WTF... In America?????????

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Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura
(the banned Police State episode)



Over a year before we heard anything about the National Defense Authorization Act having provisions that codify the indefinite detention of American citizens without trial, over a year before we heard anything about the "activation" of FEMA camps nation-wide, Jesse Ventura told us all about it on his TV show, Conspiracy Theory.

After airing once in November of 2010, truTV was asked to remove the episode from it's lineup to prevent it being replayed.

At the time it was labeled "dangerous and irresponsible" and we were told that it was "full of inaccuracies and irresponsible distortions."

Well, I guess we are starting to see why the show hit a nerve with the control freaks in Washington, it was true...​

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Top Economist provides a vision of how to get out of stagflation


The US doesn't produce new jobs at anywhere near what is required to hire the new workers entering the marketplace, much less lower the unemployment rate. This has been true for over a decade!

Real take home pay for workers has been declining for years.

Americans' debt burden is the highest in history.

Given this and the lack of economic common sense in Washington how do we get out of this economic mess?

Richard Duncan, whose grasp of monetary economics is top notch, gives one solution.​

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'CIA death squads behind Syria bloodbath'



The stage has been set and the show is underway, but without a U.N. resolution to justify their aggression, will the West get it's grand finale?

Just like Libya, the lame stream media is more than happy to tell us about the very real violence that is taking place, but they neglect to tell us who is really behind it.

They told us that the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was strafing innocent "protesters" with helicopters, but now we know he was fighting armed groups in league with Al Qaeda and the West.

Now we find it's more of the same in Syria.

The violence is real, but who's behind it?

I bet you can guess...​

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We Don't need more Regualtions, We Need new Regulators



The SEC is run by a former chief counsel for Deutch Bank, which has run afoul of the law. This is typical. Our regulators who are supposed to protect us, work for the dark side.

So if the Federal Government won't work for us, who will? Matt Taibi explains.​

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The dirty history of promoting democracy


They've got to sell it to you like it's good, that's why they call themselves 'pro-democracy' groups, but as this clip lays bare, so-called pro-democracy groups don't always promote democracy.

In fact, stirring the pot in favor of the U.S. government is, more often than not, far from promoting democracy and more akin to stirring up trouble...​

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does writing in big red letters make it more believable​

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NYPD K9 Units using new high-tech equipment


For anyone that believes that there are terrorists hiding behind every corner in every American city, well, they'll probably like this and think that this is going to keep them 'safe'.

However, for those of us that know that the 'War on Terror' is a fraud, we immediately recognize that all of this is really aimed at the American people.

The NYPD's new K9 anti-terror units...​

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http://republicans.oversight.house....t-owned-yacht&catid=22:releasesstatements

Oversight Committee Reviewing Port of L.A. Grant for Port-Owned Yacht
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is reviewing the Port of Los Angeles' decision to use $489,000 in stimulus funds awarded by the federal government to install a new propulsion system in a Port-owned yacht used for publicity and educational tours.

Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) wrote February 6 to Dr. Geraldine Knatz, executive director of the Port, requesting information on a hybrid-electric propulsion system designed for the 70-foot motoryacht, Angelena II.

The City of Los Angeles received a $37 million Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Of this grant, the Port received approximately $1.5 million for its Port Technology Advancement program. According to a Port of Los Angeles press release, $489,000 of the $1.5 million grant for the Port of Los Angeles was used to retrofit the Angelena II with the new power system.

"At at time when city, state and federal budgets are at the breaking point, taxpayers should be able to rely on their elected officials making sound decisions about spending taxpayer money," Issa said. "The Port of Los Angeles owes the public greater transparency about this project and a full accounting of the cost-benefit analysis used to justify spending on this type of project," Issa added.

Issa requested answers to five questions as part of the Committee's investigation into "green" energy programs, loans and grants issued by the U.S. Department of Energy, including:

1. When did the Port of Los Angeles apply to DOE to receive reimbursement for the retrofitting of the Angelena II for the hybrid-electric propulsion system? What information did DOE request when you applied for reimbursement for the retrofit?

2. What is the status of retrofitting the Angelena II? Prior to retrofitting, how many hours had the Angelena II ran on its two 350 horsepower diesel engines? What is the typical lifespan, in terms of hours, of the diesel engines that were on the Angelena II? Prior to 2010 when was the last time that the vessel had its engines retrofitted?

