Razed By Wolves: June 2009

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

June 30 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Lets Celebrate 'Iraqi Sovereignty Day' Because The War In Iraq Is Over... Right?

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June 30 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Lets Celebrate 'Iraqi Sovereignty Day' Because The War In Iraq Is Over... Right? For Us, It MIGHT Be... For The Iraqis, It MIGHT Be More Complicated Than That

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In The News: Early Morning KVMR Stream failure... Bummer. The news this morning brought to you by KPIG radio.

Iraq is KIND OF for Iraqis - Technically US troops are OUT of Iraq's cities (On a more circumspect note, when searched, Google said "Did you mean to search for: US troops are OUT of Iran's cities") today, however US Troops WILL remain in and around the cities of Iraq on 'standby' until 'requested' by Iraqi commanders.

Expect those incidents to be un-reported to the US press, who will most likely NOT be present in any manner where they could physically observe US troop movements themselves, or for that matter be aware of ANY activity by the 132,000 'contractors' (cf. mercenaries) remaining in Iraq. In Da' Buffalo's opinion, the dirtiest part of the Iraq war is just beginning... under the radar, and without press observation, even as the US appears to be withdrawing.

From Foreign Policy In Focus:

Today is the deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraqi cities. But don't expect a great deal to change. "The original intent of moving troops out of the cities was to reduce the U.S. military role and send the message to Iraqis that the United States would be leaving the country soon," write FPIF policy outreach director Erik Leaver and FPIF contributor Daniel Atzmon in A Withdrawal in Name Only. "But troops that are no longer sleeping in the cities will still take part in operations within Iraqi cities; they will serve in 'support' and 'advisory' roles, rather than combat functions. Such 'reclassification' of troops as military trainers is another example of how the United States is circumventing the terms of the SOFA agreement."
[In Full, with information about the Honduran coup as well]

Deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya says he will return to Honduras soon. The details of HOW that might occur remains to be seen, but it's liable to be with the direct support of other nations in the region. Will he fly in on Hugo Chavez' presidential plane with massive crowds to meet him and escort him back to his seat of power? It won't be Obama's ride, Air Force One, with US troops escorting him, that's for sure. Hence the Miami Herald (long time supporters for the overthrow of US-hostile governments in Latin America and the Caribbean) headline: "US troops stay put in Honduras; Americans advised to stay inside or get out"

According to reports, a couple of Honduran battalions have had second thoughts already

"'Two infantry battalions of the Honduran Army have risen up against the illegitimate government of Roberto Micheletti in Honduras. They are the Fourth Infantry Battalion in the city of Tela and the Tenth Infantry Battalion in La Ceiba (the second largest city in Honduras), both located in the state of Atlintida (sp?).'" [In Full @ NarcoNews]

Essentially what's happening is the people of Honduras elected Zelaya but the Honduran legislature is still controlled by the oligarchy, who had, if not direct involvement in the coup, vested interest in seeing that Zelaya was removed from power despite his democratic installation as the nation's leader. The military? They tend to come from the working class (at least the 'grunts on the ground' with guns do), not the upper classes, and are always the wild card in any Latin American coup. We are seeing The Venezuelan anti-Chavez coups redux, with OR without US involvement, which at this time is an unknown.

An interesting note on Coups from Foreign Policy

The US-EPA is beginning to inspect coal-fired power plant 'ash dumps' which are causing major downstream contamination and have physically collapsed occasionally, killing people nearby. Most of the high-hazard facilities are in the Southern US. More, and a list of those locations from Facing South

The Obama administration met with gay rights activists yesterday, marking the 40th anniversary of the "Stonewall Riots" in NY, ostensibly the opening volley of the Gay Rights movement in the US... But it was MORE than that.

From Da' Buffalo's own recollections as a 15 year old runaway New York yip Yip YIPPIE! activist who just happened to be living in a rent-controlled apartment (Next to the Ninth Circle coffeehouse) less than 100 yards away when the riots occurred.

The Stonewall bar across from Sheridan Square on Christopher street in New York was not only a well-known gay bar, it was also one of the main organizing sites for the middle-class gay members of the Vietnam anti-war movement (the Drag Queens and wilder elements of the gay community organized out of "The Firehouse", at the time still only one step removed from it's namesake, and a center of action for a number of activities, at times, almost running culturally parallel to Abbie Hoffman's Cooper Square "Free Store", but today, it's simply another gay night club).

