13 July, 2011

Iran Women's team banned by FIFA:
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/17/fifa-disqualifies-iranian-womens-soccer-team-for-wearing-hijab/

How they are taking over the country:
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed

Misleading anti-union:
http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2011/07/13/business-lobby-using-misleading-signature-gathering-tactics-to-push-anti-union-ballot-measure-in-san-diego/

Arizona, still crazy:
http://wepartypatriots.com/wp/2011/07/13/business-lobby-using-misleading-signature-gathering-tactics-to-push-anti-union-ballot-measure-in-san-diego/

Mexican's stay in Mexico because they have less reason to come to the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/06/world/americas/immigration.html?ref=world

Net Neutrality suffers
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/07/u-s-internet-providers-agree-to-block-subscribers-accused-of-copyright-infringement/

Gender Neutral School in Sweden
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14038419?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://rageagainstthemanchine.com/2010/12/20/get-on-the-fucking-ball-janitors/

More News of the World shit
http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2011/07/plainly-not-fit-and-proper-persons/

"Loves" Orlando Police
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/07/protester-tells-reporter-satirically-why-he-loves-the-orlando-police/

Advocate for Solar Power!
http://www.seia.org/cs/contact_your_representative

Fake Democrats
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/11/st-croix-county-republican-party-in-wisconsin-campaigning-for-fake-democrat/

People use more social programs than they think
http://wonkette.com/449255/americans-who-use-u-s-govt-social-programs-think-they-dont-use-u-s-govt-social-programs

Anti Abortion Terrorism
http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/adam_serwer_archive?month=07&year=2011&base_name=why_we_dont_call_it_terrorism

CIA secret sites in Somalia
http://www.thenation.com/signup/161936?destination=article/161936/cias-secret-sites-somalia

Doesn't like Sharia, whatever that is
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/that-marriage-vow-guy-says-hes-no-sharia-expert-but-he-hates-sharia-anyway.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+tpmelectioncentral+(TPM+Election+Central)

Dual Sex Butterfly
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/07/rare-dual-sex-butterfly-hatche.html

Union Men Harassed
http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2011/07/not-guilty.html

Robert Novack

The government is holding Bradley Manning prisoner for allegedly leaking videos and files of the American Military in Iraq abusing their power and basically killing people and terrorizing people, and he is being held without charge and will be executed if the White House does not get enough push back from the American people.  If this man is executed and never taken to trial, I will feel that yet again this country has fallen victim to their utter laziness and self centered attitudes.  It will be, yet again, disgusted with the people of this country as I was when Bush became president a second time knowing that he had already caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.  The democrats are just as guilty as the republicans in the sense that they have rolled over at every chance to fight back.  They have allowed the republicans to lie their faces off and rarely ever corrected them with actual facts.  The reason this country has no idea what's going on, is that those in power are allowing the lies into our homes by either being the liars, or by not correcting them.

So the point here is that if Bradley Manning, who has never been charged, is actually guilty of anything he should be tried by a jury.  If he is not, and this is a practice we are implementing, why are those who have committed heinous crimes before, not being held in the same conditions (conditions which constitute torture) and with the same rules (held without proof of guilt.)

One example I can give, would be Robert Novack.  When the Valerie Plame thing happened (google it if you really don't know what I'm talking about) Robert Novack is directly linked to this outing of a CIA agent.  We suspect that her name was leaked by Dick Cheney.  With the evidence we have Robert Novack would be able to held as we know he was involved, and Dick Cheney would be held as we suspect he was involved, and guess what?  This is a much more heinous crime than whistle blowing.  This is an actual crime of treason, which is not whistle blowing, it is something that has put the lives of many people in danger because when she was outed, the front company she worked for was outed as a front company and we will never ever know who was killed or tortured as a result because it's all classified.  But at the very least, every single person in the company was put in the position of being killed, by Dick Cheney.  So why isn't he being tortured and held without a trial or proof?  Because we just don't do that.  I'm glad we don't do that.  But apparently we do.  We do actually do that.  Just not to republicans and not to war mongers.

