The Next 911

post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 12 August 2007 11:51:16 AM. © My Left Wing - Front Page

The "next 911," whenever it happens, won't be an attack from Islamists. It'll be blamed on them for sure, as night follows day, but when the war comes home, we'll be fighting Quixotic windmills, blacklight shadow-boxing finger-puppets; toyed like cats chasing catnip yarn.

The next 911 will be an inside job.

"America's" enemy is not a nation-state or rogue nation or International Network of Terror or INT franchisees or any kind of jihadist from environmental to religious to artistic.

The enemy of the people is not a foreigner who hates us.

But Bush was right about one thing. They hate us for our freedom.

There's no doubt Big Brother is conditioning us for another "attack" on "American soil."

Folks, indeed, are praying for it and even saying a bunch of dead Americans is a good thing because another 911 is the only thing that can "save America."

Save America from what? The dawning realization FDR was right and the only thing to fear is fear itself. According the war fetishists we need a new, better, bigger, more deadly "911" to restore our sense of terror to breed rage, hysteria, but ultimately, submission.

The neo-cons predicted the first 911, (not the perpetrators as much as the necessity for one) so when they warn the 2nd is imminent it would be foolish not to listen. If the first 911 was a new Pearl Harbor, then the 2nd 911 is the first 911 but more horrific. Dirty bombs, weaponized germs, poisoned wells and foodstuffs, bird flu - ah the possibilities are endless.

I put nothing past the force running (and/or manipulating) Dick Cheney. This force thinks nothing of crimes against humanity. Humans are chattel and slaves and minor inconveniences. Power is not criminal because it's above the law, staffed by "extraordinary" men. This unseen force, lighting the Cheney chiaroscuro charade is not inhuman because people are nothing but beasts of burden; a means to an end.

And they've been conditioning us for "change."

Unfortunately, it's not the change we'd have chosen, given the choice.

It's been long in the planning, this change, because it is inevitable. It's social physics, if you will. Seven parts tyranny to three parts liberty = chemical reaction.

If you are a rabble rousing freedom fighter ready to get in the streets and march when they reinstitute the draft or restrict travel or limit speech, or seize your assets for sedition, you will be among the first to die.

They're planning an attack on American soil. They're going to connect it to the on-going "war" begun by "them" on 911. A National Emergency declared. Civil disturbances put down with force. Inalienable rights suspended until further notice.

Tinfoil is the new black, remember?

This is what they want us to believe. The dots are so easy to connect a child could do it. Fear the threat, prepare to defend, united we stand, god is on our side, kill, kill, kill.

And those that stand in the way of the existential Yuppian battle to 'protect and defend' our way of life and secure what we got coming, will face ridicule, unemployment and imprisonment.

KID: My daddy's in FEMA Camp #913 for saying the "F" word in the park and scaring all the other kids.
DOCTOR: What's the "F" word?
KID: Freedom.

Americans, on the slide back toward Cro-magnetism, can be manipulated by so many things. Even now, even today, even with all that's gone down to disillusion the "good American" about his precious little country, even today Americans will believe almost anything they are told. At least for a while. And a while is all it takes to get fooled again.

Americans want to believe. We believe in God so much the rest of the 'civilized world' thinks we're nuts. We believe the 'terrorists' are after us. We believe elections make us free. But, there is a huge difference between choice and liberty.

What this nameless, faceless, transnational, transhuman force is all about is keeping the ball rolling. This force is not evil so much as it is arrogant. Entitled. Self-righteous. Born to rule. Infallible.

But not omnipotent. All it takes is one braveheart to screw it up.

So, as the screws tighten, and liberties are replaced with rules and necessary safety requirements, some will raise a call to resist. Don't listen to them. Resistance is futile.

We know about Bush's self-accrued dictatorial emergency powers. We know about the FEMA camps. We know the world in on fire. We hear the constant beat of the war drum. We see a nauseating threat of economic meltdown, ever increasing instability and the great vaunted American middle class skating on the very thin ice of mounting debt, dollar devaluation and decreasing real income.

