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Very funny Brits on the Navy and more

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:41:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: har har hardee har har! The USA has no such problem--we'll fund anything and give ya some extra $billions to waste!

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Bird & Fortune - Admiral Sir George Parr

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5 Permanent Military Bases in Iraq

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absolutely brilliant!

Pentagon To Expand Intel Ops at US Prison in Afghanistan

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:38:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What incredible crap they sling at us...
Originally built as a Soviet air base in the 1980s, the Bagram prison was meant to be a short-term holding site. Bagram has been a flash point in the debate over U.S. treatment of detainees. The International Red Cross has negotiated with U.S. officials about conditions and access to detainees.

After peaking at nearly 700 prisoners in 2006, the population at Bagram has hovered for the past year at its 600-prisoner capacity, according to Central Command figures provided in response to a USA TODAY inquiry.

The intelligence hires are to be in place before next summer's scheduled completion of the new detention center that will hold 1,000 prisoners, an increase in capacity by 65%.

"In 2001 ... we never thought we'd still be (at Bagram) today," said Brig. Gen. Robert Holmes, deputy operations chief at U.S. Central Command, which oversees Afghanistan operations. "Now that we see this as a sustained activity, there were improvements to be mad

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon plans to expand intelligence operations at its main prison in Afghanistan, records and interviews with military officials show.

Interrogators and analysts are being sought for a bigger Bagram prison scheduled to open next year. They will be hired to question prisoners and provide intelligence that can be used on the battlefield, according to contract solicitations reviewed by USA TODAY. The Army also is seeking a "trained Mullah" to conduct Islamic services for detainees and advise U.S. officials on religious issues.

A U.S. soldier stands in front of an election advertisement at the Bagram airbase north of Kabul September 11, 2008. Without noting the implicit irony, a RAND Corp analyst remarked that one of the goals of the increased operations at Bagram will be trying to "understand what is motivating people to join the insurgency."

The developments are the latest indication of U.S. plans for a long-term presence in Afghanistan,

How deep are the Israelis into the USA's backside?

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:09:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sorry about the header, butt...since we seem to let the Israelis run us, I don't really care if anyone is offended...wake up!

Clip Source: www.brasschecktv.com

"They may have known things they
didn't tell us before September 11th"

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Part Two

"It's virtually impossible to make a call in the US
without Amdocs (an Israeli company) making a record of it"

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Part Three

"One Israeli company controls the US's entire eavesdropping system"

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Part Four

"Somehow the bad guys had the cops' beepers, cell phones
- even home phones - under surveillance"

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Do we want another Warmonger?

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:23:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Marching down the path to more insanity with McCain? Not this refusenik...Think about all the suffering the USA causes now...Shall we continue?

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Think before you vote:

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http://www.StopMcCain08.com

Pakistan's Day of Reckoning

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:47:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Look out! The USA will be a-meddling in that mess, too!

Clip Source: www.newsweek.com

is no stranger to economic and political crises. The country has had many since its independence in 1947, including the military coup in 1958 and a civil war in 1971. With luck, some timely help from friends and allies and the resilience of its people, the nation has always managed to survive. A host of recent troubles, however, has brought Pakistan to the brink of collapse. Vast segments of Pakistan's western borderlands are all but ungovernable, the Taliban has started to reconstitute itself in these areas and suicide bombers have struck in the hearts of major cities. These problems, coupled with a global economic downturn and food inflation, has turned this country of 165 million people into a powderkeg of popular disaffection, as last week's attack on the Karachi stock exchange shows.

During much of the last decade, military rule has had a corrosive effect on a wide range of institutions, including universities, local police and paramilitary organizations

Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires Part 2

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:49:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The endless war....

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

First FISA, now this. George Carlin’s decision, made long before his death, to simply stop participating completely in so-called elections, looks now like the only sane alternative.

And someone go tell that fool Obama what happened to the British in Afghanistan in the 19th century and the Soviet Union in the 20th (plus a host of others). Or does he think so much of himself that he feels he can make the United States the exception?

