All 16 of Them. . .

All of Our Intelligence Agencies Have Reported That They Lied - Again.
by 12 of Our Brave Intelligence Agents, Leaking The Truth To Us.

ABC News Video report on:

All 16 of the major U.S. Intelligence agencies - Reporting that the Iraq War is definitely worsening terrorism.  This is actually the “Intelligence Estimate” from last April, that has finally been leaked by 12 agents from within the agencies themselves.

- Direct Link To The Video Report Here -

So - This administration knew in April, (in April!,) that all 16 of their own restructured intelligence agencies clearly reported that the Iraq War was not making us, or anyone else, “safer.”  That, in fact, it is increasing terrorism everywhere - But what has this administration been saying since before April?!?  That the war is succeeding, that the war is making us, and everyone else, safer, that anyone who says it isn't, is “supporting the terrorists,” - and just wrong.

Well - Now we know - once again - they knowingly lied, and they are knowingly lying still - - -

I wonder - Is America, also again, going to continue to “allow” them to get away with it?

Now - Seriously - Think about just how really bad this has to be, for the agents to force the MSM to report this, by using coordinated-multiple leaks, rather than the non-corporately controlled independent media.  This is Bush's own restructured agencies, and agents, from all 16 of our major intelligence agencies - reporting that their “boss” - the Bush Administration - is openly, and knowingly, lying to us all, and that the lie is dangerous in the extreme.

November 7th is just six weeks away.  The voting booths of all 50 states are still filled with the proven purposefully corrupted/corruptible e-voting machines, just waiting to destroy what is left of our American Constitutional Democracy. . .

Don't take my word for it - I'm just an American, like you.  I'm not a reporter or journalist.  I'm just a an old retired American that has been paying attention.  The proof of this administration's proven agenda of profits over anything and everything, over the health of our environment, over the security of our nation, over the lives of our troops, (whom are our fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, husbands, and wives, et al,) over our children's education and health, over a sane balance of power, over the need for all of us to be “united,” over the lives of thousands of innocents worldwide, etc. - is more than easy to find today. If you are reading this - Then you have the ways and means to find the proof for yourself.  Discover it on your own, and do something, even if that “something” is nothing more than defending, and spreading the truth, in word and deed.

This is not a time of “just politics,” or “get over it,” or “there's nothing I can do.” or “they're all the same,” - - This is a time of true danger to our Constitutional Democracy, a danger that has never before in our nation's history reached this level - - It is not bombast to say that apathy at this time is indefensible, is self-destructive, is tantamount to disaster, and insane.

For links concerning the e-voting situation. . .  See This Link.

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A Reality Rant. . .

Six Weeks Left To Stop The Corporatists' -Proven- E-Voting Corruption.
by The Old Hippie, Because I Keep Hoping Its Reality And Danger, Will Be Realized, And Stopped.

In my recent postings, I've tried to express my fear of the successful, and purposeful, corruption of our nation's national elections - by the corporatists via the e-voting machines - And how this corruption is killing our Constitutional Democracy, from within - It is their paramount concern to retaining the control over, the power of the control of, the continual flow of the money, out of our pockets, directly into their pockets.  This -proven- e-voting corruption of our nation's elections

{-The Way Many Picture Me-}

can no longer be allowed to continue.  Its consequence is destroying lives, our Democracy, and hope, not to mention making the whole of our planet less safe - politically and environmentally.  Its reality can not be overstated.  And there is only six weeks left to stop, correct, mitigate, or eliminate it.  As important, and real, as "everything else" is - For at least the next six weeks this must be our paramount concern.  Because if the corporatists successfully corrupt this coming election, as they have with the last three national elections. . .  Then I don't believe "our" Constitutional Democracy will be able to survive. Please see my previous four postings for good starting links to the proof, to the history, to the resulting reality, and to the "What you can do..." information.

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Warning - They're Reality Based. . .

