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Written by Michael Vass

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 31, 2010

Today M V Consulting, Inc., president Michael Vass announced the achievement of the milestone 1000th article at the Company’s political commentary blog site – http://www.mvass.com (VASS). In celebration the Company has planned a month long sale at its online store.

“We are pleased to have achieved this milestone. It is a representation of the effort and dedication of the Company, as well as the ongoing support of viewers across the globe,” stated Mr. Vass.

He went on to say, “While providing a 10% discount on all purchases over $100 at our Alchemy at World of Vass online store for the month of September is not related to political commentary, it is something that we can do for our visitors that have come back day after day over the years.”

The VASS political commentary blog has been in existence since 2005, with an official launch in 2006. In that time it has been selected as 1 of 2 sites covering the entire 2008 Presidential election for TV One, and cited in the book Current Controversies: Immigration (hardcover editions), by author Debra A. Miller. Author Michael Vass was also selected as one of 3 contributors to the Central New York Business Journal, Greater Binghamton Business Journal, and Mohawk Valley Business Journal – Financial Quarterly editions, May 14, 2010, based on the financial commentary found on this site.

In addition to these recognitions, VASS has also interviewed Mayor Matt Ryan of Binghamton NY, NY Congressional candidate George Phillips, NY State Assembly candidate Art Garrison, NY State Assembly candidate Jason Stokes. Interviews with several additional candidates for the 2010 mid-term elections (local, State, and Federal) are currently in planning stages.

VASS has also covered major news events including the Binghamton Civic Center Shooting, the Viet Nam Living Wall Memorial, Coverage of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, and the recent Binghamton Tea Party Rally (where Company president Mr. Vass was an invited speaker).

Company president Michael Vass also stated, “We have provided coverage of elections, commentary on major legislation and its effects on the nation, economic forecasts, and posed public questions on issues to elected officials for 5 years. We have taken the stance that questions not often asked by the major media need to be asked of elected officials, and the ramifications of legislation that the public needs to know must be made clear. It’s a daunting task, but with visitors from 100 countries (predominately from the U.S.A.) per month in the tens of thousands, we feel we are succeeding in that continuing quest.”

The VASS political commentary site is one of several divisions of M V Consulting, Inc. The Company also owns Black Entertainment USA (http://www.blackentertainmentblog.com) – an entertainment blog primarily presenting movie, television, and entertainment reviews; Alchemy at World of Vass (http://alchemy.vassconsult.com) – an online store featuring handmade imported English pewter jewelry, accessories, and clothes; World of Vass (http://www.cafepress.com/nova68) – an online store featuring t-shirts, clothes and other items with unique proprietary custom designs; and the M V Consulting, Inc. corporate site (http://www.vassconsult.com) – featuring SEO, Video production and editing, Webmaster, consulting and other services of the Company.

Written by Michael Vass

Michael Vass interviewed Art Garrison, who is running for the 126th seat on the New York State Assembly – currently held by Donna Lupardo (Democrat). The interview took place at the business of Mr. Garrison, Family Hobby and Crafts in Vestal, New York.

The interview delves into the background of Mr. Garrison, his motivation to run for elected office, plans to deal with the State deficit, term limits, reaction to the Health Care Reform, comments on the 9/11 mosque and proposals by Gov. Paterson dealing with the cigarette tax and Native American Indians, among other issues.

Note – M V Consulting, Inc. does not advocate any candidate or incumbent for any elected office at the local, State, or Federal level. We have not recieved any payment for any interview with a political candidate or incumbent. The interviews, present, past, and future, are intended to allow voters the chance to learn about the candidates and the issues such that an informed decision can be made in the election booth.

The following is the first part of a multi-part interview:

Written by Michael Vass

The following letter has been sent, VERBATIM, to all those listed at the bottom of this article. Any and all responses will be provided VERBATIM.

