HAYDN, ST-SAENS

so, when the bastids are grinding you down, i recommend these recordings.

very uplifting...

the emerson string quartet's the haydn project. fabulous chamber music.

and then on the hyperion label, st-saens violin concerti.

if we are descending the maelstrom, listening to this stuff might make the swirl tolerable.

shuuuuuuush.

BRAIN-DAMAGE

what are the reasons for the electorate's flight from reality?

i need some input. because i am freaking out.

i have known individuals who have had a good education. and are essentially irreligious. yet, they enlist in THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON SCIENCE, as chris mooney described it. WHY?

my background is an engineering one. i manufacture a product. i deal with issues of steel, nickel, copper, alumina oxide, glass, gold, palladium, and a variety of fabrication issues involving these materials.

furthermore, i have a long history in aviation. suffice it to say, i know things.

yet, i continue to encounter individuals who have no similar technical knowledge who support the bushit nonsense concerning the events of 11/09/01. and either dispute my knowledge or go to great lengths to ignore it.

why is that?

i have abandoned p.e.'s[republicans] that i have known who want to assert that a few minutes of exposure to jetA can melt structural steel.

these are the same p.e.'s that profess to know nothing about the demolition of WTC 7. and so many other aspects of that day. aspects that could never have been the result of anything other than a usg project.

the fascinating part of the scam is how certain bloggers of the purported left continue to bulwark the usg's notional story. i think of kevin drum, in particular.

still insinuating that sunni jihadists were responsible for the events of that day.

kevin drum is either a disinformation agent. or an idiot. probably both.

but what about our friends and family members? what causes them to go brain-dead?

i think of a friend's brother. he teaches school. at a fancy and expensive campus in marin. what causes him to become demented when it comes to analyzing the events of that day?

i think of my former best friend. who refuses to acknowledge reality. eric hufschmid, PAINFUL DECEPTIONS: AN ANALYSIS OF THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACK actually called him to ask him why he was spurning the evidence that no "sunni jihadists" were responsible for the events of that day. my old best friend terminated the phone call. why?

why is it that so many want it to be the bushit way?

and this is clearly not an issue of left or right. liberal or conservative.

significant "LEFTIES" advance the notion that some muslims attacked icons of amerika. just like the "RIGHTIES".

and this proposition is inaccurate. no muslims had anything to do with the events of that day.

still, i find it tough to advance that understanding. consider kevin drum, and others, continuing to insinuate that sunni jihadists were responsible for the events of that day.

kevin drum is either seriously brain-damaged. or is an intell asset.

there is no there explanation.

WTC 6

why is it that no entity has shown these photos of WTC 6?

if you wanted proof that the usg story of that day was a fraud, these photos sustain it.

911studies.com

WHO RUNS THE TERRORISTS?

the usa has been training terrorists for decades.

i have posted this in the past, but of course, many posts are overlooked, ignored.

my earliest exposure to special ops occurred in the 1970's. there was this freight forwarding company on greens road, adjacent to IAH. it was the EGYPTIAN AIR TRANSPORT SERVICE COMPANY[EATSCO].

my air freight forwarder was its neighbor. one day, while delivering an emergency shipment, after hours, to my forwarder, the subject of EASTCO came up. SPOOKS is what i was told.

since i was, am, and will always be a student of spooks, i paid some attention to EATSCO. my observations informed me that lots of usn personnel were in and out of EATSCO...that EATSCO was probably a cover operation.

it has been at least 20 years. it was a thursday or a friday. i was flying into AMS. from milan, i think. my seatmate was ranting about terrorists. i let his rant unwind. then i told him that it was my country, and nato, that were running the terrorists. i thought that he would have a stroke.

after his attack on me ended, we were on final approach to AMS. before we disembarked, i advised him to pay attention, that he would soon learn the truth that i had imparted. he spluttered as i exited the aircraft.

the next morning, sitting down to breakfast, i opened my iht and found the sy hersh sty revealing the ed wilson/frank terpil ONI ops of which EATSCO was a part.

the oil industry is a great cover for intell ops.

what did EATSCO do? well it sent C-4 to libya. in 55 gallon drums labelled as drilling fluid. via lufthansa via frankfurt.

and what happened to this c-4 explosive when it reached libya? well the ONI,via its operatives, trained terrorists in how to use it.

who did the ONI train in the libyan desert? IRA. THE RED BRIGADES. THE TAMIL TIGERS. ET ALIA.

so, the usa has been running international terrorism for a long time.

as i said previously, the oil industry is a great cover for covert operations.

my next intersection with the usa's training of terrorists occurred in london, shortly after ronnie raygun's F-111 attack on libya.

i was stayin in the flat of an old friend in london. i was certain that my friend was a spook, but this episode confirmed it. one evening, my friend told me that i was going to have to move to the couch in the living room, that someone else, a superior, was traveling through london and was going to be using my bedroom. since i was a guest, i could only acquiesce.

