More Spying From The Only Democracy In The Middle East; The Top 10 Conservative Idiots #375

Before I get into the next act of scumbaggery by our pal in the Middle East, let's take a quick look at Democratic Underground's Top 10 Conservative Idiots - it's a fun read.

Now...hold on a second! Didn't I state something in the title of this posting about a possible spying scandal involving our only friend in the Middle East, Israel? Why would our friend spy on us? Aren't we working in lockstep to fight the War on Terror?

US scientist charged with spying

Stewart David Nozette (AP file photo from Nasa website)
Mr Nozette developed technology for the Pentagon and Nasa

An American scientist who worked for the US defence department and the space agency Nasa has been charged with attempted espionage, officials say.

Stewart David Nozette tried to give classified information to a person whom he believed was an Israeli intelligence officer, the justice department said.

The 52-year-old, who once had top security clearance, was arrested on Monday by FBI agents, it added.

The complaint does not allege Israel or anyone acting for it violated US law.

Mr Nozette, who is expected to appear in court in Washington on Tuesday, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.

"The conduct alleged in this complaint is serious and should serve as a warning to anyone who would consider compromising our nation's secrets for profit," said US Assistant Attorney General David Kris.

According to an affidavit, Mr Nozette worked at the White House on the National Space Council from 1989 to 1990, where he developed a radar experiment that purportedly discovered water on the Moon.


The answers contained information... that concerned US satellites, early warning systems, means of defence or retaliation against large-scale attack, communications intelligence information, and major elements of defence strategy
US Department of Justice

He then spent 10 years at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he designed highly advanced technology.

In 2000, he set up a company that developed advanced technology for the US government, including for the Pentagon and Nasa.

"From 1989 through 2006, Nozette held security clearances as high as 'top secret' and had regular, frequent access to classified information and documents related to the US national defence," the justice department said in a statement.

Last month, Mr Nozette was contacted by an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer, whom he allegedly told he would be willing to regularly answer questions about classified information in exchange for money and an Israeli passport.

Over the course of the next month, the scientist provided letters with answers containing information "classified as both 'top secret' and 'secret' that concerned US satellites, early warning systems, means of defence or retaliation against large-scale attack, communications intelligence information, and major elements of defence strategy", the justice department said.

In return, Mr Nozette accepted cash totalling $11,000, it added.

Dear readers...it's time to call for a complete removal of EVERYONE with dual-loyalties from our government.

If you haven't, you all really need to read Christopher Ketcham's excellent CounterPunch piece on Israeli Spying in the U.S. - you'll thank me for it.

Who Are The Real Terrorists Again...? - Goon Squad

CA. Jewish Terrorist Cell caught making same type of explosive used in London Subway Bombings

Sgt: Explosive at home similar to London bombing October 9, 2009

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. - A Southern California man who blew off four fingers while mixing explosives in a home that doubled as a day care center had made a volatile compound similar to the one used in the 2005 London subway bombings, a sheriff's official said.

Benjamin Kuzelka, 23, made triacetone triperoxide, a very volatile compound, and was in the garage handling an unstable liquid when it exploded.

Triacetone triperoxide is similar to the material used in the 2005 terrorist attack on the London subway system. But Sgt. Chavez said there was no immediate indication of any link to terrorism. He said Kuzelka, who remains hospitalized with wounds to his hand, face and chest, told investigators he had researched bomb-making online and was trying it at home for fun.

Kuzelka's mother, Rebecca, and younger brother, Grey, were arrested Thursday on suspicion of manufacturing illegal explosives, illegal growing of marijuana and child endangerment. Kuzelka will be arrested when he recovers, authorities have said.

Deputies found explosives and a sophisticated marijuana farm at the property, which doubles as the state-licensed Kuzelka Family Day Care, after Benjamin Kuzelka arrived at a hospital saying he'd shot himself in the hand. His injuries were inconsistent with a gunshot wound, however, and doctors notified the sheriff's department.

Commentary from Goon Squad's Greg Bacon - When the FBI captures some clueless clowns, like those 'jihadists' in Miami who had no money, no guns, no explosives and didn't even know where their alleged target, the Sears Tower was located, CNN and FOX put that story into an endlessly repeating news cycle and the feds act like we're in DefCon 5.

But when some actual terrorists are caught making explosives, "Wolfie" Blitzer and that rodeo clown Beck act like the "Three Monkeys."

Can you imagine the faux horror stories in the American MSM if some Muslims were caught making explosives and also had an illegal dope growing operation, all hidden behind a CHILD DAY CARE CENTER that they were running?

The explosive, Triacetone triperoxide AKA TATP, is the same stuff that Jordanian man in Texas was alleged to have been making, so where's the feigned horror stories in the MSM?

American police charge terror suspects implicated in three separate 'plots'

A Colorado airport shuttle bus driver was charged under federal anti-terrorism laws with plotting to set off explosives in the United States and accused of acquiring the same bomb-making chemicals used in the 2005 London transit attacks.

Najibullah Zazi, 24, an Afghan immigrant under arrest in Colorado on another charge, was indicted by a grand jury on suspicion of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, authorities announced on Thursday.

A Jordanian national was arrested by the FBI on Thursday for attempting to bomb a skyscraper in downtown Dallas, the Department of Justice said.

If you're a Muslim or an Arab and buy more than one bottle of hydrogen peroxide, you might get busted and charged under the federal anti-terrorist laws, but if you're a Jew and are actually CAUGHT making bombs, the police will handle it as a local matter and the FBI will yawn and look elsewhere.

I listened to 1010WINS and had to endure hearing the name Najibullah Zazi EVERY FIVE MINUTES during the week this bogus terrorist threat was being headlined by our distraction media. Not ONCE did the name Benjamin Kuzelka ever make the news.

Why is that, dear readers?

Neo-PaleoConservatives - Travis Kelly

Travis hits another one outta the park - swing, batta!

The "Get Smart" School Of Journalism

I'm calling "shenanigans" on the boy-in-wayward-balloon story yesterday - there was some scumbaggery afoot that WE THE PEOPLE were not made aware by our "liberal media". One only wonders what that could be...

I'll give an example:

"TWA Flight 800 Breaks Apart In Midair; Cause Unknown"

So...over 200 eyewitnesses notice an object approaching the doomed aircraft before the catastrophic event.

"Would you believe the 'streak' that you all thought you saw was actually the plane itself breaking apart in midair from the fuel igniting itself?"

"No? Would you believe that all of you were DRUNK?"

I just heard on 1010WINS this morning, at 6:32 AM, that "the balloon incident was NOT A HOAX"...and the check is in the mail...and I promise not to do that thing in your mouth...OOPS!

Update: On Larry King Live (hosted by Wolf Blitzer), the child admitted to the story being a hoax, his parents are noted for having been contestants on various "reality TV" shows, notably the wife-swapping show. The mind reels...


