MAY 23 2013
What Mattered in Obama’s Speech Today: Ending the Open-Ended ‘War on Terror’
Then we found out that all Americans are suspects in the war on terror, and that we are being spied on as part of that critically important war.
And now he is arming the terrorists and jumping into a new war.
Obama says that using nerve gas is “crossing the line” so he is arming people using nerve gas.
(Reuters) – U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria’s civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday
U.N. has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator | Reuters
They had to push through the big lie about “worst fire in Colorado history” fast, because the monsoon season is firing up about three weeks early this year.
Weather Street:Clouds and Precipitation Forecast Movie
The Black Forest fire had to have been started by humans. Nothing would surprise me at this point.
Ponderosa pine forest naturally grows at a low tree density, and is dominated by mature trees. Periodic ground fires clear out the ground litter and kill most of the small trees, which keeps the forest healthy.
However, fire suppression policy over the last seventy years has changed the nature of the forest, which is now dominated by high density immature trees, which burn catastrophically as very hot crown fires.
Compare the density of the trees below, with the old growth forest above.
Some people like building their house in dense forest, which inevitably causes their house to become atmospheric CO2.
In 1989, the US sent weaponry to an al Qaeda rebel named Osama bin Laden
U.S. Is Reported to Send Arms To Revive Afghan Rebels’ Drive
By ROBERT PEAR, Special to The New York Times
Published: July 17, 1989American officials said today that the United States was sending new mine-clearing equipment, missiles, mortars, artillery shells and other weapons to the Afghan guerrillas in the hope that they could regain momentum in fighting Afghan Government troops.
The Government forces have recently taken back several areas that had been under guerrilla control near the key city of Jalalabad.
The officials said the shipments were a response to the Soviet Union’s decision to step up arms deliveries to the Afghan Government.
U.S. Is Reported to Send Arms To Revive Afghan Rebels’ Drive – New York Times
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The top United Nations human rights official warned opposition fighters in Syria on Monday that they would not be immune from prosecution for atrocities, as videos from the Syrian city of Aleppo appeared to show a mass execution by rebel fighters of bound and blindfolded Syrian government soldiers.
One of the videos, first publicized on Monday on the Brown Moses blog, which curates and analyzes video evidence from Syria, showed at least 20 corpses lying in a crooked row on a bloodstained street curb. The victims wore fatigues but no shoes. Several appeared to have been shot in the head.
During the Iraq War, over a quarter-million Iraqi Christians fled Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator but his government was secular and therefore relatively safe for Christians. Christians, however, feared the Shiite government that we helped put in place after Saddam, and they fled in droves.
Where did these Christians go? They headed mostly for Syria, joining the over one million Syrians who have lived as Christians since the time of Christ.
Now, the senate is attempting to arm the rebel forces in syria, many of whom are al quaeda or affiliates. they do so out of a miguided attempt to stop the violence in syria.
Instead their actions will bring more violence and more persecution of Christians, who have long been protected in Syria.
Rand Paul’s Message To Evangelicals: “There is a war on Christianity”
Ellsberg, who rose to fame in 1971 when he turned over the infamous Pentagon Papers to The New York Times, pulled no punches. He said that Edward Snowden’s recent leak — which revealed that the National Security Agency has been collecting Americans’ data for years — is the most important in United States history, and that the government’s sweeping access to our metadata leaves us “a turnkey away from tyranny.”
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
– Ben Franklin
” … to disarm the people – that was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.“
– George Mason, 3 Elliot, Debates at 380
h/t to Dave G
Climate change is the only problem in history which has a time limit. If we are too late it’s irreversible, it’s a race. It’s my generation’s responsibility to fight climate change. It’s a threat that can lead to the collapse of human civilization.
‘It’s my generation’s responsibility to fight climate change’ | Environment | DW.DE | 12.06.2013
Amazing. An increase of 0.0001 mole fraction of an odorless, colorless, largely inert gas will destroy civilization.
These nut jobs make Harold Camping seem like a serious individual.
