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• Good. We finally agree on something. But, that doesn't let you off the hook, with all forgiven. Now you must recognize your accountability, admit to your total lack of leadership from the top down, and explain what went wrong. We challenge you. Fess up or face the consequences, both you and all your corprocrat friends.
  
  
   

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  The mystery of body recovery operation: Here is one of the very, very few stories with photos that can be found on the Internet that documents only a very small piece of this very large story. BushCo and even the state and local governments don't want you to know what the real death toll in New Orleans and the rest of south Louisiana is. They claim the Mayor's initial projection of over 10,000 fatalities was made under conditions of extreme personal distress and frustration. Other officials including General Honere, the New Orleans Homeland Security Director, and other top FEMA and Homeland Security officials have been beating the drums with the media since the President's visit last Friday, 9/9/05, that the body count would be far, far less than the Mayor's estimate, perhaps as low as several hundred.
  
  Each day, since the day after the hurricane swept through,  there have been eyewitness media reports and survivor interviews indicating a pervasive stench of death throughout much of the 80% of New Orleans that was flooded, many bodies floating in the flood waters or lying in the streets in areas where the water had receded, many to be found inside flooded homes and public facilities, such as hospitals and nursing homes and, of course inside and outside of the Superdome and the Civic Center buildings. When these reports are added up, the count of the dead far exceed what has been officially reported.
  
  The National Guard and US Army personnel have been instructed first to totally prohibit media coverage of body recovery operations and even after a CNN requested federal court restraining order was issued on 9/10/05, the media continue to be threatened a prohibited from accompanying recovery operations personnel.  This commentator personally witnessed a CNN TV report on Monday night, 9/12/05, where soldiers in a New Orleans suburb prohibited the reporter and cameraman from filming a recovery operation. The story was never repeated and a written report was never reported on the CNN web site.
  
  What is going on here? Why is our government trying to minimize the body count? Where are all of the bodies being taken, and how are they being "processed" and ultimately "disposed of."  Will the truth ever be known? Not if the media gives up on this story. There are reportedly 40,000 people currently missing and unaccounted for in the New Orleans area. Many, hopefully, will be found. But the specter of officially sanctioned and totally disrespectful disposal of the dead hangs heavily over the New Orleans recovery operation. What ever the body count, there is the open question of what caused these many unnecessary deaths. Perhaps more than just the owners of one New Orleans nursing home should be charged with negligent homicide and improper handling of respectful care of the dead.

• What went wrong? Read a compilation of the history of events in New Orleans from 9/27/05 to 9/2/05, when President Bush arrived with the cavalry, four days after Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches destroyed much of the city. This summary is lengthily and unbiased in it's reporting, but still is lacking in many details that would tell of the bias, carelessness, thinking, or lack thereof, behind many of the on the spot planning and action decisions made by government officials at all levels.
  
  It would appear that in the face of an actual disaster, although hurricane disaster plans had been drawn up at all levels, most of the plans, other than the evacuation of those owning motor vehicles, were either forgotten or deliberately not followed under the orders of various officials and bureaucrats for, as of now, unknown reasons. Perhaps, one of the reasons for the failures of these plans were the massive reductions or complete lack of funding to run plan exercises and correct problems and oversights in the plans. This lack of preparation is, in of itself, inexcusable.
  
  There are lots of questions to be asked and lots of answers to be given before we will know why a large segment of the poor, elderly, sick and disabled population of New Orleans was essentially tortured and in some cases allowed to die during this unprecedented, but thoroughly predictable, disaster.  Contrary to what your government and those associated with them keep saying: "Now is not the time to be playing the blame game," it is indeed the time to be asking questions and getting answers from those bearing responsibility and accountability.  To do otherwise would invite the inevitable haze of time and relentless propaganda assaults to blur reality, and allow those that need to be held accountable to escape once again. 
  
  To those on the ground actually performing rescue and recovery in real time, there is never a time to play the blame game, only a time to do the job. All of us not directly involved in the disaster recovery efforts have every right to immediately begin to ask questions, get answers and take action to remove those who can not or will not uphold their responsibilities to the people of America.

• We shouldn't be playing the "blame game," should we. Well, the FEMA Chief appears to have been targeted for blame, but even he isn't being officially blamed, just replaced for the next stage of the operation, so to speak. Of course, BushCo is blaming everyone else but their own team for the atrocities perpetrated on the people and city of New Orleans. Listen to this catchy little ditty from Air America's, The Jerry Springer Show.
  
  

• It's not politically prudent to be blamed for the death of thousands and not respond with the propaganda that we are so familiar with that has been used in Iraq, for example. Given the circumstances and the extent of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, especially with no timely rescue of those trapped in the flood waters in New Orleans, much less in similar areas throughout the greater New Orleans area, we were told by local officials to expect at least 10,000 deaths. Now the propaganda drums are rolling. Every story on disaster relief from New Orleans since Friday morning (9/9/05) has emphasized that recovery personnel are not finding many dead bodies, and that the death toll will be minimal. Strangely, no one has provided a running count of bodies found, and the media has been barred from accompanying and recording body recovery operations.
  
  No sane person would want to see a large death toll, but something is wrong when your government attempts to minimize the evidence of the criminal negligence that they have committed. This past week, 132 bodies were found in just two buildings in the New Orleans suburb of Chalmette. This was the last media report allowed on the body recovery efforts. You can see why. This is a telling indicator of the total extent of the death that has occurred. There is something very, very wrong with this picture of a catastrophic disaster. The number of evacuees, the estimated number of those still remaining in their homes alive, and the total population of the New Orleans metro area do not match with the number of those potentially missing or dead. Something smells in New Orleans, and it is not just the overpowering stench of death that pervades the air in many sections of the city.
  
  We hope for the lowest true count of the number of dead, but let us not be lied to by our government to serve their ongoing campaign of deception regarding casualties surrounding operations they manage - be it war or disaster recovery. We need to demand the truth, and hope that the media can, in some way, pursue the story, and provide us with the evidence to support our conclusions.
  
  UPDATE: 9/10/05 - CNN filed suit for right to cover search for bodies of Katrina victims and FEMA and the Pentagon have backed off on their ban of media from New Orleans searches. Let us hope that CNN and other media will not be manipulated into not getting the full story. Time will tell. Thank you CNN for standing up for your and our rights.

• Bush returns to Louisiana, far away from the main storm damage. A meeting with the Governor was not planned, but she showed up anyway, and told the President that she would not allow the federalizing of the Louisiana National Guard. Bush gave her a kiss (she winced) after an hour and a half meeting, then quickly left in an obvious huff. It was a good thing Senator Landrieu  was not there, she stated she was ready to give him a belt in the face if he and other members of his administration continued to denigrate and place blame on state and local officials.
  
   

• As expected, the Secretary of Homeland Security and his totally incompetent and unknowledgeable Director of FEMA are pointing fingers at the state and local governments for the mismanagement of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Shame on them. The federal government bears criminal negligence responsibility for the mismanagement of this disaster, which has caused and continues to cause the death of thousands upon thousands of people. US Senator Landrieu from Louisiana also says federal response is unacceptable.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
   

• It seems to be a secret that the survivors from New Orleans are not only being relocated to Houston and other large Texas city facilities, but are being taken to various Department of Homeland Security (DHS) facilities in various states, such as Oklahoma. The people who thought they were being delivered to Houston, found themselves forced back onto buses and shipped off to places unknown to them and to us. Although there has been mention of relocation to other cities and towns by various national newscasters beginning on Saturday, 9/3/05, no specifics have been given on TV or on media websites. Here is a story from Muskogee, Oklahoma that tells a part of the real evacuation and relocation story.  2000 survivors, designated refugees in the story, are to be interred at Camp Gruber, an official DHS facility with an unknown function that has a history of being a National Guard post and a WWII Interment Camp near Muskogee. This story is being repeated at other DHS camps and Army bases across the country. These camps will provide housing, clothing, food and water, but one wonders how these people, who are US citizens, not prisoners, will be treated, and what their long term prospects are. These 2000 people will be "guarded"  for security purposes by several hundred Oklahoma National Guard soldiers.

