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McBush/Moosalini Has Lost The Media

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:44:40 GMT

When McCain started to keep his normally fawning press gaggles at arm's length a couple of months ago, the media whores grumbled about access. And around convention time when the repugs began their incredible daily cavalcade of lies that the MSM was supposed to dutifully report on, the media whores decided not to play along. Whether it was just the hubris of idiots or repug confidence the whole campaign exercise is a joke and that the election fix is already in, they lost the media, and now the idiotic McCain/ Palin duo is being openly laughed at.

Here CNN gets their jollies. They rightfully point out that Saturday Night Live didn't have to think up funny Palin dialog - they used Palin's own words for laughs. Of course McSame could go back to being the media's darling who can do no wrong, especially if there's that October surprise, but for now his campaign is treated as slapstick.

video here

So What Will The October Surprise Be?

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:38:57 GMT

Well, shit, everybody knows it's coming. From the Arlington Institute to spook agencies to the web bot project at Half Past Human to the Israelis to the american military and others, some profound event is coming up next month. October seems to be a time for unpleasant things to happen, from the Cuban missile crisis to stock market crashes.

Even Twain took a shot at October, sort of - "October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February."

It's traditionally been when markets collapse, and considering the grim financial landscape we're in, whatever happens is going to affect us economically and it won't be pretty.

The repug circus is tanking at the moment as people slowly realize just how filthy an insult their two candidates for high office is. McBush is the poster child for all that's been rotten in this country for the past eight years, and his running mate Moosalini is a clueless, laughable twit who should have stayed a sports anchor. Speaking of which, apparently the repugs are tearing their hair out terrified about the Barbie - Biden debate and will no doubt do all they can to prevent it from happening. That probably won't have anything to do with what's coming a little later in October. But I'll bet they'll drum up some excuse to keep Palin from opening her yap with more Miss South Carolina absurdities.

People are speculating that the fascists have another lollapalooza along the lines of 9/11 in the works, only far worse and something that will involve the entire country. Any new false flag terror would most probably involve radiological/bio weaponry because it would need to trump 9/11, anything less at this point wouldn't raise the level of fear high enough, and the warmongers need the nuclear genie out of the bottle to be able to use their own toys. New "terror" would usher McSame into the white house while giving a jump start to the economy, even if it's all just military contracting. So the "fallout" must be very tempting to the fascist murderers to get their war on.

But who would they finger? Even though Iran is still surrounded by fleets bristling with military power it seems as though Pakistan is being set up as the next muslim country to receive american cruise missile largesse. The border between Afghanistan and Pakistan has been routinely ignored by the US as if the incursions were meant to be provocations, and Pakistan now regularly warns the US to stay the hell out. Fighting between americans and the Pakistani forces has broken out several times. Furious spook activity in the country is evident from that Marriott attack, and it's no secret the US wants to get it's hands on Pak nuclear weapons. It's pretty straitforward that we're being set up to expect some sort of phony "Al Qaeda" fun and games - US steps up Pakistan raids to thwart al-Qaeda 'October surprise' plot

There's one thing about Pakistan too - over the years we've been told repeatedly that Bin Laden is hiding out there. It wouldn't be inconceivable that the Bushistas would pretend to have found or killed the already dead Osama in Pakistan after a false flag event in this country, thereby neatly bookending the Bush/Cheney murder and rape spree, pretending to validate their filthy rampage and installing McSame as chief executive. No matter that Bin Laden has been buried for years, they'd find a way to reanimate his corpse to fool gullible american mouthbreathers. just in time for November 4. But in the meantime there will be ever more carnage and fear and war, because that's what the fascists do best. And if this time around a few too many people wake up and show their disgust for all these disgusting machinations, well, “Army Unit to Deploy in October for Domestic Operations”

"14,000 Strong, and Armed With Non-Lethal Weapons - America, Meet Your New Local Military"

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I don't usually feel like writing about personal business, but this concludes a chapter in my life and the start of something new. I'm moving out by Oct 1 and truly heading for the hills and yes, trepidation about what the fascists have in store for us is in the mix. This isn't a panic attack by any means though; we've been planning to do this for a long time and we can't be more prepared. Well OK, a little more prepared, but the fact is it probably won't be a good idea to be around populated areas soon, and we're going where people ain't.

It always was a raging question for me about how best to weather a shitstorm. Do you bunker down or do you get mobile? Personal situations coincided for us to have great mobility and independence, and I suspect that will be precious because of the type of shit I think is about to hit the fan. Too bad about those awful gas prices though...

McSame's Newest Circus Stunt

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:53:49 GMT

The kid who supposedly knocked up Moosalini's kid, he who looks like a deer in the headlights about ready to bolt, is going to be forced to perform for the media in a shotgun wedding just prior to the Diebold/Premier selection process.

Truly vomit inducing tripe.

The marriage of the vice-presidential candidate’s pregnant teenage daughter could lift a flagging campaign

"In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one — the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé before the November 4 election.
Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”

Return Of The Cable Cutters

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:16:38 GMT

Damage to fibre optic cable affects Internet

"LAHORE: Internet services throughout Pakistan were affected on Saturday after an undersea fibre optic cable, connecting Pakistan to the rest of the world, was cut near Egypt, Geo News reported. The channel quoted sources as saying Internet traffic was temporarily moved to a SMW 3 cable. Internet users faced hours of disruption. Ali Qadir Gilani, a spokesman for the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited, told the channel later that the submarine cable had been restored and the system was fully operational now. daily times monitor."

Cables off the Egyptian coast seem to be targets of opportunity for someone.

Jeez, I wonder who that could be?

Remember last winter?

