In response to the Syrian chemical attack on Idlib today, Tim Anderson, the creepy professor from Australia who is a proud Assadist, did one of his demented memes claiming al-Qaeda once again killed children & blamed it on Assad. Bartlett & Beeley & the coterie of chumps that trail them first claimed a false flag operation but are now circulating reports that revolutionary forces against Assad used chemical weapons on themselves.

Assad’s handlers for these propagandists might consider vetting less for servility & commitment to fighting reptilian Illuminati & more for the ability to invent good lies. That fake news/false flag crap is wearing thin & if you don’t tell them what to think they start drooling all over themselves.

The Syrian air force at first denied involvement but the Russian Defense Ministry chimed in with a version that the Syrian air force bombed an ammunition warehouse where rebel militias produced & stored chemical weapons “before being delivered to Iraq.” Maybe when they finish inventing the story they can explain why rebels were delivering chemical weapons to Iraq.

With all of these propagandists, there is complete amorality, utter debasement before Assad’s dictatorship, the willingness to believe & say anything to get a paycheck. That’ll get you a lot of likes on social media these days; history will likely be ruthless.

Rania Khalek claims in a whimper that she’s not an Assadist but when Syria dropped chemical weapons on civilians today, she said that was the al-Qaeda narrative of what happened. Is there an operative distinction between not being an Assadist but writing halfwitted apologetics for his war crimes?

She’s still whining to all the Assadist & Stalinist media that she’s being maligned & blacklisted. Let them publish her crap then. It’s as unreadable & worthless as the rest of their stuff.

Normally I avoid gruesome, not to shelter us or deny reality, but in respect to the victims. This article has a video of the Syrian chemical attack near Idlib which should be viewed to understand the character of Assad’s counter-revolution & to show the urgency of rebuilding the international antiwar movement.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-idlib-idUSKBN1760IB

The Syrian government carried out a chemical attack today, either sarin or chlorine gas, on the town of Khan Sheikhoun, near Idlib. This is a White Helmet rescue worker overcome with the fumes & breathing through an oxygen mask. Many, including children, have died. Assadists will ignore the chemical attack to go with counter-revolutionary vengeance after those risking their own lives to save civilians.

Assadists feign outrage over US bombing of Mosul but their indifference to human life is exposed in Syria where they simply deny Syrian & Russian bombing of civilians & instead turn their venom on the rescue workers trying to save people.

Assadist apologetics for war crimes won’t carry the cache of horse manure when the international antiwar movement is rebuilt to demand:

–Stop the bombing of civilians in Syria & Iraq!

–All foreign military forces out of Syria & Iraq!
(Photo by Ammar Abdullah/Reuters)

http://thegirlgod.blogspot.no/2015/09/ending-verbal-abuse-by-mary-scully.html

Many women have asked me how to stop others from insulting us, trying to bully & push us around–a common problem for women & many men. We aren’t acculturated to be tough cookies–it’s a gender, ethnic, & a class thing that any who are “different” also face–& we are often passive to abuse when we are internally seething about it. We just don’t know how to stand against it without going ballistic & then demeaned as an irrational woman.

In the 1970s, General Electric, a mostly white male factory, was under an affirmative action court order & hired me along with other women, Blacks, Latinos. For the first years, until I learned how to defend myself, it was a living hell where I was subjected to verbal abuse, threats, physical aggressions of all sorts with the encouragement & participation of management.

Learning how to defend yourself isn’t easy without mentors & mine were fellow male co-workers, most often the older white men with union traditions who detested others being treated unfairly. Women got abused in a particular way, different than Black & Latino men who already knew the arts of intimidation. They became allies & mentors but were fighting their own immense battles for dignity & respect.

Once you understand what abuse is about, why it is not your fault in any way, learn some of the techniques for ending it, dignity becomes integrated into who you are & is not just a battle shield you wear at appropriate moments. There can be weak moments when you get thrown for a loop & fumble against abuse but soon your sense of dignity & belief in yourself will come to prevail & it is monumentally empowering.

This piece was written in 2015. Trista Hendren posted it on her blog & included in one of her books–an honor beyond measure. My sole purpose is to mentor young women & men to avoid the hurt, the anger, the self-reproach that comes when you don’t know how to tell someone you will not allow anyone, including within your family & closest friends, to treat you with disrespect.

My friend who rescues cats has been inconsolably grieving all week & berating herself for not taking enough precautions with Jinx the cat when she brought him home from hospital after an attack by a pit bull.

He disappeared early Sunday morning, the 26th, & both of us beat the bushes looking for him to no avail. She is a retired school teacher & works as a sub to pay for rescue. This morning she opened the door to leave for school & Jinx was sitting on the front porch.

I say it’s the blessings. Thank you. 

On a stormy day in 2014, cars ahead of me were swerving to avoid a little black bundle scurrying on the shoulder of the road. Doing what rescuers do, I pulled off the road & waited for the bundle who came running right up to me covered in fleas & ticks.

She had no microchip or identifier so I posted in several places & went door to door in a swanky neighborhood to find her caretaker with no luck.

She became my Daisy who loves to be loved & needs much more lap time than I can give her with several other dogs. Many take to her immediately but she needs caretakers who don’t work & won’t leave her alone for extended periods, who will dote on her. She’s a wannabe diva. There was one elderly Canadian couple interested but he was a racist & a bold, nasty one. Sweet Daisy couldn’t be entrusted to a hater.

Daisy found a forever home today with a retired but fairly young woman who fell in love with her. She’s been looking for a little one just like our girl & has grandchildren who she thinks will also love her up.

She takes a part of my heart with her but she was meant to be an adored & only child, spoiled rotten. And for that I am very very grateful.

After watching women play a leading role in the Arab uprisings in Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, & in Palestinian & Kashmiri resistance to occupation, we ought to be able to lay to rest this rubbish about needing the US Pentagon to rescue Muslim women.

It isn’t reported what these Kashmiri women are saying to the occupying soldiers but the plank is probably being used for emphasis.

End the occupation. Self-determination for Kashmir.

Things are going well on the front lines of Mosul:

–Iraqi soldiers continue to fire rockets into residential areas before checking to see if civilians have been able to clear the area & won’t be harmed;

–a 16-year-old boy who lost his leg in crossfire is trying on prosthetics;

–Iraqi soldiers are stepping over bodies of men dressed as civilians but identified as ISIS fighters though how they make the distinction is unknown;

–Iraqi soldiers cornered an ISIS fighter & are arresting him here–only to learn he is a man with learning disabilities, not an ISIS combatant.

US out of Iraq & Syria! Out now! Terrorizing, displacing, murdering thousands of civilians is no way to fight ISIS but only to subordinate the civilian population.

(Photo by Youssef Boudial/Reuters)

Thank you Thamina Faiz for introducing us to Kareem Salama, a Muslim country music singer from Oklahoma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAExDFRNg_w