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Bye Bye Bin Laden but Hello Obama!

“Osama Bin Laden is dead, Justice has been done.”- President Obama, 1 May 2011.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - In 2004, Al Jazeera broadcasted excerpts of a videotape of Osama bin Laden speaking in Arabic and addressing Americans.

Rodeo Clowns Purveyors of `Holy Grail Mythology` `Bin Laden Knocked Down The Towers`

Jingoistic pipe dreamers, ghost Wall Street traders, bureacratic poltroons, parasites, and military satraps announce the fourth [4] discovery of Osama Bin Laden’s demise.

(PHILADELPHIA) - Rodeo Clowns purveyors of ”Bin Laden Knocked Down the Towers” the U.S. “Holy Grail” of myth discoveries. Numeral Uno U.S. citizen and peace laureate O’Bomb’em-all grabs crotch to confirm his long Form and announces 05-02-2011 that mighty U.S. killed Osama Bin Laden.

Another “Holy Grail” myth that Bin Laden was discovered and his corpse was mysteriously buried at sea.

President Obama Announces: Bin Laden Still Dead

"Silenced - killed in Pakistan, buried at sea".

(CINCINNATI) - Operational order: “Bin laden” to be killed – not captured under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, “not in recent contact with Al Qaeda”… US helicopter crashes due to mechanical failure during operation… Pakistan military silent (we phoned)... skepticism in some regions soaring…

(“He must have been in US custody all along”….”Did they kill one of the phony ‘bin Ladens?’”)

Kabul Airport Shooting Leaves Nine Americans Dead

Afghan military pilot is said to have opened fire; was also killed.

(KABUL / SALEM) - Nine Americans were killed at the Kabul Airport Wednesday, by an Afghan air force pilot.

Ahmad Gul reportedly opened fire, killing eight servicemen, and a contractor.

Portland- Protest Portland Rejoining the JTTF

Includes contacts for writing City Commissioners and links to the draft resolution.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Portland's City Council will meet Thursday to discuss and hear public comment on the resolution to rejoin the FBI's domestic spying program; the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

The Council may call a vote at this meeting.

Harassment by The YouTube Team -- An open message to Sergey Brin

YouTube may have yanked the wrong guy's... video.

(BANGKOK / SALEM) - YouTube may be acting illegally by taking down videos for alleged copyright infringement, ignoring important factors regarding Fair Use as provided for in copyright law.

In August 2008, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose, California ruled that copyright holders cannot order a deletion of an online file without determining whether that posting reflected "fair use" of the copyrighted material.

German WW II POWs In the U.S.

The U.S. housed, fed, and worked over 400,000 German POWs in 46 states with little or no risk to the populace.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - I just finished "A Brother's Blood" by Michael C. White. The novel is set in Maine where German prisoners of war (POWs) were detained during World War I.

The novel begins many decades after the war when Wolfgang Kallick arrives in Maine from Germany to find out the details of his brother Dieter's death at the camp. The book is loosely based on the POW camp at Seboomook, Maine.

Kremastics

For the last half century or more the American people have been damned fools. It may be too late to do anything about it; in fact it almost certainly is too late.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - Many, if not most, Americans are in serious denial. The country they know and love is almost finished. As Lincoln famously said: “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” and America has never been so divided.

The Democrats hate and fear the Republicans, and the Republicans hate and fear the Democrats.

The Real War Heroes

From the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War, published by Trine Day 2010.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - "That must be them." Petra took one hand off the steering wheel and pointed to a group of soldiers about two hundred meters away, standing along our road next to a high chainlink fence topped with barbed wire.

Traffic was light, but Petra said, "I don't want any other cars around." She pulled off the road and stopped. "Get everything ready."

A Note on the American Psyche

In one of my stories last year I reviewed Shock Doctrine by fellow Canadian Naomi Klein. She recounted in depressing detail the horrors visited on other nations by American policies—almost always on behalf of business.

(CALGARY, Alberta) - With all the negative commentary on my “Shutdown” piece, I would just like to clear the air on what I write and why I write it.

Note: Rather than qualify every statement let me make clear that when I say “Americans”, I mean most or the vast majority of American citizens, but not all.