A great idea, actually (-ed.)
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ruthru August 3rd, 2008 2:10 pm
Consider the fact that the thing sitting in the White House at present couldn’t pass a single one of those tests of accountability.
Politicians must be accountable. Why aren’t they required to prove their competence before entering office? They should all have to have doctorates (considering how far gone the state of affairs) in their field and prove that they were involved in several years of activism for civil rights, environment, labor, and peace movements.
There’s no accountability at the top.
Monday, August 4, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY...
Hopefully, they will think to call this disease "Cheneyphrenia" in the future.-ed.
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When American voters didn't elect George Bush as president in 2000 and again in 2004, they sensed that he lacked the brain power, temperament and character necessary for high office. But even those among us who thought worst of him - count me in - perhaps failed to imagine that his puerile, sophomoric smugness and intellectual indifference were predictive of much beyond a kind of frat boy, rat-tail-snapping petty sadism. Yet it proves to be the case that he is capable of the kind of sociopathic moral indifference that would predispose him to surrounding himself with the kinds of people whose twisted decisionmaking would lead to this. Sorry as it is for the country, our vindication needs to involve these people upheld throughout history as an aberration...utter war criminals, no better than Nazis.
Posted by SOS ICEBERG
July 11, 2008 9:24 AM
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When American voters didn't elect George Bush as president in 2000 and again in 2004, they sensed that he lacked the brain power, temperament and character necessary for high office. But even those among us who thought worst of him - count me in - perhaps failed to imagine that his puerile, sophomoric smugness and intellectual indifference were predictive of much beyond a kind of frat boy, rat-tail-snapping petty sadism. Yet it proves to be the case that he is capable of the kind of sociopathic moral indifference that would predispose him to surrounding himself with the kinds of people whose twisted decisionmaking would lead to this. Sorry as it is for the country, our vindication needs to involve these people upheld throughout history as an aberration...utter war criminals, no better than Nazis.
Posted by SOS ICEBERG
July 11, 2008 9:24 AM
Sunday, June 22, 2008
NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO TRUST DENNIS KUCINICH
Truly Sickening are the Articles of Impeachment; also the linked story. -ed.
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#48 dogismyth Says:
Certainly you have heard of the supposed theory of why all this is occurring now.
1. McCain will resign from the presidential campaign within two months of the election, and a new candidate will step in.
2. Bush/Cheney will resign or get impeached before years end, and likely before the election.
3. Once this all occurs, Americans will trust their government again, and the final fleecing will occur, which will be rather painful for millions. In other words, its a big setup for many still sleepy Americans.
The American people are quite stupid, so stupid that they have yet to voice demands about the wrongdoings by this administration as well as the complicity of democrats (since they have known all the while about torture and other illegal deeds). Americans are still worried about their SUVs and big screen TVs, and planning vacations and other bullcrap while ignoring the outright and blatant misdeeds by our politicos.
It is the government now screaming at us with all this evidence. They are asking for us to force them to correct the situation, but we sit idly by with our thumbs in our mouths.
I am an American by birth and not by choice. Yes I have enjoyed luxury here in the U.S., but I have also had the truth about nearly everything hidden from me since the first years of school. This is a disgusting country and never did stand for any of the omnipotent objectives we herald. We are weak, fat and complacent and abhor critical thinking. Even our Canadian friends see us as fools.
I am sick of seeing people who wave their flag, wear the flag, hang the flag in their trucks. They are full of the poison and are hopeless since drinking the koolaid from birth. They offer their patriotism as a solution which is nothing more than a proud and egotistical person with a closed mind. They are as useless as the people leading us down this horrible path of destruction.
When I see Koreans marching in the street by the tens of thousands about an issue related to food consumption, I admire those people for their integrity, willpower and fortitude. Americans would never have the nerve, compassion or time to protest an issue of comparable meaning, let alone demonstrating for the impeaching of one, two or all 535 officers of our government. Most people I talk with do not have a clue what is occurring, what has happened, and what is to occur…even my family!
We ourselves are the insidious parasite that has destroyed our personal life, and others in our midst. It is not the government, because WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. So shove that excuse where the sun doesn’t shine.
I have to ask myself where are the MoveOn.org organizations that are suppose to be consolidating our demands and exposing the corruptness. Unfortunately, they are the same poison and are now drinking from the same well as those that lead us astray. They are all corrupt (my opinion) and have yet to rally Americans behind a single cause. There cause is simple and that is to provide comfortable and highly compensated positions within a tax-free, or tax exempt, organization. Its pretty easy to make it look like you give a damn, but actually getting something done, or action, is not what we are seeing. I gave up on MoveOn after they decided to take on the worthy cause of Al Gore, and global warming. They sought millions of signatures to be placed on a petition that was sent to the government to deal with this issue. BUT it is a non-issue and if you had done your homework you would know that global warming is a hoax perpetuated by the same folks that have caused the banking crisis, the food crisis, the oil crisis (yada,yada,yada). When you begin paying for a carbon tax on nearly any purchase you make, you will understand. I even wrote MoveOn and sent the appropriate articles, references and documentation regarding the hoax of global warming, yet they spent valuable time and money move the public in the wrong direction. Whose pocket are they in????
Where are the Americans?!! What the hell is wrong with them!?! What are they waiting for???
Required video watching for all Americans is the Ring of Power (parts I and II). I would recommend reading something but I doubt most Americans could grasp such a task. In any case, the RIng of Power sums up the lies and lying liars since the time of the pharoahs. In essence, most everything you have learned in school was a lie. Your life has been a lie if you have relied upon the lies and disingenious principles taught to you in school, heralded from political platforms and broadcasted across all media sources.
Wake up Amerika…or its going to get a lot worse. Really…
Posted June 22, 2008 6:33pm
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#48 dogismyth Says:
Certainly you have heard of the supposed theory of why all this is occurring now.
1. McCain will resign from the presidential campaign within two months of the election, and a new candidate will step in.
2. Bush/Cheney will resign or get impeached before years end, and likely before the election.
3. Once this all occurs, Americans will trust their government again, and the final fleecing will occur, which will be rather painful for millions. In other words, its a big setup for many still sleepy Americans.
The American people are quite stupid, so stupid that they have yet to voice demands about the wrongdoings by this administration as well as the complicity of democrats (since they have known all the while about torture and other illegal deeds). Americans are still worried about their SUVs and big screen TVs, and planning vacations and other bullcrap while ignoring the outright and blatant misdeeds by our politicos.
It is the government now screaming at us with all this evidence. They are asking for us to force them to correct the situation, but we sit idly by with our thumbs in our mouths.
I am an American by birth and not by choice. Yes I have enjoyed luxury here in the U.S., but I have also had the truth about nearly everything hidden from me since the first years of school. This is a disgusting country and never did stand for any of the omnipotent objectives we herald. We are weak, fat and complacent and abhor critical thinking. Even our Canadian friends see us as fools.
I am sick of seeing people who wave their flag, wear the flag, hang the flag in their trucks. They are full of the poison and are hopeless since drinking the koolaid from birth. They offer their patriotism as a solution which is nothing more than a proud and egotistical person with a closed mind. They are as useless as the people leading us down this horrible path of destruction.
When I see Koreans marching in the street by the tens of thousands about an issue related to food consumption, I admire those people for their integrity, willpower and fortitude. Americans would never have the nerve, compassion or time to protest an issue of comparable meaning, let alone demonstrating for the impeaching of one, two or all 535 officers of our government. Most people I talk with do not have a clue what is occurring, what has happened, and what is to occur…even my family!
We ourselves are the insidious parasite that has destroyed our personal life, and others in our midst. It is not the government, because WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT. So shove that excuse where the sun doesn’t shine.