since my old friend worked for marathon oil, i assumed that the visitor was going to be a higher ranking marathon employee.

imagine my surprise when i opened the door to a seal captain. i suppose that because i was ex-usmc , a guest of a retired[sic] lt commander, i was vetted.

we went out to dinner. an italian joint in st john's wood. the captain drank too much. i learned that he was traveling from algeciras, spain, to stornoway, isle of lewis.

marathon was operating offshore fab sites at both of these locations. but, as i listened to the conversation, those sites were covers for seal terrorist training operations.

and i shall never forget this seal captain. he was a murderer. and he spoke lovingly of his craft at that dinner. my friend was embarrased by his talking. i was astonished at such a breach of secrecy.

never forget this, when you ponder on terrorism, never forget, we created most of 'em, run most of 'em.

RELIGION/FAITH

i recall that when i was being raised, religion[issues of faith], was considered a private matter. in that era, my faith was considered an issue between the deity and me. it was no one else's business.

i didn't care what church anyone else attended. i didn't care what god[s] any one else adopted. all i cared about was an individual's personal honor, integrity. if you were a deacon in a church, but i knew you to be a liar and a cheat, your churchly ways gained you no favorable standing with me.

my deepest family background is mennonite. an historic peace church. my father's branch of my ancestors first escaped hesse and the warmongering pressgangs in the 18th century, fleeing to bern canton in switzerland, then to the pennsylvania colony.

in many respects, i have considered the mennonite communities in the new world the singular inheritors of the new testament. still, even they have doctrinal ways that i abhor.

yet, let us recall what that great presbyterian president, woodrow wilson[the tool of amerikan capital and imperialism] did to the historic peace churches. he rounded up their young men for their refusal to submit to the draft. and imprisoned them.

woodrow wilson. purportedly the first progressive democrat. his closest adviser, edward mandell house. from houston. his secretary of war, who implemented the imprisonment of the mennonites, et alia - newton baker[any relation to james baker?]

to a very large extent, this protestant war on pacifist christians presaged this era's desire to create the totalitarian, christian amerikan state, the home of gladiatorial paganism, disguised as some mutant form of the gospel.

this is a chapter in the history of this country that is conveniently ignored.

eventually, i left all of organized religion. i adopted the faith of the founders of this country: deism. it is a very private commitment to honor, inquiry, veracity. deists have no church. i think we think that the conduct of our lives is our tabernacle. we are the message of the deity, with no filtration.

i recall my first encounter with a "born again". he was a vendor to my company. a graduate of princeton. a lapsed episcopalian. at some point, he became ostentatiously religious. announced that he had become a "born again" christian and joined an evangelical church. and soon thereafter, he became a creationist.

i should have discarded him as a vendor right then. little did i recognize that for many of these "born agains" it was a manuever that they hoped would atone for their prior transgressions. before becoming "born again", this guy had been stiffing his clients, his suppliers. to the tune of about $500,000 or more.

as i mentioned in earlier posts, go to www.uprisingradio.org. look for the documentary JESUS CAMP. and tune into the interview with chris hedges. both of these are very chilling.

i have no clues as to how to proceed to squelch this totalitarian religiosity. and neither does chris hedges.

but i, like hedges, think that the democratic party has accelerated this religiofascism by kowtowing to the bankers, the industrialists, the war profiteers, the israeli zionist-imperialists. and i, like hedges, do not think that the democratic party will be getting back on the correct side of this issue. the democratic party has sold its soul to the monied class. hell, the democratic establishment today is the monied class.

the fascists bought 'em all.

good morning to you.

MEK

it is more than a guess that operatives of the commonwealth SAS have been operating in iran for many months. in concert with seconded israeli idf[mossad, shin bet] personnel.

they have adopted the MEK as their vehicle for destabilizing iran. and it wouldn't surprise me if they have created new terrorist orgs as well. after all, this was how the KLA was created and operated. and going back further into time, how the taliban was created and operated.

and though often forgotten, this was how the israeli imperialists created hamas.

if any doubt that this is the way empires create the fictions of conflict, i recommend daniele ganser's book to you.

NATO'S SECRET ARMIES: OPERATION GLADIO AND TERRORISM IN WESTERN EUROPE.

CABARET

in what capacity do women really get it?

singing.

if you are in manhattan, get thee to the cafe carlyle. bobby's and mabel's old haunt. now playing is judy collins. a fabulous show.

and if you around the alqonquin, on a monday evening, stop in. babs carroll is knocking 'em dead.

babs used to own the bemelman's bar at the carlyle. i used to love dropping in and listening to her do all the chestnuts the right way. for reasons that i have never learned, the carlyle threw her out some years back. the upper east side's loss. midtown's gain.

i know of no men who have this cabaret routine down as well as these women.

other than perhaps tony bennett.

another great performance to catch.

catch 'em before they disappear.

