Support the PRES?! wow

OK. I mentioned HERE (over two years ago...) that we NEED to remove all the "For-Profit" Contractors that are now embedded in our US army (courtesy of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfield, and the 'non-dynamic' Bush Duo (49 and 51).

But today's discussion is about the "Troop Surge" in Afghanistan. Why? Do we need it?

I say (quite often) that we are in the second decade of the Bush hundred years war.
If you see this point of view (starting with the FIRST gulf-war in 1990), you will see that we are not in a short term commitment. (In my personal opinion), It was NOT a smart decision by our past president to declare war in Iraq (and Afghanistan).

However, we absolutely need to start to transition and train local troops so they can take over for us.

Think of it this way.

We've Already Lost the Bush war in Iraq. Before we lose the Bush war in Afghanistan, we need to understand that Afghanistan and Pakistan share a very loose, non-patrolled border, and Pakistan is STILL a nucc-ulear power.

If we do NOT help to stabilize Afghanistan, the damage that has just STARTED in Pakistan will continue, and will lead to Pakistan becoming a failed state, just like Afghanistan, or Somalia.

This however, is not a good idea, since this might lead to unsecured warheads, in dangerous hands.

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OK, you wanted a Political discussion: Here goes.

The background I believe that:
* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION. We're (now) IN a depression!
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* I call this Depression 2.0
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only number that he EVER saw, defining the
depression was that the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

IRAN: in Irrevesible Failure: Political Analysis

Iran in Irreversible decline: Politics and the Cinema.

Those Iranian TV executives sure do a great job over in Terhan.
Time Magazine has an article discussing the crowds at a showing of 'The Lord of the Rings' in Tehran.

From an anonymous reporter in Tehran, they report:

(and I note: I am quoting, and have only removed the Farsi (Iranian) translations from the story. I also reformatted it to make it easier for the attention-span deprived (like me!) to better understand.
Almost EVERY WORD is identical to the piece as published by TIME.

In normal times, Iranian television usually treats its viewers to one or two Hollywood or European movie nights a week.

But these are not normal times, so it's been two or three such movies a day.

It's part of the push to keep people at home and off the streets, to keep us busy, to get us out of the regime's hair. The message is "Don't worry, be happy."

So channel two there, is putting on a Lord of the Rings marathon as part of the government's efforts to restore peace.

Lots of people, adults and kids, are watching in the room with me. On the screen, Gandalf the Grey returns to the Fellowship as Gandalf the White. He casts a blinding white light, his face hidden behind a halo.

and ....

Someone blurts out, "Is it the Imam?!" (A reference, to the white-bearded Ayatollah Khomeini, who is respectfully called Imam Khomeini).

But "Imam" is also the title of the "Mahdi", the figure that Muslims believe will come to save (them) at the time of the apocalypse. Isn't that special?

(Interesting Question): I wonder what if the officials who picked this film, may be a subversive soul at the controls at the TV Station.

It is way too easy to find political meaning in this film, to draw comparisons to what is happening in real life.
(Lots of Political) Themes in the movie: Alluding to
* Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the candidate that the President claims to have defeated:
* The unwanted quest and the risking of life in pursuit of an unanticipated destiny.
* Could he be Boromir, the imperfect warrior who is heroic at the end, dying to defend
humanity?
* Didn't Mousavi talk about being ready for martyrdom?

And listen: there is a sly (I think cute!) reference to Ahmadinejad.
Iranian films are dubbed very expertly (into Farsi). So the Farsi word they use for hobbit (and also dwarf) is kootoole, or little person. Kootoole, of course, is the term used in many of the chants out on the street against the diminutive President.


That's as much as we can see of an opposition viewpoint on TV. It has a droning sameness, (or an) official message being "politics is a nasty business, but now it's over."

And so we're glued to the Trilogy. We are riveted. A child in the room loudly predicts that Lord of the Rings will put an end to the nightly shouts, that people will not take to the rooftops and windows because this film will keep them occupied.

Besides, (the child says) there is a worrisome rumor,that the "political police" are marking the doorways of those households that continue to call out "Allah Akbar!" at night, a reverse Passover.

