Saturday July 7th 2007
How the U.S.
Media Loved the War - posted at
Consortiumnews
Must Read - A
quote...."Editor's Note: Anti-war optimists cite the new Iraq War
skepticism in today's U.S. news media as a signal that George W. Bush's
militarist policies are in trouble. But what does it say about the
professionalism of these Big Media "journalists" that they would go
with the pro-Bush flow for so long, until the public opinion tide
turned? - In this guest essay, media analyst Norman Solomon
looks back at how prominent media figures surrendered their
journalistic principles when that was the "smart" career move:"
Parasitic
Imperialism
Must Read - A
quote...."07/07/07 "ICH" -- -- Although immoral, external military
operations of past empires often proved profitable, and therefore
justifiable on economic grounds. Military actions abroad usually
brought economic benefits not only to the imperial ruling classes, but
also (through “trickle-down” effects) to their citizens. Thus, for
example, imperialism paid significant dividends to Britain, France, the
Dutch, and other European powers of the seventeenth, eighteenth,
nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. As the imperial economic
gains helped develop their economies, they also helped improve the
living conditions of their working people and elevate the standards of
living of their citizens."
An
Insurgency is Not a War
A quote...."The U.S. Army failed in Vietnam, but didn't learn much as
an institution as blame was shifted to the media and protesters for
ending the war too soon. This tactic of blaming the messenger continues
today. Millions of Americans have embraced the mindless pursuit of
winning in Iraq at any cost, with no clear idea of what they want to
win. If U.S. troops in Iraq were offered the chance to fly home
tomorrow, over 90% would go home. They have no desire to leave their
children fatherless for “democracy in Iraq ” or whatever the current
justification for their unwanted presence. Therefore, Americans
who truly “support the troops,” want to bring them home now."
New
Iran Regime-Change Think Tank Opens
War Update - A
quote...."Meet Mahtaub "Mattie" Hojjati. A well-connected government
and business consultant Hojjati is about to embark on a new career:
revolutionary provocateur. She has two missions: to hasten the
overthrow of the Iranian regime, and to convince the American public to
support her."
Gaza
Refugees Facing Massive Warter Cuts, Disease
A quote...."International humanitarian agency Oxfam today warned that
thousands of refugees across Gaza will face imminent cuts in water and
sewage services if more fuel is not provided in the coming days and
weeks.
Slouching Toward
- A Palestinian Holocaust
Must Read - A
quote...."And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be
born?"
-- William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
"There is little doubt that the Nazi Holocaust was as close to
unconditional evil as has been revealed throughout the entire bloody
history of the human species. Its massiveness, unconcealed genocidal
intent, and reliance on the mentality and instruments of modernity give
its enactment in the death camps of Europe a special status in our
moral imagination. This special status is exhibited in the continuing
presentation of its gruesome realities through film, books, and a
variety of cultural artifacts more than six decades after the events in
question ceased. The permanent memory of the Holocaust is also kept
alive by the existence of several notable museums devoted exclusively
to the depiction of the horrors that took place during the period of
Nazi rule in Germany. - Against this background, it is especially
painful for me, as an American Jew, to feel compelled to portray the
ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel
through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as 'holocaust.' "
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Antiwar
Radio: Scott Horton Interviews Chris Floyd
Interview - A quote...."
Chris Floyd (who’s Website is
apparently being hacked),
author, columnist, blogger and activist, discusses the phony war on
terrorism, the politics of fear, racism and imperialism, America’s
murderous regime change in Somalia and belligerent attitude toward
Russia."
Bid
to arrest CIA rendition team splits German cabinet
A quote...." Berlin - A German prosecutor's request for the arrest of
10 US men suspected of forming a CIA rendition team has split the
German government, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday. A
parliamentary inquiry in Berlin has heard Lebanese-born German
national, Khaled el-Masri, testify that he was detained in Macedonia
and held in a jail in Afghanistan for several months in 2004 on
suspicion of terrorism."
See also....
Fun
& Torture - It's a Pleasure.
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Iraq
war costs could top $1.4 trillion.
A quote...."According to a new report by the non-partisan Congressional
Research Service, “in the first half of this fiscal year, the Defense
Department’s “average monthly obligations for contracts and pay is
running about $12 billion per month, well above the $8.7 billion in
FY2006.”
The
Crashing U.S. Economy Held Hostage - Our Economy is on an Artificial
Life-support System
A quote...."Remember when the U.S. was the world’s greatest industrial
democracy? Barely thirty years ago the output of our producing economy
and the skills of our workforce led the world. - What
happened? It’s hard to believe that in the space of a generation our
character and capabilities just collapsed as, for example, did our
steel and automobile industries and our family farming. What then are
the causes of the decline?"
See....
Standard
Disclaimer and the Ten Year Cycle
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Congress
looks to boost US tourism
A quote...."Visits to the United States from countries outside of
Canada and Mexico totaled 21.7 million in 2006, down 17 percent from a
peak of 26 million in 2000, according to Commerce Department figures.
In the same period, cross-border travel around the world was up 20
percent."
Gee....one just can't imagine why those freedom-hating,
terrorist-loving, comie-bastard, Islamo-fascist, Spics, Gooks, Darkies,
Towel Heads, European-cowards and French "surrender monkeys" when they
arrive here aren’t grateful to us while we strip search them that
we also don't pack them off to Gitmo to have "things done" to them -
because as we all know habeas corpus is dead and so are the Geneva
conventions for those cross-Atlantic terrorist supporting scum.- mpg
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Howard
Hits Iraq Oil Slick As Truth Becomes A WMD
A quote...."The News.com.au website, the main portal for Murdoch's
network of Australian newspaper websites, reaching some more than 1.5
million Australian readers per day, ran a number of headlines claiming
John Howard had said that oil was now a key reason to stay in Iraq.
Some of the headlines said the Iraq War was a war for oil. Just like
all those protesters back in early 2003 claimed it would be.
- By the time Howard moved to deny he said anything such thing,
it was too late. The story was out, columns and articles had been
written and sent to the printers for today's news racks, and there was
no going back."
Two
more GOP senators break from Bush on Iraq
A quote...."Two more Republican senators have gone public with their
dissatisfaction with President Bush's Iraq war strategy, but the White
House still doesn't view the internecine feuding during wartime as a
"hemorrhaging of support," since hardly any GOP lawmakers have aligned
with Democrats to call for an immediate troop withdrawal."
US
Coal Firm Linked to Colombia Militias
A quote...."BRIMINGHAM, Ala. - The bus had just left Drummond Co.
