1. How Bush's friends manipulated Global Oil Prices in the lead-up to the 2006 mid-term elections.
The real question is not why they manipulate oil prices for political profit, but how do they do it...2. Killing Arabs: Bush, Camus and the Politics Of The Absurd:
Camus’ writing is marked by an intellectual rigor that shines like a bright light through all his work. By contrast, Bush cannot even be bothered to analyze complex issues in anything more than a superficial way...3. Bush Cites Fadhils For Proof Of "Success" In Iraq:
When the President of the United States of America is reduced to quoting propaganda nonsense fabricated by his own neocon supporters, that's pathetic. When he does so specifically in order to justify failed policies which continue to see dozens, if not hundreds, dead every day in Iraq, that's worse than tragic. It's criminal...4. Iraq The Model: The Full Story
The NYT article only skimmed the surface of my allegations against the Fadhil brothers, gently suggesting they might be working with the CIA but quickly concluding that they probably are not. So here is the full story, from my point of view, for anyone who is interested...More on Jim Hake here. More on the Fadhil brothers here. One day I might get around to pulling all this shit together.
5. Warmongers Jerk Off To Chrenkoff
If normal companies are using buzz and direct-advertising techniques, there's no reason to think that the most powerful military complex on the planet hasn't caught on...More on Chrenkoff here.
6. Bush Versus Confucius
Others are clear and bright,7. Too Incredible To Be True: The Khaled El-Masri Story
But I alone am dim and weak.
Others are sharp and clever,
But I alone am dull and stupid.
Regular readers might remember that it was not so long ago that this humble blog was - quite incredibly - rated the #2 resource on the Web for a Google search on his name...More on Khaled El-Masri here. Original Bush Out blog post here. Latest Wikipedia info here.
8. A hit from the Executive Office Of The President Of The United States:
The hit came from Washington, D.C., on April 16th at 11:46:42 pm. It was a Google blog search (blogsearch.google.com) for the words "George Tenet" and it led to this post...9. My very first blog post, from way back in Feb, 2003:
Who are we? Where are we going? What kind of world do we want to create? ...10. My second blog post, just two months into the war:
The industralised behommeth [sic] of 21st Century "Civilisation" races at full steam towards a destination most thinking people no longer wish to attain... Who built this cursed machine? Who controls it? Should we be trying to stop it, destroy it or re-direct it? Or should we just be jumping off?!?
After centuries of disenfranchisement, subjugation and de-humanisation, the Internet promises to re-empower the individual and unite ordinary people around the globe. Personal web sites like Blogger give us a medium to make our voices heard like never before. This Blog is my voice on the Internet.
We are now witnessing the collapse of the myriad Bush administration myths about why the USA had to invade Iraq... So now it it time to ask: WHY DID THEY DO IT?And a follow up more than four years later:
The answer, obvious enough once the other myths are exploded, is OIL.
So, what now? Iraq is perhaps the only nation on earth capable of seriously challenging Saudi Arabia as the World #1 oil exporter. The Americans will clearly want to maintain control of this oil for the next hundred years (or at least until it is all gone). The obvious fix would be to "sell" all the Iraqi's oil to the USA at very attractive prices. In return, the USA will give the Iraqis ... what? Hmmn... How about ongoing military and administrative support? Well, that won't be necessary once the Iraqis regain control of their country and set up a stable, model democracy, right?
Hands up anyone who thinks the instability in Iraq will be resolved anytime soon.
If the truth was obvious to me, a relatively uninformed middle-aged nobody, way back then, why couldn't the whole world see it? Why couldn't our politicians admit it? Why was the media silent? Why has it taken us four long years of lies, and over half a million deaths, to reach this point of public outrage? How on earth did Bush, Blair and Howard manage to get re-elected?See also this 9-11 timeline.
The disturbing answers to these questions tell us much about who we are, what we have become, and where we are going.
I have now spent over four years blogging nearly every day against Bush, Howard, Blair and their Big Money backers. It has been a process of learning and self-realisation as much as a politically-oriented campaign for truth and accountability.
The knowledge I have accumulated has been quite shocking, in many respects, and almost always depressing. Much that was dismissed, just a short time ago, as wild Conspiracy Theory, is now accepted as common knowledge. I have learned a good deal about of politics, business, and Western society, but I have learned far, far more about human nature.
