Friday Follies

There’s something in the water up in Alaska, I think its oil, that makes good Republicans turn into scandalous hacks?
First there is VP candidate Palin

Then there’s Ted Stevens

Say Ted, what was that about the internet?

Now to be fair, hey Mr. Gore who invented the internet?

Hey McCain, thinking about cheating on your wife again?

Hello out there, the disinterested cynic here.  Have you seen the new VP candidate that McCain has selected?  Well if not her name is Palin and she is the most bimbolicious, meritricious, inexperienced VP candidate I have ever seen and she reeks of oil.  Yeah, real good choice Senator McCain.   First off lets see why McCain made Palin his running mate

1) She looks like the prototypical personal assistant that some sleazy executive slaps on the butt in one of those nineties era sexual harrassment commercials.   I think McCain likes the Palin and this is going to be the first time in history when a presidential candidate cheats on his wife with his running mate

2) Following the bimbolicious line I see her and I think nitwit.  She is no Hillary Clinton and she looks like some stary eyed and quite puerile celebrity worshiper.  Lets face it, the only reason that McCain selected her is to try to get the votes of the Hillary supporters.  She says she is breaking a glass ceiling, uh no actually Geraldine Ferraro broke that glass ceiling and believe you me unless McCain should die of old age she will never sniff the presidency

3) She is inexperienced.  I worry about her lack of experience, I really do -que the “Tales from the Crypt” crypt keeper sounding announcer who does the McCain attack ads (I would say campaign ads, but I have not seen one yet that has not been a lame sauce attack ad) who accuses Obama of lacking experience.  Two years as governor?  Yeesh Obama has two more years of that and a lot more years in various offices.  Oh, and huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuah she has experience leading troops as she ran the Alaskan national guard.  Yeah, and just out of curiosity what exactly does the NG do in Alaska?  Protect villages from Eskimo and Polar bear attacks?

4) She reeks of Petroleum.  Yup, she and her hubby worked in the oil fields and I am curious just what her position was.  McCain wants her because she will sacrifice ecology for oil.

Sorry McCain I see right through your scheme.

First of what I call Video Wednesday

First, the reason I voted for Kucinich in the Missouri presidential primary

and now a Geography lesson with John McCain

now I realize that he may not be able to remember where his seven houses are but come on you can’t remember the names of foreign leaders and what nations they run?

And Mr. Obama, how many states do we have again?

And now moving on to sports, its the greatest football game of all time and it will never get old no matter how many times you watch it.

Go Bills!

and now here’s Triumph the Insult Dog with the Weather

How the Never Ending Cluster*&% better known as the Israeli Palestinian Conflict Began

So how did we get to the cluster**** we have today between the Jews and Palestinians? Well its complicated, but first off it has nothing to do with the six day war, or the 1948 establishment of the Jewish state, nope its a problem that began some thirty years before Israel became a sovereign nation state. The following will attempt to Explain the origins to the chaos for better understanding and you will see it is not Zionists who are the problem and nor is it the Arabs, yup they are the ones at each others’ throats but neither of them are to blame for this and at the same time both are to blame for the continuation

World War I: The whole sordid mess we have between the Jews and the Palestinians arose during the First World War when Britain and France were seeking to crack the Central Powers and assist Russia which was getting slaughtered by the Germans as a result of bad generalship, a shortage of weaponry, supplies, and munitions, and a chaotic supply system which made these shortages chronic. So to weaken the Central Powers and support Russia against Germany (keep in mind the Turks controlled the Dardanelles and the Hellespont and this prevented allied supply convoys from reaching Russia) the British decided to attack the Ottoman Turks. However, after Gallipoli (the best movie on the subject is the BBC’s All the Kings Men [about the Sandringham Regiment] and I would stay away from Mel Gibson’s Gallipoli] the British found that they could not attack the Turkish homeland directly and would have to go through the Arabian deserts and seize one Turkish province after another and cripple Turkey which would force her to sue for peace and cease to exist as an empire. The British, lest you forget, were bogged down in unending trench warfare France where they were losing tens of thousands of dead, missing, and wounded, per month and could not afford to keep prosecuting the war in France and take on the responsibility of wrecking the Ottoman Turks, which they started to do in 1915 after Turkey joined the Central Powers, without getting assistance and therefore they turned for help where they could get it and naturally they sought the assistance of International Jewry and the Arabs.