Did the police visit because of "Morality" issues? The Stonewall had been there for years, having had few problems with city authorities, or were the police there to simply inform the people present "We KNOW where you organize"?

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Monday, June 29, 2009

C'mon Honduras! Coups are Sooooo 20th Century! "The return of the coup", Foreign Policy Magzine

The return of the coup
Mon, 06/29/2009 - 12:21pm

The Wall Street Journal's Mary O'Grady argues that the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was not in fact a coup, since the president was himself holding a referendum in violation of an order by the country's supreme court. But I don't think one need defend Zelaya to argue that sending troops to break into a president's house and put him on a plane out of the country is generally not the best way to protect "the independence of institutions that keep presidents from becoming dictators."

If this weekend's coup seems like a bit of a throwback to the Cold War era, that's because it is...

Complete, with links, at FP Passport

Not A Photoshop Job... Just A Blatant Forgery - Honduran President Zelaya's "Resignation Letter"

Meanwhile, "Honduras's New Government Vows to Maintain Power" taken illegitimately in a coup led by "School Of The Americas" 'graduate' General Romeo Vasquez even as a "Resolution from the OAS Diplomatically Isolates Honduran Leaders"

One day after the country’s president, Manuel Zelaya, was abruptly awakened, ousted and deported by the army here, hundreds of protesters massed at the presidential offices in an increasingly tense face-off with hundreds of camouflage-clad soldiers carrying riot shields and automatic weapons.

The protesters, many wearing masks and carrying wooden or metal sticks, yelled taunts at the soldiers across the fences ringing the compound and braced for the army to try to dispel them.

One Honduran had this to say about it:

“We’re defending our president,” said one protester, Umberto Guebara, who appeared to be in his 30s. “I’m not afraid. I’d give my life for my country.”

The usual suspect in South of the border coups... The US government is being umm... circumlocutory:

In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the last senior member of the administration to visit Honduras, just three weeks ago, said that the United States was working toward “full restoration of democratic order (emphasis on 'Weasel words' mine) in Honduras.”

She said that the situation in Honduras “has evolved into a coup.” But when pressed by a reporter, she refused to say explicitly that the United States was demanding that Mr. Zelaya be returned to power, [In full, Protesters Confront Soldiers After Coup in Honduras (NYTimes)]

June 29 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Hemispheric Freedom On The March - Latin America Edition

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June 29 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Hemispheric Freedom On The March - Through The 'Rear View Mirror' Of History It Will Be Seen That The United States 'Lost' Latin America Due To It's Single-Minded Focus On Middle Eastern Oil

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In The News: In Iraq, General Odierno announces that the replacement of all US troops in Iraqi cities is complete... But overall, it's a...

Withdrawal in name only... Part 1: 35 - 50,000 US troops and *132,610* mercenaries staying in-theater

Part 2, and apropos to the story: US says it's not barred from using mine-resistant armored vehicles during daytime in Iraqi cities after Wednesday, July 1 2009... The so-called 'withdrawal' deadline"

Unfortunately, the reality is more amorphous, if not deliberately confusing, like much of Obama’s foreign policy and war strategy these days."

Da' Buffalo wants to grab everyone's ear for a minute here with a little information rejected as a comment @ Juan Cole's Informed Comment... Apparently the liberally brain-dead elements of US society are stuck in the Rationalize/Deny/"Technocracy will save us" delusional way of thinking, and STILL believe they can have their cake (oil) and 'eat' it (continue on, business as usual) without the dead bodies and global looting:

It's easy to see we're staying (In Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East/Central Asia... until EVERY drop of oil is sucked from Iraq's soil.

If everyone expects to be able to drive to work in a society that is utterly car (individualized transport for fearful-of-the-'other' people) dependent, there IS no other current option.

A fellow named Dimitry Orlov (of the blog Club Orlov) did a presentation a while back, comparing the social fallout from economic collapse of the Soviet economy and what might portend for the US under similar circumstances.

We earned our livelihoods through the use of... EAT because of, OIL.

