{"id":802,"date":"2011-03-19T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T15:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=802"},"modified":"2011-03-19T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T15:39:21","slug":"the-new-flag-of-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"The New Flag of Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OK, gang, let me run through this one more time:<\/strong> President Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner, quoted by Al Jazeera in a statement as opposing violence against civilians \u2013 on the same day that his Predator drones engaged in more slaughter of civilians in Pakistan<\/a> \u2013 has sold a shit-ton of weapons to Saudi Arabia<\/a> who, in turn, has joined the army of Bahrain in the massacre of unarmed civilian protesters<\/a> in the streets of Bahrain. Is that pretty much it? Have I missed anything here?<\/p>\n

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While you chew on that, here’s some footage via Russia Today from Bahrain of soldiers using automatic weapons \u2013 supplied by the US \u2013 to shoot down unarmed civilian protesters in the streets.<\/p>\n

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And while you digest that, here’s a Blast From Yer Past, just to give you a little context: The Color Purple<\/em> author Alice “In Wonderland” Walker, in the UK Guardian<\/em><\/a> in April of 2008, gushing shamelessly in what can only be termed a love letter to Barack Obama:<\/p>\n


\nHe is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s right; Alice Walker compares Barack Obama \u2013 hypocrite, warmonger, house slave for the oligarchy \u2013 to black resistance heroes Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. Read on for the full load of lulz, if you can stand it. As for myself, I’m taking this occasion to get out of the studio for awhile and catch up on my daytime drinking.<\/p>\n

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OK, gang, let me run through this one more time: President Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner, quoted by Al Jazeera in a statement as opposing violence against civilians \u2013 on the same day that his Predator drones engaged in more slaughter of civilians in Pakistan \u2013 has sold a shit-ton of weapons to Saudi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,82,158,9],"tags":[309,145,245,15],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-middle-east","category-obamarama","category-war-and-peace","tag-bahrain","tag-obama","tag-pakistan","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}