The child continues to say, that the kids on his school buses have been chanting, "Then where is our vote?!, Then where is our vote?!" I ask what the driver is doing while all this goes on and the kid tells me that the driver honks along. Honk honk-honk-honk! "Then where is our vote?!"Honk honk-honk-honk!

And so we see political meaning even in the notice that one part of the trilogy is ending,
asking us to be ready for the next. "This is to be continued."

The phrase has become our hesitant slogan, our words of reassurance.

As does this quote (in Farsi) from the movie:

"I wish the ring had never come to me... I wish that none of this had happened..." "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us..."

This will be continued. This will be continued. People are not going to let up so easily.

WoW. I have to hand it to this brave Iranian for reporting and helping tell us out here in the rest of the world, that they will NOT stop.


Mark... innocent butcher of an amazing news post.
(however, I STILL say it is much easier to read MINE, rather then the original (also) here.

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Go view my other blog too!

* We're HEADING into a DEPRESSION. We're (now) IN a depression!
* It's going to be as BAD as the last one.
* I call this Depression 2.0
* The current failures only bring us 25% into the problem!!
* According to Robert Reich (former Sec'y of Labor under Clinton): The only
number that he EVER saw, defining the depression was that
the unemployment rate hovered around 25%.
* We need a new deal.
* After 58 years of NO Health Care Reform (since 1950!) it will FINALLY be coming soon...
* We've managed to WASTE a FULL generation (from Zero to thirty) with decaying social, educational, and interpersonal skills.
* Our nation is no longer DOING (producing) anything.
SO, from these few premises, I have extrapolated a great deal of items to FIX our society...

But....
We need to make sure that a number of issues are resolved ALL at once.
If we don't do them ALL at once, its like juggling three RUNNING chain saws, but dropping one!

Here's what I came up with:

We need to do the FOLLOWING to FIX our Society:
* Create A Living Wage
* Create a National Single payer Healthcare
* Create a National 3-4 year draft (or alternate service)
* Create a Federally paid Day Care starting at six months
* Implement Tax Reform on the ULTRA Rich
* Lobbying (Political Reform)
* Education
* Infrastructure (road /bridge/Systems repairs)
* Lack of Training/futures
* Truth and Reconcilliation Commission
* A new "Manhattan" project, focusing on Energy INDEPENDENCE

See my other blog: http://sos-newdeal.blogspot.com for more details.

Prediction: Iran Will Fall July 15th: Your Guess?

Hey. It's my blog, and I'll prognosticate if I want to... (repeat 3 times)

OK. Today (Wednesday, June 24th, one and a half (almost 2 weeks) after the "so-called" election was held.

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the June 12 election of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would not be reversed. It was (also) accompanied by a vow that the nation's rulers would never yield to demands from the streets.

So. Since the "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah has stepped out THIS far on the ledge, then I think that it is quite telling to start a ledge pool.

Date and time of the crash of the Revolutionary Republic of IRAN:
Leave a comment with YOUR date and time of the fall!:

Note/warning: I have a previous history of correctly predicting long term trends and outcomes.
search the archives for my background.


I swear that this post is absolutely non-satirical, however, looking at the labels for this post, I would swear it was from the 2008 (or even the 2000 STOLEN) US elections. What Irony!

OiL Prices too! : 2007 update

Quick I told you so!


Look HERE

I Said (4/17/06) OIL would be $89-$95 per barrel by December 31st 2006.

So I was off by a year....

Hmmm...

Look at the rest of the top 10 predictions:

1 True
2 True
3 True
4 true
5 True
6 True
7 False (so far)
8 True
9 False (vista did go out, much to our frustration!)
10 False
11 (bonus) Half true. He did the Surge thing and brought 10% of 500,000 troops in!


Wow. I scare myself sometimes, now included

DICTATOR BUSH: lookie at latest BULLTURDS-update

Thanks to SKIPPY for catching this BULLSHIT from our PRESIDENT.

Thanks to Darrin Bell (cartoonist of CANDORVILLE) for this cartoon!



