Monday, April 11, 2011
A very curious spam...
Ed.--You wouldn't believe some of the crazy emails and comments I get from operating this blog. Today, I got this in my email box as a comment, and in Cyrillic (Google translator did the rest):
Ladies and Gentlemen [This must, in fact, be Yakov Smirnoff].
If you are interested in a little politics, you must have noticed - this sudden unrest in Africa
has an ulterior motive.
There are 2 versions of these events - the "official" and "informal," and both versions are probably far from actual facts:
[B] Version 1: [/ b] Gaddafi - a tyrant and autocrat, shot at civilians, so it should be removed.
[B] Version 2: [/ b] in fact Europe and America wanted a little Libyan oil, and they decided to put on a small "riot"
Consider Version 1.Yes, Qaddafi has one more old man, he of course it would be time and retired. But did you know that specifically in Libya people have a very high preference under his rule? Teachers receive a $ 3,000, paid the unemployed about $ 1,000 and so on. Yes, he was tame small group of rebellious Bedouins, but does anyone understand the real causes of these riots? This version does not hold water.
Version 2.
Oil Libya? Yes, it is of high quality, Libyan oil is very clean. But she was not so much.
And besides, why would haunt Egypt and other African nations, which the whole of last
year in general no one disturbed and worried? And then suddenly they're "tyrants," "Monsters", etc.
Yes, this situation is further fueled the price of oil. Individual corporations are profitable.
But the truth is shorter.Gaddafi is not so long ago began to combine Middle Eastern country under the idea to move to the calculation for oil and products are not dollars, not euros, and an alternative to all this. And Egypt - one of the countries which it supported ...
Read more here:
http://sterligov.livejournal.com/4389.html
However, in the popular media, it will never say.
PS: Saddam Hussein, incidentally, also had such undertakings. Generally, after the crisis, sooo many the country began to think about getting rid of reliance on the U.S.. Sooner or later
it happens. The Fed has no place to lower rates.
Spread it where you can. People need to know the truth.
By the way, is also on the topic: The military operation in western Libya, Libya, France suffered an invasion of Libya in the day, destruction, France has promised to attack Libya after a few hours, against France has promised to attack Libya after several hours, killed ...
Hey, it takes all kinds. Whoever wrote it must know English as well. Anyway, some of the observations strike me as true though it would be a stretch to call Gadaffi's regime just or even reasonable.
What did they post this comment on? An observation I made from 2006 on Mark Foley and the GOP being a gaggle of sexual perverts, which is true. Moose and squirrel...
Monday, April 04, 2011
The Lay of the Land: Libya, Ivory Coast, Mexico, US
US OIL: $108/BARRELEU & WORLD OIL: $120/BARRELUS/MEXICO BORDERILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DRESSED IN U.S. MARINE CORPS UNIFORMS IN U.S. GOVERNMENT VEHICLES(2 X PICTURES)LIBYA3RD APRIL: +/- 60 NATO (UK & FRANCE) AIRSTRIKES AGAINST QADAFFI MILITARY2ND APRIL: +/- 70 NATO (UK & FRANCE) AIRSTRIKES AGAINST QADAFFI MILITARYIVORY COAST (AFRICA)FORMER PRESIDENT GBAGBO REFUSAL TO ACCEPT ELECTED PRESIDENT OUATTARAFRANCE MILITARY SIEZURE OF ABIDJAN AIRPORT (largest city)UNITED NATIONS IMMINENT AIR STRIKES AGAINST IVORY COAST MILITARY+/- 9,000 UN MILITARY PERSONNEL (OPERATION COTE D'IVOIRE)+/- 1,500 FRENCH MILITARY PERSONNEL (OPERATION LICORNE)UN IVORY COAST COMMANDER YOUNG-JIN (SOUTH KOREA)UN SECRETARY GENERAL (NEW YORK): BAN KI-MOON (SOUTH KOREA)LIBERIA MILITARY PERSONNEL JOINING IVORY COAST MILITARY+/- 1,000 KIA
