The 911 after effects

Brenda Stardom has an interesting story about people who are still dying after 911 terrorist attacks. Since the MSM have been very quiet about that and prefer to talk about the war on terror, it is important to know the truth. Link here.

Your business is important to us - please stay awake.

Here is a video of a comcast technician that fell asleep at a customer's house.

Your debit-card under the Patriot Act

Seen here in Las Vegas writen on a sign for any customer at Albertson's:


"Under the Patriot Act we are unable at this time to process your debit-card, we apologize for the inconvenience."

Could someone explain me what it really means PLEASE? I SMELL A RAT, A BIG RAT!

Bush katel

"Haram an aktola al achkhas".

It's an arabic expression that means basically: it is forbidden to kill in the name of liberty. It is a muslim point of view based on values prohibited inside the Q'ran. For example it has been clearly established that a Muslim shoult not kill another Muslim or even other people, but some Muslims kill people in the name of Allah because Allah said Muslims have to be good but do not have to listen to other people if they are forced to do things that they do not feel right.

Now on the other side, inside the West, we have also people killing other people in the name of Freedom. It is the same thing than the Q'ran but this time these are westerners that accept easier this point of view, they think that Democracy is the remedy against everything that is evil. It even became a messianic vocation to do that, whenever they feel other people are wrong.


First of all, killing people is bad, whether it is in the name of Allah or in the name of Freedom. Bush kills in the name of freedom because he thinks that freedom is above everything, even above UN/international laws, and Muslims kill people in the name of Allah because religion is above everything. Some people use their God for their own politics, and other use their own politics for their own God. This is the uncompatibility of our point of views based on values, and everybody thinks they reached wisdom because they accept killing people.

THAT IS WRONG.

The truth of the matter is: THOU SHALT NOT KILL. It is written in the Q'ran and in the Bible.

People who kill other people are called murderers. It is so easy to call somebody a terrorist and kill this person in the name of freedom or even torturing this person. On the other side it is so easy to kill this person because they don't share the values of Allah. It is all about revenge and nothing else and international laws cannot buy off revenge if people do not respect them. MAy I suggest it is time that international laws write a conventional code of conduct to prohibit killing in the name of something, not in another century but in this very same century.

Are we missing the big picture?

Are we missing the big picture?

The expression "missing the big picture" is a clarified point of view whenever somebody misses any contextual concept. It is also the concept of looking at a picture and the way of analyzing it, it belongs to the domain of interpretation and analysis, it is the connection between the brain and the eye; and it is also the way how societies may be taught to think this way instead another way. Although there are different ways of perceiving things, and disputable as well, it is a prevalent characteristic to define any cultural society based on values. At this point I don't know how intertwened are cultural societies and governments and which one in terms of major velocity impacts the other one. But for sure here is an example between western and chinese society:

"If people are literally looking at the world differently, we think it would be natural for them to explain the world in different ways," said Richard Nisbett, a psychologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Over the past decade reasearch by Nisbett and his colleagues has surprised the social sciences with numerous studies showing that Westerners and East Asians think differently.

Westerners tend to be analytical and pay more attention to the key, or focal, objects in a scene—for example, concentrating on the woman in the "Mona Lisa," as opposed to the rocks and sky behind her.

East Asians, by contrast, tend to look at the whole picture and rely on contextual information when making decisions and judgments about what they see, Nisbett said. (See sidebar at lower right.)

The new study was designed to determine if the difference in the thought processes of East Asians and Westerners affects how Westerners and East Asians physically look at the world.

To find out, the researchers measured eye movements of 45 U.S. and Chinese students as they looked at photographs that featured single focal objects against complex backgrounds.

For example, one image showed a tiger by a stream in a forest. Another image showed a fighter jet flying over a mountainous landscape.

When test subjects looked at the pictures, differences emerged between the U.S. and Chinese students within the first second of an average viewing, Nisbett said.

"Americans are looking at the focal object more quickly and spend more time looking at it," he said. "The Chinese have more saccades [jerky eye movements]. They move their eyes more, especially back and forth between the object and the [background] field."

The finding suggests that East Asians literally spend more time putting objects into context than Americans do. The differences are not just reflected in how individuals recall and report their memories but in how they physically see an image in the first place.

The study, which was led by Nisbett's graduate student Hannah-Faye Chua, is reported tomorrow in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Nisbett says that any explanation for the cultural differences is, at this point, speculation. However, he and his colleagues suggest that the differences may be rooted in social practices that stretch back thousands of years.

"Westerners are taught to pay attention to objects that are important to them, to have goals that they can follow," he said. "East Asians are more likely to pay attention to the social field. ..."

Nisbett traces the origins of the variation to at least 2,500 years ago. At that time collaborative, large-scale agriculture was the primary driver of the East Asian economy. For most workers, economic survival required paying attention to the person in charge as well as co-workers in the fields. Context was important.

By contrast, ancient Greek society—the prototypical Western society—was characterized by individualistic activities, such as hunting, fishing, and small-scale farming.

The difference, Nisbett said, still holds today. East Asian societies tend to be more socially complex than Western societies. Understanding context, therefore, has more value in East Asia than in the West.