The Best Of Today's Reality-Based Political News, And Commentary
compiled by The Old Hippie Because I Had the Means, and Time, To Cut Through The Fog

Best Reality Comment - “The Will to Undemocratic Power” via Le Monde diplomatique

Best MSM Print Comment - “Bush vs. Reality” by Dan Froomkin via Crooks and Liars

Best BBC Radio Documentary - How the Iraq Invasion Has Fired the Flames of Terrorism

Best Political Reality Book - “Hegemony and Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance”

U.S. Health Care - Compared to All of the Other Industrialized Nations  (It's not the Best.)

“Our” E.P.A.? - “The issue at hand is the Bush administration’s decision on particle soot, the most lethal of common air pollutants.  As predicted in this space, the EPA has chosen to disregard the advice of the American Medical Association and dozens of other medical groups as well as that of its own independent science advisers, all of whom said existing standards needed to be made much tighter.  Instead, the agency has backed a do-little plan more likely to curry favor with industry groups that are generous campaign contributors.”

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More Later. . .  As I find and review them. . .

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E-Voting. . .

The Dangerous Threat Of The Purposefully Corrupted E-Voting - Is Real
by The Old Hippie Because All Else Is Mute To This Serious Threat To “Our” Democracy

Info Links To Help You Understand The “What, Why, How & Who” Of This Threat:
- New Report (9/21) - R. F. Kennedy in Rolling Stone, “Will The Next Election Be Hacked?"
- Best Info Site - Black Box Voting
- Best Video Proof - Princeton's Center for Information Technology - New “Must See” Video.
- Best Article - Robert F. Kennedy in Rolling Stone, “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?”
- Best Follow-Up - Mark Crispin, Re: Rolling Stone article, “Some Might Call It Treason.”
- Best Op-Ed Thought - Jack Cafferty, “Should We Outlaw E-Voting Machines?”  [Video]
- Commentary Article - The Crisis Papers, “The GOP is Certain to Win in 2006 — Unless...”
- General Info/History - John Hopkins University, Dept. of Computer Science
- Web Sites, A Short List - Elections and Voting
- 20 Amazing Facts - About E-Voting in the USA
- Newspaper Article - Kansas City Star, “The integrity of elections is critical to the public trust.”

One can not overemphasize the “realness,” of this eminent threat, from the proven purposeful corruptible, (and proven to have been purposefully corrupted in the last three national elections,) e-voting machines, to our nation's Constitutional Democracy, to all of our freedoms, to the lives of millions of people, not just here in America, but also to billions more all over the rest of world.

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Wake Up!

With Corporatists' Controlling National Elections, The Following Is Mute
compiled by The Old Hippie Because Infotainment Is Purposefully Fogging The Reality

[ Please see the previous posting "Reality-Based Proof. . ." ]

- Mitigating any further global warming damage - Link-1, Link-2, Link-3, Link-4, Link-5
- Mitigating American's continued, and obvious, denial - Link-1, Link-2, Link-3, Link-4
- Mitigating any further damage to our Democracy - Link-1, Link-2, Link-3, Link-4, Link-5

The above links are just a small amount of the damage, all of which stems from the purposeful, and criminal, destruction and corruption of the fairness of our last three national elections.  Damage, some of which can't be un-done now, or even mitigated.  But a lot of it can be fixed, and a lot of further damage can be mitigate, even stopped. . .  But it requires true fair, and non-corruptible elections.

If something isn't done, right now, about the criminal corruption of our elections by the corporatists, through the e-voting machines - Then everything else is, and will continue to be, simply mute - There will be no mitigation, or stopping of the insane, but very successful so far, war profiteer's "profits over everything else" agenda.

Seriously - Wake Up!

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Reality-Based Proof. . .

That The Myth of Fair Elections in America, Really Is A Myth After All
by the Center for Information Technology at Princeton University

If you are an American that really still believes our nation's national elections are not completely corrupted, or even if you just aren't sure. . .  Please take the time to study this study, at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.  It shows, in easily understood detail, with video, (3 actually,) and .pdf files, exactly how it is done, and how to mitigate the problems, with the Diebold Accuvote-TS touch screen e-voting machines, machines that have been "allowed" to spread to most of the polling booths in our nation.