What SKIPPY CAUGHT!
The original is apparently HERE

The ORIGINAL Press release from WHITE HOUSE

WHAT it MEANS

Billy Joel said:
Say GoodBye to HollyWOOD Say goodbye my baby.

I say
Say goodbye to Democracy Say Hello Dictator BUSH

OK. As USUAL a paragraph by paragraph analysis:
Captioning for the brain impaired!

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement,on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.

President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement,
BUSH TRIED to slip this one past by WITHOUT COMMENT

>>>on May 9
15 Days ago!

>>>signed a directive
A LAW that was NOT voted or even LOOKED at by CONGRESS

>>>that granted near dictatorial powers

dic·ta·tor:
a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.
SO our PRESIDENT can now create a DICTATOR

>>>to the office of the president
THAT is TO HIMSELF (and his OFFICE)

>>>in the event of a national emergency

Hmmm,THE press release says:
...snip...national emergency..
..snip..."Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;
...So, if we have EXTRAordinary disruption...

>>>declared by the president.

so HE can declare himself, the OFFICE of the DICTATOR!

Hey we finished a paragraph!!

The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator.

>>>The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive
Fancy talk for LAW implemented by HIMSELF, rather then by CONGRESS

>>>with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive
So important, he issues the same thing TWICE!

>>>establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator
Ah, A new bureaucratic title,the NCC.

That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.

>>>to make plans for "National Essential Functions"

The Job ...snip...makes Plans (MS-PROJECT!) for National Essential Functions"

>>> of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments,
...{review: Makes plans for} all {federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal} governments

>>> as well as private sector organizations
...and... {also plans for}private sector organizations.

>>>to continue functioning
{review: PLANS for take overs of ALL government AND private groups} so they continue to work

>>>under the president's directives
under the president's ORDERS!!!!

>>>in the event of a national emergency.
{or in case he declares an EMERGENCY!}

The executive order loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

>>> doy, already covered this above..
See ABOVE, where it says "The press release"

When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred, the president can take over all government functions and direct all private sector activities to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government."

>>>When the president determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred,
or, when he decides he wants to stay in power... after 2008 (because giving in to democrats would be giving in to TERRORISTS...

>>>the president can take over all government functions
Yeah, we get it...Like a...hmmm D*I*C*T*A*T*O*R

>>> and direct all private sector activities
Yeah, LIKE A DICTATOR...

>>>to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government.
Yeah RIGHT! IF the emergency EVER ends. EGYPT has been under emergency for over 27 years

And in the IRONY is Still here category

Ironically, the executive order sees no contradiction in the assumption of dictatorial powers by the president with the goal of maintaining constitutional continuity through an emergency.

>>>
No comment needed.

The directive specifies that the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated as the National Continuity Coordinator.

...snip...specifies that ...snip...the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated THE NEW DICTATOR of the UNITED states!
{under the instructions of the first dictator (bush the first)}

>>> Currently, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism is Frances Fragos Townsend.

Townsend spent 13 years at the Justice Department before moving to the U.S. Coast Guard where she served as Assistant Commandant for Intelligence.
So we can technically say, MADAME dictator!

SORRY I can't finish this, I am too sick

Please forward this post to your local news agency and ask why they aren't covering this??

This has been NEWS for the short attention span!

IRAQ: Gen Anthony Zinny (Ret). My hero

Got an HOUR? Listen to the LATEST US general to TRASH the current administration

Damning without ANY praise...

Listen here: Sorry, it's in "REAL Audio" (Yecch!)

HumorR: Rove Testimony under "cone of silence"™

Over at Don Davis's Blog
He has this great headline with a photo of my all-time FAVORITE MEL-Brooks (written) TV SHOW,"GET SMART"!

"Under Bush’s plan, White House aides such as Karl Rove and Harriet Miers would testify under the infamous “Cone of Silence” employed in the iconic 1960’s spy show, Get Smart."

Just to ensure that no public leaks of testimony occur, Bush added that “only Republicans will be allowed into the Cone of Silence, with the exception, of course, of Joe Lieberman.” However, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pointed out, “Lieberman’s head might be too big to fit under the Cone.”

