dailyremoteviewer: December 2006

December 14, 2006

This blog has been HACKED. All of my painstakingly installed links have been redirected to scarypersonals.com . I see who did it and I am not amused. Steps will be taken. Meanwhile, please accept my apologies.

December 13, 2006

I was plodding through the news this morning when I encountered this eye-popping statement in the Washington Post: ..."But if the conflict were to require a significant number of ground troops -- as in some scenarios such as the disintegration of Pakistan -- Army and Marine Corps officials made clear that they would have to scramble to provide them."

Holy cow. Now we're going to INVADE PAKISTAN?

DAHR JAMAIL published an article based on emails he received from correspondents in Iraq. It is disturbing and sad. I noticed that one correspondent complained that the Americans raid houses, arresting scores of innocent people, but always release any militia members they arrest. I believe he is referring to members of al-Hakim's SCIRI militia. link

In the deal the Bush administration made with al-Hakim, covert support and (of course) money was offered. In return, al-Hakim is to suppress the Sadrists and collaborate with selected Sunni politicians. If remote viewing serves, he agreed to do all that but doesn't think the accommodation with the Sunnis will turn out to be either lasting or necessary. It amounts to a de facto partition of Iraq, in his view.

This man is no dummy. He didn't take seriously a lot of what he was told in DC.

MOQTADA AL-SADR is a moderate in Iraqi terms. He has spent a lot of time trying to persuade his adherents to refrain from violence and take part in the political process. The Sadrists are nationalistic and opposed to rule by Iran. Nevertheless, American strategy from the beginning has aimed at destroying the Sadrist militias and eliminating their influence in the government.

I have never understood what their objection is to al-Sadr. I can only surmise that he has made remarks considered hostile to Israel.

As I write this, al-Sadr is furious over what he considers betrayal by al-Maliki, who got into power with his support and then (in his opinion) cravenly caved in to the occupation. It is also the case that some serious assassination plots are now in the works courtesy of al-Hakim, the occupation's newest best friend. He knows about these plots and is furious about that too.

TAKE TIME to visit spaceweather.com today. The featured picture is a gorgeous pastel drawing of sunspot 930 by Mark Seibold. link

A CHRISTMAS POEM

May all my enemies go to Hell,
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.
--Hilaire Belloc

December 12, 2006

ROCKY MOUNTAIN MORTGAGE FRAUD involving thousands of properties has come to light. Illegal immigrants were recruited by false front organizations and given forged documentation to act as buyers. They could then occupy the houses for free, making no payments, for however many months it took the lender to foreclose. These mortgages were federally insured and connected to a gift program designed you guessed it to give free houses to illegal immigrants, so the lender was effectively the federal government, and the feds were in no hurry at all to foreclose. Each one of these deals ended up costing the taxpayers a large sum of money.

Eventually, after eight months to a year of no payments, foreclosure would occur. The feds would send a team in to patch the holes in the walls, change the carpet, replace the missing appliances and fill in the holes in the yard dug by the dogs. A thorough spray with Lysol, and the property goes back on the market again. Guess who's waiting in line for it? Another low income purchaser. This time we'll be talking about sub-sub-prime loans. The gullible American taxpayer will keep the cycle going indefinitely.

The full article is at http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/12/11/rocky-mountain-mortgage-fraud-fever/

And people wonder why foreigners are surging over our borders by the millions. You just don't get a better deal than this.

Well, I have some news for you. First of all, fraud on this scale has to be aided and abetted by people in the system, and this was. Government employees in HUD and the FHA were complicit. Moreover, the scheme was (is) nationwide.

You are seeing the tip of the iceberg here. It is an enormous scandal. Where are the auditors? Why is the FBI sitting on its hands? And why were honest buyers who tried to pay their mortgages and finally fell behind, foreclosed upon more quickly than the scammers who never made a single payment? If this question doesn't get asked, we can only assume that federal law enforcement is corrupt.

SAUDI MBASSADOR RESIGNS, ABRUPTLY leaves Washington: here is today's fright mail, barring further developments elsewhere.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101333.html?nav=hcmoduletmv

Remote viewing indicates that Al-Faisal, a former intelligence chief, received word from home that the Saudi government is under pressure. The civil war in Iraq is spreading across the Middle East. Privately al-Faisal thinks American/Israeli actions in the region place the monarchy in extreme danger. No one in power would listen to him. There was nothing to be gained from hanging around in Washington, so he left.

One of the internal issues facing the Saudi government is whether to temporize with Israel. Overtures are being made to influential Saudis, accompanied by quiet promises and lots of money. Al-Faisal's first priority is to quash these efforts; he thinks they threaten the viability of the government.

The attack on Iran has been decided upon. It will be a calamity for the entire Middle East, another reason not to waste time in Washington.

IYAD ALLAWI's efforts to become the next Saddam Hussein finally collapsed. The Sunnis he had been negotiating with felt they had been double-crossed when Washington decided to ally with al-Hakim of SCIRI. It also did not help matters that the US military continues a vigorous campaign against the Sunnis.

The CIA, the State Department, the US military and Israel are all reading from different scripts. No party can make promises on behalf of any other. Efforts to broker deals are doomed to failure.

In case you'd like to know what is really being done in our names, rv indicates that the latest brainstorm is to give large units of Marines carte blanche to secure their territory as they see fit, attacking whomever they choose and using any military means that take their fancy. They do this in their assigned area for four to six weeks and then are moved elsewhere, to be replaced by a new batch of Marines. The political strategists and intelligence personnel belonging to the first unit leave with it, so there is no continuity.

The ultimate result is depopulation of the subject area. It is the desired outcome, thinly concealed by the fig leaf of stupidity.

Now, stupidity is the second biggest fig leaf in the world, exceeded only by Good Intentions, but I can assure you that the debacle in Iraq has been deliberately engineered by our ostensible allies. After the dust settles they expect to wind up with Iraq's (and Lebanon's) reserves of fresh water and energy.

December 7, 2006

TORTURE remains official US policy. Last January GW Bush did Congress the courtesy of signing a ban on the practice, and then issued a signing statement reserving the right to waive the ban. It's a clever strategy: because he never vetoes anything, the Congress is never able to override a veto.

We no longer have a president. We have a king. The law is what he says it is and his powers are what he says they are. It is disgraceful and incredibly sad that Congress is allowing this to happen.

Senators Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy are sponsoring a bill to restore the right of HABEAS CORPUS which was abolished by Bush following 911. It has no chance of passing in the current Congress but might resurface after the Democrat dominated Congress takes office in January.

Sorry to say, it probably has no chance of passing then either. The Democrats are just as much in favor of a police state as the Republicans.

And if it does pass, so what? The president will just annul it with another signing statement.

The IRAQ STUDY GROUP duly issued its report. It is now okay to acknowledge that things are not going well in Iraq. The option favored by both the American and the Iraqi people, promptly withdrawing all American troops, is not even on the table. With a few exceptions, such as the genuinely honorable Dr. Ron Paul, both Democrats and Republicans love this war.

The antitrust division of the Department of Justice freaked the MUNICIPAL BOND MARKET by issuing a flurry of subpoenas. It finally came to someone's attention that financial institutions were rigging their bids and juicing up their fees. Imagine that.

Consider me paranoid if you wish, but I believe that there is a hidden agenda here. This is the first time the DOJ has intervened in the trillion dollar muni bond market.

Do you suppose the feds watched all that money passing by and finally thought of a way to get their hands on it?

Sure they did. And I can tell you what is next: government employees pension funds (except the military retirement system and the Congressional pension plan). They are sitting there in plain sight like ripe peaches on a tree. I am not referring just to federal government employees, but to all government employees. It's only a matter of time.

It is just another small step by the federal government in its quest to assume total control of everything that takes place in the United States.

Good news: there is LIQUID WATER ON MARS. Amazingly, the web bot at halfpasthuman predicted this announcement. For details see urbansurvival.com.

