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Obviously, an inside job for which Tony Blair wants no government inquiry
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A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running a drill exercise for an unnamed company which revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as was happening in real life on July 7th, BBC Radio 5 has revealed.

Of course people will fall for this, again, just like they did nearly 4 years ago.

Iran, anyone?

Falling for this shit again...

As I sit in my office today, I hear the whispers of co-workers now utterly convinced our war on terror must continue. Despite American and British involvement in the Middle East birthing wave after wave of rebel forces, the Bush doctrine is now justified in the minds of millions. Petty grievances such as the Downing Street Minutes, the President's flagging support and Karl Rove's treasonous outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame [emphasis yo mama] are unimportant. A shadowy conglomeration is out to kill us.

Sound familiar? It should ? the same emotional ploy was used to great effect on Americans in the wake of September 11th. Question nothing, particularly your cries for vengeance or that nagging feeling in the back of your head. Justice delayed is justice denied.

People are so gullible.

When Marine recruiters go way beyond the call

By SUSAN PAYNTER; SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST

For mom Marcia Cobb and her teenage son Axel, the white letters USMC on their caller ID soon spelled, "Don?t answer the phone!"

Marine recruiters began a relentless barrage of calls to Axel as soon as the mellow, compliant Sedro-Woolley High School grad had cut his 17th birthday cake. And soon it was nearly impossible to get the seekers of a few good men off the line.

With early and late calls ringing in their ears, Marcia tried using call blocking. And that?s when she learned her first hard lesson. You can?t block calls from the government, her server said. So, after pleas to "Please stop calling" went unanswered, the family?s "do not answer" order ensued.

But warnings and liquid crystal lettering can fade. So, two weeks ago when Marcia was cooking dinner Axel goofed and answered the call. And, faster than you can say "semper fi," an odyssey kicked into action that illustrates just how desperate some of the recruiters we?ve read about really are to fill severely sagging quotas.

Let what we learned serve as a warning to other moms, dads and teens, the Cobbs now say. Even if your kids actually may want to join the military, if they hope to do it on their own terms, after a deep breath and due consideration, repeat these words after them: "No," "Not now" and "Back off!"

"I?ve been trained to be pretty friendly. I guess you might even say I?m kind of passive," Axel told me last week, just after his mother and older sister had tracked him to a Seattle testing center and sprung him on a ruse.

The next step of Axel?s misadventure came when he heard about a cool "chin-ups" contest in Bellingham, where the prize was a free Xbox. The now 18-year-old Skagit Valley Community College student dragged his tail feathers home uncharacteristically late that night. And, in the morning, Marcia learned the Marines had hosted the event and "then had him out all night, drilling him to join."

A single mom with a meager income, Marcia raised her kids on the farm where, until recently, she grew salad greens for restaurants.

Axel?s father, a Marine Corps vet who served in Vietnam, died when Axel was 4.

Clearly the recruiters knew all that and more.

"You don?t want to be a burden to your mom," they told him. "Be a man." "Make your father proud." Never mind that, because of his own experience in the service, Marcia says enlistment for his son is the last thing Axel?s dad would have wanted.

The next weekend, when Marcia went to Seattle for the Folklife Festival and Axel was home alone, two recruiters showed up at the door.

Axel repeated the family mantra, but he was feeling frazzled and worn down by then. The sergeant was friendly but, at the same time, aggressively insistent. This time, when Axel said, "Not interested," the sarge turned surly, snapping, "You?re making a big (bleeping) mistake!"

Next thing Axel knew, the same sergeant and another recruiter showed up at the LaConner Brewing Co., the restaurant where Axel works. And before Axel, an older cousin and other co-workers knew or understood what was happening, Axel was whisked away in a car.

"They said we were going somewhere but I didn?t know we were going all the way to Seattle," Axel said.

Just a few tests. And so many free opportunities, the recruiters told him.

He could pursue his love of chemistry. He could serve anywhere he chose and leave any time he wanted on an "apathy discharge" if he didn?t like it. And he wouldn?t have to go to Iraq if he didn?t want to.

