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Thursday, April 26, 2007 |
UN: "Large-scale indiscriminate killings and targeted assassinations continue to impede efforts to bring lasting stability and security to Iraq, according to the latest United Nations human rights report released today on the strife-torn country, where causalities continue to climb despite recent efforts to stem in the bloodshed."
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DeepBladeJournal: "It must be nice for the US Air Force to have for its public relations campaigns a listener-supported national radio outlet and a staff of fawning reporters to do its work. That's the role Mary Louise Kelly of NPR took on Friday for the Air Force as she reported on the latest version of its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a killing machine known as the Reaper.
The old version, called Predator was used to assassinate people who insufferable NPR host Robert Siegel called 'suspected terrorists' in his introduction. The Reaper is a bigger, stronger version Siegel reports with a relatively cheerful inflection, almost a chortle. Hey, wow, 'twice as fast as the Predator, and can carry far more ordnance - 14 Hellfire missiles as opposed to two'.
Shouldn't the tenor of all this talk about sending Reapers to kill while controlled from a lab half a world away at least be grimly appropriate? Not on NPR, where the copy flows like brochures at an armaments industry trade show."
What will the US be remembered as, a century from now? As a killing machine.
10:36:31 AM
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AlterNet: "Karl Rove is under investigation by the executive branch. So, too, is his investigator.
In February, The Washington Post reported Bloch himself was under investigation:
The Office of Personnel Management's inspector general has been investigating allegations by current and former OSC employees that Special Counsel Scott J. Bloch retaliated against underlings who disagreed with his policies - by, among other means, transferring them out of state - and tossed out legitimate whistle-blower cases to reduce the office backlog. Bloch denies the accusations, saying that under his leadership the agency has grown more efficient and receptive to whistle-blowers.
It is a dizzying situation. The investigator investigating officials who oversee the agency that is investigating the investigator."
All criminal administrations try to oust all their opponents and replace them with their yesmen. As they are breaking the law, the only way not to be brought to justice is to replace the judges, lawyers and executives with thugs.
10:29:42 AM
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© Copyright 2007 Hetty Litjens.
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