Anarchic Tendencies

Real Catastrophes Require Consensus: How Neocons And Obama Liberals Have Created Catastrophe By Consensus In The Middle East (May 20, 2013)

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:16:00 -0700

Real Catastrophes Require Consensus: How Neocons And Obama Liberals Have Created Catastrophe By Consensus In The Middle East (May 20, 2013):

It is a widespread misimpression (reinforced by conspiracy theorists seeking the malign influence of the “Israel Lobby”) that the neoconservative movement is in some way a Jewish thing. On the contrary, it is a distinctly American thing.

Errors by the party in power can get America into trouble; Real catastrophes require consensus!

Rarely have both parties been as unanimous about a development overseas as they have in their shared enthusiasm for the so-called Arab Spring during the first months of 2011. Republicans vied with the Obama Administration in their zeal for the ouster of Egypt’s dictator Hosni Mubarak and in championing the subsequent NATO intervention against Muammar Qaddafi in Libya. Both parties saw themselves as having been vindicated by events. The Obama Administration saw its actions as proof that soft power in pursuit of humanitarian goals offered a new paradigm for foreign-policy success. And the Republican establishment saw a vindication of the Bush freedom agenda.

“Revolutions are sweeping the Middle East and everyone is a convert to George W. Bush’s freedom agenda,” Charles Krauthammer observed in February 2011. “Now that revolution has spread from Tunisia to Oman,” Krauthammer added, “the [Obama] administration is rushing to keep up with the new dispensation, repeating the fundamental tenet of the Bush Doctrine that Arabs are no exception to the universal thirst for dignity and freedom.” And William Kristol exulted, “Helping the Arab Spring through to fruition might contribute to an American Spring, one of renewed pride in our country and confidence in the cause of liberty.”

They were all wrong. Just two years later, the foreign-policy establishment has fractured in the face of a Syrian civil war that threatens to metastasize into neighboring Iraq and Lebanon and an economic collapse in Egypt that has brought the largest Arab country to the brink of state failure…

[More, with linkage]

More Evidence emerges pointing to US military conducted mass executions in Fallujah Iraq

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:35:06 -0700

More Evidence emerges pointing to US military conducted mass executions in Fallujah Iraq:

“The enemy has got a face. He’s called Satan. He’s in Fallujah and we’re going to destroy him.” –Col. Gary Brandl (AP, 6 November 2004 via FauxNews)

“Nearly every refugee from Fallujah I’ve interviewed has spoken of mass executions, tanks rolling over the wounded in the streets, bodies being thrown in the Euphrates by the military, and other atrocities.” ~~–Dahr Jamail (Interview with Charles Shaw, Newtopia, 2 December 2004)

Prensa Latina, 17 May 2013:
“Deputy Governor in the Western Iraqi province of Al Anbar, Sadun Obaid al-Shalan, today called for using DNA tests to identify about a thousand bodies found in three mass graves on Thursday. Security forces and human rights organizations found the mass graves with containing around a thousand bodies in the northern city of Fallujah, and it appears that they were killed en masse in summary executions by U.S. occupation forces, said Sadun Obaid al-Shalan. […] The mass burial was found in three graves between Saqlawiyah and Ameriyah localities, said the deputy governor, and it is presumed that those people were killed in 2004 and 2005, with their deaths never reported during the combat to retake control of the city.”

It has already been reported that during the 2004 battles in Fallujah, the US military allowed… [In Full, with links]

ROTF! The CIA's Mercs In Syria Are Killing Each Other Off Just Like Libya!

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:59:28 -0700

ROTF! The CIA's Mercs In Syria Are Killing Each Other Off Just Like Libya!:

BEIRUT (AP) — A wave of tit-for-tat kidnappings between rival Islamic militant groups in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo risks sparking large-scale internal fighting between rebels after clashes killed at least four militants earlier this week, activists said Saturday.

The director of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Rami Abdul-Rahman, said a coalition of rebel groups known as the Judicial Council had accused another armed opposition faction, the Ghurabaa al-Sham, of plundering factories in Aleppo’s industrial neighborhood. Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and a former commercial center, is split between rebel and government control.

