COLORADO SPRINGS- The complicit media accepts the Army’s characterization of the 1:30AM crash as a “hard landing” and neither the condition of the Apache Longbow aircraft nor its occupants is being revealed; even though emergency vehicles reached the downed Apache via Gold Camp Road and the crew were rushed to Memorial Hospital, civilian jurisdiction. The citizens of Colorado Springs are being kept on a need to know basis, as Fort Carson increases its flight training for choppers being deployed to Afghanistan, even as the training battleground becomes the skies about our neighborhoods.

Police often say that one of the most dangerous situations they can get into is being called to the scene of a rowdy Domestic Disturbance.
But there IS one family dispute that the entire world has no choice but to participate therein. One that started thousands of years ago.

In the book “1984″ Winston Smith is arrested, and taken to the Ministry of Love, which in DoubleSpeak meant a Prison with a brainwashing facility. AKA, a psychiatric torture chamber. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, held in a similar facility, in the Soviet Union, was described as Mentally Ill by the Soviets and the Western Propaganda Media called it a Gulag, a Concentration Camp and … Ministry of Love. When Massimo Tartaglia busted Berlusconi in the face by throwing a Church at him (literally, it was a model of the main cathedral in Milan), The GodlessFather Berlusconi first had a press release where Signor Tartaglia was taped begging his forgiveness, a “Ring Kissing” ceremony if ever I saw one. Berlusconi said he forgave him. And said two days later, as he was being bundled into his car, that “Love conquers hate”.

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Detentions without trials, evidence, warrants,… just the faceless and nameless assertion of some Torture Freak Pervert in the State Department or Homeland Security. Doesn’t matter about National Sovereignty since the only National Sovereignty the Torture Freaks recognize is their own. Not the sovereignty of the American People either, just the nameless and faceless pukes who are too cowardly to put their names behind their actions in DHS and FBI and CIA and State Department and Department of “defense”.

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How would it have been played out in the press had the Team America gone on to at least a higher level of victory? We’ve already suffered through an anti-Immigrant slam against major league baseball, with all the appropriate “OUTRAGE! (copyright 1993-2010 Fox News Networks)” about Major League players getting visas and work permits when immigrating from Cuba and (gasp!) Mexico. Not any rage against any favoritism but the fact that people PEOPLE from Cuba and Mexico were given work permits in the first place. How dare they let more of THEM infiltrate America!
Not much crying about the “patriotic” symbolism of some of our best baseball players being from places like Costa Rica.
So how would it play out that a team built on the skills of Immigrants took the U.S. to a World Cup win?

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As the next ships are mobilized to challenge the siege of Gaza, NYC supporters of Israel paraded a “True Freedom Flotilla” around the harbor. This point may already be moot, “Freedom” doesn’t mean what it used to. Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom are exercises in duplicity, and “Freedom of Speech” is hollow. The Oslo Freedom Forum was packed with globalization ringers. Freedom Fries were just embarrassing. The Smithsonian exhibit about America’s wars is entitled “The Price of Freedom.”

They’re saying “He almost DID get Osama!” ahem… where would they have that info from? Oh, yeah, The Colorado Rambo’s Publicity Dept.
They also cited an A&E program where somebody had supposedly almost gotten bin Laden but Osama got in the first shot. Momma always said “Almost, Ain’t… and close only counts in hand-grenades”
The whole conversation takes on an eerie semblance to junior high brag. “I almost got up in the Coach’s face about that” or “I almost got in a fight” blah blah blah bah, humbug.
Besides, A&E also re-runs hysterical documentaries where they say that Saddam Hussein refused to give up his WMDs and thats what the war is about. With a track record like that I’d go to a window and check if one of them told me it was daytime.
Moreover, who would be able to tell if he actually DID shoot somebody in Pakistan or Afghanistan and it was allegedly bin Laden?

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Tropical Depression Alex. If it stays out over the water it’ll become a Tropical Storm, which for the purposes of the Oil S(l)ick is a moot reference. It might as well be a hurricane.

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June 18 marked the 70th anniversary of the Free-French General de Gaulle’s famous 1940 radio address when he urged occupied France to resist because victory over their invaders would be inevitable. Does the western media commemorate de Gaulle’s message without an inkling of irony?
 
Of course, today’s occupied peoples cannot be offered the same assurance, that help is on its way. Just as Europe was overwhelmed by Hitler’s superior force, de Gaulle knew that US industry would trump that. There will be no white knight to rescue Iraq and Afghanistan, but “L’Appel du 18 Juin,” celebrated in 2010, reaffirms every people’s right to resist foreign invaders. And not nonviolently.

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Or something like that. I used to hear, growing up in El Paso, that the ROE were handcuffing “Our Boys” in VietNam. Same way the cops say that having to respect people’s rights would tie their hands behind their backs. Like, how would they know? They’ve never actually tried respecting people or their rights. But we’ve seen the pictures, over and over, a weeping mother holding her slain child for the last time… the faces are different, but the soul of that mother multiplied over all the times the ROE were disregarded either for matters of convenience (although the cops or soldiers would never admit that) or for the “safety” of one or more of the Invaders or Police State Storm Troopers domestically, backfires against the trigger pullers.