I suspect the challenge of winning where others have failed has fired his imagination (just like Lyndon Johnson thought French efforts to hold on to Vietnam were of no relevance to a “guns and butter” superpower i.e. USA). In which case, the following history lessons will be wasted on him, but are listed here for academic reasons anyway:

First Anglo-Afghan War

Second Anglo-Afghan War

Third Anglo-Afghan War

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

British Gummint Spies Friendlier than the USA's

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:15:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: DailyMash--theOnion of G. Britain

Clip Source: www.thedailymash.co.uk

THE government last night dismissed fears over its massive, evil database insisting it would only ever be used to peer into the very depths of your soul.

The home secretary really, really likes you
Ministers have been forced to defend plans to record every email, text message, internet search and phone call, against critics who say it is both terrifying and tremendously fucked-up.

But home secretary Jacqui Smith stressed the database was not only essential to the war on terror, but would bring government and citizen much closer together.

She said: "Look, the thing is, I like you - a lot - and I just want to know everything about you.

"I can't 'give' myself to someone unless I know I can trust them completely. D'you know what I'm saying?

Insisting she would only have us killed if she had no choice, Ms Smith said: "The easiest thing is to just stop being different in any way.

the outside chance your data does match our Profile of Unacceptability, I will make sure they use a high-powered rifle

Green Party Convention

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:54:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm totally done with the other two (one) parties....

Clip Source: www.c-span.org

Green Party Presidential Convention (1 hr. 20 min.)
Sunday | Clip

Obama Speaks at LULAC National Convention (28 min.)
Tuesday | Clip

McCain at LULAC National Convention (23 min.)
Tuesday | Clip

Kathy Kiely, USA Today, on Sen. Obama's Move to the Political Center (42 min.)
7/6/2008 | Clip

Panel Discussion on Senator McCain's Foreign Policy Proposals (57 min.)
6/30/2008 | Clip

McCain "Love" Campaign Ad (1 min.)
Tuesday

Vets for Freedom Ad
7/6/2008

MCCain Spanish Ad on Values
7/3/2008

Obama Ad on Energy Obama Ad on Energy
Tuesday

CONGRESS-BAH, HUMBUG! The USA is doomed!

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:57:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: i'm thorouhly disgusted, more than before...We are lost, this country is officially doomed!

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

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What is most striking is that when the Congress was controlled by the GOP — when the Senate was run by Bill Frist and the House by Denny Hastert — the Bush administration attempted to have a bill passed very similar to the one that just passed today. But they were unable to do so. The administration had to wait until Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took over Congress before being able to put a corrupt end to the scandal that began when, in December of 2005, the New York Times revealed that the President had been breaking the law for years by spying on Americans without the warrants required by law.Yet again, the Democratic Congress ignored the views of their own supporters in order to comply with the orders and wishes of the Bush administration. It is therefore hardly a surprise that, yesterday, Rasmussen Reports revealed this rather humiliating finding:

Congressional Approval Falls to Single Digits for First Time Ever

Our Genocidal track record

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:38:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I know, y'all think I hate America...Not so, but I despise what the people of the USA has done in so many instances of genocidal hypocrisy...I cannot celebrate our Independence without seeing all the death and destruction we have brouht to the brown, red and yellow segments of Mankind. I'm thoroughly disgusted with 'Murrika today and especially of the last 8 years. Our collective karma is disastrous and the Empire will fall, just like all Empires do. The "Noble Experiment" in Democracy gets a big FAIL. Despite all the good we have done, the USA is a racist, war-loving, greedy, Earth-polluting, voracious nation. Pretty sad when you think about it, neh?

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I just watched that excellent documentary, The Revolution, on PBS yesterday to see if they would come close to the truth, and they did. I was especially impressed with the segment on how Gen.George Washington wrote especially virulently racist orders to commit genocide on the Iroqouis nation during the fight vs. the British...The order was to obliterate every man, woman and child, and burn the villages of the Natives--a scorched earth policy that was carried out.
This is how our country began and despite the Constitution and all our high ideals, we have committed genocide all thru the 227 yr. history of the USA and before, from the first colonists all the way until Iraq. In the name of "Freedom", "Christian values" and all the other lies the USA brainwashes us with, the white power structure has hated people of color all along. What a sham. Happy 4th of July, fellow'Murrikans!

