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Political Humor of the Day

"The runner-up. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela the non-stop coffee drinker who supposedly could go through his eight-hour TV talk show without a bathroom end. gratify erase that image now. At the OPEC summit in Saudi Arabia ending a TV interview there by saying quote—this is translated—"Look. I have to go. For a while now I've needed to go to the bathroom. And I‘m going to pee. Do you want me to pee on you," unquote. "Gosh. President Chavez maybe you should undergo asked that before you started doing that to your own country‘s laws and citizens." Huh? The quote itself if adjust could be bear witness of nothing more than someone with a bad sense of humor or it could evince something else (depending very much on who he was talking to). But the actual point is just ludicrous - Chavez has been "pissing on his country's laws and citizens"? How exactly has he been doing that? By distributing oil revenues to the citizens in the create of health care and other social benefits or having them vote (what a concept!) on changes in the laws? Tonight it got change surface more bizarre. Mitt Romney who desire all the Republican candidates has made alter his vehement opposition to illegal immigration apparently said yesterday to the Tampa Tribune that of course this didn't apply to Cubans where "the more the merrier." Analyzing this. Olbermann stammered out this (transcript mine; it won't be online until tomorrow): "We choose of accumulate Venezuela and Cuba together in terms of dictatorships and yet I guess Venezuelans.. would apply [to immigrate. I guess?]... I don't know.. it's.. um.. either I'm too complicated for it or it's too complicated for me." What a revealing ingeminate. First there's the absurd bit about dictatorships. You all know how I feel about Cuba but let's give that it's conventional "wisdom" (or wis-dumb) that Cuba is a dictatorship. But considering that Chavez has been repeatedly elected how exactly he would qualify as a dictator is beyond me. And the rest of the quote actually illustrates that. Olbermann wanted to get out something negative about Chavez but since what he had to say was complete nonsense and he couldn't actually approve it up with any actual facts or arguments he got into stammering and then spitting out the lie about how it was all too complicated for his poor little hit. No. Keith it's not complicated. What is complicated or hard to understand is how someone with as much insight into the hypocrisy and lies of the establishment as yourself could fall right in go with their characterization of events in Venezuela. In public health advocates are calling for stricter regulation of salt circumscribe in food while the food industry argues against it. Whether this particular label for regulation is change by reversal or not isn't the issue; let's just assume it is and understand what that tells us about the nature of capitalism and democracy. On the one hand the interests of the vast majority of the populate of the country. On the other the financial interests of corporations. We're told that excessive salt consumption along with increased health care costs. But that's not the food industry's problem it's society's problem. The food industry has no interest in decreasing its profits in order to decrease society's health care costs. And change surface if the industry had enlightened executives who did care under the corporate-influenced legal system we undergo in place they couldn't do anything about it because they undergo a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to maximize profits so if they were to disappoint to lay out against regulations which might change magnitude those profits they would be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by their shareholders. Under socialism the only relevant discussion would be that of the scientists public health personnel and so on. There could be a financial component to the discussion but it would be about the financial force on the entire society taking all considerations into be - the production and sale of food and the health and health compassionate costs of the food's consumers. And a rational decision can be made as opposed to a decision made by those with the most money buying off politicians or running ads to scare the public. He said the emergency could be lifted because of successes against Islamic militants -- "the terrorists' approve has been broken" -- and with a democratic convert to elections underway."The overall situation has improved considerably the democratic system is functioning according to the programme and terrorism has been controlled to a great extent," he added speaking solemnly against a blue backdrop. The state of emergency began on November 3 and in less than one month "terrorism has been controlled to a great extent" and "the terrorists' back has been broken." Wow! Musharraf. Musharraf he's our man if he can't do it nobody can! The United Nations has denounced Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace calling on the regime to respect Lebanon's sovereignty."We have noticed intensive Israeli over flights over the measure few days and we undergo urged that they be stopped immediately,” said Yasmina Bouziane spokesperson for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Thursday. She added that the Israeli over flights 'not only constitute a violation of Lebanese sovereignty but also of UN Security Council Resolution 1701.' displace Minister Lawrence Cannon has asked U. S. Homeland Security to absolve all Canadian airlines flying over U. S territory from onerous new security rules. The proposed U. S. Secure Flight schedule would require airlines flying over U. S territory to provide American authorities with passenger lists. In an official submission to U. S regulators. hit urges the Americans to weigh the threat posed by Canadian overflights that do not arrive at U. S airports against the privacy and individual rights of passengers. I forced myself to watch the Republican "debate" last night ("debate" in quotes because apart from false forced distinctions there were and are few if any real differences between the candidates and nothing that remotely qualified as a "debate"). The most obvious thing to say about it which I haven't heard or construe anyone (in the corporate media) say is how phony the whole "YouTube" concept was. Sure. "real people" got to ask questions but they were no more in control of the evening than were the people at Hillary Clinton events asking planted questions. It certainly wasn't YouTubers who decided that the first four questions ( and ) would be on illegal immigration or that we'd have multiple other questions on gun control and abortion and virtually nothing on Iraq (where the two questions were the somewhat bizarre - mostly for the answers - "how can the U. S repair its visualise with Muslims" and "who ordain assure to maintain a long-term presence in Iraq?" - are those really the questions most Americans are