Sunday, November 9, 2008

"Gotcha!", -- media

Well, we got confirmation of exactly what I said would happen in last weeks post, regarding our Bought And Paid For Whorehouse City Council:

What do new faces mean for Bend City Council?

(City Councilor Jim) Clinton said he expects much of the council’s business to carry on as usual but worries the three incoming councilors might have a shared support for particular industries.

In total, Eckman, Eager and Green received more than $38,500 in campaign contributions from Central Oregonians for Affordable Housing, the political action committee run by the Central Oregon Builders Association. The three candidates received a total of $14,050 from the Central Oregon Association of Realtors, the group for which Greene serves as president.

“I think there’s a danger signal that three of the new people were massively, disproportionately supported by the development industry — that’s something to watch for,” Clinton said. “We hope they’ll have a broader perspective beyond that.”

It goes on to have the usual denials from each of these Bought & Paid For Whores. Big Surprise.

So, we can pretty much expect More Of The Same. Such as pandering to builders with such great ideas as Attacking Bend's Mega-Glut Of Homes By Eliminating SDC Charges, and other such mindlessness. I guess I shouldn't forget the $4.3MM revenue shortfall at City Hall. And the layoffs.

We don't need policemen, firemen, or roads! We need New Houses! Right?

Yes, yes. Selling out our city to RE interests is just proving to be all kinds of smart. And here we've done it again.

So what else happened during the recent election? Oh right! We elected a black dude!

Like I said in the comments, this thing could go in quite a few directions. The worst is what I call The Jesse Jackson Reverse Lynch Mob route, where black men on meth, driving 120mph through a school zone with their kids in the bed of the pickup, who decide, "Hey, this is because I'm BLACK! I ain't doin' nothing wrong!", and so they start shooting.

Or White Dudes in Cadillacs are pulled over and thrown to the ground & is given a Rodney King, ie "A White Rodney".

This is the lowest, basest, most vile thing on Earth, and it's exhibited by all Black Leaders, and 99.999% of all Liberals: REVERSE RACISM. Like putting the word "Reverse" in there somehow gets rid of the RACISM. No. It doesn't. Just makes it a vicious cycle.

OK, this is where it could go, and if JJ Jackson has his way, this is where we're headed.

OK, read again KNEE JERK, SELF-HATING LIBERALS: I HOPE NOT. OK?

This is where I HOPE & PRAY it goes: I hope Obama serves as a model for blacks. I hope he SAVES them from decades of VICTIM-MENTALITY BULLSHIT that has been spewed by HATERS like Jackson for decades. I hope Obama KILLS the WHITE OPPRESSOR MYTH that bigots like Jesse Pedophile Jackson has spread his WHOLE LIFE for his own personal profit, and nothing else.

THAT is what I hope.

But this guy is up against entrenched forces that have a RACE-FUELED HATE AGENDA, and they see this guy as their "In" to getting WHATEVER they want. And they are going to PUSH, CAJOLE, THREATEN or whatever else they have to do to take over his position & turn him into a puppet. I pray to God Obama doesn't get Lewinskied by these fuckers.

I am pulling for the guy. I want to believe that POSITIVE CHANGE is coming. I AM thrilled there is a black dude replacing the insular, inbred bullshit we've had to put up with for 8 years. OK... 240 years. I just hope this guy can fulfill the promise by taking The High Road, when there is overwhelming pressure to take the Low.

OK, moving on....

I've noticed a trend that's been around quite a while, and I've commented on it several times, but recently I've noticed it's in Almost Every Single Negative Economic Piece in Cent OR media. I have in fact seen it already this morning. Here is the snippet, and see if you can spot the "odd" passage:

GM, Ford woes impact Bend car dealerships

The sputtering economy is clogging the engine that runs this industry. Auto sales are at a 25-year low and still falling.

Dealerships in Bend say sales are down significantly, following the national trend.

"Following the national trend".

"We're just like everywhere else, right? We're not immune. How could we have escaped such an overwhelming force?"

The other fairly obvious statement is along the lines of, "How could we have possibly known this was going to happen?"

The Bulletin runs stories ad nauseum FILLED with these 2 statements by City leaders. You WILL NOT see these sorts of statements in any other self-respecting news organization, anywhere. Why?

Because NO WHERE is local government, local media, and a dominating local industry so incestuously intertwined. RE interests BOUGHT & PAID FOR our local city council, as City Councilor Jim Clinton stated. RE interests donated a multi-million dollar property to the local newspaper. NO WHERE will you find such RIDICULOUSLY biased news reporting as you will find in Bend, Oregon. NO WHERE.

THAT is why you find virtually ALL news pieces FILLED, sometimes very subtley, with odd statements about the BLAMELESSNESS of local government for the current financial debacle. And if you've been out, that debacle is the rapid bankrupting of this town that is 100% INEVITABLE.

We are being conditioned for it. That's what these statements are: They are bracing us for the train wreck they KNOW is coming. We're in Layoff Round #3 at City Hall. They are NOW telling us they KNEW it was coming in September! But after the first 2 rounds, King proclaimed, "This is it, we're done." Of course, a 100% LIE.

Just keep your eye out for this sort of thing:

"We're suffering just like everyone else."

Translation: We have to TELL YOU that we are suffering just like everyone else, because for 10 years we have told you that we WILL NOT SUFFER, EVER, because we Bendites are Gods Chosen People. Plus this statement cushions the inevitable blow of Bankruptcy that WE ALONE have pushed us into.

"How could we have known this was going to happen?"

Translation: We are headed towards bankruptcy, and we MUST find a way to HOLD OURSELVES BLAMELESS for the cataclysmic implosion of city finances that WE ALONE are responsible for.

If you want to see ONE EXAMPLE of the ENLESS BOONDOGGLES we as taxpayers have funded, just go to Bend2030. Here's an excerpt of just what Bend2030 is STRAIGHT from the homepage:

Bend 2030 is a private non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization, independant from the City of Bend.

Ummmm, yes. Yes, Timmy. "independant". They are INDEPENDANT from the city of Bend, as well as a decent spell checker.

Click on the Bend2030 "Action Plan & Progress Report". Their original action plan was published in Dec 2006, and they recently put out a Bend2030 Progress Report. Some excerpts of EXACTLY what has been accomplished with our taxpayer funds over the past 2 years:

With respect to the Modal Connectivity Plan (yes, BIG WORDS & MYSTIFYING TITLES fill this thing):

"...a Recreation Assets Committee... is identifying opportunities for recreation and connection in Central Oregon."

Holy Shit! They've fired up the old RAC and are vigorously IDENTIFYING CONNECTION OPPORTUNITIES! Pardon me Sir! I stand corrected! Bend2030 is on the EVER-INCREASING "CONNECTION" problem we've got going! Whew! What a relief.

Regarding the Mirror Pond Vision (these fuckers do a lot of VISIONING):

"Bend2030 is in discussion with stakeholders about facilitating community forums concerning Mirror Pond."

Ummmm. What? So the sum total of your PROGRESS with respect to the MIRROR POND VISION is that you have... talked.... to..... people.... about.... it. Ah ha.

With respect to The Green Print Plan (no, I do NOT know what The Green Print Plan is, as it is not defined ANYWHERE. But it has the word GREEN in it, so it must be wonderful):

"The need for a Green Print Plan was initially identified in the Bend 2030 Vision. Trust for Public Lands requested support from several partners including Bend2030 to make the plan a reality. TPL is close to raising the funds needed to support the plan."

Seriously, that's all there is. Green Print Plan is 100% undefined. But the fuckers did decide we needed it. And the PROGRESS made by Bend2030 is that SOMEONE ELSE has started asking THEM for money, and the other party has not yet achieved their fund raising goal.

OK, when someone asks me for a progress report of MY LIFE, I don't blow out a story about how the local Girl Scouts have STARTED SELLING ME FUCKING COOKIES, BUT THEY HAVE NOT YET ACHIEVED THEIR GOAL. OK, that is NOT an accomplishment.

OK, but enough soft-hearted BULLSHIT. The Bend2030 is Dead Fucking Serious, and has some MAJOR INVOLVEMENT in Real Community Issues, such as BAT & The Redmond Airport, Gat Damn It!

Regarding BAT Expansion:

"Bend2030 has approved a resolution in support of the November ballot measure."

Holy Shitballs! They've APPROVED A RESOLUTION! I think all readers should know the IMPORTANCE of this SEMINAL EVENT. I also approved a similar RESOLUTION when I was taking crap this morning. Believe me, that shit does not happen every morning. Sometimes I will go a week and only approve 3-4 resolutions when taking a dump.

Regarding Redmond Airport Expansion:

"Bend2030 continues to support construction on the Redmond Airport terminal expansion which is underway, and expected to be completed by 2010."

Whoa! They SUPPORT construction of the Redmond terminal! FUCK ME! So... the construction of the terminal is UNDERWAY. And Bend2030 CONTINUES to support this construction. Which is underway. It's already going.

Ummmm... I'm just curious what sort of "resources" Bend2030 has CONTRIBUTED to this vast effort of SUPPORTING THIS CONSTRUCTION? How many vast LEGIONS of people are TASKED with SUPPORTING this terminal expansion?

Funny, but this DOES NOT sound like PROGRESS to me. It sounds like a bunch of fuckwads patting themselves on the back for doing NOTHING. Here's how they describe themselves:

"Bend 2030 is made up of 18 very passionate and deeply committed volunteer board members who are dedicated community leaders representing a wide-spectrum of backgrounds and neighborhoods from the community."

"Passionate and committed"? Huh. "Wide spectrum of backgrounds and neighborhoods"? Really? OK. Let's name some board members:

Linda Johnson - Bend City Councilor
Peter Gramlich - Bend City Councilor
Erik King - Bend City Manager
Brian Shetterly - City of Bend Planning

Yeah. It's real fucking diverse. Like most of Bend organizations, Bend2030 is a taxpayer funded boondoggle-circle-jerk that does NOTHING except increase the INFLUENCE PEDDLING POWER of BOUGHT & PAID FOR WHORES of the local RE industry. That's all.

Yeah. It's DIVERSE. How many black motherfuckers are on Bend2030's Board? How many EAST SIIIIIEEEEEDERS? How many CITIZENS NOT in City or LOCAL GOVERNMENT? By my count? ONE.

"Diverse" to these fuckers means that they got BOUGHT by COAR AND COBA! Holy SHIT!

"WE LIKE BOTH KINDS OF MUSIC, COUNTRY AND WESTERN!"

And we have spent close to $1,000,000 on this. And what have we got?

Real kick ass FAQ's on VISIONING:

Q: What is community "visioning"?
A: Visioning is a planning process that can help a community create a shared vision for its future.

Q: What is a vision?
A: Think of a vision as a community's preferred "destination" - where it would like to be in the long-term future.

Fuck me. "What is a vision?". We've paid these fuckers a million dollars for answering THAT? We're dead. Here's my FUCKING QUESTION:

"Can you define, or go 2 fucking seconds, WITHOUT USING THE WORD "VISION", "VISIONING", or some derivation of THAT FUCKING WORD?"

So what did our recent election accomplish?

Well, we did manage to Throw The Bums Out. But they were replaced by Newer, More Fucked Up Bums. And these BUMS have, and will continue to work SOLELY for the local RE interests. Think WAIVED SDC CHARGES to "solve" the local "RE PROBLEM". These fuckers are SO MYOPIC, they can't even fathom a solution that does not DIRECTLY BENEFIT their PIMPS (ie HOLLERN).

Go to the Bend2030.com website. And just prepare to be amazed at the WASTE of it all. BIG WORDS. COMPLICATED "VISIONS". Lots' of PROGRESS.

Until you really start reading. And realize they have done NOTHING. Not a single fucking thing. So where is the MILLION DOLLARS? WHERE?

Right. Boondoggle. A bunch of back-slapper, old boy network, bought & paid for WHORES sucking the cock of local Real Estate. All paid for BY US.

Welcome to MOTHERFUCKING BEND, OREGON.

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Anonymous said...

I hate to SHIT on Bend's fucking 'HBM' parade, but there is a very large lawsuit against the OREO, and if he doesn't prove that he has a US Birth-Cert by Dec 15, 2008, then the entire election is null&void.

This might surprise ALL, but the OREO, can't seem to be able to prove he was 'Born' in the USA.

A little matter with the US Constitution, and something about US prez, must being US Born.

Anonymous said...

The rumor is that OREO was born in Kenya, where his father knocked up the White HO, and then she later dumped the baby off at 'white' granny's in HI where the OREO was raised.

Anonymous said...

Troubling Bullshit tonight on BB2.

Friedman HOA HO of Bend is dead.

He kept alive the lawsuit at INN@7th where PAPE ( also dead ) fucked tourists for HOA nickels.

Tonight HBM said that the reason that the fuck was 'KOSHER' (SORE-SWITZER) was that DeBour the time-share owner doing all the work/time on behalf owners is null&void, ... is cuz he is an abortion doctor, now normally that would get a BIG YAWN in this group.

The fact that they have to pull that shit out of their ass, as Dr De-Bours is a legit Willamette Valley Gen-Physician, goes to show that the folks in Deschutes Co(HBM) are at the 'terminal gravity' of insanity, that they think that anyone here is going to bite the abortion BULLET??

Let's here it for retro-active ABORTION !!!! I say that COSTA, HBM, and all at the Les Schwab, Suterra, the SORE, and the BULL should indulge in retro-active abortion ASAP.

Anonymous said...

With Friedman passed away, and I'm certain the the BULLSHIT WRT the HOA-CONDO biz, is what caused the stress that sent him to the st-charles ( death hosp ), for back-surgery.

You don't go to st-charles, if EVER you fucked, get a second opinion in PDX.

St Charles has no second, and no competition, let's just say they have the bottom of the Eugenic Gene Pool in their Surgery Dept., and that is a compliment.

HOW fucking bad can it get?? In BEND, so BAD that HBM/PALIN have to accuse DeBours of being an abortionist. I mean without Friedman running the show, ... This means that PUG BITCH Chris Telfer herself is now on our BB2.

Anonymous said...

Bush-Obama Meeting: Hard Dick's and Hand Sanitizer
FOXNews - Nov 9, 2008
President Bush and President-elect Barack Obama are set to hold their first post-erection meeting Monday at the White House. ...

Ex-Prez Bush "I heard that black had big dicks, but fuck!!!"

Prez-Elect Obama "I heard that white men had small dicks, ... now I know why white women hate honky cock"

Anonymous said...

The interesting thing on the OREO 'birth cert' story, is that in six months, his team has blown off requests, it turns out there is no birth cert, Federal Court request.

So most likely his election is null&void, which puts BIDEN in #1, who would have guessed?

Anonymous said...

"PALIN won the majority"

wrong, mccain only got 49%
did you fail 1st grade math?

Anonymous said...

Ominious Parallels Between Nazi Poison Gas and Calif Pesticide Spraying
by Pesticide History
Monday Nov 10th, 2008 1:07 PM
Is BEND OREGON really NOT responsible for Suterra Checkmate??

The Nazi's used Zyklon B form IG FARBEN to terminate the lives of millions of Jews in gas chambers, after the war the manufacturers were tried and executed.

The Nazi's used Zyklon B a pesticide with a similar formulation to that used by Suterra LLC, of Bend Oregon.

Zyklon B

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Empty poison gas canisters, found by the Allies at the end of World War II.
This article is about the cyanide-based insecticide used during the Holocaust. For the Norwegian black metal band, see Zyklon-B (band).

Zyklon B (IPA: [tsykloːn ˈbeː], also spelled Cyclon B or English Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based insecticide infamous for its use by Nazi Germany against Jews and other minorites in the gas chambers of extermination camps during the Holocaust.

It consisted of hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid, Blausäure in German, hence B), a stabilizer, and a warning odorant that were impregnated onto various substrates, typically small absorbent pellets, fibre discs, or diatomaceous earth. Zyklon B was stored in airtight containers; when exposed to air, the material released gaseous hydrogen cyanide (HCN).


Use on humans
A Soviet soldier posed at Majdanek, holding the cover of the vents through which Zyklon B was poured. London press, October 1944.

From 1929 onwards the U.S. used Zyklon B to disinfect the freight trains and clothes of Mexican immigrants entering the US.[2]

Farm Securities Administration photographer Marion Post Wolcott recorded the use of cyanide gas and zyklon by the Public Health Service at the New Orleans Quarantine Station during the 1930s.[3]

[edit] Use by Nazi Germany

See also: The Holocaust

The pesticide was used by Nazi Germany as a chemical weapon to poison prisoners in the gas chambers of the largest extermination camp, Auschwitz Birkenau, and also at Majdanek, one of the Operation Reinhard camps. At the other extermination camps, engine exhaust was used in the gas chambers. Many of the victims were Jews and the Zyklon B gas became a central symbol of the Holocaust.

Zyklon B was used in the concentration camps initially for delousing to control typhus. The chemical used in the gas chambers was deliberately made without the warning odorant.[4]

In January or February 1940, 250 Gypsy children from Brno in the Buchenwald concentration camp were used as guinea pigs for testing the Zyklon B gas.[5] On September 3, 1941, around 600 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 sick Polish prisoners were gassed with Zyklon B at Auschwitz camp I; this was the first experiment with the gas at Auschwitz. The experiments lasted more than 20 hours.

Anonymous said...

"This might surprise ALL, but the OREO, can't seem to be able to prove he was 'Born' in the USA."

you're thinking of McCain--he was born in Panama. as for Obama, see here:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp

Anonymous said...

HOW fucking bad can it get?? In BEND, so BAD that HBM/PALIN have to accuse DeBours of being an abortionist. I mean without Friedman running the show, ... This means that PUG BITCH Chris Telfer herself is now on our BB2.

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It's ALL your fault BP, if you had stayed in UTAH Telfer wouldn't be taking over BB2.

Anonymous said...

Sorry HBM, but OREO is the black guy, and Cain is the white woman in Alaska.

ELECTION 2008

DNC steps in to silence lawsuit over Obama birth certificate
Democrat suing his own party says it's 'like they're in cahoots'

Posted: October 04, 2008
12:00 am Eastern

By Drew Zahn
© 2008 WorldNetDaily


Philip J. Berg

The man suing Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee for proof of Obama's American citizenship is outraged that his own party – rather than just providing the birth certificate he seeks – would step in to silence him by filing a motion to dismiss his lawsuit.

As WND reported, prominent Pennsylvania Democrat and attorney Philip J. Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court two months ago claiming Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen and therefore not eligible to be elected president. Berg has since challenged Obama publicly that if the candidate will simply produce authorized proof of citizenship, he'll drop the suit.

Berg told WND the longer the DNC tries to ignore his lawsuit or make it go away – instead of just providing the documents – the more convinced he is that his accusations are correct.

Despite assertions by the Washington Post, FactChecker.org and other organizations that Obama has produced a certified Hawaiian birth certificate, Berg told WND he remains "99.99 percent sure" that the certificate is a fake and he wants a court, not a website, to determine its validity.

Earlier last week, lawyers for Obama and the DNC filed a joint motion to dismiss Berg's lawsuit. The fact that the DNC joined in the dismissal request has Berg fuming, believing his party's leaders have ignored his pleas for proof in order to favor their chosen candidate over a rank-and-file constituent.

"I think it's outrageous," Berg said. "The Democratic National Committee should be ensuring the Democratic Party and the public that they have a qualified candidate up there. To file a joint motion is like they're in cahoots.

"Since then, I have asked by way of press release that Howard Dean resign, because (the DNC members) are not fulfilling their duties," Berg said.

"The DNC has a responsibility to all Democrats in this country to make sure that all of their candidates are properly vetted and properly qualified," Berg added. "I think it's really an outrage to the 18-plus million people who voted for Obama and the people who donated more than $425 million to him under false pretenses."

Anonymous said...

Just like the DEMS won in BEND, its completely fucking delusional. Just like Suterra poisoning the world, why is that all else but BEND gets real news??


Fight To Reveal Obama's Birth Certificate Continues

Evening Bulletin, PA - 23 hours ago
The State of Hawaii has refused to release copies of Mr. Obama's birth certificate, because Department of Health officials say the privacy statutes of the ...

Anonymous said...

Here is a good one for BEND-DEM shit-eaters, it turns out that his real name is Princess Di-BOMB-A.