I have to ask myself where are the MoveOn.org organizations that are suppose to be consolidating our demands and exposing the corruptness. Unfortunately, they are the same poison and are now drinking from the same well as those that lead us astray. They are all corrupt (my opinion) and have yet to rally Americans behind a single cause. There cause is simple and that is to provide comfortable and highly compensated positions within a tax-free, or tax exempt, organization. Its pretty easy to make it look like you give a damn, but actually getting something done, or action, is not what we are seeing. I gave up on MoveOn after they decided to take on the worthy cause of Al Gore, and global warming. They sought millions of signatures to be placed on a petition that was sent to the government to deal with this issue. BUT it is a non-issue and if you had done your homework you would know that global warming is a hoax perpetuated by the same folks that have caused the banking crisis, the food crisis, the oil crisis (yada,yada,yada). When you begin paying for a carbon tax on nearly any purchase you make, you will understand. I even wrote MoveOn and sent the appropriate articles, references and documentation regarding the hoax of global warming, yet they spent valuable time and money move the public in the wrong direction. Whose pocket are they in????
Where are the Americans?!! What the hell is wrong with them!?! What are they waiting for???
Required video watching for all Americans is the Ring of Power (parts I and II). I would recommend reading something but I doubt most Americans could grasp such a task. In any case, the RIng of Power sums up the lies and lying liars since the time of the pharoahs. In essence, most everything you have learned in school was a lie. Your life has been a lie if you have relied upon the lies and disingenious principles taught to you in school, heralded from political platforms and broadcasted across all media sources.
Wake up Amerika…or its going to get a lot worse. Really…
Posted June 22, 2008 6:33pm
Thursday, June 19, 2008
FREEDOM OF IMPEACHMENT
A little truthout... how can we return to the days when white-collar criminals went to prison? -ed.
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In the never-ending pursuit
Thu, 06/19/2008 - 21:00 — Seth Mosgofian (not verified)
In the never-ending pursuit of greater, more unreasonable profits there has been a long and concerted effort by corporations to undermine the rights of working Americans. It significantly reared it's ugly head during the Reagan administration with it's handling of the air-traffic controllers' strike. This was carried forward during the first Bush White House with the attempted passage of NAFTA. Where Republican Bush failed, Democrat Clinton succeeded in pushing NAFTA through and thus helped to further the cause of global imperialism at the cost of workers' rights and standard of living.
In 2000 the United States experienced a coup with the theft of the election by the second (actually third) and more virulent strain of Bush and corporate control of our government became all but complete. Now money talks more than ever. Greed is the creed and too many Congress members of both parties are personally and literally invested in the same corporations (and agenda) that drove Reagan and now George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
The engine that drives this corporate profit-making machine is war, fueled by expendable lives and American tax-dollars. Both Republicans and Democrats are feeding from the same trough. Far too many of them are profiting from war and guilty of helping to support and fund wars. Any war.
Impeachment runs the risk of exposing all those who are culpable, thus it is "off the table". (Clinton's impeachment only threatened Clinton) This is not to say that it shouldn't be pursued, but how else can it be explained that the Democrats were so quick to deny impeachment when our system of checks and balances and our democracy were at stake.
There is no more important obligation of Congress than to derail a runaway Executive Branch that arrogantly ignores the constitution, the rule of law and the will of the people. If the process of impeachment brings the other tasks of Congress to a halt we need a Congress more skilled at multitasking. If Congress thinks it can do business as usual while ignoring an Executive Branch that is busy committing high crimes then our government is seriouly broken and needs a remedial crash course in Roman history.
My heartfelt thanks go to Congressman Dennis Kucinich for his courageous challenge to the worst, most corrupt administration and most negligent Congress in our history, but he cannot succeed without we, the people, getting involved and keeping the pressure on our elected or about to be elected representatives. Thank you Dennis. and don't give up.
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In the never-ending pursuit
Thu, 06/19/2008 - 21:00 — Seth Mosgofian (not verified)
In the never-ending pursuit of greater, more unreasonable profits there has been a long and concerted effort by corporations to undermine the rights of working Americans. It significantly reared it's ugly head during the Reagan administration with it's handling of the air-traffic controllers' strike. This was carried forward during the first Bush White House with the attempted passage of NAFTA. Where Republican Bush failed, Democrat Clinton succeeded in pushing NAFTA through and thus helped to further the cause of global imperialism at the cost of workers' rights and standard of living.
In 2000 the United States experienced a coup with the theft of the election by the second (actually third) and more virulent strain of Bush and corporate control of our government became all but complete. Now money talks more than ever. Greed is the creed and too many Congress members of both parties are personally and literally invested in the same corporations (and agenda) that drove Reagan and now George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
The engine that drives this corporate profit-making machine is war, fueled by expendable lives and American tax-dollars. Both Republicans and Democrats are feeding from the same trough. Far too many of them are profiting from war and guilty of helping to support and fund wars. Any war.
Impeachment runs the risk of exposing all those who are culpable, thus it is "off the table". (Clinton's impeachment only threatened Clinton) This is not to say that it shouldn't be pursued, but how else can it be explained that the Democrats were so quick to deny impeachment when our system of checks and balances and our democracy were at stake.
There is no more important obligation of Congress than to derail a runaway Executive Branch that arrogantly ignores the constitution, the rule of law and the will of the people. If the process of impeachment brings the other tasks of Congress to a halt we need a Congress more skilled at multitasking. If Congress thinks it can do business as usual while ignoring an Executive Branch that is busy committing high crimes then our government is seriouly broken and needs a remedial crash course in Roman history.
My heartfelt thanks go to Congressman Dennis Kucinich for his courageous challenge to the worst, most corrupt administration and most negligent Congress in our history, but he cannot succeed without we, the people, getting involved and keeping the pressure on our elected or about to be elected representatives. Thank you Dennis. and don't give up.
Friday, June 13, 2008
Puppet People Rule!
Couldn't have said it better myself...thanks, Mike! [ed.]
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Mike Corbeil June 13th, 2008 12:20 am
Bush is not powerful, really; it’s that having the title of President and being puppet of the kind of elites that control and corrupt the U.S. govt, all of this combines to making Bush seem powerful. He’s puppet; though sure is blood-cultist like former Pope John Paul II said in December 2002 or January 2003, when he added that he had also been wondering if Bush might be, or not, the antichrist, but which he was obviously not sure, while being sure in his view of Bush being blood-cultist.
As for the kind of people making U.S. presidents seem powerful, the following articles provide readers with some [strong] exposes on this topic; and the article by Stephen Lendman is not only very strong, it is crucial reading.
The rich elites want everything to themselves, and the following two articles provide important information of a very different kind about these people in terms of their doings of today.
Get ready for some serious “shock therapy” with Lendman’s article. It’s about major and top-U.S. govt corruption, involving boss-man VP Cheney, George Tenet, the CIA, the Halliburton-CIA operatives who aren’t registered as members of the CIA, but who have been found to definitely be secretly referrable to as these types of operatives, majorly robbing U.S. taxpayers like most people have probably never heard of before and might’ve found difficult to imagine, and so on.
It was very dangerous for the courageous CIA agent who managed to be able to definitely learn of and prove all of this major criminality. And through what is revealed in Lendman’s article on what she, this courageous and long-careered CIA agent or official, exposed is a strong illustration of why some people claimed years ago that Cheney had basically taken over authority of the presidential administration; by, and f.e., secretly having documents that are supposed to go to the president, at least first, redirected to Cheney’s office, keeping Bush “out of the loop” about things a president just didn’t need to know, Cheney evidently ruled, secretly.
Kucinich is all the more vindicated in having correctly ruled that Cheney had to be the first one to be impeached, for he [is] definitely more dangerous than Bush, who is mister puppet; with mister puppeteer lurking in the background as VP. I had a strong suspicion that Cheney would not want to be president, for he strategically needed plenty of secrecy in order to be able to carry on his major Halliburton machinations; and the most dangerous of dangerous and elite criminals are those who operate secretly.
” Exposing Bush Administration Corruption
by Stephen Lendman
Global Research, June 11, 2008″
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9288
“Barack O’Bilderberg: Picking the President
by Andrew G. Marshall
Global Research, June 9, 2008″
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9270
Many machinations of ‘Mal’ kind go on and are going on, while corporate msm “news” media keeps many of us very ignorant sheople; although many or most of them wouldn’t know what’s revealed in Lendman’s above article, but while more certainly knew of the Bilderberg Group’s recent annual meeting in the USA.
