know anyone okay with our military adventures?

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Make 'em look at these pictures and videos.

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a mom against the einsteins enabling slaughter

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SHE ROCKS.

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I don't even want to think about this.

There was ample coverage of the loss of a US F-15 fighter jet over Libya Tuesday, and it always came with reassurances that the crew was safe. Less safe, however, were a group of Libyan civilians who came to the aid of one of the crew.

That’s because the civilians who met the plane’s weapons officer and offered him fruit juice while he waited to be rescued were attacked by US Marines during the brief ground incursion meant to rescue the crew. Some of the reports suggest the Marines arrived in a V-22 Osprey attack helicopter and opened fire on the crowd with it.

Six Libyan civilians were shot in the attack, including a young boy who local hospital officials say may lose his leg because of the attack. The weapons officer had been found in a sheep field and was met by the civilians, who were backers of the anti-Gadhafi rebellion.

The incident is news not just for the tragic outcome, but because despite the explicit UN prohibition on “occupation troops” being spun as a broad prohibition on ground troops, US Marines were indeed on the ground, in Libya, in a field full of sheep.

The pilot was initially picked up by rebel soldiers, who the Marines reported treated him “with dignity and respect” before handing him over to the troops. It does not appear there was any incident with regards to him. The Marines have yet to comment on the shootings in the recovery of the weapons officer.

The F-15 was flying out of Italy at the time of the crash, and officials are blaming a system malfunction. It is the first aircraft reported lost since the US and France started the Libyan War on Saturday. An F-15E Strike Eagle costs approximately $31 million.

I want a BATH in a REAL tub and I want it NOW.

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reminder

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Don't be distracted.

The price of a barrel of oil is sitting right [around $100] at this moment. How much do you think a “barrel” full of heroin sells for?

For relatively pure heroin, cultivated and shipped from Afghanistan, the world’s largest supplier of heroin — it would net you $19,923,200 USD PER BARREL.

Now, by the time that hits American and Russian streets … and is cut up and diluted several times, you are looking at roughly $60,000,000 – $80,000,000 US dollars per barrel of heroin.

And, just as an aside, just to make your blood boil, dig this....

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Don't you love how I start this out telling you not to be distracted and then am too distracted to finish updating the cited post and link you to the latest? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I will endeavor to remember that I'm a damn airhead before I hit "PUBLISH POST"... but remembering seems to be the problem lately....

Anyway, all fixed now, hours later, and maybe you didn't already try to read this....

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the einsteins at PNAC are at it again

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This has heavily to do with why I'm trying mightily not to obsess on the pushbutton revolutions in full swing right now.

In a distinct echo of the tactics they pursued to encourage US intervention in the Balkans and Iraq, a familiar clutch of neo-conservatives appealed Friday for the United States and NATO to "immediately" prepare military action to help bring down the regime of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and end the violence that is believed to have killed well over a thousand people in the past week.

The appeal, which came in the form of a letter signed by 40 policy analysts, including more than a dozen former senior officials who served under President George W. Bush, was organised and released by the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), a two-year-old neo-conservative group that is widely seen as the successor to the more-famous – or infamous – Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

Warning that Libya stood "on the threshold of a moral and humanitarian catastrophe", the letter, which was addressed to President Barack Obama, called for specific immediate steps involving military action, in addition to the imposition of a number of diplomatic and economic sanctions to bring "an end to the murderous Libyan regime".

In particular, it called for Washington to press NATO to "develop operational plans to urgently deploy warplanes to prevent the regime from using fighter jets and helicopter gunships against civilians and carry out other missions as required; (and) move naval assets into Libyan waters" to "aid evacuation efforts and prepare for possible contingencies;" as well as "(e)stablish the capability to disable Libyan naval vessels used to attack civilians."

I know the place of their birth and it ain't in the GORGEOUS courage and transcendent love of the people rising and being slaughtered for it. No, no, no it ain't. I'm trying not to talk about it too much because I think I might go postal from more people reporting as though this were a sporting event and more citizens waxing so smugly confused about it all.

