Oooo Cool Winter!

MSM Special Report:

Terrorist level raised to RED -

Today at O'Hair airport a terrorist disguised as a Hippie was caught smuggling bomb making devices onto an airplane. The primary ingredient was ear wax, which when mixed with a small vial of liquid catalyst disguised as patchouli oil, forms a suicide bomb detonated by the low bass sounds of rap music!

Security checks are now being performed at the airports using Q-tips and sniffing dogs. All Rap music disks and tapes are being confiscated. iPods are being magneticaly erased to prevent an attack.

A nationwide roundup of hippies has been initiated to have their ears hydrogenicaly cleaned.

In other news the infinately secure Diebld Voting Machines have been accepted as a nationwide standard for the next presidential election fo George W Bush - Long Live The King!

Here's a great essay from Chris Floyd at Counterpunch:

It's Bigger Than the Neo-Cons

Great new anti war song and video by Kris Kristofferson, http://kriskristofferson.com/news/

Here's another good one from Chris Floyd, this time at Empire Burlesque:

Home Front: Dispatches from the War on America

Here's Robert Parry at Consortium News:

Israeli Leaders Fault Bush on War

Here's an excerpt:

Amid the political and diplomatic fallout from Israel’s faltering invasion of Lebanon, some Israeli officials are privately blaming President George W. Bush for egging Prime Minister Ehud Olmert into the ill-conceived military adventure against the Hezbollah militia in south Lebanon.

Bush conveyed his strong personal support for the military offensive during a White House meeting with Olmert on May 23, according to sources familiar with the thinking of senior Israeli leaders.

Olmert, who like Bush lacks direct wartime experience, agreed that a dose of military force against Hezbollah might damage the guerrilla group’s influence in Lebanon and intimidate its allies, Iran and Syria, countries that Bush has identified as the chief obstacles to U.S. interests in the Middle East.

As part of Bush’s determination to create a “new Middle East” – one that is more amenable to U.S. policies and desires – Bush even urged Israel to attack Syria, but the Olmert government refused to go that far, according to Israeli sources.

Here's Seymour Hersch in The New Yorker:

Washington’s interests in Israel’s war

It's strange to see even Hersch falling for a "little white lie" about how the Israel-Lebanon war started:

In the days after Hezbollah crossed from Lebanon into Israel, on July 12th, to kidnap two soldiers, triggering an Israeli air attack on Lebanon and a full-scale war, the Bush Administration seemed strangely passive. “It’s a moment of clarification,” President George W. Bush said at the G-8 summit, in St. Petersburg, on July 16th. “It’s now become clear why we don’t have peace in the Middle East.”

WhatReallyHappened.Com has posted an extremely convincing argument, based on the earliest reports from a wide variety of international news services, which shows that the two Israeli soldiers who were supposedly "kidnapped" in Israel were in fact captured while on a cross-border raid in Lebanon.

THE TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS WERE CAPTURED IN LEBANON

Despite my misgivings about this one detail --- which has been immortalized almost everywhere, including the UN ceasefire resolution --- I think there's plenty of good stuff in Hersch's article.

But I could be wrong. He uses a lot of anonymous sources and there's a chance any of them could be lying.

Have a look, if you will ... and let me know what you think! Thanks.

WP, I read that article two weeks ago and I believe it. I go to WRH every day. You get content there you get nowhere else. Heres something I just picked up there. Watch it its good. I did not speak up and now I wished I had............ http://www.freespeechwar...f/index.php?topic=3013.0

Good link, Laura! Thank you very much for #8.

WP chech out this blogpost over at Cannonfire. Hes calling Brad out about Santorums dirty tricks....... http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/

There is this guy George Allen down in Virginia who
wants to run for president in 2008. He is a Fascist
Nazi racist 10x worse than pResident bu$$h,.. hard to believe but true. This guy is like a John Ashcroft,
Trent Lott, Strum Thurmond, and Jesse Helms,.. on steroids,.. all rolled into one.

He is currently running for US Senate against Webb. He was at a campaign stop and spewed an incredibly racist remark,.. of course he now denies he had any ill intent.

MACACA - Spanish
MACAQUE - French

Definition: the most despicable/derogatory racist
comment - dark skinned person or (nigger) or monkey.
This is the utterance our next Republican want-a-be
president stated to a young man who was born in Virginia who is employed as an opposition researcher for his opponents campaign.

Video link to George Allen's racist statement

A web site delves into the issue of George Allen's racist statement,..Link with photo of victim.

Then as I was wondering around the web to dig deeper into this racist statement I eventually ended up at this web site where a rather extensive article was written,.. by some guy who calls himself Summer (W) Patriot. Whew,.. this guy is here,.. he is there,.. he is everywhere. How could he be frozen,.. he is a busy,.. busy boy. That must create mega BTU's.

Summer (W) Patriot blog article of racist statement.

George Allen's racist past,..Link. and Link and Link.

Come 2008,.. don't forget to vote for this guy for president,.. he will make fascism twice as fun.

The republican dictatorship will call Iraq a "war", when some 3,000 deaths of soldiers has happened in about 3.5 years.

But the same republican dictatorship will not call it a "civil war" when 3,438 civilians are killed IN ONE MONTH (link here)?

They are soooooooo busted!

