Friday, November 29, 2002

Chemtrails Over Macon, Georgia more good fotos. anybody who thinks this is possibly what the corporate media imply by ommission: a normal phenomenon of no particular interest to anyone, please email me with an explanation. anyone who doesn't: please explain it without recourse to a conspiracy.
TheStar.com - Bin Laden tape a fake, Swiss lab says: The Lausanne-based Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence said it is 95-per-cent certain the tape does not feature the voice of the long- absent terrorist leader. The review of the tape was commissioned by France-2 television and its findings were presented by the institute's Professor Herve Boulard in a special TV report shown late Thursday. what a shock. this is why i fear for the future of the internet. if i couldn't read a canadian article about a french tv special, i would have only tom jennings and jim brokaw's reading of paul fleisher's and ari wolfowitz's statement of dick rumsfeld's and don cheney's certitude of the tape's authenticity. i don't however need the french experts' 95% certainty. bin laden, i know thanks to tom jennings and jim brokaw, has a cornucopia of $300 million, like old fortunatus. maxell cassettes go for about a buck fifty even in yemen and are cheaper than c4 plastic explosives. even fair quality video tape can be acquired for well under a million dollars. if the whole world cared whether i was dead or alive, postage for a nice snapshot of myself holding a nyt dated front page with my finger poking through it to newspapers all over the world is within even my budget. if the semi literate disgruntled government biochemist who sent all that anthrax can use the mail without being caught, surely a foto can be gotten through to some more major news organization than al jazeera without bringing john poindexter down on my head.
CNN$--spendingstocks: Does the health of the stock market affect your holiday spending? after 8 weeks of feverishly pumping air into the markets with lying statistics and rubber checks, raising your portfolio %15 after dropping it %35, the capitalists need to know if they've suckered you into spending an extra couple of hundred on christmas presents. they're too anxious to wait until the end of january, so please take this poll for them.
Bomb suspects 'had US passports' not surprising. it seems that few terrorists these days don't. not somehow surprising either that they're from florida. few terrorists these days, including snipers, did not live or visit there just before killing people. its surprising that this fact is taken as evidence of al qaeda. true that the us military trained gold chain wearing womanizing fundamentalist suicide pilots chose to sharpen their cessna skills in florida, but nobody has yet suggested that "muhammed" the sniper had anything to do with al quaeda. perhaps the kenyans, seeing up close that the same hand blew up the israelis that blew up the us embassy, are not aware of the widespread belief, as among educated indonesians who saw the bali bombing up close, that "al qaeda" is not the only suspect
Chemtrails Over San Diego more good fotos; the other day I took a bunch of pictures over long island as the chemtrais were being laid down in the early afternoon. as i drove home towards the west that evening, i saw the end result was a huge confluence of "cloud" cover converging precisely at the point of the setting sun. there was even a huge arc of recently laid down trail making a giant u centered between me and the setting sun. i disagree that there is any poisoning going on. it seems to me that this is a filter for uv rays which some combination of thinning ozone layer and the strangely blue cloudless skies we've increasingly seen over the past two years are making carcinogenic (youd think we were in arizona). i dont think, as some do, that the trails are the cause of the cloud depletion, but rather that a spate of melinomas in the coming years would be costly to insurance companies and bad press for all polluting capitalist corporations.

Thursday, November 28, 2002

Wednesday, November 27, 2002

Eastern NC Chemtrails more fotos. note the otherwise blue sky

Saturday, November 16, 2002

FORTUNE - Would a War Kill Your Stocks?: But according to a wide range of market strategists, investors planning to beat a retreat from stocks at the first sign of shooting should be aware of this lesson from the past: Wars are generally not such a bad thing for U.S. equity markets. According to Marx too. In fact, according to Marx, if they weren't, we wouldn't be arming the third world war now at all. According to Marxist theory, it was the onset of the depression cycle in 1999 that made war necessary, and this necessity led to the entire series of events, from the supreme court's installation of the bushoilcia, to the 9/11 attacks, to the war on Afghanistan, to the anthrax attacks, to steadily mounting war on Iraq rhetoric, to the Wellstone assassination, to the rigged midterm election. Depression threatens the power base of highest levels of wealth and power. War (not interest rate and tax cuts) is the only way out. Now Fortune magazine has discovered what Marx explained 150 years ago, and rather than scare you into selling more stock by denying the profit motive behind the war, they've decided to admit it.

