Wintering 20 November 2011
Posted by marisacat in Egypt, Inconvenient Voice of the Voter, Israel/AIPAC, la vie en rose, Occupy Wall Street, Pan Arab Revolt - 2011.trackback
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Flamingos gather on the coast of Nea Kios, in Nafplio, southern Greece. Flamingos use this particular wetland as a resting place during their migration south in the winter [Evangelos Bougiotis/EPA]
Angry Arab pops up with this today:
Israeli solidarity with the Egyptian (nude) Blogger
I don’t want to send that message directly to them so I will send it here. I read that a few Israeli women stripped nude in solidarity with the Egyptian blogger who stripped nude. Why do Israelis intrude into our lives? Why do you get into areas in which you are clearly uninvited and in which you are clearly unwelcome? You are such a bothersome presence. Arabs have made it very clear that they (unlike the tyrants that you like) don’t like you and don’t want you in their midst. It is none of your business what Arabs do and don’t do. Spare us your act of solidarity when you are racists who everyday in your live you take advantage of the racist system that Zionist set up for you. We don’t need your silly and fake solidarity. You are not invited to our lives and our activities. You are such an unwanted presence. Take your solidarity and go away. And stop intruding on every aspect of our lives. After we liberate Palestine, and when you are forced to live in a system based on equality (after we subject you to the same military rule that you imposed on the Arabs inside Israel), you may engage in solidarity but even then it won’t be wanted. You really are without dignity when you know full well that Arabs don’t want to do anything with you, and you keep acting like you are invited to our parties, uprisings, lives and events.Posted by As’ad AbuKhalil at 7:26 AM
Oh No. Whooops. NO. As far as I am concerned, and not knowing preciselyWHO the women are on the Israeli side, but they may most certainly stripe nude if they wish, in sympathy, support, solidarity, identification, whatever is the motivation, with the Eqyptian blogger. Who is herself responding to repression of women under the conservative Salafi rules… and in fact in other posts Angry Arab writes of the increasing conservative Orthodox religious, on the Jewish side!, imposing separation of the sexes on public buses (women to the rear of the bus) and elsewhere.
Perhaps the Israeli women are thinking, oh I don’t know, BROADLY.
I think it is bad business to tell women what to do, what they may or may not do, to lecture them.
Everybody is allowed personal autonomy, I don’t care how politicised a situation or a country is…. if it practicises apartheid or not.
He seems a tad obsessed:
I disagree with Sara and other other feminist comrades at Nasawiyya who I so admire and support. It seems to me that there are so many other issues that women have to worry about in our region (and beyond) to be distracted by this sensational act by one person. If the issue is about sexual liberation and challenging the taboos of religion and state, I am all for it. But this is too shallow an act (and may even echo too many other Western shallow acts) to be taken seriously as a feminist act. Yes, of course, we need to denounce the various reactionary and right-wing voices of condemnation. But the pictures were also circulated for cheap titillation, which I guess is fine if people want to do that. But the feminist movement has other more important priorities to be reduced (or caricatured) by the exhibitionism of one woman (or man). Comrade Khodor (a progressive Lebanese) wrote a letter to `Alya’. I keep wanting to avoid this issue which is filling the pages in Arabic and English but I feel it keeps following me. There are so many other important issues. I am more worried about the status of Tunisian women after the victory of An-Nahdar: and about Western endorsement of misogynistic regime in the GCC countries. These are more serious threats to women and their freedoms, it seems to me.Posted by As’ad AbuKhalil at 8:26 AM
so, it’s a “shallow act” because it’s a mere female body, is that what makes it “shallow”?
It is, as you say, all part of the whole.
It verges on the nutty. Esp offering up what is, he thinks, more important (issues following the Tunisian election).
And so on.
And yes the whole “shallow” thing pissed me off… it reminded me of Rudi Gernreich and his topless outfit from … was it early 60s ? (I get muddled sometimes what happened when)…. first modeled here in SF… and until a few years ago the woman who wore it, out in the open… on Marina Green or somewhere like that, was alive. She loved the day, it was a lot of fun.
Fashion is not shallow, part of a whole too.
Well, ya got to start naked somewhere.
That made me laugh….
Who knew the Bhudda was alive and well and actually
living in New Jersey?
