L'AG è un liar

How long, how fucking long can this go on??? The people of the US are either woefully disinterested in the health and wellbeing of their nation, or so overwhelmingly consumed with their own day-to-day surivival, that they just cannot possibly care that:

The President of the US has been proven to be a liar
The Vice President of the US has been proven to be a liar
The Attorney General of the US has been proven to be a liar
The Republican Senate leadership has been proven to be liars
The Republican House leadership has been proven to be liars
The Secretary of State has been proven to be a liar
The Secretary of the Interior has been proven to be a liar
The Secretary of Education has been proven to be a liar
The head of the EPA has been proven to be a liar
The head of NASA has been proven to be a liar

When we this end?? When will the people say enough?? When will these vile, evil, horrible human beings be held accountable?

On a side note, at least eight times during his interview with Jon Stewart, former ambassador to the UN John Bolton explicitly lied. He lied so authoritatively and dictatorially that his arrogance at doing so was all the more insane and socio-pathic. Bolton is no different than those others listed above. They have no compulsion to be honest and forthright; they make Goebbels look like an advertising executive.

GNF--GooglebombingNowForpeace

Cut and paste this:

From tigtog:

This is a crosspost to effect a Googlebomb, correcting an injustice against a fellow feminist blogger.

Jill Filipovic, who blogs at Feministe and Ms. JD, is a NYU law student who has been the subject of cyber-obsession on a discussion board allegedly populated by law students. The discussions regarding Jill Filipovic (and many other female law students) are sexist and sexual in nature, rating the women’s physical attractiveness and fantasising about sexual contact, both consensual and non-consensual. Neither Jill Filipovic or any other of these women contributed, or gave their permission to be discussed, to the discussion board in question.

Jill Filopovic’s name and class routines etc have been regularly posted to this board, and at least one of the pseudonymous board-members claims to be Jill Filipovic’s classmate. Photos that Jill Filipovic posted (with full rights reserved) to an internet photo-storing and sharing site have also been posted to the sleazy discussion board without her permission. This is a horrendous invasion of Jill Filipovic’s privacy, a violation of copyright law, and calls the ethics and character of the alleged law-students participating in these discussions on the discussion board into question.

A major side-effect of an already nasty situation is that the sexist, objectifying cyber-obsession threads come up on the first page of internet search results on Jill Filipovic’s name. To an inexperienced user of the internet, it may even look as if Jill Filipovic and other female law students chose to compete in these Hot or Not rating competitions, instead of having their pictures posted without permission.

This post is an attempt to balance those internet results to point to the significant writings of Jill Filipovic instead, using the Googlebomb tactic and also linking this post to social networking sites (eg. del.ici.ous, Stumbleupon). Please feel free to copy any or all of what I’ve written here to your own blog in order to help change the top-ranked search engine results for Jill Filipovic. If you don’t have your own blog then please at least link to one of Jill’s this post[s] listed below at your preferred social networking site and give it the tag “Filipovic" (as well as any others you think appropriate).

I have linked to these sites in this post:
Jill Filipovic’s bio page at Feministe
Jill Filipovic’s blog posts at the Ms. JD blog
Jill Filipovic’s article about these scummy lawschool sleazebags at Feministe
Jill Filipovic’s article at Ms. JD: When Law Students Attack

If any of the other female law students stalked by the same sleazy site wish to copy this text with names altered, you hereby have my full permission to do so. All other rights reserved. (C) 2007 tigtog

Si hoc memenum legere potes

as the blogsphere goes; books read appear in bold.

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
Dune, Frank Herbert
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Neuromancer, William Gibson
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
Cities in Flight, James Blish
The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Little, Big, John Crowley
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
On the Beach, Nevil Shute
Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
Ringworld, Larry Niven
Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
Timescape, Gregory Benford
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert A. Heinlein
The Cyberiad or Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
Illuminatus!, Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
Colossus, D.F. Jones
Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle
War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
Jack of Shadows, Roger Zelazny
The Lathe of Heaven. Ursala LeGuin

Interesting subtexts for TV dramas...

