Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Worst episode of SUEPERMAN AND LOIS ever

First, here's a video about the Superman comics.


 

Now for the latest SUPERMAN AND LOIS.


Bored me to death.


I've never disliked an episode of the show until now.


They greatly overestimated my interest in characters I don't know.


I know our Lois.  I don't need another Lois in the metaverse.


Not one that is on the entire time excpet five minutes.


It wasn't interesting at all.


It seems like years ago that we had a new episode of the show.  If you remember, it ended with Jonathan approaching Lois and Jordan and Lois telling Jordan that wasn't their Jon.  And then this Jon was asked about Superman and he said he didn't survive.


So we start before that tonight.  We get Superman at that other mutliverse.  There's Lana there -- a different Lana (she has superpowers) and Lois and Lois'' father, and Jon and Jordan and Supermans brother and . . .


I didn't give a s**t.


I don't know these people.  And to spend about 48 or more minutes with them?


I don't care.


Boring.


I'm not vested n them, I don't care.


Finally, it ended with the scene that the previous episode had ended with.  Jon shows up.  We knew it wasn't our Jon and we knew there was something wrong with him.  He's there to merge with our Jon.  He's evil, this Jon.  He turned on Superman and went over to the dark side.


I don't care.


You made me wait weeks and weeks for a new episode of SUPERMAN AND LOIS and you didn't give me anything with the characters I love.  Uh, yeah, I saw Superman (he's not dead) that I like but I didn't need to see him interacting with a bunch of characters I don't give a s**t about.


Pointless.

Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


Tuesday, April 26, 2022.  Joe Biden continues to persecute journalist Julian Assange, Iraq faces more consequences of climate change, and much more.


Starting with Julian Assange.  The publisher of WIKILEAKS committed the 'crime,' in the US government's eyes, of publishing the truth.  Despite what THE WASHINGTON POST and its overgrown and middle-aged  adolescent Taylor Lorenz think, journalism is supposed to punch up, not down.  They are supposed to provide a public service by holding the powerful accountable.  Those that are over the decisions that impact our lives are supposed to be reported on, those acts that our government commits are not supposed to b hidden.  In our names, War Crimes were carried out in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Julian brought shined the sunshine on these acts that a democracy requires.


That is why The First Amendment is the First.  You can't have a democracy without freedom of speech.


US President Joe Biden does ot believe in free speech.  He was unethical -- possibly to the point of criminal -- in his actions to bring in money for the family via his son Hunter Biden.



Joe Biden refuses to stop the persecution of Julian.  He wants to make Julian a scarecrow -- to put his head on a pike to scare off every media outlet.  That's what this is about.  And that's why he's demanding the UK turn Julian over to the US government where they can punish Julian.


And we know how they punish.  They want to break hi, they want to destroy him.  As they did the people held in the Guantanamo gulag.  Kit Klarenberg (MINT PRESS NEWS) reports:


In March the CIA declassified a 2008 CIA Inspector General report on the agency’s treatment of 9/11 suspect Ammar al-Baluchi at overseas ‘black sites’ and Guantanamo Bay. The report was released as a result of legal submissions and its shocking contents offer an unprecedentedly candid snapshot of the brutal physical and psychological torment to which he and hundreds of others were subjected by the agency over many years, under its global torture program.

The nephew of purported 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Baluchi was arrested in Pakistan in April 2003. He was accused of serving as a “key lieutenant” within al-Qaeda and its chief “bagman,” having provided pivotal financial and logistical support to the 9/11 hijackers. U.S. officials declared his capture would offer crucial information on the plot, prevent future attacks by the terrorist group, and potentially even lead to the apprehension of Osama bin Laden. Despite years of incarceration, interrogation and torture, none of this proved to be true.

Quoting contemporary cables, the Inspector General’s report tracks Baluchi’s induction at the “Salt Pit,” a CIA black site in Afghanistan, in detail. New arrivals were physically examined, their beards and heads shaved, and then put through a “non-enhanced” psychological assessment to determine their “willingness to cooperate without enhanced techniques…displace their expectations and begin the conditioning of subjects.”

[. . .]


The distinction between enhanced and non-enhanced interrogation methods was evidently something of a misnomer. If initially uncooperative, Baluchi would be “immediately” placed in the “standing sleep deprivation position” for up to 12 hours; this agonizing technique was considered “non-enhanced” if applied for less than three days.

