February 27, 2006

The so-called ‘Lincoln Group’ has been exposed as having planted numerous official DoD fictions in the foreign press. It is also known that they, and others, have been busy planting the same lies in the domestic press.

One of these is the oft-“leaked” information that the U.S. is planning to bomb or invade Iraq because we are concerned that they are going to obtain an atomic weapon “in about ten years.”

First of all, we are not going to bomb nor invade Iran. Our current military situation is so precarious that we couldn’t invade Tijuana.

Israel, who wants us to fight their wars for them, is actually terrified that Iran might have such a bomb (and it is indeed known that they have the ability to deliver an atomic warhead to Tel Aviv or, even more interestingly, the Green Zone in Baghdad,) and wants nothing to do with further agitation against Tehran for fear that it could cause them to launch an preemptive attack.

The fictional “ten year” bomb is an attempt to placate the American people and nothing else. A number of American intelligence reports circulating around the Beltway indicate, with some unanimity, that the Iranians have at least one warhead, supplied either directly or indirectly by Russia or Pakistan.

Since the Iranian launching facilities are numerous and scattered, a preemptive American or Israeli bombing attack would be a pure crap shoot and like finding a needle in a haystack.

If we missed our target, and the presumption is that we would, the retaliation would be terrible to contemplate. As a result, the feeble-minded Bush people are now trying to get everyone else in the world to go after Iran while issuing faked stories about bombing raids and invasions.

There are always many who believe any propaganda issued by a government, no matter how fatuous it is on the surface but the Iranians, Russians and the rest of the Muslim world pay no attention to our clever attempts to brilliantly fool them, knowing how impossible it is in fact.

Faked “tapes” from top bin Laden people or even from the long-deceased bin Laden himself have as much credibility as one of Bush’s “trust me” babbles or even the notorious “Orange Alert” days they have put back into the closet as being too unbelievable for any one but the remaining Pentecostal and proto-fascist diehard supporters of the dying regime.

Putin, in his quiet way, has been methodically improving Russia’s world position while at the same time, waging a very successful economic warfare against Bush.

Because Putin has ousted the Jewish oligarchs from the control of vital Russian oil and gas reserves, naturally, the American media bleats about Putin’s lack of respect for the civil rights of others.

How this administration, with its official torture policies and illegal domestic spying can dare to criticize any country as being undemocratic or in gross violations of the civil rights of their people is an exercise in gross hypocrisy.

America is running out of suppliers of oil and gas at an astonishing rate as more and more oil producing countries are finding other markets. That Putin has a hand in this is without a doubt and certainly explains the loud bleating about his “bad civil rights record.”

That will not get us the oil we need and when the cost of a gallon of gas or heating oil soars upwards, Bush and his people can then look for the Eskimos or the Australian Aborigines to blame for their own appalling incompetence and pig headed stupidity.

February 23, 2006

Napoleon’s Foreign Minister, Talleyrand, once said of an incident that it was worse than a crime; it was a mistake. This aptly sums up the decline and fall of militant Republicanism in the United States, as manifested by the corruption and utter incompetence of the Bush Administration.

This has been an administration whose course has been marked with blatant lies, vicious ad homonym attacks on any critic and policies dominated by a fatal mixture of hubris and utter stupidity. The WMD deliberate lies, the badly botched military actions in Iraq, the utter failure to anticipate both the savage and effective Iraqi resistance and the pending civil war, the bumbling and gross incompetence during the long-anticipated hurricane damage in New Orleans, the daily manifestations of cronyism, corruption and lies, the contemptuous arrogance of a Vice President who has done more damage to the Republican Party than any Democratic strategist could conjure, are a growing litany of moral bankruptcy.

The present uproar over the Bush people’s attempting to give vital U.S. port supervision to a dubious Arab country was highlighted by a petulant President who stated in public that as he had decided this was “good for America” he would veto any attempt on the part of an outraged Congress to demand further investigation. By antagonizing Congress and painting himself into a public relations corner, Bush has once more demonstrated his utter lack of fitness to run the United States and if Congress, as it has strongly indicated, passes a bill to nullify Bush’s latest folly, they can easily override any Bush veto. If that should happen, it would be the turning point in the Bush Follies and power to govern would finally pass to Congress.

We would then have three more years of open warfare between the fanatics in the Administration and Congress, which certainly would benefit no one. Bush has shown himself totally incapable of any kind of common sense or compromise and that which will not bend, will break.

If, on the other hand, the Republican leadership is able to penetrate the Stygian gloom that seems to be the permanent condition of Bush’s consciousness, and he backs off the deal, no matter how much his and his aides finesse it, Congress will have won.

February 20, 2006

I have been informed recently by three different Beltway people in positions of knowledge, that important Republican backers are afraid that the perceived gross incompetence of the Bush Administration cannot be reversed and will only increase.

Therefore, they have decided that Vice President Dick Cheney must be made the focus of growing public anger directed at the endless and senseless war in Iraq, the rising prices of gasoline, the slumping economy, the very valid perception of the Bush Administration as corrupt and inefficient and must go and that for the next three years, Bush needs to have a moderate and saleable Republican vice president that can effectively run in '08.

Also, with the Mid-Terms coming up in November, they feel that if Cheney isn't booted out, now, that the Republicans may well lose one, or both, houses as a result of these elections.

Fear and loss of power is a wonderful motivator.

Cheney is an arrogant shit who pushes the weaker Bush around, pays no attention whatsoever to his staff and does exactly what he pleases, when he pleases.

He was the man behind the disastrous Iraqi war, the torture of prisoners, the subversion of both Georgia and the Ukraine, a strong voice for the invasion and neutralizing of Venezuela, the destruction of Hamas in Palestine, total support for Israel, has pushed frantically for a universal draft and in general has done terrible damage to the image of not only the White House but the country.

He will never abandon his power position voluntarily and will only grow more truculent and domineering as challenges to his person increase so the question now going around the upper circles of Washington and the top Republican leadership in Congress is how to oust this dangerous boor without Cheney fighting back, using inside knowledge that would not only wreck Bush but his administration and the prospects of the Republican party as well.

The growing press attacks on Cheney are being orchestrated by Those On High and in actuality, no one cares if he had a few drinks and then shot his friend at point blank range during a quail hunt. His actions, and those of his staff, immediately after the incident, would lend credence to the strong rumors that Cheney has too much to drink and overreacted to someone running towards him with a weapon. His utter arrogance in not bothering to inform the President or even top White House staff after the incident and his obvious determination to ignore the unfortunate accident is typical of the man. His behavior has reflected negatively, not only on his own character but has made the White House look like it was run by liars, obfuscators and fools.

February 16, 2006

About a month ago, I was contacted by an individual who told me that they had “hundreds of tapes” they had made of private, cell-phone conversations across the country, from 2002 until present.

Last weekend I listened to approximately 20 tapes out of close to 500, played to me over the telephone (I have never met the owners) . They had gathered their information from: New York City, Westchester County in New York, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, McLean, Vienna, Annadale, Tyson’s Corner and Arlington in Virginia, Potomac and Bathesda in Maryland, and, of course, the District of Columbia, Miami, Jacksonville and Naples in Florida, Dallas,, Austin, Houston and Ft. Worth in Texas, various areas in southern Arizona, San Francisco, Mountain View, Malibu, Hollywood, Playa del Ray, San Diego and Sacramento in California and Las Vegas, Nevada.

These conversations, which are unidentified as to speaker or telephone number, range from sexually idiotic dribblings through various possible (though unspecific) criminal activities to include conversations about murder, kidnappings and extortions, adultery, sexual depravity, (“I want you to beat me and put cigarettes out on my nipples!”) theft, embezzlement, and, of course, gross political corruption.

Since it is probable that such taping is probably illegal (or quickly would be made so by a terrified Congress,) I told them I regretted that I could not accept nor have anything to do with these, but suggested that they could edit them for interest and put them out on CDs for their own considerable enrichment and the edification of the public.

I, and a growing number of others, feel that unless the public (the ultimate victims) know what is really happening, the Bush fascists will have free reign to enforce their criminal rules to prevent public rebellion.

