Guantanamo!

Is Guantanamo prison still Guantanomo prison if it is picked up and moved across the ocean?

Blantant Product Endorsement

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American Forces At Work

Readers of the Lawson Review are savy, interesting, and educated people. Not to pat your backs, but if you have been reading here for the past few years, you are very likely someone that holds several advanced degrees, and likely have been able to find happiness in whatever circumstance they have lead their lives into. The key point especially, that they are leaders of themselves, who delve into their consciousness and are not afraid of the mysteries of the mind or globe, but are willing to ask questions and look into unconventional angles in their attempts at problem solving. They are problem solvers. They explore many issues and submerge themselves in subject matters to the point of expertise, or at least to a point of understanding what the experts of an issue have to say with regards to the subject matter. And it is with great frustration that while exploring the world, more and more we find fewer and fewer curious people. It is disappointing to say the least. So when I recieve letters like I recently did, from a man in Lanton, Pennsylvania, who is writing a proposal for the US Military regarding their use of civilian clothing while on peace keeping mission. It is a remarkable idea. Because the US has such a vast military reach, in the global perspective people now associate "America" or "United States" with "Military" or "Military Empire." Our military uniforms are ingrained on people across the globe. It is no surprise when our military men show up any more. The problem is made worse by the ever growing access to television and film via digital media. From the perspective of this former government operative, by dressing our men and woman in civilian clothing during peaceful operations, the image projected globally becomes that America is the land of men and women ready to help us in our times of need rather than "America is the place that sends their military men and women out in uniform ready to take us over at any time." Take for example the tsunami that just struck. There will no doubt be a US military presence to help bring order to the situation, and the US is the very best at performing the task. Our military has more at its disposal to help search for, find, and help survivors than any other country on earth, and our military is prepared for nearly every situation conceivable. But we always show up in uniform. Even in the ultimate moments of distress our soldiers are wearing t-shirts and fatigues which, again, partially because of the media's portrayal, is a symbol of our military machismo. Put our soldiers in Khakis and allow soldiers whatever their preference in shirts, perhaps just give them matching baseball hats, whatever, and suddenly people see us as a nation of civilians who patrol only to help and come in times of need. Of course there is a little BS in the whole thing, but hell, it certainly could not hurt. Anyway, where was I? ... Pouring honey all over my readers, telling them how great they are? Well then another wrote in. He was the inventor of a GPS Ball that has been deployed by the USGS, USCG, US Navy, and NOAA. It is a floating, solar powered, GPS unit inside a thick-skinned and pressurized rubber ball, about the size of a grapefruit. The Ball is made to last through thick and thin, and because of its relatively low manufacturing coast these units have been vastly dispersed throughout the oceans, measuring, via satellite, currents, waves, and turbulance in the ocean. They can be swallowed by fish and still float upon elimation. It can withstand hits from boats and debris. It is nearly indestructable. And so far, five years into the project, not one has had to be replaced, and even the few caught up on land were recovered and put back into service. So I complement my readers. They are for the most part brilliant people (or at least ones who are not brought in by money scams - sorry Matt B., or they are looking for info on Chuck Norris or curious about "brushing teeth with finger") or at a minimun have at least once in their lives strived for genius, even if they have given up only recently. Many, like myself, still like sugared cereals too.

Energy and National Security are LinKED?!

Since this is one area the Lawson Review has focussed on throughout the Bush Years, and so many who were then hiding in the Underground were talking about, because it is such an obvious connection, it is surprising how little we have actually heard about it since the Master of Change has taken over... Granted, at least the Master of Change (to Whom We All Bow) has funded alternate energy more than any other in our history. AND, to his credit, it would be sheer political hot lava to tell the American public to cut back on some energy useage... But we can't lose focus on the fact that we are, after all, 4% of the worlds population that consumes 25-30% of all the worlds energy AND natural resources...An ASTOUNDING fact when you really think about it. Check out the link here.

Whenever you find that you...

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain I've been down on this blog for a while, but my boss finally called and told me to shape up or ship out. So be it. I've had a hard time because of all this non-sense on Facebook. have you seen this non-sense? Seriously, have you? I knowl... I of all people making fun of, poking my finger at, prodding the likes of, and generally diss'n... Like I have room to talk. I operate the "Official Blog of the CIA" (or sometimes "unofficial"), and here I find myself so all important as to mock the very thing I am? No, seriously, I do more than that, don't I? Don't I offer more to my readers than the average posting of "Eating Chili, Sucks," on FB? My doubts ran ramapant and I retreated from everything. But then I recalled my greater duty. My duty to my civilization, not to look at myself, but to look at the world that we all share. And I ran back home. See, the problem we are finding, and we knew it might likely happen, is that Barack Obama is proving to be just like any other president would have been from the pickings we had. His course, while politically curving in opposite directions, is still running the same course, the exact same highway system that any of the other picks would have been. He did not take us to a new destination at all. He isn't planning on doing that. He has different friends, politically, but they all operate from the same rooms. Here is a quick photo of a few sectors: As a result we are seeing some strange things go on. Word has it that Afghanistan is falling apart. Our soldiers are being pinned up like targets, without the ability to truly protect themselves and advance a cause, any cause. We have outposts all over the ground, but they are not connected to one another, and the soldiers posted there have as their duty to be sitting ducks, waiting to get attacked. Because they have mobilized from being a combat mission to becoming a "peace keeping" mission they are not allowed to actively defend themselves. They wait around to get shot at. THEN they can fight back. Why keep them there at all? Banks, banks, Banks. Surely Obama will seek the smart way to bail out the economy by helping the little guy, right? Because only Reagan and the Bullies are nice to the Big Guys, but not our guy, not the guy on the left. He is on the left, right? Suddenly we all began to worry. Perhaps this guy is really much smarter than we took him for. Perhaps he is also cunning, foxy. Is he giving our money away to the very people we thought enemies of our party. Turns out... Yes. Drugs? He did drugs, surely he is going to find a progressive solution to overpopulation in jails while helping the youth and whatnot, right? Nope. The Justice Department is currently looking to equalize Coke and Crack, under the justification that "Crack is putting more black people away," as if those enforcing our laws were selecting black Crackheads over white Cokeheads intentionally. However, this is but looking at the surface. Law Enforcement officials I know have stated that it is not at all a matter of prejudice, but rather that, in general, Crackheads are more desperate and violent and unrelenting for their buying and selling of their drug, while Cokeheads are generally less obsorbed and thus less violent. Guns are commonly confiscated during the arrests of Crackheads, while guns are seldom obtained arresting Cokeheads. Does this make Coke any less dangerous than Crack? Not necessarily, but it certainly points to the idea that Crackheads are the more dangerous variety of citizen. These things aren't to say Obama is doing a terrible job, only to say that his people had better hold him accountable, or he might seriously screw things up in an equal way as his predecessor.