Simple Law of Physics, two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time: Britain needed two things in its war against Turkey- as well as the war in general- money and manpower. The British brought into a common lie of that time which was that international Jewry was exceedingly wealthy and controlled international finance. In addition to this misconception, the British saw the pertinent fact that the World Zionist Conference wanted to have a homeland for Jews to protect the interest of Jewish people everywhere- keep in mind that the early decades of the last century was the high water mark of nationalism (every people group in the world needs its own homeland to protect the interests of that people group)- and although the Jews did not necessarily want what is now Israel (oddly some wanted to have Madagascar which is remarkable considering that is where Hitler originally considered putting them) the British decided that well in ancient times Israel was the Jewish homeland so lets return them. So they decided that if the Jews help us finance our war effort we will allow them to resettle their holy land and this led to the 1917 Balfour Declaration:

Foreign Office,
November 2nd, 1917.

Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet:
“His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country”.
I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely
Arthur James Balfour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour…ration_of_1917

While the Jews provided money, it was to be the Arabs -including those who now call themselves Palestinians- who would supply manpower in exchange for the establishment of a multitude of Arab governed sovereign nation states. These promises were assured in open and in secret to the various Arabs including the Palestinians in the McMahon Hussein Correspondence which promised the Palestinians the exact same land as the Jews. Unfortunately for the Arabs the British and French had no intention of following through on their promises in the McMahon/Hussein Correspondance and it was largely ignored during the drafting of the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

Why Sykes-Picot is one of the worst things in the history of this conflict: Well, before the British and French made the Sykes Picot agreement well known the Arabs under Faisal (you remember him as the Arab prince played by Alec Guiness in Lawrence of Arabia) there had been a shot at peace with the signing of the Faisal-Weiszmann Agreement where Faisal basically stated that as long as the Western Powers would allow us to be independent and establish a large Arab state we will allow the Jews to settle without question in Palestine, but if they don’t give us what was agreed to us then we will fight the Jews tooth and nail and kick them out. Well, guess what the British dropped said SYKEs-Picot and then started the ball going. By 1920 the Arabs in Palestine had decided to lash out against the Jewish settlers, whom they saw as nothing but British colonialists and the first Palestinian riots started that year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riots_in_Palestine_of_1920

The April chaos of 1920, sure enough brought May Riots in 1921 when Jewish Communists in Palestine were conducting a May Day Parade in Jaffa when they were attacked by Palestinians. Then for about seven years there was an uneasy peace between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine but then because of illegal Jewish construction at the wailing wall and Jewish actions which antagonized the Arabs, such as raising the Jewish National flag at the wailing wall, caused tensions to boil over by the end of 1928 and in August, 1929 the crap hit the fan (needed to continue the cliche streak) during the so called Palestine Riots of 1929 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Palestine_riots . To protect themselves from any violence at the hands of the Arabs after the collapse of the Faisal-Weiszmann Agreement in 1920 the Jews established the Haganah which was a paramilitary group which was restrained by Jewish political leaders to only protecting the various Jewish agricultural communes and other settlements. After the horrible riots of 1929 some Jews felt the Haganah was not doing enough to defend Jewish interests and so they established the Irgun which- unlike the Haganah- killed indiscrimenently and very much acted the part of a terror group. The Irgun believed in using terror and violence to achieve their aims and were disliked by the great majority of the Zionist movement. More can be found of the Irgun at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of…ring_the_1930s and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun.

