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[h=3]Nobel "Peace" prize winner Obomber the war-monger has now Bombed 7 Muslim Countries[/h]
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[h=3]Nobel "Peace" prize winner Obomber the war-monger has now Bombed 7 Muslim Countries[/h]
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[ It's a good thing this scum-fuck campaigned on an anti-war platform, and his dumb-fuck low information voters pranced gleefully singing "hope and change." Dumb fucks ]
Syria Becomes the 7th Predominantly Muslim Country Bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate
By Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
Tuesday at 8:17 AM
The U.S. today began bombing targets inside Syria, in concert with its lovely and inspiring group of five allied regimes: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Jordan.
That means that Syria becomes the 7th predominantly Muslim country bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama—after Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Iraq.
The utter lack of interest in what possible legal authority Obama has to bomb Syria is telling indeed: Empires bomb who they want, when they want, for whatever reason (indeed, recall that Obama bombed Libya even after Congress explicitly voted against authorization to use force, and very few people seemed to mind that abject act of lawlessness; constitutional constraints are not for warriors and emperors).
It was just over a year ago that Obama officials were insisting that bombing and attacking Assad was a moral and strategic imperative. Instead, Obama is now bombing Assad’s enemies while politely informing his regime of its targets in advance. It seems irrelevant on whom the U.S. wages war; what matters it that it be at war, always and forever.
Six weeks of bombing hasn’t budged ISIS in Iraq, but it has caused ISIS recruitment to soar. That’s all predictable: the U.S. has known for years that what fuels and strengthens anti-American sentiment (and thus anti-American extremism) is exactly what they keep doing: aggression in that region. If you know that, then they know that. At this point, it’s more rational to say they do all of this not despite triggering those outcomes, but because of it. Continuously creating and strengthening enemies is a feature, not a bug. It is what justifies the ongoing greasing of the profitable and power-vesting machine of Endless War.
If there is anyone who actually believes that the point of all of this is a moral crusade to vanquish the evil-doers of ISIS (as the U.S. fights alongside its close Saudi friends), please read Professor As’ad AbuKhalil’s explanation today of how Syria is a multi-tiered proxy war. As the disastrous Libya “intervention” should conclusively and permanently demonstrate, the U.S. does not bomb countries for humanitarian objectives. Humanitarianism is the pretense, not the purpose.
Syria Becomes the 7th Predominantly Muslim Country Bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate
By Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald
Tuesday at 8:17 AM
The U.S. today began bombing targets inside Syria, in concert with its lovely and inspiring group of five allied regimes: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Jordan.
That means that Syria becomes the 7th predominantly Muslim country bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama—after Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Iraq.
The utter lack of interest in what possible legal authority Obama has to bomb Syria is telling indeed: Empires bomb who they want, when they want, for whatever reason (indeed, recall that Obama bombed Libya even after Congress explicitly voted against authorization to use force, and very few people seemed to mind that abject act of lawlessness; constitutional constraints are not for warriors and emperors).
It was just over a year ago that Obama officials were insisting that bombing and attacking Assad was a moral and strategic imperative. Instead, Obama is now bombing Assad’s enemies while politely informing his regime of its targets in advance. It seems irrelevant on whom the U.S. wages war; what matters it that it be at war, always and forever.
Six weeks of bombing hasn’t budged ISIS in Iraq, but it has caused ISIS recruitment to soar. That’s all predictable: the U.S. has known for years that what fuels and strengthens anti-American sentiment (and thus anti-American extremism) is exactly what they keep doing: aggression in that region. If you know that, then they know that. At this point, it’s more rational to say they do all of this not despite triggering those outcomes, but because of it. Continuously creating and strengthening enemies is a feature, not a bug. It is what justifies the ongoing greasing of the profitable and power-vesting machine of Endless War.
