November 28, 2010 archive
Nov 28 2010
Open Picasso
Nov 28 2010
Idiosyncrasies: Dragon’ s Head
Sunday, Nov 28 2010 Note: This is a Draft Rescue. FWIW. I started it months ago and never got back to it. (Procrastinate much? moi??) It’s really just a little ditty. Decided to go ahead and publish it, more to clean out my Draft Folder as much as anything. I’m in purge mode these days. ~LL
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I got plenty. I don’t know where I come up with some of these, I swear. But it’s entertaining sometimes. heh.
… the Dragon’s Head …
Nov 28 2010
Docudharma Times Sunday November 28
N. Korea preps missiles amid U.S. war games
Pyongyang warns of ‘merciless’ assault if further provoked as joint naval drills begin
msnbc.com news services
YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea – The sound of new artillery fire from North Korea just hours after the U.S. and South Korea launched a round of war games in Korean waters sent residents and journalists on a front-line island scrambling for cover Sunday.
None of the rounds landed on Yeonpyeong Island, military officials said, but South Korea’s Defense Ministry later ordered journalists off the island.
Nov 28 2010
A Photo from Kunduz, Kundûz, Qonduz, Qondûz, Konduz, Kondûz, Kondoz, or Qhunduz
Children playing in a puddle in Kunduz
On September 4, 2009 the German army incinerated about 100 civilians in Kunduz Province, Aghanistan, and because Germany wasn’t officially at war with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, there was a remote possibility that the German soldiers responsible for this impressive massacre could be prosecuted for homicide.
So the Germans quickly…
…reclassified the Afghanistan deployment in February 2010 as an “armed conflict within the parameters of international law,” allowing German forces to act without risk of prosecution under German law.
Harharharhar!!!
Brilliant! Got a problem with killing a whole lotta people? Just call it “armed conflict,” and presto!
Alles in Ordnung!
A few months later Germany offered the families of victims about $5000 apiece, ex gratia, as they say, as a gift, without admitting liability.
This sum is comparable to the most expensive hunting license in the United States, which Arizona sells to non-residents for hunting buffalo:
$3755.
Nov 28 2010
A Photo from Kunduz, Kundûz, Qonduz, Qondûz, Konduz, Kondûz, Kondoz, or Qhunduz
Children playing in a puddle in Kunduz
On September 4, 2009 the German army incinerated about 100 civilians in Kunduz Province, Aghanistan, and because Germany wasn’t officially at war with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, there was a remote possibility that the German soldiers responsible for this impressive massacre could be prosecuted for homicide.
So the Germans quickly…
…reclassified the Afghanistan deployment in February 2010 as an “armed conflict within the parameters of international law,” allowing German forces to act without risk of prosecution under German law.
Harharharhar!!!
Brilliant! Got a problem with killing a whole lotta people? Just call it “armed conflict,” and presto!
Alles in Ordnung!
A few months later Germany offered the families of victims about $5000 apiece, ex gratia, as they say, as a gift, without admitting liability.
This sum is comparable to the most expensive hunting license in the United States, which Arizona charges non-residents for hunting buffalo:
$3755.
Nov 28 2010
Greenwald discusses wisdom of letting Obama & Palin hunt Americans from helicopters.
Sadly, that title is not hyperbole. Check out this video (via Dave Cohen) of Greenwald’s superb, hour-long presentation in Madison, WI on Civil Liberties and Terrorism in the Age of Obama. You will find no clearer analysis of our present situation.
Glenn Greenwald on civil liberties and terrorism after Obama from The Badger Herald on Vimeo.
