As the atrocities of rich criminals increase, the tragic American coma intensifies

By a true patriot and a national treasure John Kaminski

I remember a childhood board game, in which a magnet beneath the surface pulled around metal shavings into any form you cared to make. It was fun to create faces, and, as I recall, easy to draw the devil, with his pencil-thin mustache and goatee, and pointed horns on top.

And I remember arguing with my father in the late '60s, insisting that money was not the most important thing in life, but that warmth and love and compassion were, and him vehemently disagreeing with me, and shaking his head at what a boob he thought I'd become — a misguided hippie idealist.

Now both memories meld together and come at me as I contemplate the suffocating chokehold mass media inflict on the American population, where so many people, morally imprisoned by their neurotic need to fit in at all costs, believe that nothing is really real unless they see it on television.

And I recall decades of TV news shows chronicling the evil of Hitler's Panzer divisions tearing up France and torturing its captured citizens, or of Japanese rape camps which the valiant allied troops battled to liberate and dismantle. Those of my generation were brought up with this legendary propaganda, and it made us feel good that Americans were the good guys, and we were Americans, always fighting on the side of freedom and justice.

I have a distant relative who spends much of his time watching these black-and-white documentaries of World War II troop movements, and relishing the role of the British, saving the world for democracy. Every time I visit him, I must always stifle the urge to say I wish he could get the Al-Jazeerah channel on his television so he could watch today's American troops "finishing off" wounded Iraqi freedom fighters, or sexually mutilating hapless captives inside Abu Ghraib prison while they explain they are fighting terror.

You would think — as a thinking, feeling human being who believes we are honest with ourselves — that American TV would tell you what's really going on. I mean, we live in a real world, we pay real bills, we have — if we're lucky — real people who love us. And we'd like to think the way we perceived the real world was accurate, that we had all the information we needed to make our judgments about what is right and what is wrong.

In fact, most Americans think they do. Unfortunately for you, me, and the world, they are very wrong. Painfully wrong.

The perverse panderers who determine the content of what's on TV have a very evil double standard. They are perfectly willing to publicize horrors by those whom they consider the enemy, but absolutely unwilling to apply these standards of journalism to their allies, those they consider their friends. Consequently, they have no integrity. And as a result, neither do we.

And also as a result, America has turned into a nation of psychopathic killers, abetted by a comatose populace which endorses these crimes by their sadistic inattention to them.

My reflections on these matters derive from a simple contemplation of today's American media performance. Most Americans think they know what's going on simply by watching the evening news, or reading a local newspaper. Some of the hipper folks think they get real perspective from public television or listening to National Public Radio — maybe they even read a Howard Zinn book now and then — and inwardly congratulate themselves on their savvy news acumen.

In fact, the volume of American war crimes and other atrocities that go unmentioned by American media has reached unprecedented proportions. And yet, with each new lie told by our leaders covering up new atrocities perpetrated by the American military, the American people are driven deeper into a self-inflicted coma — in large part because our media do not recognize these events as real, creating a situation in the minds of the American people that if they are not reported on television, then they must not really be true.

This is where evolution has taken us — to a totally brainwashed delusion.

And as many people now already realize, this is a sure formula for disaster, quite possibly for the end of the world. Because when you lie to yourself, you give up your chance of ever finding the truth.

Think about what hasn't been on television, but what you know to be real from what you've read by searching out alternative news sources on the Internet. The stolen election is the hot topic right now. There is no question that a nationwide network of highly-paid Republican flunkies skewed the voting process in a number of states. They made it as difficult as possible for black people to vote, sabotaged ballots in likely Democratic precincts, and took control of the electronic voting process so as to actually change the totals via computer in an absolutely untraceable way.

And the worst part of all, I think, was that the major opposition candidate was in on the fix, because he absolutely does not care whether the votes are recounted or not, and also ran on essentially the same platform as that espoused by the absolutely most dangerous and irresponsible president in the history of the country.

So, how concerned are you? And how much do you care to see? If you choose not to look, the penalty will be your life. But maybe even that isn’t enough to motivate a majority of socially lobotomized American androids.

