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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Chapter 34 - The Yankee and the King Sold as Slaves
WELL, what had I better do? Nothing in a hurry, sure. I must get up a
diversion; anything to employ me while I could think, and while these poor fellows could
have a chance to come to life again. There sat Marco, petrified in the act of trying to
get the hang of his miller-gun -- turned to stone, just in the attitude he was in when my
pile-driver fell, the toy still gripped in his unconscious fingers. So I took it from him
and proposed to explain its mystery. Mystery! a simple little thing like that; and yet it
was mysterious enough, for that race and that age.

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After losing their jobs, Greg and Gloria Christ drove through office parks, jotting down the names of potential employers. Eventually they tried a more direct route to getting work: a temporary-help agency.
"At this point in time, I think even if there was something that was temporary it could become full time later on," said Gloria Christ of Palatine, a former customer service professional with nearly two decades of managerial experience. The Christs wound up seeking the help of Banner Personnel Service in Schaumburg.


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Thursday, January 8 2009 - 9/11 Consequences
Martial Law, the Financial Bailout, and War
by Peter Dale Scott
Paulson''s Financial Bailout
It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, and the normal procedures for orderly consideration of a bill were dispensed with.
The excuse for bypassing normal legislative procedures was the existence of an emergency. But one of the most reprehensible features of the legislation, that it allowed Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to permit bailed-out institutions to use public money for exorbitant salaries and bonuses, was inserted by Paulson after the immediate crisis had passed.
According to Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vermont) the bailout bill originally called for a cap on executive salaries, but Paulson changed the requirement at the last minute. Welch and other members of Congress were enraged by "news that banks getting taxpayer-funded bailouts are still paying exorbitant salaries, bonuses, and other benefits."1 In addition, as AP reported in October, "Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. questioned allowing banks that accept bailout bucks to continue paying dividends on their common stock. `There are far better uses of taxpayer dollars than continuing dividend payments to shareholders,'' he said."2
Even more reprehensible is the fact that since the bailouts, Paulson and the Treasury Department have refused to provide details of the Troubled Assets Relief Program spending of hundreds of billions of dollars, while the New York Federal Reserve has refused to provide information about its own bail-out (using government-backed loans) that amounts to trillions. This lack of transparency has been challenged by Fox TV in a FOIA suit against the Treasury Department, and a suit by Bloomberg News against the Fed.3
The financial bailout legislation of September 2008 was only passed after members of both Congressional houses were warned that failure to act would threaten civil unrest and the imposition of martial law.
U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., both said U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson brought up a worst-case scenario as he pushed for the Wall Street bailout in September. Paulson, former Goldman Sachs CEO, said that might even require a declaration of martial law, the two noted.4
Here are the original remarks by Senator Inhofe:
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA 27th District) reported the same threat on the Congressional floor (Rep. Sherman later downplayed his remarks slightly):
So it is clear that threats of martial law were used to get this reprehensible bailout legislation passed. It also seems clear that Congress was told of a threat of martial law, not itself threatened. It is still entirely appropriate to link such talk to the Army''s rapid moves to redefine its role as one of controlling the American people, not just protecting them. In a constitutional polity based on balance of powers, we see the emergence of a radical new military power that is as yet completely unbalanced.
The Army''s New Role in 2001: Not Protecting American Society, but Controlling It
This new role for the Army is not wholly unprecedented. The U.S. military had been training troops and police in "civil disturbance planning" for the last three decades. The master plan, Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2, or "Operation Garden Plot," was developed in 1968 in response to the major protests and disturbances of the 1960s.
But on January 19, 2001, on the last day of the Clinton administration, the U.S. Army promulgated a new and permanent Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program. It encapsulated its difference from the preceding, externally-oriented Army Survival, Recovery, and Reconstitution System (ASRRS) as follows:
This document embodied the secret Continuity of Operations (COG) planning conducted secretly by Rumsfeld, Cheney, and others through the 1980s and 1990s.8 This planning was initially for continuity measures in the event of a nuclear attack, but soon called for suspension of the Constitution, not just "after a nuclear war" but for any "national security emergency." This was defined in Reagan''s Executive Order 12656 of November 18, 1988 as "any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States." The effect was to impose on domestic civil society the extreme measures once planned for a response to a nuclear attack from abroad.9 In like fashion ARR 500-3 Regulation clarified that it was a plan for "the execution of mission-essential functions without unacceptable interruption during a national security or domestic emergency."
