Issue 2.09
The
Editorial Oui
In solidarity with Gillian Gibbons, the English Teacher in the Sudan sentenced to jail for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammed, I'm hereby naming my dick Muhammed. I've been working on a novel about a Muslim hotel detective who moonlights as a skip tracer and I haven't known what to call him. Muhammed will do nicely. Perhaps I'll even change the title from Maids Aplenty to Muhammed the Dick. That shouldn't piss anyone off. After all, it's okay to name a person Muhammed - Ali and all - just not a teddy bear. And I'll be sure to make Muhammed not quite the sleazebag most skip tracers are, since after all, he's returning innocent people to prison in HIS name and, of course, the war on terror.
His girlfriend's name is Allah Voil, just like Popeye's, and nobody's ever seen what she looks like under her burka so she could be played by anybody, from Rebecca de Mornay to Johnny Depp. She cleans rooms at the Taj Mahoney, a swanky joint in the heart of Dubai, where the booze flows freely to the selective clientele who don't let their personal problems get in the way of international intrigue and endless chase sequences where Muhammed saves Allah's life from the hordes of religious fanatics who want to whip her for getting raped. I'm sure you can picture it. We'll make millions unless I decide not to write it, in which case we're fucked. Since we're fucked anyway, I've decided not to write it, so don't go writing me any angry letters. You can't blame me for the fact we're all fucked.
NEW THIS WEEK
This week we've created a frightening collection of material that will sizzle your
synapses while frying your cynicism into a fluffy blueberry pancake of
enlightenment.
First there's Squaring the Circle by
Eric Walberg of Al-Ahram Weekly who explains why so many Muslims
are backing Ron Paul. It seems Paul's intention to stop all foreign
aid includes stopping all foreign aid to Israel, depending upon what the word
"all" means. Makes you wonder why there's so much pressure on Iran to fess up
about it's nuclear program when there's none whatsoever on Israel to fess up
about theirs.
If you had asked me a year ago who the
greatest champion of the underdog on television would be, I'd've answered Jon
Stewart or Keith Olbermann or Michael Moore. But
suddenly there's The Drew Carey Project, a groundbreaking news show on
the internet that even paltry organizations like this one are invited to
distribute for free, so you gotta give the guy credit for showing the way. The
Los Angeles Free Press is proud to be a distributor of Drew Carey on reason.tv
and invites you to do likewise.
It's taken four of Carey's shows to see
what he's actually up to - exposing the most heinous examples of abuse of power
he can find. Most startling is the fact that in all four episodes, the bad guys
are law enforcement, making this the most genuinely subversive news show on the
air, though that's a phrase we can't use any more. (On the net? In the cable?
Floating in glorious Technicolor waves of WIFI?) In finding these particular
stories, he's going against every definition of commercial interests, it's very
much NOT television, especially in the episode about eminent
domain we showcase this week, which shows class warfare at its most
basic, right out of the French revolution, the cliché is true, rich developers
doing nothing more than lining their own pockets vs. poor people losing the
little they have, but not depressing because hey, its Drew Carey
stirring up the outrage.
In Where are the Lynch Mobs for the
Media, Jesse Richard suggests there are some stories they
missed. No shit.
We'll soon be reprinting some of
Charles Bukowski's original poems from the LA Free Press, but
till then we thought we'd just rent his place.
American Gangsta: Selling Gold to our
Mothers & Heroin to Our Kids isn't nearly as depressing as it sounds
thanks to illustrator Justin Bilicki and writer Jane
Stillwater who knows where to find the funny.
The current election is sure to evoke a lot of smart
writing, and that's what we like, smart writing, not elections. The elections
can go fuck themselves.
Speaking of smart writing about elections, consider
for the moment Norman Mailer's very first national journalistic assignment,
covering the Democratic convention in Los Angeles for Esquire Magazine in 1960.
Then consider the paragraph we're reprinting and the poor editor who had to
consider fucking with it or getting shot. It might not be the best long
paragraph ever written but it's certainly the longest good paragraph, unless you
consider the new release of the original scroll of Jack Kerouac's On the
Road, the entire book consisting of one single paragraph, more of which
later as I haven't finished it yet.
Saul Landau says Norman Mailer will not
RIP. Further proof there's a lot one can do with one
paragraph, but not this one. This paragraph drags its butt into the future with a
hearty lack of motivation, knowing full well it can't keep up with Norman Mailer
or Jack Kerouac in the paragraph department.
Satan doesn't want you to
know if you buy the wrong yogurt, you're paying $2,625 per pound for air.
COLUMNISTS: David Schoen, Lynette Sheffield, Jane Stillwater, and zEN mAN.
All copyrights reserved by original writers or artists.
