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Brazilian Hooker Romilda Ferreira Suffers Broken Ribs, Collarbone After U.S. Marines Throw Her Out of Moving Embassy Car

April 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Brazilian Hooker Romilda Ferreira Suffers Broken Ribs, Collarbone After U.S. Marines Throw Her Out of Moving Embassy Car (Daily Mail)

New embarrassment for President Obama as Brazilian prostitute goes public with her story involving three U.S. Marines. Brazilian hooker Romilda Ferreira accused three U.S. Marines of throwing her out of a moving embassy car last November. She allegedly suffered a broken collar bone, two broken ribs and a punctured lung after the incident in Brasilia. The three Marines and an U.S. Embassy staff member were recalled before the police was able to press charges, Brazil’s Jornal Nacional programme reports.

This latest incident, which happened in November last year, came to light after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in Brazil during a Latin American tour, was questioned about it by a Brazilian reporter during a press conference. According to a Brazilian police investigation, the four U.S. Embassy officials had visited a nightclub in the centre of Brasilia where they had hired a group of prostitutes.

But U.S. authorities removed the four men from the country before they could be charged with the crimes. Speaking to reporters in Brasilia, Mr Panetta said the men were pulled from the country, two of the marines had their ranks reduced and the embassy staff member was removed from his post.

He added that the embassy had tracked Ms Ferreira down and paid for her medical expenses. He added: ‘This incident was fully investigated and all those involved were punished. They are no longer in this country. This type of behavior is unacceptable.’ Source: Daily Mail

Wow, Prostitutegate is taking President Obama off message. Shows you have far the government will go to keep the lid on a potential scandal. Paula Reid, the U.S. Secret Service supervisor, who spearheaded the recall of the 11 agents involved in the scandal involving Colombian hooker Dania Suarez did the Obama administration a huge favor.

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U.S. Troops from 82nd Airborne Division Under Investigation for Posing with Body Parts of Afghan Bombers

April 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Here we go again, U.S. soldiers caught behaving badly in Afghanistan. According to the LA Times, “an American soldier says he released the photos to the newspaper to draw attention to the safety risk of a breakdown in leadership and discipline.”  The Army has since launched an investigation into the matter.

LA Times:  The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers arrived at the police station in Afghanistan’s Zabol province in February 2010. They inspected the body parts. Then the mission turned macabre: The paratroopers posed for photos next to Afghan police, grinning while some held — and others squatted beside — the corpse’s severed legs.

 

 

U.S. Troops from 82nd Airborne Division Under Investigation for Posing with Body Parts of Afghan Bombers
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Unidentified US Soldier Kills 16 Afghan Civilians After Entering Homes in Panjwai District in Kandahar Province

March 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Unidentified US Soldier Kills 16 Afghan Civilians After Entering Homes in Panjwai District in Kandahar Province (Wikipedia)

SHOCK: An unidentified US soldier kills 16 Afghan civilians and wounded five others, after entering their homes in Panjwai District in Kandahar province early Sunday. Women and children are among the dead. NATO said it is investigating the “deeply regrettable incident.”

BBC News:  The soldier is reported to have walked off his base at around 03:00 local time (22:30 GMT Saturday) and headed to nearby villages, moving methodically from house to house.

“Eleven members of my family are dead. They are all dead,” Haji Samad, an elder from Najeeban village, told the AFP news agency.

Haji Sayed Jan, from Alkozai village, was quoted by the AFP as saying: “My home was attacked and I lost four family members”.

A delegation from the provincial governor’s office has arrived in the village to determine exactly what happened, a spokesman said.

The soldier – who had reportedly suffered a breakdown before the attacks – is said to have handed himself over to the US military authorities after carrying out the killings.

Anti-U.S. sentiments are at an all-time high in Afghanistan, particularly after U.S. soldiers burned copies of the Koran last month at a base in Kabul. President Obama apologized for the act and came under blistering criticism at home. The soldier is being held and will most likely face charges.

Unidentified US Soldier Kills 16 Afghan Civilians After Entering Homes in Panjwai District in Kandahar Province
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Did the Unnecessary and Unpopular Iraq War Really Come to an End?