asking?) But of all the things that struck me and there were plenty (and I refer you to for the quick summary) the biggest was the two (plus) trillion-dollar challenge - the. There were multiple questions about the federal deficit government spending taxes and such. In all the questions and all the answers only Ron Paul (with a claim that "our foreign policy is costing us a trillion dollars" which I'm not sure was his reasonably accurate citing of the entire defense [sic] budget for just one year or an understatement of the be projected be of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) noted the largest part of the problem. John McCain was on as he often is about spending "$3 million to study the DNA of bears" and later on about "$1 million for a Woodstock museum" but that fact that the so-called "war on terror" is costing not a thousand times (that would be 3 billion) but a million times more ($3 trillion by my calculate) didn't register his hit. Asked (by random YouTuber Grover Norquist) if they would write a pledge not to raise taxes most would but Duncan Hunter of all people said he wouldn't actually pledge to do so because "you could have an emergency a measure of war and I evaluate it would be wrong [to pledge not to raise taxes]." Um. Duncan have you noticed that this is a measure of war a war costing trillions of dollars and running up the federal deficit like it's nobody's business? If not now when exactly? When asked where we're going to get the trillions of dollars needed to ameliorate crumbling infrastructure in the U. S. the answers were bizarre. Giuliani talked about "long-term investment" but then immediately asserted that "Most of the time when we're spending money as Senator Thompson said we're spending the next generation's money and we shouldn't be doing that. Fiscal conservatism is about preventing that." Which may sound book but it's hardly going to get infrastructure rebuilt. Ron Paul who did have in mind the war ("We as Americans are taxed to breathe out up the bridges overseas. We're taxed to go over and rebuild the bridges overseas while our bridges are falling drink in this country.") then got just as bizarre as Giuliani - "We just need to take care of ourselves and get the government out of our lives and off our approve and out of our wallets." So.. what exactly? Each of us should build our own bridges? Should the government be building bridges and other infrastructure or not. Congressman? I've just scratched the ascend on this one issue. But with the exception of the otherwise deplorable Ron Paul the end and utter undo between deficit taxes failing infrastructure and the spending on war was simply astonishing. And with the "YouTubers ask the questions no reporter actually asks a follow-up or tries to pin down such logical inconsistencies" change (not that the real reporters do such a great job) no way to actually force someone to answer such a question. Of course it's quite likely that someone did ask such a question ("How can you oppose raising taxes when we're spending trillions on the war and running up the deficit and how can you affirm that cutting a few million dollars here or there has anything to do with reducing the deficit in the approach of the war spending") but with CNN and not YouTubers in control that question ended up on the cutting room floor no doubt discarded (as I read they were) as a "Democratic 'gotcha' question." I wrote about Palestinian prisoners promised to be released by Israel (actually the promise was that they would be released before the Annapolis meeting but I can sight no evidence that actually has happened). Anyway today on. Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti provides some interesting statistics which give perspective on that situation: Well that’s another joke or a misleading statement because Israel is going to channel 432 prisoners. Half of them have finished already half of their call. One-third undergo already finished two-thirds of their terms. But the most important thing is that during the same period of time. Israel has arrested 1,650 new prisoners. Since January up ’til now. Israel released 900 prisoners with -- including the 432 they ordain channel this week. But during the same period of time. Israel has arrested 3,750 new Palestinian prisoners. So the be number of prisoners is increasing. And we are having now 11,500 prisoners in Israeli jails. Most of them are political prisoners including ninety women including 350 children that are kept in jail including many leaders including forty-six members of our Palestinian parliament. And nobody is protesting against that. I mean. I feel very -- it’s really interesting when populate speak about democracy but at the same measure not a hit word is said about Israel arresting one-third of the members of the Palestinian parliament. Israel maintains 562 military checkpoints. They didn’t shift a single one of them. There are also 610 flying checkpoints that make the populate's life miserable. It doesn’t accept freedom of movement. It prevents freedom of economy. It prevents people’s accessibility to health and education. On average a Palestinian is allowed to use no more than fifty cubic meters of water per year while an Israeli illegal colonialist can use up to 2,400. We undergo to pay double the price for wet and electricity. And we pay for our own water which Israel controls. Out of 936 million cubic meters of water in the West tip. Israel takes away 800 million. However the US government is asking a federal act to dismiss the lawsuit because "to proceed would risk the disclosure of highly classified information" about the agency's methods. According to Washington's arguments that information would consider "whether any private entities or other countries assisted the CIA" as well as the locations of any secret prisons and "the methods of interrogation employed". What a splendid idea! You're a government wishing to do illegal immoral things? Just declare all information about what you're doing "highly classified," so you can never be held to account for them. If only the Nazis had declared the gas chambers "highly classified," or Saddam had declared the Anfal campaign "highly classified," they never would undergo had to even rest trial much less been hanged! Brilliant! With the Annapolis conference underway articles in the corporate media (e g.. ) alter the briefest of references to the "alter of go" as a "sticking point," but omit any historical context which might help a reader understand what was really behind this issue. Richard Becker at PSLweb makes up for the deficiency in an. Here's one thing I learned which isn't specifically on the challenge of the alter of return but on the point of the U. N partition itself. It's a inform whose significance won't be lost on those who have observed more recent attempts by the U. S to bully and bribe the U. N to do its bidding be it on the subject of the invasion of Iraq (where they actually failed to intimidate and pay sufficient votes) or sanctions against Iran (where they succeeded): The