HALF-FULL REPORT 07/16/08

So many of you have said they miss the Half-Full Report during our summer schedule that I figure I better change the schedule rather than give the HFR a summer hiatus.

So here we go, although with so many goodies to choose from, where do we begin?  Let's start by trying to decide who gets this week's prize for being The World's Most Wonderful Hypocrite – Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh or the Editors of the New Yorker Magazine.

Is there a single person possessing a three-digit IQ on the entire planet who actually believes New Yorker editor David Remnick's claim that his cover cartoon of Obambi as a Moslem imam, Mrs. Obambi as a Black Panther, and them fist-bumping in America-hating admiration of Osama bin Laden is a satire?

"It's a satirical lampoon of the caricature Senator Obama's right-wing critics have tried to create," says Remnick.  Riiiiight.  It reminds me of the old joke about what an Italian wife makes best for dinner:  Reservations. 

Huh?  That's not funny?  How come?  Because for a joke to be funny or a satire to have a point there's got to be a basic truth that it reveals.  An Italian wife who hates to cook seems ridiculous, so a joke about one makes no sense.  As legions of Jewish husbands lament, however, it sure makes sense with their wives.

Sure, there are Jewish wives who love to cook for their families – but let's face it, they are as rare a life form as Italian wives who don't.  And sure, the New Yorker cartoon is a caricature – but it's a factual caricature, an exaggeration of basic truths.

Michelle Obama is a black racist who hates America because, for her, America is White America.  She and her husband are as much real Christians as Jeremiah Wright.  Just as communist sympathizers were called comsymps, they are mussymps, Moslem (or Muslim) sympathizers.  They are on the extreme left and cannot in any way be trusted to protect our national security, or protect our wallets from a thieving government.

The HFR is thus pleased to raise a glass of chilled Dr. Frank Dry Riesling from the Finger Lakes region of New York state, to the New Yorker for creating such an indelible visual image in the minds of millions of voters which they'll carry into the voting booth on November.

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For Manmohan Singh, however, nothing less will do than a pint of India Pale Ale – the best, of course, being Dogfish Head Brewery's 90 Minute IPA.  When it comes to sheer straightforward look-you-in-the-eye hypocrisy, India's leaders leave the guys at the New Yorker in the dust.

With a great deal of public fanfare, Prime Minister Singh recently announced India's National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC).  The lyrical accolades to India's commitment to "ecologically sustainable development" and the UN mythology on global warming reach Himalayan heights.  Then Singh drops this bombshell:

Every citizen of this planet must have an equal share of the planetary atmospheric space. Long-term convergence of per capita emissions is, therefore, the only equitable basis for a global compact on climate change. In the meantime, I have already declared, as India's Prime Minister, that despite our developmental imperatives, our per capita GHG emissions will not exceed the per capita GHG emissions of the developed industrialized countries. This should be testimony enough, if one was needed, of the sincerity of purpose and the sense of responsibility we bring to the global task on hand.

Read this again carefully, word for word – with the understanding that India's per-person greenhouse gas ("per capita GHG") emissions are now a little over one ton, while that of America's is 20.

What Singh is saying is that India has absolutely no intention whatever of sacrificing economic growth on the glowarming altar, that eliminating poverty is far more important than eliminating CO2 – that in fact, India will be increasing its CO2 emissions by twenty times in the coming years.

Why couldn't he have just said the truth – that glowarming "climate change" is a crock?  His NAPCC report actually says that:  "No firm link between the documented [climate] changes described below and warming due to anthropogenic climate change has yet been established."

But the game of politics, domestic or international, is Play Pretend.  So he pretends to believe in, and says he's cooperating with, the UN and Kyoto, but acts the opposite.  Just like George Bush at the G-8 conference in Japan last week.  The Kyoto Treaty died at that conference, while all the participants keep pretending it's still alive.

So, bartender, another pint of 90 Minute IPA, please.  Actions are what count in this world.  Let's drink up to Manmohan Singh's actions, and laugh at his words.

