November 30 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The US Government Fails - Obama's Bipartisan Meeting... Will The Republican 'Part' Care?

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 30 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The U.S. Government Fails - President Obama Holds A 'Bipartisan' Meeting This Morning But Will The Republican 'Part' Care? [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 13:25 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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[After the commentary, a short 'pitch' for fiscal sanity by the president, followed by... Jed.]

Unlucky 13 - Thirteen appropriations bills necessary to keep the U.S. government running are about to have their 'continuing resolution' expire, and the US government will run out of it's increasingly worthless money to operate unless something s done about it today. Also, the question of DADT, ensconced in the Defense Appropriations bill, will be discussed as the president meets with delegations from both parties shortly.

From the CQ Roll Call Daily Briefing:

Obama is meeting behind the closed doors of the Roosevelt Room with the top eight congressional leaders: Pelosi and Hoyer from the House Democrats, Boehner and Cantor from the House GOP, Reid and Durbin from the Senate Democrats, and McConnell and Kyl from the Senate Republicans. Also in the room: Biden, Geithner and new OMB chief Jack Lew _{[Free Subscription]}

Dateline Afghanistan: In a display confirming the suspicion we are loved and respected, an Afghan border guard (or someone who looked like one) turned his AK47 on his NATO trainers and kills 6 of them:

The incident occurred in Pachir Wagam district of eastern Nangarhar province, according to an Afghan official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information was not officially released.

It was not immediately clear if the gunman was a police officer or someone who had infiltrated the training mission. In the past, insurgents have donned police or army uniforms to attack Afghan government installations.

There have also been a number of incidents in which Afghan police officers turned on their trainers in deadly shootouts.

NATO is investigating an incident in which two U.S. Marines were killed earlier this month in southern Helmand province, allegedly at the hands of an Afghan army soldier.

On July 20, an Afghan army sergeant got into an argument at a shooting range in northern Afghanistan and shot dead two American civilian trainers before being killed. Another Afghan soldier was killed in the crossfire. In a July 13 attack, an Afghan soldier stationed in the south killed three British troopers, including the company commander, with gunfire and a rocket-propelled grenade in the middle of the night.

Also, in November 2009, an Afghan policeman killed five British soldiers at a checkpoint in Helmand. A month earlier, an Afghan policeman on patrol with U.S. soldiers fired on the Americans, killing two. _{[In Full AP @ WaPo]}

They really pay spies to accumulate this stuff... WikiLeaks has 'dumped', and almost everything revealed seems to validate what everyone who's been paying attention knew already

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to the WikiLeaks diplomatic cable leaks:

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denied yesterday that the release of 250,000 secret diplomatic cables -- on a few hundred of which have been published so far -- will adversely affect U.S. diplomatic relations. Nonetheless, she called the leaks "not just an attack on America's foreign policy interests," but "an attack on the international community-the alliances and partnerships." Regarding the unflattering descriptions of many foreign leaders and diplomats contained in the leaks, Clinton says one of her foreign counterparts told her, "You should see what we say about you.” _{[In Full @ Foreign Policy Magazine]}

It's notable, as the cables are parsed by the citizens of the world and the information assembled into useful data, that the US WAS SUPPORTING the Honduran coup in July last year.

The Cuban government is going to release eleven jailed dissidents and will release thirty two more shortly. Most will go to Spain and a few to the US.

The Supreme court is due to hear arguments as to whether California has the right to release prisoners in lieu of a Federal takeover of it's INCREDIBLY OVERCROWDED PRISONS, or 'farm the prisoners out' to privatized prisons in Idaho, Texas, and elsewhere in the US where they have chosen the prison industrial complex as a way of earning revenue for the states/municipalities and income for the locals in the form of prison guard jobs.


In OTHER News:

Hillary's 'Army'... the CIA, and their regional henchmen attempt to destabilize Iran's nuclear program, a POWER GENERATION PROGRAM by ALL impartial investigations... IF we succeed in shutting down it's development it will undoubtedly make it MUCH MORE LIKELY that Iran's oil exports will be redirected towards their own usage, leaving the WEST with higher priced oil, and MORE "reasons" for adventurism in the Middle East and Central Asia:

Bombs Strike Iranian Atomic Experts, Killing One

Bombs thrashed the vehicles of two Iranian nuclear scientists as they commuted to work today, killing one of the men and injuring the other, the Los Angeles Times reported (see GSN, Nov. 24).

Attackers on motorcycles threw the explosives or affixed them to the cars of the two men, both of whom taught at Shahid Behesti University in Tehran.

"A Pulsar motorbike drove close to Dr. Shahriari's car and stuck a bomb on his car which after a few seconds exploded," Iran's Fars News Agency quoted Tehran police chief Hossein Sajednia as saying.

"Experts are examining the incidents," the police official said. "The type of the bombs and explosive materials and the extent of damage have not been determined yet" (Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 29).