3. Regarding the Port Technology Advancement Program, at what priority level did retrofitting the Angelena II rank? How did the Port of Los Angeles use the remainder of the EECBG Program money allocated to it?

4. What discretion did the Port of Los Angeles have in deciding how to allocate the funds given by the EECBG Program?

5. Please provide all documents and communications, including e-mails referring or relating to the decision to use the EECBG Program for the retrofit of the Angelena II.

 

[Tinman]

does writing in big red letters make it more believable​

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[Tinman]

FAA: Look For 30,000 Drones To Fill American Skies By The End Of The Decade

Robert Johnson | 3 hours ago | <nobr>1,177</nobr> | <nobr title="Read comments"> 14 </nobr>


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Weaponized MQ-9 Reaper with camera


</td></tr></tbody></table>Congress passed a bill this week paving the way for unmanned drones to ply American skies. The bill requires the FAA to rush a plan to get as many drones in the air as possible within nine months.
How many drones are we talking?
Shaun Waterman at The Washington Times reports the agency predicts that 30,000 drones could fill U.S. skies by the end of the decade.
Naturally, many are concerned that surveillance by police and federal government agencies will skyrocket in response.
From The Washington Times:

“There are serious policy questions on the horizon about privacy and surveillance, by both government agencies and commercial entities,” said Steven Aftergood, who heads the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists...
The bill calls for numerous test ranges to be operated in conjunction with NASA and the Department of Defense, use of drones in the Arctic, guidance system improvements, and an assessment of the “catastrophic failure of the unmanned aircraft that would endanger other aircraft in the national airspace system.”

This new bill follows up the Army's January directive to use drone fleets in the U.S. for training missions and "domestic operations."
And both of these initiatives are mandated in the NDAA (section 1097) that calls for six drone test ranges to be operational within six months of that bills signing December 31.
The commercial drone market would be worth hundreds of millions more if the bill passes.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-johnson-bi-30000-drones-by-2020-2012-2#ixzz1lpWQPEDO
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FAA: Look For 30,000 Drones To Fill American Skies By The End Of The Decade

Robert Johnson | 3 hours ago | <nobr>1,177</nobr> | <nobr title="Read comments"> 14 </nobr>


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Weaponized MQ-9 Reaper with camera


</td></tr></tbody></table>Congress passed a bill this week paving the way for unmanned drones to ply American skies. The bill requires the FAA to rush a plan to get as many drones in the air as possible within nine months.
How many drones are we talking?
Shaun Waterman at The Washington Times reports the agency predicts that 30,000 drones could fill U.S. skies by the end of the decade.
Naturally, many are concerned that surveillance by police and federal government agencies will skyrocket in response.
From The Washington Times:

“There are serious policy questions on the horizon about privacy and surveillance, by both government agencies and commercial entities,” said Steven Aftergood, who heads the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists...
The bill calls for numerous test ranges to be operated in conjunction with NASA and the Department of Defense, use of drones in the Arctic, guidance system improvements, and an assessment of the “catastrophic failure of the unmanned aircraft that would endanger other aircraft in the national airspace system.”

This new bill follows up the Army's January directive to use drone fleets in the U.S. for training missions and "domestic operations."
And both of these initiatives are mandated in the NDAA (section 1097) that calls for six drone test ranges to be operational within six months of that bills signing December 31.
The commercial drone market would be worth hundreds of millions more if the bill passes.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/robert-johnson-bi-30000-drones-by-2020-2012-2#ixzz1lpWQPEDO
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Yeah, law enforcement cannot wait.

 

[Tinman]

Obama: People Are Frustrated I Can't Force My Will On Congress--Founding Fathers Made It Difficult





You won't find any mention of Obama's pre-Superbowl interview with Matt Lauer. Gee, I wonder why?

This goes hand in hand with a number of news/opinion articles that came out over the last week, concerning the need to do away with The Bill of Rights and The Constitution.

February 6, 2012
‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World

By ADAM LIPTAK

WASHINGTON — The Constitution has seen better days.


