Well, this is the last day my wife and I will be together for a while (if you can call having her up and out to work at the crack of dawn, and probably not back until late tonight – at which point she’ll probably be packing – being together), as she heads off to a conference and to see her daughters in Minneapolis. We’ll only have a few days together when she gets back (most of which she’ll be working), and then I’ll be off to DC until August. I must admit, I’m not especially crazy about the whole thing (especially the part where I’ll be away from home for two and a half months). In fact, I think it really fucking sucks. But, whattya gonna do? 🙁
:banana:im number 1 im number 1 yay yay im number 1!!!!!
i took my dad for breakfast yesterday! and my little sister that goes to the performing arts high school ion buffalo to see art school confidential! so friggin not spot on imho anyway well im going away later sheeple!
AAAARRRRRGGGGGGGG
I hate Mondays.. So Chimpy wants to mobilize another 30,000 of his 130,000 National Guard troops of which 50,000 or so are in IRAQ.. Some one needs to remind Bush of things called Hurricanes, Tornadoes and floods.
Remain positve pj! The distance sucks, but as long as you have great communication skills you’ll be fine! My boyfriend and I have been together for nearly 4 years and only lived on the same continent for 1! You’ll be fine!
:gate:
It is not illegal to use the National Guard for law enforcement purposes. It is illegal to use the regular army for that purpose.
According to today’s news they are revising the number of Guard troops down to less than 10,000. That’s about 8 per mile. What is that going to do ??
:joe::joe: Yay! Number 7! Good morning…
My boyfriend and I have been together for nearly 4 years and only lived on the same continent for 1!
Comment by Gaijinda — May 15, 2006 @ 5:35 am
Hi Gaijinda! Maybe continental separation is your secret for success? 😀
Thanks for the vote of support! pppbbblllttt!!! :tongue: A raspberry to you! :banana:We’ll find out in a month or so though-he’s moving to Japan in July!
Thanks Andy, for that update late last night on the Rove indictment.
via andy
On Karl Rove
Ned Lamont, Hillary and Lieberman
:banana:hey so my truck is broke down! :bow:at home! so i get to check out that house!ugh me no like my mommies keyboard too accustomed to the laptop keys!
Atrios says,
The Air Is Humming
well, that has worked thus far for us! …it sucks, but it’s manageable…..sorry you’ll have to go through the separation thing, pj. It can be a real drag at times.
seanie, how’d you get the truck to break down at home? :spank:
melina, glad you made it home safely….the tux thing is pretty cute, I must say!
Did you guys see this? I think it’s a very well written letter:
well it was not runing good and the trailer i had needed to get to a guy that is also from the area so i brought it home and put my truck in the shop! yay!
:paranoid:uh where did everybody go?
:doh::doh::doh::fustrate::fustrate::fustrate:
:fustrate:ahhh makes sense everybody went to bang their heads against a brick wall! cant say i blame ya!
so we are going to “secure” the borders? yeah the corporate slave masters will let that happen! i cant stand stupid shows no more please!
Be still my heart :love:
Here’s the link
If, in fact, Rove will be indicted, this immigration speech by Bush is well timed.
That’s an interesting take on things, Isi (regarding Gore as more formidable than Hillary). I guess because I’m in her district all I hear is Hillary this and Hillary that, but Josh Marshall is obviously looking at the bigger picture around the country.
Does Gore have big national support? I’m not so sure I agree with that one though.
Re: Lieberman. It’s true, he was one of the two dems who sucked up to Bush with the whole Social Security plan…I was following TPM every day when that issue was hot, and I remember it well. Lieberman, grrrrr.
Hey Sean, maybe you need a new truck?
Re: The letter to CondiLoser Rice – I agree with the content of the letter – but doesn’t it seem a bit extreme that she’s quitting her job over this?
Uhhhh.. Susan.. Hillary is one of your senators..like they don’t have districts :doh::doh:
I know! she LIVES right near me is what I mean. You can imagine how often I hear about her.
Teehee, I can’t write.
WireTapped!:omg::omg:
via farmerkat #15
Ewwww David Bender :barf::barf::barf:
I like AL Gores alternate reality a lot better than Bushes.
Is Wire tapped :joe::joe::joe::joe::joe::joe::joe::joe: in a keg ??
