tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11053369894714437682024-03-06T00:36:35.464-07:00Common DebateSamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.comBlogger608125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-30819980685969932892014-04-08T10:16:00.000-06:002014-04-08T10:16:01.742-06:00TrollsTrolls are not just characters in fairy tales and Tolkien novels. And trolls are not accidental. To anyone who is ever online as either a political activist or even just in search of honest political information, the article below is "must-read". Do you ever notice how on the internet that when a group starts to gather or inform others and call for change, that suddenly there Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-7915044980387224312014-03-12T13:31:00.004-06:002014-03-12T13:37:45.057-06:00Perspective<!-- Facebook share button Start -->
The Crimea became a part of Russia in 1783.
To put that into perspective for Americans suffering from an overdose of propaganda, the United States Constitution was proposed in 1787, and wasn't ratified until 1788. Thus, the Crimea became a part of Russia before George Washington became President in 1789.
Since the current United States Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-86484845100726655672014-03-08T23:54:00.000-07:002014-03-08T23:56:59.011-07:00Different away from US mediaIn the US, it has become such a concentrated propaganda barrage that one often sees opposition voices that have swallowed the propaganda along with the Kool-Aid. They tend to accept very basic principles of US propaganda that the Russians "invaded the Ukraine" and that Putin is some sort of mad tyrant, even while arguing against aspects of the policy.
I went to a UK paper to read a Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-34649470285123081312014-03-08T21:47:00.003-07:002014-03-08T21:47:59.502-07:00Crimean resolution I'd like to seeI'd love to see the legislature of the Crimea pass something like the following resolution and see what Obama has to say about it ..."When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal
station to which the Laws of Nature and of Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-35063832412358650132014-03-07T23:46:00.001-07:002014-03-08T16:58:26.943-07:00UkraineThe last few days I haven't been writing as much about the Ukraine, as the rest of the alternative media seems to have woken up. When I started writing these posts, it felt like I was seeing a lot of garbage coming even from alternative and opposition voices, and the articles I was finding that seemed to make sense seemed rare and worth passing along.
There definitely was a stretch where Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-8642220789841032832014-03-03T12:27:00.000-07:002014-03-03T12:27:00.033-07:00History
A bit of history, in case you aren't sure why the Jewish population of the Ukraine is worried and talking about fleeing.
Ukrainian collaborationism with the Axis powers
Some Ukrainians cooperated with the German occupiers, participating
in the local administration, in German-supervised auxiliary police, Schutzmannschaft, in the German military, and serving as concentration camp
guards. Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-42286212631047238452014-03-02T19:44:00.003-07:002014-03-03T01:00:55.042-07:00More on the UkraineSome articles about the Ukraine from people who see things differently than the full scale propaganda blast coming from the US corporate media. I added a few thoughts of my own after I made the awful trip to CNN (for research purposes only) and was exposed to their toxic propaganda on this crisis they seem intent on creating. Remember, the politicians and media who lied the US into Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-91463391388591688192014-03-02T19:30:00.000-07:002014-03-02T19:50:19.591-07:00Ukraine: One "Regime Change" Too Many?
Ukraine: One "Regime Change" Too Many?
by Ray McGovern
Excellent analysis on the Ukraine situation by Ray McGovern. For those that don't know, Mr. McGovern is a former military intelligence and CIA analyst with 27 years experience in those roles. He now works with an inner-city ministry in Washington DC, and also tries to share his experience by writing informed articles on AmericanSamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-863037302189931712014-02-27T02:59:00.002-07:002014-03-01T20:43:05.705-07:00Worried<!-- Facebook share button Start -->
I have to admit that for the first time, today I'm worried about what's developing in the Ukraine. Oh, I know there's been voices on the internet for awhile now comparing this to the start of WWI and saying that WWIII is bound to start because of the Ukraine. I just hadn't paid them a whole lot of attention. Those voices are always there.&Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-78881341500392599752014-02-11T22:44:00.001-07:002014-02-12T17:40:45.533-07:00Unlike OccupyWell, today I gave the Occupy Wall St facebook group the ultimate teenage girl's act of disrespect. I 'Unliked' them on Facebook. OMG. One too many obnoxious and blatantly racist posts came across my computer screen. Thus I decided my life would be better off if I didn't have to see that junk on a regular basis. In other words, I unliked Occupy for pretty much the Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-73927797322958742932014-01-30T17:00:00.000-07:002014-01-30T17:12:29.720-07:00Remember?
Scarlett Johansson quits Oxfam
Quick pop quiz: Do you remember the names of the artists who played at Sun City during South Africa's apartheid era?
“Scarlett Johansson has abandoned her reputation as a progressive celebrity in exchange for the check that accompanies becoming the new face of Israeli apartheid. Just like the few artists who played Sun City during South African apartheid, Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-62622125125722722212014-01-24T21:23:00.000-07:002014-01-25T14:33:13.932-07:00The Meaning of a Soccer Jersey.
The Meaning of a Soccer Jersey, by Dave Zirin
In 1920, Palestinian émigrés started a soccer club to rally around called Palestino. (The club's creation in 1920 is a rather inconvenient truth for a segment of Israeli hardliners who claim that a Palestinian identity did not exist until decades after Israel's founding.)
