Your Kleptocracy in action...

A George Washington dream of no taxation without representation? Well, kinda sorta. King George's frogs-in-the-pot strategem is right on track. January 8, 2003; At the Chicago Economic Club Bush presents yet another tasty hook line and sinker designed to break the bank and make the abolition of Social Security seem necessary. It has been said that if it ain't broke there's no need to fix it. King George has a better idea. If it ain't broke, break it. And then stomp on it. And then pretend to fix it.

Economic stimulus package? You wish. More like economic depressant. Nothing in the package could even affect this year, 2003. Democrat sycophants, of course, seized upon the most obvious Red Herring, the reduction in taxation of stock dividends. With stock prices set to fall to a DOW level of 5,000 to 6,000 later in 2003, how does that stimulate an economy? Buy XYZ blue chip stock at $42/shr. Get a buck and change as your dividend. Expect to pay less taxes on that dividend. AND THEN watch your blue chip stock plummet to thirty dollars or less. Better sell calls on every 100 shares you buy. That may stimulate your broker's commissions but it's not gonna stimulate the freakin economy.
6,000 DOW? Check with Schaeffersresearch.com

Make no mistake. Bush makes no mistakes. He executes the Master Plan to perfection. His kleptocracy is an egregious success. Americans continue to swallow Bush's hooks, lines, and sinkers. Who else could make nylon and lead appear so deliciously appetizing? Where's the beef? No beef, just BS. As Bush keeps coming up with more fecal material, Americans just slurp it up and ask for more. What a show. It's absolutely delightful to watch. What utter imbeciles.

Paul Krugman made an appearance on ABC's This Week. It was delightful to watch him mercilessly chewing at the heels of Newt Gingrich. We usually see things the way Paul Krugman sees them. But guess what jelly bean? Les jeux sont faits. There's nothing to be done. It's too late. Ya gotta love it!

"Those who can make you believe absurdities
can make you commit atrocities."
"The rich require an abundance of the poor." --

"Behind every great fortune is a crime."
- Honore de Balsac
"The secret of great wealth with no obvious source is some forgotten crime,
forgotten because it was done neatly." -Honore de Balzac

The oil we eat: following the food chain back to Iraq.
Essay, Harper's Magazine, Feb, 2004, by Richard Manning
"We learn as children that there is no free lunch, that you don't get something from nothing, that what goes up must come down, and so on. The scientific version of these verities is only slightly more complex. As James Prescott Joule discovered in the nineteenth century, there is only so much energy. You can change it from motion to heat, from heat to light, but there will never be more of it and there will never be less of it. The conservation of energy is not an option, it is a fact. This is the first law of thermodynamics. Special as we humans are, we get no exemptions from the rules. All animals eat plants or eat animals that eat plants. This is the food chain, and pulling it is the unique ability of plants to turn sunlight into stored energy in the form of carbohydrates, the basic fuel of all animals. Solar-powered photosynthesis is the only way to make this fuel. There is no alternative to plant energy, just as there is no alternative to oxygen. The results of taking away our plant energy may not be as sudden as cutting off oxygen, but they are as sure. Scientists have a name for the total amount of plant mass created by Earth in a given year, the total budget for life. They call it the planet's "primary productivity." There have been two efforts to figure out how that productivity is spent, one by a group at Stanford University, the other an independent accounting by the biologist Stuart Pimm. Both conclude that we humans, a single species among millions, consume about 40 percent of Earth's primary productivity, 40 percent of all there is. This simple number may explain why the current extinction rate is 1,000 times that which existed before human domination of the planet. We 6 billion have simply stolen the food, the rich among us a lot more than others.
Energy cannot be created or canceled, but it can be concentrated.
This is the larger and profoundly explanatory context of a national-security memo George Kennan wrote in 1948 as the head of a State Department planning committee, ostensibly about Asian policy hut really about how the United States was to deal with its newfound role as the dominant force on Earth. 'We have about 50 percent of the world's wealth but only 6.3 percent of its population,' Kennan wrote. 'In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in tire coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction.'"
findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1111/1845_308/112796599/print.jhtml

Your Kleptocracy in action...


Nice Job Boys!

