denounce subpoena for Hillary Clinton emails - POLITICO
Emails show Clinton aides running interference during Benghazi attack - Fox News
Dad of SEAL Killed in Benghazi Blasts Hillary Over Records Exposed By JW - Judicial Watch
POLL: Clinton loses ground against GOP in hypothetical 2016 matchups - McClatchy DC
Former HHS secretary Donna Shalala to run Clinton Foundation as Hillary prepares possible 2016 run - Fox News
Men Make Up Top 8 Most Highly Compensated Clinton Foundation Employees, Key women earned 63 cents for every dollar key men made - The Weekly Standard
Gold Mine: Hillary Clinton's Brother Granted Super-Rare Mining Permit from Haiti After State Dept. Sent Country Billions - Breitbart
Clinton Can't Shake Her Ties to Bob Menendez's & His Pending Corruption Charges - ammoland.com
Clinton And Menendez's Deep Ties - GOP
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Potomac Reichstag or 'Planet of the Apes'?: Hooting American Yahoos on the Benches and Racist Israeli Demagogue on the Podium
By Dave Lindorff
U.S. Standing Alone Against Children
Lawrence Wittner points out that the United States will soon be the only nation on earth that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
And why not? Wittner focuses on general backward stupidness: the treaty would "override" the Constitution or the importance of families or the rights of parents. He points out the treaty's support for parents and families and the impossibility of overriding the Constitution -- which we might note in any case says nothing on the subject.
Then Wittner mentions some more substantive reasons for opposition:
"... in fairness to the critics, it must be acknowledged that some current American laws do clash with the Convention's child protection features. For example, in the United States, children under the age of 18 can be jailed for life, with no possibility of parole. Also, as Human Rights Watch notes, "exemptions in U.S. child labor laws allow children as young as 12 to be put to work in agriculture for long hours and under dangerous conditions." Moreover, the treaty prohibits cruel and degrading punishment of children―a possible source of challenge to the one-third of U.S. states that still allow corporal punishment in their schools."
That's actually a pretty major in-fairness-to-the-critics point. The United States wants to maintain the ability to lock children in cages for the rest of their lives or to work them in the fields or to physically abuse them in school. In fact, the child prison industry is a major presence in the United States.
And there's another industry that has a dog in this fight. The U.S. military openly recruits children.
And let's not forget that there are children on the drone kill list and children who have been killed with drone strikes.
There are other nations that engage in some of these same abuses. Is it better to ratify a basic human rights treaty and violate it or to refuse to ratify it because you intend to act against it as a matter of principle?
I'm inclined to think the latter suggests the further remove from decent tendencies.
Review of 'Confessions of a Terrorist – A Novel'
Guest post: Anita McKone
If you have ever asked 'Why?... How could they do this?' in response to the latest report of terrorism, then Confessions of a Terrorist is the novel for you. But only if you genuinely want to find out the answers.
Yon Petraeus Has a Lean and Hungry Look
Gen. Petraeus: Too Big to Jail
Editor Note: While lesser Americans face years in jail for leaking secrets – even to inform fellow citizens of government abuses – retired Gen. David Petraeus gets a misdemeanor wrist-slap for exposing covert officers and lying about it, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who was jailed just for trying to ask Petraeus a question.
By Ray McGovern
How Did Syria Get Here?
Wars may be how Americans learn geography, but do they always learn the history of how the geography was shaped by wars? I've just read Syria: A History of the Last Hundred Years by John McHugo. It's very heavy on the wars, which is always a problem with how we tell history, since it convinces people that war is normal. But it also makes clear that war wasn't always normal in Syria.
Syria was shaped by and remains to this day outraged by the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement (in which Britain and France divided up things that didn't belong to either of them), the 1917 Balfour Declaration (in which Britain promised Zionists land it didn't own known as Palestine or Southern Syria), and the 1920 San Remo Conference at which Britain, France, Italy, and Japan used rather arbitrary lines to create the French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon, the British Mandate of Palestine (including Jordan), and the British Mandate of Iraq.
Between 1918 and 1920, Syria attempted to set up a constitutional monarchy; and McHugo considers that effort to be the closest Syria has come to self-determination. Of course, that was ended by the San Remo Conference at which a bunch of foreigners sat in a villa in Italy and decided that France must save Syria from the Syrians.
So 1920 to 1946 was a period of French misrule and oppression and brutal violence. The French strategy of divide and rule resulted in the separation of Lebanon. The French interests, as McHugo tells it, seem to have been profits and special benefits for Christians. The French legal obligation for the "mandate" was to help Syria reach the point of being able to rule itself. But, of course, the French had very little interest in letting the Syrians rule themselves, the Syrians could hardly have ruled themselves worse than the French did, and the entire pretense was without any legal controls on or supervision of the French. So, the Syrian protests appealed to the Rights of Man but were met with violence. The protests included Muslims and Christians and Jews, but the French remained to protect minorities or at least to pretend to protect them while encouraging sectarian division.
On April 8, 1925, Lord Balfour visited Damascus where 10,000 protesters greeted him shouting "Down with the Balfour agreement!" The French had to escort him out of town. In the mid 1920s the French killed 6,000 rebel fighters and destroyed the homes of 100,000 people. In the 1930s the Syrians created protests, strikes, and boycotts of French-owned businesses. In 1936 four protesters were killed, and 20,000 people attended their funeral before launching a general strike. And still the French, like the British in India and the rest of their empire, remained.
