Monday, December 01, 2008

Chicken Teacher


A hen pecks an eagle. Chinese farmers are trapping eagles and other birds of prey and throwing them trussed up into chicken pens to make them so scared of poultry that they never return

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Friday, November 07, 2008

The Promised Land?

The Promised Land?

Obama, Emanuel and Israel

By JOHN V. WHITBECK

November 07, 2008 "Counterpunch" -- -- In the first major appointment of his administration, President-elect Barack Obama has named as his chief of staff Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli citizen and Israeli army veteran whose father, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, was a member of Menachem Begin's Irgun forces during the Nakba and named his son after "a Lehi combatant who was killed" -- i.e., a member of Yitzhak Shamir's terrorist Stern Gang, responsible for, in addition to other atrocities against Palestinians, the more famous bombing of the King David Hotel and assassination of the UN peace envoy Count Folke Bernadotte.


Read the full article

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Who is making money ...

A congress man that said wait a minute...




And a congressman that is willing to sign the papers today, albeit with some modifications.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Friday, September 05, 2008

Monday, September 01, 2008

Democracy Now's Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar were arrested by the Minneapolis Police Department. Charged with conspiracy to riot. Footage from Rick Rowley and Brandon Jourdan.

Friday, August 22, 2008

The Georgian state flag flies at half mast behind the statue of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin in his hometown of Gori, now under control of Russian troops, August 20, 2008.
(David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters)

Rather strange... town is suppose to be "under control of Russian troops" yet it flies the Georgian flag. Georgia is suppose to be the most democratic country in x-communist states, yet it maintains the statue of the Stalin!

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Gucci Protest!


Russain soldiers stand guard as a Georgian protester shouts near the town of Igoeti, 50 kms from Tbilisi,Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. Georgian activists got into a tense argument with Russian soldiers over the military conflict with Georgia as they held a rally in the town outside the strategic city of Gori. ( AP Photo /Sergei Grits)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

American Hypocrisy Institute (aka AEI)

Frederick W. Kagan of American Enterprise Institute has the following to say about Russian response to the conflict that Georgia started on opening night of Olympics:


The Russians have also established several principles and precedents:

* That Russia has the right to respond to conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia by strategic attack against Georgia


* That Russia has the right to use its military force to bomb and invade the undisputed sovereign territory of a neighbor for the purpose of defending the “dignity and lives of Russian citizens,” which was the basis that Medvedev has repeatedly advanced for the operation


There is nothing new about this "principles and precedents". In 1983 Ronald Reagan "invade the undisputed sovereign territory of" Granada for the purpose of protecting the lives of American Medical Students (whoes lives were not even threatened!) See: Remembering Reagan’s Invasion of Grenada



* That Russian Federation law extends to cover all Russian citizens, wherever they might be located.

* That Russian Federation law can be used to bring charges against non-Russian citizens who are not resident in Russia for crimes not committed on Russian territory, if their actions are “against the interests of the Russian Federation.”



How is that different than war on terror, Guantanamo bay.... There is 8 years of Bush administration precedence on these issues, all of which was supported or initiated by AEI. Why are they complaining now?


* That Russian military forces can take pre-emptive action, including ground occupation, to protect themselves from the possibility of danger posed by foreign forces on foreign soil.


Interestingly, a few years ago, while promoting The Project for New American Century, Bill Kristol and Mr Kagan say:

"We seem to have forgotten the essential elements of the Reagan administration's success: a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the U.S. global responsibilities."


It seems that, thanks to Neocons, the Russian have remembered the essential elements of Regan administration's successes!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Saakashvili the new Saddam?

President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia reminds me of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq. They both are very brave when it comes time to send their military to attack others but when it comes to themselves they are the chicken hawks:

The Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, was pushed to the ground by bodyguards when a jet flew overhead during his tour of the Georgian city of Gori....

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Home made arms?

New York Times's "Iraq Team to Discuss Militias With Iran" article includes the following pictures:




With this caption: "Lt. Gen. Mohan al-Fireji, an Iraqi commander in Basra, with a seized arms cache on Tuesday. "

The "arms cache" depicted in the picture looks about as home made arms as there can be. Yet the article still talks about it as if they have been made in Iran!


AS a side note: The author of the article is Michael Gordon, yes the same Michael Gordon that co-authored the Judith Miller lies on Iraq.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Juxtaposing General Patreaus comment and Bush Administration's Propaganda

In his April, 9 2008 testimony at House Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq General Petraeus said:


Sons of Iraq have also have contributed to the discovery of improvised explosive devices and weapons and explosive caches. As this next chart shows, in fact we have already found more caches in 2008 than we found in all of 2006.


In the 2003 as the US forces were rushing toward Baghdad there were so few soldiers that they had to ignore the Saddam's weapons caches. As the Iraqi army fled, locals helped themselves to the inventory of weapons that Saddam had amassed for 30 years. General Peataeus seems to imply that now with help of the "Sons of Iraq" they are finding them.

This is interesting when you juxtapose this comment with the almost daily claim of Bush administration that Iran is supplying Iranian made weapons to Iraq. Or may be General didn't realize his claim of success would negate the other key porpaganda theme of Bush administration.

In 2007 Bush administration told the world that Iran is supplying weapons to Iraq. Now, 2008 General is telling us he has been finding large caches of weapons. Therefore in 2007 there were lot of Iraqi weapons available to the Iraqi insurgency. If there were such huge caches of weapons in Iraq, would it make sense for Iranian to actually ship any weapons to Iraq?

It just doesn't make sense.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Show of Force!

Government forces cover their face, fire in the air to as "show of force" (desperation?)



Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari shouts instructions to Iraqi Army soldiers to secure a street in a show of force in a militia stronghold that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the southern city of Basra some 550 kilometers (about 340 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 2, 2008. An Iraqi commander led a convoy of troops firing into the air Wednesday in a show of force in a militia stronghold that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the southern city of Basra.
(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani




Iraqi soldier secures a street in a show of force in a militia stronghold that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the southern city of Basra some 550 kilometers (about 340 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 2, 2008. An Iraqi commander led a convoy of troops firing into the air Wednesday in a show of force in a militia stronghold that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the southern city of Basra.
(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)


Meanwhile the citizens are showing their view:


Iraqi children stand on top of a destroyed Iraqi Army's vehicle in Basra some 550 kilometers (about 340 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 2, 2008. The Basra joint operations center announced that a gun battle broke out during the raid and an Iraqi army vehicle was set on fire. An Iraqi commander led a convoy of troops firing into the air Wednesday in a show of force in a militia stronghold that has seen some of the fiercest fighting in the southern city of Basra.
(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)

Monday, January 07, 2008