(Crossposted from My Left Wing.)
All of this off of my favorite enemy newsline, the magnificently loony Drudge Report. (10:45 AM EST, 9/23/08)
This creep is a good example of what is driving our political so-called “dialogue”? Reason enough to want to leave the planet.
Read on.
Reason #1:
Spies Warn That Al Qaeda Aims for October Surprise
Intercepted Messages Asking Local Cells To Be Prepared for Imminent Instructions
WASHINGTON — In the aftermath of two major terrorist attacks on Western targets, America’s counterterrorism community is warning that Al Qaeda may launch more overseas operations to influence the presidential elections in November.
Call it Osama bin Laden’s “October surprise.” In late August, during the weekend between the Democratic and Republican conventions, America’s military and intelligence agencies intercepted a series of messages from Al Qaeda’s leadership to intermediate members of the organization asking local cells to be prepared for imminent instructions.
An official familiar with the new intelligence said the message was picked up in multiple settings, from couriers to encrypted electronic communications to other means. “These are generic orders,” the source said — a distinction from the more specific intelligence about the location, time, and method of an attack. “It was, ‘Be on notice. We may call upon you soon.’ It was sent out on many channels.”
Etc., blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
I need point out only a few key words here:
America’s counterterrorism community
America’s military and intelligence agencies
An (unnamed, of course) official
And most beautifully:
generic orders
Lord!!! Are the American people so stupid as to continue to fall for this unattributable bullshit? (You don’ wanna know the answer, brethren and sistren. You really don’t.)
Reason #2:
From the Fox News blogsite
5th Grader Suspended For Anti-Obama Shirt
(Snip to the comments section…you oughta go there to get the real flavor of the debate, but here are a few samples, because the story itself is just more of the same ludicrous “right wing assholes vs. left wing assholes” non-news that so clogs our brainwaves in most political and social “news”.)
Johnny Utah: Srah Palin vag looks like a box of cow tongues
Benighted: JESUS IS A C*NT – FREEDOM OF SPEECH!
TittyBaby: ni66a pleeze ni66a pleeze
TruthDetector: You’re just afraid of Palin because she’s trouncing your precious Obambi
Big Bingo: Obama lawn jockeys onsale cheap
‘Bama Suhperter: I sho beez hopin Bama gits lected cause dis **ry needs a brutha in da white housf!
And so on.
Is Mars far enough away? How’s the weather on Alpha Centauri these days?
Reason #3:
CEO murdered by mob of sacked Indian workers
Corporate India is in shock after a mob of sacked workers bludgeoned to death the chief executive who had dismissed them from a factory in a suburb of Delhi.
Lalit Kishore Choudhary, 47, the head of the Indian operations of Graziano Transmissioni, an Italian-headquartered manufacturer of car parts, died of severe head wounds on Monday afternoon after being attacked by scores of laid-off employees, police said.
The incident, in Greater Noida, just outside the Indian capital, followed a long-running dispute between the factory’s management and workers who had demanded better pay and permanent contracts.
Man!!! India is SO far ahead of us!!!
I’d come back from Mars if that shit was happening in Detroit.
But NOOOOOoooooo!!!
We give the thieves billion dollar golden parachutes in return for their kind gifts to us of TRILLION dollar golden showers.
Unbelievable.
But absolutely true.
Y’know how I know this?
DrudgeFuck tol’ me.
Oh.
Sorry.
That was one of his “human interest” stories.
It’s in there somewhere.
Paulson warns: No limits on CEO pay
Speaking on the “Fox News Sunday” program, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson opposed proposals from some Democrats as well as Republicans that the Bush administration’s plan for a massive taxpayer bailout of the most powerful banks and financial institutions include provisions limiting the pay of CEOs whose companies benefit from the government handout.
Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs whose wealth is estimated at $700 million, argued that including any such provision would result in banks refusing to participate in the program.
As the New York Times reported Monday, “Mr. Paulson said that he was concerned that imposing limits on the compensation of executives could discourage companies from participating in the program.
“‘If we design it so it’s punitive and so institutions aren’t going to participate, this won’t work the way we need it to work,’ Mr. Paulson said…”
Working people who are being told by both parties that they will have to foot the bill for the biggest corporate bailout in world history–estimated by the government at $700 billion, a conservative figure that underestimates the actual cost of the plan–should consider the implications of Paulson’s statements.
He, President Bush and other political figures in both parties are insisting that quick Congressional passage of the bailout scheme is critical to averting an economic and social calamity at least as great as the Great Depression of the 1930s. There is, they insist, no time to discuss, debate, or even think.
The universal mantra is the need for all Americans to “come together,” put aside their partisan differences and personal interests and accept the need for “sacrifice” in support of the common good–which just happens to coincide with the interests of Wall Street and the multi-millionaires and billionaires who control it.
But Paulson, in his weekend television appearances, was obliged to implicitly acknowledge that there is one segment of society that is not prepared to sacrifice a dime and will not hesitate to throw the country into a depression, if the alternative is the slightest diminution in its seven- and eight-figure compensation packages.
In spite of his intentions, Paulson’s comments demonstrate the utter fraud of the claims that the plan to place the national wealth at the disposal of Wall Street is driven by concerns for the well-being of the American people. His remarks reveal the most basic truth about American society: The interests of the overwhelming majority of the people are entirely subordinated to the money-mad strivings of a financial aristocracy.
The plutocrats call the shots. They determine public policy. They exercise an absolute veto on all decisions taken by the government, which is, in the final analysis, an instrument for the defense and advancement of their narrow and socially destructive interests.
The constant invocations of patriotism are purely for public consumption–a means of blinding the people to the class relations that dominate America.
The logical conclusion that flows from Paulson’s own statements on CEO pay is that the greatest problem the country faces is the very class he defends and embodies–the American capitalist class. Its removal through the independent political and revolutionary mobilization of the working class is the precondition for a rational and democratic solution to the crisis.
“Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs.”
That says it all, eh folks?
Who is running this show again?
Not us.
Bet on it.
Not the Dems or the RatPubs, either. Not when both parties are bought and sold by the same entities that employ Paulson to pimp for them.
You doubt that? Do your own fucking research. The major contributors to both parties are easily found on the web. Do you think that thet are your local PTA members? Give me a break.
Them Indian fellers got the right idea, I think.
Not much of an obesity problem in India, I notice. Not enough food for people to get too fat, even with the so-called economic miracle. (A miracle that is totally dependent on the U.S. and its inability to do a lick of good, practical work all by itself. Too busy sucking down LameBurgers and watching TV to actuually build things.) They are still (physically, mentally and emotionally) fit enough to swing a stick when one of these fucking piñatas deigns comes down and to talk with them face-to-face.
We’ll be there soon enough if this shit continues, though.
Watch.
I’ll be watching.
Bet on it.
From fucking MARS.
Later…
AG
