January 19, 2008
Please join us this January 21st as we honor Dr. Martin Luther King, by acting together to support Dr. Ron Paul, a new hero who fights for the same American principles of liberty and justice for all.
But the Commission blamed the delay on human error, even though Election Systems & Software voting machines used in South Carolina were decertified by the California Secretary of State last year, after the company refused to provide information necessary to review the voting systems, as required by state law.
British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith urged internet providers on Thursday to remove all al-Qaida and extremist websites in a bid to tackle radicalization among Britain's Muslims.
Thank You, Nevada! Ron Paul Gets the Silver in the Silver State...
... unless a batch of "last minutes votes" shows up for McCain. - M. R.
A volcano erupted Thursday in southwestern Colombia, spewing smoke and ash, and raising fears for the safety of nearby villagers, officials said.
Malfunctioning voting machines plagued Horry County, which contains the cities of Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach. "Human error" put the machines offline in 80 percent of the county's precincts during Saturday's voting, according to county spokeswoman Lisa Bourcier.
Media, election, and judicial reform advocate Mark Adams, JD, MBA of Tampa, Florida discovered something very important in the South Carolina Constitution. It provides for secret voting but bans secret vote counting.
Growth of the new lava dome inside the crater of Mount St. Helens continues, accompanied by low rates of seismicity, low emissions of steam and volcanic gases, and minor production of ash. During such eruptions, changes in the level of activity can occur over days to months. The eruption could intensify suddenly or with little warning and produce explosions that cause hazardous conditions within several miles of the crater and farther downwind. Small lahars could suddenly descend the Toutle River if triggered by heavy rain or by interaction of hot rocks with snow and ice. These lahars pose a negligible hazard below the Sediment Retention Structure (SRS) but could pose a hazard along the river channel upstream.
For the first time in all the primaries they decide to use a “top 2″ candidate graphic, because Ron Paul is a very close third place with 12%. In all other primaries they show the top three in their default graphic, and for the first time in all the coverage they decide its time to use just the top 2. They still show the top three in the Democrat race, event though Edwards is 36 POINTS behind the second place slot of Hillary, But the don’t show Ron Paul third when he is only 1% behind being in second place.
One election observer with the League of Women Voters said she saw organizers at a Carson City location call off the registration process after about 1,000 participants arrived. Her account has not been confirmed, but Nancy Scott said they simply skipped the registration because it would have taken too long and went ahead with the caucus meeting, trusting the everyone was registered.
A landmark study of more than 800 oilfields by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (Cera) has concluded that rates of decline are only 4.5 per cent a year, almost half the rate previously believed, leading the consultancy to conclude that oil output will continue to rise over the next decade.
I have heard the flawed logic that says, “Well, I don’t break the law, so why would it bother me?” The issue is not whether you feel you break the law, it is the power you concede to others to interpret if THEY feel you are breaking the law. Perhaps the most egregious violations of our civil liberties happen every day when the very people we pay to protect us, instead are killing us.
I have for some time been warning of the impending final confrontation between the US-Israeli alliance and Iran. The pointers indicating that the moment of that final confrontation may have almost arrived are now too irresistible to ignore. I hope I’m wrong.
Canned beans recalled on botulism risk...
"But we believe all our partners in the international community should understand clearly and have no doubts that in order to protect its and its allies' sovereignty and territorial integrity, Russia will use its armed forces, including nuclear weapons, and it can do it pre-emptively," he told a scientific conference in Moscow.
Russia is basically using the Bush Principle here. If they see someone they feel is a threat to their allies, say, the United States against Iran, Russia reserves the right to attack pre-emptively using nuclear arms.
The United States has no place to complain, given that the United States government used this principle to justify its invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, and (soon) Iran.
Say, what's that bright lig[NO CARRIER] - M. R.
Our leaders are dithering while the economy tumbles.
What’s doing all the damage is the utter and complete collapse of the crooked cheap mortgage system. This is based on outright swindles. It is not an accident. Huge hordes of shyster-like mortgage brokers deliberately let mortgages out to anybody who was above room temperature, even though they new for a certainty that when the banks and big lending agencies they sold them to, raised the rates, the mortgage holders would simply walk away. The institutions also knew these were fake but they readily bundled them and jammed them into anyone with money. Now, the small fry crooks have fled the country and the big banks and lending people are screwed right into the walls of their offices. It’s been all over the papers so there is no point in rehashing this but all the major banks, and I mean all of them, are taking it in the shorts and a number of the most prestigious ones are right on the edge of total bankruptcy. The government will cover all deposits up to $100,000 but not over that. And the hedge funds are another area about to cave in. They did a Ponzi with their suckers and when many try to cash out, they can’t because their ain’t no money, honey. They’ve been paying off the new customers with money from the old and once this one starts to cave in, there will be planes full of frantic former billionaires heading for Aruba or a safer Israel to join the mortgage brokers.
Ron Paul in second place in Nevada...
I'm reporting in from one of the Obama field offices in Clark County, NV. My girlfriend and I just came back from being the precinct captains at our caucus, and the scene here is ugly.
Everyone is reporting election irregularities on the part of the Hillary campaign. There is widespread cheating and voter suppression going on all over Clark County--and it's obviously coming in from the top down. Whether it made enough of a difference to swing the election is another question--but there is no question that Hillary was running a scorched-earth, no-holds-barred campaign in which all of her surrogates were instructed to cheat in every way possible.
"We would hope that the Paul campaign would go act like adults and not try to set up straw men to make up for their lack of organizing," said Steve Wark, a caucus spokesman.
Voters have received postcards with incorrect caucus locations, eligibility requirements to participate have been changed several times, several rural counties could run out of ballots, and the Nevada GOP says that Ron Paul is disorganized?!?!?
