PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR:BLEAK, BLEAK, BLEAK

Regular readers of this site will know that last year I was dead on about almost everything I predicted. I was wrong about a major terrorist attack, the stock market crashing (although it certainly hasn't been doing well this year) and the Republicans coming up with a certain winner in the next election. The rest I was perfect on which isn't too shabby, as seven out of ten things I wrote last came true including my predictions about the weather going whack and governments falling like dominoes. Let's see what the crystal ball holds for next year.

1)War with Iran/Syria- This seems like an inevitability that will start the year off with a literal bang. All signs point to some sort of confrontation especially after the Iranians overplayed their bravado by saying they would have no problem closing the Straits of Hormuz. In their own words it would be "as easy as drinking a glass of water." The world perked up at this as 60% of the world's oil goes through the passage. The disruption would be catastrophic to everyone's struggling economy and would be considered an act of war. If Iran wants the whole world to bomb them out of existence, this would be a good way to start. Not even Russia or China would come to their aid as their economic lifeblood would also be affected. Possibly one of the dumbest things ever said in the Middle East. If this does play out, nukes will be used, as they do have the capacity to shut the waterway off with their hypersonic missiles and mine the area extensively. According to a war game done in 2005, nuclear weapons would be the only to win back the area. War with Iran, and by extension Syria, could happen as soon as next week. This one is red hot.

2)Economic ruin-The death of the Euro, and the rest of the world's economy, is set to go belly up some time soon, possibly as soon as mid-January. The steps they are taking, on the backs of the poor, aren't going to sit well and, even if passed, will cause rioting in the street. Most economists feel that this is also inevitable and that a New Depression looms. As Bank of America and J.P Morgan have illegally moved derivative funds into the FDIC back, our money is no longer protected. If a bank crash happens, the derivative market will wipe out all reserves and who do you think will get paid first, you or the bank? One of the biggest scams ever and no one says boo.

3)MSM will continue to lie to us- Really a no-brainer on this one. CNN was caught doctoring an interview with Ron Paul to make it seem like he stormed out of interview when in reality the interview was over. Plus, Iowa polls are wildly uneven as some say Ron Paul should win in a blowout while others have Romney ahead. With the election results being held behind closed doors we can all guess that our new overlord and master will be Mitt Romney.

4)2012 election- Mitt Romney will be the nominee and our next president. Obama has done such a piss poor job at fixing anything in the economy while simultaneously destroying his base (unheard of ever in politics), he will be a one term president. Unless Romney screws up so bad, which is unlikely, he is much more likely to attract the independent vote you have to have to win nowadays. Obama is currently a top candidate for my upcoming douchebag of the year trophy.

5)Obama will continue to act like a deranged Republican- This one is like hitting fish in a barrel. His policies have continued the fascist slide we are seeing. He can't go soon enough.

6)Weather Goes Berserk- This year will see even stranger weather. As in MA we had a tornado, a hurricane, and earthquake and several blizzard this year, I can only guess that somehow a volcano will appear, birds will continue to fall from the sky and a tsunami will make my place beach front property.

7)Gold skyrockets- Gold will hit at least 2500 dollars this year as other precious metals also go way up as the Euro and stock market crash. Bet big on this.

8)TSA goes national- These thugs are going to be EVERYWHERE soon, groping whoever they feel like, with the power of "the law" on the their side. If it does, non violence may have to be a thing of the past because no one is grabbing my junk if I'm walking down the street. I have a feeling millions of others may be on my side.

9)FEMA camps start getting filled- KBR denied that these camps are for civilian holdings, instead calling them "staging facilities" in case of a disaster. Then please tell me why the barbed wire fences are designed for keeping people in not out, idiot? And regardless of your denials about them being stocked, you are looking for people as I've seen the want ads myself. Something big is about to happen and I have a feeling that Muslims will be the first to go. Followed closely by people like me.

10)Movies will be better than they have for the last few years- Just to leave in some sort of positive note, films look much better next year with many good movies appearing year round and not just in the months of May, June, July, and December. The Avengers, Dark Knight, James Bond, The Hobbit and Men In Black all look great with upcoming films Haywire, Contraband and Ghost Rider filling the usually quiet winter months. If people don't go see films this year in droves, Hollywood has a serious problem. Netflix and rising prices however will continue to dent the industry.

So that's my predictions. War, death and some good films. Happy New Year.

DOUCEHEBAG OF THE WEEK: HOUSE REPUBLICANS

Lots happening this week, none of it good. Let's see those runner ups.

1)World Banks- Today is the best day to do things that you don't want people to notice and world banks have done that to a T. In this country, Skank of America and J.P. Morgan both moved more than 200 trillion dollars onto the public's shoulders through FDIC rules. What this basically means is that should the derivative go belly up, the USA is in hoc for that amount or, in other words, more money than the whole world actually has. Can you see the economic crash coming from that? On top of that, European banks have has a sudden flurry of movement in money markets that may symbolize a coming crash and global Depression. E-mails from a top hedge fund manager have leaked on line and what they say is scary. Here is the email:

"We have received a report of unusual banking activity. Banking screens on 138 different currencies all show 00.000. Some rate fluctuations are beginning to appear. There have been no answers on this activity but banks have been notified to expect a large change in currency rates.

In our view, what is happening is a massive devaluation in probably the Euro Currency relative to the values versus individual nations. The ECB loaned over $600 Billion (produced out of thin air with no collateral) last week to European Central Bank Member Nations. We think this next step is to re-configure the values of the Euro within each member country.

Obviously the little broken ones like Greece, Portugal and Ireland will be de-valued MORE relative to Germany and France. Last report we got said the consortium of countries amounted to 27 total. The B.I.S., the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland is the bankers' bank. The BIS is very secret about their work and activities. They are probably the orchestra leader in this event.

In our view, when the credit and bond markets break-down, the global Super-Crash is underway in an expansion of Greater Depression II. Read your history from 1900 to 1918. This is being exactly replicated from 2000 to 2020. The Panic of 1908 was repeated in our Panic of 2008. The bigger world war begins on schedule from 2013-2014 to 2018. We think the gold and silver rally can peak in 2017 but perhaps extend all the way to 2024.

