[Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, James] Watson says that low intelligence is an inherited disorder and that molecular biologists have a duty to devise gene therapies or screening tests to tackle stupidity. article
That Watson, he's a corker...
"If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease," says Watson, now president of the Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, New York. "The lower 10 per cent who really have difficulty, even in elementary school, what's the cause of it? A lot of people would like to say, 'Well, poverty, things like that.' It probably isn't. So I'd like to get rid of that, to help the lower 10 per cent."
Watson, no stranger to controversy, also suggests that genes influencing beauty could also be engineered. "People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great."
Friday, January 02, 2004
Uh-oh
This report is from November, but I just now saw it. Twenty-one Iowa National Guard soldiers and 13 soldiers from other states tried to avoid being sent to Iraq by taking drugs of some sort, thinking a positive test would keep them from going. They all tested positive, but were sent to Iraq anyway.
The Army said it would address the drug-test results when the troops return.
I imagine their eagerness to get home is darkened a bit.
Twenty-one Iowa National Guardsmen? And I thought those Iowa boys were true-blue all-Americans.
Looks like it's gonna take something more permanent to get out of going, guys - like maybe a move to Canada.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
The Army said it would address the drug-test results when the troops return.
I imagine their eagerness to get home is darkened a bit.
Twenty-one Iowa National Guardsmen? And I thought those Iowa boys were true-blue all-Americans.
Looks like it's gonna take something more permanent to get out of going, guys - like maybe a move to Canada.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
The belly of the beast
An excellent article at The Black Commentator (as are many articles there) talks about the delusion of thinking things might get better in America's near future.
As history will tell, and as events daily demonstrate, the piratical decision to upset the global game board in order to impose a New American Century without rules, has united the world in revulsion against the United States. Like a strange name called out in the bedroom, the specter of American madness cannot be erased from planetary memory; even if George Bush is ejected from the White House in November, this society has shown its horrific ass to the rest of the species. America writhes in flagrante (literally, "in blazing crime") in Iraq, caught in the global gaze like a rutting dog unable to disengage itself from the object of its lust. (Those who are offended by such images are simply unaware of how the U.S. appears to people outside the American corporate communications bubble that envelops the nation in narcissistic, racist delusions.)
The article talks in part about what black people in particular can hope for - which is simply very bad times.
I think this is right. And I expect class and race disturbances in the future of a much greater impact than any we have seen in our history since the Civil War. I hope I'm wrong. But I don't think so.
Not only did the world outgrow any rational economic basis for U.S. hegemony, but Washington repeatedly abused its paramount position for narrow U.S. corporate and dollar-gaming ends, wreaking havoc on the development plans of emerging elites around the globe while disregarding the sovereignty of all other nations. As Bloomberg's Tokyo bureau reported in April of this year, "there's no ignoring Asia's desire to reduce U.S. influence in the region. Leaders here wonder if scrapping the dollar might expedite the process." America and its local allies are viewed as politically bankrupt throughout the Middle East and the whole of Latin America. (Africa is another story, so drenched in misery that conventional political descriptions do not apply.)
The Bloomberg article is from April and speaks of Indonesia considering turning to the euro. Libya currently threatens the same, and there is evidence that this same sin is what actually precipitated the attack upon Hussein. I see the euro's threat to replace the dollar as the trade note of choice worldwide as key to all our moves. And no wonder that the pirates in chief are robbing the treasury. I wonder how much of Halliburton, et al. dollars have already been converted.
You're right. I know nothing about international finance.
The euro began 2003 at roughly the same value as the dollar, and now hovers around $1.25. But much more is at issue here than transient numbers. Modern currencies are backed by faith in the stability, responsibility and good judgment of the issuing nation. The United States spent decades squandering its store of good faith, and now relies as core policy on the threat of smart bombs and "regime change" to enforce its undeserved dominance in the world economic system.
...Foreign capital hangs back from U.S. capital markets despite returns on American stock investments of 12 percent - three to four times what can be earned in a sluggish but sane Europe. That the euro rises to record heights (as has the British pound) in defiance of market "fundamentals" is evidence of profound recoil from the U.S. by foreign elites.
