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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hostages’ families mark 500th day of captivity with fast, rallies across Israel

2025-02-18

[IsraelTimes] Activists block roads, march to Knesset, call for 500-minute fast to mark days since hostages’ abduction; ‘They’ve already been fasting for 500 days,’ says relative

Marking the 500th day since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack and kidnapping, relatives of the hostages were leading rallies and fasts across the country on Monday to call attention to the captives’ plight.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum was leading the events, encouraging a 500-minute fast and daylong protests under the banner: “Get them out of hell.”
A 500-minute fast? Who are they? Cindy Sheehan? Do they get Smoothie breaks?
The fast started at 11:40 a.m. and will end at 8 p.m. with a rally at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square.

On Monday morning, hostage families and activists blocked roads across the country, including the central Namir Road in Tel Aviv.

Family members of hostages and dozens of supporters also gathered outside the Hostages and Missing Families Forum tent on Azza Street in Jerusalem, near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home, where they began a march to the Knesset.

Another rally was being held in Carmei Gat, the southern city where Nir Oz residents are living until their kibbutz is rebuilt.

Later from the Times of Israel:

About 2,000 people crowd into Hostages Square in Tel Aviv to mark 500 days since October 7, 2023.

Another 1,000 or so spill out to Shaul HaMelech Street, where speeches are projected on large screens.

At 8 p.m., some of those in attendance break a 500-minute fast that the Hostages Families Forum had announced.

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Fifth Column

NYPD release video showing professional 'protest consultant' at Columbia University

2024-05-01

From a comment this morning from Skid.
[Laura Ingraham at FOX] The New York City Police Department released a video showing a professional "protest consultant" who was seen on other social media videos instructing a mob of anti-Israel agitators as they took over Hamilton Hall at Columbia University overnight Monday.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams spoke about outside agitators during a press conference Tuesday evening.

"What should have been a peaceful protest, it has basically been co-opted by professional outside agitators. We were extremely cautious about releasing our intel information because our goal was to ensure the safety of the students, the faculty, and without destruction to property," Adams said. "We have sounded the alarm several times before about external actors who attempted to hijack this private protest."

Adams and members of his administration shared information about the outside actors who were creating "serious public safety issues" at the protests.

Lisa Fithian - Wikipedia: Lisa Fithian is an American political activist and "protest consultant". Early life [ edit ] Lisa Fithian, American political activist and protest consultant, [1] began her work in the mid-1970s as a member of student government in her high school and at Skidmore College .

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

UN warns war is pushing Gaza to famine

2023-12-23

Had Hamas not invaded in October 7th, supported by Gaza civilians, there would be no war and no famine. Had Egypt allowed the civilian Gazans temporary refuge during the war, there would be no famine. Had the UN staff done their job as fast as the IDF inspectors did theirs, there would be no famine, Had Hamas bullies not helped themselves first to everything brought in, hunger would certainly be less. And had Hamas at any point said to Israel, “That’s it, we surrender,” the war would be over and there would be no famine.

[AFRICANEWS] More than half a million people in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip are starving due "woefully insufficient" quantities of food entering the territory since the outbreak of hostilities on October 7, according to a report by 23 United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
and non-governmental agencies released on Thursday.

"It is a situation where pretty much everybody in Gaza is hungry... one in every four people is starving in Gaza as we speak,’’ explained Arif Husain.
They should do the Cindy Sheehan "Hunger strike" - just drink Jamba Juices. Easy Peasy
The World Food Program chief economist warned that if the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
war continued at the same levels and food deliveries were not restored, the population of the Paleostinian territory could face famine within the next six months, accompanied by widespread outbreaks of disease.

The report found that Gaza's entire population of 2.2 million were in a food crisis or worse: 478,-thousand were at crisis levels, 1.17 million at emergency levels and 577-thousand at catastrophic levels, meaning starvation levels.

Food deliveries are grossly insufficient to Gaza, where two thirds of the population was reliant on humanitarian aid before Israel launched its military campaign against Hamas holy warriors.