Let's try this again:

"WTC Brought Down By Impacts From Passenger Jets And Fires From Jet Fuel"

Then a peer-reviewed report is published which not only refutes the possibility that airplanes could damage a substructure which withstands hurricane-force winds daily, can survive multiple strikes from wayward planes (rated to be at least equal to the impacts realized by WTC Buildings 1 & 2); nor could open-air fires have affected the viability of the steel comprising the substructure of the building, but that materials used in controlled demolition were found in the dust from the "collapse" of said buildings, not to mention that a THIRD BUILDING "collapsed" that day, that was not directly impacted by much of anything, and did not experience huge fires.

"Would you believe a microwave set to 999 minutes with a soda can?"

"No?"

"Would you believe THERMAL EXPANSION?"

"Tough crowd!"
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I have two words for you, dear readers: Hiram Monserrate.

Okay...actually, it should include one more word - SCUMBAG.

I'll have to wait until I run by the actual testimony...but...how does a glass go from being whole in your hand to being broken against your girlfriend's face...UNLESS YOU BROKE IT FIRST, SCUMBAG?

Planetary #27 Review

Good afternoon, dear readers!

We're going to have a bit of a diversion from the norm here...we're going to review the just-completed series Planetary, created by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday, ably abetted by Laura Martin (previously DePuy), ComicCraft (primarily Bill O'Neil) and a number of editors, produced by Wildstorm and published by DC Comics.

Planetary documents the secret history of the Wildstorm Universe. Within the Planetary Universe, one will find familiar characters from far and wide. Some are represented by the actual characters; some are analogues of those characters. For example, Sherlock Holmes is a real character in the Planetary Universe; however, Doc Savage exists as Doctor Axel Brass.

The characters in Planetary are:

Elijah Snow - Snow has the not fully defined power of heat subtraction. Like Iceman of Marvel Comics, he can freeze objects by reducing their molecular activity. Unlike Iceman, he does not cover himself in a sheath of ice. Snow is also a being known as a Century Baby, born at the beginning of the century. Century Babies act as the immune system for the universe.

Jakita Wagner - Jakita possesses super-strength and super-speed. She is purported to be able to "kick a rhino across the Grand Canyon".

Ambrose Chase - Ambrose Chase is a living "physics distortion field"; that means that Chase can affect his environment by slowing or stopping time (does anyone remember The Girl, The Gold Watch And Everything? Love that Morgan Fairchild, by the way...!).

The Drummer - The Drummer (yes, that is the name he goes by!) can interact electronically with his environment; for three meters around his person, he acts as an anti-surveillance field.

One of the tag lines of Planetary is that "It's a strange world". One of the strange things is that on Marvel Comics' Earth, The Fantastic Four is one of the pre-eminent superhero teams; on Planetary-Earth, The Four are the most evil bastards walking the face of the earth.

The Four are:

Randall Dowling - Dowling is the analogue of Reed Richards, Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four. Unlike Reed, Dowling stretches metaphorically, parasitically invading people's minds.

Kim Suskind - She is the Invisible Woman of The Four - Ellis attributes real science to his characters; in this instance, for Kim to be truly imperceptible, there is no light reaching her eyes, which renders her blind when she warps light, so Randall implanted in her spine an image resonator (you'll have to ask Ellis for the real verbiage) attached to a visor that allows her sight. She also possesses Sue's force filed, although she has practiced in the more lethal applications of said field.

William Leather - William Leather was the son of Bret Leather, another one of the Century Babies, though not actual blood; because of this, Leather did not have any inherent powers. Robbed of his birthright, he was easily enticed by Dowling and joined him on the journey to an adjacent universe to gain his superhuman power. He is the analogue to Johnny Storm, the Human Torch, although he sports electrical fire, rather than flaming plasma.

Jacob Greene - Greene was the most deformed of The Four - he resembles Benjamin J. Grimm, the ever lovin' blue-eyed Thing, but even more deformed.

The Four kidnapped Snow and placed mental blocks in his mind when he became just a tad too dangerous, and threatened to murder the remainder of the team if he ever again interfered in their plans. With the assistance of John Stone, he was able to break the mental blocks and mount an offensive against The Four.

William Leather was dispatched in #18; Greene was exiled outside the universe in #20, and Dowling and Suskind fell to their deaths in #26 - I don't want to ruin all of the fun - I want you to go buy the books, make Warren, John and Laura happier with royalties, and avail yourselves of the engaging storyline, the absolutely awesome artwork and the lush, vibrant and haunting hues offered to your by our dear storytellers.

Issue #27 concerns itself with the rescue of Ambrose Chase, who seemed to have placed himself into an improvised state off suspended animation, only moments from death. Do they save him?

Go get Planetary #27. You'll like it.

In other news...David McGowan posted an addedum to Wagging The Moondoggie.

Tommy Chong On Alex Jones - "Inside Job"

Voter Lockdown - John Kennedy O'Hara

November 3, 2008
Prosecuting Voters
Voter Lockdown

By JOHN KENNEDY O'HARA

Thirteen campaign workers for Barack Obama in Ohio, including spokeswoman Olivia Alair, signed a letter on October 24th asking the Franklin County Board of Elections to pull their names from the voter rolls. One Obama staffer in Ohio told me, “We’re pretty nervous about this.” The concern was prompted by a warning from prosecutor Ron O’Brien, the elected county district attorney and a Republican, urging new Democratic voters to “examine your conscious” before filing their registration cards.

Meanwhile, CNN announced that at least a dozen states are investigating allegedly fraudulent voter registrations among the flood of new registrants. Most of these are arrivals to the Democratic Party. Election officials nationwide estimate that 30 percent of the 1.3 million newly registered Democratic voters brought in by ACORN, an outreach organization based in poor communities, have been rejected. The source of most of these disputed registrations is a simple one – and very dangerous. The problem, allege prosecutors and election officials, is residence: Many of these “new” voters have simply moved to a new home.

This may sound benign, but when a prosecutor warns you to “examine your conscious,” what it means is that the prosecutor will examine you. And when he talks about questioning the validity of your voting residence, what it really means is you might be going to jail for voting. I know this all too well from personal experience.

On October 21, 1996, I was indicted by the district attorney in Brooklyn, New York, on seven felony counts of what was deemed false registration and illegal voting. The first count was when I registered to vote in 1992. Count two was that the address on my registration was not my “principal and permanent residence” – the language of the bizarre New York State voter residence law. And the remaining five counts were the votes I cast in each of the elections and primaries over the following year. Each count was a class E felony carrying a penalty of one to four years in prison. I did not vote twice in the same day, nor did I vote from a sham address. Nonetheless, I was facing 28 years in prison for voting. The last felony case to be successfully prosecuted in New York for false registration and illegal voting took place in 1873, in Rochester, New York. The defendant in that case was Susan B. Anthony.

The genesis of my alleged crime was that in 1992 I registered to vote and voted from my ex-girlfriend’s house in Brooklyn, which is fourteen blocks from where I currently live. The jury was asked to examine my life, over a twenty year period, to determine if the place I lived in for one year, four years earlier, was my “principal and permanent residence that I always intended to return to.” I have lived in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn my entire life.

