Exodus: Border-Crossers Forge a New America

News: Coyotes, pollos, and the promised van
By Charles Bowden
September/October 2006 Issue (Mother Jones)


The Illegal Immigration Invasion


If you want to understand the extent of the problem, how it's happening, and why it's happening then read the ten page Mother Jones article, AND watch the two hour documentary. The media attempts to paint the minutemen as monsters and racists. Do you know what viva la raza means? We hear that a lot around here. Translated it means the race lives.

Who's racist?

It wasn't poor people of any race or nationality, or particular political party who created this problem.

But the poor will deal with it whether we want to or not.

Toda la gente pobre. (All the poor people.)

Why do we pay for this crap?

OPT: Gaza children suffer as rich world meets to discuss aid

FBI Arrests Head of Israeli Security at Atlanta Consulate
20:59 Aug 31, '06 / 7 Elul 5766

Two Elephants in the Room
Israel and its amen corner

US May Cover Israel's War Costs
By Ryan R. Jones
All Headline News Middle East Correspondent
08/31/06 -- - Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) -

Can You Really Not See?
By Amira Hass
08/30/06 "Haaretz."

Behind the plan to bomb Iran By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
08/31/06 "Asia Times" --

Armed man infiltrates British Embassy compound in Tel Aviv, demands asylum
(AP) - JERUSALEM-An armed man threatening to commit suicide breached security at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv on Thursday and was loose on the grounds inside, Israeli police said.
Police officials identified the man as Nadim Injaz, 28, from Ramallah, a suspected informer for the Israeli security services who was demanding asylum in the United Kingdom.

Because Israel is so good to the people that help them?

..and here on the home front, fightin' fer democracy...

Block the Vote
9.1.06 (tonight's show)

They got it right, I hope

Holy Crapoli.
I've been rolling my eyes so long at the the abuse of power that is so endemic in the 50th district (where I live) that my eyes about crossed when I saw this over on BradBlog, an article that mentions that the North County Times actually stepped up to the plate and mentioned that "Just a few days after the election, the California secretary of state's office notified the office of Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., that it was OK to seat Bilbray, based on an unofficial count showing Bilbray with a lead of about 5,000 votes over Democrat Francine Busby.
Hastert then swore in Bilbray as the new congressman, despite the fact that the election results had yet to be certified.
During the brief hearing, Judge Hofmann said the matter is one the U.S. House, not the state, must now address."Once the House asserts exclusive jurisdiction and selects a candidate, the court no longer has jurisdiction," Hofmann said."

and I was thrilled to see that Finn quoted Francine Busby as saying:

"It's outrageous that this judge just said the state of California doesn't have jurisdiction over our own elections, over this election," Busby said. "What happened today should be of concern to all voters."

go read the whole article:

Judge throws out 50th District election lawsuit
By: WILLIAM FINN BENNETT - Staff Writer

and this was interesting: Assembly approves universal health care Passage of bill seen as election-year test for Schwarzenegger
Lynda Gledhill, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

spread 'em, dread 'em and I read 'em

WELCOME TO AMERICA. IF YOU'RE A JOURNALIST, BEND OVER AND SPREAD 'EM!
(Aug. 28, 2006 -- SPECIAL REPORT FROM EUROPE. Information visas (I-Visa) -- a Bush administration method for controlling the foreign media's coverage of the United States.) hat tip to Danny

and from Information Clearinghouse we get this charming expose of American fruitcakes with something called "Jerusalem Sydrome." (22 minute Aussie video)


and from the Independent we get to read questions from people all over the world answered by Noam Chomsky

Taliban and heroin

Tomgram: Ann Jones on the Road to Taliban Land

The Lies About Taliban Heroin

Two books worth reading

one more on immigration (way rude)

Nashville's New Nativism

Hey, you Democrats out there, let's be real fucking honest for once about the immigration mess. Let's back this goddmned truck up and see just exactly why this is such a problem, OK?

Bush Sr. is now Clinton's buddy. Why? Beause they both committed the same crimes against working American people, and they are of the same class. Same fucking policies that Bush Sr. learned from Nixon who opened up China for semi-legitimate trade. Big fucking labor pool there, Western countries have been drawing on it for centuries. The whole CIA/spooky games that powerful men seem to be so fascinated with and drug running and laundering for the sake of filling up the Wall Street kitty. Drugs have always been used to make money and control people, that's old as the fucking hills, K?