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Gearing up for Saturday’s World Cup match between the USA and Ghana, media talking heads are already preparing US viewers for the home field advantage that will favor the remaining African team in contention. Convenient actually, because by chance our A-Team is booed in any arena it sets its invader’s foot. The now maligned South African horns have so far masked a third world animosity that might put most Americans over the edge. The nerve of those ingrates, to boo, hiss and whistle the emperor’s freedomTM fighters?

Just a thought from the headline. You know how some people can get together and recite all the lines from say “Let’s Make a Dope Deal” or sing Black Lassie complete with the lead in of “thish is Horrendo Revolver doing an esposhe of the mushic indushtry’… word for word even though it never got on the radio here in the states (I was lucky, I lived in El Paso, which was right across a nasty little creek from Downtown Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico and their most excellent rock station XROK 80, and Mexico didn’t have the same censorship rules the yanquis do). And even though their dad had smashed their Big Bambu and The Wedding Album records after about the third time in less than an hour of hearing “Acting like a queeeeeeeerrrr!” (Actually “Earache, my eye”)(I think). So much for the legendary effect of Da Wicked Weed that you have short term loss of long term memory or is it long term loss of short term memory? I forget… anyway, that doesn’t matter.

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But it illustrates the way “history” can be slanted, from very recent to a very distant lifetime ago or more… 1952 China Spy Mission goes wrong, shades of John Birch, etc.. The 4 CIA operatives, two of them the spies who were to be dropped into China, who survived, and their pilots, who did not, were Ambushed as in, the Chinese spotted their plane and shot them out of the sky, and the two spies who were captured spent twenty years in Chinese prisons. No doubt they were waterboarded, which is considered Torture when other governments do it, sleep deprivation, deep indoctrination techniques, which are called “enhanced interrogation” when the USMC does it at Gitmo and other Torture Dungeo.. ooops I mean “detention centers”.

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We may be powerless to advise the experts or force the perps to walk the plank. And we are not to blame for the industrial orgy of consumerism foisted on our modern livestyles. But turning this around is up to us; not heading to the Gulf, or saving oiled birds. This disaster spills over our pitiful remedies. We’ll have our hands full battling the attack it presents on human survival and biodiversity. For the right now: stop using oil. Impossible? Well then we’re spilt milk.

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And just why does an idiot like that get to own guns unsupervised? His “friends” are encouraging others to have a hand at it.
I don’t know why I missed this the first go-round.
Must be the novocaine from the tooth extraction wearing off.
Greeley, Colorado. Ahem. “Balloon Boy” anyone? Not that they could enlist the governments of Pakistan and the United States in this, but some “reality show” producers might see or have seen a profit margin in promoting this story. Now with a call to arms from his equally goofball friends and family, they’re almost guaranteed a steady stream of dumbasses who can each afford a gun and a plane ticket to Pakistan to try to jump on the bandwagon.
Maybe, too, the Yankee Gubmint done seen the light, and have found a way to “hunt for bin Laden” without using any expensive Predator Drones or any kind of other gear or personnel. Wouldn’t bother bin Laden much either, even if he IS still alive. How the HELL would Faulkner even know if he was aiming at the right Ay-Rab?
The FBI doesn’t even know what he would look like. They FAKED an age progression picture on us that used the face of a Spanish Member of Parliament. Nobody IN AMERICA noticed the fraud, somebody in Spain did

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McChrystal replaced by… Generally Betrays Us. Yep, “king” David Petraeus, the one whose staff leaked a protocol statement he had made sometime last year, announced on the Memorial Day weekend, of a military version of an Executive Order giving himself the power to decide which wars to start. Open ended statement that at one end of the interpretation spectrum, is authorization to commit air strike murder in any country of the world, including America, with no further authorization than his own. The departure point from Constitutional Law or, for that matter, ANY Law, is the authorization to initiate Military Intelligence operations. Much like the operations in Cambodia and Laos which John Kerry was condemned for even stating existed, and which NiXXon, (New name, but the same old gas) had sicced the “plumber” burglars on the Watergate office of Daniel Ellsbergs doctor in order to try to smash Ellsberg… the operation that so massively backfired…. the one in retaliation for Ellsberg “ratting out” the Secret War against Cambodia and Laos.
Seems this keeps coming back around yes?
Petraeus’ mission paper, if accepted by Congress, would legalize that sort of shenanigans. Murder actually. In large numbers, in the Name of the American people, without any permission of the American People.

The US pretends the International Criminal Court doesn’t have jurisdiction over its war crimes, and thinks the same immunity should shield us from FIFA referees I guess.
 
The USA-Algeria match today was hard fought, admittedly team USA displayed an offensive edge. Rooting for Team Weasel Empire doesn’t automatically make you a Nazi, but I’ll be curious to hear firsthand accounts of the hostility our compatriots faced in the stands. The silver lining to a US victory is that eventually our sportscasters will have to apologize to American TV viewers about the constant booing whenever USA gets the ball.

