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Assad's Gotterdammerung

donkeytale — Mon, 13 May 2013 04:28:00 GMT

Definition of Gotterdammerung
a collapse (as of a society or regime) marked by catastrophic violence and disorder; broadly : downfall "the Götterdämmerung of Communism"
Synonyms
decline, dégringolade, demise, descent, down, downfall, fall, flameout, comedown
Antonyms
aggrandizement, ascent, exaltation, rise, up
Related Words
breakdown, burnout, collapse, crash, meltdown, ruin, undoing; defeat, disappointment, reversal, setback; bottom, nadir; abasement, disgrace, humiliation

Assad's strategy from the beginning of his brutal suppression of the Arab Spring uprising in Syria was premised on destruction of civilian neighborhoods using heavy artillery and air attacks.

The rebellion is constantly sold to the people (and a handful of useful idiots abroad) as an alternative reality game created by the US and Israel. However, the history of rebellion is in fact a recurring theme in Syrian history since Assad's daddy, Hafez and his fellow gangsters took control of the country in a coup. It shouldn't be any surprise that the amazing turns of events in Tunisia and Egypt would kindle new found strength and courage within segments of the subjugated majority populations of Syria.

Unless of course your worldview demands that you also view the Tunisian and Egyptian rebellions as inauthentic events, essentially anti-state stagecraft scripted by the CIA and Mossad to overthrow neoliberal authoritarians who were already firmly in the pocket of Western Imperialism. And believeing that Assad is somehow an "anti-neoliberal anti-imperialist" through thick and thin even as no credible evidence is proferred to support this nonsensical, ahistorical theory. Indeed, all of the evidence points to the very opposite conclusion. Assad is a neoliberal, who courts imperialist backing to sustain a narrow class of bourgeois elites within his ranks while repressing the majority who have become increasing impoverished through wealth transferred up during the prior thirty years.

Prior Sunni (and separate Kurdish) rebellions were met with similarly brutal crackdowns. On the diplomatic front, Syria has been protected by the Russians, who speak peace out of one side of their mouths and supply mounds of cash and heavy armaments to Assad with the other side.

All the while both countries and Iran constantly pimp a false narrative of a US/NATO created civil war, inculcating from the beginning of the end a total war in the rebel-controlled regions between the regime and al Qaeda-inspired Islamic fundamentalist fighters who have taken advantage of the devastation as is their MO and supplied the need of the rebellion to gain outside support, cash and arms to counteract the massive support for the regime by Russia and Iran.

"Terrorists" has been the propaganda term du jour since the rebellion began, not coincidentally.

The predictable growth of the jihadist force massing within the rebellion is a key ingredient of Assad's gotterdammerung, one that gives the regime a phony basis for legitimacy where none in reality exists. Jihadis were first referenced obliquely early on in the leaked Arab League Monitor's report. This notice was played up in the regime and its western sympathizers' accounts of the report. However, the same report clearly also demonstrated the regime's strategy that propelled the conflict into murderous terrain in the first place. Tellingly, this part of the report was downplayed or ignored outright by the Assadian propaganda puppets.

Immediately on returning from Homs, the Head of the Mission met with the Government and insisted that it withdraw military vehicles from the city, put an end to acts of violence, protect civilians, lift the blockade and provide food. He further called for the two sides to exchange the bodies of those killed.
16. At that meeting, the Syrian side agreed to withdraw all military presence from the city and residential areas except for three army vehicles that were not working and had been surrounded, and one that had been taken from the Army by armed groups. The Syrian side requested the Mission's assistance to recover and remove those vehicles in exchange for the release of four individuals, the exchange of five bodies from each side, the entry of basic foods for families in the city, and the entry of sanitation vehicles to remove garbage. It was agreed at the end of the meeting that the Mission would conduct another visit to Homs on the following day in the company of General Hassan Sharif, the security coordinator for the Government side. The observer mission was itself attacked.
In Latakia and Deir Al-Zor, the Mission faced difficulties from Government loyalists. In Latakia, thousands surrounded the Mission's cars, chanting slogans in favour of the President and against the Mission. The situation became out of control and monitors were attacked. Two sustained light injuries and an armoured car was completely crushed.
Although it welcomed the Mission and its Head and repeatedly emphasized that it would not impose
any security restrictions that could obstruct the movement of the Mission, the Government deliberately attempted to limit the observers' ability to travel extensively in various regions. The Government also attempted to focus the attention of the Mission on issues in which it is interested. The Mission communicates with the various groups by mobile phones and facsimile machines connected to the local Syrian telephone network. Occasional cuts in service prevent the Mission from communicating with the groups.