At about 3:30 in the morning, Alex was awakened in the motel and fed a little something. Twelve hours later, without further sleep or food, he had taken a battery of tests and signed a lot of papers he hadn?t gotten a chance to read. "Just formalities," he was told. "Sign here. And here. Nothing to worry about."

By then Marcia had "freaked out."

She went to the Burlington recruiting center where the door was open but no one was home. So she grabbed all the cards and numbers she could find, including the address of the Seattle-area testing center.

Then, with her grown daughter in tow, she high-tailed it south, frantically phoning Axel whose cell phone had been confiscated "so he wouldn?t be distracted during tests."

Axel?s grandfather was in the hospital dying, she told the people at the desk. He needed to come home right away. She would have said just about anything.

But, even after being told her son would be brought right out, her daughter spied him being taken down a separate hall and into another room. So she dashed down the hall and grabbed him by the arm.

"They were telling me I needed to ?be a man? and stand up to my family," Axel said.

What he needed, it turned out, was a lawyer.

Five minutes and $250 after an attorney called the recruiters, Axel?s signed papers and his cell phone were in the mail.

My request to speak with the sergeant who recruited Axel and with the Burlington office about recruitment procedures went unanswered.

Edging closer to a draft.

As in, mandatory.

More young men are choosing not to volunteer which, obviously, puts any war plans in a precarious position.

Spinsters are looking for a way to sell this, I'm sure.

They'd call it something new, give it a new face, and young people will line up again. (Or so they hope.)

Crime wise, the US in #8 for total crimes per capita.

Does it feel great to be in a country safer than Denmark, the UK, Finland, New Zealand, and Chile!

Too bad the religious nuts populating (and running) this country are running it right into the ground.

The US has a lot of people. The size of its population is largest in the world, after China and India.

Everyone knows that we spend a lot of money on the military. But did you know that, per capita, Israel spends the most, at $1466.51 per person?

In second place is Singapore, tiny country that it is. It spends $969.92 per person.

The US comes in at number 3 with an expenditure of $953.01 per person. Cost wise, we spend more than everyone else in the world combined. But, hey. We can afford to, right?

Heck, we might even be spending 125% of total tax revenues in 2015.

The U.S. military is considering allowing regional combatant commanders to request presidential approval for pre-emptive nuclear strikes against possible attacks with weapons of mass destruction on the United States or its allies, according to a draft nuclear operations paper.

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Can you imagine if other countries adopted our policies? We'd call them terrorists.

Who has more "weapons of mass destruction" than the United States of America?

Let's play, "He who thinks they are more right, strikes first."

Fucking religious nuts.

How far will the Doctrine of the Crazy Fools take us?

Here's some shit.

Here's how the "spy" section of the legislation works: If you "witness" certain drug offenses taking place or "learn" about them, you must report the offenses to law enforcement within 24 hours and provide "full assistance in the investigation, apprehension and prosecution" of the people involved. Failure to do so would be a crime punishable by a mandatory minimum two-year prison sentence, and a maximum sentence of 10 years.

Here are some examples of offenses you would have to report to police within 24 hours:

* You find out that your brother, who has children, recently bought a small amount of marijuana to share with his wife;
* You discover that your son gave his college roommate a marijuana joint;
* You learn that your daughter asked her boyfriend to find her some drugs, even though they're both in treatment.

In each of these cases you would have to report the relative to the police within 24 hours. Taking time to talk to your relative about treatment instead of calling the police immediately could land you in jail.

I hereby declare that I will leave the United States should this bill become law. I have no desire to live in an ever-creeping police state.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs have lost UK MP George Galloway's statement! (see under Panel 2)

George Galloway, Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow , Great Britain
Mr Galloway did not submit a statement

"...did not submit a statement"

Are they serious? A quick search of Google news will pull up over 4,000 article, many of which refer to his Panel 2 "statement".

Censorship at work, right in the US Seenot.

Police seem to be zapping people with TASER weapons like there's no tomorrow.

This 13 year-old girl was zapped twice. By a 300-pound cop.

I would assume that when the cops had guns, they really wanted to shoot their suspects - but they knew they couldn't. Now, with these new weapons they're becoming even more trigger-happy.

Here's a story about Portland's police chief getting shot with a taser weapon.

