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There Are No Antiwar Candidates

6/28/2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Ron Paul gives a speech that nearly says all the dangerous things I harp on here at Culture of Life News. But as usual, Ron Paul stops short of doing the next step: resigning from the GOP and running an anti-war campaign for President! All the news in the world is about how both Russia and China are leaping forwards in their diplomatic and economic programs. OPEC refuses to bail us out of our own mess we created when Bush and the Europeans joined hands in menacing Iran and boycotting Iranian oil. So we pay through the nose for this. And Bin Laden's strategy of bankrupting the US continues and will totally succeed. And the Arabs know this and they are joining Russia and China in this enterprise.

Ron Paul in Congress on June 26, 2008, talking like we talk here!

Like Saunders of Vermont or Lieberman for that matter, Ron Paul should quit his party. He can vote with them whenever he wishes. His run for nomination in that party was an utter failure. He did bring in a host of new members to the Republicans who are not staying in the party. They joined only to support him. When he gave in to the media and the party leaders denying him and his supporters a voice or honest representation in the news, he should have packed his bags and departed. Instead, he remains but a gadfly that nips at the elephant who totally ignores him.

As a black sheep outsider, I found that being free of obligations to please people who are determined to go in the wrong direction is useful. One can tell the truth! Ron is trying to tell the truth. But it is worthless if it leads to no actions. In my case, my wings are very much clipped by the total 'Cone of Silence' that has fallen on me ever since Turner sold CNN. Bereft of even a small voice, I lurk online and pile up a historic record of what went wrong and why it went wrong. Ron Paul, on the other hand, built up a national movement that was about to take off when he strangled it in the crib so he could be buddies with a bunch of traitors!

I am willing to fight my own parents all the way down the line and Ron can't resist being the clown of the Republican Party? Good grief. He was handed this wonderful, historic moment to turn the conversation away from 'Bomb, bomb, bomb Iraq'. Obama would still be antiwar if Ron Paul were running. Since voters have zero choices now, Obama ran off to AIPAC to declare loyalty to the Jewish ethnic cleansing project even if this destroys America and re-enslaves all blacks here. For if ethnic cleansing is OK in the Holy Land and endorsed by 'God' then why not here?

So Obama betrayed his own race as well as America. McCain is a total traitor. Hillary's power base is 100% AIPAC. The last three choices become AIPAC #1, AIPAC #2 and AIPAC #3. If there were competition for the 65% of American voters who are sick and tired of spending trillions trying to militarily control the seething billions of angry Muslims, Obama would have the opportunity to be antiwar. But the mass of US voters now have absolutely no choices at all. All candidates are still trying to outgun each other's support of Israeli Jewish ethnic cleansing and nuclear domination of the Middle East. This is why Congress is silent about the connection of high oil prices to the Iran boycott.

Ron Paul isn't silent! But he doesn't go that one step further! I will write his next speech and ask this to be delivered to his Dream World: 'I cannot any longer tolerate the betrayal of the American People. Congress is working in tandem with the owners of the media most of whom are Zionists intent on sacrificing this great nation on the Altar of the Apocalypse. If oil goes up to $200 a barrel due to the misdirected Iran boycotts and the saber rattling aimed at Iran, the US economy will collapse along with world trade! This is an unacceptable price to pay! And with no debate!

Thanks to the media which supports Zionism before patriotism, this information is kept from the American People. This speech will not be in the news. At all costs, the news that Zionism is directly responsible for high oil prices, must be kept secret. But the people are being stripped of all savings and thrown into the streets to die! The American people will freeze to death this winter and have no idea, this is due to the Iran oil boycott imposed by the US at the behest of Israel's leaders!

I am dedicating my life to informing the US citizens of this fact! I have enough money from my campaign funds to tour the US and tell the truth! Even if the media refuses and my fellow Congress representatives refuse to let me be heard, I will still speak! I no longer fear death. I will tell the truth about the wars and how these wars are bankrupting us. And how the high oil prices from these wars are bankrupting us. And how Zionism has replaced patriotism in the Halls of Congress! For the US Congress no longer responds to the People's Will. Congress is owned by lobbyists of all types! Including a powerful lobby that has realigned the natural feelings of patriotism from focused on the US to focused on Israeli Jewish dreams of dominating the Middle East using military power.'

Then he tours the nation on a 'New Patriotism Platform' and this will explode in both Obama's and McCain's faces. It will FORCE THE ISSUES! But Ron, although bitter in this latest address to an empty House, is not ready to sacrifice himself for the truth. The pain is too great, he got right to the edge and then surrendered.

If I can live in a tent for ten years out of pure stubbornness, he can do the same! This is the difference between weakness and will power. Ron Paul has sparked a fire which he dampened himself because he was afraid. He is all hot and bothered about abortions?

Well, killing living babies is always far, far worse! Even the Bible recognizes this stark fact! Fetuses are not baptized. Infants are. Clinging to the GOP because of abortion issues is stupid when the GOP is preparing us to be destroyed economically and militarily. When the US goes bankrupt, we are naked to the world that hates us. Even our allies hate us. They want us close only because we protect them for free from neighbors who hate them even more thanks to WWI and WWII. They want us close only so they can destroy our industrial base and buy us up and make us economic slaves. They don't want to FIX America! They want to CONTINUE THE BROKEN AMERICA! And the Europeans and Japanese love the fact that they get all the benefits if imperialism while not gaining all the HATE that comes from imperial progression.

So Ron Paul drops the sword and fades into the past. Unable to face the truth about where we are heading, even though he can plainly see it, he thinks his wretched family will do what in the future? Cower in a cave? Hide in a hole in the ground? Learn Spanish? Flee? This is the choice! The future is worse than his fears of losing friends today!

Opec shuns calls to produce more

Opec president Chakib Khelil has said the cartel of oil producing nations is pumping enough output, and that high prices are down to other factors.
He put the current price rises down to other factors outside Opec control, such as US pressure on Iran and the weak US dollar.

The Chinese, Russians and Muslim overlords all have one goal: to suck out all the wealth of the US and drive us into bankruptcy! Period. This is about as obvious as anything on earth which is why the media never talks about it. To sucker the US into Zionist support, the media lies about this just like they lie about economics or history! When at war and we are very much at war with the Muslims world wide, we have to understand the STRATEGY of our opponents. Just as trade is war, we must understand what the leaders of Japan and Germany really think about WWII. The Japanese, by visiting the War Shrine openly, slapped us in the face and told us very clearly, they still remember and want revenge. The Chinese slapped them down for this and note how they are energetically working with the Chinese now to define their relationships and borders! The Japanese are still slapping the Americans in the face over WWII. For example, they are suing us in court over Hiroshima but won't pay a penny to the civilians and soldiers they enslaved during WWII.

The strategy of the Muslims is obvious because Bin Laden thoughtfully made a video about all this and explained how 9/11 was conceived as a means to lure the US into Afghanistan where we would go bankrupt. Bin Laden's revolution, far from ending, is actually morphing and expanding. It is sucking in the rich rulers of the Middle East. His strategy is now their strategy. They whipsaw the West with promises of more oil then yank this away and watch the hysteria and despair. When the US demands Iran's oil be cut out of world markets, they joyously agree. They want no war, they want BOYCOTTS. They have enough wealth accumulated, they can even be the source of an oil boycott.

Think this will never happen? HA! It can and is frankly, inevitable. This is why, despite high prices, the US military and government are both hoarding oil like mad! The US public will eat dirt, of course. And the US government has refused to retrofit us with alternative energy for when this next obvious event happens. We have known this since 1974. And refused to change course. Now, it is truly very late in the game. The US is more, not less, dependent upon the Saudi Kings not boycotting us over the issue of the Threshing Floor in Jerusalem where King David stopped the Angel of Death! He wants this thing in his own hands. He has to want it or he loses legitimacy! So we have to take all of this very seriously. This week, the AIPAC addled candidates for President have endorsed total Jewish ownership of Jerusalem including this terrifying threshing floor! The push to destroy us economically has grown astronomically.

BBD: Russians and EU to seek new pact

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev and top EU officials have announced the start of talks on a new strategic partnership agreement.

The start of negotiations has been long delayed, amid strained ties under Mr Medvedev's predecessor, Vladimir Putin. But, at a meeting with EU officials in the Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk, Mr Medvedev said he was looking for a "new impulse" to relations with the EU. The talks will formally begin on 4 July in Brussels, he said.

They will primarily focus on trade - Russia is the EU's third biggest trading partner and half of all Russian exports go to the EU.

Russia is very intent on controlling Europe. They must. If we go to You Tube and type in the names of great battles triggered by European invasions of Russia, we can clearly see why. France, Germany, England: the great empires all invade Russia in sneak attacks. Russia has suffered tremendously from this! When Russia invaded Europe in retaliation for Germany invading Russia, they were far, far kinder than the Europeans were when they invaded Russia! We forget this important fact. Russia has not forgotten.

Russia is letting Europe know that they have only two choices: they can cling to the dying American empire which depends on Middle Eastern oil flowing or they can choose Russia who has the oil and gas flowing to Europe already. The Europeans dearly would love to triangulate in this matter. But they are supporting Zionism very heavily! So each hour they do this, they are in the cross hairs of the Muslim strategy of bankrupting all nations who support Zionism. They know all this! But can't help themselves because it is illegal to write about it, read about it or talk about this in Europe! People are put in prison if they discuss this.

Russian FM: Russia's nuclear cooperation with Iran based on int'l laws

The Russian Foreign Ministry referring to the news on survey over a Bill on halting US-Russia peaceful nuclear cooperation at the US Congress due to Moscow's nuclear cooperation with Iran, argues that Washington's accusations against Russia are totally baseless.

Russian Federation's peaceful nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States is devised in a way to serve the interests of both countries, adding, "Neither side should therefore be seeking to punish the other side for any excuse, whatsoever."

Russia's nuclear cooperation agreement with United States that was signed in early May, 2008, was forwarded to the US Congress a few days later by the US President for confirmation.

Russia is writing its own rules here. North Korea surrendered to CHINA over the nuclear matter when China decided to take things in hand. The end of the NK nuclear program is hailed in America as an American success. It was NOT. It was China showing real power. Japan knows this! In Japan, the end of NK menacing Japan was due to CHINA and the Japanese are rewarding China for this. The diplomatic relations between the two Asian giants has shot forwards. Increasingly, they will be in alliance. Japan can reject this and watch China ally itself with Russia! Or they can move closer to the Chinese. I am betting they are moving closer to China.

