Monday, July 23, 2018

THIS JUST IN! ALYSSA MILANO FEELS SHE'S ABOVE CRITICISM!

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REACHED FOR COMMENT, ALYSSA EXPLAINED, "FAT SHAMING IS WRONG.  EXCEPT WHEN I DO IT.  WHEN I DO IT, IT'S OKAY BECAUSE I'M SO MUCH MORE EVOLVED THAN ANYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET.  REMEMBER, I WAS ON WHO'S THE BOSS!"




More protests today as the silence on Iraq largely continues.

 Jul 16
I don't normally do this, but I will openly criticise H.M. Government for not producing any statement on Iraq, the protests have been going on for days now, and we've said not a word. People are dying, and it is clear some form of comment is needed. Even an expression of concern.
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There's a great deal of silence about what's taking place in Iraq.  Many governments are silent, western media is largely silent.  The people are attacked and various bodies reveal their true colors.  It's not a 'news' story that the Iraqi government is attacking the Iraqi people.  It's not a 'human rights' issue either so the governments can be silent as well.

What you see is the silence of the corrupt and the guilty.

Remember when Goody Whore used to boast that she delivered "the war and peace report" on DEMOCRACY NOW?

The attacks have gotten one damn headline all week.  That's it.  So much for war and peace and alleged concern for the people of the world.  Those who remember the so-called Arab Spring, if they know reality, are aware that it actually started in Iraq and, long after the media had moved on from Egypt, the protests continued in Iraq.

Iraq got little coverage then.  In part because Nouri al-Maliki was attacking journalists.  Well, he was attacking Iraqi journalists.  There was no excuse for the silence from non-Iraqis.

What is their excuse?  They're slaves to their corporate masters?

That would certainly describe those yapping and howling from the kennels of THE WASHINGTON POST.  They're so indignant daily, those E.J.s and Clarences and Ruths and the lesser names.  But they're not so righteous that they will leave Jeff Bezos' payroll, right?  They care so much about the world.  They care so much about fairness and equality . . . except when it comes to their own pay check.  They want that pay check.  Screw the workers for Amazon -- Jeff certainly does.  Someone needs to knock them off their high horse and remind them that as long as Jeff pays slave wages to Amazon workers and as long as they work for Jeff, they are just as guilty.





Oh all around the marketplace
The buzzing of the flies
The buzzing and the stinging
Divinely barren
And wickedly wise
The killer nails are ringing

Enter the multitudes
In Exxon blue
In radiation rose
Tragedy
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free?
(Who're you gonna get)
-- "Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free)," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her NIGHT RIDE HOME


The protests are going on today.

It's been two weeks and the reality is that you have to to non-western media to find out what's happening.  With the exception of NPR, no US outlet has covered the story in a serious manner -- meaning more than a passing glance.  (CNBC did a good report yesterday that we'll note in a moment.  NPR has done several reports.)

AP has a video today.



Non-western outlets and voices have covered the protests repeatedly and powerfully.














The protests are continuing today.


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Tuesday, July 10, 2018

THIS JUST IN! ALYSSA GIVES A HARD NO TO TERRORISM!

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FORMER CHILD ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO HAS COME OUT STRONGLY AGAINST TERRORISM.  





Yes, the war in Iraq drags on.

Australia's NEWS.COM notes:

SHORTLY after the fall of the Syrian city of Raqqa in October 2017 — the centre of the Islamic State (IS) caliphate — US President Donald Trump announced that IS had been defeated and the war was won. 
Nine months later it is far from clear that IS is finished and extreme paramilitary Islamist movements are increasingly active in several regions, he [Paul Rogers] writes for The Conversation.
IS had taken over much of northern Syria and Iraq, including Mosul, by mid-2014 leading President Barack Obama to order intensive air strikes to limit its spread and aid the Iraqis and others to push it on to the defensive. For close to four years an extraordinarily intensive air war was fought, principally by the US but aided by France, the UK and some other European and Middle Eastern powers.
According to the latest data from the Airwars monitoring group, over 1,424 days of air strikes, 107,814 bombs and missiles have been used against 29,741 targets in Iraq and Syria by the US-led forces. Pentagon sources speak of at least 60,000 IS paramilitaries killed but Airwars also reported 6,321 civilians killed.


We're back to where we were not all that long ago, explaining that we weren't denying credit to US President Donald Trump for defeating ISIS because, in fact, we didn't believe ISIS had been defeated.  

While Paul Rogers is right to note that Donald Trump didn't defeat ISIS (and shouldn't be claiming he has), it's equally true that the western press shouldn't have been running with the nonsense that ISIS had been defeated.

