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Friday, October 30, 2009
October 30 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: eBay Sinks Dan O'Neill's "Irish Republican Navy" - Proof! Revolution Should Be Fun AND Funny
"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." October 30 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Proof That Revolutionary Acts Shouldn't Just Be Fun... They Should Be Funny! eBay Sinks Dan O'Neill's "Irish Republican Navy" [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps VBR 14:09 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
In Nuristan province of Afghanistan, a hundred miles North of Kabul, a second 6+ earthquake in two weeks has struck, assuredly leaving the roads out of order for the election runoffs.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan and pretty much tells the Pakistani government that we know that they know where Osama bin Laden is and questioned Pakistan's 'loyalty to the U.S. and she continued on regarding the foreign aid package, with strings attached that rubs the Pakistani government and citizens the wrong way... she essentially told them if they don't want it, they don't have to take it.
The Bay bridge is still closed and despite estimations of a couple of days till re-opening, expect a week. Meanwhile, the San Francisco police are going to occupy the whole Castro district for Halloween... The Gay community... just like Afghanistan. Only locals will be allowed in and all others will be "discouraged". See the 'Chron': "SFPD decrees Halloween in Castro is dead"
A deal has been cut in the Honduran coup. President Zelaya will return to preside over a coalition government until next month's elections. It's expected his party's choice of successor will win. More.
In other news, the Defense Appropriations bill takes aim at endemic institutional corruption at the Pentagon even as a junior congressional staffer on the Ethics committee accidently leaks the fact that 30 members of congress are under investigation for ethical violations. Six of those being investigated are on the Defense Appropriations committee. A currently in progress live discussion with Washington Post National Desk Staff Reporter Carol Leonnig appears here.
Folks, Da' Buffalo admits defeat at the hands of the Irish Republican Navy, AND the Winnebago Navy (founded to prevent the forced removal of Winnebago Native American tribal members and the flooding of their lands in the early 1960s for a reservoir located along the northern tier of the US... That navy consisted of a fleet of rowboats and canoes). No images or direct references can be found. The Irish Republican Navy IS mentioned briefly in Dan O'Neill's Wikipedia entry, but there is no mention at all of the Winnebago Navy on the internet... The Wiki entry for the tribe, now known as Ho-Chunk is Here.
After the commentary, Country Joe McDonald, Save The Whales... Dedicated this morning to a currently operating Revolutionary Navy of the first order, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, at this moment in the Antarctic, the most forbidding place on the planet, searching for illegal whalers with "Butter (Stink) Bombs" at the ready.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
October 29 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: It's Time For The Pentagon To Take Up A New "Occupation"
| "All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now."October 29 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: It's Time For The Pentagon To Take Up A New "Occupation" - On The Obsolescence Of The U.S. Military Apparatus And It's Tactics [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps VBR 9:56 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
The Bay Bridge is going to be closed for an indefinite period of time while civil and structural engineers attempt to design a better band-aid, as the highways into the San Francisco metropolitan area clog, public transport system runs full tilt, and San Francisco locals can actually find parking.After the smog cleared, it turned out that 18% of the cars turned in during the federal Cash-for-Clunkers program were new cars that normally would not have been traded out, and overall it cost the taxpayer $24,000 per $4,500 paid to the trade-in's owner.
Renegade Democratic senator Joe Lieberman (referred to in this Yale University (Lieberman's alma mater) article as part of the "Connecticut for Lieberman Party" and noting "Lieberman supported something strikingly similar to a public option in 2004 and 2006 but doesn’t support it now.") is still intending to vote with the Republicans against the Health Care bill.
The president signed the 2010 Defense Authorization Act yesterday eliminating many procurement programs and cutting way back on outside contractors... meaning there will be more GIs doing GI laundry and GI cooks in the kitchen again. It also expanded hate crimes protections and amended the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to provide suspected terrorists with greater due process rights.
