June 29, 2008 11:00 AM
Mike's Blog Roundup
SteveAudio: I eat alone in the desert, with skulls for my pets.
The Other McCain: Botched raid in Iraq.
James Wolcott: It appears that once again Washington Post journalist and social arbiter Sally Quinn has created a stir by opening her brassy mouth.
Amygdala: ...if it aint got that swing
The Existentialist Cowboy: Carlin: "We can bomb the sh*t outta your country."
Listen to the entire broadcast of the House Judiciary Committee Hearings on Torture, with comments from Scott Horton, as well as interviews with The New Yorker's Jane Mayer, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, The New York Review of Books contributor Mark Danner, Torture Team author Philippe Sands, American University Professor Stephen I. Vladeck, and other guests
here's to hoping that if/when davey addington travels outside america he is picked up and put on trial at the hague for war crimes.
seems our country has lost the ability to hold war criminals accountable for their crimes against humanity.
c*h*e*e*r*s
If we invade Iran, we've effectively signed our death warrant. Iran is four times the size of Iraq, with mountains included as well, and three times the population. To mount an invasion of Iran and occupy it for one year requires the entire US budget allotted for the Department of Defense for this year, and that's Iran alone. Sooner or later, every empire gets too big for its britches. When Tsar Nicholas II mobilized in 1914, he started WWI. He ended his empire on the day he started mobilization. Attacking Iran is the stupidest thing Bush and his goons could do.
This is doing the rounds in european financial media.
"BRUSSELS/AMSTERDAM - Fortis Bank expects a complete collapse of the US financial markets within a few days to weeks. That explains, according to Fortis, the series of interventions of last Thursday to retrieve 8 billion. “We have been saved just in time. The situation in the US is much worse than we thought”, says Fortis chairman Maurice Lippens. Fortis expects bankruptcies amongst 6000 American banks which have a small coverage currently. But also Citigroup, General Motors, there is starting a complete meltdown in the US” "
and
"Barclays warns of disaster as Fed loses all credibility
Fri, 2008-06-27 02:02
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
The Telegraph, London
Friday, June 27, 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/06/27/cnbarc...
Barclays Capital has advised clients to batten down the hatches for a worldwide financial storm, warning that the US Federal Reserve has allowed the inflation genie out of the bottle and let its credibility fall "below zero."
"We're in a nasty environment," said Tim Bond, the bank's chief equity strategist. "There is an inflation shock under way. This is going to be very negative for financial assets. We are going into tortoise mood and are retreating into our shell. Investors will do well if they can preserve their wealth."
So Fortis is a maybe relatively small player, but what is the temperature on Wall Street these days?
This is not reassuring, you know...
€Punk @ 4:
There is no reassurance when it comes to this administration, they've taken every stupid thing there is for a US administration to do, and done it. About the only thing they haven't done, which is kinda ironic considering Bush's Crusader rhetoric, is stir up the Maronites against the Sunni and the Shia. Well that, and invade some random Latin American nation for the hell of it. An attack on Iran would be worse for us than the Tsar's decision to enter a war against an industrial power with a mostly agricultural economy when his subjects hated his guts.
General_Rennenkampf @ 2:
When has being stupid ever stopped them?
General_Rennenkampf @ 5:
that is precisely the point. they'll do this stupid thing, leave a mess for the Democrat, then wait as the media blames this entire thing on Obama.
Check out the new John McCain parody “Hot Headed” on MyParodyPage at:
http://myparodypage.blogspot.com
or on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Dhxu-6l98
BaScOmBe hearts Lara Logan @ 7:
Except in the worst-case scenario, the US government effectively collapses, along with this technological era, so that even the media won't be able to blame it on Obama, because communication will be right back in the 1st Century again.
It's as if we are being blackmailed. The administration is saying if it looks like you guys are going to elect Obama, we're going to bomb Iran before he takes office. On the other hand, if it looks like you are going to elect McCain, we won't bomb Iran and you can gamble on when he will do it.
BaScOmBe hearts Lara Logan @ 7:
Israel is driving this.
GOP tries to paint Obama as opportunistic.
CLEVELAND -- Sen. John McCain's allies have seized on a new and aggressive line of attack against Sen. Barack Obama, casting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee as an opportunistic and self-obsessed politician who will do and say anything to get elected.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR200806...
