Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iran. Show all posts
September 11, 2013
June 17, 2013
Bill Maher shredded by Glenn Greenwald on US intervention in Muslim countries [youtube 2mins]
posted to Youtube May 11, 2013 by StoptheWarCoalition
(207,000 views+)
September 25, 2012
On the Precipice of War - Press Conference with Rep Walter Jones & Retired Military on HCR107
Diane V. McLoughlin, September 25, 2012:
Please encourage everyone you know to contact their elected representatives to ask them to support H.R. 107. [Find your representative's contact information, here: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find ]
According to the Constitution, only the duly elected representatives have legal authority to green-light war. The executive branch - regardless of which political party is in power - has over time aggressively and illegally shunted the will of the People aside, to the degree that we are now at risk of nuclear war.
The truth is heard in quiet rooms such as the one in the above video. It is unsettling how quiet and under-attended this moment captured on film with these top officials, is.
Any president must understand that if they try to launch offensive war without the consent of the People, they will be removed from office through the legal mechanism of impeachment. This legal fail-safe, thoughtfully built into the Constitution, may be the last frail thing that stands in the way of nuclear war.
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A sample form letter:
Dear Congressman _________:
I am writing to respectfully urge you to support H. Con. Res. 107:
'Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution.'
Congressman, I am including a link to a Youtube, wherein Rep. Walter Jones; Bruce Fein, Associate Deputy Attorney General under President Reagan; and, Lt. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (USA Ret.) former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell (2002-05), each lay out their views as to the current state of the nation, particularly with regard to the perilous status of global political affairs:
['Press Conference with Walter Jones & Retired Military on HCR107; Sept. 21, 2012]
We attacked Libya without authorization. Iran (and beyond?) may be next. Please support HCR 107.
Most respectfully,
(your signature) __________
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September 24, 2012
September 22, 2012
Ron Paul and Romney supporters EPIC debate
- The above 'WEARECHANGE.ORG'-stamped Youtube was posted (reposted?) by 'AG3NTANTHRAX',
September 20, 2012. The clip looks like
it was probably created during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida,
in late August. The debate is an excellent, wide-ranging, in-depth discussion. The debaters
are respectful and even-keeled - impressive, considering the political and economic mess we're in. There is no difference between Obama and Romney, argues the Ron Paul supporter. Agreed.
- Diane V. McLoughlin, September 22, 2012
August 06, 2012
Ron Paul Talk 080612 Sanctions on Iran and Syria - Closer to Another Criminal War
Similar to the fireside chat idea, every week Congressman and presidential candidate, Ron Paul, makes a phone recorded message that anyone can listen to by dialing, toll-free, 888-322-1414. The text of this week's political commentary by Ron Paul follows, below:
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Last week the House passed yet another bill placing sanctions on Iran and Syria, bringing us closer to another war in the Middle East. We are told that ever harsher sanctions finally will force the targeted nations to bend to our will. Yet the ineffectiveness of previous sanctions teaches us nothing; in truth sanctions lead to war more than they prevent war.
Until last year, Libyan sanctions were touted as a great success story. The regime would change its behavior. Yet NATO bombed the country anyway.
Last week we learned that President Obama signed an intelligence “finding” directing the CIA to covertly assist rebels in Syria. The administration seems determined to fight yet another war in Syria that has nothing to do with American national interests.
We already know that a similar “finding” was signed under the latest Bush administration directing US intelligence to undermine the Iranian government and promote regime change there. Neoconservatives have long demanded that we overthrow the Syrian government before moving on to war against Iran. This bellicosity continues regardless of which party is in the White House.
In Syria we see once again we see how our interventionist policies backfire and make us less secure. Recent news reports point to ties between the Syrian opposition and al-Qaeda (and other extremist groups). A recent article in the Guardian, a British newspaper, exclaimed that, “Al-Qaida turns tide for rebels in battle for eastern Syria.” The article quotes an al-Qaeda leader in Syria saying that he meets with the main US-backed Syrian rebel organization, the Free Syrian Army, “almost every day.” So by promoting civil war in Syria we end up fueling al-Qaeda.
According to another recent press report, German intelligence services estimate that nearly 100 terrorist attacks have been committed by al-Qaeda or related organizations in Syria over the past six months. Last month a suicide bomber in Syria killed a defense minister and several top government officials. The US government, which has been fighting a “War on Terror” for more than a decade now, refused to condemn that act of terrorism.
