June 30 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Old Enough To Understand What You're Doing? You're Probably Fed Up With It - Larry King Retires

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." June 30 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: If You're Old Enough To Understand What You're Doing You're Probably Fed Up With It - Larry King Retires [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 13:20 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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The oil still flows and the PR still fouls the beaches (To wit, the WSJ reports:"BP Sends Fake Journalist to Cover the Gulf Spill"). Skimming boats are being pulled out of the water due to swells from Hurricane Alex which is not destined to directly affect that area of the Gulf. Oyster and Shrimp harvest restrictions have been removed, but even if you WOULD eat them, most of the fishing industry people are working on the cleanup and aren't harvesting.

Mississippi is beginning to see the effects of the spill as well:

Mississippi Blues: NASA Pic Shows BP Oil Surrounding Mississippi’s Barrier Islands
By: Elliott

Tuesday June 29, 2010

In spite of (Governor) Haley Barbour’s initial happy talk (Oil? What Oil? Press Should Stop Scaring Tourists), BP Oil finally and inevitably hits the Mississippi coastline. Now he’s crying for help:

At a news conference on Monday, Mr. Barbour said "the plan we agreed to with the unified command and BP wasn’t being given the resources to be totally effective. There continues to be more oil in the (Mississippi) Sound than we have the capacity to deal with, unless we get lucky."

This is a hard picture to look at, makes my heart weep.

As of June 27, 2010, the entire gulf-facing beachfront of several barrier islands in eastern Mississippi (offshore of Pascagoula) had received a designation of at least “lightly oiled” by the interagency Shoreline Cleanup Assessment Team that is responding to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. A few small stretches of Petit Bois Island had been labeled heavily or moderately oiled.

This high-resolution image shows Petit Bois Island (top right) and the eastern end of Horn Island (top left) on June 26. In general, oil-covered waters are silvery and cleaner waters are blue-gray. This pattern is especially consistent farther from the islands. The intensely bright patches of water directly offshore of the barrier islands, however, may be from a combination of factors, including sediment and organic material, coastal currents and surf, and oil. [Source]

The Senate Armed Services committee confirmed General Petraeus as the new commander of US operations in Afghanistan even as there's gerrymandering to allow General McChrystal to retire with an early 4 star rank pension.

So long and thanks for letting us bring "American Democracy" to YOUR country - The Iraq interim al-Malki government is meeting with the Allawi-led opposition in a last gasp attempt to create a coalition as militias begin taking control of their neighborhoods.

More proof that suburbs are the epitome of sociologically f*cked up places to live - The Russian spies who may have been your suburban neighbors... They had been under FBI observation since 2001. Supposedly the Russians were so fed up with this operation THEY blew the whistle.

Elena Kagan's nomination hearings continue as the House of Representatives votes down the unemployment benefit extension again as 1.7 MILLION Americans are scheduled to lose their benefits tomorrow.

A further note on nominee Kagan and our war on anyone we're in fear of: "Kagan and (senator) Graham Agree: War on Terror Will Never End, Habeas Rights Can Be Abridged"

Too long in the (TV) wasteland - Pundit Larry King will retire from CNN next fall. More in the commentary.


In LOCAL News:

The Grand Jury does it's job despite an attempt by the local police department to tamper with their results Ex Post Facto:

(Santa Cruz) Grand Jury says government could benefit from legal pot

County could see $7.5 million gain from new taxes and decreased costs

(However) Santa Cruz Police spokesman Zach Friend questioned one piece of data.

He said department figures from 2008 show 315 adult arrests/citations, while the Grand Jury report says there were 724. Friend said adults are the "overwhelming" majority when it comes to arrests and citations for marijuana.

(Juror) Henderson said all the numbers came from the agencies themselves.

"If the data's wrong, it's because they gave us the wrong data," he said. [In Full]

Yours truly commented thusly:

"If the data's wrong, it's because they gave us the wrong data,"

Don't feel alone... That the way the SCPD and the city do business.

It's called CORRUPT. They gerrymander their statistics on almost anything that would be considered downtown related, and apparently, can't even keep track of their lies anymore.

NOW, when will a state grand jury investigate the city of Santa Cruz' corporatist (cf. Fascist) relationship with the DTA and the Re-development agency?

