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Hello, everyone, this is Elaine Meinel Supkis, Thursday, March 22, 2007, bringing today's Culture of Life Podcasting from my mountain in upstate New York

And today is 3/22, the ritual magic number of the Skull and Bones. Bush got his start in politics by joining this satanic coven at Yale. Bush is also the guy who works day and night to destroy America and his cult worships the number which is the date democracy died in Athens in 322 BC.

It looks today like Bush is going to be B.C.'ed himself. First Bush then Cheney. As usual with our empire, when a leader fails to lead and all the polls show him unpopular, he is ushered to the door with trumpets blaring and people applauding as the miscreant is shoved ceremoniously out the door. Democracy is saved! Cry the press. The long nightmare is over! Hooray!

With Clinton, they tried showing him the door only he refused to leave because he didn't break any of the arcane rules. And he was popular, to boot. But he also balanced the budget and raised taxes on the rich.

These are not pretty things as far as the rich are concerned. So out, damn spot! Oh, by the way, the FCC doesn't license this podcast so they can't censore me! Hip, hip hooray. I almost did a radio show once except I was told, the station would be fined if I talked like a normal American or like Cheney in the Senate. Or Nixon in the Oval Office. For shame!

This being the internet, I still have freedom. Not like the poor bloggers in Russia or Egypt or Germany. These and many other countries persecute people for saying or doing many things. Like talking about the Holocaust but not buying the entire official story. Heck, talking about 9/11 and not buying the load of manure they laid over that graveyard! Indeed, revealing what the cops do when they beat people is going to be forbidden in France, gets you raped in Egypt and in Russia, sends you to prison.

So far, Americans still cling to that ancient right called the FIRST AMENDMENT. This gives us the freedom to talk about or write about nearly anything. We can even say, Seig Heil in America. Many left wing and right wing organizations want to clip this right. Today, the Supreme Court is hearing something about this: the right of students to make a joke about Jesus.

Oh, I remember the mockery our media made about Muslims being angry about mocking Mohammed. But here we are in the Land of the Free, going to court for the right to bong Jesus in public! Pass me a joint, my friend!

Bush and his gangsters in the Supreme Court have tried to rip up our Constitution. I wish all nations had our Constitution. I often demand Israel have a Constitution that forbids the Church and State from being the one and same. Set a good example in the Middle East, guys!

But no, many, many people hate the Constitution and plot against it. There are many nasty people who pretend to be liberals who want to pass laws forbidding 'hate speech' and to put people in prison for saying embarrassing things. Like calling each other names. I could have put half of my own relatives in prison for calling me names when I married into a Jewish family, for example. Not to mention, my own family: I heard hate speech at home. When I was a child in the South during the tag end of the Jim Crow era, I would repeat the nursery rhyme that ends with 'catch a nigger by the toe' without knowing what that was.

Only when a black playmate began to cry and I asked why, did I learn. I must have been only five years old at the time.

Hate speech is protected speech. One can embarrass or annoy hate speechers but putting them in prison is TYRANNY. And the USA has way too many tyrannous laws and Europe crawls with these laws and far from bringing peace at home, they are setting up worse effects. The Neo Nazis in Europe are revelling in being attacked by the State and being put behind bars for writing, 'Heil Hitler' as the lawyer of Zundel is now facing. Here in America, the lawyer who represented the Muslims in the first WTC attacks is being put in prison because her confidential talks with the blind cleric was secretly recorded.

Try getting a fair trial when one can't talk in security with a lawyer! But then, fair trials are so passe in today's world. Instead, we have spectacles like hanging Saddam for killing Iraqis.

So why isn't Congress arresting Bush and putting him on trial for killing Iraqis? For lying about going to war?

This is Elaine Meinel Supkis of Culture of Life News signing off. Goodbye.

Chinese Pair Skaters Win World Title

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Thanks to You Tube, I no longer have to wait forever to see figure skating performances. Today, the great Chinese pair skaters, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, won the World Championships. They are beautiful skaters that have revived that division of ice skating which had too many falls and flubs to enjoy watching.

They are harbingers of a new direction for figure skating.

By SALVATORE ZANCA, Associated Press Writer Wed Mar 21, 11:10 AM ET
TOKYO - Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo became pairs champions for the third time Wednesday at the World Figure Skating Championships, and France's Brian Joubert skated into the lead of the men's competition.

Shen and Zhao also won world titles in 2002 and 2003, but missed the championships the last two years because of injuries.

Skating a lyrical program to "Meditation" by Massenet, the two-time Olympic bronze medalists combined artistry with the top technical feats of the evening to score an international best of 203.50 points.

