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Friends, I think I've reached my "tipping point". We have lost this once-great nation, and now face tyranny, despotic regimes, and financial terrorism. The bill that was passed today was basically the same bill that was presented earlier and rejected, but this time, they "sweetened the pot". Not with sugar, Equal, Pink Stuff, or Splenda, but with pork. Last I checked, pork wasn't real high on my list of things I put in my iced tea or on my cereal. And you can forget about baking cookies with it!
Instead, our elected "leaders" submitted to the siren song of panic, the gentle lullaby of the unzipping of Wall Street's fly, and bent over for them once again! They stuffed the already bad bill with pork, "earmarks", and totally ignored their constituents' wishes- hell, it was more like rage, let's be clear here- and gave the money junkies on Wall Street their fix. Screw Main Street!
No, SCREW YOU, WEASELTON!
I have devised a plan that I hope turns into an Internet frenzy, just like the fans of "Jericho" accomplished, extending a canceled show....
I plan on mailing pork products to my Senators who let us down and told us to stick it. They LEFT before the ink was dry on the check they gave to Paulson and his band of thieves, after upping the tab to you and I to almost a TRILLION DOLLARS. I don't care WHO you are, that's REAL MONEY! OUR money, to be more precise. Our voice was NOT heard by the government, they care not about you or me. They only care about their banker friends. And why not? Those who voted FOR this stinking, slimy piece of garbage that hands all the power of our monetary system to ONE MAN were rewarded with 40% MORE "contributions" from the financial sector than those who voted AGAINST the bill. In the Senate, the ratio changed a little bit, with the Yeas getting 140% MORE than those who listened to the people!
So, when I mail my little packages of pork (sausage, pig ears, casings, snouts, organ meat, head cheese, and any other nasty piece of offal I can find), I will include a note, but no dry ice. It will read something along the lines of "In appreciation of your love for PORK!" on a nice little gift card. I encourage you to tell everyone you know to do the same. Maybe they'll get some semblance of a clue when they eventually return and smell the fruits of their labors!
Rum producers in the Caribbean get more than people wiped out here on the Gulf Coast, and they bailed out on voting on issues such as extending tax cuts for average Americans, extending unemployment benefits for those losing their livelihoods because of the mess the Fat Cats made. Greed and bribery are the best thing since sliced bread! THAT is the grease that keeps the wheels of Government grinding!
What was Wall Street's reaction to this version of the bill being enacted? IT DROPPED. It ROSE when they voted it down the first time, but it DROPPED upon it's passage!
Do yourselves a favor and BOMBARD WEASELTON WITH PORK, AND PORK PRODUCTS! Let them understand our rage! And DON'T VOTE FOR A SINGLE INCUMBENT THIS YEAR!!! Instead of going into the voting booth and pulling the Red lever or the Blue lever, EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO THROW THESE BASTARDS OUT OF THEIR CUSHY JOBS IGNORING US! Sure, you might have to actually look up who your Government Rulers are, but that's half the fun! Send them a little "Care Package" to let them know what you think of them, then VOTE THEM THE HELL OUT! Let's all pick up OurPitchforksAndTorches and MAKE them hear us!
As always, I am...
Amir Fazadh
Friday, October 3, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Black Monday victory?
Well, dear reader, I missed the mark on the depth of the first plunge, but only by a little bit. I told you this morning that I expected a 300-point drop, perhaps twice that. Instead, we got a 700-point drop, which, while the single biggest point drop in history, is still not quite as big as the percentage-point drops suffered in the original Great Depression or the 1987 debacle. Still, it points out that there is panic in the halls of the would-be kings of the banking world, and this may not be such a bad thing. The people have risen up and expressed a near-violent outrage against oiling the wheels of the machine that has functioned to enrich the few on the backs of the many. I applaud all of you who took the time to write, call, or send smoke signals to your elected officials regarding this matter. It appears that we do have a voice in this republic after all! To have ignored this would have placed the Congress in the untenable position of having to "fall on the sword", not once, but repeatedly.
And shame on you, Nazi Pelosi, for calling the Republicans who "didn't come to the table" as being "unpatriotic". You locked them out, you had them thrown out of meetings, you tried to sneak "earmarks" into this bill that had NO PLACE in it. You also were only too willing to grant Hank Paulson virtually unlimited powers to buy ANY assets he deemed necessary to preserve his profits, and likely your own profits as well, including bad foreign-owned financial instruments. I have no respect for you or your gang of thieves, shame on you for trying to give our country away. There is a reason your Demican/Republicrat party turned their backs on you and your siamese twin Jorge Arbusto, and that reason is US! We, the people! We spoke, our representatives listened, for once, and defeated the bill you and Jorge tried in vain to shove down our throats. The reason for your secrecy and your rush to pass this legislation? I have my suspicions that you, too, are making bets against the economy, shorting the US economy, as it were. YOU are the unpatriotic one, Grandma! I am ashamed of you, and those of your ilk!
For the rest of us on Main Street who pushed back against this bad piece of legislation, please- keep it up. Be involved. This is but a small victory in the taking back of America. The monsters on Wall Street are very much against Main Street, don't let their lies and perversions of the truth fool you. They are out to make a buck. Your buck. We need more vigilance, more involvement in our government than we have been given to exercising lately. Our complacency has nearly cost us our very freedom, and the attacks came from within. Nice to see not everyone was asleep at the wheel this time- don't nod off now. They will try again by the end of the week.
When they DO try, look at the bill as it is drafted. Look carefully for protections for the common man, look for true oversight- the dead bill had an oversight committee consisting of Paulson, Cox, the Secretary of HUD. THAT, my friends, is giving the fox the keys to the henhouse! Not wise, even by today's lax standards! Look also for unbridled power to be given to either Paulson, or one (or more) of his cronies, such as the Federal Reserve Board, or even the GAO. Watch for tricks in the wording that will allow great latitudes in powers, or in what types of financial instruments are allowed to be bought or sold. What we really need right now is a complete overhaul of the system, but the weasels of Wall Street are screaming for more cash. They're pathetic, like junkies looking for their next fix. It sickens me. The crafters of this bill also told us (Hank Paulson & friends) that there would be "protections against golden parachute clauses". That, dear readers, was an outright lie. The only thing mentioned in the bill that referred to "excessive compensation" was a small passage that said "Excessive compensation will be levied a tax at the rate of 20% on the excessive gains of the top 5 persons leaving any firm". Not even what I pay on my puny salary! And it opens the door to the "carryout profits buffet". Just underpay the next 5 in line, and have them carry the profits out the door and to the alley, where the top fat cats will be waiting in the line of limos. Thievery. Utter trash.
I expect tomorrow's market will see a 400-800 point drop, especially since the European markets are undergoing their own bank failures right now (Fortis). In fact, some are calling for up to a 4-6,000 point drop in the Dow before we settle out. That, my friends, is what I call devastating. But it can happen. Be prepared, as much as you can. Unemployment will likely exceed 10% in the coming months. I don't think that it will be as bad as the 1930's, when unemployment hit a whopping 25%, but it could get close. The difference this time is that firms aren't experiencing as much contraction to preserve capital as before. With the credit market bone-dry, I don't expect to see too much growth, but it may not be the end of the world.