Characterizing Differences

Anthropologist Alan Fiske said the researchers' data is "very sound." But he questions the complex social reasons that the study authors use to explain the differences.

"Social scientists have not been successful in characterizing in absolute general terms what the difference is between East Asian and European-American societies," said Fiske, the director of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development at the University of California, Los Angeles. "We all agree there are huge differences, but [they're] difficult to characterize."

Nevertheless, Fiske said, the study shows "a statistically significant and scientifically interesting" difference in how Chinese and Americans view a scene. This difference, he added, strengthens the argument for multicultural teamwork in business and academe.

Fiske said the differences revealed by the study are not so great that people from Western and East Asian cultures can't understand each other when speaking the same language, he said. "But it suggests people have different strengths in remembering and noticing things, and that would be valuable."

Nisbett, the lead study author, said that the research also has implications for international relations. "Understanding there are differences and why these differences exist can be very helpful," he said.

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We are just a dust inside Humanity. What may be true today at a geopolitical level may turn out to be wrong at the historical scale. Human beings at the present time are able to look at the big picture not from the inside out but from the outside in. But today we live in a world where you have to agree with the MSM: they bring you the facts to their own way, only so that you can agree with them. Critical thinking has been marginalized especially in wars. Freedom is not about lying, it is first about telling the truth.

And let freedom reign

Thank you Robert for the picture :)

Egyptian editor jailed for defaming Mubarak

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced a newspaper editor who has repeatedly criticised President Hosni Mubarak to one year in jail on Monday for defaming the head of state, court sources said.

They said Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the anti-government weekly al-Dustour newspaper, received a one year sentence for publishing an article in April detailing a lawsuit against the president and his family.

That lawsuit had accused Mubarak of selling off state enterprises too cheaply and squandering foreign aid. Eissa's frontpage columns have regularly attacked both Mubarak, president since 1981, and his family.

Two other defendants in Monday's defamation case, another al-Dustour journalist and the man who filed the original lawsuit against Mubarak, also received one year jail terms.

All three were to remain free on bail of 10,000 Egyptian pounds pending an appeal.

The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights expressed concern over the ruling, saying that giving jail terms to journalists would "shackle freedom of the press in Egypt".

Mubarak pledged two years ago to work to abolish imprisonment for publishing offences, but the government has never asked parliament to amend the law.

Egyptian journalists have staged several demonstrations asking the government to fulfil Mubarak's promise.

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Another "President" that does not respect what he pledged.

Chemical weapons found in Iraq ‘too old to be of use’

HUNDREDS of chemical weapons have been found in Iraq — but they were so old they were almost certainly useless.

Intelligence officials said the arms were produced before the 1991 Gulf War and are probably too old to be of use.

The officials were responding to a report circulated by two Republican politicians that says coalition forces had recovered about 500 weapons with mustard or sarin agents, and that more could be discovered around Iraq.


Senator Rick Santorum and House Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra issued a one-page summary of the intelligence report.

Their announcement included the claim, “we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq”.

But intelligence officials said last night that those weapons were produced before the 1991 Gulf War and there is no evidence to date of chemical munitions manufactured since then.

They said an assessment of the weapons concluded they are so degraded that they could not now be used.

They probably would have been intended for chemical attacks during the Iran-Iraq war, said David Kay, who headed the US weapons-hunting team in Iraq from 2003 until early 2004.

He said experts on Iraq’s chemical weapons are in “almost 100% agreement” that sarin nerve agent produced in the 1980s would no longer be dangerous.

“It is less toxic than most things that Americans have under their kitchen sink at this point,” Mr Kay said.

And any of Iraq’s 1980s-era mustard would produce burns, but it is unlikely to be lethal, he added.

The newly declassified military intelligence report was released by National Intelligence director John Negroponte.

The US Government has long since given up hope of finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, with an official concluding that any stocks which existed had been destroyed.

However some believe they could yet be found. Some, such as former Air Force General Thomas McInerney have claimed that the weapons were smuggled across the border to Syria.

Yesterday’s New York Times included an interview with former Air Force investigator Dave Gaubatz who said he knew of four sites where locals had claimed that chemical weapons were buried in concrete bunkers.



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Un nouvel avion au Pentagon

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Les USA construisent toutes ces armes pour faire quoi alors? Faudrait p-e se reveiller les Europeens.

What's going on in Ramadi?

Ramadi is not an "insurgent stronghold" as it is characterized in the media. Nor is it a "safe-haven" for foreign fighters and Al Qaida. This is merely the Pentagon’s fairy-tale to justify attacks on a civilian population. In fact, Ramadi is a city of 400,000, the capital of Anbar Province; a peaceful enclave that never experienced any widespread violence or turmoil before the illegal invasion by the United States armed forces.

Most of the city’s people do not support the occupation of their country and a considerable number of them have taken up arms against the invaders. They are fighting in defense of their country.

There were no WMD in Iraq. The reasons for going to war have all proved to be false. The war was a transparent act of unprovoked aggression against a defenseless people. This is no longer an arguable point.