Today we have a half-ass educated, completely uninformed electorate. And even more important for those rich fucks, a long ass trip to the elctorate for the energy sources. Too long. The energy sources that are needed to power the new offices for the world--India, and the new factories for the world--China are much closer to the energy sources needed to power them. If you were a rich fuck, what neighborhood would you invest in? The nice, shiny, new, energy efficient one with cheap labor, and cheap brainiacs, or the old inefficient one with leaky, creaky old buildings (and not enough gas and oil in the neighborhood to power it) and fat, stupid, spoiled workers? Now remember, you're a rich fuck, or you work for a rich fuck and your job is to make your rich fuck boss more money. That's what you do, and all you focus on is the bottom line. It's. Your. Job.

Now, back to why we have so many "illegal" Mexicans here.

1. NAFTA

{sent those maquiladoras (factories) that were supposed to keep more Mexicans employed right the fuck over to China, cleared land in Mexico and S. America to raise food to feed Norteamericanos, and Europeans (fucking snotbucket Europeans don't like GM soybeans) as the new and improved crop in Los Estados Unidos seems to be suburban McMansions}

2) CAFTA

3) union busting

and probably the one that will surprise the most Americans:

peak oil

The bitch has thrown her opinion out there and she really doesn't give a shit whether you like it or not. She really doesn't give a shit whether you think she's wrong or not. She really doesn't give a shit about whether you think or not. She's going to go get drunk now.


Ta fucking Ta.

Thursday, Aug 31, 2006

update for those of you who think Clinton shits gold bars: Clinton Ended Welfare, Not Poverty

Chad orders oil giants to leave
Saturday 26 August 2006, 21:20 Makka Time, 18:20 GMT

...The president gave the oil production consortium that is led by Exxon Mobil, a deadline of just 24 hours to start making plans to leave...

Disturbing similarities

Deir Yassin (20 minute video)

So, a hundred or so people die in 1948 and this starts the 750,000 person Palestinian exodus?

Anyhoooooo, as I'm watching this video I start to feel uncomfortable.

Why?

Because Israel is encouraged to pull the same shit we did:















And for fun, we pop over to One Pissed off Veterans place for what some would say are disgusting, but I think are hilarous, penis pump stories


Transportaion Security Administration, protecting you!

Water, trees, war, destruction, empire, and arrogance

Water

Trees

War

Destruction

Empire

Arrogance

Or why if you're a warmonger and not a tree hugger, you're an idiot.

And just for shits and giggles let's take a trip to the currency converter:

"2006.08.25 01:37:28 UTC.
100.00 USD
United States Dollars = 78.3413 EUR
Euro
1 USD = 0.783413 EUR 1 EUR = 1.27647 USD" ( http://www.xe.net/cgi-bin/convert.new )

nifty, a hundred dollars will buy you 78 euros.

just one of those days

and yes, my more base, and rude nature is amused at this, so freakin sue me, Ok? Good luck collecting anything.

What EVER

My DD

Sure you know what happened here with Busby.... sure you do, you live here, right Chris?

I do. I live here. I know what happened. And it will keep happening. Not because more people want things changed, but because the "right" people don't want things changed.

Dems wanted hand count


Busby forum on black box voting

Oh, and change will happen because the government is soooooooo responsive to what the people want, right?

pfffffffft


Some of us knew exactly what was going to happen .

Scientists suspect Israeli arms used in South contain radioactive matter
By Mohammed Zaatari
Daily Star staff
08/21/06 "Daily Star" --

Cheney Gets Flawed Neocon Briefings on Iran
By Larisa Alexandrovna, Raw Story. Posted August 19, 2006.

In what has become an all-too-familiar storyline, Dick Cheney is receiving flawed intelligence briefings from a clique of neocons who are viewed skeptically by veteran analysts.

