Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Racist Ukraine gets more billions

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That's Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "UTool Of Empire" and, yes, in photos, the singer (Ukranian) is making the racist signal.  Are you surprised?


If you are then you're some White person who has elected to stick your head in the sand instead of being outraged that we are backing a country so racist that the Peace Corps feels the need to issue a warning to their volunteers about how racist Ukraine is.  


We have more important things to do than supporting a racist country. 


NPR notes:


The House on Tuesday night voted 368-57 to pass nearly $40 billion in additional military, economic and humanitarian aid to Ukraine to fight against Russia's invasion.

The measure now goes to the Senate, which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said will act on it "swiftly" and send to President Biden.

According to multiple congressional sources, the latest package includes $3.4 billion in new funding for food aid and an equal $3.4 billion increase in spending authority for military aid.

 

F**k that.  That's money that needs to be spent at home.  And f**k anyone who tries to tell me or any other African-American that the racism in Ukraine doesn't matter.  It damn well does matter and they should have to fight their own battles without our tax dollars.

 

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

 

Tuesday, May 10, 2022.   Iraq's ongoing political stalemate hits the seven month mark with no end in sight, Us forces shoot up Iraqi homes, and  much more


The Iraq War has not ended.  Yesterday, US forces opened fire on homes in Erbil.  ALSUMARIA TV reports that the US is saying this was an accident and a training exercise.  Let's accept that for the moment, if true, why were US forces -- there, we are told, only for training on basis -- out and about and firing on homes in Erbil?


No, it doesn't make sense.


Amr Salem (IRAQI NEWS) notes:


The governor of Basrma town in Erbil governorate reported Tuesday that US forces mistakenly opened fire at several houses in the town, according to Baghdad Today news.


[. . .]


Other news reports indicated that six missiles fired by the US forces hit houses in a crowded area in Basrma injuring civilians.

Concerned Iraqi security officials started investigations to find out how the accident took place.


ABNA 24 adds, "Released images of the incident show that civilian houses and vehicles were damaged in the area, but more details have not yet been released."


11 homes were shot up.


From 11 to 10, it is now May 10th, know what that means?  We'll jog memories.  October 10th, Iraqis turned out to vote.  All this time later, they've still failed to elect a president and have failed to name a prime minister-designate which means there's no real Cabinet.  Their term expired back in October.


And don't try to b.s. your way through that.  In 2010, the western press went along with then-prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's claim that Iraq had no vice president because there terms were expired and no new government had been elected.  So let's stop pretending that there's a legal cabinet from the holdover government.  


It's now seven months after the election.


In 2010, Iraq set the record for the longest time between an election and finally forming a government -- eight months.  Now unlike the floundering Moqtada al-Sadr today, in 2010, the problem was Nouri refused to step down.  He lost and he wouldn't step down.  Originally, the US government said they would stand with the winner.  Then Samantha Power bent Barack Obama's ear and they started backing the loser -- Nouri.  They would go on to negotiate The Erbil Agreement which would toss the votes of the Iraqi people aside and give Nouri a second term -- which would result in the rise of ISIS in Iraq. 


In October 2010, JJ Sutherland (NPR) wrote:


It may not be a record to be proud of, but, hey, at least it's something. Iraq has now not had a government after a parliamentary election longer than anybody, ever. The Washington Post is reporting that the Netherlands held that honor until today, back in 1977 they went without an elected government for 207 days, today marks Iraq's 208th.

Leila Fadhil of the Post quotes one of the great Iraq watchers and a Dutchman himself, Joost Hiltermann.

"There is no difference with the Iraqi case, except that the Netherlands had strong, functioning institutions and a caretaker government that continued to govern," said Joost Hiltermann, a Dutch national and an expert on Iraq at the International Crisis Group. "Iraq has very weak institutions and a caretaker government that can do very little. This makes for a potentially highly unstable and precarious situation."

