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1.House Dems Cave; Set Stage For
Banning Abortion Coverage

/House Democratic leaders agreed Friday night to settle an impasse over abortion by letting the entire House vote on a proposed solution, a risky decision that could determine the fate of their trillion-dollar overhaul of the nation’s health care system/ (Can YOU believe abortion is brought up-Who is pregnant? The woman; Who will have to raise the child? The woman; Is it as health issue? YES; who should make the abortion decision? The woman; Why? because the politician and the father aren’t going to have to change one thing about their lives whether that child is born or not, but the mother will change her entire life, and just because the politician and the father all of a sudden make abortion an issue why should the mother be denied safe medical care? I don’t think she should be denied.)

3./In all, more than one out of every six workers - 17.5 percent - were unemployed or underemployed in October./ (I just wanted YOU to know how bad this

1.After Fort Hood: Count All the Dead Aaron Glantz on the dead not included in the official count/Perhaps the most depressing aspect of Thursday’s shoot-out at Fort Hood is that none of the 12 people who died in the melee will be counted as casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These soldiers – “brave Americans,” President Obama called them – will join an unknown number of American soldiers, airmen, sailors and marines, who are not among the 5,267 the Defense Department counts as having died in our most recent wars, but who have perished nonetheless/ (The lives of these military will be on the heads of the people who allowed these Wars/Invasions to happen, and that would be YOU and Congress who allowed Bush and Cheney to break the law with no repercussions, and now “O” thinks he can get away with it-Are YOU going to allow that?

2.Two Cents About COIN It has no value, says Ryan McCarl

/It may be true that, as military expert Stephen Biddle said in recent Congressional testimony, “the U.S. is an unusually experienced counterinsurgent force today,” and “the new Army/Marine counterinsurgency doctrine(Duh this new military’s problem is that they did not sign on to be the “New Military”, but the new Guard and Reserves, and when used properly aren’t the same at all.)

3.The Evil Empire It’s the US, says Paul Craig Roberts

/Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman emperors in the final days of that empire.Obama is already set on the course to a one-term presidency. He promised change, but has delivered none (My question is have We learned enough to elect what this country needs?-A Ron Paul. Dennis Kucinich or Ralph Nader?)

 

My personal closing the other contributors had no input.

1.Congress Out of Step
With Public on Intl Law?

/- The U.S. House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution Tuesday condemning the Goldstone Report on Israeli and Hamas actions taking during the Gaza War as “irredeemably biased” against Israel and calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to oppose any consideration of the report in multilateral fora, such as the United Nations. (The underlined is a waste of time and money similar to a political reprimand-take a stand is it right or wrong.)

2.Stephen Zunes:
Bipartisan Attack on International Humanitarian Law

/. Since this report documented apparent war crimes by a key U.S. ally, however, Congress has taken the unprecedented action of passing a resolution condemning it./ (We no longer care if a report is “Right or Wrong” only if it places us or our allies in a bad light much like our domestic law.-The US is the country needing to be investigated for War Crimes” maybe this is why they were so upset they thought they might be next.)

3.Norman Solomon:
The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid

/People who scrape together enough money to buy health insurance will discover that they’re riding in the back of the nation’s healthcare bus. The most “affordable” policies will be the ones with the highest deductibles and the worst coverage./ (This sounds typical for government work.)

1.A Manifesto for X Street Philip Giraldi proposes a lobby for American interests

/It has been an interesting week

/  President Barack Obama is about to approve a strategy of holding urban centers in Afghanistan while surrendering the rest of the country to the Taliban.  Someone should tell him that something like that called “strategic hamlets” was tried and failed in Vietnam.

/. Meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu tells Obama to go to hell on freezing settlements so Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rewards him by praising his “unprecedented concessions” and blames the Palestinians for not talking peace./

/It’s not exactly the change that we Americans voted for a year ago, is it? /

(Don’t look now, but I think the emperor has lost his clothes-this will be two in a row maybe we aren’t cut out to be emperor’s?)

2.So Much for Europe They want to bring the troops home, says Jeff Huber

/None of them will be in place ever.  Afghanistan is a region, not a nation.  All politics is local in Afghanistan.  Support your local warlord.  Leave a bribe and go away./

(If YOU don’t understand the previous statement solo read the article I wanted to include due to the underlined it can’t be handled like other countries we are accustomed to dealing with which is another good reason for not being over there.)

3.Why Does AIPAC Spy on Americans? Is it actually a foreign agent? asks Grant Smith

/From the NRA to the AARP, no legitimate American nonprofit lobby has ever been found to be trafficking in so much intelligence information, or so frequently channeling it to a foreign government parties and friends in the establishment media.(I have underlined the key statement for YOU)

 

My personal closing the other contributors had no input.

My personal closing the other contributors had no input

God’s Good News (God’s Plan for All - Book) No bad News

1.UN Assembly Draft Urges
Action on Gaza War Crimes

/ - Arab U.N. delegates circulated a draft resolution on Monday that would require Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to bring a U.N. report alleging war crimes in the Gaza Strip before the Security Council./ (I  am interested in knowing if YOU think action should be taken on this issue?  I think it should be regardless if it is the US or our allies should not matter we should all be held to the same international standards-I have petitioned the International criminal court on more than one occasion to  investigate the US on war crimes pertaining to Iraq-What is YOUR opinion if YOU have one or do YOU just follow the crowd?)

/There’s no debate within the Democratic Party or in the White House about whether to end the war. The only thing being debated is how to continue the war./ (Once again I will ask YOUR opinion on an issue do YOU  believe the US should be in Afghanistan fighting? I don’t it is my understanding that we are there making it a battleground in our leaders “Overseas Contingency Operation”-See Obama has already ended the War on Terror see how simple that was-It’s a little like Bush claiming victory in Iraq, but without all the glitz-Before YOU answer if YOU have the courage to ask YOURSELF if YOU would like another country making the US a battleground an illegal battleground I might add both under Constitutional and International Law?

