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freshwest's JournalWTF? This was heavily covered in TX public school texts in the 1960s. (VIDEO)
This is what comes from not voting for positions in the school boards of any state. They can easily brainwash students. Generally when these elections come up, people ignore them. They shoudn't.
We need to run candidates for every single job in state and local government from dogcatcher up.
Here's a long Keith Olbermann video in which everything he predicted has come to pass and will come to pass if we stay away from the polls.
I only dusagree with a couple of viewpoints. But only two have failed. The others are logical, but have not come to pass... yet:
'Love Is Shameless.' It is the most powerful energy in the world. It withstands all.
The universe, god, whatever, flows in and gives 'supernatural' strength to those who love. Fear and hate stifle a person until there is nothing alive left.Cited in the link as to why the their WW2 debt was structured differently/forgiven. n/t
Agreed. Still thinking of this guy, though:
Doesn't he remind you of every smarmy Republican you ever had to deal with?
I heard she was Obama III, the second coming of the anti-Christ...
Because Obama was the first coming of the anti-Christ, but didn't complete the mission. Hillary will be elected to fulfill the will of satan. And I thought Cruz was at bat for that position.
Beware the Coming of Clinton:
And the angels will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
~ Matthew 13 : 42 NLT
"Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace."
~ Daniel 3 : 6 NIV
Hope he gets the rose! He's running out of attorneys. He's gotta run to save his bankrupt self:
Freedom for those you have enslaved is coming. 'Happy Independence Day, ISIS...'
Iraq conflict - IS 'trafficking Yazidi women for sex'
By Yolande Knell - 24 September 2014
More than 3,000 Yazidi women and children have been captured by Islamic State militants and are being trafficked for sex, the BBC has learned.
Those who have escaped have spoken of being raped, tortured and starved.
Tens of thousands of members of Iraq's Yazidi minority fled from Islamic State (IS) in August and are now homeless.
Human rights activists say more than 5,000 men, women and children are still missing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-29339696
Syrian women pull off their burkas to show they are free from ISIS
Marie Le Conte - 6 Jun 2015
My Note: See the anguish and relief on her face after escaping the hated ISIS. I can almost hear her scream.
A woman takes off her burqa as she enters Rojava (pic: Jack Shahine /Shervan Derwish)
This picture, taken by the border between Syria and Turkey, shows the amazing moment women take off their black burqas to celebrate being out of ISIS-held territory.
The snaps were captured by cameraman Shervan Derwish, as the car drove into the autonomous region of Rojava, which is held by the Kurdish YPG.
Under the Islamic State so-called caliphate, women have to wear the black shapeless burqas, whether they want it or not.
http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/06/syrian-women-pull-off-their-burkas-to-show-they-are-free-from-isis-5233062/
'Treated like cattle': Yazidi women sold, raped, enslaved by ISIS
Erbil, Iraq (CNN) -- Jana was a 19-year-old in her final year of high school, with dreams of becoming a doctor. Then, ISIS came to her village last August, and her world collapsed.
She described to me in chilling detail, how the jihadis first demanded that members of her Yazidi religious minority convert to Islam. Then they stripped villagers of their jewelry, money and cellphones. They separated the men from the women.
A United Nations report explained what happened next. ISIS "gathered all the males older than 10 years of age at the local school, took them outside the village by pick-up trucks, and shot them." Among those believed dead were Jana's father and eldest brother.
A different fate lay in store for the women...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/30/world/meast/isis-female-slaves/index.html
ISIS: Enslaving, having sex with 'unbelieving' women, girls is OK
By Greg Botelho, CNN
Can you take non-Muslim women and children captive? Yes, says ISIS.
Can you have sex with them, even prepubescent girls? Yes, according to the Islamist extremist group.
Can you sell them or give them as gifts to others? The answer is yes, once again.
People in Mosul -- the Iraqi city now under control of the group calling itself the Islamic State -- got these and other messages loud and clear after sunset prayers Friday, when armed men handed out a color-printed pamphlet "Questions and Answers on Taking Captives and Slaves," three residents told CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/12/world/meast/isis-justification-female-slaves/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Independence for the conquered people cannot come soon enough.