• “This place is going to look like Little Somalia," and we are fighting the "insurgency" in New Orleans. Are these people crazy? These are statements from those in charge of the National Guard efforts in New Orleans. Our own citizens are to be treated the same as foreign terrorist insurgents.

• In Biloxi, MS, Bush kissed (ptuheh!) both women (pictured) on their heads and walked with his arms around them, telling them they could get help from the Salvation Army (but not from their government). “Hang in there,” he said. They better hang in, because the Salvation Army says they are already running out of supplies. How could that be? Maybe all the rest of us Generous Americans aren't giving enough? We shouldn't have to give to private charities and TV telethons, with high "administrative" costs to fund the response to public disasters. That is what government and our tax dollars should do. Asked later how the richest country on Earth could not meet the needs of its people, Bush said “I am satisfied with the response. I am not satisfied with all the results.” This man is either just stupid or thinks we are. You need solid results to define an even satisfactory response. Let's face it, there has been no satisfactory response, much less satisfactory results. The too late with too little response of this President and his administration can be categorized as criminally negligent if not worse. What more pain and aguish can this man and his cronies bring upon the American people. He must go and soon. Go to Washington on 9/24/05 and express your anger.

• President Bush sought Thursday (9/1/05) to reassure victims of Hurricane Katrina that the federal government is doing its best to send aid to the thousands of displaced and stranded people. Let's face it Dubya, you failed on all counts. You and your government agencies and your military have accomplished virtually nothing since they have had the opportunity since Monday night following the Hurricane, especially and most critically in New Orleans. People are dying in front of our eyes, and your legions of personnel, large numbers of air / land / water rescue vehicles and gigantic mountains of food and water are invisible in the locations where they are so desperately needed. You have the nerve to say what you are planning and what you will be providing "soon," and ask for the desperate and dying people of New Orleans to have patience. The Mayor of New Orleans has issued an SOS of desperation.  You also have the gall to ask the rest of the American people to shovel more money to the Red Cross and other private "humanitarian" organizations who have yet to lift a finger to help anyone in a whole dying city. The Red Cross has a history of talent in raising contributions and a strange skill in misappropriating most of them. Many other charitable organizations seek to greedily emulate their model of capitalizing on death and destruction. The master of such deceptive greed is of course our own Federal Government - witness the "reconstruction" of Iraq, and the 2004 Florida boondoggle headed by FEMA (all talk and no action except in assisting corporate recovery.  Shame on you all, you have brought and continue to bring undeserved suffering upon the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The anger of the American people is rising by the minute. What will you do when they have you all backed against your office walls in Washington? Got to your caves in Colorado and hide, while you  dispense more terror and murder on the American people?

• Bush goes to California for a war remembrance ceremony and a round of golf, while the City of New Orleans is on the verge of dieing. Bush cut FEMA funding for planning for this disaster in 2004. The only plans in place were evacuation plans for those possessing motor vehicles. Many center city residents in New Orleans have no cars. Tourists in the city were trapped? What was the excuse for that? Many questions surround the biggest natural disaster in the history of the United States. Will there be any answers?

• In contrast to the Nazi police state tactics seen below in Utah, the Mayor of St. Lake City speaks out against Bush, his supporters, the Iraq War and the complacency of most US politicians. He said it is time to say that we the people have had enough and we are not going to take it any more.  Bravo, Mr. Mayor. You and millions of other citizens of our once democracy need to stand up and keep shouting this to those who think we are powerless to remove them from power.

• Police state tactics used against a crowd of young ravers at a legal permitted gathering in Utah. Helicopters with high powered spot lights, attack dogs, "police" in Army combat uniforms, face covering black ski-masks, and assault weapons pitted against innocent, drug and alcohol free children and young adults. What prompted this action? Was it a training exercise for our NorthCom Homeland security troops? So it seems because no one was doing anything illegal. Many false arrests and many kids brutally beaten with fists, boots and gun butts by the Pride of Utah. No mention of this blatant fascist terrorism in the national mainstream media. But, here is a video that escaped confiscation during the mass arrests. It is a horror to watch the depravity of Neocon America.

• Rumsfeld launches Saturday Night Special, literally on 8/20/05, against Anti War Activists. Slathering, slimy, war-money-gluttons applaud and scream: "FOUR MORE YEARS, FOUR MORE YEARS...!" This also gives you some idea that BushCo plans to be around past 2008. You should be very scared. And, how are we going to fund and launch those destroy and occupy attacks against Iran, Syria, Egypt, Syria, Venezuela, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia (an undercover occupation since the Saudi King is a Bush kissin' cousin), while at the same time gearing up NorthCom troops for the overthrow of the Democratic Republic of the United States of America? Answer: your tax dollars, or off to the camps you go, and the universal draft your sons and daughters, or off to the camps you all go.  Have you had enough yet? Have you, labeled as consumers rather than citizens, awakened from your mall and SUV based dream world? FOUR MORE YEARS!

• Hypocrites and Liars By Cindy Sheehan:

  I got an email the other day and it said, "Cindy if you didn't use so much profanity ... there's people on the fence that get offended. And you know what I said? "You know what? You know what, god damn it? How in the world is anybody still sitting on that fence?

  If you fall on the side that is pro-George and pro-war, you get your ass over to Iraq, and take the place of somebody who wants to come home. And if you fall on the side that is against this war and against George Bush, stand up and speak out.

  And, Bush's response on his latest Saturday Radio address, which apparently is a tape recording of the same one he has used each week since he has been on his summer vacation in the armpit of the world.

  "Our troops know that they're fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere to protect their fellow Americans from a savage enemy," Bush said in his weekly radio address.

  "They know that if we do not confront these evil men abroad, we will have to face them one day in our own cities and streets, and they know that the safety and security of every American is at stake in this war, and they know we will prevail," he said.

  Sorry, people of Crawford, Texas, he made it that when he moved in.

• "I swear I didn't do it." Bush takes oath on a copy of the 9/11 Commission Report. Many people around the world and especially in New York City, now think it was an inside job. Finally a major newspaper article and book has appeared in England supporting at least a questioning of the official 9/11 myth, and asking important questions that point to, at the very least complicity by some members of our government to allow and encourage a terrorist attack and possibly even assist in the demolition jobs that accompanied the plane attacks. When will US mainstream media rise to this level of questioning and support of fact finding? Probably not until the Neocons and their mega-corprocrat backers, who control our media, have magically lost their power. We the people can work magic if we have the will. Do we? 

• Bush still insists that we are in Iraq to help build a democracy, even as the mothers and relatives of the murdered military personnel gather around the President's ranch, looking for a verbal confrontation with Mr. Chicken. The Iraqi people do not understand, and their "elected" leaders do not want, a democracy. And, if they look at America as an example, they can see the reality of a paper democracy that no longer is functional. Let's face it, we are in Iraq to make lots of money for our corporate benefactors (read oppressors) and ready ourselves for the complete takeover of the Middle East and it's resources, no matter how many civilians and military personnel die fighting for and against the corporate monster.

•  Those closest to the Iraq War, the mother of a murdered soldier and even the commander of all those soldiers in Iraq, are speaking out against Bush and his cabal.  They are both being rebuked by the cowardly promoter of death and destruction for profit, Bush.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Rumy gets his way (he always does, when it comes to dealing with "insubordination"). A four star General is fired from his command for committing adultery (he didn't, even technically).  Rumors are that he was fired not just because he has disagreed with Rumsfeld in the past, but that he does not support plans for invading Iran, for placing the US under NorthCom controlled martial law in case of another massive terrorist attack, and perhaps for being opposed to the training exercise being controlled from his home base in Virginia, scheduled for August 17, 2005 that simulates a response to a terrorist nuclear bomb attack near Charleston, SC.