DC @ 12:
Seems to describe McCain perfectly.
DC @ 12:
ita a self-inflicted wound, and the scab is being picked at by the other side.
that said, mccain is worse.
pot/kettle
the USA will be the 3rd world within the next 3 years
pissed off patricia @ 13:
Yep, but...
BobbyG @ 11:
there is a great argument in the last 'OPEN THREAD' about that topic.
I'll sum it up for you:
neocons in the us along with oil interests
and
likud/zionists in israel
are
The same idiot minorities driving the agenda of both countries.
NeoCons are at most 18% and dropping in the US
Zionists are a small minority in Israel.
in both countries, the timid majority has suppressed it's own voice, whether in deference to or in cowardice of, these jerks who are apparently willing to destroy civilization, rather than give up power.
ungabunga @ 15:
it has already happened! look at the current distribution of wealth and of income. we're more like mexico than you'd think.
First Holy Communion:
Second grade. Endless weeks of classes and practicing with Neco Wafers. First Confession to erase all the sins a seven year old could muster. White shirt. White pants. White socks. White shoes. White tie. White jacket.
White Nuns. White Priests. White Communion wafer. Stuck to the roof of my mouth.
Pomp and ceremony. Solemn occasion.
Jesus Christ himself would have had none of it.
"This is my body. Whenever you eat this think of me."
Simple. Straightforward.
Not true. Never happened.
Hard for me to get upset with someone taking the wafer without being a Catholic, but of course it is a sacrilege in the eyes of the Catholic Church. A church silent about torture and unforgivable war.
xoites defends Constituion @ 19:
And a church that conducted torture, promoted slavery if not ignoring it, and actually endorsed war, especially if there's gold for it's coffers.
this is what bush and cnn and fux don't want anyone to see. the wars would end a lot more quickly if these were generally available.
Excellent link to The Existentialist Cowboy showing George Carlin's concert entitled We Like War. Perhaps the two best things that the United States excels at today is making weapons and using those weapons to bombs countries, as Carlin points out, that contain brown skinned people. The one slim hope is that the soldiers in the military today will emulate their colleagues from forty or so years ago by taking part in another GI rebellion. It is long past the point that military personnel realize that Iraqis and Afghanis, like the Vietnamese, have never threatened or harmed anyone in these United States. It would appear that by employing such a belligerent foreign policy, the United States will soon have, outside of Israel, no other countries that it can claim as its allies.
PUMA founded by Republicans.
RE: Sally Quinn.
ANYTHING that gets Bill Donohue red in the face is OK by me. Can't wait to read he died of a heart attack in mid-rant.
Check out what After Downing street is doing on the 4th of July
Bush at Monticello on the 4th of July
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/
Iranians Float an Offer the West Should Not Refuse
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34434
And here is how Aipac is spinning the situation with Iran
http://www.aipac.org/
CALL E MAIL YOUR CONGRESSPEOPLE TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON H CON RESOLUTION 362
IF THEY HAVE ALL READY BEEN PRESSURED TO CO-SPONSOR THIS WARMONGERING LEGISLATION TELL THEM TO TAKE THEIR NAMES OFF THE LIST
READ H CON RESOLUTION 362
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.CON.RES.362:
ask them why they are ignoring the findings of the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran?
Debunking The Iran War Resolution
By August Wagele
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20199.htm
BaScOmBe hearts Lara Logan @ 17:
No offense, nothing personal, but you don't know what you're talking about. Present day Israel is more than 70% Zionist, just look at polls regarding settlement expansion. The Post Zionist movement in Israel is a recent phenomenon and a small minority.
xoites defends Constituion @ 19:
The Catholic hierarchy was against Iraq and Afghanistan from the beginning. The Protestant churches remained silent. It's like in Nazi Germany where the only people that dared to speak up from the pulpit were more often Catholic then Protestant.
Catholicism has its share of problems, but the hierarchy has opposed Iraq and Afghanistan while many Protestant churches not only were not silent, but actively supported slaughter.
General_Rennenkampf @ 2:
and Syria, dont forget their mutual defense pact.
Obama Opens Pandora's Box
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