Saturday, September 11, 2010
Trailer for The Tillman Story Documentray About the Pat Tillman Cover-Up
Watch this. The f-ckery around this REAL American Hero by the former administration is F-CKING OUTRAGEOUS!!!
More...
Documentary director Amir bar-Lev's The Tillman Story is a scathing indictment of the U.S. government. [Metro News]
In case you didn't know, disgraced Afghan US Forces commander, General Stanley McChrystal is a central figure in the Pat Tillman cover-up.
In the Name of Pat Tillman: Good Riddance to Stanley McChrystal. [The nation]
Pat Tillman's mother on Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal: I told you so. [MichaelMoore.com]
Mother of Pat Tillman, Michael Moore, speak out about Gen. McChrystal's appointment to teach at Yale, calls it 'an insult.' [Daily News]
Labels: Afghanistan, GOP corruption, GOP incompetence, War on Terror
Trailer for America at Risk - Newt Gingrich's Fearmongering Documentary About the Islamic Threat To America
WTF??!? *Smdh..."
Read more about this movie at Politico HERE.
Labels: GOP fearmongering, Religious Right, War on Terror
Video: President Obama Speaks on the Ninth Anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks
First his Weekly Address: A Day That Tested Our Country:
Then speaking at the 'hallowed ground' of Ground Zero in New York to speak on 'How Best to Honor 9/11 Victims':
But is it enough? Hmmm....
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Then speaking at the 'hallowed ground' of Ground Zero in New York to speak on 'How Best to Honor 9/11 Victims':
But is it enough? Hmmm....
Labels: 9/11, Barack Obama, War on Terror
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Video: President Obama Speaks on the End of the Combat Mission in Iraq
Friday, August 27, 2010
Former Canadian Idol Contestant Arrested in Ottawa Terror Plot!
Dude (Dr. Khurram Syed Sher - yes, a medical doctor) sang Avril Lavigne’s “Complicated” and did the moonwalk and the robot! WTF??!? This would be funny if wasn't so serious although I wonder if this is another of these so-called foiled terror plots that turns out to be a bunch of wannabe but incompetent bumblers who were never going to be a serious threat?
Read more via the Toronto Star:
Third terror suspect was Canadian Idol contestant.
From Canadian Idol contestant to terror suspect.
Idol contestant in court amid reports of fourth arrest.
Labels: War on Terror, WTF
NYC Cabbie Ahmed Sharif Stabbed for Being Muslim!
Weirdly as the video point out for those too lazy to watch it to the end, the attacker, college student Michael Enright actually took part in a trip to Afghanistan sponsored by an organization that promotes interfaith tolerance and understanding. Depending on what you read, that trip may have triggered PTSD in him or he's a drunk, not a racist or he is just an anti-Muslim racist. You decide, I guess!
Despite growing evidence of increasing Anti-Muslim sentiment throughout the US though, the Right Wing there continues to keep their head in the sand.
Labels: Right Wing Nutjobs, War on Terror, WTF
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Video: 'Ground Zero Mosque' Developer Sharif El-Gamal Speaks!
About the mosque that's not actually a mosque and not actually being built on Ground Zero. Anti-Muslim bigots: listen closely at the 0:40 second mark to what he's saying!
Related:
Peter Beinart says America has disgraced itself over the Ground Zero mosque controversy. [Daily Beast]
New Poll: 1 in 5 Americans See Obama as 'Muslim.' *Smdh...* - sometimes the US is just an embarrassing place to be. [Voice of America]
Previously on The Kitchen:
President Obama defends plans for Ground Zero mosque.
Labels: Racism, US race relations, War on Terror
New Medal of Honor Video Game Lets You Be the Taliban!
I guess they're not just mad in the US either. I understand people taking offense but I'm not sure there's anything you can really about it, is there?
Labels: Video games, War on Terror, WTF
Sunday, May 09, 2010
AP Video: White House Now Says Pakistan Taliban Behind NY Bomb
Just like I thought when I heard he'd been in Pakistan for 5 months. Surprised the Taliban would use someone so incompetent though - I think this actually shows that all my cynicism aside, the so-called 'War on terror' might actually being won if the quality of their recruits is dropping.
Labels: War on Terror
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Arrest Made in Attempted Times Square Bombing
Related:
Times Square bomb plot suspect, Faisal Shahzad, says he acted alone - after 5 months in Pakistan?? Uh, huh.... [NY Daily News]
Labels: War on Terror
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Police Find Suspected Car Bomb in Times Square, New York Yesterday
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Christian Militia Domestic Terror Plot Foiled!
So help me out here: how is the Hutaree, this so-called 'Christian Militia' that plotted to kill a policeman and bomb his funeral in the hope of spurring an anti-government uprising different than your standard-issue ragtag Al Qaeda-inspired Muslim terror cell?? [Guardian]
And watch the video above: dude chooses his words very carefully saying his 'citizen militia' group disassociated themselves from the Hutaree after 'training' them, once they learned of their beliefs. But beyond that and his dubious claim that his group's primary mission is to function in a quasi-FEMA/National Guard role in times of emergency and not as a Christian fundamentalist, survivalist group like the Hutaree, I'm not sure why I shouldn't look at him sideways too the same Tea Baggers, xenophobes and other right wing racists do all Muslim or brown people in the wake of every new Muslim terror incident.
More:
Eugene Robinson on the Hutaree militia and the rising risk of far-right violence. [Washington Post]
Previously on The Kitchen: Violence, Threats and Vandalism?? America, Meet your Anti-Health Reform Protesters!
