Untouchable in America means something else

Yes, as the Washington Post reports, the United States government announced today that there will be no penalties whatsoever for the lawyers who were ordered by their superiors, George Bush and Dick Cheney, to write memos “justifying” the tortures that Bush and Cheney wanted to unleash upon captives held indefinitely without charges, without evidence, without trial, without rights.

Dick Cheney has openly confessed to instructing his pathetic little minions, his nasty little modern-day Vyshinksys, John Yoo and Jay Bybee, to write the scraps of paper of twisted legalese meant to pre-emptively exonerate the top officials of the United States government for the unambiguously criminal actions they were to inflict upon their uncharged, untried prisoners — some of whom had actually been purchased, like slaves, from traffickers in human bodies — around the world. Cheney boasts openly of supporting and facilitating torture techniques — such as waterboarding — which have historically been prosecuted as high crimes by American authorities, and are, in fact, capital crimes under the laws of the United States today.

But on Friday, February 19, 2010, the administration of President Barack Obama declared that not only will it not prosecute the avowed and boastful perpetrators and accomplices of the capital crime of torture, it will not impose even the mildest of administrative or professional reprimands upon them. For the foulest of tortures, reaching even to murder, the government of the United States will do nothing: no investigation, no prosecution, no penalty.

I have run out of words to describe how vile this is. The mind recoils against fully comprehending the moral depravity of our leaders — and the reeking stench of their pious hypocrisy.

[ Chris Floyd ]

Death on two legs

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

“It may well turn out to be the largest war profiteering in history.”

It’s a story not being reported here, so let’s turn to the BBC:

“A US gagging order is preventing discussion of the allegations.

“The order applies to 70 court cases against some of the top US companies.

“While George Bush remains in the White House, it is unlikely the gagging orders will be lifted.

“To date, no major US contractor faces trial for fraud or mismanagement in Iraq.”

Your tax dollars magically transformed into McMansions and Bentley’s for the politcally connected. The next war should be on corruption in politics, doncha think?

The Same Guy?

Wanted: Scapegoat

Your mission, if you chose to accept it, is to run the show in Iraq and Afghanistan, in the newly created position of Imperial War Czar. Take ownership, champion a “win-win” scenario, manage the conflict with an eye toward eventual military “success,” and optimize/utilize funding streams downline.

In your new position of “War Czar” you will deflect “flak” from upper management and meticulously micro-manage each and ever aspect and optimize the benefit to our shareholders and contractors.

You must be willing and have the capacity to suspend belief about the overall organizations seeming inability to succeed at “war,” while paying lip service to traitors who cannot possibly understand the big picture in inoffensive and non-confrontational ways.

You will have at your disposal a public relations entity very well lubed, with supporters/cheerleaders selectively planted in the ranks. If you can utilize these resources well, your long tenure is assured.

You must possess the requisite mental aptitude and positive attitude necessary to multi task in a multi-org environment (a third region will be awarded to you very soon once you have passed the required probationary period) then please send your resume to:

 

President Dick Cheney
White House
Washington, DC, 01010

If There Was Ever Any Doubt About Global Warming

Perhaps there isn’t any more.

As this Guardian article explains, those returds at the American Enterprise Institute offered scientists 10,000 samolies (US) in an attempt to undermine a very important report about to be released by the UN.

Sure, greed is good, and the AEI are surely counting on that most American of human traits to further blow smoke out of their asses and into everyone else’s face <cough>.

“Hey gang, I have an idea, let’s muddy up the issue further! It’s fun! And profitable! And it’ll all come a cropper long after we’re dead anyway, and my trust fund heirs will be safely ensconced on higher ground in soon-to-be balmy Wyoming! Even the lesbian ones!” -Swinging Dick Cheney, American Overlord

Bush and Cheney to Switch Jobs

Difficult to believe? Well, it’s true!

“Why keep up this pretense any longer?” asked the former Veep, Mr. Cheney. “In time of war, a convoy can only go as fast as it’s slowest ship. I think George is a really swell guy, but we need to stop dragging our heels, get a move on, and get control of the situation.”

Which situation the new President was referring to wasn’t made clear.

