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well it was an interesting week for the powerful and arrogant: paul wolfowitz finally got his walking papers, tony blair announced he was finally going back to poodle raising, Jacques Chirac’s term of office ended, and alberto Gonzalez is feeling more pressure every day. And then there is jerry falwell who died last week. Besides his penchant for making inflammatory statements not befitting any religious leader, he had his very own university. according to thecosmicpath.com, graduates of jerry’s Regent University have infiltrated our government, particularly our judicial system, Apparently, there are Regent law student graduates sprinkled all over our government working toward their religious zealot vision of America. No one will admit who, but someone fired our federal prosecutors and replaced them with Regent folks willing to do the special interest bidding of the Bushes and religious right

Companion article: The San Francisco Chronicle Reports: that an analysis of Pentagon deployment orders showed that The Bush administration is quietly on track to nearly double the number of combat troops in Iraq this year. The little-noticed second surge, designed to reinforce U.S. troops in Iraq, is being executed by sending more combat brigades and extending tours of duty for troops already there. , when additional support troops are included in this second troop increase, the total number of U.S. troops in Iraq could increase from 162,000 now to more than 200,000 -- a record-high number -- by the end of the year. The numbers were arrived at by an analysis of deployment orders by Hearst Newspapers. retired Army Maj. Gen. William Nash, a former U.S. commander of NATO troops in Bosnia had this to say: "It doesn't surprise me that they're not talking about it," "I think they would be very happy not to have any more attention paid to this." Next item: well, the dems are trying to do something. Maybe. Hearings start today on H.R. 1252, a House bill that would make gas price gouging a federal crime, punishable by 10 years in prison. Speaker Pelosi has said she'll move the bill to a vote this week—if there's the two-thirds majority required to fast track the bill through the process. Oil company lobbyists are frantically trying to stop the bill. Your representative needs to hear from you today. Move on .org wants you to sign their petition asking Congress to pass the price-gouging bill—and then send it to your friends. You can find their petition on their web site. Moveon.org next item: on this mornings show : brian Compton mentioned that the makers of some of the equiptment used by iran to enrich uranium for their nuclear weapons program are being made by our old friends Halliburton. I didn’t have time to research this but he says it was on global research.ca Anyone wanting to really understand how the war world actually works could do no better than to read or watch the movie of catch 22 by joseph heller. With great humor, heller explains how the big players always support both sides of a conflict. Don’t get upset, Its just business.

EUROPEAN SECURITY ALERT
    the united states is not the only country with homeland security concerns. The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved." Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross." Londoners have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out.
    Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to a "Bloody Nuisance." The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was during the Great Fire of 1666.     then we have the French. the French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide." The only two higher levels in France are "Surrender" and "Collaborate." The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country's military capability.     It's not only the English and French who are on a heightened level of alert.     Italy has increased their alert level from "Shout Loudly and     Excitedly" to "Elaborate Military Posturing."  Two more levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations" and "Change Sides."     The Germans also increased their alert state from "Disdainful Arrogance" to "Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs." They also have two higher levels: "Invade a Neighbour" and "Lose."
Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual, and the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels.     The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.
New Product Announcement: Apple Computers announced today that it has developed a computer chip
 that can store and play music in women's breast implants. Called The iBoob it was developed in response to the many complaints by women that men  are continually staring at their breasts but not listening to them.  Thanks to Apple, now everyone will be happy!

Next weeks show: my guest will be Edward peck, formerly us ambassador to iraq, and extremely knowledgeable on the middle east. He is a well spoken and interesting dude. Should be good. Tune in.