Friday, March 31, 2006
Condi Not Welcome in England
Lots and lots of news from across the pond on moblizations against chimpy's gal Friday while she blithely proclaims "Thousands of Errors in Iraq". That must be such a comfort to Iraqis with murdered family members sitting in the ruins of their country.- Disco_Destroyer coverage
- CONDI WATCH (UK)
- Protest at the BBC offices over no anti-war, Condi coverage
- and plenty more that the news media supresses!
I made a survey on the topic of doubts about the official 9-11 narrative and when you began to doubt it.
and it includes a
It has no registration required and I won't be removing all mention of 9-11 facts.
and it includes a
Live Chat about 9-11
and I'll be there all night.It has no registration required and I won't be removing all mention of 9-11 facts.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Monday, March 27, 2006
The documentary The Great Warming was screened this week at the Zigfield.
It had news about the reponse to climate predictions of volitile weather and sea patterns. London has responded by building a retractable sea wall to keep high sea surges from going up the Thames.
The Hudson River has no such protection. Our subways and all of the tunnels would flood in a high sea surge.
And Boston doesn't have protection and Washington, DC doesn't.
We might ask at this juncture what our representatives found more important to address.
film clip of the Thames Barrier at work.
More resources: New York Climate Rescue
Look for the Great Warming this spring on PBS.
It had news about the reponse to climate predictions of volitile weather and sea patterns. London has responded by building a retractable sea wall to keep high sea surges from going up the Thames.
The Hudson River has no such protection. Our subways and all of the tunnels would flood in a high sea surge.
And Boston doesn't have protection and Washington, DC doesn't.
We might ask at this juncture what our representatives found more important to address.
film clip of the Thames Barrier at work.
More resources: New York Climate Rescue
Look for the Great Warming this spring on PBS.
This weasel is all weasel-mad at ABC tv and how they gleefully covered the IRL race yesterday where driver Paul Dana was fatally injured. ABC sports: as bad as their news.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
Here's a worthy factoid: the US borrowed all the money for the war in Iraq from China and they ain't keen on lending us any more. Also, no one in Asia or South Asia (or probably the world) is going to putting bush-co. in the blue chip catagory any century soon!
[ edited Aug. '06 because the link changed. Here's the reprint in case they try and hide this article:]
[ edited Aug. '06 because the link changed. Here's the reprint in case they try and hide this article:]
Global: From Beijing to Dubai Stephen Roach (from Dubai) My travel schedule is planned months in advance. It was only by happenstance that I found myself in both Beijing and Dubai this past week -- two of the more recent flashpoints in a US-led pushback against globalization. What I found in both cities unsettled me -- disappointment and frustration over America’s attitude toward two of its major providers of foreign capital. The United States has been having a good deal of trouble with its overseas image in recent years. The feedback from Beijing and Dubai is that this image is going rapidly from bad to worse -- something a saving-short US economy can ill afford. China is deeply troubled over the outright hostility from an increasingly xenophobic US Congress. The senior officials I spoke with this week in Beijing protested on two counts -- China’s fragility and America’s penchant for scapegoating (see my 21 March dispatch, “Inside the China Debate”). On the first count, the Chinese don’t believe that US politicians appreciate the potential risks that still lurk in this transitional economy. Instead, they are pressuring China as if it were operating from a position of much greater strength. China remains very much a tale of two economies -- a booming coastal region and a lagging interior. Most in Washington view China from the lenses of Beijing and Shanghai, and conclude that these two thriving metropolises personify the emergence of a powerful and mighty nation. What they don’t realize is that only 100 km away from either city lurks a China that has changed very little in the past thousand years. Yes, 560 million Chinese now live in urban centers around the country, although probably less than half these city dwellers have seen meaningful improvement in their standard of living over the past 30 years. Meanwhile, the rural population of some 745 million Chinese still tries to get by on $1-2 per day. At the same time, despite 25 years of 9.5% real GDP growth, serious vulnerabilities continue to plague the macro structure of the Chinese economy. The financial system has only just begun the long march toward liberalization and development. Growth continues to draw the bulk of its support from external demand (i.e., exports) and autonomous internal demand (fixed asset