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March 1988, near the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war.

The agency did find that each side used gas against the other in the battle around Halabja. The condition of the dead Kurds' bodies, however, indicated they had been killed with a blood agent — that is, a cyanide-based gas — which Iran was known to use. The Iraqis, who are thought to have used mustard gas in the battle, are not known to have possessed blood agents at the time.

These facts have long been in the public domain but, extraordinarily, as often as the Halabja affair is cited, they are rarely mentioned. A much-discussed article in The New Yorker last March did not make reference to the Defense Intelligence Agency report or consider that Iranian gas might have killed the Kurds. On the rare occasions the report is brought up, there is usually speculation, with no proof, that it was skewed out of American political favoritism toward Iraq in its war against Iran.

I am not trying to rehabilitate the character of Saddam Hussein. He has much to answer for in the area of human rights abuses. But accusing him of gassing his own people at Halabja as an act of genocide is not correct, because as far as the information we have goes, all of the cases where gas was used involved battles. These were tragedies of war. There may be justifications for invading Iraq, but Halabja is not one of them.
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The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot

The URI is becoming active worldwide, and has some friends and funding sources in high places - including George Soros, the billionaire currency speculator, and Richard Blum, the wealthy husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein.
http://inplainsite.org/html/united_reli ... ative.html

thread: Mystery Babylon

kosmos noetos κοσμος νοητος if you had any seminary training for pericopic rhetoric.

Inclusive to the URI's view they proposed "reverence for all life" does not extend to the lives of the unborn.
Jeremiah 1:5 the warning to the gentiles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx1T120m7Oc The Manufactured Destruction of Europe

On schedule and unchecked some contend clearly.

Wake up. She has sent out her servants, and she calls from the highest point of the city,

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-2 ... -above-290

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQoB5GeKhV4

Sorry, Liberals: There Is No Majority Without them thinking deplorable moderates and your well deserved march to oblivion.
Stop the slaughter on our tax dime. Moderates know damn well both are extreme death cults.
The earliest concept of independents is of a person whose political choices, by definition, were made based on issues.
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Ehrlichman: “Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason that he can … the reason he can do it … I had Edgar Kaiser come in … talk to me about this and I went into it in some depth. All the incentives are toward less medical care, because …”
President Nixon: [Unclear.]
Ehrlichman: “… the less care they give them, the more money they make.”
President Nixon: “Fine.” [Unclear.]
Ehrlichman: [Unclear] “… and the incentives run the right way.”
President Nixon: “Not bad.”
[Source: University of Virginia Check - February 17, 1971, 5:26 pm - 5:53 pm, Oval Office Conversation 450-23.
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aeden wrote:Democrats try rebranding with populist new agenda.

Voters didn't know what the party stood for.

We clearly understand your agenda and positions.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-2 ... -leaked-no

https://conservativeexplorer.wordpress. ... am-enigma/

The first 50 democrats locked up we will consider.
20:1 says he gets "Arkancided" coming in < a month
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-2 ... ee-country

MB handlers getting nervous Mr. AG ice pack this snack bar like yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-HHJVPxvqI

She has sent out her servants, and she calls from the highest point of the city, prov9-3
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https://archive.is/pRnGo

BASIC GESTALT ON DNC HAPPENING

>Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former DNC chair, hires Pakistani nationals (Imran Awan and four others) for IT work at the DNC in 2005

>Extremely overpaid ($4 million+ salary), had massive debts, years of suspicious activity (taking money from Iraq, Hezbollah, fraud, wiretapping and extorting their own mother etc)

>Awans' father changed name and disowned sons for "detestable illegal behavior"

>Despite being IT staff, Awans ignored requests for computer repairs and didn't do their actual job

>Other IT competitors offered their services at much lower rates, yet for some mysterious reasons the DNC kept the Awans

>More Democrat lawmakers enlist the Awans' "service" over the years

>House staffers get concerned about the Awans, they don't show up to meetings and their computers were being used to transfer data off site

>Huge data breach, Congress compromised, DNC emails at risk

>House Democrats respond with claims that Capitol Police framed them because they are Muslim

>Some flee to Pakistan

>Awan banned from the House network

>DWS refuses to fire them for mysterious reason

>Awan roaming the Capitol complex despite ban

>Capitol police finds a secret laptop in an empty office

>DWS openly threatens the police chief to give it back or there will be "consequences"

>Police can't look at laptop because of law

>Awan covering his tracks

>Abruptly moves out of his house and rents it out to military families

>Last week, DWS finally negotiates for laptop access

>Back at Awan's house, a Marine renter stumbles upon hardware stash: “wireless routers, hard drives that look like they tried to destroy, laptops, a lot of brand new expensive toner.”

