Quickly, Carefully, and Generously

Drill:

I will not accept that the end result of all this financial mayhem is the result of the free market.
This is the result of very powerful people using their power to subvert the life saving signals that a free market will send to people telling them TO STOP WHAT THEY ARE DOING!! Those signals are being intercepted at every conceivable point in the market. From the press(MSM financial manipulation of epic propartions) to Gold prices(GATA has more than proven their case that gold is being manipulated by National banks the world over), to prices to governmental reporting.
All of it is being manipulated in an attempt to keep the con going a little longer. Because the whole system is based on a confidence game, HENCE THE NAME!! A confidence man can only keep swindling people if the MARK keeps having confidence in the man who is deceiving him.
Imagine a confidence man(swindler, grifter, whatever the hell you call him) who has the ability to control all the information around you. He could keep you in the dark for years, because there wouldn't be anyone around you to scream at you "HE'S CHEATING YOU!".
We are in the same boat as an entire society. The people around us who are supposed to be screaming STOP are not doing it, because they are part of the swindle.
They are blocking all signals to the average person, that the system is fatally broke and a realignment is coming full force at them.

Life After the Oil Crash Forum / Daily Economic Update 24.Jun.08

Iran all the way home:

"This time it will be largely the Air Force's show, punctuated by missile and air strikes by the Navy," writes McGovern. "Israeli-American agreement has now been reached at the highest level; the armed forces planners, plotters and pilots are working out the details."

raw story
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Jewish General To Pilot Evangelical-Friendly Air Force

the callousness required to defend the decapitation of a six year-old as necessary retaliation

Chris Hedges:

We confuse how we feel about courtiers like Obama and Russert with real information, facts and knowledge. We chant in unison with Obama that we want change, we yell “yes we can,” and then stand dumbly by as he coldly votes away our civil liberties. The Democratic Party, including Obama, continues to fund the war. It refuses to impeach Bush and Cheney. It allows the government to spy on us without warrants or cause. And then it tells us it is our salvation. This is a form of collective domestic abuse.

Fanonite

45 million gallons of easily available fat:
Barbara Ehrenreich's modest proposal could resolve the fuel crisis

George W. Bush is living proof:

Most of the Left does not hate evil; hatred of evil is primarily found on the Right. With exceptions such as Tony Blair and Joseph Lieberman, virtually the entire Left finds evil far less disturbing than global warming, smoking, economic inequality, and drug prices. And with the exceptions of "paleoconservatives" such as Pat Buchanan, most of the Right regards the use of American power to vanquish evil as the greatest good the U.S. can engage in.

TEN LESSONS FROM SADDAM HUSSEIN'S CAPTURE
by Dennis Prager
Wall Street Journal
December 17, 2003
via Lobe

whale meat embezzlement ring

The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised:

The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to brace for a full-fledged crash in global stock and credit markets over the next three months as inflation paralyses the major central banks.

"A very nasty period is soon to be upon us - be prepared," said Bob Janjuah, the bank's credit strategist.

Evans-Pritchard/TelegraphUK

People have been kind:
Chris Locke
Frank Paynter
Sheila Lennon
Barry Pike ?
and large-hearted Tom Matrullo.
Thank you, fellow humans.
The problem isn't so much bad luck or artificially induced karma, but my inability to groove with the economy on its terms. This is what happens when you don't participate adequately. There's a smug heart to it all that repels me, but that's getting its ass handed to it now across the board.
Here we all are watching the fluttering bits of information precipitate. What does the world look like today. Tomorrow. There I was comfortable and now am not. How many others just like that. Hard work and plenty of it. Stubborn refusal to compromise means you stick out, they like it when you do cause you can be beaten down and that's fun. Jesus at the bottom of the pile, or near it. But we all have to eat. Where does the food come from? How to extend the line of living.
And then medical disaster. Or are those integral, do they fit together somehow, the necessities of health all patented and copyright and my goodness that's a lot of money.
What I need is a job. Lots of people in that boat now. And any sense of my own pathetic condition is modulated completely by the sight and knowledge of whole families with young kids slipping off the shrinking edge of the common endeavor.
Humility's in the cards, but assertion, you have to insist on the rightness of your own being or the dark will eat you.
Maybe I could get a job at this office.

crazy rasberry ants

It's getting hot out here:

If you live downwind from us, you might want to pay a little attention to what's happened to Navajos living on a 26,000 square mile reservation that spans the Four Corners region where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado meet. For three generations now, they have been breathing uranium-laden dust from mine tailings and drinking from wells tainted with minute traces of radioactive mining waste. From 1946 into the late 1970s, more than 40 million tons of uranium ore was mined near Navajo communities.

More than a thousand mines were abandoned on the reservation. For every 4 pounds of uranium extracted, 996 pounds of radioactive refuse was left behind in waste pits and piles swept by the wind and leached into local drinking water. In addition to the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Navajo miners who sickened and died of cancer and respiratory illnesses -- it's hard to say just how many, since nobody in power bothered to keep track -- epidemiological studies reveal a terrible ongoing toll. Navajo children living near the mines and mills suffered five times the rate of bone cancer and 15 times the rate of testicular and ovarian cancers as other Americans. Exposure to uranium has also been linked to kidney damage and birth defects.