This raises the question of whether the US administration is supporting the same people in Syria that we have been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed these same concerns earlier this year when asked whether the US has been reluctant to arm the Syrian rebels. She answered, “To whom are you delivering them? We know al-Qaida. Zawahiri is supporting the opposition in Syria. Are we supporting al-Qaida in Syria?”
That is a very good question. It clearly demonstrates that the United States has no business at all being involved in the Syrian civil war. In the 1980s we supported a resistance movement in Afghanistan that later gave birth to elements of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. When will we learn our lesson and stop intervening in conflicts we don’t truly understand, conflicts that have nothing to do with American national interests?
- Congressman Ron Paul
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August 01, 2012
Ron Paul speaks against Iranian sanctions - August 1st 2012
Iraq and Afghanistan went so well, let's fire up another war! Dr. Paul is a voice of reason in a hose of warmongers and over-reactive control freaks.
July 27, 2012
Bankruptcy Obama War Romney Liberty Paul
Bankruptcy Obama War Romney Liberty Paul
July 21, 2012
by Diane V. McLoughlin
main website mcloughlinpost.com
Two candidates remain in competition for leadership of the Republican Party: former one-term governor Mitt Romney and 12-term Congressman and obstetrician, Dr. Ron Paul. The Republican National Convention takes place this August, in Tampa, Florida.
Proxies have unleashed a barrage of attack ads in what appears to be an almost frantic attempt to magnify the minor differences between President Obama and Mitt Romney. The expense of these ad campaigns are expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars - a wasteful sum in these troubled economic times.
Obama's healthcare insurance mandate forces the taxpayer to purchase private health insurance. But private industry must seek to maximize profit while minimizing expense. Government forcing people to purchase a privately produced product risks weakening further a system already accused of stingily doling out healthcare, with little accountability. To be sure, there is plenty of blame to go around when it comes to the woeful state of healthcare in the U.S.. Everybody demands a rich cut - insurance companies, healthcare providers and drug companies - while many sick people are neglected or forced to go bankrupt. The fact of the matter is that the majority of people who do go bankrupt due to exorbitant healthcare costs have insurance. How the government guaranteeing insurance companies the taxpayers' business is going to help improve healthcare while controlling costs is the billion (or is it trillion?) dollar question.
'Obamacare' was modeled directly from the Massachussett healthcare model, which was rolled out during Mitt Romney's one-term as governor there.
All eyes are on the GOP. Ron Paul has qualified to be on the ballot in Tampa. Will the Republican Party follow the rules and register Ron Paul? It is certain that along with the underhanded activities of some, there are Republican Party leaders who have conducted themselves with grace, dignity and honor. Time will tell. Heads democracy wins regardless of the outcome at the convention. Tails, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama win the White House. In that case it may well be national bankruptcy and world war.
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Notes: In state contests where Ron Paul won the majority of delegates, the national Republican Party has indicated that the papers to register Ron Paul for the Tampa leadership convention need to be filled out and sent in.
I will hopefully get this posted to my main website in the next day or two.
Ron Paul on the Issues ;
A Ron Paul Youtube playlist
July 21, 2012
by Diane V. McLoughlin
main website mcloughlinpost.com
Two candidates remain in competition for leadership of the Republican Party: former one-term governor Mitt Romney and 12-term Congressman and obstetrician, Dr. Ron Paul. The Republican National Convention takes place this August, in Tampa, Florida.
Proxies have unleashed a barrage of attack ads in what appears to be an almost frantic attempt to magnify the minor differences between President Obama and Mitt Romney. The expense of these ad campaigns are expected to run into the hundreds of millions of dollars - a wasteful sum in these troubled economic times.
Obama's healthcare insurance mandate forces the taxpayer to purchase private health insurance. But private industry must seek to maximize profit while minimizing expense. Government forcing people to purchase a privately produced product risks weakening further a system already accused of stingily doling out healthcare, with little accountability. To be sure, there is plenty of blame to go around when it comes to the woeful state of healthcare in the U.S.. Everybody demands a rich cut - insurance companies, healthcare providers and drug companies - while many sick people are neglected or forced to go bankrupt. The fact of the matter is that the majority of people who do go bankrupt due to exorbitant healthcare costs have insurance. How the government guaranteeing insurance companies the taxpayers' business is going to help improve healthcare while controlling costs is the billion (or is it trillion?) dollar question.
