April 30, 2007

There are three items of interest this week. The first deals with the on-going official propaganda attack on Chinese food additives that are alleged to have caused massive American die-offs of cats and dogs, the second with a new and very disturbing weapon that almost anyone can use to attack important targets and the third is a really awful television clip that the DoD has been frantically been trying to silence on the Internet.

As we indicated earlier, the official government, and media, story is that melamine has contaminated Chinese food glutins, wheat, rice and corn. This is correct. However, melamine is not poisonous or we would see tens of thousands of human deaths from eating the same products. The actual poison was commercial rat poison and it was deliberately introduced into pet food in the United States, not China.

The reason for making China the villain is to knock the cheaper Chinese produces off the American market at the urgent requests of American agribusiness who cannot compete with cheaper Chinese products.

The second story deals with the probable future use of radio controlled aircraft, commonly available to the hobby world, as weapons of destruction.

A story from an international news site covers this at the end of this article (linked here) but the facts are quite simply that in two days, from August 9 to August 11, 2003, a light unmanned radio controlled plane was flown from Canada to Ireland.

The distance is 1888.3 miles for a flight from Cape Spear, Newfoundland, Canada, to Mannin Beach, County Galway, Ireland, during the period August 9-11, 2003.

The duration of the flight was 38 hours and 52 minutes. The range of the RC in this instance was 1,882 miles, accomplished on less than 1 gallon of fuel

The TAM 5 (Trans Atlantic Model), a simple balsa-and-ply aircraft, was hand-launched, on August 9, 2003, at 7:45 p.m. (local time) from Cape Spear, Newfoundland, the model flew a distance of 1,882.3 miles in 38 hours and 52 minutes before being landed in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland, on August 11 at 2:08 p.m. (local time)

The plane had a maximum weight of 11 pounds fueled and a wingspan of around 72 inches, or 6 feet The engine displaced lOcc, and a common 1980's vintage O.S. .61 4-stroke engine was mounted. The payload was 5 kgs. The model used traditional free-flight construction methods for both light weight and strength. As an example, the wing weighed only 1.1 pounds yet it could sustain more than 3G. The model had no landing gear (excess weight and drag) and used only one aileron (In the left panel .To further reduce weight, the vertical fin doesn't have a movable rudder, and the entire model is covered with transparent red MonoKote.

There are literally thousands of commercially avaliable radio controlled aircraft to be found on the current market. Dimensions and performances vary but the average low-priced model can fly for a period of fifteen minutes at between 60-70 mph. A payload would naturally vary from model to model but most commercially available models could carry 6 to 10 pounds in addition to fuel, so that, for instance, a small glass container of smallpox or other pathogens would be very easy to carry and would, when the aircraft eventually crashed, or was crashed, into a target, disperse the contents over a significant area.

The belief that some kind of atomic weapon could be carried on these recreational models is unfounded but CW/BW weapons would be “an ideal payload”, according to a highly confidential DHS study of Februay 15, 2007. Further, the report says,…Ithese converted carriers can easily be directed at a security target… and can fly fast and at low altitites, making any radar interception completely impossible…” Also, the report continues, “interdiction and destruction of such a guided missile is, given the current level of defense systems, not possible…” It should be noted that radio controlled aircraft are not limited to the United States but can be found throughout the world.

This potential threat is certainly well-known in intelligence and military circles but only recently is beginning to receive publicity. There seems to be an official U.S. belief that the only terrorists are our current enemies, mostly Muslim entities, but in point of fact, almost anyone with a grudge and less than a thousand dollars and some basic knowledge, can buy or build an aircraft radio controlled model that could, in theory, wreak havoc on the over-extended, ineffectual and clumsy American military defense systems.

For example, a DoD report explains, a replica of a high-winged monoplane, similar in outward appearance to the hundreds of thousands of such full-sized aircraft now flying inside the continental United States, could very easily be flown west, across Washnigton, over the Mall and aimed at the White House. The aircraft’s payload could be nothing more lethal than a bag of milk sugar but if the authorites were warned prior to the flight and it was put forward that this was an actual private plane intending to drop anthrax, for example, incredible panic would reign inside the Beltway. The extensive anti-aircraft weaponry on the roof of the White House and nearby federal buildings could not open up when the aircraft was eventually spotted (actual accurate identification of this as a large model would be difficult at best and in the panic of the moment, impossible) because fused shells would rain down on distant parts of the District inflicting serious and fatal damage to property and citizens. The panic-stricken exodus of senior White House residents, to include the president, would look like a stampeding horde of water buffalo in the path of a forest fire and the weaker would be trampled by the fatter ones behind them and the fleeing presidential convoy would wreak terrible havoc scattering and crushing those lesser lights on foot in the the way of the Imperial Escape Convoy.

Is this a pracitical concept or merely another ‘Scare-the-Shit-out- of-em’ government tactic?

There is no question it can, and would, work but other than to frighten people witless or perhaps to dump smallpox on Tel Aviv, the applications would seem to be negligible. Still, look how long it took before our Brave Guardians took to recognize it!

The final subject deals with an Arab-produced shocking television clip on their sniping of Americns in Iraq. The furious DoD has tried, with varying degrees of success, to shut this down. We have checked this out and it is free from virus and absolutely deadly.

April 25, 2007

There has been a good deal of underground interest and concern over the so-called ‘pet food poisonings.’ This is considered to be a red hot topic in certain official circles here and as almost all the current press reportage comes directly from official Food and Drugs Administration concocted press releases, it might be instructive here to outline a history of this terrible happening and show how a politically dangerous subject is dealt with by a government and its friends in the media. This study is only concerned with the issue of contaminated pet food and does not explore the thesis of deliberate contamination of food in American restaurants and on farms. That will be covered in a later study.

Firstly, a listing of the course of events in the poisoned pet food matter:

In March of this year, reports began to surface in the American media about pets, cats and dogs, dying or becoming very ill from eating commercial pet food,. This date is not fixed because there are now more reports surfacing that indicate that this poisoning began as early as December of 2006 and went on, sporadically, through January and Februay of 2007. This new information has been emerging from reports of American veternarians.

As of March 20, 2007, reports indicated that at least ten dogs and cats had already died and that many more were considered to be critially ill due to kidney failure

As of March 22, 2007 the death toll has risen nationally to 16 confirmed dead pets:

15 feline, one canine. It is speculated by vetenary organizations that the actual death toll is probably much higher.

On March 23, 2007: As of 1pm the New York State Agriculture Department (which, incidentially, has one of the best labs in the US for determining food contamination--the FDA frequently relies on NY Ag Dept.'s own advisories for issuing its own recall notices) has announced the poison identified is aminopterin. Aminopterin is a folic acid antagonist which in the 50's and 60's was used as cancer chemotherapy (and, illegally, to induce abortion) until it was replaced by the less toxic drug methotrexate (and seeing as methotrexate is probably one of the most toxic drugs in the anticancer arsenal, this is telling you something; typically humans receiving MTX (much less its chemical cousin aminopterin) receive leucovorin to "rescue" them from the effects of folic acid depletion). Aminopterin is used in some countries as a rodenticide

.. On March 24, 2007 : Per a medical advisory aimed at veterinarians from the American Veterinary Medical Association, it appears that aminopterin is causing kidney failure due to the drug crystallising in the kidney tubules (thus destroying the kidneys); the medical advisory also notes that there is still testing going on for other agents besides aminopterin (advising caution to vets) and also notes the risk of other health problems as a result of aminopterin poisoning (specifically the fact that the drug depresses bone marrow; a close "chemical cousin" of aminopterin, methotrexate, is used in humans and dogs with various blood cancers (leukemias and lymphomas) and in lower doses as a "last-resort" drug in humans with rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis (both of which are autoimmune diseases) specifically for its bone-marrow suppressing effect, and methotrexate is used in very high doses to destroy bone marrow in preparation for stem-cell and bone marrow transplants).

As of March 27, 2007; the Veterinary Information Network (a veterinary medicine association that, among others, sponsors continuing medical education for vets) has reported that there are 471 cases of kidney failure linked to aminopterin- ( a commercial rat poison) tainted Menu Foods products that their association is aware of including 104 confirmed deaths (11 canine, 93 feline); this same report notes that PetConnection.com has ancedotal reports of 1792 more deaths (1018 feline, 774 canine) attributed to contaminated pet food

On March 30, 2007: The FDA has now officially discounted the use of aminopterin as the agent causing pet deaths and now states, officially that the actual cause is the inclusion of melamine their analysists state they have found in suspect pet food. Melamine is a urea-based chemical that is used widely in the manufacture of plastics (especially floor laminates and oven-proof dishware); it is also (due to its urea base) used in several countries as a fertiliser. Of note, FDA-originating news reports that melamine has been found in the kidneys of a cat who died of Menu Foods related poisoning and the NY Ag Dept. lab which first detected aminopterin in the pet food has also confirmed the melamine finding., but has not confirmed FDA statements that melamine is capable of causing deaths of pets or humans The FDA press releases claim that “As melamine is a urea-based chemical it could be a missing link as to why the poisoning is so severe--certainly, melamine *cannot* help with aminopterin-caused kidney failure. One of the known effects of melamine intoxication in humans is kidney stones, and (combined with the known mechanism of kidney toxicity with aminopterin, specifically crystallisation in the kidneys) the two chemicals likely have a synergistic effect. In particular, it's uncertain how melamine is toxic to the kidneys of cats, who generally have better filtering systems for urea and uric acid derivatives (thanks to the fact cats are obligate carnivores

On March 30, 2007: The FDA has issued an emergency order stating that they now believe Chinese-originating wheat glutin to be the agent contaminating pet food as well as to specifically block import of any wheat or wheat gluten products containing melamine and to step up surveillance and testing of all wheat and wheat gluten products entering the US. Per a website also following the pet food scandal, one shipper of the allegedly “tainted wheat gluten” is now known to be Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology Development Company Ltd and the FDA releases stress that “anything using wheat or wheat gluten from this company should be considered potentially tainted.” The FDA neglects to mention that wheat glutin is used extensively in the preparation of food for human consumption throughout the world and also that no known cases of human kidney failure or infection have been noted.