• While Stepford "Bobsie" clone police (remember the Star Wars clone soldiers) march though London streets armed to the teeth, NYPD Chief Kelly declares he knows all about how the London bombs were made and detonated before anyone in London was given the story. Well, Chief Kelly is a friend of Mr. Giuliani, security consultant for the London Transit Authority. So he gets his propaganda first hand. Love the cell phone detonation explanation. Do they sell these magic alarm clock equipped cell phones that generate enough amps to set of a detonator here in the US?  Cell phones take pictures, so why not? Look out for that swarthy young man with the cell phone sitting next to you on the subway (or the bus, train or plane), he may have it wired into a strap-on bra-bomb. Run before he presses the power on button!

• Emperor Bush proclaims wild and crazy guy Bolton our UN Ambassador. "This post is too important to leave vacant any longer, especially during a war and a vital debate about U.N. reform," Bush said. The UN may be in for a bigger structural renovation than Kofi had envisioned. "The Donald" may get his way soon. He wants to tear down the UN building and build a new one.  Does this scenario sound familiar?
  
  
   
   

• He certainly looks like he is a terrorist (he's not white and he is a Muslim), but who is he really, and what does he have to do with the 7/7 London bombings? Have we been convinced that the first attack has been fully analyzed, no further investigation needed, and conclusions drawn - suicide attack by Al Qaeda cell, no survivors? Remember that too many people were coming to the conclusion that 7/7 was an inside job, and then magically on 7/21, we have a new set of bombs that all mysteriously do not explode and all the bombers and their associates survive and are arrested. If you don't convince the sheep the first time around, just do it again, but this time don't use your own people to do the job. And, don't kill anyone, because that could cause law suits and criminal charges against the perpetrators that could reveal the truth about their identities and their non-involvement in terrorist plots.
  
  Ask the question again. Who is this person in the photo above and his partners in crime? Answer: illegal immigrants, with faked IDs and other paperwork, and citizens involved with illegal immigration activities, who the British government was tracking. They had the photos, the paperwork and the address and phone numbers of them all. No wonder it was so easy to produce photos for the media within 24 hours and nab them all within 10 days, not that they did not run and try to hide. What would you do, if they were chasing you like the poor innocent Brazilian that they made an example of? It is a logical conclusion that this was the purpose of the police, or whoever they were, committing that tragic, heinous and unpunished crime. Did these young men commit a terrorist act? No, but under duress, they will say they did. Who wants to be kept in prison and tortured for the rest of his life? Remember Britain has its version of the Patriot Act. These guys have been designated enemy combatants. 
  
  It is shocking to see that even the alternative media (sites like us and the bloggers) seem to be buying in to this gigantic terroristic fraud, being perpetrated by BushCo and his British Blairite lapdogs - NWO puppets all, by their absolute lack of commentary. They seem to be thinking: maybe there really are Muslim terrorists, even if they are just misguided amateurs, who are protesting the Iraq War. The War on Terrorism, as Bush stated on 7/7/05, must continue. All of us "free" people of the world must remain vigilant and afraid, because there is a terrorist hiding just around every corner waiting to strike and kill us and our children. Just who are those terrorists?

• After weeks of "terror" in London, BushCo and QE2 lapdog Tony Blair says sorry about that innocent Brazilian we killed, but we were right in doing so, and there will be more people killed at the discretion of the police. Warning! Don't look or act the wrong way, and don't wear bulky clothes. New York awaits its turn for staged false flag terrorist attacks and the murder of innocent civilians in the name of "freedom." Black shirted and helmeted "special" police roam the streets and subways of New York and the metro area, striking loathing and fear in the hearts of the citizens of our ex-democracy. The police state has arrived in both Great Britain and the United States.

• The Bush administration does not intend to release all memos and others documents written by Supreme Court nominee and humble, sweet, religious, family man John Roberts during his tenure with two Republican administrations, a White House representative said Sunday. Fred D. Thompson, the former Tennessee senator who is guiding Roberts through the nomination process on behalf of the White House, said material that would come under attorney-client privilege would be withheld. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy said, “It’s a total red herring to say, ’Oh, we can’t show this.’ And of course there is no lawyer-client privilege. Those working in the solicitor general’s office are not working for the president. They’re working for you and me and all the American people,” He's right. There is no privilege to hid information that will be damning to both BushCo administrations. Let's see the documents.

   

• Over two years latter and Baghdad and Iraq outside of the sacred Green Zone, where BushCo puppets pretend to create a permanent constitution, are in utter chaos. American sponsored, self inflicted slow genocide and destruction of the Iraqi civilization continues on a daily basis. Aren't we proud to be Amuricans? Bring 'em on! Who's next? We'll find out soon.
  
  
  
  
  
   

• “I think there is a legitimate feeling, ’Why me? What did I do wrong?”’ Florida Governor, Jeb Bush said.  Jeb, you should talk to your brother and his partners,  Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice.  Maybe it's karma, baby.
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• BUSHCO hopes to pack congress with multi-millionaires, who believe that the best thing that can be done for America is to abolish the minimum wage. Within a few years, you will be paid the same slave labor wages that the Chinese workers are paid to produce the cheap shoddy goods you buy at Wal-Mart. It's the only way to save American manufacturing and service sector jobs, isn't it?

• London suffers the same treatment as Madrid as troop reductions in Iraq were secretly being contemplated, and as the global fear of terrorists was declining. We need to be reminded by trumpeting world leaders while the G8 Summit was in progress, accomplishing nothing of substance, that we need to be afraid and they will continue the great War on Terrorism to protect us. A terrorist attack exercise was being held the morning when the actual attack was carried out, a la 9/11. It was so easy to plant those bombs on the subway tracks and then have three agents stand in three subway stations and send the ignition signal. Who were those WASP looking guys seen entering the subway tunnels hours before the bombs went off - recruited WASP Al Qaeda mercenaries?

• DUUH, "I think about Iraq every day." I think of all the money me and my friends is makin'. I think of all that all oil just flowing into our refineries to make that high priced gas to power all those high priced SUVs. Just makes me lick my chops! You think we got problems in Iraq? "Look at all the facts." It's them terrists. They's causing all our problems. Will we be leavin' soon? No way! We won't leave 'til we have a victory, no matter what the cost in money and lives, all because I say so. And, you Iranians better look out, I'm gonna get you too. It's great to be the King!

• The War with Iran has already begun. It is scary to think that we are preparing to launch an invasion of this last major Middle-Eastern Oil producer, when we are dealing with chaos in Iraq and a complete failure of military recruitment activities at home. But, the truth is that what is happening in Iraq, the slow butchering of the Iraqi people at their own hands with provocation provided by our own corporate mercenary soldiers (not US Military troops), has been planned by the BushCo Neocons from the beginning of this war. We have an excuse to remain entrenched in the heart of the Middle East, ready to invade any other country in the region and, by provoking violence and revenge, we kill off those Iraqis that oppose us and our plans for raping their oil resources. At home, the plan is already in place to supply our military with more than enough cannon fodder to invade Iran and subjugate it just as we did Iraq. Of course, we refer to the planned universal, no-exemptions draft of all between the ages of 18 and 39(?) to serve, either directly in the military, or in military operations supply and support positions. Remember, Bush could soon be saying the same thing about Iran as he did recently about Iraq, "We will never leave until we have victory."

