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Democracy NOW! / Amy Goodman- Who Bankrolls the Islamic State? Private Donors in Gulf Oil States Cited as Key to ISIS Success 26 February 2015Militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State have reportedly abducted at least 220 people from Assyrian Christian villages in northeastern Syria during a three-day offensive. Meanwhile, the Islamic State militant nicknamed "Jihadi John," who has been featured in several beheading videos, has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born fo […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
- Exporting Torture: Former Chicago Police Detective Tied to Brutality at Guantánamo 26 February 2015A former Guantánamo Bay interrogator involved in torture was also a longtime Chicago police officer known for abusing people of color. According to The Guardian, Richard Zuley spent three decades as a notoriously brutal detective on the Chicago police force. From 1977 to 2007, Zuley used tactics including torture, threats and abuse to elicit confessions from […]mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!)
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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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Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Walker sets up legal-defense fund
hmm Sounds like ‘Best of Luck’ Walker.
just in time for the recall to really heat up.
I think Glenn Greenwald makes very valid points here: Dennis Kucinich and “wackiness”; ….. though I’ve had absolutely no ‘faith’ in Dennis ever since I realized his wife looks and sounds like an Abrahamic ™ concubine trophy, not to mention the creepy Orwellian concept of a Department of Peace: ™. …. Yeah .once a government starts creating and titling: exclusive, members only, groups, ….titled/MARKETED . after what they know are the innate concerns for the majority of those governed, …that government is heading towards enslavement of the voiceless governed.
Kucinich was just a much, much lesser harm to my mind, but still a harm – a filled with himself, and his maleness ™, dupe, in what appears to be a not so grand plan and direction …to say the least.
IMO he was just one more Democrat. He always gave them cover, created diversion or colluded.
Maybe maybe maybe years ago, he did a few things in Cleveland, but it was long ago. Oh, and!!!, just one more Catholic. The wife spouted New Age mumbo jumbo at a speed rate. Growing up in Cali I have heard it all, in that department. Snooze.
yup, just like: Al [be] Gore; Babs, the Dem (with the highly focused resolution to give multinational corporations (most especially in Sly Con Valley), a totally free ride and then some); and Teddy, etc.
ugh Ted was alloed to make too many core decisions as some de facto leader of the party, for all the Kennedy suffering.
ugh.
(sorry about the “period”s before once, and after marketed, … I should have taken more time to edit, before posting it.)
Madison Politiscope: Tens of thousands rally against Gov. Walker at the Capitol
:lol:
whatever works!!
People up here, even though they support a lot of really horrible winger media, like to maintain the illusion that WI is more “civil” and “decent” than everyone else, and they LOVE procedural stuff that “proves” it (this is the state that gave the country Feingold and Proxmire, after all). Walker and the Republican legislature threw over all pretense of “civility over the last year. I think it was too much for a lot of people.
Would love to see a simliar focus against Jerry Brown in Cali, …. who, just for one recent offense, appointed a banker as a jobs czar…..(Gov. Jerry Brown appoints jobs czar –
California’s new jobs czar, former Bank of America and GMAC executive Michael Rossi, will serve as a liaison for businesses, labor and Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration.)
If I’m not mistaken, the Demrats and Rethugs have more seamlessly combined in Cali, than in any other state.
Would love to see a simliar focus against Jerry Brown in Cali
no one will…
and it is true about the seamless conjoin….
yep, it appears everything will be, and has been, done to prevent focusing on Cali “Leadership,”… predominately against those with no prior criminal records whatsoever.
of course, I’m sure a lot of that has to do with California being the eighth largest economy in the world, despite/due to? …. the stunning levels of austerity, incarceration and brutality, …. going on within its boundaries. ….
we used to flip back and forth with France… I have no idea where Cali stands lately tho. :lol: NOR France….
yeah … I keep reading Cali = the eighth! :0) (who the fuck knew? ..ok, ZuckerFuck! in the Ghetto of East Menlo Park, Cali!… ) recently, soz I went with it! siiiigh …
Seriously though, I wouldn’t doubt Cali is at least the eighth ‘domiciled’ corpgovthug cloister, in terms of money making it into an elite group of pockets.
