In a January 29 article in the Financial Times by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and  Gillian Teft from Davos, Switzerland and John Thornhill and Catherine Belton from Moscow the following is explained:

What refreshing candor!  It is about time these overpaid banking disaster failures were told the truth about their failed policies and performances!

The article continues:

"Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, and Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister, used the world economic forum in Davos to argue that the two rising powers must play a bigger role in a new economic order.

An Associated Press story appearing in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer October 25 headlined this re-run scare campaign against Iran:

ANTI-IRAN RHETORIC HAS U.N.'S NUCLEAR WATCHDOG WORRIED

This revealing paragraph appeared in the story beneath the headline:

"The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said Sunday that he had no evidence Iran was working actively to build nuclear weapons and expressed concern that escalating rhetoric from the U.S. could build disaster."

Dr. Condoleezza Rice, esteemed former professor at Stanford University and board member of Chevron, has unwittingly provided the laugh of the day with a statement so riddled with paranoia that under normal circumstances it would defy explanation.

The reason why Dr. Rice's whopper no longer defies explanation is simple.  In the world of government by schizophrenia run by the neoconservatives with Dick Cheney, Rice and others as water carriers and George W. Bush as buffoon spokesperson in residence, nothing is startling any longer.

Condoleezza delivered another one of those off the charts comments that drives the word credibility out of the dictionary while visiting Russia.  It is necessary for her to provide meaningful tips on how to run governments considering that she plays a major role in the superbly functioning governmental machine known as the Bush Administration.

After meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia the esteemed Dr. Rice said with a straight face no less that she is worried about the steady concentration of power into the Russian leader's hands.  Such a practice can bring about tragic results.

The June 9 Seattle Post-Intelligencer contained an Associated Press release from Paris written by Elaine Gailey that stated:

"The CIA ran secret jails in Poland and Romania to interrogate key terror suspects, shackling and handcuffing inmates, keeping some naked for weeks and reducing contact with the outer world to masked and silent guards, a European investigator said Friday.

"The CIA called the report `distorted,' but stopped short of denying the existence of prisons in the two countries."

Swiss Senator Dick Marty was asked by a human rights watchdog to investigate the activities of the CIA, when news of secret prisons emerged in 2005.  Senator Marty accused Germany and Italy of obstructing investigations into secret prisons.

For those who believe that any threshold will ever be reached in the realm of abject neoconservatism hypocrisy then cease your erroneous thought pattern.  At the very point when you are convinced that the very bottom has been reached you will be proven wrong.

Here is George W. Bush chasing around the world on another one of his global missions amid protests, with a robust effort occurring this time in Rome amid his continuing calls for globalization, which an informed world populace knows refers to enslavement of the many by and for the privileged few, such as the Bush family and their friends at Halliburton and Bechtel.

It is one thing for Bush to chase, but he does so much more.  The pious platitudes fall from his lips as he seeks to lecture the world on why it is essential to follow the pattern of ideal democracy that he champions.  Before Bush pulled into the G8 summit in Germany he gratuitously lectured President Vladimir Putin of Russia for not carrying out democratic reforms in that country fast enough.

A story yesterday in London's Daily Telegraph from correspondent Henry Samuel in Paris under the headline "CIA's `secret prisons in Europe'" contained the latest chapter in the Cheney-Bush "democratization" process that the neocon American administration hopes to help install throughout the world.

George Bush's paranoia has once more been exposed to the world community as he takes another one of his numerous trips abroad and feebly attempts to perform in concert with his nebulous idea of how a leader is expected to behave.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been singled out for criticism by Bush, who incredulously sees himself as a glowing beacon of democracy.  Reforms in Russia are just not coming fast enough for Bush, who drives a hard bargain where the virtues of democracy are concerned, or so he believes in his warped state of confusion.

While Bush virtually anoints himself with holy oil and presents his administration as a symbol of what is good and virtuous in the world, his vice president's right hand man and perpetual dealmaker has been sentenced to 30 months in prison.

To anyone familiar with the Washington power game Lewis "Scooter" Libby occupies the same relative position to his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, that the swashbuckling Charles Colson did to Richard Nixon.  It was Nixon himself who exclaimed with an air of awe coupled with incredulity about his chief counsel, "Colson will do anything!"

David Corbin of Lopez Island, Washington had his perceptive comments expressed in the Monday, May 28 Memorial Day edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  They included some powerful visions of how we could achieve peace:

"We'll need to expend at least as much effort and expense as we've squandered on our wars.  Both as a nation and as individuals, we Americans will put our energies and our dollars, indeed our lives, into efforts for a better world.  If we have to go to war to create a better world, we are doomed to failure."

World War One was called "The war to end all wars."  World War Two saw 50 million people die and the discovery of the atom bomb, followed by nuclear power that gave mankind the means to destroy everybody and everything on the planet.

If we cannot face the reality of the doomsday potential we have now created, we will be racing to the long prophesied Armageddon end of the world scenario.  The threat of the military industrial complex singing the siren song of doom is heard as it seduces the ignorant while the gullible claim that another war will bring us closer to peace.

Pat Lambert of Yelm, Washington, believes in democracy.  She wrote in the February 21 Seattle Times, "How can anyone believe that a congressional resolution opposing escalation would undermine the morale of troops when a Stars and Stripes poll shows 72 percent of the soldiers there say, `Get us out of here by the end of the year'?"

Sue Griswold of Mill Creek, Washington, in a letter to the editors in the same paper that same day, put it this way:

"So for 23 more months, we are supposed to stand by: try to retrieve and revive our civil rights, the laws passed by Congress, the integrity of our judicial system, the best part of our national character, our social safety net, the strength of our military, and piece of our children's future as they float by face down."

Ms. Griswold continued her powerful letter, praising a Washington state senator along with the group of nine calling for an impeachment investigation of both George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Unmitigated gall is frequently linked to appalling ignorance, the type that feeds colossal delusions of grandeur.  Such is the case with George W. Bush in his recent bold attempt to lecture Russia's President Vladimir Putin on democracy.

According to Bush, Putin has not been opening up the windows sufficiently to allow the fresh sunshine of democracy to radiate Russia.  In one of Mike Wallace's most important interviews toward the close of his long CBS career, the television journalist questioned Putin on the leader's home soil about democracy.

Putin had a quick response.  Knowing that Wallace worked for CBS, he asked bluntly about one of his veteran colleagues.  "What happened to Dan Rather?" the Russian president wanted to know. He was aware of the tragedy that occurred during the 2004 election.  

Fearful of offending the Bush White House and Karl Rove, CBS essentially bounced its veteran evening news anchorman for pursuing a story about Bush's National Guard service.  With the exception of some allegedly false documents represented by examining experts to be authentic, the story contained the solid ring of truth.  

There was evidence that Rove may have been involved in creating and planting the false documents, but that part of the story was never seriously investigated.  

Russian authorities still deny pre-war connections to Saddam Hussein


Washington, DC (Washington Prost) - An anonymous White House/Pentagon source today revealed further photographic and documentary evidence suggesting that Russian intelligence sources inside America were able to feed information to Saddam Hussein prior to the US invasion. The information was reputedly confiscated by US troops from various Hussein command posts after the invasion.