Congratulations to Sean Nestor Ohio Green Party member, who received enough votes in today's primary to advance to Novembers election in his race for Toledo's city council... it has been a good night for the Ohio Green party

I think Obama's itching to strike that Islamic pipeline. HIs masters are Big Oil & the Saudis. Follow the money.... Iran & Iraq moving their oil through Syria is in direct competition. Ask Sanchez if he agrees with me.

C'mon 2950-10k, Do you seriously think draco laws "prevent" people from behaiving badly!?!? Marijuana is illegal, and in some states use/possesion carries a pretty hefty punishment, yet people still use it. Don't tell me your one of those people that buys into false securities.

When it comes to gun control we don't need new or more gun laws...We need to fully fund and enforce the ones that are already written.

What my question is; Why is it that our government is so focused on other countries, and can always afford to spend billions on getting involved in their political affairs, yet when it comes to improving the lives of 300+million Americans, through an affordable Education system, or Single payer Medicare for all, or investing in jobs, better wages, etc...Time after time the U.S. government ignors the needs of its people, and wastes over 50% of every tax dollar on unecessary wars and a Military Idustrial Complex. To me thats just as wrong as using Chemical Weapons on your own people...Which Assad did not do.

With Assad's money being hidden in Russian banks, it's no surprise he's willing to listen to his friends in the North.

It's funny how we as a country can prevent future mass murder of children from chemical weapons attacks in Syria but we can't pass laws to prevent future mass murder of school children from assault weapons in our own country......

Russia and the U.S. just played good-cop bad-cop with Syria.

Diplomacy works but Kerry wasn't up to diplomacy. It was diplomacy by happenstance and blunder. Kerry was attempting to answer a very reasonable question which was, what could the Syrian goverment possibly do to avoid an American Blitzkrieg, with what he thought was an absurd answer. This wasn't a time for snide Mr. Kerry. The Russians cleverly knew that this public statement, blunder though it was, could be a way out for the Syrian goverment and so it proposed to Syria to accept what Kerry said at face value, and do it. The Syrians instantly gave a resounding YES. And so diplomacy by blunder may save a lot of lives not to say American treasure. Obama sure seemed gobsmacked by all of this. It sure was obvious that he was wanting a run-around at the time. Now why would Obama and crew want to risk WWIII and who exactly benefits?

Diplomacy works. Until Bashar al Assad believed that the United States would kill his soldiers did he become interested in possibly giving up his chemical weapons. Syria is in a terrible condition, mostly because of its despotic dictator. He has to go just as the other dictators have been taken down. God bless our Secretary of State, John Kerry, he said the right thing because his heart is good. We are fortunate to have this good man on our side.

Quote Palindromedary:That's got to really tick off the criminal US war mongers! But will it really stop them? As you pointed out earlier...it didn't stop the criminal US war mongers from invading Iraq.

Palindromedary ~ Now that is the $10K questions, isn't it? Who knows?

My practical side says, no! This attack and WWIII will proceed as planned. Too much by too many powerful interests have already been invested. Those entities don't really care about the risk of WWIII to the world and are blinded by the money. To them this is a big crap shoot and they have nothing to lose and everything to win. They are all that matter to them and they have nothing but contempt for everyone else. The more that die the merrier. After the USA loses WWIII, the international community will stop the US criminal war mongers once and for all. I hope I am wrong.

My optimistic side says, yes! President Obama is a very intelligent man who see what is really going on and where this is headed and cooked up this scheme with the help of President Putin to let the air out of our imperialistic war machines tires. He has the backing of the international community and this aggression is over before it begins.

Honestly, however, I just don't know. We should have a better idea tonight!

Under the guise of modernizing our phone systems to fiber optics...new monopolies are rising up. I think that modernizing to fiber optics is a great thing that is very late in coming to the US compared to other countries. But...

The break up of Ma Bell didn't last long...because the new monopolies like AT&T and Verizon (but I guess that would be a duopoly..or if other mega telecommunications corporations are involved..polyopolies?)

Anyway, what they are doing is taking away the state-owned-controlled phone systems and replacing them with their fiber optics systems.

99% of households will still have copper wires running to their houses...not fiber optics. You will, ostensibly, not be able to have an option of the Plain Old Telephone system of past years. The major parts of the grids will use fiber optics but you will still have the POTS copper wires to your house andyou will be forced to subscribe to one of the major monopolies..ie: Verizon or AT&T. During a power outage you will not be able to call 911 because you will need an AT&T or Verizon unit inside your home that needs power from your home. POTS worked weather your house power was there or not. I guess we're all going to have to get emergency power backup generators if we hope to have a lifeline to 911 during power outages...or a cell phone....an iphone spy phone phone, perhaps?