Last friday evening, two different TV dramas, on two different networks, from two different corporate producers, each had a similar subtextual construct as the bases for the episodes. And in neither case was this construct mentioned in any media whatsoever, as evidenced by the two following summaries.

http://www.tv.com/las-vegas/heroes/episode/958574/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;16
http://www.tv.com/numb3rs/democracy/episode/985690/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;17

So why would i use my blogspace-time to mention this??? Well, quite frankly, it rather blew my mind. You see, this subtextual construct was that very rich people with extraordinary economic and political power are literally free to do whatever they desire to further their goals and intentions. On the episode of Las Vegas, the wealthy sociopath drugged and kidnapped a female for his personal sex slave, alluding to the fact that he had been doing this for a very long time, and that no one could really stop him from doing so. On the episode of Numb3rs, another billionaire manipulated and controlled an election through electronic hacking of central tabulators ostensibly to dominate CA election results and insure that he determined the future of national and international policy (with his fellow plutocrats). To accomplish this he used pawns, puppets, and syncophants, then had them killed, and then bragged that he was essentially untouchable.

Plutocrats and oligarchs are beginning to exert their political control and will over much of the planet. As neo-feudal lords of capital they are beyond the scope of laws and consequential forms of justice as retribution for their heinous actions against all species. Flaunting this on tv, as part of dramatic series, only further serves their agendas, brazenly challenging the norms by which national and international societies conduct themselves. Political power in Russia, for example, is being consolidated in aligning plutocrats and oligarchs under one single strand of feudal authority. Those that step out of line, and especially those that try to report on the processes, are being marginalized, imprisoned, and killed. The US plutocrats are firmly supportive of abhorrent totalitarian regimes in the Middle East, to further purge discontent and threats to their power. The US is engaging Iran because of the dependency of the oligarchy on super light, and light crude oil traded in US dollars. Ever onward is the push to privatize the services of government from prisons to education, from social services to healthcare, from public works to military. Privatizing these systems imbues the corporate lords with immense power and removes the threat of consequence and justice.

Update: News today reports that Halliburton is moving its corporate headquarters from Houston to Dubai. Essentially this puts the company, and its board, in an extradition free zone, where Cheney and his cronies can go hide out the rest of their lives in the most stupendously outrageous region of conspicuous overconsumption on the planet. Of the 900+ billionaires in the world a full 46% of them have personal properties in Dubai, a nation protected by huge private security forces armed with the latest and most sophisticated of military technologies. Go figure.

Update #2:Time’s Karen Tumulty comments on Halliburton’s plan to move its headquarters from Houston to Dubai: “Is this about tax breaks? Getting beyond the reach of congressional subpoenas? And what about all that sensitive information that Halliburton has had access to? At a minimum, reincorporating in Dubai would mean that Halliburton will be paying less taxes to the U.S. Treasury, even as it collects billions from government contracts.” She also reports, “Henry Waxman is already planning to hold a hearing on this, an aide tells me.”

just a thought

A couple of months ago, i read an essay by a medical doctor describing the heart disease issues with VP Dickhead. I can't remember where on the web i read it, perhaps Smirking Chimp (a great site even if the essay wasn't on there), but essentially the doctor predicted this latest bit of health issue news. The VP's body cannot continue to withstand the impact of long flights, long periods of sitting, and being away from dialysis and other therapeutic treatment regimens. He is a very ill and sick man, with congestive heart failure disease and related fluid retention issues. It is one of the reasons he is kept from the press for much of the time. It is why he makes these attack and run photo-op talking head babbling moments.

So what does this bode for Bushco? Well, the most likely scenario--that would potentially revive the White House, inspire Congress to back down, and whitewash Iraq and the related economic downturn--would be for Cheney to resign for health reasons. This will provide cover for what is really a veiled sacrificial offering of Cheney for all that has gone wrong with this administration's policies, made all the more evident from the Libby trial verdict. With Cheney quietly going off into his megamansions, Bush can appoint a new Veep who would become the major contender in the 2008 race. Now that CA has moved their primary up to February, the race has really officially started. Boosting Romney or McCain to Veep pushes that person into the most powerful position for shielding Bush from threat of impeachment as well as helping the GOP keep power in the White House. Will it happen???