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From: Luke Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 4:03 PM
To: Subject: heil caesar


of course this was gonna happen - "A PREGNANT woman who allegedly ignored medical advice to have a Caesarean section to save her twins has been charged with murder after one of the babies was stillborn."

roe v wade, being unmade...

lets be clear about the woman that they chose to demonise - an apparently psychotic, most unfotogenic woman who denies the claims (that she refused surgery cos she didnt wanna mess with her delicious bod), and says the claims dont even make sense cos she's already been caesered.
i thought caesar was bad for your figure anyway - praps its just the croutons...

theres a story about one of haliburtons problems on the teeve - the meta story seems to egt missed sometimes - so in case uve missed the major parts of the story - haliburton is currently under separate investigation for the iraq fuel case, and for charging for meals that they didnt serve troops, *and* for a nigerian bribery scam (when the veep was ceo) - and then there are other miscellaneous abuses - most famously for paying a 300% premium for towels embroidered 'kbr' - such is the joy of the cost-plus 'shield'.

speaking of the cost-plus shield, amongst all the ridicule of the 'coalition of the willing', and the inclusion of micronesia and nauru et al given their apparent inability to offer much military support, the main game seems to be that these and other countries are taxhavens where the helliburtons & bechtels have subsidiaries - and countries who were members of the coalition are allowed to participate in the reconstruction. one assumes that they mite give contracts to their own subsidiaries where there are no costplus provisions. and all tax free. that seems to be the reason why they were willing to withstand the ridicule. nice. the one thing ive learnt about these people is that it always helps to ask 'what are they up to?' whenever they appear to be getting slammed. it makes me look paranoid sometimes, but i just reckon they are too smart to make dumb mistakes - we've seen how tight they are, so i dont reckon its unreasonable to 2nd guess when they make 'mistakes'.

speaking of cheney - im becoming increasingly sure that he's *supposed* to look evil. i cant work out the logic - but its as tho he's been given the 'evil' role. i can only assume that he's much much worse than he appears. its as tho the apparent evilness that leaks out is an acceptable red herring. thats scary. look at the ongoing payments from halibortion - its 150k for another 2 years or whatover - presumably for tax treasons. how much does he save? 50k at most? surely the negative press is worth a gazillion times that. i know he has insurance so halliburtons success is irrelevant but surely there are smarter ways around it. he also has millions in helliburton equity that he promises to give to charity - thus presumably distancing himself from the company - but why not do it properly and give it away now? and the fact that he's willing to give away millions in equity to charity probably counters the argument that he wants/needs the tax breaks from spreading the 150k over years. if u are willing and can afford to give away millions, then u dont care too much about the tax spread on 150k (not to mention the other 40 mill or whatever he has). it seems to me as tho they are happy to keep the halliburton payments because it deflects the real message/story - i wish i knew what it is/was.

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