Friday, April 21, 2017

It takes a honky (Leah McElrath, I'm talking to you)

"Get back, honky cat, get back to the woods."

Thought of the Elton John song when I saw the hideous Leah McElrath and her inspid TWITTER feed "...she persisted."

Honky cat looks consitpated, if you ask me.

...she constipated.

What a stupid idiot.

She's telling people that it is abuse to say Hillary Clinton was "a weak candidate."

It takes a honky.

It takes a honky bitch to spread those sort of lies.

And it certainly takes a honky bitch to pretend that Hillary Clinton suffered.

She's rich.

She has no financial worries.

Don't you dare compare her to the hard working women -- of all colors -- around this country.

Black, White, Latina, Asian, there are women struggling and women who have struggled.

The DNC and the press cleared the way for Hillary to get the 2016 nomination.

And she still couldn't pull it off.

She outspent Donald Trump.

And she still couldn't pull it off.

Her vanity and desperation are not signs of strength or courage.

She is an embarrassment and instead of leading the laughable 'resistance,' she should be digging a hole and hiding way there.

No one needs her.

She is a loser.

She lost to Donald Trump.

How big of a loser do you have to be to lose to Donald Trump.

Come on.

It takes a honky cat to look at Hillary's alleged 'suffering' and see strength.


"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Friday, April 21, 2017.


We're going to have to deal nonsense right off the bat.







So some balding, pasty bitch is going to tell us all what to do based on her vaginal hiccups and anal seizures?

No f**king way.






Feminism is not Leah Balding McElrath's personal toy.

Feminism is a movement.

Feminism is about equality.

It's not about specialism.

I'm sick to f**k of trash like that bald idiot insisting Hillary was the most qualified candidate for president ever.

In 2007 and 2008 (long before I supported her), I would hear people scoff at the idea that she even had qualifications.

I would defend her.

And you can say she was qualified.

But you can't lie that she was the most qualified.

And I'm sorry Baldy McElrath if that bit of truth ripped off a butterfly's wing in some alternate universe.  (Where your oversized forehead is, no doubt, worshiped).

As Ann noted earlier this week ("Hillary was not more qualified than Al Gore, JFK or LBJ"), we already imploded that myth at THIRD with "Hillary was not 'the most qualified candidate ever..." where we noted how LBJ, JFK and Al Gore were all more qualified than Hillary.

Maybe were she running for talk show host, she'd be the most qualified?

Maybe not.

But for President of the United States?

I struggled to list meaningful credits she possessed in 2008 in exchanges with cab drivers.

Because she really doesn't have any.


She had one complete term as a senator and two years of a second one when she became Secretary of State.  Without even evaluating those two positions in terms of any accomplishments, that's really not that impressive.

First Lady doesn't count.

Now I counted it in 2008.

But I go by how people treat things.

Hillary doesn't think First Lady matters as evidenced by her sexist announcement that, were she elected, Bill would be over the economy.

He wouldn't, she assured us in this last run, be planning state dinners or picking out china.

Because it's too much to expect a male spouse of a president to do what we'd expect a woman to do?

Hillary's always been a troubling sort of feminist.

No, 2016 Hillary insisted, she, as president, would do that herself.

That's not feminism.


Nor is it practical.

Hillary was not the most qualified.


She was probably somewhere in the middle.

But that may be generous.

It's interesting that no one can criticize Hillary according to the balding "human rights activist" (means she supports LGBT rights, she doesn't speak out in favor of those destroyed by US wars), but she can -- and has -- slammed Jill Stein.

Slamming Jill Stein is okay?

That's a funny sort of feminism.

Again, as with Hillary, I judge people by the standards they apply to others.


Hillary Clinton was a lousy candidate.


Matthew Yglesias -- who I have no reason to defend now or ever -- calling Hillary "a weak candidate"  does not, as Balding Leah McElrath insists, "commit psychological violence against women/girls."

To allow this bitch to get away with this is to destroy free speech.




She's a liar and she's a loon.

Hillary was an awful candidate, not weak, awful.

And feminism is about telling the truth.

Telling the truth about men, about women, about the whole system.