Sure, it is the nation’s founding document and sacred text. And it is the oldest written national constitution still in force anywhere in the world. But its influence is waning.


In 1987, on the Constitution’s bicentennial, Time magazine calculated that “of the 170 countries that exist today, more than 160 have written charters modeled directly or indirectly on the U.S. version.”


A quarter-century later, the picture looks very different. “The U.S. Constitution appears to be losing its appeal as a model for constitutional drafters elsewhere,” according to a new study by David S. Law of Washington University in St. Louis and Mila Versteeg of the University of Virginia.
The study, to be published in June in The New York University Law Review, bristles with data. Its authors coded and analyzed the provisions of 729 constitutions adopted by 188 countries from 1946 to 2006, and they considered 237 variables regarding various rights and ways to enforce them.
“Among the world’s democracies,” Professors Law and Versteeg concluded, “constitutional similarity to the United States has clearly gone into free fall. Over the 1960s and 1970s, democratic constitutions as a whole became more similar to the U.S. Constitution, only to reverse course in the 1980s and 1990s.”


“The turn of the twenty-first century, however, saw the beginning of a steep plunge that continues through the most recent years for which we have data, to the point that the constitutions of the world’s democracies are, on average, less similar to the U.S. Constitution now than they were at the end of World War II.”


There are lots of possible reasons. The United States Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights. The commitment of some members of the Supreme Court to interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning in the 18th century may send the signal that it is of little current use to, say, a new African nation. And the Constitution’s waning influence may be part of a general decline in American power and prestige.
In an interview, Professor Law identified a central reason for the trend: the availability of newer, sexier and more powerful operating systems in the constitutional marketplace. “Nobody wants to copy Windows 3.1,” he said.
In a television interview during a visit to Egypt last week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court seemed to agree. “I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012,” she said. She recommended, instead, the South African Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the European Convention on Human Rights.


The rights guaranteed by the American Constitution are parsimonious by international standards, and they are frozen in amber. As Sanford Levinson wrote in 2006 in “Our Undemocratic Constitution,” “the U.S. Constitution is the most difficult to amend of any constitution currently existing in the world today.” (Yugoslavia used to hold that title, but Yugoslavia did not work out.)
Other nations routinely trade in their constitutions wholesale, replacing them on average every 19 years. By odd coincidence, Thomas Jefferson, in a 1789 letter to James Madison, once said that every constitution “naturally expires at the end of 19 years” because “the earth belongs always to the living generation.” These days, the overlap between the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and those most popular around the world is spotty.


Americans recognize rights not widely protected, including ones to a speedy and public trial, and are outliers in prohibiting government establishment of religion. But the Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least in so many words, a right to travel, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to food, education and health care.
It has its idiosyncrasies. Only 2 percent of the world’s constitutions protect, as the Second Amendment does, a right to bear arms. (Its brothers in arms are Guatemala and Mexico.)


The Constitution’s waning global stature is consistent with the diminished influence of the Supreme Court, which “is losing the central role it once had among courts in modern democracies,” Aharon Barak, then the president of the Supreme Court of Israel, wrote in The Harvard Law Review in 2002.
Many foreign judges say they have become less likely to cite decisions of the United States Supreme Court, in part because of what they consider its parochialism.


“America is in danger, I think, of becoming something of a legal backwater,” Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia said in a 2001 interview. He said that he looked instead to India, South Africa and New Zealand.
Mr. Barak, for his part, identified a new constitutional superpower: “Canadian law,” he wrote, “serves as a source of inspiration for many countries around the world.” The new study also suggests that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, adopted in 1982, may now be more influential than its American counterpart.


The Canadian Charter is both more expansive and less absolute. It guarantees equal rights for women and disabled people, allows affirmative action and requires that those arrested be informed of their rights. On the other hand, it balances those rights against “such reasonable limits” as “can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.”
There are, of course, limits to empirical research based on coding and counting, and there is more to a constitution than its words, as Justice Antonin Scalia told the Senate Judiciary Committee in October. “Every banana republic in the world has a bill of rights,” he said.


“The bill of rights of the former evil empire, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was much better than ours,” he said, adding: “We guarantee freedom of speech and of the press. Big deal. They guaranteed freedom of speech, of the press, of street demonstrations and protests, and anyone who is caught trying to suppress criticism of the government will be called to account. Whoa, that is wonderful stuff!”