Ronald Reagan Quote - and they actually brag about this...

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk." ..................................... Ronald Reagan. If only he would have put his money where his mouth was.

Asshole American Ambarrassment

Click to the title to the linking article... super sweet that we aren't using Marines to guard embassies anymore. Because of a privitization scheme that began under Reagan and continued strong under Clinton and Bush, we now have more outsourced (and highly paid) personel from private companies than we do from the US government. And they are top notch, to say the least... I can totally see why they are more expensive... because they know how to PARTY! Yeah, GO DOG! Isn't that exactly what we want representing the US abroad. Why have all those stoic, straight faced, and honestly, BORING Marine guards standing all still and straight outside the US embassy gates, when we can employ some super party types that didn't last in the military because they had to get their party on!!! Now we've got this instead.... sweet... and the fact that the number of reported rapes by such contractors is well into the hundreds is even more awesome! Privitazation tooootaallllly works. We seriously should probably just pay Haliburton to operate the White House and Congress. I won't at all be surprised if they are not, after all, the only contractor equipped to do such work. The contract, will no-bid, of course. Yes, outsourcing has become a bit of a mess, and this picture explains it all, I'd say.

Crowe tells writer to get on bike

Ask any of my friends... I don't like Russel Crowe.  I think is a dweeb to say the least.  His acting is half-canned and I'm not convinced he could distinguish a genuinely good movie from a bad one, but admittedly, my dislike is likely rooted in jealousy... who wouldn't want to make millions making bad movies?  Well, then comes this, and I kind of like him now... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8237512.stm

What happened to conversation, and why are we so easily offended?

Its like when your wife has agreed to go to a co-workers party... your not all that excited, and you have a hundred other things you'd rather do, including sweeping the garage out, or waterin the lawn, but she isn't having any of it. She wants to go, and you know you are going to go, but you still begrudge it, but, as is often the case, once you get there, maybe get a few drinks in your system, suddenly it is not anything like you imagined, and it turns out to be just fine. Such is our need for a national dialogue at the moment. The Left and the Right have done a very good job of demonizing each other over the last few decades in America. Its been going on as long as I can remember, but in recent years it has gotten down right vicious. Lefties, frustrated by years of being completely ignored by the Bush Administration, including with regards to not having their votes counted for anything during his first election, have grown cold and stand-offish to the right. Meanwhile the Right, fueled by quasi-racists and xenophobes on the AM and Fox, have been whooped into a frenzy of distrust and anger towards anyone that does not believe in their god or in their moral set of beliefs. Here in Montana, the arguments encompass everything from national healthcare to local hunting rights, but the divisionary lines remain the same across the board. Lefties in Montana are flabbergasted that people would want to hunt wolves. So delusionary and inconsistent is their arguement that while they are eating farmed bison and cow, wearing toxically made, synthetic "eco-friendly" clothing, they stand on their high horse and scream about 70 wolves being culled from the population of several thousand that now roam healthy across the landscape. "How dare you kill those things!" they scream, apparently not realizing their own predatory instincts aimed at different creatures. Meanwhile the folks on the right are fired up about "eco-nazis" claiming that anyone that is against their way of thinking, or who is interested in preserving the very small 4% US landmass that is still entirely intact and roadless is a crazy radical not worthy of breathing. The conversation ended years ago. Now it is nothing more than a screaming match in which no one can even hear the other side over their own voice. Its ridiculous. Its childish. And it is being fueled by the New Media substitutes for "news." News has been vanishing for some time. We rarely hear the simple facts without the filter of an agenda. We rarely are given information without severe bias. As a result, people are taking these nationalistic agendas, and attempting (stupidly) to apply them to their local communtities, as if Glenn Beck has ANYTHING to say that is applicable to ones local community. All he actually manages to pass along is his his anger. All Keith Olberman manages to pass on is cynicism. And none of it is helping anyone get along better with their neighbors. We all live on the same god-damned planet, for god's sake! We share our streets and sidewalks with other people... and all these people are striving to do the same thing.... Get home to see their families after work, spend time sweeping the garage out, and avoid going to lame parties with their spouses, even though the parties ussually end up being quite fun. Humans have more in common than we often remember. Even "those other people" ... the ones that look different, that eat different, that live in "third world conditions"... they all like the same things... they laugh, they cry, they play jokes on each other. Americans can be so god-damned pretentious, assuming that our way is the only way, and we've gotten to the point where we even think that way in terms of politics. We run around like a bunch of castrated monkeys trying to impreginate the world with our agenda... not realizing our own sterility. And its tiring. We need more civility. Not a little, but a lot. We need to be willing to agree to disagree. We need to quit judging people so much. We need to accept people that think different, and try to enjoy a beer with them from time to time even if we don't necessarily like the way they do everything. I kill a wolf, you kill a cow, my dog kills a squirrel, your cat kills birds... Jesus, thing die, things get killed (just ask Jesus!) All this non-sence about needing to fight our own countrymen over stupid issues that ultimately we have little control over in the first place... So I for one am going to go home and enjoy a nice wolf steak tonight, and envite my vegetarian neighbor over for some corn, and perhaps she'll have a glass of chardonnay while I drink a PBR, and maybe, just maybe, we'll have a fun night...

