Saterday September 30th 2006

Friday September 29th 2006

Rushing Off a Cliff
Finally the New York Times gets it right.

Failures of Imagination
And this is where they and the rest of America's "mass media" got it wrong.

Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006)
More on the death of Habeas Corpus.

We were all warned by the thousands of people who refused to be blinded by the mis-information, dis-information and most importantly the omission of information as reported by our "mass media".   The Neocons had planned this takeover more then a decade ago, their intentions and strategies have been publicly available on the web for years.  Many Americans, the one's who had chosen to remain blind, have no one else to blame but themselves for the coming tragedy.

Wednesday September 27th 2006

Firm That Paid Iraq Papers Gets New Deal
The Lincoln Group gets paid for more propaganda.  See also "fakeintell weblist"

Last Call For 2006 "October Surprise" Bets!
This author's forecast (MPG's) probable attack on Iran, 3 to 1 in favor.

......More on the October Suprise - update 09-29-06 -  Would the Capture of Osama bin Laden Mean Victory in the War on Terror?  There's also Bush's recent meeting with Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf, maybe Musharraf had to through Bush a bone.... or a bin Laden?  This authors (MPG's) odds of a bin Laden capture or kill (read unfrozen), 20 to 1 against.

Daily Dose of Durst.
September 27, 2006  --  "George Bush has declassified portions of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. The portions that make the Administration look good. All three words."

September 21, 2006 -- "Hugo Chavez called the President “the devil” at the UN, which is ridiculous. Bush is not the devil. Cheney is."

September 8, 2006  --  "White House spokesman Tony Snow rejected the Dems' proposal to fire Donald Rumsfeld, saying that portraying Rumsfeld as a bogeyman may make good politics but makes for lousy strategy. And if anyone is experienced in identifying lousy strategies, it's the White House."

September 5, 2006  --  "Afghanistan's opium harvest is set to increase by nearly 60 percent this year, 30 percent above world demand. So who says there’s no good news in the war on terrorism?"

August 1, 2006 -- "The reason Democrats are so intent on passing the stem cell bill is they’re depending on the research to help them grow a spine."
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Tuesday September 26th 2006

Monday September 25th 2006

    
Iran: War drums and peace pipes
Jim Lobe offers two contrasting viewpoints on the chances of an atttack on Iran.

 Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short
After we attack Iran the costs will increase dramatically.

Rumsfeld favors US military command for Africa
Yes, the costs caused by the Neocons' demented policies just keep going up - more blood and treasure for the Empire.
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Four articles about the Chevez speech.

The Devil and Mr. Bush
More analysis on the Chevez speech

Quote...."For sure, the speech was far from a model of diplomatic rhetoric. But that didn't seem to bother the scores of experienced delegate-diplomats in the hall, who greeted Chávez's speech with wild applause. (When Bush spoke the day before, the General Assembly's hall sounded like a morgue.) That reaction, as an incisive Washington Post article points out, shows that Chávez's words, while "harsh...in many ways...merely expressed in bolder terms what a number of other world leaders and foreign diplomats believe." Moreover, to be fair, how much diplomatic tact does Chávez owe to a President whose administration supported a coup against him?"

The Sound & The Fury
More Chevez - Time interview 09/24/06

Democrats defend “our president” against international criticism
Quote..."The pretense that the Democratic Party represents some sort of opposition to the Bush administration was punctured again last week when leading Democrats vociferously condemned the anti-Bush speech given by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to the United Nations General Assembly."

Anger at US Policies More Strident at UN
Quote..."United Nations - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grabbed headlines last week by blasting U.S. policies from the dais of the U.N. General Assembly. But while their words were harsh, in many ways they merely expressed in bolder terms what a number of other world leaders and foreign diplomats believe."
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Juan Cole on Civil War in Iraq
Video 256k & 128k real player & rush transcript
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THE SILENT PARTY
Quote says it all...."You worthless passel of cowards. They're laughing at you. You know that, right?

