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Friday, July 30, 2010
July 30 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Congressman Charles Rangel - Ethics And Morals Or Just Another Political 'Hatchet Job'?
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A Pew Survey/Poll in Pakistan shows that 6 of 10 Pakistani citizens consider America the ENEMY and 66% want us out of Afghanistan. The poll also indicates 'fear of the Taliban' is dropping, 'fifty-one per cent have "no confidence" President Obama will "do the right thing" in world affairs, up from 44% last year...' and that's just some of the results as unseasonably bad weather and intense Monsoons engulfs the front face of the Himalayas.
Not even on the side of Small Business... The Republicans mess up America's economic recovery again as they filibuster in the senate and win 58-41, preventing loans to small businesses via local banks.
Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel WILL fight House ethics charges filed against him including such horrid malfeasance as an out-of-registration oooolllld Mercedes parked in the House garage.
Arizona's gutted immigration "law" SB 1070 which went into effect yesterday will go before the 9th Circuit Court perhaps at the end of September, where the state government will plead for a removal of the restraining order.
Meanwhile, a congressman who opposes the law's office has a potshot taken at it, the federal judge who made the ruling is inundated by hate mail/threats, and there are demonstrations and scattered violence around Arizona as the citizens of Phoenix Arizona begin to fight back, making it a little tense for folks like 'I can feed my prisoners dog food if I like' Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who's also bucking for a DOJ task force "Takedown". 'Sheriff' Arpaio said he would continue the sweeps regardless of how U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton ruled..."
The response from the people of Phoenix?
Several hundred protesters blockaded a Phoenix jail Thursday and swarmed the downtown headquarters of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who pledged to launch another âcrime sweepâ targeting illegal immigrants across the city Thursday afternoon.
About 100 police officers in riot gear met the protesters and several were arrested. [In Full]
More on the migration front... Economic migration... It's a killer:
Recent heat waves made July a deadly month for immigrants crossing the Arizona-Mexico border, with 57 bodies recovered from the deserts south of Tucson on the American side, according to a New York Times report on Tucson's morgue. Tougher enforcement measures and increased border security have forced migrants to take their chances in the dry, mountainous landscape of south of Tucson, where roaming helicopters and frequent checkpoint stops create a scene reminiscent of a war zone. [In Full] Map source (HUGE PDF available)
Joe McCarthy, Russian Style - Political dissidents within the Russian security services will now be warned first, then detained and interrogated, and then... the Gulags?
A new Pentagon report indicates a HIGH percentage of suicides (1,700 last year), drugs use and crime amongst recently separated Army veterans.
In OTHER News:
Things change in the global economy... China overtakes Japan as the No.2 world economy.
In Iraq... remember Iraq, the war America 'Won' and is now retreating from? "Militants plant al Qaeda flag after deadly attack in Baghdad". Note that this COULD be a "False (al Qaeda)Flag" operation, and if so, that means US Mercs and the CIA are ramping up operations as US military troops move out of the theatre, and into Afghanistan.
The White House 'spins' WikiLeaks, but honestly, no leak is required:
President Obama managed to show just how nimble and how disingenuous an administration can be in his response to the WikiLeaks fiasco:Obama, speaking from the Rose Garden after a meeting with congressional leaders to discuss funding for the war and other issues, deplored the leak, saying he was concerned the information from the battleground âcould potentially jeopardise individuals or operationsâ.Now, it may or may not be true that this leak put people in Afghanistan at risk, but I find that to be a very interesting point for this president to be making, considering that the policy and execution of his policy absolutely jeopardizes individuals in Afghanistan and around the world. After all, if you put Julian Assange and President Obama together in a room, only one person in that room is ordering heavily armed people into a hostile war zone filled with civilians. And only one of them is executing a policy that increases the likelihood of a suicide bombing campaign directed at the United States and its citizens and that kills thousands of civilians each year.
