HERE ARE THE NUMBERS; NOTICE THE STORY THEY TELL

From 1936 to 1939 CEOs earned 82 times what the average worker made.
From 1940 to 1945 CEOs earned 66 times what the average worker made.
From 1945 to 1949 CEOs earned 49 times what the average worker made.
From 1950 to 1959 CEOs earned 47 times what the average worker made.
From 1960 to 1969 CEOs earned 39 times what the average worker made.
From 1970 to 1979 CEOS earned 40 times what the average worker made.
From 1980 to 1989 CEOs earned 69 times what the average worker made.
From 1990 to 1999 CEOs earned 187 times what the average worker made.
From 2000 to 2003 CEOs earned 367 times what the average worker made.

THE CRIME OF THE NUREMBERG TRIALS WAS AGGRESSIVE WAR

While many Americans think of the Nuremberg trials after World War II as just holding Nazi leaders accountable for genocide, a major charge against Adolf Hitler’s henchmen was the crime of aggressive war. Later, that principle was embodied in the United Nations Charter, forbidding armed aggression by one state against another.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who represented the United States at the Nuremberg Tribunal, made clear that the intent was to establish a precedent against aggressive war.

“Our position is that whatever grievances a nation may have, however objectionable it finds the status quo, aggressive warfare is an illegal means for settling those grievances or for altering those conditions,” Jackson said, adding that the same rules would apply to the victors in World War II.

“Let me make clear that while this law is first applied against German aggressors, the law includes, and if it is to serve a useful purpose, it must condemn aggression by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment,” Jackson said.

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WHERE'D GEORGE GO?

Karl Rove has George disappear into the woodwork but we know they both long for the good old days.

SUCCINTLY STATED

Most people get their news from the mainstream media. These are the newspapers, radio networks, and television networks owned by large corporations. In the last few decades, the concentration of media has increased dramatically, so that programming is produced in a large center, such as New York, and is then fed out to the member stations. A certain amount of local news is still collected locally. However, national and international issues come from one source.

While there may be slight differences in the way the major media cover stories, by and large they are promoting the point of view of those who own them. These are wealthy people with connections with other wealthy people who own the large corporations that dominate the modern economic landscape. They are also tightly connected with the two major political parties in the US. In fact, they represent a very small stratum of the public: those who have stakes of ownership.

The news they report is coloured by their interests, and their interests are not the interests of the vast majority of their readers. And one of their principle interests is to keep the majority of their readers or viewers in ignorance over the true facts of US policy and the consequences of this policy on people overseas. There is minimal news reporting that deals with international affairs, and that reporting which is done is heavily biased from a simplistic "us and them" perspective. "Us" being the US and its allies, although the allies don't really count for much, and "them" is everyone else. "Them" used to be portrayed as in the sphere of influence of the Russians. Nowadays the French seem to be portrayed as the Bad Guys. Along, of course, with the entire Arab and Moslem world.

The mainstream news sites accept as a given the proclamations that come from the White House. In the period prior to the invasion of Iraq, the assertion's of the Bush Administration that Saddam was an immediate threat to the US, that he had stockpiled WMD that could be unleashed upon the US, was accepted without question by the mainstream news.

I have loyalties that are greater than those to my party.

CONSEQUENCES OF IRAQI RAPE IN AN ELECTION YEAR

21-year-old former Army private has been charged with killing four members of an Iraqi family and raping one of the victims before shooting her, federal prosecutors and the Army said Monday.

Steven D. Green, a former member of the 101st Airborne Division, is accused of killing an Iraqi man, two women and a girl in Mahmoudiya, just south of Baghdad, in March.

Iraqis reported the killings to U.S. troops the day they occurred, but the deaths were blamed on insurgents or "other entities" at the time, according to an FBI agent's affidavit.

But three months later, during combat stress debriefing sessions that followed the killings of two U.S. soldiers kidnapped from a checkpoint in Yusufiya, members of Green's platoon began recounting the killings.

The rape victim was 15 years old.

WELCOME TO - JULY 4TH, 2006

When George Bush and other capitalists speak of bringing freedom to the world..

• They mean the unfettered access to markets through the use of coercive military and economic force.

• access to markets by any necessary means and absolute dictatorial rule. This is the face of free markets and fair trade as it relates to human beings.

• They are speaking about the freedom of corporations to operate with impunity in all parts of the world without regulation of any kind.

• They are covertly advocating the oppression of the world’s people’s, the plunder of the earth, the destruction of culture and language, the exportation of jobs to the cheapest, least regulated and most exploitable pools of labor.

