Endless 24 April 2011
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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!)
- The Story of Jude Mohammad: Why Was a U.S. Citizen Secretly Killed by U.S. Drone in Pakistan? 24 May 2013
- Electronic Intifada / General Content
- Why aren't Israeli F-16s over Beirut headline news? 24 May 2013When Israel claims to shoot down a drone, it is front-page news; when Israel invades Lebanese airspace, it is unreported.Moe Ali Nayel
- Sexuality and gender taboos challenged by Haifa project 24 May 2013“Singing Sexuality” aims to create safe space to raise tough questions within Palestinian society.Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
- "This time they destroyed everything": Uprooted Bedouins face more evictions 24 May 2013Israel will soon put a plan to forcibly displace up to 40,000 Palestinian Bedouins on its statute books.Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
- 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
- Why aren't Israeli F-16s over Beirut headline news? 24 May 2013
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- A long-ago war, a missing plane and an enduring mystery 25 May 2013Maj. Derrell Jeffords bounced his roaring Spooky 21 down and off the runway at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. It was just before 7:30 a.m., on Christmas Eve 1965.Click to Continue »McClatchy Washington Bureau (Matthew Schofield)
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- A long-ago war, a missing plane and an enduring mystery 25 May 2013
- The Real News
- Yes Mr President, This Is Who We Are 24 May 2013Michael Ratner and Paul Jay analyze President Obama's defense of his drone and Guantanamo policies - a policy based on continuing US dominance in the Middle East; Obama's speech was interrupted by Code Pink's Medea Benjamininfo@therealnews.com(The Real News Network)
- Global Protest in 300 Cities Will Take Aim on Monsanto 24 May 2013Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to challenge Monsanto's bullying of small farmers, influence on public policy, and aggressive promotion of GMOs.info@therealnews.com(The Real News Network)
- 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)
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- Yes Mr President, This Is Who We Are 24 May 2013
- Reuters / Politics
- Sexual assault is a 'scourge' on U.S. military, Hagel says 25 May 2013(Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called sexual assault a "scourge" on Saturday as he addressed graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where a sergeant stands accused of videotaping female cadets in the showers.
- Veterans' claims put pressure on Obama even as backlog dips 24 May 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A long-growing backlog of U.S. military veterans' disability claims, which has stoked congressional anger, has dipped in recent weeks, however tentatively.
- Obama urges U.S. military to stamp out sexual assault 24 May 2013ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged the future leaders of the U.S. military on Friday to stamp out sexual assault from their ranks, warning that a few individuals could undermine the strongest military in the world.
- Justice Department defends journalist email search 24 May 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department said on Friday that senior officials including Attorney General Eric Holder vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose story on North Korea prompted a leak investigation.
- Sexual assault is a 'scourge' on U.S. military, Hagel says 25 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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DAaaamn.
And right during Grace…
Why, no , childrean- Barackeus was NOT There upon rolling back the stone.
Comes this…ThIs..~THIS OUTRAGE!
Gasp! As Easter Feast carving forks (Safety First!) DROP,
plunging ObamaLlama Precious Change Brand pea-slivers to plates nationwide –
Top form, Madame Cat, top form!
Oh that is great.
oh well… I take so much blood pressure medicine now I almost zone out, but a couple of comments got left from long ago supporters of his. ….
I saw red for a min there…
Barackeus was NOT There upon rolling back the stone.
Oh too funny! Good one!!
AND I seasoned it slightly with a little Pwog-voice irony, as the fucker IS there at every Neolithic rollback.
Yes, well, now!
Potatoes? Anyone care for some potatoes?
Psst. – Who’s Uncle BHHM friend?
Unassailable: the injured, the vulnerable, the defenseless. Afterall, this is America.
We wouldn’t want to be gun-ship gratuitous kill-team cruel, all AbuGrabian GitmoJailorJackal when reflecting upon our wards of state.
So, you know, improve gates, walk every mountain, Love You, Pageant winning POSTure for Chrissakes, maintain poise when hitting all points, etc.
OH Please, JUSsst MILK IT. Will they send empty chair to launch? Extra Jello off hospital tray for the ride? The Box of Tourin? {Reference}.
Oh that IS slick. That “cart”, no mere walker for this rehabilitation chronicle. Nope, gotta push the candy-striper / hospital volunteer button, too. The propaganda peddlers keep pumping this much longer and Gabby’s push cart will have developed into a small business sucees story selling reading material, goodies, and assorted sundries to Hospital Systems in a Tri State area near, well, your closest Tri-State area. I’m just grateful it’s not around Christmas or Winter Olympics otherwise they’d have her dragging the ole rehab/ workout SLED.
Unassailable, the standing tall…STAND-IN.
Quite the thinly veiled national metaphor.
Calling all Script Doctors.
Closing Scene Options.
1. Does she arrive at Shuttle launch?
(*suspend that disbelief: Hubby taking extraordinarily L O N G business trip at a time like this must be seen in a most positive light)
2. How about working her in?
Like last minute, see, another shuttle astronaut falls ill, forgot something, is called up to Libya, something, and Mark asks Gabby to fill in?