• I came a knockin', but they wouldn't let me in. Representative Jim Conyers, ranking Democrat of the House Judiciary Committee, held his own committee hearing today in the basement of the Capitol to initiate inquiries that could lead to an impeachment of Emperor Bush.  The Committee Chair, NeoCon Sensenbrenner, refused to recognize and hold the hearing or provide an official hearing room for the event. After the hearing concluded, Conyers joined thousands in front of the White House gates and demanded entry to deliver a petition to Bush, signed by over 560,000 citizens (including this webmaster), demanding that he answer the questions included in the petition that could result in his impeachment for misleading Congress concerning the need to invade Iraq and the resulting killing and injuring of thousands of US soldiers and civilians and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. Conyers, even as though he is a member of Congress, was denied admittance, but ultimately Bush staff members retrieved the petition for delivery to......the White House dumpster.  Overall, this was a sad day for our now dead democratic republic turned corprocratic empire, but the brave Conyers, 122 of his fellow Democratic Congressmen and the citizen petitioners are keeping hope alive that we can overthrow the Emperor and restore the Republic.

• US lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war. American officials lied to British ministers over the use of "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq. Yesterday's disclosure led to calls by MPs for a full statement to the Commons and opened ministers to allegations that they held back the facts until after the general election. Not only did we use "jellied petrochemical products," but evidence for use of illegal phosphorus bombs also exists in the form of eyewitness reports from burned Iraqi civilians.

• Halliburton to build new $30 mln Guantanamo jail. Only days after ex-Haliburton CEO Dick Cheney announced that contrary to recent statements by other government officials, including Bush and Rumsfeld, the US Government has no intentions of shutting down GITMO. Indeed, it  is no clear that there was never any real consideration given to the idea. The contract was laying around waiting to be signed.

• BUSH LIED - PEOPLE DIED! What else is there to say, but IMPEACH BUSH!

• GITMO called Nazi death camp by Democratic Senate Whip Durbin (IL). It's about time that our Congressmen represent the opinions of the people rather than the corprocrats. Let's keep going Mr. Durbin. A Nazi death camp can only be run by Nazis, right? That means your Emperor and his NeoCon compatriots are Nazis, right? So, act now while you still have some democratic power to do so.

• Could even some NeoCon sympathizers be turning on BushCo? A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President [sic] George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is 'bogus' and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.  BUSH and Company KILLED 2800 American Citizens? IMPEACH for High Crimes and more than misdemeanors.

• Boo Hoo! Cheney is offended that he is criticized, along with Bush and Rumsfeld, for being international criminals by Amnesty International. To bad, you don't like it Dick. You and the rest should be on trial already. Remember Penochet? Try traveling after your term is over.

• Bush is on his way to pay "solemn" tribute to our war dead, including those he ordered to Iraq and Afghanistan, in Arlington National Cemetery. As you can see, he was in a "happy days are here again" mood as he prepared to "honor" the dead. BushCo's coffers continue to fill on the backs of our troops and the Iraqi and Afghani people. What a charade this is: Memorial Day USA. We all know it is party time and consumerism that drive our national holiday, while we continue to murder the populations of other countries and sacrifice or own sons and daughters on the corporate alter. Bush told those in attendance at this ceremony: "Honor their sacrifice." Indeed, they have been sacrificed.
  
  Seems that Rumsfeld is having trouble finding his heart, while Bush is having trouble finding his soul during the Memorial Day ceremony.
   

• Heroic Galloway Blasts US Lies & Corruption. British MP George Galloway, in a US Senate  committee hearing looking into the Iraq Food for Oil Program scandal,  of which he is accused of being a part of, denies the accusation of his complicencytells his own story of US Corporate and BushCo involvement in not only that scandal, but in the rape of Iraq since it's invasion. He points the finger of responsibility directly back at his accusers in the now powerless and useless US Senate.

• Condi asks that we all be patient. How many more American and Iraqi lives and limbs will be sacrificed. How much more money will they bleed from the Social Security Trust Fund to finance the conquest of Iraq? “We are so grateful that there are Americans willing to sacrifice so the Middle East will be whole, and free and democratic and at peace,” she told several hundred people packed into a former Republican Palace that is now part of the embassy complex.  We bet you are grateful that the American people haven't put you, Georgie, and the rest of BushCo behind bars where you belong.
  
  
   

• President Bush is stealing your Social Security Trust Funds to subsidize his wars and tax breaks for the rich and telling you that the fund does not exist and that Social Security is going broke. If he is allowed to continue to steal the funds, his claims will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

• Another allusive super-terrorist, Al Zarqawi, head of Al Qaida Iraq, slips by us again, by jumping from a moving vehicle and hiding in beneath an underpass, presumably for many hours until a US checkpoint broke up and moved on. Then he used his detectable two way radio to summon a follower to pick him up in the dead of night as unmanned US Predator armed surveillance craft circled overhead like giant vampire bats seeking their prey with ultrasonics and infrared night vision. Makes a great piece of fiction to support the continued media life of a long dead Jordanian terrorist. Such remarkable acrobatics and stealth for a man with a wooden leg and a somewhat portly build. Also his command of portable computer technology is remarkable - a sack full of mini hard drives and the latest model Sony Viao laptop with the latest updated Windows XP OS and a full load of anti-virus, anti-worm and anti-spyware software installed.  Since all this super-terrorist action-hero stuff occurred two months ago, why talk about it now? Oh, and where is master super-terrorist Osama these days? Rehearsing for another white robe threat speech delivered in the Aljazeera TV studios in Qutar? 

• The Al Queda Mouse wants to martyr himself to keep the 9/11 myth of an Islamic terrorist jihad alive.  What is wrong with this picture. Could he be a betrayed CIA operative, who just wants to end it all. We still wonder what was on that confiscated laptop that Moussaoui had in his possession. The FBI maintains it has all the 9/11 plans which is enough to convict him of the crimes with which he is charged. But, the contents have never been made public. Why? Maybe the plans are for different 9/11 scenario than the one we were led to believe to be true by the 9/11 Commission Report. FBI nabs CIA operative. Plans are shocking to FBI, which buries them. 9/11 happens. Moussaoui was carrying the plans, and knows to much. He remains under arrest, is charged with conspiring to commit the 9/11 crimes and is prosecuted in court without any evidence, which is protected under the National Security Act,  being presented. He tries to bring in witnesses to testify in his fight to reveal the truth about Al Queda involvement in 9/11, and is blocked by the Justice Department and the courts. Now, he just wants to give up and be a martyr. His secrets will remain hidden, whether he dies or remains in prison for life.
  
  And, twenty-four suspected al-Qaida members went on trial Friday, including the group’s alleged ringleader in Spain and two associates accused of aiding one of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots who flew a jetliner into the World Trade Center. It's round-up time. Anyone connected with those who were supposed to be the 9/11 hijackers will be silenced, if possible, by BushCo agents around the world. 

• Bush calls Pope's funeral, one of the highlights of his presidency. He enjoyed it more than he thought he would, he said. This from a man that has never been to a funeral for a soldier killed in combat in Iraq or Afghanistan.  Yes funerals can be a fun social event, as long as you are not the one in the coffin. Bush, the dispenser of death to hundreds of thousands around the world, has a known anathema for viewing the results of death.  Strange, the few times that this man, who speaks with God daily according to himself, has been in any church since being President have always been State Funerals or Memorials.
  
  
  
   

• NYC ex-Mayor Giuliani was told, he says, in this Peter Jennings, ABC News Interview, that the World Trade Center Tower #2 was going to collapse. This implies that others and perhaps even he knew that the almost impossible was going to imminently occur. At the very least, shame on you and the rest of BushCo. This quote has been around since 2001, but the video evidence has been conveniently forgotten until now.
  
  
  
   

• Fannie Mae, the nations biggest mortgage lender, is tied to the railroad tracks and the train is coming. It's the Perils of Fannie Mae. The future looks bleak for the BushCo crowd if the lending institutions that support both public and private debt go broke and investors around the world start trading in Euros instead of Dollars. The saving scenario for BushCo: More war, death and destruction.
  
