Sunday, December 31, 2006

AP poll says Americans optimistic for 2007

AP poll says Americans see gloom and doom in 2007

Stocks close out record year

My Way Finance

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Hillary falls to earth in poll race

Another losing entry to the caption contest

New Yorker




Now be friendly. Some people don't get to spend the holidays with their family.


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Saturday, December 30, 2006

1 hurt in blast outside Madrid airport

Breitbart

He must have looked inside the bag.

... or ETA, or was it al Ciada, then again it could have been ETA ...

New Yorkers given rabies warning

BBC



By the BBC.

Bush sheltered during tornado alert

Breitbart



Bush: Quick, let's high tail it to the brick house!

Condi: Right behind you!

Friday, December 29, 2006

Ancient ice shelf breaks free from Canadian Arctic

CNN



"Scientist: 'Disturbing event' shows 'we are crossing climate thresholds'"

He must have read this blog five years ago.

New Year arrives with ice free Baltic Sea

28 inches of snow in second CO blizzard

CNN



Evidently, access to plane travel is very important to people in Colorado. Though, as the capital of evangelical christophrenia, any sign of the end times should be good news.

Head banging snakes may predict quakes

Schwarzenegger on webcam from hospital bed

Yahoo! News

I sure wish he were president.

Dire warnings from Chinese climate change report

Dollar slides as UAE says it will sell to buy euros

Bloomberg

"The dollar dropped the most in a week against the euro..."

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Global stocks at record high

Reuters



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Hu calls for powerful combat ready navy

Reuters

That's just what I've been saying. Oh. Chinese Navy he means. But whom is Hu calling? Wen?

Bird flu kills second Egyptian in two days

Telegraph UK

Christmas Eve and Christmas.

Four falling stocks
Three dead hens
Two foreign wars
And

"In April, a swan was found to have died ... in Cellardyke, Fife."

Let the priest in surplice white
That defunctive music can
Be the death divining swan
Lest the requiem lack his rite.

Shakespeare's Phoenix and the Turtle.

GOPs 3 billion dollar propaganda organ

Consortium News

A truly mighty wurlitzer. And that's just the Moonie Times. If they just gave us the money, they wouldn't need so much propaganda.

Extreme weather conditions sweep across Israel

Will Bush explain why war continues?

WCVB



Because Helen Thomas doesn't.

Bush troop surge plan meets opposition

Rense

Mostly dems stumping to replace Hillary as next presidential loser. But as "surge" is dreamt up by some pr genius (can't be Herr Roverer who has disappeared into his hole for the pr crisis duration) to evoke something short term in the short term US brain, opposing it doesn't necessarily mean ending the slaughter. Draft alert.

Tornado threat and blizzard warnings

AccuWeather



The big bad wolf to visit Crawford.

China fears famine and disaster from global warming

Reuters

They must have read this blog five years ago.

Chelsy says my Harry is off to Iraq

The Sun UK



Henry IX vows his dead body shall be his ransom.

Bird flu kills woman in Egypt and infects family

Bloomberg

Family clusters. Egypt was flagged as a likely pandemic a year ago owing to the fact that everybody raises his own chickens.

Plane carrying Blair overshoots Miami runway

WCBS

Some people shouldn't fly. Last time he took a trip, Dr Kelly committed suicide with a pen knife.

Is an attack on Iran being planned?

Dave Lindorff



Despite being anticonspiracy nuts regarding 911, they apparently disagree with the other anticonspiracy nut, Chomsky who thinks this can't happen "because it would be crazy." What part of history, especially recent history, leads him to presume that crazy things can't happen, he never says.

Nation plans 5 days of mourning for Ford

Boston



Nothing exceeds like excess. The only unelected president in history with approval ratings that rivaled Bush's. But he kept America safe for the Republican Party after Nixon and Vietnam.

Military considers recruiting foreigners

Boston Globe



Besides the six figure salaried death squads from South America.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

More than 2 million families in foreclosure

Flu could wipe out 62 million

BBC

The strategy of disintegration

Israel Shamir

I see a big emergence of a big emergency
I see a surge in Iraq gainst the Iraq insurgency
I won't cut and run till Iran is fkn done
From iraq i think i can see sunshine from afghanistan

Chaos can't control its own oil supply. Draft alert.

