video evidence directly contradicting the version of events offered by police and prosecutors

So, the police will be prosecuted for perjury, and the prosecutors for obstruction of justice.
Right? Right?? Anybody home, DOJ Civil Rights Division???

❖ Republicans are unhappy

f., isn’t it a bit early in the second term for Kerry and Hagel to switch jobs?

Good evening, fatster, and now that it’s March, if the ground hog is correct it should warm up in a few days.

Of course things are really heating up in the hasbara circle. Turkish PM Erdogan’s comparison of Zionism with Islamophobia and fascism has upset SoS Kerry, Netanyahu and even Ban Ki-Moon. Kerry says that nonetheless Turkish-Israeli relations are crucial, while making no mention of that little matter of Israel raiding a Turkish ship in international waters and killing sailors a couple of years ago.

And then there is this from today’s WaPo on Bradley Manning explaining his actions while pleading guilty to those 10 charges yesterday:

Manning’s detailed account of his work as an intelligence analyst in Iraq and his decision to divulge sensitive documents is certain to elevate his folk-hero status among the band of supporters who hail him as a conscientious whistle-blower rather than a traitor.

Got that, Kevin G.? You and your (read: small) band are making Brad into Robin Hood. And the alternative is not simply to insist that, after all, he broke military regs, but to brand him as someone far more nefarious.

Aloha, fatster…!

❖ “When the Jihad Came to Mali“. Informative article on the major players and movements involved in the Malian conflict.

Fancy this… …Hundreds of foreign jihadist fighters joining the battles against the Syrian troops were seen leaving Syria on Tuesday through borders with neighboring Turkey, the opposition Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The reason behind the withdrawal is still vague, said the Observatory, citing one fighter as saying that his comrades “have been pulled out of Syria to join jihadists in Mali.”

Wtf, over…? 8-(

Oh, probably early by just a hair or so, allan. BTW, I cut this one in the interest of space:

❖ Heartland valentine: “Hailed as the first true grunt to take over the Pentagon, Chuck Hagel pledged Wednesday to treat his people fairly and to look out for military families.”

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130228/NEWS/702289884/1016#for-starters-chuck-hagel-promises-to-look-out-for-military-families

And, yes, I’m sure Eric and crew will be right on top of all the wrongdoing by officials during the OWS protests.

Thank heavens we already have the “cl*ster f*ck” term in our lexicon so we don’t have to invent it. This mess is growing and growing–with no end in sight. And tremendous suffering abounds throughout those lands because of it. Wrenching, CTuttle, just wrenching.

Aloha to you, too!

Good evening to you, too, E. F. Beall. I wonder how long it’ll be before Turkey gets engulfed in the madness, too. Very scary.

❖ 3D printers? Pffffft. Scientists at MIT are working on 4D ones.

*heh* I’d settle for one 3D printer now, and then upgrade later…! ;-)

LOL, CTuttle. Ain’t that the truth?

The Turkish Kurds are none too thrilled with Erdogan, amongst various other Turks…! 8-(

Here’s a thoughtful article that gets into that whole area, CTuttle.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/nov/08/not-revolution/

But there’s talk that the most militant of the Kurds, the PKK, is trying to make peace, CT, with Abdullah Ocalan negotiating from inside his jail cell.

And to fatster @ 6

It seems to me that Turkey is already “engulfed,” with NATO missiles on its border with Syria and all those refugees.

Sigh. Thnx, E. F. Beall.

That is a great article, fatster…! I’d quibble a bit, but, en toto, an excellent synopsis…!

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*heh* So why didja hold back on it for so long…? ;-)

On linking to that article, CTuttle?

I’d missed it myself…! Congrats on the prime-time slot tonite…! *g*

The link for the Indian tent cities took me to the Financial Times, but I didn’t see that article on the page it took me to.

Poor widdle drone ops who suffer ptsd bc they see their targets getting slaughered.

Well, gosh darn it, greenwarrior.

Here’s the link, but it’s also the link that’s shown in the item above.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/58a2b464-80a5-11e2-9c5b-00144feabdc0.html

If that doesn’t work, try going to financial times and in the search box type pop-up cities india. Please let me know if you get to the article.

I do hope you can get through, because it’s a very interesting article and the question is, indeed why not?

Hi, fatster. Good work as usual. It can easily be seen why police and the city administrations don’t want the riff-raff turning cameras on their interactions with the public. Just another example of anyone who protests against the status quo becomes a target. The real role of the police has always been to protect the owner and connected classes. If the ordinary person gets protection that is incidental. It is the same all over the world.

Howdy, BearCountry. That article did my heart good, too.

How’s da’ Sheriff holding up? I mean how can he possibly hold up an SS Death’s Head Flag and a regular old Swastika Flag with a broken arm? Maybe he’s getting his protein from a Taco Bell in Britain. He’s certainly got the face to prove he’s eating from the south end of a horse walking north. Just observin’.

Hahahahaha. Thanks ever so much, wynota skunk, for your keen observations.

That video. It’s not all on US 66. I’ve driven it a number of times and for certain, Monument Valley isn’t on or even near US66.

One can’t help but wonder if there will be any mention of perjury charges for those cops.

Every 3 years in India, in “less than three months. . . a tent city [is built] for 2m residents … Why not erect such “pop-up megacities” for the millions living in poverty throughout India every day?