The Irgun made an already bad situation in the Mandate of Palestine even worse and their actions exacerbated tensions between Arabs and Jews and all hell broke loose in the 1936 to 1939 Arab Revolt in Palestine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936%E2…t_in_Palestine During this brutal conflict Jews and Arabs for the first time actively attacked and terrorized each other, and -in a precedent which should show you that partition plans and two state solutions for peace between Israel and Palestine will not work- it led to the first recommendation of a two state solution to the Palestinian conflict. The two state solution (the grandfather of all road map to peace, land for peace, and two state solution schemes to come) was suggested by the Peel commision which sought to establish a Jewish state in the north, A Palestinian state in the south and make Jerusalem and Bethlehem British Mandates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission Ultimately the plan was scrapped as it was rejected outright by the Arabs, caused division amongst the Jews, and was deemed unworkable by the British Government in the findings of the Woodhead Commission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhead_Commission. The Woodhead Commission’s findings were equally unpopular with the Palestinians and Zionists (they had three different divisions of the land and all were unpopular to all) and ultimately the British concluded that a two state solution was infeasible.

By 1946 the Holocaust had reinvigorated international plans and talks about the establishment of a Jewish homeland to protect them from ever having to suffer from such a barbaric calamity again. In 1947 the UN, proving in yet another precedent that it would never be able to come up with a lasting peace between Israel and Palestine, established its two state solution and it was widely supported and instantly led to a civil war between the Jews and Arabs that lasted until early 1949.

Conclusion by the Munshaw Commission:

1) Had Anglo-French greed in the signing of the Sykes-Picot agreement not occured the Faisal Weiszmann agreement could have resulted in a much more peaceful twentieth century

2) Foreign intervention and only foreign intervention is to blame for the original and continued failure of peace efforts in that land

3) Two state solutions have never worked and will never work in the holy land and never will. Therefore it is a waste of taxpayer money to try to continue in this nonsense

4) The only thing the Jews and Arabs are to blame for is the escalation and continuance of the violence. Nothing else, neither party started this crap and if the Western world does not quit poking its business into the situation there neither party will be able to end it. The only workable solution at this point would be to drop all military, political, and economic aid to either side until they can agree on their own initiative to develop a lasting peace.

5) I have way too much free time on my hands.

Comments?

DAY I of DNC: Advantage DNC

In a night of endings and beginnings the DNC delivered a superb opening act in the unofficial beginning to the road to the White House.  The tribute to Ted Kennedy was beautiful.and Michelle Obama, wow what can I say -she and the rest of the Obama clan did a superb job in presenting the human face of Barack Obama.  Unlike the McCain camp Obama is really offering a tingly sensation of hope.  I do not ordinarily get warm fuzzy feelings, I certainly did not in 1996, 2000, or 2004.  Obama is the next great spark in the DNC after Bill Clinton.    This election is now Obama’s to lose because he offers what seem to be real sea change in Washington DC and hope for America.  McCain offers more of the same and four more years of disastrous Bush policy.  Tonight Barack’s family gave me all the excuse needed for me to throw my support behind Barack Obama.

Kudos to America’s first black president and the most beautiful looking first lady since Jackie Kennedy.

Plebiscite 2008

I want it known before we begin that I do not endorse Barack Obama, and nor did I support Hillary Clinton. My dream ticket would have been Dennis Kucinich and Wesley Clark vs a GOP ticket of Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee. However, my candidates did not fare too well, which means that this election is about restoring the republic and ensuring again that the tyranny inherent in the Bush Regime ends after eight years.

The following is a short list of reasons I will be voting the GOP out of the executive mansion