The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, said he was appalled by the leaks, telling reporters âthere is a real potential threat there to put American lives at risk.â
This is a tried-and-true warmonger move... [In Full]
Meanwhile, the New York Times rattles America's 'Saber' at Turkey. I guess it wasn't enough that, most likely Blackwater, dumped thousands of high tech Glock pistols meant for the Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority on Turkey to destabilize it and draw police/military resources away from the Kurdish border a few years ago.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
July 29 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Re-Defining The Relationship - The 'Tribal Law & Order Act', Why Am I Automatically Suspicious?
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The Arizona immigration law, SB 1070 just had the guts cut out of it by a federal judge. Details.
For the record, the judge put it this way:
âThere is a substantial likelihood that officers will wrongfully arrest legal resident aliens under the new [law],â âBy enforcing this statute, Arizona would impose a âdistinct, unusual and extraordinaryâ burden on legal resident aliens that only the federal government has the authority to impose.â
[In Full @ The Hill]
Unintended consequences - Due to the lack of a California state budget the governor has ordered three days unpaid vacation a month further crippling an already infrastructure under-staffed state operations.
Robert Mueller, head of the FBI admits "An undisclosed number of FBI agents..." cheated on tests after training in procedures to legally conduct domestic surveillance operations.
The House Judiciary Committee will or will not hold hearings on Charles Rangel's ethics today.
The Deepwater Horizon spill is 'disappearing'. The "talking heads" responsible for public relations would have us believe it has evaporated at a higher rate than expected due to hot weather. Of course that means BP is considering bailing out of the cleanup... and NO ONE is mentioning the rotten under-seabed infrastructure which continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico unabated.
...And finally, in Santa Cruz California, also known as "Silicon Beach" due to it's vacation-ready location just 'over the hill' from the Silicon Valley and San Jose, the LEGAL homeless camp-in at the county courthouse, known as "Peace Camp 2010" enters it's 24th night of legal sleep for travellers and the displaced workers of the city after a march to city hall the day before.
The city government, whom the sleep-in is targeting due to unconstitutional laws such as a total prohibition, (a "blanket ban" if you would) on sleeping outside at night, is sweating it out in an election cycle full of nightmare publicity aimed at showing the so-called 'progressive' city's government seamy authoritarian underbelly.
In a currently headlining desperate attempt, the city says the County courthouse steps are under the jurisdiction of the City's Parks and Recreation department, giving them jurisdiction to break up the camp-in.
But at this point, and to their credit, the Santa Cruz Police Department is not impressed with the dual-jurisdiction interpretation:
SANTA CRUZ -- The legal loophole that has allowed dozens of protesters to camp in front of the county courthouse for more than three weeks closed Wednesday when city and county officials determined the city's camping ban applied to the county property because it falls within city limits.Visit Peace Camp 2010's blog, and see this IndyMedia article for more information.
However, it remained unclear how the ordinance would be enforced.
"I think what they're going to do is notify all the folks and encourage them to move along," said county spokeswoman Dinah Phillips, who issued a statement Wednesday saying the city's no-camping ordinance would be enforced.
But sheriff's deputies were still formulating a response and city police said it's not their call.
"Why would we go? It's the county's property," Deputy Santa Cruz Police Chief Rick Martinez said. "We're not going to take action on our own on their property." [In Full]
[After the commentary, John Trudell... Artist poet, musician, Native American activist. Courtesy of the respective artists.]
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
July 28 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: It's Not Like It's YOUR Life Or YOUR Death But It's Time The Forces Of Peace Got Off Their Ass
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NOTE: Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, Travus' commentary is truncated.
Yours truly will venture a summation... "...and when they go back to Washington that maybe... Just MAYBE..." ...the citizens of their districts... the people who elect them, signifying they are ENTIRELY FED UP with these worthless wars, will have convinced them if they don't do something to bring peace, and BRING IT QUICKLY, we WILL drive the warmongers and the legislators sucking on their teat back into whatever hole they crawled out of, and from of the governance of American affairs, domestic or foreign."
The "Tornado Of Opinions" regarding the WikiLeaks Pentagon documents intensifies, and it's so intense the load crashed Wikileaks server but one thing IS certain, EVERYONE is reading those documents now, including the Talib, bringing one worthless war's misdeeds into the glaring daylight, where it will not survive.
