"The Reverend Pat Robertson says the United States will be 'risking the wrath of God' if it forces Israel to surrender East Jerusalem to the Palestinians.

"On Monday's broadcast of 'The 700 Club,' Rev. Pat Robertson said he's convinced that 'he who touches Jerusalem touches the apple of God's eye.' Doing so, he warned, would be 'very dangerous.'"

Robertson Warns Of God's Wrath
 

Robertson doesn't seem to think that his god is nearly as upset about the fact that the "war on terror" is turning out to be a Satanic reign of terror, or  that a patently Satanic faction within the Fundy-aligned Blackwater (>96, just coincidentally) is going to absurd lengths to provoke Iraqis against the US, while playing the part of Nietzschean "supermen."  (Some of the BW guys look like thugs, while others, such as those seen guarding high-ranking US officials, do look like elite soldiers, so it's apparently a mix.  Those sacrificed to ignite the battle of Fallujah were apparently some of the good guys.) 
 
In fact, although John Hagee is the only Fundy preacher to advocate attacking Iran, as far as I know despite the lack of anything resembling a justification, I doubt that Robertson's god would object.   Meanwhile, the Pope has warned against such an attack, and I gather that he supports the idea of converting Jerusalem into an international city.  Go figure.  

Posted by fakeapoc at 5:48 PM EDT

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The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI agree that the homemade explosive devices that have wreaked havoc in Iraq pose a rising threat to the United States. But lawmakers and first responders say the Bush administration has been slow to devise a strategy for countering the weapons and has not provided adequate money and training for a concerted national effort.

from IEDs Seen As Rising Threat in The U.S.
As Preparedness Is Criticized, Bush Works on a Plan

Here's an idea: a war on terror!  But seriously, it's reports like these that expose the "war on terror" as a hoax.

Posted by fakeapoc at 2:09 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, October 20, 2007 2:17 PM EDT

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"Louis Vitale, 75, a Franciscan priest, and Steve Kelly, 58, a Jesuit priest, were each sentenced to five months in federal prison for attempting to deliver a letter opposing the teaching of torture at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. Both priests were taken directly into jail from the courtroom after sentencing."

from  Priests Protesting Torture Jailed

Which reminds me - where are all those graduates of Ft. Huachuca's supposed interrogator-training program?  The lack of trained interrogators at the beginning of the "war on terror" was used as a rationale for the use of coercive "interrogation" techniques, which aren't effective unless you assume that they're a form of SRA.

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The October 18th, 2007 edition of Democracy Now features excerpts from Judge Michael Mukasey's initial appearance before the Senate hearing on his nomination as Attorney General, and an interview with Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (link).  Based on this evidence, it seems safe to conclude that Mukasey, despite the fact that he opposed the Bush administration in the early stages of the Padilla case (see Michael B. Mukasey as AG Appointee: Are all the wrong questions being raised?), that if confirmed, he will run interference for the worst offenses of the Bush-Cheney regime.  Furthermore, considering Hillary Clinton's gradual transformation into a neo-con, and her confidence that the fix is in for her to be the next President, these blatantly unconstitutional policies could become institutionalized. 
 

Posted by fakeapoc at 12:37 PM EDT

Updated: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:42 PM EDT

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It's been a while since I took a look at the fantasy-based political movement known as Christian Fundamentalism (which has recently revealed its true nature by threatening to back a third-party candidate).  Fortunately, reporter Sarah Posner already has that covered.  Two of her more pertinent articles are As Bush's War Strategy Shifts to Iran, Christian Zionists Gear Up for the Apocalypse and Lobbying for Armageddon.

On a related note, the following exchange from Bill Moyer's Journal for October 5th, 2007 makes light of the Fundies' claim that the Apocalypse is upon us, by pointing out that their predictions change as the global geopolitical configuration changes:

"BILL MOYERS: As you watched the film, were you concerned that the thread that seemed to run throughout it, that connected the political wing of the movement and the theological wing of the movement, was the belief that a confrontation with Iran is not only inevitable but desirable? Did that hit you?

"DR. TIMOTHY WEBER: It's easy to make that connection and to see that. As an historian, I'm struck by the fact that in previous attempts to understand Bible prophecy Iran did not show up on anybody's radar screen. As history takes these unexpected turns the Bible teachers, the preachers, the dispensational theologians, they adjust the scenario to fit. In some ways, Iran is playing the role that the former Soviet Union used to play as the great evil empire in the world. In short, dispensationalists know how to change the subject, when it's necessary."

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According to The Man Who Knew Too Much, the same crowd that is now trying to unleash nuclear weapons upon Iran were involved in providing nuclear technology to Pakistan, who went on to "develop" nukes.  This comes as no surprise, since any decent fake apocalypse requires nuclear war.  I'd be willing to bet that the Apocalypse-mongers of the British Empire are going to try to orchestrate an "unforeseeable" coup that will put Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in their "Islamic terrorist" puppets' hands.  