WP #3

Interesting link to C. Floyd. I like this quote from Floyd's article:

It is the American elite-- pursuing, as always, the enhancement of its own power and privilege, heedless of the consent of the governed or the genuine interests of the American people (or the Palestinian people or the Israeli people or the Lebanese people or the Iraqi people)--that bedevils us. The emergence of the cretinous neo-conservative cult is just a symptom of a deeper moral corruption coursing through the dominant institutions and structures of American society. The body politic is rotting from the head.

(your link, bold added). It complies with Dredd's Law:

Power corrupts followers of politicians in power at least as much as it corrupts the politician, and will if unchecked, result in absolute corruption of both.

(link here). Pay careful attention to the words "followers" and "unchecked" if you want to understand that law.

OldTurk #11: the column you mentioned --- about George Allen's racist remark --- was written by David Stout of the New York Times. You can read it here. It's mirrored on the nearly frozen blog just in case the original link becomes nonfunctional --- as links to mainstream reports often do.

Here's Greg Palast at BuzzFlash:

So Osama Walks Into This Bar, See?

The republican dictatorship is running scared from the very real potential for prosecution for war crimes:

From the earliest days of its "war on terrorism," the Bush Administration has been intent on giving generous legal cover to government officials, CIA operatives, and others responsible for brutalizing detainees in U.S. custody. Its latest attempt to grant impunity for abuses comes in the form of proposed amendments to the War Crimes Act, a federal statute that criminalizes violations of the laws of war.

Last week, the Administration circulated the text of its proposed legislation to selected members of Congress. The draft bill, which would amend subsection c3 of the War Crimes Act, is a direct response to the Supreme Court's recent decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

(link here, bold added). So, are war crimes grounds for impeachment? Is Joe Lieberman a republican?

Dredd: The most interesting thing about the new war crimes legislation that Bush is trying to push through is that it would be RETROACTIVE! That's right!

Oops, I broke the law. Let's change the law so that I didn't break it.

At what point do we realize that these people have crossed a line way past just a criminal enterprise into something MUCH more deadly.

If they are allowed to change the law retro-actively, then the "rule of law" as we know it no longer exists --- anybody with control of the government can make ANYTHING THEY HAVE EVER DONE perfectly legal.

"Everything would be a whole lot easier if this were a dictatorship --- as long as I was the dictator." GWB, thinking ahead.

Raw Story took the bait:

United London to DC flight diverted to Boston
Woman on board had note referencing al-Qaeda

AP version of the same incident

WP --- The articles you link to point to the same conclusion - that the "War on Terror" is a phony scheme to consolidate class power and to generate huge profits for a small number of people for years to come. (Considering Chris Floyd's second article, it is clear that the corporate elite have given up on bringing much of the population into the fold - really, all pretense that it is not class tyranny has been given up except in the most crude propagandistic way possible.)

The fear-mongerers are direct descendants of those who incessantly intoned about the "communist menace", the result of which propaganda built up the military/industrial complex, laid the groundwork for the destruction of democracy, and led us into morally unconsionable adventures and crimes. (It did not have to be.)

My opinion is that we should not perpetuate the acceptance of the "War on Terror" lie in even the smallest way and should change the Brad Blog "category for similar items" to something like "So-Called War of Terror". Just a suggestion. It's not my blog, but I have a avuncular interest in it.

#16 Dredd & #17 Charlie L
You guys are on to something of great importance. They are trying their slimey best to keep this story under the radar. We need to make noise and at least make the attempt to force scrutiny of the issue. Email Dobbs, Obberman local papers etc. I know all of us have felt impotent in influencing the MSM, but as of late there has been a willingness to air this type of activity. What say you guys? I can't speak for anyone but myself but I'm damn tired of talking, I want to take a few swings at bat.

From the Indians who welcomed the Pilgrims
To the buffalo who once ruled the plains;
Like the vultures circling beneath the dark clouds,
Looking for the rain/looking for the rain.

From the cities that stagger on the coast lines
In a nation that just can't take much more/
Like the forest buried beneath the highways, never had a chance to grow/never had a chance to grow.
It's winter; winter in America and all of the leaders have been killed or forced away.
It's winter; winter in America and ain't nobody fighting 'cause nobody knows what to save.

The con-stitution was a noble piece of paper; with a Free Society they struggled but they died in vain/
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner, hoping that it rains/hoping that it rains.
And I've seen robins perched in barren treetops watching last ditch racist marching across the floor
And like the peace signs that melted down in our dreams, never had a chance to grow/never had a chance to grow.

It's winter; winter in America and all the healers done been killed or put in jail.
It's winter; winter in America and ain't nobody fighting 'cause nobody knows what to save.....

WINTER IN AMERICA - 1973 - Gil Scott Heron.
http://youtube.com/watch...mode=related&search=

Keep them afraid - Keep oil prices high!

JOJ thanks for that link, so true! If anyone is interested, more about the Leo wanta story from the Arctic Beacon http://www.arcticbeacon.com/16-Aug-2006.html

Related to my #20. Pound Harry Reid's email and demand the removal of Joe Lieberman from all of his Senate Committees, NOW!!!!! Demand that the DNC grow some balls and offically dump the SOB from the party. Yeah, I know how most of us feel about the DNC but we do not have time for Third Party or other alternatives. It is up to us to convince them that the "fringe" is much larger than they can afford to ignore.

Mexican riot police seal congress http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/815788

It's not just war crimes legislation that attempts to make retroactively legal what was illegal. Arlen Specter and other Republicans are attempting to do the same thing with warrantless wiretapping. It's a trend. What, they don't think we'll catch on?