Before the interagency report, WFP food security experts had warned that people in Gaza had used up all of their resources, that bakeries had been destroyed and shops were empty, leaving people with no where to find food.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

NYC Christmas Concert Shooter Was Immigrant Shielded from Deportation Despite Extensive Criminal Record

2020-12-20

[Breitbart] The shooter at a New York City, New York, Christmas concert was an immigrant to the United States from the Dominican Republic who avoided deportation despite an extensive criminal record, officials confirm.

Luis Manuel Vasquez-Gomez, a 52-year-old native of the Dominican Republic who lived in the Bronx, opened fire on December 13 at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine following an outdoor Christmas concert on the steps of the church.

Vasquez-Gomez was met within five minutes by New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers who pleaded with him to drop his gun, though he refused. NYPD officers shot Vasquez-Gomez, and he was rushed to a hospital where he died.

Vasquez-Gomez was wearing a Dominican Republic face mask and hat and, according to the New York Daily News, was carrying a manifesto where he justified the shooting "because of the way the United States treated the people of Latin America."

According to records, Vasquez-Gomez had a long criminal history dating back three decades. Vasquez-Gomez first arrived in the U.S. in 1976 as a legal immigrant. In 1989, Vasquez-Gomez pleaded guilty after cutting the hand of a man but avoided prison.

A year later, Vasquez-Gomez pleaded guilty to criminal possession of a weapon and selling cocaine after being arrested for attempted murder. Police said Vasquez-Gomez had fired gunshots in the direction of a woman and coppers. Vasquez-Gomez was sentenced to three to nine years in prison.

In 1995, Vasquez-Gomez was ordered deported by a federal immigration judge after having served his prison sentence. Twice in 2007 and 2017, Vasquez-Gomez was allowed to stay in the U.S. after being granted a stay of removal and a removal waiver.

Vasquez-Gomez was last in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in 2008 after he violated his parole in 2007. He was released from ICE custody that year.

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-PC Follies

2018: Cindy Sheehan admits it: ‘Anti war protesters were just anti-Bush’

2020-09-30

We knew it all along, but it's nice to have a confession.

Indeed. As an aside, Mr. Cotto’s childhood orthodontist was clearly worth every penny Daddy Cotto paid him. Also, he appears to be at higher risk for Covid, so he should be careful.

[YouTube] When Obama was president we got very little energy so when Trump was elected or you know whatever happened in 2016 and he was inaugurated in January I thought well maybe these people who weren't anti-war when Obama was president even though he was continuing the wars and expanding them and adding new ones maybe they'll become anti-war activists now and it wouldn't to me it wouldn't be principled but at least there would be some action some activity and that didn't happen.

I'm seeing 95% new people come into the movement and want to help and I think that most of the people that I did anti-war work with when Bush was president were not really anti-war they were just anti-Bush and then they you know supported Obama so they couldn't really protest Obama but then they realized that that protesting wars isn't really politically correct because it's both sides of the aisle who are complicit in them.

I think recognize the nonpartisan nature of our march. We're not marching against Republicans we're not marching against Democrats or for Democrats. We're marching against the system, against the Pentagon, against the violence of the US empire and I think that's attracting a lot of people is that we're nonpartisan. Some of the women's march people even like even when they told me that they never addressed war and peace when I announced that I was going to do this on October 21st they were really upset because they said "Cindy you can't do it on October 21st, it's too close to the elections! You might hurt the Democrats!" and I said "Exactly. That's why we're doing it." You know if you are so scared of an anti-war march hurting your party why are you even in that party if you care about this issue?

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Home Front: WoT

Iran: To Neocon or Not to Neocon, Is That the Question?

2019-06-23

posted for our Macro Troll....you know who
[PJ Media] Neoconservatism has had a bad reputation since the Iraq War, a conflagration that was supposed to turn that Middle Eastern country into Denmark.

We all know how that went. Those of us who were neocons in those days (I was, more or less, as well as tons of people who now pretend otherwise) didn't bank on the tribalism of the region as well as the fundamentalist nature of Islam that resists, to put it mildly, rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar's.

