Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Friday, December 08, 2006
Don't let Dick Cheney read your palm
morning all.
i am sure you think this already but i don’t believe for a minute he was making a prediction. i think he was saying what was most politically expedient at any given time to either stave off disaster or keep the press or public off his back
unfortunatley, in a lot of cases it works for them
Posted by michael on from exile 12/08 at 06:47 AMGood morning michael and Mickey. Nice article, Mickey. .. Cheyney and the rest of the conspirators, did they know that Haliburton, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin etc would grossly increase their profits? I think that they not only knew but that that was their whole thrust right from the very beginning. I guess that they also knew how gullible, and lazy the Press and the usa public would be. If the Press had investigated the lies in the very beginning we would not be where we are now. The Press is more responsible than Bush and company because the ruling Capitalists are just doing what ruling Capitalists do. The Press had the power and the responsibility to report accurately. They did not fulfill their mandate because they are embedded in the political system. Check out today’s news about the $100 B and the Carlyle Group.
Democracy Now just announced that it needs a news producer. Anyone looking for a job?????
Nice news this morning in a Google alert. I think I am now a “person of color”. AND MY CAPTCHA WORD IS “RACE”.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/08 at 08:59 AMCan someone explain how missing a day of work shuts down the war machine? I tend to think that each day that I’m NOT unemployed is a blow against the war machine, even if it’s the war machine that I’m working for…
Posted by James in Hell's Kitchen on from work 12/08 at 10:01 AMHello Expendables. It is freezing here today.
Michael: I realize it wasn’t exactly a prediction but the article was somewhat satirtical.
RMJ: Maybe they meant “off-color”? Seriously, it’s good to see any and all groups showing solidarity.
Cat Lady: I posted that link because they asked me to endorse their efforts. I went to their site and was happy to finally see an anti-war group not solely fixated on Bush. As you know, I’m not a big fan of symbolic gestures but I liked some of what they were saying:
After years of horrors (including torture and massacres of innocents), the U.S. government continues to wage its illegal and unjust wars - that have left hundreds of thousands of people dead, injured or displaced - in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even while this goes on, it moves towards war on a number of other countries. In response to this, a group of organizations and individuals has launched a campaign to create a day to Shut Down the War Machine. On Monday, March 19, 2007, workers and students will stay home, and people will avoid shopping. We will literally bring the war machine, which relies on all of us to function, to a screeching halt! We have a responsibility to shut down the war machine, because if we don’t, no one will!
Of course, this is false: “We will literally bring the war machine, which relies on all of us to function, to a screeching halt!” But the rest was pretty good for starters.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/08 at 10:09 AMYeah, I read that site a little further and it’s not as hokey as some… just so long as the focus is not on missing work, but on what you do both on that day you miss work, and on all the days you’re at work, and when you go home at night, and on the weekend, and on and on and on… I like the anti-consumerism idea, it’s just that this sort of thing seems not so ideal for freelancers.
Plus Michael Parenti endorsed it along with you, so that’s pretty cool.
Posted by James in Hell's Kitchen on from work 12/08 at 10:20 AMAlso, it’s asking more of people than just marching in circles on a weekend. It takes far more commitment to stay home from work or school. I fully realize I’m grasping for straws here but such is the state of dissent in America.
Captcha advises: act
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/08 at 10:26 AMIt’s an interesting site all around-- what’s the significance of March 19th? It sounds kinda familiar, but not sure…
Posted by James in Hell's Kitchen on from work 12/08 at 10:35 AMIsn’t that three years since the ivasion of Iraq?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/08 at 11:09 AMYou’d think I’d have that memorized by now, but I guess that’s what happens during um, perpetual war for perpetual peace, or something like that.
Posted by James in Hell's Kitchen on from work 12/08 at 11:16 AMI guess, if we chose to, we could find a war or military-related incident to commemorate 365 days a year.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/08 at 11:19 AMUm, as in… http://www.kittenwar.com ?
Posted by James in Hell's Kitchen on from work 12/08 at 11:34 AMI believe that March 20, 2003 was the beginning of the “Shock and Awe” slaughter. The bombing of Iraq started sometime around 1991 and continued, especially during the Clinton administration. That’s probably why Congress does not want an Impeachment investigation.
I still think that one of the best ways to defeat the war machine is to very publicly call for a war tax and a reparations tax. The idea that people might have to pay for something out of their own pockets brings the issue to home like nothing else can.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/08 at 12:00 PMHey Mickey, James, Michael & Rosemarie, and any expendables who are lurking as I have been.
Do we think those calling for Cuba’s re-annexation give a flying f**k about this? There are other sources, but no MSM ones I can find - quel surprise, huh? Whatever misgivings people (especially americans) have about Castro the propaganda construct, no doubting there’s some stuff going on on that island we should all be learning and learning fast.Posted by Mew on from ingerlund 12/08 at 12:46 PMa friend of mine from Brighton Beach was talking about a movie he saw called America: Freedom to Fascism, and said there´s a lengthy investigation into why anybody in the country has to pay income tax at all, conducted even by exIRS staff, to no avail - there´s no such law, save for strongarm tactics. I´d always had the impression that when the IRS came to remove the fillings from your teeth it was with a bunch of nerds with clipboards, but they send something like a SWAT team. One of my favourite artists, Robert Crumb, lives close enough to here, having relocated after the IRS set their beady eyes on those vintage records he collects as a hobby.