investment). Self-sustaining growth from the Chinese consumer is deficient, reflecting a pervasive sense of job and income insecurity that stems from ongoing reform-induced headcount reductions. Far from letting the invisible hand of market-based capitalism drive price-setting, the visible hand of administrative fiat still plays a major role in the determination of prices of goods and services in the real economy, as well as interest rates, the currency, and the prices of many other assets in the financial economy. All this speaks of a Chinese strain of market-based socialism that is still far too fragile to stand on its own. China also feels that it is being victimized for America’s structural problems. Premier Wen Jiabao was crystal clear on that point when he ended the recent China Development Forum by stating, “It is unfair to make China a scapegoat for structural problems facing the US economy.” There’s no dark secret what he was referring to -- China’s important role as a provider of goods and financial capital to a saving-short US economy. As long as America has a serious saving problem -- and, of course, the US net national saving rate plunged into negative territory for the first time in history in late 2005 -- trade deficits are a given in order to attract the foreign capital to fill the void. If the Schumer-Graham bill closes down US trade with China through the imposition of steep tariffs, a saving-short US economy will simply have to divert a significant portion of its multilateral trade deficit elsewhere. Undoubtedly, that means a higher-cost producer would have to take China’s place as a low-cost provider of capital to the US -- imposing the functional equivalent of a tax hike on the American consumer. When I pointed this out to Senators Graham, Coburn, and Schumer in Beijing, Senator Schumer said, “I understand the structural point, but China still has to give.” The editorialist in me says, if Washington -- or for that matter, beleaguered US manufacturers -- really wants China to give, then it needs to make that argument from a position of a macro strength and boost America’s national saving rate. Until, or unless, that happens, US-led China bashing is nothing short of political hypocrisy. In the meantime, Washington could well be about to compound one of America’s most serious structural problems -- at considerable expense both to the US and Chinese economies. These are the “lose-lose” outcomes of globalization that can only end in tears. In Dubai, I was met by a similar sense of consternation. Fresh from the wounds of the rejected Dubai Ports World transaction, several major private equity investors in the UAE were blunt in expressing their sudden loss of appetite for US assets. As one seasoned investor in US companies and properties put it to me, “As practitioners, as investors, we have become very shy of the US -- we just turned down a recent deal for that very reason.” Another added, “For us, foreign direct investment into the US has become far less palatable due to recent developments. The bulk of our dedicated offshore money is now going elsewhere.” The comment that unnerved me the most took this exasperation to an even deeper level. One investor asked, “What can we do to push back, to send a signal?” I certainly don’t want to make too much out of an unscientific survey of a few private equity investors in Dubai. But up until recently, this was one of the Middle East’s most pro-American investment communities. The individuals I met with this week are seasoned participants of many a cross-border transaction into the US. For them, the political shock wave from Washington has come from out of the blue, and they now see little reason to go back to the same well -- especially given the wide menu of less contentious alternatives available elsewhere in the world. In the broad scheme of things, Dubai is a small player in the world of international finance. But to the extent that the Dubai backlash is emblematic of similar distaste from other Middle East investors -- hardly idle conjecture, in my view -- the repercussion cannot be minimized. Net foreign direct investment into the United States hit $128 billion in 2005 -- an increase of $22 billion from the inflows of 2004. If that trend now starts to reverse course, America’s already daunting current-account financing problem will only get worse. From Beijing to Dubai, there is a growing undercurrent of economic anti-Americanism. The irony of it all is truly extraordinary: The US has the greatest external deficit in the history of the world, and is now sending increasingly negative signals to two of its most generous providers of foreign capital -- China and the Middle East. The United States has been extraordinarily lucky to finance its massive current account deficit on extremely attractive terms. If its lenders now start to push back, those terms could change quickly -- with adverse consequences for the dollar, real long-term US interest rates, and overly indebted American consumers. The slope is getting slipperier, and Washington could care less. |
Truely inspired chimp watching!
