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WHO’S YOUR DADDY?
Posted: May 17, 2014 in American Exceptionalism, Arseny Yatsenyuk, Christopher Heinz, Devon Archer, economics, Economy, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Keystone XL, Neo-Nazi, Obama, Oil, Rosemont Capital, Russia, The Matrix, Ukraine, XL PipelineTags: barack obama, Big Oil, bull shit, Keystone XL pipeline, Putin, Rule of Law, Russia, Ukraine
WHO’S YOUR DADDY?
Well Tubularsock has been so busy that leaving the underground bunker hasn’t been an option. Sure the windows are all clean now but when you are in the position to know EVERYTHING well it just fucking keeps you busy. Have you ever spent some real quality time watching the Matrix? And I’m not talking about the movie here. Tubularsock MEANS the MATRIX!
Now thank the Gods that that Ukraine issue has been settled. The U.S. has helped kill as many Ukrainians as necessary to bring democracy to the Ukraine …. that is exceptionalism, really.
The damn Russians keep voting at the ballot box to break away from Ukraine and return to the Russian State but the international community (you know, the U.S. and Europe) say voting is against international law and won’t honor the votes taken.
But the U.S. and Europe all agree that overthrowing a democratically elected Ukraine and then hand picking the new leader, Arseniy Yatsenyuk works well with international law. Funny how that works.
So often what would appear to be the opposite as it should be is the way it is projected to be …………. now who would question that?
But enough summary. What Tubularsock wishes to focus on is that Joe Biden’s son, Hunter has joined the board of directors of Ukrainian gas firm Burisma Holdings Ltd.
Now, Tubularsock knows what you are thinking. This is all being set up because Who’s-Your-Daddy-Hunter is the son of the Vice President of the United States of America.
Well, there’s more. Hunter’s appointment came a few weeks after Devon Archer. Both Hunter and Devon are part of the investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners which are affiliated with Rosemont Capital, a private-equity firm. *****Think Carlyle Group. You remember the private-equity firm that the Bush family and the Saudi Royal family made so much money with during the Iraq war.******
A little side note: Rosemont Capital private-equity firm was co-founded by Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz, Secretary of State John Kerry’s stepson and heir to H.J. Heinz Co. ketchup family.
Wars seem to be good for private-equity firms. Especially if you are on an inside track. Now isn’t that interesting?
Now Devon Archer was a mover-and-shaker-fund-raiser for John Kerry and served as co-chair of the national finance committee for Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. He also just happened to be Christopher Heinz, Kerry’s stepson college roommate.
What a small world.
Now I know what you are thinking. This is all being set up because Who’s-His-Step-Daddy’s-Friend-Devon is the “friend” of the stepson of the Secretary of State of the United States of America.
Well, there’s more.
Now the timing of Hunter’s appointment seems to fit in close to Joe Biden’s visit to the Ukraine and it just happens that Joe is going to drop by Cyprus for a visit as well. Funny that Cyprus, according to Businessweek is where Burisma Holdings Ltd. is officially located.
But don’t fret! The real truth is “As a new member of the board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine,” Hunter Biden said regarding his new appointment.
Well there you have it. It’s all explained now ……… let’s go back to sleep.
Tubularsock is all for transparency so it might be interesting to look just a little deeper at Hunter. You know, for the fun of it.
Hunter Biden’s business activities had attracted attention while he worked as a lobbyist when his father was a U.S. Senator and those “business activities” came under scrutiny at that time.
When Barack Obama was a Senator he sought more than $3.4 million in earmarks for clients of Hunter Biden, and succeeded in getting $192,000 for St. Xavier University near Chicago, according to public disclosure records.
Hunter Biden gave up his partnership in his Washington lobbying firm after his father became Barack Obama’s running mate in 2008.
The Wall Street Journal in the early part of 2009 reported that Hunter Biden and his uncle had run a fund of funds that was being marketed exclusively by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford’s companies.