[ Direct Link to the Center for Information Technology Policy's Study Here. ]

These are not "conspiracy nuts" - These are security experts, and computer security scientists.  After viewing the videos, and studying the study, you may also want to read the recent Guardian article, "The Myth Of Fair Elections In America" - At the moment, this matter of e-voting machine corruption - should be the paramount concern for our nation - Because without true fair elections in America. . .  everything else is simply mute.

A very recent example, and just updated:  The Maryland Primary Election Diebold Disaster
***- (And just try to guess which party was affected negatively, and which one benefited.) -***

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Warning - They're Reality Based. . .

The Best Of Today's Reality-Based Political News, And Commentary
compiled by The Old Hippie Because I Had the Means, and Time, To Cut Through The Fog

Best Video Comment - Keith Obermann's "Special Comment" (9/11/06)

Best Song Comment - Sara Thompson's "Is It For Freedom?"

Best Informational Comment - Barbara Ehrenreich's explanation at Alternet.org

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Yesterday I Was Wrong

When I Said, "We All Know Now. . ." Turns Out That 43% Don't Know
by The Old Hippie Because We're A Nation Filled With Good, But Ignorant, Citizens

I admit that this just recently exposed fact, "43% of Americans still believe Iraq/Saddam had something/anything to do with the crimes of 9/11," stunned me.  But I also fully understood, the also revealed fact, that the lower the level of education, the more that believe this propagandized lie.  I have written, more than a few times, here in this blog, and at other sites, about this malleable 39%-44% of Americans - but even knowing all I have learned about them, I am still amazed at their continued level of self-destructive ignorance.

It would be easy to blame their ignorance on their own stupidity, for not making the effort to know reality.  Even though that is part of the problem, it is not the major cause of their ignorance.  I put most of the blame squarely on the shoulders of the corporately controlled "main stream media" (MSM) that has purposefully perpetuated this continued ignorance of, and division of, the American masses.

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This nation's MSM is the "4th Branch" of our government, and has always been, through out most of our history because of its vast diversity, and non-centralized control, the exposer of truth, concerning things political and corrupt - That was true until very recently - Now 95% of "our" MSM is in the hands and control of just 5 corporations, corporations that share many members of their boards of directors with the extractive, pharmaceutical, ag-chem, and military-industrial corporations.

Our nation, for the first time in its entire history, has all four of its branches under the corrupted rule of a small cabal of radical corporatists from one party.

Bush, "our" president, stated to Katie Couric on Wednesday, (September 6, 2006). . .

"One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror."

The fact that 43% of Americans still believe this purposeful lie is proof that, with almost total control of all three branches of our government, and almost total control over "our" MSM, it's really not all that difficult after all.

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Hard To Accept, But True. . .

After Six Years, This Is What We Have Learned That We Have Allowed
by The Old Hippie Because Most Of My Fellow Citizens Are Still In Denial

For no other reason than greed, this administration has spoken lies to us all.  Not just told the lies, but purposefully lied about their lies that have caused thousands to be killed, most of which were innocent of any crime, and were civilians not involved with their nation's military.

Lies that took advantage of our trauma from the 9/11 attacks, and used their power of control of our military to commit the well established international war crime of aggression, against Iraq, a nation that was not in any way involved in our 9/11 crimes, because it incredibly increased their profits, and the opportunity for their war-profiteering, and aided them in spreading their corporation's privateering with impunity, not because of the threat of WMDs, that we all now know that they knew didn't exist, nor to spread Democracy, as we all know now - They lied to us all, and to the world, using the ongoing lies as a defense of their crimes.

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In fact, they are still, now desperately, using the same lies, and technics of propaganda lying, to this day - And most of the citizens of my nation are still "allowing" them to get away with it all.  It is obvious - They are still in power, still in control, even after all that has been exposed about them - - - Still.  If that doesn't define political "allowing," then I don't know what does.

And now, two months before the national elections that will effect the control the of congressional branch of what is left of our Constitutional Democracy, we see them equating dissenters, (anyone that disagrees with their propaganda, and/or ideology,) with Nazis and Lenin?!?  Even though we of the reality-based political spectrum see this for what it is, most Americans are still in denial that this administration is filled with simple thieves who are willing to destroy this Constitutional Democracy, and thousands of lives, for nothing more than the actuation, acquisition, power, and control of profits.

