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Are we going to launch air strikes
-KILL MORE PEOPLE --
???
Based on the say-so of an intelligence community
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/28/intercepted-call-reportedly-clinched-us-claim-on-syria-chemical-weapons-strike/?cmpid=cmty_plus_fn
Headed by a guy who lied to Congress not long ago?
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBKrouhCbpIt1Sqx7zUXknqNonMFv22dYavJ1-17054y1YMx8rdA
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2013/06/fire_dni_james_clapper_he_lied_to_congress_about_nsa_surveillance.html
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/08/28/anonymous-officials-contemplated-a-rogue-cw-attack-8-months-ago/#more-37794
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2013/08/mad-times.html
Isn't She Beautiful!
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/372878512966750209/photo/1
If this all looks like Iraq 2.0 that's because it is---Time to fix the facts around the policy AGAIN
Obama’s Holy Tomahawk War on Syria
by Pepe Escobar
Source: Asia Times via Information Clearing House
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"The Obama administration has ruled that Assad allowed UN chemical weapons inspectors into Syria, and to celebrate their arrival unleashed a chemical weapons attack mostly against women and children only 15 kilometers away from the inspectors' hotel. If you don't believe it, you subscribe to a conspiracy theory.
"Evidence? Who cares about evidence? Assad's offer of access for the inspectors came ''too late''. Anyway, the UN team is only mandated to determine whether chemical weapons were deployed - but not by who, according to UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon's spokesman.
"As far as the Obama administration and UK Prime Minister David ''of Arabia'' Cameron are concerned - supported by a barrage of corporate media missiles - that's irrelevant; Obama's ''red line'' has been crossed by Assad, period. Washington and London are in no-holds-barred mode to dismiss any facts contradicting the decision. Newspeak - of the R2A kind - rules. If this all looks like Iraq 2.0 that's because it is. Time to fix the facts around the policy - all over again. Time for weapons of mass deception - all over again."
the rest:
http://muslimvillage.com/2013/08/29/43177/obamas-holy-tomahawk-war-on-syria/
WTF? Donald Rumsfeld: Obama Has Failed To Justify Intervening In Syria
“One thing that is very interesting, it seems to me, is that there really hasn’t been any indication from the administration as to what our national interest is with respect to this particular situation,” Rumsfeld said in an interview with Fox News’s Neil Cavuto scheduled to air later Wednesday, as quoted by The Hill.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/donald-rumsfeld-obama-has-failed-to-justify-intervening?ref=fpb
http://library.rumsfeld.com/doclib/sp/1686/2003-04-07%20to%20Doug%20Feith%20re%20Issues%20with%20Various%20Countries.pdf#search=%22Libya%22
THE ONION: Now Sadly The Best Time In American History To Be Black
Report: Now Sadly The Best Time In American History To Be Black
NEWS IN BRIEF • Race • News • ISSUE 49•35 • Aug 28, 2013
BOSTON—Despite rampant cultural racism against African Americans in all aspects of American life, discriminatory voting laws, and a vast gap in educational opportunities, there has, sadly, never been a better time than 2013 to be black in America, a Tufts University study revealed Wednesday. “We found that it’s pretty heartbreaking that blacks today are much better off than they’ve ever been, especially because we still live in a country where racial equality remains more of an ideal than a reality,” the study’s lead author Dr. Sam Porter said in regards to the report, which noted that, unfortunately, African Americans have never had it better despite the fact that incarceration rates for blacks are nearly six times that of whites and only 42 percent of black students who enter high school will graduate. “If you don’t think about how—five decades after Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech—it’s perfectly legal in many parts of the country for police to detain and question a person just because he’s black, the findings are not as depressing. But then you do think about that, and then you realize it’s pretty pitiful that what blacks are going through right now in America could be considered a veritable heyday.” The study went on to point out that, on an optimistic note, at least black people aren’t worse off in 2013 than the nation’s women, who are just as fucked now as they’ve ever been.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-now-sadly-the-best-time-in-american-history,33661/
a sign of things to come...
