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Israel, Paleistine, Ukraine, oh my,

Syria, Iraq, Lybia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, Bahrain,.........Why the list of Countries,Well, there is an aspect of the threads that struck me last night,I find myself, standing in the same general area,...

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Ukraine Ceasefire,

So, there is a Ukraine Ceasefire,http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...And the fighting seems to have stopped for now.The terms of the ceasefire are unclear, and are apparently, still being negotiated.By some...

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Undiscussed Aspects of the Torture Report

Once again, Emptywheel is all over it.As the Senate Armed Services Committee Report on torture (released over 5 years ago, in far less redacted form than tomorrow’s summary will be) makes clear, the...

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Do not open this link,

Once, again, do not open this link.First off, it is anchored in a "vine", which is the one second video,Then, the " vine" is constructed into a " one second a day", GIF meme, to "sell" a story...

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T'is the Season!

Dinner was simple tonight, a 8oz. Prime Rib burger, cooked on the BBQ, with 3 strips of thick sliced Applewood smoked bacon, 5 year old White Ceddar, on a toasted Chibatta bun, with an inch of lettuce...

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American Sniper, free copy

Not really, prompted by a commen in the latest ISIS thread:http://www.dailykos.com/....  No attempt has been made. (1+ / 0-)No attempt has been made to address the political, cultural and economic...

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A Declaration of War,

Normally, I'm not an HR guy,But in response, ( not a meta guy either), to an insult in the comment thread of a diary,I responded with a substantive post, that also contained an insult.After a storm of...

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The A-10 Soap Opera,

As many of you know, the A-10, The Warthog, was designed during the Cold War, to take on Warsaw Pact armour close in and low, and demonstrated it's ability at this task stellarly in both Gulf...

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So, 10 Hours of Walking in Paris

As a Jew,Was at best, agitprop,At worst, faked.Though Israeli “journalist” Zvika Klein’s Paris “walk on the wild side” through allegedly Muslim Paris neighborhoods aroused indignation in Israeli and...

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Diary Titles are Hard,

So too are diary memes.And the structure of diaries.We want them to have import, and impact, but are often, " writing against".Some here, are "good" writers, some here are "great" writers, I'm not.One...

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Well, this won't get 415 Rec's *

Or make the Rec list, after all, it's not a NeoCon/Neolib CT based on the musings of an irrelevent Russian Has Been, but: Russia's Putin reappears after 10 day absence, laughs off 'gossip'By Denis...

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Yemen Conflict Updates

Yup, the Saudi Yemen war is still going on,The humanitarian situation in Yemen has become catastrophic, the Red Cross said on Monday, as Saudi-led aircraft pounded Iran-allied Houthi militiamen and...

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Casey has passed, Good Dog.

Best dog ever.We brought her home, to her favorites , cats,  got her a dog, then bought her a farm.Tolerant, loving, so loving, kind. Everyone who met her, loved her, dogs, cats, people. She hated...

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".... We continue though in Afghanistan, "

"even though our primary missions is train, advise, and assist, we’ve actually retained a U.S.-only – this is actually not coalition, but it’s a U.S.-only unilateral role of being able to conduct...

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Our Alliance with Saudi Arabia

Undercover Vidio from Inside Saudi Arabia:50 minutes, Viewer Discretion advisedxYouTube VideoFrom a telesur series on the US Empire, again, viewer discretion advised;xYouTube Video These, are our BFF’s...

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Oh Crap, Bats in Washington

The disease that’s wiped out at least 7 million bats in the East and Midwest has now jumped to the West. Hikers in Washington, 30 miles east of Seattle, found a sick little brown bat on March 11 and...

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This Week's Wars,........

FORWARD OPERATING BASE GAMBERI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Intense fighting and unprecedented casualties suffered by Afghan forces in 2015 have put U.S. and NATO efforts to train a self-sufficient force...

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A Long 5 Days,........

15 years ago, we were at the dog park, with Casey, our Pittbull X . A local Border Collie Trainer, ( trials), whom we knew fairly well, was there with her pack, and a new to us dog, a dark brown...

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Our hand in killing Environmentalists

From the Guardian:www.theguardian.com/…Berta Cáceres, the murdered environmental campaigner, appeared on a hitlist distributed to US-trained special forces units of the Honduran military months before...

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