C-SPAN- I ...NOW...TUNE IT IN! Life in the Emerald City...EXPOSING

[KoKo]

the GREEN ZONE....and the CORRUPTION!

TUNE IT IN!!!! NOW!!!

[rocktivity]

1. "Hope is not the thing with feathers.

Actually, the thing with feathers is my cousin. I must take him to a psychiatrist."

--Woody Allen

[KoKo]

50. Do you remember when you sent me the "Crumb Museum" GIF of that

Elderly Black Guy with the harmonica walking down the "corn rows" fields singing his "merry tune."

I have always loved that photo...I posted it a couple of times on DU and if I was more "computer literate" I would have made it my SIG.

That old Black guy strolling with his harmonica down that corn row whistling his tune has given me HOPE for years on DU.

Aren't you the ONE "Rocknation" who gave me that GIF years ago...and now you TRASH my "Hope With Feathers?"

What???? Do you remember Me? ....I remember YOU...and the gift YOU GAVE ME! (Did I really get the WRONG DU'er WHO gave me CRUMB MUSEUM GIFT?

It would make me very sad to think I was wrong all these years about this gift ...I thought you gave to me for HOPE...:shrug:

[rocktivity]

69. It wasn't me that sent you a Crumb Museum gif

But I am sorry if my post offended you. Seeing your sig just reminded of Allen's line, that's all--in fact, it was from a book he titled Without Feathers. At any rate, we were BOTH kidding!

:headbang:
rocknation

[KoKo]

2. He's Exposing Kate O'Beirne's connection with O'Beirne BUSH BOT

who sent these KIDS (early 20's) INTO IRAQ to start up IRAQI STOCK MARKET!!!

The CONNECTION!!! Good watch!

[KoKo]

3. Brian Lamb is saying Coalition BANNED CATS! and Halliburton Killed CATS!

DISGUSTING!!!

He says Halliburton's Killing of Cats...was GRATUITUOUS!!! :cry:

[freeplessinseattle]

10. god, just when I thought I couldn't despise them even more

they push the limits of my breaking point

[SPKrazy]

42. What Do They Have Against Cats????

cat killers

did Frist authorize this

[EFerrari]

43. They're sadistic cowards. By their deeds shall you know them. nt

[KoKo]

44. That "Cat Killer Thing" was enough to do me in forever against these

CRIMINAL/FASICSTS!!! DISGUSTING!!!! Make me SICK! :puke:

[EFerrari]

46. Hateful, gratuitous killing. Cowards and felons.

:puke:

[SPKrazy]

45. No Kidding

their deeds will let them be known.

cat killers!

[EFerrari]

48. Sociopaths. They're in charge. We're in BIG trouble. n/t

[KoKo]

56. True....you have to judge them by how they view the animals...because

they start with THEM FIRST....DISGUSTING...Work their way up to DEMS NEXT...or really not just Dems but those who DISAGREE!

[EFerrari]

58. We REALLY need to pay attention to this.

It always comes home.

:(

Thanks, KoKo01, for keeping us up to speed.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

4. Thanks for the heads up!

[Moochy]

5. Did frist help author that cat killing memo from Halliburton

:shrug: Sick fucks, Halliburton ordered all pet cats to be shot on sight. ... nice.

fucking nazis.

[EFerrari]

6. I missed that! What happened?

:mad:

[Moochy]

12. Halliburton took a stand against people taking feral cats

as pets. So first they banned them, then the halliburton execs in charge in the green zone found out that people who were homesick had taken the pets into their trailers, and were caring for them. So they hired a posse of cat killers to go around from tent to tent and killed them. Ostensibly to prevent spreading illness.

Rajiv Chandraesekaran describes a woman who was sobbing at her tent upon finding a note that her cat had been taken away and shot.

Brian Lamb made a weak attempt to paint the inclusion of that story as sensationalist, but the author stuck to his guns and said it was gratuitous.

On edit, Just in case we needed *MORE* reasons to hate Halliburton. :grr:

[EFerrari]

14. Motherf#ckers. As if I needed one more reason to loathe these

horrible people.

:nuke:

[Moochy]

17. Yeah Exactly

I added that exact same sentence on edit.. :grr:

[EFerrari]

18. Cowards. This was just criminality. Feral cats don't spread

disease. Just when you think they can't be any more depraved or disgusting.

[Wally101]

31. I don't agree with it either, but

feral cats do spread disease through fleas. Admittedly with all the money they are pissing away down there, they probably could have found a much better way to deal with it, but left untreated, the cats would have been a health risk.

