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  • Ron Paul says U.S. support for Ukraine: "insanity", "stupid", "anti-liberty", "anti-American"

    02/21/2023 11:25:37 AM PST · by RandFan · 48 replies
    twitter ^ | Feb 21 | Ron Paul
    @RonPaul Defend America: Ron Paul As President Wouldn't Be Fomenting Wars With Major Nuclear Powers 2 Min Clip...
  • 70,000 protest in Prague against Czech government, EU, NATO

    09/03/2022 10:41:38 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 19 replies
    NY Post ^ | September 3, 2022
    The protest at Wenceslas Square in the city center was held a day after the government survived a no-confidence vote amid opposition claims of inaction against inflation and energy prices. Organizers of the demonstration...said the central European nation should be neutral militarily and ensure direct contracts with gas suppliers, including Russia. The vote showed how Europe’s energy crisis is fueling political instability as soaring power prices stoke inflation, already at levels unseen in three decades. Prime Minister Petr Fiala, who leads the center-right, five-party coalition, told CTK news service on Saturday that "The protest on Wenceslas Square was called by...
  • Rand Paul: Promoting negotiations over war doesn’t make you a Putin sympathizer (Major speech)

    04/01/2022 9:00:05 AM PDT · by RandFan · 36 replies
    Responsible Statecraft ^ | March 31 | Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
    Republican Senator Rand Paul told a friendly audience of conservatives Thursday that he is standing firm on his principles as a constitutional restrainer, and while he thinks Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is wrong and unjustified, he does not think that military escalation or regime change policies — or even sanctions with no defined goals — are right. “If you say you don’t want to get involved in this war … people immediately think you’re on the other side, that you’re sympathetic with the other side,” he told the “Up from Chaos” foreign policy conference in Washington. “I have not sympathized...
  • Military warns EMP attack could wipe out America, 'democracy, world order'

    11/30/2018 12:51:24 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 203 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | 11/30/2018 | Paul Bedard
    The report, titled, “Electromagnetic Defense Task Force,” and the product of a mostly classified summit of officials from 40 agencies just outside of Washington earlier this year, is a forceful call for a new focus on preparing for either an enemy EMP attack or a natural hit such as a solar storm. While it is focused on the devastating impact an EMP hit would have on the military, it appears to support a congressional warning that up to 90 percent of the population on the East Coast would die in a year of an attack that would dismantle or interfere...
  • Am seeing a report, some parts recovered from a NK missile were determined to be western in origin

    10/29/2017 5:56:48 PM PDT · by cba123 · 47 replies
    Texas News Studio ^ | 10/29/2017
    Jut reporting what I'm reading. "major transatlantic defense contractor" The site is a small independent source, but seems pretty well connected at times, on North Korea. Thee source said a part called a "pressure transmitter", was recovered with a company logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHe7XZjCBVA Here is the site (above, link)
  • Trans troops have constitutional right to serve, civil rights groups say

    08/28/2017 6:27:33 PM PDT · by antidemoncrat · 77 replies
    The Washington Ties ^ | 8/28/207 | Alex Swoyer
    The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland filed one lawsuit there, while the Human Rights Campaign and other organizations filed a separate challenge in Washington state. The organizations say they’re representing trans persons either looking to enlist or already serving in the military.
  • US, South Korea quick to hug, make up after THAAD ruckus

    04/27/2017 8:49:21 PM PDT · by Rabin · 7 replies
    Asia Times ^ | APRIL 27, 2017 | PETER LANGAN
    When the US went ahead and started setting up an anti-missile defense system in South Korea on Wednesday, it brought out bottle-throwing protesters, riot police... //snip// Today, South Korean and US national security advisers agreed that the deployment was moving ahead smoothly, South Korea’s presidential office said.
  • Senate Votes to Require Women to Register for the Draft (McConnell, McCain for; Cruz against)

