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Al Qaeda in Yemen gains sympathy from US drone strikes. Exactly.

Book exposes Israeli government's evil.

"How else are we to explain the fact that, during the attack on Gaza, IDF soldiers killed an eight-year-old child, one Ibrahim Awajah, and used his corpse for target practice? This was no isolated incident: one by one we read the stories of disgusting atrocities carried out by the IDF – how they lobbed a shell into the living room of Izeldeen Abuelaish, a Harvard-trained fertility doctor and medical researcher who had helped many Israelis have children. The shell decapitated two of his daughters and "shredded" his other children "to pieces." As this was going on, Israelis sat on Parash Hill, near Sderot, which offers a clear view of the Gaza Strip, watching the slaughter and cheering as if it were the latest hit movie – spectators to their own moral degeneration."

That last reminds me of the Israeli Mossad agents who cheered on 9/11 when planes hit the World Trade Center.

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It seems the reason the US and UK cut some aid to Syrian rebels is the jihadists ran their favorite rebel out of the country.

UN claims chemical weapons were used in Syria multiple times. No news there. The rebels tried many times to draw the US into the war with chemical weapons false flag attacks.

US drone strike hits wedding convoy in Yemen, killing at least 13. I'm sure not all the casualties were terrorists.

I doubt the US will fight a war with China. I can't remember two nuclear powers waging war. Even India and Pakistan manage not to do it.

Obama's Afghanistan experts testifying before Congress don't know how many American troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year or how much money the US is spending on the war.

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US claims drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen comply with international law.

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Bombings in Iraq expand into former safe havens.

UK tries to recruit a cyber-warfare army.

I'm skeptical of this plan to destroy Syria's weapons. I bet the rebels follow these inspectors and grab some of those weapons.

Two US generals forced to retire over Afghanistan attack. Wow. Somebody was held at least a little bit accountable for failure in the field. I can't remember that happening in any war in the last decade.

Swiss wargame simulates invasion by bankrupt French. Smart.

A US Navy blimp is reportedly mapping Baltimore. I don't feel safer. I feel less safe.

The sanctioned US leak about intercepted communication between Zawahiri and Yemeni al Qaeda leader caused more damage than the leaks by Snowden. Well, duh. Why is anybody surprised by this?

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About $6.6 billion in US cash sent to Iraq was stolen.

US employs eight year old Yemeni boy to plant chip on his stepfather, then they kill his stepfather with a drone strike. The US always complains about other countries using children in war.

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Space junk in orbit is a real problem, and the US launched a bunch of tiny copper wires to orbit the earth in 1963 to insure radio communications couldn't be interrupted by the Soviets.

So the US backed a coup in Yemen, now it's involved in a civil war in Yemen.

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General Smedley Butler's proposal for a Constitutional Amendment of Peace.

Ron Paul asks why we are war in Yemen. Because al Qaeda is there.

"The US claims that everyone killed was a “suspected militant,” but Yemeni citizens have for a long time been outraged over the number of civilians killed in such strikes. The media has reported that of all those killed in these recent US strikes, only one of the dead was on the terrorist “most wanted” list."
"According to the Administration, the embassy closings were prompted by an NSA-intercepted conference call at which some 20 al-Qaeda leaders discussed attacking the West. Many remain skeptical about this dramatic claim, which was made just as some in Congress were urging greater scrutiny of NSA domestic spying programs."

I never heard that claim, and I'm very skeptical of it. I heard al Zawahiri contacted the head of al Qaeda in Yemen. A 20 person conference call is something you would expect of US rulers, not al Qaeda. It sounds like something designed to fool Americans. Evidence that the warning was a political stunt just grew significantly.

"Far from solving the problem of extremists in Yemen, however, this US presence in the country seems to be creating more extremism. According to professor Gregory Johnson of Princeton University, an expert on Yemen, the civilian “collateral damage” from US drone strikes on al-Qaeda members actually attracts more al-Qaeda recruits:
“There are strikes that kill civilians. There are strikes that kill women and children. And when you kill people in Yemen, these are people who have families. They have clans. And they have tribes. And what we’re seeing is that the United States might target a particular individual because they see him as a member of al-Qaeda. But what’s happening on the ground is that he’s being defended as a tribesman.”"

I think that's pretty obvious since everybody claims that the most dangerous branch of al Qaeda is in Yemen.

"This cycle of intervention producing problems that require more intervention to “solve” impoverishes us and makes us more, not less, vulnerable. Can anyone claim this old approach is successful? Has it produced one bit of stability in the region? Does it have one success story? There is an alternative. It is called non-interventionism. We should try it. First step would be pulling out of Yemen. "

Exactly.