As of April 1, 2007, 2,822 deaths of pets have been officially reported: 1,557 feline, 1,265 canine.

On April 2, 2007: FDA press releases stress that there is “a strong possibility other manufacturers in China are also sources”; reportedly Xuzhou Anying Biologic has claimed they are in fact buying wheat and wheat gluten from “many” companies within China. The second firm linked to contaminated grain has been officially identified as Suzhou Hengrun Import & Export Corp., Ltd; Suzhou Hengrun is quite a major import/export company in China, with a great deal of their trade involving pharmaceuticals, specifically antimicrobial drugs.

As of April: 3, 2007 168 dead (1,700 feline, 1,468 canine) and 9,203 total pets reported to their database as either sick or dead from contaminated pet food; the Oregon Veterinary Medical Association reports 104 suspected cases of poisoning due to contaminated feed (68 feline, 36 canine) reported to the state public health veterinarian, of which at least 38 are known to be fatal (23 feline deaths, 15 canine); a survey of Michigan vets from the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association shows 135 suspected cases of poisoning in that state (100 feline, 35 canine) with 29 of those cases as being fatal (no breakdown as per species, though both canine and feline cases reported); the same article notes that 41% of vets responding to the survey have treated caes of kidney failure possibly related to the tainted feed, and some sources are reporting "hundreds" of deaths; if similar numbers are occuring with veterinary reporting nationwide, this would back up the petconnection.com numbers.

On April 4, 2007: An FDA press release alleges that tne shipper of “tainted wheat products from Xuzhou Anying (and possibly others) seems to be ChemNutra Inc”. The FDA states that ChemNutra is now recalling suspect ingredient. ChemNutra is an import/export company specialising in import of Chinese-source ingredients (including, notably, wheat gluten) for the food (including pet food) and pharmaceutical industries.

On April 4, 2007 and onwards: Official government (via FDA releases) de-emphasis on aminopterin being a culprit (two Federal labs were “unable to confirm the aminopterin findings”) yet it is uncertain how melamine could be sickening cats in particular.

On April 6, 2007 it has been officially reported : 9,378 dead or ill, 3,242 dead (1,731 feline, 1,511 canine); Iowa's state veterinary college reports 43 cases of suspected poisoning, 18 fatal which backs up numbers from state veterinary associations.

On April 6, 2007 there is emerging the very disturbing possibility voiced from numerous professional but unofficial sources (and hotly denied or ignored by the FDA) that the contamination of pet food that has killed thousands of animals may have been deliberate -- specifically involving aminopterin possibly as an act of domestic sabotage.

On April 6, 2007: Now up to four manufacturers other than Menu Foods affected including Del Monte Foods (makers of Pounce cat treats, among others) and Sunshine Mills (makers of Ol' Roy pet food and pet snacks); Del Monte is on its second round of recalls, in fact, despite assurances from the FDA the day before that this would be the last of the recalls.

On April 10, 2007: 3,730 dead (1,938 feline, 1,792 canine), 11,703 dead or critically ill total; Veterinary Information Network (which covers approximately half of the veterinary practitioners in the US) estimates "hundreds, if not thousands" dead based on its own survey of veterinarians and possibly up to 10,000 pets suffering kidney failure as a result; Banfield (largest pet care clinic chain in North America, largely based in PetSmart stores) has issued very worrying statistics that state that 3 out of 10,000 pets who have eaten contaminated food and been treated at their hospitals have gone on to develop kidney failure, that kidney failure cases are up 30 percent, and that over 39,000 cases of kidney failure related to contaminated feed are expected.

On April 12, 2007: 4000 pets have been officially reported dead because of officially “unidentified causes”:: 3,973 dead, 2,058 feline, 1,815 canine; 12,419 total sickened or dead

On April 12, 2007: Cornell University's veterinary forensics lab may have identified a secondary contaminant (or possibly a tertiary one; aminopterin has been identified in samples, and this could either be a confirmation of aminopterin or a finding of a third contaminant) which has been found both in pet food and in tissues of poisoned pets. It is presently unknown what the additional contaminant found was.

On April 17, 2007: The FDA now announces that “Contaminated rice gluten now found as well. Suspected source is from a second Chinese company, and the discovery is especially disturbing in light of rice (which is the major alternative to wheat or corn) being potentially contaminated--the pet food recall is likely to expand dramatically. FDA press releases now state authoratatively that “Contaminated rice gluten now found as well--Natural Balance (which had been previously listed as safe) has recalled food found contaminated with melamine from rice gluten.” The FDA now insists that: “All Chinese-origin foodstuffs should be considered suspect”

On April 18, 2007: Death toll is 4,211 dead with nearly an even split of canine and feline cases, 12,820 cases of food-related illness

On April 18, 2007. The FDA press releases identify alleged “Chinese origin” has been ‘confirmed” as the source of “contaminated rice protein” specifically Binzhou Futian Bioloy Technology Co., Ltd.

On April 18, 2007: The “contaminated rice protein” is also alleged to originate from a second Chinese company, indicating that the problems are in fact system-wide in the Chinese food supply. There are a number of FDA-spopnsored articles appearing in the American media ctiticizing Chinese food safety (or more properly, the lack of it) and how China's food safety issues are an international concern. Among other things, the FDA only inspects 1.3% of all imported human food in the US (and, while not mentioned in the article, the FDA actually largely relies on state agencies to issue recall notices based on what their state agricultural boards have found in their labs--many of the FDA food recalls are based on test results from the New York Department of Agricultre, among other things

On April 18, 2007: Veterinary Information Network notes that they have informal reports of possible poisoning from five other products not presently recalled, including (in even more disturbing news) two medical products--HeartGard chewables (a heartworm preventative) and Pill Pockets (used for dosing animals needing medication).

On April 20, 2007: The FDA now states that there is at least one known case of a human being sickened by contaminated pet food (specifically a woman who ate Iams pet food to convince her pet to try some; both she and her dog ended up in hospital) the idea that humans could get sick from eating contaminated dog food is not far fetched.) However, the victim is not otherwise identified. The FDA now issued has a specific hold-and-detain order in regards to allegedly contaminated wheat or wheat gluten from Chinese sources. Further, the FDA cannot in fact state they can guarantee none of the tainted grain entered the human food supply and due to the fact that the FDA has revealed the Chinese supplier (Xuzhou Anying Biologic) but has so far not identified the US-based importers and distributors who would have bought the gluten from Xuzhou Anying Biologic and ultimately distributed it to food producers.

On April 21, 2007: With recent discoveries of contamination entering the human food chain via pigs fed contaminated products, the FDA is finally making a federal case out of this debacle--a criminal probe has been opened re the food contamination and in particular pigs being fed contaminated food and subsequently entering the human food chain.

From an FDA press release of April 26, 2007: "The contaminated food recall is no longer restricted to wheat or wheat glutin but also includes imported rice and corn glutin products from China and all of these should be considered highly suspect. There is also the danger that this contamination of American food products may expand in the future and for this reason, the importantion of Chinese-originating wheat, corn and rice products will be interdicted."

Conclusions: While there is no question that a mass-poisoning of American pet food has occurred, the real question is why the FDC has frantically been downplaying the known use of commercial rat poison in American pet food and even more frantic attempts to blame the Chinese for this disaster. The answer, which can easily be found on internet search engines such as Google, is that for some time, American agricultural interests have been howling to anyone in the Bush administration that would listen to them that the Chinese products are selling in this country for far less than American produce.

One of the most deliberately ignored aspects of this tragedy is the issue of American companies purchasing huge amounts of Chinese wheat, rice and corn products even though they are natively produced in the States and the United States a net exporter (and in fact, with corn, there are considerable price supports). A Boston Sun article points this out very clearly in a series of interviews with the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers which clearly indicates that American companies would dearly love to sell their produce, wheat, corn and rice, to US companies but are being severely undercut by Chinese imports--and the savings are only something like twenty cents or less per pound.

Further, allegations that underpaid illegals working in the food industry, to include restaurants and food processing plants, might be involved in a protest against draconian Republican anti-immigration projects, is a subject not to be addressed and severely discouraged of discussion in the media. The reason for this is not compassion for illegal workers but the pragmatic view that if the American public were to realize that it was possible for hostile elements to introduce bacteria such as E Coli into human food, that, coupled with the wave of pet deaths would unlease an enormous outrage among the frightened public.

Because there is absolutely nothing the regulatory agencies of the government could do in the face of this storm but physically remove all Latino workers from any aspect of the food industry, this would be a logistic and economic disaster so it is much easier to convince a growingly restive public that the evil Chinese, the pet enemies of Bush and Cheney, are responsible for the deaths of beloved pets due to carelessness than to even begin to address deliberate poisonings by dissatisfied minorities.

April 22, 2007

This report covers three subjects: The plan to take over and completely control the U.S. internet; and the Russian responses to publication of plots against Putin.

The current power structure of the United States exercises almost complete control over both the print and television media. They do not, however, control the flow of information, some it potentially disastrous, on the internet. An uncontrolled internet has exposed many lies and plots against the public safety and so, the current administration reasons, it must come under strict governmental control.