They've been destroying the existing community for the benefit of a few merchants and property owners for FAR too long. [In Full]

Finally, from Ed Frey, Santa Cruz lawyer, running for congress as an independent with an event for Santa Cruz' diplaced-and-homeless-by-corrupt-policies workers and poor... and anyone who is yearning for social justice:

SLEEP-IN FOR PEACE (UNTIL THE GOVERNMENT WAKES UP)

Starting July 4th, 8pm to 8am -- NIGHT-TIME ONLY COMMUNITY PEACE CAMP -- Santa Cruz County Courthouse Grounds -- Early evening music and joyful witness then ... Peaceful Sleep.

Come join in some or all of the activities. We will help convince local and national governments to stop breaching the peace (especially that of peaceful sleepers) and instead use resources to discourage violence and warfare in all it's forms.

For More Info, contact us at http://www.edfreyindependentforcongress.org

[After the commentary, Feeling "Old And In The Way" Larry? Garcia, Grisman, et al join the lament. Courtesy of the respective artists and KPIG radio Freedom California Earth.]

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June 29 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Just Like You And Me But They Get Paid Anyway - The US Government Survives Without Working

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." June 29 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Just Like You And Me But They Get Paid Anyway - The US Government Will Survive Despite The Fact That It Isn't Working [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 9:34 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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The FBI has arrested 10 people as deep cover Russian espionage agents living in the suburbs of America... The family next door so to speak. More.

The Senate Judicial Committee hearing on Elena Kagan's nomination for Supreme Court Justice has begun.

The G20 protests - Over 10,000 people were in the streets. Security alone cost ONE BILLION DOLLARS.

Some folks at the protests DID note that price tag...



These events have become a way of proving that the country hosting the event can be host to the world's 'best' police state.

"Wow.. watching channel 24, and now they are randomly arresting ppl the reporter seen a young couple five feet from him get tackled to the ground for no reason!! and taken in." [source]

Run the best false flag operations:

"Groups of undercover police were repeatedly identified by protesters at marches occurring between Monday and Wednesday. Some were reportedly wearing black baseball caps, bandanas with marijuana leaf-designs on them, and patches with Che Guevara on them. When asked by journalists if they were police, none denied it." [source]

...and show legal observers they too have no rights:

"Riali Johannesson ---I am a criminal lawyer, and was outside the TCMN office on Sunday afternoon after having been told that someone under arrest wished to speak with counsel. I was then detained for two hours with a group of about 50 other by-standers and passers-by. The police said that that they suspected some of us to be Black Bloc anarchists. I think it was my suspicious-looking royal blue dress that did me in . . . or maybe my super-sweet little straw hand-bag.At one point an officer told me that she knew I was "an innocent by-stander", but she had consulted "up the chain of command" and I would not be permitted to leave." [source, FaceBook users only...sorry]

Oh yeah... They club reporters too!

Real News Network's Jesse Freeston, a member of the credentialed media was attacked after a deaf man was arrested for "Not Following Orders" and his equipment smashed when he asked the officer if his orders included attacking the press. [source]

Amnesty International has called for an investigation of the security at the G8/G20.

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Updated July 06 2010: The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has issued a Preliminary Report of G20 observations.

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Auntie Imperial also posted some notes and observations on the G20 (from a safe distance) yesterday: Some Notes, From The Distance, On The G20 'Summit' And The Concurrent "Toronto Troubles"

Bangla Desh is experiencing a general strike over the incompetence of the country's government. 200 have been arrested so far.

General Petraeus' confirmation hearing is underway. As the Christian Science Monitor put it: "General Petraeus hearing to put Afghanistan war, not him, in hot seat". But the BIG question is who among General McChrystal's staff will be leaving when he retires.


One More Thing:

Since BP's disaster in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have moved to the "Z" section of most newspapers even though Mississippi's coastline has begun to be blackened with slime and tarballs as Tropical Storm Alex, soon to be Hurricane Alex hampers (or stops) the oil spill containment efforts...

