How Can it be an Accident if an Airstrike From a Fighter Jet Kills?

Wouldn't it be an accident if it didn't kill?


KABUL, Afghanistan — A NATO airstrike targeting Taliban fighters Friday accidentally killed seven civilians, including three children, in the southern province of Helmand, one of the most insecure regions in the country, Afghan officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/world/asia/27afghanistan.html?_r=1&hp

Global Unrest Spreads. Which is a Good Thing. Neo-Liberal Policies and Institutions must be Stopped and Destroyed

BERLIN — Some 200,000 people on Saturday turned out in Germany’s largest cities to protest against the use of nuclear power in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima reactor disaster, police and organizers said
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/some-200000-protesters-in-germany-urge-government-to-abolish-the-use-of-nuclear-power/2011/03/26/AFZj9lbB_story.html?hpid=z2
Adjusted for population would equate to 800,000 Americans.

The protest was called for by the social-democratic Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and held in Sofia's Alexander Batenberg square, Bulgarian Focus News Agency reported.
The protest comes less than two weeks after massive rallies in the country against a sharp increase in fuel, electricity and food prices.
Reports put the number of Saturday's protesters between 4,000 and 16,000 people.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171741.html
Adjusted for population- 160,000 to 640,000 Americans

400,000 join London protest march
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/171761.html
Equates to 2 million Americans

Fatboy Forecast

Turkey soon withdrawls from the NATO operation so dubbed "Odyssey Clusterfuck Bad Moon Rising Dawn." You read it here first. I want pie and Budweiser.

Ivory Coast Must Not Have any Oil or the World Would be Stepping in to "Save" Them

DAKAR, Senegal — At least 700,000 people have fled their homes in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, to escape the increasing violence and collapsing economy stemming from the nation’s political crisis, the United Nations said Friday.

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Women who fled fighting in the Adobo neighborhood of Abidjan arrived at a makeshift refugee camp of Anyama.

Daily gunfire spurred by Laurent Gbagbo’s efforts to stay in power after losing a presidential election in November has pushed thousands of residents out of neighborhoods surrounding the city’s central districts, while the closing of banks and businesses have led to widespread unemployment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/26/world/africa/26ivory-coast.html?hp

Obama must Intervene to Stop the Wanton Killing of Civilians

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A NATO helicopter gunship inadvertently killed two civilians while attacking suspected insurgents in the eastern province of Khost, NATO announced Thursday.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/03/24/world/asia/AP-AS-Afghanistan.html?hp

Top Nato commander Gen David Petraeus said he was "deeply sorry" for the incident, which took place in the Pech district of Kunar province on Tuesday.
Local officials say nine boys, aged 12 and under, were killed while gathering firewood, according to AP news agency
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12624332

Tribal elders in a remote part of northeastern Afghanistan claimed Sunday that NATO forces killed 64 civilians in air and ground strikes over the past four days. The international coalition denied the claim, saying video showed troops targeting and killing dozens of insurgents
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=12958753

Kabul - Fire from a NATO helicopter allegedly killed five civilians including two children in north-eastern Afghanistan Thursday after mistaking them for militants, a local official said.
http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2011/02/24/nato-mistakenly-kills-five-civilians-afghan-official-says.html#ixzz1HWdr017u

Israeli's Kicked and Punched Western Reporters in Jerusalem

Who shot Anthony Shadid in 2002 in Ramallah (II)

A well-known Western correspondent in the Middle East sent me this (he/she permitted me to cite without identifying him/her):  "It was the Israelis. Not surprisingly the wording is mealy-mouthed. I had a few drinks with Anthony and his wife in the bar of the American Colony the evening he was shot (it was not a serious wound). He said he clearly saw the shooter was an Israeli soldier, and if I recall correctly he was treated in an israeli field hospital. There never was any doubt who shot him.
And here is some more intelligence for you: western reporters who covered today's bombing in Jerusalem were attacked (kicked and punched) by Israelis at the scene. Unlike encounters by reporters in Tahrir Square attacked by Mubarak thugs, this has not been mentioned on air, has it?"

http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/03/who-shot-anthony-shadid-in-2002-in_23.html

Obamaspeak

Candidate Obama:

"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.
As Commander-in-Chief, the President does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the President would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent. History has shown us time and again, however, that military action is most successful when it is authorized and supported by the Legislative branch. It is always preferable to have the informed consent of Congress prior to any military action.”

Biden says he will move to impeach Obama if he goes to war without congressional approval. And I voted for these liars.

The Clusterfuck Half-Ass War on Libya AKA Odyssey Dawn Crumbles

Arrogant pig men of war sicken and anger me. The punks in their suits that talk tough, yet would piss in their pants if threatened themselves by violence, a fist, an angry man in their face.

US Unemployment Figures Mean Nothing

Hundred's of thousands of unemployed are dropped from the U-3 count monthly. The only accurate picture can be found by looking at the amount of employed people, people who have jobs. See graph:


There were more people with jobs in Jan. 2000 then now. Adjusting for population growth, there are approx. 13 million more US citizens of working age today then in Jan. of 2000

Bernanke's policies Cause Man in San Antonio to Shoot at People

Burrito prices soar 50%!

Brian Tillerson, a manager at the Taco Bell/KFC restaurant, told the San Antonio Express-News that the man was angry the Beefy Crunch Burrito had gone from 99 cents to $1.49 each.

Charge me $1.49 for a .99 cent burrito and I'll kill you

I ordered an expensive cut of Kobe beef, baked potato, spinach salad and a glass of milk

I began to salivate when the waiter set the meal in front of me. The plate glowed.

TOKYO – Japan's Health Ministry says tests have detected additional types of radiation-tainted vegetables, in more places, suggesting that contamination from its tsunami-crippled nuclear complex is reaching further into the food chain.
Ministry official Yoshifumi Kaji said Sunday that tests found excess amounts of radioactive elements on canola and chrysanthemum greens, in addition to spinach. He said the areas where the tainted produce was found included three prefectures that previously had not recorded such contamination.
Kaji said it was possible that some tainted foods may already have been sold. He also said that the government ordered shipments of milk from Fukushima, where the plant is located, to be halted after finding tainted milk at four farms out of 37 tested
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110320/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_earthquake_food_fears