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You may want to buy the entire house a round when you learn that the world's most fascist scientist, the founding guru of global warming and Algore's mentor, James Hansen, may be about to get what he deserves.

Hansen is head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. To celebrate his first Congressional testimony warning about global warming 20 years ago, last month (6/23) in a speech to Congress he called for oil company executives to be put in jail for "high crimes against humanity and nature" because they were spreading doubt about glowarming.

This was the last straw for some of the Congressistas, since Hansen called for jailing any doubting member of Congress as well.  Thus the buzz now on Capitol Hill:  that there will soon be a call for Congressional hearings to investigate James Hansen for scientific fraud.

The fraud is so blatant and long-standing it has a name:  "Hansenization" of data, as in "looks like the data has been Hansenized."

This refers to what Hansen calls "adjustments" of surface monitors recording temperatures throughout the US and the world.  No matter what the real data says, somehow after his "adjustments" are made, they always provide proof of glowarming.

A US example is the Hansenizing of the recorder in Tucumcari, New Mexico.

A global example is the Hansenizing of data claiming the Indian Ocean is warming when it is actually cooling (scroll two-thirds down to post 25 that provides dramatic satellite charts).

Of course, the Dem leadership will never allow a hearing to investigate Hansen.  That's why the public call for a hearing is designed to be a trap.  The fact is that a number of NASA execs hate Hansen's guts and know what a egomaniacal fraud he is – and they are in touch with the good guys in Congress.

They are sure that when the call for a criminal investigation of Hansen is made, Hansen will freak out and begin destroying evidence of his "adjustment" frauds.  Once that happens, he can be nailed for "obstruction of justice" and put in jail where he belongs.

Just think of the impact:  the scientist father of global warming in jail for faking the evidence.  That's worth a round for the house, isn't it?

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OK, enough celebration.  It's time for us to retire to a quiet table off in a corner of the barroom where we can talk and not be overheard.  This will be between just you, me, and bottle of Famous Grouse.

The morning after  the November 2006 election debacle that gave us Speaker Pelosi, I blew my top in frustration and wrote It's Sinatra Time.

For it wasn't just the election.  It was Bush's capitulation to the victorious Dems that very morning by replacing Rumsfeld with Robert Gates as SecDef.  So I unloaded with:

Bobby Gates' nickname at the CIA was The Little Prick.  He is a pompous, incompetent, squishy witless fool.  He is the total tool of the Jimmy Baker-Brent Scowcroft crowd that so horribly ran foreign affairs for GW's daddy.  To put such a man in charge of the Pentagon – the one bastion of pro-Americanism remaining in our foreign policy establishment – is an unmitigated catastrophe.

Yes, it was over the top.  But let me give you an example.  In his capacity as Deputy Director for Intelligence at the CIA, in January 1986 Gates chaired a classified briefing held by the CIA's Office of Soviet Analysis (SOVA) for folks in the Washington intel community.

When Gates announced that Mikhail Gorbachev's program of perestroika (economic restructuring) was "succeeding beyond anyone's expectations," and predicted a 4.6% GDP growth rate for the coming year in the Soviet Union, a friend of mine held up a copy of Pravda ( in the original Russian) from the day before.

He pointed to an article revealing that no Communist Party official throughout the entire USSR, not in any Republic, not in any Oblast, in any Okrug, or even any Raion, the smallest administrative division, received a Hero of the Soviet Union award for the past several months because economic performance was so poor.

"Am I supposed to believe you characters instead of Pravda?" he asked Gates and his subordinates.  "Whatever your salaries are at Langley, they are too much – you are way overpaid."

Throughout the 1980s all the way to the USSR's collapse, Gates' analysis of the Soviets was incredibly incompetent.  Which is why I was horrified at his running the Pentagon.

I had worse fears, however.  But I've held them in check, hoping they weren't true, and thankful for the extent to which Gates acquiesced to the JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff), especially for their putting Gen. David Petraeus in charge of the war in Iraq, and making Adm. Mike Mullen JCS Chairman.

