Showing posts with label WMD. Show all posts
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19 May 2015

Iraq Invasion "Crime" Guilty Bush-Cheney Officials Must Be Held Criminally "Accountable" For Lies Per NY Times Nobel Prize Winner Prof. Paul Krugman




Surprise! It turns out that there’s something to be said for having the brother of a failed president make his own run for the White House. Thanks to Jeb Bush, we may finally have the frank discussion of the Iraq invasion we should have had a decade ago.
But many influential people — not just Mr. Bush — would prefer that we not have that discussion. There’s a palpable sense right now of the political and media elite trying to draw a line under the subject. Yes, the narrative goes, we now know that invading Iraq was a terrible mistake, and it’s about time that everyone admits it. Now let’s move on.







Well, let’s not — because that’s a false narrative, and everyone who was involved in the debate over the war knows that it’s false. The Iraq war wasn’t an innocent mistake, a venture undertaken on the basis of intelligence that turned out to be wrong. America invaded Iraq because the Bush administration wanted a war. The public justifications for the invasion were nothing but pretexts, and falsified pretexts at that. We were, in a fundamental sense, lied into war.
The fraudulence of the case for war was actually obvious even at the time: the ever-shifting arguments for an unchanging goal were a dead giveaway. So were the word games — the talk about W.M.D that conflated chemical weapons (which many people did think Saddam had) with nukes, the constant insinuations that Iraq was somehow behind 9/11.
And at this point we have plenty of evidence to confirm everything the war’s opponents were saying. We now know, for example, that on 9/11 itself — literally before the dust had settled — Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, was already plotting war against a regime that had nothing to do with the terrorist attack. “Judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] ...sweep it all up things related and not”; so read notes taken by Mr. Rumsfeld’s aide.
This was, in short, a war the White House wanted, and all of the supposed mistakes that, as Jeb puts it, “were made” by someone unnamed actually flowed from this underlying desire. Did the intelligence agencies wrongly conclude that Iraq had chemical weapons and a nuclear program? That’s because they were under intense pressure to justify the war. Did prewar assessments vastly understate the difficulty and cost of occupation? That’s because the war party didn’t want to hear anything that might raise doubts about the rush to invade. Indeed, the Army’s chief of staff was effectively fired for questioning claims that the occupation phase would be cheap and easy.
Why did they want a war? That’s a harder question to answer. Some of the warmongers believed that deploying shock and awe in Iraq would enhance American power and influence around the world. Some saw Iraq as a sort of pilot project, preparation for a series of regime changes. And it’s hard to avoid the suspicion that there was a strong element of wagging the dog, of using military triumph to strengthen the Republican brand at home.
Whatever the precise motives, the result was a very dark chapter in American history. Once again: We were lied into war.







Now, you can understand why many political and media figures would prefer not to talk about any of this. Some of them, I suppose, may have been duped: may have fallen for the obvious lies, which doesn’t say much about their judgment. More, I suspect, were complicit: they realized that the official case for war was a pretext, but had their own reasons for wanting a war, or, alternatively, allowed themselves to be intimidated into going along. For there was a definite climate of fear among politicians and pundits in 2002 and 2003, one in which criticizing the push for war looked very much like a career killer.
On top of these personal motives, our news media in general have a hard time coping with policy dishonesty. Reporters are reluctant to call politicians on their lies, even when these involve mundane issues like budget numbers, for fear of seeming partisan. In fact, the bigger the lie, the clearer it is that major political figures are engaged in outright fraud, the more hesitant the reporting. And it doesn’t get much bigger — indeed, more or less criminal — than lying America into war.
But truth matters, and not just because those who refuse to learn from history are doomed in some general sense to repeat it. The campaign of lies that took us into Iraq was recent enough that it’s still important to hold the guilty individuals accountable. Never mind Jeb Bush’s verbal stumbles. Think, instead, about his foreign-policy team, led by people who were directly involved in concocting a false case for war.
So let’s get the Iraq story right. Yes, from a national point of view the invasion was a mistake. But (with apologies to Talleyrand) it was worse than a mistake, it was a crime.











http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/opinion/paul-krugman-errors-and-lies.html

Copyright Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved (no claim to New York Times content)

21 July 2014

CIA Partner Google Blogger Statistic Failures Past Year Habitually Grossly Under-Report Ninth Amendment Site Performance Data With Google Now Reporting Misinformation Six Plus Hours Daily

