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March 18, 2008 at 05:47:53

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WINTER SOLDIER BLACKOUT CONTINUES: Look in the Mirror America!!!!!

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WINTER SOLDIER BLACKOUT CONTINUES: Look in the Mirror America!!!!!

By Kevin Stoda, Kuwait

As there are reports across the globe of a USA-wide blackout of major media news from the WINTER SOLDIERS presentations or soldiers’ testimonies on the  Iraq and Afghanistan War at the Labor College outside of Washington D.C. this week, it is time to recall that only one week earlier, George W. Bush told American soldiers in Afghanistan that if he was 20 or 30 years younger he’d love to join them. HOGWASH!

What a ludicrous claim, eh?  The man did everything he could to stay out of Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s—i.e. when the original WINTER SOLDIER hearings took place.

http://www.wintersoldierfilm.com/

Has George Orwell’s predicted-world come fully into reality in the U.S.A. in 2008?

Only the independent media, like REAL NEWS NETWORK  http://therealnews.com/web/index.php

  , is doing its job. 

Otherwise, only the Huffington News seems to have noticed this gaping absence, despite complaints appearing all over the web, like on YAHOO discussion lists.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/iraq-winter-soldier-heari_b_91776.html

Even the BBC’s coverage has not been as good as one would expect from a respected international news network.

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/bbc-coverage-of-winter-soldier/

This week’s sad and truthful testimonies from Iraqi and Afghanistan during the 5th anniversary of George W. Bush’s illegal pre-emptive attack on Iraq in 2003 should be on the evening news in America for ten minutes a day all this week—or all month till Bush is impeached and the boys and girls of America are called home. 

The silence from America is deafening. 

No corporate U.S. media was on hand in 1971 for the original WINTER SOLDIER in Michigan. But, why repeat that error?

Now the world’s-most-expensive media conglomerates, like CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, and CBS are missing the aircraft carrier of truth in our nation’s harbor

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http://the-teacher.blogspot.com/

KEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues.

"I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I keep two blogs--one with blogger and one with GNN.  My writings range from reviews to editorials or to travel observations.  I also make recommendations related to policy--having both a strong background in teaching foreign languages and degrees in teaching in history and the social sciences. As a midwesterner, I also write on religion and living out ones faith whether it be as a Christian, Muslim or Buddhist perspective."

On my own home page, I also provide information for language learners and travelers http://www.geocities.com/eslkevin/ ,  http://the-teacher.blogspot.com/ & http://alone.gnn.tv/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Student of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect. I have also just come out with my first book, a combination of poetry, photography and essays entitled "Post Katrina Blues", my reflections on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans two years after Katrina struck. Go to the store at http://sanfranciscobaypress.com/ to purchase.
Mac McKinneyStudent of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect. I have also just come out with my first book, a combination of poetry, photography and essays entitled "Post Katrina Blues", my reflections on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans two years after Katrina struck. Go to the store at http://sanfranciscobaypress.com/ to purchase.

Media Blackout Shameless Beyond Belief

You couldn't ask for clearer proof that the Corporate Media is a tool of the State then this wilful blackout of Winter Soldier, which is, in turn, a tool of the Plutocracy, a bloodthirsty and avaricious entity of diabolical dimension. Screw the Corporate Media. Undermine them at every opportunity. They are boot-lickers. Continue to build the Independent Media.

by Mac McKinney (49 articles, 83 quicklinks, 204 diaries, 1215 comments) on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 6:22:21 AM
 

Student of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect. I have also just come out with my first book, a combination of poetry, photography and essays entitled "Post Katrina Blues", my reflections on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans two years after Katrina struck. Go to the store at http://sanfranciscobaypress.com/ to purchase.
Mac McKinneyStudent of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect. I have also just come out with my first book, a combination of poetry, photography and essays entitled "Post Katrina Blues", my reflections on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans two years after Katrina struck. Go to the store at http://sanfranciscobaypress.com/ to purchase.