Funny thing there was that Mr. Stanford later was sentenced to 110 years in prison for masterminding a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.
The Wall Street Journal also reported at the time that Biden’s lawyer said the fund terminated the relationship and offered to return $2.7 million in investment that companies controlled by Mr. Stanford had given the fund. He said the Bidens had never met Mr. Stanford.
But hey, business is business so all that is just cash under the bridge.
Now really, Tubularsock hates to tell you but once you open up the gas valve well …….
there’s more!
Just why are these guys interested in Burisma Holdings Ltd. anyway, except for of course, to “. . . contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine”?
Well that is pretty obvious.
“Burisma is a private oil and gas company founded in 2002, under joint activity agreements with Ukrainian state-owned producers, and quickly grew to become the largest private gas producer in Ukraine. The company’s average daily output stood at 10.5 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day in September 2013, and could double that figure within two years. All of the company’s gas is sold to industrial customers in Ukraine.” (International Business Times)
Burisma is a sitting duck when it comes to future profit in natural gas. The Ukraine’s largest energy source is natural gas accounting for 38 percent of total primary energy production during 2011.
At the moment the Russian gas company Gazprom currently satisfy most of Ukraine’s energy needs. Russia has recently stated that the Ukraine will have to pay for their natural gas needs in advance in cash if they want further deliveries.
Remember Gazprom also provides something in the range of 40% of Europe’s natural gas needs.
Therefore for Ukraine to reduce it’s dependency of natural gas from Russia in the future Burisma is well-positioned to boost its share of the domestic market.
And when Gazprom backs off the cost of natural gas will increase and who stands to gain in profit from that? Let’s be clear ……. not the Ukrainian people!
HEY, SOME DIE, SOME PROFIT. BUSINESS AS USUAL. THANK YOU AMERICA.
And to get even more convoluted Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La) the head of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has said that instability in Ukraine makes the case for building the Keystone XL oil pipeline in the United States. Sure it does ……..
“Americans look at what’s happening in Russia and Ukraine — I think it sends shivers up their spine and it should,” said Landrieu, who accused European countries of being “timid” in confronting President Vladimir Putin over Russia’s aggressive actions in Ukraine, a former Soviet bloc state. (AP)
Well the only “shivers up their spine” Americans should have is the level of bull shit Mary is shoveling for the oil companies! But Landrieu also argued that the need for energy independence in the United States is greater than ever but neglected to explain that the KeystoneXL oil pipeline is for oil export NOT for domestic use. So the only people that will profit from it are NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
So what we have in the Ukraine is the new oligarchs’ playground and the people that will bear the hurt and the loss are the Ukrainian people while the profit will all be concentrated in the hands of the few.
Isn’t it comforting to know that YOU don’t count?
PROPAGANDA BY ANY OTHER NAME IS TRUTH
Posted: May 3, 2014 in American Exceptionalism, Arseny Yatsenyuk, Central Bank, CIA TERRORISTS, Crimea, economics, Economy, FED, FREEDOM, freedom of the press, IRAQ, John Kerry, John MaCain, Kayne West, Kim Kardashian, Neo-Nazi, Obama, Pussy Riot, Russia, TERRORISTS CREATED BY U.S., Ukraine, Ukrainian Gold, XL PipelineTags: bull shit, Human Rights American Failure, John McCain, Keystone XL pipeline, Obama foreign policy, Putin, Rule of Law, Russia, Ukraine
PROPAGANDA BY ANY OTHER NAME IS TRUTH
There is so much bullshit around this Ukraine mis-adventure that it is starting to make “regular crap” look good!
Now I was talking to a highly educated friend of mine just the other day and he was asking why is it that Tubularsock “likes” Putin and didn’t Tubularsock realize that Russia was posing a threat to the Ukraine by concentrating troops along its boarders?
Well Tubularsock wasn’t surprised by this limited view because he keeps up with current news by reading Newsweek and Time Magazines. And he believes he’s “informed”!