  
  
   

• No more oil? What is a world to do? The end is neigh, but BushCo and its buddies in other world power centers don't seem to care. Do they know something we don't? Do they have plans to save themselves of which we are unaware? The agenda is to thin "the herd" through war, disease and catastrophic "acts of God," all the while making trillions in profits and perhaps fulfilling those ready made Biblical Prophesies. That being done, the world will be a much better place for the rich and famous, or at least that is what they believe. You don't have to believe that vision or let their reality manifest. Do something about it now!

• A good question for Barbara Bush. Of course she is proud that once again her sons have trampled on the law and our citizens for political gain. It's the Bush way. Another example of the mainstream media/BushCo partnership diversion of attention tactics. Rather than letting the body of this woman die in peace, the politics of the Right have trumpeted the story into a national media circus. Preachers are featured as commentators on news shows, and the Right to Lifers threaten again to kill a human being in order to save a body that is no longer human, except in appearance, as a bizarre manipulated, painted doll. The American "Christian" Culture of Death crusade marches on. After Terri Schiavo passes, she will be immediately forgotten in the scramble to find a new pseudo-martyr to promote. We should not overlook the fact that Bush had to be prodded into giving condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives in the tragic school shooting incident at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota, whereas, he rushed from the ranch to Washington to sign a bill to support Terri Schiavo's parents in their quest to artificially sustain the life of their former daughter's body. There was no political hay to be made by supporting a few Native Americans in their time of grief and loss of life.

• BUSHCO's Boys! Male prostitutes plying the back rooms and closets of the White House and Crazed Death Video-Gamers on the loose in Iraq. Our crusaders delight in producing amateur music videos portraying their pleasure in killing, maiming and torturing Iraqis and destroying Iraqi homes and shops. Yes, they love this stuff, trade the videos among themselves and proudly show their friends at home their sick work. These guys just don't get it. They have been brainwashed by the violence and carnage in movies and video games to the point that they are soulless apologists. Our country is sick beyond words. Are you proud to be an American?

• Bush to World: The Wolf is at your door. Wolfie is appointed head of World Bank. Does that make sense? He's not a banker, but a scholar of Neo-Con politics and policies. Think about it. The World Bank is in the business of financing "reconstruction" in third world countries.  In the NeoCon view, war creates opportunities for profits in it's execution and in the reconstruction that must follow the destruction. Wolfowitz showed himself to be the master of planning for maximizing expenditures to line the pockets of the big multi-national corporations through the conquest and destruction of Iraq.  He's the perfect guy to wield the money bags for the benefit of our out-of-control warmongering empire. 

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  Bush turns up the war drums. US and  Israel will invade Lebanon, Syria and Iran in the name of our "freedom" to complete our conquest of the Middle East and the acquisition of its resources. What goes though all three countries - major oil pipelines and Iran has major oil and gas reserves. As long as Egypt and Saudi Arabia remain vassal states, they will be left alone. The minute their is a people's revolution, they will be invaded as well. Once we have all the major oil supplies, we will hold the world-wide economic upper hand. How long will the rest of the world stand back and do nothing in the wake of a total oil embargo by the US? Are the Neocons crazy? They always have their underground bases to nest in, while the rest of the world slaughters itself.

• The sinking of the American economy. Because of Bush's continued trillion dollar deficit spending on tax breaks for the rich and corporate subsidies, the holders of our debt are about to pull the plug. Our response - War. Everyone wins except the soldiers and civilians killed, but we need to thin the population while making a profit.

• Navy plans to sink America. If you can't do it one way, try it another.  Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, National Consumption Tax and elimination of Income Tax, Bush attacks from all corners.

• Senile spokesman for thieving BushCo and the banking system, Alan Greenspan, goes off the deep end before he retires.  He recommends to Congress that  we cure all our problems by eliminating income taxes that are mostly paid by the rich and by making all the poor and middle class citizens pay a tax to do what they are supposed to do in our society: consume. This man's brain has gone haywire? No, he is only telling you the reality that BushCo wishes to create in America. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and soon die.

• Keep pushing those pills - FDA panel says keep Vioxx, Celebrex, Bextra on the market. Advisory group says there are risks but benefits outweigh them. Those benefits include making a lot of profits for the drug companies and helping dispose of unwanted elderly and disabled people, who are viewed as a drain on our economy and our health care system. Merck voluntarily removed Vioxx from the market months ago, but now they will be allowed to ignore their own decision and place our citizens, especially the elderly and disabled in jeopardy of early death. This is a decision to authorize murder for profit. BushCo strikes again.

• Frivolous lawsuits be gone. The House of Representatives joined the Senate in sending a clear message to the nation: the rights of large corporations that take advantage of seniors, low-wage workers and local communities are more important than the rights of average American citizens. It's payback time for the special interests who paid for the fraudulent re-election of Bush.

• Does this chart make you angry? It should. The top dogs will be getting all the new tax breaks and you will get none. What else does Bush have planned for the peasants?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Iraqis voted, and after the longest election and ballot count we have ever seen outside of Florida in 2000, we now know who won this sham. Well, we sort of know who won. The religious Shiites won enough seats in the new Iraqi Parliament to form a coalition with the Kurds and other minority parties, but the question remains: who will be Prime Minister, President and the two Vice Presidents? The Bush crowd are pulling strings and making alliances behind the scenes, including resurrecting Chalabi, now than Rumsfeld's Neocon SS operation has supplanted the CIA in running many foreign "intelligence" operations.  Bush wants to assure that the election assures that those in power continue to support the US occupation and its nefarious activities.

• You elected him. Now suffer. Bush approval rating down to 45%. Unprecedented that the post inauguration honeymoon would be over in less than a month. But then, he committed fraud to win again, so what do you expect? Four more years of crimes against humanity and the planet await us.
  
  
  
  
  
   

• So, whats you gonna do? Kim Jong tells Bush to stuff some North Korean Nukes up his bum. Bush finding out that things are not going to always go his way in his plan of world domination. Iran promises burning hell if we invade, Russia and China have signed a mutual cooperation agreement. India and Brazil are telling us to mind our own business, and Secretary of Consorts, Condi Rice, gets nowhere in Europe.
  
  
  
  
  
   
   

• Spreading American Values Globally. Just a few bad apples? We all know it comes from the Shrub, Albertorture Gonzalez and the rest of the Fascist clique. As we say in Greek: "The fish stinks from the head." (contribution from Peter Economou)
  
   

• Out selling out Social Security. BushCo's key goal for 2005/2006:  Keep harping to the propaganda machines that Social Security as we know it is dead and that everyone should play the market. No mention you will notice of what happens to the disabled, who will loose all federal benefits, with the states expected to pick up the burden (like this will ever happen), which means if you are disabled you will be homeless, on the street, and eligible as organ fodder. Why are those people behind Bush smiling (photo, left)? They are not only not ready to retire, but they all have enough money already so that they will not need any benefits when they retire. We are the (corporate elitist) people. Aren't we the only ones who count?

• A State of Disunion marks start Bush II second term. In Georgies State of the Union speech, he smiled, smirked and winked (at the strategically seated and ever-present Condi Rice) through a litany of lies, fabrications and deceits that mark his proposals for the future of our national security state.
  
  He consoled senior citizens regarding the lack of cuts to their Social Security benefits, while behind our backs, he will be chopping away at Medicare benefits and totally eliminating Medicaid benefits. Education programs, other than useless testing programs designed to fire teachers and close down public schools, will continue to be inadequately funded, environmental law will be compromised and eliminated, lawsuits of any kind against government agencies, corporations or doctors for malpractice, malfeasance and irresponsibility will be eliminated.
  
  The War for Profit program (War on Terrorism) will be escalated.  The war  (What war? They had free elections) in Iraq will continue with money supplied as needed to continue the killing of Iraqi citizens, the encouragement of civil war and the feeding of Halliburton for non-existent reconstruction efforts. Nations whose leadership will not cooperate with us will be attacked and given freedom (subjugated and robbed of their resources - mainly oil, gas and fresh water).
  
