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When AT&T UVerse makes the switch, in your areas, to fiber-optics it knocks out DSL. You are forced to switch to their services because they make hardware and software changes at the Central Offices. Your current DSL modem/router won't work. You are forced to use the AT&T Uverse modem/router that they provide. Some people have claimed that they were left without internet service for months after the switch because of AT&T UVerse problems. I was thinking that it would be a great way of knocking someone off the internet for months and silencing them especially if they were critical of the administration. Naw! They wouldn't do that would they?
I also found that AT&T UVerse doesn't have Free Speech TV (FSTV), or LinkTV, or Russia Today(RT)..no more Thom Hartmann on TV channels anyway if you get AT&T UVerse TV. They have plenty of Fox channels, though...Yuk!
Oh, and that first year of service may seem about equal to what you paid for DSL but wait till the second year...I understand the rates go up quite a bit....and you are stuck...unless you go cable or satellite.
Also, you most likely will not get your copper wires replaced with fiber optics...the fiber optics will likely only go to the Central Office...then copper wires to your home..very much like current DSL. But they'll sell you on the idea you are getting high speed fiber-optics into your home which you might if you get the package deal (18Mb internet , phone, HDTV)..but not if you get a single service or a slow 3Mb or 6Mb internet. I understand that AT&T has had, for a long time, not very good service...lots of complaints...and it has only been until Google started fiber-optics in certain test locations in Kansas that AT&T began trying to modernize and jumped on the bandwagon to provide fiber-optic.
I also read that AT&T carrier retains your telephone and internet records longer than any other carrier.
Another thing...something about not being able to call 911 with AT&T UVerse...if your power goes out. Probably because everything has to go through that UVerse modem/router...no power...no phone...no 911.
Lots of people think AT&T UVerse is nothing but trouble...bad service...but a few others swear by it...they like it. Maybe I'll just get cable.
dglsdxn: But you are obviously convinced that it was Assad that was responsible for the chemical attack on Aug 21!
Not only is there other evidence that the rebels have done a sarin chemical attack in Aleppo back in March of this year but there is other evidence that the Aug 21 chemical attack was most likely caused by the rebels as well. It would have been really stupid for Assad to have done the Aug 21 chemical attack for many reasons..and Assad is not a stupid man. Evil maybe...but not stupid.
The Obama administration's claim of "irrefutable evidence", that Assad did it, is certainly not any more convincing than the "absolute proof" of the "WMD" lies that the Bush administration used to rush us into war. You didn't fall for that one too did you? I didn't believe Bush at all, then! And I certainly don't believe Obama, now!
The President and Congress are flunky puppets being manipulated by the real powers behind them. Although, I must say I am quite surprised that Congress seems to be smart enough (but only after the whole world...Britain and almost everyone else except, perhaps, France has voted against attacking Syria)... to be against an invasion. It's about time they finally found some courage to buck their wealthy puppet masters. But Obama is still the gutless wonder who is pushing for war....rather, another attack on a relatively defenseless country much smaller and weaker than the US. The US is good at that!
But this time, we might be talking about something that may get out of control and start WWIII...nuclear exchange...now wouldn't that be fun. (Maybe Obama thinks he is going to copy JFK in the Russian/Cuba blockade?) An all out nuclear war would make Assad's arsenal of chemical weapons very unimportant!
The real powers want domination, or absolute control, over all the oil and they want world domination. The President and Congress people are merely Howdy Dooty puppets..we have just a facade of democracy...a rigged game....to keep us busy with false hope for change..while the behind the scenes powers continue pressing for world domination.
Oh, and if we just "take out their gas munitions" how many innocent civilians will we kill? We sure didn't seem very discerning in Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan and Yemen...we murdered hundreds of thousands...maybe millions of innocent civilians with our "smart bombs" and "intelligent" weapons. The depleted uranium, we used in Iraq, has caused thousands of abortions and mutations. And that stuff takes hundreds of years to deactivate because of the long half life of the uranium.
The US has been terribly irresponsible and criminal in their illegal wars and occupations. In fact, they have even used banned chemical weapons themselves. In Iraq in 2004, they used White Phosphorus that melts the skin to the bone. A shower of White Phosphorus from the air down upon a population isn't discriminating as to whose skin will melt to the bone. Men, women, children, pets! A very terrible weapon. And the Israelis used it against civilians in Gaza.
Hitler had his gas chambers and ovens on the ground but the US and Israel have mobilized theirs in the air... using air strikes. Not really much difference! Seig Heil!