1. Criminal negligence on 9/11 leading to the death of three thousand Americans
2. Genocide in Iraq, what has happened in Iraq is quite frankly a demographic nightmare as one million Iraqi civilians have died and more than three million have been forced to emigrate. This is significant as it means Iraq’s population has been reduced by almost one fifth in five and a half years of war and occupation. The sheer percentage places our occupation of Iraq in the same neighborhood of the Khmer Rouge, Stalin’s purges, and Hitler’s final solution
3. Almost 5,000 American soldiers murdered and tens of thousands wounded in the name of oil, greed, and geopolitical ambition.
4. The criminal negligence seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. God bless the Baptists, Methodists, and Catholics as they helped lots of folks, but this does not excuse blatant government inaction while one of our largest cities drowned merely because a GOP president would insist that a DNC governor hand over her state to the federal government, this was not asked in GOP ran Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas.
5. The destruction of the constitution and civil liberties. Jose Padilla and our treatment of him is an affront to the very ideas of the republic. In the government’s treatment of him the authority of the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, and fourteenth amendments were undermined. It was not right when the court under FDR denuded Americans of their freedoms under Korematsu v. United States, Exparte Quirin, and Hirabiyashi v United States and its not right now. As Benjamin Franklin would say “those who surrender the essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither liberty or security”
6. The undermining of the Constitution by the USA PATRIOT act, FISA,
7. The Shameful redefining of torture to make it legal
8. The abysmal failure to overturn Roe V. Wade in six years of GOP dominance of the supreme court, the congress, and the presidency
9. The national debt has accelerated from four and a half trillion to ten trillion dollars in eight years, to be fair to Clinton, he had it rolling back down
10. Collapse of the dollar, the American dollar is quickly becoming obsolete and is declining in value by the week against the Euro, Rouble, and the Pound.
11. Essentially giving China economic suzerainty over us
12. The lack of action in Sudan. If there was anywhere where American intervention could be justified it would have been Sudan.
13. The Failure to capture OBL, we heard he was in Pakistan and then we said we essentially could not go in there and nab him because we respected his sovereignty. Look into the eyes of the survivors of that day and tell them that.
14. The failure to save social security
15. The failure to provide universal healthcare
16. Enron
17. Diebold
18. No Bid Contracts to Haliburton in Iraq
19. Aiming to cut veterans’ benefits to force them to reup
20. Forty percent of our high school students cannot graduate, yes No Child Left Behind has destroyed a generation of students
21. The destruction of the middle class
22. The most scandalous presidency in American history after Warren G. Harding
23. The most fiscally liberal budget since the second World War
24. Lying to Christians across America
25. Undermining America’s relationship with the rest of the World

Stop Talking Stupid

Every day, I hear people butchering the English language and I am sick of it.  It is a sad commentary on our nation when people in Mexico City, Paris, Berlin, Tblisi, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, Cairo, Kinshaasa, and Rio speak better English than people in  . . . say . . . Washington D.C, Boston, New York, Kansas City, Dallas, Chicago, and Omaha.   Is our language really that hard for native speakers to speak?  I am not addressing profanity here, although we use too many of those words in our vernacular and nor am I talking slurs although some words such as N***** should not be used by anyone because of the sordid history of that word.    Anyway, It deeply disturbs me that we have a president who can use them as weapons, but cannot properly pronounce nuclear.  George, say it with me “Nyuk-yew-lar” not nookoolar.  Anyways the following is a list of words and phrases that make the user sound stupid