'Obamacare' was modeled directly from the Massachussett healthcare model, which was rolled out during Mitt Romney's one-term as governor there.
Both Obama and Romney support the continuance of formless, ill-defined, illegal wars. These regional pots we are stirring may represent - like a gathering storm on the horizon - a poorly organized (wildly unnecessary) yet potentially explosive World War Three. Not knowing when to quit is not new. The difference is that, be it tribe, country or empire, nobody was armed with nuclear weapons. Nobody held the power, at the push of a button, to launch war with the potential to destroy all life on Earth. (Beware the nihilists itching to deploy nuclear bombs. )
Both Obama and Romney support the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an odious set of new laws President Obama sanctified by signing during the Christmas holidays just past. (Irony.) The NDAA destroys all natural meaning of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by empowering the government to kidnap and lock up anyone, including American citizens, and detain them indefinitely, in secret, without charge or trial.
However, given that President Obama claims the executive power to order the assassination of U.S. citizens on his say-so alone, the NDAA is merely a tattered corner of the rule-of-law shredded picture. Obama is handed the stats on individuals on cards, like baseball, only they're for intel on what suspects have done, are accused of having done, or are accused of thinking of doing. Then the President gives a Caesar-like thumbs up or thumbs down. Mistaken identity; falsely fingered by some guy being tortured at one of the country's many secret torture chambers around the world; well, too bad for you. There is no appeal. You won't even know you're in the cards in the first place, most likely.
It would be wrong to suggest that President Obama is coming up with these ideas entirely on his own. It's the fact that he chooses to cooperate with what has devolved into a rotten political, bureaucratic, military, industrial system. Barack Obama campaigned on the slogan, 'Change - Yes We Can!' He could have. But he hasn't and isn't.
Mitt Romney surrounds himself with Bush Junior's neocon foreign policy advisers. His foreign policy stump speeches are so belligerent one wonders if he's got 'bomb, bomb, bomb Iran' going around in his head like John McCain, before him. All indications point in that direction.
Mitt and Obama pass the system's muster because both are pro-war 'team players'.
However, given that President Obama claims the executive power to order the assassination of U.S. citizens on his say-so alone, the NDAA is merely a tattered corner of the rule-of-law shredded picture. Obama is handed the stats on individuals on cards, like baseball, only they're for intel on what suspects have done, are accused of having done, or are accused of thinking of doing. Then the President gives a Caesar-like thumbs up or thumbs down. Mistaken identity; falsely fingered by some guy being tortured at one of the country's many secret torture chambers around the world; well, too bad for you. There is no appeal. You won't even know you're in the cards in the first place, most likely.
It would be wrong to suggest that President Obama is coming up with these ideas entirely on his own. It's the fact that he chooses to cooperate with what has devolved into a rotten political, bureaucratic, military, industrial system. Barack Obama campaigned on the slogan, 'Change - Yes We Can!' He could have. But he hasn't and isn't.
Mitt Romney surrounds himself with Bush Junior's neocon foreign policy advisers. His foreign policy stump speeches are so belligerent one wonders if he's got 'bomb, bomb, bomb Iran' going around in his head like John McCain, before him. All indications point in that direction.
Mitt and Obama pass the system's muster because both are pro-war 'team players'.
As it stands, troops are being positioned in the Pacific (American; Canadian; presumably other countries, too.) Literally hundreds of military bases (and bombs) are set up all over the planet.
The U.S. has its bloodied military fingers in so many overseas pies that it is difficult to keep them all straight, or to trust that it's possible that we can know them all given the machinations of clandestine networks such as the CIA. The list includes Yemen; Iraq; Afghanistan; Pakistan; Libya; Syria; Palestine; Egypt; Bahrain and Iran (war ships being positioned directly off of Iran's coast now.)
The real 'prize', the goal, appears to be somehow 'controlling' Russia and China.
