December 23 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: It's Winter And The Western Work Ethic Aside I'm Going To Cook Good Food & Nap For The Week

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The Swiss and Chilean embassies in Rome have been attacked with a series of small bombings and no one knows if it's anti-Christian Muslims or regional Anarchists with socio-economic axes to grind.

China has called on North Korea not to be provoked by the South's sabre rattling and HUGE, accelerated-pace war games even as the US Neo-Liberal media focus solely on the North's "typical bellicose rhetoric":

"We'll be sure to deal a punishing blow if the North tries to repeat the kind of situation like the artillery shelling of Yeonpyeong," Brigadier General Ju Eun-shik said in a statement.

Top news (Foreign Policy Magazine): North Korea returned to its typical bellicose rhetoric today following massive military drills by the South.

"To counter the enemy's intentional drive to push the situation to the brink of war, our revolutionary forces are making preparations to begin a sacred war at any moment necessary based on nuclear deterrent,"

said Minister of Armed Forces Kim Yong-chun. _{[Foreign Policy Magazine]}

You'll note that the quote at the top is from a Brigadier General of the SOUTH KOREAN ARMY... There's "bellicose rhetoric" to go around... yet everyone's focusing on the North's defensive stand even as the US shows no interest in restarting the six party talks.

Congress is in adjournment and the nation IS safe, until the beginning of next year when the Republicans take control of congress. As a last gesture, congress DID pass the 9/11 first responder health bill. Obstructionist Senator Coburn finally backed down after he was 'confronted' by a hundred or so sick and dying first responders in his office who may have suggested that he might be deceased before them.

President Obama has gone on his one-week-delayed vacation in Hawaii.

In OTHER News:

The US tightens the noose on Iran's finances

The US Treasury Department announced new measures on Tuesday aimed at choking finances for Iran's military and for a shipping line that Treasury says engages in illegal activity.

Treasury said it was targeting financial networks that support the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its national carrier, the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL).

"Both the IRGC and IRISL are major institutional participants in Iran's illegal conduct and in its attempts to evade sanctions," said Stuart Levey, Treasury's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence _{[Ynet, Israel News]}

...which DOES have a negative anti-American effect... in our Imperial war on the people of Afghanistan:

Iran Stops Fuel Delivery, Afghanistan Says, and Prices Are Rising

By MICHAEL KAMBER and TAIMOOR SHAH
December 22, 2010

KABUL, Afghanistan — Government officials expressed alarm on Wednesday about what they described as Iran’s unexplained ban on fuel exports to Afghanistan, asserting that at least 1,400 loaded tankers were parked on Iran’s side of three border crossings.

Abdul Karim Barahwe, the governor of Nimroz Province in western Afghanistan, said the Iranian authorities had started halting tankers bound for Afghanistan about 10 days ago. The effect is driving up fuel prices just as winter is setting in.

“We really don’t know the exact cause of the ban; Iran doesn’t officially say the cause of the ban,” he said. _{[The NY Times]}

And from Joe Bageant, some last words for the year on "...a pretty nasty case of existential unease":

AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM?
(Ignorance and courage in the age of Lady Gaga)

Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico

If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times. Such as:

How can the Americans remain so consistently brain-fucked?

Much of the world, including plenty of Americans, asks that question as they watch U.S. culture go down like a thrashing mastodon giving itself up to some Pleistocene tar pit.

One explanation might be the effect of 40 years of deep fried industrial chicken pulp, and 44 ounce Big Gulp soft drinks. Another might be pop culture, which is not culture at all of course, but marketing.

Or we could blame it on digital autism: Ever watch commuter monkeys on the subway poking at digital devices, stroking the touch screen for hours on end? That wrinkled Neolithic brows above the squinting red eyes?

But a more reasonable explanation is that

(A) we don't even know we are doing it, and

(B) we cling to institutions dedicated to making sure we never find out.

As William Edwards Deming (wikipedia entry // Razer) famously demonstrated, no system can understand itself, and why it does what it does, including the American social system.



Not knowing shit about why your society does what it makes for a pretty nasty case of existential unease. So we create institutions whose function is to pretend to know, which makes everyone feel better... _{[In Full]}

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December 22 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Obama Administration Two Year On - Setting The Stage For A Spectacular Comeback

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The Weather... weather or not - There's flooding throughout Southern California, and in the North, where they're used to gully-washing rains it's starting to turn disastrous as well. The inland California agriculture industry has also been getting thrashed by this series of intense storms extending as far East as Nevada. Most mountain passes are closed and the California flooding has caused six counties to be declared disaster areas.