It’s not to say that I can personally accuse Barack Obama of having committed a wrong, as described of his (and Billary’s) secret doings, which seriously stunned the press people traveling with Obama’s campaign; stunned and fuming with anger. Andrew Marshall also doesn’t say that Obama committed any wrongs; only presenting the fact that he, and Hillary Clinton, certainly seem to have secretly sped off to a secret meeting with the B. Group.
I’d need more information before being able to form a definitive view, and these types of details are, for now anyway, secret; but, Obama, Billary, etcetera, will also make sure of keeping what they discussed in secret from everyone other than themselves.
While some may be members of both groups, the Bilderberg Group … dwarfs the power of AIPAC, and unlike the latter, the B.G. is HIGHLY, very highly secretive. Again, that is also how the very most dangerous people operate; and we should not forget this. They certainly have ways of guaranteeing that anyone leaking what the B.G. dictates is never to be leaked will never get another chance to repeat the leaked information; permanent silencing is easy for them to ensure.
John Perkins, author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’, did not mention the B.G. in the interview that I read the transcript of at Democracy Now!; but what he said is relevant to the above.
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Mike Corbeil June 13th, 2008 12:20 am
Bush is not powerful, really; it’s that having the title of President and being puppet of the kind of elites that control and corrupt the U.S. govt, all of this combines to making Bush seem powerful. He’s puppet; though sure is blood-cultist like former Pope John Paul II said in December 2002 or January 2003, when he added that he had also been wondering if Bush might be, or not, the antichrist, but which he was obviously not sure, while being sure in his view of Bush being blood-cultist.
As for the kind of people making U.S. presidents seem powerful, the following articles provide readers with some [strong] exposes on this topic; and the article by Stephen Lendman is not only very strong, it is crucial reading.
The rich elites want everything to themselves, and the following two articles provide important information of a very different kind about these people in terms of their doings of today.
Get ready for some serious “shock therapy” with Lendman’s article. It’s about major and top-U.S. govt corruption, involving boss-man VP Cheney, George Tenet, the CIA, the Halliburton-CIA operatives who aren’t registered as members of the CIA, but who have been found to definitely be secretly referrable to as these types of operatives, majorly robbing U.S. taxpayers like most people have probably never heard of before and might’ve found difficult to imagine, and so on.
It was very dangerous for the courageous CIA agent who managed to be able to definitely learn of and prove all of this major criminality. And through what is revealed in Lendman’s article on what she, this courageous and long-careered CIA agent or official, exposed is a strong illustration of why some people claimed years ago that Cheney had basically taken over authority of the presidential administration; by, and f.e., secretly having documents that are supposed to go to the president, at least first, redirected to Cheney’s office, keeping Bush “out of the loop” about things a president just didn’t need to know, Cheney evidently ruled, secretly.
Kucinich is all the more vindicated in having correctly ruled that Cheney had to be the first one to be impeached, for he [is] definitely more dangerous than Bush, who is mister puppet; with mister puppeteer lurking in the background as VP. I had a strong suspicion that Cheney would not want to be president, for he strategically needed plenty of secrecy in order to be able to carry on his major Halliburton machinations; and the most dangerous of dangerous and elite criminals are those who operate secretly.
” Exposing Bush Administration Corruption
by Stephen Lendman
Global Research, June 11, 2008″
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9288
“Barack O’Bilderberg: Picking the President
by Andrew G. Marshall
Global Research, June 9, 2008″
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9270
Many machinations of ‘Mal’ kind go on and are going on, while corporate msm “news” media keeps many of us very ignorant sheople; although many or most of them wouldn’t know what’s revealed in Lendman’s above article, but while more certainly knew of the Bilderberg Group’s recent annual meeting in the USA.
It’s not to say that I can personally accuse Barack Obama of having committed a wrong, as described of his (and Billary’s) secret doings, which seriously stunned the press people traveling with Obama’s campaign; stunned and fuming with anger. Andrew Marshall also doesn’t say that Obama committed any wrongs; only presenting the fact that he, and Hillary Clinton, certainly seem to have secretly sped off to a secret meeting with the B. Group.
I’d need more information before being able to form a definitive view, and these types of details are, for now anyway, secret; but, Obama, Billary, etcetera, will also make sure of keeping what they discussed in secret from everyone other than themselves.
While some may be members of both groups, the Bilderberg Group … dwarfs the power of AIPAC, and unlike the latter, the B.G. is HIGHLY, very highly secretive. Again, that is also how the very most dangerous people operate; and we should not forget this. They certainly have ways of guaranteeing that anyone leaking what the B.G. dictates is never to be leaked will never get another chance to repeat the leaked information; permanent silencing is easy for them to ensure.
John Perkins, author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’, did not mention the B.G. in the interview that I read the transcript of at Democracy Now!; but what he said is relevant to the above.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
You Couldn't Have a FOX News under the Fairness Doctrine
My own:
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: “This devolution of the American Press began in 1988, when Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine. We had a rule in this country that was passed in 1928 at the dawn of commercial radio… and that rule said that the airwaves belong to the public. The broadcasts can be licensed to use them, but only with the proviso that they use them to promote the public interest and to advance American democracy.”
“There were three requirements under the Fairness Doctrine — number one; they had to air issues of public import. That’s why there’s a 6 o’clock news hour on the networks. Not because they wanted it — they wanted entertainment put in that slot. The news departments traditionally were money losers. So, they were forced to do that as part of the Fairness Doctrine, and that’s why the radio stations periodically update you on the news, as part of the original requirement under the Fairness Doctrine that they’re still doing as a tradition.”
“Number two; if they were going to give ‘opinion,’ they had to tell both sides. You couldn’t have had a FOX News under the Fairness Doctrine. You couldn’t have had a Rush Limbaugh. You could have had Rush 4 hours a day, but then they would have had to put somebody else on, a counter-availing voice, for the next 4 hours. You couldn’t have Rush and his dittoheads 24 hours a day on the same station. Rush Limbaugh got started in 1988, the year that Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine.”
“Number three; they had to avoid corporate consolidation. Congress wanted to make sure that people in Kansas could get crop reports, that people in North Dakota could get tornado warnings, that people in the South could get country music, that you wouldn’t have programming and content dictated by a couple of corporate epicenters in remote areas of the country… and that part of the Fairness Doctrine, incidentally, strengthened in 1945, FORTIFIED, BECAUSE THEY SAW (the Congress saw) WHAT HITLER HAD DONE IN EUROPE, and other fascist governments had done, where they had allowed these corporate consolidations, and they had given these contracts and special favors to the media, and they had co-opted the media and got them on their side. And so anyone who criticized them was either muzzled or was branded as unpatriotic. And they said (in 1945) that we can’t let this happen in our country, so they strengthened that part of the Fairness Doctrine.”
To see the rest, watch Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., “How the News Media Fails Us,” on brasschecktv or YouTube
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr: “This devolution of the American Press began in 1988, when Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine. We had a rule in this country that was passed in 1928 at the dawn of commercial radio… and that rule said that the airwaves belong to the public. The broadcasts can be licensed to use them, but only with the proviso that they use them to promote the public interest and to advance American democracy.”
“There were three requirements under the Fairness Doctrine — number one; they had to air issues of public import. That’s why there’s a 6 o’clock news hour on the networks. Not because they wanted it — they wanted entertainment put in that slot. The news departments traditionally were money losers. So, they were forced to do that as part of the Fairness Doctrine, and that’s why the radio stations periodically update you on the news, as part of the original requirement under the Fairness Doctrine that they’re still doing as a tradition.”
“Number two; if they were going to give ‘opinion,’ they had to tell both sides. You couldn’t have had a FOX News under the Fairness Doctrine. You couldn’t have had a Rush Limbaugh. You could have had Rush 4 hours a day, but then they would have had to put somebody else on, a counter-availing voice, for the next 4 hours. You couldn’t have Rush and his dittoheads 24 hours a day on the same station. Rush Limbaugh got started in 1988, the year that Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine.”
