So the dam is breaking.
The media levees that have held back Hurricane Plame are cracking wide open due to incompetence, and Neo Orleans is about to be flooded.
However...the same forces that are about to be (once again) dealt a serious blow have their eyes on yet ANOTHER attempt.
Just as they always do.
Bet on it.
How did this happen? This unmasking of the fools in power?
The internet.
What is the single greatest threat to the fascist corporate interests behind BushCo?
The internet.
The internet FORCED this confrontation. Because it is out of their control.
Unlike the rest of the media.
This is the Information Age.
And information is POWER.
Read on.
Headlines from Google News (10;15 AM, EDT, 10/24/05)
Bush Confident Miers Will Be Confirmed
San Francisco Chronicle - 26 minutes ago
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer. The White House said Monday that President Bush is confident Harriet Miers will be confirmed to the Supreme Court, even though a Democrat on the Senate panel that ...
On both sides of aisle, Miers' nomination poses a dilemma Detroit Free Press
Miers would lose - Chuck New York Daily News
Opinion Journal - Arizona Republic - Salem Statesman Journal - Wheeling News Register - all 713 related »
GOP Testing Ways to Blunt Leak Charges
New York Times - 12 hours ago
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 - With a decision expected this week on possible indictments in the CIA leak case, allies of the White House suggested Sunday that they intended to pursue a strategy of attacking any criminal ...
CIA leak inquiry in final stretch BBC News
Leak-case Web site International Herald Tribune
United Press International - Lexington Herald Leader - New York Sun (subscription) - Seattle Post Intelligencer - all 267 related »
South just can't wait for President Condi
The Sunday Times - Oct 22, 2005
IT was the question on everybody's lips, even those of a shy, nine-year-old schoolgirl in the heart of Alabama. Was Condoleezza Rice going to run for president? "I don't want to," the American secretary of state said gently. ...
At a Memorial Ceremony in Alabama
Drudge Report, same time:
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Senators say Bush's Supreme Court nominee lacks votes...
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Lawyers in CIA-leak case say charges possible this week
NYTIMES' Ombudsman Suggests Review of Miller...
And perhaps MOST interestingly...
More lawmakers back U.S. control of Internet...
Now THIS one is the yellowcake in the woodpile.
In its entirety.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives called on Friday for the Internet's core infrastructure to remain under U.S. control, echoing similar language introduced in the Senate earlier this week.
The resolution, introduced by two Republicans and one Democrat, aims to line up Congress firmly behind the Bush administration as it heads for a showdown with much of the rest of the world over control of the global computer network.
"Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices will prevent the Internet from remaining the thriving medium it has become today," said California Republican Rep. John Doolittle in a statement.
Doolittle introduced the resolution with Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte and Virginia Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher.
Countries including Brazil and Iran want an international body to oversee the addressing system that guides traffic across the Internet, which is currently overseen by a California nonprofit body that answers to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The European Union withdrew its support of the current system last month, and the issue is expected to come to a head at a U.N. summit meeting in Tunisia in November.
The Bush administration has made clear that it intends to maintain control.
If a settlement is not reached, Internet users in different parts of the globe could potentially wind up at different Web sites when they type an address into their browsers.
U.S. lawmakers have backed the Bush administration's stance, arguing that a U.N. group would stifle innovation with excessive bureaucracy and enable repressive regimes to curtail free expression online.
Top Republicans and Democrats on the House Commerce Committee sent a letter of support to the Bush administration earlier this month. In the Senate, Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman has introduced a resolution supporting the administration's stance.
"The United States is uniquely positioned in the world to protect the fundamental principles of free press and free speech, upon which the Internet has thrived," Goodlatte said in a statement.
The United States has not always taken a hands-off approach to Internet regulation. In August the Commerce Department asked the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the California body that oversees domain names, to postpone action on a proposed .xxx domain for sex sites.
So, to sum up (and translate from media-ese to some degree)...
Bush Confident Miers Will Be Confirmed + Senators say Bush's Supreme Court nominee lacks votes... + Bush is frustrated, sometimes angry and even bitter, his associates say. + DARKEST DAYS .
Bush is delusional. He's through, too.
GOP Testing Ways to Blunt Leak Charges + South just can't wait for President Condi.
"Let's run EVERYTHING up the flagpole and see how many red states salute. We've gotta do SOMETHING!!! How old is James Baker, again??? What!!!???" 75!!! Too damned old. What about Condoleeeeeza? Do you think she'd fly? Let's give it a shot."
More lawmakers back U.S. control of Internet....
"What can we do to make sure that this doesn't happen again?"
While I'm at it... a little deconstruction of some of the language in that internet control article is MORE than due.
The resolution, introduced by two Republicans and one Democrat, aims to line up Congress firmly behind the Bush administration as it heads for a showdown with much of the rest of the world over control of the global computer network.
" Two Republicans and one Democrat. Now THERE's a majority we can LIVE with!!!" Karl Rove, 2003. Just before he called up the two Joes. Biden and Lieberman.
A showdown with much of the rest of the world over control of the global computer network.
Now why on earth would "the rest of the world" object to the control of the good and great US over ANYTHING!!!??? Just look at how well we have done in Iraq.
"Turning the Internet over to countries with problematic human-rights records, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices will prevent the Internet from remaining the thriving medium it has become today," said California Republican Rep. John Doolittle in a statement.
But...but...
We are a country with a problematic human-rights record, muted free-speech laws, and questionable taxation practices!!!
Oh.
Nevermind...
Countries including Brazil and Iran want an international body to oversee the addressing system that guides traffic across the Internet, which is currently overseen by a California nonprofit body that answers to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The European Union withdrew its support of the current system last month, and the issue is expected to come to a head at a U.N. summit meeting in Tunisia in November.
Damned Frogs.
Damned Spics.
Damned Ragheads.
They don't trust an organization that has the words "California" and "nonprofit" cohabiting in its description? One that reports to the U.S. Department of Commerce? The same department that oversees great and powerful companies like Halliburton, MBNA and Enron?
What is WRONG with these people?
The Bush administration has made clear that it intends to maintain control.
Duh.
Even if it can't.
If a settlement is not reached, Internet users in different parts of the globe could potentially wind up at different Web sites when they type an address into their browsers. .
"THAT might work...let's run THAT the ol' flagpole. Sabotage the talks so that they break down, and 6 days later, someone types http://www.dailykos.com/ into their computer and comes up with Britney Spears' homepage or Selected Quotations from Chairman Cheney. THAT'D fix `em!!!"
"The United States is uniquely positioned in the world to protect the fundamental principles of free press and free speech, upon which the Internet has thrived," .
Right.
Once again...look how well it that "protection" has worked in Iraq.
Or Panama.
Or Guatemala.
Or...CBS.
Yup.
Uniquely positioned, alright...
So here we are, folks, at yet ANOTHER crossroads.
YOU know...the place where bluesmen (and other poets and artists) sell their souls to the Devil for the ability to enjoy themselves on earth?
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and punishment of his guilt." John Philpot Curran, from Speech on the Right of Election of Lord Mayor of Dublin, July 10, 1790.
Don't blink here, folks.
Don't break out the champagne and vittles in celebration, even if the almighty Butch HIMSELF falls here.
There is more to be done.
There is ALWAYS more to be done.
These motherfuckers NEVER give up.
Read the Bible or any other ancient attempt at moral communication for more on THAT.
Evil is eternal.
Saying "Get thee behind me, Satan" and actually managing to GET him there is just the beginning of the job..
He's still back there.
ALWAYS back there.
Working.
No matter WHAT disguises he may use.
And he just keeps on running and running and running and running...
Caveat Blogster.
Charles