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Showing posts with label Qaddafi. Show all posts
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2.5.11

Usama bin Frozen

What a crock.

Usama bin Laden died of kidney failure in 2000.  He wasn't even alive when 9/11 happened.  They've been keeping him on ice for the day they needed to roll out the Big Baddy.

How convenient that he was shot in the head (can't identify the face), found in Pakistan (now the US has an excuse to attack yet another country), and the US can now go on 'worldwide alert' for 'terrorist attacks' by who? Oh yeah, al Qaeda.  The very same folks we've been arming and supporting in Libya.  How convenient that his corpse was dumped in the sea before any forensics could be performed.  How convenient that it now takes the spotlight off of Obama's forged birth certificate and gives him a little wiggle room.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  What a freakin' farce.

Bin Laden was a well-known CIA asset.  His family lived in Houston, Texas, on Memorial Drive near Beltway 8.  The night of 9/11, Houston police were providing personal protection for the bin Laden family.  They were privately escorted to the airport the next day, where they flew out to Saudi Arabia, when all domestic flights were grounded.  At least for us tax-paying scum.  Some time before 9/11, Usama was in a hospital in Dubai, receiving dialisys because he was having acute renal failure.  He died in December 2000.


If there are ANY terror attacks on the US at this point, and I mean ANY as in bottle rockets at the county fair, then it is ONLY the US attacking the American people.  And notice that I separate US from American people.  Al the boogy men they can drag out are all creations of the CIA.  Every last one of them...including Usama bin Chillin'.

The whole thing reeks of a blood sacrifice to celebrate Wilhelm's new breed-stock.

So, let's take stock.  One man's life cost billions of dollars, millions of lives (in 4 countries...how many US soldiers have been killed?), has brought the entire world to the brink of global thermonuclear war...and they dump the body in the ocean before anyone can take a look-see?

I smell a big, nasty rat, and it ain't bin Laden's decade-old corpse.  The rat is in Washington.  Actually, 545 of them.  It's all complete and utter BS, folks.  After all, if what the US has been destroying one-third of the world to do is get bin Laden, then 1) why dump his body in the ocean so fast, and 2) how come the troops aren't being demobilized back home post-haste?  In fact, they've upped the ante now.  Things are EVEN WORSE since bin Laden is...well, dead again.

So what the hell has the US been doing over there all this time?

On top of all that, hasn't anyone stopped to think?  By killing (again) bin Laden and targeting Qaddafi and his family, then the leadership (I use that term very loosly) of the US becomes fair game.  If you shoot at the king of one country, then that country has every right to shoot at your king.

And did I mention that all this conveniently happened just in time for the beginning of the Monday news cycle?  Or how about the fact that the whole story of his 'death' sounds like a made-for-TV movie?  Or how about the part where a bunch of war-weary soldiers who've watched their buddies get mowed down for 11 years stopped to take time to 'handle the body according to Islamic tradition.'

Sorry, if I keep thinking about this, I'm going to hurl all over my computer.  This is so much bullshit, even Obama has outdone himself, and that's a LOT of bullshit!  It's a periwigged pile of puking putrid pucilanimous poppycock, and people are 'gathing at the White House and Ground Zero to celebrate?'

Are people REALLY that dumb?

And wasn't Usama supposed to be cowering in a cave?  Some 'cave.'  We should all be so lucky.  And what were US troops doing in an 'upper-class' neighborhood in Pakistan?  Is that the unmistakable aroma of RAT I smell?

What a bunch of flippin' idiots.

So, what else is on TeeVee?

13.4.11

Insanity Is An Eight-Letter Word

The Japanese have now officially expanded the evacuation zone at Fukushima.  As a public service to our readers, we are posting a map of the new zone:

Incidentally, this also happens to be the map of the area affected by the depleted uranium weapons the US is dumping all over the Middle East.

In a moment of clarity, if not honesty, the Japanese government has raised the threat level to 7.  Seems innocuous enough.  After all, it's not 10.  Oh, but the list doesn't have 10, which makes a lot of sense.  Because things always seem the 'most' at 10, don't they?  Amplifiers, women and wine scales all go to 10.  But nuclear disasters only go to 7.  Heck, even the earthquake that started all this was close to 10.

So, now that the cores of five reactors have melted down, the north Pacific Ocean is a radioactive waste dump and the entire northern hemisphere is sucking nuke dust, I guess it's time to call it a '7,' right?  Human beings are now officially the only known species who shit in their own nest.

