How the Republicans are Stealing the November Elections

Friday, December 15, 2006

How the Republicans are Stealing the November Elections
Or, Bushes and Bonapartes


...On November 7, the American people delivered a stiff rebuke to the Bush Administration and the Republican Party over its far-right policies...

...You see, we do not have a democracy, with the Bush administration in power. We have an elective dictatorship...

If you read anything today, read Juan Cole's post

San Diego County Supervisors wrong again

County to appeal medical-marijuana ruling

Supervisors again cite clash with federal law
By Jeff McDonald
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
December 14, 2006
A week after a Superior Court judge threw out their case against California's medical-marijuana laws, San Diego County's supervisors have voted to appeal the ruling.
...In January, San Diego County sued the state of California rather than implement medical-marijuana laws that permit qualified patients to smoke and grow marijuana and require counties to issue them identification cards...
The county was later joined by San Bernardino and Merced counties in trying to overturn Proposition 215, the 1996 initiative approved by 56 percent of voters that permitted the medical use of marijuana.”
Tuesday's closed-session vote to appeal was 4-1, with Supervisor Ron Roberts opposed. It is unclear when the appeal will be filed or when the appellate judges will consider the case.
Supervisor Greg Cox said he supported the county's issuing ID cards to qualified patients, but when that vote failed 3-2 late last year, he decided to go along with the lawsuit.


Supes vote to persist with medical marijuana challenge
By: GIG CONAUGHTON - Staff Writer
SAN DIEGO -- As expected, San Diego County supervisors voted Tuesday to continue their controversial legal challenge to overturn California's 10-year-old, voter-approved medical marijuana law.Board Chairman Bill Horn said the board voted in closed session to appeal Superior Court William R. Nevitt's week-old ruling that dismissed the county's argument that California's Compassionate Use Act should be pre-empted by federal law because federal law is "supreme."
The county's challenge has national implications, patients and government officials say, because it marks the first time that any county has sued to overturn any of the medical marijuana laws voters have approved in 11 states....
..."No, not at all," Horn said. "I think it's a bad law. I mean, as far as the benefits, those are medical opinions. There are probably some medical benefits, if you listen to the (patients). But that's not our point. Our point is who has jurisdiction here (the state or federal government)
"We didn't get that from this judge, so we're going to appeal it," he said...

The M-I-C owns this creepy little cronified podunk county (of three million) and the idiotic, brainwashed repugnanthuglican peons who need to have things painted black and white for them by some authoritarian hypocrite and don't think for themselves. Can't let those holy Federal Dollars go anywhere else, right? For the war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on illegal aliens, oh, and by the way, defense contractor WAR profiteering.


Bill Horn
bill.horn@sdcounty.ca.gov

Greg Cox greg.cox@sdcounty.ca.gov (619)5331-5511

Pam Slater-Price pam.slater@sdcounty.ca.gov (619)531-5533

dianne.jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov (619) 531-5222

or copy and paste this line and mail them all at one time:

greg.cox@sdcounty.ca.gov, pam.slater@sdcounty.ca.gov, dianne.jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov,bill.horn@sdcounty.ca.gov

I am not a medical marijuana user, or a marijuana user at all. I voted for prop 215 because I believe that marijuana can help people deal with the painful and traumatizing effects of chemotherapy, and other diseases, including some that cause chronic pain.

Oily stuff and coming clean

Another Iraq Casualty: U.S. Auto Industry
by Jesse Jackson
Published on Tuesday, December 12, 2006 by the Chicago Sun-Times

Saudi ambassador quits Washington

As Darfur deteriorates, Sudan's economy booms (selling oil to China)
The Associated Press
Published: 2006-12-13 10:50:09

Does Israel have the bomb or not? Olmert: Yes, we do.
Posted By: Edward M. Gomez (Email) December 13 2006 at 12:00 AM
Uh-oh. Another prominent politician is in hot water for daring to speak the truth.

What the fuck are we doing in the Middle East? We don't need to be there.


