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Thursday, May 03, 2018

THIS JUST IN! ALYSSA HAS DEEP THOUGHTS!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

FORMER ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO CONTINUES TO DEVOTE HER FREE TIME TO HOBBIES AND HER ARTS & CRAZY.

Jason Chaffetz Retweeted Alyssa Milano

Seems @Alyssa_Milano is good with suppressors of the First Amendment 

Jason Chaffetz added,

Alyssa MilanoVerified account @Alyssa_Milano

Demand Mike Pence cancel his speech to the NRA convention on May 4  https://petitions.moveon.org/p/N_815 

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REACHED FOR COMMENT, ALYSSA DENIED THAT SHE WAS HIGH FROM HER GLUE GUN BUT DID ADMIT THAT SHE WAS CONFUSED ABOUT MANY THINGS, "I NEVER REALLY WENT TO SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, I'M ALWAYS TRYING TO CATCH UP WITH OTHERS. SEE SPOT RUN. YOU KNOW? IT'S A REALLY DEEP BOOK. IT WAS THE FIRST AND ONLY BOOK I EVER READ. I THINK ABOUT IT OFTEN. LIKE WHERE DID SPOT GO? DID HE WANT TO RUN? DID HE WANT US TO WATCH HIM RUN? I HAVE REALLY DEEP THOUGHTS LIKE THAT AND SOMETIMES IT'S HARD FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME -- WHO THINKS SO DEEP AND FEELS SO MUCH -- TO EXPRESS MYSELF."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

May 12th, elections are supposed to take place in Iraq. Ali Jawad (ANADOLU AGENCY) notes, "A total of 24 million Iraqis are eligible to cast their ballots to elect members of parliament, who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and prime minister." RUDAW adds, "Around 7,000 candidates have registered to stand in the May 12 poll, with 329 parliamentary seats up for grabs." AFP explains that the nearly 7,000 candidates includes 2014 women. Ali Abdul-Hassan and Sinan Salaheddin (AP) report, "Iraqi women account for 57 percent of Iraq’s population of over 37 million, according to the U.N. Development Program, and despite government efforts to address gender inequality, the situation for Iraqi women has declined steadily since 2003. According to the UNDP, one in every 10 Iraqi households is headed by a widow. In recent years, Iraqi women suffered further economic, social and political marginalization due to decades of wars, conflict, violence and sanctions." RUDAW also notes that 60 Christian candidates are competing for the five allotted minority seats. How do they elect the prime minister? This comes after the general election and is based on who won seats in the election. Abdulrahman al-Rashed (AL ARABIYA) explains, "To win the premiership, a candidate needs to win the majority of the votes, i.e. the votes of 165 MPs out of 329. Since it is a multi-party system, it is almost impossible to win these votes without sealing political alliances. The governorate of Baghdad is the most important one because it is the largest with 69 seats." The chief issues? Mustapha Karkouti (GULF NEWS) identifies them as follows, "Like in previous elections, the main concerns of ordinary Iraqis continue to be the lack of security and the rampant corruption."

As noted in the April 3rd snapshot, pollster Dr. Munqith Dagher has utilized data on likely voters and predicts that Hayder al-Abadi's Al-Nasr will win 72 seats in the Parliament, al-Fath (the militias) will get 37 seats, Sa'eroon (Moqtada al-Sadr's new grouping) will get 27 seats, Nouri al-Maliki's State of Law will get 19 seats, al-Salam will get 18 seats (KDP and PUK parties for the Kurds), Ayad Allawi's Wataniya will get 15 seats. There are others but Dagher did not predict double digits for any of the other seats. The number are similar for the group of those who are extremely likely to vote (Hayder's seats would jump from 72 to 79 seats). Other predictions? The Middle East Insstitute's Fanar Haddad insists to Sammy Ketz (AFP) that the post of prime minister will come down to one of three people: Hayder al-Abadi (current prime minister), Nouri al-Maliki (two time prime minister and forever thug) or Hadi al-Ameria "a leader of Hashed al-Shaabi, a paramilitary network that played a pivotal role in defeating IS. Ameri comes from Diyala province and is a statistics graduate from Baghdad University. He fled to Iran in 1980 after Saddam executed top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Sadr. The 64-year old is widely viewed as Tehran's favoured candidate."

Teju Banjoko‏ @TejuBanjoko 2h2 hours ago

Tough road for Iraq’s female candidates in May 12 elections ternopilinkling.com/2018/05/03/tou…

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“One of the most important women’s issues in Iraq that needs to be urgently addressed is marginalization," a female candidate tells @AP. My latest on female candidates running for parliament in #Iraq's May 12 election w/help from cameraman Ali Abdul-Hassan 

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From the AP report:

Sex videos have been widely circulated on social media purporting to show female candidates in bed with men, as well as photos allegedly showing candidates posing in underwear or revealing outfits.
One such video — which she dismissed as a “fabrication aimed at pushing her out” — forced Intidhar Ahmed Jassim, allied with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s Victory Alliance party, to withdraw from the race.
In Iraq’s southern Najaf province, tribal arbitration was held over a video showing a young man kissing the poster of a female candidate from another tribe. The outcome: he apologized, the apology was accepted and the female candidate’s tribe even declined compensation for the insult.
Alarmed by the unseen level of harassment, the U.N. chief’s special representative for Iraq, Jan Kubis met last month with several women candidates over the “alarming situation” and “vulgar acts” targeting women, which he said only undermines the democratic process.