Now, my fears are back and they are very dark.

One of the first articles I posted on To The Point was written just after 9/11, a year and a half before the creation of TTP in March 2003.  Entitled Gulbuddin and the CIA, it explained the connection between the CIA, the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) of Pakistan, and their joint support of an anti-American Islamic fascist guerrilla leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

Then in October 2003, I explained a little bit more in Afghan Poppies – that the ISI and the Taliban were running a joint business operation to grow, refine, and smuggle opium and heroin, and that the CIA was fully aware of it.

I didn't want to go farther than this, but now I have to.  Nine American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan last Sunday (7/13).  The Taliban have been totally revitalized, trained, armed, and been provided with a sanctuary – all by the ISI.  The CIA is fully aware of it all, and doing nothing to stop it.

On July 7, there was a Taliban suicide bomb attack outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, that killed 60.  The evidence that it was planned and enabled by the ISI was so overwhelming that Afghan President Hamid Karzai issued a public statement, stating that: "The murder, killing, dishonoring, and insecurity in Afghanistan is being carried out by the Inter-Service Intelligence agency of Pakistan."

The CIA continues to do everything it can to defend and protect the ISI.  And now it's become much worse than that.  I can tell you how much worse because ace journalist Bill Gertz of the Washington Times let the cat out of the bag and named names in a column last week (7/10).

Bobby Gates, it turns out, has constructed a Trojan Horse filled with CIA officers who are in collusion with the ISI, and brought it inside the Pentagon.

Gertz named two of Gates' infiltrators:  Michael Vickers, whom Gates made assistant secretary of defense for special operations, and Mary Beth Long, whom Gates made assistant secretary of defense for international security.

Gertz doesn't mention it, but guess what Vickers did for the CIA during the 1980s?  Coordinated assistance to the Afghan Mujahaddin – meaning he was the guy who worked with the ISI to support Gulbuddin.  Guess what he did two months ago in the Pentagon:  terminated any commando role of the Special Forces Command (SOCOM) to actually fight terrorists, downgrading it to a mere training role.

And Ms. Long?  During the 1980s and 90s she was in the CIA's Directorate of Operations focused on narcotics and money-laundering.  At the Pentagon, before she became assistant secretary she was DAS (deputy assistant secretary) for counter-narcotics, running the Pentagon's counter-narcotics program in Afghanistan.  What a coincidence.

These two folks, along with Gates, are currently blocking the demands of Admiral Mullen and the JCS to launch military attacks on the sanctuaries of the Taliban and Al Qaeda inside Pakistan.  They've got every squish in the State Department on their side.

No guerrilla outfit can survive within a country unless it has a sanctuary across the border in a neighboring country.  Providing such a sanctuary is a form of warfare by one country upon another.  The provider always shouts denials of what he's up to, and screams like a banshee if his neighbor attacks the sanctuary. 

Witness how Rafael Correra, demagogue ruler of Ecuador, squealed like a stuck pig when Colombia's Alvaro Uribe wiped out a FARC sanctuary in "sovereign" Ecuadorian territory last March. 

When a country wages war upon a neighbor, it loses its claim to sovereignty.  Pakistan's "government within a government" – the ISI – is waging war upon Afghanistan using the Taliban as a proxy.  The Afghan Army and the US military have every right to cross the border and wipe out any and all ISI-Taliban sanctuaries.

The CIA and the Gates Moles in the Pentagon are desperately trying to block this, desperately supporting Pakistan, desperately supporting the ISI and its heroin business with the Taliban.

Why they are doing this, why they've been doing this for years, I'm not going to speculate on.  You can draw your own conclusions from the facts provided.

The good news in all of this, what's half-full, is that Mullen and the JCS have had enough of the Gates Moles protecting the ISI and the Taliban sanctuaries.  Our soldiers are dying because of the CIA and the Gates Moles' support of the ISI.  Mike Mullen understands what is happening and is determined to put an end to it.  Let's raise a shot of Famous Grouse to him and wish him luck.