"Our enemies have skillfully adapted to fighting wars in today's media age, but ... our country has not adapted," Rumsfeld said.

mutter aparently decides what mutters can read and what they cannot read.

Information filtered by the mutter.



Margolis tells you what we are up to.

Ironically, U.S. forces in Iraq are doing the same things Saddam's thuggish regime did: Bombing and blasting rebels (this time Sunnis); holding 18,000 political prisoners; torturing and executing suspects. Uncle Sam is the new Saddam.

Saddam should face trial for his many crimes, but in a proper legal venue, under full western and international law. The trial should be moved at once to the UN tribunal at the Hague. A fair trial will establish an important international legal precedent.

Those citing the World War II Nuremberg trials as precedent for Baghdad's kangaroo court should read the magisterial words of that court's Chief Justice, Robert Jackson: "No political or economic situation can justify the crime of aggression." Please take note, President Cheney and VP Bush.

http://www.radiojavan.com/play.wax

BECAUSE OF A BACKLOG OF WARHEADS awaiting dismantlement at the DOE’s Pantex facility near Amarillo, TX, the Kirtland Underground Munitions Storage Complex (KUMSC) at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico has emerged as number one in U.S. nuclear warheads deployed in a single location, a rise from 2nd place in 1992 and 11th place in 1985.

Albuquerque nukes partially restored.

Thursday January 26, 2006 09:00 looking south from the McDonald's at Tramway and Montgomery in Albuquerque, NM.

KUMSC is located about at the bottom of the red check.

Sandia Labs is located about at the bottom of the green check.

Here's looking to the north-east

We tried to get a better shot of Sandia labs at 15:00.

Look real hard.

The red dot is over the tower at the airport - shared with the air force.

The dark buildings under the green bar are Sandia labs building.

KUMSC is a mile or two south and a litte west of Sandia labs.

Saturday January 28, 2006 about 09:30

Sandia labs under the red line from Eubank Bvld.

Eubank gate to Sandia labs.

Before 9/11 there was only a small guard house.

A war with Iraq would heighten security concerns and probably trigger more spending on protection on home. That would be additional money for guards, security devices and procedures that might otherwise be invested in production-boosting technology and workers who generate salable goods and services. `

"It's a dead-weight loss as far as the economy is concerned,'' said Vernon Smith, a George Mason University professor who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics

"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript.

We stop a moment to reflect on one of the protagonists in the war against terror - Osama bin Laden. The man publicly announced his strategy. He would lure the Great Satan to waste his energy, his money, and his reputation in a futile war. For every $1,000 expended by bin Laden’s forces, the United States would have to spend $100 million! Sooner or later, the empire would be exhausted. It would be bled dry, bankrupt - powerless to defend itself.

Prof Kotlikoff said that, by some measures, the US is already bankrupt. "To paraphrase the Oxford English Dictionary, is the United States at the end of its resources, exhausted, stripped bare, destitute, bereft, wanting in property, or wrecked in consequence of failure to pay its creditors," he asked.

According to his central analysis, "the US government is, indeed, bankrupt, insofar as it will be unable to pay its creditors, who, in this context, are current and future generations to whom it has explicitly or implicitly promised future net payments of various kinds''.

CNN link to above vanished. So we have to link to aljazeera.

Who's winning?
Empire of Debt

Bill Bonner, back in London with more views...

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Baby Bob Gerdes is still in diapers, but he already shoulders a $156,000 debt.

That’s the estimated debt that every American owes the federal government, courtesy of the annual budget deficit, plus the national debt accumulated over the past century, plus promised but long-term unfunded commitments like his parents’ Medicare and Social Security payments. At 14 months, Bob has the same debt load as the rest of us—workers, retirees, young and old alike.

So this week not much money was created, but Securities Bought Outright went up by $2.7 billion, which is another of my pet outrages that make me scream in my sleep; the Fed and the banks are not only creating more money out of thin freaking air (which is bad enough to warrant rioting in the streets, as Americans of every color and creed march to Washington, D.C. en masse, chanting "The Mogambo was right! We're freaking doomed", and tear down the Federal Reserve building, brick by brick), but the banks are using this money that they just invented to buy government debt! The supreme fraud and outrage!

None of these bond-buying halfwits work for me, because if anybody DARED to come into my office and suggest that I stop embezzling the employee retirement fund and instead put that money into bonds, the last thing they would hear before I leapt over my desk, grabbed them by the neck and threw them out of the window is the Mogambo laugh of scorn and derision (MLOSAD) ringing in their presumptuous ears.