“Number three; they had to avoid corporate consolidation. Congress wanted to make sure that people in Kansas could get crop reports, that people in North Dakota could get tornado warnings, that people in the South could get country music, that you wouldn’t have programming and content dictated by a couple of corporate epicenters in remote areas of the country… and that part of the Fairness Doctrine, incidentally, strengthened in 1945, FORTIFIED, BECAUSE THEY SAW (the Congress saw) WHAT HITLER HAD DONE IN EUROPE, and other fascist governments had done, where they had allowed these corporate consolidations, and they had given these contracts and special favors to the media, and they had co-opted the media and got them on their side. And so anyone who criticized them was either muzzled or was branded as unpatriotic. And they said (in 1945) that we can’t let this happen in our country, so they strengthened that part of the Fairness Doctrine.”
To see the rest, watch Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., “How the News Media Fails Us,” on brasschecktv or YouTube
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
I know! The W stands for Widowmaker!
By Jack Damage [who has every right to fly his flag sticker upside-down on Memorial Day, or any other day.-ed.]:
No, I disagree, it is not a harsh headline, it is an accurate headline ["DEAD TROOPS REMEMBERED BY PRESIDENT WHO HAD THEM KILLED"-ed.]… Mr. Geiger’s leadin paragraph exemplifies why I can’t even pretend to care about memorial day these days. Yea, I have my personal moments during the day when I contemplate what it all means to be a veteran of this nations armed forces.. I look at my uniform in the closet under plastic with the ribbons displayed and ponder eternity and where all the dead are and whether or not they are resting in peace and so on… But I won’t go to any parades or any ‘officially sanctioned’ services/celebrations in honor of the vets who have fallen specifically for the same reasons cited by Mr. Geiger as to what sickens him about the last seven years… To hear that pussy mouth platitudes to and about people, events and principles he has zero idea about is enough to make me vomit as well as the writer…
One of these days when this pox called Bush is gone from the scene I believe I’ll be able to be fully proud of being an American once again, depending on who gets the WH this coming fall. Proud to go to patriotic parades in honor of the millions of brave Americans who gave their lives in service to this country over the last 232 or so years. And proud to be associated with all that thru my own service some 25 plus years ago…. That wasn’t this memorial day, nor any of the last seven years memorial days past…. I look forward to a time I can be completely proud of my nation again, not fringe aspects of it. Truly proud and not chagrined of my personal service to it. I long for that…
When that time comes, I’ll be ready to go to parades again and what not, and I’ll take a little flag stickon in my residence and shift it from the position denoting our nation in distress which it has been postioned in since 2000 and return it to its normal representation… These days and that sense of pride in it all will happen only when Bush is gone… That he, thru his actions and words, have stolen this sense of pride in my nation and my armed forces service to it as well as sullying the nations world image itself, is just another reason why I’d like to personally kick the shit out of that sonofabitch… Delete if you must site monitor, but don’t contrue what I just said as a desire to end his miserable life… No, I just want smack the smirk off his face once and for all… Just killing him outright would be letting the bastard off too easily for what he’s done to all of us. I weep for my country under the control of this pathetic excuse for a man…..JD
No, I disagree, it is not a harsh headline, it is an accurate headline ["DEAD TROOPS REMEMBERED BY PRESIDENT WHO HAD THEM KILLED"-ed.]… Mr. Geiger’s leadin paragraph exemplifies why I can’t even pretend to care about memorial day these days. Yea, I have my personal moments during the day when I contemplate what it all means to be a veteran of this nations armed forces.. I look at my uniform in the closet under plastic with the ribbons displayed and ponder eternity and where all the dead are and whether or not they are resting in peace and so on… But I won’t go to any parades or any ‘officially sanctioned’ services/celebrations in honor of the vets who have fallen specifically for the same reasons cited by Mr. Geiger as to what sickens him about the last seven years… To hear that pussy mouth platitudes to and about people, events and principles he has zero idea about is enough to make me vomit as well as the writer…
One of these days when this pox called Bush is gone from the scene I believe I’ll be able to be fully proud of being an American once again, depending on who gets the WH this coming fall. Proud to go to patriotic parades in honor of the millions of brave Americans who gave their lives in service to this country over the last 232 or so years. And proud to be associated with all that thru my own service some 25 plus years ago…. That wasn’t this memorial day, nor any of the last seven years memorial days past…. I look forward to a time I can be completely proud of my nation again, not fringe aspects of it. Truly proud and not chagrined of my personal service to it. I long for that…
When that time comes, I’ll be ready to go to parades again and what not, and I’ll take a little flag stickon in my residence and shift it from the position denoting our nation in distress which it has been postioned in since 2000 and return it to its normal representation… These days and that sense of pride in it all will happen only when Bush is gone… That he, thru his actions and words, have stolen this sense of pride in my nation and my armed forces service to it as well as sullying the nations world image itself, is just another reason why I’d like to personally kick the shit out of that sonofabitch… Delete if you must site monitor, but don’t contrue what I just said as a desire to end his miserable life… No, I just want smack the smirk off his face once and for all… Just killing him outright would be letting the bastard off too easily for what he’s done to all of us. I weep for my country under the control of this pathetic excuse for a man…..JD
Friday, May 23, 2008
Democracy's Finest Power Hour
From a Truthdig article, "Dream On, Hillary," tdbach points out the neocon-like suggestion that Hillary drop out of the race.-ed.
By tdbach, May 23 at 6:15 am #
It's simple
Look, you Obama-ites, it’s pretty simple. The campaign isn’t over, the “last out” hasn’t been made. Oh, how you’d love Hillary call it quits and toddle on home!
But she has a devoted electorate who have worked hard, rooted hard, argued hard on her behalf for over a year, and she’s not going to abandon them now, because you want her to. But she’s tearing apart the Democratic party! No, she’s not. Any more than any other primary campaign tears apart a party. If anyone is damaging the party, it’s Obama supporters like Robinson who want to prematurely silence virtually one half of its members - maybe even more (how many Obama votes came from independents and cross-over Republicans?).
As to Hillary’s fight to restore the voices of voters in MI and FL, why not? The purpose of the DNC sanction was to strip those states’ leaders of an early influence in the election. It was a huge blunder of core Democratic operatives in those states to press on with their primaries despite those sanctions. Absolutely unforgivable. And the DNC was right to not allow them to bully their way to the head of the line. But now that the race has turned out to be so close, it is vitally important that EVERY vote is heard. Hillary’s right: the “rules” of the DNC should be trumped by the golden rule of “every vote counts” if it comes to that. And it does.
Can she win the primary if MI and FL are added to the mix? Probably not. But again, it ain’t over yet. As any baseball fan knows, anything can happen. Why walk away in the 8th inning? Because the other team, with the “insurmountable” lead is afraid of losing by some fluke? Too bad. Fight on like real men and women, and you’ll be stronger for it should you indeed win. Because, despite my analogy, this isn’t a game. It’s the real deal. It could be our democracy’s finest hour. But you want to call the game on account of darkness. Turn on the lights. Let’s go!
By tdbach, May 23 at 6:15 am #
It's simple
Look, you Obama-ites, it’s pretty simple. The campaign isn’t over, the “last out” hasn’t been made. Oh, how you’d love Hillary call it quits and toddle on home!
But she has a devoted electorate who have worked hard, rooted hard, argued hard on her behalf for over a year, and she’s not going to abandon them now, because you want her to. But she’s tearing apart the Democratic party! No, she’s not. Any more than any other primary campaign tears apart a party. If anyone is damaging the party, it’s Obama supporters like Robinson who want to prematurely silence virtually one half of its members - maybe even more (how many Obama votes came from independents and cross-over Republicans?).
As to Hillary’s fight to restore the voices of voters in MI and FL, why not? The purpose of the DNC sanction was to strip those states’ leaders of an early influence in the election. It was a huge blunder of core Democratic operatives in those states to press on with their primaries despite those sanctions. Absolutely unforgivable. And the DNC was right to not allow them to bully their way to the head of the line. But now that the race has turned out to be so close, it is vitally important that EVERY vote is heard. Hillary’s right: the “rules” of the DNC should be trumped by the golden rule of “every vote counts” if it comes to that. And it does.
