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notes from a clown to Charles Krauthammer

Reader’s Digest got it half right
“laughter is the best medicine”
the second half is
“after love”
(but i do love your your Mona Lisa smile, Charles,
ok, appreciate…wouldn’t want you to confuse
this letter of love with a love letter.)
this clown be’thinks Chuck is being cheesy
re “the honor of his (the president’s) office”
Look! It’s under the chair!
No! Maybe behind this drape!
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”
Oh Charlie! We are looking, have looked, will look..
the information highway is our yellow brick road
and all the world IS watching and hearing US today
I know how hard it is for super white male right wings
to fall after their pride and/but
after the fall you will find
we’ve always loved you’all
we only hated the gigantic pain you caused
with your malnourished logic.

University of Colorado & Fox News O’Reilly

uses research misconduct
to fire Ward Churchill
for research misconduct
David Lane his lawyer
Ann Erica Whitebird his relative
declare the Devil’s
Original Sin was denying
the Original Lie which was
in the case of Ward Churchill
refusing him freedom of speech
in his case comparing
Nazism to our current
foreign policy
Who are the top Republican contenders
to continue this foreign policy?
All White (Aryan) Males!
Who are the top Democrat contenders
the first Woman
the first Latino
the first Black
And, which will be less likely
to continue this nazi foreign policy.
(and no, not all white men are part of the problem,
and yes some blacks and some women are part of the problem)

18 Missing Inches in New Orleans

By Greg Palast

Since the initial release of Armed Madhouse in June 2006, much has changed in America.

The Department of Homeland Security, after a five-year hunt for Osama, finally brought charges against… Greg Palast.

As America crawled toward the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attack, Homeland Security charged me and my US producer Matt Pascarella with violating the anti-terror laws.

Don’t you feel safer?

And I confess: we’re guilty.

On August 22, 2006, we were videotaping Katrina evacuees still held behind barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans. It had been a year since the hurricane and 73,000 POW’s (Prisoners of Dubya) were still in mobile home Gulags. I arranged a surreptitious visit with Pamela Lewis, one of the unwilling guests of George Bush’s Guantanamo on wheels. She told me, “It’s a prison set-up” – except there are no home furloughs for these inmates because they no longer have homes.

You can’t film there. FEMA is part of Homeland Security and its camps are off limits to cameras. We don’t want Osama to know he can get a cramped Airstream by posing as a displaced Black person.

To give a sense of the full flavor and smell of Kamp Katrina, we wanted to show that this human parking lot, with kids and elderly, is close by Exxon Petroleum’s Baton Rouge refinery. The neighborhood goes by the quaint sobriquet, “Cancer Alley.”

So we filmed it. Uh, oh. The refinery, is a CAVIP, “Critical Asset and Vulnerable Infrastructure Point.” Apparently, you can’t film a CAVIP.More…

As to the bust: The positive side for me as a reporter was that I got to see Bush’s terror-trackers in action. I should note that it took the Maxwell Smarts at Homeland Security a full two weeks to hunt us down. And we’re on television.

Frankly, Matt and I were a bit scared that, given the charges, we wouldn’t be allowed on a plane into New York for the September 11 commemoration. But what scared us more is that we were allowed on the plane.

Once I was traced, I had a bit of an other-worldly conversation with my would-be captors. Detective Frank Penantano of Homeland Security told me, “This is a ‘Critical Infrastructure’ … and they get nervous about unauthorized filming of their property.”

Well, me too, Detective. In fact, I’m very nervous that extremely detailed satellite photos of this potential chemical blast-site can be downloaded from maps.google.com.

Detective Penantano, in justifying our impending arrest, said, “If you remember, a lot of people were killed on 9/11.”

Yes, I remember “a lot” of people were killed. So I have this suggestion, Detective – and you can pass it on to Mr. Bush: Go find the people who killed them.

