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

E coli vs. terrorism

100% Scared
How the National Security Complex Grows on Terrorism Fears
By Tom Engelhardt

"...In other words, in terms of damage since 9/11, terror attacks have ranked above shark attacks but below just about anything else that could possibly be dangerous to Americans, including car crashes which have racked up between 33,800 and 43,500 deaths a year since 2001...

...The National Security Complex has, in fact, grown fat by relentlessly pursuing the promise of making the country totally secure from terrorism, even as life grows ever less secure for so many Americans when it comes to jobs, homes, finances, and other crucial matters. It is on this pledge of protection that the Complex has managed to extort the tidal flow of funds that have allowed it to bloat to monumental proportions, end up with a yearly national security budget of more than $1.2 trillion, find itself encased in a cocoon of self-protective secrecy, and be 100% assured that its officials will never be brought to justice for any potential crimes they may commit in their “war” on terrorism...."

A story I missed, & some I didn't-- Project Censored

# 3 AFRICOM: US Military Control of Africa’s Resources
Source:
MoonofAlabama.org 2/21/2007
Title: “Understanding AFRICOM”
Author: Bryan Hunt


Student Researcher: Ioana Lupu
Faculty Evaluator: Marco Calavita, Ph.D

In February 2007 the White House announced the formation of the US African Command (AFRICOM), a new unified Pentagon command center in Africa, to be established by September 2008. This military penetration of Africa is being presented as a humanitarian guard in the Global War on Terror. The real objective is, however, the procurement and control of Africa’s oil and its global delivery systems.

This pic made me smile

the article that accompanied it, not so much...


62,006 - The Number Killed in the "War on Terror"

By David Randall and Emily Gosden
The Independent UK
Sunday 10 September 2006

Bubbles

Hat tip: Wonkette via Words Have Power

Brian Bilbray’s Kids Love Social Networking, Natty Light








Foreclosures May Jump As ARMs Reset
By J.W. ELPHINSTONE AP Business Writer
Monday, June 19, 2006


Howard Zinn: The Myth of American Exceptionalism
Lecture and Questions and Answer session. MIT - March 14, 2005



And ask yourself if the "war on terror" has made YOU any safer?

Or is it just a wonderful business opportunity for those well connected enough to profit from it?

Homeland security officials leave government for high-paying jobs
Associated Press
Last update: June 18, 2006 – 8:00 AM

Planned Parenthood firebombed,

right wing silent

SATURDAY, JUL 30, 2011 10:01 ET
BY ALEX PAREENE
Salon - War Room

"Someone firebombed a Planned Parenthood clinic in McKinney, Texas, late Tuesday night. Because it was so late, no one was hurt. The clinic doesn't provide abortions, but there had been protesters there earlier that day anyway. You might've read about the news on Twitter or on a liberal blog. Probably not in a newspaper or on a cable new channel. Definitely not at any right-wing blogs. Which is a bit odd, actually, considering how much attention terrorist attacks generally get in this country...

Oh, sorry, how much attention possible Islamic terrorist attacks get..."

Yeah, except for I was reading this article this morning -


The Kingdom and the Towers
Vanity Fair August 2011

And let's face it folks, extremism is ignored or allowed if it is sponsored or condoned by the wealthy and powerful on this planet. Christ Almighty, Saudi Arabia is a scary place:

Saudi Arabia's new law would make political dissent a crime
Kingdom's 'anti-terror' legislation follows wave of upheavals across the Arab world

By Patrick Cockburn
Saturday, 23 July 2011S

Obscenity

FCC too harsh on 'fleeting expletives,' court rules
What the president said ... and what TV can broadcast
By STEPHEN LABATON THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON -- If President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts

So, if the Prez and Veep want to swear, swearing is OK? Whatever, swearing is obviously no big deal to me. Jiminy Christmas, even World Nut Daily knew about the real obscenities four effin years ago:

Terror alerts manufactured?
FBI agents say White House scripting 'hysterics' for political effect
Posted: January 4, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern

And what do you know?

The protestors who never got any media attention before were right.

Randi Rhodes just had Antonia Juhasz on she talked about the Iraq war WAS the energy plan.

Think that's why Dick is so secretive about who his visitors have been?