There are 9 permanent bases being constructed in Iraq’s main oil fields. These bases provide absolute proof in "brick and mortar" of the war’s real objective.


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List of accusations in Iraq stuns experts

The recent flurry of accusations against U.S. servicemen has stunned military analysts and experts. Many see a critical new point in the war — though few agree whether it shows the toll of combat stress, commanders resolved to stamp out war crimes, or, as some claim, an overzealous second-guessing of the troops.

But the number and gravity of the latest allegations have drawn the greatest outcry against U.S. military actions since the Abu Ghraib prison abuses.

“All of a sudden there seem to be charges right and left,” said Loren Thompson at the Lexington Institute, a defense think tank in Arlington, Va. “It clearly has happened in some cases. But it’s hard to tell whether this is a pattern of wrongdoing on our part or just a pattern of closer supervision.”

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Closer supervision is a faith-based language.

La canicule a Vegas

C'est vraiment l'enfer ici, la chaleur vient de s'installer comme dans un four a pains et cela va durer environ 2 mois. Les temperatures avoisinnent generalement les 46/47 degres et meme apres quelques annees sur Vegas, personne n'arrive a s'habituer a ces chaleurs pourtant c'est un climat tres sec qui deshydrate la peau.

Lorsque l'on sort en ville et que l'on ouvre la porte de voiture les temperatures s'elevent a 70 degres et on se brule les doigts sur le volant (bonjour les sieges en cuir si l'on porte des shorts) . Sur les passages cloutes on arrive meme a ressentir la temperature des pots d'echappement qui surchauffent l'atmosphere. Ici le gros probleme dans l'Ouest et le Sud des USA ce sont les gens qui laissent ou qui oublient leurs enfants dans les voitures et la perte enfantile est imminente apres quelques minutes seulement. Ca arrive trop souvent.

Las Vegas a la 2ieme ville la plus chaude des USA avec en tete a 2 heures de route la ville de Phoenix en Arizona ou les temperatures sont de l'ordre de 2 a 3 degres superieurs. Pour trouver des temperatures au-dessus de 50 degres, il faut aller dans la Vallee de la Mort (Death Valley), mais il faut vraiment etre fou pour aller se promener la-bas.


Et demain je prendrai quelques photos si je vais me promener a Vegas.

Mexico Leftist Ahead in Presidential Race: Poll

The poll in Milenio newspaper gave Lopez Obrador, the former mayor of Mexico City, 35 percent support, ahead of former energy minister Felipe Calderon on 30 percent. The leftist's lead was three points in the previous Milenio poll on June 13.

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Iran is not isolated

"The Americans are making a big push to isolate Iran. But they are making a big mistake. We are not Burma," said Vahid Karimi of the government-funded Institute for Political and International Studies. "We have plenty of friends."
Mr Ahmadinejad's latest success came at last weekend's meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a pan-Asian economic and security grouping dominated by China and Russia. Iran hopes to win full SCO membership soon.

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It's all about an oil pipeline that is going to be built from Iran to Pakistan, and the TSE (Teheran Stock Exchange) that did not open yet.

Freedom has NO cost

Have you ever noticed that "freedom" viewed by some people at the US government has not the same meaning inside and outside the US? The Land of Freedom is seen has Liberty and Freedom outside the US has always been seen as a political instrumentation. Doesn't the right to autodetermination and free-will belongs to Iraqis too?

Hard Power VS Soft Power in the Middle-East

Here is an example that Soft Power works but does not stop terrorism, at least not in the occupied Palestine, that's for sure.

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Petit rappel historique pour bien rafraichir la memoire des Republicains

Aux USA on a beaucoup debattu des resolutions de l'ONU pour justifier l'invasion en Irak, surtout des resolutions lorsque Saddam Hussein avait envahi le Kowait (avec approbation des USA) (Q8 pour les fanas de langue arabisantes). Je tiens a preciser qu'il n'avait jamais ete question d'envahir l'Irak au risque de voir une defaite, et ces recommandations avaient ete faites par John Scowcroft a l'epoque le National Security Adviser sous George Bush. Discuter des resolutions de l'ONU etait une strategie pour se couvrir sur les bonnes intentions de GW Bush et c'est aussi une demande d'aide eventuelle envers l'Europe lors des prochaines elections.

Si l'on veut ameliorer l'image de l'Amerique, ca ne passe pas dans l'ecriture d'abord (propagande), mais dans les faits, alors l'ecriture viendra apres et non l'inverse.

Etre gay dans l'armee americaine (being gay in the US army)

Sur le blog insidetheusa.net il y a un lecteur qui demandait si les psys traitaient du phenomene homosexuel comme maladie ou bien comme acquis. Franchement j'en ai aucune idee. En revanche aux USA dans le Pentagon, etre gay est considere comme un probleme mental entrant dans la meme categorie du retardement mental, alcoolisme et desordre de personnalite, d'autant plus que l'homosexualite il y a 30 ans auparavant avait ete reconnue scientifiquement et exclue de la categorie desordre mental.

Il y aurait 65.000 homo- et bisexuels dans les forces armees americaines.


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Les USA sont ils un etat voyou?