Toward the end of World War II, France proposed to "end" their occupation of Syria without ending it, something like the current U.S. occupation of Afghanistan that has "ended" while it continues. In Lebanon, the French arrested the president and prime minister but were forced to free them after strikes and demonstrations in both Lebanon and Syria. The protests in Syria grew. France shelled Damascus killing possibly 400. The British came in. But in 1946 the French and the British left Syria, a nation where the people refused to cooperate with foreign rule.
Bad times, rather than good, lay ahead. The British and the future-Israelis stole Palestine, and a flood of refugees headed for Syria and Lebanon in 1947-1949, from which they have yet to return. And the (first?) Cold War began. In 1949, with Syria the only nation not to have signed an armistice with Israel and refusing to allow a Saudi oil pipeline to cross its land, a military coup was executed in Syria with CIA involvement -- predating 1953 Iran and 1954 Guatemala.
But the United States and Syria could not form an alliance because the United States was allied with Israel and opposed to rights for Palestinians. Syria got its first Soviet weapons in 1955. And the U.S. and Britain began a long-term and ongoing project of drawing up and revising plans to attack Syria. In 1967 Israel attacked and stole the Golan Heights which it has occupied illegally ever since. In 1973 Syria and Egypt attacked Israel but failed to take back the Golan Heights. Syria's interests in negotiations for many years to come would focus on the return of Palestinians to their land and the return of the Golan Heights to Syria. U.S. interests in peace negotiations during the Cold War were not in peace and stability but in winning nations to its side against the Soviet Union. The mid-1970s civil war in Lebanon added to Syria's problems. Peace talks for Syria effectively ended with the 1996 election of Netanyahu as prime minister of Israel.
From 1970 to 2000 Syria was ruled by Hafez al-Assad, from 2000 to the present by his son Bashar al-Assad. Syria supported the U.S. in Gulf War I. But in 2003 the U.S. proposed to attack Iraq and declared that all nations must be "with us or against us?" Syria could not declare itself "with the United States" while the suffering of Palestinians was on TV every night in Syria and the United States was not with Syria. In fact, the Pentagon in 2001 had Syria on a list of seven countries it planned to "take out."
The chaos, violence, destitution, sectarian division, rage, and weaponry that flooded the region with the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 impacted Syria and of course led to the creation of groups like ISIS. The Arab Spring in Syria turned violent. Sectarian rivalries, the growing demand for water and resources, the arms and fighters supplied by regional and global rivalries brought Syria into a living hell. Over 200,000 have died, over 3 million have left the country, six and a half million are internally displaced, 4.6 million are living where fighting is ongoing. If this were a natural disaster, a focus on humanitarian aid would gain some interest, and at the very least the U.S. government would not be focused on adding more wind or waves. But this is not a natural disaster. It is, among other things, a proxy war in a region heavily armed by the United States, with Russia on the side of the Syrian government.
In 2013 public pressure helped prevent a massive U.S. bombing campaign on Syria, but the weapons and trainers kept flowing and no real alternative was pursued. In 2013 Israel gave a company a license to explore for gas and oil on the Golan Heights. By 2014 Western "experts" were talking about the war needing to "run its course," while the U.S. attacked certain Syrian rebels while arming others who sometimes surrendered the weapons to those the U.S. was attacking and who were also being funded by wealthy Gulf U.S. allies and fueled by fighters created out of the infernos the United States had brought to Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, etc., and who were also being attacked by Iran which the United States also opposes. By 2015, "experts" were talking about "partitioning" Syria, which brings us full circle.
Drawing lines on a map can teach you geography. It cannot cause people to lose attachments to people and places they love and live with. Arming and attacking regions of the globe can sell weapons and candidates. It cannot bring peace or stability. Blaming ancient hatreds and religions can win applause and provide a sense of superiority. It cannot explain the mass slaughter, the division, and the devastation that are in large part imported to a region cursed with natural resources desired by and vicinity to crusaders whose new holy grail is the so-called responsibility to protect but who'd rather not mention who they actually feel responsible to and what they're actually protecting.
New TCBH! poem by Gary Lindorff: 'Cape Cod 1966'
My grandmother was too frail to walk on the sand,
So we used to carry her from the car
Which made her grumble,
Which was just grandma.
We never knew how much she hated being carried
Because we were so busy feeling manly,
My brother and I.
And once we got her settled out of the breeze
She would say
"There, this is nice. . ." or something like that...
Iowa GOP Lawmaker: Rick Perry's Involvement With Bakken Fracked Oil Pipeline "A Bad Idea"
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog
By David Goodner and Steve Horn
Everyday Iowa voters are less likely to caucus for former Texas governor and potential presidential candidate Rick Perry "because of his involvement" with a controversial oil pipeline proposal, according to an influential state lawmaker who has made eminent domain one of his signature issues in the Iowa House of Representatives.
Photo Credit: Iowa House Republicans
"Politically speaking, I am not sure there is as much upside for him to be involved as there is downside," Iowa state representative Bobby Kaufmann (R-Wilton) told DeSmogBlog. "People would likely not vote for him for being involved with the pipeline."
Last month, DeSmogBlog broke news that Perry's appointment to the Board of Directors of Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) could cost him support in the Iowa Caucuses. Energy Transfer Partners is a Texas-based company whose subsidiary, Dakota Access, LLC, has petitioned the state of Iowa to build a pipeline to transport up to 575,000 barrels per day of oil obtained from North Dakota's Bakken Shale via hydraulic fracturing ("fracking").
Kaufmann's statement to DeSmogBlog marks the first public criticism of Perry on this issue by a sitting Republican lawmaker. It also comes on the heels of Perry's scheduled March 7 return to Iowa to speak at the Iowa Ag Summit alongside other likely Republican presidential candidates.
