Monday, April 14, 2014
Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Hillary's Shoe Response"
Isaiah's latest The World Today Just Nuts "Hillary's Shoe Response." After dodging a shoe tossed at her last week, Hillary Clinton suits up and issues her response, "I see this run as being as much about dodging as it is about campaigning. And I was the dodge ball champ of Eugene Field Elementary." Isaiah archives his comics at The World Today Just Nuts.
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Hejira
The plan was to address Saleh al-Mutlaq.
That was the plan.
But Jane Arraf is a disgusting propagandist who passes herself off as a reporter.
She has a really bad article for the Christian Science Monitor. We called out one aspect at The Third Estate Sunday Review earlier.
I'm calling this crap out right now:
A surprise move by influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to withdraw from the political process is expected to benefit Maliki. It allows him to go after large numbers of votes from poor, dispossessed Shiites hoping for more jobs and better services.
Maliki might be aided, too, by political disarray among the Kurds. The absence of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who has been undergoing medical treatment, has led to a leadership struggle for his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the three main Kurdish parties. Almost six months after provincial elections, the main Kurdish parties have not been able to agree on their own regional government.
Can she stop whoring for Nouri?
What a deeply sick and twisted f**k Jane Arraf truly is.
A surprise move by influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to withdraw from the political process is expected to benefit Maliki. It allows him to go after large numbers of votes from poor, dispossessed Shiites hoping for more jobs and better services.
We've repeatedly noted how Moqtada's followers would never vote for Nouri. They didn't in 2010's parlimentary elections, they didn't in the poll Moqtada held in April (when he asked who he should support). Moqtada's repeatedly called (including just last week) for Nouri not to seek a third term.
So how much of a lying whore do you have to be to claim at this late date that Moqtada's followers will support Nouri?
They turned out in Basra this weekend to protest him.
The lying whore that is Jane Arraf doesn't tell you any of that. She whored for Saddam and didn't broadcast stories on CNN -- something Eason Jordan apologized for (after Saddam fell) but that Jane Arraf has never expressed regret for or even acknowledged.
But let's note one more thing about how Moqtada's followers won't be voting for Nouri -- the Sadr bloc has candidates on the ballot. That's who Moqtada supporters will be voting for.
You have to be a really cheap whore at this point to say, "Moqtada's followers will likely vote for Nouri."
There's not enough penicillin in the world to clean up a whore like Jane Arraf.
Let's deal with the whore's second lie:
Maliki might be aided, too, by political disarray among the Kurds. The absence of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who has been undergoing medical treatment, has led to a leadership struggle for his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the three main Kurdish parties. Almost six months after provincial elections, the main Kurdish parties have not been able to agree on their own regional government.
Might he be aided by that, Jane?
In what world?
She can't stop lying, she's too much of a whore for Nouri.
She really needs to be rebuked publicly for the lies she's putting out.
Jalal Talabani is the head of the PUK. But he's not in Iraq, is he?
He's in Germany. He's been there since his stroke.
Jane may not tell you about that but the PUK can. They can tell you about the screaming Nouri did at Jalal, about the threats he made to Jalal and about how, as soon as Nouri left Jalal's office, Jalal had his stroke.
Even setting aside that, what do Kurds want?
Autonomy to be sure. The KRG is only semi-autonomous.
But in the immediate future, they want Kirkuk.
Kirkuk is oil-rich, it's also disputed. The KRG claims it and so does the central government out of Baghdad.
In 2006, Nouri became prime minister.
Per the 2005 Iraqi Constitution -- which Nouri took an oath to uphold -- specifically Article 140, there was supposed to be a census and referendum to resolve the issue of who got Kirkuk.
And that was supposed to have taken place no later than the end of 2007.
But Nouri refused to implement Article 140.
His first term ended in 2010. He lost that year's parliamentary elections. Thank to the White House, he got a second term. This was via a contract known as The Erbil Agreement. In it, the head of the other political blocs gave election loser Nouri al-Maliki a second term in exchange for his contractual guarantees to them. What did the Kurdish leaders have put in The Erbil Agreement?