Well sure, the guy has a stressful job and limited time to “keep up” with the world. What with all the different countries doing different things EVERY day and all.
Why not get it ALL your news under one fast-third-grade-level-read-umbrella?
Now, far be it for Tubularsock to go off on Newsweek and Time Magazines except to say that Tubularsock wouldn’t use either even as toilet paper. In part because I think one or both are only on line now and not in physical form any longer which causes a logistical problem as toilet paper. And the other reason is then what would I do with the New York Times?
Oh my, Tubularsock does digress!
Now there seems to be a bit of a disagreement between John Kerry’s view of the Ukraine and what is happening and RT’s (Russia Today News) view of the Ukraine and what is happening. No surprise there!
John (you remember him, right …. Secretary of State) called RT a “propaganda bullhorn” and it was pushing Putin’s “fantasy”. My, my.
Well according to DIPNOTE the U.S. Department of State “Official Blog” posted by Richard Stengel : that Kerry’s remarks resulted in “. . . a predictable howl of protest from RT’s editor, who claimed the State Department knows little about what is really happening in Ukraine today and had the audacity to request an apology.”
Now Richard Stengel continued with, “I spent seven years as the managing editor of TIME magazine [now that’s clear] before joining the State Department. I understand the difference between news, propaganda and opinion. Propaganda is the deliberate dissemination of information that you know to be false or misleading in order to influence an audience.”
Well Richard seems, to Tubularsock, to be the one who is propagating “falsehoods” when it comes to the Ukraine and if Kerry doesn’t really know what RT is pointing out then he is truly an idiot!
Let Tubularsock just lead you through a few of the things RT has brought to the attention of the world and how Richard Stengel and John Kerry seem to be the ones who are “misleading” and attempting to twist the information.
Last week it was claimed by RT that the United States had “invested” $5 Billion in regime change in the Ukraine. Richard Stengel says that that is a “ludicrous assertion”.
Yet it was Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland who told a business group on December 13, 2013 that “. . . we have invested more than $5 billion in what was needed for Ukraine to achieve its European aspirations.”
In addition remember the intercepted, phone call where Victoria Nuland said her choice was to replace Yanukovych was Arseniy Yatsenyuk. The call was to U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk ended up as Prime Minister after the coup. Which shows collusion by the United States with the U.S. and European banking interests.
But not a word about that from Kerry or Stengel. They act like it was a natural “democratic” process. Like the CIA involvement in the process was akin to boys scouts helping a little old lady across the street.
Nor does Kerry or Stengel take on the issue of the dominance of Neo-Nazis in the new created Ukrainian Government as exposed by RT.
Now in Eastern Ukraine there was the incident cited by Kerry at the Geneva Conference that had been called to reduce tensions in Ukraine. Kerry said that, “Just in the last couple of days, notices were sent to Jews in one city indicating that they had to identify themselves as Jews. And obviously, the accompanying threat implied is – or threatened – or suffer the consequences, one way or the other.”
But a few day before Kerry’s speech that bit of information had been found to be the work of pro-coup operators NOT the pro-Russian Ukraine supporters.
Yet Kerry sited the information any way as if it were true. And he has the nerve to call RT a “propaganda bullhorn”?
It appears that what RT exposes The State Department just doesn’t discuss and thereby claims that it is RT that is doing the PROPAGANDA!
There is also the total lack of any discussion in the maimed-stream-media in the U.S. of the breaking of the deal made with Russia that NATO would not push for an eastward expansion which is why Ukraine has been overthrown by the U.S. and NATO backed cronies. It is NATO and the U.S. that has broken the agreed understanding with Russia not some aggressive move by the Russians!
The Russian move is a response. They, in this case, are not the aggressor!
Well the beat goes on. And the “free press” in the U.S. are so busy licking the asses of the government just like they did over Iraq that they have become again the government’s mouth piece.
