spring 25 March 2011
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Three stork nests are pictured on the church tower in Kandern-Holzen, Germany [EPA]
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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
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- 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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- 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)
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- 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
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- Obama nominates Senate aides to serve as SEC commissioners 24 May 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama nominated two U.S. Senate aides on Thursday to serve as members of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency tasked with policing Wall Street.
- Pentagon sees doubled cost for rocket launch program 24 May 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday told Congress that a recent restructuring of its heavy rocket launch program to add 60 more launches and extend the schedule for a decade would more than double the program's projected cost to $70.7 billion.
- 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.
- 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 nominates Senate aides to serve as SEC commissioners 24 May 2013
October 7 1955
"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.
Joe Cirincione in Huff Po….
I remember the 2007 incidents, but I never heard of the actual dropping of hydrogen bombs over NC.
Prepare for more stories on the 50…. What a mess of a web of a nightmare of a reality.
Because it sounds like it is moving to further mass tragedy in the too small exclusion zone around Fukushima reactors… Apparnlty no one, or hardly anyone, nowhere near te numbers needed, will go in in the numbers needed to bring food water or alternatively evacuation vehicles.
thanks for that…that ..20007 ….oopsie …’nuclear tracking moment’ …(but the ‘puters know where they are, why should we have to PAY$$$$$$$ to track them ….WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ..) recollect … had thought about ‘searching’ for it myself, but, I guess, ..didn’t want to end up at the dead end I knew I would: NO FOLLOWUP, NO FUCKING RESPONSIBILITY …..FUCKING GREED, DEATH, and INSANITY!
I’m kind of wishing I lived in Japan, cuz I don”t want to live in this FUCKER much longer if it’s going to continue like this …and I’d kind of like doing something really special before I leave this mother FUCKER, like saving lives that deserve to be saved.
(that is….sigh, if at this point …they even feel like living here any longer)
ugh I think they have tons of problems in Japan, not to diminish the mess we are in. And TEPCO is lined up for a big fat bailout. Too Big To Fail. By the rate payers. Via the government.
Too say nothing of all the other problems.
Great health care tho and very safe streets….
sigh.
Deaths Of 20,000 Japanese Afford Planet Solid 15 Minutes In Which Everyone Acts Like A Human Being
I think “the onion” was wrong there, it was more like folks were allowed a quarter second to acknowledge the travesty (that word hasn’t been trademarked yet has it?) before being choke chained to the hideous reality that’s been ‘gifted’ to us.
i also saw an onion headline:
nuclear regulators say nothing can go wrong til something bad happens.
gotta hand it to them, they win [hello charlie s]
clap hands …here comes ….?….
;0( but they haven’t won yet … :0)
and I … they don’t
Was it really a whole fifteen minutes? I figured that my clocks were just running a little slow and needed new batteries. :p
that pic … looks contrived … to my hopeless state …a three pretending to be a four …or a four pretending to be a three …
and, no doubt, the number five, of ‘humanity,’ it’s been said,…is at the core of that conundrum…. has the power to destroy in untold numbers …
Oh no.
He’s going to address us Monday night on Libya. I actually bought all the chatter all day that he or his handlers were resisting the idea of a speech on L.
Nope.
Maybe he’s hoping it’ll be over by then. Winning Libya’s Future!
I really wonder what he is going to find t say.
People nattered on at me for hanging back, then the chiennes de guerre I keep around, Rice Powers and that woman Hilpac bitched at me. Hell I am a blade of grass in the wind. Go, no go… who cares. I still golf, take my vacas and have sports guys come to the WH. It’s a sweet life. Works for me. Libya, Fly No Fly. Who cares.
not that I don’t think Joe Nachio might be a total asshole (but then again…he may not be a total asshole…anymore than the rest of us…..), but I loved that the quest (oops …qwest …and perhaps that explains something ….perhaps not….) legal counsel told the NSA to get fucked (despite qwest’s possibly self serving reasoning) and again, not that I hold him in high high regard, but I’m glad he called a few vultures … on their undie ‘fantasies’ …… (oh …and oopsie, …sorry joey ….jeralyns foun’ somun els to frend ….. I’m sure you’ll be able to get over it … ;0) )
…
how bout those hoops? how’s that busted lip?
