Justice Wins Baby

Intelligence Community Overhaul that Pre-empts Plame's Outing.

2007-07-11T11:05:00.000-07:00

The May 03, 2001 Intelligence Community overhaul was one of the first items Cheney pressed after settling Bush v. Gore. That let establish narrative backgrounds for eventual action in the Middle East. Other items later sided with this expansive colonial ambition.

Here was the original excerpts of Intelligence Community.gov listings:

Intelligence Office (Dep't of Energy)

The Office of Intelligence (IN) provides the Secretary, his staff and other policymakers within the Department timely, technical intelligence analyses on all aspects of foreign nuclear weapons, nuclear materials and energy issues worldwide.

Policy & International Affairs

The Office of Policy and International Affairs' role is to deliver unbiased advice to the Department of Energy's leadership on existing and prospective energy-related policies, based on integrated and well-founded data and analysis.

The Office of Policy and International Affairs has primary responsibility for the Department of Energy's international energy activities including international emergency management, national security, and international cooperation in science and technology.

National Nuclear Security Administration

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has the following mission:

To enhance United States national security through the military application of nuclear energy.
To maintain and enhance the safety, reliability, and performance of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile, including the ability to design, produce, and test, in order to meet national security requirements.
To provide the United States Navy with safe, militarily effective nuclear propulsion plants and to ensure the safe and reliable operation of those plants.
To promote international nuclear safety and nonproliferation.
To reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction.

Associate Administrator for Facilities and Operations

The Associate Administrator for Facilities and Operations provides program organizations with science and production facilities ready and available to perform NNSA's core missions.

Facilities and Operations is responsible for establishing and directing, through the field elements, an overarching field operations framework that includes five major functions:

support for operations, resource management, human capital, enterprise management, and contractor performance evaluation;
advocacy, policy development, management oversight, and resource management for those infrastructure and facilities mutually agreed upon with the programs to be the responsibility of F&O;
advocacy, policy development, and management oversight of environmental, safety, and health programs;
project and construction management;
and safeguards and security

The Associate Administrator for Management and Administration provides timely, cost-effective, and efficient administrative and financial support for NNSA headquarters staff.

Management and Administration customers include executives, managers, and employees across all units of the NNSA complex. Its core functions are the following:

Design and administer the corporate planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation (PPBE) system
Provide NNSA corporate systems and policies to manage NNSA's human resources
Develop and implement NNSA corporate information policy and requirements to ensure that NNSA staff have the necessary tools and practices to manage information in a cost-effective, efficient, and secure manner
Provide general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters operations
Develop and implement NNSA-wide procurement policies and procedures, provide advisory assistance to components on contracting matters, and monitor NNSA compliance with those policies and procedures

Approved as of May 3, 2001

About...

Associate Administrator for
Management and Administration

Mission

Provide timely, cost-effective, and efficient administrative and financial support for NNSA headquarters staff.

Functions

M&A customers include executives, managers, and employees across all units of the NNSA complex. Its core functions are the following:

Design and administer the corporate planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation (PPBE) system
Provide NNSA corporate systems and policies to manage NNSA's human resources
Develop and implement NNSA corporate information policy and requirements to ensure that NNSA staff have the necessary tools and practices to manage information in a cost-effective, efficient, and secure manner
Provide general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters operations
Develop and implement NNSA-wide procurement policies and procedures, provide advisory assistance to components on contracting matters, and monitor NNSA compliance with those policies and procedures

Internal and External Relationships - M&A will work closely with all NNSA components to ensure that they get the support they need to adopt consistent business practices. M&A will be the primary link to the DOE-CFO organization and OMB. M&A will encourage participation by the components in the development of new business practices to ensure that the new practices meet components' needs.

Changes in Structure and Staffing - Management and Administration will comprise the following six offices: (1) Office of Human Resources; (2) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (3) Office of Procurement and Assistance Management; (4) Office of Administrative Services; (5) Office of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation; and (6) Diversity Programs. M&A will consolidate administrative functions performed by both DP and NN, as well as manage several additional functions (such as personnel and procurement) required to maintain a semiautonomous agency. There are five offices and one smaller unit in Management and Administration. M&A will have a staff of approximately 110 federal and rotational assignment employees. NNSA employees who now perform M&A functions in the program components will move into M&A. Chart 3 shows the Planned Organization of the Associate Administrator for Management and Administration:

a. Office of Human Resources (HR)

Mission - Work as strategic partners with the program and support component managers to ensure that NNSA's human resources management policies and practices facilitate the effective management of the entire NNSA workforce.

Internal and External Relationships - The CIO will act as principal information management and information technology advisor to the NNSA Administrator and other senior managers. The CIO will work with DOE-CIO to ensure that NNSA has developed procedures for implementing DOE policy. The CIO will coordinate with the NNSA cyber security experts in NSSP in the development of a shared vision and corporate policies for NNSA's federal and M&O contractor information activities and champion NNSA's policies to allow the effective management of information and to provide for corporate systems that add value to the businesses of the NNSA.

The CIO will assist, as needed, the Office of Administrative Services in its coordination with the DOE-CIO Offices of Operations, Engineering, and Customer Service to provide network and telecommunications engineering and management services for NNSA programs, initiatives, and activities. The CIO will maintain liaison with, and coordinate and prepare NNSA positions and status reports for, the federal Chief Information Officer Council, OMB, GAO, Congress, and other organizations

Functions - The CIO will define the information and information technology architecture and related needs of all offices within NNSA headquarters, field elements, and Management and Operating (M&O) contractors. Customers include the Administrator, senior managers, field offices, and program and support components.

Core functions include the following:

Chief Information Officer - Provides central oversight and, where appropriate, management of information resources activities within the NNSA headquarters, field offices, and M&O contractors
Business Applications - Ensures that the Administration's recorded information is managed in an economical, effective, and efficient manner throughout its life cycle in support of mission accomplishment and accountability
Operations, Engineering, and Customer Service - Provides advice and technical support to the Office of Administrative Services to ensure delivery of vital information management and information technology services in support of NNSA enterprise requirement

Changes in Structure and Staffing - The majority of CIO functions will require new positions to be created to meet the semiautonomous requirements for NNSA. Several positions will be filled from the consolidation of NNSA employees who now perform CIO functions in the program components.

c. Office of Procurement and Assistance Management (PAM)

Mission - Develop and oversee implementation of DOE and NNSA-specific policies, procedures, programs, and management systems pertaining to procurement and financial assistance, real and personal property management, and related activities.

Functions - PAM will focus on setting NNSA procurement policy, identifying opportunities for improvement and innovation, and monitoring transactions to identify and resolve system and process problems. The office oversees NNSA headquarters and field procurement staff (heads of contracting activity) and the major facility contractors' purchasing systems. PAM will rely on DOE-PAM for execution of NNSA headquarters transactions and for NNSA-unique policy deployment. Its customers include managers, directors, and staff across all units of the NNSA complex.

PAM's core functions include the following:

Serve as the principal procurement advisor to the NNSA Administrator and assist the heads of all NNSA elements regarding procurement and acquisition management
Serve as NNSA's Competition Advocate and ensure full and open competition in the procurement of goods and services in accordance with Public Law 98-369, the Competition in Contracting Act

PAM will also have a close relationship with NNSA's Office of Field Operations Support and Office of Project Management and Engineering Support to ensure that procurement policy is reasonably consistent with the operational needs of the field sites. Oversight and monitoring will be accomplished by using DOE-PAM performance-based and on-site techniques used agencywide (which may be necessarily tailored for NNSA's unique needs).