I admit to my amazement of their successes.  They have successfully gotten away with the theft of trillions of dollars from right under our collective noses.  They have successfully, (almost,) destroyed our Constitutional Democracy that has stood in their way of even more profiteering, and power of control.  They have successfully deluded most of my nation's fellow citizens, many of which are still denial, as to the reasons for their crimes of aggressive war, corporate profiteering, not to mention the defilement of our liberties, and the profitable destruction of any federal regulatory control of their corporate profits in regard to environmental sanity, worker rights and safety, "domestic tranquility," and access to health care, quality jobs, and education, for all of our citizens.

What amazes me even more, is the fact that my "America" is still "allowing" these exposed, and obvious criminals, to continue to succeed in their pursuit of profits over everything else - which includs. . .  our lives, liberties, and pursuits of happiness.

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No Known Natural Parallel. . .

Ice Bubbles Reveal Biggest Rise In CO₂ for 800,000 Years
by Steve Connor, Science Editor, Independent, UK - Sept 5, 2006

[ Note: All bold Red emphases are mine, not the author's. ]

The rapid rise in greenhouse gases over the past century is unprecedented in at least 800,000 years, according to a study of the oldest Antarctic ice core which highlights the reality of climate change. Air bubbles trapped in ice for hundreds of thousands of years have revealed that humans are changing the composition of the atmosphere in a manner that has no known natural parallel.

Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge have found there have been eight cycles of atmospheric change in the past 800,000 years when carbon dioxide and methane have risen to peak levels.

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Each time, the world also experienced the relatively high temperatures associated with warm, inter-glacial periods, which were almost certainly linked with levels of carbon dioxide and possibly methane in the atmosphere.

However, existing levels of carbon dioxide and methane are far higher than anything seen during these earlier warm periods, said Eric Wolff of the BAS.

"Ice cores reveal the Earth's natural climate rhythm over the last 800,000 years. When carbon dioxide changed there was always an accompanying climate change," Dr Wolff said.  "Over the past 200 years, human activity has increased carbon dioxide to well outside the natural range and we have no analogue for what will happen next.

"We have a no-analogue situation.  We don't have anything in the past that we can measure directly," he added.

The ice core was drilled from a thick area of ice on Antarctica known as Dome C.  The core is nearly 3.2km long and reaches to a depth where air bubbles became trapped in ice that formed 800,000 years ago.

"It's from those air bubbles that we know for sure that carbon dioxide has increased by about 35 per cent in the past 200 years.  Before that 200 years, which is when man's been influencing the atmosphere, it was pretty steady to within 5 per cent," Dr Wolff said.

The core shows that carbon dioxide was always between 180 parts per million (ppm) and 300 ppm during the 800,000 years.  However, now it is 380 ppm.  Methane was never higher than 750 parts per billion (ppb) in this timescale, but now it stands at 1,780 ppb.

But the rate of change is even more dramatic, with increases in carbon dioxide never exceeding 30 ppm in 1,000 years -- and yet now carbon dioxide has risen by 30 ppm in the last 17 years.

"The rate of change is probably the most scary thing because it means that the Earth systems can't cope with it," Dr Wolff told the British Association meeting at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.

"On such a crowded planet, we have little capacity to adapt to changes that are much faster than anything in human experience."

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The National Elections. . .

Soon, We Will Be Voting In Another National Election Of Importance.

Try to remember the following, when you are in the voting booth. . .

"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
- Jerry Garcia

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Another Honest Speech. . .

Also Spoken With The Honesty And Passion It Requires. . .
by Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson - Aug. 30, 2006


Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson speaks at a rally Wednesday against the war
in Iraq and Bush administration policies.  (Ryan Galbraith / The Salt Lake Tribune)

Direct Link To .PDF Of The Entire Speech Here
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An Olbermann Special Comment. . .

Spoken With The Honesty And Passion It Requires


[You may also find the 2nd video, (below the fold,) worthwhile.]
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This 2nd video is a take-off from "V For Vendetta"
[ An excellent movie - If you've not seen it, do yourself a favor - see it. ]

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