Therefore, there is now pending a joint attempt by the Department of Justice, FBI, and DEA to bring all access to the Internet within the scope of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The current CALEA legislation gives law enforcement agencies access to communications traffic under specific legal conditions and constraints.

The vehicle for this control, which is slated to be under the Department of Defense, is the so-called Internet2. This is to be a regional internet program and at present, it is controlled by the FBI but in the event this is officially expanded to take over internet control on a national level, it will then be controlled by the DoD.
At the present time, a number of very prominent and well-used internet and telecommunication services, such as Google, SBC, AOL and others, report directly to government agencies on the activities of their subscribers and users. For example, Google automatically notes any searches for subjects the government deems “inappropriate” such as interest in any group or philosophy in the Muslim world, any interest in technical subjects such as bombs or pathogens or any and all persons expressing anger with the government or any of its agencies or personnel.

Telecommunication companies fall all over each other to send daily reports on telephone, fax and other communications send or received by such of their patrons whose names have been supplied to the companies. These can be as harmless as anti-draft groups, Democrat activists, anyone expressing anti-Semitic views and so on. (Editor’s note: linked here a long and technical article on the same subject.)

The political situation in Russia is reaching a boiling point with the public utterances of Boris Berezovsky, a former oligarch and once top man in the Russian oil industry.

When it turned out he and others planned to sell theior controlling shares to American and English oil companies, in essence, Putin kicked them out of Russia. Most of them fled in terror to Mother Israel, taking billions of dollars of loot with them.

Most are living very quietly but Berezovsky has a huge ego and a bigger mouth and he, and other less verbose ex-oligarchs, are openly plotting to stir up civil dissent inside Russia with the avowed intention of either getting the hated Putin assassinated or deposed.

They have the full support of Israel and the United States in these plans because if Putin falls, all the oil and gas will be removed from state control and given back the oligarchs and the long delayed sale to Western oil interrests will go forward.

Couple this with Dick Cheney’s pathological hatred of Putin (as an evil “Communist” which he is not) and both Cheney and Bush’s fanatical support of any project Israel puts forward, this is seen in many agencies as instigating an anti-Semitic wave spreacing throughout Russia.

For this reason, the US press is now attacking Putin as a dictator but because of his loud noises, Berezovsky has had to leave England ahead of a deportation order and flee back to the safety of Israel (that country will never extradite a Jew to a foreign country, not even the recent new arrival who murdered someone and tried to burn the remains in his backyard barbecue pit)

The average Russian is very anti-Semitic, remembering their terribile and prolonged suffering under Stalin’s secret police, (40 millions were put to death during Stalin reign of terror) who were almost entirely Jewish in composition.

The growing stridency of the Jewish oligarchy against Putin is resulting in a ressurgence of anti-Semitism in Russia and one of my very best sources in the State Department tells me that it appears from their intelligence branch that such very rich personages in Russia as Oleg Deripaska of the aluminum giant RUSAL, and Roman Abrahamovich, a former partner and co-religionist ofwho has been associated with Deripaska, and who is heavily involved in SIBNEFT with Berezovsky, are slated for the axe (read deportation to Israel or a bullet in the back of the neck) and their holdings immediately siezed by the state and amagalmated into a massive state-owned resource trust.

Abramovich, who now lives in England where he is the richest Jew in the country, is a strong supporter of Jewish causes in Russia and Israeli and has funded several projects in the Abramovich neighborhood in Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv. He is known to be the biggest donor to the Jewish organization Chabad-Lubavitch.

When word of this putsch reached American sources, they at once informed the Israelis and together, a joint campaign was launched against Putin and his people, both in the intelligence communities and the American media.

Cheney is not a sane man but it is one thing to plot against a weak Iraq and quite another to pick a quarrel with a Russia that has a large aresenal of atomic weapons and a formidable military force. Bush is not actually a main party to this Get-Putin movement because he is now absolutely obsessed with protecting the vile Rove and the worthless Rodriguez, and getting one up on Congress over the failed war in Iraq but his blind support of Israel will drag him along the path of increasing, and appalingly stupid, confrontation with a country the U.S. could well have become an ally of after the fall of the Soviet Union.

It’s too bad some genuine American patriots engineered the removel of former insect exermnator cum Born-Agan- Jesus -Freak, Tom Delay. Just think of what he could do to our useless and criminally stupid leaders with a long afternon and six tanks trucks of cyanide spray. Then we would have our very own Sacred Holocaust to bleat about for the next ten decades and use as a national fundraiser for condos for Congressmen in Florida, with nubile Kushner-trained houseboys for Republicans like Foley.

April 20, 2007

As I predicted, the press is trying to beef up the silly story that a harmless chemical product is actually responsible for the pet food deaths. This time, the spin merchants claim, it’s “contaminated rice.” And, of course, the rabid anti-Communist Cheney people will claim that like the harmless “wheat glutin,” this rice came from China. Where is the duct tape now that we need it? And elements here want to claim that the waclo zipperhead who went on a school rampage was actually a secret member of al Quaeda! Nest, we will learn that the utterly useless DHS is setting up an “Academic Security Bureau” that will cost the raped taxpayers more millions in looted money!

But the real story this week concerns the collapse of the BlackBerry system on a national level. This was the direct result of Israeli-owned US firms’ technological probings into American top-secret communications network. As direct result of these break-ins via inside plantings of trap-doored systems, the famous BlackBerry systems crashed for almost 10 hours. One of the targets was the system better known as CryptoBerry. The term CryptoBerry was a project name for the S/MIME BlackBerry product.( S/MIME: Secure/Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extension) Conventional BlackBerry uses TripleDES to encrypt all traffic between the device and the BES.It was originally produced by RSA Data Security, and developed for NSA (National Security Agency, ed) and, as developed was a more secure version of the BlackBerry e-mail client from Research in Motion Ltd. of Waterloo, Ontario, used by DoD officials and in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan. Initially very slow, NSA then improved its performance. The security implications of 'going through Canada' are virtually nil. All messages, be they conventional or S/MIME always pass through the RIM BlackBerry infrastructure in encrypted form, and RIM does not have access to the keys.

The S/MIME BlackBerry is meant for organizations already using S/MIME to completely secure their mail from sender to recipient, including from the eyes of their own network administrators

The expressed concerns of the DoD, which uses these systems, and the NSA who are involved heavily with their versions of it, are greatly concerned about a possible terrorist attack on the American secret communications network. If such an attack were coupled with an internet takedown, S/MIME would be completely useless and if a successful attack were launched on the RIM relay, everything would be shut down..

A joint report, highly classified, under date of March 30, 2007, by the FBI, the DoD and the NSA discuss in detail an extensive Israeli trechinical espionage operation working inside the United States to mine any and all information that might “be of ongoing importance to the state of Israel.”

It would be impossible to specifically quote from any of the documents or show copies of them but a digest of the information is appended at the end of this report.

What two hundred and ten pages tells the reader is that the Israeli government, through its Mossad or foreign intelligence, has been systematically spying on the one country that had unquestioningly supported it and by doing so, has drawn the wrath of many Muslim oriented terrorists upon its head. The conclusion of the report is that nothing can be done about this because the current Bush administration is so pro-Israel that any attempt to interdict its spying on American military, intelligence, financial institutions and any American they deem to be anti-Israeli is doomed from the start. Such actions would have to come from public pressure and not the outrage of American intelligence organs.
American terrorist investigators know that members of the Israeli Mossad, who were involved with the Muslim group that carried out the 9/11 terrorist attacks had managed to stay ahead of them, by knowing who and when investigators are calling on the telephone. This is accomplished by obtaining and analyzing data that is generated every time someone in the U.S. makes a telephone call.

Here is how the system works. Most directory assistance calls, and virtually all call records and billing inside the U.S. are done for the telephone companies by Amdocs Ltd., an Israeli-based private telecommunications company.

Amdocs had contracts with the 25 biggest telephone companies in America, and even more worldwide. The White House and other secure government phone lines are protected, but it is virtually impossible for any American to make a call on any American phone without generating an Amdocs record of it.

In recent years, the FBI and other government agencies have investigated Amdocs more than once. The firm has repeatedly and adamantly denied any security breaches or wrongdoing. In 1999, the super secret National Security Agency, headquartered in Ft. George Meade in northern Maryland, issued what is called a Top Secret Sensitive Compartmentalized Information report, TS/SCI, warning that records of calls in the United States were getting into foreign hands – in Israel, in particular.

Investigators do not believe such calls are being listened to, but the data about who is calling whom and when is extremely valuable in itself. An internal Amdocs memo to senior company executives suggests just how Amdocs generated call records could be used. “Widespread data mining techniques and algorithms...combining both the properties of the customer (e.g., credit rating) and properties of the specific ‘behavior….’” Specific behavior, such as who the targeted customers are calling.

The Amdocs memo says the system should be public ally advertised as “helping to prevent telephone fraud.” However, U.S. counterintelligence analysts say it could, and unquestionably was, also be used to spy via the records of the American telephone system. The N.S.A has held numerous classified conferences to warn the F.B.I. and C.I.A. how Amdocs records could be used.

At one classified NSA briefing, a diagram by the Argonne National Laboratory was used to show that if phone records are not completely secure, major security breaches are more than possible.

Another NSA briefing document said, "It has become increasingly apparent that systems and networks are vulnerable…Such crimes always involve unauthorized persons, or persons who exceed their authorization...citing on exploitable vulnerabilities."