December 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Did the unnecessary and unpopular Iraq war really come to an end? Wow, somehow I don’t feel like celebrating a war that cost this country billions of dollars and thousands of lost lives on both sides — soldiers and Iraqis. Here’s a sampling of mainstream media comments:

Wall Street Journal: ”After nearly nine years of war, tens of thousands of casualties — including 4,500 dead — and more than $800 billion spent, the U.S. military on Thursday formally ended its mission in Iraq and prepared to leave the country.”

New York Times: “The tenor of the farewell ceremony, officially called ‘Casing the Colors,’ was likely to sound an uncertain trumpet for a war that was launched to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction it did not have and now ends without the sizable, enduring American military presence for which many officers had hoped. The tone of the string of ceremonies culminating with the final withdrawal event on Thursday has been understated in keeping with an administration that campaigned to end an unpopular war it inherited.”

But I have to ask, did the war really come to an end? What will the repercussions of pulling out and letting the militants and terrorists know we are leaving? What do we have to show for this war? Saddam Hussein and his sons are dead, but were they really a threat to America in the first place? We still never found those weapons of mass destruction George W. Bush & Co. claimed were there.

Did the Unnecessary and Unpopular Iraq War Really Come to an End?
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Indian Group Objects to Buffalo Soldier Specialty License Plate, Saying “We’re Forced to Relive American Holocaust”

November 26, 2011 By 3 Comments

Indian group objects to Texas Buffalo Soldier specialty license plate saying “we’re forced to relive an American holocaust” and “there are similarities between the all-black cavalry & the Confederacy.

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Indian group objects to TX Buffalo Soldier specialty license plate (Wikipedia)

First the controversy about Confederate license plates in Texas was quickly quelled after black leaders cried foul and now we have the president of the American Indian Genocide Museum objecting to the Buffalo Soldier specialty license plate being proposed. There is a great deal of irony in both instances because black leaders opposed the Confederate license plates on the basis of the racial injustice and degradation of blacks at the hands of whites in the South and the Buffalo Soldiers, an all-black cavalry, who helped to fight Native Americans in the Indians Wars from 1867-1888.

Black leaders in Texas appealed to Gov. Rick Perry to scrap the specialty license plate glorifying the Confederacy and warned they “would remind black Americans of a legalized system of involuntary servitude, dehumanization, rape and mass murder,” according to the Houston Chronicle.

“I feel the same way about the Buffalo Soldiers. When we see the U.S. Cavalry uniform, we are forced to relive an American holo­caust,” said Steve Melendez, a member of the Paiute Nation of Pyramid Lake and president of the American Indian Genocide Museum. “I think they are well-intentioned, but the message they are giving to me is offensive.” Source

Paul Matthews, founder and chairman of the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum doesn’t see any similarities between the Buffalo Soldiers and the Confederates because, ”you are comparing military units in the U.S. Army with a mission to protect and defend America against all enemies, both foreign and domestic, to the Confederate army with a mission to destroy America,” Sen. Rodney Ellis and Matthews wrote in a joint letter to Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, according to the Houston Chronicle.

It is rather interesting that the black leaders in Texas can cry foul to the Confederate license plates, but embrace the Buffalo Soldiers specialty plate. The Native Americans feared the Buffalo Soldiers because that was the mission the white man sent them on, to hunt the Native Indians and wipe them out. There is no dancing around the issue. It is what it is. I completely understand the position of the Native American leaders. I guess the question should really be, why do we feel we need to have specialty license plates glorifying any one group from the darkest periods in American history? That’s bound to offend another group.

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5113 Atomic Warheads Scattered All Over Mainland USA, Some Could be Near You

November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Did you know you could have nukes in your backyard, as 5113 atomic warheads scattered all over mainland USA?

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Mother Jones: 5113 Atomic Warheads Scattered All Over Mainland U.S.

Approximately 5113 atomic warheads scattered all over mainland USA and some could be in your backyard? According to Mother Jones, these warheads are deployed in silos, bombers and submarines, mainly in the continental U.S. That doesn’t include the thousands of “zombies” being kept in reserve and a backlog of more than 3,000 warheads awaiting dismantlement, the magazine said.

In 2009, President Barack Obama said he wanted to rid the world of nuclear weapons, but we aren’t making much progress in that regard domestically. Even though the Cold War ended a long time ago, Mother Jones magazine published an interactive map showing exactly where highly radioactive nuclear material is located on mainland America.

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