Evelyn:
Nothing on her site about UFO's:

http://www.mindfully.org/Resource/resource.htm

Wikipedia sez:

"Moret has also expressed her support for the claim that space weapons were involved in the destruction of the WTC towers on 9/11/01 in a proposal for an International Tribunal[1] with Vancouver UFO-ologist, Alfred Webre."

Space weapons are real and appearing with Webre does not a UFO-logist make. Webre is not the nut one might think. From Wikipedia:

"After a lifetime of experiences, research and interactions with key players, Webre believes that there is intelligent extraterrestrial life in our Universe. [2] He is the author of the online e-book, Towards a Decade of Contact and the book Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe. The exopolitics model functionally maps the operation of politics, government and law in an intelligent Universe, and provides an operational bridge between models of terrestrial politics, government and law, and the larger models of politics, government and law in Universe society.

Webre believes that as exopolitics posits, the truest conception of our human circumstance may be that we are on an isolated planet in the midst of a populated, evolving, highly organized inter-planetary, inter-galactic, multi-dimensional Universe society. [2][5] He believes that we live on a planet that has been quarantined (the Zoo Hypothesis) and that we are now being given an opportunity to join the rest of the spiritually evolved Universe Society in peace, thus an opportunity to avoid environmental global self-destruction or global self-destruction through war. [2]

Webre's views are not unlike the conclusion of other independent researchers such as Associate Professor of Political Science, Dr. Courtney Brown and the late Harvard Medical School Professor of psychiatry, Dr. John Edward Mack, who believed that we must become "galactic citizens". [15]"

Ah what a truly charming chap this Cheney fellow is. Perhaps it is time to look into the small matter of the minutes of the Energy Task Force weeks after the election of 2000 fiasco. It may hold an explanation of all of the mysterious events that followed.

Just as I hope for all thugs, including Cheney, they will eventually meet their "convenient" Maker, and pay for their sins.

My other hope is that we have enough guts to neuter him so he can be made harmless after his reign. Anyone listened to War Pigs lately? Scary.

There it is..."We didn't get elected to worry about the fate of the Republican Party." Not only are they using Evangelicals as tools for their agenda, but so too Republicans themselves.

If I were a Democratic congressman I'd use that as a wedge to divide the Republican party from the neocon administration.

"Cheney will have his heart pacemaker installed next month and even with mortality knocking on the door, there is every possibility he will engineer yet another foreign policy surprise, possibly against Iran. . . . The biggest charge against Cheney is that he has transformed the executive office into one of unlimited and unaccountable power."

Not that the imperium needs a foreign policy surprise to cancel the 2008 clusterf%*#k for the White House.

Nah Nah Nah Nah
Nah Nah Nah Nah
Dick Cheney Good Bye!

We have to begin to appreciate that this is the culmination of the first overt political violence in America .... the coup on JFK.
And we've had decades of political violence since then. This is the way that fascism comes to power.

And we now have a Supreme Court -- corporate, sexist and racist, which will enable capitalist exploitation of nature, natural resources and even other human beings, by the few.

Will Democrats take control of this criminal activity or let it burst thru into full blow fascism?

The Kennedy assasination, far from being the "first" overt political violence in the United States, was at best an excess of a ruling class begun to go truly gonzo. Overt political violence has been a feature of the political establishment in this country since the war on the Native inhabitants began in the seventeenth century.

And yes, the democrats will take control of the criminal activity, and most of the middle class indignation that waxes in full glory when a Bush is in power will sit quietly when an Obama is in power.

The future is with a mass independent movement based on the working class majority and its allies, or there is no future.

"Dead Eye Dick" only has it partly right. His ticket never got elected at all. Diebold stole it for the GOP. Hey, the Republicans invented vote stealing since the advent of Democrats and Republicans as modern parties in 1876 with Rutherford B Hays, and that's documented fact. They just took page out of their old play book, "If you can't win fairly, then just steal the hell out of it."

lets waterboard this lousy terrorist and find out what atrocities he and his hoardes from hell have committed

Right on, Eshu. If nothing else, the democrats are stars at creating the perception that all is well with the 'nice guys' running the empire. Wasn't it Wesley Clark who was forced to admit to giving the order to target civilians on a train taking them to work in the Bosnian war? The only difference with Cheney is that he doesn't even try to hide his inhumanity.

