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I read a story by Viktor Suvorov about a Russian Army officer who was a disaster. Utterly incompetent, his one ability was to memorize dialectic. At a formal dinner, he got very drunk, pulled down his pants, stuck a fish skeleton in his bum and called himself a mermaid while dancing on the table in front of senior officers.
The fastest way for his unit to get rid of him was to promote him, give him a glowing recommendation, and transfer him to their higher headquarters.
Higher headquarters quickly learned he was a schmuck, so gave him *another* promotion, and sent him back to his old unit. By bouncing around like that, as well as parroting dialectic, he soon became a very senior general.
This reminds me of Weaseley Clark, though Alexander Haig would be a close second. As the saying goes, "The cream rises to the top, and so does the scum."
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I read that story too. I think it was by Nabakov, altho maybe he used a different name. Many Stalinist alagories along with some anti-captialist warnings. Very odd in it's own way.
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"F-word" > FOOD? FOOTBALL?
"S-word" > SCHOOL?
gut nuthin {FARK.com].
D *** NG IT, does this mean we're NOT talking the CONVERTING THE WEST TO ISLAM ... VIA SEX artic???
Four thousand American soldiers dead, tens of thousands permanently wounded for life, hundreds of thousands of dead and crippled Iraqis plus five million displaced, and a cost that will mount into trillions of dollars, say Bill Moyers and Michael Winship.
30 June 2008 (Middle East Online)
Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction.
But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be....the bottom line. It is about oil.
Alan Greenspan said so last fall. The former chairman of the Federal Reserve, safely out of office, confessed in his memoir, Everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
He elaborated in an interview with the Washington Post's Bob Woodward, "If Saddam Hussein had been head of Iraq and there was no oil under those sands, our response to him would not have been as strong as it was in the first Gulf War."
Remember, also, that soon after the invasion, Donald Rumsfelds deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, told the press that war was our only strategic choice.
We had virtually no economic options with Iraq, he explained, because the country floats on a sea of oil.
Shades of Daniel Plainview, the monstrous petroleum tycoon in the movie There Will Be Blood. Half-mad, he exclaims, "There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet!" then adds, "No one can get at it except for me!"
No wonder American troops only guarded the Ministries of Oil and the Interior in Baghdad, even as looters pillaged museums of their priceless antiquities. They were making sure no one could get at the oil except... guess who?
Heres a recent headline in The New York Times: "Deals with Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back."
Read on: "Four western companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power."
There you have it. After a long exile, Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP are back in Iraq. And on the wings of no-bid contracts that's right, sweetheart deals like those given Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater. The kind of deals you get only if you have friends in high places. That's funny I could have sworn Total was French and Shell was Dutch. Of course everyone knows British Petroleum is American. (sarc)
And these war profiteers have friends in very high places.
Lets go back a few years to the 1990s, when private citizen Dick Cheney was running Halliburton, the big energy service company.
Thats when he told the oil industry that, By 2010 we will need on the order of an additional fifty million barrels a day. So where is the oil going to come from? While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.
Fast forward to Cheneys first heady days in the White House. The oil industry and other energy conglomerates have been handed backdoor keys to the White House, and their CEOs and lobbyists were trooping in and out for meetings with their old pal, now Vice President Cheney.
The meetings are secret, conducted under tight security, but as we reported five years ago, among the documents that turned up from some of those meetings were maps of oil fields in Iraq and a list of companies who wanted access to them.
The conservative group Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club filed suit to try to find out who attended the meetings and what was discussed, but the White House fought all the way to the Supreme Court to keep the press and public from learning the whole truth.
Think about it. These secret meetings took place six months before 9/11, two years before Bush and Cheney invaded Iraq. We still dont know what they were about.
What we know is that this is the oil industry thats enjoying swollen profits these days.
It would be laughable if it werent so painful to remember that their erstwhile cheerleader for invading Iraq the press mogul Rupert Murdoch once said that a successful war there would bring us $20 a barrel of oil.
The last time we looked, it was more than $140 a barrel. Where are you, Rupert, when the facts need checking and the predictions are revisited?
At a congressional hearing this week, James Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who exactly twenty years ago alerted Congress and the world to the dangers of global warming, compared the chief executives of Big Oil to the tobacco moguls who denied that nicotine is addictive or that there's a link between smoking and cancer.
Hansen, who the administration has tried again and again to silence, said these barons of black gold should be tried for committing crimes against humanity and nature in opposing efforts to deal with global warming.
Perhaps those sweetheart deals in Iraq should be added to his proposed indictments. They have been purchased at a very high price.
Four thousand American soldiers dead, tens of thousands permanently wounded for life, hundreds of thousands of dead and crippled Iraqis plus five million displaced, and a cost that will mount into trillions of dollars.