"What if all the funds parked in the U.S. are pulled out? What if this flow of capital dries up?" asked The Hindu writer in his April commentary. The effect on the U.S. economy would be cataclysmic since the amounts involved are huge.
...No one wants an apocalyptic crash of the World Order that is currently so enmeshed with the dollar. But it is Bush's Pirates who represent the greatest threat to the system as it now exists. And who can say that in the next year or during a second term in the White House Bush will not unleash another horror on humanity that provokes just such a disaster for the U.S. and the world? This is the nightmare that haunts the foreign elites on whom the U.S. economy depends.
Well, it haunts us all who are awake and watching.
As history will tell, and as events daily demonstrate, the piratical decision to upset the global game board in order to impose a New American Century without rules, has united the world in revulsion against the United States. Like a strange name called out in the bedroom, the specter of American madness cannot be erased from planetary memory; even if George Bush is ejected from the White House in November, this society has shown its horrific ass to the rest of the species. America writhes in flagrante (literally, "in blazing crime") in Iraq, caught in the global gaze like a rutting dog unable to disengage itself from the object of its lust. (Those who are offended by such images are simply unaware of how the U.S. appears to people outside the American corporate communications bubble that envelops the nation in narcissistic, racist delusions.)
The article talks in part about what black people in particular can hope for - which is simply very bad times.
I think this is right. And I expect class and race disturbances in the future of a much greater impact than any we have seen in our history since the Civil War. I hope I'm wrong. But I don't think so.
Not only did the world outgrow any rational economic basis for U.S. hegemony, but Washington repeatedly abused its paramount position for narrow U.S. corporate and dollar-gaming ends, wreaking havoc on the development plans of emerging elites around the globe while disregarding the sovereignty of all other nations. As Bloomberg's Tokyo bureau reported in April of this year, "there's no ignoring Asia's desire to reduce U.S. influence in the region. Leaders here wonder if scrapping the dollar might expedite the process." America and its local allies are viewed as politically bankrupt throughout the Middle East and the whole of Latin America. (Africa is another story, so drenched in misery that conventional political descriptions do not apply.)
The Bloomberg article is from April and speaks of Indonesia considering turning to the euro. Libya currently threatens the same, and there is evidence that this same sin is what actually precipitated the attack upon Hussein. I see the euro's threat to replace the dollar as the trade note of choice worldwide as key to all our moves. And no wonder that the pirates in chief are robbing the treasury. I wonder how much of Halliburton, et al. dollars have already been converted.
You're right. I know nothing about international finance.
The euro began 2003 at roughly the same value as the dollar, and now hovers around $1.25. But much more is at issue here than transient numbers. Modern currencies are backed by faith in the stability, responsibility and good judgment of the issuing nation. The United States spent decades squandering its store of good faith, and now relies as core policy on the threat of smart bombs and "regime change" to enforce its undeserved dominance in the world economic system.
...Foreign capital hangs back from U.S. capital markets despite returns on American stock investments of 12 percent - three to four times what can be earned in a sluggish but sane Europe. That the euro rises to record heights (as has the British pound) in defiance of market "fundamentals" is evidence of profound recoil from the U.S. by foreign elites.
"What if all the funds parked in the U.S. are pulled out? What if this flow of capital dries up?" asked The Hindu writer in his April commentary. The effect on the U.S. economy would be cataclysmic since the amounts involved are huge.
...No one wants an apocalyptic crash of the World Order that is currently so enmeshed with the dollar. But it is Bush's Pirates who represent the greatest threat to the system as it now exists. And who can say that in the next year or during a second term in the White House Bush will not unleash another horror on humanity that provokes just such a disaster for the U.S. and the world? This is the nightmare that haunts the foreign elites on whom the U.S. economy depends.
Well, it haunts us all who are awake and watching.
I apologize!
I missed this perfect Christmas gift...