Il y a plusieurs personnes aux USA qui contrairement a la majorite de la population, commencent a penser que les USA sont un etat voyou depuis la 2ieme guerre mondiale. En l'espace de 50 ans les USA ont quand meme renverse plus de 50 gouvernements, et le chiffre que l'on n'ose jamais parle sont les millions de morts, personnes tuees au nom de la "liberte" par les soldats americains.

Liberte et Democratie sont 2 mots futils pour rassembler les ideaux de l'Homme et de la societe constituee d'hommes; pourtant la Democratie generalement nee de la revolte de l'homme, non d'un pouvoir autoritaire qui pretend detenir l'autorite morale de la Democratie, qui plus est la liberte est suffisante a soi-meme; un pays peut partir dans les flammes de l'enfer mais l'homme aura toujours sa liberte. Pourquoi doit-on tuer des gens aux noms de la liberte et de la democratie? Pourquoi les medias americains ont celebre la mort de Al Zarkawi mais ne sont aucunement indignes de la mort d'un enfant de 5 ans? Et surtout ou est la part d'humilite de la politique etrangere des USA?

Un fois un Vietcong dit a un prisonnier americain: "avant la guerre vous etiez nos heros, on partageait les meme valeurs, on lisait vos livres, on regardait vos films, et une de nos phrases etaient "etre aussi riche et sage qu'un Americain". Que s'est il passe depuis?." Les choses ont bien change ici, peut-etre elles n'ont jamais change en fait. On vit dans ce carcan de valeurs, de liberte et de democratie; mais si vous enlevez les armes il n'existe plus rien dans ce coeur mis a nu. Dans les medias il y a toujours eu ce cote a une face, ou l'on montre ce que font les troupes US a l'etranger, mais on ne montrera jamais l'opposition que l'on appelle "resistants", "insurges", ou encore "terroristes". Le tabou est reel ici et l'on continue a se voir en tant qu'un pays grandiose meme si l'on pratique la torture a decouvert, envoie des prisonniers dans des goulags, falsifient des documents pour partir en guerre en Irak, et parle d'aide humanitaire en bombardant la Yougoslavie pendant 78 jours.

C'est ce que j'appelle l'holocauste de la pensee americaine. Il y a une distorsion absolue entre les faits et la realite et l'oeil humain ne peut pas se tromper. Il y a une volonte de coller aux traites internationaux certes mais uniquement lorsque cela arrange les USA d'ou son cote unilaterraliste et le jeu devient de plus en plus dangereux au fur et a mesure que les annees passent. Je suis revenu de la these ou les USA ont une autorite morale de proteger les pays des menaces exterieures. J'y ai cru, quand je vivais dans d'autres pays ou meme en France a l'epoque, j'y ai cru comme tout le monde, et je n'y crois plus. Les attaques terroristes ne devraient pas appartenir a une Democratie d'une part, et d'autre part on ne peut pas installer des monarques dans le Moyen-Orient ou un peu partout dans le monde en oprimant les peuples sans escompter des repercussions catastrophiques.

Les evenements recents en Amerique Centrale et du Sud (Chavez, Argentine, Bresil, Mexique, ...etc) , les transformations du Moyen-Orient, la Chine qui ne cesse de s'armer, tous ces evenements sont manifestement le similacre du rejet de la democratie americaine qui arrive a son stade final, qui n'arrive plus a s'importer dans le reste du monde. La democratie? Oui mais pas a la norme americaine. Les USA ont construit un empire base sur l'argent ou le dollar en tant que monnaie papier a remplace l'or.

Je vous propose 2 essais contradictoires:

- L'un de Noam Chomsky qui ecrit que les USA ne sont pas un etat voyou bien qu'ils pratiquent des attaques terroristes.
- L'autre de William Blum qui ecrit apres avoir travaille pour la CIA qu'effectivement les USA sont un etat voyou.

Ca fait vraiment mal au coeur de se trouver dans un pays grandiose, les Americains sont des gens comme tout le monde vous savez, mais j'encaisse tres mal la politique etrangere des USA.
Le pire c'est que les Americains doivent leur bonheur de vivre dans ce merveilleux pays justement a cause de la politique etrangere des USA; la encore c'est une contradiction. Je n'ai jamais eu peur d'une attaque terroriste aux USA, en revanche j'ai peur de me faire racketer dans les rues de Vegas, et j'ai peur de la violence des Americains. Je ne me sens plus du tout Americain depuis la guerre en Irak, j'ai trop honte.

La preparation de l'intelligence avant la guerre en Irak

Dick Cheney et Powell ont passe leur temps a amasser des informations sur l'Irak a la CIA. A un moment donne, face a tres peu d'information, Powell s'exclama: "mais que voulez-vous que je fasse de ces informations? Il n'y a rien dessus".

Les armes de destruction massive et ses repercussions

Les USA sont alles en guerre en Irak pour 2 raisons:

- Les liens terroristes qui n'existent pas
- Les ADM en Irak qui n'existent pas non plus


Je tenais a vous rappeler quand meme que les USA n'attaqueront jamais un pays qui ont des ADM, et encore moins une bombe nucleaire. Ca fait partie de leur doctrine et leur doctrine reste inchangee a ce jour.

