Instead
of lords, we bow to bankers.
The
Other Guy Made Me Do It!
Gen.
Campbell, US
commander in Afghanistan says that the MSF hospital was repeatedly
attacked as a favor for our loyal Afghan allies... “and
several civilians were accidentally struck." He
also stated that the US Special Forces troops
on the ground
with Afghan troops in Kunduz who called in the airs trikes are
not directly fighting the Taliban but
“retain
the inherent right of self-defense" against
doctors, nurses and their patients.
Open
Wide:
Prepare
for having the TTP being crammed down our throats, for prices to rise
and wages fall, our laws get revised by corporations, and drugs
become even more unfordable both here and overseas.
Clarity
Begins At
Home:
In the wake of the latest massacre, health-care professionals,
knowing that violence
is contagious, are asking Congress to reform the country's
mental health system, starting
with Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Blacks'
Eyes Matter:
A
sexually
insecure
judge in Ohio ruled that suspending a 12-year old black boy for
staring at a white girl wash perfectly acceptable.
Details,
Please:
Exactly how will destroying a country's economy and infrastructure
(pick one: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Palestine... all the way
back to VietNam) make it a better, more peaceful place?
The
Way We Are:
A conservative UK think tank recommends that the Tories waste no
time cutting social benefits to the poor and needy because a lot of
them “won't
be around to vote against you in the next election.” Plus
a lot of those who survive won't remember who did it to them.
Banned:
For those who wonder what we might do in the wake of yet another
mass shooting spree, remember that after three, exactly three, deaths
from playing with metal lawn darts the Consumer Product Safety
Commission outlawed the sale of these dangerous toys. Why is the only
consumer product specifically designed to kill us not regulated in
any meaningful way?
Clear
Sailing:
On Friday, October 5th,
the
interest
rate
on the outstanding three-month US
Treasury bills
was 0.00% Treasury
– the same as just putting the dollar under the mattress.
Let's
Play War!
Obama
has ordered the Pentagon to deliver
weapons and ammunition directly to “opposition forces”on the
ground in Syria. These are the same folks Russia is bombing and will
soon be sending military
veteran “volunteers” to attack on the ground. Iraq's PM says
he
would welcome
Russian airstrikes on ISIS forces
inside Iraq.
As
Is:
Now that Somalia
has ratified the UN's
1989 Convention
on the Rights of the Child, the
United States is the only country in the world that has not signed it
– because conservatives are afraid that, in addition to preventing
us from executing children or sentencing them to life in prison, it
would not only keep parents from beating their children, but would
also prevent homeschoolers from filling their children's heads with
drivel.
Revisionism:
Pope Francis says that the Church cannot be “a museum”but must
be open to change because
God changes the rules from time to time.
Safety
First:
President Obama is considering keeping at least 5,000 US troops in
Afghanistan beyond the end of 2016 to protect US Special Forces
advisors against doctors...
Trick
Or Treat:
House Republicans will gather on October 29th
to pick John Boehner's replacement as Speaker of the House. Costumes
optional.
Porn
O'Graph:
The Shield.
3 comments:
Charity? An An 11-year-old boy is going to be considered an adult, so that his parent(s)/guardian isn't criminally responsible. That's being very charitable. They don't want to get the general population thinking the parents had any responsibility here, but they will lock up parents who's kids skip school, because that costs the state federal money. I guess that's okay if they start to allow 11 year olds to vote, that after all is the average mental age of the Tea Party members.
Child protection convention. Don't know why the USA is so reluctant to sign it, if Saudi Arabia did it, yet is going to(perhaps already has) crucify the teenage son of an exiled Saudi human rights activist. All's quiet on the Western Media.
Bombings: Go well back well before Vietnam if we consider naval bombardments of Haiti, Mexico, Nicaragua. Keep'm poor and compliant is an old strategy of the Brown Brothers and even earlier sponsors of (faux-)filibuster.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/espada/imperialism.htm
re: asset forfeiture.
Should read: "we can take it; you can suck it."
Re "Details Please": Our foreign policy is about protecting corporate interests. Those interests generally being about extracting some resource at the lowest cost or, these days, selling weapons and munitions to both sides of any conflict. So making a place better or peaceful is not our intent, quite the opposite in fact. Peace is bad for business.
RE "AS Is": We can't let Treaties and the damn UN tell us how to live our lives! But we can let big corporations via the TTP!
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