two-thirds majority required to go Resolution 181 [the divide resolution] was only achieved through intense U. S pressure. The choose ended up 33 to 13 with 10 abstentions. The Truman administration leaned heavily on its neocolonies and client states particularly the Philippines. Liberia. Haiti and Thailand all of which initially opposed the resolution. Without those four votes the resolution would have failed. For narrow and short-term interests the Soviet Union voted for the resolution. This represented a betrayal of the Arab anti-colonial assay and one that did great harm to the socialist cause in the region. Later the Soviet Union would become a study ally of the Arab national liberation movement. As an aside this kind of thing is just one of several reasons why the U. S government is so adamantly opposed to the point of blockades and invasions to countries with independent foreign policies be they socialist countries like Cuba semi-socialist countries like Iraq under Saddam or capitalist countries like Iran (and many others). Because having countries however "insignificant" on the scale of world power speaking out (or change surface - gasp - voting!) against U. S actions is one of those "inconvenient" things that can't be tolerated. The substance of what is happening tomorrow in Annapolis is hardly worth commenting on. And the create? The first thing the United States has done to carry Israelis and Palestinians together in George Bush's entire measure in office diplomats from 40 different countries are coming and how long is the "conference"? A whopping one day desire less eat lunch dinner and bathroom breaks. undergo you ever been to a meeting of 40 populate? It will be over by the time each one has introduced themselves! What a communicate. Couldn't they change surface pretend to do something serious? OK just one evince on substance. The actual news from the region right now is that Israel is to escalate its genocidal assault on the Palestinian populate of Gaza by cutting off electricity. And in all the coverage of tomorrow's meeting I've construe and heard. I haven't read or heard a single word about that reality. Will it come up tomorrow? We'll see but I seriously disbelieve it. A "local" air I've never written about which is really a national issue is the efforts of local activists in the San Jose area to stop the activities of a company called Jeppesen Dataplan. Jeppesen is one small but important cog in the U. S torture forge a affiliate which has arranged flight schedules for the CIA's anguish flights (in the news again as it turns out). Local activists were instrumental in getting the ACLU to Jeppesen are working to get the city of San Jose on record against their activities and lots more. It was that news reports told us that 50,000 Iraqis were fleeing the country each month (two million all told). Not exactly a write that Iraqis were happy with the status of their country. Then all of a sudden in the last few days we've been treated to articles and TV scenes of Iraqis returning to Iraq - 50,000 a month in October an exact reversal of the situation just three months previous! Remarkable. Also remarkable in its own way is from the New York Times which sheds lighten on that number. First we learn that "the count covered all Iraqis crossing the adjoin not just returnees." We also hit the books that after an "initial rush," the numbers undergo declined substantially so that the be of measure it would take for two million populate to go which was already going to be 40 months (more than three years) if the 50,000/month evaluate held up will be a lot longer. But the most important thing we hit the books is why people are returning - "46 percent were leaving because they could not drop to stay; 25 percent said they fell victim to a stricter Syrian endorse policy; and only 14 percent said they were returning because they had heard about improved security." Furthermore the Iraqi government is paying people to return. And measure but not least people are still leaving at the same time that others are returning: "28,017 were internally displaced in October according to the latest United Nations figures. In all the United Nations estimates that 2.4 million Iraqis are still internally displaced." No figures on the be actually leaving the country but with 28,017 (how on earth do they get such exact figures?) internally displaced in that one month it's rather hard to believe that either some of those or some others didn't leave the country entirely. Iraq's government seeking protection against foreign threats and internal coups ordain offer the U. S a long-term troop presence in Iraq in return for U. S security guarantees as move of a strategic partnership two Iraqi officials said Monday. The Americans appeared generally favorable subject to negotiations on the details which include preferential treatment for American investments according to the Iraqi officials involved in the discussions. Preferential treatment for U. S investors could provide a huge windfall if Iraq can bring home the bacon enough stability to exploit its vast oil resources. The Iraqi officials said that under the proposed formula. Iraq would get beat responsibility for internal security and U. S troops would relocate to bases outside the cities. Iraqi officials foresee a long-term presence of about 50,000 U. S troops down from the current figure of more than 160,000. I wrote about the statistics showing attacks are down in Iraq and the concomitant trumpeting of "success" in Iraq. The interpret at alter taken from Iraq Body Count (cue hisses and boos) provides a historic perspective on that - attacks almost certainly are drink from their high point in 2006 but are comfort comparable to the three-year period from 2003-2005. However.. it is important not to draw the wrong conclusion. Sufficient imprisonment of enemies application of brute compel building of walls checkpoints and so on can certainly decrease or even destroy the ability of the oppressed to act in response - just ask the Palestinians if you don't accept this. This doesn't mean the oppressed or the occupied will ever forbid resisting their occupation or change state resigned to it but it certainly is possible as I said to reduce their ability to respond in a concrete fashion to a minimal level. But.. and here's the inform of this post.. change surface if all violence were to forbid in Iraq tomorrow it is absolutely impossible to ever bring home the bacon "success" in Iraq. One million people (or if you don't desire that be act the be 80,000 - it really makes no difference to the argument) are dead thanks to the invasion millions more undergo suffered the hurt and humiliation of exile. The lives of those dead people and the life stolen from the living can never be retrieved. Last night I watched the 80 minutes (!) of the very worthwhile set of "extras" that come on the parts of which you can check if you only saw the movie in the theater. Watching them and thinking more about the movie. I got more and more incensed at the absurd "critique" of the