So arrivederci neoconism, we thought, but here we are again with Iran.
Cindy Sheehan and Herb sing together: "No blood for oil!"
A number of intelligent people -- including some with whom I normally agree but who have had enough of neocon adventures -- say we should basically ignore the mullahs because, well, what have they done to us?
Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, every frigging day
A lot actually. Back in the Iraq War, they killed many of our soldiers with IEDs. Bush was so deep into things at that point he turned away and did nothing. Can we blame him? I'm not sure.

And then there's the little matter of Hezbollah, Iran's giant terror army client. Way back in 1983, at the behest of the mullahs, they blew up that barracks in Beirut with 241 American servicemen who were there on a peace-keeping mission. Hezbollah's been killing Americans ever since, most of them inside our 50 states.

Indeed, the number of Americans killed by Hezbollah domestically dwarfs 9/11 because they are among the premier drug dealers in the world and Americans are dropping like flies from narcotics.

Among the most hideous aspects of Obama's hideous Iran Deal was his quietly agreeing with the mullahs to put the kibosh on Project Cassandra that was about to unmask the billion-dollar Hezbollah drug network. (If you haven't read about this, you should. The author should have won the Pulitzer instead of the creeps who got it for lying about Russia collusion.)
Thanks Lightbringer!
But does all this murder by Iran and their minions mean that Trump should have gone after the mullahs for shooting down the drone? He did say he stood down because the drone was unmanned. But there have obviously been plenty of other instances.

Saturday's WSJ editorial goes full-bore neocon, or close, accusing the president of, essentially, "punking out" and even predicting he would now walk back sanctions. (They have already been proven wrong on that one. He's done the opposite.)
They were calling him chicken...from their comfortable desks and padded chairs...in New York
One has the feeling that had Trump gone through with the attack, the Journal would have written an editorial worrying he hadn't been "proportional." That's how it goes in our politics, where Trump Derangement Syndrome is the only thing left that's bipartisan.

As for the Democratic candidates, it's not even worth commenting on their statements, they were so rote and unsophisticated. In any case, they're more worried about Senator Eastland (now deceased) than the mullahs.

But what should we do about Iran? I think we must stay the course of the sanctions and try to force them into talks. Time is on our side. And the mullahs' insane behavior does not make the greedy Europeans look good. Perhaps they will even come around to help us. Stranger things have happened. (Well, not much.)

Meanwhile, it's not "To Neocon or Not to Neocon?" That is not the question. Ideology is for children and college professors. The question is how do we use common sense? That sense tells me that Trump has now cleared the way for serious action against the mullahs when they pull another stunt, as we can assume they will.
And they will. They're getting desperate
Indeed if they have any brains ‐ and some of them must, even with their berserk belief system ‐ they probably see this too. If I were Iran, I'd be afraid. I'd be very afraid. I might even come to the table.

And, needless to say, Trump has no interest whatsoever in a ground war with Iran, as well he shouldn't. That part of the neocon lesson holds. Any action should and would come from the air. And that would be a disaster for Iran that they would be truly insane to court. As I said, look for Iran to come to the table. My prediction: somewhere around September, after they have time to pretend it was at least partly their idea. But we'll know, won't we?

And if the talks break down, there's always what any decent person wants in the first place ‐ regime change.

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Europe

Children's Crusade Plan to March on ISIS While Waving White Flags

2016-12-28

[BREITBART] Two and half thousand Europeans plan to march into Aleppo waving white flags in a three month long, 2,000 mile demonstration against the civil war taking place in Syria.
White flags to ISIS being just a convenient way to grid their rocket artillery
This year, like last, has been characterised by the massive flow of people northwards through Europe, many of them Syrians fleeing the bombs of Assad and the opposition factions. But a group of Europeans has decided to make the trek in the other direction in order to bring an end to the war, now in its fifth year.