MEP #20- I'll write a letter to the editor today. Our local letters to the editor section is getting smaller and smaller as the county has been taken over by development interests where "feel good" is everything, so they may nor publish it (as they haven't my last two letters), but I'll spread a wider net to get the word out. Of course, I'll email some of the media folks. You're right, we have to expose this assault on our legal system.

I said, Our local letters to the editor section is getting smaller and smaller as the county has been taken over by development interests where "feel good" is everything

Not just "feel good" but simplistic, nostalgic manipulation. My local situation may be an example of a larger problem and why we have such difficulty reaching people regarding their own interests.

#26

............GIVEM ELL ARRY!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't give up. I thought my rants to the MSM were for not, lo and behold my local paper ran one today. A year a go any letter of the same ilk would have gone in the shit can. THEY are beginning to take notice, whether it be to print us for potential ridicule or WFingever. Strike while the iron is hot and keep beating the damn pots with the wooden spoons. Be concise, articulate and reasonably respectful, but make noise.

#27.........ARRY

Yes I agree that the trend of "feel good" is not happenstance. "Don't bother me with the truth, please don't ruin my peaceful mind space with reality" The taking of SOMA is not fictional. It is now disguised as emotional pablum distributed as news and truth. Don't worry about 911, go the the mall and feel good. Don't worry about the Constitution being shredded and shit upon vote for the new Amer. Idol!!!!!!!!!!!

The MSM is shoving the story down our throats, that the Green party is taking votes away from Casey (vs. Santorum)...BUT...they DON'T say that the Republican candidate in Connecticut is taking votes away from Lieberman. I'm developing a keen eye for these things. Which tells me, the fix is in, for Lieberman.

Christopher Bollyn of American Free Press arrested in his front yard:

http://www.rbnlive.com/Bollyn.html

#31....Big Dan

Disturbing but not at all suprising. This is why we see a reluctance on the part of media to aggressively seek the truth. This poor guy is off the beaten path which emboldened the officers to feel safe in using strong arm tactics. I personnally feel that if the truth were known other no less threatening but more subtle varations have been used against the MSM. As disgusted as I have become with them I can not believe that they are all rightwing, stupid and/or slimey. If any of us can figure out how to get this story broader exposure it could help these and others find cover and support. Thanks for the heads up.

Hi everyone,

Just throwing an invite to everyone to check out my myspace group. Preserve Our Democracy: Exposing Election Fraud and Vote Suppression and monitoring the 2006 election issues as they come.

Almost five hundred members....lots of links (including this situe of course)!

Address:

http://groups.myspace.com/podvotingrights

I am adding a weekly video segment to talk about the election issues of the week. Probably, up by Sunday. Thanks everyone for all the great work and blogging you all do. You are a inspiration.

Debbie

This is an odd thing,..

A mystery animal was found in a rural area in central Maine, near Lewiston/Auburn, a town about 35 to 40
miles north of Portland. This thing (mutant/hybrid) was chasing a cat and got hit by a car,.. scientific studies will be done to determine what this thing was.
A picture is available in the first link,.. just hit the picture (photo)box lower center of screen. If additional info is released I will send it along.

Article/photo of animal thing

Additional article,..Link

Here, I wrote this a while back, but not many probably read it. I like it, so I am going to post it again, so there.

THE STINK OF THE 50th

From these methods we must be weaned.
The methods of the electronic voting machines.
Swiss cheese at best the security they offer.
Sending them home with poll workers ain't proper.
Our 'R''O''V' is an 'S''O''B'
’cause our 'S''O''S''s rules were not followed by he.
So now the conundrum we find ourselves in
is that we don't know who should lose and who win.
The republicans have already decided the winner for us.
Despite the sleepover and security so porous.
"Trust us," they say, "we will count the votes right."
"We will count them in secret, far out of your sight."
"They'll be counted on machines; not sure how they work."
"They'll be counted proper, now don't be a jerk
and ask us these questions we don't want to answer
of whether these machines are a democracy cancer."
"Of whether those elected are the one's voted for."
The beginning of the end of democracy's core.

– Chris Hooten
(still here!)

Yay, Chris! Thanks for checking in.

oldturk, my first dog was half Huskie and half wolf. Not that rare.

Debbie Lusignan #33

Thanks for the cordial invite.

Keep up the good work!

Republican Badge of Courage

Old Turk #34

Dang I was hoping they had found the elusive monkopottimus!

Chris Hooten - good to see ya back. Heard you had a computer meltdown. Glad you're up again.

Agent BB2!!!!

Lort! Thank you for that badge! ROTFLMAO!

you guys have to watch George Galloway take apart Sky News on Sky News, hilarious and sad that it has to be this way (unfair & unbalanced)
Link

WP

Two Israeli soldiers "kidnapped"
"CAPTURED" by Hezbollah. This is the first
media article which addressed this issue in the USA.
Forbes Magazine via the Associated Press,.. July 12, 2006 at 6:48 AM. This was right at the outset of this event having transpired,.. the facts not yet massaged
by the America or Israeli press. It was almost immediately determined that this "kidnapped" Israeli soldier "event" was just the excuse that was needed to enact the "Clean Break Plan." a "counter military attack" could now be put into motion - "WITH FULL JUSTIFICATIONS".