Yemeni official claims the threat on US embassies had no basis in fact, that Obama used to to dampen resistance to drone strikes. More evidence supporting the political stunt theory.

NATO is transforming into a world police force.

The US policy of aggression and war is losing the global war on terror.

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US drones strike in Yemen eight times in two weeks. This will make even more Yemenis want to kill Americans. Seven Saudis among those killed.

How the US uses NATO and other foreign armies to expand its empire.

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Yemenis claim they quietly stopped the biggest terrorist attack since 9/11. That's convenient. It was very scary.

Yemenis claim closing bases was an overreaction. Obama says closing bases was not an overreaction. Nana-nana-nana. It's like a bunch of children arguing.

US launches two drone strikes in Yemen.

Obama says we should still be scared because terrorists could attack the US. Of course there's no evidence of a plan to attack the US, but we should be scared anyway. My first instinct seems accurate. This warning was a smokescreen to distract the media from Obama scandals.

The military is training personnel to believe that Americans who criticize foreign policy are threats.

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The US liberation of France led to rape and sexual assault.

"The soldiers who landed in Normandy on D-Day were greeted as liberators, but by the time American G.I.’s were headed back home in late 1945, many French citizens viewed them in a very different light.
In the port city of Le Havre, the mayor was bombarded with letters from angry residents complaining about drunkenness, jeep accidents, sexual assault — “a regime of terror,” as one put it, “imposed by bandits in uniform.”
This isn’t the “greatest generation” as it has come to be depicted in popular histories. But in “What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American G.I. in World War II France,” the historian Mary Louise Roberts draws on French archives, American military records, wartime propaganda and other sources to advance a provocative argument: The liberation of France was “sold” to soldiers not as a battle for freedom but as an erotic adventure among oversexed Frenchwomen, stirring up a “tsunami of male lust” that a battered and mistrustful population often saw as a second assault on its sovereignty and dignity."

More evidence that war violence breeds sexual violence.

Army Sergeant accused of secretly filming female cadets at West Point.

"A sergeant first class on the staff of the United States Military Academy at West Point has been accused of videotaping female cadets without their consent, sometimes when they were undressed in the bathroom or the shower, according to Army officials. "

It's everywhere.

With three scandals battering Obama, he might attack Syria to change the media focus. Americans generally rally around the flag when the president attacks somebody, but Americans strongly against attacking Syria, so this might blow up in his face.

"This week Obama told the press his administration has fairly solid evidence that chemical weapons were used by Damascus against al-Qaeda and its allies. Obama also said he still wants more and better evidence that Asaad used the weapons. This long has been his standard line.
But then, before closing his remarks, Obama lapsed into his patented weeping-for-humanity mode, saying in an almost off-hand manner enough thousands of Syrians had been killed in the civil war to justify intervention by that American-killing and nation-bankrupting fiction of our bipartisan governing elite’s imagination, the “U.S.-led International Community.” In other words, our beleaguered president already is looking to distract Americans from his administration’s rampant felonies, and what better way to quiet the hounds of just retribution than by consigning U.S. soldiers and Marines to death in a useless intervention in Syria, a place where no genuine U.S. national interest is at stake. One straw in the wind: Friday’s news brought word of Obama’s talking-points-changing, intelligence-leaking lickspittle of a CIA Director, John Brennan, sneaking into Israel to “discuss Syria.”"

Americans are less resistant to intervention if the Syrian government used chemical weapons.

AG Holder admits US drone strikes have killed four Americans.

"In a letter to Congressional leaders obtained by The New York Times, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. disclosed that the administration had deliberately killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric who was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen.

The American responsibility for Mr. Awlaki’s death has been widely reported, but the administration had until now refused to confirm or deny it.

The letter also said that the United States had killed three other Americans: Samir Khan, who was killed in the same strike; Mr. Awlaki’s son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was also killed in Yemen; and Jude Mohammed, who was killed in a strike in Pakistan.

“These individuals were not specifically targeted by the United States,” Mr. Holder wrote."

I hope the press presses Obama about this after his speech.

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The assassination of a Yemeni security officer working at the US embassy in Sanaa shows once again that the US foreign policy of mass murder of Muslims in a multitude of countries is making life more dangerous for Americans and our allies.

Here's another one of those outrageous articles that is supposed to break the dam but won't even come close.

"In a May 3, 2012, email, the State Department denied a request by a group of Special Forces assigned to protect the U.S. embassy in Libya to continue their use of a DC- 3 airplane for security operations throughout the country.
The subject line of the email, on which slain Ambassador Chris Stevens was copied, read: “Termination of Tripoli DC-3 Support.”
Four days later, on May 7, the State Department authorized the U.S. embassy in Vienna to purchase a $108,000 electric vehicle charging station for the embassy motor pool’s new Chevrolet Volts. The purchase was a part of the State Department’s “Energy Efficiency Sweep of Europe” initiative, which included hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on green program expenditures at various U.S. Embassies."

