Sunday, August 05, 2018

Alyssa struggles with reality

BULLY BOY PRESS &   CEDRIC'S BIG MIX   -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

"DAMN WHITE RACISTS, PROBABLY EVANGICAL CHRISTIANS!" EXCLAIMED FAILED ACTRESS AND TWITTER ACTIVIST ALYSSA MILANO TO THESE REPORTERS.

SHE WAS ADDRESSING THE CHILDREN RESCUED FROM A NEW MEXICO COMPOUND WHERE THEY WERE HELD BY TWO MEN.

INFORMED THAT IT WAS BELIEVED TO BE A MUSLIM COMPOUND AND THAT THE TWO MEN WERE LUCAS ALLEN MORTEN (AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALE) AND SIRAJ IBN WAHHAJ (MUSLIM), MILANO FLEW INTO A RAGE INSISTING, "WHITE CHRISTIANS! ONE AND ALL!   DAMN DONALD TRUMP!  THIS IS A FRAME UP! NO DOUBT RUSSIA WAS BEHIND THIS!"



FROM THE TCI WIRE:



This morning, Kevin Watkins (GUARDIAN) reports:

Rahaf, aged 10, from west Mosul in Iraq, can’t tell you what caused the war that left her an orphan, killed her friends and robbed her of her childhood. But she can give you a child’s-eye view of the collective trauma, grief and loss that weigh on children across her devastated city. “I wake up and I witness war every day. I don’t want to go through another war,” she says.
[. . .]
While aid agencies and the Iraqi government focus on rebuilding cities flattened by war, the psycho-social needs of thousands of children who suffered traumatic experiences are being sidelined.
[. . .]
Looking at the piles of stone and twisted girders that were once homes provides a glimpse of the terror experienced by civilians trapped by urban warfare. It is impossible to know how many were killed or wounded by snipers and car bombs. What is clear is that many children emerged from the military devastation, and the three years of Isis rule that preceded it, carrying deep psychological scars.



The scars won't be going away anytime soon.  Nor has the war ended.  The 'success' of Mosul and its 'liberation' is a joke.



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Five harsh realities about life in Mosul today 

 1) 300,000 people still live in displacement camps

 2) Mines and unexploded devices are a constant threat

 3) The number of bodies buried under rubble are still unknown.

 4) Tens of thousands of people depend on aid for survival.

 5) Volunteers do their best to save their cultural heritage.


That's Mosul.  What about Anbar Province?  Arwa Ibrahim (ALJAZEERA) reports:

The about 100 residents of al-Khadra camp are among the 2.14 million Iraqis who have been displaced since January 2014, according to the UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR.
Inside the camp, which offers residents little more than shelter from the scorching summer heat, children run up and down its arid walkways and play in the sand between rows of neatly set tents.

As women hang their children's washed clothes to dry in the sun, while others cook meals on bunsen burners inside the tents that have housed them for years, there is no sign of this camp closing down any time soon.


As it gets close to 4 o'clock in the afternoon in Basra, right now the temperature is 113 degrees Fahrenheit.



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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Brainy Milano explains the human digestive system

BULLY BOY PRESS &   CEDRIC'S BIG MIX   -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

SOCIAL ARMCHAIR WARRIOR AND FORMER ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO IS PEEVED.

"FIRED FOR TAKING A DUMP!" SHE EXCLAIMED TO THESE REPORTERS.

NO, SHE WASN'T SPEAKING ABOUT HERSELF.  SHE WAS SPEAKING OF THE HIGH SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT WHO HAS LEFT HIS JOB AFTER BEING CAUGHT REPEATEDLY DEFECATING ON A RIVAL SCHOOL'S TRACK.

 "IT IS LIKE SCIENCE AND STUFF," HUFFED ALYSSA.  "EVERYONE KNOWS WHEN YOU JIGGLE YOUR STOMACH BY RUNNING, YOUR INTESTINES LIKE RUSH THINGS TO YOUR HEART AND FROM THERE TO THE BOTTOM OF YOUR FEET AND THEN TO YOUR BOWELS.  THAT'S BASIC SCIENCE! MY TUTOR TAUGHT ME THAT WHEN I WAS 16!  THIS IS SO UNFAIR AND ANOTHER DONALD TRUMP ATTACK ON OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM!"
FROM THE TCI WIRE:

As July turns into August this week, it's worth noting that Iraq has still not formed a new government.




