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The Executive Editor on the Word ‘Torture’
By DEAN BAQUET AUGUST 7, 2014 5:08 PMAugust 7, 2014 5:08 pm 8 Comments
Given those changes, reporters urged that The Times recalibrate its language. I agreed. So from now on, The Times will use the word “torture” to describe incidents in which we know for sure that interrogators inflicted pain on a prisoner in an effort to get information.
MORE:
http://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/08/07/the-executive-editor-on-the-word-torture/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1&
Airstrikes on ISIS Militants Have Begun, Kurds and Iraqis Say
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON — Airstrikes on towns in northern Iraq seized by Islamist militants began late Thursday in what Kurdish and Iraqi officials called the first stage of an American-led intervention to blunt the militants’ advance and provide emergency aid to tens of thousands of refugees.
The Pentagon firmly denied that American forces had begun a bombing campaign. But Pentagon officials said it was possible that allies of the United States, either the Iraqi or Turkish militaries, had conducted the bombing.
Kurdish and Iraqi officials attributed the bombing campaign to American forces. An announcement on Kurdish television of what was described as an American intervention prompted street celebrations and horn-honking by residents of towns under seige by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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Room for Debate: A Return to the Fight in IraqAUG. 7, 2014
Kurdish officials said the bombings initially had targeted ISIS fighters who had seized two towns, Gwer and Mahmour. A top Iraqi official in Baghdad close to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq said that the Americans had consulted with the Iraqi government Thursday night about starting the campaign, the government had agreed and the bombing began.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/world/middleeast/obama-weighs-military-strikes-to-aid-trapped-iraqis-officials-say.html
story keeps changing, trying to keep up...
Boehner Summer Stump Speech: “I have not 1 doubt that I’m doing exactly what God has in mind for me"
Boehner’s summer stump speech — which is just a few days old — alternates between stone-cold serious and humorous. In Taylorville, Davis’ hometown, he ribbed the congressman for sartorial miscues — one of his favorite punch lines.
It wouldn’t be typical Boehner without him choking up — which he did at the end of the speech in Taylorville, when he was talking about living the American dream.
Just before that, he said he believes that he’s doing God’s bidding in the Capitol. To that, a woman in the crowd hollered “praise God.”
“I have not one doubt that I’m doing exactly what God has in mind for me,” Boehner said. “But there are days when I sit in my office and go, ‘Hello? Hello?’”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/john-boehner-tour-republicans-109777_Page2.html#ixzz39ia6WVa9
“I’m not dying, I’m fighting,” she said as her eyes snapped open. “I’ve always been fighting.”
Agreeing to Accept and Move On
JULY 31, 2014
After my mother was told she had incurable cancer, she became obsessed with finding me a husband. One afternoon from her office, between negotiations for a client’s book contract, she called three times to tell me about a man my father had met who worked in a SoHo lamp store. My mother, a powerful publisher and literary agent who had championed Stephen King, now wanted to set me up with someone who sold lamps.
“He’s leaving for France soon,” she said. “Call him!”
Although irritated, I went home to put on my tight jeans and spaghetti-strap shirt and walked over to the store, where a handsome man talked about his coming trip to France without asking me a single question.
During my mother’s next frantic phone call, she said to look at two celebrity brothers’ web pages and choose the one I liked so she could forward my photo. I cringed but thought, “Hey, you never know.”
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the rest (Because I am a daughter, and because I have a daughter, this really hit ME hard):
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/fashion/a-mother-and-daughter-let-go.html?_r=0
"War Makes Everyone Crazy": Hiroshima Survivor Reflects on 69th Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing
"War Makes Everyone Crazy": Hiroshima Survivor Reflects on 69th Anniversary of U.S. Atomic Bombing
AMY GOODMAN: What did your parents say when they saw you?
KOJI HOSOKAWA: (translated) My mother was away to the relief station. And so, soon after that, my sister came home in a coffin. She was burned all over her body, but fortunately, her face was OK. She was almost naked. Aside from her face, she was almost naked, and almost all her body was burned. This is only one of the cases, just one case of many. Many people experienced a similar situation.
AMY GOODMAN: This is almost 69 years later. It was the United States that dropped the atomic bomb. How do you feel when Americans come here to Hiroshima?
KOJI HOSOKAWA: (translated) I hate war, rather than the people of the United States. I hate war. War makes everyone crazy. So, in the war, innocent people are killed. And the ultimate case, I believe, is A-bombing.