U.S. Settles Scientist's Lawsuit in Anthrax Scare for $5.85 Million

The Justice Department signed a $5.85 million settlement today with Steven J. Hatfill, the former Defense Department scientist who sued the government five years ago over the disclosure of his name in connection with a nationwide anthrax scare.

The agreement ends an arduous legal saga. It ensnared federal investigators and several news organizations which published Hatfill's name after then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft labeled him a "person of interest" in the law enforcement investigation of mailed anthrax powder that killed five people shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Roehrkasse said the investigation into the anthrax mailings, which also sickened more than a dozen people, "remains among the department's highest law enforcement priorities."

The anthrax assassin is never mentioned in the news. The Cone of Silence over him is nearly as total as the one that covers me! I am amazed by this. But then, we are both creatures of the dark side of the CIA. The American people are supposed to forget this episode. To all the 'bombs in the WTC' people: NOTE THAT YOU ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT THIS! The DARPA/CIA misinformation crew wants you guys to forget about this little matter! They tried to fake things and frame this poor man, Hatfill. So, shouldn't we all be immensely annoyed that professional assassins with access to the most restricted and may I add, ILLEGAL bio-weapons is STILL RUNNING LOOSE?????? Gads. He can kill whoever he wants! And for all we know, is hard at work today!

Scientists calculate the exact date of the Trojan horse using eclipse in Homer

Scientists have calculated that the horse was used in 1188 BC, ten years before Homer in his Odyssey describes the return of a warrior to his wife on the day the "sun is blotted out of the sky".
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Now Marcelo Magnasco, head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Physics at Rockefeller University, New York, and Constantino Baikouzis of the Proyecto Observatorio at the Observatorio Astronómico in La Plata, Argentina, report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have traced the eclipse to April 16, 1178.

"Not only is this corroborative evidence that this date might be something important," Magnasco says, "but if we take it as a given that the death of the suitors happened on this particular eclipse date, then everything else described in The Odyssey happens exactly as is described."

An ancient war that troubled me in my youth. 'How could they fight for 9 years?' I asked. Then I learned of the 30 Years War and the 100 Years War and the Crusades. Oh! People can fight for decades without batting an eyelash! The Cold war was only 10 years old when I asked this vital question. Troy was the tail end of the Minoan civilization. The Minoans were an amazing pinnacle of civilization. The explosion of the island Thera and the following tsunamis destroyed not only the Minoan empire but many of the cities surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The waves rushed all the way to Spain and back again! It was probably worse than the ones we saw a few years ago with the Boxing Day Quake.

This sentence got my eye:

However, findings rely on a major assumption: Although the association of planets with gods, such as Mercury, was a Babylonian invention that dates back to around 1000 BC, there's no evidence that those ideas had reached Greece by the time Homer was writing, several hundred years later.

The understanding of the Stars of the Zodiac as well as all the other constellations is tremendously ancient. These were launched during the Ice Ages! This information predates civilization by thousands of years! The Babylonians didn't 'invent' the business of gods being planets! Nor did they invent the Zodiac! The Zodiac was ancient when the first city-state, the first Pharaoh was born! The gods in Homer's epic are the gods of the Age of Aries. But the battle was from the end of the Age of Taurus. Minos was Taurian. Greece was the Sheep.

Which takes us to today: the Israeli tribal warfare took off when the tsunami destroyed the Caanan culture! Shepherds invaded the rich lands of the Holy Land. The battles of the gods mirrored the wrenching changes on earth! The seeds for today's mischief lies in this matter: the changing of the Zodiacal stars that rise in the East on the Vernal Equinox shifts and over time, the wrong stars rise. This always, always, always causes violent religious contentions! Which lie at the heart of the business today in the Middle East, the business that is bankrupting the US. And driving us into WWIII.

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Expensive War Robots Bankrupt USA

June 26, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

The Pentagon is the military arm of the US and it a major motor in US industry. The military-industrial complex is slowly being turned into money machine that produces robots that can kill barely armed civilians resisting US occupation forces sent to crush them. Oh, how the Nazis would have loved having this ability! These robots are expensive and are bankrupting America. War talk about Iran grows louder and greater. So the world price of oil is nearly $150 a barrel this month. Another $10 to go. If it reaches $200 a barrel, the world's economy will collapse and Iran Kitty will win WWIII. So to speak. And rather bizarre news from Israel about the Sarkozy visit. Didn't make the news here, of course.

Boeing Future Combat Systems to Go to Army Infantry Units First

The U.S. Army, seeking to demonstrate the relevance of its top weapons program, Boeing Co.'s Future Combat Systems, switched plans and will deploy some of the new equipment first to infantry rather than armored units, according to a service document.

The armored units haven't been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan as often as lighter infantry brigades. The Army is under pressure from Congress and the administration to show that the $159 billion system of radios, ground sensors, manned vehicles and missile launch systems can be effective in current conflicts.

Some Army combat infantry brigades will get the equipment starting in 2011 instead of 2014, according to the document sent to top Army officials. Heavy, mechanized units of M1A1 tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles originally scheduled to get the equipment in 2011, will now have to wait. The document didn't say how long.

Our rulers, as we go bankrupt, tell us we have no money for doctors then turn around and spend $159 billion, not million, billion on ROBOTS? That will tool about Muslim lands, murdering civilians while alien soldiers who don't speak the language or are in any way sympathetic with the civilians will be using video game systems to shower death and destruction from far away?

GADS. Good grief. And pray, who is the 'Evil Empire'? Isn't this pure Darth Vaderism? We don't use the Force, we use the Clone War Robots. But then, does this surprise anyone? Who makes a profit if a flesh and blood American is at war? No one! The soldier will demand pay, health care, help at home, pay raises! The soldier might need social care later. He or she has family. If killed, payments are made and not a penny of this flows into the coffin-shaped coffers of the super rich who own the military industries. No, they want to take direct profits.

So they build killing robots that are very expensive. When inevitably wrecked by Wookies and Skywalkers, new ones get build at tremendous profits for the Senators and their rich buddies. And sent into battle. The financial ratios of $159 billion robots versus a series of $200 IEDs is obvious. We hemorrhage wealth from the working class to the super rich while spending money on these projects. Just like using a $1.5 million dollar missile on a shepherd's tent to kill 'terrorists' benefits only the missile makers. It is utterly senseless from the point of view of real strategy.

From the Guardian in England [not US news, of course]:

At a desert test site in Texas, a street battle rages between US soldiers and local "insurgents". It's much like any other training exercise, except the soldiers are accompanied by a Mule (Multifunctional utility/Logistics & Equipment), an armed robot the size of a Humvee. The insurgents are positioned overlooking an intersection, a potential kill zone. The commander pulls out what looks like a PlayStation gamepad and the Mule is sent forward.

It presents a tougher challenge than the typical human soldier. The Mule can fire Javelin anti-tank missiles and has a turret-mounted machine gun, in addition to a digital "eyeball" with laser and heat-recognising target acquisition systems for aiming its weaponry. It is semi-autonomous, using GPS to navigate and localised perception to avoid trees and buildings. Its six wheels are on pneumatic legs, enabling it to climb over cars and barriers. Within minutes, the formerly deadly intersection is secure.

So, where are the enemy tanks in Afghanistan? Iraq? No? These are used to shoot taxis and cars driven by mothers taking their children to school. These are Stupid Machines run by Nasty Aliens. We see Americans worried about UFOs bringing aliens to the US skies. Well, we are the aliens and hated aliens who bring death and destruction from the skies as well as on land. Since our Predator robots can't control the ground and since the pesky civilians we are butchering elude us as we try to corral them, we need robots on the ground to do the job. Shameful, isn't it?

Antiwar.com:

A roadside bomb blast in Ninevah province killed three U.S. soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter last night. Not much information was released on the incident, but U.S. and Iraqi troops are in the process of weeding out al-Qaeda elements in the region. An already reported car bombing there yesterday left almost 100 casualties. Another American soldier was killed in the capital during an EFP explosion this morning. Altogether, eight U.S. servicemembers and two American employees have been killed over the last three days.

The cheap IEDs continue to do their work. Deaths of American invaders are rising again. In May, it dropped. But the US then tried to ram through a series of treaties that are not treaties which are designed to give us total power over the captives in Iraq so we can brutalize them with expensive robots. This empire of ours is so very doomed. Treasonous Iraqis who are desperate for money and willing to sell their souls are being killed rather rapidly. This is how all nations invaded by aliens react, by the way. This includes America that did the same during the revolution. I wish our nation could remember our own history.

Agence France Presse:

(AFP) - US military chief Admiral Michael Mullen was expected in Israel this week for discussions including Iran, the Pentagon said Wednesday, amid speculation Israel is seeking Washington's tacit approval to strike Tehran's nuclear program.

The press office of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed that Mullen left the United States on Tuesday "to go overseas to visit counterparts as well as combatant commands, and Israel is not his only stop."

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters the trip had been on the schedule for "months."

"I believe this is a routine opportunity for Chairman Mullen to engage his counterpart in Israel on military-to-military matters, as he does in much of his travels around the world," Morrell said.

"I will say this, though: Obviously, when Chairman Mullen goes to Israel and speaks with the Israelis, they will no doubt discuss the threat posed by Iran, as we discuss it in this building, in other buildings in this town."

Oil shot up this last 24 hours. Libya is angry about a US court trying to steal their bank accounts. The US won't pay for all the people we kill but we want Libya and others to pay for terrorism. If the US were taken to court the same way, we would be bankrupt today rather than next year. Just the other day, a very stupid man was given room in the warmongering rag, the Washington Post to suggest we sue OPEC and force them to give us oil cheap.

Well, OPEC is going to cut out our sales if we keep on doing these things. The dollar is weaker, too. We spent our money unwisely, $160+ billion on suppressing the Iraqi people very violently, $160 billion on robots, $160 billion on freebie money handouts to all taxpayers as a gift from Uncle Santa Claus...this is already nearly $500 billion! Half a trillion! From a government that is almost half a trillion in the hole a year and has run up $10 trillion in debts since Ronnie Reagan began this madness.

(Reuters) - Bahrain's security would be threatened if international tensions over Iran flared into war and the kingdom wanted to be consulted so that could be prevented, a top official said on Wednesday.
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"The intention of the consultation is to ensure that war will not happen. The intention is to have peace. We are against war," said Zayani.