Be sure you get all the way to the interactive part.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Be sure you get all the way to the interactive part.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
The Gilmore Commission on homeland security
A federal advisory panel headed by Jim Gilmore (the Gilmore Commission), former Republican Party chairman and Governor of Virginia, issued a report early this morning [December 16] that sharply criticized the Administration's anti-terror policies. The Gilmore Commission cautioned that "important civil liberties issues must be considered when evaluating measures for combating terrorism." When considering anti-terrorism policies the government must "look ahead at the unintended consequences of politics in the quiet of day instead of the crisis of the moment." Strategic planning is necessary to combat terrorism but, according to the Gilmore Commission, "there is probably nothing more strategic that our nation must do than ensure our civil liberties." article
This article will be linked on a new page I've added to my website (Courts and Commissions Blocking Civil Liberties Attacks) to try to keep track of official legal rebuffs to the BushKKKroft fascist march.
This article will be linked on a new page I've added to my website (Courts and Commissions Blocking Civil Liberties Attacks) to try to keep track of official legal rebuffs to the BushKKKroft fascist march.
U.S. delegation to visit North Korean nuke site
[North Korea] may want to prove it has nuclear weapons as a way of bolstering a tough negotiating stance, the newspaper said.
It may also want to try to defuse tension by showing that its nuclear sites will be open to inspection if a deal is reached, the report added. article
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
It may also want to try to defuse tension by showing that its nuclear sites will be open to inspection if a deal is reached, the report added. article
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Just go ahead and close the borders
Ban all flights coming in. Code stupid.
Not only French flights cancelled, but Mexican and British as well.
How long before we can't get out?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Not only French flights cancelled, but Mexican and British as well.
How long before we can't get out?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Your tax money at work
Some of that $87 billion, you may know, is going to a tidy little project that reports keep comparing to Viet Nam's Phoenix project - or, assassination operation.
"They're clearly cooking up joint teams to do Phoenix-like things, like they did in Vietnam," says Vincent Cannistraro, former CIA chief of counterterrorism. Ironically, he says, the U.S. forces in Iraq are working with key members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct intelligence agency to set the program in motion. "They're setting up little teams of Seals and Special Forces with teams of Iraqis, working with people who were former senior Iraqi intelligence people, to do these things," Cannistraro says. The plan is part of a last-ditch effort to win the war before time runs out politically. Driving the effort are U.S. neoconservatives and their allies in the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office, who are clearly worried about America's inability to put down the Iraqi insurgency with time to spare before November. They are concerned that President Bush's political advisers will overrule the national-security team and persuade the president to pull the plug on Iraq. So, going for broke, they've decided to launch an intensified military effort combined with a radical new counterinsurgency program.
The hidden $ 3 billion will fund covert ("black") operations disguised as an Air Force classified program. According to John Pike, an expert on classified military budgets at globalsecurity.org, the cash, spread over three years, is likely being funneled directly to the CIA, boosting that agency's estimated $ 4 billion a year budget by fully 25 percent. Operations in Iraq will get the bulk of it, with some money going to Afghanistan.
...But the bulk of the cover money will support U.S. efforts to create a lethal, and revenge-minded, Iraqi security force. "The big money would be for standing up an Iraqi secret police to liquidate the resistance," says Pike. "And it has to be politically loyal to the United States." article
No more Mr. Nice Guy.
CIA to kill again: preemptive manhunting.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
"They're clearly cooking up joint teams to do Phoenix-like things, like they did in Vietnam," says Vincent Cannistraro, former CIA chief of counterterrorism. Ironically, he says, the U.S. forces in Iraq are working with key members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct intelligence agency to set the program in motion. "They're setting up little teams of Seals and Special Forces with teams of Iraqis, working with people who were former senior Iraqi intelligence people, to do these things," Cannistraro says. The plan is part of a last-ditch effort to win the war before time runs out politically. Driving the effort are U.S. neoconservatives and their allies in the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney's office, who are clearly worried about America's inability to put down the Iraqi insurgency with time to spare before November. They are concerned that President Bush's political advisers will overrule the national-security team and persuade the president to pull the plug on Iraq. So, going for broke, they've decided to launch an intensified military effort combined with a radical new counterinsurgency program.