Love that picture with this article, he looks angelic doesn't he? But his job isn't to be popular, it's to serve the oil companies by any means necessary. Oil is a "necessity" for our sick economy, all americans are complicit in this. People rail on him then go out driving everywhere for everything, often in inefficient trucks/cars/SUVS, then complain about gas prices too. Affluence and comfort isn't free, it has to be taken from somewhere. Cheney is your Daddy whether you like it, or realize it, or not. And when he is gone the same business will continue for the most part, regardless of which corporate sell out puppet(which all the major candidates are) wins the election.

There is not one thing more loathsome than a wolf columnist dressed in liberal sheep's clothing.

Leonard Doyle writes, about Cheney: "His record for outflanking his enemies is such that there is little cause for optimism among his opponents who would have him impeached."

Independent, you say? HA!

Anything less than the Nuremberg Trials for this backward asshole would be letting him off easy.

This scumbag's legacy will be Bible-thumping war while he leans back on his mountain of Halliburton cash. If only hell existed and if only there was a God. Instead, it's up to the American people to make him pay for his crimes which will inevitably continue to escalate through 2008.

It will be a beautiful sight to see him govern from the heart ... I mean, pacemaker.

"Deeply conservative aims"? Cheney is no conservative; he is a Hitlerian sociopatic killer, a Libertine a la de Sade. True conservatives have morals. That first sentence informed me the article is a waste of time.

Now is the time to impeach Cheney and imprison him in Abu Grab for crimes against America.

These Congressional investigations and subpoenas are meaningless. Why? There is nothing backing them up to compell the administration to abide by them. Constitutional crisis? Only for the last 25 years.

Short of impeachment and prosecution, there is nothing to protect the country from a truly catastrophic crisis concocted by the Cheney administration. The Republican party is complicit, the Democratic party is complicit, the Mass Media is complicit, and the majority of the somnabulist American public is complicit.

So what'll it be, America? An economic collapse, a nuclear war with Iran with a barrel of oil soaring above $100-125? The lack of any pushback to this Republican lawlessness has never been so costly.

And now, SCOTUS is getting into the corporatist slapdown of individual liberties and oversight of big business. I hope all those Democratic Senators that didn't vote for fillibuster or against cloture on the Roberts and Alito nominations are proud of themselves.

My disgust with this government is...beyond words.

And after we surge the total 160,000 troops into Iraq and have four aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf, will Cheney be the Dr Strangelove to come out of the closet and bomb Iran? After all, all of those oil tankers from ExxonMobile controlled Iraqi fields will need a route to the US through the Persian Gulf, and securing the Gulf means taking on Iran.

For starters, this issue doesn't sound like much compared to all of the really evil things Bush and Cheney have done, but they did in fact violate the law about white house transparency. The law was written due to our national experience with Watergate and erased tapes. There a large numbers of e-mails missing off of the official government server and a Republican Party server was used to conduct business and bypass the official server. There is a wealth of evidence about this crime snd they are most blatantly guilty. They deserve at least one good smackdown before they leave office.

DICK CHENEY... before he "Dicks" you!

Coyotita quoted this: "His record for outflanking his enemies is such that there is little cause for optimism among his opponents who would have him impeached." And wrote: "Independent, you say? HA!"

Question: how does pointing out that Cheney seems always to win make somebody not independent? Is it not a fact that this monster has a fantastic success rate when it comes to getting what he wants? Does it show bias to state a fact? Sure it does. And if you look at the rest of the facts stated in the article, it's clear the author isn't exactly a fan of Darth Cheney.

"The future is with a mass independent movement based on the working class majority and its allies, or there is no future."