As the war talk heats up, the fear is growing in the Middle East that this might be The End. Israel has gone totally psychotic. The tensions there, the religious furies that have been unleashed since WWI, this is incredible. Not since the Middle Ages has the Middle East been so capable of blowing up in everyone's faces.

Iran War Resolution May Be Passed Next Week

Introduced less than a month ago, Resolution 362, also known as the Iran War Resolution, could be passed by the House as early as next week.

The bill is the chief legislative priority of AIPAC. On its Web site, AIPAC endorses the resolutions as a way to ”Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program” and tells readers to lobby Congress to pass the bill. In the Senate, a sister resolution, Resolution 580, has gained co-sponsors with similar speed. The Senate measure was introduced by Indiana Democrat Evan Bayh on June 2. It has since gained 19 co-sponsors.

And oil will be $200 a barrel...minimum. In the news today was the talk about how the world economy can't tolerate $200 a barrel oil. Well, if we insist on creating this war, we get total annihilation of the global economy. I know a number of crazy adults who think that driving us into WWIII is smart. Well, can they figure out that economic collapse has a downside? No? I doubt even this news will dissuade everyone. Because people willing to destroy everything so they can steal olive groves next to Jerusalem won't care if all this creates the Apocalypse.

MI5: revealing areas at mercy of collapsing dams is a terror threat

MI5 and flood risk experts are at odds over whether to publish inundation maps highlighting areas under threat if any of the country's dams were to collapse. The Security Service says that the information could show terrorists where an attack on a dam might have the most impact.

See how insane things have become? Psycholand! To protect the people of Britain from death, they will KILL everyone in a flood? WHAT THE HELL????? So, if Mother Nature destroys the dam and kills everyone, this is OK? But heaven help us if the terrorists figure out the obvious? The terrorists don't care if they kill 1,000 or 1,000,000. They will destroy the dam. Mother Nature is even worse. She actively does extinctions. She will merrily plonk an asteroid on top of a dam and make a hole bigger than half of England there. And kill nearly everything on earth. In an eye blink. Hiding vital survival information from the people is stupid.

During all the fifties and sixties, I battled my mom and dad to tell the truth to the American People. Whenever the top elites were put on high alert about the possibility of WWIII, we would run for our lives to secure places. While the media told the people to STAY PUT. And this refusal to tell the truth about the dams is the same thing: they don't want people to stop working just because they are in danger. Note how the media tried to make the Chinese look bad concerning the earthquakes! Yet they will turn around and shrug when our own leaders do the same.

They don't care if thousands of people in New Orleans drown.

Worst of times for Iran
By Spengler

Households in President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's Iran must suffer on a Dickensian scale, for they spend 10% more than their income, according to the country's central bank. Iran's data are more hilarious than reliable, to be sure, but they illustrate how ordinary Iranians are perishing in a sea of petrodollars.

The price of oil more than doubled since I warned last year (Why Iran will fight, not compromise Asia Times Online, May 30, 2007) that Iran's Islamic kleptocracy had reached the end of its rope. Despite the surge in oil revenues, conditions are worse than they were a year ago, as the price of necessities soars out of ordinary reach. Not only the theft of the oil windfall, but the manner of the heft, puts Adhmadinejad's political future in doubt, as Sami Moubayed reported on this site on June 21 ('President' Larijani: A star is born). Changing the man at the top, however, is no cure for fecklessness of Central African proportions. Underneath Iran's imperial ambitions and messianic pretensions suppurates a pre-modern patronage system that corrupts everyone who comes near it.

OH MY GOD. Iran is having problems thanks to the US/EU boycotts! Wow. And what are we? Are we not corrupt as hell? Do our rulers care if we drown? Are our finances fine? If Iranians are suffering, what sort of ugly Dickensian horrors are in store for us this cold, dark winter???? Eh????!!!!! Yes, they are suffering. But so are we! The more they suffer, the more we suffer. Until we all die. This is beyond stupid.

Y Net News: Soldier dies in Sarkozy farewell ceremony

A Border Guard officer tasked with a perimeter security assignement during the farewell ceremony for French President Nicolas Sarkozy at Ben-Gurion Airport was killed after apparently shooting himself. An ambulance was rushed to the scene to treat the soldier, but a short time later he was pronounced dead.Police officials estimated that the officer committed suicide.
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A member of Peres' entourage told Ynet, "There was no panic; a routine procedure was activated by the prime minister's and president's bodyguards. The incident is behind us and the French president is on his way back home."

After the gunshot was heard, security forces began searching for the shooter, who was found lying on the ground. A security officer who witnessed the shooting recounted the incident to the police.

Officer's family: He didn’t commit suicide
The dead Border Guard officer was identified as Raid Asaad Ghanan, 32, of the Druze village of Beit Jan. his family members refused to believe that he had committed suicide.

"We scornfully reject the claims that our son took his own life," a family member said. "He was a kindhearted and happy person. He had a family and there was no reason for him to do such a horrible thing."

This didn't make the news in the West. The Cone of Silence fell with a clang and nothing appeared in media here that is run by Jewish owners. The condition of the Druse Christians in the Jewish dictatorship state that is out to crush all other religions is growing worse and worse. We don't know what really happened there and will probably never find out. The corruption charges against Olmert: Oh, the Iranians are naughty! Wow.

Yes, the media is a wonder and thanks to the internet, we can get real news even if it is bizarre or stupid. Tomorrow will see blood in the streets on Wall Street and other 'We hate Iran!' nations. They will bleed and bleed and snarl and snap and the poor masses will be left to drown as the rulers lunge for the Golden Ring of Power.

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Unilateral Nuclear Power Is Useless

June 23, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

As the US careens into a possible global war over the concept of destroying even the slightest military power in Iran, the real subject of war arises: Iran is not the real cause of a massive nuclear war. It is American anxiety concerning going bankrupt due to high energy costs which are bankrupting us. The temptation to use nuclear bombs so we can continue to dominate the world using our military might is huge. The military advisors to the Pentagon openly talk about using bigger and better nukes to maintain our empire. Today, we look at an old Foreign Affairs article which talks about the need to use nuclear arms to dominate and intimidate humanity. We must remember these sorts of words because we are engaged in demands that Iran be totally disarmed and helpless in the face of US/EU/Israeli nuclear military intimidation.

Foreign Affairs: The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy
Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press

From Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006

This debate may now seem like ancient history, but it is actually more relevant than ever -- because the age of MAD is nearing an end. Today, for the first time in almost 50 years, the United States stands on the verge of attaining nuclear primacy. It will probably soon be possible for the United States to destroy the long-range nuclear arsenals of Russia or China with a first strike. This dramatic shift in the nuclear balance of power stems from a series of improvements in the United States' nuclear systems, the precipitous decline of Russia's arsenal, and the glacial pace of modernization of China's nuclear forces. Unless Washington's policies change or Moscow and Beijing take steps to increase the size and readiness of their forces, Russia and China -- and the rest of the world -- will live in the shadow of U.S. nuclear primacy for many years to come.

One's views on the implications of this change will depend on one's theoretical perspective. Hawks, who believe that the United States is a benevolent force in the world, will welcome the new nuclear era because they trust that U.S. dominance in both conventional and nuclear weapons will help deter aggression by other countries. For example, as U.S. nuclear primacy grows, China's leaders may act more cautiously on issues such as Taiwan, realizing that their vulnerable nuclear forces will not deter U.S. intervention -- and that Chinese nuclear threats could invite a U.S. strike on Beijing's arsenal. But doves, who oppose using nuclear threats to coerce other states and fear an emboldened and unconstrained United States, will worry. Nuclear primacy might lure Washington into more aggressive behavior, they argue, especially when combined with U.S. dominance in so many other dimensions of national power. Finally, a third group -- owls, who worry about the possibility of inadvertent conflict -- will fret that U.S. nuclear primacy could prompt other nuclear powers to adopt strategic postures, such as by giving control of nuclear weapons to lower-level commanders, that would make an unauthorized nuclear strike more likely -- thereby creating what strategic theorists call "crisis instability."

This piece was written before the US got totally ground down in Iraq. This piece was written before the Chinese used lasers to disable and destroy a satellite, thus showing that our 'eyes in the sky' could be blinded instantly. Worse, since both Russia and China have been unable to stop the US from pouring trillions of red ink dollars into military systems it can use only in the event of WWIII, both Russia and China have used the tools of diplomacy and economic powers to expand influence and run rings around the US. The use of the nuclear hammer has turned the US into the world's most ham-fisted, stupid, blind stumbling giant that roars with rage as smaller nations nip and claw at the legs of this blunderbuss Cyclopes.

In 2006, to even write about '...LURE Washington into more aggessive behavior....' is laughably stupid. By 2006, our outrageous invasion of Iraq after the UN Security Council allowed the US and Israel to disarm Saddam, was about as aggressive as an invasion can be. It is on the scale of Hitler's invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland. We hung the Nazis after WWII for doing this. Indeed, Czechoslovakia was actively disarmed by the dying League of Nations before the Wehrmacht swept in. When the UN was founded, it was supposed to stop WWIII, prevent the spread of nuclear bombs and bring peace. Instead, it did the exact opposite. All the empires got their nuclear bombs and then sat on them like hens trying to hatch a basilisk. Europe, Asia and North America lived under a huge nuclear umbrella while Africa, South America and the Pacific Islands lived on the outside, helpless and impoverished. Indeed, the nuclear empires actively bombed a number of inhabited islands after making the natives homeless. While bombing and bombing the Pacific...France did this too, by the way....the US government from the President to the Pentagon to the CIA to all scientists in every university and research lab...ALL OF THEM LIED ABOUT EVERYTHING.

They openly lied about the health hazards of blowing up hundreds of nuclear bombs every year. They openly lied the the islanders about the destruction they were creating. To this day, the islands that were destroyed in this super-secret nuclear war waged against some of the poorest and totally unarmed people of the island chains in the Pacific, to this day, these islands are uninhabitable. The promise that they could go back home a year later is now half a century old and just as broken today as back then. I grew up yelling at my dad about these nuclear tests. Yelling about getting the Presidents to stop these horrors. Yelling about knowing the truth while forbidden to talk about it in public. If I went out in public and yelled about it, the media and the government would simply tell people, 'She is insane. She is stupid. Don't listen to her.'