“Of course,” Justice Scalia continued, “it’s just words on paper, what our framers would have called a ‘parchment guarantee.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/u...e-around-the-world.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

 

[Tinman]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Trashes Constitution; Should She Be Impeached?




COMMENTARY | According to Fox News, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg advised the people who are writing Egypt's new constitution to not use the U.S. Constitution as a model. It was a curious statement for an American jurist to make.


Ginsburg, whose job on the Supreme Court is to uphold the U.S. Constitution, has a curious but sadly widespread disdain for that document. A recent New York Times article suggested the American Constitution is losing its allure around the world. The main reason is it does not guarantee the right to, among other things, food, health care and education.


In other words, Ginsberg and others on the left feel the Constitution is slanted too much toward preventing the government from doing things -- like putting people in jail without due process -- and not toward requiring the government to do things -- like providing people with a whole array of social services that liberals believe it should.
Of course the right to food, health care and education has to be paid for, meaning people will be deprived of their property for that purpose.


Barack Obama, in an infamous 2001 radio interview, suggested the Constitution is "deeply flawed," according to Newsmax. According to an article in the Daily Caller, Obama has taken a casual view where it comes to adhering to the Constitution. Obama has violated the Constitution in a number of cases, from requiring an individual mandate under health care reform to defying the federal courts in imposing a deep water drilling ban in the Gulf of Mexico.


Liberals complain the U.S. Constitution is hard the amend, which is why they like to rely on creative interpretations of a document they regard as "living." Sadly, it is even more difficult to impeach a sitting Supreme Court justice such as Ginsburg, even one who has so flagrantly trashed the Constitution that she is sworn to protect and defend.


Nature will likely solve the problem of Ginsburg -- she is in her late 70s -- long before a proper impeachment process could remove her. Her attitude suggests the U.S. Senate should be far more stringent in its confirmation process, ensuring the courts are filled with people with a better regard for the Constitution than Ginsburg has expressed.



http://news.yahoo.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-trashes-constitution-she-impeached-232200921.html

 

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Obama: People Are Frustrated I Can't Force My Will On Congress--Founding Fathers Made It Difficult





You won't find any mention of Obama's pre-Superbowl interview with Matt Lauer. Gee, I wonder why?

This goes hand in hand with a number of news/opinion articles that came out over the last week, concerning the need to do away with The Bill of Rights and The Constitution.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/u...e-around-the-world.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print

Damn good post... I did not know about this interview!

 

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Former Economic Hitman talks about today



John Perkins was an Economic Hit Man or EHM. He lured countries into loans for development that they never could repay. Loans that would never even reach the country. Loans that would go directly to the corporations that would fulfill the projects at very high profit margins.

If John could not make a deal that they could not refuse, then overthrow would often follow, either assasination of the democratically elected leader or if necessary an armed invasion.

John has moved on from being an EHM. Hear why he is excited about the future and the part he wishes to play. This is part of an extended interview.​

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FOX News anchors muse mindlessly over election fraud


The lame stream media is actually reporting on 'irregularities' surrounding the GOP caucuses, but it does so like it's reporting on some unseasonable weather.

Wow. Hey. Well, would you look at that.

On to the next story.

No big deal, it's close enough, right?

The missing boxes in Iowa, zombies in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and now in Nevada there were more votes than the number of people signed into the caucus.

I'm sure it's fine...​

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"We're from the government and we're here to help."

Militarized highway vaccination checkpoints



This is not America.

None the less, this is what it will look like if we ever let them do it, and they WILL try.

With school districts in California conducting door-to-door surprise vaccinations, and with the American Medical Association advocating compulsory participation in vaccine TRIALS, we are not very far off from seeing this sort of thing on our own highways.

Remember the scariest words in the English language?​

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Anonymous calls out Black Bloc 'agent provocateurs'




When people find out that I'm not really into NFL football, they often ask why I don't like sports.

I jokingly inform them that 'politics' is my sport, but in politics the two teams, call them Red team and Blue team, both run the ball towards the same end of the field.

Much like my joke about politics, two rival groups trying to associate themselves with the Occupy movement are now in a playoff against each other, the Battle of the Subversives has begun.