Someone has filed a $1 Trillion Dollar lawsuit in this mess and there is a lock-down on information relative to the suit and to the impending (we think) devaluation. It is obvious to us that this is being done over the Christmas holiday so markets cannot react as they are closed. Many will not open until next Tuesday after the designated Monday, Christmas holiday in the USA.

If my prognosis is correct, this could be a real market mover and perhaps a real market shocker. If I am correct in my surmising what these people are doing, precious metals might rally in a vicious snap-back valuation on fear and security. Gold and silver are being technically pressured to the high side anyway. If this event proves to be true, hang on to your hat. I would not be trading anything but watching first to see what markets do in Asia on Monday evening on Bloomberg in America. -Traderrog"

Other websites have confirmed this is to be an accurate portrayal of world markets. Banks are preparing to trade in old currencies as soon as next week. What do they know that the rest of us don't?

2)GOP Nominees not named Paul or Romney- Only these two will be on the Virginia ballot as they rest failed to get the ten thousand names needed to appear on it. Gingrich and other are pissed are what they see as blatant disregard for democratic principles. I see it as a good start. 49 more states to go to whittle down the awful, awful GOP nominees.

3)Cops and the Justice system- If a cop kills you in this country don't expect justice. In the past week has come a story out of Florida where a deputy caused a fatal car crash and the family of the victim were arrested instead. Also in Florida, a Tampa man was striped naked, tied up and pepper sprayed to death by the police. His death was ruled a homicide, no one was arrested and the case "cleared" by the DA. WTF? Cops are not there to help you. If you are ever in a no knock situation, remember that shooting first and asking questions later may be your best defense. Your death may be certain otherwise.

4)Lee Sensebrenner- This fat fuck actually had the audacity to call Michelle Obama a lard ass. Kettle, pot, black douche. When you look like Twiggy feel free to call out people heavier than you. When you look like a Santa Claus performer however, that is the ultimate in hypocrisy. Hope you die in a diabetic coma after stuffing your face with year old Twinkies, ass.

5)TSA- Now comes words that the new Gestapo will be on our highways, subways, train stations and bus stops making us safe. Hope they like coal is their stocking because Santa is going to be pissed having to stop every few miles for "inspection."

"No I don't have receipts for all these toys," Santa would say. "Hey that's my no no spot, officer. OOFF," as Santa is thrown to ground, pepper sprayed repeatedly and then stomped on for good measure. Merry Christmas douches.

6)House Republicans- Failing again to understand the adage "pick your battles carefully," have thrown caution to the wind and threw the latest compromise between Obama and Senate Republicans into a tailspin before having to back down from an angry public. Not happy with a two month addition to unemployment and the payroll tax cut, they attempted to throw a monkey wrench in the works by not voting for it as they wanted a full year. In theory, a agree with them on this point just not for the reasons they had. This was another attempt to stick it to the President and not a way to protect the middle class as they said and everyone knew it. They were forced to turn with their tail between their legs and sign it as an angry public, desperate for money said sign the damned thing already. As a result, the GOP, especially freshman house Republicans, look really bad going into the new year and Boener's speakership could be in jeopardy. HA HA HA HA HA! So instead of doing something to actually fix the economy, we are still stuck in partisan brinkmanship. So way to go GOP you are indeed douchebag of the week.

RANDOM NEWS THREATS IN A DYING WORLD

Been a busy news cycle these past few days. One of the biggest stories is the death of Kim Jung Il and leads to a power vacuum that no one knows how it will play out. His youngest son Kim Jung Un is now in charge although there are rumors that his uncles and the military may be watching in the wings, overseeing the young tyrant. What will happen with this is anyone's guess. A military strike of some sort may be in the near future as a way of showing strength. However in these stressful times, an overcaluclation of strength could lead to war.

Speaking of war, words are escalating between Iran and the US/Israeli heads of state. In a matter of weeks, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta went from we need restraint against Iran because we have no direct evidence of nuclear ambitions to Iran is getting a bomb by the end of next year. That's quite an escalation. Israel will most likely attack Iran some point soon, I'm guessing just after the holidays and if they do, we're involved whether we like it or not. War seems to be imminent but I've said that before and look how that turned out. However, this time may be different as I will be shocked if Israel doesn't do something to protect their national interests against a foe who wants them dead. Covert affairs will only last so long. If they want to stop Iran a full scale invasion may be the only way to do it, although I highly doubt it will start out like that. Inevitably though, that will be the final solution as Iran will do highly provocative actions that may lead to a world war if Russia or China get involved. Troop positions and movement of naval vessels world wide is a cause for concern. With North Korea entering the equation now, this could get ugly fast.

In a show of what we have to look forward to, Louisiana is calling on the national guard to patrol the streets as drug violence took the life of a small child over the weekend. Citing soaring crime levels, state lawmaker Austin Badon Jr. told CNN he "wants the government to step and help control the violence," by sending troops to patrol troubled areas, although he admitted that just "a select few people" were responsible for the crimes.

The CNN host makes clear that Badon is just one of several officials calling for National Guard troops.

"I have called on the Governor to bring in the National Guard," said Badon, asserting that residents were "more comfortable" after seeing the Guard patrol the streets in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina.

"We are at war and when you're at war, you have to bring in soldiers," said Badon, describing the situation as "urban warfare," and complaining about people who own guns.

That's right. These assholes want to use the already repealed Posse Comitatus act to not only patrol our streets, but confiscate guns, just like during Hurricane Katrina. If anyone asks for your gun, give it to them barrel end first and fire. If the government declares martial law, your rights are gone including your right to bear arms. And the GOP is behind this push. Still feel safe voting idiots like Gingrich on office. Wake up fools. They are playing you for chumps. A vote for the GOP, for the most part, is a vote to take away your guns. Mind you democrats are not alone in this either, but short of people like Ron Paul, your second amendment rights are being slowly stripped from you and the NRA is no where in sight as they are bought and payed for by the Republican party. Stop voting fascists into office or your guns will go the way of your freedoms and rights. Our government is playing fast and loose with the Bill of Rights and it needs to stop. Vote Ron Paul in 2012.

It's your only hope.

And if vote fraud looks to be rearing it's ugly head, take a page from the OWS movement, camp out on the National Mall and don't leave until indepedent verification can rule out fraud. We are not Russia. We are not China. We are not Iran. Don't let it be.