Making CDs is very easy and very cheap and if a national marketer would not be interested, it is obvious that they could also produce and distribute them from abroad.

Although the parties are not specifically identified, in a number of cases, positions and ranks are certainly mentioned, I am positive that the speakers will recognize their own voices as will others. I would imagine that if they follow through on their production and distribution plans, there will be wet seats all across corporate, political, military and high society America. I can just hear someone say, “Why Maudie, that sounds just like you and Dr. Carstairs! Has Ben heard these?,” or, “That must be Senator ***** but is that his niece? My God, she’s only eleven!.” Or even more interesting, “That certainly sounds like Dr. *** *********, doesn’t it? My wife and I listen to his inspirational religious program every Sunday. Why his secretary must be sixty if she’s a day! I can’t imagine him saying things like that, can you? And he’d probably have a stroke if he ever tried to do those disgusting things.”

It never ceases to amaze me how stupid people are and in this case, the assumption by “important” governmental or corporate entities that either their private cellphone system is “totally secure,” which it certainly isn’t, or that no one can hear them, is completely in error.

I did tell the tape people that if it were illegal and they were pulled in on it, to tell the Grand Inquisitor that they got the tapes from a good friend on the inside at NSA or personally from Judge Chertoff. Actually the NSA is the better choice since they have been doing this for years, long before Bush and Cheney arrived on the scene, and Chertoff is on the way out.

The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Manchester Guardian, the San Francisco Chronicle and many other news organs would doubtlessly like to lay their hands on these forthcoming CDs and a new parlor game in the newsrooms, and across America, would be “Guess the Name!.”

Swift was too kind in his appraisal of humanity, I have to say after listening to only a fraction of these.

Is there a lesson to be learned in all of this? Certainly, but it is too obvious to state: Shut your mouth, clean up your act and get on with your life.

February 13, 2006

Two subjects for the readership today. The first deals with the recent shooting accident of the Vice President and the second with a far more serious matter; the incapacitation of President during the opening days of the Katrina crisis.

The Cheney story is by now well covered in the American media.

‘The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The vice president's office did not disclose the accident until nearly 24 hours after it happened.

Armstrong said she was watching from a car while Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of the vehicle to shoot at a covey of quail.

Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Cheney and the third hunter walked to another spot and discovered a second covey.

Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," Armstrong said.

"The vice president didn't see him," she continued. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good." (My, my!)

This is a quote off the wire. Had an email from someone who saw the initial SS report to the White House and it runs almost the same except to put a slightly different spin on it. Cheney, heavily guarded and accompanied by a small army of security men and a few medical personnel, was hunting quail in thin brush. One of the party who was a little behind him shot a quail and had to hunt it up in the bush. He found the bird and then charged after the Cheney people. The VP, who is terrified that people are going to assassinate him, heard his friend calling and crashing towards him, saw a figure with a gun... and fired right at him.

Man was hit in the face with bird shot.

Cheney was stone sober at the time and I am surprised he was shooting at birds on the wing. Normally, he likes tethered or tame game so he won't have to overexert himself. A tame white duck, trussed up and hanging up, alive, in a tree (not too high) is a perfect point blank target for the sportsman Cheney.

The only sinister aspect to this is the hysterical behavior of the VP .

I have done a lot of hunting in my life: quail, pheasants, ducks, geese, a big rabbit hunt in Germany with beaters and all, German wild boar, deer, elk and the occasional beater.

I have gone after quail before and know the part of Texas they are talking about. I am positive it all happened as described but am equally positive that Cheney way overreacted and shot out of sheer terror.

Think about it. Our senior leadership is not only corrupt, they are nuttier than fruitcakes!

Now, on to much more serious matters:

There are growing questions in the media and also in Congress as to exactly why President Bush was “not available” during the vital first few days of the Katrina disaster. There are statements, made under oath before Congress, by former FEMA director Brown that he always bypassed DHS Secretary Chertoff on important matters because of the latter’s gross incompetence.

Brown testified that he personally notified Bush, who had gone to his Texas ranch at Crawford before the hurricane hit, on the Sunday that the approaching storm was obviously very serious, was headed directly for the very vulnerable New Orleans and that he, Brown, would keep the President personally informed. On Monday, when it appeared that the New Orleans levees had broken, Brown notified Crawford that this had happened but was not able to speak with the President personally.

As he testified, for the next few days, he was unable to speak with Bush but passed his vital messages to Andrew Card, his chief of staff, or other top Bush officials then at Crawford.

I have personally spoken with personnel at Crawford and also with one accredited newsperson with the Presidential party and have learned that for three days, George W. Bush was “totally unavailable” for any kind of report on the terrible damage caused by Katrina and the urgent need to help the suffering population. Bush did, and said, absolutely nothing.

Why is this?

Quite simply because the President was drunk.

Yes, Bush was, and is, a so-called “binge drinker.” This means that from time to time, often when under pressure, he goes to Crawford for privacy and during his visit, gets royally drunk. During this time, it has been proven impossible to communicate anything to Bush, and his aides and his wife not only shield him from hostile eyes but endeavor to fill in until he is back amongst the living again. In this case, the White House staff in Washington, horrified by the mounting news stories and well aware of the President’s chronic drinking problems, compiled a DVD containing urgent television programs on the progress of the disaster and sent it by courier to Crawford to play for the President.

Three days after the levee collapse and the mounting chaos in New Orleans, Bush apparently regained some degree of sobriety and then decided to leave Crawford…for a fund-raising dinner in Arizona and a photo opportunity in California!.

In spite of the frantic attempts on the part of his staff and senior advisors, he refused to either go to New Orleans or return to Washington. If nothing else, Bush will not be told what to do by anyone and this was the situation here. He duly flew over the flooded city, pointed at the mess for the press cameraman and then relaxed with a nice lunch with his staff.

Realizing that the President could be accused of dereliction of duty, Clever Karl, the Fat Viper, decided to blame the neglect on Brown, released enough material to make a fool out of him and then forced him to retire. Brown, however, had the foresight to keep his communications with the White House and presented them to a Congressional committee.

He certainly managed to overcome the image of a bumbling failure and although very careful about accusing the President, he nevertheless pointed directly to a complete failure on the part of the President and his staff as well as the Director of Homeland Security. He gave much better than he got and now the public, and Congress, has a nice bone to chew on.

To be blunt, Bush and his gang couldn’t run a mechanical whorehouse and the sooner we can rid ourselves of them, the better. If you come up behind Bush, he might like it but Cheney will shoot you. What a guilty conscience this bunker-living bombastic idiot must have.

Pop a paperbag near him and his pump would give out on the spot.

February 9, 2006

Two matters of interest today are: The Revolt Against the Evangelicals and the Great Cartoon Game.

The first one is very serious and will never be covered in the national press for obvious reasons and the second is almost as favored as the Girl from Aruba.

It seems that in rural Alabama, a number of Right Wing Christian churches have been, and are being burnt to the ground. This is not a racial act because most of the churches (Baptist) have white congregations. Black people have more respect for churches than to burn them down so they can’t be stuck with this one.

The FBI has submitted a study for review here in the White House that states its growing belief that growing numbers of non-aligned Americans are becoming very angry with the rantings and attempts on the part of the Religious Right to enforce their own somewhat peculiar beliefs onto the rest of the country…probably by force or Presidential Order. Not only in Alabama but in six other states there have been burnings of Pentecostal and Evangelical churches.

The total to date is twenty seven, only a small portion of which have been given any publicity.

Further, some of the more strident ministers and pastors of these outspoken and demanding churches have received “very serious” death threats. In an atmosphere were an astounding number of equally serious death threats against the national leadership is reaching epic numbers, the orders to the media are to say nothing.

The rationale? That it would only stir up more and more such eruptions and the church people are howling for protection from the White House. “We support you and now you must support us!” reads one letter that has been making the rounds.

The Rove people now suggest that the evil gays be blamed for this by O’Reilley or the odious Ann Coulter. The Christian Right has been begging the leadership here to somehow ban homosexuality on the grounds of ‘Hate Crimes’ but considering the large number of very active gays in the upper levels of this Administration and the Republican Party, such an action would not go very far although the pathetic Gonzales is no doubt preparing a brief even as I write that would allow his beloved President to assassinate all the florists, hair stylists, professional athletes, Republican leaders, Congressmen, naval and airforce personnel in sight.

