Venezulean leader:U.S. citizens oppressed

Chavez has got to be global Truth-Teller-in-Chief.

Oppressed by government and US media, he says. I have said it before, the US media is worse than the media puppets who supported the SA Apartheid regime.

Just yesterday, I briefly skimmed an article on Brazil's Lula. The future and moral authority on world leadership issues is without the United States, no doubt.

Shouldn't Nazi fraternization, of any sort, be misqualification

for all kinds of human potentialities? How the fuck do you become the supreme God-representaive with Nazi credentials? I couldn't care less that his commitment was lukewarm. The guy didn't have thte cojones to make a moral stand when it bloody well counted the most in his life. How the fuck can he be the Custodian-In-Chief of Morality (Okay, it's just Catholic morality, but still)?

I swear to God, the only reason I will never set foot in a church, any church, is because god-representatives are so fucking stupid; they give God a bad name. I'd like to think my God is smart, at the very least, smarter than I. Like, I've said before I reckon God gets science, and scientific progress: he gets it; he gets social justice. I'd also like to think he's nimble enough to get "context." Adam & Eve had a whole different set of circumstances to navigate.

Being fat 'lessens risk of early death'

You have to love scientific research, it always lacks completion and absolutism. It turns out being somewhat chubby may (or not?) be good for you. Being obese is a no-no, but being an insect-stick, also not so great.

From the guadian. Okay, then.

John Bolton is a fucking mendacious reprobate

But, he is in good company. The Dubya Admin and he fit like hand-in-glove. Muppets.
So merrily, let the chaos carry on unbridled.

BTW - why the fuck, do people want protest oil prices (with their representatives)? I don't get it.
The fuckers at democraticunderground are also on about it amongst others. Exactly what is it that people don't get about price, scarcity and excess demand - in country that prides itself on its unrestrained free markets? What the fuck am I missing. Fuckers won't protest being lied to by the govt, but they want to protest oil prices/ market forces. If you didn't know, you'd think you were reading about a 'communist' setting, nah?

The energy inefficiency embedded into and fuelling this economy is unbelievable. WTF is going to happen next, I cannot behold? For this is actually a problem that requireds the masses to be engaged. industry and govt won't sort this one out independently of the masses. Yet the masses, well the masses....

Woman pimps daughter for metal and plastic

Fuckers like this woman are the precise argument why there should be qualification tests for maternity and why abortion must remain legal. Jesus Christ. What the fuck do we even call this? Pimping your daughter for fucking metal and plastic, a.k.a. your automobile/ride.

Rafa Benitez = Genius

Or maybe Juve are just rubbish: Juventus 0-0 Liverpool Liverpool through on aggregate.

Wenger better fucking step up next season. I've had enough.

M ichael Jackson is going to the slammer, fast.

Mom: Jackson pleaded to sleep with son

Jackson, "sobbing, crying, shaking and trembling,' begging to sleep with boy (in then same bed, that is). I don't know. I am bracing myself for a moral discourse with myself if he is found guilty. What am I supposed to do with my beloved music collection? Fuck it, it calls for separation of issues.

Cookie Monster" broadening his eating habits"

I love that. Apparently Sesame Street's Cookie Monsterto curb cookie habit in abid to tackle obesity among children.

Who speaks like that, "he will be broadening his eating habits" in the future, according Sesame Street representative.

Anybody dying never a good thing

So it goes with Pauley, I mean PJP II.
The good thing about is, it knocked Schiavo off the incessant news cacophony. Shew. thank, god for that.

As an instutionally non-religious person, I more or less could care less. I mean for a short while the significance of it reverberated, but ultimately, I was getting decidedly annoyed by the endless mundane analysis of his life, his legacy, yadi yadi yada. I swear, it's impossible to care about serious historic moments/stories/news these days. The endless repetition trivializes them. I have been ready for the pope to be dead and buried for a while now. Good lord, how long was it going to last? The speculation about his sucessor was already in the mix.

I kinda dig the fact that Dubya got booed though at the funeral, and Clinton got mobbed. Although Clinton being chummy-chummy with Dubya has cast serious doubts as to the convictions of the man.

About il Papa. I kinda think it's idiotic for anyone to expect him to have sanctioned abortioned. Come on, please. Those of us who oppose the death penalty and support a woman's right to have an abortion must admit that, wrt life the positions are inconsistent. To expect the Pope to embrace abortion is sheer lunacy, I am not churchy.

His position on women priests is old-fashioned and lacks moral coherence, it doesn't add anything to his belief structure, except that this is how it's always been. Ditto with the condoms/contraception thing.