Can she win the primary if MI and FL are added to the mix? Probably not. But again, it ain’t over yet. As any baseball fan knows, anything can happen. Why walk away in the 8th inning? Because the other team, with the “insurmountable” lead is afraid of losing by some fluke? Too bad. Fight on like real men and women, and you’ll be stronger for it should you indeed win. Because, despite my analogy, this isn’t a game. It’s the real deal. It could be our democracy’s finest hour. But you want to call the game on account of darkness. Turn on the lights. Let’s go!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Let Them Eat Form 1040
LeeAnnG has a good story to tell, in response to that bitter pill of learning that you've been swindled for 30 years and not being able to prove it.-ed.
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Misguided Notions Submitted by LeeAnnG on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 1:06pm.
I have a friend who considers himself to be a "conservative." He is aware that I am a leftwing progressive, so we talk little about politics. However, he has "jokingly" made some disparaging remarks about liberals.
The weird thing about this guy is that he moved back to the land and supported himself and a large family by growing his own food and raising goats. It was not enough, so he got food stamps, even though he had a teaching degree and could have supplemented the farming that way. In later life, he became physically disabled and accepted government assistance, which he still gets.
The other night he told me that he would have had a great agricultural business but the government reneged on its loan when Reagan came into office.
None of this makes any sense for a self-proclaimed conservative except that he buys into the whole "guns, god, gays, and patriotism" notions promoted by the rightwing noise machine.
Obama was right about the bitterness, the attitude of working Americans toward the "other" (including gays, migrants and other ethnic groups), and religion. Rev. Wright was absolutely spot on about America's role in racial injustice and invading or interfering with other countries. But Clinton will continue to make fault of virtue, frame Obama's words into negatives, and hand over an entire campaign agenda to the Republicans in order to get back into the White House.
If my friend, who is not an ignorant or uneducated man, can believe the garbage spewed by the rightwing radicals, talk radio, and Fox "news," how can we expect that working class people who have been oppressed and neglected by the powers that be to see through it.
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Misguided Notions Submitted by LeeAnnG on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 1:06pm.
I have a friend who considers himself to be a "conservative." He is aware that I am a leftwing progressive, so we talk little about politics. However, he has "jokingly" made some disparaging remarks about liberals.
The weird thing about this guy is that he moved back to the land and supported himself and a large family by growing his own food and raising goats. It was not enough, so he got food stamps, even though he had a teaching degree and could have supplemented the farming that way. In later life, he became physically disabled and accepted government assistance, which he still gets.
The other night he told me that he would have had a great agricultural business but the government reneged on its loan when Reagan came into office.
None of this makes any sense for a self-proclaimed conservative except that he buys into the whole "guns, god, gays, and patriotism" notions promoted by the rightwing noise machine.
Obama was right about the bitterness, the attitude of working Americans toward the "other" (including gays, migrants and other ethnic groups), and religion. Rev. Wright was absolutely spot on about America's role in racial injustice and invading or interfering with other countries. But Clinton will continue to make fault of virtue, frame Obama's words into negatives, and hand over an entire campaign agenda to the Republicans in order to get back into the White House.
If my friend, who is not an ignorant or uneducated man, can believe the garbage spewed by the rightwing radicals, talk radio, and Fox "news," how can we expect that working class people who have been oppressed and neglected by the powers that be to see through it.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Where Have the Joiners Gone? Babies go boom-boom!
Galen is probably right, but even most of the "instant-gratification-high-schoolers" that I know can be extremely resourceful in a pinch; they'll get used to it. They're young. I'm more worried about the near-retirement baby boomers and the old people.-ed.
By Galen April 13th, 2008 12:27 pm:
The hard times are coming folks. No doubt about it.
I know what it takes to break open the ground to plant a garden by hand. For a 20x 20 plot it was three eight hour days of back wrenching labor. I finally broke down and used the community gardens rototiller.
Then was the endless hours (pleasantly spent) weeding with my then wife. No pesticides. Fish fertilizer.
The payoff? The most wonderful, flavorful best tasting fruits and veggies I have ever had. Store bought food PALES, literally, in comparison.
I also have hard won skills in woodworking and some general carpentry.
Will I make it through the coming crash? Probably. Better than the vast majority of the population of the large west coast city I live in. But I am willing to help my neighbors. I even know many of them by name. And I have friends of the same mind set, but with differing skills. We should get by. But it won’t be easy.
The people I truly pity are the children and teens of today who have never known want. Only instant gratification.
They will suffer. Badly.
By Galen April 13th, 2008 12:27 pm:
The hard times are coming folks. No doubt about it.
I know what it takes to break open the ground to plant a garden by hand. For a 20x 20 plot it was three eight hour days of back wrenching labor. I finally broke down and used the community gardens rototiller.
Then was the endless hours (pleasantly spent) weeding with my then wife. No pesticides. Fish fertilizer.
The payoff? The most wonderful, flavorful best tasting fruits and veggies I have ever had. Store bought food PALES, literally, in comparison.
I also have hard won skills in woodworking and some general carpentry.
Will I make it through the coming crash? Probably. Better than the vast majority of the population of the large west coast city I live in. But I am willing to help my neighbors. I even know many of them by name. And I have friends of the same mind set, but with differing skills. We should get by. But it won’t be easy.
The people I truly pity are the children and teens of today who have never known want. Only instant gratification.
They will suffer. Badly.
Monday, April 7, 2008
The Truth about the Truth about the Truth about the 9/11 Truth Movement...
Nathaniel Heidenheimer April 7th, 2008 5:35 pm
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Quoting Clarity:
Look up 7 WTC on Wickpedia and look at all those engineering societies in on the vast conspiracy- all those damn engineers are neocons to the core!
Honestly you guys are a riot- or would be if didn’t make it that much easier to dismiss progressives with important ideas about wealth distribution, education and a realistic foreign policy that both protects us and our values. If it weren’t for that I’d love to keep you around for the entertainment value!
_____________ Nathaniel says:
WRONG! This is the latest tactic. To polarize the issue in terms of “only rightists believe in 9/11. Well BY NOW after countless left attacks like this one that are entirely uninformed and factless– undoubtedly there are many on the left who have BEEN CONDITIONED away from ever reading a book on the topic.
But there is NO WAY SUCH A LEFT RIGHT POLARIZATION MIGHT HAVE BEEN SUGGGESTED AS LATE AS SAY EARLY 2006. It is now ONLY IN THE LAST TWO YEARS THAT this false argument– one that is not at all based on an examamination of what happened on 9/11 but rather on primitive cliqueish group identities– can even be suggested.
Question: What do you think that the field of Communications Research has been up to since its birth after 1945?
One of the things they study is how to make group A perceive themselves as the opposite of Group B over an issue that they will THEREFORE NOT EVEN BOTHER TO PICK UP A BOOK ABOUT? No doubt that this will be labeled paranoia, so I can only refer you to the seminal work of American University Communications Theorist Christopher Simpson. His GREAT AND NECESSARY BOOK IS CALLED THE SCIENCE OF COERCION. PLEASE READ IT BEFORE YOU SLIP BACK INTO SOMETHING comfortable like Katirina Van Der Hovel’s back door roundabout endorsement but endorsement just the same– of Nanci P. and the Mummy we have as Senate Majority leader.
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Quoting Clarity:
Look up 7 WTC on Wickpedia and look at all those engineering societies in on the vast conspiracy- all those damn engineers are neocons to the core!
Honestly you guys are a riot- or would be if didn’t make it that much easier to dismiss progressives with important ideas about wealth distribution, education and a realistic foreign policy that both protects us and our values. If it weren’t for that I’d love to keep you around for the entertainment value!
_____________ Nathaniel says:
WRONG! This is the latest tactic. To polarize the issue in terms of “only rightists believe in 9/11. Well BY NOW after countless left attacks like this one that are entirely uninformed and factless– undoubtedly there are many on the left who have BEEN CONDITIONED away from ever reading a book on the topic.
But there is NO WAY SUCH A LEFT RIGHT POLARIZATION MIGHT HAVE BEEN SUGGGESTED AS LATE AS SAY EARLY 2006. It is now ONLY IN THE LAST TWO YEARS THAT this false argument– one that is not at all based on an examamination of what happened on 9/11 but rather on primitive cliqueish group identities– can even be suggested.
Question: What do you think that the field of Communications Research has been up to since its birth after 1945?
