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collapse"
- The Bush Battered
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3/2008
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BLOG - Breaking Stories MENU - FEB 2012 new END of MACKERAL, GINGRINCH FADES; JAN 2012 EU-PERIL , END OF IRAQ (WAR), REPUB DWARVES, ARAB FALL, SECRET SHYLOCKS, WHOSE HOMELAND, WARMING WORRIES, BACK IN THE USSR2 ;AUG 2011 - SCAND MONSTER, TP DEBT DOPES LOSE AAA ; May 2011 WHO's SAYIN 'HUSSEIN' NOW?
BACK IN THE USSR - new Kyiv
Post 
ORIGINAL After a teaser
of decriminalizing the 
ridiculous charges
against Tymoshenko, the Yanukovich government decided to
crucify her- with a
dozen new investigations inc. contract killing. In the financial charges
there
may be a glimmer of truth, but the 7 year treason sentence for her normal
duties was preposterous. Examples of treason, betraying
one's state, were the
Oedipal Bush-neocon invasion of
Iraq, which benefited no one but war profiteer
Dick Cheney
and killed 300-400,000... or the throwing of the RosUkrEnergo case in the Stockholm
Arbitration Tribunal, which bankrupted
state co.
Naftogaz and could lose Ukraine its sovereignty- Nov 2011
VOYAGES to NEW 
WORLDS: new
though the end of the Shuttle means we are dependent on
Russian launches, a
plethora of unmanned missions are
happening: the Dawn orbited the second
biggest asteroid Vesta July 16th (330mi.
diam. and will go on to
the biggest Ceres in a year (arrive 2015)
- 590mi diam. with significant water ice); the $1.1 bil JUNO spacecraft blasted off Aug 5th for a
5-6
year trip to a a polar orbit of Jupiter,
the Mini
Cooper-size Curiosity
rover takes off
for Mars on Thanksgiving; and the Sun has had the longest period of quiet + cool
in shenkrecorded history: from 2006-2009, 800 days without
a sunspot, yet we
still had the hottest years in history
(now maybe back 4 million years) in 2005
+ 2010, when the
cool sun was negating some of the Global Warming! But,
the 11 year-cycle warmer solar maximum
is in 2013-2014,
when the coming Great
Drought may hit- Texas everywhere.
THE INFINITE
PUTIN - In the
News ARCHIVE Capital Times ORIGINAL Moscow: Putin is supposed to leave office in March, but that was
impossible to believe.
Appointing unknown crony Viktor Zubkov PM (told only the
day before and
rammed through rubber stamp Congress 2 days later) ends the
doubt. Zubkov will be anointed President (+ win), Putin
will become Prime
Minister, and Zubkov may resign in
6-12 months to let Vladimir Vladimirovich
return as Prez.
Massive conflicts of interests in the Kremlin, where mini
oligarch ministers control the biggest corporations in the
world and can't
separate their interests from those of the
state, crushing and absorbing
competitors.- October 4, '07, (On May
7, 2008
Putin became PM; In 2012 he will return for 12 years as Prez, the
"tandem"
decided)
WHO'S SAYIN HUSSEIN NOW? - Scoop Bin Laden's death is good
news, but his quick disposal will fuel conspiracy
theories: monsters must be
displayed to prove they are
gone- PolPot, Ceaseacu, Mussolini; Better he rotted
in a
US prison- now he become myth and martyr; But America was changed and
damaged forever, by it's own overreaction and Bush's
Oedipal criminal invasion
of Iraq; $3 trillion of endless
war + 400,000 dead
ABSOLUTE POWER - Scoop
, OpEdNews, KIEV: In seizin
g full control of the Courts, City of Kiev,
changing the Constitution to the old powerful-President
one, prosecuting the
impotent opposition (imprisoning
25!), and restricting who can run in local
elections;
Yanukovich and his Party of Regions have managed to do in 7
months what took Putin 7 years- achieve an absolute
monopoly of control in
Ukraine. The Supreme Court
was demoted and bowdlerized, as the High
Court of
Justice and Constitutional Court were packed with majority POR
judges.- Oct
2010 
THE BEAR'S EMBRACE - Kyiv
Weekly FULL
Pres. Medvedev comes to Kiev- signs deals on nuclear loans
and plant-building;
joint aviation projects; controversial
border "resolution"
and joint
Rukrainian textbook production to howls from marginalized opposition;
Answers questions at Taras Shevchenko U; Linguistic war
against Russian is over-
deep sense of comfort among
Russian speakers; Yanukovich attacked by Mother
Nature May 27
, 2010
DON'T BE
SAD, BE BOTANICAL - Botanical gardens of Kiev - Kyiv Weekly- May 27
The beauty of Kiev's 2 Botanichsky
Sads- the central one
by Universitet Metro, and the
huge Vydubichy one south
T
AKEOVER
- Kyiv Weekly Can
Ukraine Remain Independent - FULL Putin's suggestion that
Gazprom and Naftogaz merge hit with a thunderclap; At 6%
value, Naftogaz would be devoured by
Gazprom and Ukraine
would be under Moscow's thumb;
Oligarchs maybe last guarantors of Ukr
independence- they
would lose immense powers being vassals of Moscow; Yanukovich
resists proposal- Ukrainians have been managing Russian
overlordship for
centuries; - May 20
ENDLESS
GAS - Kyiv
Weekly - Ukraine got some breathing
space on
gas prices- 30% discount in exchange for 25 years
longer stay of Black Sea
Fleet, but at what cost;
Tymoshenko's deal was horrible, Ukr paid among the
highest
prices in Europe, but gas is plentiful due to exploding US (and soon
Polish/Ukr) shale gas production and Ukraine has
negligible transportation
costs, so the 30%
"discount" was maybe 4%; Is the next part of
this deal
turning over Ukraine's pipelines to Russia, it's last bargaining chip?
With Russia buying Industrial Union of Donbass,
(probably) stage-managing
the Kyrgyz revolt, helping
Ukraine with billions of loans for nuclear power
plants-
Russia is rising, and looking to extend it's web of influence throughout
Ukraine- April 30
BLUE
STEEL - Billionaire's Boy's
Club; Ukraine Pres Election - Business
Ukraine KIEV: Mar 25, Ex-convict ex-PM Yanukovich has won the Presidential election by 3.47%
points over
Tymoshenko in a 69% turnout. She
claimed fraud and challenged the
result in a friendly Appeals Court (which was
threatened
in an occupation by POR MP's weeks ago), but liberals were
dispirited. 4.4% voted "against all".
All election observer
groups have declared the result
fair. On Feb 20th Tymoshenko withdrew her
challenge when
the court rejected some of her claims and Yanukovich
was inaugurated Feb 25th. With
blinding speed, her coalition collapsed and enough of her BYuT delegates
and orphaned Our Ukraine
MOP's defected to Yanukovich's Party of Regions to
give them a majority and end her reign
as PM on
March 3 (though that violates the Constitution). Yanukovich immediately
packed his Cabinet with the billionaire bosses of the POR, without a
single Orange face, and has moved to
control the Court system and attain
absolute
control.Yushchenko's reckless constant
undercutting of Tymoshenko, no matter what the damage to
the country, has given
Ukraine back to the oligarchs, and
to a lesser extent Russia, as dreams of
European
integration recede and Soviet-style corruption returns. 