Three Fates
The First Sister said: "Come unto me, and I will give you rest."The Second Sister said: "I will rend your life and your soul."The Third Sister said: "I am the way out," and I took that door, in sorrow.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The Lay of the Land: Libya, Korea, Israel, Japan
US OIL $106/BARRELEU/WORLD OIL $116/BARRELLIBYAUS/NATO NAVAL BLOCKADE INITIATED (INCLUDING TURKISH NAVAL FORCES)US/NATO NO FLY ZONE & COUNTERSTRIKE AGAINST LIBYA MILITARY EXPANDEDFRENCH AIRCRAFT CARRIER CHARLES DE GAULLEUSS KEARSARGE CARRIER EXPEDITIONARY STRIKE GROUP///26TH MARINE EXPEDITIONARY UNIT
B-2 STEALTH BOMBERS
UKSAS & US SPECIAL OPERATIONS
AIRCRASH: 1 X US F15 FIGHTER JET (2 X PILOTS EXTRACTED BY USMC 26TH MEU)JAPANTOKYO: RADIATION CONTAMINATIONEUROPE: LOW RADIATION ARRIVAL
FUKUSHIMA REACTORS:
ONE: EXPLOSION/LOW RADIATION///TWO: EXPLOSION/LOW RADIATION
THREE: EXPLOSION/LOW RADIATION - ACTIVE SMOKE/EVACUATION
FOUR: DOUBLE EXPLOSION/LOW RADIATION
FIVE: STABLE///SIX: STABLE
USS WASHINGTON CARRIER STRIKE GROUP
USS ESSEX CARRIER EXPEDITIONARY STRIKE GROUP///31ST MARINE EXPEDITIONARY UNITISRAEL
HAMAS EMPLACED 1 X IED ADJACENT JERUSALEM CONVENTION CENTER (1 X KIA, 30 X WIA)GAZA LAUNCH OF GRAD (IRANIAN MADE) ROCKETS INTO 2 X BEERSHEBA, 1 X ASHDOD AND 1 X ASHKELON (5 X WIA)GAZA LAUNCH OF MORTARS INTO 7 X ESHKOL KIBBUTZ FARMS AND 3 X SHAAR KIBBUTZ FARMS
KOREA/PERSIAN GULF
USS LINCOLN CARRIER STRIKE GROUP (KOREA)
USS ENTERPRISE CARRIER STRIKE GROUP ENROUTE (PERSIAN GULF)
USS VINSON CARRIER STRIKE GROUP (PERSIAN GULF)
USS BOXER EXPEDITIONARY CARRIER STRIKE GROUP (PERSIAN GULF)
Monday, March 21, 2011
The Lay of the Land: Libya, Korea, Afghanistan, Israel, Japan
LIBYAMILITARY:PERSONNEL - 120,000ACTIVE///200,000RESERVE, OTHERAIR - SCUD MRBM, MIG25, SUKHOI, MIRAGE, S200, IGLA, STRELA, OTHERLAND - T72, MLRS, SA9, SA13, OTHERSEA - SUMARINES (FOXTROT CLASS), MISSILE FRIGATES (SS-N-2C)========================LIBYAUS FORCES:B-2 STEALTH BOMBERSKEARSARGE EXPEDITIONARY STRIKE GROUP///26TH MARINE EXPEDITIONARY UNITUS SPECIAL OPERATIONS(EN-ROUTE) BATAAN EXPEDITIONARY STRIKE GROUP(EN-ROUTE) ENTERPRISE CARRIER STRIKE GROUP[[[STIKE GROUPS COMPOSED OF MULTIPLE WARSHIPS, ATTACK SUBMARINES & FIGHTER AIRCRAFT]]]JAPANREAGAN CARRIER STRIKE GROUPWASHINGTON CARRIER STRIKE GROUPESSEX EXPEDITIONARY STRIKE GROUP///31ST MARINE EXPEDITIONARY UNITFUKUSHIMA REACTORS:ONE: EXPLOSION/LOW RADIATIONTWO: EXPLOSION/LOW RADIATIONTHREE: EXPLOSION/LOW RADIATION (SECOND EXPLOSION IMMINENT)FOUR: DOUBLE EXPLOSION/LOW RADIATIONFIVE: STABLESIX: STABLETOKYO: LOW RADIATION ARRIVALKOREA/AFGHANISTANLINCOLN CARRIER STRIKE GROUP (KOREA)VINSON CARRIER STRIKE GROUP (AFGHANISTAN)BOXER EXPEDITIONARY STRIKE GROUP (AFGHANISTAN)ISRAEL(SATURDAY) 50 X MORTARS/ROCKETS FIRED FROM GAZA (HAMAS) INTO ISRAEL IN LESS THAN 15 MINUES(THURSDAY) EGYPT MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD MEETING WITH HAMAS
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The inherent clean energy opportunity in Japan
This is not meant as any kind of a cynical-jab at the Japanese people, looking at them as some tool for change. The earthquake and subsequent nuclear accidents that are unfolding are a horrific reminder of how tenuous modern life is: in a matter of just five minutes, everything on the Japanese mainland changed forever.