Any internal fighting between rebels in the city would play into the hands of the regime, which is trying to tarnish the image of the opposition by saying it is dominated by extremists linked to al-Qaida network.

Aleppo, a city of 3 million that was once a bastion of support for President Bashar Assad, has been engulfed in heavy fighting since rebels launched an assault there in July and captured several neighborhoods. Over the past few weeks, regime forces have been pursuing an offensive in the city, mainly focused on pushing the rebels from around the international airport and a nearby military air base.

Abdul-Rahman said tensions among rebel factions have been rising in opposition-held areas, mostly on the eastern side of the city.

The two groups, the Judicial Council and the Ghurabaa al-Sham, clashed on Tuesday near Aleppo in fighting that left four members of the Judicial Council dead, Abldul-Rahman said. He added that the Judicial Council is now holding dozens of members of Ghurabaa al-Sham captive…

More, with links

ROTF! Pr1s.

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:14:56 -0700

ROTF! Pr1s.

Yahoo! to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:37:53 -0700

Yahoo! to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

[Updated] Santa Cruz "IndyBay": No need for truth when you have an agenda

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:34:00 -0700

Update: Note that my redacted post has been returned to the comments @ Santa Cruz IndyBay. The provoking comment however has not re-appeared. I do not recall that it was trolling in any significant way. If it WAS the commenter left themselves wide open for a rational response and I still feel my work was left without context.

I just spent quite a few minutes responding to a question at IndyBay Santa Cruz regarding the local property crime rate, just to find the rather pointed, but NOT OFF-TOPIC or rude comment gone, my response without context, and in the process a GRAVE DIS-SERVICE to understanding the issues at hand regarding the allegations of “Hysteria” in this community about public safety has been done.

The so-called “Moderators” at IndyBay Santa Cruz constrain the ability of commenters who respond to those legitimate if ‘loaded’ questions when they remove the provoking comment.

I’d like the moderator at Santa Cruz IndyBay to write one coherent sentence explaining their reason for causing me to waste my time, but they never respond, except by removing the request for response. I suspect they’re either illiterate, or ignorant.

The post I was responding to WASN’T troll bait.

It WASN’T Off-topic.

There IS a reasonable response that WOULD educate the community.

So what WAS the problem with the post I was responding to?

It wasn’t on their agenda.

I wrote, in response to the “rather pointed but NOT OFF-TOPIC or rude comment” questioning why Santa Cruz California has an allegedly “soaring” “Property Crime” rate:

Because property crime IS ALWAYS HIGHER in areas where the AFFLUENCE IS HIGHER.

Want to fix that? Get the jackasses called county supervisors and city council(ors) crackin’ on PLANNING for a NORMAL COMMUNITY with a broad spectrum of incomes, housing and jobs affordable to the people who actually live here… ESPECIALLY the kids.

After all, they’re the ones who commit most of the property crimes that spike the charts, like shoplifting, burglary and theft.

Further, on that “Housing Thing”, the latest housing development downtown, “Walnut Commons” has been advertised as ‘co-housing’ for middle class families… You know. Central kitchen and all that folksy communal type stuff delayed-gratification yuppies like to talk about but never actually live.

What middle class family with kids would actually live in that situation?

None.

The project is based on a LIE like all other housing developments purported to be for local people around here (The old ice plant… the slum behind the town clock etc), it gets turned into transient office worker or college student housing because all the workers here couch surf or live with eight other people to make the rent and still have money for food and transportation.

However it will be VERY attractive to people from out of state on contract to Deloitte Touche or somesuch who will rent the CruzIo cubies and have (I can see the ad in the back of the NY Times Sunday magazine now) ‘housing footsteps away from where you work just minutes from Sea and Trees’.

How about a deal like THAT for New Leaf’s baggers, CVS shelf stockers, and other SERIOUSLY UNDERPAID in relation to cost-of-living local workers?