Radio
Report (MP3 audio) - KIEV: Realplayer - 6:06min,
Jan 17-18 Ukrainian voters are
exhausted and disillusioned by the endless vicious battles
between the big 3
candidates: President Yushchenko, PM
Tymoshenko, and former PM Yanukovich, but
after
Presidential elections Jan17, one will soon be gone.- Yushchenko's support
has plummeted to 5%. The top 2 will participate in the
second round runoff in 3
weeks with Yanukovich (35%
-results) leading Timoshenko (25%) by 10%.
Early
fresh face former Speaker Yatseniuk (7%) faded with an atrocious
advertising campaign, but newcomer Sergei Tigipko has
surged to third (13%).
Interviews of a dozen voters in
Kiev + Mohyla Academy Political Science
Professor Olexiy
Haran.
"DEADLY" EPIDEMIC in
UKRAINE - Indymedia new KIEV: Ukraine panics
over swine flu epidemic but
the
numbers don't support
anything out of
the ordinary- less deaths or sickness from
flu than last
year
TALE OF THREE WORLDS - Skullduggery in
the Sugar Business- new KIEV: What is going on at the Ukrainian Sugar Company, a
Mykolayev project of the
commodities
giant ED&F Man
with a
25% Ukrainian investor
UPK/TEKT. TEKT claims that
the coal bought
for the renovated
plant by the Polish
managers
is "dead rock" and the new factory
is a
sweetheart deal
used one; Man and USC say the
plant was in such
poor shape they had
to replace it, and
that
original
assets were diverted. After over
2 years it still hasn't
started production
HEALTH FIASCO - It was all suppose to go right this time,
but
Obama's obsession with compromise and
bipartisanship may
doom the
health care plan
to an exorbitant boondoggle,
enriching the
medical/drug complex
parasites beyond their
wildest dreams, and breaking the
back of
the US financial system. The best option
that works around the world- single payer-
wasn't on the table, but the most corrupt
provision ever- no negotiation for bulk drug
prices (estimated to waste $60 billion/year)
is
enshrined in it. A handful of
right-wing
screaming shills at town halls are defeating
a 70% popular plan. Congress is bought and
paid for on this issue, on both sides of
the isle.- Scoop, OpEdNews
ADDEN: Miraculously the public option was
readded and yoeman work has been done, but
what consessions will be needed to make 60
CAIRO
CALM - new CAIRO: Obama makes a historic speech in the heart
of
the Arab World June 4th. A Feb 22nd terrorist
bombing in
Cairo sounded
like business as
usual... but Cairo is really
one of safest
cities in world, where
one can walk anywhere
at 3am; and never hear an
anti-Western sentiment
in 2 months; partly due to the
civilizing
effect of Islam, which punishes rude,
criminal,or
violent behavior, but
Egyptians are really
speciala warm
blend of world
peoples
NO NATO NOW - PIK (Russian, Ukrainian),
Scoop- KIEV: The invasion
of Georgia scared FSU
states,
esp. Ukraine who lobbied
fervently for NATO
membership, but
that would provoke the
exact
crisis
it was designed to prevent, which
the callous gas cutoff is
showing. Nobody
really wants Ukraine in NATO, the people
(61% against vs 24%), the Rada, and NATO
itself, for whom Ukr instability and Russian
military presence would be destabilizing.-
Dec 2008
THE MORAL
VOTERS - Nov
5 For decades harsh evangelicals have controlled
and distorted the Republican party, drowning
out other voices and imposing their narrow
views on the country; But a new
morality has emerged in
Obama's
historic election from the
vast bulk of voters
who are sick of
war, of corruption, of
lies,
and
stupidity... who believe in Obama's phrase
that we are
our brother's keepers
A QUESTION OF
JUDGMENT - Oct '08 ALT Despite his
"maverick" image,
John McCain's
judgment has been abysmal,
starting with his decision to
remain in a
brutal NV prison for 4 1/2 years rather than go home (which
we questioned him on). His
economic advisor, friend, and so-called
"genius" Phil Gramm
wrote
the bills
that tore down Depression protections and
exempted these junk bond derivatives from
any regulation- creating this economic
meltdown; McCain was a fervent backer of the catastrophic Iraq
invasion + has never had any qualms; Cynical choice of the woefully unqualified
Palin
for Veep endangers
nation; Rash
reckless decisions the norm- Scoop,
OpedNews
THE BUSH BATTERED DOLLAR
- Scoop, OpedNews
In the
News April '08 Malaga, Spain: With 4-6 trillion
dollars of tax cuts to
the rich + 
his wanton
war, Bush has rung up more deficits
than all Presidents
combined. Since he took
office, the dollar has
dropped 47%, 8% in just a recent
5 weeks- halving
the
value of trillions of dollars
of foreign investments.
For Americans living
abroad the slow
sickening slide of the
dollar
is
devastating- every week less Rubles or
Euros or Crowns. The
now worthless
Republican-deregulated
junk mortgage
derivative bonds are
supposedly
more than all the real
stocks and bonds put
together... and world markets are
hanging by a
thread.
Swiss UBS Bank
just wrote off $37 billion,
and Japan could have $300
billion of losses.
A collapse by any major player could create a
chain reaction that would cause
a worldwide collapse.
Desperate to prevent that, the Fed injected
$500 bil just
to stabilize
things.- Lehman
Bros collapses, Merril sold,
AIG,
WashMutual
tottering
GEORGIA'S FOLLY & the RAGE OF THE
BEAR new Kiev: Saakashvili's reckless
invasion
of S. Ossetia was bound
to provoke a
virulent Russian reaction, but
it has disappeared in the
news as
the world's
condemnation falls entirely on Russia;
McCain's
foreign policy advisor
is a paid lobbyist
for Georgia- did he or Administration
encourage
this to create a new bugaboo enemy to intimidate
voters, since terrorism wasn't working anymore?;
Georgia isn't Budapest or Prague, but the
Russians can't resist grinding their face
in the dirt as an object lesson for Ukraine,
Estonia, or Poland- Scoop, OpedNews Aug 19,
2008
ARE WE
COOKED?-
Global Warming Worse Than You
Think-new 8 Latest Scientific Findings each show
warming
will be much worse than worst
case estimate;
850,000 yr old 4 km Antarctic ice cores
prove
radical temperature changes 5-12C happened
as fast as 3 years; CO2 generation
exploding from Chinese (+
Indian)
coal power plants;
Methane's
threat from
melting tundra and gigantic ocean
bottom
methane hydrate deposits
(twice all other fossil
fuels combined!); High altitude sulfur from commercial jets
have
cooled the whole earth 1 C- so real
global warming is over double what we
see, and airline
collapses could instantly raise
worldwide
temps; 1/3 of Gulf Stream not
flowing North; 1/3 of
warming from black atmospheric
soot
from soaring coal
burning; Catastrophic ice
sheet collapse into deep
ocean
could
make worldwide killer tsunamis; 8 Feedback loops multiply
effects many
fold, inc. ice pack
going from 90% reflecting
to 80% absorbing; CO2
in oceans
released as it gets warmer; increased
CO2 in
ocean
dissolving limestone shells, deforesting
a WA state
every year; Interviews w 5 top
GW scientists fm Nasa
Goddard, UAlaska, USGS, UCLA - coming;
ENDLESS
SUMMER- Element Moscow (travel) ORIGINAL Morocco: Beautiful,
spacious, stylish Valencia, Spain
is
a place without
winter; where the museums
are mostly free and open till
8:30pm (even
1am!), where the food is
good and people
live well, where 2200 years of history and
an Islamic heritage are on display in the
architecture. LOCAL - Mar 13, '08
ROMAN
HOLIDAY- Element Moscow (travel) ORIGINAL Rome: Tired of the frigid
gloom of the third Rome's
mud season?