Every aspect of my personal life was now subject to investigation – meaning every check, credit card slip, tax return for the past 20 years was examined by the Brooklyn district attorney. My apartment, my campaign headquarters, houses of my relatives were put under surveillance.

With over a million registered voters in Brooklyn, you may be wondering why I was targeted in this Kafkaesque effort. I was 35 years old at the time; not once in my life was I ever in trouble with the law. The explanation is not much different than why prosecutors are targeting Obama campaign staffers in Ohio: It was my political activity. I had been a candidate for office on five separate occasions taking on entrenched incumbents, but what triggered the prosecution was an event that happened six weeks before my arrest.

On September 10, 1996, primary day in New York State, the voting machines were delivered late throughout selected polling places in Brooklyn. This was no accident, and tens of thousands of people were denied their chance to vote. The late machines affected the outcome of a judicial race that the district attorney’s chief of staff was managing. When I saw what happened I had to act. I immediately filed an action in federal court and successfully got a continued election. There was a last-minute appeal by the party bosses, and the US Court of Appeals cancelled the continued election hours before the polls were to open.

My attorneys and I planned an emergency application to the U.S. Supreme Court when I was suddenly indicted and arrested for illegal voting. I had stood up for other people’s right to vote – and now I was going to be made an example of. It worked. When you are in lockup waiting to be arraigned on seven felony counts, your priorities quickly change.

The case of People v. O’Hara spiraled into one of the most expensive criminal cases in New York history. The case even made it into the pages of Harper’s Magazine and was the subject of hundreds of articles in the mainstream dailies. I would soon become the first person in Brooklyn ever tried three times on the same charge. The first trial was reversed on appeal, the second trial resulted in a hung jury, and in the third trial I was convicted again. What followed were more than a dozen appeals with split decisions. The appellate courts in New York viewed the case as one of “first impression,” meaning there had never been a criminal prosecution where someone had to pledge allegiance to one residence for an indefinite period of time.

Ultimately I was spared prison. My sentence was to be confined by probation for five years, fined $20,000, ordered to perform 1,500 hours of community service, and since I was now a convicted felon, I was disbarred as an attorney and lost my livelihood.

New York’s highest court, the State Court of Appeals, realized the danger of prosecuting voters when a minority on the bench dissented in my case in a 5-2 decision during 2001 that ultimately upheld my conviction. The dissenting opinion stated:

If politically-charged disputes such as this and questions of “residence” are going to be resolved in the criminal arena and decided by juries, with the possibility of criminal conviction and incarceration, we would ensure that the definition of residence is plainly fixed and easily understood.

The problem, of course, is that under New York State law the definition of residence just doesn’t make sense. It flatly cancels out the right to vote of anyone who can’t pledge allegiance to a single residence. This includes those who are homeless or living in homeless shelters; it includes students living temporarily in dormitories. It might even include wealthy homeowners who maintain two or three residences – which one of the mansions is “principal and permanent”? The statutory definition of a residence in Ohio disturbingly echoes the language in the New York State election law under which I was prosecuted. A residence in Ohio must be that which is “fixed and to which whenever the person is absent, the person has the intention of returning.” As in New York, the penalty for violating the law is draconian: It’s a felony punishable by one year in prison and a $2,500 fine. There’s another, perhaps more disturbing, catch in the Ohio fine print: If you vote from a claimed residence, but abandon that residence within the statute of limitations – typically five years – then you can be prosecuted, years later, for violating the law. This explains in part why the dozen Obama campaign staffers folded like an accordion on October 24.

Prosecuting people for their political activity is not a novel concept; we just don’t want to believe it happens in America. But what’s happening in Franklin County, Ohio, is an example of why it is necessary to have a prosecutor on your side to silence dissent. The prosecutor, after all, is the key to locking people up. Make no mistake, this is about suppressing turn-out, keeping the vote down, which is the common goal of all incumbent politicians. An elected district attorney, like O’Brien in Ohio, is no different than any other politician. Prosecutors exist by pleasing the party bosses, who help keep them in office, and, yes, they do have the perfect platform to keep voters out of the booth.

In the big picture, new voters mean change, and when do incumbents want change? Voter turnout has consistently declined year after year, which is no accident. It is accomplished through gerrymandering when re-apportionment comes around after each census, and also, as it happens, by the expansion of the prison industrial complex. Since 1990, the American prison population has gone from 800,000 to 2 million. Politicians fight to get those prisons in their districts. The reason is obvious: prisoners count as constituents, but they are not allowed to vote. This is every politician’s dream come true: a district full of people who can’t vote.

Getting locked up for voting happened to me, it is happening in Ohio – and it can happen to you. We have more people in prison than any country in the world. So we should pause before venturing down that slippery slope of prosecuting people for pulling the lever on election day.

John Kennedy O’Hara is no longer a disbarred lawyer, but as of this writing, is still a convicted felon living in Brooklyn, and has applied for a pardon from New York Governor David Paterson. His on-line petition to the governor’s office can be found at freejohnohara.com.

USA And The World: At The Crossroads Or In The Crosshairs?‏ - Travis Kelly

A correction to my last Samizdat posting about Ahmadinejad -- the Daily Telegraph seems to have pulled this out of their ass, without any due diligence:

Ahmadinejad has no Jewish roots
Rumours that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's family converted to Islam from Judaism are false. In fact, they are proud Shias
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/05/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-jewish-family

One recently published claim about his background comes from an article in the Daily Telegraph. Entitled "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past", it claims that his family converted to Islam after his birth. The claim is based on a number of arguments, a key one being that his previous surname was Sabourjian which "derives from weaver of the sabour, the name for the Jewish tallit shawl in Persia".

Professor David Yeroshalmi, author of The Jews of Iran in the 19th Century and an expert on Iranian Jewish communities, disputes the validity of this argument. "There is no such meaning for the word 'sabour' in any of the Persian Jewish dialects, nor does it mean Jewish prayer shawl in Persian...

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This is a long but particularly cogent essay on the state of the world, and our nation's role in the future:


USA and the World: At the crossroads or in the crosshairs?
Come Carpentier de Gourdon
08 Oct 2009
http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=857

History is being written every day but there is little doubt that the years from 2008 to 2010 will be remembered in the future as the period during which the global system transitioned from almost unchallenged unipolar western dominance to a much more complex and uncharted chaotic state.

The after-effects of the financial meltdown in the USA brought about the rapid decline of the NATO-centered western security structure, already challenged by the tragic wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while Israel, a pillar of the global US-led alliance, was put on the strategic defensive by its botched attack on Lebanon and on the moral defensive by its brutal assault on Gaza, which exposed the Jewish state to the charges of war crimes and even crimes against humanity, earlier levied against its American mentor in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Conversely, while the “metaphorical” West is being buffeted by economic and political storms, many of its own making, China, India, Brazil and other leading nations of Asia, Latin America and Africa are experiencing a new spring of hope as they see the centres of gravity of the old “order” shifting rapidly towards them. Indeed the problems that those developing countries are experiencing are often caused by their interactions with the poles of worldwide finance (New York, London) and by the contamination of America’s multiple woes to its neighbours and partners.

