Professor-rat's Blurty

Au's involvement in war crimes
It would be useful for Australia to investigate SAS and regular army involvement in war crimes in SW Asia.
The ones known of so far include illegal wheat trading, illegal aggressive war by the SAS and covering up torture*. Better we do it now than others do it for us later.

McClatchy - '...The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.

"We may need to curb the harsher operations while ICRC is around. It is better not to expose them to any controversial techniques," Lt. Col. Diane Beaver, a military lawyer who's since retired, said during an October 2002 meeting at the Guantanamo Bay prison to discuss employing interrogation techniques that some have equated with torture. Her comments were recorded in minutes of the meeting that were made public Tuesday. At that same meeting, Beaver also appeared to confirm that U.S. officials at another detention facility — Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan — were using sleep deprivation to "break" detainees well before then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved that technique. "True, but officially it is not happening," she is quoted as having said.
A third person at the meeting, Jonathan Fredman, the chief counsel for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, disclosed that detainees were moved routinely to avoid the scrutiny of the ICRC, which keeps tabs on prisoners in conflicts around the world...'

* AWB scandal. SAS broke final ultimatum of two weeks. Major George O'Kane Au army is alleged to have covered up torture, rape and murder at Abu Graib.

Roilling cover-up
'...One other thing, and may be tricky to say this and I’ll say it. When we went to war with Iraq, he and I had a little discussion about that and this is where he is every man. This is where Tim is Mr. or Miss America or Mrs. America. He is us as a country. I said, why—how can you believe this war is justified? And he said, “The nuclear thing. If they have a bomb that they can use, we’ve got to deal with. We can’t walk away from that.”

And that to me was the essence of what was wrong with the whole case of the war. They knew the argument that would sell with Mr. America, with the regular guy, with the true American patriot. They used the argument that would sell, that would get us into that war. Tim was right on the nail. He was us, the American people. And that to me is something that has been coming in my head the last couple of hours when Tim and I had that conversation, that that was the thing that sold America. And the guys who wanted the war used that one thing that would sell the patriot in Tim Russert...' - Chris 'Tweety' Matthews

This comment went down the memory hole for a while which is very telling if it was purposeful. The cons are freaked out by any nuke big-lie exposure. The cons in power and the cons in the media. MORE @

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - Letting It Slip by digby

Fascist paraphernalia banned
Lithuania's parliament has passed the toughest restrictions anywhere in the former Soviet Union on the public display of Soviet and Nazi symbols.
It will now be an offence in the Baltic state to display the images of Soviet and Nazi leaders.
This includes flags, emblems and badges carrying insignia, such as the hammer and sickle or swastika.
Correspondents say equating Soviet and Nazi symbols in this way is certain to infuriate Russia.
The new law also prohibits the Nazi and Soviet national anthems but does not specify if this extends to the modern-day Russian national anthem, which uses the Soviet music with different lyrics.
BBC Russian affairs analyst Steven Eke says these are the toughest bans on symbols from the Soviet past adopted in any of the 15 countries that emerged from the USSR.
'Blasphemous'
The measures go further than neighbouring Estonia's ban on Soviet symbols, he says.
Estonia's decision to put the swastika and hammer and sickle on an equally prohibited footing was described by Russia as "blasphemous", and an attempt to rewrite history.
Moscow's official interpretation of history is that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were liberated from Nazi Germany by, then voluntarily joined, the Soviet Union.
This account is rejected by those three Baltic States and most other European nations, says our correspondent.
They believe the Soviet Union illegally occupied the Baltic republics as a result of a secret agreement - the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact - between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
The occupation continued until the collapse of the Soviet state itself at the end of 1991. - BBC

I'd like this immediately extended throughout the entire free world...communities have a right to self defense against all known fascist enemies. Canada, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and India all have laws or have signed international conventions banning hate speech. Israel and France forbid the sale of Nazi items like swastikas and flags. It is a crime to deny the Holocaust in Canada, Germany and France. Faster please.

DSP reformists outflanked by anglicans
Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, supported that point earlier this year when he said that it is “unavoidable” that Britain will ultimately have to incorporate some elements of sharia into its law in the spirit of “constructive accommodation.”
The Church also continues to campaign strongly in defence of the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions, against imperialist war, in defence of the environment, for union rights, indigenous rights and gay rights, for the right of oppressed nations to self-determination, etc.

Scientologists in the State Department!
Alan Carlin, senior economist with the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, says bluntly that conventional approaches to global warming will almost certainly fail, "quite possibly, disastrously." These centralized control techniques, he says, are based almost exclusively on the global rationing of fossil fuels, a mechanism that dooms "de-carbonization" to failure. "Humans have advanced as much as they have," he says, "because, in no small part, they have used fossil fuel energy to provide services that once depended on animal and muscle power. The way forward is not to turn back."
"[Carbon] emission reductions will be ... technically risky, inflexible, extremely expensive and politically unrealistic," Mr. Carlin says. "They will probably delay more effective, and vastly less expensive, measures.
"This suggests the awful possibility that very large amounts of money may be spent in a futile attempt to reduce GHG emissions at the same time that all of the possible adverse economic consequences of climate change are realized."
Mr. Carlin argues that no global warming of any kind has taken place in the past decade and that the world needs to deploy climate change control mechanisms that can deal, on short notice, with different degrees of either global warming or global cooling.
The real problem, Mr. Carlin says, isn't carbon, per se. "When the Earth is warming, it is receiving more radiation energy than it is losing, which is the basic cause of increasing global temperatures," he says. "If not corrected, either by man or by nature, the climate system may get out of control - with unknown, but possibly catastrophic, consequences. The actual solution is to bring Earth's radiation balance into equilibrium."
He advocates solar radiation management (SRM), a geo-engineering solution that would mimic volcanoes - but without the destruction.

Here come de Judge
US Federal Judge Alex Kozinski last week declared a mistrial in an obscenity trial over which he was presiding.
The now-blocked material on the Web site included a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows, and a video of a man being chased by a sexually aroused donkey.

The Times said the site included images of masturbation, and a slide show featuring a striptease by a transsexual. In covering a few trials, including my own, I've often suggested that many judges appeared to be masturbating behind the bench.
Sometimes you can hear the knocking of their little 'gavels'.