18 Missing Inches

Before the Big Bust, we learned a little more about how New Orleans drowned. Given my line of work, I’m not shocked at much. Yet, this one got to me.

“By midnight on Monday the White House knew. Monday night I was at the state Emergency Operations Center and nobody was aware that the levees had breeched. Nobody.”

The charges were so devastating – the White House’s withholding from the state police the information that the city was about to flood – that from almost any source, I simply would have dismissed it. But this was not just any source. The whistleblower was Dr. Ivor van Heerden, deputy chief of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Studies Center, and the chief technician advising the state on saving lives during Katrina.

That Monday night, August 29, 2005, the sleepless crew at the state Emergency Operations Center, directing the response to Hurricane Katrina, were high-fiving it, relieved that Katrina had swung east of New Orleans, sparing the city from drowning.

They were wrong. The Army Corps, FEMA and White House knew for critical hours that the levees had begun to crack, but withheld the information for a day and night. The delay was deadly.

Van Heerden explained that levees don’t collapse in a single bang. First, there’s a small crack or two, a few feet wide, which take hours to burst open into visible floodways.

Had the state known New Orleans’ bulwark was failing, they would have shifted resources to get out those left in the danger zone.

Van Heerden: FEMA knew on 11 o’clock on Monday that the levees had breeched. At 2pm they flew over the 17th Street Canal and took video of the breech.

Question: So the White House wouldn’t tell you that the levees had breeched?

Van Heerden: They didn’t tell anybody.

Question: And you’re at the Emergency Center?

Van Heerden: I mean nobody knew. Well, the Corps of Engineers knew. FEMA knew. None of us knew.

The prevarications continued all week.

Van Heerden said, “I went to the Governor’s on Tuesday night and I said this, ‘There’s a lot more breeches than one.’ They said, “Whatever you need, go find out.’ I got in an airplane, I flew. I counted 28 breeches.”

The White House had good reason, or at least political and financial reasons, to keep mum. A hurricane is an act of God, but catastrophic levee failure is an act of the Administration. Once the federal levees go, evacuation, rescue and those frightening words – responsibility and compensation – become Washington’s. Van Heerden knew that “not an act of God, but catastrophic failure of the levee system” would mean that, at least, “these people must be compensated.”

Not every flood victim in America gets the Katrina treatment. In 1992, storms wiped out 190 houses on the beach at West Hampton Dunes, home to film stars and celebrity speculators. The federal government paid to completely rebuild the houses, which, hauled in four million cubic feet of sand to restore the tony beaches, and guaranteed the home’s safety into the coming decades – after which the “victim’s” homes rose in value to an average $2 million each.

But in New Orleans, instead of compensation, 73,000 have been sentenced to life in FEMA’s trailer-parks in Louisiana. Even more are displaced to other states. I asked van Heeerden about the consequences of the White House’s failures, the information about the levee being just one of a list.

“Well, fifteen hundred people drowned. That’s the bottom line.”

But why did the levees fail at all if the hurricane missed the city? The professor showed me a computer model indicating the levees were a foot and a half too short – the result of a technical error in the Army Corp of Engineer’s calculation of sea level when the levees were built beginning in the 1930s.

And the Bush crew knew it. Long before Katrina struck, the White House staff had sought van Heerden’s advice on coastal safety. So when the professor learned of the 18-inch error, he informed the White House directly. But this was advice they didn’t want to hear. The President had already sent the levee repair crew, the Army Corp of Engineers, to Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Greg Palast is author of Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans – Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild, released this week by Penguin. Get it here.