All of this did not happen overnight. In fact, some could convincingly argue that this type of mass mental manipulation has always been going on.

But limiting our evidence to just recent events, ever since the first Kennedy assassination, the powers that be have known that they could get away with absolutely anything, as long as the media spun it in a way that made questioning the official version of the event an unpatriotic or unhip thing to do. So, since those string of assassinations in the Sixties, the atrocities have become progressively worse (we won't recount the list again here), and the public's retreat into reassuring but false media spin has become progressively more widespread.

To the point where now we have the obscene extermination of an entire populations going on in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti and Colombia, and we have the majority of Americans willingly oblivious to it all, going merrily on their way with their Christmas shopping and Internet porn surfing. Despite the desperate rallying of radio talk show hosts and erstwhile peace activists, the perceptual coma that enshrouds the American people has never been more pervasive. Nor more dangerous to all life on this planet.

And with all due respect to you cyberdenizens who ply the Worldwide Web for unbiased news you know you can’t get on TV or in war machine propaganda instruments like The New York Times, I humbly submit that even you do not fully comprehend the depraved dementia being inflicted upon us all by a process so psychologically intertwined with what we perceive are our own best interests that we can’t even track down the events that got us to this sad point in the evolution of our self-destruction without needing some rejuvenating boost from Elavil, Maui wowie, salvia divinorum, or at least Jack Daniel’s.

Sure, you know the basic stuff: that the U.S. government is responsible for 9/11 because it provided a license for the military-industrial complex to invade the whole world, or that the war in Iraq is based on lies and as a result is as bad as the actions of any of the many demonic tyrants throughout world history. And this is your America I’m talking about!

Who cares? What’s on TV?

The worst, most vicious killers in history, bar none, and you still, in your heart, won’t admit it! American soldiers were told by their superiors to kill everyone in Fallujah, no matter how young or how old, but you didn’t see that on TV so you don’t believe it.

The blood seeping into the sand is not your problem, you think. They deserve it for what they did in New York, is a common line still heard among the great uneducated herd that poses as cultured America.

OK, enough of what most call politics. Because that’s just the superficial stuff. Now I want to talk about the really bad stuff, because if you don’t understand it, you won’t really understand just how dangerous a situation we are all in.

Which leads me back to one of my all-time favorite quotes, the one by Ralph J. Gleason. “No matter how paranoid you are, what they’re actually doing is worse than you can possibly imagine!”

Three recent stories — all of which were written by women and none of which will ever see the light of day in mainstream media — got my attention concerning the depth of depravity that we have created for ourselves in this rapidly disintegrating world of ours. (And I won’t even mention the New Zealand professor who said today that the human species could be extinct in as little as a hundred years based on what’s happening today.)

Recently, Mary Sparrowdancer sent me her sequel to her momentous piece, “The Battle for Darkness and Light,” which is about the implications of fluoride on your very own body. http://www.rense.com/general45/bll.htm

The new piece is titled “National Fluoride Database Launched by USDA,” located at http://www.rense.com/general60/nationalflouridedatabase.htm

She writes:

Now, with Americans thoroughly riddled with fluoride due to a sixty-year-old medical experiment that never produced its promised results — now, with most of the entire nation currently suffering from gastrointestinal complaints, mood and sleep disturbances, bizarre aches and pains, elevated blood pressure, bone density problems, cancers, heart problems, liver problems, kidney problems, dental problems, thyroid problems and obesity, attention is finally being paid to the cumulative effects of fluoridating the water supply.

You know, this is much more than some abstruse health story. The fluoride issue, which reverberates throughout the food chain, is really about blunting the process of evolution, about dulling the minds of billions of people and depriving them of their rightful hopes of having brilliant, evolved minds, and leading a new world into a bright and hopeful future, all sacrificed for a plan by evil rich men to dispose of a nuclear waste product and turn a vicious but hefty profit in their devil’s bargain.