So, be aware of every penny for the time being, and don't spend needlessly. We must prepare ourselves for a new paradigm- living on what we truly need, not on what we truly want. We will adjust to this new lifestyle, I already have. Sure, I have some toys, I'm not rich, I live in a modest little home in a modest little neighborhood, and I don't own a single new car. I also don't have as much debt as most average Americans, which is good. But I also don't have as big a cushion as I'd like. I'm working on that part, and so should you.
Happy "Black Monday" to you all, and celebrate the victory, but not too much, there is still a very large war, and this is but one small battle. Be brave, have courage, and know that "we done good" this time.
As always, I am...
Amir Fazadh
And shame on you, Nazi Pelosi, for calling the Republicans who "didn't come to the table" as being "unpatriotic". You locked them out, you had them thrown out of meetings, you tried to sneak "earmarks" into this bill that had NO PLACE in it. You also were only too willing to grant Hank Paulson virtually unlimited powers to buy ANY assets he deemed necessary to preserve his profits, and likely your own profits as well, including bad foreign-owned financial instruments. I have no respect for you or your gang of thieves, shame on you for trying to give our country away. There is a reason your Demican/Republicrat party turned their backs on you and your siamese twin Jorge Arbusto, and that reason is US! We, the people! We spoke, our representatives listened, for once, and defeated the bill you and Jorge tried in vain to shove down our throats. The reason for your secrecy and your rush to pass this legislation? I have my suspicions that you, too, are making bets against the economy, shorting the US economy, as it were. YOU are the unpatriotic one, Grandma! I am ashamed of you, and those of your ilk!
For the rest of us on Main Street who pushed back against this bad piece of legislation, please- keep it up. Be involved. This is but a small victory in the taking back of America. The monsters on Wall Street are very much against Main Street, don't let their lies and perversions of the truth fool you. They are out to make a buck. Your buck. We need more vigilance, more involvement in our government than we have been given to exercising lately. Our complacency has nearly cost us our very freedom, and the attacks came from within. Nice to see not everyone was asleep at the wheel this time- don't nod off now. They will try again by the end of the week.
When they DO try, look at the bill as it is drafted. Look carefully for protections for the common man, look for true oversight- the dead bill had an oversight committee consisting of Paulson, Cox, the Secretary of HUD. THAT, my friends, is giving the fox the keys to the henhouse! Not wise, even by today's lax standards! Look also for unbridled power to be given to either Paulson, or one (or more) of his cronies, such as the Federal Reserve Board, or even the GAO. Watch for tricks in the wording that will allow great latitudes in powers, or in what types of financial instruments are allowed to be bought or sold. What we really need right now is a complete overhaul of the system, but the weasels of Wall Street are screaming for more cash. They're pathetic, like junkies looking for their next fix. It sickens me. The crafters of this bill also told us (Hank Paulson & friends) that there would be "protections against golden parachute clauses". That, dear readers, was an outright lie. The only thing mentioned in the bill that referred to "excessive compensation" was a small passage that said "Excessive compensation will be levied a tax at the rate of 20% on the excessive gains of the top 5 persons leaving any firm". Not even what I pay on my puny salary! And it opens the door to the "carryout profits buffet". Just underpay the next 5 in line, and have them carry the profits out the door and to the alley, where the top fat cats will be waiting in the line of limos. Thievery. Utter trash.
I expect tomorrow's market will see a 400-800 point drop, especially since the European markets are undergoing their own bank failures right now (Fortis). In fact, some are calling for up to a 4-6,000 point drop in the Dow before we settle out. That, my friends, is what I call devastating. But it can happen. Be prepared, as much as you can. Unemployment will likely exceed 10% in the coming months. I don't think that it will be as bad as the 1930's, when unemployment hit a whopping 25%, but it could get close. The difference this time is that firms aren't experiencing as much contraction to preserve capital as before. With the credit market bone-dry, I don't expect to see too much growth, but it may not be the end of the world.
So, be aware of every penny for the time being, and don't spend needlessly. We must prepare ourselves for a new paradigm- living on what we truly need, not on what we truly want. We will adjust to this new lifestyle, I already have. Sure, I have some toys, I'm not rich, I live in a modest little home in a modest little neighborhood, and I don't own a single new car. I also don't have as much debt as most average Americans, which is good. But I also don't have as big a cushion as I'd like. I'm working on that part, and so should you.
Happy "Black Monday" to you all, and celebrate the victory, but not too much, there is still a very large war, and this is but one small battle. Be brave, have courage, and know that "we done good" this time.
As always, I am...
Amir Fazadh
And the hangman pulls the lever....
Get ready people. We are standing on the gallows, and the hangman has pulled the lever. The floor we were standing on is falling away now, and we are starting our plummet. Don't worry, it's not the drop that will kill you, it's the suden stop at the end, with the rope tightening and the knot on our left ear snapping our head off to an impossible angle. I wonder how many times our feet will twitch?
Main Street is just about there. We are on the cusp of a major revolution. We the people are getting VERY ANGRY at what is perceived as the big guys preserving their buddies' "golden parachute funds". The time has come.
The only thing that will stop the situation at this point would be to hold the elections today, and have everyone vote out the incumbents, and write in a candidate for president that is not currently on the ticket. But that isn't going to happen. What they'll do is fund this trillion-dollar "bailout" of the financial sector. This is not for our own good, I'm telling you. This is not capitalism, it is fascism, pure and simple. And we're going to let this happen? I've been writing that this country is in a death spiral for a while now, and I'm predicting at least a 300-pt drop in the Dow today, perhaps double that. The market is broken, and our fearful leaders are taking the cash register and going home.
What about the average Joe Sixpack? The gang of thieves in Weaselton DC seem content to saddle us with the bill while they print ever more worthless fiat currency known as the "almighty dollar". The "almighty dollar" is looked upon with scorn in the world now, they see how thin the trappings of "success" are, they know we are going down for the count, and accordingly are saying "thanks, but no thanks" to our overtures for more investment here. The world's capital has dried up, the ATM is now unplugged. This nation's excessive, consumer-driven expenses are coming home to roost, and the waiter has just slipped us the bill. Our goose has been cooked, and the people know it.
This situation is being seen as "the beginning of the end" by most. I see it as the "end of the beginning". It's going to get much, much worse. If you were planning, like me, to retire at some point and enjoy "the golden years", please be aware that you will now have to work for approximately 137 more years, if you are nearing retirement. Your "golden years" are now a "lead ballon"- unless, of course, your name happens to be Bush, Cheney, Paulson, Bernanke, or Cox. Or the name of any CEO on Wall Street. That is where my little daughter's future is being sold out.
Despite Bush's "the sky is falling" speech, I don't buy for a second the specter of total anihilation of the markets if we let Goldman-Sucks fail. It will be yet another bank failure. We have seen large firms fail before- witness Enron, and the dreadful knee-jerk reaction of the politicos known as "Sarbanes-Oxley Act". That one crippled normal businesses, in an effort to "protect the shareholders". It was supposed to result in more transparency, but the net result is that no company can do anything without going through a checklist of Byzantine proportion, and a whole industry developed around it to siphon off profits. Entire corps of lawyers and accountants sprung up from the ashes of the failed energy giant. Think of what it will be like now, er, "going forward", to use a now common biz-speak term.
