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What the Bush Junta Rejected in Dismissing Fallon
2008-03-21 20:40:00
Unlike his Arabic-speaking predecessor, Army General John Abizaid, Fox Fallon wasn't selected to lead U.S. Central Command for his regional knowledge or cultural sensitivity, but because he is, says Secretary of Defense Gates, "one of the best strategic thinkers in uniform today."If anything has been sorely missing to date in America's choices in the Middle East and Central Asia, it has been a strategic mind-set that consistently keeps its eyes on the real prize: connecting these isolated regions in a far more broadband fashion to the global economy. Instead of effectively countering the efforts of others (e.g., the radical Salafis, Saudi Arabia's Wahhabists, Russia's security services, China's energy sector) who would fashion such connectivity to their selfish ends, Washington has wasted precious time focusing excessively on transforming the political systems of Iraq and Afghanistan, as though governments somehow birth functioning societies and economies instead of the other w...
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Milken the System... A History Lesson
2008-03-19 06:28:00
In 1971, Burnham & Co. merged with Drexel -- an odd match. Burnham was mostly Jewish, filled with rough-and-tumble traders who survived on their selling skills. Drexel, by contrast, had an old-line aversion to hard sales tactics and a steadily dwindling roster of corporate clients who increasingly opted for firms with more aggressive distribution networks. Drexel was tottering, surviving largely on its reputation and its historical status as a major-bracket firm.Indeed, Tubby Burnham sought out Drexel as a merger partner primarily to hoist his company out of the submajor bracket and attract more underwriting work.When Burnham visited the chairmen of Goldman, Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the eminent firms whose blessing and goodwill the merged firm would need to survive in the still-clubby world of Wall Street, they gave their approval on one condition: The venerable Drexel name had to come first, regardless of the true balance of power in the firm. Hence Drexel Burnham & Co. wa...
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Barbarians At the Gate? Same as it ever was...
2008-03-19 04:07:00
For hours the two men sat on the back porch talking.It was as peaceful an afternoon as the younger man, a lawyer just down from New York, had ever seen. On the horizon, the sun was a sinking red ball. Below, delicate snowy egrets poked through the reeds of the Intracoastal Waterway.It seemed a shame, Steve Goldstone thought, as a warm Florida breeze tousled his thinning brown hair, to introduce black clouds into such a postcard landscape. He took no pleasure in the dire predictions he was about to spin. But it was his job to play devil's advocate. No one else seemed willing to do it.Someone has to tell him.They sat for a few moments in silence. Goldstone took another sip from his gin and tonic and glanced at the older man sitting in the patio chair beside him. Sometimes he wished he knew Ross Johnson better. They had met barely three months before. Johnson seemed so open, so trusting, so -- how to describe it? -- yes, naive. Did he realize the forces he was on the verge of unleashi...
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Pirate Radio From SF: Politics and Beats all Mashd Up
2008-03-17 19:47:00
This is why I love SF. Katrina, Wire Tapping, Corruption all wrapped up in a beat burritto with SF flavors.29:38 of interesting minutes broadcast live on pirate radio.If anyone is interested I have a mastercopy of the piece. I recommend using browser tabs if you want to listen to it while surfing.Be Cool.
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Filth - Bruce Robertson as the ultimate Anti-Hero
2008-03-17 17:07:00
Woke up this morning. Woke up into the job.The job. It holds you. It's all around you; a constant, enclosing absorbing gel. And when you're in the job, you look out at life through that distorted lens. Sometimes, aye, you get your wee zones of relative freedom to retreat into, those light, delicate spaces where new things, different, better things can be perceived of as possibles.Then it stops. Suddenly you see that those zones aren't there any more. They were getting smaller, you knew that. You knew that some day you'd have to get round to doing something about it. When did this happen? The realisation came some time after. It doesn't really matter how long it took: two years, three, five or ten. The zones got smaller and smaller until they didn't exist, and all that's left behind is the residue. That's the games.The games are the only way you can survive the job. Everybody has their wee vanities, their own little conceits. My one is that nobody plays the games like me, Bru...
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Fun With Dali... btw, this game is rigged.