Another thing that shows... Arrogance on the part of the warmongers... SOME PEOPLE are of the opinion that the Wikileaks documents will be too confusing for the 'little people':
Itâs fascinating to watch the so-called âprogressiveâ COIN fans circle the wagons over the Wikileaks release of over 90,000 files from Afghanistan. Everywhere you look â from Joshua Foust to our very own Attackermanâs selection of Adam Weinsteinâs post in Mother Jones as the âwinnerâ of âthe WikiLeaks commentary contestâ â youâll find concerned military journos assuring us that thereâs really nothing there, no need to bother our pretty little heads trying to read or understand these files. As Weinstein writes: âBut in truth, thereâs not much there. I know, because Iâve seen many of these reports beforeâat least, thousands of similar ones from Iraq, when I was a contractor there last year.âWikiLeaks also claims there appears to be evidence of War Crimes and more... So pay no attention to those men behind the curtain little people.
Repeating the White House and Pentagon talking points that â there were few, if any, revelations in the documentsâ many followed the lead of Andrew Exum who, after assuring us that he has âspent the past two daysâ looking at the 92,000 files (even though his piece was published considerably less than 48 hours after the release) and âseen nothing in the documents that has either surprised me or told me anything of significance,â goes on to express his concern for us poor befuddled readers:The publication of these documents, by contrast, dumps 92,000 new primary source documents into the laps of the worldâs public with no context, no explanation as to why some accounts may contradict others, no sense of what is important or unusual as opposed to the normal march of war.What these fellows miss is that the documents are important for us to read precisely because they are raw original source materials âwritten during combat by officers.â After years of watching the ISAF press office attempt to coverup mass civilian casualty events until some reporter or local doctor provides a cell phone video, after years of rhetoric from Bush and now Obama claiming progress in this disaster than spirals further into chaos, after all those McChrystal claims of caution and concern for the people of Afghanistan, we can now read the actual reports ourselves, with no PR officer to hide the facts. (contâd.) [In Full @ Firedoglake]
Many experts on the war, both in the military and the press, have long been struggling to come to grips with the conflictâs complexity and nuances. What is the public going to make of this haphazard cache of documents, many written during combat by officers with little sense of how their observations fit into the fuller scope of the war?
Why don't they just call it: "A bookkeeping error" like they did when a Russian mobster employed by the Pentagon lost 1/4 million AK-47s? $8.1 BILLION dollars... (correction: $8.7 BILLION... 96% of the funds allocated) That's the amount of money unaccounted for in our Iraq 'reconstruction' adventure according to audits.
Several Republican congesscritters are also having problems accounting for their money.
The Democrats attempted to put a new rule into effect yesterday forcing corporations and other 'entities' to identify their campaign contributions, but it did not make it past a Republican filibuster.
143 Democrats voted against the funding for the Afghanistan war yesterday, but the supplemental funding bill DID pass. What to do now? Listen to the commentary.
What might happen if California DOES legalize Marijuana in the next state election? Oakland's city council votes to OK Pot production operations... You know... Grow Rooms.
One More Thing:
In light of recent comparisons between the Toronto G20 'troubles' and the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention... The 'WikiLeakage' of 92,000+ Pentagon documents detailing our nasty war on the people of Afghanistan and Daniel Ellsberg's leakage of the "Pentagon Papers". Some historical background, for those who were too young, or just a gleam in their parent's eyes: 1968: It Was A Long, Hot, Interesting Year (Six part documentary video)
[After the commentary, Quicksilver Messenger Service passes the word around courtesy of KPIG radio, followed by a little piece of hell called "Vietnamistan", courtesy of the Alabama 3 and Skidmark Bob at Freak Radio Santa Cruz... Pirate Radio for the Monterey Bay California Earth.]
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
July 27 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: 'Economically Defined Realities' And The Retirement Myth
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'We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. That is my temperament. I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable.