Yet another investigation of the death of PRINCESS DIANA is in progress. People don't seem to realize that having the same folks do the investigating guarantees that the same lies will be put forward. Unsurprisingly, The investigation is expected to conclude that the crash was an accident due to driver Henri Paul being under the influence of alcohol and driving over the speed limit.

I remote viewed Diana's death as soon as I heard about it. Henri Paul's condition was easy to see. He was cold sober and he was terrified. He thought they were the target of a professional hit, and he was right. The last thing he saw was a dazzling flash of white light. It blinded him temporarily while the big Mercedes limo was nudged into a fatal collision course.

Diana intended to marry Dodi and to have children by him. Furthermore, she was a few weeks pregnant at the time of her death.

The future King of England was not to have Muslim half siblings. The prospect was unacceptable to the powers ruling England, the United States and Israel. Diana's assassination was decided upon the moment her decision became known.

With the conspicuous exception of the Queen and the royal family, the whole world mourned for Diana.

The British royal family will not survive Diana's murder. The next generation of royals will have to actually work for a living. It will take a few years for this prediction to manifest, but I can already see it in the collection of possible states.

For those who care, Diana was the scion of the House of Stuart and considered by many the rightful Queen of England.

December 4, 2006

REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ: the story starts with the meeting that wasn't. Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki attended a press conference with president Bush but refused to engage in a formal meeting. This was extraordinary given that president Bush had flown all the way to Jordan to see him.

The Bush plan had been to pressure al Maliki into taking steps to rout the militias out of Iraqi government ministries, reduce the role of the Sadrists in government and possibly turn over territory occupied by the Sunnis to de facto control of the King of Jordan.

This forced al Maliki to choose between American favor and the survival of his government. The Sadrists, upon whose support he depended, had carried out their threat to boycott the government. And the well timed release of the Stephen Hadley memo showed unmistakably that he no longer had support in Washington.

The United States is finished with the fiction of an Iraqi democracy. A search has begun for a strong man to rule the country with American support. Al Maliki's refusal to meet with the president demonstrates amply that he is not that man. The ideal candidate is of course Saddam Hussein, but for political reasons the subject can't be broached.

The lucky soon-to-be-anointed is Abdelaziz al-Hakim, leader of the military wing of SCIRI, the pro-Iranian Shia faction. Al Hakim is acknowledged to be in command of the death squads whose favored mode of execution (after torture) is piercing the skull and brain with a household electric drill.

If he is cooperative and commits no serious gaffes, he will receive American backing

I looked to see what kind of a person he was. Remote Viewing indicates that he is inflexible and ruthless and fully approves of the heinous cruelty of his followers. Will he cut a deal with Bush? Of course. That's why he is going to Washington.

This arrangement would appear to represent a huge triumph for Iran, but I predict that it will be short lived. Behind the scenes in Washington they are saying after we bomb the crap out of Iran there won't be any Iranian influence to worry about.

Thus the United States commits to its one remaining military option in Iraq: wholesale depopulation of the Sunni regions. (I have predicted this before, and also that it will be stopped short of completion by an international outcry.)

As part of his bargain Hakim will have to agree to suppress the Sadrists. This means going to war against fellow Shias. Will he do it? Yes, but not openly at first. I feel sorry for a country that has this man in it.

The American tactic of allying with the death squads to crush the Baathists and Sunnis is about to bear bitter fruit in the form of a regional war. The attack on Iran will be the match that lights the gasoline. It will not improve the American position; ultimately it will lead to the end of US ambitions in the Middle East, the overthrow of the Saudi and Egyptian governments and incidentally of Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan, and the end of the dream of Greater Israel.

The attack on Iran and Syria has not been called off. Indeed, military operations have commenced but are still largely done by proxies. The UN has been sucked in to support Israel in Lebanon. The Israeli army is preparing for a war in the spring; all their eyes are turned toward Syria.

At this juncture certifiable lunatic Joseph Biden publicly accused Vladimir Putin of being a dictator and called for the United States to confront him. American lives, treasure and hopes for the future are not being poured into the toilet fast enough to satisfy him.

The Democrats are performing a little better than I had expected. Senator Leahy is trying to obtain the documents that describe US interrogation tactics in detail. Good for him. Of course there is really only one question anyone could have at this point. Are electric drills involved?

December 1, 2006

PRESIDENT BUSH plans to meet separately with Iraqi Shi'ite and Sunni leaders, in a move that humiliates al-Maliki and will (you don't need to be a remote viewer to see this coming) complete the collapse of his coalition. No meeting is scheduled with influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose adherents are under attack by occupation forces.

If violence is to diminish, the cooperation of the Sadrists is essential. Omitting al Sadr from the president's audience list sends the message that the occupation intends to annihilate them. Their participation in the political process is not wanted.

For those who haven't followed the situation closely, the Sadrists are the anti-Iranian Shi'ite faction. The group Bush will meet with is pro-Iranian. I wonder if the president will remember this when he talks to them. Doubtful.

The other curious omission is Jalal al Talabani, the Kurdish president of Iraq. This would surely be an interesting meeting if it were held in view of the fact that the Kurdish drive for autonomy is viewed with alarm by Turkey. The Kurds are an embarrassment; and anyway, they are bought and paid for. Kurdish peshmerga mercenaries have been a great help to the coalition.

I predict that Bush will sound the Iraqis out about forming a new government of selected party leaders, possibly under the leadership of a favored strong man once again, Allawi rises from the dead. But the political structure has fragmented. If remote viewing serves, it is well past the time when something like that would have worked.

EARTHQUAKES IN CALIFORNIA are shown at http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/

A reader drew this to my attention today. It worried him and I can see why. It isn't just the number and size of the recent earthquakes; the distribution is unusual. I don't remember having seen activity on the upper San Andreas fault, at Mammoth Lakes, China Lake and Hollister at the same time before.

The halfpasthuman web bot picked December 5 as the date of a large West Coast earthquake. The bot is good. If you live in the area, I recommend that you take precautions.

November 30, 2006

PRESIDENT BUSH's meeting with Iraqi prime minister al Maliki is not going well at all. The president's handlers do not seem to realize that they cannot simply demand a political solution. They are giving al Maliki short shrift; whatever his deficiencies he managed to assemble a government in which both Sunni and Shia parties are represented. (He relied upon the Sadrists for support until the political backlash from occupation military attacks forced them to withdraw from the government. This is yet another example of the divergence between political and military agendas.)

The release of the explosive Stephen Hadley memo could not have come at a worse time. In fury and fear, al Maliki and his entourage absented themselves from Wednesday's formal dinner. Today president Bush seems confused. He is making vague promises and contradictory demands. Behind the scenes his handlers have not agreed on a game plan so he's playing it by ear.

Whoever released that memo destroyed any chance of a positive result from the Bush-Maliki meeting.

The save thought up by the Bush team (in opposition to the Baker report, which is due out next week) is to try to forge a US-Israel-Sunni alliance against Iran and the pro-Iranian Shia. This simply can't work. The US has made itself too unpopular in the Middle East. And it cannot look for support while its military forces are wreaking havoc in al-Anbar.

If remote viewing serves, Bush will come away from the meeting telling his intimates that al Maliki is weak. Al Maliki will come away from it thinking that the American president simply doesn't have the faintest idea what is really going on in Iraq.

NATO refused most of what Bush demanded in the meeting at Riga. The consensus is that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating, and if more troops were committed to aggressive military campaigns in dangerous parts of the country, the war would just be lost faster. While military men are still eager to wage war under the NATO flag, the member nations are rapidly losing enthusiasm. They see NATO being used as the dumping ground for American failures all over the world. Wait a minute, they are thinking. What do we get out of this?

THE DOLLAR continues its decline. The halfpasthuman web bot selected November 24 as the beginning of a big drop in the dollar. It was correct. The next date of interest is December 5, the projected date of a major west coast earthquake. I note that halfpasthuman waffled a bit on that prediction earlier this week. It's tempting to second-guess the bot, but there are times when you simply have to stand on your best guess. I'll stand on mine. I think the bot is going to be right.