In response to the cable, CIA HQ at Langley signed off on a welter of enhanced techniques to be used on Baluchi, including “the facial attention grasp,” facial and abdominal slaps, numerous excruciating stress positions, “cramped confinement,” sleep deprivation lasting up to 180 hours, dousing with freezing water, starvation, “loud music or white noise” 24 hours a day, cessation of access to reading material, and “walling” – slamming his head against a flat surface.

Based on his initial psychological evaluation, it was ruled that none of these unspeakable horrors would inflict “permanent psychological or emotional harm” on Baluchi. This was the universal approach to using “enhanced techniques,” based on the assumption that their use in U.S. military SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) training did not cause lasting harm. But, while in SERE training the subject is typically confined for only a couple of days, and knows it is training and they will soon be released, the black site prisoners had to endure months or years of brutalizing treatment, with little to no prospect of escape.


The Inspector General notes that CIA superiors offered little to no clarity on “how many times or for how long interrogators could perform a particular measure or combination of measures.” This may well account for why Salt Pit interrogators “applied some of the measures exuberantly.”

Their ‘exuberance’ was no doubt also influenced by Baluchi’s disobliging response to torture techniques. One CIA operative at the site recorded how the inmate’s “presentation” had “elicited the strongest reactions from interrogators.” His attitude was considered “dismissive, condescending, and arrogant,” typified by “obvious stonewalling, minimizing, and denying,” which served to “frustrate” his captors “and make a difficult task even harder.”

Still, some interrogators seemingly sympathized with Baluchi. One, with whom he spent a “significant amount of time,” described him as “one of the more intelligent or ‘bookish’ of the detainees.” Another regretted the monstrous methods to which they’d subjected Baluchi, stating “I wished I’d never been asked” to do so, and “wouldn’t do them again.”

Likewise, when Baluchi was submerged in a bath of “excessively cold” icy water, on at least one occasion an interrogator was “so uncomfortable with the technique he sat outside the dousing room” to avoid witnessing it first-hand. Another admitted to the Inspector General that this practice was “probably…outside the bounds of what we were supposed to be doing.” A similar strategy killed Salt Pit inmate Gul Rahman in November 2002.

By contrast, CIA torturers had no reservations whatsoever about using Baluchi as a “training prop.” Several new interrogators at the site, “who had only two weeks of classroom instruction,” needed “on-the-job practice for certification”: Baluchi represented “an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of techniques,” in particular “walling.”

After he was stripped naked, interrogators “lined up” one-by-one to slam Baluchi’s head into plywood – and, on occasion, concrete – walls over and over again, until they became “fatigued,” whereupon another would take their place, in sessions lasting up to two hours. A CIA operative interviewed by the Inspector General claimed this method was “meant more for ‘sensation’ than to hurt the detainee,” and “simply made a big noise.”


The US government knowingly carried out torture.  Torture is a serious crime.  The UK government should not had anyone over to the US government for that reason.  If they do hand Julian over, whatever happens to him is on their hands because they did so knowing that the US government was breaking laws and conventions as they tortured prisoners.


Joe Biden wants to harm Julian Assange.  This is not about justice.  It never was.  There is no legal reason to go after an Austrlian citizen who exposed US wWar Crimes.  None at all.  


Joe Biden is a War Criminal who is complicit in the crimes that took place in Iraq.  He claims he was misled.  Well he was a senator in the US Senate, then he was a Vice President and now he is a sitting president.  If he was misled, he certainly has had the power to punish those who misled him.   Instead, he pins a medal on Bully Boy Bush.  And he goes after a journalist namedJulian Assange.


The full US government weight -- and our tax dollars -- are being put behind punishing someone for the Iraq War and it's not someone who voted for it, supported it or advocated for it or hid the truth from the American people, it's an Australian journalist who told the truth.


Joe Biden is a pathetic president.  If he continues to attack the First Amendment, he will go down in history as the worst president,


John Kiriakou (SCHEER POST) notes of the gulag at Guantanamo:


And it wasn’t just U.S. law that prohibited what the CIA was about to do.  It was also the United Nations.  The United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment—of which the United States was the primary author and an original signatory—specifically defined and banned anything approaching “enhanced interrogation techniques.  Article 1 states, 

“torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent of acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity.”

Meanwhile, the CIA, fully cognizant of what it was getting into, was making contingency plans for Abu Zubaydah’s potential death in custody.  Senate investigators reported on a July 15, 2002 cable to CIA headquarters from the detention site saying, 

“If [Abu Zubaydah] develops a serious medical condition which may involve a host of conditions including a heart attack or other catastrophic type of condition, all efforts will be made to ensure that proper medical care will be provided to [him’.  In the event [Abu Zubaydah] dies, we need to be prepared to act accordingly, keeping in mind the liaison equities involving our hosts.”