Maybe the United States did not win World War II. Maybe, with the deployment of fluoride and radioactive substances into our air and food chain, the losers of that war made a last-ditch attempt at an evil last laugh with two doomsday substances that guarantee a future of slavery and sickness rather than the bright hope of a just and happy society.

And that second poison I mentioned, radioactivity, is the subject of a second recent story, as bleak a tableau as we can face in our modern world but one that is absolutely essential for us to know if we are to survive as a species.

Titled “Depleted uranium: Dirty bombs, dirty missiles, dirty bullets — A death sentence here and abroad” , it is the latest in a series of dispatches on the subject by Leuren Moret, a former Lawrence Livermore Lab scientist who now works with a group of independent scientists called the Radiation and Public Health Project. Together this group has written ten books on the health effects of low level radiation.

There can be no other conclusion on the part of the American public that depleted uranium ammunition is designed to kill not only large numbers of people in nations the U.S. has decided to conquer, but it also kills our own soldiers, and our government, which professes to value its military men and women, knows it kills them.

Moret writes:

And what about our soldiers? Terry Jemison of the Department of Veterans Affairs reported this week to the American Free Press that “Gulf-era veterans” now on medical disability since 1991 number 518,739, with only 7,035 reported wounded in Iraq in that same 14-year period.

This week the American Free Press dropped a “dirty bomb” on the Pentagon by reporting that eight out of 20 men who served in one unit in the 2003 U.S. military offensive in Iraq now have malignancies. That means that 40 percent of the soldiers in that unit have developed malignancies in just 16 months.

This is an astonishing war crime being conducted against our own soldiers, and not a peep about it from Dan Rather or The New York Times. It’s enough to make you sick. Please read the whole story in the link above.

In addition to killing hundreds of thousands of innocent residents of foreign countries over reasons that everyone in the world knows are lies, the American government is deliberately killing its own soldiers, the ones it professes to love.

I said three stories, didn’t I? You’d know, if you haven’t bolted to the bathroom to hurl your lunch by now, that I’ve saved the worst for last. It’s an old story, “Aerosol and Electromagnetic Weapons in the Age of Nuclear War,” written in June by Idaho Observer health reporter Amy Worthington, who has been monitoring the chemtrail beat for a long time. http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/WOR406A.html

This is a story that will definitely scare you.

In their quest to remain top dog in the kill chain, the purveyors of perpetual war have deliberately dimmed earth's life-giving sunlight, and reduced atmospheric visibility with lung-clogging particulates and polymers. This ecological terrorism has severely compromised public health, according to thousands of testimonials. Years of mass appeals to legislators, media and military officials for information, and for cessation of catastrophic atmospheric degradation, have fallen on deaf bureaucratic ears. Public awareness of what befalls us remains as murky as our skies because those "in the know" are muzzled by national secrecy laws and Americans have no authority to challenge matters of national security.

Worthington writes about Operation Cloverleaf, a top-secret military program involving weather modification, military communications, space weapons development, ozone and global warming research plus biological weaponry and detection testing. She explains:

Dumping tons of particulate matter from aircraft has geo-engineered our planetary atmosphere into a highly charged, electrically-conductive plasma useful for military projects. The air we breathe is laden with asbestos-sized synthetic fibers and toxic metals, including barium salts, aluminum, and reportedly, radioactive thorium. These materials act as electrolytes to enhance conductivity of military radar and radio waves. Poisonous on par with arsenic and a proven suppressant of the human immune system, atmospheric barium weakens human muscles, including those of the heart. Inhaled aluminum goes directly to the brain and medical specialists confirm that it causes oxidative stress within brain tissue, leading to formation of Alzheimer's like neurofibrillary tangles. Radioactive thorium is known to cause leukemia and other cancers.

There’s more. High frequency microwaves, low ELF waves pulsed at frequencies known to affect human biological and mental functioning, and combinations of viruses, bacteria, fungi, mycoplasma, desiccated blood cells and exotic biological markers so that human, animal and plant responses can be observed.