Scientist Majid Shahriari "was killed and his wife and driver were injured. [Fereydoon Abbasi Davani] and his wife have been injured," Agence France-Presse quoted Sajednia as saying.

Top Iranian officials accused U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies of orchestrating the attack... _{[Source, Global Security Newswire]}

Validating my statement at the top of this story...

"IF we succeed in shutting down it's (nuclear) development it will undoubtedly make it MUCH MORE LIKELY that Iran's oil exports will be redirected towards their own usage,"

TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Iran's Oil Ministry is setting the stage for a new era in energy despite international attempts to hamstring the country through sanctions, a minister said.
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Iran in the wake of the sanctions switched its petrochemical processing plants over to gasoline production to cope with any potential shortages. The oil minister said Iran has so far produced 264 million gallons of gasoline, which he said took Iran's adversaries "by surprise." _{[In Full @ UPI]}

In Iraq, remember Iraq? Dirty war... based solely on lies, including such callous untruths as General Tommy Franks' off-the-cuff B.S. story that "We Don't Do Body Counts" (yes they did...). We were supposed to be out of the country by now yet our military STILL seem to be there en masse along with thousands and thousands of mercenaries...

Saddam Hussein’s longtime foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, was convicted on Monday by an Iraqi court of terrorizing Shiite Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Mr. Aziz, 74, the only Christian in Mr. Hussein’s inner circle, already faces an execution sentence from another case. _{[More @ the NY Times]}

Finally, in an interview, Afghan Taliban leaders deny that the 'Peace Talks' shopkeeper was a 'plant' and suggested they wouldn't mind finding him... for a 'chat':

"In exclusive interviews, high-ranking Taliban commanders in Afghanistan respond to recent revelations that NATO officials were negotiating with an impostor.

Taliban commanders in Afghanistan reacted with amusement this weekend to news of an impostor who, by claiming he was a senior Taliban leader, managed to fool NATO officials and get invited to high-level peace talks.
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Taliban commanders also emphasized that the story of the impostor showed that the much-touted peace talks weren’t real.

“The U.S. and its allies claimed to be having negotiations with the Taliban,” senior Taliban commander Maulvi Rahmanullah said. “This impersonator exposed their inadequate knowledge of the Taliban and their poor intelligence.”

He added that U.S. military officials should have more thoroughly checked the man’s identity before showering him with money.

“If a shopkeeper from Quetta can make a fool of them and keep them engaged in talks for months, how do they believe they can defeat the Taliban?”

The impersonator was reportedly given large amounts of money for himself and others to persuade them to break ranks with the Taliban. He was also given safe passage to Kabul, flew on NATO aircrafts, and was received as an honored guest in the palace in the Afghan capital, even meeting with President Hamid Karzai..." _{[In Full @ The Daily Beast]}

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November 29 2010 Commentary: Yemen... A History - Still 'Bandit Country Of The 'Old School'... That's What The Place Is All About

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 29 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Yemen... A History - Still 'Bandit Country Of The 'Old School'... That's What The Place Is All About [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 15:53 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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Due To Delays The News Synopsis Will Be Truncated this Morning...

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However, I DO want to link to the top of the news, the Diplomatic Cable Leaks from WikiLeaks, with a quote from Spiegel, Germany and a pitch from CableGate... The folks who are coordinating the cable release document numbers with information of note.

"Never before in history has a superpower lost control of such vast amounts of such sensitive information -- data that can help paint a picture of the foundation upon which US foreign policy is built. Never before has the trust America's partners have in the country been as badly shaken.

Now, their own personal views and policy recommendations have been made public -- as have America's true views of them." ~~Spiegel, The US Diplomatic Leaks: A Superpower's View of the World

A portion of the memo from CableGate:

Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. The documents will give people around the world an unprecedented insight into US Government foreign activities.

The cables, which date from 1966 up until the end of February this year, contain confidential communications between 274 embassies in countries throughout the world and the State Department in Washington DC. 15,652 of the cables are classified Secret.

The embassy cables will be released in stages over the next few months. The subject matter of these cables is of such importance, and the geographical spread so broad, that to do otherwise would not do this material justice.

The cables show the extent of US spying on its allies and the UN; turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in "client states"; backroom deals with supposedly neutral countries; lobbying for US corporations; and the measures US diplomats take to advance those who have access to them.

This document release reveals the contradictions between the US’s public persona and what it says behind closed doors – and shows that if citizens in a democracy want their governments to reflect their wishes, they should ask to see what’s going on behind the scenes.

Every American schoolchild is taught that George Washington – the country’s first President – could not tell a lie. If the administrations of his successors lived up to the same principle, today’s document flood would be a mere embarrassment. Instead, the US Government has been warning governments -- even the most corrupt -- around the world about the coming leaks and is bracing itself for the exposures.