But Nooooo. So you end up with a gentrified affluent ‘community’ with an allegedly soaring property crime rate, and the truth of the matter is the property crime rate has always been astronomical around here but until quite recently there weren’t freakzoids like TBSC reporting every rock kicked on their lawn, nor 1st Alarm guards who are a generators of mostly marginal-from-a-legal-perspective or bogus reports that, in the process, ensure their continued $15.00 an hour employment.

It simply make the problem worse draining $80,000 dollars a year from the city treasury for EACH PATROL (and aside from multiple ‘guards’ downtown, EVERY PARK IN SANTA CRUZ has a ‘watchman’ now) while everyone else suffers from that diversion of funds that could be put to much better uses as housing and job development funding.

So stop whining and enjoy your police state. I’m SURE that’s the option you chose so STFU.

References: Western Criminology Review 7(3), 7–26 (2006): The Distribution of Property Crime and Police Arrest Rates across Los Angeles Neighborhoods http://wcr.sonoma.edu/v07n3/07.davis/davis.pdf

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20110927/upper-east-side/east-west-harlem-safer-for-property-crime-than-ues-soho?r=

http://economics.fundamentalfinance.com/povertycrime.php

Anonymous launches Operation Guantanamo: #OpGTMO engaged in...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:47:00 -0700

Anonymous launches Operation Guantanamo:
#OpGTMO engaged in support of the hunger strikers!

On Friday, May 17, the international hacktivist collective known as Anonymous, joined by Code Pink and other political action groups from the U.S. and the U.K., launched Operation Guantanamo to mark the 100th day of a hunger strike within the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

The three day campaign of global action is intended to raise awareness of the human rights violations currently going on at Guantanamo Bay prison camp via social media and on the ground protests. Alleged violations at Guantanamo include the indefinite detention of prisoners, many (ed. Not ‘many’, ALL. There ARE NO POWs or ‘Terrorists’ there anymore -RR) of whom have been cleared for release years ago.

The following is an excerpt from a press release issued by Anonymous regarding Operation Guantanamo (#OpGTMO)…

[In Full with more linkage]

Mommy When I Grow Up I Want To…

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:58:55 -0700

Mommy When I Grow Up I Want To…

Gloria Richardson pushes a national guard bayonet out of her...

Sun, 19 May 2013 07:42:22 -0700

Gloria Richardson pushes a national guard bayonet out of her face during a 1963 civil rights protest in Maryland.

Here is how the State Department explains US elections to the rest of the World

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:06:07 -0700

Here is how the State Department explains US elections to the rest of the World:

Note: Direct link to PDF from state.gov

The Redditor notes:
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Note there is no reference 2000 or 2004 Presidential elections - nor the campaign financing rule changes in 2010. Nor the concerted effort to make voting more difficult for minorities when for the past 10 years there have been less than 40 recorded cases total of voter fraud through out the US.

US Forces Suspected of "Collateral Murder": Three mass graves with 1,000 corpses found near Fallujah Iraq

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:41:00 -0700

US Forces Suspected of "Collateral Murder": Three mass graves with 1,000 corpses found near Fallujah Iraq:

From the Arab media… Ahlul Bayt to be exact. The NPR of the Shia on radio and TV, believed to be funded solely by donations from listeners and viewers

Iraqi officials have found three mass graves containing the bodies of about 1,000 people thought to have been executed by US soldiers during their occupation of the country.

Meanwhile NPR, funded to a great extent by the US government says:

Workers excavate remains from a mass grave in the desert of western Anbar province in Iraq on April 14. The mass grave holds the remains of more than 800 people, believed to have been killed during the rule of ousted leader Saddam Hussein. (source)

You decide…

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The graves were uncovered in Iraq’s western province of al-Anbar. The remains are believed to be from victims killed by US forces during 2004 and 2005 in the city of Fallujah, located roughly 69 kilometers (43 miles) west of Baghdad.

“Security forces and rights groups found the three mass graves in Saqlawiyah and Ameriyah of Fallujah near a cemetery north of the city. They contain the remains of about a thousand people,” Deputy Chairman of Anbar’s provincial council, Sadoun Obaid al-Shaalan, said on Wednesday.

