(An oil deal for Hunt Oil of Dallas, run by long time political ally of President Bush. This is part of the deal with the Kurdistan government that took place over a year ago, without much fanfare, and is a separate “sweetheart deal” than the ones for the Big Boy Oil Companies with Iraq happening this week. Did we go to war for oil companies? You’re damn right we did. Just how many US soldiers are they willing to sacrifice for a 20% rise in their stock portfolios? The world may never know. The owner of the company is Ray Hunt. He was handed his fortune by his daddy, just like Bush. And as it just so happens, he is also a member of thePresident’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He is also a board member of Halliburton and the Federal Reserve Board of Dallas. And just for good measure, he is on the Board of Trustess for the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation along with ties to the CIA.) SourceWatch.
Bush administration officials knew that a Texas oil company with close ties to President Bush was planning to sign an oil deal with the regional Kurdistan government that runs counter to American policy and undercut Iraq’s central government, a Congressional committee has concluded.
A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.
Esmin Green was involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric emergency department of Kings County Hospital Center on June 18 for what the hospital describes as “agitation and psychosis.”
Upon her admission, Green waited nearly 24 hours for treatment, said the civil liberties union, which was among the groups filing suit against the facility last year seeking improved conditions for patients.
(So close, he is… Yes, we didn’t go to Iraq to bring “freedom” like Scott McClellen says so often in his new book and on almost every interview he gives. We didn’t go for cheap oil, and we didn’t even go for oil at all; we went into Iraq for the oil COMPANIES. And that is a big difference. At some point we are going to have to redefine treason to include selling out the American people to benefit corporations at the detriment of those same Americans.)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who has introduced measures to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, said Thursday that oil executives who secretly met with the vice president in 2001 should be held criminally liable for pushing an illegal war.
“In March of 2001, when the Bush Administration began to have secret meetings with oil company executives from Exxon, Shell and BP, spreading maps of Iraq oil fields before them, the price of oil was $23.96 per barrel. Then there were 63 companies in 30 countries, other than the US, competing for oil contracts with Iraq,” the Ohio Democrat said during a speech on the House floor.
(The only problem I have with the following article, and therefore Vidal’s conclusions, is that Bush does not have the capacity to formulate the destruction of the Republic as it has occurred. He also was not present in many of the secretive meetings that took place prior to 9/11 nor was he even trusted to be in charge on Sept. 11th, when all the plans of those who wrote them back in the ’90s were to begin. Instead they shipped him off to the kids table in Florida. He wasn’t a member of the Project for the New American Century nor was he really an oil man. But yes, Bush has presided over the ruination of the American experiment is self rule; the gradual decline of true democracy in this country crumbled at free-fall speed on the morning of Sept. 11th 2001. Now the “war on terror” is the verbal main course in every debate for both parties. Candidates are ridiculed for having a “pre-9/11 mind-set” or appearing “weak on terror”.)
Gore Vidal, US novelist, historian and social critic says the Bush regime has killed all of the constitutional links that made the US a republic.
On early Friday morning Iran time, in an exclusive interview with Press TV, Vidal said that President Bush has rid the country of the Bill of Rights, habeas corpus and the entire legacy of the Magna Carta in the name of war on terror.
On December 12th of 2007, I made a mistake. This evening, for an hour I made the same mistake. I won’t make it again. I promise you that Mr. Wexler.
How long did you think you could get away with this little game of yours? Did Eric Johnson come to you one day after Kucinich put forward HR 333 to impeach Cheney, and say “hey, there’s some good numbers here from this impeachment thing. Now how can we ride on this for awhile?” Is that what he said, Robert? No wonder you pay him $120k a year + (and no wonder people say government is bloated. A Chief of staff for a congressman getting paid that kind of money while you guys up the minimum wage $2 per hour over three years.), or was it your idea to ride the courage and the coat-tails of a real representative back into office?
Today I got a phone call that professed to be a conference call on impeachment with Robert Wexler. So I listened in an took notes on what he said, like an idiot.
Watch the latest installment of “Everything Changed after 9/11″. A facinating story about how a lie has been repeatedly used to attack our constitutional protections. Yes, boys and girls, the “terrorists DO hate our freedoms”, that’s why they are wrecking our Bill of Rights every single day.
(We will stop being treated like idiots by the ruling class, when we stop acting like idiots. Imagine, Obama standing before 10,000 Americans, and he sites his “Yes we can” catch phrase expecting to start his slogan chant again, and is met with a crushing silence. Then, rising from the back at first and edging forward, “Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit”. You think they would have to work harder to explain their positions? You think they would pay more attention to their voting record if they knew we would hold them accountable when it matters? Fuck Tim Russert, that apologist spokesman for the corporate shell game that our government has been reduced to. He chose $5 million a year over his journalistic principles.)
Washington has become Versailles. We are ruled, entertained and informed by courtiers. The popular media are courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are courtiers. Our pundits and experts are courtiers. We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. It is smoke and mirrors, tricks and con games. We are being had.
One of the most successful outspoken critics of not just the administration, but the system that runs it and the bullshit myths they feed us to keep it running, George Carlin, has moved on. No wait, that’s not right for George; he’s dead. He’s a dead fuck. That’s better. He’s gone on to the digital pergatory of Youtube. He’ll be on many desktops for many many years. He has been a personal favorite of my since I can remember. Enjoy his work. “It’s all bullshit folks. Bullshit runs this nation; it’s the glue that binds us together. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. All men are equal.The American Dream. Justice is blind. The press is free. Your vote counts. The good guys win. The police are on your side. God is watching you. Your standard of living will never decline.” and I would like to add “The audacity of Hope”, “Change you CAN believe in.”.
“Nobody questions things in this country anymore. Nobody.” and we are paying for it. Why? because we are stupid and complacent cowards, that’s why. We all talk about the Founding Fathers; they would be ashamed.
(It is important to remember that this is not an accident. Nor is it a natural “correction” to the market; this economy we are suffering from is a choice that has been made to toss us all into a deep recession so that they will be able to pass the economic policies that they have been wanting to pass. The price of oil is steadily rising because of speculators (or at least, that is the new talking point on the subject. In fact, we know that Big Oil, the Saudis, and Bush’s war of choice drove up the price of oil, just like it was supposed to); the FED dropping rates devaluing the dollar at a tremendous rate; outsourcing of jobs and “in-sourcing” of them to the privatized prison system; the super aggressive lending programs of the corrupt housing markets; reduction of pay-rates through the excessive use of H1b and H2b Visas (coupled with an open border policy to our south for nearly two decades); all of these things and more have combined to strip this economy to the bone. They were all choices made by Friedman Free-Market economists waiting to drop the next “brick” on us. And it’s working. This is Disaster Capitalism at work. The next war of choice, Iran, will cast this country into a depression that will rival the Great Depression, while it makes certain families and politicians wealthy beyond all imagining.)
Clip coupons. Stop eating at restaurants. Grow a vegetable garden. Learn to do without.
Everywhere you look, the mainstream media–finally waking up to the economic reality facing millions of poor and working-class Americans–are suddenly full of “helpful” suggestions for those feeling the squeeze of rising food prices.
But are platitudes about how best to tighten our belts the answer?
