THE WAR NOBODY GIVES A DAMN ABOUT: AFGHANISTAN: WAR WITHOUT END

This is part 2 of a three-part documentary about the Afghanistan war, a war that has been totally foregotten about by the press, politicians and public. 

The war has been going on for over 12 years and the press claims the American public suffer from
"war fatigue." 

The only people who care about the Afghanistan war are the people who are fighting it and their families back home and that represents less than one percent of the American population.

Click on arrow to play video and find two other documentaries about the war on this page.

RICHARD ENGLE, NBC NEWS, REPORTS ON FIREFIGHT IN AFGHANISTAN

Richard Engle, NBC News reports on firefight inside of Afghanistan.

FIRST LOOK OF JODI ARIAS SINCE MURDER CONVICTION IN MAY

Jodi Arias was back in court on Tuesday and heard the Judge declare a new jury will be impaneled in September for the sentencing phase of her trial.

Jodi Arias Judge Orders Another Pre-Trial Court Date: ABCNEWS.COM - Arizona judge sets hearing for Aug. 26, tells attorneys to prep for September penalty phase retrial.

Jodi Arias "tweet":  Jodi Arias‏@Jodiannarias6h

A few of my dedicated haters came all the way 2 court 2day just 2 glare at me. I'm flattered. Thought it was I who had nothing better 2 do.

ZIMMERMAN JUROR SPEAKS OUT

One of the jurors on George Zimmerman trial went on AC 360 and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt the jurors in the trial were all dumber than a box of rocks. 

Watch video and read what she said here:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/15/justice/zimmerman-juror-book/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

REAL COMBAT FIGHTING: US MARINES BATTLE TALIBAN

Video of real combat fighting in Afghanistan with US Marines taking on the Taliban

KICK-ASS VIDEO US SOLDIERS BATTLE TALIBAN

Kick-ass video shows US soldiers in furious firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

GREEN BERETS IN HEAVY FIREFIGHT IN AFGHANISTAN

Green Berets in heavy firefight in Afghanistan.  Watch video.

ACTION-PACKED VIDEO OF MARINES FIGHTING TALIBAN

Video shows Marines engaged in battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan

DRAMATIC AND GRUESOME EYE OPENING VIDEO OF AFGHANISTAN WAR

This eye-opening video follows a British platoon into combat in Afghanistan and then records what happened to them.  WARNING:  The video is very graphic.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSUIT OF FOX NEWS' BILL O'REILLY

Video of the sexual harassment lawsuit of FOX NEWS'  BILL O'REILLY

NEVER SEEN BEFORE IRAQ WAR FOOTAGE

A tribute to the US Marines in Iraq. This is as real as the real gets. Never again likely will you ever get to see uncensored footage from the front lines. May God watch over all fighting for their countries.

REAL COMBAT FOOTAGE OF US MARINES IN ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN

Video of real combat with US Marines up against the Taliban in Afghanistan

UNCENSORED COMBAT FOOTAGE FROM FRONTLINES OF AFGHANISTAN

This video shows uncensored footage of British troops in action in Afghanistan.

JUST DECLASSIFIED: UNCENSORED 6TH MARINE DIV ATTACK OKINAWA IN 1945

This rare video was just declassified and is an uncensored inside view of the battle for Okinawa in 1945.

COMBAT FOOTAGE: Soldiers Ambushed In Kunar Provence

Watch as soldiers from the 101st Airborne are ambushed in Afghanistan

TRIBUTE SONG TO JODI ARIAS

Tribute song to Jodi Arias by Frank Queen.  My heart goes out to Jodi.  If only she had not got mixed up with that low-life Travis Alexander.  Jodi has so much to offer and now she is going to spend the rest of her life behind bars. 

COMBAT FOOTAGE Soldiers attack Taliban positions during patrol

You may not realize it or even care, but our troops are still engaged in firefights like this in Afghanistan.

