Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction

There should be no surprise that the banks are in trouble. Bankers were talking about this in 2006.

Bankers Fear World Economic Meltdown

By GABRIEL KOLKO July 26, 2006

There has been a profound and fundamental change in the world economy over the past decade. The very triumph of financial liberalization and deregulation, one of the keystones of the “Washington consensus” that the U.S. government, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and World Bank have persistently and successfully attempted over the past decades to implement, have also produced a deepening crisis that its advocates scarcely expected.

The global financial structure is today far less transparent than ever. There are many fewer reporting demands imposed on those who operate in it. Financial adventurers are constantly creating new “products” that defy both nation-states and international banks. The IMF’s managing director, Rodrigo de Rato, at the end of May 2006 deplored these new risks – risks that the weakness of the U.S. dollar and its mounting trade deficits have magnified greatly.


High-speed Global Economics

The global financial problem that is emerging is tied into an American fiscal and trade deficit that is rising quickly. Since Bush entered office in 2001 he has added over $3 trillion to federal borrowing limits, which are now almost $9 trillion. So long as there is a continued devaluation of the U.S. dollar, banks and financiers will seek to protect their money and risky financial adventures will appear increasingly worthwhile. This is the context, but Washington advocated greater financial liberalization long before the dollar weakened. This conjunction of factors has created infinitely greater risks than the proponents of the “Washington consensus” ever believed possible.

There are now many hedge funds, with which we are familiar, but they now deal in credit derivatives – and numerous other financial instruments that have been invented since then, and markets for credit derivative futures are in the offing. The credit derivative market was almost nonexistent in 2001, grew fairly slowly until 2004 and then went into the stratosphere, reaching $17.3 trillion by the end of 2005.

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Mccain still has The Surge to fall back on

Who said the suit don't make the man. McSame has never looked better as he shows off his Blue Surge and reflects on his presidential moments when he called for the Democrats and Republicans to come together to Bail out the banking cartels.

Chris Matthews points to John McCain's failure to provide the leadership that he promised -- and took credit for:

McCain said he was going to lead the Republican charge, he was going to make sure that this was a bipartisan success...he called charge, and the Republicans retreated. That's what happened here.

Video here

Just say NO to Bail Out$ for Failures

Karl Roves Historical Lie "Congress pushed the President to war in Iraq"

Well folks, this is the lie that has been perpetrated by the Neocorporate government and all of it's gubment shills on the internet and the main stream media to claim that congress was responsible for the invasion of Iraq. We knew it then and know it now, but must keep digging up the history that these neocorporate creeps are trying to change...G:

DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee) Chairman Chris Van Hollen and Karl Rove on FOX News Sunday

December 04, 2007

Republicans know what a mess they have made in Iraq -- we can't let them rewrite history now.

Chairman Van Hollen took him to task and demanded he retract these outrageous statements. While Rove did a verbal tap dance, cherry picking information, the Chairman pulled out his trump card. This quote from Ari Fleischer:

"It was definitely the Bush administration that set it in motion and determined the timing, not the Congress. I think Karl in this instance just has his facts wrong."

Rove looks dumbfounded that someone finally stood up to him and called out his fabrications face-to-face. Watch the video of Chris Van Hollen and contribute to help us continue holding Bush's Rubber Stamp Republicans accountable. Don't let them rewrite history and use their spin to promote their concocted story.

Bu$hco encourages "Ownership Society" in 2002

Mortgage crisis in Bush speech 2002 encouraging Freddie Mac and Fanny May

John McCain singlhandedly solves the financial meltdown

The only problem is that McCain can't walk and chew gum at the same time. Is it just me or does McCain look like he's having difficulty addressing the issues, even with being propped up by Bu$hco and the corporate government...G:


David Letterman Reacts to John McCain Suspending Campaign



Caribou Barbie is interviewed by Katie Couric


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Dick McPain & The Neoconservative Agenda

Well, all I can tell ya is, lets stay in the now, and above all not pass judgement on folks like Dick McPain for their appearance. After all, he’s old and been through a lot.