This previous chemical attack happened back in March in Aleppo, Syria and there is evidence, then, that the rebels did the chemical attack. This story posted yesterday, 9/5/13:
Ret. Gen. Leslie Clark contributed to this report from St. Petersburg:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/05/201268/russia-releases-100-page-re...
Well, we could just stick our thumbs in our ass and hope it goes away, but this is 'weapons of mass destruction' we are talking about. And I guess all those dead women and kids don't mean anything either. So let's just send a big signal that 'it's OK to kill your people with gas that has been banned for almost 100 years. Oh, by the way, nobody's asking for a war, but just take out the gas munitions. I bet when that shit starts jumpin' off here at home, you'll damned sure wish you'd of 'nipped it in the bud' when you had the chance. After all, it was OK when Hitler used it.
Vegasman56: I agree! We'll only end up killing more civilians!
edayres: Yes, and we haven't even tried to sanction Israel for their war crimes against the Palestinians, and in Gaza, for using chemical weapons against them.
And while you might scoff at a couple of these because you may not consider Tear Gas such a big deal...you might think that the use of White Phosphorus is particularly horrendous:
http://www.policymic.com/articles/62023/10-chemical-weapons-attacks-wash...
And in 2009:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/25/israel-white-phosphorus-gaza
Thank you, Flopot! You have given us some really good links! Much appreciated!
And thank you, DAnneMarc for your reply.
I'm usually in sync with the liberal point-of-view but not this time. If we do nothing the international prohibition against the use of biological is meaningless. The Russians and the Chinese want to do it through the UN because that is where they have power. Economic sanctions haven't stopped Iran and North Korea and they wont stop Assad. This hesitancy is just more dithering. The message to dictaors is clear, Do what you want because because the International bans have no teeth. No wonder the Israelis go their own way in the world. They know more than anyone the
world can get wobbly and leave you twisting in the wind.
Palindromedary ~ Thanks for the response. No, to answer your question, I haven't found this quotation on my own. Actually I found it chasing the offerings of Flopot. Let Flopot take the credit for this revelation. Without Flopot and that contribution this revelation would have never happened. I am a firm believer in letting credit fall where it may; Please direct your appreciation to Flopot.
DAnneMarc: Yes I did watch that video in it's entirety....thanks! That was really very much worth watching. Was that your YouTube web site? Just curious. There were lots of interesting videos at that site that seemed to me what you might be interested in. But maybe I'm mistaken.
Yes, Bush just looked like not only that he just ate the canary but that he was having a hard time from laughing about it. What a smug twit he was! Spoiled rich brats are often like that. Arrogant twits that sometimes become psychotic psychopathic killers.
And that first quote wasn't wrong...he was being very truthful..if not misleading. A coworker had a whole desktop calendar with a Bushian quote for every day of the year. I think Bush spent too much time partying when he was in school and smoking funny stuff.
It WAS the US that was bombing innocent people in Iraq and the same ones who brought down the WTC towers and hit the Pentagon as a false flag operation to justify invading the Middle East. The PNAC plan was to do just that...and, perhaps, that was what Gen. Wesley Clark was referring to...the plans to take down 7 countries in 5 years. Syria is just one of the remaining countries on the PNAC plan for US world domination. Once they control most of the oil in the world they control the world.
I know, Bush always had a way of getting words and ideas twisted that made the world snicker a bit. And Reagan was often largely forgiven by many because he came down with Alzheimer's disease and couldn't remember all the criminal things he was cajoled into doing by the ruling elite criminals around him. Just what the US needs...yet another puppet President controlled by the ruling elite. I don't know how Obama is going to be forgiven, however...he is a Constitutional Scholar (so we're told) and he is not a fumbling, bumbling dummy like the others.
And thanks for all those Bushian quotes! Very interesting!
The evidence isn't conclusive and bombing won't stop the use of these weapons if they were, in fact, used. Even if used by Assad, the course of action would be to indict him in the ICC or the World Court. As to the U.S., if Obama were to take action without Congressional approval, that would be an impeachable offense. If he gets Congressional approval and takes action without U.N. approval, then it's a war crime. If we want others to follow the law, we must also.
Unfortunately, we do not have much moral credibilty due to our hypocrisy and some of our actions that might be considered war crimes. We've overthrown governments, including Iraq and others, some of which were democratically elected. We've supported and, in some cases, installed, repressive regimes. Specifically related to chemical weapons, we supported Hussein when he gassed the Iranians and the Kurds.
