The Evening Blues - 9-12-24
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This evening's music features country blues partners Butch Cage & Willie Thomas. Enjoy!
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Forty-Four Blues
"The Israeli military is claiming that one of its snipers probably did shoot an an American activist in the head while she was protesting Israeli atrocities in the West Bank last week, but claimed it was “indirect and unintentional”.
And, I mean, of course that’s what they’re saying. It was either that or try to say she had a Hamas base in her skull."
-- Caitlin Johnstone
News and Opinion
The Debate Was Two Assholes Bragging About What Murderous Empire Sluts They Are
If you missed the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, this was pretty much the tone of it:
Trump: She’s a communist. She’s literally a Marxist.
Harris: Actually Goldman Sachs loves me.
Trump: I saw her eat a cat. It was on the TV.
Harris: Dick Cheney loves me too.
Trump: She won’t kill any Palestinians at all.
Harris: I’ll kill way more Palestinians than he’ll kill.
Trump: I will kill the most Palestinians. I’ll kill more Palestinians than anyone.
Harris: You couldn’t kill even one Palestinian. You are weak.
Trump: I am not weak I am strong. I am the strongest.
Harris: You’re a weak little girl and you’ll let China win.
Trump: She’s gonna start a nuclear war with Russia.
Harris: I will invade Russia myself and I’ll kill Putin with my bare hands. I am the strongest and you are the weakest.
Trump: It’s not true. It’s not true.
Harris: I will also do the most fracking and drill the most oil. Many Republicans have said I’m the strongest.
Trump: No. No. She’s weak on immigration.
Harris: I kick immigrants in the balls for fun.
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Max Blumenthal : IDF Murders an American
Biden calls IDF’s killing of American in West Bank ‘totally unacceptable’
Joe Biden has described the Israel Defense Force’s fatal shooting of the Turkish American protester Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi as “totally unacceptable” in his first extensive comments on her death. In a statement on Wednesday, Biden said that Israel had “acknowledged responsibility” for Eygi’s death, but he stopped short of backing the demands put out by Eygi’s family and other human rights advocates for an independent inquiry into the fatal shooting of the American activist at a protest in the West Bank town of Beita last week.
“I am outraged and deeply saddened by the death of Aysenur Eygi,” Biden said in the statement. “Israel has acknowledged its responsibility for Aysenur’s death, and a preliminary investigation has indicated that it was the result of a tragic error resulting from an unnecessary escalation.”
“The US government has had full access to Israel’s preliminary investigation, and expects continued access as the investigation continues, so that we can have confidence in the result,” he continued. “There must be full accountability. And Israel must do more to ensure that incidents like this never happen again.”
In response, Hamid Ali, Eygi’s partner, said that Biden had not directly contacted the family and renewed calls for an independent inquiry in the case. “The White House has not spoken with us,” he said in the statement. “For four days, we have waited for President Biden to pick up the phone and do the right thing: to call us, offer his condolences and let us know that he is ordering an independent investigation of the killing of Ayşenur.” ...
Biden did not offer further specific information on what changes the US would demand from Israeli security forces. Previous deaths of American citizens in the region, including the shooting death of the Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Gaza in 2022, have also gone unprosecuted.
Biden Rebuked for 'Outrageous' Comments on Israeli Killing of US Citizen
U.S. President Joe Biden faced furious backlash on Tuesday after regurgitating the Israeli military's claim that its killing of an American citizen in the occupied West Bank last week was accidental, a narrative that eyewitnesses have denied.
Speaking to reporters, Biden said the killing of 26-year-old human rights activist Aysenur Eygi—a recent graduate of the University of Washington—was "apparently an accident," adding that the bullet that struck her in the head "ricocheted off the ground."
U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) denounced Biden's statement as "unacceptable" and "outrageous."
"We cannot simply accept the IDF's version that this was an 'accident,'" said Jayapal. "We do not know that, it's why we need an independent investigation. What accountability will there be when we keep supplying the weapons against our own laws?"
Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, said in response to Biden's remarks that "if you are an American, your president not only provides Israel with the bullets that Israel uses to kill you."
"Not only does he not object after Israel has killed you," he continued. "Much worse, he even comes up with insulting excuses to exonerate Israel for murdering you."
