Comments for New Britney Spears Sex Tape Bares All! at http://www.chris-floyd.com , comment 1 to 21 out of 20 comments http://www.chris-floyd.com Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:13:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7760 What you write Chris is not even at the level of a decent discussion. Get a life Chris. - Yousef Thu, 08 May 2008 15:01:45 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7757 Many others have said it well, but may I add my appreciation for another piece of insightful reporting that is firmly grounded in our shared humanity. Thank you, Chris. - Jonathan Thu, 08 May 2008 13:30:15 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7605 Aditya: Send a message to floydonline@gmail.com - chris Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:19:53 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7600 Thank you for your work Chris, I care about Africa and the "unpeople" suffering under the boot of the West. I write a weekly column for my school paper and want to do one on Somalia, is there a way I can get a hold of you to discuss this? The contact info link isn't working. Best, Aditya - Aditya Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:53:20 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7582 It's really sad seeing someone like Jendayi Frazier cheerleading the slaughter. On March 7, offshore UN navel units fired Tomahawk missiles at a berg in the middle of nowhere, Dhobley, claiming it was after "al-Qaeda terrorists" (Yeah, right). Three women and three children were killed. Personally, I am not surprised at the mayhem and indiscriminate bloodletting as I remember the DoD's role in the Dirty War (under Carter) and the needless and cruel interventions in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala. Did you know that Colin Powell flew to Katmandu to arrange for arms to be shipped to King Gyanendra? He would have high-fived a massacre there, too. - nur al-cubicle Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:31:36 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7581 [quote]If Bill Clinton embraced a US military build up in Somalia, he could perhaps prove he was not a wimp, and help exorcise the ghosts of Vietnam like Reagan-Bush had done. If he withdrew, his cowardice would be proved. Then when he events eventually forced Clinton's hand (Blackhawk down, bodies dragged through the streets on the evening news), Clinton could be attacked from the right for lacking resolve.[/quote] That might be a plausible scenario in an alternate universe, like Bizarro World. However, in America, the Bill Clinton who was our President was not an honest man, nor was he a peaceful man, nor was he a humanitarian. He was and is a corporatist and imperialist. This fact may be uncomfortable and/or difficult to reconcile for you, Bill, but it remains true. It does us no good whatever to romanticize Bill Clinton as some noble pure-hearted saint who was done wrong by Poppy Bush. Poppy Bush and Bill Clinton are pals, Bill. Business pals. Bill Clinton has asked to fill a seat on the Carlyle Group when the time is right. I propose that if Swillary the Swine should get the POTUS office then the time will be right in Jan 2009. Either way, I can't agree with your characterization, because it removes all blame from Slick Willie and puts all blame on Poppy. The blame is to be equally shared. Bill Clinton didn't pull the troops because he feared being branded a "coward." He left them there because they served the interests of those who advised him and funded his campaign. It really is that simple. Bill Clinton was never anyone's friend but his own. - Evan Rhood Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:48:30 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7580 Thanks Chris for this one. Let me just join in with other commenters here and cherish the bitter comfort of having your magnificent voice around to help us understand the twisted cruelty of our times. Corporate media spin is ubiquitous and only forcibly startling people out of it will open the road to more decency. No one does that better than you do. Thanks again. - Paul Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:42:29 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7579 Chris - Keep up the good works culling through the news coverage on the Somalian GWOT front. Your efforts are appreciated. Also, we need to keep reminding ourselves that the media's disinterest in Somalia (like Dafur, like the Congo) is part of the historic racial prism. This is going on over in Africa. Life is cheap there. These people all have dark skins. If there were a bunch of publicity about the ongoing slaughter being funded covertly under the table by Uncle Sam, or orchestrated overtly from overhead with US air strikes, the notoriety might get rabble rousers like that Jeremiah Wright fellow all worked up, and that could get awkward or even out of hand. So it's better to just turn away, sort of like we did in Rwanda, Guatemala, East Timor, and places like that. Jimmythem - Good point on George I presenting Bill Clinton with the Mogadishu hot potato as a welcoming present. Even though George H W Bush obviously had some sort of strategic purpose in sending troops into Somalia in the first place (he certainly did not envision losing to a draft dodging Dem in 1992), much of the US military build up there was carried out when Bush had become a lame duck. The table was set, with scarcely a bloodstain on the cloth or napkins. If Bill Clinton embraced a US military build up in Somalia, he could perhaps prove he was not a wimp, and help exorcise the ghosts of Vietnam like Reagan-Bush had done. If he withdrew, his cowardice would be proved. Then when he events eventually forced Clinton's hand (Blackhawk down, bodies dragged through the streets on the evening news), Clinton could be attacked from the right for lacking resolve. The military/industrial/intelligence complex had it all covered however things came unraveled. And it worked. George the Lesser has been diligently sprinkling special forces throughout much of Africa and central Asia for several years now, in a similar hot potato pattern. If McCain wins, the Pentagon is all set. If Obama wins, it's his no-win partisan problem to deal with, with the same range of undesirable, politically manipulable options. Bill from Saginaw - bill from saginaw Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:36:34 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7578 [quote]So I never figured out why Clinton left our troops in Somalia. And that means I never actually knew why Bush 41 sent them there in the first place. And I still don't know. So if somebody could background me on that, I might be more curious about what happens there.[/quote] [b]OIL[/b], Jimmy. [b]OIL[/b]. - Evan Rhood Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:10:08 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7577 Great stuff as usual Mr Floyd. Also great stuff from BLAQFATHER: [quote]Bush Foreign Policy: 1). Bomb third world countries that have OIL. 2). Put out faulty intelligence and CIA claims that Al-Qaeda is involved. 3). Pay off right wing organizations (Like the UN) to bolster your efforts. 4). Try to destabilize the governments by whatever means are available, so that LARGE OIL COMPANY INTERESTS ARE FAVORED over human rights and decency issues.