May 12th, Iraq held national elections.  Ahead of the elections, there had been big hopes -- these hopes included a large turnout.   Ali Jawad (ANADOLU AGENCY) noted, "A total of 24 million Iraqis are eligible to cast their ballots to elect members of parliament, who will in turn elect the Iraqi president and prime minister."  RUDAW added, "Around 7,000 candidates have registered to stand in the May 12 poll, with 329 parliamentary seats up for grabs."  AFP explained that the nearly 7,000 candidates includes 2014 women.  THE SIASAT DAILY added, of the nearly 7,000 candidates, "According to the electoral commission, only 20 percent of the candidates are newcomers." Ali Abdul-Hassan and Sinan Salaheddin (AP) reported, "Iraqi women account for 57 percent of Iraq’s population of over 37 million, according to the U.N. Development Program, and despite government efforts to address gender inequality, the situation for Iraqi women has declined steadily since 2003.  According to the UNDP, one in every 10 Iraqi households is headed by a widow. In recent years, Iraqi women suffered further economic, social and political marginalization due to decades of wars, conflict, violence and sanctions." 


The other big hope?  For the US government, the biggest hope was that Hayder al-Abadi's bloc would come in first so that he would have a second term as prime minister.  It was not to be.  Mustapha Karkouti (GULF NEWS) identifies the key issues as follows, "Like in previous elections, the main concerns of ordinary Iraqis continue to be the lack of security and the rampant corruption."

As we noted the day of the election:

 Corruption is a key issue and it was not a topic explored by candidates outside of Moqtada al-Sadr's coalition.  Empty lip service was offered.  Hayder al-Abadi, current prime minister, had been offering empty lip service for four years.  He did nothing.  Iraqis were supposed to think that, for example, Hayder's focus on ISIS in Mosul mattered.  All life was supposed to stop because of Mosul?  All expectations were to be ignored because of Mosul?

Arabic social media today and yesterday was full of comments about the lack of improvement in services.  It noted how the elections had not mattered before and, yes, how in 2010 the US government overturned the elections because they didn't like the outcome. 


So it was probably only surprising to the US government and their press hacks that Hayder wouldn't come in first.  But that was after the votes were counted.  On the day of the election, the big news was how so few were turning out to vote.  NPR reported, "With more than 90 percent of the votes in, Iraq's election commission announced voter turnout of 44.5 percent. The figure is down sharply from 60 percent of eligible voters who cast their ballots in the last elections in 2014." AP pointed out the obvious, "No election since 2003 saw turnout below 60 percent."  AFP broke it down even more clearly "More than half of the nearly 24.5 million voters did not show up at the ballot box in the parliamentary election, the highest abstention rate since the first multiparty elections in 2005 [. . .]."



Elections held May 12th.  August arrives this week but it comes in the door with no new government to welcome in Iraq yet.



 Jul 25
Arrived in tonight for talks with PM Abadi and other leaders on our common fight against , protection of Iraq’s borders, and economic reforms supported by our Strategic Framework Agreement.
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Really?  Is that what you're doing, Brett?  Because that's not what others are saying.  For example, MIDDLE EAST MONITOR quotes the outgoing Speaker of Parliament Salem al-Jubouri on the matter:



In remarks to the Anadolu Agency, Al-Jubouri’s adviser Abdul-Malik Al-Hosseini said: “The former parliament speaker met on Sunday in Baghdad with the US Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat [the Islamic State] and discussed the Iraqi parties’ efforts to form a new government and the importance of reaching a common vision among all political blocs.”
Al-Hosseini added that “the global coalition and the United States want the political blocs to accelerate resolving the issue of forming the new government in order to start dealing with the issues of stability and reconstruction.”


Brett, for those who have forgotten or never knew, was sent to Iraq by Barack Obama in the summer of 2010.  Why was that?  They'd held elections in March of 2010.  And thug Nouri al-Maliki had lost but refused to step down.  Instead of negotiating for Nouri to step aside, Brett oversaw the negotiations for The Erbil Agreement, the US contract that overturned the 2010 election results and gave Nouri a second term.   Human rights monster Samantha Power, among others in the administration, insisted that Nouri -- despite his thuggish ways and secret prisons and jails where torture was taking place -- had to have a second term.

Is that what Brett's again working on?  Overturning the votes of the Iraqi people?


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    Sunday, July 22, 2018

    It's all about Alyssa

    BULLY BOY PRESS &   CEDRIC'S BIG MIX   -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

    FORMER CHILD ACTRESS AND WOULD BE SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR ALYSSA MILANO IS BEING CALLED OUT FOR BEING PART OF A NEW SERIES THAT FEATURES FAT SHAMING.