>Marine calls the Feds to take it

>FBI now involved

>Awan chimps out over the missing hardware, threatens to sue Marine for "stealing" them

>Tried to get inside the house "three or four times", Marine wouldn't let him in

>Awan panics and tries to flee the country at Dulles Airport
>Feds nab him
|*.*/kek/pol/anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECiMhe4E0pI

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." George S. Patton
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zKi0frXhM never champion us
the democrats are shark eyed self funded no platform give a shit soul less ghouls
remember these are democrats talking

2016 aca fine $695, so less food since food over aca is all that can be done.

https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditrep ... 3027fr.pdf

http://obamacarefee.com/2017-calculator/

Health policy wonks point out that the individual mandate was originally a Republican idea, advocated by academics and conservative thinkers as a way to avoid a government-run single-payer system. "The purpose of it was to round up the stragglers who wouldn't be brought in by subsidies," said Mark Pauly, a University of Pennsylvania economist, in a 2011 interview. He co-authored a Health Affairs study in 1991 that aimed to persuade then-President George H.W. Bush to adopt a universal health care requirement.

nope
HMO
Ehrlichman: “Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason that he can … the reason he can do it … I had Edgar Kaiser come in … talk to me about this and I went into it in some depth. All the incentives are toward less medical care, because …”
President Nixon: [Unclear.]
Ehrlichman: “… the less care they give them, the more money they make.”
President Nixon: “Fine.” [Unclear.]
Ehrlichman: [Unclear] “… and the incentives run the right way.”
President Nixon: “Not bad.”
[Source: University of Virginia Check - February 17, 1971, 5:26 pm - 5:53 pm, Oval Office Conversation 450-23.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-2 ... re-economy
Doug Short reveals the period in which the top 20% pulled away from the bottom 80%, and the top 5% pulled away from the bottom 95%. In 1990-92, the gap between the bottom 80% and the top 20% and 5% was modest. The go-go decade of the dot-com boom saw the income of the top 20% pull away from the bottom 80% and the income of the top 5% leave the bottom 95% in the dust.

They will print till their eyes bleed. cougar

I am still enigmatic on tipping points 80:20 outliers of the groups. IMO pain lingers, going to reread Minski again better than todays news anyway. No one will borrow since that last dollar buys your last loaf of bread.
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Although the CRA was signed into law by Jimmy Carter, two other important acts the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) were signed by a republican, Gerald Ford. The talk show hosts also state that Bill Clinton was responsive for the expansion of CRA and forcing the banks to make bad loans. However, the two major changes in the CRA occurred in 1989 with the passage of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) and the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992. Both were signed into law by George H. W. Bush. Under FIRREA, the reporting requirements of CRA compliance were expanded. The latter act required Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to support affordable housing by purchasing CRA-qualifying loans. Even though the talk show hosts have said that up to one half of Fannie and Freddie loans were CRA loans, the act suggests that by the year 2010, that one-third of their purchases be affordable housing loans.

If there were pressures to expand CRA lending, it came in part from the banks themselves. As a result of the Riegel-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Act of 1994, signed into law by George W. Bush, CRA ratings became an important factor in determining if banks could merge or acquire across state lines. Because advocacy groups would use CRA ratings as a protest against the banks in order to get additional CRA lending, the banks greatly expanded these types of loans. I recall going to a Fed Atlanta conference on CRA lending, compliance and enforcement. A banker told me that the Feds never pressured him into making a bad loan. However, because they wanted to expand into other states, they had instituted a more liberal CRA lending policy. So the truth is that if there is blame to be handed out for a misguided CRA policy, it has to be laid at the feet of the republicans and the banks. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are convenient whipping boys and are well deserving of other blame but CRA lending is not one of them.

Lincoln Savings and Loan collapsed in 1989, at a cost of over $3 billion to the federal government. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many investors lost their life savings. The substantial political contributions Keating had made to each of the senators, totaling $1.3 million, attracted considerable public and media attention. After a lengthy investigation, the Senate Ethics Committee determined in 1991 that Cranston, DeConcini, and Riegle had substantially and improperly interfered with the FHLBB's investigation of Lincoln Savings, with Cranston receiving a formal reprimand. Senators Glenn and McCain were cleared of having acted improperly but were criticized for having exercised "poor judgment".

John McCain's claim that he issued a warning against the excesses of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the 2005-06 legislative year was given a "barely true" by Politifact. On 25 May, 2006, Senator McCain signed on as a co-sponsor to Chuck Hagel's effort to overhaul Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (which Senator Hagel intoduced in January, 2005) following the publication of "a 340-page report from the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight."* However, as Politifact points out,

his attempts to depict those efforts as some sort of early warning that could have lessened the current credit crisis just don't wash. All McCain was talking about then was the potential fallout of accounting troubles in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He didn't say anything about a freewheeling climate among creditors that had major financial institutions becoming badly leveraged on bad loans.

Additionally, those rumors that Democrats alone blocked GOP proposal, S.190, to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Questionable claims, for the bill never got out of committee:
Last Action [July 28, 2005]: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.

Status: Dead

So the bill was never brought to a full Senate vote. Recall that the Republicans were the majority in 2005-06, and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs consisted of 11 Republicans and 9 Democrats (for a full listing of the members of the 2005-06 Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, see this entry at Sourcewatch). In other words, the proposal could have been voted out of committee and brought to the Senate floor had the GOP members had supported it.

John McCain believes that globalization is an opportunity for American workers today and in the future.
Source: Campaign plan: “Bold Solutions for Economic Prosperity” Feb 3, 2008

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It is not that the oil is necessarily worth more, merely that the US dollar is worth less.
The cycle will continue if they care, or not.
q to q1
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Debt, bullshit, drugs are all very efficient.
Sad but true.

The laws of the land shape mass behaviour, producing expectations and social peer pressure. P

Job 1:11-12 "But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!" So the Lord said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your power; only do not lay a hand on his person." So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

Lion on a Leash

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