The perception of this situation has led to a number of rather predictable consequences. The socialist or nationalist anti-Wall Street (a fairer description than “anti-American” or “anti-globalization”) governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, Iran and Belarus were reinforced and vindicated in their resolve to create an alternative order, while the “good students” of global liberalism such as Mexico, South Africa, Nigeria and even the United Arab Emirates were severely hurt and saw their socio-political stability challenged. Russia was provided with further reasons to review its commitment to capitalism and forced to increase Government intervention in the economy.

China likewise used its command and control structures to inject several hundred billion dollars worth of stimulus to support threatened companies and fight mounting unemployment. Japan elected to power, with an overwhelming majority, a party committed to reorganize the social dispensation, reshape its foreign policy, distance itself from the USA, and strike a closer collaboration with China and other Asian neighbours.

The Atlantic Alliance thus finds itself in a rapidly worsening predicament. Faced by formidable competition in all areas by the rising powers of Asia and South America, increasingly dependent upon Russia and other less-than-friendly countries for its energy, threatened with eviction from its traditional African backyard by China, India, Brazil and other new entrants on the continent, mined by social unrest as a result of the economic and unemployment crisis, weakened by ill-fated colonial wars in the Middle East, bled by the thousand pricks of Islam-inspired terrorism, demoralised by the fast spreading perception of a looming climatic and environmental Armageddon and deeply divided within, the “West” is less homogenous than ever perhaps since World War II, and is fighting to retain control over an international architecture it can no longer afford to support.

Hence the repeated appeals to Russia, China and India to become part of this system and take their share of responsibility in it. However those attempts to co-opt the three most significant “non western” states are inspired by the hope that they can be kept apart from each other and possibly on unfriendly terms, in order to avoid a coordination that would be ominous for the US-ruled alliance.

While sharp divisions emerged between the USA and Continental Western Europe with regard to the Iraq war and are widening on the Afghan theatre, even greater disagreements have been recorded on the subject of the economy and specifically on how to respond to the crisis.

Those divisions are also to be found within most countries in the Atlantic alliance, including the US, where President Barack Obama is torn between two bitterly opposed camps, i.e. those who elected him to carry out radical reforms in domestic and foreign policies on one side, and those who opposed or grudgingly supported him in order to prevent him from carrying out those very reforms on the other. That division is less obvious but much more real than the supposed cleavage between the Democratic and Republican parties which have long been rival but complementary interest groups in the service of the same system.

The division, in simple terms, manifests most visibly on four critical issues: the economy, the Israel-Palestine situation (which includes the policy towards Iran), the Russia-China conundrum and the Afghan situation. Iraq, at least temporarily ceased to be a major item of disagreement in the USA as a result of the relative but fragile status quo that has prevailed there since 2007. The only differences regard the pace of repatriation of US troops and the amount of forces that should be maintained there permanently or at least for the foreseeable future. However the four other issues have all appearances of being intractable.

The Economy

The Obama administration has disappointed the reformers of various persuasions as he gave every sign of being both unable and unwilling to challenge the power of the entrenched Wall Street lobbies and business interests. The massive and rabid opposition he faced on the issue of healthcare reform, especially with regard to any notion of public healthcare that is seen as “communistic” by too many Americans under the influence of the propaganda broadcast by insurance companies and pharmaceutical consortia, is symptomatic of a deadlocked system, controlled by its beneficiaries who refuse to concede their privileges under any circumstances.

This obduracy is indeed the major factor for the increasingly likely collapse of the United States, in spite of its being still an immensely wealthy country. On a smaller scale, California, the richest state of the Union is also rapidly declining under the weight of its own political-fiscal deadlock which has condemned it to bankruptcy. Though American military might cannot be matched by any other nation in the foreseeable future, it is unlikely that this power can remain effective when the underlying socio-political structures crumble and when the defence machinery itself cannot be properly oiled with the vast financial outlays it requires. At present the USA is gradually keeling over under the burden created by the 8 trillion Dollar real estate bubble when it burst.

Israel-Palestine

All American policies in the Near and Middle East are influenced, when not determined by, its equation with Israel. The Zionist lobby (both Jewish and Christian) propounds as an article of faith that Israel is a divinely ordained state which the US is duty-bound, according to its founding religious creed, to support and protect in all circumstances. Obama seems to have dual loyalties on this issue. He is a member of the African-American community, has Muslim origins in his father’s family, was like his wife Michelle long involved with black social action networks, and must respond in some way to the growing irritation felt in many domestic quarters against Israel’s foreign policies and the very high diplomatic, financial, human and image costs they entail for the United States.

Obama must also try to assuage a majority of public opinion abroad that sees the American government as a virtual hostage of Zionist interests, but he cannot afford to antagonize too much the Jewish elite in the country which has already shown its ability to jeopardize his presidency. For instance, the vociferous campaign of the so-called “Birthers” who claim that the first African-American President was not born in the territory of the USA and is in fact a Kenyan, hence not eligible to hold the highest office, gives every indication of having being inspired by Israeli agents, including the leader of the “Birthers”, Orly Taitz, who was reported to have both American and Israeli citizenships and rumoured to be close to Prime Minister Netanyahu.

In the same vein, the Israeli administration deliberately evinced its disdain for its counterpart in Washington, when the latter attempted to restart stalled negotiations with the Palestinian authority in August 2009, by announcing the construction of new settlements in occupied territories in spite of Obama’s requests.

On the larger theatre, Israel has been relentlessly pushing the US and its NATO allies to bomb Iran’s nuclear research facilities because of the suspicion that they may be used to develop a nuclear weapon. It is edifying that both Israel and the USA, which never seriously objected when Pakistan became a nuclear weapons state, with the not-so-covert help of the USA, are fixated on Iran’s alleged military nuclear capabilities. Why the dread of a “Shiite Islamic bomb” when the “Sunni bomb” was taken in stride?

For one, Pakistan is a client state of the United States and Britain, which is not expected to turn against them or their protégés, but Iran’s nuclear programme is also used as a bogey by Tel Aviv, just as when the Jewish state promoted the now discarded belief that Iraq was amassing weapons of mass destruction to call for the invasion of the country and Saddam Hussein’s overthrow.

It is in Israel’s interest to bring as much of the region as possible under US military and political control, or at least under the superpower’s attacks, so as to leave no potential enemy or challenger to its East or South. The calculus in Israel is that disarming Iran would ipso facto weaken Syria and the Hezbollah which could be subsequently defanged. In pursuit of this objective, Israel refuses now to seriously pursue negotiations with the Palestinians as long as the US does not “take care” of Tehran.

The implications of the Israeli government’s brinkmanship can of course be tragic for the Middle East and for the world. If Tel Aviv and Washington do not stop at covert destabilizing operations inside Iran and launch air attacks against the Islamic Republic, retaliations can be expected in all areas where Iran has the ability to strike at US and Jewish interests and a new wave of anti-western anger is sure to arise in many parts of the world.