Donald Rumsfeld, who as a private citizen had helped author the COG planning, promptly signed and implemented the revised ARR 500-3. Eight months later, on 9/11,
Then in April 2002, Defense officials implemented a plan for domestic U.S. military operations by creating a new U.S. Northern Command (CINC-NORTHCOM) for the continental United States.11 In short, what were being implemented were the most prominent features of the COG planning which Oliver North had worked on in the 1980s.
Deep Events and Changes of Party in the White House
Like so many other significant steps since World War Two towards a military-industrial state, the Army''s Regulation 500-3 surfaced in the last days of a departing administration (in this case the very last day). It is worth noticing that, ever since the 1950s, dubious events--of the unpublic variety I have called deep events--have marked the last months before a change of party in the White House. These deep events have tended to a) constrain incoming presidents, if the incomer is a Democrat, or alternatively b) to pave the way for the incomer, if he is a Republican.
Consider, in the first category, the following (when a Republican was succeeded by a Democrat):
* In December 1960 the CIA secured approval for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, and escalated events in Laos into a crisis for which the Joint Chiefs proposed sending 60,000 troops. These events profoundly affected President Kennedy''s posture towards Cuba and Indochina.
* In 1976 CIA Director George H.W. Bush installed an outside Team B intelligence unit to enlarge drastically estimates of the Soviet threat to the United States, eventually frustrating and reversing presidential candidate Jimmy Carter''s campaign pledge to cut the U.S. defense budget.12
Equally important were events in the second category (when a Democrat was succeeded by a Republican):
* In late 1968 Kissinger, while advising the Johnson administration, gave secret information to the Nixon campaign that helped Nixon to obstruct the peace agreement in Vietnam that was about to be negotiated at the peace talks then taking place in Paris. (According to Seymour Hersh, "The Nixon campaign, alerted by Kissinger to the impending success of the peace talks, was able to get a series of messages to the Thieu government" in Saigon. making it clear that a Nixon presidency would offer a better deal. This was a major factor in securing the defeat of Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey.13 Kissinger was not the kind of person to have betrayed his president on his own personal initiative. At the time Nixon''s campaign manager, John Mitchell (one of the very few in on the secret), told Hersh that "I thought Henry [Kissinger] was doing it because Nelson [Rockefeller] wanted him to. Nelson asked Henry to help and he did."14
* In 1980 the so-called October Surprise, with the help of people inside CIA, helped ensure that the Americans held hostage in Iran would not be returned before the inauguration of Reagan. This was a major factor in securing the defeat of incumbent Jimmy Carter.15 Once again, the influence of the Rockefellers can be discerned. A CIA officer later reported hearing Joseph V. Reed, an aide to David Rockefeller, comment in 1981 to William Casey, the newly installed CIA Director, about their joint success in disrupting Carter''s plans to bring home the hostages.16
Both the financial bailout, extorted from Congress and the escalated preparations for martial law can be seen as transitional events of the first category. Whatever the explanations for their timing, they will constrain Obama''s freedom to make his own policies. I fear moreover they may have the consequence of easing this country into unforeseen escalations of the Afghan war.
The Intensive Quiet Preparations for Martial Law
Let us deal first with the preparations for martial law. On September 30, 2008, the Army Times announced the redeployment of an active Brigade Army Team from Iraq to America, in a new mission that "may become a permanent part of the active Army":
This announcement followed by two weeks the talk of civil unrest and martial law that was used to panic the Congress into passing Paulson''s bailout legislation. Not only that, the two unprecedented events mirror each other: the bailout debate anticipated civil unrest and martial law, while the announced positioning of an active Brigade Combat Team on U.S. soil anticipated civil unrest (such as might result from the bailout legislation).
Then on December 17, 2008, US Northern Command chief General Renuart announced that "the US military plans to mobilize thousands of troops to protect Washington against potential terrorist attack during the inauguration of president-elect Barack Obama."18
It is clear that there has been a sustained move in the direction of martial law preparations, a trend that has been as continuous as it has been unheralded. Senator Leahy was thus right to draw our attention to it back on September 29, 2006, in his objections to the final form of the Fiscal Year 2007 National Defense Authorization Act, which gave the president increased power to call up the National Guard for law enforcement:
This quiet agglomeration of military power has not "just growed," like Topsy, through inadvertence. It shows sustained intention, even if no one has made a public case for it.