In a stunning display of mass cowardice, the JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF took a unanimous stand against withdrawal from Iraq. The first person to state the obvious will be made to walk the plank. Each one hopes someone else will do it. Meanwhile the shelf life of the Green Zone gets shorter every day.

If remote viewing serves, US strategy is now focused on inciting sectarian warfare, not calming it, and that has been true for some time. It was thought that having militias fight each other would take the heat off the occupation. Now the country is ungovernable; well, whose fault is that?

IN THE AFTERMATH of today's Middle Eastern meetings, I see alliances rearranging themselves. No one wants to side with the United States; the occupation is a lost cause and they all know it. However, the Sunni vs. Shia divide is very dangerous and has been exacerbated by recent US diplomatic efforts. In retrospect it will be seen as much too high a price to pay for containing Iran, which really did not need much containment.

November 27, 2006

George Ure, writing on urbansurvival.com, recently opined "With millions of us taking to the roads for the over-the-river-and-through-the-woods deal, I'll sit back with my coffee this morning and not bring up my idea for competency-based drivers licenses." He favors a reaction time test before a vehicle will start, or a built-in breathalyzer.

I normally agree with Ure, but not here. I am fed up with solving problems by taking freedom away. I wonder how much difference there is in principle between a car that won't start if you have alcohol on your breath and a computer that won't let you type the f word. I don't see any, do you? How about a blender that won't work unless you can prove that cholesterol is not a problem for you? Think how many lives that would save. There's limitless potential in this field.

As you may know, the Southwest is filling up with Mexicans like the bilge of a ship with a bad leak. Driving has become an adventure. An ordinary trip to the supermarket involves heart-stopping close shaves with people who have never heard of turn signals and do not have insurance. Add to this the distracted drivers gabbing on their cellphones and you have multiple risks to life and limb, nearly all posed by people who are neither drunk nor elderly.

George's solution would inconvenience a lot of elderly people and perhaps a few drunks, but it wouldn't reduce the risks of driving by any significant amount.

I can think of something that would.

Now let's consider the unintended consequences. Suppose that your seventy year old wife has a heart attack. You want to drive her to the county hospital but you can't pass the reaction time test to start the car. You watch her die instead. How's that for inconvenience?

Drunks deserve a little sympathy too from time to time. So you're leaving your favorite watering hole when you spot a couple of street toughs coming your way. There's just enough time to jump in your car and drive off. Woops. There's alcohol on your breath so it won't start.

Taking freedom away from individuals won't actually make driving any safer because most near misses come from encounters with normal drivers. It will cause harm by depriving people of options they would need in an emergency.

But taking freedom away is trendy. So coffee pickers are poorly paid? Let's make a law that coffee shops may only serve fair trade coffee. So someone plotted to blow up an airplane using liquids? --Never mind that the alleged plot never really existed. We'll just have the TSA confiscate all liquids. So someone said something offensive on the internet? Let's fix it so that only government approved content can appear online. (That one hasn't happened yet but it's in the works. A tip of the hat to Newt Gingrich, Fascist of the Week.)

For every problem there is a solution involving a reduction in individual freedom and an interest group devoted to implementing it. Society is at war with the concept of individual choice.

Every day we are deluged with news about bad individual behavior. Bad group behavior, and especially bad governmental behavior, is always spun as a case of a few deviants. A congressman who took bribes: imagine that. We are supposed to consider it an exception. The soldiers who followed Don Rumsfeld's and George Bush's orders to the letter in torturing prisoners and putting it on video for the pleasure of folks in DC were just bad apples.

I submit that for every drunk or physically incompetent person on the road there are five or six who are dangerous by reason of sheer carelessness, bad driving habits and/or a warped sense of priorities. It is the human condition. The witless majority outnumbers the clueful minority, and no laws or electronics can change that.

This lunch meant looks funny.

They couldn't sell it unless it was ok to eat.

In an environment where the government decides nearly everything, individuals choices are reduced to the level of which tunes to use on their iPods and whether their clothes should show their navels. Diminished freedom results in diminished attention to the business of living. Life becomes just another spectator sport. This is nowhere more clearly apparent than in their behavior on the road. They're off in lala land, chatting on their cellphones or eating that big burrito and trying not to drip it on the seat.

Now let's see what the government does with the power of decision that it has taken from individuals.

We don't even have to talk about war. How many lives do you think the FDA's refusal to have all cattle tested for Mad Cow Disease will cost? The disease is widespread among deer and elk. Cattle share those pastures. In Europe a quick, inexpensive and reliable test is used on every animal before it enters the food supply.

In the United $tates there is no testing to speak of. In fact, a meat packer that wanted to test all of its cattle so that it could advertise the meat as Mad Cow free was forbidden to do the testing by the FDA. Someone, or several someones, intervened to protect the industry and they didn't have the excuse of being drunk or senile.

Tens of thousands of Americans will die horrible deaths because they ate contaminated meat.

You don't see this story in the puppet press. Instead we read about a gunman who shot several people. It's that pesky individual liberty again.

SO WHAT; freedom is great and all that, but what are we supposed to do about drunk drivers? The solution is to drive your own vehicle as carefully as you can. Become a member of the clueful minority.

And don't eat the lunchmeat.

REST IN PEACE, Alexander Litvinenko. Another critic of the Putin regime has been snuffed. Someone needs to take the Russians by the lapels and say This Looks Bad.

I looked into Litvinenko's assassination, slogging through a swamp of byzantine politics. Far from getting to the bottom of the matter, the experience made me wonder whether there really was a bottom. To anything.

I discerned that Litvinenko had information about the seizure of Lukos that implicated important persons in the Russian government and indirectly, even his patron Berezovsky.

I am not suggesting that Berezovsky connived in the murder. Instead it appears that the oligarchs, the Russian state security services and the Russian Mafia are closely interconnected. Litvinenko's crusade to air the Kremlin's dirty laundry made a lot of people uncomfortable including some who were supposedly on his side.

In the end it was the Lukos matter that got him killed. The documents were not the problem; they could have been denied. Litvinenko's credibility and his first hand knowledge made him a dangerous witness.

The Lukos deal was bigger and dirtier than generally imagined. I noticed the distinctive musty stench of the KLA. Dealing drugs is a great cover for really dirty for-hire intelligence work. And vice versa. There is a KLA finger in this pie. Apparently they were retained as proxies to do tasks related to the Lukos takeover. It would not surprise me to find that they were involved in the assassination, which was an orchestrated effort involving numerous people.

The order for Litvinenko's assassination came from a man in Russia working for a successor organization to the KGB. It might well be the man Litvinenko named in his deathbed interview. It did not originate with Putin. He seems to have paid little attention until the affair became a public embarrassment.

A man working for Boris Berezovsky's organization passed information about Litvinenko's daily life to Russia. That information was used to design the hit.

It remains to wonder why a method of assassination was selected that appears to implicate the Russian government.

Here's my view, based on rv: had things gone exactly as planned, Litvinenko would have been exposed as part of a conspiracy to steal Russian nuclear materials and sell them on the black market. His network of contacts would have come under suspicion and his information would have been discredited. This did not happen because the man who was supposed to make the announcement had second thoughts. He doubted the truth of what he was being asked to say and gave a vaguely worded statement in its place. The scheme misfired.

A further development has occurred. On November 25 Russian billionaire Sulieman Kerimov crashed his Ferrari in a traffic accident and was taken to hospital with severe burns. Next day he was placed in a coma by medical personnel endeavoring to save his life.

Kerimov was living in Israel, having fled there for safety during the political tumult that attended the seizure of Yukos.

A police report was quickly produced: this could not have been an assassination attempt.

Meanwhile UK police are floating the idea that Litvinenkno committed suicide, presumably with nuclear materials that he stole. It looks like a lame attempt to refloat the original explanation for his death.

Kerimov's accident was connected to Litvinenko's death. You can take that one to the bank.

