Headlines - Monday May 21

Some people - in this case 63% - never learn. What part of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars are people missing? People really need to stop listening to the war machine who is chomping at the bit to have constant war. The US not afford another costly war that drags on forever.

It should be obvious that wars aren't the answer to every international problem by now but apparently, it's not. The US military success rate is not what people imagine it is and this has to change. WWII was a long time ago and our military record isn't nearly as impressive as it was back then. Get a grip people and wake up.

Some 63 percent of Americans would be in favor of taking military action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a new survey.

The Pew Research Center asked 26,210 people in 21 different countries to give their views on Iran's alleged plans to get nuclear weapons, finding widespread opposition to the idea in the West and also in some countries in the Mideast.

More than nine in 10 people in the United States, U.K., France and Germany were against Iran getting nuclear weapons. Two percent of Americans said they were in favor.

 

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Yesterday, a group of orthodox Jews (males only) filled Mets Stadium to hear a lecture on the evils of the Internet (apparently there's some porn on here). Unsurprisingly:

According to The New York Times, the meeting was sponsored by a rabbinical group that is connected to a software company specializing in selling web filtering software to Orthodox Jews. You won't be surprised to find, therefore, that the conclusion reached at the end of the rally was that we should all, Jews or otherwise, install internet filtering software on our machines as a "minimal base line of protection."

In case you're wondering, the women were watching from "viewing parties" in Brooklyn and New Jersey.

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Imagine getting over $30 million as a severance package:

The 55-year old chief investment officer oversaw the division that made bets that JP Morgan has warned could rack up a further $1bn in losses. She will be replaced by Matt Zames, head of fixed income at JP Morgan's investment bank and a former proprietary trader. One of the best paid women on Wall Street, Ms Drew last year received a remuneration package worth $15.5m. Corporate filings show that following her resignation she is entitled to $400,000 in severance as well as a share award that was worth $16m yesterday. On top of this, she has unexercised options that were valued at the end of last year at $3.44m, a series of retirement benefits worth a further $2.63m, and a $9.87m deferred compensation pot built up over several years.

 

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Why did the Navy can this dude, er, Gordon J. Klingenschmitt, just for praying in Jesus's name? (Oh right, because it didn't.) But that has not stopped Gordon J. Klingenschmitt from having some opinions on the persecution of Christians by the government because Barack Nobama "blame[d] Jesus Christ" for his endorsement of homosexual marriage by invoking the Golden Rule, and also that animals are homosexual because evil spirits escaped from gays and possessed them, like when Jesus cast an evil spirit into some pigs. Hello, it is called science, why don't you look it up! RawStory has the raw story on dude just laying down the cold homo FACTS. Marketing, recruiting, homosexual agendas (don't forget the free toaster!), for starters, turn people who were born straight into icky queers. This is when you perform gay and lesbian exorcisms, obviously. Except that then the gay goes into the animals, and that is why 4000 species do gay stuff to each other. READ MORE »

 

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It's been a really shitty week for pop music.

 

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If Citizens United Wasn't Bad Enough…

…imagine an America with legalized government propaganda in the modern age. We'd be totally effed.

An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned.

The amendment would "strike the current ban on domestic dissemination" of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according to the summary of the law at the House Rules Committee's official website.

The tweak to the bill would essentially neutralize two previous acts—the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 and Foreign Relations Authorization Act in 1987—that had been passed to protect U.S. audiences from our own government's misinformation campaigns.

The bi-partisan amendment is sponsored by Rep. Mac Thornberry from Texas and Rep. Adam Smith from Washington State.

 

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