It's surely time for some cynical humor:


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June 28 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: America Needs A 'Hump' - An American Class Needs To Jettison It's 99% Incompetent Management

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." June 28 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: America Needs A 'Hump' - A Class We Create On Purpose Needs To Jettison It's 99% Incompetent 'Middle Management' [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 10:46 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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The last of 'the kind' - Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, one of the few Conservative Senators who saw the NeoCons for what they really are... Fascists, passes. He served since 1958. Under West Virginia law in these circumstances the governor appoints a replacement until the next election. More.

Kyrgyzstan - The Kyrgyz people have voted to approve a new constitution as "Refugees cautiously return..." but "Russia warns Kyrgyzstan could implode" due to the outcome of the voting.

The G20 Summit sets a 5 year withdrawal from Afghanistan as one of it's goals, and a number of other policies have been agreed on including deficit cuts. Guess WHY most of the industrialized nations HAVE deficits that need cutting?

Clue: It's due to persecuting a war...

Need another clue? The country we are persecuting that war on starts with the letter "A".

More below on the G20, along with some personal notes.

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's Senate confirmation hearing begins today.

It's over... Al Gore is finished - The Portland Oregon police have release taped testimony of a masseuse who depicts a 'sexual assault' by Al Gore and referred to him as "A Crazed Sex Poodle". Great if you're a 'Big Hair' genre rock star. The woman making the claim waited two years to tell Portland PD. More from "The Smoking Gun"(snigger).


Some thoughts and links related to the G20 conference

It was interesting to read a Facebook entry from someone in the Toronto suburbs (Kitchner)on a friend's page in regard to the G20 conference and concurrent demonstrations:

"Wow.. watching channel 24, and now they are randomly arresting ppl the reporter seen a young couple five feet from him get tackled to the ground for no reason!! and taken in."

This after headlines like: G20/G8 Toronto arrest total tops 500 after night of riots...

CBC News - Toronto - G20 police raid activists' homes
Four people have been charged after G20 police raided two homes in Toronto, and there are reports activists from Montreal were arrested later at a third house...

Twits like this: _GirlsAction RT @q_e_d: RT @andrewbrett: Video Peaceful protesters sing O Canada, then police charge at them. http://bit.ly/c8YIkU #g20report #g20 #cdnpoli #cdnleft

Side issues... The NGOs and E-NGOs have a seat... after the E-NGOs sold out the Canadian First Nation forests.

NGOs join Presidents behind the G20 Fence
Canada's non-profit industrial complex shows its face in the run up to the G20

and succinctly... What to Expect at G20: Lots and Lots of Cops
Toronto, Canada - If you want to see more police officers than you’ve probably ever seen in your life, come to Toronto this weekend.

Constantly updated reports HERE and at it's parent, Toronto Media Coop, where there are links to still more, such as g20.this.org, People-powered coverage of the June 2010 G8 & G20 summit.

Photo on the right from their site:



Yes, there's a reason for rage against the Deux Ex Machina

But regarding the 'rioting'...

As much as I despise random violence... I believe absolutely in "No justice no peace"

I said the same thing about the WTO demos in Seattle, and I said it when New York and so many other cities in the U.S. had the Vietnam war come home to roost.

Here's a posting Da' Buffalo did a while back on the subject of world trade and economic organizations:

An excruciatingly detailed look at how these cretins-with-suits-and-government 'credentials' destroy economies.

The WTO, World Bank, and IMF - Destroying African (or insert your third world country's name here) Agriculture

"U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block put it at the start of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in 1986, “the idea that developing countries should feed themselves is an anachronism from a bygone era. They could better ensure their food security by relying on U.S. agricultural products, which are available, in most cases at lower cost."

Multiply that pressure on the Third World ad Agricultural nations by (G)20... Then feel the rage of the rest of the (Non-industrialized) world.

Not to mention how the E-NGOs sold out the Canadian "First Nations" and Canada's primordial forests?

They're at the G20 too.

The natives 'outside the wire', and the E-NGOs 'inside the wire'

Rage!

But it comes down to this...

I have a long standing rule about property destruction.

It's message has to be INSTANTLY recognizable (Reverend Billy recently "building mountains' in JP Morgan/Chase banks to protest mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia for example (It Worked! They 'divested'), or dumping soot in power company lobbies as some New Yorkers fed up with Con Edison's coal burning in the 60s did, are a couple of examples that come to mind.