Inc.’s coal mine carrying about 50 workers when gunmen halted it and
forced two union leaders off. They shot one on the spot, pumping four
bullets into his head, and dragged the other one off to be tortured and
killed. - In a civil trial set to begin Monday before a
federal jury in Birmingham, Ala., union lawyers have presented
affidavits from two people who allege that Drummond ordered those
killings, a charge the company denies."
Guarantee you many corporate officials in the US wish they could do the
same thing here....this is how the wealthy elites do business, this is
how their corporations do business, this is WHO THEY ARE. - mpg
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Armitage:
Cheney Cabal Scapegoat
A quote...."Members of the Cheney Cabal – in and outside government –
and their media sycophants are charging that then-Deputy Secretary of
State Richard Armitage played the initial and key role in the exposure
of CIA covert agent Valerie Plame and of her "cover," Brewster-Jennings
& Associates. And even though that charge is evidently false, they
illogically claim that if it were true it would somehow "exonerate"
Scooter Libby, found guilty of committing the crimes of perjury and
obstruction of justice."
Bob
Herbert: A Girl’s Fear and Loathing
A quote...."In a column earlier this week I wrote about a cop who
grotesquely abused his power by invading a high school classroom in the
Bronx because a girl had uttered a curse word in a hallway. Not only
did the cop handcuff and arrest the girl in a room filled with stunned
students and a helpless teacher, but he arrested the school’s
principal, who had attempted to reason with the officer. -
The principal was suspended from his job immediately after the arrest
in February 2005,...."
Atlanta
police stand by officer's treatment of jaywalking historian
Related article - A quote...." An eminent British historian who was
arrested in Atlanta after a heated set-to with police has vowed to
clear his name although an investigation has failed to prove his
version of events. - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto provoked the
ire of a police officer in January when he tried to cross the road in
the wrong place - a crime known as jaywalking. He claims he was roughed
up by the officer; the officerinsists it was the academic who acted
with belligerence.
China's
Crises Will Pass, With Help
A quote...."Old Fan prides himself on his chicken-choosing abilities.
He is comfortable declaring the superiority of his chicken dishes above
all others, due in large part to the fine chickens he manages to
wriggle out of the hawkers' hands. But now the hawkers have upped the
ante: Old Fan's most recent chicken-procuring mission ended in disaster
when he discovered that the kidneys had been removed!"
Chinese
city cracks down on web postings
A quote...."Residents in a city in southern China could soon be banned
from anonymous web postings after they used the internet to halt
construction [for the moment] of a massive chemical factory, it emerged
yesterday."
Hasn't the city government ever heard of zoning, if not perhaps they’ve
heard of a city called
Bhopal? - mpg
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Fierce
Heat Wave Fuels Western Wildfires
A quote...."A scorching heat wave coupled with tinder-dry conditions
sent wildfires running amok throughout the West on Saturday, forcing
authorities to evacuate homes and close highways and wilderness areas.
Friday July 6th 2007
Strike
The Root
Must Read - A
quote...."07/06/07 "ICH' -- -- Recently, Nova M Radio's Mike
Malloy suggested the lethargy that appears to have descended on the
American people is more "rage fatigue" than a lack of knowledge or
comprehension of the damage wrought by this administration. I agree,
although for many of us, rather than fatigue, it's more an inability to
"focus" on any single atrocity about which to be enraged. There are
just too many incoming horrors at any one time. We are in the throes of
a national paralysis."
Take
the Revolutionary Road
A quote...."The US has been the world’s principal anti-revolutionary
force for almost a century. As Thomas Jefferson would have said, it’s
time to rebel. - It cannot but feel rather odd discussing Thomas
Jefferson, who occupies such a central position in the US national
pantheon, as a figure of modern revolutionary thought. For almost a
century, after all, the United States government has served as the
principal anti-revolutionary force in the world, striving to suppress
revolutionary movements, openly plotting to overthrow successful
revolutionary governments, and supporting surrogate
counter-revolutionary forces in countries throughout the globe."
John
Perkins: Jerk, Con-man, Shill
Must Read - A quote...."
07/06/07 "ICH" -- -- I remember John Perkins. He was a real jerk. A
gold-plated, super-slick lying little butthole shill for corporate
gangsters; a snake-oil salesman with a movie-star grin, shiny loafers,
a crooked calculator and a tooled leather briefcase full of high-blown
bullshit. - This was two decades ago. The early 1980s. I
wore sandals, uncombed hair down to my cheap collar and carried a
busted ring-binder filled with honest calculations and sincere
analysis. It was Economic Hit Man Perkins vs. Economic Long-Hair
Palast. I didn't stand a chance. The EHM was about to put a political
bullet hole through me wider than a silver dollar."
For more on the reformed Mr. Perkins see....
Confessions of an Economic Hit
Man -
Part
I,
Part
II,
Part
III
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Anthrax
Coverup: A Government Insider Speaks Out
A quote...."Is it possible that the anthrax attacks were launched from
within our own government? A former Bush 1 advisor thinks it is.
- Francis A. Boyle, an international law expert who worked under
the first Bush Administration as a bioweapons advisor in the 1980s, has
said that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed
five people were perpetrated and covered up by criminal elements of the
U.S. government. The motive: to foment a police state by killing off
and intimidating opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA
PATRIOT Act and the later Military Commissions Act."
Were
the Anthrax Attacks on Congress the act of the U.S. Government?
A quote...."According to a report from a government Insider currently
posted on AfterDowningStreet.org, the Anthrax attacks on Senators
Daschle and Leahy in 2001, just weeks after 9-11, may have been
launched not by foreign or even domestic terrorists, unless (like Rosie
O'Donnel) you count members of the U.S. Government as potentential
members such a group."
For more on this see also....
False
Flag Ops - Anthrax
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Plague
of bioweapons accidents afflicts the US
A quote...."Plague, anthrax, Rocky Mountain spotted fever - these are
among the bioweapons some experts fear could be used in a germ warfare
attack against the US. But the public has had near-misses with those
diseases and others over the past five years, ironically because of
accidents in labs that were working to defend against bioterrorists.
Even worse, they may be only the tip of an iceberg."
Wouldn't it be JUST AWFUL if "something" should like....er....happen to
the United States, for instance while Bush was being investigated for
impeachment? Gosh gee whiz he'd have to use his new extraordinary
powers to "save" all us if there should be another "fortuitous
event"....er....ummm....otherwise officially known as a
catastrophic
emergency.
Gives one a warm and cozy feeling to know that the "decider" is in
charge, doesn't it? - mpg
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Another
Al Qaeda In Iraq Leader Killed Twice By U.S
A quote...." The U.S. military command in Iraq was forced to retract
showpiece statements made this week that they had killed a high profile
Al Qaeda leader due to the fact that they had already announced the
killing one year ago. - A military spokesman acknowledged
the mistake after it was called to his attention by The Examiner. He
said public affairs officers will be more careful in announcing
significant kills."
