Hell o we'en tricks, treats and horror...

The Ugly Occupation...
Imagine occupation troops camped out in your bedroom!
Troops "commandeer" Iraqi homes as bases.
"They broke into my house before Ramadan and they are still there," he told The Associated Press by telephone from his brother's home in Baghdad. "We were not able to tolerate seeing them damage our house in front of our very eyes.... I was afraid to ask them to leave."


BOO - I'm the Persian George Bush!
The gentle art of escalation


What's scarier than the boogerman?
How about "The coming cometary castastrophe"

"The Sun's brown dwarf 'dark' companion has disrupted cometary orbits by passing through the Oort cloud, and has sent a group of destructive comets headed our way. The comets are due to arrive in a time window extending over the next five years.
Hasta la vista, baby."
J. Orlin Grabbe

Tsunami reveals ancient temple sites
History rises from disaster


Pyramid found - in the heart of Bosnia
Just look for the big triangular hill.

That Big Brother costume sure looks real...
U.S. passports get RFID chips
Your movements will be monitored by your masters.



Suicide Mistaken for Halloween Decoration
People thought hanging body was prop.


Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Blog?
Forbes magazine takes a dump on bloggers

WHY NOT?

Humiliate your Cat with CatBib

Remember, with Mars close by in the night sky just in time for Hallowe'en that really cool costume might not be a costume...

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O.K., I will try and make my Hallowe'en post a little bit scarier...

Mars, Condolizards, Vampire Jesus, Elephants in Mourning, Big 2000 and Torture is USA, A-OK

Mars is gettin' all up in our Earthly grill, yo.
"On Sunday, October 30, the Red Planet will be 69.4 million kilometers (43.1 million miles) from Earth -- a distance that in galactic terms is less than wafer-thin and will not be equalled until 2018."


Condoliar Rice comes to Canada
America’s favourite hurricane shoe shopper delivers glib dismissal of Canadian concerns.
Rice holds firm on softwood dispute
Despite America's Imperial mass murder in the Middle East (and Paul Martin's fake "liberal" government's complicity with it) the Softwood Lumber NAFTA ruling against America's illegal tariffs in favour of Canada were the focus of her brief stop over in Canuckistan.

Of course NAFTA only applies to America when the rulings tip in their favour.
Although Canada clearly won the ruling Condi and her Cartel claim that the subject is open to "negotiation". Hey Pauly, grow a spine and get us the fuck out of this rotten deal the Americans heartily ignore when it does not service their desires.

I must say that Canada does its citizens no big favour by pimping out our forests to foreign logging companies and selling our lumber for a song. Although it creates some well-paying jobs for those in the industry, I would think that Canada could get more value-added return from the rapid clear cut deforestation and ecological rape of our most beautiful country.
November 3rd International Day of Action for the Boreal Forest


US detainees murdered during interrogations
The 'Liberation' continues...the hypocrisy seems never ending.

White House Insists That CIA Should Be Allowed To
Continue Torture Of Detainees
After all it is only, "abuse".
It is really a shame to see America shed the last vestiges of its illusion of "moral authority".

American Casualties hit big "official" 2000 mark and Rummy must be glad that the media unquestioningly parrots this lowball casualty number.
Attacks continue day after U.S. military death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000


Vampire Jesus!
Well, not quite but Anne Rice finds Jesus!
Her latest novel, 'Christ the Lord' is narrated by 'young Christ' and no, it is not about vampires - although that would be cool as hell!
I have never read an Anne Rice novel and this latest 'twist' in her subject matter pretty much guarantees I never will...



Elephants pay homage to dead relatives
Why are we all so surprised when other animals display intelligence and emotion?

Big thanks to those who kept looking in during my brief absence - stick around it's going to get good.
Love,
Youngfox

Weaving a sticky web of subterfuge and intrigue
"Despite its complete withdrawal from Lebanon, Syria has received the Godfather's kiss and apart from genuflecting before the aggressors can do no right.
Next on the neocon "to do" list is generally thought to be Iran. In response, the silence of the Arabs is almost palpable."

