Washington, D.C., “Aside from obvious sabotage of the Presidential helicopters, a flood of serious threats against the President, there is also consternation in the Monkey Palace over the fact that the movie, "Death of a President" has opened and is now showing at the E-Street Theater on 11th Street in DC, as well as some 110 other theaters nationwide. Is there a connection with the helicopter business? Who knows? The Oval Office brought utmost pressure to prevent this movie being released in America.

Rumors are flooding the Internet that Bush is about to declare Martial Law and declare himself President for Life. One of my co-workers wrote this up with an eye to keeping attention away from the debacle in Iraq. There we have a sharply escalating casualty list, rampant civil war, mutinous troops and never enough to override the other side, chaos in Afghanistan (not talked about) with the Taliban back in place, opium production increased over the levels before we occupied the country, the U.S. blasting schools full of children because someone told them that terrorists were hiding in them (obviously a successful ploy to get us to further blacken our already filthy reputations) Halliburton and other Bush friends suddenly pulling out of what for them was a bonanza of riches (they know what’s coming) and reports of high level officers in the Pentagon burning many files in anticipation of a Democratic take-over of the Congress followed by serious investigations.

And now we learn that a top Evangelical preacher, a friend and advisor of Bush, got caught out when his paid gay lover snitched on him! Drugs and Fudgepacking, all in the name Of Higher Things! Dare someone bring up Gannon in this context?

You should see Bush’s face these days. His complexion is blotched, mouth turned down, eyes squinched shut, snarling at everyone one moment and next declaring in a loud voice that he will sweep on to victory next week. Bush is crazy. He could have turned this election around if only he had promised to do something positive or speak, however vaguely, about pulling out of Iraq or at least appearing to consider this. Instead, knowing how angry the American public is on this subject, he sticks his furry tongue out and screeches like a drunken whore about not leaving Iraq (or Afghanistan) during his term.

Both Cheney and Rumsfeld are universally despised by everyone but Bush will never, ever fire them. Again, the tongue stuck out, fingers in ears, feet stamping on the floor.

He puts on a half-hearted act while out on the pathetic hustings these days but in truth, a stay at St. Elizabeth’s Clown House here would do him wonders. Well, Bush and his crime partners ran up a bill we will be paying for years. Cheney will die of a heart attack while Bush is living out of the country on all the loot he dragged in. Bush’s presidential pockets are just as deep and just as stuffed with illicit cash as are Cheney’s.”

The Green Zone Follies

Baghdad, November 1st 2006:  “The Blessed Lincoln Group of thieving idiots are over here, at least some of them are, concocting the weirdest propaganda you ever saw. This place is a shambles, death rates shooting towards Venus, all of our ammunition cooked off at Falcon, rumors that no one here will be sent home until 2008, injuries (many of the self-inflicted) soaring, nothing operative any more, fears on the part of the average GI that Bush’s plan to “finally crush the Resistance” will get them killed or maimed for life. And the boobs from the Pentagon’s Propaganda Ministry think they can fix this with clever little planted stories? We ought to make them and Bush go out on daily patrols and maybe the Resistance will solve all our problems for us. The Pentagon is a little afraid to rein in the death tolls because too many people are aware of them and they have their future careers to think about. After Bush is nothing but a wet dream gone bad, they have to consider the rest of their lives. Torturing and killing unarmed civilians is OK with them but only so long as we’re winning. Pretty soon, it will be finger-pointing in front of Congress. “ 

Pentagon memo reveals launch of new PR war
October 30th 2006
by Lolita C. Baldor
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is buttressing its public relations staff and starting an operation akin to a political campaign war room as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld faces intensifying criticism over the Iraq war.

In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, Dorrance Smith, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said new teams of people will "develop messages" for the 24-hour news cycle and "correct the record."

The memo describes an operation modeled after a political campaign — such as that made famous by Bill Clinton's successful 1992 presidential race — calling for a "Rapid Response" section for quickly answering opponents' assertions.

Another branch would coordinate "surrogates." In political campaigns, surrogates are usually high-level politicians or key interest groups who speak or travel on behalf of a candidate or an issue.

The plan would focus more resources on so-called new media, such as the Internet and Weblogs. It would also include new workers to book civilian and military guests on television and radio shows.

Pentagon press secretary Eric Ruff did not provide the exact number of people to be hired, or the costs.

Rumsfeld has complained bitterly that the press focuses too much attention on bad news coming out of Iraq, and not enough on progress being made there. As an example, during a trip to Nevada earlier this year, he said he was deeply troubled by the success of terrorist groups in "manipulating the media" to influence Westerners.