VIDEO: WATCH MARINE TAKE OUT TALIBAN FIGHTER

Video shows a U.S. Marine taking out a Taliban fighter

Marines Engage Armed Taliban Fighter | Military.com

DRONE PILOTS IN NEVADA ATTACK TALIBAN

VIDEO of DRONE pilots based in Nevada attack Taliban in Afghanistan

DEVASTATION FOLLOWING DRONE ATTACK

Action-packed video shows the devastation caused by a DRONE attack.

MARINES IN KICK ASS FIREFIGHT WITH TALIBAN

MARINES in kick-ass firefight with Taliban in Afganistan.

ESQUIRE MAGAZINE REVEALS GEORGE ZIMMERMAN QUOTE THAT SHOULD PUT HIM IN JAIL FOR LIFE

Esquire Magazin has an excellent report on the police interrogation of George Zimmerman in the murder of 17-year old Trayvon Martin.

The interview and Zimmerman's quotes and cocky attitude should be enough to convict him of first degree murder and a life behind bars.

Read article here:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/trayvon-martin

JODI ARIAS' ATTORNEYS SEEK TO REMOVE DEATH PENALTY FROM CONVICTION

The attorneys for Jodi Arias have asked the judge to remove the "exceptional cruelty" ruling by the jury thus taking the death penalty off the table when sentencing is reached.

A new jury is supposed to be seated by July 18 just to weigh the sentencing for the 32-year old convicted of murdering her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander. 

Read more here:


Arias attorneys seek to vacate death eligibility

Army Chaplain Gets Six Months in Sex Case | Military.com

There is an old saying in the military that goes like this:  Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

That was proven today in this case:

Army Chaplain Gets Six Months in Sex Case | Military.com

JODI'S GRANDMOTHER

Jodi Arias' grandmother perhaps summed up why the 32-year old beauty ended up killing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander.

Early in the Lifetime movie, Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret, Jodis' grandmother is shown talking to Jodi and telling her that she has a terrible track record of picking boyfriends who only want her for sex and then dump her.

Jodi attempts to explain to her grandmother how Travis Alexander was different from all the rest and that he really cares for her.

Alexander is seen later in the flick telling Jodi he never told her he loved her and she had mistaken lust for love.

Arias begins to stalk and harass Alexander and finally stabs him 29 times in his shower as well as slitting his throat and then firing one shot into his head.

A jury found Jodi Arias guilty of first degree murder, but was deadlocked on the sentencing phase of the trial requiring a new jury to determine if she gets the death penalty or is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

At a post-conviction hearing last week, Jodi Arias appeared in court wearing a prison jumpsuit and shackles and even managed to smile and laugh and mouth the words "I love you" to her parents.

Arias' nonchalant approach to her future has led this former reporter to speculate she may have come to terms with a life behind bars for the rest of her life and appears to possibly welcome the verdict as a way of keeping her from anymore destructive relationships and taming the lust which was driving her from one bad relationship to another since she turned 15 and moved out of her home in Wyreka, California.

She recently tweeted on Twitter that she may try to make a deal to avoid the death penalty in return for agreeing to wave all appellate issues.

Arias had a long history in her short life of going from one abusive relationship to another and she may have come to grips with her addiction and realizes a life behind bars will be the only way she will ever manage to keep from entering into a another destructive relationship.

It is a harsh step to take, but only Jodi Arias has the power to refuse any judicial help and will settle for a life in prison than have to deal with the demons of lust and jealousy which have controlled her short life.

Bill Corcoran, Chicago

CONGRESSMAN PETER KING BLASTS RAND PAUL OVER ED SNOWDEN

Republican Cong. Peter King blasted Rand Paul over the Ed Snowden leak of classified documents to foreign governments and the media.

http://youtu.be/0SASFcuISVk

JODI ARIAS SMILES AND LAUGHS AT POST-CONVICTION HEARING

Does Jodi Arias know something we don't know, or was she just trying to show a stiff upper lip when she appeared in court at the post-conviction hearing and was smiling and laughing. 

