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In Case You Missed It...
The blog has moved to a slightly different address: youwillanyway2.blogspot.com.
Come on over.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Come on over.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Blogger Blues
UPDATE 12/18/12: This site is rendering correctly (off and on) - and has been for a while now - but since I've already started the new blog linked below, I'm going to just continue from there. Apologies to anyone inconvenienced by this change.
ORIGINAL;
I haven't found the culprit. Something Blogger is doing to improve things.
So...I'm going to just start up another blog. I'll try to reprint some of today's posts that didn't make it into the loadup here. I doubt if I'll ever get the sidebar bits put back up. But by now, I assume the handful of people who read YWA have marked the various blogs and sites that were linked there, if interested in them.
If you want to continue reading You Will Anyway, you can do it by altering your URL just a tad to: youwillanyway2.blogspot.com
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
ORIGINAL;
I haven't found the culprit. Something Blogger is doing to improve things.
So...I'm going to just start up another blog. I'll try to reprint some of today's posts that didn't make it into the loadup here. I doubt if I'll ever get the sidebar bits put back up. But by now, I assume the handful of people who read YWA have marked the various blogs and sites that were linked there, if interested in them.
If you want to continue reading You Will Anyway, you can do it by altering your URL just a tad to: youwillanyway2.blogspot.com
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
Blogger Glitch
I don't know what's happening with Blogger. There's a glitch somewhere, and I'm not finding it. Don't have time to work on it now. Will try again tonight.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Nerve
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he wants the US and NATO to agree to stop carrying out night raids on Afghan homes as a pre-condition to Kabul signing a strategic partnership with Washington.
Geez. Why don’t you just ask for the moon?
Karzai spoke on Wednesday at the opening of a "loya jirga," or grand council, which will discuss a proposed strategic partnership with the US that would oversee the American military presence as troops withdraw, as well as possible peace talks with the Taliban.
You know, they don’t look all that happy with him either.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Discovery Channel Needs to Change Its Name
The Discovery Channel has co-produced with the BBC a new David Attenborough-hosted 7-part nature series on the earth's polar regions called Frozen Planet. It's already begun airing on BBC. It's set to air on the Discovery Channel in the near future.But apparently Discovery has decided to air only the first six episodes, skipping the seventh and final installment, "On Thin Ice," which is all about the effect of climate change on the poles.
What would be a more appropriate name for the “Discovery” Channel which apparently discovers and then hides information?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Who's Occupying the White House?
A bullet has struck the ballistic glass of an exterior window of the White House and another round has been found nearby, News4, a local NBC affiliate, reported.The news outlet said the Secret Service – the bodyguard detail charged with protecting the US president and other top officials — began investigating after an incident on Friday when gunshots were heard near the White House.
Under the condition that I know very little about ballistics (except that the magic bullet scenario the Warren Commission foisted on the world is totally impossible in the real world), how far away could someone be and still hit the window? Perhaps if we knew what kind of bullet it was, but a round was found? Wouldn’t that indicate someone was in that spot? I thought this place was guarded.
More than 300 protesters marched on the White House on Tuesday to invite an absent President Barack Obama to side with the Occupy movement, after police raids on camps in New York and other cities.
I have a feeling he can’t go because he doesn’t have a thing to wear.
Unlike New York and other major US cities, Washington has been tolerant of not one, but two encampments that are home to protesters decrying social inequality and what they say is excessive corporate influence on US politics.Local police escorted Tuesday’s march through evening rush hour traffic, and just two uniformed Secret Service agents were in position along the black iron fence on the north side of the White House when the protesters turned up.
The others were being dressed down in the director’s office for the bullet incident.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday said he was “deeply concerned” at the turmoil in the eurozone that has spooked global markets amid growing fears about Europe’s debt crisis and anaemic growth.“I am deeply concerned and I have been deeply concerned. I suspect I will be deeply concerned tomorrow and next week,” he said at a press conference with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Canberra.
So quit asking.
“Until we put in place a concrete plan and structure that sends a clear signal to the markets that Europe is standing behind the euro and will do what it takes, we are going to continue to see the kinds of turmoil that we saw in the markets,” Obama said.