The hidden $ 3 billion will fund covert ("black") operations disguised as an Air Force classified program. According to John Pike, an expert on classified military budgets at globalsecurity.org, the cash, spread over three years, is likely being funneled directly to the CIA, boosting that agency's estimated $ 4 billion a year budget by fully 25 percent. Operations in Iraq will get the bulk of it, with some money going to Afghanistan.
...But the bulk of the cover money will support U.S. efforts to create a lethal, and revenge-minded, Iraqi security force. "The big money would be for standing up an Iraqi secret police to liquidate the resistance," says Pike. "And it has to be politically loyal to the United States." article
No more Mr. Nice Guy.
CIA to kill again: preemptive manhunting.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Returning troops
Want to read a really creepy story about a wounded soldier back in the states?
Click here if you do.
Click here if you do.
Okay, Libya deal becoming clearer
We knew there was a little more to it than Blair Bush was telling us, didn't we?
Libya's prime minister said his country wants to be rewarded for opening up to nuclear inspections, and stressed that the United States must lift sanctions by May 12 or his government won't have to pay $6 million to each family of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing victims, according to an interview published Friday. article
Look - the tough guy stance works! Cowboy diplomacy! Whoopie!
Yeah, right.
Either Blair Bush takes you for an idiot, or is one themself.
Qadafi saw an opportunity to deal and he took it.
Libya doesn't have any threatening nuclear program. He's got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
But you can bet your boots on the ground that His Slowliness will use this for a campaign op.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Libya's prime minister said his country wants to be rewarded for opening up to nuclear inspections, and stressed that the United States must lift sanctions by May 12 or his government won't have to pay $6 million to each family of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing victims, according to an interview published Friday. article
Look - the tough guy stance works! Cowboy diplomacy! Whoopie!
Yeah, right.
Either Blair Bush takes you for an idiot, or is one themself.
Qadafi saw an opportunity to deal and he took it.
Libya doesn't have any threatening nuclear program. He's got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
But you can bet your boots on the ground that His Slowliness will use this for a campaign op.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
(Conservative) Washington columnist sees antisemitism around every corner
Joel Mowbray has decided that General Zinni's disagreement with neocon war policy is antisemitism. In a Townhall.com (DC) article, he accuses the general of using the term "neoconservative" synonymously with "Jew". And from that, he delcares the general antisemite.
I knew you couldn't say anything negative about Israeli policy without being shouted down as an antisemite, but this is the first I've seen that extended directly to neoconservative policy. It was only a matter of time, I suppose, given that neoconservative policy seems to be essentially Israeli policy.
If General Zinni meant neocon to be synonymous with Jew, he certainly didn't say so. But, incredibly, Mowbray puts the onus on him to deny that is what he meant!
If he didn't mean to use "neocon" as a code word for "Jew," he should say so.
This appears to be his reasoning:
It is well-known that those who are labeled "neocons" within the administration—whether the number-two official at the Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz, or undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith—are almost always Jews.
Don't ask me for an analysis of why the top neoconservatives also happen to be of Jewish decent. I did know that, but I didn't know that the necons in the administration are "almost always Jews". Besides, Mowbray says "whether...Wolfowitz, or...Feith", naming only two - which rather confuses the statement that otherwise would seem to be talking about any number of people. However, if it's true simply that "those who are labeled neocons...are almost always Jews", then perhaps it isn't a coincidence. As the law says, res ipsa loquitur. Personally, I've noticed that there are a good number of top names amongst warhawks and policy makers that sound awfully German. Of course, those could also be Jews. Whatever.
One thing is certain, General Zinni never mentioned anything about Jews in his complaints about policy, as Mowbray himself admits, and to start censoring the general with the antisemite label is a fascist ploy that only destroys Mowbray's own credibility for me.
One thing Mowbray points out that I happen to agree with is that, contrary to General Zinni's assertion that the neocons (Jews, in Mowbray's explanation) "captured" the president and vice-president, those two asshats were just as bent on war as the neocons - they didn't need capturing. If you asked me, and you didn't, I'd say Cheney at least could be put in the neocon column. Bush doesn't know what he is - he's just an idiot with a hard-on. He has no policy. Only a vain and vengeful personality.