NOW video on feasibility of biofuels

Maria Hinojosa interviews soon-to-be chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which oversees national energy policy.mp3

Umm, what exactly does this mean?

DOJ Issues New Charging Guidelines in Corporate Fraud Prosecutions
MCNULTY MEMORANDUM
December 12, 2006

Deputy U.S. Attorney General Paul McNulty issues a new Department of Justice memorandum for U.S. Attorneys with updated guidelines for prosecuting corporations. McNulty emphasized that "[t]he prosecution of corporate crimes is a high priority." If a company faces criminal charges, he cautions, that doesn’t necessarily mean that corporate directors, officers, and other employees "should not also be charged." He advises federal prosecutors on nine factors to consider when weighing whether to charge or negotiate a plea in corporate criminal cases.

U.S. Eases Tactics on Corporate Scandals
Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2006
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By LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press Writer
...Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty said the new guidelines won't hinder prosecutors from aggressively going after companies accused of fraud and other white-collar crimes. Whistle-blowers called the changes a setback for shareholders and employees who risk losing billions in pensions and savings if scandal-tainted corporations aren't fully investigated....

Drawn back to the last NOW show

I've been thinking about this show since last Friday when it aired.

Did I not consider ethanol a viable option because of the oil companies successful PR campaign, or because it requires a lot of energy to produce?

It's worth the 24 minutes to watch the whole thing, but the ethanol question is around ten minutes in.

Corporate Compassion
Can capitalism help make the world a better place?

more information

Veering off in a different direction is some nifty information for the dipshits crying over the death of Agusto Pinochet.

uh, yeah, don't talk to me face to face with sunglasses on, I'm doing my best to ignore your mouth because I'm irritated that I can't see your eyes. I can't hear you, I'm distracted.

DuPont layoffs

Update
Employers announce a combined 20,000 jobs cuts

Originally published Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 3:45 PM
By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD
AP Business Writer

A round of more than 15,000 layoffs announced Thursday by AT&T Inc., DuPont and Viacom Inc. suggests a yearlong wave of job cuts is accelerating, just as the government is expected to report a higher unemployment rate for November on Friday.

WRAPUP 2-U.S. layoffs spread, CEOs see more pain ahead

2008-12-04 20:49 (UTC)

By Scott Malone

BOSTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Fear of a deepening recession is spreading throughout corner offices across corporate America, prompting chief executives in all sectors to slash thousands of jobs as they scramble to find ways for their companies to survive the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

AT&T Inc and DuPont Co led the list on Thursday of blue-chip U.S. companies laying off workers in the weeks before the Christmas holiday. A number of surveys showed that CEOs were planning more cuts, as a measure of corporate chieftains' confidence fell to a record low.


DuPont Cutting 1,500 Jobs
(AP) - WILMINGTON, Del.-Chemicals maker DuPont Co. on Monday said it will cut 1,500 jobs and consolidate manufacturing in its seeds unit in a move to lower operating costs by $100 million a year....
...DuPont said it now expects to earn $3.25 per share in the quarter, including $370 million, or 39 cents per share, in net one-time gains. The previous estimate was for profit of $2.86 per share, including a gain of 1 cent per share....

DuPont to cut jobs in streamlining
Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:13am ET
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Chemicals group DuPont Co. said on Monday it would close or streamline 10 plants and cut 1,500 jobs - 2.5 percent of its overall workforce - as part of a plan to restructure its nutrition and crop protection business.

DuPont Tries to Unclog a Pipeline
JANUARY 27, 2003
Can it move new products out of the lab faster?

So after skimming the above articles and recently watching this I wonder if it's competition that forced this change, if the focus on the seed business (the big corporations make seeds that only grow food for one season and people all over the world are fighting this because they don't want to be dependent on the corporations for seeds every year) is another failure wating to happen?

Protests.

