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US-Led Bombing Campaign in Syria Killed 1,600 Civilians and Left Raqqa ‘Most Destroyed City in Modern Times’: Study
Julia Conley at Common Dreams reviews the results from a study conducted by Amnesty International and Airwars.
The report—”Rhetoric vs. Reality: How the ‘Most Precise Air Campaign in History’ Left Raqqa the Most Destroyed City in Modern Times“—is detailed on the interactive website created by investigative news organization Airwars and the human rights group Amnesty International*-USA which carried out what they call the “most comprehensive investigation into civilian deaths in a modern conflict.”*
The research collated almost two years of investigations into the assault on Raqqa, the groups said in a statement, and “gives a brutally vivid account” of the enormous number of civilian lives lost as “a direct result” of thousands of coalition air strikes and tens of thousands of US artillery strikes in Raqqa from June to October 2017.
Use of Facial Recognition in Airports Draws Anger
Eoin Higgins at Common Dreams:
We’re basically capturing that picture at the boarding gate, providing it to U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” said Farrell. “They’re identifying the traveler.”
“It’s actually the U.S. government that’s implementing the biometric matching system that does all the hard analysis and crunching of the data,” Farrell added.”
Oh, I thought this was another evil corporation behind this. Now that I know the government is involved I’m OK with it. After all, what do I have to hide. I’m sure the’re doing it for our safety.
Israel’s Fifth Column Suffers Crushing Defeat At Hands of the First Amendment
Why does Israel and its partisans hate free speech so much?
It’s because stealing and killing and lying is at the core of Israel’s national strategy and daily public policy, and they’re slightly worried the U.S. government might one day stop letting them take money right out of your paycheck so they can spend it torturing children.
America’s greatest ally? The only western democracy in the Middle East?
It sure doesn’t seem like it.
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Joe Biden: The Architect of America’s Disastrous War on Drugs
My prediction is Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee. He has a lifetime record of supporting the worst policies. The younger Progressive Democrats will not support him in the primaries.
Brittany Hunter at Foundation for Economic Freedom reminds us that Joe is a long time supporter of the War on Drugs.
They sure kept this quiet.
In 1998, Biden’s daughter Ashley was arrested for cannabis possession in Louisiana. While others arrested for the same offense faced sentences sometimes spanning decades, Ashley Biden was never convicted of any drug-related crime. In 2014, Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy after testing positive for cocaine. Like his daughter, no charges were ever filed against Biden’s son.
Cops’ Massive Counter-Insurgency Sweeps in NYC Target the Innocent
How can any actual human — that is, non-government employees — support this evil drug war? Or the state at all at this point?
You think it’s “sending the ‘right message'” to children that you’d let the government destroy the society in the name of drugs when they can’t get rid of them anyway, even if they wanted to which they don’t because they’re corrupt and in on it?
Possibly, you’re a idiot.
You Love Government So Much
Don’t you? Yeah, you do. Don’t lie.
What would we ever do without them, you cry.
Update: “Half of all black kids in the U.S. will receive a visit from child services, according to one study by the American Journal of Public Health.”
HALF.
“Prior to this [happening to me, a well-paid, white government employee], I would never have called myself a supporter of Black Lives Matter [because they were obviously just a bunch of complaining n-words, who deserve whatever they get because I’m not one of them],” said Adam. “My view of law enforcement has completely changed.”
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