tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:24:28 +0000http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/blogger.htmlBev ConoverBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-116832255592532889Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:01:00 +00002007-01-09T01:23:10.823-05:00Rightly or wrongly, the American temperament is most accurately captured through popular entertainment. Pop culture tells us what middle America thinks, and what corporate advertisers (and Washington) consider acceptable. In today’s increasingly Orwellian America, particularly in terms of politics, pop culture -- “water cooler” talk -- serves as more of a reality than reality itself.As previouslyhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2007/01/what-propaganda-does-24-have-in-store.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-116400527837899288Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:44:00 +00002006-11-20T01:49:39.896-05:00Not even done putting out the smoke from the Murtha-Hoyer tempest<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]-->, new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now faces another divisive fight over who heads the critical House Intelligence Committee---Rep. Jane Harman, the pick of the conservative "Blue Dogs", or Rep. Alcee Hastings, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus who is favored by Pelosi, but someone who, like http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2006/11/more-dem-factionalism-on-way.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-113822602780958450Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:51:00 +00002006-01-25T16:55:27.753-05:00The Bush administration has so badly fumbled their mandate that one of their greatest propaganda weapons has turned against them. The Fox television series "24" has shifted from being the most unapologetically gung-ho entertainment voices for Bush's anti-war/police state "war on terrorism" to nihilistic, angry, and decidedly anti-Bush fare. The series now features an openly corrupt, murdering http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2006/01/24-reflects-betrayed-america.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-113486901518021606Sun, 18 Dec 2005 01:21:00 +00002005-12-17T20:24:29.746-05:00As tempting as it may be for many to feel gratification over how George W. Bush is being hoisted upon his own petard for spying on US citizens, the real issues of importance remain studiously avoided. The newfound "outrage" belies the fact that there was no such congressional outrage when it mattered -- four, five years ago, and every single day since 9/11. The USA PATRIOT Act, a bipartisan http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/12/who-benefits-in-sudden-furor-over-bush.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-113411068457747066Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:10:00 +00002005-12-09T01:56:22.180-05:00On Wednesday federal air marshals shot and killed " threatening airline passenger" Rigoberto Alpizar. According to most accounts, and the desperate pleas of the man's wife, family and friends, Alpizar was likely mentally ill. The killing, which the Bush White House and hawkish Republicans immediately applauded, is " under investigation." Commenting on the incident, federal air marshal http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/12/miami-airport-shooting-post-911-fear.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-113226241443334866Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:07:00 +00002005-11-17T16:30:28.240-05:00Tamiflu, the “world’s first line of defense” against the avian flu (purported to be spreading -- or being spread -- throughout the world) has now been linked to 64 cases of psychological disorders and two teen suicides, according to media reports from Japan. According to western media, such as Reuters, the FDA is “investigating.” Meanwhile, China is hit with three cases of humans infected with http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/11/tamiflu-linked-to-64-cases-of.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-113080897527564392Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:33:00 +00002005-10-31T20:42:38.970-05:00In nominating Samuel A. Alito.of the Third Circuit Court to the Supreme Court, the George W. Bush administration has outdone itself in its fervent attempt at “replicating Rehnquist.” It has, in fact, replicated Scalia. Alito is called “Scalito” for his similarity to the malignant Antonin Scalia in ideology and temperament, and deep ties to the Bush administration. This alone spells doom for http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/10/for-bush-faction-scalito-completes.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-113045977932523115Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:32:00 +00002005-10-27T20:37:29.390-04:00The withdrawal of Harriet Miers is another rearranging of the same political deck chairs on the Titanic of post-9/11/Peak Oil America. The difference between one Bush insider type (Miers, John Roberts to a large degree), and another (the likes of Ted Olson, or some other Federalist Society criminal, Alberto Gonzales, etc.) is nil. The goal of this Empire is the destruction of the Constitution http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/10/no-time-to-gloat-or-celebrate-miers.