licentious radio

Saturday, August 17, 2002
[3:51:45 PM]

Did He Jump or Was He Pushed? 8/18 [guardian.co.uk]: "In 1975, the CIA told Olson they had spiked his father's drink with LSD to see how government scientists would respond to being unwittingly drugged. They said he had a bad trip and jumped a week later. Olson didn't believe this story, either, and had his father's body exhumed. A new autopsy pointed to murder. Then his father's friends began to speak out. They said Frank Olson was murdered because he was going to blow the whistle on the US army's use of anthrax in the Korean war. Declassified memos point to some kind of cover-up in the Ford White House."

It was Cheney and Rumsfeld who apparently ran the cover-up.

[3:35:05 PM]
"We certainly do not have the luxury of doing nothing," Rice said.

Actually the Bush junta has been very busy, with a major offensive to prevent arms inspectors from returning to Iraq. They had to fire the most recent head of arms inspection, because he had just about gotten the deal worked out.

Another key element was to loudly proclaim American spies could assassinate Sadam. The arms inspection program was always loaded with American spies. See how that works? What if Saddam said: "You must let my spies into United States military bases, and by the way, they're authorized to kill your politicians on sight"?

See, if you have arms inspectors in Iraq, it eliminates the plausibility of the "must invade now" argument. Bush must invade now, or the Congressional elections might go against him this fall.

Wag the dog. Must cover up securities fraud.

[2:14:49 PM]
It's a crying shame, what we do to each other here. We have this tiny ecosphere on this one tiny planet, with a wealth of energy pouring into it at every moment. The ecology cleans our air and water, provides the oxygen/carbon-dioxide cycle, makes food easy to grow. Every place on the planet is beautiful in one way or another. We have billions of fellow humans to share the fun. How sick to promote war, or to make others suffer so you can make or keep a little more money.

[2:08:38 PM]
God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule [theonion.com]: "His decision to manifest on the material plane was motivated by the deep sense of shock, outrage, and sorrow He felt over the Sept. 11 violence carried out in His name, and over its dire potential ramifications around the globe."

"...Upon completing His outburst, God fell silent, standing quietly at the podium for several moments. Then, witnesses reported, God's shoulders began to shake, and He wept."

[11:11:22 AM]
satirewire.com: "CEOs Blame Rush to File for Accidentally Signing Wrong Names.... While the SEC and President Bush lauded corporate executives for certifying their financial statements, investor groups poring over the pledges since the Wednesday deadline said they couldn't help but notice that nearly half the CEOs and CFOs did not appear to have signed their own names."

[10:56:17 AM]
Lewis [infoworld.com]: "Government regulation is what allows businesses to act ethically. Without regulation, those businesses that resort to any tactic to win have the advantage over those that restrict their behavior to conventional codes of ethics. Consequently, ethical CEOs should welcome government regulation, not fight it. It levels the proverbial playing field. The goal of an ethical CEO would be efficient regulation, not deregulation."

But note the subjunctive case. "Ethical CEO" is hypothetical. We will know if any ethical CEOs exist by their leadership in bringing fair regulations back to the market. Are you holding your breath?

[10:41:24 AM]
McFeatters [heraldonline.com]: "In effect, the Bush administration insists, any American can be jailed without charge, without bail, without a hearing and without a lawyer, forever, if necessary, on the say-so of a mid-level Pentagon official named Michael H. Mobbs. "

[10:34:37 AM]
"History is littered with cases of inaction that led to ... grave consequences for the world," said Condi. History is also littered with cases -- like World War I -- where a little inaction could have saved millions of lives.

How do you decide? Let's say you've stolen the presidential election in an unprecedented coup d'etat, run the economy into the ground in less than two years, and now you face huge losses in the House and Senate. At that point, the decision is *easy*. Go to war quick, before the media catches up with your stock fraud cover-up, or asks why you blocked investigations of Bin Laden before September 11.

[10:26:02 AM]
Note to military PR handlers: don't let your unadmirable admirals say stuff like "I want to disabuse anybody of any notion that somehow the books were cooked." Now is not a good time to allude to cooking the books.

We all know the military is struck through with fraud -- WorldCom's missing $7 billion is *nothing*, nothing to the money gone missing from the military. And phony tests? Everybody knows that Star Wars test is rigged.