Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up'

This is the end... my only friend, the end...

U.S. Aggression towards Venezuela: The Rise of Black Propaganda and Dirty War Tactics (Again)

BushCo's attempts to take out Chavez ratcheting up a notch...

Rigorous Intuition on the Sgrena Incident

Naomi Klein weighs in with some new information (from one of my new favorite blogs).

Dr. Ewen Cameron -- CIA Mad Scientist

MKULTRA mad doctor who pumped his patients full of LSD, electroshocked them, drugged them into unconsciousness for up to 2 months, and broadcast their private nightmares into their ears.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/scotland/frontline/19oct.ram

Afghan opium a 'threat to world stability'

Heroin and war go hand in hand... just read the online version of "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia" at drugtext.org.

La plus c'est change, la plus c'est la meme chose, eh?

The LAM Statement

This has been getting a lot of play lately -- somehow the UFO/Political/Occult nexus is suddenly "hot" again.

Later, I'll be posting some of the material from my old friend Blue Resonant Human -- a brilliant, funny, and insightful Net personality from waaaay back in the heady days of Usenet.

But for now, gaze into the narrow eyes of LAM, and enter the Egg.

Gulf War Redux

One of my memetic dispatches from 1998, which just goes to show the Cabal has been up to the same tricks for a long time. Worth perusing, if only to feel the paranoiac deja vu so common to deep politics veterans.

Enjoy...?

Memetic Dispatch Early 1998

"Language is a virus from outer space"
--William S. Burroughs

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Gulf War Redux
Or: Here We Go Around the George Herbert Walker Bush Again

The Professor was recently disturbed to hear that his arch-nemesis George Herbert Walker Bush (aka Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog) was awarded the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award. Albert Schweitzer and George Bush--how often do you encounter those two in the same context? The award was presented at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Professor was there to give George some grief, along with some other veteran activists from the Baltimore area. The local media were noticeably absent, having gathered en masse to cover the Baltimore Orioles game several miles away. News is news, after all, the Professor supposes.

Yes, a humanitarian award was awarded to the man who ran the humanitarian CIA under the great humanitarian Ronald Reagan before becoming president and adding the humanitarian Contra war, the humanitarian massacre in Panama and of course the humanitarian Gulf Slaughter to his humanitarian record, not to mention winking at the humanitarian importation of humanitarian cocaine into the U.S. whilst fighting the humanitarian War on Drugs.

Yes, the preppy Skull and Bones Bushmeister is right near the top of the Professor's list of humanitarians, just below Stormin' Norman Schwartzkopf and a notch above that chick who lobbied for an end to landmine use. God bless him and his efforts to cleanse the world of Iraqi civilians in the name of liberating "democratic" Kuwait! Let's all chant together--USA! USA! USA!

All sarcasm aside, it does suddenly feel like we've time-warped our way back to the early 1990s, what with all this Saddam-Iraqi bullshit unfolding again on our TV screens. There's a noticeable whiff of fascism in the air, but this time it's tempered with a been-there-done-that sense of ennui from the general populace. These days it's the old WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION boogeyman that is trotted out to rouse the slumbering citizenry to alarm. Defense Secretary William Cohen says:

"....The U.N. believes that Saddam may have produced as much as 200 tons of VX. And this would of course be theoretically enough to kill every man, woman and child on the face of the Earth."

Good Lord! It's just like Dr. Evil in Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery! No matter that UNSCOM (The United Nations Special Commission on Iraq) has found *zero* evidence that Iraq actually possesses the stuff....because we know they *want* to kill us all, right? And isn't that enough to kill all of them?

Pardon his cynicism, but the Professor wonders how anyone can believe anything that the Pentagon via CNN/NBC/MSNBC/BBC/CBS/ABC says anymore regarding Saddam and Iraq, especially after the Hill and Knowlton (Washington PR. firm) fabrication about babies being yanked out of incubators and left to die (http://www.igc.org/fair/extra/best-of-extra/gulf-war-not-true.html) and the sickening way the "free" press kow-towed to the Pentagon and essentially became a toothless lapdog sucking at the approved Pentagon news teats (see links below).

Saddam Hussein is no frigging Mother Teresa. He gassed his own countrymen, lobbed a SCUD at Israel and rules like a despotic pig. But--for Christ's sake--hold him next to Bush and there's not a lot of difference between the two in numbers of people they've put in the ground and the terror they've caused worldwide. It's not like our post-slaughter economic sanctions against Iraq haven't been killing plenty of civilians--in particular the children, who don't give a horse's ass about politics or oil but are always the hardest hit by that vile form of "economic" warfare.