[/quote] The only thing I'd add to this good summary is that "right-wing" (point 3) may not be as accurate as [i]corporatist[/i] or [i]imperialist[/i]. I say this because if you believe all political perspectives can be shown by the left-right linear scale, there are right-wing people who aren't in favor of empire or corporatism. They're the old-school conservatives, literal conservatives. Not many of them left these days, but they do exist. But still, BLAQFATHER makes an excellent summary. - Evan Rhood Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:08:46 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7576 Thanks Chris for your great reporting on Somalia. Your readers should also check out http://www.blackagendareport.com/ index.php?option=com_ content&task=view&id=449&Itemid=36 Black Agenda Report[url][/url]for more news on Somalia - Margaret Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:58:08 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7575 Chris, I was heartened to read you say that you will continue to address events in Somalia even if no one else seems to care. What we are doing in that country is beyond shameless and if you don't cover it the US govt. wins by default. - Robert Della Valle Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:46:35 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7574 When Bush 41 committed U.S. troops to Somalia, he was on his last global junket as president of the United States. At the time, I thought the commitment was just another way the GOP planned to make life difficult for the incoming Democratic administration of Bill Clinton -- one more hot potato to drop in the opposition's hand. I was surprised, therefore, at what I thought was Clinton's stupidity in not pulling U.S. forces OUT of Somalia as soon as he had the power to do so. My sense of the situation was reinforced after the famous Mogadishu shootout (of "Blackhawk Down" fame), when rightwingers in the beer joints all snickered cynically about "Bill Clinton's war." And of course it did no good to point out that Poppy Bush was the guy who sent our boys in there. So I never figured out why Clinton left our troops in Somalia. And that means I never actually knew why Bush 41 sent them there in the first place. And I still don't know. So if somebody could background me on that, I might be more curious about what happens there. Furthermore I've arrived at the conclusion that it does no good for me, as an American citizen, to rail about what happens in Somalia or Iraq or Palestine or any such place. That's because our United States government (from the POTUS right down to the lowliest congresscritter) no longer gives one shit what anybody thinks of what it's doing about anything at all. All of the conflicts in which we are now involved are but symptoms. Stopping them (if we had the power) does nothing to fix what's wrong here at home. And what's wrong here at home boils down to piracy on a grand scale. Pirates, organized criminals, have seized control of the United States government and now use our military might to rape and plunder the rest of the nations on this planet. That is the problem as I see it. There is no non-violent solution to the problem. We will overthrow this government or else the rest of the world will come here and do the job. Revolution at home would be incredibly difficult and dangerous, but if we allow the latter scenario to develop, things for us will be more difficult still. It's still your privilege to vote this year if you want to. But if you do, you're part of the problem. - jimmythem Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:21:51 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7573 Thank you for writing this. I will do my level best to spread your article. - Isabella Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:44:41 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7572 I am shocked -- shocked! -- by the absence of any nude female popular singers in this post, and also their absence from Somalia. Thanks for the concern about our continent, though. - MFB Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:28:27 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7571 Continue reporting on Somalia, Chris,it's one of the major reasons to me to visit your site.Because anywhere else there is not much indepth reporting on this subject.Great article again - PaulG Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:15:03 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7570 Many thanks for these insightful comments, and the very informative links. They are all much appreciated. - chris Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:05:04 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7569 The bombings by the Bush administration in Somalia have had the destabilizing effect that was intended. This was another attempt to cause utter confusion and chaos so that LARGE OIL COMPANIES could get offshore OIL rights for nothing. Indeed, when there is war in 4 separate theaters, the attention of the public is on whatever “conflict” involves LARGE OIL COMPANIES. The western elitist press, who has better things to do than actually report the truth about what is happening, has decided to put a false priority on the news items that can sell the most advertising.( $ ) The BBC Africa has been reporting on the Somalia situation, more than most of the other “news” organizations. [b]Bush Foreign Policy: [/b] 1). Bomb third world countries that have OIL. 2). Put out faulty intelligence and CIA claims that Al-Qaeda is involved. 3). Pay off right wing organizations (Like the UN) to bolster your efforts. 4). Try to destabilize the governments by whatever means are available, so that LARGE OIL COMPANY INTERESTS ARE FAVORED over human rights and decency issues. [i][b]Learning is the key to healing. [/b][/i] [b]References Used in this Blog: [/b] As always, all these specific pages start with ( http://www. ) Please type them into your browser window for accurate results. geeskaafrika.com/somalia_22mar08.htm garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Africa_22/Somalia_Ethiopian_factor_surfaces_in_Puntland_oil_dispute.shtml sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Somalia's_oil_industry americanchronicle.com/articles/58008 ( Thank You Chris, as always, for your reports on this issue. ) ******************* - BLAQFATHER Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:51:37 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7568 I'm forever grateful you refuse to shut up about this cynical, state sponsored genocide, for the sake of our possible posterity. They will need to know that not all of us were monsters from hell, and there will be very little hard evidence of that fact to be found. But perhaps it will be gleaned that there were a few impassioned voices for humanity still out there, refusing to bow down before the monolithic evil that covers the globe. - Grandma Jefferson Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:21:08 +0100 http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1488/135/#comment-7567 Every bullet, every bloodied body, every bomb we cause over there, will inevitably come back home, here to our streets and countryside. Thus has ever been the tide of war in human affairs. It is only a matter of time. - Antifa Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:15:16 +0100