We should stay out of this for moral and legal reasons. In addtion, we don't even know who we'll be helping. We may even end up helping Al Qaeda.
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Reprinted from yesterday for your amusement.
Palindromedary ~ I supposed you saw that video I linked to in it's entirety. It had an interesting conclusion whereas it restated President Bush's comment "...another attack that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." Hard to tell with that giant smirk on his face whether that was a warning or a threat. Certainly the video was implying that it was a threat. 'Don't try to stop us or we'll kill you.' 'You're either with us or against us.'
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushquotes/a/dumbbushquotes.htm
I once wrote a song that would echo the testimony of this crime regime where they ever pulled in to testify in court.
The Facist's Testimony Song
(as sung to the tune of "If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands")
Please don't ask me or I'll tell you I don't know!
Please don't ask me or I'll tell you I don't know!
I don't know and I don't care...
And I can prove I'm not all there!
Please don't ask me or I'll tell you I don't know!
If lead he must I'd prefer it be with an open hand for those who have voted with their feet rather than the mailed fist of those who have voted with their purses.
How does violence beget peace, particularly amongst the Wahhabi/Sunni and the Alawite/Shia?
This is splendid news indeed. I certainly hope we can thwart this ill conceived plan of overt imperialism. This idea of invading seven sovereign nations in five years would have made Hitler and Mussolini blush. Just who do some of us think we are. I hope we can put an end to this nonsense without any more innocent bloodshed.
Either way this sickness ends here. We either stop the tyrants in their tracks or we let them bomb and let Russia and China stop them in their tracks. Either way we win. The only thing I fear, is that they may simply back off temporarily... Just long enough for the American people and the international community to become complacent again. If they are not made to answer for the war crimes they have already committed, it is only a matter of time till they try again. Meantime, we will all suffer the domestic plan of Austerity.
There is no way that a country whose leaders demonstrates disinterest in caring for it's own citizens is going to have any serious interest in the humanitarian issues of the citizens of any other country. These liars and thugs need their day of reckoning; and, if they don't get it, WWIII is only going to be postponed and not averted. We could have ended this 40 years ago by not allowing President Richard Nixon to be pardoned. That failure has lead to all these petty wars and domestic problems. If we fail to act again it will only get worse and cause even greater problems in the future for our children.
Call for an international war crimes tribunal to investigate the United States Government for crimes against humanity, NOW!!! The United Nations must act now or the World War that is coming will be their fault!
I can't understand why Assad would use gas when the UN inspectors were scheduled to be there. It could be a false flag incident. On the other hand, Assad may have figured that it would be taken as that, and went ahead with the gassing. I just hope the President doesn't send in the missiles. How will that help the Syrian people who have been under the dynastic dictatorial yoke of the Assad family for 43 years?
Are you even remotely aware that the "rebels" the US is supporting are Al queda?? Are you aware that without the Assad government the Christians there are being slaughtered by these muslim fanatics?
The US has no business getting involed AND to do so is an act of WAR.
Huh???
Ouch that was quite a tongue lashing CARSON...Especially when you totally have misready me...got me all wrong..."Justified Warfare"!?!?Please explain how you get that from what I wrote? You couldn't be more wrong about me.
I guess that's just "collateral damage"! Ha!! ;)
I'll say this about any justified Military Strike on Syria. If it's focus is on taking out Weapons to level the playing field between Pro Democracy and Ass-sad's regiem...I can get behind that. Anything more is a complete overreach...And I can't get behind that!
Oh and FYI...There where several accounts of small villages through out Europe that practiced non-violent action towards the Nazi and in those areas there was far less killing. I'll try and find a link for these recorded accounts, they are very interesting. There are several accouns of Non-violent action during the Revelotionary War and they were successful in gaining ground towards Independence.
I can see why Obama has pursued limited military action and why he is cagey about what he might do if Congress refuses. UN action isn't going well because of Russian obstruction. He's holding out the threat of US and, if not US Congressional his own action, to attempt to force Assad into renouncing his chemical weapons. You don't put all your cards on the table. I hope he is successful in persuading them, but it may be remote. Meanwhile Assad dares not use them. Now is not the time for us to renounce taking action. BTW I think it far more likely that Assad has attempted to make it appear as if the rebels did the attack than that the rebels actually did it. Remember, we haven't seen all the confidential info.
Your discussion with Reason Magazine about locally owned businesses made me come up with a few thoughts:
1- The game Monpoly needs to be updated so that your salay when you pass GO varies according to whether companies are locally owned or not. Also, if the business is not locally owned, the rent should go to the bank, not to any player. Fees will be higher at locally owned businesses, but your salary will indirectly be higher, but ONLY if most of the players opt for locally owned businesses.