The full set consists of 251,287 documents, comprising 261,276,536 words (seven times the size of "The Iraq War Logs", the world's previously largest classified information release).

The cables cover from 28th December 1966 to 28th February 2010 and originate from 274 embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions...
The data usage coordination site, CableGate, is HERE

The other news items covered in this morning's Cabale News Service report are:

Congress is back in session and the nation is in danger! One of the issues to be dealt with is the highly politicized START treaty and whether the Bush Tax Cuts will be renewed, renewed and modified or..
... also extensions for unemployment, which has to get done by next week or some more millions of the out-of-work are TSOL, and the Defense Appropriations bill with the repeal of "Don't Ask Don't Tell" on the agenda

The Department of Agriculture, which has been 'investigated' for allowing racism in loans and other benefits for African American farmers... Later Native Americans were also included in the investigation, are having their victim's recompense decided by the Senate. An Apache tribe has been earmarked for special treatment by Senator Kyle, someone known for his stand against such things as 'earmarks'.

The FBI has arrested a young man in Portland Oregon after recruiting him, BUILDING HIS BOMB FOR HIM, and helping him set up a bombing of a Christmas gathering in the city's center.

Razer's editorial Note:

One thing I've noticed is that they no longer just SET people up... They set them up SPECIFICALLY for the certain homeland security laws they've created... My take... It give them test cases to check the validity and ease of conviction under those laws.

South Korea has decided NOT TO hold their disputed military exercise off the coast of a North Korean claimed island although naval exercise with the U.S. continue.

It IS notable that THERE WAS something resembling "Provocation by the South" in last week's incident of the North shelling the South's disputed territory. The South Koreans have admitted to 'accidentally firing a couple of artillery shells that fell on North Korean territory.

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November 24 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Groping For The $ - On The TSA's Feel-Ups & The Homeland Security Industrial Complex

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 24 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Groping For The $$$ - On The TSA's Security Procedures And The Homeland Security Industrial Complex [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 15:56 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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Note: Travus Will Return On Monday November 29.

The U.S. is deploying the George Washington naval battle group to the Yellow Sea to engage in 'impromptu' war games with the South Koreans and everyone else is in 'full pucker mode' while the world waits for a response from China to the North's shelling of the South yesterday. In South Korea the citizens are fearing a "national security coup" as the country's leaders 'hunker in the bunker'.

Morning Brief: U.S. aircraft carrier headed to Korea

U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak have agreed to stage joint naval exercises as a first response to North Korea's shelling of a South Korean military installation today. The exercises will include the U.S. aircraft carrier George Washington.

The U.S. faces few attractive options in responding to North Korea's latest aggression. It's clear from recent revelations of the progress North Korea's nuclear program that sanctions have not been fully effective. But more aggressive responses, such as a naval quarantine, would require thousands of troops and could result in a new war with Seoul on the front lines.
_{[In Full @ Foreign Policy Magazine]}

Meanwhile, in an apparently un-noticed and unintended show of utter hypocrisy, the US Secretary of Defense was busy with talking points about that incident while he was in Bolivia, a country which has tossed our military out of the country and refused to be complicit in America's war on the CIA's drug-running competition.

Apparently the Israelis 'scored' with the STUXNET worm, which was designed specifically to cause the Iranian enrichment centrifuges to 'go wild'. The word is out that the Iranians have shut down that project... Perhaps for security reasons, not knowing if it HAD infected their computer systems.

However, IT IS notable that the "Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent"

Gareth Porter with an investigative report in excruciating, linked detail, about the fallacies, half-truths, and "unknowns-passed-off-as-fact" in the disinformation wars about Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program.

Forty two million people in the US will be travelling this holiday weekend and 5.5 million will be flying.... If even one percent of those people take part in the "opt-out" protests of the 12 second intrusive body-scan over that period and opt-in to a 10-15 minute pat-down search, expect travel mayhem and delays at all airports in the US. But security is so tight that many of the people planning formally to engage in this protest have already been noted and may never even make it to the gates.

Also, and in light of the commentary, let it be noted that "Body Scanner Makers Doubled Their Lobbying Ca$h Over The Last 5 Years"

For more, see:

The TSA's Panic Searches & PETN: Quite Simply There Are More Ways To Blow Things Up Than You Could Ever Possibly Prevent

Just in case anyone was wondering what the TSA's panic mode search procedures are all about...

Quite simply there are more ways to blow things up than you could ever possibly prevent.

Your government doesn't want you to know that.

Further, there only seem to be two solutions to the dilemma of non-state actor terrorism.

A: Learn to live in a totalitarian police state.

B: Do something (anything!) to ameliorate the reasons WHY someone from that region of (or anyplace in the world) would want to blow up airliners with civilians on board or commit other terror acts.

I fear most Americans will opt-in to the do-nothing method... "A", than sacrifice an inch, a second, of affluent lifestyle...

...a lifestyle BTW that could not possibly last very long under a totalitarian regime and an economy necessary to prevent terror attacks.