Mark

[EFerrari]

33. I hadn't thought about the fleas. But that's easy enough to deal with.

I think these cowboys just like to kill things.

I mean, by the same logic, I should be shot because I can carry typhus.

[Moochy]

37. oops self-delete wrong subthread

[donco6]

54. As you said, with all the money . . .

. . . they could have done what we do here - trap, neuter and release. Soon, no feral cat problem. And it doesn't even cost that much.

But I'm fairly certain that humane of a solution didn't cross their minds.

[Crunchy Frog]

62. Feral cats probably prevent more disease than they cause

by controlling the population of rats and mice which carry alot more disease.

I've seen it speculated that one of the reasons for the Black Plague in Europe was the fixation with killing cats for their supposed connection to witches. This caused the rat population to soar, and the rest is history.

[BeHereNow]

7. Just tried! Can't get audio~!!! WTF? n/t bhn

.

[KoKo]

11. USE YOUR TEE VEE...NOW...C-Span I!!!!

[KoKo]

16. Author is saying "Bremer became too Ambitions" and he "gradually became

disillusioned with him." He says we started out with a "BIG BAG APPROACH" but we ended up with what the Iraqi's viewed as a "broken down vehicle that we can fix" but that what they got was a "Bremer FINED TUNED NEW ENGINE!"

OMG...this sounds like a GREAT READ OF A BOOK!

[KoKo]

8. OMG! Conservative Brian brings out Dan Senor married to Campbell Brown!

C-Span's BRIAN actually GOES AFTER THE PRESS with CONNECTIONS! Dan Senor/Campbell Brown!

What's going on here? CONSERVATIVE BRIAN making MEDIA CONNECTIONS? :wow:

[KoKo]

9. He says he "didn't start out disliking Bremer" BUT after awhile he

started to have MEGA PROBLEMS WITH HIM! Now Brian is asking about Jay Garner and I'm waiting for the answer.

[Moochy]

19. Saying also that Bremer gave them a checklist

He gave the Iraqi politicans a checklist way too late in the game.

Noble goals, way to big.

American style power plants built by large american companies.

The problem was the large power plants and transmission lines are easy targets for the insurgent.

[malaise]

13. Thanks

This is good.

[Deb]

15. Thanks!

I remember the stock market, a Marine who lived down the street from us came home bragging about how they (troops) had invested in it. That kid really thought he was going to be a millionaire by now. ugh

I'm checking this book out, looks very interesting.

[KoKo]

51. Oh Dear God...a Marine who lived down your STREET!

How MANY WERE IN ON THIS BOONDOGGLE! IRAQI STOCK MARKET? That's why we INVADED????????:banghead:

[KoKo]

20. He's talking about "Kissinger Associates" saying Bremer is "CONTROL

FREAK!" Powell couldn't understand why Kissinger would say that? :shrug:

So Bremer started CHECKING WEB SITES? The NSC!

[Moochy]

On de-bathification

a decision made by bush in the wh to do a limited debathification, before the war.
only the top 1% would have been punished, along with truth and reconciliation comissions.

but the actual execution of the debathification was carried out by the military, and they kicked 10,000 teachers out, because of their association with the Bath Party.

Factory workers, also were booted for their paychecks from the Bath Party, ex iran war veterans. and it happened overnight.

Americans ended up spending all their time vetting iraqis for their party connections to the Bath party.

[KoKo]

22. Brian asks about why Bremer did "De-Baathification of Military Force."

Truth and Reconciliatin Process...but it was left up to PENTAGON...and it ws OVERBROAD...

The DRAFTING was the "Devil in the DETAILS." TEN THOUSAND IRAQ TEACHERS AND JANITORS IN IRAQ LOST THEIR JOBS because of this DICTUM!

He says: De-Baathification was a MISTAKE!

[peacetalksforall]

21. I bet the reason Halliburton shot the cats was profit - they

probably thought food for cats would cut into their profits over the coming years- taking extra stuff off the trays, etc. Never believe the first through the sixth reason they mouth.

[peacetalksforall]

23. Can someone name the author and title of the program to make

it easier to find the schedule. Was it Q and A?

[Moochy]

24. Rajiv Chandraesekaran: Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Yes Q&A is the title of the program.

[EFerrari]

25. At the moment, I think it's just sadism unleashed.

If they shot cats, what's next? Poor kids? Jesus. Welcome to our future.

The so called compassionate conservatives aka the New Mob are dismantling civilization as we know it.