One of the things they study is how to make group A perceive themselves as the opposite of Group B over an issue that they will THEREFORE NOT EVEN BOTHER TO PICK UP A BOOK ABOUT? No doubt that this will be labeled paranoia, so I can only refer you to the seminal work of American University Communications Theorist Christopher Simpson. His GREAT AND NECESSARY BOOK IS CALLED THE SCIENCE OF COERCION. PLEASE READ IT BEFORE YOU SLIP BACK INTO SOMETHING comfortable like Katirina Van Der Hovel’s back door roundabout endorsement but endorsement just the same– of Nanci P. and the Mummy we have as Senate Majority leader.
Friday, April 4, 2008
A Little Absurdirty Under The Fingernails
By: iowablackbird April 2nd, 2008 9:12 pm
the way of bush co. will be the way of mussolini and hitler, although i wish the next president in conjunction with congress would pursue the criminals who’ve wrought so much damage upon this world.
typically i’m not a conspiracy theorist, but in the back of my mind i see a connection b/w unsupervised warrant-less eavesdropping and congress’ hesitancy to pursue impeachment b/c of high crimes and misdemeanors (treason). i would not put death threats beyond the bush co. crowd (or the clinton crowd for that matter). one politicians plane crashing (as described in the book confessions of an economic hit man)can be ordered as quickly as we can order a pizza.
i’ve never personally experienced a serious death threat or political blackmail but i sense it happens and has the desired impact on the politician- especially in light of the spitzer folly, every politician has a little dirt (if not a mistress) under their fingernails. dirt is unacceptable to hygienic puritanical america, especially dirt distilled through MSM splattered across the world within moments on tv.
i suspect the fascists in this country won’t see bars until their unwittingly picked up on the streets of europe or latin america and tried in the international court (ICC) for war crimes (i’d be surprised if bush or cheney travel very much once out of office), at least after they’re nabbed they’ll receive public trials in europe.
if international institutions fall through, i suspect we will be liberated in 10 or 15 years by troops representing the united states of south america with backing from europe and china.
they’ll find a few north americans sipping champaign admiring their stolen art and loot but most of us will be starving as we manufacture more munitions. who knows maybe the brainwashed white supremacists we’ll send flocks of 12 and 13 year old children into the streets to fight for the homeland against the brown invaders. they might have to nuke cleveland before we get the point and surrender.
it’s a little absurd, but no more or less absurd then imagining these criminals will receive justice in this country….
…peace….
the way of bush co. will be the way of mussolini and hitler, although i wish the next president in conjunction with congress would pursue the criminals who’ve wrought so much damage upon this world.
typically i’m not a conspiracy theorist, but in the back of my mind i see a connection b/w unsupervised warrant-less eavesdropping and congress’ hesitancy to pursue impeachment b/c of high crimes and misdemeanors (treason). i would not put death threats beyond the bush co. crowd (or the clinton crowd for that matter). one politicians plane crashing (as described in the book confessions of an economic hit man)can be ordered as quickly as we can order a pizza.
i’ve never personally experienced a serious death threat or political blackmail but i sense it happens and has the desired impact on the politician- especially in light of the spitzer folly, every politician has a little dirt (if not a mistress) under their fingernails. dirt is unacceptable to hygienic puritanical america, especially dirt distilled through MSM splattered across the world within moments on tv.
i suspect the fascists in this country won’t see bars until their unwittingly picked up on the streets of europe or latin america and tried in the international court (ICC) for war crimes (i’d be surprised if bush or cheney travel very much once out of office), at least after they’re nabbed they’ll receive public trials in europe.
if international institutions fall through, i suspect we will be liberated in 10 or 15 years by troops representing the united states of south america with backing from europe and china.
they’ll find a few north americans sipping champaign admiring their stolen art and loot but most of us will be starving as we manufacture more munitions. who knows maybe the brainwashed white supremacists we’ll send flocks of 12 and 13 year old children into the streets to fight for the homeland against the brown invaders. they might have to nuke cleveland before we get the point and surrender.
it’s a little absurd, but no more or less absurd then imagining these criminals will receive justice in this country….
…peace….
Thursday, March 27, 2008
As the seconds tick away... your taxes pay for brutality and Wall St. bailouts
Let's see, at 10 bucks an hour, the average joe makes .00277778 cents per second. Not even a penny. (ed.)
By dixie March 26th, 2008 2:20 pm:
As the cost of the war escalates and we keep hearing about the 3 trillion dollar war and the fact that we are now 9 trillion or more in debt (and counting) the following comparisons might be helpful in illuminating just what IS a trillion.
I googled the question “what is a trillion?” and got a bunch of articles. One of them had this eye opening comparison:
1 million seconds = 12 days
1 billion seconds = 32 years
1 TRILLION seconds = 32,000 years!
It’s hard to get your mind around what a trillion is. We understand time fairly well so this gives us a good idea of the geometric expansion between a million, a billion and a trillion.
Think about it folks. We are being had in a monumental way!
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By JConrad March 26th, 2008 3:22 pm
And while the average American struggles many at the top of the food chain are doing very well for themselves.
During the five years from 2002 through 2006, Bear Sterns CEO James Cayne and the bank’s
four top executives were paid $620.8 M. The
five also reported a payout total of $296.4 M
from insider trading of company stock.
Wall Street’s five largest investment banks paid a record $39 billion in “executive bonuses” at the end of 2007. (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase Investment Bank and Credit Suisse Investment Bank.)
By dixie March 26th, 2008 2:20 pm:
As the cost of the war escalates and we keep hearing about the 3 trillion dollar war and the fact that we are now 9 trillion or more in debt (and counting) the following comparisons might be helpful in illuminating just what IS a trillion.
I googled the question “what is a trillion?” and got a bunch of articles. One of them had this eye opening comparison:
1 million seconds = 12 days
1 billion seconds = 32 years
1 TRILLION seconds = 32,000 years!
It’s hard to get your mind around what a trillion is. We understand time fairly well so this gives us a good idea of the geometric expansion between a million, a billion and a trillion.
Think about it folks. We are being had in a monumental way!
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By JConrad March 26th, 2008 3:22 pm
And while the average American struggles many at the top of the food chain are doing very well for themselves.
During the five years from 2002 through 2006, Bear Sterns CEO James Cayne and the bank’s
four top executives were paid $620.8 M. The
five also reported a payout total of $296.4 M
from insider trading of company stock.
Wall Street’s five largest investment banks paid a record $39 billion in “executive bonuses” at the end of 2007. (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase Investment Bank and Credit Suisse Investment Bank.)
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Hell Games
meremark's analysis...but follow the link to read the article & comments at OpEdNews anyway; it's meremark's last paragraph that made me want to save it. Too bad all the videos were taken down by the time I saw it...
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It's a dark hall of smoky mirrors
What Wayne Madsen said (subscription req'd.), in December '06 archives, I use as gospel.
Litvinenko was like a courier, for the plutonium, provided by Isreali-Russian mafia, made to look like it was coming from Putin, to frame Putin.
It was supposed to be in USA around Oct. 24, 25, in 2006. Arriving by an intentionally sloppy, discoverable trail, leading back to Putin. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, a detonation was waiting (from other domestic sources), set to false flag a tragedy and disarray the Nov. 6 elections.
Putin got wise in advance. Litvinenko got wise in advance, that he was going to be 'Lee Harvey Oswald'-ed, (framed), and he reneged, or told them in London he quit. So they (Isreali-Russian mafia ... Mossad, same thing if you like), poisoned him, he knew too much. But their cover was blown. Another courier (still inside Russia) who also knew too much, was murdered, probably at Putin's direction. It was unclear if Putin communicated to Litvinenko, or if they each saw through the plot independently.
One result has been Putin's crackdown on the Israeli-Russian mafia, and he's eliminated some of them, and made activity difficult for the rest. Yet, the principals are deep embeds in Russian politics, and power structure -- like our own USA military-industrial-congressional-massmedia corruption, endemic -- so all the scenes and events reported are filled with double-entendre, double-agents, double-crossers, doubled and redoubled. A dark hall of smoky mirrors ... and live fire.
