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I Am Fed Up With Blogger Crashing All Over The Place

2006-03-11T00:54:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

I am leaving Blogspot.

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Blogger has been limping along for quite a while. They promised us, the last big crash, all was well and they had new systems.

Well, these systems failed hugely in the last three days leaving my news service in tatters, fouling up the postings and in general, making life impossible. So I decided to move over to "pay for" service which means I can communicate with someone when something happens. Blogger didn't even have the decency to inform us what was going on when the system crashed this last three times.

I am sorry about forcing regular readers to change URLs and do all the annoying updating but I hope this is the last time this news service has to pack the bags and move. There will be some instability here until I and my progeny rearrange the cyber furniture to fit my particular style and needs so in advance, I'm sorry for any inconvenience or difficulties.

Since this site isn't free like Blogger, I have added a "Tip Jar" for anyone interested in making donations. Everyone on line is looking for this. My overhead is under $25 a month, the time I spend posting and doing art is a whole different subject. My ability to produce swift artwork has vastly improved while posting this news service during the last year. Anyone interested in commissioning cartoons can contact me at emeinel@taconic.net.

I hope this will be a much better blog when I am done. I have some ideas as to how to build it. And any suggestions, criticisms, wittisisms or whateversisms readers want to inflict on me, go right ahead and unload on me!

Just don't mistake me for a quail! Heh!

Thank you, everyone,
the Editor and Artist, Culture of Life News

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Pax America Collapses Due To Warmongering

2006-03-09T10:26:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Israel, a violator of nonproliferation, claims the right to unilaterally attack Iran if they do the same thing Israel has done. Japan and America fire off interception missile even as Japan openly mocks China yet again. Russia, under attack by America, strengthens ties with China, America encourages India to expand nuclear weapons stockpiles, America attacks China's human rights records so China returns the favor, pointing out how America is just as bad if not worse.

From Reuters:

If the U.N. Security Council is incapable of taking action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Israel will have no choice but to defend itself, Israel's defense minister said on Wednesday.

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz was asked whether Israel was ready to use military action if the Security Council proved unable to act against what Israel and the West believe is a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program.

"My answer to this question is that the state of Israel has the right give all the security that is needed to the people in Israel. We have to defend ourselves," Mofaz told Reuters after a meeting with his German counterpart Franz Josef Jung.

The idea that one has an unilateral right to attack, pre-emptively, anyone who might at some future time, be a possible attacker is the standard the USA has created. This is a recipe for hairtrigger wars which is what the UN was supposed to prevent.

During the Cold War stalemate, at various times, both huge empires in this deadlock used proxy states to poke at each other but whenever it came to direct conflict, one or the other would back down. Today, thanks to Pax Americas, we see everyone threatening everyone else. The rank hypocricy of the present sword rattling is particularily noxious. Americans imagine that being hyper armed with hair trigger nukes is perfectly fine and waving our other weapons in front of other countries' faces is perfectly OK but no one else may do this. We recently threatened China demanding they stop building up their military, for example.

Israel kidnapped a scientist from England who exposed the building of illegal nukes by the Zionists. He is now out of prison but is denied the ability to talk about this stuff with the media not that the media in America is allowing anything Mr. Vanunu says appear here! As usual, Israel can kidnap, assassinate, lie, spy, cheat or openly steal and our rulers shrug it all off. But then, when others do far less, suddenly our rulers are furious and demand justice. Not that they care about justice, it is only another tool to attack yummy targets of their lusts and desires.

China is increasingly angry about the Taiwan issue as well as the incessant reports about how evil China is coming from the world's number one police state, the USA. I still remember our propaganda during the Cold War, about how we loved democracy and voting and all that and then those pesky people in the South, demanding the right to vote, would screw up the propaganda schemes. One of the many reasons Hoover who ran the FBI hated Dr. Martin Luther King so much. This is also why our government was forced to pass the Civil Rights Act. We had to have some connection with reality while bellowing about freedom and democracy.

The vote stealers running the country today love to talk about voting. This seriously irritates other world leaders who play the same tricks the GOP games. They are very angry about our fake interest in freedoms.

From Xinhua Net:

China issued Thursday the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2005 in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2005 issued by the U.S. State Department on Wednesday.

Released by the Information Office of China's State Council, the Chinese report listed a multitude of cases to show the serious violations of human rights both in and outside the United States.

"As in previous years, the U.S. State Department pointed the finger at human rights situations in more than 190 countries and regions (including China) but kept silent on the violations of human rights in the United States," says the document.

To help people realize the true features of this self-styled "guardian of human rights," it is necessary to probe into the human rights abuses in the United States in 2005, it says.

One wishes the USA would just grow up. All the time, I see articles written by right wingers that all love to say how "young" America is. Well, we are very old, we built a democracy that was pretty ricketty and jerry-rigged for quite a few years and when we finally go the Civil Rights Act, this was all dismantled via changing the rules controlling the media allowing rich people to buy up all the media outlets and spew only rank right wing propaganda and taking over the voting mechanisms so with a flick of the wrist, vote tallies can be faked.

Here is an example of the nasty police state brutal mind control businesses our corporate masters are building up at our own expense, we are paying for this junk: From SCL:

An Opcentre is a command facility for strategic communications.

In this always-ready environment researchers can identify target audiences using highly advanced statistical models, strategists can orchestrate campaigns using the most effective scientific methods and media producers have access to innovative production techniques.

These units of expertise combine to create one of the most dynamic and influential ‘weapons' in the world.

An Opcentre puts influence, control and power back into the hands of the government and military, giving them greater power to influence the enemy in time of conflict and enhanced access to their citizens during a crisis. For instance, an Opcentre can be designed to override all national radio and TV broadcasts, allowing the government and military to communicate with the public as the need arises.

The Opcentre is a formidable tool for Homeland Security, Conflict Reduction, International Public Diplomacy and un-mediated Government communications.

Big Brother needs scared people afraid of war so He can wage war in the name of peace. Seeking eternal security, the police state has to control all people in all places at all times. Shock and awe coupled with death and destruction is supposed to produce happiness and security the bully-boy way.

The classic method of producing security via diplomacy has collapsed with Israel and their puppet state, the USA. On behalf of the belligerent state in the Middle East, the USA is reduced to snarling at close former allies. Meanwhile, the other super powers are merging. From Xinhua Net:

Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to China from March 21 to 22, a visit which analysts say will facilitate the pragmatic comprehensive cooperation, including energy cooperation, between the two countries.

"President Putin's visit aims to enrich current Sino-Russian cooperation by launching more pragmatic and down-to-earth programs since China and Russia began carrying out most of their cooperation at the government level in the previous years," said Jiang Yi, a researcher from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

With regards to energy cooperation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said Thursday that "energy cooperation between China and Russia is mutually beneficial and complies with the interests of both countries."

Qin described energy cooperation as a major part of Sino-Russian comprehensive cooperation, saying "China will work with Russia in an effort to enhance cooperation in the energy field."

China and Russia have agreed to ensure a steady oil supply to China by rail, promising an annual supply of at least 15 million tons of oil as of 2006, according to a communique issued by the two governments last year.

China is preparing for WWIII. I suppose they see this as inevitable at this point, judging from the way the USA's dicator is reacting. They won't fight it over Iran, Iran is too far away, Russia is much closer and Russia doesn't want to see Americans wrecking Iran while strengthening bases on their own perimeter. So both Russia and China have many reasons to bar American/Israeli attacks on Iran and Iran knows this. For public consumption, Russia and China ritualistically speak out against nuclear proliferation and of course, they both silently point to the recent USA/India pact that cements nuclear technology assistance to a violator of nuclear proliferation.

Meanwhile, Japan continues to poke at China. From Xinhua Net:

China was "shocked" by the Japanese Foreign Minister's recent remarks which contradict the China-Japan Joint Statement, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang on Thursday.

Qin said at a regular press briefing that China strongly protested against the remarks that grossly interfere in China's internal affairs.

When speaking with a parliamentary committee, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso called Taiwan "a country".

Qin said the Taiwan and historical issues between China and Japan form the important basis of ties between the two countries. Japan has "made the commitment" in the three political documents governing the Sino-Japanese ties and China hopes Japan will strictly abide by it, Qin said.

The three documents are the China-Japan Joint Statement, the Peace and Friendship Treaty and the China-Japan Joint Declaration.

World Wars have started over less, you know. People who can't understand how or why massive wars break out should take a closer look at history. Namely, reading diplomatic cables from the year before WWI or the year before WWII started, one can clearly see the outlines of what is going to explode. The other thing to look at is the industrial health of the leading empire in each case. This is where historians often stumble since they look to individuals rather than inevitable economic forces. Since the massive (ILLEGALLY GAINED!) British Empire has to be "the good guy", historians overlook the real lesson of WWI and WWII: all empires force world wars because this is the only way to fight them as they collapse internally.

America is collapsing. Our rising violence is a symptom of this collapse. The bellows we are hearing is the sound of a mighty beast stuck in the tar pit, flailing about. Americans are passively watching the Punch and Judy show going on over Iran as if this is some distant matter and all we have to do is insure that oil state can't defend itself from us and all will be well. Europe, the old Maid of Imperialism, is terrified of Iran having nukes because they plan to suck Iran dry even more than America dreams this since they are physically much closer. They already know that Russia has its claws around their collective necks and they hope to throw off Russia by conquering Iran's oil fields. This is an insane dream. And the saddest part is, Russia has a huge customer for their oil products: China! China has to go to a lot of trouble to get oil from Iran but Russia can pipe this stuff directly to China.

America is relying more and more on oil that has to travel far in expensive ships that are also very vulnerable. This is another reason for our rising panic here at home. Unlike WWI and WWII, our vulnerablilty is much greater since all others have to do is stop the conveyor belt which is causing more than a quarter of the world's resources to flow to America.

And cutting this off is ridiculously easy. As I keep warning my fellow citizens. Japan can't suck up $500 billion in red ink every year just for our government nor can they suck up another $900 billion in lopsided trade.

Which takes us back to the Middle East. The despots there are pouring money into buying up American ports, American businesses, bribing American politicians via lobbyists. From the WP:

Middle Eastern investment in the United States is once again picking up steam, showing big gains since the tense period following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. And while some takeovers are triggering alarm -- most famously, the purchase by a Dubai-owned company of a seaports management firm -- others are evoking warm welcomes.

Spearheading the trend is Dubai's Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktum (popularly known as "Sheik Mo"), ruler of the freewheeling city-state, which is part of the United Arab Emirates. The ports deal is just one of a series of recent purchases by companies he controls.

They have figured out all of America is now for sale and they are buying, big time. Israel has to first suction money out of America before getting enough to bribe politicians into obeying them rather than the now disposessed American voters whereas the rich Sheiks can buy direct, cash and carry. Thanks to the high price of oil.

They don't want to see a nuclear Iran because of ancient grudges. So they push us into confrontation where they get to sit on the sidelines and make money while we die. And worse, trot back over here to use the money gained in milking our military machine and spend it here, buying up our military/industrial complex. This is so stupid. This ring around the rosey is missing someone: the American populace who are confronting huge cuts in social services, wages, inflation and outsourcing. We come dead last.

This is why Bush was praising India for stealing American jobs. This is why the ports funneling all that Asian stuff is going to be moved to Mexico so we don't even get the transportation jobs! From the Monthly Review:

Capital’s relentless search for cheap labor constantly alters the flow of surface transportation in North America with widespread consequences. The end-of-century deindustrialization of the United States and importation of cheap commodities from the Far East through the West Coast reversed historical east-west transportation patterns and established Los Angeles and Long Beach as the largest ports in the nation. To minimize transportation costs, which for many products are higher than the cost of production, intermodal transportation of containerized imports was developed. Manufactured goods are packed into mobile shipping containers at factories in the Far East and travel by ship, train, and truck to distribution centers and, ultimately, consumer outlets across the United States. Currently, intermodal transportation of cheap imported commodities is the lifeline of the American economy. In 2004, the Port of Los Angeles processed 7.3 million container units and Long Beach handled 5.8 million. These two ports alone accounted for 68 percent of the West Coast total and are, by far, the largest employers in California. U.S. workers, who have seen so many lucrative manufacturing jobs moved overseas, assumed that import transportation and distribution jobs could not be offshored and were, therefore, relatively secure.

This is ridiculous. We are all New Orleans. The barriers that should protect us are blown up and the sea is rushing in and we are drowning.

Which is why the sabres are rattling, the swords are being drawn, the shouting is loud and our dictator wants total power so he can "protect" us.

Criminals. They are traitors and criminals.

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Congress Makes UNCONSTITUTIONAL Spying Without Warrants Legal

2006-03-09T06:45:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Without even any investigations of Bush and Gonzales breaking the law which would end in impeaching these criminals, Congress instead has secret meetings with their Fuehrer and decide the solution is to make warrantless searches legal!

From the NYT:

The plan by Senate Republicans to step up oversight of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program would also give legislative sanction for the first time to long-term eavesdropping on Americans without a court warrant, legal experts said on Wednesday.

Civil liberties advocates called the proposed oversight inadequate and the licensing of eavesdropping without warrants unnecessary and unwise. But the Republican senators who drafted the proposal said it represented a hard-wrung compromise with the White House, which strongly opposed any Congressional interference in the eavesdropping program.

What is this "hard wrought" business? Bush threatened to veto any laws that would preserve the Constitution? Huh?

Bush spies on me and he spies on you, He spies on whoever he wants and he has a very long "enemies list" which he uses as the basis of this spying. America is rapidly becoming a police state, already we see our dictator using his vast powers handed to him by the Republicans who steal elections, he won't let harmless people into America who happen to protest his abuse of American and international laws. He sells America down the river to foreign powers like Dubai or Japan. He opens our ports and our cities to invasion and attacks but spends tremendous amount of time and effort tracking environmentalists and political dissidents.

He broke the law when he abused his powers and illegally spied on American citizens who were not breaking any laws. He should be arrested for this. At least impeached. Instead, he throws tempertantrums at the GOP Congressional leaders who cringe and beg for more. This collection of white males seem to be the biggest bunch of scary-cats on earth. Trembling like little children spooked by the itsy-bitsy spider, they squeal and run.

On Tuesday, Mr. Rockefeller said he believed that the committee's Republicans were "under the control" of the White House. Mr. Roberts said on Wednesday that he resented being portrayed as what he called a "lap dog of the administration."

Um, they are more than lap dogs, they are the barking dogs of the neo-nazi police state.

They want endless police state protections for themselves and then they turn around and pop on that stupid cowboy Brokeback hat and goose each other, stepping all over the Constitution, yawping as if they are strong and hale instead of helpless little cowardly twits.

If they are so chicken little scared of terrorists why are they so flaccid and flummoxed by the Dubai port deal? I don't get it. They want to lock the front door of America and then hand the keys to the Muslim dictators ruling the Middle East? Huh?

The administration would be required to provide "full access" to information about the eavesdropping, including "operational details," to the new Senate and House subcommittees, the summary said. Each subcommittee would consist of four Republicans and three Democrats from the Intelligence Committees.

Mr. DeWine, a principal author of the proposal, said it would give "very specific pinpoint oversight."

"We will be seeing specific cases coming back and seeing why they are not going into the FISA court," he said.

There is ZERO reason for all this. The "oversight" committee will be mostly Republicans and they will simply rubber stamp the dictator's choices and we will never know what the hell is going on since this stupid "oversight" committee will operate like the previous one: no one is allowed to talk about the spying! Gah. Worse, Bush can spy for 45 days before even telling the committee! Talk about rubbish. This rubber stamp proposal is unconstitutional. Congress cannot simply decide to write off much of the Constitution! Of course, the courts are now packed with neo-nazis who are desperate to cement the police state into place. They assure us, this is to protect America. Well, I know how to protect America!

Arrest them all. They are traitors. Period.

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Russia Hosts G8 Meeting--America And Russia In Conflict

2006-03-08T11:14:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

G8 is meeting in Russia. Our relations with Russia worsen by the hour thanks to American imperialist objectives. Russia is an energy exporting country. This gives them increasing power quite literally. America wants war with Iran. WWIII, anyone?

From the Washington Post:

The Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, was allowed first to attend meetings and then to join, on the muddled grounds that making him a member, despite his country's lack of qualifications, would magically turn Russia into one of the world's largest democracies, too. It did not.

But now, having acquired ludicrous levels of significance and symbolism, the institution faces a genuine crisis. In July, the organization is going to meet for the first time under Russian leadership, in Russian President Vladimir Putin's hometown of St. Petersburg. And for the first time, a G-8 summit could produce, along with the bland communique, a political backlash harmful to all.

For by going to St. Petersburg, President Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Jacques Chirac, and the leaders of Italy, Germany, Canada and Japan will in effect place their stamp of approval on the removal of political rights, the harassment of independent groups, the renationalization of energy and the censorship of media that Putin has imposed on his country since he took over from Yeltsin six years ago. They will also give their blessing to Putin's use of gas pipelines to threaten Ukraine, and to his ambiguous role in Iranian nuclear and Middle East peace negotiations. And after Bush goes home, the denizens of the Kremlin -- along with Venezuelans, Iranians, Arab leaders and others around the world -- will sit back, laugh and agree that the leaders of the so-called West merely pay lip service to the ideals of freedom and democracy; they don't really believe in them. If you have enough oil, they'll let you into their clubs anyway. The long-term result: The American president's ability to speak credibly about democracy and political freedom will be irreparably damaged.

My god, the Washington Post is trying their mightiest to make me laugh to death. Teach Elaine a lesson!

Well, I am made of sterner stuff and so are readers of this blog. Naaaay.

For the world's foremost police state that lets in hordes of illegal aliens while locking out Irish Parlimentarians or authors of books or film makers, poets, spouses of dead labor leaders, everyone and anyone who might irritate the ruling elite here, yaps about freedom in Russia?

The country that self censors the press and TV by allowing powerful monopolies run by the elite take over all forms of the media leaving only the internet as the last bastion of real First Amendment rights, one that they are most anxious to shut down, we are the beacon of freedom? Huh? Pass that by us bloggers again, dudes.

With bloggers now being openly spied upon by the government, the government invading homes to see if we have pictures of Bush being strung up by his skinny neck, is the beacon of civil rights, a person's home is their castle?

I don't have these pictures at home though I do have one with Bush as the Fool with the Crown waving a Sword, attacking the court system. Does that count as subversive?

America's rulers have to heave very hard to make it look as if this country isn't a police state even as they impose this rule on us. Look at England! They are being herded into carrying ID cards that have EYE SCANS! A man was fined for giving the finger to hidden police cameras. You see, you are supposed to be happy they are spying on everyone. A woman sued them for using the cameras to spy on her and her evidence was the cameras trained on the camera watchers, filming them making obscene comments about the lady in question while spying on her.

I remember an ancient British tale of the Peeping Tom and the naked Queen riding through London's streets back in the Dark Ages, a time when peeping Toms spying on everyone through eaves dropping, another quaint English tale, eaves droppers hung out next to windows, they were called all sorts of unpleasant names. Sneaks, stoolies, ever hear of "Keep yer nose out of my affairs"?

Sneaky sneaks are meeting sneakily in Russia so they can plot how to spy on us and drive us all into slavery. And these evil people dare to yap about Russia? What is Putin's crime, anyway? Oh, he is taking over the oil and charging a lot of money for it and using it to improve social services in Russia.

OH!!!! Now I see!!!! Bad Putin, naughty, naughty. In Europe, they are putting historians in prison for "denying the Holocaust" even as they assist the Jews in creating a new Holocaust in the Middle East and we are not allowed to make cartoons showing the Jews in Israel as neo-nazis even as Horowitz rummages around America, trying to intimidate professors who dare speak anything drastically diffent from the neo-Zionist's neo-con crap. Teachers are harrassed for talking about Gandhi in school, mentioning the possibility of peaceful disengagement, reprimanded for mentioning the astonishing closeness of Bush to Hitler's ideology. Not to mention, his family's personal friendships with the same.

I was too sick yesterday to post about this which is OK since it is even more relevant today. From Reuters

The top diplomats from Russia and the United States exposed their countries' widening rift on Tuesday, publicly airing disagreements over how to curb Iran's nuclear programs and other issues, such as trade and democracy.

At a news conference, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov departed from their past practice of keeping their differences behind closed doors and exchanged complaints about the other's policies.

After Rice said she had expressed U.S. worries about Russia's democracy, Lavrov retorted that Moscow too had concerns about the United States and complained that Washington was the sole hold-out blocking its entry to the World Trade Organization.

The more unpopular our dictator is at home, the more he and his minons yap about democracy abroad. I see a pattern here. Russia, like China, is openly hostile at this pathetic attempt at propaganda from people who have shredded our Constitution, openly used a vote tally on Diebold machines, 18181, to shove in our faces the truth that our voting systems are fake machines set to keep them in power with eternal 50.1% vote tally victories so even when the polls show 60% of Americans loathe the GOP, they can claim one last minute victory after another until someone pulls their plugs.

This is ridiculous. International vote monitoring organizations uniformly call the American electoral system a complete failure and impossible to monitor due to systems set up to defeat examination for fairness.

Russia rightfully warned us to keep out of their territory, they have a "sphere of influence" and we plopped military bases deep within this sphere while crowing that we were winning the Cold War at last. Meanwhile, we verbally attack China who is very upset for the same reason, our penchant for setting up military bases deep within their sphere of influence, too. From the Washington Post:

Reports from Taiwan said Chen's government had reassured U.S. officials by changing the language of the announcement. Originally, Chen planned to say he was "abolishing" the council, they said, but shifted to a statement that it had "ceased to function."

This amounted to little more than official recognition of reality, the reports said. The council, founded in 1990 by the then-governing Nationalist Party, has been inoperative since Chen came to power on an ardently pro-independence platform.

Chinese officials and analysts have warned that Chen could read the mild U.S. response as a green light for further steps emphasizing his desire to establish formal independence. In particular, Chinese officials have expressed fear Chen might try next to revise the constitution to underline its separation from China, or start calling the island Taiwan in official documents.

"We will have to remain highly vigilant for any complication in the situation," Li said, "and we are prepared to deal with any development."

Li is the person in charge of Chinese foreign affairs and his IQ dwarfs Condi's IQ. He knows the game we are playing and he knows the stakes and he is gently warning us that we are in danger of being fried. He knows the tools to be used are economic as well as diplomatic. He courts Putin daily. He never lectures Russia in public. He doesn't even lecture America, not that our rulers would heed any warnings.

Some people think it is all one big joke, this Chinese fixation with Taiwan. Geopolitical reasons for China doing this are very, very, TERRIBLY strong. China has many good reasons to insure Taiwan be an ally and not an enemy. It would be the height of irresponsility for Chinese leaders to ignore this. Taiwan is a knife at China's throat.

It would be like India ignoring Pakistan. They can't.

And are we winning hearts and minds in Russia or China, for that matter? From Moscow News:

Most Russians are not going to support any side in an armed conflict between the United States and Iran. 17 percent of the respondents to the poll held by Levada Center company called the United States a definite threat to the world and 40 percent said it was likely so. 9 percent said Iran was the threat, 33 said it was likely so.

Speaking on Russia’s role in a possible conflict, 35 percent said they wanted Russia to become a mediator, 27 expressed the point it was better not to intervene, 18 percent said it was preferable to maneuver between the sides acting in its own interest. Only 6 percent proposed to support Iran, and 3 percent to support the United States.

Looks like Putin, unlike Bush or Blair, is actually reflecting the Will of the People! They don't want war, they want neutrality but lean towards Iran's side and are definitely against America. I am not a bit surprised, reading how deftly Putin has been playing this game lately, it is interesting. He even invited Hamas over for tea while America's Zionist State Department screamed itself hoarse.

Meanwhile, American neo cons flack the right wing CIA Pahlavi family. From Times of London:

“President (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad was elected on the basis of a ‘chicken in every pot’ and there’s no sign that he is living up to that,” said a senior State Department official. “The patience of people who supported him is going to run out.”

Iranian exiles are using the showdown with Tehran over nuclear weapons to build unity among notoriously fractured opposition groups. Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah of Iran, said in Washington last week that democratic regime change was a “race against time”.

“Forget about endlessly negotiating with the mullahs,” he said. “They will only buy the regime more time and a military strike would be a gift to the clerics. Everybody knows you cannot come away from the precipice without democracy.”

There was no "democracy" in Iran under the Shah. Now his stupid, lazy son wants us to pay in blood and money to put his ass back on the throne. Right? We are fighting WWIII for the Sheiks and Shahs and Pashaws of the world. Right.

Arrest them all.

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Cindy Sheehan Arrested At the UN Even As Our Hitler Tries To Stampede The UN Into Attacking Iran

2006-03-06T21:52:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Cindy Sheehan tried to deliver thousands of signatures to the UN but they locked the doors claiming the press (!) couldn't come in. She refused to leave and was arrested. Meanwhile, the US delegation clashed swords and shields and screamed dementedly that Israel...er, the world demands Iran disarm so we can invade them. We also claimed Iran is causing the nonexistant civil war in Iraq, not us, nope. Arrest Bolton. Arrest Bush.

From Reuters:

About 20 protesters went to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations to deliver a petition with 60,000 signatures seeking an end to the war.

The protesters said they had been told they could send a delegation into the building to present their petition, but that no one showed up to receive them.

A Reuters photographer said security guards inside the building had held the doors to prevent them from entering.

But Richard Grenell, the spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, said the protesters had been invited in but had refused to do so because media representatives were not allowed to accompany them.

Our Martin Luther King, our Gandhi. She just keeps on fighting. Hail her example! This is what happens, if they try to belittle or ignore you, this is how you keep on going, again and again, never giving up, never giving ground.

Fighting back.

Our Hitler never gives up, either, as he drives the USA into yet another ruinous war. Remember, Hitler didn't let anything stop him until he hit Stalingrad. From Associated Press:

Unless Iran executes a dramatic about-face and suspends all its nuclear activities, the U.N. Security Council will intervene "quite actively," a senior State Department official said Monday.

The message to Iran is that it has "crossed the international red line" and engaged in unacceptable enrichment activity "and there must be a U.N. Security Council process to deal with that," Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said.

Burns did not say what the United States would ask the Security Council to do. While the Bush administration takes a stern line toward Tehran it might not be able to persuade other nations to impose economic or other penalties on Iran.

You can bet our trigger happy Cheney and Bush just can't control the urge to blindly pull that trigger. They can't help it.

Meanwhile, China grows very pissed off. Being blank faced inscrutables, they are hiding their true feelings but every day, their official news sites growl about Taiwan and they are very angry. Very. They are thinking it is time to twist the fatted goose's neck. There is no way anything we sponsor will sail through the Security Council but that doesn't stop our Bush! He illegally invaded Iraq without UN permission!

But that was with China's blessings which are now curses. Being insane as well as stupid, Bush can't see this little change. The comely princess is now a raging dragon.

Meanwhile, Iraq continues to implode, explode and just plain fall apart. From the Washington Post:

A senior Iraqi general who commanded the Iraqi Army division in Baghdad was gunned down by insurgents today, the U.S. military said.

Maj. Gen. Mubdar Hatim Hazya al-Dulaimi was killed when snipers fired at his convoy from houses alongside a highway at 4:35 p.m. Baghdad time, according to a statement released by the U.S. military command in Baghdad. Mubdar, a Sunni Muslim, had been visiting his soldiers in Kadhimiya, in northwestern Baghdad, and was killed the city's western Adl neighborhood, according to an Interior Ministry official quoted by the Associated Press.

The general was one of the highest-ranking Iraqi military officers killed in the violence that has engulfed Iraq since U.S. troops toppled Saddam Hussein's government nearly three years ago. Under Mubdar's leadership, his division had gradually been assuming control of parts of Baghdad from U.S. forces. The transfer of authority to Iraqi units is regarded by U.S. military commanders as a key prerequisite to a reduction in U.S. troop levels in Iraq.

The death came on a day in which car bombings and other attacks killed more than 20 people and injured 50 others, shattering a relative lull in violence over the weekend that followed a partial curfew in the capital for Friday prayers.

Why can't we send all our Pentagon brass there? Let them drink the blood they caused. Let them pay the ultimate price. And send that lazybones coward, Negroponte as well as Bush and Cheney. Don't let Cheney have a gun.

Gads, this reminds me the Pentagon Brass who lied about the famous football star are not going to punish the poor saps who shot him accidentally. Why can't we put Cheney in prison?

Meanwhile, Iran is dropping several bombs on America, namely, oil cut offs. From Jang.com:

Iran will not freeze sensitive nuclear research work even if it is hauled before the UN Security Council, the Islamic republic’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said on Sunday.

Speaking on the eve of a meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog that could prompt Security Council action, he asserted Iran was not intending to use oil as a weapon in the dispute or quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), but he warned this could change if the crisis worsened.

"We have no interest in using oil as a weapon because we respect the psychological security of the international community," Larijani told a press conference, repeating Iran’s position that it would not initiate such a move.

"But naturally if they change the situation that will automatically be affected too," he warned. "Research and development is in our national interest and Iran will not go back on that," he maintained.

This is all so simple. Just like we gave away the store and all our jobs to India this week, all China needs is Taiwan. We give them that, we get Iran. So elegantly simple.

I think the Taiwanese should prepare themselves for this.

Or we get WWIII. Gads.

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Bush, Lawbreaker Who Outed CIA Agent, Goes After Leakers Who Whistleblow

2006-03-06T20:36:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Career criminal, Bush, frantically seeks to stop tiny leaks from patriots concerned about his wholesale violation of Federal laws concerning spying on Americans illegally as well as outing CIA undercover agents so he could intimidate whistleblowers. Arrest Bush.

From Capitol Hill Blue:

In recent weeks, the FBI has issued hundreds of "National Security Letters," directing employers, banks, credit card companies, libraries and other entities to turn over records on reporters. Under the USA Patriot Act, those who must turn over the records are also prohibited from revealing they have done so to the subject of the federal probes.

"The significance of this cannot be overstated," says prominent New York litigator Glenn Greenwald. "In essence, while the President sits in the White House undisturbed after proudly announcing that he has been breaking the law and will continue to do so, his slavish political appointees at the Justice Department are using the mammoth law enforcement powers of the federal government to find and criminally prosecute those who brought this illegal conduct to light.

Indeed, read this entire link! Chilling. It seems, the Feds are contacting the owners of various media, seeking to find out who leaked the Justice (sic) department's information concerning the totally illegal spying on peace groups and writers (INCLUDING ME!).

Now that the whore half of the media has confused most Americans about who was being spied upon, the truth is now crawling out from under Nixonian rocks. Namely, many innocent Americans doing their civic duty according to the first 5 Amendments in "that scrap of paper" as Bush haughtily called our Constitution!

Well, here is one example of many: From the Christian Science Monitor:

Of all the lawsuits seeking to halt the National Security Agency's program to eavesdrop on certain Americans' electronic communications, a new one filed last week in Oregon may provide the federal courts with the most detailed glimpse yet into the clandestine counterterrorism effort.

The biggest challenge for such cases - which have also been filed in New York, Michigan, and California - is that plaintiffs don't have access to records of highly classified government surveillance activities and therefore can't be sure they were personally subjected to covert phone- tapping or e-mail reading by the US government.

The Oregon suit may manage to leap over that imposing legal hurdle. Lawyers and their clients apparently have seen phone logs and other top-secret records inadvertently provided, and then hastily recovered, by government officials.

More and more very angry people are demanding the courts do their duty and go after the obvious criminals here: the entire Justice Department and Bush! Arrest them all!

They are traitors to the Constitution.

The owner of Capital Hill Blues is being investigated. He can't even reveal the exact letter sent to him to hand over all his personal life information, every fucking GODDAM thing is "top secret" so he isn't even supposed to inform himself that he is under investigation!

What is this, the Soviet Union? CHINA? Hells bells, we see our dictator who just handed over to India nuclear technology threatening yet again, louder, that he intends to bomb Iran over this same issue? What?

Arrest this war criminal! Gads, what will it take? A million Hiroshimas???