/oops

[peacetalksforall]

32. Yes, we're regressing decade by decade, century by century. nt

[KoKo]

67. I've read some "Meta-Physical Sites" that say we have to go through this

Crap we are living through until the "Evil Runs it's Course" and that those of us who are fighting against it are where we are "SUPPOSED TO BE" to "FIGHT BACK" in our TIME....

I didn't want or ask to live through this. If it's for a "Higher Cause" then I wish "I" and "THE REST OF US HERE" had not been CHOSEN.....

I am weak...I didn't ask or want to live through this...I don't know if I have the strength that's required to go up against the Bush Crime Family/PNAC ...the William Kristol's and American Enterprise Institute and Mellon-Scaife's. What I've seen has said to me....I'VE HAD ENOUGH!!!!!!!

[KoKo]

26. NOW he goes after Tweety Fave...Bernie Keric from NYC...DISASTER!!!

Bernie came in as a Propagandist for Bush as "public face." He went on "high profile showey raids." (sounds like a RAMBO!)

He goes on and says that Military WAS not happy with Bernie...but he was a LOYAL REPUG so he was sent even though he did nothing.

[Moochy]

27. Iraqi stock exchange: 24 year old Yalie in charge

A 24 year old Yale graduate was in charge...

:tinfoilhat: maybe he was a cute-looking (to bush) young skull&bonesman. :rofl:


Saying that at the end of all the planning the exchange was running on white boards with dry erase markers an d chits, instead of blackboards and chalk.

What PROGRESS!!!

[Moochy]

29. We sold off the assets bere the govt. was sovereign

A total of 3 americans were in charge of privatizing 150 factories.

This was a violation of Iraqs rights as a country.

[KoKo]

28. Young Kid...Jay Hallen from Yale (recent Graduate) set up Iraq Stock

Exchange...(kid with no experience ...except grandiose ideas from Yale.

Iraqi's got upset that his wanting to Computerize the Iraqi Stock Exchange..but there were IRAQI'S who ALREADY KNEW HOW STOCK EXCHANGE WORKED!

He's NOW GOING ON ABOUT TOM FOLEY...BIG DEM who is AN IRISH GUY TO SELL OFF SADDAM's BUSINESS INTERESTS!

Tom Foley...former SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE FOR DEMS!!! SHEESH...he NOW SHOWS UP WORKING FOR IRELAND?

Setting up STOCK EXCHANGE TO SELL IT OFF! AND, FOLEY GOT INTO TROUBLE BECAUSE HE WANTED TO PRIVATIZE WHOLE IRAQI COUNTRY!!!!

OMG~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[KoKo]

30. Ahmed Chalibi coming up now. Brian asked the Question....

Author now saying Bremer and Chalibi NEVER GOT ALONG. Saying that Chalibi is all over the place in league with Shiites.

[malaise]

34. Very good program

Rajiv sure has his facts. The imperialists -damn.

[KoKo]

36. Going into "Custer/Battles" Repug Bushites and how they were Involved..

he's saying they maybe "ripped us off" he said they got 2Million dollars in "BAG AMOUNT's" ..shell companies and over One Hundred MILLION DOLLARS in WAR PROFITEERING...This guy says it's killed in courts because it WAS NOT US TAX'PAYER MONEY...It was IRAQI MONEY! :shrug: WHAAAAA?? He says US Judges have voted with "CUSTER/BATTLES" on all the cases...:-(

[Moochy]

38. So foul, so heinous

Judge ruled that custer battles was not sued in US

Since they money they swindled was Iraqi oil money. Nevermind that we were the nation in charge, but a Judge ruled that and dismissed the whistelblower suits in Virginia on those grounds.

:nuke: :grr: Oh how I hate these fucking people.

[KoKo]

39. His conclusion as to what wil Iraq become...HE SAYS DISASTER FOR

BUSH and Bremer!'

He says there were very talented people on the GROUND who were DEDICATED but the rest were having problems.

BUT...HE's BEEN REPORTED TO BIG GUN AT WASHINGTON POST...to RAKE IN BIG MONEY!

[Moochy]

35. Low flying helicopters scaring iraqi children = sounds of freedom

The sounds of low flying aircraft when heard by the iraqi children, a General Kammit(sp?) said that it was the sound of freedom.

The general said his wife a teacher near Ft. Bragg told her school children that the the artillery at the nearby Ft. Bragg were the sounds of freedom, and that the children seemed to like that explanation.

"Hajis" became a slur.
"Vishtshas" = man dresses.

Explaining the demonization of the iraqi people.

[EFerrari]

41. There is no excuse for this trainwreck we are witnessing.

None. We know what the consequences of these behaviors are. Death and destruction over there that will eventually come home to us over here.