       Monday, 21 July 2014, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - The Ninth Amendment log now has published three hundred and forty finalized posts continuously for seven years with this same site URL addresss from the same Mountain View, California located IP address including the "blogspot" domain root registered for Google "Blogger" sites. Google for several years has encouraged "blog publishers" despite assurances that publishers' sites "blogspot"-based URLs will be maintained by and never interrupted by Google that publishers also consider registering the independent unique component of their site names themselves without using the blogspot domain with which the sites were established by the publishers from the start of their "Blogger"-based relationship with Google.
       Google facilitates re-directing independent sites so that they still apparently without undue complication can continue uninterrupted along with Google the benefits of the blogspot relationship including blogspot site support including timely accurate statistical reporting and continued conforming participation as accepted into the Google "Adsense" campaign and other more recent affiliated advertising programs. Google however which earlier further facilitated this process by itself directly selling domain names listing itself with about ten other major domain name vendors has since withdrawn itself from the list encouraging publishers to use one of the other recommended reliable domain name vendors such as godaddy.com for issuance of the publishers' unique domain name currently used in combination with "blogspot".
       Readers with but a brief Google engine search of the word "blogger" can see for themselves that "blogger" has become a very heavily promoted full-service blogging tool by Google reflected in part by a great many subjective search results yielded by the Google engine search which readers will readily see describe "blogger" glowingly in positive terms emphasizing supposedly compelling opportunities particularly financially implying even possible financial independence for which sample true video first-person anecdotes are offered particularly for blogs associated with existing or contemporaneously established businesses as well as from the avowed benefits of the "blogger" seamless integration with a broad and greatly expanding range of web and web-enhanced businesses with the advantage of available Google free and paid advice and assistance including through such tools as "Adwords" for smaller and developing businesses with "Google Analytics" available also for businesses tending to be larger.
       Google although it allegedly shares advertising revenue when certain thresholds are reached with blog publishers through its Adsense and other programs has never made available to our knowledge or information to its publishers now reportedly numbering worldwide in the millions any share of the significant value to Google of Blogger goodwill, the value of demographic and other experiential information collected through the Blogger program, the value of the very heavily promoted Blogger+ program supposedly related primarily to blogging but actually most significantly valued by Google apparently as its grand entree into the by far most lucrative social media area all of which value is in no way to be shared with the publishers in the Blogger+ program although it is estimated to be far more valuable to Google through the vast collection of demographic information including of individuals and groups more or less manufactured by Google and encouraging such things as so-called "circles of friends" never even before know by participants altogether purporting to offer vastly more constantly Google-emphasized benefits including vague claims to offer far more unclear unexplained financial benefits than the original Blogger program apparently relying heavily on implied promises of, inter alia, readers' endorsements somehow without explanation including greatly increased advertising revenues.
       It soon became apparent that Google was not beyond more or less tricking non-Blogger+ participants into joining the program through the click of a button because of apparently intentionally confusing references to things such as profiles and other tangential elements of the Blogger program which really offered little greater financial advantage to participants but undisclosed apparently significant benefits to Google which seemingly given the repeated focus on Blogger+ were most valuable to Google which clearly was making no effort to share at any point any of the substantial real value of its surreptitious made-to-order social media behemoth benefiting from basically trafficking in the personal and private information of its long-time Blogger participants. This served to highlight that the long-term undercurrent of the Google Blogger partnership with publishers was not partnership at all since it clearly had been developed on the premise that almost all the benefits would run to Google and would only continue to do so in either greater amounts. This is why hard-working publishers focused on creating truly high quality material were rewarded like the Ninth Amendment with basically nothing (but advice from other participants in the Google program which cost Google absolutely nothing as Google itself grew notorious for never even responding but once in a blue moon to any queries of its millions of publishers thus costing Google next to nothing) while Google amassed a fortune in a matter of a couple decades to rival the great industrial giants of American business enterprise such as General Motors. If Google could have one word to describe the value on the Blogger+ relationships it supposedly celebrated Google's intentions as a "friend" in a circle of friends could only be described as despicable.
       Publishers are encouraged to communicate via solely via Google groups with minimum interference with Google personnel presumably counting their fortunes to determine at how young an age they might retire including as to publishers basically just giving to Google what could turn out to be most valuable strategies for the most dubious honor of participating in or taking part in or more accurately being taken by the Blogger+ social media program which has been promoted by Google not without a significant degree of challenge it is conjectured due to Google's less than fully honest approach to the purposes of and the totally confusing and basically largely nonsensical spectrum of different tactics Google uses to try to bring uninterested blogger participants into the Blogger+ program in order to access their personal information without their necessarily informed consent accompanied by warnings or rather more accurately vague threats of apparently potentially serious but actually just somewhat confusing consequences for those who no longer wished to participate any longer after joining in the Blogger+ program.