The closest we have come so far to nuclear war is during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The U.S. had placed nuclear weapons in Russia's backyard. Russia retaliated by placing nuclear bombs in Cuba. It became a dangerous nuclear stand-off. We are again ringing Russia with missiles. They don't like it. It is clear that this course could lead to MADness: Mutually Assured Destruction.
Something else raises the risk of nuclear war further. The longer nuclear weapons exist without large-scale and catastrophic use, the more complacent we become that such an eventuality could ever occur. There was no complacency or false sense of invincibility in America during the Cuban missile crisis fiasco. There are older apartment buildings in New York that, to this day, still have the signage posted indicating that the basements are to be used for nuclear fallout shelters. In point of fact, I and my elementary-aged school chums once howled with laughter when our teachers instructed us on how to cower beneath our desks, during a nuclear attack drill. We could kiss our asses goodbye.
The U.S. has its bloodied military fingers in so many overseas pies that it is difficult to keep them all straight, or to trust that it's possible that we can know them all given the machinations of clandestine networks such as the CIA. The list includes Yemen; Iraq; Afghanistan; Pakistan; Libya; Syria; Palestine; Egypt; Bahrain and Iran (war ships being positioned directly off of Iran's coast now.)
The real 'prize', the goal, appears to be somehow 'controlling' Russia and China.
The closest we have come so far to nuclear war is during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The U.S. had placed nuclear weapons in Russia's backyard. Russia retaliated by placing nuclear bombs in Cuba. It became a dangerous nuclear stand-off. We are again ringing Russia with missiles. They don't like it. It is clear that this course could lead to MADness: Mutually Assured Destruction.
Something else raises the risk of nuclear war further. The longer nuclear weapons exist without large-scale and catastrophic use, the more complacent we become that such an eventuality could ever occur. There was no complacency or false sense of invincibility in America during the Cuban missile crisis fiasco. There are older apartment buildings in New York that, to this day, still have the signage posted indicating that the basements are to be used for nuclear fallout shelters. In point of fact, I and my elementary-aged school chums once howled with laughter when our teachers instructed us on how to cower beneath our desks, during a nuclear attack drill. We could kiss our asses goodbye.
The fusing of private corporations and public governance is dangerous. It's a big part of the reason we are on the road we are on.
Ron Paul:
Ron Paul has fought corruption his entire Congressional career. Corporate lobbyists learned not to bother knocking on his door. His nickname on Capitol Hill: 'Dr. No'.
Ron Paul:
Ron Paul has fought corruption his entire Congressional career. Corporate lobbyists learned not to bother knocking on his door. His nickname on Capitol Hill: 'Dr. No'.
Above: Congressman Dr. Ron Paul seated at his desk
In contrast to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, Ron Paul has the backbone to say, Enough!, to the evil twins of endless war and government corruption.
The media is answerable to only a few corporate masters. If you haven't heard of presidential candidate Ron Paul, or if you have and its been to marginalize him as a goof or a bad guy there are reasons for that - none of them, I am sorry to say, are honest.
The Republican leadership contest began with a field of nine contenders. That field is now down to two. That is not how it has been played out in the corporate press.
The media is answerable to only a few corporate masters. If you haven't heard of presidential candidate Ron Paul, or if you have and its been to marginalize him as a goof or a bad guy there are reasons for that - none of them, I am sorry to say, are honest.
The Republican leadership contest began with a field of nine contenders. That field is now down to two. That is not how it has been played out in the corporate press.
The fact that Ron Paul has qualified to compete against Mitt Romney for leadership of the Republican Party is testament to his popularity, accomplished in spite of alleged state and national Republican Party leadership cheating, vote fraud, ballot box stuffing, and physical intimidation - broken fingers; a dislocated hip - and other shady works (example, Youtube clip, 'Interview Nevada Delegate Fraud'; at 4:56mins).
Below, award-winning news anchor, Ben Swann, discusses the current situation in Massachusetts. Seventeen elected delegates have been stripped of their appointed duty to vote for the next Republican Party leader, by the Mitt Romney camp within that state's party apparatus. Legal proceedings to reverse this sham are underway:
During the Republican leadership campaign, Ron Paul has garnered far and away more donations from veterans and active-duty military than all other candidates, combined. The following short Youtube was posted early January, 2012. To-date, it has garnered two million-plus views.