Following in the footsteps of the great British ice dancers, Torville and Dean, they used lovely music that wasn't chopped up or mutilated with the traditional introduction, slow movement, fast end stuff. They simply choreographed increasingly exciting moves that ended with a flourish. Pair skating which took off with the Russians who brought a Balanchine/Petipa elegance and energy via the greatest ice pair of them all, Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova, the inventors of the famous Death Spiral.

Not many of the daring throws and thrilling jumps but the beauty of the ice dancing is still very moving. The fluid elegance which is possible on ice is expressed so clearly with the clean lines and creative interface between the two ice skaters: this is a legendary performance. And up until the Chinese came along, rediscovering this style of skating, lost due to the pressures of circus-atmospheric daring tricks.

Today's winners, like the Russians who dominated the event under communism, come from a state-supported system. With individual skaters, they don't need the resources pairs skaters need. So it doesn't surprize me to see the new regime coming out of China. From the collapse of the Soviet sports system until this last five years, pairs skating has frankly been pretty awful to watch. It used to be a top event but had fallen behind ice dancing!

Now it is taking off, for the breath-taking throws and hoists into the heavens that is part of these performances is awe-inspiring if no one falls down.

This page also has more videos of the Chinese pair doing the most amazing lifts and jumps. All of them are reccommended watching.

Their coach has a most amusing history himself:

Yao Bin, born in 1957, is considered one of the pioneers of Chinese figure skating. As a skater, he was a product of the Harbin Skating Team, where he skated for fourteen years. Harbin, an industrial city with a population of about 3.5 million, is the capital of skating and ice sports in China and the home of many of today's young Chinese skating talents. Yao Bin and his partner Luan Bo were the first pair ever to represent China in world figure skating competitions. Yao has recalled in interviews the humiliating experience of performing at the 1980 championships in Germany, where the audience laughed at the couple's inferior skating. At that time, there were no experienced figure skating coaches or other material available in China to use as a guide in learning the routines. Yao and Luan learned the moves by studying pictures of other skaters' performances.

After finishing last in four consecutive figure skating championships, Yao decided to give up competing and dedicate his life to elevating the level of the sport in China to meet international standards. In 1984, Yao retired as an amateur skater and started coaching new young talents. In 1998, he was appointed director of the national figure skating committee and, throughout the 1990s and into the 21st century, Yao has been coaching China's top figure skaters. In 2004, Yao was awarded the title of the Coach of the Year by the International Figure Skating Magazine for his contribution to the sport.

I love to watch the people at the bottom of the skating pyramid. The losers can be very daring or interesting. For example, a Swiss skater in the women's competition almost 30 years ago did a 'flame' whereby she pulled her leg over her head in a spin. I fell out of my chair and yelled, 'Bravo!' She had points deducted for this but all the great skaters immediately imitated it and it is everywhere now.

I remember the Chinese team back then. The Chinese officials living with me thought it was great, I was cheering their skaters. I was skating back then so I hung out in that world a lot. I congratulated Yao for having lots and lots of spirit and a desire to master a very difficult art. I didn't know he learned it virtually by himself, on the fly.

He has a very good eye for choreography and sentimentality. I can see in his art and in the expression of this art with his skaters, the true nature of dance: the Dionysian joy of life. Throwing the head back heedlessly as the skaters fly across the ice is the heart of the dance: embracing Now with all one's heart, carving out of time and space, a form that changes with the mood, transcending mere gravity to fly into the sky, to swoop like a swallow.

I am looking forwards to the Olympics. Thanks to the Chinese. I wish our own country had a commitment for developing good skaters like this. Instead of forcing families to nearly bankrupt themselves trying to enable their own children to reach for the stars.

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Bush Continues To Piss On Congress And Constitution

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Like a badly trained puppy, Bush pisses all over everyone and gets everyone pissed off and it is time to arrest him. He wants to have everyone chat, not testify under oath. I remember Clinton. The GOP tried to impeach him for lying under oath about a stupid blow job.

We have had no Constitution for seven long, awful years.

WASHINGTON - A defiant President Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to have top aides speak about the firings of federal prosecutors only privately and not under oath, or risk a constitutional showdown from which he would not back down.

Democrats' response was swift and firm: They said they would start authorizing subpoenas as soon as Wednesday for the White House aides.

"Testimony should be on the record and under oath. That's the formula for true accountability," said Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Yeah! Leahy. Vermont is always proud to be the brave, the smart. Being stupid where it goes below zero in springtime leads to a swift death. So Vermonters tend to be flinty, hard to fool and in general, tough tree root-people.