There is no excuse.

[KoKo]

52. I was so disgusted by that exchange...I couldn't post it...thanks for YOU

doing it. That should be a post that would live in INFAMY on DU what they said they said was TOLD THIR CHILDREN!!! It made me so sick...like much of what he said... made me ill...and all of us who tried to STOP THIS HORRIBLE INVASION OF IRAQ!......

[Moochy]

40. Thanks Koko01!! great program.

:yourock:

[KoKo]

53. It was a DREADFUL THING...but we needed to hear it....It

has me so depressed that I wish I'd just cleaned my kitchen cabinets, though.

How MUCH MORE OF THIS SHIT DO WE HAVE TO LIVE THROUGH...WE WHO TRIED TO STOP IT!

Apologize for the FULL CAP LOCK...BUT, Killing Cats and telling your Kids that the sound of "Dropping BOMBS IS THE SOUND OF FREEDOM! ...well it sent me OVER THE EDGE! :cry: :banghead:

[opihimoimoi]

47. Hey, I got a Siamese Cat...WTF...... they killing CATS?

They HATE US for our CATs???

What they got against Cats??

Cats kill rodents, cats are good for the village....

Damn those peeps, can't get the enemy so they kill cats....? Typ Pub Rationale

[EFerrari]

49. It's like those anti-social kids that pull wings off of flies. n/t

[KoKo]

55. Just remember...it's in our American History...Salem Witch Trials/Cat Kill

'ers!

I have two Siamese..and if they come after them ...well they will get ME before they get THEM....They are savvy and will find a "hide out."

Still it's Bushies in league with CAT KILLER FRIST and SALEM WITCH TRIALS!

Some kind of EVIL AMERICAN KHARMA COMING BACK TO BITE US AFTER A COUPLE of Centuries....GOOD GOD...WHAT IS THIS?????? :shrug:

[opihimoimoi]

57. This is Insane...all the twoubles in the World and they go after Cats?

Diversionary Distraction Card by the PUBs

[KoKo]

60. Remember, "OPI" when Asscroft had that "Cat Fetish" that was documented

by many DU posts? One does wonder what it is they hate about CATS so MUCH...

I'm sure a psychoanalyst could get into this...but it's a pattern with these people! Bush had cats in Texas and there were some articles about how he got up before Laura and fed the cats (showing him to be very kind) and even one of the cats was taken to the White House before the DOGS seemed to get FULL PRESS like evil doer Bab's Bush's dog Millie and her Pups which her spawn trashed in favor of the Scotties. Still...it was rumoured that there was ONE cat who was scratching up the Bush Private Quarters. Maybe Laura loves the Cat and Chimpy is the "Dog Man."

Anyway there's getting to be too much evidence that this administration favors CAT KILLERS...FRIST,ASSCROFT and NOW...what we hear from Iraq..

Sounds silly to post about this, maybe. But, there's nothing so odd as their focusing on cats that we should be worried about what might sound "silly," when we know American History goes back to the time of Salem Witch Trials and before that to the Middle Ages when the PURGE OF CATS took place blaming them for the Black Plague!

Wasn't there another incidence of CAT KILLING during the Spanish Inquisition? (I'm not clear on that...historically, though..to verify with a link)

[opihimoimoi]

64. They are a strange bunch ...What is it??? Has to be Mental....

If Ashcroft had his way, there woulda been Cat Cops on Patrol

But evem the TOP GOP knew when that woulda been over the top...so...Ashcroft had to take care family...retire....

[Atman]

63. Don't forget, Halliburton has to FEED all those soldiers, too!

Calico Curry on Mondays. Fluffy McNuggets Tuesday. Siamese w/Sesame Noodles Wednesday. General Gau's Kitty on Thursdays. Friday is fish. Saturday is the perennial favorite, Spaghetti and Manx Balls. Sunday is traditional dinner of roast Tabby with all the fixin's.

[opihimoimoi]

65. EEEEwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww Roast Tabby's?? My EYES!!!

[KoKo]

68. STOP IT!!!!! It's really not funny about this...(although I get your

humor) if you watched this on C-Span and you own a cat or two...you might find it kind of "GACK!!!!" :-(

[Gabi Hayes]

59. on again at 11 EDT

[KoKo]

61. Many THANKS...Could you post a Separate ALERT on THIS...Folks NEED

to see this if they have to set TIVO's or VCR's or DVD recorders. This post might be too long for folks to see it.

Please Post it.... It's worth the look ....one would think...it shouldn't die...

[Gabi Hayes]

66. let's flip a coin....