GEORGE MAIN, president of the Sacramento anti-war group Veterans for Peace, thinks that the government response to his FOIA request was incomplete. He believes that some relevant information is being withheld.

He is right. I notice that his group was targeted by very small airborne surveillance devices. Video and audio they collected has not been released. The excuse is that the release of the information would expose the capabilities of the drones. Of course his cell phone was tapped and the building in which his group met was seeded with eavesdropping equipment. The government essentially ran a military operation against the organization.

In times past domestic dissidents were handled by a combination of civilian agencies and the police. This is new, folks. Pay attention. It was a military op.

The government maintains that information related to Veterans for Peace was removed from the Talon database. Well, remote viewing indicates that the Talon database is largely a public relations construction. It actually consists of several overlapping databases that are available to various agencies. Deleting information just means moving it to a less FOIA-accessible location.

REVOLUTION is simmering in Mexico. One day the somnolent American public will be surprised to hear about it. I perceive that Lopez Obrador's backers are negotiating for a compromise, to include a couple of state governorships (presumably Oxaca and Chiapas) and some money spread liberally around. Unhappily the deal will be seen as a challenge to the legitimacy of the Calderon government. I predict that no compromise will be reached and the revolution will continue to spread.

November 19, 2006

A LOT of people are scratching their heads over Nancy Pelosi's support of John Murtha for House majority leader. Hoyers had it in the bag: couldn't Pelosi see that she would lose?

Indeed she could. But Pelosi puts a premium on personal loyalty and thought it was necessary to display some. Murtha never could have won, not because personal corruption is an issue in DC, but because he spoke out against the war in Iraq.

This disqualified him as a candidate in the eyes of AIPAC. Hoyers, an Israel-firster of long standing, was a shoo-in. Since AIPAC subsidized nearly every winning candidate, AIPAC had the votes.

It is true that if Murtha had won, Pelosi would have enjoyed extraordinary power in Congress. But he never had a chance and she knew that from the beginning.

Now the Democrats in Congress will be deadlocked unless AIPAC wants something passed. From now on, what AIPAC wants, AIPAC gets.

ALLAWI is back. From a safe squat in Europe he is pulling out all the stops to be made Saddam II. His CIA backers have fairly good position on the political scene outside Iraq, that is but they have no footing inside Iraq. It can't work.

From what I see as a remote viewer, Iraq is well on the way to partition with some extremely bloody fighting yet to take place in ethnically mixed areas. As recently as about eight months ago there were still a few possible states in which (if he went for the deal) Saddam could have been sprung from jail and given help to get the country back under control.

Now it's too late. His execution will further inflame the Sunnis and will backfire on the occupation. RV assures me that this is understood, but what's left of the Iraqi government will fall apart if the decision of the court is overruled.

MEANWHILE NATO is drilling its troops in Afghanistan about how to defend against a possible nuclear attack from al Qaida.

The training is real, but (rv) its purpose is different. Nuclear weapons will be used against Iran, and NATO is concerned about fallout.

AL QAIDA HAS NO NUKES. Not in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the United States or on the Moon. Al Qaida is a low-tech, loosely-knit community that has been magnified out of all recognition for propaganda purposes.

Members of the US armed forces are deluged with purported intelligence that claims nuclear weapons have already been smuggled into the United States and will be detonated at a chosen moment. Sadly, many otherwise intelligent people think a classified stamp on a document means the information is true.

There is nothing more important to the Bush administration than the loyalty of the armed forces. They are an even higher value propaganda target than the American people.

If the United States suffers a high profile terrorist attack, the cui bono test will tell you who the perpetrators really were. Iran and Syria have nothing to gain from offering an ideal pretext for an attack that was planned a long time in advance.

IRAN has no nukes. It's really just about a power plant. Since the Israelis destroyed Bushehr (which was also just a power plant), they decided to put their facilities underground.

AN EARTHQUAKE ADVISORY has been announced by urbansurvival.com. The forecast is for a large West Coast temblor sometime between now and December 17. This forecast is based on information collected by halfpasthuman's proprietary web bot.

I agree with this forecast. Something shocking and depressing is going to happen in this time window, and it feels geological to me.

Scanning the possible states, I note that something is building up in the Pacific at the eastern edge of the Ring of Fire. It looks to me like Southern California is most at risk, although this event will rock the whole West Coast. I foresee that it will cause volcanic activity in Mexico and Hawaii and possibly in the Cascades. There is an area of the seabed shaped roughly (very roughly) like the shell of a crab that looks like it will drop downward.

It looks like it will happen between the San Juan and the Jasper seamount. If my map had better detail I could tell you exactly. Both seamounts will be affected; I see them jumping in my mind's eye.

I looked at the amount of the drop. It looks like about twenty feet, which is a significant movement. This will shift a large mass of water.

I have faith in halfpasthuman's method. I think that web bot is going to be right. Whether I am right about exactly what happens, is problematical. I scanned for earthquakes and this image jumped out at me. So we'll see.

November 15, 2006

TRENT LOTT has won the post of Minority Whip in the Senate, beating Lamar Alexander by one vote, alas. I find myself amazed that Lott's unappetizing past was not considered a handicap. I do not refer to his membership in a racially segregated organization, but to the Other Thing, which has to be an open secret in DC.

WARNING, WEST COAST! Today's free daily article at urbansurvival.com references two dates to beware of: November 24 and especially December 5.

Urbansurvival posts snippets from the expensive service halfpasthuman.com. It has been known for several years that content related to future events surfaces on the web. Halfpasthuman runs a proprietary web bot that combs web communications. I have followed their predictions for some months and am impressed by their accuracy.

I think they will turn out to be right this time. If you live on the West Coast, and especially in California, these dates would be good times to visit friends east of the Rockies.

Now I will tell you a WEIRD STORY. I lived in Berkeley at the time of the Loma Prieta earthquake. On that day I had a list of errands to accomplish. Berkeley is a compact city and I wanted some exercise, so I decided to do everything on foot.

I was unable to get any of my errands done, for a different reason in each case. Frustrated, I went to the YMCA to work out. As I stood looking up at the building it actually crossed my mind that the place I would least like to be during an earthquake was naked in the women's sauna in this old brick structure. But I didn't dwell on it. However, I couldn't muster the commitment to go inside and skipped the workout.

After I got home I decided to call my friend Marsha Adams, who runs an earthquake prediction service. It's like calling the TV weatherman to complain about the weather; it doesn't change anything but you feel better afterward.

I looked forward to talking to Marsha but it seemed inconsiderate to phone her during business hours. I sat in my living room looking idly out at the street, waiting for 5:30 p.m.

Suddenly I saw the strangest thing I've ever seen. It was a group of eight or ten huge dogs. They were pumice gray, pony size and extremely muscular. They had faces like Chinese temple dogs. I knew they were spirit entities, but I can't tell you how I knew that.

They were leaping and barking in mad excitement, but they were utterly silent. I could clearly see their mouths opening and shutting, red tongues lolling.

I watched in complete amazement. It was a bright afternoon on an ordinary day. I had no idea where these things had come from or what they were doing in the street in front of my house. (And no, I had not been drinking. Or smoking.)

Finally I remembered that the volcano goddess Pele is said to manifest as a dog before eruptions. But that's just one dog and it's white &

Then my building started trying to hop down the hill by itself. I watched in horrified fascination as the walls deformed; it was like being inside an empty milk carton that someone was squeezing.

And then it stopped. By the time I thought to look for the dogs again they were gone.

Now, if you have been wondering how remote viewing could help an ordinary person, it just has. If you live in an earthquake prone area and you happen to see a weird spirit manifestation, you will remember this story and realize that you are being given perhaps twenty seconds of warning before a major earthquake. That's enough time to pull over, if you'e driving and that's feasible. If you are at home, curl up in a foetal position next to, not under, a heavy piece of furniture. Cover your head with your arms. (That way, if the ceiling collapses you stand a good chance of being in a cavity with air to breathe.)

