Mother Jones {MoJo} Drumbeat brings the link to the site for the book The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law
Read exclusive excerpts from narratives by the attorneys who have represented Guantanamo Detainees, at above link
November 2009 archive
Nov 27 2009
Wild Wild Left Radio #45 Unlocking the US’s Civil War Plan
Join WWL Radio cohosts Diane Gee and Michael Gottlieb tonight on BTR at 6PM Eastern Time.
On this Black Friday evening, we will be continuing the discussion we started last week, and expanding from that premise. After establishing the ramped up rhetoric is overtly calling for the assassination of President Obama, the natural expansion is into how the use of “extreme prejudice” is being encouraged between our citizenry itself.
With the application of economic shock, and portends of many more extreme financial crisis’s to come, the Class War unfolds.
We have become inured to the horrors of the fascist state of unnecessary force and big brother watching. Will we accept it as inevitable, the use of US troops to quell food riots and “keep peace” by using force on people who protest the class war?
Or we be too busy fighting the “other” wars, wars against one another in layers upon layers of civil unrest? Will Christians use their newly claimed Orwellian status as “victims” to justify a Holy War to make America a theocracy?
It maybe a singular theatre of warfare, but it is a battle being fought on many fronts. As always, to divide is to conquer; and what is being done to our society is a direct application of those theories laid out in the Shock Doctrine.
It is difficult to address the bigger picture, when so many of us are enraged by each individual skirmishes against our rights. Yet, we feel it is of utmost importance to connect the dots early enough to see if we can turn back the coming storm.
See you there! As always, respectful questions and commentary are welcomed. Call in, or use our attached live chat function!
Join Gottlieb and Diane tonight at 6pm EDT on Wild Wild Left Radio, via BlogtalkRadio, for an interesting hour of Political Reporting and Commentary.
WWL Radio: Free Speech in Practice.
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Nov 27 2009
Marathon Friday Morning
This is too hard and yet a public service.
The problem is that you only get a 3 hour slice and then you have to track 20 layers of channels.
Until 8 pm it looks kinda like this-
7 pm Update!–
- Spike– Band of Brothers starts @ 9 am and continues until 11 pm.
- A&E– Criminal Minds starts @ 8 am and continues until 11 pm when it is interrupted for CSI: Miami and then returns at midnight for 3 more episodes.
- E!– Keeping Up With The Kardashians starts @ 9 am and finishes @ 4 pm with a break between noon and 2 for Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami
- Discovery– Deadliest Catch @ 9 am and continues until 3 am.
- TLC– Say Yes To The Dress @ 6 am and continues until 1 am.
- USA– NICS starts @ 6:30 am and stops @ 12:30 for Monk. White Collar starts @ 1:30 and continues until 7.
- SciFi– James Bond starts @ 8 am and continues until 5:30 am.
- FX– That 70s show starts @ 8 am and finishes @ 5 pm.
- Travel– Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmer starts @ 9 am and continues until 8.
- TV Land– Sanford and Son starts @ 9 am and is replaced @ 4 pm by Andy Griffith until 10.
- VH-1- Jump Start starts @ 5 am and continues until 11 am.
- Tru TV– Haunting Evidence starts @ 9 am and is replaced by Forensic Files @ 3 pm until 6 with 6 more episodes from 9 to midnight.
- Food TV– Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives starts @ 2 pm and continues until 11 pm.
- TNT– Charmed from 8 am to 11 am. Law and Order after that until 7. 300 at 8 pm with a repeat at 10
- Bravo– Real Housewives of New Jersey starts @ 8 am and is followed by Goodfellas @ 5 pm with a repeat at 8.
- ESPN– Sports Center 5 am to noon.
- Animal Planet– I’m Alive starts @ 1 pm and is interrupted at 10 pm, 1 am, and 5 am for Pit Bulls and Parolees.
Nov 27 2009
Greening up Our Lives
[Updated from title being the Thanksgiving comment]
Yesterday, the thing I most wanted to say instead of “Happy Thanksgiving”, was:
“Happy Stealing Things from Indigenous Peoples Day”.
But I didn’t. Maybe that’s wrong or right. I’ll go to a T-Day dinner with friends this Saturday, and I think I’ll be able to use that line and be understood.