Labels: Religious Right, Right Wing Nutjobs, War on Terror, WTF
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Massive Attack - Saturday Come Slow: a short film by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
"Filmed inside Cambridge University's anechoic chamber (designed to create total silence) and featuring former Guantanamo Bay detainee, Ruhal Ahmed, this short by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin is a reflection on Ahmed's experiences whilst in detention (particularly how he was interrogated using high-volume music) and about the use of human sound on the body. "
Track featuring Damon Albarn of UK indie band, Blur from the excellent Heligoland album in stores and online NOW. Cop it on iTunes HERE.
Follow - @MassiveAttackUK
Labels: Damon Albarn, Guantanamo Bay, Massive Attack, War on Terror
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Jordan Suicide bomber Kills 7 CIA Agents!
WTF? I missed this story when it happened over the holidays but NPR is going hard with it today. Wow! Between this and the attempted Christmas Day bombing, sh-t is getting real sloppy in this so-called War on Terror.
Read more...
Jordanian suicide bomber who killed CIA agents 'was a triple agent.' [Times of London]
Suicide bomber who attacked CIA post in Afghanistan was a trusted informant [my emphasis] from Jordan. [Washington Post]
[note: I know Russia Today, whose video is featured above, is not exactly an unbiased news source and Wayne Madsen is a questionable analyst too but the basic premise of this story is not in dispute and is troubling in of itself]
Labels: Al Qaeda, Government Incompetence, taliban, War on Terror, WTF
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Homeland Security is Bullsh-t!
Seriously! I mean they've been racially profiling Arab and SE Asian-looking people since 9/11 and making all of us go through these useless bullsh-t proecdures like taking off our shoes and not being able to carry on beverages or all of our luggage if we have regular-sized toiletries since they caught that moron Richard Reid shoebomber dude. I won't even get back into all the crazy wiretap & domestic spying on US citizens that not only violated Americans' privacy but was also illegal until Bush bullied the Congress into not only making it legal but expanding it! (OK, I guess I just did....)
Meanwhile, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's own father called the US government to warn them of his son's increasingly radicalized beliefs and possible threat potential. And yet, despite opening a file and investigation on him, the dude was still able to get on a plane (albeit not in the US) with some explosives that he attempted to set off. He wasn't even put on the so-called Terrorist 'No-Fly' List to be flagged if and when he attempted to travel! You know: the same one the late, great Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy and other obvious non-terror threats had been put on.
So now everyone's on edge and reporting every stupid incident no matter how trivial and we all have to now put up with even more ridiculous 'security' procedures.
The War on Terror has always been total nonsense in my book, ever since Bush coined the term in the lead-up justification for his botched foreign policy actions in Afghanistan and Iran. The ongoing wars there have become a complete waste of time and even if success (whatever that means at this point) is achieved, it will all mean nothing if the government cannot even competently manage the kind of basic intelligence & policing action that really keeps people safe beyond conducting counter-terror military actions. Not sure this kid really had the means to damage the plane he was on but thank goodness for passengers like Jasper Schuringa. At least they were there to do the job when the government couldn't even with the easy lay-up like this.
I hate to crack on my dude, President Obama 'cos ultimately I think he's been forced to play some really bad hands he's been dealt from Bush's 8 years of incompetence. But for this to have happened eight years after 9/11 is a total mindf-ck and homeland security fail IMHO. I know this flight originated out of Amsterdam but WTF? We don't share the names of possible terror suspects with other countries still? In 2009? Really?? Please, someone explain this to me if I'm missing something here that justifices this f-ckery.
Me? For now, I'll stay taking the Megabus when I can and skip the bullsh-t. Next up in my rants, a look at the online hysteria behind the rapper, Jay Electronica....
Related:
Security System Failed, Napolitano Acknowledges. [New York Times]
Labels: Al Qaeda, Government F-ckery, War on Terror, WTF
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
RussiaToday Report on CIA Secert 'Black Site' Prisons in Lithuania
Straight f-ckery! The video above is from a week ago but here's more recent developments in this story from today...
"Lithuanian spy agency set up secret prisons for CIA - Parliamentary committee finds no evidence of interrogations in Lithuania or that senior politicians were informed." Yeah, RIGHT! [Guardian UK]
REPORT: Two CIA Black Site Prisons in Lithuania. [ABC News]
Lithuania hosted secret CIA prisons. [BBC News]
Labels: Al Qaeda, C.I.A., GOP corruption, Republican f-ckery, War on Terror
Thursday, December 10, 2009
President Obama Announces His New Afghanistan Strategy
Watch CBS News Videos Online
*Late pass*
Short on time? Watch the 4-minute version of his address at West Point above HERE.
Counterpoint:
Moderate conservative thinker, Eric Margolis says Pres. Obama's Afghan surge strategy is misguided.
And on the liberal side, filmmaker Michael Moore agrees.
Related:
Oh yeah, Pres. Obama also accepted his Nobel Peace Prize award today.
Labels: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Michael Moore, War on Terror
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
President Obama Says He Intends to ‘Finish the Job’ in Afghanistan
More via The New York Times HERE.
Is there really a way this ends as anything more than just a catastrophe or failed mission?
Labels: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, War on Terror
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Video: The US strategy is failing in Afghanistan - "Afghans just want to be left alone"
Related:
Video + Article: Hail of fire raises a chilling question: who is the enemy in Afghanistan? [The Guardian]
Labels: Afghanistan, War on Terror, WTF
Sunday, November 01, 2009
AP video: Abdullah Abdullah Drops Out of Afghan Runoff Election
Reuters take HERE.
NY Times: Transparent Election Is Not Possible, Says Rival to Karzai.
Expect the Mayor of Kabul and his sheisty-ass brother to continue their corruption and drug dealing unabated after Wednesday's now defacto sham, run-off election.
Labels: Afghanistan, War on Terror, WTF