The Liberal fascism of Lisa Schiffren
'...Like others, I have received my share of fairly vicious anti-Semitic mail. The most entertaining recent actually made the point that Barack Obama's mother's family was really Jewish. No, really, look at his mother —especially when she was old and heavier. She looked just like many of the Jewish women the writer knew out in the valley, around L.A. . . . Of course Stanley Ann Dunham's family claimed to be Protestant — just as so many social climbing Jews do. (Whatever one thinks of Obama's mother — social climbing just doesn't come to mind.) This mattered to the reader. Why? Because Jews control the hedge funds, of course. So I guess that actually was a racial slur — calling Obama a Jew and all...' - Lisa Schiffren

Lisa used to work for Vice President Dan Quayle. Now she works with Jonah Goldberg. No really...look at his mother.

Their Morals and ours
This is actually kinda, sorta funny in a very sick, very dark way

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/riddell170608.html

From Marx to Morales: Indigenous Socialism and the Latin Americanization of Marxism
by John Riddell

I just read this once but didn't see any mention of the 600 ton Maoist gorilla in the room.
Marxists must take us all for idiots. Even if he mentions Mao the rest is riddled with lies.
I'm sure Pope Proyect will enjoy having his ring kissed though.
Marxism is a response to deep social crisis, that bases itself on the petty bourgeoisie of town and country, and relies heavily on a cult of violence. The main victims of red-fascism over the last 90 years have been peasants. These petty-bourgeois self-described leaders of the working-class still hate and fear the peasantry to this day.

Police - army thread
jeremytrewindixon
Posts: 107 Joined: 06-03-07 Location: Australia,Melbourne.
17 June, 2008 - 01:08

There is a knot that has to be untangled here, breaking up drunken fights and tracking down serial killers etc are necessary tasks in any society. The classic anarchist answer is that these tasks are in fact so obviously necessary that any community capable of overthrowing the state in the first place would be able to perform the comparatively minor task of ensuring security without a machinery being set up for the purpose.

But maybe not. Maybe professional security workers would be needed. The crucial difference between such people and a police force is that anarchist security workers would rely on the armed population for back-up while police rely on the army. The anarchist security workers hold their power from the people, police hold it over the people. Remember that the British police force was created after the Peterloo massacre to create a professional body to control civil disturbances, not for crime control. While the Australian police was based on the Royal Ulster Constabulary, an openly repressive force....the traditional anarchist call to "abolish the police" was directed agaisnt such bodies rather than the older system of JPs backed up in minor matters by a constable or two and by the militia in major ones. The problem with the older system was its class character not the machinery itself and I would imagine an anarchist security apparatus would be a democratised variation of it.
The army itself is a different story. A mass army whether based on conscription or not is a sharply class-differentiated body and in a crisis it is likely to split on class lines. A small elite army like the Australian is a different matter. In either case people become soldiers for different reasons than they become police. - FROM

http://libcom.org/forums/theory/why-double-standard-16062008

Democratised variation imo is a) assassination politics Jim Bell style. Voluntary, distributed and anarchic to the core. Fuck the army.

Viami Mice
Florida Retiring McCain?

Nate at FiveThirtyEight has a good analysis of the broad swath of recent polls and particularly these polls out this morning from Quinnipiac showing Barack Obama with leads in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. It's only one poll. But this is the first poll that has shown Obama ahead in Florida against either McCain or Clinton. Most models for an Obama win don't include Florida, though Obama's campaign certainly seem intent on contesting it. But that's McCain's firewall. If he can't win Florida, the electoral map starts to look very bleak. Even having to fight for it would put McCain in a hole.

--Josh Marshall - TPM

I'd like to have a good chuckle over this but its time for my nap.

Bush leaked on Scotty-dog
GOP Insiders Fret About What Former White House Spokesman Will Say
Ex-Press Secretary Scott McClellan is scheduled to testify before House panel on Friday
Posted June 18, 2008
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, scheduled for Friday, has some Republican insiders worried.
McClellan is expected to talk about his charges—made in his new book and in media interviews—that President Bush ordered the 2003 leak of portions of a classified intelligence document in order to discredit Iraq war critics. The committee members are also expected to quiz McClellan about the inner workings of the White House and what McClellan calls Bush's lack of candor about the need for the Iraq invasion.
White House officials are trying to play down the hearing. Spokesman Tony Fratto told the Wall Street Journal that "congressional Democrats will look for any bright, shiny object to divert attention from their embarrassing lack of accomplishment over the past two years."

Worlds largest bureacracy
Creates alternate reality

'...The Removal of Clothing Does Not Lead to Nudity
By: emptywheel
'...That's a claim that Jim "Chevron" Haynes made yesterday in the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on torture yesterday. In a pathetic attempt to claim that his own 2-page (with zero footnotes) recommendation and Rummy's subsequent authorization of a number of techniques--including the use of fear and the removal of clothing--did not lead to the horrors of Abu Ghraib, Haynes actually claimed that the removal of clothing was in some way qualitatively different than nudity. ..' Firedoglake

Who needs a giant particle collider to create a mini black-hole when you've got the pentagon?

More Infoshop garbage
Todays exhibit a) The failure to come to terms with a large reason for the riots and murders in South Africa recently.
The elephant in this room is the Marxist Robert Mugabe. Anarchists will always be regarded as running-dogs of red-fascism if they can't even deal with simple realities like this.
example b) The use of the term ' anarchist-communist'. Not only is this a stupid redundancy
(like ' anarchist-socialist'), it also insults the tens of millions of innocent men, women and children murdered by communists in the last 90 years.
c) Continued and ongoing global warming holocaust denial. This is bleeding and leaching out all the slowly accumulated street cred this lamer loser leftist site once had. Anarchists need and deserve a good aggregation site that is a ' Big Tent' without the animal cruelty and the freaks in sideshow alley.

Water torture
Denis Warner was reporting this as a scandal bubbling up under the Diem regime. Much of the escalation following Diem's and Kennedy's assassinations could conceivably be seen as a giant cover-up.
By piling atrocity on atrocity the public eventually got compassion fatigue. Anyway waterboarding is water torture as practiced by US stooges in Vietnam.

