Ah shit: Sarkozy calls for UN-led 'new world order':

The United Nations should avail itself as an instrument for a "new world order of the 21st century," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday in his first address to the General Assembly. Sarkozy, who won the presidency this year on a strong reform platform to modernize France, urged the world body to embark on programmes ranging from equal wealth distribution to fighting corruption in his speech full of references to France's past revolutionary ideals.

Jacobin Commie! Yikes!! The Neo Con New World Order etc. w00000!!11!!!

An ugly scenario: World War III: What World War III May Look Like - by Philip Giraldi - a former Intelligence officer:

The United States uses a neutron-type bomb against the main Iranian nuclear research center at Natanz, which it had already bombed conventionally and destroyed. It vows to bomb again if Iran continues to resist. Iran is defiant and fires another wave of Silkworms at U.S. ships, sinking one. Suicide bombers hit U.S. targets in Iraq and Afghanistan. Russia and China place their nuclear forces on high alert. Pakistani militants take over parliament, aided by radical elements in the army and the intelligence service. India launches a preemptive strike against the main Pakistani nuclear centers at Wah and Multan, where the country's arsenal is believed to be concentrated. Pakistan has hidden some of its nukes elsewhere, however, and is able to strike back by bombing New Delhi. World War III has begun.

Someone said recently that this stuff with total NSA surveillance and paramilitary Blackwater insanity looks like Baron Hausmann's reorganization of Paris: the creation of new forms and institutions that aren't really helpful against Islamic terrorists, but quite useful against violent domestic insurrections. Haussmann built those big Parisian avenues so that revolt organizers couldn't blockade parts of the city. Saddam took a page from this when rebuilding Baghdad...

Here is the legal framework on that. More from Prof. Juan Cole:

A big feature of the literature on decolonization is the delight leaders such as Gamal Abdul Nasser and Ruhollah Khomeini took in abrogating laws bestowing 'extra-territoriality' on colonial personnel and even just civilians from the metropole, while in the subject country. Now extra-territoriality is back with a vengeance; and, of course, no colonial enterprise can be run without it. One can't have persons of the superior race hauled before a native judge; bad show, old boy, to let the wily oriental gentlemen get the upper hand that way.

The argument about whether Cheney/Bush went into Iraq over petroleum is not interesting. Of course they did, one way or another. The question is what exactly they thought they were doing about Iraq's petroleum. I would argue that they threw public resources (perhaps as much as two trillion dollars worth when all is said and done) to secure profits for private companies.

Fake terror threat manipulates Congress to further spy powers: The insanity continues as Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) claims that "bogus" intelligence claims were bandied about by the White House in order to get the extension of spy powers. Here you have a legislative example of the classic fear "staged war on terror" dynamic. It's all right here.

When did the dissing of generals start? Right wing noxious fumers like Jonah Goldberg have been ripping on generals since quite a while ago: VAPAHS!!!

Hence, in any case, conventional wisdom will always be happy if Republicans More Happy With the "Democratic" Congress than Democrats.

Dan Rather: the video producer, Mary Mapes, who got nailed by some kind of repackaged info bomb, thinks Dan Rather's big lawsuit is courageous. Mary Mapes: Courage for Dan Rather.

The Drugging of our children: Someone made a video, mainly about ADHD and pumping the kids' heads full of psychotropic social control agents. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's by someone named Gary Null (Google Video), who seems to have some other weird offbeat medical videos on Google Video.

AT&T going to tap the Internet & scan to catch your bad movies: Slashdot carried the story that:

Save the Internet writes "Ars Technica is reporting that the MPAA is trying to convince major ISPs to do content filtering. Now, merely wanting it is one thing, but the more important point is that 'AT&T has agreed to start filtering content at some mysterious point in the future.' We're left to wonder about the legal implications of that, but given that AT&T already has the ability to wiretap everything for the NSA, it was only a matter of time before they found a way to profit from it, too."