If Hillary's a lousy candidate -- and she was -- then you say so.

And it's not violence against anyone.

But a hagged old balding bitch wants to tell us that we can't speak freely and wants to presume that women and girls can't handle truth?

That we're too delicate for public discourse?

 A presidential election is not a cover of 16 MAGAZINE.

Drop the hysteria.

But if she did, people could speak honestly and that's what Leah really fears.

Hillary was a lousy candidate.

In 2008, she did know how to campaign.

She lost it.

In 2016, she lost it.

And she was not the most qualified ever.

She wasn't even the most qualified in the Democratic primary.

"She persisted" is what Leah calls her Twitter feed.

Having read it, I think Leah should retitle it "She farted."

Or, possibly, she'd prefer "She quifed."

She's trying to blackmail people into silence.  That's not feminism.

Let's reset with Tori.





This four-year-old girl doesn't even flinch at gunfire -- trapped in Mosul, Iraq, she's never known anything but war








That's a reality.

It's a reality that 'human rights activists' (especially those who are Temple Love Slaves for War Hawk Hillary) will never face.


14 years and still going.

The Iraq War.

When does it end?


Molly Hennessy-Fiske and W.J. Hennigan (LOS ANGELES TIMES) report:


It also appears that the number of civilian casualties has risen in recent months as combat has shifted to densely populated west Mosul and the coalition has undertaken the heaviest bombing since the war began almost three years ago.
[. . .]
Raed Mohammed Hasan, 30, said he lost neighbors and relatives, including his 11-month-old daughter, Rania, in an airstrike in east Mosul on Jan. 21. He and other residents say 11 civilians died in that strike, which occurred during the months-long battle to oust Islamic State from Iraq’s second-largest city. Coalition records show a strike was carried out in Mosul that day, but officials say it is not being investigated for civilian deaths.


The report also contains numerous photos by Marcus Yam.


Day 185 of The Mosul Slog.

It never ends.

And it never ends because solutions are not sought.

Nouri al-Maliki was the mid-wife to the Islamic State.

His actions allowed them to rise.

That's on Bully Boy Bush and the Congress of the United States who all agreed to benchmarks for Iraq, remember that?

Congress was going to cut off support if Iraq did not show progress.

Congress was as full of it as was Bully Boy Bush (Democrats controlled both houses them).

But so was Nouri.  He agreed to those 2007 benchmarks.

One of which was political reconciliation.

But he never pursued it, he never enacted it.

And then Barack comes along.

He doesn't make Nouri stop persecuting the Sunnis.

He doesn't demand that Nouri keep the reconciliation promise.

In fact, when Nouri loses the 2010 election (to Ayad Allawi), Barack goes out of his way to overturn the elections results (via the US-brokered Erbil Agreement) and give Nouri a second term that the Iraqi voters did not want.

And Nouri only got worse.

There is still no political reconciliation in Iraq.

And stop pretending that the US government has no power.

They've always had power.

And that has nothing to do with troops or war.

It has to do with Iraq's needs.

Currently, the Iraqi government defines needs as: More weapons.

And the US government's response:  To whip it out on request, no conditions.

IANS reports, "The US State Department has approved arms sales worth $295 million to Iraq, the Pentagon confirmed."



There's a thing called "the diplomatic toolbox."


John Kerry couldn't find it because he was too busy, as Secretary of State, playing toy solider.

But now Donald Trump is in the White House and yet another administration will fork over everything to the Iraqi government (that the US installed and keeps in power) without any conditions.

Let's stop pretending that the never-ending Iraq War is seen as 'tragic' or even 'problematic' by the US government.

It doesn't want it to end.

If it did, it would follow textbook examples of diplomacy.

Three administration, over 14 years, and the war continues?

That's obviously the intent and the plan.


We're going to have to wrap up.  Sorry so much was spent on an idiot but we cannot allow anyone to dictate what we can and cannot say.


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  • Thursday, April 20, 2017

    I agree with Oliver Stone


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    Who benefits from the gas attack blamed again on Assad? Not Assad. It was clearly committed by the terrorists who were losing this war.