And I enjoy crushing bastards. So it is enjoyable work.' ~~WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange interviewed by Spiegel
The 'Hand Grenade Syndrome' hits the House of Representatives, who will rush into a vote for stripped down funding of our nasty wars in Afghanistan and Iraq because WikiLeak's 92,000 page "hand grenade's pin has been pulled and it HAS been tossed". There will be an amendment brought by Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul that requires the removal of US troops from Pakistan because there's no declaration of war like the "rules" demand... But on the other hand we haven't made a declaration of war since World War Twice.
Regarding that "92,000 page Hand Grenade"... In the words of Stan Goff, EX-JSOC Special Operator and Feral Scholar:
God bless âem. This is what disobedience looks like, and why we need more of it.The question on the lips of the media now... Was Bradley Manning the source? Manning being the person who leaked the macabre video, "Collateral Murder", showing the helicopter gunship massacre of Iraqi civilians, to WikiLeaks...US authorities have known for weeks that they have suffered a haemorrhage of secret information on a scale which makes even the leaking of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war look limited by comparison.As of this AM, I canât get wikileaks to open. Not sure what happened, but if anyone knows how to pull down these docs and cache them, it would be a public service for as many people as possible to do so, so these docs can never be reeled back in. [In Full]
The Afghan war logs, from which the Guardian reports today, consist of 92,201 internal records of actions by the US military in Afghanistan between January 2004 and December 2009 â threat reports from intelligence agencies, plans and accounts of coalition operations, descriptions of enemy attacks and roadside bombs, records of meetings with local politicians, most of them classified secret.
The Guardianâs source for these is Wikileaks, the website which specialises in publishing untraceable material from whistleblowers, which is simultaneously publishing raw material from the logs.
Washington fears it may have lost even more highly sensitive material including an archive of tens of thousands of cable messages sent by US embassies around the world, reflecting arms deals, trade talks, secret meetings and uncensored opinion of other governments.
FULL
Adrian Lamo, the hacker who turned Manning in to authorities in May after a series of online conversations with him, told "Good Morning America" this morning that he suspects Manning was the source of the leak. Lamo then thickened the plot, adding that the data dump was such that he doesn't think the Army intelligence analyst had the technical expertise to do it alone. [In Full]
Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP, is going into retirement with a multi-million dollar grease-lined parachute, and a re-tasking, which will land him in Siberia... Literally... for a BP subsidiary. More.
Dropping Depth Charges and exploding stuff - The U.S. and South Korea are playing their war games in the waters somewhere off the coast of the two Koreas. North Korea has threatened 'Physical Action' if their territory is impinged on. Let's just hope everyone's GPS systems have been calibrated and are working correctly.
But it's a MUCH larger issue when it comes to the oceans, and Asia, as the U.S. draws a line in the sea... The South China Sea:
UPI - Daily Briefing
Walker's World: U.S. draws line in sea
FRANKFURT, Germany, July 26 (UPI) -- The unprecedented and solemn warning that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered to Beijing last week over its territorial ambitions in the South China Sea needs to be considered within three separate contexts.
This is because, as Harvard Professor (and former assistant secretary of defense in the Clinton administration) Joseph Nye maintains, relations between great powers are like a game of chess in three dimensions. There is the military equation, the economic equation and the separate but related dimension of cultural influence. Nye calls it "soft power," the ability of a great power not to force other countries to do its will but to get them "to want what you want."
So when Clinton infuriated Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the ASEAN regional forum last week by asserting that the resolution of disputes over the South China Sea to be in the United States' "national interest" all three equations came into play.
China has already played the military card, by establishing military outposts in the Paracel and Spratly islands, despite competing claims from Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. China has in recent months raised the stakes over the South China Sea, declaring a unilateral fishing ban and staging repeated naval and amphibious exercises and missile tests. Vietnam in turn has announced purchases of Russian-build Kilo-class submarines.
The economic issue is central, because of the indications that this vast tract of sea contains large oil and gas reserves... [In Full]
Last but not least, a Deepwater Horizon oil spill tragedy sitrep from the Gulf of Mexico, Courtesy of the aviation wing of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society:
We have seen less and less ocean wildlife over the past two months. What we do see is now much closer to shore than it was previously, typically within 50 miles of the coast, and crowded into the shallow waters on the coastal sides of the off-shore islands.