Your government doesn't want you to be aware of that last little detail either.

Let me state this ANOTHER way..
_{[In Full @ Auntie Imperial's News & Blog Review]}

The Dalai Lama will cease acting as the ceremonial leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile which will relieve him of those responsibilities and get people used to the fact that he won't be around forever.


In OTHER News:

Congressman Dennis Kucinich slams fake Afghan elections, fake withdrawal, fake Taliban, fake everything

"The war in Afghanistan is taking place in a netherworld where facts and common sense have no place," Kucinich said Tuesday. "Elections are fake. Our deadline to withdraw is a fake. Now, we learn that a fake Taliban leader has been leading us to believe that NATO was facilitating high-level talks between Taliban leadership and the corrupt Afghan central government we're propping up."

"The only real thing about this war is the dead and wounded soldiers and civilians, the wasted tax dollars and the mounting evidence telling us to get out," _{[In Full]}

Your's truly had a rather intense FaceBook exchange over the last few days regarding what this imagery of a Russian woman:



...and this video (under 20 seconds):



...really mean...

In answer to that question, a guest post from a friend of my favorite Russian, Dimitry Orlov, socio-comedic cultural interpreter and economic commentator, on “How (not) to organize a WHAT?”, a response to "How (not to) to Organize a Community" at Dimitry's site, ClubOrlov, answers that question, and is a pretty good overview of recent Russian socio-economic history, by someone who lives it:

"This is another guest post from Yevgeny, which he wrote in response to my article How (not) to Organize a Community.

He poses what, to a Russian, seems an obvious question:
“How (not) to organize a WHAT?”

You see, upon close examination the English word “community” turns out to be all but meaningless...

English speakers all assume that they know what they are talking about when they say it, but a Russian speaker who tries to translate it ends up with the following list:
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"The level of poverty sometimes looked quite frightening, but there was something about it that provided a sense of safety and security. I remember watching news reports of street demonstrations in Moscow in 1991: a crowd chanting “Yeltsin is a traitor” marches menacingly toward a line of riot police, and a melée ensues. But we couldn't care less, because none of this had any effect on us. We were poor under the Soviets, and we were poor afterward, but we stuck together. Whenever we need to marry one of us, bury one of us, get one of us a government job, a solution always presented itself. Family celebrations never involve just the nuclear family. The house is always open, the food is brought in by the guests, and there is always a musician or two present, because after eating and drinking Russians like to sing. At moments like this you can forget that you are living in a third world country and that life is really hard."
_{[Read 'But what is "Community"?' @ ClubOrlov]}

Let that be food for thought over this 'holiday', Indigenous Annihilation Day, and let it be noted that this commenter thinks the Indigenous peoples of this continent STILL have more sense of community that ANY of the invading peoples who currently believe they own this land.


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November 23 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Too Corrupt To Survive - The Obama Administration Goes After The Wall Street 'Wolves'

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 23 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Too Corrupt To Survive In A Democracy - The Obama Administration Goes After The Wall Street Hedge Fund 'Wolves In The Hen House' [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 10:29 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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The Korean War is ramping back up with North Korea shelling a base on an island right on the North's border the South uses for war 'games'. Today when the South started firing shells into (allegedly) the waters offshore in a pre-announced 'game', the North opened up with artillery, firing over 100 shells at the island killing two South Korean Marines and 16 or 17 'civilians'. South Korean leaders held a crisis meeting in a bunker while the North warned there'd be more shelling if the South's war 'games' continue. The UN is calling for a special session of the Security Council after the US envoy Stephen Bosworth claimed (but he couldn't possibly know for a fact) North Korea initiated the artillery exchange. North Korea's officials said it fired on the island in response to artillery fire from the South.

In Afghanistan, the "Secret" peace talks with the Taliban are off after Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, the so-called Talib spokesman, turns out to be a phony, "...a "lowly shopkeeper" from Quetta, Baluchistan...", according to Western intel sources.

Folk singer Joan Baez, in her late 60s now, fell out of her home... A treehouse, while climbing down from it, and is healing from small injuries.

The FBI works a really bad neighborhood... They have gone after Wall Street's big boys, raiding and serving search warrants on three investment banks cum hedge funders who were part of the GoldmanSachs bailout, for insider trading and mis-handling of confidential information:

FBI agents searched the offices of three hedge fund operators Monday, two of which were started by former executives of SAC Capital Advisors, one of the most profitable and secretive hedge fund managers in the country.

One of the firms, Level Global Investors, is partly owned by an arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the most successful and controversial investment bank on Wall Street. The broad insider-trading investigation is also reportedly looking at whether low-level Goldman employees leaked information about pending corporate acquisitions to select clients of the bank.
_{[More @ the Los Angeles Times]}

Health & Human Services is also in action and insurance companies are freaking out... are attempting to stop or modify a provision in the ObamaCare bill that forces the insurers to pay at least 80% of their premiums receipts out in actual medical care as of January first. More @ the Chicago Sun-Times.