Just like the other state secrets. This thumbnail sketch from 2006 rehearses the official history of the nuclear arsenals. It accepts lies like the ones about how Russia and China were allies. The US government knew this was FALSE. They even classified the news about border wars between Russia and China because they feared the ability to run nuclear bomb tests and build up our insane arsenal of instant death would be curbed if the US public knew that the world was not black and white but rather plaid or polka dotted. This cynical lying was for domestic consumption. I knew about the border wars when they happened. A number of people knew! I know that communists in the West were very aware of these internal battles! The pro-Mao factions battled the pro-Stalinists and they fought the pro-Ho Chi Mihnists who in turn, hated the pro-Khmer Rouge! By 1966, I used to amuse myself by trying to accurately peg various left wing political powers as to which faction they belonged. On top of this were the Old Spanish Anarchists, the Modern Hippie Anarchists, the pro-Witchcraftians and the Crazy Religious Fanatics like the Scientologists, for example.

There was no monolithic powers ANYWHERE. The US pretense that we had to have thousands of nuclear bombs to fight some sort of Axis was demented. To this day, our criminal rulers like to invoke the Axis [minus Japan who is NEVER mentioned] of WWII. When Bush made his insane speech in Congress to great applause, he talked about the Axis of Evil. Then he lassoed three totally hostile horses together in this bizarre Chariot of Fire: Iran, Iraq and North Korea!

Gads, three totally at odds entities! Iran and Iraq totally hated each other. Saddam's hatred of the Shi'a revolutionaries was greater than anyone's hatred on earth. And the Shi'ites wanted to see Saddam dead and buried after being tortured and hung. Yet this Axis of Evil was spoon fed to the US public just like the story that we need to destroy Iran so they can't have any nuclear powers is based on the notion of disarmament.

The US desire to disarm all small nations is due 100% to our desire to rule them through fear and the fist. Just as the huge fissures and divisions within the communist world were papered over by the US government for propaganda purposes, the need to make it look as if a nuclear armed nation will go to war against say, hyper-nuclear armed Israel or hyper-super-überarmed USA---the people at the top know this is purely insane. They don't want an armed Iran because this would protect Iran from US, European or Israeli aggression.

From the 2006 Foreign Affairs article:

U.S. nuclear primacy waned in the early 1960s, as the Soviets developed the capability to carry out a retaliatory second strike. With this development came the onset of MAD. Washington abandoned its strategy of a preemptive nuclear strike, but for the remainder of the Cold War, it struggled to escape MAD and reestablish its nuclear dominance. It expanded its nuclear arsenal, continuously improved the accuracy and the lethality of its weapons aimed at Soviet nuclear arms, targeted Soviet command-and-control systems, invested in missile-defense shields, sent attack submarines to trail Soviet SSBNs, and built increasingly accurate multiwarhead land- and submarine-launched ballistic missiles as well as stealth bombers and stealthy nuclear-armed cruise missiles. Equally unhappy with MAD, the Soviet Union also built a massive arsenal in the hope of gaining nuclear superiority. Neither side came close to gaining a first-strike capability, but it would be a mistake to dismiss the arms race as entirely irrational: both superpowers were well aware of the benefits of nuclear primacy, and neither was willing to risk falling behind.

Since the Cold War's end, the U.S. nuclear arsenal has significantly improved. The United States has replaced the ballistic missiles on its submarines with the substantially more accurate Trident II D-5 missiles, many of which carry new, larger-yield warheads. The U.S. Navy has shifted a greater proportion of its SSBNs to the Pacific so that they can patrol near the Chinese coast or in the blind spot of Russia's early warning radar network. The U.S. Air Force has finished equipping its B-52 bombers with nuclear-armed cruise missiles, which are probably invisible to Russian and Chinese air-defense radar. And the air force has also enhanced the avionics on its B-2 stealth bombers to permit them to fly at extremely low altitudes in order to avoid even the most sophisticated radar. Finally, although the air force finished dismantling its highly lethal MX missiles in 2005 to comply with arms control agreements, it is significantly improving its remaining ICBMs by installing the MX's high-yield warheads and advanced reentry vehicles on Minuteman ICBMs, and it has upgraded the Minuteman's guidance systems to match the MX's accuracy.

From WWII onwards, the US has clung to the Demon of Death with a death grip. At no point have we desired to be disarmed. When we had the SALT treaties, it wasn't due to a sudden flare up of humanitarianism or kindness. It was due to FINANCES. After 25 years of war, war, war and nuclear bomb building, the War in Vietnam was collapsing into infamy and defeat. The defeat of the US in Asia was total. We are very fortunate that the Left, unlike the far right, loves to squabble. There never can be an 'united front' on the left. We like to dispute each other and everything and intercinine quarrels are great fun for leftists. So when the US was forced out of Vietnam, Nixon first went to China and kissed Mao and got him to help us out the door. Mao, in turn, tried to crush Vietnam and the Chinese lost that little border war. Another border war which the US agencies covered up. Even after kissing Mao, the hoary old 'communist united front' machine wheezed onwards.

Even when Vietnam invaded Cambodia to put down the lunatics who terrorized the people there, the hazy story about communists railroading the world continued and was used as an excuse to keep on building our nuclear arsenal. After Nixon kissed Mao, the US made a deal to sell the Soviets our wheat crop so the Soviets could be stronger. Reagan rode into the White House with promises to build a Star Wars nuclear arsenal that would protect America totally. I was in on all this. William Safire of the warmongering New York Times and I debated this issue in Manhattan back then. Safire openly gloated that when we get this stupid 'umbrella' we could attack the communists and destroy them. Or at least, intimidate them and everyone else on the planet. In our nuclear suit of armor, we could then use CONVENTIONAL weapons to get our own way. I said, 'Every time anyone develops any defense system, all other people drop their quarrels and join forces in finding ways around these defenses. And if we hide behind our "Great Wall of Nukes", we will end up being careless and stupid and ripe for failure.'

Note that today, the US is nearly totally unable to defend the US public. The more our rulers try to use trillions of dollars of funds to secure us, the less secure we are. And we are increasingly arrogant based on misapprehensions about how to avoid war damage. We think, the way to avoid damage is to crush everyone who might challenge our power! This means we can't use the simplest diplomatic tools to avoid pain. We try to use only our armor.

And this stupid article in Foreign Affairs leaves out any mention of money and how China and Japan are both bankrolling this military nuttiness. And the idea that we can continue to 'grow' our nuclear garden and then aim it at the people who are lending us all the money to do this: talk about insane. History is clear: when we go bankrupt, our military powers will vanish. This article even talks about how Russia, when they went bankrupt, lost all their nuclear powers! DUH! The Chinese see the writing on the wall: the US will rot on the vine exactly like Russia.

Foreign Affairs:

Owls worry that nuclear primacy will cause destabilizing reactions on the part of other governments regardless of the United States' intentions. They assume that Russia and China will work furiously to reduce their vulnerability by building more missiles, submarines, and bombers; putting more warheads on each weapon; keeping their nuclear forces on higher peacetime levels of alert; and adopting hair-trigger retaliatory policies. If Russia and China take these steps, owls argue, the risk of accidental, unauthorized, or even intentional nuclear war -- especially during moments of crisis -- may climb to levels not seen for decades.

Ultimately, the wisdom of pursuing nuclear primacy must be evaluated in the context of the United States' foreign policy goals. The United States is now seeking to maintain its global preeminence, which the Bush administration defines as the ability to stave off the emergence of a peer competitor and prevent weaker countries from being able to challenge the United States in critical regions such as the Persian Gulf. If Washington continues to believe such preeminence is necessary for its security, then the benefits of nuclear primacy might exceed the risks. But if the United States adopts a more restrained foreign policy -- for example, one premised on greater skepticism of the wisdom of forcibly exporting democracy, launching military strikes to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and aggressively checking rising challengers -- then the benefits of nuclear primacy will be trumped by the dangers.

The US NEVER 'exports democracies.' We export imperialism. In Zimbabwe, the dictator there, Mugabe, has destroyed the election he lost so resoundingly. His democratic opponent has been forced to flee to embassy row. He will leave that desperate, bankrupt country. Will the US invade? HAHAHA. We have zero intention of helping any democracies, anywhere. Israel isn't a democracy. They hold captive the native who were driven out of what became 'Israel' back in 1948. The laws of Israel are very undemocratic and openly and viciously discriminates against the natives in the schools, courts, on roads, drinking fountains, building permits, elections, you name it. A Jew who never lived in Israel can claim not only citizenship but retain citizenship of other countries while any Muslim or Christian who leaves for five years is dispossessed. And none of them are allowed multiple citizenships.

The US has assisted in an astonishing number of military coups pulled against democratically elected governments like the ones in South America, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, even in Europe such as Greece or Spain, etc. The US has a horrid record of nonsupport of democratically elected governments. The latest being the nullification of the Hamas victory in Palestine.

US support of undemocratic, despotic dictatorships is why so many people hate us. Far from being a popular leader of disinterested humanitariansim, the US is 'The boot forever smashing in the face' of humanity. This is, of course, due to our sick reliance on a nuclear arsenal to gain power. It turns us into stupid bullies who demand our own way. The nature of the beast is due to the nature of nuclear intimidation. China used to be very ham-fisted in the diplomatic realm. But once they figured out [some of them lived with me] how to use judo-style diplomacy to gain leverage and especially when they figured out that a strong banking system coupled with capitalism's profits can turn a nation into an economic power, they have switched from military muscle to using diplomats to take control of events and guide them in directions the Chinese desire.

This is why Nookular Bush was recently kissing the Chinese and begging them for more loans! This is why Nookular Bush bows to the Saudis. We have no real power. We are beggars. Thanks to our stupid nuclear arsenal.

ABA Law Journal: Law School Dean Calls Conference to Plan Bush War Crimes Prosecution

The dean of Massachusetts School of Law at Andover is planning a September conference to map out war crimes prosecutions, and the targets are President Bush and other administration officials.

The dean, Lawrence Velvel, says in a statement that “plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth."

Other possible defendants, he said, include federal judges and John Yoo, the former Justice Department official who wrote one of the so-called torture memos.

“We must insist on appropriate punishments,” he continued, “including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war criminals in the 1940s."

Arrest Bush, arrest Cheney. They made a mockery of the Nüremberg Trials. Our hanging of Saddam was a war crime. Hanging Japanese and German high commanders after surrender was a war crime. If we applied the laws faithfully and legally responsibly, we would have hung more than one President, eh? And some deserve a hanging! Of them all, Bush and Cheney are at the top of my own list. LBJ a close second. The Bush/Cheney creature being a two headed monster counts as one.