"That's the thing that keeps me up at night," he said during a question-and-answer session at a naval base.

The Pentagon changes, in the works for months, come as voters prepare to go to the polls next week with the war in Iraq as a key issue. Polls suggest that the Republicans could lose their majority in the House, and perhaps the Senate, too.

The new public relations plan began to take concrete shape on Friday as new construction began in the E-Ring, the Pentagon's outermost corridor, to accommodate new hires.

Ruff said today that the reorganization, spearheaded by Smith, will help the department "set the record straight" and provide accurate, timely information.

He denied that the effort was set up to respond to the eroding public support for the war, or that it was aimed at helping in next week's elections. He also said he would not call it an "information operations" program, which generally refers to a propaganda-type campaign.

Ruff said the effort grew out of Rumsfeld's criticism of the department's communications capabilities, which the secretary compared unfavorably to how quickly and effectively terrorists can get their message out.

"If I were grading I would say we probably deserve a 'D' or a 'D-plus' as a country as to how well we're doing in the battle of ideas that's taking place in the world today," Rumsfeld said during a visit to the Army War College in March. "I'm not going to suggest that it's easy, but we have not found the formula as a country" for countering the extremists' message. www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4297464.html

“Falsehood is an amorphous monster, conceived in the brain of knaves and brought forth by the breath of fools. It's a mortal pestilence, a miasmic vapor that passes, like a blast from hell, over the face of the world and is gone forever. It may leave death in its wake and disaster dire; it may place on the brow of purity the brand of the courtesan and cover the hero with the stigma of the coward; it may wreck hopes and ruin homes, cause blood to flow and hearts to break; it may pollute the altar and disgrace the throne, corrupt the courts and curse the land, but the lie cannot live forever, and when it's dead and damned there's none so poor as to do it reverence.” ~William Cowper Brann

And all the sons of Congressmen! And the two adorable 100 Proof Bush daughters! (Ginna and Tonic)

"As democracy is perfected, the office of  president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." ~H.L. Mencken

“That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ~Theodore Roosevelt

"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.  There is almost no kind of outrage, torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, and bombing of civilians, which does not change its moral color when it is committed by our side.  The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." ~George Orwell

"Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to hold officials accountable." ~Senator Edward M. Kennedy

“George W.Bush is deeply interested in Deep Space Exploration. His next project will be to circle Uranus and search for Kingons…..”
~Dallas Herald

“A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse.” ~Pat Robertson

"The voters decide nothing.  Those that count the votes decide everything." ~J.V. Stalin

“The Senior White House staff is living proof that Pentecostal mongoloids regularly cohabit with chimpanzees, frogs and Norway rats”
~Dr. Myron Kalbfuss, Biology Department, Stanford University
 

America’s Enemies!

There are four entities who represent the most dangerous enemies to American liberties since George III.

They are:

1.The Neocons or Likudists who owe their personal allegiance to another country and now completely control our foreign policy. They lied and deceived us into the Iraq war and are demanding that more and more American soldiers die to preserve their own country and ideals.

2.The Christian Evangelical right who is trying to force the United States into becoming a theocracy under their rule. They know in their hearts that they alone can restructure a secular humanist America into their idea of Heaven on Earth.

3. An element of American society that call themselves Patriots and are obsessively militaristic and great admirers of the corporate or fascistic state. Many of these have been very minor members of the American military and as a counterbalance to their reserve or rear area tours of duty, are rabidly in favor of draconian military action, the bloodier the better. Usually these drumbeaters are too old or too fat to fight and have no sons of draft age.

4. George W. Bush, who is the worst president in the history of the United States and directly responsible for the huge death tolls in Iraq, is determined to rule the United States until God puts a stop to him and is even more determined to force the American people into becoming obedient, Christian and self-sacrificing lemmings who worship at his shrine and march in step.

We gather information, on a daily basis, from many websites. There are a number of publications that are well worth viewing for their intelligent reporting of national and international news. All of those sources, listed below, are daily newspapers with the exception of the Asia Times. The latter is a very well written site with in-depth articles that are worth reading.

The New York Times:  www.nytimes.com
The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com
The Christian Science Monitor: www.csmonitor.com
The Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:  www.seattlepi.nwsource.com
Asia Times www.atimes.com

Note: Very little of the information in this edition of TBR news has come from the mainline American media. It is just not there. Most of it has come from foreign sources and the Internet. Most of our sources can be seen on the main page.

 "People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief of the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility  ~Eric Hoffer “The True Believer”