Eh, she’s just an adjunct, so she probably has a real job. You can bet if she was on a tenure tack (or had tenure), there’s no way she’d quit.
I’m sorry about your summer PJ. That sux. The anticipation of a lonely summer is probably worse than it will actually be. We’ll be here for ya.
Good Morning! :joe:
Eh, she’s just an adjunct, so she probably has a real job. You can bet if she was on a tenure tack (or had tenure), there’s no way she’d quit.
I guess that’s true, but my point is that we need teachers who are dedicated to disseminating truth IN the system, not out of it. She’s right about Condi, but my God, (Bushies invited to speak) this must happen in so many colleges. How many really would say no? Or should say no? If you think about it, even if the guest is abhorent, it gives the students a chance to at least hear them and talk back to her.
The professor who resigned is male.
I think the degree to which you are willing to sacrifice your principles for a paycheck varies from person to person. I believe him when he said he could no longer accept in good conscience a paycheck from Boston College. Everyone’s tipping point is different.
It was a jesuitical, cold, unfeeling, and selfish manner, that seemed to say, “I have kept within the law,” to the man he had so cruelly injured.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore
Jesuits!:omg:
Whereas you [Nechayev] do the opposite: following the Jesuit system you systematically kill all personal human feeling in them… educate them in lying, suspicion, spying and denunciation…. “Let us first of all define more exactly the aim, meaning, and purpose of this [secret] organization. As I have mentioned several times above, according to my system it would not constitute a revolutionary army–we should have only one revolutionary army: the people
Developing also was the idea that as long as we were working for a good purpose, any means to achieve that goal was acceptable, never mind fine points of morality or how one’s actions may affect others. This Machiavellian philosophy was embraced and blamed on the Jesuits. Machiavelli actually endorsed the idea that the end justifies the means.
I think the degree to which you are willing to sacrifice your principles for a paycheck varies from person to person. I believe him when he said he could no longer accept in good conscience a paycheck from Boston College. Everyone’s tipping point is different.
That’s very true, and the whole story may not be here. There may have been more things than what’s in the letter. Everybody should do what their conscience suggests. Maybe it’s just because I’m in education and I DID leave the system once partly because of being angry at the powers that be (though reasons are not exactly similar) and I feel regret doing it, like I could have been doing more good and I gave up to soon. Oh well.
That’s true, but adjuncts are easily tossed aside. He (sorry, I thought I’d read he was a she – nice to know there’s a guy with principles out there) could have bitched, I suppose, but if he made too much noise he’d have just quietly been out of work. This way, he at least got some publicity. And maybe he can get some work at Harvard or MIT (or one of the many other Boston area colleges).
Now, once they get tenure, they can really be pains in the ass, ‘cuz short of murder there’s not much they can do to get rid of ’em.
Unfortunately, it’s been my experience that the adjuncts (that is, people who have spent some time out there in the real world) are often the best at teaching. Not always of course, but quite often. Especially if you’re an old bastid such as me. When you’re a kid (or, at least when I was a kid), I think you tend to acccept what somebody says just because they’re standing in the front of the room. Your bullshit meter’s accuracy improves with age.
Thanks for some insight into the University system. It’s nice to get input from others in education. Maybe there was a big publicity element in all of this, I hadn’t even thought of that angle. You’re right that it’s not always a good idea to speak up, especially when in a position where you can easily be fired. (I haven’t yet reached the postion where I can speak up at my job either, and you better believe I find things wrong). Yeah, I thought I read it was a she also, but I don’t have my game all together yet today 🙂
Hey, this would be better than having to change the battery in your pace maker. Might come on handy to power the implanted tracking devices that will be mandated after dubya has congress crown him emperor.
Hey, you guys on the East coast wanna send some o’ that rain back west. Huh?
It’s been downright dangerous to speak up in the last few years – look at the Dixie Chicks. Fortunately, as dubya’s poll numbers continue to crash, the climate has gotten more conducive to people standing up and pretending we have a right to say whatever we want. Unless you’re a Democrat, of course. They’re mostly still terrified. That’s the war on terror I’d like to see won.
I have a couple of rain barrels, if you can afford the shipping.
Check out this body language
Hey, this would be better than having to change the battery in your pace maker. Might come on handy to power the implanted tracking devices that will be mandated after dubya has congress crown him emperor.
