Pakistan orders army to fire on US troops if they invade Pakistan again. Something about that is a little troubling to me. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
One thing I don’t understand: if the US cannot be allowed to go into Pakistan, how are they going to capture Bin Ladin the week before the election? Don’t the Pakistanis know how important this mission is to John McCain the free world?
Apropos of nothing, one of the most satisfying
artistic phenomena of the last ~15 years has been the way Moby @thelittleidiot subtly ( & sometimes not so subtly) enhanced, amplified, awesome-ified "Extreme Ways," theme song to the Jason Bourne movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftm1hiXgYsA
I don't know if the caption provides the true story behind the picture but I can believe it does, and anyway, the point is valid irregardless.
Excellent advice. https://twitter.com/mrFawkes51/status/1246123210736693249
Kushner is evil. Before this particular fiasco he was already an accessory to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi & in a lawful nation would have been by now tried, convicted & imprisoned. He has moved on to mass manslaughter. He & the @GOP that enables him are evil. Evil.
Aaaaand of course they changed it because god forbid f*cking moron was wrong. Screenshots are a glorious thing. Right up there with the heights of Kushner’s idiocy.
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1246109260104294406?s=21 https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1246109260104294406
I haven't read this yet, but the premise is intriguing. I've been thinking a lot about this subject recently. Also about the future of libraries — about which I care very much — & of professional sports, about which I care a lot less. (Although I do love me some baseball.)
How the Coronavirus Will Transform the Art World, by @jerrysaltz https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/how-the-coronavirus-will-transform-the-art-world.html
The War on Terrorism is a Lie
The war on terrorism is a lie because terrorism is not an enemy, it is a strategy.
Terrorism is a strategy employed by weaker states and non-state actors when fighting an asymmetric war against a more powerful opponent.
No state or non-state actor enters a conventional war against an enemy it has no chance of defeating conventionally.
Since the U.S. has declared that it will maintain military superiority without challenge, it has done everything in its power to do just that. The US defense budget for 2008 is some $700 billion. There is no single state or non-state actor on this planet that can defeat the United States in a conventional war.
Therefore, any single state or non-state actor that finds itself at war with the United States will be forced to fight an asymmetric war. That is, they will be forced to employ terrorism.
Therefore the war on terrorism is a war against anyone at war with the United States. Therefore the war on terrorism is a lie. It is not a war on terrorism at all, but a war to promote and defend US imperialism.