Gullible leftists in teh West, tirelessly spread the mayonnaise thickly across the internets, conflating Iraq with Libya with Syria and buying the narrative that Assad is a bulwark against western imperialism in the middle east, ignoring Assad's and his daddy's history of neoliberalism and acting as tools for western imperialism and Israel.

Syria's political leadership has placed a premium on autonomy from oppositional forces within and outside the country. However, tracing the trajectory of economic liberalization actually suggests a gradual loss of this autonomy through the evolving constituencies of the regime as well as, in part, explaining the particularities of this crisis. Unlike some developing countries that famously experienced the IMF's 'shock therapy', economic liberalisation in Syria was gradual and went through three distinct phases during Hafiz al-Asad's rule; a fourth one was inaugurated by Bashar al-Asad as soon as he came to power (Joya 2005). These processes unraveled the model of political consolidation built gradually by the Ba'ath party and refined by Asad. What they highlight is that over time, there was an organic relationship between the emergence of a free market economy and coercive rule, i.e., the two processes were co-constitutive. However the neoliberal authoritarian model itself also created the possibilities for social revolt.
Since the Ba'ath coup in 1963, the emergent Pan-Arab party developed a brand of socialism inspired by Gamal Abdel Nasser's economic planning and wealth distribution. The Pan-Arab party was influential among schoolteachers and intellectuals until it merged with the Arab Socialist Party of Akram al-Hawrani in 1952 [3]. Hawrani had been an effective organizer and anti-feudal agitator among the peasantry and with the merger the Ba'ath Party acquired a significant peasant base. When the Ba'ath seized power, a main concern was to improve the lives of the workers and peasants, and to undermine the hegemony of the Sunni landlord-merchant elite, which previously had controlled the state and most of the economy. One third of agricultural land was redistributed to landless farmers. The banking sector and major industries were nationalised while foreign trade was monopolized by the state (Hopfinger & Boeckler 1996). To implement its program, the party used force to discipline discontent groups and repress any organised opposition. Early on, the minister of Defense, Hafiz al-Asad, eliminated his rivals outside and within the party. The political debates between the different factions within the party [4] were finally "resolved" through a bloodless coup led by Asad in 1970. The emergence of the conservative factions inaugurated a new era.
Once in power, Asad initiated a liberal program to undo or halt the progressive measures that the 'radical' faction of the Baath, led by Salah Jadid, had implemented in the previous few years in particular on land reform and curbs on the private merchant sector. On the surface, the developmental model pursued by the regime was that of import substitution industrialization whereby the state seizes the commanding heights of the economy, launches infrastructural projects and industrial factories, and imposes quantitative restrictions on international trade. At the same time, the massive Syrian bureaucracy incorporated a large sector of the population under the direct control of the state (Perthes 1995). However since urban workers and peasants formed two important social bases for the regime, the state-led developmental program was meant to protect them from the market rather than subject them to its discipline. This meant that while the regime was able to launch significant industrial and manufacturing projects, it was not able to make them a source of capital accumulation and the state remained distributive in nature relying on oil revenues, aid, and remittances (Waldner 1999). Lack of viable manufacturing and industrial sectors signified that most of non-oil trade remained agricultural either in production or processing of agricultural products. In other words, the regime used its oil revenues to maintain social programs such as free education, subsidized products, and free healthcare. To borrow from French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, the regime used the "left hand" of the state, which consists of the various welfare programs, to elevate the living conditions of the population. However, as Bourdieu explains, the state's main goal is to maintain the hierarchy of power regardless whether this is achieved through consensus or violence. This is why when it faces a crisis, the state governs through its "right hand," by deploying its technologies of coercion and violence to squash any protests or social movements that contest its legitimacy. Peasants, workers, and professional syndicates (e.g., lawyers unions), while incorporated and given official representation in the regime, gradually lost all autonomy and increasingly the leadership was appointed from above rather than elected and strictly based on loyalty considerations.