I really like following breakthroughs in the medical field. It’s a shame that these same devices can be used for evil. But technology has always been a two-sided thing.
It’s been downright dangerous to speak up in the last few years – look at the Dixie Chicks. Fortunately, as dubya’s poll numbers continue to crash, the climate has gotten more conducive to people standing up and pretending we have a right to say whatever we want. Unless you’re a Democrat, of course. They’re mostly still terrified. That’s the war on terror I’d like to see won.
Damn those Democrats! I have never been so ashamed of a group of people and their wussiness. I think the tipping point (for me feeling disgusted at Dems) came several months back when Senator Dick Durbin apologized for speaking up about the torture situation, comparing it to Nazi Germany. He was RIGHT ON , but they belittled him on all the shows and he gave in and apologized.
The Scalito filibuster thing really pissed me off. Especially Obama and Biden. Saying a filibuster was stupid and wouldn’t work, but that you’d vote for it one time because all your annoying little constiuents deigned to call and insist you have a fucking backbone was truly disgusting.
Yesterday, there was thread on Kos praising Obama’s stern “words” on dubya. Yeah, great words. How about trying to actually do something?
You’re welcome isi, and hang in there PJ.
Will the Real Traitors Please Stand Up?
By Frank Rich
The New York Times
Sunday 14 May 2006
When America panics, it goes hunting for scapegoats. But from Salem onward, we’ve more often than not ended up pillorying the innocent. Abe Rosenthal, the legendary Times editor who died last week, and his publisher, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, were denounced as treasonous in 1971 when they defied the Nixon administration to publish the Pentagon Papers, the secret government history of the Vietnam War. Today we know who the real traitors were: the officials who squandered American blood and treasure on an ill-considered war and then tried to cover up their lies and mistakes. It was precisely those lies and mistakes, of course, that were laid bare by the thousands of pages of classified Pentagon documents leaked to both The Times and The Washington Post.
MUCH, MUCH MORE ……
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051406F.shtml
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I LOVE FRANK RICH!
MORE FROM RICH:
This history is predictably repeating itself now that the public has turned on the war in Iraq. The administration’s die-hard defenders are desperate to deflect blame for the fiasco, and, guess what, the traitors once again are The Times and The Post. This time the newspapers committed the crime of exposing warrantless spying on Americans by the National Security Agency (The Times) and the C.I.A.’s secret “black site” Eastern European prisons (The Post). Aping the Nixon template, the current White House tried to stop both papers from publishing and when that failed impugned their patriotism.
President Bush, himself a sometime leaker of intelligence, called the leaking of the N.S.A. surveillance program a “shameful act” that is “helping the enemy.” Porter Goss, who was then still C.I.A. director, piled on in February with a Times Op-Ed piece denouncing leakers for potentially risking American lives and compromising national security. When reporters at both papers were awarded Pulitzer Prizes last month, administration surrogates, led by bloviator in chief William Bennett, called for them to be charged under the 1917 Espionage Act.
We can see this charade for what it is: a Hail Mary pass by the leaders who bungled a war and want to change the subject to the journalists who caught them in the act. What really angers the White House and its defenders about both the Post and Times scoops are not the legal questions the stories raise about unregulated gulags and unconstitutional domestic snooping, but the unmasking of yet more administration failures in a war effort riddled with ineptitude. It’s the recklessness at the top of our government, not the press’s exposure of it, that has truly aided the enemy, put American lives at risk and potentially sabotaged national security. That’s where the buck stops, and if there’s to be a witch hunt for traitors, that’s where it should begin.
Hey Bascombe! :nixon: Long time no see 😀
Hey FK, did you see this?
May 14, 2006, 10:01PM
Hundreds take after-prom party to Ga. governor’s front lawn
Karl Rove is imparting his wisdom right now live at the American Enterprise Institute, carried on cspan. In the little bit I listened to he was spewing on about reforming Social Security!
Oh, damn, I thought maybe the prom kids went to protest or something. I wonder if Sonny Perdue did the Chicken Dance?
Song:
I’m So Loathsome I Could Spy
via Josh Marshall @ talkingpointsmemo
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ABC is being monitored by the NSA
May 15, 2006 9:33 AM
Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report:
A senior federal law enforcement official tells us the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources. “It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation.
We do not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls. Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the New York Times and the Washington Post, are being examined as part of a widespread CIA leak investigation.
