Please watch this video about the lies you have been told. This essential knowledge that all Americans must know as soon as possible. It will change your life and save other lives.
Please watch this video about the lies you have been told. This essential knowledge that all Americans must know as soon as possible. It will change your life and save other lives.
These people are nutcase ideologues who are being used by the Assad regime (oh, excuse me, Assad government).
What really happened is that Syria is another victim of climate change, in the form of a massive drought which destroyed Syria’s agricultural economy. Assad gave aid to his Alawite co-religionists, 13% of the population, but not to the Sunni majority. The Sunnis protested peacefully, the protesters then being massacred by Assad’s troops. That’s how this war started.
A factual analysis can be found in a comment on a NYT article:
“The brutality and length of the war is all on Assad. His family’s hereditary dictatorship has long been known for its ruthlessness and the fact that they would rather kill everyone than accept that they can no longer impose their dictatorship on Syria. The Press doesn’t even talk about this. The Syrian people did not revolt or start a civil war Assad did.
Until now his fathers 1982 Massacre of Hama was the worst crime his family had perpetrated against the Syrian people. In that “fight” Hafez Assad used the Syrian army to besiege Hama for 27 days and kill 40,000 residents according to the Syrian Human Rights Committee. This because a cell of the Muslim Brotherhood had started an uprising in the town. Read the Wikipedia page and you’ll see that Bashar Assad is following his family’s well worn formula; “If I can’t have it no one will”.
As for outside interference the Red Line was the point at which this violence could have been greatly limited maybe even stopped. If POTUS had destroyed the Syrian Air Force and imposed a moratorium on helicopter flights Assad would have been hamstrung and forced to the negotiating table. Then the Syrian people the press falsely calls rebels, could have dealt with Daesh and brought Assad to the table. It might be President Obama’s worst mistake.
The outsider here is Assad and his family not the Syrian people fighting to end his family’s depraved rule over Syria. A fight he started when they asked for better governance.”
The NYT article explains the current state of this unwinnable and disastrous war:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/world/middleeast/syria-civil-war-why-get-worse.html
This is another case, like Libya, where Hillary was right and Obama was wrong.
Hi David.
Looks like we agree that there is a lot of lying going on, but disagree as to who the liars are.
The NYT lied so often about Bernie that they have prove that they are shameless in lying for the Puppet Masters Plan. I am very disappointed that you have not noticed.
I thought you would have realized that if one bases their “knowledge” on lies, that they are doomed.
We probably agree on that sentence, also, just that we each assume that the other person is wrong. I have tried for months to help you, to no avail. I gave up weeks ago, as I have repeatedly said. I really wish that I could help, but if you refuse to look at simple facts, presented in bite sized pieces, then I know not what else to offer. I do not mean to offend. I am just not able to get you to look at facts.
Sadly, you are in the majority of Americans. It does not bode well for the Planet.
There is such a thing as GAR: generally accepted reality. As it is said in the progressive community, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts. We advertise ourselves as the reality-based community.
You could post links to the lies in the NYT about Bernie. However Bernie told a lot of lies about Hillary, which kind of takes the sting out of your assertion. Bernie has now recognized his mistakes and is backpedaling furiously. You have now abandoned Bernie to his back-bencher fate and now support Stein. She has the same issues Bernie had: absolutely no plans on how to turn her ideas into law, or even if her ideas could become law: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/27/1564528/-My-progressive-friends-We-need-to-talk-about-Jill-Stein
These are facts.
You do not seem to understand the idea of facts. At all. And, this is why I have given up on trying to show them to you. You refuse to look at any facts that seem to oppose the imaginary world that you need.
If one bases their “knowledge” on lies, they are doomed. MSM is feeding us lies. No wonder that we make bad decisions.
Engineering is a fact based way of life. Science is supposed to be, but we are flooded with junk science.
As I have said, until you can handle real facts, not just dKos or NYT opinions that fit your needs, we are wasting each other’s time.
It is certainly hard to sift facts out of the flood of miss-information and spin doctoring, but some are very easy and when you refuse the easy ones, we just need to go do useful things.
HRC was Sec of State (SOS) for a while. That is a real fact.
At that time we had laws to try to have transparency and accountability. One of those laws is the Freedom of Information, which went into effect in 1967. FOIA
The work product and calendars of ANY govt official is subject to FOIA. These are also facts.
Now, sometimes, we have to assume that some data is a fact or facts.
I was told that Huma Abedin, HRC’s “shadow,” as Politico once described her, testified under oath that she and HRC routinely burned their calendars while HRC was SOS. This was why they could not produce them when ordered to under FOIA requests. I assume that these are facts.
I have been told various numbers, but let’s just use these for the moment. HRC Supposedly was asked for ALL of her emails from her term(s) as SOS. She gave them 55,000 and >said< that she destroyed about 33,000. Why would we have any idea what the real numbers are?
But, I am told that she had her people used BleachBit to be certain that they stayed wiped. I am told that the FBI could not recover any of them and could see that they had been scrubbed, not just erased. I am assuming that this is true.