Democracy’s Grave Diggers?
"Good Americans, like their 1930s German counterparts, have already racked up a legacy of despair, misery and unbearable shame their children -- and ours -- must ultimately bear. It does not matter if Good Americans sit on the high court, if they are members of Congress, if they are propaganda conduits in the media, or if they are military ordered to turn on the very people they are sworn to protect, they are gravediggers of freedom and democracy."


Bringing the new American tradition of fake, rigged gunpoint democracy to the oil colony. Could you imagine voting under these conditions?
"Any law or institution created under the aegis of occupation is devoid of both legal and moral authority. The recently concluded election, the Constituent Assembly, the current government, and the drafting committee for the Constitution are therefore all illegitimate."
World Tribunal on Iraq

Iraqi Electoral Workers to Audit Results
"Iraq's election commission announced Monday that officials were investigating "unusually high" numbers of "yes" votes in about a dozen provinces during Iraq's landmark referendum on a new constitution, raising questions about irregularities in the balloting."
In lieu of hack-friendly voting machines good old fashion ballot stuffing will do.

Open Letter to Amnesty International on Iraqi Constitution
from BRussells Tribunal



US troops 'starve Iraqi citizens'
"A drama is taking place in total silence in Iraq, where the coalition's occupying forces are using hunger and deprivation of water as a weapon of war against the civilian population"
With the American Occupiers adopting Israeli-style "collective punishment" tactics this is not really a surprise.

Bush photo-op with coached soldiers insults Americans' intelligence
The Daily Show's send-up via Crooks and Liars

Teachers (aka Canada's free babysitting service) strike on Canada's best coast.
B.C. teachers defiant in face of further punishment
CBC

Drunk driver and fake 'Liberal' Gordo "The Union Buster" Campbell
Read Em' and Weep
Gazetteer
"...2:1 public support in favor of the Teachers despite the non-stop, not-so secret, but extremely duplicitous propaganda onslaught from the government that began exactly 5 days before the provincial election last May."

B.C. braces for more labour protests
"Thousands of CUPE workers across northern British Columbia are expected to walk off the job Tuesday in support of striking teachers, a day after union supporters shut down many services in the provincial capital."

Go teachers!

appy berfday, innit?
Many happy returns!
love,
Youngfox

The End of the World, until tomorrow...

Apocalyptic anxiety runs high in disasters' wake
Newsday

End of the World? Not Likely, Scientists Say
LiveScience


Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
Time to buy a new hat.


Ambitious Chinese Program Could Trigger Asian Space Race


Hobbits' long arms just like Lucy's


Rational Disengagement: An Exit Policy Proposal
By an American Soldier in Iraq
"Iraq will have some very hard times to follow our disengagement, but I see this as inevitable anyway so why should we (Americans) continue to bleed only to prolong the pain that is coming. I don't view this as defeatism, I view it as rationalism."

Canadians Right to Privacy is Being Eroded
"Really - get in touch with your local MP and express your outrage at this proposed legislation. If you don't already know who your MP is, find them using your postal code here."

WHY?

Thieves, Liars and Wookies Gone Wild

The Empire Strikes Oil...
Iraq "rebuilding" slows as U.S. money for projects dries up

Blood, Sweat & Tears: Asia’s Poor Build U.S. Bases in Iraq
"Tens of thousands of such TNC laborers have helped set new records for the largest civilian workforce ever hired in support of a U.S. war."

Torture is a blight on America’s image
"On October 6, Glen Beck, the host of a US syndicated radio show, received a call from a former “intelligence officer” called Mitch, who claimed to have personally tortured foreign detainees by burning their retinas with high-powered Halogen lamps and bursting their eardrums using high-pressure water and air."