2008-03-13 04:38:00
I cannot recommend highly enough Salvador Dali's autobiography, Diary Of A Genius. It is magnificent. I have read it many times and never cease to be amazed at the inner thoughts of a magnificent artist.From Diary of a Genius;1952 Port Lligat, the 1st I spent the winter in New York as usual, enjoying enormous success in everything I did. We have been in Port Lligat a month, and today, on the same date as last year, I decide to resume my diary. I inaugurate the Dalinian May the first by working frenetically, as I am urged to do by a sweet creative anguish. My moustache has never been so long. My entire body is encased in my clothing. Only my moustache shows. the 2nd I think that the sweetest freedom on earth for a man consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work. I drew from sunrise till night: six mathematical faces of angels, of such great and explosive beauty that it left me exhausted and stiff. When I went to bed I was reminded of Leonardo compar...
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What Do the Europeans Get for Their MASSIVE Dole Network?
2008-03-13 04:12:00
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------- ---RENTON: I chose not to choose lif...
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Warrantless Wiretapping: What History Teaches Us
2008-03-12 21:21:00
"I've wondered many times at what point he could have been stopped," said Mr. Gentry of Hoover. "I don't think after F.D.R. it was possible," he added. Hoover had a close relationship with President Roosevelt.Mr. Gentry's account weaves together interviews with hundreds of people, including many former agents and F.B.I. officials, along with his findings from a review of thousands of internal memos, including previously undisclosed documents. "The memos were reference points for the things the agents told me," Mr. Gentry said. Mr. Gentry found that Hoover played no favorites in some respects. He eagerly acquired information on politicians, journalists, celebrities, even his close friends. "Hoover didn't associate with people unless he had something on them," one former aide quoted in the book told Mr. Gentry. Another former official quoted by the author said: "Hoover was not given to halfway measures. If he didn't like you, he destroyed you." Under Hoover, the agency sought out...
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Hoover, FISA and Warrantless Wiretapping
2008-03-12 19:25:00
A timely reminder. I am halfway through Gentry's Hoover biography, while simultaneously reading the 1976 biography of the Rockefeller family, Fellers. They make fascinating tag team reading companions.Ignorance of history, doomed to repeat it... how quickly we forget. J. EDGAR HOOVER: THE MAN AND THE SECRETS, BY CURT GENTRYA review by Piers Brendon for the Columbia Journalism Review, 1992.No citizen has ever posed a more serious threat to American liberties than J. Edgar Hoover. This is not to say that he was, as a congressman asserted in 1972, "the American Beria." Nor was the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which he directed for so long, "a Cheka," an "American OGPU," or a kind of "Gestapo," as other critics charged. Hoover never shot people or put them in concentration camps on the orders of a dictator in the White House. But hisbureau did become, as the Congress which authorized its establishment in 1908 had feared, a federal secret police. It evaded public scrutiny and invad...
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Who Dares to Frame Your Fearful Symmetry? J. Edgar Hoover, that's who. Yo
2008-03-12 05:24:00
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,In the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire in thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare seize the fire?And what shoulder, and what art?Could twist the sinews of thy heart?And when thy heart began to beat,What dread hand, and what dread feet?What the hammer? What the chain?In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? What dread graspDare its deadly terrors clasp?When the stars threw down their spears,And watered heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb, make thee?Tyger! Tyger! burning bright,In the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeDare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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The Unfolding of a Political Hit... Elliot Spitzer
2008-03-11 23:36:00
A man can often be judged by his enemies. The fact that Eliot Spitzer treated our corporate overlords shabbily, running roughshod through their comfortable, gentleman's club of corruption, speaks well of him. Nor am I affected in any way by the notion that, over the past couple of years, he's shelled out about 40,000 of his own money for high-priced hookers. Sure he's busted some prostitution rings and milked them for publicity, and sure, he can be fairly called hypocritical, but let's not obscure the fact that one of the two prostition sex rings he shut down was a sex-tourism company specializing in prostitution of a much less savory sort; ie. exploitation of sex slaves, children and the poor. Judicial notice may be taken of the fact that if hypocripsy constituted a resigning offense we'd have no one in government.Particularly amusing is the part of this story wherein the FBI gets permission to continue their investigation into his affairs due to his "high political office...
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Fight the Power Spitzer, or Wake Me When They Bust Karl Rove.
2008-03-11 05:07:00
YAWN.Spitzer has made a lot of powerful enemies and I am sure they are salivating at this recent revelation.I would hate to see him step down.Nor were any of the women involved in this "victims" in any sense of the word as opposed to say sex slaves.More petty nonsense being used to eliminate a threat to the moneyed interests.It will be interesting to see whether or not Spitzer was targeted by a corrupt DOJ.Let's keep this in perspective. Spitz has done a lot of good things. Far more than most career "public servants."From Wiki...Spitzer joined the staff of Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, where he became chief of the labor-racketeering unit, spending six years pursuing organized crime. His biggest case came in 1992, when Spitzer led the investigation that ended the Gambino organized crime family's control of Manhattan's trucking and garment industries.Spitzer devised a plan to set up his own sweatshop in the city's garment district, turning out shirts, pants and...