She simply says
“You hah-” – like, probably, PROBABLY
“You had me at hello”
but maybe “You HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME”
- the audience doesn’t know, see -
as Mark and that kid, Hernandez**, the heroic, loyal Congressional aide who subsequently got crushed running for Student Body President at University load her in the shuttle anyways.
A stretch?
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**Cereally, now:
LOL. **Hernandez got a BIG yawn on Campus.
AFTER Campain violations by BOTH.
It’s better than the ending of Animal House, and TRUE.
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3. Okay! So maybe she stays in Houston!
We send poignant reminder at launch because – note to engineering: this can only be shot once, the rocket blowing up Fucks Up the whole thing)
Shall we save the Big Reunion till Shuttle Returns?
It’s been horrific.
I read her staff tweets out updates on how well she is doing. I sense a certain panic setting in… frankly.
About two weeks ago it was reported that if released to go to the launch (whcich I now read has been approved) she would, however, not be on public view. Then again some reports flaoting around yesterday and today almost state, she can do it! Cuz Michelle and Barack and Sasha and Malia will be there to help her!
They will! She can!
Oen report I read lst night says part of her skull is still detached, the hair is 2 inches long, scars are evident. My god, who is SURPRISED.. she was shot. In the head.
Except she and Kelly are pretty much propagandists and fascists of the American issue sort, it would be hideously cruel.
But, just nationalism and fucking party politics.
oh another thing, the AZ office/s/ (and I would presume the DC office as well) have been actively fundraising off this… Last I read, a few days ago, they had received a total of 125,000.00 in campaign funds. Back when they were hinting she might jsut push that push cart all the way into a senate seat (Kyl’s I guess? Retiring?)
Not too many people are fooled.
fundraising off this
Jesus. You know what they could get for a skull fragment?
(Reference: Relics, Organs for sale)
I see reports that there is a 200K bounty on a photo of her – to the paparazzi…. Newsday ran a teaser behind the subscription wall…, tag line says they look off into the distance, he beside her bed.
Taken from above and behind her bed, with the head end of the bed sitting up.
Tease.
Oh it is. Horrific.
From start to never ending exploitative day.
And I can hear those repulsed by a blunt take.
i.e., Can’t you see the simple human tragedy here?
Oh no, we should…~recoil is it?
And blink FOR her – cross country travel-
to return to National Stage-
Yes, right up there as a recommend when focusing on, and only on, those with traumatic brain injury.
Not that ANY of That matters:
We should applaud stubby hubby, sort of a never-leave-her-side-but-gotta work, must work, workin’ Dad, sort of, sort of Democratic man-spouse cast as Astronaut version- if you can get past all the curved mirror distortions….of Sarah Brady. But more …Progresssive. A Castronaughti if you will.
We should join her return to National Stage.
Where, like Gabby, we too can stand blasted-skull-off unmistakeably TALL… in National-wheelchair. On the issues, so many missues.
Like, for States Rights on Gun Control. (Typical Dem mush.)
Which is! – but could be! – but is not!
not really a Public Health matter.
Besides, All have a better shot under Barry anyways, right? Whose thought and prayers do go out. Along with Michele and the girls.
Who , yes, we hear WILL ALL be at the launch.
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So. She’s cleared for launch.
An announcement is made shortly before…
She WAS going to come BUT yada yada.
As Rev. BarryJesus We-Are-Risen approaches launchpad pulpit to give Blast off prayer ..Gabby appears. Or does not.
A miracle either way: as NASA wizardry is perhaps the only realm of US rocketry whereupon the a payload is celebrated for not blowing up and declared by the Empire to be a resounding success.
If anybody had some sense they’d nix the trip for her. And the stubby hubby thoopla.
And stay as far away from Barry Bad Luck as you can get.
And I can hear those repulsed by a blunt take.
i.e., Can’t you see the simple human tragedy here?
hmm yeah I am sure. But I go for the bigger human tragedy. Oh who else is wandering around with traumatic brain injury? Yes who could that all be?
BTW, the other day, the poor tawdry old Lehrer News Hour had another one of their sign-offs of a picture and name, title, hometown and place of death for the Warriors. Of the 12, 5 died in Iraq. In their late 20s and early thirties, all but one. Staff Sargeants, Sargeants and a Captain.
It’s all about the wars. And St Gabby of Houston and Tuscon and a Safeway Parking Lot is a part of it. As is the stub-hub.
And stay as far away from Barry Bad Luck as you can get.
Oh that is Funny. Because I was going to speculate in my typical Fools Rush In fashion: that Barry wouldn’t. be. showing. up. LOL BY CONSENSUS of WH ops, NASA Physicists AND Metaphysicists, Shamans and assorted Schadenfreuders worldwide. LOL. So I had to look it up and change what I wrote to an indeedy … yes, we hear WILL ALL be at the launch. and clip my meanderings down to mere Barry Bad Luck advisory at the end.