A "must read":
Yes, I see. Unfortunately, every time Bush instructs me to "see," he reminds me of those Mugsy-type gangsters on Bugs Bunny. ("You dirty terrorists. You’ll never shake our will, see.”)
There is much the president wants us to understand. He deployed the word 26 times Wednesday, including this elegant three-fer: "You got to understand that I fully understand there is deep concern among the American people about whether or not we can win. And I can understand why people are concerned."
A "must read":
Bush bumbling all over map, see
. . . One of the president’s favorite education tools is to tack the word "see" to the front or back of any statement to sound like he’s conveying key information. (On Wednesday: "An interesting debate in the world is whether or not freedom is universal, see . . ." Then, two seconds later, "See, I believe freedom is universal.")Yes, I see. Unfortunately, every time Bush instructs me to "see," he reminds me of those Mugsy-type gangsters on Bugs Bunny. ("You dirty terrorists. You’ll never shake our will, see.”)
There is much the president wants us to understand. He deployed the word 26 times Wednesday, including this elegant three-fer: "You got to understand that I fully understand there is deep concern among the American people about whether or not we can win. And I can understand why people are concerned."
Saturday, March 25, 2006
The Dixie Chicks: They're back and this time they're really angry 
hear the new song at www.dixiechicks.com - ed.
hear the new song at www.dixiechicks.com - ed.
Well DANG! That iceberg is as big as Martha's Vineyard! And not in the news... I guess they are waiting for one the size of California. They call it D-16. We got another name for it: "EXXON-MOBILE-SHELL".
Recommended: The Great Warming
Recommended: The Great Warming
Friday, March 24, 2006
ok. We cannot quit singing the praises of the last journalist in the room!
(see prior post with Helen Thomas audio clip link)
(see prior post with Helen Thomas audio clip link)
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Mar. 24, 2006 9 time world champion, Helen Thomas, lays out chicken weight "Bully" Bill O'Reilly in the 3rd round of a scheduled 13 round match. Broadcast live around the world the "Thrill-on-the-Hill" has an early conclusion. After the match the feisty title defender modestly remarked "I wish they'd send me some real opponents! I keep getting these amateurs and skid row drunks!". "I don't know where they get them!" she lamented. |
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HELP! New Orleans/Louisiana Voter Rights in DANGER!
see details NAACP.org
Please take action
and pass along to friends!Actor Charlie Sheen Questions Official 9/11 Story
Calls for truly independent investigation, joins growing ranks of prominent credible whistleblowersThursday, March 23, 2006
President Tourette’s?
from blogenlust.netor maybe it's "Tardive dyskinesia most commonly occurs in patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or other psychiatric conditions who are given antipsychotic medication, but it can occur in other patients who are treated with these drugs. Some estimates suggest that it occurs in 15-30% of patients receiving treatment with antipsychotic neuroleptic medications for 3 months or longer."*
... whatever it is it sure is hard for his head to hold still!
* from a post at America Blog.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
On our fav in the whitehouse press room, HELEN THOMAS -
...once she got her chance she pointedly challenged his reason for wanting to go to war "from the moment you stepped into the White House."....
Audio: Helen Thomas, Pres. Bush & Wolf Blitzer (from APFN)
Link: http://www.apfn.net/audio/M003I060321152048-Helen-Thomas-3-21-06.MP3
(3.38MB) 14Min 45 Sec
"scuse me for a second" - is he talking into his ear wire or to her?