The U.S. president's comments mirrored a statement issued earlier Tuesday by the IDF, which said its internal inquiry "found that it is highly likely" that Eygi "was hit indirectly and unintentionally by IDF fire which was not aimed at her" but at another demonstrator whom the Israeli military described as "the key instigator" of a "riot."
Eyewitnesses have disputed the Israeli military's characterization of the moments before the IDF fatally shot Eygi.
Haaretz reported Sunday that it spoke to three eyewitnesses who said that Israeli soldiers shot Eygi "for no reason" and that "there had been no clashes at the time."
"First we heard a shot and it hit a dumpster that two volunteers were sitting behind and then there was a shot that hit Aysenur in the head," one eyewitness, identified as an American told the Israeli newspaper. "I was immediately just so shocked when I saw her laying on the ground, not moving. It was a direct shot to the head, it was not an accident. She was being extra safe out of all of the volunteers, she and her friends were standing the furthest back, in the safest spot that we thought."
Hours after echoing the Israeli military's findings, Biden issued a statement Wednesday saying he was "outraged and deeply saddened by the death of Aysenur Eygi," adding that "the shooting that led to her death is totally unacceptable."
The president went on to once again cite the results of Israel's internal investigation, noting that it indicated Eygi's killing "was the result of a tragic error resulting from an unnecessary escalation."
While pledging to "continue to stay in close contact with Israeli and Palestinian authorities regarding the circumstances that led to Aysenur's death" and calling for "full accountability," Biden did not pledge to launch a U.S. investigation.
Kamala Harris, the vice president and Democratic nominee, released a separate statement Wednesday calling Eygi's killing "a horrific tragedy that never should have happened."
"Israel's preliminary investigation indicated it was the result of a tragic error for which the IDF is responsible," Harris added. "We will continue to press the government of Israel for answers and for continued access to the findings of the investigation so we can have confidence in the results. There must be full accountability."
Eygi's family, which has pushed Biden to order an independent probe of their loved one's killing, said Tuesday that the U.S. president has yet to call to offer his condolences directly.
Hamid Ali, Eygi's partner, said Tuesday that "for four days, we have waited for President Biden to pick up the phone and do the right thing: To call us, offer his condolences, and let us know that he is ordering an independent investigation of the killing of Aysenur."
"This was no accident," Ali added, "and her killers must be held accountable."
Genocidal Media, Genocidal Endorsements With Craig Mokhiber + Dave Anthony and Josh Olson
UNRWA Says 6 Workers Among at Least 18 Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza School
The United Nations relief agency for Palestine said Wednesday that six of its workers are among the at least 18 people killed in a pair of Israeli airstrikes targeting a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip where thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians were sheltering.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said the Israeli strikes on one of its schools, located in Nuseirat in central Gaza, resulted in "the highest death toll among our staff in a single incident" since Israeli forces began bombarding the strip following last October's Hamas-led attack on Israel.
"Among those killed was the manager of the UNRWA shelter and other team members providing assistance to displaced people," the agency said. "Sincere condolences to their families and loved ones. This school has been hit five times since the war began. It is home to around 12,000 displaced people, mainly women and children."
Victims of the strikes included women and children.
Earlier on Wednesday the United Nations said the school had been "previously deconflicted with the Israeli forces."
Shocking new Israeli prison tapes leak
Israeli Military Rejects Netanyahu’s Claim That Hamas Could Smuggle Hostages Out of Gaza Through Philadelphi Corridor
The Israeli military establishment has found no evidence that Hamas might try to smuggle hostages out of Gaza into Egypt through the Philadelphi Corridor despite claims from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Haaretz reported on Tuesday.
Netanyahu recently made the claim that Hamas could smuggle hostages to Iran through Egypt to justify his demand that Israel must maintain control of the Philadelphi Corridor. But Israeli media reported that military officials don’t think Hamas has the capability to smuggle hostages into Egypt, let alone another country.
Netanyahu’s demand for the Philadelphi Corridor has been the main obstacle to a hostage and ceasefire deal with Hamas. The Israeli military does not believe the conditions are necessary for a temporary ceasefire deal.