Those vulnerabilities are growing, because according to another briefing, the U.S. relies too much on foreign companies like Amdocs for high-tech equipment and software. "Many factors have led to increased dependence on code developed overseas.... We buy rather than train or develop solutions."

U.S. intelligence does not officially believe the Israeli government is involved in a misuse of information, and Amdocs insists that its data is secure. What U.S. government officials are worried about, however, is the possibility that Amdocs data could get into the wrong hands, particularly organized crime. And that would not be the first time that such a thing has happened.

Amdocs is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri but primarily based in Ra'anana, Israel, is a provider of software and services for billing and CRM systems. Its clients are primarily focused on the public sector and telecommunications, including such "Tier-1" players as Sprint-Nextel, Cingular, Vodafone, T-Mobile. The company was originally called "Aurec Group" (the Hebrew word for Artery ("òåø÷"), which in Hebrew is used to describe a communication channel) and dealt only with directory services, i.e. Yellow Pages. They now provide application suites for CRM, sales, and billing operations for telecommunication service providers. Amdocs still provides publishing software for creating print and online directories. The company also offers outsourced customer service and data center operations.

Comverse Infosys Comverse Infosys is one of the companies involved with Amdocs in its U.S. espionage activates through the telecommunication products its sells and systems it operates and services. Its products are widely used by the US telecommunications industry and government agencies.

Telrad Communications. Telerad Networks is one of Israel’s leading developers of carrier grade telecommunications equipment. The company serves as an original design manufacturer for leading global communications equipment providers and recently initiated the development of certain classified products in the metro optical networking . It is headquartered in Rosh Ha’ayin, Israel.

Verint This company was called Comverse-Infosys until 2002, but was quickly renamed when the FBI started several investigations against it and arrested some of its employees in the US on suspicion of espionage.

NICE Systems Headquartered in Ra'anana, Israel, NICE is a worldwide leader of multimedia digital recording solutions, applications and related professional services for business interaction management. NICE products and solutions are used in contact centres, trading floors, air traffic control (ATC) sites, CCTV security installations and Government markets. NICE's synergistic technology platform enables customers to capture, evaluate and analyse business interactions in order to improve business processes and gain competitive advantage. NICE's subsidiaries and local offices are based in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom and France. The company operates in more than 70 countries through a network of partners and distributors

RSA Security Inc.RSA was named for the RSA public key cryptography algorithm, which was in turn named for the initials of its co-inventors: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman. They founded RSA. On June 29, 2006 it was announced that EMC Corporation will acquire RSA Security for $2.1 billion. On September 14, 2006 RSA stockholders approved the acquisition of the company by EMC Corporation.

April 15, 2007

On Thursday, March 15, a meeting was held in a private suite at the Hay-Adams hotel in Washington. (Interestingly a reader informs us that the Hays-Adams hotel is also known to be connected to the British Secret Intelligence Service. Ed.)

This meeting was attended by CIA and CIA-based Mossad personnel, a Russian/Israeli representative of Boris A. Berezovsky, an Israeli citizen formerly a Russian citizen, representatives of Mikhail Brudno and Vladimir Duboy, also Israeli citizens and once major holders in Yukos, the Russian oil giant.. Also present was a personal representative of Vice President Cheney.

The meeting was under clandestine electronic surveillance and it quickly emerged that the purpose of this meeting, which commenced after a luncheon served in the rooms and began at 1425 hours, was to discuss the means by which Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Republic, was to be removed from office, either through extensive civil disruption or assassination.

The former Russian/Israeli oil and business oligarchs had been effectively removed from power by Putin, following the departure of Russian President, Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin had been effectively supported by the CIA and when in office, denationalized the very important Russian oil and gas fields, permitting the so-called Oligarchy (of which Berezovsky, Brudno, Duboy and others, were part and parcel.)

Their known aim was to gain complete control over these natural resources with the aid of their co-religionists in the World Bank (now run by another co-religionist, Paul Wolfowitz) the IMF and the Israeli-controlled Bank of New York. The method was to improve the fields’ production capacity with loans from American and British oil companies and then sell controlling interests to both entities.

These plans were frustrated by Putin, and the immensely wealthy oligarchs stripped of their holdings and run out of the country. Most of them fled to Israel with as much money as they could abscond with and where they are now living, completely safe from any criminal prosecution, while Berezovsky fled to England where he is currently resident.

Berezovsky, born on 23, January, 1946, he and his associated gained the support of Yeltsin and he personally took over control of the state controlled AutoVAZ car business, Aeroflot, the Russian airline and several very rich natural resources, later reorganized into Sibneft. These acquisitions were accomplished by bribery, extortion and outright theft and were all protected by the Yeltsin people. He also was able to seize control of important segments of the Russian media which he used to support the 1996 Yeltsin presidential campaign. This media conglomerate also included the TV6 and Ort television channels and the large-circulation newspapers, Novye Izbestiya, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Kommersant.

Acting on information from the Israeli Mossad, Berezovsky established contact with Neil Bush, the very corrupt younger brother of the President and became a very heavy investor, since 2003, in Bush’s computer company, Ignite! Learning. The two have met, in Europe and the Baltic areas, a number of times subsequently.

Berezovsky then became heavily involved in the political situation in the Ukraine in 2005. Working in cooperation with elements of the CIA who were under orders from the Vice President Cheney to “destabilize the pro-Russian government of the Ukraine “ and seek to bring it under the aegis of Nato with especial emphasis on gaining the oil rights in the Donets Basin and, most importantly, to secure the oil and gas pipeline systems running from Russia to eastern Europe. Berezovsky financially supported Viktor Yushchenko and transferred “significant amounts of cash” from his London bank accounts to the Yushchenko campaign. Such foreign interference is illegal under current Ukrainian laws

Although Yushchenko was elected, political activity sponsored by Russia made it impossible for the U.S. interests to either secure control over Ukrainian pipelines or gain access to the natural resources of the Donetz basin.

Following this very expensive debacle, Yuschenko then turned his attention to projects designed to either physically eliminate Putin or drive him from office. He stated in a public interview in January of 2006 that he was fully intent in overthrowing Putin, a goal heartily supported by Vice President Cheney who personally hates Putin and is under pressure from his friends in the oil industry to remove a man who not only snatched control over the rich Russian natural resources from them but has actively blocked their continuing efforts to somehow get their hands on Russian oil and gas.

Well aware of Berezovsky’s activities (the Russian intelligence services have long ago penetrated Israeli intelligence organs, a number of Berezovsky’s minions have either vanished without a trace or, like his co-religionist, ex-Russian FBB intelligence officer and alleged “reporter,” A. Litvinenko, was poisoned by a dose of radioactive material as were two other Russian “reporters” and in Washington, an anti-Putin former CIA official was shot in front of his house and the entire episode covered up by the American press.

Although these deaths should have warned not only Berezovsky and his allies, they apparently learned nothing and are now working to overthrow Putin and restore the oil and gas interests to status quo pre-Putin.

As early as August, 2003, tentative plans were being developed between the CIA, the Mossad and dissident groups inside Russia, plans that later were formalized in Washington with the blessing of Cheney. During the course of the 7th International Workshop held in Helsinki, Finland, at the Sonera Conference Center in that city, meetings were held between a CIA official using the name of Roger Simkins, his Israeli opposite number, Rahm Gittlesohn, a Mossad agent attached to the Israeli embassy and Moshe Sitkovetsky, an Israeli-based agent of Berezovsky. These “initial exploratory talks” lasted off and on for two days and were later continued on six separate occasions, five of these in London and the last one in Washington.

An organization was created, called ‘Another Russia’ and contact was made with Eduard Limonov who heads the National Bolshevik Party. Beresovsky has no problem using this man but the Vice President, who is strongly anti-Communist , has objected to the inclusion of Limonov. . Berezovsky hates Putin for destroying his empire and has on several occasions labeled the pro-German Putin as a “nazi.’ He also has advocated the killing of Putin’s daughters “as a warning” to the Russian president but to date, this project has received little attention.

The current plan is to have ‘Another Russia’ begin a series of disruptive public protests, utilizing students;, former Communists and some members of Russia’s rapidly shrinking Jewish community. There have been active discussions about what kind of articles will appear in the American media (anti-Putin) and, of course, non-documented promises of large cash rewards to the leaders of the opposition in the event of their so disrupting Putin that he will resign. In the event that he retaliates, it is hoped that he does so in front of cameras and at the same time, a plan is being formulated to shoot him in the Crimea while on vacation and blame it on Ukrainians.

It is to be stressed that both the United States and Israeli governments are fully in accord with the thrust of these plan. If, on the other hand, the British government were to become aware, at least officially, that these plots were being conducted from British soil, the consequences for Berexovsky could be very serious and it was put forward that as friendly an ally as PM Blair has proven to be to U.S. interests, it would not be productive to attempt to enlist British cooperation.

April 12, 2007

I have two subject to deal with today. The first is the completely disastrous military situation in Iraq and the second deals with deliberately poisoned food in the United States. In the first matter, it will soon be public that Bush is going to extend the tours of duty for troops to 15 months or, with some clever interpretation of the rules, to 20 months.

In addition to these draconian measures, be advised that a classified Pentagon report confirms what we already knew: that Bush is ordering all, repeat all, National Guard units activated (in discreet stages) for immediate shipment to Iraq. Legally, Bush can do this, but the political uproar is going to be immense. “National Guard (In Federal Status) And Reserve Mobilized As Of April 11, 2007

This week, the Army, Navy and Air Force announced an increase, while the Marine Corps and Coast Guard had a decrease. The net collective result is 1,030 more reservists mobilized than last week.

