Justin Raimondo Retweeted
"He admitted to lying to Congress and was unremorseful and flippant about it. The integrity of our federal government is at stake because his behavior sets the standard for the entire intelligence community.”
Clapper's a liar. And yet CNN puts him on the air as an expert.
His ass should be in prison.
Maybe the same is true of Mia Farrow.
This is very interesting, it tells the truth about Mama Mia and how she beat the children and would browbeat them and beat them until she got them to tell the stories that she wanted them to tell. Here's an excerpt about Moses:
In his earliest memories, “I was awoken in the middle of the night by Mia. I was in kindergarten. I slept in the girls’ room with [my adopted sisters] Lark and Daisy, on the lower bed of the bunk. Mia pulled me out of it. I was still half asleep as she repeatedly asked in a harsh tone if I had taken her pills. It wasn’t out of concern that I had swallowed any, but rather accusing me that I had stolen them from her. She took me to her bathroom. I was crying as she stood over me, scowling. I told her a dozen or so more times that I hadn’t taken them, but finally I said what she wanted to hear. I was forced to lie. However, simply telling her I took them didn’t suffice, and more questions ensued. I had to elaborate on the lie and tell her I had taken four or five pills because I thought they were Tic Tacs. She pulled me over to the sink and directed me to put her bar of soap in my mouth and then instructed me to wash out my mouth, telling me that lying is a bad thing to do. Once I dried my mouth she put me back to bed. The next day I searched for the missing pills and found them under the cabinet between the toilet and the bathtub; however, I never mentioned it to her out of fear of getting into more trouble. This was the first time I felt truly fearful of her, and it was the start of her instilling fear in me. It began the very long and impossible task of gaining her approval. I can recall numerous times that she let me know the burden was on me to gain her trust.
“The summer between first and second grades, she was having new wallpaper installed in the bedroom I slept in, across the hall from hers on the second floor of the house in Connecticut. She was getting me ready to go to sleep, and when she came over to my bed she found a tape measure. I didn’t even know what it was. She had a piercing look on her face that stopped me in my tracks. It was really scary. She asked if I had taken it. She used that familiar voice I had become attuned to as she explained she had been looking for it all day. I stood in front of her, frozen. She asked why it was on my bed. I told her I didn’t know, that perhaps the workman left it there. After a couple more demands for the answer she wanted, she slapped my face, knocking off my glasses. She told me I was lying. She directed me to tell my brothers and sisters that I had taken the tape measure. Through my crying and tears I listened to her as she explained that we would rehearse what should have happened. She told me that she would walk into the room and I would tell her I was sorry for taking the tape measure, that I had taken it to play with and that I would never do it again. We practiced at least a half dozen times. It became late, I was afraid and had cried myself out. Once she was satisfied, she took me to the rocking chair and rocked me. After a short while she brought me downstairs and made hot chocolate for me before putting me to bed. That was the start of her coaching, drilling, scripting, and rehearsing.
“Over the next few years, I continued to become more anxious and fearful. At that point, I had learned to fight, flee, or freeze. I often chose the latter two. For instance, as a young child, I was given a new pair of jeans. I thought they would look cool if I cut off a couple of the belt loops. When my mother found I had done this, she spanked me repeatedly—as was her way—and had me remove all my clothes saying, ‘You’re not deserving of any clothes.’ Then she had me stand naked in the corner of her room.”
Monica Thompson was a nanny in the Farrow household from 1986 to 1993. In a January 1993 affidavit to Woody’s lawyers reported by the Los Angeles Times, she said that around 1990 she saw Farrow slap Moses across the face because he could not find a dog’s leash. “The other children were horrified and told their mother that it could not have been Moses who lost the leash. Farrow told the children that it was not their place to comment on the incident. The children were scared of their mother and did not like to confide in her because they were afraid of what their reactions might be.” (Thompson acknowledged that in 1992 she had told Connecticut police that Farrow was a good mother and did not hit her children but that she had lied because she was pressured to support the charges against Woody and feared losing her job. She resigned in January 1993 after being subpoenaed to testify in the custody battle.)