And again, both sides are running the ball towards the same end of the field. One team uses violence and vandalism, the other uses wit and cyber crime, but in the end they both cast the stain of criminal activity on the Occupy movement...​

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Credit Card Cloning and Orgies


Say what??! Well for one criminal entrepreneur they are
very related. I mean, how's a guy to know who he can trust
as partner in crime?
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'Black Bloc' protesters serve the elite 1%



Hiding in and among legitimate and peaceful protesters are the so-called 'Black Bloc' anarchists.

Black Bloc is more of a tactic than any specific group, whereby individuals wear black clothing, scarves, ski masks, etc. to conceal their identities as they commit acts of violence and vandalism while hiding in and among peaceful protesters.

On several occasions it was demonstrated that the Black Bloc were actually police officers disguise, these are called 'agent provocateurs'.

This tactic serves to delegitimize the protests as a whole, giving the public a negative opinion of the protests and law enforcement an excuse to rout the protests in general.

In this sense, the Black Bloc serves the 1%...​

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The War on Wages Part 3


Are US Corporations suffering under a high tax burden? Here are the actual numbers.

Here is also another take on the relationship over time between corporate profits and wages.​

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Congress allows 30,000 drones to spy on Americans



Congress has quietly passed an FAA reauthorization bill last week that will make it much easier for the government to put scores of unmanned spy drones into American skies.

Couple this legislation with the government's willingness to spy on Americans, indefinitely detain Americans, and even kill Americans without charges or trial and it looks like we are well beyond Orwell's 1984 and onto an even MORE dystopian future...​

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Nightline report on air marshal investigation



Armed, racist, and homophobic is the impression given by former air marshal and whistleblower Steve Theodoropoulos as he describes the people who are supposed to be protecting travelers as they fly.

And we're not just talking about the guy with a gun and a badge sitting discreetly somewhere at the back of the plane, this is how they are describing the leadership.

ABC's Nightline reports on the lack of professionalism among the U.S. Air Marshals...​

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Professor Vijay Prashad on war with Iran!

 

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Professor Vijay Prashad on war with Iran!

Thanks for this Bruh!

 

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Something stinks...​

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Part 7 of 29 soon to follow...

 

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Something stinks part 2​

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part 15 of 29 soon to follow

 

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Something stinks! Part 3​

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Part 20 of 29 soon to follow

 

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Something stinks!!!​

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Lawmakers worried about Roll Your Own cigarette machines


We are all feeling it, the economy is bad.

Everyday needs are getting harder and harder to meet, and don't even think about being able to afford the 'little pleasures' in life, whatever yours may be.

We hear about government waste all the time. And as the government literally wastes billions of dollars every year, they are focused on making sure that YOU continue to pay your part.

Rather than eliminate the waste and redirect that money towards programs that actually benefit you, they want to continue wasting money and then blame smokers for the lack of funds for worthwhile programs.

So now the lack of funds is YOUR fault, if your 'little pleasure' in life happens to be a cheaper and better quality cigarette anyway...​

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Halftime in America: Remy Chrysler Ad Parody


Clint Eastwood, what a guy. What an actor and a director.

Personally, I'd go see ANY movie with him in it, or with him directing it.

To be perfectly honest though, I'm not a big fan of his Superbowl commercial.

This parody, however, is pretty darn funny...

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Steve Jobs had 'top secret' security clearance


While many people are fretting about the recent revelations contained in Steve Jobs' FBI profile, even calling it a postmortem hit piece, I think it just serves to make him more human.

Much of what was revealed is stuff many people already knew, he did drugs when he was younger, he was abrasive, he was a creative genius, he distorted reality, etc. I didn't find any of that to be a big deal.

What is interesting to me is that he had 'Top Secret' security clearance for two years, from August 30, 1988 until July 3, 1990. That's two years he worked for the government. I can't help but wonder what he might have been doing for them...​

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Marines pose with Nazi SS flag


OK.

There are TEN marines standing around a Nazi flag, and CNN wants you to believe that NOT ONE OF THEM understood the implications.

After revelations that this wasn't an isolated incident, I have a hard time believing that. One or two Marines, okay. But all of them, including their leadership?​

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