Saturday, May 10, 2003
Navigating the rabbit hole.
So the U.S. wants to be the Occupying Power in Iraq. And they want to be the occupying power, in order to capitalize on the chances for a partial privatization of Iraq's resources, including the oil, and I don't think I am the only one with this fear. And Halliburton, has a no-dollar limit and no bid contract with our government to run the oil wells in Iraq, and as occupying power we could be there for years, under the Geneva Convention, and Halliburton ain't doing so well here in this country, and it sure looks like a rescue of Dick Cheney's former employer, from whom he continues to receive compensation, in the form of deferred compensation, and no one in the media seems to give a damn about this huge, obscene conflict of interest, and the FCC wants to create even more media monopolies, I suppose, because the monopolies serve the interest of the monied class, and those in power, in terms of what issues are focused on, and most Americans for "moral" reasons want to support the Republicans, and for "safety" reasons, for the sake of our country, yet we are neither "moral" nor "safe", in the current path we have chosen, as we are giving up our civil liberties, including the right to hear dissenting voices, to a bunch of immoral money and power grabbers, who will stop at nothing, including the sacrifice of human life, to satisfy their greedy appetities and accumulate more, and many Americans have made a deal with the devil in buying SUVs and going along with our energy/war policy..and , whew, I think I'm learning to navigate the rabbit hole.
# posted by scorpiorising : 9:48 AM |
Friday, May 09, 2003
Alice is in Wonderland
Ya'll venture over to my War Casualties blog, and take a trip down the rabbit hole. It begins with the death of one man in Iraq, shot by the U.S. military, for unknown reasons say the witnesses, and no comment from the military. It is the death of one man, but it might as well be the death of anyone killed as a result of this war. The witnesses asked why? Why?, I ask. Sometimes it is all the weapon you have left, but a formidable one nonetheless, because if we quit asking it, it is all over.
There is a strange, unreal aspect to the description in the article of this man's death. No details at all as to the why of this man's death, but there he was, slumped over the steering wheel of his car, with a bullet wound to his head. His name was Khaled Lahoumi Ahmed, said a witness, because he looked at his ID card that he had on him.
"U.S. military vehicles pushed the car onto the pavement before troops approached the car and opened fire, Mehdi said", was what the article stated.
From one man's death, we move to the U.S. plans for Iraq. They want to be the Occupying Power, under the Geneva Conventions, which means they would have formidable influence over the how the wealth of Iraq is spent and used. The U.S. resisted using this phrase, occupying power, until now, in a clever strategy to limit debate. The falsely benign phrase "liberating force" was the choice of words by the U.S. during the war.
It gets better. Many are speculating the U.S. will make a grab of ownership of Iraq's resources through "privitization". Jay Garner has already hinted at this, as a way to efficiently produce oil. Read the Nation article by Naomi Klein, on what will be the attempt to privitize Iraq, that is, if we become the "occupying power". The Security Council, and the UN are all that are between the U.S. and a complete power grab in Iraq.
Finally, there is the issue of cluster bombs. The Pentagon recently made a statement that in this entire war, only one person was killed by a cluster bomb. This statement is so patently false, purposefully deceptive, and dark and cynical as well, because no sane person would make a statement like that about this war, unless they believed that no one cared and no one was paying attention. Remember Hillah? Remember Hindiyeh? Read Robert Fisk, courtesy of Dissident Voice, on the use of cluster bombs in this war, and the death reports from the villages.
We can navigate ourselves through this rabbit hole.
There is a strange, unreal aspect to the description in the article of this man's death. No details at all as to the why of this man's death, but there he was, slumped over the steering wheel of his car, with a bullet wound to his head. His name was Khaled Lahoumi Ahmed, said a witness, because he looked at his ID card that he had on him.
"U.S. military vehicles pushed the car onto the pavement before troops approached the car and opened fire, Mehdi said", was what the article stated.
From one man's death, we move to the U.S. plans for Iraq. They want to be the Occupying Power, under the Geneva Conventions, which means they would have formidable influence over the how the wealth of Iraq is spent and used. The U.S. resisted using this phrase, occupying power, until now, in a clever strategy to limit debate. The falsely benign phrase "liberating force" was the choice of words by the U.S. during the war.
