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A Most Unholy Alliance

by | Dec 20, 2019 |

Matt Welch at Reason writes about a new political alliance between so-called libertarian Justin Amash and a new group of “McCain Republicans” formed by Rick Wilson, John Weaver and Jeff Timmer calling themselves “The Lincoln Project“.

Wilson, author of the 2018 bestseller Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, previously worked on campaigns for George H.W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, and Evan McMullin, and was appointed to a Defense Department job by Dick Cheney. Timmer, an Amash constituent and former executive director of the Michigan Republican Party, announced last month that he “will support any Democrat—even a yellow dog—against any Republican who supports Trump.” Weaver, a key strategist in both McCain presidential runs (though he was canned from the second when it was floundering in 2007), headed up the quixotic presidential bids of Jon Huntsman in 2012 and Kasich in 2016, and has been drawing a $10,000 monthly fee from the pro-Kasich Super PAC New Day for America ever since.

Have these people all lost their minds?  Why would any libertarian form an alliance with the Bush-Cheney-McCain Republicans?

A reminder of who Rick Wilson is.

Even by Afghanistan’s grim standards, 2019 has been particularly deadly for children

by | Dec 19, 2019 |

The real cost of war AP.

A new report by the U.N. children’s agency, released Tuesday, says that in the first nine months of this year, nine children were killed or maimed every day as a result of war. 

Since the ICRC began its rehabilitation program in Afghanistan in 1988, more than 177,000 people, including more than 46,000 amputees, have been treated at its centers across the country. Among the amputees registered, 77% were landmine victims and 70% of those were civilians.

The harm inflicted by more than four decades of war has been cumulative.

In 2018 Afghanistan was the world’s most lethal warzone, said the UNICEF report.

Between 2009 and 2018, nearly 6,500 children were killed and almost 15,000 others injured, helping make Afghanistan the world’s most lethal warzone in 2018,”″ the report said.

A gallery of photos by photographer Altaf Qadri – don’t look away

In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, photo, a young Afghan girl, who was wounded in a blast, cries as her relatives left after paying her a visit at Emergency Surgical Center for Civilian War Victims in Kabul, Afghanistan. The total number of children killed or maimed in more than four decades long Afghan war is not known. But, with a population where close to 50% are under the age of 20, the losses among the young is tremendous. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

 

Good Old World Government

by | Dec 18, 2019 |

They love you so much. You can tell by the light blue flag of peace and friendship.

Plus all the wonderful rape-babies.

U.N. Peacekeepers in Haiti Said to Have Fathered Hundreds of Children

“Girls as young as 11 were sexually abused and impregnated” by peacekeepers, who were stationed in Haiti from 2004 to 2017, and some of the women were later “left in misery” to raise their children alone, according to the study by two academic researchers. …

“The United Nations has previously acknowledged that more than 100 Sri Lankan peacekeepers deployed to Haiti exploited nine children in a sex ring from 2004 to 2007, and the men were sent home, but were not punished. …

“The testimonies echoed a pattern seen in Liberia between 1990 and 1998, when thousands of children were reported to have been fathered by international peacekeepers. …

“But the mission … was devastating, according to human rights organizations and researchers. Peacekeepers have been accused of unintentionally killing dozens of civilians, and some introduced cholera to Haiti after the earthquake, starting an epidemic that killed more than 10,000 people and sickened more than 800,000. The United Nations has apologized for its role in the epidemic but has resisted legal efforts aimed at compensating cholera victims and their families.”

Oh, So That’s Why You-All Love Government So Much

by | Dec 18, 2019 |

I just couldn’t figure it out. Why would people put their children in government school? Do they hate their own children?

Yes, that must be it. They hate their own children, but fearing what the government will do to them if they beat them, they just turn them over to the government to torture instead. You know, since the cops have Total Immunity to commit any crime and break any law they feel like.

Government: We hurt people you hate for you, so you don’t have to get your hands dirty.

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