The White House is demanding immediate arrests of “anyone involved” even if it doesn’t consist of anyone involved.

The Christian Right is now distancing itself from Bush, rightly blaming him for rising hatred against them although in their hubris, they instigated it.

It seems that the Danish Cartoon scandal has grown out of all proportion to its creator’s intentions and is causing very serious problems for everyone throughout the world. We here know that this was a deliberate ploy on the part of right wing Jews here to mock and humiliate the Muslims but it would have been better left undone. Now, the Muslims are putting out, often hilarious, cartoons about Jews of the type not seen since the days of Julius Streicher. They are also rejecting Danish pastry and burning their embassies.

Of course Jewish groups are screeching for federal action (of course the Bush administration has utter control over all foreign publication, or would like to think it does) and abject apologies. Like the Christians, the Jews are Special People who are permitted to dish it out but cannot take it.

In this case, our Hebrew friends have opened a real Pandora’s Box and are now frantically trying to find some way to close it again. Apparently this is not to be for the Arab world is now attacking the Sacred Holocaust and from the privately-commissioned White House internal polls, these attacks are falling on very fertile ground.

He who plays with fire will most certainly be burnt, won’t they?

February 6, 2006

I am going to present here a study of the growing uproar over the “sacrilegious cartoons that has achieved real legs and seriously threatens to start a genuine jihad, or holy war, between Muslims and the rest of the world. I am sending on copies of the Danish cartoons in spite of the hypocritical warnings by our Department of State to the American media not to publish them because the President considers them to be offensive.”

This statement, like almost any other one coming from any government agency controlled by Bush, is a bald-faced lie. Bush, his Jewish advisers and his fanatic evangelical Christian core supporters have been loudly clamoring for a holy war against all Muslims for years now and Bush is in full agreement with their avowed aims.

However, the totally unexpected and very violent reaction who what are really not that offensive satires, has caused him to don the garments of a pious leader and protest out of one side of his lopsided mouth while out of the other, he is trying to find a way to obliterate the Iranians, the Syrians and even the non-Moslim Russians

The days of civilized behavior are long gone, regretfully.

In the 18th century, the generals waited until after the harvest was in to attack and they never attacked cities or made war on civilians as is now the filthy custom.

In earlier times, there were terrible religious wars, Catholics versus Protestants, but as civilization advanced, these were replaced with nationalism.

In my youth, I knew many of the old time aristocracy who, although poor and often dispossessed of their ancestral lands, nevertheless were highly civilized people and a pleasure to know.

What they have now are malicious, crooked Jewish politicians and businessmen, balanced by malicious, crooked Gentile politicians and businessmen, all run by rapacious, vicious and very ill-educated creatures who, in the old days, I personally would never have allowed in my house, and in the eighteenth century, would have had the servants chase off the grounds with sticks on their backs and dogs snapping at their legs.

Democracy, as a relative once said, is government of the mentally misfit by the mentally mediocre, tempered by the saving grace of snobbery. The latter is now a dead issue and we have creatures like George Bush and Tony Blair as beau ideals for the great mass of moral deadbeats that cover the surface of the earth like gnats.

I keep looking for decency and civility but it is sleeping somewhere and cannot be woken.

I told someone recently that the entire issue of anti-American terrorism on the part of the world Muslim community could be instantly ended. The sole cause of this is the blind subservience of all levels of the American government to Israeli interests.

We should follow George Washington's excellent advice when he adjured America to stay out of foreign quarrels, mind its own business and trade with everyone. Both my friends in the American government and the Muslim communities agree with this without reservation but although it is sensible, it will never happen.

The filthy Yahoos are drawing a huge bill on the rest of us and we will have to pay it, soon enough.

February 3, 2006

We have heard there has been much unhappiness over the article on the control of the Internet and, interestingly enough, what we had to say about the government using the television set on cable to snoop on you in your home. This is not a Bush invention but has been going for at least twenty years as has the following program, sent to us by a reader who worked at the Bell Labs at Holmdel, New Jersey in the 1980s. They stated that “… the standard telephone can be used as a listening device the same way. And you didn't need to be present. Any phone in the country could be called and the line 'engaged' without a ring tone, similar to what calling a BBS does, or dial-up. Then the microphone inside the phone was usable as a transmitter. The FBI didn't need wiretaps. Any schmoe sitting in an office could collect what you were saying in your bedroom. In 1985 we could use the duplex characteristic of the any landline phone. This is exactly the same technology that Sanyo used in their answering machines when it introduced room monitors back then.”

We also have a file on the use by the DHS and the FBI of the GPS system to keep track of your car. They either use the system built into the car (with the eager cooperation of the car companies who, like all the internet providers and SBC and AT&T to assist their government spy on their customers) or they attach, by means of a magnet, a GPS device underneath your car. That way, they can sit in their offices, not far from the donut boxes, and see exactly where you are going. One can always disconnect the factory position locator and it would take a mechanic about three minutes to find the magnetic kind by putting your car up on the rack and looking. A friend of mine found one of these after I had tipped him off, and asked me what to do with it. I told him he could smash it flat and dump it down a drain or, better still, stick it up under someone else’s car in a church parking lot on Sunday. This way, when the FBI clicks onto your frequency, they will be puzzled by your driving habits. This way, you confuse them even more than usual, plus you cost them money. On Monday, we will return to the political scene and a possible scenario of What George Bush Found Under his Dog’s Tail.

January 28, 2006

Today, I am going to discuss how the Pentagon is going to control the internet (after all, they claim they invented it and it is theirs and is being “used by pro-terrorist Americans” to “thwart and frustrate” the Bringing of Democracy to benighted Arabs and liberal Americans.) Yes, control the Internet to keep Bush’s growing legions of enemies from continuing their revelations of his insanities, thefts and slaughters.

But the other purpose is to stuff the gullible media and American public with DoD propaganda that is also being piped to foreign countries. Remember the fake letters manufactured in the Pentagon, sent to Iraq and then returned to hundreds of American newspapers purporting to come from local GIs thrilled with how the Iraqi people are now becoming a New Democratic Country? And many now realize that our DoD is concealing many more dead than are listed in public and have never talked about the over 5,000 deserters (mostly at Shannon in Ireland).

This is their blueprint and we hope you enjoy it. And when I have finished dealing with that subject, I will explain to my many readers, both here and abroad, just exactly how our Friendly Government uses your cable TV to listen to conversations in your house.

Let’s start with the Great Internet War:

It should be fairly obvious that the internet is the one barrier to the total propagandizing of the American people. Flawed as it is with all kinds of irrational material intermixed with the truth, the internet still is more than capable of exposing the ignorance, idleness and vice that are the hallmarks of the current administration. There are various methods devised and contemplated now that would clarify and rectify this problem.

The first part is the establishment of the so-called ‘Internet2’ which was ostensibly established by “academic interests, to speed up and better organize” the present loosely-knit internet. In reality, this concept was under the thumb of the FBI and was designed to permit them a much tighter observation, and eventual control, of the dangerous internet.

Not to be outdone, in 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld put his signature to a document that is designed to permit his department to not only take physical control of the internet on the pretext of “National Security,” but to utilize it to pump fake official propaganda into everyone, including foreigners, American media sources and, most especially, the American people.

In reading through this, it might be instructive to note that the U.S. government is legally prohibited from conflating these operations by targeting PSYOP activities--intended for foreign audiences--at the American public. 22 U.S.C. § 1461 (Smith-Mundt Act), which created the United States Information Agency (USIA) in 1948, directs that information about the United States and its policies intended for foreign audiences "shall not be disseminated within the United States, its territories, or possessions." Of course, as we have seen and are now seeing, the law means nothing to the American far right wing, now in power, but obeyed or not, the laws are still in effect.

