May 2013
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Here is how the State Department explains US... →
Note: Direct link to PDF from state.gov The Redditor notes: .Note there is no reference 2000 or 2004 Presidential elections - nor the campaign financing rule changes in 2010. Nor the concerted effort to make voting more difficult for minorities when for the past 10 years there have been less than 40 recorded cases total of voter fraud through out the US.
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US Forces Suspected of "Collateral Murder": Three... →
From the Arab media… Ahlul Bayt to be exact. The NPR of the Shia on radio and TV, believed to be funded solely by donations from listeners and viewers Iraqi officials have found three mass graves containing the bodies of about 1,000 people thought to have been executed by US soldiers during their occupation of the country. Meanwhile NPR, funded to a great extent by the US government says:...
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Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD [FR: 0.5%; US:... →
French children don’t need medications to control their behavior because the problem, according to French psychiatrists (the ‘doctors’ in America most liable to demand medication), IS THEIR SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT which is ‘treated’, instead of a mythical ‘biological disorder’ or ‘chemical imbalance’… [In Full @ Psychology Today]
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Teen arrested for biting boyfriend's penis after... →
Leave it to the Sun UK to report this occurrence of “Vampire Luv” in Bradenton Florida: Krystle was arrested for domestic battery but Jeffrey – who is the father of her child – has said he does not want to press charges.
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“Those stories don’t attract anywhere near the attention that murders receive....”
– Jonathan Schuppe, NBC reporter & former staff crime reporter @ The Newark Star-Ledger, “Gunshots on Warm Spring Evenings”, New York Times, May 17, 2013
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“Wearing a hijab isn’t inherently liberating – but neither is baring one’s...”
– Sara Yasin, Is the Hijab Worth Fighting Over?
(via rcabbasi)
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“We learned that you can be floating on a sea of oil, but your people can be...”
– Riverbend… Girl Blogger of Baghdad… What she’s learned in the last ten years.
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Next they'll kill them all (as a "Disease... →
After all, they’ll just be in the way when oil drilling (wikipedia) (and Fracking) off the coast of California begins in earnest: DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — Researchers have detected swine flu in elephant seals off the Central California coast, saying it was the first time a human pandemic strain has been found in marine mammals.
However, none of the animals showed clinical signs of the...
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Just Sayin': CIA "Polls" #Syrian Public... "If... →
The Western media isn’t mentioning it but 2014 is PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR in Syria…The CIA “… believes that this situation (ie. their mercenary invasion and destabilization of Syria) will last to the next year when the presidential election will take place. This is the new constitution the vote will take place under: (compared to the old one which the Syrian National...
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Turkish Prime Minister Meeting Obama Today:... →
Turkey is one of the OECD satrap manufacturing countries that comes to mind when I think of who stands to gain from oil stolen from Iran in the not-so-distant future by the Kurds, and piped to the Mediterranean across Iraq and a destroyed feudal Syria. Also see: It’s Crunch Time For Syria… U.N. Votes SNC Legitimacy; Senate Panel Rebel Arming Vote Next Week
[Editorial note; I have a...
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It's Crunch Time For Syria... U.N. Votes SNC... →
Even as Foreign Policy Magazine Morning Brief’s headline claims: “U.N. calls for political transition in Syria”, it’s “Crunch Time” for that invaded and embattled country as the UN General Assembly votes to legitimize the Syrian National Coalition, and a US Senate panel votes on arming the Syrian rebels next week. (so much for ‘political transition in...
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Guardian UK: Walmart refuses to join worker safety... →
To the point; As long as you keep buying sweatshop products WalMart could give a fuck about dead workers. All they give a fuck about is profit margin , So stop buying these slave-produced products (for best effect from ALL retailers) and you WILL break their ‘margin’.Asda owner says deal signed by rivals is unnecessary and agrees to inspect factories it uses in country within six...
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U.N. General Assembly Expected To Pass Syria... →
You have to ask yourself HOW the UN could agree to accepting: “…the Syrian National Coalition as a party to a potential political transition..” in Syria when the selfsame people under the aegis of the “Syrian National Council” had written off involvement with the Syrian political process after last year’s constitutional referendum, and publicly stated their only...
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All holy heck breaks loose! "Men of reddit, what... →
Really and truthfully? They ALL kind of give me the heebie jeebies.Example: I thought it was creepy when the girl I was dating would show up at my house and say she was just in the area. She lived 15 miles away and had a cell phone if she wanted to call and come by.
We have been married 11 years now though.”And: When she asks you “When am I going to be a princess?”
When she...
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Graphic video shows Syrian rebel commander cutting... →
So you thought the joyful mutilation of Muamaar al-Gaddfi by LIFG and other sectarian fighters in Libya was really something aberrant? Naw… The people we’re hiring to fight our dirty wars ARE throwbacks to primitive times when humans really believed eating another human or animal heart ‘transmigrated’ that other being’s ‘powers’ or ‘soul’: A...
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“One of those armed security guards the NRA thinks should be in every school shot...”
– Raw Story ‘Grown-up’ America KNOWS their kids despise them so they are doing their psychotic best to kill them… One at a time. No inheritance, monetary, culturally, or environmentally left behind kids… We’re gonna spend it ALL!
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elle-nereid:
Also, I know I posted this before, but I must point it out again.