If there is anyone who actually believes that the point of all of this is a moral crusade to vanquish the evil-doers of ISIS (as the U.S. fights alongside its close Saudi friends), please read Professor As’ad AbuKhalil’s explanation today of how Syria is a multi-tiered proxy war. As the disastrous Libya “intervention” should conclusively and permanently demonstrate, the U.S. does not bomb countries for humanitarian objectives. Humanitarianism is the pretense, not the purpose.
[h=1]Ben Carson Explains New Rap Ad[/h] by Alan Pyke
Nov 5, 2015 1:38pm
CREDIT: AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill
In a new radio ad airing in eight cities, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is turning to something he doesn’t particularly care for in order to reach people: rap culture.
The ad tucks two snippets of Carson speaking about American values between a handful of inelegant bars from an emcee by the name of Aspiring Mogul, all wrapped over a flute sample, fuzzy bassline, and a simple kick-snare drum loop. At one point Mogul rhymes “support Ben Carson” and “he’d be awesome,” but the bulk of the spot is made up of the Carson clips rather than lyrical embellishment.
It’s an odd move from a man who blames hip-hop culture for a significant share of the hardships currently facing black America. In an April radio interview, Carson contrasted the current struggles of the African-American community with its successful survival of slavery and segregation.
“Why were we able to get through those? Because of our faith, because of our family, because of our values,” said Carson, “and as we allow the hip-hop community to destroy those things for us, and as we grasp onto what’s politically correct and not what is correct, we continue to deteriorate.” Carson has made similar moral-erosion arguments about the entertainment industry more broadly, but with particular attention to the summer N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton.”
Why adapt hip-hop trappings to reach out to voters, then? At a book signing in Florida on Thursday, Carson told ThinkProgress’s Alice Ollstein that the whole thing was his staff’s idea and he just went along with it.
“There are people on the campaign who thought that was a good way to do things, and they’re entitled to their opinions. I support them in doing that, but I probably would have taken a little different approach,” Carson, who apparently discovered Aspiring Mogul after he posted a song called “The Black Republican” to Soundcloud earlier this year, said of the ad. Carson himself signed off on the expenditure, of course, and his voice informs listeners at the end of the ad that “I approve this message.”
The ad will air in Miami, Birmingham, Memphis, Little Rock, Houston, Atlanta, Jackson, and Detroit over the next two weeks, but not in the early primary states where Carson’s campaign has gained ground in recent months. Carson’s message to America has been generally consistent for decades, though before he courted mostly-white Republican crowds “his devotees were almost entirely African-Americans focused on upward mobility — people looking to his story for personal, not political, inspiration,” as Jenee Desmond-Harris wrote in a lengthy examination of Carson’s path from surgeon to candidate for Vox.
Mass protests against police abuse have helped prompt some of Carson’s broad condemnations of hiphop culture. Carson is no fan of Black Lives Matter activism. He’s responded to that movement with “all lives matter” rhetoric and called BLM activists’ insistence that American culture systematically devalues black people in ways that require specific attention “silly.” The comments almost exactly mirror those of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), the latter of whom later apologized for employing the “all lives” dodge.
Alice Ollstein contributed reporting.
Nov 5, 2015 1:38pm
In a new radio ad airing in eight cities, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is turning to something he doesn’t particularly care for in order to reach people: rap culture.
The ad tucks two snippets of Carson speaking about American values between a handful of inelegant bars from an emcee by the name of Aspiring Mogul, all wrapped over a flute sample, fuzzy bassline, and a simple kick-snare drum loop. At one point Mogul rhymes “support Ben Carson” and “he’d be awesome,” but the bulk of the spot is made up of the Carson clips rather than lyrical embellishment.
It’s an odd move from a man who blames hip-hop culture for a significant share of the hardships currently facing black America. In an April radio interview, Carson contrasted the current struggles of the African-American community with its successful survival of slavery and segregation.
“Why were we able to get through those? Because of our faith, because of our family, because of our values,” said Carson, “and as we allow the hip-hop community to destroy those things for us, and as we grasp onto what’s politically correct and not what is correct, we continue to deteriorate.” Carson has made similar moral-erosion arguments about the entertainment industry more broadly, but with particular attention to the summer N.W.A. biopic “Straight Outta Compton.”
