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More on Hastings

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There are a few who don’t believe it was an accident and are not questioning whether it was the McChrystal incident, rather, they question the Clinton connection.

I found these here and here and here. 

I dunno, folks, Hastings does ask some pointed questions about what else the Clinton State Dept. left behind if they failed to pick up something as crucial as Stevens’ diary for evidence of what happened. ..

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With that, I’m off for a few days…I’m way more upset than I can adequately express here about the stuff I put up yesterday.  What the hell happened to my country?

Anyway, I’ll be back in a few.

 

Wright requests Swartz documents

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…but doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere.

Related to the whole secrecy for us, nothing for you…apparently Barack Obama was wiretapped in 2004.

Well, it’s official, folks…the NSA is running this country, and we’re all guilty until proven innocent.

I don’t care if Obama was a candidate for the Senate, unless there was a warrant, what the NSA  did was illegal and against the Fourth Amendment.

From the column:

What did the NSA find out? All Obama’s phone calls and emails were scooped up – was there anything damaging? Such an action would be a great way to gain leverage over a politician and make sure they don’t cancel your program – Tice alleges it was also done to a wide variety of politicians and officials.

“I was worried that the intelligence community now has sway over what is going on,” Tice said.

Knowledge is power, especially knowledge about embarrassing and/or illegal activities by politicians. No wonder Congress is scared to hold the NSA accountable.

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BINGO!!  Did I say this was Watergate on steroids?!! Yes I did. Over and over.  Well, now, Congress, your Patriot Act has now come around and bit you on the ass….ready to rein in the NSA yet?  Oh, wait….

…and now we have a new word: data plantation.  Good grief.

More on Flight 800

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Democracy Now has a piece up featuring the controversy over Flight 800.  When I wrote the piece yesterday, I was unaware that Borjesson was the director of the documentary.

There are some serious questions raised about what happened.  These folks raising the questions are not hysterical people.  They are intelligent folks with great analytical skills who see something that just isn’t right.  I just wish we had a press that did the same thing.

**a side note~ a heart tug at hearing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” during the interval between the segments.  It was the song I sung to my Mom as she began to pass from this world.

Loretta Sanchez

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…was on CSPAN this morning….a member of Congress that actually has a brain. 🙂

She voted against the invasion in Iraq. Check.

She voted against the invasion of privacy and illegal wiretapping act, otherwise known as the Patriot Act. Check.

BUT she said during this morning’s interview that what has happened with the NSA’s overreaching power has been authorized by Congress through the Patriot Act….so technically, it is prosecutable.  I say prosecutable because they have given themselves legal power that is…illegal… by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.

Congress violated the Constitution by allowing it.  AND they continually fund it without even knowing what they’re funding!!

Sanchez reported that although she is a member of the Intelligence sub-committee, she has to fight to get information that should be readily given to her.  She said that she must schedule a certain secure room with certain intelligence personnel.  She said that she must go through the repubs to get allotted time in the room, and then she must coordinate with the intelligence personnel, who may or may not have scheduling conflicts with that time.  Then when she wants questions answered, she doesn’t always get that.  And they will try to divert her attention away by bringing up other intelligence issues, if I’m understanding what she was saying.   And she is not allowed to take notes.  WTH?

Is it any wonder that the American people are kept in the dark about all that is going on??

As someone said (caller)  they forget who they’re working for–the American public.  But, yeah, we sorta already knew that.  Like I said in my previous post–the information gathering most likely will be sold to the highest bidder.  The NSA won’t be held accountable because Congress is just throwing money at them without accountability or restraint.

And with all this information gathering, did they stop the Boston bombing? No.

Did they stop Fort Hood? No.

Did they stop Sandy Hook? No.

Did they stop the theatre shooting in Colorado? No.

Who stopped the underwear bomber?  The public.

Who stopped the guy in New York City who had the bomb in the Jeep?  The public.

Security, my arse.

 

GM Wheat found in Oregon

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In case you didn’t click on the link for yet another farm crop contaminated with GMO’s….

I just want to know how many times Monsanto can get away with this before somebody finally lays down the law?

What’s to say that they aren’t doing this in other countries…allegedly releasing GMO seed via unsuspecting farmers who plant the seed, not knowing it’s GMO, and by the time the discovery is made…well, too late…it’s already been released into the environment??