To the candidates and incumbents for:
Governor of New York, Senators for the Senior and Junior seats, NY Congressional District 22 in the House of Representatives, 126th State Assembly seat

I am Michael Vass, owner of M V Consulting, Inc., writer for the Binghamton Examiner.com, and resident of New York State. As the mid-term elections approach there are several concerns that voters have expressed to me as a member of the press, a political commentator, and individual that I believe need to be addressed.

Therefore, as a member of the press and a resident of New York I request a response on the following questions. Any and all responses will be published VERBATIM. I am also willing to meet with you at any point prior to the mid-term elections to speak with you in-person or via phone interview on these and other issues voters seek answers on.

1) Do you have any comment on the proposal by Gov. Paterson, which may potentially violate the 4th Amendment, to enforce the New York cigarette tax on those that exit Native American lands?
2) Do you have any comment about Mayor Bloomberg’s statement on the abovementioned issue, to “act like a cowboy with a shotgun and enforce the state tax law.”
3) Where exactly do you stand on the 9/11 mosque controversy. Specifically are you in favor of the mosque being built at the proposed location or not – given the fact that there is every Constitutional Right for it to be built there.
4) Given the looming fear of a double dip recession, and the stagnation of progress in the New York economy, what are your thoughts on the $814 billion stimulus and its effect on New York?
5) The $26 billion in emergency funds for teachers and other unions provided New York some $2.2 billion in funds. What is the likelihood of funds being needed again in 2011? What is your long-term plan to fix this gap in the budget for New York?
6) Businesses of all sizes are stating that the Health Care Reform will impede their ability to hire new employees. Many workers are having healthcare costs increase by 20% in 2010 alone. This is in addition to the proposed end of the Bush Tax Cuts that will increase taxes for many in New York by 3% in 2011. At the same time New York has enacted several new or higher taxes. How do you plan to help secure jobs, and encourage business in New York under these conditions?

The above set of questions are not partisan. They are issues that voters in New York are concerned with and are seeking leadership about. They are issues that affect Democrats, Independents, and Republicans alike.

I look forward to your response, and/or the opportunity to ask these questions in person.

Sincerely,
Michael Vass
President – M V Consulting, Inc.
info@vassconsult.com

** The following are all the contact addresses for the candidates and incumbents.**

http://www.andrewcuomo.com/contact

http://lazio.com/o.cfm?o=405

http://gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/

http://schumer.senate.gov/new_website/contactchuck.cfm (attempted 3x – site states technical issue prevents email)

http://www.dioguardiforussenate.com/contact.php

http://www.blakeman2010.com/contact_us.php

http://www.malpassforsenate.com/home/contact-us/

http://www.house.gov/hinchey/zipauth.shtml

http://electgeorgephillips.com/contact

http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/?ad=126&sh=contact

http://www.artgarrisonforassembly.com/

http://jasonstokes.org/YourComments.aspx

Written by Michael Vass

The following is the first part of a multi-part interview with Jason Stokes. Mr Stokes is a first time candidate, running for the 126th seat of the New York State Assembly. The interview will cover Mr. Stokes background, political and personal views, concerns about campaign reform, balancing the New York State Budget, the NYC 9/11 mosque debate, and other issues of importance to voters for the mid-term elections.

Note – M V Consulting, Inc. does not advocate any candidate or incumbent for any elected office at the local, State, or Federal level. We have not recieved any payment for any interview with a political candidate or incumbent. The interviews, present, past, and future, are intended to allow voters the chance to learn about the candidates and the issues such that an informed decision can be made in the election booth.

Written by Michael Vass

The following is the transcript of the speech by Michael Vass, president of M V Consulting, Inc., seen in the video above. The speech was made on August 21, 2010 at 15 Henry Street in Binghamton, New York, to a crowd of roughly 200 people at the Binghamton Tea Party Rally.

Hello fellow New Yorkers. I’m Michael Vass, owner of M V Consulting, Inc. I am a political commentator and a member of the press. Some of you may be familiar with my videos on Youtube or my articles on various blogs and the internet. But today I am here as a concerned American, just like all of you.