That Nouri would finally implement Article 140.
Nouri signed off on that. He used the contract to get a second term.
But once he got a second term?
He refused to honor the promises he made in that contract.
So, as happened in his first term, there's been no implementation of Article 140.
Nouri and the KRG are arguing about oil currently. Nouri's cut off funds to the KRG -- funds they're owed -- in order to blackmail them. This has hurt government workers in the KRG.
Does any of this say, "I'm a Kurd and so I'll vote for Shi'ite Nouri"?
No.
Only a whore would say that.
And, look at the byline on the article, the whore's name is Jane Arraf.
She lied for Saddam and now she lies for Nouri.
Why this woman is allowed to cover Iraq for any outlet is a mystery to me. Even more so, you have to wonder why she's not held accountable for her past cover ups?
We were going to cover Saleh al-Mutlaq but then came whoring Jane Arraf.
She may be as deadly to Iraq as a bomb.
Turning to the violence, National Iraqi News Agency reports one police member and one Kurdish security personnel were injured when they shot at each other in Kirkuk, 6 suspects were killed by the military west of Falluja, a Radwaniyah roadside bombing left 1 person dead and four more injured, a Husseiniya roadside bombing left three people injured, 1 tractor owner was killed in al-Idhaim with another farmer left injured, 1 police member was shot dead an an al-Aqwas checkpoint, a Nasiriyah home invasion left 1 person dead ("an employee in the Health Department in Dhi Qar"), security forces killed 5 suspects in Ramadi, a Kherbana bombing left three Iraqi soldiers injured, the bombing of a police officer's Alam home left three people injured, 2 Dujail bombing left 4 people dead, a Tikrit building bombing left 2 people dead and five more injured, a Mosul car bombing left 6 people dead and fourteen more people injured, a Kirkuk home invasion of a police officer's residence left 3 people dead and four women injured, a Baghdad sticky bombing killed 1 person, a Kirkuk suicide bomber took his own life and the lives of 7 police members with eleven more left injured, the military killed 3 suspects in Mosul, 1 police officer was shot dead in Shura, and the corpse of 1 was found dead in the streets of Shura.
Added right after this went up, NINA reports Nouri's continued shelling of the residential neighborhoods in Falluja left 5 people dead (including one child) and eighteen people injured. NINA reports that.
Whoring Jane Arraf doesn't say a word. Never does. Day after day as civilians are killed.
I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
-- "Hejira," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her album of the same name
The number of US service members the Dept of Defense states died in the Iraq War is [PDF format warning] 4489.
On this week's Law and Disorder Radio, an hour long program that airs Monday mornings at 9:00 a.m. EST on WBAI and around the country throughout the week, hosted by attorneys Heidi Boghosian, Michael S. Smith and Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights) topics addressed include The Drone War, CIA black sites, prison abuse of the Dallas 6 (guest is activist Shandre Delaney who is the mother of one of the Dallas 6, Carrington Keys) and the embarrassing Deepa Kumar who is a professor at Rutgers and will argue for Condi Rice not being allowed to speak at the college. That's not really academic freedom, now is it? It's chicken s**t, whiney ass, cowardice. A belief that you can't win unless you silence your opponent. How very sad and how very authoritarian. The hosts need to take a look at how puny they look when they try to stop speech. Let Condi speak, protest her, call her out. But banning someone from speaking? You're saying they and their argument are too powerful for you to take on.
New content at Third:
Kat's "Kat's Korner: Do The Beast" went up earlier today and Isaiah's latest comic goes up after this.
The e-mail address for this site is common_ills@yahoo.com.
iraq
hejira
That was the plan.
But Jane Arraf is a disgusting propagandist who passes herself off as a reporter.
She has a really bad article for the Christian Science Monitor. We called out one aspect at The Third Estate Sunday Review earlier.
