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Monday, June 11, 2012

Too-Big-To-Fail KREMLIN Intolerantly Turns Up Heat On Eve Of PEACEFUL PROTEST

  With the new law, in place since Friday, increasing fines for unauthorized protest, Reuters and The New York Times report investigators stormed the homes (apartments), and confiscated possessions of at least ten prominent protestors including Aleksey NavalnySergei UdaltsovIlya Yashin and Kseniya Sobchak.
  Dissuading the public from attending Tuesday’s government reform protest seems to be the reason behind the intimidating searches, while requiring the searched to report for further questioning will keep them from personally attending Tuesday’s rally as well. It’s assumed though that the government’s escalating intolerance might have the presumably unintended effect of prompting even more citizens to attend the rally than expected. But also possible that violence associated with recent protests could be more easily blamed on a less organized crowd, though so far the repressive police seem at least as responsible for their own aggressive tactics that have fallen far short of responsibly acting as society’s referees.
  However holding President Putin completely responsible for a division of government performing strongly on his behalf will hardly change attitudes. Even in the world’s most tolerant societies complete acceptance of anti-establishment sentiment does not exist. But a return to the previous lip-service tolerance of protest would be a step forward that the president does owe the country for the confidence shown in him by his winning the recent election. A job that would seem to require encouraging the country to try to be polite with each other rather than focus on their differences coming between the people.
6/11/2012
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Too-Big-To-Fail Kremlin Intolerantly Turns Up Heat On Eve Of PEACEFUL PROTEST
6/11/2012 concluded: However holding President Putin completely responsible for a division of government performing strongly on his behalf will hardly change attitudes. Even in the world’s most tolerant societies complete acceptance of anti-establishment sentiment does not exist. But a return to the previous lip-service tolerance of protest would be a step forward that the president does owe the country for the confidence shown in him by his winning the recent election. A job that would seem to require encouraging the country to try to be polite with each other rather than focus on their differences coming between the people.

June 27 - July 18, 2016

  "Polite with each other rather than focus on their differences coming between the people." Vague and corny. If only the politics of fomenting discord were just vague and corny. Civilians might be as cozily copacetic as we're sold to be? 
  Politics.  
  Police are supposed to be referees. Acting on behalf of an objective aspiring court. The fact the art of Public Relations has made defiant forms of expression the enemy of happily going along with entrenched statehood in our own obsessively patriotic ways means money talks. Don't walk.
  So here we are, where the way in's the way out

American Penal Reform Is The Only Way To Get The Rest of the World To Give A Rat's A__.

  The fact is all over the world power defends itself against whomever and whatever conflicts with power's enjoyment. An independent judiciary is, hopefully, no threat to independence. But the list of people leveraged from influencing public debate by questionable authority is very, very long. And while it, of course, may appear I'm way off the soapbox's mark by not directing this essay towards Russia's stifling publicity speech. Still, the world over Public Relations influenced Public Opinion is practically copied from formats used authoritarian-ly in good-ole, tried-and-true, American resistance to being trued.
  Once again, sadly, we are experiencing more worst days in American History. Because people are shot every day. Of course hearing both sides, the militarization of the American Police is a miconstrued reality the police aren't responsible for. Though the motives that cause undue force all seem to revolve around defending morality immorally, when the very people trusted with access to the best defenses available regard resorting to lethal offense as a warranted defense. I have to read about how officers never expected of such atrocities, defend them because it's really team politics in this us vs. them creation, the Criminal Enterprise System. Right, people shouldn't be irresponsible. As bad as Hitler if, in honoring Anslinger's memory, the whole country's doomed
  Of late I've become addicted to watching the television Police Drama Blue Bloods, as opposed to my previously avoiding supporting the show's star Tom Selleck whose propped up status with Conservatives was accomplished by claiming to stand against Hollywood liberalism when actual people all feel this contrived dog-and-pony show is nonsense. Team Spirit people've fallen in behind, where now a presidential candidate announces that Newt Gingrich* will be a part of the future government as a standard of credibility. The grin so we bear it political hard-edgedness, basically, descends from history's evolution as organized leech. The Criminal Enterprise System is, like inflation, never beaten so they must be solved.
Best bet yet. 