At any given time, services may mobilize some units and individuals while demobilizing others, making it possible for these figures to either increase or decrease. Total number currently on active duty in support of the partial mobilization for the Army National Guard and Army Reserve is 63,689; Navy Reserve, 6,404; Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, 5,079; Marine Corps Reserve, 5,514; and the Coast Guard Reserve, 302. This brings the total National Guard and Reserve personnel, who have been mobilized, to 80,988, including both units and individual augmentees.

April 9, 2007

Aside from the building and very serious tension between a fanatic Bush and a growingly furious Congress, the real news here is the slaughter of our troops in Iraq. With many units sent over there without proper equipment or armor and, in many cases, no training whatsoever in combat, the Iraqi resistance people are wreaking havoc on the inexperienced men. The idiot Bush plan has been to rush as many new troops as possible to Baghdad, kill all the resistance people they can find, terrorize the locals and then, declare peace and pull out. That’s fine except for one thing: They forgot to get permission from the Resistance first! With plump and innocent new blood, these people have been having a terrible field day and the chances of establishing a “zone of tranquility where the new Iraqi government can establish democracy’ is the same as the nuts here babbling about a Second Coming. A nice idea, kids, but it won’t happen. Bush and Cheney still want to invade Iran and the Likudists here want the same thing but the military has told them it can’t happen. Believe me, Bush won’t budge an inch, howls about Congress “depriving our brave heros” of food and condoms, picks senseless fights with any Democrat in sight and totally ignores the growing danger signs of an enraged public. No, Virginia, we have lost in Iraq and no amount of flag-waving and psychobabble speeches on the part of our disintegrating leaders will have any effect except to make any Republican an object of public scorn and derision. More and more is coming out about Bush stacking the U.S. attorney’s offices with useless Christian fanatics, all from the pesthole run by the nut Pat Robertson. They may have the brains of garden snails but they have the advantage of fanatic loyalty to Bush. They will eventually have to be weeded out.

April 6, 2007

The pot is beginning to boil over the food, human and pet, poisonings. I am digging up more data of Mad Cow in the U.S. and the Chinese have denied the wildl US claims that wheat glutin is poisoned. Their glutin is almost all used inside China and the main company has not shipped any glutin to pet food plants. Of more immediate interest is the mobbing of Fat Karl Rove on Wednesday. Although the media closely confined the story and limited its distribution, the effect here in the White House is amazing. The Secret Service is very alarmed over this incident, as they were over the fictional Bush assassination movie they managed to block distribution of in America. Bush is the most hated president in history and the number of “serious” death threats, revealed and uncovered, has everyone here frightened. The Rove attack was spontaneous student hatred of a very evil man but the detail here is going to give top aides more protection and redouble their already formidable presidential detail. Bush’s glee in provoking Congress and the American people is causing serious trouble, not only on the Hill but throughout the country and this is just building up steam. As I have said many times, Bush is not going to listen to anyone and is going to do just what he wants. In the end, he will be wearing a Napoleon hat and ranting to himself in an empty White House. More on the poisonings next time.

April 2, 2007

If you want an first class example of official lies, watch the televised conferences of the federal health officials concerning the poisoning of pets. A large number of cats and dogs have recently died from eating deliberately contaminated pet food. The first finding, by a reputable laboratory, was that the food was laced with rat poison. Our government, alarmed at the implications of this and coupled with a number of serious and disparate outbreaks of induced Ecoli at restaurants, has now released a statement bordering on the moronic, claiming that Chinese wheat glutin is responsible and that it contains a harmless plastic additive. If this were the case, there would be tens of thousands of humans, who eat wheat glutin daily, dying in the hospitals all across the world. Why the transparent and stupid lies? Two reports, one by the DoJ and the other by the CDC indicates that the “probable suspects” are Mexican illegals who work at the restaurants where the poisonings broke out and certainly in the American pet food factories. Militant Latino groups are furious because the Republicans want to physically deport all illegals and are further outraged at the slave wages and poor working conditions the American businessmen force them to work under. Another reason for avoiding the subject of deliberate poisoning of American food is that if it ever became commonly believed, the fearful and enraged pubic would demand action and action is something the useless, cronified Bush administration is incapable of. And it also might be of interest to note that the so-called Mad Cow disease now had a foothold in the United States but we will hear absolutely nothing about this because the meat packing industry gives the Republicans huge money to be quiet. After all, it would cost them millions to properly test their meat sources and why spend hundreds of millions in safeguards when a briefcase full of hundred dollar bills delivered to the Oval Office (yes, dear, Bush does take personal bribes…it runs in the family) or the office of a key Senator or Congressman. After all, they reason, by the time Mad Cow is noticed by the public, they will be safely out of office and enjoying their bribes in Aruba.

March 30, 2007

Several topics of interest. Let’s discuss the recent rash of outbreaks in the food chain. Mad Cow disease, Ecoli outbreaks in fresh spinach, Ecoli at east coast Taco Bells’s and an Olive Garden in the Midwest and finally, the great Pet Food die off. First off, there is Mad Cow in the United States. The Department of Agriculture is well aware of it. The Secretary issued dozens of calming statements when they found one cow in the States, did her best and then quit to work for, of all things, the meatpacking industry. Typical of the Bush people. Some wealthy contributor’s factory dumping cyanide into the local water supply? Never mentioned in the media. The spinach and other Ecoli episodes? Massive cover-ups. The pet food? Again, the same thing. Tests by a very reputable lab showed rat poison but this was quickly played down by the government and rat poison was replaced with a harmless plastic additive that wouldn’t kill anything unless a 50 gallon drum of it fell off a shelf and onto a passing cat. Many millions of cans of food had to be recalled and many, many lawsuits are pending. Business is affronted so the Bush people issue calming statements and the press is instructed to pay more attention to the passing of Anna Nicole Smith or the Lost Girl from Aruba. There is a report floating around here that says that the episodes were deliberately caused and the suspects are illegal immigrants employed in the restaurant, farming and pet food canneries. Why? The recent statements on the part of ultra-right Republicans about rounding up all illegals and shipping them out of the country and the raids on companies hiring these people which leave children in day care centers and schools while their frantic parents are on a plane back to Guatemala.

Another interesting topic is the obvious forthcoming total collapse of the Bush administration, due entirely to the personality of the president. Bush is not the brightest bulb in the lamp but he is not going to budge on the Iraq business and Congress has gotten his measure and is attacking him. As they score hits, Bush gets nastier and nastier. You should hear him in the White House. If it were up to him, he would declare martial law and put all the Democrats, and defecting Republicans, into custody and let Karl Rove run the country as he has always wanted to do. Eventually, the impasse will get so intense and so nasty that the word ‘impeachment’ which is now being whispered in official circles, will sound like the last five minutes of the ‘1812’ overture. It’s the Nixon/Watergate mess all over again and it will not go away. Clinton, for all his faults, was clever enough to sway with the wind but Bush will not and in the end, he will not have the entire electorate after him but Congress as well.

March 26, 2007

Sometimes one can discover fascinating facts in unexpected placed. In the Business section of the New York Times on March 26, we see an ad for an auction on page C9. It announced that Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital, Inc. is auctioning off 13,200 residential mortgage loans on March 29. These mortgages were generated originally by NC Capital Corporation, New Century Mortgage Corporation, Home123 Corporation and New Century Credit Corporation. The aggregate face value of these items is $2.48 billion! What has happened is this: So-called “subprime” mortgages were made by these companies to persons with dubious, little or no credit. The initial lenders faked credit reports and persons holding them were often able to get a house with no down payment at all! What these lenders did next was to sell the mortgages to big Wall Street houses, take the money and run with it. The buyers had been bamboozled into thinking they had paper of value and when the time came to increase the payments, as they had every legal right to do, they quickly found out that the mortgages could barely make the small initial monthly payments and when the banks holding the paper, raised the rates, the holders were completely unable to pay (as the original mortgage brokers well knew) and the homes went into foreclosure and the Wall Street firms were stuck with billions of dollars of paper with nothing behind it but fake credit reports. Now, the small original lenders have folded up their tents, cackled with glee as they pocketed their loot and vanished into the night, leaving the respectable firms with billions in debt. This is as big a fraud as the rigged dot com frauds of the ‘90s. In that case, brokers would take an incorporated company, get their rich friends to buy large amounts of stock with the agreement they would, let us say, buy the stock at five dollars and sell out at twenty. Naturally, with huge purchases of an essentially worthless stock, the market reflected this and up the stock went. Eventually, because it had nothing behind it, gravity took over and it plunged, taking billions with it and doing damage to the American economy and the legitimate technical sector. Someone ought to compile a list of the names of the mortgage subprime lenders and publish it. My, I wonder if there would be anything in common?

March 23, 2007

There are two deadly financial scandals that will break or which are in the process of breaking. One is the so-called “sub prime mortgage” swindle and the other is the coming collapse of the hedge funds. In the first instance, unscrupulous mortgage vendors, deliberately target unsophisticated young potential home buyers or the elderly minorities and lured them with promises of very low rate mortgages. Of course the small print in light gray ink and 8 point type informed the poor sucker that, yes, you had a very low initial rate but soon enough, the rates could double or triple. And guess what, kids, they did. And all across America, the banks and final holders of these con jobs results found their mortgages were worthless because the holders could not pay. Of course this was well-known to the initial con men but very often not to the banks or the victims holding the mortgages. All across America, sub prime mortgages giants quietly took their profits and moved to Spain, leaving tens of thousands out on the streets and a growing number of unoccupied, and unsaleable homes. The greedy banks and other mighty financial institutions, seeing how many hundreds of millions the initial salesmen were making, rushed to invest, something they will very soon regret. While this drama is unfolding, another is in the wings, waiting to lumber onto the stage and explode. One of my friends in the FBI’s White Collar Crime told me that most of the huge hedge funds are nothing but shells as their owners are operating one of the largest Ponzi schemes ever. Hundreds of billions have been looted and many of the very flush ceos and their staffs have bought homes in foreign countries to be near the billions they have looted. In the first case, it is the poor that have been deliberately screwed and in the latter, the greedy rich.