I have also been told that the FBI has found many thousands of work related emails that were not included in the original, sworn to include all of them, collection of all her work related emails.
From this collection of info, I find support for my hunch that HRC was going to some trouble and risk, breaking the law to keep some of her activities as SOS very secret from our govt.
The Clinton Foundation, gets Massive amounts of money and is said to only give about 2 to 6% to actual charitable causes. I am aware that may be slander. I believe that one fact is that it receives Massive amounts of money.
I am told that Saudi Arabia and many questionable govts have, I am told, given huge amounts to the Clinton Foundation.
The odd part is that if one compares WHEN these donations occur, to when HRC made deals that helped these many questionable govts, it seems that she MIGHT have been swayed by these payments. Or, just using her office to drum up money for her good deeds.
In any case, one might have a strong motive for knowingly breaking the FOIA laws.
Similarly, we can, from other records, learn that most of the non govt people that she met with while SOS were donors to the Foundation, and, coincidentally, many of those, movers and shakers, got lucrative deals from the SOS.
This might all be very legitimate, but it looks bad, especially when she is said to have knowing gone to a lot of trouble and law breaking to try to cover it up.
I know that none of this is correct in your mind, but a lot of us are worried about it. And there are hundreds of other factual things that worry us.
This is why we are certain that we do not have an honest govt or honest ways of selection our govt.
Dr. Stein is the only hope that I see of working toward getting our country back. And she is not as unprepared as you have been told.
It’s called the epistemic bubble. See:
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/08/29/gop-leadership-has-been-ejected-from-the-epistemic-bubble/
A small segment of the left has this same problem. They limit their news sources to sources which agree with a certain mindset. All others are lying. It’s a much better practice to read a wide variety of media, including conservative, and to research each stated fact which seems to be a little off. Is it off, or is one’s perception off?
On the burning calendar issue, you think that because you only read right-wing media about Hillary and discount the rest. Right wing media lies a lot, and their lies spread. “A lie goes round the world before the truth can get it’s pants on.” See the Washington Monthly link above. The facts are here: http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/hillary-clinton-calendars-wont-be-released-until-after-election/ Seems to me you can’t say it’s not a fact if the government is busy clearing and released said calendars, and it is from these calendars that the AP got their newest Hillary bash on. See: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/6/8900143/hillary-clinton-reporting-rules
Again, you were “told” wrong about the recovered emails. Clinton did not wipe her computer. Remember the “with a rag?” comment? She is not computer literate, really. See: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-fbi-pulls-deleted-emails-from-hillary-clintons-server/
You were “told” wrong about the Clinton Foundation. It’s a gold-star charity. See: https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/bill-hillary-chelsea-clinton-foundation/478
The stated job of the Clinton Foundation is to raise money from foreigners and foreign governments. The Clintons believe that “it takes a village.” If the global village puts its money in the pot, it will be more committed to seeing results and will support the Foundation’s good works. It’s just more right-wing lies. See: http://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/
Also see: https://www.clintonfoundation.org/about. AFAIK these facts have never been disputed, even in the right-wing media.
The media, of whichever stripe, are now only about the money. They are not about the truth or the facts. They report only what each politician says, and do not analyse which statements are correct and which are not. Why? They make more money from a horse race than from a landslide. They need to cut Hillary down and build Trump up. And that’s what they’re doing. That’s the reason that Trump gets all that free media, so much that he thinks he doesn’t need paid advertising. The media gives it to him for free. See: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/media-study-trump-helped-clinton-hurt-224300
And it’s also gender bias. See: http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/18/chart-exposes-media-bashes-hillary-clinton-promoting-donald-trump.html
On the meetings with NGOs, you might want to read: https://www.quora.com/Would-it-be-ethical-for-Hillary-Clinton-to-meet-representatives-and-donors-of-Red-Cross-or-Medecins-sans-Frontieres-while-as-US-Secretary-of-State
and
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/clinton-foundation-story-offers-smoke-no-fire
and
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37168505
I think all these allegations demonstrate the media bias against Ms. Clinton as well as the reasons for it.
I spent about an hour and a half replying, but your blog ate my comment. I don’t have time to repeat, but here’s some of my research history, in no particular order:
http://washingtonmonthly.com/2016/08/29/gop-leadership-has-been-ejected-from-the-epistemic-bubble/
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37168505
http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/hillary-clinton-calendars-wont-be-released-until-after-election/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-fbi-pulls-deleted-emails-from-hillary-clintons-server/
https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/bill-hillary-chelsea-clinton-foundation/478
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/06/where-does-clinton-foundation-money-go/
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/clinton-foundation-story-offers-smoke-no-fire
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/media-study-trump-helped-clinton-hurt-224300
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/18/chart-exposes-media-bashes-hillary-clinton-promoting-donald-trump.html
https://www.quora.com/Would-it-be-ethical-for-Hillary-Clinton-to-meet-representatives-and-donors-of-Red-Cross-or-Medecins-sans-Frontieres-while-as-US-Secretary-of-State
Links to facts, please.