This is striking closer and closer to home. I am a CIA black sheep. A bad girl who spills the beans and who knows the games. Just like my stuff about China. Laugh at my words but just remember, I know what few people know! Thanks to who I am.

And Bush hates me, personally. I am not popular nor followed by millions of readers right now, no one likes my stuff, it seems but my track record so far on this blog is 100% bull's eyes! I was once a skilled longbow shooter. I could hit bull's eyes from 100 yrds without a sight on the bow! I aim and hit.

From MSNBC News:

Iran faces “tangible and painful consequences” if it continues its nuclear activities and the United States will use “all tools at our disposal” to stop this threat, a senior U.S. official said Sunday, ahead of a crucial international meeting on Iran.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, speaking at a convention of Jewish-Americans, said it is too soon for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran but other countries are talking about doing so and Washington is “beefing up defensive measures to cope with the Iranian nuclear threat.”

Be afraid. Be very afraid. The cold, black wind of the End of Times is blowing down our necks.

And I am telling everyone, Bush is a career criminal. He worships Geronimo's skull and prays for power even as his brain is dying and it is dying rapidly, he has no idea that the bargain he struck during that summer thunderstorm in 1999 has a price. This man is the feared Fool with the Crown carrying the Sword burning the Book of Knowledge. The harbinger of the Apocalypse.

Sigh. We have to get him away from those nukes.

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CENTCOM Just Emailed Me! And The Young Man Was So Nice, Too!

2006-03-04T09:47:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

I just got a really sweet email from idle CENTCOM employees who have nothing better to do than to sit around, emailling bloggers so they can shoehorn more propaganda online. Maybe I could subvert them but I would far rather have the money wasted doing this, spent on the Coast Guard rescue operations!

From: gehlengp@centcom.mil
Subject: CENTCOM
Date: March 3, 2006 2:53:38 PM EST
To: emeinel@taconic.net

Greetings Elaine,

My name is SGT Gehlen from the U.S. Central Command public affairs office. I found your site on “Technorati” and I see that you are interested in politics and events in the CENTCOM area of responsibility. I wanted to invite you to visit our website at:

CENTCOM.mil

On our site we provide news, casualty reports, images video and more concerning events in the CENTCOM AOR. We welcome you to use any of the information you find on our site. I would also like to invite you to place a link to our site on you page if that is something you think your readers would be interested in. Thank you for your time.

SGT Gehlen
USCENTCOM Public Affairs

I certainly am easier to find than bin Laden. Just use a search engine. My darling emailer didn't explain to me who the mysterious blogger was who wrote several articles about children being blown up. This still mystifies me. If they are going to talk about me, they should have asked my opinion before publishing or at least given the url of the mystery site they cited in their own article.

Like all bloggers, I am eager to have an audience even if that audience is hostile. He also didn't explain the blogger war games that irritated the hell out of me the other day.

The last several days has been blogger hell at Blogspot.com. This is why my stories haven't been posted in a timely fashion. Well, now I learn that this week, the Pentagon has been doing war games...AGAINST BLOGGERS! We are, I am assuming, the Enemy. Pen is mightier than the sword and all that.

From Prison Planet:
Homeland Security completed its “Cyber Storm” wargame to test how our government “would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.”

NOAA and NASA has had its troop of goofy spies harrassing me, too. I do hope they enjoy my cartoons. I often wonder if this is subverting their minds? Do they toss and turn at night, wondering about the pictures showing seas of red ink? The funny pictures of Dear Leader and Dear Big Time Leader? Is this undermining their morale?

Will Homeland Security visit me, next? And the real question is, can they do this during mud season when the long road up my mountain turns to mush? All the military vehicles that can negotiate the ruts on this road are in Iraq so I guess I can stick my tongue at at all of them, eh?

Except they can nail me here, online. And this ticks me off.

Go find bin Laden. Better still, arrest Bush. Thank you.

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Bush Cutting Funds To Coast Guard RESCUE Operations!

2006-03-04T08:37:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Just like the years Bush cut money for fixing or improving levees, now he is cutting funds to the Coast Guard especially their rescue work. Arrest Bush. He killed thousands last fall, he plans to kill even more thousands this summer.

From the Washington Times:

Capitol Hill lawmakers on both sides of the aisle say the Bush administration is cutting critical Coast Guard funding, including $31 million for rescue missions, despite the agency's success in rescuing 33,000 storm victims in the last hurricane season.
"The cuts to search and rescue are particularly incomprehensible in light of the heroic performance of the Coast Guard during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita," said Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican and chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Incredible, isn't it? Leaves one speechless.

Here is my blog during the hurricane rescue operation."And His Own Mother Drowned":

From Overspun::Click on this website and watch the video of the President of Jefferson Parish, LA. The interview starts out with the usual blather and the thanking of everyone but then goes off the rails when Mr. Broussard starts talking about how FEMA turned back a Coast Guard vessel that was trying to give him diesel fuel for the generators then turned by the Walmart tractor trailers then cut off his communication headquarters forcing him to post armed guards to shoot any FEMA people trespassing.

Sigh. Breaks the heart. This is so disgusting. Any American that believes that Bush is protecting us should go hunting with Cheney. I will provide the birdshot.

Here is another story,"Military Pushes Bush Aside."

I knew that the Bush chaos machine will provoke the military into taking action. Just this hour, the military has forced Bush to set Brownie the Lying Pixie out of FEMA and the top Coast Guard Admiral is now in charge.

From ABC news:
Sept. 9, 2005 â€” Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, under criticism due to his management of Hurricane Katrina as well as reported discrepancies on his resume, is expected to be out as head of the agency very soon, informed sources have told ABC News.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is expected to announce that Brown will return to Washington, D.C., and Vice Admiral Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard will be elevated to take over disaster relief efforts.

Nothing like success killing the competent! Bush rewards and promotes incompetence and fires people who do well. It is well worth going to the September archives here and just look at the cartoons. My oh my. Was I busy!

This level of malign incompetence isn't mere stupidity. Bush has a history of being a psychopath. He loved executing people, he loved blowing up frogs while running around, laughing. He and his wife literally run over people and Cheney shoots them in the face and then feels more sorry for himself, they are all murderous psychopaths and once again, we have proof of this.

The military is revving up the Vietnam War "gun airships" to shoot up civilian communities in Iraq. We are spending over $2 billion a week there and the fighting rages higher and higher. Meanwhile, Bush plans to let us drown. And does nothing about pollution and global warming. Latest news is, 54% of America thinks Bush isn't making America safe. Well. DUH. About time.

This is due to the media not reporting the "Bin Laden Attack" memo once Congress got their paws on it. Nor did the media connect the bin Laden/Bush family dots. Nor did they show him laughing with children while the rest of America was running around, screaming, "We are under attack!" He even admitted, "I thought, America is under attack" when Card told him about the second jet. So why did he sit there?

And the pictures from the WTC. Amazing. Bush, standing on the smoking ruins, standing on over 3,000 corpses, look at the photos!

HE IS LAUGHING. He can barely contain his mirth. Gah. Arrest him now.

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Israel's Defense Forces Use Only Kid Gloves On Jewish Terroists While Killing Palestinian Children For No Reason

2006-03-03T17:13:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

All the foo-foo about "terrorism" and yet, when protected people do terrorist acts, they are carefully handled so not to even bruise them, much less, kill them. So today, in Israel, three terrorists who are not Palestinian, attack a Palestinian-Christian church. They are protected from the outraged crowd and carefully whisked away by the IDF who then turns around, and in another community, shoots dead a 15 year old youth for going up on the roof to see a fire fight! (The IDF killing other Palestinians)

From AP:

A distraught Israeli couple, joined by another woman, entered one of Christianity's holiest sites Friday and set off explosions, police said, sparking a large riot in this biblical town in northern Israel.

At least eight people, including five police, were injured in the melee, which appeared to be under control by late Friday.

The assailants, who were not believed to be linked to any Jewish nationalist group, were disguised as Christian pilgrims when they entered the Basilica of the Annunciation, police said.

They remained barricaded inside the building for several hours before police broke through a crowd of several thousand angry protesters and took the three away.

Like the many bombs hitting mosques in Iraq, this is what our media and our rulers call "terrorism" but because it was being done by people who we label as "good", they are described as "distraught" rather than as "cold blooded terrorists." This is how language is used to modify acts.

The church goers who were attacked were "distraught." The fact that these terrorists took the trouble to get disguises and sneak in, this is no sudden, out of control act but a planned plot of more than two people to do a terrorist act. But no where in the article are they called "terrorists."

From AP:

Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian teenager and wounded a second person during an early morning raid Friday in the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinians said, the latest death in a recent flare-up in violence between Israel and the Palestinians.

Palestinian witnesses said Amer Basiouny, 15, was shot when he went up on the roof of his family's home in the Ein Beit Ilma refugee camp in Nablus to see what was going on after gunfire erupted in his neighborhood during the pre-dawn Israeli raid.

The Israeli army said troops in the camp shot an armed man and a second person who threw an object, believed to have been a bomb, at the soldiers during the raid.

Residents said Basiouny was not armed. A second person was lightly wounded by shrapnel that flew into his house, they said. There were no reports of a second person being shot, they said.

Israel reminds me of the Deep South. As minorities fumed under the whip of a very unfair and downright evil regime of racist oppression, the police would handle blacks in the most brutal way imaginable and not feel the slightest guilt while white folk committing very grave crimes were hardly arrested, much less, punished, no matter how many people they killed.

This system was so bad, whites could have themselves photographed at murder sites complete with the body hanging from some tree and then sell the photos as soveniers.

Meanwhile, Russia cuts a deal with the USA and Israel. From AP:

Hamas' leader made the militant Palestinian group's highest-level diplomatic trip ever Friday to hear out Russia's urging that it recognize Israel and abandon violence, but emerged showing no softening in hostility toward the Jewish state.

Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal welcomed the meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other officials, calling it "good, constructive and open," but he did not discuss details of the four-hour talks.

A statement from the Foreign Ministry, however, said the Russian side urged Hamas to endorse the "rejection of violence as a means of obtaining political goals," observe existing Israeli-Palestinian agreements and recognize "Israel's right to exist."

This snarled ball of yarn will unravel only during the Apocalypse when all will be turned into one, big, molten mess.

Religious forces being unleashed by all this are hard to quantify but I feel in my bones that religious insanity is at the bottom of all this and we know there is no upper limit to the death and destruction religions can create when they express the will of the Gods which is, nearly always, malign. I, personally, think "Gods" are our ids, that deep, psychotic inner self that dwells in the reptilian parts of our minds. We humans have brutally annihilated anyone and anything in our paths and as we crown ourselves as the penultimate species, we lash out at each other with amazing brutality.

When, for example, that little Palestinian girl was shot in the back by IDF snipers, no one in Israel said so much as a peep about it. The government didn't punish the murderer nor did it apologize to the girl's family. And we can expect no feelings of sympathy going the other direction, either.

In Iraq, the religious riots and budding civil war has been put on pause today only by banning all commerce, traffic and human activity. Already, the various religious sects are seperating populations so they can go at it in ernest in the near future.

Bush went to Pakistan where the entire city center was cleared of all people so our poppin jay President can parade about, pretending to be some sort of diplomatic wonder boy. The dictator there had to use a lot of muscle to make it look as if someone is happy to see Bush aside from himself.

Bush flew into the country with the lights turned off, the name of his jet, hidden, in the dark of night, just like his entry into Afghanistan. These are our "allies".

The Palestinians are finding all doors closed to them. The religious bigots running Israel think, this will bring victory. Nacht und Nebel power! They imagine, starving, helpless, attacked by police dogs, herded into camps surrounded by barbed wire, shot at by irritable Jewish guards, even little children shot if they approach any perimeter of these death camps, this will save Israel from the Apocalypse.

Sad to watch the fulfillment of that dire prophecy. The Whore of Babylon is us.

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NASA and USAF Spying On American Running Antiwar Organization

2006-03-03T11:16:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

As I keep warning everyone, our government which is getting as bad as the Soviet Union at this point, spies on activists who are struggling to contain or inform citizens about what our military/industrial complex is up to. I was not surprized to see NASA also doing this. NASA has become an Orwellian ghoul rather than a civilian mission to the stars.

From Wired News:

For more than a year, Bruce Gagnon strongly suspected he and his family were being spied on, but he didn't have any evidence, and he didn't know who might be behind it.

An Air Force veteran, Gagnon is one of the most prominent activists in the world concerned with space weapons. He directs the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space from a small office in Maine.

Still, he was caught off guard when the American Civil Liberties Union called and told him it had uncovered court documents revealing that NASA and the U.S. Air Force were secretly monitoring him.

Since Bush and Rummy allowed supposed Muslim "terrorists" to attack America with impunity while the entire miltiary sat on its collective ass, funds for spying on Americans has flowed freely. Even NASA, which claims poverty, has time and money to hire an army of right wing flacks to harrass and harry scientists and dissidents including me. Even NOAA has been forced to hire and support people whose sole function is to track and harrass anyone writing about global warming, again, they did this to me, too!

NASA's goon squad was ticked off about my Reagan wanting to talk to the school teacher in space piece, for example. They wanted me to know my story was false even though I know it was true since I was directly involved in trying to stop the shuttle from being launched that morning due entirely to concerns about severe cross winds.

I track who looks at my website and "unknown country" is code for USA government goons.

The real war as far as the American right wingers and their goofy leader, Bush, are concerned is the war to destroy democracy in America and stopping liberalism. This is why our civil liberties are evaporating, Congress is openly mocked by Bush who basically says every time he signs a bill that he will enforce the law only if he agrees otherwise it is meaningless! And he refuses to share vital government information with Congress especially when he is openly breaking the laws concerning spying on American citizens.

This is the rock bottom of our country; the right to have an opinion, speak in public, organize groups of people, the First Amendment. The news that a poll recently done showing Americans know the names of that stupid TV show, the Simpsons, characters better than they know the first 5 Amendments shows how dire our situation is.

For TV is now training minds, taking over the thinking parts, like a parasite, they eat up memory and displace reality. When the amended but still very unconstitutional Patriot Act was passed overwhelmingly in Congress, one member stood up, Feinstein, to read the Constitution and as he showed, point by point, how very unconstitutional these laws just passed were, all of Congress yawned.

"It is just a scap of paper."

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To Keep Things In Perspective, Here Is A Retrospective Of All My Katrina Postings

2006-03-01T23:25:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Since Katrina has reared her ugly head in the news and because Bush and his minions and fellow criminals like Chertoff who should be deported, it is time to review what happened in the past and what these criminal people did, their attitude, their words, their lack of deeds!

Hurricane Marti GrasI talk about not only the hurricane but the lacksidasical attitude of all the officials who aren't taking it serioiusly, seemingly, since no body is evacuating New Orleans. People are beginning to escape. This is Aug. 28th.

Aug. 30th:

Reason # 6488 why it is totally demented to send nearly the entire National Guard to Iraq. Gads. And this week was all about more base closings! Emptying out our empire to the furthest corners of the earth and then attacking Cindy Sheehan for suggesting they come home.

LASSIE, COME HOME!

Lord in heaven, what will it take? Bush wants to compare this to WWII?

Well, at the end of WWII, Germany lay in fucking ruins, you moron which is what we will be dwelling in at this pace. In ancient China, if bad things happened via the Gods, the Emperor was sacrificed to placate the deities. We don't do that but in this case, impeaching the idiot who plunged us all into a costly,wasteful war is most appropriate.

I am going to the Peace Pagoda at dawn to pray for the many dead and those who will be beset by Death's cold hands. I really wish I could save them all.

But I am not President of the USA. Nope. Nor are any of my readers.

Already, I am a raving maniac about the hurricane.

LootI talk about the looting and the water rising. This is Aug. 31st.

The domed stadium is rapidly becoming the doomed stadium. The military are bringing in ever more people but the water is rising fast and it seems they no longer are bringing people in. The water is 3' deep around this "refuge" which is now a trap. People are already dying inside. Of course, the sick are the first to go. One man's oxygen tank ran out and he died. Others who need diabetes medication are now getting sicker. There is no way to dispose of the bodies but to take them outside into the hot sun.

Aug. 31 Katrina Blows Past UsI thought there might be a sane response to the hurricane which was whipping past my mountain that day.

Sept. 1st. Rescue Work Suspended!

I am crying. It is so hard to read the news now. Many are dying. There are dead bodies in the Stadium. Babies are dying. More people stream in and few get out and supplies aren't showing up because there isn't enough helicopters...they are all in Iraq and Afghanistan!---and people are dying.

Right now. I can't save a soul. Most of us have to stand by and watch this horror.

Sigh. Even now, I can't read this part without crying. My god. A must read. How I hate Bush!

More News From New Orleans CNN is getting many thousands of emails today nearly uniformly demanding to bring the troops home. Word is out on the streets that many troops in Iraq are ticked off because they can't defend America. Bin Laden sends us another taunting tape mocking our rulers and their wars and alas, no one can feel any confidence in those people supposedly protecting us. From Reuters:Six months ago. Not one troop has been pulled out of Iraq, the troop numbers are exactly the same, no, more were sent for the fake elections there. It is worse than before, the situation more dire this coming summer!

Sept. 2nd:

Oh, The Humanity!A National Guard helicopter finally came to drop them some supplies, and Mayor Ray Nagin advised those inside the convention center to march across a bridge to the other side of the Mississippi River for help.

Federal Emergency Management Director Michael Brown told CNN that federal officials were unaware of the crowds at the convention center until Thursday, despite the fact that city officials had been telling people for days to gather there.

"We just learned about that today, and so I have directed that we have all available resources to get to that convention center to make sure that they have the food and water, the medical care that they need," he said.That bastard, Brown, is trying to rewrite history. Here we are, days after the hurricane, I am already in hysterics, and that clown "just learned" about the situation? HUH? Liar.

NOW The Military Arrives...sheesh!

Sept. 3:
By Dawn's Early Light...DAY SEVEN!

Up at dawn. Sad, disturbing dreams of being a refugee. For a million people, the dream is their waking reallity. So I slog onwards, in my own, much more protected way. Watching and witnessing. I read the Mayor of New Orlean's interview. He was stonewalled from above, you know. Why do the right wingers pretend people have to call for help when it is obvious they are screaming for help? This deliberate cluelessness is why right wingers make hideous leaders. They are so used to filtering out the sounds of humans dying, wailing for help..."Time for her to get on with her life and for me to get on.." as Bush likes to say, his chill out comments now have to be switched to him holding destitute people.

Note that Bush hasn't reamed out his team. He smiles as he coddles the suffering. But he has not one strong word for his own team. Instead, he goes around seeking praise and love from his own cronies who lavish it upon Bubble Boy. From the WP:

MT Slowpoke
This day is the beginning of many cartoons mocking these clowns over their lies and activities.

Sept. 4th:
Shoe LeatherCondi said what the cartoon says. I still can't believe my ears. What a monster.
Sept. 7th:

Baby doll abandoned by a little girl. It was really hard, looking at the dead, so I used that image, less painful. Still hurt.
Media trumpets Bush's numbers are recovering because he hugged handpicked minorities and pretended to care.

First cartoon from when we learned Bush went off to play the guitar and goof around while people were dying at the Super Dome.

Vera, the anonymous corpse left on the street for so many days, a shrine was built around her.

Despite the media trying to cover up Bush's crimes, we bloggers got photos of his hootnanny and this is my cartoon of it.

Cheney was killing things for fun and his wife was buying a multi-million dollar mansion so both were way too busy to help Americans.

Brown explaining why FEMA left the elderly and disabled to die.

I tried to imagine the last hours of the St. Rita patients. Cried too much to make good art work.

This is a picture of Bush hijacking firemen to pose for him while New Orleans burned out of control.

We bloggers got pictures of McCain's birthday bash. He and Bush laughed and sang while thousands were drowning. Neither man gave a hoot.

Fema closed offices. People nearly rioted.

Chertoff and Brownie try to pass the buck. Many lies are told. They can't stop lying.

A frightened Bush hands New Orleans over to the Coast Guard.
One can read all my postings from Sept. 1 to Oct.1, 2005. It is all there. The whole, ugly mess.

Arrest them all.

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Desperate To Stop AP Story Showing Bush Lied About Katrina, Bush Releases Tape He Said Was Erased When Congress Asked For It!

2006-03-01T22:45:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

The bad news of Bush and Chertoff's lying about Katrina, pretending they were kept in the dark, the tape clearly shows they knew exactly what was going on and deliberately ignored it all! Worse, Bush told Congress a tape of his phone calls concerning Katrina were "accidently erased." This was a lie since Rosemary is dead! Well, it was a lie. Bush released the tapes to Newsweek.

CLICK HERE TO SEE AP STORY

From Crooks and Liars:

Here's the video of this breaking story. Hat tip David Edwards. FEMA Brown is telling everyone that this is the "BIG ONE!" Bush says in the video that he's "fully prepared." He sure didn't act like he was now did he? Bush is busted for lying about the fact that nobody knew the levee's would possibly have been breached.

Fast work, bloggers! No wonder we are so hated! Heh!

Firedoglake found the latest Newsweek:

Administration and congressional officials said that the administration provided congressional investigators earlier this year with official transcripts of the daily noon FEMA conference calls conducted before, during and after Katrina. But the administration initially told Congress that the transcript for the Aug. 29 call—the call congressional investigators were most curious about, given that it occurred as the hurricane was actually battering the Gulf Coast—did not exist, with officials initially telling Capitol Hill that someone at FEMA or Homeland Security forgot to push the button on a tape recorder.

“Everybody has been looking for that transcript,” former FEMA chief Michael Brown said Wednesday.

A White House official unexpectedly e-mailed the transcript to NEWSWEEK earlier today Wednesday morning—initially without explaining that it was the missing transcript. Two officials familiar with congressional investigations said that the document was turned over to Capitol Hill investigators Tuesday night. Administration officials told both Congress and NEWSWEEK that FEMA officials in Atlanta had taped the Aug. 29 conference call by aiming a video camera at a TV screen rather than following the usual recording procedure. The videotape was subsequently discovered and transcribed.

While the newly discovered transcript does provide new evidence of initial presidential engagement in the Katrina crisis and of conflicting information about the state of New Orleans levees on Aug. 29, it also exposes some contradictions in previous administration explanations about the role of the White House and top officials in handling the crisis.

HAHAHA. I did a cartoon of Bush and Nixon's ghost. Seems the haunting has been in vain, Bush is too stupid to keep his lies straight.

Of course, Bush isn't scare of this Congress. So what if he lied about the transcripts, lied about tape recording stuff? He didn't have a Fawn Hall to take the transcripts out in her boots, he actually had it all the time and in a rage, released them before remembering his lies to Congress?

Time to put this clown under oath. Videotape his testimony and then examine it...at his impeachment. There is no other solution at this point. This poke in Congress' collective eye can't be allowed to slide like his refusal to warn them about the memo warning about bin Laden attacking America which he concealed for many months until forced to cough it up.

Desperate to keep a 'united' (sic) front in the "war on terriers", Congress didn't indite him for treason over that business but now, it is too much, too late. The secret deal with the UAE which involved secret exchanges of $100 million to daddy Bush's account plus a pretend $100 million "for Katrina survivors" who happen to be under eviction tonight, they are being kicked out of quarters and ordered to homeless shelters or on the streets! Yes, Red Cross still has a billion dollars left and not a penny for them!

And look at what is brewing! From AP:

Grass fires raged across Oklahoma on Wednesday, injuring two firefighters, destroying homes and forcing evacuations of schools and businesses, authorities said.

The largest fires burned in Stephens County in southwestern Oklahoma, where two volunteer firefighters suffered severe burns battling a blaze that was at least eight miles long. Their conditions were not immediately available.

"They got trapped and were overcome by fire and severely burned," said Sam Darst, spokesman for the city of Duncan, the county seat.

It is in the 90's down south in the Gulf regions? Huh? Oklahoma is supposed to be very cold this time of year, spring is about to come, but this is summer temps!

The hurricane season this year will most likely dwarf last year's storms. This is a catastrophe of huge proportions, they haven't fixed 30% of the oil and gas rigs and then bloowie! Bam.

Will we have to use Chinese characters for storm name numbers? The alphabet has too few letters!

Nothing has been fixed for the future. Bush is cutting back on National Guard units, the ones we have are still stuck in the deteriorating conditions in Iraq, there are no plans to bring anyone home despite the utter lack of interest on the part of Americans in spending another trillion dollars and 50,000 lives.

Time to erase some tapes. Where's Rosemary Woods?
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Bush Lied About Katrina! NOAA Officials Begged Him To Save People Day Before Hurricane Hit!

2006-03-01T18:23:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Bush's lies about not imagining hurricane Katrina's dangers was a lie! Associated Press has the video tape NOAA made, arguing with him and Chertoff. Both men said they understood what was going to happen and then both ran off to play around, ignoring it all. Arrest both men for manslaughter!

From Associated Press:

In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, risk lives in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage of the briefings.

Bush didn't ask a single question during the final government-wide briefing the day before Katrina struck on Aug. 29 but assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."

Six days of footage and transcripts obtained by The Associated Press show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.

Both men lied about life and death matters. Both men were directly responsible for protecting American citizens and both deliberately ran off elsewhere and pretended ignorance.

Both knew the National Guard and their equipment was in Iraq, still is in Iraq. Both knew about the mass of helpless humanity locked up in the Super Dome. Both of them were esquistely aware that the dikes might break and water go up even to the Super Dome.

They knew everything. Just like 9/11, they were warned, they knew, they goofed off, I include Rumsfeld in this earlier episode of lying about knowledge.

Arrest these criminals. Arrest them now! This is no joke. Many, many people died, thousands are still missing, the death toll is over 3,000 dead and this doesn't include some missing infants. These people, not one of them needed to die. It wasn't as if they wanted to stay in New Orleans. Everyone with vehicles and money to stay in hotels fled instantly. I was agast at how there was no NG going around in big trucks, picking up the elderly, the young, people who had no transportation, people in wheel chairs.

I couldn't believe we would allow America to be totally stripped naked and then left to die. But Bush knew. Chertoff knew. Chertoff slept like a baby the night the hurricane blew in, I was up all night, blogging like crazy, had the most readers ever, people were all over the net, seeking information! But not Chertoff. Not Bush.

The two men most responsible for doing something were snoozing, going to parties, laughing. Ditto Condi. Ditto Cheney, busy killing small, helpless animals up north.

Arrest them all! Good grief, what will it take? More lies? More deaths?

Yes, it will. Unless America wakes up and realizes these men are psychopaths who want us to die.

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As I Predicted, The Attack On Shrine In Iraq Was Inside Job

2006-03-01T08:37:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

The fact that the guards of the blown up shrine weren't killed, first, was a clue to who did this crime. Like the Sherlock Holmes story about the stolen racehorse, the dog didn't bark which meant it was an inside job. Ditto this crime.

Reuters UK:

Iraq's national security adviser said on Tuesday four guards protecting the Shi'ite shrine bombed last week were being held as suspects in the attack that pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

"We have two strong leads of their involvement but I don't like to discuss them because it will jeopardise the investigation," Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told Reuters, adding six other people had been arrested over the dawn blast, blamed on al Qaeda militants seeking to sow sectarian violence in Iraq.

Minister of State for National Security Abdul Karim al-Enazy said questions remained over why the assailants, who spent long hours planting the bomb, did not kill any of the eight guards, who were found tied up but unharmed.

Sadr, anyone?

In this article I wrote the same hour as the explosions, I hit the nail on the head.

OK, this explosion happened when the temple was empty. Previous Sunni/Shi'a explosions have happened, using suicide lunatics, during festivals and worship. This one was a sunrise raid. Samarra isn't exactly an open city for any Sunni to enter much less a group of armed men carrying what had to be a very big load of TNT. This bomb blew up a very massive building.

Seems I wasn't the only one to notice this.

Here is my following analysis:

The earliest stories think Sunnis wearing fake uniforms did this but what if the uniforms were what Sadr's guys were wearing? They are the ones who had easy access to these garments and they knew the code words and they had handcuffs, etc. *snip* The Sunni didn't want to end the talks. The American rulers wanted the talks to continue so the Sunni could get some political power. So the list of who wanted these talks to end quickly are very short. At the top of the list is Sadr.

This is time for me to preen my feathers at tad.

Heh. So many people elsewhere mock my analysis of events but when push comes to shove, I remain standing while others fall.

Here is another prediction: arresting Sadr is just as impossible as earlier. He is surrounded by armed troops who will turn his arrest into a blood bath from hell. Already, the fires he lit are merrily burning and won't stop so easily. If we move in our troops to take him, the tattered remains of the British army stuck deep in Shia (Shiite) territory will be killed. Bang. Like that.

This could easily spill into Iranian hands, you know.

The Brits were given the southern corridor because it was supposedly safe. Already, the Brits are under heavy fire and can't leave their strongholds easily because they are being blown up at the same rate as the Americans. And the last division of our Iraqi Qusiling Troops has disinitgrated because Sadr has called in his men who are sworn to slit our throats.

Lovely.

We can bomb all of Iraq to hell and this won't save us. Like Russia burning down Afghanistan and Chechnya, it won't work. Note that Russia has terrible problems with terrorism deep within their own territories, inside Moscow itself, even.

Time to open our ports to the UAE!

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Taiwan's President Ends Reunification Council--China Broils With Fury

2006-02-28T09:09:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

OK, this is what happens when one lets money men run our foreign policy. They sell us down the river and we lose all influence over other nations because we are in debt to nearly everyone now. So Taiwan can punch China in the eye and then shove us into China's face. China, a major source of funds for our dicator, is now shoving Bush back into Taiwan's lap. Meanwhile, the Japanese kick us in the shins while shoving us into China's face, too, while tripping over both Koreas which are striking back at Japan, if the Middle East isn't enough fun for us, welcome to the Far East, land of scrutible and inscrutible screw ups.

From Xinhua Net:

Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday slashed the decision of Taiwan authorities to cease the function of "National Unification Council" and the application of its guidelines, saying it is a "dangerous step" toward "Taiwan Independence."

Hu made the remarks while meeting with visiting Swiss Defence Minister Samuel Schmid here Tuesday afternoon.

Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian announced Monday that the "National Unification Council" shall "cease to function" and the "National Unification Guidelines" shall "cease to apply."

The smooth diplomacy machine of China pauses hardly a split second to show its open rage here. This is a top priority item with the Chinese. They aren't going to take this sitting down.

Already, the USA has tried to placate the Chinese without doing anything useful since Bush has very tangled personal financial affairs with Taiwan just like he is owned by the UAE. Asians always struggle with the concept of bribes but even in the old religions of China, one burns fake paper money at funerals to bribe the guardians at the gates of Heaven so this isn't exactly a new business over there.

The Bush clan has many business dealings with the Communist Chinese, too, for they understood well that all American Presidents are for sale. All foreign powers know that our government services the highest bidders who are, increasingly, not Americans. Since we are totally incapable of cleaning up our election systems, this is only going to get much worse. The Chinese politburo have announced they are cleaning up all the bribe takers in their government and already a host of party members have been arrested along with many intellectuals or dissidents. Obviously, everyone is preparing for a conflict and of course, America sleepwalks into all this.

From Taiwan News:

In a display of anger against President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) official announcement that the National Unification Council will cease to be operational, the pan-blue alliance of the Kuomintang and the People First Party has launched a presidential recall campaign.
Throwing his weight behind the proposal, KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) last night formally ordered the KMT to back the recall motion.

In response to Ma's decision, Presidential spokesman Chen Wen-tsung stated that, "It would be difficult for people to imagine the opposition party involved in an active recall campaign."

Opposition parties will also demanded that Premier Su Tseng-chang and high-ranking officials issue a report on the president's decision to legislators.

Already, the rapport built up since the surprise visit last fall are paying off. The Kuomintang and the Communists are united in wanting a united China and this is a classic byzantine relationship that I can't penetrate too well. But it suffices to say, Taiwan is very divided today and many are wondering why their President chose this moment to poke China's eye.