Montana Congressman Rehberg drunk at the helm? (click)

Lawson Review Readers...

You will want to see this......videos are part way down the page...

Unbearable Brightness of Seeing

Yes, a lot of new things have come to light in the last two weeks, and some of it seemed to filter through the system. Apart from President Obama being the anti-Christ and wanting to turn us into a "socialist-nazi" country, we also have discovered that he is to blame for invading Iraq and Afghanistan, and for bankrupting the nation. How do I know this? Because the modern republican Bible (ie. Rush and Friends) tell me so. When they say things like "He's just like the Nazi's" or "This is just how the Nazi's got their way," they are of course talking about the socialized medicine that Hitler offered to the Jews. Free showers for everyone! See?! It starts with preventative care... and cleanliness is next to Godliness, right? Right? So maybe Rush is on to something! Then there is the "Death Panel" debate. Now, some sappy democrats are all like, "These aren't death panels! All it is saying is that if we have government supported healthcare then we can also have the government help people prepare for their end of life care ahead of time." They then go on to tell us that no one is going to have to subscribe to these death panels, but that it is an option that would/could be provided along with the other socialized services. But I think we all know the truth... Nazis kill people. Lots of people. Think of a debate class sort of thing, with a panel of judges, except all the judges are wearing short mustaches that only cover their lip directly beneath their noses... think well pressed uniforms. Think gas chambers! Think Jews. Think old people. Think republicans... Why think these things? Because Rush has laid it out clearly, along with NewsMax, Fox News, the Drudge Report, and World Net Daily... These panels of Hitler-wanna-bees will have access to voter registration and will be allowed to deny care to any and every republican they want to, and will be able to deny old people healthcare because it will simply be too expensive to take care of old people! Of course we need death panels. How else are we going to get rid of all these old people! What? Wait around for them to die?! I think not. Under the Democratic Health Care Plan we will start burying people in "live caskets." It really will be the most efficient thing. Yes, sure, there might be some misconceptions out there, but I think we all have a pretty clear idea of how viscious the democrats are, and how most of them don't want their parents to live, and how most of them want to see a mass extinction not of silly butterflies, but of republicans. Such is the distrust in America, that nearly 45% of Americans polled believe such drivel. There is more substance in my sons diaper than there is in the words of Fox and AM Pundits. Currently the republican party is trying to rebuild their brand on drool, feces, and ether. And it might just work. Sarah Palin, allah forbid, might actually have a place in the republican party of tomorrow. Incredible. But that will be sweet. Then and only then will we be able to fall even further behind in technological energy development, retard ourselves by further outsourcing what little manufacturing sector we have left, and allow more unregulated pollution of our lands, waters, and air. Awesome. I love me a little jet fuel in my drinking water! Perhaps one day we can all work for the Pentagon, as even under the current administration, it seems to be where the majority of our tax dollars are spent. Why pay for healthcare of old people and children, and middle aged people for that matter when we could bomb the crap out of some new nation that most of us don't know a thing about! How about Tajikistan? I see no reason not to bomb the Tajiks! Besides, what else are we going to use that money for? Death Panels?!

Daily Digest

Daily Show: Fox News -- The New Liberals - Watch more Videos at Vodpod.

Chalmers Johnson on Empire Dismantling

Will Sean Hannity Let Himself Be Sodomized On Live TV?

This is disturbing, I know. Sorry Mom, but I feel pretty freaking strongly about this. (I will at least use the nice "f" word.. "freaking" instead of the other one!" I'm tired of hearing Americans glamorize torture as if its something they could do, but just choose not to do. "Its not THAT bad," so many Fox viewers justify. "Besides, the MIGHT be guilty!" Of what? Hating Americans because we bombed their village?! It is about time someone thought to put it in THESE TERMS. Seriously, I wish I'd thought of it. In case you are too time-depraved to go to the link it goes something like this: The last few months people are going on and on about the Torture Debate as though it only deals with waterboarding, as if waterboarding was the end all be all of the torture world and, if we can prove that it is not so bad then Presto Magic! Torture is ok again, see!? Sean Hannity even pretended like he was going to prove to us how benign it was...He was going to be water-boarded in front of the cameras... What a lying prick. But what about other aspects of torture? Do we really need to focus on the anal raping? Apparently we do! As if the many other forms of torture do not seem to exist, perhaps it is only the Anal Raping that will wake Americans up to the idea that torture is something that we "freedom spreaders" should NOT DO! We support Freedom, Democracy, Human Rights, and... Anal Rape of suspects? Really? So lets see it, Sean. Put your freaking money where your mouth is... and let some Army knocks stick their gun barrel up your ass and then make you wear poopy pants for a few weeks while giving you urine (theirs not yours) to drink... still not feeling tortured? Don't worry, this is live tv, so we will also not only get to see you in this condition, but the lights will always be on and the music will always be very loud, and you'll be hanging in positions that do not really allow for a very solid sleep... so enjoy, because for the next few weeks of this display you will have lots of fun anal raping to look forward to... broom sticks, gun barrels, whatever clever little highschool drop outs can conjure... a few detainees, later released because it turns out they weren't guilty, we blessed enough to experience anal rape with florescent light bulbs... Bringing light to places the sun don't shine, no doubt. At least they were thinking of energy efficiency, right? Welcome to military detention Dick Cheney style! Torture was a protocol from top down. Don't forget it. Dick Cheney, who was the defacto president of the US for the last 8 years, allowed and encouraged it. Aren't war crimes cool?! Its worth the four minutes of reading.

Some Amazing Videos Here! Sserpxe em tel!!!

Here is an amazing piece that shows retarded people DO have a place in the modern workforce... and not just sweeping floors... And THISone... amazing! So clear cut! So obvious! And to think that the American public did not realize this!!!

A tortured bunch of news

shouldn't even check the news on days like this. Shouldn't even check my email. I open the account and instantly see these depressing headlines full of depressing news: Baby gets dismembered China is busy being the assholes that the Chinese are to their neighbors Glenn Beck is trying to get the President killed And sun tanning beds are as toxic as arsenic ...what a day?!