How the Bush Administration Protected Predatory Lending and Let the Financial Crisis Grow
Let us now consider the financial crisis and the panic bailout. No one should think that the crisis was unforeseen. Back in February Eliot Spitzer, in one of his last acts as governor of New York, warned about the impending crisis created by predatory lending, and reveled that the Bush Administration was blocking state efforts to deal with it. His extraordinary warning, in the Washington Post, is worth quoting at some length:
Several years ago, state attorneys general and others involved in consumer protection began to notice a marked increase in a range of predatory lending practices by mortgage lenders. ...
Eliot Spitzer submitted his Op Ed to the Washington Post on February 13. If it had an impact, it was not the one Spitzer had hoped for. On March 10 the New York Times broke the story of Spitzer''s encounter with a prostitute. According to a later Times story, "on Feb. 13 [the day Spitzer''s Op Ed went up on the Washington Post website] federal agents staked out his hotel in Washington."22
It is remarkable that the Mainstream Media found Spitzer''s private life to be big news, but not his charges that Paulson''s Treasury was prolonging the financial crisis, or the relation of these charges to Spitzer''s exposure. As a weblog commented,
After Spitzer''s Op Ed was published, according to Greg Palast, the Federal Reserve, "for the first time in its history, loaned a selected coterie of banks one-fifth of a trillion dollars to guarantee these banks'' mortgage-backed junk bonds. The deluge of public loot was an eye-popping windfall to the very banking predators who have brought two million families to the brink of foreclosure."24
What are we to make of Spitzer''s charge that the Bush administration interfered to preempt state laws against predatory lending, and of the fact that the mainstream media did not report that? A petty motive for the OCC''s behavior in 2003 might have been to allow the housing bubble to continue through 2003 and 2004, thus facilitating Bush''s re-election. But the persistence of Treasury obstruction thereafter, despite the unanimous opposition of all fifty states, and the continuing silence of the media about this disagreement, suggest that some broader policy intention may have been at stake.
One is struck by the similarities with the Savings and Loan scandal which was allowed to continue through the Reagan 1980s, long after it became apparent that deliberate bankruptcy was being used by unscrupulous profiteers to amass illegal fortunes at what was ultimately public expense.25
In the same way, the long drawn-out housing bubble of the current Bush decade, and particularly the derivative bubble that was floated upon it, allowed the Bush administration to help offset the trillion-dollar-plus cost of its Iraq misadventure,26 by creating spurious securities that sold for hundreds of billions, not just in the United States, but through the rest of the world.
In the long run, this was not a sustainable source of wealth for America''s financial class, which is now suffering like everyone else from the consequent recession. But in the short run, the financial crisis and bailout made it possible for Bush to wage a costly war without experiencing the kind of debilitating inflation that was brought on by America''s Vietnam War.
The trillion dollar meltdown,27 in other words, can be rationalized as having helped finance the Iraq War. When we turn to the martial law preparations, however, they are being made in anticipation of civil unrest in the future. Why such intense preparation for this?
The obvious answer of course is memory of the rioting that occurred in San Francisco and elsewhere during the great depression of the 1930s. Indeed that thought may be uppermost among those who recently arranged for the redeployment of a Brigade Combat Team from Iraq to America. But the planning for martial law in America dates back almost three decades, from the days when Reagan appointed Rumsfeld, Cheney and others to plan secretly for what was misleadingly called Continuity [i.e., Change] of Government. Concern about the 2008 recession cannot have been on their minds then, or on those who introduced the Army''s "Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program" on January 19, 2001. Instead the "full all-hazards threat spectrum" envisaged in that document was clearly ancillary to the doctrine of "full-spectrum dominance" that had been articulated in the Joint Chiefs of Staff blueprint, Joint Vision 2020, endorsed eight months earlier on May 30, 2000.28
The interest of Cheney and Rumsfeld in COG planning, including planning for martial law, also envisaged full spectrum dominance. This is made clear by their simultaneous engagement in the 1990s in the public Project for the New American Century (PNAC). PNAC''s goals were stated very explicitly in their document Rebuilding America''s Defenses: to increase defense spending so as to establish America''s military presence throughout the world as an unchallengeable power. This would entail permanent U.S. forces in central as well as east Asia, even after the disappearance of Saddam Hussein.29
In short PNAC''s program was a blueprint for permanent overseas American empire, a project they recognized would not be easily accepted by an American democracy. Their call frankly acknowledged that it would be difficult to gain support for their projected increase in defense spending to "a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually." "The process of transformation," the document admitted, "is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event--like a new Pearl Harbor."30
There is of course every reason to hope that the disastrous era of Rumsfeld and Cheney is about to end, with the election of Barack Obama. Obama has made it clear that he will pursue a foreign policy dedicated to diplomacy and multilateralism. In this spirit he has declared his willingness to talk to Iran without preconditions.
