09.15.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 10:52 am by daMan
it’s all about the spin, folks….
i’m listening, right now, to Bush lie to the White House press corps, and would be outraged at the absolute cowardice of these flacks, but i realize that the whole thing is theatre, and the questions asked serve only to prompt Bush to spit out the next KarlRovian talking point…
if it wasn’t part of the ongoing Nazification of ameriKKKa, my reaction would be… grudging admiration…
it’s not about justifying torture — it’s "providing clarity": our torturers, er… interrogators are "honest people… professionals", who simply want to know that when they subject people to sleep depravation, waterboarding, mock executions, beatings and what have you, that they won’t be charged with war crimes…
why not? brilliantly, they’ve moved some supposedly dangerous folks to Gitmo (from CIA torture camps that never existed until Dubya announced that they’ve been closed) and now, whenever the question of crossing the line between questioning and torturing someone, every member of the Fourth Reich will point to these "cold-blooded killers" and make the claim that "we have to get information from the people who took part of the planning"…
…so let’s ignore the fact that the overwhelming majority of the people subjected to "questioning" by our "professionals" are not only NOT cold-blooded killers, but have yet to even be charged with anything!!! so, even if you accept the "we’ve gotta lean hard on the bad guys to get important information" argument, which i do not, what does that have to do with beating the living shit out of, and in some cases killing, people who have yet to be accused of anything???
now he’s chattering about how "you cannot ask a young professional to violate the law"… the "program" will not go forward… a reporter is challenging him on this, and Dubya literally shouts him down, claiming that the "most important point" is that he, George Bush, says the point must go forward, the law will clarify that torture is okay, shut up, next question…
so there’s the strategy, right there spelt clearly — ignore all objections, because the program WILL GO FORWARD, period… the Supreme Court apparently only meant that we had to be clear about what torture we’d allow – it didn’t object to the fact that our methods may be illegal, simply vague and unclear…
and, with the exception of David Gregory who tried to point out that, by redefining the Geneva Conventions common article three, we expose our troops to being tortured by enemies using a "tit for tat" approach, every single reporter in the White House press corps just sits there and eats this shit like caviar…
…the madmen in Tweedle-D.C. will do as they like, and negate logic with slickly phrased emotional counter spin…. objections will no longer be engaged, and these fuckers have their talking points prepared so far in advance, the arguments are framed by their agenda before the first question is formed…
…listening to this press conference real-time as i blog this, it’s all quite clear to me now… and i don’t know about you, but it scares the living shit out of me…
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09.14.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 10:26 pm by daMan
so… the Dim-ocrats finally grow a pair and, nearly
three-and-a-half years too late, admits to the world that the pretext
for our Iraq incursion was built on lies… the Senate Intelligence Committee release a "no, d’uh" report refuting the supposed Iraq/Al Qaeda "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" connection, the lies that got us into this mad war…
the link in the sentence above points to a WNPR radio
program, "On Point", your typical opposing viewpoint panel
discussion thing… i just happened to be streaming it in the
background when i realized that, realtime, i was listening to the sound
of Karl Rove’s implanted "talking points" campaign in the mouth of one
of his obvious shock troops…
some chattering ass, Patrick
Clawson, spent practically all of his air time parroting the "fear and
uncertainty" party line — NPR’s own site will furnish the pull quotes:
"It would be useful to show some humility on our part in the evaluation of what we know and don’t know." Patrick Clawson
"When
the committee chairman and three other Republican members vehemently
oppose the conclusions of the report, it’s a stretch to call it [the
report] bipartisan." Patrick Clawson
you seriously have to listen to the podcast of this program,
to catch the full effect: this guy literal will repeat this phrase
about how we don’t know, we can’t be sure, show some humility - in
essence, when it contradicts the party line, shut the fuck up and stop
thinking…
what makes my blood run cold is how accurate my
instincts that this calculated, counterspin propaganda rant reeked of
the stench of rove… as i do with most of these blogs, which i suspect
goes mostly un-noticed, i Googled this guy for contextual links to
expand the content of this post, and to chase down a link to for the audio of the show.
the
first significant link i found for this guy turned up two organizations
certain to make the heads of conspiracy theorists spin like ceiling
fans: the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund…. no big
deal: he’s a talking head on an opinion program…. those are his
credentials; so what? …well, out of curiosity, i added those two items to narrow the search, just to see what came up….
well, the first link in this modified search was to comments he made
in 2003 to the House Committee on Financial Services, entitled "Impact
of World Bank Loans to Iran"… hmm… to sum it up, this paper was a
strategy piece on how to stop Iran from going nuclear — by screwing up
its economy, so they thought… they hoped that falling oil prices would bankrupt Iran, forcing them toward the World Bank.