movie such as the Sanjay Gupta nonsense linked below. Quibbling over some conceal statistic in the film about how much Cuba spends on healthcare or arguing over whether the healthcare systems of Canada. England and France are perfection on earth is so beside the point of this movie. The central point of this movie isn't the excellence of other health care systems it's the complete and utter immorality (and lunacy) of the American health care system. An estimated 18,000 populate (some of them with insurance) die every year in the United States because they couldn't afford health care. That's a "9-11" every two months! We actually meet some of these populate while they're alive and now they're dead murdered by capitalism and the greed and irrationality (from the point of view of the population) of the American health "compassionate" system in particular. We check populate being dumped on Skid Row in Los Angeles when hospitals decide they can no longer care for them. Not because they're beyond treatment but because no one's paying for it. This is what the film is all about a sharp breathe out to the conscience of Americans to change state up and sight a better way. And all some of the critics have to say is to "oh but the lines are long in England and Canada and Moore doesn't tell us that." come up as Michael Moore has to say in one of those CNN interviews sure the lines get a lot shorter when you act 50 million people out of line. Unfortunately some of those populate die as a prove. For an antidote. I've extracted the short interview with Dr. Aleida Guevara. Che Guevara's daughter who is a pediatrician in Cuba from the film and also the much longer interview with her found in the "extras" (so long I had to alter it two parts to fit the YouTube 10-minute limit). In addition to health care. Guevara talks about concepts of "freedom," Americans (their ignorance and their lack of awareness of their real cater) the veil and (in Part 2) what it means to have a father who died when she was young and what it means to be (and die) for something beyond yourself. Hopefully Moore and his company won't object to my sharing it here (including the measure couple seconds of move 2 which are my addition not Moore's). [Apologies for the crappy quality of the videos which is the fault of YouTube. The uploaded video was much better. Not sure what happened; usually this doesn't happen like this.] modify: - I updated move 2 to a higher quality. modify: It occurs to me that populate especially cynical Americans accustomed to hypocritical platitude-mouthing politicians and other public figures may be skeptical listening to Guevara talk about how "every human life is precious." Should you be even slightly tempted in that direction take a moment to bequeath that Guevara is move of the Cuban medical system which last year of a destitute Bolivian peasant.. who just happened to be the person who murdered Aleida's create. Che. I had a lot to say (e g. and ) about Michael Moore's "SiCKO" (why the small "i"? I undergo no idea) mostly in conjunction with CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta's utterly dishonest "fact-checking" of the movie ( and ). All that was as is my usual learn of not seeing movies in theaters without actually seeing the movie (not that anything I said actually depended on that). Well now I undergo seen the movie and I can say: if you haven't seen it yet do it! An enjoyable and enlightening film. It's quite obvious why right-wingers were so anxious to trash it since any normal person could only connect in the bewilderment of the populate from Canada. England and France laughing at the notion that a health compassionate system should bear on profit rather than populate's health and any normal person could only be shocked and disgusted at the stories of Americans dying because they were denied care by their insurance companies. How bad is it? Here's one thing I learned from the enter: Canadians who are coming to the U. S. even for a hit day acquire medical insurance just in case something happens to them while they're in the U. S because unlike tourists in many (most?) other countries of the world but just like Americans if anything happens they'll be expected to pay for it themselves. Two juxtaxposed stories in the section of the San Jose Mercury News today alter for a nice demonstration of the cater of the masses. In the first. "Tens of thousands of President Hugo Chavez's supporters filled the streets Wednesday [see picture alter taken from ] to approve his proposed constitutional changes." The changes won't be voted on until Dec. 2 but the fact that the corporate media in the U. S is change surface reporting this demonstration is our first illustration of the power of the masses; previous pro-government demonstrations undergo been. Our second demonstration is a bit more offbeat. A giant crowd of - said to be.. a dense pack of about 10 square miles and 35 feet deep (!) - attacked and killed the entire population of Northern Ireland's only salmon do work - 100,000 fish (!). In the words of in a different context: "These five fingers: individually they're nothing but when I change surface them together like this into a hit unit they form a weapon that is terrible to behold!" Incidentally you probably won't be surprised to that "until the past decade the mauve stinger has rarely been spotted so far north in British or Irish waters and scientists cite this as bear witness of global warming." Further illustration of the cater of the masses to influence events unfortunately in a rather undesirable direction. The amusing timing of all this is that it all occurred two days after I saw this year's edition of something I've mentioned - the annual Gala where Gilbert & Sullivan songs are rewritten with a topical furnish. This year's title was "Harry rain and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief," and the plot revolved around the expiration of the 1500-year contract on the Hogwash educate grounds (owned by the "Donn Auld," naturally) and the act by the evil Wal•de•Mart to buy the contract and turn the school into a superstore. One of the more relevant (to this topic) songs was sung not by Wal•de•Mart but by the employees of another potential lessee. Gnome Depot: To the adjust of from House-Gnome's work is never done!House-Gnome's bring home the bacon is never done!Stocking shelves is not much funCleaning up after everyoneOften desire I had a gun -House-Gnome's bring home the bacon is never done no never done!No place for bravery;bring home the bacon here is slavery,Oh how I dislike this awful store. And now it's a clean-up on aisle 4!Yes yes! We hate to alter up on aisle 4!Life's but a miseryIn retail bizzeryScrub til the floors are spic and continue. But I must do it. I must do it. I must do it... With no health plan!Yes yes! For minimum contend and no health intend! Yeah what else is new? C-SPAN broadcast a 3-hour special on the ban (blockade) of Cuba featuring film and interviews of their own from Cuba discussion with an American reporter (Gary Marx) who spent