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as though you needed another scrap of evidence that he's clueless

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He is the Spokesmodel in Chief. Period. You might want to ponder what a fantastically hands-off president he is, but then you are faced with a globe full of his fingerprints. The tough part to grok, I guess, is that his fingerprints can be all over the place without him ever touching a thing more consequential than a microphone. He's not doing his job. He's not even making a showing of doing his job. The only possible way you can give him any plus marks is by thinking that his performance has been SO abysmal that it may constitute his way of alerting the populace that there's been a coup. I don't care WHAT excuse you come up with, he is a most reprehensible fuck even with excuses.

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this would do me

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Nicely.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has confirmed for the first time that the Obama administration has demanded the establishment of a system of permanent US military bases across the country, effectively laying the basis for an indefinite neo-colonial occupation.

Karzai stated that his government was negotiating with US officials on a range of strategic agreements, including the permanent bases. He said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had discussed the issue with him during last week’s Munich Security Conference in Germany.

Surely you know someone with a backyard big enough....

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more of that fucking "grammar" thing

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Free at last.

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Just continues to drive me nuts that "progressives" continue to scream like banshees to COVER what is salient, what puts the lie to their very platform, instead of STOPPING and LOOKING to see the egregious error in this action. WHY would they consider it better to keep screeching than to go, oh, hey, wait a minute, and head for what is RIGHT. You know the old saw about it not being about left vs. right, but right vs. wrong... fancy that load of crap coming out of people who will let us all burn up before they will even IDENTIFY what is wrong, let alone DO SOMETHING to correct it.



It sure isn't going to be PC to mention how righteous Loughner's complaint really is, but... here you have it.

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this week in laureatin'

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Presidentin' is hard work. —George W. Bush

And Vice-Presidentin' too. —Joe Biden

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Have I mentioned lately how much I hate this guy?

Media outlets are reporting that WikiLeaks lost several thousand Twitter followers in the first few hours following the publicizing of a series of subpoenas which showed that the Justice Department was seeking information on a number of WikiLeaks associates as well as the people who regularly read their twitter feeds.

Such attempts were likely futile, after all the subpoena would still cover those people as “receiving” WikiLeaks data whether or not they are current “followers.” It does however point to the climate of fear surrounding the Obama Administration’s determination to move against the whistleblower, which Vice President Joe Biden accused of terrorism.

The documents show that the Justice Department was hoping to obtain not just IP addresses, but mailing addresses and banking information from the people involved. The later seems to be futile in this regard, as Twitter would not even have the banking data of its users.

The Twitter company has been praised, as the site did not simply comply with the secrecy order associated with the massive demand but instead challenged it and then informed the targets. WikiLeaks lawyer Mark Stephens says it is believed similar subpoenas were passed to a number of other companies, including Skype and Facebook, but so far that has not been confirmed.

Note well: I'm not threatening him with nuthin... I just hate his guts for abdicating so utterly and spending ALL his braincells on political advantage while burning down this country, terrorizing the living snot out of everyone who voted for him and slaughtering innocents all over the globe.

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what whining accomplishes

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While you think yer bellyaching online is doing something, those who know better get in there and make what they want happen. Whining on the intertubes insures your life—THIS life—keeps being done to you. Again, one guy—ONE—figures out how to make the tubes ACTUALLY work, ACTUALLY do something, and all people do is whine about how it's going to take our medium from us. Fuck no! WHERE do you think you live?

The operative concept is: Scare the snot out of 'em and they will be so busy fighting, so busy holding marathon id parties, they will never rise up to slap us down. And, really, WHY should that preening sociopath in the White House give one molecule of half a shit about people this piggy and stupid? I hate him because he won't risk himself for us, but, well, I do often catch glimpses of exactly what it is makes it okay with him to sell us out over and over and over and over and over... actually, EVERY time.

Ho. Ho. Ho.

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Old Uncle Dave and I were just having our Christmas chat, wherein I squandered many of my recently re-upped minutes to speak without constant irk on the land line as opposed to the pitiful performance of his connection speed. I was bellyaching about all the fuckers suspicious of Assange because of a dearth of truly ugly information on Israel, telling him there was already plenty of it, I suppose there will be lots more, Western media will be loath to publish it, but even when/if they did, none of us would even recognize it as suitably incriminating because we already know everything transcendentally awful about them and nothing they could publish would make us blink an eye. Truly, what new depth to which anyone could possibly or impossibly sink do you think WikiLeaks could expose relative to them? While it not being even feasible any nation could be more reprehensible than ours, Israel seems to have accomplished it! They never would have succeeded in this distinction without our help, but... they have solicited it strenuously. So not even our sluggishness overcomes that factor... only nearly.