The chic TASER police state: Andrew Meyer was that kid at the Kerry rally tagged for no particular reason (though of course it's not safe to suggest elections are rigged in Florida, let alone mention secret societies!) Creepy embrace of tasers by the establishment media. Bill O'Reilly was really creepy about the whole thing. Emil Steiner in the WaPo says creepy stuff too. Protest for Tasered Student Continues. More creeps - a connection between ominous neocons and violence-loving O'Reilly: A marriage made in Hell. Media Matters - Beck said he "enjoy[s] watching" Taser videos; O'Reilly rolled out "Don't Taze me, bro!" bumper stickers. Stunning future ahead for Taser.

We have our own police state issues around here. PrisonPlanet has a new web page devoted to classic police brutality incidents. The new Pain Ray Gun "Silent Guardian" which basically is a microwave weapon that hurts a lot. Let me share a bit of probably-classified wisdom about microwave weapons: they are perfectly defeated by aluminum foil. Tinfoil hats at the ready!!! (Apparently, ISBN numbers are intellectual property nowadays too - no sneeking into your university bookstore to steal those serials and order 'em online! Yikes) Police Culture In the US. America’s Police Brutality Pandemic by Paul Craig Roberts. Veterans Disarmament Act To Bar Vets From Owning Guns if anyone says they have PTSD. Underground militia here we come, before the blue helmets sez ya crazy!

Great moments in Homeland Security: Because if you're not a terrorist, no problem (via here):

Zakariya Reed, a Toledo firefighter, said in an interview that he has been detained at least seven times at the Michigan border since fall 2006. Twice, he said, he was questioned by border officials about "politically charged" opinion pieces he had published in his local newspaper. The essays were critical of U.S. policy in the Middle East, he said. Once, during a secondary interview, he said, "they had them printed out on the table in front of me."

Better yet: Alex Jones guys discover the horrible! Denver Sheriff's Office Helps Private Companies Take Blood And Saliva At Checkpoints. Nice! Ex-FEMA Leader Says Feds May Overreact. Michael Brown expects crazy feds. Shit!

Blackwater looks like the TASER International Comintern: At least those shady bastards are on the map right now. They're gonna get pegged by their own Zapruder film, hopefully. Here's an overview video from Jeremy Scahill, who was really good recently on MSNBC Countdown:

Bad economic news & views: "Greenspan Working To Destroy US Economy", at least suddenly talking down with great shock the excesses of Wall Street. Greenspan's Oil Claim in Context - by Dilip Hiro and Tom Engelhardt. Really helpful.

Financial Times reported:

Fresh economic shocks on the scale of the current credit squeeze will occur if US house prices continue to fall, one of the country’s leading housing experts warned on Wednesday. Robert Shiller, a Yale university economist, told a US congressional panel that he feared “the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression”.

Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright. The Saudis Call Bernanke's Bluff. Foreign reserve currencies quietly getting ditched. Krugman asked if this is the Wile E. Coyote moment (where he looks down and falls through the air). (On a side note, the NY Times has made its editorial stuff free again - and the old article archives going back many years. They want to sell more ads now. Sweet!)

Why the dollar is taking another beating now. First World Government junk bonds on the way. Suddenly, the British pound looks vulnerable. West ‘complicit’ in Third World corruption. How the Bush economy worked.

Looks like a good book: Naomi Klein's The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

On a more funny note: Chinese buy into conspiracy theory. yes the hokey tale of the Rothschilds has become a hit Chinese book, read by all apparatchiks, nomenclatura and bureaucrats of note!

If it's all coming down, the operative question might be: If Humans Are a Virus, Then What Is the End Game? Worth considering I suppose.

Discrediting the North American Union: Reason Magazine calls NAU agenda "a Xenophobic Fantasy". I wish. I found these weird MnDOT documents, there is a real something big out there. Of that much I am certain, and it has Minnesota manifestations.

How about those loose nukes: Simple Error My Ass, says Larry Johnson, a former CIA guy.

Mideast tensions: Israeli rightwing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu claimed some credit around the suspicious Israeli airstrikes on Syria. It's worth noting that this was certainly a kind of hegemonic shifting, a frame bump in the discourse of international politics. War strikes become the norm, and Netanyahu is positioning himself to bask in the glory. Syria’s Illusory Nukes: More Propaganda.