2- Libertarians strongly beleive in personal choice and greed is good. But this model is obviously not universally the best. For example, during times of war we can't let each person individually decide which side to actively take. Solidarity must be held or the "house will be divided against itself and fall." I am sure there must be some studies on games that model locally owned, higher costs but higher choice wages vs. monopoly owned, lower costs, but lower choice and wages. I suspect that human nature is to follow the Libertarian model, but that the outcome of the games is long term harm to the majority.
Palindromedary ~ I supposed you saw that video I linked to in it's entirety. It had an interesting conclusion whereas it restated President Bush's comment "...another attack that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud." Hard to tell with that giant smirk on his face whether that was a warning or a threat. Certainly the video was implying that it was a threat. 'Don't try to stop us or we'll kill you.' 'You're either with us or against us.'
I once wrote a song that would echo the testimony of this crime regime where they ever pulled in to testify in court.
The Facist's Testimony Song
(as sung to the tune of "If You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands)
Please don't ask me or I'll tell you I don't know!
Please don't ask me or I'll tell you I don't know!
I don't know and I don't care...
And I can prove I'm not all there!
Please don't ask me or I'll tell you I don't know!
US officials: attack on Syria may lead to war with Iran. Additionally, Russia has pledged support to Syria in the event of an attack and is sending warships to the Syrian coast. I watched Ambassador Powers' "Remarks on Syria", which did not include any followup questions and answers between her and the press. This endeavor seems really hasty, naive and dangerous to me.
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/09/06/us-officials-attack-on-syria-may-...
MMmmNACHOS ~ "Fools Gold?" Interesting term. Whatever you want to call it. Give me a heaping helping of that "Fools Gold." You Grandpa was 100% right. I'm glad you listened to him. There are too many Thugs in the world. Blessed are the Peace Makers.
It's really a war being waged by the world's top 1% against the world's bottom 99%. And, like in the book or movie "1984" it will always be the facade of one country against another. The ruling elite in every one of those countries are very likely complicit in the delusion....a way to keep the masses distracted while the ruling elite continue their exploitation of them. Keep the masses continually very afraid of one another so that they cannot fight against the ruling elite. The top political figureheads are merely fronts...puppets..that play out the game of illusion for the real powers behind them....and it is not the people...the masses...it is the wealthy ruling classes who do the real manipulation behind the scenes. Everything else is merely theatrics...East Asia against Oceania against Eurasia. Keep watching those screens, brothers, and swilling down the gin. Yes, be patriotic and hate and fear those uncivilized heathens who are "jealous of our freedoms" who won't let us steal their oil!
Does it make you wonder why the US used so much propaganda of hate and fear all those years after 9/11 about Al Qaida...and now are actually assisting them in Syria? Does it make you wonder why the US is doing about the same thing they did in Afghanistan after the Russians were kicked out...supplying war lords (and now Al Qaida) with lots of weapons (even WMD..chemical weapons) that could soon be used as yet another psyops threat against the US? It just keeps going on and on, doesn't it? The creation of enemies to keep the masses scared and distracted from who our real enemies are.
Does it make you wonder why the US has actually sacrificed cryptographic security which actually weakens US defense against other countries so that US spy agencies can more easily spy on Americans?
http://cryptome.org/2012/01/0032.htm
Good afternoon.
I called in yesterday asking about the correlation between the European countries who "help" us brutalize other countries and whether or not those countries were, in fact, former colonies of the Europeans. France gobbled up Syria after the Ottomans relinquished it according the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 (where England and France divided the Middle East). Britain helped the U.S. with Iraq (their former "colony" or mandate) but won't help with Syria. France is doing the exact opposite. It just seems like the U.S. is being used by other countries to help do their dirty work in their former colonies.
And more importantly, why are we helping in this war? I understand that chemical warfare is horrible, but so are bombs. Killing people with fire because they killed people with gas seems like we're flooding a town to kill an arson. Ridiculous. If the rest of the world (besides France) is trying to find alternative means of handling this atrocious circumstance, then the U.S. needs to be with them. This is not the Old West and we are not Sherriff. The U.S. helped create and champions the idea of a United Nations…so why are we going against their decision? We shouldn’t go against the U.N. and bomb Syria because Syria went against the U.N. first. This isn’t a school playground and we can’t meet Syria behind the flagpole for some fist-a-cuffs. Two wrongs never made a right.