Usa Thread

[Flashermac]

<< Throughout the campaign, Clinton has tried to have her cake and eat it too. She has flaunted her leadership in the war as a sign of her supposed foreign policy experience, yet, at the same moment, strived to distance herself from the disastrous results of said war.

 

Today, Libya is in ruins. The seven months of NATO bombing effectively destroyed the government and left behind a political vacuum. Much of this has been filled by extremist groups.

 

Millions of Libyans live without a formal government. The internationally recognized government only controls the eastern part of the country. Rivaled extremist Islamist groups have seized much of the country.

 

Downtown Benghazi, a once thriving city, is now in ruins. Ansar al-Sharia, a fundamentalist Salafi militia that is designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., now controls large chunks of it. ISIS has made Libya home to its largest so-called “caliphate†outside of Iraq and Syria.

 

Thousands of Libyans have been killed, and this violent chaos has sparked a flood of refugees. Hundreds of thousands of Libyan civilians have fled, often on dangerous smuggling boats. The U.N. estimates more than 400,000 people have been displaced.

 

A disjointed peace process, mediated by the U.N. and other countries, drags on, with no signs of the war ending anytime soon.

 

Hillary has, understandably, said little of these consequences.

 

Yet, in debate after debate, with her call for more aggression on Syria and Iran, Clinton has only continued to demonstrate that she is an unabashed war hawk. >>

 

 

http://www.salon.com...g_of_libya_was/

 

The US is fucked.

[jitagawn]

Besides everything else its Clintons hegemonic Wolfowitz inspired foreign policy that is so adamantly unhuman and insane.

 

 

[unit731]

Gimme some good lovin'.

 

 

"Two months after former Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson accused Fox News' then-Chairman Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, the network has agreed to pay Carlson $20 million and make a "highly unusual public apology," NPR's David Folkenflik reports"

 

LINk

[Flashermac]

Oil Company Destroys Burial Sites in Holiday Sneak Attack

 

 

Tear gas and dogs were used by private guards to attack Native Americans trying to protect burial grounds from Labor Day weekend destruction by Dakota Access Pipeline bulldozers. Six people were bitten, and about 30 sprayed. One guard and two dogs were taken in for medical treatment.

 

The crowd dispersed quietly once law enforcement arrived.

 

Energy Transfer Partners is under fire from all sides as it tries to force its way across the prairie to construct the quasi-legal pipeline. Demonstrators have been camped out since April in protest of the damaging and possibly illegal construction.

 

The line is planned to go under the Missouri River, threatening the only water source for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal land. An original pipeline route proposal was rejected for posing exactly the same kind of water source threat to the city of Bismarck, ND.

 

On Saturday, Dakota Access came in and bulldozed both a sacred site and a grave site before the ND Preservation Office could get there to evaluate, after learning that the paper work and survey had been properly submitted to the court on Friday.

 

"This demolition is devastating" said Tribal Chairman David Archambault in a press release. "These grounds are the resting places of our ancestors. The ancient cairns and stone prayer rings there cannot be replaced. In one day, our sacred land has been turned into hollow ground."

 

Farmers in Iowa are also protesting the pipeline, which maneuvered to gain eminent domain rights and force the sale of private farmland, some of which has been in families for generations. 20 Iowa protesters were arrested and jailed at a march in Boone County last week.

 

The Army Corps of Engineers approved the pipeline without holding public hearings, as required by the Federal Historic Preservation Act. The route also comes close to protected eagle nesting grounds.

 

Without proper environmental clearance and ignoring treaties that require consultation with affected Native American tribes, Energy Transfer Partners has managed to sidestep many of the legal safeguards that are meant to protect U.S. citizens from the harm of corporate land projects.

 

Representatives from Native American groups across the nation have now gathered in support. It is the first time since the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn that all seven council fires of the Great Sioux Nation have camped together.

 

The encampment, Sacred Stone Camp, now has several thousand people in residence, and they have taken careful steps to provide food, sanitation, and even a school for the growing group.

 

This protest is completely legal, and organizations as diverse as the National Lawyers Guild, Amnesty International, and Black Lives Matter have spoken out in support.

 

Regional Law Enforcement has mostly been respectful of the protesters, greeting them politely and providing peaceful road access for marches. Officers have even removed their hats during religious services.

 

The Standing Rock Sioux have followed all appropriate legal steps to object to the violations that led to inappropriate construction approval, but Energy Transfer Partners is determined to undermine lawful efforts by pushing through with whole scale destruction before the courts can make any rulings.

 

"We're days away from getting a resolution on the legal issues, and they came in on a holiday weekend and destroyed the site," said Jan Hasselman, attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. "What they have done is absolutely outrageous."

 

 

http://www.smobserve...ttack/1895.html

 

 

This has been going on for some time and or a peep out of Washington or from our "presidential" candidates. Who gives a sh*t. "We don't need no steenkin' laws. We're oil men!"

[dean]

While Trump and Clinton were fund raising, the Green Party's Presidential candidate, Jill Stein, got herself arrested while protesting at the burial site in North Dakota. The last time that Hillary protested, LBj was President. Trump does his protesting by suing people.

[unit731]

http://youtu.be/gt9Bor3_XFk

[Flashermac]

Mother and Daughter Arrested After Getting Married

 

Patricia Spann 43, and her wife Misty, 25, got married in March 2016. They’re also biological mother and daughter, police in Duncan, Oklahoma say. Department of Human Services officials allegedly turned up that detail while investigating children at their home in August.

 

Misty was raised by a grandparent after her mom lost custody, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by KFOR. They reunited two years ago, and allegedly “hit it off.†Reportedly, Patricia Spann told investigators she thought everything was legal since her name wasn’t on her daughter’s birth certificate.

 

Both women face an incest charge, and remain locked up in Stephens County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bond. If convicted, they may each spend up to 10 years in prison. A court hearing is scheduled for October.

 

Records turned up by KTRK revealed that the elder Spann previously married a son in 2008. That marriage was annulled two years later.

 

http://lawnewz.com/c...done-it-before/

 

 

The USA is going nuts!

[Flashermac]

Yoga Teacher on Trial For Allegedly Letting Young Boys Fondle Her Breasts at Bar Mitzvah

 

 

An Arizona woman is currently on trial after prosecutors say she flashed boys between the ages of 11-15 at a bar mitzvah party. The woman is also accused of performing a sex act on a 15-year-old boy during the party.

 

Lindsey Ann Radomski faces 18 charges in all over the alleged incidents, which prosecutors say took place late in the evening after a party at her boss’s home. The Daily Mail reports the 34-year-old yoga instructor was arrested last year after parents contacted police upon hearing stories of the alleged incidents.

 

Radmonski finally took the stand in her own defense on Tuesday, where she apparently acknowledged knowing that she had lifted her shirt and flashed her newly enhanced breasts while there were boys in the room on two occasions, according to local reports. She also admitted taking several shots of vodka and drinking tequila and wine during the evening in the lead up to the alleged incidents.

 

 

http://lawnewz.com/crazy/yoga-instructor-on-trial-for-allegedly-flashing-young-boys-at-bar-mitzvah/

 

 

And yet another fruit loop ...

[waerth]

So here is the third party candidate whom is more popular than ever because many consider both trump and Clinton a no goer. He probably screwed himself by showing he doesnt know anything about current affairs. What is Aleppo he asks ....

 

[Flashermac]

Don't ask the New York Times!

 

Times Issues Correction to Its Correction About Mistakenly Corrected Story

 

 

 

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/09/08/new_york_times_aleppo_story_inception_but_for_corrections.html