Anyhow, I have to talk about history, because that’s all we can percieve, so I’ll try to to be here and there all at once…zzzZZZ*

Oh, yeh…McCain has supported every hair brained agenda that Cheney told Duhhbya to pursue, and at the same time says that he is a straight talker, while flip flopping over the edges of both sides of the aisle. The man can’t even remember what he is saying from one speech to the other.
Not only that but he has chosen a woman that is smarter than him and, in fact, more of a man than he is. I sure wouldn’t want her as president of this once great country though cause I’m not a hunter of animals for their skin, and I truelly believe that if we have killed one innocent civilian with this dirty little war, that we have killed one too many. Bu$hco admitted that there were no weapons of mass destruction, but thought that it was an honorable thing that he was responsible for Saddams death, and that War was OK because Saddam was a bad man. Now I ain’t sayin Saddam was innocent of killing his countrymen, but I am saying that Bu$h is a liar, and to beware of McCain because he is only running to promote the Neoconservative agenda in the same way that it now exists….G:



Dr. Stephen Sniegoski summarizes the neocon agenda.

Brutal: Sarah Palin's Record on Aerial Wolf Hunting

DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE ACTION FUND
ENDORSES OBAMA-BIDEN

WASHINGTON - Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund today endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) for President and Vice President of the United States. Below is a statement from the organization's president, Rodger Schlickeisen.

"John McCain's choice of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate confirmed that the only candidates we can truly count on to protect our air, land and water are Senators Obama and Biden, and we are proud to today offer our endorsement of the Obama-Biden ticket," said Schlickeisen.

"John McCain's record on the environment has been extremely mediocre at best, often erratic, and clearly inferior to that of either Obama or Biden. Now, his selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate provides a very clear warning that - as difficult as it may have been to contemplate earlier - a McCain-Palin administration would likely be just as bad as the Bush-Cheney one on many major environmental issues. So when it comes to sound environmental policy, to conserving wilderness areas and wildlife, to standing up to the special interests, there really is now no contest between the two tickets. While the McCain-Palin campaign studiously avoids most environmental issues and offers energy proposals based largely on Big Oil's wish list, the Obama-Biden campaign is offering solid positions in nearly every environmental area, including forward-looking energy solutions.

Continued Schlickeisen, "When McCain picked the notoriously anti-environmental Palin, he surrendered any reasonable argument that his administration would make finding real solutions to our nation's serious energy, conservation and environmental problems a priority. The McCain-Palin ticket is now the overwhelming preference of big oil companies that have made billions in profits, while average Americans struggle to fill their tanks. That should tell voters who care about the environment and our children's future all they need to know."

Had Enough? Energy Action Northwest's Ed Finklea wants LNG for his new Honda

New group rallies around natural gas as prices soar

Portland Business Journal

by Erik Siemers Business Journal staff writer Friday, July 25, 2008

Seeing spiking natural gas prices as a threat to the regional economy, a newly formed coalition of business and labor leaders is on a mission to build support for increasing the region's gas supplies.

So far, Energy Action Northwest sees the controversial liquefied natural gas terminal proposals as having the strongest advantages.

Led by Edward Finklea, a Portland attorney and former counsel to the Northwest Industrial Gas Users, Energy Action North West announced its formation last week. It seeks to marshal business and labor resources around reducing the cost of natural gas, principally through increasing the amount of gas supplies that reach the region.

The group's unveiling came in conjunction with news that three Oregon natural gas companies -- Northwest Natural Gas Co., Avista Utilities, and Cascade Natural Gas -- would be taking rate hike requests to the state Public Utility Commission next month.

Portland-based NW Natural, the state's largest gas utility with 657,000 customers in Oregon and southwest Washington, expects the biggest increase, with prices potentially jumping 40 percent.

The utilities pass the cost of natural gas onto customers, and those prices are spiking -- partly from demand, but also because they say supplies are tight.

Kim Heiting, director of corporate communications for NW Natural, said two-thirds of the utility's gas comes from Canada, where exports are expected to decline by as much as 40 percent by 2015. The rest of the gas comes from supplies in the Rocky Mountains, where there is competition from pipelines shipping the fuel to eastern markets.

Finklea said his group isn't advocating for LNG only. It just doesn't want to see options stifled by highly charged environmental groups or the state.

"We're never going to be out there saying, 'look the other way'" on environmental concerns, Finklea said. "But we also don't need the state of Oregon or some group of hyperactive self-appointed activist groups to decide it's their goal to see that we tie this up so long to see if we can't kill it."

Read the whole article here...G:



Energy Action Executive Director Edward Finklea, here holding a picture of his natural gas-powered Honda, predicts rapid growth for his organization. He is installing a $10,000
home fueling station for it. Yep, Ed is a real lucky guy. Because he is the Exec. of a non profit organization he gets a little help from (SELP),
Small Scale Energy Loan Program

Remember the ownership society?