Changes in Structure and Staffing - New positions will be created to meet the semiautonomous requirements for NNSA, some of which may be filled through consolidation of current NNSA and DOE resources. New staff recruitment will be focused on expanding expertise in large-scale acquisition as it relates to the PPBE-style budget environment and advancing innovative practices in federal procurement management, particularly performance-based incentive contracting.

d. Office of Administrative Services (ADMIN)

Mission - Oversee and coordinate general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters, and ensure that such services are provided to the Administrator and to the NNSA program and staff offices.

Functions - The reorganization plan assumes that NNSA will utilize many of the existing services already provided by the DOE's Office of Administrative Management and Support. These functions comprise primarily central mail receipt and distribution, transportation and domestic travel, engineering and facilities services, and other services as required by NNSA. In addition, it is assumed that the administrative support capabilities currently in DP and NN are needed there and will therefore remain in those organizations. However, for those offices that do not have in-house support capabilities, the Administrative Support Staff will ensure that such services are provided. This will ensure that NNSA employees do not experience any deterioration of services.

The primary role of Administrative Services is coordination and facilitation. Its customers are NNSA headquarters organizations. Its core functions are the following:

Serve as the primary interface and liaison between NNSA and the DOE headquarters offices that provide administrative services to NNSA and its program and staff offices

. Office of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation (PPBE)

Mission - To provide direction, advice, and maintenance regarding processes and systems that facilitate NNSA's planning and budget activities.
Functions - The PPBE Office comprises the Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) Division and the Budget Division. Customers of this office include the Administrator, Deputy and Associate Administrators, NNSA program managers, and the Management Council.

Core functions of PPBE include the following:

Develop and implement the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation System (PPBES) for the NNSA
Serve as principal advisor to the Administrator and other NNSA officials on NNSA financial issues
Provide direction and oversight for budget formulation, presentation, and funds administration processes
Provide direction and oversight for the PPBES implementation
Maintain all systems and databases necessary to support the Future Years Nuclear Security Plan (FYNSP)
Provide independent financial analysis in support of NNSA resource allocation decisions

The Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) Division provides independent, analytic advice in support of the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process to support NNSA objectives. PA&E supports the NNSA as an independent organization under the Director of PPBE. PA&E's primary responsibility is to provide its customers-NNSA program managers, Deputy and Associate Administrators, and the Administrator and his Management Council-with expert independent, analytic advice regarding the following:

Development and evaluation of program alternatives and the cost-effectiveness of nuclear defense systems, nonproliferation projects, and the infrastructure necessary to support national defense objectives
Optimization of resources through complexwide integration and risk mitigation strategies
Major systems-acquisition analysis and support recommendations

f. Diversity Programs

Mission - Advise NNSA officials about the effects of NNSA policies, regulations, and other actions on NNSA's minority employees, and develop ways to increase participation of small and disadvantaged businesses in the Administration's programs and procurement opportunities

Approved as of May 3, 2001

The DoE move was the first part of the stovepipe, the rest of it comes off the OSP/WHIG, working along the Defense Undersecretary for Intelligence in the new command structure set in place on that date.

Cheney shaped the Intelligence Community prior to 9-11

2007-06-25T23:15:00.000-07:00

Intelligence Office (Dep't of Energy)

Policy & International Affairs

National Nuclear Security Administration

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has the following mission:

To enhance United States national security through the military application of nuclear energy.
To maintain and enhance the safety, reliability, and performance of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile, including the ability to design, produce, and test, in order to meet national security requirements.
To provide the United States Navy with safe, militarily effective nuclear propulsion plants and to ensure the safe and reliable operation of those plants.
To promote international nuclear safety and nonproliferation.
To reduce global danger from weapons of mass destruction.

Associate Administrator for Facilities and Operations

The Associate Administrator for Facilities and Operations provides program organizations with science and production facilities ready and available to perform NNSA's core missions.

Facilities and Operations is responsible for establishing and directing, through the field elements, an overarching field operations framework that includes five major functions:

support for operations, resource management, human capital, enterprise management, and contractor performance evaluation;
advocacy, policy development, management oversight, and resource management for those infrastructure and facilities mutually agreed upon with the programs to be the responsibility of F&O;
advocacy, policy development, and management oversight of environmental, safety, and health programs;
project and construction management;
and safeguards and security

The Associate Administrator for Management and Administration provides timely, cost-effective, and efficient administrative and financial support for NNSA headquarters staff.

Management and Administration customers include executives, managers, and employees across all units of the NNSA complex. Its core functions are the following:

Design and administer the corporate planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation (PPBE) system
Provide NNSA corporate systems and policies to manage NNSA's human resources
Develop and implement NNSA corporate information policy and requirements to ensure that NNSA staff have the necessary tools and practices to manage information in a cost-effective, efficient, and secure manner
Provide general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters operations
Develop and implement NNSA-wide procurement policies and procedures, provide advisory assistance to components on contracting matters, and monitor NNSA compliance with those policies and procedures

Approved as of May 3, 2001

About...

Associate Administrator for
Management and Administration

Mission

Provide timely, cost-effective, and efficient administrative and financial support for NNSA headquarters staff.

Functions

M&A customers include executives, managers, and employees across all units of the NNSA complex. Its core functions are the following:

Design and administer the corporate planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation (PPBE) system
Provide NNSA corporate systems and policies to manage NNSA's human resources
Develop and implement NNSA corporate information policy and requirements to ensure that NNSA staff have the necessary tools and practices to manage information in a cost-effective, efficient, and secure manner
Provide general administrative services and logistical support for NNSA headquarters operations
Develop and implement NNSA-wide procurement policies and procedures, provide advisory assistance to components on contracting matters, and monitor NNSA compliance with those policies and procedures

a. Office of Human Resources (HR)

Core functions include the following:

Chief Information Officer - Provides central oversight and, where appropriate, management of information resources activities within the NNSA headquarters, field offices, and M&O contractors
Business Applications - Ensures that the Administration's recorded information is managed in an economical, effective, and efficient manner throughout its life cycle in support of mission accomplishment and accountability
Operations, Engineering, and Customer Service - Provides advice and technical support to the Office of Administrative Services to ensure delivery of vital information management and information technology services in support of NNSA enterprise requirement

c. Office of Procurement and Assistance Management (PAM)

PAM's core functions include the following:

Serve as the principal procurement advisor to the NNSA Administrator and assist the heads of all NNSA elements regarding procurement and acquisition management
Serve as NNSA's Competition Advocate and ensure full and open competition in the procurement of goods and services in accordance with Public Law 98-369, the Competition in Contracting Act

d. Office of Administrative Services (ADMIN)

The primary role of Administrative Services is coordination and facilitation. Its customers are NNSA headquarters organizations. Its core functions are the following:

Serve as the primary interface and liaison between NNSA and the DOE headquarters offices that provide administrative services to NNSA and its program and staff offices

. Office of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation (PPBE)

Core functions of PPBE include the following:

Develop and implement the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Evaluation System (PPBES) for the NNSA
Serve as principal advisor to the Administrator and other NNSA officials on NNSA financial issues
Provide direction and oversight for budget formulation, presentation, and funds administration processes
Provide direction and oversight for the PPBES implementation
Maintain all systems and databases necessary to support the Future Years Nuclear Security Plan (FYNSP)
Provide independent financial analysis in support of NNSA resource allocation decisions

Development and evaluation of program alternatives and the cost-effectiveness of nuclear defense systems, nonproliferation projects, and the infrastructure necessary to support national defense objectives
Optimization of resources through complexwide integration and risk mitigation strategies
Major systems-acquisition analysis and support recommendations

f. Diversity Programs

Approved as of May 3, 2001

The above exceprt of the Intelligence Community.gov's original listed press publicity page backgrounds the overhaul of internal review within the Intelligence Community that Dick Cheney's influence helped to shape within the DCI. Adding Energy Dep't to the IN was the swing vote to override all opinion within the framework of review for what would be presented to the President to shape policy.