Sun Tzu wrote in his famous book The Art of War,

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle..”

While we are not at war with Congress, make no mistake we are engaged in a battle for America. A battle that requires we first know our Rights and we are determined to make a difference. Thus we are enacting our Rights to Speak and Assemble, in the face of media criticism and scorn from entrenched elected officials, because we do not agree with the direction Congress is taking the nation.

I know that it is a difficult task to stand up in front of peers and say that Congress has failed to listen to voters. Not because tens of millions of Americans don’t agree. When it comes to the Health Care Reform that was shoved down our throats against our wills, the Obama Stimulus that was passed without anyone knowing what was involved or what it enacted, the disdain against Americans in Arizona that stood up when the Federal Government wanted only to lay down… No we are not alone in what we believe. But what separates us is that we are willing to publicly say what tens of millions mention at school, around the water cooler, on the golf course, even going so far as to break the unwritten rule at bars. And only in America is this possible.

I have had the chance to live in Moscow. I have seen the socialist system in action… and the results of generations of its after-effects. I have lived with the people that could not speak out against the Government, could not openly pray, could not impact the laws and enforcement that affected their lives. And those people envied me. Because I am an American that could do all those things they wished they could do. It is a reason why I am speaking before you.

Right now our voices and actions are being heard. They are having an effect. An effect that the entrenched elected officials in Congress fear. Because it means that they cannot continue to ignore voters, or pander to special interests and their political party agendas. Because we are willing to act on the Rights we have in this nation, Congress and those that subsist on the status quo are trembling.

You may recall this quote,

“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

Congress should fear us and the tens of millions of Americans that think just like us, that share our hopes and goals, that haven’t come out today for various reasons – but will vote their conscious just like we will. We are not violent, or racist, or bought, or whatever moniker the media and Speaker Nancy Pelosi might want to label us with. We are Americans that know our Rights and we are willing to use them. Career politicians with agendas and special interest support thought we forgot, but we haven’t.

I want to be clear. I am speaking directly about politicians that have made a career out of abuse of public service. People that have forgotten those that elected them and the reasons they were elected for. Let me name the names.

I am speaking about Representative Maurice Hinchey. A man that is entrenched in Congress. A man that has served for 18 years. A man that will not speak to his constituents. I say that because I have written to Representative Hinchey – as a member of the press and a voter of New York. I have written him about the Health Care Reform, twice. I have written to him about the Obama Stimulus, and the actions of the DOJ. And months later I still await even a single letter of reply, though I have gotten unsolicited emails asking me to donate to the re-election of Representative Hinchey.

I am speaking about appointed Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. She too seeks to be re-elected. Actually to be elected in her case as the public had no voice in granting her the junior Senator seat she now holds.

She too has neglected to speak to the people. Even worse, she has taken us for granted. She assumes that we have not noticed her flip-flop on immigration – as she now gains significant financial support from pro-illegal alien organizations. She assumes that we won’t remember that she sent out the same form letter response about the Health Care Reform for 6 months. A form letter that when questioned her office still has not made comment as to why it was a copy – even 4 months after the question was asked.

And Senator Charles Schumer. He too refused to comment on the Health Care Reform. He too actively avoided town hall meetings. He too has taken a stance, repeatedly, of Party over the people.

I don’t say these things about the entrenched elected officials in Congress because I heard a rumor about it. These are facts I have written about and made videos about. I say these things because I know first-hand how little the entrenched members of Congress care about the concerns of the public when it’s not time to be re-elected.

But we can change this scenario. We can end this cycle of broken campaign promises and political party agendas. All we need to do is what we are doing. We are standing up and using our Rights. They are the most powerful tool we have along with our votes. Our Rights and votes combined ensure that the most entrenched, the most deaf to our concerns, the most special interest supported elected officials cannot maintain their granted power.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

We the People. Not the special interests. Not the Democrats, a political party or a political agenda. Not the Government. The People.