"We’re carrying these white flags to let the whole world know our message: Enough is enough. This war has to stop!" the group say in their manifesto.
ISIS are like every other artillery gunner on the planet. They like target rich environments. Saves ammunition and make for an awesome display.
The march, which departs Berlin on Boxing Day, 26 December, was organised by journalist Anna Alboth.
Checks from the EU, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Soros' Open Society musta cleared.
"I was having dinner with Syrian women I know in a refugee centre and they were showing me photos of a lot of people who had died," she told the BBC.
Who picked up the check, Anna? I s'pect it wasn't you.
"People like me in safe countries can’t take it any more, and we see this as a chance to transform things.
She's right, you know. 2.5K Euros to be transformed into hamburger meat.
"Refugees who hear about it say that if we are willing to give up our comfortable lives to do this, then it is a real demonstration."
Yew betcha!
The precise route the march will take is yet to be finalised, but the group will leave Germany via the Czech Republic, then head through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Greece, and ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
before finally entering Syria.

Lawyers in each of the countries en route are preparing paperwork to ease the crossing of borders along the way. "If no-one will stop us, we will go all the way," Alboth said.

Update from An Nahar at 1:45 a.m. ET:

About 400 peace activists were marching Tuesday from the outskirts of Berlin towards the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo, heading down the refugee trail in reverse.

Carrying white flags and hiking backpacks and wearing outdoor gear against the cold and wet December weather, the marchers had on Monday left from the center of the German capital.

Alboth told Germany's left-leaning Tageszeitung daily that only a core group of 30 activists planned to walk all the way,

Thirty? Golly.

adding that she expected they may be blocked at the Turkish border.

So much for the grand gesture of 2,500 marching into the devastated city of Aleppo, waving their white flags in triumph...

The marchers plan to cover around 20 kilometers (12 miles) a day

... in literature this is described as "going by easy stages." No doubt the rest of the day will be spent cooking delectable dinners and breakfasts (the supplies having been brought by van), pitching and packing up tents, and singing together round the campfire, if any of the group were once Boy or Girl Scouts and there's any wood to be found...

Twelve miles a day? I cover that on a bicycle in an hour, and I'm an old man...

and walk through the Czech Republic, Austria and several western Balkan countries to Turkey -- and then on to Syria.

It is the route into Europe that was taken last year by more than a million people, many fleeing battlefields in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East, with the majority ending up in the top EU economy Germany.

Several thousand people have pledged on Facebook

Golly.

they would join at least a section of the about 3,000-kilometer (1,900-mile) trek

...drive up to the meeting point in time for breakfast, hop out of the car, and be picked up at the next meeting point by the car at breakfast the next day, proud of having made a statement of conscience among kindred spirits...

Reminds me of the "hunger strike" led by Cindy Sheehan once upon a time, where they sustained the hunger strike by drinking smoothies, which didn't count...

bound for Syria's second city, which is now squarely under the control of President Bashar Assad's regime.

Germany has pledged 15 million euros ($15.6 million) in aid to pay for medical staff and trauma counselors for Aleppo, Development Minister Gerd Mueller said.

So effective that they met the goal before starting out.

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-Land of the Free

North Dakota pipeline: US journalist Amy Goodman faces riot charge

2016-10-17

[BBC] US journalist Amy Goodman

...the far left Air America reporter and and a former member of the Friends of Cindy Sheehan club...

is facing charges of participating in a "riot" after filming Native American-led protests over an oil pipeline in North Dakota.

The Democracy Now! reporter said she would surrender to authorities on Monday in response to the charge.

District Judge John Grinsteiner will decide whether there is sufficient evidence to support the riot charge.

Ms Goodman filmed the crackdown on protesters by authorities last month.

"I wasn't trespassing, I wasn't engaging in a riot, I was doing my job as a journalist by covering a violent attack on Native American protesters," Ms Goodman said.

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Africa North

Qatar boots Egypt MB heads

2014-09-13

Ay-Peee
A top leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood group says he and other senior members are departing Qatar, where they had sought refuge following the ouster of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and the crackdown on his supporters.
Sisi isn't going anywhere, and these mooks have outlived their usefulness.
They can join Cindy Sheehan, who has a similar problem...
Amr Darrag says in a statement posted on his Facebook page Saturday that a number of the group's leaders are leaving Qatar following a request to do so by the Gulf monarchy. "We wanted to avoid embarrassing Qatar," he says.
or getting imprisoned
Qatar was a close ally of Morsi, and relations between Cairo and Doha have been strained since his ouster, with Egypt accusing Qatar of backing the Brotherhood.
why, yes, they did