PAM, under the NNSA, in the Dep't on Energy, most likely the introductory characters were in place under the diversity program. Cheney is an energy baron's wet dream, he changed how the balance of review was seated to favor his odds, and used politically correct language to justify the personnel overhauls...

Youre On Notice! - The Stephen Colbert "On Notice Board" Generator

2007-06-17T09:22:00.000-07:00

Youre On Notice! - The Stephen Colbert "On Notice Board" Generator

New Polling Standards for GWB.

2007-05-13T15:02:00.000-07:00

We've been told often that more persons would rather have a beer with George Bush. than any other politician. Perhaps those who believe David Broder is a Man of the People feel this way.

Most Americans clearly despise the notion, or harbor a chance to tell him how poor a supposed leader he is given such a chance, or would only the on the notion Bush is buying. Or they're too proud to even make that part of the arrangement and prefer to go dutch so they can the enjoy the brand of beer as they do their own opinion, and not feel obligated to associate loyalty or respect position in the company of thier own valued time to enjoy drink.

So let us forego the notion most Americans would want to have a beer with George Bush. Granted it would perhaps be the most benign that man could be depicted, minus driving inferiority and Oedipal motivations he apparently harbors or projects as motivation.

The more important issue is would you let the man have your car keys? Friends don't let friends drive drunk. Would most Americans trust the President to drive their car?

Webb turns corner, Dean should arrive to the same point.

2006-11-11T12:52:00.000-08:00

Carville is already carving up the turkee and trying to get Dean into a retaliatory sound byte.

Howard's learned the art of restraint and will play it low key when confronted with the issue. You'll be surprised how he changes the topic towards key domestic issues.

He should make the point that nobody questions health care for the troops, but some groups don't fulfill the obligation.

We need to expand this concern towards all Americans, we can model health care availability and pricing upgrades towards our troops as a way to help do the same for all Americans.

Bring medicine costs down with bulk purchase power.
Oh, since everyone says "President Bush" or "Senator McCain" we need to say "Dr. Howard Dean" and emphasize his health care expertise.

You saw how James Webb turned the corner from foreign policy towards socioeconomic concerns. Let's see every Democrat find a way to do that. Take an issue of the war and contrast it to similar concerns in your local/national races.

Carville thinks he called Dean out. Howard should not hammer him, he should keep his focus on the message.

Ark. Reps make 1st District race into the worst district race...

2006-11-03T09:32:00.000-08:00

"First District race about style"

"Rep. Marion Berry is being challenged by Cabot mayor Stubby Stumbaugh"
by Chuck Bartels (AP)

"US.Rep.Marion Berry says he'll be able to do more for his district if he is re-elected and Democrats regain the majority in the House. His Republican opponent, Mickey "Stubby" Stumbaugh, says Berry doesn't have much of a record to build on.
These men are running for the 1st District seat in Congress that Berry has held since 1977.
Stumbaugh, 39, is mayor of Cabot and worked 15 years as a police officer in Little Rock, where he drew 33 days worth of disciplinary suspensions. He has also gone through two divorces and one bankruptcy, though he says he has "learned from" all of his mistakes."

Please add this to the list of scandals on the GOP scorecard, and add mention of your note that the Arkansas republican party has ties to DeLay's dirty ARMPAC/Abramoff funding.

Lebanon's Engagement Narrative.

2006-07-18T15:25:00.000-07:00

We as a country must address the Mideast war that is raging from an engaged point of view. Isolationism after Word War One led directly towards the accelerated rise of state fascists. These catalysts were borne of polar opposites across the spectrum of post industrialized cronies. It was evident that a state of engagement was the only way to deal with problems that accompany development. Thus determinism is weighed in matters of exchange, both parties in matters must have their needs met or at least considered and integrated within any accord met.

Growth can metasticize unchecked, we've seen the record marks hailed by venture interests collapse under its ambitious speculation when the reality it shapes incites reactionary terror. The gains and advance of technology, along unprecedented pace, takes repeated body blows from the dual pronged burnback that manifests.

Across a broad base of scale economies there is record disenfranchisement and inequity. Items that must be(and usually are) addressed at peacetime now languish as collective empowerment is rendered quaint. This produces counter developmental sentiment that adheres to traditional old model cultural doctrines and still does assimilate within the new interconnected model of value exchange.

That is the second prong, a new movement inside the ranks of the established that sees opportunism in playing the same previous held bias and norms against other such schools of belief and institutions. These young, affluent, upward moving, mobile profiles form the teeth of terror that can work across the awareness of long perceived assumptions. Yet they can easily move within the spheres of influence whose ideals and underpinning they claim, and shed them at a moment's notice when it best suits their appetite.

This background simply helps establish the narrative our world community must encounter to win the interests of a better tomorrow. We've seen little coordinated progress within the hot point of scale geopolitical economies in the Mideast. This is where the strongest hands of each interested party play, and each with the most loss of capital. Human capital, spiritual capital, and of course the base mores of our world economy find key elements within this crucible. Myrrh and anger are the cup which is being partaken of. The baptism of bloodletting makes for more such moments in other regions of the world community.

Within such context does Prof.Juan Cole develop conversations, his Informed Comment often highlights the realities our world must now deal with. A reply that could pertain to each of the threads he has currently placed at the site is as follows:

'Well to hear Neutered Gingrich speak, Israel is on the side of peace and justice and is the biggest victim.

This is email sent to a friend on the same topic:
"The Newt Gingrich formula for casualties magnifies casualties in Israel on a comparative scale with USA population. Every eight people to him equals the equivalent of 500 Americans.
Well, Lebanon has comparative scales of populace as well. Over forty people killed would equal 2,500 people.

So think of Lebanon having undergone a 9-11 worth of deaths for its defense of soil against a contractor and retaliation afterwards when Israel went full scale reactionary.

Gingrich and his fuzzy math... Meat the Press and Timmeh.

MR. GINGRICH:" No. I mean, I think it is explicitly wrong and I think Senator Biden and I are basically in agreement on this. It is explicitly wrong to bring pressure on the victim. I mean, Israel did everything it could to withdraw from south Lebanon, and the result was terrorist missiles. Israel withdrew from Gaza, creating an opportunity for a self-governing Palestinian people to create a place of prosperity, and theyÂve created a place of terror. And I think for us to now sayÂimagine that was Miami. Imagine Miami had missiles being fired at it every day. Remember that when Israel loses eight people because of the difference in population, itÂs the equivalent of losing almost 500 Americans. Imagine we woke up this morning and 500 Americans were dead in Miami from missiles fired from Cuba. Do you think any American would say, ÂNow, we should have proportionate response. We shouldnÂt overreactÂ? No. We would say, ÂGet rid of the missiles.Â And, and John F. Kennedy, a Democrat who understood the importance of power in the world, was prepared to go to nuclear war to stop missiles from being in Cuba.
I donÂt, I donÂt think that, that any realistic
As for the replies in you site, can you confirm if the soldiers were captured in Israel?
Were the rockets launched in retaliation to bombings done after the soldiers' capture?"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13839698/page/2/
What is this of eight casualties, I only heard of two soldiers kidnapped. Have they padded the casualty total to craft a victimization narrative?

