This is what fear-mongering sounds like: wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf...

[lapsedmodernist]

Welcome, everyone, to the code orange holiday special. I thought we'd get one when the Wright brothers recreation flopped in the mud a couple weeks ago, but actually it took Tom Keane, a republican, saying that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented, the telegraph story about the super-memo connecting Saddam, Al-Qaeda and Niger shipments was fabricated, and, most gloriously, foreign press breaking the story that the US troops only "captured" Saddam after he had been captured, drugged and left, roofied up, for the US military by the Kurdish troops, making the atavistically named operation Red Dawn a big, fat PR stunt, a case of art imitating other art, like the Jessica Lynch installation and the aircraft carrier piece, or the plastic turkey exhibition. I'd say that Karl Rove was inspired by those SVA extension program ads that are all over the subway, but since to the lot of them New York is, like, Sodomorrah, I doubt that he's visited recently. Meanwhile, under everyone's noses, right around the time of Saddam's "capture," the bulk of Patriot Act II got passed and now the Crayon-masters over at Homeland Security spun the wheel again, and voila, code orange is back.

Happy holidays, everyone.

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[emblemparade.livejournal.com]

Happy!

Did you know: Sodom is a very nice tourist resort here in Israel, on the shores of the Dead Sea. It's a great place to rent ultra-expensive hotel rooms and spend your day floating on ultra-saline water with fat German tourists. Does this sound like NYC?

AND LET THAT BE A LESSON TO YOU.

Every day in Israel is code orange. It's so nice to see the American dick-heads catch up!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

well, according to mayor bloomberg, NYC has been on orange alert since 9/11 and where are our seaside resorts, huh? HUH? (we have fat German tourists aplenty). we also have industrial spelunking in Gowanus, "the only body of water in the world...that is 90 percent guns."

[(Anonymous)]

i'm dreaming of a red christmas...


seltix

[(Anonymous)]

the wash. post continues its streak of (at least) four straight sundays in which it prints a scare story (this week: iran's acquisition of nuclear technology -- yes, iran might invade or attempt to defeat the u.s. be very afraid.) on the front page above the fold. these are not "breaking" reports of events that occurred a day or two before. they are deliberately chosen by the w. post editorial board to appear on sunday (the most read day of the week).

it would be a public service if they were reporting this information and accompanying them with reports of what shrub&co are NOT doing (i.e., reporting on their incompetence and indifference at governing), but they don't do that. (instead, last week's accompanying above-the-fold report was a long investigation into animal deaths at the nat'l. zoo. i'm not making this up.) given that lack, what they are doing is simply scaring people, which serves shrub&co's political interests.

the keane announcement? that was published on page A20-something. that was the closest they could come to ignoring him altogether.

one small paragraph in page A35: for the past two years, japan has not been contributing to n. korea's food supply and the u.s. has cut back on its contribution by 2/3. the result is that the U.N.'s World Food Program has announced that "In January, we'll probably stop feeding about 3 million people," according to agency director James Morris. the u.n. sanctions against iraq (put in place by bush and defended by clinton's sec. of state albright) were estimated to have lead to the deaths of 500,000 iraqi children. maybe shrub can top that.

-mjm

are you distracted yet?

[(Anonymous)]

after watching the trials of kissinger, you might want to read naomi klein's observation of "history" repeating itself:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1112024,00.html

-mjm