Within 30 miles of the coast off Caillou Bay (west of Grand Isle), and within 5 miles of the oil-scarred shores of the Chandeleur Islands, we have seen many schools of cownose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus), golden-colored and swimming very close to the surface, 20-40 in a square-shaped school. Often these rays are followed by sharks. Weâve seen small pods of dolphins, almost always swimming very fast, almost frantically in circles, and often within a few hundred meters of thick patches of brown crude oil emulsion. If we had been seeing this in beautiful clear blue water, we might have thought this was enthusiastic play, but in this toxic pool, we wondered if this isnât a sign of serious stress.
Having flown over the âwaterâ for hundreds of miles, we know that there is no clear passage for those animals to swim out of the oiled areas and out to cleaner open water, unless they first go several hundred miles along the coasts east or west and then out to open water. Do they know to do that, we have wondered? Perhaps the animals who are still here do not, and we wonder, what will become of them?
As hurricane season arrives and blows oil all over the off-shore islands, the thousands of nests with hatchlingsâpelicans, egrets, herons, and moreâthey seem doomed. [In Full]
[After the commentary, Pete Anderson laments the 'Working Class'... because "We're not workin' anymore". Courtesy of the respective artists and KPIG radio Freedom California Earth.]
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Monday, July 26, 2010
July 26 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Pentagon Papers Redux, Or How Things Come Apart For Imperial America - Afghanistan Edition
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The Pentagon Papers of the new Millennium - 90,000 pages of field reports and other intel from the last 6 years of the Afghanistan war has been "Wiki Leaked", and it's great reading... Some details. Notable information released includes facts like our drones just "aren't all that" (and they cost A LOT!).
Meanwhile, the House is getting ready to vote on the $33 Billion dollar Afghanistan/Iraq War Supplemental Spending bill as everyone else in the the world reads the Wikileaks papers documenting the Afghanistan war, lost before it ever started.
Washington DC, almost at the bottom of the list when it comes to educational ratings, has purged it's public skools with 471 'teachers' fired and another 200 on notice due to low performance and other issues.
Five American troops were killed in Afghanistan over the weekend and two naval personnel most likely SEALS were kidnapped from a civilian car. One was killed in the ensuing firefight.
There are 99 days left until the November elections and the chips are all up in the air as Congress goes on summer vacation.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has welcomed back the deported suburban spies, has assured them they are heroes, sang patriotic songs with them... more.
In OTHER News:
In the Gulf of Mexico... BAD News... Matt Simmons, investment banker and advisor to the oil industry was right. The repair for BP's oil 'leak' in the Gulf of Mexico is having... umn... unintended (though personally, expected) consequences.
Have you ever tried putting a new muffler on an old exhaust pipe?
The second you try flaring the old pipe, it starts to split due to aging and metal fatigue...
"St. Petersburg, Fla. - Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP's runaway Deepwater Horizon well â the first direct scientific link between the subsurface oil clouds commonly known as "plumes" and the BP oil spill, USF officials said Friday." [In Full]The whole substructure feeding the pipe is rotted, and the more they do to stop the flow from the pipe, the more the rest of the infrastructure will fail.
Which leads to a discussion of "American Psychosis... Chris Hedges @ Adbusters, the journal of the mental environment:
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Finally, and definitely in line with a discussion of "American Psychosis"... from the drug and immigration wars on the Southern U.S. border, monsters stalk the desert at night!
America Invaded by Ranch-Stealing Drug-Dealing Chupacabras
Tea Baggers and Minutemen and other members of the Americaâs defense against surly busboys and kindly abuelitas have got their britches in a bunch because some nitwit San Diego housewife who thinks sheâs Orianna Fallaci wrote in one of those fake online newspapers that Texas has been invaded and is being taken over Mexirican drug gangbanger goat-vampires.
