I think I’m kidding.
But seriously, will you look at the location of this earthquake?
Right on the Strait of Hormuz. Hmm.
What a remarkable coincidence.
Go ahead. Type it into Google maps.
Archive for September, 2008
Sick minds make sick weapons
Sep 10
Remember when Benazir Bhutto was killed? I wrote a little theory about that assassination, and at the time it made me very nervous because I got some…shall we say…powerful visitors to my blog. The government does not like people poking around their black ops weapons technology. But they want to use the weapons, see, because they are just so sick!, so it’s such a damned if you do/damned if you don’t kind of problem for them. They have to be totally on their toes to provide alternative explanations and plenty of spin if anyone notices anything amiss.
These weapons have been in use, but they’ve been used on poor people far away for years. Few reporters have written about these dark things, and surely those that could expose them wouldn’t for fear of losing their jobs (or worse). Now we have the ‘intrepid’ Bob Woodward ‘breaking the story’ in truly titillating fashion through CNN and Larry King. (link via s o s)
Bob says:
“The top secret operations will “some day in history … be described to people’s amazement,†Woodward told King.
Amazement, eh? Try horror, you fucking asshole. Pardon me, but it is not amazing “in a good way” that our government has used billions of dollars, most likely laundered drug money which wrecked a few million American lives along the way to the Pentagon black ops budget, to develop secret laser weapons that have been used to kill innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.
That sick bastard Donald Rumsfeld was rubbing his hands together back in 2002 about zapping people, and the predictions then were that the weapons would be ready in less than five years. So now it’s 2008, and lo and behold, Bob Woodward deigns to inform us through Larry King that our military is using some amazing shit against the ‘terrorists.’
Yeah, well. Terrorists like this, murdered by Israelis with our cool technology in 2006? Maybe it was still experimental back then.
Or was this little child just murdered with boring old traditional weapons like tank shells, bullets, or bombs? Was he suffocated and crushed to death under rubble? Such a boring death.
Well, there are always the mysterious chemical weapons…
Dear all ,Ok , I have to admit the attached pictures are hideously gruesome, but you have to look at them . Help me find out what kind of weapons cause this kind of dismemberment and mutation. What kind of weapons cause this kind of damage? Do you know? Could you find out?
None of this is confirmed, or could be here and now. However, there are growing doubts that Israel might be using internationally forbidden weapons in its current aggression against Lebanon. News from “Southern Medical Center”, a hospital in Saida( in South Lebanon) are not good.
Dr. Bashir Sham, member of “French Association of Cardiovascular Surgeons”, explains that the way the corps [sic] look when they reach the hospital , especially those of the air strikes in Doueir and Rmayleih, is very abnormal. One might think they were burnt , but their colour is dark , they’re inflated, and they have a terrible smell. All this , and the hair is not burnt nor do the bodies bleed.
Eight of the victims of an air strike on Rmayleih bridge, near Saida, on the 15th of July, were transferred to Sham’s hospital.
Sham says that only chemical poisonous substances “lead to instant death without bleeding”. And what indicates the power of these substances, is the high and unusual of number of dead victimes, compared to the number of injuries.
Sham thinks that whatever abnormal substance causing these features might penetrate through the skin, or another explanation would be that the missiles contained toxic gas that stopped the proper functioning of the nervous system, and led to blood clotting.
These toxic materials cause immediate death, within two to thirty minutes, according to Sham, who admits that these doubts can’t be proven, not even by an autopsy.
The director of the same medical center, Ali Mansour, says that due to the strong smell of the corps, he couldn’t breath properly for at least 12 hours after the corps were handled.
He explains that the center received eight bodies from Rmeileh last Monday, and none of them was bleeding. Mansour tells us the hospital wrote to both the commissioner of the European Union for Foreign Affaires Javier Solana, and the United Nations Secretary general Kofi Anan. He said that dr Sham will communicate his doubts to the Doctors Order in Lebanon.
CAN YOU HELP US , PLEASE!