Worker 'stole human brains'


fossils more proof of 'hobbits'


Dog sees crocodile and won't jump into water.
This leaves the owners, 'puzzled over the behaviour of their pet dog.'



Only You Can Prevent Propaganda


WHY?

Sighting Sites in Disasterworld and Beyond

mr.damon goes to Egypt (and takes some beautiful photos)


AP Photo/Anjum Naveed
Islamabad.
The Angry Earth.
It seems like Earthlings are getting a collective taste.

Lost Cats in New Orleans. from clayton james cubitt

From the ("Creepy Incrementalism") Files

Insects From A Parallel Universe?


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Because you rock weird...

Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip must have some strange affinity for New Orleans. I must admit that the classic Canrock kicker “New Orleans Is Sinking” from the album 'Up to Here' (1989) was the first tune to stroll through my brain when I saw the horrors of the levee breaks. This thought had occurred awhile back but the lyrics of the tune “If New Orleans Is Beat” from the album: In Between Evolution (2004) seem to have an eerie prognosticative reference to what has passed and what is occurring.
I do wonder what sort of mojo binds Gord and The Hip with New Orleans?

If New Orleans Is Beat
by Tragically Hip. from 'In Between Evolution' (2004)

Your smile is fading a bit so I ration it
Don’t think about it
Here where the Mississippi quits
Where it’s still got a bit of Minnesota in it
No one will give you a thing these days
They’d rather kill it or throw it away
You don’t ‘do’ dark American streets so
if New Orleans is beat
if New Orleans is beat
if New Orleans is beat
if New Orleans is beat
if New Orleans is beat
Where’s that leave you and me?
The river takes & takes & takes and takes
It doesn’t change and only changes
See it there in a picture with me
There’s a caption beneath
“New Orleans is beat”
and if New Orleans is beat
if New Orleans is beat
if New Orleans is beat
if New Orleans is beat
Where’s that leave you and me?
Where’s that leave you and me?
Where’s that leave you and me?
Your smile is fading a bit so I ration it
try not to think about it

Our Viral Future

'What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.'
Herbert A. Simon. Nobel Laureate Economist

Bird flu reported in Romania and Turkey
"If the Romanian cases turn out to be the deadly H5N1 virus, it would be the first evidence the strain has spread to Europe from Asia, where it has killed 65 people and millions of birds since 2003.
Experts fear the H5N1 virus could mutate into one which spreads easily among humans, creating a pandemic that might kill millions."

Pilot killed in Winnipeg plane crash
('the plane was carrying small amounts of frozen influenza and herpes viruses')
"The Cessna was owned by Morningstar Air Express of Edmonton and was under contract to Federal Express. In its cargo were six half-millilitre vials of virus samples being sent to Thunder Bay for research, FedEx spokeswoman Karen Cooper said from Toronto.

Although the samples were labelled dangerous goods, they were not considered hazardous at the crash site since all the cargo was destroyed in the blaze, she said.
"We have nothing left of anything."

"It's not the first time infectious agents have been involved in transportation accidents in Winnipeg.
Last March, a FedEx van delivering a shipment of anthrax to the city's national virology lab was struck by another vehicle. None of the specially packed containers in the van broke."

"Winnipeg's fortress of deadly disease" CBC
"Winnipeg's new virology lab – administered by Health Canada – cost $172 million and took 10 years to design and build. It took two years alone to build the concrete box that encloses the Level-4 lab. They waited a year for the massive, monolithic concrete to dry, then covered it with 30 coats of special paint, then covered the walls and floor with a layer of epoxy 7.5 centimetres thick."



US scientists resurrect deadly 1918 flu
"In a surprise announcement, scientists in the US say they have recreated the influenza virus that killed at least 50 million people in 1918, and they have infected mice with it."
I hope the 'authorities' watch their new "bird flu" more closely than they did their Anthrax in 2001.