       Such conduct by Google therefore would some might conjecture make any purported agreements including those purporting to incorporate the non-sharing or failure of distribution of potentially huge profits from the collection of vast amounts of personal information to participants unenforceable for several reasons which by simple lay persons might reasonably be seen as fundamentally fraudulent conspiracies among other things also believe possibly may include affirmative defenses of unclean hands and laches for emphasizing what are really minimal benefits to participants while downplaying or altogether neglecting to mention or even provide any information as to the tremendous profits potentially to be gained from the great multitude of Blogger+ relationships established by Google for the unstated purpose of using existing relationships to become competitive in the hugely profitable area of "social media" players such as Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn and so many others.
       This would be consistent with the larger evolution of Google from what was originally introduced to the world as an academically driven internet entrant to yet another internet behemoth arguably driven first and foremost by profit or perhaps more accurately greed fueled in many cases by the unsuspecting participants in its ever-expanding endeavors using the human capital of basically unknowing and unconsenting participants giving up private and personal information through Google's basically disguised endeavors much like those of, for example, of what have become some of the world's other richest corporations which but for their relationships with for example the CIA and other "national security" agencies who benefit greatly from their information collection may well be poster children for antitrust and privacy invasion actions such as has been demonstrated by hugely costly rulings against the likes of Facebook and Google by European regulators or in the case of Google the European Union's highest court of last resort.
       This court's far-reaching reputation links privacy ruling Google's attorneys curiously failed to comment on because they had "not yet reviewed the decision" which seems a somewhat disingenuous response given that the ruling of a "court of last resort" is subject neither to rehearing nor to any appeal whatsoever since there is no higher court. It is in other words "Final" thus the moniker "Court of Last Resort". Hopefully Google did not have to pay too much for outside counsel that was capable of responding with a straight face to such decisions that it could not comment on their impact on Google since counsel had not yet had the opportunity to review them. Those legal fees after all could have gone to hard-working "bloggers" or unknowing new members of "Blogger+" to compensate them for their personal information they did not know was being collected and no doubt added to Google's bottom line.
       Persons familiar with the origins of Google in its formative pre-beta stages we vaguely recall to be reported to be the revolutionary brainchild of an MIT professor and developed there by him with some of his MIT students its unique brilliance that it ranked results on the basis of supposedly objective URL-to-URL links promising to give users an unparalleled purity of results not sullied by the rank corruption of secret payoffs, other not so obviously manipulated but reflecting equally crass commercial objectives nor the product of more refined manipulation (now blossomed into an apparently fully legitimate industry of "search engine optimization" accompanied by checklists of sequential steps one takes manually or with computer assistance entering URLs into various directories and totally distorting through "backlinks" for trade and sale the long-discarded original elegant Google concept) by computer hacks skewing search results through more obscured techniques nevertheless delivering equally tainted results in an search result environment where pagerank has long become synonymous with dollars.
       Conceptualization of these practices as the modern variation of starting one's business name with a long series of the letter "A" for purposes solely of telephone business page top position placement helps remove some of the "computer IT" mystery to help understand such practices as are being employed to "coax" desired commercial results from search engines. Interested readers are referred to other sources as close as the Wikepedia box to the lower right due to the Ninth Amendment's admitted lack of detailed knowledge and unavailability of its limited resources to more fully research the nascent Google and its subsequent history as being the tale of one more most desirable top academic institution's darling of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal that was priceless to what might ever be bought from a PR firm or advertising agency or it had to be Reputation.com crafting what one would have the world believe one is rather than what one actually has become.
        Presumably even Reputation.com after it deletes all one's bad news must have at least some small tatters of arguably good or at least neutral news left to which some modest shreds can be attached as to one's remaining personality and character, although alternatively there may be other "Reputation Plans" available for more difficult cases such as (1) creating large numbers of potential positive entries that might be reasonably successful in systematically establishing a somewhat better reputation such as for example in the case of Texas Governor Rick Perry upping his charitable church contributions a couple years back when he "earned" a reported $1 million as Governor from $80 to $90, to (2) taking bad entries that otherwise are not susceptible to being scrubbed and having them attributed to as an as unyet unacknowledged minor child whose parents might be amenable to a modest payment for having their name legally changed to your own but followed by a "Junior", "II" , or "III" (the second perhaps being preferable as more broadly susceptible to confusion and the third perchance even more desirable as even more susceptible to confusion) followed by having some keepers of records and so on contacted and not trying to shirk "reputation responsibility" but "come clean" and have one's name corrected to the "Junior", "II", or "III" as the case may be, and finally (3) having one's name legally changed to someone other party's name (but not "identity" as that might probably be illegal though maybe not if they are deceased and done using their identity), or having one's name changed to a new one that they have made up altogether.