  Illegal drug manufacture and distribution, accompanied by coercion and mayhem by brown-shirted, government sponsored "gangs" (Laura's Rehab Program), will be encouraged. Legal drug manufacturing and distribution will be allowed greater profits.  Importation of "guest" slave laborers will be promoted for menial jobs while high tech jobs continue to be lost to other countries.
  
  The picture painted is Bush leading the way to world-wide death, destruction and human misery in support of corporate greed and limitless power for the elite. The aging population will be encouraged to die through lack of economic, medical and social support, while the remaining younger population will be enslaved in meaningless pursuits of work and life supporting consumption  and death in service of the resource stealing war crimes of the worlds elitist corpro-governments.
  
  Did you vote for Bush? If you did then you must either be dimwitted or ready and willing to participate in the destruction of 5/6th of humanity. Bring on the Rapture. Bring on Armageddon. 

• Iraqis get ready to vote as our soldiers "assure" a democratic vote is held at the point of a gun. This is not a democracy. This is a farce. The people don't even know who the candidates are on the ballots. US condoned candidates will win automatically in an election where the voting percentage will be low.
  
  
  
  
   

• One ceremony not enough. Condi gets sworn in twice. Bush looks on adoringly. Any bets on the fact that Condi will remain Georgie's constant companion during his second term?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Condi may satisfy Bush's needs, but not the country's. Senator Edward Kennedy led Democratic opposition to the nomination of Condoleezza Rice for secretary of state Tuesday, using her confirmation debate to criticize the Iraq war.
  
  In the final confirmation vote on Wednesday, 1/26/05, the following Senators voted against confirmation: Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. John Kerry, D-Mass. Carl Levin, D-Mich. James Jeffords, I-Vt. Jack Reed, D-R.I Mark Dayton, D-Minn. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii Evan Bayh, D-Ind. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa Richard Durbin, D-Ill. There efforts to promote true democracy for the people are appreciated. The rest of you in the Senate should plan on being given a hard time the next time you are up for re-election.
   

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. calls President Bush "the most corrupt and immoral President that we have had in American history." Not that he was enamored with Senator John Kerry. Early in the campaign, Kennedy endorsed Senator John Kerry for President, but last month he expressed disappointment in Kerry's campaign and in the Democratic Party. "The Republicans are 95 percent corrupt and the Democrats are 75 percent corrupt," Kennedy. "They are accepting money from the same corporations. And of course, that is going to corrupt you." Kennedy may run for New York State Attorney General this fall.

• US sponsored torture continues in Iraq, but operation has been turned over to the Allawi government. Sadam's old torture crews are still in business working for Allawi and the US. These are the people that we are telling the world that the Iraqi people will vote for to obtain their freedom and democracy.

• HA HA! I've got what I want! I am the Emperor of the world!
  
  Bush vows to conquer the world for the protection of the US. We must give all the rest of the world the same freedom and democracy we have in order to be safe. And, if they won't cooperate - we'll look at Fallujah. Haven't we heard this message before in the last 100 years? You might ask how can we give something to the rest of the world that we ourselves have lost. We are loosing our rights and our votes don't count. Why do we have to lead this world-wide freedom movement? Are other democratic countries incapable of helping out? It does not appear that they agree with the Bush Doctrine. Get real George (Orwell) Bush. We know everything you say means just the opposite. Your speech writers' lofty and aloof rhetoric belies your actions to date and your reported plans for the future. 

• Message from the major exit pollster and the major media outlets who used its results: those exit polls were flawed, but we corrected the results overnight and reported the correct results to the American people. We just can't seem to get it right when a Bush is running. We promise it won't happen again.
  
  On the eve of Emperor Bush's coronation, they want to show that the election was, after all legitimate, despite the claims of those pesky "conspiracy theorists," and they want to stay in business. The cover-up of the exit polling fraud is now complete. History has been once again been rewritten by the Corporocrat controlled media. All hail Emperor Thunderthud!

• Bush's closest confidant and constant companion, Condoleezza Rice, testifies at her confirmation hearing: We've really have killed only a small number of our troops and Iraqi citizens to bring freedom to the Iraqi people. It was worth it to get rid of our old buddy Sadam and to help subsidize the global operations of Halliburton. Condi is to be confirmed by the Senate, despite the efforts of Senators Boxer and Kerry to stop the process.
   

• Didn't we tell you that Iran was next on the list for invasion after the inauguration? Here is the evidence from a very reliable source that the invasion of Iran was being planned for some time. All the hints were there that our government was just looking for the right excuse to attack. Let's hope uncovering this scheme will prevent any future moves on our government's part.

• You see? This is how it is. I am the Chief and you re-elected me so the moment of accountability has passed. Whatever I did in Iraq, and whatever I do there, or anywhere in the future, is beyond question.  You don't like what I'm doing? What are you going to do about it? HA HA HA!
  
  
  
   

• Social Security Agency to spend money from your tax supported retirement fund to promote, via a massive propaganda campaign, the Bush agenda to ultimately eliminate itself in favor of private savings accounts. SSA employees are not pleased, and you shouldn't be either.

• "I can remember getting back to the White House, and Laura said, 'Why did you do that for?' I said, 'Well, it was just an expression that came out. I didn't rehearse it.'" President Bush. There are lots of things he should have thought about more before opening his mouth. But, apologies for statements made that revealed his subliminal thoughts about people and events should not divert our attention away from the real issues of unnecessary wars,  poverty, a  poor excuse for an education system, the sabotage of health care and social security systems, a deteriorating environment, an infrastructure that is falling apart, huge deficits, ridiculous tax cuts for the rich and for corporations, and an economy based on rising interest rates, rising prices caused by rising oil prices and the reduced value of the dollar, and reduced discretionary incomes. 

• The White House acknowledged Wednesday that its hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction a two-year search costing millions of dollars has closed down without finding the stockpiles that President Bush cited as a justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Bush's spokesman said the president had no regrets about invading Iraq. Bush might as well have said, "Well, I'm sorry about that, but I have no regrets about conquering Iraq. Sadam was an evil man. So we lost a few troops and at least 100,000 Iraqis and destroyed the country. It was worth it to line the pockets of my friends."

• The 2004 US Elections: The Mother of all Vote Frauds. "Those who cast the votes decide nothing, those who count the votes decide everything." - Joseph Stalin. The Corprocrat voting machines have been, and will continue to be, programmed to produce the results desired. Your vote is meaningless. True democracy requires, at the very least, an honest vote by the majority of those eligible to vote. True democracy is dead in America.

• Freedom of the press? Not if you criticize the Emperor. Four CBS News employees, including three executives, have been ousted for their role in preparing and reporting a disputed story about President Bush’s National Guard service. The action was prompted by the report of an independent panel that concluded that CBS News failed to follow basic journalistic principles in the preparation and reporting of the piece. The panel also said CBS News had compounded that failure with a “rigid and blind” defense of the 60 Minutes Wednesday report.
  
  One of the key changes to be implemented at CBS News to assure future compliance with Bush Administration censorship of news is creation of a Senior Standards and Practices Executive, who will act as the chief of police of investigative reporting, with the authority to cancel any reporting operation that does not conform with the federal government's views of reality. We can expect all major media outlets to soon follow suit. Journalism in the US has never required a head censor of investigative reporting. The creation of such a post within a news reporting organization makes a statement that freedom of the press is now a relative term. You are free to report as long as the results do not jeopardize the positions, actions or integrity of the federal government or any elected official of the government.

• Get Over It! That's right. That's what your Congress told you to do. The most massive voter fraud ever perpetrated in America should not be your concern. It is back to your required role in society as a consumer. Forget being a citizen, democracy died on 1/6/05, when the Senate voted 74-1, with 25 members not even showing up, including John Kerry, to certify the election of Emperor Bush.
  
