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For the Record
Transcripts of two German TV reports on Bush´s Potemkin visit.
Reports shown in German TV about the "staged" Presidential visit in Biloxi on September 1.
The first report can be seen here.
It was broadcasted during the news show "Tagesschau" of the German channel ARD September 2, 2005 between 8:00pm and 8:15pm. The timestamp of the online clip is September 2, 2005, 09:03pm (GMT+2).
The news show Tagesschau is THE prime and prime-time German news show with a regular attendency of 20-25% of TV viewers. On Friday Sep. 2. the attendance was 4.98 million viewers or 20.7% of all TV viewers in Germany at that time.
The station ARD is publicly financed, but independent from administrative and political influence.
The reporter on the ground is Christine Adelhardt, a regular professional ARD correspondent, usually stationed in Washington DC.
My transcript:
Christine Adelhardt stand-up report near Biloxi:
"Here, just two minutes ago, the President drove by with his convoy. But what happened here throughout the day in Biloxi is really unbelievable. Suddenly salvage groups appeared here, suddenly clearing vehicles were here. Those had not be seen here all the days before and this in area where it really would not be greatly necessary to clean up (now) because nobody is living here (now), far and wide, anymore. The people are (now) further inside the city.
The president travels with a press baggage. With this, the press baggage has very pretty pictures which thereby are supposed to say the president has been there and the help will come too.
The extent of the natural catastrophe had me shocked but the extend of the (theatre) staging today does shock me to at least the same level.
With this back to Hamburg."
The second report is from the German TV station ZDF. Also publicly financed and independent like the ARD, the ZDF has its own reporters, finances and is independent of ARD. Its prime and prime time news show is "Heute" and the longer daily "Heute Journal".
The piece was broadcasted on "Heute Journal" on September 2, 2005 at about 09:45pm (GMT+2). The regular reach of "Heute Journal" is some 4.8 Million viewers.
The video is here. (For me it only did work using IE and Media Player – your mileage may vary)
The 5 minutes long report starts with pictures and sound of "hundreds of people shooting `help, help´" and pictures from the NO convention centre showing a person hit by an acute diabetes sugar shock and dead bodies and followed by Ray Nagin’s rant and picture of Bush in the area.
The professional, experienced ZDF reporter Claudia Rüggeberg, usually stationed in Washington DC, is on the grounds in Biloxi. The ancor-reporter dialog starts 03:24 minutes into the clip.
The first question from the ancor is how the people reacted to the presidents visit. Rüggeberg reports a positive and a negative voice.
At 03:55 into the clip she says:
Transcript:
"Actually it was such today that this morning suddenly help crew showed up, people who cleaned out the rubble, that searched the houses for dead body. And this exclusively along the route of the president. About two hours ago than, the president left Biloxi and with him all the help crews."
The clip goes on with a question from the anchor of what is available and Rüggenberg reporting nothing is available and nothing has happened except the clean up done that morning by the help crews and a medical emergency outpost is somewhere and nothing else. It smells from rotten corpse, the dead lie in the houses and the help does not arrive she reports.
(Note: I am native German living in Germany and often work with U.S. companies. My transcripts are not professional but usually I get the language, if not the spelling, correct.)
Occam and Elagabalus
Occam’s Razor for bureaucracy *always* slices
into a black heart of venality and incompetence.
Always. Never doubt sheer, utter, incompetence.
An interesting parallel, Islam since Abraham has
worshipped a black stone in the Kabaa of Mecca.
This may originate from Roman times, at Emesa in
Syria, where there was a large black conical
stone which was said to have fallen from the sky
and bore the Phoenician name of Elagabalus.
It was popularly supposed to be an image of the
Sun, and was lodged in a great temple resplendent
with gold and silver and precious stones. The god
received the homage not only of the natives but
of distant peoples, whose governors and kings
sent costly offerings every year to the shrine.
(Sounds like the Sultans of DC, doesn’t it?)
Among the soldiers of a great Roman camp pitched
in the neighbourhood they used to visit the
temple and admire the handsome young priest when,
wearing a jewelled crown and arrayed in gorgeous
robes of purple and gold, he tripped gracefully
in the dance round the altar to the melody of
pipes and flutes and other musical instruments.
(Sounds like Saint George and his guitar)
This dainty priest of the Sun, then in the full
bloom of youth and beauty, and resembling, we are
told, ideal portraits of the youthful Bacchus,
was the future Roman Emperor Elagabalus, the most
dissolute reprobate who ever sat upon a throne.
(Ahh, it is about George!)
On being elevated, at age fourteen, to the
imperial dignity by the intrigues of his artful
grandmother and the favour of the soldiers, the
stripling, whose original name was Bassianus,
assumed the style of barbarous god Elagabalus.
Further, the young *fanatic* caused the black
stone fetish of the deity to be transported
from Emesa to Rome, where he built a great and
stately temple for it on the Palatine beside the
imperial palace. The site had formerly been
occupied by the genuine old Roman god Orcus.
Round about the temple were set up many altars,
on which every morning hecatombs of bulls and
sheep were slaughtered, incense of all sorts was
piled, and jars of the oldest and finest wines
were poured, so that streams of mingled blood and
wine flooded the pavement.
(Sure sounds the Bush Administration, don’t it?)
And round the altar on the ensanguined pavement
danced the emperor and a choir of Syrian damsels
with clashing cymbals and droning drums, while
the knights and senators stood looking on in a
great circle, and the entrails of the sacrificed
victims and the perfumes were carried in golden
jars on the heads, not of menials and servitors,
but of captains of armies and ministers of state,
arrayed in loose-sleeved robes and linen shoes of
Syrian prophets; for among all these degenerate
nobles it was deemed the highest honour to be
allowed to participate in the sacrifice.
(Sounds like a $2M Dick Cheney birthday party!)
Rome was utterly destroyed shortly after that.
Now here today, in the “modern” Christian world, our own Emperor George “Bassianus” Bush and his sotted Senators, circle an even darker effigy, crude oil, king coal, and now black tar sands.
Dick Cheney is up in Calgary, ready to celebrate a $100,000,000,000 development program to extract crude oil from the tar sands, for an estimated cost of only $5 per ton of tar sand, yielding one barrel of oil, yielding 28 gallons of gasoline.
For roughly 20c per gallon, on top of the 80c per gallon to refine the gasoline, or $1 per gallon, the Emperor and his cronies can exact a tithe of 200% from their subjects in fealty fees. Or more!
Literally $T’s in sacrifice from one black stone.
Seas will rise tens of feet. The poles will melt.
Maybe the dinosaurs will rule the earth again!?
Maybe that black rock of Esema fell from the gods in a cosmic dominoes game, and they laughed so hard it spouted tears of crude oil and tar sand.
Maybe someone at the god’s cocktail party stirred their drink a bit too hard, and created Katrina.
It all comes down to Kismet, the will of Allah.
Posted by: tante aime | Sep 5 2005 6:29 utc | 18
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