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Paul Merrell

Russian Offer to Share ISIL Targets With US-Led Coalition Gets No Response - 0 views

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war & peace Syria Russia U.S-&-allies target-sharing

shared by Paul Merrell on 11 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Russia has proposed sharing the coordinates of possible ISIL targets with the US-led anti-ISIL coalition, but has not received a response, Colonel-General Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff, told media at a press briefing on Wednesday."This means that either our partners do not have such coordinates, or that they for some reason do not want us to hit these targets. The reason for this remains unclear to us," Kartapolov said, cited by RIA Novosti.
Joseph Skues

Bechtel Corporation: Key U.S. Benefits - 0 views

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banksters bechtel financial-oligarchs financial-crisis benefits Banksters

shared by Joseph Skues on 18 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • one-on-one health coaching
  • earn wellness credits each pay period, which may be applied toward the cost of medical coverage or taken as additional taxable income.
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  • recognizes registered domestic partners for all applicable benefits. 
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  • Both plans allow employees to contribute up to $5,000 each year to each plan
  • nine paid holidays a year in the United States
  • 20 days (160 hours) of paid time off per year, up to 80 days
  • for vacation, sick leave, personal time off, or religious observance.  
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  • Company matching and profit sharing contributions begin after one year of service. Immediate vesting entitles employees to the full value of company contributions.
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Paul Merrell

CIA Drug Trafficking Exposed by Political Prisoner - YouTube - 0 views

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U.S.-foreign-policy covert-action CIA drug-trafficking

shared by Paul Merrell on 21 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Published on Dec 30, 2012Political prisoner Beau Abbott, a former narco-pilot for the CIA, tells of his experience in the drug import business. He's now hidden away in a federal prison for his whistleblowing activities.
  • Paul Merrell on 21 Jan 15
     
    Video. Well worth watching this interview. Abbott is highly convincing and offers insider details of CIA and DEA drug-trafficking. 
Paul Merrell

Treaties and International Law - Treaties for which NZ is Depositary - Trans-Pacific St... - 0 views

www.mfat.govt.nz/...s-Pacific-Partnership-Text.php

U.S.-foreign-policy TPP text

shared by Paul Merrell on 05 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership The text of the Agreement was released by TPP Parties on 5 November 2015 and can be accessed by chapter below. The text will continue to undergo legal review and will be translated into French and Spanish language versions prior to signature.
  • Paul Merrell on 05 Nov 15
     
    Here's the text of the TPP, boys and girls.
Paul Merrell

White House wants Republicans to disqualify Trump as reactions snowball - 0 views

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Auction 2016 Trump disqualification Obama DoD UN

shared by Paul Merrell on 12 Dec 15 - No Cached
  • As international condemnation of Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US snowballs, the White House has called for Trump to be disqualified from the presidential race and urged Republican candidates to reject him. Trump called for blocking Muslims -- including prospective immigrants, students, tourists and other visitors -- from entering the US following a shooting spree in San Bernardino, California, by a Muslim couple whom authorities said had been radicalized. The White House lambasted Trump's proposal for the ban, maintaining on Tuesday that Trump's outburst disqualified him from becoming president and called on Republican Party presidential hopefuls to disavow him with immediate effect. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Trump's campaign had a "dustbin of history" quality to it and said his comments were offensive and toxic, according to Reuters. "If they are so cowed by Mr. Trump and his supporters that they're not willing to stand by the values enshrined in the Constitution, then they have no business serving as president of the United States themselves," Earnest said, according to The Associated Press (AP).
  • The Pentagon, the headquarters of the US Department of Defense, warned on Tuesday that Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric undermines US national security, especially fueling the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) narrative of a US war with Islam. Asked about Trump's remarks, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Muslims serve in the US armed forces and that America's war strategy to combat the Islamic State hinged on support from Muslim countries, according to a Reuters report. “Anything that bolsters ISIL's narrative and pits the United States against the Muslim faith is certainly not only contrary to our values but contrary to our national security,” Cook told a news briefing, refraining to mention Trump by name. US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Trump's proposal could thwart US efforts to connect with the Muslim community and Secretary of State John Kerry said his ideas were not constructive. The Pentagon counts thousands of service members who self-identify as Muslims. Data released by the US Defense Department showed that 3,817 active-duty members and 2,079 members of the National Guard and reserve identified their faith as “Islam.” However the real number could well be higher as the identifications are voluntary.
  • UN secretary-general strongly opposes Trump comments UN spokesman Farhan Haq said recently UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly opposes Trump's call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. Haq said the secretary-general has repeatedly spoken out against all forms of xenophobia and statements against migrants, racial or religious groups "and that would certainly apply in this case." While political campaigns have their own dynamics, Haq said, according to AP, “we do not believe that any kind of rhetoric that relies on Islamaphobia, xenophobia, any other appeal to hate any groups, really should be followed by anyone.”
  • Paul Merrell on 12 Dec 15
     