“Those behind defamation, cyber bullying and harassment are trying to scare you off,” Kubis told them, adding that the perpetrators are “afraid of educated, dynamic, qualified, courageous and open-minded women candidates that rightfully claim their space and meaningful role in political life of Iraq.”

Meanwhile, Hayder al-Abadi, the current prime minister of Iraq, wants a second term. As Elaine noted last night, Hayder's 2014 promise to address corruption has amounted to nothing.

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Thursday, April 26, 2018

THIS JUST IN! ALYSSA DEAREST!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

ANOTHER WAR HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED. APPARENTLY IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, YEMEN, SYRIA AND ALL THE REST (THE PROFESSOR AND MARY ANNY INCLUDED) WEREN’T ENOUGH.

PEPSI COLA IS DECLARING WAR ON COCA COLA.

THE WEAPON OF CHOICE? DIET COKE. AND THE SUPER SECRET WEAPON? JOAN CRAWFORD!

THE JIMMY FALLON PEPSI COMMERCIALS NOTE RAY CHARLES, MICHAEL JACKSON, CINDY CRAWFORD AND ASSORTED OTHERS BUT NOT THE MOMMY DEAREST OF THEM ALL, THE ORIGINAL QUEEN OF PEPSI, JOAN CRAWFORD.

THOUGH SHE HAS PASSED AWAY SHE WAS THE FACE OF PEPSI WHILE MARRIED TO THE CHAIR OF PEPSI ALFRED STEELE AND, AFTER HIS DEATH, SHE SAT ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNTIL 1973.

FORMER ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO IS DESPERATE TO COME OUT OF RETIREMENT AND SEES PORTRAYING JOAN CRAWFORD IN A SERIES OF PEPSI COMMERCIALS AS JUST THE TICKET “TO LET PRODUCERS KNOW I’M READY TO WORK AGAIN. I’M EXCITED TO BE PLAYING JOAN BECAUSE SHE WON AN OSCAR AND THIS IS THE CLOSEST I WILL EVER COME TO AN OSCAR. MY PROBLEMS WITH WEIGHT AND AGING HAVE GIVEN ME A BITTERNESS THAT I FEEL WILL BE ESSENTIAL TO ANY PORTRAYL OF JOAN CRAWFORD.”

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

The people attacking Kanye West aren't very smart.

Obama was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed.

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Replying to @kanyewest

Obama Ended the War in Iraq: Ordered all U.S. military forces out of the country. Last troops left on December 18, 2011.

4:03 PM - 25 Apr 2018

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No, they didn't.

Vivek, I'm sorry that you're such a dumb piece of s**t who, all these years later, still can't learn a thing. Clearly, you have some desire to be deceived if, at this late date, you're still repeating these falsehoods.

You like roses and kisses and pretty men to tell you
All those pretty lies pretty lies
When you gonna realize they're only pretty lies
Only pretty lies just pretty lies
-- "The Last Time I Saw Richard," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on BLUE

All those pretty lies, Vivek needs to hear all those pretty lies.

There was no withdrawal, Vivek. It was a "drawdown." Even the US Defense Dept called it that. A drawdown is not a withdrawal and DoD does understand the difference.

Had you paid attention in real time, you might have caught what was actually taking place. In the December 12, 2011 snapshot we noted this:

MR. KOPPEL: I realize you can't go into it in any detail, but I would assume that there is a healthy CIA mission here. I would assume that JSOC may still be active in this country, the joint special operations. You've got FBI here. You've got DEA here. Can, can you give me sort of a, a menu of, of who all falls under your control?

AMB. JAMES JEFFREY: You're actually doing pretty well, were I authorized to talk about half of this stuff.

JSOC -- Joint Special Operations Command. That's US military, Vivek.

Or from the December 13, 2011 snapshot:

Today on Talk of the Nation (NPR -- link has audio and text), Ted Koppel and host Neal Conan discussed the Iraq War and what's being billed as a US withdrawal. Excerpt.

CONAN: Though the president cheers his accomplishment, you say not so fast.

KOPPEL: I do say not so fast, and I think he knows better. But he's right, he did make the campaign promise to get all the troops out, and all the troops will be out, save 157 who will be guarding the embassy, and a few hundred U.S. military trainers. But as you pointed out, 16 to 17 thousand others will be remaining behind, and the extraordinary thing, Neal, is we're hearing echoes now of what we heard nine years ago. You know, we can't have that smoking gun be a mushroom cloud. No one is actually using that particular formulation anymore, but the fear of nuclear weapons. The danger of a nation that is supporting terrorism. Oil, which was the great unspoken issue in 2002 and 2003, very much a part of this. The difference, of course, now is that the target is Iran, not Iraq. But the two are very close to one another, and the fact of the matter is that Iran is exercising an enormous influence throughout Iraq. And the oil fields, which have under the surface, they have something - I believe it's the second-largest reserves of any country in the world. That's all very close to Iran, and if Iran were to exercise significant political, let alone military, control in that region, together with their own oil and gas, they would have the capacity to wreak havoc on Western economies.

You missed that, Vivek? What a great brag for you. No, US forces did not all leave Iraq. And the fact that the CIA remained in Iraq tells you even more. Private contractors remained as well. The way the US occupies a country was changing before your eyes but you chose not to see. And now you show up to attack Kanye who, please note, didn't even mention Iraq in the Tweet you 'responded' to. Vivek is both uninformed and unable to debate.

Vivek just likes pretty men who tell him pretty lies.