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November 22 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: As Time Passes The Powers That Be Will Manipulate Your Memory To Erase Past Events

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 22 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: SOMETHING Happened Years Ago Today And As Time Passes The Powers That Be Will Manipulate Your Memory To Erase Those Past Events [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 11:35 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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From today's commentary... What we've become:

"We are a nation which invades other nations and then resents the idea that the natives shoot back at us."

The Kennedy Assassination is the mind-wipe discussed in today's commentary, but something ELSE has been erased from the American mind, and it happened just a couple of days ago... 41 years ago: The Cleveland Plain Dealer Publishes Photos Of The My Lai Massacre

Now... Today's News:

Ireland's economy (for many years heavily dependent on the computer component and chip manufacturing industry) has gone broke and will accept tens of billions of dollars in cash and credit infusions into it's national bank. That event has also caused the collapse of the government with elections due in January at the earliest.

Meanwhile, the rest of the EU nations 'wait for the other shoe to drop'.

Germany is in the middle of a terror alert due to allegedly reliable reports of two suicide bombers active in Berlin from Pakistan's al Qaeda, if you believe Western intel sources, that makes them 'Osama's boys'.

The North Koreans have invited a nuclear physicist from Stanford to visit their nuclear facilities... and he did. It seems their program is just power related at the moment, then they'll figure out how to make weapons-grade material, and then they'll figure out how to make a bomb, and then they'll figure out how to missile mount it, and of course we worry about it.

The TSA chief has decided he will make no changes on their "full body scan or you get sexually assaulted" policy.

There will be large numbers of protesters this Wednesday 'opting-out' of the 12 second radiation-based scan and intentionally opting into a 15 minute pat-down. Expect holiday rush travel delays if even one percent decide to "opt out".

The NATO conference in Lisbon 'went well' for president Obama with the group approving a move in the Afghanistan withdrawal date from next year to 2014. Now he might be able to pressure the Republicans to work on the New S.T.A.R.T. treaty, but don't count on it.

In case you're wondering why the delay in withdrawing from Afghanistan is so important to our beloved president, even at the expense of the potential for an eventual dissolution-in-disgust of the NATO alliance... the Central Asian Natural Gas pipelines have become more important to the West's energy security than ever, and that's what our strategic objective IS for security in the region... NOT the security of the citizens of Afghanistan.


[Click the map for a definitive writeup on Central Asia @ the OilDrum]

COAL POWER DOWNSIZING
Is coal power headed for a downsizing in US?

"Coal power, with about 340,000 megawatts of generating capacity, today produces about half of US electricity. After expected (ed. Now federally required) emissions upgrades, the coal fleet will continue to have plants, producing about 103,000 megawatts, that are still "lacking any major emission controls," the study says. The oldest, smallest coal plants with few emissions controls make up an "at-risk" (of closure) portion that account for about 20 percent of total US coal-fired generating capacity, or 69,000 megawatts."

Utilities may close up to 1 in 5 coal-fired power plants after tougher EPA air pollution rules go into effect next year, Wall Street investment banker Credit Suisse recently reported. Coal power is losing its price edge to natural gas, too. In Full @ Christian Science Monitor

Also See: Pipelineistan Poker: It All Comes Down To The Top Two Global Players In A Global "Grand Game".


In OTHER News:

Now, a few words from Governor Rick Perry of Texas regading the 'prosperity' he's brought to his state (and a reply from Auntie Imp):

"(Texas Governor Rick) Perry said that it’s important to “devolve power out of Washington, D.C., back to the states,” which he called the “laboratories of innovation.” ... Perry pointed to the fact that Texas created 850,000 jobs during the last decade." _{[Source, Washington Post]}

Auntie's response...

Yeah, if privatized prison jobs and a 'foster care' industry which detains children forcibly, and many times illegally, when snatched from their parents by an archaic court system and then drugs (2/3rds plus) of the state's 'foster care' children using so-called 'medical' personnel, could be considered "Job Creation"

"From 1984-1996 private prisons spread like wildfire across Texas. In 1984 the first private prison opened in Texas, and by 1996 there were 38 private prisons either operating or soon to open in the state."

More, including an interactive map of all private prisons in the state of Texas with info about their operators at Auntie Imperial's News & Blog Review

Finally... and in the spirit of the season... Everyone here at Razed By Wolves and Auntie Imperial's New & Blog Review have made our Xmas Wish Lists and checked them twice... On top of those lists...

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.

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November 19 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: There Is A Point Where Partisanship Becomes Treason - The Republicans & New S.T.A.R.T.