- M. R.
Subtle Propaganda...
Look at the photos of the candidates at the left margin. Note that CNN has picked photos of the candidates in which they are smiling ... except for Ron Paul. - M. R.
Ron Paul Being Censored In Telephone Polls...
Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier found himself backtracking Saturday over his department's training manual that lists the U.S. and Guantanamo Bay as sites of possible torture - alongside such countries as Iran and Syria.
In a statement, Bernier said he regretted the embarrassment caused by the public disclosure of the manual, adding that it contains a list that "wrongly" includes some of Canada's closest allies. "Please do not hurt me."
(Check out the last two sentences). - M. R.
New residential building in the US last year suffered its biggest drop in nearly three decades, according to government data published on Thursday that highlighted the dramatic downturn in US housing.
Please do NOT send bees to Pitcairn Island!...
Okay, so you probably hadn't planned on doing so anyway, but the picture of Fletcher Christians great-great-great etc. grandkids is worth the look.
- M. R.
All signs point to U.S. consumers hunkering down in recession bunkers...
All signs point to U.S. consumers warming up the tar and feathers. - M. R.
DAILY LIFE IN PALESTINE...
I’ve seen two candidates in this present spectacle that I could live with winning the White House. Those candidates are Ron Paul and John Edwards. The reason I bring this up is because the powers that be want a John McCain and Joe Lieberman ticket. John McCain is a neo-con tool and Lieberman is an Israeli Zionista. That’s a good combination for the powers that be. If they’re really lucky they’ll get Giuliani as Attorney General too.
German schools are failing in educating students about the Holocaust, a new study by a political education center has found, as German youth, who one historian said use the word "Jew" as a common curse in daily discourse, are increasingly distant from the suffering of the victims of Nazism.
Well, since the students were not even BORN when the Nazis were in power, maybe they are just sick and tired (as I am) of having "The" Holocaust crammed down their throats like it was all their fault.
Maybe they are smart enough (as I am) to realize that all this focus on what happened in Europe in the middle of the last century is just a smokescreen for what is happening in Gaza right now.
Maybe they are tired (as I am) of whiners with their hands out demanding money for something that the students had no control over. - M. R.
A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, 12 days after the Korean War began. It envisioned putting suspect Americans in military prisons.
"I tasered him because he did not follow my instructions..."
Taser: Police Brutality with all the modern improvements. - M. R.
Citigroup to cut 20,000 jobs...
Tell us all again about how hackers got into your ATM machines. We LOVE that yarn! - M. R.
US stocks continue drop despite Bush plan...
There is only one thing the US Government can do to improve the economy.
Abdicate! - M. R.
New Hampshire's presidential primary recount has drawn national attention and a great deal of scrutiny from hundreds of voters across the nation who think there could be a conspiracy, but officials said the minor problems that have been found so far were the result of human error.
How can you tell? The memory cards are missing from most of the machines, remember? The ballot boxes arrived at the recount center OPENED.
- M. R.
Collective punishment for Gaza is wrong -U.N....
But the UN cannot do anything about it because the United States always vetoes any Security Council resolutions against Israel.
The US ought to surrender it's seat and turn it over to Israel and have done with it.
- M. R.
Foreign affairs minister meets with Russia's Lavrov in Moscow, slams shipments of fuel to Bushehr nuclear plant despite Tehran's refusal to stop enriching uranium.
A reminder: Iran is enriching uranium to the 3% needed for a power station, which they are legally allowed to do under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Weapons require better than 90% encirchment, and there is no evidence that Iran is doing that.
What Israel wants is to maintain their monopoly on nuclear power and weapons in the Mideast. Like the classic paranoid, Israel will not feel safe until everyone else is totally helpless before them, but like the true paranoid, Israel will never feel safe no matter how helpless the rest of the world are. Sooner or later, as Israel is doing in Gaza, extermination becomes the final solution.
- M. R.
Highly leveraged US expansion, growth and empire are about to be swept away like a bamboo hut. As China leads the world in dumping dollars, the US appears to have exhausted the means by which it can continue to leverage or finance expansion and imperialism.
"We are still in the research stage but have conducted successful trials and the government is keen to test it. "It can detect bombs, contraband or people and will show up anything within a couple of metres."
Can you find the Constitution with it? - M. R.
In a 45-minute interview given exclusively to the Washington Post Friday, CIA Director Hayden blamed members of al Qaeda and Baitullah Mehsud, a Pakistani tribal leader.
However, when asked about the allegations that Mehsud, and thus al Qaeda, is behind the assassination, one former high-ranking CIA case officer replied, “That is total bullshit.”
At least 50 persons were killed and 60 more, including security officers, were injured during armed clashes that flared up on Friday afternoon n the city of Nassiriya with gunmen, believed to be members of the self-styled Ansar Ahmad al-Yamani group, a police source said.
Can someone please remind me again about just how much better life is for the Iraqis 4 years into the US occupation? - M. R.
In the wake of the horrific attacks now being prosecuted on a daily basis, it seems Israel is upping the ante further. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with modern history. After all, this is a tried and true method of avoiding peace and has almost become an Israeli tradition. The answer to peace talks? Bomb Gaza!
The Washington Post reports that as the President was walking, troops under his command were bombing Iraq and Afghanistan with increasing intensity. It's part of the return to the post-Vietnam tactics that worked so well for Washington, substituting US bombs for US troop deaths: lessening the political damage in the US by increasing the physical damage in the place you're bombing. Walking in the alleged footsteps of Jesus, while the US military is bombing the heck out of unarmed men, women, and children at the same time. Painfully ironic. - M. R.