Kaufmann's remarks to DeSmogBlog also come in the aftermath of Iowa's paper of record, The Des Moines Register, releasing a poll finding that 74 percent of Iowans are opposed to the use of eminent domain to build the pipeline.
"I think any presidential candidate's association with eminent domain could be unhelpful" to them in the Iowa Caucuses, Kaufmann said.
Libya News - Mar 5, 2015
Oil fields burned by Islamic State militants, Libyan authorities say - EUROPE ONLINE
Airstrikes target purported Islamic State militants after they attack central Libyan oil field - Star Tribune
Libya Declares Force Majeure on Oil Fields in Central Region - WSJ
Libya asks U.N. for arms, jets, tanks to battle Islamic State: letter - Reuters
Italian Navy sending ships towards Libya's coast, energy group ENI owns offshore oil platforms and a pipeline - breitbart.com
Why Libya is ringing alarm bells in Italy - The Local
Italy rescues 1000 refugees from Mediterranean over two days, 10 people found dead - The Guardian
US official: ISIS Has Turned Libya Into New Support Base, Safe Haven (VIDEO) - foxnews.com
Libya FM: 5,000 Foreign Fighters Flock to Libya as ISIS Call for Jihadists - newsweek.com
ISIS Sets Sights on the Mediterranean - gatestoneinstitute.org
Abdelhakim Belhadj, a U.S.-backed rebel, reportedly leads Islamic State in Libya - Washington Times
PHOTO: Would that be the same Abdelhakim Belhadj that SenJohnMcCain is so chummy with? Asking for a friend - Patrick Poole on Twitter
Libya: clashes between army-ISIS in central Benghazi - ANSAMed.it
Another Copt Beheaded in Libya as Patriarch Meets Families of 21 Martyrs - Breitbart
The Ancient Sites Now Under Threat From ISIS in Libya - newsweek.com
Egypt gearing up for major attack on militants in Libya - Washington Times
At the UN Security Council special envoy Leon warns Libya faces disintegration if political crisis is not resolved - libyaherald.com
Libya crisis 'festering,' UN envoy Leon warns, urging decisive action to build national unity - United Nations News Centre
Coverage of Security Council Briefing on Festering Unrest in Libya - ReliefWeb
UN announce details of Libya peace talks, will discuss the positions of prime minister and deputy prime minister in the proposed national unity government - spyghana
Anti-ISIS deal between Tripoli, Tobruk 'never closer': UN special envoy - ANSA.it
UN report paints damning picture of foreign complicity in rearming Libya - libyaherald.com
Rival forces in Libya carry out tit-for-tat strikes before UN talks - timesofmalta.com
Libya's Haftar appointed army chief for recognized government - Reuters
House committee subpoenas Clinton emails in Benghazi probe, she ran her own email server while in office - The Washington Post
Using Private Email, Hillary Clinton Thwarted Record Requests - NYTimes.com
Clinton's E-Mail System Built For Privacy Though Not Security - Bloomberg Business
Why Clinton's Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail - WIRED
Panel's head Democrat: Make Clinton's Benghazi emails public - CNN.com
Hacked emails: Money from "wealthy Sunni Islamists in Saudi Arabia" financed Benghazi attack, Intel reportedly sent to Hillary Clinton by staffer - wnd.com
State Dept. misled on Benghazi bombing three months before the Sept. 11 attack on the same compound? Declassified Pentagon documents show no response to previous terror strike - wnd.com
VIDEO: Hillary Clinton Avoids Email Scandal at Emily's List Gala, Teases Presidential Run - YouTube
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General Petraeus Speaks on Afghanistan; Will be Greeted by Street Protest Over War Leadership
TV ad airing in Las Vegas asks drone pilots to refuse to fly
This advertisement does a number of things in 15 seconds that U.S. television has not done before. It presents a moral case against drone murders (the U.S. government's terminology, and strictly accurate). It opposes drone murders as illegal. It shows victims. It provides the name and website of an organization opposing drone murders. And it directly asks drone "pilots" to refuse to continue. It also makes the Nuremberg argument that an illegal order need not (in fact must not) be obeyed.
This is, as far as I know, and as far as its producers know, the first anti-drone-war commercial on U.S. television, as well as -- I believe -- the first content of any sort on U.S. corporate television to do the things listed above.
This ad is airing from February 28 to March 6 on CNN, MSNBC and other networks in the Las Vegas area, just a few miles from Creech Air Force Base, a major drone operating and training facility where a major protest is underway. It will begin airing in other cities soon.
"We produced this spot to make the point as powerfully as possible that drone killing is horrifying, illegal and immoral," said Nick Mottern, coordinator of KnowDrones.com which sponsored the ad.
In case the pilots viewing the ad fail to grasp the sincerety of its producers, they might consider reading this letter:
To: James Cluff, Commander, Creech AFB
Dear Commander Cluff,
It is our intention to reach out to you and appeal to your humanity to stop the drone killing. Your first responsibility is to uphold laws, regardless of your orders. Aerial bombardment of innocent civilians is in violation of the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions, the Hague Conventions and the principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Drones are not making us any safer. More and more young men in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia are joining groups that are retaliating against the US for the murder of their loved ones.
I'm sure you can see at the base that there is low morale among the drone pilots, because it is impossible to sustain any level of enthusiasm for intelligence, surveillance and reconaissance. Although the Airforce throws incentive dollars to your pilots they are still resigning in great numbers, and those that stay turn to drugs and alcohol to numb and detach emotionally to perform this dehumanizing work. While sitting in a cockpit, gazing at their screens, don't your pilots see mothers and fathers with children, kids playing soccer? Consider the effect of drone strikes on these mothers and children. Children suffer intense trauma when they witness the death of their parents or are themselves victims of airstrikes. How can you justify fighting a telewar? Do the pilots really reap joy with their joysticks from killing unarmed civilians?
