Mid-week 24 August 2010
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A pigeon lifts its newly hatched chick from its nest, in a flower pot in Athens. [John Kolesidis/Reuters]
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Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman- Mexican Priest Alejandro Solalinde on Central, South American Migrants' Perilous Journey to U.S. 23 May 2013As Congress continues to shape an immigration reform bill that could provide a path to citizenship for some 11 million undocumented residents, we look at the overlooked plight of migrants from Central and South America who travel through Mexico en route to the United States. Many of them are fleeing violence and poverty in their countries only to face robber […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
- Ríos Montt Genocide Verdict Annulled, But Activists Ensure US-Backed Crimes Will Never Be Forgotten 23 May 2013As Guatemala's high court annuls former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt's genocide conviction, we're joined by two people who have worked tirelessly to bring perpetrators of war crimes in the country to justice. Helen Mack, one of Guatemala's most well-known human rights activists, fought for years to prosecute the government forces who assass […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
- Killing Americans: Jeremy Scahill on Obama Admin's Admission 4 U.S. Citizens Died in Drone Strikes 23 May 2013The Obama administration has admitted for the first time to killing four U.S. citizens in drone strikes overseas. Three died in Yemen: the Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. A fourth, Jude Kenan Mohammad -- whose death was not previously reported -- was killed in Pakistan. In a letter to Congress, Attorne […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
- Headlines for May 23, 2013 23 May 2013Obama Admin Admission of U.S. Drone Strikes Suggests Accidental Killings, Obama to Unveil New Guidelines for Drone Strikes, U.S. to Resume Transfers of Guantánamo Prisoners, Oklahoma Tornado Damage Could Reach $2 Billion, FBI: Slain Orlando Suspect Admitted to Triple Murder with Boston Marathon Bomber, British Soldier Hacked to Death in London Attack, U.S. T […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
- Mexican Priest Alejandro Solalinde on Central, South American Migrants' Perilous Journey to U.S. 23 May 2013
- Electronic Intifada / General Content
- J Street's pipe dreams of peace 22 May 2013A prominent Israel lobbyist hears “talk of peace” in the air; what air is he breathing?Miko Peled
- Prisoners who starved for art honored by Gaza show 21 May 2013Abdelfattah Abu Jahil won the “right” to use paintbrushes after living on salt and water for 79 days.Joe Catron
- Israel and Mexico swap notes on abusing rights 21 May 2013Military cooperation between Israel and Mexico has risen sharply in recent years.Linda Quiquivix
- Walking tours highlight West Bank's shrinking landscape 20 May 2013Hikers risk being attacked if they come close to Israeli settlements.Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
- "I'm afraid of dying" without returning home, says Nakba survivor 20 May 2013Abu Khaled’s village is just 15 kilometers from Gaza, yet he may never see it again.Rami Almeghari
- Settlers attack West Bank farmer twice a week 17 May 2013Even if Israel considers settlement outposts to be illegal, it is still facilitating their construction.Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
- J Street's pipe dreams of peace 22 May 2013
- Press TV / Middle East News
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- Syria’s exile opposition opens conference in Turkey amid anger, confusion 23 May 2013Syria?s political opposition met Thursday in Istanbul to elect new leadership, choose a government-in-exile and deliberate on a negotiating stance for peace talks, but it hit a controversy when the…Click to Continue »McClatchy Foreign Staff (Roy Gutman)
- Foreign Service officer made millions in visa-for-money scam, feds charge 23 May 2013A State Department official ?received several million dollars in bribes? from Vietnamese residents seeking visas, according to newly public court documents.Click to Continue »McClatchy Washington Bureau (Michael Doyle)
- Scandal draws questions about IRS role in enforcing Obamacare 23 May 2013The blossoming IRS scandal over the targeting of conservative groups is provoking new scrutiny and terse questions about the agency?s role in shaping and implementing the controversial new national health…Click to Continue »McClatchy Washington Bureau (Kevin G. Hall and David Lightman)