Excerpt:
"The food distribution system makes heavy use of refrigerated diesel trucks, transforming food over hundreds of miles to resupply supermarkets. The food pipeline is long and thin, and it takes only a couple of days of interruptions for supermarket shelves to be stripped bare. Many people live in places that are not within walking distance of stores, not served by public transportation, and will be cut off from food sources once they are no longer able to drive.

Besides the supermarket chains, much of the nation’s nutrition needs are being met by an assortment of fast food joints and convenience stores. In fact, in many of the less fashionable parts of cities and towns, fast food and convenience store food is all that is available. In the near future, this trend is likely to extend to the more prosperous parts of town and the suburbs.

Fast food outfits such as McDonalds have more ways to cut costs, and so may prove a bit more resilient in the face of economic collapse than supermarket chains, but they are no substitute for food security, because they too depend industrial agribusiness. Their food inputs, such as high-fructose corn syrup, genetically modified potatoes, various soy-based fillers, factory-farmed beef, pork and chicken, and so forth, are derived from oil,"

It's called "Social Collapse Best Practices", and it's quite good... covering the implications of how the US and the Soviets had chosen to develop their cities, housing, transportation systems, and agriculture... ALL intensively petroleum based in the US, leaving America quite economically vulnerable... from within, AND without.

The answer we've come up with?

Our best solution?

Victimize... the countries that have the oil, if they won't offer it to us in deals that are the best for us, and often, as in the case of the Niger Delta, impoverishes and poisons the inhabitants of the countries we get the oil from.

So what are ya gonna do about it? Demonstrate?

"...funding military programs at alarming levels and continuing the Bush administration’s military and intelligence invasion of what used to be civilian life.

The latest manifestation of this continuity came last week when Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence, announced plans to transform the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program (PRISP) from a pilot project into a permanent budget item. Blair also announced plans to establish a “Reserve Officers’ Training Corps” to train unidentified future intelligence officers in US college classrooms. Like students receiving PRISP funds, the identities of students participating in these programs would not be known to professors, university administrators or fellow students — in effect, these future intelligence analysts and agents would conduct their first covert missions in our university classrooms. Clickthrough to Alternet @ Gates Of Hell

Isn't it ADORABLE! and SOooo much cheaper that fighting a worthless war on the other side of the planet...Obama's First Coup d'Etat - There has been a coup in Honduras. The president of that country has been ousted by soldiers and spirited to Costa Rica where he's demanding the US denounce the take-over. A tepid reply has been delivered by the US State Department and you might be able to tell who did what, with which, and to whom, by noting that the commander who coordinated the coup is a graduate of "The School Of The Americas", Romeo Vasquez. More.

Some linkage:

A military coup has taken place in Honduras this morning (Sunday, June 28), led by SOA graduate Romeo Vasquez. In the early hours of the day, members of the Honduran military surrounded the presidential palace and forced the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, into custody. He was immediately flown to Costa Rica. More from VenezuelaAnalysis

"No Government Arising from this Unconstitutional Interruption Will Be Recognized" - OAS Demands "the Immediate, Safe and Unconditional Return of President José Manuel Zelaya Rosales to His Constitutional Functions" in Honduras. More.

From Stan Goff, Ex-S.O.G., Ex-Marxist, at Feral Scholar:

"Outside of the direct actors, we don’t know exactly what just happened in Honduras. But the spinning will start soon; and neither President Obama nor Secretary of State Clinton have called for the return of President Zelaya to his rightful office. They have made tepid statements of opposition to military takeovers and a return to “democracy” and “constitutionality.”

While we wait, I will share an older piece about the US-directed coup in Haiti (which Obama and Clinton apparently support) and the attempted coup — with US support — against the democratically elected government of Venezuela.

In 1994, when my last Special Forces team, Operational Detachment Alpha 354, entered the Haitian city of Gonaives, I along with three members of that detachment waded through a huge and agitated crowd to encounter four soldiers and two plainclothes death squad members about to fire into that crowd with M-1 Garands. They were surprised to see us, and we took advantage of that surprise to compel them to lay their weapons down and submit to arrest. One of the plainclothes gents hesitated to relinquish his weapon, and I came very near shooting him. I’m only being honest - knowing this will put some people off - when I say that I now wish I had gone ahead and pulled the trigger. In Full, with linkage

The US House of Representatives passed the environmental energy bill the other day and is taking an ALWAYS undeserved vacation till the end of July.