This order, “Information Operations Roadmap,” calls on the Department of Defense to enhance its capabilities in five key Information Operations (IO) areas: electronic warfare (EW), PSYOP, Operations Security (OPSEC), military deception and computer network operations (CNO). The plan was developed by an oversight panel led by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Resource and Plans) and representatives from the Joint Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Special Operations Command, among other organizations.

Copies of this 74-page document, “Information Operations Roadmap,” and about a dozen ancillary support documents, are now floating around official Washington, along with hilarious tapes of what Bush and his security people fondly believe are “completely secure” personal Presidential conversations that sound like copy for the supermarket tabloids.

Here, for the pro-Bush doubters and jealous bloggers, is a copy of the cover:


The Information Operations Roundup calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military's ability to conduct information operations and electronic warfare. And, in some detail, it makes recommendations for how the US armed forces should think about this new, virtual warfare.

The document says that information is "critical to military success". Computer and telecommunications networks are of vital operational importance. The document states: "Effectively communicating U.S. Government (USG) capabilities and intentions is an important means of combating the plans of our adversaries. The ability to rapidly disseminate persuasive information to diverse audiences in order to directly influence their decision-making is an increasingly powerful means of deterring aggression. Additionally, it undermines both senior leadership and popular support for employing terrorists or using weapons of mass destruction."

The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks.

All these are engaged in information operations. Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's <>psychological operations<>, or PSYOPS, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.

"Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and PSYOPS, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads.

"PSYOPS messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public," it goes on. “The increasing ability of people in most parts of the globe to access international information sources makes targeting particular audiences more difficult. Today the distinction between foreign and domestic audiences becomes more a question of USG (U.S. Government ed) intent rather than information dissemination practices.”

The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda but the program is to legalize this so that “unwittingly” may become “willingly,” In this day and age it is impossible to prevent stories that are fed abroad as part of psychological operations propaganda from blowing back into the United States - even though they were directed abroad.

Public awareness of the US military's foreign (and domestic) propaganda information operations is growing because of official stupidity and arrogance. .In late 2005, it emerged that the Pentagon had paid a private company, the Lincoln Group, to plant hundreds of stories in Iraqi newspapers. The stories - all supportive of US policy - were written by military personnel and then placed in Iraqi publications.

And many “private” websites that appeared to be information sites on the politics of Africa and the Balkans were found to be totally run by the Pentagon. Also, it became obvious that some sectors of the American media, to include reporters, editors and management, were completely in the government’s pocket.

But the true extent of the Pentagon's enormous information operations, how they work, who they're aimed at, and at what point they turn from informing the public to influencing populations, is becoming much clearer.

When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone. It reveals that Pentagon PSYOPS personnel "support" the American government's international broadcasting. It recommends that a global website be established that supports America's strategic objectives. The website would use content from "third parties with greater credibility to foreign audiences than US officials".

It also recommends that PSYOPS personnel should consider a range of technologies to disseminate propaganda in enemy territory: unmanned aerial vehicles, "miniaturized, scatterable public address systems", wireless devices, cellular phones and the internet.

In short, this operation views the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system.

"Strategy should be based on the premise that the Department [of Defense] will 'fight the net' as it would an enemy weapons system," it reads.

The slogan "fight the net" appears several times throughout the roadmap.

The authors warn that US networks are very vulnerable to attack by hackers, enemies seeking to disable them, or spies looking for intelligence.

"Networks are growing faster than we can defend them... Attack sophistication is increasing... Number of events is increasing."

The document stresses the importance of Psychological Operations (PSYOP), particularly in a wartime situation or, currently, a manufactured global “War on Terrorism”: The Department of Defense defines PSYOP generally as "planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals."

And adds that the United States should seek the ability to "provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum".

US forces should be able to "disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum".

In summation here, the US military seeks the capability to knock out every telephone, every networked computer, every radar system on the planet.

This is the first part of the program and deals with the dissemination of American propaganda throughout the world via the internet and developing the capacity to knock out any other internet programs that are deemed to be, “hostile to the ideals and goals of the American government.” Documents relating to this operation specifically speak of “hostile elements inside the United States who, in conjunction with external terrorists, seek, by the dissemination of false, denigrating and disruptive” information via the domestic internet system. One parallel DoD study explains, in detail, how the American internet systems works and how, in a declared “National Emergency” it can be co-opted into “full cooperation” with the DoD. By silencing “dissident” sites while promoting “pro-government” sites, either once now fully controlled by the government or set up by them as the occasion calls for.

Supporters of such programs will no doubt object that this is only a plan and that many such plans exist on paper. The response is that certainly, many plans exist. Plans are known for the attack on, and neutralization of, both Syria and Iran but the likelihood of these being implemented are somewhat remote.

This plan, however, is considered to be far more imminent because of the potential damage an unfettered American internet can wreak on a plotting administration. The American print and television media are very easy to control but the internet, on the other hand, is so diverse that a central program has to be, and has been, devised to bring it under control very quickly and effectively.

Now that we have addressed the Seizure of the Internet, let’s look at something less important but still of interest. That is the utilization of your cable television system to spy on you. No, this is not the sort of paranoid concoctions one often finds on the internet but an actual, working program, now in use across America.
Television sets contain both an AM and FM system. A government agent (now the DHS) merely goes to your cable head, located in your area, and easily can locate your outlet at the station. It is only a matter of moments to hook into it and reverse the AM and FM in your set to permit this set to act as a transmitter/receiver. An agent located at the main local office can then listen to, or tape record, any conversation held within the range of the set. Please note that this cannot be done at a distance but requires someone physically on the scene.

The best way to block this? Simply disconnect your cable from the set by unplugging it, if and when you plan to do, or say, anything near your television set. There exists a long, published technical paper from a professor at Tulane University explaining exactly how this process works and the Bell Laboratory in New Jersey is the firm that developed the equipment for this ten year old very successful domestic spy project.

January 27, 2006

I know from the private Republican polls (the ones you never see and never get into the media) that they are in serious danger of losing control of the government come November. The problem is that although the rank and file, and the leadership, know this, they cannot communicate to Bush that sea changes have to be made, at least cosmetic ones, or public anger will get to the point that impeachment is a probability.

Frankly, our President is a nut. He won’t listen to anyone and does what he wants. The stupid twit actually believes he is some kind of God and can do anything he likes whenever he likes it. Thank God Bush doesn’t get the urge to shoot a hunting rifle at passing tourists. His bizarre and distasteful sex life coupled with his binge drinking makes him a true menace. People thought a lecherous Clinton was bad but this one makes Clinton look like St. Vincent DePaul by comparison.

The leadership has more or less decided that since Bush will not change, he will simply have to go to save the rest of them or, if they are ideologues, for the common good. For themselves, not necessarily for the American people.

Although Bush stubbornly refuses to release any document which he feels might make him look bad, others are doing just that. Tens of thousands of pages of memos, reports, notes, tapes, and all kinds of priceless milestones on George W. Bush’s journey to the underworld are being assembled and studied for possible “leaks.”

I have seen some of these and am now going to do my frightened friends a huge favor by publishing some of the more awful ones.

For example: According to in-house memos now circulating, the DHS has issued orders to banks across America which announce to them that “under the Patriot Act” (whatever that crap means) the DHS has the absolute right to seize, without any warrant whatsoever, any and all customer bank accounts, to make “periodic and unannounced” visits to any bank to open and inspect the contents of “selected safe deposit boxes.” Further, these boxes, taken from a DHS list of people who are considered “hostile to the present government, citizens who have visited outside the United States before or after 9/11 to countries now considered to be hostile to this country…” “ :Russia, Peoples Republic of China, Mexico, Guatemala, Spain, Italy, Egypt, France, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Turkey or the Sudan…” or any citizen who has a bank account in any of those listed countries are considered to be of legitimate interest in the “ongoing investigations into foreign and domestic terrorism.”

Further, the DHA “shall, at the discretion of the agent supervising the search, remove, photograph or seize as evidence…” any of the following items…”bar gold, gold coins, firearms of any kind unless manufactured prior to 1878, documents such as passports or foreign bank account records, pornography or any material that, in the opinion of the agent, shall be deemed of to be of a contraband nature.”