The election was close, incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite party won 89 seats in parliament, while former Prime Minister and secular Shi'ite Iyad Allawi's party won 91 seats. And, it being Iraq, there are other parties and players that also have been angling for power. Negotiations, now in their 208th day, have produced no result.


That was October 1, 2010.  Parliament would only move forward on November 11, 2010.  207 days on October 1st.  30 more days in October takes that to 237.  Add the 10 days of Noember (possibly 11 since it's considered ended on the 11th) and you have 247 days.  


Now in 2010, Nouri refused to accept losing, refused to step down, refused to move out of the prime minister's home, etc.


There has been no such refusal this go round.  But seven months later, it's seven months now, and it's still not been resolved, the political stalemate has continued because of ineptitude.


Now the Constitution -- which is never followed -- has the way for a prime minister-designate to move over to the prime minister by forming a Cabinet.  Now that's not followed.  Even when, like Hayder al-Abadi, they swear that it's going to be followed this time.


The reason for that being in the Constitution?  If you can't form a Cabinet, you can't govern.


To form a Cabinet, you have to make deals, do horse trading, prove you can work with the majority.


No one's done that, they haven't followed that aspect of the Constitution once.  So it's no surprise that the various government's have failed the people and refused to address their needs.


But grasp that the failure right now is happening not with the Cabinet forming.  It's no where near that level yet.  You have various groups and none can horse trade, none can work with others well enough to form a government.


This is a new low and it should alarm the international community.  


But there's no honesty in the international community.


When they do bother to realize that this not normal and should not be acceptable, they rush to shame the Kurds.


How many times has it been explained that the Kurds are a minority population in Iraq?


Now of Kurds who chose to vote, the majority are represented by the KDP while the PUK political party represents the next largest group of voters.  (The KDP got 31 seats while the PUK got 18 seats.)


This is not the fault of the Kurds.  Quit blaming them.  The KDP is siding with Moqtada al-Sadr while the PUK has sides with the Coordination Framework (which is run by many -- including Nouri al-Maliki).  


This is beyond stupid to blame the Kurds. Now, yes, usually the western world is able to blackmail or guilt the Kurds into this or that.  It's why there is no Kurdish homeland to this day.  They are the largest ethnic population on the planet without a nation-state.  


Shi'ites are the dominant group in Iraq.  And Moqtada's grouping -- no this political party -- got 73 seats.  Other Shi'ite groups did well also.  Nouri's State of Law got 33 seats.  


The PUK and the KDP are split, they're not united.  One of the reasons is that the PUK has had the presidency since the US invaded Iraq.  Back then the PUK and the KDP were close to the same level of popularity.  However, since the Talabani family defrauded Iraq (pretending Jalal was healthy and recovering when he couldn't speak and he couldn't move and should have been replaced as president), their polarity has soured.  Gorran, with the help of CIA-seed money, managed to overtake the PUK.  And then they decided to get in bed with the PUK and had a disaster at the polls in October.  But the KDP feels that they should have the presidency -- by custom, Iraq awards that office (largely ceremonial) to a Kurd, the Speaker of Parliament goes to a Sunni and the prime minister is a Shi'ite.  


Moqtada, representing one Shi'ite faction, and Nouri representing aonther?  Those are where the big votes are.  The PUK, for example, could be dropped immediately without any real loss if the Coordination Framework was able to appeal to others -- Shi'ites, Sunnis, minority candidates, etc.  


This has been an abject failure.  


It also gets to how wrong Moqtada and others have been claiming the problem was the system of government and that's why he was going to come up with a different formation -- he was going to do a national majority government.  That was the answer.  Well it hasn't been and the problems appear to be even worse with what Moqtada's attempted.  Yet, Moqtada's MP Hassan al-Adhari tells ALSUMARIA that they are still pursuing that majority government.


April 1st, he bowed out.  He announced a forty day hold on his actions.  He wanted to see if his opponents could form a government (or he wanted to prove that they couldn't -- depending upon how you look at it).  