I wish I could help. All I can do is point out the LIES of our government and the INCESSANT LYING of the corporate media. All I can do is point out to my fellow Americans that these technologies will be used against us in the name of Homeland Security. And that you will be instructed to like it and be supportive because you are to believe that only bad people will ever come to know these things intimately, and while you’re smoking that crack pipe please remember that all the people in the US military are truly and surely boyscouts who walk old ladies across the street and carry their groceries and would never, ever do anything to hurt an innocent person. So you can trust them completely with any kind of weapon, no matter how diabolical it may seem, because this is America. And I am just as qualified to be Vice President as Sarah Palin because my son plays hockey and I make my kids’ own damned sandwiches, too. And that’s all it takes. Right? RIGHT????
They’re everywhere. These shallow people, full of hubris, lacking in all humility and busting at the seams with smug self-righteousness. The people of the lie.
Let’s begin with Dick Cheney. We don’t usually hear too much about him, but lately he’s been quite visible. These must be his plans that are falling apart, and therefore he himself has been forced to come out of his lair and straighten it out. We all know that sense of utter frustration when you shove everyone out of the way to fix something yourself? I think that is what we are witnessing now. But it’s not working. Which countries have decided to oppose Russia in anything more than words? (crickets) The more Bush, Cheney and Rice open their mouths, the more foolish they look. The more they display their impotence. But do they shut up? Oh no. They are too proud for that. They keep pushing that rock uphill.
Then we have Israel and the Zionists. The myth currently known as Jewish history has been debunked by Jewish historians. Jews are no more special than anyone else. They are not ‘direct and exclusive descendants’ of the people who received the Torah in Sinai. There’s no justification for the Jews-only state of Israel. But no matter! We are all instructed to carry on as if this were fact, not myth, because a few people in Israel have a need to feel superior and justify their racism. And while many others surely know better, they don’t speak up because the charming myth sort of benefits them a little, so why rock the boat?
And speaking of group pride, what about those Republicans? They’re coming out of the woodwork like cockroaches now that Sarah Palin has come aboard. What is it about this woman? She’s so shallow. YES. She’s a racist. YES! She’s a Dominionist. YES!! She’s vindictive. YES!!! It’s all those things and more, don’t you see?? She embodies The Base. She is base. The Republicans held up a mirror to their base, and they see Sarah Palin reflected back at them: a whitewashed tomb, beautiful on the outside but full of everything unclean. They are proud of her because she is just like them. In their spite and vindictiveness, they want her in the White House just to prove a fucking point. What is the point? That they own this country and they’ll drive it into the ground come hell or high water, and you can’t stop it. That’s it. The driving animus behind these people is bitter rage.
Does the world ever need a hero right now. The desire is tangible. I carry it with me every minute of every day and night. Because I don’t know how we’re going to survive these wicked people. I have hopes for Vlad Putin, but he is just a man, after all. It’s not fair to expect him to solve a problem of this magnitude.
After seven days I dreamed a dream in the night. And lo, a wind arose from the sea and stirred up all its waves. As I kept looking the wind made something like the figure of a man come up out of the heart of the sea. And I saw that this man flew with the clouds of heaven; and wherever he turned his face to look, everything under his gaze trembled, and whenever his voice issued from his mouth, all who heard his voice melted as wax melts when it feels the fire.After this I looked and saw that an innumerable multitude of people were gathered together from the four winds of heaven to make war against the man who came up out of the sea. And I looked and saw that he carved out for himself a great mountain, and flew up on to it. And I tried to see the region or place from which the mountain was carved, but I could not.
After this I looked and saw that all who had gathered together against him, to wage war with him, were filled with fear, and yet they dared to fight. When he saw the onrush of the approaching multitude, he neither lifted his hand nor held a spear or any weapon of war; but I saw only how he sent forth from his mouth something like a stream of fire, and from his lips a flaming breath, and from his tongue he shot forth a storm of sparks. All these were mingled together, the stream of fire and the flaming breath and the great storm, and fell on the onrushing multitude that was prepared to fight, and burned up all of them, so that suddenly nothing was seen of the innumerable multitude but only the dust of ashes and the smell of smoke. When I saw it, I was amazed.
After this I saw the same man come down from the mountain and call to himself another multitude that was peaceable. Then many people came to him, some of whom were joyful and some sorrowful; some of them were bound, and some were bringing others as offerings. 2 Esdras 13:1-13
Except maybe this guy…
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev…
Cheney was so disappointed that he did not attend an official dinner in his honor, the report said.
I think ‘disappointed’ might be a euphemistic way to put it. Dick must have been snarling, cursing, panting fire, spinning his head around completely and projectile vomiting; but to no avail.