Protect your assets, and invest in commodities like gold and silver, and lead. It's time to rise up, unified, grab OurPitchforksAndTorches, and put this matter to rest once and for all. Greed is NOT good. It is the cancer that has taken over this nation, and driven us to ruin.
As always, I am...
Amir Fazadh
Main Street is just about there. We are on the cusp of a major revolution. We the people are getting VERY ANGRY at what is perceived as the big guys preserving their buddies' "golden parachute funds". The time has come.
The only thing that will stop the situation at this point would be to hold the elections today, and have everyone vote out the incumbents, and write in a candidate for president that is not currently on the ticket. But that isn't going to happen. What they'll do is fund this trillion-dollar "bailout" of the financial sector. This is not for our own good, I'm telling you. This is not capitalism, it is fascism, pure and simple. And we're going to let this happen? I've been writing that this country is in a death spiral for a while now, and I'm predicting at least a 300-pt drop in the Dow today, perhaps double that. The market is broken, and our fearful leaders are taking the cash register and going home.
What about the average Joe Sixpack? The gang of thieves in Weaselton DC seem content to saddle us with the bill while they print ever more worthless fiat currency known as the "almighty dollar". The "almighty dollar" is looked upon with scorn in the world now, they see how thin the trappings of "success" are, they know we are going down for the count, and accordingly are saying "thanks, but no thanks" to our overtures for more investment here. The world's capital has dried up, the ATM is now unplugged. This nation's excessive, consumer-driven expenses are coming home to roost, and the waiter has just slipped us the bill. Our goose has been cooked, and the people know it.
This situation is being seen as "the beginning of the end" by most. I see it as the "end of the beginning". It's going to get much, much worse. If you were planning, like me, to retire at some point and enjoy "the golden years", please be aware that you will now have to work for approximately 137 more years, if you are nearing retirement. Your "golden years" are now a "lead ballon"- unless, of course, your name happens to be Bush, Cheney, Paulson, Bernanke, or Cox. Or the name of any CEO on Wall Street. That is where my little daughter's future is being sold out.
Despite Bush's "the sky is falling" speech, I don't buy for a second the specter of total anihilation of the markets if we let Goldman-Sucks fail. It will be yet another bank failure. We have seen large firms fail before- witness Enron, and the dreadful knee-jerk reaction of the politicos known as "Sarbanes-Oxley Act". That one crippled normal businesses, in an effort to "protect the shareholders". It was supposed to result in more transparency, but the net result is that no company can do anything without going through a checklist of Byzantine proportion, and a whole industry developed around it to siphon off profits. Entire corps of lawyers and accountants sprung up from the ashes of the failed energy giant. Think of what it will be like now, er, "going forward", to use a now common biz-speak term.
Protect your assets, and invest in commodities like gold and silver, and lead. It's time to rise up, unified, grab OurPitchforksAndTorches, and put this matter to rest once and for all. Greed is NOT good. It is the cancer that has taken over this nation, and driven us to ruin.
As always, I am...
Amir Fazadh
Thursday, September 25, 2008
$700 Billion dollar reward for screwing our economy?
Well, Bush and his Gang of Thieves certainly are pushing hard for this "bailout". Having just been through Hurricane Ike, I turned to my government for some assistance. I asked for the really huge and expensive assistance, to the tune of about $5. I just wanted some ice and water. But that help never came. I was eventually able to find ice, at $2.19/bag. But someone else in my neighborhood brought some water to us, and we survived.
I asked my lenders for a bit of help coping with this national disaster, and was rebuffed with a hearty "Sorry, pay your bill. No help for you, and no, you can't have one payment put off to the end of the loan."
I was charged $75 to cancel my flight.
My cruise line cheerfully refunded my money in full for our December cruise that we can no longer go on. They will get my booking next time.
What irks me is that I was given no quarter, no relief from ANYONE from this storm, despite living less than 10 miles from where Ike rumbled ashore, and the eye passed directly over my house. I wasn't asking for a lot of assistance, just a little relief from the ravages of the storm. Enough breathing room to not go under. What I got was the proverbial "sharp stick in the eye".
After 13 days, we finally have power. Life will return to normal.
What will NOT return to normal, in my opinion, is the venereal, er, venerable, institutions known as "Wall Street". What they are doing is asking us, the taxpayer, to foot the bill for the multi-million-dollar "exit packages", the bonus that executives get for ruining a company and sending it into the abyss of history. They want us to bail them out, to save them from the abyss they threw themselves into through bad decision-making, and plain, unadulterated greed. They want us to save them from the fires of hell with our own money. I am against this "plan". They want US to give them more money? After they have plundered the US treasury, ruined our economy, offshored our jobs, debased our currency, robbed my children of their futures, and now they want to saddle us with even MORE DEBT? The kind that takes generations to pay off? Are they insane? We're supposed to trust these vermin? We're supposed to give them even more money to reward them for this thievery? No. Not only no, but HELL NO! These people have nothing in the game. I would make this loan only under the following conditions-
1) All profit comes back to the people after the principal is paid, and with a stiff penalty.
2) All property, including thier personal residences, retirement accounts, golden parachutes, and stock options, all bank accounts, cash, and vehicles should be immediately forfeit. They can serve as the "down payment", so to speak. Let's get these bastards to have some "skin: in the game.
3) Immediate cancellation of all bonuses and regular salary for the CEOs of the affected companies. Put those twoard the repayment of this debt. They can have it back if and when the markets recover.
What is happening with Bush and cronies proclaiming the end of the world if we don't approve their looting of the Treasury is nothing short of financial terrorism. It's like rewarding the captain of the Exxon Valdez with a bigger ship full of oil, and a case of Scotch to go with it. If my banks won't even grant me ONE DEFERRED PAYMENT to help me get past a declared national disaster, why should I be expected to give my child's future to them? Let Goldman Sachs fail. It would probably do MORE for the world economy's trust to let them fail than to reward bad behavior with saddling the taxpayer with debt and risk.
What they are doing, in a nutshell, is giving us the risk while they reap the rewards. This is flat-out WRONG. It is thievery, plain and simple. "Hank" Paulson was the CEO of Goldman Sachs up until 2 years ago. Why would he give up the $16Billion bonuses and the salary of that job for a $400,000 a yr job in the government, unless he knew that this was going to happen? He was one of the architects of this destruction, let him enjoy the reward of seeing his creation through. Let him give up all his ill-gotten gains. Let him feel the pain he is causing us. He earned it!
We need to get out OurPitchforksAndTorches and give ol' Hank a sharp stick in the ass. Just like he's doing to us! How's it feel, Hank?
I asked my lenders for a bit of help coping with this national disaster, and was rebuffed with a hearty "Sorry, pay your bill. No help for you, and no, you can't have one payment put off to the end of the loan."
I was charged $75 to cancel my flight.
My cruise line cheerfully refunded my money in full for our December cruise that we can no longer go on. They will get my booking next time.
What irks me is that I was given no quarter, no relief from ANYONE from this storm, despite living less than 10 miles from where Ike rumbled ashore, and the eye passed directly over my house. I wasn't asking for a lot of assistance, just a little relief from the ravages of the storm. Enough breathing room to not go under. What I got was the proverbial "sharp stick in the eye".