Obama The Divider
Matthew d'Ancona 11.10.08, 2:00 PM ET

London -

It seems to me an axiom of political life that when someone claims to be, or is hailed as a "unifying figure," the opposite is true. In Britain, Tony Blair and Princess Diana were both meant to be therapists to the nation but probably caused as much inner conflict as they soothed. Barack Obama campaigned as a healer, the incarnation of historic closure and a believer in the United States of America rather than Sarah Palin's "Real America." And yet it is already apparent that his presidency will be scorched with fury and that, whatever good he achieves, Obama will also be, by definition, a divisive figure.

Look at the great expanse of red, full of Americans who did not vote for this political magician; consider what their response will be to the president-elect's pledge to reverse a raft of George W. Bush's executive orders covering stem cell research, climate change and other hair-trigger issues.

I do not mean that Obama will waste his first 100 days on marginal liberal issues, as Bill Clinton did over gays in the military; nor that he is the crypto-radical of right wing caricature, a sort of Manchurian candidate programmed by Michael Moore. Equally, however, he does not strike me as a politician who will want to be remembered as a bland fashion plate with a cute family and a punishing workout schedule. Obama is going to do stuff. And a lot of people won't like that stuff.

Reflecting on the extraordinary U.S. election week from Westminster, I am struck by three things. First, that Obama's election was a moment to savor even for those of us who had hoped, with diminishing enthusiasm, that John McCain would be the 44th president of the United States.

Candidate McCain was a much diminished figure, whose pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate won him a few days of headlines but signaled a disastrous retreat into the Republican comfort zone of the core conservative base--a zone in which, paradoxically, McCain had never been comfortable.

For all my regard for this great Republican, he was simply outclassed in the campaign and, frankly, steamrollered by history. And that was the point about Nov. 4. It was a moment of generational self-definition. As James Forsyth argues in the current Spectator, "No other president has ever changed America as much as Obama has by just being elected."

Second, Obama is more search engine than conventional politician: You can find whatever you are looking for in him. In the U.K., tax-and-spend redistributionists are dancing like the munchkins in The Wizard of Oz, delighted by Obama's rejection of the "old theory that says we should give more to billionaires and big corporations and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else."

Meanwhile, tax cutters and those urging David Cameron and George Osborne to embrace more radical proposals for fiscal stimulation are no less thrilled by Obama's tax relief pledges. British Eurosceptics believe Obama is a better bet than McCain, an old-fashioned fan of the European Union. Peaceniks are hoping America will now withdraw from all theaters of war and that U.S. Marines will put flowers in the barrels of their M16s. Hail to President Google: Just tap in what you want and out come the results you were looking for.

Third, Obama will trigger culture wars in the U.K. as well as in America. Britain always prides itself on being immune to Kulturkampf, but I increasingly believe this is an arrogant delusion. Already, the respected head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Trevor Phillips, has said that "if Barack Obama had lived here, I would be very surprised if even somebody as brilliant as him would have been able to break through the institutional stranglehold on power within the Labour Party." Others have chipped in to level similar accusations at the Conservative Party.

But for every person claiming Obama represents a false dawn there is another saying the opposite: that his election marks the decline and fall of practically everything. In an extraordinary piece in the Mail on Sunday, Peter Hitchens wrote that "the United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world" but, with the election of the liberal Obama, "the U.S., like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?"

Now Hitchens does not speak for me. But to judge by the hundreds of comments I have read in the blogosphere, he speaks for a substantial un-silent minority: those who feel suddenly disenfranchised, encircled or otherwise suspicious of the next occupant of the White House and all that they believe him to personify. Their fears might be completely unfounded, but that is not the point--not the point at all.

This president may achieve many things, but cultural unity will not be among them. Think of him as Princess Di-bama.

Anonymous said...

"the United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world" but, with the election of the liberal Obama, "the U.S., like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?"

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WHO would have guessed??

I say, the USA. e.g. AmeriKKKa gets the government they deserve.

Anonymous said...

only the conspiracy theory lunatics question that obama was born in hawaii; all reputable sources have concluded that he was born in hawaii.

mccain was absolutely born in panama, even mccain himself says so. his father was serving in the canal zone so the whole family lived there.

Anonymous said...

Hello,

To all that denigrate Bend, OR, I think you have us confused with Bend, Uruguay.

Here in ORYGUN Outside Magazine rated his the #1 place in the world from 1020 to 1200.

Anonymous said...

Like our nazi leader dunc of our pron comic shop says 'Even the borken cocks of Bend time keepers are right twice a day".

In Bend everyone is a conspirator every 12 hours.

Even a borken cock in Bend is PUG twice a day.

Brilliant Yes?? This is Bend.

Anonymous said...

So many grand-mothers so little time, ... In Kenya granny is demanding that she beside the infant that she wet-nursed.

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What About Obama’s Grandmothers?
Published Nov 8, 2008, by ■ Barbara Sowell


Barack Obama will visit Hawaii in December to honor his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who died on Nov 2 in Honolulu at 86 after a long illness. No plans for Dunham's funeral or memorial service have been announced.
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Although it will be more than a month since her death before Obama returns to Hawaii, the Honolulu Advisor reported Thursday that it isn’t uncommon for funerals to be held “more than a week after the death of a Hawai'i resident because of the time it takes for loved ones to fly to the Islands.”

There have been no news reports as to burial arrangements for Madelyn Dunham.

According to the Voice of America News, US President-Elect Barack Obama's 84-year old step-grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, wants to travel to the United States to witness the inauguration of her grandson on January 20, 2009.

Although Sarah is Obama's step grandmother, the president-elect reportedly treats her like his natural grandmother.



Because Barack Obama’s step-grandmother, Sarah, has been so very adamant that Senator Barack Obama, was born in Kenya, and that she was present and witnessed his birth in Kenya, not the United States, his eligibility to run for President has been questioned.

Attorney Philip J. Berg filed a U.S. Supreme Court Writ of Certiorari and Application for Stay of the Presidential Election based on affidavits by Rev. Kweli Shuhubia and interviews by Bishop McRae with Sarah Hussein Obama.

According to Family Security Matters, U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter rejected an emergency appeal for the court to halt the tabulation of the 2008 presidential election results until Barack Obama can prove his eligibility to run for office because “ordinary” American citizen such as Berg lack standing to bring such a suit.

A 34-page memorandum that accompanied the court order from Judge R. Barclay Surrick stated that “ordinary citizens can't sue to ensure that a presidential candidate actually meets the constitutional requirements of the office.”

Congress would have to pass a new law granting citizens the power to police the Constitution's eligibility requirements for the Presidency.

According to World Net Daily, Berg said the defendants "are required to respond to the Writ of Certiorari" by Dec. 1.

The governor’s office in Hawaii has stated that it has a valid birth certificate but has rejected requests for access “and left ambiguous its origin.”

.

. .Does the certificate on file with the Department of Health indicate a Hawaii birth or was it generated after the Obama family registered a Kenyan birth in Hawaii. . . Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has named two different Hawaii hospitals where Obama could have been born. . .

Anonymous said...

Because Barack Obama’s step-grandmother, Sarah, has been so very adamant that Senator Barack Obama, was born in Kenya, and that she was present and witnessed his birth in Kenya, not the United States, his eligibility to run for President has been questioned.

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This is NOT a new story. OREO's mother met the father in KENYA, where she got pregnant.

Here the granny ( a real black woman ) is adamant she delivered the child.

Anonymous said...

the constitution does not say that you have to be born in the US to be president, it says you must be a "natural born citizen." this has been interpreted to mean that you must be a natural citizen at the time of birth. you are a natural citizen if you are born to a mother who is a citizen, no matter where you are born.

obama's mother was a citizen when he was born in Hawaii (she was from Kansas). mccain's mother was a citizen when he was born in Panama. if "born in the US" was a requirement then mccain would not have run, but that is not a requirement under the constitution. mccain's campaign made this abundantly clear when he began his campaign--look it up.

Anonymous said...

Even Rush Limbaugh & O'Reilly are demanding that OREO prove he was not Born in Kenya!!!

You got to admit, that the blogger-fodder is rich, very rich.

Anonymous said...

Why do the ZIO-CON apologists of OREO, have to bring up McCain? He is OUT, he is gone, he is irrelevant to the debate??

McCain is Friedmand DEAD, he is McDonald DEAD, he is as dead as any suicide developer in BEND.

It is troubling that every mention OREO, brings up reference to McCain.

Who is politically DEAD forever.

Persona non grata.

Anonymous said...

Exccccuuuuuuse meeeeeee,

But being student of US poly-sci, I distinctly remember being taught that the US prez candidate has to be BORN IN THE USA??

So now we know that had Eva Braun born Hitlers child, and ever secured a US passport, that Hitlers Spawn could have been a BUSH??

Anonymous said...

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iw1At-4G1xuE50oXVFRlBPfR3dqgD945OLU00

now can't we get back to something relevant to bend, like calling mike an asshole?

Anonymous said...

"It is troubling that every mention OREO, brings up reference to McCain."

because McCain was the one who pointed out that being born in Panama did not prevent him from being president because he was a "natural born citizen" due to his mother's citizenship at the time of his birth. that's why.

this makes it clear that it doesn't matter where Obama was born, even though it has been established that he was born in Hawaii.

Anonymous said...

"But being student of US poly-sci, I distinctly remember being taught that the US prez candidate has to be BORN IN THE USA??"

sounds like you were a failed student. read the constitution again--that isn't in there.

Anonymous said...

So there you have it, like the 2000 election one more Supreme Court decision. To decide who is our president.

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The 1790 Congress, many of whose members had been members of the Constitutional Convention, provided in the Naturalization Act of 1790 that "And the children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens." In addition George Washington was president of the Constitutional Convention and President of the United States when this bill became law. If Washington disagreed with this definition, he could have vetoed this bill.

Anonymous said...

WRT to the poly-sci quote, my point was that once again, this will be decided by the supreme court.

Like the 'right to bear arms', which is quite obvious to ME, but has been heard dozen's of times, the defn of "natural born' is NOT defined in the constitution, and thus at the end of the day,the OREO coronation will be determined by the courts.

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It is thought the origin of the natural-born citizen clause can be traced to a letter of July 25, 1787 from John Jay (who had been born in New York City) to George Washington (who had been born in Virginia), presiding officer of the Constitutional Convention. John Jay wrote: "Permit me to hint, whether it would be wise and seasonable to provide a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen." There was no debate, and this qualification for the office of the Presidency was introduced by the drafting Committee of Eleven, and then adopted without discussion by the Constitutional Convention

Anonymous said...

now can't we get back to something relevant to bend, like calling mike an asshole?

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In BEND all citizens have an asshole?

WHo would have guessed?

WHo would have known?

Nobody told us!

If only we were told!

Anonymous said...

constitution does not say that you have to be born in the US to be president, it says you must be a "natural born citizen."

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This has to date never been decided by the US Supreme court what 'natural born citizen' means. The TERM is NOT defined by the US Constitution.

I suspect it means that Semen from a Idaho Hair-Lip US male forcefully injected into a Albanian transvestite, could in theory bare a US president, only court decision can tell.

One mans 'natural born' is another mans Alien.

So once again, our great courts will decide if OREO is True.

Anonymous said...

this makes it clear that it doesn't matter where Obama was born, even though it has been established that he was born in Hawaii.

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I repeat MC-CAIN/PALIN is now persona-non-grata, let go, move on, enjoy the debate.

We'll never ever again have to discuss McCain he's finished.

Lastly, ONLY the court can define what is meant by 'natural born' mcCain's args don't mean BEND-SHIT.

Anonymous said...

There was no debate, and this qualification for the office of the Presidency was introduced by the drafting Committee of Eleven, and then adopted without discussion by the Constitutional Convention

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OK, we were at 200, now I tell you why this is important, cuz the PUG's want to make Schwarznegger the 2012 prez candidate.

DEM's pull your head out of your ass.

Anonymous said...

Nazi IG-FARBEN ( now Bayer ), and Suterra nose-to-nose in competition. [ Zyklon-B ]

PESTICIDE or GENOCIDE? HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION ON U.S. CITIZENS.

by Keith Howe

West Nile Virus Fraud! Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) Fraud!

"Dr. Jeffrey W. Runge, chief medical officer at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, told a congressional subcommittee on July 22 that the risk of a large-scale biological attack on the nation is significant.Runge used the terrifying example of a terrorist flying over Providence with an aerosolized sprayer releasing air-borne anthrax over the metropolitan area." (1)

I don't recall any terrorist's flying over America with an aerosolized sprayer releasing airborne weapons of mass destruction on her citizens. I am aware, however, of the U.S. government spraying weapons of mass destruction on us, in the form of toxic nerve agents (malathion, pyrenone 5,25, Checkmate OLR-F, Checkmate LBAM-F) with the excuse of protecting us from non-threatening fruit flies, light brown apple moths, and mosquitoes allegedly carrying the West Nile Virus (which is almost no threat to humans).

What about MTBE in your gasoline, chemtrails, open air dirty bombs, 1,000 pounds per year (application was filed for a permit to raise that to 8,000 pounds per year) being detonated by Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, exposing the San Francisco Bay Area to deadly radiation? How about trucks driving through our neighborhoods in the middle of the night spraying us with deadly pesticides for a mosquito possibly carrying the relatively harmless West Nile Virus. Or open air testing on human subjects with biological and biochemical agents by the Pentagon and Department of Defense, as authorized by the United States Congress in HR1119, Section 1078.

AMERICA, you, your families, and your children have been declared lab rats by Congress!
As was approved by 105th Congress, 1st Session, 1998:
H.R. 1119, NATIONAL DEFENSE AND AUTHORIZATION ACT, SEC. 1078. RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF HUMAN SUBJECTS FOR TESTING OF CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. (a) PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES- The Secretary of Defense may not conduct (directly or by contract)-- (1) any test or experiment involving the use of a chemical agent or biological agent on a civilian population; or (2) any other testing of a chemical agent or biological agent on human subjects. (b)EXCEPTIONS- Subject to subsections (c), (d), and (e), the prohibition in subsection (a) does not apply to a test or experiment carried out for any of the following purposes:
(1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical, therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or research activity.
(e) BIOLOGICAL AGENT DEFINED- In this section, the term 'biological agent' means any micro-organism (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, rickettsiac, or protozoa), pathogen, or infectious substance, and any naturally occurring, bioengineered, or synthesized component of any such micro-organism, pathogen, or infectious substance, whatever its origin or method of production, that is capable of causing-- (1) death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant, or another living organism; (2) deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies, or materials of any kind; or (3) deleterious alteration of the environment.
The full text of this bill (1,099 pages) may be viewed at: commdocs.house.gov/reports/105/h1119.pdf (go to pages 703 through 706 of document for section 1078, Human Experimentation).
This is exactly what has been and is being perpetrated upon the people of the United States. Not by foreign terrorists, but by your own government, with your own tax dollars!

These are federal programs spraying populations with deadly nerve agents (pesticides) and pheromones which can affect human reproductive hormones (forced sterilization?). Americans are being sprayed against their will and without their consent, in violation of state, federal, and International laws, including the Nuremberg Code. (2) It is a federal crime to make fraudulent claims about pesticides and their use.

The spraying of residential areas must be stopped immediately. West Nile Virus is an insignificant threat to humans (most people infected experience little more than mild flu-like symptoms). Vector Control Agencies find a couple of dead birds and mosquitoes that allegedly have this benign virus in them, and then propose that as justification for the massive poisoning of residential areas with deadly contact nerve agents to under the guise of protecting us.

One of the pesticide used for ground applications is Pyrenone 25-5, which consists of:
5% pyrethrins
25% piperonyl butoxide (PBO)
70% unknown.

Pyrethrins are a leading cause of insecticide poisonings. PBO is classified as a possible human carcinogen. Both of these dangerous chemicals interfere with hormonal functions.

This pesticide is manufactured by Bayer Corporation, a subsidiary of I.G. Farben, the corporation that manufactured malathion and zyklon-B for the nazi's (to be used to exterminate human beings, not insects). (3) Isn't it interesting to know that many of the same companies manufacturing these "pesticides" also manufacture the pharmaceutical drugs to treat you when you become sick (from these pesticides?). (4)

The excuse for the spraying is that it is to prevent a dangerous outbreak of West Nile Virus. The following website provides a fact sheet on West Nile Virus, showing it is virtually no danger to humans, while the spraying is dangerous and contraindicated in every way! www.stopwestnilesprayingnow.org/DavisMyths.pdf

Government laboratories breed hundreds of millions of mosquitoes, then infect them and release them into communities to see how infectious they are. They just don't care about humans! In fact, these psychopaths want to eliminate as much as 90% of the global population! First they breed the mosquitoes. Then they infect the mosquitoes. Then they release the infected mosquitoes and monitor the "experiment" at the hospitals as people get infected, become ill, and die! Next they spray us with pesticides to protect us from a virus, which they created in the first place.

Covert Testing of Other Disease Agents- Mad Cow Disease/Kuru/CJD

After WW1 and WW2, eugenics scientists from Japan and Germany were brought to the United States to share their wonderful discoveries of plague generation and genocide with lunatic psychopaths in the DOD (Department of Death and Destruction). AIDS was developed by the DOD for the purpose of population control. After the scientists had perfected it, the government sent medical teams from the Centers for Disease Control--under the direction of Dr Donald A. Henderson to Africa. From 1969-1971 they gave free vaccinations against smallpox; but five years after receiving this vaccination, 60% of those inoculated were suffering from AIDS. (5)

It is clear that the U.S. government is engaged in biological and biochemical experimentation upon it's own citizens. (6) This is damaging to the health of average citizens, especially the most vulnerable populations, such as babies, children, pregnant women, the elderly, the chronically ill, and those with compromised immune systems. American citizens, therefore, need to protest these sprayings and other activities in no uncertain terms to legislators on local, state, and federal levels.

Anonymous said...

Ziocon

conflation of Zionist and Neocon. Many of these individuals are responsible pushing the US & Britain to invade Iraq. They do the bidding of AIPAC and hence Israel.
A partial list of Ziocons includes: Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Doulas Feith, David Wurmser, Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, David Frum, Charles Krauthammer, Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristoll, Midge Decter, Dov Zakheim, Robert B. Zoellick, Eliot Cohen, William Kristoll, Robert Kagan, Joshua Muravchik, Meyrav Wurmser, Irwin Stelzer, Michael Ledeen, Daniel Pipes, Lawrence Kaplan, Marty Peretz, David Brooks, John Podhoretz, Neal Kozodoy, Jonah Goldberg

Anonymous said...

This left-wing Jewish author feels that Neo-Cons & Zio-Cons are really the same people. The OREO would like to suggest that his change&hope is replacing the neo-con's with zio-con's. It's quite clear that OREO's hope&change is more of the same.

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The Ziocon Zugswang Zeitgeist

By Ingmar Lee


"Let me just first tell you that I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions. I firmly believe — I'm oftentimes asked about, well, you're stubborn and all this. If you believe in a strategy, in Washington, D.C. you've got to stick to that strategy, see? People want you to change. It's tactics that shift, but the strategic vision has not, and will not, shift." GWB recently

What exactly is Bush's stubborn strategic vision, one might ask, as it's doubtful that he actually understands the word. A strategy, of course, is a long-range policy designed for a purpose, and the carrying out of that plan in a skillful way. The Decider's strategy, as he claims ad nauseum, is to wield "one of the strongest weapons in our arsenal which is the power of freedom" in the "decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century." According to Bush, "terrorists fear freedom as much as they do our firepower." But in analyzing the context, it becomes clear that freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

After five years of failure in the feckless foisting of freedom on Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon, Bush claims that this is still "the early hours of the struggle between tyranny and freedom," and that "we [sic] are in a war that will set the course for this new century -- and will determine the destiny of millions across the world." Dubya's decisive ideological error reduces strategy to a divisive idiot's logic of "freedom" vs. "terror." This is an ambiguous, vacuous, rhetorical chimera, -not a strategy. Bush is said to enjoy grossing people out with his gruesome farts. Perhaps that flatulent miasma has fueled the fatuous ignis fatuus which influences his farcical fantasy. Nevertheless, there is a strategic programme which is driving USraeli aggression across the Middle East and Central Asia, whether Bush understands it or not.

Ziocon ~ a conflation of "Zionist" and "Neocon." There's a distinction here that I'd like to make, -there may be Zionists who are not Neocons, and there may be Neocons who are not Zionists. I believe that the people who drew up this horrific programme are both.