THE Taliban has seriously rejoined the fight in Afghanistan, an NGO security group said in a report that concluded the country was at the beginning of a war, not the end of one.
The US-lead NATO forces have no where near enough boots on the ground to combat this. So what now? - M. R.
According to the official, Abbas was particularly enraged that Israel had stepped up its military operations shortly after US President George W. Bush's visit to the region.
At his age, and with his political experience with Israeli government leaders, Abbas had to know that this would be precisely the response the Israeli government would take right after Bush's departure. And there's almost a sure bet here: the escalation will continue (even if it's Mossad or the IDF hurling those kassams winding up on empty Israeli fields) to the point where Israel will say to the world that they have to destroy Gaza "in self-defense". - M. R.
A man carrying a loaded shotgun, a samurai sword and a bag filled with gunpowder was arrested near the Capitol yesterday, authorities said.
... wearing a T-shirt that said "Please call the press before arresting me."
This is some kind of PR stunt. - M. R.
Computer Hackers Allege That Notorious Neo-Nazi Radio Host Is on FBI Payroll...
I am leery of anything coming out of SPLC, but this article links to the purported emails by Hal Turner on which the allegations are based.
But the historical reality is that the FBI does plant operatives posing as neo-nazis, militias, domestic terrorists. The founder of Elohim City,m where Tim McVeigh supposedly planned the OK City Bombing, was exposed as an FBI informant during the trial of Carol Howe. The communications director for the tri-states militia in the mid 1990s was an FBI informant. So, FBI informants creating the illusion of domestic threats are a reality of American life. Cinque and the whole Symbionese Liberation Army were an FBI hoax (which is why Cinque was not in the building that burned down in Los Angeles but was declared dead anyway). The anti-war riot at Disneyland was set up by FBI informants on college campuses (and yes, they are still there today) who infiltrated the peace groups and tricked them into actions the media could use to destroy them.
And, it is an old FBI trick to destroy people they do not like by accusing them of being FBI informants. It was a common trick for the FBI to send letters on FBI letterhead to members of the Black Panthers thanking their for their assistance in the hopes the letters would be seen by other Black Panthers, tricking them into killing each other off.
More about FBI dirty tricks at
The COINTELPRO page. - M. R.
Israel has a right to respond to security threats but should not collectively punish the Gaza population for rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory, the U.N. humanitarian affairs chief said on Friday.
UN representatives can speak until they're blue in the face, but it will not stop Israel from continuing this behavior. Just when Israeli leadership thinks that world attention is focused elsewhere, there will be a huge Israeli military action against Gaza. And the world will continue to do absolutey nothing to stop it. - M. R.
In the week to Friday, the benchmark blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 4.02 percent to close at 12,099.30. The Dow is down around nine percent for the year to date, underlying investors’ fears about economic uncertainty.
Gaza is burning. Gaza is cold. Gaza is in the dark. Maybe you can sleep. I can’t!
Below are just a few samplings of what is going on….. YOU MUST NOT REMAIN SILENT!
Hunter quickly identified major discrepancies between the car-bomb thesis and the blast pattern recorded in photos. He wrote a report two weeks later noting that in the wake of the bombing, merchandise in a store immediately to the right of the AMIA was tightly packed against its front windows and merchandise in another shop had been blown out onto the street--suggesting that the blast came from inside rather than outside. Hunter also said he did not understand how the building across the street could still be standing if the bomb had exploded in front of the AMIA, as suggested by the car-bomb thesis.
The framing of Iran for the Buenos Aires bombing that destroyed the city's Jewish Community Center starts to unravel. - M. R.
Pentagon Explores 'Human Fear' Chemicals; Scare-Sensors, 'Contagious' Stress in the Works?
Pentagon Explores 'Human Fear' Chemicals; Scare-Sensors, 'Contagious' Stress in the Works?
What about offensive use? Pheromones are effective in minute quantities, so a wide area can be blanketed with just a few liters. Given sufficient concentration, would everyone exposed start suffering from an unidentifiable dread? The contagious aspect means that those affected would start churning out fear pheromone as well.
The United States on Friday played down the chance of major powers agreeing on new U.N. sanctions against Iran when ministers meet in Berlin next week, underlining discord over how to proceed with Tehran.
Gee, you think the NIE exposing to the world that Bush and his Israeli masters are lying about Iranian WMDs (exactly the same way they lied about Iraqi WMDs) might have something to do with the lack of support? Just maybe? - M. R.
MBIA Inc. and Ambac Financial Group Inc., the two biggest bond insurers, have a more than 70 percent chance of going bankrupt, credit-default swaps show.
The real problem in the economy is the derivatives, the various inter-relationships and connections that link everything together so that as one part of the system goes down, it drags the rest with it. - M. R.
Thieves have stolen two laptops containing unencrypted Social Security numbers of 337,000 Tennessee residents.
Okay, one more time.
1. Encrypt the data on the laptop.
2. Put the decryption software AND the keys on a jump disk attached to the keys of the person using the laptop. Some jump disks now have built-in encryption and fingerprint readers.
3. In order to use the data, the user has to insert the jump disk into the laptop. Like a key.
4. If the jump disk is removed, the data on the laptop becomes unreadable.
5. For a cyber-crook to get access to 600,000 records, they have to steal not only the laptop but the jump disk as well, a considerably more difficult proposition.
And the guys you pay taxes to could not think this one up for themselves.
- M. R.
Russia's military chief of staff said Saturday that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in preventive strikes in case of a major threat, the latest aggressive remarks from increasingly assertive Russian authorities.
"You know, like threatening to attack our friends in Iran!"
- M. R.