One former official was asked to sign a document stating he was not a confidential source for New York Times reporter James Risen. Our reports on the CIA’s secret prisons in Romania and Poland were known to have upset CIA officials. People questioned by the FBI about leaks of intelligence information say the CIA was also disturbed by ABC News reports that revealed the use of CIA predator missiles inside Pakistan.
Under Bush Administration guidelines, it is not considered illegal for the government to keep track of numbers dialed by phone customers. The official who warned ABC News said there was no indication our phones were being tapped so the content of the conversation could be recorded. A pattern of phone calls from a reporter, however, could provide valuable clues for leak investigators.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federal_source_.html
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The NSA is also appaently tracking NYTand the Washing Post
Now you can see why they are not reporting the “news”
Funny, with me, they never had to ask.
😯
isi, thanks for that…I had not seen it. chicken perdue is hitting the airwaves HARD right now – tons of ads on how “great” he is. he sits on his ass for 3 years and then tells you what a great guy he is. no doubt this was one more of his free publicity stunts. the dems going up against him are cathy cox and mark taylor.
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i think brian ross is a good reporter (my personal feeling). he often gets it right. for example, he was the only one of the three networks on the first night that even mentioned hookergate in conjunction with goss’ ouster. with terrorism, he seems to have a good grasp as well. he’s not flashy, and he seems like a good old fashioned hoof to the ground reporter.
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i’m glad that professor quit in protest as it made his letter more powerful. since he’s an author, I assume he has other financial irons in the fire.
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From Will Pitt at Truthout
I just got off the phone with Jason Leopold
who clarified something for me that is pretty damned important. In his article, he said:
“During the course of that meeting, Fitzgerald served attorneys for former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove with an indictment charging the embattled White House official with perjury and lying to investigators related to his role in the CIA leak case, and instructed one of the attorneys to tell Rove that he has 24 hours to get his affairs in order, high level sources with direct knowledge of the meeting said Saturday morning.”
In point of fact, those 24 hours are “business hours,” i.e. starting on Monday.
“Jeez, Jason,” I said, “we might want to put that into the essay. Half the planet thought 24 hours was 24 hours. They thought the deal would go down today.”
To be fair, a dozen eyes looked at that article yesterday before we published it, mine included, and none of us caught that. The word “business” has been inserted into the story after “hours” where it belongs:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051306W.shtml
So. Monday at the very earliest, but more like Tuesday or Wednesday.
I’m going to go take a nap and then go get drunk with some friends tonight. Dan’s brother Ken, the airline pilot and all-around wild-man, is in town for the weekend. Gonna be the Linwood Cafe, and their Mojo from the nitrogen tap, and then around again to our usual gathering spot.
I’d repeat everything I’ve said about Jason’s multiple independent sources, about how the MSMs failure to pick this up sounds more like more of the same old shit than anything ominous, about how no hard paper or announcements or anything will come until, at a minimum, the government re-opens for business on Monday…but I’ve written it all already.
The truth will out. It always does
this tells me that American doesn’t have clue about what’s going on with our National Guard deployments in Iraq. Not a freaking clue.
Do you back the idea of using 5,000 National Guard troops to help the Border Patrol until it hires more officers?
* 16154 responses
Yes, it’s not a huge deployment and would help curb illegal immigration.
70%
No, the National Guard is already near the breaking point.
30%
Will Pitt:
Thanks for that update, Fred. Man, I hope Jason’s right. What a coup it would be for Jason and Truthout!
Yeah, he seems to do a lot of dangerous underground assignments (not war) but mafia type dangerous (or used to anyway).
Heelo out there, all of you machiavellian Jesuits!:omg:
Has everybody signed up for AAR Premium? Heard the latest ad?
What! Rove is on the hustings, talking to some predatory business group? Wasn’t he supposed to get froggmarched off to prison today?
:omg::omg::rofl2:
I think most Amerifools think the National Guard is part of the regular army since Busco has used them that way for six years. They don’t understand that they are the people who are supposed to be the first responders in the advent of a national disaster, or a civil emergency. If they are busy doing something else then you just experienced the equivalent of a terrorist attack by Busco
Hartman likes to think that locking up the employers will solve the illegal immigration problem.. I haven’t see a break down of how many of these illegals are employed by companies, how many are employed by state and local governments and how many are employed by individuals as nannies and house and grounds keepers.
