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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Once again, Greenwald dredges up past editorials (this time involving the New York Times) to prove MSM hypocrisy or lies, or both. (Memo to MSM: Don't think that Greenwald won't find you out!)
The government of India shouldn't copy America's freedom-destroying, fearmongering bullshit. Freedom and security aren't mutually exclusive, you know. Spend your time fighting "terrorists," not innocent citizens.
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Hunt Season. Dead Deer. Duck?
Lotus Feet. I've been reading ya.
Lotus Feet. Lotus Feet Smelly ay!
Lotus Feet. I'll read comment. oy.
Guns noises out in a Nam jungle?
Thee poem you wrote on Nov 17?
Lotus Feet. My respect. No ducks.
Time to go? Kick thee bucket? No.
That's so wonaduhfeel. Oho. Here.
Amazing. A maze. Well, ay, egg on.
Lotus Feet. Ya cause me flashbacks!
Ya illustrate: A red rooster and eggs.
Lovely egg look up to gaze skyward.
O: Rooster chicken ask `tater spuds:
It's Fishy Price Kids Mr. Potato Head?
Egg potato was hatched to say, sadly:
Rooster? Oho. Guns down deer today?
On a Earth? Ay, Why Kill People today?
On Hunt Day-Bang-bang. People die!
Well, let's stop arguing-we're all here.
So, concoct a image of the red chicken?
The barnyard egg muse:`live, O let live.
It's the rooster with a sad slumped gaze.
A tiny egg, potato child heads: No argue?
It's lotus feet stink to see a egg with feet.
Well, let's agree to peck scraps, fleas, flies,
lice, bugs, be happy for grub. O why argue?
Because. We all are here. Illusion. Oho No duck.
Remember in war? Humans shot at grunts? Yikes!
NVA soldiers must have believed Lotus Feet stunk?
Maybe they thought celery and lotus feet is goofy?
The war mongers need protection. Hunters may shoots.
On Hunt Day Lotus Feet float. Swan paddle in rice paddy.
O Librel thunk `it's all about how awful Lotus Feet stinks.
Written by Chris Floyd
Britain and America cut a secret deal: land for nukes. London sliced off a sliver of its imperial dominions and gave it to Washington, in exchange for a price reduction on some sleek new nuclear missiles. Together, the two great democracies then drove the inhabitants of the sliver from their homes by force, dumping them into poverty-ridden exile hundreds of miles away. Washington built an imperial outpost on the stolen land, a military base which it used to "project dominance" over strategic regions in Central Asia and the Middle East. Later, the outpost became yet another link in Washington's chain of "black sites" -- secret prisons where captives snatched without charges or due process could be hidden from the world and tortured.
This is the story of the Chagos Archipelago, a chain of small islands in the Indian Ocean whose inhabitants were forced from their land forty years ago to make way for a military base on the island of Diego Garcia. The base, built and staffed largely by the Americans but operated jointly with the British, has been the launching pad for countless air strikes against Iraq (in two wars) and Afghanistan. It has also served as one of the sinister way stations in America's global gulag. In return for its use of the ethnically cleansed land, Washington graciously knocked off $14 million from the price tag of some Polaris nuclear missiles that Britain craved, in its never-ending struggle to retain some crumbs of its own, now-faded "projection of dominance" on the world stage.
For years, American and British officials conducted a careful, deliberate campaign of deceit to "justify" the theft of the land. But finally, a series of British courts ruled that the seizure had been illegal and that the Chagossian people had a right to return to their homes. In a desperate bid to avert justice, the government of Tony Blair invoked the "royal prerogative" to quash the rulings. When the courts found the government had improperly applied this nebulous but draconian power, it appealed to the Law Lords.
Late last month, the Lords delivered their decision: by the slim margin of 3-2, they upheld the government, and denied the Chagossian's right to return to their homes. The ruling contained these chilling words from Lord Hoffman: ""The right of abode is a creature of the law. The law gives it and the law may take it away." Even though the judges acknowledged that the initial theft had been wrong, the "law" -- in the form of arbitrary decisions by a government acting in the name of an unelected monarch -- had papered over that festering injustice, and the cover must be left undisturbed. Thus in quiet, measured, respectable tones, the Magna Carta is cast aside. But what of that? As we have seen in the United States in the past few years, that ancient, crumbling document now has all the force of a wad of tissue paper.
The court's ruling was lost in the great global media roar over the U.S. elections. But John Pilger was there with the Chagossians when the decision was handed down, and he gives this report (from Antiwar.com):
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=akf_DTv.v8ic
Podesta, a former chief of staff in the Clinton White House, also said Obama would complete “virtually the whole Cabinet” by Christmas, and the new president’s team will reach beyond the Democratic Party.There will be “multiple Republicans” in the administration,” Podesta said. “You’ll see them spread throughout the administration.”
There will be “multiple Republicans” in the administration,” Podesta said.
Now, now. We have to trust OS. I mean, his is the one, remember?
ethics_SOS_professor?
apologies. O. SOS-OY!
O ethics_professor. Ay.
mea culpa. silent hush.
Two cities. Financial hubs of their respective democracies. Two huge democracies.
In one city, a man is injured and arrested during a terrorist attack. He has killed high ranking police. He is questioned, and gives up information, he is arraigned in court the next day, showing no signs of beatings or maltreatment.
In one city, shoppers seeking an early morning discount tear the door to the store off its hinges and trample a man to death. When asked to clear the area, they get angry and yell about how long they have been waiting to shop.
USA!USA! way to go.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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