Michael Dare
michael@dareland.com
Squaring the Circle
Among a dreary cabal of shopworn politicos running
for US president,
one
provides hope for the Middle East, but does he have a chance, asks Eric
Walberg
In less than a year, the world will have a new
leader. In a little over two months, we will know the names of the two likely
candidates. The US media would have us believe that the Democrats have settled
on New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who supported President George W. Bush's
invasion of Iraq and continues to support the occupation (Bush lite), and the
Republicans on New York ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani who thinks Bush is a wimp and
can't wait to attack Iran (Bush on steroids). The latter, despite his support
for abortion, has just been endorsed by TV evangelist Pat Robertson, who argues
that "the overriding issue before the American people is the defense of our
population from the bloodlust of Islamic terrorists." Both potential presidents
put service to Israel at the top of their agendas.
So it appears we are faced with Tweedle-dum and
Tweedle-dee, though these Alice-in-Wonderland characters are far from harmless.
No one else has the blessing of the media and the other behind-the-scene
controllers of American life (OK, AIPAC). The only two contenders who call for
immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and forswear any attack on Iran -
Republican Congressman Ron Paul and Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich - are
dismissed as fringe candidates if not nutcases. Paul is a self-proclaimed
Libertarian, and Kucinich, who introduced a motion to impeach Vice-President
Richard Cheney earlier this month, is regularly ridiculed as a believer in UFOs,
especially by his stab-in-the-back fellow Democrats. The implication is
that it would be dangerous to entrust the reins of government to either of these
wackos. This, despite Bush's belief that he has a hotline directly to God
himself.
For those who object to this conspiratorial view of
American politics - that elections are a farce and that the real power lies
behind the throne, in the hands of organizations such as the American Israel
Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Bilderberg Group and the Council of
Foreign Affairs, consider that polls show 54 percent of Americans want the
troops home now, 68 percent disapprove of Bush's handling of the situation in
Iraq, 64 percent are against the war, 70 percent believe Dick Cheney has abused
his powers as vice-President, and 43 percent definitely want him impeached. Yet
the only candidates who represent the broad majority are dismissed as
unelectable.
There are some shreds of hope, though. Neither Paul
nor Kucinich have any real dirt clinging to them, unlike both Giuliani and
Clinton, who will be slinging mud and having it slung at them every minute they
are in the media spotlight, and will ensure that the White House continues to be
the home of the most hated person in the world. Also encouraging is that polls
show, given the choice between likely candidates from the major parties, voters
will vote along party lines rather than for specific candidates, that the
Democrat will probably win, and that there is little or no difference between
Clinton, Obama, or whoever when matched against Giuliani or Senator John McCain.
So if by some miracle one of the so-called fruitcakes got the nomination of
their party, he could well go on to win the race for the White House, despite
the wishes of the real powers-that-be in America, and represent the real
preferences of the majority.
Kucinich ran in 2004 on a liberal Democratic policy
of socialized medical care, less military (including creating a Department of
Peace), more energy conservation, more support for city renewal, and the like -
all policies which Americans would support - but his party just barely tolerates
him, his campaign went nowhere and he dutifully supported the pro-war Democratic
candidate John Kerry. AIPAC shuns him or worse, with good reason. During the
Israeli invasion of Lebanon last summer, Kucinich offered a resolution calling
for an immediate ceasefire and a return to multi-party diplomacy between the
United States and regional powers, with no preconditions. This summer, only
Kucinich and Paul voted against the House resolution calling on the United
Nations Security Council to charge Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with
violating the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention because of his calls for
the destruction of the state of Israel. And then there is his motion to impeach
AIPAC member-for-life Cheney. So there is little excitement in his repeat
campaign this time around and no likelihood that he will clinch the nomination.
Knives are out.
What about Paul, a former medical doctor, nicknamed
Dr No for his contrarian insistence on "never voting for legislation unless the
proposed measure is expressly authorized by the constitution"? Paul is also
shunned by the Israeli Lobby. In addition to his vote on the Iran imbroglio, he
calls for an end to all foreign aid, including to Israel, and he was pointedly
not invited to the Republican Jewish Coalition debate in Washington, DC in
October. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) said that Paul was excluded due to
his "record of consistently voting against assistance to Israel and his
criticisms of the pro-Israel lobby".
But Paul has developed a bit of a Teflon coating.
What Kucinich can't get away with, he can. Paul promptly provided a statement to
JTA explaining his position on Israel. "I support free trade and friendship with
all nations, meaning that my administration would treat Israel as a friend and
trading partner. Americans would be encouraged to travel to and trade with
Israel."
He boldly argues that past US involvement in the
Middle East fueled 9/11. In a 15 May televised debate sponsored by Fox News in
Columbia, South Carolina, he argued, "They attack us because we've been over
there; we've been bombing Iraq for 10 years." The Michigan Republican Chairman
Saul Anuzis was incensed and vowed to bar Paul from future debates, calling his
remarks "off the wall and out of whack," though he later backed off on his
threat.
