In a seemingly unrelated incident, Gen. Kevin P. Byrnes, a four-star general was abruptly relieved from his command this past week. In a comment on the incident, the Washington Post reported that it was “apparently the only such demotion of a four-star general in modern times” and went on to state that “if there is a justification, it had better involve national security at the very highest level”. There has been a lot of speculation about the cause for Gen. Byrnes demotion because the stated reason, adultery, seems insufficient as pointed out by the Post when compared with crimes such as torture. Byrnes, then separated and now divorced, was having an affair with a female civilian and only months away from retirement. However, he headed the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command which has a nuclear incident drill in process in Charleston, SC. According to the NORTHCOM website NORTHCOM website, “Here’s the scenario. A seafaring vessel transporting a 10-kiloton nuclear warhead makes its way into . . . Charleston, S.C. Terrorists aboard the ship attempt to smuggle the warhead off the ship to detonate it. Is this really a possibility?” Several journalists have now implicated this planned nuclear drill in Gen. Bynes demotion.

And reporter Leland Lehrman is quoted saying that “army sources, including a former Captain in intelligence,” told Lehrman that the imminent Northcom nuclear terror exercise based in Charleston, S.C, where a nuclear warhead is smuggled off a ship and detonated, was originally intended to ‘go live’ - as in the drill would be used as the cover for a real false flag staged attack.

This is scary. Continue reading Iran Next, by way of Charleston?

American Legion Declares War on Protestors — Media Next?

By E&P Staff

Published: August 24, 2005 4:20 PM ET

NEW YORK The American Legion, which has 2.7 million members, has declared war on antiwar protestors, and the media could be next. Speaking at its national convention in Honolulu, the group’s national commander called for an end to all “public protests” and “media events” against the war, even though they are protected by the Bill of Rights.

The delegates voted to use whatever means necessary to “ensure the united backing of the American people to support our troops and the global war on terrorism.”

Uh, fellas? You forget what the f you supposedly fought those wars for? You know, freedom of speech, Bill of Rights, that sort of thing? Sounds like the squealing of trapped rats to me. Trapped into supporting an illegal war, and watching- FINALLY- the erosion of public confidence in our unelected despots, leaving only the hardcore, USA right or wrong 3 monkeys to cheer. Maybe they can get Pat Robertson to speak at their next meeting.

Bill Moyer, 73, wears a “Bullshit Protector” flap over his ear while President George W. Bush addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

When the VFW has turned on your lying carcass, you’re toast. Say goodnight George.

What we’re seeing in the Sheehan affair is the yawning chasm that has opened up between the elites who control the media and a large part of American industry. In essence, these men see the same thing that you and I do; a bunch of incompetent bunglers who have failed in everything they have set out to achieve. The lack of faith in the Bush administration is not limited to confirmed liberals who spend their time on Leftists web sites. The men at the top of the corporate food-chain are not fools. They understand failure and they know when to cut their losses. The Bush ship-o-state is rudderless and adrift and the media is just helping them to the nearest reef.

That doesn’t mean that Bush is not still a formidable adversary. The boys in the administration have no intention of leaving and allowing some other administration to start snooping around 9-11, the Cheney energy papers, the Downing Street memos and the long litany of crimes perpetrated in the last 5 years. But, certainly, some of the Bush faithful have stepped off the boat and are looking for new leadership.

Continue reading Turning Sheehan’s Victory into Defeat

Media Matters calls on ABC Family to discontinue Robertson broadcasts

Following his August 22 call for the United States to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Media Matters for America is urging ABC Family to stop showing Pat Robertson’s The 700 Club. ABC Family shows The 700 Club three times a day.

“Robertson’s vitriol is not appropriate for children, or for anyone else, for that matter. His calls for the killing of a foreign leader certainly do not belong on a television channel that purports to offer family-friendly programming,” said Media Matters for America President and CEO David Brock.

To paraphrase Nixon, Robertson has given his detractors a sword. Let’s hope they wield it and get his fanatical, lying, frankly sorta crazy ass off of TV.

How does one explain all the misguided, unwise, sometimes outright boneheaded things the Bush administration has done since taking over nearly five years ago, and continues to do on a pretty much daily basis? How is it possible for a group of supposedly intelligent, experienced individuals to take this many wrong turns? Wouldn’t you think that once in a while, even by accident, that George W. Bush and his advisers would make a decision that made sense?

Continue reading What boneheaded design guides Dubya’s moves?

I think it’s really important for those of us who’ve been talking about this (opposing the war) from when we first went in to Iraq and even before that to remember that the Vietnam War didn’t end because I opposed it, it ended because my father came to oppose it. We have Cindy Sheehan to thank for the beginnings of what I believe is a mainstream movement against this war.

Watch Steve Earle at Camp Casey.

The next World War starts in Iran

By Mike Whitney

08/22/05 “ICH” — – “We consider that it would be counter-productive and dangerous to use force, the serious consequences of which would be barely predictable.” warning from the Russian Foreign Ministry to the Bush Administration about prospective plans to attack Iran

We should recall that it was the IAEA headed by El Baradei that warned the US that Saddam did not have a nuclear weapons program, and tried to save the Bush administration the embarrassment of attacking an unarmed country. That didn’t work. As we know now the intelligence was “fixed” to fit the policy, and the policy was aggression.

America has maintained it’s standard of living through debt because wages have not grown in the last 5 years. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average earnings increase from 2000-2004 was 3.86%, 3.22%, 3.12%, 1.71% and 2.39% respectively. However wages have to be compared to inflation to determine the real rate of wage growth. For the same years, annual inflation was 3.4%, 2.8%, 1.6%, 2.3% and 2.7% respectively. When inflation is subtracted from wages, overall wage growth becomes .46%, .42%, 1.52%, -.59% and-.31% respectively for 2000-2004.

Continue reading (if you have a strong stomach…) The Coming US Debt Crash

“Also, an agreement was reached that Islam is the religion of state, and that no law shall be enacted that contradicts the agreed-upon essential verities of Islam.

Ok, we actually are fighting the war in Iraq so they can be ruled by Islamic law? This was the goal?

Amazing. We’re supposed to buy this?