Thursday, January 02, 2014

Remember when they said the oil deal was off?

December 2, 2013, we explained here "The KRG deal with Turkey is not off."


We had to explain that because a lot people were wrongly trusting various outfits -- news outlets -- that define "news" from Iraq as what chief thug and prime minister Nouri al-Maliki tells them it is.

They're stenographers, nothing more.

They might want to remind Nouri to get them a gift and card April 23rd.


That's Administrative Professionals' Day.

And the stenographers posing as reporters have certainly earned a mug, flowers, a box of candy and a card for all the dictation they've taken and published.

Should Nouri try to pat them on the ass, however, that is sexual harassment and it is illegal in the work place.  Nouri, of course, has no respect for the law and refused to call out domestic violence against women even when Iraq was observing it a few weeks back.  So let me repeat, sexual harassment is not legal.  Your body is your own.  Nouri has no right to touch it.  Even if you work for Al Jazeera, Nouri has no right to touch you.


Today, there was a press conference.   All Iraq News reports: "The Turkish Ministry of Energy announced that the oil will be pumped from Kurdistan Region to Turkey with (300,000) oil barrels daily."




Yesterday, "2013: The Year of Exposure" went up here.  Other 2013 year in review pieces include Kat's "Kat's Korner: 2013 In Music" Ruth's "Ruth's Radio Report 2013,"  "2013 in Books (Martha & Shirley)" and Ann's  ""10 Best Films of 2013 (Ann and Stan)" and Stan's "10 Best Films of 2013 (Ann and Stan)" which we reposted "10 Best Films of 2013 (Ann and Stan)," Rebecca's "10 most f**kable men of 2013" which we reposted "Rebecca offers up the 10 most f**kable men of 2013"  and Third's year in review edition included:




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By David Swanson



Talk Nation Radio is a 29-minute program available every Wednesday for free to any radio station that wants to air it. Dozens are airing it now, and your local stations would probably be happy to do the same if they knew about it. Please let them know. It's syndicated by Pacifica Network. It's available at http://davidswanson.org/talknationradio and it's FREE.


Think how many people would then hear shows like these!


(Which you can hear online anytime and embed on your own website or social media page.)