"The national Democratic Party is no longer worth the cement needed to sink it to the bottom of the sea. For an entire week, it allowed a debate on changing the soul of the country to be conducted intramurally between the Torture Porn and Useful Idiot wings of the Republican Party, the latter best exemplified by John McCain, who keeps fashioning his apparently fathomless ambition into a pair of clown shoes with which he can do the monkey dance across the national stage. They're laughing at him, too."

"The New York Times has the right of it here, limning the pathetic gullibility at the heart of the "compromise." There is nothing in this bill that President Thumbscrews can't ignore. There is nothing in this bill that reins in his feckless and dangerous reinterpretation of the powers of his office. There is nothing in this bill that requires him to take it -- or its congressional authors -- seriously."

Amen!  MPG
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The five pillars of the U.S. military-industrial complex
The "New Pearl Harbor", PNAC,  perpetual war and the Military-Industrial-Oil-Complex.
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Omar Role in Truce Reinforces Fears That Pakistan "Caved In" to Taliban
Bush hosts Musharraf and Musharraf hosts the Taliban, it's all very symmetrical when you think about it...sort of triangular.
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Sunday September 24th 2006

Saterday September 23rd 2006

Keith Olbermann: Mr. Bush owes US an Apology - youtube
Only one item.... this must see video.

Click here for the transcript.

Russia sets the pace in energy race
A good article on why the Neocon's did what they did.

In the article the author states the U.S. recently suggested to China that the two countries get together and develop a common strategy for energy security. The Chinese are marvelous, restrained, and subtle negotiators, this was obviously demonstrated by the fact they didn't immediately fall down and roll around on the ground laughing themselves to death.

It has been abundantly established by myriads of authors that the fortuitous arrangement of 9/11 and subsequent invasion of the entire Middle East and Caspian basin regions by the Neocons was designed to accomplish two objectives.

One was the continued dismemberment and humiliation of Russia, the second was the attempt to control the world's oil supplies, primarily to contain the perceived threat of a powerful and growing China.

The Neocon's have not given up on this ambitious agenda.
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Ending the dollar's tyranny
Quote. ...."The U.S. dollar is the very heart of the empire. It’s the cornerstone upon which the military, the media and the political establishment rests."

The Heart of “Terror”
A plea for the World to unite and face a common foe.

 An "Espionage Powerhouse" in the Shadow of Telecom Italia
Quote...."Carlo de Benedetti, Calisto Tanzi, Diego Della Valle, the Benetton family ... Practically the whole Italian economic "who's who" was being monitored, as well as a few politicians, journalists, and sports personalities. At the end of two years of investigation, the Milan court ordered the arrest of 21 people, including several former managers at Telecom Italia. "In the shadow" of the country's main telecommunications group, "an espionage powerhouse without precedent in the history of our country was born," worried the the daily paper La Repubblica's director, Ezio Mauro, in an editorial yesterday entitled "Attack Against Democracy."

Hey...maybe we should hire the Italians to enforce our laws?
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NSA Whistle-blower Says He Has Lost His Livelihood
The Bush motto..."may no good deed go unpunished."

Bush Shields Dad on Chile Terrorism
The Bush motto...."may no bad deed go unrewarded."

Maverick Senators Cave in to The Torture President
The Bush motto...."and we likes'm bad deeds....yep, we really, really do."

$70B OK'd for Iraq and Afghan war funds
"WASHINGTON - House-Senate negotiators Thursday approved a new $70 billion infusion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as they wrapped up talks on a $447 billion Pentagon funding bill."

My, my, my....aren't we all having a grand party.  Just wait till tomorrow comes when the hangover hits.
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It's the Manipulated Economy, Stupid
Bush to Saudis/Big Oil....."thank you, thank you, thank you......"
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Thursday September 21st 2006

The Tidal Wave Heading Straight For the Hall of Mirrors
Quote....."There are times every now and again where you just have to step back and behold the absurdity of it all. You have to step back from the day-to-day trench wars and just marvel at how entrenched power really is in this, the country where we still cling to Horatio Alger fables or "anyone can grow up to be president" myths. What I find particularly fascinating is the intricacy and careful calibration of the propaganda system that holds this whole structure up."