Students protest against 'dictator' Ahmadinejad
Robert Tait in Tehran
Monday December 11, 2006 Guardian Unlimited

New Clicks in the Arab World
Bloggers Challenge Longtime Cultural, Political Restrictions
By Faiza Saleh Ambah
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 12, 2006; Page A13

Ok then.
It's nice to know that the people want their voices heard.

37 million poor hidden in the land of plenty

...Under President George W Bush an extra 5.4 million have slipped below the poverty line. Yet they are not a story of the unemployed or the destitute. Most have jobs. Many have two...
... The richest town in America is Rancho Santa Fe in California. Average incomes are more than $100,000 a year; the average house price is $1.7m.



Yep, I bought into the work hard and you will succeed around fifteen years ago. It almost killed me. I worked two jobs, 7 days a week 56-72 hours a week, graveyard shift every night, no benefits, no holiday pay, no time-and-a half. Neither job was minimum wage, and I still couldn't afford my own apartment, and I wasn't supporting my child at that time, her father was. I lived less than 20 minutes from Rancho Santa Fe and I never drove there in my piece of crap car because I didn't want to attract attention from the police. I'm not now, nor have I ever been a lawbreaker. My boss never changed my withholding when I asked him to, so I paid over five-hundred in State tax at the end of the year. It lasted a little over a year & I got laid off, and the company moved to a State that paid less per hour, and a few years later I found out that the company now uses workers in India. Anybody wonder why I want to give a big fat middle finger to Corporate America and their skanky lobbyists? I'd like to give another big fat middle finger to the Corporate whores in Congress.


Vote every day for the Weblog Awards 2006 . Just because the liberals are kicking ass where they actually got nominated is no excuse not to vote every day.

The Weblog Awards 2006

What fun. I suppose I've become rather insular in my blog reading. I read the blogs I have linked on my page. I like them. I have some others that I read somewhat regularly, but frankly, the only time I venture into the right wing nuttosphere is when someone I read regularly is linked to them. I DON'T like them. I did like some of the lefty blogs on the list. I've never visited a couple of them before, but I'll be back to check out this one.

I'm off to finsh voting. (click on the title link, join the fun)

Update: for someone like me, who reads the lefty blogs, this looked like a reich-wing love-fest. One of those bloggers stalked me, and terrorized me, and it left a really bad taste in my mouth. It still tastes bad. I hope the motherfucker rots in hell.

House Leadership Chided for Foley Scandal

Chided?

to listen via NPR
by Brian Naylor
...What began with a frenzy of allegations, fueled by explicit communications and accompanied by outrage, ended Friday with something less than a slap on the wrist...
...the three Republicans and three Democrats on the subpanel found that while Republican leaders failed to protect underage pages, no rules were broken...

'Scuse the cynicism, but wtf else is new?
Bipartisan bischmartisan, eh, feh.
Bizness as usual in that sewer I call Washington.

Catch 22, reading now

Yeah, yeah, why didn't I read this in High School?

Believe me, you DON'T want to know about my High School experiences.

Finally finished Les Misérables

Wow. What a great ending. It's been a really long time since a book made me cry, or really feel deeply. I was not happy slogging through sixty pages on the battle of Waterloo, I almost gave up there, that was tedious. I'm glad I stuck it out. Fifteen hundred pages (paperback). The last long book I read was on the Arms of Krupp

What caught my attention this morning

Or, what I woke up to this morning after that damn Iraq report put me to sleep a few times last night, yeesh what a fucking snoozefest that thing is.

