Weekend… 14 May 2011
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A baby elephant plays in a river in their daily outing from the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka [AFP/GETTY]
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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
- Press TV / Middle East News
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- McClatchy Headlines
- 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)
- Reversal of Rios Montt verdict in Guatemala sparks criticism of genocide charge 24 May 2013The overturning this week of former military dictator Gen. Efrain Rios Montt?s conviction on charges stemming from Guatemala?s brutal civil war has created a surprising consensus among critics on both…Click to Continue »McClatchy Foreign Staff (Tim Johnson)
- Whatever cause, Washington state bridge collapse points to bigger problems 24 May 2013The collapse of an interstate highway bridge in Washington state brings new attention to the limits of the country?s infrastructure, especially older structures that were designed with little room for…Click to Continue »McClatchy Washington Bureau (Curtis Tate)
- Military will look into whether judge’s comments meant tainted trials 24 May 2013A former Marine Corps judge who allegedly called those accused of sexual assault ?scumbags? who deserve to be ?crushed? is at the center of a widening inquiry into the impartiality…Click to Continue »McClatchy Washington Bureau (Michael Doyle)
- 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)
- 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)
- Yes Mr President, This Is Who We Are 24 May 2013
- Reuters / Politics
- 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.
- Obama wants to end 'war on terror' but Congress balks 24 May 2013WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama wants to roll back some of the most controversial aspects of the U.S. "war on terror," but efforts to alter the global fight against Islamist militants will face the usual hurdle at home: staunch opposition from Republicans in Congress.
- Veterans' claims put pressure on Obama even as backlog dips 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.
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Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
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Things just get more and more surreal and awful, from Washington’s Blog, on May 11th:
Sociopaths.
I’m seriously wondering if the Google and Twitter 2 day outages weren’t connected to stifling the spreading of that news, per Washington’s Blog:
Also interesting, per a late May 13th update, in this Zdnet piece, Google:
wonder what Twitter attributed the problem to?
Apparently Blogger ate posts as well.
That could wear thin very quickly. His YouTubes on Saturdays and his radio address have very very very very low listener/viewers.
Also, the White Boys behind Obby are going to misuse, over use, the damned thing.
I just heard Dickerson on his CBS Town Hll… which I several times had to stop watching but when I read the full text, I had caught most of it. Dickerson asked qestions of the intact audience after the event. The responses were not great.
Good Luck Obby.
it sure could, and in preparation for that, I wouldn’t doubt at all that there are already devices to block the messages, which will only be provided to speshul folk.
Because raising taxes is so popular! And everyone trusts the money will go where the pols say it will go. Riiiight… Because they always do as they promised … ?. (Don’t make me laugh TOO hard…)
BTW on the list of 70 state parks were some surprising ones…Oh unless you realise Jerry is just another fucking punitive pol.
If you work from that basis, it all makes sense.
Dear Israel: Your house is on fire, & you’re worried about the pilot light.
There is a problem with her argument. Straddling her recgnition of the Palestinians and the Nakba… she insists Israel has a “right to exist”. AND declares herself a Zionist.
She wants it all.
I dunno. I watch so many Americans play this game, in various ways. “Yeah we are not perfect, but we TRY, no one else does. And you better believe it, we are IT!”.
Start pushing thse people to the wall (on their confused idealogy) and they scream incongruities. They begin to babble and drool… heading for a safe corner…
It reminds me of all the too cute busy work of the “Interfaith” yahoos. The religions are all in competition wth each other – they sure as a hell on earth hate one another, however they mask it… but a certain type of limited thinker is kept all busy and happy with “interfaith dialogue”.
That’s why I thought it was interesting … they know that the argument has shifted and their desperate … and the ones who were perfectly happy w/ the bloodthirsty horrors committed are now try to hedge their bets.
There is no way out for them… All the racist and Zionist laws they live by, add in the looney orthodox and Hasidic and so on…, even as they make more of the racist laws..
I won’t make it to see how it all comes down… but it is going to be ugly. All of the fucking crazed settlers, so many of them Americans… plus our crazed support for a BIG FAT FUCKING MISTAKE.
I expect them to nuke what’s left rather than surrender, sadly.
Yeah I can see that.. a fitting end. And it will blow on the wind. Forever.
What a huge fucking mistake.
RFLMAO
Tax debate causes rifts among Democrats
A lot of idiots here are very shokced that teachers were willing to go to Sacramento and very visible in their protest signs, were ones exhorting to tax the rich, tax the corps.
And sadly, one I saw reminding Jerry his father made a promise to Californians of free education. And at one time, the deal here was very very good, between the various UC systems. You made it thru HS, even if you needed the remedial systems that were set up inside the Communty College system, and there was a place for you.
It is all dying, top to bottom, bottom up… and sideways.
More like being tortured then killed, slowly.