Consortium news - The Bush administration built a legal framework – relying on semantics and secrecy – to subject detainees at Guantanamo Bay to brutal interrogation techniques and then to hide the reality from human rights observers, according to internal government documents.
The documents, made public by the Senate Armed Services Committee, undercut assertions by President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior administration officials who have blamed cruel treatment of detainees on "a few bad apples" who acted on their own.
Instead, the documents show that the pattern of humiliation, abuse and even torture inflicted on detainees was a deliberate policy of the Bush administration – debated by mid-level lawyers at the CIA and the Pentagon, given legal cover at the Justice Department and approved at the highest levels of government.

According to one document, Jonathan Fredman, chief counsel to the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, discussed with U.S. military officials how interrogators could use the “wet towel” technique, also known as waterboarding, against detainees to extract information.

“It can feel like you’re drowning. The lymphatic system will react as if you’re suffocating, but your body will not cease to function,” Fredman said on Oct. 2, 2002, during a meeting where specific techniques were reviewed and debated, according to the meeting minutes.

Fredman added that the “wet towel” technique would only be defined as torture “if the detainee dies.”

“It is basically subject to perception,” Fredman said. “If the detainee dies you’re doing it wrong.” MORE

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/061808a.html

Rubbish bin laden
23/6 - '...At a press conference In March 2002, President Bush said the following about Osama bin Laden:

So I don't know where he is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him.... I truly am not that concerned about him.

However, according to recent news reports, Bush has tapped British special forces to help capture bin Laden, a feat that would surely help legitimize Bush's legacy (in his own mind).

A senior American intelligence source went on to say:

If [Bush] can say he has killed Saddam Hussein and captured bin Laden, he can claim to have left the world a safer place.

We were just pretty surprised to note from that White House press conference one of the few instances during almost eight years of nonstop lying where Bush actually told the truth. Of course, from our perspective, Bush is already going to make the world a safer place on January 20, 2009. By leaving office.'

Quick! Someone call Anthony Main
People are acting like communists again...

In the second incident of its kind during the last two weeks, a group of about 20 people walked into two supermarkets in the central Athens district of Aghios Panteleimonas, stole food and then distributed it at an open-air fruit and vegetable market.
Police said that the youths entered the Dia and Veropoulos supermarkets pretending to be regular customers. They gathered various food items and walked out without paying. The suspects disappeared after leaving their loot at the market.
There was a similar incident at a supermarket in Exarchia, central Athens, earlier this month. The looters also gave away food to people at an open-air market then.
Although not claimed by any group, the acts are seen as protests at high prices by self-styled anarchists.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100018_17/06/2008_97729

I don't think we're actually supposed to...you know...do without money and stuff till the Marxist high command tell us its okay.

Primeval communism
Isn't it wonderful what far-out hippies all the Marxists are these days? The Latin American turn is proof positive of this. Cuba's rapidly becoming a virtual Thunderdome of recycling, entrepreneurship and sex-tourism.
Peru stands ready to roll out a new Inca federation to more than match all the ultra-left vanguardism of Islam.
Venezuela's oil communism more than matches Hawala; while a little usury never hurt anyone when yr selling oil to China. Besides baby, who the fuck needs attacks on the pentagon!? Its worse than just being bad for business man...its bad vibes dude. Peace.

Case closed
Done deal

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said the legal advice about brutal interrogation methods will "go down in history as some of the most irresponsible and shortsighted legal analysis ever provided to our nation's military and intelligence community."
Then Doug Feith has reaffirmed his view that the intelligence on Iraq stunk.
Combine this with FEMA, Bear Sterns, Plamegate, Torture and well...lets just leave the Gipper with the last word

'In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; ...government is the problem.'

And then lets see the democrat party try and weasel out of that! Hasta la vista Amerikkka!

Asleep at the switch
Bob Woodward, Sponsored by Citibank (by Ken Silverstein, Harper’s)
Asked about journalists hitting the lecture circuit, like Sam Donaldson, George Will and Cokie Roberts, [Bob] 'Handful of dust' Woodward said: “I don’t think it helps their reputation.”… But based on what I’ve found, Woodward has given dozens of speeches over the past five years… In his 1996 Frontline interview, Woodward said he gave all of his lecture money to charity, the charity in question being a foundation run by him and his wife, the Woodward Walsh Foundation… Yet the foundation doesn’t seem to do much genuine charitable work… Over recent years more than half of the foundation’s money went to Sidwell Friends, one of the richest private schools in Washington (with a reported endowment of over $30 million) that caters primarily to the children of the local elite (like Woodward’s children). Meanwhile, the foundation has also supported needy causes like “Citizens for Georgetown Trees,” which prettifies Woodward’s neighborhood.
There’s been at least one charge, though I haven’t been able to find a link, that Woodward’s “foundation” was a way for him to pay for his kids’ schooling with untaxed money.

A deafening silence
So far on Sharia from the Marxist brains trust ( apart from battling for the veil)

Blackwater Brings Sharia Law to America!
I know various wingnuts go on about how Muslims or various left-wing freaks are going to bring Sharia law to America and make us into an Islamist theocracy. But I think we may have the first case of a defendant actually asking a US federal judge to apply Sharia law, not American law, to a case.

And defendant is Blackwater.

--Josh Marshall

This might wake them from their snoring slumber...but I won't hold my breath. Basically Marxism and Islam agree on the issue of mass slavery. They both approve.

Democrat party version of the FU
The FU is the infamous and unholy Friedman unit of six months popularized by the excreble fascist Zionazi, Thomas Friedman. So whats up with the democrat party taking up this ' Zeno's paradox'?
The netroots are continually told to keep their powder dry. The next election will fix it blah, blah, blah. Yadaa, yadaa, yadaa.
Yeah Right.
I think we heard this before and it didn't. The Au example hardly inspires confidence. Our local version of the craven Vichy scum have all the state and territory governments - the highest ranked conservative is a lord mayor somewhere. Yet they continue on with discredited Tory policy and suck up to totalitarian states like the US and red-fascist China. And at the same time they're exhibiting some of the worst work habits of any Marxist-micro-managerial, Fabian social fascist that ever breathed like a lizard and hauled their greasy carcass up on dry land. This situation sucks. Real change is the mirage they dangle ahead of any rube jackass stupid enough to haul loads for them.
So whats the answer?
Its shaping up already. Drive them into the same ditch we just drove the cons into. No one loves them. No one even likes them. So no one will miss them. We can run every major decision that crops up from now on past the direct democracy that is us online. Fuck all the governments. Fuck every individual statist even. We deserve far better than this shit.

