elaine called and told me tara was pimping convicted pedophile scott ritter on her twitter feed. so i go on to leave a comment and find out the bitch blocked me.
tara, if you were really assaulted by joe biden, why are you promoting a registered sex offender?
i guess because you're either a cheap whore or you're a liar.
which is it?
if it's a liar, let me know because i have believed you about joe biden assaulting you.
but if you were really assaulted, you wouldn't be promoting a man who has been arrested multiple times for attempting to have sex with underage girls, a man who was convicted of this, who was sent to prison for this, and who is now a registered sex offender.
real victims of assault don't promote registered sex offenders, tara.
so let us know what it is, cray cray bitch.
my tweet would have been much kinder, bitch.
now kiss my ass and f**k off.
and since we now know tara's a cheap lying whore, let me copy and paste her tweet that i'm sure she'll try to delete now that she knows she's in deep s**t.
FULL INTERVIEW: It’s lunacy of the highest order that #Nato goes ahead with a nuclear exercise in the current crisis says former US marine #ScottRitter
As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats mulled the idea of introducing impeachment charges against President Donald Trump in 2019, the California Democrat made
a series of decisions that prioritized political strategy over a more
thorough investigation in hopes of salvaging the party’s election
chances in 2020.
As Democrats considered their options for impeachment in December 2019,
Pelosi was caught between progressives who wanted an overarching
investigation into any and all crimes Trump may have committed and
vulnerable Democrats who sought narrow charges that would wrap up
proceedings more quickly, according to a forthcoming book.
Pelosi
ultimately decided to focus specifically on one incident, a phone call
between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and pushed to
complete the proceedings by the end of the year.
[. . .]
Democrats
knew it would be difficult to convince Republicans to vote in favor of
Trump’s impeachment, especially on a fast-tracked timeline. However,
they pressed ahead anyway, believing the charges would influence the
public to vote him out in 2020, according to the book.
As
a result, Democrats focused their efforts on removing Trump from
office, warning that his actions could threaten national security if
left unchecked. The House Democrats’ campaign arm even poll-tested this
framing and found it would be more favorable to independent voters, the
book states.
grasp that it was all a
show. it was all politics. it wasn't about protecting the nation or
anything of value. this is the same nancy pelosi, please remember, who
humiliated john conyers, who refused to impeach bully boy bush. she's
such a tired joke.
bully
boy bush should have been impeached over the iraq war. john conyers was
right. nancy will go down in history as one of our worst speakers of
the house of all time.
“I
thought, ‘You are a pathetic creature, Mister, if you think that you’re
exerting your manhood by putting your feet on my desk,’” Pelosi told
Zerlina Maxwell, who asked about the incident on the “Mornings with Zerlina” podcast, according to a clip posted by Mediaite.
no, crypt keeper, it's not your desk. you sit there but we paid for it. it's the american people's desk.
Friday, October 14, 2022. The political stalemate in Iraq appears to be
over as a president is elected and a prime minister-designate is named.
Abdul Latif Rashidf. Who?
It
took a year and three days after the election, but Ira finally
announced a new president yesterday. The moment was not without drama.
ALJAZEERA reports, "Rashid replaced fellow Iraqi Kurd Barham Saleh
as head of state after the two-round vote in parliament on Thursday,
winning more than 160 votes against 99 for Saleh, an assembly official
said. Saleh reportedly walked out of the parliament building as the
votes were tallied." Saleh finally leaves. He wasn't content to be
president of Iraq, he tried to ignore the Constitution during his tenure
and elevate the position of president to that of prime minister. A
complicit foreign media helped him out -- in part to make it appear Iraq
was more stable than it actually was.
Saleh's
hissy fit might make some believe that Abdul is from a different
political party. Nope. PUK. They performed dismally in the 2021
elections -- a pattern they've had since the party lied to the Kurds
about the health of Jalal Talabani but they got to hold on to the
presidency.