/Abdullah’s withdrawal from the presidential runoff leaves Hamid Karzai in power but without legitimacy/ (Do YOU believe Karzai should have done this in many ways this was a harder question for me to answer than the others I would have to agree with Karzai because I feel sure he weighed all the Pros/Cons what about YOU? Or do YOU even care?

1.Polling the Polarized Kelley B. Vlahos on public opinion and Afghanistan

/Which is funny, because only 50 percent of the respondents in that same poll believed the war was worth fighting.Then, as Obama pressed on with a fresh military offensive in southern Afghanistan in June, cracks began showing in the bold edifice constructed to herald the advent of Gen. David Petraeus’ counterinsurgency doctrine in Afghanistan. People were talking and writing about their fears publicly. Not surprisingly, Democrats became less enamored of “surging,” even under a Democratic president, and their support for the war began to subtly drop. (I will tell YOU what’s strange about this because nothing is funny, and that is that both parties no longer even seem to debate the issue that what we are doing is illegal.

2.Russia, France, and Iran’s Uranium Even paranoids have memories, says M. Sahimi

/Iran’s formal response to a preliminary nuclear agreement whereby 1,200 kg of its low-enriched uranium (LEU) would be shipped to Russia and then France for enrichment from 3.8 to 19.75 percent and conversion to fuel rods has angered the European Union (EU). (What surprises me is that Iran is agreeing to any of this if the situation was reversed I don’t think any of the other countries involved would agree to such a plan-Does Iran want Peace more than the rest of us?

3.Ali al-Marri’s Eight-Year Sentence Andy Worthington on the end of an injustice

/Marri’s guilty plea in April,

/and subsequently charged with crimes including credit card fraud and identity theft (I was a law enforcement officer in my private career, and it was my experience that when the prosecutor begin adding offenses like this I knew his main charge was non existence or very weak, and I believe not the intent of the law.)-I believe Ali-Marri’s should be released with time served.)

 

My personal closing the other contributors had no input.

 

My personal closing the other contributors had no input.

God’s Good News (God’s Plan for All - Book) No bad News

1.Paying More, Getting Less:
The Paradox of US Healthcare

/The public option, currently favoured by the White House, would attempt to insure the uninsured, with the government providing a non-profit, publicly-funded insurance plan./ (Just in case YOU were not aware of what a public option means.)

/On average, the US spends twice as much as other developed countries on healthcare./ (Our politicians have more important issues to consider-playing politics, and insurance copntributions because the #1 thing on a politicians mind is being re-elected, and this is why we need to replace the one’s that think that way.)

2.Tom Engelhardt:
Too Big to Fail? Why All the President’s Afghan Options Are Bad Ones

/In the worst of times, my father always used to say, “A good gambler cuts his losses.” It’s a formulation imprinted on my brain forever. That no-nonsense piece of advice still seems reasonable to me, but it doesn’t apply to American war policy. Our leaders evidently never saw a war to which the word “more” didn’t apply. (Some Politician or corporation are getting what they want from the Afghanistan War/Invasion, and that is why we are over there fighting.)

3.Chris Hedges:
Opium, Rape and the American Way

/ The uplifting narratives used to justify the war in Afghanistan are pathetic attempts to redeem acts of senseless brutality./The moral lines we draw between us and our adversaries are fictional/ (When I first read these two statements I did not know if they applied to the US or the Taliban, but come to find out neither are actually fighting for the people of Afghanistan-The Taliban are fighting for opium trafficking, and the US are there to fight the Taliban on that battlefield rather than on US soil so they say-Listen people the Taliban is a small Terrorist group they aren’t all of a sudden going to launch an attack on the US  or any terrorist attack on the US if the US will follow the safety procedures in place which in my opinion would have prevented 911 if enforced How? The FAA knew a group of men on the “Terrorist watch list was on the planes in question they were suppose to notify the FBI, and if the FBI had pulled any  number of them aside for questioning any plans of terrorism would have been thwarted, but the problem was we had an administration looking for a reason to invade Iraq and eliminate Saddam similar to the reason FDR was looking for a reason to enter WWII and didn’t notify Pearl Harbor about the information he had received2 weeks before the attack-Don’t think I am just a conspiracy nut there is a paper trail that proves both so don’t YOU be an ostrich sticking YOUR head in the sand-What happened in both instances is what the administrations at the time were willing to allow.)

1.Hillary’s Ill Will Tour

ustin Raimondo on an undiplomatic diplomat

/as “a fence-mending trip” to Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton managed to tear down more fence posts than she repaired. Abrasive, arrogant, and condescending, she fired a series of verbal RPG volleys that nearly demolished what remained of good relations between the U.S. and its principal ally in the region./ (I”m sorry, but as a politician I think Hillary is the worst of the worst.)

 

2.FBI Whistleblower Names Names Scott Horton interviews Sibel Edmonds & John Cole

(This is to good of an article to pick and choose YOU just need to read the article it is to complicated to just review YOU won’t be disappointed unless YOU have an aversion to the Truth.)

 

 

1.Documents Detail Conditions Found at Secret C.I.A. Jails: “How close is each technique to the ‘rack and screw?’ “

2.Unions and the Health Care Debate

Sam Gindin: Unions should have said “No” to concessions if they wanted to shape the health debate

(If you don’t get what you want just say No)

3.Former Brit Ambassador Craig Murray says UK and USA sent prisoners to Uzbek to be tortured

(I thought we were the “Good Guy’s.?)