I'm calling this crap out right now:
A surprise move by influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to withdraw from the political process is expected to benefit Maliki. It allows him to go after large numbers of votes from poor, dispossessed Shiites hoping for more jobs and better services.
Maliki might be aided, too, by political disarray among the Kurds. The absence of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who has been undergoing medical treatment, has led to a leadership struggle for his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the three main Kurdish parties. Almost six months after provincial elections, the main Kurdish parties have not been able to agree on their own regional government.
Can she stop whoring for Nouri?
What a deeply sick and twisted f**k Jane Arraf truly is.
A surprise move by influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to withdraw from the political process is expected to benefit Maliki. It allows him to go after large numbers of votes from poor, dispossessed Shiites hoping for more jobs and better services.
We've repeatedly noted how Moqtada's followers would never vote for Nouri. They didn't in 2010's parlimentary elections, they didn't in the poll Moqtada held in April (when he asked who he should support). Moqtada's repeatedly called (including just last week) for Nouri not to seek a third term.
So how much of a lying whore do you have to be to claim at this late date that Moqtada's followers will support Nouri?
They turned out in Basra this weekend to protest him.
The lying whore that is Jane Arraf doesn't tell you any of that. She whored for Saddam and didn't broadcast stories on CNN -- something Eason Jordan apologized for (after Saddam fell) but that Jane Arraf has never expressed regret for or even acknowledged.
But let's note one more thing about how Moqtada's followers won't be voting for Nouri -- the Sadr bloc has candidates on the ballot. That's who Moqtada supporters will be voting for.
You have to be a really cheap whore at this point to say, "Moqtada's followers will likely vote for Nouri."
There's not enough penicillin in the world to clean up a whore like Jane Arraf.
Let's deal with the whore's second lie:
Maliki might be aided, too, by political disarray among the Kurds. The absence of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who has been undergoing medical treatment, has led to a leadership struggle for his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the three main Kurdish parties. Almost six months after provincial elections, the main Kurdish parties have not been able to agree on their own regional government.
Might he be aided by that, Jane?
In what world?
She can't stop lying, she's too much of a whore for Nouri.
She really needs to be rebuked publicly for the lies she's putting out.
Jalal Talabani is the head of the PUK. But he's not in Iraq, is he?
He's in Germany. He's been there since his stroke.
Jane may not tell you about that but the PUK can. They can tell you about the screaming Nouri did at Jalal, about the threats he made to Jalal and about how, as soon as Nouri left Jalal's office, Jalal had his stroke.
Even setting aside that, what do Kurds want?
Autonomy to be sure. The KRG is only semi-autonomous.
But in the immediate future, they want Kirkuk.
Kirkuk is oil-rich, it's also disputed. The KRG claims it and so does the central government out of Baghdad.
In 2006, Nouri became prime minister.
Per the 2005 Iraqi Constitution -- which Nouri took an oath to uphold -- specifically Article 140, there was supposed to be a census and referendum to resolve the issue of who got Kirkuk.
And that was supposed to have taken place no later than the end of 2007.
But Nouri refused to implement Article 140.
His first term ended in 2010. He lost that year's parliamentary elections. Thank to the White House, he got a second term. This was via a contract known as The Erbil Agreement. In it, the head of the other political blocs gave election loser Nouri al-Maliki a second term in exchange for his contractual guarantees to them. What did the Kurdish leaders have put in The Erbil Agreement?
That Nouri would finally implement Article 140.
Nouri signed off on that. He used the contract to get a second term.
But once he got a second term?
He refused to honor the promises he made in that contract.
So, as happened in his first term, there's been no implementation of Article 140.
Nouri and the KRG are arguing about oil currently. Nouri's cut off funds to the KRG -- funds they're owed -- in order to blackmail them. This has hurt government workers in the KRG.
Does any of this say, "I'm a Kurd and so I'll vote for Shi'ite Nouri"?
No.
Only a whore would say that.
