June 2010 archive

Jun 25 2010

News at Noon

From Reuters

Kyrgyz troops vote in first stage of referendum

By Maria Golovina

June 25, 2010

Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) – Kyrgyz soldiers voted on Friday in the first stage of a referendum to create the first parliamentary democracy in Central Asia, two weeks after ethnic clashes killed more than 250 people.

Nearly 2,000 soldiers filed into polling booths in a university in Osh, epicenter of the bloodshed, two days before the main round of voting which the interim government hopes will cement its rule of the poor but strategic country.

“The boys are voting today so they can be on high alert on election day,” said Abdykalyk Boltabayev, a local election commission official.

Jun 25 2010

Docudharma Times Friday June 25




Friday’s Headlines:

Pakistan Is Said to Pursue a Foothold in Afghanistan

Where are the women to rock the music industry?

USA

House-Senate panel works to move financial regulation bill to Obama

Q&A: Did U.S. reject foreign help on gulf oil spill cleanup?

Europe

Parcel bomb kills Greek security minister’s aide

Revealed: How ‘zero-grazing’ is set to bring US-style factory farming to Britain

Middle East

Egypt’s denial of police brutality in Khalid Said death spurs fresh protest

Dubai’s ambitions soar with new airport

Asia

Korean war 60 years on: Haven in South for young defectors from North

Campaigners dismiss Bhopal compensation as insufficient

Africa

The African paradox: Big players, shame about the teams

Deadlock over Zimbabwe ‘blood diamond’ trade

Jun 25 2010

Muse in the Morning

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

–Bodhidharma, Treatise on the Two Entrances and Four Practices

Phenomena II: enticing


Strings

Semantic String Theory

Letters are scrambled

syllables sewn together

words aligned

into strings

thoughts condense

out of nothingness

and are arranged

into meaning

Sometimes

they vibrate

with Truth

–Robyn Elaine Serven

–February 3, 2008

Jun 25 2010

Late Night Karaoke

OPEN THREAD

Jun 25 2010

Millions of US Tax $ funding the Taliban every week! ARE YOU F$%KING KIDDING ME?

End this fucking war NOW!

Private security contractors protecting the convoys that supply U.S. military bases in Afghanistan are paying millions of dollars a week in “passage bribes” to the Taliban and other insurgent groups to travel along Afghan roads, a congressional investigation released Monday has found.

The alleged payments, which are reimbursed by the U.S. government, help fund the very enemy the U.S. is attempting to defeat and renew questions about the U.S. dependence on private contractors, who outnumber American troops in Afghanistan, 130,000 to 93,000.

LATimes.com

Bold text added by the diarist

  So taxpayer money is funding contractors in Afghanistan who in turn fund THE TALIBAN with US Government reimbursable bribe money.

Seriously?

WTF???

More areyoufuckingkiddingme below the fold

Jun 25 2010

Works So Well In Pakistan, So On To US- Mexican Border & Gulf

drone

The future is now.   Got some crazy, yellow Gasden snake flag flying neighbors, who are arming themselves for the 2nd Coming ? Is your Congressman or Senator a birther, or just an exuberant alien exporter?

How would you like the Tea Party or the uber right wing of the CIA telling Homeland Security where to deploy these next ?

With Nixon, it was the  National Guard.

With Obama, during an election year, one day after sacking his Afghan general,  it’s the   Drones.

Jun 25 2010

Orange Beach Alabama

via UK Guardian:

Delicate patterns in the sea breaking on Orange Beach, Alabama, more than 90 miles from the BP oil spill, cannot distract from the mess four to six inches deep on parts of the shore

Photographer: Dave Martin/AP

Jun 25 2010

Orange Beach Alabama – 90 Miles From BP’s Well

via UK Guardian:

Delicate patterns in the sea breaking on Orange Beach, Alabama, more than 90 miles from the BP oil spill, cannot distract from the mess four to six inches deep on parts of the shore

Photographer: Dave Martin/AP

Jun 24 2010

On Being Philistines



Pelican Gate

Some of you have been following along with a local story I have been following for quite some time (last October):  the proposed destruction of an old-growth forest in West Orange, NJ by the administrators of Seton Hall Prep and the Archdiocese of Newark, as abetted…or in some cases just ignored…by the West Orange Zoning Board and elected officials.

Originally this was a story of people who had no concern for the environment or the value of old trees.  Then it became the story of the destruction of the habitat for an endangered species.  It progressed to being a story of civil irresponsibility when workers for Seton Hall Prep were instructed to demolish some 90 year old Japanese yew trees in favor of what were called “test pits.”  Exactly what was being tested was unclear.

But that report also moved us into the area of saving our history, which was continued in the fourth report.

Jun 24 2010

Those poor oiled birds, and….the troops

Cross-posted at Dkos http://www.dailykos.com/story/…

We’ve all seen the photos of the wildlife stricken by the oil spill, and I expect most who’ve seen them have been saddened and outraged.

I’ve been plenty horrified and outraged myself.

The following photos are upsetting.

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oil bird 5

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Gulf Oil Spill

Jun 24 2010

Human Rights Campaign Healthcare Equality Index 2010

cross-posted from Sum of Change

Jun 24 2010

WTF on that General thingy.

So in record breaking time, Moveon.org exposed themselves as incredible partisan hacks as they have scrubbed the BeTrayUs ad off their website.

Remember this?

http://littlepic.com/images/pe…

Yeah, that was the flavor!

So basically, the corpocrats have convinced their fanatical followers that:

Petraeus+Bush+wars=Evil

Petraeus+Obama+wars=Awesome

Awesome!

And while we are on the subject of awesomeness, to reaffirm civilian control of the military, which is why mcchrystal got walked, we put the dude who lied to the civilian congress about the war in charge?

Really? AWESOME!

The best part is to watch all the minions of the corpocrats cheer this move like they were Bushities of 2005.

If Bush had done this, there would have been a chorus of boos and a never ending stream of strongly worded letters.

Now Obama is doing the exact same thing, it is the way forward!

AWESOME!

The only who has gained anything out of this, because it definitely isn’t the troops in Afghanistan, it is Kagan.

Now her confirmation hearings will pass by the media like a ship in the night.

Not saying Obama would swap a general for a judge, but you damn sure know Rahm would.

Because the Rolling Stone article has been out on the ethers for weeks now, why did they pull the trigger on the planned meta outrage this week?

And why are pwoggressives and corpocrats cheering the failed Bush policies of four years ago?

Oh yeah, their wrestler has the championship belt now, I keep forgetting.  

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