"Women's rights are human rights, and human rights are women's rights."
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1995, Beijing
Oh, I was. History repeats. Humans adapt.
Bernie Sanders Doubles Down on F-35 Support Days After Runway Explosion
By Carl Gibson - 03 June 14
Me: “You mentioned wasteful military spending. The other day ... I’m sure you’ve heard about the F-35 catching fire on the runway. The estimated lifetime expense of the F-35 is $1.2 trillion. When you talk about cutting wasteful military spending, does that include the F-35 program?”
Bernie Sanders: “No, and I’ll tell you why – it is essentially built. It is the airplane of the United States Air Force, Navy, and of NATO. It was a very controversial issue in Vermont. And my view was that given the fact that the F-35, which, by the way, has been incredibly wasteful, that’s a good question. But for better or worse, that is the plane of record right now, and it is not gonna be discarded. That’s the reality.”
That was the exchange I had with US senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at a town hall in Warner, New Hampshire, this past weekend (skip to the 45:30 mark of this video to hear my question). Sanders came to New Hampshire to gauge the local response to his economic justice-powered platform for a presumed 2016 presidential campaign. While his rabid defense of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and takedown of big money running politics was well-received, he contradicted his position of eliminating wasteful military spending while defending the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.
The Lockheed Martin F-35 is the epitome of Pentagon waste. The program has already cost taxpayers roughly half a trillion dollars, with $700 billion or more to come during the program’s lifetime. During an interview, Pierre Sprey, a co-designer of the F-16, went into great detail about how the F-35 was a lemon aircraft. Sprey explained that the fighter is an excessively heavy gas guzzler with small wings, a low bomb-carry capacity, low loiter time, is incapable of slow flight, is detectable to World War II-era low-frequency radar, and costs $200 million apiece. And just a little over a week ago, the F-35 caught fire on a runway at Eglin Air Force Base.
To his credit, Sanders acknowledged that the program was “wasteful” in his defense of it. The contention over the F-35 in his home state of Vermont is that the program is now responsible for jobs in his hometown of Burlington, where he served as mayor before running for Congress. Some front doors of homes in the Burlington area are adorned with green ribbons, signifying support for the F-35. Sanders, like his colleagues in 45 states around the country, doesn’t want to risk the wrath of voters angry about job losses related to F-35 manufacturing, assembly, and training if the program were to be cut. And that’s where Lockheed Martin’s political savvy comes into play.
War hawk John McCain (R-Az.) has called the F-35 program a “scandal and a tragedy” in the past. But when an F-35 squadron came to the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, McCain changed his tune to say the program was “moving in the right direction.” Lockheed Martin, which draws 82 percent of all revenue from taxpayers (Lockheed’s information systems department gets 95 percent of its money from taxpayers), knows that by spreading out manufacturing as widely as possible, the program is more likely to be funded by politicians beholden to voters who draw their livelihood from the F-35. Lockheed spent $15.3 million on lobbying politicians in 2012, a year in which the company made $47 billion in revenue. That’s a return on investment in the thousands of percentage points. Lockheed gets paid, and politicians get re-elected. That’s how Washington runs.
So, while Bernie Sanders is saying we should cut military spending to fund free college for everyone, his defense of the F-35 means that despite everything else, Sanders is still just a politician. Sooner or later, the F-35 will eventually be replaced by something even more expensive, while the F-35 joins the thousands of other unused fighter jets in the boneyard. But rather than lying to people and saying the program is already a done deal and that there’s nothing he can do, Sanders could stand by his principles and introduce an amendment in the next National Defense Authorization Act to strip the F-35 program of its funding. That remaining $700 billion could make college tuition-free for everyone for at least a decade.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/24583-bernie-sanders-doubles-down-on-f-35-support-days-after-runway-explosion
Carl Gibson, 26, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin. You can contact him at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , and follow him on twitter at @uncutCG.
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I have some ideas and some questions for anyone to answer:
Bernie wants free college tuition, infrastructure jobs, singly payer health care, and other things.
Question: Can the F-35 be called an infrastructure job? The writer of the article is critical on the free college tuition promise. Can one pay for the other?