So there we have just three relatively little known subjects among many others that are proven, life-threatening hazards being strewn all over the world by the corporate crazies in Washington. Worthington writes:

We continually witness bizarre meteorological occurrences as powerful electromagnetic devices manipulate both the jet stream and individual storm fronts to create artificial weather and climatic conditions. Black operations projects embedded within these aerosol missions are documented to sicken and disorient select populations with biological test agents and psychotronic mind/mood control technologies.

For God’s sake, this is what we should be teaching our kids in schools, because these are the most profound threats to our survival. But about fluoride, depleted uranium, and chemtrails, we hear not a peep in the mainstream media or in our college curricula. Other than the American political psychosis now casting its dark shadow around the world, these are the most important topics everyone in the world should be discussing constantly.

Instead, as with the true motives of the U.S. government regarding 9/11 and the illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the American people are stupefied and condescended to with a continuing barrage of insulting jibberish from the men who are supposed to be our leaders but are really the men who are destroying large parts of the world for many generations to come.

And these are only three examples of what we should be talking about, but what we’re not talking about. Mercury in the medicines, eunuch Godzilla genes in the seeds guaranteeing mass starvation some year in the very near future, lethal chemicals in the clothes we wear, poisoned soils, empty music, perverted video games that teach our children to kill ...

Listen to the national debate you hear on your electronic squawk boxes. Totally inconsequential trivia. Brought to you by the same men who are doing all these other things and making trillions by doing it.

The media leads us around like that childhood board game, where it was easy to draw the devil with a magnet. We’re the metal shavings being shaped into monsters of malign design by the magnet that is our misanthropic mass media.

We invented games, and let our world slip away.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041229100113/www.warfolly.vzz.net/theplot.html

For information go to: http://www.johnkaminski.info/

Source

Depleting Our Children

A short documentary detailing the U.S. government's criminal use of depleted uranium munitions in the Gulf Wars. They have also been using them in Afghanistan and Bosnia. Birth defects and cancer rates have shot up through the roof and all these areas and also in the returning soldiers. The US Army is not the only culprit however, many countries are now buying these outlawed munitions.

Es ist wie eine Rückkehr in die Vergangenheit: Der russische Präsident
Dmitri Medwedew will das Atomwaffenarsenal modernisieren und so eine
bessere atomare Abschreckung erlangen.

Quelle - www.n24.de

Zurück zu alten Ufern?

"Neuer kalter Krieg?": ist keine mehr zu stellende Frage, ist eher Feststellung.

Die Möglichkeit eines globalen Selbstmordes per Atomwaffen ist gegenüber der hoch brisanten Weltlage: kaum mehr von Wichtigkeit. Dank dem laufenden Prozeß der Globalisierung... gibt es tausend weitere und erheblich effizientere Möglichkeiten: die globale Zivilisation... wieder in die Steinzeit zurück zu katapultieren.

Wieder "Kalter Krieg"... ist lediglich eine Phrase ...um uns Angst zu machen und vom Wesentlichen abzulenken. Abgesehen davon tobte und tobt immer noch - auf unserer Welt: ein lange atomar geführter Krieg. Nicht mit den bösen und alles vernichtenden "großen" Atombomben, die auf einen Schlag... ganze Städte zerstören.

"Depleted Uranium Weapons" ... ganz kleine Atomwaffen ...seit 1991 eingesetzt und tonnenweise Verschossen:

Links:

Videos zu Depleted Uranium

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Friedenskooperative - Uranmunition

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HEADLINE NEWS: Tourists accidentally buys a 600lb piece of depleted uranium - They brought "treasure" back to China hoping to make a fortune by selling it. They sliced off a piece and took it to Beijing for expert analysis. Geologists at Tsinghua University concluded that it was depleted uranium and called the ... (full article)

"Depleted uranium from shells fired by British and American forces during the Balkan wars has found its way into the food chain and has been detected amongst the civilian populations of Kosovo and Bosnia. A study of the local population in three locations in the two Balkan regions has found samples of the highly radioactive particles in the urine of all those tested," wrote Felicity Arbuthnot.