    REACHED FOR COMMENT, ALYSSA EXPLAINED, "FAT SHAMING IS WRONG.  EXCEPT WHEN I DO IT.  WHEN I DO IT, IT'S OKAY BECAUSE I'M SO MUCH MORE EVOLVED THAN ANYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET.  REMEMBER, I WAS ON WHO'S THE BOSS!"

    THOSE WHO DISAGREE CAN SIGN THE PETITION CALLING FOR NETFLIX NOT TO AIR THE SHOW.

    FROM THE TCI WIRE:


    More protests today as the silence on Iraq largely continues.



     Jul 16
    I don't normally do this, but I will openly criticise H.M. Government for not producing any statement on Iraq, the protests have been going on for days now, and we've said not a word. People are dying, and it is clear some form of comment is needed. Even an expression of concern.
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    There's a great deal of silence about what's taking place in Iraq.  Many governments are silent, western media is largely silent.  The people are attacked and various bodies reveal their true colors.  It's not a 'news' story that the Iraqi government is attacking the Iraqi people.  It's not a 'human rights' issue either so the governments can be silent as well.

    What you see is the silence of the corrupt and the guilty.

    Remember when Goody Whore used to boast that she delivered "the war and peace report" on DEMOCRACY NOW?

    The attacks have gotten one damn headline all week.  That's it.  So much for war and peace and alleged concern for the people of the world.  Those who remember the so-called Arab Spring, if they know reality, are aware that it actually started in Iraq and, long after the media had moved on from Egypt, the protests continued in Iraq.

    Iraq got little coverage then.  In part because Nouri al-Maliki was attacking journalists.  Well, he was attacking Iraqi journalists.  There was no excuse for the silence from non-Iraqis.

    What is their excuse?  They're slaves to their corporate masters?

    That would certainly describe those yapping and howling from the kennels of THE WASHINGTON POST.  They're so indignant daily, those E.J.s and Clarences and Ruths and the lesser names.  But they're not so righteous that they will leave Jeff Bezos' payroll, right?  They care so much about the world.  They care so much about fairness and equality . . . except when it comes to their own pay check.  They want that pay check.  Screw the workers for Amazon -- Jeff certainly does.  Someone needs to knock them off their high horse and remind them that as long as Jeff pays slave wages to Amazon workers and as long as they work for Jeff, they are just as guilty.





     Oh all around the marketplace
    The buzzing of the flies
    The buzzing and the stinging
    Divinely barren
    And wickedly wise
    The killer nails are ringing

    Enter the multitudes
    In Exxon blue
    In radiation rose
    Tragedy
    Now you tell me
    Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
    When all the slaves are free?
    (Who're you gonna get)
    -- "Passion Play (When All The Slaves Are Free)," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her NIGHT RIDE HOME


    The protests are going on today.

    It's been two weeks and the reality is that you have to to non-western media to find out what's happening.  With the exception of NPR, no US outlet has covered the story in a serious manner -- meaning more than a passing glance.  (CNBC did a good report yesterday that we'll note in a moment.  NPR has done several reports.)

    AP has a video today.



    Non-western outlets and voices have covered the protests repeatedly and powerfully.















    The protests are continuing today.


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    Monday, July 09, 2018

    First ISIS, now Del Monte, when will the explosions end?


    BULLY BOY PRESS &   CEDRIC'S BIG MIX   -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

    FORMER CHILD ACTRESS ALYSSA MILANO HAS COME OUT STRONGLY AGAINST TERRORISM. 

    STILL UNEMPLOYED, THE FORMER ACTRESS CALLED THESE REPORTERS TONIGHT TO EXPLAIN THAT SHE HAD GOTTEN USED TO DIRTY BOMBS AND TO HIJACKED PLANES BUT "NOW THIS?  THE TERRORISTS ARE USING DEL MONTE TO SET OFF EXPLOSIONS?  EXPLOSIVE BOWEL MOVEMENTS?  CAN YOU IMAGINE IF SOMEONE LIKE I WAS ON A PLANE AND SEATED NEXT TO SOMEONE WITH EXPLOSIE BOWEL MOVEMENTS?  THE HORROR.  WHEN WILL IT STOP?  WHEN WILL ISIS SAY ENOUGH?"



    FROM THE TCI WIRE:

    Yes, the war in Iraq drags on.

