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CLIMACTIC BATTLES on MAIDAN, KYIV
The TRADE CENTER BURNS (view from inside) - 25 min
~30 KILLED BY GOV. SNIPERS Feb 18, 2014
HUGE ATTACK by 1000's of POLICE ACROSS KYIV in VIOLENT BATTLES; PROTESTERS LOSE HALF OF MAIDAN BUT RETAIN CONTROL UKRAINE WAR-Revolt
- Tour of still burning TRADE CENTER 8am Feb 19; OCT 24: RYANS HOPE, BEN GAZY, SOVS in SYRIA, DEM DEBATE,
CONFEDERACY of DUNCES, FEEL the BURN, HOTWORLD, COKE GOES
BETTER w THINGS;
July '15- Nov '14 PLUTO!!!! Iceball -the edge of SS, 1985 Dem Pres. Primary VIDEO- UT- Iowa,DC,Mpls, UTube VIDEO Comntry- End of Vietnam + WW2 fm 1985!, +400ppm CO2 YATSENIUK, KOSHULINSKY Interviews (vid)
(Hammernews on Facebook), PRAVY SEC. SHOOTOUT, DBALTSEVE MASSACRE, TERRORIST BOMBING KHARKOV, HRYVNA VAPORIZES, NEMTSOV HIT, IMF/WB Pop for $5-8 bil, 14,000 RUS/SEPS in DONBAS-70% Rus, MINSK2 "PEACE, OBAMA LETTER, ILLOVAISK, PutINTERVENTION!
MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION Alt
New Pyrrhic Victories of Putin and the West - updated Apr 28
BUSINESS INSIDER (short) GLOBAL POST (short) SCOOP
EUROMAIDANPRESS
KYIV: Russia's economy + currency
are collapsing from oil price drop and sanctions, but Ukraine's is
dropping faster: 67% drop in hryvna. Russia can survive it, but Ukraine
is tottering on collapse and default. Russia destroyed Ukraine's
economy, and the West has destroyed Russia's, utterly useless Pyrrhic
"victories." Without Donbas, coal is running out so Ukraine may
go cold + dark. Putin, his great rep as a stabilizing
force
immolated, isolated + humiliated, could double down + do something
truly reckless. Predicted mass Russian offensive in Donbass takes place w wipeout
at Donetsk Airport and encirclement and disaster in Dbaltseve MINSK 2 Agreement "Peace in our Time?"; New IMF + World Bank give $7.1 bil more for Ukr; ~4000 Massacred/Captive @Dbaltseve?, Hrv stablizes @ 23/$- Dec 21-2014- Apr 28-2015
IS PUTIN CRACKING?- Russian President Acting Erratic EuroMaidanPress
Putin was weird at Minsk press conference; Extraordinary pressures on
Putin from all sides- caged in by imperialist monster he has unleashed;
Rattles nuclear sabres over Ukraine addressing Putin Youth camp (Nashi), pitiful, like a pimp getting approval from his stable - Sept 2
UKR ROLLING: THE BATTLE FOR LYSYCHANSK SCOOP
-
Kiev: With a
stunning series of victories and rebel leaders fleeing (Bezler,
Borodai), Ukraine may be close to a breakthrough in their
Putinvasion/civil war.
LATEST NEWS+LINKS Donetsk is encircled and almost cut off, has little
electricity, water, phone- Lugansk also
dark. Horlivka, Snizhne
under seige. Sep counterattack w fresh Rus weapons in Shaktarsk, Torez-
Donetsk's lifeline; Interview w National Guard troop who has been
fighting 10 days - Jul 31
NOTE: hero of this story Andre is missing in Ilovaisk (massacre)- anyone who knows of his fate plz contact; Donbas
Bat. bazooka operator, 28-32, last phone ring - Aug 19- 0958350002,
worked Olympisky detailing cars a year ago, single father w 7 yo
daughter Violet
IMPERIAL STRETCH:
A Bridge Too Far - Yahoo
LOCAL
(updated 4/19)
KYIV: With his reckless invasion Putin has
unleashed titanic forces that may sweep him from power in 4-5 years: inspiration
to 6 separatist regions of Russia, economic devastation from sanctions
and Euro resource diversification, reinvigorated NATO + EU, EU pushed into
Ukraine's arms, EUAA signed, $36 billion of loans + grants; outraged
Russian liberals, desperate oligarchs, world economy closed, UKR lost forever in Ukrainian
Green Men- Crimea burning Kiev
Dynamo ticket office Hrushevskogo St. Jan 20©MHammerschlag-2014
DANGEROUS TIMES: YANUKOVICH LIKE A CORNERED RAT - Interview of Mike by Bulgarian journo-
Yanukovich dangerous + unpredictable because all efforts to break
up Maidan failed + his power was slipping away; Bloodbath 2 wks
later was his demise -Economics (Mag) Feb
5
THE COPYCAT EFFECT - In the News (forever) UPDATED Oct 2015 ARCHIVE ALT (w pics) MediaChannel Proves sensational media coverage of rampage killers 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 - April 21, 2005
- Children killed in Newtown CT school massacre
Protstr
badgering
police-Ukraine
House
-18C
2am
Jan
29-2014©MHammerschlag
-
VICTORY FOR MAIDAN
PROTESTS? - THE TAKING of UKRAINIAN
HOUSE - Scoop the frigid (-18C) seige and taking of Ukrainian
House; Klitschko saves day; Yanu cracks- offer PM, DPM, concessions to Opposition; Ode to courage + endurance of
Ukrs Jan
29, 2014