Israel/USA - now just had to bent/twist/contort the facts to exonerate themselves from this military adventure against Lebanon. The two Israeli soldiers were not "captured" but rather "KIDNAPPED". The location of the taking of these Israeli soldiers were not inside the Lebanon boarder,.. but rather,.. the Hezbollah "leftist" "guerrillas" crossed the boarder into Israel,.. took the soldiers and them spirited back across the boarder into Lebanon. Under this false scenario Hezbollah is guilty of two infractions of international standards,.. 1. they crossed the boarder into sovereign Israeli territory. 2. They then captured "KIDNAPPED" them from the soil of the Israeli homeland. The fascist/corporate media just had to regurgitate this bogus story,.. and Israel now had FULL JUSTIFICATION to "counter attack" with the full blessings of the world body.

ISN'T ZIONIST PROPAGANDA - the cats meow ?
What could be more grand ?

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Forbes Article Link

Other Article Link

IDF insists the word abducted be used and not captured to conceal the truth.

Versions of Israeli soldier abduction story - 20% "Kidnapped" based on Israel lies - 80 % ""Captured" based on truth.

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A secret meeting was to take place between Hamas and
leaders of a Reformist group of Rabbis to return the Israeli soldier captured in Gaza. The Israeli government did not want this meeting to achieve peace with Hamas,.. derailed the secret settlement meetings and lashed out to attack Hamas and Hezbollah with overwhelming unjustifiable military interventions.

The meeting was to announce a joint Israeli-Palestinian call for the release of Corporal Gilad Shalit who had been abducted by Hamas in Gaza, along with proposals for the beginning of the release of all Palestinian prisoners. These measures were to precipitate unprecedented new peace negotiations on a framework peace agreement, drawn on the 1967 borders. The presence of Palestinian Cabinet Officers and senior Israeli religious leaders in contact with the Prime Minster was to underline the seriousness of this peace proposal on both sides.
Just hours before the meeting was due to start, the Israeli Shin Bet internal Security Service arrested Abu Tir and Abu Arafa and warned them not to attend the meeting, under threats of detention. The meeting, which offered a major opportunity to obtain Shalit’s release and launch a new framework for peace, was thrown into disarray. The next day, the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) invaded Gaza, and the day after both Abu Tir and Abu Arafa were abducted by Israeli forces, along with a third of the Palestinian Cabinet, provoking a predictable escalation of violence.
Israel simultaneously began conducting covert incursions on to Lebanese territory, provoking Hizbollah’s capture of two IDF soldiers. Credible sources confirm that the soldiers were not abducted on Israeli territory, but inside Lebanon. Like the scuppered peace negotiations, Western officials have ignored this, and misinformed the media. However, some reports corroborate the sources. Israeli officials, for instance, informed Forbes (12.7.06) that “Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes Wednesday across the border in southern Lebanon, prompting a swift reaction from Israel.”
“The revelations show that Palestinian and Lebanese actors were not principally responsible for the escalation of the current conflict”, said OI Director Graham Ennis. “Contrary to the misinformation disseminated by the Whitehouse and Whitehall, Israel vetoed unprecedented peace proposals that would have initiated a promising new framework for serious negotiations, and went on to provoke Palestinian and Lebanese groups into retaliations, that now threaten to escalate into a dangerous regional conflict.”

Source to above,.. Press Release.

Look at this,..

Forbes Magazine scrubbed their abducted Israeli soldiers with Zionist soap,..

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Forbes Magazine
July 12, 2006 - 05:41 AM

(first paragraph)
The militant group Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes Wednesday across the boarder in southern Lebanon prompting a swift reaction from Israel, which sent ground forces into its neighbor to look for them.

LINK

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Forbes Magazine
July 12, 2006 - 06:41 AM

(first paragraph)
The Hezbollah militant group captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid Wednesday, triggering an Israeli assault with warplanes, tanks and gunboats against southern Lebanon as Israeli troops crossed the frontier to hunt for the captives.

LINK

This is from above,.. but I can't get the page to load,.. the page stays solid white,.. so I'll transfer it here. It is a must read about Israeli Zionist
propaganda and the hidden truth by the IDF about the
"CAPTURED" Israeli soldiers.

(the article I can not get to load)

July 25, 2006
Kidnapped in Israel or Captured in Lebanon?
Official justification for Israel's invasion on thin ice
by Joshua Frank
As Lebanon continues to be pounded by Israeli bombs and munitions, the justification for Israel's invasion is treading on very thin ice. It has become general knowledge that it was Hezbollah guerrillas that first kidnapped two IDF soldiers inside Israel on July 12, prompting an immediate and violent response from the Israeli government, which insists it is acting in the interest of national defense. Israeli forces have gone on to kill over 370 innocent Lebanese civilians (compared to 34 killed on Israel's side) while displacing hundreds of thousands more. But numerous reports from international and independent media, as well as the Associated Press, raise questions about Israel's official version of the events that sparked the conflict two weeks ago.

The original story, as most media tell it, goes something like this: Hezbollah attacked an Israeli border patrol station, killing six and taking two soldiers hostage. The incident happened on the Lebanese/Israel border in Israeli territory. The alternate version, as explained by several news outlets, tells a bit of a different tale: These sources contend that Israel sent a commando force into southern Lebanon and was subsequently attacked by Hezbollah near the village of Aitaa al-Chaab, well inside Lebanon's southern territory. It was at this point that an Israel tank was struck by Hezbollah fighters, which resulted in the capture of two Israeli soldiers and the death of six.