Charlie Stross: Snowden leaks: the real take-home
We human beings are primates. We have a deeply ingrained set of cultural and interpersonal behavioral rules which we violate only at social cost. One of these rules, essential for a tribal organism, is bilateral: loyalty is a two-way street. (Another is hierarchical: yield to the boss.) Such rules are not iron-bound or immutable — we're not robots — but our new hive superorganism employers don't obey them instinctively, and apes and monkeys and hominids tend to revert to tit for tat quite easily when unsure of their relative status. Perceived slights result in retaliation, and blundering, human-blind organizations can slight or bruise an employee's ego without even noticing. And slighted or bruised employees who lack instinctive loyalty because the culture they come from has spent generations systematically destroying social hierarchies and undermining their sense of belonging are much more likely to start thinking the unthinkable.
Edward Snowden is 30: he was born in 1983. Generation Y started in 1980-82. I think he's a sign of things to come.
PS: Bradley Chelsea Manning is 25.
goodies:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/08/snowden-leaks-the-real-take-ho.html
Who knew that the Chemical Weapons Convention trumps the U.S. Constitution?
Carney pretty much gave away Obama's entire legal argument for intervention:
Because to allow it to happen without a response would be to invite further use of chemical weapons and to have that international standard dissolve. And the consequences of that, given the volatility of the region and the concerns that this nation and many others have about proliferation of chemical weapons, would be very serious indeed.
In the Libyan intervention, a vaguely worded UN resolution replaced congressional authorization. A UN resolution is clearly not obtainable for the coming Syrian adventure, so the new fallback is the Chemical Weapons Convention. Apparently the upholding of this Convention is sufficiently vital that it obviates any need for congressional authorization of force.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/27/press-briefing-press-secretary-jay-carney-8272013
50 Years Ago Today, Martin Luther King Jr Marched on Washington to Demand a $15 an Hour Minimum Wage
Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to deliver his landmark "I Have a Dream" speech.
But while it was an inspiring moment that defined a major milepost in the struggle for civil rights, King's speech looms so large in the popular imagination that it has cast an historical shadow over King's larger legacy, as well as the rest of the day's events. His was the tenth of ten speeches capping a daylong "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom," and while King strayed from his prepared text to focus mostly on freedom, nearly half of the ten demands (pdf) http://www.crmvet.org/docs/moworg2.pdf specifically articulated by King and the rest of the march's organizers were economic, including massive public works and job training programs for the unemployed, a federal law prohibiting discrimination in public and private hiring, a broadening of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and "a national minimum wage act that will give all Americans a decent standard of living."
"Government surveys show that anything less than $2.00 an hour fails to do this," the organizers duly noted back in 1963.
Adjusted for inflation, $2.00 in 1963 dollars would be worth $15.27 today. And so in a very real historical sense, one of the core demands underlying King's famous "I Have a Dream Speech," was a $15 an hour minimum wage. It is a dream that has remained unfulfilled to this day.
As King and his fellow organizers understood, political freedom without economic freedom isn't really freedom at all. Indeed, King went on to become an outspoken champion on behalf of economic justice for all races—so to emphasize just one part of his dream at the expense of another is to both misinterpret and misrepresent his legacy.
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/08/28/fifty-years-ago-today-martin-luther-king-jr-marched-on-washington-to-demand-a-15-an-hour-minimum-wage
This Is the NYPD's Secret Spy Cab
In Enemies Within, the new book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman on the NYPD's indiscriminate and probably illegal spying program, reference is briefly made to a "real yellow cab, complete with an authentic taxi medallion registered under a fake name" used by the department's intelligence division to conduct surveillance operations. This is that cab.
The photo, which doesn't appear in the book, was provided to Gawker by Goldman and Apuzzo, who will be here next week to chat about Enemies Within. According to Apuzzo, the cab—medallion number 6Y11—is outfitted with state-of-the-art surveillance gear, and is routinely parked outside of New York mosques in an effort to keep tabs on New York's Muslims—all of whom, in the NYPD's estimation, are potential threats to the public order.
The NYPD did not respond to a request for comment. If you hail this cab, don't tip.
http://gawker.com/this-is-the-nypds-secret-spy-cab-1203862686
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