Do you really believe that you're protecting Americans from terrorists? You can see that dropping missiles on suspected terrorists isn't working, isn't reducing the number of terrorist cells, instead it is taking precious resources and diverting them from the very programs that could truly keep Americans safe. Can't you see that you are caught up in a system of domination that maintains that our survival depends on our threat and domination of others? And that it is this system that objectifies and separates you from people of other nations.
Commander Cluff, you have sadly forgotten who you are and are living in denial of your humanity. You can try but never succeed at legitimizing the violence of drone airstrikes. This job has dehumanized you and caused your indifference to the suffering of the people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
It is still possible to stop the killing, to change and take the risk of another way of life.
Jackie Barshak
Women for Peace
Ukraine/Russia News - Mar 4, 2015
In Bid To Halt Devaluation, Inflation Ukraine Raises Key Rate to World's Highest Amid Hryvnia Rout - Bloomberg Business
Analyst: Ukraine unofficially has 272 percent inflation - The Washington Post
Ukraine central bank declares fourth-largest lender insolvent, it closed thirty banks last year and declared ten bankrupt since 2015 - Reuters
Ukraine agrees tough austerity package to gain $17.5bn IMF bailout, budget sees drastic pension cuts and energy bills tripling (VIDEO) - RT
VIDEO: 'Budget of genocide'? Ukraine makes amendments to meet IMF demands - RT
Ukrainian Economic Reforms are Humiliation for Populace: Putin - Sputnik International
Ukraine ranked fourth among world's most miserable economies - irishtimes.com
Ukraine's economy is starting to disintegrate: Polish Deputy PM - Reuters
Ukrainians are seeing signs the economy is cracking under the weight of war and the risk of default - Bloomberg
Ukraine Economy Crisis: Rebels Reportedly Open Donetsk Banks Amid Economic Collapse, Growing Black Market For Cash - ibtimes.com
The Other Ukrainian Crisis: While most of the West focuses on Russia's next moves, it may be Ukraine's internal politics that determine the future of the region - Stratfor
Russia, Ukraine Reach Gas Deal For The Month Of March - rferl.org
Russia and Ukraine Agree to Discuss Summer Gas Package - The Moscow Times
Ukraine is trying to end its dependence on Russian gas at the worst possible time - Business Insider
Russia Bans Crop Imports From Ukraine - Financial Tribune Daily
Russia, EU officials to discuss Ukraine-EU association agreement implementation - TASS
Ukraine: Ukraine Imposed Additional 5-10 Percent Duties on Import - USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
More on Ukraine additional import charge - Lexology
VIDEO: Watch Ukrainian Rada erupt in mass brawl - YouTube
Three servicemen dead as Kiev accuses Ukraine rebels of shelling - Reuters
EU, U.S. ready to step up sanctions if Ukraine ceasefire violated - Yahoo News
Obama extends for one year some sanctions against Russia, related to crisis in Ukraine - TASS
White House Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Ukraine - The White House
Top US military officer Dempsey backs arming Ukraine against separatists 'in the context of NATO allies' - Yahoo News
Director of National Intelligence Clapper: Give Ukraine 'Lethal Defensive Weapons' - foreignpolicy.com
US Soldiers Readying for Deployment to Train Ukrainian Forces - defensenews.com
Russia Warns NATO: Any Threat in Ukraine Could Warrant Military Response - Russia Insider
NATO Says Russia Moving Its Weapons Systems In Crimea - ibtimes.com
Russia stepping up nuclear exercises amid events in Ukraine: NATO deputy chief - interfax.com
Ukraine to take part in the NATO crisis management exercise CMX15 - MFA of Ukraine
Ukraine's neighbor Romania to host Portuguese troops for NATO policing mission in May - Star Tribune
Passenger planes dodged Russian bombers in Irish-controlled airspace - BreakingNews.ie
Some 12,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine supporting rebels: U.S. commander Hodges - Reuters
Nemtsov's 'Evidence of Russian Troops in Ukraine' Taken by Police - newsweek.com
The story of a Russian soldier's war in Ukraine: "We all knew what we had to do and what could happen" - Euromaidan Press |
'It Is a Government Crime': The Coffins of Russia's Ghost Soldiers In Ukraine Are Coming Home - VICE News
VIDEO: Killed in "Unknown Circumstances": Russia's Ghost Army in Ukraine (Part 1) - VICE News
VIDEO: Russia's Ghost Army in Ukraine (Part 2) - VICE News
Russia's 17th Humanitarian Aid Convoy Leaves for Ukraine's Donbas: EMERCOM - Sputnik International
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Talk Nation Radio: Spring Rising - An Antiwar Intervention March 21 in DC
This show is a call to action to become part of Spring Rising: An Antiwar Intervention in Washington, D.C., March 18-21, 2015, with the big rally and march on Saturday March 21. See http://SpringRising.org
Total run time: 29:00
Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
Music by Duke Ellington.
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Is it imminent? It's everpresent: Venezuela's Continuous Coup
By Alfredo Lopez
When Caracas Mayor Antonio Ledezma was arrested last week, charged with organizing and leading a coup, the U.S. State Department's spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "The allegations made by the Venezuelan government that the United States is involved in coup plotting and destabilization are baseless and false. The United States does not support political transitions by non-constitutional means."