Few in the maimed-stream-media do any investigation of ANYTHING with the exception of the detailed pictures of Kim Kardashian’s last bikini photo shoot!
Where RT, Al-Jazeera and CCTV (the new English-language programming set up by China) all give a more honest view of the Ukrainian mess than any press in the U.S.
Now this isn’t to say that one doesn’t have to be awake to bias from these news organization. But, if you try to broaden your news reading you will be able to find a broader world view than just “American Exceptionalism”.
It was just a couple of years ago that Hillary Clinton was saying that the U.S. was “. . . “losing the information war”. And just couldn’t figure out why.
Well, let Tubularsock let you in on a little secret that he has discovered and that is that more and more of the American people are just sick and tired of “. . . the U.S. corporate media’s regurgitation of the manifold and manifestly deceitful justifications for U.S. actions abroad” as Ray McGovern (former CIA intelligence – Soviet Foreign Policy Branch) so clearly stated.
As for Tubularsock siding with Putin. Not so but I do like his coat!
UKRAINE BY ANY OTHER NAME
Posted: March 13, 2014 in American Exceptionalism, CIA TERRORISTS, Dick Cheney, economics, Economy, freedom of the press, John Kerry, Neo-Nazi, Obama, Oil, Pussy Riot, Russia, torture, Ukraine, XL PipelineTags: barack obama, CIA, Dick Cheney, global arms trade, Human Rights American Failure, Keystone XL pipeline, Obama foreign policy, Rule of Law, Russia, Ukraine
Well, here Tubularsock goes again. There seems to be some confusion with this entire Ukrainian thing. So lets put it this way.
Lets say Russia got some money together and started to influence Mexico.
And using that Russian money a group of disgruntled Mexicans and some hired “friends of Mexico” helped to overthrow the democratically elected government of Mexico.
And then lets say the Russian Government picked the new leader of the NEW government and using its influence helped to choose the cabinet of the new government.
And then this “NEW” leader of Mexico was invited to Moscow to pal around with Putin.
And then Russian banks loaned money to stabilize the Mexican economy putting Mexico heavily in interest debt to Russian banks.
And then Russian corporations moved into Mexico to “privatize” Mexico’s natural resources and move the profits out of Mexico.
And then Russia thought it may be a good idea to build a missile defense system along the U.S. – Mexican boarder so as to protect Mexico from . . . . oh, Tubularsock doesn’t know, say Canada.
What would be the response from the United States?
So as you read the American press about this issue reflect upon Tubularsock’s little story above and it might open your eyes to the SLANT coming at you. It is good to keep in mind that the maimed stream media is there to keep you propagandized NOT INFORMED.
And of course there is fucking Dick Cheney ……… When in the fuck is the press going to stop asking Dick Cheney about ANYTHING?
But, oh no, there he was on FACE THE NATION! The only time Tubularsock wants to see Dick Cheney face the nation is at his FIRING SQUAD for war crimes!
And the first thing out of his mouth was, “I worry when we begin to address the crisis, the first thing we do is take options off the table.”
And the key option according to Dick is “. . . saying ‘no military”.
Please, oh please …….. one favor for Tubularsock …… whoever donated that new heart to Dick ……. take it back, NOW!
And then like the shit always rises to the top of the tank, Condoleezza Rice gives her precious opinion in the Washington Post.
The woman who gave the ok for the CIA to torture people is someone you are going to believe let alone have any respect?
But there she was and if you dig real bull-shit read it but the part that Tubularsock loved the best is Condi’s statement, “Authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline and championing natural gas exports would signal that we intend to . . .” challenge Russia’s oil prices and lower their sales to affect the Kremlin’s budget.
Wow, so the XL propaganda of lowering gas prices in the U.S. is really what it is …….. propaganda! The XL pipeline IS FOR EXPORT OIL ONLY and if and when Russia would be affected is one of those “pipe-dreams”!