Correction

The first sentence above should read:

You couldn't ask for clearer proof that the Corporate Media is a tool of the State then this wilful blackout of Winter Soldier, the State being, in turn, a tool of the Plutocracy, a bloodthirsty and avaricious entity of diabolical dimension. 

Sorry for any confusion.

by Mac McKinney (49 articles, 83 quicklinks, 204 diaries, 1215 comments) on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 1:06:09 PM
 

KEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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ALONEKEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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Thoughts on Media blackout and independent media

I think it is key that Americans demand that they get local free high speed wireless in the rural areas of the land if Cable is run by a Cabal and sattelite channels cost too much.

The alternative is to demand that the real airwaves of America be sold and taxed--not given away as they are currently.

The monopoly Cox cable and others have across rural America is astounding.  Most rural folks(I'm from Kansas and come such Red state rural America) don't have high speed alternatives to sattelite and dish or cable currently, this enables the plutocrats media feeds--Fox etc. to pray on the outsiders--35 to 40 % of Americans still not living in urban areas.

I think the movie about Winter Soldier should be brought out ASAP and put on screens and at town halls in America--pronto. 

by ALONE (162 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 420 comments) on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 10:54:15 AM
 

Kathlyn Stone is a Minnesota-based writer covering science and medicine, health care and related policies. She publishes www.fleshandstone.net, a health and science news site.
Kathlyn StoneKathlyn Stone is a Minnesota-based writer covering science and medicine, health care and related policies. She publishes www.fleshandstone.net, a health and science news site.

Anna Badken w/Boston Globe told the story

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=11103

Where are the rest? If the media hides the truth along with the government then we are nearing a state of totalitarianism.

Badken interviewed several soldiers and her article is unemotional and straight-forward but my stomach still turned when reading the facts of what goes on.

An exerpt:

Jeffery Smith recalled how his Army unit beat and humiliated Iraqi prisoners. Former Marine Bryan Casler recounted how fellow Marines urinated and defecated into food and gave it to Iraqi children. Former Marine Matthew Childers talked about how he used to humiliate Iraqi civilians during predawn raids on their homes. When he described turning away an Iraqi father who was asking American troops to help the badly burned baby he carried in his arms, Jackson began to weep silently.

"These soldiers are saying: 'I'm complicit,' " said Jackson, 29, a community organizer from Cambridge. "But every American citizen who saw this happen and isn't out there protesting is complicit. I include myself."

Indeed. Have you protested the Iraq Occupation?

If not, why the hell not?

(also posting as a diary)

by Kathlyn Stone (44 articles, 227 quicklinks, 27 diaries, 685 comments) on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 12:06:30 PM
 

KEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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ALONEKEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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Times is getting to be the most blatant!!

According to Glenn Greenwald's research, on the same day I wrote my critique of the Blackout on WINTER SOLDIER:

 click here magazine put out an article claiming GW Bush's crimes against Americans are a Ho-Hum subject in the  American household. 

Besides being dead wrong the article had long quoted factual errors--about  10 of them.  The article he writes is on salon.com and he backs up with his charges that the lies are retractable by quoting them and tearing them to shreds.


 

by ALONE (162 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 420 comments) on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 12:23:59 PM
 

KEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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ALONEKEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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I had to write Real News and complain about how they post

Dear Real News, cut the bias-- contact@therealnews.com

 I believe that the EAGLES UP PROTEST WINTER SOLDIER  piece should not be on the page where it is--at the top. 

It is biasing to those who click on the link--on the news from Winter Soldier--like I did and find it at the top and watch it first.

It almost seem that someone has manipulated this piece into the front slot through politics--a no no. 



Please place the older pieces on random or something--everyone clicks on the first real news in a long series to see what other real news programs may be about.

The Eagles UP  group is getting undue attention because of how you put it at the top.

