18 January 2005

Official Coronation Issue

PEEK-A-BOO PRESIDENT

Parade performers will have security escorts to the bathroom, and they've been ordered not to look directly at President Bush or make any sudden movements while passing the reviewing stand.

Truffulaut hopes that someone or some group will do a right-face and stare directly at the occupant of Our White House. The response would make for some exciting TV, but not showing up might be the wisest course of action.

http://www.news-herald.com/site/printerFriendly.cfm

NOT ONE THIN DIME DAY

All of the advertising has said damn dime, but Truffulaut refuses call a coin with the profile of FDR on it a damn anything. The only coins I spend are Roosevelts and Lincolns, and I often refer to Lincoln as the last honest Republican. If you have not read them, emails encouraging people not to spend any money at all on January 20, 2005. Its sorta like voting with your pocketbook. The possibility remains that sales on the 19^th and the 21^st will make the economic impact negligible, and most people working where money is spent are not enemies, but perhaps the number of participants will be noted somewhere.

HOWEVER

BLACK THURSDAY (brief flash graphic presentation)

Truffulaut has long advocated a National Strike. Someone else has decided to go for it.

The re-election of George W. Bush, in spite of his innumerable failures of policy and practice throughout his first term, inspires disbelief among many. How is it that a man who has overseen the deaths of over 100,000 people in the course of a war fought on specious grounds at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars and in violation of international laws manages to retain his office? How is it that a man who seemingly dedicates himself to the eradication of virtually all socially-beneficial government programs from public education to social security retains the confidence of a large portion of the population? And how is it that the national press can continually ignore the abundant evidence of incompetence and malfeasance, maintaining a posture of ostensibly impartial reportage even as they recount a once-unimaginable litany of absurdities, deceits, and insanities ranging from the scuttling of social programs to state-sanctioned torture in military prisons?

http://www.black-thursday.com/home.html

Be sure to open their flyer before Thursdays Coronation:

http://www.black-thursday.com/thursdayflyer.pdf

AND SHOPPING BLUES

Political power can flow from the wallet.

iShopBlue

all the companies listed here donated money to "blue" political parties. We'll be adding more blue-friendly companies as we find them.

http://ishopblue.com/

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE [sic] COUNCIL

The NIC is a center of strategic thinking within the US Government, reporting to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and providing the President and senior policymakers with analyses of foreign policy issues that have been reviewed and coordinated throughout the Intelligence Community.

Congress? We dont need no stinking Congress, especially if Democrats might be involved. anonymous Kool-Aid drinker

http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_home.html

Report of the National Intelligence Council's 2020 Project

These scenarios are not meant as actual forecasts, but they describe possible worlds upon whose threshold we may be entering, depending on how trends interweave and play out:

* Davos World provides an illustration of how robust economic growth, led by China and India, over the next 15 years could reshape the globalization process giving it a more non-Western face and transforming the political playing field as well.

* Pax Americana takes a look at how US predominance may survive the radical changes to the global political landscape and serve to fashion a new and inclusive global order.

* A New Caliphate provides an example of how a global movement fueled by radical religious identity politics could constitute a challenge to Western norms and values as the foundation of the global system.

* Cycle of Fear provides an example of how concerns about proliferation might increase to the point that large-scale intrusive security measures are taken to prevent outbreaks of deadly attacks, possibly introducing an Orwellian world.

Of course, these scenarios illustrate just a few of the possible futures that may develop over the next 15 years

Apparently, the notion of Peaceful Co-existence is as obsolete as the Hydrogen Bomb...

http://www.cia.gov/nic/NIC_globaltrend2020_es.html

NEWS YOU WONT FIND ON CNN

An Open Letter to Our Leaders from an Iraq War Soldier

My husband works with an equal amount of passion. Everything that he has been asked to do by his employer, he has done. Everywhere he has had to go, he has gone with the trust that the words of his employer are honest, and committed to his needs and the needs of his fellow workers. Lies.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7562.htm

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TRUFFULAUT #25

18 January 2005

Congress? We dont need no stinking Congress, especially if Democrats might be involved. anonymous Kool-Aid drinker

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