Mr. Smith, who was in town as the Toronto Police Services Board weighs a request by Police Chief Bill Blair to spend $8.6-million to equip and train every front-line officer with a taser, was confronted by the sister of a man who died after being tasered by Vancouver police.
He was also presented with an offer to stun an elderly man right then and there, and was caught off guard by audience members armed with research. Taser: Police brutality with all the modern improvements. - M. R.
"There's just no doubt in my mind — under any set of rules — waterboarding is torture," Tom Ridge said Friday in an interview with the Associated Press. Ridge had offered the same opinion earlier in the day to members of the American Bar Association at a homeland security conference.
January 18, 2008
"There is a section of the population here that over-extended themselves to buy here and then keep up the facade of wealth," said Sharon Sodikoff, a broker associate at local real estate agency Prudential Homelife Realty. "In the next year or so they'll be forced out in dribs and drabs."
YouTube - Ron Paul compared to a Terrorist on National Television...
Getting desperate, aren't they? - M. R.
The Truth About The Economy: Total Collapse...
Taser used on 6 yr old boy and 9 yr old girl" href="http://www.puppstheories.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1997" target="_blank">Collection of Taser articles...
Ron Paul Vote Count - START HERE- FIND YOUR- FIND YOUR STATE COORDINATOR...
A city councilman and the cops don't want you to have that Geiger counter without their permission
What is really going on here is that in the event the US Government decides to stage a new 98-11, they don;t want citizens armed with their own science equipment challenging the claims made by the government about the danger they are in. - M. R.
One of Britain's biggest property funds was forced to shut its doors to withdrawals yesterday after the slump in commercial prices triggered panic selling by small investors.
It is possible that Musharraf could be under the control of these handlers even now?..... It shows that as an Army officer, Pervez Musharraf covered the connection of a lady to a foreign intelligence agency. Normally one is supposed to tell the authorities. That gives credence to the well founded allegations that he also had, and still has, foreign handlers.
Of the existing 113 licenses that allow souvenir selling in Rome, 112 belong to Jewish vendors.
And still they complain.
- M. R.
West Midlands police are investigating the theft of a laptop from a Royal Navy officer which held the personal details of 600,000 people.
Okay, one more time.
1. Encrypt the data on the laptop.
2. Put the decryption software AND the keys on a jump disk attached to the keys of the person using the laptop. Some jump disks now have built-in encryption and fingerprint readers.
3. In order to use the data, the user has to insert the jump disk into the laptop. Like a key.
4. If the jump disk is removed, the data on the laptop becomes unreadable.
5. For a cyber-crook to get access to 600,000 records, they have to steal not only the laptop but the jump disk as well, a considerably more difficult proposition.
And the guys you pay taxes to could not think this one up for themselves.
- M. R.
Perez and appraisers like him helped exaggerate U.S. mortgage values by as much as 10 percent, or $135 billion, in 2006, according to Susan Wachter, a real estate professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in Philadelphia. Such appraisals artificially inflated the value of collateral supporting mortgage-backed securities and are contributing to record foreclosures because borrowers end up owing more than their houses are worth.
So, let's just get this straight. In denying Kucinich's lawsuit, the Nevada Supreme Court upheld First Amendment rights of a corporation, while the DC Court of Appeals denied those creatures in bright orange suits at Gitmo any rights to even pursue a lawsuit because ....they are not even 'persons' under US law. And, to top it all off, regardless of whether torture is illegal, our leadership is immune from civil action because, well, they're ignorant. And, evidently, rightfully so.
One student was shocked 77 times and the other 29 times after a prank caller posing as a supervisor ordered the treatments at a Judge Rotenberg Educational Center group home in August. The boys are 16 and 19 years old and one was treated for first-degree burns.
I am worried that we seem to be entering a phase where electricity is seen as the cure-all for every problem. - M. R.
Dear Frog...
Photographs of the Great Depression...
A preview? - M. R.
George Bush, The Pseudo-Conservative...
The postwar period was one of frenetic, unregulated growth with the government playing no role in curbing abuses.
Boy does THAT sound familiar! - M. R.
A volcano erupted violently in southwestern Colombia Thursday, spewing ash miles into the sky and prompting the evacuation of several thousand people living nearby.
The biggest component of any government plan to jump-start the economy is expected to be issuing tax rebate checks - both Republicans and Democrats are pushing the idea of sending out checks for several hundred dollars if not more.
But their effectiveness is debated, and it could be summer before Americans see any real cash. When they get to $250,000 per American, then we'll know they are sincere.
Seriously, the government knows they have pushed us all to the edge of rebellion. I don't know what idiot thought $600 per person would get them off of the hook for lying us all into a war and frankly I am insulted that they think I would sell out my principles that cheaply!
So before you start waving that flag or planning for that new High-Def TV set, keep two things in mind.
The government does not HAVE that $600 per person sitting around. Once again, they are going to the Federal Reserve to BORROW the money, which means that somewhere down the road, they plan on taking it all back again with interest. It's just another way of sinking the debt-hook just that much deeper into your flesh. (Back in 2004, Bush gave out a "Rebate" of $200 per taxpayer, but it turned out to be a loan as the $200 was added to the following year's tax bills.)
Second, all this extra cash pouring into the economy drives prices UP. So while it may LOOK like you have more wealth, it's just a number in the check register. When you have too much money chasing too few goods and services that creates an inflationary price increase. In plan words, prices will rise to absorb the extra cash. So, while you may have a higher number in the bank account (and get pushed into a higher tax bracket) what you are actually able to buy WILL REMAIN CONSTANT.
And for this little razzle-dazzle, Bush expects to be forgiven for stealing the White House in 2000 and 2004, then lying the nation into a pointless war of conquest. As I stated above, I am insulted that they think I would sell out my principles for that low a price. Aaron Burr challenged Alexander Hamilton to a duel (and killed him) for far less!