This was the state of the rebellion circa 2012, when Basher began his relentless military bashing of his own towns and cities targeting the same oppressed populace targeted by his daddy 30 years ago. One must return to a time prior to the beginning of the Arab Spring before the historical revisionism of certain intellectually challenged segments of the left sold their leftist objectivity for a few cheap trinkets post-US Iraqi invasion and ruined their credibility in a misreading of the Arab Spring.

The political career of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, whose death June 10 ended a 30-year reign, illustrates the organic incapacity of the Arab bourgeoisie to realise the aspirations of the Arab masses for freedom from foreign domination, democracy and social justice.
Assad was often described as a "strongman", a fitting term when applied to the ruthless methods he employed to suppress opposition to his rule. But, as is so often the case, Assad's strong measures were the recourse of a weak regime.
Assad spent his 30 years in power carrying out a tortuous balancing act. Domestically, he was compelled to manoeuvre between various social interests and factions-religious, clan, geographical-sometimes by means of diplomacy, at other times using the methods of palace intrigue, political purge or the hangman's noose. Externally, he was obliged to seek the protection of more powerful sponsors. For the first 20 years of his rule, during the Cold War, he was a client of the Soviet Union. After the break-up of the USSR, he inexorably gravitated toward the US-Israeli axis.
This lack of genuine independence was expressed in Assad's twists and turns in foreign policy and the glaring contradiction between his words-bristling with anti-Zionist bravado-and his deeds. Despite being one of the Arab leaders of the so-called "Steadfastness Front" against Israel, Assad's record of treachery toward the Palestinian people stands out among his counterparts in the region, who, as a group, were hardly known for their courage in the face of the traditional enemies of the Arab masses.

Note the thousands of fundamentalist jihadis observed in the following video.

Grandpa Al Qaeda!

Children Al Qaeda!

MILF Al Qaeda!

Grandmama Al Qaeda!

They're everywhere!

Boston Bombing Motive Discovered

donkeytale — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:51:48 GMT

As everbohdee no, the Patriots Day bombing was a false flag op by the US Government. The evidence for this is as overwhelming, perhaps moreso, then the evidence for the Syrian Government targeting its own citizens with shaving creme.

Busy as they are fomenting rebellion in the Middle East, our tireless ~~public servants~~ private militiamen still found the time to murder and maim a few hundred bystanders gathered at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Why'd they do it? Who woulda thunk? In the grand American tradition, the reason was, shockingly, to sell us more stuff.

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• Military
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They also offer readily to the public shirts, baseball caps and accessories with the iconic Punisher skull to anyone willing to pay for the merchandise online. In fact, for $22.95 ANYONE can have their very-own black baseball cap with the white Punisher skull on it - the VERY SAME cap worn by the men identified by Alternative media as being CI operatives who carried out the BMB.
Claiming that men who were hired to perform a covert operation in a public place where camera and video surveillance is expected would wear descriptive hats and clothing is preposterous. Those who have performed covert operations know that you do not wear your "uniform" to the event.