U.N. IAEA inspectors have finished their week-long inspection of Iran's nuclear facilities and give it the green light. "We had a good trip," said Herman Nackaerts, head of the four-member mission,". Despite that news, the Saber-Rattling and santions pressure continues... "The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a measure that would impose sanctions on individuals and companies that help Iran produce refined petroleum products or send them to the country.".
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
October 28 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Question Must Be Asked, "Will Totally Legalizing Marijuana Save California's Economy?"
| "All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now."October 28 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Despite The Fact I Think It's Ridiculous To Legislate On It At All The Question Must Be Asked... "Will Legalizing The Use And Sales Of Marijuana Save California's Economy?" [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps VBR 15:14 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
There is still short supply all the way up the supply chain for the swine flu vaccine... Expect a couple of months before full stocks are available. Self-quarantine is one solution. See yesterday's commentary for more.
In US politics renegade 'Democratic' senator Joe Lieberman sells out to the Republicans over the Health Care bill 'public option' provision. In other congressional news, other controls on the financial industry hang fire.
Four UN workers kept in 'guest housing' in Kabul Afghanistan and three others were attacked and killed by what were most likely Taliban guerrillas dressed as police
In Peshawar Pakistan a bomb went off in a market full of women and children killing at least 80 people
and wounding 200, as US Secretary of State Clinton arrives for discussions on the situation in the country, which the US, by it's insistence that Pakistan take responsibility for it's border states destabilized by the our very own actions in the area, and indeed caused turmoil in the whole South/Central Asian region, by driving massive numbers of refugees to flee to the cities from the fighting in the countryside, along with any number of the fighters themselves.In Sacramento, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano is staging an informational hearing in the state Assembly's Public Safety Committee on what the legalization of Marijuana could do the assist the state and it's budget crisis. More in the commentary.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
October 27 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The 'Duh' Disease Vector - It Includes The Clinic Where You'd Get Your Flu Shot
| "All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now."October 27 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The 'Duh' Disease Vector - Children, Schools, Crowds, And Crowded Quarters... Including The Clinic Where You'd Get Your Flu Shots [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps VBR 13:27 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Seven US soldiers have been either been killed while at their Forward Operating Base, or during an incursion into Taliban territory in a wide ranging battle in the Northern corner of Helmand province Afghanistan even as an ex-Marine Colonel acting as a regional administrator (?!?) of Zabul province has resigned saying the situation has deteriorated too badly and actions the Pentagon is taking in the area is only making it worse.
From the Washington Post:
*U.S. official resigns over Afghan war*
Foreign Service officer and former Marine captain says he no longer knows why his nation is fighting
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to help expand its development efforts in Afghanistan.
A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, he was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban hotbed.
But last month, in a move that has sent ripples all the way to the White House, Hoh, 36, became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, which he had come to believe simply fueled the insurgency.
"I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan," he wrote Sept. 10 in a four-page letter to the department's head of personnel. "I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end." [In Full]
On Capitol hill, the Senator Harry Reid and the Democrats have come up with a health care plan that includes a public option based on "The Acquiescence of Non-negation". In layman's terms... You're in (as a state), unless you opt out. As a governor, try telling your state's citizens you decided they weren't going to have health insurance... A cloture vote is due next week.
The Pentagon has fired the top contracting administrator and a number of the contracts cut under his command have been cancelled.
NASA is counting down to launch ARES, the largest rocket ever, technically, a 'spaceplane', even as it's expected to be de-funded within the next couple of months as un-needed and un-necessary for the types of programs considered in the foreseeable future.
There's a new IRS task force to go after the overseas banking of the millionaire and up category. Gooood luck! Expect as much corruption as the drug task forces that work on the higher level drug dealers, like the South Florida Drug Task Force on which the fantasy TV show Miami Vice was based. For the most part, the agents in that program ended up being bought, caught, and imprisoned.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
October 26 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Institutional Fraud 101 - American Medical Care And Medical Service Provider Fraud
| "All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now."October 26 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Institutional Fraud Primer - National Medical Care Could Be Federal 'Budget Neutral' If The Service Providers Simply Stopped Stealing [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps VBR 13:07 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
The Senate Democrats are going to try to extend unemployment benefits again as if America's workers need the 'dole' instead of an immediate emergency federal job creation program. Today's San Francisco Chronicle:
For years, Duran has been a full-time server at a downtown hotel. But the recession has cut so deeply into business that her hours were cut to half time in July.