The prostitute letters
From Jimmy Guckert to Jane Hamsher

'...Jane:
Didn't you hear? I've been a member of the National Press Club for over two years and serve on two committees, Newsmakers and New Media.
There is no mystery about becoming the first exclusively online reporter to cover the White House on a daily basis for over two years. I even wrote abook about it: "The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report"
www.thegreatmediawar.com
Grow up and stop the defamation.
Cheers,
Jeff Gannon...' - FDL

Don't call them presstitutes...thats just bad english.

Death to spies
Strange Bedfellows Unite to Fight FISA Deal (6/18/2008)
Contact: (202) 675-2312, media@dcaclu.org

Washington, DC -- A sham spying deal could be rammed through both the Senate and House this week. It’s moving that fast. If we don’t stop this, telecom companies that broke the law by supplying mountains of personal information to the government without a warrant will be let off the hook.
A broad alliance of strange bedfellows is now forming to support a campaign to fight the gutting of FISA (The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) with the intent to work together on all civil liberties, constitutional rights and rule of law issues.
The ACLU is joining with activists from the Ron Paul campaign, represented by Break the Matrix, Rick Williams and Trevor Lymon, and civil liberties writer Glenn Greenwald of Salon, and leading liberal bloggers including, Jane Hamsher of firedoglake, Matt Stoller of Open Left, John Amato of Crooks and Liars, Howie Klein of Down with Tyranny, Digby, Josh Nelson of The Seminal and activist Josh Koster to tell Congress that we will not let them ignore the Constitution or give immunity to telecoms which deliberately broke our laws for years.

This group of Strange Bedfellows is mobilizing a broad-based left-right coalition of office holders and candidates, public interest groups and individuals who are devoted to preserving basic constitutional liberties to join in the fight. The goal is to work together to impede the corrupt FISA/telecom amnesty deal.
Glenn Greenwald said, "The Beltway establishment has made clear that they support the Bush administration's assault on our basic constitutional protections and the rule of law. Constitutional rights and the rule of law are not liberal or conservative principles. They're American principles, and this broad-based alliance is devoted to defending them from the bipartisan political class that wants to trample upon them."
Lust for freedom can lead to some pretty strange bedfellows
For more information:
http://thestrangebedfellows.com
http://www.breakthematrix.com/node/10780
http://fearistyranny.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/breaking-the-matrix/
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/06/17/hoyer/index.html
http://www.theseminal.com/2008/06/18/say-no-to-fisa-compromises/
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/06/jaccuse-steny-hoyer-has-betrayer.html
https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=975&page=UserAction
http://www.aclu.org/fisa
END
War crimes are ongoing - Torture is ongoing - the cover-up of the Supreme Crime is ongoing.
Don't be caught collaborating or you'll be lucky just to have yr head shaved.
Death. To. Spies.

When every cop is a criminal
So much for all those ' broken windows' theories of micro-policing

Top Pentagon Officials Developed Brutal Interrogation Methods at Guantanamo (The Public Record)
Top Pentagon officials developed the harsh interrogation methods used against detainees at Guantanamo less than a month before the Justice Department issued two now repudiated memorandums that gave interrogators legal cover to employ the tactics, according to documents released Tuesday by the Senate Armed Services Committee. The documents undercut assertions by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and other senior administration officials that the brutal interrogations were the result of “a few bad apples” who acted on their own accord.

MAKE THEM ACCOUNTABLE

Everything you do or allow or enable may be taken down and used against you and yr families. Go and get an honest job sucka.

Corpse media rapid icecap melt
'...Kos has thrown down the gauntlet on behalf of us smaller fish. “Lots of blogs are calling for boycotts of AP content. Not me. I’m going to keep using it. I will copy and paste as many words as I feel necessary to make my points and that I feel are within bounds of copyright law (and remember, I’ve got a JD and specialized in media law, so I know the rules pretty well). And I will keep doing so if I get an AP takedown notice (which I will make a big public show of ignoring). And then, either the AP — an organization famous for taking its members work without credit — will either back down and shut the hell up, or we’ll have a judge resolve the easiest question of law in the history of copyright jurisprudence...' - extract from MTA

Hey they're old, we're young and thats life

Bi-polar bears seen swimming away
Obama, McCain, and Gershon agree: The press needs to get off the stage (by Eric Boehlert at Media Matters)
Two hopeful sparks were visible from the campaign trail last week that suggested there is growing support for the idea of pushing the press off the stage and letting voters get on with the important business of picking the next president… [B]oth campaigns insisted that any citizen-based town hall event had to be open to all television outlets, as well as be seen on the Internet, and not be sponsored or organized by a single news organization. More important, the campaigns stressed that the town hall meeting would not be moderated by the press.The other refreshing forum being proposed for the general election is a Lincoln/Douglas-style event, which would also let the candidates address voters unfiltered and keep journalists on the sidelines, where they belong. - MTA

The GOP and the Moronic Inferno, Military-Entertainment complex MSM are chained and handcuffed together and are now being chased across rough country by bloodhounds. Good hunting. Lock and load.

A bear of little brain
Winnie the Pooh, Luke Skywalker and British football hooligans could shape the foreign policy of Barack Obama if he becomes US President, according to a key adviser.
Richard Danzig, who served as Navy Secretary under President Clinton and is tipped to become National Security Adviser in an Obama White House, told a major foreign policy conference in Washington that the future of US strategy in the war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh, which can be shortened to: if it is causing you too much pain, try something else.
Mr Danzig told the Centre for New American Security: “Winnie the Pooh seems to me to be a fundamental text on national security.”
He spelt out how American troops, spies and anti-terrorist officials could learn key lessons by understanding the desire of terrorists to emulate superheroes like Luke Skywalker, and the lust for violence of violent football fans.
Mr Obama’s candidacy was given an early boost by his opposition to the Iraq war and he has repeatedly said the US needs to rethink its approach to the Middle East.
Mr Danzig spelt out the need to change by reading a paragraph from chapter one of the children’s classic, which says: “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming down stairs. But sometimes he thinks there really is another way if only he could stop bumping a minute and think about it.”
Mr Obama’s approach will be popular in Europe, where President George W. Bush has spent the week on a farewell tour, arriving in Britain yesterday for meetings with the Queen and Gordon Brown.
In a subtle break from Mr Bush’s belief that the war on terror can be won, Mr Danzig, who is a Pentagon adviser on bioterrorism, warned that while the West can defeat individual terrorist groups and plots, it can never entirely remove the threat posed by nuclear proliferation or the prospect of bioterrorism.