The whole world (see map above) has gone completely nuts.  We're nuking everything in sight, even with no money we can't shut the feral gummint down, and Oprah is finally signing off.  On top of that, she wants a million bux for every commercial during the final show.  What does she think she is, the Super Bowl?

Not that I'm not sad.  I've made some good money off of Oprah...and Dr. Phil and Montel and the rest of their ilke.  But, the headline just seems out of place with things like Israel's Iron Dome, Libya's woes and drone aircraft killing American soldiers.  Seems Facebook is muscling in on the action, as well.  Something about the owner giving half of it away, or some such non-sense.

OH MY GAWD!  And Justin Beiber won't be playing in Israel!  It's Armageddon, fer sure!

It's enough to make a thinking person curl up in a foetal position and go into a self-imposed coma.  Kind of like Michael Valentine Smith.  It's more than I can grok, you know?  As my mother likes to say, "Crazy people make sane people crazy."

Let's take a deep breath and just look at some of this mess.

The feral gummint got into a big fight over budget cuts, and when the dust settled, they still approved more spending than last year, even after cutting.  WTF?!  If we spin over to the US National Debt Clock, we see that every American taxpayer (all three of us) owes over a million bux!  You got that kinda dough?  Neither does Unca Sam.  The debt now equals the sum total of American output for one year, assuming everyone gives up Social Security, Medicare, welfare, unemployment, and all the other little carrots they've dangled in from of us all our lives to keep us down on the farm.

Over in Libya, Qaddafi is holding back some 'rebel' al-Qaeda/CIA types, Sarkozy, Obama, and what's-his-name-the-British-dude.  And that's with his left hand.  Hell, Reagan tried to kill him.  Clinton (the president one) tried to kill him.  Boosh tried to kill him.  The man's like the Energizer Bunny.  You gotta admire the man's tenacity.  After all, he's smart enough to have an independent central bank and a few tons of gold.  Hey, you think that's why their unloading DU on him?  Or is it just the oil?  If he would just stop selling oil to the Chinese and Iranians, they might leave him alone again.

Then there's Donald Trump.  Talk about having nine lives.  The guy's been bust more times than me and he's a business guru!  I wonder what his secret is?  Now he's making noises about running for president.  Hell, if he can come out of bankruptcy so many times, he might just be able to pull the US out its nose-dive.  All his bluster about birth certificates must be hitting home, since the Bammy Bots are making fun of him.

And Bammy...now there's a piece of work.  He's managed to destroy four countries and two political parties single-handedly.  That was his job, after all.  Yup, he gave us 'change' all right, spare change.  As in 'buddy can you spare a dime?'  I love listening to the wild-eyed right-wing mouthpieces going on about how he's violating his oath of office.  I guess everyone forgot that he never took the oath of office.  Remember?  At least not the one written in the Constitution.

On top of all this madness, the UN wants to give the Earth and all living things the same rights as humans.

I'll let that soak in for a minute.

That's right, every time you buy a can of Raid to kill the roaches in your government-subsidized hovel, you'll be violating their rights and you could go to jail.  Every time you mow what's left of your lawn, you'll be violating the rights of the grass, and if you don't, you'll be violating your deed restrictions.  Damned if you do, and damned if you don't.  This just seems a little weird to me, not to mention like Buddhism on steroids.  I'm all for keeping the nest clean, but this...?  Just the bureaucratic nightmare needed to enforce something like this.  Sheesh!

You know it's bad when David Icke starts to make sense.  Heck, even Lyndon LaRouche is starting to sound like an elder statesman.  Frankly, I think it's time to put the whole mess to rest and think of something new.

The whole empire game is old.  We've had dozens of them for the last few thousand years, and every one of them has gone down the tubes and taken civilization with it.  If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again, expecting different results, then we are all certifiably insane.  It's time to throw open the gates of the asylums, because there is no one inside worse than the rest of us.  The only difference is their psychosis is not in sync with the other inmates.

It's difficult to say who is crazier, the one who doesn't know it, or the one who knows it and continues along with the charade.

It's like the headline in today's Jakarta Post:  Japan Ready to Stop Leaks.  Now that's crazy.  After a month of destroying the world, now they're ready to stop it.  Thanks a ton.

Let's take another look at that map, shall we?

Doesn't look like there's a whole lot of room for mistakes there.
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On a side note, we salute Yuri Gagarin today.  Fifty years ago, he willingly strapped into a ballistic missile and took a ride around the Earth in 90 minutes.  First man to do that in modern history.  We take our hat off to him.  A real man's man.

And just think, all these years later, we're still whizzing around in Earth orbit.  Now THAT'S progress, bud!  So glad we've spent all these billions to go where Yuri went 50 years ago.