Get away - to the
first Rome.
From
the bldgs of the Forum, to the massive
Colosseum (where up
to a million people died
over 330 years), to the most
perfectly preserved
lg ancient building, the Pantheon ...
Rome
is magnificent. LOCAL 3000 years of Roman history
are
splayed out, with Christian
churches
cannibalizing ancient
buildings, and a dizzying
array of
overlapping layers of
antiquity.-
Jan
22, 08
NO
SYMPATHY FOR THE
DEVIL- Moscow: Putin
visited the NKVD killing fields
of
Butovo and expressed
sympathy for
the tens
of millions of victims of the purges
and
murders, for the first time;
Before he had
exalted the security agencies and diminished
the crimes of his agency; Many places have
had genocidal monsters, but only Russia still
has fans of them; supposedly 35% would vote
for Stalin now if he were running- Oped
News ; Nov 07
THE INFINITE
PUTIN - Capital Times ORIGINAL new Moscow: Putin is supposed to leave office
in March,
but that was impossible to
believe. Appointing
unknown crony Viktor Zubkov PM (told only the day before and rammed through
rubber
stamp Congress 2 days
later) ends
the doubt. Zubkov will be
anointed President
(+ win), Putin
will become Prime
Minister,
and
Zubkov will resign in 6-12 months to
let Vladimir
Vladimirovich return as Prez.
Massive conflicts of
interests in the Kremlin,
where mini oligarch ministers
control the
biggest corporations in the world and can't
separate their interests from those of the
state, crushing and absorbing competitors.-
October 4 ONLINE vers
PUTIN'S CHILDREN (Orig.) L- International Herald Tribune- SCAN
July 6 -new from
Moscow The Putin
Youth groups: Nashi, Young Guard, Young Russia; badger and terrorize
anyone who even differs
with Kremlin
positions; By
propagandizing
the
vulnerable, is the Kremlin poisoning
the seed corn of young
minds? On June 12th,
Russian Independence Day, Red Sq. was
reserved
for the Party faithful ONLINE IHT
vers. po
Ryccki
THE PRESIDENT'S CONTEMPT - new After 7 years of
lies, corruption, national
security
failures, and a
disastrous unjustified
war, the new Dem Congress is asking
questions;
Heedless of the
Constitution, Bush is giving
no answers + with
unprecedented arrogance,
directed staffers to not testify;
Time for
inherent contempt charges? Tally of Bush's
cost
in human lives-
OpedNews,
Online Journal
RATTLING RUSTING SABERS- new from
Moscow- The US's proposed "missile
shield"
in Eastern Europe has provoked a heated reaction
by Russia; Encircled by NATO against promises,
facing renewed US nuclear development and
bases in FSU, the US cancelling ABM treaty
+ non-proliferation regimes; Have the Russians
been betrayed? Heavy handed cutoffs of gas
+ oil supplies to neighbors have
led them to seek shelter with the West,
no matter how
destabilizing.
Can Russia glean
respect without
threats? OpedNews, Scoop
FADING
FREEDOMS- Capital
Times new from Moscow (must view in
IE) Step by step democracy has become a
fading
photograph of the nineties, as
Putin restricts,
harrasses and crushes political
independence,
the free press, and concentrates all power
in the Kremlin; Giant state industries reconstituting
as the state forces out foreign oilcos- March 24 LONG with Pics
THE SOCIAL SECURITY SCAM + DEBT BOMB (IE only) In the
News
Energy Bulletin- LOCAL - SS trust fund has no cash, so Bush's
privatization
plan would need to
borrow $200-300 bil a year;
Deficit
is real threat to SSS;
Dollar
has dropped
38% since mid 2001- disaster if
foreigners
stop buying our bonds that
fund deficit,
let alone sell them; Cause epidemic of
home
forclosures+
bankruptcies- Mar 10, 2005-
Los Angeles Herald, SCOOP -NZ, Smkg
Chp DEBT CLOCK
DEATH OF A BEAR - from Moscow new Boris Yeltsin, despite
his faults, was a
courageous decent
leader and a historical
giant; Tagged with much that wasn't
his fault,
the early Boris broke up the largest empire
on earth without bloodshed + ended the Cold
War that could have killed 500 million
THE COPYCAT EFFECT- ARCHIVE In the
News MediaChannel
proves sensational media coverage of
deadly
mayhem causes people to copy it; Loren Coleman's
important new book; Media + journalistic
response; Ethics and better approaches;
Analysis
of newsmags coverage;
Possible imminent risks:
CLEAR and PRESENT DANGERS - Columbine + Waco/OKC bombing anniversaries
and
apocalyptic cults re: NBC's Revelations- April 21,
2005
9-11 NARCISSISM - The Oliver
Stone movie World Trade Center is another moving
hagiopic to the terrible
sacrifice of 9-11. We've been
celebrating
ourselves for being victims for 5 years now,
and it's too much. It's time to stop congratulating
ourselves for something we didn't do. And
we didn't do many things.- Scoop, Worldnews Aug 2006
THE COPYCAT EFFECT- ARCHIVE In the
News MediaChannel
proves sensational media coverage of
deadly
mayhem causes people to copy it; Loren Coleman's
important new book; Media + journalistic
response; Ethics and better approaches;
Analysis
of newsmags coverage;
Possible imminent risks:
CLEAR and PRESENT DANGERS - Columbine + Waco/OKC bombing anniversaries
and
apocalyptic cults re: NBC's Revelations- April 21,
2005
CALIFORNIA ENERGY RIPOFF WASN'T
JUST CRIME,
BUT TERRORISM- new 6 power companies, led by
Enron, by manipulating
power
production, raised rates up to 90 fold; CAL paid in one day
what it had been paying in 3
months;
Used
this vast scam to
punish Gore
voting
state (+12%) and depose Dem governor;
secret Cheney Energy Task Force likely plotted Iraq
war - Bartcop, Buzzflash
NSA
Director Gen. William Odom
(article) -new (REALAUDIO) 52 min- Dissects strategic blunder of Iraq, escape strategies, geopolitical consequences,
Iran attack, Korea- April 7 - Brown Univ.,
Watson Institute MY QUESTIONS (wma)
BOMBING IRAN - new ALT Action
against the nuclear facilities
of
Iran is said to be
impossible, but
this is
a real urgent security
concern; Iran has consistently
been
the most murderous
terroristic nation
+ has an perverse obsession with
martyrdom;
Extremist leader
Ahmadinejad has threatened
Israel with annihilation and
still sees America
as the Great Satan; For quarter
century the
world has known-
Iran
must never possess nuclear
weapons- what's changed
now? Reckless dishonest Iraq
invasion
paralyzes
all options
HUNTING TRUTH - ALT The Trouble with Harry- MediaChannel scoop Is the Veep's story as
honest as the Iraqi
WMD's?, Accident
report shows much
closer
distance
than 90 ft claimed- smaller pellet
spread, Story
unbelievable- no one pays attention
to his bird retrieval,
Cheney shoots friend
in line towards Armstropong car in the safe
zone, Witness sees everything
from inside car 100 yards
away; with Interview
of Corpus
Christi reporter;
investigative
shotgun pattern
comparisons; Whittington
blasted by 2/3 of shot in
shell! 78 year
old hit in heart ejected from
ICU
UNPATRIOTIC SPYING
- ALT
The FBI is doing full
spectrum warrantless monitoring of 30,000 people a year, but are there
even 3000 legitimate
terrorism suspects a year? Now
the
Pentagon, CIA, NSA have also been
spying on Americans- all illegally or
illegitimately. No
judge,
no
magistrate, no control, no limits;
Records are open
to state, local, and
corporate
"authorities" and are never destroyed. Thousands can rip through anyone's
life,
and could this vindictive administration
avoid persecuting critics? With stunning revelation from Joe Wilson-
Jan
2006
AN OUNCE OF
PREVENTION AlterNet
Scoop
ALT
Printable
Against every rule of occupation,
almost no
effort was made
to secure the vast
munitions stores of Iraq
after the
invasion;
250,000
tons, 39% of the ordinance was
looted by insurgents and is killing our soldiers
every
day. IED deaths
have more than doubled in the
last
year- now 59% of US fatalities,
and
there's enough looted
armaments
to make ten 500 lb IED's a day for
the next 274 years. Interview of
Military Intelligence agent
who
reveals how even an ammo dump next to
huge US base was
negligently
allowed to be
looted. - Oct 2005
STOPPING
the NEXT BOSNIA- ARCHIVE comn.