On at least one occasion, Moses fought back. “One summer day in the Connecticut house, Mia accused me of leaving the curtains closed in the TV room; they had been drawn the day before when Dylan and Satchel were watching a movie. She insisted that I had closed them and left them that way. Her friend had come over to visit and while they were in the kitchen, my mother insisted I had shut the curtains. At that point, I couldn’t take it anymore and I lost it. I yelled at her, ‘You’re lying!’ She shot me a look and took me into the bathroom next to the TV room. She hit me uncontrollably all over my body. She slapped me, pushed me back and hit me on my chest. She said, ‘How dare you say I’m a liar in front of my friend. You’re the pathological liar.’ I was defeated, deflated, and beaten down. Mia had stripped me of my voice and my sense of self. It was clear that if I stepped even slightly outside her carefully crafted reality, she would not tolerate it. Yet, I grew up fiercely loyal and obedient to her, even though I lived in extreme fear of her. Based on my own experience, it’s possible that Mia rehearsed with Dylan what she ended up recording on video. As she had done with me, it’s conceivable she set the stage, the mood, and scripted what was to take place.”
Around the time of the custody trial in 1993, a person who went often to the Farrow home found Dylan crying one day. The story has been confirmed with someone else who often visited. “Dylan asked me, ‘Is it okay to lie?’ She felt she didn’t want to lie and wondered, What would God think? She wanted an Attic Kids doll, but Mia forbade it. This was shortly before Dylan was to speak with someone connected with the trial. She said, ‘Mom wants me to say something I don’t want to say.’ Then the next week she had the Attic Kids doll with a yellow dress. I asked, ‘What happened?’ She said, ‘I did what my mom asked.’”
The story does not surprise Moses, who adds, “This, I can speak to with confidence. Mia’s ability and intent to mold her children to do her bidding was matched by her living in constant fear her secrets of abusive parenting would be divulged and the reputation she built as the loving mother of a large brood of adopted kids would be destroyed. My biggest fear was that we would be rejected, excommunicated rather, from her and the family. I lived in constant threat of this happening. As an adopted child, there is no bigger fear than to lose your family.”
Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Friday, January 19, 2018. Chaos and violence continue and it's getting
harder and harder for Hayder al-Abadi to spin present day Iraq as
'success.'
I'm under 25 & I know who Ashleigh Banfield is.
She was the reporter on NYC streets during 9/11.
She interviewed Taliban prisoners during the Iraq War.
& She's the woman who made sure Brock Turner's mugshot was on CNN.
IDK who TF Katie Way is, but she's no journalist.
Actually, Jailain, I'm not sure you know who Ashleigh Banfield is.
Her most courageous moment was regarding the Iraq War -- and that was calling out the coverage of it.
You do mention the Iraq War but I'm not sure you understand that either. Taliban?
Did you study with Dick Cheney? Was Bully Boy Bush your tutor?
The Taliban is in Afghanistan.
As for Katie Way, I detest the article she produced (the bad date = abuse nonsense). But she is a journalist. And the fact that you're Tweeting about her underscores that.
And I doubt Katie Way would confuse Afghanistan with Iraq.
Iraq where the greed keeps the foreign fighters on the ground . . .
BP strikes deal with Iraq to exploit giant Kirkuk field. Agreement cements Baghdad control over Iraqi Kurdistan after its failed independence bid.
The greedy swoop in. Iraq's a country with double-digit unemployment (16% is the official number). An oil rich country that can't take care of its citizens. Where does the money go? Don't ask Hayder al-Abadi -- he's spent three years now insisting he was going to fight corruption. They can do show trials of Sunnis they wrongly call members of ISIS and carry those trials out in 15 minutes but somehow it's different for the corrupt. Probably the difference results from the fact that the ones stealing from Iraq are the political class.
A country of widows and orphans. That's what the Iraq War has created and continues to create.
Hayder's taking to crowing a lot lately.
The number of Iraqis returning to their home has now surpassed the number of IDPs in Iraq. With the support of its local and international partners, the @iraqigovt will continue working to ensure the safe and dignified return of all displaced Iraqis to their homes and communities
He forgets that many of the displaced have been forced to return and forced to return to unsafe areas.
He also forgets the issue of the ages of the displaced.
REUTERS reports:
About half the 2.6 million people displaced in Iraq after a three-year war with Islamic State militants are children and persisting violence hampers efforts to ease their suffering, the United Nations said on Friday.