Bush Rages: “I am not Beelzebub, Lord of Sulfur”
No he certianly isn't, he's just the lackey of the Nameless One's powerful elites.

Go to to the article above to see Chavez's speech at the U.N. and his press conference.
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As If Bush Owned The World
First Americans were utterly blind, then they were abysmally stupid, a year ago they were in total denial, now they are completely culpable.  As Conservatives were so fond of saying until quite recently, "it's Liberal societies that fail to teach responsibility for one's own actions."   Well this hasn't been a liberal society for years, so no more excuses, no more complaints, no more playacting, no more chances.

The phrase "I didn't know" won't work anymore, there isn't a drop of "plausible deniability" left,  the well of credulity is barren and dry as bone. No matter what American's say "they believe in" when taking polls, no matter what they pretend "to know or not know" when answering questions, they’re childish excuses are as hollow as their rhetoric and from now on they’re responsible for what happens .......period - MPG
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Control the Dictionary, Control the World
Quote...."Bush, with a straight face, tells us that he has never authorized torture, and he thinks he can get away with that lie because the public is mostly unaware that his administration has totally altered the definition of "torture."

"According to the infamous 2002 torture memos, which effectively set the policy, torture no longer means what we all understand that term to mean (physical beatings, shoving suspects under water to "drown" them unless they give up secrets, electric shocks to the genitals, unbearable stress, sexual abuse and humiliation, etc.). No, those internationally-understood definitions have become, under Bush&Co., "quaint" remnants from an earlier era."
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Bush Closes EPA Libraries Without Approval from Congress; Will Gut Research and Cost Millions. Why Does He Hate Science?
This is so typical of Bush and this whole country.

A Clarifying Moment
Part of the article......"But, as I wondered aloud on my radio show this week, maybe this question isn't about Bush. Maybe it's about us. Maybe a country that has tolerated so much dehumanizing drivel for so long in its popular culture really has lost a sense of what an outrage upon human dignity looks like. Maybe a steady diet of "reality" shows focussed on humliation, hit records featuring the glamorization of gangsters and the fantasized subjugation of women, and movies featuring the sexualization of violence--along with corporate management techniques devised by the same computers that designed the office parks they're deployed in--maybe all of this has made us a little bewildered about something as "quaint", to use Alberto Gonzalez' description of Geneva provisions, as human dignity."

"Maybe we really did get the President we deserve."

You should also check out the comments.  Some people out there are very, very, angry.....right on!
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Pinch Me
Just think of all Republicans as a bunch of manic Nurse Mildred Ratcheds in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."   Busily running around the world gleefully "helping" everyone by giving them electric "shock therapy", while the rest of America remains in a drooling, stupefied, thorazine, "mass media", induced coma.

Not a pretty picture...is it?
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 "We Do Not Need Attacks"
"Exclusive: [TIME interview] On the eve of a visit to the U.S., Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks to TIME's Scott MacLeod about debating President Bush, pursuing nuclear energy and denying the Holocaust"

The Empty Vessel
From the FRONT PAGE.
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Zarqawi had foes within al Qaeda
Even the people that worked with Zarqawi found his methods repugnant, that's because he was an American stooge.  See "They Got That Horrible Monster"
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H.P. Said to Have Studied Infiltrating Newsrooms
It's said that rot starts from the top down in a company......or a country, or as the Sicilians would say 'the fish stinks from the head'.

Boulder scientist has grim drought forecast for West
"Expert says some could be worse than Dust Bowl" , or as Bushy would say "we could live with it."
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Are we Safer in the Dark
An animated look behind the curtain of Government secrecy

Live from the Oval Office
An animated look behind the curtain of Bush and his lies.

The Crisis of Multilateralism
About the decline and fall of the I.M.F and World Bank.

Quote......"A bloc of about 50 developing countries objects to the proposed GDP-based formula. These countries see the move as dividing developing countries while producing only one real winner: the United States, which would increase its voting power under the new system. The second initiative has generated opposition for attempting to get the Fund to do Washington's dirty work of pressuring China to revalue its currency to reduce the massive U.S. trade deficit with Beijing."