Over the last 94 years, Palestino has represented the Palestinian national Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-84832622002915771472014-01-22T22:18:00.001-07:002014-01-23T00:10:39.274-07:00Zapatista at 20
Zapatista at Twenty, by Laura Carlsen via Foreign Policy in Focus.
"What reporters missed as they snuck into celebrations closed to the press is the significance of “autonomy.”
Zapatistas say the word with pride, much as you’d talk about your children or grandchildren. These communities have moved steadily off the traditional power grid. Disappointment at the Mexican government’s betrayal in Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-4737065838899287622013-10-20T13:56:00.001-06:002014-01-24T20:34:21.485-07:00Descredited Power
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remind people that it shows a real loss of perspective
to highlight only a leader and movement’s errors and forget its
important successes, such as those derived from Chávez’s taking power in
the first place (at a time when that idea was somewhat discredited on
the left),
From Chavez's Way of Doing Politics, by Chris Gilbert
I highlight that quote Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-12185262515019718792013-09-02T01:13:00.000-06:002013-09-02T01:43:10.694-06:00Democrat DilemmaThe decision of President Obama to back down from his threats to unilaterally and unconstitutionally start hostilities with the government of Syria, and instead to ask for an authorizing vote from Congress has put Democrats into an interesting dilemma.
Lets take a look at my local Democratic Representative, Diana DeGette, (D-CO-1). She represents most of the city of Denver. Her Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-15880472992686594902013-09-01T04:38:00.000-06:002013-09-02T01:44:12.151-06:00A letter to CongressSince our Great Leader has decided to allow our nation a slim glimmer of the democracy seen in our former motherland which denied us representation, I felt it was time to actually write my Congress-critter. Since my general impression of Congress is that they don't listen to anyone who's not giving them a five figure (or more) check, I generally resist the temptation to send them my Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-63690065754159925552013-07-03T12:16:00.003-06:002013-07-04T00:30:20.586-06:00Independence Day.
<!-- Facebook share button Start -->Happy Independence Day
If you are celebrating Independence Day, then you are a lover and supporter of America. If you are celebrating "the fourth of July", you are a lover and supporter of calendars.
Do you notice how much effort goes into changing the name of the holiday? Corporate ads are of course a main culprit. Come celebrate the Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-20550237018021391902013-07-03T12:05:00.001-06:002013-07-03T13:48:34.141-06:00We Hold These Truths to be Self EvidentWhen, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal
station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-45061263543769245512013-06-24T11:20:00.004-06:002013-06-24T11:20:52.537-06:00Rights
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall
not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place
to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-58317792795004071682013-06-23T12:46:00.001-06:002013-06-23T12:46:46.926-06:00A world turned upside down.Whistle-blowing citizens who reveal massive surveillance programs that would certainly be viewed as unconstitutional by the writers of the Constitution now flee to Moscow to protect themselves.
They are fleeing the nation that locks up more of its citizens than any other.
They are fleeing the nation that conducts surveillance on its citizens.
They are fleeing the nation that Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-16875657430363230562013-05-21T12:58:00.001-06:002013-05-21T14:12:26.156-06:00Been Distracted Lately?Did you notice the way North Korea became less of a threat the day two disaffected children of immigrants set off a couple of homemade bombs in Boston? One day, North Korea is a danger to us all, supposedly about to start both a war that would destroy North Korea and nuke the good ol' US of A. Suddenly, the next day, poof, North Korea disappears.
If you were paying attention, this Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-345047851597291922013-05-09T12:23:00.000-06:002013-05-09T12:34:37.906-06:00But you told us to vote for this ...<!-- Facebook share button Start -->
Obama in Plunderland
Link to an article by Norman Solomon, which is quoted below.
Norman Solomon has an excellent piece on the ways that President Obama shafts ordinary people in favor of his big corporate contributors. This article focuses on the detail of how Obama's corporate fund-raisers are given key government posts. When you just say 'Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-3396043050974650102013-04-29T10:47:00.004-06:002013-04-29T10:58:34.164-06:00Bomb in Damascus kills 6.<!-- Facebook share button Start -->
A bomb exploded on a city street yesterday. Six people died.
Syrian prime minister survives Damascus bombing, six die
After the horrors of the Boston bombing, does this resonate with anyone? The horror of a bomb exploding on a city street.
Except, this bomb was in Damascus. It was set off by groups supported by the US governmentSamsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-78826499429057891822013-04-03T13:11:00.001-06:002013-04-03T13:11:48.681-06:00Explaining North Korea
Explaining North Korea by Justin Raimondo, April 03, 2013
If you are being bombarded by media claims that North Korea is a threat, and that the US is facing a major military crisis, then you should read Mr. Raimondo's article linked above. But, here's the part that really captured my attention ....
North Korea’s “military first” policy, which puts military procurement
ahead Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105336989471443768.post-48577296500585084962013-03-18T13:52:00.004-06:002013-03-22T17:03:33.100-06:00What Americans Don't Know<!-- Facebook share button Start -->
My Lai 45 Years Later—And the Unknown Atrocities of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan
by Nick Turse
In short, on this anniversary, I
think of all the My Lais that most Americans never knew existed and few
are aware of today. I think about young American men who shot down
innocents in cold blood and then kept silent for decades. I think Samsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469911674000719477noreply@blogger.com0