I think one year we jockeyed back and forth between 5th and 6th…
who knows, could be 5th Empire still, and it’s being downplayed in “sympathy” and “sensitivity” with it having the 2nd highest unemployed rate and the fact that STATE Colleges/Universities now cost as much, and then some, as the Historic Ivy Leaguers.
Cali doesn’t rate sysmpathy…. nor sensitivity. A recent report out put us as one of the 5 most disliked (they may have used “hated”) states.
Ninety-eight major advertisers—including Ford and Geico—will no longer air spots on Premiere Networks’ ‘offensive’ programs. Insiders say the loss will rock right-wing talk radio.
While I’ll be thrilled to see this shit go away after decades of it being pretty much unchallenged, I can’t help but suspect that the corporate Powers-that-be have decided to keep Barack O’Nixon around for four more and they’re removing a possible source of trouble.
Profiles In Cowardice
ugh how naive IS Charles Pierce? The way Breitbart doctored the vid was way too hot for Punahoe school boy Slob to deal with. They closed ranks at the WH immediately. Went out on a limb for old friend Henry Louis Gates, but did not bother to make a few calls for SS….
I cannot go find it at the moment, but considering what …think it was a member of another Cvil Rights family, Innis, posted at Cpunch, I cannot weep for Sherrod. Waste of my time…. Then after years of accepting on its face, of course why whould I not?, the suit from the black farmers against some arm of the Dept of Ag… shoot, I went shuffling online thru the Pigford case, an exercise in rooting thru a mess.
I’m always fascinated to find people who are surprised by this shit …
Breaking…..shattering, …
NYT –
…Killing.
WaPo-
And only days after Barry Love Peace Prize was whippin up the butter fried fretful in deep fried lies, happily consumed, about how he is happy to report~ah that American Troops are no longer serving … {whatever Slobrama’s weasel word descripto } ..in IRAQ.
WAR CRIMINAL. War Criminal in Chief now may I remind all retrenching Death Squad Dems out there. By all means, bring all argument, apologia, evidence to the contrary on the way to the morgues
More killed under his regime’s single term than two terms of Bush and Cheney combined.
Barry Love Peace Prize,
Love Him, LOVE ..HIM, chillin and killin and with
LOVE like Kim-jong-Illin. Oh he Loves you back.
Oh you know, Remember to vote Democrat.
You know, on principle, all perceptive cerebral sorts –
Remember to vote Democrat…
.. after burying the record and erasing the tape….
WAR CRIMINAL….. War Criminal in Chief AGAIN may I remind all retrenching Death Squad Dems out there.
Bring d’ exhonoration with you. Bring it. Bring it on….
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I just heard an update…. as many as 16…
Something like this was bound to come…
Yes, the latest disaster.
Long way till the Fall…. elections.
Not so long to the blowback and Spring counteroffensive.
With the exception of Tapper (who tried to introduce the factual errors in the Kony 2012 vid, but was cut off by Stephie) the various R and D consultants and pundits all sounded weak this morning on TW.
Best of Luck (as in Fuk U) to them all….
Well ornament he is, Karzai has his moments, prolly moments to live as the country explodes, but, ya know..
via ….NY Post
I think Karzai just wants to avoid assassination, by Afghanis OR US mil…. I read long ago he has no private, as in his own, security, he relies on the US contractors for his personal security. Must be really reassuring to be protected by some arm of Eric Prince. Or whomever…
Geesh. Good Luck!, Man in the Astrakhan HAt.
I think Karzai just wants to avoid assassination,….
Good Luck!
He better get avoidin’ then. This shouldn’t take long now.
yeah. Send lilies…
And, politically now anyways, Barry The War Effort President is going to need a few bouquets of his own.
Flashpoint incident. like you said: bound to happen.
IMO I don’t think there is anything inthe last ten years that will match the kind of blowback to come with this.
But you know.~~.Barry, the Progressive.,
This is the point I believe where ‘Mrka gets run the fuck out.