March 18, 2007

Early last week, I was having dinner with an old friend of my wife’s who works for the Justice Department as an analyst. During the course of the meal, he mentioned a lengthy report he has on his desk about Vice President Cheney. It was compiled by a Department individual, known to him and considered to be very accurate.

It is a lengthy report on Cheney’s psychological makeup, his physical problems and a clear rationale for his very possible death, probably in the near future.

It is not a state secret that Cheney is in very bad health. He had suffered, to date, four major and three minor heart attacks, he has had quadruple bypass surgery, a pacemaker installed and two angioplasty surgical procedures (to clear badly plugged arteries.) The last available, but certainly not public, medical prognosis is that it would take very little for Cheney to have a final, and fatal, heart attack.

The recent discovery that Cheney suffered a blood clot in his leg and has undergone both a medical intervention and is now receiving anticoagulant medicines in addition to a significant regimen of other medications aimed at controlling his very high blood pressure and equally high cholesterol levels. He has been told by his doctors to lose at least 30 pounds, to be very careful of his diet and to engage in physical exercise, designed to improve circulation, on a daily basis. His age, lack of exercise and weight problems coupled with his psychological makeup are inevitably going to kill him, sooner rather than later.

Cheney’s psychological makeup is a contributory factor to his ongoing and escalating circulation problems.

He has an obsessive/compulsive personality that internalizes stressful episodes. Cheney has always been the powerful and driving force behind Bush’s disastrous Mid East policies. Cheney is a fixated Cold War personality who hates and fears the Russians, believing that they are still Communists, bent on the destruction of the United States. Cheney is also determined to enrich himself via his stock options with Halliburton, the oil company. Due solely to his actions in giving Halliburton many highly lucrative, no-bid government contracts, Cheney has effectively boosted the value of Halliburton’s stock and he now holds a significant number of stock options in that company, which he once ran, which, if liquidated, would make him very rich.

He has instigated a number of CIA operations against the Russian Republic, designed to gain US control over former Soviet republics that are rich in oil or who possess territory over which immensely profitable oil and gas pipelines must pass in order for these resources to reach western markets.

Cheney hates Russian President Putin because he sees Putin as a man who deliberately thwarted US plans to gain control over Russian oil and gas resources via the actions of the so-called Russian Oligarchs. The latter were all Jews and working with an Israeli-controlled bank in New York and with the cooperation of their co-religionists in the IMF and the World Bank, came very close to achieving this control.

Putin is now seen by Cheney and his associates as the one force blocking a renewal of US business control over Russian natural resources and Cheney has made no attempt to conceal his fury and frustration over what he sees as a major business and political defeat.

In addition to this problem, Cheney’s failing plans to set up a permanent US military base in oil-rich Iraq to secure the area and, in addition, serve as a badly-needed bulwark for an Israel who hates, and is afraid of, many of her very hostile Arab neighbors has added immensely to what has been a stressful career.

I knew Cheney during the Reagan years in power and even then he was a driven man, obsessive in his attitudes, completely intolerant of any opinions that ran counter to his own and determined to be the man whose decisions were the only correct ones and therefore must be implemented. Our of the government, he longed to return to the corridors of power and when he was asked to chair a committee to find a suitable vice president for the Supreme Court-appointed Bush, he naturally chose himself.

His aides have often spoken, sometimes in my presence, about Cheney’s contempt for what he sees as a weak and spineless president but he realizes that he is incapable of becoming chief of state though he once said,,,”If someone nails George, then you’ll see some royal ass-kicking!”

Cheney’s personal drive and his complete dominance over a weak president, coupled with the vicious and vindictive manipulations of Karl Rove, Bush’s poison dwarf, have wreaked havoc on the American diplomatic, military, political and now, economic, structures but he will never give up and never leave his White House office except on a gurney.

He has been further stressed by the departure and subsequent conviction of I. Lewis Libby, one of his closest associates and a good friend. Cheney in triumph was a study in arrogance and power but Cheney in growing defeat will only turn his rage and frustration inwards and, given his serious medical problems, is a certain candidate for an imminent state funeral.

This may sound cruel on my part, but given the damage Dick Cheney has done, and is capable of doing, his passing would be a blessing for the people of the United States and, indeed, the world.

March 16, 2007

For some comic relief, let’s consider the breathless statement carried by an awed American media about the alleged “terrorist leader” who had “confessed” to every terrorist action since the bombing of the USS Maine. Not even the True Believers in the White House have gone for this whopper. This is a typical Karl Rove ploy to take the heat off of him, his precious Georgie and Alberto the Wetback that is now erupting. Like the “liquid bombs,” the “bombing of the Sears Tower (in Chicago) and the hilarious “duct tape” follies, our Spiritually Inspired leaders are rapidly descending into slapstick. Oh, and let’s not forget the periodic “bin Laden tapes” that the CIA people make up in Texas and have a shelf-life of about ten minutes. These thieves have been stealing billions of dollars of American taxpayer’s money and one might think they could be a little more adult in their hysterical fabrications. Next, we will read, that the DoD has located a prisoner who has confessed to shooting Abraham Lincoln!

March 12, 2007

We are rapidly approaching a major confrontation here yet very few people are aware of it. The military has told Bush that to “retake” Baghdad” i.e., kick out the insurgents and, most important, secure the city against a return, the U.S. will need 50,000 new troops!

Bush wouldn’t dare risk a public explosion on top of the growing medical lack-of-care- scandal so he is shipping men over in small increments. He won’t stop until he had reached the 50,000 goal. The same military estimates that with luck, they can “fully secure” Baghdad within four months and then establish iron control over it to prevent any return of the insurgents.

Not only were an officially-recognized 21,000 sent over, most without proper weapons, no body armor of any kind or any serious urban warfare training, but an additional 4,000+ were also shipped over as “support troops” which are not considered combat troops.

Today, I learn that Bush is sending over another 7,000 men and in the end, the remainder will be send in small batches, the press told to keep this under wraps for “national security” reasons. On top of this, there are not any more armored Humvees, no body armor currently in stock and the ammunition is very low. Bush does not care about this but he does care about the rapidly collapsing on the Unknown Front, Afghanistan.

He stripped our troops out, leaving the British and other to confront a growing Taliban which is slowly, and viciously, retaking much of northern Afghanistan, killing anyone who is suspected of helping the U.S.

Now why is Bush doing this?

Some say the oil ,and Iraq has huge oil reserves, but this is not the real reason for the coming and obvious disasters.

The real reason are the frantic demands of Israel for the U.S. to remain in Iraq as a buffer to protect them. Bush, as is well-known here, is fanatically pro-Israel and the Jewish lobby and diplomatic corps here has been fiercely lobbying their co-religionists in Congress to support them by any means.

This is a terrible thing to say but I must say it: Every dead and mangled GI is the direct fault of Israeli demands. We are not bringing democracy to Iraq but security for Israel and there is no other explanation.

Any Congressman, and there are a growing number, who dares to oppose the wishes of Israel runs the very real risk of immediate reprisal from the Israeli lobby and, most especially, by the heavily pro-Israeli American media.

The Army has been tapping phones and DISA systems here and all of this sickening business is a fact, not some idiot blogger rantings.

It used to be said that the Voice of the People was the Voice of God but in 2007 Washington, it is the Voice of Israel that has become the Official Voice of Jehovah.

Bush, and Congress, hear and they obey.

I, and many, many others, think the time has come for the American public, not the politicians, to become aware of this ugly business and express their views in very loud and determined voices or the death and maiming tolls of their children, fathers and lovers will continue to soar.

Israel is buying her security with the blood of America’s youth, and neither Bush nor Israel care.

March 9, 2007

Several items here. What you ran on the Clinton White House has delighted many and, from the emails I get from tbrnews, enraged the few. Too bad. The outrage of a blogger, beaten to the punch by a real news source, it awesome to behold. They have no power at all but they puff up like blowfish and yap like Pomeranians. Apparently, from the number of viewers for this article, is has had an impact. You haven’t seen anything yet, kid. The Cambonne papers are a piss cutter and should encourage large number of outraged citizens to march on the Beltway with farm tools, pit bulls and Dick Cheney’s antidote for lawyers. Then we would see come action and the birds and stray dogs would have plenty to eat for a time. The hyped up fake-“Iran attack” is fading into the background as an increasingly declining (23% in the private White House opinion polls yesterday) Bush flails around, visiting South America where is he viewed as one would a dripping leper. Bush is not popular anywhere but with a small handful of nutty Jesus Freaks and, of course, the Fascist wing of the Republicans. And one other comment about the Libby business: It is now circulating around the same neo-nazis that the attack on Libby is not because he bald faced lied to grand juries and plotted with the evil Cheney to make wars, it is because poor Irving is being attacked because he is a Jew. (The family name was changed from Leibowitz) Yes, we must defend our co-religionists at all costs. The Rosenbergs, Mark Rich, Franklin, Pollard are to be defended at all costs because they did what they did for Blessed Israel! Note the Wall Street Journal is braying about an “immediate presidential pardon” for their co-religionist. If Bush listens to all the importuning calls from the Israeli Embassy and AIPAC, he will pardon the convicted purgerer. After all, Clinton pardoned Libby’s client, the swindler Marc Rich in the waning hours of his reign in return for a mattress cover stuffed full of big bills. Bush can do it for his own Beloved Israel but if he does, he will be prancing into a mine field, tutu flapping in the wind.