At this point, we have no idea how many people have died or will die as a result of what's been reported as an 8.4 to 8.9 scale earthquake, possibly the worst in their entire recorded history.
The most recent one on roughly the same scale occurred in 1923, killing as many as 140,000 people. But the Japanese were better prepared for a recurrence...except that you can never truly prepare for one when it comes to a nuclear power plant. Nuclear power will always be vulnerable to natural disasters, social upheavals, and most certainly, inevitable social collapse since all civilizations end one day.
The half-lives of most radioactive byproducts of nuclear power will far-exceed the lifespan of any civilization, reason enough to begin a general decommissioning of all existing plants, the neutralization of the waste ("byproducts," and to the best of our abilities), and a rapid conversion over to a constellation of clean or cleaner energy sources, mainly natural and renewable ones. This nuclear disaster hasn't even played-out yet, but I see very real opportunities that need to be grasped, and immediately, by the Japanese public as well as the world community, outside of the corridors of power.
As the Japanese people and their rescuers from their government and from around the world are exposed to radioactive contamination, we need to realize that we have yet another opening here: the outrage that's inevitably coming on the mainland--perhaps even from neighboring countries--is going to be profound. As always, there are cultural, and therefore, historical reasons for this.
For those with a short memory, it should be remembered that the Japanese are the only nation on earth to have atomic weapons directed upon them. They have not forgotten this by a long-shot, and the terrible irony of this catastrophe-upon-a-catastrophe will not be lost on them as it surely is on most Americans, willfully, since we're the ones who dropped two atomic bombs on them in 1945.
We tend to forget about our own war crimes here in the United States, our victims however, do not.
There will be a very loud cry indeed in Japan to decommission these nuclear plants because they have failed every test. The plants themselves were already strongly opposed, but as it usually happens, times were better and they public will was more neutral and the opposition's warnings were ignored. There was, after all, a lot of money to be made, and power demands were growing and still are. That's fine and well, but events have a way of changing things, and catastrophes borne out of both natural disaster and human incompetence and corruption lead to a perception of misrule. As often is the case, that perception is usually accurate.
Prediction: there will be a major groundswell coming against further development and operation of nuclear power on the Japanese mainland. A call for major, wide-scale investment in clean and renewable sources of energy will be heard throughout the island nation. If it reaches the level of mass-production, it will have a global impact since Japan is the third largest developed economy in the world, one of the world's skilled "workshops," like Germany.
Even with this disaster, Japan could be poised to lead the way towards a new and decisive direction, towards the real world implementation of alternative energy sources that are well outside of the box. With China in close-proximity, production in both nations could point to very affordable solar technologies, as just one example.