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 19 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: There Is A Point Where Partisanship Becomes Treason - Let's Get A New S.T.A.R.T. By Calling The Republicans What They've Become [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 11:54 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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Suddenly It's Foreign relations... President Obama is in Lisbon Portugal at a somewhat contentious NATO meeting. Most members planned to be OUT OF AFGHANISTAN by 2011, but the US just unilaterally decided 2014 would be better. But "After more than 50 years of marriage, the (NATO) partners are growing weary of one another." (NATO: Following the 20th Century Into History @ Truthout). Hamid Karzi, illegitimate 'president' of Afghanistan is there to plead with them to lower their overall presence in the country at least in the urban areas and quit the nighttime raids that seem to kill civilians out of proportion to anyone who's armed.

"The time has come ... to reduce the intrusiveness into the daily Afghan life. We'd like to have a long-term relationship with America... But we'd like the Afghan countryside ... not to be so overwhelmed with the military presence." _{[More @ Newsys]}

3:52 minute consolidated report with sources from Firedoglake to CNN
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Meanwhile, SOME people (Juan Cole at Informed Comment and a guest blogger) think "Afghanistan a 'Trap'; NATO stuck There Past 2014"

But Josh Mull @ Firedoglake pretty much sums up the mood of the American people in regard to our Imperial war...

No Really, We Should Abandon Afghanistan

Afghanistan: No Withdrawal, No Reconciliation

By: Josh Mull
Thursday November 18, 2010

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on Firedoglake or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own.

Back in the summer of 2007, there was a debate in the Democratic presidential primaries over whether or not the United States ought to negotiate without preconditions with our enemies. Senator Obama said he would meet with Iranian president Ahmadinejad, among others, and Senator Clinton replied that this was naive, that it would be used for propaganda purposes, and so on.

Obama eventually won out, but the criticism of his position continued into the 2008 general election. The McCain campaign doubled down on the Bush policy of negotiations as a "reward", and they relentlessly attacked Obama as weak on national defense, cozying up with dictators - you remember the commercials.

Despite all that, candidate Obama held firm in his position that the US should negotiate with its enemies. And not just dictators and foreign leaders, mind you, but even militant groups like the Taliban. Here Obama explains his rationale to NBC's Brian Williams:

So far, so good. He uses some really unhelpful language (what the heck is a "moderate Taliban"?) but he admits that the process will not be easy or quick. . . .

Fast forward a year or so to late 2009, candidate Obama is now President Obama, and we're hearing whispers out of Afghanistan that the Taliban and Hamid Karzai have begun very quiet, very preliminary discussions. Nothing really exciting, just an intermediary or two meeting secretly in Pakistan, the UAE, and elsewhere. President Obama orders a massive military escalation in order to "break Taliban momentum" (the same Taliban who were at the time negotiating an end to hostilities), and General McChrystal (and now Petraeus) instituted his ultimately disastrous counter-insurgency campaign in the south and east of the country.... _{[In Full with links]}

An EU meeting is also coming to Lisbon after the NATO conference and president Obama will attend that conference as well, with the focus liable to be Western economic downsizing and how to avoid a general revolt across Europe as social benefits begin their government mandated downhill slide in a number of EU countries.

The US BEGINS to look at the "New S.T.A.R.T." treaty with Russia to replace the one that expired a year or so ago. There are no inspectors overseeing nuclear weapons development in either country right now, we are operating on faith, and the Republicans DON'T WANNA work on ratifying the treaty.

Further, just a day or so ago president Obama attempted to convince the Republicans that it WOULD be a good idea to have nuclear weapons inspectors in a country that, like the United States, has the capability of destroying the people of earth few times over, but the Republicans weren't impressed by that argument and continue to plan blocking the legislative action if there's an attempt to ratify.

For more about what that course-of-action means in terms of Republican patriotism, listen to the commentary.

A Judiciary committee hearings regarding Congressman Charles Rangel parking his non-oped car for too long in the congressional garage and un-reported income from his Dominican Republic rental property is in session.

Next week the battle in congress begins over the Bush administration's tax cuts and whether they should be extended or eliminated, or 'modified'.

YOU be the judge:



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November 18 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Undermine And Destroy! Political Polls Are A Shuck & Jive Contributing To A Lazy News Media

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 18 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Political Polls Are A Shuck & Jive Contributing To A Lazy News Media And It's Time To Undermine/Destroy That Process [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 10:31 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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On the TERRORISM Front, the US government just lost a case with 324 charges of murder brought against one of the peripheral people involved in the Tanzania/Kenya "al Qaeda" bombings. He WAS CONVICTED on one count of "Conspiracy to damage a federal building"... Just as a protestor might for committing a GIANT "A" (anarchy) to the edifice of the Justice Department or the like. This judicial result is leading to discussion of whether detainees at our Guantanamo "Concentration Camp By The Sea" can be tried by civilian standards. In military courts tortured evidence, discarded in this court, would most likely be admissible. More:

Landmark terror trial ends in not-guilty verdict on all but one count

Deborah Feyerick, CNN
November 17, 2010

(CNN) -- Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was acquitted Wednesday of all but one count of conspiracy-related charges, in a landmark civilian trial involving the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in civilian court.
Ghailani was convicted by a federal jury on a charge of conspiracy to destroy buildings and U.S. property, in connection with his role in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

The trial had been widely considered a testing ground for the Obama administration, which has said that it could try some terrorism suspects outside military tribunals and in civilian courts.