• shizzle
• izzle
• nizzle
• heezy
• wheezy (unless you mean George Jefferson’s Wife from the cult comedy classic sit-com the Jeffersons)
• sheezy
• neezy
• whatever (used in a sentence such as whatever you want to do it is okay, but when spoken alone it makes one sound like a valley girl)
• like (used as a conjunction) do not say this word, say such as
• There is also the confusion of Quasi and Pseudo.  For your reference pseudo means fake or false and Quasi means semi or light.  They do not mean the same thing, stop interchanging them
• Irregardless (this word does not exist, do not use it, the word you are looking for is regardless)
• gnarly dude (are you a surfer boy?)
• Far out (Yeah, the 1970s called, they want their cliches back)
• groovy (The 1960s called, Jimmi Hendrix and the Beatles are up on stage they need this word back)
• outasight (Do you want me to punch you in the face?)
• Rock on (Quit your time warp, its not the 1980s)
• craptastic (only acceptable if you have ever been an underpaid and overworked maintenance associate at Wal-Mart and you were describing your job, your paycheck, or the state of your life.  Yes when I worked there my life was craptastic; all others are not allowed to use this word)
• Shock and Awe (hey Fox, yeah this had to be the lamest phrase ever developed
• Axis of Evil ( Come on the White House, the Pentagon, the Federal government, and the defense industry gets billions of dollars a year and the best way we can describe our enemies is the Axis of Evil.  Mr. Bush please stop getting ideas from comic books)
• WMDs (I do not know about you, but to me pretty much everything from a machine gun on up can kill lots of people and is a wmd)
• Commie (not all of us left of center are Communists, heck if you knew anything about the history of Socialism you would realize that not even the socialists could come up with a uniting idea.  That being said not everyone who is fiscally or socially liberal is a communist or even a socialist)
• Neocon (not every republican or conservative is a neocon.  Many are, but there are paleoconservatives -such as Pat Buchanan- who abhor the neoconservatives
• Left wing/Right Wing.  The whole left/right paradigm is oversimplistic and highly inaccurate.
• beaucoup
• ginormous (along with beaucoup its overused to describe something large.  How about using bolshoi.  Yeah next time you are in Moscow and you go to the Bolshoi Theater you are in English going to the Big Theater)
• Uber (unless you speak German -uber is superior by the way- don’t say it)
• Obama or McCain will affect my taxes (you are aware that only the House of Representatives can start bills regarding taxes)
• Tight, yes your jeans are tight fitting, but that’s tight?  That sounds stupid
• Scandalous (In a sentence such as “John Edwards perfidy to his cancer stricken wife was scandalous.” its acceptable, but by itself it makes the user sound like a clown
• Gay, Ghey, Gey (Acceptable usage if you mean brightly colored or referring to a homosexual; Unacceptable usage is to refer to something that is lame, crass, weak, or foolish)

The Great Global Warmling Swindle.

In the bottom half of my Sunday afternoon double header lets discuss Global Warming and the Greenie Weenies who want your green.

First off, I think that global warming is indeed a crisis that is confronting all of humanity.  That being said, it is cyclical (part of the great system of natural climactic cycles that the earth has used for hundreds of thousands of years to have equilibrium and balance) and we -as puny humans- can do little to influence it in either direction.  While humanity is unable to address global warming or even to influence it all that much I must say I admire the swindler’s ability to market it to the public so that Joe Sixpack and his family will buy it hook, line, and sinker.  While global warming is a very real and quite serious problem, the global warmlings are in it for the money, and more directly your money.

To see who wants your money lets first look at Kyoto.  Ah Kyoto, you remember it don’t you?  Al Gore (pronounced sort of like Eeyore) still rails about it.  Kyoto, if signed, would have forced the United States and Europe to obey rather harsh emission standards which would have put many industrial laborers out of a job.  Oddly, Kyoto did not apply to China, in recent years they have surpassed us as the world leader in carbon emissions; India, they are rivaling China; Latin America, when American manufacturing jobs are not outsourced to China and the Indian subcontinent they go to South and Central America; and the former Soviet Union.  Keep in mind that the states listed, in sum, provide a much more substantial source of carbon emissions than America, Japan, and Western Europe.  In my very humble opinion the reason for Kyoto was to help large multi national corporations justify their outsourcing and it also helped them substantially because they could keep their manufacturing capacity while driving smaller companies -unable to afford emission standards and/or out of business into full fledged bankruptcy.

Carbon Credits.  Ah, I love these, and if you are interested in exchanging the cost of my student loans for a piece of paper that says Carbon credit write and let me know.  About these credits, Who sells them?  Al Gore or his subsidiaries?  The United Nations, Big multinational corporations and their subsidiaries?  The Federal government and its subsidiaries?