Kevin Stoda, Kuwait

by ALONE (162 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 420 comments) on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 12:53:08 PM
 

Richard Mynick is a US citizen who, despite the best efforts of the corporate media, noticed something disturbing about how the 2000 election was decided, & felt it augured poorly for democracy.
Richard MynickRichard Mynick is a US citizen who, despite the best efforts of the corporate media, noticed something disturbing about how the 2000 election was decided, & felt it augured poorly for democracy.

You just can't watch this testimony without weeping --

which is exactly why the corporate media refuses to carry it. The soldiers speak with a dignity & honesty that is beyond challenge. The criminality of the media in suppressing coverage of this material can't be overstated. Anyone who doubts that the US media has sunk to the levels associated with the worst tyrannies in history should try watching one of these sessions, on DemocracyNow! or any other independent carrier. It will remove your doubts.

by Richard Mynick (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 1292 comments) on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 3:28:35 PM
 

Bottom Line... I work in the media (radio, 28 years now) I have been unplugged from the matrix of lies for about 4 years now. That's what happens when you tumble down the 9/11 truth rabbit hole...you simply stop believing what the talking heads on your 72inch flat screen are saying! You come to understand that you, yourself, ARE the harbinger of change. And the only thing worse than being ridiculed for speaking out...is saying nothing at all. I really don't post much... a few websites on occasio...

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Scott LedgerBottom Line... I work in the media (radio, 28 years now) I have been unplugged from the matrix of lies for about 4 years now. That's what happens when you tumble down the 9/11 truth rabbit hole...you simply stop believing what the talking heads on your 72inch flat screen are saying! You come to understand that you, yourself, ARE the harbinger of change. And the only thing worse than being ridiculed for speaking out...is saying nothing at all. I really don't post much... a few websites on occasio...

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I'm not suprised at all

When was the last time any corporate media addressed the number of dead? Montel Willams was on FOX news last month and they asked him about Heath Ledger (no relation) He said "Why aren't you talking about the 28 Men who died in Iraq this month?... They cut his interview short, went to commercial, and when they returned, he was gone...3 years ago a major newspaper ran pictures of those coffins being loaded on to the cargo plane...major Sh*t hit the fan.

I watched the first two days of Winter Soldier live...at the end of both days, I was physically drained...my soul was weeping not just for Americans ...but Iraqi's who die every day by the dozens.

To be honest with you I love what the Constitution Represents, and I'm still in love with the potential of a fully functioning Republic, But Americans have... In the words of King George "Gone Shopping" They can't be bothered with a Winter Soldier testimony because that would mean that THEY would have to accept their share of what's wrong here, and as some of those brave young men and women stated, some of that blame lies firmly with the American public. The blackout of course does ALSO have everything to do with keeping that war machine turning and making Billions for the corporate whores who run the Networks.

People rise up and create change when THEY are suffering, not enough Americans qualify...YET... But that day as we can all see is fast approaching. Winter Soldier is another sign post of change, but not the main catalyst. Chavez for example is loved by the poor...not the wealthy who lost some of their power when he nationalized the oil fields and redirected some money to the MANY instead of the few. When a large portion of Americans begin to REALLY suffer...look out :)

by Scott Ledger (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 135 comments) on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 9:24:07 PM
 

Young retired yank of 59 living in the highlands o Scotland. Been out of the old country for 20 some years now. I'm with the Dali Lama, kindness is the only thing that will work. LOVE cycling on or off road. My wife is a wonderful girl from Manchester England.We're haven fun.
davyYoung retired yank of 59 living in the highlands o Scotland. Been out of the old country for 20 some years now. I'm with the Dali Lama, kindness is the only thing that will work. LOVE cycling on or off road. My wife is a wonderful girl from Manchester England.We're haven fun.

Me neither

Said perfectly.

by davy (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 240 comments) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 6:04:50 AM
 

KEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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ALONEKEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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The catalyst is here. The economy is it.

click here

by ALONE (162 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 420 comments) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 9:57:22 AM
 

KEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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ALONEKEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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I appreciate the balance--but it may be more negative than p

I appreciate the balance--but it may be more negative than helpful or poignant.

