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chickens, roost, Iraq and reality
While nearly everyone was falling into the pit of snakes that was The Petraeus Ruse, the facts were quietly and diligently marching on… the news was not good. And, no one seemed to notice that...
View Articleconspiracy theory of the day: north american union
Watch the video, my comments are below. (hat tip: bizbuzz) Been reading about the North American Union for awhile, and the new currency the “Amero”, it’s been on television, on Lou Dobbs and elsewhere....
View Articlethe american dream state
There was a time when we could do anything. Walking on the moon wasn’t a fantasy, it was a reality. Alas, the past seven years we’ve seen the bar lowered by a two term Bush White House compliant to...
View Articleapathy kills and money rules
Be sure to watch the new featured video in the upper right hand corner. (c/o Noelle Belle at Crooks and Liars) If you can’t see the video, that probably means you are using an old version of Internet...
View Articlefog of war redux
Be sure to click on the featured video on the upper right. It’s a clip from Errol Morris‘ film “The Fog of War” featuring Robert McNamara going over the finer points of waging war on a foreign people,...
View ArticleCheney and the Iraq Energy Task Force…
…the weed that won’t die. Jon Taplin gets down to brass tacks. (via Boing Boing) There is obviously something to this… Not like it’s a state secret that the US needs and wants Iraqi oil. It really says...
View Articlewar made easy… but you pay the price
Ralph Bernardo of Disinformation posted this trailer clip for “War Made Easy” and thought it worth sharing: buzz-twang : news and views : blog
View ArticleA taste for torture
The simple fact of the matter is: we are better than torture. We are, or at least we once were… The country that held the moral high ground during the Nuremburg trials would not condone torture of...
View Articlemeet the new boss, same as the old boss
The New York Times has come out with a really good article with supporting video that looks at how the Pentagon manipulates news and information to their advantage, and did so during the revolt of...
View Article"in the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
Remember those words above, spoken by George W. Bush, on May 1, 2003. What does his paid lap dog PR person have to say about the “mission accomplished” debacle? “President Bush is well aware that the...
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thugs in the white house
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, Matt Drudge has had “Scott the Snitch” on his propaganda site all day, an attempt to paint former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, who has a new book...
View Articlewhat would lester say?
Richard Hell writes about Lester Bangs. Stuff to keep the sanity fire burning. Bush says “Fuck Sadaam!“, starts a war, destroys a country, people die, the world doesn’t like it, and five years later...
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bush a liar or incompetent
In the LA Times, James Kirchick writes that Bush didn’t lie about the run up to war. He was simply given bad intelligence. So, Bush wasn’t lying, he was incompetent? Personally, I think it was both....
View Articlethe iraq war follies get serious
This paragraph from Cursor is pretty historical: Iraqis put the brakes on negotiations for a status of forces agreement, with Prime Minister Maliki even floating the idea that ‘Iraq might ask the U.S....
View Articlemccain obama and the 800 pound gorilla
It’s rather interesting that David Gergen seems ready to proclaim John McCain president after a single joint appearance in what most observers admit was a decidedly pro-McCain venue and host. Forget...
View ArticleYes, Virginia, the U.S. occupation of Iraq is about oil
The Jakeneck Archives. An oldie but goodie from June 12, 2003: The problem with public relations spin, deception and lying is it will come back to haunt. You’d think that the Bush White House would...
View Articledubya morality syndrome
The term “moral clarity” gets tossed around a lot in political rhetoric, especially from the conservative side, but it’s pretty difficult to find it actually being practiced. It’s as if the very...
View ArticleDick Cheney’s personal war and fighting terror with democracy not more terror…
Monday link dump… Cheney: Waterboarding should have been an option for underbomber – “I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques,” he said....
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Things That Should Be in the George W. Bush Library
Running Scared has an item speculating that the “Mission Accomplished” banner will be on display at the George W. Bush Presidential Library. I think it’s a good idea. It really encapsulates Bush’s...
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