Dump Both Political Parties By Timothy V. Gatto

By Timothy V. Gatto
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
liberalpro.blogspot.com
February 17, 2010

I was going to stop writing about political things and concentrate on fiction. Fiction is an easier venue because most of the time it doesn’t get you wrapped around the proverbial axle and make you want to blow your head off. It is infuriating to write a political piece based on recognized facts and the knowledge you impart completely ignored by the majority of Americans that refuse to read anything outside of the mainstream media and would rather live their life in the surreal world of corporate and political pabulum so they can live their lives more “comfortably”.

It’s an Honor to be Part of the ‘Loony’ Left in Amerika by Sean Fenley

by Sean Fenley
Dandelion Salad
The Anything and Everything
February 18, 2010

As the American political center spirals farther and farther down the road toward barbarism, it truly becomes a greater and greater privilege and an honor, seemingly by the day, to be condescended to as just one of the nonsensical ‘moonbat’ lefties! The ‘lunatic fringe’ in America! In a country where to be ‘centrist’ or the even more laughable name of ‘moderate’ means to identify with extreme militarism, gargantuan military expenditure(s), and a network of military bases that envelop the planet; it’s good be in the company of respected mystic teachers like the Buddha and Jesus of Nazareth; instead of mass murdering sociopaths such as Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and his demon offspring (and we shouldn’t leave aside the grand orator Obama who is piling up his share of ‘collateral damage’ since taking over the reigns of this malevolent behemoth)!

Keiser Report №17-18: Save Our Savers + Paul Craig Roberts

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Keiser Report №17

RussiaToday
February 18, 2010

In the 17th episode Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the scandals behind Goldman Sachs’ fictional exchange rate swaps and whether these same fictional derivatives could have been sold to China, where the PLA is calling for an economic punch against the US with a Treasury dump. Keiser also talks to the Reverend John Strain, the man behind Save Our Savers, a new campaign in the UK to force governments to stop writing policy to encourage speculation.

Nader Calls Obama’s Loan Guarantee for Nuclear Power Plants Monumental Mistake + Harvey Wasserman: A Bad Day for America

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page
Feb. 18, 2010

President Obama’s support of loan guarantees for the construction of new nuclear power plants is a monumental mistake. It is a decision that is bad for consumers and taxpayers, and it is wrong-headed from an environmental and national security perspective.

Providing $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to help the Southern Company build two reactors in Georgia is the last thing the Obama Administration should be doing. There is no place for new nuclear power plants in our country’s energy future.

Impending Explosion: U.S. Intensifies Threats To Russia And Iran by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Stop NATO
Stop NATO -Opposition to global militarism
February 18, 2010

Washington and its NATO allies launched two of the three major wars in the world over the past eleven years in March – against Yugoslavia in 1999 and against Iraq in 2003. The war drums are being pounded anew and the world may be headed for a catastrophe far worse than those in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The United States, separately and through the military bloc it controls, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is accelerating military deployments and provocations throughout Eurasia and the Middle East.

Embroiled with fellow NATO members in the largest-scale military offensive of the joint war in Afghanistan launched eight years ago last October and well on the way to both extending and replicating the Afghan aggression in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula [1], Washington and its allies are also taunting and threatening Russia as well as surrounding Iran with military forces and hardware preparatory to a potential attack on that nation.

Small plane hits Austin building, sets off blaze + Man flies aircraft into Texas tax office after setting home on fire + Online suicide note

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PressTV
Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:47:31 GMT

A small single-engine plane has crashed into a seven-story office building in Austin, Texas with at least one person unaccounted for.

According to Harry Evans of the Austin Fire Department, firefighters found “heavy fire destruction in and around the second floor… lots of heat, lots of smoke, lots of fire,” CNN reported on Thursday.

Witness Cynthia Reed described people in the building as “hanging out the windows, screaming for help.”

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via Small plane hits Austin building, sets off blaze

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Man flies aircraft into Texas tax office after setting home on fire

Matthew Bristow: Colombia’s cocaine trail, part 1: The farmers

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Matthew Bristow reports for The Guardian on the cocaine industry in Colombia

Matthew Bristow spent two years documenting the cocaine industry in Colombia. In the first of three films, he meets the farmers, and looks at their battle with a government determined to eradicate the crop.

Pentagon Bracing for a Snap Offensive Against Venezuela by Nil Nikandrov

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by Nil Nikandrov
Strategic Culture Foundation
18.02.2010

The US SOUTHCOM electronic surveillance base has been functioning in Aruba for several years. One day, an individual looking like a typical American, wearing shorts, a Hawaii shirt, and sunglasses, walked into it effortlessly and started roaming around. The US marines must have been too tired of the heat and assumed he actually was one of their countrymen – the base has been hosting numbers of visitors from the US recently amid the preparations for serious operations against Venezuela.

The visitor moved across the site with its standard blocks, glanced at the impressively proportioned radar and froze by the door to a large room with four giant screens in it. The screens were showing the contours of Venezuela’s Tachira and Zulia states and the locations of military installations, tank parks, aerodromes, and army bases as well as Venezuela’s industrial infrastructure including oil fields, refineries, pipelines, and plants. Even a brief look made it clear that the Caribbean coast and the west of Venezuela were under permanent surveillance from the base.

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The infrastructure for the aggression is ready. The Pentagon seized every opportunity to set up military bases along the Venezuelan borders. Washington sent a heavily armed expedition corps, an aircraft carrier, and several warships to Haiti using the recent earthquake as a pretext, thus effectively securing another military base in the Caribbean. Experts suppose that the military group now based in Haiti can be used by the Pentagon to prevent Cuba from helping Venezuela in case it comes under the US attack. Chavez and the Castro brothers spoke a number of times about their common military obligations.

via Strategic Culture Foundation

h/t: Rick Rozoff

see

Colored Revolutions: A New Form of Regime Change, Made in USA by Eva Golinger

Haiti Earthquake on Dandelion Salad

Military Coup Honduras Zelaya

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South Asia, Latin America: Pentagon’s 21st Century Counterinsurgency Wars by Rick Rozoff

Muhammad Junaid: Marja more propaganda than war

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TheRealNews
February 17, 2010

Muhammad Junaid: Marja more propaganda than war, but if US brings prosperity, people could accept it

Muhammad Junaid: The “Battle” of Marja on vodpod

see

Gareth Porter: Offensive in Marja directed at US public opinion

Fierce resistance to US Afghan offensive + Taliban deny US report commander captured in Pakistan

Operation Together for peace

Afghanistan: Charlie Wilson And America’s 30-Year War by Rick Rozoff

At Least 10 Civilians, 5 Children, Killed by U.S.-Fired Munitions in Afghanistan

Afghanistan on Dandelion Salad