6 Al children with flu on life support

Al.com

No bird mentioned, but Birmingham is the biotech capital of the south.

More than just hot air

Observer UK

"As polar bears start to drown in the Arctic, scientists warn that global warming may be worse even than their previous worst-case scenario"

Must be reading my blog from five years ago.

12000 police killed since Saddam fall

The Australian

Draft alert.

Gates visited Baghdad to quell US mutiny in Anbar

Roads to Iraq

Soldiers refuse to kill innocent peasants. Draft alert.

Egyptian woman dies of bird flu

Gulf News



"The WHO regional adviser for communicable diseases surveillance, Hassan Al Bushra, said the 30-year-old woman had been in hospital since December 17, but doctors had not immediately suspected bird flu as she denied having had contact with poultry."

I knew his father was a business partner with Osama's father, but I was not aware the president had relatives over there.

Justice Dept database stirs privacy fears

Citigroup loses business in Japan

Bloomberg

Citibank was kicked out of Japan (home of the Yakuza) for money laundering so long ago, I hardly have time to scroll back to find it. Like the bird flu pandemic and domestic spying, everything old is news again.

Will the boom ever bust?

CNN



Will it ever. And on whom.

Fl tornadoes wreck three dozen homes

CNN



That should be good for another three billion in emergency aid for Jeb. No child left behind.

Commander open to more troops

New York Times

That's very open of him. How many times do you suppose our fourth estate institutions can get through this story without mentioning the draft?

Egypt reports two new human cases of bird flu

Breitbart



This should give that poor Donald Rumsfeld something to do as he started a Tamiflu company while still at the Pentagon.

Global warming claims first inhabited island

Independent UK

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Schwarzenegger remakes himself as Environmentalist

Washington Post

I sure wish he were president.

Security Council imposes sanctions on Iran

CNN



On a holiday weekend. Unanimously. This time they really don't know what it will lead to.

Congress asked to intervene in Fl race

AP

As it is to replace Katherine Harris in Congress, they may have already.

Korea confirms fourth case of pathogenic bird flu

YONHAP NEWS

Probably birds, but it's not clear.

Pinochet death spares Bush family

Consortium News

Finger Bush.

GM buccaneers destroy Indian rice economy

Global Research

People won't be so picky in the coming global famine.

Bush plans to expand military

CBS/AP

If we make it wider, we won't need to draft more troops.

Global systemic financial crisis in 2007

Video exposing blunders of 911 Commission Report

Global Research

To New Zealanders.

Impending police state in America

Infowars

Not mentioned is rehabilitation of WWII internment camps purportedly for memorial exhibits.

NATO debates War and Peace behind closed doors

Michel Chossudovsky



Condaleeza prefers Dostoyevsky.

The Iraq Study Group is official damage control

Global Research

The Carlyle Study Group.

JFK and 911

Peter Dale Scott

Same perps. Finger Bush.

After Shell Russia turns on BP

Telegraph UK



Also simultaneously approves Iran sanctions.

Shell cedes Sakhalin stake to Russia

Bloomberg

Quietly the kiss of death for any smaller nation.

Agency to test military draft machinery

Washington Post

Announced in the Washington Post, quite naturally, three years in advance. It hardly bears repeating: draft alert.

PATH tunnels fragile in bomb attack

New York Times

Would that be al Ciada or ETA or al Ciada? For god's sake, don't sell it to a private investor with an insurance policy.

US to maintain long presence in Gulf region

Reuters



He must have read this blog five years ago.

Jakarta airport debuts iris scanner to speed traveler

Reuters

Until they can get steel doors up between coach and first class.

No hurricanes is good for the insurers

Telegraph UK

The longer the windup, the harder the pitch.

Iraq proposes new Baghdad security plan

CNN


Keeners portraying Zarpanitum and Cybele wailing the dead Attis on the occassion of his solstitial descent into the underworld.

