Incoming CIA Director John Brennan refuses to say whether waterboarding is torture

“At his confirmation hearing on Thursday, President Barack Obama’s nominee for CIA director refused to state whether or not waterboarding was a form of torture.  When pressed by Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, John Brennan said the simulated drowning technique should be banned. However, he repeatedly declined to label the practice torture.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/07/brennan-refuses-to-say-whether-waterboarding-is-torture/

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin

“Anti-war” Liberals: No More Excuses

nodrop6

“Thanks to NBC News, a lot of (now-former) drone supporters are confronted with a confidential Justice Department white paper justifying presidential killing of American citizens abroad, seemingly on the basis of thin air.  The document, 16 pages of Bushian doublespeak, declares ‘Here the Justice Department concludes only that where the following three conditions are met, a U.S. operation using lethal force in a foreign country against a U.S. citizen who is a senior operational leader of al-Qa’ida or an associated force would be lawful.’  In other words, we’ll obliterate you because of reasons, and you’re now a terrorist because we said so.”

http://c4ss.org/content/17011

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin

Exposing the Absurdity of Washington’s Anti-Sequester Hysteria

“To save America from the supposedly ‘savage’ and ‘draconian’ budget cuts caused by sequestration, President Obama has instead asked Congress to approve an alternative fiscal package containing additional tax increases.  So why is the sequester so bad? Does it slash the budget by 50 percent? Does it shut down departments, programs, and agencies?  Well, the Congressional Budget Office today released its annual Budget and Economic Outlook, and Tables 1-1 and 1-5 allow us to see the ‘brutal’ impact of the sequester.  As you can see from this chart, the sequester will ‘cut’ spending so much that the budget will grow by ‘only’ $2.4 trillion over the next 10 years.”

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/exposing-the-absurdity-of-washingtons-anti-sequester-hysteria/

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin

Karl Rove: ‘God bless President Obama’ for killing U.S. citizen al-Awlaki

“Republican strategist Karl Rove ripped the media on Tuesday for attacking Bush administration officials who justified the use of torture. He also praised President Barack Obama for using drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens.  The former Bush adviser said that officials like Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, Jay Bybee and others were ‘excoriated’ and ‘hounded’ by liberals and the media. Yet the Obama administration has faced little criticism for justifying the use of drone strikes against U.S. citizens.  Though Rove believed the ‘cowardly’ media was ‘hypocritical’ and ‘callow,’ he said he supported the President’s use of drones.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/05/karl-rove-god-bless-president-obama-for-killing-u-s-citizen-al-awlaki/

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin

Democrats may sell political opinions to credit card companies

“For years, state Democratic parties have been gathering information about individual voters’ political leanings. They have noted down the opinions voters shared with canvassers – which candidates they said they supported or their positions on policy issues.  Now, the record of what people told Democratic volunteers may go up for sale – and not just to political groups. Democrats are looking into whether credit card companies, retailers like Target or other commercial interests may want to buy the information.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/05/democrats-may-sell-political-opinions-to-credit-card-companies/

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin

Anthony Gregory: The Bellicosity of a Democrat’s Second Term

gregory_anthony_1002

“History does not necessarily repeat itself predictably, but there are patterns worth noting here that reemerge again and again. In election season, we hear countless theories about what electoral trends ‘always hold’ in presidential politics. Well, I’ve identified a fairly unsettling pattern myself:  Democrats seem to become more bellicose in their second term.  In the last hundred years, starting when early 20th century progressivism began shaping the ideology of the modern Democratic Party, the trend seems clear.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=3534

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin

State Department abandons effort to close down Guantanamo Bay

“The State Department has shut down the office of its special envoy for the closure of Guantanamo Bay, a US official said Monday, in a sign of the fading hopes of shuttering the jail.  Daniel Fried, the special envoy in charge of the dossier, will now move to coordinate the State Department’s sanctions policy, including for Iran and Syria.  Of the 779 inmates who passed through Guantanamo only nine were ever convicted or brought to trial, and of the 166 who remain, 55 are considered safe to be released by the US military, but have nowhere to go.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/28/state-department-abandons-effort-to-close-down-guantanamo-bay/

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin

Judge Napolitano: Obama Has Not Hesitated To Kill Foreign & American Innocent Children With Drones

Judge Napolitano: Obama Has Not Hesitated To Kill Foreign & American Innocent Children With Drones

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin

Rapper Lupe Fiasco thrown out of inaugural party after criticizing Obama during performance

Rapper Lupe Fiasco thrown out of inaugural party after criticizing Obama during performance

“The video also shows Fiasco seemingly doing an a capella freestyle rap away from the microphone while members of the crowd cheer. Buzzfeed quoted Josh Rogin, a writer for The Cable, as saying Fiasco went on ‘an anti-Obama diatribe mid-set’ and stayed on stage for 30 minutes without doing a different song. The footage does show Fiasco talking to security personnel before being led off the stage.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/21/rapper-lupe-fiasco-thrown-out-of-inaugural-party-after-criticizing-obama-during-performance/

 

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin

France adopts words of war by vowing to ‘destroy terrorists’

“With its talk of ‘destroying’ enemies and confronting ‘jihadi terrorists’, France has adopted a language of war for its intervention in Mali that few expected from Socialist President Francois Hollande.  As French warplanes carry out airstrikes and French troops clash with Islamist rebels in the West African country, Hollande and his ministers seem to have taken a page from former US president George W. Bush’s playbook on war-time communications.  French media reported that ministers have been banned from using the words ‘Islamist fighters’ in statements on the conflict and must always refer to rebels as ‘terrorists’.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/17/france-adopts-words-of-war-by-vowing-to-destroy-terrorists/

Scan to Donate Bitcoin to Freedomwat.ch Staff
Did you like this?
Tip Freedomwat.ch Staff with Bitcoin