He’s talking European markets and using the royal “we.” Does anyone get tired of the US co-opting everything everywhere?
“At this point, the larger European community has to stand behind the European project,” Obama said.“We have got an integrated world economy and what happens in Europe will have an impact on us,” he added.
He’s also still using the American “we.” It’s all ours. All of it.
Gee, is Bank of America a European corporation? Merrill Lynch? Lehman Brothers? Goldman Sachs? I wonder, does what happen in America have an impact in Europe? Do “we” care?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Occupy Together
Protestors with Occupy D.C. just took over the D.C. headquarters of Brookfield Properties, which owns Zuccotti Park (location of the Occupy Wall Street protests).
So much for the rag-tag, partying, slacker, unorganized meme.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
What You Suspected Is True
The spate of recent police crackdowns on OWS protesters was no coincidence.
Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict "Occupy" protesters from city parks and other public spaces. As was the case in last night's move in New York City, each of the police actions shares a number of characteristics. And according to one Justice official, each of those actions was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies.[...]
According to this official, in several recent conference calls and briefings, local police agencies were advised to seek a legal reason to evict residents of tent cities, focusing on zoning laws and existing curfew rules. Agencies were also advised to demonstrate a massive show of police force, including large numbers in riot gear. In particular, the FBI reportedly advised on press relations, with one presentation suggesting that any moves to evict protesters be coordinated for a time when the press was the least likely to be present.
Or as in the case of NY, deny the press access.
Collateral Damage
France’s consul to the Gaza Strip, his wife and 13-year-old daughter were injured during an Israeli air strike on Sunday night, French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said.Valero told reporters the three were hit by shrapnel at their residence in Gaza, which is located 200 meters from the site of an Israeli missile attack, he added.
Perhaps Sarkozy will think twice before he makes another comment about Netanyahu being a liar.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Police Action in Zuccotti Park - Press Denied Access
A New York state judge this morning temporarily enjoined the city from keeping the protesters out of Zuccotti Park, but Mayor Bloomberg is simply ignoring the Order and deliberately breaking the law by refusing to allow them back in. Put another way, Bloomberg this morning has broken more laws than the hundreds of protesters who were arrested. But as we know, the law does not apply to the Michael Bloombergs of the nation; the law, instead, has simply been exploited into a weapon used by the politically and financially powerful to prevent challenges to their standing.
A military style raid on peaceful protesters camped out in the shadow of Wall Street, ordered by a cold ruthless billionaire who bought his way into the mayor’s office.
The Associated Press reported that two of their reporters, writer Karen Matthews and photographer Seth Wenig, were taken into custody. The New York Daily News reported that their reporter Matthew Lysiak was also detained. NPR freelance reporter Julie Walker was arrested but indicated she has been released.A photographer with Agance France Presse, a reporter for The Local East Village, and other journalists were also arrested. Police don’t currently know the exact number of journalists were arrested.
[...]
And even hours after the cleanup, reporters like local CW affiliate anchor Debra Alfarone revealed how police still were making it hard for the press, tweeting, “We’ve got kicked out of Zuccotti Park again.”
The city also closed airspace in lower Manhattan to prevent news helicopters from taking aerial footage of the police crackdown.
Police action at Occupy Chapel Hill:
Oh No
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the latest GOP presidential candidate to experience an uptick in poll numbers, on Monday attributed his success in part to running a "positive" campaign -- even as he cited the "deep discomfort" among Republican voters with rival Mitt Romney.
Yes, they are obviously loathe to see Mitt win the nomination. Cain lost to his sex scandal, and they are getting more desperate. It’s obvious the people being polled are fickle and don’t give a hoot about any real qualifications for office. If Mitt Romney would just suddenly “see the light” and have a religious conversion, the man would be totally in.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
So THAT's Where the Weapons of Mass Destruction Are
Britain is sending officials to Libya to help the government to investigate the scale of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's secret chemical weapons stockpile, retained by the Libyan dictator in breach of promises made to the international community.The size of the stockpile – including mustard gas – suggests Gaddafi totally misled Tony Blair when he promised to destroy weapons of mass destruction in return for being brought back in from the diplomatic cold in 2004.