A final note on Pat Robertson who took offense at SNL and their Jesus/Tebow sketch. They called it blasphemy. What are we, the Taliban? Go away. I am sick to death of religious wing nuts. God is calling you Pat. Why don't you go into the fricking light already.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: BARACK OBAMA

On this day, 12/18/11, the country known as the United States has officially come to an end. The worst part is we are as responsible for the coming fascism as the people who have no instigated it. It only took corporations since 1933 to do what they've always wanted: control the government and everyone in it. And the Tea Party wants them to have even more power. Unbelievable. Let's see those runner ups.

1)Newt Gingrich- This asshole could be possibly the worst candidate ever for president. If for some miracle of the devil he actually gets into office we are all screwed. His ego and lack of any leadership qualities will almost certainly turn what is left of this country into Germany part 2 with the Muslims being treated as the new Jews of the 21st century. Go back and listen to what he is proposing. Child labor laws: gone. Minimum wage: history. SS, Medicare, and Medicade: Poof. He's even gone so far as to say ON CAMERA that letting a terrorist act get through every now and then to remind the people of why we are fighting the "terrorists" would be a good thing. Sounds like 9/11 to me. This guy is frightening.

2)Herman Cain, Donald Trump, John Huntsman, Michelle Bachmann, and Rick Santorium- The race is over and you guys lost. Some of you don't just know yet. Trump I'm looking at you by the way.

3)Ron Paul- Got nothing bad to say about him honestly. So go Ron Paul in 2012. I'm rooting for you. I don't agree with everything you say (who does) but I have a feeling you might right the sinking ship.

4)MSM- You guys treat Ron Paul like the ugly girl at the high school dance only to find out years later she's a supermodel. Grow a pair and start acknowledging what we all know: RON PAUL IS VERY ELECTABLE.

5)Rick Perry- This guy is so goofy, George Bush looks at him and shakes his head. Not a week goes by where he doesn't say something stupid and then confuses everyone by talking about some new interesting idea like making Congress a part time job. I LOVE that idea which is what it was for many many years until people started making real money at it.

6)Eric Cantor- I hate this guy. This week he held up the congressional insider trading bill that would have prevented congress from racking up huge profits with insider info. Once again if you're going to act like a stereotypical jew you should be called what you are: Jewy Mcjewjew. Just so no one reads this and thinks I'm anti- semetic, I'm not. I support Isreal but let's call a spade a spade. Just so anyone doesn't think I hate black people..... oh I give up with this politically correct garbage. I am not a racist.

7)Obama-Speaking of black people I don't like, short of Newt Gingrich getting the nod, I will not vote for Barack Obama for a second term. He has lied to me for the last time. This week he signed into law a bill that could send whoever we want to prison ending protections for world citizens since 1215. Habeaus Corpus and the Posse Commitatus act are dead. If the government wants to throw you in one of those new FEMA prisons which no one seems to want to talk about, they can. Read Kafka's The Trial for a preview of what may be in our future. The New York Times did an editorial about this while Salon and Rolling Stone all did articles about this new law and how it effects us. Their news was equally bleak. This won't happen overnight but over the next ten years, this country, as we know it, may cease to exist. And people like the Tea Party are making it happen. Obama is a liar or a really bad negotiator or both. Either way, I can no longer support him for President. Again Ron Paul 2012. So way to go Obama. Take your hope and change and stuff it. You are indeed douchebag of the week.

PRESIDENT TO SIGN NEW ENABLING ACT. WELCOME TO HITLERVILLE

Proving once again that President Obama can NEVER be trusted to honor his word, the new Defense bill will be signed into law that gives the President unprecedented powers. While the MSM sleeps (other than Rolling Stone Magazine's Matt Tiabi) our traitorous Congress and President have just eviscerated the basic principles of the Constitution for "safety." The same safety measures we all seem to have gotten used to such as being groped by the TSA or random cop inspections. ENOUGH!

Are people so sheepish that they can't see the forest for the trees anymore? FEMA camps are real and being stocked up for. What exactly? Most likely to house millions of dissidents, Muslims and other "undesirables" for when the attack on Iran occurs and the economy goes to hell in a hand basket. There won't be any protests then because you'll be whisked away faster than you can say "Gitmo." Yeah they might not be coming for you now, but who is to say what they will outlaw next. Like maybe gun ownership? The German's did this in 1933 for Adolph Hitler and look how that turned out. It's no coincidence that concentration camps have sprung up nationwide.

In top of this is word that Congress, yes that Congress that can't pass anything not fascist related, is set to pass a new bill that gives Homeland Security the ability to shut down any website they feel like but also arrest people for it. Any suspected copyright infringement could be used to crush opposition to any site they don't like. Would sites like mine be affected? Probably. Any site that big business doesn't like could use the Homeland Security rule to destroy their competition or even anyone writing about them. Scared yet?

This country is lost. Voting won't matter. Protests, unless in the millions, won't matter. Gun sales have skyrocketed these past few days. I don't have to wonder why.
We now live in exactly the kind of fascist police state the elites, such as Prescott Bush and the Du Pont family, tried to established themselves some seventy years ago. They were patient and now, they have won. The rule of law no longer applies to anyone who isn't rich and a new standard of poverty and chaos will come to affect most of the USA who isn't. The cops are not there to serve and protect. The government is not there to protect you rights. And no matter who you put into office at this point will be slave to their corporate masters.

With no place to flee to, save maybe Argentina or Iceland, we have no choice but to stay and fight. I will continue to post until they come for me. I don't suspect it will be that long before they do. If these posts should stop for a lengthy period of time know that I have been taken. Hopefully, I'll take a few of them with me before they do.

STUPIDITY RUNS RAMPANT THROUGHOUT USA

I swear these last few days have been a chore to get through. Let's start with something posted here a few days ago about Iran doing war games to close the Straits of Hormuz. Funny thing, somebody missed the war games part and started a panic on Wall St yesterday. Oil process skyrocketed then plunged as somebody showed the sheeple the news story that Iran was only pretending and cooler heads prevailed. Did nobody think to look the info up, which was readily available from several web sites including MINE? Nope that would have been too easy. Why is it some people believe literally anything their are told? Oh right, we call them fundamentalists.