As the AFP reported, "According to the Lebanese police force, the two Israeli soldiers were captured in Lebanese territory, in the area of Aitaa al-Chaab, near to the border with Israel, where an Israeli unit had penetrated in middle of morning." And the French news site www.VoltaireNet.org reiterated the same account on June 18, "In a deliberated way, [Israel] sent a commando in the Lebanese back-country to Aitaa al-Chaab. It was attacked by Hezbollah, taking two prisoners."

The Associated Press departed from the official version as well. "The militant group Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers during clashes Wednesday across the border in southern Lebanon, prompting a swift reaction from Israel, which sent ground forces into its neighbor to look for them," reported Joseph Panossian for AP on July 12. "The forces were trying to keep the soldiers' captors from moving them deeper into Lebanon, Israeli government officials said on condition of anonymity."

And the Hindustan Times on July 12 conveyed a similar account:

"The Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah movement announced on Wednesday that its guerrillas have captured two Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon. 'Implementing our promise to free Arab prisoners in Israeli jails, our strugglers have captured two Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon,' a statement by Hezbollah said. 'The two soldiers have already been moved to a safe place,' it added. The Lebanese police said that the two soldiers were captured as they 'infiltrated' into the town of Aitaa al-Chaab inside the Lebanese border."

Whether factual or not, these alternative accounts should at the very least raise serious questions as to Israel's motives and rationale for bombarding Lebanon.

MSNBC online first reported that Hezbollah had captured Israeli soldiers "inside" Lebanon, only to change their story hours later after the Israeli government gave an official statement to the contrary.

A report from The National Council of Arab Americans, based in Lebanon, also raised suspicion that Israel's official story did not hold water and noted that Israel had yet to recover the tank that was demolished during the initial attack in question.

"The Israelis so far have not been able to enter Aitaa al-Chaab to recover the tank that was exploded by Hezbollah and the bodies of the soldiers that were killed in the original operation (this is a main indication that the operation did take place on Lebanese soil, not that in my opinion it would ever be an illegitimate operation, but still the media has been saying that it was inside 'Israel' thus an aggression first started by Hezbollah)."

Before independent observers could organize an investigation of the incident, Israel had already mounted a grisly offensive against Lebanese infrastructure and civilians, bombing Beirut's international airport, along with numerous highways and communication portals. Israel didn't need the truth of the matter to play out before it invaded Lebanon. As with the United States' illegitimate invasion of Iraq, Israel just needed the proper media cover to wage a war with no genuine moral impetus.

(the url is here)
http://www.antiwar.com/frank/?articleid=9401

...more on Christopher Bollyn of American Free Press, beaten and arrested by cops in his yard...

http://www.americanfreep...et/html/bollynbeaten.htm

A federal judge has just held that the NSA wiretaps are illegal, and ordered the republican dictatorship to cease and desist (link here)!

We got some Americans around here!

Here is the bio on the judge who issued the ruling against the republican dictatorship (link here).

Good American woman!

Here is a link to Federal District Court Taylor's opinion issued against the NSA warrantless wiretaps (ACLU v NSA).

Ahhhhhhhhh Dredd - You beat me to it!

Judge orders program stopped immediatley

BlueBear2 #50

Here is a link to the permanent injunction against the republican dictatorship which says:

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that Defendants, its agents, employees, representatives, and any other persons or entities in active concert or participation with Defendants, are permanently enjoined from directly or indirectly utilizing the Terrorist Surveillance Program (hereinafter “TSP”) in any way, including, but not limited to, conducting warrantless wiretaps of telephone and internet communications, in contravention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (hereinafter “FISA”) and Title III;

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND DECLARED that the TSP violates the Separation of Powers doctrine, the Administrative Procedures Act, the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the FISA and Title III;

(Injunction).

Big Dan - Re: Comment # 46

What cam you say to this story,..

but WOW,.. DOUBLE,.. TRIPLE W-O-W.

As we keep the pressure on we will likely see more and more of this. FASCISTS do not like to see their power and authority challenged.

This media reporter maybe the first customer for the AMERICAN GULAG.

There may be a lot more of verbal and physical confrontation conduct by these Nazi goons prior to November 2006. Let's remain aware and alert to document and record each and every instance of this Nazi none-sense.

This is outrageous and unreal. THX for hunting down the details and keeping us posted - we have to keep an eye on this violation of constitutional rights,.. the next victim could be you and/or your loved ones.

I just had a VERY scarey thought, as I read on Raw Story, Republican Orrin Hatch said a Dem victory in Nov. will result in more attacks. IS HE THREATENING US??? That if the GOP loses, the same GOP/neo-con operatives who pulled off 9/11, will do more attacks? That's f***ing SCAREY if you think about it that way! Talk about "threatening us" to keep a Republican majority!!!!!!!

THESE GUYS ARE THREATENING US, WHEN THEY SAY THAT!!!

btw...Christopher Bollyn CONSISTENLY writes about electronic vote fraud in American Free Press...the only newspaper reporter who does so on a regular basis, as far as I know...

Here is an article about the Hezbollah rockets fired into Israeli territory from Harretz,.. an ultra right-wing gasbag of the Zionist Israeli press.

These Hezbollah Katyusha Rockets are little more dangerous than a Fourth of July bottle rocket or a firecracker,.. in comparison to US provided Israeli war munitions.