So, here we go------

Group claims 'tobacco'-style lobby shields toxic interests
PERCHLORATE MAKERS BLOW SMOKE ON HEALTH ISSUE
The Los Angeles-based group Environment California says an industry-funded group is using "misleading research and tobacco industry-style lobbying to influence the debate on the effects of perchorate." Perchlorate is a rocket fuel ingredient and "a known thyroid inhibitor" often present in water supplies near military and manufacturing sites. The Perchlorate Study Group (PSG) "has lobbied for maximum contaminant levels of 200 parts per billion (ppb) in drinking water, much higher than the 24.5 ppb threshold favored by the Environmental Protection Agency and the 6 ppb limit being considered by the state of California," reports Fred Ortega.
"More than half of all studies on the health effects of perchlorate published between 1995 and 2005 were funded by" PSG, which was founded by Lockheed Martin, Aerojet and Kerr McGee, "in response to efforts to regulate the potentially dangerous chemical."
Environment California also notes that PSG retained the PR firm APCO Worldwide, which previously helped "Phillip Morris to fight anti-tobacco regulations," to "help undermine the case for thorough perchlorate cleanup."
SOURCE: DailyBulletin (Ontario, California), December 4, 2006
For more information or to comment on this story, visit: http://www.prwatch.org/node/5513

crap. Crap. CRAAAAAAAAAP!

The Decider can declare Martial Law?
How long have I had my head up my ass?

How did I miss this?
Fine Print in Defense Bill Opens Door to Martial Law
By Jeff Stein, CQ National Security Editor CQ.com
12/06/06

That Iraq Report? More of the Same

The great Baker-Hamilton crock: A classic bullshit-cloud in the proud tradition of congressional "studies"
MATT TAIBBI

Bonus: Caption contest (did you think I could resist THIS picture?)

IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT (click on link to download pdf file) I think it's interesting that a search of the report brings up 'Iran' or 'Iranian' 83 times.

Hmmm. Let's Google 'Iran Currency' just for shits and giggles.

Gates Hearings

I watched part of the morning Gates Senate hearings on CSpan.

Ben Nelson (D FL) asked how he would deal with the with Guard and Reserve policies?

Gates said he was unfamiliar with the policies.

Um, the ones that had Lousiana National Guard members in Iraq during Katrina?

Um, yeah those.

Gates' Assets Include Defense Stock
By SHARON THEIMER
The Associated Press
Tuesday, December 5, 2006; 7:54 PM

Yeah, Gates probably had other stuff on his mind. He said something about Turkey. I wonder if he's familiar with this hinkiness regarding Turkey

and what's this mean?

photovoltaic

The Revolution Will Be Solarized
By David Roberts, Grist Magazine. Posted December 2, 2006.
...It's not just that we're moving toward alternatives, it's that we're moving toward distributed [power generation] as well. If both of those are true, solar is the only viable option...



Will solar-cell shortage end in 2008?
September 11, 2006 1:12 PM PDT



Solar cell
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Boeing Wins Contract to Build Solar Cells for Renewable Energy
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 28, 2006

Have we had enough?

Runaway victory for Chavez
AP
4 December 2006 13:08
...Conflict and ambition have marked the rise of Chavez, from a boy selling homemade sweets in a dusty backwater to a failed coup commander in 1992 and now a leader who could set the tone of Latin American politics for years to come...

Bush Mulls Resumed Energy Drilling Off Alaska
Bristol Bay, Alaska, is home to endangered whales and sea lions and the world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
..."House Republicans scheduling a vote next week to expand offshore drilling off Florida’s coast, only underscores that G.O.P. stands for Gas and Oil Party.”...
By FELICITY BARRINGER
Published: December 4, 2006

Pelosi: Our Coasts Need Lasting Protection from Oil and Gas Drilling
By: Nancy PelosiPublished: Dec 4, 2006 at 07:41

Haven't the energy industries and the vehicle manufacturers run this country long enough?

2008

The 2008 Presidential Race

Big Bush backers turn to Giuliani
28th November 2006, 10:45 WST

Um, yeah, I'll let Wonkette deal with most of this one

I'll ad a little

And I heard about this book on Ring of Fire today: Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11

Saudi Arabia vs Iran

"A shooting war between Saudi Arabia and Iran would certainly make for interesting times in the oil markets... "

A cauldron nears boiling point
Nawaf Obaid
December 1, 2006

Nawaf Obaid, an adviser to the Saudi Government, is the managing director of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project in Riyadh and an adjunct fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The opinions expressed here are his own.