But Obama''s stated reason for disengagement from Iraq -- "The scale of our deployments in Iraq continues to set back our ability to finish the fight in Afghanistan"31 -- is very ominous. Few serious students of the Afghan scene believe that America can "finish the fight in Afghanistan," any more successfully than could the Russians or British before them. The U.S. position there is visibly deteriorating, while the U.S. strategy of cross-border attacks is having the effect of destabilizing Pakistan as well. The U.S.-backed Karzai regime has so little control over the countryside that Kabul itself is now coming under rocket attack. Experts on the scene agree that any effort to "finish" will be a long-term proposition requiring at a minimum a vastly escalated commitment of U.S. troops.32
One cannot predict the future, but one can examine the past. For thirty years I have been writing about the persistence in America of a war mentality that, time after time, trumps reasonable policies of negotiation, and leads us further into armed conflict. This dominant mindset is not restricted to any single agency or cabal, but is rather the likely outcome of on-going tensions between hawks and doves in the internal politics of Washington.
If a container of rocks and gravel is shaken vigorously, the probability is that the gravel will gravitate towards the bottom, leaving the largest rocks at the top. There is an analogous probability that, in an on-going debate over engaging or withdrawing from a difficult military contest, the forces for engagement will come out on top, regardless of circumstances. Available military power tends to be used, and one of the most remarkable features of history since 1945 is that this tendency has not so far repeated itself with atomic weapons.
Let me explain this metaphor in more concrete detail. Progressive societies (in this era usually democracies) tend to expand their presence beyond their geographic boundaries. This expanded presence calls for new institutions, usually (like the CIA) free from democratic accountability. This accretion of unaccountable power, in what I have elsewhere called the deep state, disrupts the public state''s system of checks and balances which is the underpinning of sane, deliberative policy.
We might expect of progressive democracies that they would evolve towards more and more rational foreign policies. But because of the dialectic just described, what we see is the exact opposite -- evolution towards foolish and sometimes disastrous engagements. When Britain became more democratic in the late 19th Century, it also initiated the Boer War, a war very suited to the private imperial needs of Cecil Rhodes, but irrelevant if not deleterious to the interests of the British people.33 Hitler''s dreams of a Third Reich, entailing a doomed repeat of Napoleon''s venture into the heart of Russia, suited the needs of the German industrialists who had financed the Nazis; but from the outset sane heads of the German military staff could foresee the coming disaster.
For over a half century now, beginning with Vietnam, unaccountable forces have been maneuvering America into unsustainable adventures on the Asian mainland. We now know that Kennedy did not intend ever to commit U.S. combat troops to Vietnam.34 But the fatal planning to expand the Vietnam War north of the 17th parallel was authorized in the last week of his aborted presidency, probably without his being aware.35 When elected, Jimmy Carter was determined to reduce the size and frequency of CIA covert operations.36 Yet his national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, initiated maneuvers in Afghanistan that led to the largest CIA covert operation (and in my view, one of the most deleterious) of all time.37
Our archival historians have not yet fully understood either paradox, or the forces behind them. And as the philosopher George Santayana famously observed, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."38
The Future: Military Escalation Abroad and at Home?
Like both Kennedy and Carter, Barack Obama is a complex mix of hopeful and depressing qualities. Among the latter are his unqualified desire to "finish" (i.e., "win") the war in Afghanistan, and his support, along with his party''s, for the final version of the Paulson bailout. In my view they go together.
Like the government negotiated resolution of the savings-and-loan-scandal of the 1980s, the financial bailout undisguisedly taxed the public wealth of the republic to protect and even enrich those who for some time had been undeservedly enriching themselves. Old-line leftists might see nothing unusual about this: it conforms to their analysis of how the capitalist state has always worked.
But it is only characteristic of the American state since the Reagan revolution of the 1980s. Before that time governmental policies were more likely to be directed towards helping the poor; afterwards the ideology of free-market literalism, even under Clinton, was invoked in numerous ways for the enriching of the rich.
