Well friends, it has indeed been a while since I have had time to blog. But I’m back, just in time to bring a little truth to this lie known as “Patriot Day.”
In case you didn’t know, today, September 11, is “Patriot Day.” Originally it was called “National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims Of the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001″ but I guess they thought “Patriot Day” had a more catchy name.
Although I agree that the thousands of victims of the September 11, 2001 incident including initial victims as well as first responders and victims of the Iraq occupation, should be honored, I think that proclaiming today “Patriot Day” is highly hypocritical.
REAL patriots are hard to come by these days. And the ones that exist are either shut up, locked up, or worse. “Loving your country” or “being a patriot” these days consists of approving of everything the powers that be decide they want to do, no matter how much you may disagree with it, or how damaging it may be to our country.
Seven years after September 11, 2001, we live in a country where journalists are being locked up for trying to report the news; where our laptops can be confiscated at the airport for no reason as we return from another country; and where our phone conversations have been monitored for years.
The irony of naming a day in honor of American patriots should be painfully obvious.
My man Kucinich tried as hard as he could to speak the truth during his DNC speech. He came within inches of hitting the mark, and really letting Democrats know what’s going on in our country and what we have to do to solve it. But his solution is way off.
If only Dennis had mentioned that the Dems and Republicans are exactly the same, and are both owned by multinational corporations (like he mentioned), maybe he would have opened some minds. Oh well, it was a good try anyway.
After my recent post expressing hope that maybe the American People are coming around, and that the obvious inside nature of the October 2001 anthrax attacks, a prime suspect (actually a potential whistleblower) has allegedly killed himself.
Obviously, now that he has taken his own life (yeah, right), he will never be able to clear his name, and more disappointingly, cannot blow the whistle on those who are truly responsible.
While reading an article listing the 25 companies who have been the most vicious war profiteers (which is really worth reading – click the link to read it), I found some really interesting information. Honestly, I’m disappointed that I didn’t know this before, but here you go:
Perini (controlled by financier Richard Blum) is one of the more controversial companies to have scored big-time Iraq war money. That’s because Blum’s wife, Senator Dianne Feinstein, appears to have used her seat on the Military Construction Appropriations subcomittee to steer the $650 million environmental cleanup deal in his favor.
How did I not know this? Did I know this, and just put it out of my mind because it is SO disgusting? This is crazy though. I’m calling her office today and finding out what exactly in the hell is going on. Knowing this definitely explains why she’s one of the worst neocons out there. At least that makes sense.
Just like the investigation into 9/11, the investigation into the all-but-forgotten anthrax mail attacks of September and October 2001 have been turned into a joke by the Bush Administration. On Monday, Eric Brewer of RawStory.com asked Dana Perino, White House Disinformation Specialist, about the progress of the investigation into the anthrax attacks.
It turns out that, just like the search for Osama bin Dead for Seven Years, the investigation into the anthrax attacks has been pretty much forgotten.
The one positive to this is the amount of positive comments I found on the Digg page pointing to this story. Nearly 95% of the comments supported the theory that the anthrax attacks were an inside job. Even if people didn’t believe that 9/11 was an inside job, they were largely convinced that the anthrax attacks were. And it didn’t sound like it would take too much to convince them to take the leap over to 9/11 too.
Is it possible that anthrax is the key? Will the anthrax attacks be the key to opening people’s minds to thinking critically about 9/11? If people can open their minds enough to really think out the anthrax attacks – how they were executed, the source of the anthrax, and the scale of the attacks – I honestly think that they can begin to wrap their minds around 9/11.
I do have hope. It seems that American Citizens are learning, and are starting to see through the crap we’re being fed. I just can’t wait for the day that the trial of BushCo gets better ratings than The Bachelor. And I think that day is well on its way.
If this doesn’t scare the hell out of you, I really don’t know what will. A Canadian company, Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc, is pitching an EMD “Safety Bracelet” to Homeland Security, and Homeland Security is all about it.
Basically it’s a taser bracelet that is fitted to air travelers from the time they check in to the time they arrive at their destination. If that is not scary, I don’t know what is. We can’t trust our police officers to use tasers responsibly – who would think that airline staff are qualified to use them responsibly?
One of my Senators, Dianne Feinstein, voted Aye. I let her know how I felt about it through her web contact form. I suggest you do the same.
“Senator Feinstein, your vote today on H.R. 6304 is treasonous and embarrassing. It’s obvious who you work for, and it’s certainly NOT the People of California.”
Today in a speech in Kuala Lumpur, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (allegedly mortal enemy of the United States) stated that he sees no possibility of a war with the United States or Israel.
Additionally, Ahmadinejad also stated that Bush’s successor (if there even is one – my words) “would need at least 30 years in order to compensate, renovate and innovate the damages done by Mr. Bush.” He also stated that “the greatest threat in the Middle East and the whole world … is the United States’ intervention in other countries.”
Can any sane person argue with this? Except for Neocons and Zionists (same thing, I know), I have no doubt that the rest of the world feels this way too. The problem is that just about the only world leaders with enough guts to say these things are Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez.
Take a look at the rest of the story about Ahmadinejad’s speech and see what you think. Is he really the evil tyrant and terror sponsor that we are supposed to believe he is? No.
When peaceful activists carrying signs that should not be offensive are asked to leave public property, there’s a problem. What the hell is going on here?
This is a video of a 61 year old librarian being cited and removed from public property for holding a sign that says “McCain = Bush.” Wow. What a country we live in.
For the August 2008 issue of Vanity Fair, writer Chris Hitchens bravely subjected himself to a waterboarding session. His article on the waterboarding experience is available here, as well as a video of the torture session. It hopefully won’t surprise anyone (except Bush and friends) that Hitchens decisively concluded that waterboarding is indeed torture, no matter what they tell us.
