APOV's Weekly Revue (10/26/2008)
If it's Sunday and you are thinking that it is time for Teh Weekly Revue - then you would be quite right, folks!
It has been a big week news-wise, so today's Revue is likewise a big one - please adjust your seat-belts before we take off.
So here we go:
It has been a big week news-wise, so today's Revue is likewise a big one - please adjust your seat-belts before we take off.
So here we go:
Oh, Canada!
Harper and his Harpies were a mere week before election day as they presented us their electoral platform - which now turns out to be almost completely broken/disavowed already by themselves after being re-elected, as 900ft Jesus @ In the House and Senate superbly demonstrates in a series of posts titled "Breaking platform promises: the series" (parts I, II, III and IV - so far). In between, pale @ ACR exposes what cruel conservatism is all bout, while Dr. Dawg @ Dawg's Blawg informs us about Canadian asbestos and what it has been doing lately (most of it bad). It would seem that the dispirited, cynical congratulations of Dana @ The Galloping Beaver to Harper are being justified, eh?
Meanwhile, Chuckman @ Chuckman's Other Choice of Words dissects down a propaganda book about how the war in Afghanistan has saved Afghans, and Dr. Dawg (again) waxes cynically about "democracy" in Afghanistan - demonstrating yet again that this pointless political exercize/FUBAR 9-11 vengeance operation was for absolutely nothing (as yours truly usually puts it). And speaking of the Global War on Terror(TM) ... blueness @ NION tells us the ugly story of how three Arab-Canadian men were sacrificed to show the U.S. that Canada was "doing something", which in turn inspired matttbastard @ bastard.logic to discuss why the tragic and shameful roles of Canadian officials in the torture of these three men constitute more cobblestones on the road to Hell, and prompted pogge @ POGG.E to decry (rightly) the "Nuremberg defense" invoked by said Canadian officials and the mindboggling acceptance of such a ludicrous defense. In between, Dark Daughta @ The Peace Tree exposes more shocking abuse of power from Canadian security agencies and their blatant lies to cover themselves.
(When I say that we are marching towards authoritarianism, a veritable security state, and that we are losing ourselves beyond redemption in the process, I certainly don't mean all of this just for Americans, folks. But I disgress ...)
Oh, U.S.A.!
The McCain-Palin campaign continues to disintegrate from without and from within. Kyle E. Moore @ Comments From Left Field discusses the so-called "principles" of John McCain, Jimmy Crackcorn @ DKos has an hilarious (but quite à propos) photographic essay establishing the "proof" that the endorsement of Barack Obama by Colin Powell is about race; emptywheel @ Emptywheel tells us the tale of "When mavericks clash", digby @ Hullabaloo exposes the divas on parade, JollyRoger @ Reconstitution explains how the "wingtards done lost it", greg @ DTK illustrates how racism - as displayed by the Palinmaniacs - is a lot like religion, Daniel DiRito @ Bring It On! is waiting for the finale of the McCain-Palin melodrama, and BooMan @ Booman Tribune concludes that the republicans/G.O.P./McCain-Palin campaign simply failed to adapt to the times. On a related note, The Station Agent @ Les Enragés/The Unruly Mob shows us why there won't be enough Katherine Harrises to steal this election for McCain-Palin, whereas Jeff Huber @ Pen and Sword is writing a superb series on "Johnny (McCain) and the warmongers" (parts I, II and III - so far).
Meanwhile, the U.S. ship keeps on sinking slowly. Dr. Prole @ ACR has an hilarious video essay on "8 years later- whassup?", Anderson @ Shockfront tells us how the Bush administration swells the wave of lawlessness, Impolitic @ Impolitical explains what is the one more big gift of Bush to his successor, while Tom Harper @ Who Hijacked Our Country waxes cynical about Bush being "shocked" by World hostility toward America. In between, The Mound of Sound @ Rolling Back The Tide Of Extremism, One Post At A Time exposes carpetbagging on the public dime, which is what it looks like the bank bailouts are all about, whereas BJ @ Newshoggers informs us of the coming battles for on-line freedom.
Now on to the Global War on Terror(TM) again ... Chris Floyd @ Empire Burlesque waxes cynically on how Iraq after the surge is a Hell of a success, Glenn Greenwald @ Salon discusses more alarming threats of war against Iran, and Valtin @ Invictus exposes Unit 731 and its purpose in biological warfare and human medical experimentation.
Through it all, Boris @ The Galloping Beaver was inspired to write about the near future in his piece titled "Dystopia".
Oh, Humanity!