Monday, March 20, 2006
Why there's a little ad for Sander Hicks for Senate on the sidebar:
The conflict between 9/11 truth-seekers and Attorney General Spitzer began in Summer 2004 when, just before the RNC, a Zogby poll reported that 66 percent of New York state wanted Eliot Spitzer to mount an independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks. NY911Truth.org is certain Spitzer was aware of this because they hand-delivered a "Citizens' Complaint & Petition" to Spitzer's office shortly thereafter. This document contains detailed questions about the crimes of 9/11 which remain unanswered after 4 1/2 years, as well as specific damages suffered by victims of the attacks. (more)
The conflict between 9/11 truth-seekers and Attorney General Spitzer began in Summer 2004 when, just before the RNC, a Zogby poll reported that 66 percent of New York state wanted Eliot Spitzer to mount an independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks. NY911Truth.org is certain Spitzer was aware of this because they hand-delivered a "Citizens' Complaint & Petition" to Spitzer's office shortly thereafter. This document contains detailed questions about the crimes of 9/11 which remain unanswered after 4 1/2 years, as well as specific damages suffered by victims of the attacks. (more)
Agent Slams FBI Bosses at Moussaoui Trial
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The FBI agent who arrested Zacarias Moussaoui in August 2001 accused headquarters of criminal negligence for its refusal to investigate Moussaoui aggressively after his arrest, according to court testimony Monday.. . . Despite Samit's urgent pleadings, FBI headquarters refused to open a criminal investigation and refused Samit's entreaties to obtain a search warrant.
"You needed people in Washington to help you out?" MacMahon asked.
"Yes," Samit said.
"They didn't do that, did they?"
Samit said no.
He confirmed under questioning that he had attributed FBI inaction to "obstructionism, criminal negligence and careerism" in an earlier report.
Just wondering why the mainsream media is hiding this explosive testimony.
The FBI acted like they wanted Moussaoui free to be a fall guy in the aftermath of Sept. 11th.
Hmmm . . . sounds just like James Earl Ray and the prison-linked items like the transistor radio with his prison ID number on it being 'found' at the scene of the assasination of Dr. King. And if only the FBI could link these 'clues' together it wouldn't have happened. Yeah. Its the FBI leaders who stopped agent Samit and all the other translators, investigators and FBI agents from doing their job.
What motive is there for this other than protecting the real sabateurs in the whitehouse???
moussaoui
Saturday, March 18, 2006
From Reclaim the Commons
A draft of the "G8 Summit Communique on Energy Security," scheduled to be released officially on July 16, has been leaked -- and we have it!!
The draft communique calls for a broad expansion of nuclear power and for thousands of billions of dollars in new investment to boost oil and gas supply. Oil Change International has published a useful analysis of it. Here are some corporate media reports about it: (more)
Alert - G8 Nuclear Plans Revealed!
A draft of the "G8 Summit Communique on Energy Security," scheduled to be released officially on July 16, has been leaked -- and we have it!!
The draft communique calls for a broad expansion of nuclear power and for thousands of billions of dollars in new investment to boost oil and gas supply. Oil Change International has published a useful analysis of it. Here are some corporate media reports about it: (more)
Thursday, March 16, 2006
US backs first-strike attack plan 
Idiot in charge "Stressing US preference for "transformational diplomacy"
and coalition building, but not necessarily within United Nations or Nato frameworks" (more)FAB.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Monday, March 13, 2006
Angry judge puts Moussaoui trial on hold
Brinkema says U.S. government committed 'egregious violation'
Good.
This man who had nothing to do with events of 9-11 has been tortured for 3 years and has not recieved proper legal counsel. You wouldn't know that from reading the mainstream press.
What is ultra odd that sure can use further exploration is what is up with that flight school he went to and what is up with the Minn. FBI branch and why did upper ups at the FBI ignore complaints about the flight schools and stop any investigation of Mr. Moussaoui's computer when they had their hands on it before 9-11?
And what the heck is the connection between the failed bombing of U. of OK and this case? Oh, I forget . . . U. of OK incident wasn't terrurizm! Just a lone 'nut'.
Do your own research. Do a google* search on:
* see Scroogle.org |
Moussaoui
Sunday, March 12, 2006
National amnesia
Novelist and political essayist Gore Vidal on Bush as a corporate puppet, the failure of the media and our loss of a collective memory
Why We Fight (the FBI)
The Weasel News officially denounces the green scare and calls it what it is - chickenshit fear mongering by
the chickenshit Dept. of 'Justice' aka political fixers for criminal lying usurping weasels. And the FBI would lend themselves to this hokey enterprise. They did their best to bust labor organizing they never went after the Mafia until way after Hoover (their pervert boss) died and they tried to illegally infiltrate all progressive groups in the 60's. When it comes to exploring a real crime like who detonated the buildings at the World Trade Center and put the brakes on NORAD that day they have nothing better to do than try and frame up eco activists and clamp down on porno on the internet. "Big tough guys!" - that's our 2¢.