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OK!, Expanded list:
Lilies
Exit Helicopters
Our Collaborators storming the locked gates of the US Embassy in Kabul
(Have I missed anything?)
I suggest Paris.
oh so funny… I was just wondering if there is a Mme Karzai… then quickly realised she probably lives in Paris.
Drudge and Bloomberg have moved it quickly off their front page headline. Drude has replaced it with a feature humping Israel shelling Gaza.
Whoopsie!
UPDATE, among the 16 dead in Afghanistan …,
NINE are children. Several women…
Protesters and Family Attempt to Reoccupy Home of Recently Deported Mother; Police Respond in Riot Gear
Terrible story.
Even tho I think we are in a completely screwed up place on immigration, legal, illegal and work visas… The whole thing is a fucked mess… THIS, this arrests, deportations, breaking up of long term resident (illegal members among legal and born here) of families and the huge sweeps is absolutely horrific.
It is more than draconian, its demonic.
it’s theft from the powerless by the force of law
Lilies and helicopters on the way!
Read more at:
Wash Po
Trust.org/(Reuters) is reporting that witnesses are saying it was more than one US Lone Wolfer.
Susie Madrak posted from an earlier version she found: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/western-forces-kill-16-civilians-in-afghanistan-kabul-govt/ , which no longer links, and has been since airbrushed by Reuters (see link at top).
Well… they can try… but it’s nto like they can cover up what the killers did… esp there, on the ground.
It’ll be ‘interesting to read the evolving nooz …heard a ghastly blurb on KGO earlier about how the Afghanis were informed by rumor versus truths , yup, already prepping to downplay the facts coming out of the mouths of those who were born and live there.
The UZ certainly wouldn’t want any more evidence of the fact that the $UZ$ Domiciled MIC has perfected an industry that turns its own[ed] country’s, unconnected and thoroughly neglected, citizens into psychopathic murderers, through systemic, class based, white gloved: psychological abuse and economic deprivation.
At the rate we medicate and I would guess test medications on soldiers n the field in the war zones, I think we have no fucking clue what is going on over there….
Mad Max war, I would think…. like all wars.
Plus I read years ago, after strange stories in the US press that Iraqis were consuming amounts of Arak to dull their senses during the early bombing raids, later I read that much of what is available here only by script is easily obtained there… (as in more than a few countries).
I am not excusing anything or anyone, the crimes are horrific. But I’d like to live long enough to get the truth of what is really happening in theatre.
France used an attack on their forces to frame their early (if it was) withdrawal and iirc the UK did the same soon after…
Handwriting on the wall…
I just heard that the single soldier they are using … was at Fort Lewis in Washington… and first tour in Afghanistan, but his 4th in 8 years.
Some good follow up here; specifically, on the evil and sadistic, Pysocpathic Psyche/$Pharma$ treatment of $R$ Troops ™ and the Lone Wolfer SUSPECT!!!! ™.
The country has had issues with mental health care forever. it’s only gotten worse.
I’ve been watching the Berkeley hills murder case, as it is, to the extent it is reported in any detail, interesting both on mental health care available and not to the poorest of the poor even, but to the grandchild of a former Berkeley mayor with two living and involved parents… Dewitt is the killer, think the dx was the usual (no idea if accurate) paranoid schizo/bi polar… AND with the middle of the night heavy handed visit to a Berkeley blogger by the cops.
Except for the beating death of an old man, Cukor, a long time resident in the Berkeley hills and the mess that the Dewitt family finds itself in… it would be almsot a comedy routine. With the Keystone cops. IN the supposed land of free speech using intimidation tactics on a blogger….
Yup, and I personally think that $NAMI$ ™ is an enormous part of the problem. It’s absolute insanity to believe that horrid experiences, including a lack of vital nutrition and rest from STRESS and FEAR (no I’m not referring to Micky O.’s My Plate! Plan ™ ), have nothing to do with people cracking; … from what I’ve read, that appears to be their over $Medicating$ Philosophy.
What does this mean?
$NAMI$
NAMI = The National Alliance on Mental Illness ™
I don’t know anything about them…
BTW: what does THIS stand for $R$ ???