Well allright! Somebody get Mr. Aliyev a drink.
For the love of God
Sep 5
The psychopaths make their evil plans because they can, and because they enjoy having the power to make others suffer. But being only six percent of the population, they need help. They need other people to do things which go against their better judgment.
Look at this: doctored pictures of the Georgian conflict. Think of the minimum number of people involved in making and disseminating these fake pictures — the photographer(s), the ‘actors’, and the editors. Why do they do it?
The poster has an accurate assessment:
One will often hear Reuters, AP, AFP, DPA and others refer to, say, Serbian RTS as “Belgrade’s official TV”, as if BBC, CNN, CBC, ABC and others are “independent”, far removed from the offices of their respective states’ governments and administrations. Rubbish! If they are all independent and each on their own, then how come they’re all always tooting the same horn and always rooting for the same side in every conflict, every war, every confrontation — how can that be?! How was such a wide consensus achieved on every single international issue, when was this perfectly unison choir formed, spanning millions of newspapers, magazines, web sites, TV studios and news agencies? Are they all copying from each other because they are all border-line retarded, a world wide club of semi-retards who can’t come up with a single original thought, or because they follow political instructions, an unwritten, unquestionable set of rules, a codex saying you either fall in line and follow the script, or you’re out in the cold, and out for good? You decide.
But, when you see the rigged photo stories like these latest ones from British Reuters, be kind and remember — they might be out to destroy entire nations, but someone’s paycheck depends on it, so …they had to do it.
In the end, people — if they are not inherently depraved — will frequently do depraved things for money.
From the comment thread:
These are typical US infowar or psyop war techniques. It is important to remember that US Army Psyops Specialists worked for CNN during the Kosovo conflict. CNN is nothing but Government-controlled media. Invariably, CNN parrots the Pentagon, CIA, and US State Department. CNN is actually just an arm of the US government and military.
If you notice on the web, AFP has photos of destroyed Georgian T-72 tanks in the capital city of South Ossetia. CNN and Reuters do not show any of those photos. Those photos show that the CIA installed Georgian Government, a puppet government of the US, has heavy weapons that it used against its own citizens in what amounted to genocide and war crimes. There were thousands of Ossetian refugees which CNN also did not show. Moreover, 2,000 Ossetian civilians were killed by US trained Georgian troops. Again, CNN did not show this.
CNN and Reuters focused on “collateral damage”. These photos are particularly inane. What is that, Butt Crack Genocide? Butt Crack “aggression” against the Butt Crack “victims”. CNN and Butt Crack go together.
What CNN is covering up is how the Ossetians and Russians wiped out that neocon Likudnik army in Ossetia. Ossetians report that the city is full of rotting corpses of dead US trained Georgian soldiers. There are piles and piles of dead CIA trained Likudnik necon corpses in the city. There are also rows and rows of destroyed Georgian tanks. Bill Kristol should check out those photos. His Likudnik CIA neoconservative troops got slaughtered. They are stincking up the place in Ossetia. I guess the Ossetians and the Russians “cracked some Likudnik CIA puppet skulls” in Ossetia! Bill Kristol gets to watch his puppets get slaughtered.
Ultimately, CNN is covering up the US role as the puppet master to this genocide. The US planned this aggression for the Georgian puppets and is bankrolling the Georgian army. This genocide is Made in the USA. So it is gratifying to see these US puppets get their skulls crushed. The US military training really helped them. Helped them right into body bags. The Ossetians and Russians crushed the skulls of these neocon puppets and stooges. CNN and Reuters cannot do anything about that. All they can do is show Butt Cracks. Inside Butt Cracks is where CNN belongs as does Reuters. What a big joke CNN is.
Lots of seemingly confusing things really boil down to basic human nature. Look what it takes to survive and thrive in the USA today: lots of money. As a result, most people live in constant financial insecurity. Everything about our culture drives us to serve mammon, not God. And the more one succeeds, the more critical it becomes to keep one’s place.
What is there to say? Except: ultimately the president is responsible for his decisions. People lied and dissembled because he wanted them to.
Why did they do it? Why did they condone error? Because they were human and not independently wealthy – their jobs, i.e., their self worth depended on their jobs. Most of us most of the time derive our estimate of our value from our jobs. That sense is our schwerpunkt – the thing we must defend. The most concrete way to do it is to hold onto our job because the job pays for everything else – cars, good addresses, theater tickets, invitations, etc., etc.