AS I was in Nicaragua in the summer of 1983 studying international development the idea was spawned to create Witness for Peace... which worked in its goal to stop endless wars running through America's veins 100% of the time in the 1980s.  Contrast that with now!

On the other hand, the Nicas told me that it (1) had taken a major earthquake destroying the nation's capital in the 1970s and (2) a revolution to change the status quo in Nicaragua.

In short, it takes a major disaster to see any strong and important changes.

HOWEVER, America is in a disaster nOW--that would have occured to the USA in 1990 had not the Soviet Union collapsed first in that era.

What disaster?

THE ECONOMY STUPID!  The neocon Ninjas have put the USA in the worst economic state it has seen since the 1930s.

The USA is absolutely in the worst economic state it has seen since the 1930s.

The world is watching to see if America will let the train wreck--like any third world country that tries to print itself out of debt.

In Kuwait the rumor is that GOLD will hit 3 times its current value within a short period if the US doesn't right itself.

It can't right itself without pulling out of horrible misadventures around the world. 

Kevin in Kuwait 

 

 

 

 

by ALONE (162 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 420 comments) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 9:49:38 AM
 

I swallowed the red pill!
HanI swallowed the red pill!

W

hat do we see when we check this link? 

http://news.google.com/news?q=Winter+Soldier

Al the alternative media, but _nothing_ anywhere else! Cheers for wired news btw, I didn't expect them to pay attention.

by Han (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 211 comments) on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 6:08:54 PM
 

Virginia Simson is a spiritual journalista/activist who runs a visionary planetary tutorial blogspot, www.ladybroadoak.blogspot.com as well as a blog on the uranium industry and depleted uranium at www.lowlevelradiation.blogspot.com. She feels that we must educate the young as to the real issues of the day - economics, clean energy, a drug free lifestyle, friendship and concern for the environment. We must plan for seven generations in the future. She unconditionally supports impeachment and...

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ladybroadoakVirginia Simson is a spiritual journalista/activist who runs a visionary planetary tutorial blogspot, www.ladybroadoak.blogspot.com as well as a blog on the uranium industry and depleted uranium at www.lowlevelradiation.blogspot.com. She feels that we must educate the young as to the real issues of the day - economics, clean energy, a drug free lifestyle, friendship and concern for the environment. We must plan for seven generations in the future. She unconditionally supports impeachment and...

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I did a group "process" over at ICH ...

and we all came to see that this material will be "making the rounds".

It was perhaps the most emotional and supportive thread I have EVER experienced online!  Seriously.

If you would like to read it, and experience the rising and falling energy and persepctive, the link is

click here have real problems with The Real News, and I live in Toronto.  I don't think that they yet fully "get it" . they are attempting to be something that they are NOT.  Still way to CBC as yet; maybe they will get over that, maybe they won't.  They have too many people on who don't talk to the veiwers as VIEWERS, they come on and act as "experts" ..

sigh

The times . they are achangin' and this WINTER SOLDIER event certainly showed that.  NO ONE IS GOING TO RECOVER FROM THIS WAR ALONE, and certainly no one deserves to do that.

 

 

by ladybroadoak (38 articles, 20 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 391 comments) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 3:52:15 AM
 

KEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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ALONEKEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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I'm glad you shared this. I hope others share those links h

I'm glad you shared this.  I hope others share those links here.  I had to write another blogs and demand impeachment now when I realized what this administration has done--become the war crimes promoter poster boy for the WEST.

click here

by ALONE (162 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 420 comments) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 9:54:24 AM
 

I have been working as an Architectural Designer for about 25 years. Because of a life tranformation and an awareness of things going on in our world, I found myself disinchanted with what most of us strives for and that is being successful (making a lot of money and having a lot of stuff).I am now focusing on starting a foundation for the preservation of tribal people and the environment. In the early 90's I developed an appreciation and respect for tribal cutlures and I hope I ca...

