An Afghan girl holds a toy received from US soldiers who have been delivering aid, including blankets, shoes and radios to villagers in Paktika Province, Afghanistan. (BBC)
December 2010 archive
Dec 30 2010
A Toy in Paktika Province
Dec 30 2010
Pentagon ‘War Games’ U.S. Economic Meltdown
‘Unified Quest 2011’: Pentagon ‘War Games’ U.S. Economic Meltdown
Hat Tip to MilitaryTracy for pointing me to this video…
Dec 30 2010
Six In The Morning
I’m Not A Witch I’m You
And, I’m Under Investigation
Reporting from Baltimore –Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell to determine if the former Senate candidate broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation.The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect the identity of a client who has been questioned as part of the investigation. The case, which has been assigned to two federal prosecutors and two FBI agents in Delaware, has not been brought before a grand jury.
Dec 30 2010
Muse in the Morning
 Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.
–Jessica Lange |
 Hollow 3 |
Dec 30 2010
America v. Aafia Siddiqui
Aafia Siddiqui
Aafia Siddiqui has been sentenced to 86 years in prison for allegedly taking an M-4 rifle away from a US Army warrant officer and firing it twice at him and other Americans in a small room, although no bullet fragments or shell casings from the M-4 were found at the scene of the crime, and Aafia Siddiqui’s fingerprints were not found on the M-4. The only bullets and casings found there came from the pistol with which the Americans shot Aafia Siddiqui twice in the stomach, and…
The only evidence against Aafia Siddiqui was the testimony of the men who shot her.
“It seems extraordinary to imagine that four U.S. agents who’d gone to pick her up – two military, two FBI – along with at least two Afghan translators, were somehow surprised by this woman, who overpowered them, grabbed a gun, flipped the safety, fired off a couple of shots, and then could only be subdued by shots to the torso,” said the Asia-Pacific director of Amnesty International, Sam Zarifi.
Dec 30 2010
Henry Kissinger Is Nothing But A Thug
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been in the news recently over comments he made about the immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel in conversations he had with then President Richard Nixon. These conversations which are part of the Nixon White House tapes were released earlier this month.
He tells Nixon that the “emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”
Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize yet he is far from being a man of peace or a humanitarian. He has a long record of Human Rights abuses spanning the globe beginning with his role as National Security Advisor through his tenure as Secretary of State.
Dec 29 2010
A New Third Party. Kucinich: It’s Time!
I received a letter from Dennis Kucinich today. Dennis reported that the recent census resulted in the need for Ohio to eliminate 2 Congressional districts. Guess which ones?
Dennis states:
The New York Times, Newsweek, and Fox News have all recently headlined stories that I may lose my Congressional seat, not through an election, but through redistricting!
Because of this attack on his district, Kucinich has sent out this letter to ask for the suggestions of “We the People” about what he/we should do about this. I wrote a letter to him suggesting that we form a new, progressive party of the well known politicians who have either been driven out of office or who are feeling incredibly frustrated with the impossibility of accomplishing anything meaningful.
This new third party might be called the “People’s Progressive Party.”
Both Kucinich’s letter and mine are below:
Dec 29 2010
The Wounded Knee Massacre: 120th Anniversary
The Sand Creek Massacre and the Washita Massacre both led to the Wounded Knee Massacre. The Sand Creek Massacre brought the realization that “the soldiers were destroying everything Cheyenne – the land, the buffalo, and the people themselves,” and the Washita Massacre added even more genocidal evidence to those facts. The Sand Creek Massacre caused the Cheyenne to put away their old grievances with the Sioux and join them in defending their lives against the U.S. extermination policy. The Washita Massacre did that even more so. After putting the Wounded Knee Massacre briefly into historical perspective, we’ll focus solely on the Wounded Knee Massacre itself for the 120th Anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Dec 29 2010
On Starving In Prison, Or, Who Gets Pardons In Florida?
If you were with us on Christmas Day you heard the story of Betsie Gallardo, who, unless something changes quickly, is going to be intentionally starved to death in a Florida prison after being convicted of spitting on a cop.
In fairness, the State did not decide simply to starve her; instead, the Department of Corrections (DOC) first chose to withhold any further treatment for her inoperable cancer…and then they decided to starve her to death.
Her adopted mother is trying to get her released on humanitarian grounds; the DOC recommended in October that she be allowed to go home and die, the Florida Parole Commission refused.
Governor Charlie Crist chairs the Executive Clemency Board, who could also agree to let her go…and so far, they’ve also refused to take action.
Funny thing is, the Governor and his Board have been more than willing to step in when other Floridians requested pardons and commutations, even in situations that seemed a lot less dire.
Today, we’re going to look at that history-and to be honest, as with many things in the Sunshine State, from the outside…it all looks a bit bizarre.
Dec 29 2010
Social Engineering
Why normalize something which is NOT happening.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story…
http://www.govtrack.us/congres…
So when you Google geo-engineering the top featured sites are these “wack job” new age spirituality types or this one from the equally “wack job” Bible thumpers from someplace called “Godlike Productions”.
http://www.godlikeproductions….
If I was a “normal” American citizen should I report all of this to Homeboy Security as a national security threat?
Oh, wow, you learn something new everyday. It’s not NEW, here is a link from 2007!
http://www.mbta.com/about_the_…
Yes, indeed citizens need to spy on each other.
http://www.ibtimes.com/article…
How else would we catch such villians like Levi Detweiler. Possesion of alcohol and “overdriving” an animal? Is that “illegal” or did they just make that up.
http://www.comcast.net/slidesh…
Dec 29 2010
Muse in the Morning
| Muse in the Morning |
Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.
| A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
–Karel Reisz |
 Hollow 2 |