In a briefing which will inform Mr Obama’s understanding of terrorists, Mr Danzig said he learnt much from recent interviews with jailed Aum Shinrikyo terrorists who released sarin nerve gas on the Tokyo underground in 1995.
He said that even people who are relatively well off and successful can feel like failures and become alientated from their societies. He said one terrorist told him: “We have been raised on a theory of superheroes. We all want to be like Luke Skywalker.
"When we’re doing mundane things, we lose track of our ambition but when someone comes along, like Asahara, the head of the cult, and presents himself as a messiah and gives us a picture of progress that is ordained by heaven and that we are carrying out a saintly mission on earth that is for us extraordinarily evocative.”
Mr Danzig added: “The parallels with al Qaeda are obvious.” ( Not to mention the DSP - pr)
He said that another lesson about terrorists can be learnt from studying violent football fans. “One of the best books I’ve read on terrorism in recent years was not about terrorism at all,” he said. “It’s Bill Buford’s book Among the Thugs, which is a description of soccer violence in Britain.
“Buford became absorbed by soccer violence. He describes the most appalling examples of soccer violence by fans against fans. But he describes with relentless honesty how he finds sickening things attractive. He says violence lets the adrenaline flow; it’s like sex, you live in the moment.”
Story from Telegraph News:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2139573/
Barack-Obama-aide-Why-Winnie-the-Pooh-should-shape-US-foreign-policy.html

Call to Action
Cynthia McKinney’s Call to Action in Support of Dennis Kucinich’s Articles of Impeachment Against Bush (Black Agenda Report)
Cynthia McKinney, who submitted articles of impeachment against George Bush in 2006, just before she left Congress, praises Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) for filing impeachment charges last week. McKinney, running for the Green Party’s presidential nomination, commended Kucinich “for his courage and tenacity, for the comprehensiveness of his research, and for the leadership he exhibited to press forward the democratic demands of the People for accountability and justice.” Describing the Bush administration as a “lawless, degenerate regime,” McKinney called upon “all the forces of the Black movement nationwide…to organize a mass mobilization to push the House Judiciary Committee to move on the 35 Articles of Impeachment.”
If you’re looking for an alternative to Obama or McCain, there are several third parties. - MTA

Cyd Charisse - dynamite lady - RIP

Counseling at the RAT
The RAT Institute is pleased and proud to announce a suite of exciting new counseling services.
For highly competitive rates customers will learn how to control and release their aggression by torturing lab rats. At an intermediate level we move on up to teenage runaways. Then prior to certification you will learn exciting new killing methods by shooting, stabbing, slicing and smothering. The serial killer who mixes up their MO is rarely caught unless they want to be. ( Henry Lee)

Don't just stand there - kill someone

Forensic psychology
CSI Is World’s Most Popular TV Show
CSI is officially the most popular TV show on the planet. According to a new study, nearly 84 million viewers around the globe watched the CBS crime drama in 2007. It beat out its sequel, CSI: Miami and House, according to the ratings firm Eurodata, which ranks shows by their worldwide ratings - MTA

Forensics is not going to go away - in fact its going to become hived off from the Keystone Kops and establish itself as a major industry financed off the web. As we move to the new netbased law enforcement paradigm it will become almost impossible to catch professional assassins playing the prediction markets. An extremely high bar will be set for crime scene analysis and trace analysis. No community can feel safe knowing professional killers are at work among them and those who kill must be neutralized in some way where-ever possible. This will be a Brinworld in some ways but the overall attrition rate should be much less than it is and the major focus of the surveillance will shift increasingly to the power elite.

Imagine theres no police force - easy if you try...

Less popular than BUSH!?
Democrats to back down on Iraq war conditions
Democrats in the Congress, who came to power last year on a call to end the combat in Iraq, will soon give President George W. Bush the last war-funding bill of his presidency without any of the conditions they sought for withdrawing U.S. troops, congressional aides said on Monday. Lawmakers are arranging to send Bush $165 billion in new money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, enough to last for about a year and well beyond when Bush leaves office on January 20. With this bill, Congress will have written checks for more than $800 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with most of the money going to Iraq. - MTA

Oh I see why

Phone companies
One company stood up against the STASI state and they could be rewarded by us. The others who caved can be punished. This can range from further anti-trust actions, shareholder activism, boycotts, and all that trad legal stuff. Then as these scummy criminals acted illegally this also frees up our illegal first responders.
Here the range of direct action tactics is almost limitless*. I like ordering stuff off them and reneging, but other options range all the way up to IED's for their broadcast trucks to truck-bombs in their corporate HQs.

Release the cockroaches

* Sear the CIA manual for Nicaragua for plenty of quick and dirty ideas.

Infoshop weather report
Sodden, wet blanket, pissing, persistent drizzle inside the bit top from the reverend

NOAA: New Orleans at risk from Cat. 2 hurricane
Despite a massive effort to repair and upgrade flood defenses since Hurricane Katrina, storm surge could pour over levees in New Orleans if a strong Category 2 or higher hurricane strikes the city, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday. - MTA

Barry the Nancy boy
Barry is limp-wristed, prancing, mincing queer who loves it up the rear...and thats just his good points

Pelosi Promises Dem Capitulation By The Fourth On FISA (by Big Tent Democrat at TalkLeft)
“Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she wants the [FISA] matter settled before Congress breaks for Independence Day at the end of next week, suggesting she is ready to bring the issue to a head. ‘We want to pass a bill that will be signed by the president,’ she said. ‘And that will happen before we leave for the Fourth of July.”… How bad a Speaker has Nancy Pelosi been? Even now she craves the chance to cave in to the most unpopular President in history. Just unbelievable.
Where is Obama on this? Now that he owns the Democratic Party, he could stop it. Why doesn’t he? - MTA

Its a Belgium thing
If you think old Pumice-stone was an agent of the Okhrana you wouldn't understand

The Web Time Forgot
In 1934, [Belgian Paul] Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which might be translated as “network” — or arguably, “web.” - MTA

I didn't mean to hurt you...
...I'm just a jealous guy

'...Who could have predicted -- Larry Sinclair, the guy who had a 27 year criminal record, was arrested at the Press Club today after his press conference:

At quick trip over to Larry Sinclair’s blog found his supporters bewildered as to why Sinclair was arrested. Some mentioned that perhaps they “should raise money for Larry’s bail” while others assumed “Obama” was behind the arrest in order to “silence” Larry from telling the “truth”.

