Category Archives: Politics: Tinfoil

Wayne Madsen has outdone himself with this report on strange jamming of radio frequencies in New Orleans. There’s also an update without a direct link, dated Sept. 4, if you go for such things (search the page for “jamming”).

PS. Why am I so skeptical? Lack of imaginable motive, primarily.

It’s bad:

Sadly, No!: Op-ed: The combined strength of the DHS and FEMA, the National Guard, and the Presidency and its powers, not only allowed a disaster to happen as though in slow motion, while warnings shrieked through the press; but even now, days later, they CAN’T EVEN GET IT TOGETHER TO DELIVER SUPPLIES into a major American city. They CAN’T FIGURE OUT how to put boxes on trucks or in planes and drop them off. For days, as the city sinks deeper into chaos. With bodies eaten by rats in the streets. This is our homeland security.

And while I’m afraid the actual causes of the above are systemic, I do like the explanatory economy of this little piece of analysis:

On another blog, I read that Dick Cheney is strangely missing — on vacation in Wyoming, with no expected date of return. Perhaps he’s ill; that would explain why no one in the Executive Branch seems in charge, or even paying attention.

Here’s the actual Washington Post quote on what Cheney was doing while New Orleans drowns:

Vice President Cheney, who has spent part of August at his home outside scenic Jackson, Wyo., remains there today [Wednesday, two days ago] — although
his spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, doesn’t call it vacation. “He’s
working from Wyoming today,” McBride told me this morning.

And when is he coming back? “He will certainly be coming back. I’m
not able to tell you the day right now. I don’t have that handy.”

Once again, though, facts get in the way of a cute theory: it appears that Cheney did return to DC on Thursday, as my brother reports:

Cheney Watch

Vice President Cheney, who had been spending part of August at his home in Wyoming, returned to Washington yesterday, his spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, tells me.

P.S. My brother also passes along this jem:

Blogger Wonkette
yesterday launched a meme that is spreading through the liberal
blogosphere: “A tipster informs us that down in New Orleans, they have
a name for the flood waters that have invaded the city: Lake
George.”

I like it.

Wow this is a weird allegation: Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked.

There’s something about this that sounds highly implausible. The Scotsman is a reputable newspaper, but without the name of the person making the allegation, I’m suspicious. For starters, why would the CIA have an interest in placing the blame on Libya at the risk of letting some other terrorist go undetected? Then again, if you had told me the CIA was discussing whether to try to make Castro’s beard fall off, I’ve have laughed, too. After stuff like that, it becomes very hard to know what’s too nutty to believed. Then again, the beard thing was only brainstorming, not actual action.

(Spotted via Cryptome).

It's August, so the tinfoil is out.

Federal Whistle Blower Claims Chicago Grand Jury Indicted Bush And Others For Perjury and Obstruction Of Justice:

Sources close to the Chicago federal grand jury probe into perjury and obstruction charges against President Bush and others said indictments were handed down this week, but a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Illinois refused to comment.

Uh-huh. I grant you that it fits with the grim seriousness with which the special prosecutor has been working, but even so…

Don't even hope for this: Another presidential indictment would be bad, even one for something that mattered, like outing a CIA agent. (Impeachment, and perhaps indictment, for lying to start a war is different; that at least would be about an offense of suitably major proportions. But while that's surely a 'High Crime' I don't know if it violates the US Code.) An indictment and the fury it would cause risks distracting from, maybe even aborting what looks like it would otherwise be a substantial Democratic gain in the upcoming national elections. Not to mention that there's no one in the line of succession who seems likely to be in any way an improvement over the current Grand Vizier, Dick Cheney.