Admit that torture does not work
To: Keifer Sutherland and Kathryn Bigelow
The Nuclear Nine
By Richard Greve © -- February 2015
They are the Nuclear Nine – the ones with the Bomb.
They can trigger The End
at any time.
A mad leader, a mistake, miscalculation
buttons are pushed, and, well,
there it isn't. Gone.
Fast death for some,
slow for others.
Those with money might go underground
or maybe New Zealand if the wind
hasn't shifted. Hoping against hope.
Those in the cities have a few minutes to panic
and melt.
In the hinterlands long struggles
with a slower demise,
poisoned milk, nuclear winters
where crops will not grow.
Oh what a deed these mushrooms will do.
Kids under desks won't be saved
in their schools,
nor will they be saved by
fast running moms.
Why Do We Fear Challenging Authority?
Have you ever noticed your own inclination, or that of other people, to believe what you/they are told by someone seen to be in authority?
For example, did you know that there is overwhelming scientific evidence that the 911 destruction of the World Trade Center buildings 1, 2 and 7 was a false flag operation? That is, 911 was organised by the US and/or Israeli elite(s) and their agents in order to enable them to manipulate public opinion to support their subsequently initiated perpetual war in the Middle East and elsewhere.
ISIS Derangement Syndrome
Here's Time Magazine's David von Drehle: "The greatest threat that ISIS poses -- even to the poor souls living under ISIS rule -- is the unintended damage that might follow from the effort to eradicate the group. . . . As dangerous as it is to have a terrorist kingdom in the middle of the world's geopolitical tinderbox, ousting ISIS will be every bit as dangerous."
Drehle goes from there immediately into the debate over whether U.S. troops or local troops should do the job. His article is followed by Max Boot arguing for U.S. ground troops and Karl Vick arguing for U.S. bombing with local ground troops. All three writers seem to be aware that ISIS wanted U.S. bombing and wants U.S. ground troops even more, that ISIS recruitment climbs in response to U.S. military action. All three can't help but be aware that terrorist kingdoms like Saudi Arabia already exist in the region with the blessing of the U.S. government (and of magazine writers who seek to please the U.S. government). All three are fairly condescending toward local troops, eager to (somehow) get Sunnis to attack Sunnis, and wary of allowing Iranian "death squads" to get involved in the, you know, mass killing they are proposing.
None of the three have one word to say about the great many innocents already killed in the latest U.S. bombings, but all three seem to grasp that the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 was necessary for the creation of ISIS, all three seem to understand that fighting ISIS is counterproductive, and yet all three strive to place the need to attack ISIS beyond the range of any debate. The question is not whether to make the disaster worse, but exactly how to do it.
What, after all, makes the region a global tinderbox? Israel's nukes? Certainly not, those are not supposed to be mentioned or even thought about. Well then, all the other weapons? But over 80% of those are supplied by the United States, so that can't be it. Perhaps the violent overthrows and devastation of so many governments and countries? But it was the U.S. and friends who destroyed Iraq and made Libya what it is and who have done what they're still doing to Afghanistan. It is the U.S. that has ruined Yemen. It is the U.S. that arms and supports Israel's wars. It is the U.S. that props up the terrorist states in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain and Egypt. Surely what makes the region a tinderbox (rather than a region rich in oil about which greedy earth-destroying interests might be concerned) is something unthinkable or nonsensical or inscrutable, something ethnic or religious or unworthy of consideration.
Because otherwise we might have to consider cease fires and arms embargoes and diplomacy and humanitarian aid as possible alternatives to the usual choices of (1) do nothing, or (2) make it all worse with more of what caused much of the problem in the first place. We might have to consider that it isn't ISIS that's posing the greatest threat in the form of "the effort to eradicate the group."


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1776 $1 Continental Dollar, CURRENCY, Pewter--Bent--NGC Details. XF. Newman 2-C, Hodder 2-A.3, W-8455, R.4....
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1776 Newman 2-C Continental Dollar, XF Details1776 $1 Continental Dollar, CURRENCY, Pewter--Bent--NGC Details. XF. Newman 2-C, Hodder 2-A.3, W-8455, R.4. This example is very slightly bent, and exhibits pewter and darker gray surfaces on both sides. Light surface marks are plainly evident, but only a few are of any concern. The popularity of the mysterious Continental dollar is great enough that demand remains for every surviving example, regardless of quality, and this piece is finer than most. This piece retains excellent design definition with all of the individual elements fully visible. Here is an important opportunity to acquire what should prove an affordable 1776 Continental dollar. Listed on page 81 of the 2011 Guide Book.
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60 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
The Late Show with David Letterman is an hour-long weeknight comedy and talk-show broadcast by CBS from the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York City.
Stars: David Letterman, Paul Shaffer, Alan Kalter, Biff Henderson
Votes: 9,093
15. The Weight of Water (2000)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of ... See full summary »
Writers: Anita Shreve, Alice Arlen, Christopher Kyle | Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Catherine McCormack, Sean Penn, Sarah Polley, Elizabeth Hurley
Votes: 7,268
16. The Colbert Report (2005–2014)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show
Satirical newscaster Stephen Colbert provides humorous commentary on the big issues going on in the United States and the rest of the world, with his larger-than-life ego and overly-patriotic spirit along with him every step of the way.
Stars: Stephen Colbert, Jay Katsir, Jon Stewart, Paul Dinello
Votes: 23,798
17. 60 Minutes (1968– )
60 min | Documentary, News
A popular television News magazine in the USA, in which an ever changing team of CBS News correspondents contribute segments ranging from hard news coverage to politics to lifestyle and pop culture.