Right -- the world has certainly been made happy by the mass independent movements of the working class majority and its allies over the last few centuries, on several continents.

In my opinion, at this very moment Cheney/Bush are conspiring to arrange yet another terrorist attack on U.S. soil that will give them the excuse they need to declare a national emergency, cancel the elections, nullify the Constitution and declare themselves a diarchy. Watch your heads!

What good is a pacemaker to one who has no heart?

Maybe we should be calling it a "lame dick" presidency?

That is why I was suggesting in a earlier comment that the Republicans would love to have us get rid of them (they are baggage now) one at a time so that they can play the musical chair game of resign for a pardon and no resolution of the problem...So is Kucinich afraid of the truth? The truth is Bush/Cheney are coconspirators of every high Crime you read about so if you don't try them together as conspirators you facilitate their escape from justice.
I doubt if Dennis had thought this through..... He is so busy tryin to get more money to get elected you know...

entelechy, I completely agree with you. I think we are in deep trouble. If (when) it happens, I hope there is resistance from the people of this country, but fear is a the great neutralizer and Cheney uses it so well.

After the successful military coup of 2000 and the convenience of 9/11, it was horrifying to hear cargo aircraft flying overhead in Maryland and worse still to see a heavy machine gun aimed at traffic on Massachusettes Ave in DC. Most of us, burned in part by trillions of evaporated wealth from the market that tanked prior to 9/11, felt that we were witnessing an unprecedented struggle for power. Therefore, with Cheney, our best guesses are probably accurate. There won't be enough concrete and subterranean blasting to "protect" warped ideals.

Subpoenas? LOL.

Don't expect these bastards to leave quietly if the Republicans lose the 08 elections. Expect martial law....

What are you all waiting for? I'm reading a lot here about the attrocities to come, the stolen or suspended 2008 election, etc. If that is the future, what are we waiting for? Electoral politics is not the only type of politics and the neocons are not the only game in town. Their paternal view of the world is convenient for the religious right, the defense and security industry and the ruling class. Those that recognize the truth, that human life on earth is not sustainable if we continue on our current course, cannot wait for those in power to make their next move so we can simply react. Nor can we simply concede to the prevailing view that those with the most gold win and there is little that we can do but react. Proactive direct non-violent action starting today is the only monkey-wrench we have in hand that can gum up the works. So let's stop belly-aching and start framing things in terms of our values and taking actions consistant with those values.

Yes, from his early years cutting his teeth at 'no holds barred' 'rush to the bottom' privatization with good ol' Dumsfeld dismantling the EEO and then going after everything else not nailed down by the MIC (military industrial complex), to suspicious KBR warehouses located along drug trade routes (with assassinations in tow), to selling directional drilling equipment so Kuwait could antagonize Iraq into battle, and many many more success stories, we salute you Mr. Chaney! Your methods can be soon studied for greater victories in the "shadowy world of the foreign intervention scheming thugs." . . . And, a successful entrepreneur of the new and improved WOT tm (War On Terror) to boot - coming to a country near you!

when the republic is perceived to be under attack, most people turn republican and this easily leads to imperialism; this is why the democrats sound so lame and the bush-cheney administration has gotten away with so much. the only way for the democratic republic to survive is to let it become weaker militarily and stronger by ways of brotherhood, conciliation and example. this could have happened right after the collapse of the soviet union and perhaps preempted 9/11 and the subsequent reign of fear, but instead the US got drunk on triumphalism; the imperial vice presidency and the whole bush administration for that matter is a sick but not totally unexpected consequence of this.

nobody learns except through direct, usually hard, experiences. as the next US elections approach, i wonder whether americans will profit from the last couple of decades of triumphalism first, then fear, and now erosion of the democratic values. the intrinsic conflict between a strong republic and a true democracy has become clear and it will be interesting to see what course our neighbors north of mexico choose to take.

As Crow Flies: The Sopoenas Are Working! Amy Goodman has echoed the call for a new set of Pentagon Papers: these papers are being typed by investigations and supoenas - now laying as a gauntlet - finally at the White House door.