(ok, that was mean …., but it certainly doesn’t even approach the venality of what has gone ‘under his watch’ …a ‘watch’ which he clearly ‘aspired’ to)
oops (waves…redfaced …how do I do the teeny font thingy? …….yeah..I DO HAVE A LOUD MOUTH AT TIMES …jeesh) meant to post under the comment 4 ‘subnest’ ……
ahh well …now that I stuck my foot in it …once again …went out, bought another bottle of cheap red (the Russkies say it wards off radiation! …okay …so what if I didn’t buy it for that reason?) and apparently (hmmm spell check? …fuckin brits!) Ms Ruby Cat and I are the only ones awake? …Marisa are you watching a netflix honey? …with pizza! yum ;0)
guess you’re asleep honey …where’s the teeny weeny whisper font? ……ms ruby (drowsey eyed and curled up now ….jus wanna kiss her paws ……OOPS she jus woke and checked to see if her claws were still there! ..then licked the paws, with fully stretched toesies n claws ….:0) ;0)) and I are gonna try to go get some sleep too …rest full dreams honey!!!!!!! ;0)
Art challenges Tunisian revolutionaries
The Artocracy project, featuring photos of ordinary Tunisians, has proven art can be just as provocative as politics.
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/03/201132223217876176.html
glad I caught that just as I was about to go to sleep ….;0)
Thank You Honey!
(disclosure: the TED thang …referenced in your linked article (and Cali, “US” centric) has creeped me out, more times than not, …but I am a firm believer that there are more civilized ‘ordinary’ humans than civilized “leaders,”…and that’s what I’m agreeing with you about “m”)
g’night & morn all (imagine a ruby cat, claws retracted, paw kiss there Marisa, …sweety is beddy bye now …will be fuckin wit’ me, first thing on the morrow, to wake the fuck up! ……;0) …)
oh my. couldn’t sleep …..checkin’ round, and Lambert, grand snarker of “US” potassium iodine poppers (whoever they are? I don’t know any, and I live in Cali) referenced Glenn Greenwald’s late day piece on March 25, I bow to both, for this revelation:
Top Bush-era GITMO and Abu Ghraib psychologist is WH’s newest appointment
One of the most intense scandals the field of psychology has faced over the last decade is the involvement of several of its members in enabling Bush’s worldwide torture regime. Numerous health professionals worked for the U.S. government to help understand how best to mentally degrade and break down detainees. At the center of that controversy was — and is — Dr. Larry James. James, a retired Army colonel, was the Chief Psychologist at Guantanamo in 2003, at the height of the abuses at that camp, and then served in the same position at Abu Ghraib during 2004.
Today, Dr. James circulated an excited email announcing, “with great pride,” that he has now been selected to serve on the “White House Task Force entitled Enhancing the Psychological Well-Being of The Military Family.” In his new position, he will be meeting at the White House with Michelle Obama and other White House officials on Tuesday.
For his work at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, Dr. James was the subject of two formal ethics complaints in the two states where he is licensed to practice: Louisiana and Ohio. Those complaints [pdf file ;0( …… aww shit – diane] — 50 pages long and full of detailed and well-documented allegations — were filed by the International Human Rights Clinic of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program, on behalf of veterans, mental health professionals and others. The complaints detailed how James “was the senior psychologist of the Guantánamo BSCT, a small but influential group of mental health professionals whose job it was to advise on and participate in the interrogations, and to help create an environment designed to break down prisoners.” Specifically:
sorry, I neglected to include Glenn’s highlighting of the following “bolded” sentence near the end of the above excerpt:
I cannot remember now exactly but iirc when this group became public knowledge, think the American Society of Pychologists (or Psychiatrists, whatever it is called) came out against it.
Here’s their letter.
Some of the APA muckety mucks were pretty much entrenched in it (no surprise), but many members were outraged at the lack of effective response from the APA Ethics Department:
A Critique of Stephen Behnke’s Letter to the ACLU –
American Psychological Association Supports Psychologist Engagement in Bush Regime Interrogations
By STEPHEN SOLDZ
May 27, 2008
Article referred to in the above quote. At the end of the piece Dr. Bond lists her own numerous fruitless formal attempts to elicit a response from Behnka, APA Ethics Director (and still on board) as to why psychologists were involved in torture, …ending the piece:
An Open Letter to Dr. Stephen Behnke on Psychologists Engaged in Torture
If Not Now, When?