After 13 days, we finally have power. Life will return to normal.
What will NOT return to normal, in my opinion, is the venereal, er, venerable, institutions known as "Wall Street". What they are doing is asking us, the taxpayer, to foot the bill for the multi-million-dollar "exit packages", the bonus that executives get for ruining a company and sending it into the abyss of history. They want us to bail them out, to save them from the abyss they threw themselves into through bad decision-making, and plain, unadulterated greed. They want us to save them from the fires of hell with our own money. I am against this "plan". They want US to give them more money? After they have plundered the US treasury, ruined our economy, offshored our jobs, debased our currency, robbed my children of their futures, and now they want to saddle us with even MORE DEBT? The kind that takes generations to pay off? Are they insane? We're supposed to trust these vermin? We're supposed to give them even more money to reward them for this thievery? No. Not only no, but HELL NO! These people have nothing in the game. I would make this loan only under the following conditions-
1) All profit comes back to the people after the principal is paid, and with a stiff penalty.
2) All property, including thier personal residences, retirement accounts, golden parachutes, and stock options, all bank accounts, cash, and vehicles should be immediately forfeit. They can serve as the "down payment", so to speak. Let's get these bastards to have some "skin: in the game.
3) Immediate cancellation of all bonuses and regular salary for the CEOs of the affected companies. Put those twoard the repayment of this debt. They can have it back if and when the markets recover.
What is happening with Bush and cronies proclaiming the end of the world if we don't approve their looting of the Treasury is nothing short of financial terrorism. It's like rewarding the captain of the Exxon Valdez with a bigger ship full of oil, and a case of Scotch to go with it. If my banks won't even grant me ONE DEFERRED PAYMENT to help me get past a declared national disaster, why should I be expected to give my child's future to them? Let Goldman Sachs fail. It would probably do MORE for the world economy's trust to let them fail than to reward bad behavior with saddling the taxpayer with debt and risk.
What they are doing, in a nutshell, is giving us the risk while they reap the rewards. This is flat-out WRONG. It is thievery, plain and simple. "Hank" Paulson was the CEO of Goldman Sachs up until 2 years ago. Why would he give up the $16Billion bonuses and the salary of that job for a $400,000 a yr job in the government, unless he knew that this was going to happen? He was one of the architects of this destruction, let him enjoy the reward of seeing his creation through. Let him give up all his ill-gotten gains. Let him feel the pain he is causing us. He earned it!
We need to get out OurPitchforksAndTorches and give ol' Hank a sharp stick in the ass. Just like he's doing to us! How's it feel, Hank?
Friday, August 29, 2008
McCain/Palin
So McCain has gone against all conventional wisdom and picked a "hockey mom" as his running mate. This is an obvious ploy to garner the displaced female voters that were going to vote for Hillary- he obviously does not think that the American people are smart enough to figure it out. Here is a woman at 42, a recent mother to a Down's Syndrome child (they require extensive care due to their condition, especially in the early years), governor of Alaska for two years. Before that she was a mayor of a town of 6,000. That's her entire political experience. She apparently has a reputation for fighting corruption, and garnered the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" during her high school years playing basketball. She was also a beauty pageant contestant. And this is McCain's choice to take the reins should he become ill, or, heaven forbid, die in office?
In the Democrat's corner is a previously unknown city councilman from Chicago, home of the notoriously corrupt Richard Daley political family, who Obama has close ties with. He also has some very shady associates, including Bill Ayers, former Weatherman (Communist group) and terror bomber of the 60s-70s. His ideology included such gems as:
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents."
Nice guy, huh. And Barack Hussein Obama claims him as a mentor. Hmmm. So I'd have to assume that the liar Obama actually stands for the "redistribution of wealth", which is a code word for "Communist", and I'm not too far off in my assumption. If you listened at all to his speech at the DNC, where he assumed the mantle of President-Elect a tad early, he is a magnetic and charismatic speaker on camera. But then, so was Hitler, and look what he did for Germany. The parallels are staggering. He came out ot nowhere, made grandiose speeches, was adored by the populace...then he took power and showed his real face. We're witnessing the same thing. The architecture of the stage alone is enough to make me wonder- the Greco-esque columns, like a mutant Parthenon of Greece for him to speak as Zeus, you gotta wonder about his ego...
Now the hockey mom, Sarah Palin, may end up being more of a liability than an asset, with her lack of experience. Despite her lack of experience, she has been in charge of the National Guard up there for a couple years. Not exactly battle-tested. But I'd take her and McCain over Obama's promise of change, especially since his change might be to make us a communist nation. Of course, we'll all have our own rainbows and ride unicorns if he's elected, but I'm hoping that I won't have to see that. Besides, it'll be hard to load up a unicorn with household goods and ride it to another country. I'm thinking that if we become an Obamanation, I'll have no choice but to leave the country and never turn back.
We're in for a weird election season. I'm getting really tired of having to choose the lesser of two evils. Many people I talk to tell me of their frustrations as well. Perhaps this Barracuda chick will have some influence in cleaning up Weaselton, DC, before they corrupt her, too. That wouldn't be such a bad thing...
The way I see it, we have a disproportionate amount of corporate corruption, a dysfunctional, puppet media, and lobbyists who decide what is best for us. It would behoove the government to cede power back to the people where it belongs, rather than trying to be all things to all corporations, people be damned. But unless we can get rid of the corruption and reign in the influence peddlers, as well as get the media to report on the things that matter, I don't see this country being here for a 2012 election. It's time we grabbed OurPitchforksAndTorches, and inform our neighbors of the danger we really face.
As always, I am...
Amir Fazadh
In the Democrat's corner is a previously unknown city councilman from Chicago, home of the notoriously corrupt Richard Daley political family, who Obama has close ties with. He also has some very shady associates, including Bill Ayers, former Weatherman (Communist group) and terror bomber of the 60s-70s. His ideology included such gems as:
"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents."
Nice guy, huh. And Barack Hussein Obama claims him as a mentor. Hmmm. So I'd have to assume that the liar Obama actually stands for the "redistribution of wealth", which is a code word for "Communist", and I'm not too far off in my assumption. If you listened at all to his speech at the DNC, where he assumed the mantle of President-Elect a tad early, he is a magnetic and charismatic speaker on camera. But then, so was Hitler, and look what he did for Germany. The parallels are staggering. He came out ot nowhere, made grandiose speeches, was adored by the populace...then he took power and showed his real face. We're witnessing the same thing. The architecture of the stage alone is enough to make me wonder- the Greco-esque columns, like a mutant Parthenon of Greece for him to speak as Zeus, you gotta wonder about his ego...
Now the hockey mom, Sarah Palin, may end up being more of a liability than an asset, with her lack of experience. Despite her lack of experience, she has been in charge of the National Guard up there for a couple years. Not exactly battle-tested. But I'd take her and McCain over Obama's promise of change, especially since his change might be to make us a communist nation. Of course, we'll all have our own rainbows and ride unicorns if he's elected, but I'm hoping that I won't have to see that. Besides, it'll be hard to load up a unicorn with household goods and ride it to another country. I'm thinking that if we become an Obamanation, I'll have no choice but to leave the country and never turn back.