Gunman in Iraq kills 2 American soldiers, wounds 4

A disgruntled local official opened fire Monday on U.S. soldiers attending a municipal council meeting southeast of Baghdad, killing two of them and wounding four other Americans, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

The assailant died in a hail of gunfire after the attack, which occurred in the town of Madain, also known as Salman Pak, about 15 miles south of Baghdad in an area with a history of Sunni-Shiite tension.

Talking about being a nuclear power while the Iraqis fight us tooth and nail is pure stupidity. This news is typical. Nearly every day, an American is killed. If our warmongering, evil media were to show us pictures of what is going on there in that hell hole we created, we see our soldiers muffled in more and more armor. Barely showing any skin even in summer! Like Michelin Man who was made of bike and auto tires, our military stumbles about Iraq, looking less than like humans and more like understudies for a Third World Nation version of Star Wars. Watch Star Wars! The desert rebels always outwit the stumble bum Imperial Storm Troopers and lightly clad rebels destroy the Death Star. Has any Americans in the State Department or the Pentagon seen those movies? Geeze.

New York Times: The Fight for Turkey

By ROGER COHEN

Nowhere more so than in Turkey, a conservative country fast-forwarded to Westward-looking secularism in the 1920s by the founder-hero of the modern republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and now grappling with the place in that republic of an ascendant political Islam.

I like this fight. It has its crude, misleading labels — the “secular fascists” of the Kemalist establishment in one corner against the “Islamofascists” of the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) party in the other — but it is open and vigorous. The crisis of Islam could use a broader dose of Turkish give-and-take.

The latest round came this month when Turkey’s highest court rebuffed Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the AKP leader and an observant Muslim with an Islamist past, on a matter of high symbolism.

It ruled that Erdogan’s legislation, passed in February, allowing women attending state universities to wear head scarves in observance of their Muslim beliefs violated secular principles enshrined in the Constitution.
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The fight for Turkey’s soul is not about to abate: it’s salutary as long as it remains open. The West should do all it can to safeguard that openness — and that may involve an occasional dose of “secular fascism.”

As usual, the NYTimes has to use a Jewish reporter to tell us what those pesky Muslims are really thinking. Mr. Cohen tries to be fair within very limited parameters. I happen to know a number of very articulate Muslims who write beautifully. None of them are hired by the US media to tell us what our victims are thinking. We want to control Muslims, not understand them! Well, Turkey is rapidly being radicalized by the US and Europe as both try to dominate, colonize and destroy Muslims in Palestine, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. This is BACK FIRING. As we bomb, bomb, bomb Pakistan and Afghanistan and lock Turkey out of the EU, we then are puzzled as to why Turkey is being rapidly driven to become once again the Sword of Islam!

For the Saudis who took this up, have utterly failed. No one else has the numbers, the power, the strength that Turkey has. Turks will once again, take up the banner and expel the Crusaders from the Middle East just as they did 800 to 400 years ago! And everyone in the Middle East who knows any history can see this coming. From far away. The collapse of 'secularism' is particularly funny when Mr. Cohen himself supports the colonization and religification of Palestine as the Jews seek to set up a mono-religious dictatorship there! Why should Turkey be liberal and secular when Jews across the planet want to be religious and exclusive as well as fascist? Here is a typical article by Mr. Cohen:

I would like to invest hope in the Annapolis Middle East peace conference. Really, I would.

What matters are the two peoples. But even basic principles are problematic. One core demand of Olmert and his foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, is for up-front Palestinian recognition of Israel “as a Jewish state.” But Saeb Erekat, a moderate Palestinian negotiator, has said that “Palestinians will never acknowledge Israel’s Jewish identity.”

Livni wants clarity on the Jewish character of Israel, which has a large Arab minority, as quid pro quo for recognition of Palestine and as insurance against mass Palestinian return.

She’s right to want this; she’s wrong to push for the principle now. Why should Palestinians offer anything when the West Bank is a shameful place offering a primer on colonialism and Israeli settlements have grown almost unabated? Nascent Palestine is in pieces, invisible behind a reassuring fence-wall.

So, it is right for the far right wing ethnic cleaning lady, Livni, to want to make a heavily Muslim/Christian region 'Jews only'. But in Turkey, the very Jewish Cohen wants to have 'secular FASCISM' to destroy any moves towards pro-Muslim nationalism? Talk about double standards! And to destroy democracy so religion has no place at the table in Turkey while destroying democracy to have a Jewish religious dictatorship in Israel? Gosh. I am...aghast.

Matory writing for the Harvard Crimson: What Do Critics of Israel Have to Fear?

At the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting on Nov. 13, 2007, I moved “that this faculty commits itself to fostering a civil dialogue in which people with a broad range of perspectives feel safe and are encouraged to express their reasoned and evidence-based ideas.” Expressing the fear that voting down so self-evidently reasonable a proposition would be embarrassing, my colleagues voted massively (74-27) to “table” the motion—that is, to end discussion of it and to avoid a vote. They did so because the motion had arisen in the context of what many of my more silent colleagues regard as the widespread censorship of dissent about Israel-Palestine on campus and in the nearby bookstores that are an essential part of the intellectual life of the University. Moreover, as I showed on this page last November, the vote unambiguously violated Robert’s Rules of Order, the standard of parliamentary procedure in Faculty meetings. The fervor of their conviction blinded 74 Ph.D.’s to the fact that they were proving my point.

The massive displacement of people that resulted from Israel’s founding 60 years ago is the object of willful forgetting in American foreign policy and of baffling ignorance by the American public in general. How else could we justify the massive and ongoing theft of the Palestinians’ native land since the mid-20th century—subsidized annually with upwards of three billion dollars from the U.S. government—while we correctly enforce the right of Jewish refugees to recover European properties from which they were displaced in the mid-20th century? If we do not recognize the equality of Palestinian and Jewish rights, how can we avow the equality of the rights belonging to Tibetans and Han Chinese, Sahrawis and Moroccans, Africans and Americo-Liberians, women and men, blacks and whites, gays and straights?

Harvard has been terrorized into denying freedom of speech to anyone who displeases right wing racist fascists who support the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This is a blunt way of talking about this. I lost many readers for daring to talk about this. The need to deny reality is extremely strong. This is why the State Department throws away any information or analysis I give them concerning nuclear bombs, China or anything. This is why ANYONE who does the same---and there are quite a few!---get thrown away. Instead, the public can read a bunch of total hogwash that mashes reality between two sows in a small cage.

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High Oil Prices Due To Warmongering

22/6/2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

The Washington Post is endless fun and games when it comes to warmongering and telling blatant lies. They have this 'expert' we can ask questions concerning things like the looming bankruptcy of America due to excessive imperial warmongering across the planet. Mr. Bob assures readers, the war budget is teeny weeny! And war has little to do with high oil prices. HAHAHA. Then we look at the movie 'Syriana' and see how the Cone of Silence works in America.

Don't Blame the Economy on the War

Dear Bob,

Some Democrats, prodded by the likes of MoveOn.org, have been trying to link the Iraq war to the economic slowdown. But most economists and political advisers are pretty cautious about connecting the dots. It's fine to argue that all sorts of bad things have occurred under President Bush's watch -- including this war and this recession -- and it's fine to argue that the money being spent in Iraq could be better spent elsewhere. But the argument that the war caused the economic downturn is a losing proposition that tends to backfire, mainly because the evidence against that thesis is too compelling.
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The bursting of the housing bubble has had devastating impacts on Wall Street and Main Street, and that is the main reason for the economic downturn. Even Paul Krugman, the New York Times's Bush-hating economics columnist, has grudgingly conceded that President Bush is right when he argues that the Iraqi conflict has nothing to do with the slowdown [And if Krugman, who actually argues that the war is a form of economic stimulus, is too mainstream for you, read this: Even Mother Jones has rained on the dot-connecting parade.]

Krugman admits that wars are 'stimulus'. Well---DUH. Indeed, governments are very addicted to wars...when they are fought far away. The stimulus this brings is in the form of deficit spending. This means the government grinds out more and more IOUs. These, in turn, stimulate businesses and you get a booming economy. If these wars bring home loot, all the better. All empires start out with such looting expeditions. All populations of empires love this stage. Everyone gets richer and no one pays any future bills. These get shoved into the far future as much as possible.

Mr. Bob isn't stupid. He is venal. His masters want him to deceive readers. He has to assure us that spending year after year after year in the red by a 'mere' 3-4% is no big deal. Why, one can do this forever, no?

No. One cannot do this forever. Indeed, I have proven over and over again, using charts and graphs that ALL wars cause INFLATION. When a war ends and governments have to reduce spending on guns, bullets and other things that get destroyed in wars, the economy has to retract painfully and this causes either stagflation or a full depression. History is crystal clear about this.

Orwell in his famous '1984' talked about the logic of eternal war. This way, the totalitarian governments never have to stop full military spending and suppression of the home populations. The wars drag on forever. Like the Cold War. We are in a new Cold War. This one is being waged against Muslims. We hope to militarily occupy all Muslim nations or have them be beholden to us for protection from their own people. Or we want to own the rulers by giving them big bribes. All this is expensive. To pay for this, we are going to the Japanese and Chinese rulers begging them to buy our Treasuries and bonds.

Mr. Bob doesn't mention this silly detail. By the way, what happened to the Soviet Union when it tried to run perpetual wars and repressive occupations? It went bankrupt, didn't it? Like all previous empires that tried the perpetual war financial schemes. The logic that makes this sort of financing so wonderful works only if the wars are very limited in time and cost. The US is spending more than the entire planet spends on military adventures. We are going bankrupt. There is no doubts about this anymore. As wars are piled on top of wars, after all, one third of the planet is Muslim, we end up fighting a raging sea of people who are quite capable of hitting back, hard.

And one tool they have is to raise the price of oil. Both the Chinese, the Russian and the Muslim leaders of the world wish for one thing: for the US to go bankrupt. This way, each gets revenge. Sweet revenge. Americans are fools if we think this isn't a great motivation for people! This is also true of Japan. Revenge is a very powerful force in human psychology.

Mr. Bob isn't worried about Mr. Hand:

To be fair, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, author of "The Three Trillion Dollar War," has been making the case that the full economic impact of the war has yet to be appreciated. But the strength of his argument lies in measuring costs that will be borne in decades to come, such as disability payments for veterans. As it is, the amount of federal spending on defense these days -- about 4 percent of GDP -- is quite modest compared to the share of national wealth consumed by the military at the height of the Reagan military buildup, or during the Korea and Vietnam conflicts, as I have previously discussed.