The death Israel inflicted upon Lebanon was exceeded by 10 X,.. the infrastructure damage by 1000 X. This disproportionate Israeli military response was an atrocious and glaring war crime. Will Israel and the USA ever be punished for their macho fascist muscle flexing and needless bullying of the citizens of the world ? These endless war games are war crimes and they must be stopped,.. and the perpetrators made to answer for their crimes at the international war crimes court.

Link to Haaretz's - Katyusha Rocket Article

Big Dan #46

I want to add my thanks to Old Turks. As usual you are on top of it. This type of overt/violent crap will increase in intensity as we approach Nov. They can not afford to be voted out of power. Make no mistake if the Repubs lose either or both houses of Congress, forget all the promises being made by the Dems that they will not seek impeachment. They will investigate and issue subpeonas, then the shit will hit the fan. If allowed some breathing room I think some Repubs will turn on the SOBs. Remember, it was the Repubs like Goldwater and Howard Baker that sounded Nixon's last notes. The Neocons can not let this happen, get ready for very rough waters ahead. I find it interesting and frightening that they no longer seem confident of controling the situation thru covert means. That could be both good and bad.

OH...I forgot to add a HUGE observation I noticed...

...has anyone noticed that on FOX, Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, they say "WE" when they talk about the Israelis??? Is that a freudian slip or something? I heard Hannity and Limbaugh say "when we attacked the Hezbo's"...etc... WTF??? Can they be more blatant??? And a supposed "news" channel should not be referring to Israel as "WE"...meaning Israel and the United States. Exactly WHO are they speaking for?

What has the FASCIST GOVERNMENT done with
Brad Friedman,.. is this vacation story a Nazi theatrical rendition of reality ? Has he been renditioned to Guantanamo and currently being tortured. His supporters,.. avid readers,.. and contributors want to know.

We got your back Brad,.. can we trust what we are being told ? Eager to see his smiling face show up in Chicago to ally any concerns. Boy,.. his airport visits and check-thru must be a song and a dance that take a year and one day.

I guarantee the Christopher Bollyn story will NOT be covered by the complicit corporate MSM, who works hand in hand with covering up e-vote and 9/11 stories, and Bollyn covers BOTH e-vote & 9/11 consistenly and frequently. You won't hear a peep from the corporate news. You might see this on Democracy NOW!, INN Report, or Liberty News, we shall see....

Big Dan,..

We don't need the corporate neo-fascist MSM to get the
up to the minute details of government malfeasance,..
we have you.

Keep up the good work to keep us plugged in to reality.
We appreciate your up to the minute reports.

Good news,..

Zogby poll finds that Walmart and NASCAR Dad support
for pResident bu$$h is waining.

Recent Zogby Poll Results

If this group goes thumbs down on the fascist regime the political tides could finally make a drastically needed change.

I suggested that Brad interview Christopher Bollyn, but something happened. Brad, can you elaborate? Maybe you want to interview him after THIS fiasco! I always said, Brad should get together with him, because he writes about electronic vote machines all the time for AFP. The more, the merrier.

I thought this was a great tune at the time even more so now . . . . . But the video is F***ing outstanding!

So I will post it Again - Winter Patriot in America . . .

http://youtube.com/watch...mode=related&search=

#56 --MEP said, "I find it interesting and frightening that they no longer seem confident of controling the situation thru covert means. That could be both good and bad."

If it is the case, I think it is on the whole good. It will be rough, but I think the beast must be visible as a necessary step toward overcoming it. In fact, some intrepid souls must (very intelligently, of course) entice it out into the open, goad it on to display it's true colors. Sorry to say that, but I think it's true. (The great misstep has been that it is often done stupidly, in a way that actually gains some sympathy for the beast.)

Big Dan --- #53 --- I look at that statement as a threat, too, although I don't know if Orrin Hatch, who appears to genuinely not be very bright, sees its true nature. I always thought Gen. Franks statement that the Constitution would not likely survive a WMD attack and that a military government would be established to be a threat couched as discussion. Because who would be bringing us into a post-Constitutional world? It wouldn't be me. It wouldn't be you. Franks should have been fired or demoted, as he swore to defend the Constitution.

We have to bury these fear-mongerers. The American people have to bury them. And we have to be prepared for another "terrorist" attack to the point where we know it won't be the end of our efforts but the beginning of another phase --- raising it to another level.

A few words from Patrick Henry again:

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it...

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

Arry...#64

Yeah, I agree that the beast has to be exposed. If they out themselves to the masses, it will be more immediately credible for the, yet to be, enlightened masses. Just hope we have time to marshall the troops.

http://www.rawstory.com/...tee_we_wont_be_0817.html

There you go, now Cheney's threatening us...he's admitting he's in on it, by threatening us!!!

How come the corporate MSM broadcasts these Republican threats against us???

Why won't the American MSM broadcast balanced news segments of this nature,.. why won't American politicians stand up to the Israeli lobby as this gentleman does on a regular basis ?

British MP Galloway takes Murdock's Sky News to task
for constantly spewing the Israeli Zionist propaganda
and being cheer-leading warmongers 24/7.

Video Link : Galloway takes Sky News to task.

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The above was found at a new Christian web site that has been formed to combat the Neo-Fascist extreme fundamentalists Christian Right-Wingers.

