Assassinating Children

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People in the US government are allowed to kill indiscriminately.

They give themselves a now semi-official "targeted killing" power.

Most authorization details are secret.

But any "senior operational leader of al-Qa’ida" may be killed.

Enemies marked to die include US citizens.

Two assassination events under Obama are known to have killed Americans.

One killed an American boy born in Denver. A separate attack killed his US-born father and an American journalist.

Anonymous clerks now decide who'll die, with no independent review. 

Nobody is required to assert the 16-year old was a "senior operational leader" of a banned group. In fact, we've a history of butchering family members of enemies (link), starting with squaws & whelps of redskin savages. This kid's assassination, outside Constitutionally-guaranteed due process, is inelegantly classed as "tough shit"

Poem de Tear

In memory of Johan Ludvig Runeberg

Quick Vigorous the baby's Leap
Refocuses Attention
We share so much, the bright & trite
Live goals exceeding mention.

Friends vs Clients

Who are the client states of the USA?
Many so-called "banana Republics" now enjoy unparalleled freedoms. In my opinion, such possibilities are the chief positive legacies to presidents George W. Bush & Barack Obama: US-led adventurism from the Middle East to Afghanistan and into Pakistan is so costly it's required a focus of energies, allowing freedom to others. But this may not continue... The Philippines, Turkey, South & Central America, Somalia, etc. should strengthen their anti-imperialist defenses before the bully resurrects & returns... think of The Evil Dead.

Puppet regimes of US client states murder their people, rob the national economy, and cripple the community for decades. Their crimes are only possible with coordinated help from predator banks & corrupt media. Let's be clear: it's not a docile media, it's a cheerleading media aimed at us -- creating imperialist opportunity.

Tinpot dictators are never really "friends" of the USA. Ruthless thugs-for-hire such as Mubarak, Suharto, Somoza, Diệm (Vietnam), Trujillo, Marcos, the House of Pahlavi (Iran), Pinochet, etc. are made wealthy but ridiculed, and ultimately deeply threatened. When tyrants fall, their resources & secrets can damage US interests. Big capital is as likely to sell their client's safety - death is always near.

Super Bowl

Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the just-concluded Super Bowl XLVII was actually Baltimore Ravens defensive cornerback Jimmy Smith. At a critical junction in the final moments, he seemed to impede receiver Michael Crabtree, thwarted a go-ahead touchdown, likely saving the game for his winning team.

Should the officials have called a penalty for holding? Anyway, they did not.

Some football fans will be distraught at the outcome. Surely that key play defined the result. Some will feel pass interference & cheating determined the game, overshadowing everything else. Others will overlook the incident. "The Winner Takes It All" -- though a few feel shame amidst celebrations -- the shadow of cheating to win.

"Ravens hold on to Win"
"Baltimore held off a San Francisco comeback"
"Ravens are Champions after holding off SF"
(actual headlines)

Let's consider this along with Lance Armstrong's doping. Armstrong - an example of America to the world - amassed a fortune through cheating.

The wider impressions of America's world sporting activities differ from the impact inside the country. Domestically (within the USA), sport throws out many impressions per day. But in the wider world, US sport provides very few impressions each decade:
 -- Lance Armstrong: stripped of all titles for 14 years, banned for life; admitting to doping & lying
 -- Tiger Woods & his women
 -- Marion Jones cheating in track (surrendering five Olympic medals & two World Champion medals in athletics)
 -- Super Bowl scandal ??... more of the same sleaze.

Forget Asia

Narcissistic chauvinism in the USA is never in short supply, but it's artificially boosted as Zionists hijack the American political process (link) -- we're told "It's All About Israel".

Witness the still-ongoing confirmation of  former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as US Secretary of Defense (properly Secretary of the Military, truly a Secretary of War). Last week's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing overwhelmingly focused on whether Hagel was politically correct and properly pro-Israel.

Evidence that pro-Israeli forces dominate discussions is detailed by Jim Lobe's analysis of the Senate confirmation dialog: Israel was brought up 178 times. China was mentioned 5 times. Suicide problems among US troops? ... noted twice; Japan and South Korea rated one mention each. Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, any of the Nordic nations, India ... - not worth a mention at all.

Voting Out Corruption

This month could have been much worse. Fortunately, the American people shut down Mitt Romney and his bankrupt party from the Presidency & US Senate. Sadly, far too many elitist corrupted scum still flourish like killer-bacteria in American public life. They are the 1%. Vote 'em out.

These weasels own big media. They use their power to confuse & corrupt. They are not simple opponents - they are a dangerous enemy, an enslaving influence. Too many people around the world suffer under the heel of these chauffeured-limousine assholes and their hired thugs.

The Republican leadership & Senator John McCain cripple the American people.

The tragedy of American deaths at the Benghazi consulate has become a symbol of cheap political opportunism orchestrated by well-manicured white Republicans & Rupert Murdoch. Let's be clear, this was Benghazi, Libya - a highly dangerous place emerging from civil war and the assassination of Muammar Gaddafi. It's a place of rogue militias, sectarian violence & anarchy. Oil companies push frantically for billions in wealth beneath the sand. Foreign intelligence operatives from around the world (including our own) are doing who knows what, seeking strategic resource-rich opportunities. Libya has not been safe for many years, and won't be "safe" for the foreseeable future. Americans in Libya work under no illusions - they serve (served) in dangerous circumstances. Republican political-opportunists John McCain, Rand Paul, Mitt Romney, Lindsay Graham, Kelly Ayotte and Ron Johnson should be deeply ashamed of themselves. Hopefully the ghosts of the dead can somehow reach their bony fingers around the necks of these bastards, infiltrate their airways, haunt their dreams & worse.

Kids + Guns = Pain

Hooligan Builds Gun in School

Joseph "Baby Face" Cardosa was officially reprimanded and reportedly faces suspension (link) for building a pistol & using it to threaten other students during an after-school program in Hyannis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (USA).

Some weeks ago, a school official witnessed Cardosa brandishing his pointed finger as a gun. That threatening incident elicited a verbal reprimand.

Barnstable schools Superintendent Mary Czajkowski noted in an interview with the Cape Cod Times that Cardosa (age 5) was given "at least five verbal reminders" and that such inappropriate behavior demands a prompt & proper response. "You need to educate students, and you need to educate parents."

Joseph was punished for using his imagination, said George MacKoul, Cardosa's attorney.

Joseph Cardosa has no known relationship to the late Joseph Barboza, also of Massachusetts (right), a reputed contract killer for the Patriarca crime family.

While the original gun crafted by Cardosa was apparently destroyed, the Cape Cod Times published a photo of Cardosa brandishing another homemade replica, and posing familiarly with "Ma" Cruz.

At what age does gunplay stop being cute? Is it reasonable Joseph's family & their lawyer made this affair public, parading the mini-miscreant in front of TV, radio & newspaper reporters? By adding even more excitement & attention to guns, have those around Joseph done him harm? Will we be hearing more of Joseph "Baby Face" Cardosa as an antisocial element? Perhaps this is the start of a long & costly criminal career (Massachusetts is one of the 17 US states without capital punishment).

Thanks to photographer Christine Hochkeppel let's contemplate the brazen face of delinquency:

Congratulations CELAC

CELAC hasn't generated much reporting by the Anglo-US corporate press. Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños, CELAC (link) is a joint effort by Latin America & the Caribbean states to build new synergies. The European Union is a key model. The CELAC group seeks to build a more independent regionalism & end imperial interference, working to strengthen peace, security and economic opportunity for the nearly 600 million people of the region.


Good Luck CELAC !