Muslims populations may not be the only ones to express their outrage through violence. Too many disenfranchised and angry victims of the ongoing economic crisis are likely to find in this new “war for Zionism and oil” a channel to manifest their hostility to their rulers and their resolve to overthrow the global oligarchy. For Israel to press for a “final (military) solution” in the Middle East, though it will certainly not be final unless nuclear holocaust occurs, shows a state of desperation among some right-wing Zionists, or at least a worrisome recklessness of the type evinced by the Wall Street gamblers who brought about the multi-trillion dollar losses of 2008.

An indication of the acute tension reached in the Iran-Israel conflict could be found in a mysterious incident involving the Russian cargo ship Arctic Sea, which was bizarrely hijacked twice on its journey to Algeria in July 2009, by “pirates” on a speedboat posing as Swedish policemen, who took it to the Cape Verde islands, before the Russian navy was able to trace the vessel and take control of it on August 17, after deploying considerable resources in coordination with various other European states and the USA. The pirates, according to some intelligence sources hailed from Russia and the Baltic countries, but were rumoured to have acted on behalf of the Israeli Mossad. Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov called them “CIA terrorists”, suggesting that they might have been rogue agents.

Not long after they were arrested and taken back to Russia to be tried, Prime Minister Netanyahu flew secretly to the Kubinka Air Force base on September 7, “in breach of all protocol,” to meet President Medvedev. He was accompanied by Meir Kalifi, his military adviser and Uzi Arad, his national security adviser. Though not much was learnt about the discussions, it was reported that apart from angrily demanding the release of his agents “Bibi the American” as he is nicknamed in Israel, tried to secure Russian non-intervention in the event of Israelis staging bombing raids over Iran.

The meeting appears to have been stormy. Medvedev later said in an interview with Fareed Zakaria on CNN, after news had leaked about the clandestine visit, that he had only agreed to the secrecy in response to Netanyahu’s request, though he did not see the need for it and would have preferred that the visit be official. The reason for the hijacking of MV Arctic Sea remains a mystery, but it appears that major strategic interests were at stake if one looks at the massive resources Russia deployed to recover the ship and defeat what was almost certainly a covert operation conducted for undisclosed reasons on a vessel whose real cargo was not ascertained.

Shortly afterwards, Russia sought assurances from Israeli President Shimon Peres that there would be no attack on Iran; Prime Minister Putin pointedly highlighted the Russian warning on the anniversary of September 11, 2001. It appears that the Russian Government sought to prevent a unilateral military move from the Netanyahu government by getting not only the Israeli head of state to commit that there would be no attack on Iran, but also the American administration.

Indeed, President Obama himself issued a veiled but stern warning to the bellicose Jewish premier through his informal but very influential adviser, Zbignew Brzezinski, who in an interview to the Daily Beast on 22nd, openly invoked the prospect of the US Air Force shooting down any Israeli planes heading to Iran. Brzezinski even recalled, -horribile dictu- the 1967 Israeli deadly bombing of the electronic spying ship USS Liberty to suggest that Americans might not be averse to getting even with Tsahal, thus breaking a taboo enforced from the White House since the day of that incident. This series of events reflect the fact that the wind is turning. An insolvent and deeply divided America is constrained to rethink its policies in the Middle East as they have become unsustainable and detrimental.

A number of strange and disturbing events, apparently caused by terrorism, took place in the territory of the Russian Federation during the month of September. On August 17, the very day when Russian special forces took control of the Arctic Sea from the hijackers, a massive explosion destroyed the Sayano Shusenskaya hydro-electrical power plant in Siberia, causing a large number of casualties, and on September 13 the Directorate of Military Intelligence situated on an Air Base at Tambov was the target of a commando who managed to penetrate it, killing various security personnel and setting fire to an archive reported to contain a number of sensitive government files.

Were those attacks related to the Arctic Sea incident and the stormy meeting between the Russian President and the Israeli Prime Minister? The verdict of various experts is that somebody was trying to apply intense pressure on the Kremlin, possibly to dissuade it from obstructing western designs against Iran.

On September 16, a trilateral meeting took place in Washington between President Obama, Prime Minister Putin and Prime Minister Harper of Canada, during which the US and Russia agreed on a number of surprisingly conciliatory moves. It has been reported that one of the points of agreement was the need to contain Israeli bellicosity and prevent the situation in the Middle East from getting out of hand, in line with the warnings recently issued by some eminent analysts, including Professor Immanuel Wallerstein, predicting a “firestorm” for US interests and forces in the region, if the worsening situation involving Israel, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan was not quickly brought under control.

Russia-China

Though the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation have very different situations vis-à-vis the United States, the fact that since the beginning of the twenty-first century they coordinate their foreign policies to some extent and especially their responses to the US, has forced Washington to take them into account in tandem on a number of sensitive issues, in the Middle East, Europe and Latin America, as in North Korea.

The economic power of the Middle Kingdom and the strategic-nuclear might of Russia combined with the latter’s energy and mineral resources make the world’s two largest nations, by population and land area respectively, indispensable or inevitable as the case may be. There is no assurance that the alliance of convenience struck between Beijing and Moscow will survive the likely divergence of some of their respective interests, but in the present context they need each other to defend themselves effectively against western hegemonic designs.

Evidently the colossal US debt to China and Europe’s dependence on Russian oil and gas give the two Eastern states decisive leverage over the Atlantic Alliance, and as of 2009 there are increasing signs that the US is caught in an economic vice by China, which is able to exercise informal vetting rights over American financial and foreign policies, while Russia wields its refurbished conventional and nuclear arsenal to restore and extend its influence in many regions, from the Mediterranean to the South Atlantic and from Venezuela to the Arctic Ocean, while its nuclear submarines and its long-range strategic bombers surround mainland America. Those may be theatrical moves but they convey a message clearer than words.

The situation of the USA vis-à-vis China may offer some grounds for comparison with the state of the United Kingdom and its empire in the years leading up to and during the Second World War when London became dependent on the United States, then the world’s largest factory and credit provider. That dependence was increased and made manifest by the lend lease programme which effectively gave the White House a right of veto over all of White Hall’s decisions.

Today, the USA must practically get China’s agreement before it can carry out any major domestic or foreign initiative. Many have said that the dependence is mutual and that a full-fledged collapse of the US would be disastrous for China’s economy, but this is cold comfort to clear-sighted American policy-makers, who see Beijing taking a number of measures to rapidly reduce its excessive reliance on the US export market.

Indeed, after the aforesaid 16 September meeting, the White House announced its intention to abandon the missile shield project in Eastern Europe and is so far resisting the obsessive Israeli calls for launching a war against Iran. More American concession are likely to follow, involving the tacit recognition of Russia’s preponderance in its traditional sphere of influence by shelving plans to induct Ukraine and Georgia into NATO and stopping the US moves to build a military presence in Central Asia.

