The Death Of Transparency

You've all seen the Hollywood movies where the NSA, CIA, FBI and INTERPOL are hot on the trail of the world's most wanted fugitive with a kazillion satellites, spies and black ops personnel. Using every known form of technology and super secret gizmo known to mankind (and of course, those only known to them), they slowly tighten the noose around our good guy, hero fugitive... Will he avert their evil, ever tightening web, their deadly drone missle, their ability to sever him completely from both real and virtual worlds?

Actually- this aint no joke. The Obama admin is going after Wikileaks cofounder Julian Assange (he who made public Manning's Collateral Murder Video) both guns ablazing! We're talking kidnap, rendition- whatever it takes! They want his ass and they want it bad. And  they have more human rights negating  tools, "laws," and weaponry on their side than even W touted previously. This two faced, compromised, son of a bitch deluxe who promised us a more transparent government has only further tightened the noose around an already beaten, demoralized and somehow still Hoping citizenry. Whistle blowers are now the ultimate evil of evils, and he's out to punish each and every one to the max- he's not cutting any backroom deals here, he won't bargain his already sold out soul on this one. Uh, uh- this one's for keeps. Obama has finally found something he won't compromise, something he truly believes in- his prerogative to silence those whose truth can influence without money.

An Open Letter...

"With just one speech... you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they've always heard is true — that all politicians are alike. I simply can't believe you're about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn't so." – Michael Moore

But it is...

Ibrahim Jassam- Imprisoned Journalist

More than half a year into it, we still have: a widening war, rendition, Blackwater (XE) Mercs, legalized domestic spying, kowtowing to Republicans, corporations, financial institutions, etc, etc, etc... Change we've yet to live in!

So it's no surprise that despite being ordered released by the Iraqi courts, Iraqi photojournalist Ibrahim Jassam still languishes in jail for ......

This Modern World

Aint it the Truth...

Get's good (real good) about 1:30 into it...

Honeymoon Over...

Didn't want to go negative early- but one can't forever ignore the inevitable. Handing over control of the whole financial debacle to the very people so instrumental in creating it is bad enough (voting against the FISA protections was actually worse), but this is where the other shoe has finally dropped, at least for me. This is not Change We Can Believe In, this is the long, historical continuation of the king's sovereignty, not to mention this, and...

After eight years without transparency or accountability, Mr. Obama promised the American people both. His decision to release these memos was another sign of his commitment to transparency. We are waiting to see an equal commitment to accountability.

Pretty Damn Remarkable!

Man asks entire town for forgiveness for racism...

1/20/09

THE MADNESS IS OVER...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not delusional. He is not the messiah and he cannot lead us into utopia. But for eight long years I prayed for the day I would finally awaken from a nightmare the likes of which had previously inhabited only the very worst of TV plot lines. HOPE is more than I dared dream those long, lost years... And this song keeps ringing in my head!

In the meantime...

And how long before they believe This Madness?