In Europe the weather has shut almost everything down. There are stranded travelers-cum-refugees at Heathrow and Frankfurt airports, and across most of Western as well as East Europe. Parts of the storms even extend into Asia where a 7.4 Earthquake has been recorded off the coast of Japan/Indonesia.

President Obama has signed the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell this morning and it's expected to be acted on rapidly, as he just lost his "Dream"... The "DREAM Act" which would have made it possible to develop an army of immigrant teen killers bucking for citizenship in return for service in America's imperial army The US now needs all the gay folk it can convince that meeting people in strange lands and killing them is OK, even if the US government has to legislate Gays to be "OK" for military service.


That sentiment.. In pictures:




The Senate also managed to pass a continuing resolution funding the government... until march, at last years budget levels. This leaves the upcoming Republican majority with the necessity of creating and passing a budget for 2010 AND 2011.

In light of that continuing resolution it would behoove us not to get sick until the full budget passes because by stalling the process with continuing resolution at last year's spending levels, none of the provisions of the Health Care Bill (among other bills passed by the Obama administration) will be funded... the programs didn't exist in last years funding.

The 9/11 First Responder bill providing medical care and some stipend money should be voted on today but Senator Coburn of Oklahoma is blocking it singlehandedly.


In OTHER News:

Even as the North Koreans remain silent, and all interested international pressure has been applied on them, the South Korea army still plans to hold a huge military drill:

(Reuters) - South Korea announced land and sea military exercises on Wednesday including its largest-ever live-fire drill near North Korea just as tension on the peninsula was beginning to ease after Pyongyang's attack on a southern island.

The land drill, involving three dozen mobile artillery guns, six fighter jets, multiple launch rocket systems and 800 troops, the largest number of personnel in a single peace-time exercise, will take place on Thursday and is likely irritate the North.

The scale of the drill and the timing, coming right after the tensely staged a live-fire exercise on Monday, indicate South Korea's conservative President Lee Myung-bak sees more political mileage in taking a tough military stance rather than reverting to dialogue, despite overtures from Pyongyang.

Lee's government was heavily criticized at home for a perceived weak response to North Korea's shelling of the southern island of Yeonpyeong last month.

"We'll be sure to deal a punishing blow if the North tries to repeat the kind of situation like the artillery shelling of Yeonpyeong," Brigadier General Ju Eun-shik said in a statement.
_{[In Full with more at Foreign Policy Magazine]}

But the US doesn't seem concerned how tense it gets on the Korean peninsula and says it's "Not time for 6 party talks" (After all, we ARE THE weapons merchant to the planet and must sell weapons systems... since it's all America seems to have to offer the world in the way of industrial output)


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In the "Blame Iran" department... The UN sponsored embargo has forced the use of "High Aromatic" Gasoline in industrial and power generation use, smogging the horizon and clogging lungs.

Energy Policy in Iran Leaves Many Gasping

But even as such measures have begun to counter the worst of the pollution, a trickle of recent statements from politicians and officials have raised suspicions that the smog may have been of Iran’s own making, as officials ordered at least five of the country’s major petrochemical plants to switch production to gasoline after Western pressure led many of the world’s top refining companies to cut off Iran’s imports.

According to e-mails circulated to industry experts and reproduced on unofficial news sites and blogs, Iran’s new supply of domestic gasoline may contain high levels of aromatics — more than twice the level permitted by Iranian law. Burning aromatics in car engines produces exhaust packed with high concentrations of “floating particles” or “particulates” that, added to the typical smog caused by nitrous oxides and ozone, can cause a range of health problems from headaches and dizziness to more serious cardiac and respiratory complaints.

“Previous governments knew that petrochemical plants could produce this kind of gasoline,” said an oil industry expert who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution. “But Ahmadinejad has gone ahead and done it — despite the consequences — for his own populist and political reasons,” _{[More @ The NY Times]}

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December 21 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Downsize The US Military - A Third Path To Fix Our Government's Money Borrowing Habit

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." December 21 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Downsize The US Military - A "Third Path" To Resolve Our Government's Habit Of Borrowing Huge Amounts Of Money To Operate Itself [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 13:34 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥

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The Winter Solstice happens today at 3:38pm PST and last night a 'blood red' eclipse of the moon happened, on the same day as the solstice, which hasn't occurred since 1638 (other sources say 1632).