Take the Florida Family Association. Headed by uber dumbass bigot, David Canton, this thinly veiled hate group spews venom against gay people, abortion and being pro-choice, sexuality and now, Muslims for, apparently, not being terroristy enough. WTF? Yes, these wastes of space have urged a boycott against the TLC show "All American Muslim," and have succeded in getting retail giant Lowes to balk in a flagrant cause of stupidity. They do know Muslims buy things from them right? Not anymore. Way to piss of a huge number of potential customers. By the way the show is basically another boring reality show that does the honest route of showing that American Muslims aren't a bunch of would be jihadists. For that I have to give the show some respect. The FFA however are a hare breath away from the idiots who protest outside soldier's funerals or shout obscenities to people going into Planned Parenthood.

Thank god there are some polls out there that say Gingrich may have peaked and that Ron Paul may be finally getting the recognition he deserves. I may not agree with everything he has to say, but he does have some great points and if nothing else, he's honest. Try saying that to too many politicians. In my home state, Elizabeth Warren attack ads have surfaced that are nothing short of hilarious. They try to paint her as a person out of touch with the middle class. The person who has fought tirelessly for a Consumer Protection Agency that the GOP refuses to fund or hire a director for? That person? The one who fought against predatory lending habits by banks and credit cards? Her? Christ, the Republicans are desperate when they try to accuse the democrats of the very thing they have done their utmost to kill. Recent debates had Obama painted as weak on terrorism. I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

People are starting to wake up to the hell we've put ourselves in. But many more are really, really dumb. Let us pray for them to wake up and smell the coffee. The house is burning dumbasses. Go get some water.

WAR DRUMS GROW: BREAKING NEWS!

Here are several explosive stories not receiving more attention from MSM sources. The biggest story is copied below from Sibel Edmonds Boiling Frogs site:

"According to first-hand accounts and reports provided to Boiling Frogs Post by several sources in Jordan, during the last few hours foreign military groups, estimated at hundreds of individuals, began to spread near the villages of the north-Jordan city of “Al-Mafraq”, which is adjacent to the Jordanian and Syrian border.

According to one Jordanian military officer who asked to remain anonymous, hundreds of soldiers who speak languages ​other than Arabic were seen during the past two days in those areas moving back and forth in military vehicles between the King Hussein Air Base of al-Mafraq (10 km from the Syrian border), and the vicinity of Jordanian villages adjacent to the Syrian border, such as village Albaej (5 km from the border), the area around the dam of Sarhan, the villages of Zubaydiah and al-Nahdah adjacent to the Syrian border.

Another report received from our source in Amman identified an additional US-NATO Command Center in “al-Houshah,’ a village near Mafraq.

Our Iraqi journalist source in London provided us with the following related information:

“Some of the US forces that left the Ain al-Assad Air base in Iraq last Thursday, did not come back to the USA or its base in Germany, but were transferred to Jordan during the evening hours.”

The above information was further corroborated by our correspondent and advisor Nizar Nayouf who interviewed an employee in the London-based office of Royal Jordanian Airlines.

Earlier last week, Jordanian news websites disclosed that “Western officials have requested the King to allow establishing an electronic spy station in the north of Jordan (near the Syrian border) in order to access the Syrian army and contact Syrian high-rank officers for convincing them to make a military coup or (at least) rebel against the regime”.
Nizar Nayouf, BFP advisor and correspondent on Syria in London, had the following statement on Al-Mafraq:

“The al-Mafraq air base, which now includes Air Force Academy, was a starting point for “conspiratorial activities” by Jordan, The UK and Israel against Syria in the past, particularly in the 1960s. In September 1968, a Syrian commando Major, Salim Hatoom, who fled to Jordan with a number of officers after a failed coup attempt, established a camp from which he started a rebel military against the then left-wing government of Syria under president Nureddin al-Atassi and Salah Jadid. By the end of 1970s and early 1980s, the Syrian Islamic Brotherhood and their military wing “At-Taleeah al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah” (the Islamic Militant Vanguard) used the same base for its military struggle against president Hafez a-Assad regime, in which they were being trained by the Jordanian and Israeli intelligence agents, and cars were being bombed before they were sent to the streets of Syrian cities for the killing of innocents and undermining state facilities.”

Mr. Nayouf went on to emphasize the irony of the situation:

“I guess history repeats itself but as farce…Last spring, that tens of Syrian soldiers, who fled to Jordan, were transferred to a camp west of the Jordanian city of “Salt”, in which officers from Israeli military intelligence (AMAN) began the investigation with them under the supervision of the Jordanian military intelligence. This was to extract information from them on issues related to the development of the Syrian army, weapons and training, especially after 2006.”

We contacted our expert sources on US media and intelligence-military and were told that the US media has been told not to report on this latest development until Tuesday, December 13."

This can be combined with news that the Iranians are practicing closing off the Straits of Hormutz. Here is the story from Debka:

"Bigheaded from capturing the US stealth RQ-170 Sentinel drone, Tehran Monday, Dec. 12 announced plans to conduct a navy drill son for practicing the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil transit channel in the world for 40 percent of its fuel. Iranian lawmaker Parviz Sorouri, member of the Majlis national security committee, who announced the drill said, "Iran will make the world unsafe if the world attacks Iran."

On Dec. 12, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called Iran "a very grave threat to all of us" and warned that any Iranian disruption of the free flow of commerce through the Persian Gulf "is a red line" for the United Sates.

Tehran's announcement of a navy drill in Hormuz augments the Syrian ruler Bashar Assad's mantra since his people rose up against him nine months ago, that an attack on his regime would start a regional blaze.

The Iranian lawmaker spoke at length about how his government planned to use the military and intelligence software mined from the top-secret US UAV on Dec. 4.

He said Iranian engineers and technicians were "in the final stages of "cracking" the drone's secret technology, although he did not say when this research would be complete. "Our next action will be to reverse-engineer the aircraft," he said and boasted: "In the near future will be able to mass produce it. Iranian engineers will soon build an aircraft superior to the American one."

