Descending Into Darkness: The Harring Report

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Descending Into Darkness: The Harring Report

 

 

 

 

 

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Descending Into Darkness: The Harring Report

 

" As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more

and more closely, the inner soul of the people, On some great and

glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's

desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. "

- H.L. Mencken

 

" That we are to stand by the president, right or wrong is not only

unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American

public. "

-Theodore Roosevelt

 

" Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but

according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage - - -

-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of

civilians - - - - which does not change its moral color when it is

committed by our side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove

of atrocities committed by his own side, he has remarkable capacity

for not even hearing about them. "

-George Orwell

 

" Under the Bush administration, openness and accountability have been

replaced by secrecy and evasion of responsibility. They abuse their

power, conceal their actions from the American people, and refuse to

hold officials accountable. "

-Senator Edward M. Kennedy

 

" George W. Bush is deeply interested in Deep Space Exploration. His

next project will be to circle Uranus and search for Klingons….. "

-Dallas Herald

 

" Once a Republican, always a coprophile…: "

-Mother Theresa

 

" A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to

something worse. "

-Pat Robertson

 

" The voters decide nothing. Those that count the votes decide

everything. "

-J.V. Stalin

 

" The Senior White House staff is living proof that Pentecostal

mongoloids regularly cohabit with chimpanzees, frogs and Norway rats "

-Dr. Myron Kalbfuss, Biology Department, Stanford University

 

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educational purposes.

 

America's Enemies!

 

There are four entities who represent the most dangerous enemies to

American liberties since George III.

 

They are:

 

1. The Neocons or Likudists who owe their personal allegiance to

another country and now completely control our foreign policy. They

lied and deceived us into the Iraq war and are demanding that more and

more American soldiers die to preserve their own country and ideals.

 

2. The Christian Evangelical right who is trying to force the United

States into becoming a theocracy under their rule. They know in their

hearts that they alone can restructure a secular humanist America into

their idea of Heaven on Earth.

 

3. An element of American society that call themselves Patriots and

are obsessively militaristic and great admirers of the corporate or

fascistic state. Many of these have been very minor members of the

American military and as a counterbalance to their reserve or rear

area tours of duty, are rabidly in favor of draconian military action,

the bloodier the better. Usually these drumbeaters are too old, or too

fat, to fight and have no sons of draft age.

 

4. George W. Bush, who is the worst president in the history of the

United States and directly responsible for the huge death tolls in

Iraq, is determined to rule the United States until God puts a stop to

him and is even more determined to force the American people into

becoming obedient, Christian and self-sacrificing lemmings who worship

at his shrine and march in step.

 

Recommended reading

 

We gather information, on a daily basis, from many websites. There are

a number of publications that are well worth viewing for their

intelligent reporting of national and international news. All of those

sources, listed below, are daily newspapers with the exception of the

Asia Times. The latter is a very well written site with in-depth

articles that are worth reading.

 

The New York Times: www.nytimes.com

The Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.com

The Christian Science Monitor: www.csmonitor.com

The Guardian: www.guardian.co.uk

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: www.seattlepi.nwsource.com

Asia Times www.atimes.com

 

Note: Very little of the information in this edition of TBR news has

come from the mainline American media. It is just not there. Most of

it has come from foreign sources and the Internet. Most of our sources

can be seen on the main page.

The Voice of the White House

 

December 29, 2005: " The sole topic of conversation inside

knowledgeable Washington circles this holiday season is the coming

impeachment of Bush and the removal of Cheney from office. And this is

not solely restricted to Democrats by any means but also includes a

growing majority of Republican lawmakers, the military commands, the

senior federal judiciary and those who comprise the so-called Power

Elite of this country.

 

Bush is seen as completely out of control.

 

It is known that he was put into the White House by powerful

Republican, conservative, religious and business entities who were

tired of Clinton and the American liberals and wanted to run the

country along their own lines.

 

That their rigged candidate was known to be a useless failure in

business, a drunk, a coke-head and of limited intelligence made no

difference.

 

They reasoned that Bush Senior could control him (which, it turned

out, he could not) and that the cunning Karl Rove would keep him on

track and be able to control public opinion. Another factor was the

crazy Dick Cheney, who was determined to be a Vice president That

Would Matter and he firmly believed, as did many others, that he could

completely control the dimwitted Bush.

 

The reign started out well enough and the spin doctors were able to

convince Americans that all was right in heaven. Evangelical

Christians, numerically inferior but, like the Communists during the

Roosevelt era, well organized, fanatic and able to deliver winning

blocs of votes at the critical elections immediately came on line,

panting for a New Jerusalem and led by the biggest bunch of

money-grubbing, psalm-singing hypocrites since the late Elmer Gantry.

 

It looked like plain sailing in those days.

 

The Republican plan,

 

· to strengthen their party in Congress to the point where it was

invulnerable to any Democratic challenges,

 

· to marginalized the Democratic party to the point of being nothing

but comic relief and to promulgate social programs that would reduce

welfare for the disliked blacks and jobless of all races to nothing,

 

· to give huge tax benefits to the wealthy

Republican cash cows,

 

· to appease the religious right by allowing creationism to be taught

in all public schools, bringing the Ten Commandments of Moses into

public buildings,

 

· to cater to the right wing and pro-Israel Jewish groups by

appointing many of their co-religionists to positions of power in the

determining of foreign policy (read ` Israeli needs both economically

and politically in the Middle East',

 

· to do everything in their power to assist, by any means, both

American and British oil interests in obtaining a secure supply of oil

and gas in the same Middle East as well as to secure economic control

over Russian oil and gas,

 

· to secure pipeline rights across central Asia to guarantee more

uninterrupted flow of oil to American tanker bottoms for shipment to

the oil-starved United States..