If he were to die in custody, the cable said, Abu Zubaydah would be cremated and scattered.  It went on,

“…regardless which [disposition] option we follow, however, and especially in light of the planned psychological techniques to be implemented, we need to get reasonable assurances that [Abu Zubaydah] will remain in isolation and incommunicado for the remainder of his life.”

CIA headquarters responded similarly.

“There is a fairly unanimous sentiment within HQS that [Abu Zubaydah] will never be placed in a situation where he has any significant contact with others and/or has the opportunity to be released.  While it is difficult to discuss specifics at this point, all major players are in concurrence that [Abu Zubaydah] should remain incommunicado for the remainder of his life.  This may preclude [Abu Zubaydah] from being turned over to another country, but a final decision regarding his future incarceration condition has yet to be made.”


The Senate knew.  Joe is a War crimianl who does not abide by the US laws outlawing torture or the international conventions that the US has signed on to.  No court should turn over prisoners to the US at this point unless they are in the practice of condoning torture and are willing to stand trial for their part in torture as an accessory.


Moving to the ongoing tragedy that is the Iraq War, AFP reports:


A "No Fishing" sign on the edge of Iraq's western desert is one of the few clues that this was once Sawa Lake, a biodiverse wetland and recreational landmark.

Human activity and climate change have combined to turn the site into a barren wasteland with piles of salt.

Abandoned hotels and tourist facilities here hark back to the 1990s when the salt lake, circled by sandy banks, was in its heyday and popular with newly-weds and families who came to swim and picnic.

But today, the lake near the city of Samawa, south of the capital Baghdad, is completely dry.

Bottles litter its former banks and plastic bags dangle from sun-scorched shrubs, while two pontoons have been reduced to rust.

"This year, for the first time, the lake has disappeared," environmental activist Husam Subhi said. "In previous years, the water area had decreased during the dry seasons."

 Today, on the sandy ground sprinkled with salt, only a pond remains where tiny fish swim, in a source that connects the lake to an underground water table.

The five-square-kilometre (two-square-mile) lake has been drying up since 2014, says Youssef Jabbar, environmental department head of Muthana province.

The causes have been "climate change and rising temperatures," he explained.


Iraq is predicted to be one of the country's effected the worst by climate change.  They need a governmental solution to address it and to plan for what's coming.  But they don't even have a government.

October 10th, Iraq carried out elections that would determine the Parliament make up, the Speaker of Parliament, the president and the prime minister.

It's nearly seven months later.  And  They have members of Parliament.  They have a Speaker of Parliament.  And?  That's it.


 An alliance of Iraqi and Kurdish opposition blocs on Sunday submitted a request to hold a session to elect Iraq’s new president in the first week of May as the country continues to suffers from a political deadlock months after the elections.

For the People Alliance, formed between the Kurdish New Generation party, Emtidad Movement, and ten independents “presented an initiative that includes collecting signatures to hold a session [to elect the president] on Saturday, May 7,” state media quoted head of the alliance Alaa al-Rikabi as saying. 

The session aims to “elect the president of the republic, find a political solution, complete the parliamentary committees and approve the budget law,” he added, while calling on all MPs to attend the session.



There is a steep price to pay for having a conscience and more importantly the courage to act on it. The hounds of hell pin you to the cross, hammering nails into your hands and feet as they grin like the Cheshire cat and mouth bromides about respect for human rights, freedom of expression and diversity. I have watched this happen for some time to Alice Walker, one of the most gifted and courageous writers in America. Walker, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel The Color Purple, has felt the bitter sting of racism. She refuses to be silent about the plight of the oppressed, including the Palestinians.

“Whenever I come out with a book, or anything that will take me before the public, the world, I am assailed as this person I don’t recognize,” she said when I reached her by phone. “If I tried to keep track of all the attacks over the decades, I wouldn’t be able to keep working. I am happy people are standing up. It is all of us. Not just me. They are trying to shut us down, shut us up, erase us. That reality is what is important.”

The Bay Area Book festival delivered the latest salvo against Walker. The organizers disinvited her from the event because she  praised the writings of the New Age author David Icke and called his book And the Truth Shall Set You Free “brave.” Icke has denied critics’ charges of anti-Semitism. The festival organizers twisted themselves into contortions to say they were not charging Walker with anti-Semitism. She was banned because she lauded a controversial writer, who I suspect few members of the committee have read. The poet and writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, who Walker was to interview, withdrew from the festival in protest.