- M. R.
You know that you've reached desperate times when you find yourself fondly remembering Tass and Pravda as beacons of journalistic integrity.
The Ron Paul Campaign has learned that the Nevada State GOP has changed the rules in the past week governing who will be allowed to vote in the caucus on January 19th.
"All Ron Paul supporters' new caucus location is ... Los Angeles." - M. R.
Mount St. Helens stirs to life...
Live web-cam. - M. R.
Amid troubling reports on election integrity, Dem introduces paper-ballot legislation...
BULL BISCUITS!
This is the same dodge we got in 2000, 2004, 2006, and going back who knows how far. Every time vote fraud is exposed, the government's response is to pass a new law and promise they will do better next time BUT THEY NEVER CORRECT THE ELECTION THAT WAS JUST STOLEN.
So here we have the New Hampshire primary in a total melt down and sure enough, here comes a new law and a promise they will do better next time, as a substitute for actually dealing the vote fraud we see exposed before us right now.
So I am calling BULL BISCUITS on this new law. It's just the same old double-shuffle to avoid dealing with a stolen election by waving around a new election law that will be just as unenforced in 2010 as the current laws are in 2008.
The only way to end vote fraud is to bounce the candidate out of the government permanently so hard they bounce twice. If a candidate cannot keep their own staff in line they are not fit to run a country.
In the end, enforcement has to be up to the people, because the government, run by the successful cheaters, will never fix the problem. Why should they? They are the beneficiaries of the current system and as long as elections can be rigged, they don't have to listen to the taxpayers any more.
- M. R.
"There is no doubt that Caller ID spoofing is on the rise," says Douglas. "I testified against the practice in both the House and Senate in 2006 and warned Congress that the practice is growing by leaps and bounds. The Congress in its infinite wisdom declined to pass a law against spoofing and the predictable result is that more and more companies are offering the service."
THE NOTE: Southern Discomfort...
DON'T BOTHER READING THE ARTICLE. I only posted this to point out that Ron Paul's (54,000 votes in Michigan primary) picture is not in the illustration, but Tancredo's (457 votes in Michigan primary) is. - M. R.
A Limp Dick is an expression that I learned while serving in the Army cavalry back in the 1980s, it is generally applied to someone that is seen as “impotent,” in daily life, a non force, or someone that isn’t taken seriously by others, thus the application to our squirrelly President.
YouTube - David Shuster compares Ron Paul to Al Qaeda....
Russians are bracing for temperatures of as low as minus 55 degrees Celsius (minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit) in Siberia as Russia's emergencies ministry warns on Wednesday of its impending dangers in the coming weeks.
Al Gore, pick up the white courtesy phone. - M. R.
The median price of a home in California tumbled nearly 15 percent amid a steep drop in sales in December, a real estate research firm said Thursday.
When All You Think You Have to Fix the Economy is A Prime Rate Cut and Tax Rebate.... You Better Think Again...
Okay folks, get ready for a dose of cold water and common sense (no, I don't mean a waterboard).
Bush sends every American a $600 check. Whoopdee freakin' doo. Like $600 bucks is going to buy us all off our rage at lies, wars, stolen elections, and a government that takes half of everything we own. I am insulted he thinks a mere $600 bucks gets him off the hook.
But here is the problem; all that cash dropped into the economy, laundered through the taxpayers, still creates more inflation as prices rise to absorb the available cash supply. So while it may LOOK like you got an extra $600, the actual net result is the $600 will vanish in the resulting higher prices! You don't actually GET anything extra! You get a number. 600. And Bush hopes you will sell your principles and your soul for that number. 600. - M. R.
So what was on those videotapes destroyed by the CIA? Let's put a face to it. Abu Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and, after being shot in the groin while trying to escape, was sent to recover in a CIA secret prison. He would be the first of the CIA's many "ghost prisoners"—and also the first to test the value of what the president has often described as an "alternative set of [interrogation] procedures . . . that are safe and necessary."
As described by Ron Suskind in The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11 , Zubaydah—held in an ice-cold cell—was denied medication for his wounds, threatened with death, prevented from sleeping, incessantly blasted with pounding rock music (by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, among others), and, at last, waterboarded. After 30 seconds of feeling that he was on the verge of drowning, he was more than eager to answer any questions. I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that what the tapes showed was far worse than waterboarding. - M. R.
To understand the failure of the president's trip to the Middle East, which is foreordained and doesn't have to be completed in order to fail, take note of two words that the president will not utter: "occupied territories."
It was much tidier to make it a crime to access a server on the internet that is set up to provide that public info. It seems that no one explained to the judge what the Internet was.
This article illustrates a point I have previously made; that the government does not really understand the internet, let alone its impact on the flow of information through the society. - M. R.
Authorities are investigating the death of a 29-year-old Fridley man shot with a Taser by state troopers, who said he had become "uncooperative'' after a rush-hour crash Tuesday evening.
"Oooh, he's being UNCOOPERATIVE! TASE HIM! TASE HIM!"
Taser: Police brutality with all the modern improvements.
- M. R.
Huge disparities between votes cast on Diebold electronic voting machines and actual hand counted tallies are emerging during the New Hampshire recount, with Hillary Clinton gaining the most from over a hundred unaccounted for votes in one Manchester Ward.
The defenders of the orthodoxy are falling back on the "well there were errors, but it does not change the result."
WHAT RESULT? The result is discredited! The recount not only does not match the Diebold, make that the LIE-BOLD result, but with slit-open boxes and vanished memory cards, the results of the recount cannot be relied on.