I want to close with that thought. The People. You, and I, our friends and families. We are the power of America. Never let a commercial, a media station, a political ad or campaign promise make you forget that. Because in roughly 2 months you will have the chance to use your power and make a change. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know. But I am reminding you, and everyone that will read this speech or see this video, that rain or shine, whatever the political ads or media mockery, your vote will guide this nation to the future.

We the people are America. And Congress needs a wake-up call to remember that fact.

Thank you. And God bless you.

Written by Michael Vass

On August 21, 2010 in Binghamton, New York at 15 Henry Street (between 10am and 12 noon) there will be a Tea Party Rally.

Michael Vass – owner of M V Consulting, Inc – will be among the speakers for this public event. Other speakers include:

George Phillips – candidate for NY 22 Congressional District 22
Art Garrison – candidate for the NY 126th Assembly Seat
Jason Stokes – candidate for the NY 126th Assembly Seat
Tim Roberts – candidate for Broome County Sheriff
Pastor Gary Sawyer – Calvary Community Church
Ray Schaffer
Debbie Preston – Conklin Town Supervisor

Also invited was Representative Maurice Hinchey – who has yet to confirm an appearance.

Democrats, Republicans, Independants, and more importantly, Americans are invited to show up.

Event sponsored by the Southern Tier Tea Party

Written by Michael Vass

On reflection in the aftermath of the $26 billion emergency funding for teachers passed into law yesterday there seemed to be one obvious conclusion. There is one result from this additional new spending from Congress that is so likely as to be an even money bet in Las Vegas. In fact, the odds would favor the following outcome.

Democrats that are seeking re-election will use the vote as a political ad to justify votes. You can see the ads now – ‘Vote for me, I save your child’s teacher’. Or ‘Vote for me and I’ll continue to save jobs like I did for the teachers’. And so on. The whole thing led me to make the following video:

Is the $26 billion in funding worth re-electing an incumbent? Only you can answer that. But I will be more than happy to update this, VERBATIM, if Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) or any other member of Congress addresses any points I have made in this video. Given the lack of response from Rep. Hinchey in the past (which is not unlike many in Congress) I would suggest not holding your breath for a response.

Written by VASS

Though it was a cold, overcast, misty evening dozens of veterans and their families came together at Columbus Park in Binghamton, New York. The reason for the gathering was in part the Wall That Heals, one of the Moving Walls that are travelling 1/2 sized versions of the Viet Nam Memorial found in Washington D.C. The other part was the Remembrance Service held at 6:30.

The Remembrance Service is in honor of those that gave the ultimate sacrifice for our nation, but have yet been unable to come home. It is for those that were captured and tortured in lands where there is no debate allowed about how anyone is treated. It is for members of every service, those that served in Korea, Viet Nam, the Gulf War, Iraq, Afghanistan, and every other conflict that America has ever had or will ever have.

Thus with deep respect, and in honor of those brave and dedicated souls, I present the P.O.W./M.I.A. Remembrance Service so that every American, young or old, never forgets them.

**If you know a veteran or anyone that would appreciate this, please pass it on.**

Written by VASS

Cindy Sheehan is controversial. It doesn’t matter if it’s the Right or the Left, she has detractors all around her. Which is odd considering that just a few years ago, while President Bush was in office, she was the darling of the major news media and Democrats.

But then President Obama was elected. Democrats neither needed nor wanted to discuss the troops in Iraq or Afghanistan. The major news media all but forgot the anti-war protestors and activists. Yet, Cindy Sheehan continued to push her agenda, going so far as to run against Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Today Cindy Sheehan is still advocating her anti-war stance. In addition she is speaking out against the Government, Republicans and Democrats. Much of this is in her latest book, which is what brought her to Binghamton, New York. Oddly it was also the same time that the Viet Nam Memorial arrived in Binghamton.