- Alaska Rep. Don Young, gone hunting in Africa, misses subcommittee oil hearing 23 May 2013When a key House of Representatives panel took up a bill this week that would require annual lease sales and streamline permitting in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, home state Rep.Click to Continue »(James Rosen McClatchy Washington Bureau)
- Syria’s exile opposition opens conference in Turkey amid anger, confusion 23 May 2013
- The Real News
- Obama Expands Militarization of Police 23 May 2013Among items transfered to local law enforcement agencies have been assault rifles and grenade launchers, even Blackhawk helicopters and .50 caliber machine guns; In fiscal year 2011 alone, the Pentagon transferred almost $500 million worth of materials to domestic law enforcement - near double the previous year's totalinfo@therealnews.com(The Real News Network)
- Apple Achieves Holy Grail of Tax Avoidance 23 May 2013Bill Black: Senate questions CEO Tim Cook how company earned $30 billion in 'international' profits while paying zero taxesinfo@therealnews.com(The Real News Network)
- U.S. Alone Refuses to Accept Venezuelan Election Results 23 May 2013Gregory Wilpert: In spite of a new audit of election results that shows a win by Maduro that is recognized by all countries of Latin America, the US supports oppositioninfo@therealnews.com(The Real News Network)
- Ecuador's President Attacks US Over Press Freedom Critique 21 May 2013Critics say Correa is creating a pro-government media system; Correa says there is a fundamental contradiction with corporate for-profit media involved in distributing public informationinfo@therealnews.com(The Real News Network)
- Obama Expands Militarization of Police 23 May 2013
- Reuters / Politics
- Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester 24 May 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The woman who interrupted President Barack Obama's speech on counterterrorism policy on Thursday is well-known around Washington as a perennial protester on national security issues.
- Obama shifts U.S. from 'perpetual war-footing,' limits drone strikes 24 May 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday shifted the United States away from a "boundless global war on terror," restricting deadly drone strikes abroad and signaling that America's long struggle against al Qaeda will one day end.
- IRS official at center of scandal put on leave 23 May 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, an Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the scandal over the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups, was put on administrative leave on Thursday after she refused to resign, a senator said.
- Obama shifts U.S. from 'perpetual war-footing,' limits drone strikes 23 May 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday shifted the United States away from a "boundless global war on terror," restricting deadly drone strikes abroad and signaling that America's long struggle against al Qaeda will one day end.
- Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester 24 May 2013
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"a remarkable collection of angels
on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Democrats…
Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
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If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
hmm I don’t know if lucid is around but I spotted this in the WSJ… strikes me as very very dicey…
Not that I worry about CFS, ti is just one of several dx in my medicine cabinet, so to speak.
yikes! I wonder which drugs.
So I guess now you don’t even have to publish bogus papers in a medical journal to claim a ‘viral’ cause and suggest treatment with deadly drugs.
I don’t bother to follow much on CFS anymore, haven’t for years…. so this is the first I had heard of it. And it seems well along, whatever they are doing….
DEA request for Ebonics translators reopens old racial wound
Ability to also speak “Jive” an asset…
well… regional and racially assigned speaking sure is a patois, here and elsewhere… however much “ebonics”, as a name for one version of it, fell flat.
Oh you have to laugh considering this in the NYT
Alongside this in WaPo-
Which way did he go George?
Or whoever the new tob banana peel is. Barry is it? Leon? Please.
More finger food?
But ya gotta love the grazers at the Top Secret , you know Airport Hotel JOB FAIR with complimentary Water Buffalo Lodge buffet. And God Damn they LOVE the color coded shit, too. Maybe that one fuck – hello – talking with a reporter – will put a basketball sized colored dot over his face to go with the uber secret name tag protocols involving a peel off sticker.
Welp.™. Not everyone made the flight in to “Tech Expo Top Secret”. Ya know.
Baggage problems and all.
BUT!
Well I certainly am relieved. Afterll,
You know you’re in good hands where chocolate fondue is involved.