scoop Capital Times -Dec 13, FULL version - Nov 4
It seems obvious we
will
be forced out of Iraq,
which will explode into Civil
War between the
63%
Shiites and 17%
Sunni former rulers (and the 19%
Kurds?); Bosnia
across California; Beirut in the third
biggest
oil country- Maybe partitioning Iraq could
mitigate or prevent the
coming
bloodbath;
TALK SHOW (audio) on
subj.- 40min w Barry Farber- Dec
4 Brown U. Conf. on Kurds (audio) 4:03 min- Oct 1
A WARM + BRIGHT
FUTURE ARCHIVE In
the News part 1-(Maui Time- Sept 1-14, 98) + part 2 (9/15-28)
Evidence
and results of worldwide unprecedented
warming- hottest ten years
in last 2000 all since
1981.
1998
hottest year ever, 1997 hottest
before that, each
month a new world's record
(inc
9/2005). Discusses nitrogen
oxides,
methane, + water vapor's huge
contributions
(3-5 TIMES what we've been computing).
Part 1 - Evidence for worldwide global warming-
may cause a possible ice age
PART
2 (only) What we can do
+ what we will do;
Weather
extremes +
resulting
deaths.. Letter from VP Al
Gore about article
jpeg HTML FULL Article US NEWS cover story on Global
Warming 2/28/00
- Antarctic
Meltdown
WEST ANTARCTIC
ICESLIDE
4800 Cu. Mi.
ARCTIC ICE MELTED- 2-17-05 POINT
of NO RETURN - 9-16 new
THE COPYCAT
EFFECT- MediaChannel ALT proves sensational media coverage of deadly
mayhem causes people to copy it; Loren Coleman's
important new book; Media + journalistic
response; Ethics and better approaches;
Analysis
of newsmags coverage of
murder; Imminent
risks: Clear and Present Dangers - Columbine + Waco/OKC bombing
anniversaries
and apocalyptic cults
re: NBC's Revelations; w interviews of cult members + experts-
April 2005
OVER THERE
- Capital
Times Feb
26,05 ALT
Bush claims we are fighting them
there so they won't
come here, and that seems logical,
even to some
liberals;
After all
there haven't been more attacks
in America- Feb 15
THE SOCIAL SECURITY SCAM + DEBT BOMB
- SS trust fund has no
cash, so Bush's
privatization
plan
would need to
borrow $200-300 bil a
year but Deficit
is real threat to
SSS; Dollar has dropped 38% since mid 2001-
disaster if foreigners stop
buying our bonds that fund
deficit, let alone
sell them- Los Angeles Herald, Energy Bulletin, SCOOP -NZ, Smkg
Chp- Mar
10
CLOUD WORLD: MISSION
to TITAN- Jan 14 morning, the 11 year $3
billion
Cassini mission to Saturn, successfully
dropped a landing probe into
the most
earthlike atmosphere
in the
Solar
System, the heavy clouds of Titan, the
largest moon in the solar system-
at
3200 mi. diameter,
bigger than
planets Mercury
or Pluto, and with an
atmosphere- (94 % nitrogen,
6%
methane) 1.5 X Earth’s
pressure and 4½X as dense.
But it is a bitter
-178C
(-290F),
leading to speculation of lakes, oceans,
and volcanoes
of liquid methane- photos seem to
show that (inc.)-With interview of Huygens
scientist
European Space Agency, Germany- SCOOP (NZ), MSN-UK
GETTING GOOD
NEWS: The Government vs.
the Press in
Times
of
War (audio) - Mike's BROWN U. Lecture - History of Press restrictions in War since
WW2; How Vietnam changed everything and made
the media the enemy; 30 min., Salomon Hall,
Brown Univ., Dec 13 POSTER
COULD AMERICA GO
BAD? - Columnized What would
America do if we were hit
with a
terrorist nuclear attack
...
with
this President, Congress, and a packed
Supreme
Court? Hyperbolic nightmare
scenario- Nov
23- Op-Ed
News, USA Editorial, Tokyo Hello, North
American
Media, Chinese American News, South American
Business Daily, Saudi Post, Hiroshima Post,
Scoop, Liberia
Sport, World Economist, Turkmen
Post,
Tunesia Cup, World
News
Network
HOW KERRY
LOST -
The first Catholic
candidate in 44 years
lost the Catholic vote, almost lost
the Hispanic
vote; and neglected to
talk about the
immorality
of Bush's
"values"... If he actually
did lose
KERRY's COMEBACK - Washington Dispatch Kerry outmatched the accidental President in the first debate but he could have put him away had he concentrated on Bush's greatest weakness- Oct 2
NO RESPONSIBILITY IN BUSH'S FANTASY WORLD - Bush steamed straight ahead in a speech that penalized no one for the systematic brutalization of our Army prisoner policy and ignored the insanity of dumping entire Iraq mess on a government in 5 weeks that doesn't exist- May 24 - SmrkCp Lasting Wounds of War
DUNNING DEAN DID the DOCTOR GET GORED - mediachannel HTML COLUMNIZED
Did the media try to destroy Howard
Dean
by harping on his liberalness
and inexperience
(both untrue), and electability
until
it became a self-fulfilling prophecy
with Dems desperate to
defeat Bush? Analysis
of coverage of
campaign fm Wash.
Post, Newsweek, New Republic, US
News, TV debates; + my NH reporting- Jan
26
HOWARD DEAN
and the
WORLD - (columnized
doc) Dems are
asking who can
stop Dean, but they should ask, should we
even
try? Dean's world view is solidly in the
mainstream,
inc. Iraq-
increasingly strident attacks
on him are
sign of desperation, but may doom Party
candidate;
With analysis of Dean's
foreign policy; inc.
questioning him and reporting from NH- Liberal Slant, Smr
Chp, BushWatch, Bartcop, Democrats Jan
2-14 AUDIO of NH Town Meeting TALK SHOW (audio) on
subject w Barry Farber- 38min- Jan
6
BUSH's BIG
BETRAYAL ARCHIVE
In the News First
Cheney + Co.
tried to bully the CIA
into claiming Iraq was
an imminent threat;
then they created
their own
“intelligence”
outfit,
which incorporated every wild rumor.