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Terror Networks

Controversy about Osama resurfaces after admiral's email

2014-02-20

[DAWN] A conservative political group in the United States has launched a campaign to force the B.O. regime to release the photos of the Abbottabad
... A pleasant city located only 30 convenient miles from Islamabad. The city is noted for its nice weather and good schools. It is the site of Pakistain's military academy, which was within comfortable walking distance of the residence of the late Osama bin Laden....
raid that killed Al Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...
The Judicial Watch claims that the administration is refusing to release the pictures because it wants to hide something that may cast doubt on President Barack Obama
I am not a dictator!...
's greatest achievement: eliminating Osama.

This week, the group claimed uncovering "smoking gun evidence that the B.O. regime's efforts to keep these photos secret included an order by a top Pentagon official to destroy them."

In this email, dated May 13, 2011, the then head of the US Special Forces, Vice Admiral William McRaven, orders the commandos who participated in the operation to destroy all the pictures they might have taken.

"One particular item that I want to emphasise is photos; particularly Osama's remains. At this point, all photos should have been turned over to the CIA; if you still have them, destroy them immediately or get them to the (redacted)."

The order to purge the photos came 11 days after Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the US Department of Defence for "all photographs and/or video recordings of Osama bin Laden taken during and/or after the US military operation in Pakistain on or about May 1, 2011". Judicial Watch is seeking the photographs and videos to prove if it was actually him.

The US administration had announced after the May 2, 2011 operation that they had buried OBL at sea because they could not find a country that would bury him within 24 hours, in accordance with the Mohammedan custom. They also avoided burying him on land because they feared that Osama's grave would become a shrine for his followers.

Later, President B.O. explained that he had decided not to release the pictures for similar reasons. "It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, as a propaganda tool," he told CBS News.

The refusal encouraged rumour mongers to insist that it was somebody else, and not, the Al Qaeda leader, who was killed in the raid. The rumours, which had subsided, resurfaced this week after Judicial Watch released Admiral McRaven's email message.

This forced US officials to release another denial, saying that there was no question who was killed in the Abbottabad raid. Along with being visually identified on the scene by US operatives, Bin Laden was identified by name by a woman believed to be one of his wives, they argued.

CIA specialists compared photos of the body with known photos of Bin Laden, determining with 95 per cent certainty that they were one and the same, the officials said.

The denial, however, did not satisfy the rumour mongers who are once again busy spinning out all sorts of theories.

They claim that Osama arrived at the American hospital in Dubai on July 4, 2001 for renal processing or a Kidney Dialysis and left on July 14. While at the hospital, he also met a person in charge of the CIA.

He came to Dubai on July 4 by plane from Quetta and was immediately transferred to the hospital for a renal processing.

The rumours mongers use such reports to prove that Osama had a serious kidney problem and needed regular treatment. After, the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he could not get this treatment and died of kidney failure.

An American anti-War activist Cindy Sheehan
...anti-war activist and publicity hound. After her child was killing in the Iraq war she set up camp outside President G.W.Bush's ranch. In Washington she bared her boobs for peace. She was the 2012 vice-presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party and intends to run for governor of Caliphornia in 2014. She will probably lose...
wrote that those who believed the government's claim that Osama was killed in the raid were 'stupid.'

"Just think to yourself, they paraded Saddam's dead sons around to prove they were dead, why do you suppose they hastily buried this version of Osama at sea?"

US officials dismiss these claims as "figments of someone's wild imagination" that better be ignored but this does not discourage rumour mongers from claiming that Osama did not die in the raid.

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Home Front: WoT

Who Is Behind The "Close-Gitmo" Push?

2014-01-14

In short, the other red-green alliance: Communists and jihadis, each quite certain it is the senior partner.

[FoxNews] The key players:

~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International. Along with Human Rights Watch
... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world...
, ~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International was revealed as partner organization to Al Karama, a human rights
...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you...
non-profit run by Qatar's Abdul Rahman Omeir Al-Naimi.