ABSCAM JACK AND MERCENARIES IN IRAQ

when you want to gain a better understanding of today's mercenaries, i heartily recommend this book.

THE WONGA COUP: GUNS, THUGS AND A RUTHLESS DETERMINATION TO CREATE MAYHEM IN AN OIL-RICH CORNER OF AFRICA. isbn#9781586483715.

all the mercs in that bit of homicidal adventuring have contracts with the usdod to perform similarly homicidal acts in iraq, iran, syria, lebanon.

watch abscam jack very closely. he promised marcy kaptur that he would conduct hearings into sandline[mercenary outfit] and its contract with the usdod. see if this ever happens. i doubt that abscam jack will ever conduct hearings into the hiring and utilization of mercenaries by the usdod.

GEORGE PLIMPTON

so odd, picking up the 15/2/07 NYRB and seeing a full page advert advocating that a statue be erected to this spook's memory.

does no one know about george, peter... and who owned the paris review? the paris review was an outfit proprietary. george and peter were outfit employees.

should we erect a statue to a spook?

THE ATTEMPTED SILENCING OF GUILIANA SGRENA

during her weeks as a captive, did she discover that the assets of the usa were destabilizing iraq? that she was, in fact, a captive of usa assets?

did the italian government violate some agreement with the usa when it financed her release?

and with the usa forces knowing of her travel to the bagdad airport, wasn't mario lozano, a national guard covered sniper, ordered to terminate her with extreme prejudice?

and nicola calipari, her rescuer, a major general in the italian intell service, must have sensed a usa betrayal. because he covered her with his body. and he took the round meant for her. in his temple.

to the best of my knowledge, sgrena has been silenced by this assasination.

but the italian populace may not be as terrified. it is my understanding that the italian electorate wants the usa out of italy. and is becoming demonstrably vocal on that issue.

i urge the italians to push us out. once that occurs, i shall feel so much more at home in italy. won't you?

MARVIN OLANSKY

you can find him on cspan booknotes. a talk from 9 february 2007.

marvin identifies himself as a christian. when did that conversion occur? for most of his life, marvin was a zionist jew.

perhaps that conversion occurred when he became employed by the WORLD magazine. a subsidiary of the UNIFICATION CHURCH. OWNED AND OPERATED BY THE REVEREND SUN MYUNG MOON, an agent of the KCIA.

AND AN ALLY OF THE BUSHIT FAMILY.

MARVIN OLANSKY. NEVER FORGET THE NAME OF THIS AGENT OF EVIL.

COOKING

i read that bit of ink in the nyt and thought to myself, is this another incident of hit-and-run misogyny?

anyone who conducts their cooking as a competitive sport[allows it to be a competitive sport] instead of an act of love needs an immediate dose of electro-convulsive therapy.

i grew up in a cooking family. my grandmother, in middle tennessee, was a phenomenal cook. my grandfather, though a country banker, was a phenomenal gardener. the times i spent visiting them were always the best. fresh ingredients lovingly prepared. and everyone had a part in the preparation. from shelling peas, to husking corn, to serving, to cleaning up.

my favorite memory were her breakfasts. my dad and i would go out early in morning with our fly rods and "popper" bugs and catch a mess of bream. after cleaning them, we would bring them back and tennessee grandmother would lightly flour them and pan fry them, with fresh, home-grown tomatoes. accompanied by her biscuits. a great treat.

her daughter, my mom, inherited her receipts. she was a stellar cook. but best at baking. i have never encountered anyone else who had her way with pies. her tour de forces were lemon meringue, and key lime.

my dad, loved good food. whenever we traveled, it was always his mission to find the best restaurant[s] wherever we ended up. and no matter what the expense, try them out.

i have so many fine memories of traveling with him and joining him on his culinary forays. my first and fondest memory is when he took me to nola. in 1958. i was eleven. we started at antoine's. my first oysters. the next night, arnaud's. and then finished up with his favorite, galatoire's. lunch was always felix'es oyster bar.

my dad was one of the masters of caveman cooking. his contribution to the family cooking was the application of the charcoal grill. in 1954, when we were living in OKC, he knew this guy by the name of grant hastings, inventor of the hasty-bake.
after we moved back to ohio, no meat was ever cooked indoors in an oven, in an oven broiler. i have these memories of the two of us standing at the edge of our garage, with snow on the ground, sub-zero weather, grilling lambchops on that barbie.

i became a caveman cook, i suppose, as a result. at harvard, i set up a yugoslavian grill in our fireplace in winthrop house, and we routinely did dinner parties with me grilling the meat, and all the other participants preparing the other ingredients. great fun and such better food than central kitchens offered.