I'm feeling better already!
Martial Law and the Avian Flu Pandemic
"Why all of a sudden is avian flu on the presidential agenda?"

When local media reports that CNN is in town, you know we are in trouble...
Death toll from mystery illness in Toronto now 16
"Despite the increasing death toll, which officials said could still climb higher, Toronto's medical officer of health, Dr. David McKeown told a news conference on Wednesday the outbreak is winding down."

Seniors died of Legionnaires' disease: 'official'
Legionellosis is an infection caused by species of the bacterium Legionella

With "mystery" viruses floating around it looks like it's a bad time to be a vampire in Toronto.
Attacker who fed on victims' blood sentenced


Python Bursts After Trying to Eat Gator

Hang on to your humanity! Rules for the sadistic occupiers...
U.S. Senate imposes restrictions on prisoner treatment
(Too Late)



Wal-Mart Turns in Student’s Anti-Bush Photo, Secret Service Investigates Him
“I didn’t believe him at first.
But they had come into my room when I wasn’t there and had taken his poster, which was in a stack with all the others.”
At the end of the meeting, they told her the incident “would be interpreted by the U.S. attorney, who would decide whether the student could be indicted...”

Having given up on finding Osama bin Laden, the machinations of the “War on Terror ©" focus on angst-riddled teens.
Are they with you or against you?

O.M.G. - WHY?

A cow kills two attacking pitbulls - (graphic)

Robofly and the Hell on Earth

Robofly - Coming soon to a wall near you?

"Robofly is a stealth robotic flyer that is actually the size of a fly. Squads of roboflies may one day be sent to search out targets, collect and provide information on damage assessment, or search for chemical and biological warfare agents." Office of Naval Research

Considering the modern day assault on personal privacy by Western Governments, I am certain "Robofly" will not just be reserved for "enemies".

They hate you for your freedom...
Did the Bush Admin lackeys spread a virus over the anti-war protesters in Washington on Sept. 24? Considering their morally vacant penchant for murdering opponents and fabricating reality, I do not think it is a real stretch. Does anybody recall the stories of LBJ having his secret service spread itching powder over protesters at his speeches so they would be too busy scratching to hold up signs?
See also: Operation "Granite Shadow" revealed - this 'op' ran at the same time as the protests were occuring on the 24th.

"Granite Shadow is yet another new Top Secret and compartmented operation related to the military’s extra-legal powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency military operations in the United States without civilian supervision or control."

Andy Rooney - "Ike was Right" (Quicktime clip)
The freakiest eyebrows on television take a stab at the plunder of America's tax dollars and the rise to power of the soulless American Military Industrial Complex.

Dogs and Cats used to troll for sharks?
The source of this story is the Sun Online so one could only hope that it is just shoddy journalistic hoaxing but I am afraid not.
Warning: accompanying the article is a disturbing picture of a beautiful dog with a hook in his snout.

Clearing the Baffles for the Zombie Nation's 9/11 Programming

Clearing the Baffles for 911
By Wayne Madsen

"These subscribers and ardent supporters of the Project for a New American Century’s (PNAC) blueprint for U.S. global domination interfered with covert projects by the CIA, FBI, Defense Intelligence Agency, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Treasury Department, and National Security Agency(NSA) that could have exposed an international organized criminal cartel that included the 911 hijackers, arms and drug traffickers, and Mafia financiers.

According to a number of former CIA, FBI, and DIA officers, the one glaring missing link in the 911 attacks and the USS Cole bombing is the lack of provable involvement by organized Islamist fundamentalists, including the generic bogeyman consistently cited by the PNAC supporters: “Al Qaeda.”

Another "must read" article by Madsen. The truth might be an elusive animal in the 11/09/01 crimes timeline but it will eventually be captured.

Permanent Occupation
By Rep. Barbara Lee

"The May 22, 2005, Washington Post described the military’s plan to consolidate military personnel in Iraq into four massive “contingency operating bases.”