The war in Iraq certainly has contributed to higher oil prices, but it is far too simplistic to attribute the huge spike of recent years entirely to the war, overlooking far more important factors like growing energy demands in China and India. Evidence of a lack of correlation is the fact that oil prices have been reaching new record highs as Iraq's production has finally reached prewar levels. Indeed, Stiglitz himself has argued the war accounts for about a $5 to $10 premium on the price of a barrel of oil, which has shot up by more than $100 since the 2003 invasion.

Mr. Bob is a liar and a thief. He knows that the hike in oil isn't due to just wars...though he lies about this, of course! Just this last 2 months alone, as a parade of American and Jewish Israeli Zionists threaten nuclear war with Iran, each time they do this, the price of oil can and has jumped by far more than $10. The war premium is about $30. But this is a guess.

The warmongering by the Washington Post, the New York Times and the entire US media owned by Jewish activists is the real cause of high oil prices because they and AIPAC have been ruthlessly pushing the US into a confrontation with Iran. To trigger a potential war with Iran, Israel and the US have been wasting precious US diplomatic capital to push for a global BOYCOTT OF IRANIAN OIL. This is the direct cause of the present global oil shortage!

Now, Israel and the US are demanding a complete blockade of Iran. This means NO OIL FROM IRAN. This is driving up the price of oil by another $60 a barrel. This means the warmongering is responsible for about 65% of the high price of oil. The Washington Post knows all this. It isn't because they are stupid. They know they must misdirect the US public about the true cost of all this warmongering. It is costing our economy, our families trillions of dollars. It will destroy our nation. People in the US will freeze or starve to death thanks to this hidden war tax. If people knew the truth, they would be besieging Washington with demands we stop the stupid Iran oil boycott.

Our media deliberately leaves out stuff that connects the issue of Palestine to anything in the Middle East, anything to do with wars, oil or religion. Here is an older example of this sort of censorship. Mike Wallace got an Emmy for this interview which he maliciously edited so all mention of Palestine was removed:

Mike Wallace Interviewed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 60 Minutes. At the request of the Iranian President Ahmadinejad, the FULL UNEDITED version was shown on C-SPAN. "The cable public affairs net will air the 60 Minutes edited version, followed by the full 90-minute interview, to give viewers a window on what is left on the cutting room floor." - John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/11/2006

PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD: Well, don't be hasty, sir. I'm going to get to that.

MR. WALLACE: I'm not hasty.

PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD: I think that the Israeli government is a fabricated government

[this part was cut by 60 Minutes] and I have talked about the solution. The solution is democracy. We have said allow Palestinian people to participate in a free and fair referendum to express their views. What we are saying only serves the cause of durable peace. We want durable peace in that part of the world. A durable peace will only come about with once the views of the people are met.
So we said that allow the people of Palestine to participate in a referendum to choose their desired government, and of course, for the war to come an end as well. Why are they refusing to allow this to go ahead? Even the Palestinian administration and government which has been elected by the people is being attacked on a daily basis, and its high-ranking officials are assassinated and arrested. Yesterday, the speaker of the Palestinian parliament was arrested, elected by the people, mind you. So how long can this go on?

We believe that this problem has to be dealt with fundamentally. I believe that the American government is blindly supporting this government of occupation. It should lift its support, allow the people to participate in free and fair elections. Whatever happens let it be. We will accept and go along. The result will be as you said earlier, sir.

MR. WALLACE: Look, I mean no disrespect. Let's make a deal. I will listen to your complete answers if you'll stay for all of my questions. My concern is that we might run out of time.

PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD: Well, you're free to ask me any questions you please, and I am hoping that I'm free to be able to say whatever is on my mind. You are free to put any question you want to me, and of course, please give me the right to respond fully to your questions to say what is on my mind. [end of cut]

Do you perhaps want me to say what you want me to say? Am I to understand --

MR. WALLACE: No.

I am amazed that Americans can figure out even the most basic facts concerning the Middle East with this sort of censorship going on. In the NYT today, they had an article about the way Iraq has vanished from the evening news.

NYT: Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner

CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed.

Paul Friedman, a senior vice president at CBS News, said the news division does not get reports from Iraq on television “with enough frequency to justify keeping a very, very large bureau in Baghdad.” He said CBS correspondents can “get in there very quickly when a story merits it.”

In a telephone interview last week, Ms. Logan said the CBS News bureau in Baghdad was “drastically downsized” in the spring. The network now keeps a producer in the country, making it less of a bureau and more of an office.

Interviews with executives and correspondents at television news networks suggested that while the CBS cutbacks are the most extensive to date in Baghdad, many journalists shared varying levels of frustration about placing war stories onto newscasts. “I’ve never met a journalist who hasn’t been frustrated about getting his or her stories on the air,” said Terry McCarthy, an ABC News correspondent in Baghdad.

Paul Friedman is Jewish. The NYT doesn't mention this little detail, it being a Jewish-owned newspaper. The blackout of this information in America is nearly total. If anyone dares breathe a word about all this, they are accused of being 'anti-semitic' even if they are, themselves, Jewish. Just as the Washington Post lies about the truth concerning our war finances and the high cost of oil, the NYT lies about WHY Iraq has disappeared from the news. Normally, when we look for crooks, we imitate Sherlock Holmes and look for MOTIVES.

The Jewish owned media is busy banging the war drums. They fully support Israeli Zionist Jews seeking to oust, destroy and eliminate all Palestinians from the Holy Lands. They are scared of Iran and the Shi'ites who have, unlike the Sunnis, successfully fought off Israeli Jews attacking their homes. The Shi'ites are moving upwards and outwards. They also have made huge inroads with the Palestinians because of all the betrayals by the Saudi Royals and other rich Arab Muslims. Iran's power is growing while the US/Israeli political power wanes.

Both the US and Israel are extremely unpopular with regular Muslims across the entire planet. The cost of holding these people in a neck lock is tremendously expensive. It is driving us to bankruptcy. The mainstream media is focused on justifying and terrorizing the US public into yet another nasty war in the Middle East. This is why none of them mention the hidden 'war tax' of very high oil prices due to the Iran oil boycott, for example. And of course, if people in America are upset about Iraq and the wild spending there as well as the imperial overreach, we would not want a war with the far more dangerous Iranians. So the wars we are in today are wiped off the face of the earth...in America. And this is TREASON.

Truce Starts for Israel and Hamas in Gaza

“It’s an illusion,” said Meir Kroytoro, 46, a factory worker. “Calm for how long?”

The Israeli government has proved itself “a coward,” he said. “It would have been better for the army to go into Gaza and finish the story once and for all.”
*snip*
There was widespread expectation in Gaza that the border crossings would soon open, allowing freer movement of people and goods. As part of the truce agreement, Israel is supposed to start easing the sanctions imposed after Hamas seized control of Gaza last June.

In this and several other aspects, the truce agreement appeared to run contrary to Israel’s stated policy of trying to squeeze Hamas out of power in Gaza while bolstering the more moderate and secularist Palestinian Authority, which is now confined to governing in the West Bank. Many critics of the Israeli government, as well as Palestinians, thus chalked the agreement up as a victory for Hamas.

Israel has to secure its own internal population of semi-slave half humans. The ghetto walls help in this enterprise just like the Germans used ghetto walls to isolate Jews during WWII. Once the high command in Israel get the OK, they will turn on the Shi'a. The Saudis heartily approve of this but are torn in two. They want all the Shi'a dead. But they also want all the Jews in the Middle East dead, too. This is a great recipe for WWIII, by the way. For Russia and China are very busy in the Middle East and the appeal to the rulers of the Sunni in forming alliances with the rising powers in the East is very strong. They can clearly see the US is going bankrupt. The US leaders on their knees begging for cheaper oil while simultaneously driving up the cost of oil via the Iran blockade shows clearly the Horns of Dilemma at work here.

Everyone has lots of bad choices. And History knows that everyone will fall upon the Horns of Dilemma and fix things by being suicidal. It happens all the time. There are plenty of impaled empires littering the historic landscape.

Today I finally saw a very dangerous film, 'Syriana'. It was written by a CIA operative. It is full of falsehoods and lies. The biggest being the total absence of any mention of 'Israel' or 'Jews' or anything to do with Zionism.

Here is a Washington Post review of this Academy Award winning film, Syriana:

In "Syriana," George Clooney plays CIA operative Bob Barnes, an avuncular career agent who used to know where all the bodies were buried -- mainly because he did most of the digging. In the 1980s, the Cold War made things morally easy, bifurcating the world into black fur hats and white Stetsons. But when a routine arms deal in Tehran goes awry, Bob realizes the rules are changing. It seems the CIA no longer needs seasoned agents like him -- the ones who know the cultural terrain. It's all satellite reconnaissance and missile button pushing these days. So what becomes of an obsolete foot soldier, still struggling to pay his son's college bills? These are urgent issues for Bob, but in "Syriana," they're just one ripple in a brave crude world.

A premium-octane thriller about a society that has become insidiously dependent on oil, "Syriana" was written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, whose screenplay for "Traffic" was a top-down expos of the global drug industry. Here, he repeats the procedure and succeeds even more persuasively.

The dealers this time are American executives, Arab princes, religious zealots, terrorists and economic opportunists, all connected one way or another to the oil industry. As in "Traffic," the addicts are us -- the consumers -- but instead of rolling, snorting or shooting narcotics, we're mainlining our SUV tanks with the good stuff.

Here is an interview of the CIA operative:

The movie's financiers were Jews. It is painfully obvious. First, the name of the movie makes no sense except if one is an Israeli Jew or a dual citizen here in the US. Israel hates Syria and is still at war with Syria. So the movie artfully uses that word in the title even though nothing in the movie takes place in Syria nor do any of the characters mention Syria.

The second clue that this movie was financed by Jewish Zionists is very simple: At not time, never, does any character in the movie say the words 'Jews' or 'Israel'. Nor are the sub-humans suffering the whips and lashes of the Jews in the Holy Land mentioned, either. Not one person talks about 'Palestine'.

I had to dig around to find out information about the guy responsible for making this movie. Here is one of the very few articles that mention Mr. Jeff Bewkes:

From the Jewish Journal:

The foot-tall invitation boasts a cast of dinner chairmen as A-list as a Spielberg film: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Meyer, Jeff Bewkes (the granddaddys of Dreamworks, Universal Studios and Time Warner Inc., respectively), David Geffen, Brad Grey, Sumner Redstone - a formidable group. The head honchos of Hollywood and prime benefactors of The Simon Wiesenthal Center gathered at The Beverly Hilton (Wed., June 20) for a dinner honoring New Line Cinema CEOs Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne for their commitment to cultural diversity, social responsibility and philanthropy.

