We also have to include in this list a growing culture of manufactured indifference and cruelty, intensified through a commercially driven spectacle of violence that saturates every element of American society. From HERE.
3/07/2012
America's Four Fundamentalisms
Requiem For The Croppies By Seamus Heaney
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| Croppy Boy Memorial, Tralee, Ireland |
The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley...
No kitchens on the run, no striking camp...
We moved quick and sudden in our own country.
The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp.
A people hardly marching... on the hike...
We found new tactics happening each day:
We'd cut through reins and rider with the pike
And stampede cattle into infantry,
Then retreat through hedges where cavalry must be thrown.
Until... on Vinegar Hill... the final conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August... the barley grew up out of our grave.
Iraq : Iran - Blair : Cameron
'Iraq is trying to develop ballistic missile capability' Blair 2002.
'Iran want to have intercontinental missile capability' Cameron 2012.
16 Dead In Continuing Iraq Violence
“There were two explosions today, the first carried out by a car bomb and another by a suicide attack, in front of a restaurant,” Athil al-Nujaifi, governor of Nineveh province of which Tal Afar is part, told AFP.
Mossad And Blackwater In Syria Along With CIA
There have been previous allegations of a Western presence on the side of the rebels as 13 French officers were reportedly captured by the loyalist forces earlier in March.
President Bashar al-Assad has repeatedly claimed his regime is fighting not with peaceful protesters as claimed by the West, but with the military gangs supported by the West. LINK.
NATO In Syria Already
Alawites are a minority Islamic sect, to which Syrian President Bashar Assad and his support base belong. For the past year he has battled an insurrection that has united a range of opponents, from pro-democracy activists to radical Sunni Muslims.
There have been previous allegations of a Western presence on the side of the rebels and on Monday 13 French officers were reportedly captured by the loyalist forces. More.
3/06/2012
America And Targeted Killings
Bahrain Demonstrations - Recent Footage
Bahrain has disappeared from the radar in the UK. They are 'our' dictators after all. This foreign footage is from last week. A week in which John Yates, disgraced ex-Met Assistant Commissioner, gave cabled evidence to the Leveson Inquiry from Bahrain where he is 'advising' the police. They couldn't have picked a better spiv for the job. Plenty of champagne to be had over in the Kingdom.
Bahrein, natë protestash në kryeqytet - Top... by TopChannelAlbania
Bahrein, natë protestash në kryeqytet - Top... by TopChannelAlbania
Assad Fears Pictures With Blair May Emerge
A Syrian government spokesman said: "We realised, oh about ten, maybe twelve years ago now, that being friends with western leaders would lead, as night follows day, to some very noisy airstrikes, being dragged from a fetid hole in the ground and then, all of a sudden, being very, very dead. Full story here.
Time Running Out To Attack Iran - Netanyahu in 2006
"This capability is eroded over time, and if we wait years then obviously this capability would not exist anymore ... but right now I disagree with the claim that nothing can be done against Iran," he added. Read More.Complete with the Nazi analogies, just like yesterdays pathetic references to Auschwitz.
Ayn Rand And The New Right
READ MORE.Atlas Shrugged, published in 1957, depicts a United States crippled by government intervention in which heroic millionaires struggle against a nation of spongers. The millionaires, whom she portrays as Atlas holding the world aloft, withdraw their labour, with the result that the nation collapses. It is rescued, through unregulated greed and selfishness, by one of the heroic plutocrats, John Galt.
Israeli Defence Leadership 'Rotten To Core'
The report paints former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi as a subverter, who worked to torpedo Maj. Gen. Yoav Galant's appointment as his successor with the help of a dubious agent, reserve officer Boaz Harpaz. And it paints Defense Minister Ehud Barak as having failed to supervise the army, while allowing himself to be dragged into a fight between his bureau and associates and those of Ashkenazi.FROM HERE.
3/05/2012
McCain Advocates Air-Strikes On Syria
The Obama administration has thus far stressed seeking a political solution to the crisis. Last month, the White House said it did not rule out "additional measures" if a political solution turned out to be impossible."The time has come for a new policy," said McCain, who lost the race for the White House to Democrat Barack Obama in 2008. "Assad needs to know that he will not win.""These safe havens could serve as platforms for the delivery of humanitarian and military assistance - including weapons and ammunition, body armor and other personal protective equipment, tactical intelligence, secure communications equipment, food and water and medical supplies," said McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee. More.
Fear Of Obama Re-election Driving US Gun Sales?
"The folks paying attention to the political climate think this might be an opportunity to stock up," Irwin said.
John Woods, who has lobbied for legislation to keep guns off college campuses, said many fears surfacing are unwarranted.
"The gun lobby has long known that fear is a remarkable marketing and fundraising tool," said Woods, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin who attended Virginia Tech and lost his girlfriend in the 2007 shooting there that claimed 33 lives. "But the Supreme Court ruled recently that the Second Amendment is an individual right, so that fear is completely misplaced."
Read more here.