Walker, a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, has been a very public advocate for Palestinian rights and a critic of Israel for many years. Her friendship with Icke has long been part of the public record. She hid nothing. It is not as if the festival organizers suddenly discovered a dark secret about Walker. They sought to capitalize on her celebrity and then, when they felt the heat from the Israel lobby, capitulated to the mob to humiliate her.

“I don’t know these people,” Walker said of the festival organizers who disinvited her. “It feels like the south. You know they are out there in the community, and they have their positions, but all you see are sheets. That’s what this is. It’s like being back in the south.”


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Monday, April 25, 2022

Graham Elwood, Lee Camp and Mickey Z

First up, Graham Elwood and Lee Camp 



They're talking about the historical  empire efforts of the US, the coup in Guatemala, what's really taking place in Ukraine and more.  How red scares are repeatedly used to silence criticism of the US' efforts at destroying the world, etc.


If you missed it, Barack Obama is calling for censorship of the internet.  Does anyone still believe in that fake ass piece of crap?  This is from Mickey Z's latest at DISSIDENT VOICE:


“Today, we occupy entirely different media realities, fed directly into our phones. You don’t even have to look up. And it’s made all of us more prone to what psychologists call confirmation bias, the tendency to select facts and opinions that reinforce our preexisting worldviews and filter out those that don’t.

“So inside our personal information bubbles, our assumptions, our blind spots, our prejudices aren’t challenged, they’re reinforced. And naturally, we’re more likely to react negatively to those consuming different facts and opinions.”

The words above may appear as standard rhetoric from yours truly on Post-Woke. In this case, however, they were penned by Barack Obama’s speechwriters (bonus points for including the word “occupy”). They were delivered by the Pope of Hope on April 21, 2022, at Stanford University — in the heart [sic] of Silicon Valley.

The bulk of that speech was designed to demonize Russia, whitewash U.S. history, and paint censorship as freedom. Feel free to read the transcript for yourself. What interested me more was the speech’s opening section. That’s where Obama offered the above excerpt and proceeded to show off his chops as a propagandist

The current state of the web, says Mr. Yes We Can, is “a constant feed of content where useful factual information and happy diversions, and cat videos, flow alongside lies, conspiracy theories, junk science, quackery, White supremacist, racist tracts, misogynist screeds.”

Do you see what he did there? Right out of the same World Economic Forum playbook Justin Trudeau used earlier this year. Conflate alleged “conspiracy theories, junk science, quackery” with “White supremacist, racist tracts, misogynist screeds.” Such a state, he continues, makes it impossible to “tell the difference between, say, a peer-reviewed article by Dr. Anthony Fauci and a miracle cure being pitched by a huckster.”

This pathetic, self-serving, and inaccurate segue allows the former president to go into full mendacity mode: “The fact that scientists developed safe, effective vaccines in record time is an unbelievable achievement. And yet despite the fact that we’ve now, essentially clinically tested the vaccine on billions of people worldwide, around 1 in 5 Americans is still willing to put themselves at risk and put their families at risk rather than get vaccinated.”


He is such garbage.  Be sure to read Stan's "NETFLIX needs to cancel contract with Obama, stockholders need to demand it/"  Also be sure to read Ava and C.I.'s "TV: First Ladies and Martha Mitchell."



Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


 Monday, April 25, 2022.  Joe Biden is no FDR, a  MARVEL film is being banned in some countries, Turkey continues to carry out War Crimes in Iraq and much more.


Joe Biden's disaster presidency continues as he attempts to learn on the job.  As Margaret Kimberley notes in the video below, Joe and his team seem to have no grasp on reality when it comes to the world markets or Russia's role in them.




Joe has no clue.  An inept, bumbling Mr MaGoo on the world state.  As Margaret notes above, Joe just casually tosses off that there are going to be food shortages.


And the whorish corporate press compared that man to FDR?


WWII meant shortages.  FDR didn't just toss off remarks.  He mobilized American farmers, he also encouraged victory gardens.


Joe's the president who is already in the coffin just waiting for his last breath.  He gives up bfore he announces he's given up.  


He is inept adn not up to the job.  


America's farmers should have been mobilized immediately.


