Happy New Year!

Here's hoping that 2006 will see the indictments we've all been waiting for.

The Gullibility test

Newstarget.com has a good, quick online test to measure your gullibility.

If you wonder what gullibility is: look it up.

The results may surprise you; the accompanying explanation of the true or false questions make for very interesting reading and may shatter some preconceived notions you have about health and medicine.

Long live the Revolt.

What is it that scares me the most about the fund-a-mental American Christian Right? The way they sing in public to that flagging boost morale? (I mean if laughter is the best medicine dumping a few thousand tapes of Johny Ash Letting the Eagles Soar over Iraq might solve that whole Iraq mess by sending the insurgency into spasms of paralyzed cramped dog kicking, gut wrenching, ta'iyya wetting cackles. Never mind the star wars kid, or typhus for that matter.) Or the way they clench their teeth so tight to smile their eyes might pop out of their orbits? How the congratulate themselves during press conferences? The way they squeak when they walk? Or how missionary zeal has long past the bounds of any semblance of mental sanity? Never mind political credibility.

Long Live the Revolution

So Yuchenko made it. How nice. With his stuffed dog revolution. That omnipresence of orange? The color of a stuffed animal on Yushenko's campaign manager's desk. Yessss, it's all so spontaneous and improvised.
Made it to the NATO table next to GWB and his poodle Tony Blair that is.
No... Wait... John Major was Maggy's poodle. Anyways.

Then come a few more of these 'popular' uprisings. And quite popular they must be.
Those kids going beserk to whatever dance music is making the charts in Beruit on martyr's Square must be having the social event of their lives. Never mind the ten fold numbers rallying behind Syria. I guess they're old enough to remember what life was like in 1982. Georgia had it's own thing. Now Kyrgyzstan. Why Kyrgyzstan? I have no idea but the pattern is consistent. A US base has been built recently. An obviously fraudulent election is contested. In this case bringing down the government. Election fraud is not a bit surprising. Small post soviet nation at the bottom end of the Central Asian cluster including the demagog's paradise of Uzbekistan.

Point being the co-option of popular revolts by super powers to...? say it with me, further their vested interests. In this case the US et al chipping away at what's left of Russian regional influence. After all to the winner go the spoils right? From Caspian oil to... Afghan opium? I dunno, just spit balling here.

In short all I can say, from Kiev to Beirut, Bishkek and Tiblisi, party like it's 1899.

Illegal GM crop exported to Europe

I wonder what Greenpeace has to say about this one.

I'm turning 30 soon

So I guess it's time I started making sensible choices.
So when it comes to the war on Iraq it's gonna have to be
yes m'asser from now on. Unless something big changes, like if Kerry wins the election. Or I find myself some kind of nice little resistence movment to join.

US export boom busted

The US is seeing it's dollar sink like the Exxon Valdez. But that's the neat thing about a cheap currency. It alows greater exports. Which would lead to greater production in a badly gutted manufacturing sector. Which could lead to cutting down the trade deficit and wages for their "domenstic cheap labor market", aka the working class. Which would lead to higher domestic demand for what would hopefully be domestic products. Too bad no one told their Prez that antagonzing US trade partners could be a bitcounterproductive., Or maybe he just can't understand the concept.
Then again, it's too bad that everyone out there with any kind of cash, China, Europe, Japan, made their living off that fat greenback. I'm telling ya, this is a Titanic situation.

Awwwww

Finally some heart warming news.

Ukraine

2 dogs
one bone.

$100K to prove 9/11 US government story is accurate

Yes -- if you can scientifically prove that the WTC towers collapsed for the causes advanced by the official 9/11 story, this guy will pay you 100 000 US pesos :

Mega-Millionaire Offers $100,000 Reward For Scientific Proof WTC Towers Collapsed As Bush Administration Claims

Further, Kevin R. Ryan was terminated Tuesday from his job at Environmental Health Laboratories Inc., a subsidiary of Underwriters Laboratories Inc., the consumer-product safety testing giant, for voicing his dissent with the official story of how the buildings collapsed.

Too many questions about 9/11 were left unanswered. See ReOpen911.org

This is a greater scandal than Monica and Watergate.

Peace, freedom and justice for all

God were the Taliban ever anti-freedom. Everything was banned. Bare headed women, Bare Naked Ladies for that matter, voting, shooting members of the Taliban, alcohol... hell they would whip you if they caught you with so much as a cigarette.

Yasser Arafat bites it

ooooo this is fun

I guess that's what happens when you pay a buncha sad ole foreign men to keep your peace in their nation. Some people might tend to get pissed off. They might even start calling them traitors.

Is Al-Qaida really that powerful?

The BBC concluded a 3-part series this week called "The Power of Nightmares". It argues and proves that the image of Al-Qaida projected to us by the mainstream media is an exaggeration. It also highlights who benefits from keeping the population afraid.