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Citizen, Soldier, Sucker...
2008-03-10 02:00:00
On November 15, 2007, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled that it would not hear an appeal for refugee status by two US soldiers who, in government-military parlance, “deserted,” rather than participate in the US’s illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.The two conscientious objectors, Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, contested the decision of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRBC), later confirmed by two lower level federal courts, to reject their application for political asylum based on the illegality of the Iraq War.Hinzman arrived in Canada in 2004 after his request for conscientious objector status was twice refused by the US Army and after learning that his battalion would be sent to Iraq.Hinzman left no doubt as to the political nature of his actions. “They said there were weapons of mass destruction,” Hinzman declared. “They haven’t found any. They said Iraq was linked to international terrorist organizations. There haven’t been any links.”“Thi...
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America Faces a Grave Danger All Right...
2008-03-08 00:35:00
Like this woman's children...
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HRC's "Dirty" Campaign and the Power's Resignation
2008-03-07 20:59:00
I disagree with those that call for HRC to bow out because she cannot overcome the math. That's not the way the game is played. At the end of the day, Obama will not have enough delegates to lock up the nomination. Hillary is, if nothing else, a viable candidate. The Democratic primary is designed to produce this type of result and Hillary is playing the only hand she has... to the hilt.Admittedly, ego and ambition are the only two things keeping Hillary in the race. She knows that due to a fatal miscalculation on the part of her campaign she cannot take the lead in pledged delegates. She can deny Obama a lock, but, if the nomination goes according to delegates, she loses. Her path to the nomination hinges on neutralizing Obama's lead in delegates and will, by definition, be very controversial. Especially if tainted results from FL and/or MI play a role.Hillary's running a tough, combative campaign because she's got nothing to lose at this point. She's backed into a co...
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CBC: Canadian Conservatives Hit Obama with Dirty Tricks
2008-03-06 20:06:00
So many tantalizing threads to pull here. The undeniable power of a free press, conservative dirty tricks, canadian interference in a US election, democratic infighting and working class ohioans' racial and economic prejudices. Where to begin?In terms of a functioning press, I can't help contrasting the performance of the Canadian press, and government, with the outing of a Valerie Plame by VP Cheney. Boom. No question that once the "trick" was played, the press was on it and they have now exposed it for what it is... a political hit. What a marvelous thing it was to listen to a piece of television reporting that clearly conveyed the facts and acknowledged the obvious conclusions. It will be interesting to see if the "memorandum" of just what Goolsbee said is ever released.Puzzling though, what was the expected gain from performing this type of dirty work, in the shadows, as our VP would say? Two possibilities come to mind. Either it was performed at someone's request on ...
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56 False Statements from Condoleeza Rice
2008-03-06 05:06:00
Transcript:WEXLER: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.Madam Secretary, over the past month, startling revelations have come forward that specifically relate to your conduct prior to 9/11 and in the run-up to the war in Iraq.A recently released study by the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity revealed that you, along with President Bush and top administration officials made a total of 935 false public statements in an orchestrated attempt to take this nation to war.Here’s a stack of these false statements right here, all 935 of them. This study has found that you, Madam Secretary, made 56 false statements to the American people, where you repeatedly pump up the case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and exaggerate the so- called relationship between Iraq and Al Qaida.Madam Secretary, can you please tell us, isn’t it true that you had intelligence that cast doubt on your repeated claims that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction?RICE: No, it’s not true, Congre...
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Mukasey Photo Montage, An Homage If You Will.
2008-03-06 01:14:00
There were many who argued that Michael Mukasey would "clean up" the so-called, Department of Justice, after it's integrity had been run into the ground under Attorney Germinals Ashcroft and Gonzales. There was a brief moment of hope that an AG Mukasey would discontinue torture, warrantless wiretapping, reliance on absurd legal rationalizations, partisan prosecutions and the all out blitzkrieg of partisan staffing that was admittedly criminal.Saddly this has not happened.A photo memorial to AG Mukasey.Here he is being introduced by President Bush. Mukasey refusing to condemn the use of waterboarding as torture. Badges? We don need no stinking badges! Striding in with his comrades in arms to tell the House he will not prosecute their contempt citations against Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten. Brushing off Congress using an old jedi mind trick taught to him by Karl Rove.
