Damned activist prosecutors!
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Way off topic, but…..
Things are going to heckfire in a handbasket up here in Canuckistan….stuff like barring media coverage of coffins returning from Afghanistan, the killing of a National Childcare program by way of a useless and stupid bribe (something akin to the no-gouge-$100-a-pop-gas-o-holic deal that Lancelot Link is proposing down south) and the relinquishing of economic sovereignty on softwood lumber sales.
Luckily an old and no longer relly a native son is making good.
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Posted by: RossK | Apr 29 2006 6:40 utc | 3

EFFECTS OF JAIL TIME ON THE MICROBIAL COMMUNITY AND DEGRADATION OF LIMBAUGH METSULFURON-METHYL
They let Rush off to spare the jail prisoners the digusting sight and sounds of pig-farting.
Not reaching for any commentary or trend analysis but this was the first community art walk that anyone can remember, which later degenerated into a spontaneous drum-banging streetmarch at one end of the square, and a glass-shattering full-spectrum mega-death sidewalk thrash band in the other, with disorderly crowds milling in the streets.
It’s also the first time anyone can remember so many jack-booted mace-belted harley-riding motorcycle cops zooming past on crowd control. What murderous things FEMA money can buy you, and all those bulls for the bull-market boys.
The quickest way to separate one’s inheritance from one’s children is to create a bubble market and at the same time, print a surfeit of money, while running a diversion of war deficit theft to one’s cronies, aka, “Mission Accomplished”.
THE MISSION WAS INDEED ACCCOMPLISHED
by Greg Palast
for The Guardian
20 March 2006
Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush’s incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong.
On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq’s border, most of the 59 million Homer Simpsons who voted for Bush are beginning to doubt if his mission was accomplished.
But don’t kid yourself — Bush and his co-conspirator, Dick Cheney, accomplished exactly what they set out to do. In case you’ve forgotten what their real mission was, let me remind you of White House spokesman Ari Fleisher’s original announcement, three years ago, launching of what he called, “Operation Iraqi Liberation.” O.I.L.
How droll of them, how cute. Then, Karl Rove made the giggling boys in the White House change it to “OIF” — Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the 101st Airborne wasn’t sent to Basra to get its hands on Iraq’s OIF.
“It’s about oil,” Robert Ebel told me. Who is Ebel? Formerly the CIA’s top oil analyst, he was sent by the Pentagon, about a month before the invasion, to a secret confab in London with Saddam’s former oil minister to finalize the plans for “liberating” Iraq’s oil industry. In London, Bush’s emissary Ebel also instructed Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, the man the Pentagon would choose as post-OIF oil minister for Iraq, on the correct method of disposing
Iraq’s crude.
And what did the USA want Iraq to do with Iraq’s oil? The answer will surprise many of you: and it is uglier, more twisted, devilish and devious than anything imagined by the most conspiracy-addicted blogger. The answer can be found in a 323-page plan for Iraq’s oil secretly drafted by the State Department. Our team got a hold of a copy; how, doesn’t matter. The key thing is what’s inside this thick Bush diktat: a directive to Iraqis to maintain a state oil company that will “enhance its relationship with OPEC.”
Enhance its relationship with OPEC??? How strange: the government of the United States rdering Iraq to support the very OPEC oil cartel which is strangling our nation with outrageously high prices for crude.
Specifically, the system ordered up by the Bush cabal would keep a lid on Iraq’s oil production — limiting Iraq’s oil pumping to the tight quota set by Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel.
There you have it. Yes, Bush went in for the oil — not to get MORE of Iraq’s oil, but to prevent Iraq producing TOO MUCH of it.
You must keep in mind who paid for George’s ranch and Dick’s bunker: Big Oil. And Big Oil — and their buck-buddies, the Saudis — don’t make money from pumping more oil, but from pumping LESS of it. The lower the supply, the higher the price.
It’s Economics 101. The oil industry is run by a cartel, OPEC, and what economists call an “oligopoly” — a tiny handful of operators who make more money when there’s less oil, not more of it. So, every time the “insurgents” blow up a pipeline in Basra, every time Mad Mahmoud in Tehran threatens to cut supply, the price of oil leaps. And Dick and George just LOVE it.
Dick and George didn’t want more oil from Iraq, they wanted less. I know some of you, no matter what I write, insist that our President and his Veep are on the hunt for more crude so you can cheaply fill your family Hummer; that somehow, these two oil-patch babies are concerned that the price of gas in the USA is bumping up to $3 a gallon.
No so, gentle souls. Three bucks a gallon in the States (and a quid a litre in Britain) means colossal profits for Big Oil, and that makes Dick’s ticker go pitty-pat with joy. The top oily-gopolists, the five largest oil companies, pulled in $113 billion in profit in 2005 — compared to a piddly $34 billion in 2002 before Operation Iraqi Liberation. In other
words, it’s been a good war for Big Oil.
As per Plan Bush, Bahr Al-Ulum became Iraq’s occupation oil minister; the conquered nation “enhanced its relationship with OPEC;” and the price of oil, from Clinton peace-time to Bush war-time, shot up 317%.
In other words, on the third anniversary of invasion, we can say the attack and occupation is, indeed, a Mission Accomplished. However, it wasn’t America’s mission, nor the Iraqis’. It was an Mission Accomplished for OPEC and Big Oil.”