Here's how a real leader put it:


January 12, 1943

All over the world, food from our country's farms is helping the United Nations to win this war. From the South Pacific to the winter front in Russia, from North Africa to India, American food is giving strength to the men on the battle lines, and sometimes also to the men and women working behind the lines. Somewhere on every continent the food ships from this country are the life line of the forces that fight for freedom. This afternoon we have heard from some of the military and civilian righters who look to us for food. No words of mine can add to what they have said.

But on this Farm Mobilization Day I want to round out the picture and tell you a little more about the vital place that American farmers hold in the entire war strategy of the United Nations.

Food is a weapon in total war- fully as important in its way as guns or planes or tanks. So are other products of the farm. The long-staple cotton that goes into parachutes, for example, the oils that go into paints for the ships and planes and guns, the grains that go into alcohol to make explosives also are weapons.

Our enemies know the use of food in war. They employ it cold-bloodedly to strengthen their own fighters and workers and to weaken or exterminate the peoples of the conquered countries. We of the United Nations also are using food as a weapon to keep our fighting men fit and to maintain the health of all our civilian families. We are using food to earn the friendship of people in liberated areas and to serve as a promise and an encouragement to peoples who are not yet free. Already, in North Africa, the food we are sending the inhabitants is saving the energies and the lives of our troops there. In short we are using food, both in this country and in Allied countries, with the single aim of helping to win this war.

Already it is taking a lot of food to fight the war. It is going to take a lot more to win the final victory and win the peace that will follow. In terms of total food supply the United Nations are far stronger than our enemies. But our great food resources are scattered to the ends of the earth—from Australia and New Zealand to South Africa and the Americas- and we no longer have food to waste. Food is precious, just as oil and steel are precious. As part of our global strategy, we must produce all we can of every essential farm product; we must divide our supplies wisely and use them carefully. We cannot afford to waste any of them.

Therefore the United Nations are pooling their food resources and using them where they will do the most good. Canada is sending large shipments of cheese, meats, and other foods on the short North Atlantic run to Britain. Australia and New Zealand are providing a great deal of the food for American soldiers stationed in that part of the world. Food from Latin America is going to Britain.

Every food-producing country among the United Nations is doing its share. Our own share in food strategy, especially at this stage of the war, is large, because we have such great resources for production; and we are on direct ocean lanes to North Africa, to Britain, and to the northern ports of Russia.

American farmers must feed our own growing Army and Navy. They must feed the civilian families of this country and feed them well. They must help feed the fighting men and some of the war workers of Britain and Russia and, to a lesser degree, those of other Allied countries.

So this year, as never before, the entire Nation is looking to its farmers. Many quarters of the free world are looking to them too. American farmers are a small group with a great task. Although 60 percent of the world's population are farm people, only 2 percent of that population are American farmers. But that 2 percent have the skill and the energy to make this country the United Nations' greatest arsenal for food and fiber.

In spite of the handicaps under which American farmers worked last year, the production victory they won was among the major victories of the United Nations in 1942. Free people everywhere can be grateful to the farm families who made that victory possible.

This year the American farmer's task is greater, and the obstacles more formidable. But I know that once more our farmers will rise to their responsibility.

This farm mobilization is the first day ever dedicated by a President to the farm people of the Nation. I know that the whole country joins with me in a tribute to the work farmers already have done, in a pledge of full support in the difficult task which lies ahead for farmers, and in a prayer for good weather to make farmers' efforts more fruitful.

Our fighting men and allies, and our families here at home can rely on farmers for the food and other farm products that will help to bring victory.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, The President's Statement on Farm Mobilization Day. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210025


That's FDR.  How does fumbling bumbling Biden put it?  Keith Good (ILLIONIS FARM POLICY NEWS) noted:


Bloomberg’s Josh Wingrove reported yesterday that, “President Joe Biden said that the world will experience food shortages as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and production increases were a subject of discussions at a Group of Seven meeting on Thursday.

“‘It’s going to be real,‘ Biden said at a news conference in Brussels. ‘The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well.'”



It's going to be real?  In other words, I don't have a clue what to do.  He doesn't.  He's clueless.  A bumbling fool who is unable to offer leadership. Maybe someone can snap "Leadeership1" in his ear like, at the Easter ceremony, he was told "Wave!"  


He has no clue and it really shows.  The crazy old man who had to be hidden in the basement throughout 2020 -- during the last stretch of the primaries, during the general election -- was not up to being president and a whorish press worked to deliver him to the White House, not to inform the public, not to hold the powerful accountable.


His ineptitude is showing but it also reflects back on to the whores who pimped and pushed him.