Obama Grovels To AIPAC
There are few more demeaning sights than US politicos kow-towing to AIPAC and the Israeli lobby generally, mooching for crumbs of influence and funding. It's worse when it is the President. The poisonous influence of this group is illustrated here back in 2008. The worst I ever saw was of Dubya looking for a second term and name-checking every contributor to Republican funds at an AIPAC Meeting. I have looked for a clip and can't find one. But here is one of his successors, grovelling for all he is worth (and resembling nothing more than the GOP candidates):-
More Stability In Obamya's New Iraq
The gunmen entered the homes of a colonel in the interior ministry security force and a captain, kidnapping them both. The attackers claimed they had warrants for their arrests, Mohammed Fathi, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told AP.
The two commanders were later found shot dead in the street not far from their homes, Haditha police said.
Mr Fathi told AP the gunmen had false arrest warrants for 15 police officials in the city.
The gang, driving interior ministry vehicles and wearing uniforms of the ministry's special forces, then moved through the city in a convoy, which one local lieutenant said was 13 vehicles strong. Read More.
3/04/2012
VP To Flee Iraq?
Hashemi, a member of the secular Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, has been accused by Baghdad of running a death squad. He fled to the autonomous Kurdistan region in December, but authorities there have so far declined to hand him over.
“The (Iraqi) interior ministry requested that the interior ministry of the Kurdistan regional government carry out the arrest warrant issued against him and hand him over to judicial authorities,” a statement said.
The ministry has reliable information that Hashemi intends “to flee from the (Kurdistan) region to outside Iraq,” it said.
The December accusations against the vice president came amid a wider row between Iraqiya and the Shiite-led government.
Iraqiya began a boycott of parliament and the cabinet in December to protest against what it charged was Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s centralisation of power, and called for Maliki to respect a power-sharing deal or quit.
But the bloc’s members have since returned to parliament and the cabinet, as the dispute between Iraqiya and the government has cooled off.
3/03/2012
Police Plc
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3/02/2012
More Lunacy At The White House
“It’s an honor to be there…to represent the thousands of airmen that have been in Iraqi freedom,” Jacobson told the Las Vegas Sun the morning after the dinner. “It was amazing to have that kind of up close and personal time. It’s not every day you go to a White House state dinner.”
Jacobson was seated during the dinner with members from the various branches of the service, as well as Dr. Jill Biden, whom he said was “a great advocate for the military and military families.” He met President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama during a cocktail hour prior to the dinner.
The purpose of the affair was to congratulate, appreciate, and yes, toast the work of all the military that served in Iraq through a small group of their representatives. From here if you can stomach it.
Viva La Quinta Brigada
A comradeship of heroes was laid
From every corner of the world came sailing
The Fifty International Brigade.
They came to stand beside the Spanish people
To try and stem the rising fascist tide
Franco's allies were the powerful and wealthy
Frank Ryan's men came from the other side.
Even the olives were bleeding
As the battle for Madrid it thundered on
Truth and love against the force of evil
Brotherhood against the fascist clan.
Viva la Quinta Brigada,
No Pasaran, the pledge that made them fight
Adelante was the cry around the hillside
Let us all remember them tonight.
Bob Hilliard was a Church of Ireland pastor
Form Killarney across the Pyrenees he came
From Derry came a brave young Christian Brother
And side by side they fought and died in Spain.
Tommy Woods age seventeen died in Cordoba
With Na Fianna he learned to hold his gun
From Dublin to the Villa del Rio
He fought and died beneath the Spanish sun.
Many Irishmen heard the call of Franco
Joined Hitler and Mussolini too
Propaganda from the pulpit and newspapers
Helped O'Duffy to enlist his crew.
The call came from Maynooth, "support the facists"
The men of cloth had failed yet again
When the Bishops blessed the Blueshirts in Dun Laoghaire
As they sailed beneath the swastika to Spain.
This song is a tribute to Frank Ryan, Kit Conway and Dinny Coady, Peter Daly, Charlie Regan Hugh Bonar,Danny Boyle, Blaser-Brown,Charlie Donnelly,Liam Tumilson,Jim Straney from the Falls, Jack Nalty, Tommy Patton, Frank Conroy,Jim Foley, Tony Fox and Dick O'Neill.
Irish Heroes of the International Brigade. Guerreros. Proudly rememebered. A tribute to the Scottish volunteers will follow soon. Tony.
L'Independence De L'Ecosse Prend Forme
3/01/2012
Cameron, Rebekah Brooks And A Horse - Neigh Comment
In a television interview on Thursday night, Mr Cameron admitted for the first time that he had been riding with Mr Brooks, who is also a columnist on The Sunday Telegraph.
He told Channel 5 News's Political Editor Andy Bell in an interview: “It’s a matter of record that I have ridden horses with Rebekah Brooks’ husband in my constituency.”
The pair had been riding together once since May 2010, when Mr Cameron became Prime Minister, he said. However, the horse he rode since the election was not Raisa. He added: “Since becoming Prime Minister, I may have got on a horse once, but not that one.”
He told Channel 5 News's Political Editor Andy Bell in an interview: “It’s a matter of record that I have ridden horses with Rebekah Brooks’ husband in my constituency.”
The pair had been riding together once since May 2010, when Mr Cameron became Prime Minister, he said. However, the horse he rode since the election was not Raisa. He added: “Since becoming Prime Minister, I may have got on a horse once, but not that one.”
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