Wednesday, June 29, 2005
you heard it hear first dept. - - -
Search on for survivors after chopper crash
Not exactly a search ... they cannot get into the area. The reason the area is loaded up with weapons provided by the CIA. Here's a shopping list of arms the CIA bought the Taliban - back in the day when we gave them orders:
Are these so-called improvised explosives so improvised? Or are a bunch of them land mines etc. supplied by the US & Russia in the millions? Just a question.
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puke alert - Judith "Chalabi" Miller has a website.
Probably all dead on that Chinook.
It seats over 30.
Search on for survivors after chopper crash
Not exactly a search ... they cannot get into the area. The reason the area is loaded up with weapons provided by the CIA. Here's a shopping list of arms the CIA bought the Taliban - back in the day when we gave them orders:
- Anti-personnel mines (Soviet made): an estimated 13 million still scattered around the country
- Intelligence experts believe that the ammunition depot at Shin-naray, which the Taliban probably seized in 1994, is at least partly operational. Weapons held there in 1994 included a reported 400 Stinger missiles — many of which may have been transferred to Pakistan — and 15,000 truckloads of ammunition.
- etc. etc.
Are these so-called improvised explosives so improvised? Or are a bunch of them land mines etc. supplied by the US & Russia in the millions? Just a question.
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puke alert - Judith "Chalabi" Miller has a website.
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Gonzalez "Mr. Torture" VS the net
- or how XXX-sites are saving your free speech rights -
There is news from the world of adult entertainment that is of big
interest to Constitutional Rights. This really is no joke! I feel that Attorney General Gonzalez is trying to shut down blogs and internet free speech since the Downing Street Memos got internet publicity the "news" media ignored. For whatever the
reason, Gonzalez is on the warpath against the adult websites and it is important
to free speech for all to pay attention.
1] Gonzales plans big offensive against adult entertainment industry -
see
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/06/bush-and-theocrats-really-want-your.html
2] Adult industry plans counter offensive -
see
http://www.freespeechcoalition.com/
3] Gonzalez declares ALL adult site content features underage content (kiddie porn) unless proven otherwise (!)-
see
http://www.xbiz.com/news_piece.php?id=9271
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This attack on porn may seem like none of our business - but I sure smell
a rat when the Justice Dept. tries to crack down what people do in private.
Please pass on!
Thursday, June 16, 2005
The coming trade war and global depression
By Henry C K Liu
Many historians have suggested that the 1929 stock market crash was not the cause of the Great Depression. If anything, the 1929 crash was the technical reflection of the inevitable fate of an overblown bubble economy. Yet stock market crashes can recover within a relatively short time with the help of effective government monetary measures, as demonstrated by the crashes of 1987 (23% drop, recovered in nine months), 1998 (36% drop, recovered in three months) and 2002 (37% drop, recovered in two months).
There was no quick recovery after the 1929 crash. Structurally, what made the Great Depression last for more than a decade from 1929 until the US entry into World War II in 1941 were the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs, which put world trade into a tailspin from which it did not recover until the war began. While the US economy finally recovered through war mobilization after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, most of the world's market economies sank deeper into war-torn distress and did not fully recover until the Korean War boom in 1951. (more)
Worthwhile quote:
. . . . In the fifth WTO ministerial conference held in Cancun, Mexico, in September 2003, the richer countries rejected the demands of poorer nations for radical reform of agricultural subsidies that have decimated Third World agriculture. Failure to get the Doha Round back on track after the collapse of Cancun runs the danger of a global resurgence of protectionism, with the US leading the way. Larry Elliott reported on October 13, 2003, in The Guardian on the failed 2003 Cancun ministerial meeting: "The language of globalization is all about democracy, free trade and sharing the benefits of technological advance. The reality is about rule by elites, mercantilism and selfishness." Elliot noted that the process is full of paradoxes: why is it that in a world where human capital is supposed to be the new wealth of nations, labor is treated with such contempt?