We're in for a weird election season. I'm getting really tired of having to choose the lesser of two evils. Many people I talk to tell me of their frustrations as well. Perhaps this Barracuda chick will have some influence in cleaning up Weaselton, DC, before they corrupt her, too. That wouldn't be such a bad thing...
The way I see it, we have a disproportionate amount of corporate corruption, a dysfunctional, puppet media, and lobbyists who decide what is best for us. It would behoove the government to cede power back to the people where it belongs, rather than trying to be all things to all corporations, people be damned. But unless we can get rid of the corruption and reign in the influence peddlers, as well as get the media to report on the things that matter, I don't see this country being here for a 2012 election. It's time we grabbed OurPitchforksAndTorches, and inform our neighbors of the danger we really face.
As always, I am...
Amir Fazadh
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Massive US naval armada heads for Iran...
http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2008/08/massive-us-naval-armada-heads-for-iran.html
Massive US naval armada heads for Iran...
Eurobusiness blogspot, Thursday, August 7, 2008
Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The massive war games included a US Navy supercarrier battle group, an US Navy expeditionary carrier battle group, a Royal Navy carrier battle group, a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine plus a large number of US Navy cruisers, destroyers and frigates playing the "enemy force".
The lead American ship in these war games, the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN71) and its Carrier Strike Group Two (CCSG-2) are now headed towards Iran along with the USS Ronald Reagon (CVN76) and its Carrier Strike Group Seven (CCSG-7) coming from Japan.
They are joining two existing USN battle groups in the Gulf area: the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) with its Carrier Strike Group Nine (CCSG-9); and the USS Peleliu (LHA-5) with its expeditionary strike group.
Likely also under way towards the Persian Gulf is the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) and its expeditionary strike group, the UK Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal (R07) carrier battle group, assorted French naval assets including the nuclear hunter-killer submarine Amethyste and French Naval Rafale fighter jets on-board the USS Theodore Roosevelt. These ships took part in the just completed Operation Brimstone.
The build up of naval forces in the Gulf will be one of the largest multi-national naval armadas since the First and Second Gulf Wars. The intent is to create a US/EU naval blockade (which is an Act of War under international law) around Iran (with supporting air and land elements) to prevent the shipment of benzene and certain other refined oil products headed to Iranian ports. Iran has limited domestic oil refining capacity and imports 40% of its benzene. Cutting off benzene and other key products would cripple the Iranian economy. The neo-cons are counting on such a blockade launching a war with Iran.
The US Naval forces being assembled include the following:
Carrier Strike Group Nine
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing Two
Destroyer Squadron Nine:
USS Mobile Bay (CG53) guided missile cruiser
USS Russell (DDG59) guided missile destroyer
USS Momsen (DDG92) guided missile destroyer
USS Shoup (DDG86) guided missile destroyer
USS Ford (FFG54) guided missile frigate
USS Ingraham (FFG61) guided missile frigate
USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG60) guided missile frigate
USS Curts (FFG38) guided missile frigate
Plus one or more nuclear hunter-killer submarines
Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Group
USS Peleliu (LHA-5) a Tarawa-class amphibious assault carrier
USS Pearl Harbor (LSD52) assult ship
USS Dubuque (LPD8) assult ship/landing dock
USS Cape St. George (CG71) guided missile cruiser
USS Halsey (DDG97) guided missile destroyer
USS Benfold (DDG65) guided missile destroyer
Carrier Strike Group Two
USS Theodore Roosevelt (DVN71) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing Eight
Destroyer Squadron 22
USS Monterey (CG61) guided missile cruiser
USS Mason (DDG87) guided missile destroyer
USS Nitze (DDG94) guided missile destroyer
USS Sullivans (DDG68) guided missile destroyer
USS Springfield (SSN761) nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine
IWO ESG ~ Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group
USS Iwo Jima (LHD7) amphibious assault carrier
with its Amphibious Squadron Four
and with its 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
USS San Antonio (LPD17) assault ship
USS Velia Gulf (CG72) guided missile cruiser
USS Ramage (DDG61) guided missile destroyer
USS Carter Hall (LSD50) assault ship
USS Roosevelt (DDG80) guided missile destroyer
USS Hartfore (SSN768) nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine
Carrier Strike Group Seven
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing 14
Destroyer Squadron 7
USS Chancellorsville (CG62) guided missile cruiser
USS Howard (DDG83) guided missile destroyer
USS Gridley (DDG101) guided missile destroyer
USS Decatur (DDG73) guided missile destroyer
USS Thach (FFG43) guided missile frigate
USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7) fast combat support ship
Also likely to join the battle armada:
UK Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal Carrier Strike Group with assorted guided missile destroyers and frigates, nuclear hunter-killer submarines and support ships
French Navy nuclear powered hunter-killer submarines (likely the Amethyste and perhaps others), plus French Naval Rafale fighter jets operating off of the USS Theodore Roosevelt as the French Carrier Charles de Gaulle is in dry dock, and assorted surface warships
Various other US Navy warships and submarines and support ships.
The following USN ships took part (as the "enemy" forces) in Operation Brimstone and several may join in:
USS San Jacinto (CG56) guided missile cruiser
USS Anzio (CG68) guided missile cruiser
USS Normandy (CG60) guided missile cruiser
USS Carney (DDG64) guided missile destroyer
USS Oscar Austin (DDG79) guided missile destroyer
USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG81) guided missile destroyer
USS Carr (FFG52) guided missile frigate
The USS Iwo Jima and USS Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Groups have USMC Harrier jump jets and an assortment of assault and attack helicopters. The Expeditionary Strike Groups have powerful USMC Expeditionary Units with amphibious armor and ground forces trained for operating in shallow waters and in seizures of land assets, such as Qeshm Island (a 50 mile long island off of Bandar Abbas in the Gulf of Hormuz and headquarters of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps).
The large and very advanced nature of the US Naval warships is not only directed at Iran. There is a great fear that Russia and China may oppose the naval and air/land blockade of Iran. If Russian and perhaps Chinese naval warships escort commercial tankers to Iran in violation of the blockade it could be the most dangerous at-sea confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The US and allied Navies, by front loading a Naval blockade force with very powerful guided missile warships and strike carriers is attempting to have a force so powerful that Russia and China will not be tempted to mess with. This is a most serious game of military brinkmanship with major nuclear armed powers that have profound objections to the neo-con grand strategy and to western control of all of the Middle East's oil supply.
The Russian Navy this spring sent a major battle fleet into the Mediterranean headed by the modern aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov and the flagship of its Black Sea Fleet, the Guided Missile Heavy Cruiser Moskva. This powerful fleet has at least 11 surface ships and unknown numbers of subs and can use the Russian naval facility at Syria's Tartous port for resupply. The Admiral Kuznetsov carries approximately 47 warplanes and 10 helicopters. The warplanes are mostly the powerful Su-33, a naval version (with mid-air refueling capability) of the Su-27 family. While the Su-33 is a very powerful warplane it lacks the power of the stealth USAF F-22. However, the Russians insist that they have developed a plasma based system that allows them to stealth any aircraft and a recent incident where Russian fighters were able to appear unannounced over a US Navy carrier battle group tends to confirm their claims. The Su-33 can be armed with the 3M82 Moskit sea-skimming missile (NATO code name SS-N-22 Sunburn) and the even more powerful P-800 Oniks (also named Yakhonts; NATO code name SS-N-26 Onyx). Both missiles are designed to kill US Navy supercarriers by getting past the cruiser/destroyer screen and the USN point-defense Phalanx system by using high supersonic speeds and violent end maneuvers. Russian subs currently use the underwater rocket VA-111 Shkval (Squall), which is fired from standard 533mm torpedo tubes and reaches a speed of 360kph (230mph) underwater. There is no effective countermeasures to this system and no western counterpart.