This data would also be used, the Iranian lawmaker said, in a lawsuit against the United State for the "invasion" by the unmanned aircraft. Sorouri did not say where the lawsuit would be filed but Tehran is thought to be preparing an complaint to the international war crimes court at the Hague.

Debkafile's Iranian and military sources note that the linkage Sorouri made between the capture of the RQ-170 and the naval drill in the Strait of Hormuz was intended to inform Washington that Tehran in possession of the drone no longer fears the ability of the naval air carriers the US has deployed in the Persian Gulf to prevent its closure of the strategic waterway.

In the last six months, Adm. Habibollah Sayyari has emphasized more than once that the Iranian Navy which he commands is master of the Persian Gulf and dominates the Strait of Hormuz. After trapping the American stealth drone, Iran is mounting a challenge to the warning issued by Panetta and testing the resolve of Washington and the Saudi-led Gulf Arab region to contest the Hormuz drill.

Mere verbal protest will not serve. It will just leave Tehran crowing over its possession of the US drone as the key to the military and intelligence mastery of the Persian Gulf waters and the ability to make US back down. However a real threat by the US and Gulf oil powers to stop the drill by force will send regional tensions shooting up.

In the meantime, Saeed Jalili, head of Iran's National Security Council has arrived in Moscow to clinch a deal for the transfer of drone secrets to Russia in return for nuclear technology and sophisticated military hardware."

Scared yet? More as this story unfolds.

Other quick news is that Eric Cantor is holding up the congressional insider trading bill. Shocker! Also channel five in TN reported the government is going door to door asking people questions like how much food they have stockpiled. They say its for emergency issues but the only answers they would get from me is "Fuck off," and "Ten seconds from now I'm getting my gun."

Pray Newt Gingrich doesn't somehow wind up our next president. That guy's dangerous.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: VLADIMIR PUTIN

This ass is heading us straight to WW3. Let's see those runner ups.

1)Newt Gingrich and his awful, awful supporters-Only the GOP could dredge the bottom of the barrel to come up with someone who makes me look longingly at Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann. The only two worse have already dropped out, Cain and Trump, mostly because they knew dick about how to run a government and somehow became dumber as the campaign continued. But Gingrich? REALLY? WHY? Did I miss the memo that time somehow changed and this bloated f$5cktard didn't destroy the country once already when he shut down the government TWICE and subjected us all to the now imprisoned Kenneth Starr and his Clinton sex capades witch hunt. This is the "intellectual" you want? Please? My dog is smarter than this ass. For anyone thinking of voting this moron into office, here's some things you better get used to should he win: the end of SS, Medicare, Medicade, Unemployment insurance, safe work laws, sick days, freedom of speech, most of the Constitution, and yes I'll say it, gun ownership. It's only a matter of time before the GOP turns on the NRA and start promoting gun confiscation as a way to protect us against those invisible terrorists. This guy will turn us into a prison nation. And some of you are voting for it.

2)Obama- Yes he's been absent for some time but no roars back to life with his reasoning for voting down the obnoxious "put everyone is prison" bill that just sailed through Congress. A big thumbs up to Jon Stewart for finally talking about it. The MSM is oddly silent about the biggest power grab in this nation's history. Obama has said he'll veto it, not because he disagrees that this bill ends forever the fourth amendment, but that it doesn't give the President absolute power to implement it. There is a document out, real or hoaxed is unknown, but it states that the FEMA camps are being stocked and manned soon. What does the government know that we don't? Should we be worried? If this bill is any indication, we should all be very worried. It would appear that soon the president can order the assissination or indefinite detention of ANYONE he designates as a terrorist. Don't think it could happen to you? Neither did the Jews circa 1938. We are losing our country. We can't let that happen.

3)TSA- Three separate older ladies say they were strip searched on the same day that the went through JFK. They didn't know one another, although two were on the same flight. The TSA said it never happened. What are you guys, Herman Cain? Three's a pattern numnuts. This has got to stop. First, there is no Dr. Evil terrorist group, just random morons trying to reach Allah that much quicker. How many huge terrorist attacks have their been in the last ten years in this country? Zero. Even the ones that tried to do something would have done little to no damage had their bombs even worked. We can't through our freedom away for such a paltry sum. There are other ways to prevent terrorism that don't require stripping grandma in the corner. There are no terrorists, at least not the kind of government keeps pretending exists. Enough fearmongering.

4)Congress- You guys just suck. I hope you all get cancer.

5)Eric Holder- This waste of space still has his job, just like the bankers and Congress and Pauly Shore. What do you need to do in government to get fired?

6)Putin- This guy is single handedly restarting the cold war. Just what we don't need. In a true bit of irony, we chastised the Russians for their less than fair elections and were shocked when he rebuffed us, claiming we were responsible for all the problems in the last election. We have enough to worry about without interfering with that dumbass. With war looming, and I do mean LOOMING, what the Russians do could be the difference between regional war and a world war. We are moving another air craft carrier into the Syrian region making three in the area and five deployed total world wide, a larger than usual number in a non war scenario. So thank a lot Putin, your warmongering has made you douchebag of the week.

THE WARMONGER SING ALONG: YOU'RE A MEAN ONE, MR. GINGRICH

You're A Mean One, Mr. Gingrich
You really are a fool,
You're as honest as a crook, you're really quite a tool, Mr. Gingrich.

You're a neo con with a fascist streak!

You're a monster, Mr. Gingrich,
Your brain is full of stumps,
You have no empathy, unless its to Donald Trump, Mr. Gingrich,

Even republican pundits hate your guts!

You're a vile one. Mr Gingrich,
You think liberals are your bitch,
You despise the 99 and you hate everyone except the filthy rich, Mr. Gingrich,

I'd rather have George Bush for President over you!

You sicken me, Mr. Gingich,
With your outdated lies,
Your Tiffany line of credit and your divorces piled sky high, Mr. Gingrich,

Your a fat, stupid bastard in love with his own voice!

You're a foul one, Mr Gingrich,
Your supporters are all shmucks,
They can't remember the past, they really are stupid f#$cks, Mr. Gingrich,

The three words that describe them and you are "Stink, Stank, Stunk."

You're a rotten one, Mr Gingrich,
I can't believe you're rising in the polls,
Is Mitt really that so bad, that this idiot is on a roll, Mr. Gingrich,

Your soul is a blackened heap built on lies, ethics charges, dishonesty, and fire branding tied up in Rush Limbaugh's ass!