DHS memos also state that banks are informed that any bank employee, on any level, that releases “improper” “classified DHS Security information” to any member of the public, to include the customers whose boxes have been clandestinely opened and inspected and “any other party, to include members of the media” and further “that the posting of any such information on the internet will be grounds for the immediate termination of the said employee or employees and their prosecution under the Patriot Act.”

Currently, the two major targets of these completely illegal and warrantless searches and seizures, are the California-based Bank of America and the Compass Bank. The former is one of the largest banks in the United States and Compass Bank ( Compass Bancshares, Inc). is a $30.1 billion Southwestern financial holding company which operates 385 full-service banking centers including 139 in Texas, 89 in Alabama, 73 in Arizona, 42 in Florida, 32 in Colorado and 10 in New Mexico.

Of extraordinary interest to the DHS are Bank of America records relating to their Bank Of America <>‘SafeSend Money to Mexico’<> program.

It should be noted that the DHS states that “in the event that the owners of these confiscated objects do not file an administrative complaint within three (3) months subsequent to said confiscation, the aforesaid items shall pass to the permanent custody of the DHS”

Isn’t that wonderful? You and your wife are visiting relatives in France, Uncle Einar’s $100,000 collection of gold coins is lifted out of your box and you don’t get back to the United States for two months and don’t check your looted box for another four months. My, some nice DHS person, or maybe two, has a nice new BMW to show off to his neighbors. Tough luck, Uncle Einar!

Oh, and you might like to know that the spate of “robberies” of bank credit card and personal data that took place in and around February of 2005, were not robberies at all. The DHS, using its muscle, simply went off with trucks full of data to mine at their leisure. The banks involved said nothing, and will say nothing. If they do, their people will be at a nice Federal country club, making shoes for the Army while the DHS bosses, to include the FEMA thieves, will be buying property on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills or Palm Desert. Or some nice marina like Marine del Ray to keep their nice new 150’ yacht.

To date, in California alone (the only report I have seen) over 1,500 banks have been “visited” and boxes rifled between January, 2005 and January, 2006.

Next time, something about DARPA to amuse and entertain you all.

January 22, 2006

You entitle some of your articles, “The Decline and Fall of George W. Bush.”

You are at a distance and I am not.

Before he screwed up royally, Bush used to occasionally wander around the White House (he doesn’t anymore) accompanied by sycophantic aides, and would give staffers here a twisted grin and fire off some grotesque malapropism.

No more.

His face has aged ten years, there is a haunted look in his eyes, his face is badly mottled and blotched (they use makeup on him for press conferences) and he is absolutely vicious with people, snarling at them and using language around women that even a DC pimp would hesitate mouthing.

Yes, he drinks himself into a mumbling stupor. One of the current SS White House Detail personnel told his sister, who told a communicant of mine, that Bush goes to Crawford as often as he can to get plastered. Actually, he never was on the wagon at all and neither is he a born-again Christian. His alleged victory over the bottle and his miraculous discovery of Jesus in the tool shed are Karl Rove fabrications, designed to enhance the image of a bitter, destructive, alcoholic and ageing closet queen with delusions of grandeur and reference.

One of my co-workers, a professional and not an ideologue, stopped by my office this morning, filled with portents of doom and gloom. There was a bright moment when he was discussing Bush’s growing fears that someone will shoot him or blow up his aircraft with a rocket.

My visitor said, entirely in jest, that he wondered what would happen if some sociopathic and suicidal reporter set off an M-80 firecracker at a Presidential televised press conference.

My God, the images that came to mind had both of us helpless with laughter.

First off, there would be a bright flash, followed by a deafening roar.

Then the President would shriek with fear, fall onto the stage and lose bladder and bowel control while panic reigned. The Secret Service detail would fall all over him, and regret it when their suits were stained, there would be a violent and immediate exit by terrified press people and the weaker would be trampled by the stronger.

The room would smell like a French public lavatory in July and the aisles and exits littered with broken glasses, smashed cameras and tape recorders with a few shoes and false teeth embedded in the mess.

While the President was being hosed off and given clean clothes, the news, badly garbled, would sweep the networks and, as usual, mindless confusion would reign supreme for days.

Champaign corks would be popping in presidential palaces and foreign ministries around the world and the muddle-headed mediocrities that make up our media would babble endlessly, filling the papers and the television with the most awful nonsense.

Bush would be having a nervous breakdown in his steel and concrete White House bunker while across town, the Vice President, in his bunker, under the impression that the Emperor was dead, would be running around, planning his coronation and his speeches to the American people establishing Martial Law everywhere, when God would intervene and he would turn a light blue, clutch at his fat chest and topple permanently to the ground.

This would leave Dennis Hastert, who is two sandwiches and a thermos of tea short of a picnic, pricing a new summer home on Lake Geneva and leaving wet spots on his office rug.

Tony Blair would go into permanent mourning while Vladimir Putin declared a national holiday in Russia.

Given the pisspoor record of our law enforcement agencies, it would take at least two months before someone figured out that it was a firecracker and not the late bin Laden firing a flintlock blunderbuss filled with mini-bagels and by then, we would be at war with China, Canada, Mexico and Gabon and New York City and Bad Seepage, Ohio would be radioactive.

The thrower of the firecracker would naturally have plenty of time to flee the White House and go into hiding in Venezuela where he would become an instant hero, marry Hugo Chavez’ niece and end up running the state oil industry.
All of this speculation caused great merriment between myself and my visitor but should we not look for the truth in the jest?

January 20, 2006

Yet again, our grossly incompetent CIA, in conjunction with the prevaricating manipulators in the White House, have produced another faked “bin Ladin tape” threatening to attack the United States but “offering a truce.” The CIA has produced at least ten “original terrorist” tapes in the past three years. A man named Morton Weil, working for the CIA out of Waco, Texas, puts these together using someone fluent in Arabic. The documents are produced in Langley, sent to the NSC for vetting and, if approved as written, sent by courier to Waco, Texas where they are translated (from the English) into Arabic and then recorded by a person, as yet unnamed, fluent in that language .

I lunch twice a week with an Arab diplomat who, obviously, is an educated man and fluent in his native tongue. He not only knew bin Laden but has heard him speak a number of times. His opinion? Fake.

His reasoning?

Bush is presently doing so badly in the domestic (and foreign) opinion polls, yet did so well as “The Great Protector of America” after 911, that he seeks to recapture his permanently lost glory by first posing a threat to the US and then stepping forward again, shield and sword in hand, to defend the American people against foreign (and non-Christian) terrorists.

He and Rove feel that his poll numbers will rise once again. The problem is that very few people believe these rigged and seemingly never-consummated terrorist “warnings” and so once again, the boy cried “Wolf” in vain.

I also know someone on the NSC and they told me this morning that they really wished the CIA would be a little more accomplished in their fakes.

His reasoning?

It has been known, officially, that bin Laden died of kidney failure in a Pakistani hospital in August of 2002 and obviously isn’t making any tapes now. A live bin Laden, however, is a good boogyman with which to terrify the American public into slavishly believing our government is trying to protect them. Secondly, there is no reference to the Koran in the message, something always found in original, period, bin Laden announcements. Thirdly, the fake bin Laden does not make any references, as original messages have, to past Western atrocities against Muslims and, finally, the tape is far too short.

What is this source’s reasoning? That the CIA’s blunder in killing 17-25 perfectly innocent Pakistani civilians in a badly botched rocket attack against a bin Laden supporter has caused an uproar in Pakistan, (and elsewhere) an ally, albeit a very dicey one. First, the CIA “revealed,” through paid Pakistani stooges, that “many top terrorists” were killed in the attack <>although the sole victims were women and children and two sets of grandparents<>. Their logic is that while the intended target was “mysteriously absent” at the time of the attack, the slaughter of the innocents was justified because “many top terrorists” were eradicated.

Typical high-level bald-faced lies.

This latest taped fake is designed both to give Bush increased stature to a disbelieving American public and to justify any future actions against more generally completely innocent civilians.

The Bush Administration is drawing an enormous bill that is going to have to be paid by the American people, hopefully for the criminals, long after they are out of office and living in tax-payer supported safe (<>and non-extraditable<>) retirement in the south of France or Tahiti.