…and there he goes…
I think he is always at the tanning salon.
Always look your Bhudda Best!
- as they say in Hungary.
Anyways …jeeeziz – AA – > let it ride
Naked… anybody?… What’s not to love about that?
And who is reading deconstructivist crap while downloading the entire collection anyways? LOL. Oh fer fucks sake.
My point is this, my god, man -
if you are going to , like, all srsly go there?
So many way to play with it if you do… ** if certain men can
But….- – > Naked Israel?
Oh there’s something exceptionally lovely about that…
87-Year-Old Woman Tries But Fails To Get Arrested At Occupy Wall Street
Cat Gives Dog A Mind-Blowing Massage
the thread is hysterical….
… and the dog does look happy.
Occupy Lulz
hmm I see a headline riding at the top of BI that Bloombito is going to have a presser tonight on Terrorism.
http://www.businessinsider.com/
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God, I so wish I had a copyright on the whole Lone Wolf Suspect
Planning Pipe Bomb Attack Taken Into Custody. deal…
What about Various Vengeful Sheep
Sneaking to Sling Up Shepherds? What about Moose Lodge of Real Moose Reconnoitered Before Boosting Caboose?
What about Lone Gunmen, – Looking For Friends -
Form Secret Society!
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I mean fer fucks sake -
GET A SCRIPT DOCTOR ALREADY!
The Secret Association of the Lone Wolves.
Public Welcome.
Call Merle, Rita, Zeke, .Jamal, Wen- how, Wen-when, Shirley,
Fred, Mavis, Irshaad, Jason, or the couple we think are from Samoa for details.
Crackpot Luck every Friday Night.
Chicken and Waffles 1st Saturday of the month.
Beef and Beer every other…and so forth… LOL
Muslims invited. Bring your own Korean, or , ya know, whatever…
No nude photography tho! Please!
thank you, you just jogged my mind, and had me laughing once again as to remembering it flit across my mind the other day, that the Lone [White House Window Shooter!!!!!] Wolf ™ reminded me of a dkos ™ convention picture I saw a few years back, of Danny (is that right?) Boyd, with a new beard, and a skull cap.
(wouldn’t that be hilarious. I so want proof that that Lone Wolf ™ diversion wasn’t total theatre.)
(oops, meant to end the bolding after the ™.)
hmmm here is one of his i had missed she is childish too!!!!
wow reading ti over,
- childish,
- boyfriend is exploiting her,
- she is not all there,
- she is in danger..
Geesh is there anything he did not hit on?
Obviously she needs a husband or brother of the right faith and state of mind with her at all times. O and cover up.
A woman at Comment is Free at the Guardian gets it.
good piece.
Boy, if that doesn’t sum up the world in general …
Latest Terror Suspect Is a Loner Who Lives With His Mom
I believe it as much as I believe the loner from Idaho who may or may not have nicked some window glass on the [gasp loudly right here] private residnce level fo the WH, and presto chango over night it went to ‘took multiple shots at the WH’.
Yeah right. The shitter in the WH s no different from the shit before him, nor the one before that. Uber Alles.
This is a winner from the Gawker report:
my favorite detail:
exactly, as a case it is not, nor was it, worth anything. But under our system he may spend his life in Federal prison.
LOL … please vote for him again, he’s not a backstabbing corporate whore, no REALLY, he’s not!
Obama never secretly killed the public option. It’s a myth.
The proof it’s a myth? There’s no proof it’s true. That’s it.
The Plum Line is so pathetic. It stands alone, sinking into the mud of retail politics, in bullshite doctrinaire Democratic cheersucking-up or down or however it s done.
Talk about voting against your best interests. Clue, is not just poor winger whites in the deepest parts of Mississippi, Delaware, Cali and so forth who do that.
in bullshite doctrinaire Democratic cheersucking-up or down or however it s done.
… in a word, Leadership.
Vote for Us!
Vote for Us! We’re Poodles!
I so enjoy that Classic of yours!
It never fails me, either. While taking in some Ob or JoeB or Hill or Bill or Harry or Barney and so forth speechifying or the cacaphony of a talking head train wreck that accompanies it, trying to sort it all out and quickly ram it into a mental container and there it just pops into mind: Vote for Us! We’re Poodles!