Let's pray Condi doesn't get involved. Her monumental stupidity can only make things worse.

Industrialists in Taiwan have expanded into China to the tune of over $100 billion dollars. They don't want to see that go up in smoke. In a confrontation with China, only Taiwan can back down. If they think America will risk WWIII over this matter, they are nuts only America's dicator is as insane as Hitler so I wouldn't put it past him. Our military already let China know they consider that nation our number one enemy.

Meanwhile, Japan's Koizumi pokes China in the eye, too, over and over again. In order to entwine America thoroughly within Japan's embrace, we are relocating our military throughout the main islands. But this is not popular at all with the Japanese people. From Asahi:

It will be the first municipal referendum on issues concerning U.S. military realignment in Japan, and the outcome could affect negotiations between Japan and the United States, analysts said.

A final report by the two countries is scheduled to be compiled by the end of March.

Based on the results of the survey conducted by telephone on Feb. 25 and 26, in which 1,020 randomly chosen Iwajuni voters gave valid answers, the two governments have failed to win local support for the aircraft transfer.

The survey showed 71 percent were against the plan, while only 11 percent approved the relocation.According to the survey, 67 percent of voters plan to cast ballots in the referendum, and 77 percent said the central government should honor the results.

As usual, we will ram this down their throats because nothing enrages our dictator more than any population refusing to obey his fiats. We wonder why we are so unpopular yet we iincrease this unpopularity by using mostly our military for diplomacy. Stationing troops in Japan and Germany has been nothing but madness for many years now. This is a provocation which gets increasingly grave as time passes.

Condi is supposed to be a Russian expert but she is a fake. She personally shoved Putin into China's lap and now wonders why Putin hates us and is kissy kissy with the Chinese. So instead of China being flanked by hostile borders in the rear, China has a dear friend now as China turns and faces down the USA over the Taiwan issue.

From Asahi:

But just when it was beginning to look as though the agency's (Defense) dream would come true, the tide turned. With a breach of trust scandal of eight years ago still fresh in public memory, high-placed Defense Facilities Administration Agency officials and others are now suspected of collusion in bid-rigging.

Other agencies, such as the Forestry Agency and the Financial Services Agency, have each gone their own way. The Environment Agency became a ministry five years ago. In contrast, the scandal-ridden Social Insurance Agency is to be downsized and demoted to a pension organization called the Nenkin Jigyo Kiko (insurance program organization).

The Defense Agency may trace its "lineage" all the way back to the imperial court at Nara, but unless it stops its systemic malfeasance and bid-rigging, the public is hardly likely to support its elevation to ministry status. Given the present mess, we would not be surprised to see it renamed a lowly Boei Jigyo Kiko (defense program organization).

This convoluted article is about how the name of an agency reflects its status and the Japanese just degraded their own Defence Dept. to a lower status. Like when Bush removed FEMA down a step leading to its collapse.

The Japanese have no serious plans to defend themselves, their sole plan is to use us. Indeed, this is the plan of all the Asian "allies" which is extremely dangerous since this means we are the cat's paw for a dozen groups who hate each other and often, hate us, too. We enjoy very little status with any of them. How can they respect us?

No one respects beggars.

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Rain of Terror---Bush's Popularity Collapses Here As Iraq Explodes

2006-02-28T07:20:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Even the dimmest witted Americans is now aware of what we antiwar bloggers have been predicting and expecting: a full blown civil war/insurrection in Iraq. Every day, our soldiers are blown up, Iraqis have been blown up, over 1,500 this last week alone, the whole place is in flames and this was due entirely to the "election" we cooked up there. Meanwhile, at home, Bush's popularity which always soared on violence, collapses as he frantically tries to make Homeland Security a joke.

From the Christian Science Monitor:

In the race to get ahead economically, America's young workers are falling behind.

A new survey shows that median incomes fell for householders under 45, even as they rose for older ones, between 2001 and 2004.

Income fell 8 percent, adjusted for inflation, for those under 35 and 9 percent for those aged 35 to 44. The numbers add new weight to longstanding concerns about whether younger generations of Americans will achieve living standards that are better - or at least equal to - those of their parents.

This is the New World Order. Even as the American military causes destabilization and destruction in Muslim oil countries, the relentless push to wipe out inflation caused by Greenspan and now Bernanke's printing money like crazed monkeys to the tune of nearly a trillion a year, the economic condition of the majority of the workingclass is rapidly deteriorating.

"Productivity" is up and up but that merely means "the ability of the elite grabbing profits from workers". They are rolling in dough, enjoying huge tax cuts aimed at their incomes only and they are the 10% core of Bush's support. 20% remaining support comes from people who hate gays and women's rights. This hellish coalition also wants endless wars because they both directly benefit from it: jobs in the "defense" industry or as soldiers. One reason why there are so few unhappy Gold Star Mothers and Wives is because they get a huge bounty if their loved ones die. This money makes them very happy so their tears dry up pretty quickly except for a handful like the brave Cindy Sheehan.

Her husband seems pretty happy about his son's death. He has a nice nest egg for his new wife and can start producing more sons, happy as a lark.

This is because economics often trumps feelings. There are still significant numbers of Americans, now less than 50%, who want war because they still feel it willl make oil cheap or they are employed within the military/police state apparatus. This is why, as Iraq blows up in our faces, they want more war. War=good times for them. This is why our military isn't revolting against the obvious incompetence and even open treason exhibited by our rulers.

The UAE/portals to America dust up is a fine example. The pets of the rulers, nearly all of them, are in full bellow this week trying to convince Americans who just woke up with a start, that selling our ports to the very same people who enabled the 9/11 attacks is a good thing and we are all racists for wanting to halt it. Even as their popularity ratings on TV fall, they continue to slog onwards because they must. The owners of the media are hip deep in the military/industrial complex and their side deals make a lot of money off of American fears.

The malfeasance of the GOP is now so great, even deluded red state voters are noticing. They barely approved of the destruction of the minority community of New Orleans but that meant letting a lot of whites fall off the cliff, too. Even this doesn't bother the rulers who really don't like virtually anyone. They wanted to see all the dirt poor home owners of the Gulf coast removed further inland so the rich can turn it into their playground and get it rebuilt every few years, newer and better, thanks to government subsidies because they will make these properties "businesses" with "jobs" that are the usual "servant" type jobs so beloved by Greenspan and Bernanke who make no differenciation between industrial manufacturing and service economies.

From the NYT:

Though the tensions were somewhat defused Sunday when the company agreed to a 45-day national security review, the problem continues to exact a steep political price from Mr. Bush, exposing divisions between the White House and Congressional Republicans in a critical election year and further weakening a president already reeling from a series of setbacks, from Hurricane Katrina to the war in Iraq.

"We've defended them on wiretaps, we've defended them on Iraq, we've defended them on so many things he's tried to accomplish, that to be left out here supporting this thing in a vacuum is kind of offensive," Representative Mark Foley, Republican of Florida, said Sunday in an interview after the company's agreement to the review was announced. He added, "If it's just about saving face and letting us humor ourselves, we won't be satisfied."

The Republican Congress has destroyed Congressional power in order to have "power". They made a deal with a devil who is death, Bush, and they wonder why he can't do the bare niceties of pretending to consult. Well, they, themselves, refused to put him or anyone under him, under oath when appearing before Congress or any investigative commission. They, themselves, cheered him wildly when he came up with the loopy "Axis of Evil" speech the second State of the Union Speech. Even when that axis was obviously demented, connecting dire enemies, Iran and Iraq into a coalition of terror? It was laughable then and there but instead of hitting him for this and wondering if he was insane, they cheered, jumping up and down.

Anyone pointing out the obvious was attacked not just by them but by the entire media. The media beat the drums of war for Bush and slimed anyone against the war. When "Farenheit 911" came out, the media refused to run ads for the movie, most of the reviews were full of lies and open hostility, when people noticed the famous tape of Bush smiling hugely and then reading merrily, "My Pet Goat" made the news thanks to the film, the owners of America had their Legions of Darkness bellow "Don't watch that movie, it is full of lies." So the vast majority of people, thanks to theater owners boycotting this film, never got to see it and when Moore offered it for free to the TV stations to run it, they united in refusing, utterly and totally. This black out of vital information is normal in our police state. To this day, not one TV station has shown the video of Bush reading that book, nor has anyone discussed it nor has Congress questioned Bush about it.

The recent shooting of a friend by Cheney has been washed over by hectoring men and women yelling, "It was an ACCIDENT!" at the top of their lungs. This methodology still works, yelling one's opinion by as many robotic similar people as possible. This is why propaganda works in most instances. Most humans want to get along, monkey see-monkey do. For example, our rulers don't want anyone to see or understand the bizarre relationship we have with Japan's economy so they yell constantly about the Chinese yuan and never ever mention the yen, not even in passing. So even smart people who are suspicious of Bush have fallen into the habit of talking only about the yuan even as the grave danger to our currency lurks in Tokyo.

Yelling can't hide the fact that Iraq is blowing up because the explosions are now too loud, too frequent, too destructinve. No more American hot shot TV personalities are going there to give upbeat reports only to be blown up. I will note here that the last corporate tool to do this is now medically brain dead vs fake brain dead. He is never mentioned, it is like 1984, he is simply dissappeared.

Indeed, our dead soldiers were dissappeared, too. By Bush fiat. When he made up the dorky rule that no one can photograph the coffins of our heroes (irritating casualties), the media didn't rise up in wrath, there weren't shouting faces on TV yelling about how disgraceful this was. Instead, dead silence. Only when someone leaked the pictures onto the internet and we bloggers carried it all over the world, did the media ask for some pictures and then showed a few but they peetered out to be replaced by pictures of happy Iraqis praising their new overlords.

There are no more pictures of happy Iraqis. Except for Sadr who I predicted, would incite and arrange terrorist attacks and who is in the process of a coup in Iraq. He is very happy. Indeed, the fact that we morphed him from "America's Most Wanted" into "America's Buddy" is all our own fault. We wanted troops to attack Sunnis and he provided them. The downgrading of the only Iraqi troops Bush claimed were reliable is a telling matter. No Iraqi military units are working for us. None. Zippo.

The civil war won't wash around our bases. It will and must directly attack us. This is because we are no longer siding with the Shi'a (Shiites), we are siding with nobody now. Except the UAE. They make tons of money off of us. They are buying up our ports. They hate us and use us and need to suck our carcass dry. And they give the Bushes bushels of money, hundreds and billions of dollars.

Arrest Bush. He is a traitor to America.

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Russia And Iran Make A Nuclear Deal After China Makes Oil Deal

2006-02-27T07:21:00.000-05:00

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Iran can't be attacked. They have a great deal with Russia so the causus bellus no longer is applicable for the USA to start WWIII. China and Russia have figured out that making allies without stationing troops all over the planet pays off handsomely. Meanwhile, the USA is patrolling the entire planet at our own cost without getting tribute from anyone, only loans which are sinking our economy under a massive burden of debts.

From Teheran Times:

Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Director Gholamreza Aqazadeh said on Sunday that Iran and Russia have reached an agreement in principle for the creation of a joint uranium enrichment company.

Speaking to reporters in a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Kiriyenko after the two inspected the Bushehr nuclear power plant currently under construction by Russian help in this southern city, Aqazadeh said that nuclear negotiations on the Russian proposal would continue over the next few days in Moscow.

He noted that the two sides are satisfied over the process of talks, adding that comprehensive talks took place in Tehran both Saturday and Sunday on the proposal.

Translation: Teheran now has a very powerful Godfather who happens to also be in the oil selling business and who is increasingly hostile to the American empire which has stupidly and willfully established military bases in former Soviet states and Warsaw pact states despite Russian warnings to lay off. So of course, Russia is very rapidly forming new alliances with all and sundry who stand against this ever encroaching empire.

Our psychotic need to control all points of the compass using troops and military attacks has gotten so far out of control we lost sight of why we are doing all of this. One of comments here on the blog by one of the wonderful readers about how their own country has "let" the USA establish a military control over their once sovereign lands reminds me about how empires destroy all sense of patriotism and sense of sovereignty not only in subject lands, and if we have military ruling over your country, you have NO sovereignty!---and how this destroys the same at home at the imperial center which leads to patriotic decay and even outright treason on the part of the imperialists who will go so far as to deliberately cause, prod or conspire to have their home base attacked so they can have further excuses for imperial domination of distant lands.

Like 9/11.

The reason America rebelled against England's domination was because they were taxed while not being allowed to vote on the taxes. Also, restrictions on slave trade were just beginning to be implimented, not to mention trade in general, America was not allowed to make or export industrial products like glass or pottery or iron works, for example. Only raw materials.

China demanded trade be done with gold which is why England set out to militarily dominate China.

Unlike the British Empire which made economic sense, for a while, for Britain, America not only doesn't tax our 100 provinces like England or Australia or Germany or even Japan. Japan does pay for the military presence but only a pittance compared to the true cost of sustaining and building and training these forces.

Japan has done a very neat trick: they "pay" us by selling us money at a nice interest rate that is higher than the rate they pay themselves which is near zero percent at home and for the USA, 4.5% and climbing. Meanwhile, to hide this every expensive military empire that costs over half a trillion dollars a year and is totally incompetent at defending Americans as we witnessed during last year's hurricane season when the National Guard was totally missing and if flown home, had no vehicles in which they could save anyone, our missing military is hidden from the average American's pocketbook via these Japanese loans.

But it is now so big, we just took up a host of former Soviet states who demand we pay them to occupy their countries! On top of that, Egypt and Israel demand an arm and a leg, too, haughtily sniffing they will be rowdy and start wars if we don't pay both tribute! 2,000 years ago, Rome took tribute from Egypt, not the other way around.

Because our province of Japan, rich and in command of our entire economy, pays zero taxes and only a pittance for our military, cannot fund the grossly oversized empire for us even in the form of loans, America's rulers have brazenly gone to a country that has ZERO American troops on their soil, no intention of ever letting any American troops on their soil, indeed, is quite hostile to America's imperial dream, we go to Communist China for loans to pay for our trade deficit with Japan and our out sized military!

To fund these loans, we had to open our ports to China who flooded them with goods. Very rapidly, nearly all American industry melted away under the onslaught. No one in China pays taxes to America, either. Instead, all other countries desiring to keep their autonomy and sovereignty are forming strong alliances with China that don't involve Chinese imperial troops. These are classic alliances, not craven surrender like England or Australia. Germany and Japan surrendered literally after WWII and both have cleverly undermined the victors to the point that both dominate America in all ways but a very few point which are rapidly dwindling. England and Australia surrendered slowly, using the Soviet Union as an excuse, pretending we were at war during peace time.

Even so, when America rushed into the former French colony of Vietnam, the Brits held back, claiming sovereignty. Australia, a closer province, joined in only to be slapped around by the American imperial propaganda machine that had to create the impression that America was the sole defender of freedom in order to con Americans into dying for the old French empire.

When we went into our latest round of imperial prancing, we had to twist many arms to do it, making business deals with our provinces that involved us paying them tribute which was a cute trick, I admit. This extravagant deal making is rapidly bankrupting America to the tune of $700 billion+ the $500 billion military spending which means we are going into the red to the tune of nearly a trillion a year.

So we get the appearance of imperial unity, using Britain as our Nepal, remember, the Nepalese were imperial troops sent all over the place as the empire was expiring. Anyway, we bribed Blair into doing this scheme by offering him a seat at Carlyle's table.

We just learned this week that Carlyle got $100 million to "invest" from the UAE the same week the UAE "gave" to the empire $100 million as a very secret gift to pay for the hurricane only there is no proof of this except for a cable transfering funds and the fact that both transactions are for exactly the same amount means places we want to have as part of our empire are openly bribing our rulers to do what they want which is to dominate America which is dying thanks to the very high cost of running this stupid empire that taxes not a single province.

No empire has tried this in the past. All worked hard at tax collecting far from home to keep the native populations quiet. When the home base was taxed to run the empire, it collapses. Witness England, for example. Up until WWI, the English were happy with their empire because it expanded lopsided trade and taxes were paid by peasants in China and India, not England.

Then the war forced taxes on England and all was not so merry. One solution the Brits used was to extend their dying empire. This is why they invaded the Middle East and tried to annex Iraq. This was another drain on the Treasury. The British couldn't buy things extravagantly anymore and trade fell apart and the world went into the Great Depression because the same fate fell upon the other two empires who fought WWI, Germany and France.

Germany tries to change this by conquering Europe and taxing them to pay for Germany's empire. This fell apart spectacularily. Especially since it involved murdering milllions of Europeans in order to run the German tax empire.

America got away with not taxing their provinces for 25 years simply because all of Europe and Asia lost their industrial base when everything was bombed during WWII. So we were the only ones and thus, didnt' need to tax the impoverished former empires of Europe and Asia.

Today, this is obviously not true. Yet we keep running our deficit ridden empire as if we don't need taxes from anyone including the American populace. Thus the gigantic deficits.

China and Russia repudiated debts several times in the past, a necessary action for any empire. They rebuilt themselves after millions of deaths from starvation and privation and are now growing strong again. When they sign treaties and contracts, they are very cautious about taking on military extentions. They want trade and influence, not military drains.

Because of this caution, they are succeeding at growing in power even as America sinks under increasing loads, losing our grip on everything even as we grab at everything. Iran, in forming an alliance with these rivals, is now too strong for Europe or America to attack. This doesn't mean there will be no war.

For the Israelis will attack. They need war and since they tax America for their support, not the other way around, they can haul us into war, having powerful allies running many aspects of our government. If they decide, unilaterally, to bomb Iran, this can start WWIII because America is too bankrupt to force a diplomatic solution upon Israel.

The fact that our rulers have contrary-wise alliances, most of which are top secret, with Israel's nominal enemies, is a real problem. For one of the classic explanations of why WWI happened so rapidly was "secret alliances and treaties with many parties" business. Namely, when the first bullet was shot, everyone had to rapidly decide which secret backstabbing treaty they wanted to enforce or reveal. It was an interesting diplomatic trainwreck that killed millions of people.

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China Cements Alliance With Iran and The Palestinians Demand The UN Censor Israel

2006-02-26T07:26:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

China finally picks up Iran and walks away with it and its oil. Big loss for Europe thanks to the Europeans working for Israel and Bush. The Mayor of London is punished for comparing the vicious neo-Warsaw Ghetto Israeli Defence Forces to "Nazis" even though they are acting like Nazis, and Abbas demands the UN censor Israel for the zillionth time but Bolton, worried more about sex, will veto punishing Israel. And Iraq is in full flames now, our soldiers being blown up daily, little mention in the press.

From Xinhua net:

Iran and China pledged on Saturday to promote the development of bilateral relations in all fields.

During his talks with visiting Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Lu Guozeng, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad commended China's achievements in its social construction and said that bilateral relations have undergone smooth development in recent years.

Iran views China as a friend and cooperation partner and hopes to strengthen its cooperation with China in all fields, Ahmadinejad said.

End game. When playing the ancient Asian strategy game, "Go", this is the equivalent of making an "eye" which means, with the fewest stones possible, you make an unassailable territory that is yours for the rest of the game.

Meaning, we can't take it away from China. If we made friends with the Iranians, it could have been ours, but since we always meddled violently with them, trying to be the British Empire, they hate us. The Chinese have never invaded or overturned their government so they are reaping a fine harvest.

We have to let go of the Middle East. Back when Europe kept beating their brains over holding Jerusalem, after five crusades, they just gave up and the Muslim tide swept back over the place, as expected. This is because the crusaders decided to go on looting expeditions to Egypt which led to defeat and Constantinople, which was an ally.

From Agence France:

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas called for international pressure to rein in Israel after its acting premier vowed to press on with a campaign of attacks against militant groups.

Following the killing of five Palestinians during an Israeli army operation in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Israeli troops shot dead two more Palestinians in the Gaza Strip overnight.

Right after 9/11, Americans figured out we were not going to be happy unless we did something about the festering mess in the Holy Land. So Bush trotted off to the UN and said he was going to back the creation of a Palestinian state.

This set the Zionists into an uproar and they began a deadly campaign to build the Neuer Warsaw Ghetto. This bloody campaign was started by them mowing down the Jennin refugee camp, killing anyone who couldn't flee, literally bulldozing their homes on top of the elderly and disabled.

This outrage ticked off much of the Muslim world which couldn't stop this process since so many rulers of Muslims are traitors to their own people and run their countries for their own benefit. So the Muslim populace had to eat dust. Well, now they are making us eat dust and we don't like it but the ruthless campaign to destroy the Muslims living in territories the Zionists want, continues ruthlessly even though this means American interests are being utterly destroyed in all the important oil pumping countries.

From AP:

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Saturday that the world body is hobbled "by bad management, by sex and corruption" and a lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions.

John Bolton also criticized the U.N.'s budget, noting that two-thirds of members pay only 20 percent of the cost.

"We find an organization that is deeply troubled by bad management, by sex and corruption and by a growing lack of confidence in its ability to carry out missions that are given to them," Bolton told an audience at a Columbia Law School symposium held by the Federalist Society, a conservative law organization.

It is amazing that the world's poorest nations still pay 20% of the costs of the UN.

On the other hand, we will soon join them, won't we? Right now, we can veto every UN sanction against Israel, a very costly affair, I wonder why the right wingers Bolton is talking to aren't pissed about that? Since we bankroll the nearly useless UN we get away with using it to shove nations around and do pretty much as we please. We have bases in all but a dozen countries outside of Africa which we are ignoring right now except the Chinese are moving swiftly there, oh, oh! We have 400 military bases overseas while closing many of them here at home. All this hideously expensive stuff is so our empire can protect the British Empire like Australia, India, Kenya, South Africa, England, Taiwan, etc. Hanging on to this very expensive empire is bankrupting us, of course, especially since we decided to take over the entire RUSSIAN empire, too! Glub, glub.

The hornet's nest in Iraq which was a former British colony, is killing us. Egypt, another British colony, costs us a lot and we are seeing increasing hate there, they really hate us and the place seethes with insurrection not to mention Iran and Saudi Arabia, our twin rocks like in Odysseus's tales.

Note that the Chinese have not opened a single military base anywhere but they are picking off former British colonies, they having been one, once, themselves!

Meanwhile, we live in pathetic fear. From AP:

Visitors to the complex that eventually will fill the World Trade Center site might have to submit to iris scans or thumb print analysis to get into buildings, while smart cameras try to match their faces to a photo database of known terrorists. Well-paid armed guards would be on patrol and sensors would test the air for lethal gases.

Preliminary details of a plan to make the redeveloped 16-acre site as terrorism-proof as possible were provided to The Associated Press this past week by former FBI agent James Kallstrom, Gov. George Pataki's senior counterterrorism adviser.

OK, we are officially insane. Way back when, in hysteria, we screamed we will rebuild the WTC which was a disaster waiting to happen, my ex husband worked there as well as many of our friends! We hated the building. I was in there a zillion times, it always creeped me out, it was so big and yet felt fragile, even way back in the seventies!

Now they are going to run businesses there that have a huge barrier, bigger than the Pentagon! To entry? Namely, everyone has to be cleared via elaborate, intrusive ID measures? As if bin Laden were going to go personally? Huh? Besides, the building were attacked from the outside, not inside!

Back after 9/11, we suggested, us lefties, that the site be a public park and memorial. Nothing built there, the two footprints of the basements of the buildings, a twin ponds with trees and monuments to the thousands who died there. But NOOOO. They had to do the whole big, fat imperialist thing and build a big honking building there "to show we are not afraid" only we are terrified so we will surround it with guards and barbed wire. No business will locate there. The Port Authority workers who lost so many because they were stuck on the highest floors which is where the offices were stuck, died on 9/11, imagine working there in the future and besides, who will visit to do business?

I know, Atta.

Meanwhile, bat crazy right wing kids attack their school's "Peace" class because it isn't warmongering enough. From the WP:

Saraf and Avishek Panth, also 17, acknowledge that with the exception of one lecture they sat in on this month, most of what they know about the course has come from friends and acquaintances who have taken the class. But, they said, those discussions, coupled with research they have done on McCarthy's background, have convinced them that their school should not continue to offer Peace Studies unless significant changes are made. This is not an ideological debate, they said. Rather, what bothers them the most is that McCarthy offers students only one perspective.

"I do recognize that it is a fairly popular class," Saraf said. "But it's clear that the teacher is only giving one side of the story. He's only offering facts that fit his point of view."

For his part, McCarthy, 67, finds the students' objections a bit puzzling. He said that although the two sat in on a recent class, they have not talked to him in depth about their concerns.

"I've never said my views are right and theirs are wrong," he said about the students who take his course. "In fact, I cherish conservative dissenters. I wish we could get more of them in."

I hope the two lads demanding this course be changed get to go to Iraq next year and find out, first hand, what their war-hell is really like.

From Reuters:

Iraq's defense minister warned on Saturday of a "civil war" that "will never end" and said he was ready to put tanks on the streets as sectarian violence flared despite a second day of curfew in Baghdad.

Extending a traffic ban in the capital to Monday after battles around Sunni mosques and a car bomb in a holy Shi'ite city, leaders scrambled to break a round of reprisals sparked by a suspected al Qaeda bombing of a Shi'ite shrine on Wednesday.

The gravest crisis since the U.S. invasion in 2003 threatens Washington's hopes of withdrawing its 136,000 troops from Iraq.

"If there is a civil war in this country it will never end," Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi, a minority Sunni Muslim in the Shi'ite-led interim government, told a news conference.

Oh, it will end...when America goes bankrupt which is a 100% certainty at this point since we are hemorraging over $2 billion a week thanks to Iraq!

Meanwhile, the prison riot in Afghanistan continues unabated. From the BBC:

Inmates have taken control of a wing of Afghanistan's main high-security jail, Pul-e-Charkhi in Kabul, officials say.
Sources have told the BBC four inmates have been killed, although top Afghan officials have denied any deaths.

The violence apparently began as an escape attempt in a section holding Taleban and al-Qaeda militants as well as ordinary criminals.

Make no mistake, these prison breakouts will grow vastly because these prisons are our empire's nastiest face and the ones in Muslim lands are the worst, all Gitmos all the time. I fully expect Saddam to be sprung pretty soon now that the country is entirely in flames.

The Cole attackers escaped from their prison and it wasn't hard, either, for them. The Quisiling ruler of Afghanistan is terrified of his prisoners and he knows they will literally play football with his head when they get finished with the Americans after the American empire collapses just like the Soviet Empire and due to the same reasons, no less. I am betting on Pakistan's ruler flying out on one of his fancy, new American fighter jets sometime in the near future because there is only so long one can hold onto a subject population.

The British thought they had the perfect empire, hardly needed any troops to hold down until WWI and then WWII disabused them of this notion. One reason the Japanese were so easily triumphant in many places was due to the fact the natives greeted them with rejoicing only to find they were as nasty or worse than the Brits so the natives turned to communists for help.

Ah, remember those days! Communism went bankrupt. Just like we are going.
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The UAE Sheiks Gave Bush Sr. $1 Million Gift In 1995

2006-02-25T11:16:00.001-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

It never ends, does it? Even as the pundits across America got the message and are now in full bellow screaming at us that the UAE Sheiks are our very best friends and we are racists for doubting this and it is a small matter, selling off our ports to the highest nonAmerican bidders, we find out these same critters secretly gave Bush a million dollars, no names attached which means Bush Sr. actively conspired with them to hide their nasty bribes.

From Associated Press:

The United Arab Emirates has long-standing ties to the Bush family. Records show the UAE and one of its sheikhs contributed at least $1 million before 1995 to the Bush Library Foundation, which established the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. The executive chairman of Dubai Ports World, Ahmed bin Sulayem, is not listed among donors.

They have long standing ties with the Bushes? Well, ditto in spades with the bin Ladens! So, the UAE royals hung out with bin Laden in Afghanistan to go bustard hunting (without Cheney, they aren't suicidal!) and then the USA is attacked by bin Laden and all these people are very friendly with the Bush family and exchange huge sums of money with them and make cozy super secret business deals, no wonder Bush W sat there and smiled as he read "My Pet Goat"!

Someday we might even know how much the UAE paid him to sit there.

The U.S. government the money it received from the United Arab Emirates was nearly four times as much as it received from all other countries combined. Other nations, including some in the Middle East, also pledged large contributions but have not yet sent the money.

The money from the UAE was previously described by the State Department only as a "very large" contribution. The White House said so far it has received $126 million in international donations, including the UAE money.

Robert Kimmitt, deputy secretary at the Treasury Department, told senators Thursday that Dubai Ports World first approached U.S. officials Oct. 17 to discuss a proposed purchase of London-based Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., which runs significant operations at six large U.S. ports.

Kimmitt said the company informally approached Treasury officials to discuss preliminary stages of the purchase. A formal review of the proposed sale started on Dec. 16, Kimmitt told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The United Arab Emirates sent its $100 million Katrina donation on Sept. 21 using an electronic transfer to an account at the State Department, the White House said. Two-thirds of the money was given to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help coordinate aid to 100,000 families. The rest was sent to the Education Department to help rebuild storm-damaged schools and universities near New Orleans.

OK, since when has the State Department been in charge of financing? Aside from the total stupidity of us begging for alms after storms, serioiusly, we are supposed to be the "richest country on earth" and we absorb 80% of all world financing, don't we? And we needed alms? How do we know this money was distributed properly? After all, it was all super secret!

And of course, the sly foreign royals (what WAS that revolution about, anyway, George Washington?) said nothing and the sly Bushes said nothing but then they suddenly had a fine tit for tat and lo, the super secret, silent deal was made to hand over our ports!

So we lose New Orleans and in return for alms, give away the Port of New York? Huh? The Presidential libraries are all just so much corruption, I remember the right wingers screaming about funds flowing into the Clinton Library and now these same clowns are silent about the latest revelations about the Bush corruption. When Jr had to get bailed out of one of his losing oil drilling ventures, he was rescued by a foreign entity which, to this day, remains unnamed but you can bet this individual has been on close speaking terms with bin Laden!

So, when Bush was told, "Bin Laden Determined To Strike In the USA" he probably checked the bank account and then laughed when someone suggested he short the United Airlines and American Airlines stock, too. I don't know but at this point, it wouldn't surprise me, after all, 9/11 was, for Bush, "winning the Trifecta".

Ie, it made him a lot richer.

MORE NEWS: According to Salon.com:

Consider the Carlyle Group, the huge, politically wired private equity firm that has employed both the president and his father -- and from which the members of the Bush family and their closest associates, such as former Secretary of State James Baker III, have profited handsomely in recent years. With its sole Middle East office headquartered in Dubai, Carlyle has managed to attract substantial funding from the UAE government, which controls most of the tiny nation's oil wealth and channels that money into foreign investments.

Last year, to cite only the most recent example, Carlyle's newest buyout fund won an infusion of at least $100 million from the Dubai Investment Corp. -- another state-owned outfit created by the ruling families to reinvest the enormous inflows of capital from rising oil prices and oil consumption. If that individual deal with Carlyle represented only a small fraction of the Emirates' investments, the upside potential of the relationship could be far greater in the future. The directors of Dubai Investment expect to invest as much as $5 billion every year for a long time to come.

Did they throw around $200 million last fall? Or is this the same $100 million? It wouldn't surprise me if this sum which is odd since it is the same amount and in the same timeframe, was juggled in and out of the vast sums Congress voted for hurricane aid.

Right now, the right wing is in full swing screaming we are racists for wondering about graft and terrorism. Traitors, one and all.
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Condi Rice's Winter Wonderland Tour of Middle East Ends At UAE Where She Kisses Up To Our Real Masters

2006-02-25T04:00:00.000-05:00

(By Kamran Jebreili -- Associated Press)
By Elaine Meinel Supkis

This is an interesting article about Condi's recent insane trip which ended with her kow towing to the UAE and begging for more bones from the same people behind 9/11, all I can say is, we are doomed if Americans think this is all OK. Also, her failure to get these same people to attack the Palestinians is funny considering she had her hand out for bribes and goodies at the same time! Poor Israel. They depended on her to be "tough" with the Muslims. All bark and no bite.