And, look at the byline on the article, the whore's name is Jane Arraf.
She lied for Saddam and now she lies for Nouri.
Why this woman is allowed to cover Iraq for any outlet is a mystery to me. Even more so, you have to wonder why she's not held accountable for her past cover ups?
We were going to cover Saleh al-Mutlaq but then came whoring Jane Arraf.
She may be as deadly to Iraq as a bomb.
Turning to the violence, National Iraqi News Agency reports one police member and one Kurdish security personnel were injured when they shot at each other in Kirkuk, 6 suspects were killed by the military west of Falluja, a Radwaniyah roadside bombing left 1 person dead and four more injured, a Husseiniya roadside bombing left three people injured, 1 tractor owner was killed in al-Idhaim with another farmer left injured, 1 police member was shot dead an an al-Aqwas checkpoint, a Nasiriyah home invasion left 1 person dead ("an employee in the Health Department in Dhi Qar"), security forces killed 5 suspects in Ramadi, a Kherbana bombing left three Iraqi soldiers injured, the bombing of a police officer's Alam home left three people injured, 2 Dujail bombing left 4 people dead, a Tikrit building bombing left 2 people dead and five more injured, a Mosul car bombing left 6 people dead and fourteen more people injured, a Kirkuk home invasion of a police officer's residence left 3 people dead and four women injured, a Baghdad sticky bombing killed 1 person, a Kirkuk suicide bomber took his own life and the lives of 7 police members with eleven more left injured, the military killed 3 suspects in Mosul, 1 police officer was shot dead in Shura, and the corpse of 1 was found dead in the streets of Shura.
Added right after this went up, NINA reports Nouri's continued shelling of the residential neighborhoods in Falluja left 5 people dead (including one child) and eighteen people injured. NINA reports that.
Whoring Jane Arraf doesn't say a word. Never does. Day after day as civilians are killed.
I'm traveling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
That shell shock love away
-- "Hejira," written by Joni Mitchell, first appears on her album of the same name
The number of US service members the Dept of Defense states died in the Iraq War is [PDF format warning] 4489.
On this week's Law and Disorder Radio, an hour long program that airs Monday mornings at 9:00 a.m. EST on WBAI and around the country throughout the week, hosted by attorneys Heidi Boghosian, Michael S. Smith and Michael Ratner (Center for Constitutional Rights) topics addressed include The Drone War, CIA black sites, prison abuse of the Dallas 6 (guest is activist Shandre Delaney who is the mother of one of the Dallas 6, Carrington Keys) and the embarrassing Deepa Kumar who is a professor at Rutgers and will argue for Condi Rice not being allowed to speak at the college. That's not really academic freedom, now is it? It's chicken s**t, whiney ass, cowardice. A belief that you can't win unless you silence your opponent. How very sad and how very authoritarian. The hosts need to take a look at how puny they look when they try to stop speech. Let Condi speak, protest her, call her out. But banning someone from speaking? You're saying they and their argument are too powerful for you to take on.
New content at Third:
- Truest statement of the week
- Truest statement of the week II
- A note to our readers
- Editorial: If the US wants to reduce the violence ...
- TV: The lines drawn
- Congress and veterans
- Michael Franti's new confessional song "I am a bit...
- This edition's playlist
- Jane Arraf: Whore to Iraqi prime ministers
- Must read of the week
- Murray Introduces Major Military and Veteran Careg...
- Tony Blair wants more war (UK Socialist Worker)
- SEATTLE: MONDAY: Murray to Join Wounded Veterans, ...
- Chicago postal protest previews April 24 rallies (...
- Highlights
Kat's "Kat's Korner: Do The Beast" went up earlier today and Isaiah's latest comic goes up after this.
The e-mail address for this site is common_ills@yahoo.com.
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Kat's Korner: Do The Beast
Kat: They're back. Showing up with a swagger, Greg Dulli's crotch leading the way, the Afghan Whigs cockwalk through "Parked Outside" like it was just yesterday Dulli was crooning, "I should have seen the s**t coming down the hall, every night I spent in that bed with you facing the wall" ("When We Two Parted").