Latest Developments May 28, 2003:
Washington Shelved Report of Deficit (AFP)
In the midst of negotiating a steep tax cuts package, the US government shelved a report that showed the United States faces future federal budget deficits of more than 44.2 trillion dollars. President George W. Bush's administration chose to keep the findings -- commissioned by then-Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill -- out of the 2004 annual budget report, published in February, London's Financial Times reported. The newspaper desribed the study as 'the most comprehensive assessment of how the US government is at risk of being overwhelmed by the 'baby boom' generation's future healthcare and retirement costs.'"
news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=us&cat=u_s__budget

Republicans' twitter about class warfare fits in well with reality. Except that both parties voted to pass this ridiculous bill...
Latest Developments
Tax Law Omits Child Credit in Low-Income Brackets (New York Times) - "A last-minute revision by House and Senate leaders in the tax bill that President Bush signed today will prevent millions of minimum-wage families from receiving the increased child credit that is in the measure, say Congressional officials and outside groups. Most taxpayers will receive a $400-a-child check in the mail this summer as a result of the law, which raises the child tax credit, to $1,000 from $600."
"Because of the formula for calculating the credit, most families with incomes from $10,500 to $26,625 will not benefit. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal group, says those families include 11.9 million children, or one of every six children under 17."
news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=us&cat=taxes_and_the_irs

Wouldn't you think that the Good Ole Boys would fix this so as not to be so obvious? Naah. With the country's number one Good Ole Boy in the whitehouse there's very little need for the usual pretenses used by the Democrats. Heck be as obvious as you want. Elephant in the living room? What elephant? Right George?

What has VeeJay been reading lately ...

Economic stimulus package?
Stimulus for Lawyers, January 14, 2003, by Paul Krugman
"... a closer look suggests that it should actually be called the 'Tax Complication Act of 2003'"
"It's tempting to attribute this mess to sheer incompetence: George W. Bush liked what Charles Schwab said, and nobody dared tell the emperor the truth about his wardrobe. But maybe the mess is deliberate."