What should one feel toward those who succumbed? Anger, pity, sympathy, empathy?
The moving finger has written and having written has moved on. We should also, but trying to end/reduce the ongoing damage of the choices we made.
I guess you can add depressed to my answer about how we should feel.
~ Fred Feer (Agency alum, 1964-1979)
So there you have it. But there is another side to this story. Some people do things for the truth, or for the love of God if you will (to me it’s the same). This explains why the internet poses such a danger to the establishment — because most of the people digging around and spending hours going down blind alleys looking for answers do not do it for money. A tip jar does not a living wage make. They just want to know what the hell is going on. They want answers. They want someone to be held accountable. They care about the world and about the lives of people they do not know. This powerful force which drives people to spend valuable time searching for answers (and let us not forget that time is money according to the world we live in), and to put their personal safety at risk to bring the truth to others, this force cannot be controlled by the powerful, though they will try.
But it comes at a price. For instance, Smoking Mirrors has been down for a few weeks. This is part of the explanation:
Meanwhile… I have consistently labored for a significant portion of my life doing what I do for free and not complaining about it. I have endured some good amount of hardship from being the person who does these things for free and in fact I even have to pay for the opportunity to do it. It actually costs me in coin of the realm and in other costs just to do what I do and I don’t complain about that. I’ve a limit to the abuse and sacrifice that I will accept in the process of doing something for free.
People should remember that it’s not for nothing that people seek the truth and write the truth and have their names associated with exceedingly politically incorrect ideas, which are nonetheless TRUE. It’s time-consuming, and it requires courage. It can have unpleasant consequences. Very often one might wonder why the hell one takes the trouble to do this thankless job. But we know why: for love of the truth, and because it confounds the evil. And because we hope against hope that by exposing them we can somehow help avert disaster for us all.
In the same way, Satan’s intelligence is afflicted with two other blind spots I have observed. One is that by virtue of its extreme self-centeredness, it has no real understanding of the phenomenon of love. It recognizes love as a reality to be fought and even to be imitated, but utterly lacking in itself, it does not understand love in the least. Its reality appears to Satan only like the reality of a bad joke. The notion of sacrifice is totally foreign to it. When human beings at an exorcism are speaking in the language of love, it does not comprehend what they are saying. And when they are behaving with love, Satan is completely ignorant of the ground rules. - M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil, p. 208
Greedy people do not do things for free. They especially do not make sacrifices for free. They don’t understand that kind of behavior, and they cannot control it because it has nothing to do with money.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 1 Corinthians 13:6
Preparations Ensued
Sep 4
Israel continues peace talks with Syria. If the US attacks Iran for Israel, we will subsequently take most or all of the political heat and pay most or all the dreadful geopolitical consequences (a separate discussion from the innocent lives lost, to be sure). And we will deserve everything we get for cravenly caving into Israel’s paranoid demands and the neocons’ imperial fantasies. We Americans will descend into the pit of hell mourning our dead and dealing with the collapsed economy, and that is the best-case scenario. Israel, a parasite on the US, already prepares for life after our demise. They bravely plan to soldier on without us.
One basic rule is that a parasite must not kill its host before the parasite has succeeded in reproducing and moving on to a new host. …Some parasites alter the behavior of their host in ways that increase their chances of moving on to a new host. These are parasites that need an alternate host in order to complete their life cycle. (from Games Parasites Play: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/G/Games.html)
We all know that the window of opportunity to strike Iran closes with each passing day. The BBC presents a happy spin on these peace talks, but in reality the pressure mounts for Israel to force the strike and at the same time provide for its own needs afterward — if there is an afterward — since the US will effectively commit economic, political and military suicide in the process of striking Iran, thereby ending our usefulness as host country for Israel. They have damned well better have some decent relationships resumed in their own neck of the woods by the time this strike takes place, else they could be in for some very rough times.
“It is very important that the time for Syria and Israel to talk directly comes soon, to build the peace everyone needs,” Mr Sarkozy said on the first day of his two-day visit to Damascus.
Indeed. Decades of bitter hostilities must be papered over in a matter of weeks. This might not be as easy as it looks.