Yeah. That's probably it. Nothing to do with outstanding warrants or anything...' FIREDOGLAKE

Outstanding. Blogs look like readily taking up the AP redhotmilitary whore slack. Even Indy-fucking-media could do that much. Soft bigotry eat yr heart out out.

Jack be nimble
THE END GAME IN IRAQ....Lt. Col. David Kilcullen, a retired Australian army officer who has worked closely with Gen. David Petraeus, believes it's important for the United States to get out of Iraq. "Our large-scale presence, although essential for current stability, also creates an angry reaction," he told David Ignatius this week, "and therefore can't be a permanent solution. We need to focus on what General Petraeus has called 'sustainable security.' " The key to this, he says, is drawing down to a small, nimble residual force:

The continuing U.S. presence in Iraq will depend on Special Operations forces — both the "black" SOF that will hunt terrorists and the "white" SOF that will train and fight alongside the Iraqis. We will also need a strong intelligence presence. As uniformed troops decline, the need for CIA paramilitary forces and case officers will increase.

Well look how well Vietnamization worked out. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Cheney in the library with the candlestick.

Kevin Drum is an offensive moron
DRUM - 'German and American intelligence were simply too invested in believing him ( Curveball) to root out the obvious holes in his tall tales'.

DJ - I feel this is unfair to American Intelligence Agencies such as the CIA, who were quite upfront, as I recall in dismissing both Chalabi and Curveball as unreliable sources.
The fact is that Bush and Cheney and their minions such as Doug Feith were too invested in believing him. Not "U.S. Intelligence agencies". Probably not German ones, either.
Posted by: Doctor Jay

Well the German government ( 'Old Europe') was certainly having none of it.
This is so stupid of you Drum it amounts to criminal negligence. Bloggers/ commentators have minimal standards dickhead. I'm very proud of being censored off yr piece or shit 'blog' last year.
Drum you suck serious ass - go die.

Can I get at a witness?
AS the nation awoke to a new Prime Minister on Sunday, November 25, 2007, 30 officers and sniffer dogs raided Sydney nightclubs
On a morning stroll through Sydney's sunrise nightspot Taylor Square, I witnessed the operation, part of NSW Police's Operation Gilligans, and, as editor of the independent weekly The City News, envisaged it as the lead story in the next edition.
During the next half hour I became the first journalist to be arrested under "moving along" legislation, in a case that was withdrawn by police six months later, one week before it was to be tested in the courts.
As drug dogs sniffed their way to evidence that led to six possession charges, I attempted to obtain entry to the raided clubs - Arq nightclub and the Courthouse, Taylor Square and Oxford hotels - at about 8am.
Entry was denied (security staff were enforcing lockouts) and my investigation was limited to interviewing police officers.

At 8.30am, the situation became tense. I was conversing with local artist Matthew Clugston, who protested against police treatment of a teenager who didn't possess drugs but was stripped down to his jeans and forced on to his knees outside the Courthouse Hotel.

"Don't stuff him in the corner like a dog. He's being lucid and co-operative," Clugston said.

We were warned off Taylor Square. I co-operated, moving 100m to the west while continuing to watch Clugston's protest.

He was thrown against the wall of the Courthouse Hotel, suffering head wounds and abrasions to his shoulder, then handcuffed and hustled into a police vehicle.

Ten minutes later I started to walk back to my residence at Bondi and, as I passed Taylor Square, said to the police officers: "Read all about it."

I was subsequently accosted by six police officers, who surrounded and interrogated me. I refused to talk, fearing arrest.

They asked for identification and I produced a bank keycard and a business card, identifying myself as a journalist. (By this stage some officers were already aware of this.)

Minutes later, for the first time in my career as a journalist (spanning Burma, China and Indonesia) I was placed under arrest. They put me in a police wagon and took me to the Surry Hills police station.

I was released from the cell four hours later and presented with a court summons to appear at the Downing Centre Local Court on December 17.

The next day, after writing the story from my editor's desk 1km from the alleged crime, I learned I was the first journalist to be arrested under the move-along powers.

NSW Council of Civil Liberties president Cameron Murphy said: "We've had a number of complaints from journalists over the last four years where sniffer dogs are involved.

"Often they are waved off the area when taking notes and photos. There have been instances where photos have been deleted."

The City News hit the streets that week, leading with "Taylor Square drug raids", and also featuring "Moving right along" (about the arrest of Clugston, who had been issued with an infringement notice of $300) and "Police arrest journalist".

On December 17, the week that lawyers for The Chaser's War on Everything were applying for the withdrawal of police charges under the APEC powers , I told the court: "I will make a formal application to the prosecution to withdraw the charge based on the freedom of media being a fundamental principle in our democracy." The case was adjourned to February 8.

The Redfern Legal Centre, long-time campaigners against sniffer dog and move-along powers, said the directive was illegal and advised a plea of not guilty. Under the relevant law, the police case would rest on proving I had obstructed people or traffic.

The coverage of my case in The City News had aroused local interest. I was represented pro bono by Phillip Roberts and, when police refused to withdraw charges on February 8, I pleaded not guilty and the case was set down for hearing on May 2.

By this time I had left The City News and had travelled to Bali, where I was reporting on the Bali nine for Brisbane newspaper The Courier-Mail.

Another local barrister, Nic Angelov, was also willing to represent me pro bono.

Shannon Murphy, the director of Belvoir St Theatre's production My Name is Rachel Corrie, had witnessed my arrest and was willing to contradict police slander that I was under the influence of substances.

Theatre producer and actor Patrick Brooker was also ready to testify I was returning to his leasehold at Bondi, where I lived. Victory, Angelov and I thought, was imminent.

Angelov said: "This incident was a complete abuse of the police's move-on power.

"The idea that police can use these powers on nosy journalists is a disturbing infringement on the operations of a free press, not to mention a gross infringement of Mr Khoury's liberty."

But the case would not be heard. A week before the hearing, I received a phone call from Constable Galea of Kings Cross police, saying the main witness, Sergeant Sullivan, had left the force for personal reasons and was in Western Australia. His return was not worth it, he said. The case was being withdrawn.