He also called on the Iraqi government to order DNA tests on the remains to ascertain the identity of the victims, especially since there are hundreds of families in Anbar - particularly Fallujah - who are trying to discover the fate of their lost children.

The first battle of Fallujah was an unsuccessful attempt by the US military to capture the city in April 2004.

Fighting broke out after four US mercenaries from Blackwater Company were killed, dismembered and hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates River.

On May 1, 2004, the US troops withdrew from Fallujah as Lieutenant General James Conway announced that he had unilaterally decided to turn over operations to the Fallujah Brigade — which composed of local militiamen under the command of former Ba’ath Party General Muhammed Latif.

Iraq accounts of the first battle of Fallujah put the number of injured or dead at more than 400.

The second battle of Fallujah was a joint American and British offensive in November and December 2004. The Iraqi narrative of the second battle puts the total number of dead and wounded at more than 5,000. (source)

arabicforprincess: Iraq In Fragments (2006) Riverbend… Girl...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:25:00 -0700

arabicforprincess: Iraq In Fragments (2006)

Riverbend… Girl Blogger of Baghdad…
What she’s learned in the last ten years.

“We learned that you can be floating on a sea of oil, but your people can be destitute. Your city can be an open sewer; your women and children can be eating out of trash dumps and begging for money in foreign lands.

We learned that justice does not prevail in this day and age. Innocent people are persecuted and executed daily. Some of them in courts, some of them in streets, and some of them in the private torture chambers.

We are learning that corruption is the way to go. You want a passport issued? Pay someone. You want a document ratified? Pay someone. You want someone dead? Pay someone.

We learned that it’s not that difficult to make billions disappear.

We are learning that those amenities we took for granted before 2003, you know- the luxuries – electricity, clean water from faucets, walkable streets, safe schools – those are for deserving populations.

Those are for people who don’t allow occupiers into their country.”

As I said in a previous post:To the point; As long as you keep...

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:37:00 -0700

As I said in a previous post:

To the point; As long as you keep buying sweatshop products WalMart could give a fuck about dead workers. All they give a fuck about is profit margin , So stop buying these slave-produced products (for best effect from ALL retailers) and you WILL break their ‘margin’.

Here Is a List of the Major North American Retailers That Refuse to Sign the Bangladesh Factory Safety Accord Courtesy of Huffington Post

Here’s a sample of the ‘working conditions’ in Bangladesh boilerplated from a quick Google search for “Bangladesh Factory”.

2012 Dhaka fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dhaka_fire‎ “More than 100 die in garment factory fire, the deadliest in Bangladesh’s history”. … “At least 117 killed in fire at Bangladeshi clothing factory”. CNN. Archived …

8 die in clothing factory fire in Bangladesh as Rana Plaza toll passes … worldnews.nbcnews.com/_…/18149623-8-die-in-clothing-factory-fire-in…‎ May 9, 2013 – DHAKA, Bangladesh — Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a clothing factory in Bangladesh, police and an industry association …

Bangladesh factory collapse death toll reaches 580 | World news … www.guardian.co.uk › World news › Bangladesh‎ May 5, 2013 – New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire killed 146 workers in 1911, and more recently … Another fire in Bangladesh the same year killed 112.

Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD [FR: 0.5%; US: 9.0%]

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:32:34 -0700

Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD [FR: 0.5%; US: 9.0%]:

French children don’t need medications to control their behavior because the problem, according to French psychiatrists (the ‘doctors’ in America most liable to demand medication), IS THEIR SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT which is ‘treated’, instead of a mythical ‘biological disorder’ or ‘chemical imbalance’…

[In Full @ Psychology Today]

Teen arrested for biting boyfriend's penis after he refused to have sex

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:54:06 -0700

Teen arrested for biting boyfriend's penis after he refused to have sex:

Leave it to the Sun UK to report this occurrence of “Vampire Luv” in Bradenton Florida:

Krystle was arrested for domestic battery but Jeffrey – who is the father of her child – has said he does not want to press charges.