       We have seriously digressed here which will very soon be remedied as the reason reputations come to mind so readily with Google is that everything Google now does for all appearances is completely antithetical to all the principles for which it was claimed that Google would stand in stark contrast to the increasingly commercial and privacy invasive computer and spy world Google was in fact entering. Google's true colors however soon came out as at the top and side of its results soon appeared those highlighting results that were "sponsored" by payments to Google rather than "linked" by their usefulness to people. Contrary to the high principles which it claimed to embrace with its use of links for results positioning to the contrary Google became associated with all sorts of efforts to achieve high rank by parties willing to spend money to do do and rumors of algorithms and different techniques for achieving high ranks on Google searches became all the commercial rage with former Google employees widely known to hire themselves out for just that purpose. All sorts of enterprises were born devoted to one's achieving the highest Google position possible with no regard whatsoever for the actual quality or value of a site to users, nor in many cases even it use of the English language or the quality of its writing.
       As Google expanded from its search engine beginnings it became the antithesis of all for which it once claimed to stand. Its goal rapidly developed into misusing the information available to it through its search engine to collect ALL information on its users searches, keeping a permanent record of them, and it shortly had joined in the competition to become yet another internet behemoth increasing its value by using new methods of compiling ever more information on its users with legal notices that came out in such excruciating detail and with such rapidity that like Facebook it was collecting information at and beyond the very limits of what was permissible at the same time starting to emulate the megalomania of the ever stranger head of Facebook rumored CIA tool Zuckerboy who developed fascinations in no time worthy of J. Edgar Hoover.
       Zuckerboy compiled information on his "social media" site using facial recognition technology and any new twisted idea which came to mind to gather more information of what once purported to be nothing more than a friendly facilitator of social interaction but in fact became a cataloger of persons from around the globe with an unhealthy interest in connecting their recognition physically to their name to their contacts to their hobbies to "what was on their mind". Facebook made so much money that billion dollar fines from European regulators outraged at Zuckerboy's invasions of their privacy were hardly even noticed by him, an were probably reimbursed anyway by American taxpayers through the CIA's or some similar outfit's black ops budget. Perhaps Facebook even had its own.
       Google having long before abandoned all its higher principles kept its innocent-seeming goofiness in its name alone. Not to be outdone by Facebook Google soon found that it sound had a secret investor in the CIA through a front company in the NYSE. Later all pretense was merely set aside and the CIA just openly invested with Google in a joint venture. Google and CIA built data storage facilities adjacent to one another, it being clear that Google's rapacious gathering of information through the required entering by its users of one I.D. for all its acquisitions, its collection of all information legally possible on it users, and in fact everything it did now being directed to collecting ever more information on individuals and metadata on everything was the C.I.A., F.B.I., N.S.A. and all the others of the rapidly growing number of "National Security" outfits now numbering probably between fifteen and twenty dream come true.
       What the State outfits could not legally access or collect they could barely believe their luck in having Americans grown up to believe in a government that followed the law and the U.S. Constitution now willing to go forward with whatever they could get anyone to sign off on their using. And the use of private counterparts such as Facebook using facial recognition technology and Google actually mapping and invading the premises by camera of nearly every house on the earth through open windows and from above was like their dream come true.
       What possible legitimate reason could private outfits like Google and Facebook have for this massive invasion of privacy without subjects consent and/or explained in such a way as to be as incomprehensible as adhesion insurance contracts thrown out by the courts years ago. Enough of today's digression and we shall wrap back around to Blogger. Blogger perhaps once of somewhat innocent intentions certainly no longer is that. Every other new appearance on a Blogger or Google screen is yet another attempt to trick a person without their informed consent of signing on for Blogger+ as Google is just so eager to have another route of invasion to person's private lives. It has very little to nothing to producing a blog of quality. It has everything to do with endless promises of meaningless advantages to signing on, sharing more information with Google, identifying circles of friends, or rather creating them as Google takes it upon itself to do far more than keep meaningless records of all its users do, it clearly would like to control what they do, to tell them who their friends are, to use any deceptive device at its disposal to get more persons to sign on to enable them to do basically do nothing except make it that much easier for Google to get every last bit of information about the lives of those who use Google. Google thirsts for "social media" privacy invasion that can rival Facebook's.
       Soon Google will have to be left behind for those who are not tools of the CIA and all their law-breaking friends. In the meantime Google at least with this site's blogger statistics is blazing the path for misinformation, disinformation, and in seven years has never responded to a single feedback message sent from this site. And how much has this site collected having been long ago accepted to Adsense, Amazon and other affiliate program"900s? This site's publisher has in seven years not yet received its first advertising paymemt. So in any case Google one might think Google could supply those site performance statistics in something close to real time. Half a day late and confusing Albania for Argentina just does not cut it when you are playing with the Big Boys.
       Keep that up and in no time the CIA will have you preparing the final reports for the President on the presence of WMDs. Or maybe the next nuclear missile silo exercise gone awry in Nebraska. You have to prove yourself worthy Google even if you do have a satellite map of the whole earth, a picture taken from 360 degrees outside every person's house in the world, a record of everyone's last five thousand Google searches, copies of all their private pictures and family photo albums, and a list of the everything they have watched and listened to on YouTube since Google bought it, next thing you know the CIA will ask you to keep a record for them of every number called and kept on everyone's Android phone because the Supreme Court told the CIA and the NSA you know even this Court must draw the line somewhere therefore that is not allowed, especially so long as Mr. Justice Thomas is on the bench with his suspected propensity for "900" numbers.

Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved

10 July 2014

BREAKING: The Islamic State Terrorists Reportedly Acquire Weapons-Grade Nuclear Material Unknown Capability Or Condition

          Thursday, 10 July 2014, SAADA, YEMEN - Media organizations early this morning have released preliminary news reports that ISIS self-renamed The Islamic State may have acquired weapons-grade nuclear materials at unidentified locations in an unknown condition nor state of capability for use. Meanwhile in the notorious arms bazaar outside of this city a wide selection of major weaponry apparently remains for sale by arms dealers documented to include such weapons as RPG's with a variety of available warheads to any buyer with the funds to make purchases, as is reportedly the case at many locations outside of the United States for weapons such as RPGs. The availability of weapons at this notorious weapons bazaar at Saada extends to many other heavy weapons however even including in less public areas armaments such as shoulder-launched Stinger missiles for sale by one dealer for one million dollars (U.S.) which missiles are known to be capable of taking down airplanes such as commercial passenger airliners.
       The Ninth Amendment editorial board stresses that it has no confirmed information whatsoever as to the actual existence of any type of weapons-grade nuclear materials purchased and/or captured by what has been preliminarily reported to be The Islamic State "terrorists". Recent media reports have focused particularly on the proximity of the group's control of territory in the area of the airport northwest of Baghdad's outskirts as the airport reportedly provides the only escape route for many American critical government personnel presently remaining attached to the United States Embassy and presumably largely confined to the extremely heavily secured United States "Green Zone" in Baghdad.
       The growing presence of United States Marines to supplement existing Marine security, as well as military "advisers" to the Iraqi Army, followed by further combat troops to protect the advisers and help maintain/regain control of the airport, as well as unknown numbers of United States special forces units in and being dispatched to the area and region has been widely reported. The actual total numbers of all these United States forces is unknown and presumably classified especially given foreign combatants and/or "terrorists" in the region are widely reported to collect information from publicly available news reports.
       Reports have not focused on the possibility that even if The Islamic State does not overrun the apparently critical northwest Baghdad airport escape route of last resort for American government personnel what the status may be of the group's access to Stinger missiles which presumably may have fallen into its hands in the large areas of territory the group has overtaken and/or by purchase by the group with the well-publicized extremely ample funding of the Islamic State not only originally from certain (private) wealthy donors in countries such as Saudi Arabia but the very large amounts of funds stolen by the group by overtaking a major Iraqi government bank holding a significant percentage of the country's currency reserves. This is in addition to many large caches of weaponry including much supplied previously by the United States to the Iraqi Army but largely abandoned by fleeing Iraqi troops in their haste to escape the advancing forces of ISIL now renamed The Islamic State.
       This editorial board of the Ninth Amendment must stress that the above information on the extremely serious matter on any acquisition of nuclear materials is based solely on unconfirmed first incomplete reports and should not serve as the basis for any certainty on the part of readers of its accuracy to any degree, which is completely unknown. The lessons of the lies of the Bush Administration as to the presence previously in Iraq of "WMDs" under the control of Saddam Hussein widely now believed by a great  many Americans to have been a heinous bogus justification for the peremptory invasion of Iraq most likely motivated by former Vice President Dick "Pigheart" Cheney's insatiable monstrous greed for oil and cash for his many related commercial endeavors remain fresh in the minds of many Americans and Iraqis including those having suffered enormous personal grief and loss as a result of the pointless ensuing manufactured conflict.
       Concerned readers it is emphasized emphatically are provided the information in this post as that available at this time in UNCONFIRMED BREAKING NEWS reports and are urged absolutely to perform further research and review any developing news in reaching conclusions of their own of what actual facts are or become known based on developing informed sources at this time and the ensuing hours and days.

Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved

27 April 2013

George W. "little shrub" Bush "'Presidential' Children's Library And Video Arcade" Inauguarated As Barbara Bush Pleads "No More Bushes In White House" Beside Wheelchaired "Bush 41" Nearing Deathbed As Shunned Armed Texas Idiot Governor Rick "Payback" Perry And Dick "Pigheart" Cheney Looks On In Phony "Cowboy" Hat

     Saturday 27 April 2013, THE ALGARVE, PORTUGAL - The Ninth Amendment editorial board from the beautiful nude beaches of this country which has decriminalized the possession and use of all drugs in case readers also chose to miss one of the great bogus non-events in memory featuring some of the most loathsome persons to disgrace recent American history reports that this past Thursday the "President" George "little shrub" Bush "Presidential" Children's Libray and Video Arcade was inaugurated on the grounds of Southern Methodist University in suburban Dallas (site of the probable "Bush 41" orchestrated JFK assassination and serious "magic bullet" wounding of then-Texas Governor John Connelly) in clear violation of the United States Constitution's absolute separation of church and state.
     Barbara Bush pleaded in probable hope for redemption that neither her other idiot son Jeb Bush (Florida facilitator of his older brother's coup d'etat against actual 2000 Presidential election winner former Vice-President Al Gore) nor any other Bush ever be elected to the White House again as her husband CIA Headquarters' namesake George Herbert Walker Bush aka "Bush 41" attended in a wheelchair as his days before his rendezvous with the devil appeared numbered.
     "Little shrub" Bush noted the irony of having a library named after him since he had never spent time in one in his life although America will never forget his steadfast efforts to continue reading to young schoolchildren even after being twice told by handlers on the fateful morning of 11 September 2001 that the United States was under probable alleged "terrorist" attack with both towers of the World Trade Center (then under little publicized  security contract with his other brother) having been struck allegedly by foreign terrorists in hijacked U.S. Airliners as United States fighter jets lethargically scrambled and raced toward the site at half speed arriving later that day.
     Of particular note of all Presidents present and former as well as unelected "little shrub Bush" former President Jimmy Carter stood off at a distance in apparent disgust at the lot of them. With "Bush 41" apparently wheelchair-bound and Dick "Pigheart" Cheney apparently only kept going by the thought of how much money he has daily ripped off from the United States through his Halliburton, "Blackdeath" and other criminal mercenary contractor enterprises ("cash only, please") the Ninth Amendment currently is investigating who will inherit the mantle to the so-called "Fourth Reich".
     Finally it bears mentioning that faced with such "difficult" decisions as whether to pre-emptively bomb Iraq and then kill and maim millions of its citizens and sacrifice the lives of hundreds of thousands of United States armed forces on the basis of obviously bogus "WMD" information and chicanery which responsible CIA personnel have admitted they were given about one week's time to gin up from millions of documents flashed before them on a Langley projection screen Americans with nothing better to do (such as visit Revolutionary War battlefields) will be able to play video games at the "little shrub" Bush Southern Methodist "Presidential" library and see if they too can make as bad decisions as were made by (or rather for) the man who will surely go down as the worst President ever not elected in United States history. 

Copyright 2013 Big M All World Rights Expressly Reserved

24 March 2013

"Dying Vet's 'F*ck You' Letter To George Bush & Dick Cheney Needs To Be Read By Every American" Per Dangerousminds.net

     Saturday, 23 March 2013, LAKE MALAWI, MALAWI, AFRICA - The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment finds the letter below electronically published in www.dangerousminds.net to be worthy of reproduction here verbatim in its entirety without other comment. The fact for the day according to filmmaker Michael Moore in his film Fahrenheit 9/11 is that at the time of its filming of the entire body of Congresspersons who overwhelmingly endorsed "President" George "little shrub" Bush' pre-emptive bombing and subsequent invasion and destruction of the country of Iraq and the mass murder of its people only ONE Congressperson had a son or daughter who served in that conflict, yet another illegal Unconstitutional assault on another sovereign nation by the United States, the last Constitutionally declared "War" having been World War Two.
     The hidden facts for the day are that like the members of  Congress who overwhelmingly supported the invasion of Iraq by other peoples' children likewise neither the "Village Idiot" Bush nor puppetmaster criminal mastermind "Vice-President" Dick "Pigheart" Cheney ever had a son nor daughter serve in military combat in Iraq nor elsewhere. (Although Cheney did prove a most patriotic profiteer of unparalleled proportions ostensibly serving contemporaneously as Vice-President of the United States while providing the services, bodies and limbs of his Blackdeath contractor murdering mercenaries in Iraq and other lucrative locations worldwide.)
     Much unlike Queen Elizabeth whose two grandsons Princes William and Harry both served in the English military with Prince Harry serving in active combat in Afghanistan. As noted by the dying veteran Tomas Young in his letter below both Bush and Cheney also themselves shirked mandatory military service, Bush going AWOL and Cheney dodging the draft. It was only Bush' father CIA Headquarters' namesake George H.W. Bush who had braved military service in World War II distinguishing himself by machine-gunning helpless Japanese sailors from his airplane as they floundered in liferafts below launched from their sinking ship while trying to surrender.  (As first reported in Harper's Magazine.)
     Other than strafing "Hors de combat" in violation of the Geneva Convention which defines them as combatants no longer in combat it has been noted that Bush aka "Bush the Elder" aka "Bush Sr." aka "Bush 41" (having been the 41st President of the United States and actually probably elected to one term of a "thousand points of blight" unlike his son who lost both the popular and electoral votes to Al Gore but nevertheless was named "President" in a coup d'etat staged in Florida and completed by the United States Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore) also strafed the Japanese Prime Minister with vomit and passed out while dining with him at a State dinner in Japan. Bush later attributed the incident to having spent the preceding twenty-four hours drinking motor oil, Texas crude, black gold... As to what else Bush 41 has done such as perhaps participate in or orchestrate the JFK Assassination and the 9/11 attacks only he and the devil know, and so far neither one is telling.
     God Bless America.
    