This has all been one long failure and the problem isn't the Kurds no matter what the western press screeches and hisses.  These are the same whores, remember, who told you that Moqtada was a "kingmaker."  He had no experience being that, but whores make their money from inflating tiny things -- i.e. "No, baby, it's huge.  I've never seen one that big before."


And that's what they did with Moqtada.  They lied then, they lie now.  



Meanwhile, ALMADA's Hussein al-Amel reports that hundreds of graduates shut down Dhi Qar Oil Company as well as the Directorate of Education wih a sit-in as they demanded job opportunities.  In the meantime, oil workers have been sent home.  In April, the Iraqi Army destroyed the base the activists were operating from -- including their tents -- when they stopped their sit-ins to observe Ramadan.


In yesterday's snapshot, we noted the rise of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) in Iraq  This morning, RUDAW reports:

 


The Kurdistan Region on Tuesday recorded the first case of Congo fever amid an outbreak in Iraq’s southern provinces.

Erbil General Directorate of Health reported the first Congo hemorrhagic fever in the city. The infected person is 17-year-old and has been hospitalized.

The directorate did not disclose further details.

The Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, also known as Congo fever, is tick-borne and causes severe hemorrhaging, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It has been endemic to Iraq since 1979 and reappeared again last year.



We'll wind down with this from The Feminist Majoarity:


I’m circling with a brief update here, Common Ills, after last week’s devastating news about the leaked draft opinion out of SCOTUS.

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has confirmed — the Senate will be voting THIS WEEK on the Women’s Health Protection Act:

Screenshot of a tweet from Chuck Schumer that reads: I’m standing with elected officials and women’s rights advocates in NY because the Supreme Court’s reported decision is an abomination. The Senate will vote this week on the Women’s Health Protection Act to protect abortion rights. We will see where every single senator stands.

Please continue to contact your Senators ASAP to urge them to vote YES for the Women’s Health Protection Act this week.

See Ellie’s note below.
-KS

From: Ellie Smeal <reply@feministmajority.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 7:01 PM
To: You
Subject: fed up and fired up



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Monday, May 9, 2022

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Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Seth's Only 2% Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes" went up Saturday  and prior to that "Biden's Last Remaining Supporter,"  "The Experts" and "21 DUMPSTER"  had gone up.

 

Now this is from the Green Party:

 

Green Party of the United States
www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
May 3, 2022

Contact:
Michael O'Neil, Communications Manager, meo@gp.org, 202-804-2758
Diana C. Brown, Co-Chair, Media Committee, media@gp.org, 202-804-2758
Philena Farley, Co-Chair, Media Committee, media@gp.org, 202-804-2758

“This is an extremely disturbing decision from the Supreme Court,” said Green Party National Women’s Caucus Spokesperson Holly Hart. “It would overturn decades of understanding and policy that protected women’s privacy and health. If access to safe abortion is handed to state legislatures, we will see a greater erosion of access throughout the country. Tragically, some of the most severe limitations and hardships will fall on poor women, and women with health problems. Denying access to safe abortions in the past has done little or nothing to reduce their number. Instead, we can expect to see ‘destination clinics’ where women will have to travel. Those without resources will resort to ‘back-alley’ abortion providers,” said Hart.

The Green Party’s national platform calls choosing whether to have a child “intensely personal” and asserts the right to safe and legal access to abortion as “non-negotiable.” Greens call for a wide array of universally affordable and easily available contraceptive options for women and men. 

“Since 1973, the decision of Roe v. Wade has protected the right to have an abortion in the United States,” said Green Party National Women’s Caucus Co-Chair Ann Link. “If this decision is finalized, members of the Supreme Court will be violating their vow to uphold the Constitution to serve their own personal ideology. Along with setting a dangerous precedent with totalitarian implications, this decision would allow states to interfere in private and protected decisions that are essential to reproductive healthcare as a human right. On a more personal level, I feel a deep sadness that so many will no longer be free to make their own decisions on whether to continue or terminate a pregnancy,” said Link. 