    Australia's NEWS.COM notes:

     SHORTLY after the fall of the Syrian city of Raqqa in October 2017 — the centre of the Islamic State (IS) caliphate — US President Donald Trump announced that IS had been defeated and the war was won.
    Nine months later it is far from clear that IS is finished and extreme paramilitary Islamist movements are increasingly active in several regions, he [Paul Rogers] writes for The Conversation.
    IS had taken over much of northern Syria and Iraq, including Mosul, by mid-2014 leading President Barack Obama to order intensive air strikes to limit its spread and aid the Iraqis and others to push it on to the defensive. For close to four years an extraordinarily intensive air war was fought, principally by the US but aided by France, the UK and some other European and Middle Eastern powers.
    According to the latest data from the Airwars monitoring group, over 1,424 days of air strikes, 107,814 bombs and missiles have been used against 29,741 targets in Iraq and Syria by the US-led forces. Pentagon sources speak of at least 60,000 IS paramilitaries killed but Airwars also reported 6,321 civilians killed.


    We're back to where we were not all that long ago, explaining that we weren't denying credit to US President Donald Trump for defeating ISIS because, in fact, we didn't believe ISIS had been defeated. 

    While Paul Rogers is right to note that Donald Trump didn't defeat ISIS (and shouldn't be claiming he has), it's equally true that the western press shouldn't have been running with the nonsense that ISIS had been defeated.

    It had not been.  But, golly, when Hayder al-Abadi was campaigning on the 'defeat' to argue he should be prime minister for a second term, seems like the western press couldn't tell the truth, could they?  They kept -- I'm sure by pure accident -- repeating the lie that ISIS had been defeated.

    In other violence, PRESS TV notes:

    Iraqi police have opened fire to break up crowds of demonstrators who had gathered near the southern oil hub of Basra to protest against a shortage of jobs, electricity, water and a number of other basic services, killing and wounding several demonstrators, local officials say.
    The incident occurred at Talha district in the northern parts of Iraq's southern city of Basra on Sunday, when security forces guarding the district’s oilfields shot with live ammunition at a group of protesters who gathered on a highway, the Iraqi News website reported.


    Moving on to another topic we've repeatedly cov -- Iraq's legal system is a dirty joke and we noted that fact most recently on June 29th.  This week, AP is doing a series of reports on the topic.  In one article, AP explains, "Over three days in late May, the presiding judge of the counterterrorism court in Baghdad heard an average of 12-13 cases a day and sentenced to death at least 10 defendants accused of being Islamic State group members."  June 29th, we noted:

    Iraq's legal system remains a joke.  Trials take mere minutes.  There are few who receive even adequate defense.  Evidence is not required for a conviction.  Women whose 'crime' consists of being married to a member of ISIS or someone suspected of being a member of ISIS can be imprisoned and sentenced to death.

    Charges -- related to ISIS or otherwise -- are often based on personal grudges and not actual events.  The whole system is a mess.

    Doubt it?  Hazma Hendawi, Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Maya Alleruzzo (AP) report:

     Any allegation of having taken up arms for the militant group can bring the ultimate penalty, even while the evidence is thin and cursory. The heavy reliance on informants is particularly glaring, given the potential that some are motivated by personal grudges. Informants never appear in court; their claims are passed to the judges in dry, written reports from intelligence officials with no hint of their possible motivation.
    Thousands of defendants are rushed through the courts, with trials as short as 10 or 15 minutes and a third of the cases ending in the death penalty. Witnesses are rarely called and no forensic evidence presented, raising the likelihood of innocent people going to the gallows.


    Read more here: https://www.kansas.com/news/article214547244.html#storylink=cpy


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    "Iraq snapshot"
    "Chris Brown arrested again"
    "Reality on immigration is hard to find in the corporate press"
    "How Mindy ruined Ocean's 8 and also thoughts on The Crossing"
    "Media critiques -- Nora Ephron's SCRIBBLE SCRABBLE"
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    "dynasty without cristal?"
    "Agree with John Stauber completely"
    "Green Beans with Hazelnuts in the Kitchen"
    "James Woods gets purged, Scarlett Johannson crosses a line"
    "Is the a.c. working?"
    "Are they trying to lose the mid-terms?"
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    "Waiting"
    "ed schultz"
    "Real choices"
    "Remember, it's summer"
    "THIS JUST IN! ALYSSA COMES OUT IN FAVOR OF ICE!"





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