Despite his supposed anti-Semitism, Paul has a small
non-Zionist Jewish following, "Jews for Ron Paul". There is even a "Zionists for
Ron Paul" launched by Yehuda HaKohen, an American immigrant to Israel. "We think
that Israel should be an ally to the United States but not a vassal to the
United States. I don't think it's important for America to defend me. American
aid does more harm than good. These are insults to our national sovereignty. If
you have Zionists, Muslims and white supremacists supporting him, he's someone
who really resonates with people."
Paul's platform flows entirely from his Libertarian
credo - a kind of conservative anarchism. While Kucinich's opposition to the war
is inspired by a dovish liberalism, Paul's is inspired by a belief in the
supremacy of the individual, private property, and the constitution, which
discourages foreign alliances and intervention unless the US is directly
attacked. He believes that war must be fought only to protect citizens, it must
be declared by Congress, and it must be concluded when the victory is complete
as planned. Paul argues that a just declaration of war after the 11 September,
2001 attacks would have been against the actual terrorists, Al-Qaeda, rather
than against Iraq, which had no connection to the attacks.
He claims he is not calling for US isolation, but
his policies would sharply reduce US interference in other nations' affairs and
US involvement in international organizations. He calls for withdrawing from any
organization that overrides US sovereignty, such as the International Criminal
Court (ICC), the United Nations, the North American Union, the Law of the Sea
Treaty, the World Trade Organization (WTO), NATO and the Security and Prosperity
Partnership of North America. He is a proponent of free trade, but opposes free
trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement as
"international managed trade" agreements which serve special interests and big
business, not citizens. He opposes foreign aid - including aid to Israel - as
wasteful and unwarranted interference in other countries. The government,
neglecting its Constitutional responsibility to protect its borders, has
concentrated instead on unconstitutionally policing foreign countries. Paul
would "essentially" eliminate the CIA; while retaining functions like
intelligence-gathering, and would eliminate operations like overthrowing
foreign governments and assassinations. He has called the 9-11 Commission Report
a charade: "Spending more money abroad or restricting liberties at home will do
nothing to deter terrorists, yet this is exactly what the 9-11 Commission
recommends."
His domestic policies would fundamentally remake
American society, emphasizing a return to local governance. He calls for the
elimination of income tax and the Internal Revenue Service, approving of war
resisters' nonpayment of taxes and other nonviolent resistance à la
Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. He advocated employee-owned corporations
in his 1999 Employee Ownership Act, which would have created a new type of
corporation (the employee-owned-and-controlled corporation) that would have been
exempt from most federal taxes.
Paul calls for the abolition of the Federal Reserve
and a return to a commodity-based currency, most likely gold and silver, arguing
that current efforts to sustain dollar hegemony exacerbate the rationale for
war. Along with vested American interests in oil and plans to remake the Middle
East, he argues that the threat to the dollar as world currency has been a
contributing factor for the war against Iraq and diplomatic tensions with
Iran.
This man is talking sense, cutting through one
Gordian knot after another, never missing a beat. Even his calls to scupper the
UN, NATO and the WTO are not as crazy as they sound. All these organizations
with the exception of the ICC (which past and present US presidents have done
everything possible to undermine) are for the most part willing US clients, and
if they were to collapse under a Ron Paul presidency, this would in the long run
be a boon for the rest of the world, since it would clear the deck for the
creation of new organizations based on social justice without the present
imperialist baggage. As for foreign aid, Paul argues that most of it is wasted,
and humanitarian aid is best left to charities and foundations. The more you
consider the supposedly whacky fruitcake Paul, the better he
sounds.
And that is exactly how Americans are reacting. He
won the Republican presidential candidates' debate in Dearborn, Michigan on 9
October with 74 percent of votes cast. He went on to win the Orlando, Florida
debate with 34 percent. As one observer put it, "Ron Paul won the Republican
debate last week largely because he didn't come across as just another dumb old
white guy." "Seventy percent of Americans want war over with and are sick and
tired of big government at home and overseas. They want their civil liberties
and don't want the government to spend endlessly and bankrupt us," Paul
confidently argued there. If there is any democracy left at all in the US, he
should continue to gain momentum, be crowned the official Republican candidate
and go on to win the presidency with a landslide. His greatest liability at this
point is the horror of the powers-that-be and the continued media blackout about
him.
But even that is backfiring in our electronic age.
In September, he announced he had brought in $5.2 million in the previous three
months, largely over the Internet, putting him ahead of McCain in the Republican
money race. He raised $4.2 million on 5 November from 37,000 individual donors
who agreed to give as part of a "money bomb" on Guy Fawkes Day. On 16 December,
the anniversary of the 1773 Boston Tea Party, the goal is to add $10 million to
his campaign chest to protest taxation used to pursue an unpopular war and the
sacrificing of constitutional liberties at home, and it looks like he will raise
much more.