Creator: Don Hewitt | Stars: Andrew Rooney, Lesley Stahl, Steve Kroft, Scott Pelley
Votes: 1,670
18. Real Time with Bill Maher (2003– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, News, Talk-Show
Comedian and political satirist Bill Maher discusses topical events with guests from various backgrounds.
Stars: Bill Maher, Arianna Huffington, Andrew Sullivan, Cornel West
Votes: 7,042
19. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992– )
TV-14 | 62 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
After Johnny Carson's retirement from the show, Jay Leno stepped in as his permanent replacement. The format of the show has remained largely unchanged, consisting primarily of an opening ... See full summary »
Stars: Jay Leno, Kevin Eubanks, Edd Hall, Rickey Minor
Votes: 7,877
20. Perfect (1985)
R | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.
Writers: Aaron Latham, James Bridges | Director: James Bridges | Stars: John Travolta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ramey Ellis, Alma Beltran
Votes: 3,097
21. The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010 TV Special)
TV-14 | 217 min
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin host the Oscars.
Writers: Jon Macks, Steve Martin, Marc Shaiman, Colleen Werthmann, Steven Amato, Dave Barry, Robert Cohen, David Feldman, Neil Gaiman, Carol Leifer, Jeffrey Richman, Bruce Vilanch, Scott Wittman, Beth Armogida | Directors: Hamish Hamilton, Anne Fletcher, Richard A. Preuss, Pete Docter, Henry Selick | Stars: Rachel McAdams, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Anna Kendrick
Votes: 1,408
22. Blue Steel (1989)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
Writers: Kathryn Bigelow, Eric Red | Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña
Votes: 8,437
23. The Oscars (2013 TV Special)
TV-14 | 215 min
Seth MacFarlane hosts the Acadamy Awards.
Writers: Leslie Dixon, Jon Macks, Matt Roberts, Jesse Joyce, Seth MacFarlane, Billy Martin, Patrick Meighan, Julius Sharpe, Danny Smith, Alec Sulkin, John Viener | Director: Don Mischer | Stars: Seth MacFarlane, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, William Shatner, Jennifer Lawrence
Votes: 2,431
24. Last Days (II) (2014)
3 min | Short
Writer: Scott Z. Burns | Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Votes: 18
25. The Loveless (1981)
R | 82 min | Drama
Trouble ensues when a motorcycle gang stops in a small southern town while heading to the races at Daytona.
Writers: Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery | Directors: Kathryn Bigelow, Monty Montgomery | Stars: Willem Dafoe, J. Don Ferguson, Robert Gordon, Marin Kanter
Votes: 775
26. Wild Palms (1993 TV Mini-Series)
300 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A multi-national corporation attempts to take over America while small pockets of resistance hold out against rampant technology.
Stars: James Belushi, Dana Delany, Robert Loggia, Kim Cattrall
Votes: 1,571
27. The Miraculous Year (2011 TV Movie)
A chronicle of a New York family as seen through the eyes of a charming yet self-destructive Broadway composer.
Writer: John Logan | Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Lee Pace, Eddie Redmayne, Hope Davis, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 79
28. CBS This Morning (2012– )
120 min | News
A mix of news, features and interviews with notable figures in politics, business and entertainment.
Stars: Charlie Rose, Gayle King, Norah O'Donnell, Vinita Nair
Votes: 91
29. Charlie Rose (1991– )
60 min | News, Talk-Show
Stars: Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Al Hunt, Thomas Friedman
Votes: 519
30. Karen Sisco (2003–2004)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Smart. Sexy. Tough. Karen Sisco is a United States marshal on Miami's Gold Coast. In pursuit of dangerous fugitives, Karen must pick her way through the dark underbelly of South Beach ... See full summary »
Creator: Jason Smilovic | Stars: Carla Gugino, Bill Duke, Robert Forster, Jeffrey De Serrano
Votes: 635
31. A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995 TV Movie)
225 min | Documentary
Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.
Writers: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson | Directors: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson | Stars: Martin Scorsese, Allison Anders, Kathryn Bigelow, Francis Ford Coppola
Votes: 3,393
32. The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (2011 TV Special)
TV-14 | 194 min
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards honoring the best in film for the year 2010.
Writers: Megan Amram, Chadd Gindin, Jon Macks, Jordan Rubin, David Wild | Directors: Don Mischer, Troy Miller | Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, Jake Gyllenhaal
Votes: 1,198
33. Born in Flames (1983)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power, this films presents a dystopia in which the issues of ... See full summary »
Writers: Lizzie Borden, Ed Bowes | Director: Lizzie Borden | Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield, Florynce Kennedy
Votes: 375
34. Cinema 3 (1984– )
Stars: Jaume Figueras, Crisol Tuà, Monts Llussà, Àlex Gorina
Votes: 113
35. The Motel (2005)
75 min | Comedy, Drama
Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest ... See full summary »
Writer: Michael Kang | Director: Michael Kang | Stars: Jeffrey Chyau, Sung Kang, Jade Wu, Samantha Futerman
Votes: 1,219
36. Undertow (1996 TV Movie)
R | 93 min | Action, Thriller, Drama
After his car breaks down, Jack seeks shelter, lost in a thunderstorm in a remote shack in the woods. He finds himself held at gunpoint by a deranged mountain man who lives there with his ... See full summary »
Writers: Eric Red, Kathryn Bigelow | Director: Eric Red | Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Mia Sara, Charles Dance
Votes: 370
37. Untitled Bowe Bergdahl Project
Biography, Drama, War | Announced
U.S. Army sergeant, Bowe Bergdahl, is captured and held by the Taliban in Afghanistan for five years.