6.4.11

Loki Unbound!

Loki is a rather interesting character in Norse mythology.  He is often portrayed as being Wodin's right-hand man, but with a twist.  Whenever Wodin's not looking, Loki runs around creating havoc, which Wodin then has to clean up.

As we survey the world today, it would seem that Wodin has fallen into a drunken stupor in Valhalla, a bit of deer gristle stuck in his beard, and Loki has taken advantage of the situation.

The world has gone stark, raving nuts.  I can't think of any more appropriate description.  It's not just the natural disasters.  Those are sufficient cause for alarm.  But the people are out of control, as if Loki is moving amongst them with wild abandon, whispering devious schemes in their ears.  How else do you account for the sheer lunacy?

We have a Nobel Peace Prize winner ordering the death and destruction of thousands, while acting like a tyrant, and no one seems to see the irony in that.  We have the only country in history to get nuked in war-time, nuking itself and refusing to admit the severity of it.  We have the Bear and the Panda looking for all the world like restrained adults trying to marshal the unruly children of the West.  Meanwhile, the richest, most powerful nations of the last 300 years are imploding, and they are ordering gasoline thrown on the resulting fires.

Just amazing to watch, really.  Who would have thought Indonesia would become a power-house economy?  I mean, besides me, of course.  Who would have thought India and China would be shoving each other in the hallway over who gets to be the biggest, baddest mofo?  Who would have thought Ireland and Portugal would join together to finally crash the Holy Roman Empire?

And what about Libya?  Here we have a country that was quelling some domestic protests when suddenly the  US/UK empire decided now was a good time to start blowing them up.  No one was paying any attention to Libya.  They were just going about their business feeding oil and gas to Europe and many other countries.  Then, along came al Qaeda, who are supposed to be the bad guys over there (after all, the US has been bombing them into oblivion for 11 years).  They start stirring up some noise.  Qaddafi does what any good dictator does (see Obama) and puts down the protests.  That should have earned him a gold star and extra face time on Dancing With The Stars.  Instead, the Coalition of the Desperate start flying sorties, shooting DU and arming al Qaeda.

What the hell?!

When did the axiom of war become, "The enemy of my enemy is my enemy?"  It's as if only the US can beat up on al Qaeda.  If anyone else touches them, watch out buddy!  Heck, just the ruling junta in the rebel camp is a Who's Who of bad guys right out of the infamous Deck of Cards: al Awali, bin Laden's personal driver, guys the US has shot up three countries to kill.  Now the US is protecting them in Libya and giving them money and weapons.

Pardon me if I have this really confused look on my face, but when did the libretto change?  And what's worse?  The American people are just blissfully sailing along on Hope and Change, hardly noticing what those bastards in Washington are up to.

Meantime, the US debt is now par with the GDP, which means what?  B-R-O-K-E.  But don't let that get in the way of a good spending spree.  Last month the feds spent 8.2 TIMES the monthly revenues.  Let's just pause a moment to let that sink in...  You have a credit card.  The spending limit is $1,000.  So, what do you do?  Spend $8,200, of course.  What's more, the issuer lets you do it, since you always pay the interest (though the principle has been sitting there since Kennedy was sneaking girls into the Oval Office).

Things are much better in Europe, where Ireland and Portugal stepped up to dip from the trough...again.  No one seems to mind or care that all the bail-outs do is create more bail-outs.  When do you suppose Germany will get tired of floating the whole damn continent?

On the war front, Obama, Sarkozy and What's-his-name in Britain are strutting around like a bunch of preening chickens with their 'war postures,' yet not one of them has served a single day in the military.  In fact, it's the women behind the scenes who are starting all the fights, which is what women are really good at.  Hillary and that Power woman and a few other top broads are the saber-rattlers.  The boys are just the strutters.  The really funny part is that Qaddafi is the only REAL man in the whole play.  He's holding off a bunch of so-called rebels AND the combined efforts of three countries.  And that's with his left hand.

Yup, the more you look around, the more you have to assume that Wodin has turned Loki loose.

Over here in Asia, the rupiah has steadily risen from 11,000 against the dollar a couple of years ago, to 8,600 now.  But, Asian stocks took a dump when Japan dumped radioactive water into the Pacific.  I'm waiting for specials on 3-eyed flounder in a few months.  Needless to say, the sushi industry is toast for the next 2 or 3 thousand years.

Pay no attention to the neutron beams.  Those are just part of the light show.  Pink Floyd will be coming on soon.  After all, neutrons are only released when nuclear chain-reactions occur.  That's a good thing.  It means Loki is out of control.