 "Dying vet’s ‘f*ck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American"
03.19.2013
11:11 am

 
 
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
From: Tomas Young
I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.
I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.
I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.
Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.
I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion. I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.
I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.
I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned. You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins? I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.
My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.
Tomas Young

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13 January 2013

California Teacher Pension Fund Considers Reducing Major Investments In Assault Weapon, Banana Clip Makers -- Gun Dealers Thrive In Wake Of Newtown Massacre

     Sunday, 13 January 2013, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - The California Teachers Pension Fund, the country's largest teachers' pension fund as well as its largest such investor for many years apparently has helped California teachers live out more comfortable retirements by investing heavily in manufacturers of arms including guns and ammunition of all types, including military guns illegal in California, more lethal military ammunition, and high-capacity so-called "banana clips" for the effective uninterrupted firing of rounds from assault and other military weapons.
     The California Teachers Pension Fund reportedly is considering reducing such investment in the wake of the Nation's most recent weeks' domestic firearms massacre as almost always perpetrated by male teenagers and unhappy younger men armed with easily legally obtained military assault weapons outfitted with banana clips and/or other accessories to help insure the uninterrupted (and unskilled) hunting down of tens of unarmed schoolchildren and other civilians.
     Particularly infamous such massacres have occurred in Columbine, Ohio, as well as others by somewhat older males in the attempted slaying at an Arizona "meet and greet" of United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords shot through the middle of the head, the Texas clock tower sniper, the San Ysidro, California McDonald's massacre particularly frustrating to law enforcement as it continued unabated for about one half hour as the restaurant had all mirrored windows and thus obscured officers' vision as the killer methodically hunted down diners outfitted  in camouflage gear and face paint who before leaving home down the street reportedly told his wife he was "going out hunting".
     Other such massacres allegedly have been perpetrated by more uniquely memorable aggressors such as the soft-spoken Army psychiatrist who in recent years left his office at Fort Hood and walked along a row of near-naked unarmed soldiers awaiting physical exams and shot them to death one by one. To his credit Idiot Texas Liar Governor Rick "Payback" Perry himself did use only his (laser-sighted) "six-shooter" for "defensive" purposes to become the first person known in North America to claim that the killing was in self-defense of an attacking coyote while Perry was out on his morning run with his enormous armed security detail. (He corrected reports of his account during the following day upon learning a coyote never had attacked and killed a human in North America with his revised story of having pulled the laser-sighted revolver from the back of his running shorts and killing the coyote in defense of his Labrador Retriever.)
     Right on the heels of the country's most recent massacre in Newtown, Connecticut the proprietor of a four times annual gun "show" in Saratoga Springs, New York told media that he was determined and proud to continue with his gun "show" with apparent strong support of many gun "show" attendees whose hands he personally shook as they entered the "show" less than a month after the Newtown massacre. Many attendees congratulated him on his bravery and fortitude on going ahead with the "show" even in the face of angry verbal protests against it. Meanwhile his wife attested to the selling out of military assault-style weapons and accessories at their own gun shop as well as others around the country, with a line of waiting mostly male buyers she described as lined up for two blocks waiting to get in and make purchases.
     The use of quotations as follows around the word "show" is intended to suggest that the Ninth Amendment editorial staff believes to some extent the word "show" in the context of basically completely uncontrolled arms flea markets across this country on Main Street, USA attended by effectively unregulated sellers and buyers of questionable legal status to be engaging in the sale of what are often basically akin to weapons of war might be considered by some to be a misnomer which is better avoided as misleading..
     In the wake of the most recent Newtown massacre debate raged across the United States if the ready availability of such weapons of war has been a positive domestic development for the United States. Tens of thousands of gun dealers who have obtained virtual mail order "licenses" are authorized under United States law for the retail often effectively unrecorded trafficking in arms including those with no other apparent intended use other than engaging in warfare against armed combatants. Included amongst these are military assault weapons with marginally clever modifications to make them just as effective as those used by such groups as insurgents and criminal governments the world over.  Of course use in the United States considerably reduces the "fear factor" of having unarmed civilians such as schoolchildren actually fire back.
     Nearly all purchasers reportedly are young men, many apparently purchasing such arms out of concern that some Government, presumably theirs, will attempt to abrogate some Constitutional right to own such weapons which they in some cases understand to emanate presumably from the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. That Amendment implicitly provides for the establishment of a militia in times of need instead of the maintenance of a permanent standing army, such as was warned against by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his final White House televised live address to the Nation. Such weapons, perhaps with none-to-difficult modifications, are expected by many who obtain them to provide for their defense should they be attacked by their own country. The United States, however, is known to possess weapons of mass destruction as well as large amounts of presumably heavier weaponry than assault rifles.
     Our hearts and prayers go out to all innocent souls whose lives directly and indirectly have been harmed and/or destroyed by the past weeks most recent United States home soil massacre. God Bless America.