After more than a century of indoctrinating people in government prison schools, generation piling upon generation, the American people are immune to facts and reason regarding the fantastic violence and criminality of our government. And like frogs in pot of slowly heating water, they will ignore reports like this until the checks stop coming in.

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Masked gunmen shot dead a Yememi security agent working for the US embassy in Sanaa.

Summary of the Benghazi cover-up.

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Troops protect embassy from Yemeni protesters. Al Qaeda might have been behind the assault on the US embassy in Libya which killed four Americans. This doesn't surprise me at all. We knew at the time the US and NATO were helping topple Qaddafi that al Qaeda was part of the rebels. The US allied with al Qaeda in Libya, and now Syria, and Americans dies as a result. Our foreign policy of aggression is killing foreigners and Americans. It's turned the Middle East into a powder keg of anti-American sentiment, and any little trigger makes it blow up, killing Americans.

Note to Mitt Romney: American leadership, which is code for US government aggression, is what got us into this mess. More aggression will just make things worse.

Obama says he's supposed to focus on the safety of government personnel.

""As president, Obama added, "my obligation is to focus on security for our people, making sure that we gather all the facts, making sure that we're advancing American interests and not having ideological arguments on a day when we're mourning.""

Note to Obama: you failed. I think something more nefarious is going on that the media is telling us. The US embassy in Cairo reported offered an apology for this anti-Islam movie before any protest began.  (Here's the apology. The original link at the embassy has been taken down.) When the protesters stormed the Egyptian embassy, they were chanting, "Obama, Obama there are still a billion Osamas." That's not a protest of a movie. That's a protest of the US killing Osama bin Laden and Muslims all over the Middle East. It seems to me the US must have known this attack was coming, and they preemptively tried to fool Americans into believing the protest was about the movie, not about the US foreign policy of aggression and Obama's celebration of killing Osama bin Laden.

Here's how Obama insures the safety of US government personnel overseas.

"U.S. Marines defending the American embassy in Egypt were not permitted by the State Department to carry live ammunition, limiting their ability to respond to attacks like those this week on the U.S. consulate in Cairo."

The mainstream press will never cover this story. It would finish Obama.

"The U.S. ambassador to any nation ultimately decides whether Marines are authorized to carry ammunition, according to a GOP national security adviser knowledgeable about American embassy protocols."

But the ambassador is appointed by the president, so it's ultimately his responsibility.

Stupid talking heads keep saying that Obama's foreign policy is to be likable and to apologize. That's a crock. Obama's foreign policy is to kill Muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, and Nigeria, that we know about. He's also undoubtedly waging undeclared war in many other countries we don't know about.

Here's some more telling information about the attacks:

"One of the Egyptian demonstration’s organizers was Mohamed al-Zawahiri, the brother of the top deputy to Osama bin Laden, and a planner of the 9/11 attacks, which were led by Mohamed Atta, an Egyptian citizen."

These attacks had nothing to do with a movie. The movie appears to have been a tool to get protesters into the streets to provide cover for the terrorists the US has allied itself with in Libya and Syria.

It's nice to see Kirsten Powers criticize Obama and the media for focusing on Romney's statement instead of the attacks and Obama's policies.

As I speculated to my girlfriend yesterday, the supposedly Israeli Jew who made the anti-Mohammad movie that supposedly sparked these protests seems to be a fraud. Nobody in Hollywood knows him.

". . . has ever heard of the "Israeli-Jewish" businessman (as USA Today describes him) who claims to have made the anti-Muslim "movie" that is being protested in the Middle East. Michael Medved calls it below high school quality. Neither he nor anyone else in Hollywood seems to know the guy who made the "movie" or any of the hundred or so "actors" in it."

This sounds like something cooked up by the the CIA, the CFR and the Bilderbergers. Or maybe Mossad in an attempt to sway US opinion to back a strike on Iran. Now we find out that the movie was a transparent fraud.

"Now we are seeing that it was indeed a fraud — actors were hired on the ruse that it was a history of Egypt 2,000 years ago and offensive dialogue was dubbed in after the fact. Crudely, as if the makers wanted it to be transparently fraudulent."

I guess it could have been done by the Muslim Brotherhood or al Qaeda to spark protests to cover their actions.

Do you ever notice how nobody ever storms a Swiss embassy?

Fear of collaboration between the Iranian and Egyptian governments.

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Al Qaeda militants attack Yemeni intelligence facility. It looks like the US is losing the war in Yemen too.