Syria's shaving cream war: will it turn the tide for rebels?

fairleft — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:01:06 GMT

Prior to the last 24 hours it was joke publications like The Telegraph (source of the photo above) and other Murdochian, Fox News quality rags that trumpeted the simpleton propaganda video that Syrian rebels say shows poisoning by government sarin gas. In those good old days we could enjoy light-hearted blog titles like this:

Syria: Shaving Cream As Chemical Weapon

That title was above some very entertaining ridicule of the video and some serious (but easy) debunking (link is in the original: follow it to the Centers for Disease Control, which lists the signs and symptoms for sarin exposure):

The short video posted at the Telegraph site shows three persons laying on hospital stretchers. All three persons have some white foam around their mouths. None of them shows any acute breathing problem. All three seem rather relaxed. ... This "foaming at the mouth" video proof of chemical weapons usage is fake. ... "foaming at the mouth" is NOT a standard symptom of sarin exposure.

Thank you Moon of Alabama, but unfortunately matters have now taken a very serious Chuck Hagel face turn. The U.S. government is now running with the scam, and 'prestigious' operations like the BBC are now 'required' (careerism uber alles) to treat the video not as silly, crass entertainment but as real. Defense secretary Hagel announced yesterday that U.S. intel officials will now pretend, along with the Brits and Israel, that the video is serious evidence of sarin gas poisoning. No more laughs, shaving cream may bring war and bloody cruel death to tens of thousands more Syrians. So, 'despite' little blogs' ridicule, big corporate media now use shaving cream as the foundation for headlines like this:

Syria chemical weapons: Where did they come from?
Acid test: America needs to take action against Bashar Assad

Why has Western imperialism (seemingly desperately) now reached for this video, such a flimsy, silly straw? Well, partly because there are now no limits to what its news media will say with a straight face, but also because the war looked to be turning and the wrong side seemed to be winning. Outside the propaganda field, which the Western corporate media obviously utterly dominates, the war on the ground goes very poorly for the deeply divided and Sunni fundamentalist dominated rebels and mercenaries. The following report is from April 24 (emphasis added):

In Damascus, Syrian [government] forces ... seized a strategic town east of the city, breaking a critical weapons supply route for the rebels, activists and fighters said. Rebels have held several suburbs ringing the southern and eastern parts Damascus for months, but they have been struggling to maintain their positions against a ground offensive backed by fierce army shelling and air strikes in recent weeks.
"The disaster has struck, the army entered Otaiba. The regime has managed to turn off the weapons tap," a fighter from the town told Reuters via Skype. ...
"Now all the villages will start falling one after another, the battle in Eastern Ghouta will be a war of attrition," another fighter in the area said, speaking by Skype.
More than two years into their struggle to end four decades of Assad family rule, the rebels remain divided by struggles over ideology and fighting for power. ... The army appears to have been advancing on fronts across Syria in recent weeks, even in northern provinces where rebels seized large swathes of territory.

Finally, I give some credit to President Obama, because he remains reluctant to do a Libya on Syria without 'further' proof. Despite the administration 'confirming' with "varying degrees of confidence" that sarin gas had been used by Syrian government forces, it does seem to want more 'proof', something maybe a little more serious than the video? I'm pessimistic though. I mean, if that shaving cream video is a 'go', not even a snicker from the highest echelons of Western media and government, how hard will it be to generate further 'evidence'?

Dual Strike Against N. Korea and Iran?

Stu Piddy — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:49:28 GMT

It's only logical to assume that Obama will attack N. Korea and Iran. That's the PNAC strategy and he follows it religously it seems.

He will also cut back social security approve the Keystone Pipeline.
He appears to be the anti christ, though the antichrist is what the world needs, a real antichrist, not a devil. Some one who can make sense of things and speak clearly and logically.

Perhaps Obama is an evil man, leading the world to nuclear war with the pretext of security.

North Korea like Saddaam's Iraq are presented as mad men.
They are not. Kim Jong Un. is probably responding to American threats and interference in the only way he can.
America fire bombed North Korean cities ala Dresden in the Korean War. There is no mention of this in the press as there was no mention of Kuwaits stealing oil from Iraq and it's blackmail or Iraq.

Saddaam has been replaced by Maliki who reportedly is torturing and imprisoning more people than Sadaam ever did.