Something needs to be done about all of this murderous corruption.

When Patrick Henry, addressing the Virginia House of Burgesses, made a negative reference to their King George, some stooge shouted “Treason!” at him.

His reply, and one we all ought to contemplate?

“If this be treason, Sir, why make the most of it!

January 15, 2006

Now that we have brought Bush out of his mothball haven, it might be instructive to discuss the means by which his shabby administration is attempting to influence public opinion into accepting both his brilliant leadership and the vital necessity for maintaining a senseless and viciously destructive war.

It should be pretty obvious to persons with the ability to read and reason that recent disclosures about official sponsoring of fake news articles brings any governmental press release or speech into serious question. We have, for example, the pathetic attempts on the part of Central Command to compel their soldiers to sign printed letters to their hometown newspapers alleging that all was well in Iraq, that the Americans were winning a great victory over the Powers of Darkness and that GIs were bringing happiness and joy to Iraqi children. David Brooks, writing in the New York Times, also produced such fabricated drivel. Willie Peter bombs, flamethrowers and the running over by tanks of Iraqi small children are never mentioned. Foreign reporters who have had the temerity to do so have been shot on the spot “by accident.”

Then we have various “columnists” in the American media who were revealed to have taken large amounts of money to advance the Republican’s agenda, the fake “Lincoln Group,” ( a government creation) that was planting other fictions in foreign (and domestic) media, the notice that the Department of Defense was looking for blogs and websites willing, for pay, to put the government’s agenda before the American people.

All of this has been reported in the past. What has not been reported is that a number of the irrational bloggers (“Weather Control,” “9/11 Secrets Finally Revealed, ” “Bush and Cheney Indicted by Federal Grand Jury) are also supported so that they may issue immense volumes of distracting nonsense to keep the American public so bemused that they wouldn’t recognize a truth if it hit them in the food bag.

And also note that CNN (and other major media outlets) keep on bleating about the Lacy Peterson matter, the fat man who fell off a cruise ship and of course, who is allowed to forget the Vanished Cheerleader of Aruba. The harping on this totally unimportant material is certainly far from either stupidity on the part of network executives or lack of knowledge of far more important issues.

When a major story can be found on practically any foreign news service, like Reuters, the BBC, AFP or the Herald Tribune, the assumption would be that our American press would also reflect all of this. That it rarely does is a certain sign that we are fed a diet of inconsequential or invented news to lull the viewers, and readers, into a sense of security.

God may be in His heaven but all is certainly not all right with the world.

At least not ours.

It’s no wonder that newspaper subscribers and television viewers are turning to the internet, nuts and all, for the real news.

January 13, 2006

In the past two days, I have received the following message from two sources that I consider to be very accurate. The sudden weeping exit by the wife of Supreme Court candidate Alito from his confirmation hearing was duly noted but no one in the media seems to understand it. No outrageous questions were being asked and the Congressional questioners of the Judge were balanced and reasonable.

The following story does not come as a surprise either to myself or to others who have specific knowledge of the persona involved. It is a subject that, while often talked about on the inside, has never seen the light of day. The reasons for this are quite obvious.

I have a cousin who is a psychiatrist and I made up a resume of the President’s persona, without any identifying information. My cousin read it over carefully and told me that it was his professional, but off the record, opinion that the subject was what is known as a repressed homosexual. Indications of a strong lack of self-worth coupled with obvious self-hatred, the lashing out at perceived establishment types who might be seen as condemning voices, being surrounded by known homosexuals, feelings of rejections and disapproval from his father (the male parent is far more critical of homosexuality in his son than the mother) excessive and petty vindictiveness and a number other less important points are all consistent with such a diagnosis. To this detached and professional opinion, I add the whispered and very snide remarks one hears on a daily basis both inside the disillusioned White House and in places where the elite gather to eat and drink, and I am not bothered by discussing it in public.

‘It seems that Judge Alito has a good-looking son, Philip, and when the family was at the White House recently to meet with Bush and his wife, the President somehow got the son alone and tried to kiss him!

The boy was outraged and told his father that Bush smelled like booze. The father said nothing, wanting the Supreme Court job, but the mother complained to Laura Bush.

Laura told her that ..."George is under so much stress these days, trying to protect America from terrorists that he 'slips' once in a while...."

I immediately passed this to a British newspaperman (Guardian) who shot back that a similar incident had transpired when Bush was visiting in England and it was a subject Not to be Discussed!

Almost ditto from another contact with AFP.

This explains an 8" Gannon sylphing around the White House at night, unescorted.

Could that be considered stretching things a bit?

We can't use this but we sure as hell can pass it around.

We could talk about Mehlman or McClelland but why torment these poor souls? Looking at their pictures, one can see that God has done that already

Right in the middle of the hearing on her husband's suitability for the Supreme Court, Ms Alito suddenly fled from the room, weeping. There was nothing going on at the moment that justified it. My source tells me she is furious because Bush is a pedophile and she is afraid that her son will get nailed by the sick creep. Her husband wants his new job and will do nothing to prevent him from getting into a position where he can destroy Roe v. Wade.

Also, some nation, very hostile to the US, has acquired a former Soviet submarine, the atomic AKULA or TYPHOON. This is a huge sub that carried atomic missiles and can sit, submerged, on the ocean floor for long periods of time, awaiting the signal to fire its payloads. My source is beyond reproach but they do not know about this inside the Beltway at the present time. It's truly amazing what one can get if one has the money. And a crew trained by the Russians into how to operate the sub, its nuclear reactors and its missiles (also purchased were 10....the payload for AKULA is 20. Isn't life fun?’

January 9, 2006

I could probably send you an article, complete with nice pictures, of the President having sexual encounters with fat, wheezing Dick Cheney, Congoleeza Rice in a leather jump suit or his dog, Barney, and no one would either look at it or care.

I look at the Internet (it’s part of my job) on a daily basis and there is enough concrete and believable material on it to cause a concerned Congress to immediately vote a Bill of Impeachment against the President.

They will not, unless and until they realize that the American public is growing increasingly and vocally restive about the perceived incompetence and utter corruption within the White House and the upper levels of the Republican administration, they will do nothing but make sure their Swiss bank accounts are safe and the bags and envelopes full of bribe money are still in their office safes.

This I can tell you, that Congress, specifically the Republicans, are becoming genuinely fearful lest they all be voted out of office come November. One Senator, a bug-eyed religious ninny, has even suggested, in my hearing, that Bush ought to fabricate a ”National Emergency”, call out the military because of fictional “terrorist attacks” and save Congress for the Jesus-Christ loving Republican Senators!

Of course such lunatic schemes will come to nothing and would, if promulgated, lead directly to civil war, like the big one now raging in Iraq (that our media is not going to talk about…they would rather shed crocodile tears about fat, nasty old Sharon’s joyful departure from the scene) so we can basically forget about a fascist putsch. The weird Zell Miller weeps in frustration, no doubt.

The other, and best, solution for Republicans, eager to keep their seats and the unlimited opportunities for escalating graft and corruption, is to find someone harmless, make a huge fuss about them and go after them with much shouting, finger-waving and faked outrage, thus deflecting the attention of the public (so easily and often done with the cooperation of a slavish media) and once the sacrificial ram has had his throat cut by a self-righteous Congress, reelection will be so much easier. Who knows? Perhaps they might fix on George W. Bush for this purpose. A consummation devoutly to be wished indeed!

January 5, 2006

I have said for some time, and most sensible (non-Republican) readers agree, that the government keeps a number of academics and media people around to assist them in their schemings. Today, we saw on the editorial page of the New York Times, an op-ed piece by one James MacGregor Burns

Burns, loudly extolling the removal of the 22nd Constitutional Amendment mandating only two terms for an American president.

The current Republicans, now in growing disarray, introduced this fascistic idea in February of 2005 but it quietly died as had many other such attempts before it. With Bush and Cheney thwarted in their attempts to establish an Imperial Presidency wherein the occupant of the Oval Office can do no wrong and can easily bypass Congress and rule by decree, we are hearing manic rumblings from the far right about permitting Bush to run for re-election by removing the most inconvenient 22nd Amendment.