March 5, 2007

Note that Hilary Rodham Clinton (HRC) has much to say in the following minutes:

March 2, 2007

Whenever I am constipated, I do not take medicine but I prefer to read the blogs to hasten things along. I have noticed that the DailyKos seems not to believe I exist and has rushed into print breathlessly warning its two dozen readers never., never to read the Voice of the White House. Unfortunately for these soft-headed left wing “grassrooters” (hogs root but most bipedals do not.) I do exist and starting on Monday next, I will be publishing from time to time certain official memos, headings and all, taken from our precious archives. The first one is a great study of Hilary Clinton’s attitudes that ought to keep Obama’s team atwitter. Also, I have some interesting gen on Hilary taken from California law enforcement reports, via the San Francisco Chronicle. This concerns Hilary’s actions with certain Black Panthers while she was working at Bob Treuhaft’s Oakland-based law firm. Naughty Hilary got caught! And you can read it all here, starting next week. Enjoy! And for the brainless bloggers, my middle finger is extended upwards in fraternal greeting! Say hello to Wes Clark, won’t you, dudes?

February 26, 2007

All his life, our President, George W. Bush, has been a failure.

He is a weak man who has only survived because his family have poured money into his business ventures, all of which failed.

He was, and still is, a binge drinker (he was blotto during Katrina) who never outgrew the culture of the fraternity house, a very poor student, dismissed from the National Guard for repeated truancies and his excessive use of drugs and alcohol, a physically abusive husband.

Because he was the scion of a prominent and wealthy Republican family whose father had been head of the CIA, Vice President and then a one-term President, George was jobbed into office by a cabal that was determined to inflict their political and economic views on what they viewed as an excessively liberal American public.

Like all weak men with severe image problems, Bush has proven to be duplicitous to a degree, vicious, vindictive and pathologically rigid in his actions.
But behind him stands the Vice President. Cheney is far more intelligent that Bush and is a capable and very industrious person but he is, to be blunt, a nut.

Dick Cheney is totally crazy, obsessed with power and his warped image of a world-dominating United States , is a concept that has been dead for years. Cheney, a man of great drive and possesses neither scruples nor common sense, and is a man who loathes anything connected with Russia because he believes, in error as usual, that Russia is still run by Communists!

In his fantasy world, Cheney seeks out the support of any person or group that he can use in his drive for American domination. AIPAC, the Likudist neocons, the far religious right and the upper levels of the American corporate world are all on his Rolodex.

Cheney appointed himself Vice President after a cabal had installed Bush in the White House by a secret coup and at once began to fill vital posts with his trusted allies such as Stephen Cambonne and Donald Rumsfeld.

Cheney himself was responsible for instructions to torture and maltreat any entity or person he personally deemed to be anti-American and stopped just short of ordering such treatment for Americans who opposed him. He has spawned enormous and divisive hatred for Americans throughout the world and personally is responsible for the increasing destruction of the American military as a deterrent force.

His savage, unreasoning and vindictive nature has alienated most top Republicans and now, it is increasingly obvious, the top levels of American military leadership.

Now, the supposedly gullible American public is being treated to the biggest lot of childish propaganda imaginable. Bush and the Israelis are trying frantically to promote public support for an attack on Iran. They have trotted out all kinds of silly faked stories; “Iran-made bombs,” “We are going to attack Iran next week,” “Israel is going to bomb Tehran,” and on and on. I have something that Bush does not: friends in the Pentagon and they have all told me that, yes, there are plans to invade Iran on the books. There are also plans to invade North Korea and other countries. However, we are not going to do this because we can’t. Bush and his gang have been shriekinig ‘wolf! wolf” about North Korea for several years now, issuing dire threats of military action if they don’t dare to settle with us on our terms. Once they, and the rest of the world, saw this was just bluff, Bush lost a great deal of face,\. In desperation, the propaganda machine came up with a whopper last week: North Korea agreed to our terms! Of course they did not and this one fell as flat as the rest of the bovine fecal matter gushing out of the White House.

None of this is of the slightest interest to Cheney who is in constant daily contact with his weak president, issuing orders to him, and everyone else in the White House. Cheney wants a war and insists on getting it. Even if everyone else sees the Emperor has no clothes, Cheney is oblivious.

Cheney is a purely evil man in the eyes of everyone but himself and, even more than the weak and petulant President, must be removed at once from the levers of power before he surely starts a major war that will have appalling consequences.

February 23, 2007

In 2002, a special high level telephone and computer tapping sub-agency was set up by order of Rumsfeld at the suggestion of Cheney. Their job? To spy on important people; diplomats, Democratic senators and congressmen, potential enemies of the administration and people neither Cheney nor Bush personally liked.

Like Topsy, this growed to the point where the group was spying on people the senior military at the Pentagon didn’t like or trust. One of their top targets has been Israeli diplomats, their intelligence agents operating here, quite openly, and at the CIA especially and so-called Israeli action groups like AIPAC.

When Cheney got wind of that, he screamed like a scalded cat and the group was ordered to immediately cease and desist spying…but only on the Israelis. Much of this material, reams and reams of it, have been Xeroxed and have been circulating around Washington for about two years. Although much of this material relates directly to the American political and diplomatic endeavors, the American media will never touch any of it. Bush himself is fanatically pro-Isreal as was John Ashcroft and woe to anyone who issued one word of criticism of that problematical state.

We know, for a dead certainty, that Mossad agents had penetrated the Arab groups in Florida who were planning the 9/11 outrage and here we have a funny story. Funny is really not the word, actually. They helped the Arabs with their plans but eventually, it was decided in Tel Aviv that if the U.S. was not notified and somehow it leaked out about their knowledge of a huge and devastating attack, there could be a huge uproar in America and the blind support of Israel could be interdicted by public opinion. The rub it this:

Their Ambassador warned (and this is on tape and has been transcribed) George Bush, Dick Cheney and John Ashcroft personally about the pending attacks in DC and Manhattan. Cheney saw this as a perfect opportunity to advance both his and Israel’s policies in the MidEast.

Nothing was done and we know what happened. Now, according to some of the intercepts, the Israelis are laughing out loud because if the Bush people ever dare to attack them or refuse them their slightest wish, it will come out that they indeed knew of this plot, to the last detail but naturally they informed the top leadership of America in plenty of time to take action. After all, they knew the targets, the probably dates and, even more important, the then whereabouts of the terrorists.

It would have been child’s play to grab them before they did their deeds. Israel knows that even if Bush loves them, not only he but many others would be destroyed if it came out that they all knew in advance and did nothing because it suited them to have a lovely target and an enraged public to grant them all the war powers they needed.

We have seen where this led and the question now is whether or not some fearless reporter/editor/publisher will dare to make these public. It will come out but they all pray daily, “not on my watch, God, please!

February 19, 2007

One of the aides in Cheney’s office ate lunch in the White House cafeteria two days ago and is now in the hospital with ecoli. They found samples of this in some of the lettuce! There is a report floating around that a very militant Mexican group has been “very strongly suspected” in a number of recent ecoli outbreaks on the east coast and elsewhere. We had a number of cases of ecoli at Taco Bells in the New York area and one at an Olive Garden in the mid west and now this. CDC tests cannot find the source of this. After the Taco Bell and Olive Garden outbreaks (hundreds sick) they descended on the restaurants and tested everything edible in all the places. There was absolutely nothing found that was contaminated. It is now felt that these attacks were only “dry runs” and were being done because of the perceptions in the Mexican community that the far right Republicans are demanding the physical expulsion of any and all illegals, regardless of employment or family situations. Short of firing all Mexicans employed as restaurant personnel (and they represent a huge percentage) there is no way to stop this. The Republicans won’t change their tunes. At least they are consistent, unlike McCain who waves back and forth like a sunflower in the wind, turning this way and that. In the future, a number of us will be bagging it.

February 16, 2007

There may be a concept of freedom of the press but the American media is certainly a controlled entity. As much of the print and television media is controlled by Jewish interests we never see criticism of Israel but we do see attacks on their enemies, such as Iraq and Iran. If a Palestinian sets off a bomb in Israel, the press is filled with it but if the IDF is thrashed in battles with the Hezbollah or sets fire to an Arab day care center, it never sees the light of day on this side of the Atlantic.

Members of AIPAC stealing secrets? Back page if at all. But “evil Iran” (who might bomb Israel with an atomic weapon) is constantly on the front page.

There was an AIPAC, ADL plan to get Congress to establish a national U.S. holiday dedicated to “Holocaust Remembrance” but it has been decided to put that one on ice for awhile.

Israel is pestering the White House and its co-religionists in Congress to support an attack on Iran but the public, the final arbiter after all, won’t buy the rationale invented by the Neocons, championed by the lunatic Cheney and mouthpieced by an increasingly hysterical and nasty president.

Our first president, George Washington, suggested that America maintain strict neutrality, keep out of foreign quarrels and sell to everyone. That never went anywhere, did it?

If you want to know what is really going on in the world, read the foreign press internet sites: British, French, Canadian and even Russian (and Arabic as well) give you a truly balanced and well-informed view that you never get from the domestic media.

This toeing the official line is not an accident but it is obvious why subscriptions to the once-mighty newspapers have tanked. Trailer park people love to watch the repulsive and shrill Nancy Grace shrieking for hours or Bill O’Reilly acting as a poster boy for euthanasia but for news, go elsewhere. And besides, it’s entirely free!