COUNTDOWN: LAST CHANCE FOR UKRAINE - Yahoo LOCAL (w pics) Predicts EuroMaidan Protests 3 weeks before they happen! KIEV: Ukraine at crossroads between East and West: join the Russian Eurasian Customs Union or sign the EU Association Agreement and Free Trade Agreement in Lithuania Nov 28-9. Incredibly, after 15 years of negotiation, Pres. Yanukovich scotched the deal a week before. Huge demonstrations have broken out across Ukraine - most people prefer the EU. The choice is stark: whether Ukraine will be locked in a neo-Soviet ghetto of dependency and corruption, or join the Western world in greater transparency, freedom, and rule of law. - Nov 2-Dec 1 pics- Maidan Nov 24-2013©MH
FIRM of MIND, SOFT on FACTS - In the
News, Exclusive
Liberal Slant, Bartcop ARCHIVE 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- 3-17-2003 (eve of Invasion) ALT
WARBLOG
3/19-5/19/03
SECOND
TRY AT DEPOSING YANUKOVICH
GOVERNMENT Kiev:
According to Arseniy Yatseniuk, Opposition forces
arrayed against President Victor Yanukovich may be poised for another attempt to
remove his Prime Minister, and Government in a No Confidence vote in
the Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament. The last time on Dec. 3rd, they received
only 189 votes, far short of the 226 needed to succeed. -
Scoop Dec 18 UTUBE VIDEO BBC/my YATSENIUK Interview- Dec 13, 2013
Molodist Film
Festival Opening - Review: Walesa: Man
of Hope
- Kyiv Post LOCAL
The 43rd Molodist Film Festival, one
of oldest and biggest (42yr, 250-300 movies) in Europe, opened on Saturday with
a premier of Walesa, the inspirational tale of the indomitable man who
helped bring down an empire. -
Oct 19, 3013
ICELANDIC
TRIALS-- In the
News - Kurmakur made EVEREST5 Kyiv Post Two
Icelandic films by cinematographer Bergsteinn Bjorgulfsson and director Batasar Kurmakur made as splash
at Molodist: The Deep, an
incredible true tale of shipwreck survival in the Arctic, and XL, a kaleidoscopic 60-ish story
of the vast excesses of a Parliament Deputy. LOCAL - Oct
21, 2013 5 - I met expedition leaders + fatalities
Scott Fischer + Rob Hall climbing Mt Rainier in '87 (huge volcano on
Windows 8 that looms over Seattle), where they were Mtn guides/rangers
JFK- LINGERING SHADOWS - 50 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 Rush Harp - perhaps best thing I've ever written (orig. 1983)
Ukraine Parliamentary Elections:
Great Clean Hope?- Heavy weight champion Vitaly Klitschko's political party UDAR (PUNCH) underperforms but
beats Communists; Could Dr. Iron Fist have reduced the Africa-level corruption of the richest resource FSU
country?
Photos Audio
--
Photo - Oct 15, Kyiv Shulyavskaya rally 2012©Michael
Hammerschlag
Sevastapol Vote Counting -
98% reporting: Party of Regions
wins sweeping
but tainted
victory 30.2%, 25.4% Batkivshchina
(Tymoshenko), 13.8%
Udar, 13.3% Communist, 10.3% Svobody (Ukr nationalists) in party
list vote; though fully allied opposition would outmatch
POR-Com 49.5%
v 43.5%; but real determinant- individual precincts in the bizarre
50/50 party list/individual split system, POR coalition could get 56%
of final seats- at least 250 of 450 Rada seats
(assuming they "per$uade" 60% of
50 "independent" and smaller party victors to join) MORE - Oct 30
* On
Dec 13, the Rada elected a new POR Speaker
Rybak by 250 votes +
reelected Azarov PM by 254
"Many problems but unclear if it's systemic,"
says a US election observer
in Sevastopol. "Incompetence is not a crime" (unless it
is) ....
SAFE
HAVEN - Is Ukraine racist? Sometimes it
is endlessly surprising. Story
of a beloved Angolan Ukrainian - Kyiv
Post LOCAL
THE GOLDEN
RING- Quest for the Presidency - Yahoo Network LOCAL Republican contenders + pretenders
- all
too extreme? Blow by blow flips in states;
Profile of Romney and his Mormon exoticism
(can he ever win Repub hearts?); and Obama's
problems, and supposed betrayal of the base
in various suppressive acts; w long interview
of fmr DNC chair + Pres. candidate Howard
Dean - April 2012 - Scoop
in Ukrainian
Russian
BACK IN THE USSR - 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- ,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
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 seizing 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
TAKEOVER
- 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,
2010 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
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 Earths pressure and 4œX 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
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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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
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-
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 SŠkyscrapers- Miami Beach,
Gator eating chicken- Everglades
MH doing standup in Red Square +
on TV Talk Show