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At 2 minutes and 10 seconds you will see ‘Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead.’
Is this simply bad taste by Glenn Beck and CNN? I wrote yesterday of a plot to assassinate Dr. Ron Paul. The plot was uncovered by Daniel Estulin who then leaked the information on The Alex Jones Show. Estulin purportedly received the information from ‘real patriots who love America’.
The link between the plot and ‘Paul is dead’? Well, according to Estulin, the message may be a direct threat to Dr. Paul or even a cue to the [real?] assassin [imaginary?]. Time will tell. Maybe.
24
Dec
Ron Paul is dead.
OK, OK I lied. He’s not dead. But there are speculators, conspiracy theorists if you want, igniting rumours of a possible assassination attempt on Republican candidate, Dr. Ron Paul.
Investigative reporter, Daniel Estulin, revealed a Neocon plot to assassinate Dr. Paul on The Alex Jones Show a week ago. According to Estulin, the plot is in the early stages and concerns the ‘inner core within the inner core’. So he says.
What’s freaky but basically just coincidental is Dr. Paul’s appearance on The Glenn Beck Show. While Beck was interviewing Dr. Paul, the CNN scroll at the bottom read ‘Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead’. Chalk it up to coincidence, right?
But what’s a little disturbing about all this is that during the ‘Paul is dead’ scroll, Dr. Paul was actually discussing domestic threats. Do we dismiss this as pure coincidence?
In all likelihood, yes, this is one big coincidence. Or maybe we’re on to them. What if, what if.
The F.C.C. voted 3-2 to unleash a new wave of media consolidation over America.
To manipulate media diversity is cause for alarm.
Congress can nullify the decision. But will they?
And, President Bush has threatened to veto any nullification to protect the decision by the F.C.C.
It’s pretty late. Not sure if I can muster anything interesting by myself. Keep it coherent, that’s all I need to do at this point. What am I on about? Do you know?
I came across this blog site. Interesting. It helps me this late in the morning[?].
President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been in my best estimate a good statesman. He has reached out to his supposed enemy with letters. No avail. With a visit. No avail. Now a blog.
There are tons of comments from around the world to read. Probably more interesting than this. Is this coherent yet? Nevermind, I hear the night birds. Check out the personal memos of Ahmadinejad.
Rhetorically I said ‘here’s what I don’t get.’ Oh yeah, but I forgot all about the whole double standards, geopolitical, we want Eurasia and all the oil angle.
Foreign policy in the US can, when scrutinized on an individual basis, screams inconsistency; incoherency. A broader scope of policy bellowed from the White House is more defined. Almost articulate. Eurasia is the goal. The resources, control of a population - that if united, would spell disaster for the Neocons of Washington.
Iraq seemed to be the most logical step in the direction of Eurasia. It was a weakened nation. War torn. Psychologically fucked. Now, Iraq is a Un-united State of America. A freakish love-child of Corporate America and the Military-Industrial-Complex. A punching bag. And, there are more nations with a vested interest in Iraq now more than ever.
Maybe I don’t get it yet. But I know it’s way too fucked up in the Middle East for the US to attempt a conquest of Eurasia. Logically, Iraq is a part of that conquest. An impossible, no chance in hell, kind of conquest.
Physically. Emotionally. Broken.
Jamie Leigh Jones worked in Iraq. Not the ideal setting I suppose due to the intense war ravaging the country. Conceivably, one would feel a little more at ease within the company of one’s own country[wo]men. Conceivably.
Jamie Leigh Jones was raped. In a foreign country. She was locked up by her employer for twenty-four hours. No food and no water. Jones was then warned that if she left Iraq for medical treatment she would be out of a job. Let go. Dismissed. Sacked. Relieved. Discharged. Fired.
Unthoughtful loopholes place contractors in Iraq beyond the reach of US law and so Jones does not have the opportunity to seek justice. Is justice blind in this case? Ignorant? Or held hostage by Corporate America? Oh, all of the above you say.
Corporate America has done its part to wreak havoc in Iraq. Halliburton and Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) are so implicated with creating instability in Iraq. They have blood on their hands. And they are complicit to the rape of Jamie Leigh Jones.
Pledge allegiance to the United States of Corporations.
A few hundred meters downhill from Ariel, an Israeli settlement, lives Sadeq al-Khuffash. He is the mayor of Marda and has this to say about the Israeli occupation of Palestine:
This is our home and resistance is a legal right. If there is no respect for agreements and international law, things will go on like this, with violence.
So, I got to thinking: is resistance legal? If that’s not enough, I began to grapple with the morality of resistance.
I know nothing else of Sadeq al-Khuffash, yet I do wish him good luck.
It began in ‘68. The green light was given in ‘96 and a year later it was ready to begin. But it would be frozen shortly thereafter. That is until now. Situations get fucked up.
What began in 1968 was the concluding phase of an Israeli housing plan for Jerusalem. Har Homa is an area of 468 acres. After a lengthy court appeal - tied up in Israeli courts - Shimon Peres made the decision to go ahead with construction. It mattered nothing that the Oslo Accords were meant to be in progress.
The announcement to build 6,500 Jewish [not Israeli?] homes for 40,000 settlers came in 1997. The obvious happened. Riots ensued. Oslo crumbled under the weight of it all. Heavy pressure by international actors froze the construction. That is until now. Situations get fucked up.
So now we have Annapolis: a photo op and ceremonial lunch for Bush on his final stretch. And now too we have Israel, approving of plans to build over 300 homes to expand Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem. What is now to become of the Annapolis Conference?
History looks destined to repeat itself. Situations really do get fucked up.
05
Dec
Unspeakable Truths
Media watch out! The leftist, defeatist types are determined to plague the news with imaginative stories if they get their way. Tales of inside jobs can be as tall as towers. To quote Gore Vidal (conspirator?):
Conspiracy stuff is now shorthand for unspeakable truth
The filthy rich [oligarchy] of the West dominate the media. They dominate Hollywood and the banks too. And so it is. They will continue to dominate these facets of everyday life and will, at every chance, turn unspeakable truths into conspiracies propagated by leftists.
