There are a lot of good people at this site. You still have to keep your guard up against scammers and all but most people here will be really fair with you.
All of the evils we have come to expect in a Bush are well represented in B.O. Including secret prisons, torture, denial of basic human rights, etc.
More than 600 prisoners are still being held in Bagram Prison in Afghanistan. Some have been there since 2003. They have never been charged with a crime, nor have they ever been allowed to see a lawyer nor an aid representative.
The International Red Cross, Amnesty International, and the ACLU have all peittioned the Obama administration for information concerning those prisoners, but to no avail.
Recently the ACLU filed suit against the departments of State and Defense and the CIA to obtain the files of the prisoners.
US District Judge John Bates ruled in April that the prisoners should be accorded rights enshrined in the writ of habeas corpus. But the Obama administration disagrees.
Two of the prisoners at Bagram have died and Army investigators concluded that the deaths were homicides.
A federal judge recently ruled that prisoners captured outside of Afghanistan who are not Afghan citizens can contest their situations in US courts but the Obama administration is appealing the ruling and no steps have been taken to allow such an appeal.
If Obama represents such a "CHANGE" why is he acting so much like Bush?
Yes, but, as often happens, I think McArthy has been unjustly maligned. He was the good guy and they repainted him into being a bad guy.
McArthy warned that sinister forces were working behind the scenes to weaken America and bring about a socialist dictatorship. And he was absolutely right.
His exposure did delay it from happening for several decades. But now it's a done deal.
It's got nothing to do with "liberal" or "conservative".
Those terms don't really have any meaning anymore.
If you want to move a heavy object from one place to another, first you shift all the weight to a pivot point on the left and you swing the entire body on that point to the left. Then you shift the weight to a pivot point on the right and you swing the entire body to the right. Each new pivot point must be somewhere along the arc defined by the last pivot point, but by carefully choosing the placement of that new point you can move the entire body in any desired direction.
Real movement in any direction will require a succession of alternating left-right swings.
That process works in manipulating politics even better than it does with furniture. It's called dialectics.
In order for it to work, the public must be kept unaware that the pivotal positions of the left and right are chosen by the same manipulators. Their understanding must be limited to seeing politics only in terms of "left" and "right" so that they are unaware they are being manipulated in a direction they really don't want to go.
There's no telling. A virtual relationship of a few days is a pretty unsubstantial thing. There's no guarantee that this dream girl really even exists. I don't even count it as a "relationship" at all unless there is some sort of direct contact other than through a dating site.
Well in this country, under social medicine, it's much like the battlefield triage. It's a simple mathamatical equation.
They measure your wallet, your estate, and your potential as a future taxpayer against the cost of treatment with the question, "Is it worth the required investment?"
If yes, you get treated. If no, they tell you everything's fine, offer you antidepressants, and shuffle you out the door as quickly and quietly as possible.
They can justify this as necessary due to economic conditions but in fact its all about greed because politicians, drug companies and bureaucrats all rob the till in one way or another.
As a Russian, I expect you are a chess player, and you know that a succesful strategy involves having multiple threats on all the key positions.
In this global chessgame, Iran and Israel are both key forward positions, Russia must protect Iran, and the US must protect Israel. And all the other nations position themoselves to reinforce that principal standoff.
Nobody, least of all Iran or Israel, really wants to see the two sides start to trade pieces. And I don't think it's going to happen.
Instead, I think the globalists intend to use the precarity of the situation to scare the world towards global government.
Even when I lived in Taiwan back in the mid 80s the US had already stopped recognizing Taiwan as a seperate nation and considered it a part of China.
You can bet that Obama has already agreed to allow China to take Taiwan back, using economic pressure.
To be honest he has no choice. The US economy is totally dependant upon China's good will. The day China calls in the debt the US goes into total meltdown with no option other than total war. Everybody knows that so it's like the old MAD situation. China has to support the US and the US has to keep China happy.
The US is not about to give up its own nuclear arsenal or other WMDs. And yet it expects the former 3rd world countries to not even develop nuclear energy.
As someone said about Africa, solar and wind are not viable options so if can't use either carbon or nuclear power, they can't have electricity at all.
When he came to power, American oil companies were robbing Lybia blind. The US had set up a puppet régime in Lybia and were stealing the oil for practically nothing, and it wasn't doing anything at all for the Libyan people.
Gaddafi took over with a coup and nationalized the oil. He didn't promote himself to General or any grand title and, believe it or not, he didn't seize dictatorial power.
Instead he set up a system of committees in every community and it is the local committee that has the last word in each community, not the central government.
What's more Gaddafi has a good record of using the national wealth to help the common people.
I think most of the enmity between the US and Libya results from the oil company's bitterness about losing their "right" to steal the oil for nothing.
I'd say, all in all, Gadaffi is better for his country than most of the régimes that the US set up.
I don't remember exactly. Let me think. (it's hard with all this water on my brain) I think they came back to the states when I was in the 6th grade, so that would have been 63-64 (I think). I know I was still in elementary school because their house was right across the street from my school. My brother lived with them for a while and he had a really cool 57 chevy red & white with a lot of extra chrome (in the fins ect) and a fancy chrome grill. It had a big 396 engine with 2 four-barrel carburetors. One day the police were chasing him for excessive noise, and he came up the hill real fast pulled into the garage and closed the door before they saw him. They kept driving around the block looking for him. Now what were we talking about? Oh yeah. It had to be 63-64 I think.
They left the states when I was 6. Went to Germany for a year, then to Burundi in Africa for a year and then to Lybia for several years, arriving back in the states when was in the 6th grade.
Of course they hated Gadaffi, but I think it was mostly because he made them leave the comfy house they had in Lybia.
You can't judge much by what military families think because the military dictates what they are allowed to think.
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There are a lot of good people at this site. You still have to keep your guard up against scammers and all but most people here will be really fair with you.