This stupid prancing shit with Ahmadinejad: Grow Up. Hell yeah. Newt Gingrich: Bush Should Blow Up Iran's Natural Gas Insfrastructure. A good point:

Gingrich said: "I can't imagine why they put up with this. I mean, either General Petraeus is wrong and the military spokesman's wrong or the current policies we have are stunningly ineffective. ... We should finance the students. We should finance a Radio Free Iran. We should covertly sabotage the only gasoline refinery in the country. We should be prepared, once the gasoline refinery's down, to stop all of the gasoline tankers and communicate to the Iranian government, that, if they want to move equipment into Iran - into Iraq - they're gonna have to walk."

What was legal beagle Greta's response to this bloodthirsty, illegal and immoral suggestion?

She said, "That actually seems rather simple and easy to do." The sheer insanity of this is mind-boggling.

Gingrich's open call for sabotage of Iran's gas industry lends more credence to my theory that Iran's natural gas infrastructure, including recent construction on a pipeline to India, is the real target of the Bush administration, not the nuclear plants.

That's why they've over-hyped the nuclear issue. Seek the money to find the hidden agenda. The target is gas, not the atom.

Better yet! Think Progress: Durbin: Lieberman-Kyl Amendment Is ‘Dangerous,’ ‘Puts Us On Record’ In Support Of Iran War. Fuck he's right!!! It's another batshit insane blank check thing. Iran promises missiles will fly if US attacks. UK Times throws out major neocon propaganda, but still: Secret US air force team to perfect plan for Iran strike.

Senate Neocons Provoke Iran. Dress Rehearsal for War. For more,Informed Comment always good. Michael Scheuer, formerly known as CIA's "Anonymous," has one on Why Does Norman Podhoretz Hate America? about the "Islamofascist" bullshit. Quite good.

Iran's Ahmadinejad, public enemy No. 1? shorter: "Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war" by Juan Cole.

The Russian oil company LUKoil gets West Qurna oilfield development. Good thing American soldiers liberated the contracts to such field by fiat of the gun. What it may cost to stay in Iraq (to secure Russian oil contracts, which may or may not become petrodollars).

Michael Ledeen vs Michael Ledeen: Sell arms to Iran vs. Iran is a warring enemy of America!! Neocons have all this evil innuendo about crushing the liberals, but they themselves are the treasonous bastards since they were selling weapons to Iran during the Iran-Contra Rockstar Geopolitical Party of All Time.

Old news: Greg Palast on Alex Jones in 2002 - old stuff but it mainly checked out. Venezuela, Florida elections, Saudis and Pakistanis in 9/11.

Last bits: The unmasking power of the freedom of speech and dialogue - on the Columbia academic situation. It's really ugly scene with Peter King on mosques, really bad: Extremism in religion is not against the law.

Interesting from dailykos: Hadrian's Forum: Catiline and Rome's "Housing Bubble"; Roman Progressives, Part 1.



A town uses social networking for the Edwards campaign. Sounds like Matt Bai wrote an interesting book on the blogger roots blasting against the Democratic Party establishment.

Some crazy freakin' conservatives have a song about how much God hates America right now. This kind of masochism is how they are starting debates now. WHY SHOULD GOD BLESS AMERICA?!? These people WANT to KNOW!

Ok. ok...

Cool new slice of music: I heard "MN Nice" by Maria Isa on the Current the other night. Hear it on MySpace though of course it's a little bit fuzzy, making it harder to catch all the local references.

The thrown election in Florida: the official Greg Palast report from British television: This got suppressed.

Ollie North and FEMA: Pretty short. A nice secret session in the Senate when they start grilling Ollie on the big takeover scheme, part of it dubbed "Sledgehammer", involving suspending the Constitution. Bonus: listen for the "Miami newspapers" and guys in big sunglasses telling everyone to skip the subject.

