ELECTION TIMING

Apparently, on November 1st, a US drone was fired at by Iranian fighter planes.  According to WSJ:

A senior administration official said Republicans and Democrats in Congress were briefed on the incident Nov. 2, and congressional aides for both parties confirmed some staff members were briefed. Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney wasn't briefed, an aide said.

The story comes out after the election on November 6th.  Reports claim it only came out because CNN reported it, which seems very out of character for CNN.

On November 9th, CIA Director David Petraeus announced his resignation, reportedly due to an affair with the woman who wrote his biography.  Also announced is that he will no longer testify next week in a House Intelligence Committee hearing on the 9/11/2012 attack in Benghazi, to which he originally reported was all due to a spontaneous uproar over a youtube video.

Petraeus of Benghazi

David Petraeus Resigns As CIA Director, Citing Extramarital Affair

CIA chief’s exit a taxing development for Obama

ARTICLES DEMOCRATS SHOULD READ

Six Americans Obama and Holder Charged Under the Espionage Act (and One Bonus Whistleblower)

Obama Tightens the Noose on WhistleBlowers

NSA Whistleblowers William (Bill) Binney and J. Kirk Wiebe

Barack Obama and the paradox behind his African American support base

Liberals let Obama get away with unconstitutional actions

The progressive case against Obama

Chris Hedges: Why I’m Voting Green

Obama, the worst of all

About that Iraq withdrawal

Why is the left defending Obama?

LITTLE HOPE FOR CHANGE: A SUMMARY OF THE BUSH-OBAMA LEGACY

Obama has Prosecuted More Whistleblowers than All Other Presidents COMBINED

Obama Fights to Retain NDAA Power to Detain US Citizens in Military Custody.

Has Barack Obama deported more people than any other president in U.S. history?

Barney Frank: Obama Rejected Bush Administration Concession to Write Down Mortgages
 

Get ready for four more years of watching the people who opposed Bush/Cheney cheer on Barack Obama for embracing and furthering the same policies, cheer on the War of Terror, cheer on the normalization of warrantless spying, drone warfare at home and abroad, police militarization, the assassination of men, women, and children (Americans included), the complete loss of due process and habeas corpus, continued punishment for whistleblowers (prosecuting more whistlebowers than all presidents combined (and less pardons than Reagan)), continued expansion of charter schools and Bush era school reform, support for Halliburton, private military contractors, Monsanto, unwavering support for Israel, and an attack on Iran. Go Democrats!

The Seattle Police Dept tried to present their drone program to the public at the Garfield Community Center Oct 25, 2012. The citizen input (sic) starts around 11 minutes in. Let's just say the good citizens of Seattle have absolutely *no* interest in police drones.

 

how to avoid getting murdered by president obama - "i would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father"

First the DHS needed 450 million rounds of ammunition, then the NOAA requested 46,000 rounds, now we've discovered an online request at FBO.Gov calling for 174,000 rounds of ammunition for the Social Security Administration (SSA). Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-does-the-social-security-administration-need-174000-rounds-of-ammunition-2012-8#ixzz23q1pCiiJ

So: those spooky new "circular" dark globe cameras installed in your neighborhood park, town, or city—they aren't just passively monitoring. They're plugged into Trapwire and they are potentially monitoring every single person via facial recognition. In related news, the Obama administration is fighting in federal court this week for the ability to imprison American citizens under NDAA's indefinite detention provisions—and anyone else—without charge or trial, on suspicion alone. So we have a widespread network of surveillance cameras across America monitoring us and reporting suspicious activity back to a centralized analysis center, mixed in with the ability to imprison people via military force on the basis of suspicious activity alone. I don't see how that could possibly go wrong. Nope, not at all. We all know the government, and algorithmic computer programs, never make mistakes. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/trapwire-everything-you-need-to-know-2012-8#ixzz23CdCQt6d

Snowe is hardly a moderate. Casting the conservative senator from Maine as such exemplifies how far to the right this country has moved and how supplicant the fawning mainstream media have become. And the news is more complicated than the corporate press would like Americans to know.

Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan has come under fire after sending an armed sergeant to Oakland Tribune reporter Doug Oakley's home in the middle of the night to push for changes to a story.

YAY! OLYMPIA SNOWE IS LEAVING! Except she doesn't say why. Well, she says it's because there ain't enough bipartisanship. But she FAILS to explain WHAT THE FUCK SHE MEANS BY THAT.

All I see is bipartisanship. The Dem FUCKS and the Rep FUCKS all agree - MURDER THE FUCK OUT OF BROWN ARAB MUSLIMS, YOUNG AND OLD, MEN AND WOMAN, KIDS AND BABIES. TORTURE THEM, HUMILIATE THEM, BURN THEIR KORANS, AND OFFER THEM NO JUDICAL JUSTICE. FUCK 'EM. WE GOT A TERRORIST MYTH WE NEED TO DRIVE HOME.

Navy's terrorist barrier sunk by mussels

cop or soldier?

rarely do i enrage myself by watching cnn. thought i'd give it a shot today, just in case they have started to develop an interest in journalism...

Citing America’s Declaration of Independence and the Maine Constitution, the ordinance proposed that “Sedgwick citizens possess the right to produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing.” These would include raw milk and other dairy products and locally slaughtered meats, among other items.

Stop and Frisk is a city wide epidemic. We’ve gone from 90 thousand in 2002 to 700 thousand this year. They’re stopping 2000 people a day, primarily young males of color but also females of color.

Lindorff: Well, I wrote a book back during the Bush [former US president] administration called the case for impeachment, where I documented all the ways in which that president had undermined the constitution, undermined the bill of rights and it created a move towards a police state.

I had never imagined at that time that the next president would take it further but we now have a president, ironically, who taught constitutional law, who is taking us back now to an era before the American Revolution to the way things were under the British.

And to precisely the conditions: arbitrary arrest, detention without trial, terminating execution without a trial all these things that led the colonists to throw the British out of the United States.

It's an astonishing regression to an era of tyranny and I think that the problem is that most Americans are unaware of it. It hasn't even been written about in most of the media- the mainstream media in the United States is being blacked out and even when people hear about it, the tendency for people these days is to think well that really doesn't apply to me, this is about terrorists and so on.

And it doesn't. It applies to everyone like myself and to peace activists, writers all of us who are critical of the administration and foreign policy are at risk.

The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has recommended for many years that animal activists who carry out undercover investigations on farms could be prosecuted as domestic terrorists.

New documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by activist Ryan Shapiro show the FBI advising that activists – including Shapiro – who walked onto a farm, videotaped animals there and “rescued” an animal had violated terrorism statutes.

and an earlier one i missed...

Obama Legalizes Horse Slaughter for Human Consumption

Americans buy record numbers of guns for Christmas

the world's not ending

Are you ready for the sequel?