According to the Congressional Research Service, Emergency Supplemental funds appropriated for military construction in Iraq for fiscal years 2001–2005 total more than $805 million, with the vast majority, more than $597 million, coming in the 2005 fiscal year."

Sounds like America needs some more upper class tax cuts!
I would imagine all Americans are living the good life extraordinaire right now if their nation can afford to build the machinery of a permanently occupied state in Iraq complete with a stable foreign national infrastructure for global oil companies.
Kudos on that crippling, multi-generational national deficit, and the seemingly eager willingness of young Americans to die for your petrochemical sins and geopolitical power cult fetishes!
The good life – she don’t come free or cheap.
At this point of global overpopulation, someone has to die for the idle ignorance of instant gratification all the time at any cost.
Drones must be created before they can be sacrificed.
I was reading Signs of the Times and that thought found roots in a year old Mark Morford article from the SF Gate…

Why Don't Americans Care?
Mark Morford

"It seems hard to believe. But the general rule of thumb is that major cities are slightly more attuned due to aggressive media saturation and how issues tend to make themselves known more urgently, more immediately, whereas Middle America is a scattershot conglomeration of the politically apathetic and the actively disenfranchised, full of people far too busy with their lives and kids and jobs and zoning out on "Fear Factor" and "Monday Night Football" to care about following the elitist, ever dire dramas playing out on the nation's gilded stages.

Most Americans, in other words, have no idea what the hell a Halliburton is.
Or a Karl Rove. Or a Donny "Shriveled Soul" Rumsfeld. Or a Lockheed Martin. Or a Carlysle Group. Or have any idea that Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11. Or that WMDs were never found. Or that President Bush has taken more vacation time than any president in U.S. history. Or that Jesus thinks Dubya is "sort of a dink."
Or where Iraq is on a map."

The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile
The Memory Hole

"We were to become good worker-drones, with a razor-thin slice of the population—mainly the children of the captains of industry and government—to rise to the level where they could continue running things."

War Crimes as American as Apple Pie

Somebody in America needs to face a war crimes tribunal!
(I say start at the top and work your way down)

Firsthand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees
by the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division
Human Rights Watch
So many tips to this massive iceberg...

Human rights in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq
From Wikipedia.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire!

Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
September 29, 2005 Associated Press

"The American Civil Liberties Union sought the release of 87 photographs and four videotapes as part of an October 2003 lawsuit demanding information on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody and the transfer of prisoners to countries known to use torture. The ACLU contends that prisoner abuse is systemic."

So the Pentagon will not be able to censor the last of the Abu Ghraib "trophy" pictures. Does it really matter? Those in the “civilized” world who have already decided that they can accessorise their lifestyles with a dash of international war crime will never admit that something is wrong. After all, it’s just “those people” right?

Lydie England herself has described far worse things happening than the sickening pictures already show. The criminal activities of the U.S. Forces and the many private mercenaries and foreign nationals working with them have guaranteed a morally vacant and virtue-free war for oil.The useless Western media might ignore the facts but people of conscience should not. These deeds are torture and war crimes. The Americans have throw out the conventions of international law and are openly engaged in systemic internationally criminal activity.

I just thought I would repost some past articles documenting the reasons why the United States can never claim a "victory" in the criminal and hypocritical invasion, occupation and oil looting of Iraq. America has put its own spin on the torturing and murdering ways of the old Iraqi Regime. Same shit different torture pile. The “Torture chambers, rape rooms and mass graves” described by George and his ilk in the psy-op run up to the Iraq invasion are now merely under new management. What a sad international awakening to the amoral hypocrisy of the current American regime.

"The American public needs to understand, we're talking about rape and murder here. We're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience. We're talking about rape and murder and some very serious charges."
(Republican Senator Lindsay Graham)

Iraq Prison Scandal Resources
ANTIWAR.COM

The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos
(previously released)
ANTIWAR.COM
The systemic torture of prisoners and civilians in the American “War on Terror ©" has been minimized and downplayed by the mainstream media with an almost banal indifference. Torture is merely “Abuse” and the only visuals ever highlighted are the “few bad apples” Chuckles Graner and U.S. Army recruitment pinup Lyndie England.