The total killed has changed, the location has been changed three times, I could have sworn the original report was a border 'patrol' that was over the border in Lebanon.

I'll apologize if wrong about the soldiers' location...

The timeline seems to be have been blurred. The specifics and chronology are at issue. The google function sends such a mix of events and blurs the time distinction.

Again the other post I sent it was noting how a biographer on cspan went into the Kennedy archives that England housed. She found a wealth of information and one of Kennedy's most trusted advisers was from there. His time in England while father was Ambassador in 1938 gave him a wealth of insight to someone whose politics were the opposite of his family philosophy.

He saw Winston Churchill's directive to make statements and reach accord as a starting point as a key.

Doing so in this instance would help shape the Mideast but if we only side with one country then it will lead to mistakes down the road. Alienating one side of the conflict will simply harbor resent. Lebanon could be Afghanistan on steroids."

Bush already fumbled such initiative and left himself to antics of foreplay with an EU member before getting the cold shoulder(literally). From Cold Wars to cold shoulders, how far we've fallen.

Note again that Kennedy saved strongest words for the times he was least expected to state such(early debates, meetings with the supreme Soviet).

He used golden tones and exchange, the flavor of engagement, to establish support at other key times.

As others note he may not have the kind of arching support necessary to do this now. Lebanon has been prepped for a campaign by assassins and pysops, so the targeting of infrastructure fits the entire paramilitary approach we see Israel exhibit at this point in time.

Syria was bullied out after its closest sympathy was shot. Bush now expects Syria to be the major player in this? Has he really lost his mind? How could he remain this adroitly uninformed?

Lebanon is the end of the trans Arabian pipeline. That is a big key in terms of energy. Post peak Sauds hid dwindling supplies with oil for food, channeling the under the table purchases to hide their own shortcomings.

The post peak OPEC states all have stakes in this(Lebanon and Iraq) by proxy.

Look at the USA and where its bases have been established- along the route of a northern Iraqi pipeline that is matching to the same destination of the transarabian pipeline, inLebanonrn lebanon and overlooked by Golan.

Follow the Money. Negroponte's broGreekis a greek shipping magnate and the Mediterranean is the doorstep to EU's market, postpeak.

It looks like we're steering an increased concentration of state funds towards the neocons established money operatives. The Wolfowitz way...

Israel has indeed employed ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, Sharon made a name doing it. The sister state of Rumsfeld/Lebanon in the early 80s, the same place the bin laden magnates profited off the pork. Osama decided to shed the disco daze of excess and apply rigid idealogues towards new ends. Strangely enough it crafts and shapes the same outcome for contractors.

War is a means to a means. War forever. In Iraq until 2016 with a blank check and diebold to control the domestic backlash. Israel will develop burnback and needs it to maintain its own victims narrative. See also the Mossad unit that celebrated WTC collapse after shadowing the Embry-Riddle flight crews that we trained under the guise of Saud allies.

The brazen neocons don't even hide it anymore.

As for the initial stats in your thread the numbers, when tweaked under the Gingrich model, are quite disturbing indeed:

Parvati said...

Latest Lebanese casualty figures (info from major Italian daily "La Repubblica", Rome:
http://www.repubblica.it/2006/07/dirette/sezioni/esteri/mediorient/18luglio/index.html - item timelined 17.00 hours)

240 deaths in Lebanon due to Israel's bombings so far.

Breakdown:

- 212 civilians
- 23 Lebanese Army soldiers
- 5 (five) Hizbollah militants.

"In addition to Lebanese citizens, the civilian deathtoll includes 7 CanBrazilianBrasilians, 2 Kuwaitis and a Jordanian.

Immense damage to Lebanon's infrastructures:ports, airports, major highways and hundreds of buildings."

6:35 PM

Tha would be almost 500 Canadians, 370 Brazilians, 120 Kuwaitis, and 60 Jordanians killed as collateral effect.

Then you would have roughly 350 Hizbollah party members inflatere inflator formula, party members are being called terrorists regardless. if such is the designationscignation for the Likud, and can their membership be included in terror rankings for human rights and NGO groups?

Twenty three Lebanese army members is the equivalent of about 1,750 Americans lost under the Gingrich formula. That would not make much headlines in today's media as we've seen with Iraq. For the first three months of the invasion they told up close life stories of almost every casualty in America, now they're a closing list, in PR terms a 'tease.' That is to say they are a fifteen second feature.

Now comes the Gingrich formula as we must apply it to the following list:

212 Cilivians in theformulach formula is the equivalent of thirteen thousand, two hundred and fifty Americans, per capita.

That's genocide numbers in any book. Prof. Cole makes a valid point. The projected total 13,250 is no small amount of lives.

Let's apply this Gingrich formula for civilians to both sides to see exactly how much urgency this war has created. Go a step beyond that, as the example set by Mr. Berg, a candidate who lost his son to torture and beheading. Upon hearing of another's death, the person credited in his son's killing, he said no man's death is to celebrate, every loss in this war has become his loss as well. By channeling the energy and spiritual capital of people on both sides of this we've created an immense deficit of value and to end this we must end the fighting.

-Chris H.'

In addition, one must take into account the numbers of our world population, one person in four is of Muslim faith, so the Gingrich per capita multiplier manifests much more resent towards the side given the freest hand in this matter. Both sides are targeting people who are of not of strategic or tactical value outside of creating retaliatory victim narratives or reverse spin. There's no other reason to go after them thjustifiede justifed. If the supposed narrative applies towards them, it should apply towards both sides.

Since religious belief flavors most opinions in favor of either side in total, let us examine some of the possible words that could determine asatisfactorytsifactory to that set of values.

Luthertin luther King Jr. spoke briefly in Birmingham, having been stabbed, about the bold approach towards enemies in forgiveness and love. Matthewrs matthew Chapter Five in the speech and applies it in modern terms towards hate crimes.

"...basic content is the same, new insights and new experiences naturally make for new illustrations.

So I want to turn your attention to this subject: "Loving Your Enemies." It's so basic to me because it is a part of my basic philosophical and theological orientation the whole idea of love, the whole philosophy of love. In the fifth chapter of the gospel as recorded by Saint Matthew, we read these very arresting words flowing from the lips of our Lord and Master: "Ye have heard that it has been said, "Thou shall love thy neighbor,thinhate thine enemy." But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven."

Certainly these are great words, words lifted to cosmic proportions."

The context of the sermon on the mount was one of instruction. Christ toured the region teaching, and numbers of people followed beyond the ability of a building to hold them. Fittingly he relied upon the environment to host such throngs, outside the scope of one particular institution or denomination, a body of many varied backgrounds.

In today's terms the scope of such would be the body that most governments find agreed principals with in the UN. Unfortunately its own internals allow disinterested groups to block any such dialog in real terms. The Security Council has within its design impeding roadblocks towards consensus.

So we must broaden the scope of the sermon, of King's inspiredo inspried by it, towards the context of its instruction. The Chapter before backgrounds the travels of Christ leading towards the fifth chapter. He brought many with him along the way, its symbolism is of heightened importance towards today's regional conflicts.

"19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.

23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, ... and he healed them.

25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan."

Syria, the land of his mother's birth, is explicitly mentioned. This design so includes its sentiment with that of the traditional great symbols of faith within the Holy Land, judea,Jerusalem, Jordan all follow.

