Breaking: Seif Al-Islam Arrested, Tripoli Rejoices

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Sunday August 21, 2011 · 2:46 PM PDT

2011/08/21 · 14:46

Just heard on live (Arabic) Al-Jazeera TV: Seif Al-Islam, Gaddafi's notorious son, has been arrested by the Libyan rebel forces. There are also reports that the brigades guarding Gaddafi himself have surrendered to the rebels. No pics so far out of Tripoli, but a Libyan woman was interviewed live, saying that Libyans were streaming into the streets of Tripoli in celebration.

Just now Sky News has a live report confirming the same thing. Almost no resistance, no Gaddafi loyalists to be mentioned. Libya has been freed! Victory to the revolutionaries who bravely fought for freedom! A huge thanks to NATO and all those who support democracy!

Of course there is much to be done but check out news.sky.com (I'm on a cell, a bit link challenged. ) And the fall of Gaddafi is stealing all possible attention from Bashar's interview. Meanwhile, Moussa Ibraheem is still giving a bizarre disinformative press conference.

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Sunday June 12, 2011 · 4:32 PM PDT

2011/06/12 · 16:32

When it comes to the Middle East, the U.S. usually looks like a clueless dwerp. A few well-enacted and clear principles would go far to change that.

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Sunday March 13, 2011 · 2:20 PM PDT

2011/03/13 · 14:20

Why does the West suck up to tyrants, even in Libya? A pathologically insane tyrant and his pathological tyrant sons are massacring their civilian populations with total impunity as the West engages in its usual lap-dancing, hypocritical vacillations. It's not that anyone actually likes Qaddafi. It's not that people are not disgusted by his massacre of Libyans in Zawiya and elsewhere or by Qaddafi's and his sons' obvious lies and cover ups. It's that the West basically doesn't give a damn. It's much easier to adopt Qaddafi's own propaganda.

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Monday June 07, 2010 · 5:01 PM PDT

2010/06/07 · 17:01

As tar balls wash up on the white Pensacola beach sands, the Pensacola Independent News has uncovered an internal BP memo, obtained by attorney Brent Coon through discovery in his case against BP where he represents victims of the 2005 BP Texas Refinery explosion. The documents show that BP chose, knowingly and deliberately, to house workers in cheap, flimsy trailers next to the isomerization unit where the explosion occurred, rather than in safer, more solid and blast-resistent structures - solely because of their expense. And this same attitude has translated now to their response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Their mascots for arguing the case for trailers, favoring cost-cutting to life-saving? The 3 Little Pigs...

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Wednesday December 23, 2009 · 6:47 PM PST

2009/12/23 · 18:47

It's as ifthe American public believe that the President's main calling is Commander-in-Chief, to wage wars, and wage 'em real good. Why else would the number one quick fix for sagging popularity for any U.S. President be the Macho Maneuver: start or "rev up" a war? Of course, as Bushes I & II can attest, this pumped-up poll surge generally gives a fast, short-lived high, followed by a much-longer depressed state - unless the war is itself short-lived, euphoric, & sanitizable - e.g., Grenada. Afghanistan, Obama's albatross, is none of the above.

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Tales from the G20 Summit: a Sonnet??

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Wednesday April 01, 2009 · 4:52 PM PDT

2009/04/01 · 16:52

I've been suffering lately from mute blog syndrome, another casualty of the economy. Nonetheless, I have managed to write something about the G20 Summit, in the form of a total anachronism.

Which may be the best way to go, being as most economic solutions or commentary are based on the past, projecting onto the future, which is in fact a complete unknown.

So over the fold is a Sonnet on the Summit - Elizabethan, anyone?

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Tuesday February 03, 2009 · 3:11 PM PST

2009/02/03 · 15:11

Now that there's this important, gigantic Stimulus Package before Congress to help us with the incredible shrinking economy, it's beyond time to think about one of the most titanic drags on that economy, with billions and billions in waste and cost overruns, as a matter of routine.