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Bush appointee? Reagan? Nixon? Exxon? Wouldn’t matter. The so-called “Leaders” are the easily replaced Corporate Face.
Nothing to see, citizen, keep moving, nothing to see here…

Is it any coincidence that this is aimed at the single largest concentration of non-Anglo CITIZENS in America? Yet the racist pricks in the Minutemen and other anti-”immigrant” Hate Groups, orchestrated by Fox News, deny any racist intent. Just like Joe Arpaio and Sarah Palin and John McCain deny their own blatant Racism in these matters.
Bunch of Lying Pukes, can’t even muster the courage to state their beliefs and intents openly. Who’s next on their Klan-affiliate Hit List? The Chiricahua, Mescalero, Lipan and Jicarilla Apache, and other Native Tribes who have triple citizenship, in the U.S., their own Tribal nations and Mexico? Perhaps the Northern Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, Mohawk? For the same reason. Not “national security” as proclaimed by the Hate Freaks. But White insecurity. Fear the Brown… Fear fear fear… and disguise your actions as Courage.

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To hear him tell it, even the Republicans aren’t right wing enough. The dude has some serious personality issues, easily disguised behind a uniform and a herd of similar uniformed attitudes.
There’s a hippie parlor trick, you run some quotes by some of the “Get behind the troops or get in front of them” crowd… and say that two of the three come from Adolf Hitler and one from Doug MacArthur… the trick is, they’re ALL from MacArthur. But that’s the mentality that “wins” wars, even if we’re still fighting Big Mac’s wars 4 generations down the line.
So, is Obama a shill, standing in pretending to be working toward peace, just to give Big Mac Jr an excuse for a military coup?
To hear the Fox Noose Nutwerks folks tell it, he’s either a soft-headed Liberal Hippie or a Bolshevik Dictator.
Not much room for anything to the right of that, far less to the right of center. But, that’s their perception or at least, the one they’re pushing on their Fanatic Cult Followers.

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We notice oil spills, not because oil comes up missing, but when the accumulation overflows our ability to excuse it. What can we say about the embarrassment of riches piling up as development in the United Arab Emirates? It’s from oil profit, yes, but also reconstruction billions siphoned from Iraq and Afghanistan. On the heels of the loot follow the miscreants stashing it there, confident they can evade eventual US extradition. Halliburton is now headquartered there, and Blackwater’s Erik Prince is reported to be packing his bags.

The results of Israel’s self-investigation of the Mavi Marmara Massacre are in: surprise, the IDF commandos did no wrong, but were set back by a deficiency of intelligence. It’s what many of us were already thinking, but there’s another punchline which Israel invites by pairing the deadly raid with IDF “intelligence” assets gone missing.

Six passengers of the humanitarian convoy are still unaccounted for. Rumors spread they may have been tossed off the ship, or languish in Israeli detention, but the trouble is, the six are also lacking for anyone missing them. Without friends or families registering concern, the convoy organizers can now deduce that the six were agents of Israel, who elected obviously to stay behind in Israel. Might this be because they were the principal provocateurs brandishing the pipes to give the IDF boarders pretext to fire upon the activists?

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So there was this History Channel show about the Templars. (I try not to look at stupid stuff like this, really I do) and the Oak Island “treasure” pit, and this Viking Rune stone found in Illinois or somewhere nearby… All supposedly to hide the treasure of the Templars, all their stolen blood money that nobody has any real records thereof… kind of like the Stolen Blood Money from the Modern Knights Templars, as Erik Prince calls his mercenary Murder,Inc “Xe (formerly “Blackwater”) International” and their accomplices in the Pentagon and Halliburton.
Maybe the Modern Templars are dumping the money into documentaries like this.
Oh, and it involved, near the end, the Micmak tribe and one of the most offensive use of the Great White Father crap that I’ve heard in a long time.

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The sun rises in a few minutes, so I’ve got a short series of songs on my playlist, which I’ll accompany with my recorder (flute) Moonshadow and “Morning Has Broken” of course, Question and Wildest Dream by the Moody Blues, Elusive Butterfly by Bob Lind, Sunday Mornin’, Comin’ Down by Kris Kristoffersen, songs of hope with a hard edge, reflection with a back door that leads to a future…
Neither bubbly optimism nor dank melancholia. One of our tomato plants is (apparently, I’ll check) getting its first flower today, by the middle of the week our first Fried Green Tomato… a “heritage” breed too, not the Monsanto recombinant one with a DNA sequence from cod-fish, that’s supposed to keep them from crystalizing at 0 degrees Celsius thus they can ship them at technically freezing.

Shell games tempt only the gullible, don’t they? So long as YOU don’t fall for them, what’s a little income redistribution among wretches? That’s an attitude shared only by the uninitiated. So-called internet “penny auctions” exploit human vulnerability like trust and avarice, leaving victims to blame their own stupidity or greed. You may shrug off getting burned as a lesson learned, but all confidence tricks count on that. Websites like Quibids and Scriptmatix’s PennyAuction are neither novel discount methods, adventure shopping, gambling scenarios or lotteries. They are con games that lead you to believe you are getting something for your money, until you don’t.

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