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Status of Forces Agreements
2008-03-05 21:25:00
2012, 2020, forever. Whatever the terms hashed out between the administration and Nouri al-Maliki's government, the administration has said that they won't have to consult Congress to finish the deal.As we reported back in November, that wouldn't be unusual, as these types of agreements (called Status of Forces Agreements) are typically handled solely by the executive branch. It's not a "formal" treaty, the kind the Constitution dictates must be ratified by two-thirds of the Senate. And White House war adviser Douglas Lute has made it clear that the negotiations "will lead to the status of a formal treaty."But Congress is maneuvering to make sure that they get a say. Today, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) will introduce the Iraq Strategic Agreement Review Act of 2008, which would require the administration to consult with Congress on the agreement and withhold funds for the agreement if it did not come in the form of a formal treaty. “We simply cannot allow the Administration to fina...

The President Will Comply With ALL Of His Constitutional Perogatives...
2008-03-05 21:14:00
The Constitution is a document it is not a hypothetical.Ackerman: Is there any way in the world that [Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki] thinks that we are going to defend Iraq if Iraq is attacked? Satterfield: Mr. Chairman, the secretary of defense, secretary of state, the president, the vice president in all of their conversations with the prime minister and other senior Iraqi officials have been quite clear on what our intent is in Iraq, what our obligations are in Iraq and what they are not. I do not believe such a potential misunderstanding exists.Ackerman: Has this been explicitly explained to him that, if Iraq is attacked, that we have no obligation to enter into any combat missions?Satterfield: The secretary of defense has made very clear exactly those points.Ackerman: And Mr. Maliki is satisfied with that assurance or non-assurance or lack of assurance? . . .Satterfield: Mr. Chairman, Prime Minister Maliki is strongly supportive, as we understand, for the initiation of n...
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Honest and Dishonest Graft
2008-03-04 21:14:00
EVERYBODY is talkin' these days about Tammany men growin' rich on graft, but nobody thinks of drawin' the distinction between honest graft and dishonest graft. There's all the difference in the world between the two. Yes, many of our men have grown rich in politics. I have myself. I've made a big fortune out of the game, and I'm gettin' richer every day, but I've not gone in for dishonest graft - blackmailin' gamblers, saloonkeepers, disorderly people, etc. - and neither has any of the men who have made big fortunes in politics.There's an honest graft, and I'm an example of how it works. I might sum up the whole thing by sayin': "I seen my opportunities and I took 'em."Just let me explain by examples. My party's in power in the city, and it's goin' to undertake a lot of public improvements. Well, I'm tipped off, say, that they're going to layout a new park at a certain place. I see my opportunity and I take it. I go to that place and I buy up all the land I can in ...
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Worth Watching Again: 60 Minutes Interview with Paul O'Neill and Ron Suskin
2008-03-03 21:12:00
Part 1Part 2And Richard ClarkeMR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: Richard Clarke. President Bush's one-time counterterrorism czar leveled explosive charges against his former boss:Welcome to MEET THE PRESS.MR. CLARKE: Good morning, Tim.MR. RUSSERT: You have written "Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror," testified before the September 11th Commission; also testified two years ago to a congressional joint inquiry, which prompted the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, Bill Frist, on Friday afternoon to take to the Senate floor and talk about you. Let's listen:(Videotape, Friday):SEN. BILL FRIST, (R-TN): Mr. Clarke has told two entirely different stories under oath; two entirely different stories under oath. In July 2002 in front of the congressional joint inquiry on the September the 11th attacks, Mr. Clarke testified under oath that the administration actively sought to address the threat posed by al-Qaeda during its first seven months in office....
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Roots of the Bush Coda: Violating and Ignoring the Law
2008-03-03 20:34:00
INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AND THERIGHTS OF AMERICANS_______BOOK II_______FINAL REPORTOF THESELECT COMMITTEETO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONSWITH RESPECT TOINTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIESUNITED STATES SENATETOGETHER WITHADDITIONAL, SUPPLEMENTAL, AND SEPARATEVIEWSAPRIL 26 (legislative day, April 14), 1976A. VIOLATING AND IGNORING THE LAWMAJOR FINDINGThe Committee finds that the domestic activities of the intelligence community at times violated specific statutory prohibitions and infringed the constitutional rights of American citizens. The legal questions involved in intelligence programs were often not considered. On other occasions, they were intentionally disregarded in the belief that because the programs served the "national security" the law did not apply. While intelligence officers on occasion failed to disclose to their superiors programs which were illegal or of questionable legality, the Committee finds that the most serious breaches of duty were those of senior officials, who were r...