Someone has stolen the New Hampshire primary and they are stealing the recount!
The New Hampshire primary has to be redone!
If a government cannot PROVE the accuracy and honesty of the elections by which they claim authority over the people, then the people are neither legally nor morally obligated to obey that government's dictates, pay its bills, or die in its wars.
- M. R.
A rush to withdraw money from its commercial property funds has forced Scottish Equitable to introduce delays of up to 12 months for its customers.
As America marks the first anniversary of the troop escalation in Iraq, at least one thing has become clear. Although the "surge" is failing as policy, it seems to be succeeding as propaganda. Even as George W. Bush continues to bump and scrape along the bottom of public approval, significantly more people now believe we are "winning" the war. What winning really means and whether that vague impression can be sustained are questions that the war's proponents would prefer not to answer for the moment. Their objective during this election year is simply to reduce public pressure for withdrawal, which is still the choice of an overwhelming majority of voters.
Iran received a third shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia on Friday for a power plant being constructed in the southern port of Bushehr, state radio reported.
So, if Israel (or the US) bombs the power station now, it will unleash a nuclear disaster in the region and downwind. - M. R.
Israel "would not dare attack Iran": Ahmadinejad...
Being strafed by an ally is never pleasant. But U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates picked an especially bad time this week to air the Pentagon's view that some of America's staunchest allies just aren't up to the job of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.
"You're all a buncha PUSSIES!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
IDF launches attack in northern Gaza killing three Palestinian civilians from same family riding donkey cart.
I have a hard time visualizing a nuclear-armed nation being terrified of a donkey cart enough to justify killing three human beings. - M. R.
Bush, Bernanke endorse $100-billion package in effort to prevent recession as housing mess hammers banks, consumers and investors
Bush wants to fight recession with more inflation, but that just creates a worse recession down the road. Given that Bush has less than a year in office, this may be his goal, so that he can dump the real crash on the next President and go down in the history books as a "War President" rather than the President who destroyed the US (and global) economy. Too bad for Dubya future history is not under the control of the textbook writers any more. - M. R.
Chess champ Bobby Fischer dies at 64...
Sha:h ma:t ( "The King is Dead"), origin of the phrase "Checkmate." - M. R.
The UK's law-and-order official wants extremist content off the web, saying on Thursday she intends to deny Islamist ideologues the use of a key recruitment tool.
"If there is any recruiting to be done on the net it will be BLOODY WELL DONE by Christians and Jews ONLY!!!" - M. R.
January 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russian warships from the Northern and the Black Sea fleets will conduct joint maneuvers next week in the Atlantic Ocean, the Northern Fleet commander said on Thursday.
Putin is sending Bush a message. Unfortunately, Putin does not understand that Bush is absolutely not calling the shots on US foreign policy at this point: Israel is. - M. R.
No worries, say New Hampshire officials when cuts up to eight inches long are spotted in newly delivered ballot boxes. "The only seal that counts is the one on top." Except the seal on top can be peeled off without leaving a trace, then reaffixed. Folks, as of right now I am calling the New Hampshire primary discredited and unrecoverable. That the ballot boxes have been opened proves the recount is rigged. That the New Hampshire officials could make such a stupid comment as to say that slits in the boxes don't matter as long as the seal on top is intact proves complicity. Prior history has shown how easily the seals can be removed and replaced, or in some cases simply faked. In one infamous case a driver delivering ballot boxes was caught with a pile of brand new unused ballot box seals in his truck, which allowed him to remove the original seals, alter the contents of
the ballot boxes, then put new seals on them prior to delivery at the counting center.
CALL TO THE PHONES! People , you all need to grab your phones and start calling your local newspapers and TV stations and DEMAND that they run this story.
Copy this link and email it to everyone you know. The vote fraud it not only epidemic it is open and arrogant as well. The vote-riggers don;t even care if we seem them rigging the elections; they are convinced you are too afraid to ever do anything about it.
I am also calling on my fellow Granite-Staters (who are not corrupted by promises of future career advancement in government) to make as big a stink of this as possible. The world needs to know that WE THE PEOPLE know the 2008 election is being stolen.
- M. R.
US Army proto-Dalek combat robots enter testing...
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! - M. R.
CIA Places Blame for Bhutto Assassination...
Lemme guess; 'The Toilet' did it! - M. R.
We'll fight Hamas without mercy, says Olmert...
"We'll teach THEM to win the Palestinian elections without our permission!" - M. R.
Bush departs Mideast with few apparent gains, experts say...
... but with plenty of marching orders from Olmert. - M. R.
"The government and the police have turned this country into killing fields of the innocent, executing at will in an unprecedented bloodlust that began long before elections took place," Odinga said, after presenting journalists with a slide show of gruesome photos of men shot to death. Odinga has vowed to continue the mass action until President Mwai Kibaki, who was swept to power last month in the allegedly flawed polls, step aside or recount the vote.
Sorry, but there is no other way to describe George Dubya Bush…. a man that literally took his foot out of his mouth during his recent trip to the Middle East…. and shot it!
The Israeli government decided earlier this month to permit the Gaza Strip to import industrial diesel — in similar quantities to those permitted prior to the fuel import restrictions imposed in October 2007 — but the impoverished enclave continues to suffer from power cuts.
The cuts are affecting daily life, particularly now as the region has been experiencing an uncommonly cold winter.
“We went four days without having electricity during the daytime,” said Wajihe, an elderly woman from a refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. “We had power only from midnight until 6am.” Midnight to 6AM? How is that useful?
Global warming cult, take note of the comment about "uncommonly cold winter."
- M. R.
