My government, in my name, is a brutal psychopathic torturing bully, with no respect for law or even good sense. Karma coming down the track.

Here's a link to an interview on Democracy Now with the Italian prosecutor:

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/5/italian_prosecutor_in_case_against_cia

Brave and honorable man. Unlike the ridiculous corrupt scum he prosecuted, in the face of what must have been great pressure from the Italian government. And "I was just following orders" is not an excuse, it's an admission of dishonor and cowardice.

Finally, Little Brother, "Salonfugly" - brilliant! I've sent several feedback comments, with no response until I threatened to not renew my subscription. This got me a free 2-month extension. Try it out - it's nice to hear others share my opinion that the redesign is retrograde. Salon's design used to be so clean, with excellent use of both right and left margins. Finding anything was a breeze. This new design is a disordered mess, apparently aimed to increase site time and clicks and hence advertising dollars. It may be a make-work for the design team, but IMHO they could have saved a lot of time and trouble by laying the whole sorry bunch off.

How could a single man with one pistol fired (per reports he didn't fire his second pistol) kill 12 humans and would another 31? Say he had a Glock with a seventeen-shot clip - fire it off quickly, 20 seconds, say, unload and reload a second clip, 10 seconds, say - that's 30 seconds and he hasn't even fired a shot from his second clip. And no one jumped him? These are recruits out of basic training - did they just sit there waiting for orders while he shot them down?

It doesn;t add up for me - I thankfully have no direct experience of this kind of thing - but I've fired semi-auto's and know you can spray off a lot of shots in a little time - but you sacrifice accuracy.

I have a scenario I'd like to put out there for comment but first I'd like to know what shooter serafin has to say.

I'm more numerate than literate.

Tantrum? Simple avoidance behavior - she hates queers and avoids the issue because she doesn't want to expose herself as a queer-hater.

But she loves Sarah Palin. She probably hates queers too.

Fascist cunt.

The weird family tales are not atypical either. Each corporation is a kingdom (or a dukedom, earldom - basically feudal) which reflects the personality of the king. I've worked in a Naval culture organization (if you weren't navy you were not on the inside), a couple of christianist corporations (bible study in the lunch room), and even a cocaine fiend organization (I left when someone died).

We need more honesty like this - otherwise how can we overcome cancerous non-sustainable earth-destroying behaviors?

The problem is that when you sign on to a corporation as an employee, you enter an indentured wage slavery. You give up freedom of speech, at least concerning business practice. And difficult employees (you know, truth-tellers), when fired, typically must sign a non-disclosure agreement in order to receive severence. SO by design, corporations hide their bad behavior behind a wall of authoritarian secrecy.

Good for Mr. Stenebo. An honest and courageous person.

As a society we are not good with mythic symbols. But that is what plays out in the TV public square - it is not real life but rather a mythic drama. And Sarah Palin, IMHO, is the Earth Mother, the universal feminine, full of motherlove and sex and fertility.

It's tragic that she is owned and programmed and brainwashed by the most evil and greedy and power-hungry scum in the world, corrupted without awareness, using her power to deceive and enslave.

Our mythic arena serves only greed and unjust dominion. But that doesn't diminish her real appeal.

Pretty much where we are.

Extra-judicial killings look pretty good compared to this farce.

Realpolitikally speaking.

Here and there are small reminders of the limits of imperial power over the provinces. And in the hinterlands? Poor Lithuania, a small child in bed between pederasts.

The chief of Afghanistan's notorious intelligence agency told Canada in April of 2007 that he had no idea how many of the prisoners handed over to him by rank-and-file Canadian soldiers were in fact Taliban or just local farmers, according to a memo written by diplomat whistleblower Richard Colvin for his Ottawa superiors.

Mr. Colvin delivered shocking testimony this week in Ottawa that has put the Conservative government on the defensive, spurred calls for a full-blown public inquiry and made senior bureaucrats scramble to explain themselves. He said all the detainees Canadians turned over to Afghan authorities were tortured. The memo suggests that most turned out to be of little value.

Link to whole article:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/many-detainees-were-just-farmers-afghan-official-says/article1372428/

The comment section has an up or down vote (sort of like the US Senate but it actually happens) which is interesting when you consider that the Globe & Mail is a conservative business paper, which, like most newspapers, has an (ahem) fairly mature demographic.

Good to know there is a conceptual framework underlying my intuitive conclusion that Broder and his fellow propagandists are communication dinosaurs. I hope we don't have to decapitate them to make them stop representing vile stupid greed and unjust dominion.

They are contemptible propagandists for evil.

Except the hidden government is stronger.