February 28, 2009 at 3:11 P.M. Efforts to reach MSN groups were blocked again. My attempts to access my mail at Yahoo were also blocked. I was concerned that Yahoo may have closed. Luckily, I was able to reach my e-mail. The harassment and cyberwarfare against me continues, through abuse of government and police power in the Garden State. I will continue to struggle against these criminal censorship efforts.
February 28, 2009 at 9:56 A.M. I attempted to access MSN earlier this morning, but I was blocked and denied access to the site, then bounced off the Internet. I will spend part of every day trying to regain access to MSN and my hotmail account as well as running scans. I love the smell of censorship in the morning.
Peter S. Goodman, "Sharper Downturn Clouds Obama's Spending Plans," The New York Times, February 28, 2009, at p. A1. (6.2% contraction rate in 4th quarter -- budget was based on brighter projection.)
"The Deluder in Chief," The New York Times, December 7, 2008, at p. 8. (Mr. Bush.)
Alexei Barrionuevo, "At Meeting In Brazil, Washington Is Scorned: Castro Assails U.S. For the Credit Crisis," The New York Times, December 17, 2008, at p. A10. ("New neighborhood?")
Patrick McGeehan, "Job Losses in City Reach Up Ladder: White Collar Cuts Grow Far Beyond Wall Street," The New York Times, December 12, 2008, at p. A1. (White people are losing their jobs -- oh, no!)
"Deeper in Debt," The New York Times, December 12, 2008, at p. A40. (New Jersey's corruption and financial disasters continue to spread.)
April 27, 2009 at 12:42 P.M. GM will dissolve Pontiac, 20,000 jobs will be lost.
A recent conference among Latin American leaders should be a source of concern to the Obama administration. Latin presidents excluded the U.S. from a regional discussion, excoriated the Bush forces in Washington, established more fully independent relations among regional states and welcomed the greater role of China and Russia in the region, while making a point of including Cuba in discussions as they call for an end to the U.S. embargo and all hostility towards Cuba. The key word in this paragraph and in the conference is "independent."
I have no doubt that, without the arrival of the Obama administration, antiamerican terrorist incidents in Latin America would begin to erupt and that partnerships between countries in the Middle East and Latin American nations with substantial Arab populations, such as Venezuela, would develop with adverse consequences for U.S. interests.
A child custody matter currently pending before Brazilian courts has prompted one New Jersey Congressperson to "threaten" Brazil's "agreements" with the U.S. -- whatever that means -- if this court case is not resolved favorably to his constituent. I am highly sympathetic to the gentleman whose son is in Brazil. I hope that boy enjoys a good relationship with all family members. However, threatening a country with the world's eighth largest economy if you are Chris Smith (D?) from New Jersey is unlikely to be helpful to that man. Such actions may be harmful to U.S.-Brazilian relations, which are crucial, at the moment, to U.S. interests.
Most likely, Mr. Smith's actions will succeed in getting him on television, but will have no bearing on Brazil's court system, which is applying an International Convention to which the U.S. is a signatory governing these custody cases. I wonder whether Mr. Smith has visited my sites? I am sure that no U.S. Congressperson would be a party to censorship or the violation of civil rights. Mr. Smith certainly does not condone "hacking" or cybercrime. I hope. (There were several obstructions to my efforts to access these blogs this afternoon and a quotation mark was deleted from a sentence.)
New Jersey's Superior Court judges are duty-bound to respond when made aware of criminality or fraud taking place under their auspices, especially at the hands of government attorneys. Cover-ups are equally offensive to due process of law under America's Constitutional system. Silence on the part of judges aware of such criminality is complicity in atrocity. The N.J. Rules of Court specifically mandate "vigilance" to avoid fraud upon the court, obstructions of justice (altering taped transcripts or failures to make full disclosure, not to mention criminal conspiracies to violate civil rights) in order to ensure flexibility in the "interests of justice."
No court system should condone rape, theft, enslavement, use of hypnosis and drugging in interrogation without a victim's consent, violations of privacy, illegal entry into homes and offices, and many other crimes. Do you speak to me of "ethics," Mr. Rabner? Ms. Milgram? ("Terry Tuchin, Diana Lisa Riccioli, and New Jersey's Agency of Torture" and "What is it like to be tortured?")