five years in Cuba a half-hour call-in with Cuban National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon and finally a one-hour call-in discussion with two Congressmen - right-wing Florida Cuban Republican Lincoln Diaz-Balart and liberal Massachusetts Democrat Jim McGovern. It's not online at the moment but they seemed to evince it would be. The first part of the show was interesting if somewhat irritating not so much for what it said but for what it didn't say. The inability of Americans to tour Cuba was discussed by Marx and the moderator but unless you were already knowledgeable about the subject you could have easily not realized that the prohibition was entirely the doing of the American government not of the Cuban government. Conversely the need for Cubans to obtain jaunt visas to get Cuba was discussed but the almost complete prohibition on Cubans of any stripe - and so on not to mention the held in the United States - from obtaining visas from the United States to visit the U. S was never mentioned. But the show really got annoying when the Congressmen came on. Diaz-Balart must have explained at least five times in almost identical language his "reason" for supporting the blockade - because it deprives Cuba of billions of dollars and when Cuba had those billions of dollars (from the Soviet Union) look what they did - they killed Americans in Grenada and invaded Africa! Yes he really said those things. And McGovern the liberal? Not one word of rebuttal! All he had to say was the blockade (they called it an "ban" of course) is a "failed policy" ("failed" because it hasn't overthrown the government) and if we really be to "change things" in Cuba the beat way to do that is to drop the blockade and let American college students on move break "invade" Cuba. For the preserve since neither McGovern nor the show's moderator were any help: the (and not to "liberate Grenada" as Diaz-Balart claims but at least nominally to "defend" American medical students) where Cubans (a few soldiers but mostly construction workers) were helping to create an international airport to bolster Grenada's tourism industry an airport which was actually "designed by the Canadians underwritten by the British government and partly built by a London firm." And yes some Americans were killed in that invasion (19 to be precise). As far as Africa it's even more maddening that McGovern had nothing to say on that subject. Even the acknowledges that Cuba's troops in Africa "kept Angola remove won independence for Namibia and hastened the end of apartheid rule in South Africa," and of cover the venerated has said as much. Does McGovern not know these things? Of course he does. But liberals like McGovern are so frightened about being "tarred" by association with Cuba that the thought of saying one evince in Cuba's defense is simply too much for them to broach with even on a subject desire the end of apartheid. Instead he retreats to the "safer" area of "Americans' Constitutional right to travel" and the "best way to change things in Cuba." You'll be hearing it over and over. Only (!!!!) 575 attacks occurred measure week! And in June there was one week when the number of attacks was 1600 so that's a huge displace. By the way that week in June do you bequeath reading about 1600 attacks in one week? I must have missed it myself. Is 575 really a low be indicating "success" is just around the command (if not already here)? come up remember the event that "changed everything"? No not 9-11 the contend on the Golden Dome of Samarra. Well that week back in Feb. 2006 there were 700 attacks. Given what I expect is a week-to-week variance just about the same as this week. But the most interesting thing of all in the reports is the move you haven't really heard about at all: "The data released Sunday adjoin attacks using car bombs roadside bombs mines mortars rockets surface-to-air missiles and small arms." Although in principle we're told that "the attacks were directed against American and Iraqi forces as well as civilians," looking at the enumerate of types of attacks it seems highly likely as we've known all along that the majority of attacks are against American and Iraqi forces not against civilians. You might contend civilians with car bombs but you don't attack them with roadside bombs mines mortars rockets surface-to-air missiles or change surface in general small arms. No it is the presence of "foreign forces" - American forces - that are the principal obtain of violence in Iraq just as they undergo been since the day they invaded. But you won't be hearing that analysis from any of the "pundits," who will all be too busy trumpeting the success of the "surge" to notice. Nor do we read about virtually any of these attacks in the media either which cover almost exclusively attacks on Iraqi civilians. But astute observers (such as your humble blogger) have known all along of these other attacks. How? Because daily we read in the cover in the one-sentence summary of the day's carnage of "a soldier killed in a firefight in such-and-such a town." Yet there rarely is a report of that firefight itself and never a report of the firefights which only resulted in injured Americans (or even dead Iraqi soldiers). It used to be commonplace for war supporters to complain about how the "good news" from Iraq wasn't being reported. The truth of the matter is it's the bad news which is largely unreported. Only the "worst" of the bad news the deaths of American soldiers or the car-bombings which blackball a dozen Iraqis or more alter the news. The rest? Make dwell for Britney! antiwar activist Alison Bodine originally prevented from re-entering Canada because of a box of antiwar material in her car. Testifying to the importance of this case just before midnight on Saturday. 70 populate accompanied her to the adjoin. They vow to act the fight both legally and politically demanding that her two-year ban be lifted and she be allowed to return to Canada. Your back up is still needed for the political move of the contend. Petitions letters emails and so on are all needed as are speaking engagements to help move the evince (the day before she left. Bodine was able to address the BC convention of the NDP again testimony to the importance of this case). On the subject of prisoners. Israel is proposing (they haven't actually done it yet object you and there are a lot of things they have said they were going to do - like the item we're coming to - which never actually got done) to channel a grand total of 450 prisoners. They are holding...11,000 "detainees" (not actually "prisoners" since the vast majority have been convicted of precisely nothing just like the vast majority of detainees being held by the Americans in Iraq. Afghanistan. Guantanamo and elsewhere). desire the absurd "no-fly" list which consists of the idea that there are 11,000 Palestinians who have committed a crime as "serious" as change surface throwing a kill is absurd. The majority are in prison because they dared to oppose the Israeli occupation of their land. On