But the call to impeach must come from the Citizens or the call will be hollow. As an invoker of the black bird it is time to fly to the streets and help rally the Citizens!

Someone recently said Bush has the blood of christ in him, good: Cheney is John the Baptist and it's time for his head, with a crucifixion for this dastardly behavior of war to come!

Hmmm.. so - interesting roles we play... we're Solome? :D Sure.. why not!

Oh...almost forgot. The two main remaining lies with effectiveness are the al Qaeda (which is starting to crumble as we speak) and the one about privatisation being Iraqi freedom. Once these are exposed, especially about privatisation and Iraqi freedom, the loss of support amoung the troops will cause the castle of lies to finally fall.

But, of course, we must be prepared to stand strong in the face of another 9-11 type orchastration.

Solidarity!

no, dudes, u underestimate dick. when i say "dick", i mean the VP. dont underestimate what a dick he is. this is not a slight against dick, or even shallow name-slighting. its political commentary preceded by respect for his name, dick. hes a dick. anyway, ya, dont underestimate a man who lives to kill flying birds. ducks, geese, pheasants, anything that flies. there is a penile sensation thats comes with cutting a free animal outta the air just as it tries to fly. hunting man, satisfied after kiling 3000 geese as if from a good shit. dick. umm, i was going to follow with sound political commentary, but i just forgot what.

In all fairness Jim Glover, it isn't just Dennis K. who is busy raising funds - Commondreams keeps soliciting donations lately by mail & online.

TMCF, with all due respect, many souls alive (and dead) have been taking "Proactive direct non-violent action" for decades but it still hasn't reached 'critical mass' or the energy to required to make the pot boil in earnest.

I'm afraid Bane Richter is accurate in stating: "There won't be enough concrete and subterranean blasting to "protect" warped ideals." Further it is true that there are many of us profoundly aware that "we were (are!?) witnessing an unprecedented struggle for power."

Don't forget when thinking strategies; Dick Cheney & friends, (to include NSA), are definitely tuned in and watching. Candidates for office, groups even individuals - to see who, how & when events will play into the palm of his private army's hands.

At least life isn't dull...and we can find irony in the circumstances, yes, Commentarian?

Powell's, "What the hell just happened!" keeps on happening.

I've just finished reading the novel, The Historian, by Kostova. It's a long one about the search for Dracula and end once and for all his existence. Dracula like Cheney has the amazing ability to transform himself into various shapes and to survive what appears to be certain death. I'm reminded of this most cruel of inhuman beings when I read about the machinations of our current veep.

Truly scary.

Here's a fun little Dick fact: when helping GWB1 kill democracy, he "commissioned" a study that "proved" privatizing the military would be a super duper idea. And who got the first no-bid mil contract?

Why, Halliburton, of course. A company, don't forget, Cheney all but ran into the ground until he was able to funnel unknown billions by way of... more no-bid contracts, also known as our hard earned taxpayer dollars.

What next?

and What will Cheney's final act be?

Don't know. But something is brewing. the UK is trying to get the UN to put sanctions on Iranian ships. The idea is to make it so Iranian ships can't go to the ports of any other countries. Iranian tankers would have to be sold to other countries or there wouldn't be enough foreign tankers to get Iranian oil to other countries. I wonder why the West just won't say we won't let anyone buy Iranian oil.

The US House has voted to refuse access to American markets to any country that supplys Iran with gasoline. At least that's what I read in the Guardian. I thought the House was controlled by Democrats. Anyway, the idea is that Iranians will be so mad that they will bring down their own government.

And what will the Iranians do?

What next?

and What will Cheney's final act be?