For more information on the Armed Madhouse tour and for a podcast of 18 Missing Inches read by ‘On With Leon’s’ Dr. Wilmer Leon go to www.GregPalast.com

Serving at the pleasure of the President

when one is chosen to serve and they accept
who gave the president the authority
to fire at his pleasure
without cause?
and who believes any firings were just a “whim”
translates to he can fire with a political reason
and claims it is only at his “pleasure”
well of course dummy 101
his “pleasure” is his party slinging
manufactured mud
via his pleasured attorney generals
if Mr. President only fired 8
that leaves 75 appointees he
is not displeasured with…
More importantly
George Bush built his own tree
full of his pleasured choices
now look at the fruit, of this tree that George built,
fallen to the ground and rotting from corruption,
(and yes, of course, we know there is corruption
in the Democratic party too)
still, the more important is the appalling degree
of incompetence in the choices
of Bush.

Who will change this unfair legal loop hole
of hiring, then firing for No cause?
Any worker, when told they are axed
must have the right to ask,
“What did I do?”
And more,
their humanity deserves an answer(.)

Palestine, Astronauts, Israel, 363 tons of cash

future news:
Jerusalem on Feb. 19, Israeli, Palestinian leaders to meet with Rice

today’s news:
“The (1) U.S., (2) Israel and (3) others believe Iran is trying to build atomic bombs,
despite Iran’s insistence that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
Israel considers Iran a strategic threat.”

(2) “Israel” considers Iran a strategic threat.
(1) Only 25% of the “US” believe the same lies used for waring in Iraq(n)
(3) “others” remain anonymous

“The Federal Reserve sent over $4 billion in cash to Iraq in 2003 and 2004
Cash weighing 363 tons!”

past news:
secret government, graft, pork, corruption
bits of body parts flung on bystanders
whole families buried by their bomb blasted homes
Swaggarts swagger with pockets full of bloody gold
dissenters jailed or on no-fly lists

Dissenters of Israeli actions in Palestine are called anti-Semitic.
A kind of reverse racism as in “We are the chosen people ergo
we can do no wrong.”

yesterdays tabloid love triangle:
Lisa Nowak Bill Oefelein Colleen Shipman
while otherwise rs throw stones re
Bill O’Reilly et al “Don’t they do psychological screening
for astronauts, aren’t they are brightest and most fit?”

February 19th? Let us fall down on our knees and pray
US Rice, Israeli Olmert, Palestinian Abbas
will understand and work with the reality of
not all Americans, not all Israeli, not all Palestinians
agree with their “elected” leaders
but their majority of citizens are screaming for peace
“Evil must get tired sometime,”
flows Eliseuson’s poetic pen.

Presidential Candidate or When Less Experience is Better

Missed your national and/or local peace rally yesterday-
out celebrating Mozart’s birthday perhaps? Not to worry
they shall return in force and full March 17th. And you
will be doing the Irish Jig instead of mourning the beginning
of the 4th year of occupation in Iraq?
The Irish, they say, are scrappers not killers
and you didn’t know which birthday Mozart was celebrating?
You say 250th I say 251st, “But who is counting,”
Amadeus avers.

C-SPAN queries listeners:
“Anyone but a Clinton or a Bush?”
Who knew foxes howl?
Where is the Christian Crusade taking place today?
Well right here in the good ol’ U S of A!
Guess what and imagine that?!
This time the Crusade
is Christian Right against the Christian Left.

Identification Tool:
Who hawks war and who doves peace?
Who are they, who became like children,
therefore may enter the kingdom of heaven?
(little children scrap, big bullies go for the throat
with deadly gore)
Who wants to stymie you with “End Times”
and who wants everybody to go to heaven?
Who followers their leaders lock-step
and who asks questions?
Hitler knew how to brainwash the masses:
Preaching, Symbols plus Rituals.
The Christian right demonizes opponents
while the Christian left loves opponents
and saves their hate for inhuman actions(.)

“The second Holocaust will not be like the first” – Benny Morris

Benny Morris: “One bright morning, in five or ten years’ time…after Iran’s acquisition of the Bomb…The orders will go out and the Shihab III and IV missiles will take off for Tel Aviv, Beersheba, Haifa, and Jerusalem, and probably some military sites, including Israel’s half dozen air and (reported) nuclear missile bases….”