War turned Iraq into a land of
widows and orphans. The median age in Iraq is 21-years-old. But the
leadership never reflects the country which is how 78-year-old Abdul is
now president.
78.
You'd
think that would bother them after Jalal. 78 is how old Jalal was when
he had his stroke and the Talabani's began deceiving Iraq.
As 2012 drew to a close, Jalal, then president of Iraq, had a stroke. The incident took place late on December
17, 2012 (see the December 18, 2012 snapshot) and resulted in Jalal being admitted to Baghdad's Medical Center Hospital. Thursday, December 20th,
he was moved to Germany. He remained in Germany for over a year and a
half. The Talabani family refused to allow people to visit him in while
he was in the hospital for that entire time -- including Speaker of
Parliament Osama al-Nujaifi.
When the first wave of rumors that Talabani had either died or was permanently incapacitated, took hold in May of 2013, Jalal was posed for a series of photos that appear to indicate his body was present but that was all.
The photos were compared to the film Weekend At Bernie's in
Arabic social media. (In the 1989 film, Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan
Silverman play two men who drag the corpse of their boss, Bernie, around
and pretend he's alive.)
When Jalal left Iraq the Talabani family was down playing
his condition. They were falling back on the 'knee surgery' nonsense.
In May of 2012, Jalal stabbed many Iraqi political
leaders in the back and outraged many in the KRG by refusing to allow
the no-confidence motion to be passed on. As a result of the outrage
directed at him, Jalal retreated to Germany where he remained for
months. He needed to have, his flunkies and family insisted, immediate
surgery to take care of a life threatening condition. This lie was
repeated for weeks and weeks. Jalal had knee surgery.
Karama
bit him in his fat ass. Jalal snuck back into Iraq July 19, 2014. He
couldn't speak, he couldn't move his own body. He wasn't fit to be
president and his family lied to the Iraqi people. That destroyed
confidence and its why the PUK continues to suffer each election.
Well suffer in that the voters don't want them. The system is so corrupt that they continue to hold onto power.
Here's fat ass Jalal with Abdul.
That's
right. They were brother-in-laws. Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed has held many
jobs -- currently she's the Executor at the Political Bureau of
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). She and Abdul have three children
sons Azos (1982) and Zagros (1988) and daughter Sara (1987). Shanaz and
Hero are the daughters of Ibrahim Ahmed -- a Kurdish novelist who rose
to be the Secretary General of the KDP in 1953 -- in other words, the
same faces, the same family and why Iraqis feel betrayed over and over
by the entrenched corruption in the system.
Ahmed has named Mohammed Shia Al Sudani as prime minister-designate.
Mr Al Sudani, who was nominated for the post by the Iran-backed Co-ordination Framework, has 30 days to submit his Cabinet line-up to Iraq's Parliament for approval.
[. . .]
In his first statement, Mr Al Sudani thanked those who supported him and promised to submit his cabinet “as soon as possible”.
He
also promised to form a “strong government" that was able to "build the
country, to serve the citizens, to preserve security and stability and
build balanced international relations”.
Mr
Al Sudani started his political career as a member of the Shiite Dawa
Party and then ran for election with the State of Law Coalition led by
former prime minister Nouri Al Maliki. He has won three terms in
parliament since 2014.
That's right,
Nouri al-Maliki. Former prime minister, forever thug and, you know this
is biting Motada al-Sadr's ass, "kingmaker."
That's Nouri, not his bitter rival Moqtada.
It
was a year ago that a whorish western press was hailing sociopath and
cult leader Moqtada as a "kingmaker." He isn't. He wasn't. As Aretha
and Whitney sang, "It ain't never gonna be."
There's
a thirty day period that Iraq's now in the midst of. Per the
Constitution, the prime minister-designate must form a complete cabinet
-- nominees that the Parliament then votes to confirm. Failure to do so
means someone else gets named prime minister-designate.
That's what is supposed to happen.
