Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Kamala


Kamala Harris will be shoved down our throats apparently.



  1.   1 hour ago
    Loser dems aren't even going through the motions. anointed and voters are expected to go along without question.
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  2.   2 hours ago
    No one has voted for except Californians. She is only being discussed because rich people are considering her for the top job.
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    And this attempt to annoint Kamala Harris & use ID politics to deflect any criticism shows how little they learned from the HRC disaster.
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    Maybe there are traits other than "put a lot of people in prison" to valorize among people seeking high elective office.
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  2.   4 hours ago
    Kamala Harris has spent most of her career as a prosecutor. Which entails... putting lots of people in prison.
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Kamala is now in the US Senate where she does nothing -- just like she didn't do anything proud while the AG of my state.




Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


Tuesday, August 1, 2017.


  6 hours ago
How "Democrats" react when you reveal that Bush FBI appointee & Iraq war huckster Mueller met with the FSB in Moscow

Hey, , just get it over with and ask the Russians for asylum
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I'm confused about the above.

Not about Keith per se.

He was trash and his verbal attacks on women well known before the faux left embraced him during the Bully Boy Bush years.

We never embraced him here or cited him as anyone to listen to.

But what confuses me about the above is that GQ has brought Keith back.

In a way it makes sense.

Professional bachelor Keith is their audience.

Or was.

For decades, closeted gay men would buy GQ and pretend like it was for something other than the men inside.  Or, as GQ grew ever more desperate, on the cover?  What was the point, GQ, of your infamous Tim Tebow armpit close up?  The cover led to a few more issues sold but only a few.  Maybe if they had made it scratch and sniff . . .

GQ and Keith would seem to be made for one another . . . if it were 1989.

But it's 2017 and the publishing industry still remains in ruins and, more to the point, the Barry Keep It In The Closet Dillers are a thing of the past.

Are there really enough closeted gay men around today to keep GQ afloat?

Keith better hope so because he's burned every bridge he's had -- MSNBC, ESPN, Al Gore's now defunct channel.

Keith, for those who don't know, didn't speak out against the Iraq War in the lead up to the war.

If he had, MSNBC would never have hired him.

Remember, they got rid of Phil Donahue because Donahue was not perceived as sufficiently pro-war.

Keith's a blow hard.

And now he's insulting Julian Assange.

In the world of Made A Difference, Julian stands several feet over tiny Keith.  WIKILEAKS has made a difference.

Keith?

Well he's had a lot of showy fits.  He's sort of the Neely O'Hara of the chat and chew set -- the Neely to Midge Dector's Helen Lawson.


He had all those years of prime time on a show that was supposed to be about Iraq -- it was about Iraq when Lester Holt hosted it -- and he accomplished nothing.  He didn't lead on burnpits, he didn't lead on war resistance, what did he do?

Oh, that's right, epic rants about Bully Boy Bush.  He did one major put down after another to show how much more intelligent he was than Bully Boy Bush.  Apparently, finding someone dumber than himself was such a rare discovery that he couldn't shut up about it.

All those hours to fill and yet when did he speak with  Camilo Mejia, Ehren Watada, Terri Johnson, Kimberly Rivera, Dean Walcott, Linjamin Mull, Joshua Key, Augstin Aguayo, Justin Colby, Marc Train, Robert Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder , Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Kevin Lee, Joshua Key, Mark Wilkerson, Patrick Hart, Ricky Clousing, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Jeremy Hinzman, Stephen Funk, Clifton Hicks, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Joshua Casteel, Katherine Jashinski, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake or Kevin Benderman?


Our 'great' 'lefty' and he did nothing.

He still does nothing.

On a related topic . . .

  2 hours ago
The fighting is far from over in Mosul, the last ISIS stronghold in Iraq
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Yes, observers of Iraq are aware of this.

The question is, why did THE NEW YORK TIMES report it as over weeks ago and now come out with this?

It could have made a difference a few weeks back.

I mean it could have made a difference in how we see the conflict (ongoing, not finished) but, equally true, it also could have made a difference in how we see that paper.