Writer: Kathryn Bigelow | Director: Kathryn Bigelow
38. Días de cine (1991– )
60 min | News
Antonio Gasset hosts this show in which recently released movies and DVDs are thoughtfully discussed, in a documentary-like way.
Stars: Antonio Gasset, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Henar Álvarez, Elena S. Sánchez
Votes: 135
39. 70th Golden Globe Awards (2013 TV Special)
Live from the star-filled International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel... our hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (who clearly did not coordinate their outfits). Tina: "Tonight we honor ... See full synopsis »
Writers: Barry Adelman, Jon Macks, Dave Boone, Alex Baze, Robert Carlock, Seth Meyers, Mike Scully, Amy Poehler | Director: Louis J. Horvitz | Stars: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Amy Adams, Adele
Votes: 569
40. Reach (1988 TV Short)
8 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Music video for Bil Paxton's band Martini Ranch where an outlaw biker arrives at a rough small western town to visit his gal in the local brothel. What he doesn't know is that an all-female posse of bounty hunters is coming for him.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Kathryn Bigelow, Bobbie Brat, Bud Cort, Jenette Goldstein
Votes: 60
41. Vivir de cine (2012– )
Stars: José Ignacio Cuenca, Guillermo del Toro, Hugo Weaving, Amy Adams
Votes: 13
42. Union City (1980)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A man is so obsessed with finding the person responsible for stealing his milk bottles that he ignores his beautiful young wife, who has other ideas on her mind.
Writers: Cornell Woolrich, Marcus Reichert | Director: Marcus Reichert | Stars: Dennis Lipscomb, Deborah Harry, Sam McMurray, Terry Walsh
Votes: 290
43. Triple Frontier
Action, Adventure, Crime | Announced
An action-adventure story set in the border zone between Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil.
Writer: Mark Boal | Director: J.C. Chandor
44. Live from Studio Five (2009– )
65 min | News, Talk-Show
A live, early evening magazine show dealing with the latest news, celebrity gossip and everything in between.
Stars: Kate Walsh, Ian Wright, Polly Whitehouse, Melinda Messenger
Votes: 119
45. American Cinema (1995– )
Stars: John Lithgow, Kathleen Turner, Matthew Modine, Ethan Coen
Votes: 132
46. Mission Zero (2007)
8 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi
Writers: Sofia Ambrosini, Sergio Rodriguez, Stefano Volpi | Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Uma Thurman, Jason Maltas, Mathew Vigil, Kevin Kazakoff
Votes: 378
47. DP/30: Conversations About Movies (2007– )
30 min | Talk-Show
Stars: David Poland, Michelle Williams, Sally Hawkins, Greta Gerwig
Votes: 49
48. The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2010 TV Special)
Welcome to the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards, and your host, Ricky Gervais. You may know him as the man who created The Office... See full synopsis »
Writers: Barry Adelman, Dave Boone, Jon Macks | Director: Chris Donovan | Stars: Ricky Gervais, Amy Adams, Jane Adams, Christina Aguilera
Votes: 305
49. New Order: Substance (1989 Video)
37 min | Short, Music
Directors: Kathryn Bigelow, Robert Breer, Philippe Decouflé, Jonathan Demme, Rick Elgood, Robert Longo, Charles Sturridge, William Wegman | Stars: Gillian Gilbert, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner
Votes: 64
50. The Set-Up (1978)
17 min | Short
The Set-Up is Kathryn Bigelow's student film at Columbia about the exploration of 'why violence in cinematic form is so seductive'. It featured two men beating each other to a pulp in a ... See full summary »
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Votes: 40


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3411 WOODRAIL AMENITIES Terrace Portico with circle drive - Precast Stone Balustrades - Electrical outlets for Christmas decorations on timers - Canned lighting all around house on timers except in courtyard - Landscaping completed front and back - Privacy wall with reinforced concrete and steel to support pool - 3 skylights in the lanai Storm water control - All roof gutter drains go under ground and empty into a 24 inch pipe that encircles the house and goes to city storm drain - A large surface drain is on the northeast side of the house to collect and divert storm water to the city storm drain - I have in the ground for 2 more surface storm drains if ever needed. We have been her 3 years and have had no water in the basement Front door is Baldwin Estate with Edinburgh hardware. Great Room - Cathedral ceilings with 6 columns, 2 French doors, and designer vent less gas fireplace with marble hearth and Gothic carved columns - Surround sound Entertainment center with arched bookcases, cabinets and pullout drawers, 65 inch Panasonic High Definition TB, Denon AVR 3802 surround receiver, paradigm speakers out doors and in, Denon DVD / CD changer, Panasonic Satellite receiver and 7 individual volume controls both inside and outside. There are two outside hookup controls for TB and phone - Decorative Iron banisters on second floor Wet Bar - Exhaust fan for cigar smoke - Built in double beer tapper with keg in basement - Kitchen aid bar commercial ice maker, refrigerator, garbage disposal, and 2 skylights with overhead wine glass rack, brass foot rail, and built in wine rack - Indoor / outdoor serving window Formal dining room with recessed decorative ceiling and chandelier and lighted wall sconces. Custom Kitchen - Oversized decorative Granite Island with 2 Remi Consoles - 2 GE ovens with convection heating - GE sensor microwave - GE monogram cook top and tiled back splash, stainless steel exhaust - Bosch dishwasher, trash compactor - Pushbutton garbage disposal and Grol Faucet and tiled back splash - Large warming drawer - 8 rollout drawers, custom cabinets, 3 pendent lights - Remote controlled blinds - Kitchen pantry with built in shelves, prep cabinet, multiple plug- ins for coffee maker and appliances, small work desk with phone jack Powder Room with Kit and Warren wallpaper Master bedroom and bath - 3 French doors to private courtyard, with ceiling fan, TV and separate music/volume control - Large molding