TELLTALES, TWIRLED AND TWISTED.

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1. GOING BANKRUPT : SIGNS. (Or: some anthropology.)

The American taxpayer is getting wise about her lousy investment in Iraq. She’s screaming: SUCH A TERRIFICALLY BAD INVESTMENT! What "returns" on that investment weren’t returns at all. They were the investments themselves, channeled mostly to corporations, their shareholders, and the revolving-door Defense Department bureaucrats and officers, their siblings, cousins...and any and all family members. Not to mention the "assets" in Iraq.

The American taxpayer, trained in a culture which expects returns on investment as the money supply is forever being increased, is angry. Seething. Where’s my share, damn it!

Here’s an illustrative conversation (fictionalized) I heard in a hallway.

Government employee: Can I bum a pen from you?

Judicial employee: Sure.

Second government employee (jokingly) : I don‘t know if that’s proper: the executive branch borrowing from the judicial branch.

Judicial employee: The executive branch is spending all of it money on Iraq.

Government employee: True, but you’re not doing much better. You’re running out of money too--for drug programs, for instance.

Judicial employee: Sad but true. Which means more homelessness ahead for men, and more crime as a consequence.


2. (LOW LEVEL?) NUCLEAR WASTE HEADS OUR WAY FROM KUWAIT. (AND THE COMING "IRAQ WAR SYNDROME.")

The Kuwaiti daily, al-Watan (online), reported on or about February 17 that 18,000 barrels of nuclear/uranium-tainted soil (unclear whether it’s depleted uranium or something more, or less, potent) and 200 nuclear (probably uranium)-tainted tanks and other vehicles are being shipped by the harmful idiots from storage in Kuwait to the U.S. The multi-generation lethal cargo was a byproduct of the first (manufactured, by the harmful idiots via April Glaspie--unwittingly or not--and their Kuwaiti assets) Gulf war.

Wonder what nuclear/uranium waste will be heading our way from Iraq. Too, wonder how many U.S. troops, Iraqi children, and Iraqi civilians have been exposed to depleted uranium shells, soil, and dust. Wonder whether we will be facing an Iraq War Syndrome. Wonder about these poor Arab children: uranium in Iraq and cluster bombs in Lebanon!



3. ANOTHER SAUDI PRINCE SEEKS ISRAEL’S HELP TO BECOME KING.

(For background, please refer to earlier blog, "Israel Says Who Will Be Saudi King.")

Another Saudi prince has executed a PISM (PleaseIsraelManeuver). On or about mid-February, an Israeli newspaper reported that Prince Waleed bin Talal is planning to build a hotel in Tel Aviv. Al-Waleed, whose mother is Lebanese, seems to have given up on Premiership in Lebanon, a sunk ship. King-to-be of Saudi Arabia, a state with a $200 billion income per year surely beats Premiership in Lebanon, a state that’s $40 billion in the red–

--a state which has hardly any net income, servicing debt, always;

--a state which own leaders, assets of the Saudis and the harmful idiots, have pillaged.

--a state where the Iranian assets had contributed to its bankruptcy by giving each and every available Lebanese Arab Shia a government job, or by providing each and every Lebanese Arab Shia social security coverage, even when these lacked the legal qualifications;

--a state that survives on crumbs from the West and the oil countries–whose very "assets" had pillaged that state!

(A twirled note: The twirled harmful idiots have been after Syria since 1967, four decades ago. The same idiots have been after the Islamic Republic since 1979, twenty eight years ago–nearly three decades. Most of what had been needed then was a Palestinian state and reparations. That would’ve saved Lebanon near-total annihilation. And Syria would’ve been thrilled to have become an American plantation. But, God forbid a fair and realistic approach should be adopted by the then arrogant (now twirling) Israelis (before their repeated defeats) and the idiots. The harmful idiots and their favorite protectorate would rather burn down the entire neighborhood, lose thousands of U.S. troops, see maimed thousands of others, devastate an Arab country, and waste a couple of trillion dollars--eventually--than have a viable Palestinian state. Unless, of course, they can have some Palestinian Uncle Tom keep his people down and compliant on a reduced plantation.

But, for now, it's neither here nor there. The twirling Israelis lost that chance when they assassinated Yasser Arafat, a Palestinian leader with historic credentials, who would’ve been able to get things done for his people and for the love of Israel. Now, they will never get their way. They’re trying to annul the Mecca Accord between Hamas and Fatah, a stellar achievement (for a change) for the twirling Saudis. The Israelis may succeed since there’s so much in the press about the Saudis (read: those in Saudi Arabia who are assets of the harmful idiots and kiss-ass with the Israelis, wanting their blessing to become Kings) are regretting having brokered the Mecca Accord.)

Meanwhile, the twirled and twirling chief harmful idiot at the U.S. Department of State is said to have instructed the Israelis not to even think about approaching Syria for a deal. The twirling Israelis, following their defeats, can’t afford but to be obedient even to an administration which has lost all credibility domestically and globally.)

4. VLADIMIR PUTIN, UNENCUMBERED BY IDIOTIC AND HARMFUL FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS, DOES A VICTORY TOUR THAT INCLUDED SAUDI ARABIA


Don’t believe a word about the Bush Administration not negotiating with Iran. It is. It’s used Bandar bin Sultan, an extension of right-wing Republican administrations. Don’t ask me how good he is as negotiator. I don’t know. All I know is that he can offer one thing and one thing only: Saudi cash.

Which happened, as predicted by this blog. Talk of purchasing 150 Russian tanks; of Russia launching Saudi satellites; of involvement of Russian companies in oil and gas in Saudi Arabia; of nuclear cooperation for peaceful tasks. A lucrative relationship through and through for the Russians.

But for these contracts to materialize in full, Russia would have to give the harmful idiots some room to breathe in Iraq. It can do that through Iran and Syria. Hence in part the new willingness to compromise by Iran’s Supreme Spiritual Guide via his spokesman, ayatollah Ali Akbar Wilayati. Using accommodating language, in mid-February, the ayatollah said that Iran is willing to suspend some of its uranium processing activities.

Put differently: The Bush Administration, right-wing Judeo-Evangelical, twirled and twirling violently, driven by an anti-Semitic animus, where Muslims and Arabs have replaced Jews as the target of historic scapegoat and mass-hysterical hate, cannot afford to look as if it is negotiating with Iran. It would mean that it has accepted defeat. (By the way, this non-twirled but eminently twisted--today only--blog presumed defeat years ago.) It’d lose its base. Using Bandar bin Sultan and the promise of profitable Saudi arms and other contracts with Russia, the Bush Administration hopes to obtain some cooperation in Iraq from that now-all-too-flexible country.

Enough, that is, to "stabilize" the situation and rule that place, darn it, with the heavy hand of an ass-et-general, someone comme their once-asset, the Arab dictator they lynched, in cold blood.

Once events scream at them (they are idiots!) that they are unsuccessful (the highly likely outcome), they will deliver the country to any devil–pro-Iranian or not–, face-save before the world and the Arab-and-Muslim-hating Judeo-Evangelical right-wing base--and the Jewish liberals who adore them-- and get the hell out. (Meanwhile: Hide your money. Should they attack Iran, the credit crunch will make you wish you did. I am NOT a certified financial advisor. Don't listen to me. I'm a lawyer with a sudden and horrific back ache.)


5. SQUANDERING MY TIME

And, here, I’ve "squandered another hour listening to Cartalk." Not. I drafted this post while the Cartalk hosts (extremely twirled and twisted) were...oh well, allegedly dispensing advice about cars.