February 2013
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They All Fall Down: “Progressives” Back off From... →
Now that the mayor, the New York Times, and just about everyone else have come down hard on all the government officials and politicians who tried to force my department to withdraw its co-sponsorship of the BDS panel, the “progressive” politicians have issued a second letter (their first is here) to Brooklyn College President Karen Gould, in which theybackpedal, backpedal, backpedal pull back...
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"When I Use a Word," Humpty-Dumpty Said, "It Means... →
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“The entity that is designed to be, and endlessly praises itself for being, a...”
– US media yet again conceals newsworthy government secrets | Glenn Greenwald (via randomactsofchaos)
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A Question For John Brennan | Tom Junod →
Most of the people killed by the Lethal Presidency have not been American citizens.
Most of the people killed by the Lethal Presidency have not been Al Qaeda leaders.
Most of the people killed by the Lethal Presidency have not warranted a white paper.
Indeed, of the 3000-or-so people killed by the Lethal Presidency, three have been Americans, and perhaps 100 have been Al Qaeda leaders. The...
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As Part Of Lockdown Drill, School Fires Off Blanks... →
c4ss:
Students at a high school in Illinois experienced a uniquely terrifying school shooting drill on Wednesday. Instead of conducting a regular school lockdown, Cary-Grove High School administrators simulated gunfire by shooting off blanks in the hallways while students locked their classroom doors, pulled the curtains, and hid.
The drill, understandably, upset some parents in the area,...
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Fox’s Gretchen Carlson Questions Drone Uproar:... →
Touré from MSNBC:
If people are working against America, then they need to die.
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Larry Summers and the Davos Scam by Dean Baker |... →
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“This system as it exists today consists of innumerable interrelated, constantly...”
– Arthur Silber
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Toward the World of Nightmare (I) | Arthur Silber →
… As for the Murder Program: coincidentally — just as coincidental as Brennan heading up the C.I.A. (the Obama administration is truly blessed by the gods, is it not?) — someone just happened to provide a lengthy, confidential Justice Department memo setting out the administration’s justifications for its assassination program to NBC News. Michael Isikoff dutifully wrote up the EXCLUSIVE story,...
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nbcnews:
BREAKING: Congress to get classified drone info
(Photo: US Air Force via Reuters)
Reversing their earlier course, the White House will now brief members of Congress on a memo detailing the justification for drone strikes against U.S. citizens.
Read the complete story.
Marcy Wheeler adds:
President Obama has finally — after 2 years and 14 requests — agreed to let the intelligence...
“THOUSANDS of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States...”
– Why Police Officers Lie Under Oath (via azspot)
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“The base was established two years ago… [but] the Washington Post had...”
– Every now and again we get a look at the “objectivity” of the mainstream press.
via Brennan nomination exposes criticism on targeted killings and secret Saudi base
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Drone Strike Limitations Considered By Congress... →
[…] “It has to be in the agenda of this Congress to reconsider the scope of action of drones and use of deadly force by the United States around the world because the original authorization of use of force, I think, is being strained to its limits,” Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said in a recent interview.
Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, said...
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Drone strikes kill five in North Waziristan |... →
Feb. 6th, 2013
At least five people were killed after six missiles hit a house in Tehsil Spain Wam of North Waziristan on Wednesday. The strikes by an unmanned US drone were carried out after reports that militants were present in the house, official sources said. US drone strikes are infamous around the world, especially in Pakistan, for killing innocent people besides “militants” [defined as...
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Obama and Co. Make Up the Law as They Kill | Glen... →
Unlike the bombast that characterized the Bush administration’s assaults on U.S. and international law, the Obama regime tends to dribble out its rationales for gutting the Bill of Rights and every notion of global legality. This president prefers to create a fog – let’s call it the fog of his war against human rights – as he arrogates to himself the power to perpetually imprison or to summarily...
Secret drone bases mark latest shift in US attacks... →
That secret Saudi base was reported in the Times of London in July of 2011.