UPI has a piece by Wa'el Alzayat which opens:


 After the defeat of the Islamic State in Mosul and likely collapse in Raqqa, the looming question in both countries is what will happen in areas liberated by U.S.-backed forces.
This question is critical for the United States, given the leading role it assumed when it formed the 60-plus country Counter-ISIS Coalition following the fall of Mosul in 2014. Since entering office, U.S. Presi­dent Donald Trump has pursued a strikingly similar approach to his predecessor's by narrowly focusing on dislodging IS while minimizing the U.S. military commitment.

As the so-called caliphate comes to an end, Trump's policy choices will affect the fate of liberated areas and perhaps the entire region. Just as the decision to disband the Iraqi Army and other missteps following the invasion of Iraq haunted post-war efforts, so will the decisions on how to govern and stabilize key Sunni areas in Iraq and Syria.


The world is full of Michael Walzers sadly.

We destroyed it, so we have to stay to fix it?  That b.s. was rejected here with "SHOULD THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED?" -- thirteen years later, we're having to address it again?


The US cannot save Iraq.

Yes, it managed to destroy Iraq.

But it's efforts since haven't been about saving.

You don't -- as Barack Obama did -- give Nouri a second term after the voters reject him and then pretend you're helping Iraq.


You may be helping yourself but don't pretend you're helping Iraq.

(Barack's move helped so well it resulted in the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq.)

Note these words:

I don’t think that unless a greater effort is made by the government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisors, but they have to win it, the people of Vietnam, against the communists.

Then-President John F. Kennedy speaking of Vietnam in September of 1963.

Apply it to Iraq.

Grasp the Michael Walzers would have the US stay forever.

Let's note this:

  10 minutes ago
If you promote Kurds' Misinformation Campaign against Iraq, u r their friend. If u keep quiet, you are not their enemy. otherwise, u r evil.
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I'm sorry.

That man is still with Brookings why?

Check the archives -- we've called him out, we've warned against him.

But Brookings and others have stayed with him.

That is not the Tweet of someone a think tank needs to have on their staff.


  20 hours ago
The Iraq war has made Tony Blair a rich man . He has made a killing .
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"You could make a killing," Aimee Mann sang -- and War Criminal Tony Blair certainly did.


The following community sites -- plus Jody Watley -- updated:





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    Press starts to notice Little Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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    Health Care Bus Tour
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    CIA Steinem
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    I wonder . . .
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    Losers and crooks
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    More on ATOMIC BLONDE
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    Answers are needed
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    Ill-fated management?
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    dan rather's a c**t and so is rachel maddow
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  • Like Maria Said Paz
    Bill Moyers
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  • The Official Jody Watley Website
    Thought of The Day. Embrace.
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    • ADDED: I'm trying to include the WSWS links daily:


    Today the WSWS published "Google's chief search engineer legitimizes new censorship algorithm." It analyzes the April 25 blog post from Ben Gomes, Google’s VP for engineering, who rolled out the new censorship program. Please read the article and share it widely on social media.

    The other articles published on the WSWS so far on Google's new search methods are:



    I do agree WSWS is under attack.





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    Monday, July 31, 2017

    Ill-fated management?

    little white devil

    That's Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Little White Devil."

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz.


    Agreed with this Tweet by Jordan with THE YOUNG TURKS:

      1 hour ago
    ABSURD paragraph by --no progressive dislikes Debbie Wasserman Schultz bc of "ill-fated management"--it's called CORRUPTION
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    It's corruption.

    Calling it "ill-fated management"?

    That's like back when WIKIPEDIA used to call the Warren Commission an investigation of an "infraction" and not an assassination.

    Yes, they've finally cleaned it up but you can still see it THE AMERICAN MEDIA & THE @ND ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY.



    Closing with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


    Monday, July 31, 2017.  Chaos and violence continue, the Islamic State continues, Tony Blair continues to walk on war crimes, the US government continues to fail veterans, and much more.



    Starting in Afghanistan . . .