"It's better than a layoff, but it still requires a lot of sacrifices," said Duran, who, along with her working husband, supports three sons.
Because she works, Duran doesn't count in California's 12.2 percent unemployment rate.
But her situation is captured by a broader measure, the underemployment rate, which, in addition to the jobless, includes people who could get only part-time work as well as those who want jobs but were too discouraged to look.
The state Employment Development Department estimates that this underemployment rate hit 21.9 percent in September.
That figure includes 1.9 million jobless Californians, 1.4 million people who had to work part time, and 865,000 adults loosely described as discouraged.
"Underemployment is at the highest level since we started keeping these records in 1994," said economist Sylvia Allegretto of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UC Berkeley.
The Employment Development Department, which publishes the state's jobless rate, has not typically calculated underemployment [In Full]
There have been two massive suicide bomb attacks in Baghdad Iraq... Remember Iraq? One went off at the Defense Ministry, the other at the Provincial Affairs building in Downtown, and it looks like there's going to be more of the same, but the burning question is WHO? The Times UK says 'Baathists', but THIS Buffalo see 'invisible hands' at work... From a conversation on Juan Cole's FaceBook page:
Paul: It is definitely a bad omen for troop withdrawal, and seems to run counter to Iraqi nationalist interest. They must know this is counterproductive to ending the occupation. It makes no sense.
You would think that if any of these people had plastic or other military explosives, they would have used them long ago when they had more momentum. The type of explosive could be determined by analyzing the residues. It seems unlikely that the source could be identified, although some manufacturers to put identification tags in them.
Yesterday at 11:53am
Da' Buffalo: Who's claiming responsibility?
"ex-bathiists" according to to the reporter.
Two questions arise in my admittedly paranoid mind....
Is that his OWN analysis derived from an in depth, personal knowledge of the 'players'?
Does this mean there's pressure on for the U.S. NOT TO continue it's (somewhat misnomered') 'withdrawal' to the benefit of certain U.S. political and industrial 'players' as well (like Northrop Grumann and the NeoFassssss... I mean NeoCons...) ?
Yesterday at 12:02pm
Da' Buffalo: >> Paul Wolf: "...although some manufacturers to put identification tags in them."
Heh... Heh... ESPECIALLY Western manufacturers, with the good old US of A taking the lead in the trend.
Even our fertilizers are tagged.
IOW, "ROTFLM M/F AO"... I'M waiting for this to happen, but it's not gonna.
I've ALWAYS thought that this type of bombing played into the Pentagons 'hands', and I KNOW about things like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
...and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
If the CIA considered 'eating it's own' once, what's to stop them from doing it to 'a bunch of ragheads'?
...When it's in the National (energy-economics/geo-regional policy) Interest.
Yesterday at 12:22pm
Nadine: regardless of the above ground claims, causes and reasons; it is the forensic material on the ground which holds the key to escalating tension.
did anyone believe that all the paramilitary, construction and industrial NGOs and their peripheral businesses, were going to ride out in the sunset?quietly?
a thorough examination of the stock-holders should lead the ferret straight to underground profiteering; tell us who benefits the most.
Yesterday at 12:24pm
Da' Buffalo: Speaking of "Who stands to gain", Paul Craig Roberts:
"According to reports, the US Marines in Afghanistan use 800,000 gallons of gasoline per day. At $400 per gallon, that comes to a $320,000,000 daily fuel bill for the Marines alone. Only a country totally out of control would squander resources in this way."
Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/63407-400gallon-gas-another-cost-of-war-in-afghanistan
Our foreign policy goals are "totally out of control", and personally, I blame 'market capitalism' (AKA ' a pyramid scheme') for the dilemma Americans find ourselves in believing we can have it all, we're owed it all, at the best possible price (for us..)
