04-05-09
- Yes, Isn't It Clear That Islam Is a Religion of Peace And Love?
- 6 gay men shot in Iraq after clerics urge crackdown on gays (americablog)
- Update 04-08-09: Iraq’s Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder (nytimes) -- "In the past two months, the bodies of as many as 25 boys and men suspected of being gay have turned up in the huge Shiite enclave of Sadr City, the police and friends of the dead say. Most have been shot, some multiple times. Several have been found with the word “pervert” in Arabic on notes attached to their bodies, the police said."
- Time for a little Pat Condell catharsis (youtube)
- When Is a Compliment Not a Compliment?
- Former GE CEO Jack Welch gives Obama an "A" on leadership (americablog) -- Just to refresh your memory, Jack Welch is the former CEO of one of the largest defense contractors (war profiteers). GE also owns NBC, its propaganda arm, which of course was reporting on the 2000 presidential election on election eve in 2000. After the mysterious lights out on computer data late in the evening, after which the numbers for Gore miraculously switched to Bush, Bush's cousin in Fox News Election Central immediately called the election for Bush. In an unprecedented move for the CEO of a parent company, Jack Welch entered NBC's Election Central and ordered them to similarly call the election for Bush. The other network sheep quickly jumped into line and thus established the consistent propaganda stream than Bush had won the election, despite the mysterious goings-on that night regarding conflicting exit polls and the mysterious downtime on the computer data stream. -- In a just world, Jack Welch would be in prison for the rest of his life for his part in the fraud that illegally placed interloper Bush into the house of power and for the damage the interloper wrecked on the world during his eight illegitimate years there. -- Obama should use his very competent left brain and regard this compliment by Welch as high-level proof that he is tragically on the wrong track and needs to stop, reconnoiter, and make massive changes in his administration's composition and direction NOW.
- Change We Can Believe In:
- The Smooth Criminal Transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama (globalresearch) "Corrupt new administration deepens and expands systemic criminalization and war agenda"
- Restore the Rule of Law And Legal Accountability!
- Obama wants punishment of N. Korea for "violation of rules" but thinks it's OK to let Bush criminals off the hook (firedoglake) -- sounds amazingly like the US's hypocritical self-righteousness over every other country's conflicting election exit polls but not our own.
- Conyers Wants [But Has Not Formally Requested] Holder to Appoint a Special Counsel to Probe Bush Crimes (pubrecord) -- Obama's and Holder's records already shows what the official response from them would be.
- Ray McGovern: Cowardice in the Time of Torture (consortiumnews)
- The Phony War on Drugs:
- Mexican president: US authorities 'complicit' in drug trafficking (rawstory with video) "'It is impossible to pass tons of drugs and cocaine to U.S. without some great complicity of some American authorities,' said Mexican President Felipe Calderone [sic]." -- What a whopper of understatement! Google Gary Webb.
- F**king Up the Food Supply Right on Course:
- Lendman: GMO Proliferation Bills (sjlendman)
- Military-Industrial Profiteers:
- Juan Cole: Top Ten Ways the US is Turning Afghanistan into Iraq (firedoglake)
- The Great Economic Shakedown:
- William K. Black: The Entire Strategy Is to Keep People from Getting the Facts (washingtonblog - yahoo)
- Spicules: Jets on the Sun (apod)