Palin Quits/Ocean Goo Suddenly Appears...

...this is bound to turn into a Super Heros episode... or a Scooby Doo one.

Why You Shouldn't keep Your Baby Inside a Plastic Bag

Blink on Cheney

These are fast times, and dangerous. But not the danger that is advertised on the television. On the television there are products, lifestyles, and taxes to be sold, so there is little room for the truth. It is not a total abandonment for the desire for truth, it is only that products and sales take precedent. Selling out is the American way. And we are globalizing our efforts. Long in need of more real connection to the planet they live on and to the neighborhoods they share, Americans are getting confused as they suddenly find themselves unable to buy as much as fast. For so long the curve of ownership (of things) was growing exponentially. Faster and faster things were becoming more readily available and we were able to own damn near anything we want, as soon as we wanted it. Now we have to wait... something like a month or two. Its tragic. Dangerous. People are beginning to spin out of control. They are throwing their children off bridges. They are going psycho-killer on their neighbors, friends, and families, they are using knives, even cutting off ball-sacks. This is some crazy shit. It is beginning to look like Craziville, USA. Part of it is the news. There have always been sadists, but they've become popular and talked about, and there is a new ability to spread their stories farther and faster than ever fathomed thirty years ago. But this is not the goal of this dialogue. The point of the day is to think about Dick Cheney and the secrecy we've allowed to creep into our government. Like the violence in our society we've grown complacent about the whole matter. Dick Cheney, in terms of being a power-monger, is no different than the autocrats our media and government like to attack around the world. For better (for us) or worse (for him) he was born into a country that actually allows quite a few people into positions of authority, and had plans to avoid the takeover of power by one individual. Checks and balances. Not a bad concept. Scientific. Practical. Documentable. And enforceble. Hopefully. No, it was in Dick's early thirties that he realized what a jip it was that he was not born into his same life on a different continent. He has no reason to be racist and probably thought big, like China. Why couldn't I have been born into China?! I could rule that whole fucking country. Go, Dick, Go! The cheering sound rang in his head all his life. He could own and operate anything better than anyone else. And he did not need help doing it, not after he gets there anyway. And he never looked back. He began complaining early, during the investigations of the Iran/Contra hearings, that people in authority need some wiggle room, room to bend, if not break the rules. This is a requirement of authority. He was already preparing his chair for a later date. But then something else happened, that has made him bitter the rest of his life. His ticker began failing him. It is like someone poised to go to the NBA only to find out that they will have to amputate their foot and wear a fake one. The American public would never elect someone with a fake heart, or one that required a duracell to keep it ticking. He'd have to go second chair, even as he took the lead. George was a perfect fit. Soon into his position Cheney realized he could actually get even more done as Bush stood center stage. George, stay there in the center while I go back stage for a while. Secrecy became his pattern. Energy meetings, secret??? Seriously, WTF? Seriously. WTF? How did he get away with this stuff?! Why weren't other politicians screaming? Why was there mainstream news? This guy made secrecy so commonplace in our government that the founding fathers would likely have taken up arms and called him out on his shit. This is not supposed to be allowed. The guy used fake intelligence to get us into a war. He manipulated the CIA into being his little secret covert-op squad, justifying it to them while lying to everyone else. For heavens sake, he had the CIA withhold information from the one very small "check and balance" that they had, a group in Congress small enough to fit into a small room. We need to see hearings on this kind of craziness. We need to see Dick Cheney sitting at a desk in front of his peers to explain his audacious behavior, and then get to watch his inner-crumblings as he realizes that he has broken the laws of this country by attempting to create an autocratic pocket within the government mechanisms of the US. Our government has cancer right now. It is in serious need of an operation, something to remove these people from their positions of power and authority. The electrorate need to start sending more people into the races. Citizen involvement is the only hope. Otherwise we can expect to see a slow erosion, not only in our economic stability, but in the relations between our citizens. The more the American public dens up in their own personal rat races, the more chaos we will see appear outside the dens. And as business men and women it would not hurt for more Americans to think of themselves as neighbors rather than bosses. It would certainly improve things if people thought about lifestyle more, bank accounts less. By lifestyle I do not mean buying power. We've had plenty of that. It didn't help anything, but only made us work more, live less.

Its Easier to deal with when you break it down.

As has been recognized by many of the sharpest Lawson Review readers, the Lawson Review has been going through more than a simple change in management, but has meanwhile (and perhaps as a result of the aforementioned) been going through a crisis of identity. It began when I experienced a sudden and swift loss of readership. I think that many newspapers around the country are going through the same thing, but here on the intfranets... here we are supposed to be increasing our readership, and yet readership at the Lawson Review suddenly took a swift hit last year. Then suddenly the Lawson Review was shut down. Shut down, reopened, but suddenly filtered in the greater internet world, filtered from a control room that most will never know more about... this will probably be the only mention you ever hear about on the infranets. No, it has nothing to do with protecting the general public, or even to hide knowledge from them... this censorship is a power-trip, nothing more. They control the words, and even attempt to control the actions of a certain group of people. 13 years ago I committed to this organization... now, when trying to exert just what little of myself I have left, even now after this complete commitment on my part, they do not trust me. Its been a difficult situation to deal with. Knowing my phone is actively tapped is nothing. But when they start breaking into my house and hiding cameras behind pictures, replacing my favorite ashtray with a nearly identical and bugged one, hiding gps tracking chips in the hem of my cloths, even hiding a camera in my shower-head... this began getting to me. For a while I didn't know a way out. I started to lose interest in my very task at hand. In the meantime I lost sight of what the purpose of this blog was. But we are putting the pieces back together. We've gone into the fire and used the heat to sharpen our blades. We meet in different locations daily. We are watching over our shoulders. And it is fascinating to see who and why we are being pinpointed.