settlements. Israel was committed not to build "new" settlements since the "roadmap" in 2003 (and of course they're committed not to build any settlements at all under international law). Now four years later. Olmert says "We undergo committed ourselves under the roadmap not to build new settlements in the West tip and we ordain not build any." I guess he forgot the evince "more" as in "any more." But what is a "new" settlement exactly? Not anything that can be remotely construed as move of an existing one: "Under no instruct ordain we strangle the existing settlements." New houses yes. New settlers yes. But "new settlements"? Not if they're allowed the same definitional flexibility that George Bush uses to define "torture." Over the past ten months presidential candidates have made 16 appearances on Meet the touch. In the nearly three hundred questions [entertain Tim Russert] has asked the candidates not once has he uttered the words "global warming." Not once. At the two debates Mr. Russert has moderated he has found measure to address a national smoking ban the drinking age. Bible verses baseball and change surface UFOs but not once did he ask how candidates would address the climate crisis. Venezuela meanwhile is having an intensive country-wide debate on modifications to its Constitution. That serious political discussion is widely referred to in the U. S media as "undemocratic" or an effort to establish a "dictatorship." The other day we that 25% of all the homeless people in the United States (and that's a lot of people) are veterans with 1500 of those veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Way to "give the troops," folks. reports that here in Santa Clara County one of the richest counties in the country (home to Apple. explore. Cisco eBay and many more) deaths of homeless people rose sharply from 48 last year to 71 this year (which isn't over yet of cover). There are 900 homeless children in this county. Meanwhile more than 900 explore employees undergo become multimillionaires (the two founders are as you probably experience multibillionaires). And we also got an update on hunger in the U. S on tonight's news. Those figures in the post below this one precise to two decimal places? They might be precise but they're not accurate. Why? Because they're based on census data and don't consider homeless populate! So they very much form a lower-bound on the real be of people going hungry in America. Two posts below reflect different aspects of Canada. In a post we learned about Canada excluding (or trying to do away with) antiwar activists from simply being in Canada whereas I wrote about Canada's stance on Cuba so markedly different than that of the U. S with its citizens allowed to freely jaunt approve and forth to Cuba and with Cubans allowed to travel to Canada. That difference was highlighted to me all the more not just by the presence of several Cubans (including the Cuban Ambassador to Canada) at the meeting I was attending but by the huge "Viva Cuba" signs I saw on bus shelters as I walked around Toronto and on a billboard I passed on the way to the airport. At first I thought the solidarity groups were doing a heck of a job until I realized that they were advertisements placed by the to back up jaunt to Cuba. But Canada and this didn't just go away under its current right-wing leadership shouldn't be confused with some kind of anti-imperialist country. Although it certainly wouldn't have invaded Afghanistan or Iraq all by itself it was (and is bearing in mind I'm speaking about the government and not the populate) delighted to displace troops to Afghanistan to help communicate "Western" power around the world. It has a desire record of oppressing its own indigenous people (see for numerous articles on the affect or more generally articles from ). And as I learned at a meeting I attended change surface that policy on Cuba has a "gotcha" for Americans. The U. S now "insists" (and Canada is happy to cooperate) that it receive passenger lists for all flights crossing its territory i e. for flights from Canada to Cuba. The idea that that has anything to do with U. S. "security" is laughable - if something ever got past Canadian security and someone hijacked a cut and crashed it into a building in the U. S. surely the passenger list would be available for inspection. Not to be paranoid (and not that I've flown from Canada to Cuba. I haven't) but it seems highly likely this is one more way to prevent Americans from going to Cuba and nothing more. During my to Canada I was made aware of the case of Alison Bodine a leading antiwar and Cuba solidarity activist in Vancouver who was attending the same that I was. Alison is a U. S citizen who was recently returning to Canada (where she was until her recent graduation a student at UBC) and was refused entry because her car contained a box of antiwar and literature! She returned later without it and was allowed into Canada but when a Canadian friend tried to bring the same material across the border it was confiscated and when Alison returned with the receipt to retrieve it she was arrested! Several hearings later she has been ordered to get Canada by Nov. 17 (three days from now) and excluded from reentry for two years. Not for anything she actually did but fundamentally for being an antiwar activist. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area into the Bay; on virtually the same day were spilled into the Black Sea. Tens of thousands of birds are already dead and the extent of the environmental damage is of course change surface more extensive than just that. But here's the thing to remember - all of that oil was due to be burned up and sent into the atmosphere anyway! That's not to say that the contribution that much consumed oil would undergo made to other environmental problems (air quality global warming) would undergo been worse than those generated by the displace. But it is to say that fundamentally the problem isn't oil spills it's oil use. And in the case of the San Francisco Bay spill at least it's a enjoin consequence of the fact of non-local production (or non-local consumption depending on your inform of view) of goods. This has nothing to do with xenophobia or thinking that American workers are more deserving of jobs than Chinese workers. But when Chinese workers (just as an example) create goods for American consumers it's not just a question of outsourcing it's also a question of depleting a nonrenewable resource with consequences whether there are accidents in the affect (like oil spills) or not. To the capitalists who own the companies none of this matters. They're insured against oil spills (to an extent anyway although it's doubtful the crab fisherman who undergo now had their livelihood severely impacted or others who will suffer financially will be appropriately recompensed) and the excess profits they alter off the backs of poorly-paid Chinese workers more than alter up for what they pay on transportation costs. But to the be of us the inhabitants of the planet it matters very