  Opportunistically lining up at thoroughly stocked, Lake Opportunity? The New York Times published this linked conservative broadside, implying the country's not academically centrist enough because leftists dominate New England's universities. Imagine John Lennon singing The New York Times sees becoming The Wall Street Journal Lite as their economic salvation? Redundantly representing Americanism's same old narrowed possibilities. Rhyming with history. Great. Our minds are owned or don't exist forever more. Amen. Fabulous. 
  The dog and pony political show has led to half the country, still, carrying the siren-called tune, by, among others, scruple-less Roy Cohn. Mr. Cohn, who when it came to bringing down innocent people is an historical fact no matter what your slant

  Pedestals have been, pretty much, raised to successful reiterations of authoritarian Stalinism. Where shaded truth's really lying, and acceptable. Because power's all that matters, though what's right isn't wrong. And slapping the Constitution to the chest so the document's intent to change humanity's militarization isn't even read? The police shouldn't be victims. They're supposed to be referees. Where's the intent to End the Criminal Enterprise System
  So Blue Bloods timely(?) celebrates alcohol's responsible use as if it were the superior instinctual cultural tradition. A civilized ritual. But without facing society's stimulant ills nearly enough. The drug war was begun by opportunists on many levels of governments' ruling apparatuses. Hasn't this grudge-filled world's militarized enforcement done enough? Shared responsibility for corrupting enough souls? Babies aren't born to be criminals. The temptations themselves are of our devising and government should really do something about mellowing all this nonsense down. From the violent confusion to entrenched rhetoric. Until warped reasonings have grown to understand, one thing's for sure, no matter how polished the power point display. Humans created a monster. God/Allah is not responsible for our mistakes. Worship is appreciating the opportunity. And look how much humanity got pretending to be supreme?  
  So Blue Bloods is just television. Not a Barney Miller and especially no Mayberry, of course. But the show's in the lineage of expressing what police go through. Congress, you should look into that? Rather than becoming forced to see whether an idea can afford your expensive point-of-view. 
  So Blue Bloods is tuned into New York City Police Commissioner Bratton's doubting that the glorification of Harry Anslinger's legacy, extending the Criminal Enterprise System, was an, unnecessarily destructive, undermining of America's core. No. Morality's heads shake. Governors Scapegoat of New York and New Jersey maintain the stage where the world's capital's comically under siege to the immorality of morality's brutality born of a façade. Their three shaken heads blaming a drug culture that, with all its' faults, ethically grew from understanding the criminalization of America really is elicit exploitation. And power accomplishes what it can. Drink to that, Mr. Selleck? 
  Sorry. Condolences can't begin to express my regret bad things happen. 
  So. Blue Bloods is finely produced. But where are ideas for stimulating the laying down of the world's militarized societies? Right. It's not the guns. It's all the people. Where's ideas restructuring the public's badly misconstrued publicity face? Instead of answering the confusion, a form of authoritarianism has us skewered by the Criminal Enterprise System. Idiots excusing revenge. Wonder how many presidential candidates would at least understand both of those concepts?

  Dallas. ... . That the modern era's violence and revenge is an answer is on George W. Bush's shoulders and not just the delusional erratics people've even been preached into believing. Mr. Bush made a public statement about his and Laura's sympathies for the shooting victims in Dallas, when only the utterly fooled would perpetuate infinite martyrdom. A smirk, grin and straight tie, plus platitudes, are impersonations of shame? A lot more needs renovation than the Military Industrial Complexes. Who'll afford the logarithm? Because our world's beyond compromise compromising us? Settled in ruled so completely, obedience is reverent awe? 
  From Dallas, tragedy's visibly seeded into martyrdom's fabric. Now. Which religion teaches against that? Or have all been so distorted, and disgraced, that it's no wonder God/Allah's above us all. I'm not particularly fond of the contrived violence here either. 

