Posted on Mar 20, 2021
Retired Green Beret assaulted cop with flagpole during Capitol riot, charges allege
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If he is guilty he has commited the act of sedition. He has forsaken the oath that we all took.
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If the evidence points to prosecution; prosecute. Let the legal system judge. Does not matter the man’s service. We are a nation of laws. Many well meaning veterans are pissed about the state of the nation. Does not mean we break laws! I was in the hospital recovering from wounds received in combat 1968 reading the names (in Stars and Stripes) of my fellow Marines I knew who were dying KIA during Tet 68 Vietnam. Robert Kennedy was murdered, and so was Martine Luther King. We all suffer from memories of war. I and — many of my USNH ward mates were taking pain medication for our physical wounds.
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CW3 Dick McManus - Maybe not on this site but I have many vet friends who voted for Biden.
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1SG (Join to see) - Would you and them voted for Sen. Sanders? We live in a dynastic oligarchy made up of some 47 super rich kings and some 130 billionaire princes who rule for the most part and own the main stream news media.
The richest one tenth of one percent of Americans own 17% of stocks
The richest 1% own 50% of stocks
The bottom 50% own 0.7% of stocks
From 1979 to 2019:
• wages for the top 0.1% grew more than twice as fastThe top 1.0% saw their wages grow by 160.3%; and
• In contrast, those in the bottom 90% had annual wages grow by 26.0% .
If worker compensation had kept up with productivity gains since 1968, the current minimum wage would be more than $24.00 an hour.
National issues go right to the issue of character and sense of justice of a local, county, or state candidate. So question those candidates more.
The richest one tenth of one percent of Americans own 17% of stocks
The richest 1% own 50% of stocks
The bottom 50% own 0.7% of stocks
From 1979 to 2019:
• wages for the top 0.1% grew more than twice as fastThe top 1.0% saw their wages grow by 160.3%; and
• In contrast, those in the bottom 90% had annual wages grow by 26.0% .
If worker compensation had kept up with productivity gains since 1968, the current minimum wage would be more than $24.00 an hour.
National issues go right to the issue of character and sense of justice of a local, county, or state candidate. So question those candidates more.
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CW3 Dick McManus - I voted for the candidate that was in the best position to beat trump. My vote goes to the candidate that I think will do the best job.
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1SG (Join to see) - Meet our new crop of urbane imperialists!
In a recent Washington Post op-ed that Tony Blinken co-authored with Robert Kagan, one of the chief architects of neoconservative foreign policy doctrine, he implied that the problem with the Iraq War was poor execution ('bad intelligence, misguided strategy and inadequate planning for the day after') rather than the very idea of invading a country in violation of international law even after it had admitted weapons inspectors to assess the claims motivating the invasion." In a July interview with Blinken, The Wall Street Journal‘s Walter Russell Mead was told of the Biden campaign’s plan to “tame China, Russia and woke Democrats” using “Cold War-era Democratic policy”.
Blinken's career has been a pendulum between expanding the US empire and helping corporate power knit itself more deeply into that empire. Within the Obama administration he backed the unforgivably devastating interventions in Libya and Syria as well as the 2014. (Source: Behind the Headlines report by Dan Cohen)
Surprise! America Is Getting Another Psycho For Secretary Of State - Caitlin’s Newsletter (substack.com)
Avril Haines, Jake Sullivan, Nicholas Burns and Michèle Flournoy (aka
Biden transitioner’s – especially female with demonstrable blood money). They’re being groomed, respectively, for national security adviser, director of national intelligence, a senior diplomatic role, possible secretary of state, and probable secretary of defense.
In 2018, Avril Haines publicly supported the torture-implicated Gina Haspel’s nomination as CIA director in a letter to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Haines is an American lawyer, former deputy CIA director, and former White House Deputy National Security Advisor, serving in Barack Obama's administration. Haines approved an “accountability board” that spared CIA personnel reprisal for spying on the Senate’s torture investigators. She worked as a consultant for the data mining firm Palantir Palantir got involved in counterintelligence work with seed money from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA. The company's first software product, Gotham, was built for defense and intelligence analysts and has also been used by U.S. police agencies. It identifies patterns deep within datasets. Its other software platform, Foundry, is designed to link various complicated and diverse systems into a central operating system.