Cheney is a Nazi Zombie-bot, a soulless brain, the fallguy for a much bigger international fascist machine that cares less if the USA shrivels up and dies. Look to Herr Rumsfeld and 'Kinder Gentler' Daddy Geo and their international corporate fascist connections for deeper explanations... they all lead back to the survivors of the Axis Power Alliance and its corporate backers. Old Man GB1 is one of the main ones who helped consciously lay the local groundwork for this mess for his Fascist Fraternity.
Remember that Prescott Bush was a big military contractor, awash in Wall Street (which has gone from demon to angel status during the Reago-Bush years) and his daddy part of the Robber Baron family network that still rules the Republican Party. The Old Boy network has gone so international that they are destroying America to save the Neu Welt Ordnung (mit Schwazinekker in Kalifornien).

TMCF June 29th, 2007 6:10 pm
"What are you all waiting for?"

I would ask the same question. Gentlemen, time is of the essence.

ok botch (author), may i ask, why does a piece referring to cheneys "final stealth act" have NO INFO on what his final stealth act might be? dick is a dick, but this piece is a vacuous waste, just miming a position.

I wanted to ask the same question armchair, am glad you asked, I thought I'd missed something.

I'm afraid to ask what the puppeteers last acts may be. Let's see,___ what were Saddams last acts when he realized he was losing the first Gulf War and ordered his troops to retreat from Kuwait?

If I can't have it, I'll set the oil wells afire. Truly dangerous men. He's an American?

Why are so many convinced that this is the end of Mr. Cheney's career?
There are no VP term limits in the Constitution. He could even be elected President twice.
Or he might stick around in some new office in some new branch of government that he's invented for himself.
There's still a lot of time before the next election for things to go wrong (or right, if you're Cheney) if people aren't paying attention.
I'd be happier hearing Mr. Cheney speak of his retirement plans, though even then I wouldn't believe him much.

Frame Cheney's head in a halo, for the photo, see if I care; I can still see his horns.

I am going to take a stab at the final act. Bombing Iran is a given. No need to further discuss that. However there is something that sounds ridiculously insane, but could be a possibility. In 1798 under the Presidency of John Adams, he signed into law the Alien and Sedition Act. There were four laws under this Act. By 1801 three of the four expired. However, there was one that still exists today as 50 USC 21-24. It is the "Alien Enemies Act" that authorizes the President to deport any immigrant living in the United States who left a country with whom the United States is at war. This certainly will apply to Iranians. However, this is where it sounds crazy but could be a possibility. Knowing how power-hungry Bush, Cheney & Co. are and how they just suffered defeat by the Senate with the Immigration Bill, is there a possibility that we could go to war with Mexico? This is a way to get rid of 12 million illegal aliens and seal the border? Your thoughts??

""Cheney has viewed recent American history as a struggle between the imperial presidency necessary in a brutish world and the naïve, undependable and in some cases disloyal constraints of Congress," said Mr Blumenthal."

And which "superpower" with the aim of achieving "full spectrum dominance" of that brutish world contributes the most to that brutishness? Which country has done its utmost to advance policies that increase poverty and misery, economic disparity, exploitation, environmental degradation, climate change, etc?

"Antonin G. Scalia, "arguably the Court's most colorful jurist today," has conspired with Richard B. Cheney the 46th Vice-President of the United
States of America to subvert the U. S. Constitution. The question now is not only about these " high crimes and misdemeanors," but moreover about a larger effort that includes other justices of the court and other members of the Bush administration, members of Congress, their staff and lobbyists. The on-going subversion of law, today has cost many their civil liberties and all the purse of the US government.

Today the evidence is now broad and conclusive; it is only for the magistrate and the people to file the charges in our courts, in our congress and in our local and state governments."

Iocust, You are right, look what happened to Rumsfeld. Gone? Nope, he's stil at it, a government office, a staff and access to top secret documents. My my.

Claudius, Now we are talking a good war. Think of it. Take Mexico, declare Statehood and everyone there is an American. Then take Panama back while we're at it and our southern border would be tiny. The Mexican people would love us. Easy war too, inexpensive, nice weather, great food, better water than ours, lots of beaches and nice people. We'd only need a couple of nukes and the war would be over. No Arabs causing insurgencies and scary crap like that either. I like it.

Bad Joke. Hit me in the face.