Les ADM en Irak etait un mensonge d'Etat, Saddam Hussein n'avait jamais ete une menace a la securite nationale des USA. Quelques mois apres la guerre en Irak j'ai interpele un agent du Pentagon en lui posant la question suivante: "pourquoi avez-vous menti sur les ADM en Irak?" et le mec m'a juste donne cette reponse "I am sorry but we had to do it".

A leftist President for Mexico?

Mexico's Manuel Lopez Obrador may follow Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales as the next Latin leftist leader. And if he wins a bitterly contested election next month, this time the revolution will be just across the US border.

David Usborne reports from Tizimin.

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So much oil in Mexico (2 new oilfields were discovered in Mexico a few months ago) for so much poverty in the South.

Guantanamo gives ammunition to US critics

President George W. Bush acknowledged the damage being done to the US image by the Guantanamo "war on terror" prison camp as a new controversy erupted over journalists who were forced to leave the US base.

Days after three inmates committed suicide, triggering a new international row over the jail, Bush said he would like to shut down Guantanamo, but that some detainees were too dangerous to release.

An Afghan envoy has already announced that he expects all 96 Afghan nationals at the camp to be repatriated soon. But Bush said there had to be a plan to empty Guantanamo before action could be taken.

"I'd like to close Guantanamo," Bush told a White House news conference after returning from a surprise visit to Baghdad.

"But I also recognize that we're holding some people that are darned dangerous, and that we'd better have a plan to deal with them in our courts."

"No question, Guantanamo sends, you know, a signal to some of our friends -- provides an excuse, for example, to say, 'The United States is not upholding the values that they're trying (to) encourage other countries to adhere to.'"

"My answer to them is, is that we are a nation of laws."

"Eventually, these people will have trials and they will have counsel and they will be represented in a court of law."

Bush said the best way to handle Guantanamo detainees, many picked off the battlefields of

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Afghanistan as suspected Taliban or Al-Qaeda operatives, was through military courts.

The US administration is waiting for the Supreme Court to make a decision in on the legality of military tribunals being held at Guantanamo. The Supreme Court ruling is imminent.

European governments, a UN human rights panel and various rights groups have called on the United States to shut down Guantanamo. Opponents of the camp have stepped up criticism since three suicides of inmates last Saturday.

There are about 460 inmates at the camp, most held there as "enemy combatants" since early 2002 without charge or access to a lawyer.

The US military faced new protests after four American journalists were ordered to leave Guantanamo Bay. The Charlotte Observer newspaper said its photographer and reporter were "expelled" along with journalists from the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times.

The Observer said the reporters received an email message which quoted a directive from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordering them to leave on the first plane to Miami on Wednesday.

The US Defence Department denied the four had been expelled, but a spokesman, Lieutenant Commander J.D. Gordon admitted they were asked to leave. "They had no purpose to be there. They are already there longer than they needed to be and they left," he told AFP.

The Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times reporters were believed to have arrived in Guantanamo to cover events after the suicides of two Saudi and one Yemeni inmates.

The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, which provides lawyers for many inmates said it "forcefully condemned the expulsion of reporters."

Gitanjali Gutierrez, one of the centre's attorneys, said: "At a time when the administration must be transparent about the deaths at Guantanamo, they are pulling down a wall of secrecy and avoiding public accountability. This crackdown on the free press makes everyone ask what else they are hiding down there?"

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"My answer to them is, is that we are a nation of laws."
Really?

Opinion of a DEA agent about drugs and violence

I did not find yet what I needed to know about violence and and drugs but here are some explaination:

- the crime rate is rising where there are more home foreclosures -

- more of an indication that unemployment is a contributing factor.

- which leads to drug addiction to escape the reality of personal failure.

Yes, of course drug addiction increases the incidence of crime - cocaine, heroin, crystal meth and others are highly addictive and expensive - no money, no drugs -- so increased crime -- because of the desperation that the need for the drug creates.

One of the largest suppliers of drugs was Iraq and Afghanistan ; most of the middle eastern countries provide heroin and other illegal and addictive drugs.

This is one of the ways that the terrorists finance their activities.

Of course, Mexico and all the Latin American countries are also heavily suppliers of illegal drugs - you already know that.

Unemployment leads to despair -- which leads to drug addiction -- which leads to crime to support habit.

Laziness usually leads to drug addiction.

Broken relationships usually leads to drug addiction, including alcohol.

Being rich leads to boredom -- leads to drug addiction.

Crystal meth is so popular because you can make it at home -- highly addictive and highly destructive to the body as are 90% of all illegal drugs.

La violence aux USA

WASHINGTON - Murders, robberies and aggravated assaults in the United States increased last year, spurring an overall rise in violent crime for the first time since 2001, according to FBI data.

Murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage increase in 15 years.

Murders jumped from 272 to 334 in Houston, a 23 percent spike; from 330 to 377 in Philadelphia, a 14 percent rise; and from 131 to 144 in Las Vegas, a 10 percent increase.