A strategic diversion has been created for Russia. The Republic of Georgia, with US backing, is actively preparing for war on South Ossetia. The South Ossetia capital has been shelled and a large Georgian tank force has been heading towards the border. Russia has stated that it will not sit by and allow the Georgians to attack South Ossetia. The Russians are great chess players and this game may not turn out so well for the neo-cons.
UPDATE 8 August 2008 ~ War has broken out between Georgia and South Ossetia. At least 10 Russian troops have been killed and 30 wounded and 2 Russian fighter jets downed. American Marines, a thousand of them, have recently been in Georgia training the Georgian military forces. Several European nations stopped Bush and others from allowing Georgia into NATO. Russia is moving a large military force with armor towards the area. This could get bad, and remember it is just a strategic diversion....but one that could have horrific effects. Link to story "Russia sends forces into Georgia rebel conflict".
FURTHER UPDATE ~ Russian military forces in active combat; now total of four Russian fighter jets reported downed.
ADDITIONAL UPDATE ~ Georgia calls for US help; Russian Air Force bombs Georgian air bases.
DEBKA, the Israeli strategy and military site, states that Israeli military officers are advising the Georgian armed forces in combat operations and that 1,000 Israelis are in-combat on the side of Georgia at this time.
Kuwait has activated its "Emergency War Plan" as it and other Gulf nations prepare for the likelihood of a major regional war in the Middle East involving weapons of mass destruction.
The two-ton elephant in the living room of the neo-con strategy is the advanced biowar (ABW) that Iran, and to a lessor extent Syria, has. This places the motherlands of the major neo-con nations (America, France, the United Kingdom), as well as Israel, in grave danger. When the Soviet Union fell the Iranians hired as many out-of-work former Soviet advanced biowar experts as possible. In the last 15 or so years they have helped to develop a truly world class ABW program utilizing recombination DNA genetic engineering technology to create a large number of man made killer viruses. This form of weapon system does not require high tech military delivery systems. The viruses are sub-microscopic and once seeded in a population use the population itself as vectors. Seeding can be done without notice in shopping malls, churches, and other public places. The only real defense to an advanced global strategic biowar attack is to lock down the population as rapidly as possible and let those infected die off.
Unless the public gets it act together and forces the neo-cons to stop the march to yet another war in the Middle East we are apt to see a truly horrific nightmare unfold in OUR COUNTRIES.
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This article is troubling on so many levels it's not funny...there is a real possibility that our beloved leader, GWB, is going to press some buttons he has no business pressing. And that may be the end of life as we know it.
It's a play to grab most of the Middle East for the US. Actually, our "leaders" don't give a rat's ass about the people or histories of the countries, what the powers that be care about is OIL. Control that, and you control the world's commerce. There is another piece at work here, also behind the scenes, and it is named Codex Alimentarius. Look up Monsanto's "Terminator Seeds". I firmy believe that the world's elite is out to cut the population of the globe by around 90%. Don't remember where I heard it, but about 15 years ago, I was moving across the country from California to Georgia, and was listening to talk radio at night through the Sonora Desert. There was a guy on who was talking about a plan of the world's elite, given the rapidly dwindling resources (food, water, oil), to reduce the population of the world through warfare and starvation, and for the US (or what was left of it) to emerge as the leader of a unified world government. The figures that he gave were shocking, as the top elite of the world that control 99% of the global resources number only about 6-7000. Those people with the resources would survive, most of the rest would die. The survivors of the coming war would be the new slave class, and would serve their new masters. I recall the names of the CFR and the Bilderberg Group being mentioned, as well as timeline target of 2009. After looking into the Codex, which was an idea by a Nazi first put into effect in the early 60s, I realized why 2009 stuck out so much- that's when the Codex Alimentarius becomes the law of the world, criminalizing foods, medicines, even vitamins and drugs, unless they are produced by a consortium of very large companies. Those companies include Monsanto, which is why I mentioned the Terminator program. It will force almost all farmers to pay exorbitant fees to "license" their seed stock, and any seeds collected from that year's crop would not germinate the next year. They would be forced to buy new seed stock every year, thousands of dollars worth, year in and year out. Many farmers in the US, already hard-hit by the failing dollar and razor-thin profits, simply could not afford this, and plenty have left agriculture all together.
This current buildup is very scary, and there is nothing about it in the US media (for obvious reasons- we have Olympics coverage to distract us, as well as the upcoming announcements about the cast of "Dancing With The Stars" for this fall); the Russians have been steadily deploying out to the PG to back up the Iranians, and their subs in the Gulf have something we don't have an analog for- they have 230-mph, rocket-powered torpedos! There is no defense against them as of yet, sonar just doesn't "see" them until it's too late. The Admiral Kusnetsov, their most modern carrier, and its battle group are also headed out for the Gulf, if they're not already there. They have several squadrons of Su-33s, mainly, that supposedly have some sort of plasma-based "cloaking" ability. A few months back, a squadron of these 33's suddenly "appeared" directly over the USS Roosevelt (I think it was the Roosie, I'll double-check), causing quite a stir! They were COMPLETELY undetected! Puto has really upped the Russian military, and is hell-bent on putting the old USSR back together, including the Eastern Bloc. The Georgian-started (or is it George W-started?) "war" is only a small diversion. Kind of funny that it started at the same time as the Olympics, it got very little coverage over here. Bush is still telling Puto "You best stand down, boy. There WILL be consequences!" But I think that the rest of the world knows that we are stretched pretty thin- fighting a 3-front war is suicidal, at best. But think of the billions in no-bid contracts that will spring up from destroying the world! Halliburton and the Bushco go way back...even if Cheney isn't the CEO again until he steps down Jan 20th (providing we still have elections!). More angles on this than on a Chinese Checkers board! Just for the record, I have a real bad feeling about this one- it would set up Bush to be President-for-Life, especially if he calls off the elections due to the war(s). He's already given himself the authority to do that. Executive privilege and all...
Massive US naval armada heads for Iran...
Eurobusiness blogspot, Thursday, August 7, 2008
Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The massive war games included a US Navy supercarrier battle group, an US Navy expeditionary carrier battle group, a Royal Navy carrier battle group, a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine plus a large number of US Navy cruisers, destroyers and frigates playing the "enemy force".
The lead American ship in these war games, the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN71) and its Carrier Strike Group Two (CCSG-2) are now headed towards Iran along with the USS Ronald Reagon (CVN76) and its Carrier Strike Group Seven (CCSG-7) coming from Japan.