So to recap: minimal decentralized government, a
gold standard, government "by the book", war strictly as self-defense, charity
instead of government welfare. But wait! This is very much like Mohamed's vision
of a just society, with the Quran as the constitution. Add to this Paul's pledge
to end "aid" to Israel, withdraw from the Muslim countries the US has illegally
invaded, and stop undermining foreign governments. No wonder there is already a
Yahoo group "Muslims for Ron Paul", urging block voting for him in the
primaries. Who better to make peace with the Arab world - the entire world?
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Mr. Conspiracy Says...
Check the admiration in those eyes. Makes you sorta
wonder what's going on. Was the whole thing a conspiracy, the Clintons and the
Bushes, working together, one fills the treasury, the other loots it, one fills
the treasury, the other loots it, ad infinitum, centuries of rule passed back
and forth between the Republicans and Democrats, sharing the
spoils?
Every president of the United States has been a member of the Tri-Lateral Commission since the founding in 1973 and attended the annual Bilderberger conference. This is no conspiracy "theory" but an absolute conspiracy "fact." The Tri-Lateral Commission was the brainchild of David Rockefeller who sent Zbigniew Brzezinski to form a coalition of banks and corporations from the United States, Germany, and Japan, the biggest movers and shakers at the time, as a means to circumvent petty things like "sovereign nations" and "international treaties." The Bilderbergers and the members of the Tri-Lateral Commission, who are, strangely enough, mainly the same people, believe "he who controls the flow of money controls the world," and nobody has yet proven them wrong. As such, they have controlling interest in the current system and the President of the United States, the figurehead, the puppet, like the Pope, who seems to head something but actually controls bupkis, like Mr. Whipple.
Every president of the United States has been a member of the Tri-Lateral Commission since the founding in 1973 and attended the annual Bilderberger conference. This is no conspiracy "theory" but an absolute conspiracy "fact." The Tri-Lateral Commission was the brainchild of David Rockefeller who sent Zbigniew Brzezinski to form a coalition of banks and corporations from the United States, Germany, and Japan, the biggest movers and shakers at the time, as a means to circumvent petty things like "sovereign nations" and "international treaties." The Bilderbergers and the members of the Tri-Lateral Commission, who are, strangely enough, mainly the same people, believe "he who controls the flow of money controls the world," and nobody has yet proven them wrong. As such, they have controlling interest in the current system and the President of the United States, the figurehead, the puppet, like the Pope, who seems to head something but actually controls bupkis, like Mr. Whipple.
As a small example, when Jimmy Carter
was Governor of Georgia, the State of Georgia opened diplomatic
relations with Japan and Germany, a move that looked somewhat odd - why
would a semi-backwards southern state be thinking so globally? - but
nobody really gave it much thought at the time. Whatever excuse was
given, the actual reason for these overtures was to signal the
Tri-Lateral Commission that there was a peanut farmer ready and willing
to play ball. Carter was invited to the next meeting of the
Bilderbergers and, voila, magically became our next president,
appointing 26 former Commission members to senior positions in his
Administration.
So here's the news. Of all the current candidates
running for president, only one attended this year's Bilderberger Conference.
Hillary Clinton. Case closed. The fix is in. Hillary's our next prez and there's
nothing anyone can do about it.
So why this endless charade of primaries and elections?
Why does anybody care who the Republican candidate is? They haven't got a
chance. The decision has already been made by the only people who count, the
people who count the votes. Not one thing has changed in our electoral process
since the stolen elections of 2000 and 2004. Anybody who thinks 2008 is going to
be any different is simply deluded.
The crime of the Bilderbergers is so egregious, so
self-centered, so monopolistic and anti-human, the only way they can get away
with it is by staging these elaborate political games whose only purpose is to
create an illusion for the masses that they have any say whatsoever in anything
but local matters. The last thing on earth the globalists want is a global
democracy.
So what can we do? We can speak honestly and truly from
our hearts. We can drop the art of deception. We can let our voices be heard.
There is an ecstasy in just that."Pay no attention to that man behind the
curtain."
- The Wizard of Oz -
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The Drew Carey Project
National City: Eminent Domain Gone
Wild
Reason.tv host Drew Carey visits National
City, California, where the local government is taking eminent domain abuse to
new lows.
Eminent domain is the constitutionally
sanctioned practice of taking land for legitimate public uses. Traditionally,
that's meant things like roads and schools. Over the past several decades,
however, governments have gone hog wild with eminent domain, routinely
condemning property and turning it over to well-connected private developers as
a way of subsidizing economic development and increasing tax revenues (never
mind that it doesn't always work out that way).