X-mas joy

“It’s Always Christmas Time” For Credit Card Companies
But Consumers Can Get Trapped by Abusive Fees and Practices

Try not to get eaten alive by the damn credit card companies when you shop for all your loved ones this year, eh?

Forced marriage, abuse behind self-immolation by Afghan women

Forced marriage, abuse behind self-immolation (definition) by Afghan women
Kabul, Nov 15: Forced marriage and chronic abuse are among the key triggers for the growing cases of self-immolation among women in Afghanistan, a regional conference heard yesterday. The high rate of illiteracy -- with under 20 per cent of women said to be literate -- and an incompetent justice system also meant many women could not see their way out of problems and so took their own lives, the three-day meeting heard.The conference of about 400 people, including from other countries that have similar rates of suicide such as Bangladesh, Iran, India and Sri Lanka, was called to try to find ways to stop the phenomenon.

Islamic women an asset for humanity: president
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) -- In the Islamic world there are many women scientists and scholars who are regarded as not only assets for Islam but assets for all humanity, President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said here on Tuesday.

Wow. Them are some extremes.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad writes a letter to the American people:

Ahmadinejad castigates US policies
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2006
0:10 MECCA TIME, 21:10 GMT

The Iranian president has in an open letter urged the American people to demand the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and reject what he called the US government's "blind support" for Israel...

"Undoubtedly, the American people are not satisfied with this behaviour and they showed their discontent in the recent elections," Ahmadinejad wrote. (here's the whole letter)

Ummm, yeah.

Dear President Ahmadinejad,

This American woman is sorry that my stupid president pooped in your backyard, and you're right, he poops all over the world, including on us Americans, but it looks like you got some of your own dog poop to clean up, eh? And....umm.. here's a little clue for you and maybe you could pass it on to some other leaders in the Middle East? A large percentage of the American public has no fucking clue what a "Zionist" is. Um..yeah, and another thing. This shit ain't gonna happen in America. Why? Because American women won't have it. They're meaner.

(references from the Sibel Edmonds OpEd again...Since the 1950s Turkey has played a key role in channeling into Europe and the U.S. heroin produced in the "Golden Triangle" comprised of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. These operations are run by mafia groups closely controlled by the MIT (Turkish Intelligence Agency) and the military...
... "Bad as it is with Iran, North Korea, and Libya having nuclear-weapons material, the worst part is that they could transfer it to a non-state group. That's the biggest concern, and the scariest thing about all this. There's nothing more important than stopping terrorist groups from getting nuclear weapons.")

And here is a bizarre example of the globalization of sexual exploitation:

Bulgarian man arrested in Iowa for trafficking prostitutes in France
Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006

Hard to look at

As I watch this I can't help but to feel resentment as military aircraft flying overhead, and the 10 lane highway 20 metres from my window make it hard to hear the Iraqi national orchestra as they play a popular Western piece, something from the Nutcracker, I think, but I'm not sure.

Paying The Price: Killing The Children Of Iraq
Broadcast 03/06/2000 ITV Runtime 75 Minutes
A documentary film by John Pilger
Sanctions enforced by the UN on Iraq since the Gulf War have killed more people than the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945, including over half a million children - many of whom weren't even born when the Gulf War began.

Saudi will intervene in Iraq if US withdraws-aide
29 Nov 2006 11:10:32 GMT
Source: Reuters
Background
Iraq in turmoil
More WASHINGTON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Using money, weapons or its oil power, Saudi Arabia will intervene to prevent Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias from massacring Iraqi Sunni Muslims once the United States begins pulling out of Iraq, a security adviser to the Saudi government said on Wednesday...
...Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil producer and exporter and a close U.S. ally, fears Shi'ite Iran has been gaining influence since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq toppled Saddam Hussein's government.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney held talks with Saudi King Abdullah in Riyadh on Saturday. Details were not disclosed....

