"All Americans, out. Period"

The Sickening Arrogance and Condescension of Empire - Arthur Silber

President Barack Obama said Sunday that the United States is in a position to place more responsibility in the hands of the Iraqis following provincial elections and a reduction in violence there.

"In conversations that I've had with the joint chiefs, with people, the commanders on the ground, I think that we have a sense now that the Iraqis just had a very significant election, with no significant violence there, that we are in a position to start putting more responsibility on the Iraqis," Obama told NBC television.

I don't think Silber has much time for Obama or his views on Iraq:

Listen up, Obama, you cheap, lying fraud: the United States government launched a criminal war of aggression against a nation that never threatened us. It continues a bloody, murdering occupation which does nothing but worsen the agony of the Iraqi people. We have no right to be in Iraq at all. We never did. The actions of the United States government have led to a genocide of world historical proportions.

Genocidal murderers and those who support and enable them -- as you do, Obama, since you vote to fund this continuing crime -- do not get to "ask" one single goddamned fucking thing of their victims. Not. One. Single. Goddamned. Fucking. Thing.

Get it, you pathetic little asshole?

The party is over

William Bowles: Living (and dying) in the age of barbarism

All of our major politicians are either in bed with big capital or will be once their public offices come to an end. We call it revolving door politics. They sit on the boards of corporations, retained as 'consultants’, become lobbyists and/or are part of an intricate network of cross-connected directorships and thinktanks...

Many are overtly corrupt, receiving kickbacks and payoffs for 'services rendered’, in short a Corporate Mafia that makes the 'mafia’ of the movies small potatoes indeed as the recent revelations concerning the House of 'Lords’ shows...

Without any kind of oversight except lip service to the idea of transparency or accountability, never mind absolutely no democracy, over time they have become brazen in their contempt for the working man and woman, flaunting their wealth in our faces. The examples are everywhere especially of late with literally billions being paid to what are actually a bunch of cheap crooks and shysters, these so-called captains of industry.

In the final analysis however, it is our own total lack of political participation that has allowed this situation to come to pass. It is argued that we have no real choice when it comes to who we have to vote for, but the vote is only a small part of the democratic process, it’s what leads up to your vote that counts.

For nearly a century we fought for the universal franchise, eventually forming our own political parties that we trusted to represent us and fight for our interests, a trust that has been betrayed over and over again. Thus we have become cynical and fatalistic about the political process to the point where we have opted out in our droves, preferring instead to consume. But the party, as they say, is over.

"Snow is seminal" says wanker

HARRY PHIBBS: It snows and the whole nation is paralysed. Where's our true grit (and the gritters?)

So it snows and suddenly all the London buses are cancelled. Tubes and commuter rail lines are closed. Both runways at Heathrow airport shut down. Millions of workers give up the ghost and hunker down for a cosy day at home.

All London buses have been withdrawn from service due to 'adverse weather and dangerous driving conditions.' Why withdraw ALL the buses? Is it really impossible for any of them to cover any of their routes?

Of course road accidents take place even in the best conditions but at the time of writing Scotland Yard report that while the weather has caused many minor accidents nobody has been seriously hurt.

Stopping all the buses is yet another example of our society being disproportionately risk averse. But after all it's a monopoly so sod the passengers. Let them walk to
work and never mind the danger of crashing to the ground in the 'adverse weather.'

So, nobody has been seriously hurt in accidents on the road despite the treacherous conditions?

Erm, let me see, that wouldn't, by any chance, be because there is virtually NO FUCKING TRAFFIC?

You tosser!

Shame on Yoo

The Last Chance Democracy Cafe: John Yoo — a scholar and a war criminal

Yoo’s crime was in writing legal memorandums that provided cover for torture later carried out by the Bush Administration in the name of the United States. Like Ernst Janning’s wrongful court judgments at issue in the movie, Yoo’s torture memos, on their face, probably had the appearance of proper legal process. But they were a fraud.

That waterboarding is torture has been settled for decades. The United States has punished people from other countries severely for using it against our people. Anyone with legal training, especially someone who claims to have taken the time to research the point, who would say otherwise, is a liar — and worse still an enabler of evil.

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