Getting shot by a Taser has been called the worst five seconds of your life and now Portland's police chief knows what it is like to have 50,000 volts course through his system.

Although there was a lot of screaming in that five seconds, Chief Derrick Foxworth made it through the training.

It would be ironic if the bitch died.

Auburn, Indiana, Police Chief Martin McCoy, who has been both pepper-sprayed and shocked as part of his training says, ?I?d rather be pepper-sprayed".

And another article, "Why is the supposedly non-lethal Taser killing suspects?"

Commissioner Slade Gorton, a former Republican senator from Washington, said the difference is that driver's licenses are already widely accepted and used as a de facto ID card but are issued according to different state standards and are too easy to obtain without proper identification.

"We're simply saying take something that everyone accepts now and have it standardized in a way that it really identifies the people who are holding onto it," he told Mr. Cannon.

"What I hear you saying, Senator Gorton, is that you want a national ID," Mr. Cannon replied, but "you want to get through the back door by using something that everybody already accepts."

And so it is!

But, of course, they don't want you to think of it as a "national ID".

On Saturday, this film will receive it's opening at the Cannes Film Festival. (You can also download it using the links below). The films explores the way fundamentalist Islam and the neo-con ideology are fused together to create an atmosphere of fear and control. An excerpt from an article in The Guardian:

...But the film is even more incendiary for its analysis of what Curtis controversially insists is the largely illusory fear of terrorism in the west since 9/11. Curtis argues that politicians such as Bush and Blair have stumbled on a new force that can restore their power and authority - the fear of a hidden and organised web of evil from which they can protect their people. In a still-traumatised US, those with the darkest nightmares have become the most powerful and Curtis's film castigates the media, security forces and the Bush administration for extending their power in this way. "It has really touched a nerve with people who realise something is not quite right with the way terrorism has been reported."

Something extraordinary has indeed happened to American TV since September 11th, 2001.

"What happens on US TV now is that you have a theatre of confrontation so that people avoid having to seriously analyse what the modern world is like - perhaps because of the emotional shock of September 11," says Curtis. "People take so-called left or right positions and shout at each other. It's almost like the court of Louis XIV - people taking elaborate positions and not thinking very much."

As someone who rarely watches television, much less network or cable news, the change is astounding. More astounding is how no one else I personally know seems to recognize the difference in reporting styles and how certain topics are presented. A psychological stronghold over the media by the Bush administration is not a conspiracy, it's a tragedy.

You can download parts 1, 2, and 3 for free from this location via a BitTorrent app like Azureus. (Install app, then click on links, then click on Download box.)

Also see the article, "Star Wars film against American grain
'Revenge of Sith' mirrors themes of post 9/11 world", from SFGate.com

Robert Shull, Director of Regulatory Policy at OMB Watch, has the following to say in his recent statement, "Senate Gives Dept. Homeland Security Power to Waive All Laws", about a provision in the REAL ID Act of 2005, passed on May 10, 2005.

There is too much at stake to grant any government officials the power to waive all law. Immediately at stake, of course, are current environmental protections in the vicinity of the borders, but even more is at stake. These fences and roads will not build themselves -- they must be put in place by workers, who could lose all their workplace safety protections as well as their rights to collective bargaining or even overtime pay. This new power comes completely without limit; every law, from child labor to ethical contracting, can now be waived.

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Because we no longer get outraged (truly outraged) at laws like the PATRIOT act, and the fact that they're not given much mainstream media time, you can bet that we'll be seeing more of the same.

Personally, I'm more outraged that most people just sit back and ignore it. And most of those who actually want to talk about it, don't actually want to do something about it.

It happens because we allow it to happen.

Ho hum...

Article, "Report Finds No Link Between National IDs and Terrorism Prevention". Excerpt:

Spain, which suffered a terrorist attack killing more than 200 people in March of 2004, has a national ID card program that includes a biometric element. Since 1986, Pakistan, which also has a national ID card program with a biometric element has suffered 68 terrorist attacks, killing 420 people. During the same time frame, India, which has no national ID card program at all, suffered 46 attacks, killing 520 people.

Is it really about "terrorists" or protecting our borders? There are much better ways to do this if this were the case. National ID cards for the US have been on the table for at least 9 years, but there has always been outcry from the public (and for good reason).