She babbles on and on but like Dick, Condi wants to deploy missile defense, announce air defense exercises with the Baltic states and move a U.S. destroyer to the Black Sea to BOLSTER OUR POSITION.
Maybe Condi didn’t get the memo that we started the whole thing.
Somehow if the United States pokes you in the eye with a stick it is somehow different than if Russia pokes you in the eye with a stick. The part that is always not noticed in the minds of Dick and Condi and their ilk is the result of the guy that gets the stick in his eye. That is NOT their concern because the U.S. ONLY sticks you in the eye for GOOD, JUST, and NOBEL reasons ……. unlike those Russians.
ANY QUESTIONS?
GARBAGE IN, GARBAGE OUT AMERICA
Posted: February 6, 2014 in American Exceptionalism, Dick Cheney, Iran, Iran Revolutionary Guard, IRAQ, John Kerry, Justin Bieber, Kayne West, Keystone XL, Kim Kardashian, Obama, Oil, Race, State of the Union Address 2014, XL PipelineTags: al Qaeda, barack obama, Big Oil, bull shit, Dick Cheney, Iran, Justin Bieber, Kanye West, Keystone XL pipeline, Kim Kardashian, race, terrorism, Vogue
Tubularsock was out of his top floor corner office in his underground bunker overlooking Washington, D.C. from Oakland, CA. for several days due to an intense family emergency. It was worse than having to eat dinner with the Cheney’s. It was hell personified and Tubularsock doesn’t even believe in the hell concept but it is the best descriptive for a quick picture.
Happily all’s good now and I’m back in the bunker viewing the collective mess that we live in and feel good that nothing has changed for the better which is rather comforting.
You know, the shit you live in in the collective culture is shit we’re familiar with and just like any abusive relationship it’s still home. Yes, we’re sick mother-fuckers!
So while Tubularsock was focused elsewhere he missed:
The State of the Union Address..
The flair-up Kanye West created in his quest to get Kim Kardashian on the Vogue Cover.
Some football game with a lot of custom ads.
Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, a top commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards boasting that Iran “ . . . have targets within America.” But so does Tubularsock!
The Justin Bieber’s DUI.
And the State Department’s release of the XL Keystone Pipeline environmental report written by the oil industry for the occasion.
Wow. Turn your back for just a minute and the shit just keeps hitting the fan!
So where does Tubularsock start?
Where-else Justin ………….
MSNBC was in the middle of an interview with Congresswoman Jane Harman about the NSA spying scandal when they interrupted that interview to bring forth a BREAKING NEWS story.
And what was that BREAKING NEWS?
The judge was reading the charges against Justin Bieber at THAT MOMENT!
Really, need Tubularsock say more about this crap?
Sure.
There was also a big discussion about Justin having zits that showed up on his mug-shots. It appears that the cops don’t air-brush out blemishes. What a travesty.
How is Tubularsock going to handle that a 19 year old boy who drives a yellow Lamborghini has zits?
And not to overplay this cathartic bull-shit but the White House had to pay attention to the incident because of enough people had signed an on-line petition demanding that Justin be DEPORTED back to Canada for being a “bad influence on American youth”. Like a border make’s a difference.
It seems that the White House has a page that citizens can present grievances and if the numbers are great enough then the White House will take some type of action.
Well, bottom line …….. a DUI just doesn’t rank high enough in the pantheon of crimes to warrant deportation. Zits, however …….. you may have a case!
Then the State of The Union Address.
Gag Tubularsock with a spoon. The bull shit was stacked so high that even Joe Biden couldn’t add to it with his inept personal deficiencies.
I don’t know about you but Tubularsock just has trouble listening to abstract when I’m stepping over the homeless on the streets whenever I go out. Now granted, riding a bicycle puts me more in tune with the direct environment than say riding around in your SUV with the music on and the tinted windows but even you have to get out to buy your food.
At times Tubularsock thinks he’s in India as he criss-crosses a human sea of men and women with card-board signs asking for help.