long before alice waters, i had become a bocusian. ingredients were 90% of a successful dish. and simple prep of great ingredients was almost always a killer.

few of my womenfriends cared about cooking. they were more than happy with my performing that chore. and i was grateful that they were willing to perform clean-up.

visiting my sister and her family in LA is always a lot of fun. my nieces love my culinary experiments. my sister is a pretty good cook. but when i am out there visiting, many of the main courses of the meals are turned over to me.

her husband, doesn't care to cook. but what he loves to do is clean-up afterwards. what a great division of labor.

i close with suzanne goins. i encountered her first restaurant, lucques, shortly after its opening. one of the best in california, if not in the usa. i have taken my sister's family there everytime i visit. and i have watched my nieces grow up there. when i first took them there, all they would eat was plain pasta. but they have become quite adventurous. my best memory is the pasta girl deciding to have soft shell crab a couple of years ago. i was going to order it, but i figured that lucy would try it, abandon it, and i would clean up her dish.

boy did i find out how she had grown up in a year. she left me nothing.

suzanne goins is an heiress...the inheritor of paul bocuse, alice waters. ingredients, ingredients, ingredients. melded with some love.

if you are in LA, don't miss this cooking.

ORDER OF BATTLE REVISITED-12/2/07

as i have commented previously, what is the order of battle? have you ever heard this issue discussed? ever read anything about this topic?

in the annnals of warfare, the order of battle is the critical method of determining how many forces must be deployed, and of what the forces will consist?

it is my assertion that there has been no valid opposition order of battle established for our military adventuring in iraq[the same will be obtaining concerning iran]. that would not be an error on the part of the military - that would be a directive from the potus[just as lbj and rmn directed an inaccurate opposition order of battle in vietnam].

what makes this bushit military adventuring so rife for deceit is that the usdod has hired at least two mercenary firms to conduct ops within iraq[and elsewhere in the region]. you know their names, blackwater and sandline.

as of this date, we know very little about who directs their operations. does centcom? or is it the zionist operation of special plans?

how are these mercs accounted for in the us order of battle? and what is their chain of command?

then we have the kurdish peshmurga. where do they show up in the order of battle? i think there is no doubt that the us special forces and brit sas have been arming and directing some level of peshmurga guerilla activities.

then there are canadian, ozzie, and kiwi sas personnel operating in the region. where do they show up in the order of battle? who is directing their activities?

and lastly the forces from the real instigator of all these mass-murdering, country-destroying hostilities, israel. who is operating them? directing them? how do they show up in the order of battle?

would israel create munitions to appear as if iranian? you bet they would. in a heartbeat.

would sandline mercs shoot down usa choppers? if the manager of the contract called for it, you bet?

as robert fisk might say, the great game is on in earnest...george bush, tony blair are in pursuit of complete control of middle eastern hydrocarbons. and i don't think that most citizens of the united states have a clue as to massive deceitfulness of the entirety of the campaign.

the congress has been whistling past the cemetery for years. the amerikan media functions as if p.r. outlets for aipac.

it is all going to go up. putting usn ships of the line into the arabian gulf is the most dangerous decision that could be made. i wonder what the usn's order of battle configurations look like?

i close with this little story, today on cspan's booknotes, ron olive's 11/06 address concerning his book, CAPTURING POLLARD, aired.

you might want to catch it. it is interesting for what is said. and for what wasn't said. what wasn't said was that the principal material that pollard furnished israel was all the targeting for the usa's mirved icbm's.

there are a number of individuals in the world's intell communities that are pretty certain that israel furnished most of this data to some other icbm-equipped countries.

in that context, you might want to ponder on the "outing"of valerie wilson...an outing that probably destroyed the usefulness of the cover prop, brewster-jennings. may have blown the covers and lives of others in that nuclear device surveillance project.

and may have prevented the uncovering of bushits, cheneys, the russo-israeli maffiya and their trafficking in conventional, as well as nuclear, weapons.

there is planet-destroying levels of international gangsterism running amok at the instigation, protection of the usa. and why is the congress so lame in its efforts to arrest it? graft,extortion, religious sentiment.

the gulf is going up. if you have children of draft age, i recommend that you send them to some other country. some place way out of the way.