Today's Quote from this site:

The president says that his highest duty is to protect the American people and our homeland. And it is true that, as commander-in-chief, he has sweeping powers to, as his oath says, “faithfully execute the office” of president. But the entity he swore to “preserve, protect and defend” isn’t the homeland per se — but the Constitution itself. ”

- Howard Fineman - MSNBC Contributor

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“America is going down the tubes, and the worst part is nobody knows it. They're all in denial, patting themselves on the back, as the Titanic heads for the iceberg full speed ahead.”

- Andy Grove, Former CEO Intel

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Well worth stopping by to check out the good work this progressive religious group is doing to beat back Christian Fascism.Link to The Watchman Web Site.

Big Dan #53

You get that comment from Hatch and similar ones from Cheney etc.
You get them saying how all these "Leaks" (Disclosures of illegal governmen actions)are aiding the terrorists and then you get this:
Top al Qaeda Man In Pakistan Nabbed

Well isn't that a leak which will aid Osama and Zawahiri by tipping them off to move?
If this crap is to be believed one would think that it would be kept secret so they could move in on them.

It's harder and harder each day to believe any of this stuff.

Dredd #47, OldTurk #68

"And it is true that, as commander-in-chief, he has sweeping powers to, as his oath says, “faithfully execute the office” of president. But the entity he swore to “preserve, protect and defend” isn’t the homeland per se — but the Constitution itself.”"

Doesn't this mean that any number of people have broken the law and should be brought up on charges?
Doesn't this mean Bush is derelect in his duties?

Oh well - just way wishfull thinking!

ITMFA!

How Bush does it

#71..BB2

Thanks for the humor injection.

BB-2,..

Good find,... good laugh.

Where is Winter today ?

Snowshoeing at the North Pole ?

Making snow-cones and selling them down at the beach ?

Not hide nor hair thus far today.

Hi OldTurk, and everybody else. I'm here; thanks for asking. I've been busy with domestic stuff (or away from my desk for other reasons) almost all day (so far) and now I'm working on a few items which I hope to be able to post shortly ... whatever that means!

For example: "soon" to a geologist means "sometime in the next ten or fifteen thousand years"

Alas, my sole contribution to the blog today has been a long comment on the "NYT Beats Terror Drums" thread, which I hope you will all read ... if you wish.

It's here.

I have it on good authority that he's just saved a passel of polar bears, and that his frozen old ass will be back real soon. Patience.

SO soon, in fact, that he beat me to posting about it... a time warp thing. Cosmic.

Oh good,..

I was worried we lost another Literary Patriot

to the American Gulag "Camps".

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Funny satire,.. Colbert,.. why doesn't the Rethuglican Party support James Sensenbrenner it the Connecticut Senatorial race ?

Video Link {"THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN REMOVED BY THE USER" message at this link. --99}

I bet you didn't hear about this on FOX News!

Fox News Producer Resigns Over Middle East Coverage

At least a few at fox have integrity, too bad they had to leave to keep it!

Old Turk, do you live in Maine? That story of the strange animal was in the Bangor News today. It has a horrible stench, curled fangs and screams instead of howls. Doesn't seem like a wolf/Husky combo. Would make a nice article for The National Enquirer. It's drifted away from good stories years ago like,I was raised in a pig pen by a family of pigs until I was 12. Read somewhere that Cheney has hired the same lawyer Clinton had for the impeachment fiasco. I think warantless wire tapping will bring them down. Also, the price of gas and groceries will make the poor Christians in the south think about voting the good old boys out. Tides turning. Sorry I'm unfocused...it's the way I think.

Christopher Boyllen on current issues tv now Here http://www.currentissues.tv/index.html Click on tv screen with Dr.Hesham Tillawi on it

Any news is good news for bush . . . . . as long as it is not about him . . .

Molly - Re: Comment # 79

The animal "thing" up Lewiston way.
That's no big deal. There is a reasonable explanation where that came from.(comment # 34)

You know Barbara Bu$$h down in Kennebunkport,.. she has a pack of 65 of those unknown vicious "animal things" down in the basement at Walkers Point. A while back one just happened to escape the confines of it's holding pen.

You know how most blue haired ladies have a cute little poodle they generally name FiFi or some dip-shit sort of name,.. they usually put them in a Gucci bag and parade them around the golf course and the grocery store so that everyone can envy and adore their precious little bundle of love.

Well not Madame - The Lady Barbara Bitchbu$$h no pinko poodles for this female version of Ghengis Khan,.. no yappy lapdogs for this macho-mom. At family picnics and gatherings she sends the kids out on the the grounds of their palatial ocean-side estate under the "guise" of just going out to "play". She then sends the grounds keeper down to the basement to release 10 to 15 of these vicious "animal things" on the children. Barb stands back at the kitchen window and watches as these vicious animals - (hyena/rabid coyote/distempered wolves - hybrid blends) laden with mange,.. fleas,.. ticks,.. and worms - mangles,.. tears apart,.. and devours her grand-children and great-grand-children. She calls this bloody mayhem - bonding with family and her precious little one. She doesn't even bother to call her relatives by their first names - she calls them "my little munchkins",.. "my little food pellets" and if in a particularly cantankerous,.. "my little wolf bait".

If you get an embossed invitation for a summer picnic or some such event - it is highly recommended up in these here parts that you just ignore the offer and under no circumstances should you RSVP.

Is it any wonder her children are so Fucked-Up ?

This bu$$h clan,.. it is best to keep your distance.