Arresting a bunch of little old ladies for using them as domestics would probably not go over very well.
From what the Hispanics that work here have said most of the illegals have fake ID’s and SS cards and are well embedded into the local society..They also pay local taxes, income tax and social security and most don’t work for any $2.00 an hour either. They are not going to go away.
I think arresting a bunch of rich white people for using cheap labor to care for their mansions would actually go over quite well.
What they need to do is create and enforce living wage laws – regardless of the immigration status of the employees. I think you’d find “illegal” workers are exploited in huge numbers in construction, the garment industry, fruit and vegetable picking, hospitality, and manufacturing. Anywhere the corporatists can get away with paying minimum (or sub-minimum) wages.
Re#72:
Absolutely. Sometimes Hartmann thinks too mechanically. His remedy for the immigration issue won’t solve the problem, as you stated. Make outsourcing jobs a felony. Or allow workers to travel freely looking for jobs.
I have helped unionize Latinos. We never inquired about status. I agree, pay fair wages, no inquiry into status. Regulate corporations…outsourcing is a felony.
Heh.
In Colorado most public schools are financed through a combination of local property taxes and state income and sales taxes redistributed to local school districts. One of the major rethug talking points is that the illegals have to be educated on the public nickle. If they live six families to a four bedroom house someone has to own the house and they probably all buy stuff so how do they not contribute to the state sales taxes and local property taxes.?? In this economy a lot of families are consolidating their housing so three generations are now liveing in the same house. How is that any different ??
I think the people found employing illegals as domestics will be the rich and also older upper middle class persons who need assistance to live at home. They usually still occupy a fairly large house so they house and feed the domestics and pay them some minimal amount to just be there.
Couldn’t find anything real recent, but this is from a 1988 GAO study. Can’t give a link, ‘cuz it’s from JSTOR. These are percentages of the total workforce in these industries.
ESTIMATES OF UNAUTHORIZED EMPLOYED POPULATION
Agriculture, Forestry, and Mining 2.2
Construction 2.0
Manufacturing 37.5
– Food Processing 0.9
– Garments 1.6
– Other Manufacturing 34.9
Services 26.8
Wholesale Trade 3.3
Hotels and Restaurants 14.5
Other Industries 13.7
So those numbers indicate that better than one third of the illegals are employed by some sort of Manufacturing. The next question would be how many of their employers know that they are illegals ?? I noticed that they left out state and local governments.
Abe Rosenthal’s Times
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
A.M. Rosenthal died last week at the age of 84. There were respectful obituaries describing how Rosenthal “saved” the NYT in the 70s by pepping up its news coverage, introducing the supplements and so forth. By the same token Rosenthal sowed the seeds for the Times’ present difficulties. He was a bully with the bully’s usual penchant for favorites. A culture of favoritism always produces servility, since the bully affirms his power by conspicuous punishment for the disloyal.
So the Times that nourished Judy Miller and blared her lies across its front pages year after year was A.M. Rosenthal’s Times. The Times that has painted, in two decades worth of dispatches from Latin America and Asia and the former Soviet Union, its infantile cartoons of a world speeding towards beneficial neoliberal “reform” was also in large part a reflection of the cretinism of Rosenthal’s politics, hence of the reporters he favored. . .
http://www.counterpunch.org
Actually, it adds up to 100% (total manufacturing is 37.5 – the three right below it are breakouts). I wish I could just paste the whole journal article, but JSTOR uses images, and it’a a royal pain in the ass. It’s actually part of a table that compares GAO’s results (they used an anonymous employer survey methodology) with a couple of other studies, and the 1980 census.
Here’s the citation, should anyone care to go to the library and read the journal article:
Unauthorized Workers and Immigration Reform: What Can We Ascertain from Employers?
B. Lindsay Lowell; Zhongren Jing
International Migration Review, Vol. 28, No. 3. (Autumn, 1994), pp. 427-448.
Abstract: This article estimates the unauthorized U.S. labor force and explores employers’ initial reactions to the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). A sample of businesses, undertaken to evaluate IRCA impact, supplies information on hiring practices. A selectivity correction model is used to impute 2.6 million unauthorized workers in the entire sample which compares favorably with other estimates. The estimate is tabulated by questions about IRCA: the findings suggest that a large proportion of the unauthorized labor force uses fraudulent documents, many without the knowledge of their employer. This may be associated with the apparent lack of marked change in patterns of unauthorized hiring in the period immediately following IRCA passage.