"These troubles are the latest in a string of crises to plague the two agencies, also known as the “Bretton Woods institutions” after the site of the July 1944 conference where they were founded. The Fund, in particular, is in a state of demoralization. “Ten years ago, the IMF was flying high, arrogant in its belief that it knew what was the best for developing countries,” notes one civil society policy paper. “Today, it is an institution under siege, hiding behind its four walls in Washington, DC, unable to mount an effective response to its growing numbers of critics.”

Good luck to the fifty countries.... If you guys no longer want to deal with the predatory lending practices and immoral mercantilist policies of the IMF. or World Bank, you should just go out and start your own lending institution.  You all have the skills, discipline and resources to do so.

Just make absolutely sure you don't let the U.S. in, or more importantly let the U.S. borrow any money.  If you do you'll never see a dime of it again.

see also...."Till Debt Do Us Part: Lessons from Argentina’s Experience with the IMF, Debt, and Financial Crises" for why many countries don't want to do business with the IMF or World Bank.

see also.... World Bank/IMF Watch - meta link
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Bush on Democracy: Government by the People for the People -- So Long as They're the Right People
Yep that's right, and if they aren't the right people you just go and bomb the mother loving heck out'ol them!

Jürgen Elsässer: “The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists” 
Book review...."In his latest book, “How the Jihad Came to Europe”, German journalist Jürgen Elsässer unravels the Jihadist thread. Muslim fighters recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan were used successively in Yugoslavia and Chechnya, still supported by the CIA, but perhaps sometimes out of its control"
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The Anglo-American empire’s 9/11 atrocity: criminality’s zenith
Just remember, it's all a "coincidence."
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Gen. says U.S. may boost forces in Iraq
What's wrong with this general?  It's the craziest thing anyone's ever heard..... not their intentions of sending more cannon fodder to Iraq of course.  No that’s not what's crazy, what's crazy is the General announcing this before the upcoming November elections.  Doesn’t the guy care about his career???  Didn't he talk to Karl Rove before he opened his mouth?  They have to be losing it over there in D.C.

KILL THE MESSENGER
"A Documentary on State Secrets Privilege & U.S. Whistleblowers"

Monday September 18th 2006

IAF source: Poor intelligence hurt fight against Katyushas
From the article..............

"MI knew about Hezbollah kidnap plans"

"Military Intelligence had clear information about an impending kidnap attempt by Hezbollah shortly before the Lebanese group carried out its cross-border raid on July 12, according to an internal inquiry conducted by the Israel Defense Forces."

"The information - which could, if properly handled, have prevented the kidnapping of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser - was not analyzed and passed on to the troops in time, the report indicated."

"The IDF Spokesman's Office refused to either confirm or deny the report, saying that the issue is still being investigated by Military Intelligence (MI) and the Northern Command."

Oh no......say it ain't so Joe!  So they have "fortuitous" events in Israel just like we do in the U.S., my goodness it really is a small world after all!

Well at least they're investigating it...... maybe they should also investigate what happened to Sharon, hmmmmmm?

This is number Eleven on the "abysmally stupid" blog (soon to be renamed "America in Denial" and eventually "The American Enablers").  Number eleven won't be fully changed/removed until this little tid bit is confirmed.  We shall see.

Sunday September 17th 2006

Nov. Election is Next Gulf of Tonkin
A quote...."To the wealthiest 500 Democrats in the land: we the people of the United States are issuing a rally cry for you to join us, and any one of you has the power, by standing with us, to change the course of history."

This is a really, really good article however.......

A plea for help from the "Wealthy Democrats" (now there's a contradiction)........ are you kidding, they're already helping out, they're helping the Republicans win the upcoming election!

The moment the Supreme Court, the Court which gave the presidential office to the Republican party also stated that money is equal to free speech - that's the moment when democracy died in this country.

Given the circumstances that the Court has imposed upon us all, the question everyone should ask themselves is, are you a good "three fifths" to your southern master or are you a good "client" of your Roman patron?