It gets better. Many are speculating the U.S. will make a grab of ownership of Iraq's resources through "privitization". Jay Garner has already hinted at this, as a way to efficiently produce oil. Read the Nation article by Naomi Klein, on what will be the attempt to privitize Iraq, that is, if we become the "occupying power". The Security Council, and the UN are all that are between the U.S. and a complete power grab in Iraq.
Finally, there is the issue of cluster bombs. The Pentagon recently made a statement that in this entire war, only one person was killed by a cluster bomb. This statement is so patently false, purposefully deceptive, and dark and cynical as well, because no sane person would make a statement like that about this war, unless they believed that no one cared and no one was paying attention. Remember Hillah? Remember Hindiyeh? Read Robert Fisk, courtesy of Dissident Voice, on the use of cluster bombs in this war, and the death reports from the villages.
We can navigate ourselves through this rabbit hole.
# posted by scorpiorising : 6:34 PM |
Thursday, May 08, 2003
Pointdexter, is that you?
Total Information Awareness is back in the news today, via the New York Times, making an attempt to sound more like a pussycat, than the tiger initially described by Admiral Poindexter before a California audience:
"Mr. Poindexter told a California audience then that "we must become much more efficient and more clever in the way we find new sources of data, mine information from the new and old, make it available for analysis, convert it to knowledge and create actionable options." He described a system that could tap into Internet mail, culling records, credit card and banking transactions and travel documents."
Hell, I just want to know who is tapping into Red Onion under the guise of "Hidden Referrer" in my bstats. Dr. Tony Tether, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, also known as Darpa, is trying the downplay his agency's intentions:
Dr. Tether offered a vision of the program that sounded much less threatening than the description given last year by John M. Poindexter, the retired admiral who is in charge of the project.
And what is this vision? In "friendly" questioning, Representative Adam Putnam, a Florida Republican, invited a "friendly" swear from Dr. Tether, which was declined by Dr. Tether in a friendly manner:
Saying "I'm trying to help you guys a little with your p.r. problem," Mr. Putnam invited Dr. Tether to swear that the agency was not "contemplating" using credit card, library or video-rental information. Dr. Tether said he could see no value in any such data, but he could not swear that no consultant hired by the agency was not "contemplating" the value."
With watchdogs like Putnam, we won't have to worry about Darpa's p.r. problems. I am relieved. I'm still wondering who's watching me. Pointdexter, if that is you, are you taking applications for coffee servers, that is, if Halliburton doesn't hire me first?
But wait, there's more. Tether describes what might be the role of Darpa:
Dr. Tether said the system was intended to devise "attack scenarios" based on past terrorist attacks or intelligence about plans.
He offered two examples. If the concern was a truck bomb, he said, one question to be posed was, "Are there foreign visitors to the United States who are staying in urban areas, buying large amounts of fertilizer and renting trucks?"
Or, he said, if the system had been in place, it could have considered the threat posed by a 1995 report from the Philippines that terrorists were considering using airplanes as bombs to destroy landmarks like the World Trade Center.
But, but, didn't the FBI have info concerning terrorists learning to fly planes in order to fly them into buildings? Didn't they ignore the info? Shouldn't we be more concerned about Americans purchasing large amounts of fertilizer? Guess if Daddy Darpa gives them the info, they won't ignore it. Big Brother Darpa, friend to the FBI, and the CIA, and friend to people who aren't worth spying on.
"Mr. Poindexter told a California audience then that "we must become much more efficient and more clever in the way we find new sources of data, mine information from the new and old, make it available for analysis, convert it to knowledge and create actionable options." He described a system that could tap into Internet mail, culling records, credit card and banking transactions and travel documents."
Hell, I just want to know who is tapping into Red Onion under the guise of "Hidden Referrer" in my bstats. Dr. Tony Tether, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, also known as Darpa, is trying the downplay his agency's intentions:
Dr. Tether offered a vision of the program that sounded much less threatening than the description given last year by John M. Poindexter, the retired admiral who is in charge of the project.
And what is this vision? In "friendly" questioning, Representative Adam Putnam, a Florida Republican, invited a "friendly" swear from Dr. Tether, which was declined by Dr. Tether in a friendly manner:
Saying "I'm trying to help you guys a little with your p.r. problem," Mr. Putnam invited Dr. Tether to swear that the agency was not "contemplating" using credit card, library or video-rental information. Dr. Tether said he could see no value in any such data, but he could not swear that no consultant hired by the agency was not "contemplating" the value."