That’s the thing that’s great about our National media. If you miss anything on the frontpage you can catch it through the Style section too. Big fins, baby, big fins.
Sorry for the HTML.
BUT! X2– They also had – of course – SCHWAG
yo-yos..hand sanitizer..and little wind up robots
Holy hell, they were actually giving out living, breathing,
Netroots Nation attendees to take home..
Talk about claaassy
No Ob Action Doll?
Ob Action…
Oxymoron du Jour
I’m not a spy…but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last nite. *wink wink*
No lanyards?? What about the lanyards??
Oh yeh gotta have something for these security types..
Definitely a lanyard to go with the nametag:
JOE _{brown dot over middle name}_ BROWN
Nuclear Launch Codes Specialist
Wife: Carol, shagging landscaper
Kids: [4] 1 athlete, 2 stoners, and Chad, into interior design
I read about the murdered British spy…. the article kept calling him a spy then saying “but he could be a cleaner!”….
And so on.
hmm just looking at the updates on the ”murdered spy” story.
Grisly.
“top-secret/SCI with a full scope polygraph.”
A rectal scope, no doubt. Gotta know who’s anal-retentive enough…
10:47 am PT… and our “modesty skirt” is back in place… 14 pts above 10,000 on the Down… (I mean DOW)
It was looking rough there, it hit 9,999.99999
gah.
Modern life is jsut so hard….
A xtian, a warrior! (Afghanistan) worked in the xtian sphere…. and stabbed a cabbie! In what appears to be an anti muslim attack! No less!
You just cannot trust anyone.
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Opps
NOT a warrior, seems he was trying to graft on via making a film, at a base in Hawai’i no less, about his friend and his brigade readying to ship out…
Village Voice has quite a bit more.
“consider this a checkpoint”…. gah.
hmm looks like Alan Spimpson apologised for the cow iwth the gazillion teats.
I say behead him! (I so want to run the Guillotine)
Oh, I can see you running the guillotine. Motoring in..
in a ’59 Eldorado, color matched for the occasion.
Thoroughly prepared. Setting up a cafe table.
Linen, Table ware, Check.
Chicken Breast, Check.
Popcorn, Check.
White Gloves. Opera glasses…
Cleaver , axe, and pike in case of technical difficulties.
Slam!!
Head in the basket….
NEXT!
step right up, mchat will be gentle, you’ll only feel a slight tugging sensation!
…and then a breeze on your neck!
oh that is a beautiful car………..
Yeah…well…Fiscal Commission Chair Simpson Goes After Another Critic In Social Security Debate
Time to put this guy out to pasture.
Really… and the lipless wonder from RI, the Dems tried and tried to shoehorn him into an office, but nobody wanted him. So they put him on this commission…. I forget his name.
nd that was not my intention
LOL … no, my attention was to MOCK and BELITTLE you … geez, you dumb assholes just can’t get it straight /alan simpson>
Ken Mehlman, former head of the RNC comes out.
Gagworhty!
Of course he presided over the years of pushing a harsh anti gay agenda in state after state, merely to game the elections.
But it wasn’t him…………. oh no. It was ROVE.
Riiiight.
And he says more… even:
Rev up the Guillotine!
WAIT! There’s more!!!!
his interview in the Atlantic, via John Cole:
The Dmes wanna gin up support by noseless women on mag covers… and Mehlman wants to gin up support by citing solidarity … somehow or other, over islamic jihad on gays.
Or soemthing like that… mebbe.
Okay. Is he coming out as gay – or stupid? I can’t quite figure that out.
“the way I reached out to African Americans.”
And when did that happen again?
“the way I reached around to African Americans” … probably gay gospel singers in town for the weekend.
Smarmy beyond belief….
wow, how brave Dorothy.
HuffPo… Breaking News..just in..
Ken- Mehlman – gay.
in some ways it is hilarious!
Talk about a badly kept secret.