This is all a wait-and-see, to be sure, since we don't know how bad this nuclear disaster is going get. But I think there are great opportunities here for Japan and the world, coming out of their worst period since WWII, their (and our) greatest challenge. As fate would have it, Wikileaks has uncovered and released one of the cache of American State Department cables, and they purport to contain a passage of Japanese government officials discussing cover-ups of previous nuclear accidents. When-and-if the smokes clears soon, the Japanese people will learn of this; there will be a wide demand for explanations, with the predictable outrage, perhaps even riots.
All we lack is the will since an outraged citizenry that won't have it anymore is an irresistible social force that cannot be held back any longer.
Friday, March 04, 2011
He Jerks Hard for the Phonies
"I work hard!" he told a room of openly uninterested listeners, something he did a lot of the time, especially after he left work at his private firm, his minuscule fiefdom. OK: especially at work, since his employees never listened to what he had to say because they were immune to bullshit. He didn't care. He was better since he made more money than they did, thanks to ripping off all of them through creative accounting and delusions of adequacy, and legally too.
"Goddamned deadbeats--won't work, plenty of jobs out there, I know!!*#^!" As was always the case, nobody acted as though they were listening, and on a conscious level, they weren't. The man kept going on anyway, yammering away while seven people in rags were lined-up outside clutching signs with various inscriptions on them, but all of them essentially said "Will Work for Food" in one way or another. Most of them had been working weeks before, and very hard.
"Spoiling my view!" he muttered. He was only 35, but came off as a moldering 88.
"For the love of God, would you please shut the fuck up, sir, asshole--whateverthefuck your fuckin' name is? Jesus, fucker." asked and projectile-vomited a young lady in black leather, festooned with tattoos and piercings from head-to-toe.
"Why don't you go get a job, like me? I'm even self-employed, eh, top that, you loud-mouthed Goth-cooze!" he growled, drool flowing from both sides of his mouth, a vein throbbing on his forehead, and a visible erection showing through his dockers. Baboons have their own male species.
"I have a job, bitch," she shot back instantly, visibly smacking him in the face with the comment. "But...everyone fuckin' works, you crybaby asshole. What makes you so special, fuckface?" and she sat back down in the booth she was in and turned her back to him disrespectfully. There was a round of applause for a solid three minutes, but a few in the corner slunk out after paying their bill, looking suspiciously ignorant, even furtively so, as they went across the street to do business at the asshole's unimportant fiefdom.
The lay of the land: Oil - Iraq - Libya - North Korea
From our source in the Middle East (from raw-communiques):OIL
US: +$100/barrelEU: +$115/barrel
[[[Iraq's largest oil refinery in Baji - significant long term damage from al-qaeda cell sponsored by [I]ran revolutionary guard]]]==========================================================
LIBYA
US CARRIER STRIKE GROUP ENTERPRISEUS EXPEDITIONARY ST[I]RKE GROUP KEARSARGEUK MISSILE FRIGATE CUMBERLANDSOUTH KOREAN DESTROYER CHOI YOUNGUS/NATO SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES+/- 6,000 KIA
Libyan military & mercenaries (African & former Russian special forces) striking anti-government forces
Elements of Sudan and Zimbabwe National Armies assisting Qadaffi
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: We will veto any U.N. No Fly Zone resolution
Venezuela President Chavez proposes peace talks==============================================
NORTH KOREA
Preparation for third nuclear test
Preparation for missile tests into Sea of Japan or over Japan into Pacific Ocean
North Korea/South Korea border: US Pacific Comma[n]d Key Resolve/Foal Eagle exercises
(((+10,500 US Forces from outside South Korea in addition to +/- 28,000 US Forces from South Korea)))===============================================
Monday, February 28, 2011
DC Madam teaser: A big "fuck you" to DHS from the grave...
For the curious who really wanted to know what the DC Madam scandal was about: it was about illegal lobbying and appropriations practices, for starters.
From December 2007:
---- Original Message -----
From: Jeane Palfrey
To:
Cc: [...]
Sent: 12/26/2007 9:08:28 PM
Subject: RE: From Verizon records, a DHS member...