Hey all right: Conspiracy of Silence, a fuzzy yet impressively deep old conspiracy video, going into that GOP pedophile backstory known as the Franklin scandal. This GOP kingpin out in Middle America ran some kind of child-abusing ring out of his Savings & Loan. The connections run right to the top. This, obviously, never made it onto American TV. Surely, nothing related to the Mark Foley scandal and everything else here.....

Now the latest: Ron Paul letting those shady cats at the Federal Reserve know what the hell is going on: they are printing tons of money, and the cost of living is out of hand. Our money is worth less than freaggin' Loonies.

These Canadians are getting out of hand. I wonder if it's all the BC buds? Jesus Julian!!

Oh what the hell, here's the whole Trailer Park Boys movie:

Dentist who met 9/11 Hijackers in Shreveport poisoned: Shreveport, yes it's all coming together now.

Here's a video from a new site, LiveLeak.com. Looks good! War with Iran already started! Sam Gardiner's a pretty interesting observer of military affairs: a while ago he documented dozens of cases of military propaganda in the media.

That's all for now!

Generally speaking, 80 percent of the information one needs to form judgments on key intelligence targets or issues is available in open media.

--Ray McGovern, old-school CIA veteran

With reports of loose nukes and impending economic disruptions on the credit market, I've had a weird bad vibe for the last couple days. Having to take funny paths around the crashed I-35W bridge lately just underscores a sense of discontinuity.

Right now I am listening to CSPAN2, where Michael Ledeen drones on about the Mullahs in Iran and how Ledeen is gonna stage the covert war in Iran. James Woolsey and Clifford May all agree at the American Enterprise Institute, it's time for the fuckin Apocalypse! And oddly, Woolsey is a fan of South Park..... Ledeen says "they don't expect to survive" because Iranians put their money outside the country. Bizarre.

Yeah so I was around the insane Internet fringe recently, which is where I discovered the Morgellons!. Mwahaha... Anyway Rense.com, the Jeff Rense website, is a fine place to get up to your neck in everything outside the conventional political spectrum, from UFOs to government-sponsored AIDS to Holocaust deniers. It helps that Rense has crazy-guy hair on his old GIF.

Since our theme with the Morgellons has been medical paranoia, why not include: Bush greases skids for UN Pandemic power grab, via the Alex Jones infowars black helicopter world. The idea is that the World Health Organization and the UN will come take your guns after they release the engineered Morgellons. Supposedly at the recent Canadian Security and Prosperity Partnership they signed rules that "Establishes U.N. law along with regulations by the World Trade Organization and World Health Organization as supreme over U.S. law during a pandemic and sets the stage for militarizing the management of continental health emergencies." w0w!

Early reports said that there were mysterious gigantic put options purchased to expire by September 21st. Official type guys say it looks to be nonsense. It's possible that really the put options are just the downside half of a large deal, designed to offer a hedged bet for both big falls and a big rise. Ron Paul says the stock market is gonna collapse.

A variety of insane war crimes perpetrated in Iraq. Pretty hard to dispute anymore. Anyone who disagrees should think about depleted uranium for a while.

The Air Force outlines how they support insurgencies. Here's the doc (PDF).

Here's the sorta-banned book Deadly Deceits: My 25 years in the CIA by Ralph McGee. How did the CIA spin the media in the old days? Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation

There are new regional power blocs forming. Here is one: Putin denies Shanghai regional group is military bloc. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Russia, China, and 4 ex-Soviet states.

Google censors another 9/11 documentary by knocking down the view counts.

Is the federal government using Neo-Nazi provocateurs? How many big rollers in these kinds of organizations are really informants, etc.

Gonzales is gone but all the insane spying remains and Democrats probably aren't going to do anything.

Dems are not going to stop "World War IV" it seems like. Buchanan says mass murdering Iranians will be popular in America. The CIA fabricated Hezbollah threats, shady business in the National Intelligence Estimate. When the Iran war apparently starts, the War Criminal is in the Living Room, indeed.