The 'Project for a New American Century" (PNAC) pact was designed by a secretive cabal of Ziocon zealots and is the most supremely hateful globe-encompassing ideology ever devised by a diabolical mind-meld of men. The PNAC central tenet is that America shall seize its opportunity as the sole global hyperpower to achieve full-spectrum dominance over all the affairs of the Earth. And the PNAC strategy is to do this by force.

The PNAC manifesto is a miserable, sordid and shocking read, ~a gloating supremecist claptrap of wanton warmongering and ghastly greed. Many of the Ziocons who wrote it are now firmly entrenched at the pinnacles of USraeli power. Amongst its chief architects and ideologues is the ambulance-towing, shrivel-hearted rogue, Dick Cheney. This freakish puppetmaster runs the American empire and pulls the strings of his straw-brained figurehead marionette, whose second rate rote-spoken role is reduced to repeating the PNAC diktat to the masses. No sooner had America's Dieboldian democracy allowed the non-elected ascension of Bush and establishment of the Ziocon regime at power Grand Central, the PNAC train left the station. The Decider was handed the script and the Ziocons set out on the track to take down the world.

The Ziocons require a tightly coordinated henchclaque of stenographers which craft and disseminate the inconceivably bizarre PNAC propaganda to a global monopoly of quisling corporate media. The spinmeisters job is to jingo this doctrine of repetitive, unending pre-emptive war, which features resurrected nuclear weapons testing, upgrades and attacks, microbial warfare, space-based weaponry, control of cyberspace, and a new plethora of forward bases to enforce an expanding security perimeter to guard "American interests". Above all, the PNAC scheme lays out a vision for a vastly expanded American military dictatorship for the stated Orwellian purpose of forcing an "American peace" on the world.

Priority #1 on the PNAC agenda is to secure all of the world's oil assets, by force. American pre-eminence in the world cannot be maintained without total control of world's dwindling oil supplies. All of the largest oil fields have already been discovered and are being produced, and production is past its peak in its most prolific pools. In 2002, the world used four times as much oil as was newly found. In the first quarter of 2005, world oil use was estimated at 83 million barrels per day, and the United States, with 4.6% of the global population, burnt a quarter of that. Of the 20 million barrels a day that fuels the American economy, 25 per cent is burned up on the roads. Americans must fuel their SUV's, and no American administration can allow a hitch in that flow.To the PNACers nothing, absolutely nothing can stand between them and that oil, and they are prepared to use any of the horrific cataclysmic options to secure it.

That more than 60 per cent of the world's proved oil reserves are in the Middle East, a region wracked by conflict, is a constant source of anxiety for nations that rely on Gulf supplies. In spite of stated efforts to reduce its reliance on Middle East oil, the US has been driven to repeated interventions and support for autocratic regimes to ensure stable energy supplies. -- Financial Times, July 5, 2006, p. 8

.If you were to spin the globe and look for real estate critical to building an American Empire, your first stop would have to be the Persian Gulf. The desert sands of this region hold two of every three barrels of oil in the world -- Iraq's reserves alone are equal, by some estimates, to those of Russia, the United States, China and Mexico combined. -- Robert Dreyfuss, Mother Jones. March-April 2003

The magic number is 112 billion. That's how many barrels of oil experts say is oozing through Iraq's geology -- the second largest proven reserves of oil on the planet, just behind Saudi Arabias. -- New York Times -- Nov. 3, 2002

That the Ziocons have deeply infiltrated into all levels across the political spectrum of the American power hierarchy has been made abundantly clear by Professor's John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's carefully researched March 2006 exposé, "The Israel Lobby." Although US Democrats are also heavily influenced and financed by the Israel Lobby, the authors emphasize that "...The situation is even more pronounced in the Bush administration, whose ranks have included such fervent advocates of the Israeli cause as Elliot Abrams, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and David Wurmser [all PNACers -Ingmar]. As we shall see, these officials have consistently pushed for policies favoured by Israel and backed by organisations in the Lobby..."

Mearsheimer and Walt go on to describe the Israel Lobby's deep infiltration into the American media:

"...The Lobby's perspective prevails in the mainstream media: the debate among Middle East pundits, the journalist Eric Alterman writes, is 'dominated by people who cannot imagine criticising Israel'. He lists 61 'columnists and commentators who can be counted on to support Israel reflexively and without qualification'. Conversely, he found just five pundits who consistently criticise Israeli actions or endorse Arab positions..."

In the April/May 2004 issue of Adbusters Magazine, the courageous and unflinchingly ethical editor, Kalle Lasn, took the exposé of the Israel Lobby's deep infiltration much farther:

"To have 50% of the most powerful intellectual [sic] group in the world, for half of them to be Jewish, is something we need to look in the face and debate and ask, 'What does this mean?' It means that American foreign policy is distorted in some way that I don't think is necessarily democratic."

Lasn lists off the world's most prominent Neocons, and marks the names of predominant Jewish presence amongst the horde, and for his trouble was immediately branded with the boringly predictable label of "anti-semite," a stigma which has now become de riguer for any self-respecting progressive writer. Directly commensurate with Israel's sordid massacres in Lebanon and Palestine, the "anti-semite" stigmatization for its critics has now become utterly impotent as a Ziocon weapon of intimidation, as peace-loving people now speak out freely about Israel's countless atrocities. Lasn writes:

"..Here at Adbusters, we decided to tackle the issue head on and came up with a carefully researched list of who appear to be the 50 most influential neocons in the US. Deciding who exactly is a neocon is difficult since some neocons reject the term, while others embrace it. Some shape policy from within the White House, while others are more peripheral, exacting influence as journalists, academics, and think tank policy wonks. What they all share is the view that the US is a benevolent hyper power that must protect itself by reshaping the world into its morally superior image. And half of them are Jewish..."

Here's Lasn's list:

*Norman Podhoretz, *Irving Kristoll, *Midge Decter, Jean Kirkpatrick, *Paul Wolfowitz, *Douglas Feith, Peter Rodman, Stephen Cambone, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, *I. Lewis Libby, *Elliot Abrams, Zalmay Khalilzad, John Bolton, *Dov Zakheim, *Robert B. Zoellick, Richard Perle, R. James Woolsey, *Eliot Cohen, Robert W. Tucker, Francis Fukuyama, *William Kristoll, *Robert Kagan, Gary Schmidt, Ellen Bork, *David Wurmser, *Joshua Muravchik, Reuel Mark Gerecht, Michael Novak, Fr. Richard J. Neuhaus, *Meyrav Wurmser, *Irwin Stelzer, Rupert Murdoch, Richard Mellon Scaife, Thomas Donnelly, Owen Harries, *Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney, Max Boot, Gary Bauer, William Bennett, *Daniel Pipes, *Lawrence Kaplan, *Marty Peretz, *Charles Krauthammer, *David Brooks, Fred Barnes, *John Podhoretz, *Neal Kozodoy, *Jonah Goldberg

If the PNAC manifesto is the Ziocon vision for USraeli world domination, its message dovetails with an overtly rascist and vicious predecessor, "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion," which first appeared back in 1890. Whether or not the Protocols are a "forgery" the hideous similarites of vision are unmistakeable.That Zionists have long supported the American attacks, invasions and massacres of Afghanistan and Iraq is clear. That Zionists have long been lusting for the imminent attack on Syria and Iran is clear. The brutal oppression and subjugation of the Palestinian people, and the recent destruction of Lebanon in a grossly disproportionate reaction to the capture of two IDF soldiers has sent a clear signal to the world that the Zionists will not be bound by any humanitarian constraints in the next leg of the project. Such appalling displays of wanton cruelty and depravity can only be seen as a precursor to what's next. Given the complexity and diversity of the stated objective, it is clear that the Zionist attack on Iran will require the use of nuclear weapons. At the outset of Bush's second term, Dick Cheney described in no uncertain terms, that Iran was "right at the top of the list" of the rogue enemies of America, and that Israel would, so to speak, "be doing the bombing for us." Here's Cheney in an MSNBC Interview in Jan 2005:

"One of the concerns people have is that Israel might do it without being asked... Given the fact that Iran has a stated policy that their objective is the destruction of Israel, the Israelis might well decide to act first, and let the rest of the world worry about cleaning up the diplomatic mess afterwards"

N.B. Iranian President Ahmedinejad did not call for the destruction of Israel, -he called for the destruction of the Israeli zionist regime. see Jonathan Steel: Lost in Translation

Zugswang ~ n. Chess an obligation to move in one's turn even when this must be disadvantageous. [German from Zug move + Zwang compulsion] -The Canadian Oxford Dictionary

The PNAC-Ziocon cabal is dominated by oil-men who have quite rightly recognized the writing on the wall: that without total domination of the world's largest oil-fields, America as we know it is toast. The Project for a New American Century is therefore a risk-all, no holds barred desperation mission to perpetuate the American status quo. America must control the Caspian oil basin and pipeline routes across Afghanistan, and it must secure the oil basins of Iraq and Iran to have the slightest chance of survival. The mission is unswervable; it's do or die. I suspect that most of America's Democrat politicians currently in power also understand this, which explains their ongoing support for Bush's warmongering. No American politician can accept the imminent collapse of the American economy on their watch, so there will be no political way out of the violence.

When the Ziocons conquered the White House in 2000, the U.S. surplus was approximately $5 trillion.That's all gone now and the domestic deficit stands at somewhere around $500 billion. The outstanding American public debt as of 17 Sept., 2006, stands at $8,532,302,172,960.05 ($8.5 trillion) and the American debt is mushrooming by $1.7 billion a day. Foreigners hold 48 percent of the U.S. Treasury bond market, 24 percent of the U.S. corporate bond market and 20 percent of all U.S. corporations. The only thing that backs up the teetering buck today is that it is the world's de facto oil transaction currency. China has more than $800 billion reserved in a giant stack of green, ink-smeared paper for the purpose of buying oil. Should countries like Iran, Venezuela and others start selling oil in euros, China alone could instantly destroy the US economy by converting that stack of paper to euros and use real money to buy oil instead. As the world's most bloated Brobdingnagian debtor nation, America owes the world bigtime, and they have not the way, nor the will to pay.

Zeitgeist ~ n. 1 the spirit of the times. 2 the trend of thoughts and feelings in a period. [German from Zeit time + Geist spirit]

The most prescient and ugly PNAC statement of all is written in the section of the manifesto entitled, "Rebuilding America's Defences." It states that, " ...the process of transformation, [towards the New American Century] even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor." Many people have read into that statement a clear conspiracy by the PNAC cabal to produce the pretext for their war plans by committing the monumental crime of 9/11. Whether or not George Bush, Dick Cheney or their Ziocon cabal organized and orchestrated the September 11th events, nevertheless, who could argue that they are not sufficiently desperate and devoid of conscience to be capable of such atrocity, and that the technology and the means to pull it off were available to them? Watching Cheney and Rumsfeld actually choking back crocodile tears at the recent 5 year 9/11 anniversary memorial at the Pentagon clarified the depths of depravity these monsters are capable of.

As many as 250,000 Iraqi and Afghan citizens have been murdered since the Ziocons got their pretext and pre-emptively attacked those countries. A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the 9/11 attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. If growing numbers of people around the world don't buy the 'official' version of the 9/11 events, that can only be a good thing. The 'official' version is as murky as the 'conspiracists' version. It is the twisted lies, slander and disinformation campaigns of the PNAC cabal that have brought the world to this sorry pass, so personally, I don't much care if the so-called 'conspiracy nuts' are retaliating in kind. They are certainly doing some serious damage to the most overarching lie.

Practically speaking, it's not useful to ignore, stifle or censor such discussion, and in spite of Alexander Cockburn's disdain, the excellent articles on the subject posted on Counterpunch by Bill Christison and Diana Johnstone were perfectly rational and reasonable. The total censorship of that discussion by America's busiest so-called progressive Blog, Daily KOS is counterproductive and basically adds cred to dreadful Ziocon ravers such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporations resident Bush lackey and war-propagandist, Rex Murphy, who in his recent article, "Conspiracy Mongering is a Vicious Instrument" wrote this:

"...The overarching theory is that Bush and the neo-Cons, not bin Laden, not al-Qaeda, not Mohammed Atta and his virgin-hungry suicide team, but slow-witted George and his puppet masters, that they are the real villains, that the president and his plotters murdered 3,000 of their own citizens. I do not know why we give any oxygen to these extraordinary libels. Detestation for George Bush may qualify a person for many things, but it is not a degree of metallurgy, just as anti-Americanism is not a branch of physics.These theories that suggest a sitting president and his advisors would murder their own citizenry are a calumny, as lunatic as they are contemptible. They come from the imagination of hate, the pernicious concoctions of minds allergic to reality, and are beneath the dignity of reasoning human beings..."

Here following are some further Canadian contributions to the Ziocon Zugswang Zeitgeist which is currently ramping up the drumbeat for a geno-suicidal attack on Iran.

"We Should Nuke Iran" by the total wacko columnist Michael Coren, appeared last week in the Toronto Sun. Coren starts his off his schlock-shock screed with this:

"...It is surely obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding of history, politics and the nature of fascism that something revolutionary has to be done within months -- if not weeks -- if we are to preserve world peace. Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran..."

Here's the way another Canadian columnist, Mark Steyn beats around the bush:

"...Once again, we face a choice between bad and worse options. There can be no "surgical" strike in any meaningful sense: Iran's clients on the ground will retaliate in Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Europe. Nor should we put much stock in the country's allegedly "pro-American" youth. This shouldn't be a touchy-feely nation-building exercise: rehabilitation may be a bonus, but the primary objective should be punishment--and incarceration. It's up to the Iranian people how nutty a government they want to live with, but extraterritorial nuttiness has to be shown not to pay. That means swift, massive, devastating force that decapitates the regime--but no occupation..."

And then there's the other blood-lusting Canadian-bred Ziocon wingnut, Krauthammer :

"...Which is one of the reasons the Europeans are so mortified by the very thought of a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities. The problem is not just that they are spread out and hardened, making them difficult to find and to damage sufficiently to seriously set back Iran's program.

The problem that mortifies the Europeans is what Iran might do after such an attack -- not just cut off its oil exports but shut down the Strait of Hormuz by firing missiles at tankers or scuttling its vessels to make the strait impassable. It would require an international armada led by the United States to break such a blockade.

Such consequences -- serious economic disruption and possible naval action -- are something a cocooned, aging, post-historic Europe cannot even contemplate. Which is why the Europeans have had their heads in the sand for two years. And why they will spend the little time remaining -- before a group of apocalyptic madmen go nuclear -- putting their heads back in the sand. And congratulating themselves on allied solidarity as they do so in unison..."

And here's Canada's most repulsive Ziocon Repuglican, David Frum:

"...If Iran sees its goals as strengthening Hezbollah, driving the U.S. out of Iraq, and obtaining a nuclear bomb for itself, that list of priorities indicates what the Western world's counter-priorities have to be: destroying Hezbollah, securing Iraq, and halting the Iranian bomb program. The campaign to achieve those counter-priorities begins in Lebanon. It cannot end there..."

These are inconceivably dangerous times as the world's most fanatical, hateful ideologues struggle for total global domination. American global supremecy was already collapsing, even before the rise of the PNAC Ziocons. Zionist and Neocon collusion is essential to forward the plan, although whether America or Israel leads is unclear. The apocalyptic prophetic words of the idiot hair-trigger Nucuelar Decider, that "this is a war that will set the course for this new century -- and will determine the destiny of millions across the world" paradoxically ring true. But 'freedom" vs. "terror" is no strategy for Peace, and no phoenix of freedom will ever rise from the ashes of the Arabian deserts.

Anonymous said...

There's that date again, 1998 same year that Resnick started looking into purchasing Suterra ( 2000 ).

105th Congress, 1st Session, 1998:
H.R. 1119, NATIONAL DEFENSE AND AUTHORIZATION ACT, SEC. 1078. RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF HUMAN SUBJECTS FOR TESTING OF CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL AGENTS. (a) PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES- The Secretary of Defense may not conduct (directly or by contract)-- (1) any test or experiment involving the use of a chemical agent or biological agent on a civilian population; or (2) any other testing of a chemical agent or biological agent on human subjects. (b)EXCEPTIONS- Subject to subsections (c), (d), and (e), the prohibition in subsection (a) does not apply to a test or experiment carried out for any of the following purposes:
(1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical, therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or research activity.
(e) BIOLOGICAL AGENT DEFINED- In this section, the term 'biological agent' means any micro-organism (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, rickettsiac, or protozoa), pathogen, or infectious substance, and any naturally occurring, bioengineered, or synthesized component of any such micro-organism, pathogen, or infectious substance, whatever its origin or method of production, that is capable of causing-- (1) death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant, or another living organism; (2) deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies, or materials of any kind; or (3) deleterious alteration of the environment.

The full text of this bill (1,099 pages) may be viewed at: commdocs.house.gov/reports/105/h1119.pdf

Anonymous said...

RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF HUMAN SUBJECTS FOR TESTING OF CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL AGENTS.

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Totally legal in the USA to test humans with bio-weapons if you say 'agriculture'. Thanks Clinton.

Anonymous said...

biological malfunction in a human

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This reminds me of the Bush-Cheney defn of 'torture' that everything is OK, so long as you don't have complete organ failure. Ergo crushing testicals of children, a-ok.

Anonymous said...

Match Grade Rifle Ammunition
Our match grade rifle ammuntion is made one at a time on either single stage ... match grade bullets such as Sierra, Hornady or Nosler in our match ammo.

* LBAM Manufacturing

Riding me bike past Suterra LLC (the manufacturer of 'checkmate' that gov scharznegger demanded to be sprayed on Calif) yesterday, made me think of that hood, in between Suterra is MicroSemi ( used to be APT ), I have written much about APT over the last 2+ years, never a mention about NOSLER. Nosler is just north of Suterra.

Nosler makes bullets, bullets are dim little things surrounded in brass, with gun-powder. Bullets are typically copper coated lead. Nosler makes the best bullets in the world. Professional military snipers use the Best, and they demand 'match grade rifle bullets'.

My point is that BEND has always been a military weapons manufacturer. Suterra isn't the first.

Suterra's parent Bend Research owned by Harry Lonsdale was a real environmentalist. Stewert Resnick of LA-CA bought Suterra in 2000, Resnick is a major campaign contributor to CA GOV Schwarz.

Suterra today makes bio-bullets, some contain synthetic Pheromones, but they can be designed to contain anything biologic agent you wish. Suterra in their MSDS (federal safety disclosure) clearly state they're products are poison, and to be handled as such.

Suttera just makes the bio-bullets, they're NOT bad, anymore that NOSLER is bad.

It was BUSH-CHENEY (USDA-GOV SCHWARZ) that ordered the suterra-bullets to be shot from planes on the people of california. It was the people of BEND-OREGON that voted in a majority for BUSH-CHENEY in 2000 and 2004.

The evil is in California for allowing the spraying, the evil is in BEND-OREGON for voting for BUSH-CHENEY.

Then their is Suterra's owner a complex man, but who has a wife (Lynda Resnick) who is a marketing genius. Green, natural, non-toxic; How could such a disconnect happen between PR&MARKETING and US Federal MSDS disclosure??

Resnick convinced Schwarznegger to spray the cali's, and got scharznegger to sign off on a $500M non-bid purchase of Suterra 'Checkmate' over ten years, right now we're only in year two of the project, was Suterra of BEND wrong in not refusing the order, in todays economy???

Post dot-com crash, and into post 2000, everything had gone military, today its virtually impossible to do national business, and not get a majority of your orders from an agency of Homeland Security aka Bush-Cheney.

No ax to grind on Suterra or Nosler, they both make interesting products, in fact Nosler will tell you that bullets when used in their intended method will hurt you. When the bullets leave the factory, they can't control the usage.

When Suterra chemicals leave the factory they can't control the usage. The EVIL of the CALI spraying of Suterra-Checkmate is because of Bush&Cheney. The people of Bend-OREGON voted in majority for BUSH-CHENEY both terms.

Bio-Weapons, or match-grade precision military sniper bullets, BEND-OREGON has always been a military weapons manufacturer.

Nosler makes some the best bullets in the world, Suterra is the US leader in micro-encapsulated Pheromone delivery systems. Both good companys, and both clearly tell their customers that their products are dangerous.

Anonymous said...

Jeruslaem Post, Nov. 6, says 77% of American Jewish vote went to Democratic Party. This is down 10% from the 88% that voted Democratic in 2004.