Eclipsing Jessica Lynch as the Pentagon’s pinup girl, this degrading posture assumed by Ms. England during the torture sessions in Abu Ghraib has become garishly enshrined in American popular culture as
"Doing a Lynndie" .

Hersh: children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos

"This is at Abu Ghraib ... The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded.
The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."

Evidence for Hersh's claims of child sexual abuse at Abu Ghraib?

"From Gook to Raghead"
A conscientious objector recalls his time in Iraq

"In November 2003, after several months in Nasiriya in southern Iraq, the 320th was redeployed to Abu Ghraib. The violence there was sickening, Mr. Delgado said. Some inmates were beaten nearly to death."

Someone should lay off the Army issued "go-pills"
Other horrifying galleries of tweaked out U.S. Navy Seals beating prisoners, British Soldiers torturing their Iraqi prisoners and the even more nefarious fetish galleries of Soldier’s kill pictures that are readily available on the internet seem ignored by the comatose media.

Under Mars
Sick American trophy pictures of Iraqi dead with debasing captions.

Anger over Iraqi war dead on Internet
Mark Dunn

"January 27, 2005 - THE US Defence Department has been asked to investigate a website being used by American soldiers to post grisly pictures of Iraqi war dead."
"Dozens of pictures of decapitated and limbless bodies are featured on the site with tasteless captions, purportedly sent in by soldiers.Captions include "plastic surgery needed", "road kill" and "I said dead"."

Photo Horror
War in Iraq in exchange for free access to porn sites from "nowthat'sfuckedup.com"

Body part porn and war
by Helen Coban, Just World News

TORTURE USA
Eric Margolis

"Many tortures perfected by the Cheka (Soviet secret police), notably beating, freezing, sensory disorientation, and sleep deprivation, are now routinely being used by US interrogators on Muslim suspects.
The Chekisti, however, did not usually inflict sexual humiliations.

That technique, and hooding, were developed by Israeli psychologists to break resistance of Palestinian prisoners. Photos of sexual humiliation were used by Israeli security, and then by US interrogators at Abu Ghraib, to blackmail Muslim prisoners into becoming informers.

All of these practices flagrantly violate the Geneva Conventions, international, and American law. The Pentagon and CIA's secret gulag in Cuba, Iraq and Afghanistan has become a sort of Enron-style, off-the-books operation, immune from American law or Congressional oversight."

The CIA, etc.
America’s Secret Police, roam the globe in private jets abducting people with an eerie impunity.
Probe Finds 'Rendition' Of Terror Suspects Illegal
Wash. Post
Destination Cairo: human rights fears over CIA flights
Guardian
This is apparently not criminal terrorism when Americans do it.

Slow Death on the Jail Convoys of Misery
by Jim Rissman

AFGHANISTAN: US soldiers beat prisoners to death

"Even if one of the prisoners had survived, “both [of his] legs would have had to be amputated”, a report by the US army on the deaths of two Afghan prisoners, who were chained to the ceiling during the assault, noted."

REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS
(NOW APPARENTLY IRRELEVANT)
Impunity for the Architects of Illegal Policy
(Human Rights Watch)

"The War Crimes Act provides criminal punishment for whomever, inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, if either the perpetrator or the victim is a member of the U.S. Armed Forces or a national of the United States. A “war crime” is defined as any “grave breach” of the Geneva Conventions or acts which violate common Article 3 of those pacts.82

“Grave breaches” include “willful killing, torture or inhuman treatment” of prisoners of war (POWs) and of civilians qualified as “protected persons.” Common Article 3 prohibits, inter alia, murder, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture, and “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment.”