"Language Difficulties As Noted On A Menu In A German-Staffed U.S. Army Mess"
1948, Nuremberg
Brekfass
Frest Milk
Oast Mill
Frotes with Syrop
Coffae
Trost und Batter
Luncht
Noudless and Soupe
Staffed Pork Shops
Potetoes Prsilnne
Fruit & Coctell
Exasperated Sighs Are The New Black
- me: how does the President continue military actions/drone bombings in Pakistan w/o running afoul of the War Powers Resolution? does Congress pass authorizations that fly under the media radar
- without formally declaring war on Pakistan?
- brendan: "All reasonable and necessary force" are the magic words in the authorization in the act passed just after 9/11.
- me: fucking a
Homage to Catalonia (via unburyingthelead)
My favorite Orwell is his non-fiction.
Remotely Controlled Targeted Killing Program »
The CIA’s invisible covert target killing program. assassination from the sky by drones. Is this the moral or legitimate use of state power? We are doing it with no restrictions to where.
Listen to Jane Mayer talk about this on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.I heard this segment on the radio this afternoon. The particularly terrifying parts were the discussions about the “nano drones,” small enough to follow people around, even entering buildings through open windows, and the the midair-refueling operations for Predator drones, enabling perpetual drone operations.
I’ve probably said this before (especially regarding bombing planes that never need to land), but these are ideas straight out of the work of Phillip K. Dick… The most paranoid of the American science-fiction writers has also been the most prophetic.
Whoops: Anti-ACORN Bill Ropes In Defense Contractors, Others Charged With Fraud »
Going after ACORN may be like shooting fish in a barrel lately — but jumpy lawmakers used a bazooka to do it last week and may have blown up some of their longtime allies in the process.
The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to “any organization” that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.
In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops.
Oh isn’t that delicious.
the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima is as good a day as any to remember Guernica. This video is a 3-D exploration of Picasso’s Guernica by Lena Gieseke (better quality here). The bombing of Guernica (1937), carried out by the Nazi Luftwaffe on behalf of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War, is one of the first aerial bombings of a civilian population carried out in modern warfare. To me, Picasso’s work is a terrible monument and herald to the age of modern state sponsered terrorism of which Hiroshima is a sad example.