But it's not how it's ever gone. Instead, the person can name an incomplete cabinet and still move to prime minister.
So, per past history, this will probably be the prime minister.
In other news, US President Joe Biden continues his ongoing persecution of Julian Assange. Julian's 'crime' was revealing the
realities of Iraq -- Chelsea Manning was a whistle-blower who leaked the
information to Julian. WIKILEAKS then published the Iraq War Logs.
And many outlets used the publication to publish reports of their own.
For example, THE GUARDIAN published many articles based on The Iraq War
Logs. Jonathan Steele, David Leigh and Nick Davies offered, on October 22, 2012:
A grim picture of the US and Britain's legacy in Iraq has been revealed in a massive leak of American military documents that detail torture, summary executions and war crimes. Almost 400,000 secret US army field reports have been passed to the
Guardian and a number of other international media organisations via the
whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
The electronic archive is believed to emanate from the same dissident
US army intelligence analyst who earlier this year is alleged to have
leaked a smaller tranche of 90,000 logs chronicling bloody encounters
and civilian killings in the Afghan war. The new logs detail how: •
US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse,
torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers whose conduct
appears to be systematic and normally unpunished.
• A US helicopter gunship involved in a
notorious Baghdad incident had previously killed Iraqi insurgents after
they tried to surrender. • More than 15,000 civilians died in
previously unknown incidents. US and UK officials have insisted that no
official record of civilian casualties exists but the logs record 66,081
non-combatant deaths out of a total of 109,000 fatalities.
The numerous reports of detainee abuse, often supported by medical
evidence, describe prisoners shackled, blindfolded and hung by wrists or
ankles, and subjected to whipping, punching, kicking or electric
shocks. Six reports end with a detainee's apparent death.
And closer to my own work as a writer and editor, journalists and
their sources are being targeted by governments, especially our own, for
revealing inconvenient, embarrassing and criminal acts by those very
same institutions. This censorious enterprise is entirely bipartisan.
Obama prosecuted more whistleblowers than Bush or Trump. At this very
moment, Julian Assange is confined in a bleak cell in Belmarsh Prison
(now stricken with Covid) awaiting extradition to the US on charges that
could lock him away in a super-max for the rest of his life. His crime?
Disclosing documents leaked to him by Chelsea Manning and others
revealing atrocities committed by US forces in Iraq.
If the Biden Justice succeeds in prosecuting and convicting Assange,
all kinds of prosecutorial authorities will be emboldened to come after
any of the rest of us who excavate and publish stories about official
corruption and villainy or film cops films as they beat the crap black
kids. As writers and readers, we must resist these moves to criminalize
journalism and to enforce a suffocating stupidity upon the population.
The inconvenient truths about our own nation’s past–including the
very recent past–are the truths it is the most urgent to hear, to learn
from and work to rectify.
Thanks to the Before Columbus Foundation and the San Francisco Public Library for being at the forefront of this struggle and for honoring our work at CounterPunch.
That's from his October 9th speech accepting the Before Columbus Foundation's Anti-Censorship award. Also noting Julian is Will Lehman who is running to be the next president of the United Auto Workers:
I am writing to you today, however, on another matter that is critical to the interests of all workers, in the US and throughout the world. That is the case of Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Assange is currently imprisoned in the United Kingdom and faces extradition to the US, where he would be prosecuted under the Espionage Act. He could receive a 175-year sentence or even be executed.
Julian Assange (Photo by David G. Silvers, Cancillería del Ecuador / CC BY-SA 2.0)
Assange is being persecuted for one reason and one reason alone: He revealed the truth about the actions of the American government abroad, the same government that represents the corporations that exploit us here in the United States.
One of the most significant initial exposures by WikiLeaks was a video, released in 2010, depicting the US Army killing unarmed civilians and journalists in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. The footage was filmed three years earlier, in 2007, in the early years of the US occupation of Iraq. I urge all of you to watch this video, which is titled “Collateral Murder.”