Cuba's President Raul Castro noted that the U.S. financial debacle had tightened credit in the world and would hurt poor countries struggling to feed and house millions or billions. Incidentally, Brazil's President is not best described as an "ally" of the U.S. Mr. Lula is an "independent" democratic socialist. The Lula handshake with Obama signaled a new era in U.S. and Latin American relations. I do not believe that Mr. Lula will be concerned with Mr. Smith's "actions." Is Mr. Smith running for re-election?
Unmentioned in the Times article is the growing connections between Middle Eastern "interests" or "forces" and Latin American powers -- especially Venezuela and Cuba -- but even less obvious "entities" are establishing contacts with forces unfriendly to the U.S. The thinking among Latin leaders is that keeping America busy in the Middle East will prevent U.S. meddling in Latin America, hopefully. Obama got things right in Honduras also, despite Cubanoid opposition in South Beach. Banana daiquiri? This is scary to Latin leaders who cannot remember such astute diplomacy in the White House.
Many of the people in Washington that Latin American leaders know are products of the universally detested Right-wing Cuban-American community in South Florida (primarily) or the "preccints" of New Jersey. These are the people allegedly responsible for the unflattering photograph of Mr. Obama appearing on the cover of the New York Post today (December 18, 2008). The same crowd produced Internet images of a KFC on the White House lawn, also allegedly, as part of a racist vilification campaign against Obama. I can only pray that these Cubanoids are not prominent in "SOUTHCOM" or other intelligence agencies.
"Cubanoids" or Cubanazos are said to have contacts among the rabid Republican faithful, "skeptical" about Mr. Obama's leadership before he is sworn into office and more so since the inauguration. Cubanazos are, sadly, also influential in Garden State politics and must be among my tormentors. Throw some crooked politicians into the mix and you will have discovered both those responsible for my Internet troubles and the membership of the New Jersey Assembly.
The message being sent by such people is that they "don't care" what Washington does, they have their own foreign policy of hostility towards Cuba, also towards anyone who disagrees with them -- including me, I guess. We may expect many more attacks on these writings and brazen criminal vandalism of my sites. Such actions are crimes under U.S. federal law, not that anybody cares, or will do anything to stop this PUBLIC criminality.
This spectacle of censorship and disdain for due process of law may be aimed at embarassing Obama, but it will also humiliate America's State Department and undermine our defense of free speech to the world. The same people hoping to alienate Brazil are advocating a war with North Korea -- perhaps as a prelude to invading Varadero beach, near Havana. Iraq and Afghanistan are not enough for Miami's calle ocho.
"Latin American leaders took another step away from the decades-old orbit of the United States at a meeting here that brought together nearly all of Latin America and the Caribbean, but excluded the United States and Europe."
Europe is not usually thought of as being in Latin America or the New World. Hence, it would not be "included" in a regional conference, especially since Europe is not a country. This is a writer for the New York Times? Ms. Dargis, Perhaps?
"[Leaders were] celebrating the inclusion of Raul Castro, Cuba's president, and ... using the occasion to attack the United States and Europe for their roles in causing the global economic crisis that is roiling this region as well."
"... 'Cuba is returning to where it always should have been,' Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's President told reporters, 'We are complete.' ..."
"The United States became a punching bag at the three-day conference, which ends Wednesday, in this tourist haven in Brazil's Bahia State. Mr. Castro was hardly alone in assailing the United States and what he called its credit crisis, which is affecting many other economies."
The following statement was not made by Raul Castro. It is an editorial in The New York Times:
"We long ago gave up hope that President Bush would acknowledge his many mistakes" -- have you no shame, Mr. Rabner? -- "or show that he had learned anything from them. Even then we were unprepared for the epic denial that Mr. Bush displayed in his interview with ABC News's Charlie Gibson the other day, which he considered an important valedictory chat with the American public as well."
Aside from the out-of-control psychobabble -- "denial" is "passive-aggressive" in this context, duh! -- it must be recognized that Mr. Bush is ending what is now a dismally failed presidency on a low note. Mr. Cheney was quoted in interviews and news shows yesterday to say that he "approved" of waterboarding.
Shortly after the U.S. sponsored a failed military coup to oust duly elected President Chavez of Venezuela, Ms. Rice appeared on television to suggest that Mr. Chavez should "learn from the experience" to "respect democracy." Cognitive dissonance afflicts Latin American leaders on such occasions.