At the hotel, guests were ushered through metal detectors into an unusually dark ballroom, where a plate of roast beef posing as a steak awaited. After Rush Hour director Brett Ratner said Hamotzi, emcee Larry King took over the podium. With that million-dollar CNN voice, he butchered Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s last name while introducing him to the few-hundred guests apathetically picking at their plates. The Mayor praised the Wiesenthal Center’s mission, as well as its founder and dean, Rabbi Marvin Hier, who in turn, lauded the contributions of the crowd. A short video generated buzz about the Wiesenthal project being erected in Israel—the anticipated magnumopus of architect Frank Gehry’s career, though not without its challenges. Following that, Nikki Blonsky who will star in the film version of Hairspray belted an uninspiring rendition of “Good Morning Baltimore”.

The motivation for making this movie is to cut out all the connections between oil, Muslim radicalism, tensions in the Middle East and the Zionist move to colonize the Holy Land. The Americans were ONLY interested in oil. The Americans only wanted to get ahold of the oil. The Americans were advising the Muslim leaders as to how to make more and more and more money by cooperating with the US and repudiating Russia and China. Indeed, the complex relationship of Russia, China and the US were the focus of the film.

By the way, the article above has an interesting paragraph which I find very ironic. Since day one of the big media push to tell us breathlessly about Darfur, I said, this was a classic push to mislead and misdirect the US public. Push us into more wars against Muslims as well as misdirect us from looking at the horrors of what is going on in the Palestinian ghettos.

The highlight of the evening was an elegant Ann Curry, who received a medal of valor for reporting on humanitarian crises in Africa. “I am truly humbled and wish to be worthy,” she stated earnestly, acknowledging the magnitude of the company she was in. She eloquently recounted her experiences traveling to refugee camps and war zones. She spoke of genocide, rape and disease. From memory, she recalled the individual names and stories of people she encountered. She gave voice to their plight and admitted that it wasn’t enough. Her tone was somber and heartfelt, and without the camera in the way, her eyes met every face in the room.

The room of Jewish activists were all in tears, right? HAHAHA. Right. They weep for the poor people of Africa. But can't shed a tear for the natives in the Holy Land.

Back to Syriana: This fake movie spends a lot of time showing how Madrasses lure helpless Muslims into becoming terrorists. At no time do the actors pretending to be Muslims mention 'Israel'. They talk about Americans....as potential FRIENDS! Also, they show these terrorists being interested in attacking only Muslims. They are not focused on attacking the heart of the matter which lies in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, by the way, is never mentioned in this goofy movie.

Also, the movie has the American advisors to the Muslim royals talking openly and obscenely as well as disrespectfully! This is IMPOSSIBLE. At no point are they allowed to do this. Indeed, the strict rules of etiquette are very strong and imposed with greatest rigor. My parents dealt with the Saudi royals directly for years!

When the Saudis are pleased with their courtiers from America and this emphatically includes Bush and Cheney, they make them sit on small stools or cushions at the feet of the royals. In the movie, cheeky, stupid American CIA advisors openly call the royals insulting names in order to goad them into compliance. This is far too stupid for words.

Another thing: while torturing a Muslim, the Lebanese Hezbollah talk about how the Chinese torture Falung Gung. This is pure stupidity. The Lebanese Hezbollah know all about Israeli Jewish torture techniques. First hand! Why would they threaten an American Muslim CIA agent with CHINESE style torture when they would happily refer to ISRAELI torture? After all, they have a strong desire to make the American spy understand the true nature of Israel, wouldn't they?

But then, the topic of Jews torturing Muslims is verboten in America. We cannot know about this. We are allowed to know about our own torture of Muslims. Which this lying piece of garbage movie DOES NOT MENTION AT ALL. Imagine a Muslim in 2005 not talking about US torture in Afghanistan and Gitmo!

This movie won awards. I can see why. It is a superb piece of agitprop propaganda.

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AIPAC Pushes Hard For More Wars

June 21, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Happy Summer Solstice! Alas, all I have here today is bad news. AIPAC and the rising powers in the Democratic Party are intent on pushing for WWIII. The latest move is to mandate a full naval blockade of ALL OIL FROM IRAN. Think oil prices are high and Congress wants to fix this? HAHAHA. They don't care if we all die. The Democrats legalized all spying by telecoms working for Bush in the past. Then dare to tell us they are saving us from tyranny. Ron Paul accuses Pelosi of spiking the bill that forces Bush to consult with Congress before attacking Iran. And more news about torture and hiding prisoners from the Red Cross a la Nazi/Soviet style. Great.

House Resolution Calls for Naval Blockade against Iran

America’s powerful pro-Israel lobby pressures the US Congress

A US House of Representatives Resolution effectively requiring a naval blockade on Iran seems fast tracked for passage, gaining co-sponsors at a remarkable speed, but experts say the measures called for in the resolutions amount to an act of war.

H.CON.RES 362 calls on the president to stop all shipments of refined petroleum products from reaching Iran. It also "demands" that the President impose "stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran."

Analysts say that this would require a US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz.

Since its introduction three weeks ago, the resolution has attracted 146 cosponsors. Forty-three members added their names to the bill in the past two days.

In the Senate, a sister resolution S.RES 580 has gained co-sponsors with similar speed. The Senate measure was introduced by Indiana Democrat Evan Bayh on June 2. In little more than a week’s time, it has accrued 19 co-sponsors.

AIPAC's Endorsement

Congressional insiders credit America’s powerful pro-Israel lobby for the rapid endorsement of the bills. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) held its annual policy conference June 2-4, in which it sent thousands of members to Capitol Hill to push for tougher measures against Iran. On its website, AIPAC endorses the resolutions as a way to ''Stop Irans Nuclear Proliferation" and tells readers to lobby Congress to pass the bill.

AIPAC has been ramping up the rhetoric against Iran over the last 3 years delivering 9 issue memos to Congress in 2006, 17 in 2007 and in the first five months of 2008 has delivered no less than 11 issue memos to the Congress and Senate predominantly warning of Irans nuclear weapons involvement and support for terrorism.

If anyone is deluded into believing that the Democrats are anti-war and pro-US, they will find themselves at war in the future. The Democrats chomp at the bit for more wars. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have both Democrats and Republicans in the saddle. Why is this, we ask?

The function of propaganda is twofold: to brainwash the masses or to deny them any alternatives. In the case of warmongering, the public is whipsawed by scary stories about enemies lurking at home, out to get us. And the cure for this is for the empire to attack, hold and suppress all other nations. This brings 'peace' in the end when the empire rules the Seven Seas and has military bases in 160 nations. This bizarre belief system is not new. It is very, very ancient. All empires subscribe to this system. When Martin Luther challenged the Pope to a duel to the death, the Catholic Church backed the Spanish empire in its desire for global domination and control of half of the planet. Did this make Spain all-powerful?

Nope. It led to bloody, long, nasty wars in places like the Netherlands. And it was waged across the high seas as pirates and queens attacked the Spanish Main. Spain was continuously at war and ended up totally bankrupt. Then the homeland of Spain itself was a battleground as defenses collapsed due to corruption, venality, stupid rulers who hid in vast palace complexes, totally cut off from reality. And all future taxes for hundreds of years was earmarked for paying off international loans. Many of which were held by bankers in the Netherlands! They won! Not via bullets but via credit extended to Spain as Spain fought them.

The US system is utterly corrupt. Antiwar sentiments which are overwhelming now, are totally ignored by the media. The manipulators and corruptors of the capital are also hidden by the media. They do NOT talk about AIPAC. They don't show the crowd of 'representatives' rushing to AIPAC to swear fealty to an alien country that seeks to hijack our military and use it for their own evil ends. The Jews in America are just as outside the loop as Christians and other religions here! Most Jews have no idea what AIPAC is doing. Many Jews here are anti-war and a number are horrified at how Israel is increasingly fascist. But they are never in the news. They are not published by the press. They are under the same blanket of silence that most of us anti-war people are under.

European Union to lift sanctions on Cuba

(CNN) -- Members of the European Union decided Thursday to formally lift sanctions on Cuba, a spokeswoman for EU Secretary-General Javier Solana said. Christina Gallach said the decision, made over dinner during the first day of a planned two-day summit in Brussels, Belgium, will be formally confirmed Monday during an EU council meeting.

The diplomatic sanctions, which limited visits to the Communist island by senior EU personnel, were imposed in 2003 after concerns were raised about human rights in Cuba. The sanctions were suspended in 2005, so lifting them now could be considered a symbolic move.

Plans call for the human rights situation to be reviewed next year.

AIPAC owns our political system. The Cubans took over part of the Republican party in the past. But they are fading fast. When Bush went to Europe to push for more war with Iran, to push for boycotting Iran, he got it. But Europe turned around and broke the boycott against Cuba and not a peep here! The Cubans don't have the money the Zionists have for bribing our politicians into doing dangerous, stupid things.

The Iranians removed nearly $100 billion from European banks this week. Europe's banking gnomes hate losing loot like this but they said nothing about this sudden, disastrous withdrawal of funds even as they beg the Dragon of China for funds! This is because many of the European banking gnomes are Jews who want the Holy Land even if this causes WWIII. Perhaps they recall how they got so rich in WWI.

The US public is NOT being warned by ANY media owned by these Zionists! They are not told, 'Watch out, this boycott and embargo will raise the cost of oil to over $200 a barrel!' Nope. DEAD SILENCE. The Arabs will be blamed by Zionists for the high cost of fuel! Already, this is afoot. Fingers point everywhere except to AIPAC, Congress and the media.

Wired Magazine: Dems Agree to Expand Domestic Spying, Grant Telecoms Amnesty

Under the proposal, the intelligence community will be able to issue broad orders to U.S. ISPs, phone companies and online communications services like Hotmail and Skype to turn over all communications that are reasonably believed to involve a non-American who is outside the country. The spy agencies will not have to name their targets or get prior court approval for the surveillance.

Under the longstanding rules of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the government was free to engage in dragnet wiretapping outside the United States, but in order to tap communications inside the country, the government needed court approval and individualized warrants if an American's communications would be caught.