I know the frustration of having my work erased. I suggest building your work, on your computer in a program you like, Notepad, Word, etc. I like LibreOffice. Then, paste the result onto whatever webpage and post it. That way (A) if it eats your work you can paste it in again, and (B) you can easily file the original and find it later if you wish.
We are in the middle of rebuilding the engine, so I will not be spending much time on rebuttal. Just in a quick scan, I do not see facts in your links. Just opinion pieces from sources that have been caught lying over and over. But, I do see why you are certain that you are correct. You believe what you read.
Here are just a few thoughts before I go. Also, in no particular order.
>On the burning calendar issue,
The FACT is that at
http://www.judicialwatch.org/document-archive/jw-v-state-abedin-deposition-01363/
They have a sworn deposition, under oath, and I have also found this info by other ways. This file is long, but look at these two quotes. (The # at the left is the line # on each page. The time at the right side is the time during the deposition. It is easier to read, if you download the original.)
12 Q Okay. And during your tenure at the State 11:35:43
13 Department, were you aware of your obligation not to 11:35:50
14 delete federal records or destroy federal records? 11:35:52
15 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Beyond the 11:35:55
16 scope of discovery, and calls for a legal 11:35:57
17 conclusion. 11:36:00
18 MR. BRILLE: And lacks foundation. 11:36:00
19 A Can you ask me that question again? 11:36:06
20 MS. COTCA: Could you read that back. 11:36:07
21 (Pending question read.) 11:36:18
22 MS. WOLVERTON: Same objections. 11:36:20
pg 108
1 MR. BRILLE: Same objections. 11:36:20
2 A I’m not sure that question is clear. 11:36:21
3 Q What don’t you understand about the 11:36:26
4 question? 11:36:28
5 A Well, if there was a schedule that was 11:36:28
6 created that was her Secretary of State daily 11:36:30
7 schedule, and a copy of that was then put in the 11:36:34
8 burn bag, that — that certainly happened on — on 11:36:38
9 more than one occasion. 11:36:42
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7 Q Okay. During your tenure at the State 11:39:26
8 Department, were you aware of your obligations to 11:39:34
9 search your e-mails for State-related business under 11:39:37
10 FOIA? 11:39:45
11 MS. WOLVERTON: Objection. Calls for a 11:39:46
12 legal conclusion, lack of foundation. 11:39:47
13 MR. BRILLE: Objection. Lack of 11:39:49
14 foundation. 11:39:50
15 A It — it was never any — it was never a 11:39:52
16 matter that was raised with me. I was never asked 11:39:55
17 to search my e-mails for anything related to FOIA 11:39:57
18 when I was at State, that I … 11:39:59
19 Q Okay. I guess that's my question. Did 11:40:02
20 you ever search your State.gov account for any 11:40:10
21 e-mails in response to a FOIA request or litigation? 11:40:13
22 A No, I did not. 11:40:16
<<<<<<<<<<<<”Clinton did not wipe her computer. Remember the “with a rag?” comment? She is not computer literate, really.”
David, is this your idea of humor? I am worried about you. Seriously. This is the sort of stuff that makes it impossible to take you seriously.
You took her literally? Her big grin and sarcasm were lost on you?
The news is so bizarre, that I do ask friends to be very careful to tell me when they are being ridiculous, because most of the real news is so ridiculous, that it is hard see a joke.
Not from opinion pieces, as you insist on doing, but straight from the FBI’s mouth. It was heavily covered in Director Comey’s press conference(s) that Clinton had her lawyers, who were not cleared for Classified Material, go through and remove thousands of emails that were supposedly only personal and not work product. Someone, working at the order of Clinton, not only erased, but used special software to make the erased data on the drive unrecoverable.
I did not mean that HRC personally did it. I do not mean that she personally overthrew a Central American country, or Lybia. That she personally brought young Blacks to heel.
I certainly believe that HRC, at least used to be VERY intelligent. I have seen a video, taken at a dinner party, where she explains that, with all of the lawsuits against her in the past, that she must not leave evidence behind to be used against her.
I ASSUME that is why she illegally had her own servers. To thwart FOIA.
I have seen one email where she orders someone to remove all security markings and illegally send her secret documents over a non secure line. So, that only a few emails still had markings, does not surprise me.
I also agree that “She is not computer literate, really.” and that she hired dumb IT people to advise her. Because, I ASSUME that she thought that if she had her own server that she could wipe, and not only with a cloth, and then she would leave no evidence.
But, that is not how it works. The recipients have copies, the recipients servers have copies. Various servers in between might have copies and most important in this case, her servers were repeatedly hacked.
This means that unknown people, that might be not nice people, have many or all of her secret emails in both directions.
They know which mayor in which town was helping America. When an important person was going to be where. Sounds like the Bengazi Attackers knew what and who to attack when, because of this.
These several hacker groups, not only Russians, know the secrets that HRC was willing to blatantly break laws to hide. Are there any secrets in the many thousands of emails that President HRC would betray America to keep secret? I am sure of that there are. You, of course, will say none of this ever happened.
If you must, please use email to try to debate rather than this. But, even better give it a rest. We are clearly not communicating.