After Iraq Niger
uranium purchase was proved
a cheap forgery, betray CIA
second time by
trying to blame them. Worse,
they punish
Ambassador that
reported
on Niger forgery by outing his
wife as a CIA agent; The CIA has many ways to hurt
him; imperial
lies + stupidities carefully filed and
indexed.
- SmChp, Liberal Slant, Buzzflash, Bartcop- July 23, 03 One of the First Commentaries about
Plame
Scandal
JFK- LINGERING
SHADOWS - 40
years ago the crime of
the century occured
and the echos still reverberate; The
conspiracy
theories defeat
themselves, multiplying like
mutant strains, till the truth
itself is
just another aberration, another chip in a pile of chips; With interview of historical
conspiracist - Nov
17 DEBT CLOCK
10th
Anniversary of Moscow Oct '93 Revolt
- (EXCL. AUDIO REPORT) - VIOLENT COMMUNIST
ATTACK that
ALMOST
DEPOSED YELTSIN
-200 killed in 2 days of
battles at WHITE HOUSE and OSTANKINO TV CENTER - 7min w 24
Hours in October
Revolt- article + photos
BUSH's BIG BETRAYAL - First
Cheney + Co. tried to bully the
CIA
into claiming Iraq was
an imminent threat;
then they created their own
“intelligence”
outfit, which
distributed every wild rumor.
After Iraq Niger uranium
purchase was proved
a cheap forgery, betray CIA second time
by
trying to blame them. Worse, they punish
Ambassador that reported
on Niger
forgery by outing his
wife as a CIA agent; The CIA
has many ways to hurt him; imperial
lies + stupidities
carefully filed and indexed.
- SmChp, Liberal Slant, Buzzflash, Bartcop- July 23, '03
FIRM of MIND, SOFT on FACTS
- Bush has, with a steady stream of lies,
deceptions, and
propaganda, has
managed to
convince half the country that
Saddam supports
Al Qaida or even
was behind 9-11.
Iraq invasion historic blunder that
may
echo through the
decades- (eve of
war) 3-18-03 Liberal Slant, Bartcop ALT
WARBLOG 3/19-5/19
RI NIGHTCLUB
FIRE - exclusive - Worst
fire in quarter century rips through
smallest state- w
photos, interviews, radio
reports 2/21-3/14/03 MIRROR Inferno horror at
The Station nightclub, R.I.
IN the NEWS: A WARM + BRIGHT
FUTURE part
1-(Maui Time- Sept 1+15, 98)-
Evidence and results of
worldwide unprecedented warming-
hottest
ten years in last 2000 all since 1981. 1998
hottest year ever, 1997 hottest before that,
each month a new world's record. Discusses
Nitrogen oxide, methane, + water vapor's
huge contributions (3-5 TIMES what we've
been computing). Part 1 - Evidence for
worldwide global warming- may cause a possible
ice age PART 2- What we can do + what we will do;
Weather
extremes + resulting
deaths.. Letter from VP Al Gore about article
jpeg HTML FULL Article US NEWS cover story on
Global Warming 2/28/00
- Antarctic Meltdown
WEST
ANTARCTIC
ICESLIDE
FAIRWELL COLUMBIA- The
nightmare of manned spacecraft-
an
immolating reentry-
finally has
struck after
being staved off for 42 years.
What should
NASA have done to prevent
it? Personal wonders
of space. - Liberal Slant 2/3
SPEAKING LOUDLY WITHOUT
ANY STICK - Nightmare of North Korean
nukes: the most
dangerous country in the world has started
to mass produce a nuclear arsenal; Administration
response?- no negotiations, no
problem;
But Saddam needs
crushing;
History
of NK
terrorism- Liberal Slant
1/4/03 ALTER
BUSH's
WANTON WAR- Saddam is a monster, but Bush's
militancy
is due to the '93 plot to kill his father
and upcoming elections, not any imminent
danger or 9-11 guilt. Punishing enemies is
a family tradition, where he started his
career- Liberal Slant,
Bartcop 10/12/02
LOCAL
ALTER
AIRLINE
INSECURITY-5 months after 9-11 gaping security
holes
exist in the airline system. "Screening"
now means "passenger bag matching",
but they can't even manage that for the
connecting
flight; Skymarshals are
nowhere to be found,
even by pilots; and up to 50,000 Al
Qaeda
members lust for revenge; 2200 bag scanning
machines are needed by Dec- new orders since
911?- ten until March 5- March
12,02 ALT
Radio
Comments
TREMBLING ON THE BRINK-- Pakistan + India have
mobilized almost
all their forces and
are marching towards
a war that neither can control; Both
countries
have 30-100 nuclear bombs and the missiles
to deliver them; With such tiny numbers,
paranoia and pressure for a first strike
could be irresistible- a threat that will
last a decade- Online Journal 1/16/02 Cover ALT HTML
CRIME STORY in the
news-(gif) Dec 94 - UNTOLD STORY
of REASONS Behind 1st CHECHEN WAR - Exclusive; Hijackings
of Buses
with Children, Raids
+ Stripping of Trains,
Hundreds of Billions
of
Counterfeiting, Vicious Chechen
Mafia;
Historical Genocides and
Hatreds; STORY Western
Media repeated was simplistic
"Soviet
Bear Rising" HTML
vers (hear '94 NPR
talk
show on Chechen War + rise of Russian
Mafia)
NPR Comments on Moscow theater storming- slider to 25:30
BLIND
FAITH- War Without End- Bush, who received only
47% of the vote,
has demanded the removal of Arafat (whom
he's never met), who received 88%, though
the most likely successor is Hamas. Our
extreme tilt towards Israeli hard liners
risks our position
as an
honest broker of
peace, increases potential US
terrorists
from a few thousand to
millions, and perhaps
extended our war a decade. The real problem
in the Middle East- Liberal Slant-
July 15,02 ALTERN
MONSTERS from the
NORTHWEST- not surprising one sniper is from
Seattle
area- world capital for serial killers- causes,
effects, and personal impacts- 11/1/02
MIXED SIGNALS- President Bush has promised to
punish states
that shelter terrorists
while soliciting
Pakistan + Iran's help, 2 of the leading
supporters of terrorism// Now he claims we
won't overthrow the Taliban, but then whom
is this war against?- Sept 22,2001- Liberal
Slant Interview w
Commander Massoud (saying Paki army were fighting w
Taliban-
reporter killed in Israel in
April) WTC Ruins 12/6 More
PHOTOS
A BRUTAL WAKE-UP CALL - We have been heedless
and careless in failing
to dispatch
bin Laden, protect our
airliners
w
skymarshals or an air cap over our cities;
blind in our
ignorance of the growing Palestinian
rage; stupid in our
cruel embargo of a crushed
foe; arrogant in our imagined
invulnerability//
Our enemies noticed...but will reap the
whirlwind-
Liberal
Slant-Sept 12
WTC
Summit PHOTO'S More
"WHOOPS"- How the Networks Got
it
Wrong- PROBLEM POLLING POLICY - Nat.