From the Washington Post:

When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a high-profile tour of Egypt and Saudi Arabia last June, she confronted those governments about opening up their political systems. Revisiting both countries this week, however, her call for greater democracy appeared more muted, as some of the aftershocks of the democracy push have given autocratic governments more leverage in their dealings with the United States.

The Bush administration had advocated legislative elections in the Palestinian territories as a way to reinvigorate Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, but the move resulted in a sweeping victory last month by the radical Islamic group Hamas. Now, in order to restore hopes for reviving stalled peace talks, the United States needs the help of Egyptian and Saudi leaders to press Hamas to moderate its unyielding demand for Israel's destruction.

Isn't it an odd coincidence, *NOT* that al Qaeda (al Quida) attacks Saudi Arabia's biggest oil refinery the same time frame Condi is in the UAE?

Other foreign policy goals on Rice's agenda this week -- such as seeking agreement to confront Iran over its nuclear program and enlisting Arab support for the new Iraqi government as bloody sectarian violence erupted -- also appeared to overshadow the administration's democracy campaign.

Again and again, we can't go around the world making "deals" and doing "diplomacy" when we are really beggars at the doors of the wealthy. Tin cup in hand, Condi trolls about the joint, "Spare a dime, kind sir?" she wails. Of course, when in Israel, they have her turn out her pockets and dump much of it into their hands. They need the money but can't beg their neighbors for it and you can be certain, they don't beg here, either, they demand money and get it since they use a percentage of what they gain to bribe the givers, our "elected leaders" who love this circular gravy train.

Egypt doesn't have to do this, they have another tool: let Egypt fall apart and a 100 million Attas will go bezerk. Already, we have 20 million Atta clones going bezerk in Iraq. We want our real rulers in the Middle East to save us from them only they can't because their own countries seethe with Atta clones literally dying to take them down, too!

In Cairo, Rice met with Egypt's intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, for nearly two hours, seeking his insights on Hamas. The session with Suleiman was longer than a lively meeting Rice held with democracy activists. They urged the United States to put more pressure on Egypt before President Hosni Mubarak succeeds in crippling moderate, secular groups.

You know, on 9/11, the head of Pakistan's secret service was in DC, meeting with top officials, they were going to have lunch together.

Argh. This is beyond annoying. If Condi wants to understand Hamas, she can call me any time. I will be happy to explain to her what is going on in Palestine and I know virtually nothing but what I do know is 1000 times more than what that stupid woman knows. I will even happily explain to her how terrorism works, not that she wants to understand what "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the USA" means. Why isn't this traitor in prison? Huh?

Secularists in Egypt are being attacked by Mubarrak and by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Brotherhood is happy to have martyrs and they are rejoicing in the crushing of liberals all over the Middle East, all of this triggered by America's need to cosset dictators who oppress their people so we can loot the oil and steal land from Palestinian peasants.

Since all rulers hate all peasants, this means we are unified with them in our disgusting actions.

In Saudi Arabia, a female journalist, dressed head to toe in a black abaya , demanded: "How is it possible to harmonize the U.S. position as a nation supporting freedom of expression and the right of people to practice democracy with your effort to curb the will of Hamas?"

Egyptian Television's Mervat Mohsen also rattled off a series of tough questions. "American calls for democracy have unwittingly brought unprecedented support for the Muslim Brotherhood, but you're not happy with the Muslim Brotherhood in power," he said. "Is this some kind of designer's democracy then, Dr. Rice?"

They can see the insanity. They know the push for "democracy" is totally fake. They are in agony, trying to stop this madness but they don't control their own rulers and they don't control us. And we don't control our rulers, note how little Bush cares about our feelings. He knows our elections are fake, he and his buddies know the electronic voting machines are permanently set to redo the votes eternally in their favor, all they have to do is win by 1 vote! And trust me, all our future elections will end this way. One person=one vote for the GOP.

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Jeb Bush, Host To Atta And Co, Wants Us To Trust The Bushes When It Comes To Terrorists

2006-02-25T03:27:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

After letting or enabling an entire nest of terrorists to train for and arrange a massive attack on NYC and DC, Jeb Bush thinks we should trust him and his brother to protect us from terrorists and to let the UAE run our major ports.

From Associated Press:

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey argued in court papers that Dubai Ports World was violating its lease by not getting consent for its pending acquisition of the current port operator, London-based Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who is also suing over the sale, urged other governors to join the case.

Governors of Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania have expressed concerns about the takeover; Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has said he trusts his brother the president on such security issues.

Good farking grief. We always come back to where the 9/11 conspiracy was hatched: in Florida, right outside the major Bush/CIA island compound in Florida. Aside from the fact that this conspiracy was run in Jeb's state, it was run in the one place in America that has more CIA agent's second or retirement homes in America. The place crawls with CIA and other spook agents! The same day Atta and Company were making their final plans, the town they were in, Sarasota, Florida, was crawling with Secret Service agents and the Bush clan.

Why was Bush in a school in that city when Atta attacked America? Hmmm?????

Now Jeb tells us to trust these two creeps, J and W, to protect us even as they pry open America's front door to the same entities that attacked us. Already, they and their malicious buddies are hard at work, cranking the propaganda machine to convince us we should sell ourselves to our tormentors. Astonishingly, the GOP has decided to call us "racist" for yelling about this matter.

So, they were racist when they pulled the Chinese oil deal over Unocal?

Revealing that only the UAE gave us $100 million "for Katrina" which was really a bribe for Bush, this again, astonished me. Are we so stupid as to accecpt bribes from our attackers? Then I remember the Bushes took money from Hitler AFTER Hitler declared war on America! This family seriously has no shame.

Bush Press Secretary Scott McClellan said: "We believe once Congress has a better understanding of the facts and the safeguards that are in place that they will be more comfortable with the transaction moving forward. So, a slight delay would be helpful in that regard."

It is a "done deal" as far as the Bushes are concerned. They don't care if 74% of Americans polled on this matter are furious about it. They figure their bellowing pundits on TV will drive us all into accepting this deal and if we don't accept it, they will jam it down our throats anyway since this benefits Bush and his traitorous cronies, financially.

Will red state America finally figure out Bush and his gang hate them? Don't give a fig about them? Lie to them? Looks like that is happening more and more. Of course, on this journey to imperial hell, we have few allies in government in either party and nearly none in the media. For America has sold its soul to traitors so we could spend like fiends and run up a gigantic, historic tab with foreign powers. This insanity is called "free trade" and the deal was, we get everything "for free" in exchange for a mountain of IOUs.

This port deal is part of the exchange. One that leaves our belly exposed. Dominant dogs force lesser ones to roll over and expose the belly to their teeth. Then the dominant dog gets to decide if they want to rip out the belly or no. This is a bad position for America. Imagine if GERMANY ran our major ports in 1941.

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Rumsfeld's Sole Target On 9/11 Was Saddam

2006-02-24T12:49:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

When the first and second hijacked jets which the Pentagon knew were hijacked half an hour earlier, plowed into the WTC buildings, as people died, as secretaries plunged to their deaths, as all of America was screaming, Rumsfeld was unimpressed and paid not a whit of attention and only after the third jet hit near his office did he waken from his criminal, self imposed stupor. Then a mere three hours later, he was excitedly deliberately plotting to attack a totally innocent country!

From Outraged Moderates:

On July 23, 2005, I submitted an electronic Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Defense seeking DoD staffer Stephen Cambone's notes from meetings with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the afternoon of September 11, 2001. Cambone's notes were cited heavily in the 9/11 Commission Report's reconstruction of the day's events. On February 10, 2006, I received a response from the DoD which includes partially-redacted copies of Cambone's notes. The documents can be viewed as a photo set on Flickr.

The released notes document Donald Rumsfeld's 2:40 PM instructions to General Myers to find the "[b]est info fast . . . judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time - not only UBL [Usama Bin Laden]" (as discussed on p. 334-335 of the 9/11 Commission Report and in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack).

This confirms what we all suspected. We all, us lefties who never bought the "Bush and his drunken chickenhawk gang will protect America" garbage the rest of the nation ate, knew from day 2 that Rummy wanted to knock Saddam down but even we didn't think he would be so openly craven and evil as to plot doing this only a few hours after the attacks which means he planned to do this when an attack succeeded which explains his lassitude earlier in the day when the first two jets were reported hijacked and he did absolutely nothing at all and even after the dimmest witted fool in America knew we were under attack when the second jet hit the WTC complex, he is the only person aside from Bush to pay absolutely no attention at all. So arrest Rumsfeld and feed him to the Hague or better, waterboard him at Gitmo.

Here are the document proving he wanted only to find an excuse to hit Saddam. Also, it is curious that he knew at 2pm that bin Laden was involved since at that point, there was no proof.

From Salon:

On March 25, 2003, President Bush signed Executive Order 13292, a hitherto little known document that grants the greatest expansion of the power of the vice president in American history. The order gives the vice president the same ability to classify intelligence as the president. By controlling classification, the vice president can in effect control intelligence and, through that, foreign policy.

Bush operates on the radical notion of the "unitary executive," that the president has inherent and limitless powers in his role as commander in chief, above the system of checks and balances. By his extraordinary order, he elevated Cheney to his level, an acknowledgment that the vice president was already the de facto executive in national security. Never before has any president diminished and divided his power in this manner. Now the unitary executive inherently includes the unitary vice president.

The President can't sign away Constitutional powers. The fact that our Supreme Court is hardly better than the courts in Nazi Germany means no one can raise these issues and cetainly the corrupt, craven and illegally seated (due to voter fraud like the five Congressmen who got 18181 vote totals!) politicians have done nothing to protect the tripartate division of power.

All this is directly connected to the increasingly criminal operations going on, the illegal spying, the illegal harrassment of official whistleblowers, the outing of CIA covert agents for personal political gain, signing secret contracts and codices like the sale of our ports to a hostile country, the United Arab Emerites, contracts Congress has no say in according to the new Nazi Heimat laws, all these things stink.

Hearing now that the UAE "gave" us $100 million for the Katrina mess enrages me. Not a penny of this was needed, this is a rank bribe. The fact that no nation gave even a tenth of that amount proves it was a bribe to our government which is running in the red due to illegal tax cuts foisted on us by an illegally installed ruler!

All that money simply displaced a few drops of red ink. No one directly benefitted from it except Bush. The fact they closed some very lucrative deals after the palm-off, selling out working ports for one defunct city, New Orleans. Talk about treason.

Right now, Congress is "delaying" the sale of our precious assets to give Bush time to "sell" us the idea that losing control of our nation is good for America because the new rulers will occassionally hand out alms! Great. Some empire.

Some country. Die for America! Your local Sheik wants you.

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Battles Rage In Afghanistan--Taliban Resurgence

2006-02-24T10:01:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Using the same methods the Iranians used to topple the Shah, the Taliban have regrouped and are now using CDs to spread information and rouse their troops who fight in classic mountain/desert tribal warfare which is to hit and run over and over again, melting away into nothingness only to strike again.

From the BBC:

Government officials in Kabul say well-armed fighters cross regularly from next-door Pakistan, but admit they can do little to stop them.

In remote areas, more than $5,000 (£2,865) in bounty money has been offered to local men to kill senior government workers, one administrator said.

"It is big money. It is al-Qaeda money and it is from the Gulf," he said, referring to Arab supporters of al-Qaeda.

Well, what do we expect? Condi Rice has been twisting Muslim arms hard trying to get them to OK the imprisonment and torture of the Palestinians who just had a real election that was fairer than our elections which has no sane voting mechanism, mostly hijacked electronic machines that fake the tallies on behalf of the dictator's party, the GOP.

The "Top Hits Of the Al Qaeda Trio (the band with infinite number threes!)" is rather popular in Muslim countries. Produced by mountain tribes under American rockets and bombs, they mock America and sing religious songs, it is Muslim Rap.

The films are used to terrorise opponents and recruit new fighters, or sent abroad to help raise money.

Their commentaries are often in Arabic, over a soundtrack of religious singing.

Their producers appear keen to make an explicit link between the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

You don't say! What a surprise! Can't say we on the peacenik front didn't warn everyone. "Hearts and minds" aren't won by "shock and awe." Studies of the bombings in Europe and Asia during WWII showed defiance and anger resulted from bombing civilians. So why did we think it would be different this time around? It didn't work in Nam!

Condi's Shock and Barf trip has sown the wind and is reaping a whirlwind. From Haaretz:

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday criticized Israel's use of economic sanctions against Palestinians for voting Hamas into power and defended Ankara's decision to hold talks with the militant group.

The decision to host a five-man Hamas delegation last week infuriated Israel, which has close trade and security ties with Muslim but secular Turkey.

So of course, Condi had to slap the Turks which worked wonders, didn't it? Then there is this: From Al
jazeera:

Saudi Arabia has deepened a US-Arab split over Palestinian aid, joining Egypt in rejecting Washington's appeal to deny assistance to the new Hamas-led government.

Saudi Arabia, one of the biggest donors to the Palestinians, warned against the US position of stopping aid before seeing what policies the anti-Israel group adopts in government.

Today, al Qaeda did another, very dangerous strike on Saudi Arabia, one that would literally shake the world, namely, blowing up the world's most important oil refinery/oil field. The Saudi rulers know they are skating on thin ice and just fell doing the triple Axis and now have to regroup and prove them selves to be the leaders of Isalm and not the dogs of the Americans.

It is only a matter of time before al Qaeda takes over Saudi Arabia, seriously, there is no other ending to this tale of woe and begone.

Our attempts at spreading "liberalism" which our government hates with a vicious passion here at home, using guns to blungeon freedom and democracy into a people who desperately want both so they can kick their Quisling overlords to the curb is all part of our insane attempt at covering up our own crimes, namely, our need to steal all world resources and pay for them with money that isn't really worth much of anything since we are running in the red on all possible levels. To keep this scam going, we need to force people to buy oil using our dollars.

And Iran is kicking us in the shins on this matter which is why Israel and the USA and Britain are co-conspiring to attack Iran no matter what even though Iraq is blowing up in our faces, the entire country locked down as we desperately figure out how to stop the wild jihads there and does anyone notice the Saddam trial has stopped?

I wonder if Bush and Cheney are out quail hunting with him, asking for forgiveness, demanding he take over again.

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COUP ATTEMPT IN PHILIPPINES!

2006-02-24T09:27:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

More news coming in: military in Philippines tried to topple government while President was off at site of mudslide. It seems it was foiled but news is still chaos over there. Much fear in the streets.

From the BBC:

A state of emergency is in force across the Philippines after the army said it had foiled a coup to topple President Gloria Arroyo.
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the uprising which ousted President Marcos, the BBC News website spoke to people in Manila to get their reaction to the day's events.

The news is pouring in today, can't keep up. As I expected, the fake American excuse for waging an illegal war is reverberating across the planet. We aren't fighting for democracy or freedom, we just want oil and because we have to fake it, this means we lose our freedoms at home, everyone is losing their freedom abroad, fascism and militarism is on the march, the God of War is coming, March is his month, his magic moment because it is spring and this is when wars rage for victory must be won by September! This is why the Romans gave the month of springtime to the bloody embrace of the god of war.

In most countries, the military exists to supress peasant rebellions and to prop up despots. America's own democracy is dying on the vine because we have handed over everything to the secruity/police/military state to "protect" us and they will, with a vengence, alas.

For they can exist only in slave states. Enslaving the populace to feed them and to join them in bloody adventures. Lures of spoils and power overwhelm military minds, the lust for blood inevitably leads to lust for sex and money, this is what has propelled human history for millenia, since the first stone was affixed to the first branch, we killed each other and we killed off any close relations which is why there are virtually none of those left, only the gorillas and chimps hidden on high mountains or deep jungles escaped our bloody campaigns.

Thanks to everyone embracing fascism, we are now heading into a massive world war. The only freedom that will exist in this coming crisis will be the freedom to slay.

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SAUDI OIL REFINERY BATTLE RIGHT NOW!

2006-02-24T09:04:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

From the BBC News: an attempt to blow up the world's biggest oil refinery seems to have been foiled, maybe, news still developing. Shots and explosions heard.

From the BBC:

An explosion and shots have been heard at a major oil refinery at Buqaiq in eastern Saudi Arabia, reports say.
The Saudi authorities have said they foiled an attempt to bomb the refinery with two vehicles packed with explosives, al-Arabiya TV reported.

The militant group al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula has long called for attacks on Saudi oil installations.

Around two-thirds of the Gulf kingdom's oil is processed at the huge facility at Buqaiq before being exported.

World oil pices will shoot up today if not blow up. Stock markets which are entirely dependent on the price of oil will fall drastically.

All around, very bad news. Condi Rice's witch missions are bearing bitter fruits, aren't they? And our wars in the region are simply lighting more and more fires, the al Qaeda people are getting much better at using explosives and battle tactics, we are teaching them ourselves, in Iraq!

Talk about insane.

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Shizuka Arakawa of Japan Wins Ladies' Gold Because She Had Perfect Balance In Hips

2006-02-23T22:00:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

I have not seen the performance yet but can explain how and why Shizuka of Japan won the gold. Studying the pictures taken of her performance showed her astonishing balance and near perfect form. Truly, she will be a great skater like Midori Ito, her idol.

From Associated Press:

She was elegance on ice, her spirals superb, her skating sublime. That she was standing in the end didn't hurt, either.

Shizuka Arakawa made this one look easy. Her brilliant performance Thursday night gave Japan its first medal of these Olympics — a gold in the showcase event. What a way to end a shutout!

"I'm just surprised right now," Arakawa said. "I can't find the words for it."

Try mesmerizing, even spellbinding.

Transcendent. When moments like this happen, one's heart swells with inner joy and even when sitting, can join in the spirit that wells outwards from the performer to susume the watcher and make that magical connection.

Shizuka did this. As with all great performances, she was relaxed enough to be able to disassociate her thinking mind from her emotions and find that point of balance when one is both performer and watcher. When this happens, the natural elegance of the living form, the desire of the body to be in harmony with nature, takes over and one merely shifts from one point of balance to another. The minute the thinking mind enters, furiously calculating, the magic is gone and a tense clumsiness interfers because the mind is always behind instinct. It just takes way too much time to calculate what to do.

This is the sole reason to practice. To teach the body what the mind wishes but then, when on stage, the mind has to let go and trust the dream mind, that deep, inner self, to run things and all the mind has to do is to remember....FEELINGS.

Yes, emotions.

When I used to hang out with skaters, we used to talk about this. As a performer of other forms of dance, I used to warn people to not over rehearse. There are ways to deal with this. One is to NOT do all the hard moves but simply follow the curves of the choreography in an easy, gentle way, savoring the flow of the music, humming it, feeling the arms, moving the arms from one position to the next, savoring the fingers and how the wind glides over and under the palms. Close the eyes and feel the distance on the ice, when turning, imagine it is eternity and the clocks stop and the stars cease to wheel overhead, this sense of all the time in the world drops the feeling of adrenaline which tenses the muscles.

Desperately trying to jump or do difficult things over and over again destroys the needed serenity for performing a balanced dance yet over and over, American (and many Russian!) skaters make this deadly mistake and each Olypmics, they wonder why they do their very worst performances there.

Skating's important point is the hips. Where the hips are in relation to the knees, the ankle and the head, I really got pleasure drawing Shizuka's pictures from the photographs. Astonishing. Text book example of perfection.

In spins, it is the essence. Look at this spin! Every axis, 90 degrees from each other! Look at her arms, they are in perfect position yet relaxed. Just like the top picture here, her fingers are relaxed even as she flew through the air, her legs extended but not rigid. I am shaking my head with amazement.

Bravo.

Sluskaya, I have always disliked. She means well, she is very strong, she manages to pull off many moves but her akwardness, her lack of lyricism is fatal in figure skating. She never surrendered herself to the flow, the magic of ice. It seemed as if she was always pulling back, unable to stretch out to the stars, her shape ended up always weak in the wrong way, bent, crabbed.

Sasha Cohen is the victim of the American system. She was kept separate and alone as she fought the Angel of Death. Rather than trusting her own esquisitely trained body to do the right thing, she obsessed over all the hard parts of her performance. They loomed larger and larger until, like mighty mountains, they blocked her passage. Instead of flying over them, she trudged up and down her private Everests and ended up worn and defeated by the effort.

Skating is like becoming a bird, one has to surrender to the elements. We had a terrible winter storm last week. The wind was screaming. Our tiny chickadees were flying in it. They darted and hovered, they twisted from one side to the other and flicked around the trees, moving at a tremendous speed and it didn't bother them any. Indeed, I suspect they enjoyed the wildness of the wind, the feeling of pressure, the curved space elevating and then suddenly dropping them, they bobbed in the air as they flew to me.

And my horse went wild, galloping up the snowy mountain, head held high, white mane streaming in the screaming wind, ears flicking back and forth, this sense unity with nature is what great performances, a vital life, is all about.
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Bush Says "People Don't Need To Worry About Security"

2006-02-23T11:22:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Arrest Bush. Impeach Bush. He is insane. The last election, bin Laden told us to vote for Bush because this will help him win his war against us. He was right, as usual. Bush claimed the election was about protecting America. Arrest Bush!

From AP:

President Bush sought Thursday to calm an uproar over a state-owned company in the United Arab Emirates taking over significant operations at six major U.S. ports, saying "people don't need to worry about security."

Under secret conditions of the agreement with the administration, the company promised to cooperate with U.S. investigations as a condition of the $6.8 billion deal, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Remember when Bush said he didn't care if we caught bin Laden? It didn't matter? Bin Laden was dead?

When bin Laden showed us he is alive and laughing at us, did we impeach Bush?

No, he was "re-elected". The media screamed at us that bin Laden's endorsement of Bush meant we should fight him by cooperating with him. Arrest the media pundits!

Whey do all these people hate America?

Bush seemed perfectly calm on 9/11. He was calm until the American people began to scream at him then he had his handlers fend off the press while he sat there, between his aids, shiverring like a little boy.

Then, after the media bucked him up by preening his nakedness, he went to the WTC ruins and promised to get bin Laden. Then he didn't. We just saw the unconsititutional Patriot Act passed yet again, all in the name of security. Student loans are being destroyed so we can spend money on Homeland Security because we are all supposed to be very aware of "security". This is totally insane. They are totally insane or psychopaths or both.

Instead of arresting Bush, we re-elected him and now he is foisting on us all sorts of horrible things and even taunting us, sneering that we have no need to worry our pretty little heads about security. Well, do we wait until we got shot in the face again? Note how they worked hard to make it look as if shooting friends in the face is normal? How Cheney lied and claimed he didn't shoot a friend, he shot a mere aquantaince?

As our government collapses, the real security hole is the gigantic, monstrous trade/budget deficits Bush foisted on us. This is disgusting. We have no foreign policy at this point, we simply do the bidding of others. I have noted over and over the weakness of our diplomatic corpse as they get trundled here and yon, working for ailens, utterly disregarding our own country and our corporate entities are not American, either and they don't love our country, love us, we are sheep they want to fleece in the dead of winter.

Ever cut a sheep's wool when it is below zero? They die.

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Condi Pays Suprise Visit On Lebanon In Order To Snub President There

2006-02-23T09:20:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Continuing her boffo "Love Israel or Die" tour of world capitals, Condi suddenly flew into Lebanon. She did this in order to insult the President there. Seems to me that few people in power in America are working on our collective behalf.

From the Washington Post:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit to Lebanon Thursday, seeking to bolster the Lebanese government as it struggles to emerge from decades of Syrian influence.

"Everyone is concerned about the situation in Lebanon and about potential instability there." Rice said.

She met with Lebanon's prime minister, Fouad Siniora. But in a diplomatic snub, Rice scheduled no meeting with the Lebanese president, Emile Lahoud, a Christian Maronite and Syrian ally whose term-in-office was extended by three years under pressure from Damascus.

So, "everyone is concerned"? Seems to me this everyone is exactly one group of people who happen to be Israeli firsters.

They crawl all over our government and have thoroughly hijacked it. On many levels, this latest diplomatic tour-de-farce is wrong. Why the secrecy? Why did she suddenly fly in? Imagine someone from a hostile or at least not exactly friendly country suddenly visiting America and snubbing Bush but meeting with his opposition? Wouldn't we be hearing cries of "traitor"? Eh?

How is her visit "bolstering the government" when she wasn't invited in by the current government? And we wonder why flames spread far and wide in this woman's wake! The Egyptians were very miffed by her most recent visit and the Norwegians were so ticked off, they leaked her "secret" snarling about Israel. Her inept diplomacy caused Putin and the Chinese to seethe so much, they formed a powerful alliance as soon as she departed and so far, have not invited her back into their countries nor do they consult with her in a friendly way.

This deluded woman comes home to extravagant praise from the army of Israeli firsters who infest so much of our government so she thinks all these disasterous trips are triumphs. Even as the flames rise higher and higher, we imagine the Muslims, in seeming disarray, aren't dangerous.

High explosives are very dangerous. As we throw one match after another on one powder keg after another, one can only grind the teeth.

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Dole Lobbys For UAE Sale, Bush Out To Lunch, Secret Deals Exposed

2006-02-23T08:28:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

The sale of several important port activities to the UAE is unfolding in a classic way. Bush gets caught, he gets mad and digs in his heels, it heats up, he then lies and says he is out of the loop and knows no one and nothing and then all the big wigs jump into the burning pool to put out the fire.

From Raw Story:

CNN reported on air Wednesday that former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-KS) has been hired by Dubai Ports World to lobby for the approval of a deal that would give the company control of several major U.S. ports, RAW STORY has learned.

CNN's Andrea Koppel reports: "The Dubai-based company at the center of a controversy over the management of six U.S. seaports has hired former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole to lobby on its behalf against bipartisan criticism of the deal, a Dole aide said Wednesday.

"The 1996 Republican presidential candidate was "engaged" by Dubai Ports World shortly after lawmakers on both sides of the aisle began expressing their strong opposition to the deal, said Mike Galloway, an aide to the retired senator.

As I keep saying, the guys running America are traitors. Pure and simple. What is a traitor?

Someone who peddles their services to foreign powers and works for them rather than for America. Ronnie Reagan is a classic case of this, his high treason was to have a secret, handshake deal with the Japanese to throw in the towel concerning trade negotiations. He then collected the loot two weeks after leaving office. Since then, our trade deficit with Japan has been through the roof.

The elder Bush had deals with all and sundry, seeing Reagan get away with this. I remember the scandal over Jimmy Carter's drunk younger brother selling himseld to the Libyians, for example. Now, the entire Bush clan is owned by foreign powers in Saudi Arabia, Japan, China, Korea, you name it, they whore themselves for it.

From NJ. com:

New Jersey will file suit in federal and state courts seeking to stop an Arab company from taking over operations at Port Newark, Gov. Jon Corzine said yesterday.

The announcement came as a whirlwind of political backlash from Republicans and Democrats continued to batter the Bush administration's approval of the port deal. At issue is the acquisition of a British company that has been running six U.S. ports, including Port Newark, by Dubai Ports World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates.

Desperately, many people are trying to block this. Turns out, Bush's buddies who were placed in positions of authority by Bush, tried to rush through this deal, not using the normal mechanisms of holding hearings and having investigations. They don't want any of their traitorous activities investigated!

This is why. From Associated Press:

The Bush administration secretly required a company in the United Arab Emirates to cooperate with future U.S. investigations before approving its takeover of operations at six American ports, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. It chose not to impose other, routine restrictions.

As part of the $6.8 billion purchase, state-owned Dubai Ports World agreed to reveal records on demand about "foreign operational direction" of its business at U.S. ports, the documents said. Those records broadly include details about the design, maintenance or operation of ports and equipment.

The administration did not require Dubai Ports to keep copies of business records on U.S. soil, where they would be subject to court orders. It also did not require the company to designate an American citizen to accommodate U.S. government requests. Outside legal experts said such obligations are routinely attached to U.S. approvals of foreign sales in other industries.

Oh, how far we have fallen. Imagine is a vast war unfolds and we need to control our shores. So, hand over everything to people on the other side of the planet deep within unstable territory.

One sad thing about the Bushes and their minions is, they think their co-conspiritors in distant lands will rule with an iron fist forever over restless, furious populations. This is why we do all the crummy things we do. We expect the rulers of many lands to betray their own countries and work for our benefit, not theirs.

But this is much worse. As usual, when traitors are destroying America, they like to hide everything. The Bushes are big on hiding stuff, so is Cheney. They have their arrest records erased, their military records purged, their government records classified or shredded. Even with all these efforts, details of their various crimes leak out like with the Downing Street Memos.

The Republican head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, John Warner of Virginia, planned an oversight hearing Thursday. Warner has expressed support for the agreement, describing the UAE as an important ally against terrorism.

Here is why we are doomed.

Warner, like all the other traitors, gets money from all sorts of people not all of whom are American or love this country. He gets money from folk who accept money from foreign powers and then funnel it to him. So he sees nothing wrong with betraying America. He didn't yell about 9/11 and why Rumsfeld sat around while America was under attack. Rumsfeld didn't even pause in meeting when the jets hit the WTC much less when they were reported hijacked nearly an hour earlier!

Even after that, he did absolutley nothing, he was goofing around at his desk when a jet hit the Pentagon. Why he wasn't immediately arrested baffles me. I was running around, yelling "America is under attack" when the first jet hit. By the time the Pentagon was hit, I was sitting there, saying, "We have been betrayed by our own rulers."

How on earth can we say the UAE is a partner in the "war on terror"? True, they want us in Iraq so we can put down Saddam who menaced them. They want us to kill Shi'a in Iran, too. But why did we go to war for them? They are costing us over a trillion dollars and they want us to spend another trillion fighting Iran? Huh? This is partnership?

Like hell.

Dubai Port's top American executive, chief operating officer Edward H. Bilkey, said he will work in Washington to persuade skeptical lawmakers they should endorse the deal; several Senate oversight hearings already are scheduled.

"We're disappointed," Bilkey told the AP in an interview. "We're going to do our best to persuade them that they jumped the gun. The UAE is a very solid friend, as President Bush has said."

We didn't bomb bin Laden back before 9/11 because the UAE royals liked to visit him. I am thoroughly disgusted and outraged. The traitors working for the UAE assure us that we should trust them. They will have Quisling Americans working for the royal family and they will serve who?

The royal family, not us!

I recall a revolution. One thing we did was expell the pro-royalists because we didn't want people who had divided loyalties running America. For many generations, anyone who wanted to be President had to first show they were not royal worshipping tools of any king or queen or sheik, for that matter.

Disgusting, isn't it, watching Bush literally kissing the mouth of kings. When Nancy Reagan kow towed to the Queen of England some of us were still able to feel outraged. Now, it is de rigeur. Gads. Arrest them all.

MORE NEWS:From Think Progress:

In a press briefing today, Secretary Rumsfeld revealed that he was not consulted about the decision to transfer operations of six key U.S. ports to the United Arab Emirates, a country with troubling ties to international terrorism.

QUESTION: Are you confident that any problems with security — from what you know, are you confident that any problems with security would not be greater with a UAE company running this than an American company?

RUMSFELD: I am reluctant to make judgments based on the minimal amount of information I have because I just heard about this over the weekend.

Another know nothing Repubublican tool. Turns out, Rumsfeld is on this committee that oversees these sorts of deals, Homeland Security and all that.

Donald Rumsfeld, as Secretary of Defense, is a member of Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States. As such, he was one of the people who, according to the Treasury Department, unanimously approved the sale on February 13. How could do that when he didn’t even find out about the sale until last weekend?

He is the same rubber stamp that didn't try to stop terrorists on 9/11. Like Bush, he constantly pleads stupidity and lack of knowledge. Like Condi, he can't imagine things that he was perfectly capable of imagining.

For example, the Pentagon did have war games with a jet hitting the Pentagon as the key event, less than a year before 9/11. He lied about the Pentagon's plans back then, again, claiming stupidity as his reason. Why are such dumb people running this country?

They belong in an asylum or prison.