Chili tasting...
If you who have lived in Texas, you know how true this is. They actually have a Chili Cook-off about the time the Rodeo comes to town. It takes up a major portion of the parking lot at the Astrodome. The notes are from an inexperienced Chili taster named Frank, who was visiting Texas from the East Coast: Frank: "Recently, I was honored to be selected as a judge at a chili cook-off. The original person called in sick at the last moment and I happened to be standing there at the judge's table asking for directions to the Budweiser truck, when the call came in. I was assured by the other two judges (Native Texans) that the chili wouldn't be all that spicy and, besides, they told me I could have free beer during the tasting, So I accepted". Here are the scorecards from the event: Chili # 1 Mike's Maniac Mobster Monster Chili Judge # 1 -- A little too heavy on the tomato. Amusing kick. Judge # 2 -- Nice, smooth tomato flavor. Very mild. Judge # 3 -- (Frank) Holy shit, what the hell is this stuff? You could remove dried paint from your driveway. Took me two beers to put the flames out. I hope that's the worst one. These Texans are crazy. Chili # 2 Arthur's Afterburner Chili Judge # 1 -- Smoky, with a hint of pork. Slight jalapeno tang. Judge # 2 -- Exciting BBQ flavor, needs more peppers to be taken seriously. Judge # 3 -- Keep this out of the reach of children. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to taste besides pain. I had to wave off two people who wanted to give me the Heimlich maneuver. They had to rush in more beer when they saw the look on my face. Chili # 3 Fred's Famous Burn Down the Barn Chili Judge # 1 -- Excellent firehouse chili. Great kick. Needs more beans. Judge # 2 -- A beanless chili, a bit salty, good use of peppers. Judge # 3 -- Call the EPA. I've located a uranium spill. My nose feels like I have been snorting Drano. Everyone knows the routine by now. Get me more beer before I ignite. Barmaid pounded me on the back, now my backbone is in the front part of my chest. I'm getting shit-faced from all of the beer. Chili # 4 Bubba's Black Magic Judge # 1 -- Black bean chili with almost no spice. Disappointing. Judge # 2 -- Hint of lime in the black beans. Good side dish for fish or other mild foods, not much of a chili. Judge # 3 -- I felt something scraping across my tongue, but was unable to taste it. Is it possible to burn out tastebuds? Sally, the barmaid, was standing behind me with fresh refills. That 300-lb. bitch is starting to look HOT...just like this nuclear waste I'm eating! Is chili an aphrodisiac? Chili #5 -- Linda's Legal Lip Remover Judge # 1 -- Meaty, strong chili. Cayenne peppers freshly ground, adding considerable kick. Very impressive. Judge # 2 -- Chili using shredded beef, could use more tomato. Must admit the cayenne peppers make a strong statement. Judge # 3 -- My ears are ringing, sweat is pouring off my forehead and can no longer focus my eyes. I farted and four people behind me needed paramedics. The contestant seemed offended when I told her that her chili had given me brain damage. Sally saved my tongue from bleeding by pouring beer directly on it from the pitcher. I wonder if I'm burning my lips off. It really pisses me off that the other judges asked me to stop screaming. Screw those rednecks. Chili # 6 Vera's Very Vegetarian Variety Judge # 1 -- Thin yet bold vegetarian variety chili. Good balance of spices and peppers. Judge # 2 -- The best yet. Aggressive use of peppers, onions, and garlic. Superb. Judge # 3 -- My intestines are now a straight pipe filled with gaseous, sulfuric flames. I shit myself when I farted and I'm worried it will eat through the chair. No one seems inclined to stand behind me except that slut Sally. She must be kinkier than I thought. Can't feel my lips anymore. I need to wipe my ass with a snow cone. Chili # 7 Susan's Screaming Sensation Chili Judge # 1 -- A mediocre chili with too much reliance on canned peppers. Judge # 2 -- Ho hum, tastes as if the chef literally threw in a can of chili peppers at the last moment. I should take note that I am worried about Judge # 3. He appears to be in a bit of distress as he is cursing uncontrollably. Judge # 3 -- You could put a grenade in my mouth, pull the pin, and I wouldn't feel a thing. I've lost sight in one eye, and the world sounds like it is made of rushing water. My shirt is covered with chili which slid unnoticed out of my mouth. My pants are full of lava like shit to match my shirt. At least during the autopsy, they'll know what killed me. I've decided to stop breathing, its too painful. Screw it, I'm not getting any oxygen anyway. If I need air, I'll just suck it in through the 4-inch hole in my stomach. Chili # 8 Tommy's Toe-Nail Curling Chili Judge # 1 -- The perfect ending, this is a nice blend chili. Not too bold but spicy enough to declare its existence. Judge # 2 -- This final entry is a good, balance chili. Neither mild nor hot. Sorry to see that most of it was lost when Judge # 3 passed out, fell over and pulled the chili pot down on top of himself. Not sure if he's going to make it. Poor dude, wonder how he'd have reacted to really hot chili.

A chilling quote:
""Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders." "That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."--Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, at the Nuremberg Trials

Crisis in Prices? December 31, 2002, By PAUL KRUGMAN
"But two years ago deflation in America seemed a prospect literally not worth writing about. Will it be all over the newspapers a year from now?"
nytimes.com/2002/12/31/opinion/31KRUG.html

Games Nations Play, January 3, 2003, By PAUL KRUGMAN
"So Mr. Bush thinks you're a bad guy - and that makes you a potential target, no matter what you do."
"But for all its belligerence, the Bush administration seems willing to confront only regimes that are militarily weak."
nytimes.com/2003/01/03/opinion/03KRUG.html

Forcing God's Hand, Amazon.com

The Origin of Religions, From a Distinctly Darwinian View, December 24, 2002, By NATALIE ANGIER
"In his new book, "Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion and the Nature of Society" (University of Chicago Press), Dr. Wilson argues that the religious impulse evolved early in hominid history because it helped make groups of humans comparatively more cohesive, more cooperative and more fraternal, and thus able to present a formidable front against bands of less organized or unified adversaries. By taking an evolutionary perspective on the subject, Dr. Wilson said, religion's twinned record of transcendent glories and shocking barbarities becomes comprehensible and even predictable, though not, perhaps, inevitable for the future."
nytimes.com/2002/12/24/science/social/24CONV.html

Global Warming Found to Displace Species, January 2, 2003, By ANDREW C. REVKIN
(Duh!)
nytimes.com/2003/01/02/science/02CLIM.html

Peru's Former President Plots His Return to Power, December 22, 2002, By JAMES BROOKE
nytimes.com/2002/12/22/international/americas/22FUJI.html