This doesn't make sense, because the crazy nuts are not in North Korea, they are in America.

I wonder if they are stupidly planning a dual strike against Iran and North Korea using North Korea as an excuse to attack "rogue nations" with, or on the verge of nuclear weapons. If they attack N. Korea, I'm sure they will attack Iran too.

Politicians are Bad People. It's that simple.

Stu Piddy — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:52:12 GMT

To blame the Republicans is absurd. There is a joint effort on behalf of all politicians to see humanity as something to be manipulated for "their own good", which translates in reality, to the benefit of the politician.

Politicians see their public as objects. Objects are things you move around. Instead of moving objects manually, politicians use "persuasion". They use fear, threat and the idea of love of one's "country". A country is something that is pure imagination held together by consensus. Countries are ideas, not solid reality.

Next time you hear someone say, "I like Obama." Wonder for a moment what Obama thinks of them, of you. He doesn't care about people, he cares about power over the people. And the gestures he makes to individuals are designed not for that person, but mass consumption.
Politicians are bad people. I have all of human history to back me up on that. They are self serving, crass, indignant, arrogant, voracious and generally quite dumb, despite their pedigrees which describe nothing.

Where have politicians (world leaders) taken us all these thousands of years?

There is no human advancement in understanding itself. There is technological advancement, but no social advancement. And science provides technology, which politicians take credit for.

Despite all the technology, humanity has, in all probability regressed socially and lost any small perspective of what it is that we are. There is no connection to other forms of life (plants and animals are seen only in packages in grocery stores) and the stars can no longer be seen in most places on Earth. We are not connected to anything and we imagine this as a form of evolvement. Education is misinformation outside of science.

Human beings are mentally ill by and large. When everyone is mentally ill, there is no perspective. When everyone is crazy, the average crazy person is a person who is normal. The measure of madness is found in the average person, not the person whose institutionalized. Most of the madness is in the middle, the extremes are places of extreme madness on one side and sanity on the other.

Almost all human cultures are disturbed and irrational. But something holds them together enough to perpetuate the idea of war as constructive and the idea here in America, that greed is a virtue and necessary for social advancement. Greed is dressed up as trickle down. A common cover for greed, is the "philanthropic foundations" that are used as advertising, political influence and for taxation purposes.

Don't attack Republicans. Attack Politicians, world wide. Politicians should be like accounts. Low profile, unadorned, doing a job with absolutely no fan fare. They work behind a desk organizing, making things functional, rarely heard from and never idolized and turned into "stars". It's bad enough that the lowest form of art, film "acting" is regarded with as much fanfare as the politician.

Politicians are one the lowest forms of human expression there is. They are equal only to the "soldier". Humanities gift to it's own self destruction.

Miss Delaware Teen USA Escorts

donkeytale — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:53:27 GMT

God, do I love women.

Not only for what they can and often do for us abject loosers on the other downward trending end of the great genitalia divide, but also for the way they can and often do backhand each other with a slyly quiet delight in such a manner that the average dumbass dude [projection alert] rarely even takes notice of the cat furr flying much less recognises how he is being pwned each and every day of his wretched, pain wracked existence by these wondrous, superiour beings.

[run-on sentence alert]
It is not too surprising that a young beauty queen aspirant circa 2013, who is obviously very ambitious, only sorta above average cute looking in the rather generic way of postmodern teenaged femaleness (IE, so many are above average goodlooking that they are all average looking), and who is very quickly clearly distinguishing herslef as a supreme ironist of the first rank, [allegedly] decides to make an amateur porn video simply to earn a few bucks upon turning 18.

I mean, jeesh, you only live once! Give the grrl a brake, ladeez.

(And yes, I will interrupt here to confirm that I am a true lefty in more than one sense of the word, if you are scoring at home)

No, this fact seems rather totally typically on topic for where the conjunction of the infoboobtubes, celebrity and capitalism is leading our children (and grandchildren!) as we trip the light fantastic through the bowels of the 21st Century.