National ID cards are about increasing control over a population.

Too bad, the bill (which includes the REAL ID act) has passed without debate, even though legislators in both parties urged debate and more than 600 organizations opposed the legislation.

Personally, I think the major issue at hand (besides going against many of the principles this country was built upon) is not the fact that it would function as a national ID, but the data such an ID would contain and the ease of which it could be accessed by any entity. A single identifier can bring all your personal information together in one large database. It is the major component of a myraid of interactive technology and databases that could combine the most intimate personal details with the machinations of government.

It is the method by which the authority of government will be streamlined and amplified. The introduction of such a system of identification can only substantially increase police and government power. Authorities will be able to demand the ID in a variety of circumstances, and people will have no choice but to comply. They will, in effect, be required to carry the ID around at all times.

The Department of Homeland Security, through the REAL ID act, has the right to add new requirements to the ID cards like fingerprints, iris scans, and DNA information. It also has the right to add requirements that no one has thought of yet.

Imagine the day, not so far in the future, when the technology will be cheap enough that a growing number of buildings, streets, bus terminals, schools, banks, and other gathering places will have scanning technology, connected to the Homeland Security database. We already have security checkpoints in most public schools and buildings, many of which were not there but a few years ago. No doubt, we are on the road to security system prevalence. But this is the complete opposite of a free soceity, especially because it takes away personal rights and freedoms.

And what would happen if my driver's license is confiscated by the police for a moving violation? What kind of security process would I have to go through to enter the building that holds the court in which I am to make my scheduled appearance? And what is one to do in the meantime, or if one gets their ID stolen? Sit in jail for a few hours or days while the government verifies your identity if you are "caught" without your ID? (Greeks and Argentinans caught without their ID are promptly taken to the local precinct and held while the person's identity is determined.) Under the REAL ID scheme, everyone will have a record in the national crime database.

Such a systematic disposing of individual rights could theoretically stop some criminal activity. The problem is that each such disposition also makes it more difficult for everyone, including law-abiding citizens, to live and go about their daily routine.

The aggregation of personal information for governmental use is the biggest tool of totalitarian governments. The more a government knows about everybody, and the easier it is to gain access to that information, the easier it is for them to control anyone and everyone. A high-security biometric card tied to a national database challenges every tenet of the concept of freedom that many of us in the US still hold onto. It is now withering down to just a concept, soon to be forgotten in the name of security.

And don't forget about all the fun that commercial entities will have with easy access to your personal information. (If you're annoyed by the clerk at Best Buy asking for your phone number or address, don't worry. Swiping your new ID card will automate the marketing process. Thank goodness we still have cold, hard cash.)

A simple act like purchasing a bottle of alcohol has gone through a gradual transition over the years for many consumers. Not too many years ago, you would present your ID so that the clerk could verify your age. Now, your ID is either scanned or the ID number is entered into a local or statewide database. Imagine the possibilities with a massive "security" system that could easily track all of your transactions from purchasing perishable and non-perishable goods and services to banking and investments. Tracking a future suspect's movements is so much more easy if you just track everyone's movements in the present. Then there's the matter of mining databases to draw profiles of an individual to determine the likelihood of them committing a crime in the future. DHS has already expressed interest in these kinds of technologies. (Has everyone forgotten about Total Information Awareness?)

A further crucial component was the development of biometric technology to enable the identification and tracking of individuals. DARPA had already funded its "Human ID at a Distance" program, which aimed to positively identify people from a distance through technologies such as face recognition or gait recognition. A nationwide identification system would have been of great assistance to such a project by providing an easy means to track individuals across multiple information sources.

People get excited over a thing like web 'cookies' being able to track movements over the internet. But, alas, there was no debate on REAL ID. (I would even venture to guess that the majority of the US population still doesn't know about it.) Is privacy and freedom only important on the web? Shouldn't it be much more important to our offline lives?

The cards could also be used, in theory, to repress certain populations. In apartheid South Africa, for example, national ID cards have been used to exclude blacks from voting and other activities. Don't think that such a thing could not happen in the US, because it has already. Do you really want your voting record stored on such an ID? (It's not that far-fetched, as it would also be of great benefit, in theory.) Imagine the repression possibilities with such a powerful system as the REAL ID network. A national ID only creates new forms of discrimination and harassment, and makes it easier to do it.