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Las Vegas arrive a la 3ieme position en taux d'implosion sur les crimes, par contre Las Vegas est situe en 1iere position en taux de criminalite (13% de la population). Il n'est pas rare ici de voir des gens se faire assassiner par arme de poing; ce sont souvent des disputes de territoire entre gangs lie a la vente de stupefiants. Il y a des exemples connus ici, comme le chanteur TUPAC qui s'est fait assassiner sur Vegas, et plus recemment le beau-frere de Snoop Doggy Dog qui s'est fait descendre sous mes yeux par 18 policiers lors d'un control d'identite.

A Houston et dans ses banlieus, c'est le meme phenomene aussi. Une partie de la violence la-bas est liee au traffic de stupefiants: la recrudescence de methamphetamine s'est artificiellement creee suite a la guerre contre la cocaine provenant de Colombie. Un exemple regional ici en Louisiane sur le nombre de laboratoires clandestins produisant des "cristaux". La Louisiane est au 6ieme rang.

Il n'y a aucune etude liee entre les alternatives de nouvelles drogues et la violence, car c'est un sujet trop politique ici qui servirait a contrecarrer la politique exterieure de Bush avec la Colombie et c'est tout a fait regrettable. Dans quelques jours si possible je ferai une interview avec un expert travaillant pour la DEA pour confirmer mes soupcons.

Confirmation sur Al Zarqawi

BAGHDAD — The airstrike that killed al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was made possible by a breakthrough in penetrating his secretive group, Iraq's national security adviser said Sunday. A shakedown of the organization continues, he said.

"I can confirm that Zarqawi was killed because we got ahold of high-quality, reliable, actionable intelligence," Mouwafak al-Rubaie said. "We have managed to infiltrate al-Qaeda in Iraq. We had been monitoring his movements for a few weeks."

Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born terrorist responsible for some of the deadliest attacks on Iraqi civilians, was killed in an airstrike Wednesday after a three-year manhunt. He was found after a tip from a source inside al-Qaeda in Iraq led to Sheik Abdul-Rahman al-Iraqi, Zarqawi's spiritual adviser. Rahman, in turn, led U.S. and Iraqi forces to the house in the village of Hibhib where Zarqawi was hiding.

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Critiquer non, s'auto-critiquer oui

La 2ieme guerre mondiale a place les Americains et les Francais dans une meme perspective d'ideologie. La guerre en Irak a fait naitre un conflit d'idees via l'opposition de nos 2 cultures.

Al Zarqawi est mort pour la 5ieme et derniere fois

Le mythe et la realite se sont symbioses pour celebrer mediatiquement avec images a l'appui la mort funeste de Al Zarkawi.

Le mythe c'etait l'enorme machination sur Fox News pour nous faire croire aux liens terroristes entre Ben Laden et Al Zarqawi: "Al Zarqawi, ayant perdu sa jambe en Afghanistan veut sa revanche contre les Americains en Irak!" s'ecriait Bill O'Reilly. Les medias americains ont souvent utilises Al Zarqawi depuis le debut en Irak pour dissimuler des violentes reactions incontrolables ("terrorisme") apres la prise de Bahgdad et d'autres villes de l'Irak (Fallujah, Mossul ... etc)


La realite c'est qu'il est bel et bien mort mais le mythe continuera son chemin: la mort d'Al Zarqawi ne mettra pas fin aux violences en Irak, c'est juste du matraquage mediatique pour continuer l'occupation d'Irak: les Irakiens sont liberes de Saddam Hussein et de Al Zarqawi jusqu'a nous faire oublier que les Americains sont vus par certains Irakiens comme des envahisseurs aussi. Al Zarqawi en fait ira meme jusqu'a decriminaliser les protagonistes de cette invasion barbarique.


Il aura quand meme fallu plus de 2 ans pour retrouver Al Zarqawi. 2 ans pour trouver une aiguille parmi d'autres aiguilles dans une botte de foin: a ce jour Al Zarqawi montre que le reseau de resistance des Jihads par appui aux Sunnis a ete infiltre par les services d'intelligence americaine.


Tant pis pour les Francais qui ont ete eleves dans l'esprit de liberation depuis la 2ieme guerre mondiale, Al Zarkawi est bel et bien mort. Les Francais sont souvent des grands donneurs de lecon de moral, ici aux USA, ils n'ont pas le temps pour cela, ils n'ont meme plus besoin de philosophie ou d'inertie, ils agissent. Ce sont les armes des plus forts qui determinent la liberte face aux mots de la raison des plus faibles qui ne seront jamais entendus.

Who will build our houses?

Fortune reported: “In May, Fischer Homes, a leading builder in Kentucky and Indiana, was raided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and four Fischer supervisors were charged with harboring illegal aliens.

“Court papers filed by ICE accuse Fischer of using subcontractors ‘to provide a layer’ between it and some 75 illegal workers. That layer, the feds contend, ‘does not relieve Fischer of the responsibility to ensure that their contractors are employing a legal work force.’