The film sounds interesting, though my friend also advises that it is all over Googlevideo - as if these days governments want to get people agitated and baying for revolution so they can easier funnel the mass energy raised into a prefabricated revolutionary solution with some fake folk heros that results in a more tightly ratcheted society. Kindof like what happened in Russia, France, the USA in the last few centuries with all these uh, bold experiments in freedom that created not a single new social class and turned to tyranny at the drop of a hat.in other news, having no time constraints to speak of, I start volunteer work in a centre for recuperation of marine animals a little way along the Schmarcelona coast. There´s not so much work at the moment as the sea life has the good sense to be somewhere warmer than the Mediterranean right now, but there are a lot of sea turtles. We brought one recovered one down to the beach and waited till the waves ebbed more gently before setting him loose - however it didn´t matter with this one, his limbs were flapping like crazy with gladness to be back. Another of them is recovering from a near bone infection in his flipper so I was told a little by my friend who brought me out there about how to massage the sore areas properly. So I´m a sea turtle masseuse - cool eh? and it´s not one of those seady turtle massage parlours either.
Posted by owen on from schmarcelona 12/08 at 12:48 PMNo happy ending for the sea turtle?
Posted by James on from work 12/08 at 12:56 PMI just read that Jeane Kirkpatrick, leading architect of Reagan-era US-supported shenanigans in Central America, had the nerve to die peacefully today. At least she’s outta here.
Salud Central America!
Posted by Keir on from The Gray Hague 12/08 at 12:58 PMJeane Kirkpatrick died today.
#### Jeane Kirkpatrick.
Posted by Brian on from Belly of the Beast 12/08 at 12:58 PMSpeaking of perpetual war:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1208-06.htm
Posted by James on from work 12/08 at 01:02 PMIn response to Mew’s comment, I should point out for those who cannot watch the video (read: RMJ) that it shows a Cuban-American congresswoman from Florida endorsing the assassination of Castro.
Btw, Mew...nice to see you. Also: hello to Brian and Keir. Thanks for the, uh, Kirkpatrick update.
Owen: I’m glad you’re cmoing out of your shell a bit.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 12/08 at 01:20 PMBy the way, great quote from Niels Bohr (shame on anyone who didnt read the main article). Those Danes sure have a way with words.
Posted by James on from work 12/08 at 01:41 PMSpeaking of updates, here’s a new flash...eating Taco Bell is unhealthy. Who would’ve thought?
Posted by Brian on from Belly of the Beast 12/08 at 01:47 PMhello all
it is nearly 5am where i am at. just saying hello. mickey, i believe i said in the first post that i don’t think u think etc etc…
Posted by michael on from exile 12/08 at 02:36 PM‘Shutting the war machine down’ - my eyes are glazing over already, Mickey! One can always dream.
And bushfires are still raging in the southeast of my state of Victoria and no relief in the form of rain in sight. The hottest summer on record is with us.
‘Hello’ to all my fellow expendables. May you have a splendid weekend wherever you are. Here’s hoping I’ll meet at least a few of you some day.
Bye, Helga from down under
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 12/08 at 03:29 PMCheyney and the rest of the conspirators, did they know that Haliburton, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin etc would grossly increase their profits? I think that they not only knew but that that was their whole thrust right from the very beginning. I guess that they also knew how gullible, and lazy the Press and the usa public would be.
Spot-on, Rosemarie!Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 12/08 at 04:16 PMIf Dick Cheney killed and ate a baby on live television it wouldn’t surprise me. “Pass the gravy, you ####,” he’d snarl at the camera.
Please let me know where Ambassador Kirkpatrick will be buried. I want to pee, I mean *pay*, my respects.
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is certifiable. On the plus side, the stunningly decrepit condition of Miami is now in the news. One would be blind not to credit some of this to the Castro-hatin’ gusanos clogging the joint. Their motto: “Like 1959, Except We Win This Time. And Those Other Times.”
Oral History: An uncle in Boston who was in the army in the mid-1950’s, was based in P.R. but went to Cuba a few times. A super-smart working class man with loads of common sense, we’d never really discussed politics. We were sitting by his garden one day during one of the regular tantrums that the USG has over Cuba, and he told me about what he saw: “The Cuban people had **nothing**. Castro was the best thing that ever happened to them.” Not that I ever doubted his clarity, he couldn’t have shocked me more if he’d told me he was wearing women’s underwear. Better yet, he told me about a Batista supporter that briefly lived in his ‘hood. He verbally locked horns with him once. “This guy was outraged because he couldn’t flee Cuba with all his loot. After listening to his nonsense one day, I told him so and his head just about exploded.”
Here’s to the sound of fat, greedy heads exploding everywhere.
Salud! <clink>
Posted by Zenprole on from Urth 12/08 at 05:40 PMMickey #19...I can not see the video but I am familiar with a Cuban/USA congresswoman who is so far to the right that nothing that she would say would surprise me. Her rhetoric is usually filled with extreme hatred.
HI Helga, Brian, James, Keir, Owen, Mew....
James your link reminds me of John Perkins, “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/08 at 05:52 PMHi Zenprole....we were symultyping. After Katrina, Castro offered to send doctors to the usa to help the victims. The usa government refused the offer of help and tried to keep it a big secret but word leaked out. The rulers in the usa would do anything to keep the propaganda machine alive. I have written about the need for doctors and dentists in the usa. Where I live, dental care is considered a luxury. Casto would be willing to help but if his offer was accepted it would destroy the myth about him being a tyrant. The poor in the northeast are again getting foreign aid from Venezuela. Chavez is sending some heating oil up here. The usa politicians tried to block it but have not been successful. The poor in the usa getting foreign aid...that concept is really “Future Shock” to some old timers.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 12/08 at 06:02 PMRMJ: I just figured out ‘symultyping.’ It’s when two people are composing a post at the same time.
I’m so glad that Chavez is on the case. I know you’re extremely busy, but when you have some free time I’d like to stop in to Brattleboro… never seen that area of the world, and it’s not too far away. Let me know.
Posted by Zenprole on from Urth 12/09 at 12:39 AM
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