Lock-step thinking, following outmoded laws that ignore the reality of our lives in 2012.
Where is the leadership that is educating the public about what's on the near horizon if we all don't begin using our property to grow food?
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What's hard to believe, impossible actually, is that the Establishment Elites didn't put Romney in as a shill.
I mean, really, Romney and Obama are the best that both parties could come up with? Of course Obama looks better by comparison (although both would be corporate shills, Obama does the spin-talk better). But how did Romney even become governor of Massachusetts with such poor political speech savvy?
In a nation of more than 300 million, this is it?
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We're not in Afghanistan for anything having to do with terrorism, although our foreign policy, using our military for corporate acquisition of the world's resources, is creating terrorists and putting American citizens in peril.
The official objective in Afghanistan has been kept from the American people:
"The war in Iraq was very very clearly about oil, as was the war in Afghanistan. The oil pipeline that was planned (in Afghanistan), the best security for that was an occupation."
"If you map the proposed pipeline route across Afghanistan and you look at our bases? Matches perfectly. Our bases are there to solve a problem that the Taliban couldn't solve. Taliban couldn't provide security in that part of Afghanistan -- Well now that's where our bases are. So, does that have to do with Osama Bin Laden? It has nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden. It has everything to do with the longer plan, in this case a strategy which I wouldn't necessarily call neoconservative, however it fits perfectly in with the neoconservative ideology which says, 'If you have military force and you need something from a weaker country, then you need to deploy that force and take what you need because your country's needs are paramount'. It's the whole idea of unilateralism, of using force to achieve your aims."
-Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel whose assignments included a variety of roles for the National Security Agency and who spent her last 4 1/2 years working at the Pentagon with Donald Rumsfeld
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUxI3rSLDO8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SltOy_F6ZII
US-scandal in Afghanistan isn't just at Dawood Military Hospital.
Not long ago, Rachel Maddow walked the dusty, garbage-strewn streets of Afghanistan with RIchard Engel to see what exporting US-style democracy means, and what US nation-building actually builds.
Watch this to see where are our tax dollars going, and learn how we are not "nation-building", not making us safer, and not helping the Afghans or building their nation at all (or a democracy). Learn how this has all been just a huge rip-off of the American people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR5BHnN__5M
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I have not seen the hearings yet, but I can find nothing in any of the reports I've read, from the Christian Science Monitor to the WSJ, to indicate whether conditions at Dawood have changed.
If no one has been fired or replaced, if the same people are running the hospital and working there, it would seem that the abuse is ongoing.
Does anyone here know?
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I've heard every one of these criticisms before, and they don't change a thing for me.==================================
To expect radical change, in our current political climate - and with our system of checks and balances - is childish.
To begin with, I'm a liberal Democrat and not a Tea-bagger.
Don't attribute words, comments, arguments to me that I've never said nor believe.
I have NEVER said nor is it my position that Romney shouldn't release his tax returns. Of course he should, as should every person running for public office. Most particularly those politicians who are running for offices where they will be writing tax laws and determining revenue and budget policies.
For Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to call for Romney's tax returns after refusing to release their own (Congress writes the tax legislation; a president just signs it) is the height of hypocrisy. Especially when Pelosi's own actions when she was Speaker of the House were a highly questionable conflict of interest and insider trading.
But beyond that, you're in violation of HP policy:
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Neither, but I am not posing as something I am not.
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