The threat is not from "terrorists" but those who seek stability in an environment of accelerating chaos.

What we suffer from now is soft oppression. The power of propaganda, orthodoxy and patronage. Go along to get along.

But when the mirage fades; the cracks in the wall morph too large to cover with PR plaster and eyes and ears are opened, because the truth becomes too big to ignore, folks will inevitably come to the conclusion their entire national identity is a lie. And they will either accept this loss of life, liberty and happiness as a necessary evil in the name of security or rise up to fight for our mythological beginnings. Not America, the lost nation, but the inalienable rights, secured anew to begin again. (And hopefully learn from our mistakes the first time around.)

Yet, those that rebel will suffer ruin - physical, emotional, financial.

The mortal enemy of tyranny is liberty. A free people is death to centralized power. In a global economy, the most profitable people is an enslaved people. In a highly competitive global economy, without care for human rights, slaves are required in order to even compete.

The propagandists, in their quest for domestic tranquility, over-sold the American Dream - which is really just another name for social Darwinism; claw your way to the top, regardless from which side of the tracks you hail.

And now the great American Middle Class is like one of those polar bears on a melting ice-cube in the middle of the warming Arctic Ocean.

But, I don't know, maybe another 911 is what we need, after all.

Maybe the next 911 will lead to the 2nd American Revolution.

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The dead tell the tale of a failed surge

post from The Newshoggers on 12 August 2007 11:46:00 AM. © The Newshoggers

By Libby

With the White House propaganda blitz already in full swing in anticipation of the expected Petreaus endorsement for sustained occupation coming in September, the favored talking point has been that deaths have been down in the last couple of months. That of course, is compared to only the last couple of months. Taylor Marsh looks at the long term numbers and posts charts easy enough for even a mathophobe like myself to follow that tell a much different story.

A month by month comparison from 2006 to the surged months in 2007 reveal that overall the death rate has risen in every single one of them and meanwhile, as you know, no political progress has been made on the government side of the surge strategy.

No matter what Petraeus tells us in September, which will certainly be that it just needs more time to succeed, by every reasonable metric the surge has been just as abysmal a failure as every other operation that was supposed to turn the corner for Iraq. The only question left is just how many Friedmans does it take to get the cowardly politicians and the loyal deadenders who support them to admit the cause is lost?

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Megachurch cancels vet’s memorial because
he was gay.

post from Think Progress on 12 August 2007 11:29:00 AM. © Think Progress

24 hours before it was to hold a memorial service for Navy vet Cecil Howard Sinclair, the High Point Church in Arlington, TX, canceled the ceremony after discovering that Sinclair was gay. “It’s a slap in the face. It’s like, ‘Oh, we’re sorry he died, but he’s gay so we can’t help you,’” said Sinclair’s sister, Kathleen Wright. High Point’s pastor, Rev. Gary Simons, claimed the church acted on “principle”:

“We did decline to host the service — not based on hatred, not based on discrimination, but based on principle,” Simons told The Associated Press. “Had we known it on the day they first spoke about it — yes, we would have declined then. It’s not that we didn’t love the family.”

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The Daily Rant

post from My Left Wing - Front Page on 12 August 2007 11:20:51 AM. © My Left Wing - Front Page

So we have these raccoons that want to come into our kitchen and eat the cat food.

The Urban Wildlife guy's advice was to block the cat door at sundown, and put a scat mat outside the cat door to make our home, well, unpalatable.

That means the girls need to either stay out all night, or be in when we go to bed.

They are not happy about this, especially as that Evil Kitten is in residence.

Yes, Zasu is evil personified; they could give a flying fuck about the raccoons -- just get rid of the kitten!

So we end up with Arwen the Terrible bitching most terribly at us, and Schmutzige Katze letting her displeasure be known at the top of her Siamese-mix lungs.

Per the Urban Wildlife guy, we have another 5 days to go of the drill before we can hope the "lesson" to the raccoons takes. Gonna be a looooong week.