This historic switcheroo is sure to provoke a constitutional crisis. However, pundits claim this isn’t entirely unprecedented.

“President Reagan effectively did the same thing, only he never relinquished the title,” said William Kristol of the Project for New American Century, a think tank and influential lobby based in Washington D.C.

Mr. Kristol continued, “What Mr Cheney has decided to do is in the best interest of the American public and the Iraqi people in this time of war, and will be looked back as an important, if not historic, development in government by the people, for the people.”

Mr. Bush has been in seclusion at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.

The former president has so far remained silent, and has chosen, according to aides, not to comment in detail on the role reversal at this time.

“The new Vice President would like the American public to know, that this development is in their best interests, and they should not fear for their country at this time,” has been his only official response.

Who Is The Decider Exactly?

This article from the BBC which recounts how the office of the Vice President rejected out of hand a proposal from Iran that cold have quelled insurgency in Beruit and Iraq.

Did the president ever get a chance to see it (and would one of his adivsors have read it to him)? Not that one would bother to extrapolate that he would/could have done anything about it, since he’s such a horrbile negotiator (and true, a bit dense). Instead of persuading people not to kill us, he prefers to egg them on like the spoiled fucking child he still is.

Makes you wonder whether the case for war, which constantly changes shape as the hole these motherfuckers have dug gets deeper, could have been mitigated and terror and death minimized. I guess we’ll never fucking know.

Heckuva job Dicky!

How We Was Fleeced

As this article ably reports, the best interests of the citizens of the United States of America are not being served.

It is the best interests of the corporations which is.

They have a lot on the line, as their biggest customer is fat pig in lipstick with loads of cashola, seized as vig from its citizens/ patsies.

Lockheed Martin did indeed setup the entire war in Iraq as a money making venture (c’mon, you just know they’re behind it).

Game over! Time to throw the cards over, and declare the nation “governed by the people, for the people” a casualty of its very own upper caste, trust fund progeny.

Epitaph: Here Lies USA, a noble concept, killed by the Bush family, Freebasing Cheney et al and the oilgarchs and defense contractors who sucked them off.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Johnnie M. Burton: a crony’s crony and willing submissive (handsomely remunerated! now bend over beyotch!) for the oilgarchy running Washington (and oh, the entire country)(Anyone else noticing paralles between the USA and that other purported democracy, the USSR Russia?). They’ve been terrifically successful quietly integrating their street soldiers into the bureaucracy, in order to get at the prize. Now they have access, they can loot the Treasury and the wealth of this nation, as if it’s their own personal piggy bank

It was surely savvy to have forged connections in order to participate in the grand looting fest going on right under our very noses. With absolutely no oversight, this country should be wealth free (unpaid oil leases, a half trillion in Iraq, Katrina carpetbaggers, etc.) in no time!

So Johnnie M. Burton failed to renegotiate some contracts because they were initiated by a previous adminstration. They had cooties!

Plus, her friends will stand by Johnnie M. Burton in this troubled time, keeping her away from illumination because she’s a blood sucker.

And as ignorant young fools men enlist because they can’t get a good job and (having been braiwashed) wrongly believe that it’s the right thing to do.

Just remember one thing: there are many Bushes of enlistment age, but the only uniform you’ll see any Bush wearing will be around Halloween.

Cold Warriors Suck Ass

Rumsfeld, Cheney, Kissinger et al are still fighting the cold war– in Iraq.

Just one small problem: the ‘enemy’ isn’t.

This confilct is a guerilla war and, as in Vietnam, the cold warriors are, once again, getting their asses kicked.

That this current strategy will lose is plainly obvious to all, except to these dinosaurs.

Meanwhile, the leadership of the opposition has successfully executed a very capitalist notion: find a niche or weakness and exploit it.

To the max.

Instead of fighting them, maybe they should consider giving Osama a medal for showing the US how to fix their cognitive leaks.

Instead, leadership on this side of the conflict just keeps trying to enlarge the hole.

Is that batshit crazy or what?