LOL . So… maybe not maybe for sure!
It’s so exciting not knowing!
What learning can we discard next?!
I see commentary around that after he cut the budget he wants to show up and be part of the show.
Oh it is going to be a laugh a minute for months.
Maybe they feel a chill from the direction of DC. That downward chute air action.
You’re not kiddin. Jeezis, just poking around now …I see the thread at The Hill a few days ago was brutal.
Basically, the storyline,
Jesus! Appearing Next Week at NASA! was met with a hearty Blow It Out Yer Ass on most fronts. Photo Op! Defunder! Jinx! Etc! And Not just from the Space Nerd Studies Set, that crowd, henh, normally yelping about funding cuts and the Russkies gaining ground (In SPACE!) , LOL (Even the Russians brought up in the thread like it’s 1959) While no NASA fan, the Loss 500O jobs is no Joke.
Thinking about it, it seems like a really botched political operation. I mean WTF is it? Lets Celebrate! Yah? Yah!
The End? Yah! The End of a Glorious Not So Many Blown Uppy Never Forget Watch ‘im Fly There He Goes Leaving Ms. Shothead here.. I mean really – who is gluing this clusterfuck together?
I do see comments around like, “Wasn’t Bill Daley supposed to come in to do this that or other BETTER?”
Pssst, Pass it along. He may be called away from launch pad, head shot due to Syria. Other ommentary around that “now that so many have died” he “may do something”.
I say he will be hung over from watching pre-wedding and wedding (I actually read a few days ago that Michelle pretty much begged (“I would love to be invited and I would go!”) for an invite when she was last on with
no with the replacement!!… kind f embarrassing!). Just his sort of thing. A wild guess on my part.
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Larry King.. and so on.
oh man. Do they still ahve the bowling alley in the WH? Well they certainly have a basket ball court. Tear it, both, out immediately and install quicksand. Quagmires.
Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker: Ob’s plan is to “lead from behind”. (Reading snips in the Mike Allen slobber.)
I may have to go read that. After more coffee…..
LMAO.
I am Shepicus!
{roik!}
I am Shepicus!
{zook!}
I am Shepicus!
And so forth, Obama ’012, Now More Than Evah, etc.
the article itslef is awful. I DID go read it. But I excuse myself from shame, in saying I did middle of the page speed read, eye dart side to side for out of place words. Which I will stop for.
Zbig is quite disappointed in The Foundling. Gee I cannot think WHY. I would think Shepicus would suit Zbig. It mentions he intro’d Shep at some event in 2007, so quess what Z: LIVE WITH IT.
that was pretty fuckin good…… ;0) …. seemed to hit the spot, …to my mind.
Haley of the Old Confederacy says, syonara. It’s too damned hard….
I noticed a comment running around the past few days from The Wif, that his running “horrifies her”.
So…… oh what coulda been!
it sucks when the you can’t count on the Citizen Councils to help suppress the “wrong” voters anymore …
The whole thing gave me a laugh…………………
I thought this was an interesting post by Dennis Perrin, what struck me about it, was that: when he was in Southern Cali, he didn’t notice, or comment, on how inseperable so many were from their I-Phones, Androids, etc. …While I can’t speak for Southern Cali, I can hardly believe it’s any different there, than further north in Cali; ….I remember having moved back to Cali from PA (having moved back from moving back to PA ), one of the most gut wrenching things I remember – was saying hello to people I passed in taking a walk, thinking they had just greeted me as a fellow stranger in passing, when, actually, they were plugged in, – what hurt even worse, was that none of them ever acknowledged me to even say, they were talking on the device, ….but hello anyway, ….stranger passing ……………….when I knew they heard me say: hello …….
(Dennis, …and I ultimately, agree with him on that.)
oh taht si an interesting piece… thanks:
you’re welcome hon.
;0)
I’m quite sure they would have acknowledged me if they’d been in danger, and asked me for help … ‘tricky,’ so many times frightening, …earth, …we live on.
I wouldn’t count on it.
sigh, ….yeah, …that’s why I used the word “acknowledged,” versus, say, ‘care about.’
I can’t tell who “they” are in this.
sorry hon: people so hooked into their techie devices …. they lose the present physical place they are in, and ignore the passers by: who may have something pleasant or helpful to say, or, may want to do them harm.
hmm i dunno about locale, but a whole lotta Middle Eastern men driving cabs would b in major major withdrawal about driving and talking. Even with ear pieces, Blue Whatevers. Constant. Not the odd call, here and there.
I am amazed they notice the road at all. Or lights.
something struck me years ago, about how keyed in persons from the Middle East were on “US” technology….I felt like an idiot in their midst, …but I had absolutely no clue then, as to the plans which have somewhat come to fruition … (and, of course those ‘born to nurture …and bring to life’ females,…. are dogmeat, … no matter who ‘wins’ that battle?).
(yeah ..that is somewhat of an asides …but I wanted to include it before that spontaneous urge, slipped away hon.)
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