Suddenly the world cares about Iran

Just a few weeks ago no one seemed to care. Just a few months ago, most people in America would have a difficult time pin pointing Iran on a map. Most know it is in the proximity of Iraq, but that is about it. Evil doers. Most knew that. Terrorist supporters who don't like Israel. Most thought they knew that. But the fact that Iran has a large Jewish population that for the most part gets along fine with the rest of the population... most didn't know that. And when Bush wanted to invade, well, it just sounded like a bad idea, mostly from a financial point of view. But then there was an election, and suddenly Americans, right and left alike, are pretending to have a vested interested in the outcome of Iranian politics. And even while admitting that the President of Iran is not the powerhouse most now are extremely concerned that the election has been stolen. What is going on here? Why the sudden interest? Hmmm. Well, it turns out that the CIA, as reported publicly by the New Yorker last summer, is hard at work in Iran. Now most think of the CIA as an organization that buys and sells guns, sets off bombs, and assassinates the un-wanteds, but what is less in the light, and for obvious reasons, is that we create political opposition. And, as seems to be the case with this example, seem to want to gin up support for their actions here at home. Suddenly everyone in the US is concerned about Iran. One thing is sure. I am sure that it has nothing to do with Iran being one of the largest oil and gas holders in the Middle East and world. I am sure it has nothing to do with Iran's recent decision to begin trading that oil with Euros and Yen as opposed to dollars. I am sure it has nothing to do with the fact that they are making oil deals with China and India, who are seen as our greatest threat to energy security in the upcoming years. I am sure it is mostly because we are just concerned that they have a fair and open election... just like ours here at home.

Ninjas killed David Carradine

By now the word is out that David Carradine was killed by a secret society of Ninjas in Thailand, who then hung him in a closet with his wrist and genitals bound in wire, and left a wig and some lacy underwear behind to make it look as though the 72 year old actor was into kinky sexy things with naughty people. But he was not. He had broken Ninja code several times throughout his career as an actor, and had brought shame to the Ninja sect which he was a member. The saddest part perhaps is that he knew he had broken their code, and he made his fateful trip to SE Asia to submit before a committee of his peers within that society, ready to take whatever punishment they dealt him. And even more sad, it included naked auto-erotic asphyxiation and genital wire wrapping. Thats what you get when you piss off Ninjas. Seriously. Don't mess with Ninjas.

Back.

Yes, I thought it was the end. They meant for it to be. I've had to change a few things. Moved again. Every three years it seems. It takes almost exactly 3 years for the beauracatic mechanisms in government to find someone if they are doing a decent but not flawless job of hiding themselves. C'est la vie! So new town, new house, new locks, new security system, new name, new hair, new cloths, new background, new accent, new car, new phones, new micro-processor, new pen in my pocket. I used to be a rolling ball v5 kind of fellow. Then I switched to basic papermate. Now I'm on to something new. But I'd best not say. Also new revelations. Tired of defending One side against the Other. Tired of arguing with loud-mouths retards. Seriously, its gets tiresome. I'm over it. If it bored you, I apologize. It was boring me too. I'd rather find the Matt Badailis in the world. I'd rather expose the scam. Tired of seeing everyone live life like the television tells them to. When you are focussed all the time on the worthless and vain it makes the body ache for more. For myself this is rarely found in a building. There is more outside than in. There is more with less, right? So I'm living as a nudist now. It took some convincing with my wife, but now she even agrees, this is the life for us. No more cloths, no more watches. Our kids are perhaps a little embarrassed, but they will get over it. So, we are back in business at the Lawson Review. Hope we didn't lose you all. We had to kill a few people that were following us, and brush our tracks like coyotes. But we've found a nice little spot in the woods with a mountain top view from which to watch the world, and anyone that might be coming for us. We are well versed on Iran, and will work to inform our readers of the latest and greates things that should be known about the world we live in. We are looking into the future, and we see the Lawson Review. Welcome back Online.

It Has Come To My Attention

The time has come for the end of the Lawson Review. No, it is not the economic times, and no, it has nothing to do with the shift of plate tectonics. No, these are things no single person can control, but the proverbial phone call from above has made itself known, via a phone call at 7:39pm. For months, literally months my phone has been ringing one ring at 7:39pm, and it has not only come to serve as a clock in our household, but also a game, to see if we can pick up fast enough to find out if someone is on the other end. We've never been fast enough. Not until last week. Last week there was someone on the other end. I do not know exactly why, or who, but it is safe to say that if by ending this I can never hear that voice again, I am going to end it. So here it is. Enjoy the archives. Go back to the good ol'days. I've let some flab blemish the Lawson Reviews waistline lately anyway, so it is kind of a fitting ending I guess. Pulling the trigger. Or rather, plug.

Bulk Rice and a Pollywog

I know I'm unreliable as a blogger right now. Living on a remote mountaintop with two children turns out to be quite a time consuming endeavour, let alone the fact that I am in constant watch for Iranian paratroopers set on ending my existence. Needless to say, complaining about Sean Hannity has become a low priority. That being said, I did catch a little of his show on the shortwave yesterday, and it was ass-stounding how idiotic, backwards, retarded, stupid, pathetic and simply weird he and his supporting audience are. They are... well... ass-stoundingly idiotic, backwards, retarded, stupid, pathetic and weird. There is this whole, "lets get Nancy Pelosi and eat her alive" thing. First off, her knowing of torture, if she did, does not make her a criminal. Her knowing about it is not the problem. The TORTURE, and those that allowed it, encouraged it, in fact mandated it... those are the criminals. Yes, criminals. Just because a President says it is ok, does not make a thing legal. Believe, I probably hate Nancy Pelosi and her fake, plastic smile as much as the next, and her lack of transparency as a public servant is ugly, if not completely common in our elected officials, but with regards to this torture business, her having known about it means nothing. When you are briefed on Secret or Top Secret information, you can not just run out and tell the world without some rather serious implications. And then Hannity goes on and on about the CIA and how "they would never lie." Sean, you haven't a clue what the CIA even does. Lying is what we do best. Lying, in fact, is the very nature of this work. Lying, misleading, cheating, suprising, undercutting, being completely subversive... that is the job of the CIA. How else do we overthrow governments? How else do we infiltrate to the core of our enemies systems? How else do we maintain a "Black Budget" which is completely hidden from the view of the taxpayers that pay for it? No Sean, you are a stupid, freaking idiot, and I can't wait until you wake up to see all the crap on your chin. It has been spewing out your mouth for years. Had this been any other country, or even been a democrat rather than a republican that had advocated torture, then and only then would we see the republicans standing up for those that had been tortured, but somehow these people are completely willing to suspend their morals to support people they do not know or know the true motives of. Unwilling are they to admit that Cheney is without moral fortitude. He is a coward who freaked out in paranoia after 9/11. And so obsessed was he on his own agenda that he completely forgot history, and forgot to think about the future ramifications of his own actions. Now it is all catching up to him. The fear is in his eyes. Sean Hannity and Rush have nothing to lose by throwing their hat in with the Dickly Coward, so they are going for it. They won't go to prison. It won't give them a heart attack. They see it as a last ditch effort to galvanize a dwindling percentage of their supporters. But Cheney, Cheney has the fear. His tail is on the line. Prison is a very real possibility. He might die an old man in prison. No more jets. No more gold coffee mugs. No more shooting friends while drunk on vacation. And to no suprise, he is still running on fear, only now, instead of carrying a gas mask and worrying about the Taliban, he is worried about Nancy Pelosi and her friends.