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112957483523194939Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:45:00 +00002005-10-17T14:50:52.000-04:00The superpower match on the Grand Chessboard continues. After getting kicked out of Uzbekistan, the US keeps its Kyrgystan base, ensuring a continuation of conflict: Then we have this from Pakistan's Daily Times: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says US does not need new US bases in Central Asia Quoting from this article, Condi Rice, in her brittle and brain-addled manner, tells some http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/10/us-tap-dances-from-uzbekistan-to.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112888402001800101Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:51:00 +00002005-10-09T14:57:26.266-04:00While mainstream noise predictably swirls around the most unimportant aspects of the Harriet Miers US Supreme Court nomination, Editor & Publisher and others reveal that Miers briefed George W. Bush on the infamous "Bin Laden determined to strike United States" memo, and other 9/11-related matters, prior to September 11, 2001. Read the Editor & Publisher article: Miers Briefed Bush on Bin Ladenhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/10/us-supreme-court-nominee-harriet-miers.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112766958245613034Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:30:00 +00002005-09-25T13:34:32.190-04:00Given the fact that the Bush administration is a criminal organization, it is naïve and ignorant to expect it to behave in a humanitarian fashion. For any reason. Ever. On the other hand, it is predictable that it would seize every opportunity, and take advantage of every moment of chaos, vulnerability and inattention, to sink its poisonous fangs deeper into the carcass of American democracy.http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/09/militarization-of-us-homeland-more-you.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112753021329684229Sat, 24 Sep 2005 02:48:00 +00002005-09-23T22:52:22.843-04:00In The Imperial Rockefeller, the 1986 biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller, author and former Rockefeller speechwriter Joseph Persico wrote the following about a secret Rockefeller policy meeting, and Henry Kissinger: “Kissinger, though known then [late 1960s] only within the foreign policy community, was already a legend in Rockefeller circles. As we waited, the conversation drifted to Vietnam. http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/09/world-catastrophe-shaped-with-sewage.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112733627030172204Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:54:00 +00002005-09-21T17:09:03.116-04:00On Monday, six British armored vehicles smashed into an Iraqi jail in Basra to free two undercover SAS elite special forces commandos who were engaged in a bungled espionage operation involving the planting of explosives. Michel Chossudovsky has broken down the story down and put it in to context: British "Undercover Soldiers" Caught driving Booby Trapped Car. See also the mainstream coverage http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/09/british-prison-break-and-blown-covert.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112718705886834358Tue, 20 Sep 2005 03:27:00 +00002005-09-19T23:30:58.880-04:00From the Village Voice: NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried by Sarah Ferguson September 19th, 2005 5:54 PM Cindy Sheehan may be the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. But that didn't stop members of the New York Police Department from marching into the crowd of about 150 people gathered in Union Square Monday to hear her speak and yanking awayhttp://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/09/new-york-police-came-in-like.htmlBev Conovertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112664520362656603Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:57:00 +00002005-09-13T17:04:27.670-04:00Corroborating and adding to mounting evidence of the militarization of New Orleans, investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill noted the following in a September 12 KPFA radio interview: 1. New Orleans is teeming with heavily-armed mercenaries, troops from the US military and national guard, and police from cities around the country. 2. Mercenaries, including Blackwater USA were deputized by http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/09/post-katrina-new-orleans-american.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112641799925493777Sun, 11 Sep 2005 05:51:00 +00002005-09-11T01:57:32.480-04:00New reports reveal that an extensive hurricane and flood simulation for the New Orleans area was conducted by a Baton Rouge-based company, Innovative Emergency Management, in summer 2004. The IEM led a team of three firms, under a contract from FEMA. The results of the simulation, which forecasted catastrophic damage that virtually mirrored the Katrina reality, were given to more than 270 http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/09/katrina-and-flood-were-no-surprise.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112612407828751647Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:05:00 +00002005-09-07T16:33:17.140-04:00Times of crisis are rife with heroes and villains. Making the distinction is a matter of life and death. While FEMA and its chief Michael Brown have emerged as obvious villains, now taking heat for failing to respond, and for the (deliberate as well as unplanned) obstruction and mismanagement of relief and rescue efforts (which continue, even as more people die), there is something far more http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/09/femas-primary-role-is-to-be-tyrannys.