North Korea is unlikely to abandon its nuclear weapons before US President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009, his special envoy said Thursday, calling for a revamp of six-party talks to end the crisis.
Yet another one of Bush's alleged "foreign policy triumphs" crumbles into the dust. - M. R.
Canadian Human Rights Commission Cries "Uncle", Reveals Staff Spying in the Internet & Court Awards Costs to Lemire...
Basically, in a nutshell, the CHRC was using undercover operatives to lure webmasters into making racist comments online for which the CHRC would then sue.
In other words, the CHRC was CREATING the very racism it claimed to oppose, was CREATING the reacism it then made money from in court. - M. R.
Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein built his monster out of body parts pilfered from corpses, and the monsters created by our reckless foreign policies also reek of the charnel house. Of course, in Shelley's novel, Frankenstein is tormented by guilt when he realizes what a horror he has unwittingly unleashed on the world, and he tries desperately to undo the damage he's done. There might be some lessons here for the White House.
Israel seals Gaza Strip border crossings...
Israel is clearly getting ready to stomp on Gaza. Together with the talk about blockading Syria, it is obvious that in the immediate wake of Bush's visit to Israel that Olmert KNOWS something is about to happen that will keep the world media looking someplace else. - M. R.
Twixt silken sheets – in a bedroom whose walls are also covered in silk – and in the very palace of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, President George Bush awakes this morning to confront a Middle East which bears no relation to the policies of his administration nor the warning which he has been relaying constantly to the kings and emirs and oligarchs of the Gulf: that Iran rather than Israel is their enemy.
3 US soldiers killed north of Baghdad...
Musharraf, battling civil unrest and a surge in terrorist attacks, is facing growing discontent caused by record wheat prices and power cuts in Pakistan.
A mentally ill paraplegic man filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a hospital that dumped him in a gutter on Los Angeles' "Skid Row" -- a case that highlighted the plight of the city's vast homeless population.
The United States has the most expensive yet worst medical care in the industrialized nations.
If you have not seen Michael Moore's "SICKO", you need to see it now.
- M. R.
After brief visit to plus side, Dow heads down yet again...
THE Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has described worsening clashes with Hamas militants as a war.
One has to wonder precisely who is lobbing those kassams on empty fields. Would this not be the perfect provocation for an all-out assault on Gaza? - M. R.
"They're basically providing escape routes for people who are going to be pursuing their own game at the expense of investors," said Stephen Arbogast, a finance professor at the University of Houston and author of Resisting Corporate Corruption: Lessons in Practical Ethics From the Enron Wreckage.
Reported by Manar newspaper today, Olmert and Bush discussed the possibility of imposing a blockade on the Syrian coast; both decided to launch a campaign on unconventional Syria armament capabilities, in order to start imposing a blockade on the Syrian coast.
With the exception of a few, fine journalists who challenge the people they cover, the majority of the WH press corps basically reports the news as it is delivered to them.
So they call her back. She gets off the phone. She says the manufacturer says there is a problem with a memory card. Someone from the manufacturer will be there with a new memory card soon.
Russia has promised to block Kosovo's entry to the United Nations and other international political institutions if the country goes ahead with plans to declare independence from Serbia.
The West and NATO don't really care about the geopolitcal fallout from Kosovo declaring their independence from Serbia: what they want is getting their hands around that vast mineral wealth to be found in Kosovo. - M. R.
Chief rabbi thanks Bush for 'war against Iraq'...
I am so PUH-LEEZED that Israel loves Bush for starting the war in Iraq. No, really, I mean it. Honest. - M. R.
Panicked Asian investors dump stocks on US fears
Panicked Asian investors dump stocks on US fears
Asian shares tumbled in early trading Friday as panicked investors dumped stocks after Wall Street set the lead and plummeted to fresh lows on intensifying recession fears, dealers said. The Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark Nikkei-225 index dropped 2.81 percent at the end of its morning session, putting the Tokyo market on course to close at its lowest point since October 2005.
The public must take back their airwaves from the commercial giants that now own them, The country has to find a way to give the public an unbiased view of world events: so that this kind of treason can no longer be shoved down the ignorant throats of an entire people without some other way to hear and see and maybe actually understand what's really going on. This needs to be done immediately after the revolution-maybe their first story might be "The Death of the New World Order"!
Which is why we are here. - M. R.
In a bid to save the world's largest economy from recession, U.S. President George W. Bush and central bank chief Ben Bernanke yesterday endorsed a $100-billion stimulus package as the spreading housing mess continued to hammer banks, consumers and investors.
Fighting massive recession with massive inflation. - M. R.
Israel successfully tested a new long-range missile on Thursday, defense officials said, and reports indicate the missiles might be capable of being armed with nuclear warheads.
"But that's cool, because it's Israel, and, and, and, God WANTS them to have nookular tipped long range missiles, and you don't want to go against the word of God, right? That's why we have to bomb Iraq and Iran for just thinking about having nookular weapons, even though they don't actually have them, but Israel just gets a pat on the head. Aren;'t they great?" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional Democrat.
Now, keep in mind that the White House does not own those e-mails. YOU DO. Everything the White House Generates is work product owned by their employer, the people of the United States. You pay for and own those computers, you pay for those salaries, you pay for and own the buildings. You even own the Copyright on those emails, since it is all work-for-hire.
This is YOUR property the White House made you pay for, then destroyed.
What was on those emails? Well, we can guess part of it. The missing period is when the whole Valerie Plame affair went down, which is also when the White House was trying to keep the lid on the fact that they had lied to the world about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Valerie Plame was outed as a side-effect of the campaign to discredit her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson who had gone public exposing the forged documents Bush cited in his claim that Iraq was buying yellow cake uranium from Niger.