      7 hours ago
    Gunfire heard after several explosions hit Afghanistan's Kabul, reportedly near the Iraqi embassy
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      2 hours ago
    The Islamic State group claims responsibility for an attack on the Iraqi embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul
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    Amir Shah (AP) reports, "The Islamic State group targeted the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul on Monday, with a suicide bomber blowing himself up outside the gates, followed by three gunmen who stormed into the building. The assault set off a four-hour firefight that ended only after Afghan security forces said they had killed all the attackers."




      Jul 27
    Ret. Army NG Staff SGT Will Thompson has had double lung transplant - retirement pay kicks in at 60, but he is pretty sure he won't make it
     
     


    Last week, BURNPIT 360 was in DC providing a Congressional briefing.  Veteran Will Thompson was among those participating.

    Will Thompson: My name is retired Staff Sgt William Joseph Thompson.  I have served 23 years, 3 months, 11 days in the United States Army and the West Virginia Army National Guard.  I have deployed twice with the West Virginia Army National Guard to Iraq. During my last deployment, I was stationed at Camp Striker on the Victory Complex.  My symptoms of frequent coughing started on September 2009 while in Iraq. I was treated for allergies by the doctors and PAs.  I returned to Fort Stewart Georgia and after I mentioned to the doctor that I had been having frequent cough, they did a chest x-ray that revealed bilateral pneumonia.  They treated me with an antibiotic and sent me home to West Virginia and told me to follow up with my PCP in one week. After a week, I followed up with my doctor [. . .] and after a CATSCAN he discovered that I had coronary fibrosis with pulmonary nodules.  He stated my lungs looked like an 80-year-old coal miner's lungs. He referred me to Walter Reed Army Medical Center where I was treated by Dr. Jacob Collen for six months.  He admitted me to the Warrior Transition Unit at Walter Reed and, after six months of testing which included an open lung biopsy, I was informed that I had titanium, magnesium, iron and silicon in my lungs.   


    The ones paying for the war -- in Iraq and elsewhere -- are not the ones who started it.




      1 hour ago
    Tony Blair being responsible for the murder of a million Iraqi civilians should be enough to prosecute him.
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      41 minutes ago
    Disgusting decision. You could be prosecuted for harming a cat or a dog but not for killing a million people.
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    Tony Blair skates again.

    He lied a country, a world, into war.


    And he won't stand trial.
    Will Thompson: My life and my family's life has changed since I returned home from deployment in 2010. Due to my low immune system now, I have to wear a mask in highly populated areas to prevent infection.  I challenge you to go into a store wearing a mask like the one I have on right now and see how people treat you.  I have been treated like I was contagious and I have had to explain many times that it was for my protection.  And with that it's even hard to hang out with my kids during the day when they say, "Daddy, can we do this?" and I say, "No, we can't do that." Or "Daddy, let's go skiing."  I can't do that. "Daddy, let's go swimming."  I can't do that. "Daddy, can I have a piggy back ride?"  I can't do that.  "Daddy, let's go to the beach."  I can't do that. I can't do that because of bacteria in the water [. . .] I don't feel like a man because my role as a husband has been taken over by my wife.  She now does everything that I used to do.  There are so many things that I can no longer do. I am a warrior of the United States of America. I gave my lungs for my country.


    The suffering gets dispersed to the 99%.

    The 1% just get dividends.

    Tony's certainly gotten richer and richer since starting the Iraq War.



    MINT PRESS NEWS notes:

     Writing for Middle East Eye, Mansfield and Antonia Benfield, who represented the former Iraqi general at the high court, said the ruling has “brought to an end the hope of prosecuting Tony Blair, Jack Straw and Peter Goldsmith for the crime of aggression”.
    They said: “On the national and international stage the failure of the British government to give a tangible commitment to the prosecution of the crime of aggression undermines the rule of law.  It sets a dangerous precedent in times of global insecurity and sets an example to the rest of the world that states can wage aggressive war with impunity.

    “The devastation that has been caused to millions of Iraqi civilians leaves the world with only one lesson – how to commit the most serious of crimes, and get away with it.”


    Tony Blair skates again.

    While the dead and the living victims continue to be scarred.

    Will Thompson is still fighting for his rights with the VA.

    Grasp that.

