Radioactive Red Herrings?

Update Friday 8:00 pm: it's just a little radiation: Former Spy's Wife Positive for Radiation...

Update Thursday 5:33 pm --AP: FBI Joins Investigation of Poisoned Spy...

This Morning:

12 Sites in U.K. Show Radioactive Traces tells of the Litvinenko poisoning investigation's expansion to more aeroplanes including a Russian plane.

SO'W has received an email suggesting an interesting theory that Putin is spreading radioactive red herrings about the place. Good point, Daan.

And then there's Ireland:

Economist and former Russian premier Yegor Gaidar, at a conference in Maynooth the other day, became violently ill and was rushed to an Irish hospital. He's diabetic, but it wasn't the meal's sugar content. Was Dioxin Soup on the menu once again?

Gaidar was returned to Moscow earlier this week and is said to be improving from possible poisoning. Hope he has a dragon guarding his door--it may take a dragon to fight these desperate characters who act outside all bounds of decency. Read about it in the above-linked article, what little they're letting out.


And so...the "cause" of terroism is spread regardless of who poisoned whom--there are buried truths here which sane people may never know. The psychopaths have overrun the asylum as we see...and I hope they catch the bastards.

Bush and Maliki still in cahoots (imaginary wringing of hands):

Bush has assured Maliki that the US isn't looking for a "graceful exit" from the Iraq War...which leaves me close to speechless! He and Cheney and the rest never intended an exit at all! Talk about a red herring--I wish the media would shut up about will he or won't he--that's not the issue. Really.

tags: Litvinenko Yegor Gaidar Maliki Bush British Airways Political Astrology

20/20 tonight: John Stossel on the rich

Tonight's 20/20 has a Stossel expose on how cheap most rich folk are...is this news?

My theory is that you have to be grasping to pile up the pesos and it helps to be King Midas or his offspring to hang on to your piles.

Still, Stossel on The View this morning seems to have interesting interviews and conclusions in store for the rest of us schlups...schlups who give more charitable $$s in portion to income than do the greedy Midases among us.

And I know one thing: it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

So is it Gates Foundation at the Pearly Gates? Hmm-m-m...


tags: John Stossel 20/20 Gates Foundation Bill Frist rich class


NOON> NPR reports: Bill Frist is NOT running for president! Whew! That was close.
He'll be perpetrating medicine again.

Bush blacklisting privileges nixed

Judge Strikes Down Bush on Terror Groups but how long will it last with a sidewindin' varmint like Bush?

All apologies to the wonderful Cancer personality reading this post, but Bush exhibits all the (crabby) Cancerian traits of going around obstacles sideways if necessary...like other Chiron/Uranus reformer-types, he always has a trapdoor and an escape hatch lined up to reach that cushy hidey-hole under the protective shell of plausible deniability.

tags: Bush terroist groups

testing Scaramella

Italian Who Met With Ex-KGB Agent Tested for radiation contamination from the Alexander Litvinenko assassination.

From whence polonium-210? Russia says that 8 grams are exported monthly--all of it to the United States. How's that for the big insinuation? They say there've been no exports to Britain in five years.

But Britain, who admits to something like 130 nuclear sites, has plenty of her own, thanks. And there are cups o'tea all over the British Isles, of that I'm certain...the vast majority of them delicious and radiation-free.

Previously I had been looking at Scaramella as Jupiter--the professor, but Jupiter may also signify...the mentor...

...was exiled Russian millionaire Boris Berezovsky--said to have been Litvinenko's mentor--represented by Jupiter (rich man; guru; mentor) in the poisoning chart of Nov 1 ?(details below...scroll a little please.)

Nov 1> Mercury/Jupiter at "25Sco": "An x-ray">INVESTIGATION. Descriptive, no?

Mercury (young person = Litvenenko? but he was 43...Mercury is also the student or the scribe) and was Rx and in process of conjuncting Jupiter Nov 1. And it is now being reported that Litvinenko visited Berezovsky's Mayfair office that day...as he was wont to do...to use the telephone, computer, and photo-copier.

Yet: is a spy without a cell phone like a Russian president without an alibi?

tags: Litvinenko Scaramella Putin Political Astrology Nov 1 2006 Radiation Poisoning

STOP the lame duck Cheney-Specter bill

Are you shocked? You should be:

President Bush recently announced his plan to use the "lame duck" session of Congress to push through a bill authorizing the government to read our emails and tap our phone calls without our consent.

This un-American "Big Brother" bill could come to pass in just two months! Speak up now - before our right to free speech is stripped away. Stop the government from reading your email or listening to your phone calls without consent.

Legislation known as the "Cheney-Specter" bill would allow warrantless surveillance of all international calls and emails of Americans and businesses in the U.S., without any evidence that they are conspiring with foreign terrorist organizations.

A New York Times editorial summed up the situation by saying that this is "one of the worst ideas his administration and its Republican allies on Capitol Hill have come up with: a bill that would legalize his illegal wiretapping program and gut the law that limits a president's ability to abuse his power in this way."

A federal court has already ruled that the domestic spying program violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which was passed to curb executive abuses like spying on civil rights leaders and Members of Congress. But despite this ruling, President Bush has made this legislation top priority for the "lame duck" session of Congress! president's ability to abuse his power in this way."

Stand up to protect our privacy and constitutional rights. Sign the petition at: Care2.com

America prides itself on being a country founded on liberty and due process. We can't sit back while this is changed forever. Thank you for signing this important petition.#

There are 30,000+ signatures on this petition and they want 50,000.

Do you want privacy in your communications...or a Bush, Cheney, and Specter snoot shoved into your personal business?

PLEASE SIGN TODAY--the end of the year approaches and the hawkish Republican Congress is determined to do their dirtiest to the American people before their goose-steppin', boot-scootin' jig is up.

Pass the word!

tags: Cheney Specter Bush NSA Surveillance Lame Duck Congress

$500 million for Bush Reach-Around Library

All you need are a few good friends...from Peter Baker's article in WaPo, Nov 18: Bush Has Fewer and Fewer Friends. Looks more like a partners-in-crime line-up, doesn't it? And Putin looks good in blue.



Shelley Lewis, author of Naked Republicans, A Full-Frontal Exposure of Right-wing Hyposcrisy and Greed,has written an article on HuffPost with some excellent suggestions for Bush's proposed $500 million dollar presidential library...in Texas, where else? Do you see any locations lining up to host it?

Here's an excerpt: "And how about a cakewalk in the museum cafeteria? No pretzels, though; they're a choke hazard."

You may want to quick-read the rest in case you're tempted to become a megadonor for this boondoggling absurdity or if you plan to get paid (once it's up, running, and super-funded) for writing papers favorable to George W. Bush and his "presidency" but you'll have your work cut out for ya there, pilgrim...

What Five Hundred Million Dollars Will Buy in the Bush Library has some great ideas for naming things exactly what they turned out to be as the fox was selected to guard the henhouse and the robber barons have crept out of hiding to ride roughshod again.

tags: Bush Presidential Library Shelley Lewis Huffington Post