President Obama gets the food safety bill passed, giving the FDA some teeth, even as someone somewhere (!) in Yemen has been talking about poisoning food in hotels and tourist facilities worldwide.

Tonight is the night the US government goes broke except that it's almost assured a continuing resolution to continue funding the US government at last years levels will pass the congress.

The New START Treaty will most likely pass in a vote today after a secret congressional briefing explaining the end results of not signing it... and despite continual whining from the Republicans.

The census numbers get released today. The numbers decide a host of government issues including how many congressional seats each state has.

Ambassador-without-portfolio former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson succeeds and the New Korean War is cooling down as the abandoned six party talks on nuclear disarmament get put back on the table.

The British have detained 12 a group of people, mostly Bengalis from India, in an alleged bombing plot.

[Thanks to the Prelinger Archive @ Archive.org, repository to a large number of civil defense films and other interesting material, for the sound clip after the commentary from Our Cities Must Fight (1951).]

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December 20 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: A DOG Is A Girl's Best Friend... But Diamonds Are Just A Scam Every Step Of The Way

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Due to time constraints and other technical issues there will be no text news synopsis this morning...

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December 17 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Omnibus Spending Bill - Hard To Say What Happened But What's 'Going To Happen'...

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." December 17 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Reid Pulls The Omnibus Spending Bill - It's Hard To Say Exactly What Happened But 'What's Going To Happen' Is Harder To Say [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 10:19 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥

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(Rod Serling does the local weather... wherever you live... before the commentary)

The House passed the Tax (Break) Bill and Unemployment Benefit extension last night after a number of stalls and dodges. It goes to the White House for an expected signature now. This leaves Don't the Ask Don't Tell repeal and the DREAM ACT, allowing illegal alien teenagers the chance to fight our dirty wars for us in return for citizenship on the front burner.

Did the Republicans just bite off more than they can chew? Harry Reid just pulled the hotly contested Omnibus Spending Bill from the floor,leaving the Republicans wondering if they just got stuck with the Democrats saying "YOU make the budget then!" when they get to take the reins of Congressional leadership in January. THe US government ill run on 'continuing resolutions until such a time... perhaps February. This will backlog the whole process of budgeting for the US government's operations. More in the commentary.

President Obama Has signed a bill that prohibits HIGHLY COMPRESSED AUDIO ADVERTISING ON AMERICAN RADIO AND TV.

The International Red Cross has apparently taken umbrage to certain things in the just released Presidential Af-Pak sitrep. They say the overall circumstances of humanitarian conditions are worse than they've been in 30 years.

Meanwhile the President's report says...

...enough progress was being made in Afghanistan to begin withdrawing U.S. troops in July, even as he faces growing doubts about his war strategy.

Obama, under pressure to show results after criticizing his predecessor George W. Bush for neglecting the war, insisted that U.S.-led forces were scoring gains against the Taliban and al Qaeda but warned they were fragile and reversible. _{[More @ Reuters]}

Which of course means the advertised pullout might yet again become a surge[tm], AKA a "reverse-pullout" (It's OK Barack, there IS NO "Winning Strategy"... just GET OUT!)


In OTHER News:

In no uncertain terms... It's about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks: National Security Archive Director Tom Blanton reminded lawmakers in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee:

"...that the Nixon administration had once considered firebombing the Brookings Institution building to destroy a copy of the Pentagon Papers, and that President Gerald Ford had vetoed the Freedom of Information Act in reaction to government leaks--only to be overruled by ...the U.S. Congress...

...He called on lawmakers to protect the First Amendment, rather than adopt a Chinese model of state control" of information."

Full testimony and linkage to the C/SPAN video, more, on site.

I guess it all depends on what one means by "Survivable"
(and how bad "...a really bad day," will be):

L.A. dry run shows urban nuke attack 'a survivable event'

The plotters decided to trigger their bomb in Los Angeles during the morning rush, at a metro station a stone's throw from Universal Studios and the set where Steven Spielberg filmed scenes from "War of the Worlds."

This was no ordinary explosive. It was a 10-kiloton nuclear device packing roughly the destructive force of the Hiroshima bomb. A blast of that magnitude could engulf 50,000 to 150,000 people and reduce parts of L.A., Hollywood and Studio City — the historical heart of the movie industry — to radioactive rubble.