    06/15/2016 8:31:52 AM PDT · by reaganaut1 · 225 replies
    New York Times ^ | June 14, 2016 | JENNIFER STEINHAUER
    In the latest and perhaps decisive battle over the role of women in the military, Congress is embroiled in an increasingly intense debate over whether they should have to register for the draft when they turn 18. On Tuesday, the Senate approved an expansive military policy bill that would for the first time require young women to register for the draft. The shift, while fiercely opposed by some conservative lawmakers and interest groups, had surprisingly broad support among Republican leaders and women in both parties. The United States has not used the draft since 1973 during the Vietnam War. But...
  • Iraq war veteran claims Trump University fired her for serving in the Army Reserve

    06/02/2016 1:00:40 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 35 replies
    CNN ^ | June 2, 2016
    An Iraq war veteran claims she was fired by Trump University because she needed two days a month off in order to serve in the Army Reserve. Corrine Sommers, who worked for Trump University for five months, sued Trump University after she was dismissed in October 2007. She reached a confidential settlement in that case. But she later alleged that she was fired because of her military service in a November 2012 deposition she gave in a federal class action suit that accused the school of fraud. That deposition was unsealed this week. Sommers alleged that a supervisor at the...
  • Ground operation in Syria will lead to 'a full-fledged, long war,' Russian PM says

    02/14/2016 1:33:51 PM PST · by Mariner · 21 replies
    Reuters ^ | February 14th, 2016 | by Vladimir Soldatkin; writing by Katya Golubkova
    Any ground operation in Syria will lead to "a full-fledged, long war", Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told Euronews TV station in an interview. Major powers agreed on Friday in Munich to a pause in combat in Syria, which killed at least 250,000 people. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that if the peace plan fails, more foreign troops could enter the conflict. Commenting on Kerry's words, Medvedev said: "These are futile words, he should not have said that for a simple reason: if all he wants is a protracted war, he can carry out ground operations and anything...
  • Pentagon unveils budget priority for next year: Countering Russia and China

    02/02/2016 3:26:52 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 19 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 02/02/2016 | Missy Ryan
    A senior defense official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans, said the advances made by Russia and China do "force a competition that has to be confronted in the next decade." Almost half of the new investments Carter will propose are related to what officials see as a growing threat from Moscow, where President Vladimir Putin has demonstrated his willingness to employ Russian military might from Ukraine to Syria. Despite repeated cease-fire agreements, the conflict in Ukraine continues there between Russian-backed separatists and the government in Kiev. If approved by Congress, the budget plan...
  • VANITY: Definition of "Carpet Bombing"

    01/28/2016 8:23:46 PM PST · by TigerClaws · 29 replies
    Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is a large aerial bombing done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.[1][2][3][4] The phrase evokes the image of explosions completely covering an area, in the same way that a carpet covers a floor. Carpet bombing is usually achieved by dropping many unguided bombs. The term obliteration bombing is sometimes used to describe especially intensified bombing with the intention of destroying a city or a large part of the city.[5] The term area bombing refers to indiscriminate bombing of an area,[5] and also encompasses...
  • US acts to hold Israel back from striking Iran. Their intel agencies at odds

    01/14/2012 3:45:47 PM PST · by tired&retired · 36 replies · 1+ views
    Debka ^ | January 14, 2012 | Debka
    The bombing attack in Tehran which killed Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan last Wednesday, Jan. 11, generated an angry phone call from US President Barack Obama to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the next day, DEBKAfile's Washington and intelligence sources report. Washington is increasingly concerned, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, that Israel is preparing to strike Iran's nuclear sites over US objections and has bolstered the defenses of US facilities in the region in case of a conflict. Obama, Defense and Secretary Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been sending private messages to their Israel contacts...
  • Panetta said Bush living "in another world"?