While the Baghdad government last month declared victory over Islamic State after wresting back almost all the territory IS seized in 2014, persistent bombing and shooting attacks make it difficult to rebuild the lives of displaced people, according to UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency.
"We believe that as a result of the conflict, a lack of investment over the years, and the poverty ... that there are 4 million children now in need across Iraq," said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF chief representative in the country.
Not really a success for Hayder, no matter how he spins it.
B-b-b-ut at least he vanquished ISIS, right?
Uh . . . no.
From the US Defense Dept this morning:
Strikes in Iraq
There were no reported strikes conducted in Iraq on Jan. 18, 17 and 14.
On Jan. 16 near Rutbah in Iraq, coalition military forces conducted a
strike consisting of three engagements against ISIS targets, destroying
three ISIS underground facilities and a generator.
On Jan. 15 near Rutbah in Iraq, coalition military forces conducted a
strike consisting of one engagement against ISIS targets, destroying
two ISIS weapons caches.
On Jan. 13 near Mosul in Iraq, coalition military forces conducted a
strike consisting of one engagement against ISIS targets, destroying an
ISIS tunnel.
On Jan. 12 near Tuz in Iraq, coalition military forces conducted a
strike consisting of three engagements against an ISIS tactical unit.
Yes, the US continues to bomb Iraq.
It says it's targeting ISIS.
That sort of contradicts Hayder's boasts of triumph.
As does the continued violence. WORLD BULLETIN reports, "At least three civilians were killed Friday in two separate bombings in Iraq’s Baghdad and Diyala provinces, according to local security sources." And the death toll has now climbed to four with at least two people left injured.
'Success'? Does that also include the continued targeting of civilians by Hayder's militias?
#Kirkuk and #TuzKhurmatu have seen widespread violations against Kurds since the military takeover of the disputed areas by the Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi militias in mid-October. #SupportKurdistan #Arabization
kurdistan24.net/en/news/f590ff…
The more time passes, the less impressive he comes off.
Which is why he wants the elections to be held in May and not postponed.
On the elections, MIDDLE EAST MONITOR reports:
The Iraqi parliament has failed to set a new date for the upcoming
legislative elections, Iraqi media sources reported yesterday.
Media sources quoted Members of the Parliament (MPs) as saying that
yesterday’s session was devoted to a secret ballot on holding the
elections on either 12 May, the date that was announced by the Prime
Minister Haider Al-Abadi, or in early December 2018.
During the session, Kurds and Shiites MPs both stressed the
importance of holding elections on time, while Sunnis argued that it
should be delayed.
Of the 260 MPs in attendance, 149 suggested a secret vote on the matter, but Shiite MPs objected, arguing it was illegal.
Parliament speaker Salim Al-Jabouri, a Sunni, decided at the end of
yesterday’s session to postpone the voting session to next Saturday,
after the “secret voting to delay the elections failed.”
If elections are going to take place in May, this vote needs to happen soon. In the past, three months has been used as the minimum required to prepare for elections. Electronic voting -- if paper ballots are indeed out the window in Iraq as some insist -- will not mean less time required since there will need to be training and planning to utilize those.
The US Embassy in Baghdad issued the following yesterday:
The U.S. government strongly supports holding the Iraqi national elections in May 2018, in line with the Iraqi constitution. Postponing the elections would set a dangerous precedent, undermining the constitution and damaging Iraq’s long-term democratic development.
To that end, the United States is providing assistance that will help ensure that all Iraqi voices are heard and counted, including the approximately 2.6 million Iraqis who remain displaced from their homes in the liberated areas. USAID is assisting in the training of local civil society groups in election monitoring and providing Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) with six elections advisors who will help IHEC strengthen its electoral systems, personnel, and processes in the following ways:
- Enfranchise internally displaced Iraqis by focusing on voter registration and ensuring electronic voting systems are effective.
- Improve provincial electoral administrative capacity to support voting in recently liberated areas.
- Help the new IHEC Board of Commissioners finalize a sound operational plan for the May 2018 elections.
Support for Iraq’s democratic institutions is a key part of the United States’ ongoing commitment to a federal, democratic, prosperous, and unified Iraq. By exercising their constitutional right to vote, Iraqis will signal their commitment to governance through peaceful processes rather than through violence.
The following community sites -- plus Jody Watley, PACIFICA EVENING NEWS and LATINO USA -- updated:
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