Felicity Arbuthnot is a freelance journalist, and the above was printed in The Ecologist (UK) 1 February 2007

We become desensitized to one another and then things like this happen. Not looking doesn't make it go away. It is up to us to make changes. These children were no different than you or I. They were the hopes and dreams of someone and a life, squandered, in the attempts to control others. The use of these poisons still continues today and has been used in the Gulf War and most recently, the Iraq war.

WARNING: Extremely Graphic Images !
photos by: Dr. Jenan Hassan

Listen to Doug Rokke, Ph.D. speaks on depleted uranium.

Major (Dr) Doug Rokke, Former Director of the US Army Depleted Uranium Project (www.traprockpeace.org), principal author of the Pentagon regulations and procedural guidelines (US Army Regulation 700-48 And US Army PAM 700-48) on the dangers and handling of DU affected areas: tanks, structures, terrain, equipment and personnel, civilian and military.

By IgnoranceIsntBliss

A mere acronym of 2 letters (DU) is all it takes to completely destroy Al Gore and his 'projected' divine destiny to save the earth from man-made environmental doomsday. But this lesson in hypocrisy doesn't end there.

I hadn't actually thought of the lynchpin point until I recently finished Al Gore's Assault on Reason book. It should have been titled The Assault on Bush as he joked about it not being, in a video interview I seen somewhere online, because there's hardly a page in it that doesn't mention GWB and his minions. I counted 105 of 273 pages that included attacks on just the issue of Bush's Iraq / Foreign-Policy for example.

One could hardly articulate such a sophisticated blackballing, however, Al Gore actually did while bending over backwards to not step into the "conspiracy theorist" world. And his trouncing of the Bush Junta is well deserved and I do recommend all people read this book for that reason, as well as not only his democracy / American history / Media coverage but perhaps most importantly for a lesson in observing left/right political bias.

It's important that Gore didn't go full blown conspiracy theorist as that would obviously implicate him with things like 9/11 and Depleted Uranium.

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Dennis Kucinich is one of the few with the cajonas to address the DU issue.

In page after page Al attacks Bush's very essence, and in particular Bush's environmental policies and the Iraqi Invasion / Occupation. Al slams Dubya on Iraq, while patting himself on the back for the Balkans sectarian conflict that they engineered. The most notable common thread between these 2 conflicts and these 2 men is the Depleted Uranium issue. Others include the engineering conflicts, sectarian conflict scenarios, the use of Al Qaeda as an instrument of proxywars & related tactical subversiveness, and even oil (pipelines).

It turns out that DU has a 4.5 BILLION Year halflife. The "Clinton-Gore Administration", as Al calls it at every chance in his book, used DU munitions in the conflict that started and lasted over virtually the entire 8 year reign of the Clinton-Gore Administration. To add insult to injury, Gore campaigned in 2000 on (imperialist) nation building, but then blasts Bush for his hegemonic Iraqi power grab because the only difference is that Americans also die this time around in an engineered sectarian conflict.

As a side-note, perhaps Al Gore inherited his stance on the use of Uraium was a weapon from his father.

In the late, 1950s Al Gore's father, the senator from Tennessee, proposed dousing the demilitarized zone in Korea with uranium as a cheap failsafe against an attack from the North Koreans.

After the Gulf War, Pentagon war planners were so delighted with the performance of their radioactive weapons that ordered a new arsenal and under Bill Clinton's orders fired them at Serb positions in Bosnia, Kosovo and Serbia. More than a 100 of the DU bombs have been used in the Balkans over the last six years.
http://www.counterpunch.org/du.html

This is what Depleted Uranium does to people:

In all fairness, GWB has become history's master of the use of these weapons.

Now we have Shrub using the same stuff that is absolutely sure to contaminate the environment until what could be considered the end of time (astro-science models predict that the Sun and life on Earth will expire well before one billion years before the DU munitions reach their half-life), but oddly enough Al Gore somehow managed to forget to mention this little tidbit in his all out partisan Bush crucifixion hit-piece book, which focuses on both the Iraq imperial power move and the environment.