By Dr. TRUDY BOND
May 19, 2008
Found this extensive 2005-2008 link page on the issue:
Psychologists and interrogations – Key articles
(sorry, “Behnke,” not “Benhka)
Doing a current check on Stephen Soldz (see above link, also the 2005-2008 link page was his) this current piece:
The Dark Side of “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness”
March 26th, 2011
By Roy Eidelson, Marc Pilisuk, and Stephen Soldz
Does it mention Mrs Petraeus? Because iirc, she is involved with that health of mil families bullshite shit. She was going around with Snob last month, think it was last month, they dropped in on a couple mil bases.
Just saw this in the text, yes I bet it is the same group.
SO HOW IS THAT VOTE WORKING FOR YOU? (those who did vote for him)
Defend this one.
HaHa. Telegraph to Drudge, and no doubt…
to OBAMA.
AL QAEDA FIGHTERS JOIN LIBYAN REBELS
Well, we knew these floaters wouldn’t be long before popping up in the ole Change-O punch bowl.
GooD Luck with the Party! Refreshing, no?
Confusing tho, I mean, I thought WE were the Al Qaeda fighters who just joined the Libyan rebels. Or was it that three day trial membership in the U.N.? You know, like that No Cost, No Obbylegation thing we can unsubscribe to at NATO.
Whatever. Al Qaeda™. NineLeven™.
Coalition of the Shilling™. NATO™.
Fight Fight Fight™.
Did Bush ever LEAVE?
Let’ see how fibber Barry works the dog-whistle here. Which he, alas Al Qaeda ®, will.
Gad, they didn’t even bother writing new material for him.
Cockburn at Cpunch has a version of the AQ story that even sounds credible and he is not the only one. It is in his piece that rides at the top fo the current weekend postings…
My guess would be that the very wealthy tribe in the East (forget the name) has beeen playing, like the Saudis do, with AQ or some form of AQ. (To the extent any of this exists, etc, also, but, and … )
Well, my take is if they’re not OBL – ready,
we may well make AQ out of them yet..
This is rather incredible, and unsettling…
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/watch/id/601007/n/China-s-Ghost-Cities
aren’t they amazing? And so many of them….
Thanks for that, ts!
How’s the new babe? Getting much sleep?
rockaby baby… in the tree tops…
And so on…
The wife and I have split the work so I get the 2 year old and she takes care of the newborn. So I get one six hour nap at night and a two hour one in the afternoon. She gets regular three hour naps all day. Not sure which of us is the luckier one.
So..Clinton supporter, New York rounder, DNC Rockette, etc, what can you say other than she was right about Barry…
Geraldine Ferraro died today.
No word yet, as these things go, on complications relating to those injuries sustained after the Clintons threw her under the bus in those elevating Great Post Racial Primaries of 2008.
Barry used her to try (tho as tactic it ultimately failed) to divert from Pastor Wright. I tracked it all back, the Wright story broke late (to the public) late in the week, on late Tuesday on his campaign plane (iirc) his camp broke the story of her comments to a little West Coast paper, the Torrance Breeze, alsmot two weeks before.
By early in the week … was it ABC that broke Wright vids? I forget, whoever broke it, would have been calling Barry O camp for hard comments on a soon to break story.
(This is not an endorsement of Gerry F) As it all raged, I posted an earlier interview from Ob (that was posted at his campaign site) AND some comments from Kerry, that both said the same thing as Gerry.
Not similar, SAME.
But you know how it goes and went, only what can be perceived as racism against Barry O or the wif matters. Nothing else.
I so love brunch at your place! LOL. The carmelisted Dems on toast points are not to be missed!
oops – *carmelised* Dems… karma-liased?
Toast points for all, anyways..
