09.16.06
Posted in View points, Stop the f--king madness! at 6:56 am by daMan
it’s not about 9/11.
it’s not about left wing/right wing, liberal/conservative or partisan propaganda…
it’s not about how smart Dubya is, or what he knew when. it isn’t about theories, conspiracy or otherwise…
we are at war. our troops are dying every day, and innocent Iraqis are being killed. Every day. EVERY day.
yet Osama Bin Laden is still at large… and Afghanistan is unraveling… most of the people incarcerated in both Abu Ghirab and Guantanamo have not even been charged with ANYTHING…
THESE are the reasons we were told we had to wage war with Iraq
- [Condoleeza] Rice acknowledged that "there will always be some uncertainty" in
determining how close Iraq may be to obtaining a nuclear weapon but
said, "We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." - Sept. 8th, 2002, on CNN’s "Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer."
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Citing Bush administration officials, The New York Times reported
Sunday that Iraq tried to buy thousands of high-strength aluminum
tubes. The tubes, Rice said, "are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge programs."
- Bush declared in an October 7,
2002 speech: "In 1995, after several years of deceit by the Iraqi
regime, the head of Iraq’s military industries defected. It was then
that the regime was forced to admit that it had produced more than
30,000 liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents. The
inspectors, however, concluded that Iraq had likely produced two to
four times that amount. This is a massive stockpile of biological
weapons that has never been accounted for, and capable of killing
millions."
In a CIA report which was apparently "leaked" to Newsweek, a group of CIA analysts predicted that there was
"a 59 percent probability that an attack on
the U.S. homeland involving WMD would occur before 31 March 2003"… It
all seems so precise and frightening: a better than 90 percent chance
that Saddam will succeed in hitting America with a weapon spewing
radiation, germs or poison. But it is important to remember that the
odds are determined by averaging a bunch of guesses, informed perhaps,
but from experts whose careers can only be ruined by underestimating
the threat." - Newsweek, 24 February 2003
"It’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, stoopid"… they don’t get to change the fuckin’ story after the fact; why are we allowing this???…
they didn’t hint that there were weapons of mass destruction… they didn’t imply that Iraq was an imminent threat: they told us they KNEW. you do not wage war on a hunch, people… you don’t invade a nation because you think so…
they were told by their own generals that they weren’t deploying enough troops: this was not an oversight…
protecting the homeland? deposing a threat to world peace? what utter nonsense! This is a direct quote, from Dubya’s speech the day of the Iraq invasion:
And all Iraqi military and civilian personnel should listen carefully to this warning. In any conflict, your fate will depend on your action. Do not destroy oil wells, a source of wealth that belongs to the Iraqi people.
not "don’t shoot our soldiers"… not "welcome the american troops as your liberators and allies"… his first words to the Iraqi people is to express concern about their "source of wealth" — and you want to tell me it’s not about blood for oil??!!!
we were not attacked, neither at home nor abroad, by Iraq… we, the most powerful nation on earth, chose to invade their nation, for reasons of our own design which, in the end, even those who offered us these reasons admit publicly were not so…
the issues are life and death, y’all, not party line and rhetoric… as for me and this blog here, i can no longer waste time ranting on about the obvious, splitting hairs and parsing words — the fradulent nature of this war must be exposed, not debated…
my nation is in a war that should not be… lives are lost for no good, no defensible reason… the fear created by this mad war is being used as an excuse to deny me my civil liberties, under the pretext that i will be made safe by less freedom and more war?!?!
these are lies, straight up, and i will not accept them just because madmen will call me unpatriotic for simpy recognizing the truth… i may not have armies or embassies, but i have the Internet at my fingertips, and an unquenchable thirst for truth and justice…
my nation is being led to ruin, and i can’t just sit by and whine, watching the bodycount climb higher: i will see this madness end…
all well and good, but SFW: what can i, one private citizen with an unread blog, do toward that end?