Perhaps the most frightening part of the bill is the precedence that it sets. This bill, passed a few days ago, allows the Department of Homeland Security to bypass any kind of judicial review, including that of the US Supreme Court. Our system of checks and balances is a cornerstone of the US Constitution. If this sacred part of our Constitution can be compromised, what is next?

Ars Technica notes:

So if judicial review is the basic mechanism that enables the Federal court system?from the Supreme Court on down?to rule on the constitutionality of laws and government actions, then how could it be possible for Congress to pass a law that includes language prohibiting judicial review for the law in question? In other words, if Congress could somehow exempt a law from judicial review, then the principle of judicial review would be completely gutted because they could just exempt from judicial review any law they wanted to, even if that law is blatantly unconstitutional or it violates basic human rights. Surely this isn't possible?

See also, "Senate Vote Gives Homeland Security Power to Waive All Law", by Robert Shull, Director of Regulatory Policy, OMB Watch.

Post in The Huffington Post that talks about how Bush once again stole the election. Not exactly a good article, and there is at least one inaccuracy, but it's enough to remind you of how democracy in the USA died at the turn of the century. (You'd think it was never that important to begin with, judging by the current affairs of state.)

Funny thing is, no one really cares. You're probably one of those people. Most people are. (So, er, I guess that makes you okay.)

Pretty much the entire population is in denial that any inequities or unconstitutionalities from the current administration have taken place, again and again.

People seem to be "sick of it" but still do nothing. Light talk is the name of the game. Just about everyone's in on it. Intuitively, we all know what has happened and is happening. "Lethargy hath caught us by surprise", to paraphrase my foot in your ass.

This is much worse than a young girl, a victim of incest, who, keeping silent and doing nothing, thus provides her father with the permission he needs to rape her more often and with greater confidence. This will, no doubt, lead her to a state of being "fucked up".

Much worse, it's an entire country of 200+ million adults.

I'm not sure that 'legislators' have thought this one through well enough.

1) The REAL ID act nationalizes the process of issuing driver's licenses and state IDs, essentially creating a national ID. (National IDs disguised as state IDs and driver's licenses, go figure.)

2) Unite disparate statewide databases into one massive nationwide database containing personal information on every American.

3) Homeland Security will have the ability to add biometric identifiers to the ID in the future

The last part is where I think, logistically speaking, they may screw up.

You will probably need this ID for any kind of transaction, authentication, or access in the police state of 2007. We live in a fearful society, and this is one of those tools that will provide our society with the 'security fix' that our new habit needs.

The lengthy authentication process is supposed to verify that your social security number, address, name, birth date, and photo are what you say they are. State agencies will handle the responsibility of verifying that the data you provided is accurate. (If you should lose the ID, must you start the whole process over again? This would be a tremendous waste of government resources, especially considering that so many people end up losing their original ID before it expires.)

Additionally, the card will also have "physical security features designed to prevent tampering, counterfeiting, or duplication of the document for fraudulent purposes".

But what's to prevent someone else from taking that little plastic card and assuming your (now complete) identity? Judging by their draft specs, it wouldn't be hard to hack personal information out of the ID. I'm sure that even corner liquor stores will be able to access your address information in 2007 with the scanners.

The verification is done for the owner of the card. In theory, this should be you. But what measures would be taken to assure that the possessor of the card is the one whose identity rests on it? Aside from the photo, how is anyone supposed to know that you are who your ID claims you to be? Biometric readers such as retinal scans are expensive to implement and maintain. I can't imagine any store having one.

This is where I think implantable RFID chips like VeriChip will come in. A store or a school could easily install an ID reader and RFID chip reader.

ID authentication would come in two parts. One part is the ID card with all of your information on it. The other part is the RFID chip, implanted under your hand for easy swiping, that authenticates your ownership of that card and, thus, your identification. It also contains your most important personal information. People that are not "authenticated" via the chip will probably receive greater scrutiny and more extensive security screening procedures. (It's all just BS, of course.)