Anonymous said...

Folks -- it could be worse, much worse. I don't think we're near these levels. At least it's not showing up in the official statistics...........


A Town Drowns in Debt as Home Values Plunge

NY Times

MOUNTAIN HOUSE, Calif. — This town, 59 feet above sea level, is the most underwater community in America.

Because of plunging home values, almost 90 percent of homeowners here owe more on their mortgages than their houses are worth, according to figures released Monday. That is the highest percentage in the country. The average homeowner in Mountain House is “underwater,” as it is known, by $122,000.

A visit to the area over the last couple of days shows how the nationwide housing crisis is contributing to a broad slowdown of the American economy, as families who feel burdened by high mortgages are pulling back on their spending.

Jerry Martinez, a general contractor, and his wife, Marcie, an accounts clerk, are among the struggling owners in Mountain House. Burdened with credit card debt and a house losing value by the day, they are learning the necessity of self-denial for themselves and their three children.

No more family bowling night. No more dinners at Chili’s or Applebee’s. No more going to the movies.

“We make decent money, but it takes a tremendous amount to pay the mortgage,” Mr. Martinez, 33, said.

First American CoreLogic, a real estate data company, has calculated that 7.6 million properties in the country were underwater as of Sept. 30, while another 2.1 million were in striking distance. That is nearly a quarter of all homes with mortgages. The 20 hardest-hit ZIP codes are all in four states: California, Florida, Nevada and Arizona.

“Most people pay very little attention to what their equity stake is if they can make the mortgage,” said First American’s chief economist, Mark Fleming. “They think it’s a bummer if the value has gone down, but they are rooted in their house.”

And yet the magnitude of the current declines has little precedent. “When my house is valued at 50 percent less than it was, does this begin to challenge the way I’m going to behave?” he said.

Mountain House, a planned community set among the fields and pastures of the Central Valley about 60 miles east of San Francisco, provides a discomfiting answer.

The cutbacks by the Martinezes and their neighbors are reflected in a modest strip of about a dozen stores in nearby Tracy. Three are empty while a fourth has only a temporary tenant. Some of those that remain say they are just hanging on.

“Before summer, things were O.K. Not now,” said My Phan of Hailey Nails and Spa. “Customers say they cannot afford to do their nails.” She estimated her business had fallen by half.

At Cribs, Kids and Teens, Jason Heinemann says his business is also down 50 percent. He opened the store in early 2006; last month was his worst ever. “Grandparents are big buyers of kids’ furniture, but when their 401(k)’s are dropping $10,000 and $20,000 a week, they don’t come in,” he said.

Mr. Heinemann laid off his one employee, a contribution to an unemployment rate in San Joaquin County that has surpassed 10 percent. He dropped his advertising in the local newspaper and luxury magazines.

As Mr. Heinemann’s sales sink, he is tightening his own belt. “I used to be a big spender,” he said. “We’re setting a budget for Christmas.”

In the window of another tenant, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, a placard shows two happy homeowners holding a sign saying, “Someday we’ll owe a lot less than we thought.”

Someday, maybe, but not now. First American has been refining its figures on underwater mortgages, formally known as negative equity. The data company evaluated 42 million residential properties with mortgages. (Though Maine, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming were excluded because of insufficient data, none of those states have been central to the mortgage crisis.) A computer model was used to calculate current values, using comparable sales. More than 10 million homes do not have mortgages.

The figures rank the 20 ZIP codes that are furthest underwater. The 95391 ZIP code, which includes all of Mountain House and some properties outside it, has the unwelcome distinction of being first in the country.

Out of 1,856 mortgages in the ZIP code, First American calculates that nearly 90 percent are underwater. Only 209 owners owe less on their mortgages than the homes are worth.


The first homes in Mountain House were sold in 2003, just as the real estate boom began to go into overdrive. Its relative proximity to San Francisco drew many who traded a longer commuting trip for a bigger place.

The Martinezes bought their house in early 2005 for $630,000. It is now worth about $420,000. They have an interest-only mortgage, a popular loan during the boom that allows owners to forgo principal payments for a time.

But these loans eventually become unmanageable. In 2015, Mr. Martinez said, his monthly payments will be $12,000 a month. He laughed and shook his head at the absurdity of it.

They fear the future, so they stay home. They rent movies. They play board games. (But not Monopoly — with its real estate theme, it reminds them too much of real life.)

“It’s a vicious circle,” Mr. Martinez said. The economy is faltering because he and millions of others are not spending. This killed his career in home remodeling this year, and threatens his current work as a contractor on commercial properties.

For the moment, the family is just trying to hold on. But Mr. Martinez acknowledges that it has entered his mind to turn his house back over to the bank. “By next June, if things aren’t better, I’m walking,” Mr. Martinez said.

Many in Mountain House have already taken that option. Banks took over 101 properties in the 95391 ZIP code in the third quarter, according to DataQuick Information Systems.

Even relatively recent arrivals are feeling a pinch.

Kenny Rogers, a data security specialist, moved into Mountain House last year, buying a foreclosed property on Prosperity Street for $380,000. But the decline in values has been so fierce that he too is underwater.

He has cut his DVD buying from 50 a month to perhaps one, and is waiting until the Christmas sales to buy a high-definition television. He does not indulge much anymore in his hobbies of scuba diving and flying. “Best to wait for a better price, or do without,” Mr. Rogers, 52, said.

People deciding to do without are hurting a second mall close to Mountain House. There is a shuttered Linens ’n Things, part of a chain that went bankrupt. Another empty storefront used to be a Fashion Bug. Soccer World could not make it. Shoe Pavilion is festooned with going-out-of-business signs.

Chris and Janet Ackerson can survey this carnage from their own store with a certain equanimity. Their business, a member of the Vino 100 chain of wine outlets, is doing well.

The store opened at the beginning of the year, so long-term trends are not clear. But sales did not plunge in the last few months as they did for so many other retailers. Four more people joined the store’s wine club last weekend.

“My house is underwater, so I’m not doing too much impulse shopping or any renovation. But I’m not cutting back on this,” said Ray Lopez, a database administrator, as he placed a $24 petite sirah on the counter. “Life’s too short.”

Anonymous said...

November 11, 2008

Toll’s Plea: Subsidize House Prices

Robert I. Toll, the chief executive of Toll Brothers, has a solution:

“We urge Congress to stimulate demand by reducing mortgage rates and fees and by providing incentives such as a buyer tax credit for the purchase of all types of homes. We believe these initiatives would offer the greatest benefit for the taxpayer’s dollar.”

The way he sees it, stabilizing home prices is the only way to keep all the other efforts from failing.

“Congress has allocated hundreds of billions of dollars to reset mortgages, help people who are in foreclosure, and protect those who have been the victims of rapacious lending practices. We believe all of these goals are very worthy. However, we believe that, if home prices are not stabilized, these efforts will be for naught, more mortgages will go under, and the taxpayers’ money will have been wasted.”

Others might say that tax breaks and unreasonably low interest rates helped to get us into this mess. Making new buyers overpay runs the risk of a repeat of what happened after the Japanese bubble burst, when artificially high prices simply prolonged the pain.

Helping homeowners without producing unintended results will not be easy. This sounds like little more than a plea to bail out the homebuilders.

As you might suspect, Mr. Toll was not worried about home prices when they were soaring to unreasonable levels. In fact, he was speculating that the rise would continue. Here’s what he had to say three years ago:

“According to two recent major studies, demand for new homes is projected to expand in the next 10 years; yet increasingly complex approval processes are constraining the supply of buildable lots. With affluent households — those earning $100,000 or more — growing six times faster than the population in general, we believe demand for luxury homes will accelerate. We now own or control approximately 60,000 home sites, a five-to-six-year supply based on our current pace of growth. We believe this positions us to prosper in the coming years from the growing imbalance between demand and supply.”

It turns out that there was a “growing imbalance between demand and supply” approaching. He got just one thing wrong: It was the supply that was too big.

Anonymous said...

Progressive zionists (HBM/SWITZER) distance themselves from neo-con(zio) [CHENEY], and left-wing zionists.

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For the past eight years in particular, but even before, the Israel advocacy volunteer community in the United States was increasingly identified with the United States Republican party, with right wing neo-conservatism and Christian Zionist Evangelism. The counter-historical myth was fostered that only Republicans are true friends of Israel, and that Zionism had some necessary relation with Republicanism and Republican values.

We need all the allies we can get, but not at the expense of other opinions. About half of Americans are Democrats - what the neo-conservative pundits and bloggers often call "left wing radicals."

America now has a liberal progressive Democratic administration. It has always had a liberal academic community and political leadership. Bush II was an aberration. Not only American policy, but American society and culture are turning to the left, and probably will do so for the next decade.

This polarization increased during the Iraq war and the recent election campaign. One would have thought that the "Jewish bloc" was going to vote overwhelmingly for the Republican candidate. Not really surprisingly however, about 77% of Jews, about the same percentage as always, voted for the Democratic candidate. Every election we hear about the supposed Jewish shift to the Republican party, and every election it turns out not to be so. It is a myth.

The agitation against Barack Obama and the Democratic party by a tiny minority of "Zionists," oblivious of evidence, has not ceased even after the elections (See Obama and Israel).

Our friends on the right are mostly out of step with USA and most of Europe. Many of the writers of Front Page magazine and Pajamas media and the like have thoroughly confounded support for Israel with support for anti-abortion legislation, drilling for oil in Alaska, tax cuts and not using condoms. That's OK for them. They are conservatives first and only incidentally support Israel. They say what they are right on the label. If they also support Israel, that's find. But a good many "Zionist" pundits are doing the same thing.

The attempt to identify Zionism with Republicanism or Conservatism is contrary to historical fact. As an advocacy strategy it is disastrous. An administration is probably not going to listen much to a lobby or interest that they know represent folks who won't vote for them. As James Baker said, "F--- the Jews. They didn't vote for us." That was not one of his wiser remarks, but it expressed a fundamental truth. There is no chance the Republicans will pay much attention to the ADA or the NARAL pro-choice lobby, and you know Barack Obama is not going to be listening much to the National Rifle Association if he can help it. We can't let the cause of Israel and spokespersons for that cause be put into deep freeze. More important perhaps, a majority of Americans support the Democratic party. If Zionism and the Israeli cause is identified with conservatism and the Republican party, it will be shunned. Even worse, since about 77% of Jews voted Democratic, as they always do (James Baker was right of course) identifying Zionism with the Republican party or conservatism isolates Zionism and Israel from American Jews. Indeed, there were and are a group of extreme leftist anti-Zionists and some anti-Semites in the Democratic party, but there is no lack of Republican and conservative bigots as well.

It is counter-historical and counter-factual to identify Zionism with conservative causes or the Republican party. One person who wrote to me objected to the alleged "socialism" of Barack Obama, which he claimed was "against Western values." I had to remind him that almost all of the founders of the Jewish state were socialists. Historically, every Democratic president without exception, regardless of their private views, including even Jimmy Carter, was, on balance, "good for Israel." The Republicans have a mixed record. The attitude of the Eisenhower administration was notorious, though Eisenhower was a good friend of the Jews in principle. The Ford administration was fortunately voted out of office before the impact of its Middle East "reevaluation" could be felt. George Bush Sr. was exceptional in being publicly antagonistic to Israel and claiming that the US had fought Desert Storm as a special favor to Israel. George Bush Jr. ("W") has a mixed record. America stood by Israel in the Second Lebanon War and made a lot of soothing statements about Israel. Palestinians insist that the United States has been biased in Israel's favor, but they will probably claim that about anyone who doesn't advocate deporting all the Jews. Mr. Bush proclaimed his support for a Palestinian state in numerous public addresses, even at the height of the Second Intifada. At the start of the Second Intifada, he sent Mr Mitchell and Mr Tenet here for the purpose of issuing reports that were certainly unoptimal from the Israeli point of view. During Operation Defensive Shield, he sent Secretary of State Colin Powell here with the thankless task of getting Israel to withdraw and cease hostilities, and then reneged and pulled the rug out from under Powell because of growing bipartisan pressure in the United States. The Bush administration is responsible for the removal of the IDF from Gaza - that was not part of the original disengagement plan, and the Bush administration is responsible for the participation of the Hamas in the Palestinian elections - over the objections of BOTH the Israelis AND the Fatah.

The Bush administration record on Iran is not quite as great as it seems. They do what is in the interests of the United States, for which they can hardly be faulted. As far as Israel is concerned, it is another matter. Had the Bush administration only issued the National Intelligence Estimate that claimed Iran was not building nuclear weapons, it would have been enough to illustrate the problem- "Dayenu," as we say at Passover. Had the Bush administration just taken care to quietly veto an Israeli attack on Iran, it would have been enough to show where their heart is - Dayenu. Had they also made sure that we didn't have the wherewithal to carry out such an attack at a future date, even if Iran obviously was developing nuclear weapons, that would have been more than enough, Dayenu. But in addition to that, they took care to leak all of this information, so that all credibility was removed from the Israeli deterrent, and Mr Ahmadinejad could laugh all the way to the uranium stockpile. Yet somehow, Republican partisans clothed as "Zionists" have managed to convince their audiences that the Bush administration was "good for Israel," but Democrats would be bad. Of course the Bush administration combated Jihadist terrorism, but they did that because Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda attacked the United States, not as a special favor to Israel.

I have examined the resolutions of the first Zionist Congress and the writings of numerous Zionist leaders. I didn't find in any of them any statement supporting bans on gay marriage, or support for right to life, drilling for oil in Alaska or income tax cuts. Some of them, like Theodor Herzl, supported "socialist" or liberal labor innovations, some, like Nachman Syrkin were socialists, and a few were more conservative, like Zeev Jabotinsky. Israel advocacy and Zionism have room for all democratic social and economic theories.

Real Zionist advocates should never confuse their personal political ideas with Zionism or try to market those ideas as a part of Zionism. This was always true. However, with the emergence of a new administration in the United States, it becomes urgent that conservative Zionists understand that a new era has dawned in American political life. Their insistence on identifying Zionism exclusively with the extreme right wing of the Republican party is an inaccurate distortion that will needlessly alienate most of the Jews of North America and about half the general population from Israel and from Zionism. The enemies of Israel have worked overtime to identify Zionism with Dick Cheney, neo-conservatism and the Republican party. Their work is facilitated by neo-conservative Zionists who insist on doing precisely the same thing.

However, it is not realistic to expect that most of these "Zionists" who are beating the drums of neo-conservatism will change their rhythm or their tune. Therefore, it is up to the progressive Zionists, who have generally been less than forward in defending Israel and representing Zionism, to re-assume the historic role of Labor Zionism as the representatives of our movement, rather than confining themselves to criticisms of Israeli policy.

Anonymous said...

So what is fucking wrong with being under-water??

HELLO

I was here in 1982, the home I paid $70k for was worth $30k. Did I move? Did I cry?

Hell no I paid the fucking MTG, and by 1986 the home was back up to $120k, much more than I had paid ($70k) in 1981.

Why the fucking sympathy for this shit?? These people bought because they were told real-estate only goes up, and now they're fucking surprised.

Everything is cyclic.

Lastly, Bend is 1-2 years behind the curve, we'll see below $120k medians here in Bend in 1-2 years.

Anonymous said...

These people only bought the HOME, because it was an ATM machine.

With prices under-water, it means the ATM machine is gone.

This is the fucking problem,

But whose problem is it??

The fucking home was never an ATM machine, BUSH setup this program in 2004 to get re-elected, and it worked. Now its over,

Get over it.

Anonymous said...

The USA will support Israel for many years to come. There are 13 Jewish Senators and there are 32 Jewish in the House of Representatives. These will have a huge influence on any President, DEM or PUG. Add to that the support of Christian Evangelicals, such as Pat Robertson, Jerry Faldwell and millions more rank and file. Then there is Hollywood movies and TV, a huge influence. Students at public schools and universities are taught guilt for the Holocaust and an earlier anti-Semitic America. So on and so on......Jewish people cherish a good education for their kids and they study hard and get on in all the professions. How many Nobel prizes? How many success stories all over? It's a tsunami of great achievement.

LavaBear said...

I loved this quote:

"they are learning the necessity of self-denial for themselves and their three children."

Self-denial. We've got that in spades around here. Had it on the way up and have it even more on the way down.

Anonymous said...

Burdened with credit card debt and a house losing value by the day, they are learning the necessity of self-denial for themselves and their three children.

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So with the HOUSE-ATM card they spent, and when the house went under-water the ATM went dry, they switched to credit cards. Now the balances are getting pulled back.

All these fucking people are ADDICTED to spending money they don't have.

SO FUCKING WHAT?

The city of Bend has spent tens of millions on JR, money they don't have.

Everybody does it.

So Fucking what.

Anonymous said...

The Jewish discussion is largely on which way OREO will go.

As described there are left, middle, and right-wing Jews.

The right-wing are every bit as crazy as bush-cheney, and some say are bush-cheney.

The left-wing is more like Alinsky, and as Gore-Vidal says "There no longer is a left in the USA". That both DEM & PUG in the USA are today right-wing.

The JEWISH left are the folks that fought for the rights of blacks to vote.

Jew's make up 2% by population, but control 90% of the Federal Reserve.

Some say that they just have the best minds for the job. Probably so, which is why OREO has RAHM-BO.

AIPAC is certainly one of the MOST feared PAC's in the USA, far more feared than AARP or NRA.

The real fucking issue is that the majority of folks in Israel are tired of the occupation, having lived in a self imposed prison for 2-3 generations. It's ONLY the AIPAC in the USA that keeps the whole fucking charade alive.

Years ago I used to study Zionism, back in the 1880's the Zionists were considering Willamette Valley as an Israel.

There is NOTHING special about the middle-east, and most people are weary and tired of killing Arabs with no hope of peace.

A cynic could argue that ISRAEL was always a BUSH proxy going back to WWII, and that today they're no longer useful. Given that we now have the largest military base in the world in IRAQ.

Anonymous said...

Burdened with credit card debt and a house losing value by the day, they are learning the necessity of self-denial

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Yes, this is laughable, 'burdened with debt', who would have ever guessed you had to pay it back,

It wasn't supposed to be this way, the HOUSE would go up forever and pay the bills, everybody had their own fucking perpetual money tree.

Just like BEND, with its fascination with perpetual motion machines, and perpetual money tree's.

Easy money, ... eventually you have to pay it back.

Who would have guessed?

This is not even fucking interesting.

Anonymous said...

Progressives Zionists question whether the right-wing zio-con/neo-con AIPAC even actually represents Jews?

Like the above article says', for zio-con/neo-con, its really all about oil.

For real left zionists it is the dream of a Jewish state, but not at perpetual war with its neighbors. There was a time that Jews & Arabs got along, before the right-wing BUSH-TRIBE created Neo-Zio-Con.

Anonymous said...

Now getting back to JEWS running +90% of the Federal Reserve Bank. $2 TRILLION is missing, and Bernanke refuses to say where it went, Bloomberg is suing. This is a big fucking story, and this is the mcSAME Bernanke that OREO wants to keep.

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Why Won't the Federal Reserve Say Who They Gave $2 Trillion To?

November 11, 2008.

The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans.
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What is this man hiding?

Apparently Bernanke, that wonderful bipartisan soul who is so competent and wonderful that everyone in the village thinks Obama should leave him in charge is refusing to identify who got almost 2 trillion dollars of Fed cash. Bloomberg News is suing to find out. Personally I really, really, really want to know. What exactly is Bernanke hiding? Who got the money he doesn't want us to know got the money?

This is money that was loaned in exchange for "collateral", by which we mean "trash no one else but the Fed would buy for anything but cents on the dollar." Barney Frank, embarrassing himself yet again, claims the Fed should keep its clap shut because if people know how bad it is, well, there might be a run. I think Barney's missing the point, as long as people don't know how bad it is, they won't trust anyone who might be borrowing large amounts of money from the Fed with crap collateral, because they don't know how bad it is and they suspect it's really really really bad. As in 10 cents on the dollar bad.

More to the point, that 2 trillion is taxpayer money, and taxpayers have a right to know what sweetheart deals Bernanke's been giving out, and who's been getting what. This whole "this information is too scary for citizens to know" schtick is so Bush regime. I thought we were moving into a new era of openness? Perhaps Barney should get with the program?