Thanks to Don at http://satiricalpolitical.com for this great item.

PS: if you're NOT a regular reader of my poetry blog, please see my new epic poems on:
The Dixie chicks were Right!

Pop Goes the Wolfowitz (architect of our Iraq war policy!)

Presidential Knowledge (an oxymoron)

Markb in nj!

HOT: (VERY) Scary headline of the day: UPdated!

The REG tells us:

Be SCARED..

Be VERY VERY Skareed...

I wought I saw a Wocket... No, it was a mwissle... No it was a Wrocket.

The Islamic Republic definitely launched something over the weekend.

Iranian media described the device as a rocket capable of reaching space.

Iran later appeared to downplay the significance of the launch, saying the rocket launch was for research purposes only, and that the rocket was not in orbit.

Officials pointedly denied it had launched a "missile".

Iranian media apparently implied the rocket could be used to put commercial satellites into orbit. If it can be used to put commercial satellites up, presumably spy satellites will be a breeze.

Other citations, NOTABLY none in the US press yet (I wonder why???!!!)

BBC: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6394387.stm%3Fls&ei=XvriRb3CG5eMwQLB7ZGFBg&sig2=RzAUKOeBrj9i5ewbzwiudg&e=14823&sa=X&oi=news&ct=result&cd=1&usg=__DrPHQ3SqMvXLOPqgFw0B0Jai25I=

Gold rises after launch:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalresearch.ca%2Findex.php%3Fcontext%3DviewArticle%26code%3D20061110%26articleId%3D3802&ei=XvriRb3CG5eMwQLB7ZGFBg&usg=__2v3z3ISq7j9SBQAp3RrOOLkD6BE=&sig2=rnsHEch5dYjFHVxlR_LyYw

al jazera
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=12&url=http%3A%2F%2Fenglish.aljazeera.net%2FNR%2Fexeres%2FE1B6C897-D424-4E1B-B4DF-E9F2B8CCA8BA.htm&ei=XvriRb3CG5eMwQLB7ZGFBg&usg=__RfOjpZMDXAkC4y3XfDOXIRYC0FU=&sig2=r7IuBZCzCKhu79GOthhpIg

Jerusalem Post:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894523089&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1171894512735&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

CBS Analyst's comment

"If the missile is adaptable for nuclear warheads, then they are well on the way. But they have not made a nuclear warhead yet. The current estimates are it could take five years."

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Andy Oppenheimer, weapons expert
Jane's Information Group

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/31/world/main1460846.shtml

mideasT: Iran's President: :Holocaust just an excuse.

Hooo Haaa.

He's Done it again. Iran's President says "Just an Excuse!"

He answers a question with a question... Are we sure he ISN'T JEWISH???

Dianne Sawyer asks:

Let's turn to Israel for a moment. I do not want to debate again the whole question of the Holocaust — whether the Holocaust is a myth, which you have said. Would you be willing to go to Auschwitz and see their documentation? You're a scientist. Would you be willing to look at the room with documentation?

Ahmadinejad: Do you think it would solve any problem?

Sawyer: It would be information for you if you genuinely believe it's a myth.

Ahmadinejad continues:

Well, one of the methods used for concealing the truth is diverting a topic.

Question is if Holocaust is true. ½ of the Palestinian issue, why for the excuse of the Holocaust we have an illegitimate government in Palestine?

Mark says, EXCUSE ME???

HAD the FERSUGENER Arabs ACCEPTED the 1948 UN two state solution to the ISRAEL problem there would TODAY be TWO STATES... AN Arab state (Palestine), and Israel

What a interesing DIVERSION of the truth...
THe UN proposed TWO states in 1948.
The jews accepted and the ARABS rejected this, and attacked the new state.

REVISIONIST history again!

Torture Equals Treason

Simply Said.

leave Bush alone for now.

Impeach Chaney.. (wouldn't it be nice for NANCY Pelosi to become Vice President????)

THEN impeach BUSH..

Not likely I know,....

But I can dream, can't I?