FOR MONTHS NOW I have known that some event will soon happen in the United States that will shock and horrify everyone. I haven't been able to see what it is; probably my inner person is just unwilling to look. A major earthquake in Northern California is a possibility. Therefore, I encourage you to take halfpasthuman's forecast seriously.

The web bot also predicted that the fertilizer would hit the fan in MID-MARCH. Everyone will be in the grip of intense emotions. In this case I can be of some help: I foresee the imposition of martial law in the United States at that time.

I foresee military checkpoints and curbs on interstate travel. This will result in confusion, widespread anger and economic loss.

Up until then, the heavy hand of totalitarianism was mainly felt at airports. The event in mid-March will affect everyone.

We are headed for a collision between the armed forces and the rogue group of corrupt politicians and foreign loyalists heading the Bush administration. Iran will be attacked, a move that will prove to be disastrous for American military power. The occupation of Iraq will collapse and irreplaceable US military assets will be destroyed.

The Bush clique can only remain in power as long as they have the support of the military. I believe they will have this until the true scope of the disaster in the Middle East becomes clear.

Welcome to interesting times.

November 14, 2006

WE ARE being inundated with the Democrats will fix everything meme. It's a scam. The Democrat leadership has no more intention of abandoning the war and restoring civil liberties than the bushistas. Both parties want the sheeple to continue spending throughout the holiday season, just as if the sky were not about to fall.

MEANWHILE the screws are being tightened. Beginning in January of 2007 Americans will require federal permission to enter or leave the United States. By the time a lawsuit makes it to the Supreme Court Bush will have had time to appoint another justice odd term, that and will have a majority on the Court.

PRIME MINISTER EHUD OLMERT met with George W. Bush yesterday in what struck me as an oddly tentative meeting on the president's part. Mr. Olmert took a very firm stand, insisting that Israel considers the destruction of Iran's nuclear capability and Syria's political establishment a survival necessity for Israel. Bush was uncharacteristically noncommittal. It appears that his new talking points are still being drafted.

The real meeting, as usual, took place between selected members of Olmert's entourage and their counterparts in the Bush administration. (rv) The attack on Iran is on track. A member of the Israeli delegation was sent over to the Pentagon to touch base and make sure Don Rumsfeld's departure did not create any problems.

To his aides, Olmert was dismissive of CONDI RICE. She follows orders well enough, he remarked, but he was unimpressed with her diplomatic ability. She has had little success in getting Europe to fall in line.

I have stated before that Rice is a lame duck. She is seen as ineffectual by Cheney and others. The front runner to be the new Secretary of State is Joe Lieberman. Right now his background is being scanned for any embarrassing past history. They don't expect to find any but they are not in a mood to be surprised.

November 11, 2006

Today is Veterans Day. We must remember that this war has borne horrible fruit in the form of dead and injured human beings. Let us hope that the new Congress can be shamed into providing decent medical care for our wounded kinsmen.

As someone said, Freedom is not free. Let's ponder that for a moment. While we have been trying to keep our bills paid and (in the case of some of us) curled into a foetal position thinking spiritually evolved thoughts, our country has morphed into a totalitarian state that would have been the envy of Joe Stalin. Did our war dead die for this? If they were here now, what would they think of us, who allowed this to happen?

THE DAY AFTER the election returns came in Don Rumsfeld tendered his resignation. This evoked shock and fury among Republicans who had gamely supported him, following Bush's lead. They were given no chance to save face. This is a huge injury and it seems gratuitous.

If remote viewing serves, and it usually does, the reason for Rumsfeld's departure was the rejection of his leadership by the armed forces. The president was repeatedly told, even by his most ardent fans among the perfumed princes [let's pause for a minute to miss David Hackworth] that Don Rumsfeld's orders were a prescription for suicide. More recently they added and would no longer be followed.

The possibility of unloading Rumsfeld was discussed quite some time ago but that was before I started posting the Daily Journal so I can't claim official credit for the observation.

Some of my predictions have failed to come true. Iran has not yet been attacked. I thought this would take place before the elections and I was wrong. I think the attack is a terrible idea and I hope it never happens at all, but I still think it will.

A vast American armada is being deployed in the Gulf. It includes warships and troop transports. These ships have not been told to stand down.

I predicted, from a survey of the attitudes of senior GOP officials, that the Republicans would keep control of Congress due to election rigging by Diebold and its sister companies. I was wrong. Vote fraud on an epic scale took place, but it was insignificant in the face of a massive public rejection of Bush's policies and the war in Iraq.

Unfortunately many of the Democrats who won are pro-war. Rahm Emanuel doled out campaign funds with a discriminating hand to bring this about.

Now we can look forward to a brutal cage match between Democrats who think the Iraq war should be re-thought and the pro-war Democrats. Bush and the neocons will swarm outside the cage, throwing forbidden weapons to their favored Dems and tripping up the opposition. It doesn't take a remote viewer to predict that the war party will prevail, at least until the visible and undeniable collapse of the war effort.

There is room here for a large nasty surprise. I sense one in the offing.

In minor news, after I made mention of the latest LOS ALAMOS security scandal and stated that one of the recovered disks contained not nuclear secrets but important procedural information that would make a spy very happy, and also said that at least one other disk was missing and being looked for, a newspaper article appeared that said that one of the recovered disks contained information about how to program a US nuclear weapon to detonate vital procedural information and also mentioned that they hoped to recover additional disks. I think this one should go in the success bin.

If remote viewing serves, they won't get back the disk they are looking for, but it won't matter. The information on it has been destroyed. No spy got hold of it.

However (rv) it should be noted that the procedure to unlock and detonate an American nuclear device has been stolen. I looked to see how that happened. The pathway is obscure but appears to come from NATO, where I gather that some highly placed moles are working.

The remedy is simple. Change the codes and procedures. And then, figure out how to make sure that transfer protocols for highly secret information are respected. It was a breach of these protocols that benefited the NATO moles.

To elaborate, they were entitled to know information of that level of secrecy. However, the codes were compartmentalized. Simply having the clearance did not entitle one to view them. Somebody got drunk, which he often did, and released the information. I think the lapse is known about at NATO headquarters but I don't see a formal report. Afterward it was thought that there was no harm done because everybody had a high enough clearance to view the information.

So it got out. I note a lot of effort by a foreign agent to conceal the fact that it has been stolen. I could finger this mole without a lot of trouble, but for some reason no one ever asks me to find spies.

NANCY PELOSI, who is as fully owned by AIPAC as Joe Lieberman, hurried to promise president Bush that there would be no impeachment and no change in support for the war. She did not need to promise that there would be no investigation of 911 and no repeal of the unconstitutional legislation passed during Bush's term.

Pelosi dislikes Jane Harman. If Harman, who is pro-war, loses her prospective intelligence committee chairmanship due to Pelosi's influence, it will not reflect a change in war policy. I don't pick up much emotion from Harman but from Pelosi, well, the adjective rabid comes to mind.

In fact, I don't foresee any change in policy. Look for more of the same until the Democrats take over, and then look for more of the same.

It is a mistake to write off this lame duck Congress as a threat. There is still time to do a lot of damage and the lame ducks have nothing to lose.

There is something else to consider. Dick Cheney is a pragmatist. Right now he is saying that the election outcome won't affect policy. However, the president is enraged. How dare people disagree with him. He is furious with the electorate. We can expect to see his domestic policies become much more brutal in the future. He wants to punish us.

Perhaps you think that is a strange statement. On the basis of remote viewing I believe that George W. Bush is delusional and suffering from progressive dementia. He also has significant cardiovascular problems. His handlers have him on heavy medication including a cocktail of psychoactive drugs. It is getting harder to control his episodes of rage. We may see some evidence of that before long.

THE MILITARY MACHINE is in pause mode, waiting to see what Gates will do. Remote viewing indicates that the attack on Iran is taken for granted. They expect the order and they will obey it. This despite the fact that nearly everyone of any rank and acumen knows it will end in disaster.