And to have Obummer say that women aren’t getting paid as much as men for the same work ………. well no shit Dick Tracy.
“Let’s make this a year of action,” Obummer says. Sure. What has changed from last year?
Well according to Bummer’s intro, A teacher has helped her student, AN entrepreneur does her part to create 8 million jobs, An auto worker fine tuned some of the most fuel efficient cars in the world to do his part to help America to WEAN ITSELF OFF FOREIGN OIL. And on and on until we come to the military families who tuck their children in bed and remember fallen comrades BUT NOT REMEMBER ALL THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN THEY WASTED AS THEY MURDERED THEIR WAY THROUGH IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.
And all the while the camera flashes over the dumb shit that can’t clap but beats his chest with his hand instead because he’s the poster-boy of the deformed and maimed “military-hero” who still doesn’t get it. Nor does his stupid bloated father standing next to him. He may be even more of a fucking dumb shit than his son!
When will they wake up? What a price to pay to be cannon fodder. You get the President to point out what a hero you are for getting yourself blown to shit and then forgotten when the lights go out and the cameras are put away.
A State of the Union Circus would not be complete without a freak show so they propped up Cory Remsberg the current military excuse of a hero and the Congress that sent him and so many to die and become crippled all applauded and thereby absolved their collective guilt.
What a sad commentary on the nation.
And it is that propagandistic bull-shit that is continually pushed and as long as everyone focuses on the sacrificial, emotional horse shit ol’ Cory will be rolled around as an example and Cory says he still wants to serve his country.
Well, Cory ……… you are still severing the ends of the war profiteers. The fact that you and your father are both fucking brain dead helps push the war agenda. Congratulations.
But without a chance to rest your mind let Tubularsock deal with the flair-up Kanye West created in his quest to get Kim Kardashian on the Vogue Cover.
Kanye for some reason is not the brightest crayon in the box. Recently he has punched a couple of guys for comments they have made to him. One was in a chiropractor’s office of all places.
It seems guys say shit to Kanye, then he punches them, then they sue him, and then they collect an out of court settlement of $125,000.00.
Sound like a plan? Tubularsock is working on his retirement program. Where does Kanye hang out?
Well the hip-hop artist allegedly confronted Vogue’s chief editor Anna Wintour at the Beverly Hills Polo Lounge, and got right up in her face over the issue of Kim not being placed on the current cover of Vogue.
Because Anna is a personal friend he can’t see why she isn’t willing to do him this personal favor and put Kim on the cover.
In truth, Tubularsock can’t figure out why Anna won’t put Tubularsock on the cover of Vogue. It just seem like the right thing to do.
Now who would believe a guy named Salami? It sounds like baloney to Tubularsock. And all this Iran’s Revolutionary Guards shit. Remember how Saddam Insane’s Revolutionary Guards were this huge danger to our troops before our invasion of Iraq?
The mass media played that wild card and pumped up everyone until when we invaded they weren’t even there. Another crack intelligence failure. OR a sly propaganda ploy by American for Americans.
Pretty much all Tubularsock can recommend to assist Iran with suggested targets within the United States is to call 1-800-al-Qaeda and leave a message.
Ah, yes. That football game with the custom ads. The least said the better. I was hoping that Iran would have taken that out but alas Tubularsock can’t have every new years resolution come true.
And while no one was looking including the State Department the environmental impact report produced by the oil industries was rubbered stamped out by the State Department and in general the conclusion ……… what impact?
The fact that the XL pipeline crosses over 1700 bodies of fresh water, ahh ……. just what could go wrong. And the argument goes like this ……… it would be more dangerous to transport this shit oil by train so leaky pipelines that will be thoroughly inspected maybe once (if they can spare the time) will be way safer.
Well the unions want it because they’ll get almost 2000 new jobs for ten minutes and then years of catastrophic leak repair which the pipeline owners will have only limited liability before the federal and state governments put up the bucks.