In other news, MARVEL'S DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTI-VERSE OF MADNESS is about to be released (May 5th in the US).  MENA notes:


Marvel's parent company, Disney, has always tried to have their films played in theaters all over the world but, due to the laws in some international countries, some films are unable to be screened in certain territories. In the past, when Disney has chosen to leave any reference to the LGBTQ+ community in their movies, it would result in the movie being pulled from theaters and thus a major loss of money for the company.

This most recently occurred with Marvel's The Eternals when the film was pulled from theaters in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar after Disney refused to edit out a homosexual relationship.


First off, there are no hardcore scenes in the film -- meaning this is not a pornographic film.  Second someone's religious sensibilities are also supposed to include tolerance and no one's asking them to be gay because they see the film.  Third, you can't just cobble a movie apart.  When it works, a film is a coherent statement where all parts build to a satisfying experience.  You can't just chop out scenes.


It's happened in the paast.


And it never needs to happen again.


Lena Horne is the best example of that past mistake.  A tremendously talented artist, she saw her scenes removed when people couldn't accept -- or someone thought that they couldn't -- a Black woman in a movie.  Black women existed then and it served no good to remove Lena from films.  LGBTQ people exist and they need to present on the screen.  


Lena suffered to protect 'delicate sensibilities.'  She was a movie queen who was kept in waiting.  Holding her back harmed her, harmed art, harmed our notions of the world around us.  


For the film industry to have supported this was shameful.


They should not support it again.


As for ETERNALS, I don't care if some markets didn't show it.  Their loss.  The film still pulled in more at the box office than DUNE did.  


If governments deny a wanted film in their country, they can face the pressure of the people in those countries who wanted to see the movie.  And maybe it will further underscore just how outrageous and outdated some government are.


In other news, ASHARQ AL-AWSAT reports:

Iraq's First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Hakim al-Zamili accused on Sunday Iran and Turkey of exploiting his country's weakness to launch military attacks and operations on its territories.

Zamili, who is a leading member of the Sadr movement of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, noted that the violations by Ankara and Tehran had increased in recent weeks.


He made his remarks at a meeting at parliament aimed at addressing the repeated Turkish and Iranian attacks. The meeting was attended by Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein and head of the Sadrist parliamentary bloc Hassan al-Athari.


Athari said the violations pose a threat to Iraq and undermine its diplomacy.


Addressing Hussein, he asked what Iraq was doing to address the violations.


He also wondered whether there was any credibility to reports that spoke of an agreement between Iraq and Turkey that allows Turkish forces to enter 30 kilometers deep into Iraqi territory.


George Szamuely Tweets:

Hmmm, this is odd. Turkey, a NATO member-state, has launched an invasion of Iraq. Not one word yet from NATO and EU representatives, voices still hoarse from two months of screaming at Russia.
pbs.org
Turkey launches new ground and air offensive in northern Iraq
Turkey's defense minister says Turkish jets and artillery struck targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, and commando troops then crossed into the region by land or were airlifted...
8:00 AM · Apr 21, 2022


Iraqi politicians are calling out Turkey for its latest assault on Iraq.  Turkey is dropping bombs on the Kurdistan and has sent ground troops in as well.  Though western outlets like to pretend they're fair, they tend to ignore the number of civilians the Turkish military is killing, wounding and terrorizing.  RUDAW reports:



A Christian family from a Duhok village has decided to migrate to Australia due to ongoing clashes between Turkish army and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) at home. 

Amirnisan Gorgis is from the Christian village of Sharansh in Duhok’s Zakho city. He and his family have fled their village due to Turkish bombardment four years ago. They live in a rental house in the Bersiv region in the same province. He told Rudaw’s Yusuf Musa on Tuesday that he plans to migrate to Australia in July when the current academic year ends. 

“I have turned 62 and I have built several houses but have been displaced five times. I have spent most of my age in displacement,” he said, adding that he wants to join his son in Australia. 

Turkey has intensified its military activities in Zakho in the last few years, leading to the displacement of a large number of people. 

Out of 20 Christian villages in Zakho, nine have been evacuated, according to local authorities. 


Iraqi politicians such as Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's president Barham Saleh and others have called out Turkey's actions.  More voices are joining the condemnation of Turkey.  ANHA reports:


​​​​​​​Today, the presidency of the Iraqi parliament condemned the Turkish occupation military attacks in Başûr Kurdistan, stressing that they constitute a "clear violation of Iraq's security and stability."