    Exactly right.


    The lies and the propaganda to urge us into war on Syria have got to stop.


    I agree with Oliver Stone, Bashar al-Assad had nothing to gain from a chemical attack.

    On other issues, THE PROMISE.

    Are you going to see the film?

    I had no idea what it was until tonight.

    I kept seeing it and assumed it was some chastity piece from a fundamentalist church.

    I think it's the worst title for a film this year.



    "Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
    Thursday, April 20, 2017.  Chaos and violence continue, The Mosul Slog continues, and much more.







    Day 184 of The Mosul Slog.


    Let's start with yesterday's snapshot:


    And, equally important, there is no safe passage out of Mosul.

    The Iraqi government refused to provide one.  And told people to stay at their homes.  A message they repeated only weeks ago.


    Those are facts.

    When you don't want facts?

    Turn to The Whore of Babylon herself, Jane Arraf.


    The former CNN reporter pops up anywhere they can throw a few pennies at her -- or toss a Hershey bar into her tent.

    Yesterday afternoon?

    NPR, where she insists:


    More than 300,000 civilians are still trapped in Mosul. ISIS has kept them there to prevent the U.S. and Iraq from launching airstrikes and mortars against their fighters. The Iraqi battle plan coordinated with the U.S. military has involved surrounding the city and leaving no escape route for either ISIS fighters or civilians.




    Leaving no escape route for ISIS or civilians?

    But it's ISIS that prevented them from leaving?

    It's ISIS?

    Oh, Jane, you will whore from your coffin at this rate.



    A few note that "later in the day," Ulf Laessing (REUTERS) wrotes:

     Iraqi's army has built a new pontoon bridge over the Tigris river south of Mosul, after flooding had blocked all crossing points, opening an escape route for families fleeing fighting between government forces and Islamic State.
    On Friday, the army dismantled makeshift bridges linking the two parts of Mosul due to heavy rain, forcing residents leaving Iraq's second-largest city to use small boats.


    That link does go to later in the day but that piece was published elsewhere when the snapshot was being dictated and I was aware of it.

    It doesn't effect anything Arraf stated.


    Safe passage defined as "official protection for someone when they are in danger or passing through a dangerous area."

    Reconnecting a bridge is not creating a safe passage.

    WIKILEAKS Julian Assange, for example, is in London at the Ecuadorian Embassy.

    His supporters have long called for a safe passage for him.

    Yes, Julian can travel to an airport or a dock to leave on a boat.

    Or he can try to.

    But there's no guarantee he won't be grabbed en route.

    That's why they want a safe passage.

    And on the topic of Julian Assange, let me be very clear since the slime that is SALON has published another trash attack on him.

    Julian Assange is not a rapist.

    That has never been determined.

    Go back to the archives.  When some of his supporters began insulting the two women involved in the case, we defended them from attacks.

    There is no reason to attack those women with smears and lies.

    There is also no reason to minimize rape or belittle it.

    (Naomi Wolf failed to learn that lesson.)

    But taking rape seriously does not mean that we say, "_____ is a rapist!"

    Julian deserves the same benefit of the doubt as anyone else who has not been convicted.

    Amanda Marcotte seems to think she's 'justice.'

    She's not.

    Julian has been convicted of nothing.

    Rape or alleged rape also has no bearing on WIKILEAKS. (Which is why our advice was two-fold back in the day: Stop attacking those two women and get back to publishing.)

    For fools like Marcotte to say they 'know' Julian (she's never met him) based on her interactions with men online -- how sad for Amanda that this is her only interaction, get out and live a little, there's a whole world offline -- to say the release of e-mails on Hillary were about sexism is to be invited to be called a damn liar.

    Hillary Clinton attacked Julian, she attacked his supporters.

    There is no question that there is personal animosity on both sides.

    Does Hillary hate men?

    I've never accused her of that.

    So Amanda and her ilk need to stop smearing Julian's work as based on hatred for women.

    What Julian hates is public record: Lies.

    His whole career is about that.

    The fact that it took place on the international stage explains why Marcotte has no clue.

