Asleep…. 27 March 2011
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A fox makes the most of the sunny weather in a garden in London [Reinhard Krause/Reuters]
Peacefully asleep, a protected garden, flower bower and warm sun too.
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Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman- The Story of Jude Mohammad: Why Was a U.S. Citizen Secretly Killed by U.S. Drone in Pakistan? 24 May 2013U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday that admitted for the first time that the Obama administration has killed four U.S. citizens in drone strikes overseas. Today we learn more about one of them: Jude Kenan Mohammad. Until this week, the FBI had Mohammad listed on its Most Wanted website, even though he was secretly killed […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
- As Guantánamo Hunger Strike Enters 107th Day, Diane Wilson begins 25th Day of Solidarity Fast 24 May 2013We speak with CodePink co-founder Diane Wilson, who is on day 25 of a water-and-salt-only hunger strike in solidarity with Guantánamo prisoners. Earlier this month, she was arrested after chaining herself to the White House fence in a CodePink demonstration urging the president to close Guantánamo. We are also joined by Pardiss Kebriaei, senior staff attorne […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
- "That Woman Is Worth Paying Attention To": Medea Benjamin Explains Why She Disrupted Obama's Speech 24 May 2013Less than 24 hours after she interrupted President Obama's major speech on the future of the secret drone war and Guantánamo, CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin describes why she repeatedly interrupted Obama's address. Benjamin, the author of "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control," criticized Obama for failing to explain why a U.S. dr […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
- Medea Benjamin v. President Obama: CodePink Founder Disrupts Speech, Criticizing Drone, Gitmo Policy 24 May 2013During President Obama's first major counterterrorism address of his second term, he said the United States cannot continue waging what he described as a boundless global war on terror. He also discussed his administration's efforts to close down the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. He was repeatedly confronted by CodePink's Medea Benja […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
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- Electronic Intifada / General Content
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- The Real News
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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.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
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late Sunday night snick snack:
NYT: Facebook in talks to hire Robert Gibbs – Role would be to help manage Facebook’s communications
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(the 11PM EDT, NYT Dealb%k link)
Oh brother.
yeah ….and I can hear the “progressives” howling …but what, exactly, did they expect from Peter Thiel (e before i?) ….Pay Pal ….et al ……
Nothing like various Intelligence Agency Black-Budget venture capital pools to nudge earlier beta releases of counter insurgency org charting and snitch identification software to roll out a big I P O.
Of course, when the Next Big Thing or food riots come, I guess the PTB will have to wade through 20 or 30 million hungover suspects known only by the photographic signature of their well-thought-of genitalia, or through some guy named Ralphie who took that huge shit behind Tony So-and-so’s sofa during halftime hardy har har.
I mean, where we go from here?
How can Civilization top that?
So what value Gibbsie adds, I don’t know.
have some cheap red honey, I’ve got a tad left …..
…sigh …….
on the other side of that comment …it is not over …till it is over …somebody …..who the fuck ever ….can throw rotten tomatoes at me…but, …I believe in kindness …all the rest is absolute DEATH.
I’m getting a craving for Molotovs myself..
‘heh’ between the option of the Golden Gate jump .and somehow appropriating (jeeesh spell check …fug it) a gun to take out some truly NASTy MOTHER FUCKERS … I think I at least slightly understand honey … hmmm just a teeny weeny tad of red left ..you have it sweetness, and rest full dreams honey ..as you have offspring following you.
LOL. Well that’s the thing, I’m a longstanding Third Wayer when it comes to Death.
And This I Believe™: in not getting caught. Certainly not without fresh underwear, maybe an extra pair or two to wear into the booking room especially if its gonna be a longer stay.
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oopsie …just drank your tad honey, it doesn’t look like ya need it! Waste not…want not!
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Get this bombshell:
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Not exactly the kind of late breaking Holocaust news one has grown accustomed to.
God awful. I say let the hunt for the Nazi War Criminal BANKERS begin. We might get a new international financial system out of this thing yet.
wow, yet another stunning finance scam? but, to further understand: what does NIS mean ..sorry, but I don’t have a clue … red faced.
it refers to the Israeli national currency, the shekel.
Thanks hon I thought so initially, but when I searched it all that came up was: “Network Information Systems,” “Norton Internet Security,” and my personal favorite, from an online “finance” dictionary: Newly independent State.
g’night ‘morning’ …I take it that sweet critter somehow confounded the elite brit hunt club, and is only taking in the faint, not unpleasant, aroma of fallen narcissusts ..at least I hope so ….
well ….okay ……yeah…. they do look like they’re about to possibly spring up again…… but at least they are weakened ..and won’t be able to rebound to full salute again ….
sigh ….how long?
Something smells about the Gibbsie to Facebook thing.