So. Fine and dandy sugar candy. I got to blurt that out in the analog world and it felt good. Then, kaching, I land upon Ditz:

WikiLeaks Poised for Major Israel Document Dump
Info on Killings, 2006 War Near Release
by Jason Ditz, December 24, 2010

The paucity of information on Israel in the early WikiLeaks releases led to a flurry of speculations and conspiracy theories, insisting WikiLeaks may have made a secret deal with the Netanyahu government or that the lack of data proved the organization’s insincerity as a whistleblower. After all, in a dump of 250,000+ classified documents from the US, surely Israel would figure pretty prominently.

And actually it does. Though the information has not been released there will be a considerable dump, according to reports, including some 3,700 documents detailing Israel’s assassination plot in Dubai, the 2007 air strike against Syria, and the 2006 invasion of southern Lebanon.

Truly, the Israeli government is no stranger to unseemly covert actions, and the bulk of such actions are assumed to be taken under American imprimatur. Given this, it seems that the secret data should contain more than a few juicy tidbits.

Which might lead one to wonder why we haven’t seen it before. After all, despite WikiLeaks’ extremely slow release schedule they did give the full collection to a number of Western publications. According to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, this is because the newspapers simply weren’t interested in publishing data embarrassing to Israel. Which is forcing us to wait on this topic, while the press oohs and aahs at the revelations of Anna Nicole Smith’s impact on the Bahaman government.

Another synchronicity.

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And I'd like to take this holiday to remind you that we have real evidence—and have had it for WEEKS—that Hillary Clinton is a FELON and I haven't heard ANYONE screaming for her indictment. I heard Julian Assange suggest she resign, and a couple others mumbling concurrence, but bubkes about locking her up and throwing away the key... not even a peep about at least getting her convicted so The Laureate can pardon her. This IS psychedelic. This is more psychedelic than any drug ever.

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More on the fruit of our whining... this immortal clicktivism we pretend can be effective.

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essentially, people are hating on wikileaks for trying to stop this

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What does that mean?

No. Really. If you have not taken a hard gander at my reality check post, I think you should do that and then come back and answer this.

And, yeah, Jeremy had it dead bang on the nailhead. Thank you WikiLeaks.

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HUNNERTS OF WIKILEAKS MIRRORS....

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no. really.

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And then when you consider THIS on top of THIS, it all begins to seem so damn familiar. They told us we were never getting out of the Middle East and we just wouldn't believe them, ran to the voting booths like lemmings....

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Also way too familiar and makes no nevermind either....

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just keeps irking the snot out of the imperialists

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My kind of puppet. Entertaining. Colorful. Rabble rousing. Still a miserable fuck who should be shot right along with almost everyone in our government over the last decade, but, well, he definitely gives more value, more bang for our bucks.

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why aren't we revolting over this?

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Fucking hell.

The Obama administration is increasingly emphasizing the idea that the United States will have forces in Afghanistan until at least the end of 2014, a change in tone aimed at persuading the Afghans and the Taliban that there will be no significant American troop withdrawals in the summer of 2011. The message shift is effectively a victory for the military, which has long said the July 2011 deadline undermined its mission by making Afghans reluctant to work with troops perceived to be leaving shortly.

What is the matter with us?

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catching up

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Obviously, while I was away in one monster excursion into the heart of stress, I did not range far in my usual way of flipping myself splat into evidence of actuality, so I've been groggily trying to back up to find bits I know I have certainly missed. This. This from my young hero I wish were my son, for example.

And your 20% pay cut....

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good grief

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Good morning.

Treasury Shields Citigroup as Deletions Undercut Disclosure
By Bob Ivry - Oct 25, 2010

The late Bloomberg News reporter Mark Pittman asked the U.S. Treasury in January 2009 to identify $301 billion of securities owned by Citigroup Inc. that the government had agreed to guarantee. He made the request on the grounds that taxpayers ought to know how their money was being used.