A tortured bunch

I knew it before any of you. You simply don't buy the eye-ball thing. Obviously that is no allergy. I know. I knew no one would believe it, and that is why I offered the distinctly zoomed in version showing nearly each and every blood vessel and line, but still, that middle of the eye... that is the part, clearly infected and swollen, perhaps where the Iranians injected me with their serum, or where the MSS used microscopic steel wool to scratch, irritate, and push me beyond my capacity to hold state secrets, but alas, I am not permitted to tell, so it will have to go that it is an annoying little season pink-eye.

Justice Souter Retires

This will probably become the dominate talk of at least one-third of talk radio for the next several months.

My Seasonal Allergy.

Not so much pink eye as "nasty bloody sore eye."

The Grifter and the Grifted

Life is all aTwitter with the obnoxious bahaviors becoming more obnoxious. And now the CIA is asking me to do something I simply can not. First, blogging, ok, but now Twittering? Really? Me? I hole up in a shack on the edge of a cliff in the middle of a forest... I barely get a cell phone signal to begin with, and they want me to Twitter? GTFOOH, seriously. Is this not close enough? Why must I send it out over a cell phone? Why would I hope that people are curious when I am watching my cat take a crap so I can clean it out before the entire place smells up, or while I am pointing my rifle and scope out on an innocent little bunny, not loaded, just imagining, watching and following. I move the riffle up to the eagle and watch it take a dive down to eat the small flash of white fur. I can shoot the rabbit, but not the bird. No, I think this is where I draw the line in the sand. Twitter is not something the Agency needs me to do. They have a blogger, now they need someone altogether different to Twitter. I can't be that person for them. They will have to hook me up to electrodes. Feed me whippets. Scrub my bathroom floors once a week. Pay me more. Meanwhile I have an assignment for my readers... There have never been assignments before right now, but now there are. What is the status, in terms of economic health, of mining companies during the wave cycle in the economic sphere? Are these industries finding it difficult to borrow money? How much connection is there between international banks, and the major international mining corporations. These industries can find huge profits when things are going well, but only after massive loans have been repaid. The repaying of these loans depends on a population ready and willing to purchase. One of the number one culprits of civil marginalization in the third world is the capital oriented industrialized nations. When people are spending resource extraction takes priority to human rights because the wealth has a way of finding individuals who lack ethics willing and ready to oppress people for the purpose of profit. I am curious to what degree, if any, this recent decline in the "economy" or stockmarket has had on resource extraction industries... Answers?

Cheney's Tortured Lies (click title for op-ed)

The above link is an editorial by Ali Soufan, a former FBI interrogator who worked counter-terrorism during the Bush administration. Soufan offers an easy to understand timeline which when compared to the blanket statements made by Dick Cheney on Fox News two nights ago is completely contradictory. It also contains the one-quarter ounce of logic neccessary to understand 1.) that Dick Cheney is a liar, and 2.) that anyone that is taking Dick Cheney's words as fact is either mentally handicapped, or extremely mentally lazy. In our Lawson Review Math Installment #2 we look at the logic of Dick Cheney. Ali Soufan lays it out succinctly, "Defenders of these techniques have claimed that they got Abu Zubaydah to give up information leading to the capture of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a top aide to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and Mr. Padilla. This is false. The information that led to Mr. Shibh’s capture came primarily from a different terrorist operative who was interviewed using traditional methods. As for Mr. Padilla, the dates just don’t add up: the harsh techniques were approved in the memo of August 2002, Mr. Padilla had been arrested that May." While many centrists are hoping there is no "witch hunt," for the leadership that allowed torture to become even a marginally accepted practice by the American government, I for one am hoping there is a massive witch hunt, followed by a public witch punishment. We have already begun punishing those that followed the orders, it is time to punish those that created the orders. Are we, or are we not better ruled than countries like Uzbekistan?!

1+1 for the Bush Administration...