The video can be viewed online. It is an excellent production; unfortunately it is not likely to make it to North American TV screens any time soon.

Thank God for the wastage system

Well, at least we don't have 4 more years of Ashcroft as well as Bush.
Then again with Kerry in we wouldn't have had Bush either.

Oil prices spiral down?

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Hope for America? Jean... how naive

Kerry Won...
Greg Palast
November 04, 2004
Excerpted from TomPaine.com


---Kerry won. Here are the facts.---

I know you don't want to hear it. You can't face one more hung chad.
But I don't have a choice. As a journalist examining that messy sausage
called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most
votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was John
Kerry.

Most voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. CNN's exit poll
showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio women by 53 percent to 47
percent. Kerry also defeated Bush among Ohio's male voters 51 percent to 49
percent. Unless a third gender voted in Ohio, Kerry took the state.

So what's going on here? Answer: the exit polls are accurate. Pollsters
ask, "Who did you vote for?" Unfortunately, they don't ask the crucial,
question, "Was your vote counted?" The voters don't know.

Here's why. Although the exit polls show that most voters in Ohio
punched cards for Kerry-Edwards, thousands of these votes were simply not
recorded. This was predictable and it was predicted. [See
TomPaine.com, "An Election Spoiled Rotten," November 1.]


---Whose Votes Are Discarded?---

And not all votes spoil equally. Most of those votes, say every
official report, come from African-American and minority precincts. (To learn
more, click here.)

We saw this in Florida in 2000. Exit polls showed Gore with a plurality
of at least 50,000, but it didn't match the official count. That's
because the official, Secretary of State Katherine Harris, excluded 179,855
spoiled votes. In Florida, as in Ohio, most of these votes lost were
cast on punch cards where the hole wasn't punched through
completely-leaving a 'hanging chad,'-or was punched extra times. Whose cards were
discarded? Expert statisticians investigating spoilage for the government
calculated that 54 percent of the ballots thrown in the dumpster were
cast by black folks. (To read the report from the U.S. Civil Rights
Commission, click here .)

And here's the key: Florida is terribly typical. The majority of
ballots thrown out (there will be nearly 2 million tossed out from Tuesday's
election) will have been cast by African American and other minority
citizens.


---The Impact Of Challenges---

First and foremost, Kerry was had by chads. But the Democrat wasn't
punched out by punch cards alone. There were also the 'challenges.' That's
a polite word for the Republican Party of Ohio's use of an old Ku Klux
Klan technique: the attempt to block thousands of voters of color at
the polls. In Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida, the GOP laid plans for poll
workers to ambush citizens under arcane laws-almost never used-allowing
party-designated poll watchers to finger individual voters and demand
they be denied a ballot. The Ohio courts were horrified and federal law
prohibits targeting of voters where race is a factor in the challenge.
But our Supreme Court was prepared to let Republicans stand in the
voting booth door.


---Enchanted State's Enchanted Vote---

Now, on to New Mexico, where a Kerry plurality-if all votes are
counted-is more obvious still. Before the election, in TomPaine.com, I wrote,
"John Kerry is down by several thousand votes in New Mexico, though not
one ballot has yet been counted."

How did that happen? It's the spoilage, stupid; and the provisional
ballots.

CNN said George Bush took New Mexico by 11,620 votes. Again, the
network total added up to that miraculous, and non-existent, '100 percent' of
ballots cast.

New Mexico reported in the last race a spoilage rate of 2.68 percent,
votes lost almost entirely in Hispanic, Native American and poor
precincts-Democratic turf. From Tuesday's vote, assuming the same ballot-loss
rate, we can expect to see 18,000 ballots in the spoilage bin.

Spoilage has a very Democratic look in New Mexico. Hispanic voters in
the Enchanted State, who voted more than two to one for Kerry, are five
times as likely to have their vote spoil as a white voter. Counting
these uncounted votes would easily overtake the Bush 'plurality.'


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Bloodbath Whitewash

The US are doing a damned good job of keeping their casualties down.
In a battle of "5000" insurgents vs 15 000 US marines that was promised to be a bloodbath we get casualties of 10 US soldiers and 2 in their ranks of Iraqi fodder and 40 some in the "anti-Iraqi" forces.

So, either they have soldiers made of steel or they just might be lying abut the figures.

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Hmmm well, 4 days later Felujah is under US control...ish. And still the casualty count looks rediculous. 40 some on one side, hundreds on the other.

Election fraud

Voters in Ohio were so enthusiastic, they cast more votes than there are voters. Kerry still has time to un-concede.

Evidence of vote fraud is mounting across the country, here's a compilation.

Now, when will the mainstream media stop hiding this?

Worst... Beneder... Ever

"I remember once, I was a bit drunk,...