3:00 CDT Morganza Floodway opens to divert Mississippi River away from Baton Rouge, New Orleans
I lve how they frame it as “saving New Orleans” and “saving” Baton Rouge.
When this is being done for the oil companies.
I am going to enjoy vote counts election night, from the gulf states. I think Obby forgets, he needs overall popular vote too.
yup, yup, yup.
More from:
Brisbane Times [AU]
Snore (via AP ‘paste’ job), from WAPO Army Corps explains Louisiana spillway opening [!!!!!] [US]
yup, that’s it folks! ………, ….yup, that ‘information promising’ title, was almost longer than the “article.”
etc.
I hear Haley Barbour sent a message from his plane, that was winging north (I think he and the wif have a place in NYC) to Get Out Now! Get Out While You Can!! and, I Shall Return To Lead You.
Oh and, he told them to file now for Federal money. No he really did!!
Etc.
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from The Bad Seed
ugh worse than Blanco was Nagin. And she was pretty bad, before Katrina, I mean she was elected to be a go along Baton Rouge Cajun business Democrat governor, nothing else… BUT… she did stand up to Bush on several points. While Nagin said, I am your boy Massa.
It was disgusting.
I put off watching the Spike several parter on NO til recently. But only got thru one. He blurred a lot of lines and embraced some dumb fuck fools. And his audio commentary was really bad – rather stupid in fact.. more stupid embrace of harmful people……… Reminded me how despite loving a few of his movies, I never could stand him.
understand about Nagin (and, Spike’s BLURRING), I was just including a potential female for that pink hot seat, I couldn’t possibly list all the potential BOYZ candidates, for a blue hot seat, in one post …sigh …
(I suppose I should qualify, that I wouldn’t be on board with electrifying anyone … jus’ “satire” about those chairs….all that seems able to pull a half ass grin anymore, and that’s pretty fuckin pathetic, and frightening.)
Oh yeah, and don’t forget:
while clinging to that flotsam, ….and more concerned with water moccasins. …….Need a gel pen? ….we have plenty!, we always do, Shake ‘n’ Bake (or Drown), ……’n’ we halped!
After all, …not much money left, …’n’ we plan on spending most of it (other than the obscene amount we’ve reserved for ourselves),…to bomb the fuck out of PO’ FOLK LIKE YOU.
Yes Barbour is quoted saying that, just yesterday. As he flew out, of course.
from NPR yesterday:
my god. There will be NO federal assitance for the 25,000 TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND who are going to be flooded out by opening the Morganza flood gates.
“They took the risk to live where they live”.
What bullshite.
They are pretending, because that is all we live with now, that saving the refineries and other oil process installtions, it will bring gas down.
Cutting out speculation, when you do it all on paper, with no need to store volume, would help MORE, I bet…
oh wahl, Ah jus don believe that, ….Ah mean, look at all that ‘sistance we givin those Po Folk in Libeeya ….I mean, can’t we leas send in a few those type bombers, …. to put folks out they mizry?
Ah know that cost plenty.
I heard another clip of Barbour saying “if you don’t get out now, you’re on your own.”
looks like little, sweet baby has some Woolly Mammoth cuzns honey! …quite the doo baby’s got goin on :0) ….;0) …. (So pathetic, that I need to qualify, …. to idiots, …who may twist my admiration: FUCK reTHUGS, demRATS, and “Independents.” )
I knwo isn’t the do great?
The only baby picture I ever put up at my desk (I taped it to the rim of a reading lamp, LOL) was the infant son of a friend of mine, a Japanese-Chinese baby… His hair was fluffed straight up like the little elephant.. and he had sunglasses on.
It screamed Baby Mogul…..
A total HOOT!
yup, it is wonderful honey, and so are you,….thank you honey,…for the voice.
(and wow,…Japanese – Chinese, …talk about high yella …..)
(ha, when beings are left to their own sense of things, without unnecessary AGGRESION, …. wonderful things can happen …..
;0) ……)
(oopsie! …..”Aggression;” …jeesh why is shit so complicated, I didn’t hear that second “s” …and these daze, I don’t much write the word aggression, soze I might be reminded, how to spell it……(don’t care to conjure it up much either), but I did know, it looked odd, on the play back….sigh …..)
Actually, …putting much thought behind it, …I never did find occasion to write that word, “aggression,” in day to day corresponsdence. …Perhaps I’m disfunctional? …abnormal? …unfit to live?
(Oh, and let’s don’t forget the word “dysfunctional” …because some asshole decided to replace that “i” …….jeesh, where’s the teeny font?).
this post may be a duplicate (certainly, at theleast, in the wrong, pixel nesting, area), the more the merrier …:0) …..;0)
I hear HuckNut announced he is NOT running.
I knew he never would, he does not want to give up the FOX and other broadcast work he’s got NOR does he want to have to lose a hundred lbs or so.