The office of Shakhwan Abdullah, the second parliamentarian, stated that "the latter attended the meeting of the Presidency of the House of Representatives with Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein and the advanced cadre of the ministry, which was held today in the Constitutional Hall and in the presence of heads of blocs and parliamentary committees and a number of deputies."


IRAN INTERNATIONAL explains, "Last Monday, Turkey carried out air and land operations -- dubbed Operation Claw Lock – against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq that targeted camps and ammunition stores."  And MEHR NEWS AGENCY notes, "News sources reported that at least six rockets were fired at 'Zelika' base, east of Mosul.  Turkey has long been violating the territorial integrity of northern Iraq by claiming to oppose the PKK."  The Nineveh Province base isn't the only Turkish military base in Iraq.  This base and the others are illegal and should be closed by the Turkish government immediately.  They are in violation of Iraq's national sovereignty and their established upon non-Turkish land can be seen as an act of war.  


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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Jackson Hinkle is a little bitch

I really didn't plan on writing this post.  Thought it a lot, but planned to avoid it.

Then he posted a video and Marci e-mailed about it.  "I Was Wrong."  Went up yesterday.  She made the mistake of watching.  I would've too, Marci.

She thought the little bitch was going to apologize for bringing on convicted sex offender, 


I would've too.  


But he's not apologizing for the damage he did to survivors and their families and friends for bring on register sex offender, sent to prison sex offender Scott Ritter.  


No, he's not going to do that.  


He's a dumb little pice of shit who thinks he's smart.  I wish I knew him.  I'd punch his fsce in.  I'd do that within 30 minutes of meeting him because he's a smug little bitch who thinks he's a big man.  And over six feet tall, I could beat the crap out of that little bitch and make clear to him that he had nothing to strut about.


When he did his podcast drunk, with a drunken male friend, and they'd brought two drunken women back to the studio, I wrote it off as youthful stupidity.


Little Jacky Hinkle's not even 25.  He's a stupid piece of crap who thinks he knows everything and has some sort of homoerotic obsession with Jimmy Dore.  (Jimmy's a funny guy, I'm not denying that, and he's a smart man.  But Little Jacky's obsessed -- to the point that she picture him on all fours in front of a seated Jimmy and his snout in Jimmy's crotch.)


If he had any guts, if he was any kind of a man, even a young man, he'd apologize to his viewers not just for using his platform to try to f**k some drunk woman but for bringing on Scott Ritter.


That was an insult and it made clear that there are people who will try take back the night and then are little Jackies who will hold hands with convicted sex offenders and not even have the guts (or balls -- Little Jacky's got no balls) to tell their audience, "This man I'm speaking with?  Went to prison in 2009 for being a sex offender."


Little Jacky Hinkle, playing with is dinkle, wishing some day his balls would descend but right now pretending he's a man.


For anyone thinking, "Mike's threatening to beat up Little Jacky!!!!"


No, I'm not.  


I'm lucky.  I don't know him personally.  If I met him tomorrow, I know all I need to know and I would walk away. 


But if I had met him a year or so ago and we had been talking, it would take about 30 minutes of his bullshit, faux man nonsense before I would've kicked his ass.  


Go play with that tiny dinkle, Little Jacky Hinkle.


Here's Glenn Greenwald doing work to be proud of.





Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


 Friday, April 22, 2022.  A few electoral related issues.


Sabby  Sabs had a really important video this week and we noted it in an entry on its own but I want to be sure it's in a snapshot.  Before that, this will probably be a shorter snapshot.  My blood suger's out of whack and I'm having to stop and start -- hurling and dictating do not go totether well.  


But I actually want to start with a REvolutionary BLACKOUT issue.  They had a good video that we've noted on its own already this week (yesterday, I believe).  There was one thing that needed clarification.  It was taking on Sam Seder (yea!)  and this is ot to defend Seder and I was going to let it pass but then Bernie.


Sam was in a debate with a person it is not our goal to promote so we're not even going to name him.  RB was reviewing that debate and they noted that Sam lost -- which doesn't suprrise me.  We are not and have never been  fan of Sam.  "We" meaning me myself and meaning this website.  We parted ways, this website, with Sam in January of 2005 when he revealed hmself to be  acheap whore and one who woud promote corporate interests (Simon Rosenberg).  Rosenberg was spitting on the LGBT community and going off on prominent African-American members of the Democratic Party and that was okay with Sam.  So he can rot in hell, I'm not here to defend him and that's before you factor in that I know Janeane Garofalo, I like her and I consider her a friend.  I don't ever forgive how he ousted her from her program.  