They are joining two existing USN battle groups in the Gulf area: the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) with its Carrier Strike Group Nine (CCSG-9); and the USS Peleliu (LHA-5) with its expeditionary strike group.
Likely also under way towards the Persian Gulf is the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) and its expeditionary strike group, the UK Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal (R07) carrier battle group, assorted French naval assets including the nuclear hunter-killer submarine Amethyste and French Naval Rafale fighter jets on-board the USS Theodore Roosevelt. These ships took part in the just completed Operation Brimstone.
The build up of naval forces in the Gulf will be one of the largest multi-national naval armadas since the First and Second Gulf Wars. The intent is to create a US/EU naval blockade (which is an Act of War under international law) around Iran (with supporting air and land elements) to prevent the shipment of benzene and certain other refined oil products headed to Iranian ports. Iran has limited domestic oil refining capacity and imports 40% of its benzene. Cutting off benzene and other key products would cripple the Iranian economy. The neo-cons are counting on such a blockade launching a war with Iran.
The US Naval forces being assembled include the following:
Carrier Strike Group Nine
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN72) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing Two
Destroyer Squadron Nine:
USS Mobile Bay (CG53) guided missile cruiser
USS Russell (DDG59) guided missile destroyer
USS Momsen (DDG92) guided missile destroyer
USS Shoup (DDG86) guided missile destroyer
USS Ford (FFG54) guided missile frigate
USS Ingraham (FFG61) guided missile frigate
USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG60) guided missile frigate
USS Curts (FFG38) guided missile frigate
Plus one or more nuclear hunter-killer submarines
Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Group
USS Peleliu (LHA-5) a Tarawa-class amphibious assault carrier
USS Pearl Harbor (LSD52) assult ship
USS Dubuque (LPD8) assult ship/landing dock
USS Cape St. George (CG71) guided missile cruiser
USS Halsey (DDG97) guided missile destroyer
USS Benfold (DDG65) guided missile destroyer
Carrier Strike Group Two
USS Theodore Roosevelt (DVN71) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing Eight
Destroyer Squadron 22
USS Monterey (CG61) guided missile cruiser
USS Mason (DDG87) guided missile destroyer
USS Nitze (DDG94) guided missile destroyer
USS Sullivans (DDG68) guided missile destroyer
USS Springfield (SSN761) nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine
IWO ESG ~ Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group
USS Iwo Jima (LHD7) amphibious assault carrier
with its Amphibious Squadron Four
and with its 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
USS San Antonio (LPD17) assault ship
USS Velia Gulf (CG72) guided missile cruiser
USS Ramage (DDG61) guided missile destroyer
USS Carter Hall (LSD50) assault ship
USS Roosevelt (DDG80) guided missile destroyer
USS Hartfore (SSN768) nuclear powered hunter-killer submarine
Carrier Strike Group Seven
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76) nuclear powered supercarrier
with its Carrier Air Wing 14
Destroyer Squadron 7
USS Chancellorsville (CG62) guided missile cruiser
USS Howard (DDG83) guided missile destroyer
USS Gridley (DDG101) guided missile destroyer
USS Decatur (DDG73) guided missile destroyer
USS Thach (FFG43) guided missile frigate
USNS Rainier (T-AOE-7) fast combat support ship
Also likely to join the battle armada:
UK Royal Navy HMS Ark Royal Carrier Strike Group with assorted guided missile destroyers and frigates, nuclear hunter-killer submarines and support ships
French Navy nuclear powered hunter-killer submarines (likely the Amethyste and perhaps others), plus French Naval Rafale fighter jets operating off of the USS Theodore Roosevelt as the French Carrier Charles de Gaulle is in dry dock, and assorted surface warships
Various other US Navy warships and submarines and support ships.
The following USN ships took part (as the "enemy" forces) in Operation Brimstone and several may join in:
USS San Jacinto (CG56) guided missile cruiser
USS Anzio (CG68) guided missile cruiser
USS Normandy (CG60) guided missile cruiser
USS Carney (DDG64) guided missile destroyer
USS Oscar Austin (DDG79) guided missile destroyer
USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG81) guided missile destroyer
USS Carr (FFG52) guided missile frigate
The USS Iwo Jima and USS Peleliu Expeditionary Strike Groups have USMC Harrier jump jets and an assortment of assault and attack helicopters. The Expeditionary Strike Groups have powerful USMC Expeditionary Units with amphibious armor and ground forces trained for operating in shallow waters and in seizures of land assets, such as Qeshm Island (a 50 mile long island off of Bandar Abbas in the Gulf of Hormuz and headquarters of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps).
The large and very advanced nature of the US Naval warships is not only directed at Iran. There is a great fear that Russia and China may oppose the naval and air/land blockade of Iran. If Russian and perhaps Chinese naval warships escort commercial tankers to Iran in violation of the blockade it could be the most dangerous at-sea confrontation since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The US and allied Navies, by front loading a Naval blockade force with very powerful guided missile warships and strike carriers is attempting to have a force so powerful that Russia and China will not be tempted to mess with. This is a most serious game of military brinkmanship with major nuclear armed powers that have profound objections to the neo-con grand strategy and to western control of all of the Middle East's oil supply.
The Russian Navy this spring sent a major battle fleet into the Mediterranean headed by the modern aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov and the flagship of its Black Sea Fleet, the Guided Missile Heavy Cruiser Moskva. This powerful fleet has at least 11 surface ships and unknown numbers of subs and can use the Russian naval facility at Syria's Tartous port for resupply. The Admiral Kuznetsov carries approximately 47 warplanes and 10 helicopters. The warplanes are mostly the powerful Su-33, a naval version (with mid-air refueling capability) of the Su-27 family. While the Su-33 is a very powerful warplane it lacks the power of the stealth USAF F-22. However, the Russians insist that they have developed a plasma based system that allows them to stealth any aircraft and a recent incident where Russian fighters were able to appear unannounced over a US Navy carrier battle group tends to confirm their claims. The Su-33 can be armed with the 3M82 Moskit sea-skimming missile (NATO code name SS-N-22 Sunburn) and the even more powerful P-800 Oniks (also named Yakhonts; NATO code name SS-N-26 Onyx). Both missiles are designed to kill US Navy supercarriers by getting past the cruiser/destroyer screen and the USN point-defense Phalanx system by using high supersonic speeds and violent end maneuvers. Russian subs currently use the underwater rocket VA-111 Shkval (Squall), which is fired from standard 533mm torpedo tubes and reaches a speed of 360kph (230mph) underwater. There is no effective countermeasures to this system and no western counterpart.
A strategic diversion has been created for Russia. The Republic of Georgia, with US backing, is actively preparing for war on South Ossetia. The South Ossetia capital has been shelled and a large Georgian tank force has been heading towards the border. Russia has stated that it will not sit by and allow the Georgians to attack South Ossetia. The Russians are great chess players and this game may not turn out so well for the neo-cons.
UPDATE 8 August 2008 ~ War has broken out between Georgia and South Ossetia. At least 10 Russian troops have been killed and 30 wounded and 2 Russian fighter jets downed. American Marines, a thousand of them, have recently been in Georgia training the Georgian military forces. Several European nations stopped Bush and others from allowing Georgia into NATO. Russia is moving a large military force with armor towards the area. This could get bad, and remember it is just a strategic diversion....but one that could have horrific effects. Link to story "Russia sends forces into Georgia rebel conflict".
