Mike's Blog Roundup
The Sideshow: Morning Notes
Bay Area Houston: Republican County Commissioner Jerry Eversole in Houston Texas has been fined by the Texas Ethics Commission, $75,000, the highest fine in the Commissions history, for among other things, buying $26,000 worth of cattle with his donors money.
TPMCafe: Obama is so mean
Tomgram: Will Iraq be a global gas pump?
They gave us a republic: The Nightowl Newswrap
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ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: B.S in front, news in back...A brush with reality...Wapo Crashed-and-Burned...MSNBC getting edgy...American Radical...Completely in the bag...Dept. of redundancy department...Another Triumph...Politico hearts WaPo liar...Media Reform Update...Murdoch's criminal methods...Doing the job...Fess up, or stop writing...WaPo Whitewash...David Brooks should name names...
Hummer, Marcy, hummer. Blowjob is so pu..pu..personal.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
The JFK Library has the entire mission online with tweets and virtual launch tomorrow. Go to
http://wechoosethemoon.org/
to follow the mission.
It is 21 hours to launch.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
Released today.
30 Israeli soldiers who took part in the January invasion of the Gaza Strip say they were urged by commanders to shoot first and worry later about sorting out civilians from combatants.
"Better hit an innocent than hesitate to target an enemy," is a typical description by one unidentified soldier of his understanding of instructions repeated at pre-invasion briefings and during the 22-day operation, from December 27th to January 18th.
"If you're not sure, kill. Fire power was insane. We went in and the booms were just mad," says another. "The minute we got to our starting line, we simply began to fire at suspect places.
"In urban warfare, anyone is your enemy. No innocents."
The 112-page report by Breaking the Silence includes testimonies of 30 "who served in all sectors of the operation".
"The majority . . . are still serving in their regular military units and turned to us in deep distress at the moral deterioration of the IDF (Israel Defence Force)," it says.
Their narratives "are enough to bring into question the credibility of the official IDF versions".
but frickin' so sad... WTF?! People HAVE to say no to these commands. Yes, soldiers too... there's no way this will stop until individuals stand up and say NO frickin' way!! Do it yourself!
When the Israeli Terrorist Force's (ITF) war crimes in Rafah were caught on video, people were shocked...because they had been oblivious to the dozens of such instances of civilians and refugees being bombed with impunity.
Now some former ITF members are speaking up and revealing further ITF war crimes, and yet again, people are shocked...but only because they've been blissfully ignorant of past ITF war crimes, of prior ITF use of Weapons of Mass Destruction (of which Israel is one of the few countries that refuses to stop using them).
As for the Israeli government's lie/line about "they're anonymous, so they're not credible", it is again only wilful ignorance on the part of outsiders that will believe it. The Israeli regime has a history of arresting, imprisoning and silencing those who speak out publicly in their own names to criticize the Israeli regime and the Israeli Terrorist Force. The silence of the former ITF members is necessary to protect them from retaliation, harassment, violence and even murder.
Israel's response to whistleblowers is no different than South Africa's was to those who revealed the dirt on their regime. And people wonder why the Israeli occupation is called Apartheid.
That book on I.F. Stone looks good. And wow, normally Krauthammer hides the crazy more carefully.
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