Nancy Pelosi creeps me out even more. Politics aside, the woman can’t keep her teeth in her mouth. Ugh.
It’s because her face is pulled too tight. Judging by her temple area, it looks like she’s had at least two facelifts (I cut hair for years and saw shit up close you don’t want to see). After the second lift, they start to look alien-like in person.
Never mind Nancy, look at Crispin Glover’s ugly brother over on the right. Jeez.
UN Approves Goldstone Report
gaza:
After a two-day debate on a report by former war crimes prosecutor Richard Goldstone, there were 114 votes in favour, 18 opposed and 44 abstentions. — BBCThe report will now be sent to the UN Security Council, Goldstone recommends referring both sides to the International Criminal Court if they fail to conduct credible investigations into alleged abuses during the Gaza conflict. The US and China are likely to veto such a move.
Israel’s military continues to object to the report while holding its own investigations which Israeli Human Rights group B’Tselem have criticised for focusing on “individual soldiers, not unlawful policies”.
Goldstone report: A Jewish view
Rachel Barenblat (aka ‘Velveteen Rabbi’) reports on a rabbinic conference call she took with the Judge Goldstone last month:
“The Israeli government and the American government have done their best to quash the Goldstone report. Many Jewish organizations have joined them. But that’s by no means the only extant opinion in the Jewish community. It’s important to me that the world know that there are Jews who receive the report in a different way.” — Read her essay for AJE…Earlier in the week, US House of Representatives voted to reject the report [we have to wonder WTF?! it has to do with them]. Goldstone pre-empted this vote with a letter in an attempt to correct the factual errors in H.Res.867.
AJE report, “US House rejects Goldstone report”
Nov 5 — AJE’s Riz Khan show “The Goldstone report dispute”:
Part 1 above, watch part 2 here…South African blowback
Following Judge Goldstone’s report, South African lawyers are looking into claims that South African citizens joined the Israeli army and were fighting in Gaza. Photographic evidence has been found on social networking sites like Facebook. They could be prosecuted for war crimes and under South African law which “bars any citizen from fighting for a foreign force without express government permission.” — read more…
Collage by Louis Armstrong.
Paris Review: ” When not pressing the valves on his trumpet or the record button on his tape recorder, Armstrong’s fingers found other arts with which to occupy themselves. One of them was collage, which became a visual outlet for his improvisational genius. The story goes that he did a series of collages on paper and tacked them up on the wall of his den, but Lucille, who had supervised the purchase and interior decoration of their house in Corona, Queens, objected. Armstrong decided to use his extensive library of tapes as a canvas instead, and the result is a collection of some five hundred decorated reel-to-reel boxes, one thousand collages counting front and back”
gaza:
20 Years: Berlin to Ni’lin
“no matter where, no matter how tall, all walls fall”Two decades after the Berlin wall fell an 8m section of the West Bank apartheid wall was ceremonially toppled with the aid of a lever and a car jack.
Walls, Walls, Walls
BBC Mundo has a great report on “walls and barriers around the world which are still standing - or have been put up - since 1989”
