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Breaking: Alan Gross Released From Cuba In Prisoner Exchange
Alan Gross, who was arrested and has been imprisoned for espionage in Cuba for the past five years, is on his way back to the U.S., ABC News reported.
Alan Gross, who was arrested in Cuba and held prisoner on allegations of espionage, is on his way back to the U.S. after five years in lockup, ABC News reported.
He was released as a "humanitarian gesture,"the network said. Part of the deal includes Cuba agreeing to more internet freedoms, CNN reported.
CNN is also reporting that Gross is not the only person Cuba is releasing to the U.S. An American "intel asset" is part of a separate dealin exchange for the three remaining members of the Cuban Five, spies form that nation convicted in Miami in the 1980s, who are still in U.S. lockup.
President Obama is also expected to detail new ways of repairing the U.S. and Cuba's relations, ABC News reported.
Link: http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomnamako/reports-alan-gross-released-from-lockup-in-cuba?s=mobile
"Hang the lying Kenyan traitor!"
one protester could be heard saying in the video.
"Plenty of trees in the front yard," another said. "Wouldn't be the first one hung on one of them trees."
"We've got rope," said another.
"Don't snap his neck, you pull him up watch him choke to death," someone else said
link: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tea-partiers-protest-lynch-obama
Lets call forced rectal feeding what it really is:
Rape/Sexual assault.
And that clearly makes it a war crime.
Perhaps the reason we don't have enough Liberal leaders to vote for....
Is because all the Liberals are busy looking for Liberal leaders to vote for?
There isn't some factory that mass produces Liberals. If YOU are a Liberal, PLEASE, feel free to throw your hat into the ring. Complaining on DU 24/7 about the lack of Liberal leadership won't magically make Liberal leaders appear.
Are you a Liberal? Well I've got good news for you: YOU can become a Liberal leader. No need to keep looking for one. Be a leader. DO IT!
You will have the support of the posters on this website who will then retweet your posts or facebook your posts which will echo through social media and launch you into leadership position. And with voting turnout at 35% (sadly) you will only need about 20% of your state to vote for you anyway. Easy.
How White People Got Made
It started in the late 1600s in America, but like so many scams, it spiraled out of control until it had a life of its own.
Not long after Europeans started arriving on the east coast of North America and the Caribbean Islands they found themselves rich in land but desperate for labor to work the land. The answer they struck upon was importation of bond labor, initially mostly Irish. The Irish had not been considered fully human under English law for centuries, and they ended up in plantations and working sugar under the Caribbean sun. The easy part of importing Irish (and Scottish) slave labor was that they were right next to England. The downside is there wasn’t enough of them for the amazing amounts of land laid before the eager English settlers, and thus the Atlantic slave trade with Africa was born. This is the story we hear in school, but the abridged version we get, intentionally or not, hides the scam of it. Initially the bond terms of convict, Scotch-Irish, and African labor was a set period of time, at the end of which they received bond money and their freedom in this new land. In fact, not that many bondsmen and women lived to be free, but some did, and established themselves as a mixed-race, free peasantry of the new world. If you’ve ever wondered where the free blacks of so many stories of early America came from, a large number were the families of freed African bond laborers.
As time went on, the labor needs of the land holders continued to grow, and desperate to cultivate the land, they were loathe to let go of their bond servants and the bondsmen and bondswomen’s children (whom they kept in bondage for a legally defined time as well). In the mean time, a growing American peasantry was proving as difficult to govern as the European peasantry back home, periodically rising up in riot and rebellion, light skinned and dark skinned together. The political leaders of the Virginia colony struck upon an answer to all these problems, an answer which plagues us to this day.
The Virginians legislated a new class of people into existence: the whites. They gave the whites certain rights, and took other rights from blacks. White, as a language of race, appears in Virginia around the 1680s, and seems to first appear in Virginia law in 1691. And thus whiteness, and to a degree as well blackness, was born in the mind of America.
As of the 18th century whites could not be permanently enslaved as they sometimes had been before, and black slaves could never work their way to freedom. The whites were told this was because God had made the blacks inferior to the whites, just as the whites were inferior to the superior classes that owned property. It’s worthwhile to remember that they didn’t give whites political rights, they didn’t give whites the vote — that would not happen then nor at the revolution and independence. Whites didn’t get the vote until the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Property owners, both of land and slaves, were the only ones who could vote. That included black land and slave owners until various states passed laws in the early 18th century to take their franchise away.
This plan worked gorgeously. It broke all efforts of the majority of people, African or European, to fight for civil and political rights in America against a landed class that literally ruled everything. It reduced a portion of the people to the status of the negro slave, and gave the poor but now white people a precious and entitled inch to stand above the permanently enslaved on the social ladder. The next thing the politicians did sealed the deal: they paid poor whites a bounty for runaway slaves, and often made them overseers for slaves, turning every poor white in America into a prison guard against the people who had once been their neighbors and allies.
The rest: https://medium.com/message/how-white-people-got-made-6eeb076ade42
DERP WARNING: Senator Ted "Carnival" Cruz on Net Neutrality.
"Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.
Link: https://mobile.twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/531834493922189313
Can't believe us taxpayers pay this moron's salary.
96% of the mo$t well-financed candidate$ won their midterm election$.
There's your $$democracy$$ right there.
Guess Who Will Now Be The Most Powerful Environmental Senator?
Mr. Jim "Climate Change Is A Hoax" Inhofe. 
Congratulations, Voters. You Just Made This Climate Denier the Most Powerful Senator on the Environment.
In handing Republicans control of the Senate on Tuesday, Americans effectively voted for the party's hostile plans against President Barack Obama’s environmental legacy. Their votes also put the Senate's environment and climate policy into the hands of the worst science-denier in national politics: Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, who is almost certainly the next chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Inhofe claimed in 2003 that global warming might help humanity. “It's also important to question whether global warming is even a problem for human existence. Thus far no one has seriously demonstrated any scientific proof that increased global temperatures would lead to the catastrophes predicted by alarmists. In fact, it appears that just the opposite is true: that increases in global temperatures may have a beneficial effect on how we live our lives.”
In that same speech, he argued that an international body of climate change scientists “resembled a Soviet-style trial, in which the facts are predetermined, and ideological purity trumps technical and scientific rigor.”
The rest: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/120134/climate-change-denier-james-inhofe-lead-environment-committee
Jesus Harold Christ....The Koch Bros and other major polluters must be popping the champagne.
Gallup's 2012 Final Poll Result!
Taken 2 days before 2012 election. Mitt Romney was so sure, that he didn't even bother writing a concession speech. Where is President Romney today?
Now, I'm not one of those who call bs on polls, I believe polling can be very accurate, but the only poll that matters is the one after the votes are counted. We need to hold onto every Senate seat we possibly can in 2014 because in 2016 Republicans currently will have 24 Senate seats up for grabs. 2016 has the makings of a huge Dem wave election. Over 60 seats may be possible? GOTFV!
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