"would ostensibly place Iraqi troops in the lead and coalition forces in a supporting role."

Why don't you just dress up Marines in Iraqi uniforms? Draft alert.

Soldiers tell Gates more troops needed in Iraq

CNN



How to inform a public for whose intelligence you have utter contempt of facts that cannot possibly have eluded you heretofore. Draft alert.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Criminals wear official looking uniforms

CNN

In Iraq.

Army and Marines need to increase in size

CNN


Nearly smirk free

We need bigger marines. Steroids or just plain beef hormones? But seriously, draft alert.

H5N1 migration into southern Vietnam

Recombinomics

Another move on the humongous checkerboard of history.

Clinton says she has no regrets on Iraq vote

CNN

To Larry King, but tells Today Show: "'If we knew then what we know now... I certainly wouldn't have voted that way.'"

That's the definition of regret. She sure talks like a president.

US Army might break Goodyear strike

Financial Times

Work at gunpoint.

US says China does not suppress currency

CNN

Goldman CEO gets record $53M bonus

CNN

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Thai currency impact may be muted this time

Restoring power a slow go for thousands

Seattle Times

Washington, not Baghdad.

Blair urges Middle East states to rein in Iran

Yahoo! News



It probably translates as an order to surround it. In any case, as there's only trumped up charges to rein in, they're sure to fail, creating another bogus causus belli. Draft alert.

Biggest monthly inflation in 30 years

Breitbart



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Does US want the Middle East engulfed by civil war?

Global Research

That's why they declare it every other week. Chaos can't control its oil supply, and it transforms the invasion into a humanitarian intervention. What are all those contracted death squads doing there anyway?

Bush says we do need to increase our troops

CNN



Number of troops he means, not pay. His smirk seems to have been removed with his wife's carcinoma. Draft alert.

Dow hits record high on blue chip gains

Yahoo! Finance

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Navy request FDA test human blood substitute

Wall Street bonuses hit record $24 billion

Reuters


Goldman Sachs

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Thirteen states sue EPA over soot emissions

Reuters

Instead of corporate industrial polluters.

US Persian Gulf build up is warning to Iran

Drudge

Overflights are warnings. Build-ups are preparations for invasion.

Spain set for warmest year on record

Reuters

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Warmth lingering into early January

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Marijuana top US cash crop

Oddly Enough | Reuters




"Oddly Enough" the capitalists aren't all over legalization. Makes you a better driver, prevents Alzheimer's, reduces use of pharmaceuticals... it must be illegal. Another superlative, by the way, for the Bush era.

Gates says Iraq failure would be calamity

Breitbart



Every old way forward is new again. Draft alert.

First lady Laura Bush had skin cancer removed

CNN


Her head is doing fine, though.

Melanoma comes home to roost.

If troops leave how will US keep control of oil?

Toronto Sun

Oil? Is there oil there? We don't care about that. That belongs to the Iraqis. We only wage wars to liberate people and spread democracy, whether anybody likes it or not.

How Dangerous is the Dollar Drop?

Der Spiegel



As the Germans well know, crashing currencies can lead to military invasions and world wars.

Penguins offer evidence of global warming

Reuters



But Bush kicks them out of the White House.

British Lord stings Rockefeller over free speech

Breitbart

"Lord Monckton, former policy adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, writes: 'You defy every tenet of democracy when you invite ExxonMobil to deny itself the right to provide information to 'senior elected and appointed government officials' who disagree with your opinion.'"

We have finally moved from the iron age to the irony age. It seems Rockefeller is defending us against the power of the oil industry, but senators, of course, can't tell ExxonChevronTexaconNeocon what to do, so he's "invited" them to stop funding junk science for the masses implying that they're not actually destroying the planet for all future generations. This invitation, however, is too much of an assault on the civil rights of our corporate citizens for the democratic passions of the British peerage. So how's this for sophistry:

" Responds Lord Monckton, 'Sceptics and those who have the courage to support them are actually helpful in getting the science right. They do not, as you improperly suggest, "obfuscate" the issue: they assist in clarifying it by challenging weaknesses in the 'consensus' argument and they compel necessary corrections ... '"

It takes courage, you see, not merely money to support sceptics who are serving your own interests.