The Forgotten Forest Product: Water, January 3, 2003, By MIKE DOMBECK
"New national-forest planning regulations should now specify that the remaining old-growth public forests should not be harvested, since these wild lands provide the cleanest water in the country. Rather than wasting energy on the rancorous, tired debates about road building in the wilderness and old-growth forest management, the focus should be on how to let our forests do their job of producing high-quality water. Given our water supply problems, this should be the highest priority of forest management."
nytimes.com/2003/01/03/opinion/03DOMB.html

Is it time to do the math yet?
It's Time To Do The Math, By E.J. Dionne Jr.
"At this time of year, families regularly take stock of their financial situations, and this should be the time for such a reckoning in Washington. The federal government is in a fiscal mess that will only get worse if political plans now on the table come to fruition. The federal mess is compounded by disasters at the state and local level. The question for 2003 is who will blow the whistle. Herewith a brief guide to the mess, and the choices. Taxing, Spending and Guts. President Bush will come up with measures supposedly designed to stimulate the economy. In fact, the stimulus argument is an excuse for furthering his campaign..."
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56757-2002Dec30.html

War And the Fickle Left, By Robert Kagan
"Must the decision to use force always be made multilaterally?"
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31724-2002Dec23.html

Economics 102, By Dave Barry
"The U.S. economy is in trouble, as evidenced by the new Merrill Lynch slogan: 'Please Buy Stocks or Our Children Will Starve.' Yes, things are bad. The question is, how much worse will they get? Will we see a repeat of the Great Depression, with business people leaping from window ledges? What if they work in modern buildings where the windows don't open? Will they hurl themselves, like disoriented chickadees, against the windows anyway, only to bounce off, suffer neck injuries and sue the window manufacturers for pain and suffering? How would this affect the Nasdaq? Would 'Disoriented Chickadees' be a good name for a rock band? What about 'Pain and Suffering'?"
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36896-2002Dec10.html

The Seeing Ourselves Links page almost puts it all together for those desirous of knowing what the next two decades will bring. Seeing Ourselves Links:
island.net/~lbnews/00/SeeingOurselves/seeingourselveslinks.html

Thomas Jefferson: "War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying, losses."

So why is there still war?
Because it's so lucrative!
home.attbi.com/~wizardofwhimsy/

Second only to war, what's the most efficient way for FatCat Kleptocrats to make easy money?
Deficits! Deficits! Deficits!
What keeps the rats running longer and harder on the treadmills?
Deficits! Deficits! Deficits!

" I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. " ~ Abraham Lincoln

(Oh yeah? Dream on Abe!)

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."~ Albert Einstein

Non-cooperation with injustice is a sacred duty."~ Mahatma Gandhi

“ All this was inspired by the principle -- which is quite true in itself -- that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily, and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes.”~ Adolf Hitler

"As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl." ~ Noam Chomsky

"Religion is an invention useful to pursuade men to murder each other for conveniently located lands without having to pay them what the job is worth." ~Michael Rivero

"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen aknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all." ~ Michael Rivero

" The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations." ~ Noam Chomsky

"The history of war is the history of powerful individuals willing to sacrifice thousands upon thousands of other people's lives for personal gains. ~ Michael Rivero

Asimov's New Guide to Science, 1987
Chapter16, Humanity's Future, page 744,
Isaac Asimov
"To be sure, the movement in the direction of population control, essential though it would seem to anyone capable of a moment's thought, is not without its opponents. In the United States, an active group opposes not only abortion but also the kind of sex education in schools and the availability of contraceptive devices that would make abortion unnecessary. The only way of legitimately lowering the birth rate, in their view, is by sexual abstention, something that no sane person would suppose that people can be talked into. This group calls itself the 'Right to Life,' but a better name for people who do not recognize the dangers of overpopulation would be the 'Right to Fatal Stupidity.'"