TIM SPICER-MERCENARIES IN IRAQ

JUST TUNING INTO THE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE hearings on c-span.

marcy kaptur, congresswoman from toledo, ohio, mentioned the name off TIM SPICER. who apparently has a contract in iraq.

she wants to know more about this contract. and she stated that the dod has been stiffing her for the specifics of this contract. for months.

now, let's consider SPICER for a moment....

to the best of my knowledge, spicer is SAS. who was sent downstream to establish a notional independent mercenary outfit...SANDLINE. SANDLINE WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN WEST AFRICAN GANGSTERISM.

for a more "in-depth" history of amerikan-brit hiring of mercs for ops in west africa, i recommend to you this book, THE WONGA COUP.

now spicer, sandline, were operators for amerikan-brit interests in west africa. especially, sierra leone. but also cameroon, nigeria, sao tome. equatorial guinea.
the congo.

however, when sandline gangsterism was finally revealed[not in the usa press by the way], sandline was disappeared.

so, it interested me today to hear marcy kaptur ask the questions of the dod contracts with spicer's successor outfit, AEGIS.

you can see this on c-span.

of greater interest was the response to these questions by jack murtha. that supposedly anti-war ex-marine congressman. he shut her off.

the "regular" democrats do not want these usg relationships with the merc contractors examined. some might think that murtha is a straight guy - he ain't.

so, here is what the mercs that we have hired do....

they impersonate iraqis. and kill amerikan soldiers. so as to perpetuate the invasion, so as to try and inflame the amerikan electorate.

they also kill iraqi non-combatants so as to inflame the families of the decedents.

in viet-nam, both the french and the usg ran operatives such as this. so as to stir it up.

murtha, when shutting up kaptur, said that he would be examining this issue of mercenaries in iraq. watch. my bet, this guy will kill this investigation.

murtha is just another reptillian disquised as a demtillian.

someones out there need to interview kaptur about tim spicer and his mercenaries.

asap.

TIM SPICER

JUST TUNING INTO THE DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE hearings on c-span.

marcy kaptur, congresswoman from toledo, ohio, mentioned the name of TIM SPICER. who apparently has a contract in iraq.

she wants to know more about this contract. and she stated that the dod has been stiffing her for the specifics of this contract. for months.

now, let's consider SPICER for a moment....

to the best of my knowledge, spicer is SAS. who was sent downstream to establish a notional independent mercenary outfit...SANDLINE. SANDLINE WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN WEST AFRICAN GANGSTERISM.

for a more "in-depth" history of amerikan-brit hiring of mercs for ops in west africa, i recommend to you this book, THE WONGA COUP.

now spicer, sandline, were operators for amerikan-brit interests in west africa. especially, sierra leone. but also cameroon, nigeria, sao tome. equatorial guinea.
the congo.

however, when sandline gangsterism was finally revealed[not in the usa press by the way], sandline was disappeared.

so, it interested me today to hear marcy kaptur ask the questions of the dod contracts with spicer's successor outfit, AEGIS.

you can see this on c-span.

of greater interest was the response to these questions by jack murtha. that supposedly anti-war ex-marine congressman. he shut her off.

the "regular" democrats do not want these usg relationships with the merc contractors examined. some might think that murtha is a straight guy - he ain't.

so, here is what the mercs that we have hired do....

they impersonate iraqis. and kill amerikan soldiers. so as to perpetuate the invasion, so as to try and inflame the amerikan electorate.

they also kill iraqi non-combatants so as to inflame the families of the decedents.

in viet-nam, both the french and the usg ran operatives such as this. so as to stir it up.

murtha, when shutting up kaptur, said that he would be examining this issue of mercenaries in iraq. watch. my bet, this guy will kill this investigation.

murtha is just another reptillian disquised as a demtillian.

someones out there need to interview kaptur about tim spicer and his mercenaries.

asap.

DIGBY ON TORTURE

though these insights are mostly accurate, i think that there are individuals with no conscience. who can sleep despite their wicked acts of violence.

and who can escape society's opprobrium.

i think of bill clinton for instance. though reviled by many for his willingness to be fellated, i revile him for his imposition of sanctions on iraq. sanctions that routinely involved the aerial bombardment of infrastructure that propelled the country into a sewer. i have never heard bill[and his buddy, tony blair]apologize for all that death-dealing destruction.

and cruise missiles into afghanistan, somalia.

and then there is haiti.

but bill clinton appears healthy. seems to be sleeping well. but he has hands as bloody as any mass murderer in the history of this gangster nation.

and yet, he is cherished. oddly enough, cherished by many who despise his successor for perpetrating similar crimes.

i often think that if there was an almost perfect illustration of amorality, it is this.

i close this way. i think that generating violence of any sort is monstrously corrosive.

in my youth, i had the opportunity to diversify and manufacture munitions. i was initially very enthusiastic about harvesting those revenues.

then my dad asked me a question...did i really want to be a part of the state's murderings, complicit in mass homicide. was a dollar of revenue so important that you would join in perpetrating the dance of death.

this conversation re-awakened my moral foundation. i abandoned that munitions' diversification idea.

for all of bill's religiosity, he was comfortable with ordering mass murder.

i don't go to church. nor believe in any organized religion.