    The fight continued throughout Barack Obama's 8 year presidency and continues to this day.

    Grasp that the VA issues are still not fixed.

    Grasp that even the basic issue of one uniform electronic record that would follow a person from service member status to veteran status didn't accomplished.

    In 8 years.

    What a proud moment for Barack and part of the reason veterans still have to fight so hard to get the appropriate disability ratings.

    In what world is right that Barack's raking in millions while Will Thompson has to depend on charity for medical and treatment needs because the US government is still refusing to cover the disabilities their burnpits created?

    This is shameful.

    Politicians are seen as slime for exactly this reason -- they smile and brag about how great they are when all they do is destroy the people they are supposed to be representing.

    Remember that the next time hair plugs and pot-bellied Bruce Springsteen publicly pretends to care about veterans.

    No one caring about veterans would be partying on a yacht with Barack.


    Meanwhile Nahwi Saeed (AL-MONITOR) writes:


    In a July 19 statement, Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani said that holding a referendum is a natural right of the people of Kurdistan that they will not back down from. According to the spokesperson for the Independent High Electoral and Referendum Commission (IHERC) in Kurdistan, around 6 million people in the Kurdistan Region and the disputed territories such as the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, Sinjar, Makhmour and Khanaqin have the right to vote in the referendum. Forty-eight percent of the Kurdistan Region’s land is still disputed between Baghdad and Erbil and some 2.7 million people live in the disputed territories.
    According to Article 140 of the constitution, the territorial disputes between Baghdad and Erbil was set to be settled by the end of 2007, but the Iraqi government never implemented this article. For Barzani, the nonimplementation of the Iraqi Constitution is one of the main reasons he wants to hold a referendum Sept. 25 in the Kurdistan Region and the contested areas. However, there are many challenges that may eventually keep the referendum from happening on the scheduled date, especially in the disputed territories.
    Barzani’s referendum decision was preceded by a vote of the Kirkuk Provincial Council (KPC) April 4 to hold a referendum to decide the future administration of the province. However, many of the Arab and Turkmen members of the KPC boycotted the vote altogether. The KPC’s vote came after a call March 14 by Kirkuk Gov. Najmiddin Karim to raise the Kurdistan flag over the government buildings in Kirkuk province. But the Iraqi Turkmen Front opposed this move and filed a case against the acting head of the KPC, Rebwar Talabani, in Baghdad. By the same token, the Arabs and Turkmens of the disputed territories are expected to boycott the upcoming referendum and ask Iraq’s supreme court to declare that holding a unilateral referendum in the disputed territories is illegal. If these measures fail, they may eventually resort to violence. Nationally, Baghdad is not happy about the planned referendum either.

    It's interesting, can you write about this topic and not know ARTICLE 140?

    Because it doesn't appear AL-MONITOR understands ARTICLE 140 at all.

    Article 140 of Iraq's Constitution is rather straightforward on oil-rich Kirkuk:

     The responsibility placed upon the executive branch of the Iraqi Transitional Government stipulated in Article 58 of the Transitional Administrative Law shall extend and continue to the executive authority elected in accordance with this Constitution, provided that it accomplishes completely (normalization and census and concludes with a referendum in Kirkuk and other disputed territories to determine the will of their citizens), by a date not to exceed the 31st of December 2007.   


    Are writers for AL-MONITOR illiterate?

    ARTICLE 140 calls for a census and a referendum.

    It was always to be settled by a referendum.

    This isn't a Barzani creation.  It's the Iraqi Constitution.

    There's also a 'lightness' about AL-MONITOR's writing on this that needs to stop immediately.


    Newsflash: Iraq's supposed to have held provincial elections already this year.

    They have kicked it back.

    And there's a good chance that, before September arrives, they'll try to do it again.

    Elections are not held when you're ready -- they're to be held as defined by law.

    Hayder al-Abadi is in violation of the law at present.

    Treating this as a non-story is appalling.

    September 25th is when the referendum is supposed to be held -- as noted in the article.  Not noted in the article?  That's also when the provincial elections are now supposed to take place.

    That needs to be noted repeatedly.


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