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Total number of comments: 4 (since 2013-11-28 16:51:12)

TCinLA

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  • Top Ten Ways the US Government will Smear, Slight Whistleblower Edward Snowden
    • T.M. Cleaver 06/11/2013 at 7:37 pm

      Remember when Richard Nixon sent his plumbers to burglarize the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist so they could get damaging information on him?

      The real traitors are the ones accusing Snowden of treason.

    • T.M. Cleaver 06/11/2013 at 7:35 pm

      Indeed I do consider him a hero, the same way I consider Daniel Ellsberg a hero for telling the truth about the Vietnam War.

  • Obama Plays Hardball and Egypt's Morsi Folds
    • TCinLA 09/14/2012 at 2:01 pm

      The difference between the Muslim Brotherhood and the American Christian Right is that the members of the MB speak a more recognizable and easily-understood English, since they don't talk with their mouths full,

  • Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect
    • TCinLA 09/13/2012 at 9:54 pm with 1 replies

      Consider that the people who are involved in the production and well-timed distribution of this "movie" do not have histories that suggest they have the necessary smarts to be that organized.

      Consider that over the course of this summer two things have been going on: Netanyahu has been getting more and more shrill about Iran, and the Obama Adeministration has been doing all it can to get Netanyahu to STFU, even to the point of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs stating ten days ago that the US would not be "complicit" in any Israeli strike against Iran. The Chief of Staff of the IDF and the former heads of Mossad and Shin Bet are publicly against an Iran war and polls show the Israeli public would rather not, but Netanyahu and the political far right in Israel want it the way an 8-year old wants a pony for Christmas.

      Back in June, rumors started flying that Netanyahu would find a way to intervene in the US election, against Obama.

      So "coincidentally" a bunch of people without the ability to carry out what they appear to have carried out get together and make this movie.

      And then "coincidentally" the week after General Casey says we won't be "complicit", this "obscure" Copt posts this Arabic version on YouTube, where it is "found" by this "strident Islamic fundamentalist Khaled. And then we have the riots.

      There's too many coincidences for this to all be "coincidental."

      Consider whose interests are served here.

      Who benefits from the US having a fall-out with the new Egyptian government? Who benefits from sowing dissension in Libya? Who benefits from the American Right all getting their talking points straight today and following the party line that Romney was right to do what he did and attacking Obama for not standing up for American security?

      The Israelis have a long history of using Copts as agents in Egypt, they have a long history of manipulating Christian fundamentalists. Any intelligence operation will go find "fronts" who are isolated individuals who would love to pull off what is offered to themv that they cannot do on their own. Doing this provides "plausible deniability."

      This action, not an attack on Iran, is Netanyahu's "fall surprise." It sits there right in front of us and the Israelis have the US so politically buffaloed that nobody can say a thing about it, even if they find proof.

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