One thing Gates cannot do is instantly produce several hundred thousand additional troops. His strategic options are really quite limited. Bring in more troops and try to slug it out with the Shiite militias? Withdraw into bases and let the Sunnis and Shias slaughter each other?

The policy of conducting multiple patrols in hostile territory has caused many deaths and (rv) is up for review. Political options are also being generated; this is make-work, since none of the existing Iraqi government apparatus will survive for long.

I predicted in the past that the new US Iraq strategy will involve depopulation of hostile areas on a large scale. It still looks to me like this will be tried. It will not help; Iraq is in a civil war that was incited by outside parties and no amount of force will stop it now.

MEANWHILE IN LEBANON Israel continues to conduct military operations and overflights. The UN peacekeepers have complained to no avail. The United States and Israel are exerting the strongest possible pressure on UNIFIL (the UN command in Lebanon) and the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah and kick it out of parliament. This is a recipe for civil war; so far the Lebanese government has refused to go along. At the moment there seems to be a stalemate. The situation is unstable.

The French government is seriously tweaked about Israeli overflights and mock bombing runs aimed at French troops. In Paris the Israeli ambassador was summoned and asked for an explanation. A short while later probably about the time it took to fuel the jets and prep the pilots--a dozen Israeli warplanes swept the sky over Lebanon. Frack you, cheese eaters.

Never mind what you read in the newspapers. Israel and the United States are engaged in a war against Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon. Much of the action is taking place through proxies at the moment, but barring a sudden return to sanity a shooting war is on the way.

Lebanon is under military occupation. Its fate should give other countries second thoughts about accepting help from the UN.

Regarding the BEIT HANOUN incident, if remote viewing serves there has recently been a shift in the attitude of the Israeli government. It now favors the expansion of Israel's borders and the expulsion of all Arabs from Israeli territory and lands marked for acquisition. The deaths at Beit Hanoun were a mistake of sorts, but the Olmert government is not remorseful; it is merely inconvenienced by worldwide disapproval.

Israel intends to annex a wide swath of territory including southern Lebanon up to the Litani River. It foresees a depopulated buffer zone taking up most of what is now the Shia Crescent. These are extraordinary ambitions. I do not think they will be fulfilled, but they do not augur well for the prospects of peace in the region.

ON ANOTHER SUBJECT, perhaps I should take time here to refresh the reader's memory about hurricane Katrina I grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast and followed the news out of New Orleans closely. The FEMA action in New Orleans was not a hurricane relief effort at all. It was a federal takeover of the city complete with armored vehicles, humvees, troops and armed mercenaries. The premise was that everyone's civil liberties vanished when an emergency was declared. Did they shoot people? Yes indeed. Everybody they shot was posthumously declared a looter. Meanwhile the cops and FEMA employees helped themselves to whatever they wanted. One group of police was videotaped by a news crew looting a Walgreen's. They won't make that mistake again.

The city is still under occupation. State and local elected officials have no say in what happens there. 3/4 of the Katrina evacuees have not retu-rned. Neither a head count nor a list of names has been released. Nobody knows what happened to them. Spin from the media: "A lot of them went to Houston and are committing crimes there." Don't ask, don't tell. Afterward, when they ask us what happened to those people, we'll be able to say we didn't know.

FEMA made it a top priority to stop all local efforts to provide hurricane relief, including life saving efforts. They forbade doctors to treat injured people, some of whom died. They cut the emergency phone lines including those belonging to the sheriff of Jefferson Parish. ( When he found that out he had them reconnected and posted armed guards so it wouldn't happen again. And when he found out that FEMA had ordered the Wal-Mart to remain closed he had it opened and stationed armed guards there too.) They used a piece of military equipment to jam all ham radio in the area. They turned back trucks full of donated supplies and hundreds of people with boats who wanted to rescue flood victims clinging to their roofs.

Up until then hurricane relief efforts on the Gulf Coast had been local. The response to disaster was fast and effective. People threw tools into their trucks; they hitched up their boats and converged on the devastated area. No one had to give orders; it was simply what people who lived in the area naturally did.

Pets and livestock were rescued right along with people. If something was too big to get in the boat they did their best to swim it out. When you found a family huddled on their roof with the family dog, you took the dog into the boat along with the people.

No one ever thought of doing otherwise.

FEMA changed all that. Someone gave the order that people's pets must not be rescued. We are not privileged to know that person's name. In cases where people valiantly struggled through floodwaters to bring their pets with them to the Superdome, the animals were taken away at the door and killed in a way that was so inhumane I cannot bring myself to tell you the details.

I don't really believe in Hell, but I find myself thinking that it could serve a purpose.

Brownie had to be offloaded for the sake of appearances, but the federal occupation of New Orleans was considered such a huge success that plans were made for a nationwide emergency response the same thing, but bigger, faster, with more troops. New Orleans was just a beta test.

Since then legislation has been passed allowing Bush to declare an emergency on whatever excuse he pleases and to federalize all state employees, from the National Guard right down to the beat cops. It will be martial law in everything but name. Should it happen in your area, do not expect to see trucks full of relief supplies in your neighborhood. You will have humvees and checkpoints instead. And no rights.

I'd like to be wrong about this prediction, but I foresee that legislation being used.

November 10, 2006

FRIDAY NIGHT I noticed a peculiar mood of gloom and dread among newly elected Democrats. They should have been celebrating; instead it is as if they opened the picnic basket to find last week's garbage.

It appears that they are getting the word that appearances will be maintained but the basic decisions have already been made. There will be no significant policy changes. Then why am I here? someone thought glumly.

The blame for higher taxes, the depression and a restoration of the draft will fall on the Democrats. 2008 will not be the shoo-in they had anticipated.

I think what I am seeing is a conference call organized in or emanating from Washington D.C.

November 1, 2006

By now you have read about the attack on the Madrassa in Pakistan in which about 80 people died. The official claim is that this was really a militant training camp. The other side claims that it was just a religious school and that American aircraft took part in the attack, which the Pakistani government denies.

What I see there is a heavy sense of sadness. It is not at all the type of sadness that is felt for soldiers who knowingly risk their lives in battle. The dead really were religious students, and (you won't have heard this yet) some were boys as young as eight or nine years. The leader of the madrassa was a theologian, not a trainer of terrorists.

Here is what actually happened: the great minds in Washington D.C. who are masterminding the Clash of Civilizations believe that militant Islam is the real enemy the United States must defeat. The madrassas religious schools in Pakistan are thought to be a large source of militants, and they are also the easiest to get at inasmuch as Pakistan's military dictator (referred to as president, just like ours) has pledged his loyalty to the USA and the mighty US dollar.

Musharraf has long been under pressure to suppress the madrassas, which are reservoirs of independent thought and radical Islamic views. In this instance remote viewing shows, and news releases agree, that the US provided intelligence on this madrassa. It was selected for its brand of Islam and because some of the students came from neighboring countries. Claims that Zawahiri was believed to be present are not true. No militants of any importance were present and everyone knew that. The theory was students at this madrassa would go on to become militants in the future.

I see faded American markings on some of the aircraft but they appear to belong to Pakistan.

Furthermore, if you can believe this, the attack was an experiment to see just how much backlash eradicating a single madrassa would generate in in Pakistan. Eighty people died just so some armchair strategists could see what happened.

Try thinking about it this way: suppose the dictator of the United States were in the pay of a foreign power along with important persons in his government. Suppose this foreign power believed that fundamentalist Christianity was a threat. Suppose that arms were twisted to force the dictator to clamp down on Christian extremists. This would be a very difficult thing for the dictator to do, politically speaking. On the other hand arm twisting really hurts.

Suppose the foreign power provided intelligence on a specific Christian religious school and US military forces destroyed it, killing everyone inside.

Oh wait. That's already happened. It happened in 1993 in Waco, Texas. In case you wondered how David Koresh got to the top of the hit list, his unique interpretation of the Bible undercut the scriptural basis on which Jews lay claim to the Promised Land.

