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In The News: Thanks again to Christopher M. for supplying a copy of the commentary.

It’s the last day of the Lame Duck congressional session and the nation’s not safe yet… There will be ANOTHER session to discuss the US auto industry’s bankruptcy, what to do about it (if anything) and other issues.

One thing DID get done. There will be a 13 week extension of unemployment benefits with a possible additional 20 weeks to be discussed.

President Bush is on his way to Peru for the Pacific Rim Conference in an attempt to push his ‘free trade’ agreement for Latin America. Expect protests.

They look like this:

Hillary Clinton will be offered the Secretary of State office in the new Obama administration.

A Washington DC judge orders the IMMEDIATE release of five Guantanamo detainees declaring the government to have no evidence whatsoever that they had done anything to be classified ‘enemy combatants’ except exist at the wrong time in history (post 9-11) at the wrong place on the planet (Bosnia).

Rep Dingell, an auto industry flack, will be replaced by Henry Waxman as chair of the congressional Energy Committee.

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[November 21 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Nice Thing About Paranoia - The Obama Administration Is Having Behind The Scene Discussions That Will Shape America’s Future… Are We “In The Big Club” Yet?

In the “Big Club” you say?

“But I’ll tell you what they don’t want, They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests.

They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.

You know what they want? Obedient workers – people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.

And, now, they’re coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.” –George Carlin

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Thanks to another KPIG listener, Christopher M., I have a copy of yesterday’s commentary. It will be archived and posted to the November 19 page(s) within the next hour or so. It is titled: The Legal ‘Pitchforks & Torches’ For Dick Cheney And Alberto Gonzales Have Been Sharpened And Lit - Indicted For Border Detention Center Prisoner Abuse

In The News: HAR MATEY This! The Indian Navy, doing things that navies do, has sunk a pirate vessel, allegedly a ‘Mother Ship’, near the Gulf of Aden. Maritime agencies are advising shippers to use armed crews in the region leaving NEW employment possibilities for Blackwater, along with protecting Western NGOs in lands we laid waste to… There is more information on the proliferation of private army protection for non-governmental entities at GlobalPolicy.Org.

The ‘Lame Duck’ session of congress is doing what it’s called… being lame. Harry Reid took the Auto Bailout Bill off the floor due to lack of anything resembling a consensual vote and the Big Three are on the hook… and on their own. GM may go bankrupt before inauguration day. Speaking of failing industry, there is a 20 week extension to unemployment benefits waiting on the congressional table as well. More.

GW has plans when (and if) congress goes home - The environmental regulations preventing coal mining, coal gasification facilities, and oil drilling etc near US wilderness areas are going to be expunged by executive fiat if BushBoy has his way.

It will take some time but California’s Supreme Court will hear challenges to Proposition 8.

The Obama campaign has picked senator Tom Daschle to head Health and Human Services… He has written in depth on the subject. Other appointments… The head of the Congressional Budget Office, Peter Orszag, will be the next head of the Office of Management and Budget for the White House.

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[November 20 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: A ‘Hipp’ History - One Man’s Pirate Is Another Man’s Tax Collector - Piracy As A Means Of Taxing The ‘Transit Trade’ Is NOT New, And IT IS One Of The Main Reasons For The Creation Of The US Navy… To Tax The ‘Transit Trade’

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In The News: Thanks to another KPIG listener, Christopher M., for the commentary rip.

Pitchforks and Torches - Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales have been indicted for abuse of prisoners at private prison facilities in Texas. They had financial interests in the facilities and were also in a position to make policy allowing the prisoner abuse.

Ayman al-Zawahiri the operational CEO of al Qaeda, has a new tape out. He refers to president-elect Obama as a “House N…”. More.

The Iraqi parliament, or more correctly, PART of it, has voted and passed on a first vote a SOFA of some sort with the US, but many on both sides are not happy.

BAGHDAD — Iraqi and American critics of a security agreement governing American troops in Iraq voiced their objections on Monday, a day after the Iraqi cabinet approved the pact and sent it to Parliament for ratification.

In Iraq, opposition has created an unlikely association between the followers of the anti-American Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, who rejected the agreement out of hand, and some Sunni politicians, including ones who support the deal but are trying to wrest concessions from the Iraqi government.

Ghufran al-Saadi, a Sadrist lawmaker, said opponents had collected 115 signatures, primarily from Sadr supporters and members of the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party, demanding that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and several cabinet members appear in Parliament to answer questions about the agreement, which governs the presence of American troops in Iraq through 2011. Parliament has 275 members.

The Sadrists argued that the ratification process was unconstitutional and threatened to take the issue to federal court. They also claimed that the public reading of the agreement in Parliament on Monday was not legitimate because the legislative session was too noisy for anyone to hear what was being said.

Among the principal Sunni demands are amnesty for many Sunni detainees in American custody and a national referendum on the agreement.

But while the two groups may both oppose the pact, leaders of Tawafiq, the largest Sunni bloc in Parliament, said they would be open to supporting it if some of their demands were met. “We have our own concerns, mainly because of what is not in there,” said Ayad al-Sammarai, a Tawafiq leader. “If we get a positive response, then things will change.”