More than 20 months later, after saying at least five times that a response was imminent, Treasury officials responded with 560 pages of printed-out e-mails -- none of which Pittman requested. They were so heavily redacted that most of what’s left are everyday messages such as “Did you just try to call me?” and “Monday will be a busy day!”

None of the documents answers Pittman’s request for “records sufficient to show the names of the relevant securities” or the dates and terms of the guarantees. Even so, the U.S. government considers the collection of e-mails a partial response to an official request under the federal Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. The Justice Department in July cited an increase in such responses as evidence that “more information is being released” under the law.

President Barack Obama vowed to usher in a new era of open government. On Jan. 21, 2009, the day after his inauguration and a week before Pittman submitted his FOIA request, Obama directed agencies to “adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure, in order to renew their commitment to the principles embodied in FOIA.”

Limits of Transparency

The saga of Pittman’s request shows that the promise of transparency has its limits when it comes to the government’s intervention in the financial industry, which at its peak reached $12.8 trillion in commitments. From the 2008 Bear Stearns Cos. rescue to the Federal Reserve’s policy of quantitative easing in 2010, the Obama administration has delayed disclosures and defended its right to secrecy in court, said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch Inc., which describes itself as a conservative foundation.

“This is an unprecedented crisis for open government,” said Fitton, whose Washington-based organization says it sued the Bush administration 48 times over disclosure issues. “When it comes to the bank bailout, the Obama administration has made a decision to err on the side of secrecy.”

The Justice Department, which oversees disclosure for the executive branch, is “working specifically to encourage agencies to be as transparent as possible and release as much as possible,” said Melanie Ann Pustay, director of the department’s Office of Information Policy. “We view our efforts as an ongoing process.”

Openness Aids Recovery

More openness concerning the causes of the crisis and the government’s response would help the economy recover, said Joseph Mason, a finance professor at the Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

“Investors who don’t have information are investors who refuse to place funds in markets,” Mason said. “If we want investment and economic growth to resume, we want to be forthright about what happened. The longer we keep investors in the dark, the longer that low economic growth will persist.”

The public has a particular interest in transparency regarding the government’s unprecedented intervention in capital markets because of its sheer size, said U.S. Representative Darrell Issa of California, the ranking Republican on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He called the Obama administration “woefully inadequate” at fulfilling its promise of transparency.

Right to Know

“At a time when the role of government and more specifically the Treasury Department, through bailouts and stimulus, is responsible for administering trillions of dollars, there couldn’t be a more important time to uphold the American people’s right to know,” Issa said in an e-mail.

On Jan. 28, 2009, Pittman asked Treasury officials for details related to guarantees the agency had provided on securities held by Citigroup, American International Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. Among other things, he asked for any contracts with outside firms hired to calculate the assets’ values.

In its response, Treasury said AIG didn’t participate in its Asset Guarantee Program. Likewise, despite some negotiations, the government and Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America “never entered into a definitive agreement,” the response said.

Citigroup’s Largest Shareholder

That left Citigroup, in which the U.S. government was the largest shareholder as of Oct. 1, according to regulatory filings. Taxpayers’ stake, 12.4 percent, was three times the second-largest investor’s.

In the 560 pages of e-mails exchanged in the last two months of 2008 and January 2009, Treasury employees and their colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York discuss with attorneys the department’s $20 billion investment in New York- based Citigroup and the $301 billion in guarantees. Both followed an initial $25 billion investment in Citigroup through the Troubled Asset Relief Program in October 2008.

The Treasury Department also released 169 pages that included a “Securities Purchase Agreement” between the bank, the agency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The document had previously been disclosed in a Jan. 16, 2009, Citigroup regulatory filing -- almost two weeks before Pittman sent his request.

Exemptions Cited

The department held back 866 more pages, saying each was exempt from disclosure on one of four grounds: trade secrets, personnel rules and practices, memos subject to attorney-client privilege and violations of personal privacy.

Treasury also cited the trade-secrets exemption in responding to a separate, similar FOIA request by Bloomberg News for details about Citigroup’s segregated bad assets. In that response, 73 of 104 pages were completely blacked out except for headings. Only six pages -- the cover, contents, a boilerplate list of legal disclosures and a paragraph titled “FOIA Request for Confidential Treatment” -- were free of redactions.