the problem was that they didn’t think they could convince the WB not to lend to Iran:
In short, the U.S. government can vigorously press against World Bank lending to Iran because of its poor economic policies. Raising more explicitly political objections is more problematic, but should be considered through the Security Council if Iran is found in violation of its NPT [Nuclear Proliferation Treaty] obligations.
okay… so — three years ago, this guy was part of the pre-existing plan to attack Iran’s compliance with the non-proliferation treaty, in an attempt to force ameriKKKa’s intentions upon it… i knew intuitively that this clown sounded like a shill for the Fourth Reich, but this reveals him to be much more than a fringe player…
then, the clincher: at the end of the Iran piece is his bio and other things he’s written. Check out just a brief sample:
Patrick L. Clawson is Deputy Director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
His
previous positions include five years as senior research professor at
the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense
University and senior economist for four years each at the Foreign
Policy Research Institute, the World Bank, and the International
Monetary Fund.
His books and monographs include:
How to Build a New Iraq After Saddam, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - 2002 edited)
The Last Arab-Israeli Battlefield? Implications of an Israeli Withdrawal from Lebanon, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - 2000 with others)
post-Saddam Iraq before the invasion… Israel’s battlefield Lebanon, six years in advance??? damn: this mutha is all up in it — and he’s the one tapped as the sober voice of reason for a panel on NPR, which is viewed by many as a fairly impartial source of news and information???
the KarlRovian disinformation plan runs both wide and deep — these fuckers have been preparing for this takeover, this ameriKKKan Nazification, looooong before Dubya ever dreamt of being "the decider"… i’m shocked, i’m afraid and, reluctant as i am to admit it, somewhat impressed…
but i’m not surprised – i’ve been paying attention since Bush 41 and before… this is what these fuckers do; and damn — they’re good at it…
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04.23.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 10:12 pm by daMan
…r-i-i-i-g-h-t… another one of those "authentic audio tapes" from bin Laden?
they must really think we’re fuckin’ stoopid… most of the tapes OBL released, as is to be expected of a megalomaniac, have been video tapes — to stick it in our faces, and offer irrefutable proof of his continued survival despite our attempts to destroy him.
suddenly, for the past year or so, only audio tapes are released. what happened? a guy who is powerful enough to remain a dangerous terrorist threat can’t afford a couple hundred bucks for a camcorder???
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04.10.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, View points at 12:18 pm by daMan
so…. we mock them as "surrender monkeys" because of our self-congratulatory mis-telling of World War II events…
then, dig up this image to ridicule them for not supporting our Iraqi invasion…
but when it comes to actually standing up to one’s own government, and fighting for one’s rights, it would seem that the French just took our asses to school, as massive student protests overthrow a law that would have allowed companies to hire anyone under 26 for up to two years, and fire them without cause or explanation… the students, and unions, saw this as bullshit, called it such… and took it out like the trash…
we have also been schooled on standing up against election fraud by the Ukranians, who not only fought against the Russian’s rigging of their 2004 Presidential election, but just spanked the candidate they did elect in their recent parliamentary election for not making good on his campaign promises….
Liberia reveals itself to be centuries ahead of U.S. in terms of gender politics. This nation, formed by freed ameriKKKan slaves in 1820 during the "get the hell back to Africa" movement, boasts the first elected female head of state of any African nation… any bets on how many decades until we move past our own national machismo, and can claim the same?
yet somehow, we persist in representing ourselves as "leaders of the free world"… somebody out there, please write in and explain what that means anymore…
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03.12.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, View points at 3:51 pm by daMan
last night, accused genocidal mastermind Slobodan "Butcher of the Balkans" Milosevic was found dead in his cell, awaiting trial for crimes against humanity.
there is speculation that he may have been poisoned, or committed suicide a la Heinrich Himmler in Nuremburg… the initial reaction is that he has "escaped justice". that last part confuses me — escaped justice? how? because he’s now dancing in hell of his own accord, as opposed to being tried, found guilty and then rendered dead?
OR… is it because he didn’t stick around to be murdered by his vengeful accusers? DO NOT misunderstand me — this is not an expression of "sympathy for the devil" — i’m sure Milosevic was every bit the scumbag he was accused of being…. but at that, he was hardly a rare commodity, as the world is still full of tyrants, despots and madmen that are ignored, tolerated or embraced to whatever degree the West deems them valued resources…
but… this bullshit about "justice denied" is really about somebody wanting Milosevic’ blood on their hands, or being able to gloat over the thought of his rotting in jail - being better fed and cared for than the poor of Bosnia, no doubt…
"justice" here is a euphemism for vengeance… if it wasn’t, then all involved would simply be glad that the mother fucker is rotting in hell, where he belongs… or, did his accusers imagine that the fires of hell would be stoked higher for ol’ Slobby, if he were dispatched at the hands of those "seeking justice"…?