The essential logistic and tactic now, is that Putin and/or successor what'shisname, controls vital pipes of natural gas and oil to Europe, and can coerce Euro cooperation in turning against Bushbutchery and the mega-psychopaths. You're right, that Putin is a 'good guy' and the enemy of our enemy Bushbutchery; Putin/Russia likes America, and Americans like Russia. It's the psychomonsters who are the outcasts.
One context I use to watch things in, is this. The national sport of America is baseball. The national sport of Russia is chess. Then do comparisons. For example, chess has the possibility of a tie outcome, (stalemate); baseball keeps playing extra innings until there's a winner, unless .... In chess, positioning pieces has both offense and defense components at the same time. And so on. Think about it.
I had foreseen the Oct. 24, 2006, sequel to 9/11 event, in astrology charts ahead of time. It was a mystery when the date came and went with nothing happening. Then Wayne Madsen, independently, two months later, had dug out the particulars and corroborated the target timeframe, Oct. 25ish, for the plot that got spoiled. That's why I put such credence in his version as gospel.
Oct. 24,06, was the second time we dodged the 9/11 sequel bullet. The first was set for Aug. 25, '05, according to my astrology study, but Katrina waylaid it. The third was Aug.20 - 30, '07, ('end of August' was the closest I could come to calculating a date said and certain), and that was the 'loose nuke cruise missile' botch job, out of Minot ND, Aug.30. Apparently. In the insane game they're playing, one possibility is always an 'intentional accidental discovery,' sort of as a feint. They conspire to do it, and only intend to go far enough to see who in the conspiracy breaks ranks and blows the whistle. Then that person is eliminated from future planning ... for the 'real' thing.
My astrology charts are spinning around with hair on fire in the May 1 - June 16, 2008, timeframe. A little narrower is May 3 - 15. And I am strongly isolating on Sunday, May 11, '08, as the 9/11 sequel date, for a number of reasons. Look at just the first one: that date is 'five eleven.'
May 15 is the 60th anniversary of Israel's invasion of Palestine, and where all the modern situation there began, (though antecedent dates are in 1917, and, if you really trace the threads back, Napoleon promised Euro-Zionists he'd get them a Middle East 'homeland' back around 1810, that's where it really began), anyway, Dumbo junior jughead is scheduled to be in Jerusalem for the May 15 occasion. Our false flag watch should be on high alert whenever Dumbo's out of town. ... one trick is if he don't come back, and any lie can be told to explain what happened why he didn't ... his astrology chart is very acute at that date. Very.
Big daddy-o, of course, is the one to watch, the one calling the shots, the one behind it all. In the 'human nature' psychology of it, one thing going on is what I've been calling a 'reverse oedipal complex,' and that's supposed to give a hint at the direction and drift of 'personalities.' Stay tuned, I'm working on it. Goofy bozo Tommy looney tunes, here, of course takes all this reconnoitered info back into the dark bunker hall of smoky mirrors, and for some discovered date being announced here, could conceivably be countered there, by rescheduling the date. What shell is the pea under?
And I've been looking more and more at the plausibility that there is no violent explosion used to 'touch it off,' (whether 'it' is the Iran invasion -- I say that ain't gonna happen; or 'it' is martial law; or both), and one non-incendiary possibility is simply to close all the banks and unplug the ATM machines, coast to coast. Then what does that look like?
by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 330 comments) on Friday, March 21, 2008 at 6:02:02 AM
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It's a dark hall of smoky mirrors
What Wayne Madsen said (subscription req'd.), in December '06 archives, I use as gospel.
Litvinenko was like a courier, for the plutonium, provided by Isreali-Russian mafia, made to look like it was coming from Putin, to frame Putin.
It was supposed to be in USA around Oct. 24, 25, in 2006. Arriving by an intentionally sloppy, discoverable trail, leading back to Putin. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, a detonation was waiting (from other domestic sources), set to false flag a tragedy and disarray the Nov. 6 elections.
Putin got wise in advance. Litvinenko got wise in advance, that he was going to be 'Lee Harvey Oswald'-ed, (framed), and he reneged, or told them in London he quit. So they (Isreali-Russian mafia ... Mossad, same thing if you like), poisoned him, he knew too much. But their cover was blown. Another courier (still inside Russia) who also knew too much, was murdered, probably at Putin's direction. It was unclear if Putin communicated to Litvinenko, or if they each saw through the plot independently.
One result has been Putin's crackdown on the Israeli-Russian mafia, and he's eliminated some of them, and made activity difficult for the rest. Yet, the principals are deep embeds in Russian politics, and power structure -- like our own USA military-industrial-congressional-massmedia corruption, endemic -- so all the scenes and events reported are filled with double-entendre, double-agents, double-crossers, doubled and redoubled. A dark hall of smoky mirrors ... and live fire.
The essential logistic and tactic now, is that Putin and/or successor what'shisname, controls vital pipes of natural gas and oil to Europe, and can coerce Euro cooperation in turning against Bushbutchery and the mega-psychopaths. You're right, that Putin is a 'good guy' and the enemy of our enemy Bushbutchery; Putin/Russia likes America, and Americans like Russia. It's the psychomonsters who are the outcasts.
One context I use to watch things in, is this. The national sport of America is baseball. The national sport of Russia is chess. Then do comparisons. For example, chess has the possibility of a tie outcome, (stalemate); baseball keeps playing extra innings until there's a winner, unless .... In chess, positioning pieces has both offense and defense components at the same time. And so on. Think about it.
I had foreseen the Oct. 24, 2006, sequel to 9/11 event, in astrology charts ahead of time. It was a mystery when the date came and went with nothing happening. Then Wayne Madsen, independently, two months later, had dug out the particulars and corroborated the target timeframe, Oct. 25ish, for the plot that got spoiled. That's why I put such credence in his version as gospel.
Oct. 24,06, was the second time we dodged the 9/11 sequel bullet. The first was set for Aug. 25, '05, according to my astrology study, but Katrina waylaid it. The third was Aug.20 - 30, '07, ('end of August' was the closest I could come to calculating a date said and certain), and that was the 'loose nuke cruise missile' botch job, out of Minot ND, Aug.30. Apparently. In the insane game they're playing, one possibility is always an 'intentional accidental discovery,' sort of as a feint. They conspire to do it, and only intend to go far enough to see who in the conspiracy breaks ranks and blows the whistle. Then that person is eliminated from future planning ... for the 'real' thing.
My astrology charts are spinning around with hair on fire in the May 1 - June 16, 2008, timeframe. A little narrower is May 3 - 15. And I am strongly isolating on Sunday, May 11, '08, as the 9/11 sequel date, for a number of reasons. Look at just the first one: that date is 'five eleven.'
May 15 is the 60th anniversary of Israel's invasion of Palestine, and where all the modern situation there began, (though antecedent dates are in 1917, and, if you really trace the threads back, Napoleon promised Euro-Zionists he'd get them a Middle East 'homeland' back around 1810, that's where it really began), anyway, Dumbo junior jughead is scheduled to be in Jerusalem for the May 15 occasion. Our false flag watch should be on high alert whenever Dumbo's out of town. ... one trick is if he don't come back, and any lie can be told to explain what happened why he didn't ... his astrology chart is very acute at that date. Very.
Big daddy-o, of course, is the one to watch, the one calling the shots, the one behind it all. In the 'human nature' psychology of it, one thing going on is what I've been calling a 'reverse oedipal complex,' and that's supposed to give a hint at the direction and drift of 'personalities.' Stay tuned, I'm working on it. Goofy bozo Tommy looney tunes, here, of course takes all this reconnoitered info back into the dark bunker hall of smoky mirrors, and for some discovered date being announced here, could conceivably be countered there, by rescheduling the date. What shell is the pea under?
And I've been looking more and more at the plausibility that there is no violent explosion used to 'touch it off,' (whether 'it' is the Iran invasion -- I say that ain't gonna happen; or 'it' is martial law; or both), and one non-incendiary possibility is simply to close all the banks and unplug the ATM machines, coast to coast. Then what does that look like?
by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 330 comments) on Friday, March 21, 2008 at 6:02:02 AM
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
By Stonicus...