If what's happening appears senseless, then MY senses say "Provocateurs at work", and indeed, it's quite easy to infiltrate so-called 'black blocs'.

Case in point from the streets of Toronto:

Groups of undercover police were repeatedly identified by protesters at marches occurring between Monday and Wednesday. Some were reportedly wearing black baseball caps, bandanas with marijuana leaf-designs on them, and patches with Che Guevara on them. When asked by journalists if they were police, none denied it. [Source]

Black Blocs are too loosely affiliated to be secure or have reliable goals and leadership.

Some history... New York... Abbie Hoffman's hard core friends, UAW/MF-ESSO

Also known as Up Against The Wall Motherfuckers

The real deal...

They don't come along every day, and truth be told, someone who's angry enough to be taunted to commit an action that would run counter to a common goal with a larger community (and FWIW, this "Street Gang With Analysis", the UAW/MF, was fairy god mother to a community of so many spaced out hippies who needed help, with the ESSO (East Side Service Organization) free store, free meals, medical aid, and so much more available on a daily basis), or for that matter any discernible goal past just pure anger venting as observed by the general public, IS NOT IN ANY WAY AN ANARCHIST...

"Nihilist" would be the more appropriate term, and they simply do the work of "Useful Idiots" for whomever seeks to disrupt their community's safety and well being. In other words, they witlessly work for "The Man".

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June 25 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Not 'We Can Work It Out'... 'THEY Can Work It Out' - The 'Mujahadeen' And Afghanistan

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." June 25 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Not 'We Can Work It Out'... 'THEY Can Work It Out' - The 'Mujahadeen' And Afghanistan [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 10:30 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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When it comes to push and shove, Obama gets it shoved - The Finance Reform bill made it through conference committee at five am this morning with 80-90% of what the president wanted and he'll be on his way to the G20 conference in Toronto shortly.

There are gonna be A LOT more homeless Americans - Last night the senate voted to reject an extension of Unemployment Benefits. 1.6 million Americans will lose their benefits by the end of next week, and that's just one week. The rationale driving the cretins who did this... "People who are out of work on long-term benefits are less likely to look for, and find work (cf. 'lazy')".

The flaw in this logic: "First, there has to be work available!".

Meanwhile, local governments have (AFAICT) squandered their financial stimulus money (locally, a major paving project on a street that didn't need paved) and now...

Spending on local projects plummets

Construction spending by state and local governments has plummeted despite federal stimulus funds.

By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY

States and local governments are slashing spending on schools, roads, offices and other construction projects so fast that even federal stimulus money hasn't filled in the gap.

Investment in infrastructure is on pace to drop almost 7% this year to $269 billion, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal data. That would be the first decline in state and local construction spending since the Census Bureau started tracking in 1993... [More]

President Obama met with President Medvedev of Russia yesterday. They discussed Kyrgyzstan, how to get Russia into the WTO, and... chicken exports. Then they went out for junk food burgers at a local drive-in dive.

Los Angeles REALLY NEEDS that 'two bits' - Los Angeles voids a law saying they won't do business with Arizona because of their racially profiling immigration law, but L.A.'s traffic cameras are operated by an Arizona agency, which takes $0.75 of every dollar in fines collected as a fee.


In OTHER News:

Djibouti, which allows the stationing of the U.S. military's Combined Task Force, Horn of Africa (AFRICOM, also home to JSOC assassins working in Somalia), with about 3,000 troops, has a problem...

Voice of America News

June 23, 2010

Djibouti Rebels Threatening Stability in Strategic Country

Alisha Ryu

Nairobi: Analysts are expressing fear that increasing rebel activity in Djibouti in recent months could threaten the stability of one of the most strategically important nations in the Horn of Africa. The internal upheaval is some of the worst since Djibouti gained independence from France 33 years ago.

Last month, three Djiboutian soldiers were killed in an ambush in the north of the country, where a low-intensity anti-government rebellion has been simmering for nearly two decades.