A signing ceremony on Monday morning attended by Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador, and Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi foreign minister, marked the end of the negotiations, which took almost a year; members of Parliament cannot make further changes to what is now an international agreement.

The vote is scheduled for next Monday. If the agreement passes, it will go to the three-member presidency council for approval.

In Washington, officials acknowledged on Monday that the agreement still left some contentious issues vaguely worded, including the extent of Iraqi legal jurisdiction over crimes against Iraqi civilians in which American soldiers are accused.

Representative Ike Skelton of Missouri, a Democrat who is chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, warned that the agreement could subject American soldiers to Iraqi prosecution and complained that parts of the agreement would be left for joint committees to resolve in the future.

That, Mr. Skelton said, could set the stage for future disputes between Iraq’s increasingly assertive government and American diplomats and commanders.
In Full @ the New York Times

40 year criminal Rethuglican senator Ted Stevens loses to Mayor of Anchorage Mark Begich. More on Minnesota, and the Georgia re-run elections.

Turncoat Demoncratic senator Joe Lieberman… all is forgiven.

The last Attorney General of the Clinton administration, Eric Holder, becomes the first of Obama’s. His specialty at the DOJ was ethics and corruption investigations.

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[November 19 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Legal ‘Pitchforks & Torches’ For Dick Cheney And Alberto Gonzales Have Been Sharpened And Lit - Indicted For Border Detention Center Prisoner Abuse

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In The News: It’s like the opening of the deer season in congress. Congress is back in session and the economic bailout is under investigation. High level financial hacks like Fed Chairman Bernake and Treasury Secretary Paulson are being grilled about how a mortgage bailout became a government ==>> bank recapitalization/investment program. Convicted criminal Rethuglican senator Ted Stevens and turncoat Demoncrat Senator Joe Lieberman are gonna get some ‘treatment’ from their respective ‘parties’ (not anything Da’ Buffalo would attend or be invited to…) as well. More Political Bloodsport follows.

As General Anthony Clement McAuliffe said “Nuts!” - The Afghanistan/US government and the Talib ARE NOT going to have any peace talks at all as long as foreign troops are in country. More.

The report is out… 1/4 of the 700,000 troops committed to the ‘Gulf War’ have syndromes created by battlefield conditions(a region blanketed sometimes to the point of almost zero visibility in burning oil smoke and fumes for a start) and the drugs our own government gave them, not “Iraqi nerve gas”.

100 of the top military retirees have written Obama asking him to lift the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy which will allow gays to serve openly in the US military.

Will the Demoncratic congress bail out the auto companies (One might ask WHY? Maybe the Obama ‘Hope For Change’ slogan should really be re-coined as ‘Accept No Change’)? Will the Rethuglicans filibuster? Stay tuned.

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[November 18 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Political Bloodsport And ‘Circular Firing Squads’ - The Two Right Wings Of The One Party State Go Into Caucus

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In The News: Iraq is ready to boil over - The al Maliki government votes for a Status of Forces Agreement using the ‘Sovereignty Portfolio’ ministers

Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that an unnamed high official in Iraq said that he expected the cabinet to pass the agreement on Sunday or Monday, since it was supported by the ministers with “sovereignty portfolios” (Defense, Interior, Foreign Affairs, and Finance) More @ Juan Cole’s Informed Comment

(read Some ministers are “Capo di tutti capi” in an Iraqi/US MAFIA)… but it’s unlikely the parliament will get a quorum to vote on it. Expect it to get rammed down Iraq’s throat with the end result of MORE MAYHEM. Details.

Pakistan shuts down the Khyber Pass to battle the rebels, which also effectively shuts down the primary US supply route to Eastern Afghanistan. The Pakistani government is also claiming (correctly) the US drone incursions to hunt ‘al Qaeda’ violate their sovereignty and airspace. Also, the International Monetary Fund is about to loan Pakistan $27+- Billion dollars. More.

Hamid Karzai’s Afghanistan ‘government’ is offering Mullah Omar , with a 10 million dollar US bounty on his head, protection in return for peace talks with the Taliban.

We can hardly afford to remodel our homes but we’re going to remodeling the International Space Station. Kitchen, bedroom, bath, reverse osmosis urine to drinking water… All the conveniences.

Congress reconvenes today and they are going to work on taking some of the 700 BILLION dollar economic bailout and use it to pay off the mostly defunct US auto industry. As Jim Kunstler at Clusterfuck Nation put it:

The dilemma is essentially this: the consumer economy we all knew and loved has died. There will be pressure from nearly every quarter to keep it hooked up to the costly life support machines even though it is dead. A different economy is waiting to be born, but it is nothing like the one that has died.

The economy-to-come is one of rigor and austerity. It is not the kind of thing that a nation of overfed clowns is used to. Do we even have a prayer of getting to it, or are we going to squander our dwindling resources on life support for something that is already dead?

A case in point: the car industry. The Big Three, all functionally bankrupt, are now lined up for bail-outs from the treasury’s bottomless checking account. Personally, I believe the age of Happy Motoring is over.

Many Americans have already bought their last car — they just don’t know it yet.

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[November 17 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The First Order Of Business For The Obama Administration Is ‘Undo The Actions Of The Bush Administration’… The Same Is True Of Iraq’s Government And The Force-Fed Status Of Forces Agreement

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