(I can't figure this out.)
Question: Can he support VT, the USAF, NATO, the mega defense contracting corporation Lockheed Martin at the same time?
(Well, he does, but which one is more important - those interests or peace, healthcare, etc.?
Only his heart knows. He stresses economic growth - is it just any kind of economic growth?)
Question: Can we change our manufacturing base to something else, or is there a bigger picture we don't want to look at that Bernie, Hillary and the President see, with ISIS and other groups?
(I think there is - but I also think as the saying goes 'You can't handle the truth,' said a bad guy in a movie who I believe went to prison or something for doing. not. nice. things, that we need to understand what we are dealing with sans the fear and cynicism, as both action just let it happen.)
Question: Are we being childish or kidding ourselves about our demands for peace?
(I've almost concluded that is exactly what a lot of our angst is about, and not matter how we rage, we're not being straight about this as it's too painful.)
Question: Or are these people disingenuous - or are the things they say we don't want to hear the truth we can't accept?
(As I said above, I'm starting to question the motives of the people who vote for, don't vote, or prefer illusions about how the world is run - and deny their part in the system they say they hate but they still demand more than can be morally provided in the absolutist terms we like.)
I've pondered these questions for many years, and find myself on the cusp of deciding what my position ought to be for my own peace of mind. Life isn't simple.
But you know, I agree with his positions, really. I would hate to see the ideas forgotten.
They really are mainline positions of all Democrats. I don't want that to be disrespected and not strive for them.
I want those ideas supported and I want them clearly enunciated. If he fails miserably, will that not bury them, too?
I'd say the pink unicorn thing is from those who have not been in politics and are too immature to grasp there is huge opposition that yelling will not change. So it must be dealt with. For there are times when your 'enemy' will help you.
After decades in politics, BS is the same as HRC in knowing how to 'wheel and deal.' Those who don't accept that in a democracy, as opposed to a totalitarian state, one must compromise. To enforce one's iew of how our government is going to work and disregard the views of others, is not even a 'little d' form of democracy, and not Democratic. Some of those same people from all sides of politics want unilateral control over the lives of others and that's what we must reject. So we 'wheel and deal.'
Not because of lack of principles but because of having principles. The main one being the principle of all being equal and getting their say and their share. Immature people get petulant because they don't get everything, which results in them getting nothing they want. By doing so, they give their 'enemy' exactly what they want.
What it would come down to in the end, if BS is elected, is what will he do for everyone, not just what his principles or set of beliefs demand, but how he will govern over 300 MILLION people, of which we can assured, half of the voters will hate him with a passion and fight him no matter what he does. That includes the fans of the billionaire class who will no doubt call for his death as they have for Obama, who has been among the most transforming of all Democratic presidents with his belief that he will take care of everyone no matter what. So many that hated him for Obamacare now enjoy the benefits, yet their hatred seeks another fault with him. BS would inherit the same milieau.
And foreign affairs? Sanders will have to follow all the treaties we have signed and defend them. He will compromise, as he has with his support of Israel and the F-35. He sees a foreign policy role for the United States of America and is not a pacifist. How many that support him realize those will be among his responsibility as POTUS?
They need to think in terms of what kind of governance they are voting for and I contend other than style, and single minded emphasis, there will be little difference in practice between a BS presidency and any other Democrat. Single mindedness will not accomplish in a nation of hundreds of millions and a world of billions of people.
Strong men rulers have tried and failed that, and may they always fail. Don't expect BS will turn the ship of state around with the flick of a finger. Obama knew and said on the campaign trail that difficult days were on the way and people would need to be more self-sufficient.
IDK what presidents are presented with in those last days before they are inaugurated, the true state of affairs, but do know they come into possession of the kind of knowledge others don't have. Just as they are invested with the launch codes for the American nuclear arsenal. PBO inherited what nearly every POTUS in times of crisis did - a bankrupt nation. Even the Founders had to pay the Crown after the Revolution to make peace. The nation was bankrupt after all of its wars, civil and foreign.
That is what Obama had put on his plate, no matter what he expected. So will Sanders. It will not be about the pure dreams some have, but about a very unpleasant job.
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