Readers interested in more details and photos on the above regarding gun "show" with pictures including "banana clips" for sale may link to:
 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/nyregion/despite-protests-upstate-new-york-gun-show-goes-on.html?src=twrhp&_r=0

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12 January 2013

Security Alerts Home Computers - DISABLE JAVA NOW! - Governments, Media, Experts Warn Zero-Hour Hacker Attack

     Saturday, 12 January 2013, REDWOOD SHORES, CALIFORNIA - Another major "zero hour" security alert has been announced by various government and media sources for all Java users on all platforms and browsers. Readers should find instructions for disabling Java, purchased by Oracle Corporation and since suffering many breaches most recently in another believed "ransom" hacker attack, by searching the term "disable Java" on readers' preferred search engines or combinations thereof.
     This follows on the announcement of a hacker attack on Facebook seeking to dupe users into giving up private information in response to a fake message to users purporting to be from Facebook's security detail. Information on this should also be readily available on Ninth Amendment readers' favorite search engines or combinations thereof.
     Otherwise the past year has seen a spate of near-hysterical "security alerts" from corporations which once made their money largely unknown to purchasers of, particularly, Windows programs paying Microsoft to "bundle" their software with new Windows releases, often making it extremely difficult for less knowledgeable consumers to safely disentangle this hysteria-based software from installations of new operating programs without damaging those programs or rendering them virtually unusable. These techniques of "bundling" were most often connected in the "security" realm with corporations such as Norton and Symantec.
     AOL is still notorious amongst programmers for "bundling" unwanted software by paying software companies to virtually inextricably intertwine its unwanted software with already purchased products such that disentangling it, particularly from computer registries, proved a monumental task in which the slightest slip in hours long procedures by expert programmers could forever render the underlying already-purchased software useless. Leading one to wonder who indeed were the "good" guys and who the "bad". The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division as well as Microsoft itself ended some of these problems by introducing free security software which in many cases is anyway better and free, such as Microsoft Security Essentials. Thousands of others are available free with consumer and editor ratings on sites such as CNET. 
     The Ninth Amendment welcomes back patient readers as well as new readers with this first post of the new year 2013. It is NOT the Ninth Amendment's intention to become a source of computer security alerts nor should readers rely on the Ninth Amendment for that purpose.
     As always the real news of 2013 will soon follow as Ninth Amendment editorial staff and global bureaus reconfigure for the new year. To date Ninth Amendment editors have identified many mostly ignored potentially very significant reports from the "mainstream" press including of North Korea's recent showcasing of functional drones reverse-engineered from, as predicted here, the CIA's own (non-existent) drones, with the notable addition of North Korea's maniacal giant "Flying Dinosaur" drone.
     Apparently United States national security agencies also somehow entirely missed North Korea's start-to-finish development of medium-range missiles capable of carrying WMD warheads until a test missile was successfully fired off on trajectory by North Korea's reportedly charismatic new leader lady-killer and apparent Elvis-style sunglasses aficionado Kim Jong II assumed to be in celebration of something like the New Year. It is not known to the Ninth Amendment log what year if any actually is being celebrated in North Korea.

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