Nay, what truly truly cracked me up is this little concern trolling hit piece in what just happens to be the number one or two widely read print medium of record in the US of A-holes.

Uhhmm, I'm also pretty sure the DC print medium of record is fairly popular in nearby, uhmmm, Delaware, too, isn't it, Ms. 'We the Sheeple'?

As for Melissa King, I am certain she has many strengths and that her hard work and thoughtfulness helped get her the temporary tiara. ("Melissa began volunteering in her 8th grade year and fell in love with the joy of helping others!") She will now have ample opportunity to hone those qualities as she prepares for her adult life. (As Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor might have told her "being princess is not a career.")
Happily-ever-after takes a lot of work.
If it was the beauty queen having sex on camera, it was a bad idea - but she can still have a satisfying and productive life. I hope for King that it will unfold in many surprising and wondrous ways, and I wish her good luck.

Ah, yes, thanks for those nobly uplifting sentiments there, grandmama...

I'm also picturing in my mind (for I don't watch TV) all the clucking and twittering by all of those cable news infobabes (who got to their stations in life through their Murrow-like journalistic abilities, no doubt) over this little story.

These buds're for you, Miss [former] Delaware Teen USA....I'm sure that we will be hearing more, a lot more, from you in the very near future.

Self-promotional genius like yours doesn't grow on trees.

Not anymore, anyway.

Screw you. ...

d3n4l1 — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:20:59 GMT

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'Afghanistan veterans who commit suicide are not cowardly, they are victims of the war.'

fairleft — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 11:46:36 GMT

For anyone thinking of enlisting, the video above is essential listening. It has the somewhat odd title of "Afghanistan veterans commit suicide from a good conscience," but don't let that discourage you. Partial transcript below.

Potential enlistees, don't become a killer of people you have never met, about whom you know very little or nothing. More morality lessons here.

Hakim: Some people who hear your story may think your mind was weak; you wanted to commit suicide.
Nao Rozi: Veterans who commit suicide are not cowardly, they are victims of the war. They were persuaded to do things they didn't want to do. Or, if they chose to do those things, don't we sometimes regret things we've done, or feel ashamed? That was exactly what happened in my crisis. I felt ashamed. I regretted what I had done. ... Life becomes meaningless. ... You think you've done something such that you feel you no longer have the right to live. ...
The U.S. veterans who have committed suicide had a conscience. They fought in Afghanistan and some killed or were killed. Those thoughts afflicted them day and night. I myself experienced them. When I was sleeping, I would wake up suddenly in the middle of the night shouting. It was not fear, they were nightmares. At times I slept walked. I even thought I was a murderer, though now I think I was not because I didn't kill anyone. [But] even those who may have killed others should not keep thinking those thoughts.
Hakim: What message do you have for friends and for the world?
Nao Rozi: ... How I wish that every human in the world would, just for once, sit down alone and ask, 'What are we here for? How have we been deceived? How true to self have we been?' These questions are important.
... I was a captive of the things I heard from society and the media, but now I am free!

Nao Rozi currently lives with and struggles for the Afghan Peace Volunteers, seeking a better life and a better world.

Civil Unions and Democratic Party Wedge Issues

fairleft — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:40:22 GMT

I'm in sympathy with Norman Pollack's article recently published in Counterpunch, Gay Marriage: A Contrarian's View, but feel Pollack's reasoning could be improved on. And, by the way, I agree with Pollack that, in the abstract, divorced from the real political context of these horrible times, marriage equality would be a great thing for a society to have.