Robert Parry on Syria in Reality and in the New York Times
Lisa Simeone on How the TSA Trains Us in Complete Obedience
Doug Fry: Humans Have Not Evolved for War
Andy Shallal on Why He Should Be Mayor of Washington D.C.
Adam Hochschild on Ending Slavery and Not Ending War
I'm Thankful We Can Abolish Debt
Stephen Kinzer on The Dulles Brothers
Manuel Perez-Rocha: 20 Years of NAFTA Is Enough
Ann Jones on How the Wounded Return
Margaret Flowers: Web Failures Just a Symptom of Obamacare's Illness
Max Blumenthal on Israeli Ethnocracy
72 Cities Demand Clean Air Act Be Enforced to Protect Climate
Stephen Canty: Once a Marine.
Nathan Schneider on the Occupy Apocalypse
Taking Kent State to the United Nations
Iraqi Students in the U.S.
Rep. Alan Grayson on Syria: House Will Vote No, Obama Will Heed
Patrick Cockburn: Missiles Won't Make Peace in Syria
Jean Bricmont: Keep Humanitarian Imperialism Out of Syria
Tim Shorrock on Peace and Its Opponents in Korea
The EPA Lies for Frackers and Tar Sands Producers
Rooj Alwazir: U.S. Drones Terrorize Yemen
Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
Hunger Strikers and the Law vs. the Prison Industry
John Whitehead on Our Government of Wolves
Gar Alperovitz Points to Worker Ownership as Fix for Broken Democracy
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Says Syrians Oppose Intervention
Peter Kuznick Tells the Untold History of the United States
U.S. Peace and Justice Activists to Gather in Madison, Wisc.
Rick Rowley Tells How He Made the Film "Dirty Wars"
Guantanamo Is Getting Worse
David Vine on U.S. Bases All Over the World
Carl Gibson on Shutting Down the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Arun Gupta on Iraqis in California and Professor Petraeus
Highway Boondoggles Bypass Budget Crunch
Here Comes Corporate Nationhood
Pentagon Professor Says the U.S. Military Overpowers Civilian Rule and Should Be Demilitarized
Honduras Most Dangerous Country in World Thanks to Us
Jody Sokolower on Teaching Wars in U.S. Schools
Richard Wolff on Putting Workers in Charge at Work
Robert Shetterly's Portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth
Wenonah Hauter on Foodopoly
Robert Fantina on War and the Bravery of Deserters
Norman Solomon on Iraq War Lies and New Online Activism
Nick Turse: Kill Everything That Moves
The Crisis in Mali and How to Stop Contributing to It
"I Killed People in Afghanistan: Was I Right or Wrong?"
Robert Pollin: There Is No Fiscal Crisis
Marcy Wheeler: Brennan Is Obama's Cheney
Reese Erlich on Bahrain and Syria
Stephen Zunes on Kerry, Hagel, Brennan, and Obama Part II
Shahid Buttar on Spying, Detention, Torture, and Zero Dark Thirty
Sam Pizzigati: What Serious Progressive Taxes Would Look Like
David Hartsough on Peace Work
Roy Hange on Struggle for Peace in Syria and Iran
Erica Chenoweth on the Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
Michael McPhearson and Michael Eisenscher on Jobs Not Wars
Glen Ford on Black and Progressive Activism in the Obama Era
William Blum on America's Deadliest Export: Democracy
Brian Terrell Is Headed to Prison for Protesting Drones
Gar Smith on Nuclear Roulette
Mike Elk on Employers Telling Workers How to Vote
Green Party Presidential Nominee Jill Stein
Kucinich Says Failure to Impeach Bush Has Allowed Obama to Intensify Bush's Policies
How Did NATO Go Global?
Slow Democracy Is Better Democracy
Comedy as Political Force
War Tax Resistance
The Risks and Benefits of Political Theater in the West Bank
Sanctions on Iran -- March Toward War
How Young People Shut Down a Strip Mine in West Virginia and Why
The War on Whistleblowers With Thomas Drake and Jesselyn Radack
How Drones Appear from the Receiving End
Hidden History of the War on Iraq and Its Oil
Leah Bolger on the Upcoming National Convention of Veterans For Peace
Clinical Psychologist Bruce Levine Says U.S. Citizenry Particularly Inactive
U.S. Poverty Is Expanding and Worsening
An Israeli General's Son Meets Palestinians, Reverses His Beliefs
Bombs Bursting in Air, Alice Slater on Nuclear Weaponry in the World Today
Contempt, Congress, and Elizabeth Holtzman on How to Prosecute George W. Bush
Bruce Gagnon on U.S. Aggression Toward Russia and China
Sandy Davies on War, Weapons, and Obama
Chase Madar on the Passion of Bradley Manning
Marcy Winograd on Leaving the Democratic Party and Opposing War
Coleen Rowley's Top Ten Ways to Be a Good Citizen
Cindy Sheehan on the Venezuelan Constitution as a Model for the United States
Stephen M. Kohn on Our Government's Attacks on Whistleblowers
Rebecca Vilkomerson on Jewish Voice for Peace
Medea Benjamin on Drone Wars and This Weekend's Upcoming Drone Summit
Dahr Jamail: BP Oil Disaster Ongoing After Two Years
John Horgan on the End of War
Rocky Anderson on His Campaign for President
When a War Veteran Tortures His Daughter, and She Survives
The Power of Theater to End Militarism
3-Hour Military Test Secretly Administered in Thousands of High Schools
Students Hunger Strike for a Living Wage
Robert Naiman of Just Foreign Policy on Bahrain, AIPAC, and Military Spending
Paul Chappell on How We End War Forever 



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Suggestions for the Intelligence Community

This was sent to the public e-mail account:


The Intelligence community have a reputation for being a bunch of primadonna's
who put the nation at risk by refusing to share information.

Instead of giving them more and more money and more and more power and using scare tactics on the US Citizens of mass destruction to pay for it, why don't you cut the DOD and Intel agencies in half?

If we had 
  • one intelligence agency called the Department of Intelligence
  • one defense agency called the Department of Defense
we could improve the intelligence community by 
  1. saving over head of the intelligence agencies by running their payroll through one agency like they do for DOD.
  2. STOPPING back biting and infighting over data.
  3. STOPPING redundancies in the intelligence data gathering arena between agencies.
we could improve the Department of Defense by
  1. Weeding out the bad employees breaking the law that give everyone in the USA a bad name at home and abroad who should be giving a positive image of the USA everywhere they go or stay home!
  2. Prevent the Department of Defense from being what it is now - the Department of Attack everyone!
BEST YET - WE COULD USE THE SAVINGS TO PAY FOR SOCIAL PROGRAMS LIKE OBAMACARE;)


Until Monday, I'm the only working the public and private e-mail accounts.

If you send more than one e-mail, I'm not reading it.

If you're in the double digits, I'm not reading it.

The person who sent this sent 13 other e-mails.  I'm not interested.

I don't have the time and I honestly don't care.

Other e-mails contain terms that will not lead your suggestions to be taken seriously ("mind control" and "magic wands").

We've posted this, that's it.

You're cut off.

Don't e-mail the public account again.  I will not read and I will pass on to everyone to ignore your e-mails.  I am not interested in another word from you.

And I thought this had been said before but in case it hasn't, multi-e-mails daily will be seen as spam and ignored.  (If you're someone sending press releases, I'm not referring to you.  I'm referring to people like the above who feel the need to e-mail repeatedly including forwarded e-mails.  I'm not interested in your crazy.) 



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