well; we are about to find out…
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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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09.10.06
Posted in View points, Stop the f--king madness! at 5:10 pm by daMan
i was watching "Rush Hour" on my local television station the other night; an amusing "East meets West" buddy film, it exploits motor mouth comedy and rubber-limbed acrobatics in equal measure.
in a comic faux pas designed to show off the bloodless martial arts prowess of Jackie Chan, while waiting for Chris Tucker to conduct what ends up being a mock interrogation, Jackie attempts to mimic Tucker’s casual greeting, extending his fist in the modern equivalent of hand slap and utters… "what’s up my negro?"
what the fuck? a raucous confrontation ensues, with Jackie scarcely avoiding a severe beat down by all the black guys in the pool hall… because he addressed one of them as negro? C’MON! Twelve-year-old midwestern white kids know that what he said was the typical urban-youth greeting "what’s up my nigger"…
who did the assholes in standards and practices imagine they were protecting from being offeinded: black folk like me?? Truth be told, I found the PC-euphemized censorship to be triply offensive:
- it imagines that i am so sensitive that — what? i’ll start a riot because, for the umpty-jillionth time in my life, i’ll hear a black man referred to as a nigger?
- it ruins the comedy of the fuckin’ scene!!! the whole joke is a typical comedy of manners, a play on the fact that an outsider can’t be as casual with such a phrase as "one of us"…
- most offensively, it makes the black guys in the scene out to be complete and total idiots. they destroyed the pool hall attempting to kick some chinese guy’s ass because he called one of them…. negro??
this wasn’t the first time the revisionist timidity of broadcast TV ruined a pivotal scene in a well-known movie… in the mindlessly re-edited version of "Die Hard III", Bruce Willis’ John McClane character is compelled by a mad bomber to strip naked and walk through the streets of Harlem, wearing nothing but a sandwich board that says… "I Hate… Everybody"????
yeahright!!! that’s why when the Harlem youths see him, one throws a switchblade into the the sign across his chest, another bounces a basketball against his face, a third smashes a bottle against the side his head, and Samuel L. Jackson’s black militant character risks his life and pulls McClane’s gun on his own neighbors… to rescue this man from being killed… because he’s a misanthrope???
are we supposed to be fuckin’ stupid? the sign said "I Hate NIGGERS", dammit!!! the whole point of the scene was that the mad bomber wanted McClane to commit public suicide.
if you walk around Harlem with a sign saying you hate everybody, you’ll hardly raise an eyebrow, and laughter will be the most energetic reaction you’ll arouse….however, if you are a naked white guy with a sign that says i hate niggers, those niggers will kick your fuckin’ ass…
when did ameriKKKa become so chickenshit about what was once its favorite word? i remember as a youth watching what was then the most watched, most controversial television event in American history: Roots. Never before, and never again until the heyday of Yo! MTv Raps was the word nigger heard with such frequency…
it was an attempt to accurately portray slavery, to get beyond the bullshit white-boy fantasies of Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind, where the darkies cozied up to masssah’s side, wanting nothing but to shuck, jive, sing spirituals and nurse the white babies that would grow up to score their backs with bullwhips.
Black Americans should stand by others seeking freedom
today, she went on, and shun the "condescending" argument that some
races or nations were not interested in or ready for Western freedoms.
"We’ve
heard that argument before. And we, more than any, as a people, should
be ready to reject it," she said. "That view was wrong in 1963 in
Birmingham and it is wrong in 2003 in Baghdad and in the rest of the
Middle East."