Sheehan arrived late, at River Read Books in downtown Binghamton, due to flight difficulties. She was greeted by a small group of fans and supporters. In total there were roughly 15 or 16 people (10 appeared to be 50 or older, 3 in thier 20’s – 30’s) and 5 members of the press – including this writer – that attended at least some part of the event over the 2 hours that Sheehan was there.

Sheehan started off by discussing why she was late, the fact that she was banned from Scranton, PA. and her sudden realization that the Catholic Church opposed views like gay marriage that she supports to some degree. From there Sheehan discussed her prior 2 books, her dislike of President Bush (with numerous jokes and insults directed towards him), and her disenchantment with President Obama and the existing Government structure. Which led to her discussing her book (which there were no copies of in the book store) via a cheat sheet of photocopied pages.

The group of people present were subdued and attentive while Cindy Sheehan spoke. Several laughed loudly as jokes/insults of President Bush and/or President Obama were made. The entire group joined Sheehan in her dislike, and distrust, of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Many nodded their heads as Cindy Sheehan described in part her observations of the myths that she believes are the American Government and society (which her new book details). This included her declaration that America is divided into 2 classes, Robbers and those that are Robbed From; as well as that she believe most Americans are so sheepish as to be willing to die for these myths she exposed in her book.

Of the many statements Cindy Sheehan made that stood out for anyone not on an extreme political view, several were particularly surprising. Cindy Sheehan described the Cuban Revolution 50 years ago as “no better or worse than the one [revolution] 200 years ago.” She described how she sought economic justice and human rights in America, detailed why she felt elections don’t matter, mentioned how over the past decades no President has held term for more than “4 – 8 years”, many for a single term [which ignores the limitations of term limits]. Sheehan even described how she felt compounds were necessary, seperating people from the Government, though she strongly felt violence was wrong.

One later part of Sheehan’s discussion that was of interest was when she described how she disliked the concept of limited x-ray screenings at airports, even after the underwear bomber event occured, and refused to allow her bags to be opened at airports without a warrant. This caused a member of the group to excitedly note it was the “14th amendment”. No one bothered to correct the individual, since the 14th amendment deals with slavery, while the 4th Amendment deals with privacy and warrants.

Later in the discussion Cindy Sheehan descibed, almost with pride, how she has been arrested numerous times, is banned from the White House (after President Obama took office), had been shot with rubber bullets, and had a new technology used to ‘destroy the cells of her body’ (actually a LRAD, as seen on the television show Future Weapons, is a non-lethal crowd-control and hailing device).

At this popint the floor opened up to questions. Of the various local members of the news media waited for a member of the group to speak up, Michael Vass – president of M V Consulting, Inc. and author of this blog, spoke up.

This was the hardest questions asked of Cindy Sheehan publicly during the event. One of the easier questions out of the 4 questions that came from the group was from Jim Clune, about why Sheehan is banned from the White House, who stated with pride after he was asked for his name by this writer that, “I was arrested with her.” Whether Mr. Clune was a plant for such a situation or merely proud of his acts of civil disobedience along with Cindy Sheehan is unclear.

Perhaps the most interesting part of her answers to questions was her comment

“I forget who said it but it’s in my book, I think it might have been Thomas Jefferson or Karl Marx I don’t know…one of those guys…somebody like that, that said people shouldn’t be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their people.”

The group could not decide if it was Jefferson or Marx. In fact it was a line from the movie V for Vendetta, and originated in the movie (possibly the comic book the movie is based on but I cannot confirm that clearly). The quote that goes to Jefferson can be found here. Though confusing Marx and Jefferson does appear to be unusual.

In all the event was very quiet, and civil. Several books were signed, and Cindy Sheehan answered every question posed to her by the news media and from the group alike. She then went on to speak at another event later in the day.

Thus it is up to the individual to decide if Cindy Sheehan is as Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former President Carter have stated, those opposed to the policies of President Obama do so because they are racist. It is up to the individual to agree or disagree with the major media’s sudden reversal of policy to not follow every move and statement by Cindy Sheehan in her anti-war and anti-government activism. Perhaps the most interesting question that you may ask yourself is the question posed to this writer by George McAnaname (an associate of Cindy Sheehan seen in the video standing to her right in the white shirt),

“Who do you think embodies the principles of Dr. Martin Luther King more, President Obama or Cindy Sheehan?”

Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY

Author William Gibson reads this story about Philip K Dick and then rips into him, on Twitter :

I think Philip K Dick would be highly amused to see so many taking so much of what he said so damn seriously.

I had to reply :

Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY

By Darryl Mason

A good question, not asked often enough :

I have one simple question though for anyone free-thinking enough not to immediately follow whatever the voice on the radio tells them. What “conspiracy theorists” are more dangerous and deserve to be shunned by public opinion?

The ones trumpeted by people like Alex Jones whose goal is to have the 9/11 attack investigations to be reopened?

Or the ones feverishly hawked by the likes of Sarah Palin, Bill O’Reilly, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh that call for the American military to begin attacking Iran?

I don’t believe, or subscribe, to everything I read or hear on alleged ‘conspiracy sites’ like the ones run by Alex Jones or Mike Rivero’s WhatReallyHappened.com, nor does anyone there demand I do so.

I don’t see columnists or commenters, anyone in fact, at those sites demanding my country go to war against people on the other side of the planet who have never done me or my family harm, based on the flimsiest of evidence, or flat-out fearmongery.

But when I go to The Washington Post, or the New York Times, I see columnists demanding Iran be bombed, now. Again and again. It’s no coincidence of course that is it usually the exact same people who in 2002 filled column after column in those newspapers demanding Iraq be bombed, then invaded.

I often think of the extremely brave men I met and spent time talking to in bars and coffee shops around Ground Zero, back in December 2001. While I went back to my hotel room, or to do more sight-seeing, they went back into the ruins of the World Trade Centre to keep digging for the bits and pieces of their missing friends and former colleagues in the police and fire departments they hoped were still there, so they could give them a proper burial and help their families move on.

Those rescue workers I met, who were near the Twin Towers on 9/11, and were still working at Ground Zero months later, didn’t talk about grand plots or conspiracy theories. They didn’t blame Bush or Cheney or Israelis or Haliburton or the Project For The New American Century.
They just wanted to know why they saw those buildings exploding before, and as, they fell down.

They just wanted to know the truth about what they saw that day, and why their friends died, and why the only pieces of flesh and bone they usually found could fit into a coffee cup. Or a matchbox.

Soon it will be a decade on from 9/11, and those rescue workers (the ones who haven’t died from the effects of 9/11 dust) still don’t know the answers to the questions they asked all those years ago.

The truth. That’s all.

They just want to know the truth.

And that, according to Fox News, makes them “dangerous people”?

The truth, then, must be a whole lot more spectacular and shocking than the Bush administration official story would have us believe.

What other explanation can be there for such hatred and venom directed at those who seek answers to their questions?

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Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY

The latest in “Hey! Look At Me! I’m A Fucking Arsehole With A Real Short Memory” t-shirts :

The Bush “Miss Me Yet?” image and tag line is quickly becoming iconic, and congratz to whoever came up with it and is now selling a shitload of merchandise at CafePress.

You can’t blame people for wanting to make a buck, however they can, in what’s left of Bush’s America.

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Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY

In a fairly weak piece of clickbait (and the mainstream media knows ‘conspiracy theories’ are click magnets), Newsweek lists the following as “hip, trendy, least likely fringe beliefs” :

* Obama Is A Secret Muslim, With No American Birth Certificate

* FEMA Is Establishing Detention Camps For American Gitizens

* BushCo. Knew The 9/11 Attacks Were Coming

* Media Corporations Want Internet Licenses For All Users, IndieMedia & Bloggers

* AGW Is A Hoax

* Goldman Sachs Purposely Created Fragile Investment Bubbles And Then Bet On Them Failing
Incredibly, Newsweek uses this story to claim that business links tying the Bush and Bin Laden families together are just more “fringe” conspiracy theories.

