The So-Called, "War On Terror" (SCWOT) is a hoax.

BushCo needs a catchy slogan to bedazzle the American public into more stupefied taxpaying for corporate welfare on behalf of weapons makers and defense contractors.

In addition, national mind control can proceed under the guise of, "Information Warfare" by the Pentagon and the intelligence services.

Obviously when, according to Susan Milligan of the Boston Globe,

President Bush prepared the nation yesterday for a "long struggle" against enemy forces in Iraq and around the world and said more US troops would be needed to confront the global terrorist threat,

he needs to be able to explain how the "long struggle" and "additional troops" will "confront" the "threat."  The reporters aren't asking the obvious question, which is, "How does more translate into better?"

The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts clearly show that our leaders are not confronting the "threats" appropriately, but are squandering taxpayers' money in a misguided blitzkrieg of runaway spending.

The more we spend and the more people we kill, the less "safe" we get and the more dangerous the "terrorists" become.

Obviously, another response to terrorism and sectarian violence is needed than terrorism and military intervention.  If we want peace instead of terrorism and war, we should be constructive instead of terrorizing and threatening.

Terrorism is a crime, not a causus belli.  What is also a crime is deceiving the American people about this distinction in order to keep them in fear and abjection, selling their grandchildren into economic slavery.

On the home front, BushCo's shrinking approval ratings are reflected in new expressions of public outrage and proactive popular resistance on a weekly basis.

Yes, the assault on the environment continues, but the people are fighting back.  A particularly destructive mission by BushCo to delete decades of progress identifying and effectively limiting the dispersal of toxic substances and pollutants is being fought by PEER, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

The bad news is that what PEER is specifically fighting at the moment appears to be a losing battle to preserve the public interest in the war against giant corporate polluters.

In a Pearl Harbor Day press release, we find that EPA officials are purging their website of documents, destroying documents and research data, and limiting the ability of their own scientists and researchers--and the public, too--from getting access to information that has been accumulated in libraries to serve the public interest.

Timing his partisanship to fuel the flames of dissonance and fear in the Senate deliberations on the Military detainee measure, George W. Bush, President of the Republican people, has not only surrendered to al-Qaeda.  He has vacated his position as President of the United States of America.

In an unprecedentedly one-sided sales pitch for his party, the President of the United States has abandoned the majority of his constituents as "cut and run" cowards.

Five years after 9/11, the worst attack on the American homeland in history, Democrats offer nothing but criticism, obstruction and endless second-guessing," he said, branding them "the party of cut-and-run."

Will the Democrats form an opposition party now?  We're supposed to have some representation in our government, aren't we?  If Bush isn't up for the job, maybe we can get Mike Malloy.  I hear he's out of work.  Although he may be crazy, too, at least he believes in the Constitution.

The information on the upcoming elections is looking worse and worse for the minority party.

In a press release on Thursday, BushCo, among other frightening threats, announced its intention to nominate Caroline C. Hunter to be Commissioner of the Elections Assistance Commission.  It's bad enough that she's a BushCo nominee, and has been serving in the White House until now as BushCo's Deputy Director for the Office of Public Liaison.  In other words she's a PR person.  Worse, among her other impressive former titles, including Deputy Counsel for the Republican National Committee, she holds no credentials or experiences qualifying her for her new appointment.

([ed]Also posted at After Downing Street and MyDD) Oxymoron:  A combination of contradictory or incongruous words. (Webster)

Jonathan Tasini is a long overlooked, hardworking and truly progressive Democratic candidate who's been willing to duke it out in the trenches because of his principles, even in a forlorn hope like the challenge to Senate incumbent Hillary Clinton.

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I wandered into the Performing Arts Library yesterday evening.  It just happened to be the one weeknight the Library is still open after 6:00 PM.

I found a number of FDR recordings on the electronic catalogue, and after asking around for about ten minutes, I found myself checking my coat on the third floor.  Then I passed through the glass door into a long, brightly lighted room of computer desks and microfilm file cabinets.

The room was very very clean.  I thought I was in some corporate research or creative department.  To think that the City of New York had little public library annexes of this quality!

And it is free!

To make a long story short, I listened to FDR's first 2 inaugural addresses.

Ironically, what FDR said in those speeches conveys the mind and spirit that give rise to the very facilities where I was listening to his words:  public facilities of the highest quality, provided by the people for the common good.

A couple of phrases really struck me.  In the First Inaugural he said there was a need to keep private, autocratic powers in proper subordination to the people's government.

David Sirota couldn't have said it better himself!

Then, in the Second Inaugural, FDR mentions that three things we learned we have to do to have stability and economic justice are:

1.  Strict government supervision of credit, investment and banking,

2.  No speculation with Other People's Money, and

3.  Adequate, sound currency.

This economic stability and justice would give rise to "new building materials of social justice."

So I sat and listened in that quiet, clean, well-lighted public facility, and wondered how it could be that I had never heard those words before.  Is it possible that others have been trying to prevent me from hearing them?

What kind of world will our current leaders' words work to fashion for posterity?

Perhaps they aren't truly blind to the wisdom of FDR, but simply vanquished by jealousy for his righteousness and stature.

cross-posted on liberal elite and dembloggers

As the braindead, stupefied, terrified televiewers wash into another calendar year, our frightened leader is "on the march."

He is battling to renew the "Patriot" Act, which has been extended for one month from December 31st to allow more time for debate on the controversial provisions that are set to expire.

In Bush Fights Resistance To Patriot Act, an anonymous AP journalist informs us of Bush's comments yesterday when he "press[ed] his case to a supportive audience at the Pentagon:  

"The enemy has not gone away. They're still there," said Bush. "And I expect Congress to understand that we're still at war, and they got to [sic] give us the tools necessary to win this war."

Oh, my!  What a fighter!  Fuck you, Mr. President.