10/27/2017

they look like monsters

did you see this?

gloria steinem looks like an ape, these days.  a very tired and ugly ape.

and shes had work done.

which is why it's so shocking how bad she looks.

but she's also lost huge chunks of her hair.

she's butt ugly.

maybe that's why jane fonda stands next to her?

stand next to the ugly woman so you can look better?

but jane.

they use a lot of filters on 'grace & frankie" obviously.

jane's what - 160 now?

she's 80 or so.

but she looks so bad and so rough.

clearly, she hasn't done much posing for real cameras of late.

so 'women's media center' gave out their awards.

apparently robin morgan didn't show.

maybe she couldn't stomach giving war hawk hillary clinton an award.

but jane, who called hillary the c-word in 2008, was there to slobber over hillary.

so was gloria.

they look like monsters, actually.

the 3 of them: jane, hillary and gloria.


let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'


Friday, October 27, 2017.

The Baghdad-based government in Iraq has been using US supplied weapons to attack the Kurds.  For those familiar with the law, the response required is not words of 'let's all get along.'  No, the law compels the US government to drop all support for the Baghdad-based government of Hayder al-Abadi.

Per an assortment of treaties and agreements -- as well as the Leahy Amendment -- the US must immediately cut off support with the Baghdad-based government.

This means that the administration of US President Donald Trump are currently breaking the law.


  2 hours ago
Kurds demonstrate & call for support from international community against the attacks of |i forces & Shia militias.
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Greg Walters (VICE) updates the conflict:

 On Thursday, Baghdad spurned Kurdistan’s offer to “freeze” the results of referendum, insisting the plebiscite be cancelled outright.
The U.S. has seemed reluctant to do more than beg its Iraqi and Kurdish allies to put aside their differences and talk it out. On a surprise trip to Baghdad this week, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi to stop using violence against the Kurds.
“We want calm, we want dialogue,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a press briefing this week. “We don’t want any violent acts being taken by anyone on any side.”
So far, no one in Baghdad appears to be listening. 

Ranj Alaaldin (ALJAZEERA) observes:

Washington's decision to back Baghdad in its dispute with Erbil was based on its strategy to help Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi consolidate power and curb Iranian influence.
But by acquiescing to Baghdad's offensive on Kirkuk, the US inadvertently empowered the Iran-backed militias, which have dominated Iraq's security sphere since the 2014 collapse of the Iraqi armed forces.
The PMUs are supported by large segments of the Shia community in Iraq and will almost certainly alter the political map of the country in forthcoming elections in 2018. While in their ranks there are a number of state-aligned units that do not answer to Tehran, the PMUs are led and dominated by two Tehran-linked militias: the Badr Brigade and Ketaib Hezbollah.



The US government's refusal to support the Kurds has led to condemnation in some quarters.  David Shuster offers this commentary.


  10 hours ago
US abandonment of the in is a moral failure and a strategic mistake, says
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And:


  22 hours ago
The U.S. abandonment of the is absolutely stunning. Everyone needs to hear it. New Podcast...
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Having sold out the Kurds and broken the law, the US government has certainly gone out on a limb for the Baghdad-based government.  And in return?  Hayder al-Abadi has attacked US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's suggestion that Iranian influence be slightly curbed.  Further, IRAQI NEWS reports:

 The Iran-backed paramilitary force fighting Islamic State alongside the Iraqi government said Friday the United State’s remarks branding one of its top leaders as “terrorist” were a transgression against Iraqi security services.
Ahmed al-Assadi, a spokesperson of the Popular Mobilization Forces, said in statements, circulated by some Iraqi media outlets, that U.S. State Department Spokesperson, Heather Nauert’s description of Abu Mahdi al-Muhanids, deputy chief of the PMF, as a “terrorist” was a transgression against Iraqi security services.
“We are waiting for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry to respond to that transgression,” Assaid stated, noting that those remarks would not discourage the PMF from its mission.



Maybe Hayder and company feel they no longer need US support?  THE DAILY TIMES reports, "Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, whose forces Thursday battled jihadists in the west of the country and Kurds in the north, won the support of Iranian leaders at talks in Tehran."


  5 hours ago
1/ Am near to Faysh Khabur now, on Iraq/Syria border. Despite Iraqi push, Kurds in control of area. Ambulances waiting to transport wounded.
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  5 hours ago
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2/ Kurdish doctor told me: "Yesterday we had many wounded, especially from artillery, not bullets." Today 2wounded. "It is relatively quiet"
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  4 hours ago
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3/ Talked to Peshmergas who just returned from front. "For now no fighting. Y'day difficult but we stopped attack. No idea about tomorrow."
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  2 hours ago
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4/ As peshmergas bought soft drinks in Faysh Khabur, they said: "We're alone - attacked by Isis, Iraq, Iran, Turkey & int community silent."
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  2 hours ago
Replying to 
5/ One Peshmerga claimed: "It's a scandal that Iraqi forces use U.S. supplied guns against us which were given to them to fight ISIS."
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  1 hour ago
Replying to 
6/ Surprising to me 2hear some Kurds near frontline use sectarian language. "Shia try to kill us Sunnis". Kurds usually secular/nationalist.
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7/ In Zakho, Kurdish civilians now putting up "banners with names &pics of our martyrs" who died y'day &today in battle with Iraqi forces.
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  46 minutes ago
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8/ ...and more banners of young men who will never see their own children grow up. Too many sad stories here.
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REUTERS is reporting that a truce may have been reached.  From earlier today:


  4 hours ago
forces used drone to locate KDP and PKK locations then Federal police IRAM targets them. Full video will be released soon.
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No truce could mean problems for Hayder al-Abadi.  The only thing propping him up has been the US government.









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