Hey USA - It's a PRISON not the The Ritz-Carlton

Guantanamo detainees get new $750G soccer field

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  Feb. 28, 2012: A new soccer field for detainees at Camp 6 in Guantanamo Bay

At a time of record deficits, a new soccer field for detainees at Camp 6 in Guantanamo Bay is just getting the finishing touches -- at a cost of $750,000 to taxpayers.

The project was the highlight of a tour Tuesday of the detention camp for reporters at the facility covering the arraignment in a military court of Majid Khan, a former Baltimore resident and the the only legal U.S. resident on trial at Guantanamo.

The project began in April 2011 and is due to finish this spring. The detainees will now have three recreation facilities at Camp 6, which is home to "highly compliant" detainees who live in a communal setting.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/28/guantanamo-detainees-get-new-750g-soccer-field/#ixzz1njblmSb7

NEW YORK — The prison is known more for the accusation that it’s a gulag than for goulash, but a new cookbook aims to counter the reputation of the detention center at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Several hundred recipes prepared for the inmates at the camp are to be published next month in “The Gitmo Cookbook,” including dishes such as mustard-and-dill baked fish and honey-and-ginger chicken breast.

Baked Tandouri Chicken Breast, Mustard-Dill Baked Fish, Lyonnaise Rice, and Fish Amandine are just a few of the recipes you’ll find in the Gitmo Cookbook. We’ve tested them, and they are inexpensive, easy to make, and delicious.

WHY ARE MY TAX DOLLARS GOING TO CODDLE WAR CRIMINALS??????

For the release of our compatriots and colleagues held captive in Baba Amr

http://www.voltairenet.org/For-the-release-of-our-compatriots
By Thierry Meyssan

(for Voltairenet. Brought to my attention by Bill, via Libya360@Wordpress)

Several journalists are held in the sealed-off Baba Amr area. According to Atlanticist leaders, they are prevented from leaving by the constant pounding of the rebel stronghold by the Syrian Army. As an on-the-spot privileged witness of the negotiations, Thierry Meyssan gives an account of the situation: the journalists are kept as prisoners by the Free "Syrian" Army which uses them as human shields. Their evacuation by the Syrian Red Crescent has been obstructed by the rebels.

VOLTAIRE NETWORK | HOMS (SYRIA) | 26 FEBRUARY 2012

Rasmussen Reports™ POLLS - Snapshot of America......

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
55% Oppose Affirmative Action Policies for College Admissions
39% Favor Free Health Care for All Americans
60% Say U.S. Economy in Recession
68% Say Newcomers Should Adopt America's Culture and Language

President Election;

or the first time since late December 2011, Mitt Romney leads the president in a hypothetical 2012 matchup. Romney earns 45% of the vote, while the president attracts support from 43%. Romney holds a nine-point advantage among unaffiliated voters.

For the first time ever, Texas Congressman Ron Paul also leads the president. In that matchup, 43% prefer Paul and 41% Obama. Ten percent (10%) would vote for some other option, a figure that includes 17% of Republicans.

If former Senator Rick Santorum is the Republican nominee, the president leads by two, 45% to 43%. With former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as his opponent, the president enjoys a 10-point lead, 49% to 39%. Matchup results are updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). See tracking history for Obama vs. all four Republican candidates.

Making the Future by Noam Chomsky – review | Books | The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/08/making-future-noam-chomsky-review
"In demonising America, Chomsky has fallen into the same trap as the neocons", writes The Guardian's John Gray...

The Birth of Israel (BBC) Part 1

WITHOUT any anti-Semitic intent, I post these 2 videos mostly for discussion of 'alternative history'. See, I knew about the Balfour Declaration and Theodr Herzl and the Six Day War etc, and even viewed as impartially as it can be, what the British did to the existing Palestinians was nothing less than condone an incremental invasion. That's just my opinion. Imagine Poles or Pakistanis, here in Britain in numbers, one day fighting a war for, say, independence of West London, or Lancashire, against the English Defence League. As the Zionists won the Six Day War, so would West London become Polish or Pakistani, if they subdued the English, militarily. Unthinkable.

It's the same as what Europeans did to the Native Americans, of course. To take someone else's land and settle there, you need to get rid of them somehow. Or assimilate. Or co-exist.

But one aspect of the history I was not aware of until tonight, were the alternative locations suggested instead of Palestine, prior to imposing Israel there. Uganda, Eastern Russia, Manchuria, Madagascar!

Even Alaska. Imagine that... how would Americans feel about the independent Zionists owning all that oil? Here's an Alternative History forum I found that has already discussed it... I agree that to say "placing European Jews somewhere they would not be able to handle the climate, is anti-semitic, born from a desire to see them suffer" is paranoid nonsense. It's alternative history... you know, 'what if Hitler won WW2' stuff. Fiction.

http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=66157

Why not Eritrea, as suggested on that thread? Or, since it all began in Basel, and the subject people were European... Switzerland?