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Winter Soldier Then and Now

First of all I salute the brave soldiers who spoke out about the atrocities they had experienced and were involved in as with those in the first Winter Soldier. I had the opportunity to see the first Winter Soldier last year on DVD and it is available through Block Buster online. It is well worth watching.

If we don't see the truth most will never know the truth. This stuff should be shown in all schools. And if you look back into history, history shows America's dark past. It all started with the atrocities to the Native Americans and has never stopped. In one of McCain's speeches when visiting the Middle East recently, he said "When the people of Iraq are liberated, we will again have written another chapter in the glorious history of the United States." McCain is on drugs. How can he say this. This is a man who can become our next President. Most are unaware of the continuing atrocities against the Native Americans. With the help of McCain the remainder of the Dineh Navajo are being forced to leave their homes in Arizona. For what? Coal! A total of 10,000 Dineh were forced from their lands for Coal.

I commend Democracy Now for showing Winter Soldier all this week.

 

by Rick Theile (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 50 comments) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 11:07:31 AM
 

I have been working as an Architectural Designer for about 25 years. Because of a life tranformation and an awareness of things going on in our world, I found myself disinchanted with what most of us strives for and that is being successful (making a lot of money and having a lot of stuff).I am now focusing on starting a foundation for the preservation of tribal people and the environment. In the early 90's I developed an appreciation and respect for tribal cutlures and I hope I ca...

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Rick TheileI have been working as an Architectural Designer for about 25 years. Because of a life tranformation and an awareness of things going on in our world, I found myself disinchanted with what most of us strives for and that is being successful (making a lot of money and having a lot of stuff).I am now focusing on starting a foundation for the preservation of tribal people and the environment. In the early 90's I developed an appreciation and respect for tribal cutlures and I hope I ca...

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Watching Winter Soldier

I would like to add, no matter how difficult it is to watch or hear the testimonies everyone needs to see this. Hiding from the truth will only foster lies. We must feel pain sometimes to understand the truth.

by Rick Theile (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 50 comments) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 11:16:09 AM
 

KEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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ALONEKEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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I definately agree. What they will see is

click here definately agree. What they will see and here will provide clarity that there is not just a phenomena of bad apples in the military but an irresponsible military that doesn't manage behavior and treatment for its soldiers, prisoners, or the civilians and others about them.

The story by the parents of the soldier who was told to "ignore bumps in the road, i.e. children or whomever they were running over" is particularly important for all veterans and their families to here as the young man was not treated properly by the military and VA--eventually committing suicide. 

 

by ALONE (162 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 420 comments) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 10:10:50 PM
 

KEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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ALONEKEVIN STODA has been blessed to have either traveled in or worked in nearly 100 countries on five continents over the past two and a half decades.  He sees himself as a peace educator and have been   a promoter of good economic and social development--making him an enemy of my homelands humongous spending and its focus on using weapons to try and solve global issues."I am from Kansas so I also use the pseudonym 'Kansas' when I write and publish.  I...

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Camilo Mejia, former staff sergeant states clearly

Camilo Mejia, former staff sergeant states clearly:

 And we have a whole new generation—we have over a million Iraqi dead. We have over five million Iraqis displaced. We have close to 4,000 dead. We have close to 60,000 injured, both by combat injuries and non- combat injuries, coming back from this war. That’s not even counting the post-traumatic stress disorder and all the other psychological and emotional scars that our generation is bringing home with them. So all that just to say that war is dehumanizing a whole new generation of this country and destroying the people in the country of Iraq. In order for us to reclaim our humanity as a military and as a country, we demand the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all troops from Iraq, care and benefits for all veterans, and reparations for the Iraqi people so they can rebuild their country on their terms.

by ALONE (162 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 420 comments) on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 10:14:01 PM
 

I'm a 29 year old male. 
TyI'm a 29 year old male. 

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