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Actors Win Award for Gitmo Movie But Upon Return Are Detained at British Airport

2006-02-22T20:28:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

After winning a Silver Bear at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival, the cast of a movie about Gitmo were detained and questioned at the airport as they tried to reenter England. Also, here in America, Homeland Security goons harrass users of the internet at a public library.

From the BBC:

The actors who star in movie The Road to Guantanamo were questioned by police at Luton airport under anti-terrorism legislation, it has emerged.
The men, who play British inmates at the detention camp, were returning from the Berlin Film Festival where the movie won a Silver Bear award.

One of the actors, Rizwan Ahmed, said a police officer asked him if he intended to make any more "political" films.

The men were released quickly and not arrested, said Bedfordshire police.

About a month ago, some peace activists returning from an international conference in Malaysia were detained and questioned about their books, magazines and personal activities by Homeland Security goons squads at LA Airport. Nearly every time if not every time, these people who seem to be all right wingers, demand to know one's political views and they let everyone know that deviating from the far right wingloon Weltanschauung is verboten. When caught, they demure or reassign people or outright lie.

Like all budding police states, they can't help but try to control people's political lives. For example, in England, the question about "will you make more political films" should be cause for arrest for overstepping one's authority. Indeed, the whole issue of freedom to associate or freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy and freedom. Without those two elements, one isn't free at all.

From the Washington Post:

Two uniformed men strolled into the main room of the Little Falls library in Bethesda one day last week and demanded the attention of all patrons using the computers. Then they made their announcement: The viewing of Internet pornography was forbidden.

The men looked stern and wore baseball caps emblazoned with the words "Homeland Security." The bizarre scene unfolded Feb. 9, leaving some residents confused and forcing county officials to explain how employees assigned to protect county buildings against terrorists came to see it as their job to police the viewing of pornography.

Do read the rest of the article. It is amusing and horrifying. The two clowns who did this to library users were not fired but hidden from view again. Who are these stupid snoops, these budding Soviet-style enforcers? Next, they will be pulling aside curtains to see how we have sex?

This has happened, you know, to gays in places like Texas. The courts ruled that cops can't snoop around innocent people, rousting them except when they ingest illegal drugs then it is OK to be super snoopy and even kill people if they resist the snooping.

Celanese, a major corporation, locked out one of their unions and brought in scabs which has been legal ever since Ronnie Reagan conned the working classs into slitting their own throats for small tax cuts. From Truth Out:

Intimidation tactics extend beyond the plant premises and into the town of Meredosia itself. Workers repeatedly complain of invasion of privacy and harassment by Special Response personnel. These Celanese provocateurs regularly patrol the streets of Meredosia, videotaping union members and their families in public or even in their own back yards.

"For some reason the security that Celanese has hired feels the need to videotape our houses, videotape our children in the yard," says Steve Floyd, a locked-out worker. "We see them twice a day at the minimum. Most of the times it's every three to four hours they'll come through. You know its a slow street but they'll come through excessively slow so it's not like they're just passing through. They're coming down with a purpose."

Plant manager, John Lakenan confirms that. Special Response Corporation is monitoring people "who have harassed replacement workers or other Celanese employees," he says.

The union also accuses the Morgan County Sheriff's Department of providing on-duty deputies to Celanese for $70 an hour to police union members.

Several things here. One is, unions have absolutely no tools now for fighting huge wage and benefit cutbacks. None at all. They barely understand that they must vote for people who will protect them but I remember how they deserted the Democrats several times over, eager for the dangling lure of tax cuts. Now they are wishing they could pay taxes. The police unions are thugs working for the people destroying their neighbors. They are literally accepting bribes in the form of tremendous pay raises if only they help drive their neighbors into poverty. No one can flee this nightmare easily for few can sell their homes. And there are no factory jobs elsewhere if one declares bankruptcy and then goes away.

This week, eight workers won a huge lottery and each will get over $20 million each. Increasingly, workers are rushing to buy a ride on the magic carpet. Of course, only a very tiny handful will get to sit on it, the rest left behind to die.

All police states depend on tools who have no heart, no sense of community, no love, just self interest and a lust to control people they hate. They need detached "me and only myself" sorts who won't even hold out a hand to a crying child next door if this interfers with them making easy money.

These are the people who will happily herd others into concentration camps if the workers strike back and refuse to let corporations drive them into poverty. This is why workers will happily build the mega prison camps costing hundreds of millions of dollars which Bush just got passed in a budget and handed off to his best friends in Texas.

Lastly, from Amal's blog:an interesting song/video about our police state in Iraq.
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Condi Rice, Working for Israel, Threatens Our Ally, Norway

2006-02-22T08:45:00.000-05:00

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Good grief. If Israel wants to lodge a formal complaint, they can. Instead, they use our Secretary of State to protest to Norway. And she knew this was a naughty thing to do so she demanded they classify her threats so no fingerprints could point to America serving Israeli interests by starting a row with an ally over Palestinian rights.

From Aftenposten:

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice threatened Norway with "serious political consequences" after Finance Minister and Socialist Left Party leader Kristin Halvorsen admitted to supporting a boycott of Israeli goods.

The reaction was reportedly given to the Norwegian embassy in Washington DC, and it was made clear that the statements came from the top level of the US State Department, newspaper VG reports.

VG claims that two classified reports promised a "tougher climate" between the USA and Norway if Halvorsen's remarks represented the foreign policy of the new red-green alliance of the Labor, Socialist Left and Center parties.

Of course, our entire state department as well as nearly everything in our foreign policy apparatus is focused on doing things for Israel. This hijacking of our entire diplomatic system by a small semi-province that we don't control, it controls us, is a disaster for any empire and in particular, for America, which is supposed to be a country that believes in seperation of church and state and we have all sorts of pledges like pledging alliegence to the American flag, not some other flags, the whole hysteria about burning the flag is coupled with this strange obsession of protecting and promoting another flag even if this means many Americans die.

The merest possibility that some people in other countries that we have treaties with might be angry with Israel for what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians. Our Sec. of State has been all over the planet, desperately trying to force everyone into attacking Hamas, the winners of the recent Palestinian elections. This activity is wholly and totally inappropriate for our representative to the world to be doing. If the Israelis want to go around demanding everyone boycott or starve to death the Palestinians, then they could do this if they want.

Instead, they are hijacking our country to deliver this message and I, for one, happen to greatly resent this. I am plenty angry that the Israeli leadership is openly joking about starving the Palestinians to death, this grusome replay of the Warsaw Ghetto is extremely frightful, the whole Middle East is in meltdown mode this year and having the USA bully boy everyone on the planet into obeying Israel's demands is total insanity, it is going to destroy not only our empire but maybe America itself.

Just as our rulers have opened the floodgates to let most of our jobs leave America while bringing in hordes of foreigners to replace us in the domestic jobs at home, so they have used their powers of persuasion to convince us that America should be doing the heavy lifting of all other countries.

We have to "defend" Europe (from what the hell? Who?). We have to defend Israel so they can devour the Palestinians at their leisure without interference from other Muslims. We have to defend the oil wells in Iraq and we have to fight the Shi'a over oil in Iran, we have to protect Japan from China so Japan can thumb their noses at their bigger neighbor even as they kick us in the shins, taking jobs, flooding our markets while firmly locking the doors of their markets, luring us into a scheme to dump dollars in the form of debts into their coffers, all over the world, people use us against our own best interests.

The internationalists doing this to us are insuring that we pay for everything via IOUs plunked down upon our children's future. They are already ordering our government to kill us off, to cut us off from healthcare, to cut us off from food. Already, foodstamps are being reduced over and over again until it is nearly meaningless meanwhile, we see our ruling elite experimenting with turning food into gasoline so they can tool around while the elderly starve to death?

See?

It all fits together. Instead of protecting America, cutting down our reliance on foreign sources of energy to run our nation, instead of unilaterally withdrawing our troops from all over the planet, we have been hijacked into running everything at our expense and for someone else's interest.

Just this month, after several years of misdirection and pushing, Bush announced we should send troops to Dafur. The people pushing for this are the exact same people who are screaming for us to not look at Palestine and pay no attention to the horrors of that ghetto/concentration camp. These same clowns profess to love the people in Africa but then pay not attention to the sufferings of the people in Chad or Nigeria as we pump out all their oil and leave them a mountain of IMF debts in return!

Dafur is a classic "balance of nature" event, when the herders got out of control, when the farmers and herders clashed over water use, land use, overpopulation, they have a mutal meltdown that is pretty violent and which has yo-yoed back and for across all the great plain areas on earth since cattle herders began to domesticate the horse, the sheep and the cow 7,000 years ago. Fixing this requires things we can't or won't do such as birth control and imposing a regime on the people of Dafur that limits the size of herds, the land one farms, sort of like what Ancient Egypt imposed back at the very dawn of agriculture.

The Middle East is undergoing an unsustainable population explosion. Across the planet, religious fanatics are desperately reproducing, seeing this as the chief way of extending their powers. From Hassidic Jews to Shia fundies to Christian born agains, all of them and more are seeking the same tool: high birth rate/oppression of women's rights so they can win their pathetic wars against their equally insane advesaries.

Why is America doing this? Europe and a large part of Asia have opted out of this mad birth rate/mad religion scramble for power. Why are we encouraging it, arming it and egging it on? Just this week, more and more states are rushing in with anti abortion anti birthcontrol legislation designed to dragoon female bodies into this destructive battle that will end only when we destroy our entire planet earth.

For what? Reminds me of the 1930's movie with the gangster on top of a gas tank screaming, "I am on top of the world, ma!" as he blows himself up.

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Someone Who Wants Civil War and The Destruction of America Blew Up Holiest Shi'a Shrine

2006-02-22T07:25:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Someone (there are many candidates for who) blew up and completely destroyed the Shi'a's most holy shrine, the Golden Dome of Samarra. This comes in the middle of American intense pressure on the Shia (Shi'ites) to share power with other religious/tribal groups. Iraq is litterally blowing up in our faces. Our troops are in tremendous danger now.

From the BBC:

A bomb attack in Iraq has badly damaged one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, sparking furious protests.
Thousands of Iraqis have gathered at the al-Askari shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad, where two men blew up the famous golden dome in a dawn raid.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual head of Iraq's Shia Muslims, has called for a week of mourning.

Just the other day, Sadr threw unity talks into disarray.

The 33-year old firebrand - whose support was crucial to last week's controversial re-nomination of the prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari - threw the nascent talks into disarray at the weekend, saying he opposed Iraq's new federal constitution and repeating calls for the swift withdrawal of US and other foreign forces.

"I reject this constitution which calls for sectarianism and there is nothing good in this constitution at all," he told al-Jazeera television in a rare interview, conducted in Jordan. He added that the withdrawal of foreign forces "should be the priority of the future Iraqi government."

OK, this explosion happened when the temple was empty. Previous Sunni/Shi'a explosions have happened, using suicide lunatics, during festivals and worship. This one was a sunrise raid. Samarra isn't exactly an open city for any Sunni to enter much less a group of armed men carrying what had to be a very big load of TNT. This bomb blew up a very massive building.

The building was pretty much empty except for guards which makes me suspicious. Not that the list of bomb suspects is short! There are a whole slew of people who want war and chaos in the Middle East and America in the middle of it. Like a guy named Bin Laden.

Our invasion of Iraq will go down in the annals of history as a tremendous event. And like previous tremendous events, viewed as the ultimate military/imperialist folly. Unlike the American media, the historians will marvel as to why a global empire's benefactors chose a drunk, ill tempered war deserter to lead the empire on world conquest.

Napoleon showed himself to be a great general and a magnetic leader when he took over the French empire. Hannibal's attempt at subduing Rome failed by he is still hailed as a military genius. Alexander the Great was dashing, energetic, magnetic and a fine tactician just like a host of Roman generals. Rome did what we are doing. After extending their empire all over the place, they sat back and began to choose a series of Bush clones to lead them to hell.

Why empires love to do this baffles me. America is filled with really competent people who could have easily kept the ship of state afloat, case in hand is Clinton. But the rich and powerful weren't happy with Clinton's steady hand so they installed Bush who is, on nearly every level, totally toxic for maintaining and extending an empire.

Iraq was lost long ago. We are like a bug caught by a sadistic child, wings stripped off, pinned to a table top by a knife point, spinning helplessly. The Soviet Union bled to death doing exactly what we are doing. We are bleeding to death.

Thank you, Skull and Bones.

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Bush Defies Rising Fury About Handing Our Ports To UAE, Threatens Veto

2006-02-21T16:25:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

BREAKING NEWS: From The NY Daily News:

The Dubai firm that won Bush administration backing to run six U.S. ports has at least two ties to the White House.

One is Treasury Secretary John Snow, whose agency heads the federal panel that signed off on the $6.8 billion sale of an English company to government-owned Dubai Ports World - giving it control of Manhattan's cruise ship terminal and Newark's container port.

Snow was chairman of the CSX rail firm that sold its own international port operations to DP World for $1.15 billion in 2004, the year after Snow left for President Bush's cabinet.

The other connection is David Sanborn, who runs DP World's European and Latin American operations and was tapped by Bush last month to head the U.S. Maritime Administration.

Bush said he feels so strongly about handing over our ports to those who helped enable the 9/11 attacks, he will veto any bill Congress sends him. Can we impeach him now? What will it take? Do we wait until he flies AF 1 into the Capitol Building?

From Associated Press:

President Bush said Tuesday that the deal allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go forward and that he would veto any congressional effort to stop it.

"After careful review by our government, I believe the transaction ought to go forward," Bush told reporters who had traveled with him on Air Force One to Washington. "I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company. I am trying to conduct foreign policy now by saying to the people of the world, `We'll treat you fairly.'"

Insane. We hand our factories over to everyone and anyone, we handed our state department over to a tiny country in the Middle East, Bush openly kisses repeatedly, the King of Saudi Arabia, aside from the obviousness of this marriage made for men, has the entire GOP sold their souls yet?

Why do they hate gay lovers kissing in public? Have they no shame? It is obviously perfectly fine, isn't it? But why should we be kissing the guys who sponsored the 9/11 attackers? What?

Just this last week the guy who brought us the Cole blow up, killing many sailors, "escaped" his prison. What a shockeroo.

All over the Middle East, everyone is back stabbing everyone. So why would we hand over all our major ports to one of these back stabbers? Makes zero sense to me!

The GOP put Bush in power, they enable him, they work with him, they are responsible for him existing in office and they can get rid of him. If this doesn't force them to rethink who is running America and why, well, I am speechless. (Actually, not!)

And what are the "consequences" Bush darkly threatens us with? If he knows, why can't he spit them out? Will they attack us again if we don't hand over our ports? If so, yet another reason to say no. Are we doing this so we can have troops in Iraq? Again, what the hell? Why do we need troops there, anyway? They aren't doing us any good over there, they are making things worse and worse.

The oil? Well, the UAE is way over the Hubbert Oil Peak, they are the bankers for the other corrupt kissy-kissy guys over there and again, they were the conduit for bin Laden's money, weren't they? Europe needs their oil, not us. If the Europeans want to have them run their ports, bon appetite! But as for me, no. No!

Gov. Pataki said no. The gov of NJ said no. Mayor of NY said no. So it is no as far as I am concerned. Pakaki should call for Bush's impeachement now.

Yes, to that, I say! Yes!
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Condi Rice Twists Arab Arms To Betray Palestinians

2006-02-21T15:36:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Working hard for the Israeli government, Condi Rice lays down the law for all the despots working for us in Muslim lands: attack the Palestinians for Israel or else. This isn't exactly popular with their subjects who itch to remove all these despots. They cling to power only by cleaving to the USA which works only on behalf of the Jewish rulers of Palestinian lands. Bin Laden is laughing.

From the New York Times:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice must try to reconcile dissonant elements of the Bush administration Mideast policy this week -- defending the push for Palestinian elections won by people who oppose Israel's right to exist while seeking help from the kind of autocratic regimes she says have had their day.

Rice, who arrived here Tuesday afternoon, wants Egypt and Saudi Arabia to pressure the new Hamas leadership in the Palestinian territories to moderate its policies, the main message of two days of mostly closed-door diplomacy in Cairo and Riyadh.

You can bet, this was closed door. No way does Condi or the despot ruling Egypt of the thoroughly corrupt Saudis want their own people to hear anything about anything these Quislings do in their name!

Both countries are not only close to blowing up, they are blowing up! Not on the daily basis of Iraq but close. Hama's victory has been a shot across all their prows. The people in Egypt are cheered by the Hamas victory and they will tear Mubarak limb from limb. The Brotherhood stands alone in Egypt, the only opposition party and Mubarak is moving heaven and earth to try to thwart them only each step he takes strengthens them. They are nearing "god" status now, thanks to Mubarak.

Like Bin Laden in Saudi Arabia.

Our loud mewling on behalf of Israel is hastening the day both Israel and the USA will be embroiled in a vast war which will be called WWIII. Israel won't last even six hours in that war. Much of the Middle East will be destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. But this is what we want. We need desperately to steal lands of farmers and shepherds in Palestine. We need them for ourselves because....we want them. So there.

More Palestinians were killed today as Israeli forces raid one town after another on the West Bank, treating this whole Warsaw Ghetto II as some way of eliminating pesky religious/ethnics they need to remove for more Jewish Lebensraum.

''What does Dr. Condoleezza Rice want from Egypt? Why does she ignite Egyptians' anger every time she visits Cairo? Is it a prudent diplomacy to attack a country before she visits it,'' wrote Mohammed el-Shabah, editor of the independent Nahdat Masr newspaper.

This is what Rice does everywhere. Insults everyone, barks orders, stomps around. Geeze. This is how Bush operates, too!

Meanwhile, Hamas goes about, lining up new allies and finding them in many places. From the NYT:

The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, formally asked Hamas today to establish the new government, while the top Hamas leader said Iran was likely to play an increasing important role in Palestinian affairs.

At his seaside compound in Gaza City, Mr. Abbas appointed Ismail Haniya, 42, to lead the government. Hamas nominated Mr. Haniya as its candidate for prime minister on Sunday. Today's meeting was a formality, though it set the clock ticking for Mr. Haniya, who now has up to five weeks to put together a cabinet. However, Hamas leaders say they would like to complete the process in two weeks.

The radical Islamic faction is facing a host of urgent challenges, with Israel imposing sanctions and Western countries refusing to deal with the group.

Meanwhile, the top overall Hamas leader, Khaled Meshal, held a second day of meetings in Iran, a country that has long been supportive of Hamas.

You can bet, they will cleave to Iran! And Israel hates this! So time to have Condi and Bush attack Iran! Attack attack! What if, heaven forfend, Iran gets what Israel has, namely nukes, and Iran then informs Israel they have to negotiate a peace with the Palestinians or they might have nuclear war? So far, no one with nukes as sided with Palestine.

All the great powers are circling the Middle East. We should have not takens sides so blatantly over the Palestinian/Israeli division of the Holy Lands. We could have played brokers there but we broke with only one side. Now, trying to drag everyone into our one sided mess, we are setting up a vast explosion of rage and hate which we see the tiny tips of every few months as subject populations rage at us and at their own rulers.

This unstable mess should be handled adroitly and besides, how dare our country's leaders throw away our country's interests in order to service only one nation that isn't America? This is, by definition, exactly what our founding fathers warned about, vis a vis, England. Not to side with the English all the time. By reaching out to the French, we won our revolution. Yet a mere thirty years earlier, we were fighting the French with great ferocity!

No nation is always our friend or always our enemy. Not even when they were/are communist!

Here is the latest farce from Iraq, concerning the triumphant Shi'ites: From the Independent:

The US and Britain are pressuring Iraq's dominant Shia community to relinquish two key ministries in negotiations for a new government, as the country was hit by a wave of bombings that killed at least 24 people.

The US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, warned yesterday that Washington might cut aid to the Iraqis if the new government included sectarian politicians, pointing out that the US had spent "billions" in building up the police and the army.

So, we are going to cut aid? Hahaha. Well, they don't need our "aid". They can kick us out and tap their own oil, themselves, and even cleave to Iran and form a mega-empire again! Makes perfect sense to them! We lost Iraq long ago, we lost our shirts there as well as our sanity.

Think the Shi'ites are scared or impressed by Condi snarling at them? Think of what a funny picture that is to them. We sent Cheney's silly daughter and Karen Hughes to the Middle East to win their hearts and minds and where are those two broads, anyway? I don't see them. Are they hiding behind burquas?

According to the Chinese, Iran and Russia are in agreement now over nuclear power: From Xinhua net:

Iran and Russia have reached a rudimental agreement on principles over a Russian compromise proposal of joint uranium enrichment venture, state television quoted a senior negotiator as saying on Tuesday.

"After positive and constructive talks, the two sides reached a rudimental agreement on principles of a common formula and we will continue our negotiations to further the agreement," said SeyedAli Hosseini-Tash, deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

As I explained in a previous article, people driven to the wall often stage astonishing comebacks. The Shi'ites know this. The Palestinians know this. Severe repression has the side effect of strengthening the willpower to resist.

Getting the Muslim overlords to cut funds to the Palestinians doesn't weaken them, it makes them stronger for they don't have to bow to these overfed, weak, corrupt men masquerading as leaders. The hungry lion is a better hunter than a fat sheep.

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More on the Art of Figure Skating: Being Uptight Is Bad

2006-02-21T10:55:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

One of the greatest figure skating moments remains the "Bolero" dance done by Torvill and Dean of Britain. Almost amaturishly, they struck the perfect note, they barely understood how or why, it still is a great dance and outstanding in many ways. This week, solo women skaters take to the ice. The winner will be the one who is the most relaxed and happiest. The loser will be the one trying too hard. Michelle Kwan could never win because she was always incredibly tense.

From the NYT:

Until last year's world championships, Irina Slutskaya of Russia had a reputation for wilting under pressure. Sasha Cohen of the United States became known for following flawless short programs with collapses in the long. And Carolina Kostner of Italy built expectations after finishing third in last year's world championships but now must keep her poise in an arena full of flag-waving, horn-blowing countrymen.

In women's figure skating, the line between Olympic gold medalist and frustrated also-ran is thinner than the blades the skaters balance on. The pressure comes from being the main event at every Olympics, and how the favorites handle that usually determines who wins and who watches their Olympic dreams crumble.

Singers, musicians, orators, circus clowns, anyone who appears in public gets the jitters. I know, I have. There are various cures for this but one thing most people agreed upon was, it is a form of Buddhist meditation. If you are concentrating on what you will be doing excessively, you will fail.

So, the day of any performance, I would mess around doing housework or drawing pictures or vigorous walks in the park or even better, if warm, a swim in the sea. It is the old trick, ask any horse this, if you practice a hundred jumps just before going into a hunting class competition, the horse will crash into the second jump barrier. For some reason, anxious coaches push the "practice to death" methodology. The most important thing any skier or skater has to do before a competition is stretch the muscles and relax the major muscles and rest. Yes, freshness after resting.

With dancers, it is even greater. Since one must reach deep inside for some sort of emotional meaning, some inner strength, this means staying away from the choreography for a critical 24 hrs before a performance. Do something different.

BREAKING NEWS: Sasha Cohen is falling apart, just as I suspected she would.

From the Washington Post:Cohen, 21, who finished second to Kwan in four national championships, seems due for the major title that has long eluded her. Historically, however, she has killed her chances with big mistakes.

Though she fell hard attempting a triple flip in practice Monday, she looked relaxed, doing a run-through of her program without attempting any jumps to save her energy for Tuesday.

She is very uptight. The fact that she fell is recognized by skaters as "oh-oh, doom!" Falling down shakes one up. It is a physical shock. It is like a car crash. For several days even after a small fender-bender, one is much more cautious. When a skater falls during a performance, almost always, they cut down on the number of triples and combination jumps.

In the very old days, only 15 years ago, skaters had to excell in school figures. I used to skate those. They were the equivalent of meditation on ice. You have to make a full circuit first on the inside edge then the outside edge on one foot and the only monentum one can get is the single swing of the trailing leg at the apex of the 8. Not only that, one had to repeat the 8 more than once and the lines must line up! No one does this anymore, it is rapidly becoming a lost art and what I feared would happen is happening: classical form and shape is disintigrating and nervousness is rising.

It is more than that. From the Washington Post:

A few days ago, I wrote a defense of figure skating as a sport, because it's basically gymnastics performed on a pair of butcher knives. The same is true of ice dancing; it requires unbelievable timing, perfect coordination and staggering athleticism, while balancing on sharpened blades slightly more than an eighth-inch wide. The original dance portion, when numerous couples fell, left audiences both aghast and uproarious, but it also demonstrated the degree of difficulty in the sport. While it may look easy, thanks to the waving fabric, it's actually really, really hard to suspend a woman in midair with one arm, while whirling on blades at 30 miles an hour.

This is the picture of the most spectacular of the blow outs. Ice dancing in much more exciting but for the wrong reasons. It is more akin to watching NASCAR races. Will they crash? Will anyone die? Pairs skating has become this for so long that it has near zero artistic value left. The violent, athletic side dwarfs the artistic impulse to the point that people really don't like watching it anymore.

Ice dancing, thanks to Torvill and Dean's famous performance, has been rapidly rising as the more popular event, second only to women's solo. But it is now going down the same path as pairs, increasingly dangerous and amazingly ugly moves done to terrorize or wow the audience. In the Tovrill/Dean Bolero, I will note several things after reviewing it again after not seeing it for many years. Torvill is softly padded. Comparing her to the dancers in this Olypmics, they are all very stringy and hard edged. I remember Torvill being critisized for her padding but this is what made her dancing so charming. She had a real vulnerability coupled with the strength of her bulk, both joined in a unity of purpose. When drawing her in the opening picture above this article, I was struck by how she was skating backwards while her body was in a double arc, her head thrown back and her back arched forwards while her legs were lightly bent, her arms held away from the body in a natural curve.

A complex form of simplicity itself. It was an emotional shape working on us on several intimate levels.

Ice dancing has become increasingly violent. Even Dean, who accidentally stumbled upon the magic of what makes great art, lost it because he wanted to win competitions instead of extend his art and thus, lost both. He also brought about something I wanted for years: the music and the skating as a whole. I hate music that skips suddenly and ear-jarringly from one slice to another as they go fast/slow/fast. Again, this was lost over the years and we are back to the butchered music.

And speaking about lost---Cohen is following the exact same path poor Michelle Kwan trod. She isn't going to any parties, she isn't meeting anyone, she is staying in isolation as much as possible so she can concentrate on doing the same old same old over and over until is becomes so stale, her very limbs, her feeling will rebel and betray her on the ice when she tries to concentrate them on her goal of winning.

The winner is nearly always the one who is carefree and happy. The one who runs around, having fun. And ultimately, that is what all sports ought to be: fun. The minute they aren't, it is slavery and oppression and destructive of the mind and soul

Which is why Miller, the wayward skiier is so funny. Everyone yelled at him about his having fun and making light of everything and lo and behold, he becomes grim and angry and crashes all over the place. Gads. Who cares if one wins or loses? It is how you play the game and why that matters.

Lighten up, everyone.

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Political Operatives Reclassify Old Documents At National Archives

2006-02-21T10:16:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Just as Cheney refuses to reveal what he talked about when he headed the Energy Commission (we can guess, easily, he talked about how to con people into invading Iraq and Iran), the blanket of secrecy has been drawn over more and more of America. Just as Homeland Security gags librarians so they can't go to the press to talk about how they are forced to spy upon fellow citizens, so it is with nearly everything like the illegal spying done by Bush, the few Senators allowed to even know of this were gagged from talking about it with anyone at all so it meant, basically, no one knew anything. Reminds me, Bush broke more than one Federal law here, arrest the man.

From the NYT:

In a seven-year-old secret program at the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from public access thousands of historical documents that were available for years, including some already published by the State Department and others photocopied years ago by private historians.

The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the Central Intelligence Agency and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after a 1995 declassification order signed by President Bill Clinton. It accelerated after the Bush administration took office and especially after the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to archives records.

But because the reclassification program is itself shrouded in secrecy — governed by a still-classified memorandum that prohibits the National Archives even from saying which agencies are involved — it continued virtually without outside notice until December. That was when an intelligence historian, Matthew M. Aid, noticed that dozens of documents he had copied years ago had been withdrawn from the archives' open shelves.

In every agency, at every point of contact between citizens and any information or people holding information, Bush has used the huge mountain of money from the Homeland Security funding to hire right wingers who are busy cutting off all access to any information they don't want us to know.

Like information about nuclear war. Information about global warming. Casualty figures and photos of coffins of dead soldiers. Diplomatic information. Information about oil reserves. M3 money information. Job statistics. You name it, they will either keep it secret or warp the information or hide their meddling and we could characterize this government as the Beria Islands or perhaps Ewige Nacht Und Nebel (eternal night and fog).

I used to joke in the sixties that if you wanted to know all our secrets, call the Kremlin. They always knew everything, the entire reason to keep, say, the Pentagon Papers secret was because it revealed how our military and political owners were lying about everything and knew they were lying about everything and were utterly unrepentant about cynically lying and they hoped to keep on lying.

After the war collapsed into defeat, there was no point in keeping any information secret yet getting information was still as hard as pulling crocodile teeth from a reptile dining on a hippo. Bush, being of a criminal mind, has always been very big on hiding information. This is why his Texas driver's license was recreated as 001 and his killer wife's as 002. If you want to see their past records, you can't. They are gone. Totally hidden.

Bush had his Texas National Air Guard records scrubbed, too. They did this so hastily, they tore out a page they had to reinsert, the one with his pay records. This should have been a national scandal but it wasn't since the media and the rich wanted tax cuts. So they played dumb.

When Clinton ran America, we had comparative openess and the GOP demanded to see every scrap of paper in both Hillary and Bill's past. Every detail, no matter how tiny, had to be microscopically examined yet a mere one year later, the entire media shrugged when we demanded to see Bush's driving record. Not to mention his extensive arrest record. Ho hum.

Now we live in darkness. The tiny shreds of information we glean is due entirely and only to the internet which allows people to rifle through much of the world's data even if much of our own country's data is increasingly missing, it merely means we have to dig elsewhere.

And of course, the proof is in the pudding, as always. Never trust the rulers. Any where or any time. This is simply being sensible.

MORE NEWS: From In These Times:

Buried within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 is a regulation that bars most public access to birth and death certificates for 70 to 100 years. In much of the country, these records have long been invaluable tools for activists, lawyers, and reporters to uncover patterns of illness and pollution that officials miss or ignore.

In These Times has obtained a draft of the proposed regulations now causing widespread concern among state officials. It reveals plans to create a vast database of vital records to be centralized in Washington, and details measures that states must implement–and pay millions for—before next year’s scheduled implementation.

Just like they keep secret the death numbers of civilians and the number of missing from Hurricane Katrina, the need to turn all systems into dark holes is how murderers hide their actions. What you can't see, you can't know. All totalitarian govenments like to lie about life and death matters. This is why they "disappear" people. Nacht und Nebel.

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Pakistan Has No Oil But It Is Falling Apart Rapidly And Might Fall To Islamic Revolutionaries

2006-02-20T20:51:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Riots rage all over Pakistan and the military dictator struggles to keep a tenuous grip on power, even the cities hit by the earthquakes quiver with rage. This country has no oil but has both nukes and bin Laden.

From the Independent:

Just 24 hours after the cricket international the centre of Lahore was in flames and dead bodies lay on the streets, as the crisis over the "blasphemous sketches", as Pakistanis call the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed, moved into a new, violent and for Musharraf, treacherous phase. After a week in which protests spread like a rash across the country, many of them violent, Musharraf intervened yesterday to ban a mass rally planned for the capital, Islamabad, and ordered the detention of hundreds of ringleaders.

Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, the religious party that called yesterday's rally, was placed under house arrest. Just hours earlier he had warned of a nationwide campaign to unseat the President if Musharraf were to hinder the protests. "We will not stop till we achieve our objectives against the present rulers," he said. "General Pervez Musharraf is acting as the representative of western civilisation and is fighting a battle against Islamic values."