The ideal scenario would be that the ID cannot be read if it is not receiving the low-frequency RFID signal that the chip gives out. (Or, only the most basic information is then discovered.)

There's no good solution to the identification/authentication issue. Someone could easily steal your national ID if they really wanted to, or even dig into your hand for your VeriChip if they're desperate enough.

I'm against any form of national ID card tied to a massive national database. There's no way that we can be a free people and live in The Matrix at the same time. And there would be a tremendous amount of room for abuse from those with easy access to personal information.

VeriChip is pushing the "get chipped" slogan for its line of RFID products. But I think the idea of "getting authenticated" will be the issue that really gets under peoples' skin.

Here's an idiot's guide to the Real ID Act.

What does that mean for me?
Starting three years from now, if you live or work in the United States, you'll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service. Practically speaking, your driver's license likely will have to be reissued to meet federal standards.

The Real ID Act hands the Department of Homeland Security the power to set these standards and determine whether state drivers' licenses and other ID cards pass muster. Only ID cards approved by Homeland Security can be accepted "for any official purpose" by the feds.

It goes on to...

...you'll need to bring a "photo identity document," document your birth date and address, and show that your Social Security number is what you had claimed it to be. U.S. citizens will have to prove that status, and foreigners will have to show a valid visa.

State DMVs will have to verify that these identity documents are legitimate, digitize them and store them permanently. In addition, Social Security numbers must be verified with the Social Security Administration.

Sounds like a big mess.

Here's the saddest part:

Why did these ID requirements get attached to an "emergency" military spending bill?
Because it's difficult for politicians to vote against money that will go to the troops in Iraq and tsunami relief.

What a strange state of democracy we are in that anything can be attached to any bill (by non-lawmakers, even), and passed without being read.

Sounds like the beginnings of an official police state to me. A de-facto national identification card will most likely be a mandatory item to carry around. The more important issue is the creation of the massive, national tracking database that such a program dictates. So much for freedom and anonymity.

Leave while you still can.

The United States has signed an agreement to build a US$245 million road along the western coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh.

The area was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami on December 26, 2004.

The 240-kilometre highway will connect the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, with the city of Meulaboh, which was almost wiped out by the tsunami.

We have our own tsunami right here in the fucking United States of America. It's called the economic tsunami of 2000-2005 and counting. It's called the political tsunami of 2000-2005 and counting. It's the social tsunami of 2000-2005 that's tearing our damn people apart, and no one from the high house to the crack house seems to give a shit. They're all hypnotised by the psycho.

There's nothing wrong with aid to those who need it. But a highway where before there was none? Built by the "old boys network", I'm sure.

I guess the US military wants a bigger foot in the door to the region, too, and paying for this shit is the only way the local leaders will allow it.

Sooner or later this big ass is going to bust wide open, exposing all of the policiticans and "rich and famous" pedophilies, and closeted homosexuals in the White House and Congress. Another republican politician, Spokane, Washington mayor, accused. (That makes, what, 200 republican politicians over the last 20 years?)

The media is in too much denial to report it (and the people are too afraid to swallow it). Really, the mass media act like a victim of sexual abuse. Secrecy, denial, underreporting. At least some sex abuse victims speak up, unlike the media.

The FDA is saying that homosexual men can't be anonymous sperm donors.

"Under these rules, a heterosexual man who had unprotected sex with
HIV-positive prostitutes would be OK as a donor one year later, but a gay man in a monogamous, safe-sex relationship is not OK unless he's been celibate for five years," said Leland Traiman, director of a clinic in Alameda, Calif., that seeks gay sperm donors.

Their reasoning is that all gay men pose a higher than average risk of carrying the AIDS virus. If that's truly their reasoning then why single out gay men. Why not black men, who also pose a higher than average risk because they're so afraid of being gay? Or drug users? Or men who've been arrested for soliciting prostitutes?

What they really don't want is "fag sperm" next to "regular sperm". No doubt at the request of some sperm bank customers.

A rancher that doesn't know what a milking cow looks like or one that just likes to jack off horses?

At the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner a few nights ago, Laura Bush had something to say about her huband and his milking male horses.

From BBC news:

"He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year, when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse," she said.