Scoop- Intellectual
Capita1- 11/25/00 - Inside story on the
2000 election
screw-ups (3-4) at the VNS and Florida
counties
that caused the networks to
blow the election
call in a strong
article/analysis/commentary
against the networks and
projection policy
and the squirrelly
polls w interviews w
TV
news execs,
Walter Cronkite, Florida officials,
pollsters, Sen. Gorton
and VNS people, voting
machine reps.- MediaChannel.org-
12/26/00 Anchor of largest
media related
network. IF DOESN'T LOAD
Issue Cover Talk Show
Media Tenor
Book w Whoops Article MEDIOCRACY- HAIL To The
THIEF - 234 pgs
Table of
Contents
SAMPLE BALLOT DECEPTIVE, DIFFERENT
- Dems denied hand
count in Duval Co. - Nat. scoop
Capital
Times - Madison
WI - Nov 25, 2000
HTML longer
vers. Duval Sample Ballot
Duval Actual Ballot
END of BUSH's ROHYPNOL HONEYMOON?- Bush's
Blunders in Foreign Policy,
the
Environment, the Economy, +
Corporate Payoffs
have won him
dislike throughout world +
awakened
a
blindly non-critical press- onlinejournal.com- April 12, 01
NETWORK NEWS HEADS
IN THE DOCK - Tauzin Hearings Confused by Red
Herrings,
Election Woes- Exclusive
Comprehensive Jigsaw
Narrative of Tauzin
Hearings
testimony + Network Reports
(CNN,CBS,ABC,RTI) + Our
analysis- with TABLES +
TIMELINE- Relative Times of Network Calls, Minute
x
minute CBS/CNN Election Nt
Miscall Timeline-
March 13,
2001- MediaChannel.org - Issue Cover
IT'S THE ECONOMY,
STUPID- (Don't Wreck It) - onlinejournal.com- Greenspan
endorses a tax cut;
Danger of George
Bush's $1.6 tril one-
Jan 26,
2001
RELATIVITY- OnlineJournal +
Bartcop A
rumination on the changing
firmament
of truth + the nature
of
integrity as it pertains to
vote-counting
and the election- Jan 4, 2001 ALTERNATE
RISING DRAGON in the
news- Feb '97 Dangers of China burgeoning
wealth
and power. Aggressive actions in firing missiles
22 miles from Taipei, huge amphibious landing
"training", occupying Spratley
Is., murdering Tibetans and their culture,
rage + paranoia over world acknowledging
Taiwan.1.35 billion people, and 20 mil
added every year- 2 people every 3 seconds.
LETTER fm US Sen JACK REED (D-RI) about
article
MONSTER
MERGER
MANIA-
$800
billion of mergers a year. Good
for the economy,
improve efficiency, good for stockholders?
Untold is brutal downsizing of target company
workers, crushing load of debt, monopolist
concentration of power, and obscene amount
of executive profits. Criticizes crooked
management of Bishop Estate, largest charity
in US: 2 weeks later Governor ordered massive
investigation- West Hawaii Today
PLUS
GRAPHIC of BOTH ARTICLES
NEW HOPE for IRAN- (scroll
right) new- NPR TOTN comments on Iran- 1/22/03 Move
slider to 21:45-24:40
Overwhelming election of Khatami;
likelihood
of overthrow of Islamic
dictators. A country
of children: 70% under 25 years, 40%
under
14- tired of sexual and cultural repression:
strict segregation of sexes, no dances, Western
videos, movies, handholding. Corruption of
ruling mullahs and perversion of Islamic
values: 98% of clergy NOT in leadership.
Origin of Shiite's obsession with death and
sacrifice. America's options- (forecasts
lifting of Rushdie Fatwa)
HTML Printable vers.
Merger IRAN
HTML Bishop Estate
Firestorm - Hon. Advertiser Aug 17, '97
COMET
PHOTO ALTERED, UH SCIENTIST SAYS- .. -
(Honolulu Advertiser)-Sun
Front Page-April 20,'97- Nat. scoop
Faking of
Univ of Hawaii telescope
photo
to
"show" a
"spaceship"
following
Hale-Bopp comet by psychic "remote
viewing" institute;
Publicized on Art
Bell national radio show + website, may
have
been incitement for San Diego Heavens Gate cult
suicide
. Original Article
before lame editing- CLICK HERE
AP RELEASE of article
- (small) 
IT'S ONLY WORDS - (onlinejournal.com) -
the Inauguration + how George Bush's words
have no
connection with his
actions - Jan
22, 2001 ISSUE Cover
THE
SWAN HAS FLOW AWAY -
CLICK HERE (Firing of Russian
Gen.
Lebed from Security Council)- West Hawaii
Today
- The most popular and
toughest politician
in Russia driven from Yeltsin's
government;
Litany of his offenses;
THE NEWS, ALL THE NEWS, AND NOTHING BUT THE
NEWS-
(Columbia Journalism Review)
Analysis +
examination of plethora of late
late
night news programs;
Distilled
from
22 page art.; CBS Nightwatch, NBC Overnight,
ABC Last Word, America Tonight, + others;
(more complete version from Isthmus, Madison
WI)...
PRESS HERE-
1st page CJR vers.
with "FOLLY of
CUTTING..." below
WELCOME TO DODGE- VIOLENCE TAKING ROOT IN
MOSCOW- scroll right (Moscow News-English- most respected
liberal paper in
Russia)-Aug
27,93-
Epidemic of Gangland shootouts, contract
murders, government willful ignorance of
organized crime. Dangerous effects of violence
+ death; What can + must be done HTML
1st
PLUS GRAPHIC of BOTH
UP, UP,
AND AWAY- (Moscow News- Sept 24, 93) Effects
and dangers of rampant
inflation
(2600%)
FLORIDA'S SLANTED
SECRETARY- Online Journal- Katherine
Harris may face the
music
for
violating oath of office- Dec 4,
2000
Jan
14: 40
suits filed against Sec St + $2/3
million spent defending
her
already Longer HTML vers.
FL Div. Elections Letter ordering Supervisors
to NOT do
Hand-Count P.
1
SANCTIONS ON SANCTIONS- (Moscow Guardian- Aug 20, 93)-
Uselessness + immorality of
endless
sanctions- In Iraq,
Cuba,
Serbia,
South Africa; Hurting the innocents rather
than the leaders
PLUS GRAPHIC of BOTH
A VULNERABLE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY-scroll right
(Moscow Tribune- Mar 5, 93) Chance to buy +
decommission
Ukrainian, Kazakh, Byelorussian Nuclear bombs
and Plutonium; Cheap at any price....
NEXT STAR OF
BETHLEHEM?- (Seattle Times)- Meaning and
implications of Israeli
nuclear
arsenal (200 bombs?);
Vanunu's proof, kidnapping,
+
imprisonment
PLUS GRAPHIC of BOTH
SNOW ON
THE TUBE - scroll down
(Jackson Hole News-
Weekly column on television- funny, hip, vicious, snide
reflections
on trends, shows, +
actors.... JHN won Pulitzer
for best paper in under 50,000
person city
(Jackson has
4000)
FOLLY OF CUTTING
SPACE SPENDING- (Providence Journal) Miracles
of Voyager revelations-
Jupiter
+
Saturn Moons; Madness of Reagan plan to
cut funding for
receipt of data from Uranus
+ Neptune
PLUS
GRAPHIC of BOTH
THE
NEWS, ALL THE NEWS + NOTHING BUT
THE
NEWS -- (scroll right) CJR art
(page 1 of 4) ...
JACKSON DESERVES A SEAT AT THE
TABLE - Seattle Times- Jackson's energy,
eloquence, careful
reasoned
arguments, + superb
performance in 1988 debates
has earned him a shot at Sec.