Posted by: Tellard Antipa | Apr 29 2006 7:38 utc | 5

RossK, nice to see you again. The Neil Young link will play the songs over and over again, it is Neil Young album for free.
My favorite so far is the opening cut, about when the garden is gone. Another great line, “I pray that I’ll never kill again.”
“Just like Bob Dylan said in 1963.” “Let’s impeach our president for lying.”
I hope you will get behind the protest as we defend our beautiful Eagle Ridge Bluffs against an overland highway when British Columbia could easily afford a tunnel to take people from Vancouver to Whistler during the 2010 Olympics. I live nearby and have climbed the Eagleridge cliffs as a youth, gazing out at Howe Sound and the Pacific beyond as the light fails and you make the critical decision to stay high or climb down as the light fails. Epiphanic moment, we always climbed down the cliffs in the last dim of twilight, thirty years ago.
They want to pave paradise but the tent city is in the way at a claimed $150,000 a day, rich people defending their back yards — West Vancouver is the Greenwich Connecticut of Canada — but they have the lawyers (no guns) and money. I’m with them. Let the story be told, BC is making an ugly mistake, shortsighted, inviting the world to exploit our natural beauty. Their slogan seems to be Green Olympics, sustainable, etc. The Canadian media is ignoring this but it may shape up as an epic battle. I hope so. Like Colorado, Washington and Oregon, British Columbia is easily corrupted by the main chancer politicians and always has been.

Posted by: jonku | Apr 29 2006 9:12 utc | 7

early yesterday my server couldn’t get on to the Neil Young site, which is a good thing, imo. a couple of hours later I had no problem.
Young’s song “let’s impeach the president for lying.” is imo crafted to be sung in large groups. It has a very simple melody line for that chorus — it goes down the scale very simply. something like 5 beats on the first note, then 4 on the second and drops again for the last one.
sort of like kumbaya for camping out in front of govt buildings maybe?
Someone somewhere mentioned that csny were going to tour this summer. Wouldn’t a concert in central park be great for that one, with everyone singing along…
Does Young still have a younger audience–since grunge and the early 90s? I played the release a few times and shared that one song with my son.
he’s not a great neil young fan because of the 14 minute cut of Change Your Mind on Sleeps with Angels… LOL
But he doesn’t hate him…just that one song. (mom, turn off that boring music! but he likes Ohio….which I never play, but he’s heard it other places.)

Posted by: fauxreal | Apr 29 2006 16:55 utc | 9