  The Democratic Party leadership totally dismissed the effort to contest the election, because it might make the Democrats look like sore losers.  Losers they are. By this vote, they show that they condone and are party to the perpetration of a fraudulent election on the American people. The Corporate Elite have finally put the nail in the coffin containing the body of the American Democratic Republic.
  
  It is like Bush said, when asked about what history will think of his legacy as President by Bob Woodward (Washington Post): "Who cares? We'll all be dead anyway."  BushCorp doesn't care what we think about anything. Our current hydrocarbon based civilization only has about 25 years left before it collapses, at most. They are digging in. What are you going to do about it?

• Wake up America, your democracy is dead! The Electoral College results are being challenged today, 1/6/05, in Congress by a small number of Democrats who believe in democracy, but the outcome of their challenge is already known: the EC vote will stand and be accepted, because most members of Congress, even most Democrats, will vote to accept it. The challenge is a symbolic gesture, a dying gasp for the democratic process, in behalf of the true majority in this country, who voted for Kerry/Edwards on 11/2/04. John Kerry himself is off in Iraq, playing war supporter, comforting the troops (who surely need it). He stated that he did not support the challenge effort. The major media aren't even covering the story as it is happening.
  
  The game is over folks. The Emperor will be crowned on January 20, 2005. Congress has become a symbolic tool of the power and money elite, as useless as the Roman Senate in the days of its empire, that will be used to further diminish your rights and benefits as a citizen. Future elections are now guaranteed to be electronic exercises in faux democracy that will effect the outcome of all elections, for President down to town council members in this country.
  
  Wake up America! Your votes are henceforth meaningless, as meaningless as those to be soon cast in Iraq. By your inaction, you have forfeited  your country to the corporate power elite. You will have to live and die with the consequences. God, or whatever you turn to in times of tribulation, help you.

• From a retiree, the real deal about the status and assets of Social Security. We do not need to change the program to save it, per the Bush agenda to disentitle the middle class and poor citizens to their old age security - a form of planned euthanasia for the unemployable and undesirable old goats of the country. The money is all there for another 40 years or more without changing the program at all, but unfortunately it sets in debt instruments called T-Bills.
  
  Your government borrowed and will continue to borrow most of the Social Security funding to pay for the tax cuts for the rich and the corporations and for our wars of conquest in the name of oil, gas and faux reconstruction efforts in target countries around the world. It knows it can't possibly pay all the money back so it is time to "privatize" Social Security and effectively end the program as it stands. All the savings of millions of workers paid into the program in the last 50 years has been squandered. 
  
  The new program will require you to set up a privately managed equivalent of what many corporate employees now get from the companies, a 401K plan. And the plan will require you to invest substantial portions of your "required" saving in high risk market index funds, a mutual bond and equity funds.  Given the predicted course of world economics, the end of the oil and gas based economies within 25 years and the collapse of the US dollar due to our national insolvency, this is not a good long term investment plan. It is a plan for retirement bankruptcy and hopelessness.
  
  This New Bush Social Security will be a win-win program for the Corporations. They will not have to contribute a penny either to match your Social Security Plan payments or to maintain and subsidize, through high percentage matching contributions, your current 401K Savings Plan. Under the New Social Security, you will be required either to save privately and pay Mutual Fund Management companies to manage your money into oblivion, with both the government Social Security program and corporate sponsored 401K plans being terminated, or save nothing at all. Good luck young citizens. Enjoy life while you are young. Retirement will equal death - unless you are one of the subsidized top one percent in income.

• Americans are closing their eyes and letting a new form of fascism get rolling. Before we tune in to the second inauguration of President George Bush, perhaps you should read this. When we ignore history, we are condemned to repeat it. Oh, not here in the good ol U.S.A., you say. Never here, the land of the free and home of the brave, the bastion of democracy for the free world. Well, open your eyes, America.

• More good news about Bush and his second term plans: the federal government's expansion of bio-defense research is paving the way for the bio-weapons of the future. It has been called a modern-day Manhattan Project—a spending spree so vast and rapid that it might change the face of biological science. In the wake of 9/11, the U.S. government is funding a massive new bio-defense research effort. Depleted Uranium to poison Iraqis, the use of internationally banned napalm-like weapons and phosphorus bombs is not enough. Now we must continue the business we were engaged in during the Vietnam War years and during the Iraq-Iran War on a grander scale. More WMDs for our own pre-emptive use.

• The formula for the American Empire: A 'Long War' Against Whom? George W. Bush’s vision for America’s future is coming into clearer focus following Election 2004: For the next generation or more, it appears the American people will be asked to sacrifice their children, their tax dollars and possibly the remnants of their democracy to what a top U.S. commander now candidly calls the “Long War.”

• The Role of U.S. Criminal Negligence on a Global Scale Casualties of a policy of war, negligence, and corporate greed: The inactions of the UN and the US, in particular, in implementing tsunami warning systems that would cost less than one million dollars, are unconscionable. The decisions made or not made to implement systems and made by the US NOAA to not provide knowledge that it had about the impending tsunami to the governments in affected countries are crimes against humanity. Sending emails to contacts in countries that are are still at home asleep or preparing to go to work and are not at the highest levels within their governments, which was the only action taken by NOAA, just didn't do the trick. NOAA did make sure that our attack base on the island of Diego Garcia  was alerted so that appropriate actions to protect our assets could be taken.

• Better late than never. Bush finally interrupts his Christmas Vacation to express our policy on aid for those countries affected by the Sumatra earthquake and the resultant tsunami wave.  Clinton responds before Bush, and is criticized for doing so. Unfortunately, many in the Bush administration view this event as an opportunity to improve our image in the world and make money, rather than as a giving response to an unprecedented disaster. Bush says we are not stingy, but the numbers and our past actions speak for themselves. Our nation is greedy and stingy to the extreme. This is not to demean the efforts of a few honest private organizations and US citizens who give of themselves wholeheartedly in assisting disaster victims around the world.

• Wall Street spreads holiday cheer. Dow closes at highest level since June 13, 2001. What is wrong with this festive picture of our economy being presented by big investors and our government? Holiday spending is lower than expected, the housing market is drying up, there have been 337,000 new job losses in December, the bottom is dropping out of the value of the dollar against the Euro. Why all the cheer? Its called PUMP and DUMP. If you are a small investor in the market, get out now. The sharks are getting ready to tear you and your paper profits up. December is traditionally a stock buying month and January is a selling month, as investors prepare to report their capital gains to the IRS. This years traditional activity underlies what should be a panic to sell, given the truth about the health of the US economy and the enormous debts the nation is racking up. But the big guys are pumping up the market so that they can maximize their profits when reality can no longer be hidden, and it is time to dump.

• White House: 'Enemies of freedom' will be defeated. But, at what price? More American soldiers and Iraqi citizens sacrifice life and limb for BushCo. First Fallujah and now Mosul. The Bush Empire is in a hopeless spiral towards oblivion in an attempt to secure the soon to be exhausted oil supplies in the world for its own use. Iraq is only the first country that Bush will attempt to liberate for our use. The next four years will see much more than Iraq in flames.
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Talk about a talking preacher head saying something that means nothing - Bush is going to magically cut the deficit in half in five years, but still maintain the huge tax breaks for the rich and spend billions on "national defense" and "spreading democracy" around  the Muslim world. What is he going to cut spending on to do this - education, environmental protection, social security and Medicare benefits, infrastructure? So the country will go to hell internally while we try to conquer the world and make the rich richer. And, the deficit may be reduced, but the national debt will still grow by trillions of dollars. You elected him, you pay for it.

• Poll: Most Americans Think Iraq War Not Worth Fighting Over Half Think Rumsfeld Should be Replaced. But, it doesn't make any difference what the American people think anymore. You lost your influence on November 2, 2004. Now it is only what the Emperor thinks that matters, and we know what he thinks so stop complaining.