“A crackdown on undocumented workers would shrivel an already tight construction labor market. Lee Wetherington of Lee Wetherington Homes in Sarasota, Fla., estimates that 70 percent of the workers employed by his subcontractors are Hispanic immigrants.

“‘If for any reason we lose that work force, you're going to see the time required to build a house double or triple and the cost of new homes increase 30 to 40 percent,’ Wetherington says.


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Putos de la immigracion.

Yellow journalism- le journalisme jaune

In journalism, yellow journalism is a pejorative reference given to various practices or tendencies of news media organizations which, by the standards of journalistic professionalism, are considered to be unprofessional and detrimental to the principles of journalistic integrity as a whole. The term typically refers to sensationalism in news reporting that bears only a superficial resemblance to the profession of journalism. The term "infotainment" was coined to refer to news programming that blends journalism and entertainment in a way which, critics argue, diminishes the news value and professionalism of the reporting.

The phrase "media bias" is a related term which is used in political rhetoric to assert a broad political bias within news media organizations. Its common usage derives from news media talk shows where an organization's functionaries and personalities tend to direct discussion away from issues in professional journalism to issues in politics.

Les Gold diggers

Definition d'un(e) Gold digger en langage americain: prostitution indirecte des gens qui exerce une relation sexuelle, l'un en vue de l'argent, l'autre a cause de son physique ou d'autres capacites attirantes, meme si l'une des 2 relations a une vie conforme.

La definition europeenne philosophique "je t'aime parce-que tu m'aimes" prend de suite tout un autre sens aux USA: l'un voit l'amour, et l'autre voit l'argent. Voila pourquoi on appelle cela "Gold Diggers" car l'autre personne a la vertue argente est persuadee de son physique et non de ses capacites financieres.

No one ever told me when I was alone

No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better.. better...
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better.. better...

The hardest part this troubled heart has never yet been through now
To heal the scars that got their start inside someone like you now
But had I known or I'd been shown back when I'd long you'd take me
To break the charge that brought me home...
and all that won't erase me

I never wondered what I could
No matter what you paid me
replay the part
You stole my heart
I should have known you're crazy

If all I knew was that with you
I'd want someone to save me
It'd be enough
That just my luck
I fell in love and baby...

All that I wanted was...

Now I know you better
You know I know better
Yeah, now I know you better!

So bittersweet, this tragedy wont ask for absolution
This melody inside of me, still searches for solution
A twist of fate, the change of heart kills my infatuation
A broken heart can't hide the spark for my determination

No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better...
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better, better...


All that I wanted, was...

I know, you know, you know better
You know, I know, you know better
Now you, know me better

I never wanted you to be so full of anger (anger)
I never wanted you to be somebody else
I never wanted you to be someone afraid to know themselves
I only wanted you to see things for yourself

All that I wanted, was...

Now I know you better
Now we all know better

All that I wanted was...

No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no
No, no, no, no

If I were you, I'd manage to abhore the invitation
Of promised love that can't keep up with your adoration
Just use your head, and in the end you'll find your inspiration
To choose your steps that won't regret this kind of aggravation

No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better.. better...
No one ever told me when I was alone
They just thought I'd know better.. better...

Is the iraqi body count another lie from Bush?

"Less than 10,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq (GWB on TV 3 months ago).
"More than 100,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq (Dahr Jamail).

These figures ranges from 1 to 10 at least.


First of all, the US army does not record any civilian loss since no administration whatsoever can operate in this chaos. Naomi Klein stated a few months ago that US troops usually shot people who try to do the body count.

link here

Les conversions en condomiums (Condo conversions)

Dans la ville de Las Vegas il n'y presque plus d'espace pour construire de nouvelles maisons. Las Vegas est dans un trou entoure par des montagnes, et l'aglomeration s'est etiree jusqu'au pied des montagnes. Il est donc difficile de vendre des nouvelles maisons pour faire prosperer le credit a la consommation, les maisons se faisant plus rare, et de plus la population boudent le prix des maisons (le prix au-dessus de 300.000 dollars a tres peu de chance d'etre vendu). A Las Vegas ils ont trouve la solution: ils transforment les appartements en condominiums et forcent les locataires a convertir leur appartement en condos. Genial la trouvaille des neoliberalistes...

- Premierement les appartements ne ressemblent pas a des condominium du tout.
- Deuxiemement les condominiums sont exposes a une taxe mensuelle, ce qui n'est pas le cas pour les appartements.
- Troisiemement on demande aux Nevadans de s'endetter sur 30 ans, et de payer au moins 50% plus cher sur le prix d'un appartement (au lieu de payer un peu plus de 1,000 dollars, les gens paieront 1,5000 dollars par mois).
- Quatriemement Las Vegas est une ville ouvriere et on a des penuries sur la main d'oeuvre qualifiee car les salaires sont trop bas a comparer du niveau de vie. Il n'est pas du tout evident de trouver un salaire de plus de 12 dollars de l'heure a Las Vegas.
- Cinquiemement les salaires aux USA ne sont pas indexes sur le prix de l'inflation. Les salaires n'ont pas bouge depuis 10 ans maintenant.





C'est ca le neoliberalisme.