[yeah! why zzat??]
By Henry C K Liu
Many historians have suggested that the 1929 stock market crash was not the cause of the Great Depression. If anything, the 1929 crash was the technical reflection of the inevitable fate of an overblown bubble economy. Yet stock market crashes can recover within a relatively short time with the help of effective government monetary measures, as demonstrated by the crashes of 1987 (23% drop, recovered in nine months), 1998 (36% drop, recovered in three months) and 2002 (37% drop, recovered in two months).
There was no quick recovery after the 1929 crash. Structurally, what made the Great Depression last for more than a decade from 1929 until the US entry into World War II in 1941 were the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariffs, which put world trade into a tailspin from which it did not recover until the war began. While the US economy finally recovered through war mobilization after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, most of the world's market economies sank deeper into war-torn distress and did not fully recover until the Korean War boom in 1951. (more)
Worthwhile quote:
. . . . In the fifth WTO ministerial conference held in Cancun, Mexico, in September 2003, the richer countries rejected the demands of poorer nations for radical reform of agricultural subsidies that have decimated Third World agriculture. Failure to get the Doha Round back on track after the collapse of Cancun runs the danger of a global resurgence of protectionism, with the US leading the way. Larry Elliott reported on October 13, 2003, in The Guardian on the failed 2003 Cancun ministerial meeting: "The language of globalization is all about democracy, free trade and sharing the benefits of technological advance. The reality is about rule by elites, mercantilism and selfishness." Elliot noted that the process is full of paradoxes: why is it that in a world where human capital is supposed to be the new wealth of nations, labor is treated with such contempt?
[yeah! why zzat??]
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Large U.S. Order for Taser
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Published: June 14, 2005
Taser International, the maker of electric stun guns, has received a $1.4 million order from the General Services Administration for an unspecified number of the weapons for use by the military.
The order, for the X26 model and related equipment, will be shipped this quarter, Taser said yesterday in a statement. It is the company's biggest order this year.
The purchase comes as Taser's sales have been hurt by safety concerns as use of the guns climbs. Taser says its weapons are safe alternatives to the use of deadly force.
The safety debate and an inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission into Taser's claims, has hurt sales, which in the first quarter fell 22 percent to $10.2 million. Taser, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., rose 38 cents a share yesterday, or 3.5 percent, to close at $11.22.
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WTF??? No election, no conventions .... do you feel a DRAFT???
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Published: June 14, 2005
Taser International, the maker of electric stun guns, has received a $1.4 million order from the General Services Administration for an unspecified number of the weapons for use by the military.
The order, for the X26 model and related equipment, will be shipped this quarter, Taser said yesterday in a statement. It is the company's biggest order this year.
The purchase comes as Taser's sales have been hurt by safety concerns as use of the guns climbs. Taser says its weapons are safe alternatives to the use of deadly force.
The safety debate and an inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission into Taser's claims, has hurt sales, which in the first quarter fell 22 percent to $10.2 million. Taser, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., rose 38 cents a share yesterday, or 3.5 percent, to close at $11.22.
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WTF??? No election, no conventions .... do you feel a DRAFT???