It’s always hard to tell information from disinformation these days, but this must have sounded like some wild conspiracy theory back in the day. I’m sure more than a few people brushed it off as crazy talk. Four years later, only a complete fool would fail to notice how diligently the neocons have been pursuing these very plans despite various setbacks.
October 10, 2004: “This time, friends, I have some very important news for all of you. Unlike the usual silly gossip that goes on around the White House, intermingled with loud praying, this is really news. We are about to embark on another war! Yes, it has been decided and carefully planned. Who are we going to war with? Iran. Background here: (I am taking this from a paper which I have to return)
Thesis: Iran hates the United States and Israel. Iran has atomic weapons and missiles (the Shahab, courtesy of North Korean/Russian technicians) It can easily reach Tel Aviv. It can also reach US troop concentrations in Iraq. Israel is scared shitless. Their pressure groups have leaned on the White House, with a great deal of assistance from Cheney and the Neocons. The actual plan is this: The U.S. has no troops available for an Iranian adventure and the Israelis would rather not lose any warm bodies so…it has been firmly decided that both Israel and the U.S. will launch a surprise attack against 1., Iranian missile sites, 2. Iranian nuclear facilities and 3. the leadership of Iran located in and around Tehran.
How will this be done? By aircraft attack using U.S. developed “smart bombs†and the so-called “bunker-buster†bombs designed to destroy underground reinforced concrete facilities .We just sent these to Israel. Because of the political ramifications, the Israelis will conduct the main strikes, supported by U.S. aircraft as needed. The aim will be to wipe out any vestige of nuclear weaponry, its delivery system and all the Iranian leaders capable of starting any attacks on Israel (mostly Tel Aviv…too many fellow Muslims in Jerusalem.)
Since it would be a problem for Israeli Air Force units to fly round trip from Israel, the solution will be to launch these attacks from U.S. aircraft carriers located in the Persian Gulf area. As I write, the super carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) is now in the Persian Gulf along with the so-called Essex Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) [31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) (SOC)] which consists of:: USS Essex (LHD 2) USS Juneau (LPD 10) USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) USS Mobile Bay (CG 53USS Hopper (DDG 70) USS Preble (DDG 88)
The initial attacks will be an early-morning surprise attack launched to coincide with religious services in Tehran’s Muslim mosques with the idea of catching not only the leading Mullahs inside but a large number of their congregations as well. One attack will concentrate on these religious centers and the other will hit both the underground nuclear facilities and identified (courtesy of U.S. satellite shots) missile launching sites.
The U.S. will supply observation and radio surveillance aircraft with radar-jamming capacities operating out of Turkey and Italy. The entire attack is scheduled to last no more than one hour with at least three waves of Israeli aircraft utilized. No warning will be given to the Iranians and no declaration of war. The possible deaths of foreign diplomats in the attacks has been discussed and accepted as part of the price. This attack has the full support of the President who wants it launched before the elections. He can then make a speech to the American people stating that the evil Iranian nuclear weaponry has been destroyed by the Israelis with the full cooperation of his government as part of his heroic war against terrorists. Believe me, that speech has already been written and I have seen a copy of it.
The brass here feels that this will have a tremendous impact on the American people, just before the elections. No U.S. ground troops will be used; Bush will stress that this is a joint U.S.-Israeli anti-terrorist project. Part of the speech deals with ongoing Shiite Iranian physical support of their Shiite brethren in Iraq and that by knocking out the Iranian nuclear weaponry, at the same time, they are protecting GIs from ongoing guerrilla warfare.
The brass is literally rubbing it’s hands and drooling over what they see as Bush’s Final Victory. I have seen a negative report copy from someone in the Pentagon [who is not going to get promoted] that says if the Iranians get wind of this little game, they might strike first and they might also realize that large numbers of vulnerable American troops are concentrated inside Iraqi cities, prime targets for a nuclear tactical attack. These people are literally insane and I really hope you don’t delete this. Something really has to be done to stop these maniacs before we all die of radiation sickness!â€
Obviously, some things have changed and others have not. But at the current time, just before the 2008 election, certain elements of this old plan have been since confirmed or are currently being executed.
1. Cheney is now visiting Georgia, and he will also visit Azerbaijain, Ukraine and Italy.
2. Italy may be more important now that Turkey appears to have swung Russia’s way.
3. An armada of US and NATO vessels has assembled in the Persion Gulf and in the Black Sea.
4. Georgia was intended to be a launching pad for Israeli strikes on Iran.
On the other hand…
5. Tremendous hand-wringing is taking place in Europe over how to handle the rift between Russia and the US/UK/Israel/NATO.