• the freedom for Plutocrats to rule the world; the global domination of the working class by the ruling Plutocrats.

• predatory capitalism and it is not limited to just the Bush clan. It is equally championed by Congress, the major presidential candidates, all of whom are in the pockets of their corporate funders; and it is preached in our educational institutions as economic gospel.

• While political reformists continue to be fooled into choosing between political parties, both of them the servants of the same corporations, the way is being prepared for the final solution

• Bush is using the NSA, FBI, CIA and the Pentagon against law abiding U.S. citizens.

• These cryptogamous organizations are monitoring the resistance and planning a pre-emptive strike against any democracy that shows signs of sprouting and organizing itself into a populist movement. The pitiless iron boot of capitalism stands ready to snuff it out like a smoldering cigarette butt on a city sidewalk.

• They have no intention of relinquishing power through the electoral process or by any other means. They are creating a world-size gulag; a labor concentration camp of global proportions in which there will be two classes: master and servant.

I WONDER WHICH ONE IS THE P2OG (Proactive Preemptive Operations Group)

Iraq released a most-wanted list of 41 names Sunday...

The largest reward was $10 million for Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a former top official in the Saddam regime who has eluded capture since the U.S.-led invasion more than three years ago. Al-Douri was believed to have played a major role in launching the insurgency.

The government also offered a $50,000 reward for Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who replaced al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi after his death in a June 7 U.S. airstrike northeast of Baghdad. The announcement came just two days after the U.S. administration approved a reward up to $5 million in exchange for al-Masri, whose real name is Abu Hamza al-Muhajer.

CLUE:
Follow the socio-economic angle.


AND OH, BY THE WAY
The national security adviser also said authorities were closing in on the Egyptian-born al-Masri.

“We were able to infiltrate his network. You will hear news within the coming weeks,” he said.

SO NO NEED TO WASTE YOUR TIME

THINGS WE NOW KNOW THAT WE KNOW

..in February of 2002 our Secretary of Defense uttered these words

“The message is:
That there are known knowns,
There are things we know that we know,
There are known unknowns,
That is to say there are things that we now know, we don't know
But there are also unknown unknowns,
There are things we do not know we don't know
And each year we discover a few more
Of those unknown unknowns.”

We now know that we know that:

• Iraq had no WMD’s at all.

• There was no link between Iraq and Al Queda

• We were led (or misled) into the war for the wrong reasons.

• The Defense Department spied on Americans

• The administration planted at least one phony reporter in the White House pressroom to ask softball questions

• We hired people to make up stories for paid covert insertion of slanted news in Iraqi media outlets

• We condoned all sorts of illegal and improper torture of prisoners.

• The Valerie Plame “leak” came from the highest levels of the White House.

• The president approved of illegal searches of Americans by electronic means and then stretched the bounds of reasonableness by misleading America into believing that what he did was legal and in our countries best interest. In what appears to be a consistent position to take, the administration is validating its position be expressing the notion that we haven’t been attacked since we’ve been doing this and ergo, it must be OK!

• The president knows how to change the subject by attacking whomever “leaked” the surveillance information to the public.

• Whoever leaked this is a national hero, not a criminal.

We do not know what else we do not know has been going on in this top secret and duplicitous administration. They have a five-year history of lies, deceptions, and omissions. We also don’t know if the president has ever noticed or read the constitution, or if the Attorney General of the United States has looked at it lately.

COUNTERINSURGENCY/GUERRILLA WAR DEGENERATES ON SCHEDULE --- OUR TROOPS ARE IN TROUBLE

• U.S. troops are being forced to take drugs like Prozac and Seroquel for anxiety and depression.

• Troops cannot refuse to take the drugs without consequences from their superiors.

• Resistance by U.S. troops to their orders is also running high.

• Some U.S. military patrols decline to carry out their "search and kill" missions and, instead, return to their bases claiming they carried out their orders.

• Another neo-con outrage: Pentagon forcing U.S. soldiers and Marines in Iraq to take Prozac and other drugs for anxiety and depression.

• Incidents of suicide among U.S. troops in Iraq is also reaching troubling levels.

• There are also reports of defections by U.S. troops to neighboring Turkey, Iran, and Syria, where they can get passage to Europe and Russia.

• Incidents of fighting between regular U.S. military personnel and private military contractors, who wear uniforms similar to those worn by regular U.S. soldiers and Marines, is also increasing.