The US military command in Afghanistan has cancelled the poppy eradication program. A program which fed millions of dollars to corrupt recipients, often subsidizing the well-to-do warlords & growers themselves, leaving the rest of the region in poverty.

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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Signs Of 'Higher' (snicker) Intelligence: ‘Stoned wallabies make Australian crop circles’

Did you now that Australia grows 50% of the world's pharmaceutical opium?

The Wallabies do...

Brought to you during a slow news cycle courtesy of Tom Ricks, Foreign Policy Magazine, ex-WaPo. (So Tom, isn't this soooo much more fun than MSM journalism?)

Click the link to visit Tom's site (his link to the story @ Y! is dead... click here) for the click-through before...umn circling into Y! news for the whole story.

Friday, June 26, 2009

June 26 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Michael Jackson DID Something Else Besides Dance... He Melded Music&Video Into The Same Artform

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June 26 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: By The Time He Was Dancing I'd Already Left The Dance Floor But Michael Jackson DID Something Else Besides Dance... He Melded Music And Video Into The Same Artform

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In The News: The Cold War is over! President Obama is going to sign a military cooperation pact with Russia, and guess what? It's focused on controlling Somali pirates (and by extension any possible resistance in Africa to the looting of essentially the same extractive resource mix as found in the war we're currently losing... Afghanistan). The agreement will also scrap the plan to base missiles in Czechoslovakia. This will all come to pass in July.

In Bishkek Kyrgyzstan the parliament has decided to continue allowing the use of Manas air base which the US has been using for resupply in our Afghanistan invasion and other unknown spookworld operations... It took 60 billion US dollars for them to reach that decision. In regard to Russia, who previously had issues with U.S. use of Manas Air base, "Medvedev welcomes U.S.-Kyrgyzstan base deal in surprise move".

Short Video: US money reincarnates Kyrgyz airbase (RT News)

The US House of Representatives will vote on the "Cap and Trade" energy act which will ostensibly control pollutants from coal-fired power plants. A 17 percent reduction in greenhouse gases is the target.

One of Iran's religious authorities is asking for harsh punishment of the people responsible for and attending the recent election demonstrations and street actions. More analysis from Reuters

....and every one in Hollywood is waiting for #3. Michael Jackson is dead at age fifty of an apparent heart attack, and Farrah Fawcett, one of Charlie's Angels on TV, becomes a real angel after a three year battle against cancer. She was sixty two. Best known for ONE season as a "Charlie's Angel", She went on to a career as a serious actress. Michael Jackson's death will undoubtedly overwhelm the news cycles of the MSM for the rest of the week, if not longer, with headlines such as: "Report: Prescription drugs taken from Michael Jackson home and "Mystery around Jackson’s death thickens as doctor goes missing".

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

June 25 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Beating Down The 'FauxNews' - Once In A While It Becomes Necessary To Explain What The "Rawhide Reality Review' Does

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June 25 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Beating Down The 'FauxNews' - Once In A While It Becomes Necessary To Explain What The "Rawhide Reality Review' Does

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In The News: The two Koreas prepare for the 60th anniversary of North Korea's march South that started the Korean War, and it apparently ain't over yet. The USS McCandless has taken the watch over a North Korean scow believed to be carrying weapons. The North Koreans are also ready to celebrate the month of July with a missile barrage which the US seems to be using as a rationale to test their surveillance capabilities.

...and then there's this familiar sounding theme: N.Korea 'Helping Burma with WMD', from South Korea's Chosun Ilbo...

A surge in Iraq - There have been bombing attacks on the Shia community in the run-up to the new Iraqi national holiday centered around the US pulling out of Iraq's cities.

South Carolina governor Sanford who had been a potential presidential candidate, had been missing for 5 days and turned up to confess that he ran off to spend the week in Argentina with his mistress. His resignations are pending... including a resignation from his marriage. More on this in the commentary.

