The previous song was Diva inspired, accident related or just making the best of a bad situation.
5 Feb
Andrew Sullivan: The Gitmo “Suicides” & The Strange Autopsies
There is now disturbing, conclusive evidence the U.S. Government and Military actively engaged in a cover-up of the atrocities committed at Gitmo.
I haven’t been posting on this potentially game-changing story because the details are complex and the information overload enormous and I want to make sure I get every iota right. Stay tuned for more in the coming days. But Scott Horton’s latest piece zeroes in on a very specific detail: the weird autopsies. Horton claimed that the families of the dead prisoners requested the missing necks and heart and kidneys of the deceased for a second autopsy. Rowan Scarborough at Human Events, contacted the military to debunk the story.
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5 Feb
You might be a Right-Wing Republican if
Check out the guy's sign in the middle
I just ran across some laugh out loud (LOL) facts about the family values, far right-wingnuts who are more interested in Tea Party’s than food banks, healthcare and home foreclosures. So without further delay.
You might be a Right-Wing Republican if:
- you’re for tax cuts for the rich because you actually believe that one day you’ll be rich.
- You might be a right-wing Repugnant, oops, I mean Republican, if you’re against abortion but don’t give a damn about those babies once they’re born.
- you try to make it complicated, but all Jesus was really saying was “Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.”
- you think that (compared to you), a whiskey-guzzling, coke-sniffing, draft-dodging loser is the cream of the American crop and the best this country could offer up for President.
- Abortion is murder, but killing the children in Iraq is liberating them
SNAP!
Want more words of Repugnant wisdom? There is more to be had at All Hat No Cattle.
2 Feb
Sen. Laudrieu’s Break-in really a Black-Ops?
SENATE BURGLARY: CIA DOMESTIC BLACK-OP TEAM ARRESTED
ALL 4 INVOLVED IN SENATE HOMELAND SECURITY BREAKIN CIA “N-O-C” AGENTS
CIA PROGRAM MAY HAVE TRAINED DOMESTIC “DEATH SQUADS”
Source: By Gordon Duff |Veterans Today | Staff Writer-Senior Editor
Last week’s breakin at Senator Mary Landrieu’s office in the New Orleans Federal Building was more than it seemed, much more. All of the 4 arrested had been trained by the CIA and, possibly, Israel. One arrested, Stan Dai, is listed as an Operations Officer of the Department of Defense Irregular Warfare Program and a known expert and lecturer on, not only surveillance but explosives training, assassinations and “false flag operations.” If you wanted a plane to crash, an enemy to get sick and die or a building to blow up, Dai would be the man to know how to make it happen. Problem is, his skills were being used as part of a criminal conspiracy inside the United States against members of our own government.
Original reports on the “break-in” were also wrong. One of those arrested was found blocks away with a covert receiver, managing the office bugs. The man in the car is identified as Stan Dai, Operations Officer for the Department of Defense Irregular Warfare Program:
“one of the four was arrested with a listening device in a car blocks from the senator’s offices.” The FBI’s affidavit noted that Flanagan and Basel were in the building with O’Keefe, and a federal law enforcement official confirmed to AP that Dai was the one in the car.”
What is not initially known is whether this was the first attempt or, as is much more likely, an additional incursion to plant new bugs as the ones in place were missing key conversations. Also, it is not known how many “black ops” crews are being run by the CIA inside the United States in violation of their charter or if their operations are being limited to spying on Democratic lawmakers or if operations of a more threatening nature have been performed but remain undiscovered.
Additionally, as this was a covert op against US government investigations of, not only terrorism and terrorism funding but major financial crimes against the United States, it is unclear who the recipient of the “product,” an intelligence industry term for “output” or information put up for “distribution” might be. Potential buyers could be the Republican Party, Israel, Turkey, India, Russia, China, Venezuela, North Korea or financial institutions involved in massive money laundering schemes being investigated by the Senate’s Committee on Homeland Security of which Senator Landireu is a member.
2 Feb
Gov.Bev Perdue needs a Wake-Up Call, from us
Over the weekend the N&O reported that Gov. Perdue wasn’t happy with the state’s probation and parole system, yet her budget cuts continue to target the state’s most basic, necessary services. Doesn’t she realize her actions have a trickle down effect? It’s time we face the facts, Perdue is putting the state in a very vulnerable place, with the burden of a costly future.
Gov. Bev Perdue said Sunday that fixing the state’s probation system remains high on her to-do list.
“I am not happy with where probation and parole, our state’s system, is today,” Perdue said Sunday. “I am happier than I was at this time last year. … It was a wreck.”
Perdue was responding to a report in The News & Observer that one of the probation system’s chief problems has worsened in the past year: 141 street-level positions for probation officers are vacant – up 32 from a year ago.
“It was a wreck”? Sorry but this is a simple case of the pot calling the kettle black. The number of state programs that ARE a wreck, due to ole’ Bev policies and budget cuts has grown exponentially. Moreover, as long as she and the state legislators continue with business as usual things will only get worse, much worse.
One example that comes to mind is Perdue’s narrow-minded, slash and burn approach to the state’s Mental Health system. Studies have shown repeatedly that mental illness and Crime go hand in hand. A Harvard study in 2009, showed that nearly “Two thirds of prisoners nationwide with a mental illness were off treatment at the time of their arrest”. The study also found that “under-treatment of mental illness contributes to crime and incarceration”.
The study, published today online in the American Journal of Public Health, found that about a quarter of inmates nationwide had a history of chronic mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar illness and depression. Researchers analyzed data collected in 2002 and 2004 from local, state and federal correctional facilities.
Now, consider the recent case where a mother camped out at Wake County’s Crisis and Assessment Unit to make sure her son got the mental health treatment he needed. However, her 13-year-old son didn’t arrive at the unit with his mother, he arrived at the unit in the back of a squad car because he had assaulted his mother and his brother. But wait, if that isn’t bad enough.
1 Feb
Report: Blackwater Corruption subject of Gov’t Probe
US govt probes Blackwater for corruption: report
Source: RawStory | AFP
The US Justice Department is investigating whether officials of security firm Blackwater Worldwide tried to bribe Iraqi government officials in hopes of retaining the firm?s work in Iraq, The New York Times reported.
Citing unnamed current and former government officials, the newspaper said that the department?s fraud section opened the inquiry late last year to determine whether Blackwater employees violated a federal law banning US corporations from paying bribes to foreign officials.
The inquiry is the latest fallout from the 2007 shooting in Nisur Square in Baghdad, which involved Backwater security guards and left 17 Iraqis dead, the report said.
A federal judge in December dismissed criminal charges against five former Blackwater guards implicated in the episode, but Vice President Joseph Biden recently announced that the administration of President Barack Obama would appeal that decision.
The investigation was confirmed by three current and former officials speaking on condition of anonymity, the newspaper said.
It follows a report in The Times in November that said that top executives at Blackwater had authorized secret payments of about one million dollars to Iraqi officials to buy their support after the shooting.