Disowned by the Ownership Society

By Naomi Klein - January 31st, 2008

Remember the "ownership society," fixture of major George W. Bush addresses for the first four years of his presidency? "We're creating...an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property," Bush said in October 2004. Washington think-tanker Grover Norquist predicted that the ownership society would be Bush's greatest legacy, remembered "long after people can no longer pronounce or spell Fallujah." Yet in Bush's final State of the Union address, the once-ubiquitous phrase was conspicuously absent. And little wonder: rather than its proud father, Bush has turned out to be the ownership society's undertaker.

Well before the ownership society had a neat label, its creation was central to the success of the right-wing economic revolution around the world. The idea was simple: if working-class people owned a small piece of the market--a home mortgage, a stock portfolio, a private pension--they would cease to identify as workers and start to see themselves as owners, with the same interests as their bosses. That meant they could vote for politicians promising to improve stock performance rather than job conditions. Class consciousness would be a relic.

It was always tempting to dismiss the ownership society as an empty slogan--"hokum" as former Labor Secretary Robert Reich put it. But the ownership society was quite real. It was the answer to a roadblock long faced by politicians favoring policies to benefit the wealthy. The problem boiled down to this: people tend to vote their economic interests. Even in the wealthy United States, most people earn less than the average income. That means it is in the interest of the majority to vote for politicians promising to redistribute wealth from the top down.

So what to do? It was Margaret Thatcher who pioneered a solution. The effort centered on Britain's public housing, or council estates, which were filled with die-hard Labour Party supporters. In a bold move, Thatcher offered strong incentives to residents to buy their council estate flats at reduced rates (much as Bush did decades later by promoting subprime mortgages). Those who could afford it became homeowners while those who couldn't faced rents almost twice as high as before, leading to an explosion of homelessness.

As a political strategy, it worked: the renters continued to oppose Thatcher, but polls showed that more than half of the newly minted owners did indeed switch their party affiliation to the Tories. The key was a psychological shift: they now thought like owners, and owners tend to vote Tory. The ownership society as a political project was born.

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WTC - Video of the World Trade Center disaster not shown In Europe Or USA.

Japanese rare footage and immediate coverage...

At 3:34 into this video watch the extreme explosive force, or whatever it is, expell material for distances of around one city block. Of particular interest is the material that is being blown upward, and even more interesting is a large blob of material that is traveling horizontally toward World Financial Building 1, a 40 story building that is at least one block away. It vanishes from sight as it passes over the cut pyramid shape of the top of this building.

I believe that the part of the video at 3:34 was taken from around the intersection of West and Vesey streets looking Northerly past WTC1 to the West side of WTC2 as it collapses. I had to stop and start the video several times to see what was going on with the debris as it was blown in different directions. This sure doesn't look like the work of gravity to me. What would Newton think?


Please click photo to enlarge. World Financial Building one with the cutoff pyramid top that is South West of WTC2 on the other side of West Street.

Videos show more than fire in WTC collapse

A picture is worth a thousand words



Slow motion & cropped BBC footage showing rapid debris ejection moving down the west side of the building.




Slow motion video taken from south. Just where do the top 30 stories go? We see them tipping, then all of the sudden just pulverized concrete dust and steel ejected. Clip from BBC Horizon "Fall of the World Trade Centre"




Raw footage. WTC collapse. The first building collapse and the second hit.




Cameraplanet video taken from south near Trinity Church.




a common sense look at the pancake collapse of the South Tower. How was a pancake collapse possible by the laws of physics?

The real Maverick files suit against McCain

James Garner Files Suit Against McCain: Claims Infringement on Maverick Trademark

Steve Young

September 9, 2008

James Garner, who played the original Maverick - Bret - on TV, has filed a restraining order on behalf of Jack Kelly (Bart) , Roger Moore (Beau) and Robert Colbert (Brent), demanding that John McCain and Sarah Palin cease and desist referring to themselves as Maverick or Mavericks.

“It’s not like me or my fake brothers go around saying we’re POW’s,” claimed the still ruggedly handsome Garner. “And if you can be damn sure, other than those rumors about Moore, we never wore lipstick.”

McCain and Palin have been running commercials saying they’re “Mavericks” because of their stance against their own party.

“If they were ever on the set of Maverick, they would know that we were never against having any kind of party,” added Garner.