The incident has been followed by near-daily reports of armed clashes in the area, stoking public fears that the country is sliding toward another civil war.
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Djibouti, a tiny country of just 800,000 people bordering Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, has little natural resources or industry. But in the past decade, its strategic location in the Horn of Africa has turned Djibouti into a key partner for the United States and Western countries fighting piracy off the coast of Somalia and conducting counter-terrorism operations in the region. [In Full]

Also see: Foreign Policy In Focus, AFRI(OIL)COM and Xe/Blackwater's CIA 'Dark' Operation In Germany... A Practice Run For Somalia/HOA Operations? on this site.

Finally... Listen to your Auntie! Television is BAD for your mental health:

A note from the poster:

Many of you believe watching TV is a harmless, entertaining activity worthy of your attention, but the video below will give you some eye-opening things to consider.

In just under four minutes you'll learn why television is essentially a platform for elite advertisers to peddle their wares, and how the steady stream of images could be making your life in reality seem dull and slow in comparison.

if you watch TV, you owe it to yourself to watch this video. [Link (Facebook users only, sorry!)]

For maximum understanding of the media concentration issue at hand, watch the "BlipVerts" episode of the TV series (SPIKED TV series that is...) Max Headroom (43 minutes) HERE. Warning! If you are sedentary or eat lots of junk food, view with caution. Your head might explode.

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June 24 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Sub-developed IQs - The "American Moron" Functional Adults With A Twelve Year Old's Mentality

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." June 24 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Sub-developed IQs - The American Moron... Seemingly Functional Adults With The Mentality Of A Twelve Year Old [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 13:52 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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President Obama dumped General McChrystal yesterday, most likely including his staff and planners. Too bad the volunteer elite of our military has become arrogant and incognizant of the civilian government's command of the American military. He will stay on for another year until retirement. General David Petraeus, commander of CENTCOM, who prefers bribing to thugging and assassination (Iraqis... using black-masked McChrystal-led JSOC operators, most likely the thuggings and assassinations included unwanted electoral candidates during Iraq's 'purple thumb' elections a few years ago), will be the new commander in the Afghan theatre. Too bad Afghanis don't have any use for money.

See here for more on the real value of money.

The 'Gulf gusher' is increasing after an underwater robot knocked it's containment cap loose... a cap that's 'containing' about half of the estimated 50,00 barrels a day pouring into the Gulf waters.

Also notable... courtesy of BP and America's petroleum addiction... It's raining oil in Louisiana:


(Caveat: SOME PEOPLE are claiming inaccuracy of this video.
See this Christian Science Monitor article for more.)

Pakistan has convicted five Washington, D.C. Muslims who had gone to join the Taliban in-country. They received 10 year sentences.

Stock tip: Buy stocks in drones soon! The FAA has signed off on airspace permission allowing UAV operations over Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, to patrol... Whom? For what it's worth, there ARE ALREADY UAVs in use in the US. A Southern state or two are using them for Interstate highway traffic control, and then there's California (2008/McClatchy)

Asian Carp have been moving up the Mississippi river and the first of these invasive species that can eat 40 lbs a day have breached the electrified barriers and are heading for Lake Michigan.

Fogged in from Canada to Mexico... The entire west coast of North America is fogged in due to the "Japanese Current" gone cold. Again... No one knows why.



Speaking of Canada, and fog... There's a fog over US media coverage of the G20 economic conference in Toronto.

To rehash an old right wing trope: "None DARE call it a news blackout", at least not here...

From the Toronto Media Coop:

NGOs join Presidents behind the G20 Fence

Canada's non-profit industrial complex shows its face in the run up to the G20

by Dawn Paley

As the people of Toronto prepare community level mobilizations against their lived experiences of the negative effects of G20 control, a much smaller group of people is planning to sit down and speak directly with G20 leaders on behalf of Canadian civil society.

These groups are clustered together as a G20 focused campaign called At the Table, which focuses on vague slogans about eliminating poverty and saving the earth that sound good to people who understand that the world is a messed up place.

But while the At the Table campaign calls for Canadians to “take bold action to end poverty at home and abroad,” their members are actively pacifying people who want to take to the streets to make their message heard.

“We're trying the critical engagement approach,” Make Poverty History head Dennis Howlett told the Globe and Mail in March. “Doing anything outside the security perimeter, it's going to be a nightmare with security.”

Howlett’s dissuasive comments reflect a broader issue in movement building in North America.