Al-Qaeda,
the eternal covert operation: British “terror” incident latest product
of “war on terror” propaganda
A quote...."It is a well-established and deliberately unaddressed
historical fact that the CIA created “radical Islam” and Islamic
“terrorism” during the Cold War. It is also a documented fact that the
US, its allies, and their intelligence agencies (CIA, Pakistan’s ISI,
Britain’s MI-6, etc.) have -- from the 1970s to the present day --
continued to use and guide terrorist groups, including “Al-Qaeda,” as
intelligence and propaganda assets. “Islamic terrorism” is a
manufactured weapon of Western geostrategy, serving Anglo-American
interests."
US
leading renditions, detentions in Horn of Africa: rights group
A quote...." Nairobi - The United States is responsible for dozens of
unlawful detentions in Ethiopia since January, when scores of suspected
Islamist fighters fleeing war-torn Somalia were arrested on the Kenyan
border, a human rights group said Friday. - In a detailed
report, Kenya's Muslim Human Rights Forum (MHRF) lays out the fate of
152 men, women and children it said were stopped by Kenyan authorities,
117 of whom were rendered either to Somalia or Ethiopia."
The US and torture....like meat and potatoes, they just go so well
together. - mpg
See also....
Strangers
In the Night - 10-04-06 - mpg
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US
troops charged with murders, cover-ups in Iraq
A quote...."Recent weeks have seen a spate of investigations and trials
of US troops for murdering Iraqi civilians. The circumstances in which
the investigations have been carried out—
typically months after
the events in question, which came to light only due to the
intervention of enlisted men or outside journalists, and after
cover-ups orchestrated by US officials—suggest that most such
cases go unreported." - bold/italics by website author
Bush duplicity
hinders battle against extremism
Must Read - A
quote...."So, it is the terrorist Hamas that gets the kidnapped BBC
correspondent Alan Johnston released. That's just one of many ironies
of the American-Israeli – and Canadian – approach to the Arab-Israeli
conflict. - George W. Bush "invested the heart of my
presidency" to bring democracy to the Middle East. Yet he rejected the
result of the Palestinian election won by Hamas, and browbeat the
allies into starving the Palestinian people."
PJB: How Scooter Skated
A quote...."Why did Bush do it? Why did he intervene at all? Why now?
Why not let Scooter go to jail and commute the sentence at Christmas,
if he thought it excessive? - The suddenness of Bush’s
action is
easiest explained. Hours before he tossed his commutation statement to
the press, the court had turned down Libby’s last request that he be
allowed to stay out of prison as his appeal is heard. Bush’s need to
act was obvious. Scooter was on his way to prison."
Liberties
Lost
A quote...." Besides all his other gifts, Thomas Jefferson appears to
have been prophetic. - In his first presidential inaugural
address in
1801, he ticked off a long list of essential principles of government,
featuring highlights of the Bill of Rights, and called preservation of
the government "in its whole constitutional vigor" the "anchor of our
peace at home and safety abroad." These principles "should be the creed
of our political faith," he said. "Should we wander from them in
moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to
regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty and safety."
Much of US
Favors Bush/Cheney Impeachment: Poll
Special Note : A
quote...."WASHINGTON —
Nearly half of the US
public wants President George W. Bush to face impeachment, and even
more favor that fate for Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a
poll out Friday. - Impeach CheneyThe survey by the
American Research Group found that 45 percent support the US House of
Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Bush, with 46
percent opposed, and a 54-40 split in favor when it comes to Cheney. -
bold/italics by website author
And the
actual poll
- posted at
BuzzFlash
You think Prissy "take impeachment off the table" Pelosi cares? -mpg
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Senior
GOP Senator Abandons Iraq Policy
A quote...."ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -
Sen. Pete Domenici on
Thursday withdrew his support of President Bush's Iraq war policy and
embraced instead a proposal to bring home most troops by next
March. - The longtime New Mexico senator is the latest of
several Republican stalwarts who have abandoned Bush on Iraq in the
past 10 days, calling for a change sooner rather than later and further
isolating Bush in his attempt to defend the deeply unpopular
war." - bold/italics by website author
Protesters
Turn Lens on Mayor's Office Over NY Film Ban
"Video Journalists and Other Protesters Defiant at Bloomberg's Blatant
Attack on 1st Amendment"
A quote...."You can have my camera when you pry it out of my cold dead
hends." - see also....
NYC May
Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Filming and
Photography
A quote...."Some tourists, amateur photographers, even would-be
filmmakers hoping to make it big on YouTube could soon be forced to
obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance before
taking pictures or filming on city property, including sidewalks."
The wealthy elites and their "enforcers" don't like it when you film
what they do. One has to wonder why "it's two or more" people
that's to be restricted? Perhaps it's because they don't like to
have any witnesses around when they subject the sole "lone" cameraman
to their tender mercies? - mpg -
posted 06-29-07
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Pakistan's
mosque fire spreads
A quote...."KARACHI - Pakistani officials have denied television
reports that President General Pervez Musharraf's plane was shot at on
Friday as it took off from a military airfield in Rawalpindi, the
capital Islamabad's twin city. - It is strongly suspected
that the officials are covering up the incident. But what they can't
cover up is the turmoil that is spreading across the country in the
wake of the government's"
Turkish
government and military agree on Iraq incursion plans
A quote...."ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey's government and military have
agreed on detailed plans for a cross-border operation against Kurdish
rebels based in northern Iraq, the foreign minister said Friday.
- Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul urged the United States and Iraq,
which oppose a Turkish military move into Iraq, to crack down on rebels
of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. But he said Turkey was ready
to stage an offensive if necessary."
US
ran nuclear weapons exercises the week before Bush-Putin summit
A quote...."Shortly before the so-called 'Lobster Summit' between
President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in
Kennebunkport, Maine, the United States appears to have carried out a
significant nuclear weapons exercise, according to a report in Friday's
Washington Times."
Israel’s
Roaring Economy
Basically shows that Israel has now become part of the U.S.'s "ten year
cycle" of Keynesian military spending and the formally so-called
‘socialist’ economy has now become just an appendage of the U.S. /
Military Industrial Oil Complex.
Poor Israel, the people who lived over there used to be Jewish once
upon a time, now they've given up everything to become part of the New
Roman Empire. One would guess their new motto should be - ave, Caesar,
morituri te salutamus - hail, Caesar, we who are about to die salute
you.
