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Aug. 31, 2006 -- Bush's back door Prohibition. Just like travelers to Saudi Arabia, Americans and foreigners flying to the United States now find themselves banned from carrying on board the aircraft French brandy, Scotch whiskey, Spanish sherry, Irish cream, and Scandinavian aquavit. That was the situation yesterday at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport. There is something incredibly phony and suspicious about the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) "security" restrictions on items allowed on board airplanes. Although passengers are prohibited from bringing liquids and gels on board aircraft there are no hand searches of carry-on bags to ensure compliance with this rule. But just show a duty free store cashier a boarding pass for the United States and try to buy liquor, wine, or beer, you get a firm "not on flights to the U.S." and you're then shown a DHS warning sign prohibiting all liquids. Shades of the 1920s and the height of Prohibition. But buy cigarettes, of course, and there is no problem. After all, the Virginia and North Carolina tobacco growers and manufacturers are big time donors to and members of the flocks of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and the other mega-church used-car salesmen across the tobacco belt. The no alcohol or liquids (including duty free perfumes and colognes) prohibition does not apply to flights from Europe to Australia, Africa, Asia, or other parts of Asia. DHS considers bottled or canned spirits sold in the heavily secured, sanitized, and duty free sections of international airports to be potential terrorist weapons. At least those who brought about Prohibition were more original in claiming alcohol was the devil's elixir and would lead to eternal damnation in hell. The only relief yesterday was Scandinavian Airlines showing the film "V for Vendetta," uncut and uncensored. The film, of course, is full of references to the scare tactics of the neo-cons. In the movie, V sums up the current neo-con fright campaign when he states the government controls the people through "coercive conformance." Yes, it is all part of the mix: removing shoes and belts, no liquids or gels, act as though the government is doing you a favor by allowing you to exercise your right of free travel and movement, do exactly as the DHS screeners say or else, in other words: conform!
From Carrie Nation to Michael Chertoff: Religious kook prohibitionists use any excuse to push temperance. Nation attacked saloons with a hatchet. Chertoff attacks duty free shops with idiotic travel restrictions. No one knows what those who believe that astral beings appearing in some Middle East dust bowl two to four thousand years ago bearing messages from the ether beyond Earth will pull next on the American people, but anything is possible. Meanwhile, the good people at Jack Daniel's (Jack was a good Democrat), Remy Martin, Campari, Pernod, Jacob's Creek, Sandemans, Stolichnaya, Carlsberg and other distilleries, wineries, and breweries will have to continue to lose U.S. market share because of the influence of the Christian fundie Dapper Dan mega-church ministers, bearded and robed soothsayers, and other delusional crackpots who now dictate policies to the Bush administration.
Another Bush regime "weapon of mass destruction" -- Carrie Nation would've been proud. Anyway, welcome to "Saudi America" where a bottle of Harvey's Bristol Cream is now considered a weapon of the "bad guys."
Aug. 31, 2006 -- The clearly demented Donald Rumsfeld told the annual convention of the flatulent, double-knit clad, cigarette-smoking, and beer guzzling American Legion convention yesterday in Salt Lake City compared critics of Bush's disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq to those in the 1930s who tried to appease Hitler. This is familiar neo-con claptrap from the talking points of the likes of Richard Perle, William Kristol, Dick Cheney, and the other Project for the New American Century cadres who come closest to the Nazi propagandists of the 1930s and 40s.
Bush addressing the 2004 American Legion convention: for the fart-centric Bush it must have been a real "gas" -- the convention is the largest gathering of flatulent old men in the United States. For Rumsfeld to associate the anti-war movement to Nazi appeasers is the ultimate in gall. After all, it was the New York and Chicago-based banker and industrialists who were the Hitler appeasers. And, ironically, they used the American Legion as their fascist storm troopers -- it was proposed that Gerald MacGuire, a former New York City bond and securities dealer with whom Brown Brothers Nazi financier Prescott Bush had more than a casual relationship, organize 500,000 American Legionnaires to march on Washington in the summer of 1933 and militarily overthrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The new Department of General Affairs (akin to the modern Homeland Security Department, only with greater powers) would end the New Deal initiatives and make common cause with Adolf Hitler's Germany and Benito Mussolini's Italy. The plot of the Wall Street bankers was revealed by retired Marine Corps General Smedley Butler who turned down an offer to lead the military coup. The love affair between Wall Street and Nazi Germany continued long after the planned coup against FDR. On May 6, 1937, the Nazi German airship Hindenburg proudly flew over lower Manhattan (ironically, over the location of the future World Trade Center) displaying its swastika symbol for all the bankers and financiers to see. One of them was Prescott Bush, whose financial dealings with Nazi German banks and companies, was in full swing.
A little history for Rumsfeld: It was your boss's grandfather who not only appeased Hitler and the Nazis but funded them. The SS Hindenburg made it a point of flying over Wall Street as a token of thanks to Prescott Bush and his fellow pro-Nazi supporters. And the American Legion, before which Rumsfeld made his "Nazi" remarks, was part of the 1933 Wall Street coup plans to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt. The American Legion should have long ago lost its congressional charter.
Aug. 31, 2006 -- Another day, more personal data thefts reported. Hackers broke into an AT&T computer network and stole credit card information and other personal information on some 19,000 customers. Meanwhile, Compass Health of Everett, Washington reported the June 2006 theft of a laptop computer containing Social Security Numbers and other personal data on mental health patients of Catholic Community Services and SeaMar. Portland, Maine company PortTix, which handles tickets for the city's Merrill Auditorium, had its online ticketing system hacked, resulting in the compromise of credit card information on 2000 customers. Another hack of CUSO Mortgage Co. in Hampden, Maine last May resulted in the disclosure of personal data on 1,695 customers. Sovereign Bank reported that in early August three laptop computers containing personal data on "thousands" of customers were stolen from the cars of bank branch managers. Also in early August, Dominion Resources reported the theft of two laptops containing the personal information on employees. Following similar thefts of commercial driver's data from Department of Transportation officials in Florida, the Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration reported that a laptop containing the names, commercial driver's license numbers, and dates of birth of 193 commercial drivers for 40 commercial carriers was stolen from an employee's car in Baltimore. Drivers in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia and Washington, D.C. were affected. A laptop containing the names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and policy information on 612 policy holders was stolen from the car of a Greenville, South Carolina agent for American Family Life Insurance Company (AFLAC). PSA Health Care reported the theft from an employee's car of a laptop containing the Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, and health information on 51,000 past and current patients, including pediatric and respiratory care patients. In the first survey of the thefts of laptops, already reported by WMR to be largely part of a covert U.S. intelligence agency operation to populate Total Information Awareness surveillance databases, a Ponemon Institute and Vontu Inc. survey reported that a whopping 81 percent of the companies surveyed reported the loss of one or more laptops containing personal data during the time frame Aug. 2005 to Aug. 2006. Ed. note: WMR received an email from ADP about our Data Theft chart entry (July 2006) on a leak of stockholder information. ADP reports that Social Security Numbers were not contained in the affected computer files. The files contained investor names, addresses, and the number of shares of each company's stock held in the person's brokerage account. =
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