Why adapt hip-hop trappings to reach out to voters, then? At a book signing in Florida on Thursday, Carson told ThinkProgress’s Alice Ollstein that the whole thing was his staff’s idea and he just went along with it.
“There are people on the campaign who thought that was a good way to do things, and they’re entitled to their opinions. I support them in doing that, but I probably would have taken a little different approach,” Carson, who apparently discovered Aspiring Mogul after he posted a song called “The Black Republican” to Soundcloud earlier this year, said of the ad. Carson himself signed off on the expenditure, of course, and his voice informs listeners at the end of the ad that “I approve this message.”
The ad will air in Miami, Birmingham, Memphis, Little Rock, Houston, Atlanta, Jackson, and Detroit over the next two weeks, but not in the early primary states where Carson’s campaign has gained ground in recent months. Carson’s message to America has been generally consistent for decades, though before he courted mostly-white Republican crowds “his devotees were almost entirely African-Americans focused on upward mobility — people looking to his story for personal, not political, inspiration,” as Jenee Desmond-Harris wrote in a lengthy examination of Carson’s path from surgeon to candidate for Vox.
Mass protests against police abuse have helped prompt some of Carson’s broad condemnations of hiphop culture. Carson is no fan of Black Lives Matter activism. He’s responded to that movement with “all lives matter” rhetoric and called BLM activists’ insistence that American culture systematically devalues black people in ways that require specific attention “silly.” The comments almost exactly mirror those of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), the latter of whom later apologized for employing the “all lives” dodge.
Alice Ollstein contributed reporting.
[h=1]DEFENSIVE CNN CAUGHT LYING ABOUT VETTING OBAMA: ONLY EXAMPLE IS POST-ELECTION[/h]
by JOHN NOLTE6 Nov 2015537
As its racially-motivated smear job against Dr. Ben Carson implodes, CNN is in full panic mode. CNN lying is not exactly news, but the lies of commission and omission emanating from the left-wing network today have been nothing short of breathtaking.
During a CNN appearance this morning, Carson challenged a visibly rattled Alisyn Camerota with the verifiable charge that CNN showed no interest in vetting President Obama. After an awkward pause (probably to get fed from her producer), Camerota shot back with the example of the composite girlfriend found in one of Obama’s auto-biographies.
This is a lie. And all through the morning CNN has been defensively repeating this lie. CNN wants viewers to believe Candidate Obama was vetted in 2008 by CNN, when the truth is that CNN not only refused to vet Obama but buried a scoop that was a potential game-changer.
The fact is that Obama’s composite girlfriend was not found until after Obama had been in office for a little more than three years.
Here’s another fact: Just a month prior to Obama winning the presidency in 2008, CNN discovered that the then-candidate had LIED about his ADULT relationship with a TERRORIST.
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by JOHN NOLTE6 Nov 2015537
As its racially-motivated smear job against Dr. Ben Carson implodes, CNN is in full panic mode. CNN lying is not exactly news, but the lies of commission and omission emanating from the left-wing network today have been nothing short of breathtaking.
During a CNN appearance this morning, Carson challenged a visibly rattled Alisyn Camerota with the verifiable charge that CNN showed no interest in vetting President Obama. After an awkward pause (probably to get fed from her producer), Camerota shot back with the example of the composite girlfriend found in one of Obama’s auto-biographies.
This is a lie. And all through the morning CNN has been defensively repeating this lie. CNN wants viewers to believe Candidate Obama was vetted in 2008 by CNN, when the truth is that CNN not only refused to vet Obama but buried a scoop that was a potential game-changer.
The fact is that Obama’s composite girlfriend was not found until after Obama had been in office for a little more than three years.
Here’s another fact: Just a month prior to Obama winning the presidency in 2008, CNN discovered that the then-candidate had LIED about his ADULT relationship with a TERRORIST.