As a way of contextualizing things ... I recall reading a year or two ago, probably in the Chicago Reader, that a local gay politico had triumphantly returned from Springfield in 2010 or 2011 after passage of its civil unions act. "At its essence," the Chicago Tribune described the law, "the bill says that two people who have entered into a civil union are entitled to the same legal treatment under Illinois law that is presently given to spouses." So, all was great, I'm sure he thought, for gay marriage rights, except the word marriage could not officially be used to describe those rights. But instead of being greeted as the returning conqueror of Springfield, said politico was met by his activist group with anger that he just "didn't get it" and worse. He was ousted for another leader who understood that civil unions weren't enough, and that the only acceptable stance was gay marriage or bust.
The story struck me as of course emblematic of the Democratic Party and its divide-and-rule politics. The problem for the party was that gay civil unions, which bypass objections by religious conservatives to gay marriage, were rapidly solving the practical problems of gays and their right to marriage. And once gays could get 'married' in all but name, what use would the Democratic Party be to them? Put simply, the party saw an opportunity for a permanent wedge issue and had to take it. So much for the opportunity to solve a social problem in a nuanced manner that would satisfy the main concerns of everyone.

Not that the Republicans didn't, of course, react with glee at the Democrats' transforming the civil unions near non-issue into the gay marriage permanent super wedge. They live on this b.s. as much as the Democrats do. (Although it is a much more difficult issue to compromise on, abortion is a similar super wedge that works voter turnout wonders for both of the tired corporate slave parties.)

But what about the fact that the best interests of the Democratic Party are directly opposed to the popular interest? Specifically, what if the gay marriage issue were rapidly being solved by the civil union movement back in 2011? Would we be talking a bit more (i.e., a bit more than not at all) about the main and closely inter-related issues of our time: austerity, unemployment, income inequality, the overwhelming power of big finance, torture, Bradley Manning writ large, corporate globalization, U.S. imperialism?

The brutal worldwide austerity crusade, which only grows worse since we are doing NOTHING to resist it, demands a massive response. And the class war that must emerge, by all of us in the working class (we in fact make up 75% or more of U.S. society), doesn't just need, it requires unity across religious backgrounds as well as across race and ethnicity. Identity politics wedge issues are obstacles put in the way of that unity.

So, with respect we need a compromise here, and civil unions (granting all of the rights of marriage) were and still are that compromise.

Quick Recipe for Instant Infoboob Garbage Salad

donkeytale — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:36:38 GMT

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[Laura, you are the dumb blind follower of GG. There were no drones. His 'what if' is a pure infotainment fantasy for the polarised herd, just as stupid and dangerous as the entertainment he criticises in Zero Dark Thirty.

What if instead of wasting your time reading his BS simply to satisfy your smugly self righteous and unwarranted feelings of self superiority you .35 percenters instead actually got off your pampered asses and yknow, actually rebelled against these civil rights injustices that havent touched your life except to magnify your persecution complex?

GG is an insufferable one trick phony, just like you and in this article he showcases his descent into the paranoid libertarian realm of his fellow fake yuppie careerist Alex Jones?

Laura, you have proven time and again again to be a moron of the lowest most common denominator along with your fellow zombie herdist FairDumbass]

1. Start with one unverified news report quoting only unnamed sources, preferably from an obscure media website based a few thousand miles away from the scene.

2. Mix-in some widely-read quackery from a noted fake leftist libertarian demigod.

3. Stir-into the concoction as many halfwitted repetitions of the same debunked nonsense to suit your poor taste.

4. Shake vigourousy and spread virally throughout the whiteysphere

5. When the resultant garbage salad proves non-fulfilling, simply forget about it and focus on the the next best blogging junkfood subject du jour.

UPDATE
This doesn't pertain to any of the substantive points raised here, but while some media reports (including the one linked above) have stated that surveillance drones are being used in the hunt for Dorner, other accounts call that claim into question.

The headline reads "Should an armed drone be dispatched to kill Christopher Dorner?" What it should read : "Glenn Greenwald Long Overdue for Lengthy Vacation to Recharge His Batteries."

"Substantive" points? WTF?

RIOTOUS!

There is nothing at all substantive in this essay, premised as it is in a suggestively leading hypothetical question based on an unverified so-called "news" report that remains unsubstantiated anywhere one day later.