Prof. John Mearsheimer: Bibi’s Catastrophic Blunders
‘Partner in This Crime’ – Euro-Med Says Israel Dropped US-Made Bombs on Tented Gaza Camp
The US is “a partner” in the “crime” that was committed on Tuesday when Israeli missiles struck a humanitarian safe zone in Gaza killing at least 40 people, a Geneva-based human rights group has said.
According to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, Israeli warplanes dropped three US-made 2,000-pound (900 kg) MK-84 bombs on a tented camp in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis at midnight as civilians were sleeping.
At least 40 people were killed and dozens injured in the airstrikes which targeted the area designated as a “humanitarian safe zone” by Israel.
“The bombs caused craters as deep as several meters, burying about 20 tents with families inside,” the rights group said. “Many tents, with entire families inside, were buried under the sand.”
According to several media reports, the US transferred, in 2023 and 2024, more than 14,000 MK-84 bombs to Israel, the Anadolu news agency said.
Rus Kursk Attack Takes Ground Taking Ukrainsk; US/Kiev Argue Missile Strikes; Lavrov Lectures Brazil
Blinken hints US will lift restrictions on Ukraine using long-range arms in Russia
The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, gave his strongest hint yet that the White House is about to lift its restrictions on Ukraine using long-range weapons supplied by the west on key military targets inside Russia, with a decision understood to have already been made in private.
Speaking in Kyiv alongside the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, Blinken said the US had “from day one” been willing to adapt its policy as the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine changed. “We will continue to do this,” he emphasised. Blinken said he and Lammy would report back to their “bosses” – Joe Biden and Keir Starmer – after their talks on Wednesday with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The foreign secretary suggested Iran’s dispatch of ballistic missiles to Moscow – revealed this week – had changed strategic thinking in London and Washington. It was a “significant and dangerous escalation”, he said. He added: “The escalator here is Putin. Putin has escalated with the shipment of missiles from Iran. We see a new axis of Russia, Iran and North Korea.” Lammy urged China “not to throw in its lot” with what he called “a group of renegades”.
British government sources indicated that a decision had already been made to allow Ukraine to use Storm Shadow cruise missiles on targets inside Russia, although it is not expected to be publicly announced on Friday when Starmer meets Biden in Washington DC.
The two leaders are planning to discuss the war in Ukraine, and how it could be ended, as part of a wide-ranging foreign policy discussion, though they will avoid an intense focus on any individual weapons system, as the aim of the conversation is strategic.
'Austerity Is Labour's Choice': Outrage as Starmer Cuts Winter Fuel Allowance
Progressive critics and lawmakers are expressing outrage after the U.K. Parliament on Tuesday voted to cut a winter fuel allowance for millions of Britons, calling the move by the ruling Labour Party, which took power in July, a continuation of the Conservative Party's austerity policies.
The measure turns the allowance, which provides £200 to £300 ($262 to $293) per year to senior citizens for heating bills, into a means-tested program in which only the poorest will qualify. It's expected to reduce the number of people receiving the winter payment from 11.4 million last year to 1.5 million this year. Prime Minister Keir Starmer called it a "tough choice" that was necessary because of the poor state of the British treasury.
A vote to overturn the cut lost 348 to 228 on Tuesday after Labour successfully whipped enough its members of Parliament into supporting the cut. Fifty two Labour MPs abstained, at least 20 of whom had expressed opposition to the plan, and one voted in opposition.
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who now represents voters as an independent, condemned Starmer's move.
"Cutting winter fuel allowance is not a tough choice," Corbyn wrote on social media. "It's the wrong choice—and we will not be fooled by ministers' attempts to feign regret over cruel decisions they don't have to take."
"Did he get permission from the Tories to reuse their trademark slogans?" he asked of Starmer in an a Tuesday op-ed in Tribune.
Under the headline, "Austerity Is Labour's Choice," Corybn railed against Starmer and his allies for falling back on the kind of neoliberalism that has dominated the U.K. for decades.
The Guardian joins the western propaganda chorus. Much of this article is crap, here are the important parts:
Mexican senate gives final approval to sweeping changes to judiciary
Mexico’s senate has given final approval to a sweeping overhaul of the judiciary, clearing the biggest hurdle for a controversial constitutional revision that will make all judges stand for election. ...