George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, Chapter 10,
Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
"In 1969 Bush told the House of Representatives that, unless the menace of human population growth were *recognized and made manageable, starvation, pestilence and war will solve it for us.* Bush repeatedly compared population growth to a disease. [9 bis] In remarks to the House July 30, 1969, he likened the fight against the polio virus to the crusade to reduce the world's population. Urging the federal government to step up population control efforts, he said: *We have a clear precedent: When the Salk vaccine was discovered, large-scale programs were undertaken to distribute it. I see no reason why similar programs of education and family planning assistance should not be instituted in the United States on a massive scope.* As Jessica Mathews, vice-president of one of Washington's most influential zero-growth outfits, the World Resources Institute, later wrote of Bush in those years: *In the 1960s and '70s, Bush had not only embraced the cause of domestic and international family planning, he had aggressively sought to be its champion.... As a member of the Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Bush shepherded the first major breakthrough in domestic family planning legislation in 1967,* and *later co -authored the legislation commonly known as Title X, which created the first federal family planning program....* *On the international front,* Mathews wrote, Bush *recommended that the U.S. support the United Nations population fund.... He urged, in the strongest words, that the U.S. and European countries make modern contraceptives available *on a massive scale,* to all those around the world who wanted them."
tarpley.net/bush10.htm

Bush senior recognized the world's most pressing problem, HUMAN OVERPOPULATION. Bush jr. recognizes many reasons why it is crucially important to deny even the remotest possibility that overpopulation is a problem, while exhacerbating that problem to the greatest extent which is possible. Bush junior, who has quite aptly been called the Manichean president, knows that overpopulation is the means by which the rest of the world has been made vulnerable to the master plan.

Struggling to 'Get It', By William Raspberry, Jan 13, 2003,
"Does he really believe tax cuts can, like penicillin, find their healing way to wherever the infection happens to be? Or do he and his fellow cutters think tax-cutting is the most appropriate way to shrink the size of a government they excoriate as too big and too intrusive (except when they want a government that can pry into our computers and mail and spending habits)? Most of the aforementioned intrusions, of course, are justified as part of the war against terrorism -- which gets me wondering how cutting taxes at precisely the time we're dramatically increasing spending for domestic security and a war against Iraq doesn't put us into a major fiscal deficit. But I understand the president is a busy man who doesn't have time to walk me through all this stuff. That's why I'm willing to settle for something simpler: his explanation of what he would do with his $44,500 and how that would help the economy. He could call it 'Cutting Taxes for Dummies.'"
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47821-2003Jan12.html

The Iraqi Charade
Washington Post, January 12, 2003,
"Perhaps a final tactical move will flush out the needed evidence. There is talk of submitting a list of specific questions to Baghdad, and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell told The Post that the administration has been feeding the inspectors intelligence. Should such a move fail, the Bush administration must shoulder the obligation to make clear to Americans and to the world what it knows about Saddam Hussein's arsenal. There may be no satellite photographs of smoking guns, but what there is should be made known..."
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44155-2003Jan11.html

Dear VeeJay;

Charade is an apt description of the media sideshow. The murder methods which belong in the group of so-called WMD have never won a war. But they have been around for many decades. Some were used in the First World War, some in the Second World War. They are very ineffective as weapons, let alone as WMD. They are completely inneffective at winning wars. They may in some cases be used to inflict a little revenge but that's about it. The central problem for chemical and biological weapons has always been the problem of getting them into the bodies of the enemy. And not into the bodies of friendly forces. That obstacle has never been effectively overcome. Phosgene, mustard gas, sarin, ricin must all be used in truly massive quantities to insure that at least a minute amount gets into some bodies. Even though lethal or disabling doses may be small, when dispersed into the air their concentrations drop drastically. And the enemy must always be downwind of the dispersal point. Biological weapons, viruses and bacteria are even more difficult to administer, by several orders of magnitude. But what's worse, they all have an incubation period in which time they can be detected and counteracted. True gene splicing could create more effective bugs. You could take some Ebola virus genes, some Hanta virus genes, and some other nasty genes and make a designer bug. But the only nation making such bugs is the United States because we are the only ones with the technological capability. Which is why a couple of years ex post facto, the senders of the designer anthrax have never been named. 48 hours after the World Trade Center attack we were told everything there was to know about the hijackers, even which hand they held their chin-chin in when they went wee-wee.
Nuclear weapons? Dirty bombs? One or two years away? How many decades have we heard that now? Going on three decades. Production. There are no secret uranium or plutonium mines. Such mines are huge because tons and tons and tons of earth must be sifted for a few grams of nuclear material. Satellites watch every mine.