Also the call was to leave the father and the profession and life's trade towards a greater purpose. Both sides must cede some key points to find agreement. Leave the suppositions and instructions of the father, with respect towards such but in new and tolerant accord.

Remember, much of the world is watching. To call for a ceasefire and an end to violence is the fiGeopoliticallyolitically, we see other reasons emerge. The post peak OPEC interests see both a putsch for fiscal gain and divergence from their owntacticsl tactiics take precedence over any supposed loyalties. Tribalism takes on different meanings as a result, in terms of subjective value.

America has already helped set the table for such actions, pressuring Syria out then moving in upon their former partner. Such a move isolates the land from much of the Mediterranean sphere. This is done to a country that was one of first supporters on 9-11 and just thereafter.

Israel continues its real time apartheid under the modicum of monotheism. Plurality is the design of true democracy and should essentially be a fundamental tenet of Abrahmaic faith. As stated above, we're all sons of Beruit, we're all sons of Jerusalem. All within the world community, to establish tiered society based on differences is to dilute the potential of all societies.

2004-09-16T22:40:00.000-07:00

"I feel the need to point out that Great Britain has somehow managed to hold hearings for the suspected Al Queda they arrested recently without jeapordizing their sources.

Oh, wait, those sources were outed weren't they--by Condileeza Rice."
Dorothy | (atrios comments 9-17-04)

Hamdi's dad worked for exxon also? Condie Rice worked there.

Bet there's a paper trail or pipeline deal that someone had to make final out of this. Yellowcake in Nigeria- where Chevron pumps 2 million barrels a day of oil? Condie used to be on their board and had an oil tanker named after her? And the company has killed native Africans to drill oil there and keep the majority poor while doing so?

It is not like Condie really cares about going after real AQ members, ask Britain.

Finally, the release of Hamdi was an attempt to spin vote in Detroit and other key Muslim polling places as damage control. He was not given fair and speedy trial. In fact he was given no trial. He was 'released' ( so called lousy media pro-Bush spin for the term "deported") in time to make a save face in the diebold states. WHO (republicans in particular) cares if they don't vote or support the Bush regime domestically, the media Meme will be "Bush bounce among Muslims..." and let deibold steal the votes in a couple of key urban areas.

Final note- Ashcroft failed record as prosecutor rears its ugly head again.The next excuse will be precedent on Moussaoui- whose trial will send the AZ trail of energy lobby cash right up Ashcroft's alley. Just ask Arthur Andersen the Enron account company and compliant sniveling nod-along McCain. Find a way to mess that up next, not like the executive branch listened to the Phoenix memos anyways, or their appointess... all damage control that will feature redactions and delayed trial procedure to cover the evidence this was linked to.

If Hamdi was guilty why was he not brought to trial?
If he was innocent why was he held?
He is a U.S. citizen , having his rights waived via coercion and having been born here... people only seeing name and skin color have passed judgement. If he's guilty give a trial to see the facts and establish example of just cause, obviously such never existed in these regards or if it does the AG is simply not qualified enough to follow through. If no evidence to hold a citizen was available it is obvious that the Constitution has been breached.

This is an outrage. There are Muslims in our armed forces and in our communities who make our country great as much as anyone can or does ( the Osama I know of is a lifesaving surgeon by the way) and if we do not hold their rights in high regard we hold none in such esteem... A sad day for the founding ideals.
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What Mike Moore did not tell us...

2004-08-31T23:03:00.000-07:00

What Moore did not tell us...
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What Moore did not tell us... some people never could connect the dots even when they are in straight line. Michael Moore lays out some numbers in logical order and follows the timeline as the media has failed to acknowledge. For the camera footage he specifically used perhaps not but he could have backed that information up with the following links which shows what was happening all along.These ducks are in a row on public record and anyone could take a shot at them, right Scalia?

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What Moore did not tell us...
Google John Ellis (no not John Ellis "JEB" Bush, the other inbred John Ellis in the family tree,
who worked Fox news and called FLA for Bush...

First link of his venture capital firm search on google which the CSpan boss man gave out listed mellon(scaife) bank.

He's so right(Ellis) we are just being elitist to go after his cousin's failed policies.
G.H. Venture Partners, a venture capital firm... other links suggest a vital role in Homeland Security and Patriot act subcontractors but they are a pay-to-see basis...

Surely it is just another coincidence, like the year 2000...

How could we know a monolith-worshipping chimp would herald mars and beat his way to the top of the primate pack with a braying jawbone of an ass and smirk as the defining moment to date of space exploration's industry?

My eyes are wide shut to the symbolic irony... so much to look forward to only to be thrown back. Just a matter of social darwinism applied to the finer aspects of evolution's progress and man's attempted enlightenment.Technology takes back seats to social darwinism every time.

Here is the pipeline trail... that Moore mentions in his movie in the making circa 1996.
Mellon-Scaife was a formative backer of the diebold ES&S trails that helped insert Noriega... Hagel used the same methods here.Minus the diebold office thefts Republicans are in the 40% range for state governorships and Congressional positions. Hagel in, Cleland out.And the band played on...

Diebold was directly involved with the efforts to quell attempts at limiting money transfers the terrorists used because of their ATM market share.

And this company has a list of superpower globalists and names of note. The case in point this thread is its relation to the vote scam that enabled Bush and the money trail that is directly related to 9-11 and the PNAC stratagems. Well the Finance Council in the first of those three links ties these seemingly unrelated elements together directly.

You see Moore could have told us this in the movie but that additional personas would distract the leadership failure of the Chief Executive.

THE SCLM SHOULD FOLLOW UP WITH THIS:

Robert E. Allgyer, Partner, Arthur Andersen. (Enron's account firm and the initial appointed attorney for John Walker Lyndh).Gillespie and Enron are directly linked to Andersen.
Merlin L. Alper, Vice President and Deputy Controller, Madison Square Garden. (Paying the support at the RNC).
Imperial oil,Amaco,petroseed,Texaco, telecomms(Access,Motorola,Sprint,AT&T).

Joseph L. Dwyer Jr., Deputy Director, General Services, and Controller, U. S. General Accounting Office.

Ellis name? Gerald R. Ellis, Director, Xerox Services, Xerox Corp. (There is a CIA firm for you...the best Iran business link would be IBM and IBM-Xerox would perhaps be an item to search there... Chalabi connections?) They are making the mideast theirs and as long as their people hate us it gets overlooked...and vice-versa ad infinitum.
Linda A. Frietsch, Manager, West Coast Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.(Another INTEL lobby)
H. Russell Justice, Vice President, Facilities and Services, Walt Disney Co. (Hannity-Limbaugh)
Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States.

L. Patrick Deering, Chairman of the Board, Riggs, Counselman, Michaels & Downes Inc.(There is the Riggs-bin laden link via the money trail)

DynCorp (contractors anyone?)
McDonald's, Kmart,Sony,many more to list and the reason the media is silent because top pressure demands it.
Donald Ercole, Tax Partner, Ernst & Young.

Lorne H. Parker, Manager of Risk Management, Bechtel Group Inc. (Cheneyburton link)
Robert J. Smith Jr., President, Madison Insurance Co. (Madison knows Bush bailouts...)
Gordon J. Feeney, Vice Chairman, Royal Bank of Canada. Russell Banks.