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  His life is depicted in the play, Turn Me Loose Starring Joe Morton at the Westside Theater through July 17 Theater Talk The New York Times Review by Charles IsherwoodThe Root Joe Morton and Dick Gregory talk. ReviewsEBONYTODAY SHOWThe State of the Black Union 2008Dick Gregory Breaks Entertainment Color BarrierDick Gregory Live @ The Village Gate 1970 "That really frightens me as much time as I spend in jail?" The Light Side The Dark Side, Dick Gregory's last show, James Baldwin and Dick Gregory, Dick Gregory Speaks OutToo Few Know "sanctioned by the people in control" & how Honky came to be is explained. WISDOM - "Killing is wrong by the state." 
  February 1980 I shook Dick Gregory's hand thanks to Reverend Ralph Abernathy's shaking mine the year before after Reverend Abernathy spoke @ the University of Central Florida's Black History Month. After my former PE instructor, and 7th grade basketball Coach Oscar Willis, who was then Vice-Principal of Orlando's Jones High School, must have made some remark to Reverend Abernathy after his speech because I'd overheard their talking, when Reverend Abernathy arrived, and that they'd worked together in St. Augustine back in the day
  Leaving Reverend Abernathy walked into my aisle to address overly shy me. If only all the world's contests were decided by who's the nicer person? 
  So. There I was, year later, in the Engineering Building's large auditorium. Where I sat in the middle that must often feel like the podium's aimed right at you. Because I can't recall ever situating myself in that particular type of seat again. Anyway. I remember wondering why Mr. Gregory's speech wasn't funnier. Or maybe it's just the seriousness overwhelms memory? 
  Anyway. Mr. Gregory indicts the next generation for amusing themselves with drugs and not putting their shoulders to the grindstone to fulfill humanity's better destiny. While above-the-sinner self-righteousness is still a problem too. But Mr. Gregory does never lose focus on humanity's need to grow up. Not his fault good pot couldn't circulate in the ghetto. Spawning the more disastrous chemical results of the drug culture. 
  So. Shyer than even now. I'd made the commitment to shaking the writer of those books' hand. The hall's clearing and I'm just more nervous. Standing at my seat, watching Mr. Gregory sitting on a chair arm facing the young black man facing him. Finally I walked to the end of my aisle, shaking inside. Then over behind where he sat. And after my standing there, up to a good 30 seconds, he gave that sideways glance that meant: what the heck do you want. The next beat I grabbed his hand, he didn't offer, and shook it and at no time have I ever shook a hand as limp and said, "thank you very much" and left. One supposes with Mr. Gregory's thinking I didn't show much capability to do anything. (Took some time.) Some people have sacrificed so much for the world, that the people, left here now, have no business thinking they'll ever sacrifice as much. As Mr. Gregory might say, we're still just an across-the-board spoiled generation. 
Joe Morton as Dick Gregory
The Long Grudge
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by Carol Anderson

  Tougher solves the terrorist crisis when its' exacerbation was the cause? The innocent dying is on everyone's shoulders. Moral enforcement is not a plan. From Charlie Rose's coverage of militaristic progress to the delusional giddiness of moral superiority that's just rationalization for Allah/God's gift of independence squandered on human greed. While a burnt Bush sleeps undisturbed. Shame. There's so much that should have to be faced.

  Politicians. 
  Well. Yes. I know. Academics call on the nation to see the underpinnings of power all the time. But still the result of a framework of alliances where this side is this and that is that and everything's overlooked to patriotically hang behind bs art... .
Sarcastically Acceptable = Car (mobile throne) Apologists

* Two decades ago, on television I sat through the entire Newt Gingrich American History course, just to know, and felt as lectured at as having given Sean Hannity 3 hours a day, five days a week, for a year, five years later. And in case anyone's miraculously wondering, yes, I've been criticized for not writing liberal enough. Because unless jargon's recited, you're no team player, and hence can't fulfill the real purposes of a team. Hence2soapbox. I could deride President Obama's legacy for having "saved the automotive industry" and remaining as indecisive about a transportation system as his excuse spewing, White House, laurel-sitting, forebears. Or, if you'd prefer I could spew about how Bill Clinton sycophantically coat-tailed the criminalization of more of America for contrived political purposes. Proving Jesus' hopeful quotation, for us, from the cross. "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." 
NOTICE HOW TOO-BIG-TO-FAIL APPLIES TO THE REASON WE'RE RULED INDEPENDENT
Time To End Criminalized America

