The NSA and Clapper love to say, ‘Everyone does this!’ as an excuse for illegal or illicit or hostile spying on friends and allies as well as entire populations. If by ‘everyone’ Clapper means ‘Big Brother in 1984’ or the USSR, then he is correct. Unfortunately, even if Stalin spied on everyone doesn’t mean Clapper can violate the Constitution. Nor can Obama or Bush evade the fact that they were just fine with this spying on everyone. Both GOP and DNC heads were fine with spying on everyone.
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INCINERATING DRESDEN: WAR CRIMES ARE WAR CRIMES
EASY READING CULTURE OF LIFE NEWS: INCINERATING DRESDEN: WAR CRIMES ARE WAR CRIMES
The gentle humanist, Brahms German Requiem, written for his dying mother- Mvt. 1
The millions of brutalities of WWI were swiftly surpassed by even worse ones in WWII. The utter collapse of even the faintest forms of ‘civilization’ and humanity was quite amazing. As the major empires of the planet strove to annihilate each other, they threw aside even pretending to be fighting, army against army, navy against navy and focused mainly on killing as many civilians as possible. This led directly to developing the weapons and tactics for WWIII which will kill all humans in all cities on the entire planet earth. The anniversary of the mass-murder of Dresden is a striking example as to how insane the debates are over ‘who killed more people’, post-WWII. Continue reading
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