But the hypocrisy doesn't end there. "The Assault on Reason" (emphasis his) includes an entire chapter on "The Politics of Fear", which impressively includes the sort of neuro-psychological descriptions of mind matters many would expect from my own writings here at this blog. Now I present to you clear and obvious terrormongering pieces of video propaganda:

Example 1: Look at the language: "IT WILL SHAKE YOU TO YOUR CORE", BY FAR, THE MOST TERRIFYING FILM YOU WILL EVER SEE", "Think of the impact of a couple hundred thousand refugee's, and then imagine a hundred million", "NOTHING IS SCARIER".

Note the use of New Orleans Katrina footage, and the fact that the vast majority of damage was due to flooding that was entirely mankinds fault.

And then note how at 2:17 of the trailer there is a 3 frame burst of a nuclear bomb explosion, which is entirely out of context of the presentation. For fairness, he does have a worthy context in the actual film where they use this same -arguably even then scaremonger- clip, but in the context of the preview -that potentially millions watched- it doesn't fit.

Anyone with even a self-prescribed education in socio-psychological propaganda can quickly tell, from Al Gore's book and online video interviews addressing it, that Gore is clearly trained in socio-psycholgical propaganda techniques, and because of this fact there is no excuse for the out-of-context terrormongering highlighted in that single clip, which continues on into the follow-up TV commercial:

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Example 2: Added terrormonger language: "Grabs you like a thriller with an ending that will haunt your dreams", "You will be captivated... then riveted... then scared out of your wits". That cemmercial also includes about 1-2 frames of the same nuclear bomb mushroom cloud used in the An Inconvenient Truth trailer-terror piece.

To "emphasize this point", about Gore's hypocrisy, it's best I point out that there are many pages in his book with entire paragraphs about the Bush Junta's selective cherry-picking use of facts and scientific information in regards to most particularly the Iraq War effort and environmental issues.

Gore often claims that "the debate is over" about "Global Warmming" , but it turns out that the debate is in fact not over (see here for some debate). But to directly address his self-described (on the back of the DVD package) "persuasive" propaganda-piece, his central argument is the  650,000 year ice-core ..

It's just too bad that it's well established that temperature always lead to the "complex relationships" that Gore presented as if the CO2 drove the temperature:

Ice cores show CO2 increases lag behind temperature ...

This isn't even merely a matter of him misreading some graph's. He went to the extent of calling the ice core specialist as his special friend, and made it look cozy. How could Gore have not understood which came first? How would you not look to see which happens first, before making such strong statements. To waive his 650,000-year-resolution graph around -off of a scissor lift- like some sort of gospel is Hollywood trickery at 'best'.

This scenario presents us with 2 options, that I can think of.
1) He deliberately engaged in disinfo.
2)He's too incompetent to hold and so effectively propagate such a staunch belief.

In either case, this is but one of the many examples of Gore using sketchy science during his terrormonger campaign. For a complete lesson in Gore trickery have a look at A Skeptics Guide to An Inconvenient Truth.

Moving on, despite the reality where the D.U. weapons fact destroy's Gore's claim to trying to save the environment, this lesson in environmental hypocrisy doesn't end there. For starters in the AIT film and book Al asks "Are you ready to change your life?". It's bad enough that YOU changing your life is the primary solution Al gives us in his film presentation, but then there's the fact that he doesn't practice what he preaches.

While he may buy "carbon offsets" each time he travels, it doesn't change the fact that he flies more in one year than most humans will in their entire lives. He doesn't just fly to in relations to his global warming activism either, but in that regards he claims in his film that he's done over 1000 talks since 2001.

[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5202607625392877580]
Sean Hannity's excellent piece on Al Gore and jet travel.
(Although I loathe that man too.)

But perhaps his travels can be somehow ignored in light of what he tells us we should do, but unfortunately we can't rationaize his home habits as being part of the effort to save the earth.