Chip Ward/TomDispatch

ad astra per:

Under the theme "Why should we go to space?" the newly elected Chairman of the Committee, Ciro Arévalo Yepes, cited Professor Stephen Hawking in his opening address:

"In a way the situation was like that in Europe before 1492. The discovery of the new world made profound differences to the old. Spreading out into space will have even greater effect. It will completely change the future of the human race and maybe determine whether we have any future at all. Hopefully, it would unite us to face a common challenge," he said

UN/ScoopNZ 22.Jun.08
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If the situation is "like that in Europe before 1492", then the situation is also like that in the so-called New World, the Western Hemisphere, in 1492. What happened then, what was done to the people already living in that New World, can't be seen as right except by abandoning right and wrong altogether.
Bringing those same attitudes to the stars, the arrogance and self-righteousness that ignored the lives of those already living there, that allowed their genocide and enslavement, may not be the best thing the human race is capable of, even now. The common challenge is internal, this should be more obvious now than ever.

an international day of solidarity with the hunger strike on 22 June
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Baghdad Calling
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Bush in London

Robert Fisk:

The refugee statistics are so appalling that they have become almost mundane. Four million of Iraq's 23 million people have fled their homes – until recently, at the rate of 60,000 a month – allegedly more than 1.2 million to Syria (a figure now challenged by at least one prominent NGO), 500,000 to Jordan, 200,000 to the Gulf, 70,000 to Egypt, 57,000 to Iran, up to 40,000 to Lebanon, 10,000 to Turkey. Sweden has accepted 9,000, Germany fewer – where an outrageous political debate has suggested that Christian refugees should have preference over Muslim Iraqis. With its usual magnanimity – especially for a country that set off this hell-disaster by its illegal invasion – George Bush's America has, of course, accepted slightly more than 500.

IndependentUK

What matters is that a highly-decorated and highly-respected former FBI agent has been caught lying about knowing a man that was shot down like a dog in the street by enraged Houston police.

Spicer fucked up the ship channel contract:

The evening before Carnaby was shot, a man approached Carnaby and two friends at Houston's Capital Grille, a favorite meeting spot for Houston's business elite. A man, pretending to be inebriated, went up to Carnaby and acted as though he was an old friend. He was carrying an open bag, the type in which "to go" food orders are usually placed. Carnaby reportedly reached for his concealed handgun and told the man he had never seen him or met him before. The man apologized, quickly left the restaurant, and drove off in a car with diplomatic license plates. Carnaby's associates now believe the man was assigned to the Israeli Consulate General in Houston.

Wayne Madsen offers a scary heads-up for possible 9/11 false-flag Reichstag event Houston July 4.

IRAQ: Home to Too Many Widows
Ahmed Ali/Dahr Jamail
via Uruknet

Peter Dale Scott:

In my book The Road to 9/11, I have argued that there has existed, at least since World War Two if not earlier, an analogous American deep state, also combining intelligence officials with elements from the drug-trafficking underworld. I also pointed to recent decades of collaboration between the U.S. deep state and al-Qaeda, a terrorist underworld whose drug-trafficking activities have been played down in the 9/11 Commission Report and the mainstream U.S. media.

Still to be explained is the suppressed anomalous fact that al-Qaeda’s top trainer on airplane hijackings, Ali Mohamed, was simultaneously a double-agent reporting to the FBI, and almost certainly still maintained a connection to the CIA which had used him as an agent and helped bring him to this country in the 1980s. It is not disputed that Ali Mohamed organized the Embassy bombing in Kenya; and that he did so after the RCMP, who had detained him in Vancouver in the presence of another known terrorist, released Mohamed on instructions from the FBI.

From this historic background of collaboration, I would offer a hypothesis for further investigation: that the American deep state is somehow implicated with al-Qaeda in the atrocity of 9/11; and that this helps explain the conspicuous involvement of the CIA and other U.S. agencies in the ensuing cover-up.

Sibel Edmonds, the Turkish-American who was formerly an FBI translator, has publicly linked both al-Qaeda and American officials to the Turkish heroin trafficking that underlies the Turkish deep state. Although she has been prevented from speaking directly by an extraordinary court order, her allegations have been summarized by Daniel Ellsberg:

Al Qaeda, she's been saying to congress, according to these interviews, is financed 95% by drug money - drug traffic to which the US government shows a blind eye, has been ignoring, because it very heavily involves allies and assets of ours - such as Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan - all the 'Stans - in a drug traffic where the opium originates in Afghanistan, is processed in Turkey, and delivered to Europe where it furnishes 96% of Europe's heroin, by Albanians, either in Albania or Kosovo - Albanian Muslims in Kosovo - basically the KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army which we backed heavily in that episode at the end of the century….Sibel says that suitcases of cash have been delivered to the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, at his home, near Chicago, from Turkish sources, knowing that a lot of that is drug money.

Global Research

GWB possible RC:

However, it is thought unlikely that Mr Bush would convert until after he has left office. Jeb Bush, the president's brother, has already converted to Catholicism.

Catholics have noted that during the contested election in 2000, Jeb Bush travelled to Mexico and prayed to the icon of Our Lady of Guadelupe. His victory was announced by the Supreme Court on December 12, the feast day of the Lady of Guadelupe.

TelegraphUK