Israel, Paleistine, Ukraine, oh my,
Syria, Iraq, Lybia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, Bahrain,.........Why the list of Countries,Well, there is an aspect of the threads that struck me last night,I find myself, standing in the same general area,...
View ArticleUkraine Ceasefire,
So, there is a Ukraine Ceasefire,http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...And the fighting seems to have stopped for now.The terms of the ceasefire are unclear, and are apparently, still being negotiated.By some...
View ArticleUndiscussed Aspects of the Torture Report
Once again, Emptywheel is all over it.As the Senate Armed Services Committee Report on torture (released over 5 years ago, in far less redacted form than tomorrow’s summary will be) makes clear, the...
View ArticleDo not open this link,
Once, again, do not open this link.First off, it is anchored in a "vine", which is the one second video,Then, the " vine" is constructed into a " one second a day", GIF meme, to "sell" a story...
View ArticleT'is the Season!
Dinner was simple tonight, a 8oz. Prime Rib burger, cooked on the BBQ, with 3 strips of thick sliced Applewood smoked bacon, 5 year old White Ceddar, on a toasted Chibatta bun, with an inch of lettuce...
View ArticleAmerican Sniper, free copy
Not really, prompted by a commen in the latest ISIS thread:http://www.dailykos.com/.... No attempt has been made. (1+ / 0-)No attempt has been made to address the political, cultural and economic...
View ArticleA Declaration of War,
Normally, I'm not an HR guy,But in response, ( not a meta guy either), to an insult in the comment thread of a diary,I responded with a substantive post, that also contained an insult.After a storm of...
View ArticleThe A-10 Soap Opera,
As many of you know, the A-10, The Warthog, was designed during the Cold War, to take on Warsaw Pact armour close in and low, and demonstrated it's ability at this task stellarly in both Gulf...
View ArticleSo, 10 Hours of Walking in Paris
As a Jew,Was at best, agitprop,At worst, faked.Though Israeli “journalist” Zvika Klein’s Paris “walk on the wild side” through allegedly Muslim Paris neighborhoods aroused indignation in Israeli and...
View ArticleDiary Titles are Hard,
So too are diary memes.And the structure of diaries.We want them to have import, and impact, but are often, " writing against".Some here, are "good" writers, some here are "great" writers, I'm not.One...
View ArticleWell, this won't get 415 Rec's *
Or make the Rec list, after all, it's not a NeoCon/Neolib CT based on the musings of an irrelevent Russian Has Been, but: Russia's Putin reappears after 10 day absence, laughs off 'gossip'By Denis...
View ArticleYemen Conflict Updates
Yup, the Saudi Yemen war is still going on,The humanitarian situation in Yemen has become catastrophic, the Red Cross said on Monday, as Saudi-led aircraft pounded Iran-allied Houthi militiamen and...
View ArticleCasey has passed, Good Dog.
Best dog ever.We brought her home, to her favorites , cats, got her a dog, then bought her a farm.Tolerant, loving, so loving, kind. Everyone who met her, loved her, dogs, cats, people. She hated...
View Article".... We continue though in Afghanistan, "
"even though our primary missions is train, advise, and assist, we’ve actually retained a U.S.-only – this is actually not coalition, but it’s a U.S.-only unilateral role of being able to conduct...
View ArticleOur Alliance with Saudi Arabia
Undercover Vidio from Inside Saudi Arabia:50 minutes, Viewer Discretion advisedxYouTube VideoFrom a telesur series on the US Empire, again, viewer discretion advised;xYouTube Video These, are our BFF’s...
View ArticleOh Crap, Bats in Washington
The disease that’s wiped out at least 7 million bats in the East and Midwest has now jumped to the West. Hikers in Washington, 30 miles east of Seattle, found a sick little brown bat on March 11 and...
View ArticleThis Week's Wars,........
FORWARD OPERATING BASE GAMBERI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Intense fighting and unprecedented casualties suffered by Afghan forces in 2015 have put U.S. and NATO efforts to train a self-sufficient force...
View ArticleA Long 5 Days,........
15 years ago, we were at the dog park, with Casey, our Pittbull X . A local Border Collie Trainer, ( trials), whom we knew fairly well, was there with her pack, and a new to us dog, a dark brown...
View ArticleOur hand in killing Environmentalists
From the Guardian:www.theguardian.com/…Berta Cáceres, the murdered environmental campaigner, appeared on a hitlist distributed to US-trained special forces units of the Honduran military months before...
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