Most film of him carefully does not show how he has Blossomed for Jeeeeeeeeesuhs.
But he has. BlubBaby.
Disney Trademarks ‘SEAL Team 6′
what is there left to say about this fucked up country?
oh surely the Gubmint trademarked it first? No?
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What an embarrassing two weeks. Really, it has been.
And that drippy, we buried the body at sea with full Muslim sensitivity.
1. Who cares, this is all so clearly bedtime stories for American children (voters) AND
2. The headlines on the front pages of papers. Osama bin wankin’ — and so on. Porn laden. GMAFB. After the slither drool of how we so tended to the muslim sensibility.
ANYBODY who has nt read of how the CIA arranges the aftermath of these abductions, kills, whatevers, has not been paying attention.
the ramp-up in the use of dogs seems calculated to grate against the belief by some Muslims that they are unclean.
Let alone the fear… a snarling Belgian Malinois, (or close relative,….if rumors are true) can put into a person, …..used to great effect, I believe, by the Nazis, ….(worked/works? pretty good in Pittsburgh< PA too….I’ll testify).
And let’s not forget! The NAMES of the Seal Team dogs are secret.
SHHHUSH!! SHUSH! SHHHH!
indeed, and we certainly wouldn’t want to put a select class of breeders, and/or, providers, out of business … would we, that would be a waste of our, Winning The Future stimulus money …..
Oh, just fuckin priceless, was intrigued by the connection of the word Green with Belgian Malinois, and/or K9 Cop dogs, because it didn’t necessarily appear to be connected with a young, untrained dog. One of the links that came up on a search, was this Pwogwessive: HUFFPOST GREEN link:
Oh that has been thoroughly debunked, although the sloppy media is still giggling about it and pushing it.
What I thought was bleakly hilarious, was HuffPo categorizing it under “Green” “Living.”
yeah nothing green about it…
Blackwater founder Eric Prince building American-led army of mercenaries in UAE
Japan’s distinctly un-American brand of heroism
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France is outlawing fracking.
I have no idea where it all is going, but you know, hold a good thought for the world.
If they’re smart they’ll all kick into sealing us behind a dome so we’ll only destroy ourselves.
so we’ll only destroy ourselves.
I’d vote for it. That was one of my arguments over at Daily Nothing…
There is no one to stop us. And someone should. Someone has to.
our behavior shows we won’t stop ourselves …
we just get worse.
Obama Shifts to Speed Oil and Gas Drilling in U.S.
I can see some of the game being played… The Republican plan wants to open up Cali to oill drilling. ObSnob’s game will be to boast that he held the line… As they divy up what is already chopped up and sold off…
Like the way he easily tossed as surrender DC’s own vote to use their own money for abortion for poor women… gave it up first to Boehner…
and so on.
Thousands gather at Capitol to ‘keep the pressure on’ Walker
Pretty decent sized crowd, and bigger than most of the teabagger rallies that got all that attention.
heh
this one is my favorite:
“There’s just too many old people”
Personally I think it was a set up. Not that he and others aren’t capable of it… But it smells a bit.
A town full of working girls… he was very possbly going to oppose Sarko The American in the next round of elections…
I dunno.
For a while there he was not arrested, but then later, he was being held AND under arrest.
Well he can tell it to the Judge.
Explain how much he’s liked living here and all and how it’s the first time and how he is an upstanding member of the Franco American Chef Boyardee Jewish community. We love that kind of shit. LOL.
Hey I’d be fine with Marine Le Pen by now.
Shake it all up, sky high.
And so it goes. Or not.
A french Politics blog that Madman turned me on to a few years ago, has a couple of posts up on DSK:
via Reuters by way of the Mike Allen email……
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Sounds like, for 3K the “hotel room” is a small apartment, with halls. Def got halls.
I just hope the fucker hangsa by his hotel suite boutigue-soaped balls. Nice scam he ran with our Nobel Peace Prizer and Timmy G (with Congressional approval!) to sell Bangladesh Central Bank IMF Gold reserves that, among other things went to liquify Grameem’s Nobel Laureate “microlender”, Muhammad Yunus.
I guess they’ll need to find somebody else to keep the heroin markets liquid. Of course they’ll need a thorough retrospective accounting now, and double check all those expense ledgers itemized “Holiday Inn”.
Bring on Marine.
I thought Kubrick in Eyes Wide Shut made it very clear how things run at the top.
Yunnus was a scammer, as is most of the micro loan crap, from the get go. And let’s not forget who was an early formulator, dead now, so who knows what her version was!, of the micro loan idea… ObSlob’s eminent Mother.
hmm More interesting than most of the after event crap floating around on bin Laden and whoeverelse…
And the pic, in half shadow, of Omar bin laden and his English born wife, is interesting too.
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