The failure of certain movements to prioritize is truly worrying. It’s even more concerning in that they don’t want to prioritize, and actively and fiercely argue against doing so.
They deny and disagree with the concept of a hierarchy of needs, they equate conveniences with imperative issues. I know I’ve...
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Saudi man traveling with pressure cooker arrested →
DETROIT (AP) — A Saudi man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after federal agents said he lied about why he was traveling with a pressure cooker, but his nephew said Monday that it was all a misunderstanding about a device he simply wanted for cooking.
Two pressure cookers were used in last month’s Boston Marathon bombings.
Hussain Al Khawahir was being held in Detroit on...
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“A lesson in Bunk Economics from Jim Kunstler @ Clusterfuck Nation: Whenever the...”
– James Howard Kunster, No Mo’ PoMo, Clusterfuck Nation, May 13 2013
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Institutional Kidnappings: I hope their child...
: I have friends (where I live in California) who had a kid 5 months ago.
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: The mother is an epileptic who has not required medication. The doctors requested she take seizure meds while pregnant.
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: The child was born addicted and when the neonatal blood test also turned up THC in her bloodstream they not only took the child for detoxing but KEPT THE CHILD claiming she was a multi-drug abuser... OFC due to the fact that they found not only the THC (which wouldn't have meant a damn by itself) but the DOCTOR-PRESCRIBED (read: demanded) phenobarbs.
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: They're STILL working on getting their child back and momma, and her daughter, have already missed one of the most important times of their lives together.
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: I hope the child grows up to stalk and kill CPS workers.
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Reddit Thread - North Korea Caves to Chinese... →
My comment onsite: China has a direct line to North Korea’s extractive resources like Iron ore, used to manufacture the steel that goes in American’s computer chassis, automobiles, and a number of other commonly used products we depend on China’s sweatshops to produce for us at a price our devalued currency based on selling hamburgers to each other and weapons systems to the rest...
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Paramedic Who Comforted Citizens In Wake Of Texas... →
My speculation at the time of the blast: As I was saying even as the first reports were coming in “I wonder if this company is where the “Ricin Right” were getting their Nitrate fertilizer to make explosives with” and was assuming they either had a falling out with someone at the facility who was supplying them or perhaps they simply wanted to cover the paper trail of that illegal (perhaps...
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3D-printed guns: State Department orders firm to... →
Defense Distributed tweeted on Thursday that ‘Liberator’ project had ‘gone dark’ at the request of government officials I remember when HiQ LCD displays were a controlled export item. Yewbetcha the State Department doesn’t want the plans on the WWW I want to elaborate on this a little.
In the 80s & 90s the State Department export controlled LCD displays…...
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“I look at my student loan statements each month and feel angry and jaded toward...”
– We Were Poor, And College Was The Answer to All My Problems. (Right?) at The Billfold (via echolikebells)
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“One feels sympathy for U.S. President Barack Obama. Whatever he does in Syria,...”
– Stratfor’s Chief Geopolitical Analyst and rabid NeoCon, Robert D. Kaplan bails out on Syria… Implies their plans were hopeless from the ‘git’ unless the US treasury was to be looted. Indeed: Syrian rebel leader Salim Idriss admits difficulty of unifying fighters McClatchy...
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Meanwhile, Two Days Ago Turkey began military... →
A note from Reuters about the purpose of the Incirlick air base discussed in the Middle East Monitor article below, Incirlick is quite near the Turkish-Syrian border: (Reuters) - Turkey has set up a secret base with allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar (Arab news outlet al-Jazeera was owned by the government of Qatar… now allegedly just operated from the country ~RR) to direct vital military and...
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US Backed 'Cult of Personality' PKK Kurds Leave... →
Note: Aside from the fact that many PKK fighters ended up being corralled and garrisoned by the US in Iraq and protected from Iraq’s government until they were turned over a few years ago to be… according to an Iraqi government statement “Re-programmed or destroyed”, Blackwater/xe/acadame, or whatever else they’re called had been under investigation for smuggling...
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Robert Fisk on Syria's Civil War, Chemical... →
As the United States moves toward increased intervention in Syria, we’re joined by Robert Fisk, the longtime Middle East correspondent of the British newspaper The Independent. Just back from two weeks in Syria reporting around the capital Damascus, Fisk discusses what he calls the “theater of chemical weapons,” the latest in Syria’s civil war a battle he says the Syrian...
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We're #1! Report: The U.S Has The Highest... →
Save the Children isn’t sure exactly why the United States has such a high rate of first-day infant mortality. But the group suspects it’s partly related to the country’s high rates of unintended pregnancies and teen births, as well as persistent issues of economic and racial inequality:
Teen births are partly to blame, the report says — echoing other research that has shown this. The U.S. has...
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US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,083
www.salon.com/2013/05/07/us_military_deaths_in_afghanistan_at_2083/
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“Forty medical personnel arrived at the U.S. military’s detention center in...”
– Harpers Weekly Review, May 7, 2013
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"she added, speaking in Italian." ~~Reuters... →
“Our investigators have been in neighboring countries interviewing victims, doctors and field hospitals and, according to their report of last week which I have seen, there are strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof of the use of sarin gas, from the way the victims were treated,” Del Ponte said in an interview with Swiss-Italian television.
“This was use...