F#$k Newt Gingrich and anyone who supports this dangerous fool.

Merry Christmas.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK:JOHN MCCAIN

No way does anyone come even close to this traitor, except maybe Congress itself. Let's see those runner ups.

1)Eric Holder- Surprise, surprise, Eric Holder was forced to admit he lied to Congress about how much he knew about the Fast And Furious disaster that allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Turns out, he was informed about the failed operation and then "forgot" about it. Right. Let's hope he resigns on Monday as many expect him to.

2)TSA-Having traveled by plane for what will probably be my last time, you no longer have a choice with the cancer machines, but now everyone goes through them. Mind you, I am less affected by this as I rarely travel. But for that regular traveler, someone who is constantly on a plane, they are going to get the equivalent of a thousand x-rays each year. Sure, that won't cause cancer. No other country is using these devices as they have been proven not only to cause cancer but they don't work either. So for any regular traveler, maybe Amtrak is a good alternative.

3)Newt Gingrich and his supporters- This fat, fat awful man is now the front runner for some reason. He has been described by his own people as having the personality of an angry badger and the flip flopping nature of ten Mitt Romneys. What idiot is supporting this guy? Morons that's who. Anyone brave enough to have an elect Gingrich sticker on their car is going to get a broken windshield for their troubles.

4)Herman Cain- As I write this, superfool is saying he will suspend his campaign. Good. Comedians everywhere cry in horror.

5)Congress- These idiots, who can't get anything accomplished, helped pass S. 1863 which makes free speech outlawed, the right to assemble questionable, and ends habeaus corpus and the posse commitatus act. Anybody the President wishes to label an enemy combatant can be whisked away without evidence, without a trail, without charges. The USA is now officially a police state.

6)John McCain- As the co sponsor for the end of America act as said above, this traitor to this country and disgrace to the uniform, helped draft this law against accordance with the very Constitution he has sworn to defend. He better get some good bodyguards because people on the net are pissed and some thinly veiled death threats are being leveled against him. I expect someone to take a shot at him within the next few weeks as the heavily armed GOP populace are PISSED about this and someone nutbag is going to take into his hands to do something about it. So congratulations McCain, you are indeed douchebag of the week. Get yourself a bullet proof vest for Christmas, McCain. I think you might need it.

DISASTER LOOMS AS STOCK MARKET GOES WILD

Things fall apart. The Center does not hold. T.S. Elliot.

That quote just about sums up the unfolding Apocalypse rapidly approaching. Meanwhile the stock market rose five hundred points on better than expected hiring in November, somehow forgetting for the upteenth year in a row that this happens EVERY year around a little known holiday called Christmas. And then when hiring suddenly ceases around, oh, I don't know, January, investors are shocked, SHOCKED, that these mysterious jobs seems to disappear again. It makes me want to pull my hair out.

On top of the rise which can be best described as irrational exuberance, comes word that the Fed has loaned out 7.7 trillion more dollars to the banks, making the grand total 23.3 trillion. Couldn't we have fixed, well just about anything with that money? This raises some serious questions such as why isn't anybody reporting this except people like yours truly. The money is either being stolen at a rate unheard of in human history or hoarded for some approaching issue that the general public has not been made aware of yet. Not that I think this is actually happening but one has to wonder that the plot line for the disaster flick 2012 isn't being implemented in some way. In the film, precious works of art were moved out of harms way into caves and bunkers, with forgeries put in many places. There are stories of just that happening but as to whether they are true or not is another matter. The other thing the film did was show that unlimited sums of money were being used to protect the elites from what was about to occur. 23.3 trillion would be a good way to start. Could the fact that countries like China are building huge underground cities have anything to do this? Could the work at the Denver Airport really by about a safe haven for whatever problem is headed our way? Mind you this all speculation and I put the chances of this at less than 10% so don't get your panties in a bunch as there are much more serious problems rearing their ugly head.

World War 3 looms and it seems there will be no stopping it at this point. Both Russia and the US are sending more war ships to the Syrian/Iran front and China has publicly said they will start WW3 if Iran gets invaded. The attack, approved by the Iranian government, on the UK embassy did not help matters. Relations between the two seem all but over and other countries such as France, Germany, Belgium and Holland have all supported the UK and in some cases recalled their ambassadors. The UK is currently trying to deport Iranian diplomats from their country. At the same time, war with Syria looks all but inevitable and Israel has made it perfectly clear that whether the US likes it or not, they will not allow Iran to get a nuke which they are dangerously close to getting. This is most likely going to happen sometime early next year. The outcomes from such as attack all lead to major problems and possibly, the end of civilization as we know it.

On top of all that good news comes word that the Euro, which was within days of failure, got a bailout from US banks (of course) by lending them dollars at a cut rate price which will only give them few more weeks to realize that what they plan won't work. The death of the Euro is imminent. When it crashes, so goes the world economy.

What did you say? You can't take any more bad news? Then stop reading because this next one's a doozy. Our Senate, which can't pass anything, somehow passed the worst bill in the history of this country. S. 1867 passed the house 60-38 meaning 60 senators such said they are traitors to this country. This onerous bill allows the end of Habeaus Corpus and the Posse Commitatus Act, which prevents military from being deployed on US soil, two of the major factors of the US Constitution. I would like to remind our fine military that they took an oath to defend this country from both foreign and domestic issues and this Congress has proven themselves to be traitors and should be arrested immediately. This new law allows the government to label anyone the wish a "terrorist," throw you in a hole and forget about you, otherwise known as everything our Founding Fathers fought to stop. Pray Obama goes through with his promise to veto it. Failure to do so will officially turn this country into a police state with the ability to make anyone's life miserable they wish. At that point, either stockpile weapons or flee to somewhere else.

Cain's Presidential run is all but over and it appear the crazy right will support Gingrich instead. Just what we need, another career politician with no new ideas and a shady past. Wake up people. The end is actually near and no one seems to know it.

Pray we can all find a way to make things right without bloodshed. It is looking increasingly unlikely, as one way or another, a bloodbath is coming. And the middle class is going to take the brunt of it.

Swell.