It’s getting bad now. When out , it sometimes gets a hold of me and I’m , like, compelled to unilaterally mute the forced- television at whatever insufferable place among insufferable people during the insufferable mid-yipping-broadcasts. Doesn’t seem to much matter anymore. Hell, before freaked out family or groaning friends, during occasional work-with-tube luncheons, when out at local eating and drinking establishments, wherever/what have you with the shit beamed in, I jnow have these outbursts where I just commandeer whatever small kennel with television we’re in and grab the floor:
_ – > You know what they’re saying don’cha?!? 
We’re Poodles! Vote for Us!
It’s all gotten so nutty and the rambling packaged media chat factory discourse is so veyr disconnected, I am guessing more and more of the public ARE saying things outloud in public. Just a wild guess.
so katehi is now blaming the pepper spraying ‘incident’ on fear of outside elements. the outside elements in question?
UCD alumni.
her speech to the rally tomorrow should be LULZtastic.
in other news, xeni jardin of boingboing is reporting that “One of the brave #UCDavis student journalists who covered the pepper-spraying and “Walk of Shame” is now facing punitive action by UCD.”
it’s getting hard to even comprehend the level of fail by this administration.
I guess all those years ago Clark Kerr thought he was doing the ”right” thing too, protecting his sovereign territory from noisy loud rude people, etc… Meese coming onto the campus, walking the halls of the occupied buildings and pointing out to the cops who HE wanted arrested. (Really pisses me off Meese lives, to this day and fat white fingers in so many things… like the 9/11 Commission, for one)
S I Hayakawa rising to national importance. A fucking nut in his tam o shanter, of all looney fucked things.
Katehi needs to be driven to the edge of the continent, put on a ship home to Greece. Go away.
We don’t have enough home grown lunatics, thieves and idiiots, we HAVE to import them.
classic PR strategy … when in hole, keep digging.
Yesssssssss… this does seem to sum up the cute lecturing from above…
Jane Mayer in Talk of the Town in the New Yorker:
The Keystone project will move rght along – after election. It is all pantomime, within and without. And those wealthy long time Democratic funders are just playing games. THEY, above all others, line right up. And pungle up.
Seems like the historian forgot another Douglass quote: ““If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.””
Thanks for that, I thought it was a terrible manipulative piece. Junk.
So… dow 11,000 soon?
i have a bet with my friend that it’ll dip below 10000 by christmas
Swan dive!
omigod… Jose Pimentel’s mother is apologising ot the people of NY… someone stop her, she does not need to do that….
AND, fortunately, site after site, print media galore, is carrying the story that the Feds repeatedly refused to bother with such a slight nothing of a case. And IMO finally the sick dogs of the NYPD needed to give Benito Shlomo Bloombito a diversion from Occupy.
How disgusting.
America has had these plotters, nuts and mutterers, if he is even that, forever. Locally grown and imported.
While looking for possible stillshots and news at OccupyCA regarding today’s UC Davis protest (which I found: Thousands Gather at Davis Against Police Brutality .. yayyyyyy!!!!!!), I stumbled onto this, totally beneath the mainstream radar news:
(bolding mine)
Pelican Bay should be shutdown…. not that it will be and not that it will make any difference. To say nothing of the whole of the state prison system…
yup, and so Grotesque that Cali spends abundantly more on incarating, than education.
(incarcerating)
(sorry, corrected link: Three Prisoners Die in Hunger Strike Related Incidents: CDCR Withholds Information from Family Members, Fails to Report Deaths)
Cedar-Sinai takes cancer sufferer off transplant list for taking the medical marijuana its doctor prescribed
The country is insane. It really is.
sociopathic, violent, sadistic
The anti drug pogrom is really ratcheting into … I dunno. It is scary as it is across the board. Propaganda about addicted babies being born in FLorida, which to its credit did try, for aI am sure a range f reasons to just prescribe and now is being railroaded.
They are shutting down, for real, on medical MJ, almost the first dispensary, grow operation that was raided (other than raids on tiny legal operations in No Cal, 12 plants no dispensary, that sort of thing, that harrassment began in 2009), almost a year ago in Marin was a strict adherent of how to do it, under the law. Next to non profit, 99 plants gown in pots outdoors in the sun on private property, out of view. A dispensary run strictly by the law, and with attention to poor patients… FULLY raided, house and garden in the middle of the night, every plant hacked off at the soil line.