The department’s reply to Pittman’s request will count statistically as a “partial response,” in government reports, said Hugh Gilmore, Treasury’s FOIA public liaison. The response “adhered to the rules, regulations, U.S. attorney general guidance and relevant case law that govern FOIA,” Steven Adamske, a Treasury spokesman, said in an e-mail.

Right of Appeal

People who aren’t satisfied with federal agencies’ responses under FOIA can appeal to them first, and then file civil lawsuits in U.S. District Court to try to force more disclosure.

Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, sued the Fed over another Pittman FOIA request that sought the names of banks that took emergency loans from the central bank. The company has prevailed in U.S. District Court and on appeal. The Fed, which has not released the information, has until tomorrow to decide whether to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case.

Like the Treasury Department, the central bank cited the exemption for trade secrets, known as exemption 4, in withholding details about borrowers. Its lawyers argued that disclosing the banks’ identities would put the institutions at a competitive disadvantage and make them less likely to seek emergency loans in the future.

In an Aug. 24, 2009, ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska in Manhattan disagreed.

‘An Inherent Risk’

“The risk of looking weak to competitors and shareholders is an inherent risk of market participation; information tending to increase that risk does not make the information privileged or confidential,” Preska wrote. The Fed “would seemingly sweep within the scope of Exemption 4 all information about borrowers that anyone throughout the entire marketplace might consider to be negative. The exemption cannot withstand such inflation.”

Pittman’s request for the Treasury Department records spent months in limbo, according to discussions with the agency’s employees. He had waited about 10 months for a response when he died on Nov. 25, 2009. Shortly afterward, Michael Galleher, an attorney working on contract for the Treasury Department, called Bloomberg News, asking where he could send the responsive documents. Attempts to return Galleher’s call failed; he couldn’t be found at the agency.

A December call to Gilmore, the FOIA liaison, was returned by Daneisha White, a FOIA officer, who suggested calling Michael C. Bell, the FOIA manager in the Office of Financial Stability. Bell referred questions back to Gilmore.

Meanwhile, that month, Citigroup repaid $20 billion of its bailout money and terminated the asset guarantees.

Searching for Records

Gilmore called back in January, saying Galleher had left the agency at the end of 2009. He and his colleagues would search for Pittman’s FOIA documents, he said, because they weren’t sure where they were.

In April came a call from Galleher. He said that he had returned to work at Treasury’s FOIA office, that he had the relevant documents for Pittman’s request and that he would send them that week.

“I need to clear the old requests,” he said.

The office where Gilmore works, which has the equivalent of 26 fulltime employees, handled 890 FOIA requests in fiscal 2009, according to Treasury’s annual FOIA report to the attorney general. It had 1,766 requests pending at year’s end.

Government bureaucracies often aren’t staffed enough to respond adequately to requests for public records, said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Virginia. In addition, she said, they’re simply not motivated to disclose.

‘Disappointed? Yeah’

“Agencies get in far more trouble for releasing information than they do for not,” she said. “Am I disappointed in the Obama administration? Yeah.”

In May, Galleher reported that he would have something to send soon. He said the same thing in June, and then in July. Part of the holdup was caused by the governmentwide practice of giving private companies a chance to object to the disclosure of requested documents, he said. Doing so ensures that companies continue to cooperate with the executive branch by providing records without fear they’ll be made public without review, said Pustay of the Justice Department.

Neither Citigroup nor the Treasury Department would discuss which redactions, if any, the bank sought on Pittman’s request. Shannon Bell, a spokeswoman for the bank, declined to comment.

“We have no obligation to explain how much of Citi’s recommendations we accepted and in what ways we decided to differ,” Adamske, the Treasury spokesman, said in an e-mail.

Second-guessing the government’s response to the financial crisis is not useful, said Wilbur Ross, the New York billionaire who runs the private-equity firm WL Ross & Co.

“As far as I can tell, there is no evidence of any impure motivation in connection with any of the big decisions,” Ross said in an e-mail. “To me that is the issue, not whether you or I would have come to the same conclusion.”