Was Waco an experiment? Indeed it was. And the backlash was so extreme that it hasn't been done again. By backlash I mean that the militia movement blossomed all across the United States, sales of firearms skyrocketed, and Ann Richards, who had been popular, lost the governorship to George W. Bush. About four years later the Illinois State Police laid siege to Shirley Allen, a 52 year old widow who had the misfortune to have relatives who coveted her property. Allen kept her life because people came all from all over the country to monitor police behavior and keep everyone informed via the internet. Unsurprisingly, many of these people were from Texas.

And now George W. Bush is president. As you can see, we are not through paying for Waco.

But I digress. I meant to discuss the consequences of the little experiment in Pakistan. The degree of outrage it will cause is greatly underestimated in America. Hear this: it will eventually lead to US ally Pervez Musharraf being overthrown. Pakistan, an indispensable prop to US ambitions in the Middle East, will come under the control of hardcore Islamic nationalists.

As to why this possible consequence was not considered, I have no idea. Perhaps the problem lies in the extreme compartmentalization of US policymaking. No one advances his career by contemplating the big picture. Each is given a tiny piece of knitting to complete, and if he can knit in some aggressive military action or a dramatic political move he will be promoted regardless of its ultimate consequences.

I grieve for my country. Every day our karmic debt increases, and I shudder to think in what form we may eventually pay it.

MEANWHILE IN IRAQ American military operations in al Anbar province, a Sunni region west of Baghdad, have deteriorated into collective punishment and the random sniping of civilians. News articles allege this and they are correct. Surprisingly (at least to the master strategists in DC) the amount of resistance continues to grow.

The truth is far worse than anything you will read. US troops are besieged on all sides; command is fragmented; the population as a whole is regarded as the enemy; attacks on civilians are frequent and deliberate. The necessities of life food, water, medicine, power, access to hospitals are denied to thousands of people for no strategic benefit whatsoever.

The troops know the occupation is well and truly fracked. They are just killing time until they are pulled out. Naively they imagine fleets of aircraft in Kuwait waiting to lift them out.

If remote viewing serves, that's not going to happen. Instead, right after the election the new policy will be implemented. Right now Rumsfeld and his cohorts believe that the reason al Anbar has not been pacified is that US forces are handcuffed by rules of engagement that require them to avoid civilian casualties whenever possible.

Substitute avoid unpleasant publicity as the priority and you will have it right. Publicity will cease to be a problem after the election. At that point the gloves will come off. (I can see Don Rumsfelt uttering those words, his little beady eyes twinkling with joy.) I foresee a policy of eradication of hostile towns and settlements. Forget An Army Of One. Now it's Leave No Living Thing Alive.

Eventually (as you will know from previous Journal entries) an international outcry will force a halt to this policy.

ISRAEL is still conducting military operations in LEBANON. The mock air raids on Beirut and other cities are intended to frighten the Lebanese government into kicking Hezbullah out of the government and ordering what's left of the Lebanese army to disarm them. But this move would throw Lebanon into civil war, and the government is unwilling to do it.

Frustrated and jumpy, the UN tries unsuccessfully to sit on the fence. They've been ordered not to engage the IDF no matter what. There is no such categorical prohibition against engaging Lebanese army units, but the UN is wary of being seen as taking sides. It would Look Bad and it would create enormous political problems for Kofi Annan.

If remote viewing serves, Annan would much prefer to spend his time accumulating wealth for himself and his family. It is his primary interest in life and he begrudges every moment spent on other tasks. But if the UN is marginalized, his personal leverage will be reduced and his financial opportunities will be limited.

This is the reason the UN placed military forces in Lebanon. It was either that or leave center stage to the big powers. Now Annan regrets the decision and is hoping for a graceful exit. He will be disappointed. Hostilities will resume before the UN forces can leave. They will be caught in the middle. He can prevent this by ordering them out immediately. He that hath an ear, let him hear.

THE IRANIAN SUBMARINES are history. They have no future. But if the attack on Iran takes place, at least one American aircraft carrier and its battle group will be gravely damaged or destroyed. If naval planners could see what I see they would move those ships.

MEANWHILE in Iraq the US attempt to suppress the Sadrist militias in Baghdad has failed. The last straw was a huge car bombing, which the militias blame on the occupation forcing them to abandon their checkpoints. Al Maliki insisted that the blockades be removed and the raids stopped; the coalition gave in because the alternative was the immediate fall of the Maliki government.

Now I hear people saying they should have let us carry it to a conclusion. But you can't have your cake and eat it too. Military force is incompatible with a political solution in the long run.

The decision to move against the Sadrists looks very odd to me. There is no doubt it was instigated by someone who knew perfectly well that it would destabilize the Iraqi government. Where do this person's loyalties really lie? Someone should find him and ask him.

JON STEWART had former US Attorney General Ashcroft on his show a few days ago. He handled Ashcroft with kid gloves. Why? America wants to know.

STEPHEN COLBERT, on the other hand, is doing what Jon used to do. He is witty and sharp and very worth watching.

October 30, 2006

THE FIRST THING I did this morning was check out a rumor appearing on the Internet. It states that on November 3, 2006 Israel will make a false flag attack on a British warship to justify the war against Iran.

I pondered this rumor. If remote viewing serves it is a psyop. It originated with a military officer who looks like an American in a British uniform. I surmise that he operates out of a joint US-UK military propaganda unit.

The rumor is baseless except for this: the November 3 date has something going for it.

The rumor is intended to deepen the American public's fear and uncertainty. Secondarily, a focus on that date is desired. When the shoe drops the public will be catapulted into a state of heightened fear and uncertainty and will therefore rush to their Savior for protection. All involved recognize that this impulse will be temporary, but it just has to get us through the elections.

I took a pass by the movers and shakers in Washington D.C. I will spare you their proclivities for drugs and sex with children. Some of them appear to be celebrating in advance. Dick Cheney is a standout, however; he is clueful, and his mood is one of eager anticipation. He knows every detail of the plan. If we are lucky enough to be able to ask questions about it afterward, he is the one who should be interrogated first.

The tapes are cued; the mainstream media campaign on behalf of the war is ready to go.

Get ready for the most expensive piece of fiction you have ever seen.

FREUDIAN SLIP? I guess we will find out in November. --Karl Rove, on CNN, commenting on the possibility of a terrorist attack.

Here is a factoid about the ELECTION IN FLORIDA At whatreallyhappened.com is the following:

Debra A. Reed voted with her boss on Wednesday at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center near Fort Lauderdale. Her vote went smoothly, but boss Gary Rudolf called her over to look at what was happening on his machine. He touched the screen for gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis, a Democrat, but the review screen repeatedly registered the Republican, Charlie Crist..

The article goes on to say that Rudolf called a poll worker over to complain about the misallocation of his vote. After several tries the poll worker was able to fix the problem. Rudolf was told that heavily utilized machines sometimes got the screens out of synch but it was not considered a serious problem and no machines had been taken out of service for this reason.

HERE IS WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW: every single effort by the poll worker to fix the problem generated another Republican vote. It took four tries to get the machine to register Rudolf's Democratic vote correctly. In the process three bogus Republican votes were generated.

No one on the scene knows this, including the poll workers, but I see a programmer employed by the voting machine company who is gleeful. He has put something over on the Dems and he is very pleased with himself. And yes, the original misallocation was part of the plan.

If someone reading this article has an interest in the election, be advised that plans already exist to seize and remove those voting machines and wipe the incriminating software, well before legal challenges and court ordered impoundment can occur. If you expect to document this fraud you'd better be quick.

Be prepared for a Republican landslide in Florida. In fact, everywhere.

MEANWHILE IN OXACA riot police seized control of the city center and took down the barricades. According to reports the protesters withdrew rather than confront the police; however, there were many injuries and arrests and apparently some deaths. Remote viewing shows me a helicopter firing a rocket, but this looks like an isolated incident.

The uprising in Oxaca has been put down. Happy residents welcomed the police with flowers. Nothing to see here. Move along.