'Ron vs. Mitt (see why so many people believe in Ron Paul)':
Army veterans are organizing to march on the convention to pay their respects with a salute to Ron Paul - the only presidential candidate who is, himself, a veteran. As is so often the case, the one with military experience is the one most mindful of when, and when not, to send troops into harms' way. It is Ron Paul's conviction that it is well past time to bring the troops home. Defend the country by all means. But it is unconstitutional, as well as dangerous, to continue to try to be the policemen of the whole world.
The march in Tampa to salute Ron Paul will not be the first such march. A similar march was held earlier in 2012 on President's Day, to honor Dr. Paul as the choice of the troops. In addition, a dedication was conducted in front of the White House for all soldiers who have fallen in Iraq since Obama pledged to bring the troops home from there. The ceremony was held with backs symbolically turned to President Obama, because he broke his promise, with tragic consequences.
Below, award-winning news anchor, Ben Swann, discusses the current situation in Massachusetts. Seventeen elected delegates have been stripped of their appointed duty to vote for the next Republican Party leader, by the Mitt Romney camp within that state's party apparatus. Legal proceedings to reverse this sham are underway:
During the Republican leadership campaign, Ron Paul has garnered far and away more donations from veterans and active-duty military than all other candidates, combined. The following short Youtube was posted early January, 2012. To-date, it has garnered two million-plus views.
'Ron vs. Mitt (see why so many people believe in Ron Paul)':
Army veterans are organizing to march on the convention to pay their respects with a salute to Ron Paul - the only presidential candidate who is, himself, a veteran. As is so often the case, the one with military experience is the one most mindful of when, and when not, to send troops into harms' way. It is Ron Paul's conviction that it is well past time to bring the troops home. Defend the country by all means. But it is unconstitutional, as well as dangerous, to continue to try to be the policemen of the whole world.
The march in Tampa to salute Ron Paul will not be the first such march. A similar march was held earlier in 2012 on President's Day, to honor Dr. Paul as the choice of the troops. In addition, a dedication was conducted in front of the White House for all soldiers who have fallen in Iraq since Obama pledged to bring the troops home from there. The ceremony was held with backs symbolically turned to President Obama, because he broke his promise, with tragic consequences.
In addition to Ron Paul's support from troops, there are not one but two liberty-celebrating events being held in Tampa the weekend before the convention. Attendees who support Ron Paul for president will be travelling in from around the country to be there and could well be counted in the tens of thousands.
All eyes are on the GOP. Ron Paul has qualified to be on the ballot in Tampa. Will the Republican Party follow the rules and register Ron Paul? It is certain that along with the underhanded activities of some, there are Republican Party leaders who have conducted themselves with grace, dignity and honor. Time will tell. Heads democracy wins regardless of the outcome at the convention. Tails, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama win the White House. In that case it may well be national bankruptcy and world war.
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Notes: In state contests where Ron Paul won the majority of delegates, the national Republican Party has indicated that the papers to register Ron Paul for the Tampa leadership convention need to be filled out and sent in.
I will hopefully get this posted to my main website in the next day or two.
Ron Paul on the Issues ;
A Ron Paul Youtube playlist
June 27, 2012
June 19, 2012
June 09, 2012
June 07, 2012
Ron Paul Speech Texas GOP Convention 070612
[Volume 'high' recommend turning down] An excellent speech encompassing
freedom, economics, ending endless war and adhering to the Constitution.
Video streaming by Ustream
February 04, 2012
January 17, 2012
Phil Donahue Dares to Speak the Truth about Ron Paul with Piers Morgan
Note: Toward the end of the clip, whoever recorded it from his television starts
editorializing in a voiceover. He slags CNN's Piers Morgan for bias, even though
he's happy Piers permitted someone to reflect on Ron Paul's sane foreign policy.
So, thank you Piers, and thank you Phil Donahue. A thoughtful discussion. - dvm
January 10, 2012
December 24, 2011
November 08, 2011
Obama Tells Allies U.S. Will Attack Iran By Fall 2012 - click link below for quicker access
Barack Obama has told America’s allies that the United States will attack Iran before fall 2012 unless Tehran halts its nuclear program, a time frame that suggests Obama is willing to use war as a re-election campaign tool to rally the population around his leadership. Link: Obama Tells Allies U.S. Will Attack Iran By Fall 2012 EUTimes.net
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