“What has happened to the great civil rights and black power movements of the 1960s and 1970s? Where are the mass movements of today within this country? The short answer: They got funded,” wrote Adjoa Florência Jones de Almeida, a community organizer with the Sista II Sista Collective, in the 2007 book The Revolution will not be Funded... [In Full (Search Toronto Media Coop for G20)]

[After the commentary, Rodney Crowell, with "The Moron's Prayer" (He calls it "The Obscenity Prayer"). Courtesy of the respective artists.]

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June 23 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: A Holdover From The Bush Days Meets His New Boss In The Woodshed - General Stanley McChrystal

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." June 23 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: A Holdover From The Bush Administration Meets His New Boss In The Woodshed - A Backgrounder On General Stanley McChrystal [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 9:55 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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Update: McChrystal is OUT! The guy who used black masked US soldiers (JSOC) to commandeer Iraq's elections by assassinations and thuggery for the Bush Administration said:

This morning the President accepted my resignation as Commander of U.S. and NATO Coalition Forces in Afghanistan. I strongly support the President’s strategy in Afghanistan and am deeply committed to our coalition forces, our partner nations, and the Afghan people. It was out of respect for this commitment — and a desire to see the mission succeed — that I tendered my resignation.

It has been my privilege and honor to lead our nation’s finest. [Source]

He has been replaced by General David Petraeus

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General Stanley McChrystal and the president of the United States have been meeting at the White House to discuss the relationship between the civilian government of the U.S. and it's military. The Rolling Stone article that started this historic flap is here.

Stan Goff, Feral Scholar and EX-JSOC operator puts it this way:
(Unfamiliar with the Acronym JSOC? Stan has a good writeup here)

WARNING. McChrystal, his cohort, and the author are macho shit-heads. This article - read too often - could cause brain damage.

‘How’d I get screwed into going to this dinner?” demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal. It’s a Thursday night in mid-April, and the commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan is sitting in a four-star suite at the Hôtel Westminster in Paris. He’s in France to sell his new war strategy to our NATO allies – to keep up the fiction, in essence, that we actually have allies. Since McChrystal took over a year ago, the Afghan war has become the exclusive property of the United States. Opposition to the war has already toppled the Dutch government, forced the resignation of Germany’s president and sparked both Canada and the Netherlands to announce the withdrawal of their 4,500 troops. McChrystal is in Paris to keep the French, who have lost more than 40 soldiers in Afghanistan, from going all wobbly on him.

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Meanwhile, Juan Cole at Informed Comment says: "McChrystal Drama is Sideshow; Can Obama define a realistic Goal?", and describes just how bad the situation is on the ground:

Adding to the sense of McChrystal’s career possibly crashing and burning is the report from Matthew Green of the Financial Times in Marjah [scroll down] that US special envoy Richard Holbrooke and Ambassador in Kabul Karl Eikenberry visited Marjah on Monday and met with local elders to the sound of small arms fire in the background. (H/t to Michael Pollack for the link and his comments). Then as Holbrooke and Eikenberry were leaving the meeting site, a bomb went off, which apparently had been intended for them on the part of three suicide bombers but detonated prematurely at a local shop. The purpose of the visit was for Holbrooke to assess how well McChrystal’s counter-insurgency doctrine was going in Marjah. The local elders said that the Marines had improved security in some areas but not others. One said he had to travel to the meeting secretly for fear of Taliban reprisals.

When the US special envoy and ambassador can’t visit a place in a country without hearing small arms fire or risking being a bombing target, I’d say security is not good there.

On Monday and Tuesday, 14 NATO troops were killed, ten of them on Monday alone. Two of those killed Tuesday were American troops. So far in June, 69 NATO troops have been killed, 43 of them American.
[In full, with linkage to pertinent articles]

There has been a court-ordered injunction on the offshore drilling ban by a federal judge who possesses an investment portfolio of energy industry stocks. Secretary of the Interior Salazar says he will put a moratorium in place immediately after the judge ruled that drilling in the Gulf of Mexico can resume. Meanwhile:

Forty miles off the Louisiana coast, on the north end of the Chandeleur Islands, a sand dredge sat idled late on Tuesday after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ordered operators to stop building new sand barrier islands. [More from Reuters]

The fellow from Colorado picked up in the Pakistani hinterlands on a personal hunt for Osama bin Laden has been released by the Pakistanis. No word on whether he will be allowed to continue his 'hunt' or be deported.

