Friday News Dumpster-Fire Dump
August 27, 2021Another heavy news day, but I’m after the lesser noted items on this Friday’s News Dump day. The following a few incidents/thingies that caught my eye this afternoon — first off a good dive into…
Category Archives: Afghanistan
Biden Blowback On Terror — ‘We Will Not Forgive. We Will Not Forget. We Will Hunt You Down And Make You Pay’
August 26, 2021Joe Biden is handling a shocker this afternoon, usually in his normal, low-key stand-out approach on the bombings in Afghanistan (death toll has risen, now 13 in total of American military fatalities, with 14 wounded),…
Afghan Agony: Suicide Bombers Kill 12 US Military Servicemen — Worse Shit To Hit The Future Fan
August 26, 2021Terrible bomb explosions outside Kabul airport this morning, a nasty incident to most-likely change the timbre of this whole Afghan ugly: Quick nutshell via CNN: Twelve members of the US military were killed and 15…
Afghan Agony: Way-Big Winner — The Military-Industrial Complex
August 22, 2021Life continues, and war will keep rolling along, too, even if brakes are applied: Biden’s been pretty-straight about the Afghan shit so far, and this morning he apparently kept it going — via NPR: In…
Afghan Agony: Twisted-Empty Videwpoints
August 20, 2021Latest installments of the Afghan-disaster chronicles this Friday afternoon, and how fast the week when shit happens. A cascade of events, going from reality to denial. One note of the extreme measures of getting to…
Collateral Day On Mars — Afghan Edition
August 20, 2021Another brown-tinted environment this mid-day Friday here in California’s Central Valley, painted with way-faded yellow sunshine, mingled in with a thin-overcast layer of a hazel-colored sky. Air-breathing outside literally sucks: Our region still looks like…
Gen. Milley On Afghan Army Disintegration: No One ‘Predicted A Security Force Of 300,000 Would Evaporate In 11 Days’
August 18, 2021Brown tint to the air this late-afternoon Wednesday here in California’s Central Valley, and with it a most-definite scent of burnt wood in the small breeze wafting about in the trees — fire is for…
Robots And Republicans And A ‘Helicopter Full Of Cash’
August 17, 2021Some news be good today: Rescuers on Tuesday pulled 16 people out alive from rubble in Brefèt, a town in Les Cayes in the Southern department, three days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the area,…
Enigma Of Collective Soul Shines On HG Wells — ‘A Neighbor From Another World Residing In A Jar’
August 17, 2021As this Tuesday morning is a nasty news day already — between Afghanistan and COVID the shit’s in the fire. And to somewhat lessen the shit-fall, a post of mystery for all of us living…
Afghan Agony: Media Madness
August 16, 2021(Illustration: ‘The Three Amigos‘ — Dick Cheney, GW Bush, Donald Rumsfeld — found here). Afghanistan continues to flame the news cycle into the afternoon — and the shit in the airwaves is poor. History and…