February 10, 2007

Today, the entire staff here is being fascinated by the comic drama being played out over at the DoD concerning the so-called “Iranian Roadside Bombs.” U.S. Defense chief Robert Gates would like the sheepies to believe that ‘some serial numbers’ and ‘markings’ on ‘projectile fragments’ they found in Iraq, implicate Iran. Their invented serial numbers and markings on explosives used in Iraq provide ‘pretty good’ evidence that ‘Iran is providing either weapons or technology for militants there’. That, children, is the party line. I have a feeling that this will not fly but reality is totally absent from official thinking these days.

In addition, the Bush administration plans to argue that Iran is violating U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1267 and 1373, which state that harboring al-Qaeda members constitutes a threat to international peace and security, and are enforcable by military means. The resolutions state that nations should share information on al-Qaeda suspects and gives the UN authority to freeze their assets. The official story is that since June, 2004, 170 American soldiers have been killed by Iranian explosives, according to the usual “ US security source”. That, like all such “sources,” refused to be identified. Are they afraid of possible future legal actions against them?

There is, and I have seen it, fairly firm evidence that the roadside bombs are being manufactured in Belgium at FN for the Saudi government, shipped to them via an American military transport and then trans-shipped by the Saudis to Sunni resistance fighters in Baghdad.

This is certainly not part of the propaganda circus that is playing out, complete with pictures of pieces of metal, ‘complete with serial numbers and the proof that these deadly weapons are being supplied by Iran to terrorists in Iraq solely to kill and maim’ American soldiers! Everyone here knows this is a Cheney ploy to excite what he calls, ‘the gullible public” into giving the administration a badly-need boost for a planned aerial attack on Tehran. Not only Cheney, but most especially the Israelis are demanding this attack and Bush does what Tel Aviv and his non-elected vice president badly want.

Copies of the orders of battle and the combat operational orders are floating around, but this could well be to encourage leaks that will terrify the Iranians into kissing Bush’s hairy feet and destroying all their atomic energy equipment so as not to be a possible threat to Blessed Israel.

Bush is a weak man, desperately clinging to the fiction that he is a powerful and just man when in fact he is a weak creature who has been a consistent failure for all of his life, a drunk and a bankrupt.. He sees a glorious military victory in Iran as being the keystone to what he calls his Legacy. (He saw the same thing happening in Iraq but that was not to be, so George is looking for greener pastures….and laurels. Never mind that the Texas university he has blessed with his Presidential Library want no part of it or him)

His legacy has been one of escalating deceit, death and terrible mindless destruction.

Cheney, who hates all Russians with a burning passion, said to his staff yesterday upon hearing that Russian president Putin and his staff were in Saudi Arabia: ‘Let’s hope someone shoots the shithead down in flames….we can blame it on the ragheads…’ One of his secretaries, who thinks Cheney is a powerhouse but as ’ nutty as a fruitcake,’ told two of us this example of Cheney’s psychotic rantings at lunch.

The plan?

After the chronic liars at the DoD finish their dog and pony show for the very complaisant press, they will watch the polls to see if they put one over like Ridge and Ashcroft did with their pink and green alerts. If Bush feels they have bitten on the bait, then they will go to the next step.

The U.S. military now in the Gulf reason is totally incapable of sustaining a land attack on Iran so the plan is to use Naval air units to plaster the missile positions in the mountains bordering on the Gulf and then hit Tehran, flattening any and all mosques, government buildings and suspected atomic research and development areas. The gleeful Israelis have supplied them reams of pictures and diagrams of “possible areas of interest” which are to be turned into smoking rubble.

There will be no invasion and Israel has said that they will not supply any ground troops.

The following U.S.Naval units are to be involved:

Carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN 69, USS Boxer LHD 4, USS Dubuque LPO 8, USS Cornstock LSD 45, USS Bataan LHD 6, USS Shreveport LPD 12, USS Oak Hill LSD 51, USS Ashland LSD 48

There are two other large naval units being brought up in support.

The British are assisting us in offloading missiles intended to level Tehran at Basra.

Certain identified Special Forces units will be slated to land on the Iranian shores of the Gulf and move up into the mountainous area with the goal of locating and destroying any Iranian missile sites known to be a threat to U.S. military units. Specific orders are that in the event that any Russian ‘advisors’ be captured, they are to be shot at once without trial and disposed of by burning the bodies.

The US military also reported that the order to send bombs to Iraq came from ‘officials in the Iranian government.’

And it is now known here that more fakery has been in progress. This deals with the highest quality counterfeit U.S. $100 and $50 bills. The official American report on this is that the North Korean government is responsible for this but it is now known that the CIA is responsible for manufacturing the almost perfect Initially conceived as a means to pay foreign informers, this project has nothing to do with North Korea which cannot even print up their own bills but has them done outside the country. This project, now being controlled by a Mr. Sherwood, located in Washington, has been functioning for almost twenty years and the bills are printed in Taiwan, not Korea.

Since this is considered to be a secret clandestine intelligence matter, it is not subject to Congressional oversight. Also, because it is being operated out of a D.C. command center, it is possible for the forgers to obtain the necessary 17 lb bond paper from Crane paper company, that also makes paper for the legitimate bills. Inks are also no problem but it has always been demanded that these forgeries be made and distributed only outside the United States and that the forgers had to include at least one hidden identification point to prevent them from being accepted by American banks and the Federal Reserve System.

Now, a dissatisfied employee of the CIA is sending information on this around Washington, mostly to Democratic lawmakers. It is amusing to note that two cargo containers of fake bills were sent to Iraq to ‘help with reconstruction’ but actually to serve as bribe money for bought-and-paid-for Iraqi politicians and military. The amusing part is that the legion of crooked contractors and a number of high-level military personnel bagged enormous amounts of this money under the mistaken impression that they were genuine! Imagine the fun when their new-found wealth turns out to be stolen and counterfeit!

An irreverent person asked me if Bush would have to give his share back?

Yes, I said, but they will have to go to Paraguay to find him first and they will have to stand in line.

February 9, 2007

The Bush gang is now going into a bunker mode. They have a very irate public and Congress against them, threats of Congressional retaliation against all Republicans, very real threats of investigations into massive thefts of money (unbelievable what they have stolen!), gross stupidity, vicious attacks on anyone who disagrees with them, and a determination to proceed with their MidEast conquest policy come what may.

One of the worst offenders in all of this is the American media. They have known from the beginning about various nasty matters and have coyly kept it all quiet. It was known that the gay prostitute;,Gannon/Guckert was roaming loose in the White House all night for fourteen different nights but no comment from the press. Rumors floating around D.C. was that Bush was having an affair with Gannon but it never, ever, got into the press.

There were a dozen pictures of Abramoff with Bush in the White House but not one paper or television station ever printed them (although they were readily available,) refusal to even hint at faked casualty figures, muted silence about the gross activities of the sluttish Bush daughters and many, many more subjects.

The media has been pandering to Bush and his corporate supporters until just recently and no doubt we will now see a reversal and Bush will be savagely attacked.

And why?

Because, in part, Israel wants Bush to fight their wars for them in the MidEast; to attack Iraq (which happened) and then to flatten Iran which they view as a major threat to them (not to us).

Israeli diplomatic agencies and domestic Jewish support groups are daily importuning Bush and Cheney to attack Iran and prevent Iran from possibly attacking them.

Israel doesn’t care if 10,000 GIs get iced as long as we do the bombing for them. Personally, I think we ought to cut them loose, get out of Iraq, forget about Bush’s nut plans and let Israel take care of itself.

They and they alone have dragged, tricked and pushed us into the war and a moronic pro-Israel Bush has gone right along with them.

And for starters we can round up the neocons like Feith, Wolfowitz, Perle and Kristol and ship them to Israel in a crate. If you have a rotten tooth that is infecting your whole body, you don’t trim your toenails, do you?

February 5, 2007

All one hears inside the Beltway these days is the debate about whether or not Bush will invade Iran. What would be the royal reasons for this?

1. Iran, a Shiite country that hates the U.S., is supplying all kinds of very destructive weaponry to their co-religionists in occupied Iraq.

2. Iran has dared to defy Bush by refusing to stop working on what Bush claims are atomic weapons. They say they aren’t and he says they are.

Both lie.

Bush realizes he has lost the battle in Iraq but is too weak and too stubborn to admit it. He wants to have one last push to be able to declare a propaganda victory and he can’t have it as long as Iran supports the criminal elements (or Freedom Fighters, take your pick) so he has threatened Iran with war. Iran, knowing they have the support of Russia, China and most of Europe, has, in essence, given Bush the Persian Finger.

On the other hand, beloved Israel is terrified that Iran might attack them and has been pushing and shoving Bush into killing off the Iranians (and, not to mention of course, many more American soldiers) Congress is not happy but Bush does not care what Congress or the American voting public thinks.

Bush honestly believes he has a mandate from God to do what he wants and by God, he will do it!

We don’t have the ground troops and Israel would never send a single soldier so the plan has been to use the Navy to launch carrier air strikes against possible targets in Tehran.

The only problem with this is that the carrier task force, confined in the Persian Gulf, is terribly vulnerable to rocket attack from the very deadly Russian missiles that country has given Iran.

Bush is damned if he does and certainly damned if he doesn’t. If he were an intelligent or sane man, which he certainly is not, he would fold up and leave the table but this will never happen.

That plans to attack Iran have been drawn up is a 100% certainty but whether Bush will implement them no one knows. Bush will not listen to professional political or military advice. Maybe the final argument will come from the Israeli Ambassador’s office.