Matt… just gotta love it! -Jeane PS if Bil’s suggestion that I was being used as the “fall gal” in the hope, Representative Slaughter’s persistent questioning would stop; thus driving attention away from the likely panorama of corruption the bad actors surely must have been trying to keep hidden – why then would they assume such a strategy would work? Unless of course, they thought I quickly would capitulate and not fight as I have. [Bingo!] Nonetheless, I don’t understand why the ‘gift’ (Pamela Martin’s services) could be seen by Slaughter, as some sort of answer to her investigation into the shenanigans of K Street and the CIA and God only knows who else at this point. After all, I/we were not in c[a]hoots with Wilkes & Company. I was never part of any sort of influence peddling conspiracy. I absolutely had no knowledge whatsoever, of such happenings. And frankly, I suspect neither did any of the women in my employ. Was it perhaps proferred [sic] – by ??? - that I indeed was part of the conspiracy? -Jeane
If you think things have changed since Obama, I have a bridge to sell you...
What gives: Update on the blog and the DC Madam account
As you can tell, I'm not writing (or writhing as much, key here), I'm not posting as much here. The reasons are simple: I have a book to finish, I'm not getting paid for any of this, and I don't owe you anything, nothing whatsoever. There's this weird expectation on the Internet--borne of intellectual slovenliness and cynicism--that everything should be free, everything.
I shouldn't have to remind anyone of this, but what the hell: Nothing in life is really free.
I'll post occasionally on here when I feel like it--when something truly needs to be said--but I have no desire to react to every world and domestic event unless it's going to have some reasonable impact, if the observation could truly contribute to the dialog. For the most part, that's been the case on this blog, but you begin to realize that the beast just wants to be fed, giving nothing in-return, nada, zip. The question, "What's in it for me?" is perfectly reasonable under the circumstances.
Guess who the last person was who made sure I was paid? A clue: she was found hanged in a shed next to her mother's trailer three years ago in May, having been run to her death by the U.S. Courts and Bush loyalist prosecutors. How much help did I get from the "crowd" during all of that? None whatsoever, thanks. She was a criminal--no less--but I was apparently "useful" so she tapped the federal defender's office to pay me for research work on her case, and she hired me, in other words. That's right, a former whore and madam was paying me to help exonerate her, but she also showed more concern about the state of things than you, she put her money where he mouth was to some extent...easily more than you.
I know the economy is "bad," you don't have to tell me, I'm just down the road from Elkhart, Indiana, an epicenter of economic decline that's going unattended. People are just being left to rot there just as they are across the nation. Yet, there are some of you, some readers, who are sitting pretty and who don't really give a damn about the state of things--hollow platitudes aside. It's you creeps that I hate the most and you're in my sights, I'm gunning for frauds like you and will never stop pointing you out, along with the rest of the scum wrecking society, more through indifference than anything else.
They say that hiding your light under a bushel is a sin, but many of you folks make it happen, you make it real. You're the reason that most artists consider burning their work out of defiance, so that you can never enjoy their fruits. Why would someone who's not being facilitated want to assist in saving this shit-house when no one really cares? That's a question I've been asking myself for over two decades, but I don't give up just because of a coterie of jaded turds. Save it: Talk is cheap. Major indie news sites and blogs are suffering the same as I am, getting nothing in donations or any sort of assistance. Of course, this is part of the plan of elites, to starve and silence the progressive voice, but your apathy is far more deadly, more destructive.
The DC Madam account: It's nearing completion of the editing and revision process. You will have to pay for it to read it since I'm planning on a hard-copy edition first, you'll actually have to work to pirate it, little FYI. It should clock in at around 400+ pages (with an index, a species that's nearly extinct in publishing when it's easier than ever to do them), it will have no illustrations or photographs, kiddie illustrations and will be for serious readers only.
The book is an historical account, not a tell-all omnibus text you'd normally have from a kiss-ass mainstream publisher. This was a story for the Internet age, therefore, it took place in that realm in a lot of cases. No one player can know everything that occurred in the story since it played-out on multiple-levels: telecommunications, interpersonal interactions (yes, the sex, and more...), and in court filings, and so on. So, take note Hollywood: not conducive to a narrative rewrite, not a story that lends itself to the cinematic that much.
