markinjapan
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- Japan
- Birthday
- February 01
- Bio
- antiwar, anti-homophobic, anti-misogynistic and anti-racist
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Furthermore documents
released to the ACLU today
revel:
"Senior Bush
administ…”
8:12PM - “The arguments have been
made repeatedly by many in
this
thread - You are a tone
d…”
March 14, 2010 09:10PM - “lieberman's continues to
prove that he is tone deaf
and
unwilling to even
listen…”
March 14, 2010 08:29PM - “Yawn: "No idea what you
are talking about
LadyMiko"
Yawn!
rated”
March 14, 2010 08:44AM - “Looking through mr.
lieberman's history here, he
has never
posted a blog post,
an…”
March 13, 2010 06:08PM
Markinjapan's Links
"For eight years, Condoleezza Rice dealt with the Beltway punditry and the access-craving White House press corps. The reception she got, with a handful of exceptions, was fawning. Which leaves… Read full post »
JonStewart/Peter Schiff(NO nudes; Just the stark naked TRUTH
Smedley Butler
GordonO deletes his racist comments & thinks nobody notices!
When Bill Beck was accused of deletions, everybody joined in, in a virtual gang lynching fest.
When gordo does far worse, nobody seems to notice or mind, thesagejournal who must be sage in the sense of shrub's ranch (cause she sure ain't wise, nor a spice; and is in… Read full post »
israel our allies??? - Are you serious?
Jeremy Scahill - no more torture???
MAY 25, 2009 6:43AM
Who is dangerous?
Two choices. Who are the most dangerous people?
President Obama, who wants to get the rights to keep anybody by his own choice indefinite… Read full post »
Chomsky vs. Obushma (a Classic: focused on torture)
I know Chomsky, have spoken with him many times - anyone choosing to take issue best do their homework and check it twice (or more).
The Torture Memos
Torture has been routine practice from the early days of the Republic
By Noam Chomsky
June 2009
Prisoner 345 (give obama time!)
Prevaricators, Dissemblers, Word Parsers, & Sundry Detritus
Tier 1A Philip Zimbardo (nudity/degradation NOT gratuitous)
The Eve of Destruction (then and now)
There is little that I have add to this. It is pretty much self-explanatary:
Barry McGuire: "Eve of Destruction"
The eastern world, it is exploding
Violence flarin', bullets loadin'
You're old enough to kill, but not… Read full post »
" . . . Paradise-promises never, ever, win against reality."
Robert Fisk: "Most Arabs know this speech will make little difference."
"I suspect that what the Arab world wants to hear is that Obama will take his soldiers out of Muslim lands
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
More and more, it looks like the same old… Read full post »
Obama baits and switches AGAIN
Yesterday I wrote about "The Lucifer Effect and how lieberman and graham don't want you to see anymore naughty pictures. Now Obama has once again caved on transparency:
http://open.salon.com/blog/markinjapan/2009/05/11/tier_1a_philip_zimbardo_nuditydegradation_not_gratuitous
Torture?
Glenn Greenwald has some amazingly compelling remarks to make in his latest blog post in today's Salon.com
(Ironically I'd commented just yesterday to Bill Michtom's excellent post, "wouldn't the media's complicity make them eligible to stand in the dock along with cheney, bush, addington, yoo… Read full post »
Denial is not a river
Statue of Liberty is weeping (MUCH sexuality NOT gratuitous)
COMMENTARY | May 22, 2009
Denying that White House policy was directly responsible for the vile abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib has been the central goal of a five-year disinformation campaign by Bush officials. 'Torture Team… Read full post »
How Low Can We Go? (and more, yet to come)
I think the last excerpt in the last paragraph in this blog post sums up "nicely" how low we've sunk:
"The group [CCR] is encouraging citizens . . . to support legislation, such as a proposed bill in New York state that prohibits health professionals from participati… Read full post »
George redux (profanity laced) few seemed to care last post!
As I could never speak as eloquently as my friend, Bill, can and did on BBE's superlative blog post "Obama proposes Indefinite Preventive Detention without trial":
http://open.salon.com/blog/behind_blue_eyes/2009/05/22/obama_proposes_indefinite_preventive_detention_without_trial
Afghans 130, america 30
Really big surprise here! The lies keep coming and coming.
Is it intentional? Are they just a bunch of bumbling fools?
The truth my friends, is the lies keep coming and coming so rapidly, that they want to make you so dizzy that you no longer remember which lie was… Read full post »
the REAL truth - Can you take it???
usa, usa, usa the crowds cheered at the annual Nathan's hot dog eating contest in Coney Island when when Joey Chestnut finally defeated Takeru Kobayashi after a six year drought for the kings of hot dogs, usa (We DID invent after all, many claim).
Hey savor it while you can… Read full post »
Weapons of Mass computer Destruction (WMD); Tink & Trig
Just follow either or both of these guys around for a day or two, and You'll know what I mean. Read the tags for further instructions.
For some inexplicable reason the tags won't properly show; and aborts my post, so I'll append them here:
spit,
… Read full post »Obama tries to put one over on us
I don't know if anybody has yet mentioned this facet of obama's "truth-seeking," that Scott Horton (Scott Horton, New York attorney specializing in international law and human rights.) whose record is impeccable in following these matters mentioned yesterday:
"But even aside from that,… Read full post »
How can there possibly be anymore questions???
Tortured decision
This post is dedicated to dijon, his more (or less) retarded brother, decimated junior juvenile, and, of course, mr. devious, philos (and all the rest of the prevaricators who lurk in the dark underbelly of self-righteous hypocrisy), who presume to be privy to information unavailable to Mr. Soufan (F… Read full post »
R. Paul, death of u.s. empire (no nudity;only inevitability)
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