    That figures. Trump is out-polling Hillary at the moment.
Paul Merrell

Time to Renounce the "War on Terror" - 0 views

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war & peace war on terror™

shared by Paul Merrell on 25 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • As a perpetual emotion machine -- producing and guzzling its own political fuel -- the "war on terror" continues to normalize itself as a thoroughly American way of life and death. Ongoing warfare has become a matter of default routine, pushed along by mainline media and the leadership of both parties in Washington. Without a clear and effective upsurge of opposition from the grassroots, Americans can expect to remain citizens of a war-driven country for the rest of their lives.
  • Now, on Capitol Hill, the most overt attempt to call a halt to the "war on terror" is coming from Rep. Barbara Lee, whose bill H.R. 198 would revoke the Authorization for Use of Military Force that Congress approved three days after 9/11. Several months since it was introduced, H.R. 198 only has a dozen co-sponsors. (To send your representative and senators a message of support for Lee's bill, click here.) Evidently, in Congress, there is sparse support for repealing the September 2001 blanket authorization for war. Instead, there are growing calls for a larger blanket. Bipartisan Washington is warming to the idea that a new congressional resolution may be needed to give War on Terror 2.0 an expansive framework. Even for the law benders and breakers who manage the executive branch's war machinery, the language of the September 2001 resolution doesn't seem stretchable enough to cover the U.S. warfare of impunity that's underway across the globe . . . with more on the drawing boards.
  • The "war on terror" is now engaged in various forms of military intervention in an estimated two-dozen countries, killing and maiming uncounted civilians while creating new enemies. It infuses foreign policy with unhinged messages hidden in plain sight, like a purloined letter proclaiming "What goes around won't come around" and telling the world "Do as we say, not as we do."
Paul Merrell

On 6/5, 65 Things We Know About NSA Surveillance That We Didn't Know a Year Ago | Elect... - 0 views

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surveillance state NSA NSA-disclosures research-resources

shared by Paul Merrell on 10 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • It’s been one year since the Guardian first published the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order, leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, that demonstrated that the NSA was conducting dragnet surveillance on millions of innocent people. Since then, the onslaught of disturbing revelations, from disclosures, admissions from government officials, Freedom of Information Act requests, and lawsuits, has been nonstop. On the anniversary of that first leak, here are 65 things we know about NSA spying that we did not know a year ago
  • here’s no question that the international relationships Obama pledged to repair, as well as the confidence of the American people in their privacy and constitutional rights, have been damaged by the NSAs dragnet surveillance. But one year later, both the United States and international governments have not taken the steps necessary to ensure that this surveillance ends. That’s why everyone must take action— contact your elected representative, join Reset the Net, and learn about how international law applies to U.S. surveillance today. 
  • Paul Merrell on 10 Jun 14
     
    EFF has a great list of the top NSA disclosures in the last year, with each of the 65 bullet points linked to source articles. 
Gary Edwards

Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? - Thomas Sowell - 0 views

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obammunism BP Rule-of-Law Constitutional-Republic

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  • Gary Edwards on 25 Jun 10
     
    This is the article that has set the Web on fire.  Thomas Sowell takes the recent Obama shakedown of BP and cast these unconstitutional actions against the historical background of how tyrants go about the business of crushing constitutional liberty.  The first to go is the "rule of Law", as the crisis of the moment is used as an excuse to suspend the rule of Law for the good of the people. excerpt: "In our times, American democracy is being dismantled, piece by piece, before our very eyes by the current administration in Washington, and few people seem to be concerned about it. The president's poll numbers are going down because increasing numbers of people disagree with particular policies of his, but the damage being done to the fundamental structure of this nation goes far beyond particular counterproductive policies. Just where in the Constitution of the United States does it say that a president has the authority to extract vast sums of money from a private enterprise and distribute it as he sees fit to whomever he deems worthy of compensation? Nowhere. But our government is supposed to be "a government of laws and not of men." If our laws and our institutions determine that BP ought to pay $20 billion - or $50 billion or $100 billion - then so be it. But the Constitution says that private property is not to be confiscated by the government without "due process of law." With vastly expanded powers of government available at the discretion of politicians and bureaucrats, private individuals and organizations can be forced into accepting the imposition of powers that were never granted to the government by the Constitution. If you believe that the end justifies the means, then you don't believe in constitutional government. And, without constitutional government, freedom cannot endure. There will always be a "crisis" - which, as the president's chief of staff has said, cannot be allowed to "go to waste" as an opportunity to expand the government's p
Gary Edwards

Obama Downgrade: The Guns of August - 2 views

The world is upside down with the USA credit rating downgrade. Gold surges over $1700 per oz. The stock market continues it's downward spiral, now in free fall. The Federal Reserve Bankster Carte...

Obama-downgrade Cut-Cap-Balance Ryan-Budget Tea-Party-Patriots financial-collapse

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