THE SHOWS:
–NBC’s “Meet the Press“: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN); roundtable with the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, Ted Koppel, Center for a New American Security senior fellow and author Tom Ricks and NBC’s Savannah Guthrie
–ABC’s “This Week“: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld (“Known and Unknown”); roundtable with ABC News’ George Will, Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg and former Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) (substitute host: Jake Tapper)
–CBS’s “Face the Nation“: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
–”Fox News Sunday“: Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA); Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT); roundtable with Fox News’ Brit Hume, Fortune’s Nina Easton, the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol and Fox News’ Juan Williams
–CNN’s “State of the Union“: Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI); former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden; Ploughshares Fund President Joe Cirincione; roundtable with former Bush CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin and former Clinton OMB Director Alice Rivlin
–CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS Live” (SUN 10 a.m. / 1 p.m. ET): Author and New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell (“Outliers: The Story of Success”); roundtable discussion moderated by CNN’s Gloria Borger with Council on Foreign Relations President Dr. Richard Haass, Woodrow Wilson International Center President and former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the Brookings Institution’s Robert Kagan and former DNI and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Negroponte
–Univision’s “Al Punto“: President Obama; El Salvador President Mauricio Funes; Univision Networks President Cesar Conde; White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics Deputy Director Jose Rico; actors Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper; roundtable with La Prensa Grafica correspondent Julio Marenco and Enlace De San Diego correspondent Hiram Soto
John Yoo: cheerleader for Obama.
Grass Roots: Capitol Police have blocked meal for the homeless in wake of protests
Oh but Oprah said it really is now the government of the people!
How taht happens with shoe sales man Ob, a dead and sold out congress, a corrupt capital police, I sure don’t know.
AND millions starving.
OH! I see it is Wisconsin.
Well same diff. A few miles N and W.
Calling all catnips…
Bring out your dead!
Don’t worry!!!!!!!!!!
After hours of these headlines and leading grafs, it is now nnounced that these readings are
a Mistake.
Don’t worry.
Ted Koppel…longtime friends with Kissinger…who’d have thought!
Barbara Boxer too…
Ooops no… I got myself in a mental mangle. SHE is decades long friend of Sharon.
(not that there is a difference)
They cover all the bases.
Escobar: It’s not a “war”. It’s a “time limited etc”.
Welcome to the new NATO quagmire
wait, I thought it was a KINETIC military action!?!?
It makes the peasants nervous when the Lords their and their town criers’ can’t keep their euphemisms straight!
Kinetic? So we can all play war criminals in our living rooms now?
Speaking of military assholes:
Defense Secretary: Libya Did Not Pose Threat to U.S., Was Not ‘Vital National Interest’ to Intervene
A dickish post by Juan Cole on the time limited etc.
He is too close to the national level Dems.
hmm I’ve linked to commentary from this activist before, but not such a clear prediction for the SW of Tokyo reactor:
more from WI:
Vital Signs: State GOP health bills mirror model ALEC legislation
Vice President’s staff lock journalist in a closet for hours during a fundraiser to stop him talking to guests
Yes, the Daily Mail is a rag but the story also appears on the Orlando Sentinel’s blog.
oh I lve the Daily Mail. The MIrror too… and the Sun.
I will grab information where ever.
The Mirror (think it was) had lots of details on the VTech killings.
Of course that is some level of kidnap.
One would think!
Oh I am sure it was necessary for national security.
It is how they will get around everyting. Even when, like Libya they admit, not an issue….
Rest in Peace Joe Bageant
That’s a loss.
yeah …I feel bad that the one online comment I remember making about him, was a miffed one about guy issues, because I really valued so much of his commentary. I hope Rainbow Pie is available at the ‘mortar and brick’ stores (I’m hoping to die without ever having to purchase online …just my ‘crankiness’ I suppose) ….
;0(
oh what a shame…
(thanks so much for ‘presenting’ him Marisa, I would have never known about him if it weren’t for you honey.)
I hink it was Madman who first sent me a link to something Bageant wrote…
Another wonderful thing about his site were the letters to him that he published. Just absolutely fantastic.
kisses to Madman too then! …. yeah I enjoyed reading those letters …so much absence of pretense on his site ..so much humanity …in its raggedy clothing …
I thought this was kind of interesting about Libya, but then again, anything goin’ on, with no seeming interruption, within the close proximity of DC, seems to always perk my ears up:
New rebel leader spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia
Things that make you go hmmm…
and so fuckin many of em honey ….jeeeeesh …
(I really miss Arsenio Hall, paraphrasing?:
despite whatever faults he had, he seemed far, far more humane than Jay Leno)
from Japan Today, 100,000 times is bad enough:
Problems mount at reactor after mistaken report of water radiation level
Monday 28th March, 06:45 AM JST
(oops …the link, “[more,/b>],” looks funky, but it works)
this, from the same source, may be somewhat telling too ….
Neue
LINK
………. 8)