Sunday, October 14, 2018

Justice for Hillary Goose Girl Style


 

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From August 9, 2015, that's "Justice for Hillary Goose Girl Style."  C.I. noted:


The King asks Hillary, "What should happen to someone like Ed Snowden who releases classified information?"  Forgetting her own e-mails, she exclaims, "King, they should be tossed in prison! Let them rot there!" And the King responds, "That that is what I shall do to you."  Isaiah archives his comics at The World Today Just Nuts.


Goose Girl?

I didn't know about it.  I was reading picture books to my niece and I picked up one of The Brothers Grimm.  While I was reading it, I thought, "Oh, this is a comic!"  :D  


Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


Friday, October 11, 2018.



Starting with a topic we've been covering for a week now . . .


Muhammad Al-mutairi, a 15 year old kid from Iraq was filmed being tortured, and murdered. Because they suspected he was gay. His last words were "I want to see my mother" May his soul Rest In Peace 😞
 
 




In Iraq, the LGBTQ community is being targeted yet again.  Ahmad Majed Mutairi was murdered because he was perceived to be part of that community.  His murder is beginning to get some serious press attention.  Sara Al Shurafa (GULF NEWS) reports:


A new shocking video of a brutal murder in Iraq went viral in the past few days around the Arab world: showing a teenage boy lying down on his side, bleeding from his abdomen, and being taunted with homosexual slurs by his killer.
Ahmad Majed Mutairi, 14, known as Hamoudi Mutairi on social media, was brutally killed last weekend because he had “feminine” looks, which made his sexuality under suspicion.

According to some media reports, the teenager was on his way home at night, in Baghdad’s Yarmouk neighborhood, when his assailant attacked him with a knife, inflicting more than 7 stabs to his stomach while documenting all in a video, which later got posted on Facebook.


Tracy E. Gilchrist (THE ADVOCATE) notes:

The victim’s assailants, who stabbed him repeatedly, allegedly for appearing too feminine, according to Kurdistan 24, can be heard asking, “Who is your boyfriend?”  
One of the murderers joked about the boy’s “guts” coming out of his body as the teen lay dying. 
Social media users called for the condemnation of such heinous hate crimes and urged the international LGBTQ community to act. 

“An innocent kid was killed in Iraq just because they suspected he was gay, I think the international community and especially the LGBTQ community should take a stand,” one Twitter user wrote. 


Sara Malm (DAILY MAIL) adds:


The government has yet to comment on the brutal murder and vile video being shared online.
Several exile Iraqis have taken to Twitter to express their outrage over what the perceive as an attack on a young boy because he defied the conservative gender norms of the country.
The murder of Hamoudi al-Mutairi, also named by some news outlets as Mohammed al-Motteri, follows the deaths of four high-profile progressive Iraqis working in social media and the beauty industry in less than a month.


Nick Duffy (PINK NEWS) explains, "It is illegal to be gay in Iraq and gay people face extreme persecution from many of the factions and militant groups that hold power across the country."



I wonder what Iraq is doing since this is the 5th murder in a row targeting people living their life openly on social media? How sick does one have to be to kill an innocent 14yr for acting gay? Are they looking for the suspects? Please someone in Iraq update me!
 
 



In Iraq, there have been waves of increased targeting of the LGBTQ community (and people suspected of belonging to it).  These attacks are a lot like the corpses dumped in streets, when they start showing up, it indicates the violence is on the rise.  It doesn't match with the latest wave of Operation Happy Talk the media offers about a 'safer' Iraq and they tend to ignore these signs as a result.  But in post-US-led-invasion Iraq, that has been the pattern.  What is taking place with the targeting of this community -- and the targeting of women -- is awful and appalling by itself.  But the indicator aspect is equally appalling.

We've been talking about Operation Happy Talk since 2004 here and it's appalling that these waves still continue.  Iraq at its supposed least violent is still violent.  Instead of using a normal baseline to grade it, the press rushes to compare it to the ethnic slaughter of 2006 and 2007.

By any realistic measurement, Iraq is a failed state and violence rules there.  But realistic measures won't keep selling continued occupation.  Fortunately, for the occupiers, the world's press is more than willing to mask what actually happens in Iraq on those rare times they bother to cover it.




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We now have our largest embassy in the world in Iraq. Larger than Vatican city. Sounds like an occupier? The legacy of Cheney /Bush.
 