Laura Bush joked that she is a 'desperate housewife'. Is she actually being very serious and trying to make a point, in light of the "Jeff Gannon" scandal?

Are Americans too fucking embarassed and shocked to even think about the sanity of having this man in the White House?

Johnny D. Gosch is James D. Guckert (aka Jeff D. Gannon)

By superimposing two images of Johnny Gosch (who was kidnapped at age 12) and "James Guckert", we see that the two faces match very close to perfectly. Even the gap in the two front teeth is the same, as well as the slanted eyes. (Higher-res picture of Johnny Gosch here.)

If this is true, who kidnapped Johnny Gosch, and why? Why was he apparently selling sex and accessing the White House so frequently?

200 visits to the White House in a 2 year period and only 14 "Talon News" articles to show for it.

Where's Fox Mulder when you need him?

The second image was done via the same method, except that the second photo was flipped horizontally.

Fucking Bastard!

Rumsfeld to Free Saddam If He Stops armed insurrection

There are claims that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during his last visit to Iraq met with ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

See also here, here, here, and here.

The Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States is Prince Bandar bin Sultan, commonly referred to as "Bandar Bush"

Prince Bandar and Hunter S. Thompson were friends.. and also neighbors (they lived next door to one-another in Colorado).

In 1982, a boy named Johnny Gosch disappeared while delivering newspapers. (The second newpaper boy to disappear that year in the area.) Johnny Gosch's mother, Noreen, is still not yet sure if "James Guckert" (aka Jeff Gannon) is her son. Here's her website.

The Gannon/Gosch connection was first made public early in the morning on February 20, 2005. Later that same day, Hunter S. Thompson was found dead in his home.

Shortly thereafter, Gannon posted an article on his website titled, "Hiding in Plain Sight," and has posted a column entitled "Fear and Loathing in the Press Room," which is a reference to one of Hunter S. Thompson's stories.

Supposedly, Hunter S. Thompson was writing an expose on the September 11 WTC demolitions.

There is also some "evidence" of Hunter Thompson's involvement in snuff films for high-level politicians.

There's also the story from a guy named Paul Bonacci who says that Hunter accompanied him to Nevada (to film) after he helped another guy kidnap Johnny Gosch.

A bizarre tale.

Other interesting bits:

The name of the editor of the newpaper where Johnny Gosch worked? "J. Gannon"

If you haven't already noticed, the names James Guckert, Jeff Gannon, and Johnny Gosch, all have the initials "J.G."

Recently arrested photographer Russell E. "Rusty" Nelson--who according to U.S. District court testimony [2-5-1999] was impersonated by another photographer at Capitol Hill child sex parties during the Reagan and Bush presidencies, told us last week that in 1988 he refused Hunter Thompson?s offer of $100,000 to film a graphic child sex "snuff movie to be sold to wealthy private clients where a young boy would be murdered as a sacrifice."

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In 1974, George W. Bush spent Superbowl Sunday at a party hosted by Hunter S. Thompson.

[See previous story, "Hunter S. Thompson and the 9/11 attacks. A conspiracy?" where, coincidentally, I mention Jeff Gannon]

What a wonderful conspiracy theory! It's got it all... 9/11, oil, war, pedophiles, kidnapping, gays in the executive office, grounds for impeachment, and England's own pedophile scandal in the office of Tony Blair.

Why are so many republicans paedophiles?

Where's the popcorn?

In the new Doctor Who series on BBC (Episode 4: "Aliens of London"), a spaceship crashes into Big Ben. Immediately after, an alien pig is found in the Thames river. Another race gets blamed for the attack while the real perpetrators are the government, working behind the scenes.

London is then put under martial law. They then use the staged attack as a pretext to launch a war on the other race, saying that the other race will attack earth with weapons of mass destruction if they don't attack first. It turns out that the real reason for the pre-emptive attack is to get the other planet's fuel reserves.

I wonder if the pig's driver's license expired on September 11, 2001 like Atta's? Smells like a rat to me.

According to the state of Florida, a Florida driving license "expires at midnight on the licensee's birthday which next occurs on or after the sixth anniversary of the date of issue." The pig's license expired 2 years after it was issued, and not on his birthday.