EVERY oil leak in the current pipeline coming out of Canada that has leaked has caused irreparable damage to the environmental balance of the areas involved that can not be corrected for a hundred years. Now who has that kind of time?
And yet you’ll see Obummer sign off on this XL pipeline ……… why? Oh come now. Haven’t you noticed yet?
Barack Obama is the first black president in white-face and as long as the-slave-boy keeps up the “good-nigger” role the white power structure will let him play golf with them.
Yes’em massa!
Come on everyone …………. let’s sing the blues.
BUG-BOMB-BOOM!
Posted: November 16, 2013 in American Exceptionalism, CYBER-ATTACKS, Iran, Major General Michael Carey, Stuxnet, Vice Admiral Tim GiardinaTags: Admiral Tim Giardina, American Exceptionalism, CYBER-ATTACKS, General Michael Carey, HACKERS, International Space Station, Iran, middle-east, Minuteman 3, Stuxnet, terrorism, U.S. Strategic Command
Tubularsock is not surprised nor will you be so get a cup of coffee, tea, bourbon, scotch, sake, a bowl of Afghan hash ……….. whatever it takes to settle in and read what you already know and be amazed once again at the shear stupidity and narrow-mindedness of presumably intelligent individuals. Basically there is dumb and dumber. This can hold it’s head up high in the pantheon-of-dumbolgy to the level of dumbest!
Let Tubularsock start at the simplest level and progress up the ladder of understanding.
THIS IS SCIENCE!
Take a thimble full of black ink and dump it into a glass of water.
Take a stone and toss it into a pond.
And the results, please ………….
The glass of water is now black and the pond has concentric circles moving away from the spot where the stone entered the water.
Another example of the phenomenon about to be discussed is found in this true-life-experience. Tubularsock likes to run and every once in a while he takes BART (a rapid transit system) from Oakland to San Francisco. He exits at the Embarcadero Station which puts him at the foot of Market Street and he walks a short distance to the famous SF Ferry Building.
The Ferry Building is the starting point of the run which proceeds along the Embarcadero across the Golden Gate Bridge down into Sausalito. A little city north of SF. It’s a nice 12 mile run. Then Tubularsock hops on a ferry and returns to the Ferry Building and then back to his top floor corner office in his underground bunker overlooking Washington, D.C. in Oakland, CA.
Well more than once while running across the Golden Gate Bridge which more often than not has a strong wind blowing I’ve encountered a cigarette smoker exhaling their smoke. And even with a strong wind and a HUGE amount of air space the smell of that smoke is present.
So, let’s review: Ink, ripples, smoke.
Now like terrorism we are all supposed to be scared of HACKERS and CYBER-ATTACKS! Sure we are ……..
So like always if you follow terrorism, hackers, and cyber-attacks down to their fundamentals ONE ALWAYS (THAT’S ALWAYS) finds the United States Government creating, promoting, and actively engaged is these activities. IT’S WHAT WE DO.
Another FEAR we are all programed to have is IRAN GETTING A NUCLEAR BOMB!
And you know the reasons ……… they’re Middle Eastern Crazies and oh my god if they had THE bomb then they may use it.
“Crazies”? The only country in the history of the world that has EVER dropped a nuclear bomb on people is the United States of America. And we dropped TWO! On civilians!
So much for CRAZIES.
Well in order to screw up Iran from developing nuclear weapons the U.S. along with Israel (who happens to be crazier than bat shit) created a computer virus to fuck up Iran’s nuclear enrichment machinery. This virus is called “Stuxnet”.
Fun side note: Just in case you may have forgotten Iran received nuclear machinery for the development of their nuclear reactor from Halliburton while Dick Cheney was CEO even though it was against United States law to trade nuclear products or information with Iran at that time. Never say one person can’t make a difference!