It's that Sacred Cow again. The Pentagon may just be the U.S. taxpayers' Bernie Madoff. It's the biggest drag on the economy, and the reason is not because we need what it burns money on. The reason is not that the "world is a dangerous place" and we need "protection", and protection costs what it costs. We need what the Pentagon is paying our lifeblood and treasure on less than we need a huge Ponzi scheme to keep our economy from totally tanking. Chalmers Johnson at Tomdispatch really turned the world inside-out on this one.

Worried about the economy disaster? The stimulus package? Getting rid of pork-barrel spending? Maybe you should worry about the defense budget.

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Friday January 30, 2009 · 2:45 PM PST

2009/01/30 · 14:45

Just when you thought all's well, Gitmo's gonna be closed, we'll stop the insanity that Bush started with extralegal terror trials, torture, and "sexy" terrorist executions-to-be, and habeus corpus and the Army Field Manual will rule the rust, we hit a decidedly unexecutive bump in the road.

Obama issued, after all, an executive order freezing all Gitmo trials until next month, in order to review all the Geneva Convention-bashing stuff that may/may not have been going down. But now, an Army judge has defied those orders. Point blank. Just like that: "I'm not gonna do it, dude."

The chief judge of the Guantánamo war court Thursday spurned a presidential request to freeze the military commissions, and said he would go forward with next month's hearing for an alleged USS Cole bomber in a capital terror case.

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Monday January 19, 2009 · 8:12 PM PST

2009/01/19 · 20:12

Barack Hussein Obama may be the first president who is actually a brand. So it's rather amazing that he is also one of the most popular brands on the planet. It's spilling over into every aspect of life - and, contrary to the sense of the word "brand" as an advertising gimmick, a commercialization of what should have "deeper" value, it's having an impact - an apparently positive one - wherever it goes.

On a business trip to Miami, I noticed in the hotel lobby a large group of - maybe Lithuanians? - people who spoke some Germano-Russian-sounding language, who were all smiling, enthusiastic, and chanting. Yes, chanting "Obama! Obama! Obama! Obama!..."

What was this all about? Or the news article out of Orlando about Obama being a "hit" throughout the Caribbean Islands:

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Sunday January 18, 2009 · 2:06 PM PST

2009/01/18 · 14:06

Fox News and other right-wingers are now playing gotcha with what they see as a vulnerability in an otherwise almost invulnerable celebration/inauguration - drawing a "connection" between someone on Obama's lineup of religious leaders, hence his "side", and .... lots of ooohs and ahhhs and looks of fear and loathing, please ... TERRORISM.

We're talking about the president of the Islamic Society of North America, an American woman and Islamic scholar who is well-respected among people of all faiths, not to mention by the U.S. government. among many selected to participate in a prayer service at the Inauguration "festivities".

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Tuesday January 06, 2009 · 1:33 PM PST

2009/01/06 · 13:33

As if the death of hundreds of civilians, is not enough of a show of overwhelming force by Israel against the prepped-by-starvation population of Gaza, now we learn from Mads Gilbert, a brave Norwegian doctor working as "a member of a Norwegian triage medical team" in the Gaza strip, that Israel is using unconventional weapons in their assault on Gaza. According to Dr. Gilbert:

"The Israelis are using a new type of very high explosive weapons which are called Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME) and are made out of a tungsten alloy. These weapons have an enormous power to explode."

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Friday January 02, 2009 · 3:43 PM PST

2009/01/02 · 15:43

I feel like I've been hit in the solar plexus, simultaneously kicked in the back. I've completely lost my breath. And we're into the merciless bombing of Prison Gaza about, what is it now? Six Days? Why do I feel physically ill?

At first, personal issues disabled me from writing a diary. Or even going online. Later, I found these incredible diaries. Chilean Jew, Daisy Cutter, Assaf, Meteor Blades and many others on the Rec list. Each is well-worth reading and restored my faith in humanity. In fact, many of the commenters on these and other diaries did the same.

But why, then, am I sick to my stomach? I can't get over this. It's just too unbelievably horrific.

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