6. Obviously, the Iranians have gotten wind of the plan and won’t be sitting there on their thumbs while all this goes down.
7. Lots and lots and lots of people are onto Israel now, an enormous change since 2004.
8. Putin is smarter than the neocons.
Meanwhile, the American people have been absolutely bombarded with distractions, of late the ridiculous Sarah Palin. (Aha, maybe that’s why Rove thinks she was a brilliant choice.)
The breathtaking cynicism, the utter disregard for innocent human life and the environment, the willingness to lie and manipulate the American people, the sheer premeditation — just evil. Pure evil. May God deliver us from these evil people. Every last one of them.
UPDATE: Justin Raimondo has the latest version of this twisted plan, in which the US has been reluctantly forced to do the job ‘the right way’ (limited) as a result of the Georgian fiasco rather than let the insane Israelis nuke Iranian cities.
The Bush Administration, neocons and Israel have been tactically planning the attack on Iran for four years, and strategic planning goes back much, much further than that. They, and they alone, are responsible for whatever hell they might unleash on the world, in addition to the hell they have already created. Please understand. It will not be Iran’s fault, or Russia’s, or Saddam, or Osama, or the Arabs, Democrats, or liberals, or brown people. No. These groups may be guilty of their own crimes, but Bush, Cheney, the entire bunch of neocons, and Israel are GUILTY OF PREMEDITATED CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
Lots and lots of speculating about Palin and whether or not she can last as VP pick. Now that we know the religious right picked her, this was clearly aimed at the base and the base alone. Here is the smoking gun: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?pid=352178.
So, they’re filling up the coffers. She remains under withering attack, and one can only imagine the victim-warrior narrative being used to motivate and shake down the base for every spare nickel.
The fundies have been used this way many times before, but to this date they can’t get no satisfaction from the GOP. They’re kind of like the Israelis that way. No matter how many wingnut judges or gutted science curriculums you throw their way, it’s never enough. They still feel threatened. So just imagine how excited they must be to have one of their very own on the ticket.
Now, just imagine how they will feel if, after sending many millions of dollars to the GOP because of Palin, she gets dumped. Oh dear. And on top of that, who would replace her? It’s like some sort of betrayal, don’t you think? A set-up, perhaps, to get the fundies last monies before they break up with the GOP forever. The fundies are so high maintenance anyway. Good riddance.
Perhaps this is why Karl Rove thinks it’s a ‘brilliant’ decision, though he can’t come right out and explain why or that would ruin all the fun.
Should this all come to pass, we will see who really calls teh shots around here. Beware the fallacy of insufficient cynicism. Things are bad. Very, very bad. No more effing around.
UPDATE: Brilliantly written details here, fully conveying the gasping, pearl-clutching horror of it all. Blow after blow after blow.
The Governor cancelled her busy schedule today allegedly to prepare her acceptance speech, but insiders report that she is now consumed in dealings with powerful Republicans who want to oust her.
…Initially, many conservatives were thrilled with McCain’s selection because Governor Palin is a devout evangelical Christian, a pro-life politician and a prominent gun enthusiast with a membership in the National Rifle Association (NRA). However, the mood of many of the party’s faithful is changing with the emergence of new and troubling reports about hitherto obscure details lurking in her background.
…Many Republican conservatives attending the St. Paul convention are aghast that Governor Palin’s daughter might not have become pregnant had she been able to obtain appropriate counseling.
…Even Governor Palin’s personal image is causing her problems. Earlier this morning, Republican eyebrows were raised when a photograph emerged of Governor Palin wearing disco attire featuring a micro-mini-skirt and a breathtakingly low-cut décolleté as she steadied herself on a bar while teetering on shiny, black patent leather platforms fitted with vertiginous stiletto heels that could have been purchased at Victoria’s Secret.
Let’s hear it for the ‘hitherto obscure details lurking in the background’. Priceless. Maybe the GOP/fundie marriage can be saved after all, though that would require throwing Mrs. Palin under the bus together. A human sacrifice.
Turkish Daily News reports that Turkey cannot afford disruption in ties with Russia.