When exactly did Jews and Arabs stop being able to live side by side in harmony? The answer to that question is the key to solving the problems of the 'Middle East', I think.



And finally, some light reading :) ...

http://www.odsg.org/Said_Edward(1977)_Orientalism.pdf
http://www.transferagreement.com/
http://www.solargeneral.com/library/thirteenth-tribe-arthur-koestler.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Dreyfus
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php
http://www.bollyn.com/einsteins-letter-warning-of-israeli-terrorism-2
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/balfour_declaration_of_1917.htm
http://www.herzl.org/english/Article.aspx?Item=492&Section=491
http://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/index.htm
http://ddickerson.igc.org/The_Protocols_of_the_Learned_Elders_of_Zion.pdf
http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/4334196/
http://ihr-store.com//ihrstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_7&products_id=55
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada
http://guardian.150m.com/palestine/resources.htm
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Israel/Palestine_Crosshairs.html

HALF of Americans don't pay income tax despite crippling government debt | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105131/HALF-Americans-dont-pay-income-tax-despite-crippling-government-debt.html
151.7m people - 49.5% of the U.S. population - paid no federal income tax in 2009, figures show

21.8 per cent of U.S. citizens receive financial assistance from the federal government.

This means that 67.3million people - a record high - are 'dependent on the federal government', excluding government employees who rely on the public sector for their salaries.

The conjunction of fewer taxpayers with higher welfare payments has led to intense pressure on the public purse, with the national deficit running at $1.3trillion per year.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105131/HALF-Americans-dont-pay-income-tax-despite-crippling-government-debt.html#ixzz1nEMVu6IC

Obama doesn't accept responsibility for gas prices | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-doesnt-accept-responsibility-gas-prices/388946


President Obama does not "accept responsibility" for high gas prices, his spokesman indicated today, arguing that Obama has done everything he could to bring down the price of oil and blaming the high gas prices on oil price increases caused by global factors.

"The president accepts the responsibility that he identified the next president should accept, back in 2008, which is the need to develop a comprehensive energy policy," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said today when asked if Obama "accept[s] responsibility" for the high price of oil and gas. "If you're suggesting that there is responsibility for a rise in the global price of oil, it's certainly not because of anything he hasn't done to expand domestic oil and gas production," Carney added.

Asked if he believes it is fair for Americans to blame the president, Carney noted that gas price hikes are "a recurrent problem." He added that domestic oil production is at a record high right now and that Obama has opened "millions of acres in the Gulf of Mexico" to drilling.

The conversation today stemmed from yesterday, when Carney was asked about the Keystone XL pipeline. He said that "the president did not turn down the Keystone pipeline," arguing that Republicans prevented a full environmental review from taking place.

Things Now Make More Sense When Agendas Become Evidence

Some Clues As To Why We Are...Where We Are
...As I have said for a long time, The Rothschild Family controls , now, about 90% of the worlds banking system..So, now we get more clues as to why all of a sudden we hear rhetoric about a former friend of ours who is suddenly being accused of not being our pal..From there to here is just a matter of time... We have been perplexed about the change in our Governments stance towards other regimes...Now our war against the world is beginning to make sense,Would I be considered a turn coat if I rather than go along with the crowd .suggest. the U.S.A. has become an armed forces for the Banking Dynasty that owns us,...? ..When you see the last few countries who stand in the way of complete world domination of the banking systems.I hope it all begins to make sense to you also..Perhaps all the saber rattling has nothing to do with Iran's nuclear capability but has everything to do with the world take over of not only Iran's money and banking ..but a move than on their Oil.. by this evil and powerful dynasty that hails from London, England..The Name is the Rothschild Dynasty...

As of the year 2000, there were seven countries without a Rothschild-owned Central Bank:
Afghanistan
Iraq-Sudan
Libya
Cuba
North Korea
Iran

Then.......... along came the convenient terror of 9-11 and soon Iraq and Afghanistan had been added to the list, leaving only five countries without a Central Bank owned by the Rothschild Family
:Sudan
Libya
Cuba
North Korea
Iran




We all know how fast the Central Bank of Benghazi was set up.
The only countries left in 2011 without a Central Bank owned by the
Rothschild Family are:
Cuba
North Korea
Iran

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1000 летняя история Европы за 5 минут - VERY COOL

"Time Lapse" of Europe - 10 Centuries in 5 Minutes

Fantastic short movie about how the borders in Europe constantly

change.

Pretty Amazing!

The GOP’s ‘Europe’ is a land of make-believe

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-europe-is-a-land-of-make-believe/2012/02/01/gIQA46m1nQ_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

By Martin Klingst, Published: February 3

Martin Klingst is Washington bureau chief of the weekly German newspaper Die Zeit.

Lately it seems that not a day goes by without a Republican presidential candidate portraying Europe as a socialist nightmare. Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum paint a picture of the Old World as unfree, strangulated by bureaucratic and inefficient welfare systems, and unable to reform and modernize. To these Republicans, Europe seems to be the antipode to everything America is meant to be.