So Leahy won't back down. The anthrax killer tried to kill Leahy years ago. Maybe Bush will ask daddy to ring him up again.

Maybe he will call his family buddy, bin Laden. Note how Congress is forcing Bush's hand over this meaningless issue or rather, a side show from the real thefts and crimes. Like with Nixon, they dare not go after the lies about wars that kill millions of innocent people. Nope, they just hung one of Saddam's people today in Bagdad for doing less than Bush or Cheney!

No, we are most careful to get our leaders on the equivalent of unpaid parking tickets or overdue library books. Our Presidents can conspire to overturn legal elections in Palestine or Chile. They can conspire to assassinate elected leaders in free democracies like in Chile or have putsches like we did recently in Haiti. All over the world, our CIA commits vast crimes in order to kidnap innocent people and torture them, overthrowing governments, starting wars and stealing stuff.

Never will we ever see anyone prosecuted for any of these crimes or Kissinger would be swinging higher than Saddam and Cheney's head would be bouncing across the floor boards.

Instead, when a President is unpopular enough, he is dragged over the coals and then sent into internal exile. Only Jimmy Carter defied this and he decided to tell the truth about the abuse the Jews inflict on the Palestinians and now he is being punished as if he had gotten a blow job or murdered half a million Iraqis.

Back to Bush: we knew before the first selection that he was a multi-arrested criminal who also went AWOL and wasn't punished. This disqualified him for office right off the bat but the media supported him and attacked Al Gore and we still voted for Gore despite this so the Supreme Court installed Bush whose minions stole the following two elections.

Well, the ruling elites are not happy with their Georgie porgie so they will now dump him. He barely understands this. Cheney is wildly popular with AIPAC so we might see him as our ruler and he will attack Iran for Israel.

Arrest them all. Arrest AIPAC for working for a foreign power. Arrest Cheney for shooting people in the face and lying about war and outing a CIA undercover agent. And arrest Bush for being a psychopath with arrested development.

Time is running out. Money is vaporizing at an incredible clip. We don't have until September, 2008 to get the troops home. We have precious little time for anything except arresting Bush and his entire gang.

Now.

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Nacht Und Nebel: US Won't Allow Reporters At Torture Victim Trials

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Now we know why the USA withdrew from the Human Rights Commission! Heh. We are planning to put a bunch of third-world poor people 'on trial' only without any witnesses, few lawyers who are very intimidated and NO PRESS. These aren't going to even be Stalinist 'show trials'. These are going to be Nazi-style 'Nacht und Nebel' trials: in the dark of night and fog.

The beacon of democracy (in Cuba)!

WASHINGTON, (AP)

Reporters will be barred from hearings that begin Friday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the 14 suspected terrorists who were transferred last year from secret CIA prisons, officials said Tuesday.
Interest in the 14 is high because of their alleged links to al-Qaida. Among them is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks. He was captured in Pakistan in March 2003.

A New York-based human rights group that represents one of the 14 men accused the Pentagon of designing "sham tribunals." The organization contended that its client, Majid Khan, has been denied access to his lawyers since October 2006 "solely to prevent his torture and abuse from becoming public" and to protect complicit foreign governments.

Well, here we are, a mere 65 after the infamous Nüremberg Trials where the triumphant winners of WWII decided people should be hung for war crimes. Including newspaper editors. We hung all the losers including newspaper editors and Europe then settled down to passing laws forbidding anyone talking about history or trials or anything connected with 'genocide' at all or they will be thrown in prison just like the poor saps in Gitmo and other torture concentration camps.

Yes, we won against the Nazis! Seig Heil! Heil, Holocaust!

Not only have we located our main concentration camp on foreign soil, in a nation we are relentlessly attacking in every possible way simply because we don't like their economic system (um, our own is probably the most pathetic on earth!)---we are going to host neo-Nazi fascist secret trials there? This is how we teach the world about democracy and freedom? And the reason for this is because we don't want anyone to testify or to SEE the results of years of vicious, Nazi-style torture?

Excuse me, my father was at the Nüremberg trials and he was one of the first officers to enter several concentration camps during March and April, 1945, and he is still alive and here we are, Nazis? Ourselves?

The liberal sphere on the internet is fascinated by the guilty verdict of that arch-conspiritor, Libby, and the firing of those government lawyers scandal. Since the Constitution was ripped up by Opus Dei-ists in our Supreme Court, we have lost all our granduer and glory as the citadel for democracy and instead, we became Barad-dur. The Dark Tower.