Here’s his entry on truthiness. Barely after he was appointed people pointed out…hmmm…confimred bachelor…GOP…definitely gay. I’m sure IOZ had a post way back then pointing out the obvious. IOZ doesn’t do it blatantly cause he’s not that type of gay…uh…guy!
Uh, oh. Forgot a closing tag or quotation marks…
Let’s see if this works…Bill Maher outs Ken Mehlman in 2006. There. Now I’ve done it…
yeah right… it was no secret…
Bummer.
Down comes his poster from my bedroom wall.
“Bummer”. Henh.
Stay tuned tomorrow when Michael Steele comes as as African-American.
And now, the weather…
hmm I see Michelle Rhee, Teach for America veteran, and bitch School Supe in DC under Fenty is marrying asshole embezzler (federal funds from his own foundation, St HOPE – caps were his!) the Dem Mayor of Sacramento.
Hilarious, they scaled back the wedding, after Sacrameno Bee cited conflicts of interest
The continuing adventures of Bad Fetuses
Boing Boing post of multiple links about the cabbie attack:
21st century enlightenment
Or, to put it another way: Repulsive Anti-Gay Quisling Homophobic Scumbag Asshat Closeted Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman Has Come Out
I think he wants us to applaud too… and thank him, for something.
Wheel the Guillotine over….
Or maybe he just needs a date.
ugh why do I think he has some long term live in, plucked from the similar R gay ranks. I noticed John Cole referred to it as the Lavender Bund.
Good One!!
Jeff Gannon. Just sayin’…
Krugman: Fire Alan Simpson.
Stay tuned for the leaked Simpson e-mail to Krugman telling him to “suck his tit” (or get off his lawn…or something)…
I am just saying… the Guillotine is final
… they don’t come back so hapless collaborator Obby types can make use of them to gut what little is left…
You’re in a morbid mood.
Well Simpson will be back, he’ll live to be a nasty destructive shit again….. and in just a few years it will be Obby – GHW – W – Bill C splattering their mugs, as a group!, on PSAs for the next big earthquake, tsunami whatever.
Can’t wait to hear what Clueless has to say to us all about Iraq. Or whatever it is he plans to speak to us about…
Ob and the Bobbing Obbies have already forgiven Simpson – which is funny since that’s got to be the quickest fucking reaction they’ve had about – well, anything – since they’ve been in DC.
haha…
Gee. Ya think??
Markos Moulitsas Q & A in Politico. He is just the same…
not a news flash!!
oh along the way I thought he provided the umpteenth proof that Dkos, and whatever its purpose is, is funded from Dem leadership monies…
He claims that in the Reid Angle race, the Rand Paul KY race and one other (I forget what it was) it is a tribute to the Dems that in what he terms should have been an easy pick up for the R, that the Dems are remaining competitive.
Defeating the Senate Majority Leader is ”an easy pick up” ??? Then the Dems were in real trouble all along (clue: they were!) AND Reid, an idiot if ever there was one, running neck and neck with Angle, a loose cannon (she is!), is “competitive”.
No it is a fucking 18 wheeler pile up! (And i am so delighted!)
Oh arggh.
GMAFB!!
Wow. What an incredibly lame interview. I want my 3 minutes back.
Cleanup in aisle 4. Wreck list:
They are shocked. Shocked!! I tell ya.
[banging head agaisnt brick wall]
Poor paradox… Still there.
Welp. About that time again.
Time for me to get thrown out in a puff piece for MAMZ-pamsy on Politico.
You know the kind of piece…
Q: What’s your favorite bird?
MAMZ: I was trained a s a classical pianist you know.
Q: Really?
MAMZ: Fit it in during the war in El Salvador. Condi and Liberace have nothing on me.
Q: What is your favorite body part (on yourself) and why?
MAMZ: Legs. They are the only place on my body I’ve ever been able to grow a muscle.
And the joke is,
one of those Q & A’s.. is in the piece.
Did they delete your comment?
Not yet! LOL.
The thing that did raise an eyebrow, the lack of groupies they used to be able to run in..
New…
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