Jake Sullivan was also knee-deep in a disastrous Libyan regime change. In fact, he recommended his boss, Clinton, to be publicized as "a critical voice" and "the public face of the US effort in Libya" – bragging that Clinton was "instrumental in…tightening the noose around Qadhafi and his regime." Vox profile dubbed Sullivan “the man behind hawkish Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy."
As if he wasn’t unapologetic enough about the Libya fiasco, Sullivan offered this casual and lifeless evasion regarding his big boss approving and supporting a Saudi terror war that’s starved about 100,000 Yemeni children to death, and killed a couple of hundred thousand other people
More recently, in a June 2020 interview, Sullivan doubled-down on Saudi-support, even responding to questions about the kingdom’s brutal murder and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Sullivan said, "I think we should deepen our support for Saudi in terms of the legitimate threats it faces…I think the United States should go even deeper from the point of view of its technical assistance and security cooperation on that set of issues."
Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, assessed Jake Sullivan as, “On the spectrum of people in our administration, he tended to favor more assertive US engagement on issues” and “responses that would incorporate some military element."
Nor was Sullivan alone in his autocrat-enabling behavior – in 2019, four years into Saudi crimes against Yemen, Michèle Flournoy argued against a ban on weapons sales to the kingdom. She has been a prominent architect of every war the U.S. has started since the 1990s — including the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
She wrote, “Expanding American Power - Strategies to Expand U.S. Engagement in a Competitive World Order" pushing for "significantly increased" military spending, arming Ukraine, and "stronger efforts to counter" Iran. In 2007 she co-founders The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is a Washington, D.C. think tank.
Tony Blinken, agrees wholeheartedly. He concluded his 2015 keynote address at the Council on Foreign Relations – titled "Identifying a Strategic Approach to the Middle East" – by arguing the US "should lead from a position of strength with unrivaled military might."
Nov. 19. 2020: Biden’s national security brain trust includes architects of the 20-year-long Afghanistan war. According to The Washington Post’s James Hohmann, General Stanley McChrystal was present at a national security briefing for the Biden transition team. As legendary journalist Michael Hastings reported in his devastating 2010 Rolling Stone profile, General McChrystal was responsible for the failed “counterinsurgency” strategy that only served to further destabilize Afghanistan.
Liberal interventionism
American wars hide behind the fraudulent philosophy that justifies the brutal subjugation of weaker states.
A modern empire, whose organizing principle is capitalism, is a centralized system of corporate power over nations, populations and resources. Power is utilized unilaterally to promote and enforce narrow partisan, elite agendas.
Through narrative control in the mass media, the military-industrial and intelligence complexes carefully manage perceptions of reality, indoctrinating citizens to be conformists. The corporate fourth estate dissolves free will, critical reason and thus democracy.
America’s superpower status affords it broad latitude in deciding which international laws it will obey. America exhibits a double standard whereby it punishes other states for not adhering to humanitarian norms it thinks it is exempt from. https://www.globalresearch.ca/american-power-world-order/5729463
In a recent Washington Post op-ed that Tony Blinken co-authored with Robert Kagan, one of the chief architects of neoconservative foreign policy doctrine, he implied that the problem with the Iraq War was poor execution ('bad intelligence, misguided strategy and inadequate planning for the day after') rather than the very idea of invading a country in violation of international law even after it had admitted weapons inspectors to assess the claims motivating the invasion." In a July interview with Blinken, The Wall Street Journal‘s Walter Russell Mead was told of the Biden campaign’s plan to “tame China, Russia and woke Democrats” using “Cold War-era Democratic policy”.
Blinken's career has been a pendulum between expanding the US empire and helping corporate power knit itself more deeply into that empire. Within the Obama administration he backed the unforgivably devastating interventions in Libya and Syria as well as the 2014. (Source: Behind the Headlines report by Dan Cohen)
Surprise! America Is Getting Another Psycho For Secretary Of State - Caitlin’s Newsletter (substack.com)
Avril Haines, Jake Sullivan, Nicholas Burns and Michèle Flournoy (aka
Biden transitioner’s – especially female with demonstrable blood money). They’re being groomed, respectively, for national security adviser, director of national intelligence, a senior diplomatic role, possible secretary of state, and probable secretary of defense.