So sorry Mr. Nato. Pack your bags and check out by 11 please. We appreciate your cooperation. Thank you for visiting the Black Sea. Have a nice day!!
Dependent on Russian natural gas and oil to meet its growing energy needs, Turkey cannot risk bilateral ties with Moscow due to the recent economic tension that has hit Turkish exports, said the prime minister over the weekend.Our relations with the Russian Federation have actually gone beyond the special, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan told reporters at the Victory Day reception in Ankara.
…We are in contact with the countries whose vessels access the Black Sea. So far, we haven’t received a signal that the countries wanted an extension in their stay. To the contrary, they want to turn back as soon as possible after dispatching humanitarian assistance [to Georgia], said ErdoÄŸan.Under the convention, vessels from countries that do not have a coastal area on the Black Sea can stay in the sea for up to 21 days.
This article is from the Jerusalem Post: J’lem worried over Biden’s Iran stance.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1220186495107&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Full psychopathic drama on display…
Security officials expressed concern Monday over statements reportedly made by US Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden regarding Iran’s nuclear program. Army Radio reported that the Delaware senator was heard saying in closed conversations with Jerusalem officials three years ago that he was firmly opposed to an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
GASP! Can you believe someone said they once heard Biden say that, like, three years ago! Outrageous.
Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reportedly claimed that Israel would likely have to come to terms with a nuclear Iran. He reportedly expressed doubt over the effectiveness of economic sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic and said he was against the opening of an additional military and diplomatic front, saying that the US had more pressing problems, such as North Korea and Iraq.
Can you believe the nerve of that man!?!?!?! Who gives a crap about the US’s “pressing problems”??? Why would he even bring that up?!
The Jerusalem Post could not confirm the report.
And your point is…..?
Biden has a solid 36-year Senate record of pro-Israel leadership. He has called Israel “the single greatest strength America has in the Middle East” and declared himself a Zionist in an interview with a US Jewish television channel last year, saying that “you don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.”
That doesn’t mean anything. He’s lying.
Army Radio said that Jerusalem officials expressed amazement at the comments and were wondering which position to take seriously, that of Biden or Obama, who declared last Monday that the world must press Iran through sanctions and diplomacy to stop its nuclear program, so that Israel does not feel its “back is against the wall” and that it therefore has no choice but to attack.
The State of Israel has feelings, you know, which is a truly remarkable thing, and if these feelings are not treated with the utmost care, Israel will have no choice to do something really quite crazy, out of despair and self-defense of course, considering that we are absolutely sick with worry and you clearly don’t care, and so it will be all your fault. Since now we know that Biden once allegedly said something that contradicts what Obama says now, we now have no choice but to wonder which man to take seriously. Obviously, we can no longer take them both seriously. This one mistake is all it takes to wreck our trust, which is a fragile, precious gift. You have rejected our beautiful gift of trust and friendship. This is going to affect your presidential race, because Obama can no longer be trusted (as we’ve suspected and which has now been confirmed — Aha!), and we will tell all our media people to step on the scales for McCain/Palin with both feet. And we have media people everywhere, as we’re sure you don’t need to be reminded.
The officials said that they had believed Biden’s nomination would give a feeling of security to the Israeli government, which was concerned that the US would give Israel the cold shoulder regarding the Iranian threat following the end of the Bush Administration’s term.
(Sniff.) This is so disappointing. Here we were, so hopeful that we could continue our beautiful, special friendship with a Democratic administration. But now (sniff) it’s clear that this is not to be.
Nevertheless, reports of Biden’s comments have now cast doubt over this sentiment and officials said that “this feeling of security has been undermined.”
(Filling many tissues.) We’re not angry, just really, really hurt.
“The position of the vice presidential candidate puts a huge question mark over the degree of empathy the Obama administration would display concerning one of the greatest threats Israel faces,” they said.
It would be so hard to trust you after this terrible breach. It’s like a beautiful teacup has been smashed on the ground. I suppose we could glue it back together, somehow, but it would never be as strong. The cracks would always remind us of your terrible betrayal. We are so very, very vulnerable; and all you can think of is yourself.
(Sadly honking many boogers into tissues.)
UPDATE: It works again!! (That’s why they keep doing it.) Biden forced to release a statement denying ever putting US interests ahead of Israel’s elusive ’security.’
Israel: The Most Insecure Place on Earth.