Clyde E. Dickey, Partner and Senior Advisor, Arthur Andersen & Co. SC.
Dr. Gail H. Marcus, Office of Nuclear Reactor, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
AMA's newest center, located in Islamabad, provides state-of-the-art learning facilities

DAVID K. DIEBOLD.
DAVID A. RIGGS

AMA CENTERS AND LOCATIONSUNITED STATESAMA HEADQUARTERS1601 Broadway.

New York, N.Y. 10019-7420.

(tel.) 212-586-8100.

(fax) 212-903-8168.

AMA SARANAC LAKEP.O. Box 319, Trudeau Road.

Saranac Lake, N.Y. 12983.
Anyone pursuing a civil suit on 9-11 ought to subpoenae this group...and each company member listed in full for full disclosure and transparency.

So you see why the media is vested in this for ad revenues and telecomm stocks, the military industrial vertical integration across borders for global PNAC efforts, and the clincher:

Thomas F. McBride, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Ingersoll-Rand Co. (Ingersoll-rand, Condie Rand Rice! Their subcontractor firm in gemrany issues the paper trail and is run by an American).

The First Latin American Human Resources Conference was held in Buenos Aires in April. The theme was "How to Align Human Resources with Your Business Strategy," and the program attracted 150 participants. International speakers were led by Jac Fitz-enz of the Saratoga Institute; Cabot Jaffee, CEO of Electronic Selection Systems Corp.; and Kate Owen, [bold]British Petroleum's director of organizational development[/bold] and training.
South African Top Management Forum was keynoted by statesman [bold]Henry Kissinger[/bold] and Cyril Ramaphosa, secretary general of the African National Congress. The TMF, which was held in Johannesburg in October, attracted an audience of 113 senior executives, most of whom came from within South Africa.
Diebold is vested with the pipeline deal via this association, the media has too much fiscal interest to out this, Bush is doing the Kissinger/Perle PNAC bidding as told. The bin laden financiers are directly vested in the pipeline with Riggs Bank and directly linked to the Bush family's new world order.Diebold was probably the money transfer source for terror transfers.
The So Called Lousy Media is due an outing. They will not do it. Buddhists burned themselves in the street, Ghandi went on hunger strikes. It will take people doing things of such nature to demand action,civil disobedience. Thought King died so this would not happen again.

The guy wearing a black hood was ahead of the curve. We need to start a media campaign to interview him and see he is okay.

This is how much money you are up against. Moore didn't have time to tell this, giving voice to the people who have paid in human terms this miserable failure is what he featured, a story which tells itself for the most part and unites in shared tragedy.

The media is a cornered rat trying to discredit him , and republicans are shying away from Bush photo ops and head-on meetings with Dems on the talk show circle. Nothing left to do but let journalists interview one another about how brave they think each other is to tow the party line...
pravda plus commericals! the best of both worlds thanks to the new world order!

Moore just showed the dots, the SCLM refuses to connect

dKos threads from my diary...

2004-08-31T22:23:00.000-07:00

Needs be a reliable backup in case he gets blog overloads...

Help 'preciated...
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The Senate vote record for Mr.Kerry lists nothing on appropriations.
The Senate.gov site lists no votes past the most recent fiscal year in row call forms.

The 87 Billion Kerry voted for and helped amend included a PAID FOR VOTE.

Since Bush's 87 billion was not paid for it has drained quarterly totals as well in terms of interest.

Which appropriations number was it, unless the number is known backtracking interest is difficult.

We need to see the interest compiled plus the remaining balance and have a fair comparison of the difference between Bush's bill and Kerry's.

Finally another portion of the Bush bill included private security contractors for a Florida financial summit that featured strongarm treatment of peaceful assembly protesters. Many of the security hires were alien torts as well. Remember this 10,000 strong armed force was about the time that Bushco started asking to count visa/greencard jobs as American work force stats for the Dept. of Labor.

So we have three comparisons in the Kerry 87 billion vote to make Bushco's lowly deeds be compared to a paid for plan.

Our soldiers still go undersupplied? The Bush bill passed so it cannot be on Kerry. It will be made known in the debate.

Yeoman's poll:
by Mr Murder

Sat Jul 31st, 2004 at 18:34:23 GMT

Who would you like to have a beer and share company with? Supposedly George Bush is that man, but given the following choices he should perhaps finish last...
Tell us what beer it would be as well. Aside from Heineken(high end) or Old Style(my tab)... I'd settle for an autographed batch of Billy Beer.

Poll
Who to drink with...
· John Kerry 75%
· George Bush 0%
· Billy Carter 16%
· Roger Clinton 8%

Votes: 36
Results

Who to drink with...

John Kerry 27 votes - 75 %
George Bush 0 votes - 0 %
Billy Carter 6 votes - 16 %
Roger Clinton 3 votes - 8 %

What about Obama? (none / 0)

Personally, I would like to have a brew with Obama. He's about my age and from the interview with Andre 3000 (on the end of real time with Bill Maher)he seems very down to earth and personable. Kerry on the other hand, he comes off as The Boss, very serious which is what is need in the Oval office.

Take Bubba's stick away from him and beat him with it.
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I'd like to drink with Bush (none / 0)

Maybe then he'll stop acting like a dry drunk, acting out irrationally, and compulsively spending our tax money like a drunken sailor. His actions are definitely those of an unrecovered addict.
Give him one drink and we can only hope he won't stop drinking until he's hit bottom. Only then can we possibly stop him from indulging in this reckless behavior. Unfortunately, things would probably get worse for us before it gets better for him. And if he's incapacitated by drink while still in office, the puppetmasters will probably take complete control and we are truly fucked.

Oh, well. I guess I'll just drink with Kerry. At least if he got drunk, his babbling would be interesting.

"Strength and wisdom are not opposing values" ~ The Big Dawg

by John Campanelli on Sat Jul 31st, 2004 at 23:07:18 GMT
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Kerry now garners that choice with straight talk. (none / 0)

Bush is the odd man out as usal. Obama is someone to lead discussions on all kinds of topics, but somehow it strikes me less that he would be the kind to drink now.
His experiences with such were during times he was still finding himself and lokking for a vision to decide upon. He's there now.

The point of the poll is that beer drinking is not a Presidential prerequisite. Cart and CLinton had brothers who were great to drink with but by no means were of themselves Presidential.

It just shows how low the standard is set with GWB. Traits you would not want of a mayor of school board member, the lowest levels of Executive authority, becomes the 'damage control motto' of Bush.

I was going to Bill Clinton on the list, after the fact. But he doesn't play in this current poll and his brother is beating Bush at his "strength" in the poll.

Born in the West Wing-Bring It On!

by Mr Murder on Sat Jul 31st, 2004 at 23:07:31 GMT
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Having had the displeasure (none / 0)

of Roger Cinton's company up close and personal, I must warn the three of you who voted for him that you would end up clawing out your own eyeballs in an attempt to get someone to call 911 and rescue you from his boorish, ignorant, sexist, drug-addled and thoroughly enervating "conversation."

Maryscott O'Connor -- Rage, rage, against the lying of the Right.
by Maryscott OConnor on Sat Jul 31st, 2004 at 23:34:49 GMT
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Billy Carter's deceased (none / 0)

which could make for a very interesting conversation, if you believe in those sorts of things.
I'd opt for him hoping maybe he'll bring some interesting denizens from the afterlife along. But only because of that.

(And I'd drink a Rolling Rock, if I had to drink beer. Find I don't like beer so much in my old age.)

"Consult the genius of the place in all things" - Alexander Pope

by a gilas girl on Sun Aug 1st, 2004 at 00:10:54 GMT
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oops (none / 0)

Sorry about that. It would make an autograph more valuable as well.
Next round toast to the memory, tip the bartender, and rest in peace.