We keep shooting rockets and missiles into the tents of poor mountain tribes in Pakistan hoping to hit the Taliban or bin Laden who, as usual, are three steps ahead of us physically and ten steps ahead tactically. Have we no sense of our own legends and history?

If one is a Scotsman, how about the story of Robert the Bruce?

It would be neither sheep nor lions that inspired Bruce. News came finally of his family. His sisters and daughter had been caged like animals. His youngest brother Nigel, Sir Charles Seton (his brother-in-law) and the Earl of Atholl all disposed of in the same grievous fashion as William Wallace.

He was told too, of the beheading of his brothers Alexander and Thomas and their failed venture to gain support in Ireland.

According to oral tradition, the King of Scotland, filled with grief, sought solace in a nearby cave as his ragtag army made camp. There he wailed of his family's fate and the seemingly endless road of death and failure on which he had put Scotland forth. Lying there in despair, Bruce noticed a small spider in the corner of the cave trying desperately to weave his web. He watched, transfixed, as the small creature flew from his home to the other side, only to fall short of his destination. Finally, on the seventh attempt the spider reached his goal and Bruce was duly inspired.

He remarked, according to tradition, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." Bruce rallied his patriots.

He eventually joined with the Douglas's, his faithful allies. With the permission of Bruce, Sir James Douglas dispatched a team to rid his ancestral castle in Douglasdale of the occupying English. It was a day of great reckoning for the "Good Sir James" as he reclaimed his family's castle. The Scots quickly made their way inside the castle walls. With the shouts of "Douglas! A Douglas!" echoing through the surprised English, the men routed the supplies, beheaded every prisoner and fouled the well with dead horses and salt before torching the entire castle. The day was Palm Sunday exactly one year from the coronation of Robert the Bruce as King of Scots.

King Edward I bent all his considerable military willpower on subduing the wild mountain tribes of Scotland just as he nailed down the Celtic people of Wales. In the end, by sheer strength of will and clever battle tactics suitable for the terraine and people of Scotland, Robert the Bruce triumphed in the end.

Why we don't think of bin Laden this way puzzles me. Way back when we started fighting him in ernest, I wondered what our ultimate game plan was? To draw and quarter him and nail his arm to the mosque doors? Like Edward did to William Wallace?

When he defeated Wallace, Edward thought it was a brilliant idea to nail his body parts on various church doors. It was...For the Scots! Inspired by this, they fought fiercely for Robert the Bruce who was also inspired.

The British royals later made the same mistake. Henry V took huge amounts of France and suddenly died while besieging Orleans. The British weren't too worried, the French were very divided and no problem. They figured they had all the time in the world to take Orleans.

And then this young peasant girl suddenly arose and took on the entire British military. She claimed she was doing this at the behest of two saints who ordered her to fight for France. The British managed to capture her and had her put on trial. She was so eloquent, they had to make the trial secret in the end and they condemned her as a witch and burned her at the stake and this act unified the French and they overpowered the British in her name and drove them out of France (it actually was the cuisine, they couldn't take watching the English boil everything! heh). We all know of Joan of Arc today.

So why are we turning bin Laden into a Joan, a Robert, a Wallace? This is where the "hearts and minds" stuff was life and death for us, a riddle we had to figure out. And we couldn't because the most important piece, Palestine, is the one piece we adamantly refuse to honor, pick up or defend.

Instead, we make things worse at every turn and watching Israel weasel away the tax money they steal from those poor people while Bush withholds humanitarian funds and the Israelis are killing and killing every day and stealing as much as they can as fast as they can, we are on a terrible collision track here, we will be facing Joan of Arc armed with nukes!
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America Plans To Nuke Iran And Anyone Else Who Defies Our Power

2006-02-20T10:59:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Just as we are menacing democratically elected leaders in Venezuela and Iran, we are demanding any country with oil or other resources we desire must be fully disarmed so we can invade easily. To enforce this disarmament, we claim we may use nuclear bombs!

From Antiwar.com:

A telltale sign that (using nukes on non-nuclear nations) is the plan is the recent change in the stated mission of Los Alamos National Laboratory, where nuclear weapons are developed. The mission of LANL used to be described officially as "Los Alamos National Laboratory's central mission is to reduce the global nuclear danger" . That will sound ridiculous once the U.S. starts throwing mini-nukes around. In anticipation of it, the Los Alamos mission statement has been recently changed to "prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction and to protect our homeland from terrorist attack." That is the present and future role of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, to be achieved through threat (deterrence) and use of nuclear weapons. References to the old mission are nowhere to be found in the current Los Alamos documents, indicating that the change was deliberate and thorough.

This is pretty alarming news. This was done without public input or public debate. Like nearly all the alterations in America changing us from a democracy to a police state, this gigantic change in policy was simply slipped in. If caught, they will claim that words don't mean anything.

Our invasion of Iraq was a war crime because we went to the UN and lied about our intentions and about Saddam's WMD. Few Americans choose to remember that UN teams were all over Iraq, seeking any traces of WMD and we forced the UN to remove them hours before we began "shock and awe" bombing attacks.

When we invaded and found absolutely nothing, this made it a war crime and Bush should have been arrested and charged and serving his prison sentence by now. Instead, thanks to the naked greed of Americans and Europeans and Japan, we literally got away with murder.

Now we are repeating the exact same charges yet again against Iran. And like last time, our biggest charge is, Iran is working with bin Laden who hated Saddam tremendously and who hates Shi'ites a lot, too. Why his deadliest enemies support him is something our dictator doesn't feel he has to explain.

Our Congress has turned Bush into a dictator. Like Hitler, Bush has to use various power levers to get his way in the present case, the GOP works the levers for him with the open collusion of the media who seem desperate for a police state so they and their clients, corporate entities, can get as much money as possible with the least amount of work as possible.

Since the American consumer is nearly tapped out and now that housing prices are no longer relentlessly rising, the last source of disposable income---mortgages---are going to dry up and the cruel necessity of soaking the remaining pennies from the populace will require brutal force.

Nuking Iran to "make America safe" will be popular simply because they can't hit us with a peashooter, they have wealth we can tap for our rulers so the party and rage onwards here, and we already have corralled Europe into this imperialist jaunt by offering them half of the spoils a la Venice and the infamous Third Crusade.

That turned out very badly for the crusaders destroyed Constantinople and fatally weakened it so the Islamic hordes were able to storm into Europe eventually, all the way to Vienna.

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America Is A Police State: Idaho Federal Employee Threatened By Homeland Security For Having Antiwar Stickers On Car

2006-02-20T08:30:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Idaho Federal worker, a military vet, is harrassed by Homeland Security agents because he had antiwar bumper stickers. This is what all those billions or Homeland Security money is for: not to save any Americans but to silence us all.

From the Artic Beacon:

And now from Boise comes another horror story about how one more average American has been contacted by Homeland Security agents and told "point blank" to remove several bumper stickers from his Ford Ranger parked in a federal employee parking lot where he works.

"We are living under fascism and this is one of the most repressive government's I have seen in my 51 years," said federal employee and former Navy veteran, Dwight Scarbrough, in an extended Friday phone conversation from his Boise home. "What happened to me was a typical example of fascist behavior. They are destroying the fabric of our communities in so many ways, including killing off our children in Iraq and ruining the financial base of our cities."

Scarbrough, who served in the Navy on a submarine from 1975-80 at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, said "it was ironic" that during his military stint he supposedly protected his country from the "Red Scare" while now he lived under it right here in America.

As a perfect example of the "New American Fascist State," he said on February 7 two officers from Homeland Security approached him at his office at the Natural Resource Center, saying he had to immediately remove the bumper stickers from his vehicle for being in violation of federal law in displaying "placards on public property."

This article has the dialogue he recorded. It is a must read.

The busy body rightwingers hired by Homeland Security feel they have the right to go around, imposing their desires on Americans. Note how Cindy Sheehan and even the wife of a Congressman were both ejected from the presence of Herr Bushler's State of the Soviet Union Speech. The charges were dropped against Sheehan because frankly, the arrest was not only illegal, it was utterly unamerican.

Since when have we lost the First Amendment? Eh? There is a reason it was number one! All over America, goons in the pay of Homeland Security as well as Bush's SS officers, run around, snooping on people, demanding to see ID on buses and then arresting working women for resisting this noxious demand, bursting into student housing, demanding to see posters of Bush being hung like Mussolini (I do hope we have a proper trial before justice is served...arrest Bush now!). All over the place, they crawl, seeking to intimidate.

No one has visited me. This is because they know me, they have spied on me in the past and will do so in the future. They figure, my pitiful blog can't touch them since the big guys like the NYT no longer publish my stuff.

They know if any HS or SS officers visit me, I will be very amused and will sit them down and talk to them seriously about the history of America and why my ancestors fled to here in the 1600's and why a police state is a bad idea.

Not that any of these right wing fascists will listen. What they want is power and control. So they can loot the planet, eat up the earth and then die in a horrible war.

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Smirking For Dummies: Learning To Read Their Lips

2006-02-19T08:39:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Smirking is how we human chimps show we are very pleased with ourselves while lying or faking something. The GOP is filled to the gills with smirking chimps, Bush isn't alone. Of course, Cheney is the fang baring gorilla in this group. He doesn't fake anything being an open murderous psychopath. Ditto the Skeletor twins, Chertoff and Rumsfeld.

From the Washington Post:

The rush to revise ethics laws in the wake of the Jack Abramoff political corruption scandal has turned into more of a saunter.

I remember when the Washington Post and New York Times and all the other major media, TV stations, radio stations, obessed with Gore's facial expressions, his clothing, his voice pitch. They tore apart everything he said, he was ripped literally to shreds.

With the GOP, suddenly we are not supposed to notice sound systems attached to Bush's back or his incessant blubbering, stuttering, strange pacing of words, stranger use of words, his inability to even communicate simple thoughts, nor the weird way he dresses when he is drunk or when he drops his dog on the ground in front of children and then laughs, or Cheney shooting people or wearing ridiculous clothes at a memorial ceremony. We aren't supposed to interpet obvious simian signs that the people we are listening to are out to cheat us.

But today's photo illustrates again how this works. Hastert and Boehner, the GOP leaders of the House, pretending they are at odds over lobby reforms but if you look at their faces, they are smirking which means, in plain English, they are in collusion to appear as if they want reform but can't because they disagree. This fiction is being staged so when they deep six yet another scandal, they can pretend they tried and tried but failed.

Any mother can see how this works, little children do this all the time. "I didn't break the cookie jar, did I, Jimmy?" Smirk.

Well, if Americans are so stupid they can't read faces anymore then they deserve the destruction that is roaring down on us. Here is an example of invisible smirking. From the Washington Post:

Broder: Back when the late John Mitchell was attorney general in the Nixon administration, he advised reporters, "Watch what we do, not what we say."

That advice certainly applies to the Bush administration as well. The latest bit of evidence to come to my attention is what you might think of as the Case of the Disappearing Trillion.

This is the core of smirking. To say one thing while doing the opposite. Nixon couldn't help but boast about his bamboozles. Bush is too stupid to boast but sometimes he lets slip what is on his mind like when he talked about how easy it would be, ruling as a dictator, hehehe.

In Broder's must read editorial, he talks about how Hastert, Bush and Frist are conspiring to warp the budget office to hide the fact they are extending the "temporary" tax cuts, making them permament even as they claim, in public, they are not going to do this (until after the next fake election!)

In fact, this analysis says, "The administration's proposal, by changing the rules after the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts were enacted but before they are extended, would ensure that the cost of continuing the tax cuts in the years after the current sunset dates would never be counted. The costs in those years were not counted when the tax cuts were first enacted. . . . Now, the administration is proposing that the tax cuts for those years also be ignored when the tax cuts are extended. To fail ever to count the cost of the tax cuts in the years after the sunset dates . . . would represent one of the largest and most flagrant budget gimmicks in recent memory."

Time for multilevel smirking!

TV news reporters have to struggle to confine the tendency to smirk. It occasionally peeks through. I remember in 2000, when they were trying to throw the election to Bush, all the TV honchos were smirking furiously and watching those smirks get erased when Gore refused to concede was amusing to watch in a horrible way. I knew we were doomed because these smirks became snarls directed at us, the voters, and Al Gore.

In Broder's article, he talks about how the President's budget people kept pointing out to him how they had all the hidden information as footnotes deep in the document on page 350, for example, in very fine print (probably light grey like they do on many credit card documents).

Swindlers work with mirrors, practicing keeping a straight face and one of the faces they don't want their victims to see is the infamous smirk. So why do Americans just sit there when they are seeing all the Republicans smirking in unison?

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Furor Over Port Sale To UAE Rises In Volume

2006-02-18T20:47:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

When I first blogged this story, it was a small AP item. Now that the web has passed it around, even politicians are noticing. The free trade nuts who want to trade away our freedoms are trying to convince us, having the country that assisted the 9/11 attackers run our top ports is perfectly fine because no one remembers who attacked us so long ago. It was Saddam! Bush and Cheney tell us this all the time! Yeah!

From Associated Press:

A New Jersey congressman said Saturday he wants to require that security officials at U.S. ports be American citizens to prevent overseas companies operating shipping facilities here from hiring foreigners in such sensitive positions.

Republican Frank A. LoBiondo, chairman of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, cited "significant" security concerns over a $6.8 billion sale that gives a company in the United Arab Emirates control over operations at six major American ports.

Step by step, America is surrendering our ports, our factories, our forests and our gold mines to foreigners. Our own "citizens" go around the world purchasing stuff even as they sell our country to all and sundry.

This grossly violates our security as we could see so plainly on 9/11. Having an army of spies monitoring citizens won't protect us from people attacking us. So we are wasting a hundred billion dollars on Homeland Security (sic) and at the same time selling our major ports to the very same people who attacked us a mere four years ago?

From IPS News:

But some analysts say the loud protests in Congress bring into question the U.S. push for global liberalisation and free markets and warned that it could actually backfire because of the U.S. aggressive trade agenda in the Middle East.

The United States' trade relationship with the UAE is the third largest in the Middle East, after Israel and Saudi Arabia. The two nations are engaged in bilateral free talks that would liberalise trade between the two countries and would, in theory at least, allow companies to own and operate businesses in both nations.

Why in the name of humanity does "free trade" mean selling our top port to hostile foreign governments? Why not sell Manhattan to the Chinese for a box of beads? See?

This isn't trade, it is occupation! Buying an item and then selling a different item is trade. Losing control of one's infrastructure, ports and cities is called "losing the war". Geeze.

This is what ticks me off the most about the free traders. They think everything is the same. One of the very earliest tales in the Bible is about all this.

Genesis 25:

29 And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was his name called Edom.
31 And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
32 And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Many ships crowd into our ports and we have zero control over them? Many people want to make deals with us whereby we sell America and in return, get to drive SUVs for a few more years? We get some money and in return, we let the people who have attacked us in the recent past run our ports?

You know this won't end well. No matter what. Can the deal, Cheney. Bush, stop kissing those sheiks.
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Famous Blogger, Riverbend, Raided By Masked Troops

2006-02-18T19:34:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

She started blogging just before the war and has published a book now and won well deserved awards, Riverbend keeps a running journal about life in Bagdad. This week, she had a terrible experience we should all read carefully for this is how our police state will be run if things get out of control here.

From Bagdad Burning:

We were gathered in the living room and my aunt and her husband, Ammoo S. [Ammoo = uncle] were asleep. T., J. and I were speaking softly and looking for songs on the radio, having sworn not to sleep before the cake was all gone. T. was playing idly with her mobile phone, trying to send a message to a friend. “Hey- there’s no coverage here… is it just my phone?” She asked. J. and I both took out our phones and checked, “Mine isn’t working either…” J. answered, shaking her head. They both turned to me and I told them that I couldn’t get a signal either. J. suddenly looked alert and made a sort of “Uh-oh” sound as she remembered something. “R.- will you check the telephone next to you?” I picked up the ordinary telephone next to me and held my breath, waiting for a dial tone. Nothing.

“There’s no dial tone… but there was one earlier today- I was online…”

This entire posting by her is a must read. I am pulling this particular part because this is how our military operates. They cut not only the telephone service but also cell phones. They cut internet access. This is what those blasted "war games" they played this last week was all about. I noticed the web stank between 9-5 for three days. It was nearly impossible to use, at least for me and for a number of people I know.

Rumsfeld whining about the net and how everyone uses it to pass information the Pentagon wants to kill is another warning shot aimed straight at you and me. The pathological near murder of a lobbyist smooching with Cheney and his astonishing "apology" and Cheney's sneering and the right wing cheering him on, we are in grave danger. Riverbend's harrowing night of being raided without a warrant, being menaced and her home turned inside out is just an extention of our budding police state here where police, seeking "drugs", can break down doors shooting. So it is OK to shoot people for fun and OK to shoot them for drugs and OK to shoot them if they are unarmed women in Bagdad, this is what "freedom and democracy" is in Bushland: an ugly police state.

The Democratic party wants a police state, too. This way, we can control things if workers, peasants, poor people, whoever, gets uppity. We sneer at China for attacking farmers but at least the Chinese government is sufficiently embarrassed and worried about this, they are addressing the causes of the farmers' anger. Unlike our police state where they and the media sneer at anyone who dares resist the looting of America.

This is why they attack democratically elected, very popular Chavez. They are terrified we might get fed up and try to vote in someone like him. So they have to either disparage, lie, or assassinate anyone who might lead us out of the wilderness of endless debts and endless slavery.

I read in the news the horror about long life: they say, if we get health care and live on the average up to 81 or 86 years of age, the new pension/social security limit should be 82 years! What?

And so it goes. My heart goes out to Riverbend and her family. My outrage goes out to everyone in Iraq. My fury goes out to the people in America who are enabling these crazy psychopaths to run amok, killing people nearly everywhere they go.

Arrest them all.

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The Art of Figure Skating and the Olympics

2006-02-16T20:50:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Why do Russians dominate figure skating? I would suggest it is cultural. Russia has a long and amazing history of loving dancers. The love of the fine arts intertwines with athleticism to create some of the most amazing works of art in many mediums. If we want to be better than them, we must stop hating high culture.

Once again, the Russians are dominating figure skating at nearly every level. Many people expected the Russians to falter when the Soviet Union fell but far from it, they have gotten better, if anything. Americans have to ask themselves why this is so. Aside from many individual factors, I would suggest, based purely on my own opinion and what I have learned in the past, hanging out at skating rinks, learning ice dancing for therapy when I had to recover from a very disasterous pregnancy (the baby did just great, I was the one in trouble), I noticed the culture which Olympic skaters live in, for I skated at rinks in the Northeast that hosted quite a few Olypmic skaters.

Russia and America have very different histories when it comes to the fine art of dancing. Several hundred years ago, under the fierce influence of the Spanish Court, dancing was very severe and sere. With precise footwork and arms used with stiffness due to the stiff court gowns, the arms unable to go higher than the shoulder, dance began to wither on the vine. In all eras, there is always tension between the estatic and the formal and when the two combine miraculously, we get great art.

So, in France, a ballerina stepped delicately on stage, on the tips of her toes, at the beginning of the Romantic Revolution, and as she drifted across the stage in the dim gaslight, her shimmering white gown drifting about her pulsating legs, a mania gripped the audience and she was not just swept off her feet by the male lead dancer, she was lifted high by society. Over the years, the fragile nymph became hardened and even overworked. She now has to prove her tremendous power by overwhelming us with her vast strength and so the art is lost even as the skills are mastered.
The toe shoes are harder, the body less forgiving, a hard, diamond surface, this is the modern dancer trying to recreate the miracle of the first Sylphide.

As ballet became crasser and shallower in France and the rest of Europe, it was not even allowed to exist in America being considered "degenerate". As today, we sneered at the fine arts. But in Russia, the ballet found some of the greatest composers, designers and choreographers working with what has to be some of the most amazing dancers, people who swam in the sea of dance like dophins, swans or Venus emerging from the frothy waves.

The very first modern dancers in the world all came from America. These were individual women who, fleeing the closed minds, cultural indifference, moved to Europe and these refugees brought in something ballet needed badly, for it tends towards harsh disciplinarian coldness. This great Pandorian gift was Dionysian joy.

The source of energy is in the upper chest and extends through the arms and outwards, like the sun shining. Even lying on the ground, one can lift upwards to the heavens with only a gesture of the hand. When Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller stormed Europe, shaking the dance world to the roots, the one country that eagerly not only embraced them but drank up the lessons they taught was Russia.

Instead of mechanically moving the arms and legs from postion A to pose B, they figured out that breathing in and out and moving with the lungs rather than the legs changes everything. Try exhaling while raising an arm to the sky. It is wearisome. Inhaling while rasing the arm and then exhaling at the apex gives body and flow as well as strength to the movement.

Once ballet and the Duncan style of dance were merged and remolded, Russia was ready to reconquer the dance world.

Which takes us to Russian ice dancers. The long reign of the Russians began with the amazing Ludmila and Oleg Protopopov, inventors of more than one move used by all skaters today, the most famous being the "death spiral". I watched them do this back in the beginning. It was incredible. Today, it is common, but when it is performed as they did it, the beauty returns.

The special "skill" they used was to make it look fragile even as it took great strength and daring to perform. Most women, in the death spiral today, hold themselves stiff as a board, often the head is held at an ackward angle as if she is calculating how many inches seperate her skull from the rock hard ice. This is why it jars the nerves to watch.

When the Protopopovs (love the "proto-" prefix!) did the death spiral, I believe I was watching ABC's Wide World of Sports when I saw it, as Oleg began to drop Ludmila down, she hung her head as if she were swooning and as they rotated at a high speed, her head nearly touched the ice and they sighed in unison and then he pulled her back towards himself, and she carried through her entire body, the energy of the spiral which set her into motion in a new direction, all he had to do was release her hand and off, she flew, a bird set free from a trap.

I had tears in my eyes, watching a tape of them doing this back then still moves me to tears.

Not all forces of exciting dance comes from the Russians, occasionally, others find the same style and energy, for example, the English ice dancers, Torvill and Dean, who brought real dance, real feeling to something that was increasingly vulgar. Using classical music, just like the Protopopovs did, they did what is still, today, the greatest ice dance performance ever, when they skated to Ravel's Bolero. Every move, every time an ice skate struck the glassy surface, the energy from it electrified both dancers who breathed in unison as they molded the air, the wind and the steel of their blades to become something special: a unity, a completeness of purpose yet filled with life and longing, a fragility, again, that very elusive thing, to be strong yet weak simultaneously.

It was one of the few times those deadly, annoying commentators shut up. They didn't yap away and break the spell. For the magic of that particular dance gripped everyone who watched. Sometimes, the Gods allow only one such moment in life and for the two Brits, this was such a moment. Indeed, being allowed even one such moment is a glorious thing, a laurel one never loses, not even a hundred years later.

If Americans want to win more medals in this art form, they have to change attitude. It pleases me that some are learning or come from the ballet world but that isn't enough! One has to tap into Isadora Duncan. And one has to become weak before one becomes strong.

Such contridictions shine more clearly within classical music. And this is what I miss when I watch American skaters. The music is (how to be diplomatic here) limited to only sappy popular tunes or Carmen and I will melt the ice if I hear one more "Carmen".

I once made a parody of that, dressed as a Spanish cat, crooning, "How I'd love to eat a mouse," while my son careened wildly around me dressed as a mouse.
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More, Worse Torture Pictures Leaked Via Australia

2006-02-15T12:16:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

"Able Danger" Continues to nag "investigators" who pretended to check everything out concerning 9/11 and those torture pictures we have been waiting now for years to be released are leaked to an Aussie news outlet. Also, the Repubs decide to not investigate the totally illegal spying Bush and Shoot-em-up Cheney conducted.

From AP:

An Australian television network broadcast photographs and video clips Wednesday that it said were previously unpublished images of the abuse of Iraqis held in U.S. military custody at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003.

I was wondering when we would see this. The Brits are caught in their own Abu Ghraib moment with the movie showing them brutally beating helpless teens nearly to death.

Many of the images broadcast Wednesday were more graphic than those previously published, showing what appear to be dead bodies, as well as wounded people and prisoners performing sex acts. SBS said the photographs of the dead bodies were of people who had died at the prison.

The SBS showed photographs of a bloodied cell block and a corpse, and said the man had been killed during a CIA interrogation.

One clip broadcast by SBS showed a group of naked men with bags over their heads standing together, masturbating. The network said the masturbation had been forced.

Another video, shot from several angles, showed a man described as mentally disturbed repeatedly beating his head against a wall.

Even as our dictator, Bush, worked hard to coerce the GOP in Congress to cover up our many crimes in Iraq as well as the still unknown horrors we inflicted on prisoners all over the world via the secret CIA flights, he claimed the right to continue the torture even while claiming he is punishing the tools doing to torture for him. I think I will have a headache.

Obvious now, the sole reason those soldiers were punished was for showing off these crimes. Note how just this week, Cheney reflexively tried to cover up a crime he committed (it is totally illegal to shoot someone and then get them to conspire to not report it!).

From the Indepenent:

Two Iraqis who claim to have been victims of the filmed abuse by British soldiers said last night that they would sue the British Government.

The threat of legal action came as 1,000 demonstrators in Basra burnt the British flag, and the city's governing council declared that it was cutting ties with British authorities.

The Royal Military Police confirmed that two more soldiers from the 1st Battalion The Light Infantry have been arrested in connection with the assaults in Maysan province, southern Iraq, in January 2004.

The arrests last night followed the arrest on Monday of Cpl Martin Webster who is alleged to have filmed the beatings. However, the continuing British investigation did little to assuage the growing backlash in Iraq.

England's little colonial adventure, "Lawrence of Arabia Goes Insane II" is falling apart just as rapidly as our little adventure, "Little Big Horny Mess II" is blowing up in our fool faces. Unlike America, the Brits don't really have to pay for all this, they are riding on our back. But the results will show up in due time, namely, when WWIII breaks out, England will rediscover the joys of being bombed by hostile nations.

But America and Britain want to pick a fight with Iran who is barely armed but is much more armed than Iraq was when we conspired to invade there.

From AP:

Pre-Sept. 11 intelligence conducted by a secret military unit identified terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta 13 different times, a congressman said Tuesday.

During a Capitol Hill news conference, Rep. Curt Weldon (news, bio, voting record), R-Pa., said the unit — code-named "Able Danger" — also identified "a problem" in Yemen two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole. It knew the problem was tied into the port of Aden and involved a U.S. platform, but the ship commander was not made aware of it, Weldon said.

The suicide bombing of the Cole killed 17 sailors on Oct. 12, 2000.

If anyone had told the Cole's commander that there was any indication of a problem in Aden, "he would not have gone there," Weldon told reporters. "He had no clue."

Weldon would not say who provided evidence of such intelligence to him.

Since August, Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has pushed Congress and the Pentagon to investigate the workings of Able Danger, which used data mining to identify links that might indicate the workings of terrorists. If he is correct, it would change the timeline for when government officials first became aware of Atta's links to al-Qaida.

Former members of the Sept. 11 commission have dismissed Weldon's findings.
Cmdr. Greg Hicks, a Pentagon spokesman, released a statement saying that Pentagon officials welcome the opportunity to address these issues during a hearing scheduled Wednesday before a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee.

A whole army of people knew about Atta. After all, he set up shop near his handlers and the fact that his home base totally overlaps the one place in America more overrun with retired and present CIA and ONI and NSA officers as well as the heads of the CIA/spook complexes, namely, right off of Jupiter Island itself, the retreat bought up by the first OSS director as a neat hideaway to do squirrely stuff where no one can enter because the island is a fricking fortress and Bush was there the day before Atta went on his mission and Bush and Atta were less than five miles apart at one point...GADS.

No wonder the white washers of 9/11 want to shut this Congressman up! Democrats are no better, they want to keep this garbage going for the same reasons the GOP wants to have war: both parties want war in the Middle East and for the same reasons, ask AIPAC and the American neo-cons!

Time to kill the other investigations! Whoopee! From the Washington Post:

Congress appeared ready to launch an investigation into the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program last week, but an all-out White House lobbying campaign has dramatically slowed the effort and may kill it, key Republican and Democratic sources said yesterday.

Welcome to the Ess Ess Ess Air, tovarich! The New Soviet State embraces illegal spying because it protects us from those outsiders who try to enter the Iron Curtain country of America. Only our curtain is as full of holes as swiss cheezits.

What can I say. "We are doomed."

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Scalia Babbles Like He Is Insane (Opus Idiotus)

2006-02-14T21:12:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

More and more, I get the impression we are all living in Bedlam. If Scalia has such a hot shot legal brain, how is he able to babble such garbage as in today's news? The Constitution isn't a living document? Well, thanks to him assassinating it!
WARNING: I am being VERY sarcastic here. I love everyone (except for maybe Scalia and Cheney for obvious reasons),
From Associated Press:

People who believe the Constitution would break if it didn't change with society are "idiots," U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says.

Absolutely! It doesn't "break" it merely is, if interpeted as if Scalia were a slaveowner in Antebellum South then, of course, a terrible document that says minorities are 3/5 human. Great. Let's hang out in a slave society. While we are at it, all corporations and all laws pertaining to them are unconstitutional and should be eliminated.

Yeah! Chaos! Talk about revolutionary and did this Opus Popus know the writers of the Constitution were revolutionaries?

Oopsie Doopsie Scalia is to Constitutional law what Intelligent Design (sic) is to evolution: an absurd and evil and willfully stupid man deliberately twisting the law to his own, dark ends.

Well, if we go back to the Constitution as my ancestors saw it, there would be no swarthy guys from Italy who are Catholic running anything in America!! We hated Catholics back then, we executed a king of England for being Papist! So if we go back to the INTENT of the Founding Fathers, they were 100% against Papism for they considered Catholics to be beholden only to Rome. This is why, when the Irish came in, they were not kindly recieved.

Now, my family was very odd. Far from being Christians, we were, odd. Ahem. We didn't want any Church people messing with us and we disliked the whole thing anyway which is why my great (whatever number) grandfather helped launch the Yale Satan group, the Skull and Bones. We are, after all, the Lightning People.

To continue, the last thing we wanted was some Papal Poodle on the Supreme Court so I am calling on the nation to rise up and order all Papists OFF THE COURT! This will then fulfill the Original Intentions of the people who wrote the Constitution, many of whom were Deists and Skeptics, like my own ancestors.

Actually, my first husband was Jewish and my second one, Catholic. And I am very happy we live in a country which used to have a Living Constitution before these GOP clowns decided to pepper it with birdshot.

Proponents of the living constitution want matters to be decided "not by the people, but by the justices of the Supreme Court."

"They are not looking for legal flexibility, they are looking for rigidity, whether it's the right to abortion or the right to homosexual activity, they want that right to be embedded from coast to coast and to be unchangeable," he said.

OK. I think it is time to put this man in a hospital. Here he is, this guy who would never had been allowed into this nation if the Founding Fathers had any say, telling us that his rigid, hard core Constitutional Originalism is the only way forever and ever and anyone changing this rigid rock is....RIGID. Now, this isn't possible. Someone has some contritidicting to correct, no?

Psychiatrists understand that really rigid people are sick puppies. Rigid people demanding all changes be changed back and anyone who wants to preserve changes is rigid is insane since this makes no sense at all.

This man already wrecked our country by dictating to us who was the winner of a contested election by ruling that votes don't count at all for we have no right to vote, just for example, is not someone who can yap about the Constitution being inflexible and never changing. No justice ever dared do what he did in 2000. This wasn't rigidity, this was revolutionary in a fascist fashion, indeed, we must remember, Catholic Italy became fascist and tried to take over the world by joining that Catholic, Hilter of Germany, in a wild thrust to destroy democracy.

If the Constitution should never change, this means we must be a 1789 society which means Scalia and all his ilk must be put in their place which was barely one step above the slaves! Heh!

And for him to yap about legislating from the bench. This is what he is all about.

If this man refuses to change all he has to do is lock himself in a quiet cell somewhere and pull the shades. Or perhaps he can be happy, I hope, in some other country, since he hates us bonafide Americans amending and expanding our Constitution which MY ancestors, not his, wrote.