And this entry from the self-appointed guardian (yuk yuk) for the journalistic ethics of everyone else besides him working in the MSM.

For you see, GG is not a journalist. He's a blogger. A different set of rules apply to him.

LAPD vs. Hispanic women delivering newspapers

fairleft — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 08:48:48 GMT

Former police officer Christopher Dorner is suspected in the deaths of a police officer and in two other Los Angeles Police Department related homicides. He has issued a manifesto stating he is out for revenge and to clear his name, saying he was hounded out of the LAPD for reporting incidents of racism and abuse of criminal suspects. The U.S. military has trained him well in killing and the LAPD is right to be fearful of him.

But how does that justify the crazed, homicidal behavior of the LAPD over the past few days?

Incident 1:

5 a.m. on Thursday, Police received a radio call saying a truck matching Dorner's gray Nissan Titan was spotted near the home of a high-ranking LAPD officer. A few minutes later, a truck rolled down the officer's street in Torrance. As the vehicle slowly approached, officers at the house opened fire, unloading a barrage of bullets into the back of the truck.

But ...

The truck was a Toyota Tacoma not a Nissan Titan.

The color was aqua blue, not gray.

And inside the truck wasn't Dorner, a large black man, but two not-large Hispanic women -- Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother, Emma Hernandez, 71 -- delivering newspapers.

But hey, not to worry, folks, the LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has already excused this criminal stupidity: the officers were understandably edgy:

The L.A. Times further reports:

Law enforcement sources told The Times that at least seven officers opened fire. On Friday, the street was pockmarked with bullet holes in cars, trees, garage doors and roofs. Residents said they wanted to know what happened.
"How do you mistake two Hispanic women, one who is 71, for a large black male?" said Richard Goo, 62, who counted five bullet holes in the entryway to his house.
Glen T. Jonas, the attorney representing the women, said the police officers gave "no commands, no instructions and no opportunity to surrender" before opening fire. He described a terrifying encounter in which the pair were in the early part of their delivery route through several South Bay communities. Hernandez was in the back seat handing papers to her daughter, who was driving. Carranza would briefly slow the truck to throw papers on driveways and front walks.

A reader commented (under an LA Times op-ed criticizing Beck for prejudging the officers innocent):

There seems to be two forms of justice being presented here - one for civilians, and one for cops, and based on Beck's public statements, no charges should be filed, take his word on that. The DA and State Attorney General's Office need to jump on this case, and start demonstrating some accountability for a myriad of laws that were broken here - assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder by police officers, multiple counts of assault, and criminal negligence.

Incident 2:

Police seeking Dorner opened fire in a second case of mistaken identity

Damn (!) these people are out of control:

David Perdue was on his way to sneak in some surfing before work Thursday morning when police flagged him down. They asked who he was and where he was headed, then sent him on his way.
Seconds later, Perdue's attorney said, a Torrance police cruiser slammed into his pickup and officers opened fire; none of the bullets struck Perdue.
His pickup, police later explained, matched the description of the one belonging to Christopher Jordan Dorner - the ex-cop who has evaded authorities after allegedly killing three and wounding two more. But the pickups were different makes and colors. And Perdue looks nothing like Dorner: He's several inches shorter and about a hundred pounds lighter. And Perdue is white; Dorner is black.
"I don't want to use the word buffoonery but it really is unbridled police lawlessness," said Robert Sheahen, Perdue's attorney. "These people need training and they need restraint."

So many great comments under that article, but choosing just one (emphasis added):

LL Cool J will be hosting the Grammys this evening, I hope he is not shot due to mistaken Identity. LAPD is one stupid police dept. Our community have been a victim of their mistakes and brutality for decades. The Rodney King incident was one of thousands only that time it was caught on tape. People still didn't believe it. Oh Well. Dorner had the audacity to cross the thin blue line in other words he snitched. You see what LAPD do to snitches ...

Advice: If you live in LA LA land, don't matter what brand or color, keep the pick-up truck in the driveway.