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McMaverick~The Movie

The revamped war on terror exposed

General Ray Ordierno replaces General Betrayus in Iraq

Here is Major General Ray Ordierno, commander of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division at the beginning of the war in Iraq. He is of course a four star general now, much like General Petraeus who recieved his fourth star from Bu$h upon becoming the commander of the forces in Iraq.

General Raymond Odierno assumes US military command in Iraq

Guardian UK

Tuesday September 16 2008 12:43 BST

The commander of US forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus, today handed over control of American military operations in the country to his successor, General Raymond Odierno.

In an elaborate ceremony in the marble-lined rotunda of one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces outside Baghdad, the US defence secretary, Robert Gates, praised the two men for stabilising the country in the past year.

"Darkness had descended on this land," Gates said. "Merchants of chaos were gaining strength. Death was commonplace… Slowly, but inexorably, the tide began to turn. Our enemies took a fearsome beating they will not soon forget."

In his remarks, Petraeus thanked his troops and hailed Odierno as "the perfect man for the job".

As Odierno takes charge, Petraeus becomes the new chief of Central Command, with responsibility for US troops from the Horn of Africa to central Asia, including the conflicts in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Iraq was spiralling into all-out civil war when Petraeus took over in February 2007, almost four years after Saddam was toppled by a US-led invasion.

Since late last year, violence has fallen to a four-year low. Much of the credit has gone to the counter-insurgency strategies of 55-year-old Petraeus.

Yesterday, Gates credited Petraeus's "brilliant strategy" and its implementation by US troops and field commanders for the success of the surge.

"I think he's played a historic role. There is just no two ways about it," he said.

Petraeus oversaw the surge, but it was his former deputy Odierno who first proposed it in December 2006 to a resistant Pentagon, setting the stage for what would become a pivotal turn in the unpopular war.

Odierno, criticised for riding roughshod over civilians during his first tour to Iraq in 2003-2004, implemented the surge as the corps commander from December 2006 to March 2008, which Gates said made him the right person to replace Petraeus.

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September 17, 2008
New US Commander in Iraq has aggressive reputation

General Ray Odierno takes over US occupation in Iraq as demonstrators march against Gates visit

Lose your house Lose your vote

Entrance to Trott Center, home of the McCain-Palin campaign in Farmington Hills, Mich. (Photo: Alexa Stanard)

McCain’s landlord

By Jefferson Morley 9/5/08 6:25 AM

The headquarters of the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket in Michigan, located at 31330 Northwestern Highway in Farmington Hills in suburban Detroit, is owned by a law firm called Trott & Trott that specializes in housing foreclosures.

As the Republican nominee makes his first post-convention appearance in Sterling Heights, Mich., today, the livelihood of his local host has not yet attracted much notice. But if the Trott name rings no bells among the national press corps, it is all too familiar to the record number of Michigan residents facing foreclosures on their homes in this election year.


Former GOP operative explains why Republicans will use foreclosure lists to block voters

The Michigan Messenger

By Eartha Jane Melzer 9/15/08 10:05 AM

Last week we reported about Republican plans to use home foreclosure lists to block voters from the polls after James Carabelli, chair of the Macomb County Republican Party, told Michigan Messenger that on election day Republican volunteers will “have a list of foreclosed homes
and make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses.”

Republican leaders have since disavowed plans to use foreclosure lists as part of their plan to challenge the eligibility of some voters, but an attorney for the party, Eric Doster, did confirm that the party would use returned mail to challenge voters based on residency. As veteran Republican activist Allen Raymond told Michigan Messenger in a recent interview, holding down Democratic turnout is a key part of Republican strategy for victory in November.

Raymond knows about Republican campaign tactics. For almost a decade he managed campaigns for Republicans running for state and national office. In the 2002 New Hampshire elections, he ran a phone-jamming operation aimed at blocking elderly people from arranging rides to the polls, an illegal action that he says was approved by the highest levels of the party. He spent three months in federal prison. Earlier this year Raymond published a book about his life and work as a Republican operative, titled “Confessions of a Republican Operative: How to Rig an Election.”

As for our report that the Michigan GOP planned to use foreclosure lists to block likely Democratic voters, Raymond said: “It’s a very good tactic. It works.”

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Caribou Barbie bloops climate change story

Palin's climate remarks conflict with past views

Associated Press

4 hours ago

FORT WAINWRIGHT, Alaska (AP) — Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's assertion that she believes humans play a role in climate change — made in her first major interview since joining the Republican ticket — is at odds with her previous statements. Palin said she didn't disagree with scientists that the problem can be attributed to "man's activities."

