Nov 29 2010
(Cross-posted the The Free Speech Zone)
Never before in history has a superpower lost control of such vast amounts of such sensitive information — data that can help paint a picture of the foundation upon which US foreign policy is built. Never before has the trust America’s partners have in the country been as badly shaken. Now, their own personal views and policy recommendations have been made public — as have America’s true views of them.
Nov 29 2010
If this sad tale by “a doctor of everything” doesn’t make you vomit, piss, and laugh simultaneously, well, then you aren’t me. The comment section is absolutely priceless. Aside from the general teeth gnashing, the phrase “turning education into an economic pursuit” stood out. Right next to the article is a link entitled, “Report faults for-profit colleges as providers of ‘subprime opportunity:’ The sector needs more government oversight, say the authors, to avoid a crisis that resembles the housing-market crash.” My sympathies were with the doctor of everything, who profits, albeit miserably, off of the rigor mortis. America, I love you fucking phonies to death.
Nov 28 2010
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
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
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
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
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.
Nov 27 2010
The intent to commit genocide at Washita is hidden in plain view, unless key elements are brought together. These are: that the Cheyenne were placed on land where they would starve while promises to avert starvation were broken; that George Bent observed how Civil War soldiers did not harm white women and children by a “code of honor,” while Indian women and children were slaughtered; that Sheridan declared “The only good Indians I ever saw were dead;” and that the War Department did not differentiate between peaceful and warring Indians. Hence, the orders “to kill or hang all warriors.” As the consequence, the intent was to kill all men
of a specific race.