(Falmouth Foreside, Maine)

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There's a story for the next edition
of "The National Enquirer" - ready for the cash register check out lanes,.. front cover,..
"Vicious - Manged - Parasite Ridden,.. Unknown Wolf Like Animal Escapes The bu$$h Estate at Walker's Point in Maine." - "Too Much inbreeding over there ?"

A-99

Youtube is down to do an upgrade of equipment,.. most likely why # 77 will not operate. I will keep you posted,.. I got a back up source.

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Did you see this ?

Stephen Colbert got himself into hot-water with Wikipedia,.. he did a skit of Wikipedia and edited somethings only as a joke,.. but inadvertently he unleash him army of viewers and they crashed the site
and then they edited a large portion of the entries,.. pretty much trashing the place with edited inaccuracies.
Wikipedia is now pissed at Colbert.

Link 1

Link 2

When YouTube is back up we can post the Colbert/Wikipedia skit.

Youtube is back on line,..

Here's the missing Colbert tapes from above

Comment # 77 - Why won't the bush administration support the Republican candidate in Connecticut
running for US Senate,.. seems bushco may support Lieberman instead.

Video of Colbert skit - asking why bu$$hco will not support the Republican candidate in Connecticut,.. looks like they will back Lieberman,..
(the repug is a Vegas card shark.)

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Comment # 83 - Colbert did a skit about Wikipedia on his show,.. now he is in hot water because his viewers crashed the Wikipedia site.

Colbert Video of Wikipedia skit

http://www.youtube.com/w...mode=related&search=

http://www.rbnlive.com/Bollyn.html

The Christopher Bollyn arrest has been updated...

Oldturk #82 -

:)

Does this Christopher Bollyn thing remind you of Ray Lemme? He's getting too close to something?

Cheney: "If the Dems win in November, we're gonna hit you hard. OOPS! Did I say "WE"??? I meant....uhmmmmm....the TERRORISTS are gonna hit you hard! Damn video tape! Was anyone taping that???

Remember when Bush "supposedly" had a mike near him, and cursed, etc??? Too bad there wasn't one near Cheney, he didn't know about, and he said something like "...these American idiots who vote for us STILL don't know we were in on 9/11!!! What a buncha saps!!! They are SOOOOO much more stupid than we even originally thought they were!!!!!!!! WE were in charge during 9/11, and somehow SOLD OURSELVES TO THEM AS THE "SECURITY" PARTY!!!! What a bunch of assholes!!! Only WE could get away with that!!!"

"...that mike wasn' just on, was it? (munch munch munch)"

No kidding, Big Dan. It sure looks like a sleazy little protection racket --- writ large!

A-99

Think I got the right one now,.. I know how you like to keep things nice and tidy. Can your magic fingers move this up to (C) # 84 where it belongs ? {Yes. Done.}

Incidentally,.. A-99 sometimes I can't check it,.. the link does not show up in the comment preview box,.. at other times the comment preview box never shows up,.. one other thing that happens if you have multiple links to confirm prior to posting,.. if you check the first link,.. the preview box then disappears then you can not check link 2 or link 3 before you hit the submit button. It is like after the fact (of posting)then you can confirm the link is correct,.. then it is too late. Unless A-99 comes to the rescue. Mention made in the event you are not aware or can recommend a remedy to avoid the mini difficulty.

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{Don't know how to avoid that difficulty, dear, but can succumb to my neatness thing here! --99}

If anyone wants some thought-provoking non-corporate weekend reading:

http://civillibertarian....why-do-we-hate-them.html

http://lookingglassnews....ewstory.php?storyid=6923

http://glenngreenwald.bl...t-finds-warrantless.html

I haven't watched corporate news in a long time. They're probably talking about Jon Bonet Ramsey's killer.

I'm still watching LINK-TV & FSTV, they are addictive! On the INN Report today, they said that contrary to what the mainstream corporate media is telling us, that Mexico's "recount" was the same as the original count, in the small portion of the recount, they found something like 60,000 "stuffed" ballots and 60,000 "stolen" ballots, all against the liberal candidate. Whoever they were interviewing, said "the fix was in long ago." The latest INN Report is not available yet, but you can still watch it today on FSTV.

Paul M.Weyrich an ultra right-wing conservative,.. a Dominionist,.. who was very instrumental in bringing the Christian Conservative voters to the ballot box en-mass said this about voter suppression in front of a church group,..

Paul M.Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation was taped while speaking in private, at a church, to Republican activists:

“How many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome? Good government! They want everybody to vote! I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections, quite candidly, goes up as voting populace goes down.” - Source : Link

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Background/History of Paul M.Weyrich : Link

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Paul M.Weyrich a Christian Reconstructionist/Dominionist/Religious Fascist.

It is through this kind of networking that Paul Weyrich saw the possibilities and took the plunge into Christian politics. Weyrich and friends are all committed to returning this nation to Christ and the Church. To many this doesn't sound like a bad thing but the old saying "Be careful what you ask for," definitely applies here. By returning the country to Christ and the Church, this group means "exclusively." All other religions would be considered invalid and those who refused to adhere to the fundamentalist tenets of Christianity would be considered the enemy. Government would become Theocratic and we would all live under the rule of the strictly interpreted Bible. In other words, you are either with them or against them. Sound far-fetched? We thought so too until we realized that Christian Reconstruction is just around the corner - literally. - Source : Link

A-99 --- (C) # 92

THX - the blog now passes the green glove test.