• U.S. troops are frustrated that they come under attack for atrocities carried out by private contractors who receive triple and quadruple the salaries U.S. military personnel receive.

• This situation has created a tinderbox between U.S. troops and private contractors.

Visit http://www.veteransforamerica.org/ for more information on the plight of our troops in Iraq and veterans of the quagmire into which the neo-cons have plunged our military.

REPEAT...RINSE...REPEAT...RINSE...

"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

-- President Bush in a talk at the Athena Performing Arts Center at Greece Athena Middle and High School Tuesday, May 24, 2005 in Rochester, NY. Bush traveled to Rochester, trying to win support for his proposed overhaul of the Social Security system.




“The rank and file is usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly... it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” - Joseph Goebbels

WINNING IRAQI HEARTS AND MINDS

Nir Rosen, an American reporter who has lived for the last three years in Iraq and who can pass as Middle Eastern, describes what it’s like to live under the boot of a culturally callous—and sometimes criminal—occupying force in Iraq. “The occupation has been one vast extended crime against the Iraqi people, and most of it has occurred unnoticed by the American people and the media.”

THIS IS A MUST READ

Nir Rosen goes "underground" and watches the occupation army as an Iraqi.

This war is a classic guerilla war and it is being lost like classic guerilla war for all the same reasons. Nir Rosen paints in clear relief.

Like all guerilla wars in the end there is only two options. Eradicate the population or leave.

More Nir Rosen here

Moscow Blames U.S. for Russian Hostages Death in Iraq

Russian presidential envoy for international cooperation in fighting terrorism and transnational organized crime Anatoly Safonov quoted by Interfax has said.

“We are saying openly that it is either governmental institutions or coalition forces that are responsible for order,” Safonov told journalists in Moscow on Tuesday.

First Vice-Speaker of the Russian State Duma, Lyubov Sliska, joined Safonov in blaming the coalition.

“We can see how the coalition forces are ’restoring order’,” she said.

“Every day dozens of innocent people are dying, and now diplomats are geting killed, too. The responsibility for what is going on in Iraq lies upon those who sought mass destruction weapons here, but found nothing,” she said.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Krivtsov declined to say whether any Russian special forces currently were in Iraq but noted that there are "people responsible for security at the embassy" in Baghdad.

Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent defense analysts, told The Associated Press that "We don't have real special forces in Iraq."

An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Sunday showing the killings of three Russian embassy workers abducted earlier this month in Iraq. A fourth also was said to have been killed. An accompanying statement by the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization linking seven insurgent groups including al-Qaida in Iraq, said all four Russians had been killed.

THE MANY FACES OF ABU MUSAB AL ZARQAWI

Living in a thought control state is an eduction. Why is it that "public opinion" believes that these are all photos of the same man?

An interesting investigation would be how the people of Germany made the transition from the nazi era to the post nazi era. This might enable the people of the US to begin the process earlier.

THE TERRORISTS HATE OUR FREEDOM. THEY HATE LIBERTY"...

The following is a David Cross quote on his album It's Not Funny:

"The terrorists hate our freedom. They hate liberty"...

I don't think Osama bin Laden sent those planes in to attack us because he hated our freedom. I think he did it because of our support for Israel, and our ties with the Saudi family, and all our military bases in Saudi Arabia.

You know why I think that?

BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HE FUCKING SAID.

DEMOCRATS ARE LABELED "CUT & RUN", WHILE REPUBLICANS WIND DOWN WAR

PUH.....LEASE ! ! !

AND IT'S ONE, TWO, THREE, WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR...

Regarding what “our troops” are fighting for, it comes out to a lot more than nothing, just nothing good.

• They are making politicians, bureaucrats, and their military-industrial complex cronies rich.

• They are expanding the U.S. global hegemony

• as well as the Israeli middle-eastern hegemony.

• They are securing strategic territory for bases and (potentially) diminishing strategic resources.

• Also, endeavoring toward a colossal project that no individual or group of individuals could ever hope to achieve through voluntary means; namely, high-industrial age mechanized state warfare.

• This last, for some, is its own justification.

Thankfully, as 4GW theory convincingly shows, this being the information age, the institution of the state can’t even successfully fulfill its original purpose for existence; the perpetration of mass warfare.

OUT OF 2500 DEAD US SOLDIERS, HOW MANY HAVE DIED LIKE THIS AND WITH THIS KIND OF PUBLICITY

Who killed Private Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25.

Tell me, were they wearing orange jumps suits this time like Nick Berg wore? Were they sitting in those white plastic chairs.