Well the Roger Clinton pick comes with Mena Cocaine or Hillbilly Crank. Until the Afghan flights can come in. The new Bush contras will arrange that soon...

Born in the West Wing-Bring It On!

by Mr Murder on Sun Aug 1st, 2004 at 03:49:44 GMT

Post election meme...
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This information should be pursued once office is secured. Diluting the powerful 1-2 kick of an inclusive eoconmy and a world policy that makes sense and limits loss are two selling points of merit enough.
We have a prosecutor and lawmaker who served with courage personally. We have his wife as an opinionated philanthropist/charitable mogul.
Then we have a self-made lawyer, his professional homemaking wife, in childraising exemplary mode. He is a gifted speaker who will make a case for a better America to the world abroad and to Congress within the Senate as a potential tiebreak vote.

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The respect for procedure and attention to detail of John Kerry coupled with Edward's ability to state a clear case that can win over a jury of voting peers is enough.
Remember after we're in office what must become priorities:(follwing is my atrios comments post)

Jimmy Carter was big on enviro, education issues. And balancing a budget. Seems the CIA wing decided to push war with Iran back then.

Got ours back alive. Lost some soldiers covertly unfortunately. But he did not get us into Armageddon scenarios and got Camp David accords to succeed.

It seems we made stands on values then. Embargo to Iraq for their treatment of people on human rights. Iran was an holdout oil enemy at the time with hostages. Then our Saudi allies deliberately tightened spigots to cause a recession. It profited them enormously.

Carter was making inroads to mileage standards, and even renewable energy.

The community college here was quite a bold undertaking. It was designed to be the first fully powered solar facility. It was burdened then. About the time semiconductors became feasable reality others took over bond underwriting and scaled back and eliminated the solar panels. At the same time a swath of land granted behind the school powered someone else's house via windmills. The people moved off, their house burning in what could arguably called arson scams... but that is moot.

Just as the technology became 100% feasable for renewables the powers that be bought it up and trashed it. A house ran off power of a similar nature nearby and sold some back to utilities.

Carter made a brief visit to the school in its inception I believe. 'twas a youngster then and missed it. Or it was a person from his cabinet at staffer level who went with a letter from him.
Perhaps you could look closely at how much foreign policy had an effect on this.

Carter's Hostage crisis flared up in OPEC states as these inroads to energy independence were made. The Saudis now run the largest solar facility, and our tax dollars funded it.

Bush's texas ranch runs off geothermals. Only if it profits him is it run. How many millions do they send him and Saudis in the name of "research"?

Carter was an honest optimist , superconductors make this technology feasable entirely today. Cars can run on fully electric capacites that recharge as they run.

Time to bring back energy independence and push this matter. We are at a crossroads once again.
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Drudge smear source here...

2004-08-18T20:38:00.000-07:00

Rolling Stone had a young reporter sent to make anti-youth vibes for underdog and then up-and-coming candidate for POTUS and VP, General Wes Clark. He hounded people in house as a "volunteer" and made copy so bad it did not get published.

The Nation saw fit to do so, however.

Atrios had a person in comments bring this source's name up. Since he was prominent in the NH postcoverage as a slimy reverse-spin meister it is time to address his tactics and persona.

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Long time no see all! Here are a few comments to place about the entire Drudge report smear campaign. I believe I have successfully pieced together the alleged "Clark staffer" source Drudge mentions. He is a Rolling Stone reporter whose article covering Clark was so bad it couldn't make copy, so he sent it to The Nation and found a happy format to place his filthy story upon.
(Comments from atrios' blog, haloscan comments section,wtfwjd? was the person to post...thread topic is entitled "Deployment" and it is on Clark's latest interpretation of the Bush re-deployment and its patchwork placement of troops and their families abroad to bases not ready to logistically support our soldiers and certainly unfit for families who will often be separated from base deployed armed forces for those technically not in hostile deployments).

Drudge 'staffer' source for Kerry smear- cont.

"Seeing Clark's and Taibbi's name mentioned in the same day gets my blood boiling all over again at what that fuckwad hack Taibbi wrote about Clark in the Nation:

You can see something in the eyes of most all the Democratic candidates... Not Wesley Clark. His eyes are blank. Like a turtle resting on a rock in the middle of a pond, he simply seems never to move, no matter how long you stare. But then, just as you're about to pack up your picnic basket and go home, you catch him: His head pops out, and he slides off into the water...
...
For the two weeks or so that I had been a volunteer, I had tried, unsuccessfully, to get a rise out of my fellow Clark supporters. Just to see how they would react, I had introduced myself at the first meet-up as an adult-film director named Rondell Abrams. Massachusetts campaign staff member Dave Rubin, a skittish young Brandeis grad, gritted his teeth when I told him I'd just finished making Asian Ass Vixens 6.

"I also did the East St. Louis Street Hookers series," I said.

He nodded. "Well, uh, we're glad to have you."

For this second meet-up, I'd upped the ante, showing up with a friend: She and I were both wearing cervical collars and walking with the stiff posture of personal-injury plaintiffs. I explained to Rubin that I'd been kicked by a donkey, while "Anne" had been thrown off by one. "Wow, that's tough," he said. "But thanks for coming, in that condition."
...
The meeting wore on. It was an amazing experience. Here, ostensibly, were two porn-industry professionals, dressed in identically preposterous cervical collars, attending an organizational meeting for a straitlaced four-star general--and no one so much as blinked.

This is not so surprising, however, because paying close attention is not really what the Clark campaign is about. In fact, it's very much about the opposite: squinting your eyes, blurring out the margins and focusing on the one main goal on the horizon--beating George Bush. In my time around the campaign I got the sense that this "blurring out" is central to the thinking of the Clark supporter--a desire to dispense with the moral nitpicking of the post-1960s era and get behind the man for the Big Win.

Fuck you, Taibbi. If we lose in November it will because of divisive a-holes like you and Saint Ralph."

(from wtfwjd?'s haloscan comments via atrios)

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by Clark Twain on 08/18/2004 10:23:46 PM EST
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wtfwjd?,

I remember that hit piece. I was waiting for Taibbi to shout "Baba Booey!" at one of Clark's events. That would've actually improved Taibbi's drivel.
grr | (reply in same thread...)

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by Clark Twain on 08/18/2004 10:25:36 PM EST
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fwiw, i'm with wtfwjd on Taibbi. The man's a puerile and divisive ass. Just because his anti-Bush rants occasionally coincide with my own doesn't mean I think he's not a heap of steaming, sulfurous, self-satisfied dung.
WendellGee | (replies cont.)

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by Clark Twain on 08/18/2004 10:29:39 PM EST
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["Not to hijack this thread, but this Taibbi guy really burns me up.

Here's what Clark's Communications Director Matt Bennet had to say about Matt "Horse Sperm" Taibbi...I think it's spot-on:

From: Matt Bennett [mailto:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:13 PM
To: XXXXXXXXXXXX@washpost.com
Subject: Your Piece on Matt Taibbi

Howard: As you may recall, I was Communications Director for the Clark Campaign.

Yesterday you ran an item noting that Matt Taibbi is now "covering" the campaign, in his way, for Rolling Stone. If you write about him again, I think it's worth noting that Taibbi wrote an excrecable story on Clark that appeared, much to the magazine's disgrace, in The Nation.