In a marathon session that ran for more than 12 hours, and had to be paused and relocated after protesters broke into the senate building, the ruling Morena party and allies clinched the final two-thirds vote needed to approve the changes, which have prompted protests, a strike by judicial workers and market volatility.
Senators voted 86 to 41 in favour as the ruling bloc cheered and applauded the result, which cemented a victory for the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has championed the proposal.
The overhaul will take effect once published in Mexico’s official gazette. ...
Mexico’s big trading partners, the US and Canada, have warned the overhaul could undermine the USMCA trade pact and negatively impact investment.
Ron DeSantis condemned over Florida’s ‘draconian’ new anti-homelessness law
A Florida law that criminalizes sleeping in public spaces and will take effect next month is expected to provoke a “tsunami of lawsuits” but do nothing to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis, the mayor of Fort Lauderdale has warned. Dean Trantalis says his city is scrambling to find a way of complying with the bill signed by the Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, in March, and which becomes law on 1 October, requiring municipalities with insufficient shelter capacity to establish encampments for unhoused persons. ...
Figures show the number of unsheltered people in Fort Lauderdale almost doubled from 2022 to 2023, contributing to an 18.5% increase in homelessness in Florida, and a national spike of 12%.
Trantalis said he feared money currently used for services and supports for the homeless would be lost when a clause of DeSantis’s law takes effect in January. That clause allows legal action against any municipality that fails to curb rough sleeping. “Any private citizen can sue if the city fails to remedy an encampment situation,” he said. “This is going to be a cottage industry for a whole new level of lawyers who feel they could take money out of the city instead of applying it towards helping the homeless.
“This is going to be a tsunami of lawsuits that’s going to hit all the cities, and again, will it benefit the homeless? Of course not.” Advocates for the unhoused have expressed similar fears.
Kamala Caught In Google Lawyer Collusion Before Debate
Wyden Says Trillions in Taxes Dodged by Ultra-Rich Could Fund Social Security Until 2100
The Democratic chair of the Senate Finance Committee said during a hearing Wednesday that instead of tossing Social Security's sacred guarantee "in the trash" by cutting benefits, lawmakers should crack down on mega-rich tax dodgers as a way to keep the New Deal program fully solvent for decades to come.
"The ultra-wealthy are avoiding nearly $2 trillion in taxes every 10 years," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said during a Senate Budget Committee hearing. "That is enough to keep Social Security whole till the end of this century."
"That's where we ought to go to start making progress," Wyden added.
The senator's remarks came during a hearing titled "Social Security Forever: Delivering Benefits and Protecting Retirement Security," which featured testimony from Social Security Administration Commissioner Martin O'Malley and several expert witnesses.
US inflation softens to lowest level since February 2021 as Fed prepares to cut interest rates
Price growth continued to soften in the US last month, falling to its lowest level since February 2021 as the Federal Reserve prepares to cut interest rates for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
As inflation continues to fade, the consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 2.5% in August – down from 2.9% in July, and below the 2.6% expected by economists.
On a month-to-month basis, the index rose 0.2% last month, in line with its rate of growth during July.
The so-called “core” CPI reading, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, came in higher than economists expected, rising 0.3% in August. This measure is closely monitored by the policymakers tasked with steering the US economy.
With inflation falling, but many Americans still grappling with higher prices, the US economy is at a crossroads. With two months left before tens of millions of US voters head to the polls, the cost of living has been a key issue on the presidential election campaign trail.
"By the Fire We Carry": Cherokee Author Rebecca Nagle on the Ongoing Fight for Tribal Sovereignty
US Postal Service delays threaten to disrupt election voting, officials say
State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation’s mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the US Postal Service (USPS) that it hasn’t fixed persistent deficiencies.
The officials said in a letter that over the past year, including the just-concluded primary season, mailed ballots that were postmarked on time were received by local election offices days after the deadline to be counted. They also noted that properly addressed election mail was being returned to them as undeliverable.
Repeated outreach to USPS to resolve the issues had failed, the officials added. “We have not seen improvement or concerted efforts to remediate our concerns,” stated the letter. “In fact, many of the issues raised by election officials are echoed in the recent findings of the USPS Office of Inspector General Audit, Election Mail Readiness for the 2024 General Election.”
The letter to Louis DeJoy, the US postmaster general, came from two groups that represent top election administrators in all 50 states.