Normally, most non-Texan Americans would be all , âMeh. Let them have it. Except for Austin. Or fucking secede already. Whateverâ but Kimberly Dvorak is very adamant, you guys. This is serious... [In Full]
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Friday, July 23, 2010
July 23 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The 'Next War' Could Begin Next Week - Korea... The Showdown At ASEAN
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Next week... The Korean War Redux - The US will engage in naval exercises with South Korea as North Korea threatens military action and ASEAN meets in, of all places, Vietnam, to discuss regional security. Details, and more in the commentary.
If you're unemployed, Uncle Sam might give you a lump of Coal for Christmas... Because that's about when the Unemployment Benefit Extension just passed by the Senate is due to expire
The House Ethics Committee is about to start hearings after a report on New York Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel's tax dodges. More.
Tropical Storm Bonnie, near Miami, and heading right for the Gulf of Mexico, is causing a shutdown of BP's oil spill cleanup operation... but there's entertainment ashore as the thousands of people working on the clean-up crews get down... and dirty.
See the very last item for information on the 'down'... and the 'dirt'.
Speaking of dirty, the Methane concentration in the air near the spill site is ONE HUNDRED TIMES above normal.
Colombia is accusing Venezuela of harboring FARC rebels as Venezuela accuses Colombia of war-mongering and cuts diplomatic relations.
It's Friday... as good a day as any to talk about WAR and OTHER kinds of socio-cultural mayhem:
Yours truly wants to mention that, after the commentary, from a different era, Earth Opera... Peter Rowan, Dave Grisman, John Cale, and others, want to tell you about a tragedy... The Great American Eagle Tragedy. Courtesy of the respective artists.
A quote for the day... "Wars not make one great," Yoda, Star Wars
From William Astore:
Fighting Wars Won't Make You a Hero
A snappy uniform or even intense combat in far-off countries don't magically transform troops into heroes
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Ever since the events of 9/11, thereâs been an almost religious veneration of U.S. service members as âOur American Heroesâ (as a well-intentioned sign puts it at my local post office). That a snappy uniform or even intense combat in far-off countries donât magically transform troops into heroes seems a simple point to make, but itâs one worth making again and again, and not only to impressionable, military-worshipping teenagers.
Here, then, is what I mean by âheroâ: someone who behaves selflessly, usually at considerable personal risk and sacrifice, to comfort or empower others and to make the world a better place. Heroes, of course, come in all sizes, shapes, ages, and colors, most of them looking nothing like John Wayne or John Rambo or GI Joe (or Jane).
âHero,â sadly, is now used far too cavalierly... [In Full]
A twist on the old saying "What if they gave a war and nobody came?"... From the 'lead-in' to an article by Cindy Sheehan:
This article and these observations are going to piss some people off--but oh well. You will be angry with me, even though I am not the one who is ordering more war, paying for more war, torturing people and imprisoning them without due process, destroying the economy and the environment, blah, blah, blah.
I have developed an incredibly thick skin and if I rankle, it's because I think time is running out to halt the disastrous trajectory this planet (via the US Military Corporate Complex) is on.
I promise that I am not writing this because I am holding protests and no one is coming--these thoughts have been percolating in me for months now. (Note: Remember that old saying: "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" Well, here in DC I am living the opposite: "What if they gave an antiwar protest and nobody came?") [In Full]
"Down, and Dirty"... Something that's more than a bit of a problem in the oil boomtowns of remote Canada comes to America...
BP Cleanup Workers Gone Wild... Strippers Booze, And Race Riots on Grand IsleI hear about the race riot at Daddy's Money almost as soon as I arrive on Grand Isle, Louisiana. My friend and I are going to the bar tonight to catch the "female oil wrestling" oil-spill cleanup workers have been packing in to see on Saturday nights. When we stop by the office of the island's biggest seafood distributor, he tells us that two days ago a bunch of black guys and a bunch of white guys got into a big fight at the bar. It spilled out all over the street and had to be broken up by a ton of cops.