- Condoleeza RIce, addressing the National Association of Black Journalists in Dallas.
nowadays, you’d think that the word has always ended with an "a", and was never anything other than a urban-youth term of endearment… as long as it’s used in this "see, they use it themselves!" manner, TV seems to have no problem with it…
you almost forget that it is a word created to dehumanize a people, justify trading in their flesh, mudering them for sport — all the while allowing the words creators to sleep peacefully, imagining themselves decent christian men…
the offense of editing those scenes is that it denies the power the word still has when coming from the mouth of the oppresor: that the sight John McClane’s sandwich board would still be enough to incite young black men to riot.
the offense of censoring those scenes is that it excuses white ameriKKKa for its sins, pretends that racism no longer exists, ignores the "us" and "them" mentality that still prevails in all corners of this country…
it trivializes the effect of race in ameriKKKa… and allow a blackface shill like Condoleeza Rice to use it as just another metaphor to setup the same old Republicrap justifications for this insane ameriJihad.
"Condi", suddenly embracing her roots, in order to lecture a group of Black Journalists that "We… as a people" must reject criticisms of Dubya’s mad war?
nigger, please…
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07.04.06
Posted in View points, Stop the f--king madness! at 10:41 pm by daMan
…fireworks explode outside my bedroom window, on the sidewalk below… the report and rhythm of these heavy duty "block busters" sound not like the tinny "pop-pop-pop" of celebration, but more like… being shelled…
…this nation was born of war, and measures its chronology as much by its conflicts as by any other benchmark… still, its recent wars no doubt color my interpretation of the revelry in the streets below… i can’t help but think that. halfway ’round the world, our brothers and sisters in arms celebrate this day under skies thick with the smoke of actual mortar rounds and gunfire…
…how would each of us feel, I wonder, if instead of fake rocket blasts from illegal fireworks, our streets were overrun with the random violence deemed necessary to "democratize" Iraq?
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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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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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02.28.06
Posted in ...ism schisms, Stop the f--king madness! at 7:07 pm by daMan
okay — lemme get this one straight:
"You cannot have one foot in the camp of terror and
the other foot in the camp of politics… [y]ou have to renounce violence." Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, in Cairo last week.
this sound pretty ridiculous, coming from the nation that endorses unilateral pre-emptive war as foreign policy…
the European Union has, again, broken ranks with ameriKKKa’s hard line reflex action, and decided to give nearly 150 million in short term relief. Hamas speaks out of both sides of its collective mouth, but thus far maintains it’s "Israel must die" rhetoric…
one has to wonder what the fuck is going on in the mind of anyone involved in this mess. Hamas seems willing to destroy it’s own people to maintain it’s "fuck Israel" attitude. Israel, meanwhile, seems poised to do everything in its power to live up to the image as heartless occupier that feeds Hamas’ popularity.
the U.S., so cornered by the bullshit that has passed for diplomacy since September 11th, 2001, fails to appreciate the hypocrisy of insisting that the Palestinians vote, and then punishing them for having actually done so.
unlike the past two U.S. Presidential elections, noone dispute the election results… the clearest evidence of legitimacy is that not even Hamas expected to win. so the question remains: what exactly does ameriKKKa mean by "nation building"?
is it empowering oppressed peoples to finally have truly democratic governments? or is it our way to tell put upon nations to bend over, so we can shove a hand up the ass of another puppet regime?
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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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02.09.06
Posted in ...ism schisms, Stop the f--king madness! at 10:02 pm by daMan
a young Iraq war veteran was shot several times after a car chase in California…
if it weren’t for two things, most of us would never have heard of this: that Elio Carrion was an Iraq war vet… and that the incident was videotaped…
[Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Cindy Beavers said] "We cannot make judgments on this shooting yet. It is not crystal clear, and if there’s any question left open, we can’t say whether Carrion or the deputy is wrong." The deputy’s conversation with Carrion in the seconds before the shooting is "critical," she said.
the lessons learned here are twofold:
- carry your cameras, folks — having the graphic truth on your side is the only way left to hold the power of the state in check
- the "shoot first, questions later" has spread from air marshals to cops chasing suspected car thieves…
"I found the images very disturbing," said Supervisor Gary Ovitt, whose
district includes Chino. "It did not appear that the passenger had done
anything to provoke the shooting, so I can understand why people are
demanding answers."
watch your back…
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