Is Helium 3 Exploitation China's Hidden Lunar Agenda?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:07:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: China is going to replace the USA as the next superpower...The USA is overextended and rotten within...sound familiar, fellow Romans?

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Earlier this year, shortly after Russia claimed a vast portion of the Arctic sea floor, accelerating an international race for the natural resources as global warming opens polar access, China has announced plans to map "every inch" of the surface of the Moon and exploit the vast quantities of Helium-3 thought to lie buried in lunar rocks as part of its ambitious space-exploration program.

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I wouldn't do this, but You might

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:04:49 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I wouldn't waste 2 cents on Faux news, let alone $2...but I liked the picture and caption...hahahahaha

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Tell Fox News "I Love My Country! End the Attacks on Patriotic Americans."

There's no more room for attacks on patriotic Americans by other Americans. Help send that message loud and clear to the conservative megaphone operators at Fox News Channel. Declare your progressive patriotism, and contribute to send your declaration to the Fox News team -- affixed with a genuine Made-In-The-USA flag pin.

Everyone Caves in to the Fascists (almost)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:12:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: WTF is going down? The USA...Even The Miracle Man Obama is comfortable with the corporations being given immunity....The very definition of fascism...reminiscent of the Nazis defending Krupp and other German industries. "MURRIKA UBER ALLES!!!!"

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

On January 31 of this year, Keith Olbermann donned his most serious face and most indignant voice tone to rail against George Bush for supporting telecom immunity and revisions to FISA. In a 10-minute “Special Comment,” the MSNBC star condemned Bush for wanting to “retroactively immunize corporate criminals,” and said that telecom immnity is “an ex post facto law, which would clear the phone giants from responsibility for their systematic, aggressive and blatant collaboration with [Bush’s] illegal and unjustified spying on Americans under this flimsy guise of looking for any terrorists who are stupid enough to make a collect call or send a mass email.”

Last night, Olbermann invited Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter onto his show to discuss Obama’s support for the FISA and telecom amnesty bill (video of the segment is here). There wasn’t a syllable uttered about “immunizing corporate criminals” or “textbook examples of Fascism” or the Third Reich.

General Strike USA--Get ready for 9/11 '08

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:33:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In the streets people. Can you do it?

Clip Source: www.votestrike.com

9/11/08

"Sooner or later all freedom loving Americans will realize that the only
         way to stop those who would bleed our nation dry, dismantle our
         constitution, and dissolve our national sovereignty is to say I will not
         work for you, buy from you, fight for you, or die for you, until the
         criminals are gone from the halls of our government."

Get off the internet, I'll see you in the streets!

"It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the first Article’s assurance." - Judge Wiley B. Rutledge

strikes are practically unheard of and have been historically insignificant. That changed when I discovered the historical section (History of Strikes/Solidarity/An American Tradition ) of the website below: votestrike.com"

Blackwater's Private CIA

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:57:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Who is gonna stop these powerful mercenaries? You, me or Obama? SOMEbody better stand up to these profiteering scum-bullies!

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

The notorious mercenary company now offers spy "services" to Fortune 500 companies, for the right price.

This past September, the secretive mercenary company Blackwater USA found its name splashed across front pages throughout the world after the company's shooters gunned down seventeen Iraqi civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square. But by early 2008, Blackwater had largely receded from the headlines save for the occasional blip on the media radar sparked by Congressman Henry Waxman's ongoing investigations into its activities. Its forces remained deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and business continued to pour in. In the two weeks directly following Nisour Square, Blackwater signed more than $144 million in contracts with the State Department for "protective services" in Iraq and Afghanistan alone and, over the following weeks and months, won millions more in contracts with other federal entities like the Coast Guard, the Navy and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.