The revelations, as well as testimony this week from former Obama intel officials, show the extent to which the Obama administration politicized and weaponized intelligence against Americans.
Thanks to Circa News, we now know the National Security Agency under President Barack Obama routinely violated privacy protections while snooping through foreign intercepts involving US citizens — and failed to disclose the breaches, prompting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court a month before the election to rebuke administration officials.
Herbert decided to rail against his elderly neighbor who apparently owns a home but can't afford the property taxes on it. Rather than give her a tax credit, he believes she should get out of her house.
lewrockwell.com/2017/05/roger-stone/d...See MoreFormer FBI director James Comey has a long and telling career; telling much about his rise to FBI director. Although Comey speaks stoically about following the "rule of law", and "following in the spirit of our founding fathers", he has shown time and again that his actions speak louder than his words.
This will be the end of my discussion with you about it, for I know it will end the same way any conversation does with a progressive...with attacking. I said my peace and spoke my mind. Have a nice day!
IMHO, that is the gutless way conservatives deal with ideas. Conservatives love to say, "I don't think any radical can be reasoned with." Then they run away, because the conservative ideas cannot stand up to even a picogram of reason.
Best describe with one word, "spineless!"
PS: About "I do not believe in limiting how much money one can earn by forcing them to give it to others who have less", it is called paying taxes to run a society. The idea of progressive taxes goes back to the ancient Greeks. They knew that the state protected the wealth of those who had wealth. They "reasoned" that the more wealth you have - that is being protected by the state - the more you should pay in taxes to support the state.
Plus, your philosophy is distinctly non-Christian!
A...See MoreThe poster "Guest Speaker" starts with "the progressive left is eating itself! Then, for evidence, GS goes to Washington state Greenwood College with an enrollment of 4,416 (2014). This is not evidence that the progressive left is eating itself. It is evidence that some on the left have very radical ideas. That is also true of the right.
Also, I should warn GS that liberal and progressive are not the same thing. The Bernie supporters and those favoring the economics professed by the Progressive caucus are being defined as progressives. The DNC democrats are left with the label, liberal!
Beyond that, I am a progressive and I do not favor affirmative action. However, race in this country cannot be discussed without also discussing class - that is economic class. The dysfunction of capitalism has, over the years, been very cruel to minorities. However, middle class whites are now starting to experience what minorities have experienced for decades.
We now have half of America in or near poverty. The old idea that the poor are poor because they are lazy or stupid does not work any more. Everyone has figured out, "The game is rigged." It is just that minorities have known this truth for a long time.
Yes, our country is participating in more war crimes. I mean, ask yourself, "What did the country of Yemen do to America that justifies us being in their civil war."
But, back to our news media and their failure! The article says:
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The famine and brutal two-year-long war in Yemen being waged by the Saudis that has killed over 10,000 civilians wasn't mentioned once in reports of the $300 billion deal to Saudi Arabia by CNN (5/19/17, 5/20/17), Washington Post (5/19/17), The Independent (5/19/17), New York Daily News (5/20/17), CNBC (5/20/17, 5/22/17), CBS News (5/20/17), Business Insider (5/20/17), Time (5/20/17), Fox News (5/20/17), Reuters (5/20/17), ABC News (5/20/17), Fortune Magazine (5/20/17) or Chicago Tribune (5/20/17).
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These media outlets did cover the stock price increases of the companies building the weapons. Yet, that seems to be the way America creates jobs. We build weapons! But that requires perpetual war so we can generate a need for more weapons. Jobs, jobs, jobs - and never mind what you see in the picture below. The media needs to support the military industrial complex and they do!
PS: That skin and bones child is one of a half a million starving children!
PPS: What a waste of natural resources when we have real needs in this country!
What the heck is happening there!?! It looks like the progressive left is eating itself!! "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, everyone who disagrees with me, especially if they are white, has got to go!"
T.E.C. - IowaIf you are going to say "the progressive left is eating itself!", you should explain what you mean. From my perspective, it looks like corporate America is "eating" everything of value in this country!
After another damaging story — this one revealing that President Trump had divulged classified information to Russians in the Oval Office — was published last week, most Republicans in the Senate were still carefully choosing their words.
But Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker didn't hold back: "Obviously, they're in a downward spiral right now and have got to figure out a way to come to grips with all that's happening," he told reporters.
The two-word phrase he used in his Southern drawl — "downward spiral" — was soon splashed on front pages of newspapers across the country and repeated on cable news. Corker had — perhaps inadvertently — become the face of the small group of Republicans willing to rebuke the president.
But to hear Corker tell it, when he speaks out, his comments don't come as a surprise to the president or White House staff.
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I wasn't saying something publicly that I hadn't already said privately. And I didn't say it actually to be destructive. I said it to be constructive. And I think there were probably people over at the White House who were cheering."
Corker immediately rephrased: "I don't think that. I know that."
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Read the entire article.
Enlightening to know that some Republicans see how much damage POTUS is doing and are willing to speak out.