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If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride...
2008-02-18 19:03:00
It was the increase of population that spread cultivation and civilization from the center to the snowline, and at last forced men to sell themselves to the lords of the soil: it is the same force that continues to multiply men so that their exchange value falls slowly and surely until it disappears altogether—until even black chattel slaves are released as not worth keeping in a land where men of all colors are to be had for nothing. This is the condition of our English laborers to-day: they are no longer even dirt cheap: they are valueless, and can be had for nothing. The proof is the existence of the unemployed, who can find no purchasers. By the law of indifference, nobody will buy men at a price when he can obtain equally serviceable men for nothing. What then is the explanation of the wages given to those who are in employment, and who certainly do not work for nothing? The matter is deplorably simple. Suppose that horses multiplied in England in such quantities that they w...
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America is trapped in this notion that we care about human life.
2008-02-16 23:24:00
Straight from the horse's ass.America is trapped in this notion that we care about human life.- President Bush February 14, 2008We respect human dignity. And that's not a trap. That's a belief. And that many of [us] in this country recognise that the human condition matters to our own national security. See, I happen to believe we're in an ideological struggle. And, those who murder the innocent to achieve political objectives are evil people.But, they have an ideology. And the only way you can recruit for that ideology is to find hopeless folks. I mean, who wants to join an ideology say women don't have rights? You can't express yourself freely. Religious beliefs are... you know, the only religious belief you can hold is the one we tell you. And, oh, by the way, it's great. You can be a suicider.Our President Speaks to the BBC.Frei: The Senate yesterday passed a bill outlawing water-boarding. You, I believe, have said that you will veto that bill.Mr Bush: That's not -Frei: ...
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Best Dressed Chicken In Town, Rudie Can't Fail Boyo
2008-02-12 22:00:00
This is pre Ark for Lee Perry. Just a perfect dub town tune. A Gem.
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Opus D'Oh! Scalia Opens Up About Torture
2008-02-12 21:00:00
Justice Antonin Scalia told the BBC that "smacking someone in the face" could be justified if there was an imminent threat."You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good'," he said in a rare interview.He also accused Europe of being self-righteous over the death penalty.Justice Scalia is known as the most acerbic member of the Supreme Court, and is often described as the most conservative of the court's judges.Pain inflictionIn the interview with the Law in Action programme on BBC Radio 4, he said it was "extraordinary" to assume that the ban on "cruel and unusual punishment" - the US Constitution's Eighth Amendment - also applied to "so-called" torture.Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution?Justice Antonin Scalia"To begin with the constitution... is referring to punishmen...
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No War But Class War.
2008-02-12 20:21:00
Irishtown Made MeI was born on June 30, 1901, on the corner of Nassau and Gold in a section along the Brooklyn docks known as Irishtown. When I was three, we moved over one block to High Street, between Gold Street and Bridge Street, and about five years later we moved down the block from 183 High to 227 High. Irishtown was wedged in between the East River on the north, the Navy Yard on the east, and the Washington Street entrance approach to the Brooklyn Bridge off to the west. To pin my own neighborhood down more closely, the Manhattan Bridge was built while I was nine or ten and we kids used to drive everybody crazy by clambering up the structural ironwork which was going up only a block away from my house.It was a workingman's neighborhood of one- and two-family dwellings and small neighborhood stores in which credit was extended from payday to payday. We weren't bad off, considering. My father, William Francis Sutton, Sr.--I'm William Francis, Jr.--was a hard-working blacksm...
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Orwell and Euphemisms for Corrupt Policy
2008-02-02 23:54:00
Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called THE SURGE. Millions of IRAQIS are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers OR DEBATHIFICATION. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps OR BE TORTURED IN GITMO: this is called elimination of unreliable elements OR ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism OR AMERICAN TORTURE. He cannot say outright, "I believe in kill...
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Bob Dylan & Benjamin Franklin, Different Heads Same Octopus
2008-02-02 23:38:00
Mr. PresidentI confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them: For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men indeed as well as most sects in Religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error. Steele a Protestant in a Dedication tells the Pope, that the only difference between our Churches in their opinions of the certainty of their doctrines is, the Church of Rome is infallible and the Church of England is never in the wrong. But though many private persons think almost as highly of their own infallibility as of t...
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