With watchdogs like Putnam, we won't have to worry about Darpa's p.r. problems. I am relieved. I'm still wondering who's watching me. Pointdexter, if that is you, are you taking applications for coffee servers, that is, if Halliburton doesn't hire me first?
But wait, there's more. Tether describes what might be the role of Darpa:
Dr. Tether said the system was intended to devise "attack scenarios" based on past terrorist attacks or intelligence about plans.
He offered two examples. If the concern was a truck bomb, he said, one question to be posed was, "Are there foreign visitors to the United States who are staying in urban areas, buying large amounts of fertilizer and renting trucks?"
Or, he said, if the system had been in place, it could have considered the threat posed by a 1995 report from the Philippines that terrorists were considering using airplanes as bombs to destroy landmarks like the World Trade Center.
But, but, didn't the FBI have info concerning terrorists learning to fly planes in order to fly them into buildings? Didn't they ignore the info? Shouldn't we be more concerned about Americans purchasing large amounts of fertilizer? Guess if Daddy Darpa gives them the info, they won't ignore it. Big Brother Darpa, friend to the FBI, and the CIA, and friend to people who aren't worth spying on.
# posted by scorpiorising : 7:52 AM |
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
Halliburton Busy
What with unemployment up in the labor market, I was really beginning to fret for the fortunes of Halliburton. I needn't fear any longer. Our friends at Halliburton will be more than employed, because their role in Iraq is much larger than initially thought. Makes sense, because this company produced a vice-president of the U.S. of A. goddammit, and they deserve the recognition that their expanded role will bring them, (or the v.p. produced them, hard to decide what came first). Perhaps their expanded role in Iraq will help the company to pay for the asbestos suit, no pun intended, and $80 million, to be exact, awarded against them, involving the Highlands Insurance Company, spun off from Halliburton in 1986, and, well, its too damn complicated (the New York Times, dated May 7, explains it quite well, and no I won't include their links, because they are too damn long; scroll down to underneath the main story concerning Halliburton, in the Business section, and there are a list of articles concerning Halliburton beneath). But rest assured, Halliburton's future is secure, despite a recent 21% decline in its revenue from engineering and construction (Again, May 7, NYT.) Whew, thank God for the government's rescue, I mean hiring (oops) of Halliburton. I was worried about those guys. Looks like I'll have far fewer of them to worry about, as they are going to lay-off a bunch of people soon, 5,250 people, to be exact (courtesy of, you guessed, the NYT, May 7, those guys are busy at that newspaper):
"The Halliburton Company said yesterday that it would eliminate about 5,250 jobs and close about 400 offices worldwide as part of its plan to save about $250 million a year from its acquisition of Dresser Industries and to reduce expenses as lower oil prices cut into its business. The job cuts are in addition to about 2,000 workers the company has already eliminated because of low oil prices. The cuts reduce the work force of the Dallas-based company by about 7 percent."
Halliburton knows how to take care of its own. I wonder if they are taking applications, cause I can sure serve a good cup of coffee, and they are going to need plenty of the brown brew, because they are busy, busy, busy.
"The Halliburton Company said yesterday that it would eliminate about 5,250 jobs and close about 400 offices worldwide as part of its plan to save about $250 million a year from its acquisition of Dresser Industries and to reduce expenses as lower oil prices cut into its business. The job cuts are in addition to about 2,000 workers the company has already eliminated because of low oil prices. The cuts reduce the work force of the Dallas-based company by about 7 percent."
Halliburton knows how to take care of its own. I wonder if they are taking applications, cause I can sure serve a good cup of coffee, and they are going to need plenty of the brown brew, because they are busy, busy, busy.
# posted by scorpiorising : 4:37 PM |
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
The Patriot
Silent in the face of greed, you have become a thief yourself. Stealing knowledge from the children in the form of witholding, you hoard knowledge, store it away, don't use it.
We lost our true practice of democracy a long time ago. Maybe the old guy in the breakfast meeting of progressives was right, we never had it. It was all an illusion in the grandest sense. Is it a little bit like love, which, as soon as you name it, you begin to loose it. It becomes a thing and therefore distant. You begin to lose touch with it when you name it.