On a more base level, one needs to consider who makes money directly off the global warming swindle.  Big corporations including big automobile makers, Wal-Schwitz, and others realize that there is a fortune to be made off the sheeple who will buy into the hype.  They realize that they can put other corporations out of business, and they understand that they can have free good PR and get more sheeple to buy their products.  To see what I mean, look no further than Wal-Mart’s Earth Month.  For those of you blessed enough to never work there, let me explain what this month was.  Laundry detergents that were biodegradable, energy efficient squiggly light bulbs (as in W-A-L-Squiggly- M-A-R-T), and organically grown cotton clothes among other things that Joe Blow will buy at slightly higher prices.  The gag about this and Wal-Mart’s personal sustainability plan (essentially how can you the associate save the l and heartless Bentonville Mafia money) which is obstinately to help Wal-Mart go green is a pathetic attempt to conceal the fact that Wal-Mart has more negative citations and lawsuits coming against it from the Environmental Protection Agency that its not even funny.  Then there are the smart cars, hybrids, and natural gas powered cars that are being produced by automakers to put less innovative companies out of business.  Ultimately you will pay slightly less for fuel but you will pay more for the car.

After viewing this one has to look at the hypocrisy involved in the Global Warmling movement.  Take Al Gore for instance.  The noble prize winner, blowhard, book writer, and film star has three coal mining plants that are consistently found to violate EPA standards, a house which is one of America’s most energy inefficient, and while running for President Mr. Gore took precious irrigation water from New England farmers to fill a dry river bed so he could have a photo op.
Gore has used global warming to become a celebrity and rake in millions from book and film sales.  Leonardo DiCaprio is in the same vain.  Ultimately the Global Warmlings are running a scam.

While You Were Watching the Olympics

Well in the past sixteen days a great deal happened in the world, but you were probably too busy watching the olympics like most other Americans.  So while you were watching Michael Phelps, excuse me while I jump in the jacuzzi and splash about, and the redeem team (yeah I am not impressed by professional athletes claiming to be amateurs) winning olympic gold, rhythmic gymnastics, dirt biking, synchronized diving, lots of other lame events that are not actually sports, and our prissy little gymnasts acting like spoiled rotten little peevish suburbanite girls (actually why should I be surprised that’s what they are) because they lost to Chinese . . . well . . . children and were mindlessly chanting USA USA USA when our team lost to Hungary in men’s water polo (yeah about that, in 1980 when a squad of amateur collegians at Lake Placid, NY upset a squad of nearly unbeatable Soviet professional hockey players that routinely beat up the best teams the NHL had to offer, USA USA USA was free spirited, patriotic, effusive, awesome, as was the upset) but in the age when everyone at the Olympics on the American team is professional (they get paid cash to play) it all sounds rather lame, but moving on quickly while you were cheering like a raving lunatic for sports that really you could honestly care less about the other 1300 some odd days between the olympics here is some stuff that went on that was under reported

1) Bush Ally Musharraf was forced to resign after he was impeached and now he is seeking to become an emigre.  This is important because now one of our few friends in Pakistan is being replaced by Islamic radicals who have nukes.  Keep in mind these are the same folks that support Osama Bin Laden and many of whom have done whatever is needed to inhibit our progress towards bringing him to justice.  Anyways they have nuclear weapons and this is dangerous because I am sure that they would be willing to let one disappear quite by accident and fall into the hands of people and organizations that would quite literally like to rain down destruction on the United States.

2) Bush has agreed to further violate the ABM treaty that Reagan signed with Gorbachev to end the Soviet threat.  To make matters worse he has placed this missile shield hard ware in Poland.  Now, for those of you who are unaware of the bitterness that exists between Warsaw and Moscow and just how extensive it is let us place it back to the American vernacular of the Hatfields and the McCoys.  The Poles and Russians have hated each other -and with cause- for more than four centuries.  In the 1590s the Poles tried to place a Polish King on the Russian throne (the first False Dmitri).  Well the Russian nobles killed the Polish claimant to the Danielivichi throne (the Danielivichi predated the Romanov dynasty) and then displayed his mangled corpse in Red Square and then after cremating him they fired his remains out of a canon towards Poland.  In the 18th century the Russians exacted their revenge by carving up the Kingdom of Poland in thirds with Prussia and Austria.  In the 19th century the Poles exacted their revenge by resisting Russification and the progeny of Polish peasantry would ultimately become prominent leaders of the various revolutionary movements against Tsardom and ultimately they would play a huge role in leading the 1917 revolution.  After the Soviets Rose to power they viewed the Poles as the chief threat to them and in 1939 they carved Poland in half in a secret agreement between Hitler and Stalin and in 1940 the Soviet government murdered several thousand Polish officers, civic leaders, and priests in the infamous Katyn massacre.  The Poles extracted their revenge in the 1980s with the naming of Karol Wotyla as pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church (my protestant friends will know him as the late John Paul II) and Lech Walesca and Solidarity was the first successful mass movement to chip away at Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe.   Now the Poles are allowing a missile shield in their country which will only provoke Russian bitterness.  Hmmm, Condi Rice must have been asleep in some of her Russian and slavic studies classes as she is either intentionally goading the Russians or she is incredibly dense.