FURTHER UPDATE ~ Russian military forces in active combat; now total of four Russian fighter jets reported downed.
ADDITIONAL UPDATE ~ Georgia calls for US help; Russian Air Force bombs Georgian air bases.
DEBKA, the Israeli strategy and military site, states that Israeli military officers are advising the Georgian armed forces in combat operations and that 1,000 Israelis are in-combat on the side of Georgia at this time.
Kuwait has activated its "Emergency War Plan" as it and other Gulf nations prepare for the likelihood of a major regional war in the Middle East involving weapons of mass destruction.
The two-ton elephant in the living room of the neo-con strategy is the advanced biowar (ABW) that Iran, and to a lessor extent Syria, has. This places the motherlands of the major neo-con nations (America, France, the United Kingdom), as well as Israel, in grave danger. When the Soviet Union fell the Iranians hired as many out-of-work former Soviet advanced biowar experts as possible. In the last 15 or so years they have helped to develop a truly world class ABW program utilizing recombination DNA genetic engineering technology to create a large number of man made killer viruses. This form of weapon system does not require high tech military delivery systems. The viruses are sub-microscopic and once seeded in a population use the population itself as vectors. Seeding can be done without notice in shopping malls, churches, and other public places. The only real defense to an advanced global strategic biowar attack is to lock down the population as rapidly as possible and let those infected die off.
Unless the public gets it act together and forces the neo-cons to stop the march to yet another war in the Middle East we are apt to see a truly horrific nightmare unfold in OUR COUNTRIES.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This article is troubling on so many levels it's not funny...there is a real possibility that our beloved leader, GWB, is going to press some buttons he has no business pressing. And that may be the end of life as we know it.
It's a play to grab most of the Middle East for the US. Actually, our "leaders" don't give a rat's ass about the people or histories of the countries, what the powers that be care about is OIL. Control that, and you control the world's commerce. There is another piece at work here, also behind the scenes, and it is named Codex Alimentarius. Look up Monsanto's "Terminator Seeds". I firmy believe that the world's elite is out to cut the population of the globe by around 90%. Don't remember where I heard it, but about 15 years ago, I was moving across the country from California to Georgia, and was listening to talk radio at night through the Sonora Desert. There was a guy on who was talking about a plan of the world's elite, given the rapidly dwindling resources (food, water, oil), to reduce the population of the world through warfare and starvation, and for the US (or what was left of it) to emerge as the leader of a unified world government. The figures that he gave were shocking, as the top elite of the world that control 99% of the global resources number only about 6-7000. Those people with the resources would survive, most of the rest would die. The survivors of the coming war would be the new slave class, and would serve their new masters. I recall the names of the CFR and the Bilderberg Group being mentioned, as well as timeline target of 2009. After looking into the Codex, which was an idea by a Nazi first put into effect in the early 60s, I realized why 2009 stuck out so much- that's when the Codex Alimentarius becomes the law of the world, criminalizing foods, medicines, even vitamins and drugs, unless they are produced by a consortium of very large companies. Those companies include Monsanto, which is why I mentioned the Terminator program. It will force almost all farmers to pay exorbitant fees to "license" their seed stock, and any seeds collected from that year's crop would not germinate the next year. They would be forced to buy new seed stock every year, thousands of dollars worth, year in and year out. Many farmers in the US, already hard-hit by the failing dollar and razor-thin profits, simply could not afford this, and plenty have left agriculture all together.
This current buildup is very scary, and there is nothing about it in the US media (for obvious reasons- we have Olympics coverage to distract us, as well as the upcoming announcements about the cast of "Dancing With The Stars" for this fall); the Russians have been steadily deploying out to the PG to back up the Iranians, and their subs in the Gulf have something we don't have an analog for- they have 230-mph, rocket-powered torpedos! There is no defense against them as of yet, sonar just doesn't "see" them until it's too late. The Admiral Kusnetsov, their most modern carrier, and its battle group are also headed out for the Gulf, if they're not already there. They have several squadrons of Su-33s, mainly, that supposedly have some sort of plasma-based "cloaking" ability. A few months back, a squadron of these 33's suddenly "appeared" directly over the USS Roosevelt (I think it was the Roosie, I'll double-check), causing quite a stir! They were COMPLETELY undetected! Puto has really upped the Russian military, and is hell-bent on putting the old USSR back together, including the Eastern Bloc. The Georgian-started (or is it George W-started?) "war" is only a small diversion. Kind of funny that it started at the same time as the Olympics, it got very little coverage over here. Bush is still telling Puto "You best stand down, boy. There WILL be consequences!" But I think that the rest of the world knows that we are stretched pretty thin- fighting a 3-front war is suicidal, at best. But think of the billions in no-bid contracts that will spring up from destroying the world! Halliburton and the Bushco go way back...even if Cheney isn't the CEO again until he steps down Jan 20th (providing we still have elections!). More angles on this than on a Chinese Checkers board! Just for the record, I have a real bad feeling about this one- it would set up Bush to be President-for-Life, especially if he calls off the elections due to the war(s). He's already given himself the authority to do that. Executive privilege and all...
Friday, August 1, 2008
Pelosi needs to be recalled...
Her behavior today, turning out the lights and cameras in the House on Republicans that were still debating, is deliberate, self-aggrandizing, and unconscionable. You should be ASHAMED, Nancy! I'm ashamed to have you representing my country! You should be removed as Speaker, and you should go back to private life- the more private, the better, as far as I'm concerned! What you did was immoral, shameful, despotic, anti-American, and illegal! You should hang your head in SHAME! This is NOT how I expect a Speaker to behave, it's discourteous, disingenuous, and you, madam, are indeed NOT running your own private Politburo! You are unworthy of the position you hold...wait until November, dearie- the people who elected you and your cronies are getting REAL SICK AND TIRED of the bullshit the CONgress is pulling. We need action in a time of crisis, and we're NOT getting it!
I call on all of my Californicated friends to rise up on November 4th, and vote against Pelosi, as well as EVERY incumbent. You say you want change? Here's your chance! All new people in Congress, this year, and every other year, and we'll have a new face on the government that is not beholden to corrupt corporations. "We The People" means ALL of us should be represented, not just the "captains of industry". We are sick of the games, the pandering, the corruption, the outright lies that our government tells. It's time to hold them responsible for their actions! Vote them OUT. Get out of our House, Pelosi. Your imperial strut has more than lost its charm.
We need to get out OurPitchfoksAndTorches and take back our country before it is too late!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/01/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4314586.shtml
I call on all of my Californicated friends to rise up on November 4th, and vote against Pelosi, as well as EVERY incumbent. You say you want change? Here's your chance! All new people in Congress, this year, and every other year, and we'll have a new face on the government that is not beholden to corrupt corporations. "We The People" means ALL of us should be represented, not just the "captains of industry". We are sick of the games, the pandering, the corruption, the outright lies that our government tells. It's time to hold them responsible for their actions! Vote them OUT. Get out of our House, Pelosi. Your imperial strut has more than lost its charm.
We need to get out OurPitchfoksAndTorches and take back our country before it is too late!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/01/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4314586.shtml
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