Al-Naimi was recently exposed by the U.S. Treasury Department in December 2013 as a long-term major financier of Al Qaeda. According to an expose by Eli Lake in the Daily Beast, "Terrorists for Human Rights," the Treasury Department's designation said he, "oversaw the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars to Al Qaeda and its affiliates in Iraq, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen over the last 11 years."

Center for Constitutional Rights. CCR was founded by far-left civil rights lawyer William Kunstler in the 1960s, a man who told the press his goal was to "destroy society from within."

Kunstler represented the "Chicago 7," a group that was charged with conspiracy to start a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and later he defended domestic bad boy/terror groups like the Black Panthers, Weather Underground, and Attica Prison Rioters.

CCR is currently funded by groups like the "1848 Foundation," named after the year Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto was published and revolutions swept through Europe.

Kunstler would be proud of CCR's signature work over the past decade in coordinating the "Gitmo Bar Association" of 500 lawyers representing detainees.

Reprieve. A British organization led by blogger Andy Worthington, it pressures release of British citizens and residents. Æthiopia's Binyam Mohammed, a British resident, allegedly plotted to blow up high rise apartment buildings in the U.S. with a dirty bomb; Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal, and Shafiq Rasul, a.k.a., the Tipton Three, ethnic Paks went to fight for jihad in Afghanistan but were caught by the Northern Alliance in Nov. 2001; and Shaker Aamer, a Saudi citizen with British residence, alleged to have led a unit of Al Qaeda gunnies in Tora Bora, and reportedly a former close associate of Osama Bin Laden, shoe-bomber Richard Reid and 20th hijacker, Zacharias Moussaoui.

So, pro-Brit, a good thing. But brainlessly undiscriminating, which is not at all a compliment.

World Can't Wait. This organization is believed to have been founded by members and supporters of the Revolutionary Communist Party & Anarchists. It organized at least 24,000 supporters during Iraq War, including actor Sean Penn and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan.

Jason Leopold. Leopold is a former Los Angeles Times investigative journalist with a checkered past. According to Fox News media critic Howard Kurtz, writing in a 2005 Washington Post feature, "Leopold says he engaged in 'lying, cheating and backstabbing,' is a former cocaine addict, served time for grand larceny, repeatedly tried to kill himself and has battled mental illness his whole life."

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Home Front: Politix

Cindy Sheehan makes Socialist run for Calif. governor slot

2013-08-16

[WASHINGTONTIMES] Liberal activist Cindy Sheehan, the activist mother of a slain Iraq solider who ran as the vice presidential candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party
Wow! They're still around? I thought for sure they'd go out of business just as soon as medical marijuana law was passed. Silly me.
Leftist causes come and go, but leftist organizations always survive...
alongside Roseanne Barr, announced last week that she's throwing her hat in the ring for a shot at being the next governor of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.
California is already rocketing to the left, but somehow Ms. Sheehan can find a way to step on the gas, I guess.
Speaking at a Green Party rally in Wisconsin, Miss Sheehan proudly declared that she's a Socialist, and she's "not going to be ashamed to say it," EAGnews.org first reported.
That's nice. It's an important first step to admit you have a problem.
"One of my biggest inspirations is His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez of Venezuela," she added, receiving applause. "He convinced [citizens] that they could take power into their own hands and work with him to improve their own lives, and that's what happened."

"And so that's my inspiration. Getting everybody involved," she said.
If you wanna get everybody involved, you should probably lose the socialist tag.
Miss Sheehan didn't get into specifics on her plan for Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, but said, "If you're not happy, why do you keep voting for those [expletives]?"

According to EAGnews, the event was sponsored by the nonprofit Liberty Tree Foundation. It featured AFT-Wisconsin's Bryan Kennedy, Code Pink
... a U.S. anti-war group. The group describes itself as a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities. It was founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and of the other usual antiwar suspects. Its website lists hysterical allegations of US war crimes, and states that thousands of civilians were killed in Fallujah in 2004. Maybe it was millions. Benjamin was a 2000 candidate for the U.S. Senate on the Green Party ticket. She lost...
's Medea Benjamin and former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.

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