NAFTA’s Failure and the Increasingly Desperate Mexican Economy
What Bush’s Speech on Immigration Will Miss
By JEFF FAUX
http://www.counterpunch.org/faux05152006.html
I fixed my comment .. One hazard of editing in real time. A lot of municipalities around here employ people who might be illegals for grounds personnel in their parks and green ways. They get them from the Colorado Job Service as day laborers. They just go out to the job service centers in the morning and pick them up with their trucks and take them to the work site, pay them in cash and return them to the job center at night. The only function the Job center has is to furnish the parking lot for them to stand in and to arbitrate if they don’t get paid.. anyone who needs from one to a few people can go there and pick up some laborers. You had better speak Spanish too.
Norm Orenstein used the phrase, “[We] gave them a nod and a wink to get them to come here and work”. In Oregon, employers were to assume that the documentation was legal. So the question as to whether they knew or not was not irrelevant. Probably like that in many states. (In the Summer of 2001, Ashcroft initiated an audit of Social Security documentation in the Building Services–at least in Oregon. Probably nationwide. Those with “fake I.D.’s were forced to quit. Federal trump card.)
It also looks like the GAO report underestimates the numbers in construction and agriculture, forestry, & mining industries by quite a bit (the 1980 census pegs them at 17% & 11%, while another has them at 7% and 6%) but they are all pretty close in the other areas.
The coal mines in the powder river basin in Wyoming use a lot of immigrant labor and so does the BNSF and the UP. Denver being the only city of any size in 900 miles or so seems to be the origin of a lot of that raw supply.
i was going to say I was shocked at the constructiona and ag numbers; those looked way to low from what I’d read.
from Salon on Rove
=> guess we’ll have to wait and see
I didn’t get the impression one typically ran MATLAB , Oracle and a CAD/CAM app on a laptop. I have a 1 GHZ HP that seems to work just fine and it doesn’t press my pants in the process. I can imagine what a dual G5 would have been like.. The lead acid car battery would have been a bit to much though.
Milosevic’s Death in the Propaganda System
by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson; May 14, 2006
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10258§ionID=21
Well Rove is denying there is some guy named Fitzgerald now so it must be getting close to time.
Greg Palast on with Randi this hour.
AMY GOODMAN: Is the war in Iraq a war for oil?
GREG PALAST: Is the war in Iraq for oil? Yes, it’s about the oil, but not for the oil. In my investigations for Armed Madhouse, I ended up with a story far more fascinating and difficult than I imagined. We didn’t go in to grab the oil. Just the opposite. We went in to control the oil and make sure we didn’t get it. It goes back to 1920, when the oil companies sat in a room in Brussels in a hotel room, drew a red line around Iraq and said, “There’ll be no oil coming out of that nation.” They have to suppress oil coming out of Iraq. Otherwise, the price of oil will collapse, and OPEC and Saudi Arabia will collapse.
And so, what I found, what I discovered that they’re very unhappy about is a 323-page plan, which was written by big oil, which is the secret but official plan of the United States for Iraq’s oil, written by the big oil companies out of the James Baker Institute in coordination with a secret committee of the Council on Foreign Relations. I know it sounds very conspiratorial, but this is exactly how they do it. It’s quite wild. And it’s all about a plan to control Iraq’s oil and make sure that Iraq has a system, which, quote, “enhances its relationship with OPEC.” In other words, the whole idea is to maintain the power of OPEC, which means maintain the power of Saudi Arabia.
And this is one of the reasons they absolutely hate Hugo Chavez. As you’ll see in next week’s Harper’s coming out, which is basically an excerpt from the book, Hugo Chavez on June 1st is going to ask OPEC to officially recognize that he has more oil than Saudi Arabia. This is a geopolitical earthquake. And the inside documents from the U.S. Department of Energy, which we have in the book and in Harper’s, say, yeah, he’s got more oil than Saudi Arabia.
The cougar was first spotted by my good friends, Matthew and Deborah Silverman, who live on 11th and Forest in North Boulder — a short block away from one of Boulder’s busiest streets: Broadway. They had just returned home and saw a figure lying on the ground next to a tree a few feet from their house. When the animal arose and came forward, Matt had a rake and knew this was no ordinary kitty.