Native American non-profit appeals to US supreme court to block Arizona mine
A Native American group on Wednesday asked the US supreme court to block two major mining companies, Rio Tinto and BHP, from gaining access to Arizona land needed to build one of the world’s largest copper mines, a last-ditch legal move in a long-running case pitting religious rights against the energy transition.
Apache Stronghold, a non-profit group comprised of Arizona’s San Carlos Apache tribe and conservationists, asked the court to overturn a March ruling that would allow the federal government to swap acreage with the mining companies for their Resolution Copper project. The appeal to the nine justices was delivered in person by a courier after the Apache held a ceremony of prayer and dancing on the court’s steps in Washington, the culmination of a months-long caravan from their Arizona reservation to the capital.
At least four justices would need to agree to hear the appeal, in which Apache Stronghold and their attorneys at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty contend the government would be violating the first amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion if the mine is developed. If the court agrees to hear the case, it could hold oral arguments in its term which begins next month and potentially issue a decision by next June.
The dispute centers on the federally owned Oak Flat Campground, known as Chi’chil Bi’dagoteel in the Apache language, a location where many Apache worship their deities. The site sits atop a reserve of more than 40bn lbs (18.1m metric tonnes) of copper, a crucial component of electric vehicles and nearly every electronic device. If a mine is built, it would create a crater 2 miles (3km) wide and 1,000ft (304m) deep that would destroy that worship site.
In 2014, Congress and then president Barack Obama approved a complex deal to give Rio Tinto the land. Joe Biden froze the land swap after assuming office in 2021. The US Department of Justice, controlled by Biden, has argued in court that the government has the right to give away its land to whomever it chooses, regardless of the religious implications.
Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana as category 2 storm
Francine made landfall in south Louisiana on Wednesday as a category 2 hurricane as officials warned of life-threatening storm surge, flooding and 100mph winds. There were evacuation orders in some parishes, as communities braced.
The US National Weather Service warned of “damaging winds, life-threatening storm surge and torrential rain” in an area still recovering from a series of devastating hurricanes in 2020 and 2021. The storm was the latest of a recent spate that have increased suddenly in intensity, as experts warn that the climate crisis is creating more powerful storms. ...
After landfall, the center of the hurricane is expected to move northward from Louisiana into Mississippi on Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said earlier Wednesday While the strongest winds and storm surge are expected to occur in south-central portions of Louisiana, heavy rain and tornado threats are expected to span areas further east, including in parts of southern Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, weather officials added.
“In total, Francine is expected to produce rainfall amounts of 4 to 8 inches, with local amounts to 12 inches for the central/eastern Gulf coast through Thursday night,” the National Weather Service said, adding that the rainfall could lead “to considerable flash and urban flooding”.
A state of emergency has been declared by the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi, and on Tuesday Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration for Louisiana, ordering federal assistance to supplement the state, tribal and local response efforts.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Craig Murray: That Harris-Trump Debate
Harris and Trump Debate Maintenance of the Status Quo
Debate: On Gaza & Ukraine, Harris and Trump put 'America last'
Harris Lies in Debate With Trump by Claiming No US Troops Are Deployed in Combat Zones
Testing the boundaries for ethnic cleansing in the West Bank
Ukraine SitRep: End Of The Kursk Incursion - Long Range Missiles - Ending The War
Ukraine offers ‘drones-for-fighters’ deal to Syrian extremist group
US Militarism Is a Leading Cause of the Climate Catastrophe
Glenn Greenwald RIPS Debate Moderators & Exposes Their Bias!
January 6th Convictions THROWN OUT By Judge!
A Little Night Music
Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas - Bugle Call Blues
Butch Cage and Willie B. Thomas - You've Gotta Move
Butch Cage And Willie B. Thomas - Since I Layed My Burden Down
Willie B Thomas & Butch Cage - Jelly Roll
Willie B Thomas & Butch Cage - Baby Please Don't Go
Willie B Thomas & Butch Cage - One Thin Dime
Willie B Thomas & Butch Cage - Brown Skin Woman
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Me & My Chauffeur
Butch Cage & Willie Thomas - Butch's Blues
Comments
I'd like to propose a new political party.