State
A MORE PERFECT UNION - scroll right (MosNews- Nov 26,93)
Russia's cynical effort to
cripple
CIS states Georgia,
Tajikistan, Azerbaijan,
Estonia;
Territory lust + yearning
for reunifying
Soviet Union vs. new morality and
poverty HTML vers.
PLUS
GRAPHIC of BOTH
FORTIFYING
THE CASTLE- (MosNews- Jan 10,94) Yeltsin's move
to strengthen
the presidency + weaken other political
groups
could lead to disaster when he's gone; Dec
'93 elections results- loss of Russia's Choice,
Zhirinovsky, crimes of KGB ... HTLM vers.
THE BLUES
CALLING- (Moscow News Nov 5,93) Funny take on
diseased Moscow
phone system and a listing of it's many
ailments
PLUS
GRAPHIC of BOTH
AROUND
THE WORLD IN 63 DAYS- scroll down (We/Mui- Feb
7,94 weekly-
Moscow/Wash DC -Hearst/Izvestia)-
(Full Front Page-2nd sec)
story of round
the world Russia
aircraft expedition,
hitting
50 odd
countries, 7 continents, in antique
planes.. inc. Soviet
DC-3.. In Russian + English
editions
NOT SO DANDY LITTLE WAR -(Moscow Tribune- Oct 15,93)
reflections on Oct '93 revolt;
~200
killed in attempted
Yeltsin overthrow;
Yeltsin's possible culpability; 25
Government
soldiers that defended
television center
from 3000
Communists
PLUS
GRAPHIC of BOTH
THE CULT OF THE
WARRIOR -scroll right (MosNews-) Wry commentary
on Russians' penchant
for
ritualistic
abuse and casual violence; Rude,
sullen, offensive service
possibly cured
by Mafia murders...
MOVIE REVIEW- Tombstone-- Moscow Radisson Slavjansky Hotel- Moscow News-Jan
94
HTML
vers.
PLUS GRAPHIC of BOTH
A BOY
NAMED SUE - (Mos News- Feb 94) -scroll right-
Funny reflection on
Russian penchants + redundancy of
names:
60% of country are Sergei, Oleg, Lena, +
Natasha; COMMUNIST names- Tractor, Vladlen;
Persecution of "unsafe" names so
better stick w old
stalwarts
HTML Vers.
MAD
FANTASY OF LIMITED NUCLEAR WAR-scr. right
(Prov.Journal) Dangerous
lunacy and impossibility
of limited
nuclear warfighting
strategies
PLUS GRAPHIC of
BOTH
OUR FAILURE OF
WILL IN IRAN -
(East Side/West Side-also in Prov. Journal)- Outrage of Iran
Hostage Crisis +
our weakness
in dealing with it
SPEAKER ABOUT "RUSSIA on the EDGE"- Ad for my lecture on Russia and its myriad problems PRESS HERE
THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE- (Mos News- April 23,93) Supreme Court
Justice Valerie
Zorkin plotting
perilous middle road in
power
struggle between Yeltsin and
Parliament +
allies Veep Rutskoi and Speaker of Congress;
Rule of law new concept in Russia
PLUS GRAPHIC of
BOTH
SYMPATHY
FOR THE DEVILS- scr.
down (Moscow Guardian- Jun
11,93) Dismissal of prosecutors in
'91 Coup plotters case;
Perversion of law
in typical Soviet style; Prosecutors go
on
trial for libel while plotters go free-
WINDS
OF CHANGE - Predicts collapse of the Warsaw Pact
+
possible end of the Cold War in
June '89...
5 months before the Berlin Wall fell
Effusive Letter from VP GORE (3rd) about articles
COMING: Voter Felon Purge
Story: 42% Inaccurate Listings!
Michael Hammerschlag is a journalist whose written political commentary and articles for Seattle Times, Providence Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, Honolulu Advertiser, Capital Times (Madison,WI), Outside, Modern Photography, Intellectual Capital, Media Channel; and Moscow News, Tribune, Guardian, Times, + We/Mui in Russia; produced documentaries on the Presidential campaign and been a TV reporter, and reported from Soviet Union/Russia from '91-'94 in Moscow and St. Petersburg, with trips to Kiev, Minsk, Yaroslav, Zagorsk, Siberia, Ekaterinaburg, Murmansk, Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, Brest, as the largest contiguous empire in history came crashing down. He's currently writing a book about his time there. This is a collection of published articles spanning 24 years.
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ACCURATE FORECASTS BOURNE OUT 6-12 MONTHS LATER READER'S LETTERS Message Board
SEASON of PLAGUES - Russian Kursk Submarine + Ostankino TV tower disasters- Aug 29, 2000
RISING DRAGON Feb '97 Dangers of China burgeoning wealth and power. Aggressive actions in firing missiles 22 miles from Taipei, huge amphibious landing "training", occupying Spratley Is., murdering Tibetans and their culture, rage + paranoia over world acknowledging Taiwan.1.23 billion people- if they all run east at noon, they could change the rotation of the earth, and 20 mil added every year- 2 people every 3 seconds. LETTER fm US Sen JACK REED (D-RI) about article
The STATE of SPACE Oct'97 Likelihood of space disaster in Russian space program and Mir (from 2 years in Russia); America's mistakes (predicts cost cutting would lead to lost missions- subsequently 3 Mars and several launches met disaster) + needs in space and latest wonders from Galileo spacecraft around Jupiter: massive water ocean on Europa; and Cassini launch to Saturn and Titan.
NON-WAGE SLAVES - Johnson Russia
List - Sept 10, '98 (Center for Defense
Information + Carnegie
Corp) Abusive Russian habit of
not paying
workers
or creditors,
employees for months- including
submarine captains and
nuclear workers; Makes
business ex. difficult and
semi-criminalized;
Security concerns
BACK TO THE FUTURE -Johnson Russia List -
Sept 29, '98 Disastrous reappointment
of Victor
Gerashchenko
as Russian Central
Bank Chrmn, whose reckless
policies caused
40,000%
hyperinflation before- regarded as
worst central banker in
the world
THE NEW EVIL EMPIRE - The Mafiya in Russia- details the rise of the vicious Russian Mafia and full-scale '93 gang war intercut with my kidnapping at gunpoint in St. Petersburg 3 days after Soviet Union collapsed (avail only on special request) -5700 wds
SOME SOLUTIONS - semi-funny ideas on
Presidential election
resolution- Nov
26, 2000
PRIVATE WARS - Feb
'84
Analyzed
media's ability
to cover wars
in
Vietnam, + Predicted new restrictive
policies in Grenada, Lebanon, Falklands was
ominous trend that could cripple Press ability
to cover
conflicts Jan
'91 Press is rigidly
controlled
in Gulf War, not
allowed free
movement or to talk to
soldiers without officers
present;
Reporters set out on
their
own
+ are captured + tortured by Iraqis
QUÉ SERA SERA- Rumination on the vagaries of fate, fatalism,
and the
line between life + death: in
the
Russian Oct. revolt, Mt.
St.