Check the full news on Daniel McGowan at his blog - www.myspace.com/danielmcgowan
Also see updates on the west coast green scare at http://portland.indymedia.org
You can support him by checking the website Support Daniel.org.
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green scare fbi
Operation Backfire is an ongoing multi-agency criminal investigation, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), into "violent acts in the name of animal rights and environmental causes" in the United States"Operation Backfire (FBI)." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 8 Mar 2006, 10:24 UTC. 12 Mar 2006, 17:10 [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation_Backfire_(FBI)&oldid=42789689].
green scare fbi
Friday, March 10, 2006
Dangerous Ideas, Sinister Forces
By Andrew Ford Lyons
How quickly we backslide: In June of 1937 the federal government slapped chains and a padlock onto the doors of Maxine Elliot Theatre in New York. It was an attempt to halt a performance of "The Cradle Will Rock," a Marc Blizstein musical the feds found far too full of dangerous ideas for public consumption. The show’s director, Orson Welles, rushed back from Washington, D.C., on opening day after a failed attempt to convince the government to lift its ban. He found about 600 people waiting to see the performance idling in front of the theater, along with his cast. (more)
NOTE:
We just added Rachel's Words to the sidebar
list of blogs.
See all the news
on the banned play
about Rachel Corrie there.
By Andrew Ford Lyons
How quickly we backslide: In June of 1937 the federal government slapped chains and a padlock onto the doors of Maxine Elliot Theatre in New York. It was an attempt to halt a performance of "The Cradle Will Rock," a Marc Blizstein musical the feds found far too full of dangerous ideas for public consumption. The show’s director, Orson Welles, rushed back from Washington, D.C., on opening day after a failed attempt to convince the government to lift its ban. He found about 600 people waiting to see the performance idling in front of the theater, along with his cast. (more)
NOTE:
We just added Rachel's Words to the sidebar
list of blogs.
See all the news
on the banned play
about Rachel Corrie there.
The Cancer Agents of the FBI
The Great Green Scare
By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
With nothing much better to do and an unlimited budget to burn, the FBI is turning its mighty inquisitorial arsenal on environmental groups across the country. Even now the feds are scouring green outfits from Moscow, Idaho to Cancer Alley Parish, Louisiana, looking to round up bands of eco-terrorists, the Osama Bin Ladens of the American outback.
. . . Once again these hotly reported stories have mostly fizzled out, with the supposed acts of eco-terrorism turning to be insurance scams, disputes between neighbors or angry employees venting their rage with a match and a gallon of gasoline.
entire article
ecology witch-hunt eco-terrorist green scare fbi
Thursday, March 09, 2006
BOOM!
Who are the real terrorists?
BY ALAN PITTMAN
President George Bush's administration
has charged a dozen environmental and animal rights activists with"terrorism" for allegedly destroying property, and is threatening life sentences behind bars.
"We will not tolerate any group that terrorizes the
American people," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
said at a Jan. 20 Washington, D.C., press conference.
But as the government brings the massive post-9/11
security apparatus to bear against activists accused
of burning gas-guzzling SUVs, a ski resort, and corals
at a wild horse slaughtering facility, the really
burning question may be, what is terrorism? (more)
ecology witch-hunt eco-terrorist Green Scare
Dubai and the Straits of Hormuz
(the REAL reasons behind the Dubai ports deal!)
This article has a revealing map of the strategically placed UAE - tantalizingly close to Iran should the US want to - oh, ummm - wage a war against them!
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Preparing For Martial Law?