The video was followed by the release of the Iraq and Afghan war logs in 2010 and the Guantanamo files in 2011. These documents, which were made available to the public thanks to the heroic actions of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, exposed a lie that is central to the propaganda of the US government, Democrat and Republican alike: that the wars abroad are about defending democracy.
For this reason, Assange has been subjected to more than a decade of vicious and uninterrupted persecution. He is currently in London’s Belmarsh maximum-security prison, where he recently contracted COVID-19. The UK High Court ruled late last year that he could be extradited to the US, even though the trial itself revealed that the CIA had plotted to kidnap and murder him.
Beyond his personal fate, there are two critical issues for workers in the defense of Assange.
First, the persecution of Assange is an attack on basic democratic rights, including the First Amendment right to free speech and a free press. Assange is guilty of telling us the truth, of exposing lies that the government does not want exposed.
The corporations and the wealthy in this country depend on a bought-and-paid-for media, which parrots whatever the government tells them. We experience this every day, when workers are denounced in the media for our efforts to secure a decent wage and a future for ourselves and our families. If an individual can be jailed and prosecuted for revealing true information, it sets a dangerous precedent that will be used against any worker who speaks out and opposes the demands of the corporations, aided and abetted by the union apparatus.
Second, Assange has helped to expose the reality of American militarism. How much money has been spent and how many lives lost, including of US soldiers, to wage endless war abroad? And for what? They throw around words like “democracy” and “freedom” to convince workers that these wars are worth the cost, but the reality is that they are about securing the domination of American corporations over the entire globe. More than 1 million Iraqis and Afghans have died to achieve this end.
The consequences of these wars are felt by all of us. More than $1 trillion is expended on the US military every year, while they claim that no money is available to provide decent living conditions for workers. One veteran kills him or herself every 80 minutes in the US, the consequence of post-traumatic stress disorder from what they saw and experienced at war. As soon as their bodies are no longer useful to the ruling class, veterans are essentially discarded by the government.
Now, the Biden administration is escalating a conflict with Russia that Biden himself said last week could lead to “Armageddon”—that is, the annihilation of the entire planet in nuclear war. And what is this all about? The government of Vladimir Putin represents the oligarchs in Russia, and the invasion of Ukraine must be opposed by all workers. However, this invasion was a response to the expansion of the US-led NATO military alliance up to Russia’s borders and the massive armament of Ukraine by the US.
Everything that the media tells us about this war is a lie. It is not a war about “democracy.” Ukraine’s government is comprised of neo-Nazis who praise people who helped carry out the Holocaust during World War Two. The oligarchs who run Ukraine recently passed a labor law eliminating the right of millions of workers to collectively bargain. You won’t hear that on the nightly news.
The same military-industrial complex that provoked the war in Iraq is escalating war against Russia today, but on an even larger and more dangerous scale. The US banks and corporations are fighting to control Eastern Europe at the expense of their Russian rivals. The US ruling elite is prepared to make the working class suffer greatly, and even sacrifice millions of lives, to expand the domination of American corporations.
Workers in the US and throughout the world have no interest in the war. We have the same interests as workers in Russia, Ukraine and in every country. We are exploited by the same corporations. We confront the same problems. We will suffer the same consequences if the catastrophe of nuclear war is not prevented.
Workers should know that the labor movement has a long and proud tradition of defending democratic rights, as these rights are critical for all workers. It should also be recalled that the UAW withdrew from the AFL-CIO in 1968 in opposition to the Vietnam War. The fact that the trade unions no longer even raise these critical issues is part of the same process that has led to their domination by a privileged apparatus that serves the interests of the companies.
For these reasons, it is critical that all workers take a stand in defense of Julian Assange. It will not be through appeals to the ruling elite and their politicians that his freedom will be secured, but only through our intervention. We must connect the fight to defend our interests with the defense of Assange, the defense of democratic rights, and opposition to war.