The House of Representatives will vote tomorrow on "capping & trading" our environmental pollutants. That means the polluters will have something to trade for $$$ and non-polluters won't. (snicker). President Obama LUVs 'Cap and Trade'... Others have their doubts.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

June 24 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Thailand Does It Better - It's Time To Lean On Your Representatives About National Health Care

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June 24 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Thailand Does It Better - It's Time To Lean On Your Elected Representatives About The Lack Of Health Care In A Nation That **Claims** To Have The Best Health Care In The World

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In The News: President Obama signed the $106 BILLION DOLLAR AfghanIraqiPaki war spending bill (six day old story) funding our dirty wars between now and September (and no MSM reporting on it... see this AARP article focusing on the 'Pork'), including funding for research on the h1n1 virus and tax breaks for your clunker car when you upgrade to more fuel efficient vehicle...

(but NOT necessarily environmentally efficient compared to vehicles that USED TO EASILY last 30 years before ending up in a junkyard as reusable scrap metal and parts, but are now obsoleted and bound for a junkyard at 10 years old as plastic, generally un-recyclable rubbish... unless one considers making park benches from the crap recycled plastic derived from them something other than rubbish). Can you Say Zero-Sum? Environmental 'Shell Game'?)

They LUV us over there - One of the things coming up in our wars, at least the one on Iraq, is all our forces are supposed to be pulling out of Iraqi cities within the next week with a deadline of June 30th. Iraq has declare the deadline day a National Holiday.

The Destroyer USS McCandless is relieving the USS McCain in the US Navy's shadowing a North Korean scow believed to contain weapons systems, which, btw WAS NOT A PROBLEM AT ALL when North Korea transported Russian weapons systems to Ethiopia for our war on Somalia.

Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of the country's nuclear test, Bush administration officials allowed Ethiopia to complete a secret arms purchase from the North, in what appears to be a violation of the restrictions, according to senior American officials. The United States allowed the arms delivery to go through in January in part because Ethiopia was in the midst of a military offensive against Islamic militias inside Somalia, a campaign that aided the American policy of combating religious extremists in the Horn of Africa.
[In Full, Global Policy Forum reprint of a NYTimes article, April 7, 2007]

Self-serving Hypocrisy... That's what America is known for in the global community.

Change THAT, and it will truly be a "New World Order" for the planet.

Speaking of HYPOCRISY Juan Cole @ Informed comment on the Iranian protests: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 Washington and the Iran Protests: Would they be Allowed in the US? .

Not if Da' Buffalo remembers his anti-war history correctly.

Speaking of NIXON! The Obama Justice Department has released another batch of "The Nixon Tapes" and this time it's all raw material sans analysis, including Ronald the RayGun calling Dick congratulating him for the firing of the Attorney General when an investigation of Watergate complete with special prosecutor was threatened. George H.W. Bush is also heard on tape.

In Sacramento the budget plan is up for some sort of vote today in the assembly. The governor and Republicans say it's inadequate, even as the late great state of California's economy goes "over the falls".

Today is the kick off at the White House for the National Health Care plan as the health care industry begins to object to any public input or options in regard to that plan. More in the commentary.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

June 23 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Someday We May Remember That The Change Began With 'Foxes' On The Streets Of Tehran

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June 23 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Someday We May Remember That The Change Began With 'Foxes' On The Streets Of Tehran - Prepare For The Feminization Of Civilization

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In The News: Things are going to 'fade' or get really serious in Iran as the women take the lead in the protests over the election. 70% of the crowd in the streets of Tehran yesterday were women who had seen or heard about Neda, the woman shown in a news video yesterday, shot through the heart and killed in the street protests [Video] and there are no more planned protests coming up... Prepare for a covert cultural war in the country. More on this in the commentary.

Still more @ InterPress Service:

According to one women’s rights activist, "women were highly active and present in the campaigns of the two reformist candidates as well as in campaign events and rallies. This signifies that women are willing to work toward the election of candidates who take their demands for equality and freedom seriously."

Their presence at the protests following the elections, according to this activist, "is a further sign that women know what is at risk - the right to self-determination - and women are willing to pay the price for a better future for themselves and their children."

While many young women turn out for protests, the presence of older women at these events is also easily observable. One woman in her fifties explained that the main reason she attends protests is to "lend support to the younger generation and to try to prevent any violence targeted at them."