The other thing that has happened to others already is that even if you subscribe, your telephone/internet may not work for a long time. Many problems have been reported by people who say that they have gone without these services for months waiting for the carrier to fix problems.

Usually, the first year service is promised at a very low rate (about what you currently pay for an ISP and phone service to lull you into their trap) but then the second year the rates go way up. It's not easy to find out what those next year rates will be either.

Since the switch-over can disrupt your communications via phone/internet it could also be a way of controlling those who have dissenting ideas from expressing them on the internet. I wonder how much easier it will be to shut down the internet if everyone had to pass through the few carriers who controlled it? It's funny how if you go to the AT&T or Verizon web sites and do the check as to whether your address is in the service area...and then check your neighbors addresses that for some funny reason it looks like you, or a few surrounding neighbors seem to be within...or just without a service area. I guess AT&T have their territories staked out so that there is no competition.

And if you check into it..you'll find that ALEC has been behind much of this.

Quote blogger:Prior to AT&T disconnecting one of my DSL circuits last year, I had been getting offers to signup for U-verse for at least a year, and I still get the same email and snail mail offers. However in the real world (not AT&T's imaginary universe) U-verse is not available at my location (and I have been told by local techs that it is not likely to ever happen).

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So...it is also very likely that AT&T is just using this as a massive marketing scare tactic to hook people into signing up for their UVerse plans. You may be waiting forever for real fiber optics to be installed...which you won't get installed to your home anyway...you'll still have copper wires...but you may not be able to use your ADSL internet.

Maybe an alternative is just go with cable!

Quote DAnneMarc:

Quote Syrian Foreign Minister:
“We fully support Russia’s initiative concerning chemical weapons in Syria, and we are ready to cooperate. As a part of the plan, we intend to join the Chemical Weapons Convention,” Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said in an interview with Lebanon-based Al-Maydeen TV.

“We are ready to fulfill our obligations in compliance with this treaty, including through the provision of information about our chemical weapons. We will open our storage sites, and cease production. We are ready to open these facilities to Russia, other countries and the United Nations.”

He added: “We intend to give up chemical weapons altogether.”

That's got to really tick off the criminal US war mongers! But will it really stop them? As you pointed out earlier...it didn't stop the criminal US war mongers from invading Iraq.

DAnneMarc: Thanks for quotes from that transcript...but I have already read the whole transcript. But, true, not everyone will bother reading the whole transcript.

DAnneMarc:

Quote Bashar Assad:Now in this case, it is a new kind of war; terrorism through proxies, either Syrians living in Syria or foreign fighters coming from abroad.

And I wonder just how the Obama regime will handle "terrorists" inside our country either from abroad or from within. If some other country sent many thousands of mercenaries into the US and helped local citizens who believed they were fighting against a tyrannical government... just how far would the Obama regime (or whatever regime is currently running the show) go to quash dissent? Would he resort to chemical weapons if he thought his government was seriously being threatened. If the ruling elite in the US thought they were about to lose everything would they not do just what some claim Assad is doing?

So they are trying to force Assad to give up his chemical weapons...the ones that everyone..including western corporations...sold to him in the first place*. Who is going to hold Israel accountable...get them to give up their massive arsenals of nuclear weapons...and most likely their own bunkers full of chemical weapons? What about the nukes and pukes that the US has in it's arsenal?

* I have quoted official documents by US diplomats commenting on how the western (including Israel) corporations have made lots of money by selling chemical weapons to both Iraq and Iran...and I wouldn't doubt that Syria managed to get some of those chemical weapons manufacturing ability from them. Shrewd Israeli businessmen...if they sold these things to Iran and Iraq then they probably had no qualms about selling to Syria.

BREAKING NEWS FROM RT:

Syrian FM: We are ready to sign Chemical Weapons Convention

Quote RT:Syria said it would sign the Chemical Weapons Convention, following Russia’s proposal that it hands over its chemical weapons to international supervisors. Damascus pledged to open its storage sites and provide full disclosure of its stocks immediately.

Quote Syrian Foreign Minister:“We fully support Russia’s initiative concerning chemical weapons in Syria, and we are ready to cooperate. As a part of the plan, we intend to join the Chemical Weapons Convention,” Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said in an interview with Lebanon-based Al-Maydeen TV.

“We are ready to fulfill our obligations in compliance with this treaty, including through the provision of information about our chemical weapons. We will open our storage sites, and cease production. We are ready to open these facilities to Russia, other countries and the United Nations.”

He added: “We intend to give up chemical weapons altogether.”