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Senate releases CIA torture report - Jim Hargrove - 11-12-2014 Drew Phipps Wrote:That's just not true that nothing changes. Wish you were right in this context, but I'm not optimistic. The majority of self-identified Republicans, I predict, will soon tell pollsters that torture of "terror suspects" is just fine with them, and enough so-called Democrats will agree to make the pro-torture faction a majority. Fox News will rejoice! In a few days, Republicans will control both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, leaving only a minority President in the White House for balance. Nothing will change. Senate releases CIA torture report - Drew Phipps - 11-12-2014 Well, I'll give you another current event example. Remember the last time the government faced a shutdown, the Republicans only controlled 1 house and wouldn't pass a budget? What happened today? They actually got some work done. If you don't see change happening all around you, you've got your eyes closed. Senate releases CIA torture report - Jim Hargrove - 11-12-2014 Drew Phipps Wrote:Well, I'll give you another current event example. Remember the last time the government faced a shutdown, the Republicans only controlled 1 house and wouldn't pass a budget? What happened today? They actually got some work done. If you don't see change happening all around you, you've got your eyes closed. Please help me open my eyes. Show me any change in the policies of the US Government re, for example, torture of "terror suspects." I'll try to be patient, but I think this line of thought is completely hopeless. PS. Prez Obama said his government wouldn't torture, but Rachel Madow claims that the original Guantanamo captive is STILL in custody, and probably being tortured. Senate releases CIA torture report - Drew Phipps - 11-12-2014 1/22/09: Obama signs an "executive order formally bans torture by requiring that the Army field manual be used as the guide for terrorism interrogations. That essentially ends the Bush administration's CIA program of enhanced interrogation methods. "We believe that the Army field manual reflects the best judgment of our military, that we can abide by a rule that says we don't torture, but that we can still effectively obtain the intelligence that we need," Obama said." (BTW that is clear and indisputable example of a positive change (by a mere elected official in the 'thin layer") in the dark and shadowy hidden iceberg-like secret fascist government that apparently is running everything. Thank you for mentioning it.) Since the CIA is mad right now at the Senate and the White House, the "leak" from a "senior intelligence official" of continuing torture under Obama would have been especially damaging yesterday, or today. But it didn't happen. So much for "probably." Senate releases CIA torture report - David Guyatt - 11-12-2014 Strange guy and strange comment: "I like the wilderness a lot -- they're more scared of me than I am of them." Looks like "fear" is his pleasure doesn't it? Quote:CIA torture report is a 'load of hooey', according to CIA's torture adviser Senate releases CIA torture report - David Guyatt - 11-12-2014 Drew Phipps Wrote:Gee, Albert, I find your view point on this extremist, and hope you realize that you don't speak for "the people." Most people that I know actually prefer democracy, as imperfect as it may be. Respectfully Drew, may I draw your attention to House Resolution 758 in my post numbered 461 HERE In that document alone one can see the entire edifice of the US democratic system in all it gory glory. 411 votes for. 10 against. It is a resolution to engage in war with Russia via destabilisation and black operations; to overthrow Putin and ensure Russia will be fragmented never to rise again as a counter force to US might. This officially moves us back into another cold war - as if the first one was not bad enough. I have searched and striven, thus far in vain, to find a major media news story about this. Outside of the alternative media it is unreported, as far as I can tell, anyway. No amount of voting will repair what is a contemptuously corrupt and broken system of power and corruption. Apologies if this is slightly off topic. I'll leave it there. Senate releases CIA torture report - Peter Lemkin - 11-12-2014 The Damascus, Syria Black Site is an interesting one....as 'officially' Syria is and has been an enemy of the USA. Nothing is or was as we were led to believe. It is all Big Lies for Big Money and Big Control. Senate releases CIA torture report - Magda Hassan - 11-12-2014 Indeed Peter. It is through the looking glass. Try telling the Fox News viewers that the US has happily been doing dirty business with Syria since 911. Senate releases CIA torture report - Tracy Riddle - 11-12-2014 Drew Phipps Wrote:That's just not true that nothing changes. You guys have all been watching current events very carefully, but why don't you attribute any significance to what you see? You've got a terror report that roundly criticizes in a couple dozen ways the very people you think run the iceberg. You don't think that is a harbinger of change? Obama beat the polls and the pundits to get re-elected in 2012? That's not significant? What about Snowden exposing the secrets of the NSA? There are hundreds, if not thousands, of reputable scientists and engineers speaking truth to power about 9/11. Drew, maybe you don't remember the Church Committee, the Pike Committee and the HSCA in the 1970s. A lot of deep government secrets were revealed by Congress. What did it accomplish? Here we are 40 years later and it's much worse. Obama? Seriously? This guy has performed the magic trick of validating most of Bush's national security/foreign policy agenda and getting most liberals to go along with it. Yes, I like to have hope too. Except polls show that about half the American people think torture is just fine. Many secrets have been exposed over the decades. Most Americans are not paying attention to them. They're not reading forums like this, Drew. They are watching the Kardashians and planning their next shopping trip. Voter turnout last November was 36%, because of apathy, hopelessness and a sense that nothing important really changes over the long term. Senate releases CIA torture report - Tracy Riddle - 11-12-2014 Drew Phipps Wrote:Well, I'll give you another current event example. Remember the last time the government faced a shutdown, the Republicans only controlled 1 house and wouldn't pass a budget? What happened today? They actually got some work done. If you don't see change happening all around you, you've got your eyes closed. You know, I can remember a time when the government didn't shut down every five minutes, when both parties routinely worked together to pass something as simple as a budget. So we're setting the bar pretty low now. Meanwhile, the shadow government is probably getting its financing from drug trafficking and the trillions hidden away in secret accounts overseas. They don't really care whether the idiots in Congress can agree on anything. The elites are busy building fortresses around their money and power, and don't care if the rest of us have to drive on crumbling roads and bridges, or deal with 80-year-old water mains that break. Very long-term, this is what the elites would really like: |