According to Schweizer, the Gores own three homes: a 10,000-square-foot home in Nashville, Tennessee; a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Virginia (across the Potomac River from Washington, DC); and a third home of undisclosed size in Carthage, Tennessee. Neutral Source has verified the Gores own a 2.1 acre property at 312 Lynnwood Blvd. in the Belle Meade section of Nashville, Tennessee (Parcel ID 11611005600). Its assessed value in January 2005 was $3 million, but we have not been able to validate Schweizer's claims about its size. So we performed a search and found 15 single-family homes on the market in the Gores' Nashville neighborhood with asking prices of $3 million or more. Of the 298 neighborhood properties on the market, only three are listed at $3 million or more. According to MLS data, these houses are 9.727, 7,340, and 9,878 square feet respectively. So we can confirm that it's quite plausible that the Gores' Nashville home is, as Schweizer claims, 10,000 square feet.

So what does that mean?

Still, a rough approximation of the Gores' residential CO2 emissions can be obtained by assuming that CarbonCounter's "average" really means "median." This yields 26 tons x 9.2 = 239 tons CO2 per year. CarbonCounter will "offset" the Gores' CO2 emissions for a contribution of $10 per ton, and certainly they can afford the $2,390 contribution that CarbonCounter says will buy residential "carbon neutrality." But actually making a large reduction in CO2 emissions from 17,000 square feet of residential living space would be both very challenging technically, and much more expensive. The Gores are easily capable of being CO2 Pragmatists with respect to residential carbon neutrality, but they cannot be CO2 Puritans without completely abandoning their lifestyle.
http://neutralsource.org/content/blog/detail/598/

In plain English:

Gore's home uses more than 20 times the national average

So here we have Al Gore telling us that we need change our lives, meanwhile he's using 20+ times the amount of energy as something like 90+% of the rest of the world population.

While we're on the energy topic perhaps it's best to point out that Gore has a record of relations with oil 'interests'.

Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate - Corpwatch, August 29th, 2000
For thousands of years, the Kitanemuk Indians made their home in the Elk Hills of central California. Come February 2001, the last of the 100 burial grounds, holy places and other archaeological sites of the Kitanemuks will be obliterated by the oil drilling of Occidental Petroleum Company. Oxy's plans will "destroy forever the evidence that we once existed on this land," according to Dee Dominguez, a Kitanemuk whose great grandfather was a signatory to the 1851 treaty that surrendered the Elk Hills.

Occidental's planned drilling of the Elk Hills doesn't only threaten the memory of the Kitanemuk. Environmentalists say a rare species of fox, lizard and the kangaroo rat would also be threatened by Oxy's plans. A lawsuit has been filed under the Endangered Species Act. But none of that has given pause to Occidental or the politician who helped engineer the sale of the drilling rights to the federally-owned Elk Hills. That politician is Al Gore.

So in light of that, along with the Clinton-Gore engineered Bosnia-Kosovo proxywar for oil-pipelines, it seems obvious that Gore is a tad more oil friendly than one would expect. It should also be pointed out that Gore was one of only 10 Democrats to break ranks and support the Persian Gulf War, which is interesting considering the history of that conflict. That's all too bad because US Foreign Policy and wars in general are probably the biggest contributers to the environmental footprint of us human beings.

Ron Paul: the CIA / Foreign Policy contributing to Global Warming; at time 2:25.
Al Gore supports nation building:

Q. Bush made nation-building a point of difference with you [in the Oct. 3 debate].
A. I think that phrase taps into a legitimate concern about how far we should go and how long we should be involved. But it's not a new mission. The Marshall Plan was about nation-building. And the generation that won World War II, having seen the catastrophe of the interwar period in the 20's and 30's, wisely decided that nation-building was a preferable alternative to World War III. And it was a stunning success. source

As proven under Clinton-Gore and Bush-Cheney "nation building" also means war, and that brings us to the next big Bush-Gore parallel of hypocrisy. It turns out that both Bush and Gore brag about their Christian faiths, yet somehow each is engaged in the same goal which is a de facto 'god on earth' artificial intelligence system.