SLAVERY, SECESSION & CIVIL WAR

there are many out there who think old abe was an honest fellow.

hah.

here is a very interesting book that might change your minds.

by charles adams[not the cartoonist].

isbn #9780810858633

clint eastwood

deserves the same lower case as other fascist bastids..

he describes george walker bush as tenacious. and applauds that tenacity.

think about that for a moment.

boycott this man's movies.

george walker bush is way beyond tenacious. he is psychopathically homicidal.

he is as much mass murderer as was adolf hitler.

perhaps clint isn't getting enough vitamin B complex, has a thyroid shortfall, has had a number of trans ischemic attacks. perhaps that explains his love for a homicidal maniac.

on the other hand, perhaps clint is really just a homicidal maniac as well.

boycott his flickers.

make him pay for his lunacy.

EXPLOSIVE, TOXIC PETROCHEMICALS

petrochemical plants, refineries. i have written about them previously. in fact, i have always considered the fact that these facilities were not struck on 11/09/01 as proof positive that the events of that day were not the acts of any real terrorists - that the events of that day were agents provocateur ops.

never forget, for a few minutes more of flying time, a much easier target would have been the exxon refinery/petrochemical complex. the loss of that facility would have killed scores of thousands, and effectively shut down the east coast of the united states for years.

similarly, why strike at the pentagon, especially the area of the pentagon that was impacted? when, once again, for a few more minutes of flying time, there were the petrochemical complexes of wilmington, delaware.

no, when these targets that would have really injured the great satan were avoided, you can bank on the fact that no "terrorists" had anything to do with the planning of the events of that day.

it is even worse than that, of course. forget about the manufacturing facilities and their vulnerabilities[then and now]. contemplate the chemical car freight trains that run throughout urban amerika.

all of these cars can be perforated with rounds from commonly available automatic weapons. study on the chemical freights that travel out of amerika's petrochemical complexes.

today in houston, for example, as i made a certain freeway/tollroad drive, i watched a chemical train being assembled. in the middle of a major amerikan city. let's consider the contents of those chemical cars....

unodorized lpg
glacial acrylic acid
hydrochloric acid
ammonia
gasoline

and those were the cars that had their contents identified on the outside of the car.

this freight was more than a mile long. 500 - 1,000 cars of very toxic, flammable chemicals. parked within yards of 4+million residents. alongside a roadway.

this situation exists throughout the conus.

that none of these freights has ever been assaulted, other than by graffiti artists[and that is a bit of fascination - graffiti artists accessing the roadbed and having the time to paint these cars containing hazardous substances], should inform you that there never has been any real terrorist threat within the usa. that there never was any terrorist action perpetrated within the usa.

i could say so much more. the amerikan populace is so frigging ignorant it is stupefying.

BRENNAN'S HOUSTON

i haven't been there in over a decade. for innumerable reasons.

but i had a customer today who wanted to go there for lunch. so, i took him there.

it is a good room, not too noisy. you can have a private conversaton. no shouting required.

the service is very adroit. the staff knows how to respect a business lunch conversation.

but the food was disappointing. we tried the fried oysters. i don't do them raw these days, too many poisonings. i do better fried oysters.

my customer did the crab cakes, he liked them very much. i should have had them. the redfish was tasty, as was the jumbo lump that topped it. but the fried oysters on that plate were just overcooked.

and the haricot verts should have had their ends snipped. perfectly cooked, however.

a B - B+. could have scored an A if they had gotten the oysters correctly.

still, if you are in houston, visiting houston, it is one of the better venues.

oh, and never go beyond the seafood. don't order a steak here.

SENATOR MIKE GRAVEL

i am looking at the top shelf of my library. and there they are, the six gravel volumes of the pentagon papers. published by the beacon press.

i wonder how rare it is that i have these.

gravel was/is another individual more honorable than the current members of the democrat party. sorry, the georgist contempt was accurate.

and gravel's contempt is accurate. he recognizes that the democrat leadership is disguised reptillians.

i think it takes him back into the nasty past. when the democrats supported lbj to invade viet-nam. and then joined with the reptillians to bomb and invade cambodia, creating the khmer rouge, pol pot.

and gravel knows why the democrat party supported this homicidal lunacy. it was the money. gravel knows everything. he knows that the demtillians have no moral standing.

we should all pay attention to mike gravel.

ART PEPPER

STILL FABULOUS.

