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Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News

This is what philosopher Noam Chomsky had to say about President Obama on American tv yesterday. Warning, it's not nice!

If the Bush administration didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them and send them to torture chambers.
If the Obama administration decides they don’t like somebody, they murder them.

First, it's not true. The neocon Bush government has killed more people worldwide than President Obama and most presidents before him like the last presidents: Clinton, Bush sr, Reagan, Carter and Ford. Also more Americans - civilians and soldiers - were killed under the Bush administration than under most American administrations before him.

Still he has a point. Peace Nobelprize winning Obama is constantly killing people in numerous countries in the Middle East. In fact with his anonymous drones he's killing so many muslims that a CIA counter-terrorism boss recently warned that the strikes in Yemen have the risk of converting domestic militants into 'dedicated enemies of the west'.

Glenn Greenwald calls it 'these constant acts of lawless violence' and çan't understand why there's almost no discussion about it in...

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A shooting target depicting the unarmed black boy Trayvon Martin (17). He was shot in Florida recently by vigilante George Zimmerman for acting suspiciously.
Trayvon was wearing a hoodie and carrying a bag of candy.
Because of the Stand your Ground rule for selfprotection, Zimmerman was not arrested until weeks later after killing Trayvon.

Meanwhile in Florida a black mother was sentenced to 20 years in jail for firing warning shots at her abusive husband who despite a protective order against him was trying to attack her.
Protecting yourself on the Stand your Ground rule in Florida apparently doesn't apply to black women standing up to domestic violence.

This news has lead to amazement in the U.S.A,  that 'shining city on the hill' where this week 84 shots where fired at a murder suspect in Harlem. None of them were warning shots. By the way, the National Rifle Association claims this news is a hoax:

According to Der Spiegel, the police in Germany has fired a total of 85 bullets in 2011; 49 of those were warning shots. Officers fired 36 times at people, killing 6 and injuring 15.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., 84 shots were fired at one murder suspect in Harlem, and another 90 at an unarmed man in Los Angeles.

While President Obama has made the historical step to, for the first time in American history, have a president say that marriage is for everyone, heterosexual and homosexual, stories come out of a young Mitt Romney relentlessly bullying gay classmates.

Though Mitt Romney says he doesn't remember what happened most of his classmates do. 
Today more high school classmates of Romney came forward telling that the likely Republican presidential candidate was engaged in “bullying supreme”, and in one event in “assault and battery.”
Romney and his friends apparently were like a “pack of dogs” who targeted supposed gay victims.

America is a country where instruments of violence as the gun and the army are not only accepted but greatly admired. From the left to the right Americans honor the U.S. army, an organisation created to spread death worldwide, every day.
So it's not surprising that the U.S. has the highest murder rate in the developed western world. And when it's up to Republican Sarah Steelman, candidate for the Senate, there's one more killing on the way.

Yesterday she defended the call at a campaign meeting to “kill the Claire Bear”. That was referring to Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill against who Steelman is running.
It's a reminder of what happened to Democrat politician Gabby Giffords. On Sarah Palin's website she had a gun pointed at her district. Giffords was shot in the head two years ago.

This is what a supporter of Steelman said this week:

Scott Boston, a St. Louis Tea Party activist, “She walks around like she’s some sort of Rainbow Brite Care Bear or something but really she’s an evil monster. We have to kill the Claire Bear.”

In this was the respons of Steelman yesterday:

"Are we just we just going to...

The U.S.A. is a very violent country, you see violence is in every aspect of it's culture: the adoration of the gun, the adoration of the army. That despite what this Missouri Democratic Party spokesperson said: "What makes America different from the rest of the world is that we settle our political disagreements without threats of violence."

He responded to this statement at a rally supporting Missouri Republican challenger Sarah Steelman of Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill.

Scott Boston, a St. Louis Tea Party activist, “She walks around like she’s some sort of Rainbow Brite Care Bear or something but really she’s an evil monster.”
“We have to kill the Claire Bear.”