 

All of these things appeared to be well under way until it started to

become apparent that Bush himself was not that easily controlled and

began to believe the propaganda his staff fed him on a daily basis. As

Bush is a very weak man, he constantly needs reinforcement by those

around him to assure him of his manliness and ability. He lacks both

but his staff has spent years filling him full of sycophantic and

dangerous propaganda to the point that Bush now actually believes that

he is divinely protected and a great leader in his own right.

 

Imagine how the religious right, the Republican legislators and

American business interests must have felt with each successive faux

pas on the part of the President. There was:

 

· the obviously homosexual Gannon being allowed to roam all over the

White House at night (by permission of the President),

 

· the vicious Plame scandal,

 

· the growing awareness of the utter corruption of Cheney and others,

 

· the obvious lies used by Bush and Cheney to trick Congress into

permitting a premeditated attack on Iraq to gain their oil fields,

 

· the uncomprehending stupidity with which this attack was launched

and the resulting very successful Iraqi resistance movement,

 

· the subsequent low morale and rising death tolls among the

well-equipped but very badly disciplined American military,

 

· the destruction of Iraqi oil production and its total loss to the

White House schemers,,

 

· the rising and intense international fear and hatred of the Bush

policies and worse,

 

· the growing number of international political and business cartels

designed to keep foreign oil from America as a punishment and as a

warning to cease and desist irrational and violent activities outside

its own borders.

 

The CIA, under orders from Bush, toppled the pro-Russian governments

in Georgia and the Ukraine and have tried, without success, to foment

rebellions in many other former Soviet republics…all because of the

oil-rich areas. Putin, who is twice the man Bush is and no fool,

struck back and took control of the Russian oil and gas industries,

costing American and British firms hundreds of millions of dollars

they had spent on bribes to the now-powerless Russian Oligarchy that

ran all the oil and gas fields.

 

That all of these oligarchy members were Jewish street thugs who

banked their billions in Israeli banks is something not widely known

and Putin's sequestering of their ill-gotten bribes has enraged

Israel, prompting them to launch attacks on Putin's perceived

`dictatorial ways' in their many media outlets.

 

In addition to the Plame scandal, the public watched as the mask

slipped during the Katrina disaster. They saw, very clearly and very

often, how the current Administration held poor blacks in utter

contempt and through a terrible mixture of racism and gross

incompetence, permitted the suffering of poor, non-voting blacks to be

proclaimed throughout the land (and the entire horrified world) and

unto all the inhabitants thereof.

 

This outrageous callousness marked the turning point in the public, as

opposed to the professional and political, opinion and Bush's public

ratings have been steadily dropping. And this in spite of clearly

rigged positive polls by the administration's spin-doctors and that

shrinking portion of the American media that still do the White

House's biddings.

 

Now, the cherry on the sundae is the open admission by Bush that he

personally ordered unlimited telephone tapping by the NSA, the FBI,

DHS and the CIA of mail, email, fax communications and even first

class mail of any American, or foreign, citizen that either Bush,

Cheney or those having their ear wanted to spy on and, hopefully

discredit.

 

That these actions are very clearly a violation of federal law means

nothing to Bush or Cheney. They both feel, and have publicly stated,

that they are the law and may do as they wish. They have used the

willing services of the telephone networks, SBC and AT & T, the computer

internet firm of AOL (and to his credit, Bill Gates refused to allow

this on his Microsoft network for such illegal spying which will, no

doubt, get him investigated by the DoJ as quickly as possible) all of

whom needed no order to comply with a flagrant violation of specific

American law.

 

It is all of these factors that have so frightened the American

Congress and federal judiciary that the movement in these circles to

impeach Bush and remove Cheney has rapidly accelerated in the days

following Bush's foolish and arrogant boast that he not only ordered

unlimited surveillance on American and foreign individuals, firms and

government entities but flatly refused to cease this completely

illegal process.

 

As I said above, this is not a Democratic Party scheme but one that

encompasses all levels and party affiliations. In the Christmas week,

in private homes, in the Cosmos and Metropolitan Clubs, in the dining

rooms of the Jockey Club and the Hay-Adams hotel, there have been

small, private meetings on the subject of how to remove Bush. No one

initially wanted a reprise of the Nixon removal but at this point, all

of them realize that Bush has three more years of this insanity and

that as the forthcoming mid terms would no doubt be a disaster to the

Republicans, concrete action is at last being formulated.

 

As an interesting, if somewhat sinister, side note to this topic,

according to a signed memo, Cheney has spoken with Rumsfeld about the

attitude of senior military commanders about supporting a declaration

by Bush of Martial Law in America.

 

Fortunately, the military leaders, with two exceptions, would have

none of this and after a brief, quiet, internal and certainly very

private, polling of their numbers, the subject was permanently

shelved. When news of this leaked out, however (there are no secrets

in Washington, believe me) it terrified many members of the

legislative branch on both sides of the aisle and now the plans for an

impeachment proceeding are taking on a new and well-supported life.

 

Most do not know of currently-discussed plans among certain foreign

countries to force Bush and Cheney before the World Court on charges

of war crimes to include planned massacres of unarmed civilians, theft

of private property, making illegal warfare and lesser charges such as

the deliberate killing of foreign journalists. None of this has come

to pass…yet… but the very discussion of the idea in the chancelleries

and foreign offices of Europe, and the Middle East is only adding fuel

to the fires now lit under two of three branches of the American

government.

 

The Executive is dangerously beyond control but the Legislative and

Judicial are rising to the call.

 

These will be interesting times indeed! "