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03.07.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 11:22 am by daMan
let’s see:
despite the hype of having brought "democracy" to Iraq, things are in many ways much worse for the average Iraqi citizen than before the ameriKKKan invasion, and the ouster of Saddam Hussein.
It turns out that liberal democracy can’t be forced at the barrel of a
gun any more than socialist revolution. Neither Leninist-style coups
nor preemptive wars can force societies to mature before their time. If
anything, the Iraq debacle shows there are no short cuts to "the end of
history." Francis Fukuyama, author "The End of History and the Last Man"
This is not to defend the Husseini regime, or imply that they were better off with him… but… it’s difficult to pretend that things have gotten better… the infrastructure – clean water, 24/7 electricity — have yet to be restored… and the widespread level of violence is worse than anything experienced during the brutal dictator’s regime…
it appears that, among ameriKKKa’s many miscalculations in this "pre-emptive war on terrorism to find non-existent WMDs and make the mid-East safe for western exploitation" was the role the deposed dictator’s regime played in keeping these various factions off of each others’ throats… having created, in essence, a power vacuum, we offer nothing in its place save empty platitudes, and appear to have no solution to preventing the civil war which looms imminent…
the risk that Iraq posed to the rest of the world is apparently not the only thing we got wrong: it seems we gave absolutely no consideration to the risk our so-called "liberation" posed to the lives of the average "Iraqi on the street"…
which begs the question: we know what we liberated them from… but, what exactly did we liberate them for???
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02.14.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 12:03 am by daMan
so… instead of talking about the Katrina report, and how everybody – local, state and federal — got their asses handed to ‘em…
or, how Scooter Libby is clearing his throat loudly in the direction of ratting out his former boss… you remember Scooter Libby, dont’cha?
and hey — who would be talkin’ about the U.N. report flat-out accusing the U.S. of torture in it’s treatement of prisone – oops; detainees in Guantanamo….
no: instead, everyone’s talking about how Dick Cheney "accidentally" shot somebody while hunting quail. R-r-r-right… priorities…
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02.12.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, View points at 4:29 pm by daMan
…the publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in the European press was a planned action by the U.S. whose aim is “to provoke a row between Europe and the Islamic worldâ€?. “It will all end with European countries thanking the United States and paying, and giving soldiers,â€? said Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
Zhirinovsky is a senior Russian parliamentary official and leader of the Liberal Democratic party. He claims that "a U.S. attack on Iran is inevitable… The date for the strike is already known — it is the election day in
Israel (March 28 ). It is also known how much that war will cost�
His words, not mine… but if we’ve got troops in Iran come April, I just wanna be on the record…
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02.02.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, Stop the f--king madness! at 2:31 pm by daMan
"2,245 Dead. How many more?"
i guess if you ask embarassing questions, then the terrorists win…. or if you even wear a T-shirt that does… you’ll be forcibly ejected from hearing the main who alleges to be protecting your freedom — because you passively exercised your freedom of speech
arguing with the cops, calling one an idiot, will get you… politely asked to leave…??? yeah, well… if your T-shirt is party-line toting "Support the Troops - Defending Our Freedom." but i guess you get asked to leave anyway, so things can appear non-partisan… of course, the fact that that T-shirt was worn by Beverly Young, wife of U.S. Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla., may have had something to do with the preferential treatment…
and — it doesn’t help if you’re Cindy Sheehan, and your T-shirt is simply an aspect of your remaining on message, speaking out against what you feel was the waste of your son’s life….
Young said she argued with the cop who kicked her out. "I said, ‘Read
my shirt, it is not a protest,’" she told the St. Petersburg Times.
"They said, ‘We consider that a protest.’ I said, ‘Then you are an
idiot.‘"
doesn’t matter, apparently, that you’ve been invited, or that you were merely taking off your jacket, and not unfurling a banner, or whatever other bullshit the Tweedle-D.C. progandameisters may have spun to the press…
jeeZUS, people, what are you waiting for? public book burnings???
shit: y’all probably are waiting for that….
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01.30.06
Posted in Poli-tricks, View points, Stop the f--king madness! at 10:12 am by daMan
we went into the middle east to "spread democracy", didn’t we?
our soldiers are dying every day to ensure that Iraqis can elect their own government, right? that’s the "noble cause" they risk their lives daily for, right?
so why is it that when the palestinians exercise this right, this noble cause, this great freedom, the first response of the "white" world is to question the judgment of the people themselves, then threaten to cut off all relations…. because they take issue (perhaps with good reason) with the people’s choice….
but that’s too fuckin’ bad, folks!!! if it’s really democracy, and not the chicken-shit "yes’m boss" crap that passes for "free elections" in Iraq, then the people elect who they want, and if you don’t like it, it’s too damned bad.
it’s their country. oh wait — they don’t have a country yet…. but that’s something else again…
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