AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? Ignorance and courage in the age of Lady Gaga

Subject: AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM? Ignorance and courage in the age of Lady Gaga By Joe Bageant Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times. Such as: How can …

Reference: American War and Military Casualty Lists & Statistics

Phi Beta Iota: The below reference is of human interest, but lacks context.  Three major follow-on studies are needed, if someone can find a Member of Congress willing to ask for them: 1.  Actual number of amputations including number of limbs per person amputated. 2.  Suicides both while in service and post separation or retirement. …

Journal: Wikileaks Exposes How NYT and Washington Post Shill for US Government on Iran Missile “Threat”

Iranians (Persians) have viewed Russia (Soviet Union) with distrust and as a menace or outright threat for hundreds of years, at least since the Russian Tsars cemented their expansion into Turkestan (or the Turkic countries in what is now called Central Asia).  The fact that Iran sits on top of one of the world’s largest …

CIA Deceives Supreme Court + Former Guantanamo Detainee Running For Office in Afghanistan

CIA hid terrorism prisoners from US Supreme Court August 12, 2010 by JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | The Central Intelligence Agency purposefully concealed at least four terrorism detainees from the US legal system, including the Supreme Court, according to an exclusive report by the Associated Press. The news agency has revealed that the CIA secretly …

Journal: Underpants Bomber Shines Light on Naked USG–Without Four Reforms, USA Locked in Place

UPDATE 3:  Obama summons intelligence chiefs to White House meeting Comment: This is pathetic. No one now serving in the White House is capable of telling the President the truth–that our $75 billion a year is wasted, that the agencies are suffering from 1950’s mindsets with 1970’s technology and security and legal blinders that are …