...- or the Saudi king "may decide to strangle Iranian funding of the militias through oil policy. If Saudi Arabia boosted production and cut the price of oil in half ... it would be devastating to Iran ... The result would be to limit Tehran's ability to continue funnelling hundreds of millions each year to Shi'ite militias in Iraq and elsewhere."

Greatest Oil Reserves by Country, 2006
Health and Science—Environment and Nature—Energy

Debating to the numbers (or more on Saudi production)

UN: Afghan government officials protecting opium trade
posted November 29, 2006 at 11:45 p.m.
A new report says wiping out heroin production, which reached a record high in 2006, could take a generation.

If you watched the documentary you won't wonder why I decided to throw the last article into this post. It's probably one of the kinder things we can't seem to stop from happening in the M.E. I wonder if the increased number of children suffering from cancers can get their hands on it? That's where the morphine needs to go. I wonder where the heroin is ending up?

The Highjacking of a Nation
by Sibel Edmonds
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes."Justice Felix Frankfurter

She thinks like I do

GNN contributor Heather Wokusch is the author of www.heatherwokusch.com

How the Republicans Could Win It All Back in 2008
Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:46:50 -0800
...Signals from top Democrats that they will stand behind Robert Gates to be the next Defense Secretary are also disturbing, given ongoing questions over Gates’ role in the Iran-Contra affair and charges of his having politicized intelligence at the CIA. If the Democrats give Gates a blank check during his confirmation hearings, they will have some explaining to do in 2008...
...Investigations, subpoenas, and the forced handover of secret administration documents would help the Democrats shed light on many levels of Bush & Co. corruption and malfeasance, which if properly communicated to the US public, could only help the Democrats in 2008. Unfortunately, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid has indicated that he’s “not heavily into investigations,” adding, “That should be way down at the bottom of our agenda.”

Is conflict in Iraq a civil war?

(sigh)

Riverbend asked that in February
"...I’m reading, and hearing, about the possibility of civil war. The possibility. Yet I’m sitting here wondering if this is actually what civil war is like. Has it become a reality? Will we look back at this in one year, two years… ten… and say, “It began in February 2006…”? It is like a nightmare in that you don’t realise it’s a nightmare while having it- only later, after waking up with your heart throbbing, and your eyes searching the dark for a pinpoint of light, do you realise it was a nightmare…"

Our nightmare began in January 2000 when the Presidency was handed to some legacy, frat boy, spoiled, useless brat who's been in over his head his whole fucking life and now he's flushing our country down the toilet and blowing up the Middle East.

Can the world wake up from this nightmare?

Update: Randi Rhodes says the CIA was asking this same question in January of 2004.

Monday morning history

Mmmmm hmmmmm, really effing sick of turkey.

So, how about some history?

No, no, not the crapola they serve you in jr. high or high school, but the real stuff, OK?


Howard Zinn on The Uses of History and the War on Terrorism
Howard Zinn is one of this country's most celebrated historians. His classic work "A People's History of the United States" changed the way we look at history in America. First published a quarter of a century ago, the book has sold over a million copies and is a phenomenon in the world of publishing - selling more copies each successive year.
Broadcast - 11/24/06 - Democracy Now!

Listen or read transcript

The Current Crisis in the Middle East
True to form, Noam Chomsky makes a sweeping and copiously detailed indictment of U.S. Middle East policy, brooking no contrary or alternate views. His history-filled lecture (interrupted by occasional applause) focuses on four crises, involving the Palestinians, the Lebanon invasion, the Iraq war and the “impending catastrophe in Iran.” While to many the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel seems hopeless, “degenerating to tribal warfare, an endless cycle of revenge and fanaticism,” says Chomsky, a “very clear solution” has long existed:
09/21/06 Runtime 110 Minutes

See what they do to whistleblowers here?

I've been following the Stephen Heller and Sibel Edmonds cases for a while now and I predicted this.
Why?
Because of course if you have evidence of malfeasance by the highest levels of government they gonna smack you down. Then they gonna tell the the public about it while the public is distracted by the holiday. The government is so fucking predictable.