So nice of you folks over there in Israel to join all of us here in
America - mpg
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Laura
Bush’s Candy Coated Bubble
A quote...."For Mrs. Bush they covered the mud on the walkway,
installed electrical outlets, a generator and fans, painted only the
entrance of the building, leaving everything she didn’t see in utter
squalor. Once Mrs. Bush left they removed the fans, furniture,
generator, even the electrical outlets from the walls."
a.k.a. Laura's Potemkin Village. - mpg
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It’s
Scalia Time!
A quote...."Thirty-three years ago, on assuming the presidency in the
wake of Richard Nixon’s resignation, Gerald Ford famously sought to
ease the worries of a troubled nation with these words: “My fellow
Americans, our long national nightmare is over”. - Today, I
am tempted to offer a warning, not a palliative: My fellow Americans,
our long national nightmare is just beginning."
Corporate
Crime Excised from the American Mainstream
A quote...."
On February 27, 2007, the Wall
Street Journal ran a story under the following headline:”Korean Court
Aids Push to Curb Corporate Crime.”
What is so unusual about this headline?
What is so unusual is that the term “corporate crime” is rarely used by
mainstream American newspapers in headlines.
It is rarely used in headlines.
It is rarely used in text.
It is rarely used.
Period.
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BUSH OUTLINES HIS SEVEN
STEPS FOR HIGHLY DEFECTIVE PEOPLE - posted at
BuzzFlash
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Thursday July 5th 2007
News
Flash: Chemical Weapon Terrorist Plot Thwarted in the UK!
Must Read - A
quote...."British
authorities thwarted a plot by UK-born extremists – including a medical
professional – to manufacture chemical bombs to be used in fomenting a
"civil war" between Muslims and Christians in the UK, the Guardian
reports, and the alleged perpetrators are now on trial. -
But why are
we telling you this? Surely, it's been splashed 24-7 across CNN and Fox
News. You have doubtless seen every detail of the conspiracy and its
nefarious plotters ricocheting around ABC, NBC and CBS...."
Editors note : Chris Floyd's web site appears to have gone down for the
moment....this post of his was re-linked to
Dandelion
Salad Friday 07-06-07 at 6:35 pm PST - mpg
Oil a
Factor in Australian Role in Iraq: Minister
Must Read - Some
quotes...."
Oil is
a key factor keeping Australian troops in the US-led war in Iraq,
Defence Minister Brendan Nelson said Thursday, before his boss Prime
Minister John Howard sharply contradicted him. - Nelson’s
startling comments caused an immediate stir in Australia, one of the
United States’ few major allies in the increasingly unpopular war, but
Howard quickly backed away from the explosive contention.
- A new defence review had concluded that maintaining “
resource security”
in the Middle East was a priority, Nelson said in an interview with the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
And...."Treasurer Peter Costello also joined in the denial that
Australian troops were primarily in Iraq to secure oil supplies.
- “We’re fighting for something much more important here than
oil, this is about
democracy
and freedom in the Middle East,” he told reporters. -
bold/italics by website author
So that's what they call it when you
break
into someone's home, bomb
their five year old kid,
murder
the granddad, make
everyone
else a
prisoner
and
steal
everything
not nailed down....it's called "
resource
security"
And you know what the best part of the whole thing is....we're
"helping" the Indians.....'scuse me.....we're helping the Indigenes by
bringing them "democracy and freedom"
Any of you other countries out there want some "democracy and
freedom"....how about you Venezuela, or you Kazakhstan....you look like
you could use some Nigeria. Anybody else out there want some of
our "help"?
Go ahead just raise your hand, all you need to get the ball rolling is
to start doing some business with any of our finest AngloAmerican
corporations. – mpg
Is
the Anglo-American empire losing the "Great Energy Game"?
A quote...."In a second successful bid to tap Kazakhstan’s oil, China’s
state owned CITIC Group has won approval from the Kazakhstani
government to buy the Karazhambas oil field"
What's wrong with these countries, don't they understand that if they
would just do some business with the U.S., this Nation could bring to
them that same wonderful "freedom and democracy" it brought to the
people of Iraq? The people in the Caspian Basin obviously just
don't understand what's good for them.
After all, Iraq is such a shining beacon of success to the entire
world, an object lesson to all nations everywhere of the tender care
the US and Britain have lavished on that country for the last fifteen
years that it's completely unfathomable why other governments aren't
rushing to open their doors to US and British oil companies.
It is completely inexplicable why some people simply can't grasp how
beneficial Thomas Friedman’s glorious concept of a "flattened world"
would be for them, as epitomized by cities like Fallujah, Najif and
other lovely garden spots in Iraq.
It makes one sad to realize just how ungrateful some people are.
- mpg -
posted 01-08-07
For more on this see....
White
Man's Burden - 12-20-06 - mpg
See also....
The
Plan --
according to U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.) YouTube - 1.37 min
See also....
The
Redirection
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Freedom,
Democracy, and Free
Enterprise?
Must Read - A
quote...."In 2002, the Bush administration’s National Security Strategy
of the United States famously declared that there was now “a single
sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free
enterprise.” Around the world, and at home, this claim finds ever fewer
takers. It is not hard to see why. - In the past few years,
the United States has launched a systematic assault on freedom, abroad
and at home, as part of the war on terror. The United States has
invaded and now occupies by force not one but two countries. This was
once considered to be the highest crime under international law. The
United States now sees it as legitimate to kidnap, imprison without
charge or trial, torture and murder people around the world."
So what's the problem? Everyone can now go into someone's home,
community, town or country and rape, kill and loot till you're
satisfied. Sounds like the perfect prescription for freedom - no
laws, no morality and no restraint.
Money and Power rules all.
This guy sounds like one of those wimpy old school liberals, he should
read
The
Wealthiest One Percent – The Spirit of Liberal Capitalism - 12-15-05
and the five sacred principles contained therein. All he'll have to do
is master them and he'll be a "winner" – mpg
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Record
big business donations flow into 2008 US presidential campaign coffers
Some quotes...."Each US presidential election cycle, for months before
a single primary vote is cast, the primary that counts is conducted
behind closed doors, largely out of sight of the public at large. In
the “money primary,” Democratic and Republican candidates tour the
country, speaking at extravagant private fundraising dinners, visiting
with lobbyists, and addressing meetings of company executives."
And...."The war chests of the two leading Democratic candidates far
exceed anything a presidential candidate has raised over the same
period in American history."