... All the extractive resources.
The Paul Craig Roberts article (Informationclearinghouse)
*US Joins Ranks of Failed States*
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23781.htm
Yesterday at 12:33pm
Ben: The interested here just want eternal war
Yesterday at 12:49pm
Mohammed: When graveyards are full, with knowns and anknowns, there could be no winner. Such a shame !
Yesterday at 1:29pm
Stephanie: "If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell."-Thomas Merton
Yesterday at 7:19pm
The Iranian Foreign Minister says it looks like they WILL be doing their nuclear power fuel recycling via France and Russia. More.
Where is the $500 million for the Health Care Bill shortfall? According to CBS '60 Minutes', stop the fraud and you'll have your Heath Care funding. Details, and more in the commentary.
President Obama has declared a "State of Emergency" over H1N1 'Swine Flu'. Schools are turning out to be the #1 disease vector. No one knows exactly how many people in the US have the it because of medical privacy regulations, which only keeps the information (information which may even include whether a friend of yours might be in any given hospital) from public dissemination, but not from distribution within the medical-industrial complex.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
October 23 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: A Sitrep On My Medical Marijuana Bust Of Last Year - A Plea 'Bargain' Perhaps, But...
| "All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now."October 23 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: A Sitrep On My Medical Marijuana Bust Of Last Year - A Plea 'Bargain' Perhaps But At Least I Won't Be A Geriatric Old Homeless Hippie Panhandling On The Pacific Garden Mall In Santa Cruz [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps VBR 12:15 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Speaking of 'legitimate government in the country'. Even as the Western powers scramble to cobble together a new election in Afghanistan there has been a 6.5 earthquake in Nuristan province closing many of the 'roads' (term used loosely) that the locals will need to traverse to actually vote.
Next door in Pakistan there have been suicide bombings in Islamabad and Peshawar further destabilizing the country. More.
The U.S. Center for Disease Control says 1 of 5 children in US schools have symptoms of H1N1 Swine Flu, even as a shortage of the vaccine develops.
The Mexican La Familia criminal cartel's operators in the US have had 330 of 1700 outstanding federal warrants served on them. Details.
The Defense Appropriations bill passes... 3 weeks late, and is going to the White House for president Obama's signature with an amendment that adds to US law attacks on individuals for their sexual proclivity as a hate crime.
In light of the commentary... Here are some words from the panhandling competition on the Pacific Avenue Shopping Mall (FORMERLY the 'Pacific Garden Mall') in "progressively economic", yet socially authoritarian (None dare call them Fascists...) Santa Cruz California... Competition Travus avoided by 'pleading out'. It's a rough crowd Travus.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
October 22 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Problems With Capitalism 101 - If There's No Work To Do Your Economy Collapses
| "All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now."October 22 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Problems With Capitalism 101 - If There's No Work To Do Your Economy Collapses [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps VBR 13:15 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
The Justice Department and all relevant agencies have completed the delivery of 1700+ warrants for the La Familia Drug Cartel in America, a large part of the Mexican drug export structure who have managed to take over large areas of Mexico because they do more for the local's security and prosperity than the Mexican government. More.
In Afghanistan, the scramble is on to lash together ANOTHER national election, even as UnoCal consultant and so-called president Hamid Karzai says: "Refusing a runoff would be 'insulting democracy'", after the first election was decided by a UN commission to be utterly corrupt.
There is a national shortage of 'Swine Flu' H1N1 vaccine (and the seasonal flu vaccine). Expect the full complement by December, which may be past the peak of the outbreak. 1000 people a month are getting it and 15-20 are dying... More than in our wars.
The Medical-Insurance-Industrial Complex may lose their anti-trust immunity as an end result of the new health care bill.
...and for the "Your CounterCulture Is Being Used In Ways You Never Expected" files...