Link argued that overturning Roe would be a profound violation of the 14th Amendment:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. 

Green Party leaders also note the draft decision could threaten rights even beyond abortion access. “This ruling’s references to Obergefell v. Hodges could, for example, create repercussions for marriage equality and LGBTQIA+ rights,” said Green Party National Co-Chair Garret Wassermann. “It is necessary to organize and elect candidates who will protect and expand these kinds of hard-won rights while democratizing our institutions to ensure they are not under the constant threat of revocation,” said Wassermann.

 

So what do you think?  And be sure to read Ava and C.I.'s "Media: A lot of content, very little truth" because they're covering Roe and many other issues.

 

This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

 

 Monday, May 9, 2022.  The suffering continues in Iraq -- even without visits from the US First Family.


How much is the life of a Kurd worth?


The world makes clear that the amount is zero.  Kurdish lives do not matter at all.  Which is why Turkey can bomb those areas, invade the areas with ground troops and set up bases in those areas -- bases on foreign soil.   All these acts of war are ignored by the world.  


Jared Szuba (AL-MONITOR) reports:

US military intelligence believes Iran-backed militias have been coordinating with Kurdish guerrillas to launch attacks on Turkey’s military presence in northern Iraq, according to a Pentagon inspector general report released today.

Prominent Iran-backed militias have publicly slammed Turkey’s military operations targeting fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from the mountains of northern Iraq, citing violations of Iraq's sovereignty.

The militias are also behind a small but increasing number of rocket attacks on Turkish forces in both Iraq and Syria in recent months, according to the declassified report. Some of the strikes in Iraq were carried out “in cooperation with the PKK,” the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reported.

“Following Turkish airstrikes in February that targeted the PKK in northern Iraq, a new Iran-aligned militia group conducted a rocket attack against a Turkish expeditionary base north of Mosul,” the report read. The Turkish outpost near Zlikan, northeast of Mosul, has repeatedly come under rocket fire in the past year.

“The DIA assessed that the militias probably will continue to coordinate with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a US-designated foreign terrorist organization, in response to Turkish air and UAV strikes on PKK positions,” the report read.

 

Is it true?


Who knows?  


But if it is true, then what does that say about the US?


The Kurds have been the strongest partner with the US government throughout this ongoing Iraq War and this is how the US government says thank you?  By refusing to help the Kurds.  By driving them into the arms of Iran.  Why?  So the us can reward Erdogan who, of course, attacked American citizens when he visited the US, physically attacked them.  They were protesting and he had his guards attack them.  


That's who we reward.  


Don't see the First Lady jetting off to Kurdistan on Mother's Day to call out the deforesting of Kurdistan by Turkish troops.  Don't see her landing in Kurdistan and speaking of the rights of the Kurdish people and their right to live freely.  Thousands are pouring out of the region because of the terrorism that the Turkish government is carrying out but not a word from the White House.


Joe Biden's so-called friendship with the Kurds was always a one way street.  As a US senator, as a vice president and now as a president, he did nothing to help or assist the Kurds.  He constantly pressured them to make concessions 'for the greater good  but he never did a damn thing for them and that continues to this day.


The Yazidis are in that territory as well.


Remember them?  Barack Obama's excuse for sending more US troops into Iraq?


They're fleeing because of the Turkish bombings and assaults.


Joe Biden doesn't care about them either.


Turkey daily carries out attacks, violates Iraq's sovereignty and comits Acts of War and Joe Biden's too scared to call out Erdogan.  


That tells you everything you need to know about pathetic Joe.