Trust me on this. As someone descended for many generations of Americans, who fought in all wars from the William and Mary wars to WWII, I assure you, his interpetation of the Constitution is foreign to our great nation.
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Man Cheney Shot Has "Heart Attack" When Pellet Hits Heart

2006-02-14T14:44:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Now CNN tells us the guy Cheney shot nearly died of a "heart attack" because some of the birdshot penetrated the heart. I suppose when the Chinese execute people by shooting them in the head, they die of headaches. Right?

From CNN:

The fellow hunter who was shot and wounded by Vice President Dick Cheney has suffered a "minor heart attack" after a piece of birdshot migrated to his heart, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday.

Harry Whittington, 78, is in stable condition in intensive care and will remain hospitalized for up to seven days, hospital officials said.

Gods, this looks more and more like the Sharon news. It was obvious this poor man was nearly killed. Instead of admitting this, the career criminal, Cheney, begged the Texan authorities and the hospital to minimize everything. Oops, he isn't in such hot shape!

I remember when the story broke, the shooter claimed his victim was "sitting up and laughing" ho-ho-ho, "Tis' only a flesh wound! I'm not dead yet! I'm feeling better!" and as snoopy people poke around, the real news begins to leak out, reminds me of Iraq, as things worsen, they have to increase the lies and the misinformation to cover up the crime. No, this lawyer didn't have any WMD on him, only a shotgun.

Well, we might as well use this new way of looking at things. The NRA is right, guns don't kill people, heart attacks from bullets kill people! And brain hemmorages kill people, not bullets. So Kennedy died of a brain hemmorage, didn't he? And poor Martin Luther King had a massive brain/heart failure. Shooting had nothing to do with it.

The fact that Cheney immediately had to lie about all this, prevent the police from contacting him, the Secret Service acting like they were in a B rated "Godfather" movie, this all points to a Presidency that should be taken to jail. Once you lie to the police about shooting someone, they usually go after you, hammer and tongs.

Especially when the victim laughs weakly and gasps, "Please don't arrest the Godfather. He is my best, *cough*cough* friend. We were just joking." No. You arrest him.

Arrest them all.
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Pentagon War Games Attack Bloggers!

2006-02-14T07:17:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

The last several days has been blogger hell at Blogspot.com. This is why my stories haven't been posted in a timely fashion. Well, now I learn that this week, the Pentagon has been doing war games...AGAINST BLOGGERS! We are, I am assuming, the Enemy. Pen is mightier than the sword and all that.

From Prison Planet:

Homeland Security completed its “Cyber Storm” wargame to test how our government “would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.” Given that homeland security ran the “wargame,” one may infer that the nature of the attacks by bloggers must be national security related. And, given that the major national security fear of our government is terrorists, then it looks like bloggers have made our government’s hit list of potential terrorists. But, what is the nature of this “terrorist crime” that was the subject of these wargames?

Gads. So, since I don't want a flat earth, because I call for the arrest and trials of obvious criminals and psychopaths, I am the enemy?

You can bet, the Pentagon tracks my blog. This blog mentions things like Karl Marx (please note this, guys!) and I explain why the Muslims who aren't the corrupt rulers, are mad at us. I explain why the Palestinians have a more just cause than America is willing to admit. I attack the military for spending us into a hole we can't escape and for pushing for bases all over the planet which we can't afford and which only seems to protect despots and criminals. I write about how our rulers conspire with other rulers to end the American democratic experiment and turn us all into serfs and slaves.

I explain foreign policy and how ineptly it is run and I talk about the CIA a lot, being a renegade child of that organization.

And I don't espouse insane theories, all my stuff is grounded in reality.

The main thrust of our rulers is to destroy anyone who is fighting "globalization" because this is the machine they are building so we end up helpless while they exploit us all at their leisure and we can't fight back or we will be butchered or pushed into poverty. Right now, the have baited this trap by offering us endless, wall to wall cheap loans for less than the rate of inflation.

Then the IMF will step in to dictate to us how we will pay all this stuff back. And you can bet, it involves forcing many of us to live, hand to mouth, in severe poverty, to die without medical help, to possibly starve to death. Ask Argentina how this works!

Anyway, back to the Pentagon. How dare they attack bloggers? Were they responsible for the repeated outages we suffered this week? Are they the cause of all sorts of odd things happening, when I published stuff here, the text sometimes scrambled?

You know, they took their tools of disruption for a little spin this week and for the first time, blogger crashed for many hours, not at night which is when they usually go down but from 9 to 5. Indeed, it began at 9am because that is when I was posting my morning stuff and right in the middle of a posting, all hell broke loose.

I have a right to be paranoid right now!

The Pentagon has many schemes for controlling events and the top tool is propaganda and they have been banging that old war drum like a high school band at a football game. And it isn't driving us into war! So they have to silence all us anti-globalization, anti-war bloggers, shut us up so America will be free like North Korea and have only Beloved Leader propaganda and Sieg Heil! stories of brave soldiers saving babies from terrorists.

To strangle all forms of dissent and information, they know the enemy isn't the press, the media whores work day and night for the war machine, the sand in the gears are bloggers. And they want to control us just like China wants to control their bloggers. Already, Google and Microsoft and Yahoo have developed software for China to filter the net so no information can get to net users and you can bet, the Pentagon has this, too, thanks to these corporate entities.

And spying on us, lying to us, attacking us, shutting us up: this is what our whacked-out psychopathic leaders need to do. Look at the dumb Cheney shooting story: if we bloggers didnt' exist, the lies and evasions and fake information would simply float along merrily instead of sinking like lead.

“Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executivesto respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events.”
There are other indications that the Bush administration deems bloggers well within the reach of any definition of terrorist, if for no other reason than the crime of dissent and criticism. There are also indicators that relevant parties would be somewhat prepared to assist in the nabbing of terrorist bloggers:

As I highlighted, the INDUSTRY EXECUTIVES participated in all this.

Sorting through information and disinformation is a tricky business. Trust is 90% of what is involved. I hope my readers get a goodly amount of information from elsewhere for I am no more perfect than anyone else, we all make mistakes or misread (but I read correctly quite often). But the Pentagon and our rulers don't want us to connect dots or understand. Many of the weirder 9/11 conspiracy theories could have been put to rest if the 9/11 commission wasn't an obvious white wash operation. We did drive out Kissinger but that didn't mean it was not a white wash for the people running that committee were too entangled with the criminals to investigate anything.

And they refused to even ask most of our pertinent questions. Indeed, right there is a "conspiracy theory" that was created by this gang when they conspired to hide the real facts in that attack.

This is why Cheney and Bush and the Pentagon spent billions lying about Saddam and his mythical WMD. They knew he was disarmed or we wouldn't have attacked. They knew he had nothing at all to do with 9/11 but they needed to bamboozle America into believing this. Even as our own missiles misshot and hit Kuwait, the screamers were on TV and the radio, claiming Saddam was shooting at us as we invaded (amazingly psychotic, isn't that?).

Well, just remember to greet your neighbors with a hearty "Sieg Heil!"

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Cheney's Gun Nut Woes Worsen

2006-02-14T05:24:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

The NRA is silent about Cheney's poor hunting skills and the right wing machinery is running nonstop to make it look as if Cheney is a fine person. But if you read carefully, you can see clearly, Cheney is a psychopath. He shows all the classic signs.

From Associated Press:

Katharine Armstrong, owner of the ranch where the shooting occurred, said it happened toward the end of the hunt, when it was still sunny but as darkness was encroaching and they were preparing to go inside. She said Whittington made a mistake by not announcing that he had walked up to rejoin the hunting line, and Cheney didn't see him as he tried to down a bird.

Armstrong said she saw Cheney's security detail running toward the scene. "The first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem," she told The Associated Press.

She said Cheney stayed "close but cool" while the agents and medical personnel treated Whittington, then took him by ambulance to the hospital. Later, the hunting group sat down for dinner while Whittington was being treated, receiving updates from a family member at the hospital. Armstrong described Cheney's demeanor during dinner as "very worried" about Whittington.

OK, a coward who couldn't be bothered to serve his country during the Vietnam war, a war monger who enjoys planning the deaths of thousands of civilians, who boasted about how we will "shock and awe" the world with our vicious bombing raids, this man who gets pleasure shooting hundreds, yes, HUNDREDS of caged birds released for his pleasure to indulge in a bloody murderous fest, shoots a friend and he is cool?

Like, "Oh, I shot someone. Cool," type of cool? Or "So what if I shot someone. It was his fault," sort of indifference? If I shot someone who was my friend, I would hope I would fall apart with grief and worry and disgust with myself! Wailing and shedding tears, shaking all over! Psychopaths, when they kill or nearly kill people, show no emotion. This is why we call them "psychopaths". They have utterly severed all human feelings.

We bloggers made fun of Cheney at Auschwitz when he dressed as if he were going out to shoot some caged doves. He sat there, stony faced, while everyone else was weeping. He goes to funerals and looks like he is the undertaker. Bush looks like a squirmy little boy at funerals, like, "Mommy, are we done yet, I want a lollypop now!" sort of psychopath. I recall, as we peppered the Saddam sons with bullets, completely riddling their bodies, we claimed, we were not psychopathic, they had a long record of shooting people like killing dancers at a wedding, for example. Hmm. So, our press does recognize what is called "psychopatic behavior" and thinks it is OK to kill psychopaths, right? The description of the after shooting dinner party is another psychopathic story. An unnamed relative of the hostess (who is that, pray tell?) stayed with the victim while Cheney fretted.

He fretted, all right. He spent the dinner, most likely, trying to get everyone to agree on a story line that makes him look less homicidal. Less indifferent. Less responsible. Like Gollum spending his life in a cave, obsessing about murdering his cousin for the Ring of Doom, trying to blame anyone and everyone for his crime, Cheney is desperate to trun the tables and exonerate himself.

So the victim of this latest Bush/Cheney psychodrama has to be blamed for everything. Of course, the poor man was in intensive care while his friends bent over backwards to explain an obvious crime. So let's examine this story. I am, after all, a skeet shooter and a hunter so I am not so easily bamboozled.

"He walked out of the line and got shot" is pure garbage. If he walkes ahead of the line of shooters, he would have been shot where?

The back.

But he got a load of shot in the face. Sometimes people walk in front of shooters but they do it right in front of them, not 30 yrds away. At thirty yards, the man wouldn't have been shot in the face unless the shooter was deliberately doing it. This is because someone that obviously in front is easy to see. He can't "step into the line of fire" if he is that far away. He is, by definition, within the line of sight.

And how, pray tell, could he get 30 yrds in front of everyone without everyone clearly seeing him? Eh? The earliest reports are, the psychopath, Cheney, spun around and shot wildly. This is probably the truth which means Cheney should be indited for reckless hunting which is a crime. I assure you. When the Elmer Fudds go off on their psychotic hunting trips, there are laws preventing them from shooting everything they want.

Pamela Willeford, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland, another member of the hunting party, told The Dallas Morning News for a story in Tuesday's editions that she and Cheney didn't realize Whittington had picked up a bird and caught up with them.

The ambassador is lying. This is ridiculous. If Whittington had "caught up with them" how can he be "ahead of them by 30 yds"? This sounds like he was behind them, right?

So how could he "step out of the line of fire" if he had merely "caught up with them" but was still a good distance behind them?

Willeford said she has hunted with Cheney before and would again.

"He's a great shot. He's very safety conscious. This is something that unfortunately was a bad accident and when you're with a group like that, he's safe or safer than all the rest of us," she said.

Note how, to supplicate the higher up, this person not only excuses obvious psychopathic behavior, but in a state of complete denial, claims Cheney is a safe hunter when all the evidence points to him being not only unsafe but extremely dangerous. This is also how families of alcoholics operate. Even as the drunk is destroying the house, foaming at the mouth, everyone is cool and calm, watching this.

The drunk will even swear, as he is smashing around, that he has everything under control and is quite cool. Cheney, like Bush, has been arrested for drunk driving more than once. One of the probable reasons he refused to talk to the sheriff or Texas Rangers about his escapade is because, by law, they have to check to see if he was drunk. So he had the Secret Service keep away the authorities until he was sober.

At no point has our Second-Psycho-in-Chief shown himself to the public because he will obviously end up snarling and snapping at reporters because his stupid, fake, full of lies like a bird full of buckshot stories would be ripped apart. Certainly, he won't sit down with a fellow hunter like me and explain himself.

And shame on the NRA. As I recall, they have all this stupid, lying, totally fake stuff about responsible gun users and how we don't need laws because gun users don't kill 30,000 people a year, the deaths are all due to minorities running around, shooting each other and so on. Yeah, that's the story. Cheney shot a man behind him because he thought he was going to be mugged by a Mexican.

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For A Third Time We Bomb Women Peasants In Pakistan While Anti-Western Riots Rage There, Too

2006-02-13T17:58:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Pakistan's dictator warned us to stop blowing away people inside his country so right in the middle of the cartoon riots which raged today in his country, we shoot a missile deep inside Pakistan, killing two tent dwelling women and destroying the pittiful remains of their encampment. Meanwhile, Britain now reels from accusations of torture on film as well as Americans are blown up by a bomb in Afghanistan, everything is falling rapidly apart.

From the BBC:

Two Pakistani nomad women have been killed after a rocket fired across the border from Afghanistan landed on their tent, Pakistani officials say.
Four children were hurt in the attack late on Saturday in North Waziristan.

Locals say US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan fired four rockets into Pakistan's tribal area after coming under fire from unknown attackers.

A US spokesman confirmed coalition forces had returned fire into Pakistan, but was not aware of casualties.

Aside from the asinine response to "provocations", what are we doing wasting a $300,000 missile shooting at ragged tents? Huh? What gives?

The reason we are going bankrupt is because we are spending way over board amounts to do way too little. These huge missiles and bombs are for substantial buildings. It would be like Richard the Lionhearted using a dozen catapults to subdue a shepard boy in his tent. Ridiculous.

This wasn't even a border attack. We are talking more than 75 miles inside Pakistan. It isn't like "we didn't know where the border was." Worse, the provocation wasn't anywhere equal to our response.

From the BBC:

Police in Pakistan have fired tear gas to disperse at least 3,000 students demonstrating against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
Sixteen people were held for damaging public property in the protest in the north-western city of Peshawar.

Students also smashed hoardings advertising the Norwegian telecom giant, Telenor, and chanted "Death to America" and "God is Great".

OK, so crowds of screaming people are yelling, "Death to America" and then we violate their borders to kill more Pakistanis! When do we send dear old Karen Hughes over to explain to them how we are bombing them for peace and freedom and we love them and want to be friends. And Condi is sending a whole bunch of diplomats from Paris to here to do the same, to spread out and spread the good news that we love them, smooch*smooch.

Dead Eye Cheney's daughter is being paid a fortune to do this, too. I had a state department flack scold me that she was chosen for this job, to "outreach for women's issues" in the Muslim world. Have that brat trot over to Pakistan to explain again how we are liberating the women there by bombing their small tents with expensive rockets.

Meanwhile, the prisoner abuse issue grows. From the Guardian:

Royal Military Police have arrested a man in connection with video footage of British troops allegedly abusing Iraqi civilians, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today.
He was detained at 8.18pm last night, but officials refused to say where or confirm whether the man was a serving soldier.

An MoD spokesman said: "The RMP investigation into these extremely serious allegations is at very early stage. We can confirm that an arrest has been made in conjunction with this investigation."

He said the RMP would continue gathering evidence before deciding whether to bring the person before a court martial.

Earlier, the Iraqi government today expressed its "deepest concern" over a video that apparently showed British troops attacking defenceless teenagers in Basra.

Like the American military, the crime will be "photographing what we really do," not "Geeze, we better stop doing this!" The American investigation of identical crimes has already petered out without any Americans really being punished except for those who took pictures. Meanwhile, Bush wonders if we can ship the African pirates to Gitmo and torture them there, I assume. From the Telegraph:

A United Nations inquiry has called for the immediate closure of America's Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees.

The UN Human Rights Commission report, due to be published this week, concludes that Washington should put the 520 detainees on trial or release them.

Of course, this will make things slightly better for both the Muslim world and for America since this concentration camp is highly illegal, totally immoral and good only for putting Bush, Cheney and their gang behind bars and I don't mean bars serving booze.

This camp of horrors is a blight on our nation, but then, the White House of Horrors is a blight, too. The sight of Cheney blasting away wildly at domestic birds which have never flown in their lives, killing hundreds and hundreds of them just to see the blood and feathers and to feel sadistic joy in killing, this same psychopath, and he is one, he just shot a man at nearly point blank range---this murderous man is perfectly fine with us dropping bombs and missiles on innocent civilians here and there and everywhere!

Arrest Cheney. Now. Before he kills even more people. Speaking of which, From Rawstory:

The unmasking of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson by White House officials in 2003 caused significant damage to U.S. national security and its ability to counter nuclear proliferation abroad, RAW STORY has learned.

According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover (NOC) officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran.

Libby already fingered "Big Time/Bad Shot" Cheney. So, while he is under this cloud, he should resign. Then they can arrest him for refusing to talk to the police after shooting someone in the chest and face. Then we can have a trial and....

Put him in Gitmo.
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Chertoff and "Leadership From Above (Bush)" To Blame For New Orleans Deaths

2006-02-13T00:00:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

The contents of the 600 page report are out and it lays most of the blame at dual citizen, Chertoff, head of Homeland Security and his boss, the bungling vacationing bozo, Bush. Now can we arrest them and charge them? Before it is too late?

From the Washington Post:

"If 9/11 was a failure of imagination then Katrina was a failure of initiative. It was a failure of leadership," the report's preface states. "In this instance, blinding lack of situational awareness and disjointed decision making needlessly compounded and prolonged Katrina's horror."

Chertoff spokesman Russ Knocke said, "every ounce of authority" and "100 percent of everything that could be pre-staged was pre-staged" by the federal government before landfall once the president signed emergency disaster declarations on Aug. 27. Brown had "all authority" to make decisions and requests, and his "willful insubordination . . . was a significant problem" for Chertoff, Knocke said.

White House spokesman Trent Duffy said Bush had full confidence in his homeland security team, both appointed and career. "The president was involved from beginning to end," implementing emergency powers before the storm and taking responsibility afterward, Duffy said.

Since Bush was "involved" from beginning to end, he should be punished for the horrors he inflicted upon the good people of New Orleans! He chose the "I don't give a devil's damn" Chertoff to protect America and when it was obvious this clown didn't have a clue or give a hoot, the President should have dumped him instantly and installed someone better. But Bush has a history of bad choices done with deliberate malice. He wants bad things to happen because he, like Chertoff, has alliegences that are not 100% American. Note how kissy-kissy he is with the Saudis who run OPEC! His family makes a fortune running Carlyle which makes money off of American woes.

Chertoff, being a jerk, passes the buck back to stupid Brownie who shoves it back upstairs which is where it belongs since the fool running FEMA was allowed to flounder with no one saying a word except for Bush who said, "You did a heck of a job, Brownie," as praise! So the whole kit and kaboodle belongs to Bush who expressed satisfaction while babies were dying and grannies were expiring, this was all just way cool for Bush.

Like 9/11, everyone was "caught off guard" and "couldn't foresee the obvious" and the memo in August, "Mother Nature determined to strike the USA with hurricanes" was ignored. So why are we letting these clowns "protect" us? Would one tolerate police who stand idly by while criminals attack again and again? Firemen who stay in bed, sleeping, while your house is burning down?

Of course not! So when can we arrest these guys? I hear Bush pounding the same drums he beat for the war with Iraq which has been an umitigated disaster that is bankrupting us and is directly responsible for many deaths in New Orleans because of lack of manpower in the National Guard. So, before they make things even worse and before the next dozen hurricanes hit, we have to get rid of them!

The report portrays Chertoff, who took the helm of the department six months before the storm, as detached from events. It contends he switched on the government's emergency response systems "late, ineffectively or not at all," delaying the flow of federal troops and materiel by as much as three days.

I was screaming at this blog before the hurricane hit, "Where is the National Guard? Where are the people who sweep through the city, removing the weak, the poor, the elderly?" Chertoff was goofing off, Cheney was on a hunting trip (wonder who he bagged!), Condi was shopping in Manhattan and Bush was at McCain's birthday bash and then went off to give Social Security speeches!

Not one of these monsters gave two figs that Americans were dying. What is amazing is, this report was written by Republicans!

Democrats, whose leaders considered the investigation a partisan whitewash and boycotted it, called for Chertoff's removal. Reps. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) and William J. Jefferson (D-La.),who informally participated in the inquiry, renewed calls for an independent commission styled after the one that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that the investigation, while comprehensive, was rushed, failed to compel the White House to turn over documents and held no administration officials accountable.

The White House never turns over anything including a new leaf. Just like this week, after pretending Bush never met privately with Abramoff, pictures bob out of the muck, showing exactly this happening.

So now is time to haul Bush before a Senate committee to explain his relationship with Abramoff! But that will not happen for the culture of corruption and ineptitude is so set in cement, it has sunk the the bottom of the cesspool in DC. And rich people are happy with this for they are feasting off the corpse of America. This is why there is a developing scandal over corporations looting the treasury under the guise of fighting a war and rescuing New Orleans. This rapine is killing us, financially.

We just doubled the budget of the Pentagon and Homeland Security after 9/11, and America rewarded the gang that snoozed away before the attacks (I, personally, think they enabled and encouraged and WANTED the attacks) with vast power and vast funds only to discover it was used to buy the equivelent of party kegs of beer and lap dancers.

Arrest them now. Impeach Bush. Arrest Cheney for shooting someone. Gads. What do they have to do? Eat live bats while raping boys on FOX TV's "American Idle"? What more do we need?
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Cheney Is A Bad Hunter, Shoots Without Looking!

2006-02-12T17:40:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

The gang of criminals in the White House, running America, can't stop doing illegal or wrong things even when on vacation. Cheney spun around and shot a fellow hunter who was behind him! I hunt. One never, ever spins around and shoots blindly. Take away this dude's guns. He ain't safe.

From CNN:

Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets.

Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was "alert and doing fine" in a Corpus Christi hospital Sunday after he was shot by Cheney on a ranch in south Texas, said Katharine Armstrong, the property's owner.

The guy he shot is the lawyer who buried all the illegal burial company garbage that a Texan regulator, May, had taken Bush to court over when he was Gov of that besotted place.

But what really riles me is this display of inept hunting skills. Aside from the web going nuts with Cheney jokes from "heck of a shot, Cheney!" to "Guns don't kill, VPs kill" and so on, an endless array of jokes. But stupid hunters are no joke. They kill people. And when Cindy Sheehan was demonstrating peacefully in front of Bush's "ranch" she was threatened by a Bush friend who claimed he was going "dove hunting" but was driving around with a crate of beer in his pickup, yelling like a fool.

I have used guns all my life. I know the rules. Never shoot until you ID your target is rule #1! Period! Any idiot can pull a trigger over and over but a hunter is supposed to be cool and collected and even if you have a buck in your sights, you first look without the sights to insure you see there is no one around nearby and that it is a buck and not Aunt Mabel you are shooting.

Every year we hear reports of "I thought he was a really big groundhawg!" or "That's a cow? I thought all deer were black and white." Ladies hanging laundry are shot because some idiot like that dentist, see a flash of white and think, "Deer tail!" and shoot as if anyone wants to shoot a deer in the ass.

That is really dumb to begin with!

Having done skeet, I know you don't turn around and shoot at chest level. PERIOD. Never. NEVER, you hear, Elmer Fudd?

Sigh. Right wing males love these clowns. Makes me wonder. Are they really that inept, too? Why do they adore these Brokeback Buffoons? I don't admire them. I can shoot guns accurately. (Bet Cheney would shoot Eddie Eagle, too.)
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Misunderstanding Diplomacy, American Zoos Whine About Pandas Lent By China

2006-02-12T13:13:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Even as two zoos that host Chinese diplomat pandas reap huge crowds thanks to baby pandas, all three American zoos with these rarified creatures are whining about housing them. The Chinese use pandas as diplomats, not curiosities. When the zoos went to the media to complain, this was a grave breech in etiquette.

From the New York Times:

Lun Lun and Yang Yang have needs. They require an expensive all-vegetarian diet — 84 pounds a day, each. They are attended by a four-person entourage, and both crave privacy. Would-be divas could take notes.

Jessica McGowan for The New York Times
Yang Yang, on display at the Atlanta zoo, has his bamboo brought in from backyards around the state.
But the real sticker shock comes from the annual fees that Zoo Atlanta must pay the Chinese government, $2 million a year, essentially to rent a pair of giant pandas. Giant pandas are also on loan to zoos in Washington, San Diego and Memphis.

The financial headache caused by the costly loan obligations to China has driven Dennis W. Kelly, chief executive of Zoo Atlanta, to join with the directors of the three other zoos to negotiate some budgetary breathing room. If no agreement with China can be made, Mr. Kelly said, the zoos may have to return their star attractions.

I am certain, after this whiny article, the Chinese will call for us to return the very valuable pandas and shut up the whining.

The first pandas were brought over to America to demonstrate joint friendship and a desire to form alliances. But now this is all gone and we are trying to shove the entire planet into eternal wars with all of Muslim and all Chinese as well as kicking in the Russians, Venezuelans and a host of other people, seemingly endless list.

The American zoos are under the impression they were makinga business deal to make easy money for themselves sort of like how we kidnap killer whales and put them into clown acts at aquariums. The Chinese have stringent rules for their cuddly diplomats so they can't be forced to dance or jump through hoops or in other ways, entertain drooling masses of screaming children.

"If we can't renegotiate, they absolutely will go back," Mr. Kelly said. "Unless there are significant renegotiations, you'll see far fewer pandas in the United States at the end of this current agreement."

Oh, boo hoo. First, this is a good thing. Why send pandas anywhere? Secondly, America is being very hostile to China so why send any more panda diplomats here, anyway? After all, the Pentagon openly said they are planning for a major war with China so this is pretty hostile. No point in posting diplomat pandas in zoos where they can't escape!

Thirdly, the USA zookeepers think China needs the money, that China is like America, bankrupt, borrowing money from China, whoops, America, and need to have us keep the pandas to balance the budget. Har har.

Indeed, the first thing Mr. "Evil Empire" Reagan did to the Soviet Union to punish them for invading Afghanistan was to lift Jimmy Carter's wheat embargo! We had to balance the trade deficit, Reagan said with a straight face. No wonder we are going bankrupt. And have no power.

China has no trade deficit. They are doing just great. Maybe our zookeepers can pick up a begging bowl and go to Beijing and kneel before the rulers there and plead for pandas. Of course, the answer will be no.

Further, is costs how much to keep them? About three day's worth of murdering, torturing and in general, aggravating Muslims in the Middle East? Gads. Let's get some fiscal priorities here.

Then there are the contracts, most lasting 10 years. Because China retains ownership of the pandas, zoos lease each pair for $1 million a year. If cubs are born, the annual fee increases by an average of $600,000. In addition, each zoo has agreed to pay another million or so each year to finance research and conservation projects in the United States and in China. Taken together, Mr. Kelly says, the contracts are worth more than $80 million to the Chinese government.

Mr. Kelly said he hoped China would consider the request to reduce the fees because most other countries pay far less for their pandas. Australia and Thailand, he said, pay about $300,000 each year for theirs. So far, China seems amenable to considering it, he said. Chinese officials did not respond to requests for comment.

Are we comparing ourselves to Thailand? A small, very small second tier country? And Australia, which has a tenth of our population and economy? Are we little babies? It is telling that the Chinese gave the NYT the cold shoulder and it is even more telling that Mr. Kelly thinks the Chinese won't skin him alive for divulging ongoing negotiations without alerting them. Indeed, in an attempt to pressure them by raising a public ruckus. No, no. This is neither diplomatic nor does it work for athletes negotiating for better contracts or owners trying to reduce athelete's contracts when their scores drop.

Besides, these diplomatic pandas who are very skillful, they have serene faces and they take their time before answering and they are in general, inscrutible, they don't belong in a zoo at all.

Rove, he and his ilk belong in a well guarded pen.
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Putin Rescues Iran, Now! Will Ship Them Missiles To Protect Nuclear Sites From American Aggression

2006-02-10T14:17:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

The White (or rather Red) Knight to the rescue! Putin, chess player and judo expert, picks up Iran. All our invasion plans going up in smoke as he promises them protection such as missiles to shoot down any invading aircraft, for example.

From the Wilderness:

Amid the escalating crisis around Iran's nuclear programme, Russia said on Thursday that it will still arm Tehran with missiles that can secure nuclear facilities from attacks.

"We concluded a contract for the supply of air-defence systems to Iran and there is no reason not to fulfil it," Mikhail Dmitriyev, the head of Russia's military-technical cooperation agency, said.

Worth an estimated $700 million, the deal for up to 30 Tor M-1 surface-to-air missiles is the largest since Russia in 2000 withdrew from an agreement with the US restricting the supply of military hardware to Iran.

As we desperately try to disarm all our potential victims, they search for protectors. Since America has decided to alienate Putin AND Hu and Wen simultaneously, well!

To the rescue they all ride.

When one wishes to go to war, one shouldn't imitate Hitler! That is a very bad idea. And even Hitler wasn't this dumb. He first got Russia to join him in invading Poland! See? Then, after dissecting Europe, Hitler decided to commit suicide and so he attacked...Russia! See a pattern here?

Depending on Europe who is very dependent on Russia for energy and other important raw materials is stupid since they cannot act at cross purposes to Russia. This is why, since we are stupidly expanding NATO, the Germans and French are trying to tie Russia into NATO. Then the troika won't need the USA anymore for running Europe...and the Middle East.

This game is rapidly unfolding, no sooner do I go off to read the international news when I see yet another chess piece move, they are no longer in a stalemate, the whole board is in play now and our king is outside the castle, the queen is in hock to the Red Bishop and we are surrounded by Kniggets!

This is going to be amusing. I wonder how it will end (nope).

Endgame: we surrender and begin the painful process of paying off our massive debts. Ouch. Sic Transit Gorgia.

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White Knight For Palestine, Putin, Rides To The Rescue Of Hamas

2006-02-10T12:55:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Instead of pursuing our own interests, we act on behalf of only Israel in the Middle East. So Putin moves in to rescue Hamas and takes a very important piece on the world Chess board (Russians are the world's chess masters). This has many repercussions for us and for the future.

From the BBC:

Israel has criticised Russia's decision to invite Hamas leaders to Moscow for talks, following the militant group's victory in Palestinian elections.
Israeli cabinet minister Meir Shitrit accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "stabbing Israel in the back".

He said the move gave legitimacy to Hamas - considered to be a terrorist group by Israel and Western countries.

Imagine that. Israel's founding fathers were terrorists! Of course, we are supposed to forget that, for history is recalled only if one wants to view it cross-eyed. The Zionists in the USA and Israel have worked very hard to try to isolate Palestine. They nearly succeeded except China just rang up a hot trillion dollars in loans to America and now can pull our chain pretty hard since we insist on having the world's biggest miliary imperial machine and can't pay for it, not one penny.

This week, our out of control military has slapped China on the face, haughtily telling them to disarm, too, just like all the other nations we wish to dominate. This is the signal to Russia that China will now begin to strangle the American beast. The entire Muslim world is blowing up today. After Bush stomped his tiny baby foot and demanded they knuckle under to our rule, they threw it all in his face and with bitter laugh, unleashed themselves upon not only us but each other and everything nearby.

China and Russia can't abide this much longer because they border these troublesome states and they really do want some stability here.

From the BBC:

Malaysia's prime minister says a huge chasm has opened between the West and Islam, fuelled by Muslim frustrations over Western foreign policy.
Abdullah Badawi, seen as promoting a moderate form of Islam in largely Muslim Malaysia, said many Westerners saw Muslims as congenital terrorists.

As he spoke at a conference in Kuala Lumpur, thousands protested outside at cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

If Israel was smart, they would have played off Russia and America with each other. And they would have formed alliances with various factions in the Muslim world.