And which countries have the most WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, dear friends? Might you be sitting in a country this very moment that has enough stockpiled nuclear death to kill us all hundreds of times over? Or perhaps you're worried about those suitcase nukes that mysteriously disappeared from the Russian military? What are you, un-American? Get with the fucking PROGRAM!

During the Gulf Slaughter the Professor watched at first with amusement, then despair, then total fear as the people of this country became bloodthirsty, yellow ribbon-festooned fascist automatons spouting ridiculously vapid slogans like "Support Our Troops!"--as if anyone who didn't support the war actually *wished death* upon the poor unfortunate G.I. Joes and Janes that were forced to fight for the Kingdom of Kuwait and oil company profits!

The Professor was actually sprayed in the face with pepper spray by a bunch of Bush Youth because he had an "Impeach King George" sticker on his car, and the very same automobile was vandalized twice by bat-wielding patriotic hooligans. (Hmmm....I wonder if that happens as often to folks who have anti-Clinton stickers on their cars? Why do I doubt it?).

He was told by a co-worker that he should be "taken out and shot" for opposing the war and that "Saddam Hussein would invade the U.S." if he wasn't stopped (see Cohen's statement above for the most recent version of this idiocy). He attended an anti-war demonstration made up of thousands of *truly* conscientious, patriotic Americans, including veterans, teachers, and clergy, then watched as CNN chose to devote their coverage to the *thirty or forty* counter-protesters. Oh, yeah, they didn't *totally* neglect the mass gathering of anti-war demonstrators, because they did show *one guy* in a tie-dyed T-shirt doing some kind of free-form Grateful Dead dance for about ten seconds as the credits rolled. And you wonder why the Professor wanted to flee his native country in terror?

So, dear readers, the choice is yours. You can accept the bullshit that issues from the foetid mouth of the beast chained deep inside the Pentagram...oops, Pentagon walls....or you can scrape away the layers of filth and patiently dig for the truth. It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it.

Thus sayeth the Professor.

Suggested Links:

"Slaughter" is Something Other Countries Do
http://www.igc.org/fair/extra/best-of-extra/slaughter-not-us.html

The Lies You Were Spoon-fed!
http://www.igc.org/fair/extra/best-of-extra/gulf-war-not-true.html

The Iraq Action Coalition:
http://leb.net/IAC/

Happy Thoughts for the Day:

According to the most conservative estimates, more than one MILLION people have died in Iraq since the start of the blockade in 1990. The blockade has killed more than 567,000 CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE.
(Source: FAO Report, 1995)

More than 4,500 children are dying Every Month in Iraq. (Source: UNICEF, 1996)

Italian Leader Says U.S. Knew of Rescue Plan (washingtonpost.com)

It gets more and more interesting. The Italian official who learned about Sgrena's release was standing next to an American Colonel when they found out she was on her way to the airport.

Given the penchant for U.S. troops (under orders from their superiors) to target journalists, is it really so hard to imagine that military intelligence wouldn't attempt an assassination of a vehemently anti-occupation journalist?

An excerpt:

"Calipari put the journalist in the back seat of the car, and with his colleague driving, they headed toward the airport where a plane was waiting to take them back to Italy.

With the inside light on, Calipari sat alongside Sgrena and made phone calls to superiors to report his success. One was to an Italian official who was standing next to an American colonel at the airport, the prime minister said Wednesday, addressing the Italian Senate.

Calipari 'therefore warned the American military officials of their immediate arrival in the airport zone,' Berlusconi said."

New research opens a window on the minds of plants | csmonitor.com

I've always thought "plant rights" was the next logical progression on the road to enlightenment. Seriously.

BBC NEWS | Americas | US plans 'robot troops' for Iraq

Skynet, anyone?

Excerpt:

Mr Quinn says there are plans to replace the computer screen, joysticks
and keypad in the remote-control unit with a Gameboy-style controller
and virtual-reality goggles.

Sand artist performance

Fucking amazing performance/art. The guy is a genius.

The Gannon Cannon - Part 1 Bush Treason In Spy Whorehouse

Yeah, Skolnick's off his rocker... but is there a tiny speck of truth in this sordid pile?

Fear and Self Loathing

More on Gannon and the Franklin coverup.

George Bush in the Bubble

Excellent article. An excerpt:

"The great motorcade," wrote Canadian correspondent Don Murray, "swept through the streets of the city… The crowds … but there were no crowds. George W. Bush's imperial procession through Europe took place in a hermetically sealed environment. In Brussels it was, at times, eerie. The procession containing the great, armour-plated limousine (flown in from Washington) rolled through streets denuded of human beings except for riot police. Whole areas of the Belgian capital were sealed off before the American president passed."