{Yeah, yeah, I know Randi's not on the radio till 3pm here, I prefer her over Ed Schultz, I stream her.}

Dr. Jack Kevorkian never should have been in jail .
That was obscene.

The American Government's energy plan appears to have been a war.
That was obscene.

Me, fucking swearing my ass off about a "corporatocracy" marching my country right off a fucking cliff?

Pfffft.

Reading now

Books of the Times The C.I.A.’s Missteps, From Past to Present

By MICHAEL BESCHLOSS
Published: July 12, 2007

CIA Statement on “Legacy of Ashes”
August 6, 2007


Legacy of Ashes - the undoing of the CIA
The anatomy of a discredited organization
By George Smith, Dick Destiny → More by this author
Published Wednesday 29th August 2007 07:49 GMT

Book Review At the beginning of the Nineties, this journalist went through the Central Intelligence Agency's hiring process. The process took about a year to complete, its length and rigor attributed to the great importance of its classified mission plus a purported desire to get just the right kind of people - America's best.

In any case, that was the story.

CIA Bans Water-Boarding in Terror Interrogations
September 14, 2007 5:00 PM
By Brian Ross, Richard Esposito & Martha Raddatz

Hmmm, let's see here. How long did it take to figure out that it might not be a good idea to use waterboarding?

This quote is from William Blum's "Killing Hope" (C) 2004 p. 129

At the US Navy's schools in San Diego and Maine during the 1960's and 1970's, the course had a different name. There the students were supposedly learning about methods of "survival, evasion, resistance and escape "which they could use as prisoners of war. There was in the course something of survival in a desert, where students were forced to eat lizards, but the naval officers and cadets were also subjected to beatings, jarring judo flips, "tiger cages" ---hooded and placed in a 16-cubic-foot box for 22 hours with a coffee can for their excrement--and a torture device called the "waterboard": the subject was strapped to an inclined board, head downward, a towel placed over his face, and cold water poured over the towel; he would choke, gag, retch, and gurgle as he experienced the sensation of drowning, just as was done to Vietcong prisoners in Vietnam, along with their tiger cages.
A former student, Navy pilot Lt. Wendell Richard Young, claimed that his back as broken during the course and that students were tortured into spitting, urinating, an defecating on the American flag, masturbating before guards, and, on one occasion, engaging in sex with an instructor. #41

#41 Newsweek 22, March 1976, pp 28, 31.

In Foreign Policy, a New Trio at the Top

With Hearing Today, Clinton, Kerry and Obama Begin to Realign Their Roles

By Anne E. Kornblut and Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 13, 2009; A01

FACTBOX- Quotes from Hillary Clinton confirmation hearing
Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:29pm GMT

Here are some of her quotes on key topics:

IRAN

"We will pursue a new, perhaps different approach. What we have tried has not worked.

"No option is off the table."

"We will do everything we can pursue through diplomacy, through the use of sanctions, through creating better coalitions with countries that we believe also have a big stake in preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear weapon power."

"We have no illusions, Mr. Chairman, that even with a new administration looking to try to engage Iran in a way that might influence its behaviour, that we can predict the results. But the president-elect is committed to that course and we will pursue it."

Obama team takes new tack on Iran amid Mideast peace push
2 hours ago

The outgoing administration of President George W. Bush refused to engage in direct negotiations with Iran unless it first stops enriching uranium, material which Washington fears could be used to build an atomic bomb.

"The incoming administration views with great concern ... Iran's sponsorship of terrorism, its continuing interference with the functioning of other governments, and its pursuit of nuclear weapons," she said.

Along with Syria, Iran backs the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip -- which is being pounded by the Israeli army in an 18-day military offensive -- as well as Hezbollah in Lebanon, which fought a similar war with Israel in 2006.

Washington also accuses Iran of meddling in Iraq and Afghanistan...

...She called for a "strategy of smart power in the Middle East that addresses the security needs of Israel and the legitimate political and economic aspirations of the Palestinians."

Clinton hoped it "effectively challenges Iran to end its nuclear weapons program and its sponsorship of terror."

She said the new strategy also could "persuade both Iran and Syria to abandon their dangerous behavior and become constructive regional actors."

politickybitch sez The Palestinian/Israeli football game that sucks the whole world in to play is mighty tiresome.

Mighty tiresome.