Welcome everybody, to the New Roman Empire. - mpg
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America's
21st century monarchy
Must Read - A
quote...."Bush's commutation of Libby's 30-month prison sentence for
four counts of perjury and obstruction of justice was as politically
necessary to hold his remaining hardcore base for the rest of his 18
months in office as it was politically damaging to his legacy and to
the possibility of a Republican succession. It was also essential in
order to sustain Libby's cover-up protecting Cheney and perhaps Bush
himself."
"The sole reason that Bush offers for the commutation - that Judge
Reggie Walton's sentence was "excessive" - is transparently false.
Indeed, the sentence meets the normal guidelines for such a crime. "The
sentence in this case was imposed pursuant to the laws governing
sentencings which occur every day throughout this country," said
Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor. "In this case, an
experienced federal judge considered extensive argument from the
parties and then imposed a sentence consistent with the applicable
laws." Nothing is irregular or extraordinary about the length of the
sentence, except the person receiving it"
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A
Farewell to Arms Control
A quote...."The reality was, and is, that nothing could have been done
to save UNMOVIC once Bush decided to activate his unilateral dream of
regional conquest in the Middle East. Having made international
law, and by extension the Security Council of the United Nations,
irrelevant to U.S. foreign policy objectives, there was no chance that
an organ of the Security Council—the weapons inspection process—could
continue to be seen as relevant. Truth be told, UNMOVIC was
always a red-headed stepchild in the world of disarmament
affairs. It was born of illegitimacy, derived from a political
need on the part of the United States to be seen as promoting
U.N.-mandated disarmament in Iraq even after orchestrating the demise
of UNMOVIC’s predecessor, UNSCOM. "
[More
Regarding] Sheiks on a plane
A quote...."Not only did the FBI deny that such a flight took place,
the Bureau went to great lengths to create an internal paper trail
buttressing the story that the flight never occurred. And yet
subsequent investigation by the 9/11 commission -- which did accomplish
some things -- proves that it did happen."
Globalist
Think Tanks Call For Balkanization Of Iraq
A quote...."A plan gaining traction in the Congress to separate Iraq
into three autonomous territories directly mirrors long term globalist
plans to "divide and conquer" in Iraq, an ongoing semi-covert project
which has involved the intentional stoking of sectarian violence by
occupying forces."
Must See....
Plans
for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East”
Check out Mr. Peter's idea of an independent Kurdistan, it consists
mainly of big chunks of Turkey and Iran. No doubt the governments
of both those countries are overjoyed by the idea. - mpg
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Fake
Terror and Instability in North Africa
A quote...."Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, the Philippines and Lebanon
aren’t the only fronts in the “global war on terror.” Although it
remains largely out of the public eye, the U.S. has also sought to open
up a north-African front in its fight against al-Qaeda, with equally
unappreciated consequences."
“Behavior-Detection”
Graduates from Airports to Bus and Train Stations
A quote...."In celebration of Independence Day commemorating the
adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, the feds
have increased the visibility of armed goons at train stations and bus
terminals across the country. “Officials from the Transportation
Security Administration, formed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks,
said the additional security is not a response to any specific threat
to any of the regions,” reports the Examiner. In other words, there are
no terrorists and you are not in danger. Since the Constitution is
nothing more than a “goddamned piece of paper,” according to the
decider-commander guy, it makes sense the government has decided to
roll out this in-your-face escalation—from airports to bus stations—on
the same day baby-kissing politicians blabber on about liberty,
freedom, equality under the law, inalienable rights, and representative
government, blah, blah, blah."
Sadr
bloc joins Sunnis in rejecting Iraq oil law
A quote...."BAGHDAD -- Followers of Iraqi Shiite cleric
Moqtada Al Sadr Thursday joined a growing chorus of Sunni Arab,
Kurdish, and Shiite opposition to a draft oil law backed by Washington.
"
When are you MIOC ghouls and wealthy elites in the U.S. going to give
it a rest?!? Why don't you just wrap your tiny pin heads around
this concept -
it's the Iraqis’oil
- it belongs to them, it does
NOT
belong to you or your rich
buddies no matter how many people you order to be killed for it.-
mpg
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Media
Silence About the Carnage in Iraq - Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month
A quote...."A state-of-the-art research study published in October 12,
2006 issue of The Lancet (the most prestigious British medical journal)
concluded that--as of a year ago--600,000 Iraqis had died violently due
to the war in Iraq. That is, the Iraqi death rate for the first 39
months of the war was just about 15,000 per month."
Net
closes on mosque - and Pakistan
A quote...."KARACHI - A fierce battle to seize Taliban and al-Qaeda
assets in Pakistan has begun from the capital Islamabad, where hundreds
of militants holed up in the radical Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) are
surrounded by 12,000 Pakistani troops."
Never
Wrong...No One Is Ever Wrong
A quote...."I have met a lot of people who are never wrong. They never
take back that which they spoke which proved to be either stupid, inane
or simply wrong. They waffle, redefine and deny, but they are never
wrong. These people are incapable of saying "oops," much less, "I'm
sorry," You find them everywhere. They might be a pastor, a politician,
a CEO or a President. They might be your mother- in-law, father-in-law,
dad, mom, brother or sister. Of course, it could be you, but you won't
notice that. One common thing they share is that they are NEVER wrong."
Fed
Up With War, Some Won't Pay Taxes
A quote...."When the United States invaded Iraq more than four years
ago, war opponent David Gross asked his bosses for a radical pay cut,
enough so he wouldn't have to pay taxes to support the war."
DON'T DO THAT!
You'd be fighting the I.R.S. which is a losing cause. -
Just get as much money as you can and never bank with, buy from, or
invest in
ANY American
corporation. Buy only (or as much as you can) from local
manufacturers, local farmers or foreign goods.
VOTE WITH YOUR DOLLARS take your
money out of any U.S. bank, and put it into foreign bonds, stocks or
savings accounts of any country whose government does a better job than
ours - i.e. one that doesn't go around murdering hundreds of
thousands of people to get some "booty and bling."
And never
EVER watch, listen
to, or buy any of the "products" produced by our "mass media" again.
-
mpg
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Constitution vs. Failed
Impeachment: Is it Worth it? - posted at
BuzzFlash
A quote...."Then the interviewer (a terrific interview, worth hearing)
Mike Stark said it isn’t about George Bush, “Respectfully, the question
is whether the Constitution is worth it.” And what was Speaker Pelosi’s
response?: “Well, yeah, the Constitution is worth it, if you can
succeed.” - “If you can succeed”? All expressions of
disbelief that Rrrandy knows are inadequate to this comment from the
top elected Democrat. “If you can succeed“? Meaning the Constitution is
not worth protecting if the impeachment and conviction process isn’t
finished? Similes abound showing how ridiculous and dangerous Pelosi’s
position is."
