Search Results for “veteran” – Page 135

2012/04/162012/04/19

Gordon Duff: Colombian Hooker Demands $800, Lives to Talk About It UPDATE 3

UPDATE 3: Brother Duff’s provocative speculation aside, this looks more and more like a four-way goat-fest. 1) Idiot prostitute tried for $800 instead of the customary $60-80. 2) Secret Service cherub lost it. 3) Colombian police were not at all cool. 4) CIA fixer was asleep. Journalists are after the Secret Service “racist bitch” that …

Continue reading “Gordon Duff: Colombian Hooker Demands $800, Lives to Talk About It UPDATE 3”

2012/04/112012/04/11

Mini-Me: Debunking Civil War Myths – About Control and Money, Not Freedom – Time for Secession Again, But From All Four Corners?

Huh? Debunking Civil War Myths – Long Proven Wrong The Victors Write the War History, but Should Their Lies be Immortal? [Veterans Today Editors Note: I was 46 before I learned that Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave anywhere ….Jim W. Dean] … by Steve Scroggins The most persistent and pernicious Big …

Continue reading “Mini-Me: Debunking Civil War Myths – About Control and Money, Not Freedom – Time for Secession Again, But From All Four Corners?”

2012/04/10

Penguin: Why Obama’s Jobs Act Is a Scam Legalizing More Crime

Why Obama’s JOBS Act Couldn’t Suck Worse Sidebar: Steve Case is evil. Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone, 9 April 2012 Boy, do I feel like an idiot. I’ve been out there on radio and TV in the last few months saying that I thought there was a chance Barack Obama was listening to the popular anger …

Continue reading “Penguin: Why Obama’s Jobs Act Is a Scam Legalizing More Crime”

2012/04/082012/04/08

Richard Wright: Washington Post – No Memory on Iraq & No Integrity on Iran

An Mini-Me would say, “Huh”? US intelligence gains in Iran seen as boost to confidence By Joby Warrick and Greg Miller The Washington Post Published: April 8, 2012 More than three years ago, the CIA dispatched a stealth surveillance drone into the skies over Iran. The bat-winged aircraft penetrated more than 600 miles inside the …

Continue reading “Richard Wright: Washington Post – No Memory on Iraq & No Integrity on Iran”

2012/04/082012/04/08

Sepp Hasslberger: Scientists, Citizens, & Real-Time Pervasive Science

Scientists and citizens Sam Geall February 24, 2012 Could a new wave of networked, amateur scientific endeavour speed the discovery of solutions to pressing environmental problems? Sam Geall reports. What connects a group of Bayaka pygmy hunters in the Congo Basin, opposed to illegal loggers encroaching on their land; residents of Deptford, in south London, …

Continue reading “Sepp Hasslberger: Scientists, Citizens, & Real-Time Pervasive Science”

2012/04/082012/04/08

Chuck Spinney: The Afghanistan Disaster Part I – When the War Comes Home

WEEKEND EDITION APRIL 6-8, 2012 Wait Till the War Really Comes Home The Afghan Disaster by FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY, Counterpunch The PR disasters over the last three months — including pictures of American troops urinating on Afghan corpses, the burning of Qurans, and the massacre of Afghan civilians, including women and children, by at least one …

Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: The Afghanistan Disaster Part I – When the War Comes Home”

2012/04/042012/04/06

Marcus Aurelius: Living in an Upside Down Land – Email from O-6 USMC

Following is circulating among military circles via email. From: REDACTED [USMC O-6 Retired]< We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress & the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, But overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln “… there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither, Safe, nor Politically …

Continue reading “Marcus Aurelius: Living in an Upside Down Land – Email from O-6 USMC”