    She's another simpleton who never realized that there's a whole word far beyond her nose.  She's got a big nose, but it's a big world.

    She is the ugly face of US feminism that so angers British activists.  She's ignorant, she fails to see that various factors can converge.  She's a single-issue type person, the sort of White feminist in the 70s that would refuse to recognize that women of color could face additional issues, real issues, that need to be addressed.

    The problem with "the personal is political" has always been that some have only seen their own personal life.

    The personal is political is a response to the idiots -- today it would be Michael Walzer to name but one -- who would look at, for example, spouse abuse and decree it a personal problem.

    Marlo Thomas has spoken at length and with far more wisdom on this topic than I ever could, but to short hand: issues like rape and spouse abuse were deemed "personal problems."  They are not personal problems.  Murder is not a personal problem.  But when men like Amanda were in charge, they would judge what worked as important for them.

    That's what "the personal is political" was truly about, destroying this separate spheres argument that undermined the rights of so many to protect those in power.

    Julian Assange has not been convicted of rape.


    It is dishonest to call him a "rapist."

    It's flat out lying to say he's sexist.

    Amanda and her ilk put a very ugly face on feminism and make it hard for those of us who are feminists.

    Safe passage for those in Mosul is not a new call.

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    FAIRFIELD, Conn. (November 1, 2016) — As Iraqi forces close in on IS-held Mosul, now is a critical moment to protect children and open safe routes to allow the 1.5 million civilians still trapped in the city, including about 600,000 children, to leave safely.
    With civilians bracing for the anticipated escalation in violence, Save the Children warns that safe passages must be urgently established.
    Maurizio Crivellaro, Save the Children’s Iraq Country Director said innocent civilians face growing risks each day they remain in Mosul. "As fighting escalates, it is going to become increasingly difficult for families to leave, and for those who remain and are injured to get the medical treatment they need. We cannot sit back and wait for another situation like Aleppo to unfold while there is still the opportunity to get children out of the warzone."
    Fears are mounting for families trapped in the city amid reports of civilians being rounded up as targets, with IS placing them in the line of fire ahead of the imminent onslaught. An increasing number of hospitals and schools are believed to be occupied by IS fighters, and concerns are growing that they will be targeted by military forces in the coming days.
    Mahmoud* recently escaped the village of Shura, south of Mosul. As fighting approached the village about a week ago, he and his family were taken deeper into IS territory, where IS were reportedly forcing people to act as human shields.
    "We and about 100 families were taken on foot about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) along the road and were about to arrive in Surouj when Iraqi military helicopters attacked. There was so much fighting everywhere and we were trapped between the two villages."
    In the chaos, the families fled back to their village, but were forced to leave again days later when they heard IS was coming back.
    While more than 17,700 people have fled from towns in the Mosul region as the frontline has approached the city, the residents of Mosul itself have been prevented from leaving by IS fighters who have planted land mines and stationed snipers around the city, as well as by fighting in the area.
    "Protecting innocent civilians must be the priority in this battle," Crivellaro said. "Reports that IS has kidnapped people from villages nearby Mosul city shows they intend to make this fight as difficult as possible by hiding in a city full of civilians.
    "Iraqi forces must ensure that families are given genuinely safe passages out of the city to avoid mass casualties of innocent civilians who will be caught in the crossfire and beyond the reach of humanitarian aid.
    "Military commanders have previously suggested vulnerable families stay inside and put white flags on their homes. This risks making them targets.
    "The recent commitment of the Iraqi Prime Minister to establish safe corridors is reassuring – we need to see this prioritized and it should happen as soon as possible."
    Mahmoud said that children’s quality of life was under IS rule was significantly impacted, and they were unable to go to school or enjoy any semblance of normality. "I have four daughters. Before IS, the older ones were going to school and loved it. When IS took over the content of the curriculum changed, so we stopped sending them to school. Every lesson became militarized. Even math lessons—they would teach the children ‘one bullet plus one bullet equals two bullets’. They haven’t been to school for two years."
    "We didn’t have anything – I even had to sell my car for money to spend on food and medicine for my children," he said.
    *Names have been changed to protect identities.