From the National Security Archive:
Musicians Seek Secret U.S. Documents on Music-Related Human Rights Abuses at Guantanamo
Washington, DC, October 22, 2009 - On behalf of a coalition of U.S. and international musicians..., including R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Tom Morello and Jackson Brown, the National Security Archive today filed a series of FOIA petitions requesting the full declassification of secret U.S. documentation on the strategy of using music as an interrogation device at Guantanamo and other detention centers....
In Full @ The National Security Archive, Georgetown University
A Jackson Browne Mashup about 'information' and it's abuse at the hands of the media...(Hint: "The more you watch, the less you do"):
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Acquires A "Border Collie"
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Update January 06 2010:
Japanese Antarctic Whaling Fleet Declares War On Sea Shepherd, Rams/Sinks Ady Gil
"According to a reported statement by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a Japanese vessel alongside the Nisshin Maru whaler slammed into the activists' high-tech speed boat, the Ady Gil, slicing off a piece of it. Reports said the boat is unsalvageable. The six member crew (five from New Zealand and one from the Netherlands) were rescued by another Society Vessel (the Bob Barker), reports said." [In Full]Further, according to the news release by Sea Shepherd "...in an unprovoked attack captured on film, the Japanese security ship Shonan Maru No. 2 deliberately rammed...".
YOU Decide...
See the related videos for more footage
However, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society STILL has a posse:
Read about Sea Shepherd's new vessel here.
From Wikipedia:
Earthrace is a 78 feet (24 meters) alternative fuel powered wave-piercing trimaran; part of a project to break the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat—and to do so using only renewable fuels. [source, with much more]
Due to its speed capabilities, up to 50 knots, Captain Paul Watson (Sea Shepherd President and Founder) intends to use the Ady Gil to intercept and physically block the harpoon ships from illegally slaughtering whales.
The vessel, previously known as the Earthrace, is a fast, futuristic looking trimaran that recently set the world record for global circumnavigation. The vessel renaming reflects the ship’s benefactor, Ady Gil, who helped acquire the vessel.
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October 21 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Whaaa! Whaaa! The Sniveling And Bitching From The Right Is Getting A Bit Old
| "All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now."October 21 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Whaaa! Whaaa! The Sniveling And Bitching From The Right About Iran's Preparations To Bomb... Denmark... Is Getting A Bit Old, Along With A Number Of Other Whines [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps VBR 5:21 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
October 20 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Women's Breasts Vs 'Plastic' Pageants With 'Boobs' To Match
| "All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now."October 20 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Cabale Confessional - YES! I Was Influenced In My Youth By Women's Breasts, But Not By 'Plastic' Pageants With 'Boobs' To Match [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps VBR 17:14 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai has agreed to a run-off election on November 7th, between he and Abdullah Abdullah of the Northern Alliance (There's a choice! UnoCal consultant Vs. Opium growers). The election will be run by an international team this time... Meaning US Blackhawk Helicopters carrying the ballot boxes.
Secretary of Defense Gates is in Tokyo negotiating with the new government about "...the planned relocation by 2014 of a major air base on southern Okinawa island." According to Xinhua, the Chinese news agency "Japan's role in the Middle East (read Afghanistan) is also likely to be on the agenda."
The Iranians and the Pakistanis may make it possible for the West to get out of Afghanistan without losing what they invaded for - The Iranians and Pakistan (India is not particularly happy) are negotiating building a pipeline that would circumvent the need for a short-route that WAS ORIGINALLY planned to cut through the Afghanistan. Part of the reason that the US corporation Enron failed was due to their investment in the Natural Gas fields in Central Asia that were going to supply that pipeline to the Indian Ocean, and when it became obvious that the Afghan-routed pipeline was going to be a 'pipe-dream', Enron's investments began to collapse, leading to the need to 'cook their books' in a massive Ponzi scheme.
For more on this, see: Pepe Escobar, Pipelineistan Goes Af-Pak, May 12, 2009, TomDispatch and more recently, "Iran and the `Pipelineistan' Opera"
Carrie Prejean, Miss California, who lost her crown in a publicity-driven cat-fight (...the Miss California pageant said she had breached her contract with them and refused to make scheduled appearances.) over her belief about Gay marriage is being sued by the Miss California organization for the money (about $5,200) they put out for her boob job.More boobery in the commentary.