Saturday, June 04, 2005
Friday, June 03, 2005
Editorial: George Bush Is An IdiotAmnesty International Report Upsetting Only Because It’s Trueby Brian Richards | |
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (OfficialWire) -- 06/03/05 --  We all know that George W. Bush suffers from impaired speaking, but in fact, he does not know what the Hell he's talking about. Or he does and he’s a liar. Either way, he's an idiot.There is no question that America, under the leadership of the Bush administration, has developed extensive systems of abuse and continues with outrageous illegal behavior, in the name of its brand of Freedom. Amnesty recently criticized the Bush administration's treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, calling the facility "the gulag of our times," a reference to political prisoners held by the former Soviet Union. Bush and his supporters quickly responded by calling the accusation absurd. "I'm aware of the Amnesty International report, and it's absurd - it's an absurd allegation," Bush said. It would appear the Bush administration objects to Amnesty's use of the word "gulag". Often people automatically assume "gulag" refers to work-camps, but a closer look reveals a more broad definition, including:
If that isn't a universally accepted description of the conditions for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, then what is? For the Bush administration to call Amnesty’s assessment of America's pattern of abuse "absurd" is to not understand the definition of the word. The pattern of abuse is both well-reported and undeniable. The only question is why the American public continues to permit it? The Bush administration selected Guantanamo Bay with the intention of preventing the prisoners from having access to U.S. courts. Bush has refused to designate them "prisoners of war," which would have put them under the legal protection of the Geneva Convention, despite the fact that America is conducting a global war on terror. There are reports that a number of children under age 16 are among the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, but no independent agency has been permitted access to verify their condition, or to determine where or why they were arrested. I suspect the Bush administration's only real objection to the term "gulag" is that they had not thought to put these "disappeared" prisoners to work (yet). I wonder whether or not when America begins to see "Made In Guantanamo" on its products, will its citizens act to remove Bush, or will they celebrate the lower prices? |
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Our Lovely World
If you missed it here's Larry Kramer's Nov. 7 speech
- an incredible speech that's about a lot more than the pandemic. Perhaps the nonchalance about this plague explains the nonchalance about the American coup d'etat.
Best Quote from the speech:
This was the birth of what is now called the vast right wing conspiracy. It is known as the Powell Manifesto. You can google Lewis Powell (not the one who helped to assassinate Lincoln) and read it in its entirety.
Under the supervision of some of the richest families in America, that plan has been followed faithfully since 1971 and it has resulted in these past years of horror and the reelection of George Bush. Nine families and their foundations, all under the insistent goading of Joseph Coors, have financed much of this. The Bradley Foundation. The Smith Richardson Foundation. Four Scaife Family Foundations, The John M. Olin Foundation. The Castle Rock (or Coors) Foundation. Three Koch Family Foundations. The Earhart Foundation. The JM Foundation. The McKenna Foundation. From 1985 to 2001 alone they contributed $650 million to this conservative message campaign. They have helped to launch and gain financing for networks of newspapers and magazines. They have seen to it that hundreds of the most powerful think tanks have appeared, including the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institute, the American Enterprise, Cato, Manhattan, Hudson Institutes, and many more. There are now in place an ever growing number of well-funded student organizations at many colleges. There are legal advocacy foundations, such as the Center For Individual Rights and Judicial Watch. There are Leadership Institutes and Action Institutes and Institutes on Religion and Public Policy and Religion and Democracy. There is a heavily visible media participation: Fox Television and Pat Robertson and Oliver North and Radio America and the Washington Times and Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, to name but a very few, including the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.
For the preparation of this manifesto, Lewis Powell was rewarded by Richard Nixon with a seat on the Supreme Court, where among other things he voted against gays in Bowers v. Hardwick, and against Black people in Bakke v. University of California.
Yeah, it is all a plot. Just like you thought.
I am the last to see pharma profits and population control-of-the-inconvenient as roots of AIDS but the reluctance of the science community to even explore the pandemic's origins sets off alarm bells. Consider the intense effort to locate the cause of Legionairre's disease. Here's another well reasoned article from Killtown about it -
Was AIDS engineered?
"As soon as homosexuals signed up as guinea pigs for government-sponsored hepatitis B vaccine experiments, they began to die with a strange virus of unknown origin. The hepatitis B experiments began in Manhattan in the fall of 1978; the first few cases of AIDS (all young gays from Manhattan) were reported to the CDC in 1979." -Alan Cantwell MD 2001
(more)
Now for some humor - see
Betty Bowers latest newsletter.
Without biting satire 1/2 the country would've jumped from the bridge Nov. 3rd.
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