And they wonder why their media is dying.

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By Darryl Mason

The White House on Twitter has about 1.7 million followers. White House postings on Twitter are often ‘retweeted’ by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of followers. If the White House wants to get information out to Americans, unfiltered or tainted by the mainstream news media, Twitter is better than sending a few million people out to knock on doors.

So it’s of reasonable internet historical importance to note that the White House on Twitter is now linking to stories the White House clearly approves of.

War On Terror success stories.

Today :

So what does the story say? Excerpts :

It was not the first (unmanned armed drone) airstrike on Obama’s watch, but it marked the first major victory in his war on terrorism, a campaign the administration believes can be waged even more aggressively than its predecessor’s. Long before he went on the defensive in Washington for his handling of the failed Christmas Day airline bombing, Obama had widened the list of U.S. targets abroad and stepped up the pace of airstrikes.

Obama’s national security team believed that the president’s campaign promise to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq would have a side benefit: freeing up manpower and resources to hunt terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Intelligence officials, lawmakers and analysts say that approach is showing signs of success.

Intelligence officials and analysts say the drawdown of troops in an increasingly stable Iraq is part of the reason for the increase in drone strikes. The military once relied on drones for around-the-clock surveillance to flush out insurgents, support troops in battle and help avoid roadside bombs.

With fewer of those missions required, the U.S. has moved many of those planes to Afghanistan, roughly doubling the size of the military and CIA fleet that can patrol the lawless border with Pakistan, officials said.

Talk about getting the message out. The AP story also includes this photo released by the US Air Force of a fully armed unmanned MQ-9 Reaper drone.

Or as they’re known around here : A Flying Killer Robot (FKR).

Since that photo was taken in August, 2007, FKRs have killed primary Taliban leaders and Al Qaidaists in what should more accurately now be called The Flying Killer Robot Vs Terrorists War.

Look at it again.

They’ve also killed at least 1000 innocent men, women and children in wrong target horror airstrikes in Afghanistan, Waziristan and Pakistan.

But it doesn’t matter. They do not feel sorrow, or pity, or empathy.

Yet.

They do not cry. They cannot be prosecuted for killing civilians.

The FKRs.

Now the White House, through Twitter and the Associated Press, wants you know the ‘Robot Vs Terrorists War’ is ramping up.

What is tested and hailed a success in the warzones, always returns to the homelands.

And you were worried about black helicopters.

The Future, it’s always so much fucking weirder than you ever expected.

What is that strange buzzing sound outside?

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Posted by DARRYL MASON at 1:39 AM
Labels: Flying Killer Robots, Robert Gibbs, Robots Vs Terror War, Twitter
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Time Magazine ran this story on the United States’ Snowpocalypse :

The story was left open for comments. After a few hours of relentless mockery from commenters, someone at Time Magazine decided another headline might be necessary :

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Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY

I’ve changed my mind. I will pay to read Rupert Murdoch newspapers online, but only if they consistently come up with stories of such a high quality as this one :

From The Sun :

The lad hallucinated for 18 hours and mutilated himself because he believed centipedes were crawling over his body and biting him.

Durham Police are warning that its use can result in severe nose bleeds, nose burns, hallucinations, blood circulation problems, rashes, anxiety and paranoia, fits, delusions and can lead to a heart attack.

But a police report – some of which was based on online forums about the drug – revealed a lad in Durham had tried to rip off his testicles after taking it.

Let me guess. The bit about a user getting so fucked up he wrenched off his own nuts came from an anonymous person on an online forum.

There’s a bunch of kids in the UK high-fiving each other right now that the cops and The Sun are reporting this incident of testicle sack mutilation as fact.

The drug may well be causing a terrible amount of damage to users, but it’s hard not to reminded of another British drug hysteria outbreak.