As for Bernanke, this is yet another reason why Bernanke, a central banker so incompetent he lost complete control of LIBOR, his most basic job, should lose his position. Sure, his mandate runs for another year, but if Obama asks him to step down, I can't imagine he wouldn't. The idea that a central bank that has screwed up as badly as the Fed has under both Greenspan and Bernanke is so much better off independent than with the public having some control is ridiculous and fundamentally anti-democratic. Central bank independence has just led to a huge financial bubble and economic collapse, while Bernanke and Greenspan both acted as if they were virtual dictators.

Bernanke needs to go, and either before or after he goes, the Fed needs to come clean about who it has given 2 trillion in loans to, and what the collateral is.

Anonymous said...

Jewish Fed Defies Transparency Aim in Refusal to Disclose (Update2)

By Mark Pittman, Bob Ivry and Alison Fitzgerald
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Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in September they would comply with congressional demands for transparency in a $700 billion bailout of the banking system. Two months later, as the Fed lends far more than that in separate rescue programs that didn't require approval by Congress, Americans have no idea where their money is going or what securities the banks are pledging in return.

``The collateral is not being adequately disclosed, and that's a big problem,'' said Dan Fuss, vice chairman of Boston- based Loomis Sayles & Co., where he co-manages $17 billion in bonds. ``In a liquid market, this wouldn't matter, but we're not. The market is very nervous and very thin.''

Bloomberg News has requested details of the Fed lending under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and filed a federal lawsuit Nov. 7 seeking to force disclosure.

The Fed made the loans under terms of 11 programs, eight of them created in the past 15 months, in the midst of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression.

``It's your money; it's not the Fed's money,'' said billionaire Ted Forstmann, senior partner of Forstmann Little & Co. in New York. ``Of course there should be transparency.''

Treasury, Fed, Obama

Federal Reserve spokeswoman Michelle Smith declined to comment on the loans or the Bloomberg lawsuit. Treasury spokeswoman Michele Davis didn't respond to a phone call and an e-mail seeking comment.

President-elect Barack Obama's economic adviser, Jason Furman, also didn't respond to an e-mail and a phone call seeking comment from Obama. In a Sept. 22 campaign speech, Obama promised to ``make our government open and transparent so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people's business.''

The Fed's lending is significant because the central bank has stepped into a rescue role that was also the purpose of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, bailout plan -- without safeguards put into the TARP legislation by Congress.

Total Fed lending topped $2 trillion for the first time last week and has risen by 140 percent, or $1.172 trillion, in the seven weeks since Fed governors relaxed the collateral standards on Sept. 14. The difference includes a $788 billion increase in loans to banks through the Fed and $474 billion in other lending, mostly through the central bank's purchase of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds.

Sept. 14 Decision

Before Sept. 14, the Fed accepted mostly top-rated government and asset-backed securities as collateral. After that date, the central bank widened standards to accept other kinds of securities, some with lower ratings. The Fed collects interest on all its loans.

The plan to purchase distressed securities through TARP called for buying at the ``lowest price that the secretary (of the Treasury) determines to be consistent with the purposes of this Act,'' according to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, the law that covers TARP.

The legislation didn't require any specific method for the purchases beyond saying mechanisms such as auctions or reverse auctions should be used ``when appropriate.'' In a reverse auction, bidders offer to sell securities at successively lower prices, helping to ensure that the Fed would pay less. The measure also included a five-member oversight board that includes Paulson and Bernanke.

At a Sept. 23 Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, Paulson called for transparency in the purchase of distressed assets under the TARP program.

`We Need Transparency'

``We need oversight,'' Paulson told lawmakers. ``We need protection. We need transparency. I want it. We all want it.''

At a joint House-Senate hearing the next day, Bernanke also stressed the importance of openness in the program. ``Transparency is a big issue,'' he said.

The Fed lent cash and government bonds to banks, which gave the Fed collateral in the form of equities and debt, including subprime and structured securities such as collateralized debt obligations, according to the Fed Web site. The borrowers have included the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Citigroup Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Banks oppose any release of information because it might signal weakness and spur short-selling or a run by depositors, said Scott Talbott, senior vice president of government affairs for the Financial Services Roundtable, a Washington trade group.

Frank Backs Fed

``You have to balance the need for transparency with protecting the public interest,'' Talbott said. ``Taxpayers have a right to know where their tax dollars are going, but one piece of information standing alone could undermine public confidence in the system.''

The nation's biggest banks, Citigroup, Bank of America Corp., JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, declined to comment on whether they have borrowed money from the Fed. They received $120 billion in capital from the TARP, which was signed into law Oct. 3.

In an interview Nov. 6, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said the Fed's disclosure is sufficient and that the risk the central bank is taking on is appropriate in the current economic climate. Frank said he has discussed the program with Timothy F. Geithner, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a possible candidate to succeed Paulson as Treasury secretary.

``I talk to Geithner and he was pretty sure that they're OK,'' said Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat. ``If the risk is that the Fed takes a little bit of a haircut, well that's regrettable.'' Such losses would be acceptable, he said, if the program helps revive the economy.

`Unclog the Market'

Frank said the Fed shouldn't reveal the assets it holds or how it values them because of ``delicacy with respect to pricing.'' He said such disclosure would ``give people clues to what your pricing is and what they might be able to sell us and what your estimates are.'' He wouldn't say why he thought that information would be problematic.

Revealing how the Fed values collateral could help thaw frozen credit markets, said Ron D'Vari, chief executive officer of NewOak Capital LLC in New York and the former head of structured finance at BlackRock Inc.

``I'd love to hear the methodology, how the Fed priced the assets,'' D'Vari said. ``That would unclog the market very quickly.''

TARP's $700 billion so far is being used to buy preferred shares in banks to shore up their capital. The program was originally intended to hold banks' troubled assets while markets were frozen.

AIG Lending

The Bloomberg lawsuit argues that the collateral lists ``are central to understanding and assessing the government's response to the most cataclysmic financial crisis in America since the Great Depression.''

The Fed has lent at least $81 billion to American International Group Inc., the world's largest insurer, so that it can pay obligations to banks. AIG today said it received an expanded government rescue package valued at more than $150 billion.

The central bank is also responsible for losses on a $26.8 billion portfolio guaranteed after Bear Stearns Cos. was bought by JPMorgan.

``As a taxpayer, it is absolutely important that we know how they're lending money and who they're lending it to,'' said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Arlington, Virginia- based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Ratings Cuts

Ultimately, the Fed will have to remove some securities held as collateral from some programs because the central bank's rules call for instruments rated below investment grade to be taken back by the borrower and marked down in value. Losses on those assets could then be written off, partly through the capital recently injected into those banks by the Treasury.

Moody's Investors Service alone has cut its ratings on 926 mortgage-backed securities worth $42 billion to junk from investment grade since Sept. 14, making them ineligible for collateral on some Fed loans.

The Fed's collateral ``absolutely should be made public,'' said Mark Cuban, an activist investor, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team and the creator of the Web site BailoutSleuth.com, which focuses on the secrecy shrouding the Fed's moves.

The Bloomberg lawsuit is Bloomberg LP v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 08-CV-9595, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

Anonymous said...

I remember telling you CUNTS +2 years ago that we would lose TRILLIONS of dollars on this bullshit, and everybody laughed.

Today we lose $2 Trillion, and is considered 'pocket change' not even worth picking up.

Anonymous said...

Folks, as you can all see the USA is broke, very broke, insolvent, and fucking BROKE.

Oil will be below $20/barrel at this rate as people sell anything they can for cash.

Your fucking ATM HOME? It ain't worth shit.

Anonymous said...

``I talk to Geithner and he was pretty sure that they're OK,'' said Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat. ``If the risk is that the Fed takes a little bit of a haircut, well that's regrettable.'' Such losses would be acceptable, he said, if the program helps revive the economy.

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Geithner is going to be OREO's treasury-sec, 'pretty sure' 'ok', ... Geithner was mentored by Bernanke & Greenspan, Geithner is the young stud who runs the NY FED, GIETHNER is the one who has been picking and choosing LEHMAN, AIG, ... day one.

GEITHNER is 'pretty sure'? 'Ok'?? He is the one that put all this shit together.

Folks, the charade is imploding.

Anonymous said...

There is a lot of talk today in the Jewish press in Israel about a new Pogrom in the USA, non-violent, but a Pogrom nonetheless. Note just this weekend was kristalnacht anniversary.

Jews make up 2%, and most Jews just barely get by like most folks.

A cynic would suggest that NEO-CONS put Kissinger in power & mcNamara, and that they have robbed the country blind, and that Greenspan, Bernanke are the fall guys.

Who would have gussed?? THE USA goes bankrupt, and the JEWS get all the blame, team CHENEY has already cashed out and moved all of Halliburton to Dubai.

You can see why the NEO-CONS/ZIO-CONS want to bomb IRAN ASAP, to take everyones mind off the USA bankruptcy.

Anonymous said...

``If the risk is that the Fed takes a little bit of a haircut, well that's regrettable.''

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Acceptable losses? In the tens of trillions for what? Not a fucking thing.

AIG wrote trillions of credit-swaps, and made billions, and paid out billions in bonuses, now all those insurance policys that they sold are due, who would have guessed all those policy's would never have to be paid.

Best of all who would have guessed that if the insurance company couldn't pay the claim that the FED-RESERVE would make good on all the claims?????????????

Remember there is known to have been $500 TRILLION in contracts written, and know losses to be over $50 Trillion.

But don't worry in the FUTURE all these insurance policy's will be written in Chicago.

Anonymous said...

As you can see below, the deep dark secret is that ALL the USA collateral is worth ZERO.

Who would have guessed??

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Moody's Investors Service alone has cut its ratings on 926 mortgage-backed securities worth $42 billion to junk from investment grade since Sept. 14, making them ineligible for collateral on some Fed loans.

The Fed's collateral ``absolutely should be made public,'' said Mark Cuban, an activist investor, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks professional basketball team and the creator of the Web site BailoutSleuth.com, which focuses on the secrecy shrouding the Fed's moves.

Anonymous said...

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger last week proposed a 90-day stay on home foreclosures in California, one of the hardest hit U.S. states by the housing-market collapse.

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AhrNOLD is insuring that all calis quit paying their MTG, and just sit back, and live for free, this will go on for years.

What incentive is there for anyone to just pay their fucking MTG??

Anonymous said...

AIG's Hank Greenberg one of the richest jews in the world to get a $1 Trillion dollar federal bailout.

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Calgary Herald
AIG's Losses Lead Insurers as Tally Nears $1 Trillion (Update1)
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
By Erik Holm and Stephanie Luke Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc.'s losses from the collapsing mortgage market account for almost half the $123.6 billion inflicted on North American insurers, helping push the tally for the ...

Anonymous said...

How do you say "no more lattes"

Starbucks’ profit plummets 97% Austin Business Journal
Bizjournals.com - 1 hour ago
Starbucks Corp.’s fourth-quarter results were affected by more than $105 million in restructuring costs but even figuring in those costs, the coffee giant missed analysts’ expectations by a good margin.

Anonymous said...

A cynic who liked orchestra's and especially Mozart's 9th, could almost say that the entire NEW-YORK Jewish house of finance is being destroyed, so the ashes can be moved to Chicago.

When you see an orchestra of this magnitude, and trillions of dollars evaporating and Treasury and Fed-RES refusing to meet congress you know that ROME is burning.

I think the reason BLOOMBERG ( one of the richest Jews in NY ) is forcing the FED to go public is to save NEW-YORK finance from the FED-RESERVE.

Anonymous said...

Then you also have today BUSH saying that if OREO wants to bailout GM, then OREO has to tell the DEM's to pass the COLUMBIA-COCAINE-CARTEL trade-act, big time payback for IRAN-CONTRA team to payback for all them cocain dollars years under raygun.

PELOSI told BUSH "FUCK YOU".

Looks like NO xmas for GM, they're fucked either way.

Anonymous said...

Bill Friedman died. I got exhausted just reading his resume. I don't know how these civic minded guys do it, or why. Thank god some people are willing to commit so much time and energy to the process. - dunc

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He virtually OWNED the HOA collection racket with his CPA firm in this town.

'Civic Minded'?

How about "Put all your eggs in the city basket, and watch them like a hawk".

Up at INN@7thMTN for instance his firm was getting 10X of industry average for HOA monthly management of the books. In virtually every condo HOA in this city FRIEDMAN had his hand.

Services? At INN@7thMTN he just wasn't collecting the monthly HOA fee's he was counting HOA election ballots.

Conflict of interest?

Last year a subdivision canceled their contract with him because they lost almost $10k that he couldn't account for!!!!

Go on DUNC tell us MORE, about Bend and CIVIC PRIDE.

Show us that you can OUT-BULL the BULL.

Anonymous said...

When you see an orchestra of this magnitude, and trillions of dollars evaporating and Treasury and Fed-RES refusing to meet congress you know that ROME is burning.

I think the reason BLOOMBERG ( one of the richest Jews in NY ) is forcing the FED to go public is to save NEW-YORK finance from the FED-RESERVE.


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A lot of left-wing and progressive JEWS know that neo-cons don't represent them.

But ALL Jews will be punished for what BUSH has allowed to transpire in the Jewish name.

Anonymous said...

$700B bailout?? Bullshit, $2.4 TRILLION already has been spent!! But who got the money??

http://www.bailoutsleuth.com/

The rising cost of the bailout
By Chris Carey on November 10, 2008 6:50 PM | 3 Comments | No TrackBacks

Although the price tag on the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program is $700 billion, the full amount that the government has invested in its rescue effort for struggling financial institutions appears to be closer to $2.5 trillion.



Bloomberg L.P., the parent company of Bloomberg News, said last week that it filed a lawsuit seeking information on the collateral that a group of banks pledged for some $2 trillion in emergency loans from the Federal Reserve.

Anonymous said...

SOME NEW MATHS FOR UNDERSTANDING WHAT WENT WRONG AT AIG

It is becoming increasingly apparent from the scale of the revised AIG rescue plan announced yesterday, and the fact that there has still been no real “pricing” of the really toxic stuff by the TARP, that the financial engineers that created this monumental disaster were either unintentionally reckless beyond belief or, if the obfuscation was intentional, this must surely be counted as the largest theft ever perpetrated and taxpayers should be demanding ongoing investigations leading to criminal prosecutions.
If we just focus on the more benign interpretation (i.e. that it was not malicious intention) one is forced to the conclusion that the mathematics that underlies all of the risk modeling that went into these structured products is absolutely flawed. Not just slightly wrong but fundamentally mis-conceived.
The saddest part of the whole mess is the hubris and arrogance of the people that signed off on the assessments made by the “quants” of the likelihood of defaults and the probability distributions of financial accidents. Extreme events in time series data are of a completely different complexion to the tails of a normal distribution.
If risk managers really insist on finding a bit of maths that can account for the likelihood of critical events taking place – such as collapses in real estate prices and implosions of liquidity – a better place to look would be the predator-prey modeling which has been conducted mainly in relation to bio and eco-systems.
Predators eventually run out of sufficient prey and their populations decline substantially until there is a chance for the supply of prey to be replenished. At such time the predators can get back to business. This modeling gives rise to oscillations in the ratio of predators to prey and right now we are in a bear phase for the predators. One slight modification to the model needs to be made for the government rescue plans etc which will perhaps keep those marginal survivors from the last predation on a life support system long enough so that they can limp off and become ensnared in some new financially engineered scam.

Anonymous said...

Of course none of the stuff today can we 'debate' because its off the table.

Like Suterra LLC, of BEND, OR.

You can't debate, when in fact its owned by Stewart Resnick, of LA-CALIF, the richest Jew in Calif.

If Suterra wasn't owned by a one of the richest jews in the world, the BULL & SORE would be all over them.

Instead we get complete fucking chilling silence.

Who would have guessed??

Anonymous said...

"Instead we get complete fucking chilling silence."


Suterra is one of the firms spending money in the area; not laying off people.

Look, who wants to look a gift horse in the mouth?

Anonymous said...

>>>Instead we get complete fucking chilling silence.


There is no debate because it's fucking ludicrous. Your made up conspiracy theories go so far beyond reality that you end up talking to yourself.

I think we SERIOUSLY need jobs in this town and Suterra provides them. It also seems like the whole point of Juniper Ridge was for industrial use. Makes sense to me.

Quimby said...

Ski resort for super rich files for bankruptcy

My how the mighty fall....is Pronghorn next?

Couldn't have happened to a nicer set of assholes, I'm sure.

LavaBear said...

>>>Instead we get complete fucking chilling silence.

I've learned long ago that debating conspiracy theories with the outter fringe is a no win game.

Neg-Am Teaser Loans

I will debate that the National Realtors Association should be going berserk regarding Fannie and Freddie trying to essentially lock people into their home forever. Realtors don't know it but the only way they will survive is for foreclosures to INCREASE. If you get the government coming in an putting a floor on the market I will agrue that we then get a complete lockup. You will have all of the people like myself who won't buy because it's still stupid expensive. You'll also have all of the other people locked into mortgages they can't get out from underneath. Can't sell and can't move up.

Anonymous said...

All the government did today is set the cap at 40% of income on a loan payment.

1.) You have to have income,

2.) If your already paying over 40% of your income servicing your MTG, your fucked.

Anonymous said...

Suterra is one of the firms spending money in the area; not laying off people.

Look, who wants to look a gift horse in the mouth?

Hiel Hitler

Anonymous said...

Suterra is one of the firms spending money in the area; not laying off people.


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Hell yes, Suterra LLC is going to get $500B over the next ten years from Calif. All good.

CheckMate is Bends salvation.

Can't get enough Pesticides in my system.

Just like Hanford, WA, with 'Atomic Cafe', and 'Atom Alley', folks that make weapons are some of the wealthiest towns in the USA.

Bio-Weapon micro-encapsulated technology is the future of warfare. With the new aerial drone aircraft entire towns can be sprayed anywhere in the world at night with no risk to anyone and complete denial-ability.

Anonymous said...

I was thinking about that today on a walk.

You have Columbia Ave, on that street in a row; Suterra, Microsemi (APT), and Nosler.

Suterra: BIO-WEAPONS

Micro-Semi: Fly by wire high current SCR's for switching on modern joint strike fighters

Nosler: finest sniper bullets in the world.

Hell yes, Bend is not going to have a recession, we're protected we make things that kill people, and poison their children. We're sitting damn pretty for this recession.

Bring it on, bring more defense contractors to BEND, and lets make BEND in love-canal.

Anyways I was thinking that Columbia Av, should be renamed 'Love Canal Lane'. Fitting.

Anonymous said...

Suterra is one of the firms spending money in the area; not laying off people.

Look, who wants to look a gift horse in the mouth?

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Just wait a few months OREO is going to pull the plug on all these USDA & CFDA projects and send them to Chicago, and have Detroit make the bio-weapons.

Bend voted PUG, the days of MILITARY pork contracts coming to this shit-hole is over.

Anonymous said...

Suterra is one of the firms spending money in the area; not laying off people.

Look, who wants to look a gift horse in the mouth?

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The jobs of Les Schwab were NET-ZERO for the area,

The jobs for Suterra are net-zero, they may not have laid off 'yet', but they sure as shit aren't hiring.

Anonymous said...

I've learned long ago that debating conspiracy theories with the outter fringe is a no win game.

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Thats really funny lava, your always game for debating the obvious.

The PUSSY starting to make all you look like a fucking Einstein.

Anonymous said...

I've learned long ago that debating conspiracy theories with the outter fringe is a no win game.


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A conspiracy requires 'secrecy' that is a pre-condition.

There are NO FUCKING SECRETS.

Only the PUSSY harps on 'secrecy', which would infer a conspiracy. I do not. In all cases all the records are public documents.

Thus there is by definition NO CONSPIRACY.

Anonymous said...

I love the new Bend, you got HBM trying to say BEND has a 'progressive mandate for Obama', and you got homer, lava, ... et-all going nuts over the fact that the PUG's got fucked.

To me there is NO conspiracy, rather its just fun to throw it all out on the table, and then guess which way it will go.

The pussy ain't interested in WHY, and most folks in BEND aren't even interested in what,when,where,&who.

I know you all got bigger problems, like no job, no home, living in your car, ... life's a bitch, and then you end up in BEND.

Anonymous said...

Below is the actual plan today, set payment to 40% of income,

But sheeeeeeet we know from history a family can only eat at 25%, so by design, this new system turns all of AmeriKKKa into a company town, where nobody ever climbs out of fucking debt.

Who would have guessed??