Perhaps our loss of democracy hit a final note when I was a child, the Kennedy assasination, the Vietnam war, the assasinations, R. Kennedy and King. That was when the secrets of our government were even darker than they are today. There is unsparing illumination now, for anyone looking for the light. The internet helps to keep things lit. Books, essays, libraries, bookstores; as much as I distrust corporate entities, Barnes and Noble keeps many a candle lit for lonely seekers wanting to browse and read.
No wonder one of the new "enemies" of our current gov't in power are libraries. We would do well to defend them.
What if the internet were ever gone. The "struggle" to reclaim ourselves would take a different form. Perhaps it should.
We progressives, we liberals, have we defined our own beliefs and values? Can we clearly articulate our prirorities?
How do we practice our beliefs and values in our immediate environment, for that is the true test.
Do we feel forced to hide our light?
Isn't it easier to focus our attention on the candidates, politics, on what our "leaders" are doing. They are doing horrendous things, committing horrors all over the world, because we have forgotten how to govern ourselves. We govern no one, not even ourselves.
And the ones who try to lord it over others the most, are the ones least in practice of the governing of themselves.
Bennett, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld (it feels like sticky blood just to write their names).
Is it any accident one of the moral crusader, William Bennett, was recently revealed to be covered in shit?
They are taking us down in apathy, in apathy of ourselves.
Even the so-called activists. What are we doing? How are we reaching out to each other? How are we reaching out to the unconverted? How are we active? What is the quality of our activity?
What is the quality of my activity?
It always comes back to the self. The lonely self in the self-skin, covering bones and teeth. We are a universe unto ourselves, richer than we could ever imagine.
We lost our true practice of democracy a long time ago. Maybe the old guy in the breakfast meeting of progressives was right, we never had it. It was all an illusion in the grandest sense. Is it a little bit like love, which, as soon as you name it, you begin to loose it. It becomes a thing and therefore distant. You begin to lose touch with it when you name it.
Perhaps our loss of democracy hit a final note when I was a child, the Kennedy assasination, the Vietnam war, the assasinations, R. Kennedy and King. That was when the secrets of our government were even darker than they are today. There is unsparing illumination now, for anyone looking for the light. The internet helps to keep things lit. Books, essays, libraries, bookstores; as much as I distrust corporate entities, Barnes and Noble keeps many a candle lit for lonely seekers wanting to browse and read.
No wonder one of the new "enemies" of our current gov't in power are libraries. We would do well to defend them.
What if the internet were ever gone. The "struggle" to reclaim ourselves would take a different form. Perhaps it should.
We progressives, we liberals, have we defined our own beliefs and values? Can we clearly articulate our prirorities?
How do we practice our beliefs and values in our immediate environment, for that is the true test.
Do we feel forced to hide our light?
Isn't it easier to focus our attention on the candidates, politics, on what our "leaders" are doing. They are doing horrendous things, committing horrors all over the world, because we have forgotten how to govern ourselves. We govern no one, not even ourselves.
And the ones who try to lord it over others the most, are the ones least in practice of the governing of themselves.
Bennett, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld (it feels like sticky blood just to write their names).
Is it any accident one of the moral crusader, William Bennett, was recently revealed to be covered in shit?
They are taking us down in apathy, in apathy of ourselves.
Even the so-called activists. What are we doing? How are we reaching out to each other? How are we reaching out to the unconverted? How are we active? What is the quality of our activity?
What is the quality of my activity?
It always comes back to the self. The lonely self in the self-skin, covering bones and teeth. We are a universe unto ourselves, richer than we could ever imagine.
# posted by scorpiorising : 4:43 PM |
Monday, May 05, 2003
Brother, Can you Spare a Dime for a Textbook?
Multiply 3000 times 500,000. What do you get? 1.5 billion. In the first 14 days of the Iraqi war, we dropped 3000 cruise missiles on Iraq. Each cruise missile costs $500,000. That's 1.5 billion dollars worth of cruise missiles. Douglas Mattern from liberalslant.com, wants you to digest the numbers:
Just think of all the missiles, bombs, etc. that will be replaced for profit by the armament industry after the current U.S. military assault on Iraq. In the first 14 days the U.S. dropped over 8,700 bombs, including more than 3,000 cruise missiles. This includes cluster bombs, which is one of the most barbaric weapons ever created by the human mind.
Cruise missiles cost over $500,000 each. The Apache Longbow Helicopter costs about 22 million dollars each. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle costs over 1.2 million dollars. Each B-1 Stealth bomber costs over $2 billion.