Officials in National City, a predominantly
Hispanic community near San Diego, have pushed to bulldoze a popular athletic
center for struggling kids to pave the way for private developers to build new
luxury condos.
As tragic and absurd as this may sound,
such outrageous affronts to property rights are an almost daily occurrence.
Episode 3 of The Drew Carey Project chronicles the devastating impact of eminent
domain abuse on the lives of people whose property the government can threaten
to take, not for public use, but for the benefit of wealthy
developers.
 "A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. " - Thomas Aquinas -
Fox News Porn
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Where are the Lynch
Mobs for the Media?
by Jesse
Richard
When I say that the establishment media are the greatest enemy of the
American people, I am not joking! The people in the media, knowingly or not,
have conspired to prevent you from knowing or realizing the most important
information in the world. They make it possible for the establishment to commit
crimes against you, your food, your air, your planet and your country. Yes, I am
saying that there is a controlling entity to our nation and to our world. And if
you don't realize that by now you may as well stop reading this and wait for the
next episode of Larry King where he will no doubt cover some non-news story that
has no effect on you, the world, society, life, the local population and will
only effect about 100 people out of the 9 billion people on Earth...and he will
pretend as hard as he can that it is news!
The latest old news to be passed over by the establishment media is the most recent smoking gun adding to the proof that Dick Cheney and his hand puppet George W. Bush did, as we all know, commit treason by intentionally exposing the identity of a overt CIA operative...because the husband of that agent exposed another treasonous lie of theirs! When I turn on the so called news I can not believe the bullshit that is being passed on as national news while so many vital news stories are ignored! I don't get it...someone tell me why we should not kill these people? I am not kidding! These people deserve to be killed in the most horrible torturous way imaginable for what they have allowed to take place in this world without doing their job and letting us know!
Here are a few little pieces of old news that our media don't think you need to know...
Not one but both of the so called elections of George W. Bush, our sitting president, were fixed elections. Tons of evidence has been exposed, ballots have been destroyed (against the law), people have been sent to prison and you have not been notified.
Virtually free clean energy technology has been available for over a generation. Water powered cars have been driving around for thirty years. And you are let to believe that $100 oil, filthy polluting coal and cancer causing nuclear power plants are our only choices when it comes to powering and heating our homes and cars.
Cures, and/or much more effective (and less distressing) treatments are available for everything from staph infections to cancer, and you can't have them because the cures can not be patented and therefore can not make any corporation rich!
Your money belongs to private bankers, not to your nation! That's right...the interest you have to pay for your government's debts go to a private bank called the Federal Reserve, which is neither federal or a reserve. They don't answer to our government and they do not have any governmental over site. This is perhaps the biggest scandal in the American system.
Virtually every aspect of the official explanation (cover story) of the events of 9/11/2001 have been proven to be false. Multiple cover ups have been exposed. Multiple inconsistencies and impossibilities have been exposed and vital elements, like motive (PNAC's new Pearl Harbor) and opportunity (the war games and hijacking drills taking place that day) have been hidden from the public.
Vihttp://www.truthemergency.us/rtually everything Michael Moore exposed in Fahrenheit 911 has been proven true yet the only coverage by the media came when the critics and conspirators had something to say!
This list can go on forever. We are being lied to every day about almost everything. The garbage that is passed on as news has become so obvious that the on-air news reporting criminals in our nation must be taking drugs in order to keep from laughing as they struggle to look like actual journalists while they cover stories like local crimes of passion, personal celebrity tragedies and movie news (and box office reports) while presidential treason is ignored!
Journalism, freedom of the press, is the only vocation protected by the US Constitution. There is a reason for that. Actually there are many reasons, all of which can be summed up by saying that the journalists are supposed to protect the citizens from the people in power. They are doing to opposite! These people are holding blindfolds over your eyes as they allow you and your children to be raped in every way imaginable. Why do we permit this? How loud do I have to scream before the masses understand this? Where are the lynch mobs? Where are the damn lynch mobs?
Think about it!
The latest old news to be passed over by the establishment media is the most recent smoking gun adding to the proof that Dick Cheney and his hand puppet George W. Bush did, as we all know, commit treason by intentionally exposing the identity of a overt CIA operative...because the husband of that agent exposed another treasonous lie of theirs! When I turn on the so called news I can not believe the bullshit that is being passed on as national news while so many vital news stories are ignored! I don't get it...someone tell me why we should not kill these people? I am not kidding! These people deserve to be killed in the most horrible torturous way imaginable for what they have allowed to take place in this world without doing their job and letting us know!
Here are a few little pieces of old news that our media don't think you need to know...
Not one but both of the so called elections of George W. Bush, our sitting president, were fixed elections. Tons of evidence has been exposed, ballots have been destroyed (against the law), people have been sent to prison and you have not been notified.