Why turn the USA into prison, when you can turn every home into a prison, and make them pay for it?

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Anonymous said...

mortgage firms will rewrite the terms on some overdue mortgages so the homeowners won't pay more than 38% of their incomes.

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How kind, just what the doctor ordered.

Anonymous said...

Suterra is one of the firms spending money in the area; not laying off people.

Look, who wants to look a gift horse in the mouth?


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I know, I know, six months ago we were all writing how much we hate calis, now we find out that Bend is going to become the MECCA of CALI Zykon-B 'Final Cali Solution', I know, I know, you would think that everyone in BEND would be jumping up & down, and shit we get paid to destroy cali lives!!!!!!

You all MUST understand by now, that I'm a contrarian.

Now that the MAJORITY ( OVER 50% ) of BEND supports Sterilizing Calis, I'm against it!! Who would have guessed??

Bewert said...

Buster, your rants are right on today. I had one of my own about the Bloomberg lawsuit ready last night, and somehow it was lost between the tubes.

Can you fucking believe that TWO FUCKING TRILLION OF TAXPAYERS DOLLARS ARE SPENT AND THEY REFUSE TO SAY ON WHAT?

The USA is fast becoming the US of Rome burning.

The thing is the truly rich and powerful don't fucking care. The US is just another country to loot.

And they are doing a fine fucking job right now.

Anonymous said...

"I learned long ago to NEVER debate religion or politics."

Fuck that shit, this is the purpose of this blog, if you don't want to debate Bend SHIT you shouldn't be here.

All Politics is theft by other means than war, Religion is the greatest killer in world history.

Enough blogger fodder for an eternity.

Bend is NOSE deep in HYPOCRISY and FRAUD.

INFINITE BLOGGER FODDER.

Anonymous said...

The thing is the truly rich and powerful don't fucking care. The US is just another country to loot.

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Shit the people of BEND don't care, nobody cares.

They're building a BIO-WEAPON pesticide plant a couple 100 yds from an elementary school (LAVA RIDGE), and nobody fucking cares. Just one fucking leak a barrel of aerosol iso-cyanate and all the little kiddy's lungs become super-glue in a nano-second, and instant suffocation.

They call us 'conspiracy theorists' for talking this shit?? Go figure.

This shit is SO rich that Suterra sued people last year for just mentioning that their primary 'INERT' component was iso-cyanate, courts in CALI ruled that the PEOPLE had the right to KNOW!!!

IN BEND THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW.

That was my point yesterday on the history of IG-FARBEN, that when the war was over those who made the pesticide, and the town that made it were tried and executed.

Deja-Vu BEND, OREGON

Anonymous said...

He's like the Energizer Bunny, fueled on happy hour microbrews. He keeps going and going and going....

Anonymous said...

The USA is fast becoming the US of Rome burning.

The thing is the truly rich and powerful don't fucking care. The US is just another country to loot.

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The NEO-CON rich all have an estate in Tuscany ( keep your passport current ). CHENEY moved all his assets and Halliburon HQ to Dubai over the past years, all these people have already setup shop elsewhere, just like Jim Rogers in Singapore.

BP reason I keep saying JEW, is to wake up the liberal&progressive Jews, cuz they're going to get blamed for this $50 TRILLION DOLLAR ROBBERY.

All over ISRAEL the hot topic today is a POGROM coming to the USA.

Then you got our own town making NAZI poison gas, and nobody cares.

Go Figure.

Anonymous said...

That was my point yesterday on the history of IG-FARBEN, that when the war was over those who made the pesticide, and the town that made it were tried and executed.

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When this is over, all of Bend, will be tried and executed.

Anonymous said...

The thing is the truly rich and powerful don't fucking care. The US is just another country to loot.

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Today you got people like Stewart Resnick of LA-CALI, a BILLIONAIRE.

This is rich today, the billionaires clubs, and yes they are tied to no country. Resnick ( suterra owner ) has a dual Israel/US passport, thus he can fly his private jet anytime he wants to a safe harbor.


NOBODY ever cared PUSSY you know that. Whats interesting is the massive amount of money now. You got BILLIONAIRES now within reach of being TRILLIONAIRE's!!!!!!!!

We all know that soon will see HOMER's hyper-inflation, and a worthless dollar.

Like Marge says, beans, bullets, & butter, ...

I think soon a millionaire will be poor, a billionaire average, and we'll soon have lots of trillionaires, ... end of the world hell no, just fucking insane greed.

Anonymous said...

Buster, you've got to understand that people are going to be SO desperate that they would willlingly become another Tri-Cities right here.

Environment-schmironment.

That's a concern only for people who have jobs.

When you're forced to move from a 0.25 acre lot, 3000 sq ft house, with 3 car garage, into a 900 sq ft apartment, then you'll understand.

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That said, keep up the good work. Some of us out here think you're probably on to something.

But you've got to understand why no-one is going to get riled up right now.

Certainly the papers aren't going to cover it.

Anonymous said...

http://innof7thmtn.com

innowners.com

Good time to review the above sites, given that dunc today wrote a eulogy on the goodness of Mayor Friedman.

Trouble of course is that with his insiderness, he was able to run an HOA collection racket, and basically have first refusal to all the CONDO monthly HOA fee's in the city, and slide off a percentage for the house.

In a normal city like chicago this would be called 'protection', and Freidman would have been referred to as an enforcer, but hell this is BEND, where Friedman is eulogized as our greatest civic treasure.

Anonymous said...

BP, I know your not much of a progressive but a hell of lot more so, than HBM.

Parenti is one of the greatest living US progressives, and he gives JR Fuhrer Garzini his highest honors.

"Ron Garzini is the number one prison booster in the USA" - Parenti


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Anonymous said...

Environment-schmironment.

That's a concern only for people who have jobs.

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But this is ASS-BEND ( sounds like ASPEN ), people come from all over the world to hike, bike, and visit, if they find out that Bend is just a bio-toxic waste dump, ... How can we keep this a secret??

Anonymous said...

Can you fucking believe that TWO FUCKING TRILLION OF TAXPAYERS DOLLARS ARE SPENT AND THEY REFUSE TO SAY ON WHAT?
- BP

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Yes, BP and Giethner OREO's treasury sec to be, the current NY FED RES chairman is the man behind all the handouts to date.

Geithner is a student of Bernake, and also of Greenspan. He is their 'enforcer' that runs everything in New York.

Anonymous said...

http://bendbubble3.blogspot.com/2008/10/watching-empire-decline-from-bend.html

Boy the above fuckhead has it right.

"How to Manage an Empire in Decline"

How long before people have to whore their daughters and wives to get money for food??

Bewert said...

So I hear the word is that Suterra hasn't come up with enough of a financial guarantee to make the city and JRMB happy about letting them build.

It's kind of wierd to say the least, especially since Suterra has spent a bunch building that big pad out already.

All you Suterra haters better make yourselves known, as it could easily be scuttled.

Bewert said...

Post 300--a song that connects with me on so many levels it's amazing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZxhFKCxNZM&feature=related

Especially right now.

Quimby said...

Nice tune Bruce, and what an axe!

I've neglected the White Stripes LONG ENOUGH!

I really enjoyed his work with Loretta Lynn.

Bewert said...

Thanks, Q :)

It looks like I may be going back to working with the angry young men again, and this is one I really want to share with them. It should provoke a good discussion.

Anonymous said...

It's the CITY that has spent $4.3M on the SUTERRA infrastructure pussy.

Suterra hasn't put a dime in.

Lastly, the ELECTION of OBAMA is what changes everything PUSSY.

NOBODY HATES SUTERRA.

WITHOUT BUSH, RESNICK NO LONGER HAS A PATRON.

WHICH MEANS RESNICK WILL PULL THE PLUG.

EVERYBODY WAS COUNTING ON $500M in spraying over a ten year contract, we're only on year two.

Now with Obama prez, the Bush-Cheney homeland-security via USDA is questionable.

In the past few months virtually all the courts in the bay-area have said NO MORE SPRAYING.

Things have changed, that not the CITY nor Suterra-LLC can control.

NOT a fucking thing to do with any soul in Bend.

Anonymous said...

Well Suterra put in $2.3M for the lot, but there are termination agreements.

Les Schwab got a hell of deal, over $10M in infrastructure "shovel ready".

Suterra was expecting the same deal, but now the city is broke, and we're not talking about 'Les Schwab' the gawd-father of Central-Orygun.

The Suterra LLC folk have NO fucking political capital.

Just the power transmission is going to cost a fortune, and the well, and the DEQ impact, which has been quietly ignored.

I'm sure with the all the media attention, yeh sure the CITY waived all the permits, ...

But the COUNTY & STATE were never told, and they learned from these forums, and now there are most likely dozens of federal, state, and county permits.

But MOST important of all with Obama, and the rubber-stamp has no ink, better to wait awhile.

You better start reading the severance agreement pussy.

Anonymous said...

All you Suterra haters better make yourselves known, as it could easily be scuttled.

*

Nobody hates suterra, or has an ax to grind pussy.

The only reason we write about Suterra is that the SORE & BULL refuse to tell people what is going on in their community.

Also given there has been NO civic discourse about putting a toxic pesticide factory next to Lava Ridge Elementary, there is going to have to be a lot of explaining to do.

Also you said last night that Mike Hollern was at the meeting, he owns most of the surrounding land, a chemical pesticide company, and its legacy is not good for the good-will that HOLLERN likes to sell.

Note NWXC 90% marketing, and 10% on the houses, and he charged a 50% premium.

The city may be rethinking if it really wants Suterra to be its ANCHOR out at JR.

It's an anchor all right.

At this point the city has NO political capital, and also a whole new city council is coming in that has to fight for this lost cause.

Bewert said...


China's Retail Sales Rise 22%, Help to Counter Crisis

Anonymous said...

So I hear the word is that Suterra hasn't come up with enough of a financial guarantee to make the city and JRMB happy about letting them build.

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WHo is your fucking source to that statement?

There is NOTHING about 'happiness' or guarantees in the letter of intent. States flatly $7/sq-ft is the cost of the land.

Its fairly clear that from July to Oct they expedited this thing, since summer legal spraying in cali has been banned.

Now with Obama as prez things will slow down big-time.

Moving the existing Suterra plant out to the new digs is still a good deal, the old plant is a dump.

How much MONEY is Resnick willing to dump on this baby? Especially if it now appears that the city-hall, staff, and citizens aren't the PUG NAZI's he thought he was buying, ...

$7/sq-ft for worthless desert land, $1/2M for power, water, ... Probably $100/sq-ft for a building, we're probably talking $10M, they got to have tons of custom stainless steel for all manufacturing.

Tons of DEQ paper-work, ... They were on a fast track, it was all PUG just two weeks ago, if the DEQ starts enforcing the law,...

What if the DEQ forces them to have a moat for spills, or a double walled building for release into the air of toxic poison? What are the ramifications to insure safety so close to an elementary school?

Nobody went public, nobody asked questions, everybody assumed they would get the 'Les Schwab' deal.

It could now cost $5-10M just for the DEQ, .... Whats the point of moving? What is the added benefit?

Expansion, sure if bush/cheney were still in power, and schwarzzy was going to still be sending the $500M, that is a remote possibility now.

In the summer when KURATEK&GARZINI was putting this all together, money was still easy for city-bonds, today in CALIF citys are going BK, city bonds are getting impossible to sell, and BEND is a fucking accounting fraud.

What a difference in political climate from July, or even October 2008.

Also now with Friedman dead the city hall really doesn't have a leader, lets hope they bring back Garzini full time, otherwise they'll be a 24/7 circle jerk.

Anonymous said...

BEND IS THE BEST CITY IN OREGON FOR SODOMY, & INCEST.

11/11/08 Bend

A recent survey by Business Week magazine chose Bend as the best place in Oregon to raise a child. The towns in the survey had at least 50,000 residents with a median income between $40,000 and $100,000. Other factors used included school performance, number of schools, household expenditures, crime, air quality, job growth, museums, parks, theaters and other amenities. Schools and crime were given the most weight.

Hillsboro and Springfield came in second and third.

Anonymous said...

All you Suterra haters better make yourselves known, as it could easily be scuttled.

*

Nobody hates Suterra BP, we hate Mormons who wear Yarmulkes on their dick, but nobody hates suterra. ( BP you really do look funny in that funny underwear with yarmulke over your pee-pee ).

Suterra's MSDS clearly state their product is toxic poison. It's the BUSH-CHENEY tribe, and the state of Calif that mis-applied Suterra products. It's the USDA on behalf of Homeland Security that forced the aerial spraying of Suterra products.


Surely there are tons of folks in CALI, that hate Suterra, but that's like hating the gun, and not the trigger man.

Anonymous said...

Schools and crime were given the most weight.

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Bend schools are great for scoring dope, looks like the secret is out.

Quimby said...

>> job growth, museums

Hmmm, how about job LOSS, and we have what, one museum???

jeesh

Anonymous said...

On February 20, 2008, staff provided the City Council with a financial update of Juniper
Ridge which included a proposal to obtain a $6 million line of credit to fund Juniper Ridge
construction and operating costs through FY08-09. A recap of the costs and funding is as
follows:
Page 2
Form revised February 2008
Costs:
Infrastructure and HWY97/Cooley mid-term study
$ 9.0 million
Payment to Juniper Ridge Partners for master plan
2.5
Additional master planning & entitling costs projected
0.1
Subtotal (investment in infrastructure & masterplan)
11.6
Personnel & overhead costs
2.5
$14.1 million
Funding:
Les Schwab property sale proceeds
$ 3.7 million
Long term debt repaid through tax increment
3.7
Line of credit
6.0
Property sales
0.7
$14.1 million
In March a request for proposal was issued to various banks to obtain the lowest interest
cost for the line of credit. Proposals were received from 3 banks and Bank of America was
selected. The interest on the line of credit will be tied to the bank’s prime rate or LIBOR.
A resolution has been presented to the BURA board for approval to authorize the line of
credit with Bank of America and also to authorize the contingent loan agreement with the
City. The bank requires the use of this contingent loan agreement to provide the City’s
guarantee on the line of credit

Anonymous said...

financial safeguards for the City
and Investor, including a “firewall” between the Project and Bend’s General Fund. The
negotiating team observed – and will continue to follow – these policy guidelines:
1. The Project should generally follow the approved master plan, which was developed
by Cooper, Robertson in conjunction with an extensive public process.
2. The Project should follow the ten Guiding Principles developed by City Council.
3. The General Fund and credit-worthiness of the City should not be put at risk
by the Project. Financing security should be provided by other means, e.g., the land
or investor capital.

4. Revenues to the City should be maximized where possible, while risk should be kept
to appropriate levels, consistent with No. 2, above.
5. The developer and investor deserve a profit and reward consistent with risks taken.
6. After approval of the DDA, the ultimate decision-making for the Project will rest with
City Council as administered by a special Board of Governors. As described in the
attached DDA summary, all five members of this board are to be appointed by City
Council and two are to be current City Council members.
7. Financial recordkeeping shall be open and fully accountable

Anonymous said...

This one is going to cost the city a fortune, they MUST prove to SWALLEY that water will not be effected by the manufacturing process at the development.

***

Water Quality
A number of water quality issues occur when city planners and utility staff approve
subdivisions and development adjacent to irrigation canals without regard to the consequences
to the irrigation district and this key infrastructure. For example, the city requires developers to
put in swales and environmental fences that impinge on district easements and right of ways,
preventing or significantly impeding irrigation canal maintenance access. These requirements
also impact the viability of the canal by their location which often jeopardizes the integrity of
the canal banks. Development causes other problems that are often not addressed and should be
including:
1) Storm water and other runoff must be kept out of canals so as not to impact water
quality; new construction causes significant problem for irrigation water quality.
2) Urban residents dump trash into open canals. They aren't tied to rural agriculture and
don't seem to respect the vital role these canals play in supporting agriculture

Anonymous said...

WITH FRIEDMAN GONE, THE BEND ACCOUNTING FRAUD WILL IMPLODE

***

Further discussion followed about time lines, cashflow and other risks. Councilor Gramlich had
some serious concerns and asked that Council be notified if the cashflow gets too low.

[ Here August 2008, what the fuck do we do if we run out of money? ]

[ Here following Friedman replys that you just borrow on the future SDC receipts to which he is told the city of Bend cannot do this type of accounting. ]

Councilor Friedman asked if the city has the option of borrowing against future receipts or as
bonding leverage and if staff was comfortable enough with the cash stream to support a bond
and Ms. Andrews replied the city can never pledge bonds with SDC revenue and she was not
comfortable supporting a bond because she did not know what collection issues will arise. She
would have to see some history first.

Anonymous said...

The Project should follow the ten Guiding Principles developed by City Council.

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Principals? Bend city council? Are they nuts?

Anonymous said...

Guiding Principles
1. Development at Juniper Ridge must be
of the highest quality that matches the
project’s importance to Bend and Central
Oregon.
•Outdoor recreation areas, thoroughfares
and infrastructure will establish a rich
open space network
•Guidelines will ensure the creation of a
first-class extension of the City of Bend
•Different uses and building types will
exist side by side, supporting a walkable,
bikeable community for work, live, and
play
•Existing on-site and distant landscape
features will be incorporated
NEW TOWN, WILLIAMSBURG, VA
Page 19
January 17, 2007
Cooper, Robertson & Partners
Architecture, Urban Design
Guiding Principles
2. Juniper Ridge will attract clean R&D
and compatible businesses that will
provide living-wage jobs into the future.
•The City and Juniper Ridge Partners will
continue to interface with and seek out
appropriate businesses
•Well-served parcels close to retail,
homes and community facilities will be
provided to entice clean R&D and
compatible businesses.
•Zoning will control allowable uses,
prohibiting inappropriate, noxious uses in
this mixed-use community
CELEBRATION, FL
Page 20
January 17, 2007
Cooper, Robertson & Partners
Architecture, Urban Design
Guiding Principles
3. Industrial land uses will be prioritized
for industrial sectors targeted through the
sector targeting process.
•Planning of industrial lands will
consider targeted industrial sector
physical needs
•Appropriate parcel sizes and
infrastructure will be provided to suit
targeted industrial sectors
•The City and Juniper Ridge Partners will
establish priority in tenant /user selection
for targeted industrial sectors
DANIEL ISLAND, CHARLESTON, SC
Page 21
January 17, 2007
Cooper, Robertson & Partners
Architecture, Urban Design
Guiding Principles
4. The university and Regional Education
Consortium will be a model of innovation
that responds to the community and
Central Oregon needs while serving the
needs of business.
•Planning of university and related lands
will consider a variety of needs, creating
links to the broader community
•The City and Juniper Ridge Partners will
continue to consult with local, statewide
and national leaders and experts in
cutting-edge educational alliances and
methods
•Business forecasting will continue to
inform the physical plan as well as the
university plan and the City Economic
Development department
YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CT
Page 22
January 17, 2007
Cooper, Robertson & Partners
Architecture, Urban Design
Guiding Principles
5. The university shall be closely
integrated with businesses at Juniper
Ridge, providing opportunities for
interaction both inside and outside the
classroom.
•University and related lands will be
located adjacent to R&D, town center
and other uses
•Facilities will be planned to be
accessible for student, faculty and
business-sector use
•Neighborhood-serving retail will be
located to provide opportunities for
informal interaction between the
business and university communities
YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CT
Page 23
January 17, 2007
Cooper, Robertson & Partners
Architecture, Urban Design
Guiding Principles
6. Design, construction and operations
will follow the best practices of
sustainable and green development.
•Sustainability is a 3-legged stool:
environmental, economic and social
equity concerns in an interdependent,
balanced relationship
•“Green” buildings and physical
environments (“smart growth”) are a key
part of the sustainability triad
•Juniper Ridge will also provide a range
of employment opportunities to
encourage a diverse economic base
•A range of educational, employment,
and living alternatives will balance
Juniper Ridge
BAY MEADOWS PHASE II, SAN MATEO, CA
Page 24
January 17, 2007
Cooper, Robertson & Partners
Architecture, Urban Design
Guiding Principles
7. Juniper Ridge should be a model of
energy conservation, with a targeted
building energy cost 25 percent to 50
percent lower than traditional buildings.
•Energy conservation starts at a large
scale. Mixed-use communities can
reduce auto dependency, land
consumption & energy use
•Energy conservation includes selection
of materials and construction methods.
Juniper Ridge will encourage (and/or
require) materials and construction
methods with lower “embedded energy”
•Guidelines at Juniper Ridge will call for
buildings that achieve superior reductions
in energy use compared with standard
construction practices
BAY MEADOWS PHASE II, SAN MATEO, CA
Page 25
January 17, 2007
Cooper, Robertson & Partners
Architecture, Urban Design
Guiding Principles
8. Land use planning for Juniper Ridge
will provide for pedestrians, bicycles,
transit and the efficient use of
automobiles.
•Juniper Ridge land uses will be planned
at a fine grain that supports pedestrian
and bicycle connections, reducing or
eliminating the need to use cars for daily
activities
•Juniper Ridge will anticipate the
extension of local and regional public
transit services
•Thoroughfares will be well-landscaped
multimodal facilities that support and
link businesses, schools, neighborhoods,
parks and homes
BAY MEADOWS PHASE II & YALE UNIVERSITY
Page 26
January 17, 2007
Cooper, Robertson & Partners
Architecture, Urban Design
Guiding Principles
9. Open spaces will be integrated
throughout the project, connected by
trails, while preserving the most
important natural features of Juniper
Ridge.
•The framework will be an integrated
network of open spaces, including parks,
trails, natural areas, canal laterals, and
beautifully-landscaped streets and
thoroughfares
•Juniper Ridge will incorporate existing
landscape features, both natural
(landforms, trees, mountain views) and
man-made (irrigation streams, rail tracks,
perimeter roads)
YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CT
Page 27
January 17, 2007
Cooper, Robertson & Partners
Architecture, Urban Design
Guiding Principles
10. Only land uses that are compatible
with these features should be located in
the South Sector of Juniper Ridge

Anonymous said...