Don’t need to go that far.
Why not erect such facilities for homeless right here in the USA? Just walk around and take a look in New York, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, around Veteran Administration facilities and other places. There is abundant evidence of disgraceful hypocrisy in our own homeland.

Rachel Maddow & Jon Stewart on Antonin Scalia, the Troll.

I didn’t have a problem with her referring to him as a troll. If the morons on Faux Noise had any familiarity with the internet, bomb-throwers like Scalia are typically referred to as ‘trolls’. H&ll, Faux Noise probably has several thousands of them on their payroll, based on how many of them I see on the websites I frequent.

Good morning, anyone who is following this thread.

The other day I was advised at the end of a fatster’s roundup thread to relinquish the favor I had shown to al-Jazeera, and to embrace presstv.ir, with which I was not familiar.

I have now studied some presstv articles, and respectfully disagree. I do not deny that it generally hits U.S. hegemonism harder than most other sources, including al-Jazeera, but the site goes beyond anti-Zionism to a virulent anti-semitism. It even embraces conspiracy theories of who was “really responsible” for 9/11 (i.e., “the Jews”), as in this piece claiming that “the bizarre Jewish holiday known as Purim” is celebrated in Israel with children dressed up as the twin towers.

It is difficult enough to criticize Israel in the United States without being associated with that kind of baggage. Al-Jazeera does label the Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem “illegal” as a matter of course, but we can defend that (because it’s true). For me it is easy to watch because Mhz Networks carries it in the Washington, DC area, whereas my internet connection does not always do well with streaming video. So until someone shows me that the service is actually a tool of the Qatar Emirate, not just financed by it, I will continue to pay close attention to it.

❖ ”Don’t mention the Iraq war, [UK's] William Hague tells cabinet . . . [sparking] anger from Liberal Democrats”.

I think it’s clear that the invasion of Iraq was an illegal aggressive war, against a country posing no threat of any kind to the invading countries, and which might result in the perpetrators facing criminal courts at some point.

Anyone who supported it with a vote, or by lying to Parliament, or the Congress, or the United Nations, or commanded invasion forces should be concerned.

Iraq was crawling with weapons inspectors, who were finding nothing, Bush ordered them out.

He’ll be staying in the USA I expect.

That’s a very good article you linked with good comments.

Absolutely, skinla! With all the suffering all over this globe, why aren’t “pop-up cities” used routinely for relieving misery, too? Obviously, the expertise and resources are there.

Did you have any problems getting through to the article itself? greenwarrior did, but hasn’t returned to let us know if access was ever gained. I’d sure like that article to be read by many.

Thnx so much, skinla.

And then there’s the old “pre-emptive strikes” doctrine excuse. It’s all part of the same tradition that brought us “Manifest Destiny”, etc.

Thanks for the feedback, mafr. It does help. And . . . Good Morning!

A response to the Arpaio story:

4′33″ by John Cage, here in a dubstep remix

The 1080HD version strongly recommended.

Edit: I should emphasize that I’m presenting this recording as my response, which should not be construed as reflecting anyone else’s response.

thankyou too

Re March 1st 2013….

Am I alone thinking that something significant happened yesterday in the USA?

A keystone or cornerstone removed, some kind of National suicide now slowly starting to happen?

I have read that after Britain declared war on Germany, there was a strange period of silence, and not much happening for some time.

Is that what’s happening now in the USA?

very strange times.

LOLOL, prostratedragon. Perhaps you could follow up with the composition featuring flushing toilets. You know, just to add to the drama. Great to see you again, and thanks so much.

Yes, indeed, mafr, “very strange times”. It’ll hit, I guess, when services and checks we’re used to all of a sudden stop. Or, maybe not. Maybe the next diversion will be the Blame Game, revved up in earnest. Sigh.

Thnx so much.

Right on schedule: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/02/us-usa-fiscal-congress-idUSBRE9210AX20130302

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Oh my, I’ve never heard of that one! From pole to pole, we cover it all here.

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Thanks for the article.

They are incompetent.

fatster; art reflects the reality of “The [UK] government has secretly ramped”; what to say?

Gonna say this “Stan Druckenmiller, “one of the best-performing hedge fund managers of the past three decades” is fomenting war between the elderly and the youth.” is hyperbole as is the reporters headline. He has some valid points and good suggestions and I speak as a 66 year old who only has SS as a source of income. THIS -”The Federal Reserve’s decision to hold interest rates near zero and buy $85 billion of assets a month is pumping up the stock market, all with the hope that rich people will spend those gains, and that money will trickle down to the rest of the country.

While stocks may continue to rise for a while because companies are buying back shares and retail investors are coming back to the market in search of returns, the gains probably won’t last, Druckenmiller said. “- doesn’t get near enough attention.
Just look at what one can get for even a CD -”not to mention” a regular savings account- in terms of interest versus the inflation rate and it’s real easy to see how the PTB policies are essential to the issue of generational change.
BUT he is incorrect when he states “because seniors consume about the same amount as people in their 20s or 30s, yet pay less in income taxes.” And, of course, that ‘plays’ into the issue of minimum wage.
SNAFU, same as it ever was.

Thanks for the link, ubetchaiam. I hope to have the time later today to watch the video.