Virtually free clean energy technology has been available for over a generation. Water powered cars have been driving around for thirty years. And you are let to believe that $100 oil, filthy polluting coal and cancer causing nuclear power plants are our only choices when it comes to powering and heating our homes and cars.
Cures, and/or much more effective (and less distressing) treatments are available for everything from staph infections to cancer, and you can't have them because the cures can not be patented and therefore can not make any corporation rich!
Your money belongs to private bankers, not to your nation! That's right...the interest you have to pay for your government's debts go to a private bank called the Federal Reserve, which is neither federal or a reserve. They don't answer to our government and they do not have any governmental over site. This is perhaps the biggest scandal in the American system.
Virtually every aspect of the official explanation (cover story) of the events of 9/11/2001 have been proven to be false. Multiple cover ups have been exposed. Multiple inconsistencies and impossibilities have been exposed and vital elements, like motive (PNAC's new Pearl Harbor) and opportunity (the war games and hijacking drills taking place that day) have been hidden from the public.
Vihttp://www.truthemergency.us/rtually everything Michael Moore exposed in Fahrenheit 911 has been proven true yet the only coverage by the media came when the critics and conspirators had something to say!
This list can go on forever. We are being lied to every day about almost everything. The garbage that is passed on as news has become so obvious that the on-air news reporting criminals in our nation must be taking drugs in order to keep from laughing as they struggle to look like actual journalists while they cover stories like local crimes of passion, personal celebrity tragedies and movie news (and box office reports) while presidential treason is ignored!
Journalism, freedom of the press, is the only vocation protected by the US Constitution. There is a reason for that. Actually there are many reasons, all of which can be summed up by saying that the journalists are supposed to protect the citizens from the people in power. They are doing to opposite! These people are holding blindfolds over your eyes as they allow you and your children to be raped in every way imaginable. Why do we permit this? How loud do I have to scream before the masses understand this? Where are the lynch mobs? Where are the damn lynch mobs?
Think about it!
Jesse Richard Editor, TvNewsLIES.org
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Rental of the Week
"Charles Bukowski’s bungalow is safe — at least for the
time being. On Thursday morning, to the cheers of a half-dozen Bukowski fans in
attendance, the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission voted three-to-one in
favor of making the writer’s former home on De Longpre Avenue a cultural
landmark."
- Matthew Fleischer: Commission
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Just exactly how far will
corporations go these days to make a buck? Sell deadly DDT to Africa on the
pretext that it stamps out malaria when they know full well that it doesn't? Go
for it. Drive America into bankruptcy by importing cheap stuff from
Asia? Sure, why not. Market various wars in order to sell guns to the
Pentagon? Okay by them. Profit is king. The sky is the limit. But we already
know all that. That is old news.
"Some people never go crazy. What truly
horrible lives they must lead."
- Charles Bukowski: Betting on the
Muse -
American Gangsta:
Selling Gold to our Mothers & Heroin to our Kids
Just exactly how far will
corporations go these days to make a buck? Sell deadly DDT to Africa on the
pretext that it stamps out malaria when they know full well that it doesn't? Go
for it. Drive America into bankruptcy by importing cheap stuff from
Asia? Sure, why not. Market various wars in order to sell guns to the
Pentagon? Okay by them. Profit is king. The sky is the limit. But we already
know all that. That is old news. But in these times of economic decline
- the dollar has dropped 63% in value in the last few years - I want to focus
here on something different and new. "Just exactly how far will a desperate
American public go these days in order to save a few cents?" Pretty darn
far. Yesterday, your intrepid reporter Jane went
undercover to do some on-the-street research.
Borrowing some Calvin Klein sunglasses
and an American Eagle hoodie from the teenager next door and wearing my fake
aluminum foil grills, I headed off to Hilltop Mall and scored bigtime. Bootleg
DVDs! They ain't arresting Halliburton for committing multi-billion-dollar
fraud against us taxpayers, but boy will they get on your case if you buy
bootleg DVDs! Even as we speak, I'm sitting here trembling down to my bunny
slippers in fear that the FBI is gonna bust down my door just for writing this
down!
"Psst! Do you gots any...." Yes! And
then the dude sold me the bootleg DVD of American Gangsta for a
five-spot. My bad.
"The greatest city in the world is turning
into a sewer. Everyone is wheeling and dealing...." screamed the hero in charge
of wiping out drugs.
Some bootleg DVDs suck eggs, but this copy
was good. So I sat back and watched Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe do
their thing and clean up the heroin trade. Hey, I'm all inspired. I want to go
clean up the heroin trade too!
Where to start? I know! I'll get an
informant. "You wanna know about hop?" said my informant. "I ain't gonna tell
you. They'd kill me." But then I bribed the kid with some left-over Halloween
candy and he spilled.
