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Hurray For The Goddamned Idiot!
People are coincidental and should not be construed.
Harper’s has statements by relatives of people attacked by drones in North Waziristan:
The sudden loss of so many elders and leaders in my community has had a tremendous impact. Everyone is now afraid to gather together to hold jirgas and solve our problems. Even if we want to come together to protest the illegal drone strikes, we fear that meeting to discuss how to peacefully protest will put us at risk of being killed by drones.
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The first time I saw a drone in the sky was about eight years ago, when I was thirteen. I have counted six or seven drone strikes in my village since the beginning of 2012. There were sixty or seventy primary schools in and around my village, but only a few remain today. Few children attend school because they fear for their lives walking to and from their homes. I am mostly illiterate. I stopped going to school because we were all very afraid that we would be killed.
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The tribal elders are afraid to gather together in jirgas, as had been our custom for more than a century. The mothers and wives plead with the men not to congregate together. They do not want to lose any more of their husbands, sons, brothers, and nephews. People in the same family now sleep apart because they do not want their togetherness to be viewed suspiciously through the eye of the drone.
The Obama administration considers any military-age male in the vicinity of a bombing to be a combatant. That is an amazing standard that shares an ugly synergy with the sort of broad-swath logic that we see employed in Stop and Frisk, with NYPD national spy network, with the killer of Trayvon Martin.
(In fairness, Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News made the Zimmerman comparison first.)
[P]assing is never obligatory, and should be done deliberately.
Looks like something I’d like to try.
Robert Levine sez:It was Google money that defeated SOPA, which by the way wasnt so bad; and Google is staying silent on CISPA, which is way worse.
(Try not to break the law.)
I will be emulating this look, to the letter, at an event later this month. Patent leather plain-toe oxford, silk lace (a superb touch!), burgandy sock. Dynamite.
When can the Empress sit on her throne and be recognized in all her territory? Seventy-five years later, her blood on that ground, and she [Bessie Smith] still doesn’t get to be a part of the story of the Delta blues.
Here’s Geeshie Wiley, from Natchez. I guess we have to pretend she doesn’t exist, either, but let’s listen to her sing once before we do so. Try to ignore Elvie Thomas with her spooky guitar accompaniment, since that’s also not worthy of being included in the great story of the Delta bluesmen.
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