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SHACKLES OF THE MUNDANE…

I hope to have Part II. to Systems Perturbation up later this afternoon. Heck, I had wanted it up by Thursday but ” real-life ” continues to intervene in the form of contractors matrching through my house, tiny offspring clamoring for attention and students wondering when they will get back their essays on Polybius.

THE PENTAGON’S NEW MAP SPREADS BY WORD OF BLOG

Caerdroia joins the club. Soon we’re going to need some kind of web ring.

“AN OPPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IS TO BE MORE FEARED THAN A TIGER”

I may have showcased this site in the past, I can’t recall but if so, the recent State Department finding of Genocide in the Sudan seems like a good time to bring up R.J. Rummel’s Powerkills, dedicated to the analysis of the history of Democide. Rummel’s philosophical approach is that of an anti-statist which rankles a lot of his fellow academics, addicted as they are to the socialistic benevolence of the nanny-state.

The Sudan case is interesting because it goes against State’s history of an almost monomaniacal aversion to the use of the ” G ” word, no matter how clear-cut or horrible the specifics – an unbroken history of denial that stretches back to the Armenian genocide in 1915. Moreover, State has chosen a relatively ambiguous situation, legally (if not morally) speaking, to break new policy ground. Janjaweed terror in Dar Fur is a borderline case under the terms of the Genocide Convention so State legal experts could have found innumerable grounds to ignore yet another ongoing horror. Obviously they were overruled at a political level during an internal debate either by Secretary Powell – who evinced no such viewpoint in the cases of Bosnia and Rwanda- or by a crusading neocon like John Bolton or Elliott Abrams.

The international community and transnational progressive NGO’s who have so much to say about the United States in Iraq are now badly trailing in the moral wake of George W. Bush. France, of course, supports the Sudanese Islamist regime on the Dar Far issue – remaining impeccably consistent in their patronage of ruthless African Genocidaires, so long as they are anti-American.

IF YOU BELIEVE THAT J. EDGAR HOOVER WORE A DRESS AND A FEATHER BOA…

Or that AIDS was developed by the CIA in secret bioweapons labs to kill Black people, then you are still walking around with the memes the KGB once unleashed in the Soviet Union’s covert propaganda war with the United States. Geitner Simmons has more examples in his post on the Soviet Disinformation program, including the Kennedy assassination folklore beloved by Oliver Stone. Beautiful Soviet era graphics are included in his well researched piece.

For those looking for more documentary evidence on this topic, I suggest you get yourself a copy of The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB for a heavily footnoted description of KGB ” active measures”.

TESTING KERRY’S “MEDAL”

To be truthful, I haven’t really cared a fig for the charges of the Swift Boat Veterans or the obsession of Kevin Drum over Bush’s Air Guard service. Had CBS and 60 Minutes – the show whose partisan producer once shot a segment in order to rescue Bill Clinton from early philandering charges- not been caught peddling clumsy forgeries I’d have never posted on the subject at all. What either man did back then has zero bearing on their fitness for office today and as far as I’m concerned, Kerry’s volunteering for combat is enough for me. I assumed that was also Bush’s and Kerry’s attitudes as well.

Surprise. Surprise. Senator Kerry actually agrees in principle with the Swift Boat Veterans ! He just wants to be exempted from the standard he has applied in the past to others.

Live by the sword……