She went on to describe how she was beaten at one protest when she physically intervened and tried to stop the assault of a young man by security agents.

Along these lines, a group of women calling themselves "The Mourning Mothers" issued a call for peaceful protests at Laleh Park at 7:00 on Saturdays, near the area where Neda was killed on Saturday, Jun. 20.

The statement reads: "Based on what sin have you murdered our children? Why have you forced all mothers into mourning?"

The mothers have demanded an end to violence, the prosecution of those who have committed violence, and the release of over 800 persons arrested over the past two weeks. [In Full]

The anti-Islamist Iranian ex-pats living in the US were involved in shipping 40,000 'video pens' to Iranian protesters. The Iranians found out and will be making 'examples' out of anyone found with one.

In Afghanistan, General Petraeus is in the process of rearranging NATO and US forces on the ground to combat an emboldened, increasingly tactic-coordinated Taliban who attacked Bagram AFB just the other day, and over the last few months, other hardened targets around the country.

Five of the Chinese Uighurs are now objecting to their transfer to the tropical island of Palau because Palau has no army to protect them if the Chinese, who consider them extremist separatists, decide to 'snatch' them.

It doesn't sound like much but there are a LOT of zeros involved when converted to currency - The World Bank which recently said the world's economy would be down by 1.7% over the next year or so has restated it's figures... 3%.

...and in the US and by extension OECD countries (market capitalist industrially developed), the unemployment rate is expected to rise above 10%.

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Monday, June 22, 2009

June 22 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Twitter Revolution Proves That Governments NO LONGER Control Their Citizens Communications

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June 22 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: It's Tactical Now, Hopefully Strategic Later - The 'Twitter Revolution'... Proving That Governments NO LONGER Control The Means Of Their Citizens Communication

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In The News: The "Twitter Revolution" continues in Iran, but whether there will be regime change remains to be seen. Mousavi, the reform movement candidate says he's willing to be a martyr if necessary, and there are reports of melees in the streets between the police, government agents, and the protesters.

Riot police fired tear gas to break up an opposition rally in Tehran today after around 1,000 demonstrators defied a threat from the Revolutionary Guard to crush any further protests over the disputed presidential election.

Police in helmets and wielding clubs fired at least seven rounds of tear gas and arrested up to 60 people at a rally in Haft-e Tir square, a popular shopping destination in the heart of Tehran, a witness said. [In Full]

You think Iranian women are docile Chador-ed sheep? Here's video of a couple of traditionally garbed Iranian women (Now Iranian Riot Grrrls) in Tehran who KNOW what to do with a dumpster. (and if you think it's all fun and games, at the top of the page to the "Riot police fired tear gas" link above, is video of an Iranian woman dying on the ground after being shot at a demonstration.)

Here's a hot link to Tehran on Twitter. It's a "Hash Tag" search for #IranElection. If you aren't already subscribed... the site will ask you to register. Do it...

In OUR wars, US airstrikes in Waziristan and the surrounding region continues to produce massive amounts of refugees.

Meanwhile: (Three of Da' Buffalo's recent Twitters):Pakistani Taliban defectors (Baetani, Zainuddin): US, Israeli intelligence services funding militants Press-TV (Iran)

...and at home, on the treatment of our own soldiers: V.A. Hospital unit in Philly PA, with virtually no outside scrutiny botched 92 of 116 prostate cancer treatments

A direct attack on our 'secure' airbase Bagram AFB, home to our still operating torture facilities in Afghanistan, kills 2 US soldiers.

The Destroyer USS McCain is tracking a North Korean ship suspected of smuggling arms or weapons materials and the US government hoping to force the ship into port for an inspection. The North Korean government is threatening war.