    Save the Children gives children in the United States and around the world a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We invest in childhood — every day, in times of crisis and for our future. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.




    Save The Children made that call back in November of last year.


    Carlo Munoz (WASHINGTON TIMES) reports:

    In the months since breaking into the city’s eastern districts, the offensive’s progress has bogged down significantly into the toughest urban fighting U.S. forces have seen since World War II, said Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.

    American and coalition firepower, which was key to the Iraqi forces’ rapid advance in western Mosul, has also been stymied by the Islamic State group’s use of Iraqi civilians as human shields to frustrate coalition airstrikes.


    And Maher Chmaytelli (REUTERS) adds, "The battle to dislodge Islamic State from the Old City of Mosul, where hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are trapped, could turn into the worst humanitarian catastrophe in the war against the militants, the United Nations warned on Tuesday."



    And again, this is day 184 of The Mosul Slog.


    Bodies suggest extrajudicial killings in Iraq
     
     




    I guess noticing killings isn't as 'fun' as lying about Julian Assange which is why the Amandas can blather on as a US-started war continues for 14 years without their bothering to weigh in?


    Tensions mount between Iraq (the KRG specifically but Erdogan's plan to continue war on northern Iraq is objected to by even the central government out of Baghdad) and we'll cover that tomorrow but for now we'll note:


    Iraq summons the Turkish ambassador to protest Erdogan comments on PMF "PMF is a terrorist organization"
     
     



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  • Wednesday, April 19, 2017

    I believe, yes, I still believe

    They lie about everything, don't they?

    The press will sell war every chance it gets.

    It helps ratings, it sells papers, it provides clicks.


    And that's all they care about.

    They're not about the First Amendment.

    They do no real investigative reporting anymore.

    They're just sad liars.


    1. If you were an honest senior editor in M$M, first thing you would do is gen up on Sarin symptoms & broadcast them Ergo there's no honest M$M
    2. CDC summary of Sarin poisoning White Helmets faked "gas victims" all have clean underwear
       
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      How stupid are you? This was the training days before. But instead of using them their NBC suits they didn't bother.
    4.   Retweeted
      Even the White Helmets can not ignore the chemical laws. it was not it was a
    5. Sarin gas kills by paralyzing the lungs, victims turn blue, vomit, urinate & defecate Trump's intel report is a lie



    Syria.  They want war with Syria.

    Apparently their war lust wasn't satisfied by wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.


    Apparently nothing will ever satisfy their war lust.





    This song meant a lot to me growing up.

    My brother had Diana Ross' ANTHOLOGY on a double length cassette.

    And "Young Mothers" was on side two.  I believe it segued into "Brown Baby/Save The Children."

    But it was an important song for me growing up.

    It's one I wish others had bothered to listen to and take to heart.




    "Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
    Wendesday, April 19, 2017.  Chaos and violence continue, The Mosul Slog continues, Jane Arraf continues to deceive and so much more.



    Not a good time for Kenneth Roth.  He can't erase his past and he can't stop embarrassing himself in the present.






    Replying to 
    Interesting for Roth to talk about 'indiffernce' when his org refused to oppose Bush's criminal invasion of Iraq


    HRW continues its long history of punching left and smearing opponents of regime change







    Poor pathetic Kenneth Roth.

    Now maybe people could turn their focus to aging queen Charlie Rose who has supported every war in the world and runs with the dogs of war?

    Meanwhile the war drags on.

    AL ARABIYA reports:

    US Special Forces units reached Ain al-Assad Airbase, the western Anbar province in Iraq, on Tuesday to help Iraqi forces recapture cities still held by ISIS.

    “A large number of US Special Forces units reached the Ain al-Assad Airbase in Anbar’s Al-Baghdadi district some 90 kilometers west of Ramadi,” the Turkish Anadolu Agency reported, quoting an Iraqi army brigadier-general.


    When does this war end?

    It doesn't appear to ever end.

    It will hit year 15 next March.

    So, for those planning to gift, crystal is the traditional 15th anniversary token.

    How many more years is the Iraq War going to continue?