The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called “Shatner’s Bassoon” (altering your perception of time), can give you a bloated neck due to “massive water retention”….and…”…you can puke yourself to death on this stuff — one girl threw up her own pelvis-bone”

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Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY

From a speech by Bill Duddley at the low-key world bankers gathering now underway in
Sydney :

It is critical that we ensure that no firm is too big to fail. This is about both fairness and having proper incentives in the financial system. Having some firms that are too big to fail creates moral hazard. These firms are able to obtain funding on more attractive terms because debt holders expect that the government will intervene rather than allow failure. In addition, too big to fail creates perverse incentives. In a too-big-to-fail regime, firms have an incentive to get large, not because it facilitates greater efficiency, but instead because the implicit government backstop enables the too-big-to-fail firm to achieve lower funding costs.

So there’s a revealing explanation of what “Too Big To Fail” really meant. The biggest banks, insurance and investment firms knew, from well in advance of the global financial crisis, that they could do whatever the fuck they wanted, and did, because the government would not let them crash into a heap. They’d already been assured of that. A long understood arrangement.

Where was the incentive to not act like greed-crazed reprobates?

They knew they could not die, and so acted as thought they thought themselves immortal.

What a scam.

Perhaps they really do dose the water in the US with psychoactive drugs, as Philip K Dick wrote back in the late 1960s. What other explanation can there be for the fact that most of those ultimately responsible for tens of millions of Americans eventually losing their homes not only escaped any kind of punishment at all, but are still getting bonuses?

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If half or most of the 100 million Americans who watched Superbowl 2010 sat through the ads, they would have been exposed to the following acts of violence :

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From ABC News :

John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about.Kiriakou, a 15-year veteran of the agency’s intelligence analysis and operations directorates, electrified the hand-wringing national debate over torture in December 2007 when he told ABC’s Brian Ross and Richard Esposito in a much ballyhooed, exclusive interview that senior al Qaeda commando Abu Zubaydah cracked after only one application of the face cloth and water.

“From that day on, he answered every question,” Kiriakou said. “The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”

“It works, is the bottom line,” conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh exclaimed on his radio show the day after Kiriakou’s ABC interview. “Thirty to 35 seconds, and it works.”

A cascade of similar acclamations followed, muffling — to this day — the later revelation that Zubaydah had in fact been waterboarded at least 83 times.

Kiriakou did his job. He got the Torture Works! idea into the mainstream media.

Now he’s got a book out, he’s oh so sorry he lied, and so successfully seeded disinformation not only through US media, but international media as well.

“I wasn’t there when the interrogation took place; instead, I relied on what I’d heard and read inside the agency at the time.”

….Kiriakou….didn’t have any first hand knowledge of anything relating to CIA torture routines, and still doesn’t. And he claims that the disinformation he helped spread was a CIA dirty trick: “In retrospect, it was a valuable lesson in how the CIA uses the fine arts of deception even among its own.”

Right. That’s why he gave literally dozens of interviews, repeating the claim that waterboarding suspects works to stop terrorism.

I don’t believe him. Let’s waterboard him and see what he has to say then.

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By Darryl Mason

In 1980, a documentary on Nostradamus, screened all over the west to hundreds of millions of people, and repeated for years after, laid out the rise of political Islam through the 80s and 90s, leading to a terrorist attack on New York City (a nuclear attack was predicted).

I vividly remember watching this when I was about 10. It was the stuff of nightmares. It wasn’t a horror movie, it was our new reality to come. And, it’s probably worthy of a 6/10 for prophetic accuracy. While it might seem a bit cheesy now, watch the montages with the sound off. Repeated imagery of nuclear detonations, New York skyscrapers collapsing, dead people lying in the streets of America. What stunningly haunting images to pump into homes across half the world, claiming it was all going to come true. How many tens of millions of other children saw this and thought, ‘Holy Fuck!’ and were riven by nightmares? It’s a visual assault.

And it was Orson Welles telling us that our future held terror wars and mega-death natural disaster chaos. How could we not believe it?

How could some not resist making it come true?

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