Al-Qaeda played no part in planning the July 28 attack. The conspirators were the leaders of a dozen state, local and federal agencies who were taking part in a simulated L.A. County security exercise code-named Operation Golden Phoenix. Their mission: to assure that if a terrorist does detonate a nuke in Los Angeles, first responders will be prepared to wade into the devastation and rescue survivors suffering from traumatic injuries, radiation sickness, shock and flash-blindness.

"This is a survivable event," says Brendan Applegate, of the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Asymmetric Warfare, who helped design and carry out the exercise. "L.A. isn't going to fall into the ocean and be gone forever. It will be a really bad day, but we need everyone to show up to work and save lives."



Do you feel better now? _{[Read the rest @ USAToday]}

Some nostalgia for the kiddies: Duck and Cover (1951) where Bert the Turtle shows us what to do in the event of a nuclear war, and apropos after a decade where we used US soldiers as lab rats to test nuclear radiation's effects on humans, , an optimistic take, like the USAToday piece... About Fallout (1963).

It's worth noting that the famous footage of US soldiers being led out to the Nevada desert to be irradiated, set to the music of Black Sabbath's 'War Pigs', has been expunged from the internet. Gone... vanished...

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December 16 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Omnibus Spending Bill - Ostensibly This Whole Fight Is Going To Be About Earmarks But

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[In light of the commentary... after the commentary, The O' Jays show some ♥love♥... of money... Courtesy of the respective artists.]

The Senate passed the tax break extension 81-19 and it's gone to the house, as the President pressures the congresscritters to finish it and get on with business. It adds $980 Billion dollars to the national debt and could be contentious among the 'tea-party' crowd. The Don't Ask Don't Tell standalone bill passed in the House and will go to the Senate where for the first time in 41 years the Defense Appropriations Bill was stalled.... over it's inclusion.

The Ninth Wave is going to be a 'wave of lard' - The US government runs out of authorization to spend money at midnight Saturday unless the Omnibus spending bill passes. The bill appropriates $1.1 Trillion dollars to run the basic functions of the US government for the period from now to the end of next September. It contains approximately 6390 earmarks totalling ONLY 8 billion dollars.

Update: "GOP will paralyze Senate floor with reading of omnibus"

(The) Republicans will paralyze the Senate floor for 50 hours by forcing clerks to read every single paragraph of the 1,924-page, $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. In full @ The Hill

The Af-Pak policy review is due out today and there is allegedly good news... A wave of analysis by the media, 'experts' and pundits should begin shortly.

In THAT area of the world the good news sort of goes like this - In Yemen several of our diplomats travelling by armored truck went out to dinner at a 'safe' restaurant but when the locals blew up the armored truck, the diplomats were in the restaurant.

Julian Assange has been released on bail. The judge refused to keep him in jail until his January extradition hearing. He's required to stay in a 10 bedroom mansion with 600 acres where he is free to roam, except the restriction he must report to the police every evening.

Also in regard to Julian Assange...

"Assange Won Readers' Poll, But TIME Chooses Zuckerberg for Person of the Year"

The mainstream media bosses at TIME over-ride popular public demand, but who ever said corporations were democracies? (They're not. At best, they emulate the business version of a National Socialist state... and that... makes... them... Evil.)

...And Naomi Wolf makes the feral feminist case for the " pimping of feminism" by the country of Sweden in regard to their alleged rape charge against Julian Assange:

Naomi Wolf

December 15, 2010

Sweden's Serial Negligence in Prosecuting Rape Further Highlights the Politics Behind Julian Assange's Arrest

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The fantasy is that somehow this treatment -- a global manhunt, solitary confinement in the Victorian cell that drove Oscar Wilde to suicidal despair within a matter of days, and now a bracelet tracking his movements -- is not atypical, because somehow Sweden must be a progressively hot-blooded but still progressively post-feminist paradise for sexual norms in which any woman in any context can bring the full force of the law against any man who oversteps any sexual boundary.

Well, I was in Norway in March of this year at a global gathering for women leaders on International Women's Day, and heard extensively from specialists in sex crime and victims' rights in Sweden. So I knew this position taken by the male-dominated US, British and Swedish media was, basically, horsesh-t.

But none of the media outlets hyperventilating now about how this global-manhunt/Bourne-identity-chase-scene-level treatment of a sex crime allegation originating in Sweden must be 'normative' has bothered to do any actual reporting of how rape -- let alone the far more ambiguous charges of Assange's accusers, which are not charges of rape but of a category called 'sex by surprise,' which has no analog elsewhere -- is actually prosecuted in Sweden... _{[Find Out How... Here]}

Also see Naomi's book: "The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" (Wikipedia entry), "...a historical look at the rise of Fascism, outlining the 10 steps necessary for a Fascistic group (or government) to destroy the democratic character of a nation-state and subvert the social/political liberty previously exercised by its citizens."