A new documentary

This buddy of mine Ric Osuna who wrote "The Night the DeFeos died", a story based on Amityville, will bring his story into a new documentary that will come out on November 2006.
Here is the trailer.

The documentary has been invited to a couple of film festivals inside the US and also in France.

link here.


Always inside movies' story there is this effects pioneer Widmer who dies at the age of 92. He was more famous to be know as "Mister Blue Screen" which is a technic to use a background behind a blue screen. This technic is still employed nowadays.

link here

Lorsque on avait tous les yeux rives sur le Sud

On avait oublie le nord des USA avec le Canada. C'est fou comme ca bouge dernierement la-bas.

- Les syndicats du travail ont vote pour boycotter Israel dans la province de l'Ontario aussi longtemps que Israel ne reconnaitra pas la Palestine. link here

- Des gens preparaient une attaque de type Al-Qaeda en Ontario dans Toronto. link here

La fete des peres arrive

Le jour de la fete des Peres (3ieme Dimanche de Juin) fut decrete jour officiel en 1972 par Richard Nixon bien que ce fut Lindon Johnson qui le declara en 1966 mais ne fut jamais officiellement reconnu.

L'Irak et la guerre contre la terreur

Au debut de la guerre, l'Irak n'appartenait pas du tout a la guerre contre la terreur mais la plupart des gens l'ont oublie.

L'equipe PSYOP

PSYOP en francais veut dire "operation psychologique" et c'est une equipe employee par le Pentagon. C'est un terme qui me fait hurler car on est loin de la guerre conventionnelle et aussi loin de l'uniforme de l'armee americaine. C'est gens-la ne sont pas du tout imposes par les regles de la guerre, alors que l'armee americaine se donne le droit de juger des gens sans uniforme hors de leur frontiere en attaquant n'importe quel pays.

Je ne peux pas en parler, je n'ai pas le courage, sachez que ca existe. J'ai remarque une chose cependant: sur le site de la BBC, il est vrai qu'ils essaient de raconter certains evenements de facon neutre, mais ils ont contribue a deformer la realite des choses du cote de Basrah, surtout du cote Anglais. Les "insurgeants" comme on les appelle ici, sont vraiment informes de tout mouvement en Irak. J'appelle cela du contre-espionnage car c'est trop coordone leur tactic d'attaque.

Ici aux USA on est dans la mentalite de "la guerre contre la terreur" alors que l'on se situe plutot dans une guerre d'information et de desinformation.



link here

The link is inaccurate though.

Au pays des Mormons - Mormons culture

Geographiquement la grande concentration des Mormons se trouvent a cote de l'Etat du Nevada, dans l'Utah (l'Utah est de descendance neerlandaise). Un Mormon ne se reconnait pas a son look, en fait ces gens-la ressemblent souvent a l'Americain moyen, mais affiche leur appartenance a la LDS (Latter Day Saint) qui est une eglise.

Un Mormon a des regles d'hygiene de vie. Ces gens-la ne boivent pas d'alcool, ne fument pas, et ne boivent pas de cafe non plus. La cafeine est interdite religieusement au sens strict meme si ce sont les Mormons qui detiennent la majorite des actions dans coca-cola. Je n'ai jamais compris pourquoi la cafeine etait interdite chez les Mormons mais il y a plein de livre religieux qui interdisent une alimentation particuliere ou qui furent modifies plus tard comme le Koran par exemple avec la consommation de porc. De plus certains Mormons pratiquent la polygamie, du moins, ce sont les Hommes qui sont capables d'avoir plusieurs femmes meme si c'est tres mal accepte aux USA, ca existe encore. Un Mormon il y a tres peu de temps avait ete marie a 70 femmes dans l'Etat de l'Utah. Il y a forcement une distorsion entre la raison de l'Etat et la raison de la religion uniquement sur ce point de vue la. Un Mormon croit que si l'on fait du mal alors ca reviendra forcement contre nous.

Le livre des Mormons fut ecrit dans le Nouveau Monde et c'est un melange de differents textes Bibliques (Genesis and Exodus). La aussi c'est etrange, mais tout est parti d'une seule personne, Smith, dans le Nouveau Monde, loin de l'Europe, qui chercha a imposer sa propre vision a l'interieur des recits bibliques. Honnetement je me suis toujours mefie des Ecritures Saintes car c'est souvent un instrument politique qui controle facilement les gens a l'interieur d'une meme religion (l'Inquisition chez nous, et ailleurs d'autres choses...). L'Eglise des Mormons est riche, mais je ne connais pas l'etendue de sa richesse. Ce qui est sur c'est que les Mormons donnent en general 10% de leur argent a l'Eglise des Mormons.

Culturellement ils sont en general acceptes des Americains mais sans plus car les gens se mefient de leurs croyances et de leurs idees. La plupart des Mormons pensent que tout Homme est libre de penser "librement" (difference) ce qui ne les empeche pas de faire leur propre croisade pacifiquement dans les USA pour recuperer encore plus de monde. Mais pour faire quoi dans le futur?



Voici en quelques lignes le concentre de leur croyance, en langue anglaise:

1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
2. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
3. We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
11. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul—We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

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