News & views …
Back to Main
August 24, 2014
Open Thread 2014-19
Comments
Afghanistan: Tick-tock as if prearranged:
Declaring the process a “joke,” Fazul Ahmad Manawi, the chief auditor for the candidate, Abdullah Abdullah, said Mr. Abdullah would stop cooperating with it and would withdraw from the election entirely unless the demands were met by Wednesday morning.
Oh and there were fisticuffs between the supporters of the two candidates — oh noes!
Posted by: Susan Sunflower | Aug 26 2014 14:44 utc | 101
Lol @100
Laughing at the pitifully pathetic intellectual pretensions and all round pomposity of the bevins and the maloogas is now apparently the very manifestation of fascism no less!
Lacking anything other than their delusional belief in their intellectual superiority, lead of course by that valiant master of windbaggery himself @100, the clowns pompously decree that the mere expresssion of a hint of mockery directed at their recent hilarious displays of ever-increasing verbosity is Verboten, under penalty over being Umberto Eco’d-to-death!
Oh, the horror!
Posted by: JFC | Aug 26 2014 15:25 utc | 102
demian – here is a page i am unable to read – in russian i think – but thought you might stumble on some interesting info so i am sharing it with you specifically..
Posted by: james | Aug 26 2014 18:52 utc | 103
This is a must watch:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_and_Minds_(film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d2ml82lc7s
A scene described as one of the film’s “most shocking and controversial sequences” shows the funeral of an ARVN soldier and his grieving family, as a sobbing woman is restrained from climbing into the grave after the coffin.[4] The funeral scene is juxtaposed with an interview with General William Westmoreland — commander of American military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak from 1964 to 1968 and United States Army Chief of Staff from 1968 to 1972 — telling a stunned Davis that “The Oriental doesn’t put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful. Life is cheap in the Orient.” After an initial take, Westmoreland indicated that he had expressed himself inaccurately. After a second take ran out of film, the section was reshot for a third time, and it was the third take that was included in the film.[5][6] Davis later reflected on this interview stating, “As horrified as I was when General Westmoreland said, ‘The Oriental doesn’t put the same value on life,’ instead of arguing with him, I just wanted to draw him out… I wanted the subjects to be the focus, not me as filmmaker.”[7]
Posted by: guest77 | Aug 26 2014 23:47 utc | 104
Israel’s version of the Shock Doctrine: What is the Dahiya Doctrine ?
Warning: Not for those who know everything, and believe that Assange is Hasbara (that means Jsore), since information comes from wikileaks.
I know what KFC stands for; jee, I wonder what the J in JFC could stand for. Couldn’t be…. naw, it couldn’t. Anyway, I like fried chicken, even if I’m not from Kentucky.
Sorry, I just had to share this:
Nine-year-old American girl accidentally kills shooting instructor with Uzi submachine gun
A video released by the police showed the slender girl with a ponytail and wearing pink shorts being instructed in how to aim the gun by Vacca. His final words, captured on video, were: “All right, full auto.”
A little piece of Americana.
Question:
Why is journalist Peter Theo Curtis so important that the terrorist supporting leaders of Qatar would be compelled to bend over backwards to negotiate his release?
Mccain says Obama’s strategy of containing ISIL can’t be done. He says it must be destroyed. Well as one of the architects of the conditions that created ISIL he should know… but I have feeling Mccain loves his frankenstein al qaeda army(Isil, FSA, al nusra front etc..)stomping around Iraq and syria causing instability in the ME region and conditions for msm fear mongering and hysteria in the homeland. That is the plan, right senator Mccain?
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185085.html
And now suddenly Syria have used WMD again say ” UN “.
Posted by: Anonymous | Aug 27 2014 13:31 utc | 110
McC vs Obomber is just good cop/bad cop. The goal is the same, but McC plays the role of “outright warmonger financing/organising Terrorists” whereas Obomber pretends that, in contrast to that obvious war mongering freak McC, he and his team are NOT “outright warmongers financing/organising Terrorists”
But the truth is that both are outright warmongers financing/terrorists, but for PR purposes the Obomber admin merely pretends not to be.
Any perception of real signifcant daylight between the two is completely illusionary
If Obomber’s admin wanted McC’s and the NEDs activities curtailed then that would have happened by now
But it hasn’t
Posted by: JFC | Aug 27 2014 14:02 utc | 111
“…Stuart Loory, who worked as the New York Herald-Tribune’s correspondent said that the CIA’s use of journalists as spies calls into question the status of card is a paid informer for the CIA, then all Americans with those credentials themselves the same spotlight they so relentlessly train on others» .However, the caution urged by Loory has, in some cases, fallen on deaf ears.
In 2012, New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti forwarded an advance copy of a column written by his colleague, columnist Maureen Dowd, to the CIA’s that involved the production of a movie called «Zero Dark Thirty». Harf has since been promoted to deputy press secretary for the Department of State where she is undoubtedly still fronting for her old CIA colleagues in spotting willing journalists, particularly foreign correspondents, eager to cooperate with the CIA.
With a number of print publications folding their operations, there has been Boston, was able to send freelancer Foley to costly assignments in Libya and Syria. A subscription-based news website, which once only had 400 subscribers, is not only able to send someone like Foley off to cover wars but is able to maintain an international correspondents’ staff of 65 in high-cost cities ranging from Moscow and Jerusalem to Tokyo and Nairobi. Some uncomfortable questions must be asked. For example, from where does Global Post actually receive its funding? And, why does it find it advantageous to embed its freelancers with U.S. military units and CIA encompassing the CIA’s use of journalists as agents, the answers to these questions become all too apparent…”
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/08/27/media-spies-put-all-journalists-in-danger.html