Submission, part 1

The film's title is a direct translation of the word "Islam". The film suggests the mistreatment of women born to Muslim families. The film was shown on the Dutch public broadcasting network (VPRO) on August 29, 2004. It portrays a Muslim woman as having been beaten and raped by a relative. The bodies are used in the film as a canvas for verses from the Qur'an.

caption contest

Welcome to Pottersville does it again.

Oooooooh Yeah!

Net Neutrality under Congressional threat...

or big corporate lobbyists payola squeeze democracy AGAIN.

Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet
Published on Saturday, August 19, 2006 by The Nation
by Jeffrey Chester

GOP = Greedy Old Pukes

Bush on a Harley

Looks like I'm not the only one who couldn't resist fun with
this one

(just scroll down to number ten)

Remember the 2006 Republican campaign motto: "We have nothing to sell but fear itself."

Ack Ack Ack terra terra terra! yeeesh

Bush says foiled plot in Britain means U.S. will be fighting terrorists for years
Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006

or at the very least keepin' them people from them axis 'o evil countries outta the real estate market here...fer a while

Iranian brothers file lawsuit over 3 years of detention during FBI investigation
Monday, Aug. 14, 2006


'People power' is a global brand owned by America
08/15/06 The Guardian
The US and the western media back protests over controversial elections when it suits them, but are silent over those in Mexico

No. Fucking. Shit.

The Last Days of the American Republic

Chalmers Johnson: ”The Last Days of the American Republic.”

C-Span 06/11/06 (click on title link to play) Run Time 59 Minutes

The largest element in our budget of discretionary spending goes for national security. We are spending today more on national defense, so-called really on war, than all the other nations on earth combined. That’s an astonishing figure. Its also amazing to see that perhaps, 20,000 insurgents in Iraq have fought to a standstill 130,000 of the most-highly trained, heavily equipped troops on earth


Chalmers Johnson's next book is due out in February 2007

To pre-order from Amazon
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic [American Empire Project] (Hardcover)

It's Monday

Gas Prices Inch Up to Hit Another High
Monday, August 14, 2006 - Page updated at 12:22 AM
(AP) - CAMARILLO, Calif.-Nationwide gas prices hit yet another record in the last three weeks, rising just over one cent to nearly $3.03 per gallon, according to a survey released Sunday.

(Ummm, make that $3.40 here)

Oil crisis: It's only just begun
Monday, August 14, 2006 - Page updated at 12:22 AM
By Paul Salopek
Chicago Tribune

Ummm, yeah, guys? you know that thing over in the Middle East? It's not really working out like we had planned, you know? Um, there isn't nearly as much oil as we thought, and the natives are acting up, so, gee willikers, I guess it's time to tell you that your whole way of life is ab-so-fucking-lutely unsustainable. We're real sorry that your great-great grandkids are going to have to pay for the mess, but it was a helluva party while it lasted, eh?

Published on 11 Aug 2006

by Energy Bulletin / Whiskey & Gunpowder.

Archived on 11 Aug 2006.
by Byron W. King

No more business as usual

this was interesting:

NASA can't find original tape of moon landing
Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:48 PM BST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," a NASA spokesman said on Monday.
Armstrong's famous space walk, seen by millions of viewers on July 20, 1969, is among transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching, spokesman Grey Hautaloma said.
"We haven't seen them for quite a while. We've been looking for over a year and they haven't turned up," Hautaloma said.
The tapes also contain data about the health of the astronauts and the condition of the spacecraft. In all, some 700 boxes of transmissions from the Apollo lunar missions are missing, he said.
"I wouldn't say we're worried -- we've got all the data. Everything on the tapes we have in one form or another," Hautaloma said.
NASA has retained copies of the television broadcasts and offers several clips on its Web site.
But those images are of lower quality than the originals stored on the missing magnetic tapes.
Because NASA's equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day, the original transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and re-shot by a TV camera for broadcast.
Hautaloma said it is possible the tapes will be unplayable even if they are found, because they have degraded significantly over the years -- a problem common to magnetic tape and other types of recordable media.
The material was held by the National Archives but returned to NASA sometime in the late 1970s, he said.
"We're looking for paperwork to see where they last were," he said.
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Ooooops.

Iranian Leader Opens Up (on 60 Minutes)

Ok, I just watched it, and frankly, I have more questions than answers. I want to see all of the footage and I don't want either of their translators, translating for me.