In any event, an acquittal would have been worthless: I had been charged under 2002 legislation, so any precedent would have been superseded by new laws introduced in December 2007.
Those amendments increased police powers, giving police more discretion in determining whether people should be moved along, based on whether they might be violent, and emergency provisions passed during the Cronulla riots under the riot act were made permanent.
NSW Police Minister David Campbell says: "The Iemma Government is backing the NSW Police Force with greater powers to crack down. People need to feel safe when walking the streets at night, without fear of being hassled and intimidated."

Matt Khoury is a Sydney-based freelance journalist.

Arrested for witnessing a police raid

Exit Bushie
JULY 19 2008 - It was a party - the biggest event that the sultry little capital of Empire had seen since the dictator, president George Dubya, was overthrown, tried in a cage suspended from the ceiling of a cinema, sentenced to death 101 times, then executed by firing squad this time last month.

Tortured Puppet
John McCain, Torture Puppet
Senator ignores mounting evidence of torture and abuse
by Andy Worthington
This is clearly no time for being mealy-mouthed. After nearly seven years of ruinous warmongering, economic meltdown, and the shredding of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and the UN Convention Against Torture, Sen. John McCain, who recently shelved his lifelong opposition to torture by voting against a bill banning the use of torture by the CIA, cemented his adherence to the bellicose policies of the Bush administration by declaring that last Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, granting constitutional habeas corpus rights to the prisoners at Guantánamo, was "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country."
As conservative columnist George F. Will asked, pertinently, in a Washington Post column on Tuesday, "Does it rank with Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857), which concocted a constitutional right, unmentioned in the document, to own slaves and held that black people have no rights that white people are bound to respect? With Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which affirmed the constitutionality of legally enforced racial segregation? With Korematsu v. United States (1944), which affirmed the wartime right to sweep American citizens of Japanese ancestry into concentration camps?"

Beyond McCain's stunted historical memory, his outburst, which is clearly intended to portray Barack Obama as anything other than the rock-hard soldier stallion that McCain is in his imagination, flies in the face of the ever-growing evidence that the entire "War on Terror" imprisonment program has been both chronically brutal and irredeemably flawed, and that Barack Obama is correct to call the ruling "an important step toward reestablishing our credibility as a nation committed to the rule of law, and rejecting a false choice between fighting terrorism and respecting habeas corpus." - ANTIWAR

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/worthington.php?articleid=13015

The RAT Institute reminds readers that very few John McCain dolls ( with the fixed locked down arms) are left in stock and they're moving out fast. A rolled gold collectable in its ' Straight Talk' bus-box this is one for the ages. Franklin Mint and Skywalker ranch holdings eat yr heart out.

Police files as death lists
There has been a healthy trend recently to hive off technical departments such as forensics from the police. This should now include data storage, encryption and retrieval imho. There is already the case where a Melbourne mans address was supplied to a killer ( along with an alibi) Now comes the news that a Russian Federal Security Service officer has been charged with supplying a victims address to her killers ( Anna Politkovskaya )
A separate service would be able to check on the bona fides of every request for information and provide the appropriate information with a traceable record of the transaction. With todays computer storage and speed this need not delay or handicap any urgent investigation. It could even be run as a citizens CIA much as the MIT open government project was supposed to do. Certainly the police have revealed now that they're not to be trusted with much of their traditional turf. They blew it - they deserve to lose it.

The limited hang-out works...
...better when you actually got something to hang-out with

Feith: ‘We Did Not’ Exaggerate Iraq Threat, Just Made ‘Errors’ In Presentation»

Earlier today, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith refused to appear at a House Judiciary hearing. But while he didn’t have the time for Congress, he did have the time to appear on Bill Bennett’s radio show this morning.

During the interview, Bennett asked Feith if the Bush administration exaggerated the case for war with “the mushroom clouds and so on.” “Did we overstate the case?” asked Bennett. “I think that we did not,” replied Feith, though he conceded, “There were errors made in the presentation”:

BENNETT: One, did we overstate the case, the mushroom clouds and so on? Was there exaggeration? Not inaccuracy about the weapons, but did we overblow it?

FEITH: I think that we did not. I don’t think that administration officials purposely overstated, I do think there were errors made in the presentation and the main error was of course relying on the CIA’s assessment that we would find not just the chemical and biological weapons programs, but actual stockpiles. MORE ON

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/18/feith-bennett-exaggerate/

Something has found us...the case for offshore drilling...I've checked out the latest research codenamed
' Cloverfield'. NOFORN. Burn bag. IMF Disavowed.

New DSP split brewing
Rumors are spreading rapidly about a bizarre new split in the Democrat Socialist Party

This is new. All those joining the latest revolutionary 'conversion' party must agree to some highly unusual conditions of entry.
2) Must demonstrate drawback without coughing
3) Submit to 'clearing' in what looks like a tanning salon
3) Practice unsafe sex, including analingus on a derelict
4) Work a shift in a brothel
5) Take horse tranquilizers and speed
6) Swear loyalty unto death to Lenin and Trotsky

The new leader of this breakaway Marxist death-cult is believed to be an American sought by Immigration.

Torture is approved for the twins
If they die on the ants-nest then yr doing it wrong

WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account.
The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices.
"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," Taguba wrote. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account."
Taguba, whose 2004 investigation documented chilling abuses at Abu Ghraib, is thought to be the most senior official to have accused the administration of war crimes. "The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture," he wrote.

Barrys waffling
With national security in the news the perfect zinger for Barry was written by Benjamin Franklin

' Those who would sacrifice any essential liberty in order to gain some security deserve neither'

Hit them again Bazza

The Browning version
'...I can think of an anarchist, for example, thinking of himself as having a working-class ideology. But
we can readily argue why that is not the case, and so the anarchist would be wrong to call himself a Marxist.
Haines...'

http://www.marxmail.org/msg43294.html

Here is ideological imperialism made flesh. Look on my works ye mighty Council Communists, Situationists, etc, etc, etc and despair!

Der Working class uber alles!

Re-invasion news
I've said my piece on Marks blog ( Larvatus Prodeo) and don't have much to add- of course I'm already repeating myself! - just this mutter. If you are getting health care then you have the right to walk away from that care. Dental, psychological, whatever the fuck it is. You don't want it - they can't force it on you.