"Those stories don’t attract anywhere near the attention that murders receive. But I often think..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:18:29 -0700

“Those stories don’t attract anywhere near the attention that murders receive. But I often think about them (drive-by shootings, robbery woundings, innocent bystanders catching a stray round, children witnessing shootings) when there’s a mass shooting somewhere like Newtown, Conn., or Aurora, Colo., or Oak Creek, Wis., towns previously relatively untouched by gun violence. These unspeakable bursts of evil shred lives, families and communities, and the nation rightfully fixates on their grief and healing.

But for every one of those victimized towns, there are dozens of American cities where, every year, many more people are shot than in any single gun rampage. In those places — Newark, or New Orleans, where around 20 people were wounded last weekend when a gunman opened fire on a Mother’s Day parade — there is no definable healing process, because the violence never really stops…”

- Jonathan Schuppe, NBC reporter & former staff crime reporter @ The Newark Star-Ledger, “Gunshots on Warm Spring Evenings”, New York Times, May 17, 2013

"Wearing a hijab isn’t inherently liberating – but neither is baring one’s breasts. What is..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:41:07 -0700

“Wearing a hijab isn’t inherently liberating – but neither is baring one’s breasts. What is liberating is being able to choose either of these things. It’s pretty ludicrous to think that oppression is somehow proportional to how covered or uncovered someone’s body is. Both sides of this argument present a shallow understanding of women’s empowerment, which only drowns out the substantive challenges facing all women – issues that cannot be encapsulated in a debate about a piece of fabric.”

- Sara Yasin, Is the Hijab Worth Fighting Over?

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Dateline May 1 2013, Red Lodge (Billings) Montana, the...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:18:37 -0700

Dateline May 1 2013, Red Lodge (Billings) Montana, the “Ricin Right” is getting ready

(559 lbs of) Explosives stolen from USFS facility near Red Lodge

RED LODGE - The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office are asking for help from the public in gathering information about the theft of approximately 559 pounds of high explosives from a USFS explosives bunker located near Red Lodge.

A press release from the ATF says that in April 2013, someone used forced entry to get into an explosives storage facility owned and operated by the U. S. Forest Service, which is located about two miles south of Red Lodge.

Officials say that various emulsion-type explosives, explosive cast boosters and detonating cord were taken from the facility.

“The theft of explosives is a top investigative priority for ATF. We are asking for the public’s help in our effort to apprehend and convict those responsible. We are confident that someone can help identify a suspect and we encourage them to call us,” ATF spokesman Ken Bray said.

A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered…

[In Full]

"We learned that you can be floating on a sea of oil, but your people can be destitute. Your city can..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:02:48 -0700

“We learned that you can be floating on a sea of oil, but your people can be destitute. Your city can be an open sewer; your women and children can be eating out of trash dumps and begging for money in foreign lands.

We learned that justice does not prevail in this day and age. Innocent people are persecuted and executed daily. Some of them in courts, some of them in streets, and some of them in the private torture chambers.

We are learning that corruption is the way to go. You want a passport issued? Pay someone. You want a document ratified? Pay someone. You want someone dead? Pay someone.

We learned that it’s not that difficult to make billions disappear.

We are learning that those amenities we took for granted before 2003, you know- the luxuries – electricity, clean water from faucets, walkable streets, safe schools – those are for deserving populations.

Those are for people who don’t allow occupiers into their country.”

- Riverbend… Girl Blogger of Baghdad… What she’s learned in the last ten years.

A BIG Shout out to the Crypto-Fascists infesting my...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:46:00 -0700

A BIG Shout out to the Crypto-Fascists infesting my community… “Take Back Santa Cruz” & “The Clean Team”

More on those property development interest “Astroturf” Hate Orgs at This IndyBay post, and Here. There’s more information about them at various places around IndyBay, but it’s enough to know they are a hate org in disguise. Their followers who simply want safe streets are totally unaware of their overarching agenda.