Is there such a thing as a neutral translator on prime time? In any country?

I learned nothing.

Ok then.

Awwwww CRAP, I'm in the minority again.

You know, for a white chick, I spend a lot of time in the minority...

Heh.

depleted uranium

the AP covers DU?

Not very well, but it's in the mainstream media.

Project Censored covered it two years ago.

hmmmmmmmm.

Fascist government lying, cheating, spying, just another day in America

North County Times Publishes an Embarrassing 'Political Stunt' Disguised as a Newspaper Column

Traseger should read this before he does it again (pdf)



Two Congressional Experts Explain What Has Gone Very Wrong With Congress
By JOHN W. DEAN ----
Friday, Aug. 11, 2006

Judge Allows AT&T Lawsuit To Proceed
Posted By sarabeth On 20th July 2006 @ 14:20 In War on Terror

Judges Consolidate Telecom Spy Lawsuits
Friday, Aug. 11, 2006

The End of Suburbia (C) 2004

This is part of the commentary from this documentary, transcribed more or less accurately by me:

"This documentary started out as a response to September 11....had questions about the official story... The major news stories, Afghanistan, Iraq, the economy, Enron, even 9-11 itself were actually symptoms of the bigger news story of Oil Peak..."
"American suburbia is in a position of remarkable geopolitical importance right now. Their votes in many respects will determine how this crisis unfolds, and it's outcome. The crisis is going to be increasing costs for energy, for oil and for natural gas and how your average suburban American respond to this, and who they vote for, and the kinds of policies they support to deal with this is going to affect the entire world. They are the citizens of the Roman Empire of today and uh they have incredible power to influence this crisis towards a catastrophic conclusion, or towards something that is possibly sustainable. That will possibly take us into another era, an era of decreased energy at some level, but different kind of energy sources, but to get from here to there is going to be incredibly difficult. Alot of that depends on people coming out of their denial...."
"...this current administration is completely out of touch, in a very dangerous way with the reality of the way people think around the world, and that reality can't be forced to conform with their ideology, hence we're led toward catastrophe." and another voice says "I just find it sad that it's easier to tell the American public that they'll have to sacrifice their sons and daughters and relatives than it is to tell them they're gonna have to sacrifice their SUVs and 5,000 square foot homes." "Ouch." "Well, that's what it comes down to."

As I do my best to avoid the ever-increasing potholes on the road (my city's so broke, they can't pay attention) and my husband puts 20% of his paycheck in the tank just to get to work, I'm stunned at how quickly the predictions in this documentary are materializing. It's only two years old. It's not all gloom and doom, but it is time to make changes, it you want to survive, that is. Peak Oil is not all over the mainstream newz because there's no advertising revenue in it. Duh. When this guy tells you, umm, we can't live like we have been any more because the fossil fuel energy we use (like pigs) is finite, it's probably time to listen.

Helllllooooooooo?

They are working on the sequel: Escape from Suburbia

BBC Power of Nightmares 1, 2, 3

When I saw this morning that the "terror alert" had been raised I thought two things. That it's either real and the Middle East is about to blow up , because they've just had enough of Israel's, the US', and Britain's bullshit, or it's another crock of doo doo. I thought of this three hour special that I had watched over them damn internets.

This will let you know why the politicians need us more than we need them.

The Power of Nightmares part one

The Power of Nightmares part two

The Power of Nightmares part three

Western mines not impacted by Prudhoe Bay shutdown

Western mines not impacted by Prudhoe Bay shutdown
By: Dorothy Kosich
Posted: '09-AUG-06 04:00' GMT © Mineweb 1997-2006
RENO--(Mineweb.com) Spokesmen for several western precious metals miners told Mineweb Tuesday that, since their mining operations buy diesel from sources other than west coast refineries, their Nevada and Idaho mines probably won't experience serious impacts from the planned shutdown of the Prudhoe Bay oil pipeline.
Nevertheless, consumers can expect a 15-cent to 20-cent per gallon increase in western states, such as Nevada, Washington, Oregon, and California, that rely on products from oil refineries in California and Washington State. Diesel and jet fuel will also feel the impact of the pipeline shutdown.