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112563636485126100Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:43:00 +00002005-09-02T00:47:17.876-04:00To the University of Florida, football is more important than the welfare of the victims of Hurricane Katrina who will be evicted today from hotels and motels in Gainesville and surrounding communities to make way for fans arriving for Saturday's season opener between the Gators and Wyoming. The university didn't have the decency to postpone the game. Then college football is big money. Besideshttp://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/09/another-disgrace-football-fans-take.htmlBev Conovertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112551256943343934Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:20:00 +00002005-08-31T14:50:00.256-04:00While decent people reach out to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, there is no bottom to the hate-filled extremist Christians who blame the disaster that has ravaged New Orleans on its "citizens" who "tolerated and welcomed the wickedness in their city for so long." Beware, these Christian Dominionists are taking over America in order to impose their hateful, wrathful, warmongering and http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/08/christian-dominionists-declare-god.htmlBev Conovertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112484480424514055Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:52:00 +00002005-08-23T21:04:26.116-04:00Are there still those out there who think we can be nice to these psychopaths, such as the Rev. Pat Robertson who yesterday called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez? Imagine what would happen to us if we called for the assassinations of the monsters in Washington, along with the monsters behind the curtain who control them. We would be charged as terrorists, labeled 'http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/08/rev-pat-assassinate-chavez-robertson.htmlBev Conovertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112484458071132816Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:47:00 +00002005-08-23T20:50:33.560-04:00In another round of the mushrooming geostrategic and economic Cold War over oil, and shifting regional alliances aimed at countering a belligerent United States, China National Petroleum Corporation has placed a bid to acquire Petrokazakhstan, just weeks after China National Offshore (CNOOC) lost (or, more accurately, was refused) its bid for Unocal. According to the AP report: “Beijing is http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/08/china-raises-oil-stakes-china-national.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112458999445121434Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:05:00 +00002005-08-20T22:07:50.060-04:00Ali Abunimah, one of the most compelling voices on Israel-Palestine since Edward Said, says the Gaza pullout is, in part, propaganda fakery. Israelis have flown in Jews from all over the world to stage the weepy spectacle to garner sympathetic images for worldwide media. Meanwhile, according to Abunimah, the brutal Palestinian realities remain unchanged. Jewish settlements on the West Bank, http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/08/gaza-realities.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112239688093465877Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:49:00 +00002005-07-26T12:56:16.613-04:00Two typical news reports below provide a snapshot of worsening conditions, with ominous worldwide implications. The first (New York Times) article confirms the heavy and increasing Israeli role in domestic US police/spy operations, and exemplifies the new post-London "war on terrorism" propaganda, declaring “inevitable-not-if-but-when” suicide bombings. Reposting of the New York Times piece on http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/07/us-police-state-deepens-with-help-from.htmlLarry Ctag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112205649426789136Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:17:00 +00002005-07-22T14:24:41.053-04:00In a Thursday Washington Post article about George W. Bush's Supreme Court pick, John G. Roberts, and what the wimpy Democratic sell-outs plan to do about Bush's awful choice, other than again capitulating to the GOP juggernaut, the Post picked up a remark Senator Orrin Hatch made on Fox News, comparing the Democrats to the Pharisees and Bush to Jesus Christ: <!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--http://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/07/hatch-likens-bush-to-jesus-christ.htmlBev Conovertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5667023.post-112079102129825529Fri, 08 Jul 2005 02:42:00 +00002005-07-08T11:08:19.786-04:00In the immediate wake of 9/11, and the bombings in Bali and Madrid, shock—“terror”—gripped the minds of people across the world, robbing them of their critical faculties. Today, July 7, 2005, as London received its version of 9/11 in multiple subway bombings, the ability to maintain focus is as important as it was on the previous occasions. Now, mere hours following the bombings, while there ishttp://www.onlinejournal.com/blog/2005/07/london-attacks-dont-let-fear-overcome.htmlLarry C