April Reign @ April Reign explains the hows and whys is it that anti-choice = anti-truth, whereas Saskboy @ Abandoned Stuff tells us more about "Inherit the Earth".
Thus on this note ends the Weekly Revue on this Sunday October 26th, 2008.
Harper and his Harpies were a mere week before election day as they presented us their electoral platform - which now turns out to be almost completely broken/disavowed already by themselves after being re-elected, as 900ft Jesus @ In the House and Senate superbly demonstrates in a series of posts titled "Breaking platform promises: the series" (parts I, II, III and IV - so far). In between, pale @ ACR exposes what cruel conservatism is all bout, while Dr. Dawg @ Dawg's Blawg informs us about Canadian asbestos and what it has been doing lately (most of it bad). It would seem that the dispirited, cynical congratulations of Dana @ The Galloping Beaver to Harper are being justified, eh?
Meanwhile, Chuckman @ Chuckman's Other Choice of Words dissects down a propaganda book about how the war in Afghanistan has saved Afghans, and Dr. Dawg (again) waxes cynically about "democracy" in Afghanistan - demonstrating yet again that this pointless political exercize/FUBAR 9-11 vengeance operation was for absolutely nothing (as yours truly usually puts it). And speaking of the Global War on Terror(TM) ... blueness @ NION tells us the ugly story of how three Arab-Canadian men were sacrificed to show the U.S. that Canada was "doing something", which in turn inspired matttbastard @ bastard.logic to discuss why the tragic and shameful roles of Canadian officials in the torture of these three men constitute more cobblestones on the road to Hell, and prompted pogge @ POGG.E to decry (rightly) the "Nuremberg defense" invoked by said Canadian officials and the mindboggling acceptance of such a ludicrous defense. In between, Dark Daughta @ The Peace Tree exposes more shocking abuse of power from Canadian security agencies and their blatant lies to cover themselves.
(When I say that we are marching towards authoritarianism, a veritable security state, and that we are losing ourselves beyond redemption in the process, I certainly don't mean all of this just for Americans, folks. But I disgress ...)
Oh, U.S.A.!
The McCain-Palin campaign continues to disintegrate from without and from within. Kyle E. Moore @ Comments From Left Field discusses the so-called "principles" of John McCain, Jimmy Crackcorn @ DKos has an hilarious (but quite à propos) photographic essay establishing the "proof" that the endorsement of Barack Obama by Colin Powell is about race; emptywheel @ Emptywheel tells us the tale of "When mavericks clash", digby @ Hullabaloo exposes the divas on parade, JollyRoger @ Reconstitution explains how the "wingtards done lost it", greg @ DTK illustrates how racism - as displayed by the Palinmaniacs - is a lot like religion, Daniel DiRito @ Bring It On! is waiting for the finale of the McCain-Palin melodrama, and BooMan @ Booman Tribune concludes that the republicans/G.O.P./McCain-Palin campaign simply failed to adapt to the times. On a related note, The Station Agent @ Les Enragés/The Unruly Mob shows us why there won't be enough Katherine Harrises to steal this election for McCain-Palin, whereas Jeff Huber @ Pen and Sword is writing a superb series on "Johnny (McCain) and the warmongers" (parts I, II and III - so far).
Meanwhile, the U.S. ship keeps on sinking slowly. Dr. Prole @ ACR has an hilarious video essay on "8 years later- whassup?", Anderson @ Shockfront tells us how the Bush administration swells the wave of lawlessness, Impolitic @ Impolitical explains what is the one more big gift of Bush to his successor, while Tom Harper @ Who Hijacked Our Country waxes cynical about Bush being "shocked" by World hostility toward America. In between, The Mound of Sound @ Rolling Back The Tide Of Extremism, One Post At A Time exposes carpetbagging on the public dime, which is what it looks like the bank bailouts are all about, whereas BJ @ Newshoggers informs us of the coming battles for on-line freedom.
Now on to the Global War on Terror(TM) again ... Chris Floyd @ Empire Burlesque waxes cynically on how Iraq after the surge is a Hell of a success, Glenn Greenwald @ Salon discusses more alarming threats of war against Iran, and Valtin @ Invictus exposes Unit 731 and its purpose in biological warfare and human medical experimentation.
Through it all, Boris @ The Galloping Beaver was inspired to write about the near future in his piece titled "Dystopia".
Oh, Humanity!
April Reign @ April Reign explains the hows and whys is it that anti-choice = anti-truth, whereas Saskboy @ Abandoned Stuff tells us more about "Inherit the Earth".
Thus on this note ends the Weekly Revue on this Sunday October 26th, 2008.
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