In return, it appears that President Putin renounced the legal action pursued by the Russian state against the Bank of New York, seeking 22 billion Dollars in damages in exchange for a token 14 million Dollars in legal costs. More importantly, apart from confirming its willingness to allow American supplies passage through Russia on the way to Afghanistan, Russia toned down its call for replacing the US greenback with a new global reserve currency, endorsing instead the Chinese proposal for a basket of currencies including the Dollar.

Afghanistan

The so-called graveyard of empires is living up to its reputation by conjuring a nightmare of defeat and humiliation for NATO strategists. Both during his presidential campaign and after his election, Barack Obama had, like many other politicians, presented the Afghan war as a righteous and necessary conflict, as opposed to the invasion of Iraq which was illegal and staged under false pretenses. He thereby sought to reassure a majority of Americans who prefer to be seen as strong even if wrong, as opposed to being morally right but appearing weak.

Its perpetual insecurity, perhaps rooted in a lingering inferiority complex vis-à-vis older imperial nations, leads the world’s “sole superpower” to assume that it must prove itself by using overwhelming force whenever the occasion arises. Hence Afghanistan was to provide proof to doubters and naysayers that “America was not running away” and that the rather inglorious outcome in Iraq could be balanced by a successful pacification of the lands abutting the Hindu Kush, that in turn would facilitate the annexation of sprawling and energy-rich Central Asia into the Western fold. Perhaps unknowingly, modern day American strategists are echoing the views of British Prime Minister Disraeli, who claimed that the safety of the Empire hinged on those very Afghan mountains.

In September 2009 Obama, well aware that the USA had already spent 38 billion Dollars in economic assistance alone with little to show for it in the war-torn country, had second thoughts on the strategy to expand the war and increase the number of troops in Afghanistan until final victory. He could not fail to notice that many of his advisers were not sure of what victory meant in the local context and how durable or real it could be. The paradox is that both Russia and China, not to mention several other nations not directly involved, are vicariously satisfied to see the US bleed slowly, while exhausting itself in a seemingly endless campaign against resourceful and adamant guerillas.

They don’t want it to leave, abandoning the terrain to victorious Taliban, but neither do they want it to achieve full control of Afghanistan and use it as a base to interfere in adjacent countries in furtherance of its interests. Brzezinski pointed out in the above cited interview that the Kremlin might not be too sorry either if the USA opened another Pandora’s box by attacking Iran and having to live with the consequences which, though always uncertain, were likely to be dreadful not only for the Middle East but also for Washington and for Western Europe.

The Afghan question, like all others, brings into the open the divisions between the opposite sides within the USA and its main Atlantic allies. On one side are the “conservatives” who remain aligned with the Zionist Right Wing lobby and who believe that the West cannot afford to show weakness and must pursue the war effort at any cost while carrying on a policy of encirclement and intimidation towards Russia and even China; a policy inherited from the Bush administration. On the other are the centrist and leftist reformers who enjoy some support within the Euro-American Jewish liberal lobby in their attempt to bring about a radical change by mending fences with Russia and China and building a new global system that can take care of some of the major threats facing mankind.

There is little doubt that Obama personally belongs to the second faction, though he needs must appease the opposite camp. The moves made by his administration to enforce tighter sanctions on Iran may be part of that strategy, but are unlikely to satisfy the hawks who know that sanctions have rarely if ever brought a state to surrender or even negotiate, and that they are not expected to have all the desired effects on Iran because too many countries have an interest in bypassing them in order to do business with the energy-rich and strategically located Islamic republic. China and Russia in particular may be coaxed into paying lip service to the demands of the US, but are much less likely to gravely harm their own long term investments and interests in Iran by surrendering to “Atlantic” pressures, thereby losing credibility among all the states eager to shake the Western yoke.

What is being played in Iran, as is almost always the case in international politics, is “high stakes poker” as defined by Mehbod Seraji in a Truthout article of September 29, 2009. As George Friedman puts it in an article dated October 1, entitled “The BMD decision and the Global System” : “Ultimately the question of Iran is secondary. The question of US-Russian relations is paramount”, at least to the Americans and Russians, not to mention the world at large. The obsession with Iran, induced largely by Israeli interests in US foreign policy, may eventually take second place in the priorities of the White House and the State Department, signalling a major shift in the American position towards the Jewish state.

The two factions struggling to have their respective ways in both the USA and Europe are also found within NATO, where they have been called the “Europe Firsters” (who want to reduce the Alliance to a security pact mainly dedicated to protecting the continent from external threats) and the “globalists” (who would like to carry on the dream of using it as a world policeman to expand Western hegemony).

The courses advocated by those opposite groups would lead to very different outcomes. The former may bring about a form of effective international governance by facilitating coordination between the USA, the European Union, Russia, China and emerging power centres such as India and Brazil-centric Latin America. The conservatives would like to pursue the imperial outreach project that remained almost a constant of Anglo-Saxon powers since Britain achieved far-flung preponderance in the eighteenth century.

As Parag Khanna described it at the 2009 TED conference in London, the reformers effectively want to build “silk roads,” while the imperialists wish to play the Great Game. While the first course seems vastly more appealing to all peace loving people, it is difficult to ignore the fact that, as Khanna has convincingly shown, Beijing has created and is expanding day by day a Chinese co-prosperity sphere in East and Central Asia with which it will be increasingly difficult for any other power to compete in economic terms. He noted that modern nations are not effectively conquered by force, they are bought. China effectively leased out eastern Siberia from Russia and is rapidly drowning out the scant Slavic and indigenous population of that sprawling area under a torrent of Han immigrants.

By making most countries from Australia to North Korea, and from Japan to Kazakhstan increasingly dependent, the PRC has formed a commercial empire of unsurpassed size endowed with immense resources. Against that new Athens of trade, wielding soft power with growing skill, the over-armed but insolvent and internally conflicted USA looks a bit like the Sparta of the Peloponnesian wars: a militaristic, declining oligarchic state, constantly harking back to the halcyon days of its supremacy, while becoming steadily poorer and less socially stable.

If indeed the USA follows the trumpet calls of its hawks and heeds Israeli persuasion to wage a “decisive” battle in Iran, then its decline will become precipitous, while most other states in the world will keep distance with the crumbling giant in their search for new economic and strategic agreements. Russia and China will be among the greatest beneficiaries of that suicidal move, provided anyone benefits in the end.

Alternatively, Washington rebuffs the war-mongering party and gradually abandons its colonial military ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq in order to form a new global governance compact with other great powers. The USA will still lose its predominance as the ‘sole superpower,’ but it can at least hope to remain a member of the elite group of leading nations, especially if it knows how to exploit the inevitable divergences between Russia and China, in view of the fact that Russia seriously fears losing its oriental provinces and its Central Asian sphere of influence to its Eastern neighbour. The Kremlin is therefore understandably keen to join as an equal the potential partnership between the worlds’ leading powers.

Will the USA and the other great nations follow Montesquieu’s wise advice to “ride the waves of events,” or will the American ruling elite dig in its heels and try to resist them? Historical precedents are not encouraging, but hope should never be forsaken.