The White House is still clinging to the claim that the Iraq WMD debacle was an innocent mistake, but were any emails to surface that proved the White House was knowingly lying, Congress would be forced to act, or following Congress' failure to do so, We The People would be justified in firing our errant employees en masse. - M. R.
Wireless phone company Sprint Nextel Corp. said Friday it plans to slash 4,000 jobs and close 125 retail locations to gird itself for an expected slowdown in subscriber growth and revenue. Shares in the company, which has been struggling to keep up with rivals AT&T Wireless and Verizon Wireless, fell 23 percent in morning trading.
On Thursday night, Waxman said he was scheduling a hearing for Feb. 15 and challenged the White House to explain spokesman Tony Fratto's remark that "we have absolutely no reason to believe that any e-mails are missing."
This appears to be more sound and fury (remember Waxman's having subpoenaed Condolezza Rice?) which will, again, signify absolutely nothing. Waxman and his colleagues, from both sides of the isle, appear to be collectively impotent to hold this administration accountable for anything. - M. R.
Billionaire To Back Ron Paul...
When this email was first sent to me, I was doubtful. This is classic "too good to be true" story. Absent a name for this billionaire, there is really very little to this story.
But, I am being flooded with emails demanding to know why I am not covering this story. So, it's covered, okay? But it is covered WITHOUT CONFIRMATION. There is one and only one message making this claim being repeated all over the net. This could easily be a trick by another GOP candidate to fool Ron Paul's supporters into thinking they can stay home, kick back, relax, and stop their grass-roots activism because this mysterious donor is going to pick up the slack and carry the campaign forward from this point.
This is twitching the new and improved bovine excrement meter. - M. R.
Israel closed border crossings with the Gaza Strip and destroyed the Hamas-run Interior Ministry on Friday in what witnesses said was an air strike, stepping up what it says is a campaign to halt Palestinian rocket attacks.
"As long as Sint-Bet ... er, I mean, as long as Hamas keeps shooting rockets into empty lots In Israel, we will go on bombing the elected government of Palestine. "
The fact that HAMAS won the elections is the real reason they are being targeted. The Palestinians do not want Abbas speaking for them. They want the government they voted for, the government neither the United States nor Israel will allow them to have. Israel's agenda is clear. If they kill off all of HAMAS, they won't have to worry the next time there is an election. - M. R.
January 17, 2008
On the occasion of the opening of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on the Mall in Washington, noted Jewish author Melvin Jules Bukiet called the Museum a “statement of raw power,” and added: “It’s not Jewish tragedy that’s remembered on the Mall this week; it’s Jewish power to which homage is paid.”
Personal information on about 650,000 customers of J.C. Penney and up to 100 other retailers could be compromised after a computer tape went missing.
Oh, don't worry. I'm sure SOMEONE has found it! - M. R.
Hollywood directors reached a tentative contract deal Thursday with studios, a development that could turn up the pressure on striking writers to settle their 2-month-old walkout that has idled production on dozens of TV shows.
Yee-HAAA!!!!!!!!!! - M. R.
A Simple Way Paul Voters Can Beat Fraud...
A $3 Trillion Bankruptcy Will Now Start To Emerge...
According to an indictment released over the holidays by Mexico’s Atty. General, Pedro Alfonso Alatorre, already indicted as the cartel’s chief financier, purchased the DC9 (N900SA) airliner, the Gulfstream II business jet (N987SA), and 48 other planes not yet identified for Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel with laundered drug money, using a company he controls which owns currency exchanges at major airports in Mexico.
Here is why Israel's desire for war with Iran carries much more weight with the US Congress than your desire for peace....
WHO IS THE US CONGRESS LISTENING TO?...
Relinked in light of Congress' joining Bush in ignoring the National Intelligence Estimate and preparing to invade Iran. - M. R.
This bill is in the first step in the legislative process.
Do you feel a draft? - M. R.
Another down day on Wall Street...
Look out, below!!!!!! - M. R.
Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the United States and its allies, according to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 H R 4986 passed 369-46 by the US House of Representative yesterday, even though the National Intelligence Estimate concluded that that Tehran abandoned its atomic weaponry ambitions in 2003.
"Because I SAID so, dammit!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
NH recount news from the Repuke side. rules being broken, Unsealed boxes of ballots are arriving...
Unsealed boxes means that the recount is being rigged.
- M. R.
Defenders of the official version of 9/11 claim that people who question the government's account are anarchists who want to tear down the United States of America.
If 9-11 was really an inside job as the evidence suggests, anyone have a reason why the United States Government should not be torn down?
If the US Government were willing or able to correct itself, it would have long before now.
Remember, we KNOW the United States Government lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to start a war. Nothing is beyond such evil.
- M. R.
County election officials in California, faced with three upcoming elections, are scrambling to keep up with the fast-changing world of voting machines.
They claim that changes to voting system requirements ordered by California's secretary of state, Debra Bowen, may put the integrity of those elections in jeopardy. See those ATM machines at the bank? See those optical scanners at the supermarket check out?
See any problems with them? Any mis-scans? Any lost money? See that paper trail the cash register spits out?
You telling me that the same government that put men on the moon can't come up with an honest, fair, accurate, and reliable voting system? - M. R.
McCain open to Lieberman as VP?...
Now there's a big surprise. - M. R.
Doublingstocks.com a Stock Promotion Scam...
Another online crook. - M. R.
Hawaiian activists seek halt to modified taro...
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Dead because of a lie. Dead because selfish people in government wanted a war and lied to get one, aided by selfish people in the media WHO TOOK MONEY FROM GEORGE BUSH TO LIE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The government and the media traded the blood of these young Americans for their personal gain. Look at their faces. How can you not be angry?