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Monday, October 19, 2009
October 19 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: You Might Call It The End Of The Age Of Ignorance - The End Of The War On Medical Marijuana
| "All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now."October 19 2009 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: You Might Call It 'The End Of The Age Of Ignorance' - The US Attorney General Informs The Troops They Have Been Relieved Of The Responsibility For Enforcing Marijuana Laws Against Medical Users And Their Providers [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps VBR 11:25 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary |
Works well for US! In the AfPakistan War... The Afghanistan election report is out and the indeed, the election was as crooked as dog's hind leg. The Karzai 'government' is going to hang tough with Senator Kerry and others in the mix trying to negotiate a new 'election'. But once the winter comes, two thirds of the country is impassable even IF no one's shooting at you, and in the just-past tainted election during good weather, the ballot boxes were brought from the hinterlands on muleback etc. New elections are not liable to happen anytime soon, even if the citizens of Afghanistan were willing to risk their lives again.
THe H1N1 Swine Flu virus has taken 86 lives so far.
Bad news for Iran (and food for thought for the paranoid: "how deep is the CIA's influence on these insurgent groups?") - Six top leaders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard have been killed along with 29 other people in Iranian Baluchistan (Balochistan)by Pakistan based Iranian rebels. More from Juan Cole at Informed Comment:
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps personnel who traveled to the town of Sarbaz, district Pishin in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan fell victim Sunday morning to two bombing attacks carried out by the dissident Baluchi group Jundullah. Altogether the death toll in the attacks is about 29 as I write and it is expected to rise.
Iran, a country of 70 million, has 30 provinces. Some 90 percent of Iranians are thought to be Shiite Muslims, and some 51 percent speak Persian as their mother tongue. Baluchis are Sunnis and speak another Iranian language, Baluch, and there are substantial discontents in that province with the rule of the Persian Shiites. The province is vast geographically, but small with regard to population-- a little over 2 million. It is among the poorest provinces in Iran and the most neglected by Iran's authorities. It has been harmed by the spill-over of ethnic violence from Pakistan and Afghanistan, by the drug trade, and by religious radicalization. The mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Shaikh Muhammad, is a Baluch from Pakistan brought up in Kuwait, and he is alleged to have had ties to radical Sunni Baluch groups, some of which later congealed into Jundullah. [In Full]
In Waziristan, 10,000 Pakistani troops are in the middle of an offensive sweeping north with another group to the North sweeping South. The end result? Thousands of refugees fleeing. Many of who will head for the cities, and they ARE NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY about it, and Pakistan just got a little more destabilized. Juan Cole with more:
Dawn reports on the Pakistan military's advance into South Waziristan on the campaign's second day.
I picked out some worrisome parts of this report which are mentioned but not highlighted:
# South Waziristan's population is 600,000; the campaign has already displaced 100,000 of them.
# Afghan Taliban commander Mullah Sangin has brought in 1,500 Afghan Pashtun fighters to support the Pakistani Taliban Movement in South Waziristan.
# Azam Tariq, spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban Movement, said that militants’ supporters from Muslim seminaries in Punjab, Sindh and the North-West Frontier Province were in touch with the Taliban and were coming to the battle zone through various routes.
(In support of this last point, police teams intensively investigated seminaries or madrasahs in the capital of Islamabad and some other areas on Sunday.)
Pakistan may even have to close its schools for a week because they have been threatened by the Taliban.
In other words, this military campaign is not just a matter of troops versus guerrillas. It is becoming a rallying point for Muslim radicals, with volunteers coming in from Afghanistan and others from madrasahs from all over Pakistan-- and with Pakistan's own security hanging in the balance. [In Full]
The 300th launch of an Atlas rocket, a vehicle rolled out in 1958 for use with ICBM nuclear weapons, has been completed... ...The payload was a weather satellite.
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