Watch here:  http://youtu.be/P1ENVpeNz9Q

TEN APPELLATE ISSUES WHICH COULD CHANGE JODI ARIAS VERDICT

The Jodi Arias case is up for Appellate review and here are some of the issues which could bring about a new trial and a new verdict in the case:

1 Intimidation of defense. Defense counsel, expert witnesses, and prospective character witnesses all received death threats, other threats, or actual injuries which affected their behavior. For example, domestic-violence expert Alyce LaViolette, during her testimony, was treated in hospital for anxiety. At the same time, there was a national campaign to ruin her reputation by posting bad reviews of her books and by pressing organizations to cancel speaking engagements. The judge took no effective action to protect the defense from any of these acts, which are state, and arguably federal, crimes.

2 Due process I: essential elements. Arias was charged with first-degree murder on two alternate theories: premeditation and felony murder. Yet the felony in question was never definitely specified, even in the state’s closing argument. At midtrial, and briefly in closing, the state said it was second-degree burglary with intent to assault. More often in closing, the state said it was second-degree burglary with intent to steal a gun. It should be viewed as a Sixth-Amendment violation for a defendant not to know the details of the charges against her – the essential elements of the crime — until rebuttal by evidence is no longer possible.

3 Due process II: guilt via state falsehood. In closing, the state invited the jury to convict Arias of felony murder based on this second-degree burglary of unlawfully remaining in Travis Alexander’s house with the intent to steal his gun. Yet the state, in attacking Arias’ self-defense story, had argued vigorously that Alexander owned no gun. Rather, a mainstay of its case for premeditation was to accuse Arias of stealing her grandfather’s gun a week before. Thus, the jury was invited to convict her of a crime by finding that one of the state’s own main assertions was false beyond reasonable doubt. That is likewise inconsistent with due process.

4 Irrational verdict I: felony murder. In the end, seven jurors voted for both premeditation and felony murder, though in the state’s case they were alternatives. Apart from that, there are two reasons why these votes should have been voided.

First, the state provided exactly zero evidence for felony murder beyond the killing itself and the gun theft, which were undisputed. In closing, the prosecutor falsely claimed that these two elements suffice for felony murder. Rather, what is also required, on the gun-theft theory, is that Arias, in remaining, had the “objective” (the jury instructions’ gloss on ‘intent’) of stealing Alexander’s gun, and killed him in furtherance of that goal. But there was no evidence for this, and no reasonable juror could believe it. Obviously, Arias took away the gun to hide her role in his death; she did not kill him to get a cheap gun, for which, defense and prosecution agreed, she had sources near home, not a thousand miles away. The judge should have simply dismissed the felony-murder charge, as the defense had asked before.

5 Irrational verdict II: premeditation. These seven jurors, at any rate, could not have rested their premeditation vote on a belief that Arias stole her grandfather’s gun. But the remaining evidence of premeditation is very weak. It consists of aspects of a trip that any traveler might do or suffer, amid multiple facts negating concealment. To dye your hair, to rent a car in a different town, to ask not to have a red one, to take gas cans into the desert, to turn off (or lose power to) your cellphone there, to find your license plate upside down – all these have obvious innocent explanations. On the other hand, as the defense noted, no one seeking to conceal her trip would borrow gas cans from a friend, visit other friends along the way, make multiple bank transactions, stop at a beauty salon, buy gas with a debit card when ample cash was at hand, or save her receipts.

On such facts, a competent, unbiased judge would void these seven jurors’ premeditation votes as unreasonable. With both votes of the seven nullified, the verdict falls.