decorative tile, heated marble floors - Custom oversized steam shower with marble seating and oversized shower head, separate hand held shower head - Air tub, bidet, pocket doors, 3 vanities, dressing area, built in cabinet for TV and coffee maker - European crystal drawer pulls, separate lighted makeup room with pocket doors. Designer closet and laundry room - Adjacent to master bath with 3 laundry bins built in - Island with drawers and top for triage - All bathroom fans are on timers for automatic shutoff Upstairs - 2 bedrooms with their own vanities - Large sitting area and separate heating and air-conditioning - Jack and Jill bath with Thibaut Bhatti wallpaper - Large utility closet with room for stackable washer and dryer Study - Built in computer desk, shelves and cabinets - Birch pocket doors. Mudroom - Built-in storage bench and closet - Separate full bath off of patio – designed to be used in conjunction with the pool if installed - Contains a shower, commode, sink, urinal and floor drain 3 Car Garage - Heated and air-conditioned - Separate area in the garage for a pump house for the pool - Built in floor drain Basement - Full basement ~ 2600 sq. ft. unfinished - Plumbed for bathroom - Stairway built if it is ever finished in the future (doorway would be in front foyer area) - Separate entry through the garage is oversized for storage use - There is one active sump pump and a pit for another is needed - There is zoned heating and A/C with humidifiers and electric air cleaners - There are 2 hot water heaters, water softener and continually circulating hot water Security system - Off site monitoring - Capability for self-monitoring and changing settings remotely by telephone such as temperature control, indoor-outdoor lighting and indoor lighting scenes. There is brass molding throughout the houses as well as large floor molding. The windows are Kobe and Kobe. Cabinets are custom by Jerry Worth.
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Journal Sentinel book editor Jim Higgins highlights things worth reading, in print and online
Eau Claire writer Nickolas Butler launches 'Shotgun Lovesongs' here Tuesday
Eau Claire writer Nickolas Butler visits Milwaukee's Boswell Book Company Tuesday to launch his debut novel, "Shotgun Lovesongs" (Thomas Dunne). He arrives with some significant wind in his sails.
" 'Shotgun Lovesongs' is about a hometown in Wisconsin and the close band of friends who will always feel its magnetic pull," explains Janet Maslin in her New York Times review of the novel. "One of the friends is a rock star, and Mr. Butler didn't have to make that up. He went to high school with Justin Vernon, lead singer of Bon Iver. And it doesn't hurt for a book about a poky farm community to have a rock star lodged somewhere in its collective history."
Maslin praises Butler's handling of male friendships and conflicts in the novel, and compliments him for making "the most of a place where the V.F.W. is one of the town's biggest institutions."
In the Minneapolis Star Tribune, novelist Peter Geye ("The Lighthouse Road") calls "Shotgun Lovesongs" an "emotionally resonant" novel, "In prose that is as plain-spoken and honest as a Midwestern farmer."
Geye writes:
"In the background — like the steady beat of a kick drum — the town of Little Wing and the farmland that surrounds it come to scintillating life. It's a place that drove these people apart, and brought them back together. Likely you've driven through a town like Little Wing, and maybe you were listening to your favorite album when you did. That feeling you had? You'll find it in these pages."
Butler will talk and sign books at 7 p.m. March 11 at Boswell Books, 2559 N. Downer Ave.
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July 17 – 19 – Join us for a weekend of Cobbing a.k.a Adobe-mounding, an alternative building technique. We will be working on the newest upcoming building, the Green Tara Temple. Come and learn the basics of cob/ adobe mounding, via hands-on experience.
A family-friendly event – you can join us for the day, or spend the weekend.More Information
Sunday, July 26, 2015 – A one-day guided exploration into Vipassana ("Insight") meditation, with guidance in the Theravadan Buddhist tradition of sitting, walking, and eating, as focused practices. It will be a day of silent contemplation, with complete guidance in the techniques, from Joy.
New-comers and old-timers are welcome.More Information
October 16-18, 2015 – Susan Drouilhet and Joy Fox will guide participants on a three-day intensive retreat, combining the meditative silent introspection of Vipassana Buddhism, with the energetic healing possibilities of our mutual chi field, within Qigong. . .The land itself, some of the oldest mountains on the continent, will play a role in our rejuvenation, along with the springtime's blooming trees and wildflowers. And the feminine "grounding" effect of Wattle Hollow's cob buildings is something you'd have to come and experience for yourselves….More Information
…how much I loved the retreat! Wattle Hollow is one of the most amazing places I have ever been. The work you do both inside the human, and outside the natural world is non-pareil. Thank you so much. . . I learned so much to help me with my meditation practice, and have carved out time every morning to sit before going to work.
"I had a great time cobbing! What a wonderful way to create community with kind and gentle people in harmony with mother earth. I learned by doing, and now I feel confident enough to start my own cobbing project."
"We really loved it…the vision we cherish of deep, deep ecology, natural beauty and…. a ' heaven on earth '. And without nourishment born of beauty we couldn't rise to the needful height to be of real service in this divine dance."
"Your place is wonderful- the perfect environment in which to relax, enjoy nature and allow for the spirit to rise."
Love, Valerie (Hospice volunteer coordinator)
Wattle Hollow for me was a little bit of heaven! Thank you for letting us drink of its joys, beauties and relaxants…. (from Paul)
Creator of Wattle Hollow Retreat Center
Traditional healer and a walker of the Red Road/Native American tradition.
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