IMO stress is the single biggest killer. Right along with a wide swath of illnesses that can be (or, could be) tracked to environmentl issues. IMO cars would rate as high as if not higher than cigarettes.
I just don’t and nver have bought into most of the bullshit. Esp the minute bullshite becomes RELIGION. When that happens, I am off the wagon train.
NAMI is a ‘household word’ in the Mental Health $Industry$.
$R$ = a derogatory substitute for the word our, when the word is used by politicians, and other bloodsuckers on the take, to imply the citizens of the US, as if they have a say in anything.
Oh, so true about <<<<<<>>>>>>>>!
(fucking HTML!!!! … siiiiigghhhhhh, just imagine the word STRESS in the center of : <<<<<<>>>>>>>>! )
that was an interesting sub thread, thanks for that… I see Military Tracy took over… LOL. Till SHE goes nutz (again) but at least her comments are links and clips.
Oh yeah, the fuckin med abuse and testing ground, …and honestly, the Suicide and Rape rate among ‘the troops’ speaks volumes as to the horrors we’re not privy to.
Uggggh, … re the vicious Trans Pacific “Treaty” we never hear squat about:
Trade pact reveals US hunger
By Neena Bhandari
Thank goodness, he appears recovered and has returned to red up the room, Who is IOZ:
Oh, Shit. This IS What Democracy Looks Like.
(and speaking of good health, are you okay honey? … you’ve been kind of quiet.)
yup, IOZ has that right… it’s a game. Marquee names and fringe idols… Both Kuc and R Paul operate well within their parties.
Pied Pipers.
Oh I am fine, I’ve been having a lot of connection problems for some time, it comes and goes but was problematical this morning, for some reason….
so glad you’re okay honey, . and wasn’t this just precious:
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sorry, to be totally clear, should have posted the full:
well Glenn is often quite useful… but iirc he used to be a R, has lied on his CV about his work history as an atty (claimed or implied an associate spot at a firm where he was a summer intern) and he lives outside the US. I am not aware that he regularly goes back and forth. I’ve had the impression its rare. And I just remembered he had somewhat icky sweetheart deals for his first two books…
He has to be taken with spoonfuls of salt.
hmmm I was looking around the Safeway online site starting to pull together a delivery for next week….
and BUTTER shot up right in front of me. Over a dollar rise, for 16 oz.
I had heard, or read, but it certainly was not widely reported, that the US had an immense slaughter of dairy cows, last year or maybe it was late in 2010, in order to raise the price of milk products.
Land of the Free!. Home of the slaughterers….
All dairy shot up. Eggs, Milk and cream as well.
Isn’t it just stunning …. all of the basics skyrocketing with no concurrent logical, or humane, reason; …. pink goo, lean ground beeph at $5 a pound (on sale!)……. they really do want a vast majority to just go somewhere and die ….
they are demonic, I think …..
Yes wandering around the site, almost everything has gone up… and not by 10, 20, 30 c but by 1, 2, 3 dollars.
Things shot up slowly but regularly over the past two years … but this is a single huge leap.
Uh oh, BREAK[danc]ING!!!!….. a threat to $R$ FLAG!!!!!!. …. not much time to spread the terrerist alert, so a somewhat raw, copy crudely, via curser, then dump paste (after minor MSHTML!!!! highlighting):
Mar 12, 3:44 PM EDT
US-flagged ship on fire off Greece’s Piraeus port
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ATHENS, Greece (AP[P]) — Greek authorities say a fire has broken out on a US-flagged vehicle carrier ship
…. the Alliance Norfolk [Virginia (Naval Base)]. There are 23 crew members and five passengers on board.
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The 57,000-ton, 200-meter (yard) vessel was en route from the United States to Saudi Arabia with a consignment of cars and had moored for an inspection just off Piraeus, the port of Athens.
jeesh, fires ever which where ….tough luck ….where’s that hanky ….
(sorry, linky, Associated Press: US-flagged ship on fire off Greece’s Piraeus port)
SOS!!!!!! come out, come out! … wherever you are! …. BooHooHooMan! …
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