The article I refer to, which I am attaching, was written by one James MacGregor Burns, a fanatical follower of and supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt who would still be in office if he had not very conveniently died in 1945. Burns, who may be excused for his strange support for a right wing attempt to sieze the White House in perpetuity because of his extreme age and obvious loss of common sense, has suddenly swung away from his very liberal previous positions as a staunch Rooseveltian Democrat and now advocates what Congress determined was sufficient time in office to make or break.

Were George W. Bush a noteworthy President, Burns’ enthusiasm for his continued reign could be understood but in light of Bush’s dangerous incompetence, either Burns is so advanced in the debilitating effects of old age (he is in his late 80s) or has been made an offer he cannot refuse.

Two terms is entirely enough for anyone, especially for the incumbent.

Burns and his co-worker would be better off writing about Thomas Jefferson or perhaps preparing a touching memoir about his long days journey into night.

January 2, 2006

I see that Putin is getting even with both the Ukraine and the U.S. for the so-called ‘Orange Revolution’ last year. We know that the CIA bribed an anti-Moscow element in the Ukraine to rebel and declare themselves free of Russian influence. Like most CIA disruptions, it was a nasty business and while it appeared to have worked, in the end it will prove to be an utter disaster. For example, the rich (in oil and coal) Donetz basin in eastern Ukraine is almost entirely Russian in population and any attempt on the part of American business interests to get their hooks into this would immediately result in a demand from the locals for a referendum to separate from the Ukraine and, when that vote passed, to request a permanent union with the Russian Republic. Putin has already agreed to do this and the main motive for the CIA-fomented revolt will be completely nullified.

This whole business has been about oil. Since I was personally involved in some of this, let me enlighten you in a brief, and perhaps simplistic way.

Regan toppled the Communist regime by using the completely fake “Star Wars” program, that would never have worked but which drove the badly shaken Soviets into eventual bankruptcy trying to keep up with it. The Soviets, by the way, were far more afraid of the U.S. launching a strike against them than they were concerned with attacking America.

Once the corrupt and over-buraucraticized Soviet Union fell apart, the United States had an unparalleled opportunity of working politically and economically, with the new Russian government. Instead, and true to form, they installed the drunken Yeltsin (who was entirely in our pocket) and then tried to take over the enormous and potentially very lucrative Russian oil and gas fields.

A group of thugs, again sponsored by the U.S., took over the newly-privatized oil and gas industry, aided by their co-religionists in the World Bank and the IMF. Once they had their hands on everything, they immediately sold out a controlling interest in their extorted holdings to a consortium of American and British oil developers.

But they entirely underestimated the apparently colorless Vladimir Putin. A former Colonel in the KGB, Putin followed the old Italian dictum that he who goes softly goes safely and he who goes safely goes far.

Little by little, Putin regained state control over the oil and gas resources, hounding the Oligarchy out of control, either jailing them or forcing them into exile. He managed to get his hands on much of the bribe money, forcing Bush to beg for its return when he met with Putin at Bratislava last year.

Putin’s response to what must have been an embarrassing question on the part of the oil-industries front man, Bush, was that since the deals had been made with the now-departed Oligarchy, perhaps the oil people might wish to sue them in Russian civil courts. He, himself, could do nothing.

At the same time this was happening, the CIA, working with the same oil people, instigated political upheavals in some of the former Soviet Republics who controlled land over which vital oil and gas pipelines had to cross to bring these products to ports where they could be shipped to the West.

They were successful in the Ukraine and Georgia but Putin struck back and regained <>de facto<> control over sufficient territory to effectively block a pipeline. Putin also began to develop the Russian oil and natural gas fields with the idea of bringing large amounts of foreign currency into the states’s coffers. He has made deals with Venezuela, China, Japan and other countries and now, in retaliation for the rebellion in the Ukraine, shut off their natural gas shipments.

Since the Ukraine has no money to pay Putin’s greatly inflated gas prices (for the Ukraine only), that state has privately appealed to the United States for financial aid but just as privately been turned down. The solid Russian control over their gas production coupled with the probable defection of the vital Donetz area has made the Ukraine very unattractive to the United States. As we did in Afghanistan and will do in Iraq, we have quietly abandoned them.

When the gas stops and the savage Russian winter grows colder, there will no doubt be another change of government in the Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin is far from stupid and Bush is far from intelligent with the result that the former’s entirely legitimate economic warfare will do more permanent damage to U.S. economy than any military attack ever could.

Since utilizing economic warfare to disrupt and control is a long-time American specialty , it is clearly apparent that Putin believes that it is indeed lawful to be taught by your enemies.

December 29, 2005

The sole topic of conversation inside knowledgeable Washington circles this holiday season is the coming impeachment of Bush and the removal of Cheney from office. And this is not solely restricted to Democrats by any means but also includes a growing majority of Republican lawmakers, the military commands, the senior federal judiciary and those who comprise the so-called Power Elite of this country.

Bush is seen as completely out of control.

It is known that he was put into the White House by powerful Republican, conservative, religious and business entities who were tired of Clinton and the American liberals and wanted to run the country along their own lines.

That their rigged candidate was known to be a useless failure in business, a drunk, a coke-head and of limited intelligence made no difference.

They reasoned that Bush Senior could control him (which, it turned out, he could not) and that the cunning Karl Rove would keep him on track and be able to control public opinion. Another factor was the crazy Dick Cheney, who was determined to be a Vice president That Would Matter and he firmly believed, as did many others, that he could completely control the dimwitted Bush.

The reign started out well enough and the spin doctors were able to convince Americans that all was right in heaven. Evangelical Christians, numerically inferior but, like the Communists during the Roosevelt era, well organized, fanatic and able to deliver winning blocs of votes at the critical elections immediately came on line, panting for a New Jerusalem and led by the biggest bunch of money-grubbing, psalm-singing hypocrites since the late Elmer Gantry.
It looked like plain sailing in those days.

The Republican plan,

· to strengthen their party in Congress to the point where it was invulnerable to any Democratic challenges,

· to marginalized the Democratic party to the point of being nothing but comic relief and to promulgate social programs that would reduce welfare for the disliked blacks and jobless of all races to nothing,

· to give huge tax benefits to the wealthy Republican cash cows,

· to appease the religious right by allowing creationism to be taught in all public schools, bringing the Ten Commandments of Moses into public buildings,

· to cater to the right wing and pro-Israel Jewish groups by appointing many of their co-religionists to positions of power in the determining of foreign policy (read ‘ Israeli needs both economically and politically in the Middle East’,

· to do everything in their power to assist, by any means, both American and British oil interests in obtaining a secure supply of oil and gas in the same Middle East as well as to secure economic control over Russian oil and gas,

· to secure pipeline rights across central Asia to guarantee more uninterrupted flow of oil to American tanker bottoms for shipment to the oil-starved United States..

All of these things appeared to be well under way until it started to become apparent that Bush himself was not that easily controlled and began to believe the propaganda his staff fed him on a daily basis. As Bush is a very weak man, he constantly needs reinforcement by those around him to assure him of his manliness and ability. He lacks both but his staff has spent years filling him full of sycophantic and dangerous propaganda to the point that Bush now actually believes that he is divinely protected and a great leader in his own right.

Imagine how the religious right, the Republican legislators and American business interests must have felt with each successive faux pas on the part of the President. There was:

· the obviously homosexual Gannon being allowed to roam all over the White House at night (by permission of the President),

· the vicious Plame scandal,

· the growing awareness of the utter corruption of Cheney and others,

· the obvious lies used by Bush and Cheney to trick Congress into permitting a premeditated attack on Iraq to gain their oil fields,

· the uncomprehending stupidity with which this attack was launched and the resulting very successful Iraqi resistance movement,

· the subsequent low morale and rising death tolls among the well-equipped but very badly disciplined American military,

· the destruction of Iraqi oil production and its total loss to the White House schemers,,

· the rising and intense international fear and hatred of the Bush policies and worse,

· the growing number of international political and business cartels designed to keep foreign oil from America as a punishment and as a warning to cease and desist irrational and violent activities <>outside its own borders<>.