I understand that stump speeches are coarse and that, to Republican candidates, Europe must be bad because President Obama occasionally praises some of its achievements, such as universal health care or the “green” revolution.

Gallery

 A collection of cartoons about the GOP.

I also know there is an American tradition of holding up the Old World as an example of all that is wrong and corrupt. There is, unfortunately, a more recent European custom of blaming the United States for all that is perverse and profane. Moreover, there are good reasons to worry about Europe’s fiscal calamities, which stem in part from the unaffordable benefits for its citizens. It is understandable that some on this side of the Atlantic fear that the European debt crisis could drag the slowly recovering U.S. economy under.

But when Romney, Gingrich and Santorum warn about “socialist Europe,” they sound as though they are talking about the Soviet empire, which vanished long ago. Europe is the European Union, a modern entity of 27 democratic countries that, despite many commonalities, greatly differ in history, culture, language, sociology and politics. Europe is difficult to comprehend, but viewing it through a single lens is like calling the United States a Third World nation because there are very poor areas in the South where some people live in shacks or have little access to health care or where some schools are corridors of shame.

My problem as a European living in the United States is that it is not Joe the Plumber who is bashing Europe but three longtime politicians who want to be president — people who should know better. Wasn’t Mitt Romney a missionary in France? Hasn’t he spoken fluent French since the late 1960s? I do not recall any important European politician who ran for prime minister or president and pilloried the United States in the same manner. Even when German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder came out against the imminent Iraq war before seeking reelection in 2002, the rhetoric was muted in comparison.

It is not necessary here to define socialism or to detail the many distinctions between a state-run economy and a social democracy based on a ­free-market system. But those who seek to be president of a global superpower — and may perhaps one day sit at a table with leaders of the Old World — should know a few things:

All 27 E.U. members believe, more or less, in mandatory health-care insurance and public education. They believe that government should offer a helping hand to struggling businesses and people during economic downturns. That is why we pay high taxes. It is also true that a number of E.U. countries have irresponsibly expanded their welfare systems and can no longer afford their bills.

But some countries have carried out necessary economic reforms, engineered their comeback and managed the storm of the Great Recession quite well. To some extent they can now present better results than the United States. Germany, for example, raised its retirement age to 67 and drastically reformed its social safety net, lowering labor costs to businesses. Thanks to government subsidies, German enterprises were able to keep their skilled workers employed during the recession. When business picked up again, the labor force was in place and the economy more competitive. Unemployment is at a 20-year low of about 6 percent.

Several European states run their mandatory health-care systems more efficiently and at lower cost than the United States while guaranteeing every citizen access to affordable and up-to-date services. The population’s health remains an important economic factor. Moreover, while the national debt is disastrous in Greece or Italy, debt remains at a much more responsible level in Germany, Denmark and Sweden.

Romney pointed out in New Hampshire last month that, despite the economic downturn, the average U.S. worker still takes home a bigger monthly paycheck than the average European (and even the average German, who makes more than, say, Romanians). That’s true, but the comparison doesn’t take into account the much greater wealth gap in the United States nor the fact that Americans have to spend larger portions of their income on medical care and education.

A college education is still free in most Old World countries and produces generally better results than in the United States. The Program for International Student Assessment study by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, released in December, shows that high school students in a number of E.U. countries scored better in reading, math and science than their U.S. counterparts. Another OECD report shows that it is much easier for Germans, Swedes, Danes, Norwegians and Spaniards to climb the socioeconomic ladder than Americans. That’s a stark reversal from the time when greater social mobility was a main reason so many Europeans flocked to the land of opportunity.

Comparing data across societies is risky because cultural and social differences may not be reflected. Yes, pendulums swing. But framing Europe simply as inflexible and outdated, or backward and socialistic, is shortsightedand wrong. Romney, Gingrich and Santorum should know as well as anyone that the globe is no longer flat.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-europe-is-a-land-of-make-believe/2012/02/01/gIQA46m1nQ_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

Gallup state numbers predict huge Obama loss | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/gallup-state-numbers-predict-huge-obama-loss/352881
Gallup released their annual state-by-state presidential approval numbers yesterday, and the results should have 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue very worried. If President Obama carries only those states where he had a net positive approval rating in 2011 (e.g. Michigan where he is up 48 percent to 44 percent), Obama would lose the 2012 election to the Republican nominee 323 electoral votes to 215.

Gallup adds:

Overall, Obama averaged 44% job approval in his third year in office, down from 47% in his second year. His approval rating declined from 2010 to 2011 in most states, with Wyoming, Connecticut, and Maine showing a marginal increase, and Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New Jersey, Arizona, West Virginia, Michigan, and Georgia showing declines of less than a full percentage point. The greatest declines were in Hawaii, South Dakota, Nebraska, and New Mexico.