Taibbi is, to put it plainly, a nut and a hack. His hatchet-job on Clark stooped to the very lowest levels of journalism, violating a number of ethical standards along the way. Among other things, (as he freely admits in the piece) he posed as a volunteer on our campaign in New Hampshire and reported on what he saw and heard in confidence. He also misquoted and grossly distorted what other campaign volunteers said to him, using their names. These were not campaign spokespeople or officials -- they were sign-carrying, envelope-licking volunteers. To use them the way he did, without telling them he was a reporter and quoting them on the record, is shameful.

Moreover, this is the same "reporter" who, as editor of a loony ex-pat magazine in Russia called "the eXile", once hit NY Times correspondence Michael Wines in the face with a cream pie made of horse sperm. If you don't believe me, check this out:

http://www.exile.ru/113/lead.php.

Further perusal of the eXile makes clear why Taibbi had a vendetta against Wes Clark -- he was virulently opposed to the Kosovo War. For The Nation to hire him to write a cover on Clark with such well known predilections, and then to PRINT the story he wrote (with the aforementioned ethical issues), was inexcusable.

Matt Taibbi has no place in legitimate journalism. Rolling Stone should be ashamed of themselves for hiring or using him. Feel free to use any of this on the record if you write a follow-up.

Best,
Matt Bennett"]
wtfwjd? |

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by Clark Twain on 08/18/2004 11:32:34 PM EST
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Not to hijack this thread, but this Taibbi guy really burns me up.

Here's what Clark's Communications Director Matt Bennet had to say about Matt "Horse Sperm" Taibbi...I think it's spot-on:

From: Matt Bennett [mailto:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX]
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:13 PM
To: XXXXXXXXXXXX@washpost.com
Subject: Your Piece on Matt Taibbi

Howard: As you may recall, I was Communications Director for the Clark Campaign.

Yesterday you ran an item noting that Matt Taibbi is now "covering" the campaign, in his way, for Rolling Stone. If you write about him again, I think it's worth noting that Taibbi wrote an excrecable story on Clark that appeared, much to the magazine's disgrace, in The Nation.

Taibbi is, to put it plainly, a nut and a hack. His hatchet-job on Clark stooped to the very lowest levels of journalism, violating a number of ethical standards along the way. Among other things, (as he freely admits in the piece) he posed as a volunteer on our campaign in New Hampshire and reported on what he saw and heard in confidence. He also misquoted and grossly distorted what other campaign volunteers said to him, using their names. These were not campaign spokespeople or officials -- they were sign-carrying, envelope-licking volunteers. To use them the way he did, without telling them he was a reporter and quoting them on the record, is shameful.

Moreover, this is the same "reporter" who, as editor of a loony ex-pat magazine in Russia called "the eXile", once hit NY Times correspondence Michael Wines in the face with a cream pie made of horse sperm. If you don't believe me, check this out:

http://www.exile.ru/113/lead.php.

Further perusal of the eXile makes clear why Taibbi had a vendetta against Wes Clark -- he was virulently opposed to the Kosovo War. For The Nation to hire him to write a cover on Clark with such well known predilections, and then to PRINT the story he wrote (with the aforementioned ethical issues), was inexcusable.

Matt Taibbi has no place in legitimate journalism. Rolling Stone should be ashamed of themselves for hiring or using him. Feel free to use any of this on the record if you write a follow-up.

Best,
Matt Bennett

Hey guys- NH was where the Kerry intern rumor froma "Clark staffer" came to be via Matt Drudge. I think you've nailed the source.

Not that it came to be a problem, Clark dropped the race offically and backed Kerry the day before Drudge could run the story up. It appears he heard so and used movement to defeat the cheap tactic.

Thanks you for the post 'wtfwjd?' I have to place this at CCN.
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"A close friend of the woman first approached a reporter late last year claiming fantastic stories -- stories that now threaten to turn the race for the presidency on its head.

Later on Friday, Kerry is scheduled to join General Wesley Clark, who, in an off-the-record conversation with a dozen reporters earlier this week, plainly stated: "Kerry will implode over an intern issue."

Reporters who witnessed Clark making the stunning comments marvel at the General's reluctance to later confirm they were spoken -- only to later endorse Kerry for the nomination!" Drudge has changed his sourcing and refuses to name anyone. The "reporter" around the Clark team was probably the same "volunteer" who was supposed to be a story implant, the Rolling Stone salary or commissar/commissioned slander goon of the week at said time...

Drudge and Taibbi, the "journalist" odd couple...until he reveals source and verifies otherwise take it as word. Go ahead Drudge, make my day!

The story itself bears repeating twice. Because his spurrious behavior matches that of Matt Drudge and his attempted distortion of people for "off the record" comments shows itself in his own writings. Technically, since he fronted as a Clark staffer, he could be considered "an anonymous source" perhaps for emplanted smears?

Regardless in his method it would appear he took hearsay from people out of context and claimed official staff representation of such "quotes". Matt Drudge never had the balls to name names. It would perhaps be a matter of civil liability that the lady named could so pursue... another story entirely though. Swine runs in herds. The two biggest pigs on the smear list shared a common venue. Do the math it adds up, fuzzy jacuzzi journalists using improper methods.

Yellow, Red, Orange...'rainbow of fear'

2004-08-07T19:35:00.000-07:00

The Yellow submarine of terror alerts resurfaced this past week to correlate John Kerry's great acceptance speech. While reporting for duty as the Democratic nominee, he was undermined in headlines by Tom Ridge's announcements which were supposedly not specefic enough to be actionable.

Ridge has impeccable timing with these alerts, often using them to quell prisoner torture, Chalabi scandals, or economic downslide stories that begin to assert the failed leadership of GWB.

We are told that the information was targeting business centers. Fortunately someone has quit his job in the FBI to personally oversee security at the WTC on this information so they'll be safe...

Why the constant terror alerts? What gives? We do, specifically in appropriated tax funds...

It would appear the Patiot act's appropriations in its summary are a brief sentence to end the document.
Perhaps these constant warning upgrades in the listed, color coded threat levels allow for emergency appropriations. Bushco has many donors to take care of. *And using private companies is listed specifically as a way to fight terror and in fact is called for in the patriot act.* Perhaps such threat upgrades allow the stovepiping of funds to areas deemed appropriate by the Executive branch. To help him funnel terror funds into private business is Margaret Tutwiler the new appointed VP of the NYSE, a former James Baker protigee of the Reagan-Bush cabinets, an intermediary of the original October surprise and a fortmer Communications dean of the of the University of Alabama, a great person for inserting reporters sympathetic to Republican interests for over a decade in the southcentral and south east United States.Her family sold slant-drill oil heads to the Kuwait oil interests among whom Marvin Bush was a boardmember of in the late 80s/early 90s.

Also the Victims Fund of 1984 can be be used to draw emergency appropriations from in these matters. A nice side-note to the wide swath of actions granted the chief Executive.

Finally it is Ashcroft's duty to disclose this information to Congress,with regards to the work of translators. The outed AQ sympathizer was a double agent, perhaps working with us initially as a translator, yes?

(Sec. 205) Authorizes the Director of the FBI to expedite the employment of personnel as translators to support counter-terrorism investigations and operations without regard to applicable Federal personnel requirements. Requires: (1) the Director to establish such security requirements as necessary for such personnel; and (2) the Attorney General to report to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees regarding translators.

So the man to focus upon with leaks is actually Ashcroft at the DoJ. He is the person with the leverage to correct any media disclosures of him. He can serve warrants on these matters to damage control. Someone beneath him is probably the smoking gun, and he could be implicated as a racketeer abetting this.