Indifference
is often the greater crime.
Their
Turn: Saudi
Arabia is buying an undisclosed number of Chinese drones, called the
Pterodactyl and modeled after the American Reaper/Predator. Iraq
earlier got some earlier model Chinese drones. It is said that the
Chinese drones, being relatively unsophisticated, are better at
killing civilians than the more advanced US versions.
Bread
& Conformity:
The EU overlords are trying to ingratiate themselves to the peasantry
by offering free 100Mbps
broadband and Wi-Fi for all if
they will just settle down and stop complaining.
Cage
Rattling:
Elizabeth Warren (Icon,
MA) wants a
formal Senate
investigation
into why the Obama administration has
not brought criminal
charges against
any of the individuals
or
corporations
involved in the 2007-2008 financial fraud
and looting that lead to the recent unpleasantness. Okay, but why
now? This isn't going to happen, so what might her real motivations
be?
Blasphemy:
Most
of
us believe
that what is good for us
will
be good for others. There
is no proof of this.
Preponderance
of the Evidence:
The White House says that President Obama
will
veto the bill that would let the families of those killed on 9/11
bring suit against Saudi Arabia and individual Saudis for their part
in the attack. Because they might well prevail. More
importantly, if US citizens are able to sue foreign governments for
killing their loved ones, then wouldn't an awful lot of the families
of those meeting their demise at the business end of a US drones be
able to do the same? And mightn't they also prevail? [From
Comments.] And this: “The US
'to pay $1.2million'
to Italian family
of drone strike victim”.
Rawhide!
Denver
is
buying
a
suburban warehouse
as
a place to store the
overflow from
their existing
facilities
for the homeless.
Round
'em up, move 'em out.
Free
For All:
Just in time for the next round of Cops and Citizens in suburban St.
Louis, concealed
carry without a
permit
becomes the
law
in Missouri. It's
the Jesse James Memorial Law, just what Ferguson needs.
Eight
Years and Counting:
How long must we wait for for
central banks to admit
that they don't have the foggiest idea how to get the economy moving?
And isn't it about time Wall Street stopped holding its collective
breath every time someone at the Fed starts
a rumor?
Demonstration
Project:
The NFL, to show how seriously it takes concussions, is going to
provide $100 million for research into treatment. That's about the
combined
annual salary of four pro quarterbacks. Prevention, of course,
would entail doing away with pro football, and that's not going to
happen.
Testimony:
The US military has confirmed that two more graduates of the
Guantanamo Bay motivational training center have successfully joined
anti-US militant groups.
Porn
O'Graph:
4°C and climbing.
A
Parting Shot:
2 comments:
If US citizens are able to sue foreign governments for complicity in terror attacks, then it presumably follows that the families of those meeting their demise at the business end of a US drone will be able to do the same. In the aggregate I think this move will tip the scales into the red.
Anony 8.02 - Wowser - wish I'd carried through to that conclusion. - ckm
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