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If you really wanna get  technical , the land was “occupied” by plants and animals first… Of course, the above statement relies on how one interprets the word “occupied,” but… What’s not open to interpretation is that 80% of the world’s forests have been cut down and raising taxes on the rich won’t bring back a single tree. What’s not open to interpretation is that 90% of the large fish in the ocean are already gone and re-vamping the Federal Reserve Bank won’t re-vitalize the oceans. What’s not open to interpretation is that 9 billion animals are killed each year for food (sic) while 51% of human-created greenhouse gases are produced by the global animal food industry. Instituting campaign finance reform or term limits will not slow this lethal damage. “We all, out of necessity, focus on the issues that are most dear to us,” says Will Potter . “We have limited time, limited money, limited resources. But listen: there are times for carving out our niches, a...

On September 30, the CIA and Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) assets under the Agency's control, assassinated the alleged "external operations" chief of the Afghan-Arab database of disposable Western intelligence assets, also known as Al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, and a second American citizen, Samir Khan, the 25-year-old editor of Inspire magazine, in a drone strike in Yemen. As  The Washington Post  reported last month, the "commingling" of CIA officers, JSOC paramilitary troops and contractors "occupy an expanding netherworld between intelligence and military operations" where "congressional intelligence and armed services committees rarely get a comprehensive view." Or any "view" at all, which is precisely what the CIA and Pentagon have long desired; an oversight-free zone where American policymakers operate, as Dick Cheney infamously put it, on the "dark side," a position fully-embraced by the "hope and...