The Power of Narrative! Some older material, but I thought clear and relevant. Our Date with Armageddon: a pretty good overview of the factors adding into the Iran war. Trapped in the Wrong Paradigm: Three Handy Rules. The Paradigm that Will Not Die. Undying Myths, and Sullivan's Lies on the Path of Penance. The Intelligence won't matter because they'll spoof it. An excellent point. Walking into the Iran Trap, I: A Decision of Policy -- and the Intelligence Won't Matter. The Irrelevance of Intelligence Again, and Collective Illusions. Yeah. And Still One More Time: Stop Helping the Warmongers. How the Foreign Policy Consensus Protects Itself.

Other stuff: Dirge for the 'Surge'- by Justin Raimondo

Antiwar.com Blog · Bogus War Party Propaganda, Juan Cole on History of Western Incursions in the Mideast. Crackpot Realists and Permanent War - by Ann Berg

80% of the intelligence you need is already out there. You don't need some fancy cloak-and-daggers to find out!! This is why everyone and their mom is hooked on the Internet. If you read nothing else, read this!! Ex-CIA dude Ray McGovern:

The craft of CIA analysis was designed to be an all-source operation, meaning that we analysts were responsible - and held accountable - for assimilating information from all sources and coming to judgments on what it all meant. We used data of various kinds, from the most sophisticated technical collection platforms, to spies, to - not least - open media.

Here I must reveal a trade secret and risk puncturing the mystique of intelligence analysis. Generally speaking, 80 percent of the information one needs to form judgments on key intelligence targets or issues is available in open media. It helps to have been trained - as my contemporaries and I had the good fortune to be trained - by past masters of the discipline of media analysis, which began in a structured way in targeting Japanese and German media in the 1940s. But, truth be told, anyone with a high school education can do it. It is not rocket science.

More following up that idea here: You, Too, Can and Should Be an "Intelligence Analyst". Don't buy the 'appeal to authority' argument.

Ok now I realized a lot of the crazy paranoia stuff is stashed somewhere else so I will have to get it later.

Once in a rare while you come across a truly impressive conspiracy theory, one that rises above mere 'urban legend' status to give you the Creepy Crawlies and inspire a really sweet movie. Morgellons are that theory. The screenplay awaits.

Combine these two ideas: A) There were reports recently that laser printer toner generates nasty clouds of tiny nano-particles, worse even than street pollution. B) If you're a methamphetamine user, the noxious synthetic drug components can't break down and exit your system, so they come out in nasty lesions of drug goo. (when you go into jail, you get passed around for other people to lick the goo and get high). Combine these ideas and add a splash of AKIRA or the Cartman-Trapper Keeper episode:

Here's a quick Akira video. The part about 3:30 is what I'm talking about, where Kaneda becomes this super mega mechanized blob monster. I am REALLY sorry someone put this video to Linkin Park. Yikes.

The idea is that some people manifest mysterious fibers coming out of lesions in their body. Mysterious nano-fibers of unknown origin, growing out of wounds, transmitting radio and electromagnetic energy. Microscopic observation shows suffers' skin seething with fibrous materials under the skin. Tests show it's a non-biological material. It's not just lint on a sticky rash. But tests also show latent infections in many: for indeed, Lyme Disease, found in many Morgellon's sufferers, suggests a complex of infestations which erode immunity response.

Image showing striking autofluorescence of fibers from child's lip skin lesion.

Nothing was added to skin sample, except Gel/Mount mounting media and

coverslip. Image is an overlay of red and blue images. Imaging was done

using an Olympus Provis Microscope which employs standard wavelengths

for rhodamine (Excitation 550 nm/ Emission/565 nm ) and Fluoroscein/alexa

488 (Excitation 494 nm/Emission 519nm)

There is a long-familiar disease called delusional parasitosis, which is the 'bugs under your skin psychosis' thing. Here is what purports to be the only video of morgelons, really friggin fuzzy and weird:

Here is another better video which I couldn't embed and another one of Morgellons Disease "Alive and with Intelligence." The description material contains:

Please "Sign the Following Petition" to Congress regarding the Centers for Disease Control, that they would Investigate and Research Morgellons Disease: http://tinyurl.com/yu4tnb

"Alive and with Intelligence"

Fresh out of skin and muscle tissue, these sand like granules as they are sometimes referred to can contain the Fibers, just as the fatty tissues, or the cysts, or skin sample samples, which Fibers seem to move occasionally, as being "Alive"

These Fibers initially surrounded the granule, of which there was some movement, promting investigation. Upon pulling the Fibers off of the granulated center, this Fiber seemed to reach across towards the separated bundle.