BERKELEY, Calif.--A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities."The contract -- announced Jan. 24 by the engineering and construction firm KBR -- calls for preparing for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs" in the event of other emergencies, such as "a natural disaster." The release offered no details about where Halliburton was to build these facilities, or when. (more)
We are noticing the creep of evality (our new word) into innocuous entertainment media lately. It's alarming because the target seems to be the next generation of compliant go-along-with-the-program disenfranchised i-podders and x-boxers.
This week a new example came up. It's just one of many post PNAC daily occurrences here in Der Furherland.
This is the new smidge of irking disinformation disguised as infotainment. On an all day true crime cable TV channel there was a story featuring the pristine FBI's smart investigation and pursuit of a Black Panther, ____. The story is framed with a vocabulary and music track designed to portray _____ as a "terrorist" worthy of obliteration by the state.
The young generation has no idea of the state terror the Panthers opposed or the serial murders the FBI committed to wipe them out. They just see this killer-clown portrayal on a show that does a lot of killer-clown stories.
And right now nutty neo-fascist, Alberto Gonzalez (US Attorney Generalissimo), is expanding the powers of the Department of Justice and trying to revive the 'hunt' for surviving Black Panthers as if they were the top security concern of the nation. Top security that isn't compromised a whit by selling off all the ports of the eastern seaboard and the Gulf. It isn't potential threat of some sneaky United Arab Emeritesite anthrax attack on GAP containers being offloaded in New Jersey that is increased by this deal. Gonzalez's crack pulp fiction team will create evermore scary new threats to replace the old to keep them in jobs far into the future. It's the threat of the US divesting itself of its best assets without review or consent that is the big security threat. So nutty Gonzalez is getting all fluffed up about the 1970's enemies of the state. Bully for him.
And they are Hell bent on creating an image of ecology advocates as "terrorists". And they have expanded that definition to mean anti-cruelty-to-pets advocates must assume legal responsibility for anyone who reads their literature or website if a cruelty-to-animals sponsoring lab owner gets his house paintballed. The Green Scare is evality of the highest order.
Note to Generalissimo: Vandalism and property damage are not "terrorism" and both are already against the law and the teens who engage in that activity are liable for the damages if convicted, not unrelated website owners.
green scare ecology witch-hunt eco-terrorist
This week a new example came up. It's just one of many post PNAC daily occurrences here in Der Furherland.
This is the new smidge of irking disinformation disguised as infotainment. On an all day true crime cable TV channel there was a story featuring the pristine FBI's smart investigation and pursuit of a Black Panther, ____. The story is framed with a vocabulary and music track designed to portray _____ as a "terrorist" worthy of obliteration by the state.
The young generation has no idea of the state terror the Panthers opposed or the serial murders the FBI committed to wipe them out. They just see this killer-clown portrayal on a show that does a lot of killer-clown stories.
And right now nutty neo-fascist, Alberto Gonzalez (US Attorney Generalissimo), is expanding the powers of the Department of Justice and trying to revive the 'hunt' for surviving Black Panthers as if they were the top security concern of the nation. Top security that isn't compromised a whit by selling off all the ports of the eastern seaboard and the Gulf. It isn't potential threat of some sneaky United Arab Emeritesite anthrax attack on GAP containers being offloaded in New Jersey that is increased by this deal. Gonzalez's crack pulp fiction team will create evermore scary new threats to replace the old to keep them in jobs far into the future. It's the threat of the US divesting itself of its best assets without review or consent that is the big security threat. So nutty Gonzalez is getting all fluffed up about the 1970's enemies of the state. Bully for him.And they are Hell bent on creating an image of ecology advocates as "terrorists". And they have expanded that definition to mean anti-cruelty-to-pets advocates must assume legal responsibility for anyone who reads their literature or website if a cruelty-to-animals sponsoring lab owner gets his house paintballed. The Green Scare is evality of the highest order.
Note to Generalissimo: Vandalism and property damage are not "terrorism" and both are already against the law and the teens who engage in that activity are liable for the damages if convicted, not unrelated website owners.
You doofass!
green scare ecology witch-hunt eco-terrorist
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