March 23, 2006 — White House insiders report

March 18, 2006 — More testimony on Custer Battles fraud in Iraq involving the Iraqi Currency Exchange (ICE) project. Testimony of retired General Hugh Tant and others prove damaging to GOP-linked contracting firm. Details of Custer Battles Enron-like offshore subsidiaries revealed. A tangled web of shady firms with names like Laru, Custer Battles Levant, Relief Solutions, Blue Sky, Red Sea Cabins, Saudi Arabian Trading Company (SATCO), MT Holdings, and a relationship between Custer Battles and Bearing Point are outlined. There is even a case in which Custer Battles stole forklifts from Iraqi Airways, repainted them, and sold them to the U.S. government at a handsome profit. Things went well until a fuel leak washed away the blue paint on one forklift revealing the original Iraqi Airways colors and logo. Click here for Feb. 2006 abridged testimony.

Custer Battles repainted stolen Iraqi Airways forklifts and sold them to the US government. Things went well until the blue re-paint job washed away revealing the Iraqi Airways logo (above).

March 18, 2006 — Another day in the dictatorship called the United States. In addition to dealing with Soviet-style jamming of this web site (and others to which we are linked), an interesting episode took place this past Thursday night at Old Ebbitt’s on 15th Street, just two blocks from the White House and across the street from the Treasury Department. This editor, along with a few colleagues, had our photograph taken at the bar by an individual in a business suit and trench coat who then proceeded at a fast clip outside to his waiting double parked DC-tagged sedan (complete with dark one-way view back windows) and sped off. We have the tag number and will have a friendly law enforcement official run it. Nothing may come of the query, however. DC and other jurisdictions reserve some of their state license tags for unspecified federal agency use. Ebbitt’s is not the kind of place that one appreciates having his or her photo taken by federal goons. It has historically been a meeting place for Washington’s literati and political set — if the feds now believe that they can wantonly disregard the privacy of patrons of such DC gathering places, it may be far too late to rescue this severely-damaged democracy.

No more hush-hush rendezvous sites in DC

March 17, 2006 — Transmission received from the good guys within the U.S. Intelligence Community:

N - No
R - Real
O - Output

N - Never
S - Share
A - Anything

N - Not
G - Going
A - Anywhere

D - Deadbeats
N - Needing
I — Incomes

D - Dead
O - On
D - Delivery

March 17, 2006 — Bush regime re-emphasizes perpetual war doctrine. Yesterday, the Bush regime unveiled its "National Security Strategy of the United States of America." The 49-page strategy identifies additional nations that are considered enemies of, and, therefore, threats to the United States. The strategy reserves the right for the United States to preemptively attack these nations. Time magazine’s Matt Cooper (remember him from Scooter Libby infamy?) laughably argues the White House document is only theoretical and not binding. Similar neo-con doctrine was used to justify the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Few U.S. troops in the field in Iraq and Afghanistan would argue the neo-con policy is "theoretical." Nations identified as threats to the U.S. and worthy of a U.S. invasion so their "despotic" governments can be replaced with "democracies," a code word for a sudden influx of depleted uranium weapons and bunker buster bombs, pedophiliac and sado-masochistic jailers and interrogators, "Christian" missionaries, private mercenaries and brigands, political show trials of vanquished political leaders, looting of museums and treasuries, embedded "prostitute" journalists, and infrastructure "repair" (U.S. military base construction) companies like Halliburton and Bechtel, include Iran, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Cuba, Belarus, and Syria. There are also warning shots in the report fired at China and Russia.

Are depleted uranium weapons, bunker busters, theft of priceless art, and pedophiliac jailers in Havana’s future (and those of Pyongyang, Damascus, Yangon, Harare, Tehran, and Minsk)?

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The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became the truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your memory. "Reality control," they called it; in Newspeak, "doublethink."

— George Orwell, 1984

[The Bush regime and the neo-cons call it "perception management"]

March 16, 2006 — The tall, lanky man who spawned George W. Bush may have been standing in front of the Texas School Book Depository on Nov. 22, 1963. George H. W. Bush is one of very few Americans who does not precisely remember where he was and what he was doing on the fateful Friday in November 1963. Of course, he would have had a foggy memory if he was an accessory to the crime. The Bush family are modern Borgias — cruel "human locusts" who devour and ruin everything in their path.