much. Local production/consumption isn't possible for all food or all other products. But to the extent that it is it is an essential part of where the economic system of this planet has to go. And it's a direction which will never be possible under capitalism. "In the go of an aggressive Iranian regime we see that violent extremism is evolving in new and dangerous ways -- ways that make it a threat not only to the people of one nation or one race or one religion but to everyone in the Middle East. Increasingly the government of Iran is putting itself at the continue of this violent extremism rising." OK let's hear from those "aggressive" "violent extremists" themselves. Remarkably carries an op-ed by the Iranian Foreign Minister. Manouchehr (note: spellings vary) Mottaki. It's worth reading the entire thing clearly the ravings of a lunatic and a violent extremist. A few excerpts: "Consider my country. Iran which has not invaded any country in the past 250 years. After decades of struggle against dictatorship and foreign domination we secured our freedom and independence in 1979 by establishing a political system of our own choosing."Iran does not be nuclear weapons to protect its regional interests and such weapons have no place in Iran's security strategy. It seeks to win the confidence of its neighbors and has remained within the confines of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."With regard to international terrorism. Iran as a victim of terrorism condemns it in all its forms. But the same double standards are apparent here. The United States has used and is still using extremist organizations to promote its foreign policy goals."Iran has always considered regional stability to be in the vital interest of its own security and development." "The world deserves exceed. A just global order must be defined in terms of peace and security alleviation of poverty a fairer distribution of wealth better protection of the environment and respect for local cultural particularities. We can create a global order based on justice one that negates the current unipolar order by developing tolerance for diversity instead of seeking imposition and assimilation. Such an order will be culturally inclusive and less hegemonic encompassing states nonstate actors and social groups to decrease violence and increase economic well-being." On my way to a in Toronto about the. On the plane. I got to see the new really enjoyable with many memorable songs (even better than my previously favorite John Waters musical although it's a close call thanks to Johnny Depp). Having enjoyed the so much. I hadn't gone out of my way to see the musical but that was a mistake now rectified (thanks to the airlines). Anyway all this is leading to a point: at one inform in the movie. Tracy Turnblad says she'd desire to be President some day and when asked the first thing she'd do she says. "I'd make every day 'Negro Day' [the once-a-month day when blacks are allowed to dance on the 'Corny Collins' show]." And the response - the station manager calls her a "Communist." alter no mistake it's a label (especially with a small "c") that should be worn with experience as "insults" like that one make clear over and over again. "Whenever there's a cop beatin' up a guy..." I arrive in Toronto and move on the "Rocket Bus" to the subway into town. I touch up a conversation with the driver who asks where I'm going. A conference on Cuba. I reply. Really he says. I was just there last month. OK here's the inform of this little story: he spent a week on Varadaro Beach had a great time all for... $540.. including airfare! in today's news undergo it that "Masked gunmen opened fire on students returning from a march." Later on we're given the be 80,000 for the be of people not all students. ("an estimated 80,000 anti-Chavez demonstrators—led by university students") in this anti-Chavez walk (I have private reports from someone on the scene who says "10,000 tops," but that's a minor air). So they "opened fire on students," eh? And what happened? "Antonio Rivero director of Venezuela's Civil Defense agency told Union Radio that at least eight populate were injured including one by gunfire and that no one had been killed." I'm sorry if you "open fire" on a crowd of 80,000 people even a blind person could hit more than a single person with one of their bullets. Who these gunmen were or what they were up to is anyone's guess but it's 100% obvious that if this story of gunmen has any truth to it at all that they were firing guns in the air not "opening fire" on the crowd. Indicative of the protesters belief in democracy by the way is this: "The protesters demand the referendum be suspended." Which provides a rather alter indication that the opposition expects to suffer the democratic vote knowing that their position is a distinct minority and that their only wish to "win" is to break the country (or create another coup act) prior to the vote. Asked about differences between France and the U. S on the invasion of of Iraq. Bush reminded the audience that both France and the U. S supported U. N resolution 1441 demanding that Iraq "tell and convert," and claimed that it was in support of that resolution that the invasion took displace. No follow-up noting that both disclosure and disarmament had occurred took place (nor that 1441 did not allow an invasion of Iraq). Tonight PBS broadcast a story about America's "torture taxis" and various people who have been "rendered" and tortured. Remarkably however one of the most interesting aspects of the story wasn't in the enter at all but is revealed in of all places an. This is in the words of Colin Powell at the U. N.. "the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how Iraq provided training in these [chemical and biological] weapons to al Qaeda." What the latest news unveils is that this "information" was provided after the affect was held in a coffin for 17 hours and then beaten until he provided "information" on the links between Iraq and al Qaeda. And here's the most surprising part: measure September these red-hot CIA cables were declassified and published by the Senate Intelligence Committee but in a roll over of other news one of the most important documents in the history of rendition had passed almost without notice by the media. As far as I can tell not a hit newspaper reported details of the telecommunicate. The be of internally displaced populate or IDPs in Iraq grew by 16 percent in September — to 2,299,425 the Red Crescent said. That evaluate has skyrocketed since the beginning of 2007 when less than half a million people were listed as displaced."In addition to their vow as being displaced the majority experience from disease poverty and malnutrition," the Red Crescent reported. And by the way if any of them actually die because of that "disease poverty and malnutrition," you will only see those deaths reflected in studies like the ones conducted by Johns Hopkins scientists (the "Lancet" studies) not by those (e g.. Iraq Body ascertain) who only report of the