Ghailani's lawyer, Peter Quijano, said Wednesday's verdict was "a reaffirmation that this nation's judicial system is the greatest ever devised."

"It is a truly a system of laws and not men," he said.

The U.S. Justice Department responded in a written statement, referring to the one guilty finding by saying, "We respect the jury's verdict and are pleased that Ahmed Ghailani now faces a minimum of 20 years in prison and a potential life sentence for his role in the embassy bombings."

Ghailani faced charges of conspiracy and murder in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. _{[In Full @ CNN]}

The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange is now subject to arrest in Sweden due to a previously dropped case regarding an investigation of rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion that he claims untrue. He may seek asylum in Switzerland.

In Texas, all sides have rested their cases in the trial of former Speaker of the House Republican Tom DeLay on money laundering and election influencing charges.

Expect more of this throughout the industrialized world - The Greek police have used tear gas and stun grenades as 25,000 people in Athens take to the street over cuts in the nation's social benefits.

...And at San Francisco State University thirteen people were arrested yesterday and pepper spray was used on crowds outside the California University Regents meetings where serious cuts in university services and major (8% quoted) fee increases are about to be enacted.

Secretary of State Clinton has implored congress to ratify the New S.T.A.R.T. treaty even as the Republicans vow to block it.


In OTHER News:

JUSTICE!

A while back I reported on the closing of the Santa Cruz County Veterans Hall under the flimsiest of excuses:

...And In Razer's home town, Santa Cruz California, the Veterans who run the VFW Hall made a Holiday Dinner Announcement

There will be none.



The County closed the building, alleging it is unsafe, a situation which has prompted the United Veterans Council – of which VFW Post 5888 is a part – to bring suit against the County in Superior Court, jury trial is scheduled to commence November 15th. The eviction, and lack of offers by the County for substitute facilities, resulted in a regrettable decline of in services for veterans and the community at large. At the last Post meeting, October 6, the decision was made that the Post is unable to hold the Holiday Dinners, this year.

In other words the county has mysteriously declared the building that VFW Post #1588 (Bill Motto, ANTI-war) has used for at least the thirty five years of Razer's residence here a 'seismic hazard' because of an un-level floor and some loose plaster. _{[More Here]}

Jury says Santa Cruz County didn't do right by displaced veterans

By Kurtis Alexander
11/18/2010

SANTA CRUZ -- A jury has found Santa Cruz County negligent in its obligation to accommodate local veterans in the wake of the closure of the downtown Veterans Memorial Building in January.

The verdict reached Wednesday, which followed two days of court testimony, caps a high-profile dispute over whether the county's effort to provide space for veterans at a satellite government campus was sufficient.

"Obviously the county is going to have to go back to the drawing board now ... and rethink our location," said Bob Patton, president of the United Veterans Council of Santa Cruz County. Patton said he was pleased jurors agreed the county had been "cold-hearted and unreceptive" to vets by seeking to relocate them at facilities that didn't meet their "honest needs."

The mess began when county officials closed the Vets Hall because of seismic safety concerns. The Veterans Council responded with a lawsuit, alleging the new Emeline Avenue facility offered as a substitute for the veterans benefits office and meeting space downtown was hard for elderly vets to reach and didn't have adequate features, such as a kitchen.

Wednesday's decision in favor of the vets did not come with a directive for the county. Superior Court Judge Timothy Volkmann is expected to take up the matter Jan. 7." _{[In Full]}

NOW, to work on the city's mistreatment and criminalization-by-rafts-of-anti-homeless-cum-vagrancy laws of their massive number (per-capita) of DISPLACED WORKERS in a city that INTENTIONALLY created a situation where only college students, the upper middle class and out of town computer industry contract workers can afford a place to live.

Yours truly just had a VERY heated discussion with one SCPD Officer Clark about how the city and it's police allow people to camp outside Cinema 9 and coop against the walls of local businesses (again, illegal) without being cited for camping in plain sight... not even legal on one's own property.

About how the 'gentry' never get cited for having their dogs downtown, but traveling youths and the homeless sure do!

I was informed it was 'discretionary'

Let the city be informed that statistics ARE being compiled EASILY proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the "Discretion" officer Clark spoke of is SELECTIVELY APPLIED.

Have a nice day Santa Cruz city council...

Also, let it be noted the ABUSE of America's veterans, in SO MANY different subtle ways, is leading to a confrontation.

December 16 2010... Mark it on your calendar as the day US Veterans are going to MOVE on the White House.