The child-molestation thing, well. I think, his reaction was churchy, and really religious. Most people would say, he just didn't get it. But, if you seriously believe in god and that only God has the right and power for ultimate retribution, you can sort of understand the instinct to not punish the "evil-doer" priests, get them to repent yadi yadi yada. Pay-off the victims to express your emphathy. It's the religious thing to do. God will judge them afterall, right? So, I think he was consistent with his belief structure, even though I don't particularly approve of the approach. But I am not churchy.

His position on pre-emptive war, iraq, the death penalty absolutely consistent also. The thing I find interesting is how his role in "defeating communism" has been played up. I am not disputing it per se, I have no fucking idea -it's sweeping generalization to make for or against. I just keep thinking, they said the same thing about Reagan. They lauded him (Reagan) endlessly for defeating communism. Not that both of them couldn't have worked to overthrow "communism." It's just that, each time they have made it sound like each chap practically single-handedly caused the collapse of a 60/70 year old politico-socio-economic structure. It's all very hyperbolic.

But the passing of a Pontiff who has ruled for 26 years is a historic moment, one which makes one ponder one's own spirituality and morality. It's a pity, the significance is drummed out by the incessant mindless noise and images. God at one stage I was in Vegas, and the only cable news channel in the hotel was Fox: They said the Pope had died even before he was actually dead.

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PS. It peeves that Gorbachev gets no credit, for the fall of "communism."

PPS. I don't particularly get the public outpour/grief/people crying in the streets whenever somebody really famous dies. Honestly, I mean it's not like you knew the guy personally. Paying your respects is one thing, freaking out (irrational behavior) is quite another. Some of the behaviour, I found downright macabre. Pushing and shoving to file past a dead body, taking pictures of a dead corpse - fucking macabre. It's just weird. I'm more like, dead bodies should be respected, treated with honour. people leaving flowers, candles, notes in non-descript, make shift places. That shit must stop. Who the fuck cleans up after that?

I mean wouldn't it be more meaningful for people to get together, hold vigils, sing , read, whatever to remember the deceased. Leaving flowers on the streets is an empty, thoughtless, pretentious fucking gesture. That shit must stop. Dead people don't wake up and gather flowers.

Bill Clinton reckons il Papa had a mixed legacy. It's too fucking rational to suggest that. Nobody wants to hear that. Fox are quite happy pretending the Pope supported the war in Iraq. Don't be a party-pooper, Bill.

The Long Emergency : Politics

This from Rolling stone Magazine.RollingStone.com: The Long Emergency : Politics by JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER.

Funny the other day, Greenspan, the Republican Shill, said that there ought to be no panick over the excess demand demand for oil because, it will self-correct as conservation increases, demand falls, and suppliers increase supply, something to that effect. I am paraphrasing. I rember remarking, "conservation increases, from/by whom?" He wasn't talking about America, because current policy is, consume, consume, consume - not conserve, conserve.

"A few weeks ago, the price of oil ratcheted above fifty-five dollars a barrel, which is about twenty dollars a barrel more than a year ago. The next day, the oil story was buried on page six of the New York Times business section. Apparently, the price of oil is not considered significant news, even when it goes up five bucks a barrel in the span of ten days. That same day, the stock market shot up more than a hundred points because, CNN said, government data showed no signs of inflation. Note to clueless nation: Call planet Earth."

I just finished reading a book by John Perkins, titled Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. A lot of shit, politicians, business people and lawmakers make more sense now, not in a good way you understand. In a depressing way, but still the agenda is so much clearer now. Anyway related to the Rolling Stone article, over the weekend, I have been wondering: How on god's earth do oil-prices rise so quickly without inflationary effects (in the US, that is)? Why the fuck is Wall Street so bullish? I don't fucking get it. The signals I get call for a lot of optimism. But, the masses I told, don't worry, be happy. It's fucking brilliant.

I 've been too busy to overcontemplate the shit. I just got back from a conference in Vegas. Interesting. Have a few more preentations this week. then hopefully I'm outta here sooner than later.

Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up'

According to the latest report from a group of scientists and economists

Here's what intrigues me. By all accounts people breed for the survival of the species, correct?

Why is it then, that people with children are not the biggest defenders/ champions of the earth's resources? It's a bit cruel to hand off a planet that can't sustain them; that is, one that is going to kill them or their children, or not? Or maybe, they don't actually care. What's the incentive to care if you are going to be dead anyway. So likely they don't breed because they are unduly concerned about the survival of the species, then. It must be something else then.

WMDs: U.S. Intelligence knows jack about squat

Yep; and the only people who are surprised are Americans.
News Analysis: U.S. review on Saddam shied from accountability [International Herald Tribune]