Only this is all falling apart when they decided, thanks to the weakness in Russia from 1987 to today, to use brute force to make Muslims kneel before them rather than have any sane system of compromises and alliances. Using the nifty American Imperial Forces, they decided a stab in the chest would solve everything and even this week, they decided without any negotiations to unilaterally grab much of the prime land on the West Bank and Jerusalem, for themselves, violently ejecting anyone of other religions.

Here is Putin again, speaking through his allies, the Chinese. From Xinhua net:

The expansion of NATO to include former Soviet republics is "not a pleasant thing" to Russia but it is "not so disastrous either," Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said in an interview published on Thursday.

"The Russian leadership takes the line that each sovereign state has the right to decide for itself how to build its own security," Ivanov told the Italian newspaper La Stampa in an interview, which was posted on the ministry's website.

"However, such moves should not weaken the security of its neighbors and nearby states, including, of course, Russia," Ivanovsaid.

Putin is determined to take over NATO. This is very simple. As he clearly demonstrated this winter, he has his boot firmly on Europe's neck. The Europeans have taken note which is why some are toying with the idea of not using any oil or natural gas, a good idea but won't save them for there is a very simple fact of life: Russia is next door, America is far away.

And not only are we overstretched, we are insanely overstreched and facing BANKRUPTCY!!!! Yea gads!

When the Cold War ended, we should have withdrawn troops from Asia and Europe since there was zero need for them to exist in these places. Europe and Asia are wealthy enough and powerful enough to fend for themselves and no empire menaced any of them! Our refusal to withdraw has ended up with us stuck in the mud nearly everywhere!

From Reuters:

The United States and Japan are struggling to finalize plans to reorganize American military forces in Japan by late March, but Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's waning clout could make it tough to meet the deadline.

The two close security allies agreed last October on a broad plan to reorganize U.S. bases in Japan -- host to about 50,000 American military personnel -- as part of Washington's global efforts to make its armed forces more flexible and deepen cooperation with Japan's military forces. U.S. and Japanese officials began meeting in Tokyo on Thursday for another round of talks to flesh out the details, a Japanese foreign ministry spokesman said.

A number of Japanese remember WWII and they have a horror of world wars and they watched, helplessly, as Koizumi and Bush poked at a very big and very angry China. They know Japan will be defeated, nay, utterly annihlated if any war breaks out. They will last, as living organisms, about 0.5 seconds into WWIII. There is no escaping the geography of this fact.

Period.

We want to take our troops in Okinawa and scatter them all over Japan. Japan has a trade deficit that is almost $100 billion dollars with us!!!! This is insane! They don't mean well, they are killing us in the market place, why on earth are we protecting our top competitors who are sucking out all our top jobs for unlike the Chinese, they ain't selling us cheap Walmart stuff, this is all top of the line stuff!

Gads!

Are we ever doomed. Talk about stupid, stupid, stupid. Why do we have to fight the Chinese? If we are serious about them, all we have to do is have tariffs and barriers, you know, DEFENCES! I wonder if that concept can cross the brains of our elites.

No.

It can't. Their defences are too strong.

JUST IN! From the NYT:

France signaled support on Friday for a Russian plan to invite Palestinian election winner Hamas to Moscow for talks despite strong protests from Israel, which wants governments to shun the Islamist militant group.

Israeli President Moshe Katsav and others said Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened peacemaking prospects if he followed through on his invitation for Hamas to visit Moscow after its victory in the January 25 parliamentary election.

This threatens "peacemaking"? Hahahaha. Golly, talk about funny. No surprise to me, France, like Germany, has a long history vis a vis Russia. They know it is much better to have Russia on one's side rather than hostile. And this is why Europe isn't an entity but a concept, only. Namely, each country has its own foreign policy! Thus, no unity internationally. This makes them weak, collectively, but strong, individually. Smart players know how to use this to their advantage.

Alas for us, here in the USA.

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Of Course, Dick "Don't Trace Me" Cheney Is At The Bottom Of the Valerie Plame Crime

2006-02-10T08:01:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

In the murky waters of the Administration lurks the big Kahuna, Dick Don't Trace My Doings Cheney. Yesterday, Libby, facing hard prison time, told prosecutors, "higher ups" ordered him to call reporters about outing a CIA undercover agent. There are only two higher-uppers in this case: Bush and Cheney. Arrest them all.

From the Washington Post:

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said the new information about Libby's testimony exposes a possible hypocrisy within the Bush administration as it seeks to punish those who leak politically embarrassing information about secret CIA prisons and warrantless spying, but encourages leaks that aid the administration's political strategy.

"These charges, if true, represent a new low in the already sordid case of partisan interests being placed above national security," Kennedy said in a statement. "The Vice President's vindictiveness in defending the misguided war in Iraq is obvious."

Now, all the crimes committed by multi-arrested career criminal Bush and his Mafia-style side kick, Cheney, are all very good reasons to impeach this pair and throw them in jail.

Do note, Secret Service, that I am calling for us to obey the laws of the land and arrest obvious criminals. You guys can do this, you know!

I will note that poor Kennedy can't call for this, yet. The media is still propping up Unser Führer so we have to wait until they, too, get tired of this carnival and escort the clowns and their elephant companions out of the Big Top. Still, this stunning revelation can't go unanswered. I supposed the media whores will all scream that God is Bush and Cheney's true leader so He is responsible and you can't arrest Him! And his second in command, Jesus, has already been executed so he can't be punished, either.

While we are arresting people, here is some more news about White House crimes against the American People. From the NYT:

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bush administration officials said they had been caught by surprise when they were told on Tuesday, Aug. 30, that a levee had broken, allowing floodwaters to engulf New Orleans.

Vincent Laforet/The New York Times
Investigators have found evidence that federal officials at the White House and elsewhere learned of the levee break in New Orleans earlier than was first suggested.
But Congressional investigators have now learned that an eyewitness account of the flooding from a federal emergency official reached the Homeland Security Department's headquarters starting at 9:27 p.m. the day before, and the White House itself at midnight.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency official, Marty Bahamonde, first heard of a major levee breach Monday morning. By late Monday afternoon, Mr. Bahamonde had hitched a ride on a Coast Guard helicopter over the breach at the 17th Street Canal to confirm the extensive flooding. He then telephoned his report to FEMA headquarters in Washington, which notified the Homeland Security Department.

"FYI from FEMA," said an e-mail message from the agency's public affairs staff describing the helicopter flight, sent Monday night at 9:27 to the chief of staff of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and recently unearthed by investigators. Conditions, the message said, "are far more serious than media reports are currently reflecting. Finding extensive flooding and more stranded people than they had thought — also a number of fires."

Of course they knew! I knew what was going on and I was sitting on a remote mountain more than a thousand miles away. I used this nifty thing called "the internet" and one site I visited during the hurricane was the official web page of the main newspaper in New Orleans! And the fine reporters there were posting stories minute by minute as things happened and since they were roaming about the city, they posted stories about things like...the dikes breaking.

It was obvious from day one bad things were happening! We bloggers then started attacking Marie Antoinette Bush for goofing off. As people suffered and died, we went ballistic here on the net, screaming about conditions in New Orleans, tracking Bush, Cheney and Rice as this trio goofed off. We located Brownie and attacked him over and over and the ever mysterious, hidden Israeli, Chertoff, we savaged him too. Bush went to McCain's crappy birthday party and both he and McCain laughed and patted each other in a startlingly thoroughly Brokeback Mountain way and then off Bush trotted for more merriment in San Diego!

Condi was screamed at by an outraged shopper in Manhattan because Cinderella was shoe shopping and didn't even know what was going on. Talk about a repeat of 9/11.

Arrest them all. This is called "criminal neglect" and since babies died while under government supervision due to poor planning and indifference, I would say, why are we putting welfare mothers in prison for abusing children when Bush and Cheney and Rice can kill babies with impunity? Eh? Arrest them all. What will it take?

Yesterday, a terrified Bush tried to mislead us yet again with the hokey "shoe attack" story. Evidently, terrorists were going to use shoes to hijack jets. What were they, Condi Rice's evil step sisters? Wearing Prada shoes, intimidating pilots. "See, these cost more than a month's salary, kiss my toes!"? Well. I can see the pilots collapsing in horror and crawling away!

This information was gathered by torturing people captured in the Philippines and Pakistan. Bush pretends his spying on Quakers is part of capturing and torturing people. Hitler and Stalin operated on the same principles.

They should have been arrested in 1933. Hitler, like Bush, had a criminal past, too. Gads.

Arrest them all!
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Soviet Union Reborn As USA: America Locks Out French Farmer Activist

2006-02-10T05:09:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

In 1968, I once threatened East Germany that I would sneak in to visit and maybe agitate a tad. They were in a pure panic. Today, America has an invisible Berlin Wall, keeping out activists and even former members of Parliment even as illegal aliens pour in, unhindered. Some "beacon of freedom" this place is---no better than the Soviet Union.

From Associated Press:

An anti-globalization activist who was sent back to France after arriving at an airport here accused the U.S. government Thursday of conspiring against his cause and trying to protect big business.

Jose Bove, best known for ransacking a McDonald's restaurant in France in 1999, arrived Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, planning to speak at an event sponsored by Cornell University, but was denied entry by customs officials.

Bove was not eligible to enter the U.S. under a visa waiver program, U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Janet Rapaport said. She said she could not discuss why.

Corporate America's death grip on our collective throats won't be challenged by any piddling French peasants! Our brave overlords and sneering earls and bellowing Sheriffs of Nothingham will stop any and all uppity peasants at the very gates of this heavily armed police state! Especially French farmers, those people who grow all that stuff that makes fine cusine!

Pass the deep fat fried pig ears! Hell, we sure don't want French food, we want Montsano Frankenfood! This particular peasant we repelled from our Iron Curtain is the same one who burned a McDonald's down. Oh, heh. We are in the middle of a blooming diabetes crisis that is rapidly turning us all into walking tubs of sick lard and we are scared of a guy who tried to stop this madness?

Eat in peace, America! Pay no attention to people who eat mushrooms dug up by pigs!

From Underreported:

The loudspeaker calls out 'McAliskey.' We go up to your man and say yes, and we're immedately surrounded by three men and a woman. They grab the passports out of our hands. One of the men says to me, "We've a fax from our agents in Dublin. It says you're a potential or real threat to the United States.'"
She told them to look at the name on the passport, which says Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.

"I've been coming back and forth to this country for 30 years," she told them.

"You've evaded us before, but you're not going to do it now," one of the immigration people, the oldest one, said.

"Look at the passport. Read the name. I was a member of Parliament."

"What year?"

"Nineteen sixty nine."

"That made you 21 years old," one of them said. "Come on." He motioned toward an office.

Our country, like the Soviet Union, will simply fester and rot, internally and internationally. Every time Bush and Condi and their army of right wing neo-fascists go out into the world and yap about freedom and democracy, just remember, the goal is to make our enemies (the PEASANTS!) laugh to death or, that failing, be shot dead.

Every time America wants to exploit peasant anger in China, it immediately blows back here so I notice they have decided to not talk about it, hoping Americans think, "I better duck my head and quietly leave my bankrupt/farm/outsourced job and go to work for McDonald's or Walmart and be happy for whatever crumbs I can get, gambling."

Having ignorant, ill trained peasants who are good mostly for cannon fodder and low value servants pleases our despotic rulers. Seeing confident, activist peasants who talk back to the rulers and dare to dispute with them sets a very bad example to the very cowed, nearly totally helpless peasants in America.

This is why Homeland Security raked that nurse over the coals for writing a strongly worded letter. I often see posters at leftist web sites detail all the fascistic garbage going on, the strong arming of citizens who are no longer really citizens but subjects, the many now open crimes of Bush, he happily spitting into our collective eyes, and then ending a rant with, "So, I will write a letter to the editor!"

Well, even that is being cut off. For a long time, no editors published letters that attacked Bush or his fascistic neo-Soviet state. Now that his unpopularity is shooting up, they are gingerly letting some of us peasants a word in edgewise and this has so irritated Bush, he is trying to squelch it just like he has anyone wearing or thinking anything that reminds him of his wars or oppressions, removed if they dare show up at any venue His Majesty attends.

US PLANS MASSIVE SPY PROGRAM! From Christian Science Monitor:

The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of terrorist activity.
The system - parts of which are operational, parts of which are still under development - is already credited with helping to foil some plots. It is the federal government's latest attempt to use broad data-collection and powerful analysis in the fight against terrorism. But by delving deeply into the digital minutiae of American life, the program is also raising concerns that the government is intruding too deeply into citizens' privacy.

Even as our Soviet-style Yes men in Congress OK all sorts of Stalinist/Hitlerian actions, they pretend they are outraged at...China! for censoring the internet. Well, here, we don't censor it, we just will spy on everyone and everything across the entire planet!

Those of us on the left know perfectly well, this isn't to stop "terrorism" which doesn't use the internet at all except in truly hidden ways, easy to think how, no, this is to track world chat about evil stuff like organizing peasants to resist American corporate powers. Period. They need to know if anyone is planning demonstrations, activities like union organizing or farm worker organizing or working to join up with or work with political parties, etc.

The usual. We have to send out our parties of Sheriffs of Nothingham to stop all these peasants on behalf of King W and this reminds me. Didn't they force an earlier Lackland King to sign a document called "The Magna Carta"? At least one of my ancestors was there, on the battlefield, when this happened. Geeze.

Bet Homeland Security is checking me out for that, too!

A SIDE NOTE: I noticed, ironically, the ad next to the story of the French Anti-GM Frankenfood activist was this:

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Attempts At Suppressing Nazi Symbols Via Prison And Laws Leads To Nazification Of The Law

2006-02-09T17:48:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Recent trials, laws and regulations in Europe are rapidly eliminating freedom of speech while doing absolutely nothing about the root causes of fascism. All the nations exercising imperialist powers want access to the process of fascism while at the same time, using fascistic methods to suppress the pitiful decorations and gee gaws of old style fascism. In other words, you can't give a "Sieg Heil" but you can join invading Iraq in order to steal oil and assist the fascists running America!

From the Sun, England:

GERMAN cops will use sweeping powers to collar England fans doing Basil Fawlty-style Hitler impressions at the World Cup.
Yobs will be instantly banged up for TWO WEEKS if they goose-step like John Cleese in his most famous Fawlty Towers scene.

And hard core louts who give Nazi salutes — like the one jokingly made by Michael Barrymore in Celebrity Big Brother — could be hauled before a judge within 24 hours.

If convicted of inciting hatred they will face jail terms of up to THREE YEARS.

Wearing joke German helmets or any offensive insignia will also result in a stretch behind bars.

Well, if that doesn't smack of totalitarianism, what does? Is it the state's business where I put my arms, how I walk? Do they have the right to outlaw any sort of free expression? Europe had this totally fake flap about how they have the freedom to make fun of Muslims but suddenly, make fun of Germany's fascist past and you get put in prison?

Whoa! Hold your horses!

Years ago, in 1968, I used to live with the niece of Adolf von Tadden, the head of the newly reborn neo fascist party in Germany. They never used any signs, gestures or insignias of the Nazis, they were merely dyed in the wool fascists and proud of it. As I pointed out in a speech I gave in Tübingen, "They don't have to say, 'Sieg Heil', they only have to endorse war with the Soviet Union and hitching Germany to imperial war machines like the one run by America."

Well, he used to hold secret meetings in Bierstuben and through my room mate, I learned where one of them was happening, von Tadden's son told her where he would be that night, so I got together with two university students, they dressed to look sort of like Nazis and I pretended to be a communist student so we could redo 1933 when battles raged between the two extremes. So we went to Göttingen and I ran into the Bierstube, ran up to the podium and yelled, "Hilfe mir!" and the students ran in to grab me. All hell broke loose and the three of us ran back out with a bunch of very angry neo-nazis chasing us through the narrow medieval streets in the Old Town sector. Yikes. I didn't want to get beaten up by real Nazis who didn't use that word or salute or anything, they were merely the real thing. The three of us threw ourselves over a retaining wall and sloshed into the stream and tore off into the countryside where it was very dark. We weren't caught. We did successfully disrupt the meeting and dragged them out into the open so it made the news which was our entire plan but Adolf (liebe den Namen!) figured out it was me and he yelled at G, my room mate. So I yelled back at him.

Anyway, the point is, having laws forbidding stuff only makes people want it more, it makes martyrs of jerks, it backfires and it is stone wrong since it interferes with freedom of speech and only reduces our collective civil rights!

From Rense.com:

By Patrick J. Buchanan
2-9-6

"What hypocrisy. When it comes to what Germans are most sensitive about, Hitler and the Holocaust, they are ruthless censors. British historian David Irving has spent three months in a Viennese prison awaiting trial on Feb. 20 for speeches he made 15 years ago in Austria. Skeptics and deniers of the Holocaust are prosecuted, fined and imprisoned in Europe with the enthusiastic endorsement of the European press."

That demagogues and agitators are exploiting those cartoons of Mohammed to advance a war of civilizations and expel Europeans from the Middle East seems undeniable.

But that does not excuse the paralyzing stupidity of that Danish paper in running those cartoons or the arrogant irresponsibility of European newspapers in plastering those cartoons all over their front pages.

I despise Mr. Irving but putting him in prison for a speech he made? Gads! I remember Germany very well, having lived there, and the former Nazis, like the present Pope, were unrepentant and still do the "Kinder/Kuchen/Kirche" stuff even as German ladies abandon all three like they are the plague. Germany is worried about the collapsing birthrate, just like Japan, and suicide rate and all the other earmarks of people flipping out and not giving a hoot about the future but persecuting Nazis isn't the solution, either, they have no idea what to do next so they do incredibly stupid things.

Even Nazis have the right of free speech. So do racists. So do anti-gay bigots, everyone has the same thing: freedom of speech! The fascist war machine in America is devouring us and destroying the world with absolutely no one yelling, "Sieg Heil" but armies of fascists screaming, "God bless America!"

Shall we outlaw that once this whole mess collapses? Of course not.

Here is an example of fascist behavior aimed at destroying the humanity of prisoners of war that are being denied any legal protection from either American laws or the Geneva Conventions: From al Jazeera:

Quoting military officials, The Times said that the army decided to forcibly feed the detainees after it “concluded that some were determined to commit suicide to protest their indefinite confinement”.

According to the officials, prison guards have begun strapping the hunger strikers into “restraint chairs“, sometimes for hours a day, to feed them through tubes and prevent them from deliberately vomiting afterward.

Those who refuse to eat have also been detained alone for long periods, the officials said, adding that isolation is meant to keep them away from other hunger strikers.

Some military officials said the new measures reflected concern at GUANTANAMO and the Pentagon that the hunger strike was becoming difficult to control and that the death of the detainees could intensify international criticism of the detention center.

Gads. To keep Muslim prisoners alive against their wills, these prisoners protesting illegal detention with no legal legs to stand on, we are so scared of them dying, we are physically torturing them so they stay barely alive under incredibly horrible circumstances?

And Irving is in prison for denying Hitler tortured many to death? Well, all the European leaders and American leaders assisting in and enabling this horror at the American concentration camp at Gitmo should be put in prison for denying the exact same thing! Why is it OK to commit Hitlerian levels of crimes including invading helpless countries for no good reason, but not OK to say that Hitler was good for doing what Bush likes to do? Eh? What?

From a website in Germany where people are trying to discuss the Nüremburg Trials:

Aus deiner Quelle:
Hunger, Kälte und Entkräftung dürften die Hauptursachen gewesen sein.

Aber es ging noch weiter: Aufgrund des sog. "Kommissarbefehls" ordnete das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) an, aus den sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen "unerwünschte Elemente" auszusondern, denen man "bolschewistische Betätigung" unterstellte, v.a. Politoffiziere (Kommissare) oder auch Juden. Die Aussonderungen wurden von der Gestapo und vom Sicherheitsdienst (SD) des Reichsführers SS vorgenommen, aber die Offiziere der Lagerleitung waren angewiesen, sie dabei zu unterstützen. Zwar versuchten Oberst Nepf, Major Meinel und Hauptmann H. in Moosburg, zumindest durch "passiven Widerstand" diese Maßnamen zu hintertreiben, dennoch wurden Hunderte sowjetischer Kriegsgefangener im Stalag VII A und seinen Außenkommandos aussortiert, mißhandelt, in verschiedene Konzentrationslager (u.a. Dachau, Buchenwald und Mauthausen) transportiert und dort mit Genickschuß umgebracht. Insgesamt wird die Zahl der in deutscher Gefangenschaft ermordeten Rotarmisten auf 200 000 geschätzt.

Major Meinel is a relative of mine. He ran a prison of war camp for mostly Russian prisoners, an infamous camp, and he clashed early on with his superiors and was finally removed by the SS. My own father testified at the Nüremburg Trials because he was one of the American OSS interrogators who had many adventures there as the war intensified during March to May, 1945 at the very bitter end when fighting raged across all of Germany.

Passing stupid laws muzzling people, muzzling people making fun! of Nazis is Naziism. How pathetic. And America wants everyone muzzled too, over what to say at Xmas, what to say at each other, everyone muzzled and everyone angry, filled with hate and raring to attack someone like Muslims in distant lands.

Feh.

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Intimidating Scientists, Harrassing Lawyers in Justice Dept, Scaring Letter To the Editor Writers

2006-02-09T07:59:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

A nurse writes a letter to the editor and gets a visit from Homeland Security agents. Scientists are muzzled, lawyers are quitting the Justice department because they follow the law, on and on, Bush and his illegal gang running illegal wars illegally harrass ordinary citizens. This ties in with the illegal spying on Americans. Arrest Bush, arrest them all.

From the Free New Mexican:

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico wants the government to apologize to a nurse for seizing her computer and investigating her for "sedition" after she criticized the Bush administration.

The ACLU said Wednesday the Department of Veterans Affairs found no evidence Laura Berg used her office computer to write the critical letter.

VA human resources chief Mel Hooker said in a Nov. 9 letter that his agency was obligated to investigate "any act which potentially represents sedition," the ACLU said.

I am hyper-aware the government snoops read and preserve everything I write. I have an extensive resume with them stretching back to 1955 if not earlier.

I will note, they used to visit me regularily over the years but since 9/11, dead silence. I know they glare in the dark at me. On the other hand, trying to intimidate me illegally won't impress me much since I know the laws. Even with the anti-constitutional "Patriot Act" they can't just go around scaring people even though this is exactly what they do. Note that when they tried to censor Cindy Sheehan, they were at least forced to apologize afterwards.

This poor nurse needs not only an apology, we need hearings in Congress about...hahaha. Everything. From outing Valerie Plame to the various revelations coming out of England about how Blair had to prevent Bush from committing one war crime after another, all this needs airing. An impeachment, arresting Bush, and a trial, too.

You see, the Secret Service and et al can't harrass me for calling for Bush's arrest because they know and we all know, he is breaking the law and defying the Constitution and we are deep in a grave Constitutional crisis and who wrote that thing?

Eh?

Revolutionaries who used guns to fight the King! Now, if one calls for using force to stop the conspiritors who are killing this Constitution, one can be arrested for...insurrection against the King! Isn't that interesting?

From Consortium News:

George W. Bush has assured Americans that they can relax about his warrantless wiretapping because the program is reviewed by lots of lawyers and intelligence professionals. What he doesn’t say is that officials who object too much find themselves isolated, ridiculed and pushed out of their jobs.

For instance, when Deputy Attorney General James Comey refused to recertify the spying program in March 2004 – while Attorney General John Ashcroft was in the hospital – Bush gave Comey a derisive nickname, as “Cuomey” or “Cuomo” after New York’s former liberal Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo, Newsweek has reported.

Similarly, a high-ranking intelligence official who questioned the wiretapping program told the Washington Post that his objections soon made him an unwanted outsider. He encountered awkward silences when he attended meetings where the eavesdropping rules were discussed.

The old Jr High "cold shoulder/tack on chair games. This stupid gang operates on a childish level.

This is why their enablers in the GOP won't put them under oath nor answer anyone's questions if real questions are asked and why we are sliding off more than one cliff and sinking in more than one sea. This is an across the board degradation of all systems, done deliberately and maliciously.

I realize the danger of my talking about world events. For it is obvious, peasants all over the planet are up in arms over many issues. WTO or IMF or Bush visits---in China, they are actively fighting the government, a newspaper editor was recently beaten to death there for covering a story about the police chief hitting on workers on bikes, forcing them to bribe him.

All over the planet, rulers are using brutal force, shooting people, imprisoning and torturing them, stomping on them with tremendous violence while a lady writing a letter asking us all to be vigorous in removing these obvious criminals from power, she is accused of "inciting a rebellion"!

Well, if we can't peacefully vote because we are using Diebold machines that are controlled by GOP operatives who won't let anyone see how they code their system which can spit out 18181 vote totals over and over again, wow. Anyway, once they make it impossible to gage public opinion, then we no longer have "rule by the consent of the people" and have, instead, despotism which our Founding Fathers despised.

Embedded within our legitmate history is the Declaration of Independence. And within it, is the proviso that all good people, when oppressed by illegal authority that denies them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, can overthrow a regime that does this and have the right to do so, even violently.

Of course, the Founding Fathers would all be in prison if they lived today, what with their radical "Freedom of Speech" and all that.
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Israel Unilaterally Announces They are Stealing Jerusalem and Much of the West Bank

2006-02-08T22:08:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

Israel hurries to unilaterally annex huge chunks of Palestinian lands plus the entire city of Jerusalem. So much for the road map. Of course, the plan, all along, was to force the Palestinians to hand over all this without a penny in return. Now, it is OK, it seems. Then we all wonder why Muslims are rioting all the time.

From the NYT:

Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a television interview broadcast on Tuesday that he wanted to set the country's permanent borders, with Israel giving up significant parts of the West Bank but keeping the largest Jewish settlement blocs.

Opinion polls indicate that Mr. Olmert and his centrist Kadima Party are favored in the Israeli national elections on March 28, and he says a top priority would be establishing Israel's frontiers, with or without an agreement with the Palestinians.

Isn't that sweet? Israel itself has acknowledged in the past that they merely "patrol" Palestinian lands to "protect" themselves but over the years, they built, at first, very sneakily and then, as they bribed American politicians using money raised in America, more and more openly, huge conglamorates of hostile settlements designed to wrest as much Palestinian lands as possible, as fast as possible. Now, they weep as the pretend to "retreat" from places they never had any rights to, in the first place (except thousands of years ago and even then, very tenuously, read the Bible!) unilaterally seizing the best lands and the major city for themselves.

Anyone who thinks this sort of aggression will lead to America being rich and happy is insane. Already, as we gird our belts, letting it out a dozen notches because we now import much more oil from Muslims than ever before, we think, Saudi Arabia will keep on pumping forever in the face of this sort of imperial activity on our part since we are the chief sponsors and enablers of this open theft.

The Israelis wanted Hamas to win so they could have an excuse to finish their Warsaw Ghetto 2.0 project. The glee with which they have announced this betrays their true intentions. They also have an excuse to tax their subject populations, steal the taxes and not hand them over to the duly elected officials! Great. More thefts.

One thing should be terribly obvious to everyone: Muslim youth are on the march. They are very angry. They are willing to die. They hate our guts. There is a huge number of them. Why we want to motivate them more, baffles me. Quite frankly, all religious minorities should be pushing for NO religious states, NO fascist states, NO wars, NO religious intolerance.

Instead, the struts and beams of a giant Trojan Horse are being built by the very people who will be run over by this same horse. We are not spreading liberalism, tolerance and hope. Alas.

These three things are the only things that bring freedom, security and peace.

P.S.--I know my "popularity" would be much higher and more "liberal" bloggers would link to my blog if I ignore or am hostile to all Muslims or Palestinians in particular. Playing to American prejudice pays off handsomely. I notice that when this sort of news hits, instead of the left buzzing about it, talking about what it means, or anything, they mostly shut up and look the other way. And if any major outlet (we know who they are!) does talk about this, a cadre of pro-Israeli commenters will appear and savage anyone and anything that even hints there is something really rotten going on in the "Holy Land." Blogging about this is very dangerous. On the right, they watch events unfold, like hawks, salivating for the day they can attack all Jews. This is something to fear! Very much!

But turning into right wing imperialists isn't a very sensible solution. Indeed, the lust for power always makes for some really nasty events as we see right in front of us.

This is all very sad and more than any issue, depresses me greatly. For I see no hint of sanity anywhere in any of this mess that is unfolding so relentlessly and viciously. We will not like the Apocalypse. Not at all. And pretending it won't happen won't stop it. Not at all.

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Wouldn't Surprise Me To Learn Bush, Cheney And All Of Them Can't Swear On Bible Because They Worship Satan

2006-02-07T16:31:00.000-05:00

By Elaine Meinel Supkis

The 9/11 Commission couldn't get Bush, Cheney nor Rice to swear on a Bible they weren't lying, the oil company executives couldn't swear on any Holy Scriptures, now Gonzales couldn't do this, either. Their fear and loathing about doing this makes me wonder if they are scared of garlic and crucifixes, too. Anyway, they are obviously lying, all of them, which is why they can't talk, under oath. Only Galloway of England has to do this, it seems.

From Buzzflash:

The grand showdown between the Dems upset at Bush's illegal wiretapping fizzled out as soon as Arlen Specter -- the two-faced Bush go-fer of the GOP -- not only ruled that Gonzales didn't have to testify under oath, he pretended -- as scripted -- to prohibit the Attorney General of the United States from doing what most Americans are required to do in a Court of Law or before Congress (unless they are from the White House or CEOs of big oil companies).

It was at that point, once again, that the Democrats became merely bit players in a script once again written by the White House. For many years, and most recently in several editorials, BuzzFlash has lamented that the Dems don't understand that these hearings are soap operas -- and that the Bush/Rovian propaganda staff writes very effective soap opera scripts.

In this case, the goal of the soap opera was to allow Gonzales not to testify under oath, so that he wouldn't be likely to be charged with perjury. After that point, everything else just became a big muddle. And, the White House knows, in a situation like this, they win if the hearing turns out to be inconclusive and stalemated.

I agree with this entire editorial and I have been begging the Democrats to walk out for a long, long time. Namely, when they had the Senate endorse the selection of Bush!

But no one walked out. Gore, himself, endorsed the theft of his own office. He was promised they would all love him, the entire satanic choir would cease their catawallering and start being civil. Instead, the were only just starting. The wailing and shrieking, they being demonically obsessed, increased to the point now that the whole planet reverberates with their endless chorus of malice.

9/11 has got to be the bizarrest attack in American history since the FAA knew from within a mere 15 minutes of the first plane taking off from Boston, that is was hijacked. Note that at no point did any fighter jet go snooping around. All the hijacked jets flew, unimpeded and unremarked in the heaviest travelled corridores in America. Surrounded by military airbases, they flew merrily past all of them including Virginia which bristles with miltiary aircraft. Not one plane was tracked. To unravel this mystery and to ask Bush why he smiled and then merrily read, "My Pet Goat" which Bush probably thought was all about Satan's favorite childhood friend, you know, the goats go on the left and sheep on the right and all that stuff in the Bible, well, Bush wasn't alarmed at all, was he?

So many questions about that day, and the testimony wasn't merely off the record, there is no record of it! It is all top secret! And not under oath! Nor was Condi's public garbage, she should be in prison for perjury if not mass murder!

But we don't want to rock the boat, do we? After all, it is only listing way to the right and soon will sink!

Gonzales was all fake. The story line the satanists are pushing now is that the illegal spying wasn't merely saving America from all those journalists, bloggers and Quaker grannies, the spying was legal because they wanted to legalize it without passing any laws because if bin Laden learns of the law, he will figure out how to prevent us from spying on him?

Laugh to death!

He is laughing hard this week. I will note, the raging fires spreading across all Islamic nations was fed by us, our threats for more wars, more murders, our determination to fight this "war on terror" by burning the Constitution, killing off the Senate's powers and destroying the American economy, this is all so annoying.

I hope bin Laden laughs to death so at least all of this has some point.
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