    And has it -- and the Afghanistan War -- gone on so long that we now consider permanent war normal?


    In what world is that acceptable?


    This week Jean Shaoul (WSWS) reported:


    More than half of Iraqi families—around 20 million people—are at risk of food insecurity and cannot withstand any further shocks such as conflict or increases in basic food prices, warned a joint report by the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) and the Iraqi government.
    It follows nearly four decades of wars, sanctions, occupation and civil war, instigated by Washington, that have devastated this once prosperous country.
    It is American imperialism, and its European allies—who invaded the country in 1991 and again in 2003—that are principally responsible for the growing danger of a colossal humanitarian disaster now confronting Iraq.
    Operations by US forces still range throughout the country. Their drone missile strikes and bombings of residential areas at a rate of 200 to 300 a month have slaughtered hundreds, if not thousands, of civilian men, women and children.
    [. . .]
    By the end of January—in a city once home to 1.8 million people—at least 160,000 out of 400,000 people living in eastern Mosul had fled their homes after the military campaign to take the eastern part of the city began.
    The assault by Iraqi forces, under cover of air strikes by US-led forces, led to a huge number of civilian casualties. They comprised nearly half of all casualties, far higher than the 15-20 percent expected in such a conflict. This was despite a promise by the Iraqi security forces to adopt a plan prohibiting artillery strikes, requiring civilians to remain in their homes, and providing humanitarian exit corridors wherever necessary.
    The situation has hardly improved in the months since the recapture of eastern Mosul. While booby-traps are being removed and some people have returned to their homes, water, electricity and food are in short supply. Schools remained closed for two months because of delays in paying teachers.
    Lise Grande, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Iraq, told the website Middle East Eye, Worryingly, large numbers of people are actually leaving eastern Mosul. People tell us that they are leaving because not enough food is being distributed and because they are being harassed—some even feel threatened.”
    In fact, the Iraqi authorities are targeting households whose family members are thought to have supported ISIS. This is giving rise to fears that Mosul will experience the same horrendous sectarian abuse and corrupt governance that befell Fallujah and Ramadi after their recapture. Mosul’s governor, Nofal Hammadi al-Sultan, remains in Erbil, not even visiting the city until February, even though eastern Mosul was recaptured in December.
    The bitter sectarian conflict that threatens to explode is directly linked to Washington’s criminal policy of divide and rule pursued in the years following the Iraq war. Support for reactionary ISIS only emerged under conditions where the Sunni population was sidelined and suffered sectarian violence at the hands of the Shia-dominated Baghdad government.



    That's Iraq.  That's what the US government has brought about.

    All the people killed, all the people wounded, all the dollars spent.

    And that's the reality.

    And, equally important, there is no safe passage out of Mosul.

    The Iraqi government refused to provide one.  And told people to stay at their homes.  A message they repeated only weeks ago.


    Those are facts.

    When you don't want facts?

    Turn to The Whore of Babylon herself, Jane Arraf.


    The former CNN reporter pops up anywhere they can throw a few pennies at her -- or toss a Hershey bar into her tent.

    Yesterday afternoon?

    NPR, where she insists:


    More than 300,000 civilians are still trapped in Mosul. ISIS has kept them there to prevent the U.S. and Iraq from launching airstrikes and mortars against their fighters. The Iraqi battle plan coordinated with the U.S. military has involved surrounding the city and leaving no escape route for either ISIS fighters or civilians.



    Leaving no escape route for ISIS or civilians?

    But it's ISIS that prevented them from leaving?

    It's ISIS?

    Oh, Jane, you will whore from your coffin at this rate.



    It's day 183 of The Mosul Slog.


    And 'activists' in the US are fretting over Donald Trump's tax returns.

    Priorities -- they lack them.

    People are dying because of the US government and whiners want to pretend that their hatred of Donald Trump is accomplishing anything.

    It's not even highlighting a serious matter.

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    Does it get any less serious than Hayder al-Abadi in his underoos trying to look like a full grown adult?  He's the tiny boy in the photo above.

    That's the mini-prime minister of Iraq.

    Doing yet another photo-op.


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