Unfortunately this executive administration is asleep at the wheel (HELLO – WAKEY WAKEY – hmmm, the lights are on, but nobody’s home). Oblivious, they continue to hit the food pellet button, unable to comprehend how they’re slavishly fulfilling their own peculiar neuroses.

Repeating the same mistake, over and over, is certainly what their benefactors desire. Daddy Warbucks is more than happy to pat Clueless and Adamant on their back, whispering sweet nothings like “the US is they best equipped force in the history of the world,” and encourage further forays out into the center ring.

But when you get your ass handed to you, c’mon already. How many times does it take to see your benefactors sitting there on the sidelines trying to maintain a straight face, fools?

Is someone needing to take a gnarly shit?

Fighting terrorists with ‘technological marvels,’ conceived during a different time and place- and all too late for the that party- is proving futile.

The proof is in the fact that the US and other ‘allied nations’ are simply losing against these highly mobile, unseen, and adequately outfitted (an AK-47 costs $50, a pair of night goggles about $2000) terr-uillas.

That’s the result when the American electorate isn’t informed enough to elect leaders who are at least clued in. Having leaders who are more comfortable resorting to violence instead of intelligence, and fight fire with fire, is comparable to being led by (Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, take your pick).

Soon, the nation they were elected to serve, could end up the same way, if the electorate doesn’t wake up to the facts and do more than elect a slim majority.

Even the media networks which love to kiss-ass cheer like extensions of the administration speak about ‘terrorists’ as if they were convetional forces (“Al-Qaida’s man in Iraq” ) in an attempt frame it all in terms they can understand (i.e. a conventional war), the reality- “a misadventure with unforeseen consequences-” being far too complex for such small minds.

The Clueless adminstration has failed to live up to it’s responsibility to the public it serves, and at the public’s considerable expense (the Bushes and Cheney’s et al should be receive a big invoice for our trouble).

Perhaps Iraq was little more than an excuse to use up supply in order to manufacture anew to fill the pipeline- at outrageous expense. It’s easy to be cynical about motives, when there were so many outrageous lies and miscarriage of justice to underscore the deceit and mischief.

Certainly those the profit by the war are savvy enough to keep their profile low, hide behind the curtain of patriot, and while everyone’s looking at the diversion they’ve created, busily line their pockets because they’vere managed to fabricate their own private key to the treasury.

They’re all so really good at making shit up, and Americans are so accustomed to a steady diet of shit.

They put the Cunt in Country

Dahlia Lithwick’s The Bill of Wrongs pretty much sums it up. A sample:

9. Guantanamo Bay
It takes a licking but it keeps on ticking. After the Supreme Court struck down the military tribunals planned to try hundreds of detainees moldering on the base, and after the president agreed that it might be a good idea to close it down, the worst public relations fiasco since the Japanese internment camps lives on. Prisoners once deemed “among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth” are either quietly released (and usually set free) or still awaiting trial. The lucky 75 to be tried there will be cheered to hear that the Pentagon has just unveiled plans to build a $125 million legal complex for the hearings. The government has now officially put more thought into the design of Guantanamo’s court bathrooms than the charges against its prisoners.

I wonder if there is any chance Bush, Cheney, Kissinger et all will ever be held to account for the abuse of human rights their cherry-picked legislation inspired. After all, what’s good for the goose… well, I can dream can’t I? Seeing them behind bars, being water-boarded… aw hell, they could sell that on pay-per-view. Pass the popcorn!

RIP Fuckhead

This putrid chancre-sucking turd wanted to be president so bad, he was ready to bend over and take it from all comers.

Since he was at least smart enough to now nobody would ever elect him (most of America mumbled a collective “Gerald Who?” when the chosen one’s name was announced), he accepted what would be for him a “no-brainer,” a deal he could certainly live with: pardon Nixon for all crimes he may or may not have committed (yeah, baby!), and screw the American people, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law all in their collective asses.

With a razor blade tickler.

And yet some people can actually find the words to praise this dead fucking asshole like he was some kind of statesman. Yeah, right. Had he never accepted that sweetheart deal, he’d have been long ago forgotten- excepting maybe as “Mr. Betty Ford.”

What a jackass. Asshole. Asswipe. Freakenstein.