According to the Census, 1,541 people live in this slow Southern resort town. An estimated 2.9 of them are black. That was before the spill. The seafood guy gestures in the direction of the floating barracks being built on barges in the bay to house the lower-skilled cleanup workers, and says that people think the barracks will keep those workersâwho are mostly blackâfrom "jumping off" onto dry land and causing trouble.
That night, dozens of men in race-segregated packs crowd around to watch strippers dance around and then tussle inside the bouncy inflatable ring set up inside Daddy's Money. Female oil wrestlers need, obviously, to be oiled. Plastic cups full of baby oil are being auctioned off, along with the right to rub their contents all over one of the thong-bikinied gals. "I hope there's no dispersant in that oil!" someone quips... [In Full]
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
July 22 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The More I Learn The More I Realize How Ignorant We Are - Case In Point 'The Bimini Road'
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The Finance Reform bill passed yesterday and then it was 'disappeared' from the front page and TV news opening stories by the actions of a right wing FOXNEWS blogger who edited a video to falsely show that a Black woman who works for the Department of Agriculture was racist. She was fired and then... More.
The US Attorneys who were fired by the Bush administration for political reasons (mostly for resisting time wasted on prosecution of BS immigration charges while other issues like government corruption remained unprosecuted if I remember correctly) may have been wronged, but they will not be compensated for their dismissals.
A storm in the Caribbean is causing all Deepwater Horizon cleanup surface operations in the Gulf of Mexico to be shut down by BP for perhaps a couple of weeks.
The Republican National Committee treasurer has discovered the books don't balance, to the tune of $7 million dollars in outstanding debt.
Jock-ocracy - A federal judge rules that cheerleading is not a sport and doesn't qualify for federal school sports funding.
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
July 21 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Drug Wars - A Society That Criminalizes 'Drugs' Creates It's Own Problems
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The California Highway Patrol says the man involved in a shootout Saturday night was on his way to San Francisco with weapons in an apparent plan to assassinate ACLU and the liberal Tides Foundation's members in an attempt "start a revolution", even as the Tea Party Caucus opens on Capitol Hill represented by Michele Bachman and 13 of her friends.
The Unemployment Benefits extension bill WAS delayed by Republican filibuster and a $25 per week increase has been stripped from it, so SOMETHING is happening and action is expected today. The bill, which would stabilize the incomes of large numbers of unemployed American workers currently has a $32 billion dollar price tag and despite that huge sum, will run out at the beginning of December.
Afghanistan's president Karzai says his country will be prepared to provide it's own security by 2014 and then the West can "go home". More.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approves of Elana Kagan's nomination for US Supreme Court and a Senate vote is hoped for before the beginning of August.
The Senate is also getting to work on the nomination of General Clapper for Director of National Intelligence even as the Washington Post goes into great detail about the problems with privatized outsourcing of intelligence... as reported on Monday, "The Washington Post's Dana Priest and William M. Arkin more than indirectly claim the US created a huge increase in America's counter-intelligence budget and it's data input since 9/11 and it seems much of it was outsourced to private contractors who don't 'play well' with others, leading to a situation where no one knows what's going on due to lack of cross-company communication, etc. Associated Press on the WaPo revelations. The US government IS NOT happy.... I repeat IS NOT happy, about the journalistic intrusion into their privatized 'spookworld' (Wapo reporter William Arkin's specialty)."
Meanwhile in that "Progressive Mecca" known as Santa Cruz California:
Peace Camp demonstration enters third week on courthouse steps as county officials weigh their options
By Jennifer Squires
07/21/2010
SANTA CRUZ -- Four people sit together playing bongos and a tambourine while a puppy lounges nearby.
A man wearing a bolo hat rollerblades in tight circles as tie-dyed fabric hanging from a tree flutters in the breeze.
Several people tucked into sleeping bags snooze, but the man who hung his hammock from the handrail has taken off.
No, it's not a summer music festival. This was the scene in front of the Santa Cruz County Superior Courthouse just before noon Tuesday, where demonstrators have been sleeping nightly since the Fourth of July to protest the city's camping ordinance in what they call Peace Camp 2010.
"This is a humanitarian issue," said Christopher Doyon, a 45-year-old homeless man who has been participating in the protest for about two weeks. "Folks have a right to sleep."