You shouldn't have to think about it to much, presently most of you are one or the other.

We've become the dying, decadent, degenerate New Republic of Rome. It's as simple as that.
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On the Strange Death of Liberal America
It's not strange at all, all the liberals simply went and sold themselves.

Terrorist democracy?
Or the New Roman Crime Syndicate, take your pick.

Saterday September 16th 2006

Media Ownership Study Ordered Destroyed
Imagine..... Bushy & Co. destroying an "FCC draft [which] suggested fewer owners would hurt local TV coverage."
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CIA Learned in '02 That Bin Laden Had No Iraq Ties, Report Says
Here's another story about a "destroyed” report.

This Washington Post story goes all over the place.

First the story states that the CIA report was "apparently not passed on to the White House or senior Bush policymakers."  Then the story goes on to state "Nothing was withheld from the White House," one former aide said, although there was "a lot of debate inside the agency about the Saddam-al-Qaeda relationship" because it was the focus of repeated questions from administration officials, including Vice President Cheney and his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby"

Obviously if it was "the focus of repeated questions from administration officials" they passed it on ....right?  But what does "although" mean in this context?

Considering what has gone on in Bushyville for the last five years the quotes "a lot of debate" and "although" mean precisely this.  Those in the CIA on the Neocon's payroll were attempting to make sure nothing critical of Bushy's and the Neocon's plans flowed up the pipeline, so little Bushy's "(im)plausible deniability" could be preserved, while those in the CIA who were trying to do there jobs did what they were supposed to do and eventually passed the report on. No doubt when the report got to the White House it went to the same place the FCC draft did, and so did the careers of the employees who sent the report

No wonder the CIA has to hire more people, they keep firing the one's that do their jobs.
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Let’s quit while we’re behind.
A conservative’s view of the Bushy regime
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Oxfam Statement on UK decision to withhold £50 million to the World Bank
"Oxfam welcomes the UK government’s decision today to withhold £50 million of its funding to the World Bank on the grounds that the Bank has made unsatisfactory progress to stop tying controversial economic policy reforms to its aid to poor countries."

Hey..... all you countries out their, instead of trying to borrow money from the World Bank why don't you try somebody nicer - like a loan shark.
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Decline Of The American Empire
A quote.........."There are more forces at work on the place of the American Empire than the emergence of other economic powers, important as that is. Major studies of the decline of empire – from Edward Gibbon to William Shirer - speak to the overwhelming importance of the moral dimension in a society and of the crucial role of capable and responsible leadership.

Polls show that three years after launching its pointless war in Iraq, nearly half of Americans still believed that Iraq was involved in making weapons of mass destruction. Five years after 9/11, better than forty percent of Americans believe Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11. Both of these ideas have been proved complete fairy tales. But the concentration of American media and their shared establishment interests with George Bush have produced a fabric of omissions and exaggerations as great as we might expect in a non-democratic society like China."

Imperialism 101 - The US Addiction To War, Mayhem And Madness - Part I
More about the end of the American empire.

Two good articles about the Neocon's dreams going bust, but everyone reading this post should understand quite clearly, these guys will not go down quietly or cleanly and they are going to take a lot of people down with them before they go.
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Nato fails on Afghan troops plea
Now how could that happen?

A quote from the article....."Speaking in Canada, she [Condi Rice] explained that the US should learn its lessons from Afghanistan."If you allow that kind of vacuum, if you allow a failed state in that strategic location, you're going to pay for it," she said. 

Last month, Nato commanders took over from US-led coalition forces but there has been a resurgence of Taleban attacks, above all in the south"

When Rice states "If you allow that kind of vacuum," is she referring to Bushy's decision to take many of the U.S.'s best troops out of Afghanistan before the country had been stabilized and send them off to go invade Iraq?

Or is she referring to the U.S.'s complete abandonment of Afghanistan last month?  Statements from this administration's officials are just so confusing.

Hey instead of putting more NATO troops in Afghanistan or planning to leave half a billion dollars of small arms in that country as was considered by the U.S, why not leave a billion dollars worth, why not two?
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