"No one used to do hop (heroin) on the
street. Everyone used to do crack. But now everyone on the street's doing
hop."
"Why?"
"Because it's cheap." Because it's cheap?
Our babies are doing the hard stuff now - because it's cheap? Hmmm. American
children are doing whatever it takes to make their lunch money stretch through
the week? Good to know. And exactly why is heroin so cheap nowadays? Ask our
President [sic]. He'll tell you. There's a bumper crop of opium in Afghanistan
this year.
"No child left
behind."
And while we're still on the subject of the
American economy, let's talk about gold. I'm a mom. I got one hundred dollars
saved. I want to leave it as a legacy for my children. But with the dollar
descending into the basement like a freight elevator at Macy's, maybe I should
protect my investment and save it in gold instead of dollars? Sure why not. So
I trotted down to the local gold seller to see how much gold I could get for
$100. Well he TRIED not laugh.
"I can sell you a half-ounce Panda for
$450." Are you telling me that for $100 I could only purchase ONE-EIGHTH of an
ounce? You gotta be kidding. "Hey, these are hard times. The dollar's value
is sinking so rapidly that I just had someone tell me that he tried to
have CitiBank wire a money transfer to his bank and the bank refused to take
it." It refused to take a wire transfer from CITIBANK? Why?
"Many banks are refusing to take wire
transfers these days because when a transfer fails, it takes three weeks for
them to get their money back from the Federal insurance program and that means
that a bank loses three weeks of interest while they are waiting around to get
reimbursed. All too many banks are experiencing major cascading cross defaults
right now and you don't know which banks to trust so you trust none of them." I
didn't know that.
"Maybe you might consider buying silver
instead of gold," said the guy. Okay. What you got?
"You can get one Troy ounce of silver for
$18." So I bought five silver coins. Hurray! My children's inheritance is
protected. Their future is secured!
Or is it?
When I got home, I was listening to the
radio and some other guy started telling me, "From core ice samples in
Greenland, scientists have determined that the last ice age began when the
temperature dropped 15 degrees in one decade." 15 degrees? "Yep. 15 degrees.
And that sudden drop didn't allow that decade's winter snows to melt over the
length of the summers and the permafrost kept stacking up all over the world so
that the last Ice Age came about suddenly - within the course of ten years!"
Really? "Yeah. Really." And all this happened even without the help of
greenhouse gases! It looks like silver - or even gold - ain't gonna help my
children when that happens.
"So what should we do?"
"Stock up on canned food. Store up on
firewood. Buy a warm coat." Hey, at least he didn't tell me to stock up on
heroin.
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Good News
Iran Isn't building a Nuclear Weapon
"Eighty-two thousand people die from cancer in Bangladesh every year, many due to arsenic poisoning. But building upon her discovery of a way to get rust nanoparticles to bind to arsenic, Vicki Colvin has invented a new, astonishingly easy way to clean the water supply: Sauté a teaspoon of rust in a mixture of oil and lye, which breaks down the rust into nano-sized pieces. Retrieve the rust particles with a household magnet. Then immerse the rust-covered magnet into a pot of contaminated water. Pull out the arsenic. The system is up to a hundred times more efficient than existing methods, and requires no electricity or manufacturing infrastructure, so even the poorest of villagers can use it. "Depending upon government regulations, Colvin's
extraction system should go global in as few as five years. Yet ultimately,
Colvin, a professor of chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering at
Rice University, has bigger plans. She sees her method as just the first step
toward developing an easy point-of-use water-purification system that would
cover virtually every pollutant. The filter would have a dipstick to tell you
what's in the water and a reader to tell you what you need to add to pull it out
- perhaps silver nanoparticles to kill bacteria or a protein to capture
pesticides."
- Christine Ajudua: The Pollution Magnet -
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
- Mark Twain -
"Today, the world was just an address, a place for me to live in, no better than all right, but here you are and what was just a world is a star." - Stephen Sondheim: Tonight from West Side
Story -
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Bad News
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson (an "incendiary comment" provided by the member of an "anti-government fringe group") - "The latest National Endowment for the Arts report draws on a variety
of sources, public and private, and essentially reaches one conclusion:
Americans are reading less.
"The 99-page study, To Read or Not to Read, is being released
Monday as a follow-up to a 2004 NEA survey, Reading at Risk, that found
an increasing number of adult Americans were not even reading one book a
year."
- Hillel Italie: Government
study: Americans reading less -
"Yes, the über-rich are getting ever more über, but
what you probably don’t know is that the cost of their lavish lifestyles is
increasing astronomically. Were you aware, for example, that the price of a
catered dinner for 40 of your closest friends jumped 31 percent in the past
year? You used to entertain them for $7,500 – but now it’s nearly $10,000 for a
catered dinner party. It’s enough to drive you to McDonald’s!