JOHN KERRY - THE BONER BROTHER

it is an odd sty in today's NYT. the headline reads, A PRESIDENTIAL ALSO-RAN, KERRY ADJUSTS TO WHAT PASSES FOR A NORMAL LIFE IN THE SENATE.

look, let's get it clear, kerry was a frat brother of the lunatic. another skull and boner. a yalie. and his mission was to torpedo the democratic opposition.

the demtillian financiers put their thumb on the anti-bushit party so as to nominate their acolyte. and they accomplished their objective. kerry became the stooge candidate.

the most interesting proof of kerry's stoogism is related by mark crispin miller. at tucradio.org he related how he told kerry of the vote theft in ohio. and how shocked he was to learn how ignorant kerry appeared to be of the mechanism of the theft.

better still, after miller, in his book about the 2004 election, related his meetings with kerry on the vote theft, the kerry organization denounced miller, and denied that he had ever met with kerry.

of course, it only gets worse. miller relates his intersections with other demtillian congressgangsters that investigated the ohio vote fraud in 2004. the most astonishing story is charlie rangel's. who tried to pretend to miller that he was ignorant of the fraud. in spite of the fact that miller had the testimony that rangel heard when a congressional committe upon which he sat reviewed the ohio story.

these are very ugly stories. proofs that demtillians, in concert with reptillians, are stealing our birthrights.

i recall having lunch with a carol gilbert before the 2004 election. an energetic demtillian in LA. when i expressed my opinion of the demtillian boner, john kerry, the lunch went glacial.

but i recognized the scam. she didn't. kerry deserves his ostracism.

boner versus boner ain't no contest.

and let us never forget the former schtumper of his wife. just another gangster.

CHOPPERS CHOPPED

someone responded that the number eliminated in viet-nam was 5,086.

seems like a too low number. but then, let us do some math. let us just figure 1965-1975. ten years. 120 months. with that understanding, helicopter deaths averaged 42/month. or more than 1 per diem. following that invasion, throughout that occupation.

so iraq has been much more benign. will that kindness be ending? that is the question.

BILL&TONY

their recordings for fantasy records, i think. killer stuff.

tune in if you can find them.

ORDER OF BATTLE/MERCENARIES IN IRAQ

the bushits opened pandora's box. anyone with a bit of wisdom would have known that it was better kept closed.

but there was this fifth column - mossadists, shin betists, zionists, maffiyaists - who promoted that opening of the box.

general shinseki appears to have been the only honorable man. he told the truth to the lunatics and was cashiered.

any general staff officer who refrained from resigning at that time indelibly stained his honor.

as i have written many times, the paradigm for this presidential regime was lbj & mac. it is like viet-nam all over again: in for a dime, eventually you will be in for a dollar. as it was then, it is once again - there is nothing like military misadventuring for the looting of the nation's treasury...and that is what this is about.

i would love to see the ORDER OF BATTLE equations for this catastrophe. i find it quite telling that the issue of ORDER OF BATTLE goes undiscussed. i always thought that it was the most overlooked aspect of the viet-nam invasion. it is a subject discussed most eloquently by the cia analyst, sam adams[RIP] in his memoir, WAR OF NUMBERS. another rip, colonel david hackworth was responsible for the publication of the adams' story.

as a rule, invasions of other countries are the unwisest of ideas. unless you have this orwellian pov that sees perpetual war as the course of perpetual enrichment for a certain class - the war profiteers. of course, general staff officers will be a part of that class. aand that is their incentive for playing ball with the resident and him myrmidons.

finally, the role of the mercenaries[blackwater, sandlines, et alia] needs to be discussed. where do they fit into the ORDER OF BATTLE? and who directs their activities? i think that the merc activities need to be scrutinized very closely...after all, mucho dinero is being sluiced to those entities. and it occurs to me that they just might have an interest in exacerbating, prolonging the conflict. succinctly, are the mercs placing ieds? shooting down usa choppers? functioning as death squads?

i could say so much more, but i think you get my drift....

ANNA RUSSELL

if you like music, tune in.

bill mclaughlin on exploring music did a week on wagner. friday, he aired anna's synopses of the ring.

better than pdq bach.

anna gets it so accurately.

if you don't know it. know it.

BILL BUCKLEY IS DEMENTED

after listening to dinesh de souse, and reading bill's applause of him, i realize that the amerikan right has a cerebral defect.

round 'em up. send 'em to montreal. where their minds can be juggled. by the new ewen camerons.

on my mark, scramble.

NIGHTINGALE, SOYER, SIKORSKY

some months ago, i posted an essay at eschaton, i think, discussing the horribleness of modern warfare. and how supposedly "soldier friendly" advances turned out to be quite "soldier unfriendly".

the pivotal conflict was the crimean war[1854].

this was the florence nightingale war....the dove of warmongering. who brought nursing to the front. allowing more soldiers to survive. allowing the homeland to become more favoring of imperial warfare.

this was the alex soyer war...the chef of warmongering. who brought organized field kitchens to the front. allowing more soldiers to be nourished independent of foraging in an over-foraged land. again, allowing the homeland to become more favoring of imperial warfare.

fast forward almost 100 years. the amerikan invasion of korea. facilitated by sikorsky's technical development, the helicopter. once again, an imperial invasion was made palatable by this technology that allowed for soldiers' woundings to be ameliorated in nightingale-styled mash units.