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Piling up links:

I like the tag line....

Disempowered, disgusted, demoralized....

What the filthy polemicizing accomplishes....

RT interviews Julian Assange....

Democracy Now! really interviews Julian Assange....

Heh, no shit, Sherlock....

Nothing to see here, move along....

Vive la France....

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oh, of course

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No. Really. This is perfect. They're so far down the propaganda rabbit hole, black ops addled, plausible deniability bouncing off their office walls, nobody knows what to say anymore... and, seriously now, why should they even care? The more this stuff just floats on past us the more assured of their success they become. That means they stop being quite so careful to be incremental about it.

Each day brings further proof of our complete docility.

I know what yer thinkin' and I ain't gonna go through the whole litany every fiery leftist and then on down through even the tepidly lefter righties who pass for "progressives" to those fringe rightists with that curious penchant for big long blasts of truth. It's useless. You treat it all like television. You have been turned into a spectator. It's not real. When you try to remind yourself that it is real it's just upsetting, not gonna get you up from behind your desk and out the door no matter what epithets your boss is screaming in your wake. Nope. No matter how hard you try, it can't be that real.

This is one area where I really do think we are exceptional. I don't think there's another population on earth that remains this placid in the face of this much. Millions of people are in the streets in France because of the pensions issue. Greece keeps rioting. Iceland has scared the living snot out of every one of its officials. Everywhere. EVEN the completely squished Burmese and Tibetans have stood up, but not us, not us, man. That's for lesser mortals.

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So exasperated, I think I'll just kick back with a movie....

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And another.

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Practice... don't think I can get the hang of it....

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oh, right

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That ought to save them a tanker or two per year. Since I know they have scalar weapons, ergo also limitless free energy, they don't really need that fuel at all. Wouldn't it be a kick in the head if Afghani stubbornness were the thing that finally made this apparent to everyone?

Hardeeharharhar, I know....

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worse than a twilight zone episode

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THE most aggravating puppet in American history....

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no tellin' how mixed up you can get until they try

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Let's just put a lump of history's most dangerous route and a dollop of nice fresh terror-mongering into our evening cuppa OBL and see if we get anywhere close to ayahuasca, shall we?

Ahmadinejad calls for US leaders to be 'buried'
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI (AP) – 15 hours ago

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's president Sunday called for U.S. leaders to be "buried" in response to what he says are American threats of military attack against Tehran's nuclear program.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is known for brash rhetoric in addressing the West, but in a speech Sunday he went a step further using a deeply offensive insult in response to U.S. statements that the military option against Iran is still on the table.

"May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world," he said using language in Iran reserved for hated enemies.

Several top U.S. officials including Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff have said in recent months that the military option remains on the table and there is a plan to attack Iran, although a military strike has been described as a bad idea.

The crowd of military men and clerics in the town of Hashtgerd just west of the capital chuckled at the president's insult and applauded.

The speech was broadcast by both state television and the official English-language Press TV, but the latter glossed over the insult in the simultaneous translation.

Ahmadinejad's remarks come in sharp contrast to ones he made to Al-Jazeera Arabic news channel in August in which he offered the U.S. Iran's friendship.

In Sunday's speech, Ahmadinejad also questioned once more who was behind the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. and said they gave Washington a pretext for seeking to dominate the region and plunder its oil wealth.

During his speech in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he said a majority of people in the U.S. and around the world believe the American government staged the attacks, drawing a strong rebuke from President Barack Obama.

Ahmadinejad often resorts to provocative statements to lash out enemies. He has already compared the power of Iran's enemies to a "mosquito," saying Iran deals with the West over its nuclear activities from a position of power and he has likened the United States to a "farm animal trapped in a quagmire" in Afghanistan.

Iran also condemned the latest U.S. sanctions slapped on eight Iranian officials Wednesday, saying they show American interference in Tehran's domestic affairs.

Washington this week imposed travel and financial sanctions on the eight Iranians, accusing them of taking part in human rights abuses during the turmoil following Iran's June 2009 presidential election.

"May the undertaker bury you, your table and your body, which has soiled the world," sounds damn reasonable to me.

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holy crap!

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I am definitely too old for this stuff.

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