"Also, while some families worry about the increase
in the price of home heating oil this winter, few of them ever think about the
fact that the price of a Russian sable fur coat is up 18 percent, now topping
$225,000. But if you want to run with the big dogs of wealth, you really have no
choice but to pay the price. Being super-rich, after all, is about saving face
with your peers. Speaking of which, did you know that a face lift that cost some
$14,000 last year now will set you back $17,000?
"Sometimes, you just want to get away from it all,
which is why so many of the swells are moving into double-wides. Not house
trailers, darling – double-wide private jets! They only cost $150 million each,
and they’re said to be as comfy as mobile mansions."
- Jim Hightower: The Cost of
Living Extremely Well -
“Darfur is nothing compared to what’s going on in the
Congo. My father was the founder of the National Park in Rwanda, which is home
to rare silver back gorillas. During the war here, just one silver back was
killed. And when it happened, within 48 hours millions in funding was sent to
ensure the rest of the gorilla population was protected. Why isn’t the same done
with our women? I’ll tell you why, because in the eyes of the international
community animals have more value than humans in this part of the
world.”
- Schuler Deschryver quoted in The World
Continues to Look Away. Don’t. by Brian
O'Connell -
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Dueling Quotes from
God
1) "Richard Roberts told students at Oral Roberts University that he did
not want to resign as president of the scandal-plagued evangelical school, but
he did so because God insisted."
- Associated Press -
2) "Oh, you know, same ol' same ol'," God muttered, His voice sounding like
an ocean playing a cello concerto in a black hole. He grabbed my pricey Pinot
and chugged nearly the entire thing like it was Trader Joe's house brand, His
long, well-manicured, beautifully feminine fingers shiny with meat grease. "Just
sorta bored, hanging around the universe, putting out little fires. How you
doing? You get those sexy new floor cushions yet? How's the car running?"
"Something was wrong. This wasn't like God at all. 'Wait, what? You
came all the way here from the belly of the cosmos, ignoring the unimaginable
dance of astral forces and the infinite conundrums of colliding galaxies, not to
mention the constant pitter-patter of little questions about the meaning of war
and death and suffering and life itself, and you want to talk about home decor?
What's going on?'
"'Oh, you know Me, just trying to keep it real, visit My peeps
personally now and then, offer advice like some sort of sniveling lawyer, like
some sort of stupid little shrink who's speaking only to you, at the
expense of everyone else.'
"Now I knew he was being sarcastic. At least, I think He was.
You can never really tell with God. I mean, just look at Pluto. Or New Jersey.
Or Tom Cruise."
- Mark Morford: God
commands you to read this. Honestly, I won't mind if you don't. But the Lord
visited me personally. Do it! -
Bill Nye (the Science Guy) Booed by Bible Believers for
Pointing out Moon Reflects the Sun
The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience
members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis
1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights, the greater light to govern the
day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the
stars.”
He pointed out that the sun, the “greater light” is but
one of countless stars and that the “lesser light” is the moon, which really is
not a light at all, rather a reflector of light.
A number of audience members left the room at that
point, visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence.
“We believe in a God!” exclaimed one woman as she left the room with
three young children.
The War on Plants
CIA Drug Planes
Caught in Mexican Stand-Off
by Daniel
Hopsicker
At least four men have already paid with their lives in Mexico during
the ensuing confusion which followed the crash of the CIA-connected Gulfstream
business jet which was carrying more than 4 tons of cocaine as well as an
yet-unspecified amount of heroin, in the jungle outside of Merida in Mexico's
Yucatan on September 24th of this year.
Last week the Director of Civil Aviation in the Yucatan, Jose Luis Soladana Ortiz, was assassinated on his way to work. And three tortured bodies were discovered lying across a road near one the Merida airport several weeks ago, according to reports in the Mexican press.
The murders and multi-ton drug busts are part of a continuing "Mexican stand-off" between rival Mexican drug cartels allied with dueling factions contesting across Mexico's unsettled political landscape, a contest which has resulted in more than 1500 murders already this year.
And last month this massive upheaval resulted in the biggest drug seizure—not just in Mexican history—but in the history of the world.
Last week the Director of Civil Aviation in the Yucatan, Jose Luis Soladana Ortiz, was assassinated on his way to work. And three tortured bodies were discovered lying across a road near one the Merida airport several weeks ago, according to reports in the Mexican press.
The murders and multi-ton drug busts are part of a continuing "Mexican stand-off" between rival Mexican drug cartels allied with dueling factions contesting across Mexico's unsettled political landscape, a contest which has resulted in more than 1500 murders already this year.
And last month this massive upheaval resulted in the biggest drug seizure—not just in Mexican history—but in the history of the world.
Read the whole story at madcowprod.com
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