While Bush is driving this initiative through with excessive militarism, Al Gore on the other hand is driving the same goal with his friends at NASA and Google. Gore is arguably the main man behind this effort, being right in the center of the eye of this whirlwind down there at the main Googleplex HQ, which is situated right next door to the NASA Ames Research Center, in Silicon Valley, where NASA and Google in 2005 entered a partnership in the development of cognitive artificial intelligence.

Click for the full story.

It's hard to imagine why a professed 'man of the faith' would take part in such an operation, but then again maybe his words on the Larry King Show -in reference to "global warming"- may shed some light on this contradiction: "It's really a spiritual issue."

In closing, RAGE said it best:

Dr Alshagra passed away two weeks ago at the age of 58, he died of Aplastic Anemia, a rare disease similar to Leukemia; his doctor thinks that such cases are increasing among Iraqis and U.S. veterans due to exposure to radiation and or Trauma.

We offer our sympathy to Dr. Souad Al-Azzawi, his widow, and to his family.

Please read Dr. Souad Al-Azzawi's reports:

* Crimes of the Century: Occupation & Contaminating Iraq with Depleted Uranium - Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi - 28 pages -15 June 2008.
* Deterioration of Iraqi Women's Rights and Living Conditions Under Occupation [PDF] - A survey by Dr. Souad N. Al-Azzawi - 34 pages - 19 December 2007 - Mujer iraquí y ocupación - Traducido del inglés para IraqSolidaridad por Consuelo Delgado [HTML]
http://turkmenfriendship.blogspot.com/2008/07/crimes-of-century-occupation.html

Interactive Map: US Military Presence Around the World - Global Research 8/31/08

Veterans Hospital Told to Stop Diagnosing Iraq War Soldiers with PTSD - Natural News 8/25/08

Study Links Agent Orange to Prostate Cancer in Vietnam Vets - Washington Post 8/6/08

Vaccine Cover-Up Worst In Military History - via MParent 8/5/08

Contractors Far Outnumber Troops In Iraq- via MParent 8/12/08

Britain admits veterans exposed to radiation - ABC Australia 8/7/08

Remote-control warriors suffer war stress (AP)  - Yahoo 8/7/08

Rape in the Military: Members of Congress Accuse Pentagon of Cover-Up - Alternet 8/6/08

McCain Would Consider a Draft. Every Parent In America Should Know This - Mother Jones 8/2/08

Defense Intelligence Agency Seeking "Mind Control" Weapons - Global Research 8/24/08 

Torture Teachers - Salon 6/29/08

An Army document proves that Guantánamo interrogators were taught by instructors from a military school that trains U.S. soldiers how to resist torture.

Previously:

US Troops & Mercenary News

According to The Independent, Britain seeks to expand its empire with 77,000 square miles of Atlantic seabed.

Splendid news. I propose Tony Blair as Governor General. We could give him a nice plumed helmet - and a pair of lead-soled boots to help his descent to this latest territory to be painted red on the map.

THE BLOGMASTER ADDS:-
This is actually a very important point raised here by Sean. If Libertarians care about property rights and what they are and what they are for, (and many of us do,) then there ought to be an agreed legal method, which everybody respects (that's the point of Law after all, no?) to define what entitiy or "corporate person" or individual, owns what parts of the seabed.

We ought to care about who's administering such "Law" - in case it is a bunch of "authoritarian-nationalists" (a great term, which I picked up on a newsgroup just this morning, as a description of the government of the USSR Russia today in 2008.)

MUCH MUCH better, than the crass, sad term "nazi" which gets liberals into so much trouble when used by them to describe ordinary socialists accurately.

We here do not care whether there is stuff on or under the seabed round Ascenscion Island or not. Naturally, the inhabitants, of which there are several thousand, will. It's their life, not ours. But we think that the general point that's being made in the article is a vital issue for the next 100-200 years, while the Earth is still the primary source of New Property Rights.

Comments please, pronto! (There will be a short written test on 31st August, to see who's paying attention.)