BUT one of the principles is a long time advocate of med MJ… and I think that is one reason they did it.
It is beyond vicious. And people should wake up, that Holder and Slob and SNob, the Executive, the Judiciary AND the police in the US, have a working partnership with big pharma and the fucking liquor lobby….
I have grown to literally hate them. They disgust me. As much as Reagan and more than Bush, either one, EVER did.
In NYC, Kafka-licious policies say press can avoid arrest by getting press pass they can’t get
Occupy “Bat Signal for the 99%” light projections: the “making of” video, shot by Mark Read and crew
cool video
Well speaking of the ole “keep digging”…This latest from the
Corzine / MF Global Plunder Blunderblubblubblub,
Upon reaching the bottom, see, of the alleged 600 million missing
They done made a breakthough….to another HOLE.
A whole A-hole Hole Continuum, apparently:
And while Bl
berg was pulling that stupid –
almost pathetically stupid – …stunt last night…
HA! A “clearer picture” of “where their money IS???”
More like where their money AIN’T. And from the way they tell it.
it AIN”T ANYWHERE.
Well, they are loathe to note it much in US media, but the rest of palrty MF carcass is on lockdown with now less than cooperative regulators and courts in the EU.
Fuckee’d to death, Broke as shit, Croupiers there apparently have no qualms about cleaning Corzine & Co. out. Now granted, nominally US TBTF are scrounging there too, but it’s not helping them any now.
….as political conditions further, yes, further deteriorate,
… as winter sets in on the Great Collapse …..
That money is gone, holed up safe and sound somewhere….
Jerry Sandusky Victim Bullied Out of High School for Snitching
OWS-inspired activism
snip
Yes Quan was very blythe about ti all… people were referred to homeless shlters.
Eh.
As if that is the same or an answer.
CUNY police bully peaceful Baruch College students during OWS protest over unfair labor practices, tuition hikes
I don’t know about Baruch College but out here, it is not going to stop, nor end. Because campus protests ahve gone on for years, with a common issue of fairness and pay equity.
What’s Good for Louis Freeh in the Penn State Investigation
What ever comes of it, Freeh is bad news.
{ snicker } What a caricature.
Senator Hymie Hole lives.
Just don’t ask to see the books.
Oh glue it all back together with buggle gum..
Of course,
This shit never would have happened if Gore got elected.
What it tells me is they are really hitting bottom….
Anybody interested in a shopping mall sized house?
Need an airport hanger sized hunting lodge in Bulgaria?
Anybody got any coin for uninhabitable townhouse developments in the West Bank? Anyone? Anyone?
Boies? That’s hilarious.
oh I think poor Jose Pimentel (and his fucking nutty Catholic mother) is a sad case, as most of these poor chumps are. I think htye are watched and assessed and then, when needed, sadly entrapped.
Pretty clear the Feds wnted nothing to do with him… but the operative with an apt in harlem where he was nabbed drilling pipes for bombs sealed the case. I hope he has a halfway decent PD … at least the story is very much out there what a sham this is.
Thank god I have no desire any longer t go t NYC, nor anywhere much at all. Short of a one way flight OUT.
And most people refuse to see what this is. Rampant rolling fascism.
if you watch the longest 15″ video of the davis pepper spray assault, that has more of the lead-in than the 8″ videos, you can see a bit better where things started getting hostile w/ the cops. a guy uses the human mike to tell the cops to leave the quad, which is theirs. the cops are not amused. then, a female student uses the human mike to respond “i think we should ask them politely to leave.” the insult of being told that the territory belonged to their students, and that they would dare tell the police to disperse, appears to be what set the mood for lt. pike, chief spicuzza (who was on site, but at a moderate distance) and the other cops.
but i don;t think that scared the cops so much as enraged them. the scared part was when the students surrounded them and chased them off the quad, after the spraying, and were clearly willing to risk taking it in the face again. those were some freaked-out faces behind those masks.
monday’s general strike should be lots of fun. either the cops stay back and let us shut the school down, or they try to stop it and fuck it up again.
More rampant rolling just in..
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LOL…Some really good lines in this one…..
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