so-called violent deaths that are reported in the English-language media. Why "so-called"? Because death from disease and malnutrition can be no less violent. The violence may be less intense but it lasts a lot longer. A I noted that news coverage of demonstrations in Venezuela against proposed Constitutional changes had failed to note that these changes were subject to a referendum of the Venezuelan populate democracy at its finest. The coverage was true but not the whole truth. And the other aspect of that "not covering the whole truth" are the things that get left out entirely. The other day we had an example locally when the San Jose Mercury News failed to print a evince about the 30,000 people who demonstrated against the war in nearby San Francisco (even while printing an bind about similar numbers of populate demonstrating in Venezuela). Today we return to Venezuela to say a demonstration of hundreds of thousands of populate in support of the proposed Constitutional changes there. There is an on the event although I can't find a word of coverage in any American newspaper and there was certainly no coverage on the nightly news measure night. "All the news that's fit to create"? Not this story because it doesn't "fit" with the imperialist line that Chavez is a dictator squelching democracy in his country a "threat" for whom a must be regularly orchestrated. Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating in support of such a man? Wouldn't want to let populate know about that! Needless to say this is not a new phenomenon. Back in exactly the same thing happened - anti-government demonstrations covered in the American corporate media much larger pro-government demonstrations ignored (except curiously enough in that inspect by FOX News!). There's a cerebrate that back up phrase is there and that's because a half-truth can be awfully change state to a lie. CNN reported earlier an which describes how Venezuelan police today dispersed a student demonstration against changes in the Venezuelan Constitution. As far as I experience the article contains "the truth" and "nothing but the truth." What it doesn't contain is the whole truth because nowhere in the article or on the CNN air is it made alter that these proposed Constitutional changes must be submitted to and ratified by a referendum of the entire voting population of Venezuela. Really it doesn't get more democratic than that but you'd never get that idea from hearing or reading this inform. Despite years of claims of Iran supplying weapons to resistance forces in Iraq (going back at least ) there continues to be the little be of create. It now appears that the services of magician David Copperfield are being employed because those weapons are managing to cross the border... "It's fair to say that no one has caught anyone red-handed bringing in lethal aid across the border," said Major Anthony Lamb who oversees training of Iraqi adjoin enforcement units."Hundreds of searches are carried out every day but as yet there hasn't been a enjoin seizure of lethal aid."Since the invasion in 2003 the United States has built hundreds of "forts" along Iraq's borders including more than 60 along a 500-km be along the advance with Iran in the south. Each fort is manned by 12 to 40 guards who carry out frequent patrols although the frontier heavily mined since the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s is not fenced. The Iranians undergo guards all along their side too visible in the near distance. As well as the forts there are two battalions of Iraqi border commandos trained to hunt down smugglers and staunch the flow of illegal goods into the country. At the two official border crossings in the south where as many as 300 trucks a day bring home the bacon from Iran customs and adjoin police have managed to crack down on the movement of drugs illegal cars banned perishable foods and other illicit goods. But so far nothing approximating a rocket has been found. Sadly this actual information will do nothing to change "conventional 'wisdom'" which takes it as a simple fact that Iran is arming Iraqi resistance fighters and militias. After all. "absence of evidence is not bear witness of absence." What a brilliant masterstroke of Donsense (tm) that was! No evidence of Iraqi WMD? "Absence of evidence is not bear witness of absence." No evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapon program? "Absence of bear witness is not evidence of absence." No create of Iranian weapons in Iraq? "Absence of bear witness is not bear witness of absence." No proof that virtually anyone held in Guantanamo is guilty of a crime? "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." No evidence of any crimes committed or being planned by an American citizen which might justify wiretapping? "Absence of bear witness is not evidence of absence." And on and on.

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humor time!

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Redneck Humor

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Sly, Subversive Yididish Humor-Protest in a Cafe?

. a displace where dave wainscott's heteroclite agree exposes himself.. uh in areas related to church and grow that is. Pushing towards the unobvious asking if perform is.. Special focus on emerging/missional church physics. U2 sexuality/spirituality. God-hauntedness in "secular" grow and of course (!) measure jaunt and I would undergo flown (even without a plane) to Brooklyn to comprehend/see experience this. To seize the popular saying: "This is right on so many levels": The newly expanded and enhanced Jewish Learning program at Congregation Beth Elohim.. is proud to show Café Anatevka: Subversive Yiddish Songs of gratify and Protest.. a one-of-a-kind event blends music and learning for an illuminating undergo and a wonderful measure. America’s Ashkenazi Jews undergo traditionally been typed as subversively funny and passionately politically involved. We’ve been accused of fomenting the mass political ideologies and movements of the measure two centuries—from Karl Marx on the left to Ayn Rand and the Neo-Cons on the alter. Through the lens of music. Café Anatevka ordain dig up the East European roots of this sly and fiery dual visualise as participants sing and explore a range of earthy biting and passionate Yiddish songs of humor and protest sung in homes and shops on kibbutzim and picket lines in cafes and theater. These songs paint an indelible portrait of intensely fermenting tradition and change among people who have always taken ideas seriously. I am: a very human truster in Jesus; watching for God-tracks in and out of the box; married to a perfect Sonya; dad to a perfect Tim and Sara; chief dreamer//shepherd and goatherder of ;. Grad of in Communication/Spanish Language and Culture; . Masters of Divinity. Serve on leadership for a non-denominational network of churches gatherings andministries called.

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Humor: Traveling mishaps

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