Bopping around on the web, I found this article about products that were thought to be GMO free, but alas…Sweden was, by other articles I read, proactive and was against GMO’s.  So….where did this come from?  I can’t say that I know enough about the timeline with Sweden, but is certainly raises questions.  What is worrisome is how Monsanto has worn down the resistance to GMO’s, if this is any indication.

Here’s a good article on what countries have banned GMO’s.  Note that even though Japan banned GMO products, it *still* got contamination…by importing Canadian GM canola….stunning…absolutely stunning.  Alarms should be going off all over at this news.  Also, the article mentions the India farmers’ suicides…and the water thing.  Why doesn’t anyone bring up that the cotton plants were much more thirsty than the heirloom cotton?  That seems to escape everyone’s notice–we can’t afford to use more of our precious water resources for frankencrops that require more water to survive.

Note also the refusal of a tuna shipment to Greece when it was tested positive for GM.  It had  been packed in genetically modified soybean oil!  So, evidently, one doesn’t have to consume GMO’s to be altered by it–one only has to touch it.  Which brings more worries about breathing in GM corn pollen.  As I have said in previous blogs, my allergies during the summer always get worse after corn pollen has started to enter the atmosphere.  And with my previous post on how GM enters the DNA of gut flora….just scares the crap out of me–even carefully trying to avoid GM food, I could still end up more contaminated.  I say more contaminated because I ate GM food before I was aware of it–as most Americans who are unaware of eating GM food.

Monsanto wins court case

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This is just mind numbing…do courts ever do their own research about stuff they rule on?  Or do they just accept what is force-fed them by agricultural bullies like Monsanto??

Well, with the ruling, I think we have the answer to that.  Anyone who does their homework and looks up genetically modified organisms will have had all the evidence against its continued use.  How many crops does this monster have to damage and destroy before courts and politicians wake up?!

Monsanto promises not to sue farmers….seriously?

Growing unrest in Turkey

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Report here.

After the incident, a representative from Turkey’s Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) issued a statement confirming that the individuals seen throwing the Molotov cocktails were not affiliated with the party, despite photographs of them carrying SDP flags.

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This just sickens me…there is just too, too much going on in the Middle East with what seems to be conflicts between those who are more progressive in their thinking who are sick of the austerity/conservative /pro-war gov’ts.  That’s just my take on it, your mileage may vary…

…it’s just my experience that most of the public, be they Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist,  or whatever, are for peace.  They just want to live their lives and be let alone…

I’m thinking it’s time for a worldwide political party:  the Leave Us the Hell Alone Party.  We don’t *stand* for anything–we just live our lives following the Golden Rule of Doing Unto Others as We Would Have Done Unto Us….”

God Bless Us everyone…

 

 

 

Another day, Another Clinton scandal…

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CBS News revealed a possible cover-up in the State Dept….under Secretary Hillary Clinton.

This, if it is true, is criminal.

Isn’t it interesting that Clinton never “knows anything” about stuff going on around her?  I think she could be standing in a foot high pile of sh*t and say she doesn’t “smell anything”.  Aggravating.

And…if she never knows what’s going on around her in the State Dept., or wherever she is, how can she be trusted to be a President who has more than one dept. to keep track of?

Other posts on Clinton here. And here. And let’s not forget that *smile*...

More here. And here.…not someone to admire–Gallup trying to do…what, exactly…?

Think Hillary Clinton will be seeing any criminal charges?  Well, if the past is any indicator…nope.

See, only the “little people” go to jail…

(in reference to Clinton’s assertion that she would refuse a TSA pat-down. )

 

To Clarify

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To clarify what I mean with my last post–I don’t have a problem with wiretapping suspected terrorists per se, but I have a big problem with the illegal wiretapping of anyone.  That is, I expect the gov’t agency to go before a judge with evidence that this person is indeed up to no good.  It’s what our Constitution requires.  I expect those in the gov’t who swear to uphold the Constitution to do just that.

Daniel Ellsberg on Snowden

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Daniel Ellsberg was on CNN last night, commenting on the NSA and Edward Snowden.  He asked the question…”Can you charge someone with a crime whom  has exposed a crime?  What Snowden did was expose a violation of the Constitution. ”  (paraphrasing). 

“They illegally wiretapped suspected terrorists…but I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t a terrorist….

Now they’re illegally wiretapping me and there’s no one brave enough to speak up….”

 

From this poem.