Sunday, June 07, 2015

Hejira

This was a major market in Ramadi.



  1.  18 hours ago
    الانبار: سوق خاشع في مدينة الرمادي، والذي قامت ميليشيا سوات بسرقة محتوياته وإحراقه قبل فرارها من المدينة.
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But it's supplies were recently stolen and, what couldn't be taken, was set on fire.


Before you say, "Damn IS!"

This was done by the Shi'ite militias and the SWAT forces.


Where's that political solution Barack was calling for a year ago?













    • You feeling any national unity?

    See any reason the Sunnis should feel like they're equal partners in a new Iraq?


    Me neither.


    Meanwhile, the US government spent the end of last week attempting to deny that civilians were killed in the bombing of Hawija -- even though they were (estimates go from 70 to 150).


    And now this.








    • It gets harder and harder to sell the lie that "precision" air strikes are being carried out.




    Margaret Griffis (Antiwar.com) counts 45 violent deaths across Iraq so far this year.




    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] 4496.


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    Cindy Sheehan's plea

    As we noted earlier, Cindy Sheehan was being censored online. I'm reposting her plea which you can read at her site but should probably be re-posted by any site that covered Camp Casey in the summer of 20005.  I will make it a point to include it in Monday's Iraq snapshot.

     Plea from Cindy


    Dede, Cindy and fellow Gold Star Mom Amy Branham before our first trip to Crawford. 8/6/05


    Dear Friend,

    It is with great concern but with hope that I write to you to let you know that my sister/best-friend/peace colleague, Dede Miller has recently been diagnosed with Stage 3, very aggressive and rare breast cancer.

    For a few months, she (and by extension as her primary support person, I) has been struggling with the monolithic bureaucracy of LA County "health" care. I have traveled from my home several times to LA to be with her. I can't see how a person can go through what Dede has had to go through alone.

    Dede has been by my side forever, not just since Casey was killed in Iraq. Dede, being a single person without children has been like a second mom to my kids and now the beloved Auntie to my five grandkids (she gets all the fun). However, since Casey has died she has been with me--getting arrested for peace; organizing Camp Casey and all of the other harebrained schemes I have come up with; campaign staff; and now my only co-worker in Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox and The Soapbox People's Network. 




    Back in 2005, Dede decided to leave corporate America to help me work for peace and now is finding it difficult (if not impossible) to survive with breast cancer AND fighting for her life to access basic services like medical care and disability (she doesn't qualify). Besides working for peace, we have been on the frontlines working for economic equality and social justice, and when we need it, it's not available. 

    Our family is working together to try and get Dede all the advantages she needs to heal herself from this terrible disease. We appreciate all of the well-wishes and healing thoughts, but we really don't need any more alternative therapy advice, we are exploring ALL options and know about these options.

    What we do need (besides your healing energy) are donations to give Dede this fighting chance to beat this awful (yet tragically) prevalent disease.

    One of our good friends, Jolie Diane, has set up this GOFUNDME page for Dede--please give what you can and/or share this campaign. 

    It's our most important campaign to date. Dede has been fighting for you full time, now please give her a fighting chance to continue in the struggle.

    http://www.gofundme.com/DedeM?fb_action_ids=719085811550607&fb_action_types=og.shares&fb_ref=14_fb_up
    DEDE ARRESTED IN CRAWFORD, TX
    OR SEND CHECK/MONEY ORDER TO
    (MAKE CHECK OUT TO CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX):
    HEALTHY DEDE
    C/O CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX, LLC
    PO BOX 6264
    VACAVILLE, CA 95696

    Love & Peace,

     Cindy Sheehan




    iraq



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    Cindy Sheehan's doing porn?

    Over to the right, there are a series of permalinks to various sites.

    One's resulting in e-mails today:



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    Plea from Cindy
    2 hours ago 


    • What's the plea from Cindy?

    Someone doesn't want you to know.

    If you click on to it, you get a Norton advisory:



    cindysheehan


    Clearly someone's attempting to silence Cindy.

    These things don't just happen.

    Cindy Sheehan didn't wake up a few hours ago and say,  "Hmm.  I think I'll post some tasteful nudes."

    Usually, when this happens, it's a concentrated effort of some form.

    For example, the US State Dept lodged a complaint with Flickr when Isaiah did the comic of Nouri al-Maliki sh**ting on Iraq that got the comic basically censored online.

    And as many 2008 pro-Hillary sites can attest, Blogspot was more than willing to wrongly censor content (this is why so many Blogspot sites ceased and went over to World Press).

    But whomever gets the ball rolling, someone has to get it rolling.

    And, no, Cindy's not done porn, her website is not porn.

    But those who would like to silence her traffic in lies and tricks.



    I have a feeling Cindy will shortly be writing a piece asking "What's the real porn?"

    And when peace gets dubbed "porn," it's a question worthy of exploration.






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