In OTHER News:

INCOMING!

Who: Veterans for Peace in conjunction with Stop These Wars and so many others...

What: Civil Disobedience at the White House

When: Right NOW!

Where: White House, Washington DC

More information on this action is available at
Veterans for Peace website
and http://www.stopthesewars.org/

Asheville North Carolina's contingent:

Two local veterans journeying to Washington, D.C., for peace rally

Margaret Williams

December 12 2010

This will be the largest veteran-led civil resistance to the wars in recent history. On December 16, 2010, Veterans for Peace and other supporters will rally at Lafayette Park, then march in solidarity to the White House. They will refuse to leave the White House, demanding an immediate end to U.S. wars, whether conducted by occupation troops, drones, or proxy, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Palestine.

Two local veterans of Veterans for Peace Chapter 99 will be joining them in Washington, DC. Ken Ashe and Kim Carlyle intend to participate in this action of nonviolently refusing to leave the White House until arrested or dragged away... _{[In Full @ The Mounain Express]}

Yowza! "U.N. Security Council ends key Iraq sanctions... Country is now free to develop a civilian nuclear program"

This should be the situation with Iran too... for the same reason. We want ther oil... Iran doesn't want to revert to developing nation status due to lack of domestic electric generatng capacity.

At least Iran is stable... see below the quote for more on that.

The U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday to lift key sanctions on Iraq, in a major step to restore the nation to the international standing it had before Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

The council lifted restrictions aimed at preventing Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction, opening the way for Baghdad to eventually build civilian nuclear plants. It also ordered the dismantling next June of the U.N. programs that since 1995 have given foreign powers control over how Iraq has spent its huge oil revenue.

Iraqi leaders have chafed at the sanctions as an affront to their sovereignty, and have pressed for years for their removal.

"The adoption of these important resolutions marks the beginning of the end of the sanctions regime, and restrictions on Iraq's sovereignty, independence and recovery," Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told the council.

In addition, the council's action allowed the Obama administration to remind Americans that it is unwinding its relationship with an Iraq it hopes is moving toward stability seven years after the U.S.-led invasion that resulted in Hussein's ouster... _{[More @ The LA Times]}

Still more at this Google News Search For "Iraq Violence" (One week view)

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December 15 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The 'Journalistic Elite' - Who Let THEM Decide On The Credentials?

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The Senate was supposed to stay in session last night until the tax bill passed but they went home claiming it will be voted on today. But there are still procedural issues before it goes to the House, where the question is "Will the Democrats stick with the leadership?". The House also has to vote shortly on new funding for government operations to the tune of $1.1 trillion dollars... with 6,300 earmarks... But it has to be passed or the US government goes broke. The stand-alone Don't Ask Don't Tell bill is also hanging fire.

President Chavez of Venezuela, in the wake of huge storms which have destroyed much of the country's transportation infrastructure, has declared a state of national emergency. Meaning the parliament, which is due to be taken over by the opposition party, has been 'frozen' in it's current configuration until the emergency ends.

The Department of Justice will appeal the Virginia District Court ruling against ObamaCare by a judge with interests in the health insurance industry.

TOMORROW, December 16 2010, US Veterans march on the White House for PEACE!

There WILL BE civil disobedience if they are not received by the White House, and there are contingents arriving from across America. Asheville & Western North Carolina will be represented, along with Minnesota and groups from across the country. There will also be vigils in support of their actions... In San Francisco where "Civil Resistance (is) Planned for Federal Building in San Francisco" as well as Rockbridge Virginia, and in hundreds of other towns and cities across America.


More info, including logistics information, at Veterans For Peace

Because war ISN'T good for "Absolutely Nuthin'".. It enriches the financial elite of America who NEVER fight these nasty extractive resource driven wars, while impoverishing the rest of us, and killing thousands of poor left no economic opportunity or choice but to join the military.



In OTHER News:

The flow chart to end all flow charts...

How the mortgage market scam hands the bankers your house AND the US Treasury.
(subhead: What you don't understand about mortgage markets CAN hurt you)

"This is what happened when one homeowner tried to reverse engineer his mortgage to find out who actually owned it."