Meanwhile, 'Wonkette' has a snark's eye view:

An actual Navy destroyer ship called the “USS John McCain” has gone rogue and will soon attack North Korea, to get back at Charlie for good this time. [In Full]

...and at president Obama's home port. Chicago, today will be the kickoff for a program called United We Serve, a program to coordinate the leadership of federal agencies with community leaders. "President Barack Obama is urging people to help in the nation's recovery by volunteering, everything from picking up trash to tutoring." As they say in the music industry, they're going to 'woodshed'. If they can't get it together on the 'tune' nationally.. see this commentary on the state of the US economy, A Snake Eating Its Own Tail, from Jim Kunstler @ Clusterfuck Nation:

June 22, 2009 7:59 AM

I'd like to know what Barack Obama thinks he's doing with the fiasco we call the US economy. He can't pump it back into the credit-fueled freak show it used to be, of course, but he could steer it in a practical new direction. Even people who have lost a lot, and stand to lose more, can be motivated to behave more self-beneficially. The president doesn't have very long before his economic problems become really awful political problems.

The current mass delusion that will go down in history as the "green shoots fugue" can't possibly bring the credit freak show back because the credit -- i.e. money borrowed from the American future -- was swindled away. Something like $14 trillion worth of nominal dollars is being sucked into a cosmic vortex never to be seen again. It was last seen in the spectral forms of so many collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, so-called structured investment vehicles and other now-obvious frauds.

That giant sucking sound we hear means the process is still underway, and the "money" disappearing into yawning oblivion will out-pace any effort orchestrated by the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury to replace it with new "money" (or credit). Therefore there is no chance between heaven and hell that the pre-2008 suburban homesteading and shopping fiesta can ever come back. The American polity is tapped out in all sectors, personal, corporate, and public.

Notice the two words largely absent from whatever public discussion exists around these matters -- "swindle" and "fraud." The reason they're missing is because if they happened to enter the conversation, something would have to be done about them, [In Full]

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Friday, June 19, 2009

June 19 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Here Comes Fathers Day... The Basis For The Entire Year's Sales Of Electric Razors

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In The News: The North Koreans are set to test another couple of intercontinental missiles and just in case they actually reach Waikiki, the US Navy is on station (more surveillance/data gathering vessels than combat vessels you can be sure)

Secretary Gates says the United States is watching North Korea's missile launch preparations "very closely" and he has ordered a new high-altitude missile interceptor system deployed to Hawaii, along with a floating radar system to provide tracking data.

"We do have some concerns if they [North Korea] were to launch a missile in the direction of Hawaii," said Secretary Gates. "I've directed the deployment again of THAAD [Terminal High Altitude Area Defense] missiles to Hawaii and the SBX [Sea Based X-Band] radar has deployed away from Hawaii to provide support. Without telegraphing what we will do, I would just say I think we are in a good position, should it become necessary, to protect American territory." [In Full]

NASA is sending an unmanned probe named 'Centaur' to the moon and punch a hole in it looking for water (and colony sites). Nice... We've already dug holes in every available place on Earth, hostile and friendly (except of course our own back yard), and generally ravaged the planet we inhabit so now we're going to scavenge the moon.

There were an estimated 1 million people protesting in Tehran yesterday and tens of thousands more in other cities around Iran. Supreme Leader Ali Khameni says the elections were legit and "...is rumored to be planning to call for an end to protests and to threaten a harsh crackdown if he is not obeyed.", but the religious elements of Iranian society may have lost control of what appears to be more a cultural revolution.

Juan Cole @ Informed Comment:

Friday, June 19, 2009
Mourning Rally Biggest Demonstration Since Monday in Tehran;
Khamenei to Address Nation

Thursday's march in Tehran was just enormous, several hundred thousand strong. AFP writes, "Many in the huge crowd walked silently and lit black candles as night fell. Others wore green wristbands or ribbons and carried flowers as they filed into Imam Khomeini Square, a large plaza in the heart of the capital named for the founder of the Islamic Revolution, witnesses said." The marchers wore black to show their mourning for the dozen reformers killed by security forces on Monday. Mir-Hosain Mousavi, whom the crowd has adopted as their leader, addressed them briefly. [In Full]

The US Senate passed the $106 BILLION dollar supplemental war spending bill (which BTW only funds our wars till September) yesterday and sent it to the White House for the president's signature, and did so without a permanent ban on the release of detainee abuse photos.

The Minnesota Supreme Court is expected to deliver it's ruling in the long awaited Coleman/Franken senatorial race. If the court rules in Franken's favor, the Senate Democrats will have a filibuster-proof majority.

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