Monday, June 25, 2012

Doctor Who Assisted In Bin Laden’s Execution Still In Pakistani Prison

  Misunderstanding mounts when resolution requires vengeanceReuters reports Dr. Shakil Afridi, the doctor who assisted the CIA in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is in solitary confinement protecting him from hundreds of convicted militants eager to avenge their hero’s death and he may not be safe from even the guards as only two trusted officials are allowed to see him. Reuters alleges Afridi is as much a prisoner of Pakistan resentment of the United States as victim of his own dalliance toward high-stakes espionage.
  Afridi, now 48, was an alleged small-time country physician long dogged by allegations of medical malpractice, who was recruited by the CIA some years ago, according to several U.S. and Pakistani officials. One Pakistani intelligence source said he was talent-spotted while working in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Peshawar in 2009. Later, he was asked to scout bin Laden’s compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad, near the capital Islamabad, under the cloak of an anti-hepatitis campaign. U.S. officials say Afridi provided important information on activity at the compound before Bin Laden was killed in a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in May of last year conducted without informing Pakistani authorities. Three weeks later, Afridi was picked up and interrogated for months and in May of this year sentenced to 33 years in jail.
  After a recent visit Dr. Afridi’s brother, Jamil Afridi, noticed the prisoner had gained weight, perhaps because conditions improved since his transfer to the jail from intelligence agency detention centers Reuters conjectured. Jamil, a village schoolteacher, says he himself has been forced to adopt a disguise, dark glasses and cap, to ward off unwanted attention since appearing on TV to defend his younger sibling. Jamil, who spends much of his day worried passersby are actually security agents tailing him said, “My brother has become a victim of the U.S. game.” He used the term “angels” for agents, as many Pakistanis do because they are believed to be invisibly everywhere. Jamil reasonably contends, “If my brother had really played a role for America, I think the Americans should have kept it secret.”
  It’s difficult accepting an American asset wasn’t protected, regardless of the contention that the doctor declined help, when under the circumstances it appears his needing help might have been why he assisted in the first place. Because elders and former officials were already accusing the doctor of making money performing unnecessary operations on unsuspecting villagers and sexual harassment of nurses his brother dismisses as baseless. Some former colleagues have described Afridi as a diligent professional and U.S. officials also verbally defend him. “Available information showed Afridi was a respected member of the Pakistani health care community,” said a senior U.S. official in Washington. “We are aware of efforts, put in place since Dr. Afridi’s arrest, to denigrate his character.” U.S. officials say the doctor declined relocation of himself and his family after the bin Laden raid, but there’s no way to independently confirm that. Jamil Afridi said he did not know whether his brother had received that offer, but believed Afridi would have been reluctant to take his two sons and a daughter out of Pakistan, where he had a stable job and his wife worked as the principal of a government college. “He had a good future,” Jamil Afridi said. “Why would he move to the U.S. to live there?”
  Nonetheless this doesn’t seem to realistically add up unless the asset was deemed expendable.
  Naseem Bibi, a nurse who worked on his immunization drive in Abbottabad, also defended Afridi. “He was very nice to all the people in the team and did his job very diligently,” she said. But supposedly Afridi was trailed by accusations for years that he sought easy money convincing patients to undergo unnecessary surgery at his private clinic. Mohammad Yousaf, an elder from Khyber, said his sister had suffered months of complications and remained bed-ridden after Afridi performed surgery to treat her fever. “We are illiterate villagers and thought whatever the doctor advised would be good,” Yousaf said.
Yousaf referring to himself and fellow villagers as illiterate doesn’t sound consistent either, does it?
  Reuters contends allegations of medical malpractice are not unusual in Pakistan’s tribal areas, and it is impossible to verify the validity of the claims. But it’s certain Afridi rankled his superiors as the provincial health department report on his performance in March 2002 contended this. “Keeping in view his extreme lust for money, I am ashamed to even call him a doctor. He is a corrupt, unreliable and low category officer.”
  In The Operation, Afridi organized an immunization drive in Abbottabad, where U.S. officials suspected Bin Laden was hiding. To obtain DNA samples from children living in bin Laden’s compound and prove their father’s identity, according to a former Pakistani security official. Afridi went to bin Laden’s house, accompanied by three health workers, and told bin Laden’s wives that an anti-hepatitis drive was underway and he took cheek swabs from the children under the pretext of the campaign. “A woman went in to the house and said ‘bring the children out, the doctor is waiting and he will give them the drops’,” the former official said. “That’s when he used the swabs.” It was unclear whether the CIA used the swabs to determine if the children were bin Laden’s, but the doctor provided intelligence on the house’s tight security arrangements.
  Sadly this just further illustrates how difficult it is to protect the innocent in this ironically backward modern world.
  Upset People Needing Hope
6/25/2012
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Doctor Who Assisted in Bin Laden's Execution Still In Pakistani Prison