THE FASCIST STATE AND YOU

If any of the new ominous bills pass, such as John McCain's battlefield US plan or Joe Lieberman's new rat out the terrorist blogger bill, yours truly may suddenly disappear one day. If this blog suddenly stops with no explanation, know that I have been "liberated" to some dark hole. When are people going to stop defending the government/corporations and start demanding real change?

The Tea Party needs to get their heads out their asses and actually join in with the Occupy Wall St movement. The OWS crowd needs to stop behaving like a bunch of spoiled children and DEMAND specific changes. This, and I hate to say this, communist outlook of "can't we all just share," philosophy doesn't work and provably so as the USSR and China have all stopped being communist in nay way shape or form and are now just totalitarian regimes with a sprinkle of capitalism. Sound familiar? We are more like these countries every day and no one wants to say anything about it.

Back in the sixties, Professor Stanley Milgram tried experiments on people to see how far they could be pushed by an authoritative figure to deliver electric shocks to an unwanted individual. 63% complied to "shock" the person they were told to. In reality, the person being shocked was an actor and no real pain was delivered. But the study showed that people will commit horrible offenses if they are told to do so. Recently, the experiment was done again and, like before 73%, shocked the actor when told to do so. However, if a second person was placed in the room delivering shocks to the actor and he then quit, his partner was more likely to follow suit.

This is a stunning psychological look at how sheepish we really are. We will follow orders without thinking of the consequences and we will bow out when others do the same. In other words, most people are content to go with the flow, no matter where it takes them. It would certainly explain the yo yo effect the GOP candidates have had this election season. The Tea Party would seem to be the biggest groups of sycophants alive today. Mind you the OWS movement could also use some leaders to start moving this thing forward, unless continuous pepper spray is to your liking.

Here's some simple demands. 1) End the fed. 2)Remove all money from politics. 3) Ban insider trading within Congress and Wall St buy using harsh penalties for anyone caught (Federal prison with hardcore criminals for many years is a start). 4)End useless oversights like the Drug War, Homeland Security, the TSA, and VIPER teams. 5)Arrests for anybody involved (public or private) who helped cause the financial crisis and lastly 6)demand that all corporations have to use a certain percentage of their profits for wages for all their employees as well as wages tied from the highest to lowest by percentages. This will cause them to give everyone a much needed raise. Our salaries are dropping and no one seems to care. All this talk about having a job is worthless if they don't pay anything and that's where we stand today. It's no so much about jobs but good paying ones and no one is a anymore. The average salary is slightly less than 26,500 dollars down 14,000 from forty years ago. Are things cheaper than they were forty years ago? Hell no. So why are salaries going the other way? Mainly because the flood of women entering the job market in the 70's diluted the job pool to such an extent that companies could pay far less to attract good workers. This is not me being sexist but a fact. Women working was a good idea in theory but has proven to be an abject distaste. As that genie has left the bottle, government should be looking at doing something to get everyone's salaries way up because women barefoot and pregnant is not going to happen nor should it.

We no longer live in democracy and it is becoming more and more apparent every day. Our laws are being rewritten to keep up us in this prison USA. Read Animal Farm and you'll see it is more non-fiction than you would like. The derivative market is trying to move itself onto the back of the FDIC or in other words risky bids are once again being moved onto taxpayer shoulders. There is not enough money in the world to cover these loses so should they go under so does the FDIC and so does all the money in every bank everywhere.

In other news, FOIA documents reveal that Hank Paulson warned executives at his former company of Goldman Sachs that Fannie and Freddie were going to fail and they should get out stat. This is the very definition of insider trading. It's good to be the King.

Newt Gingrich continues to rise, proving my point that the Tea Party are the biggest bunch of sheep out there. The poll numbers for the flavor of the week (Trump, Bachmann, Cain, Perry all have flamed out as people looked closer at them) all betray them as looking for GOP candidates only who do not have their best interests at heart. The next election will inevitably have Tweedledum and Tweedledee running, and if it's Gingrich versus Obama, Obama gets the edge just for not being a fat, blowhard bastard. No way does Gingrich win and god help us all if he does.

Read 1984, Brave New World, or Animal Farm for a real look at what is occurring. Pray that things get better because, as of right now, things look bleak. Start being one of those that stands up and not follows. There's too many of the latter right now. This is how I'm protesting. What's your excuse.

DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: CONGRESS

A quiet week as Thanksgiving usually is according to the nightly news. Oh wait a minute, no it wasn't. The stock market dropped six consecutive days over the dawning realization that the Euro was going to collapse, war with Syria/Iran is looking to be imminent, and Congress is proving to be wholly out of step with any sense of reason. Let's look at those runner ups.

1)Syracuse Police Department-Proving many people's point that a world wide kiddie porn ring is in existence with many high levels members is coming more and more to the forefront every day. On top of the recent problems with how Penn State handled the Jerry Sandusky affair, now comes word that for some inane reason, the Syracuse police department apparently covered up crimes against its basketball head coach for also molesting little boys way back in 2002. The local DA is up in arms that the police are still trying to cover up what happened and their involvement. The police are no longer here to serve and protect but to make you obey whatever stupid laws are being told for them to do. On top of all this, we find out that the reason pot arrests are way, way up is money. Shocker. From 1968-1995 there were 33,000 arrests for possession. Since then 550,000. Police rely on stats that show they accomplishing something and thus federal money is granted them. As a result of them pumping up their numbers with easy pot possession arrests (illegal now in some states including mine of MA), they are simultaneously ignoring cases involving robbery, assault even rape. Your tax dollars at work. The police departments as they are now need to be completely reworked as to how they operate. The alternative is slavery.

2)Walmart shoppers- This week we heard of a woman macing others for an X-box game, another man who died during the melees(of natural causes) but whose body went undiscovered for hours as people stepped over him with never a though of helping, and several who were robbed outside of their hard earned goods. A special shout out to the moron security team in some suburb that pepper sprayed the crown INSIDE THE STORE. Needless to say that didn't go over well and the whole store had to be evacuated with children among the injured.