Bulgaria is sending 65 more soldiers to Afghanistan, 20 of whom will be medical and other non-combat personnel, bringing their troop commitment to 627. Meanwhile, two more US soldiers have been killed.

Keep repeating it as if true: "There's no such thing as global climate change..." - The waters off the shores of California and Oregon are still way below normal temperatures and no one claims to know why. It has caused massive fog banks to develop off the Northern West Coast.

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June 22 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Sergeant Fury of Afghanistan, General McChrystal Loses His War, And In The Process, 'Our War'

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." June 22 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Sergeant Fury of Afghanistan, General McChrystal Loses His War, And In The Process, 'Our War' [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 20:16 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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History time! (subhead: "Hunter S. Thompson, thou art AVENGED!") It's like Truman-MacArthur all over again. General McChrystal, JSOC-bred 'Rogue Commander", has been summoned to the White House where he most likely will offer his resignation because Rolling Stone magazine did a profile of the good general and after he spent 2 days with the reporters in Paris, the Iceland volcano (It HAS a name "Eyjafjallajökull") kept them together awhile longer while the air cleared enough for flights to resume. They GOT DRUNK together and McChrystal along with his staffers said a few things that made it quite clear he and his crew are not particularly fond of the Obama administration's plans for our wars, or the president.

On a similar note, the Afghan war is going so badly that the much touted Kandahar offensive has been delayed until the fall, (if we're not in the process of withdrawing by then) if it happens at all.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is going to be in the Silicon Gulch today meeting with executives from Apple and Twitter and will continue on to Washington for a meeting with president Obama (after Obama sees Mr. McChrystal in the woodshed...)

A federal court in New Orleans is considering issuing a temporary restraining order against the federal government's shut down of drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The suit was filed in "early June by Hornbeck Offshore LLC, a small oil-services company based in Covington, La."

A new Labor department rule says federal employees who are Gay are now going to have access to family leave.

Oh Wonderful! The Times Square Bomber was in court for arraignment where he pled guilty to all ten charges and exclaimed there would be more half-assed, two-day trained 'bombers' like himself coming to attack the US.

The Obama administration's economic advisor and Stimulus package author Peter Orszag will be resigning from the OMB later this year. A Q & A from the Atlantic Wire: Why Is Peter Orszag Leaving? (And Who Will Replace Him?)


In OTHER News...

YES, They Can! (Spy on peacefully protesting American citizens.)

Pentagon revives Rumsfeld-era domestic spying unit

By Daniel Tencer
Saturday, June 19th, 2010

The Pentagon's spy unit has quietly begun to rebuild a database for tracking potential terrorist threats that was shut down after it emerged that it had been collecting information on American anti-war activists.

The Defense Intelligence Agency filed notice this week that it plans to create a new section called Foreign Intelligence and Counterintelligence Operation Records, whose purpose will be to "document intelligence, counterintelligence, counterterrorism and counternarcotic operations relating to the protection of national security."

But while the unit's name refers to "foreign intelligence," civil liberties advocates and the Pentagon's own description of the program suggest that Americans will likely be included in the new database.

FICOR replaces a program called Talon, which the DIA created in 2002 under then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as part of the counterterrorism efforts following the 9/11 attacks. It was disbanded in 2007 after it emerged that Talon had retained information on anti-war protesters, including Quakers, even after it was determined they posed no threat to national security... [In Full]

[After the commentary, a requiem for a war that was lost before it ever started, courtesy of Skidmark Bob, PoP dEFECT Radio]



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June 21 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: What's Obama To Do With MMS And Other Mismanaged Agencies? Fire Everyone Whose Collar Isnt Blue

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." June 21 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: What's Obama To Do About The Mineral Management Services And Other Criminally Mismanaged Federal Agencies? Fire Everyone Whose Collar Isn't 'Blue' [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [192kbps CBR 11:20 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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Things are NOT going well in Afghanistan. The planned Kandahar offensive is on hold, if it happens at all, as Hamid Karzai attempts to work out some sort of power sharing deal with the Taliban.