I can just imagine an American spy being questioned by a senior officer.
"You stay here in camp until your trial. You say one thing bad about Kim Il-Jung and you dig your own hole!"

That's the problem with closed societies. They breed mediocrity.

Osama Bin Laden endorses Kerry

Well, it's crunch time.
And the gloves are off.
Repubs call in all their favors.

"We do not keep body counts"

"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100 000 excess deaths or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Violence accounted for most of the excess."

World War One was the first war where civilians died in great numbers. The ratio was about 1:1.
for World War Two, Nazi and Japanese genocide included, Allied firebombings as well, it stands at 14:1.
Iraq
100:1

Year 2004. This is the future baby. It has never, ever been worse. From the time Timujin made pyramids of the skulls of the people of entire cities it has never been worse.
The only things missing here are 6 years (world war two) and a enough people to aim at.

And it's not even a genocide. The Americans aren't even trying to kill every Iraqi. Could you imagine if they were?

As for the resistence. Think, these are deaths. Not injuries. So, if i'm going to make some conservative assumptions there should be 5 injuries (from broken limbs to amputation, brain damage and blindness) for every death. So some 600 to 750 civiliam casualties. Now considering that there are around 24 million, and falling, Iraqis and say that they each have 50 people they are close to they each know someone who has been killed or maimed by indescriminate co-allition bombings. Might have an effect on who they fight for.

They don't keep body counts because they don't want to be embarassed. They don't because they simply can't.

US President chosen by Surrender Monkeys

Not only does your vote not count if you're American but it does if you're not.

Ramadan Fireworks

KablooI!!
This should do much to bolster GWB's claims on newborn Iraqi stability.
Too bad people are still joining his revamped ARVN.

Prognisis? 10 years of utter chaos? If they're lucky.

The new economy

I hate my job. But it's giving me muscles. I think I'll love my new one.

I need THIS GADGET!

Of all the stupid gizmos I've ever wanted this one I MUST HAVE

Elsewhere? Business as usual.

It's nice to see that life in the rest of the world goes on as it always has.
A nice dose of the usual invidious ourgages this world has to offer does brighten the day.
Seriously. At least this doesn't spell armagedon.

Will Zionism destroy Israel?

Israel will have to fold in on itself further if the pullout is not effected. If so it will continue it's charge towards a pariah state the way South Africa had. And it's likely it will. It cannot stand a civil war at the moment. They have no friends to depend on. Or can they. Will the Arab states attack? After all the Israelis would be easy pickings. And their destruction would be a major relief. And there isn't much more the USA can do to save them if the war they face is internal.
And the USA is relying on Israel to manage this region. As impossible as it is for both. But what would happen if they lost Israel. Maybe they could do something.
I just hope Israel doesn't nuke itself. Or that the USA helps their chosen side in this matter. Just as long as no one comes along and blames it on the Arabs.

Fuck this, I'm moving to China.

But I don't think the USA can do much against a collapse of their world power.
Unless they start nuking everything. I don't think they could be that stupid.
Then again the Soviets didn't either. But the Germans were opposed to the lack of control they had over their nation. The soviets had to let go. And they could without facing German hostility. The Israelis against the pullout are for dominance and are violent.
This could be war.
All this could be the end of the American Empire. They could lose all naval access to Iraq. So much for that. Yet another empire goes down for the loss of it's final allie.

Then again... I don't think Israel can go much farther into being a paraiah. It's behavior has been just as bad for just as long as South Africa's had been when Aparteid was destroyed. When the concesions were made. But the pullout is only the first step to the end of the revolt. And the revolt has destroyed the economy of Israel proper, never mind Palestine's. It simply can't go on.

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My banker is an Imam

Tired of paying out insane intrest?
Tired of your bank gorging itself at the profit of smokers, boozers and midnight wankers?

Well you don't have to anymore.

Your President is INSANE

INSANE! INSANE I TELL YOU!

they... are... everywhere

The allegations are being investigated by at least five US congressional committees, the Iraqi Interim Government and a UN inquiry headed by Paul Volcker, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve.

So.... If Saddam was paying off the French with oil... and the Russians, and the English and Saddam was working with Al Quaida thank god we got rid of him before he could use all his oil to blackmail Europe into... into... giving them WMDs... no... wait... WAIT!! HE WOULD HAVE FORCED THEM TO ATTACK US!! The French HAVE nukes! AND THE ENGLISH SAID THEY WERE OUR FRIENDS!!

I knew it all along... They are all against me... They are jealous or my freedom. My sacred way of life and unlimited wealth. Well well then, it's kill or be killed now isn't it.....

Jeeze, thank god Saddam is out of commision. Or else we might have a real war on our hands.


5 US contressional commities and some UN inquiry headed by the former head of the US Federal Reserve?

Nah... nothing is coming out of that. Never hear a word of that on CNN.