Russia
gives barons 'private army' rights
A quote...."RUSSIA'S Parliament has given two of the country's biggest
energy monopolies the right to form armed units to patrol oil and gas
pipelines, the country's economic lifeline."
On
tour with Chavez and Ahmadinejad
A quote...." In some ways the two men make an odd couple. President
Chavez is solid and bear-like, President Ahmadinejad several inches
smaller, and slighter of build. - Ideologically also: Hugo
Chavez is a committed socialist, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a fervent believer
in the Islamic principles that rule Iran."
Media
Mogul Learns to Live With Chávez
A quote...."CARACAS, Venezuela, July 4 — Three years ago, the media
mogul Gustavo A. Cisneros was a leader of Venezuela’s opposition and
his television network, Venevisión, regularly lambasted
President Hugo Chávez."
No Cold
War if U.S. keeps out of Europe, vows Russia's Ivanov
A quote...."TASHKENT, July 4 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's deputy prime
minister said Wednesday the media could "forget the term Cold War" if
the U.S. agreed to Russia's latest missile defense proposal to use a
base in Russia instead of Central Europe."
Oversight
committee to probe embassy construction in Baghdad
A quote...."Amid reports of escalating trouble in the construction of
the new US Embassy in Baghdad, the House Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform announced that it would investigate the project to
build what will be America's largest overseas diplomatic post."
Specter
Pushes Bill to Rein In Presidential Signing Statements
A quote...."Frustrated by the Bush administration's continued use of
presidential signing statements to challenge or ignore provisions of
Congressionally approved legislation, Senate Judiciary ranking member
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has reintroduced legislation to rein in President
Bush's ability to use the tactic."
Number eight (#8) on the list of
Thirty
Two Acts to Restore Americans' Rights -11-10-06 - mpg
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Judge
lifts injunction on 'DC madam' phone records
A quote...."A judge in the US district court in Washington, D.C. has
lifted the temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing the so-called
'DC madam,' Deborah Jeane Palfrey, from selling or distributing the
list of phone records from her escort business"
Wednesday July 4th 2007
Keith Olbermann Special Comment - "Bush
& Cheney Resign Now!" - (YouTube 10m7s 070307) @
ICH
Must View - This is the toughest
Olbermann broadside against the Bush Cabal this website author has ever
seen. -- Click
here for
a
Transcript &
check out the comments!! - mpg
One comment in particular stood out....
My-o-my-o-my.
What have they done?
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Kissing
up to K Street
A quote...."Democrats are selling out the economic populism that got
them elected in the first place"
See also....
Democrats
Nearly Erase GOP Money Edge
A quote...."WASHINGTON — National Democrats have nearly eliminated the
fundraising advantage that their Republican rivals have had since
campaign finance laws were changed five years ago."
The TRUEST measure of
the DemoRepub's
success, they're now collecting almost as many bribes as the
RepubDemos. - mpg --
posted 05-20-07
The
DemoRepubs are busy
kissing the nether regions of the wealthy in this country, while
leaving undone the
Thirty
Two Acts to Restore Americans' Rights - 11-10-06 - mpg
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The freeing of Lewis Libby: Government
criminality and the class nature of American “justice”
Must Read - A
quote...."It was clear from the outset that the drive to silence Wilson
came from Cheney and the White House itself. In the opening stages of
the trial, Libby’s lawyer portrayed his client as a “fall guy” for
higher-ups, a characterization the jury apparently found apt. It was
revealed after the trial that while convicting Libby, jurors openly
questioned why others—including key Bush aide Karl Rove—were not also
on trial."
"Then, in an unanticipated turn of events, the defense abruptly rested
its case without calling Cheney, Rove or Libby himself to the witness
stand. It was clear that Libby and his lawyers had decided virtually to
concede guilt rather than pursue the line of defense they had laid out
at the trial’s opening. - It was more than an educated
guess, widely discussed in the media at the time, that Libby had been
given assurances that Bush would intervene to prevent him spending any
time in prison."
Or how it all went down with the "home boys" in the White House. - mpg
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The
Militarization of American Youth
A quote...."Across the country, the U.S. military is failing to meet
its recruitment goals. To address this problem, the Pentagon has been
rapidly expanding its programs designed to entice young people to
enlist. It is now spending $3.4 billion dollars annually, an average of
$14,000 per new recruit. Using flashy marketing campaigns, television
spots, and even developing its own videogames, the Army is bombarding
young people with images that glorify guns and violence. Recruiters use
elaborate PR strategies: they set up shop at malls, movie theaters,
sporting events, and concerts, and they cruise around town in
decked-out Humvees that blast music popular among teenagers."
"And they
cruise around town in decked-out Humvees that blast music popular among
teenagers" Shouldn't they be cruising around for the
"young meat" to "service" our wealthy elites in decked out gold
Cadillacs with faux-leopard
upholstery, sporting fedoras and wearing fur coats, after all they do
call it one of the oldest professions in the world....or perhaps I'm
confusing their activities with something else? - mpg
See also....
War
is a Racket
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The Probable
Collapse Sequence of NIST
A quote...."Nearly six years after its collapse, the public has yet to
be told how a 47-story building that was not struck by an airplane,
that had only marginal fires burning in it between the 6th and 13th
floor, that experienced significantly less damage than WTC5 and WTC6
from falling debris that resulted when the twin towers collapsed,
nearly six years later and NIST still cannot explain in any believable
terminology how or why this building collapsed. Fletcher refers
to the complexity – tangled webs would have been a more forthcoming
choice of words. At this point, only efforts to distract and
deceive can explain this lack of final conclusions."
Patrick
Henry: Give me Liberty or Give Me Death
A quote...."There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be
free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for
which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon
the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we
have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of
our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must
fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left
us!"
"They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable
an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week,
or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a
British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather
strength but irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of
effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the
delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand
and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means
which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of
people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as
that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can
send against us....."
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Pakistan’s
Military-Corporate Empire
A quote...."Since independence, Pakistan’s military leaders were seen
as nonpolitical fix-it men, who launched coups to clean up the messes
left by failed civilian governments. But “the military under Musharraf
… has truly changed its character,” says Ayesha Siddiqa, an author and
military critic whose book, “Military Inc.,” published in May, marks
the first thorough investigation into the extent of the military’s
penetration into Pakistan’s economy and civil society. -
“The military has become a ruling class and has ceased to be an
arbiter,” she says."
It all sounds so familiar. - mpg
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Venezuela
to sell gasoline to Iran
A quote...."TEHRAN, Iran -- Venezuela has agreed to sell gasoline to
Iran, the South American county's energy minister said in comments
published Tuesday, a week after the Islamic country imposed a fuel
rationing program that has sparked violence.