So in the debate Sam made some point about people who weren't even Democrats.  The ine wasn't qutoed.  But Sam was around in 2008 and a lot of peple weren't.  If he was referring to 2008, I do know what he meant and I do think it's an isseue if Bernie runs again.


In 2008, a bi-racial man who was attractive ran for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination -- actually that started in 2007 -- and he wasn't connecting with the voters.  John Edwards and his crew of sexist -- female bloggers, you know who you are -- thought he'd win the nomination.  Grabby hands and his cult couldn't see the writing ont he wall.  The person who coul've won it then was Hillary Clinton. 


Because Barack was pretty and a novelty, all type of sowoning took place.  I still rank the most embarrassing moment when Martha read an e-mail from Daivd Lindorff over the phone to me about how people should support Barack because "as a Black man who did drugs" he would be more radical than anything the system could handle.  Barack has been called many things by many thinking people but no one with a real and functioning brain has ever called him radical.  And never will.


But there were radicals latching on to him -- the friendship with Bernardine Dohrn and her trophy husband wasn't the only thing there.  The Weather Underground's Carl stopped giving himself his monthly breast exam long enough to start a fux group for Barack.    Carl couldn't hide what he was for the most part.  But many did.  And if Democrats don't want non-Democrat  impacting their primaries, they can make them a closed primary.  But here's the problem, a lot of them showed up writing pieces as Democrats.  As a Democrat, this is what our party stands for this is . . .


And they weren't Democrats.  Be a Socialist, be a Communist , be whatever (yes, even a a Republican), but don't present yourself as a Democrat in order to sway potential overs when you are not a Democrats.


As we noted in real time, that ticked off a lot of people.  In 2016, Hillar.y Clinton, again seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, tried to latch onto that angry sentiment left over from 2008 with her remarks about how Bernie wasn't a Democrat (he's a Socialist) and shouldn't be allowed to even run in the primary.  She'd already picked her Republican nominee, right?  (Her campaign pushed the coverage of Donald in the GOP primary because they thought he'd be the easiest to defeat in a general election.)    But here's the problem, Bernie couldn't have run withut the party's okay.  As a sitting senator that the Democrats had a policy -- that dated back to Bernie being in the House --which eant that they would never challenge him in an election by running an actual Democrat for the post, Bernie wouldn't have done anything to anger the Party and he ran with the Party's blessing.  They didn't think he could win (and, as we now know, various people like Donna Brazile were working to harm his campaign while pretending to be impartial).


They let him run.


So that was a stupid argument.  Bernie's enver pretended he wasn't a Scocialist.


But Bernie has pretended  And that's why we're addressing the point now.


As a Socialist, if  he runs again -- as he says he's thinking about doing -- it will be with the Democratic Party's leadership's approval.  


He would get them attention that they would not otherwise receive.  And his 'left' or left positions would bring people into the fold -- that he would later try to sheepherd to whatever corporatist won the nomination.


He serves the sheep hearding role, yes.  But no one ever comments on the other role he serves.  By letting Bernie run and letting him lose, they make the argument that these are good policies, yes, but the man supporting them couldn't win, so we need to just keep working on ait a little bit harderr.


That's how they deny the overwhelmingly popular Medicare For All issue.


He is not helping anyone.


And no one with self-respect who had seen their campaign worked against in 2016 and 2020 would even consider running again.


Bernie has no self respect and has clearly accepted his fole as a sheep hearder and as a denier of needed policies (such as Medicare For All).


He shouldn't run.  If he does, no one should be taken in by him.  


He folds every time, which is bad enough, but then he tries to whore out the people who believed in the policies and issues he said he believed in.  We can't afford his nonsense.  He's been a lousy US senator and I've said that long ago.  (And had to hear in 2016 when some Bernie supporters were upset that Hillary's campaign was using issues we'd pointed out in years previously.  Like when the VA scandal broke about the deaths from waiting for care broke and Bernie, then Chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, admonished everyone at the start of the hearing, insisting that that issue would be dealt with but they were to focus on today's issue instead . . . holistic medicine.  Wow Bernie, you are so uninspiring.)


We can't afford him.  If he runs, I hope people don't mistake him for anything of value again.






Okay, her's Sabby's video.  It's important and she's raising serious issue as usual.








I would love to comment on it but my blood sugar is really low and I'm dizzy so I've got to go throw up again.  Nouri al-Maliki will be noted in Saturday's entry -- for his words.  I think it can wait.


We're doing a Zomm at 6 with the East Coast so I have to stop here and hopefully get over throwing up and get done with it.



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