DIEBOLD WHISTLEBLOWER STRIKES PLEA DEAL ON FELONY CHARGES

'State secrets privilege' blocks fired translator from suing FBI
Updated 11/24/2006 12:17 AM ET

Deep thoughts?

The Elephant Speaks
Deep Thoughts from the Republicans
(San Diego CityBeat)

Deep thoughts?
Huh.
No mention of how the war that their cheerleading helped set in motion is going.

Fucktards.

They probably think the war on drugs is a good thing too. They probably don't know that stuff like this happens, and you can bet your ass Negroponte knows about it, so does Ollie North.

Happy Thanksgiving

Theo-Con propaganda and spies

I have no idea why all the spy stories caught my eye this morning, but they did. Propaganda is always fascinating to me.

Glenn Beck interviews Benjamin Netanyahu
CNN - Video 11/15/06 Runtime 5 Minutes
War Pimp Alert
U.S. & Israeli Propaganda Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran

Bush's Desire for a Conflict With Iran Is A Crisis Made in Israel
By Scott Ritter, Nation Books. Posted November 20, 2006.

CIA analysis finds no Iranian nuclear weapons drive: report
By Agence France-Presse
11/19/06 "AFP"-- -- WASHINGTON - A classified draft CIA assessment has found no firm evidence of a secret drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, as alleged by the White House, a top US investigative reporter said on Saturday

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Israeli Actions in the Americas

USS Liberty incident
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Did the CIA kill Bobby Kennedy?

Spy leaves egg on U.S. faces
Book says Ali Mohamed engaged in terrorism for two decades
By THANE BURNETT
11/19/06 "Toronto Sun"
"For almost two decades, the former Egyptian army commando succeeded in living a double life. Brazenly slipping past watch lists, he moved in and out of the U.S. with impunity, marrying an American woman, becoming a naturalized citizen, and posing as an FBI informant—all while acting as chief of security for Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri."
This sentence fascinates me because a long time ago I knew somebody who knew somebody, who knew somebody who would pay lower income American women around $2500 to marry men from the Middle East so that the men could get their citizenship. I don't know anybody who did it and I immediately turned my nose up with disdain, even though you didn't have to live with them, and could divorce them as soon as they got their citizenship. Poverty was better than dealing with those men to me. I didn't like the ones I'd met. The ones I'd met, for the most part, treated this American woman disrespectfully, & I 'd heard from other women, that I wasn't alone in feeling this way. I wonder if the woman who married him loved him, or she was poor, or what? I haven't read the book.

Poisoned spy 'had death threats'
Alexander Litvinenko is being treated in a London hospital
Update on condition
A friend of a former Russian spy seriously ill in a London hospital said both had received e-mail threats days before his poisoning.

angry, frustrated, so what else is new?

1:39 hours video:
Why We Fight

United States Rides Weapons Bonanza Wave
Published on Saturday, November 18, 2006
by Foreign Policy in Focus
by Frida Berrigan

So there you go. People all over the world think America is some wonderful democracy and the Americans are just blood-thirsty killers who want war, otherwise they would vote differently and the American people could stop the wars, right?

Bbbbbzzzzzzzzzzt!

Fucking wrong answer dudes.

They obviously haven't seen Why We Fight

Propaganda is exposed in the movie.

If somebody who is rich and powerful enough (VP Cheney) wants to make money on wars, it's gonna happen. The American people don't vote on that, and since the last two Presidential elections were stolen (my opinion, and I'm not alone) even though they did vote it didn't fucking matter.

Watching this again made me wonder if the Dems were granted this win because Cheney made enough money, and Bush bought land in Paraguay, so all these rotten fuckers will leave the country before they can be tried as war criminals.

Y'all keep your eyes peeled down there in Paraguay and do me a favor?

Do to these top guys, the guys who really run things, do what they taught you how to do, remember? at the SOAs?