6 State perjury. Taken together, medical examiner Kevin Horn’s autopsy report and his testimony assert an anatomical impossibility: that the bullet passed through Alexander’s right frontal lobe, yet his dura mater (the outermost membrane covering the brain) was intact. This is as impossible as a bullet’s piercing the heart without breaking the skin. At trial, Horn said his dura-mater statement was a “typo.” But he did not say what it could be a typo for. The error could not be just a missing ‘not’: autopsy reports describe injuries; they do not merely say organs are “not intact.” Moreover, the actual statement (p. 7) is: “The dura mater and falx cerebri are intact.” The falx cerebri is nowhere near the alleged bullet track.

Also, at a pretrial hearing and in depositions, Detective Esteban Flores testified that, based on what Horn had told him the day before the hearing, the gunshot came first, and it did not incapacitate Alexander or did so only briefly. This agrees with Arias’ self-defense story. At trial, however, Horn claimed that the gunshot wound came last and had to be incapacitating. He also claimed that he could not recall ever speaking to Flores about the case. So, before or during trial, the state switched not just the details of its charges, but even its key facts.

It is probable that one or both of these state witnesses committed perjury.

7 Other prosecution misconduct. Prosecutor Juan Martinez denied the existence of evidence, then introduced it against the defendant at trial. He also withheld other key evidence, like the camera, from the defense. At trial, he threw objects around the courtroom, including an exhibit (the camera). He continually bullied defense witnesses, including experts, argued with them, cut off their answers, and distorted their testimony. He even misdescribed his own witness’s testimony (the “bloody” handprint, which a state witness had said tested negative for blood). Defense objections to his outrageous courtroom conduct were consistently but wrongly overruled. In closing, he flagrantly misstated the law of felony murder (§4).

8 Nonsequestration of jury. An unprecedented media campaign of hatred against Arias preceded and accompanied the trial. One channel, HLN, devoted eight or more hours a day to mocking, vilifying, dehumanizing, and demonizing her. HLN’s torrent of abuse and prejudice has no counterpart but Oceania’s campaign against Emmanuel Goldstein, in 1984. Numerous hate sites also sprang up in social media.

Jurors had free access via internet to all of this prejudicial material – not just at home, but even in the courthouse itself. The judge’s actions to avoid jury taint were clearly ineffective, since a dismissed juror admitted talking with other people about the case, though he had never said so when questioned by the judge. A juror question also showed access to news coverage. Even County Attorney Bill Montgomery had warned against not sequestering the jury in a case of such national prominence.

9 Reasonable doubt on self-defense. LaViolette explained how the Alexander-Arias relationship resembled the abusive ones on which she is an expert, and she found Arias’ story entirely credible. The prosecution bore the burden (in Arizona) of disproving self-defense beyond reasonable doubt. On what basis can a juror conclude that an expert opinion is false beyond reasonable doubt? True, the jury had other evidence besides. But the state had earlier denied its own gunshot claims (§6), incapacitation was further rebutted by a defense brain expert, and the premeditation evidence was very weak (§5). None of this extra evidence shows that no reasonable person could hold LaViolette’s view of Arias’ mental state, as is required to vote for conviction.

10 Governor’s statement of guilt. To complete a perfect storm of injustice, Arizona governor Jan Brewer stated on television that Arias was guilty – during jury deliberations.

JODI ARIAS APPEARS IN COURT IN PRISON STRIPES AND SHACKLES

Jodi Arias can be seen in this ABC TV video in court Thursday and you can see her smiling at her parents and mouthing the words "I love you."  

Watch video here:  http://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-back-court-striped-prison-jumpsuit-shackles/story?id=19443669

LIFTETIME TAKES LIBERTIES WITH TRUTH IN JODI ARIAS MOVIE SET TO AIR SATURDAY NIGHT

Apparently the producers of the Jodi Arias movie, "Dirty Little Secret" on Lifetime set to air Saturday night June 22, decided the true life story needed more sex and so they had Jodi meeting Alexander in the men's room of a Las Vegas hotel while he was using the urinal.

Watch movie clip and more on the show here:

http://www.today.com/entertainment/true-or-false-lifetime-takes-liberties-jodi-arias-movie-6C10345062