2. Juniper Ridge will attract clean R&D
and compatible businesses that will
provide living-wage jobs into the future.

*

Yep, SUTERRA meets that criteria, a manufacturer of toxic pesticides.

Anonymous said...

Do you think cascade buisness group will go belly up since he has died?With himm running the show on every level?

tim said...

(off topic)

Bruce,

White Stripes are great. If you don't have all their albums, get them. They're all great. Jack White's work on Loretta's Lynn's Grammy winner a couple years back is terrific as well. Her band for that morphed into Jack's newer group The Raconteurs.

Anonymous said...

Bend City Councilors Bill Friedman and Linda Johnson are actively involved in managing monthly HOA fee's for all the condominium's in the city. ...

Anonymous said...

Cascade Business is legendary in INCOMPETENCE.

Virtually everybody I know that lives in a STD/CONDO with CCR's&Fee's whether it be INN@7th, HIGHLANDS@BT - WEST, CONDO's in CONDO-HO CANYON(deschutes river cooridor) CENTER, ... every fucking CONDO,RESORT, STD that I know of has Cascade-Bus collecting the HOA Fee's "A FUCKING RACKET if this were Chicago"


People who have to pay these HOA's that I know say that Friedman&Johnson are idiots, and there staff are idiots, but NOBODY DARED to fire them.

Up at INN@7th the first thing the new board tried to do was FIRE Friedman, but they couldn't he was counting the ballots, and refused to show them, the Dr Boors demanded that Friedman RECUSE himself HE did not, eventually the new board took over, and from what I can tell Cascade Bus(sic) was still doing the books.

My personal opinion is the problem is Cascade-Bus had too much business, shit when you have a monopoly, and NOBODY can fire you, and your charging 10X of the industry standard for servicing HOA accounting, and you do this for ten years, and enjoy 500% growth, ... you get lazy.

The real fucking question is WATCH LINDA JOHNSON, I wasn't impressed with Friedmans Brains, but nobody ever called Johnson smart.


Our only public record of anybody ever firing Freedman is that one tract here in Bend, and they fired Friedman for losing $10k, $10k of HOA's disapeared, you would think that they would have filed a fucking DA complaint, hell know they just fired him, and took the loss.

OMERTA BEND IS A MOB TOWN.

Anonymous said...

I'll say one thing for Friedman & Johnson one of things they do at all the HOA annuals for their clients is throw partys, and Cascade-Bus supplies all the wine.

I have been and seen Friedman in ACTION, he knows how Schmoooooooze the dick-heads of Bend with two-buck chuck.

Anonymous said...

Bruce is dumb weak minded pussy.

When they have exec-session demand WHY.

Did they make HOLLERN leave? Or just the pussy?

Every fucking time your at the meetings and they go into exec-session, ask WHY, its the law they have to tell you WHY?

The pussy has already told us he don't care about WHY,

Then pray tell I ask WHY is the pussy wasting his time??

Anonymous said...

A recent survey by Business Week magazine chose Bend as the best place in Oregon to raise a child.

---

From the comment section at the Oregonian, regarding this article:

"Posted by nealsrus on 11/12/08 at 7:34AM
Don't be fooled! Bend is a beautiful place but we have a big problem here that dangers our kids. It is a child pornography ring that is VERY powerful and due to Mike Maunder and Sharon Sweet these monsters can continue to harm our children. A concerned Mother in Bend!"

and also:

"Posted by edrinker on 11/12/08 at 7:38AM
So I grew up in Bend and I must say that it is a great place to learn about underage drinking, drug use and teen pregnancy. The TRUE locals call it "poverty with a view"......."

Now, there's a whole lotta love!!!

Anonymous said...

In a lot of way's Friedman reminds me of Garzini, a real fucking class act.

A real fucking enforcer.

Came to BEND-OREGON, like KURATEK, and just fucking cleaned the HOA clock.

Took fucking over everything, made himself mayor, and then city councilor, stuffed aber-pussy in as acting mayor, then put in Johnson as pro-tem,

Don't even get me going about the financial accounting fraud that Friedman has forced on Sonia, but hell she needs a job.

Anonymous said...

Bruce is dumb weak minded pussy.

When they have exec-session demand WHY.

Did they make HOLLERN leave? Or just the pussy?

Every fucking time your at the meetings and they go into exec-session, ask WHY, its the law they have to tell you WHY?

The pussy has already told us he don't care about WHY,

Then pray tell I ask WHY is the pussy wasting his time??


---

Why does a scorpion sting?

Why do birds fly?

Why is the sky blue?

Why is Bruce a dumb, weak minded pussy?

Why, oh why?

Anonymous said...

"Why is Bruce a dumb, weak minded pussy?"


*


Why? Who cares about why?

When!!!!

When is the pussy going to submit his 10,000 page Exec Sessions complaint?

When?

This week?

This year?

Next year?

"It's almost done..." Yeah, right!!!

Anonymous said...

Now, there's a whole lotta love!!!

*

Fuckers, why do you think I led the notice with "SODOMY & INCEST".

Holy fucking shit, BEND is where old 'heloc/atm riche' go to die,

Nobody comes to this town to raise children, somebody PAID for this placement.

Note also that the list were all PUG towns, Springfield, Hillsboro(INTEL), BEND; FUCKING PUG TOWNS all with NAZI cops, that want to fuck with kids,

Lastly, with all the cali coming here in recent years, it wouldn't surprise me if BEND hasn't become a satellite for the child-porn industry.

The "INCEST&SODOMY" is a very old story in Eastern Oregon, this is how the population always got laid. The idea is if you fucked your sister or brother in the ass, nobody got preggy, and they were still a virgin, a territory that only a mormon could love.

Anonymous said...

The PUSSY is fucking twisted and always trying to position himself to be an outside observer.

Like his mention last night about "Suterra Haters", like if there is anybody in BEND that hates Suterra, it can only be the PUSSY.

I have wrote extensively that it came from Bend Research (harry lonsdale) a DEM loved in BEND, a DEM that ran as an environmentalist for years, and ran as a US Senator and Suterra says that what they make is poison in their Federal MSDS.

It's ONLY the city of BEND that says the Suterra makes loving Natural Pheromones that makes Bee's and Bug's horny.

The PUSSY has always gone from one extortion to another, last year it was "If you don't BUY Capstone BUGG-PLUGS I'll file a complaint", holy fucking shit he actually said that to the council in public. That's fucking extortion.

Now he's at ALL the meetings, doesn't fucking say shit, now that they all know who he is, and say's if you give me Friedmans job or Telfers by Assignment, I'll stop all those people who hate Suterra!!

I mean fucking shit, who is the pussy fooling?

The only reason I write about SUTERRA is that its NEWS that needs to be discussed, and BULL&SORE are owned by the BOSS-HOGGS, who the PUSSY has always SUCKED-DICK, the pussy is desperate. Watch the pussy closely.

Lastly, he calls himself a "reporter", yet he doesn't care about WHY. Simply mind boggling.

Nobody hates Suterra, the pussy changes positions as much as BEBB(RDC). Also NOTE that NEVER ever on the pussy's juniper-ridge-info, has the pussy ever responded to comments on his own blog. What is the fucking point?

Anonymous said...

Why does a scorpion sting?

Why do birds fly?

Why is the sky blue?

*

These questions all have scientific answers.

Anonymous said...

ONLY a fucking PUG, would not care why the sky is blue.

ONLY a fucking PUG, can deny global warming.

That said the sheep on the DEM side are just as dumb.

Like PALIN, these folks wear DUMB like a fucking badge.

A recurring theme of our PUSSY our reporter, ... Remember when the pussy first showed up on this blog last fall, he said he came to BEND to fix bend, to make it a better place, and that in the end everyone would love him. Then he created has blog, and the first thing he did is beg for nickels.

The PUSSY say's he's NOT interested in WHY, the pussy isn't a reporter.

The BULL&SORE aren't newspapers, they're entertainment ad-rags.

Anonymous said...

Officer Mike Maunder

http://www.ci.bend.or.us/depts/police/awards.html

Anonymous said...

Sharon Sweet

Deschutes County Child Fatality Review Team
District Attorney's Office: 1164 NW Bond, Bend, Oregon 97701, 541-388-6520
District Attorney/Chair: Mike Dugan, District Attorney's Office
Public Health: Dan Peddycord, Health Dept.
Child Protective Services: Pat Carey, State Office of Services to Children and Families
Law Enforcement: John Collins, Oregon State Police; Andy Jordan, and Sharon Sweet,

Anonymous said...

It is a child pornography ring that is VERY powerful and due to Mike Maunder and Sharon Sweet these monsters can continue to harm our children.

*

I was curious what the above was supposed to mean?

Ok, so Maunder & Sweet are cops, and most likely doing their jobs.

Sure hell yes, Eastern Oregon has always been what it is, and I'm sure 'concerned mother' is a newbie to Redmond. Distraught to find out that Bend/Reddy isn't Mayberry.

Anonymous said...

We are getting the NUTS here for real now.

Like that comment the other day that the INNof7thMTN was getting its just reward cuz Dr Boors who is principal in opposition to PAPE's takeover of condo's 'may be an abortionist'.

Hell since day-one here, we have never seen any strawmen taken down cuz he was an abortionist, even as in this case as not so, whats most interesting is using that label.

I think that we're starting to attract some real fucking NUT-CASES. Note also like posting today that our Bend police are enabling child-porn, I don't think so!!

Anytime these fuck-heads drop by collectively folks MUST oppose this bullshit, I think we have always said here that baby-jeebus and his followers are MORMRONS of the first degree.

The way the BULL&SORE will shut these blogs down, is buy saying that were accusing the police of kiddy-porn, and of course attacking hard working doctors because of the abortion label is the rhetoric of the most hated people on the 'left'.

Classic squeeze folks, by having posters accuse doctors of being abortionists it drives the thinking left-wing away, and by accusing the police of child-porn drives the thinking right-wing away.

We all come to piss on this rock, but contrary to popular myth we don't slander, and we don't say stupid shit. A lot of the time stuff sounds stupid, but this is BEND a town of stupid amenity-parasites fed by HELOC.

The shit&piss in Bend, maybe running now up to our nose, but this is what happens when a town deflates after a bubble.

Right now these rocks are our only place to share info, let's NOT let the authority's justify shutting these sites down, when mean spirited nut heads make wild acquisations we have always made a immediate put-up or shut-up.

Bewert said...

Buster, the WHY is "to discuss real estate issues".

No, I don't respond to raving comments on my blog, but I don't delete them, either.

tim said...

Butter,

WTF? Why do you have an impulse to keep removing http://bendhousingdata.com/ when you leave all kinds of other crap on your blog?

Looks like Ort picked up the hosting. Can't you at least wait for it to disappear before you twitch your trigger finger?

Anonymous said...

and say's if you give me Friedmans job or Telfers by Assignment, I'll stop all those people who hate Suterra!!


*

So, has the pussy announced his campaign for Telfer or Friedman's council position? You only need 4 outta 7 votes, and there are two spots. I hear that there is only one other idiot sitting in on each of these CC sessions.

With only two idiots, and two slots, the odds are kinda good, aren't they?

Anonymous said...

Anytime these fuck-heads drop by collectively folks MUST oppose this bullshit,


*

Yes!! Shut down, shout down, oppose at all costs!!

If we need to, we can have butter track down their IPs and expose them like the coward anonymouse that he/she really is.

Right buster?

What a fucking IDIOT buster has become.

This rock is for any and all shit and piss. Not just the buster pre-approved shit. nor the pussy's pre-approved mormon shit. Or the I-Can't-Believe-My-Shit-Tastes-Like-Butter shit.

any and all shit.

FUCK YOU, BUSTER SHIT HEAD NAZI!

This place is an equal opportunity piss and shit fest.

Anonymous said...

>What a fucking IDIOT buster has become.

Mike has always been an idiot. And an asshole. You are just figuring this out?

Newbie.

Bewert said...

Re: throwing my hat in the ring

Section 22. Filling Vacancies.

(1) A vacancy in the council shall be filled within 30 days by appointment by the council. If the council does not fill the vacancy by an appointment within 30 days, then the vacancy shall be filled at the next available election as provided by state law, provided that election is before the expiration of the term of the predecessor councilor who left the office vacant. The term of the person elected shall begin when that person qualifies for office after the election, and shall end upon the expiration of the term of the predecessor councilor who left the office vacant....(Amended by voters on May 18, 2004)


Yes, of course I will. But I don't expect to receive any serious consideration.

Bewert said...

I think Jodie Barram will be appointed to fill Friedman's seat. She is well liked and has been on the Budget Committee, which seems to be the path to follow.

I'm just annoying.

Bewert said...

Q and Timmy, thanks for that Loretta Lynn/Jack White hookup. I'd never seen it. Most excellent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK5D8nWADTQ&feature=related

I really want to hear the song that is just beginning at the end of that clip.

Bewert said...

Man, this must have been some show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy_s9TnKqdE&feature=related

Jack and Bob Dylan.

Trudy got me into the White Stripes. I'm amazed at the breadth of work Jack has done.

Bewert said...

A better recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSfSHD9SW_g

This is like the passing of the torch. Amazing stuff.

tim said...

bruce,

Like I said, get ALL the albums if you don't have them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-JRN1oRLLc

He's interesting. He won't use any studio equipment made after the 70s. Going for a pure throw-back sound.

That's all I'll say. Just get it all.

tim said...

Oh, also Bruce, hate to tell you but you're about 5 years behind "hip." You gotta hang with the youngsters more. :-)

Bewert said...

Yep. But my bedtime is too early for them...

Quimby said...

Bruce,

The end of that last clip is a NIN cover done so well by Cash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO9dbmJ_2zU

Anonymous said...

Yikes!
Just checked the stats for Bend home sales. So far we are barely selling more than one a day. Nov MTD 16 sold @$284k median.

Anonymous said...

I have 'no ax to grind on the abortion debate' but I found it fascinating this week that some KUNT here said it was OK for PAPE to have 'economically' fucked the INN@7thMTN HOA people cuz DR-Boors is an 'abortionist', the man ( Dr Boors ) is a fucking genius, while I never gave a second thought to his biz life, read the below, and understand why this man fights the good wars his entire life.

( YOU TOO PUSSY READ THIS )

THE COURSE OF PETER BOURS'S life in many ways seems to have led him inexorably into the center of the storm over this most divisive of social issues.

He grew up in the graceful countryside populated by executives and family members of the Du Pont Company outside Wilmington, Del. Peter's father, William Alsop Bours III, joined the company after graduating from Princeton and Columbia, and eventually became a vice president. His son was christened William Alsop Bours IV, but the family called him Pete, and as an adult he chose to be known as Peter.

It was a milieu of handsome homes and pools and tennis courts, of affection for Wyeth paintings, Oldsmobiles and the Republican Party. Like many of his neighbors, Peter Bours went to private schools, and then to college. At Stanford University, he made Phi Beta Kappa his junior year.

That year was 1965, which also marked a political turning point for Peter Bours. ''I remember William Sloan Coffin coming out and speaking,'' he says, recalling the antiwar chaplain of Yale University, now the senior minister at Manhattan's Riverside Church. ''And I remember after that a whole generation of students in protest.'' He became fervently opposed to the Vietnam War, and critical of the society that supported it.

An economics major, Peter Bours did his senior thesis on population control and economic development in third-world countries. It was an interest he brought from home, where his parents had long been active in Planned Parenthood.

At the end of his senior year, the subject of birth control became suddenly personal. ''I was heading off to Boston'' - to Harvard University Medical School - ''and my girlfriend of all four years was heading off to law school at Berkeley. That was the first month we had sex, and she got pregnant.''

In 1966, most abortions were illegal in the United States. It had not always been so. In fact, through most of history, they had been freely practiced. In early common law, abortion performed before ''quickening'' - defined as that point when the fetus begins to move in the uterus at 16 or 18 weeks - was not an indictable offense. In the mid-19th century, as Kristin Luker, a professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, points out, a survey showed that between 17 percent and 34 percent of all pregnancies in Michigan ended in abortion. It was not until after the Civil War, in the sway of the Victorian era and at the urging of the recently formed American Medical Association, that the states began passing laws making abortion illegal. The only exception was when a physician determined that an abortion was necessary ''to save the life of the mother.''

In California that spring of 1966, Dr. Bours recalls, ''after some clandestine arrangements, all these furtive plans'' -made through a doctor across the border in Mexico - ''we had to meet these guys in the Los Angeles airport. I had to give them $700, cash.'' His girlfriend flew off to Guadalajara for the abortion, and Peter Bours, with no money for his own airfare, had to wait for her return.

Anonymous said...

Yes, of course I will. But I don't expect to receive any serious consideration.

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Yes, BP do it this time, don't procrastinate anymore.

Remind them that their enemy's enemy is their friend.

Anonymous said...

This is interesting the notion of tapping into a WIFI during the pre-bust phase of an operation to build a case. All routers have back doors. The 'strange' slander on the Bend cop-shop today got me thinking, they could have been referring to a lot of 'Bends', but the fact that they used explicit names of Bend cops involved in this area is perplexing.

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This training introduces law enforcement investigators to the ways in which criminal activity is perpetrated within online computer networks and instructs them in techniques and software tools for working these cases online. This one-day course will introduce compelling topics to participants, who will leave wanting to learn more. Attendees will be exposed to:

* Google as an investigative tool
* Identifying users of MySpace.com and other social networking sites
* Tracing emails and Web sites
* Understanding Internet Protocol (IP) and how to trace IP addresses
* Who owns a specific Web site and where to serve search warrants


Prerequisite: An interest in investigating computer crime and the Internet.


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The Internet is alive and well, and is a dynamic resource for millions worldwide. It is also a place for criminals to prey on unsuspecting victims. Many victims are children, some are adults, while others are corporations. This 4-day course teaches criminal justice investigators and support staff how to investigate high-technology theft and computer-related crime. It provides participants with an understanding of computer technology, its application to criminal endeavors, and the issues associated with investigating these cases. SEARCH will provide current real-world case studies and solutions that can be adapted to your current investigations. We will also discuss:

* Identity theft
* Internet-based fraud
* Child exploitation
* Hacking and compromised systems
* Phishing


Prerequisites: Be a basic-to-intermediate computer user. An understanding of multiple platforms is helpful.


CC4 – Investigation of Online Child Exploitation, Level I
This one-week course provides law enforcement investigators and support staff with the skills necessary to conduct proactive Internet investigations involving child exploitation. These include how to initiate criminal investigations, establish undercover accounts and identities, and engage offenders legally and effectively. Attendees will learn the current trends of pedophiles online in 2007, and how they target their victims using various methods including MySpace, chat, and other Web-based methods. We will also cover:

* Victimology
* Profile of the child predator
* State versus Federal prosecution: How to help each other


Prerequisite: Complete SEARCH’s The Investigation of Computer Crime (CC2) course. Be an intermediate-to-advanced computer user, and be comfortable navigating the Internet.