Well, just like any good Laurel and Hardy movie Stuxnet not only infected Iran’s nuclear facility but this malware has spread outside of Iran to Russia and has even infected machines on the International Space Station, according to Eugene Kaspersky, a Russian specialist in the information security field.
Now how fun is that?
But it even gets better. Last November, U.S. oil giant Chevron also revealed that Stuxnet ran loose beyond its intended targets in 2010 and infected its network. At the time, a Chevron spokeswoman claimed that the company was not negatively impacted by the cyber attack. According to SC Magazine, a security magazine for professionals.
And according to Sean Sullivan, a security analyst for F-Secure, “It didn’t spread via the internet. It spread outside of its target due to a bug and so it started traveling via USB. Given the community targeted, I would not be surprised if other countries had nuclear plants with infected PCs”.
Stuxnet is traveling by those little portable USB gadgets which seem to bypass the traditional defenses used by computer security.
This is the perfect example of the art of unintended consequences and as Kaspersky stated in a Q&A at the Australia’s National Press Club last week, “Everything you do is a boomerang . . .”
So you see, Stuxnet is the ink poured into the water which has become the concentric cycles continuing to spread in a very large pond.
But before Tubularsock can wrap up his Nuke discussion this little bit of information will heighten your awareness of just how far the U.S. has fallen from the rotting nuclear tree.
Now you all know Major General Michael Carey, right?
No?
You should be glad Tubularsock is in your life!
Major General Michael Carey WAS commander of 20th Air Force, in charge of the Air Force’s fleet of 450 Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles.
Carey was removed from his duty for unspecified personal misbehavior that other officials said was related to alcohol use.
Fun side note: If “A” follows “B” and “A” is misbehavior related to alcohol then “B” MUST BE SEX! Well, NO the misbehavior IS NOT sexual misconduct nor is it related to operational readiness. So just what kind of “misbehavior” that is alcohol related would result in a guy with 35 years of commendable service be fired? Stay-tuned.
Now don’t worry …….. you know he had a couple of beers just once and ………..
The Air Force has stated that future candidates for nuclear commander positions WILL NOW BE more carefully screened! (will now be?)
Wait for it ………. including the addition of an Internet search of the person’s name that could turn up any damaging information.
Wow, with a sigh of relief, you and Tubularsock can feel more secure that the guy who is the commander of the Air Force’s fleet of 450 Minuteman 3 nuclear missiles has been given the ALL CLEAR by Google!
But hold everything. Carey was shifted to an unspecified job at Air Force Space Command, which has no responsibility for nuclear weapons but will most likely get the Stuxnet virus because with the International Space Station infected, well we’re all one!
“Carey was fired two days after the sacking of a senior Navy (Vice) admiral (Tim Giardina) who was second-in-command at U.S. Strategic Command, which is the military’s nuclear war-fighting organization.
Their removal came amid a series of disclosures by The Associated Press about security and leadership lapses, training problems, and an assertion by one mid-level nuclear officer that he had found ‘rot’ inside his nuclear missile unit at Minot Air Force Base, N.D.” (Robert Burns, AP)
Fun side note: Vice Admiral Tim Giardina was removed from duty because of ……… of all things, vice! He was caught by the police using fake porker chips at the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa . You have got to admit …. that’s funny!
However because of this ……….. candidates for these positions will now be reviewed for BOTH physical and mental health issues! (will now be?)
So. With the Stuxnet virus running wild, the Navy admirals and Air Force generals running wild, “rot in the missiles” becomes the allegory for the entire set of events.
Now, all that is left is for Tubularsock to explain the smoke contamination on the Golden Gate Bridge.
You see in any good film somebody gets screwed and in the nuclear afterglow of Stuxnet, admirals, and generals they always light up a cigarette and ask, “was it as good for you as it was for me”?
Well trust Tubularsock on this ……… this affects all of us because we all are contaminated by the same “smoke” and it will be us being screwed AND THAT’S NOT GOOD!
And some of you doubted “American Exceptionalism”!
Tubularsock 