In 2018, Avril Haines publicly supported the torture-implicated Gina Haspel’s nomination as CIA director in a letter to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Haines is an American lawyer, former deputy CIA director, and former White House Deputy National Security Advisor, serving in Barack Obama's administration. Haines approved an “accountability board” that spared CIA personnel reprisal for spying on the Senate’s torture investigators. She worked as a consultant for the data mining firm Palantir Palantir got involved in counterintelligence work with seed money from In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA. The company's first software product, Gotham, was built for defense and intelligence analysts and has also been used by U.S. police agencies. It identifies patterns deep within datasets. Its other software platform, Foundry, is designed to link various complicated and diverse systems into a central operating system.
Jake Sullivan was also knee-deep in a disastrous Libyan regime change. In fact, he recommended his boss, Clinton, to be publicized as "a critical voice" and "the public face of the US effort in Libya" – bragging that Clinton was "instrumental in…tightening the noose around Qadhafi and his regime." Vox profile dubbed Sullivan “the man behind hawkish Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy."
As if he wasn’t unapologetic enough about the Libya fiasco, Sullivan offered this casual and lifeless evasion regarding his big boss approving and supporting a Saudi terror war that’s starved about 100,000 Yemeni children to death, and killed a couple of hundred thousand other people
More recently, in a June 2020 interview, Sullivan doubled-down on Saudi-support, even responding to questions about the kingdom’s brutal murder and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Sullivan said, "I think we should deepen our support for Saudi in terms of the legitimate threats it faces…I think the United States should go even deeper from the point of view of its technical assistance and security cooperation on that set of issues."
Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, assessed Jake Sullivan as, “On the spectrum of people in our administration, he tended to favor more assertive US engagement on issues” and “responses that would incorporate some military element."
Nor was Sullivan alone in his autocrat-enabling behavior – in 2019, four years into Saudi crimes against Yemen, Michèle Flournoy argued against a ban on weapons sales to the kingdom. She has been a prominent architect of every war the U.S. has started since the 1990s — including the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
She wrote, “Expanding American Power - Strategies to Expand U.S. Engagement in a Competitive World Order" pushing for "significantly increased" military spending, arming Ukraine, and "stronger efforts to counter" Iran. In 2007 she co-founders The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is a Washington, D.C. think tank.
Tony Blinken, agrees wholeheartedly. He concluded his 2015 keynote address at the Council on Foreign Relations – titled "Identifying a Strategic Approach to the Middle East" – by arguing the US "should lead from a position of strength with unrivaled military might."
Nov. 19. 2020: Biden’s national security brain trust includes architects of the 20-year-long Afghanistan war. According to The Washington Post’s James Hohmann, General Stanley McChrystal was present at a national security briefing for the Biden transition team. As legendary journalist Michael Hastings reported in his devastating 2010 Rolling Stone profile, General McChrystal was responsible for the failed “counterinsurgency” strategy that only served to further destabilize Afghanistan.
Liberal interventionism
American wars hide behind the fraudulent philosophy that justifies the brutal subjugation of weaker states.
A modern empire, whose organizing principle is capitalism, is a centralized system of corporate power over nations, populations and resources. Power is utilized unilaterally to promote and enforce narrow partisan, elite agendas.
Through narrative control in the mass media, the military-industrial and intelligence complexes carefully manage perceptions of reality, indoctrinating citizens to be conformists. The corporate fourth estate dissolves free will, critical reason and thus democracy.
America’s superpower status affords it broad latitude in deciding which international laws it will obey. America exhibits a double standard whereby it punishes other states for not adhering to humanitarian norms it thinks it is exempt from. https://www.globalresearch.ca/american-power-world-order/5729463
American Power and World Order - Global Research
US imperialism seeks to enforce obedience to its objectives domestically and throughout the world by war, sanctions and policing opinion. American wars hide behind the fraudulent concept of liberal interventionism, a bogus philosophy that justifies and rationalises the brutal subjugation of weaker states. Empire’s accomplices in universities elevate liberal interventionism to the status of empiricism, …
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