"Show me where I have ever said that there's absolute proof that nothing that man has ever conducted or engaged in has had any effect or no effect on climate change. I have not said that," Palin told ABC News in an interview broadcast Thursday and Friday.

However, in the past Palin has said she does not believe global warming is caused by human activity. She has told the Internet news site Newsmax, "A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. ... I'm not one, though, who would attribute it to being man-made."

In an interview with a Fairbanks newspaper within the last year, Palin said: "I'm not an Al Gore, doom-and-gloom environmentalist blaming the changes in our climate on human activity." ABC cited the interview as being at odds with her statement.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has said humans have caused climate change.

In the ABC interview, Palin said she believes that "man's activities certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming, climate change. ... Regardless, though, of the reason for climate change, whether it's entirely, wholly caused by man's activities or is part of the cyclical nature of our planet — the warming and the cooling trends — regardless of that, John McCain and I agree that we gotta do something about it."

Palin also said that while she had not met any foreign heads of state, many other vice presidents may not have, either. However, the vice presidents who have served since 1977 — George H.W. Bush, the former ambassador to China and CIA director; Dick Cheney, chief of staff for President Ford and defense secretary for Bush; and Sens. Walter Mondale, Dan Quayle and Gore — likely would have met heads of state and other foreign leaders because of their extensive experience in the federal government.

Questions about Palin's knowledge of foreign policy dominated the interview with ABC's Charles Gibson. Palin repeated her earlier assertions that she's ready to be president if called upon, yet she sidestepped questions on whether she had the national security credentials needed to be commander in chief.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has defended his running mate's qualifications, citing her command of the Alaska National Guard and Alaska's proximity to Russia.

Pressed about what insights into recent Russian actions she gained by living in Alaska, Palin told Gibson, "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."

Palin, 44, has been Alaska's governor for less than two years and before that was a small-town mayor. Asked whether those were sufficient credentials, Palin said: "It is about reform of government and it's about putting government back on the side of the people, and that has much to do with foreign policy and national security issues."

She said she brings expertise in making the country energy independent as a former chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

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911 Polls - You Are Not Alone

I think that the question that needs to be asked in the polls is "Do you think that there should be an open and independent investigation of the 911 disaster?"

While ae911truth, loose change, Steven Jones, and many more sites have presented unimpeachable evidence that the official story is fabricated, they are falling into a trap by expounding theories and hypothosis about how the buildings fell.

When all of the evidence is put into context, we have a situation where the melting points of steel and concrete both have been exceeded and the energy necessary to powderize concrete and vaporize steel, as happened in the upper parts of both WTC1 and WTC2, greatly exceeds the temperatures that can result from jet fuel or a building fire.

There are many government shills busy at the job of framing the the theories and dividing them up so that they can be put through the debunking mill and there is a concerted effort to intimidate the witnesses of what happened on that day. Especially the Fire Chiefs, when the "FDNY Terrorism Preparedness Taskforce", led by James Woolsey, was iniated to put them in their place.

A physicist from Las Alamos Laboratories. by the name of Gregory H. Canavan, was also on the panel. He is also a former Director of the Office of Inertial Fusion at the U.S. Department Of Energy and a former Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. Dare we ask why a Fusion Energy scientist was appointed to the FDNY terrorism Preperedness Task Force?



It's all about accountability folks, and Bu$hco should be investigated on every aspect of the take-over of our country. Just as soon as We The Sheeple regain control of the Supreme Court.

Corporate Media Clamps Down on Democrats

September 08, 2008

Amy Goodman Interviewed for NOW on PBS about RNC Arrests

Amy Goodman discusses her arrest, the arrests of her colleagues, police response to demonstrators, and freedom of the press at the Republican National Convention.

MSNBC says Olbermann, Matthews won't anchor

By DAVID BAUDER – 2 days ago

NEW YORK (AP) — MSNBC is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators.

The change reflects tensions between the freewheeling, opinionated MSNBC and the impartial newsgatherers at NBC News. Throughout the primaries and summer, MSNBC argued that Olbermann and Matthews could serve as dispassionate anchors on political news nights and that viewers would accept them in that role, but things fell apart during the conventions.

Gregory, the veteran Washington hand, will anchor MSNBC's coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates and election night, network spokesman Jeremy Gaines said Sunday. The change was first reported by The New York Times.