It will be called the "Looking for the Offramp Party." It will take its inspiration from a Bruce Cockburn lyric: "First got to privatize, then you get to piratize/ Hooked on avarice/ How do we get off of this?"
It will fundamentally be a party for all of those who dissent from the existing police state.
“Those who make Bernie Sanders impossible will make Luigi Mangione inevitable." - Dan Berger
evening cass...
heh, i propose we call it the "jane! jane! stop this crazy thing! help, jane! party."
i suppose only boomers will get it, though.
have a good one!
Good news, bad news
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Uhuru Three verdict reached as historic free speech trial comes to a close
Black Agenda Report has an article on how government witnesses had no evidence of the facts. This is another case of the government telling us what is acceptable speech in America as the Judge said of the Russian influence campaign. I can’t remember where I read it, but it’s not illegal for foreign governments to support businesses in America.
I won’t say what I’m thinking of Israel and many Israelis, but trust me it’s not good. 3 2,000 lbs bombs dropped on refugees living in tents. FJB and FKH too. Hey Kamala where was that concert held and who moved it closer to Gaza and extended it one day?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Excellent timing
From Da Judge:
Free Speech & the Department of Political Justice
The Dean of Berkeley law school thinks that the constitution is dead and should be thrown out. Many writers at the NYT say that there should be conditions set on the 1st amendment.
Many shitlibs want disinformation banned from social media. But who’s the biggest user of disinformation? The government. Remember the Maine. The gulf of Tonkin. Iraq has WMDs. Russia invaded Ukraine unprovoked. Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis, be headed 40 babies and raped every woman it saw. There are tons of more lies the government has been telling us going back 250 years.
Madison insisted that the word ‘The' preceded “freedom of speech, or of the press”because it preceded the Declaration of Independence because it’s an inalienable right that all humans are born with.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
yep...
that's an excellent essay from napolitano. it appears that we have a government unworthy of its constitution.
The Supreme Court really effed up the 1st amendment case
It should have ruled 8-0 that the government has no right to censor speech it doesn’t like instead of stating the defendants didn’t have standing. WTF anyway? They had been censored by government demand so how could they not have standing?
Yeah I’m sure they will appeal since they have been in business for 60 with basically the same objective, but suddenly they are working for Russia?
But I’m sure glad that Garland never got to the SC if he’s too dumb to understand the constitution and The first amendment.
It was 90 yesterday and 62 today…that’s a big swing my body wasn’t interested in. The summer has slipped by without me taking Sam swimming. And only 2 camping trips. Big bummer.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
heh...
sorry to hear that sam hasn't been swimming this summer. the way the weather patterns have been going, you might yet get another heat wave and have a chance to go swimming.
have a good one!
evening snoopy...
i presume that the uhuru 3 will be appealing the conviction based on the feebs' ridiculous case against them. i'm glad to hear that at least the fara charges failed.
Every time I have seen reference to this specific charge
I have bee completely bewildered as to exactly how the government was, in fact, defrauded.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hopefully Blinken is hearing this
Blinken allowing Ukraine to start hitting targets deep inside Russia is a dumb move, but then Israel is threatening to invade Lebanon and that might be the time that Iran decides to hit Israel and wouldn’t that be a good time for China to make its move on Taiwan? America emptied its cupboards sending everything not nailed down to Ukraine and then looked in the couch cushions to find stuff to send to Israel and they have been dropping most of them on Gaza. Plus it wasted lots of missiles on Yemen and the first Iran attack.
Before Blinken makes any decisions he better look at what weapons he has left. Plus one carrier is going home and might not be available again for 6-12 months. 3 others are out of commission for who knows how long?
Do you feel lucky, Tony? Do you?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
yah...
blinkiman might be hearing what putin is saying, but i don't think that he is capable of processing it.
According to the FBI
Psychopaths have two familiar and visible mutations in their brains that shows up in about 1 percent of newborns. This condition can neither be cured nor treated. Their brains are void in a range of human feelings, like conscience or compassion. Psychopathic children teach themselves to fake such emotions as they grow up. They are charming pathological liars who secretly promote chaos at every turn. Young school shooters are very likely psychopsths, and should be brain-scanned. When the time comes that they can be detected in an embryonic state, they should immediately be aborted.