AMY GOODMAN: Mr. Hosokawa, as a hibakusha, as a A-bomb survivor, do you feel the United States should apologize for dropping the atomic bomb on your city?
KOJI HOSOKAWA: (translated) The A-bomb was dropped in Hiroshima and also one in Nagasaki. And I think that atomic bombs were dropped not just on our cities, but on the whole human beings. And so, I have many things to talk about, about my experience of the A-bomb, but if the next one, the third A-bomb is to be dropped, then the Earth will be annihilated. I want people to understand, this is going to be—you know, the Earth is going to be annihilated. So whenever I talk, I want them to understand this.
The Peace Memorial Park, until the A-bomb, people lived here. Everything was destroyed. Everyone died around this area. The Peace Memorial Park is a beautiful park today, with so many trees. But later, they planted small trees, and after decades these trees became bigger, and now a very beautiful park today. So, I tell the visitors about this, too. I want them to understand people lived here. Please tell the people that people used to live here. War makes everyone crazy.
the rest of the transcript here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/8/6/war_makes_everyone_crazy_hiroshima_survivor
Kansas GOP official: ‘Offending Muslims is the duty of any civilized person. Especially with a .45.’
Kansas GOP official Gavin Ellzey said last month that "offending Muslims is the duty of any civilized person," the Kansas City Star reports.
He added: "Especially with a .45."
http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article1160420.html
War Against Whites? I Think Not - by Charles Blow
After the civil rights act of 1964The consequences of the Nixon inspired War On Drugs
Then the racist mocking inspired by Ronald Reagan:
The Southern Strategy is the fundamental building block of the Republican thinking, no matter how often the words are juggled to try and hide the basic tenants behind its rationale.
No matter how much they spin it they are not victims to their own policy they are its drivers. They are the ones that have constantly driven the racial divide for their own gain, now that that policy is threatening to sink them they are whining ever more loudly.
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and much more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/07/opinion/charles-blow-war-against-whites-i-think-not.html?ref=opinion&_r=1
via:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/07/1319749/-Charles-M-Blow-Points-To-The-GOP-s-Racially-Inspired-Harakiri
Thanks for dumping your hound dog!
WED AUG 06, 2014 AT 06:25 PM PDT
Thanks for dumping your hound dog!
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Whoever you are, I must thank you from the bottom of my heart for leaving your overweight young Blue Tick Coon Hound running down the highway after you threw her out.
Because you were so heartless, she is now mine forever! Apparently, you kept her caged a lot, and she delivered a litter for you, if not more than that, but at least she had no more injury from dumping that a skinned hip, most likely from when you threw her out of the truck. No broken bones, lucky for her! Merely road rash! Lol!
The hair is growing back! Not that you care, but that is just to inform you of her status. As cold bloodedly as I can report to you.
The kindly people that grabbed her took her to the local vet, who has me on her hound rescue list.
I left my law office, drove to the clinic to see her, and said I wanted what you, sir or madam, had no further care or use for.
The vet said she was 3 years old, more or less. What, exactly, did you DO with her for that time? Last night, she panted, was subdued, picked out the place in my yard that most resembled a pen. Did you ever allow this hound some room to run? Today, she greeted my return from work with a song as beautiful as any Mozart French Horn sonata.
Did the fact that when she came to you and leaned hard on your shins, tilting her beautiful hound face upwards to make eye contact with you, make you angry?
Well, I happen to thrive on the love a hound gives me.
Did you give her a name? Bitch in the cage?
She is now and forever Blue Belle.
And mine.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/06/1319703/-Thanks-for-dumping-your-hound-dog
Mexican immigrants will move for low-skill jobs. No one else will.
Recessions are a big shake-up for the economy. Some places gain jobs, and other places lose them, and so people often have to move in search of opportunity. What economists Brian Cadena and Brian Kovak found is that among low-skilled workers (those with a high-school degree or less), Mexican-born immigrants are unique in that they moved quite a bit in search of jobs during the last recession. Native-born low-skilled workers, in contrast, tended to stay in one place regardless of how the local economy was doing.
The researchers looked at 97 cities with large working populations and observed that cities with job growth among low-skill Mexican-born immigrants also saw growth in that population. Cities with job losses saw their Mexican-born immigrants move away. There was no pattern though, for the low-skill native-born, who either did not migrate or tended to migrate for family reasons.
MUCH MORE:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/storyline/wp/2014/08/06/mexican-immigrants-will-move-for-low-skill-jobs-no-one-else-will/
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