    01/08/2012 3:35:44 PM PST · by Frankusa · 8 replies
    ... In November of 2011, the Washington Post reported that the Iranian government had mastered the critical steps needed to build a nuclear weapon after receiving assistance from foreign scientists. The Post went on to say: An intelligence update will be circulated among International Atomic Energy Agency [IAEA] members... It is expected to focus on Iran's alleged efforts towards putting radioactive material in a warhead and developing missiles... Julian Borger of the Guardian-UK reported in November of 2009: The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design......
  • Occupy's "Anonymous" Hackers Break Into Stratfor

    12/25/2011 10:34:22 AM PST · by Walmartian · 23 replies
    The hackers known as “Anonymous,” who helped organize and support the Occupy Wall Street protests this past fall, claim to have stolen emails and credit card numbers from Stratfor, the highly respected U.S. security think tank
  • Poll: Americans' views on foreign policy

    11/11/2011 4:30:35 PM PST · by mdittmar · 9 replies
    CBS News ^ | CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus an
    Ahead of the CBS News/National Journal Republican presidential debate on national security and foreign policy taking place on Saturday night in South Carolina, CBS News surveyed Americans to find out their views on Iran, China, Israel, North Korea and other countries; their feelings about whether the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have been worth the cost; and which of the Republican candidates are most ready to serve as commander-in-chief and to handle an international crisis. Here are highlights from the poll: More than three in four Americans - 77 percent - approve of Mr. Obama's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from...
  • UK and U.S. 'draw up joint plan to attack Iran': Evidence of nuclear programme raises tension

    11/03/2011 7:49:13 AM PDT · by Evil Slayer · 20 replies
    Daily Mail [UK] ^ | 11/3/11 | Ian Drury
    The UK and U.S. are drawing up plans to attack Iran amid growing tensions in the Middle East, it was claimed last night. Barack Obama and David Cameron are preparing for war after reports that Iran now has enough enriched uranium for four nuclear weapons. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hardline regime in Tehran has been linked to three assassination plots on foreign soil, according to senior officials in Whitehall. Iran has come sharply back into focus following the end of the Libya conflict. And the unrest has been inflamed by sabre-rattling from top politicians in Israel. President Obama said Iran's nuclear...
  • Death highlights women's role in Special Ops teams

    10/25/2011 4:42:01 PM PDT · by decimon · 25 replies
    Associated Press ^ | October 25, 2011 | Lolita C. Baldor
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Army 1st Lt. Ashley White died on the front lines in southern Afghanistan last weekend, the first casualty in what the Army says is a new and vital wartime attempt to gain the trust of Afghan women. White, like other female soldiers working with special operations teams, was brought in to do things that would be awkward or impossible for her male teammates. Frisking burqa-clad women, for example. Her death, in a bomb explosion in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar, underscores the risks of placing women with elite U.S. special operations teams working in remote villages.
  • Boot John Murtha

    09/25/2006 5:17:31 PM PDT · by truthfinder9 · 5 replies · 772+ views
    Come to the National VFTT Boot Murtha Rally Sunday, Oct. 1st in Johnstown, PA Rally Location: Cambria County War Memorial Arena, 2 p.m. in downtown Johnstown, PA. Pre-Boot Murtha Rally Event: FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL MOTORCYCLE RIDE! Riders will gather after 10:00 AM at the Zepka Harley-Davidson showroom at 960 Eisenhower Blvd. in Johnstown for an 11:00 AM departure. David Beamer, Todd's dad, will be speaking prior to send-off. The ride to the memorial will be approximately 45 minutes, and a short reflection period will follow at the memorial. The group will then return to the War Memorial Arena, arriving not...
  • Illegals Want To Boycott, Remove Dobbs; I Suggest It's Our Turn

    04/16/2006 11:19:36 PM PDT · by blogbat · 52 replies · 2,708+ views
    April 17 2006 | Blogbat
    I don't normally do things like this, but I feel as if something organized must be started so that there might be an effective, organized campaign to stand up and say no to the pro-illegal, pro-sellout, pro-amnesty consortium. Below are a three suggestions: As most have probably read, the illegals plan to boycott US businesses in what essentially is no less than an act of foreign economic terrorism designed to force our government into submission to their demands. And of course unfortunately, there are plenty of weak-kneed in the senate who've grown unresponsive to our voice, ready to surrender to...