Keep in mind: Successful psychopaths are never apprehended by the police. They are very intelligent and articulate, and are pathological liars. Studies show that they live in large cities and they frequently hold positions of leadership or authority (think government and law enforcement.) The male population currently inside US prisons has 16 times the concentration of psychopaths than male society does — and a nearly 100 percent recidivism rate. (Female psychopaths have not been studied by scientists.) Washington DC has the highest concentration of psychopaths (according to the FBI) than any city in the world (statistically speaking).
There's nothing you can do about this. Psychopaths are not really regarded as mentally ill by US courts. If US courts regarded them as clinically insane — psychopaths would not be sentenced to prison. They would be institutionalized for life in asylums.
The psychopathic genetic mutation is some sort of alien DNA hitchhiker that has been around since the evolution of modern humans. They have shown up in all races and cultures. Many cruel and deranged leaders, historically, have characteristic traits that indicate psychopathy. Many indigenous languages have words for these freaks. This mutation is not passed along through inheritance, although it is genetic and now recognizable with modern technology.
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Some of the very earliest writings in the world are fully infused with descriptions of psychopatic behaviors: Psychopaths populate the Bible, in particular the Old Testament, perhaps beginning with Cain. I think we all know where this eventually leads us....
There are currently HR firms that job-hunt educated psychopaths for corporations. Clearly, humanity only has a tiny window through which it can defend itself before it is too late.
If these emergency decisions and policies that need to be implemented right now to protect the planet (in the context of nuclear war insanity and revenge) are left up to the current crop of humans populating the West, my bet is on the psychopaths to destroy life on earth, asap.
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They should know. n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I dunno
If Blinken gives Ukraine permission to use long range missiles, (Americans will actually be doing all the work) then Russia could give ballistic missiles to the Houthis that could sink American ships.
Simplicious writes about this.
Russia has already given Iran some defense weapons and maybe some air defense stuff. Hopefully whoever is running this shitshow is thinking how bad it can get for America to keep pushing Russia’s red lines.
Sadly too many shitlibs want Biden to call Putin’s bluff…but is it a bluff?
Dammit…after the USSR collapsed we could have had peace. But the defense companies didn’t want to lose all the money they made during the Cold War and here we are.
If we ever get control of the government we should rule that anyone wanting to send people to war must make sure that their families are on the front line.
Biden got 5 deferents from Vietnam and he was the last holdout to ending it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Well there is this. The Houthis will now have one less ship
to potentially sink.
Are there any American ships left in the area?
‘Operation protect Genocide' didn’t seem to have stopped the Houthis from attacking ships in the area, but used a lot of missiles trying to stop their bad behavior.
America’s iron fist seems not to have made much difference and how many have limped out of the area?
And this was after 8 years of America and the Saudis bombing and starving them. Maybe all it will take for America’s bullying to collapse is for Yemen to sink a battle ship like it has brought down 8 American predator drones. Funny how the corporate media hasn’t mentioned that.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Good evening Joe, thanks for the EBs. It looks like the
ukies are being pushed back out of Kursk and are continuing to lose ground in Donetsk, Luhansk, etc. Genocide Joe is running out of time and might just panic us into WWIII. Meanwhile, Blinkin is positively lusting for it. Luckily the Rus will probably take 2 or 3 more months if somebody can just keep the psychopaths from doing their thing.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
^^^^^ Indeed
The Russians are not going to bomb their own people in order to rescue them.
They are not Israeli or American psychopaths.
It's an intricate untangling that requires safe and peaceful processes.
Only sane observers are able to think at that level.
evening el...
yeah, i am kind of expecting a russian breakthrough in the donbass in the next few weeks at which point elensky will have to do something dramatic to change the narrative for his western paymasters. i would imagine that we will then find out what genocide joe agreed to.
have a great evening!
I know little about the enrichment process but North Korea's
facility does look impressive.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/09/13/733177/North-Korea-publicly-dis...
evening humphrey...
yep, not that i know what i'm looking at, but it does look impressive. i would imagine that north korea, sensing that maintaining a nuclear deterrent is an existential need, will manage to vastly increase their production. i would not be surprised if kim got a helping hand with that from putin.
Well at least there are a few Polish representatives who get it
heh...
i hope he's on the glide path to the polish presidency.
Typical US logic small wonder that the Global South hates them.