3)The Tea Party/GOP- These idiots are the worst of the worst. They have become shills for the very people they are supposed to hate. As they are joined by the GOP on calling the protesters a bunch of unwashed hippies (which is semi-true), they have piled on to the big business good/government bad theory. Bad news sloths, business and government are one and the same, thus the fascist police state you now live in and whole heartedly support. Don't believe me? Turn the news and try to decide what you are seeing is in Egypt, Syria or your back yard. From a distance, you will have no clue, unless the news tells you WHERE it is.

Why is this not the same when the Tea Party first started (and which when I agreed with them before they went flying off the rails) when big banks and the economy was the focus; when they were the demons? Now its all about gay rights and abortion, which many a GOP member still says are the most important issues we have to face. REALLY? That's the issues that will save our failing economy and world? Not that the Democrats are any better but really what idiot out there feels that these are the major problems facing this country? Do you really want an American Taliban controlling what we do all the time? It's time to wake up people and stop voting these people into office. Also, any idiot believing in this nonsense needs to leave the country stat. You want a fascist state, where religion rules all? You can move there any time. It's called Iran. Enjoy. Leave the rest of us the F#$K alone. Either join in the protests, which are in your best interests morons, or get the hell out. I'm sick of the lot of you.

4)Pakistan- After we went in and killed a bunch of actual terrorists within the Pakistan borders, and killing several of their soldiers who really had no business there, the Pakistani government cut off all supply lines to Afghanistan. This is one of the main reasons we need to be out of the country. As long as we ae there, we have to kowtow to the Pakistanis to keep supply lines open. But, in a true catch-22, as long as we are there, we have to worry about cross border raids form Taliban hiding within their borders. I give credit to this administration (and even Bush) for not doing what we did in Vietnam and let Chinese supply lines remain open. The Pakistanis have to pick a side and should be very careful with whom. There is a strong possibility that this will strengthen ties with an increasingly hostile Russia and China. A World War looms.

5)Russis- Putin is consolidating his power and the Cold War appears to be reigniting. The Russians are still mad about our proposed missile shield protecting eastern Europe from a nuclear attack. Why this should bother anybody is beyond me. We should never use nuclear weapons, less the planet dies. The Russians seem hell bent on bringing us back to the bad old days and even re-establishing the USSR.

6)Syria- Syrian leader Assad is refusing to back down from world wide protests to step down. War plans are being drawn up with the Arab League, the US and UK all telling the citizens to leave immediately. The supercarrier George W. Bush (I would hate to serve aboard any vehicle named after such an awful president) has been moved off the coast and the Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's only carrier left in their mostly mothballed fleet, arrives soon to join three other Russian warships already there. That doesn't sound too confrontational does it? Sigh. The Russians have warned us not to try a Libya style takeover or else face the consequences. Any attack could unleash, literaly, holy hell with Iran, with Lebanon and Israel getting involved almost immediately, let alone Russia, China and even possibly North Korea. The world is about to ride a razor's edge. Pray.

7)Congress- Yes as the world burns, Congress continues to pass worthless bills that do nothing to fix the economy. The Super Congress that everyone was so worried about taking our guns away (which would NEVER have happened the way the committee was structured), couldn't even do the one thing they were SUPPOSED to do. And they wonder why they stand at a nine percent approval rating. Instead now comes a truly onerous bill, S. 1253. Under this new bill, indefinite detention without charges or trial could be levied on anyone, anywhere, even in your own home. Imagine a world where you could be taken at a moments notice, never told where you went and sit in a cell forever without anyone telling you what you were charged with. Wait a minute. That's the exact plot of Kafka's The Trial, an excellent book and apparently non fiction now. That is the most unamerican piece of garbage I have ever heard. They just say the word terrorist and poof you disappear. The ACLU has written a strongly worded letter decrying this awful bill. This would be a red line for us as well. If you start disappearing members of movement like Occupy Wall ST then violence will be the only solution. And that is something I would condone. Most likely, yours truly will be on the first bus to blackout town, but I'd hoping to be elsewhere if that occurs. I am starting to hear from people that leaving the country may not be a bad idea, that bad things are afoot. I'd like to leave before they seal the borders. Anyone reading out there might want to think about the same. I don't know where might be better but Iceland and Argentina sound nice. So congratulations, Congress you are douchebags of the week.

TEN THINGS I'M THANKFUL FOR

With all sorts of horrible things happening this week, (Gingrich at the top of the polls, police brutality at an all time high, war with Syria/Iran imminent) lets take time out to reflect on what we should be thankful for.

10)I'm thankful I don't live in Iran and Syria. Americans were warned today that they should get the hell out of Syria and Europe and the Arab League are supposedly drawing up plans for a Libya style invasion including establishment of a no fly zone. Russia and China are less than pleased with this prospect. The US has moved super carrier the George W. Bush (ugh) into the region and France is petitioning NATO to intervene. Assad's rule is over whether he wants to admit it or not. He should see what happened with Qaddafi and maybe think about stepping down. This war could get bloody if Iran, Russia, China, North Korea or all of them get involved. Yuck.

9)I'm thankful I'm not the president of Berkley college or officer John Pike. Good luck with any career you thought you might have. Pike has become an icon and not a good one. I particularly liked the picture of him spraying the Founding Fathers. And the president of Berkley has flip flopped her story so many times you'd think she was running for president.

8)I'm thankful neither me nor my girlfriend weigh several hundred pounds. Seriously people, eat a salad once a while.

7)I'm thankful I have a roof over my head in a nice neighborhood. Many in the world don't have that luxury especially if your mailing address is Juarez, Detroit or lately, the White House.

6)I'm thankful to have some money in a credit union that isn't being used to help the big banks that screwed everything up in the first place.

5)I'm thankful I'm not a fundamentalist because I like being able to think for myself.

4)I'm thankful I'm not a member of the Tea Party for exactly the same reason and number five.

3)I'm thankful I don't get all my news from FOX because I would apparently believe that Obama is an African born Marxist, that Newt Gingrich has the temperament and ability to be President and that bleach chases away the thirsties.

2)I'm thankful that I don't work for an organization like Fox News, the FBI or any idiot in Britain that said there is no proof of water preventing dehydration. Sigh.

1)I'm thankful for my friends, family and health, even though the latter is so precarious that everyday I wait for a new issue to cost me a small fortune. Again.Yeah our health care system rocks.


Happy Thanksgiving all.