Helens explosion,
+ the Moscow metro- Nov '93
SUPREME ARROGANCE - Online Journal- Supreme Court trashes separation of powers
+ destroys its legitimacy in Presidential
race decision- Dec 13, 2000
IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT -
Science + history behind meteor, asteroid,
+ cometary
impacts (rel. to Armageddon + Deep Impact)
STORMING LIONS -- Nov 18th,
2001+ Nov '98 Leonid Meteor
Showers w End of World
article above
RUMBLES in the (RUSSIA's) SOUTH (Pt 1)- 7/93 Article
about the Moslem wars of the
South
(Armenia/Azerbaijan,Georgia,Abkhazia,Tadjikistan)
that
morphs into an argument for Russia to
not sell submarines
and advanced
arms to
Iran (rel. to Gore/Iran deal) - ROUGH
DRAFT
(rumbles.gif); Page 2-
(rumbles2.gif)
MOVIE
REVIEWS- Internet Movie Database-
Life of David Gale
(2003), Badlands (1973)
, Dolores Claiborne (1995), Jackal,
The (1997),
Magnolia (1999), Omen,
The (1976), Summer
Lovers (1982), Zulu (1964), Max Headroom
(1987)
Tombstone-- Moscow Radison Slavonsky - Moscow
News- Jan 94
HTML vers.
Altered States - RI
Times
SNOW ON THE TUBE - scroll right
(Jackson Hole News- Weekly column on television- funny,
hip, snide reflections on
trends,
shows, movies, +
actors
NUCLEAR
CHICKEN-1998 -Likelihood of India-Pakistan
nuclear
exchange. Danger from nukes
far higher when
only a few, rather than thousands, because
first strike will destroy enemies' bombs.
Both have missiles + Pakistan has promised
to mount nukes on them- which WILL lead to
a war, because nation doesn't attack because
he wants to destroy enemy, attacks because
convinced enemy is about to. Periodically
1000 people are hacked and
beaten to
death in religious
riots in
India:
both peoples are highly excitable and hate
each other more than the Arabs and Israelis.
+50% probability of nuke war in next 3-5
years. Have written 3 long papers on nuclear
threat over 30 years.
The NAME of the GAME (July '98) Fame has become so pathologically desired that people will do anything for it. Monica, Paula, Linda + anyone who achieves major fame through any means will likely be a millionaire, yet the media feigns ignorance of this contaminating fact. What is his "strategy", questioned pundits when Ginsburg (Monica's lawyer) was on all 5 Sun. panel news shows one day. The twisted kids blowing away their classmates are partly motivated and validated by the massive exposure of TV- they too want to exist in the nat. consciousness, rather than the painful swamp of adolescent politics.
OLDER ARTICLES (nongraphic simple text) can be seen at http://home.switchboard.com/hamer on one huge page.
Articles sent on request- inc. USPS
address-
hammerschlag@bigfoot.com
ILLEGAL DRUGS
In Oct `99, the US government admitted that the source of Gulf War Syndrome could have been the anti-nerve gas drug that a 1/2 million soldiers were forced to take... 3 years after concrete medical experiments proved it. Infuriatingly this letter wasn't run (as about 70% of my nat. mag letters have been). When the pyridostigmine bromide story was coming out in `96, SUDDENLY, the Pentagon revealed that 5 or 10 or 22 thousand troops were exposed to nerve gases when they detonated Iraqi bombs and shells in an ammo dump- the timing (5 1/2 years later) was so convenient that they must have been panicked to admit their culpability in hurting many more troops than Sadaam. Wonder what's changed. The delayed upshot of this is some soldiers' refusal to take the Anthrax vaccine. LETTER TO NEWSWEEK Sept 26, 1996
LONG
ARTICLES
TAKING THE PLUNGE - Thrill of first time tandem
parachute
free fall (1 vertical mile)
- PHOTOS- Rocket
Seattle
UP
THE GRAND - Solo Climb of Grand
Teton + Middle Teton
Mtns. w unwanted glissade - Jackson
Hole News (cancelled due to climbing fatalities)
RETURN TO MT. ST. HELEN (w photos)- Exploration
and Climbing of
Mt. St Helens 7 1/2
years after almost
vaporized
in the
20 megaton explosion
SCUBA
DUBA- Comparative Assessment +
Wonders of all the
Dive Shop Trips in Cozumel, Mexico- the
best
scuba site in the world
PHOTOGRAPHY - Main Photo Page (thumbs)
BOUNCE IT- FOR NEXT to NOTHING- (Modern
Photography)- Details the building and operation of
a
removable bounce flash
attachment, w photos
(orig. in
color)
LAVA PHOTO- VOLCANO NAT. PK>- Honolulu
Advertiser- Sun front
page
FANTASTIC VOYAGE- (Maui Time) Profile of Maui photographer Robert Terrebonne
w his photos
THE CAVES OF
PARADISE- (w Photos) Spectacular Blue Colors inside
Ice
Caves under Paradise
Glacier (~7000 ft)
on side of Mt.
Rainier (highest snowfall
on
earth-128ft/season)
-
Outside
Magazine Now
melted away due to global warming
4 PANELS
(4P)are
very large jpeg's that navigated by directional
arrows or
pg up/down w 4 photos on one page
(some big enough to each
fill screen)
LAVA
ART PHOTOGRAPHS- 4P- 50 ft from Kilauea lava flows where
it flows into ocean on the Big Island- Day,
Twilight, Night (fm color zerox)
AUTHOR SILLOUHETTED BY SPRAYING
LAVA FOUNTAINS- Night (all available below)-
PHOTO's all
intentionally
lo-res
MOUNTED, SIGNED, BLACK 8x10 1/4" PHOTOBOARD LAVA + HAWAII
Photos with ARTICLE on BACK Available for
$25 (delivery inc.) E-mail
with
phone # and
address
772-594-8228
- fax
Exhibited at
5
galleries in
Hawaii
PU-U-O-O Volcano- Actual Cone of Longest Erupting Volcano
(1983-now) in Recorded History- Day, Twilight,
Night w glow from lava lake- lo res (available
below)
MAUNA KEA Summit - Summit of Highest mountain in Pacific
with largest telescopes + astronomical complex
in world in snow 13,796 ft (available below)
U
KIRT + KECK Telescopes
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WORLD TRADE CENTER - View from Summit 1/2000 4P More 4P RUINS Photos 3P 12/8/2001
Ruin Stills
fm Video 9P
IMAGES of 9-11 6P new
RUSSIAN REVOLT - Moscow 10/3-4/93
5
Photos fm Ostankino TV Cent. Battle
White House (Parliament) burning after tank shell
attack
(B+W)
SKYDIVING TANDEM- 4P-
Seattle- Lake Sammamish tandem freefall
from 8500 ft;
Jumping,
Landing, and Packing
QUONSET NAS AIR
SHOW-4P F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Bomber, F 14
Tomcat,
A-10
Warthog
Blue Angels Naval Dem
-4P. Team-F 18's - Cobra Attack Helicopter,
Rocket Truck,
F-15
JOHN McCAIN at
East Greenwich Armory, RI- Feb 2000
(from video) GARY HART 3-18-03 JANET
RENO 3-30-03 ROBERT MACNAMARA 10-23-02
STEPHEN FLYNN 2-10-03 (see Q+A on Audio
page)
TALL
SHIPS
in NEWPORT-4P- Sagres-
Portuguese, Courageous + Newport Br
Cisne Blanco- Brazilian
Kreuzenshtern - German/Russian,
HMS Rose, Providence
S. FLORIDA 4P- May 2001-
Sunset on 7-Mile Bridge- Keys,
Sand
Castle S¦kyscrapers-
Miami
Beach,
Gator eating chicken- Everglades
MH doing standup in Red Square + on TV Talk
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