Syria
says ready for unconditional talks with Israel
A quote...."DAMASCUS -- Syrian foreign minister Walid
Muallem said Tuesday that Damascus is ready to resume unconditional
peace talks with Israel, at a press conference with his Danish
counterpart, Per Stig Moeller. - "We engaged in
negotiations with Israel for 10 years," Muallem said. "Syria is ready
to resume these in accordance with what has been achieved" during
previous Syrian-Israeli talks, which have been stalled since January
2000."
Belarus
blasts U.S. shield, vows to work with Russia
A quote...."MINSK (Reuters) - President Alexander Lukashenko said on
Tuesday Belarus would disregard its economic rows with Russia and work
closer with Moscow to counter U.S. plans to erect an anti-missile
system in eastern Europe."
US
jails female Colombian rebel
A quote...."A former Colombian guerrilla commander extradited to the
United States has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for
drug trafficking."
Saudi
Takeover of GE Plastics Flies Under Radar
A quote...."The announcement on May 21, 2007 that the largest public
company in the Middle East, by market value, would be acquiring a
division of the world’s second-largest corporation, by market value,
and based in the United States, could not have been any less
publicized. But in the world of corporate governance, the largest
transaction ever completed in the Persian Gulf, seemingly trumps all
laws of reason."
Actually this take-over makes perfect sense. You know -- oil =
petrochemicals = plastics. The Saudis not only want to pump it, they
want to change it, alter it, make it, mold it, sell it and ship it.
It's called vertical integration and it's allot more profitable than
just selling a commodity - mpg
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FORGET
IMPEACHMENT; LET’S ‘COMMUTE’ BUSH’S TERM - posted at
BuzzFlash
Tuesday July 3rd 2007
Superpower?
Really?
A quote...."We're still important, a big economy, a player. We're still
dangerous, with all our bombs and missiles. But we won't be fighting
another ground war anytime soon, and everybody knows it. Financially
and militarily, we're no superpower anymore – though no presidential
candidate can say that. Whether we recede from center stage gracefully
or destructively, we'll recede. We already have. It doesn't look that
way on TV, but we already have."
The
Rising and Falling Power of Hydrocarbon States
A quote...."LONDON: The fast rising demand for oil by China and India,
sharply declining fresh discoveries, and high prices are empowering the
countries with large reserves of black gold as never before. Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez provides a striking example of how petroleum has
emboldened leaders of oil-rich states to thumb their noses at the giant
neighbor in the north - the US."
Sheiks On A
Plane - FBI Docs Expose Nantomy of a Cover-Up
A quote...."The MadCowMorningNews has obtained the first photo ever
published (at right) of the never-before-seen Learjet that flew the
so-called Saudi “phantom flight” from Tampa Florida... a flight FBI and
Bush Administration officials for more than three years denied ever
took place."
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9/11 - From The History File...Cheney
Claims No Knowledge That WH Helped Evacuate Bin Laden Family...
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A
Declaration of Independence From Israel
A quote...."Israel has reaped tremendous rewards from this
alliance. It has been given more than $140 billion in U.S. direct
economic and military assistance. It receives about $3 billion in
direct assistance annually, roughly one-fifth of the U.S. foreign aid
budget. Although most American foreign aid packages stipulate
that related military purchases have to be made in the United States,
Israel is allowed to use about 25 percent of the money to subsidize its
own growing and profitable defense industry. "
The
Peril of the West’s Hamas Error
A quote...."Hamas represents the moderate current in Islamism that
advocates for democracy and electoral politics. The alternative — which
the West is effectively chosing – is violent nihilism"
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Sunni
politician calls for U.N. and Arab intervention to solve Iraq crisis
A quote...."BAGHDAD: A Sunni legislator who says he's joining the
"resistance" called Sunday for Arab and international intervention to
rebuild Iraq's political system from scratch. -
Abdul-Nasser al-Janabi said he made a mistake when he decided to run
for parliament in 2005. He spoke to The Associated Press in Jordan,
where he announced this weekend that he was quitting parliament to
support the insurgency."
Iraqi
oil bill heads to parliament
A quote...."BAGHDAD --The Iraqi Cabinet signed off Tuesday on a revised
bill to regulate the country's oil industry and sent it to parliament -
a major step in reaching a long-delayed benchmark sought by the U.S. to
promote reconciliation between Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites. -
Within hours of the announcement, however, the legislation hit a snag -
the Kurds said they had neither seen nor approved the final text and
might oppose it."
Iraq
draws up plans for privatisation gold rush
A quote...."The Iraqi government has begun preparing the groundwork for
what could be one of the biggest privatisations of state-owned
assets. - The Sunday Telegraph has learned that officials
from the government have recently held talks with banking and legal
advisers in London. City sources said Iraq's minister for industry,
Fawzi Hariri, was looking to appoint advisers to draw up a memorandum
of understanding to sell off the country's non-oil assets, ranging from
petrochemical plants to construction companies, hotels and airlines, as
early as this month.
For more on the three articles shown above see....
Viral
Neocons
- 05-26-05 - mpg
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US
Airstrike Leaves Over100 Dead In Afghanistan
A quote...."Late in the day on June 29, more than a hundred people were
killed in a massive US-led airstrike on the village of Hyderabad,
located in the Grishk district of the southern province of Helmand in
Afghanistan. According to Dur Ali Shah, the mayor of the district, at
least 107 people were killed in the attack, which can only be described
as a massacre."
The
Bush Legacy: One Nation Destroyed; Another Betrayed
A quote...."A war that many thought would last but a few weeks is now
in its fifth year. In that time two nations have been laid waste to.
Iraq from without. The US from within. The people of the US, meanwhile,
are under attack by their own "President", an ambitious mediocrity
obsessed with "religio-psychotic" visions of vainglorious conquest for
Jesus and Exxon-Mobil."
The Killing
Machine
Must Read - A
quote...."Sunday is a good day to read something that would appear to
be science fiction. - It was announced that the CIA would
be declassifying hundreds of pages on illegal actions that included
plans to eliminate the leaders of foreign governments. Suddenly the
publication is halted and it is delayed one day. No coherent
explanation was given. Perhaps someone in the White House looked over
the material."
The
Approaching Prisoner Exchange - The Edginess of Lebanon
A quote...."This observer is not sure what to make of, for example, the
snide jokes and rumors that Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Sinioiri is
not being allowed to leave his Serail compound office without the
permission of US Ambassador Feltman, or that Feltman has to issue a
'hall pass' if Siniori wants to use the men's room, or that Siniori's
personal phone is answered at the US Embassy. Or that the Embassy is
using Lebanon's General Security agency to monitor journalists and
pro-Palestinian and pro-Lebanese Americans, even supplying General
Security with files complete with transcriptions of phone conversations
which took place in America with US NGO's and Pro-Palestinian groups
during the early days of the July War."