Anyhooo...
Heads up: neocon is a code word for Jew. According to Joel Mowbray: As the name implies, "neoconservative" was originally meant to denote someone who is a newcomer to the right. In the 90's, many people self-identified themselves as "neocons," but today that term has become synonymous with "Jews"..."neocon" has become code for "Jew."
Christ.
I mean, Jesus.
I mean, good grief!
I'm going to send a message to Joel Mowbray and ask him what term I can use in place of neocon so as not to be anitsemite. I'll let you know what his answer is.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
I knew you couldn't say anything negative about Israeli policy without being shouted down as an antisemite, but this is the first I've seen that extended directly to neoconservative policy. It was only a matter of time, I suppose, given that neoconservative policy seems to be essentially Israeli policy.
If General Zinni meant neocon to be synonymous with Jew, he certainly didn't say so. But, incredibly, Mowbray puts the onus on him to deny that is what he meant!
If he didn't mean to use "neocon" as a code word for "Jew," he should say so.
This appears to be his reasoning:
It is well-known that those who are labeled "neocons" within the administration—whether the number-two official at the Pentagon, Paul Wolfowitz, or undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith—are almost always Jews.
Don't ask me for an analysis of why the top neoconservatives also happen to be of Jewish decent. I did know that, but I didn't know that the necons in the administration are "almost always Jews". Besides, Mowbray says "whether...Wolfowitz, or...Feith", naming only two - which rather confuses the statement that otherwise would seem to be talking about any number of people. However, if it's true simply that "those who are labeled neocons...are almost always Jews", then perhaps it isn't a coincidence. As the law says, res ipsa loquitur. Personally, I've noticed that there are a good number of top names amongst warhawks and policy makers that sound awfully German. Of course, those could also be Jews. Whatever.
One thing is certain, General Zinni never mentioned anything about Jews in his complaints about policy, as Mowbray himself admits, and to start censoring the general with the antisemite label is a fascist ploy that only destroys Mowbray's own credibility for me.
One thing Mowbray points out that I happen to agree with is that, contrary to General Zinni's assertion that the neocons (Jews, in Mowbray's explanation) "captured" the president and vice-president, those two asshats were just as bent on war as the neocons - they didn't need capturing. If you asked me, and you didn't, I'd say Cheney at least could be put in the neocon column. Bush doesn't know what he is - he's just an idiot with a hard-on. He has no policy. Only a vain and vengeful personality.
Anyhooo...
Heads up: neocon is a code word for Jew. According to Joel Mowbray: As the name implies, "neoconservative" was originally meant to denote someone who is a newcomer to the right. In the 90's, many people self-identified themselves as "neocons," but today that term has become synonymous with "Jews"..."neocon" has become code for "Jew."
Christ.
I mean, Jesus.
I mean, good grief!
I'm going to send a message to Joel Mowbray and ask him what term I can use in place of neocon so as not to be anitsemite. I'll let you know what his answer is.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Thursday, January 01, 2004
Murrah Building cover-up
Sorry for the link to a commercial product page, but someone sent me a copy of the video tape "Cover-up in Oklahoma". Owing to US mail and other delays, I only got around to watching it today. Now, the idea that the government lied about the bombing of the Murrah Building is not a new one. Evidence for more than one bomb has been around for a while. But this video tape starts out with a compilation of local Oklahoma TV newscasts that repeat, over and over and over, the fact that at least two other bombs in excess of 1200 pounds each were found INSIDE the Murrah Building that morning. These early reports, aired before federal authorities and the major networks mutated the story, quoted bomb squad officials as confirming the additional bombs, describing one of them as "military". One interesting clip shows a terrorism expert waxing enthusiastic at how lucky it was that the FBI had two unexploded bombs to work with as this would lead to the perpetrators. I am going to seek permission to post excerpts from the tape at this site. Stay tuned! and to the person who sent me the tape, sorry it took so long.
I'll try to keep an eye open for the follow-up on this from What Really Happened.
I'll try to keep an eye open for the follow-up on this from What Really Happened.
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