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"Last week Paul Rieckhoff, an Iraq war combat veteran who directs Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, sketched for me the apocalypse to come. Should Baghdad implode, our contractors, not having to answer to the military chain of command, can simply 'drop their guns and go home.' Vulnerable American troops could be deserted by those 'who deliver their bullets and beans.'”

from The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us 
 

Appalling, simply appalling.   (In the background: "Next on C-SPAN: Congress debates level of funding for statue of Dick Cheney, which will replace the Statue of Liberty.")

Posted by fakeapoc at 11:06 PM EDT

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Yesterday, it struck me with sudden clarity while getting into bed that the purpose of the "surge" in Iraq is to maintain the rabid-dog fight in Iraq long enough to change "the enemy" from the Sunnis to the Shiites (who are aligned with Iran), and to allow Cheney to create the impression that Iran is getting involved, thus providing the pretext he needs to invade Iran. 

Then it occurred to me that I had downloaded an article entitled Surging Toward Iran a while back, along with a pile of other articles, but had never read it thoroughly.  So, I dug it up, and lo and behold, it said essentially the same thing.  Perhaps I unconsciously absorbed more that I thought I had, and it percolated up into my conscious mind a few weeks later.   Here are a few of its points:

"[W]hat is the administration really up to in Iraq? They're hanging on, "buying time," as the pundits ceaselessly report – but what do they hope to accomplish?

"If you go through the Petraeus report, the key passages are those that deal with Iran. Petraeus continually points the finger at Tehran....
[...]
"'Progress' in Iraq, insofar as this administration is concerned, means we're closer to war with Iran. That has always been our target...."

I believe that this is precisely what's going on (besides Satanism on a vast scale, which includes such Nietzschean "superman" idiocies as driving pell-mell down crowded roads and smashing through or shooting up anything that gets it the way), and that it fits in neatly with the shift in alliance from Shiite to Sunni which LaRouche originally exposed. 

Posted by fakeapoc at 7:56 PM EDT

Updated: Sunday, October 14, 2007 7:59 PM EDT

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PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — Tensions ran high after eight former boot camp workers were acquitted of manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old inmate who was videotaped being punched and kicked.

The case sparked outrage and spelled the end of Florida's system of juvenile boot camps, but it took a jury just 90 minutes Friday to decide that the death of Martin Lee Anderson was not a crime.

Tense Moments After Boot Camp Acquittal
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gKVEpEUAn-5PeOpsggoXT6rXN8YQD8S87NSO3

"Siebert said sickle-cell trait caused Anderson to die, but Hillsborough County medical examiner Dr. Vernard Adams said in a subsequent autopsy that the Panama City boy suffocated when drill instructors clamped his mouth shut and held ammonia capsules under his nose for several minutes."

Siebert defends autopsy; defense rests
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071011/CAPITOLNEWS/710110381/1010

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The medical examiner who ruled last week that a teenager died of natural causes after he was struck by Panama City boot camp guards earlier signed mistake-filled autopsy reports on a man and his adult daughter killed in a September 2004 tornado, their widow and mother said Monday.

Boot Camp Autopsy Doctor Questioned Before
http://www.nospank.net/n-p74r.htm

The loss of this child is especially shocking because it is completely senseless. We have known since at least 1998 that boot camps are no more effective than juvenile prison at turning young lives around. That year, the Justice Department reviewed the data on these programs. No research found boot camp superior to juvenile detention. One study even found that boot camp participants did significantly worse than their incarcerated counterparts--with 50% of former inmates being re-arrested while a whopping 72% of boot camp participants were. [http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/171676.pdf]

Further, the camps have produced hideous abuse scandals in almost every state that tried them. In Georgia, the boot camps were so bad that they sparked a federal investigation by the Justice Department, which uncovered abominations like children being left naked in isolation cells for days and being made to run with tires around their waists in the heat.

In South Dakota, a fourteen-year-old girl who had been arrested for stealing beanie babies died in after a forced three-mile run in hot, humid weather. When she could go no further, she was dragged, then left to lie in the sun and taunted as she hyper-ventilated and lost consciousness. Other teens were left hog-tied in cells for 23 hours a day for up to a month.  [But they did get "good information" on Saddam's connection to Al Qaeda.]

Strange Therapy
http://www.nospank.net/n-p85r.htm
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It's well within the capabilities of organized Satanism to rig juries to prevent Satanists from being convicted of a crime for pursuing their "religion."  That's the most likely expanation for this travesty of justice, in which wildly excessive brutality, and a painful technique which anyone with half a brain would realize posed a danger of asphyxiation, were gleefully employed and caught on tape.  If there's a similar trial in the future, I suggest screening out Satanists by subjecting them, and those who select jurors, to the lie-detection technology described in the following passage:

Now fMRI is also poised to transform the security industry, the judicial system, and our fundamental notions of privacy. I'm in a lab at Columbia University, where scientists are using the technology to analyze the cognitive differences between truth and lies. By mapping the neural circuits behind deception, researchers are turning fMRI into a new kind of lie detector that's more probing and accurate than the polygraph, the standard lie-detection tool employed by law enforcement and intelligence agencies for nearly a century.

Don't Even Think About Lying
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/lying_pr.html

Let the witch-hunt begin! 

Posted by fakeapoc at 2:50 PM EDT

Updated: Saturday, October 13, 2007 10:08 PM EDT

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