A short post today. Just looking back on a few things having to do with torture, as torture is the popular word of the day. Righties love it. Lefties hate it. Those with any common sense think it is pretty stupid. Hold a knife to my balls and I'll probably tell you whatever it takes to get you to not cut them off, even if its a lie. So lets do some quick math, starting in Afghanistan at Abu Ghraib. This is where the torture first surfaced. Bush said, "you are bad people." "Apples" actually was his word. "And I am going to let you get prosecuted." And he did. A few with common sense said, "But were they not just following orders? Shouldn't we prosecute those that gave the orders?" The answer that followed was something like, "Yes, but there were no orders, so lets prosecute these few naughty apples and then move on to thinking about how great Disney World is, and how evil Ugo Chavez is!" So the American public did as they were told. Disney world is great, Venezuala is bad. But then last week Obama allowed the release of the Torture Memos, as they have become known. Turns out the bad apples came from a bad tree in a bad orchard. Turns out the apples were only providing the fruit they were told to provide. Turns out that the orchard manager as well as the orchard owner (el Presidente) knew, allowed, and even ordered the whole torture "thingy." "Thingy" = massive (several month long) sleep deprevation, water boarding, being hooked up to electric cables while standing on buckets, stacking people naked, sodomy (with light bulbs, no less!) and several other methods all deemed illegal even by the USA for most of our recent history. Until Bush. Bush doesn't think it torturous to have a florescent light bulb penetrated into his rectum apparently. Wonder if his wife and daughters agree? I certainly do not. Which brings us back to the math.. theoretical mathematics anyway. If Bush agreed that those responsible for torture should be held responsible then, does it not follow that we should now, in light of this new information, hold those further up the chain of command responsible? In fact, I'd say we should hold those people to a much higher degree of responsibility. Those stupid little "specialists," should probably be let out and made to do community service while those like the Big Dick Cheney and GWB, Condi and all Bush's legal team (who tried to legitimatize torture) should really be the ones spending time in prison. Besides, prison will not be that bad for them... they don't even consider confinement or penetration to be bad things at all!

A Moron is a Moron is Moron

We really shouldn't pretend any more... there are way more than enough stupid people in the world. Sure, you need some stupid people to run a country efficiently, just like you need lazy people, and complacent people, and perhaps it is because the media is able to draw more attention now, or perhaps it is just offering a microphone to those peeps in a way never before seen, but there are so many stupid people out there now that it is sometimes depressing. And I'm not bragging, pretending to be any sort of Einstein here, but these people I am talking about... they are exceptional in their stupidity and mental laziness. It is as though we are breeding retardation in our our public and even private school systems. They come from all walks of life, all colors, and join both political parties. Some on the left seriously thought Barack was going to be their modern day Jesus Christ. And there are those on the left that think he is a modern day Satan. Is it religion that has lobotomized these people? Perhaps. Or they have been licking too many Lead Pops. Then there is there is the Rush'in Fox Syndrome. This syndrome is brought on by those easily hypnotized by bright flashing lights on their television screens, and by repeated stories of fear, fear, fear during their daily AM dose of radio frequencies. These people often admit, "I don't know much..." but then dive in to a rather predictable diatribe of what all the DO in fact know, all which are vomitous regurgitates from their previous meal of Rush or Hannity or the likes. It is like a nasty little chain of birds. The big bird eats some shit. Then vomits it into the mouth of its baby bird. This bird, even though just barely old enough to reproduce, has, and then regurgitates the same shit into the mouth of its babe. Its awful stuff. Sorry Mum, no other way to put it. These people, that have an American flag tattooed to their forehead and peckers are some of the most disgraceful Americans I've ever witnessed, encouraging division and rebellion whenever they do not get their way. They assume that all Americans should share in their religious beliefs, and assume that those that do not are either crazy, dangerous, or evil... or a combination of all the above. Rush has been touting the benefits of torture for the last few days. Had he his way America would set a new low record for moral behavior in the world. So much for being a beacon of hope, promise and potential. All these "Christian" Americans live so deeply in fear that they seem to have forgotten that the whole point of their faith is to save them from fear. They can, according to their religion, turn the other cheek, be persecuted and thrown to lions, and still have eternal life, remember? Turn the other cheek, right? And taxes? What about giving to Ceasar what is his? What about helping the poor? Are they so disconnected that they do not even realize there are people to help? Their little tax charade last week was the most pathetic, stupid, ill-conceived display of self-induced retardation I've ever witnessed. Not one of them knew what they were talking about with their pathetic references to the Boston Tea Party. They just knew that the whole thing made King Hannity chuckle, and they are suckers for the sound of that rattle. So its exciting times. And the stupid are taking over.

there are plenty saying, "I told you so."