So back to my normal passions: Did you do anything to green up the planet today? Or yesterday? Do you have green plans for today?
Nov 27 2009
Afternoon Edition
Afternoon Edition is an Open Thread
Now with after nap update and World and U.S. News. 68 Story Final.
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 German military chief quits over Afghan strike
by Simon Sturdee, AFP
1 hr 4 mins ago
| BERLIN (AFP) – Germany’s top general quit on Thursday over an air strike in Afghanistan on two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in which dozens of civilians are thought to have perished.
The resignation, announced in parliament by Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg together with that of a senior ministry official, followed press revelations that a military report about the September 4 strike was suppressed. The news came at an unfortunate time for Chancellor Angela Merkel, as parliament was debating extending the mandate for the German mission in Afghanistan. Even before the air strike it was opposed by a majority of voters. |
Nov 27 2009
Thanksgiving; Time with Family. No Thanks
copyright © 2009 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org
As Americans ponder the Thanksgiving Day holiday expectations are high. Young children look forward to all the activities loved ones plan. School age individuals are told tales of the Pilgrims and the Indians that befriended early settlers. Most imagine that on this November day, people come together peaceably. That, for the little ones is a welcome thought. Too often, tension exists in the parent child relationship. Some say angst increases as the offspring age. Whilst many wish to believe the strain occurs over time, as a child becomes more autonomous, indeed, recent research shows early interactions give rise to the relationship that will be.
Toddlers and tots rarely have opportunities to quietly, calmly, and genuinely converse with parents or the caregivers they are fond of. Hence, lads and lasses feel a sense of loss. By the teen years, the thought of another Thanksgiving celebration with relatives evokes an almost automatic response, “No thanks.”
Nov 27 2009
Twenty Thousand Years of Memory 20091126
I was intentionally a bit obtuse about the number of years of my life, because it is easy to lose count. I do remember when it started to get a bit warmer, and my people stated to be born with less hair, but before that I can tell you that it was bitterly cold, and without our own hair, in addition to the garments that we could fashion, death by hypothermia would have happened.
Our people were very well adapted for the cold. We were “chunky”, in that we did not have as much surface to volume area as you moderns have. But that “chunkness” only expressed itself if we were subjected to extreme cold.
Nov 27 2009
Iraq War Inquiry, Day Three
On Sept 11 2001 Condi Rice was already sure al Qaeda did the hijackings and attacks but was also Already Mentioning Iraq as being Involved, or hoping so! To me I keep seeing a picture forming that they weren’t interested At All in seeking out bin Laden nor even al Qaeda members, but Were Hell Bent On Regime Change In Iraq, which was already being discussed and pushed prior to Sept 11 2001. They had no concern for seeking out those who were a part of this extremely destructive criminal act against our Nation and it’s Citizens, nor seemingly concern or thought as to the victims of the three extremely destructive acts, Saddam was on their minds!!
Nov 26 2009
The Invisible Hand: Too Big to Fail, vs Too Small to Notice
The Invisible Hand
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, says: “the reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.” [7][8] Stiglitz explains his position:
Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, is often cited as arguing for the “invisible hand” and free markets: firms, in the pursuit of profits, are led, as if by an invisible hand, to do what is best for the world. But unlike his followers, Adam Smith was aware of some of the limitations of free markets, and research since then has further clarified why free markets, by themselves, often do not lead to what is best. As I put it in my new book, Making Globalization Work, the reason that the invisible hand often seems invisible is that it is often not there.
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Nov 26 2009
Afternoon Edition
Afternoon Edition is an Open Thread
Now with after nap update and World and U.S. News. 68 Story Final.
| From Yahoo News Top Stories |
1 German military chief quits over Afghan strike
by Simon Sturdee, AFP
1 hr 4 mins ago
| BERLIN (AFP) – Germany’s top general quit on Thursday over an air strike in Afghanistan on two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in which dozens of civilians are thought to have perished.
The resignation, announced in parliament by Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg together with that of a senior ministry official, followed press revelations that a military report about the September 4 strike was suppressed. The news came at an unfortunate time for Chancellor Angela Merkel, as parliament was debating extending the mandate for the German mission in Afghanistan. Even before the air strike it was opposed by a majority of voters. |