The author is Convener, Editorial Board, World Affairs Journal

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The Story Behind "Esta Puta Quiere Pinga"

Did you happen to see this image inserted into subway advertisements the past week? I was on the way home, when I spotted one of these posters inserted in between a subway advertisement and the plastic veneer - admittedly, my Spanish is a tad spotty, but I do know the meaning of the four words surrounding the image therein.

This occurrence coincides with an unrelated (as of this writing) rash of homophobic attacks upon individuals.

I'll just say this: many of these attacks are purported to be from people "asserting their masculinity"; I would posit that these are actually latent homosexuals attempting to prove that they don't have gay tendencies.

Guess what, nitwits - it's not gonna work. Let's hope your cellmates are gentle.

APUESTA, El Blog - The message of this poster, allegedly spotted in New York City, is a violently misogynistic and homophobic. ¿Realmente es tan difícil de reconocer? Is it really that hard to recognize?

Imaginémonos, por un segundo, que el objeto del ataque no es Luis Fortuño. Imagine, for a second, that the object of attack is not Luis Fortuño. Imaginemos que se trata de una mujer, figura pública, y para no complicar la cosa, que es alguien politicamente "neutral". Imagine that this is a woman, a public figure, and not complicate the matter, as someone politically "neutral." Imaginemos que se trata de Maripily. Imagine that this is Maripily.

Imaginemos una persona desconocida, por razones desconocidas, fija carteles con la imagen de Maripily, con la frase "ESTA PUTA QUIERE PINGA". Imagine a stranger, for unknown reasons, fixed with posters of Maripily, with the phrase "THIS SLUT WANTS ping". ¿Qué persona con un mínimo de formación y conciencia social negaría entonces que se trata de un acto misógino, una incitación a la agresión sexual, independientemente de los motivos que pudiera tener la persona para hacerlo? What person with minimal training and then deny that social consciousness is a misogynist act, an incitement to sexual assault, regardless of the reasons the person may have to do?

Volvamos entonces a Fortuño. Let us then Fortuño. ¿Estará nuestra imaginación colectiva realmente tan patéticamente demacrada, que lo PEOR que le podemos desear a ese pichón de fascista es algo que AL MENOS el 50% de la población (presumiendo que las mujeres "biológicas" son el 50%, menos X% de lesbianas y trans-hombres, más igual porcentaje de hombres gay y trans-mujeres) encuentra placentero? Will our collective imagination really so pathetically emaciated, that the worst thing that we want to pigeon fascist that is something that at least 50% of the population (assuming that women "organic" are 50% less than X% lesbian and trans-men, plus an equal percentage of gay men and trans-women) is pleasurable?

Quizás se podría argumentar que para EL es lo peor que le puede pasar, pero (aún suponiendo que conociéramos con certeza su preferencia sexual) con un poco de esfuerzo, no toma más de par de segundos pensar en MUUUCHAS cosas que hasta Fortuño tendría que admitir son menos agradables... Perhaps one could argue that for him is the worst that can happen, but (even if we knew for certain sexual preference) with a little effort, it takes more than two seconds to think many, many things would have to admit to Fortune less pleasing ...

Peor aún, parece ser que la homofobia internalizada es tal, que para algunos compañeros y compañeras, ACUSARLO de QUERER "que le den pinga" (en otras palabras, llamarle gay) es lo peor que se le puede decir a Luis Fortuño . Worse, it appears that internalized homophobia is such that for some colleagues, accused of wanting "to give you prick" (in other words, call it gay) is the worst thing you can say to Luis Fortuño.

Hay veces que nuestra ansiedad por evitar que nos tilden de "Politically Correct" (ansiedad producto del "white liberal guilt" gringo, y bastante ridícula, por cierto) nos convierte en la razón misma por la cual es necesario insistir, a veces, en la corrección política, que no es otra cosa que la verticalidad de nuestros principios. There are times when our anxiety to avoid being labeled as "Politically Correct" (anxiety product of "white liberal guilt" gringo, and quite ridiculous, of course) make us the very reason why it is necessary to insist, sometimes in political correctness, which is not simply the verticality of our principles.

¿O acaso alguien en la izquierda se atrevería a llamarle "negro de mierda" a Obama, por intensificar la ocupación de Afghanistan, o no retirarle la ayuda militar a la dictatdura hondureña? Or perhaps someone on the left would dare call him a "black shit" to Obama, to intensify the occupation of Afghanistan, or not withdraw military aid to the Honduran dictatdura? Es un reto, adelante... It is a challenge ahead ...

Que viva Puerto Rico libre, sí, pero libre de misoginia y homofobia también. Long live free Puerto Rico, yes, but free of misogyny and homophobia as well.

Con "patriotas" así, que viva la estadidad radical... With "patriots" and, living radical statehood ...

Actualización: Justo cuando uno pensaba que la miopía política de la izquierda no podía ser peor, hay quienes encuentran gracioso que "hasta Hitler está contra Fortuño" ... Update: Just when you thought the political myopia of the left could not be worse, some people are funny "to Hitler is against Fortuño" ...

In other news...New York City will soon bear witness to the maiden voyage of the U.S.S. New York, soon to wind it way into the waters of NYC, on its way to Norfolk, Virginia. The incredible fact herein is that the ship contains 7.5 tons of steel from the site of the World Trade Center. Now, I don't believe that there is anything to concern us, dear readers...BUT...if the "official" story of the events of September 11th, 2001 do not hold water, and there is evidence of nano-thermite mixed within this ship's firmament, someone may want to ensure that we aren't allowing a veritable time-bomb within the harbours of New York City.

Mayoral debates tonight - my bet is that we will inaugurate a new mayor in November. I was a supporter of Bloomberg until he usurped the will of WE THE PEOPLE by extending term limits and flouting the will of New Yorkers. That's where you blew it, Mike. And can you stop it with all of the goddamned mailings? I can wallpaper the Sistine Chapel with all of the paper you wasted.

"Heavy Metal" And Analysis From An Asshat

Another weekend, another drunk bastard (or, one may wish to utilize the female perjorative) kills another child. Drinking and driving really is a bad move, everyone.

At any rate, this is from one of those stupid "debunker" web pages. The actual posting is well over two hundred pages - I've seen RFPs smaller than this. The best part of this is the asshat who rants on and on with his flawed analysis when, if he had any fucking idea as to whom he was addressing, his pants legs would instantly overflow with shit.

This is gonna be a good week - I hope this posting finds all of you in good spirits and good health.

Now...onto the bitchslapping...

Fangbeer said
on 10 October 2009

Damn straight - I’m a fucking monster
Somehow I knew you would identify with that character. Are you paying attention John? This is your boy Han:

In that scene Hanover Fist colludes with the drug dealing, child raping, murderer Captain Stern. (I know you’ll see deeper meaning into that name then I do) He does this because Stern promises him a pay off which ends up being a one way ticket to outer space.