Good One, Stonicus; the "oh, well, you lost" mentality started at the 2000 Bush selection. I remember it as the day I woke up. Chris@#2, however, likely needs further education or skills in order to learn the difference between you, your, and you're.
by Stonicus:
Quoting Chris@#2: "Maybe Jack and his brother should get an education or skill that will allow them to be flexible in the market economy when its in a down cycle. This is a normal business cycle people, sometimes you (sic) up, sometimes your (sic) down."
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Make sure you tell that directly to Jack and his brother when they’re breaking into your house to rob you because they can’t find work and are starving. Then maybe you can understand how “oh well, you lost” is a bad paradigm for how to treat our population and how it hurts everyone, even the winners. I’m gonna buy you a bumper sticker that says “America, No Second Chances!”
Keep bankrupting people, telling them it’s their fault, and mocking them. How long before they decide to stop playing the game and start a new one, with new rules? Imagine playing Monopoly with 3 friends. You have Boardwalk and Parkplace and all the red properties with hotels and $10k cash. Everyone else has no money and all their property is mortgaged. How long do you think they’ll keep playing just to satisfy your ego?
by Stonicus:
Quoting Chris@#2: "Maybe Jack and his brother should get an education or skill that will allow them to be flexible in the market economy when its in a down cycle. This is a normal business cycle people, sometimes you (sic) up, sometimes your (sic) down."
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Make sure you tell that directly to Jack and his brother when they’re breaking into your house to rob you because they can’t find work and are starving. Then maybe you can understand how “oh well, you lost” is a bad paradigm for how to treat our population and how it hurts everyone, even the winners. I’m gonna buy you a bumper sticker that says “America, No Second Chances!”
Keep bankrupting people, telling them it’s their fault, and mocking them. How long before they decide to stop playing the game and start a new one, with new rules? Imagine playing Monopoly with 3 friends. You have Boardwalk and Parkplace and all the red properties with hotels and $10k cash. Everyone else has no money and all their property is mortgaged. How long do you think they’ll keep playing just to satisfy your ego?
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Walt Speaks From Experience, For Which There Is No Substitute.
Walt speaks, whoever he is...[ will you marry me? ] and his comment below is the reason to finally resurrect this blog from the dearth [ or death? ] of rational remarkage over the past year. Depressing, really, when Walt hit upon the suspicion I had about John Kerry in the last selection cycle... Kerry wanted everyone to think he was the 'Ron Kovic who ended the Vietnam War' type of hero.
Back to Walt, I personally apologize to you for being part of the problematic "edgy progressives threatening not to vote for either party..." and please don't take offense at my editing of the typos in order to underscore your eloquence with reading perfection. I am sorry, but will say that my Kucinich-based YouTube channel (Scoppertop) enjoyed lots of hits and I made lots of cool friends, particularly a young man of integrity and insight named erkd1. Hopefully, Walt, I can find you online blogging somewhere and add [ invite? ] you to my daily Bookmarks Bar. -ed.
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walt March 6th, 2008 4:57 am:
Talk about the Vietnam Era. We, in the progressive movement seem to have entered that troubling period of internecine warfare that so distinguished the aftermath of the “peace movement” and led to its ultimate dissolution in the 70’s.
Whether it’s hard-core Obama supporters threatening not to vote at all if HRC is nominated, or edgy progressives threatening not to vote for either party’s nominee because there’s “no difference between them”, or all-out, pointless, rant-fests like this, we are bearing witness to the sad condition of our movement since the 60’s … when a few astute social observers described us as The “Me” Generation.
Self-absorbed, atomistic, uncompromising, progressives (a small but vocal few) have shown a toxic reaction to the more pertinent characteristics of pluralistic democracy … namely, cohesion, compromise and solidarity.
I used to wonder if it truly was a progressive plague or an American one? At this point, the Republican party seems perched on the precipice of such self-immolation but - much as I hate to say it - I have been impressed by their ability to hold their noses, unify behind and support a candidate that they believe can win. Then they force that candidate to adopt their positions once he is elected. Remember how GWB, the “Great Uniter” turned on that promise and imposed his fanatical crypto-facist, Christian-fundamentalist, neo-liberal agenda on all of us? He was required to.
I trust - or rather fear - that all this stürm und drang about McCain breaking up the party’s homogeneous composition is a temporary situation … or a calculated farce. Now that he is the nominee, they will rally behind him.
They are better at this game than we are, but only because we refuse to play.
For the Right-wing it is not - nor has it ever been - about a candidate. For them, it is and has always been (for at least 30 very odd years indeed) about a concerted, anti-liberal agenda determined to reverse the works of FDR, LBJ and any progressive social programs implemented. They have, since Reagan, been appallingly successful at it.
For us, since JFK, RFK, MLK it has unfortunately – yet understandably - been about personality. We lost great leaders to violence and since Vietnam, we have had no unifying agenda to rally behind. We consequently depend on individuals to provide the vision instead of trying to build an ideological consensus among ourselves that we can all get a piece of.
Largely it’s because we are not as politically active as a body as we could be. Too many competing agendas and too much wasted energy. Casting vitriol on a journalist’s character on a website is decıdedly NOT political action.
The progressive Democrats are tearing themselves to shreds arguing over whether it will be Obama or Clinton. One side resents the idea that such a candidate will be forced upon the other, ignoring the fact that the better candidates in the race - Edwards, Kucinich, Biden and Gravel - have either been driven out or marginalized. Yet no one seems too irate about the fact that THIS decision was made for them.
I am 60. I was drafted. I did “serve” and fortunately survived. But many of my brothers are inscribed on that wall (courtesy of the Tet Offensive) and many more are lost to all efforts to find them through the vagaries of time and possibly homelessness.
This election is - as we once believed - critical. The decisions we make for President will affect the lives of our children more than ours. I have come to believe that whether it is Obama or Clinton - and by and large this will be a decision made by the citizens of our pluralistic democracy, voting scandals and crooked “Supremes” aside - we had better, if we believe one bit of our identity as progressives - choose and support one against McCain.
I would like to add that despite all his contributions - and setting truthie’s tempest aside – it was not Gravel who stopped the war, any more than it was bourgeois adolescents like Abbie Hoffman (OK, I’ll give you Dave Dellinger). If it was any one person, it was Ron Kovic, who along with dozens of other maimed and broken Veterans chained themselves to the gates of the White House. When their images of despair were beamed out all over the world, hearts broke … as did the American people’s will to believe the lies and go on. Politicians couldn’t look away from that demonstration as they did so many others. No one could. That act, more than any other, altered the minds of the American people and it was the American people who ended the war by withdrawıng their “silent” support for it.
So it will be with Iraq and Health Care and Corporate İnfluence and our Imperiled Planet. No inspirational “messiah” will take office and change things. Neither will an experienced “wonk” or a former POW. Ony Americans, actively participating in government can do this, no matter who is president. I just earnestly believe our chances of doing so are much better with a Democrat.
Nader could do it, but certainly not as President. That’s the ultimate delusion. What he could do is return to his only valid reason for fame - reactivating interest in participatory democracy at the grass roots as he did with the PIRGs. That is what he is famous for and that is what he did best – better than anyone in my lifetime. He pulled us out of apathy into action.
I liked the suggestion that he draw Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich and others into some kind of consensus movement – not a third party, God help us, there’s no time – but a political movement that any member of any party can support and that can put pressure on the President and Congress to reverse 25 years of anti-progressive legislation. Viable third parties evolve from that - over time. They don’t come from disaffected voters getting more disaffected every 4 years.
Social action is the only solution. Anything else, like this endless hair splitting and tiresome in-fighting, is nothing more than … what we used to call bourgeois self-indulgence … which in the 60’s, was the preferred course of action for those elite “liberals” least affected by the outcome of politics. They lived well no matter who won.
We have to elect a Democrat and then through organized action, we have to wean them off the corporate teat and “hound” them back to their roots – the protection of the unprotected. And there are millions of them out there. If you don’t care who wins you are not one of them.
It can be done. It has been done. In my lifetime.
If you are too cynical or filled with despair and believe that it doesn’t matter if a Democrat or a Republican wins you are too comfortable and cossetted to call yourself “progressive” or “liberal” or anything like it.
You are – as we old guard used to say – not part of the solution, but part of the problem.
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