Another undersea Internet cable damaged in Mideast: Indian firm

"NEW DELHI (AFP) — Another Middle East undersea Internet cable has been damaged, adding to disruption in Indian online services caused when several lines were cut earlier this week, a cable operating firm said Saturday."

Gaza's Smuggling Tunnels

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:20:20 GMT

People will survive by any means necessary.

"Imposed last year after Gaza fell under the control of the militant Palestinian faction Hamas, the blockade was designed to make Hamas unpopular with Gaza's 1.4 million residents by banning virtually all trade with the outside world.
But deep beneath the watchtowers and fences of Gaza's 10-mile long border with Egypt, a sprawling warren of hand-dug burrows now supplies everything from food, petrol and designer jeans through to guns, drugs and black market Marlboro cigarettes.
Tunnel gangs charge premiums of up to 150 per cent on their cargos, raking in tens of thousands of dollars a week and making the excavation business one of Gaza's few growth industries.
"We bring through laptops, clothes, computers, medicines, mobile phones and even people," said Hisham al Loukh, 23, another tunneller. "There was even a bride from Egypt who came through one recently to get married to a man in Gaza."
The first tunnels underneath Gaza's perimeters were dug years ago, when they were they were primarily to smuggle weapons and explosives for use against Israel.
But it is during the blockade of the past year that the tunnellers' hazardous craft has really come to the fore. On some estimates there are now up to 500 passageways across to Egypt, mostly clustered around the town of Rafah, which straddles the border.
The tunnels usually surface in the gardens of villas on the Egyptian side of Rafah, where many residents are either sympathetic to the Palestinian cause or willing to lend their properties in return for a share of the lucrative profits.
Each member of a tunnelling gang, usually working in day and night shifts of 10 men each, earns around $15 per metre of passageway dug, which counts as a decent wage in an area which currently has 80 per cent unemployment. But as even the briefest of sojourns down into one of the tunnels makes clear, it is a risky living.
Entering one requires perching precariously on a makeshift wooden chairlift, which is then lowered down the 30 foot deep shaft by a winch powered by a sputtering petrol generator.
As in the Second World War film classic The Great Escape, the tunnel's walls are propped up with makeshift wooden planks, and equipped with ventilation pumps to freshen the musty, damp air at the bottom.
Diggers then use small electric drills to carve a path through the thick clay soil, steering their way by hand-held compass.
But otherwise, the engineering expertise has advanced little since the days of Tom, Dick and Harry. Tunnel collapses have led to dozens of fatalaties - so many that some local shops honour tunnellers in the same fashion as "martyred" local militants, displaying pictures of them clutching spades and drills rather than assault rifles."

Hopefully A Trend

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:06:22 GMT

Banker leaps to death in front of train

"The City was in shock last night after the apparent suicide of a millionaire financier haunted by the pressures of dealing with the credit crunch. (...)

Mr Stephenson is believed to have taken his own life after succumbing to mounting personal pressures as the world’s financial markets went into meltdown."

That Miss South Carolina Moment

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:25:19 GMT

"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska"

Moosalini

This Campaign Is Going To The Dogs

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 07:20:15 GMT

Obama and McSame are featured on the cover of Nature Magazine, with an unfortunate ad on the back.

They Need Bail, Not A Bailout

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:59:20 GMT

Trouble in Banktopia

"The financial system is blowing up. Don’t listen to the experts; just look at the numbers.

Last week, according to Reuters, “U.S. banks borrowed a record amount from the Federal Reserve nearly $188 billion a day on average, showing the central bank went to extremes to keep the banking system afloat amid the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.” The Fed opened the various “auction facilities” to create the appearance that insolvent banks were thriving businesses, but they are not. They’re dead; their liabilities exceed their assets. Now the Fed is desperate because the hundreds of billions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) in the banks vaults have bankrupt the entire system and the Fed’s balance sheet is ballooning by the day. The market for MBS will not bounce back in the foreseeable future and the banks are unable to roll-over their short term debt. Game over. The Federal Reserve itself is in danger. So, it’s on to Plan B; which is to dump all the toxic sludge on the taxpayer before he realizes that the whole system is cratering and his life is about to change forever. It’s called the Paulson Plan, a $700 billion boondoggle which has already been disparaged by every economist of merit in the country."

Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequence

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:35:35 GMT

"SOMERSET, NJ—In what local authorities are calling a "near tragedy," Charles Wentworth, a 17-year-old Rutgers Preparatory senior and member of the affluent Wentworth family, came perilously close to suffering a consequence resulting from his own wrongdoing Saturday.

Wentworth, reportedly ignoring the protests of his classmates, got behind the wheel of his turbocharged Supra 2000GT after consuming half the contents of a bottle of Goldschläger at a friend's party. While driving westbound on Route 27, a disoriented Wentworth drifted across two lanes of traffic and collided with a minivan carrying a family of four, bringing the teen face-to-face with a potentially life-altering lesson.

Wentworth escaped unscathed and unpunished, however, when his airbags deployed and a team of high-powered attorneys rushed to the scene and rescued him from the brink of personal responsibility. "Amazingly, Mr. Wentworth did not experience a single repercussion for consuming alcohol under age or operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, and is furthermore completely unaware that he did anything wrong," local police chief Marvin Taylor said. "He is a very lucky boy."

"If he had been driving just 5 mph faster, or if his parents hadn't had the influence to keep the matter out of court and the endless financial resources to lease a car of the exact same make and model to prevent him from having to face even the relatively trivial humiliation of being taunted by his peers for driving a slightly less expensive vehicle—my God, who knows what could have happened?" Taylor added. "He could have died or, worse, been held accountable for his actions."