We know who the war criminals are. And who the newspaper editors who fed us tons of lies and swill, egging us into endless wars with Muslims on behalf of oil barons and Israelis. We know who the Krupps of this corrupt government are: Halliburton and the Vice President. Crime builds upon crime and the loss of our traditional rights wrack up one after another.

The more we fight Muslims, the less free we are and the more embarrassing our position as we readjust our bloody rags and howl like King Lear: oh, howl! To the moon. After we get more loans from the Japanese.

There is the issue of Lynne Stewart. The civil rights lawyer who was spied upon by the government because the privacy of client/lawyer has been totally blasted to hell. I still remember when confessions to priests were not allowed in court. Nor could things said to psychiatrists! These were part of the dead client/whoever privilage that includes not forcing wives and husbands to testify against each other and that other odd thing called the Fifth Amendment to that once-fine document, the 'Constitution'.

Bin Laden didn't burn that, the Supreme Court, some rather evil newspaper/TV editors/owners and of course our dear, demented politicians. Shame, oh, shame, thou traitors to the Republic! Arrest them all. (Gads, we have enough prisons for these guys.)

Click here for a historic recording of a reporter at the Nüremberg Trials:

Ernst Kaltenbrunner takes the stand at the Nuremberg Trials. CBC reporter Matthew Halton is in Germany. He describes how the accused, one of Hitler's former right-hand men, makes his defence and fights for his life. The defence thus far has mostly been the same. The accused have not denied that crimes have occurred but rather reject any accusations of responsibility. Halton reports on the tense proceedings in this CBC Radio report.

We used to make fun of the Nazis refusing to take responsibility but the USA today is the world's most irresponsible nation. For example, we invaded Iraq claiming there were hidden WMD there. There were none so that made the entire enterprise illegal.

Worse, the Plame affair was directly connected to this: Ambassador Wilson proved the documents the President used as an excuse to invade were forgeries---before the illegal invasion! This crime still stands: Libby fell on his sword to stop investigators from finding out the truth, how Bush and Cheney outed a secret WMD agent in order to defame Amb. Wilson and to shut up critics who knew there were no WMD in Iraq.

Scott Ritter was defamed, too, over sex charges. Anyone standing in the way was driven to suicide, defamed, arrested, harrassed and in various ways, silenced. Since all this was in the name of foisting an illegal invasion, this means we have committed a grave crime on the order of the Nazis in WWII!

Padilla, an American citizen arrested in America, has been cruelly tortured and will now, many years later, stand trial.

By Dan K. Thomasson
Scripps Howard News Service

Then a year ago, the government, after a storm of protest in the press and elsewhere, decided that Padilla was no longer an illegal combatant and transferred his case to the civilian courts under a conspiracy charge. But here's the rub. The charges against him suddenly had nothing to do with a dirty bomb, and federal prosecutors against all rationality have denied that he ever was tortured. Federal Judge Marcia Cook has ruled against Padilla's attorney's claims that he was so abused as to be mentally incapable now of helping in his own defense, but she did leave the door wide open as to the question of his torture. It's a ruling that ultimately could derail any trial.

How does this happen in America? How does a painfully minor figure in the scheme of things suddenly become the government's idea of a poster boy for evil? How does the Constitution permit the incarceration of a U.S. citizen for nearly four years without charging him with anything, including spitting on the sidewalk? Isn't this the kind of disgraceful example of despotic action that this nation is supposed to abhor? If not, are we no better than the cave-dwelling fanatics who would bury us all? Why should they have to actively destroy our experiment in democracy? We will do it ourselves if we're not careful.

Why Padilla? I explained in the past, the satanists running America into the ground love human sacrifices and they hate democracy which is why 322, the end of democracy in Athens, is their sacred number, and the name 'Padilla' is connected with revolts in Spain in the Middle Ages and the shield of the Padillas has Muslim signs on it, the moons and stars.

And there is much magic connected with this poor man and he was artfully selected to be the sacrifice as 'Care': in the Bohemian Grove, they pretend to kill a mock-up of this character. So they will do what they can to Padilla, he is important to them as their key to destroying all of us.

Meanwhile, the blood flows in the Middle East: it gets worse and worse each hour. Yesterday, 10 soldiers were blown up, today more, more and more. All based on lies. Lies deliberately and maliciously told. And at the Nüremberg Trials, we sat in judgement and intoned, telling lies to go to war, torturing prisoners, holding mock trials, all are grounds for EXECUTION.

Sigh. We will let the Iraqis do the honors. They are getting better at hangings.

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