So I've been away for a while, and a few of you have noticed, and I don't have any excuses. For so long it felt fairly sane keeping up with the growing world of multi-media. In a single day it was pretty easy to see what shit head politician did what, which country was suffering the worst from drought, when the newest latest greatest electronic thing was going to be released, how this or that person or politician was trying to effect the country/world, and what to take to improve my memory - all in under a half hour... Read, Write, Post. Simple. But then suddenly shit started to fall apart. And while I blame the larger citizen that elected the schmuck, I feel the icon of the disintegration of this blog lies largely with our elected officials, with the head being Bush. Shit started to fall apart everywhere. For a while it made my reflection time on the internet somewhat exciting. This guy and the few other elected ones were starting wars. This was easy to see through too. It did not take a genius to read through their reasons, to see how simple it all was. The connections between politicians making dangerous decisions and between the people benefiting financially were easy for the slightly more than casual observer to connect. My three year old plays connect the dots. She does not even usually need to be able to read the numbers on each dot. She can make out the shapes on her own. One is a puppy. Another is a penguin. And that one there, an easy to spot defense contractor and an oil company. We very quickly went from being a nation with no deficit, low unemployment, and an insatiable shopping mechanism to a country in massive debt, increased spending (yes, all you Bush deniers... Bush increased the size of government, regardless of all the bullshit rhetoric spewed by the likes of Tom Delay and Newt Gingrich), rising unemployment and were suddenly being burdened with not one but two preemptive wars. Suddenly our leaders were not including what we were spending in our national budget either. People began losing track of what we were spending anywhere. Things began to fall apart. With the agenda of the Right, suddenly any regulation that had been imposed over the decades, from pollution to banking institution, were considered outdated and were quickly repealed. But even with this lack of regulation, which for years businesses claimed was killing their ability to perform in the US, even still Big Business was going overseas. Manufacturing was moving overseas. Jobs were moving overseas. Even tech firms began moving overseas. With globalization, the market began an uncomfortable shift away from America. On the global scale, Big Business wanted to sell to America, but nothing more. Profits were higher if things were made elsewhere. Profits were higher if things were invented elsewhere. But with that shift, Americans slowly but surely began losing a key component to their flawless shopping mechanism. Suddenly they lacked money. For a while it looked like it might not matter. There was a new phenomenon... Credit. Credit came into the limelight. Credit made anything possible. Banks were unregulated in their handing of credit. Everyone seemed happy. Things were fine. It didn't seem to matter, many reasoned, though always split about 50/50, didn't seem to matter that we were losing track of how much our government was spending, and what they were spending it on. And we have been spending like never before. But there was a problem. The spending was being concentrated, and those profiting on unregulated government contracts, often if not directly, at least indirectly related to the federal war machine, were not in a statistically significant way spreading the wealth around it... it was being hoarded. Which might be considered fine in the free market, were it not for the fact that this was tax earned dollars. Tax money going towards profiteering related to wars that we don't even want to be fighting. (An example of why the Lawson Review is pro-military service requirement for all Americans... educated Americans will not allow unnecessary wars when their children might die in them.) Shit began to crumble. Suddenly jobs were being lost. People were losing money, homes, even food. And it is really hard to put your head around any way this can get better in the current global environment. Shit crumbling everywhere. And still a ton of people are in denial. Energy seems like a good place to invest in new places. And some are trying, but at this point in history, it seems like there is a huge portion of powerful, stupid people. Its incredible to witness them speak, and to see people responding to them positively. They have abandoned science. They have abandoned any sort of ethical code, except that based in making money. They have abandoned civility. They are completely rude, loud, and being followed. They make their case with the likes of Sarah Palin and Tom Delay. They find corruption humorous. They hold their Jesus up on a stick as they march off to kill anyone they are told to kill. War? "Well Jesus may not have, and sure, I have faith in Gods perfect will to take me in his perfect arms after my death, and sure Jesus said to turn the other cheek, but I'm going to support the killing of innocent civilians anyway... even if it is only for cheaper gas at my pump." So like many, after the election of someone that seemed like they might at least try something different for at least a few weeks, I like many people just wanted to go to sleep for a while, with regards to what goes on in this land of the internet. So I did. I've been off the radar watching trees sway in the night time winds of spring, as cold air shifts to a warmer sort, warming the ice off the mountains, and waking the evergreens. So I cynically sat back occasionally over a late beer and watched as my readership declined, though maintained a steady influx of people looking for the criminal background of Matt Badiali and his Stansberry and Associates, and their schemes to elicit money from people curious how to cash in on the energy market. Go Matt, go! Round em'up and bring it in! If the government would let me charge for readership I would. I'll happily tell you how to make money, just as soon as you send me some to tell you! But I'm back now. My head is cleared, at least a little. And I am ready to help navigate this new world in which we live. What the hell is going on with this stupid stimulus business? I can't even pretend to tell you. It all seems a little unreal, these numbers they are even dealing with. Part of me craves a very small island with a decent elevation above the sea and some fruit trees. But thats not what we have. We have a continent, and a lot of people, and groups of people ready to spend our money on any sort of project we may or may not agree with at any given point. And its good to look into it and know what the fuck they are doing with our money. Why? Because some of us are not happy being stupid sheep. And oh yes, off subject, check out our new links off to the right.

Water crisis rocks LA, Mexico City; who's next? - UPI.com

http://www.upi.com/news/issueoftheday/2009/04/10/Water-crisis-rocks-LA-Mexico-City-whos-next/UPI-63621239376355/

There are plenty saying, "I told you so."

HERE is a brief look back at the beginning of this current recession... "Deregulate" was the mantra. "The Free Market will care for itself,"... because greedy people tend to be the most honest?

A fairly convincing arguement to kill the payroll tax

Everything is Amazing, Nobody is Happy

What is wrong here?

The Republican Strategy

On Fox News and Radio the newest theme is this: See the Dow plunging? It is because the Market has no confidence in Obama. See? And it is stupid. The Market has been dropping for the last year. The Market is experiencing a rather drastic "correction" because there was no oversight for the last 7 years. The SEC did a lousy job. They were directed by corruption. Insurance companies, banks, and trading companies have had zero regulation, almost zero oversight in terms of ethical practices. It was diving before Obama was president and yes, will likely drop for a while longer. This sort of stupidity used to inspire something in me that made me want to right its wrongs, to expose its basic premises, but anymore, the talk has gotten so incredibly insane, I would not even know where to begin. When Rush Limbaugh downs a bottle of Xanex and Oxycotin, and goes before a crowd of retards, and they all clap, and 20% of the nation applauds... what can we say about that? Retarded people aren't even supposed to be allowed to vote, are they? Is this the result of a defrauded and corroded education system? Clearly we do not need more money dumped into it... we need a complete restructuring. And perhaps we should start by buying a new fleet of short busses.

CPAC - Conservative Political Asshole Committee

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Flight of the Conchords

In 35 Days

In his first thirty-five days in office President Obama has managed to do what Bush could not in his eight years in office - speak intelligently to the nation. Tonight in his "not the State of the Union" address, President Obama laid out the problems and his take on the direction of solutions. He preemptively stiffled the Republican rebuttle, which was not hard to predict... The Republicans were inevitably going to say, "He is going to raise taxes!" Obama's preemptive: "I repeat, if you make less than $250K your taxes will not go up a single dime. And my administration is lowering taxes for 95% of Americans." Not bad. Another intelligent moment, far more than anything Bush could ever conjure, was addressing "Torture." While harsh interrogation of terrorist suspects may seem like a good idea to some, to most/many people involved in intelligence, it is a known fact that rapport building is a more effective means by which to gather accurate and usable intel. President Obama has used several highlighted media moments to tell the world, "the US is going to quit torturing." What does this do? For one, it vastly improves our image abroad. Secondly, it affirms to people within our nation that we are a nation of good behavior... or at least that we are going to try to be. Along the same line, Obama has called on Americans to serve themselves, their families and their country. Impressive. By contrast, Bush told us to go shopping, and to basically not give a crap about people around the world. And lastly, Obama does not pretend that wars are free. Bush seemed to imagine a magic money fairy that made his adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan all free! Never did he address the idea that it created massive national debt. Finally, a President that does not speak to the nation as if it were a nation of retards. Look forward to seeing what he can pull off.