The political analyst Kevin Phillips says America has become little more than an "energy protection force," doing anything to gain access to expensive fuel without regard to the lives of others or the earth itself.
One thinks again of Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. His lust for oil came at the price of his son and his soul.
Bill Moyers is managing editor and Michael Winship is senior writer of the weekly public affairs program Bill Moyers Journal, which airs Friday night on PBS. Check local airtimes or comment at the Moyers Blog at www.pbs.org/moyers.
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Well, look at it this way, Bill. The more oil that comes in, the more gasoline thay can make. Then they can tax it so they have more money to fund stuff like...horseshit PBS shows like yours.
So...shut the fuck up.
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Or, look at it this way, Bill. The more oil that comes in, the more gasoline thay can make. Then they can tax it so they have more money to fund stuff like...the Vermont State Police patrols looking for drunk drivers like...you.
So, again, shut the fuck up.
Following are excerpts from a segment of an Iranian documentary series on Hollywood cinema featuring the film Saving Private Ryan. The segment aired on the Iranian News Channel, IRINN, on May 27, 2008.
"'Zion' Sometimes Becomes 'Ryan,' As In Saving Private Ryan"
Narrator: "The concentrated efforts of the Zionist Lobbies in America have led the U.S. government to be the greatest supporter of the regime occupying Jerusalem. In recent years, following the exposure of certain information, hatred towards the Zionists has developed and intensified among various sectors of society in this country. Therefore, some of the efforts of the Zionist Propaganda Machine are aimed at improving the image of Zionism, and at painting a false picture of the historical role of the Zionists in American society."
[...]
Dr. Majid Shah-Hosseini, Iranian film critic: "[In The Matrix], Zion symbolizes the utopian Jewish Zionist land. These are the roots of Zionism. How come in such a popular and seemingly fictional American film, the utopia of liberty and humanity, which heralds the era of modernity - in the technical, rather than theoretical sense - is symbolized by a Zionist name - 'Zion?' I'm very confused, I thought "Zion" was something out of reggae... and I thought the "Matrix" trilogy was an histrionic gnostic mish-mash. So, it was the jooos all along!
"Moreover, names may be selected for their rhyming value. 'Zion' sometimes becomes 'Ryan,' as in Saving Private Ryan. They exploit even the similarity of names. Sounds credible.
"The Joooooooooooish Steven Spielberg, whose previous film Schindler's List reflected Zionist goals, and who turned the false story of the Holocaust into an influential movie, is now making a new movie, about Private Ryan." [...]
"By Exaggerating This Role [Of Jewish Soldiers In The Film], The Zionists Seem To Be Trying To Achieve Legitimacy For Their Post-War Actions"
Murtaza Ali-Abbas Mirzai, Iranian documentary filmmaker: "In Saving Private Ryan, one sees that they are the ultimate plunderers. The scene in which the officer puts some earth from various countries into cans was just a preview of what they are doing now - taking the land of Iraq, Afghanistan, and the European countries." I think vampires too much put some earth, but in their shoes.
[...]
Narrator: "While the blacks and other Minorities protest the fact that Hollywood ignores their role in American history, but to no avail, prominent films like Saving Private Ryan highlight the role of Jooooooooish soldiers. By exaggerating this role, the Zionists seem to be trying to achieve legitimacy for their post-war actions. In the military cemetery shown in the opening scene of the film, the picture has been edited to draw attention to the Joooooooish graves among others." [...]
"This Cry Of Rage Is The Cry Of Zionism Validating The Crimes Perpetrated By Zionism After The World War"
Narrator: "Among the more unpleasant scenes of the film are the scenes in which a Joooooooish soldier directs his rage towards German POWs. When he sees some German soldiers wearing jewelry with symbols of his religion, this soldier has a fit of rage and attacks them. In these scenes, the film director presents a completely sympathetic view of this soldier's rage towards the helpless POWs. It seems as if this cry of rage is the cry of Zionism validating the crimes perpetrated by Zionism after the world war."
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Zionist themes in cowboy shows. Hmmmmmm . . . how about this one:
Scrollin' scrollin' scrollin'
Through the Torah scrollin'
Keep your congregation rollin' Rabbi!
Through wind and rain and weather
In a yarmulke made of leather
Kosher cattle ridin' alongside
All the things I'm missin'
Bar mitzvahs and circumscisions
Are waitin' at the end of my ride
Move 'em on, head 'em up, head 'em up, move 'em on
Move 'em on, head 'em up
Rabbi!
Count 'em out, ride 'em in, ride 'em in, count 'em out, count 'em out,
Ride 'em in
Rabbi!
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Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction.
Following are excerpts from a segment of an Iranian documentary series on Hollywood cinema featuring the film Saving Private Ryan. The segment aired on the Iranian News Channel, IRINN, on May 27, 2008. 