The tipping point appears to have come during the GOP convention when Olbermann criticized MSNBC for showing a Sept. 11-themed video prepared by the Republicans.

MSNBC executives, who had publicly defended their anchors' roles while privately monitoring them throughout the political season, made the change over the weekend after discussions with Olbermann. Despite the controversy around him, Olbermann has been a hero with left-leaning viewers and keyed MSNBC's growth among coveted young viewers.

During her acceptance speech last week, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin talked about the "Washington elite" not accepting her qualifications for the job. Some delegates on the convention floor began chanting, "N-B-C, N-B-C."

Well folks, the Neocorporate Media just couldn't $tand it. They have knuckled under to the knuckle draggers, while Obama allows himself to be interviewed by, the chief knuckle dragger of Faux News, Bill O'Lielly. Yep, Obama sat down at the table of the enemy to play a game that is framed by their rules, which can only result in blunting his eloquence and tarnishing his brilliance, once more demonstrating a well known truth. You cannot win when playing another mans game. Can you imagine Mc'Pain setting down with Kieth Olbermann to be interviewed on Democracy Now?..G:

Olberman: McCain plays the 911 fear card

Truth Justice & the Neo Republican Convention

September 9, 2008

TRNN journalists charged with unlawful assembly

Documentary report by Real News team arrested along with 818 people during the RNC

Truth, Justice and the 4th Estate
Geraldine Cahill

GERALDINE CAHILL, TRNN: Eight hundred and eighteen people were arrested in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in the days leading up to and during the Republican National Convention last week. Several dozen were members of the media covering the various protests. While presidential hopeful John McCain was preparing his final speech to the Republican National Convention last Thursday, hundreds gathered on the steps of the Capitol Building, preparing to march for peace, an end to the war in Iraq, and a call for impeachment of President Bush. Many were also there to protest the arrest of demonstrators earlier in the week. The plan was to walk to the security perimeter surrounding the Xcel Center, where the RNC was taking place. I was there with my camera person, Ania Smolenskaia, to record what happened.

Star Wars Police State

This technology dates back to the Ronnie Raygun Administration and has evolved into an array of weaponry that in the hands of the Neoconservative ideologues who now control our Corporate Government could mean total control of the sheeple.

High tech space weapons are in use and the U.S. and Israeli military are lying about them. They're well established in the public record and will determine the way future wars will be fought, as well as the way to control dissent or rebellion.

Something to think about when we choose a new president, if we do indeed get a chance to do so...G:

Like a Bad Penny

Well, its nice to be back. Had a great time in my old home town with relatives and friends....zzzzZZZZ

Sure has been a lot of ongo since I left, and I still haven't caught up with the half of it. I did catch the news about Amy Goodman being arrested at the RNC event on KGO the Ray Talliaferro show, which the MSM treated as non news. Like, what happened, is the whole country drinking the hallucinatory beverages of the Neo Republican party. And if that wasn't too much I find myself viewing videos of Palladin wearing the lipstick of war, and spewing words like victory in Iraq.

Oh well, come on in, the waters fine. Just one of the of the benefits of Global Warming I guess. Victory? Somehow I have a hard time getting what in the hell these Rovian manipulators are trying to win. Is Lipstick Palladin trying to tell us that the folks in the cradle of civilization declared war on the United States, and that she is proud to send her son off to war to defeat the descendents of Adam and Eve or is she following the lead of such reputable, (cough), intellectuals as John Bolton and, (gag), Bill Kristol.





Neo Republican Convention

August 31, 2008

More at http://www.theuptake.org. Delyla Wilson tours the country with her family in the "PermiBus," a mobile permaculture demonstration. The group is in the Twin Cities to teach people about sustainable living practices.

On the evening of Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008 the bus was pulled over in what police eventually described as a routine traffic stop. After detaining the bus occupants, the police decided the bus was a commercial vehicle and impounded it for inspection, leaving the family and their guests stranded and homeless.

The police allowed the Wilsons to remove their dogs and chickens, but were not allowed to retrieve their computers or any other belongings, including their daughter's shoes.

This incident ended a day that saw multiple pre-RNC raids, which some legal observers believe is a coordinated pre-emptive effort by local and national law enforcement agencies to chill RNC protest action. Video by Chuck Olsen of The UpTake: http://theuptake.org Photos by Tony Webster, used with permission: http://www.tonywebster.com/