A long time ago, I worked with an old black man named J.C.  He was prone to sitting around in between jobs and smoking his pipe and laughing to himself.

":J.C," I asked him one day, "why are you always smiling?"

"Heh heh heh," he replied.  "I'ze jes laffin' to keeps from cryin'."

I've never forgotten those simple words.  In fact, it's probably why I can see the hand of Loki at work.  The mischievous imp is running amok making black into white and white into black.  You have to laugh.  On some level, this is all really funny.  Great theater.  After all, if you take it too seriously, you'll just die from grief and heart-break.

Loki, wherever you are, thanks!  Now we can all just laugh ourselves into oblivion.  And J.C., thank you, too.  That was one of the most profound things I've learned in all my life.

I'm just laughing to keep from crying...

31.3.11

Re-Branding Terror

Have you noticed it?

We went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan to fight 'al Qaeda.'  Now, al Qaeda is our friend.  Yup, they're helping out in Libya, trying to get rid of Qaddafi, who if I remember correctly, was the mastermind of the Lockerbie mess.

Doesn't that make al Qaeda and Qaddafi best friends?

And what about bin Laden?  He was the Man of the Moment 10 years ago.  We blew up three countries (Pakistan too) trying to find him.  But, he just kept making tapes and changing his appearance.  Last time I looked, there's been about six or seven bin Ladens.  It's kind of like James Bond.  Just plug in a new one when the old one dies.

Maybe bin Laden is hiding in Libya?  He's shacked up with Qaddafi now and they're taking over the world, Pinky!  But wait!  Bin Laden was in charge of al Qaeda, right?  He was the Ace of Spades, if I remember all those stupid card monikers and color alerts.  Hell, the Number Three guy (who I guess was the Queen of Spades) in now the new Number One, and he had dinner at the Pentagon a couple of weeks after 9/11.  Really.

Maybe all this bullshit is why Judge Judy and what...a half dozen reporters now?...all start babbling on camera at some point.  They just can't keep all the cognitive dissonance at bay.  It's kind of like that scene from "Bruce Almighty," when Jim Carrey puts the hex on the anchor dude, and he starts blathering like an idiot.  Not that it's much different from normal, everyday news casting.

So, let's see if I can get this straight.  Oceania is our enemy.  Oceania has always been our enemy.  Or was it Eurasia?  I can't remember now.  I need a quick trip to the MiniTruth to get my head rebooted.

Think about it.  Al Qaeda (The Source, in case your Arabic is rusty) was our mortal enemy for a decade, and we bombed three countries into the Stone Age to get rid of them.  Then Qaddafi, who was re-branded after the Reagan Years to be mostly benign, is now re-branded again into the Boogie Man du Jour for putting down some protests, just like Obama does in front of the White House, or everyone does at G20 meetings.  So, USA, Inc. invades his country completely without provocation (under international and US law, but who pays attention to law any more), ostensibly on the side of the rebels (though really it's on the side of oil mega-corps).  Then, al Qaeda joins in on the side of the rebels, as well.  And NO ONE noticed??!!

Where are the blaring headlines, a la W. R. Hearst?
Our Enemy Is Now Our Friend!
Maybe I missed some important memo.  Understandable, of course.  I'm 12,000 miles away from the office and stone tablets ain't cheap to mail.  But come on!  Just back in January, we were drone-bombing western Pakistan to root out al Qaeda.  Did they make a payment to someone?  Did they agree to help get the oil for Daddy Warbux?  Or have I just been in a coma for ten years and missed the whole re-branding campaign?  Hell, the US is even GIVING al Qaeda guns and bullets now!

Isn't that how al Qaeda started?  The CIA armed them using the Iran Contra drug money so they would trot over and kick butt on Iran, because the US didn't like who they put in after the CIA got rid of the CIA's first implant (the shah).  Then they got blamed for 9/11, so we crashed their party.  Now, they're working for US again.

It really feels like I'm Winston Smith, banging away on my diary for some future human beings who will never exist, because the Thought Police are coming soon and Richard Burton will pop in to do a number on my brain  so that, I too, will Love Big Brother.

The next time you are watching the nightly propaganda machine and the anchor starts uttering pure gibberish, like Judge Judy and the gang, just remember...their Room 101 sessions haven't quite kicked in yet.  Give them a little time and some Victory Gin and they'll come around.

You almost need a playbook to keep up with who's shafting who these days.

We;re at war with Eastasia.  We've always been at war with Eastasia.  And choco rations have increased this month due to production increases.  Double plus good!

It's enough to make me want to find a camera and start babbling.