Sunday, November 10, 2002

Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans: he Pentagon is constructing a computer system that could create a vast electronic dragnet, searching for personal information as part of the hunt for terrorists around the globe — including the United States. As the director of the effort, Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, has described the system in Pentagon documents and in speeches,
it will provide intelligence analysts and law enforcement officials with instant access to information from Internet mail and calling
records to credit card and banking transactions and travel documents, without a search warrant. Historically, military and intelligence agencies have not been permitted to spy on Americans without extraordinary legal authorization. But Admiral Poindexter, the former national security adviser in the Reagan administration, has argued that the government needs broad new powers to process, store and mine billions of minute details of electronic life in the United States. Admiral Poindexter, who has described the plan in public documents and speeches but declined to be interviewed, has said that the government needs to "break down the stovepipes" that separate commercial and government databases, allowing teams of intelligence agency analysts to hunt for hidden patterns of activity with powerful computers. "We must become much more efficient and more clever in the ways we find new sources of data, mine information from the new and old, generate information, make it available for analysis, convert it to knowledge, and create actionable options," he said in a speech in California earlier this year. Admiral Poindexter quietly returned to the government in January to take charge of the Office of Information Awareness at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as Darpa. The office is responsible for developing new surveillance
technologies in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. In order to deploy such a system, known as Total Information Awareness, new legislation would be needed, some of which has been proposed by the Bush administration in the Homeland Security Act that is now before Congress. That legislation would amend the Privacy Act of 1974, which was intended to limit what government agencies could do with private information. The possibility that the system might be deployed domestically to let intelligence officials look into commercial transactions worries civil liberties proponents. "This could be the perfect storm for civil liberties in America"
The NY Times thinks it unnecessary to comment on Poindexter's Iran/Contra felony conviction (overturned). The bombs that go off every other week killing American citizens more than justifies free access of an altruistic state to private communication without a warrant. But given the fact that every accused perpetrator of terrorism has been US military trained, four of five being American, and the fifth: 9/11, still an unsolved crime, wouldn't surveillance of the military be a more effective focus than of the entire population? On the other hand, when the effects of the global depression start becoming palpable for Americans still swimming in a bathtub of money (or credit) who haven't realized yet that the faucet has been turned off, you never know where your next potential terrorist might come from.
CNN.com - Al Qaeda admits Bali blasts on Web - Nov. 8, 2002: DENPASAR, Indonesia (CNN) -- Islamic militant group al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the bomb attack on a Bali nightclub in which more than 180 people died. The group said it had targeted "nightclubs and whorehouses in Indonesia" in a Web site message which also boasted of its aim to hit inside Arab and Islamic countries which are part of a "Jewish-Crusader" alliance. The al Neda Web site has been used in the past by al Qaeda to claim responsibility for attacks, including the synagogue fire in Tunisia in which mainly German tourists died, and strikes on two ships in Yemen. The Web site's address has been moved repeatedly. What's wrong with this picture? Wanting to dispel consensus opinion in Indonesia and suspicion elsewhere that excluded factions of the Indonesian military together with the CIA perpetrated the bombing, a claim of responsibility by unknown parties identifying themselves as al Quaeda is published on a website used by unknown parties identifying themselves as al Qaeda in the past. The first question for a major news agency like CNN would be: how do we know it's really al Qaeda? What's wrong is that the article does not acknowledge that this is even a question, let alone the first. The intention to attack "nightclubs and whorehouses" frequented by Jews/crusaders (like those frequented by Muhammed Atta in Florida) does not explain why they blew up Germans and Australians who are almost unanimous in their popular opposition to the Bushoilcia war (after blowing up a French oil tanker belonging to the other security council block to the war and incidentally two French air incidents including a near disaster of a Concorde full of rich Frenchies) when a club full of Americans was just down the road. Again, as in Pakistan and Peru, a simultaneous bomb went off near (not near enough) the US embassy killing only local peasants.
Liberty Vault - Libertarian Political Analysis and Internet Resources: SOCIALISM & PORK Airline bailouts. Post Office bailout. $205 million Amtrak bailout. Submitted largest budget ever to Congress, $2.13 trillion. Increased debt-limit from $5.95 trillion to $6.4 trillion. $9.5 million to hire new Customs Service agents. Increased farm subsidies by $180 billion over 10 years. Increased Pentagon budget by $48 billion to $379 billion. Faith-based subsidies. Increased federal spending on education from $39.9-billion to $44.5-billion. A provision pressuring the Agriculture Department to reimburse poultry producers in West Virginia and Virginia for losses from avian influenza. $100 million for countering western wildfires and floods. $200,000 for a trucker congestion notification system in Tacoma, Washington. $100,000 a month to monitor news reports and offer advice on media strategy for the Pentagon. $20 million annually for "Strategic Milk Reserve." Was phased out in 1999 by the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act. Congress extended it temporarily, and then made it permanent again in the farm bill that President Bush signed into law in May. Steel and lumber tariffs. School vouchers. $700 million in drought relief. $10 billion military reserve fund for the Pentagon. $400,000 for the Montana Sheep Institute. $10 million upgrade for Amber Alerts. $1 million to upgrade a law enforcement communication system in Placer County, CA. $600,000 for the West Blount sewer system. Reauthorized Import-Export bank. Increased loan limit to $25 billion. Taxpayers must guarantee loans. $165 billion deficit for fiscal 2002. $14.2 million for Phoenix Sky Harbor traffic control tower replacement. (pending). $500,000 for a Scottsdale pilot project to determine the best technologies for removing arsenic from drinking water. (pending). $500,000 for Central Arizona College to continue implementation of the Science, Engineering, Math and Aerospace Academy in Pinal County. (pending) It's interesting what libertarians seem to think socialism entails. Many of the items on the complete list would qualify as socialist, like spending on public education, but others such as studying ways to get arsenic out of drinking water or establishing a strategic milk reserve, or bailing out the airlines would only qualify as socialist if they were not the result of corporate industry lobbying. Corporations that produce arsenic waste prefer that the cost of cleaning it up be passed on to the public treasury. Protectionism and bailouts of nationalized industries would be socialist; of corporations, they are corporate welfare protecting the profits of capitalists. Defining outrageous military spending as socialist is the real stretch. Socialist states fund their militaries along with all their institutions through taxing gdp. A capitalist state that taxes gdp to fund a military that does nothing but project the power of capitalist globalization can not therefore be called socialism.

Friday, November 01, 2002

FT.com An al-Qaeda bomber known as Saad, who had trained for a suicide mission, is also said to have attended a meeting with the bombmakers and members of the Jeemah Islamiah (JI), the south-east Asian Islamist group, in southern Thailand in mid-January this year. Saad was brought to the meeting by the alleged leader of the JI, Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali. god only knows how confessions are extracted from us held detainees. a few days in a precariously balanced chair with a filthy hood over your head and you're likely to agree to any story presented to you just for a few minutes in a comfortable interrogation room.