Hollywood would tell a false narrative anyway, as they tend to do with stories like this.
There are no shoot-outs in the text and it's not a Tom Clancy novel (phew!), but it does have elements of a real world sensation--it was what most of the hype claims to be, it was a profoundly bizarre and unprecedented case in our nation's legal, cultural and political history. The liars like Alex Jones will continue to claim that Palfrey was "murdered" by "shadowy government operatives," which is unsupported by any physical evidence. If Mr. Jones and his clown possess really knew something, they'd be in court, period, the same applying to the rest of the tinfoil hat crowd (like Alex Constantine).
There will be other sex scandals, but the DC Madam one was a line-in-the-sand. There will never be one like it anytime soon and these scandals can be expected to get uglier, the stakes have risen to the point that someone taking Palfrey's route can expect what she got, a legal pile-on by most of the government's judicial and law enforcement bureaucracy. The account is not a conspiracy theory text since it actually contains primary data, actual information pertinent to the case. There is speculation on my part--as a player in the event, something I'm more than entitled to based on what I experienced and witnessed where others--like the conspiracy nut crowd--haven't. That's it.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
I told you so Part I : The American groundswell is here
If the events in Madison, Wisconsin, still unfolding as I write this, say anything, it's that you love being wrong. For years now, I've been saying that this was coming, that when the American middle-class really started feeling the love of shipping jobs overseas, the rollback of the right to collective bargaining, the obscene accumulation of wealth amidst growing poverty and millions of mortgage foreclosures, that people were going to rise up and protest.
This is the only thing that ever works in a democracy such as ours: to stand and be counted and to demand one's rights and better conditions. Nothing has been achieved for the average person in human history without demands, it's a law of politics, and therefore, part of the laws of nature. The last time I checked, the laws of physics were still holding.
The walkout of Democratic state representatives in Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital, wasn't the genuine beginning of all of this, it became real when the public came out in the tens-of-thousands. Politicians are rarely the solution in this nation and it has been the working-class who has saved the day more than a few times, even for the ones who did all the wrecking of civil society and the economy, again and again, until it was finally reined-in with the New Deal in the 1930s and the rise of labor.
No one knows where this train is heading, but the fact is, the groundswell has begun, some of its genesis is owed to Wikileaks, but more importantly, to misrule by both major political parties. Consider the walkout of the Democratic representatives in Wisconsin as, yes, an act (one-of -three, refer to your program) of political theater. When it comes down to it, they too will have to be forced by the public into pushing laws that allow for an expansion of collective bargaining and unions, generally.
I won't recount the lies emanating from the right, they're too wacky to even consider seriously.
What's been incredible about all of this is the stupidity of the Libertarian-leaning Republican Governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker. By following the GOP game-plan of going after state worker unions, he also set his sights on the Policeman's Union. He might have had the Wisconsin State Police in his pocket, using them as goons to physically force Democratic lawmakers to return to create a quorum (the minimum number of reps needed to proceed on a vote on a bill). This isn't just un-American, it's illegal and obviously unconstitutional under our system of law.
Governor Walker, then, is a criminal and should be told to resign. If he doesn't resign, he should be dragged before either a grand jury, or an investigating committee. This could be done at either the state or federal level. President Obama is expected to stay out of the battle altogether and cannot be counted on as a friend of labor, let alone the average person. And where is the First Lady?
Apparently, she's no Eleanor Roosevelt and more a Nancy Reagan or a Hillary Clinton, a ghost-bouffant bourgeois who might slip and tell us all to eat cake. Somehow, I think she's smarter than that and smarter than her husband.
There are people far less intelligent: the people who have been telling me for years that this day would never come. I told you so, I really did, and you wouldn't listen because you never will. You have sold your soul for so little that it's a mockery of human life--or even tube worms that swarm around the vents at the bottom of the Atlantic...
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