Hello to everybody who are involved in the Dreaded and Disabling Disease called Morgellons, and "Welcome" to those of you who ought to be and soon will be.

My Website is "MorgellonsUSA.com".

In many of these Videos are seen Fresh Sample Tissues Showing the "Colored Fibers" Growing and are Produced Within the skin, the muscle and the fatty tissues. Sadly, this is only one aspect of the Disease, which is also very disabling, as it affects the brain and the neurological system also, among other things.

The many persons, Dermatologists and Physicians who fight this, and who say that it is only a phsychological Illness, have a hallucination and a delusion themselves. They don't wish to be

accountable for their great and major contributions in helping to spread this Illness, and for ruining the many peoples families, and lives of the persons who suffer from this. They

say that this Disease is Delusional, and call the patients who have this "DOP" or "Delusions of Parasitosis"

Many persons have been commited to Mental Institutions or given Anti-Phsychotic Drugs. Perhaps you know somebody or have a loved one who is going through this, and furthermore, the CDC has not done one single thing to Investigate or Fix this Problem. Are you next???

My email Address:

Admin@morgellonsusa.com

Also do please visit:

http://www.morgellons.org/

http://www.cherokeechas.com/

http://healthsciences.okstate.edu/morgellons/

On the other hand, Morgellons Watch is the obligatory debunking site, claiming that "morgellons" are a product of the enviroment, and the perceived disease is a combination of other stuff. And someone is out there saying that the aerial Chemtrails and government-engineered Lyme disease are at the root of it all.

Basically I thought this was a pretty wild tale, unexpectedly creepy-crawly and already full of peculiar medical paranoia, hazy videos and unknown factors. What If the Government has created special bioweapons to turn nanoparticle pollution into sinister fibers that will eventually integrate you into the Evil Biomatrix!?!!? Can the morgellons inter-communicate? Mwahaha!

This scientist Ettmuller made this drawing in 1682. The little bugs marked 'E' are typical scabies mites. Ettmuller found weird horrible itchy fibers in sickly little British children. Etc.

Like I said, the screenplay is waiting to be written.

Yes folks it's been quite a while since I checked in at this marvelous website. In a nutshell.... Ugh, i use that nutshell cliche too much.

In the big picture... outside the box, in a whole new paradigm, rightsized... Eh. I am moving into Minneapolis tomorrow on the ominous date of September 11. Fortunately I have scored a nifty 1BR in Stevens Square, which is an obscure neighborhood around Franklin Avenue, near Nicollet. Basically between Uptown, Downtown and Phillips. It's pretty close to the center of my various clusters of friends that I don't adequately stay in touch with.

In Stevens Square, there is a strong wave of condo-conversion happening, a key indicator the area is gentrifying and experiencing some kind of spike in land values as professionals want to live near downtown.

It is not the most practical for my job, since the office is in St. Paul, though I do a lot of work from home as well.

For the most part, during August I have been living on friends' couches, emerging reeking of cigarettes and lacking regular showers. Really attractive. This translates to 'any kind of blogging is a big hassle, and I really don't care that much right now.'

In other news, Ron Paul has thus far won an impressive 70% of the HongPoll, as he often does. However the media blackout plan remains in full effect. Huzzah: The number-two vote getter at 6% was "Someone not on my list (A subtle censoring to consolidate establishment power)". Teh Sweet.

I have been in a tricky spot lately, as my illustrious boss at Politics in Minnesota has been on a vacation for the last couple weeks, so I got to mastermind the last issue of the Weekly Report, and this upcoming one, as well. Not too bad!!