and then there was amerika's invasion of viet-nam. where all those technologies were employed so as to promote the interests of the empire.

quite candidly, had it not been for the chopper, there would have been no way for the usa to have conducted that invasion. it was the technology that made that bout of mass murdering possible.

still, it was a highly vulnerable technology. and bell/textron loved it.

the helicopter. provably the most vulnerable imperial asset ever deployed. easily taken out by small arms ground fire. the turbine, the transmission are so vulnerable.

but, of course, small arms ground fire that damages the two very vulnerable rotors are equally destructive.

clearly, there is a new effort in resisting our invasion. something has changed. the choppers were always this vulnerable. but recently, the iraqi patriots have determined that the usa is the enemy. and that the choppers are fair game.

this change will radically alter the amerikan invasion forces. until this last week, they were allowed the freedom of the air. but something has changed. choppers have been determined to be targets.

that is good. the viet-nam history of invader choppers needs to be rubbed into the amerikan electorate.

in closing, how many amerikan choppers were taken out by small arms fire during the amerikan invasion of viet-nam? 3,000? 10,000? 30,000?

THE BOOKSTERS AT ESCHATON

don't ever proffer real intellectual literature to this crowd. it will be spurned.

here are a few i have read recently...

1. CAPTURING JONATHAN POLLARD. isbn # 1591146526

2. the UNQUIET GRAVE: THE FBI AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF INDIAN COUNTRY. isbn # 1560257350

3. MISHIMA'S SWORD: TRAVELS IN SEARCH OF A SAMURAI LEGEND. isbn # 0306815133

4. SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS: AN UNCENSORED HISTORY OF AIDS. isbn # 1933633018

5. ONCOGENES, ANEUPLOIDY, and AIDS: A SCIENTIFIC LIFE & TIMES OF PETER H DUESBERG. isbn # 1556435312

6. CONJURING HITLER: HOW BRITAIN AND AMERICA MADE THE THIRD REICH. isbn # 0745321828

7. THE SECRET OF SCENT: ADVENTURES IN PERFUME AND THE SCIENCE OF SMELL. isbn # 9780061133831

8. DEEP WATER: THE EPIC STRUGGLE OVER DAMS, DISPLACED PEOPLE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT. isbn # 0374281726

not light. not warm and fuzzy. but revelatory.

slanz

DEMENTIA

i consider this a wake-up essay. in a sense, it involves politics. in another sense, it involves the propaganda that governs the public health.

i write this because of my experiences with a loved one.

you should know that alzheimer's is all too casually cited as the sole cause of dementia. i think it is a short-hand diagnosis that obscures the many other causes: a short-hand diagnosis that inflates the revenues of the medical industry.

i shall never dispute that alzheimer's syndrome is a cause of dementia. but what i shall tell you is that alzheimer's as the cause is mostly anecdotal, not an empirical finding.

and why is that? mostly because most victims of dementia, dying under a physician's care, are never autopsied. in fact, in my experience, trying to obtain a cranial autopsy is almost always defied. hmmmmmm.

unless someone can tell me that i am mistaken, i find that there is no formal NIH dementia registry. DO YOU FIND THAT AS ODD AS I FOUND IT?

so, here is my story. i think it reveals what i consider to be the more salient causes of dementia - vascular, nutritional, hormonal[endocrinal].

i don't remember when i first noticed it. it was sometime in the early 1990's. my mom stopped eating salads. stopped eating sources of B vitamins. at that time, i did not know that B vitamin shortfalls would destroy the brain. i could get her to eat a salad if it was small enough, but the standard restaurant monstrosity would cause her to reject it. and if i wasn't around, she abandoned salads altogether.

it was a week-end when i was out of town that she must have had a mini-stroke. her maid found her on the bathroom floor monday morning. i flew back into the country and took her to a doc.

the blood work-up indicated that she was suffering from a thyroid shortfall. and this doc prescribed for her a 30 day supply of synthroid. i met with him to discuss his diagnosis. he didn't mention the consequences of a thyroid shortfall. neither did he schedule a return visit so as to gage her synthroid dosage levels.

and i didn't research thyroid shortfall beyond that. my bad.

suffice it to say, hypothroidism will eventually cause dementia.

just as vitamin B shortfall will cause it.

SO, dementia might be countered by checking and maintaining thyroid levels.

and maintaining therapeutic levels of B vitamins. by the way, i don't think that you can achieve the necessary levels by diet. i think you must supplement. the only compounder of vitamins that i trust is bill sardi's recommendation - purity perfect.

and then there are those little strokes. trans ischemic attacks. anytime you think that you, or anyone you know, has had one of those, get to a cardiologist. get your bloodwork done.

it is my assertion that most dementia is not the result of alzheimer's syndrome. that the most significant cause[s] of dementia can be discovered and countered.

what interests me the most is why the medicos fail to tell us this.