Fist, being a mental deficient with dissociative identity disorder uses both outright lies and open threats to achieve his goal. He starts by claiming Stern is a veritable angel. Unable to maintain the lie, he begins to contradict himself. As his rage grows the contradictions begin to take control. Before long he’s a seething brute who’s one objective seems to be the destruction of everything around him. Both Hanover and Stern run off as Hanover turns his apparent rage on Stern. When they finally meet up out of the courtroom it becomes clear that the chase was staged, and the transformation and mock rage were all part of the plan. Stern then outsmarts Hanover, kills him, and the scene ends.

This is the character that our own Hanover Fist is proud to be. Damn straight he’s a dim witted mentally deficient monster that defends rapists, murders, and drug dealers.

Fangbeer said
on 10 October 2009

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj77/fangbeer/HanoverFist.jpg [see picture at top of posting]
The artist really did a great job with Hanover. Look at the vacant confused stare and the drool on the chin. He’s even got a tiny skinhead brain pan. Just perfect I say.

hANOVER fIST said
on 11 October 2009

More asshattery from moRON.

Who cares if “gaskammer” translates to “gas chamber”? You’re missing the point with your thick head, as usual - the point is that it doesn’t translate to gas DEATH chambers.

Dullard.

And speaking of dullards…oh, Fung…I told you to stick to what you do best - inhaling cock loads, because your grasp of simple movie plots seem to be beyond you.
I guess you thought you hit a home run, what with finding this clip. First, notice that the character’s name is Hanover Fiste. This might work for the databases of ChoicePoint, which was instrumental in the Monkey King GWB’s theft of the election in 2000 by the disenfranchisement of nearly 100,000 legally registered voters in Florida, but it won’t do here. Second, you might want to check out exactly what you’re watching before you make up some retarded analysis…and John…Thomas Szazs was right - all or these “mental disorders” are just excuses for those who don’t wish to take responsibility for their own actions so that they can ingest mind-dulling pharmaceuticals so that they can bliss out like a bunch of mental deficients - but I know that you were being facetious so that you could smack around these loads…but I digress. So…Fung - the clip is from the movie Heavy Metal. Captain Sternn (two Ns, shit-for-brains!) is played by Eugene Levy, and Hanover Fiste by Joe Flaherty, both of SCTV fame. The clip that you’ve offered to your fellow cock-smokers is actually one in a series of clips featuring man’s struggle against evil, represented by the Loch-Nar, which in this clip, is the greem marble-like object that Hanover Fiste plays with as he offers his obviously perjurious testimony. The idea of the clip is that Captain Sternn (created by Bernie Wrightson) is attempting to use Hanover Fiste to act as a character witness. He does intend to deceive the court, but through testimony, not whatever come-soaked crap you gargled up from your gullet. When Hanover Fiste begins playing with the Loch-Nar during his testimony, he begins to lose control and actually speaks of evil deeds perpetrated by Captain Sternn, as in the “pedophile prostitution ring”, and his “selling of dope dressed as a nun”; eventually, it proves too much for him, and he transforms and attempts to administer his own justice. We all know how the clip ends.

So…how do you feel now, jackass?

When I first saw the posting, I couldn’t believe someone could be that utterly stupid. I wanted to rebut your mendacity instantly…but thought better of it. I decided to let your retarded posting stand, and I went on with my day. Of course, it would be all the sweeter to smack the fuck out of you hours later after you thought you had me on the ropes.

That image you posted? After reading this posting, why don’t you ask your boyfriend to stop fucking your mouth and to take a picture of you - I’ll bet dollars to come stains on your face that it will look much like that image.

Now…I’ll bet you’ll reply to this with some whining, bitching and equivocating…but get this - YOU FUCKED UP, BIG, DOUCHEBAG.

Now, if you’re smart, you’ll get in a coffin and nail it shut from the inside.

In other news...I see daily people playing Sudoku on their way to and from work. If only someone could incorporate the events of September 11th, 2001 into a puzzle format, where one would fill in the missing elements, much as one fills in the missing digits in a Sudoku puzzle.

Let me get back to you, dear readers.

Imagine That, In This Day And Age...Prejudiced Against Jews!

AsylumGoons posted a piece roughly two years ago, that aptly describes the current situation today - give it a read.

Anyone get called an "antisemite" or a "rabid jew hater", when that absolutely isn't true? Well, welcome to the club, pal.

Hey - Anthony Marshall couldn't convince a jury that he was merely interested in the well-being of his memory-addled mother, Brooke Astyr. Shouldn't one get extra time tacked onto their sentence for wasting everyone's time? He could give two heaping shites for his mother's condition; the only thing that concerned him was his mother's shekels, which weren't going to be made available to him, until this very opportune changing of beneficiaries in her will.

Wagging The Moondoggie - David McGowan

I love this guy's stuff!

David McGowan's blog, The Center for an Informed America, has some of the best political and satirical analysis ever posted. I don't know how the guy does it. Dave...I am planning to order one of your books - I'll want an autograph.

He produced a posting a number of years ago, titled Wagging The Moondoggie, which at the time, explained the ensuing events of the time (this link is no longer active). Well, he wasn't satisfied, and so, he has expanded the piece to a five-part posting, and it is fantastic. Dear readers...I present to you, for your reading pleasure, Dave's updated diatribe of what did or didn't happen some decades ago:

Wagging The Moondoggie - Part 1
Wagging The Moondoggie - Part 2
Wagging The Moondoggie - Part 3
Wagging The Moondoggie - Part 4
Wagging The Moondoggie - Part 5

Not to be outdone, Dave also smashes the entire Peak Oil agenda - this is at the end of WTM Part 5, so I don't wish for you to overlook it:

Before bidding adieu, I have one final note to add: a certain Dr. Thomas Gold was an early skeptic of the feasibility of landing on the Moon. He made headlines prior to the alleged flight of Apollo 11 when he predicted that any attempt at a Moon landing would be disastrous. NASA, of course, purportedly proved the good doctor wrong.

Longtime readers will remember that Dr. Gold was America’s most prominent proponent of the abiotic theory of oil and gas production, and that he went and dropped dead just before the ‘Peak Oil’ propaganda started to heat up. Dr. Gold was recently proven to be correct on the origins of so-called ‘fossil fuels.’ The article, curiously enough, refers to the research as “revolutionary” – which it is, I suppose, if you ignore the fact that the Soviets and Ukrainians did the same research and drew the same conclusions some fifty years ago.

We all know that that can’t be true, however, because it would be impossible to keep a secret of that magnitude from the entire Western world … right?

I brought this up because the Chimp-Gone-Wild, George Walker Bush, gave his oil buddies a going-away present before his term of office expired back in 2008 - maybe you remember it.

It was in the form of OIL GOING FOR $147 A GODDAMNED BARREL.

Remember the loopy predictions offered? We're going to have oil prices of $200 per barrel in 2009? It was TOTAL BULLSHITE. Remember the huge profits reported for those companies? All part of Georgie-Boy's going-away present to his A-oil buddies.

Evidence Of Dumbing Us Down - Charlotte Iserbyt