 




Oh, don't be modest.  It wasn't just Bully Boy Bush and his crotch rocket Dick Cheney.  It was Barack Obama and Joe Biden (they are the ones who overturned the 2010 election with The Erbil Agreement giving thug Nouri al-Maliki a second term).  Barack was the one who promised US troops out of Iraq and he left, after two terms as president, with US troops . . . still on the ground in Iraq.


It's all lies and pretense.  That's why Joe Biden can give Bully Boy Bush an award and why Michelle Obama can tell the world that Bully Boy Bush is her BFF.


Michelle Obama: George W. Bush is my "partner in crime"
 
 




Considering over a million Iraqi and Afghan deaths since America’s invasions and occupations, this is apposite phrasing:
 
 
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This man is MURDERER of lacs of people in Iraq. Humanity killers are shown as they are Humanity lovers.
 
 


As Rebecca said, "stop normalizing war criminal bully boy bush."  That is what is taking place and those idiots of the so-called 'resistance' may base everything on where someone stands on Trump but that's not the reality for the rest of the world, especially those areas bombed by the US government.  Bully Boy Bush and Barack and, yes, Donald Trump are carrying out wars and too many Americans fails to use their voice to object or even note these continued wars and the way they destroy the lives of so many.  Michelle can be BFFs with Bully Boy Bush because she cheated people out of medical services in her days back in Chicago, yes, but also because she doesn't give a s**t about war.  She never spoke out against it.  Her husband continued the wars.

She has everything in common with Bully Boy Bush and not one damn thing in common with peace and anti-war activists.  Marcia covered this topic in "Michelle Obama needs to shut up" and Elaine in "F**k you, Joe Biden."

It's all a joke to them.  The American people -- people period -- are a joke to them.  Just tiny chess pawns to be moved around on the board.  They don't recognize or care about the dying that they are responsible for.  They don't care. They are removed from it all.

If you want to stand against violence, there's an action in DC later this month.



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    He sent young men and women to die for oil, ordered torture to cover it up, so yeah, this seems fitting. I wonder why half the country doesn't vote? F**king Susan Sarandon, amerite?
     
     
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    Saturday, October 6, 2018

    Study in Hypocrisy


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    That's "Study in Hypocrisy" from July 26, 2015.  C.I. noted:

      
    Hillary Clinton declares, "Saturday I changed my e-mail story to say I did not 'knowingly' send out classified information.  Sure hope no one remembers my attack on Ed Snowden included releasing classified information 'intentionally or unintentionally'." Valerie Jarrett explains, "She's a study in hypocrisy."   Isaiah archives his comics at The World Today Just Nuts.


    Hillary's e-mails remain the joke that never stops getting laughs.  Did you see Hillary two Thursdays ago on MURPHY BROWN making e-mail jokes?

    Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"


    Friday, October 5, 2018.


    News out of Iraq today includes the sickness of the European Union's representative Ramon Blecua:


    Thanks to all that have checked on my health . I did fell sick this morning and had to cancel several meetings. UNICEF doctor diagnosed the cause as water pollution. I did not intended to take my solidarity with the people of Basra that far, but certainly now share how you feel.
     
     




    As The BRussels Tribunal's Dirk Adriaensens has noted, over 100,000 in the last few months have required hospitalization as a result of drinking the water.

    The drinking water is poison.  And where's the Iraqi government?

    For that matter, where are the international oil companies?

    The Rumaila oil field has not helped drinking water, not when pipes leak hundreds of barrels a day and the oil pools on either side of the highway.  There is no effort to stop the leaks, there is no effort to clean up the spills.  Luke Mitchell noted it in his December 2007 report for HARPER'S MAGAZINE.

    There are no protections for the people of Iraq.  The same government that steals from the Iraqi treasury turns an eye as problems fester and increase, issues that harm the very safety of the Iraqi people.

    A functioning or even just semi-functioning (and partially independent) Iraqi government would have long ago brought a law suit against the US government and various weaponmakers for the use of Depleted Uranium, White Phosphorus, etc in Iraq in the early years of the Iraq War.  They would note the birth defects that followed.

    But Iraq's government is largely puppets and they are more interested in stealing from the Iraqi people.  They don't even have the strength to try to leverage the US government to build and fund up to date facilities to treat those effected by the various weapons used in Iraq.


