BLAGO UPDATE

                   By Paul Craig Roberts

May 27, 2009 "ICH" -- “Obama Calls on World to ‘Stand Up To’ North Korea” read the headline. The United States, Obama said, was determined to protect “the peace and security of the world.”

    Shades of doublespeak, doublethink, 1984.

    North Korea is a small place. China alone could snuff it out in a few minutes. Yet, the president of the US thinks that nothing less than the entire world is a match for North

Korea.

    We are witnessing the Washington gangsters construct yet another threat like Slobodan Milosevic, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, John Walker Lindh, Hamdi, Padilla, Sami Al-Arian, Hamas, Mahkmoud Ahmadinejad, and the hapless detainees demonized by the US Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld as “the 700 most dangerous terrorists on the face of the earth,” who were tortured for six years at Gitmo only to be quietly released. Just another mistake, sorry.

    The military/security complex that rules America, together with the Israel Lobby and the financial banksters, needs a long list of dangerous enemies to keep the taxpayers’ money flowing into its coffers.

    The Homeland Security lobby is dependent on endless threats to convince Americans that they must forego civil liberty in order to be safe and secure.

    The real question is who is going to stand up to the American and Israeli governments?

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by Joe the Philosopher

After a Illinois judge prevented Rod R. Blagojevich from going into the Costa Rica jungle to risk his life running from the earth’s last practicing headhunters, his wife volunteered for him. She denied she did it for kicks.                                               

    The change in plans didn’t bother “Blago” (as his bookie calls him), who told reporters: “I’m not a complete idiot. I know the chances of survival are the same as being abducted by a flying saucer. I think it’s great that my wife is taking my place. Being someone’s lunch is not my idea of Paradise.”

    Whatever you think of Blago, you’ve got to admit that his wife is a fantastic person. Every guy should have a wife or girlfriend who will risk being eaten by headhunters or fish for love. My last girlfriend wouldn’t make me a fish sandwich.

   Blago was real glib about the whole matter. “We’ll win fifty-thousand dollars if she gets out alive. I warned her about swimming with alligators, snakes, and piranhas everywhere, but she laughed it off.  She said she was use to it. What a babe! I may spend ten months in jail but I’m going to spend every second writing a love letter to her. Filled with hearts and kisses. I just hope someone can deliver it to her in the jungle.”

   Blago denied that he had a ten million dollar life insurance policy on his wife.