Sad spectacle of the crumbling Zioconned US Empire....
Lavish expenses for the elites and their stormtroopers, farcical rules and regulations for the plebes - these are all clear signs of the late stages of imperial degeneracy. Truly pathetic....
http://www.slate.com/id/2297383/
6.7 quake hits Japan. NICDR. The AP (the American version of the Soviet news agency TASS), repeats "Ring of Fire" and "regular" occurrence nonsense....
Two truly ridiculous news items today from The Raw Story:
Abroad: The United States spends $20.2 billion annually on air conditioning for troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan — more than NASA's entire budget, NPR reported. In fact, the same amount of money that keeps soldiers cool is the amount the G-8 has committed to helping the fledgling democracies in Tunisia and Egypt.
Comment: no wonder the Afghans consider US soldiers as sissies who are much easier to fight than the Soviets.
At home: A woman has filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security over how her elderly mother was detained and searched by Transportation Security Administration officers at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend. News Herald reported that Jean Weber filed the complaint after her wheelchair-bound 95-year-old mother, who is in the final stages of her battle with leukemia, was asked to remove an adult diaper during a pat down search.
Comment:no wonder the ACLU has received over 900 complaints about the TSA abuse.
http://www.slate.com/id/2297383/
6.7 quake hits Japan. NICDR. The AP (the American version of the Soviet news agency TASS), repeats "Ring of Fire" and "regular" occurrence nonsense....
Where is the money coming from???
Obama's Afghan withdrawal speech may mark the end of the U.S. counterinsurgency experiment.
President Barack Obama's prime-time speech on his plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan left no doubt that he intends to run for reelection as the leader who ended two painful wars. Most notable was his intention to extract 10,000 soldiers this year and 23,000 more by next summer, before the height of Afghanistan's traditional summer fighting season. For some analysts, this would seem to be a large military risk, taken for purely domestic political benefit.
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President Barack Obama's prime-time speech on his plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan left no doubt that he intends to run for reelection as the leader who ended two painful wars. Most notable was his intention to extract 10,000 soldiers this year and 23,000 more by next summer, before the height of Afghanistan's traditional summer fighting season. For some analysts, this would seem to be a large military risk, taken for purely domestic political benefit.
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Comment: Robert Haddick makes a number of valid points in this post .... especially on his analysis of the RAND Corp. report "Looming Discontinuities in U.S. Military Strategy and Defense Planning". Read it all.
There was a fascinating exchange in General David Petraeus’s Senate confirmation hearing yesterday when Senator Carl Levin, a Democrat and chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sought to outwit him after he had diplomatically expressed his disagreement (see the video above) with President Barack Obama’s pullout plan.
At the start of his slot, Levin twice tried to put words into Petraeus’s mouth. When he summarised the Afghanistan commander’s view about President Barack Obama’s drawdown plan as feeling “comfortable implementing it and supporting it”, Petraeus politely demurred: “I would be a bit more qualified, Mr. Chairman.”
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At the start of his slot, Levin twice tried to put words into Petraeus’s mouth. When he summarised the Afghanistan commander’s view about President Barack Obama’s drawdown plan as feeling “comfortable implementing it and supporting it”, Petraeus politely demurred: “I would be a bit more qualified, Mr. Chairman.”
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.... Petraeus’s point was a simple but powerful one. Soldiers can’t simply resign every time they disagree with an order. In Petraeus’s case, to pursue such a course in anything other than the most extreme circumstances would damage the country’s foreign policy. It would be an act of vanity.
Not surprisingly, this exchange was absent in the American main stream media .... but widely reported in Europe.
Comment: Sarkozy is probably right about the limited U.S. role in the Libyan war, but it is also true that present NATO forces will not be able to dislodge Gaddafi in the short term .... a situation that even the rebels in Libya are beginning to figure out, with most of their anger directed at the U.S..
Israeli Justice Minister Taakov Neeman likens Jewish assimilation to the Holocaust. Hey, Abe Foxman, we're waiting for your ADL official denunciation of these remarks. Oh, that's right, you just condemn Gentiles....
Obomba will only be re-elected through massive vote fraud in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Miami, Orlando, Palm Beach, Boca Raton, Ft Lauderdale, Boston, Los Angeles, and Newark...
Slave to Israel
Americans have to make a hard decision on what kind of country they want to have.
by Philip Giraldi
There were two stories last week that illustrate just how bad the situation has become in the wake of the virtual capitulation by President Barack Obama during Netanyahu’s triumphal May visit to Washington, the first time in recorded history that a small nation with less than eight million citizens has subjugated a much larger country with a population of more than 310 million.
The issue of Israel is of critical importance to the antiwar movement, as frequenters of this website are surely aware. This is because Israel and its lobby in the United States have succeeded in so intertwining their interests with those of the United States that whenever Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sneezes four hundred congressmen say “Gesundheit!” What Israel does has consequences for every American citizen, and not only because Tel Aviv is the largest recipient of US economic and military assistance.
Americans have to make a hard decision on what kind of country they want to have.
by Philip Giraldi
There were two stories last week that illustrate just how bad the situation has become in the wake of the virtual capitulation by President Barack Obama during Netanyahu’s triumphal May visit to Washington, the first time in recorded history that a small nation with less than eight million citizens has subjugated a much larger country with a population of more than 310 million.
The issue of Israel is of critical importance to the antiwar movement, as frequenters of this website are surely aware. This is because Israel and its lobby in the United States have succeeded in so intertwining their interests with those of the United States that whenever Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sneezes four hundred congressmen say “Gesundheit!” What Israel does has consequences for every American citizen, and not only because Tel Aviv is the largest recipient of US economic and military assistance.