• ACLU says Bush was totally responsible for ordering torture in Iraqi prisons. So what is anyone going to do about it? I don't see any calls for impeachment, any charges of war crimes, any mention at all in the mainstream media.

• So what about Bush stealing the 2004 election? Lots of low level mumbling and grumbling on some Internet political sites and blogs, but nothing happening in the courts, no recounts of significance being held, and a total mainstream media blackout. This story is no longer a story so why bother even mentioning it. We won't mention it again here, unless their is a Congressional challenge of the Electoral College results on January 6, 2005. Very few Americans care, and the mad Emperor now blathers nonsense every day to the slobbering press corp. It's XMAS; buying is what you, the "consumer," should be doing. Consumers don't worry about democracy in America, they just consume.

• Now is the time to put the nail in the coffin of Social Security and all other government "entitlement" spending. Bush is ready to "privatize" or eliminate all social programs.  Only spending that is valid is to finance tax cuts for the rich and the corporations and for military projects and operations. Would you buy a used car from this man? 

• Osama speaks again. Notice how sure everyone, including Colin Powell, is instantly convinced that this is the real voice of Osama. This time the CIA was to cheap to arrange a studio video taping and/or they didn't want to much visual exposure for their fake Osama. Warnings against the Saudi Monarchy spell trouble for the continuance of the independent Kingdom. Looks like Bush will be forced to "liberate" Saudi Arabia soon, when the terrorists attempt to take over as the head of a "peoples" rebellion. Another old friend of the Bush Business, the Saud family is being set up for the fall. We need to control that oil! 

• Glaring Ayatollahs! U.S. fears Iranian influence in Iraqi elections. Sources say 1 million Iranians have crossed border to register. Iran is funding their slate of candidates, and plans on committing voter fraud by registering their own citizens to vote in Iraq. Well, look at their role model for democracy. Voter fraud, as perpetrated by the followers our great leader Bush, is now the gold standard of democratic elections throughout the world . How can we legitimately complain that things might not go the way we want them to? Whose puppet slate of candidates will win? Who cares at this point? The Iraqi people loose no matter who wins.

• Rampant Insider Selling Raises Red Flags - AP Reports Major Corporate Execs, Including Some From the Homebuilding Industry Are Dumping Stocks - Serious Predictor of a Coming Crash . The dollar could go into free fall. As a result, Interest rates would skyrocket, mortgage rates would follow, the housing market and other consumer spending would collapse, and with them the whole economic base. A formula for the worst economic depression in our history. Heads of major investment companies are telling tales of impending economic Armageddon, and the insiders are listening. Pump and dump is already in progress. Notice that since October, a traditional bad month for the stock markets, the DJ Average has been pumped up by 600 points. Small investors are being suckered back into a failing market. Get ready for the big dump after the inauguration.

• Bush honors controversial trio. George Tenet was praised for addressing terrorist threats US President George W. Bush has given America's highest civilian award to three men closely involved in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Former CIA director George Tenet, Gen Tommy Franks and Iraq overseer Paul Bremer were given the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House. "These three men symbolize the nobility of public service, the good character of our country, and the good influence of America on the world," Mr. Bush said. Right, the fearsome three who did in two countries in the name of money and oil without respect for human life. God and his chosen son George were on their side. Adolph loved to give out medals to his henchmen as well.

• Withdrawn: Bernard Kerik, Bush's Department of Homeland Security Chief nominee may have a nanny problem. But is that the only reason he’s bowed out of consideration for the Homeland Security job? We don't think so. The man's background check reveals many questionable activities in his past, as well as in his current affairs. His FBI background check had only begun. What is already known about him, any "nanny" problems being the least of concern, would likely be enough to sink him in the Senate hearings.  Why would Giuliani even propose his nomination to Bush? It would appear that "America's Top Cop," with a blue collar heritage, is also among some of America's most celebrated white color crooks, who has so far evaded criminal charges. He shares the label of evader of white collar crime with many of Bush's top Administrators, but they are obviously much more adept and clever than blue collar Kerik in hiding their activities.

• Congratulations to Emperor Bush. From your Heart of Darkness comes the total destruction of a city and the wanton slaughter of those citizens who remained in or even near as the US Imperial Troops liberated Fallujah.  See the photos here that you won't see on FOX, CNN or MSNBC. This is what the fraudulent re-election of Bush has wrought. And, this is only the beginning. Are you proud to be an American? If you are, then join the armed forces yourself and give your life and limbs to kill for Bush. Prove to us that you support your President.

• From the mouth of a retired soldier who served in Iraq: we are killing innocent civilians in Iraq. He was told by his superiors that he was fighting a new kind of war, that the Iraqi people were evil and needed to be killed.

• This brave soldier spoke up in Rumsfeld's presence in Kuwait, prior to being sent to Iraq, and asked why the troops are not being adequately protected with armored vehicles. When will he be "disappeared" or have an unfortunate and untimely fatal accident?

• Freedom for the Iraqi people? Looks more like Nazi-style death camps are in store for many Iraqis. Fallujah will have a new greeting sign on the road into town: "Work will make you Free." Remember where we saw that 60 years ago? And, after 21 months of war and war-like occupation, even Baghdad, outside the Green Zone, gets electricity only 2 to 6 hours a day, people wait for gasoline and propane for 8 to 24 hours, and the streets are still awash with raw sewerage. Life is now far worse than what people "endured" under Sadam, and each day they get worse. Many are feeling that escaper from Iraq or death are preferable options. 

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  The military dress and the raised arm salute - these scenes should look familiar. Reminds one of 1939. President Bush, appearing before cheering U.S. forces Tuesday, declared that terrorists won’t be able to control Iraq’s destiny because “free people will never choose their own enslavement.”  Well this is certainly a true statement, since the Iraqi people are not free, they have no choice in their enslavement. Example, after all the dead are cleared and/or buried in Fallujah. The remaining population, who fled before the total destruction of their city by our victorious forces, upon their return will be required to wear identification badges at all times, and the men will be organized into forced work brigades to help clear the rubble.

• CIA reports on the situation in Iraq have been obtained by the New York Times and they offer a picture of the country that is at odds with what is being presented by the White House and Pentagon. CIA analysts "warned that the security situation was likely to get worse, including more violence and sectarian clashes, unless there were marked improvements soon on the part of the Iraqi government, in terms of its ability to assert authority and to build the economy." The appraisals "were much more pessimistic than the public picture being offered by the Bush administration before the elections scheduled for Iraq next month."  Didn't we tell you that this would happen? Our motto for Iraq - Freedom = Death.

• U.S. special forces accused of abusing prisoners in Iraq threatened Defense Intelligence Agency personnel who saw the mistreatment and once confiscated photos of a prisoner who had been punched in the face, according to U.S. government memos released Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union.  The story of our prison abuse war crimes will just not go away, but still no one in the US or the rest of the world is doing anything about it.

• Ohio makes Bush victory official. Democrats to investigate voting procedures. This is the official certification by the Ohio Secretary of State/Bush Campaign Manager. Notice that in the mainstream media, there is no controversial statements by any party about a statewide recount changing the vote such that Kerry would win. There are only procedural problems to be addressed to make sure that problems do not occur again. We heard that about Florida in 2000. Florida in 2004 had far worse problems than in 2000. what does that tell you? The reality of what is going on is, in fact, a monitored and investigated recount that could overturn the election before Inauguration Day if the court system does not block the efforts.

• 8 die in attack on U.S. consulate. Al Qaeda suspected, U.S. official tells CNN. We will just have no choice, but to liberate the Arabian people after the House of Saud is overthrown by the Al Qaida terrorists. Another 25% of the world's oil supply would then be under our direct control. More American troops will be needed. Oops - does that mean a draft?

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