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1944 vintage. Independent thinker, at least I think so. Sometimes I tell people I am a libertarian-leaning anarchist. Mondoweiss fan and subscriber.

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  • Obama high-fives Jimmy Kimmel after he calls Netanyahu a warmongering 'yahoo'
  • 'I've been duped' -- America's travel guide Rick Steves says our media black out the brutal occupation
    • unVet April 8, 2012 at 4:59 pm

      "About a year ago, Rick took it on himself to travel to Iran"

      Actually, he said that he was contacted by someone at the UN a few years ago, maybe late 2007, when there was a lot of Iran war talk going on, and a suggestion was made that he make a trip to Iran to help expand Americans' knowledge about Iran. Unfortunately, I don't think enough Americans have seen the resulting video.

  • Hasbara: Reach-out to non-Jews with 'Zionist-inspired' calendar
  • In '07, Gingrich blamed Israel for Palestinian conditions
  • Raimondo: 'Israel firster' did not originate with neo-Nazis as Kirchick and Ackerman claim, but rather with an anti-Zionist Jew
    • unVet January 30, 2012 at 8:19 pm with 1 replies

      Toivo,

      Try comehomeamerica.us!

      Steering Committee of Come Home America
      George D. O’Neill, Jr., Co-Chair Come Home America.
      Kevin Zeese, Co-Chair, Come Home America.
      Paul Buhle, retired from teaching at Brown University*, lives in Wisconsin and produces radical, non-fiction comic books about Empire and other subjects.
      Eric Garris, Founder and Director of Antiwar.com.
      Bill Kauffman, who lives in his native Upstate New York, is the author of nine books, among them Ain’t My America and Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette.
      Angela Keaton, director of Operations at Antiwar.com and national secretary for Outright Libertarians.
      Bonnie Kristian, writer and editor in the DC area and Director of Communications for Young Americans for Liberty.
      Daniel McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative.
      Lewis McCrary, The American Conservative.
      Michael D. Ostrolenk, National Security Consultant.
      Coleen Rowley is a former FBI agent, whistleblower and peace activist.
      John V. Walsh, Professor of Physiology, University of MA Medical School and frequent contributor to CounterPunch.com, DissidentVoice.org and Antiwar.com.

  • In the last 24 hours an orgy of land theft and political arrests of children
    • unVet January 25, 2012 at 8:02 am

      “The U.S. government should become the protector of the Palestinian people’s right to have a decent amount of land. The desire of some Israelis to use security as an excuse to grab more Palestinian land should be blocked by Washington even if that requires employing financial or other leverage to compel the Israeli government to behave reasonably on the issue of settlements. It is vital to our credibility in the entire Middle East that we insist on an end to Israeli expansionism. It is vital to our humanitarian duty to the Palestinian people that we protect the weaker party from the stronger power. It is vital that the world sees that our total support for Israeli security is not matched by a one-sided support for more extreme Israeli territorial demands.” -- Newt Gingrich, 2005

      Quote from Justin Raimondo's article "Adelson, Gingrich, and the Selling of America"
      link to original.antiwar.com

  • Ron Paul and the liberal interventionists
    • unVet January 9, 2012 at 9:06 pm

      I have no fondness for the Mitt at all, but one of things I really dislike is the taking of something like his comment about liking to fire people and distorting what his actual message was. Using such a tactic seems to admit that there is nothing of substance to go after him about, which is definitely not true.

  • Ron Paul's foreign policy should be embraced
  • Anti-Paulism
    • unVet January 5, 2012 at 8:26 am

      If anything, we need more "anti-Semites" like Ron Paul. In 1988, the chair of Ron Paul's first presidential campaign was Burton Blumert. Two people who were very important in Ron Paul's life were Murray Rothbard and Ludwig Von Mises. Walter Block has formed the organization Jews for Ron Paul. His video is here: link to youtube.com

      Here are a couple of videos with "self-hating" black Americans who support Ron Paul:
      link to youtube.com
      link to youtube.com

      Justin Raimondo's January 2008 take down on the newsletter attacks of that time can be found here:
      link to takimag.com

      In his autobiography, Russell Means, who ran for the 1988 LP presidential nomination against Ron Paul, stated, that as a group, libertarians are the most tolerant people he has come across. Bigotry and libertarianism do not mix. Ron Paul is not an anti-Semite or a racist in any shape or from PERIOD

      Not related to the bigotry charges, but this video is amazing to watch for its self-censorship:
      link to youtube.com

  • Klein: Ron Paul is surging because he opposes another neocon war for Israel
    • unVet December 20, 2011 at 10:17 pm

      Yourstruly, please consider the following information that I found at link to www4.dr-rath-foundation.org:

      ANNUAL PHYSICAL AND ECONOMIC COST OF MEDICAL INTERVENTION

      Condition. . . . . . . . . . . . .Deaths. . . . Cost. . . . . . .Author
      Adverse Drug Reactions. . .106,000. . . $12 billion. . .Lazarou, Suh
      Medical error. . . . . . . . . . .98,000. . . .$2 billion. . .IOM
      Bedsores. . . . . . . . . . . . . 115,000. . .$55 billion. . . Xakellis, Barczak
      Infection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88,000. . . $5 billion. . .Weinstein, MMWR
      Malnutrition. . . . . . . . . . . .108,800. . . . --------. . .Nurses Coalition
      Outpatients. . . . . . . . . . . .199,000. . .$77 billion. .Starfield, Weingart
      Unnecessary Procedures. . . .37,136. . $122 billion. .HCUP
      Surgery-Related. . . . . . . . . .32,000. . . .$9 billion. .AHRQ

      TOTAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 783,936. . .$282 billion

      I don't know about the accuracy of this information anymore than I know about the accuracy of the 45,000 that you have Ron Paul sentencing to death. It appears that some number of those 45,000 would die even if they had received medical treatment just due to the conditions listed above, and some number of the 783,936 probably would have survived if they had received no medical treatment.

      You demonstrate a severe lack of understanding of matters in much of what you wrote at 6:23pm. You understanding of Ron Paul's position is somewhat lacking. I guess I could check, but I am quite certain you misrepresented what he said in response to the "would you let a man die" debate gotcha question. As a libertarian, Dr. Paul rejects the notion that force is an appropriate means for achieving objectives outside of self-defense. By definition, anything the government does is done by force. When you get ready to take an honest look at matters, I believe you will find there is a lot more than just ideology involved. There is plenty on the downside to having the government perform function that we as a society should and could perform without being forced to.

      unVet

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