The police were the first to arrive and were followed by park rangers and CDOW officers. There was nothing happening in Boulder today so the incident attracted a crowd of law enforcement professionals. Initially, they kept neighborhood onlookers away. The mountain lion ran into the neighbor’s backyard but got caught between a wood fence and some wire mesh. It did not have a lot of room to maneuver and was quite unhappy.
The cougar had gotten into the house next to the Silvermans through a dog door used for ” Mungit,” a 15 year-old cat. The lion had entered the home, killed and ate poor Mungit, and then ate the dry cat food stored in the house. It left to deposit Mungit’s remains outside and to take a nap in the 10-foot-wide space between the two homes.
http://denver.yourhub.com/Story.aspx?contentid=85477
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Yum.. Humans ..Like Humans.. Yum…:omg::eek:
I hope Rhodes swelled head doesn’t explode.. Sheeeez
Since when is a Star lifter load master a combat hardened military person ?? Especially in the 1980’s unless maybe she was working for the Russians.:spank::eek::omg:
The US hates Chavez because he does not absolutely tow the US-dominated geo-political system. If the Saudis started acting funny, like Chavez, we would hate them too.
This is a link to the audio/video of Greg Palast on Democracy Now today.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/15/1334249
Well the Dow Jones is up almost 48 points today.. probably a few buying in on last weeks drop..The dollar still has the flue so who knows..
Interesting. I need to follow up on his findings, look closer. Anyway, the US Rulers don’t like Chavez because he wants independent development. Thankfully, unlike 30 or 40 years ago, the US can’t project power to overthrow. Is the Venzuelan Army loyal to Chavez? No Suharto? Unlike that old bastard in Chile? The CIA tries to get themilitary to revolt, etc…
A lot of the countries in South America are booting out the IMF and the central bank. Without the leverage on their economies the US is more or less powerless to boss them around and now they are signing military protection agreements with each other and the Russians and the Chinese. Most of out imported oil comes across the Pacific and goes around the tip of South America then up the Atlantic off the coast of South America or gets trans shipped across Panama. A few pirate naval vessels could totally screw up insurance rates.
Randi is showing her naiivity about politics. Mexicans going back to the home country, and there we will help them to overthrow the banana republic. No, dumbshit. After we make it too expensive for corporations to hire, Mexicans will be stuck between a….loser conundrum.
If we do manage to make it unattractive for American businesses to hire the illegals then I think they will still come here if for no other reason than because its a much bigger place to hide from the loonatic capitalists they are fleeing in their home countries.
:smack: Wow. :banana:
:tinfoil: another one! :Tin::banana:
I didn’t know that..cute :smack::fustrate:
:smack:For you, Randi Rhodes.
Correct me if I am wrong but what Sam just said about the use of the army within the US does not apply to the National Guard , only to the regular army. The National Guard takes on police powers on a rather regular basis in cases of a national emergency.
::waves hello from bosses computer::: Muahahaha, I’m not supposed to use this. Going home now. See you all in a few!:omg:
:tinfoil::smack:this is why I can’t leave :rofl2: = :billcat::banana::cool::rant1::fu::growl::hubba:
:jason::pent::gate::yinyang::priest::rabbi::knit2::knit::spank::jerk::alc::bong::fist:etc… (Oh plus due to ALL u bloggers too) :rant1::rofl2::wink:
…:bow: PJSAUTER
I’ve kept quiet regarding absence of a mate until now — living here working while hubby is working down south,(helping his dad too). IT SUCKS:!: but now when sad I think of the many like Farmerkat and Mr. Farmerkat :cool::wink:and I stay 😎
The problem with this Palast guy and his grand conspiracies is that the Bush people are too goddamn stupid to organize a trip across the street to buy a sandwich. A great conspiracy to hike the price of oil is way beyond their abilities. They’re building those bases there for a reason; they want to keep our troops on top of the oil reserves, and that’s hardly macievellian, nor does it seem to be working very well. There’s too much credit given to the ability of these guys to effect events, just as there’s way too much linking of Bush’s total lack of ability to articulate with an alleged lack of intelligence. No one amasses this much power without tremendous cunning. Like Al Capone, he’s got it, but he lacks any intellectual curiosity or imagination, and his intentions are malevolent, much like any other Texas reactionary. So what’s so funny?