6/5/2012 concluded: Sadly this just further illustrates how difficult it is to protect the innocent in this ironically backward modern world.

Upset People Needing Hope 

Peshawar Central Jail

November 9 - December 2, 2016
  Still in jail. Tragic ramifications multiply. And idealistic trampling of reality from belief in a military solution is two wrongs making a right, etc., etc., etc
  Yes, all this must be done while that finished as well too. But when? Other than awarding each other prizes for effort? No unassailable imagery's been maintained to explain revenge must be done. Over. Finis. Done. Obviously our ceremonial advances coming far short of actually convincing enough of everyone. All the more like wailing in the wind. Unfortunately.
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The Same Old Sold New Again

  Honesty in a corrupt world is surely, almost, near enough, an oxymoron. Corrupt honesty? Most anything's tainted and poisoned by desperation. Explained over by explaining over and over again. Smoothing out a liturgic blind obedience to monster mantras leading horses to water soothingly coerced by drinking. Wink, wink
  Politics rooted in the excuse of cultural demise. Fighting for ethics by clouding the mirror with deceit. Getting over. Casting a spell. The idea of an Embellisher-in-Chief has always been wrong, and, more pronounced, wrong as ever. Bigly.
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The 22nd paragraph of 

  The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty. President George Washington
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  Repeating inanities
  For instance? The New York Times' Lies in Guise of News In The Trump Era by Nicholas Kristof frames the troublesomeness underlying toying with facts. Another experiencing of America's already constructed partitioning. Pulitzer vs. Hearst 

  What's more diplomatic than addressing the subject of carving American opinion with such bitter vehemence vitriol substitutes for weighing substance with facts. Where a bred sycophance obliterates doubt where understanding begins. 
  So the President-Elect and the suspicions about what he's already said, plus track record of self-embellishers puddling about in the expanding wake, promises bandwagons for everybody. 
Just One Republican Left Is All I See
  The smiles are all there. Criminal Enterprise System profiteers. Pompously exploited Public Relations ethics vaunting honor as exclusive to ruthless mentalities. 
  Often anger confuses and, like arrogance leads blindly down dark paths lit without light. The first part of this century will be recalled as the Mandate. When most vocabulary was reduced to adjectives that hid disclosure while clarifying nothing except what arrogance reveals. 
The strength of a conspiracy's more important than intellectual honesty and ethics. …
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A post: 11:39 AM, November 9, 2016 (edited)
Charles M. Fraser - The writing was on the wall with Peggy Noonan and Frank Luntz front and center on, covering their bets,  CBS. Sycophantic power. Frank Luntz who, last time I watched Sean Hannity, explained how the truth doesn't matter as long as Americans are gotten to believe something else. The modern day "legal" Lucky Luciano who walked on the carcasses of the last generation of Mustache Petes, who'd rolled out the red carpet for the buildings Trump could actually claim he built, will now upgrade his meddlesome tactics within the parameters of their luxurious Criminal Enterprise System. If people'd listened they'd have heard Trump promise that. As always it's the drugs already within us that are the culprits. The gloating has already cancelled my intention to return to Florida. Once again facing the shame for sexism and racism remains for other generations to face. This one gets a Giuliani-esque crafting of taking credit for others' work. Prove me wrong is the challenge. But, for evolving time's sake, my future's still risked for the truth.
2 PM, November 11th, 2016
Can't face forward if not facing history's past.
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