I spit on your grave, Mr Asshole president Who Was Never Elected I.

L-R: Ruinous Rummy, Our Asshole, and Self Dealer

Chicken Little

If the prevailing beliefs about Peak Oil, which oil men like Clueless and Self-Dealing, et al possibly use as their basis for the invasion of Iraq and everything they do to support it- such as eroding civil liberties (this single minded pursuit of giving oil importance above everything else, humans and their rights included)- prove to have a false premise (after all, these scares have been with us before, and time and again we fall for it), then they’re going to have a lot to answer for.

And their answer better not be ‘whoopsy!‘

As this article explains, the faulty analysis used in determining reserves makes erroneous assumptions which compromise the conclusion.

Those who believe a peak is imminent tend to consider only proven remaining reserves of conventional oil, which they currently estimate at about 1.2 trillion barrels. In the view of many petroleum geologists, this is a pessimistic estimate because it excludes the enormous contribution likely from probable and possible resources, those yet to be found, and plays down the importance of unconventional reserves in the Canadian oil sands, the Orinoco tar belt, oil shale and GTL projects. CERA believes the global inventory is some 4.8 trillion barrels, of which about 1.08 trillion barrels have been produced, leaving 3.72 trillion conventional and unconventional barrels, an order of magnitude that will allow productive capacity to continue to expand well into this century.

Considering that our current pump woes have more to do with tight supply and not an actual shortage of crude, then if it isn’t clear to you that you’re being legally ripped off then you are full of shit.

Sorry if the truth hurts.

War Crimes, War Schmimes

Plenty Assholes to Go Around

There are even a few who weren’t there that day, who aren’t even mentioned at all.

But then they’re ‘safe’ in their ivory towers, with a wonderful retirement to look forward to paid for by the largess of the federal government and their cronies.

Sweet for them.

Disgusting if you have respect for the military.

The Family That Fucks America Together…

sticks together. Thick as thieves, this little family unit is highly functional, motivated by, what else, greed. And screwing Americans in the ass. It’s a bonding experience. If it feels so good, it can’t be bad, right?

Too bad Eisenhower isn’t around anymore, to remind us what stupid shits we can be. Soon as you look the other way, they’re picking your pocket with one hand, and lubing your bum with the other, preparing it for an unannounced midnight visit.

Fun for the entire family!

I know the klan Weldon looks like pikers compared to the Bush-Cheney-Crony war-for-profit party. It’s just that it seems like an epidemic. It’s not a stretch to say, it isn’t very likely you could find an honest person in the entire legislative branch of the government.

In a country where most citizens don’t know who their elected representatives are, let alone who this booger from the Quaker state is, it seems like the setting is perfect to do crime. It must seem to them like they possess, as a birth right, the license to steal. And they sure as shit use it, like a Mastercard with no limit.

Feel free to do so right under our very own noses, no need to pretend to keep this clandestine!

Are we ever going to learn?

We should do something about it. But, what?

Federal Reserve Bank assisting illegal alien lawbreakers

WTF?

Yes, and it’s being kept really quiet. The main stories taking up column inches today lack any real depth or meaning (Tom Foley, puh-lease), and simply serve to titilate (“sexy stories”); AKA a red herring. The important ones (“boring stories”), like this, are freakin’ terrifying, because of implications further down the road for this country as an autonomous and sovereign state.

This certainly tells you that your government (I didn’t vote for the fuckers, and I consider myself <ahem> libertarian) is seriously going against what you might expect to be the intentions of ‘financial conservatives.’

Goes to show most Americans, who couldn’t give a flying fuck how their government is, um, governed, that as soon as they take their eye off the ball, see what happens.

Can I see a show of hands: who out there voted for “Son of A New World Order?” Heh.

Are we really in control of our government? Or are they (the non-elected e.g. Karl Rove, James Baker, Ben Bernaenke, et al) rapidly increasing the amount of countol they have over us?

Do you even have to think about that before answering?

Of course you do, you are were an American.

Yeah right.

From a patriot

Not those who label themselves that today (to the tune of the Great Pretender), but a real one:

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

-Samuel Adams