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Mikes Blog Round Up

post from Crooks and Liars on 12 August 2007 11:00:08 AM. © Crooks and Liars

As most of you are blissfully unaware, I’m William K. Wolfrum from Williamkwolfrum.com, Shakesville.com, WorldGolf.com, and millions and millions of other Web sites, highway underpasses, granite slabs and little notes tied to the legs of carrier pigeons around the globe.Anyway, feel free to call me Bill. Now I’m going to link you up a little. [...]

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It's hard work - Bush has taken 418 vacation
days, that's nine weeks a year

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 12 August 2007 11:00:00 AM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

[NOTE FROM JOHN: Bush has been taking 9 weeks a year vacation. That's more than the French, who get around 6 weeks a year. Nine weeks a year, folks. On your dime. No wonder the Iraqi parliament is taking the month off - they've learned from the best.]

That's why George W. Bush is on track to break the Ronald Reagan's record for taking the most paid time off on your dime. I guess you could look at it this way -- the more he's on vacation, the less damage he can do to the country. (Houston Chronicle):

On Thursday, Bush left for a weekend in Kennebunkport, Maine, and his family's summer compound, Walker's Point. On Monday, he heads to his Crawford retreat, where he has spent all or part of 418 days of his presidency, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS News White House correspondent and meticulous record-keeper.

...The presidential vacation-time record holder is the late Ronald Reagan, who tallied 436 days in his two terms. At 418 days, and with 17 months to go in his presidency, Bush is going to beat that easily.

...A recent survey by Yahoo Hot Jobs found nearly half of American workers did not take all of their vacation days last year.

Nice to know he's getting tanned, rested and ready while men and women are working in 110-degree heat in Iraq and getting blasted by IEDs.

Remember, the president also told Nebraska resident Mary Mornin, in her late 50s, and raising three kids -- one mentally challenged this in 2005:

MS. MORNIN: That's good, because I work three jobs and I feel like I contribute.

THE PRESIDENT: You work three jobs?

MS. MORNIN: Three jobs, yes.

THE PRESIDENT: Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that. (Applause.) Get any sleep? (Laughter.)

Listen to that classic here.

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It's hard work - Bush has taken 418 vacation days

post from AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth on 12 August 2007 11:00:00 AM. © AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

That's why George W. Bush is on track to break the Ronald Reagan's record for taking the most paid time off on your dime. I guess you could look at it this way -- the more he's on vacation, the less damage he can do to the country. (Houston Chronicle):

On Thursday, Bush left for a weekend in Kennebunkport, Maine, and his family's summer compound, Walker's Point. On Monday, he heads to his Crawford retreat, where he has spent all or part of 418 days of his presidency, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS News White House correspondent and meticulous record-keeper.

...The presidential vacation-time record holder is the late Ronald Reagan, who tallied 436 days in his two terms. At 418 days, and with 17 months to go in his presidency, Bush is going to beat that easily.

...A recent survey by Yahoo Hot Jobs found nearly half of American workers did not take all of their vacation days last year.

MS. MORNIN: That's good, because I work three jobs and I feel like I contribute.

THE PRESIDENT: You work three jobs?

MS. MORNIN: Three jobs, yes.

THE PRESIDENT: Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that. (Applause.) Get any sleep? (Laughter.)

Listen to that classic here.

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Get Back To Work

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math I was going to write this in response to the latest Democracy Corps memo, but the reactions to low turnout at the Ames vote buying contest straw poll and Neil's run, Newt, run post...[...]

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Thank You, General Lute, But You Left Out
Somethingand Its Not the Draft

In an interview on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered Iraq War “Czar” General Douglas Lute certainly got the attention of Americans when he speculated about a possible return of the draft, saying, “it makes sense to certainly consider it.”The tone of his remarks certainly suggested it is an option being considered. If so, it [...]

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-you-general-lute-but-you-left-out-something-amd-its-not-the-draft.html

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Love Shack Security Planning, Inc.

Classic B-52s in the funky little shack…One of Mark Kleiman’s readers caught something with a substantial ick factor about Rudy and Judi:The context is Barrett’s demolition of Giuliani’s attempt to blame someone else for the[...]

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