Meanwhile, school districts form New York to Ohio to Illinois, to Denver, and on to California are having trouble finding the money for red-inked school budgets.
"Bleak" and "scary" are adjectives being bounced around to describe school fiscal problems:
"The economic crisis resulting in California’s General Fund shortfall for a second fiscal year will not be an easy one to manage. Elizabeth Hill, state legislative policy analyst, describes it as “an enormous challenge,” and the Sacramento Bee is calling it “bleak” and “scary.”
In the meantime, brother can you spare a dime, or how about a fraction of a percentage of the $60 billion to be spent in 2003 by the Pentagon to purchase new weapons.
"Over $60 billion was allocated to purchase new weapons for 2003. The Pentagon spends over $30 billion annually in research and development for new weapons."
Brother, can you spare a dime, maybe to buy textbooks? Certainly there is no shortage of money for cruise missiles, as there is our national, disgraceful, textbook shortage.
Apparently investing in new weapons is more important that investing in our own children. We'll save their lives from the "terrorist threat", protecting their poorly educated futures, living in a country ransacked of its safety from the hatred of other countries, as we bomb third world countries to oblivion. Egads. I think I'm going to throw-up.
Just think of all the missiles, bombs, etc. that will be replaced for profit by the armament industry after the current U.S. military assault on Iraq. In the first 14 days the U.S. dropped over 8,700 bombs, including more than 3,000 cruise missiles. This includes cluster bombs, which is one of the most barbaric weapons ever created by the human mind.
Cruise missiles cost over $500,000 each. The Apache Longbow Helicopter costs about 22 million dollars each. The Bradley Fighting Vehicle costs over 1.2 million dollars. Each B-1 Stealth bomber costs over $2 billion.
Meanwhile, school districts form New York to Ohio to Illinois, to Denver, and on to California are having trouble finding the money for red-inked school budgets.
"Bleak" and "scary" are adjectives being bounced around to describe school fiscal problems:
"The economic crisis resulting in California’s General Fund shortfall for a second fiscal year will not be an easy one to manage. Elizabeth Hill, state legislative policy analyst, describes it as “an enormous challenge,” and the Sacramento Bee is calling it “bleak” and “scary.”
In the meantime, brother can you spare a dime, or how about a fraction of a percentage of the $60 billion to be spent in 2003 by the Pentagon to purchase new weapons.
"Over $60 billion was allocated to purchase new weapons for 2003. The Pentagon spends over $30 billion annually in research and development for new weapons."
Brother, can you spare a dime, maybe to buy textbooks? Certainly there is no shortage of money for cruise missiles, as there is our national, disgraceful, textbook shortage.
Apparently investing in new weapons is more important that investing in our own children. We'll save their lives from the "terrorist threat", protecting their poorly educated futures, living in a country ransacked of its safety from the hatred of other countries, as we bomb third world countries to oblivion. Egads. I think I'm going to throw-up.
# posted by scorpiorising : 5:18 PM |
Sunday, May 04, 2003
American Eloi
Must have been destiny or something, because there I was, very lazy after a hard day at work feeding coffee to the jazz fest minions, and on came the 1960 version of the Time Machine with that handsome Rod Taylor. I'm watching him dealing with the passively happy Eloi, the race of human who are fed, and fed to, the Marlocks (rythms with Warlocks). I mean, at one point, I thought he was going to kill one of them for allowing the history of civilization to crumble in dust when he was shown their library, and the books literaly crumbled in his hands. Reminded me of my barely contained rage at a passive population feeding on cheap entertainment and shopping binges, slurping coffee picked by the desperately poor in lands we don't even dream about. And it was in a dream-like semi-slumber that a burst of illumination visited me, that at least had me roll over and cup my chin in my hand, partially sitting up. Have we become the Eloi, passively happy as long as we can afford our SUVs and win wars in strange, third world nations that we know nothing about? All the while we as the middle class (and lowers) are being fed to the predatory rich (just as the Marlocks fed on the Eloi), who start wars and profit from them at the expense of the humanity of this country, all the while cutting taxes for the rich, and obscenely cutting social programs that aid the poor. Vision of Rod Taylor coming upon the dinning room of the Marlocks, filled with human skeletons from their cannibalistic meals. We will be a skeleton of a country when these warlords finish with us. H.G. Wells must be rolling in his grave.
# posted by scorpiorising : 6:28 PM |
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