There are children being orphaned, maimed or killed every day, in our name, with our tax dollars; there are soldiers and civilians dying or being maimed for life in order to generate profits for the most odious imperialistic corporate war machine ever, again in our name. How long are we going to let this go on? Until it is too late, until this destructive machine destroys all of us and the planet to boot?

Wikileaks has revealed the documented horror of U.S. war-making, beyond what any of us imagined. It's time veterans and others express our resistance directly and powerfully by putting ourselves on the line, once again--honestly, courageously and without one drop of apology for doing so. It is not we who are the murderers, torturers or pillagers of the earth.

Profit and power-hungry warmongers are destroying everything we hold dear and sacred.

In the early thirties, WW1 vets descended on Washington, D.C, (Historic Footage @ Youtube, 2:39 minutes) to demand their promised bonuses, it being the depths of the Depression. General Douglas MacArthur and his sidekick Dwight Eisenhower disregarded President Herbert Hoover's order and burned their encampment down and drove the vets out of town at bayonet point.

We are today's bonus marchers, and we've come to claim our bonus--PEACE. _{[In Full]}

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November 17 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Better Get Used To Thinking Locally - Two More Years Like This & No More Federal Government

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." November 17 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Better Get Used To 'Thinking Locally' - Two More Years Like This And The US Government Will Be 'Out Of Gas' [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 9:13 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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The circus is back in town - Today the Republicans and Democrats will select their leadership, but it's unlikely that anything will change much. There was one attempt to take Nancy Pelosi out and replace her with John Conyers, but that's not gonna happen either.

The House leader selection process is over for the day but the Judiciary committee is in full swing looking at a possible censure, but more likely a reprimand, over Charles Rangel's ethics violation conviction.

The Senate Republicans have voted in caucus to kill the practice of 'Earmarks', but it MAY turn out to be just a moratorium. It has been tacked onto the Food Safety Bill.

But are they part of the government in the same country everyone else in America lives in? The Republicans are refusing to meet as scheduled this Thursday with the President... They're also pledging to block the START treaty confirmation. Its been hanging fire for ten years. Information on START I, START II, and the New START treaty from Wikipedia.

Lisa Murkowski has apparently won the Alaska senate seat by about 8,000 votes. Even counting Joe Miller's contested ballots she's still about 3,000 votes ahead.


In OTHER News:

The BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill is going to make your food more expensive.

BP oil spill Corexit dispersants suspected in widespread crop damage

UPDATED POST: August 10, 2010

The US EPA contacted me and said the suspected "Corexit rain" was in fact jet fuel dumped by a Fedex plane (NICE!)

It seems like damage brought by the oil gusher has spread way beyond the ocean, coastal areas and beaches. Collateral damage now appears to include agricultural damage way inland Mississippi.

A mysterious "disease" has caused widespread damage to plants from weeds to farmed organic and conventionally grown crops. There is very strong suspicion that ocean winds have blown Corexit aerosol plumes or droplets and that dispersants have caused the unexplained widespread damage or "disease".

There is no other explanation for the crop damage. It's conjecture on my part but everything points to something that has a widespread effect on plants and crops. Studies on Corexit and its effects on plants are consistent with the damage sustained in the lower Mississippi area. Check out the table on page 877 of the study. While no one precisely knows, all the signs point to BP's use of aerosolized Corexit brought inland by the ocean winds or rain.

HERE IS AN EXTRACT OF THE PLANT STUDY TITLED I REFERENCED: Morphological changes observed in Paspalum vaginatum after treatment with Abura heavy crude oil (AC) or Oredo light crude oil (OC) and Corexit 9527/Gold crew. _{[More @ SFGate]}

But our food crops, specifically our grain harvests, are already in decline, and the USDA is so confused about what to tell the public that they are literally delivering conflicting data regarding the harvests across Amreica.

Sunday, December 20, 2009
You Are Being Lied To, Part 2: US Department of Agriculture Edition

"All someone needs to do to know the world is headed is for food crisis is to stop reading USDA’s crop reports predicting a record soybean and corn harvests and listen to what else the USDA saying.

Specifically, the USDA has declared half the counties in the Midwest to be primary disaster areas, including 274 counties in the last 30 days alone. These designations are based on the criteria of a minimum of 30 percent loss in the value of at least one crop in the county. The chart below shows counties declared primary disaster areas by the secretary of Agriculture and the president of the United States.

For a list of Secretarial disaster declarations, see here.

For a list of Presidential disaster declarations, see here.

The same USDA that is predicting record harvests is also declaring disaster areas across half the Midwest because of catastrophic crop losses!

To eliminate any doubt that this might be an innocent mistake, the USDA is even predicting record soybean harvests in the same states (Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama) where it has declared virtually all counties to have experienced 30 percent production losses. It isn’t rocket scientist to realize something is horribly wrong." _{[In Full]}

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