"It was skin crawling to hear [Bush] tell Mr. Gibson that the thing he will really miss when he leaves office is no longer going to see the families of slain soldiers, because they make him feel better about the war. [emphasis added] But Mr. Bush's comments about his decision to invade Iraq were a 'mistakes were made' rewriting of history and a refusal to accept responsibility to rival Richard Nixon."
Now for some more grim and depressing news from America's so-called legal "shit hole," New Jersey:
"It was only last year that Gov. Jon Corzine of New Jersey was calling for a major, and hugely unpopular, increase in turnpike tolls. The goal was to cut in half the state's $30 BILLION budget short fall, caused in large part by the underfunding of public employee pension funds."
The looming Xanadu crisis which seems to involve the loss of millions -- and maybe TWO BILLION DOLLARS in public and private money -- in an absurd and wasteful effort to turn much of Hudson County into a shopping mall, with Senator Bob dipping a finger in this pie, is just "business as usual" for America's most corrupt and mafia-saturated jurisdiction. I am told that a big personal injury lawyer has some trust account problems these days. Don't worry, big guy, just kick back something to Rabner and Milgram. The "rail link" between the non-existent mall and New York is scheduled to be completed by 2017. Don't hold your breath.
This is the sort of thing that often happens when people steal a lot of money in Trenton. Attempts to pass the buck on to how things were done in the nineties are not very convincing. There was a lot of stealing in the nineties in the Garden State. In fact, I was one of the people stolen from in that glorious decade when we all were looking for young women in berets with a fondness for Altoids Mints. Completion of Xanadu is now listed for 2025.
" ... The state will have to further increase the turnpike tolls, with the added revenue going to the pension funds. Without tough, and politically difficult policies, New Jersey will never dig out of its debt."
New Jersey is a lost cause. The United States of America is worth fighting for and subject to great challenges in the world. We are 15th in the world in terms of proportional access to high speed Internet connections, at least 20 other countries have better educated populations (Cuba may be one of them), and we are falling behind in just about every category of aesthetic and imaginative achievement in which we led the world during the twentieth century. Imbecility on the part of Cubanoids is one reason for my troubles.
Obama's efforts to deal with education issues is a bipartisan project. Obama is brilliant and batting a thousand right now. Hillary's little trip to Asia is crucial to our future prosperity and security issues. Ms. Clinton is not receiving the attention she deserves from the media. Get this through your skull, you want this presidency to succeed if you care about America's future.
We need those "intellectual weirdos" that we like to beat up. We need to encourage independent thought and creativity. Genius or intellectual brilliance is not proof of homosexuality or Communism -- except in Miami and Union City, New Jersey.
Who should replace Ms. Clinton in the Senate? I argued that Ms. Kennedy should be appointed to the Senate. Caroline Kennedy's writings on civil liberties issues, concern with public policy questions, advocacy for the poor and her name gives her (and us) instant credibility in Latin America and much of the Third World. Loss of a woman in the Senate should result in a strenuous effort to find a qualified woman for the position. We need more women in such political positions and in policy-formulating positions at the Pentagon and State Department. Senator Gillian (not Anderson) is a gun-toting Democrat from "upstate" where it snows a lot and she shoots many a moose on sight! Only in America do such "colorful" characters become U.S. Senators.
Caroline Kennedy is a qualified person who is needed in higher office. How about UN Ambassador? Ms. Kennedy is also an expert in Constitutional law and civil liberties issues (Columbia Law School), who understands the concerns over privacy issues in this technological environment and First Amendment questions arising in the Internet age. Ms. Kennedy will make a great American Diplomat or judge in the federal system. What about a second Justice Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Ms. Clinton will face the greatest challenge that any Secretary of State has faced in my lifetime. Formulation of an Obama foreign policy for a highly dangerous global environment where the U.S. cannot "do all that it would like" will require ingenuity and imagination. Most of all, the U.S. will have to return to something we are no longer very good at -- diplomacy. You remember diplomacy?
We are moving in the right direction. The problems we face are great and how we cope with those problems will determine our fate in the first half of this century. Republicans: Do not play politics with the economy or domestic improvement efforts now. You are more than welcome to dislike Ms. Pelosi, or any other Democrat, but do what is right for the country. Your children will thank you for it someday.
Please don't turn the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor into a media slugfest, like the grotesque Clarence Thomas nomination. I will repeat my comment made when Justice Alito was nominated: This person is obviously a competent nominee -- whether or not we agree with the person's previous decisions -- deserving of a respectful assessment, not insults or a circus atmosphere.