A question pops up on Twitter:


PLEASE DESCRIBE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN: 1. RUSSIA'S INVASION INTO UKRANE. 2. TURKEY'S INVASION INTO CYPRUS. 3. TURKEY'S INVASION INTO SYRIA. 4. TURKEY'S INVASION INTO KURDISTAN. 5. TURKEY'S INVASION INTO LIBYA. 6. TURKEY'S INVASION INTO AFGANISTAN.
12:09 AM · May 9, 2022



David McHutchon Tweets:

All major Iraqi political parties have condemned Operation Clawlock, military operations by Turkey in Iraqi Kurdistan in violation of sovereign Iraqi territory. Don't expect a peep of condemnation from any of Turkey's fellow NATO members however!
hawarnews.com
Mass protesters in Euphrates region condemn Turkish genocide attacks - ANHA | HAWARNEWS | English
Tens of thousands of people in the Euphrates region took to the squares and streets, in a mass demonstration, denouncing Turkish genocidal attacks on Başûr, and in support of the resistance of the...
3:59 PM · May 8, 2022



And the Kuridstan Solidarity Network Tweets:


Here's the recording of a recent online event discussing Turkey's new genocidal strategy, targeting the Kurdish movement and civilians in South #Kurdistan / North Iraq, as well as coordinating with the Iraqi army in the Yezidi community of Şengal / Sinjar.
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Turkey’s Invasion of South Kurdistan & Report from Shengal
On April 17, Turkey launched an invasion in South Kurdistan (northern Iraq), deploying ground forces and bombarding large areas with warplanes, drones, and a...
2:00 PM · May 8, 2022

In other news, the water buffalo are at risk.


 

Moving to another topic, let's note this from the CDC:

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is caused by infection with a tick-borne virus (Nairovirus) in the family Bunyaviridae. The disease was first characterized in the Crimea in 1944 and given the name Crimean hemorrhagic fever. It was then later recognized in 1969 as the cause of illness in the Congo, thus resulting in the current name of the disease.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is found in Eastern Europe, particularly in the former Soviet Union, throughout the Mediterranean, in northwestern China, central Asia, southern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.


The World Health Organization adds:


Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever usually transmitted by ticks. It can also be contracted through contact with viraemic animal tissues (animal tissue where the virus has entered the bloodstream) during and immediately post-slaughter of animals. CCHF outbreaks constitute a threat to public health services as the virus can lead to epidemics, has a high case fatality ratio (10-40%), potentially results in hospital and health facility outbreaks, and is difficult to prevent and treat. CCHF is endemic in all of Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and in Asia. 

The disease was first described in the Crimea in 1944 and given the name Crimean haemorrhagic fever. In 1969 it was recognized that the pathogen causing Crimean haemorrhagic fever was the same as that responsible for an illness identified in 1956 in the Congo. The linkage of the two place names resulted in the current name for the disease and the virus. 


Why are we noting this?  Because Iraqi is currently dealing with it.  Sinan Mahmoud (THE NATIONAL) reports:


Iraq is on high alert after an unusually high number of cases of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, which has killed eight people so far this year.

Authorities said one person died on Friday as cases of the virus spread to the country's north, AFP reported.

The virus, which has a death rate of up to 40 per cent, is primarily transmitted to humans through tick bites or infected livestock, said the World Health Organisation.

Human-to-human transmission can occur as a result of contact with the blood, organs, secretions or other bodily fluids of infected people, the WHO said.

There is no vaccine available for people or animals.


40 cases have been registered in Iraq so far this year with 23 in Dhi Qar.  Symptoms may include:


* fever 

*hemorrhage/bleeding


* fatique


* Dizziness


* aches in muscles, bones or joints


* nausea, vomiting, diarrhea


* "bleeding under the skin, in internal organs, or from the mouth, eyes or ears"


* nervous system malfunction


* coma


* delirium


* kidney failure


* liver and respiratory failure

 

AFP notes that the most recent death was a butcher and "People are generally infected through contact with the blood of infected animals, often after slaughtering livestock."  THE NATIONAL notes that in response the disease, Iraq is spraying crops and livestock.



Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Seth's Only 2% Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes" went up Saturday  and prior to that "Biden's Last Remaining Supporter,"  "The Experts" and "21 DUMPSTER"  The following sites updated:


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