It had not been.  But, golly, when Hayder al-Abadi was campaigning on the 'defeat' to argue he should be prime minister for a second term, seems like the western press couldn't tell the truth, could they?  They kept -- I'm sure by pure accident -- repeating the lie that ISIS had been defeated.

In other violence, PRESS TV notes:

Iraqi police have opened fire to break up crowds of demonstrators who had gathered near the southern oil hub of Basra to protest against a shortage of jobs, electricity, water and a number of other basic services, killing and wounding several demonstrators, local officials say.
The incident occurred at Talha district in the northern parts of Iraq's southern city of Basra on Sunday, when security forces guarding the district’s oilfields shot with live ammunition at a group of protesters who gathered on a highway, the Iraqi News website reported.


Moving on to another topic we've repeatedly cov -- Iraq's legal system is a dirty joke and we noted that fact most recently on June 29th.  This week, AP is doing a series of reports on the topic.  In one article, AP explains, "Over three days in late May, the presiding judge of the counterterrorism court in Baghdad heard an average of 12-13 cases a day and sentenced to death at least 10 defendants accused of being Islamic State group members."  June 29th, we noted:

Iraq's legal system remains a joke.  Trials take mere minutes.  There are few who receive even adequate defense.  Evidence is not required for a conviction.  Women whose 'crime' consists of being married to a member of ISIS or someone suspected of being a member of ISIS can be imprisoned and sentenced to death.

Charges -- related to ISIS or otherwise -- are often based on personal grudges and not actual events.  The whole system is a mess. 

Doubt it?  Hazma Hendawi, Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Maya Alleruzzo (AP) report:

 Any allegation of having taken up arms for the militant group can bring the ultimate penalty, even while the evidence is thin and cursory. The heavy reliance on informants is particularly glaring, given the potential that some are motivated by personal grudges. Informants never appear in court; their claims are passed to the judges in dry, written reports from intelligence officials with no hint of their possible motivation.
Thousands of defendants are rushed through the courts, with trials as short as 10 or 15 minutes and a third of the cases ending in the death penalty. Witnesses are rarely called and no forensic evidence presented, raising the likelihood of innocent people going to the gallows.

Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/article214547244.html#storylink=cpy


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Thursday, July 05, 2018

THIS JUST IN! ALYSSA COMES OUT IN FAVOR OF ICE!

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CRIES OF END ICE ARE GOING OUT AT REGULAR INTERVALS.


WE DIDN’T CALL HER BUT FORMER CHILD ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO CALLED US AND EXPLAINED SHE WANTED TO WEIGH IN BECAUSE “I REALLY NEED THE PUBLICITY IF I’M EVER GOING TO HAVE A CAREER AGAIN.  SO HERE’S MY TAKE ON ABOLISH ICE: NO.  NO, DON’T DO IT.  NOT NOW, WHEN IT’S SUMMER AND PEOPLE ARE THIRSTY AND WANT A COLD DRINK.  MAYBE AFTER AWHILE WHEN WINTER’S CLOSER, WE CAN RETHINK IT BUT RIGHT NOW AMERICA NEEDS TO FILL EVERY ICE TRAY IT HAS.”

WHEN WE THANKED HER FOR CALLING, MILANO CLOSED WITH, “REMEMBER, I’M NOT JUST A PRETTY FACE. I’M WHO’S THE BOSS CLASS OF 1992.”





Returning to the topic of the drought in Iraq,  Philip Issa (AP) reports:

Iraq has banned its farmers from planting summer crops this year as the country grapples with a crippling water shortage that shows few signs of abating.
Citing high temperatures and insufficient rains, Dhafer Abdalla, an adviser to Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources, told The Associated Press that the country has only enough water to irrigate half its farmland this summer.

But farmers fault the government for failing to modernize how it manages water and irrigation, and they blame neighboring Turkey for stopping up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers behind dams it wants to keep building.


A water shortage in the summer?  It's been a 118 degrees Fahrenheit day for Iraq today.  And they suffer a water shortage.

The water issue is not a new one.  So why didn't Hayder al-Abadi do anything over the last four years as prime minister to address the issue?  Last February, some were sure that a hard summer would be avoidable due to some heavy rains that had fallen.  Now that notion is so outrageous that we'll be kind and not name the non-Iraqi outlets that pimped that lie.

The big lie, of course, is that voting helps Iraq.  Over and over, Iraq's prime ministers do nothing.  The problems are known.  They are identified.  Then four years fly by and nothing has been done.  Over and over this happens.  Starting to grasp why so few bothered to vote last May?

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's treasured amber rice crop devastated by drought
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How does this happen?

As Patrick Cockburn observes, this is a human-made drought.

It did not happen overnight.

Nor was it a surprise.


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