3) In the second half of restarting the Cold War, the Russians invaded Georgia following the ideas of the Bush doctrine.  The American puppet regime of the pseudo democratic regime of  Saakashvili  began a massive program of subjegation and ethnic cleansing against the  pro Russian  separatist provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.  Bush, forgetting the lessons and his policies regarding Iraq, made the howler of the year when he stated “bullying and intimidation are not acceptable foreign policy in the twenty first century”.  Then the few fragments of the American media paid attention and immediately blamed Russia for doing what America did in Iraq and Kosovo.

4) McCain revealed who his backers were when he stated “today we are all Georgians” Well sure Johny, I would say that too if representatives of the Georgian government paid me hundreds of thousands of dollars.

5) Speaking of presidential politics Obama named his running mate.  Senator Biden of Delaware

6) Finally in Iraq, the Iraqis and Americans are nearing a deal of a timetable to have all American and foreign troops out of Iraq by 2010.
So while you were watching the Olympics your world was getting more interesting.

The Truth about the Media’s Bias

I love watching people, conservative and liberal, shriek and shout about how liberal or conservative (respective to their political persuasion) the media is.  The truth is not somewhere in the middle as the media is not liberal or conservative.  Now some of you are probably doing a double take as you have probably been carping for years that FOX is conservative and CNN is the communist news network, but I must advise you to think otherwise.  The truth of the matter is that five corporations own the mainstream media.  The five conglomerates that own the media in every market and style from internet, to radio, to television, to magazines, and newspapers are Newscorp, Disney, TimeWarner, CBS Corp, and General Electric.

So what do these companies own and what should you know about them?  Well General Electric is the parent company of NBC, National Broadcasting Corporation, and General Electric’s president is on record as saying “Bush is good for business” and well lets see -other than media- what GE owns.  They are heavily invested in oil and energy development, military and aviation hardware, and so they are a classic member of what former president Dwight Eisenhower termed the military industrial complex.  Now lets look at the innocuously  named CBS Corp.  Now many probably scoff at the CBS News and say that in years past Dan Rather was a liberal, well Rather essentially got fired for practicing good journalism that disgraced Bush.  Some will say oh well thats just so CBS could save face from their public embarrassment.  Okay, well lets see what CBS Corp was called before 2006.  It was Westinghouse and it is still the same company.  So what does Westinghouse make?  Well they are invested in energy, oil, military hardware and computer technology and that imbroglio in Iraq was exceptionally good for their business and of course they sacked someone who was becomming a latter day Walter Cronkite.  Now lets look at Newscorp.  Newscorp owns FOX and affiliates and well what is Ruppy Murdoch invested in?  Yup oil, the GOP, and armaments, so we see why he liked Bush and now is boosting McCain.  Now lets look at Disney.  The Disney corp owns the land of mouse, ABC, several publications, and it too is invested in oil.  Time Warner is much the same.

So there you have it the media is interested in shaping public opinion in interests of the parent company.  This explains  why when there was pedophilic scandal  hitting Disney World that ABC News said nothing.  More importantly its why the media’s coverage of the Russo Georgian war was so biased in favor of oil rich Georgia.  Sadly, the media has been slave to the corporation for most of the past century.  Upton Sinclair, in his excellent Oil, alludes to this as the corporatists need to shape your world view so they can continue to swindle you and keep those profits coming in.