No more pretending they will ever allow Palestinian independence.
So, see, Israel is simply a totalitarian apartheid state, like Texas in 1952, only in this case the oppressed are not a small minority but half the population.
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Falsified Drug Tests Impacted Parents Custody Of Children
More victims in the war on drugs.
Department of Human Resource’s Pike County, Alabama drug testing vendor, Brandy Murrah of A & J Lab Collections faked drug tests that may have impacted thousands of families. All approved by The Department of Human Resources in Pike County. Apparently, they didn’t do much of a background check because Brandy Murrah had a 2013 conviction for fraud. Not only Pike County, Murrah’s attorney confirmed his client has worked in several counties across the state.
Attorney Troy King believes thousands of tests were completed and thousands of families may be impacted – either through custody cases, paternity cases or jobs lost through drug tests.
Pentagon Ends Review of Deadly Niger Ambush, Again Blaming Junior Officers
The military is a bureaucracy and like every other bureaucracy they protect their own. On October 4, 2017 four special operations soldiers were ambushed in Niger. They were all killed along with their interpreter. The news set of a storm in D.C. with clueless Senators claiming they didn’t know we even had military operations in Niger, in spite of the fact that we had been there since 2013 and it was no secret.
But the U.S. military has been in Niger since 2013 and this wasn’t a secret. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has been tweeting about U.S. involvement in Niger for years. And thousands of troops serve across Africa every day.
Now, two years after the event, the Pentagon has submitted their review to acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan.
WASHINGTON — Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has effectively closed the book on a lengthy Pentagon investigation into a deadly ambush in Niger in 2017, officials said on Wednesday, approving a high-level review of earlier findings that mostly blamed junior officers.
The major blame was put on junior officers and this doesn’t sit well with the families or other Green Berets.
But other senior officers in the chain of command escaped punishment, including a Green Beret colonel who was responsible for Special Operations missions in northwest Africa at the time.
Lt. Col. David Painter, a battalion commander based in Chad, ordered Captain Perozeni’s team to continue. Colonel Painter was ultimately punished for improperly overseeing predeployment training. But two military officials on Wednesday said he is expected to be promoted to the rank of full colonel in the coming months.
Maj. Gen. J. Marcus Hicks, the head of Special Operations forces in Africa, who had been previously scheduled to retire in the coming weeks.
Col. Bradley D. Moses, then the commander of the 3rd Special Forces Group, is the only person in the Special Operations chain of command involved in the ambush who remains unpunished. Colonel Moses is currently the chief of staff of Army Special Operations Command and, according to Defense Department officials, is scheduled to take a staff job in Afghanistan in coming weeks. A rising star in the Army Special Forces community, Colonel Moses is widely considered to be in line to be promoted to brigadier general, a promotion that requires Senate confirmation.
Captain Perozeni, who was put in command of the Green Beret unit — Team 3212 — just weeks before it deployed to Niger, was reprimanded twice. In both cases, however, he successfully appealed the punishments, and Army commanders twice rescinded them.
The father of Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, one of the soldiers killed (himself a former soldier who can trace the family’s lineage in the armed services to the War of 1812), said in an interview on Wednesday that he was infuriated with the final review’s conclusions.
“There’s no way in good confidence I could encourage anyone to join the United States Army right now, and our family goes back over 200 years,” he said.
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Year Zero: Social Media, Another Arm of the US Government?
A few days ago Pete Raymond was yet another casualty of deplatforming on Twitter. As the censorship moves into the circle of expression Tommy most associates with he thought it appropriate to state his thoughts on what we’re looking at.
It’s no secret In-Q-Tel has funded social media outlets in order to mine data. With this in mind one must ask themselves, at what level of cooperation does a corporation lose its status of private? In Tommy’s opinion these companies have crossed that line, and are a tool of intelligence agencies in shaping culture and law in the favor of giving them more power.
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Violent Protests In Sudan: Paramilitaries Supported by Saudi Arabia Throw Dead Bodies in River
Paramilitaries in Khartoum threw dozens of bodies into the Nile to try to hide the number of casualties inflicted during a dawn attack on pro-democracy protesters in the Sudanese capital earlier this week, doctors and activists have said.
Heavily armed units of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continued to sweep through Khartoum and the neighbouring city of Omdurman on Wednesday. Residents blocked many roads with makeshift barricades as they tried to protect their neighbourhoods from the paramilitaries and thieves.
The leader of the paramilitary forces is Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo who is supported by Saudi Arabia and has been supplying troops to fight against the Houthi’s in Yemen.
More importantly the deputy president of the council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia leader known as Hemedti, met the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, in Jeddah on 24 May, and pledged to stand with the kingdom against all threats, including Iran. He vowed Sudanese troops would continue fighting alongside Saudi Arabia against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Anti-Palestinian Groups Fail to Censor Children’s Book Event
The event at the Highland Park library, sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace, was originally scheduled for 19 May but was canceled by the library’s administration after complaints from Israel supporters.
On Tuesday evening, the library’s board of trustees announced that the event will go forward and author Golbarg Bashi will be able to read from her book.
David Bergland, RIP: 1984 Libertarian Party Candidate for President
I am sorry to announce that David Bergland has died at the age of 83. He had been battling prostate cancer.
Bergland was the 1984 presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party. He was also the 1976 candidate for Vice-President.
I met David in 1973 and worked closely with him during my time in the Libertarian Party. He was a principled promoter of freedom and peace and was a leader in the anti-interventionist wing of the Libertarian Party during the 1970s and 1980s. He was the author of Libertarianism in One Lesson.
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