In fact, that was 1993. The Afghan Whigs had released Gentlemen which was such a huge step forward for an already entertaining band. In sex drenched track after track, Dulli was the sexual beast scratching at the door to come inside but scared of being let in. "What Jail Is Like" was only one of the album's more obvious takes on the sexual dance.
Whether writing solo or with Richrd McCollum, Dulli was navigating the male terrain of which two classics have to be "Be Sweet" and "When We Two Parted."
Ladies, let me tell you about myself
I got a dick for a brain
And my brain is gonna sell my ass to you
Now I'm okay but in time I find I'm stuck
Coz she wants love and I still wanna f**k
It wasn't boasting, it was seductive confessions.
And it made for one of 1993's most amazing albums -- no simple feat back when music actually mattered.
"You know me by now, you know me by now," Greg sings on the new album's "Lost In The Woods."
Indeed we do.
And, oh, how we've missed you.
And McCollum, John Curley and Steve Earle.
The foursome followed up Gentleman with 1996's Black Love filled with songs equal parts seductive and equal parts elegiac. The scene had changed. Women still had some bravery but the closest thing to alternative rock on the male side that actually charted was the K-Mart bargain bin Gin Blossoms -- little tinker toys who made Pearl Jam look 'heavy.' So "Summer's Kiss" and "Step into the Light" never found the large audiences they deserved.
Next up was 1998's 1965 which was the band's last album. It sold worse than Black Love but many millions got to know "66" due to the track being used in the Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachel Leigh Cook starring film She's All That.
Now they're back* -- and at a time when the world of music needs them most -- with an all new album, Do To The Beast.
After they're done strutting around the room with "Parked Outside," "Matamoros" hits you. It's the sexual bob done convincingly -- the one that repeatedly leaves Justin Timberlake looking flummoxed and like a bobble head which, for the record, isn't sexy. "I'm over you," Greg sings before making it clear that's not the case by adding, "I'll tell you why."
Throughout the seventies, as the stadium tours demanded larger and larger from the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger's persona edged close to cartoon finally getting there a little after the 80s "She Was Hot." For those who never got a chance to press against the sexual heat of a potent Jagger, luxuriate in the decadence of Dulli. The craving, the desire, the tension and push-pull is all over Do To The Beast.
"Over and over/ I get to know myself/ Over and over/ There ain't nobody else," explains Greg in "It Kills" when his lover ends up with another. And sings with the power that still surprises.
How can such a walking, weeping hard-on have the voice of an angel -- albeit a dirty and randy angel?
"It kills to watch you love another," Dulli croons with lust and regret.
"Algiers" is the lead single. The band's made a video that I'm guessing is supposed to suggest love is pain. But I'd argue the whole video says less than Greg when he sings, "Heavenly demons outside my window,
sent here to see me outside this world. I call the shot and you call the season." Even's more is said by the winding music which laps like waves.
For ten tight tracks, the Afghan Whigs shake the bed and then some. If there's a better track than "Can Rova" this year, what a year 2014 will be.
2013?
As the year closed, looking back, I was appalled by how bad it was for music. There wasn't even a point in compiling a full top ten list. But already this year, we've got Cloud Nothing's Here and Nowhere Else. Tori Amos is set to release Unrepentant Geraldines in May. The month also sees Ben Harper's Childhood Home released -- his best album since 2007's Lifeline (yes, I've already heard it, it's great and I will be reviewing it). Chrissie Hynde's Stockholm comes out in June. The possibilities seem endless. And out of nowhere comes the Afghan Whigs with Do To The Beast which drops Tuesday.
Picture where I've been
Underneath, within
I could love you . . .
-- "I Am Fire"
It's glorious, it's sensual, it's rough, it's soft, it's the best musical f**k to be had in years.
[Added: * Not all were back, as I discovered April 15th.]
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