Less you in Gitmo bro - don't go there

A real sob-sister
'...the latest sob story we've got from Steny Hoyer on why he has to cave into the White House on telco amnesty is because "many Democrats" are forcing his hand. He's even saying that he personally is opposed to the compromise he's trying to ramrod through:

Hoyer said that if a deal was finalized, he would support it, even though he "would not like it." He said he would have preferred the original House version of the legislation which didn't include retroactive immunity for the phone companies.

Here's the thing, he's the majority leader and the majority of his caucus is opposed to amnesty. Nancy Pelosi is supposedly opposed to amnesty. Harry Reid is opposed to it, as is Dick Durbin. Barack Obama is opposed to it. And supposedly, so is Hoyer himself. So who is clamoring so hard from the Democratic party for amnesty? Not a one, so far...'

No head shaving for Steny - just two bullets to the brain

Bounty offered on Steny's scalp
'... Here's Glenn:

As a result, there is a major new campaign beginning today aimed at Hoyer and a handful of other key members of Congress who enable telecom immunity and warrantless eavesdropping. In order to raise as much money as possible for this campaign -- far more than the $85,000 raised (and still being spent) in Chris Carney's district as a result of his support for warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty -- we are working to create an alliance with numerous organizations and factions across the ideological spectrum which oppose civil liberties erosions, as well as with as many blogs as possible....

For the moment, contributions can be made here. All the money raised will be spent exclusively on ad campaigns aimed at the short-term vulnerabilities of those in Congress responsible for delivering this indescribably tyrannical package of surveillance powers to the President and the accompanying corrupt gift to lawbreaking telecoms.

I encourage you to contribute to the effort, and join the more than 3,000 contributors who have raised more than $170,000 for this effort...'

Here's me. I offer $2 to be pooled and paid to the person or persons unknown that blah blah, etc predicts the PERMANENT RETIREMENT FROM POLITICS OF THIS SCUMBAG VICHY PIECE OF SHIT STENY HOYER.

Et tu Larry Larry?
Wouldest thou stabbeth thine humbleth pubic servanteth in the backeth...againeth?...and again?...and again?

Larry Sinclair, criminal and fugitive from the law
by kos
Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 11:54:55 AM PDT
Ben Smith:
Larry Sinclair is wanted in Colorado, but you can catch him today at the National Press Club.
Sinclair is familiar to political junkies and reporters as the source of outlandish allegations about Senator Barack Obama, tales that began with sex and drugs and moved on to murder.

The Duluth, Minnesota, resident is the sort of figure who appears at the margins of every presidential campaign, and both Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton had their own obscure accusers with dramatic allegations. But as the old media ignores him, Sinclair has taken full advantage of the Internet, and a video in which he makes his claims that have been viewed more than 900,000 times on YouTube.

This afternoon, he's reserved the Holeman Lounge at downtown Washington's National Press Club
to try to lend his story the legitimacy that comes with national media attention.

Sinclair's biography, though, may get in the way of that pitch: Public records and court filings reveal that he has a 27-year criminal record, with a specialty in crimes involving deceit. The record includes forgery charges in two states, one of which drew Sinclair a 16-year jail sentence. The Pueblo County, Colorado, Sheriff's Office also has an outstanding warrant for Sinclair's arrest for forging an acquaintance's signature and stealing her tax refunds.

"It is what it is," said Sinclair's spokesman, Montgomery Blair Sibley, of his client's criminal record. "He's not hiding from it, he's not denying it." END

' Wanted in Colorado'...that doesn't look so good on my resume now actually. File under, 'Things to to do in the Denver Post when yr cut dead by fake, phony Western 'anarchists''.

Myers now more than ever
Myers 'channeled' his Love Guru character for years and came up with the comic spiritual leader's Indian voice in an effort to give sick pals a laugh.
He explains, "The Seat of The Soul was a book I read that I saw on Oprah and I loved it. This is a guy who was a green beret and he was also a physicist.
"When I talked about what I was reading philosophically this mellifluous voice would emerge.

"My friends loved it and, in fact, would ask me to call them when they were not feeling well in that voice: `You have a cold? This is the universe telling you to be with yourself because the only way out is in.'"

More front than Foys

AU adopts extreme anti-migrant directive
This must not stand

The Au fascist police state has cracked down on all foreigners coming here and disturbing the peace by...

a) encouraging chain smoking and sex slavery
b) using horse medications in ways against the order of nature
c) promoting the use of UV tanning beds
e) performing analingus on smelly derelict winos
f) using speed and abusing restaurant staff
g) working in brothels like the ' California Club'
h) Trying to pass off some lame bourgeois 1800's fascist philosophy as 'revolutionary'

All such flaming spewing arsehole American septic-tank fucking arseholes fitting this exact bill will be deported asap. No matter how much they fucking ' like anal 'the fucking dirty anal cunts.

New statesman - say no more
Mike Danson, the millionaire businessman who owns half of the New Statesman, is set to take full control within three years.
Sources close to the magazine say that Danson, who bought a 50% stake in the New Statesman in April, will eventually take full control from millionaire Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson.
Robinson has been the leftwing weekly's chairman and sole owner since 1996.
Danson founded business information company Datamonitor and was its chief executive until he sold his stake to media group Informa a year ago.
Those with knowledge of the New Statesman situation said that the co-owners have a plan that would involve Danson eventually buying Robinson out.
Danson declined to comment and a spokeswoman for the magazine and Robinson told MediaGuardian.co.uk: "We stand by our original statement, that the arrangement will be a joint ownership between Geoffrey Robinson and Mike Danson."
Sources believe that Robinson's decision to sell could be dependent on the future of the Labour government and the timing of the next general election.
The two men announced late on Friday that they had appointed former New Statesman literary editor Jason Cowley as the weekly's new editor, ending a three-month search to replace John Kampfner, who left in February after three years at the helm.
Kampfner is understood to have started courting Danson last year before he quit.
After Danson takes full control there has been speculation that there could be a future role for Kampfner at the magazine.
The New Statesman's owners will hope that Cowley can reverse recent circulation declines.

Recent sales of the left wing political weekly are said by sources to be down to about 23,000.

In the latest magazine Audit Bureau of Circulations figures for July to December 2007, the New Statesman was down a heavy 12.7% year on year to an average of 26,208 copies each week.