WHY does Israel keep the Israeli reporter in jail that allowed the whole world to know ISRAEL HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

Benny Morris: “A million or more Israelis…will die immediately….Some of the dead will inevitably be Arab…1.3 million of Israel’s citizens are Arab and another 3.5 million additional Arabs live in the semi-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.”

HOW can a country be semi-occupied? Since all of the Jews were removed from the West Bank (Mr. Morris wrote this fear mongering on January 6, 2007) and controls all their borders, be more truthful and call it what it is: a concentration camp. Is “semi-occupied” then, of the West Bank, something like being a little bit pregnant?

Benny Morris: “Since then, the ministers and generals, like their counterparts in the West, have looked on glumly as Hizbullah’s patrons have been arming with doomsday weapons.”

WHEN did Hizbullah start “arming with doomsday weapons”? And Benny’s evidence is they even have them?

Benny Morris: “Taking out with conventional weapons the known Iranian facilities would take an American-size air force working round-the-clock for more than a month….Perhaps, after acquiring the Bomb…”

WHERE ARE the “known Iranian facilities”? The I.A.E.A. does not agree with Mr. B. M. Perhaps they live in the fantasy world of Iraq’s WMDs?

Benny Morris: “…(though, to judge from pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the physical effects of nuclear explosions can be fairly unpleasant).”

FAIRLY UNPLEASANT! Having a baby is “fairly unpleasant”! Ask a Japanese living in Hiroshima or Nagasaki – they will tell you of the fires of hell dropped and how their searing burning skin pealed from their bodies!

We said then NEVER AGAIN. We say now NEVER AGAIN!

Now is a good time for all factions to stop proclaiming themselves guiltless. We are all guilty. Those that perpetrate the killing and those that stand by and do nothing to stop their government from the current deadly world-wide vengeful, resourse-grabbing, waring…for God, for Oil, for Earthly powers.

Why Politicians Will NOT Get US Out Of Iraq

The one truth George Bush is recorded as saying, “We need to get over our oil addiction.”

All anyone who would doubt US addiction to oil need do is consider the symptoms of addiction.

We were very angry in the ’70’s about the long lines at the gas pump. We were again very angry when the price of gas went over $3. What did the politicians do this time? Sure as shooting – the price of gas was lowered along with the price of a barrel of crude oil.

When will the US get out of Iraq? When we are sure we have replaced Saddam with another dictator who will do US bidding in regard to US’s only interest there – securing oil for we the people’s addiction to it.

Rep. Jim McCrery, Lousiana, said on C-SPAN this morning, that in 30 years we can be energy independent. I would ask him where would we be today with energy independence if we had spend the last 35 years working on this addiction?

One caller into this morning’s program ended his statement about our oil addiction with “Which one of you (guests were one Republican and one Democrat) will ride herd on the Moose in our Whitehouse?” Rep. Jim McCrery was astute enough to recognize the “Moose” herd contained both Democrats and Republicans. There is the root of our problem. Our politicians are our “enablers”. Democrat or Republican, the monied people in “our” party act like dictators – a small number of people-of-power decide who will run for office; president and congress.

The highest moral value is preserving life and the pursuit of happiness. The deadliest symptom of an addiction is the willingness to feed it no matter the moral cost.

The Cold War Was A Spending War

“…we won the Cold War without ever
having to match armies and nuclear arsenals
with the Soviet Union,” say
Henry Allen’s Washington Post.

THAT war was run by proxies
with little or no Russian or American
blood spilled but blood was spilled
proxie Afghan blood
proxie Indonesia blood
THEN what happened?
we could not proxie the Vietnam War!
WHY is America trying again
for proxies in Afghanistan and Iraq?
OIL!
gOTTA feed The tiGer in our tank?
How much blood does it take to make one gallon of gas?
I DON’T KNOW!
One drop of blood per gallon or a zillion?
How much blood per gallon is too much?
You tell me SUV!
One things fer sure
the ratio is growing exponentially!