    Last year, Vijay Prashad (THE CITIZEN) noted:

    Fallujah is one of the most forgotten contemporary US battlefields. In that battle to defeat the popular insurgency against the American occupation, the United States used chemical (white phosphorus) and radioactive (DU) weapons with great abandon. The fierceness of the war destroyed three quarters of the city and sent most of its population to the grave or into flight. At this time, General Mattis headed the 1st Marine Division that was key to the Fallujah war. 

    Ironically, the United States went into Iraq in 2003 with the claim that it wanted to destroy weapons of mass destruction. In turn, it was the United States that used weapons of mass destruction inside Iraq. 

    The United States dropped at least 116,000 kgs of DU ammunition during the bombing campaign of the 2003 Iraq War. At that time, A-10 fighter jets were used for these missions, the same planes used in Syria. Strike logs released to George Washington University in 2013, shows that in the early months of the war (March-April 2003), DU ammunition was used against cars and trucks as well as buildings of all kinds. 

    The widespread use of these radioactive weapons across Iraq contaminated large swathes of the country. What transpired in Fallujah the next year was merely the continuation of what had become normal policy. The data from that war has not been released as of yet. It would show that DU weapons were fired not only from A-10 jets, but also from tanks and other ground-based devices. These not only contaminated the soil, but also endangered US troops. 

    It is not as if the US military did not know that DU weapons are dangerous. The US Environmental Protection Agency calls these weapons ‘a radiation health hazard when inside the body’. A 1975 US Air Force review suggested that these weapons not be used against troops, but only against ‘tanks, armored personnel carriers or other hard targets’. 

    This prohibition was routinely violated during the US War on Iraq. In 2003, the UK’s Royal Society of Medicine and the UN Environment Program warned against the use of such weapons. None of these warnings were heeded. People like Mattis and Kelley had their fingers on the trigger. There is no available evidence that they cautioned against what is tantamount to a war crime. 



    Last Friday, we noted the death of Tara Fares.  Her murder continues to resonate.



    Tara Fares is not the only beauty entrepreneur to have met her death in Iraq in recent months.
     
     




    Three well-known women involved in the beauty industry were reported murdered in in last 30 days: Today: Tara Fares, 22, blogger and model Wednesday: Suad al-Ali, human rights activist 4 Weeks ago: Rafeef al-Yaser, surgeon and beauty expert.
     
     


    Robin Smith (NEWS.COM) notes this morning:

    “I’M not afraid of the one who denies the existence of God, but I’m really afraid of the one who kills and chops off heads to prove the existence of God.”
    That’s what Tara Fares wrote on Instagram to her 2.8 million followers in July. Two months later she was murdered in a brazen, daylight attack.
    The model known for her risque posts was shot several times by a man who leaned in to the window of her white Porsche as she drove through Baghdad last week.
    Her death is the latest in a string of attacks on popular women and activists who dare to speak up for change in Muslim-majority Iraq.
    It follows the death of a woman known as “Iraq’s Barbie”, plastic surgeon Dr Rafeef al-Yassiri, who many believe was poisoned over her work offering cosmetic surgery victims of war.
    Soad al-Ali, another prominent female activist, was gunned down in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in what police described as a “purely personal” attack.
    The Baghdad Post reports a former Miss Iraq, Simaa Qasim is so concerned she’s “next” on the hit list that she’s leaving social media. Ms Qasim, who was “close” with Ms Fares, said she had received death threats.


    The ongoing Iraq War destroyed the rights of women in Iraq.  What bombs didn't destroy, the US government did by installing thugs as part of the shock therapy that was supposed to silence Iraqis and allow for an easier takeover and occupation.  The 'brain drain' that first took place led to many technocrats and doctors and other professionals fleeing Iraq -- little noted by the press during this wave or others was how many fleeing were women.  That's because women are targets in Iraq.  Baria Alamuddin (DAILY TRIBUNE) explains that the women being targeted go beyond the beauty industry:

    A grainy video showed a motorcyclist fatally pumping bullets into the car of 22-year-old Iraqi model and social media star Tara Fares last week. This horrifying attack was the latest in a succession of murders of prominent Iraqi women; including others from the beauty industry, Basra activist Suad AlAli, and the killings of protesters by sectarian militants.




    That's Cat Power (with Lana Del Rey) with her video "Women."  It's from her just released album WANDARER ("Horizon" is my favorite song off the album currently).




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