News

http://skepchick.org/2011/07/the-privilege-delusion/

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/soon-voting-democratic-in-some-states.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gay-rights-20110706,0,3768798.story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-security/families-of-service-members-who-committed-suicide-now-to-receive-white-house-condolences/2011/07/05/gHQACxljzH_story.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14040902?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=5050166

http://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-checkpoints-kill-women-childbirth-says-new-study/10145

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7656PP20110706?irpc=932

http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/07/06/photoh-kentucky-tea-party-sells-%E2%80%98yup-i%E2%80%99m-a-racist%E2%80%99-tee-shirts/

http://cpj.org/2011/07/tibetan-magazine-editor-given-four-year-jail-term.php

Feeling better, but feeling sick

Lot's of fireworks.  One of my dogs was totally scared while the other just seems antsy.  We went down to the town to watch a few fireworks and then came home.  I am sick and I think I just need to take it easy, but I hate being useless.  I guess it's more feeling useless.  I need to take care of the belly and myself.  Ugh.

In a better mood for some reason.  The world still frustrates me to no end, but I feel a little less futile.  Must keep keeping on.  What else is there?  Well I suppose I'm going to go see what I can do to make myself feel better and to feed the little one.  Must find something that won't make me feel worse to eat for breakfast but everything sounds like...ick.  

UK Girls being sent abroad for mutilation

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-girls-at-risk-of-mutilation-abroad-2306288.html

Israel to hand over bodies of Palestinian militants ahead of Ramadan:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/04/us-palestinians-israel-bodies-idUSTRE7634PP20110704

Horn of Africa drought:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14023160?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Teachers union endorses Obama:
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/local/chi-teachers-union-endorses-obama-20110704,0,7205539.story

4th of July

I love the 4th of July for the communal nature, and I hate the 4th of July for the bullshit fake patriotism it brings out in people.  If patriotism in this country means killing a many animals as possible and cooking them and then getting trashed on really terrible beer and shooting your gun in the air, than I'm not really sure what this country stands for.  Are we really celebrating our freedom in a country where miscarriages are now investigated because if there is any possibility it was actually a woman's fault they should hang for it?  Racism running rampant.  Sexism to an extreme.  Hooray.  And people are still voting for all of these people promoting this insanity.  So what is there to love about this country?  Right now I love that people are actually having a level of dissent and publicly making known their actual beliefs of equality and good.  But it's the public, not the politicians.  The people in power are seemingly useless.  Granted the president himself has his hands tied, but those in the senate and congress could actually stand up for what we believe in and they do not.  They bow down to the unreasonable requests made of the poor, the women, the minorities, and say absolutely nothing.  Or if they do say anything it's just above a whisper and can't compete with the screaming of the insane.

I am truly disgusted with the ruling parties.  I suppose the best I can do to keep myself from going mad is to get ever more involved and to do what I can.  However people do need to start voting like they've ever read a newspaper or say, anything factual on the internet, because the people who are in power make the laws and the laws make it harder and harder for us to live with any sort of freedom.  Too lazy to read but not too lazy to vote?  That's what makes this country the way that it is today.  Which is not on a good path.  This country is on a path to absolute destruction and has already managed to get to the point where those who are pushing for this destruction are those in power.  They want to destroy the poor, the women, the minorities.  How many times must this happen, state by state, for people to start paying attention before it's too late?  Wisconsin voted Scott Walker in.  New Jersey voted Chris Christie in.  So why are they so angry?  They may have said some nice things to get elected but did anyone look at their history?  Why were so many people surprised?  Maybe this is a wake up call?  So wake up!!!

Here are some stories from today that I thought were interesting reads.

Post Katrina Racial Killings Trial Begins:
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/07/2011738269853168.html

(for some reason people thought this was a good idea...I'm sort of annoyed to be represented by this idiot...)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ronald-reagan-statue-unveiled-in-london-2306428.html

Interesting stories

French Journalism
http://m.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/27/monday-note-media-internet?cat=technology&type=article

Clear pictures
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128193.800-why-skin-is-a-better-lens-than-glass.html

Childrens sexualization
http://www.nfb.ca/film/sexy_inc

Levitating water with sound
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20647-water-levitated-by-tibetan-singing-bowls.html