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December 14 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: In The Face Of 'Civilization' As We Currently Know It - Julian Assange Makes Bail

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." December 14 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: In The Face Of 'Civilization' As We Currently Know It - Julian Assange Makes Bail & The 'Information Age' Kicks In [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128kbps MP3 9:05 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Twitter This Commentary

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Richard Holbrooke, America's chief envoy to Afghanistan, who had served every Democratic president since the Vietnam war, spoke chilling last words about the nine-year military conflict in Af-Pakistan before his death during emergency heart surgery yesterday.

"You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan," Holbrooke told his Pakistani surgeon before entering a 21-hour operation, the Washington Post reported.

Holbrooke was the Obama administration's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, a man whose diplomatic skills and understanding of Afghanistan and Pakistan were a valuable asset to the United States. _[More]

[Reality check: Whether his intent was to convince the Pakistanis, through the surgeon, that their support for the Talib was the context of that statement will stay with him to the grave now.]

Richard Holbrooke, as a diplomat, REALLY wasn't that bright... For a validation of that opinion see: "Simple Phrases "Diplomats" Can Say To Ensure Endless War" for one of the ugliest gaffes a diplomat can make when speaking to someone of the Islamic faith... translated, in the vernacular, as: "I'd like to take your daughter for a 'test drive',"

But he WAS a War Criminal, look here (for a graphic version, wipe the ";wap2" from the url and reload the page)

A U.S. District Court Judge in Virginia has ruled that the enforced purchase of health insurance, as required by ObamaCare, is unconstitutional. Two previous judges had ruled that the required purchase is constitutional but this judge was appointed by George W. Bush and has 'interests' in the insurance industry.

The Senate made their cloture vote on the tax package including an unemployment benefit extension last night and will most likely vote on it today or tomorrow.

San Jose California has rejected an attempt to ban all Medical Marijuana dispensaries in the city.

Julian Assange of Wikileaks is in British court today requesting bail as he waits for an extradition hearing.

Update: It WAS granted... with conditions:

If released, Assange must surrender his passport and agree to travel restrictions, adhere to a curfew and wear an electronic tracking device. He must remain at a Sussex address and report into a local police station each evening. His bail was set at £240,000 ($320,000).

U.S. documentary filmmaker Michael Moore announced on his blog that he was contributing $20,000 to Assange’s bail. British heiress Jemima Khan and other celebrities have also offered to cover his bail.

The Guardian reports that the news of Assange’s bail was met with cheers inside and outside the courtroom.

But according to the Guardian Swedish prosecutors plan to launch an appeal against the court’s decision to grant Assange bail. They have two hours to file the appeal, which would be followed by a hearing within 48 hours. _{[In Full @ Wired, with linkage]}

In OTHER News:

An American SLAVE Labor Revolt... In progress.

At least four prisons in Georgia remain in lockdown five days after prisoners went on strike in protest of poor living and working conditions. Using cell phones purchased from guards, the prisoners coordinated the nonviolent protests to stage the largest prison strike in U.S. history. There are reports of widespread violence and brutality by the guards against the prisoners on strike. _[More]

A Note on 'criminality and criminal behavior'... Some of these people may be in prison for, let's say Oxycontin... 'Hillbilly Heroin', possession and sales, and all that drug addiction implies. But the criminals at Perdue Pharma, the maufacturer, who LIED to doctors and the public about what the FDA permitted them to say in regard to it's addictiveness, creating through that act a GENERATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE HOOKED ON Oxycontin, setting them on a course for prison, WILL NOT do time.

Pardon my analysis...


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December 13 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: It WAS A Lovely Era - Books... They've Almost Disappeared From American Culture

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Due to time constraints, just a quick synopsis of the news this morning...

Richard Holbrooke, our Foreign Policy "point man" on Pakistan and Afghanistan is under the scalpel for heart surgery leaving him out of this week's final policy review on Afghanistan.

North Korea is on edge, so what do the South Koreans do? Have military exercise with artillery shelling at thirty seven bases around the country. Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who's had dealings with the North Korean government before is attempting to defuse the situation as China stands by with a momentarily hands-off attitude. The US still has about 27,000 US troops in South Korea.

At noon Pacific time, the tax bill is scheduled to go to vote in the Senate. Bernie Sanders of Vermont spoke for seven hours last week from the floor explaining how badly everyone but the rich would get screwed by the tax 'deal'.

Six American soldiers were killed and a couple more were wounded in Kandahar Afghanistan by a car bomb at the gate of one of our bases.

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