According to Playbook, he will work UNDER the VPer for Communications. As one of the top communications guys in the country (fucking lousy as he was, what a joke) but shouldn’t he go womewhere with a better title? (not that i know much, it just seems odd)
AND it means formal departure from the CREEP (or what ever they are clling the re-elect game this go round).
I dunno.
hmm i guess the package would be compensation plus stock, ahead of the public offering in a few months. I would guess his job will be as some form of lobbyist (always room for a few more!).
Gah. May they all bite each other to death.
hmmm CPunch and i see Mike Whitney has a piece up at Cpunch asking if Fukushima is “about to blow”.
hmm here is another tidbit:
And this too:
glad I’m not the only one to think that the WHO is ultimately a ‘tool’ despite the fact that there are likely many well intended people working for it.
At this point it is almost anti climactic.
Angry Arab:
This recent horror story coming out of Egypt of the protesting women who were arrested, held, threatened and examined for proof of virginity (sounds like a forcible sexual assault to me, and I am not enthused about finding rape) was done by the NEW leadership inEgypt.
Has to go….
Syria is erupting… and so is Yemen.
Good luck chuck to Hilpac, Gates and Wobbly.
I missed that Egyptian story. Horrifying.
Isn’t it awful? I think I first got onto it via Angry Arab… and iirc maybe the Independent was reporting on it, too.
Cause of 12 infant deaths at Fort Bragg is unknown
Michael Whitney has a piece up at Cpunch (really good piece):
oh yeah… another bit:
what to say…
Gosh you are such an alarmist. Don’t worry!
It’s going to do what the fall out from C did, travel the entire Northern Hemisphere. If I were japanese, I would be in a panic. AND there has been far too much calm well informed speculation from almost the minute the horror started, abut further quakes and the nuclear plant that is SW of Tokyo.
I think that is one reason, aside from inevitable shortages and disruption, that almost immediately it was reported private planes leaving Japan, were appearing in AUS, NZ Hawai’i whereever the monied had a stake to follow…
uh oh…you’ve pegged me …another hysteric female …
In a sane world, the billions in “defense” money would be pulled and put towards saving life instead of destroying it, I so wish all the sociopaths would rocket off to Mars…how can the fuckers stand themselves…
oh i think they like themselves.
I’d rather be an hysteric female than some other things…
Joe Bageant died.
RIP and safe travels to him.
It is so sad…
How my wait in a closet almost brought down the White House
NOW it is a debate over was it a closet or was it not.
Please, it was a closet, however much various deny it…
Hi everybody … took a long weekend away from both ‘puter and TV to enjoy a visit from a friend. Back to catch up on all of the scary news, and the sad news of Joe Bageant’s passing.
It is wonderful to get away… esp now. Overload is almost every day.
You have friends? And you stayed away from teevee and the intertubes all weekend?
GASP!
no one is more shocked than myself!!!!
Louis Vuitton sues artist, again
Infographic: How unions succeeded in making your workplace safer in the 100 years since the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Speech cleanup in aisle 4!
“We are the Champions” is playing in the background.
he really is not saying much. Can’t he work Giffords in somehow?
really laying it on thick.
I’m watching Agora instead.
I was sound asleep til 15 minutes before this started. And I think I lost brain cells from watching. lack of air, dumb phrases taking up residence in my brain.
So tired of him.
He drones on and on – a sure sign he’s full of shit.
you are better off. He’s heading for fucking 30 minutes. He said, “in closing” a long time ago.
what did you think of it?
I pulled up the IMDb pages of reviews….
IV testosterone, stat!
Retelling that downed plane story.
I will say it again, BRING BACK BUSH. No reason not to….
Ours to Tell
Just tuning into the Unilateralist and Nobel Prize Winner Barry Obama.
God he sucks.
it is so bad.
Any one buying this is dumber than a feather pillow.
Barry’s Find a Friend service.
No matter where in the world uh, you know, the Small People are, they will “Find a Friend” in Mrka.
Such Soaring Rhetoric!
Ready Tonite! In Your Area!
Cry Freedom!! And America will deliver a McDonalds and … a Starbucks!!
Yes we will!
Next, the Baby Fat Hunter will lecture you on Fat Babies. Extra cash if you bring her a few and don’t ask too many questions.
I thought I heard Toy Story’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” in the background.
ROFLMAO.
wasn’t that gag worthy?
And they left out so much. A lot. I loved how they made his father a staff sargeant (or whatever it was). His father was CIA iirc.
And the allusion to his possibly becoming the Social Secretary at the WH.
What a joke.
The radical center of what?
Center of the bed, I think.
The article was loaded with coded language, from my take on it.
how can ANYTHING in the center be ‘radical”?
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