In actuality the fire of popular anger is widespread in Mexico and the police are not nearly as popular as media accounts would have you believe. It looks to me like the second Mexican revolution is well under way. Fox-Calderon forces can keep control of limited areas, as the occupation does in Iraq, but they are slowly losing ground.

October 29, 2006

IRANIAN state television announced the replacement of the air force chief. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni appointed Gen. Almad Mighani to succeed Gen. Karim Ghavami. No reason was given for the change. If remote viewing serves, and it usually does, the reasons were personal corruption and suspicion of espionage. Tsk, tsk.

BRAD WILL, Indymedia journalist and maker of documentary films, was shot dead a few days ago in Oxaca by pro-government gunmen. He died with his video camera in his hands. Rest in peace, Brad. You are mourned. I hope your colleagues will follow up on the story that you gave your life for.

I looked to see what is going on in Mexico. A revolution is in progress, and this time it does not look like the Fox-Calderon forces will be able to stop it. The bill for generations of exploitation by the Mexican moneyed elite is coming due. This is largely unnoticed in the United States but it will have repercussions here.

President Vicente Fox has now issued an ultimatum to protesters, ordering them to abandon their barricades and roadblocks. On the whole (rv) the Mexican army is ambivalent about repressing the demonstrations. Fox will be able to find some trusted troops but it does not look like he will be able to regain control of the city.

The Oxaca protesters are, for the most part, striking schoolteachers. One supposes that political correctness is less advanced in Mexico than it is here. (Where will we find soldiers now that our children are being taught to fear pictures of guns?)

NATO is being systematically driven out of AFGHANISTAN. The partisans practiced on the Russians and have developed asymmetric warfare into a science. The Taliban have re-emerged as the dominant political and military force. NATO is still in denial, but the war in Afghanistan is in endgame.

Meanwhile every effort is being made to dangle the ELECTIONS like a life preserver in front of the American public. The nation is inundated with political communication, the bulk of which avoids addressing any of the pressing problems facing the country. The Foley scandal was a godsend to the Republicans, in that it consumed air time that could otherwise have been spent on the failed occupation in Iraq, the collapsing economy, the grotesque spending spree in Congress, etc.

I make many of my predictions by seeking out those in the know and finding out what is on their minds. For this reason I predict that Republicans will retain control of both houses of Congress. Karl Rove and a few others with inside information are jubilant. The election is a done deal, thanks to Diebold and its sister companies.

Rove's only challenge is to try to elevate the president's pitiful poll numbers to a level that will render a Republican win at least remotely plausible.

What will Americans do if the Republicans steal yet another election? Sadly, our revolution took place a long time ago. I don't know whether modern Americans have the cojones of their neighbors to the south. Eventually, as government becomes unbearably repressive and expensive, even the docile US public will begin to resist. But probably not this time.

Rove and company share that opinion. But just in case they are wrong, on October 17 the president signed into law HR 5122, the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007.

In case you missed this on the nightly news, the Act enables the president, at his sole discretion, to assume direct command of the National Guard and post troops anywhere in the United States, in case of any emergency or public disorder.

The federal occupation of New Orleans was just a beta test.

Therefore, just in case Americans object to election fraud as strongly as the Mexicans do, the federal government is ready to impose martial law. It may not actually be called martial law, just as the federal assault on the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans was called hurricane relief instead of what it really was.

The provisions of this law will be invoked shortly after the election. It will coincide with a greatly expanded war in the Middle East. Get your papers ready and practice your submissive expression in the mirror. Noncompliance will be a capital offense.

Other thing. The federal clampdown is intended to be a surprise. The checkpoints will go up overnight, without warning. Using your vehicle to store cash, valuables or weapons will be imprudent.

If I made a list of predictions I would like to be wrong about, this one would be among the top five. Prove me wrong. Please.

Link: http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2006/10/26/headline_news/news01.txt
Link: http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2006/10/18/headline_news/news03.txt

LOS ALAMOS SECURITY BLUES struck again. Police were called to a mobile home by a neighbor who heard loud arguing. A domestic violence call is a high priority for the police and they gave it their immediate attention.

Alas for the inhabitants, drug paraphernalia were in plain sight when the police arrived. The cops took note and obtained a warrant, enabling a thorough search of the mobile home.

As to why the inhabitants allowed the police to enter with banned items in plain sight, one can only suppose that they were distracted by their argument and perhaps, their neurons were under a handicap.

During the search two disk drives were found. They were government property and contained secret information. A really bad time was had by all.

I looked to see what was on the disks and why they had been stolen. It looks like they were taken as hardware that could be traded for items of value, such as marijuana.

If remote viewing serves (it usually does) the drives did not contain nuclear secrets per se, but one of them contained vital procedural information that would make a spy very happy.

I noticed something else too. They have recovered two drives but at least one more is missing. They are very concerned about where it might turn up. The Shadow knows.

The young man who was arrested knows what happened to it but has not yet disclosed this fact.

His life has been a series of experiences in which his parents intervened to keep him from suffering the consequences of his misdeeds. He expects this to happen again and is really not very concerned. He is right. There is a suspended sentence and a rehab clinic in his future.

The woman will not be so lucky.

BUSH SIGNED THE BILL to construct a wall between the United States and Mexico. Don't cheer yet. The funding for it must be separately appropriated. It will pass the House but not the Senate in a compatible form, and it will disappear in the conference committee with no one taking responsibility.

Eventually a wall of sorts (mostly surveillance) will be built, but its purpose will be to keep Americans in, not Mexicans out.

DICK CHENEY expressed enthusiasm for waterboarding suspects 'a no brainer' but had to take it back soon afterward. In making the remark he had inadvertently embarrassed Congress, which had passed a feeble make-believe ban on torture and did not want its pusillanimity to be revealed to voters before the election.

In actuality, remote viewing informs me that the United States has secret prisons all over the world, including African countries where their existence has not yet been publicly revealed. Captives are brought there to be tortured in a variety of ways including waterboarding, beatings, rape, electrical shocks, etc. It is happening as I type these words.

The prisoners who are being tortured are being held secretly and (with a few lucky exceptions) will never be released. When their information/entertainment value is exhausted they will be returned to their cells.

In the unlikely event that a non-Bush faction gains control of the United States government the prisoners will be executed immediately, the bodies burned and all documentation destroyed. At least that is the plan. Not all plans work, as government after government has found out.

At the very top the Republican leadership is DELIGHTED ABOUT THE ELECTIONS. The fix is in. They are confident that Republicans will retain control of the House and Senate, and there will be enough sympathetic Democrats [bought and paid for] to support the Bush agenda for the foreseeable future.

Bummer.

As I have mentioned before, torture is an unreliable intelligence tool. The victim will say whatever the torturer wants to hear. The method produces confessions but has no intelligence value. In my opinion its principal use has been to insert false information into the decision chain. This week a journalist disclosed that the original Iraq-al Qaida link was manufactured by torture.

GW BUSH NOW CLAIMS he never advocated stay the course, perhaps his most famous meme on the Iraq fiasco. What he says is God's truth, so we must all edit our memories to agree with this pronouncement. Or else.

THERE IS A NEW PLAN by the Bush administration to bring peace and freedom to Iraq. I know (rv) what it is. It will appear right after the election and is described in simple terms as leave no living thing alive. A massive campaign of genocide will be initiated. So people resist the occupation? They will be exterminated town by town and suburb by suburb. These formerly inhabited areas will become military interdiction zones.

Examining the possible states and the future, I can see that it will be initiated but not finished. Shortly after the beginning a huge tidal wave of resistance will overwhelm the occupation forces.

The retreat from Iraq will resemble the departure from Saigon, but on a much larger scale.

THE NAVAL ENGAGEMENT between the armada of warships in the Persian Gulf and Iran has already started, if remote viewing serves. Syria will also be engaged and the Israeli air force will participate.

IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED, Israeli military operations continue to take place in Lebanon. The UN force pretends not to notice. It is an ugly situation.

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