Iran,
Venezuela to establish joint oil company
A quote...."Tehran, July 2, IRNA - Visiting Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez said on Monday that Iran and Venezuela have agreed to establish
a joint oil company."
It’s
the NAM of the game
A quote...."Like all things under the sun, the Non-Aligned Movement
(NAM) had its time and its context. Considering that Jawaharlal Nehru
was the one who coined the term ‘non-alignment’ in 1954, with India
playing a major role in the movement’s development, we should know the
value it once had as a viable strategy in a world inhabited by two
rival superpowers. By the 1960s, non-alignment had become a euphemism
for a subtle ‘partnership’ with the Soviet Union. By the time the
Soviet Union and the Cold War disappeared, NAM was left up the creek
without a paddle. All this the Indian government knows and in the
changed scenario, New Delhi has shown less enthusiasm about
non-alignment — in the post-Cold War sense of playing David to
America’s Goliath — than a card-carrying NAM member-State would be
expected to."
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Detention
Camp? Concentration Camp?
A quote...."New Zealand claims to be prepared for a ‘Bird Flu’
pandemic. This preparation seems to include quarantine facilities for
citizens. - This short documentary shows a previously
unused General Motors automotive factory which has been fitted with ten
foot high electrified fences, a newly painted administration block, an
unmarked bus depot, and large electrified gates. It is estimated that
this particular facility could contain up to 5000 people. This is a
worrying scenario if you already have a healthy mistrust of your
government."
See also....
Homeland
Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps
See also....
The
civilian
labor program - PDF
See also....
Bush's
Mysterious 'New Programs'
For more on this see also....
White
Man's Burden - 12-20-06 - mpg
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Bomb
plotters 'were known to police and MI5'
A quote...."Security experts have tonight disclosed that some of the
men arrested after the London and Glasgow terror attacks were known to
the police and MI5 beforehand. - Professor Anthony Glees, of the
Brunel Centre for Intelligence and Security, told Channel 4 News: "My
understanding is at least one of these people was on the list of 1,600
identified people."
BBC
reporter Alan Johnston freed in Gaza
A quote...."Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza
Strip since March, was handed over to Hamas officials by his Islamist
captors early this morning. - The 45-year-old Briton was
taken to the
offices of the disputed Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, in Gaza
City. A witness said he was well, but had lost a lot of weight."
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Bush
presidency enters terminal phase
A quote...."WASHINGTON - There may be moments during their summit at
his family's compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, when President George W
Bush may look with envy on his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin,
whose popularity at home guarantees him vast influence even as he
prepares to leave office just nine months from now. - Not
so for
Bush, whose public approval ratings, according to polls released in
just the past week, have reached all-time lows and whose influence -
even over his own party - appears to be declining at warp speed."
David
Shuster Breaks Down the Scooter Libby Debacle - (YouTube - 6 min 21
sec - Added: July 02, 2007)
A
quote...."The best journalist in D.C. tells Countdown's Keith Olbermann
the succinct scoop on the sudden announcement this afternoon by
President Bush that he was commuting the 30 month jail sentence of the
Vice-President's top aide: I.Lewis "Scooter" Libby for obstructing
justice and lying to the F.B.I. ...."
Commuting
Scooter: Laws Don't Apply to the Privileged Class
A quote...."Scooter Libby received his 'get out of jail free card' from
Mister Bush. On the same day another disgraced Neoconservative, Paul
Wolfowitz, who had used his position at World Bank to enrich his
girlfriend, found a new job at the Republican-Corporate think tank, The
American Enterprise Institute. Indeed, it was a great day for
Neoconservative criminals."
Libby
was the Small Fish - Bush really Commuted the Sentences of Rove and
Cheney
A quote...."George H. W. Bush called those who leak the names of CIA
operatives "the most insidious of traitors." - In his son's
administration, CIA covert operative Valerie Plame's name was leaked to
the press to punish her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, for
having blown the whistle on how the White House depended on fraudulent
information about Iraq buying yellowcake uranium from Niger.
The Reason is
Treason
A quote...."I don’t want to beat a dead horse, but I believe that the
Mainstream Media is completely missing the point on the “Scooter” Libby
sentence commutation. The problem here isn’t a moral problem. There
really is nothing immoral about a President commuting a sentence, but
in this case, maybe. The problem that I see however is more legal than
moral. The reason I say this is because you have a man that was a paid
aide to the Vice-President, working for the executive branch, that is
hiding the name of the individual or individuals that decided to leak
the name of a CIA operative. Is this a conflict of interest problem or
am I missing the boat?"
Justice
Department Official Deleted E-Mail Related to Attorney Firings
A quote...."An internal Department of Justice email dealing with a
series of the most controversial aspects of the US attorney firing
scandal was deleted by a DOJ official the day after Congress began to
address the firings. Three months later, the official told
Congressional investigators he had not destroyed any documents or
deleted any records relating to the US attorney firings."
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Injustice
in Jena: The ‘White Tree’, A White Judge, White Jury, and White
Prosecutor Calling White Witnesses Leads To Conviction of Black Youth
-- A quote...."In a small still mostly segregated section of
rural Louisiana, an all white jury heard a series of white witnesses
called by a white prosecutor testify in a courtroom overseen by a white
judge in a trial of a fight at the local high school where a white
student who had been making racial taunts was hit by black students.
The fight was the culmination of a series of racial incidents starting
when whites responded to black students sitting under the “white tree”
at their school by hanging three nooses from the tree. The white jury
and white prosecutor and all white supporters of the white victim were
all on one side of the courtroom. The black defendant, 17 year old
Mychal Bell, and his supporters were on the other. The jury quickly
convicted Mychal Bell of two felonies - aggravated battery and
conspiracy to commit aggravated battery. Bell, who was a 16 year old
sophomore football star at the time he was arrested, faces up to 22
years in prison. Five other black youths await similar trials on
attempted second degree murder and conspiracy charges.
Genetically
engineered rice gets into the U.S. food supply Attack
Must Read - A
quote...."Garrett's rice was genetically modified, part of an
experiment that was brought to an abrupt halt by its sponsor, a North
Carolina-based biotechnology company called Aventis Crop Science. The
company had contracted with a handful of farmers to grow the rice,
which was known as Liberty Link because its genes had been altered to
resist a weed killer called Liberty, also made by Aventis."
Once you modify a self propagating organism, it will spread beyond your
control....always. - mpg
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