Demonstrators are protesting the city's camping law, which prohibits sleeping outside between 11 p.m. and 8:30 a.m. But the protest is squarely on county property and county code does not list the courthouse property among locations designated as no-camping zones like Paradise Park and Carbonera Creek.
Although the city's "sleeping ban," as opponents have dubbed it, has been a point of contention for years, frustrations hit a high mark earlier this summer when police said a man set fire to the city attorney's office because of the law. The city also is pursuing a permanent injunction against a homeless couple repeatedly ticketed for camping downtown.
A measure recently approved by the City Council allows the city attorney to increase ignored municipal code citations to misdemeanors.
But more than two weeks into the demonstration, city police have taken no action and don't intend to, unless the protest moves off county property, Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Rick Martinez said.
So the so-called Peace Camp, which includes 30-50 campers a night, presents a conundrum for city and county officials.
Some would like to see demonstrators move on. For example, court spokesman Tim Newman said the protest hasn't caused problems for the county court branch, but he was concerned campers may have impeded people's ability to access the local justice system.
However, in the 17 days since the protest began, the campers haven't caused significant problems. Trash cans fill up faster and sometimes the aroma of marijuana floats through the air, but the camp has its own portable toilet to mitigate issues with human waste, officials said.
"It looks like a slumber party," said county spokeswoman Dinah Phillips, who can see the protest from the window of her office in the county building... [In Full]
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
July 20 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Times Do Change - We May Be 'Geezers' But No One Will Ever Have That Much Fun Again
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Hillary Clinton is in Kabul meeting "President" Hamid Karzai and there will also be a meet-up with the largest group of foreign ministers, 74 of them, to ever to visit Afghanistan.
In Pakistan, Clinton brought $50,000,000 in 'aid' money, and will be on her way shortly to the ASEAN conference in South Korea, where the North Korean sinking of one of the South's naval vessels will undoubtedly be discussed even as the US prepares for naval exercises with the South.
There are 1,200 National Guard and 300 more Border Patrol officers being sent to the South border of the U.S. where there's a drug war in progress just as intense as the Bosnia wars and the Mexican government might not be 'in charge', or winning that war.
The Unemployment extension bill is still stalled in the Senate, but the first order of business today will be to seat a new Democratic senator from West Virginia and then there's going to be a, hopefully deadlock breaking, vote
President Obama meets with the Prime Minister of Britain today. One of the things to be discussed will be the release of the 'not dead yet"?' Lockerbie bomber, who was apparently also a negotiating 'chip' in British Petroleum's plan to cozy up to Libya and it's oil fields.
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Monday, July 19, 2010
July 19 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Marijuana! It's The Cure For The Massive Amount Of Bummers We Encounter Everyday
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'Tiny Bubbles' - The Deepwater Horizon gusher 'capping' appears to be successful but...
In Iraq, two attacks over the weekend leaves 43 "Sons of Iraq" dead in a payday line-up suicide bombing. The group is a US financed Sunni militia group.
Secretary of State Clinton is on a two day visit to Pakistan and will meet Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan before continuing on to the ASEAN economic conference.
More on that from ANOTHER news source (and be sure to ignore the commercial):
The Washington Post's Dana Priest and William M. Arkin more than indirectly claim the US created a huge increase in America's counter-intelligence budget and it's data input since 9/11 and it seems much of it was outsourced to private contractors who don't 'play well' with others, leading to a situation where no one knows what's going on due to lack of cross-company communication, etc. Associated Press on the WaPo revelations. The US government IS NOT happy.... I repeat IS NOT happy, about the journalistic intrusion into their privatized 'spookworld' (Wapo reporter William Arkin's specialty).
The Venezuelan government has had 1800s revolutionary liberator Simon Bolivar's body disintered to scientifically determine whether Bolivar was assassinated or died of Tuberculosis.
In light of the commentary... A GRAPHIC illustration of a known side effect to smoking Marijuana that creates fear and loathing in the heart of all known industrialized country's governments and their business communities
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