North Korea does have two nuclear reactors which can provide plutonium - thanks to U.S. assistance and eye-winking. Donald Rumsfeld's company, the Swiss-based ABB was the contractor which built them!
swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=41&sid=1648385

Delivery. One or two nukes will never ever ever win a war. That one or two nukes will never ever ever win a war, is something every nation in the world knows so well that nobody needs reminding. Nor will nukes be accurately delivered by "rogue states." Or even fired. Especially not from North Korea which is able to launch only one very flimsy missile every two and a half hours. We should be happy if North Korea exports its vastly inferior technology. A Kita Chou Sen ICBM can't carry a anything larger than a basketball. Kita Chou Sen Missle can't have any idea where it will land after it is launched. The only basketball-sized sphere which North Korea successfully lobbed across Honshu depended upon US tracking and surveillance satellites to affirm that it did indeed land somewhere in the Pacific. And even if it could know it's landing spot, there are multiple geosynchronous surveillance satellites watching the launch site 24/7. Our sea based nukes would vaporize the whole country within minutes or in some cases possibly seconds during the time it would take the first missle to crawl from the silo to the launchpad. That clip of the ICBM missile launch is rerun in Japan's media dozens of times each day. Next time you see it take a good close look. Remember it took two and a half hours to crawl to the lauch pad. And all of that time it was watched by U.S. satellites which made similar video clips of the launch from various angles. Sanctions on North Korea? Much of the jerry-rigged telemetry and other electronic technology comes from Japan. Other key technology is provided from the U.S. There wouldn't be a snowball's chance in hell without it. No matter how long they try. The fearless U.S. president needs a nuclear hobgoblin. Which is why instead of fessing up and telling the truth, the de facto dictator ordered anti-missile batteries stationed around Washington DC. He fooled about 50 million American morons into stocking up on duct tape and bottled water that way. It must be comforting for the president to know that Americans are so gullible and ignorant. To reinforce the silly farce, the administration's consigliere "declassified" information ostensibly indicating that North Korea has the capability to hit Washington DC with a missile. Japan's NHK television presented the rest of the story a couple of days later. Turns out that IF the flimsy rocket which barely made it across Japan were fitted with a booster, the radius of its range would extend in an arc which would hypothetically include Alaska. In further hypothetical conjecture, IF that flimsy rocket and the first booster were fitted with a second much larger booster, the hypothetical radius of its range would extend far enough to include Washington DC. Neither booster has yet been fitted to the flimsy rocket and tested. The contraption also lacks tested and reliable tracking and guidance systems. If launched it may hit Nevertheless, based on the bogus misleading congressional testimony, a simultaneous yellow alert, and ostentatious placement of anti-missile batteries in the capitol, an estimated 50 million were not confused by the actual facts. Are Americans thirsty? For bottled water maybe but, not for truth. During the height of the cold war when tens of thousands of fully tested and functional missiles - complete with nuclear warheads were pointed at each other, neither Russia nor the US did anything as obviously ridiculous as what has been done in this case.

US nuclear threat in the Korean Peninsula: The Bully In The China Shop Edward W. Miller, July 28, 2003
globalresearch.ca/articles/MIL307A.html

Revealing? Hardly. But the title is appropriate.

This obedient puppet doeth whatever King George commandeth.
Both Asian and American lobotomatons still don't get it.
Millions of South Koreans have been pounding the table about it for years.
What could be more amusing?
No American/(and Japanese) ODA, No North Korea. No North Korea, No excuse for American forces in Asia.
It's really simple. In fact, it's really, really, really simple.

Pakistan? India? The CIA has always known about them and pretended to be surprised at just the right moment. NPT? Nuclear Proliferation is essential. The fearless U.S. president requires a nuclear hobgoblin.

Mr. Hussein realized this quite some time ago. Which is why for the UN report, Iraq listed the sources, 24 of them American sources by the way, of the WMD Iraq had been given. Which is of course why president Bush confiscated the report. And why you see UN inspectors in white suits and filter masks standing next to reporters and Iraqis dressed in shirts and pants.

WMD IS A BIG HOAX.
Everybody from Billy Graham to Bill Richardson plays right along with it. But guess what jelly bean? You can be absolutely certain that WMD will be found in Iraq sooner or later. You probably won't be told which G8 countries they came from, however.

Why? Because the G8 needs to control oil.