Where would they go? Seventeen Afghani Air Force personnel, brought to the US for training, went missing between January and now in Texas. Seven have been caught so far.

The Times Square bomber will be in court for the first time today on 10 federal charges ranging from terrorist acts to weapons charges and more.

Not only out of touch with the US Constitution, 'out of the loop' as well - The DOJ WILL challenge Arizona's immigration law and Secretary of State Clinton told an Ecuadorian audience without anyone notifying Arizona's governor first. It's just a matter of when and on what grounds.

President Obama broke ground at the 10,000th infrastructure project funded with Economic Stimulus money. (Ed. Hopefully it's more necessary than what my town did with theirs... paved a street that didn't need paving, perhaps keeping some highly paid union workers employed for a little while longer, and an international construction company, Granite Construction, in the 'black')

The UN wants 71 million dollars in humanitarian aid for Kyrgyzstan as the siege of Osh continues.


More news gleaned over the weekend:

...and they said that the Pot smoking Afghans couldn't shoot straight:

Sharp rise in Army deaths from small arms fire prompts inquiry into Taliban snipers

Commanders in Afghanistan are examining whether a sharp rise in troops being killed by gunfire is a sign that a better trained or equipped Taliban is targeting soldiers with snipers. [In Full]

Things aren't going well in Iraq either...

Thousands Protest Electricity Shortage in Iraq

One person was killed when the police opened fire on the demonstrators, who were throwing rocks at the provincial headquarters in Basra. [In Full]

Suicide blasts kill 26 at Iraqi state-sector bank

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers detonated cars laden with explosives outside the Trade Bank of Iraq on Sunday, killing 26 people in the latest attack to raise concerns about the nation's stability after an inconclusive election. [In Full]

Standing Tall, but why is Congressman David Obey standing alone in congress about the Afghanistan War?

Obey’s Afghanistan: At Long Last, It’s Guns vs. Butter

This week, House Appropriations Committee Chair David Obey told the White House that he was going to sit on the Administration’s request for $33 billion more for pointless killing in Afghanistan until the White House acted on House Democratic demands to unlock federal money to aid the states in averting a wave of layoffs of teachers and other public employees.

Obey didn’t just link the two issues rhetorically; he linked them with the threat of effective action.

At last, at long last.

But why is David Obey standing alone? . . .

Perhaps, behind the scenes, the big Democratic constituency groups are pulling for Obey.

But you wouldn’t know it from any public manifestation. Why? This should be a “teachable moment,” an opportunity to mobilize the majority of America’s working families to push to redirect resources from futile wars of empire and the corporate welfare of the “base military budget” to human needs at home and abroad. Where is the public mobilization of the Democratic constituency groups?

If we could shorten the Afghanistan war by a month, that would free up the $10 billion that Obey is asking for domestic spending. Rep. Jim McGovern’s bill requiring a timetable for military redeployment from Afghanistan currently has 94 co-sponsors in the House (act here.) If McGovern’s bill became law, it would surely save the taxpayers at least $10 billion.

Why aren’t the big Democratic constituency groups aggressively backing the McGovern bill, demanding that it be attached to the war supplemental? [In Full]

Iran's Press-TV quotes a conservative Heritage Foundation expert on the corrupt state of the US economic and banking state.

"Crony capitalism reigns US economy"

Sun, 20 Jun 2010

A prominent US economic and banking expert has portrayed a grim outlook for the world's most powerful economy, saying the "crony capitalism" runs rampant in the US.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Gerald O'Driscoll, the former director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at the Heritage Foundation believes that a growing tide of fraud and corruption has surged in the current US financial system that is on the verge of becoming "an economy of liars" run by crony capitalists... [In Full]

And last, but certainly not least... North American News:

This year’s G20 economic conference protest in Toronto is shaping up to be the biggest ever... But you wouldn't know it if you follow the North American media!

It's Not A CO2 Generator! (It's A Carcinogen And Neurotoxin) - Meet The New Farm Chemical That's Supposed To Replace Methyl Bromide

The Strawberry growers of California and elsewhere in the US are planning to fumigate their crops with methyl iodide, a carcinogen and neurotoxin that can cause miscarriages and other medical problems. [In Full]

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