Republican Sarah Steelman was at the rally and didn't respond to that statement. When later asked, she said: “I may disagree with the words Mr. Boston chose in his statement, but I understand his frustration and I emphatically support his right to express his views”

No one has been arrested but police have assigned extra security to Senator McCaskill.

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The American rightwing was annoyed by President Obama's ad celebrating the killing of Osama bin Laden one year ago. They claim he's unfairly belittling his opponents and is spiking the football. ('Spiking the football' is an American expression for slamming the ball violently in the ground in exagerated celebration.)

Were have these people been these past ten years?

George W. Bush landed on an aircraft carrier dressed in a bomber jacket and, under a Mission Accomplished banner, celebrated the defeat of Saddam Hussein before the game had even started.

Arend Van Dam, politicalcartoons.com, Netherlands

Patrick Chappatte, The International Herald Tribune

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Arend Van Dam, politicalcartoons.com

This is what British lawmakers concluded in a report on Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch yesterday. The report was published yesterday and reveals what sane people all over the world have been saying for years now:

Rupert Murdoch is “not a fit person” to run News Corp. or any other major international company.

Arend Van Dam, politicalcartoons.com

John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune

Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant  

Forty thousand Norwegians gathered on central Youngstorget square in Oslo yesterday. There they sang the song 'Barn av regnbuen' ('Children of the Rainbow'), the Norwegain version of 'My Rainbow Race' from American folksinger Pete Seeger.

It was their response to rightwing killer Anders Behring Breivik's remark at his trial that he hates the song for it's Marxist influence on Norwegian culture.

The happening started with a call posted on Facebook by Norwegian women Christine Bar and Lili Hjonnevag. They asked others to join them in singing the song on Youngstorget square. They expected few people but within days four thousand people had responded on Facebook that they would join them. In the end ten times more showed up.

Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons  

Like everything in the U.S. the politics of drugs is heavily influenced by money. The American prison industry - a quarter of all prisoners worldwde is sitting in an American prison - is spending millions of dollars every year supporting political candidates who want to prolong the endless War on Drugs. People who hoped that President Obama would change that counterproductive policy were wrong. Obama is not a president with bold moves. This week he gave an interview to Rolling Stone and was asked why his government was cracking down aggressively on medical marijuana producers in the U.S., even in states where medical marijuana is legal.
This is how the president responded, followed by comments by Glenn Greenwald, a strong proponent of the liberal drug policies of Portugal and the Netherlands::

Luojie, China Daily, China

Rightwing bully Rush Limbaugh doesn't want you to see this video. He demanded that the video, made by the leftwing blog DailyKos, was removed from YouTube. It was pulled. You can still see the video now in numerous other places, among them here on drasties.
DailyKos has asked YouTube to restore the video.

The video is a compilation of Rush Limbaugh himself talking on his radio show about the sexual habits of female law school students. And about the sexual habits of one law student, Sandra Fluke, in particular 53 times.
Sandra Fluke is a law student who was asked to testify in Congress about birth control. She didn't testify about herself but on behalf of a friend who needed access to contraceptives for non-reproductive medical reasons.
As a result of Rush' diatribe tens of U.S. companies stopped advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show.

This is what the great leader of the American rightwing, Rush Limbaugh, made of it: "She wants us to pay for her sex. What does that make her... .. it makes her a slut, right. a prostitute?"

DailyKos has asked YouTube to restore the video:

A closing question for Google: Want...

Where is George Zimmerman when you need him? Meet the neighbors:

Jean Kalonji and his wife Angelica, both legal immigrants from Congo, were moving into the house they had just bought when they were confronted at gunpoint by two neighbors, arrested and forced to spend the night in jail.

The neighborhood watchmen didn’t believe they had bought the home and since the Kalonji's didn’t have the closing papers with them, deputies arrested them, charged them with loitering and prowling and took them to jail.