Additionally, the bill grants amnesty to the nation's telecoms that are being sued for allegedly breaking federal wiretapping laws by turning over billions of Americans' call records to government data-mining programs and giving the government access to internet and phone infrastructure inside the country. The bill strips the right of a federal district court to decide whether the companies violated federal laws prohibiting wiretapping without a court order.

Instead, the attorney general would need only certify to the court either that a sued company did not participate, or that the government provided some sort of written request to the companies that said that the president authorized the program and that his lawyers deemed it to be legal. That would be presented to federal district court Judge Vaughn Walker, who is overseeing the more than 40 consolidated cases against the telecoms. Walker's authority would be limited to judging whether the preponderance of the evidence is that the companies did get a written request, and if he finds that to be true -- as the Senate Intelligence Committee has already publicly stated -- he must dismiss the cases.

That's immunity, and it's unconstitutional, according to the ACLU's Caroline Fredrickson.

Zionists hope to have imposed a total police state on formerly free Americans so they can force us to walk while Jews steal the last olive trees and the last grazing grounds of the Palestinians. If Americans think this is OK, then fine. But I believe there will be tremendous rage about all this. I am in despair! I am from a half-Jewish family and Nazis will kill me and my loved ones! But the Zionist plots here in the US running alongside Catholic plots and Protestant End of Time plots equals us running into the destructive arms of the Apocalypse angels of death. This madness is definitely in the air. It stems from despair of the rulers of the West as they contemplate their loss of power due to economic stupidity. They hope to burn half of the earth and then rule the ruins.

This is total madness and is very much connected to the Cave of Wealth and the Cave of Death. This is their plan for correcting imbalances: to blow everything up! Kill most humans and start over with them on top still.

Nancy Pelosi Thinks You're Stupid
by Hunter

Of course, it is about "enforcement" if you determine that "enforcement" of the law means "blanket immunity for anyone who breaks it." The bill directs the courts to dismiss all lawsuits against the telecommunications companies if the Bush administration directs them to, based on evidence which is required to remain secret but which may be as meager as an assertion that the company was told by the President that he had the authority to demand of them whatever-it-is-they-did. Which is also secret.

That's a hell of a compromise, don't you think? Can't you just smell the "enforcement" of basic Constitutional rights, there? Certainly worth a little self-congratulation from the Speaker of the House for standing up for us. Because at heart, Nancy Pelosi thinks you're too stupid to figure out the difference between "enforcement" and "amnesty".

But what's even better is that, in the span of two statements, Pelosi says that this bill is dependent on the President of the United States following the law... and praises the law for sternly "reaffirming" the law he already broke. Well, hell, you should feel confident now. And if he breaks the law again, of course -- no problem. Because we'll just pass another law making it retroactively legal again, and call that a great victory too.

Daily Kos always was predicated on the idiotic idea that the Democrats were not traitors like the Republicans. Yet the poor people there donate money to various liberal Democrats only to see them leave us behind as they rush into corruption, betrayal and war mongering. Almost all of them are anti-Constitution, anti-freedom. JUST LIKE MOST REPUBLICANS. It is queer indeed to see Bob Barr, a former right winger who supported tyranny, running as a Constitutionalist. Ron Paul threw over his own supporters and will now bow to the Real Rulers. He is an old man and revolutions are for the young and brave, not old and cautious.

The rulers fear this above all things. This is why they killed our media laws that prevented the takeover of all media by foreign powers seeking to control public opinion. This is why Congress dutifully passes all these recent 'patriotic' laws that are all anti-Constitutional and anti-freedom. They even call these odious Soviet-style laws, 'Freedom Laws'. Or 'Patriot Acts'. Treason always has to wear the mask of patriotism.

Senate Housing Bill Requires eBay, Amazon, Google, and All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions to the Government

Hidden deep in Senator Christopher Dodd's 630-page Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America’s small businesses. The provision, which was added by the bill's managers without debate this week, would require the nation's payment systems to track, aggregate, and report information on nearly every electronic transaction to the federal government.

Call Congress and Tell Them to Oppose The eBay Reporting Provision in the Housing Bill: 1-866-928-3035

FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey commented: "This is a provision with astonishing reach, and it was slipped into the bill just this week. Not only does it affect nearly every credit card transaction in America, such as Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express, but the bill specifically targets payment systems like eBay's PayPal, Amazon, and Google Checkout that are used by many small online businesses. The privacy implications for America's small businesses are breathtaking."

"Privacy groups like the Center for Democracy and Technology and small business organizations like the NFIB sharply criticized this idea when it first appeared earlier this year. What is the federal government's purpose with this kind of detailed data? How will this database be secured, and who will have access? Many small proprietors use their Social Security number as their tax ID. How will their privacy be protected? What compliance costs will this impose on businesses? Why is Sen. Chris Dodd putting this provision in a housing bailout bill? The bill also includes the creation of a new national fingerprint registry for mortgage brokers.

We can tell Congress to not do this until blue in the face. They won't listen. They figure, 'Who are you going to replace us with, you dirty little peasants?' And off they go, to eat their cakes and give themselves more magic money via 'campaign donations.' When Ronnie Reagan ran off to Japan to collect his $2.5 million bribe, the media hailed this as a GOOD THING. They applauded this treason. Reagan was held up as an example.

So Clinton ran off and did the same thing to the tune of over $100 million. Tony Blair is doing this, too! He is a traitor to England. And the Bushes are very big about this. They collect millions from Chinese communists, for example. Obama will do this too. They are ALL TEMPTED TO DO THIS. This is how demons operate: since they use magic Funny Money™ they create out of thin air, they can make infinite money to bribe as many people as they can bribe. The trick for humans is to say NO to this! I know this myself. 'No' works just great but then you have to be prepared to live in poverty.

Note that Jimmy Carter isn't selling his soul. He is not a multimillionaire.

The Hill: Cheney gets last laugh

Vice President Dick Cheney has won his battle to withhold records from the public despite efforts by Congress and other critics who say they should be open to scrutiny.

The Democrats are conceding defeat. The party’s top investigator in the House of Representatives acknowledges that there is nothing more he can do to force the vice president’s hand.

“He has managed to stonewall everyone,” said Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. “I’m not sure there’s anything we can do.”

Waxman said that despite Cheney’s turning this administration into “one of the most secretive in history,” there’s not much he or anyone else can do because the administration has only a few more months left in office.

Whenever the Democrats have to fight Bush and Cheney they surrender after the first blow. They talk big and then retreat. They retreat because this is the battle plan from day one! Bush and Cheney fully support Zionist initiatives and are beloved by the Real Rulers. They are hideously unpopular, the lowest popularity ratings of all Presidents, ever! But they go from victory to victory since they are all part of the same AIPAC army! Duh. The Democrats know that popular rage is growing and are trying to talk big while playing small. They will win power this way. AIPAC has total control of the Democrats so they don't care if the Democrats talk about giving us health care, etc. AIPAC knows they will get their WARS no matter what. Isn't that sweet? And we will get no health care. This will mysteriously vanish like all promises to Americans.

News Max: Ron Paul Claims Pelosi Spiked Iran Bill

Representative Ron Paul says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi removed a section from a bill passed by Congress which would have barred the U.S. from going to war with Iran without a congressional vote, claiming she did so at the behest of the leadership of Israel and AIPAC.

Paul, a former Republican presidential contender who formally removed himself from the party’s nomination race last week, makes the allegation on C-SPAN during a recently held foreign policy conference in Virginia.

Paul says Pelosi’s first act as House Speaker in 2006 was to “deliberately” remove a portion of a legislative spending bill which said the United States “can't go to war with Iran without getting approval from Congress.”

Pelosi knows that Congress will pass any war bills the Real Rulers want. What she fears is the DEBATES over these bills! The debates to attack Saddam caused huge anti-war demonstrations. The media sweated bullets trying to ignore or prevent these demonstrations. Open, gross lies were told by the media owner's mouth pieces. Anyone on TV who was antiwar was fired including big personalities like Phil 'Who is he?' Donohue. Or Dan Rather. Gone with the wind. The media was made to beat the drums of war. The top news papers drummed like crazy. And we got that stupid war.

This is tiresome. They would far rather sneak us into wars. What better way than for the Real Rulers to bribe a President into a war? They will bribe Congress to stay silent. And the media won't bother mentioning the details of this massive war which history will name 'WWIII'.

McClatchy News: Documents confirm U.S. hid detainees from Red Cross

"We may need to curb the harsher operations while ICRC is around. It is better not to expose them to any controversial techniques," Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, a military lawyer who's since retired, said during an October 2002 meeting at the Guantanamo Bay prison to discuss employing interrogation techniques that some have equated with torture. Her comments were recorded in minutes of the meeting that were made public Tuesday. At that same meeting, Beaver also appeared to confirm that U.S. officials at another detention facility — Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan — were using sleep deprivation to "break" detainees well before then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved that technique. "True, but officially it is not happening," she is quoted as having said.

A third person at the meeting, Jonathan Fredman, the chief counsel for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, disclosed that detainees were moved routinely to avoid the scrutiny of the ICRC, which keeps tabs on prisoners in conflicts around the world.

"In the past when the ICRC has made a big deal about certain detainees, the DOD (Defense Department) has 'moved' them away from the attention of the ICRC," Fredman said, according to the minutes.

This is exactly what happened under Hitler and Stalin. Both despots hid their victims from the Red Cross. After awhile, the numbers of victims grew to the many millions and hiding these vast prisons and death camps from the Red Cross was increasingly difficult so both guys simply refused to bother with it anymore. Amnesty International was once a big, popular organization. Until the US/Israel wars destroyed this organization. This is because people like myself demanded Amnesty help Palestinian prisoners who are being tortured. Eh? Verboten, of course. We can't help THEM!

Then the US joined the ranks of countries that torture, hide prisoners and lie about everything. Note that Amnesty International is now under the blanket of silence. These stories about our torture speed around the world but crawl in the US. The punishment of a handful of soldiers at the very bottom of the ladder of responsibility was considered enough. So no one upstairs is blamed. And we get worse and worse. Wonder why Congress isn't blanketing the White House with a blizzard of subpoenas about all this? HAHAHA. Nope. The people being tortured are MUSLIMS. Like the Palestinians being tortured. This is totally OK with AIPAC and others who want the Apocalypse.

War money on its way to the floor today

Then they're going to have to cobble together a procedure that waives PAYGO rules so they can shoehorn in the GI bill provisions, and allows for separate votes on the various provisions -- the war money, the GI bill, the unemployment benefits, etc. -- and then have a final vote on a package that includes whatever provisions get a maj