Now, aren’t you glad we killed that bastard? He lied. Can you believe we trusted that guy?
Let’s see…who owns Libya now? Britain? It’s so hard to keep these things straight.
The OPCW team was despatched to Libya initially because it feared the Nato air campaign might have destabilised mustard gas known to be held in the south-east of the country.
Ha. Wouldn’t that be ironic? Actually, it would, and the reality is simply likely that they can’t trust the guys they’ve enabled to take over Qadafi’s position with stocks of mustard gas.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Tell Me Again...
...why isn't NATO liberating the Syrian people?
At least 70 people have been killed in violence across Syria over the past 24 hours in one of the bloodiest days since an anti-government uprising began eight months ago, activists reported.The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that 27 civilians were shot dead by security forces and 34 soldiers as well as 12 suspected army deserters were killed in clashes.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Ratcheting Down on Occupiers
And giving fuel to anti-American politicians everywhere.
The presence of squatters in an abandoned structure is not technically legal, but it generally requires the property owner to make a complaint before police take action. A main thrust of some cities’ occupations is to get homeless families to occupy foreclosed, bank-owned homes — a course of action endorsed by the general assembly at “Occupy Oakland,” and even a member of Congress. [Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)][...]
Asserting what they thought were squatters’ rights, about 50-75 “Occupy Chapel Hill” [North Carolina] demonstrators broke into an abandoned Chrysler building on Saturday night, taping up banners in the windows. They screened a film and danced into the night, with officers only making a single, brief appearance before leaving entirely.
Things changed dramatically by Sunday afternoon, when local media reported that more than 25 commandos armed with assault rifles staged a raid on the building, rushing in to find just eight protesters who’d stayed the night.
Others near the building, including a reporter, had guns drawn on them and were forced to lay on the ground and be placed in handcuffs.
A photo published by The News Observer shows men who look more like soldiers than police, aiming weapons of war at unarmed protesters. The city of Chapel Hill has a population of just 57,000.
Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided Zuccotti Park early Tuesday, evicting dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters from what has become the epicenter of the worldwide movement protesting corporate greed.About 70 people were arrested, including some who chained themselves together, while officers cleared the park so that sanitation crews could clean it.
[...]
Police in riot gear filled the streets, car lights flashing and sirens blaring. Protesters, some of whom shouted angrily at police, began marching to two locations in Lower Manhattan where they planned to hold rallies.
Some protesters refused to leave the park, but many left peacefully. Hundreds of police officers surrounded the park in riot gear with plastic shields across their faces, holding plastic shields and batons which were used [in] some cases on protesters.
[...]
Paul Browne, a spokesman for the New York Police Department, said the park had been cleared by 4:30 a.m. and that about 70 people who’d been inside it had been arrested, including a group who chained themselves together. One person was taken to a local hospital for evaluation because of breathing problems.
Caused by what, we are not told.
Early Monday morning, Oakland police raided the camp site to evict the protesters from Frank H. Ogawa Plaza.[...]
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan’s legal adviser and longtime friend, Dan Siegel, explained to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on Monday night why he decided to resign his post.
Siegel was very unhappy with the police raid on the “Occupy Oakland” encampment on October 25 but had hoped the protesters would be allowed to continue their demonstration.
[...]
“This is a tremendous movement, a productive movement,” Siegel continued. “It’s a progressive movement of people who’ve been passive for years in the face of economic attacks, homelessness, joblessness, foreclosures, crushing student debt, and so on. I think it has the potential to really remake American society and if that’s true, then people who run cities, and particularly cities like Oakland — where the 99 percent live — should be supportive of those movements and should not think that they can control them.”
“To me it seems like a totally useless and futile activity to spend millions of dollars to take people out of tents, to create situations where there is bloodshed in our streets and lots of chaos for days, because they’re going to come back,” he added.
Well, kudos to Mr. Siegel. (Even if he may be getting out before they storm the mayor’s office and blood flows (more) freely in the streets. I don’t know that. Just throwing it in as a possible reason for his sensibility.)
All right. Okay. He sounds very sincere.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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