The CIA, under orders from Bush, toppled the pro-Russian governments in Georgia and the Ukraine and have tried, without success, to foment rebellions in many other former Soviet republics…all because of the oil-rich areas. Putin, who is twice the man Bush is and no fool, struck back and took control of the Russian oil and gas industries, costing American and British firms hundreds of millions of dollars they had spent on bribes to the now-powerless Russian Oligarchy that ran all the oil and gas fields.

That all of these oligarchy members were Jewish street thugs who banked their billions in Israeli banks is something not widely known and Putin’s sequestering of their ill-gotten bribes has enraged Israel, prompting them to launch attacks on Putin’s perceived ‘dictatorial ways’ in their many media outlets.

In addition to the Plame scandal, the public watched as the mask slipped during the Katrina disaster. They saw, very clearly and very often, how the current Administration held poor blacks in utter contempt and through a terrible mixture of racism and gross incompetence, permitted the suffering of poor, non-voting blacks to be proclaimed throughout the land (and the entire horrified world) and unto all the inhabitants thereof.

This outrageous callousness marked the turning point in the public, as opposed to the professional and political, opinion and Bush’s public ratings have been steadily dropping. And this in spite of clearly rigged positive polls by the administration’s spin-doctors and that shrinking portion of the American media that still do the White House’s biddings.

Now, the cherry on the sundae is the open admission by Bush that he personally ordered unlimited telephone tapping by the NSA, the FBI, DHS and the CIA of mail, email, fax communications and even first class mail of any American, or foreign, citizen that either Bush, Cheney or those having their ear wanted to spy on and, hopefully discredit.

That these actions are very clearly a violation of federal law means nothing to Bush or Cheney. They both feel, and have publicly stated, that <>they<> are the law and may do as they wish. They have used the willing services of the telephone networks, SBC and AT&T, the computer internet firm of AOL (and to his credit, Bill Gates refused to allow this on his Microsoft network for such illegal spying which will, no doubt, get him investigated by the DoJ as quickly as possible) all of whom needed no order to comply with a flagrant violation of specific American law.

It is all of these factors that have so frightened the American Congress and federal judiciary that the movement in these circles to impeach Bush and remove Cheney has rapidly accelerated in the days following Bush’s foolish and arrogant boast that he not only ordered unlimited surveillance on American and foreign individuals, firms and government entities but flatly refused to cease this completely illegal process.

As I said above, this is not a Democratic Party scheme but one that encompasses all levels and party affiliations. In the Christmas week, in private homes, in the Cosmos and Metropolitan Clubs, in the dining rooms of the Jockey Club and the Hay-Adams hotel, there have been small, private meetings on the subject of how to remove Bush. No one initially wanted a reprise of the Nixon removal but at this point, all of them realize that Bush has three more years of this insanity and that as the forthcoming mid terms would no doubt be a disaster to the Republicans, concrete action is at last being formulated.

As an interesting, if somewhat sinister, side note to this topic, according to a signed memo, Cheney has spoken with Rumsfeld about the attitude of senior military commanders about supporting a declaration by Bush of Martial Law in America.

Fortunately, the military leaders, with two exceptions, would have none of this and after a brief, quiet, internal and certainly very private, polling of their numbers, the subject was permanently shelved. When news of this leaked out, however (there are no secrets in Washington, believe me) it terrified many members of the legislative branch on both sides of the aisle and now the plans for an impeachment proceeding are taking on a new and well-supported life.

Most do not know of currently-discussed plans among certain foreign countries to force Bush and Cheney before the World Court on charges of war crimes to include planned massacres of unarmed civilians, theft of private property, making illegal warfare and lesser charges such as the deliberate killing of foreign journalists. None of this has come to pass…yet… but the very discussion of the idea in the chancelleries and foreign offices of Europe, and the Middle East is only adding fuel to the fires now lit under two of three branches of the American government.

The Executive is dangerously beyond control but the Legislative and Judicial are rising to the call.

These will be interesting times indeed!

December 24, 2005

Such an uproar over the Bush Spy-on-Americans program! One would think that this was just an isolated incident promulgated by our Fascist Leader.

To the contrary, telephone-tapping, both on overseas and domestic conversations, has been going on for over twenty years, unabated and unchecked. The NSA is only an instrument for the FBI, the DHS, the CIA, the Pentagon and a special group under the direct control of Cheney.

The new bunch of swine just inherited programs long in place. In the case of the Bush freaks, however, a new twist has been added. Instead of snooping on politicians uncooperative to the sitting President’s will, they now have added American business interests.

Let us use as an example a story about some wealthy and crooked American company (is there any other kind?) that has been stuffing money into Bush’s pocket (Yes, Virginia, Bush personally takes bribes) to allow them to dump poisonous chemicals into a nearby water supply. Now, if that company wants to know what its rivals are up to, a soft word in Bush or Cheney’s hairy ears and the spy network taps into any rival businesses and passes the stolen secrets along the line.

Also, the White House taps into phone calls of: Democratic leaders, uncooperative American politicians on the local scene, individuals that actively work against any Republican interest, foreign diplomatic conversations coming out of Washington or, better still, easily taken off space satellites that forward overseas telephonic or fax communications.

The current Administration has agreements in place with two major American telecommunications companies, (one of them is the biggest in the country…who volunteered their services without being asked as a “token of support for the President’s efforts to protect Americans from terrorists and their supporters…” from an original memo in my possession) both whom are known to me, (and soon will be to everyone else when I get more paper) to allow the Bush Gestapo to tap into any and all calls going over their systems.*.

Similar agreements are in place with several of the top internet servers, AOL in particular, who voluntarily allow “free and unfettered” access to any and all consumer accounts. While other Presidents in the past have often passively allowed this or even been unaware of the degree and extent of it, Bush has gleefully and knowingly expanded this beyond belief. And the sickening thing is that there isn’t a damned thing anyone can do about it.

Bush and his crime partners are now squealing that without their protective presence, America would glow like Hiroshima in 1945. The truth is, without the presence of the Bush cabal, we would have no terrorist problems. Even at this point, all the United States would have to do would be to stop its manic support of the state is Israel, get its intrusive and brutal troops out of Iraq and no one in the Muslim world would have any interest in attacking the United States.

The hysterically entertaining image of a stalwart Bush protecting America is redolent of a furious rabbit, throwing small balls of its own dung at an advancing coyote in the hopes that the coyote would bother his cousins one rabbit burrow over.

Welcome to the new Reich!

Heil Bush!

And like the Führer, Bush and Cheney love to hide in underground bunkers.

December 23, 2005

Christmas or whatever they want to call it, is at hand. Retail sales are way down but not to expect to see this in the press. And our free press is now straining the gut to convince Americans that Bush’s popularity is rocketing upwards. It is not. Rigged polls are popping up all over; talking heads are babbling away on the boob tube and we are expected to believe what has become a tidal wave of sewage and lies. FEMA friends are stealing everything in sight, New Orleans is dead, the death tolls in Afghanistan and Iraq are certainly not dropping, we are pulling out of the former and desperately want to pull out of the latter but Bush’s insane pride and Cheney’s pop-eyed lunacy won’t hear of it. They have forced the oil companies to drop the oil prices for a time so as to bring Bush’s figures up but we have made so many enemies worldwide that we are now effectively out of the oil loop. No oil drilling in Alaskan parks thanks to a fearful Congress who is distancing themselves with great rapidity from the Bush fascism and if you want to have a good laugh, watch George Bush babble away at rigged meetings. One would almost think he was a leader rather than a dismal and growing failure. The Arabs are not, according to DHS and CIA summaries to which I have some entrée, going to set off a bomb in Atlanta because it would boost Bush’s image when he strutted around some safe stage ringed with armed guards and in an area packed with hired boosters, and would at once give Cheney (who is actually running the United States in Bush’s mental absence) a wonderful opportunity to nuke Tehran. I don’t know what it will take for the bulk of the American public to realize that they are being run (into the ground) by a group of narrow-minded ideologues who also happen to be major thieves and pilferers. Have a Happy Holiday! And remember, Jesus loves even you!