:rofl2:
yeesh…listening to Kinky Friedman, he’s giving the Bill O’Reilly War on Christmas line :no:
:santacool: War, what is it good for?…I know, I’ve used that clip too much.
It still sounds fun LOL
US Army=Posse Comitatus Illegal.:omg:
National Guard as police, not illegal.
This caller is making sense.
The libertarian/conservative platform is the con that voters buy. Good con job, too.
this is the biggest government there is
– it intrudes everywhere
What is the alternative to the conservative con, Sam? Many do not like the liberal con, either.
I don’t see how they sell “Government is not here to help you,” except by bait and switch, presenting it as something different
Good stating of the problem, Sam. Now what is the solution?
Us Empire is crumbling down!:omg:
Republican voters fear
Socialism:omg::omg: such a shocking word.
:smack::tinfoil: oooo, new emos for Suzie to play with
I bought a new alto recorder, today.:omg: Need to practice.
:bow::smack:
It is a CON, Sam. No kidding! Provide an alternative to the CONs.
lovely 🙂
White Supremacy Rules!
“We need more WHITE babies” debunks itself… just add the “white” in there, and people can see through it…
Dems fear socialism, too. I have stories to tell.
because the blacks and hispanics might want to DO your little girl, that’s what they fear…
Michael savage is a Nazi! Despicable fuck, ain’t he.:fu::fu:
yep, the line goes like this “I’m liberal except I’m against big government” and if you say socialism, they yell at you
such naked bigotry is rampant in this country on the airwaves and widely acceptable now
I know liberals who lobby to prevent price controls on rentals. Big, generous names. Recall Phil och songs…
:omg:
I remember where I used to live in the Bronx when I was a kid, there was a big rent strike when this socialist guy basically lobbied the community, and we won. It was the biggest successfuly rent strike in history of the United States, I think.
NSA! Corporations are getting a whiff of fascism!
Selling data! Quashed.:nixon:
I hear there is good (relatively) rent controls in NYC. I once read that John Zorn lives in a rent control unit in Manhattan.
there’s some rent control in certain places. Not as much as there used to be, a lot of buildings converted to co-ops and that kind of killed it
The usual story. Same here. Many of the big landlords who push for “market” rates are democrats. Lenni Brenner, for one, writes of this
phenomenon:omg:Gottaa go. :bow:
they’re talking about a possible Fitzmemorial Day. Every holiday so far has been Fitz something but it hsn’t been 🙁 :jerk:
later :jesus:
:tinfoil:
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/cnn_sr_bush_rehearsal_blooper_060515a_320x240.wmv
Um, is everyone too sour to throw it down?
Sup Travis :tongue:
Uh, not much, really. I’m just tryin’ to fight the page generation monster. It’s drainin’ all my powers and makin’ the ‘puter slow!:mad:Grrr!
I’m getting lag, I’ll probably reboot just before the Marc show comes on
“We need more WHITE babies” debunks itself… just add the “white” in there, and people can see through it…
Comment by Susan Joy — May 15, 2006 @ 9:15 pm
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Marc had a hot mother :no:
I just startin’ streaming, so I didn’t hear that. But that sounds odd
yeah, he was talking about how hot his mother was when he was growing up and how she hit on his friends 😮
Maron’s a freakola!:omg:
I had to reboot twice, and I’m still getting lag, this is not looking good.
It’s nice how Maron can’t figure out that they have to stop talking and take a break at a certain time or he’ll get cut off. Or maybe the commercials are jumpin’ the gun. Either way it’s stupid when I can’t hear the last few words at the end of each segment. Totally unprofessional:mad:
Sorry, sheeple.
:doh: I’ll just make a fist:fist: instead of throwing it down on the board. Later:bow:
:mad::smack::rant1::fu::40::alc::40::fu::rant1::smack::mad:
stream crapped out:tinfoil:
:smack:
Well, I missed Maron tonight — It is due to bush :fu: but I did put, earlier, a new sticker on back car window re Impeachment — And that makes 3 ❗
:banana::banana::banana:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!
:smack: I just realized I am “Talking To Myself” oops:doh::smack:
Travisdem_04, I love your links to diff music…it makes me “be calm” kinda :doh: :tinfoil:
ARREST!
IMPEACH! (format by KevinM)
VIGILANCE!