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This new and paradigm-changing course expands a law enforcement investigator’s ability to collect digital evidence at crime scenes. Extensive research has been conducted in the area of Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) networks common today with broadband Internet connections. Traditional digital evidence collection methods frequently result in evidence being left at the crime scene or potential evidence being inadvertently deleted from computers entirely.

This three-day, hands-on SEARCH course instructs law enforcement investigators in the skills and techniques of (1) how to conduct pre-raid electronic surveillance of a target location to help identify wireless networks and access points, and (2) how to locate these networks and access points once the scene is secured. The course material also covers how to recover volatile evidence from common SOHO routers and from running Windows systems, how to make an image of the running memory (commonly referred to as RAM) of a Windows computer, and how to recover information about wirelessly attached devices to a computer. The final practical exam for the course includes an actual search of a SOHO network. We will also discuss:

* How to identify routers, switches, and hubs
* Where does volatile memory reside and how to capture it
* Understanding the WAN/LAN and SAN


Prerequisite: Complete SEARCH’s The Investigation of Computer Crime (CC2) course.


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Cellular devices are more common today than computers. Terrorist attacks, rapes, assaults, drug-growing operations, child exploitation, and many other crimes are committed using cellular devices. These devices can contain a wealth of evidence for law enforcement. To conduct a thorough investigation, data has to be retrieved from cellular devices and properly analyzed. This four-day course teaches investigators how to approach the investigation of cellular devices and how these devices are different than traditional computer-based investigations. It covers the basics of cellular networks and how cellular devices function in those networks, as well as the current hardware and software required to obtain evidence from cellular devices. Law enforcement officers, investigators, analysts, and forensic examiners attending this course will obtain the basic skills necessary to conduct cellular devices investigations and retrieve data from seized devices. Through hands-on training, course attendees will learn using the latest tools and data collection methodologies available.

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* MySpace profile setup
* MySpace page enhancement
* Locating and tracing users by MySpace profiles
* Searching MySpace for relevant case information
* Various resources and external tools to enhance reactive and proactive investigations

Anonymous said...

If we need to, we can have butter track down their IPs and expose them like the coward anonymouse that he/she really is.

Right buster?

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I didn't say that, What I said was that PUG's are Nazi's, the majority of all the people in this group are Pug's.

Everybody loves it when we were bashing Obama 24/7, and you folks went wild when Palin was nominated.

Now that you lost the election, you PUG's are angry looking for someone to blame.

Since DAY FUCKING ONE here Buster said he was a "EMMA GOLDMAN" anarchist, she be a wonderful woman from the early 1900's. The fact that I hate PUG's & DEM's is NOT new.

The point I made today is that it a weak argument to defend PAPE cuz Dr-Boors happens to not want to send female children to Mexico to have their Uterus scrapped clean with coat hanger wire.

Pape is what he, and the people fighting PAPE @ innof7thMTN have nothing to do with Dr Bours, even though Dr Boors has spent his money and time opposing Pape.

I guess we never really touched the abortion issue, to me its something that ONLY WOMEN should discuss. In all my years in ORYGUN I have called it the genitially war's cuz it makes people focus on their genitals, and the PUGS love this shit, cuz it makes it easier to rob the city,county,state.

Keep the voters foccused on their dicks, and you can win everytime.

Anonymous said...

Since DAY FUCKING ONE here Buster said he was a "EMMA GOLDMAN" anarchist, she be a wonderful woman from the early 1900's. The fact that I hate PUG's & DEM's is NOT new.

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Emma Goldman was Jewish Intellectual who was imprisoned in 1914, for sedition for saying "The poor & starving had the right to steal bread from the rich".

Right here in ameriKKKa.

Anonymous said...

Pussy I have never seen you respond to anyones comments on your blog ever.

Anonymous said...

Looks like Ort picked up the hosting. Can't you at least wait for it to disappear before you twitch your trigger finger?

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It really had been dead for awhile TT.

Anonymous said...

If we need to, we can have butter track down their IPs and expose them like the coward anonymouse that he/she really is.

Right buster?

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No, what I have said is that when people PISS on this ROCK, we need to always verify whether the information is true, and if its NOT true then immediately label it as such. Once something here stands, then other pick it up as truth, and it will come back to haunt us.

Butter can NOT track down IP's as google doesn't support that, however BUTTER does have all the tracking enabled. Via widgets.

I have said all along here that everyone should be using firefox and noscript, and have all the HOMER-SHIT blocked when your using this site.

Buster is an ASSHOLE I have said that a 1,000 times here.

Sunday its all lovey,lovey and by wednesday we're at each others throats.

Me guess that we were so hard on OREO(OR-BOMB-EO) for the recent months that PUG's started hanging out here, and now are sore cuz we say that PUG's are also shit-eaters.

This is an equal opportunity rock, we BASH all the status quo partys.

Anonymous said...

(1) how to conduct pre-raid electronic surveillance of a target location to help identify wireless networks and access points, and (2) how to locate these networks and access points once the scene is secured.


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It's pretty cool that the neighborhood cop shop is this far along in their 'pre-raid' information gathering.

Anonymous said...

( Regarding today's post about the Bend Cop shop involved in Porn )

Note the 'same' use of the word monster, bendweekly.com does log IP's so they do know who posted this.


I think I found what this person is referring to, might be worth looking into BP, you don't want me go there, as you know I'll write an Encyclopedia Brittanica.

http://www.bendweekly.com/Local-News/9279.html

# How many people are aware that the bend police assisted a couple involved in child pornography to sue the parents of the child they sexually abused. Yes, these monsters can still hurt our children due to these creeps. Has anyone ever heard of assisting predators unless there is something in it for them? We need new elected, honest police and a new DA. The child molestors became millionaires in one year and the creep traveled to bangkok frequently - hmmm! court records are available for those whom want to see it...
(Posted on August 4, 2008, 5:43 pm concerned citizen)

Anonymous said...

I couldn't find any information about a child porn case in Bend involving a suit.

So I'll just assume for now that this poster is full of shit. If the preceding joggles anyones mind it would be interesting.

Given the week link to the original, and the follow up with cop names, I'm going to assume my first hunch that its a mean spirited troll.

Anonymous said...

Has anyone ever heard of assisting predators unless there is something in it for them? We need new elected, honest police and a new DA.

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The only case I know along these lines was Janet Reno, DA of Florida before Clinton made her AG of the USA. Then Reno went on to incinerate all those Branch Davidian children.

Reno made her name in Porn in Florida especially child-porn, but the most interesting story is that her cop shop that kept all the materials in police-storage would have friday Beer & a Movie and watch the Child/Snuff movies they had collected. Her shop had gotten busted, but she was never punished.

Gay Edgar Hoover FBI chief for fifty fucking years was into the same racket, chasing queers, and collecting their PORN, and all the while died in his office with his male secretary of forty years, his boyfriend.

This shit is real, the USA is a sick nation no doubt, and is obsessed with children. At least in France people think older women are more sexually appealing, only in the USA do you see the appeal of children, and certainly Germany.

Given that BEND is PUG, and Nazi, it doesn't surprise me a bit that this subject will be revisited.

Anonymous said...

Just checked the stats for Bend home sales. So far we are barely selling more than one a day. Nov MTD 16 sold @$284k median.


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Luke, the force is powerful in Bend, even the Goblins of Cali now know that Bend is a shit-hole.

Best time to build a home in Bend in twenty years, maybe the reason the existing aren't selling is that everyone is building custom??

Lot's that were selling from $250k-$500k in 2005/2006, can now be had for $30k. Great time to build, and you can get materials and labor for nothing.

Anonymous said...

HEADS UP KUNTS ..

MARGE HAS DELETED ALL HER SITES

MUST HAVE BEEN OUTED

WE ALL KNEW THAT MARGE HAD BEEN TALKING SOME PARANOID SHIT FOR AWHILE,

OBVIOUSLY THE PARANOIA GOT TO HER

bendindenial.blogspot.com is GONE

HOMER looks like you got another dead soldier on your tombstone

Bewert said...

Re: Remind them that their enemy's enemy is their friend.

I am planning on the pissing out/pissing in argument.

Anonymous said...

HOMER,

Others we can vote, but ALMOST everything marge ever wrote is on "angrybendbitch.blogspot.com",

So homee if you really want to save marge, replace her bendindenial with angrybendbitch,

I always thought she would do this, thats why I maintained a mirror site,

She's gone, long live marge, a man we hardly knew,

Anonymous said...

I am planning on the pissing out/pissing in argument.


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That's a cool trick, will you show us at BEBB's friday night trailer party?

I promise to bring all my lorreta lynn, and cash, and its very good with katie lang, I'm very fond of lesbian country, in fact all my female hero's are lesbians, well except JANET RENO.

Anonymous said...

Another note of interest I don't know about for the rest of you but bendeconomy.informe.com is working but bendeconomy2.informe.com is not,

Most probable is that BEBB asked that BEBB2 be deleted, and given the coincidence perhaps someone asked google to delete marges site?

Anonymous said...

:) sorta gone disturbing activity occurred

Anonymous said...

Poor Marge. Either she was outted or she is just extremely paranoid.


Not sure why "outted" would matter anyway. Homer was outted and it hasn't made any difference.

Came upon this at CondeNast Portfolio, and thought it makes good reading....

"The End"

by Michael Lewis


To this day, the willingness of a Wall Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me. I was 24 years old, with no experience of, or particular interest in, guessing which stocks and bonds would rise and which would fall. The essential function of Wall Street is to allocate capital—to decide who should get it and who should not. Believe me when I tell you that I hadn’t the first clue.



More From Portfolio.com
The New Order
The crash did more than wipe out money. It also reordered the power on Wall Street.
What a Swell Party
A pictorial timeline of some Wall Street highs and lows from 1985 to 2007.
Worst of Times
Most economists predict a recovery late next year. Don’t bet on it.I’d never taken an accounting course, never run a business, never even had savings of my own to manage. I stumbled into a job at Salomon Brothers in 1985 and stumbled out much richer three years later, and even though I wrote a book about the experience, the whole thing still strikes me as preposterous—which is one of the reasons the money was so easy to walk away from. I figured the situation was unsustainable. Sooner rather than later, someone was going to identify me, along with a lot of people more or less like me, as a fraud. Sooner rather than later, there would come a Great Reckoning when Wall Street would wake up and hundreds if not thousands of young people like me, who had no business making huge bets with other people’s money, would be expelled from finance.

When I sat down to write my account of the experience in 1989—Liar’s Poker, it was called—it was in the spirit of a young man who thought he was getting out while the getting was good. I was merely scribbling down a message on my way out and stuffing it into a bottle for those who would pass through these parts in the far distant future.

Unless some insider got all of this down on paper, I figured, no future human would believe that it happened.

I thought I was writing a period piece about the 1980s in America. Not for a moment did I suspect that the financial 1980s would last two full decades longer or that the difference in degree between Wall Street and ordinary life would swell into a difference in kind.

Bewert said...

Re: Michael Lewis/Liar's Poker

The fucking worst thing is that Paulsen is handing out taxpayer dollars by the fucking truckload to keep the BS flowing, and Barney Frank is right behind him with another shovel.

Bewert said...

At some point, I gave up waiting for the end. There was no scandal or reversal, I assumed, that could sink the system.

Then came Meredith Whitney with news. Whitney was an obscure analyst of financial firms for Oppenheimer Securities who, on October 31, 2007, ceased to be obscure. On that day, she predicted that Citigroup had so mismanaged its affairs that it would need to slash its dividend or go bust. It’s never entirely clear on any given day what causes what in the stock market, but it was pretty obvious that on October 31, Meredith Whitney caused the market in financial stocks to crash. By the end of the trading day, a woman whom basically no one had ever heard of had shaved $369 billion off the value of financial firms in the market. Four days later, Citigroup’s C.E.O., Chuck Prince, resigned. In January, Citigroup slashed its dividend.


That's a great article. Here's the link: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/11/11/The-End-of-Wall-Streets-Boom

Anonymous said...

Barney Frank is right behind him with another shovel.

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BP blasphemy Frank is gay & DEM.

Anonymous said...

He recalled that Mitchell had wondered aloud whether, as a humanities scholar, he was "inside the tent pissing out or outside the tent pissing in." It's irrelevant, Albrecht concluded, "We need to be pissing. I don't know which way, but we need to be in the game."

Anonymous said...

Poor Marge. Either she was outted or she is just extremely paranoid.


Not sure why "outted" would matter anyway. Homer was outted and it hasn't made any difference.

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Marge gave out a lot of personal information about her relationship to RE, especially recently.

Anonymous said...

My opinion is that when HOMER elevated Marge's site to 'GOD', that was a little too much for Marge, liked to keep a low profile,

and the paranoia, everyday is about martial-law, and new troops in ameriKKKa, I know she knows, like she said, she had been a cops wife, she was in the know, ...

It was fun to have her around, but deleting a blog?? What about fucking history??

Lastly, Bendeconomy2 is gone, and the only person with admin was QUIM, would he have deleted the bitch?

Bewert said...

Yeah, BEBB2 being gone is a bit disturbing. The self-proclaimed site for uncensored information about Bend.

Bewert said...

At the end of 2004, Eisman, Moses, and Daniel shared a sense that unhealthy things were going on in the U.S. housing market: Lots of firms were lending money to people who shouldn’t have been borrowing it. They thought Alan Greenspan’s decision after the internet bust to lower interest rates to 1 percent was a travesty that would lead to some terrible day of reckoning. Neither of these insights was entirely original. Ivy Zelman, at the time the housing-market analyst at Credit Suisse, had seen the bubble forming very early on. There’s a simple measure of sanity in housing prices: the ratio of median home price to income. Historically, it runs around 3 to 1; by late 2004, it had risen nationally to 4 to 1. “All these people were saying it was nearly as high in some other countries,” Zelman says. “But the problem wasn’t just that it was 4 to 1. In Los Angeles, it was 10 to 1, and in Miami, 8.5 to 1. And then you coupled that with the buyers. They weren’t real buyers. They were speculators.” Zelman alienated clients with her pessimism, but she couldn’t pretend everything was good. “It wasn’t that hard in hindsight to see it,” she says. “It was very hard to know when it would stop.” Zelman spoke occasionally with Eisman and always left these conversations feeling better about her views and worse about the world. “You needed the occasional assurance that you weren’t nuts,” she says. She wasn’t nuts. The world was.

And here in Bend, the RE folks still are. Affordable housing at a $280K or so median?

Quimby said...

No, I didn't delete it, and I never even logged in with the Quimby handle on it either to admin it.

Besides, anonymous proxy is a pain in the ass. Anyone have a drop dead easy way to do it with FF? TOR via Vidalia is all I've found.

Anonymous said...

ok, BendEconomy2 is back up an running!

Very strange as BE1 was working fine, and BE2 was out all day.

Doesn't make sense?

I really think informe.com sucks, as we know its always crashed, and this deal of selective crash is really strange.

Does anyone have a suggestion on a more stable I note if you google 'free hosting community forum' you get tons of sites.

Do any them give the users 100% anonymity? Cuz the problem with informe.com is it gives the maximum information about users.

tim said...

Obama owes the UAW. We're going to pay like crazy to keep the UAW is the green.

Quimby said...

Yes, I was about to suggest that we let it sort itself out. What these companies do (like Google et al) is separate sites amongst different servers. My bet is the server hosting BE2 went tits up today and just got restored.

COULD be the case with Marge's blog too, but blogger.com is essentially throwing a 404.

Quimby said...

>> Obama owes the UAW. We're going to pay like crazy to keep the UAW is the green.

Via patrick.net:

Should We Really Bail Out the Big Three Automakers with $73.20 Per Hour Labor?

Quimby is all for average Joes making a good wage, but $73 /hr seems a bit high for screwing together car frames.

Anonymous said...

Quim, it look pretty explicit to me, .. BEEN REMOVED

Blog has been removed

Sorry, the blog at benddenial.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs.

Did you expect to see your blog here? See: 'I can't find my blog on the Web, where is it?'

Quimby said...

Wife just received this from Toyota in her Inbox. Now, let it be known, Quimby doesn't like dogs that much, and frankly, hates the owners who think Quimby should love their shitting mutt as much as they do.

The VENZA Offers Comforts for Your Canine Companion

Hope they have a screaming financing deal to go along with it and except a 75% LTV ratio cuz folks is broke!

Quimby said...

except should be accept

On pint number 4.....sorry.

Anonymous said...

Sorry, the blog at benddenial.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs.

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It's sort of sad, we invested months in helping 'her' learn to write, and over come technical obstacles, and confidence, and then homer nominates her 'bend blogger' of the millenium, she deep sixes her tolstoy, go figure?

Anonymous said...

"My mother?"

"I'll tell you about my mother"

Anonymous said...

Obama owes the UAW. We're going to pay like crazy to keep the UAW is the green.


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All the fucking DEBT, I mean credit in USA ain't going to bail out UAW, they be fucked. All their pension cash was stole years ago, 100's of Billions, and the money is gone, cold day in hell before anybody picks up this obligation.

Another classic example of PUG wisdom, e.g. BK the country and cancel all DEBT, why not all DEBT was replaced with IOU's years ago, ...

Anonymous said...

Pussy, its almost my bedtime, but I could find nuttin on our latest nut case and their concern about Bend cops covering for PORN. It's an interesting tangent, only one lead from one troll who like to use the word 'monster'.

Can anyone else here suggest an avenue?? BP you know I just love these kinds of storys, I mean Suterra is old news now, and I got the next 2-3 weeks to do research.

Nothing like a good cop bites dog story.

The primary issue seems to be that allegedly the cops were involved in a case where the victim was sued by the perpetrator, obviously in civil court, and the cops supported the predator 'allegedly'. These kinds of civil cases aren't well documented. The allegation talks about 'millions' but so was the Sizemore for Millions, but he had zilch, so fucking what, I know its boring, but a good yarn is too fucking sweet to pass up.

A 'yarn' is what old sailors do on long voyages when they're out of booze, ... talk shit.

Anonymous said...

"You like it so much, your husband places it on your wall"

"The Entree consists of boiled dog",

"My mother, I'll tell you about my mother"

"Commerce"

I love Blade Runner best movie ever made.

"Your talking about memorys'.

Jeebus xmas quim, 4 pints, I had 2 and I'm completely fucking polluted, 'santas little helper' 2008,

Anonymous said...

http://www.fuckedbend.com

"Did you get your precious photos?"

"Someone was there"

"Men?, Policemen"

Anonymous said...

John Williams' Shadow Government Statistics" is an electronic newsletter that exposes and analyzes the flaws in current U.S. government economic data and reporting, as well as in certain private-sector numbers, and provides an assessment of underlying economic conditions, net of financial-market hype .

For only $175/yr we'll expose to you all the secrets of your government.

http://www.shadowstats.com/

If I'm elected I promise stat's in every pot.

Anonymous said...

WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED??

Obama transition members have Fannie ties
by Politico.com
Wednesday November 12, 2008, 8:05 PM

President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team leaders for the State Department are both Clinton-era department officials with links to the troubled mortgage giant Fannie Ma

Anonymous said...

MADAME HALF-BRIGHT to STAND in FOR OREO @ KISSINGER WORLD MEETING TO CREATE ONE WORLD AIPAC CURRENCY.

DEJA-VU change, the ONLY HO with more blood on her bitch hand than Janet Reno.

***

World leaders are preparing to descend on Washington from Friday for a summit called by Bush and dedicated to finding ways to reform the global finance system.

But those eager to make Obama's acquaintance will be disappointed, as the president-elect has stressed he will not be attending the talks of the Group of 20 rich countries and major developing economies, saying there can only be one president at a time.

Instead, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and former Republican congressman Jim Leach will stand in for Obama and meet foreign delegations on the sidelines of the talks.

Anonymous said...

Yah, go figure..thanks for all your teaching and patience. M

Bewert said...

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/weekending/weekending%3a-market-turmoil-20070818354/

IHateToBurstYourBubble said...

Sadly, I pulled marge's site link.

What up marge?

IHateToBurstYourBubble said...

Yikes!
Just checked the stats for Bend home sales. So far we are barely selling more than one a day. Nov MTD 16 sold @$284k median.


Holy shit!

Is that you marge?

Has RE Industrial Machine turned on its own?

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