Monday, December 18, 2006

First big aquatic mammal extinct from human activity

Independent UK

"After surviving 20 million years..."

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Charles calls climate ultimate threat to mankind

Drudge

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Record high winter temperature in Moscow

RIA Novosti



Another superlative for the Bush era.

Climate change putting seals in the mood for love

Daily Mail



Every cloud has a silver lining, and that's something the tree huggers just don't want to see.

Arctic summers could be ice free by 2040

Globe and Mail

Maybe they can have a housing bubble.

Chomsky dismisses 911 conspiracy theories

Rense

Everyone's entitled to one mistake.

NYC security cameras raise rights worry

Reuters

"In 2005 there were 4,176 cameras in three districts of southern Manhattan, up from 769 cameras in a 1998 survey..."

Creeping panopticon.

Goldman has most profitable year ever

Financial Times

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Severe space storm headed to Earth

SPACE.com



Maybe it is the sunspots.

Warmest year in Britain since records began

Guardian UK

Another superlative for the Bush era.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

7/7 bus was diverted to Tavistock Sq

Info Wars



Seldom mentioned is the original British spook office across the street.

Afghani opium crop at an all time high

Global Research

No pun intended. Another superlative for the Bush era.

Anthrax made by scientists and covered up by FBI

Middle East Times

Published in Middle East Times. Go back to sleep.

Israel nuke comment sparks controversy

My Way News



The corporate media again reports on its own reports. National leaders don't make slips of the tongue like this, like they don't let their private memos get leaked to the press which in any case wouldn't report them without permission. There's no point to having nukes if nobody knows it. On the other hand, if everybody thinks you have them, you don't need them.

71 killed by Baghdad suicide truck bomb

CNN



All he had to do was say "wait here one minute," walk two blocks, and push a remote control to live to fight another day. The likely scenario therefore is that he was recruited himself, unknowingly drove a truck full of explosives per instructions, and involuntarily was blown up with everyone else. We're supposed to be so naive as to think he was just eager to get to paradise. That CNN calls this a suicide bombing on the evidence exposes their disinformation conspiracy.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Another losing entry to the caption contest

New Yorker




You told me your old man was a judge, but you failed to mention his sense of humor.


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UN downgrades human impact on climate

Telegraph UK

In response to scientists who say that by 2050 "'the oceans will no longer be able to absorb the carbon dioxide being emitted. It will be a tipping point and that is why it is now critical to act to counter any acceleration that will occur when this happens.'"

It's still about oil in Iraq

LA Times

Oil is just God's way of showing Bush where to attack.

Vast African lake levels dropping fast

Iraq death squads are tool of the occupation

countercurrents

That's what Bush just said about al Ciada. If they're not on the Halliburton payroll, they should be.

Oil producers shun dollar

Financial Times

But not gas stations.

Britain stops talk of war on terror

Observer UK

Sounds too much like "war on Terra" over there.

US must choose growth or curbing inflation

Guardian UK

"Forget shopping, this could turn into a crash." Well that would be one less decision in a busy week.

No prosecution likely for Foley

The Blotter

Foley follies quietly brushed off later. Like I said.

EPA mulls removing Pb from pollutants list

Rense

Keep mulling and nobody will be able to read the list.

Plastics poisoning oceans

BBC



The miracle of recycling.

Powerful magnetic storm approaches Earth

Senator urges use of NATO for energy security

International Herald Tribune

You can't run even nuclear submarines and carriers without oil. The Pentagon is seeking biodiesel sources, but I shudder to think where they're going to get that much animal fat.

Say hello to the goodbye weapon

Wired News

"New 'nonlethal' microwave weapon used in Iraq." Field tested, pardee.

Pentagon fomenting so called Iraq civil war

La Voz del Aztlan

That's what Bush just said al Ciada was doing.

Bush and Blair tell Iran and Syria how to join talks

CNN



Bush and Blair pony show. Why does it sound like a fox hunt?