The result of these government policies has been summarized by Prof. Edward Wolff:
Past excesses of American wealth, as in the Gilded Age and the 1920s, have been followed by political reforms, such as the income tax, to reduce wealth and income disparity. But as Kevin Phillips has warned, this type of reform must happen again soon, or it may not happen at all:
Judged by this criterion, the Paulson bailout as passed was not just an opportunity missed; it was a radical leap in the wrong direction. It is not reassuring that the bailout was passed with the support of Obama and the Democratic Party. This is rather a sign that plutocracy will not be seriously challenged by either party in their present state.
Warren Buffett may have been correct in saying that the bailout was necessary. But it is not hard to think of reforms that should have accompanied it:
1) there should have been transparency, not secrecy
2) public funds should not have been made available for bonuses or dividends (The richest 10 percent of Americans own 85 percent of all stock).41
And as a bailout for the automobile industry is debated, two more reforms seem self-evident:
3) any reduction in income should not affect workers alone, but all levels of employees equally
4) as has often been suggested, a limit should be established by law to the maximum ratio of the highest remuneration to the lowest in any industry -- perhaps a ratio of twenty to one.
I am not making these obvious suggestions with any expectation that they will be passed or seriously debated. The plutocratic corruption of both our parties makes such a prospect almost unthinkable.
What I do want to contemplate is the serious prospect of war. America escaped from the depression of the 1890s with the Spanish-American War.42 It only escaped the Great Depression of the 1930s with the Second World War. There was even a recession in the late 1940s from which America only escaped with the Korean War. As we face the risk of major depression again, I believe we inevitably face the danger of major war again.
In the meantime, some aspects of the financial meltdown, although they arose for many reasons and were not the result of some conspiratorial cabal, may be prolonged because of their utility to the war-minded. Consider that, from the perspective of maintaining America''s imperial thrust into Afghanistan (and even Pakistan), the financial crisis has had some desired consequences:
1) The dollar''s value against other international currencies, notably the euro, has improved, thus improving America''s balance of payments and also offsetting the threat to the dollar''s important role as the primary unit of international trade.
2) Thanks to the determined international marketing of overvalued derivatives based on predatory lending, the resulting financial crisis has been internationalized, with economies elsewhere suffering even greater shocks than the United States. This has relatively improved America''s capacity to finance a major war effort overseas (which has always had a major impact on the U.S. balance of payments).
3) The price of oil has plummeted from $147 a barrel last July to under $40, thus weakening the economies of Russia, China, and especially Saudi Arabia, the country whose international foundations have been supporting Al Qaeda.
The Afghan situation is grim, but it is not hopeless. Two skilled observers, Barnett R. Rubin and Ahmed Rashid, have proposed a political solution for the entire region that would promise greater security for the entire area than Obama''s ill-considered proposal to send 20,000 more U.S. troops.43 In Rashid''s words,
That observers with such recognized status are offering a sensible political solution does not provide me with much optimism. For three decades now Barnett Rubin has been offering sound advice on Iran and Afghanistan to Washington, only to be ignored by those lobbying for covert operations and military solutions. This dialectic is reminiscent of the Vietnam War, where for over a decade reasonable proposals to demilitarize the conflict were similarly ignored.
I repeat that the future is unpredictable. But I fear that Obama''s proposal to send 20,000 additional troops will carry the day, with its predictable consequences of a wider war in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.45 With this I also fear an increased use of the U.S. Army to control protests by the American people.
I earnestly hope that my fears are misplaced. Time will tell.
ENDNOTES1WCAX, Burlington, Vermont - December 22, 2008, http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=9567271. Cf. CNBC, October 30, 2008, http://www.cnbc.com/id/27423117: "''You can get paid $30 million under this program,'' says Michael Kesner, who heads Deloitte Consulting''s executive compensation practice. ''There''s no limit on what you can get paid.''"
2John Dunbar, AP, October 25, 2007, http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081025/meltdown_evolving_bailout.html .
3David Hirst, "Fox joins battle cry for details of US bail-out," BusinessDay, December 24, 2008, http://www.businessday.com.au/business/fox-joins-battle-cry-for-details-of-us-bailout-20081223-74eh.html?page=-1.
6Rep. Brad Sherman, in the House, 8:07 EST PM, October 2, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaG9d_4zij8&NR=1. Rep. Sherman later issued the following clarification: "I have no reason to think that any of the leaders in Congress who were involved in negotiating with the Bush Administration regarding the bailout bill ever mentioned the possibility of martial law -- again, that was just an example of extreme and deliberately hyperbolic comments being passed around by members not directly involved in the negotiations." Cf. Rep. Sherman, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bH1mO8qhCs.
7Army Regulation 500-3, Emergency Employment of Army And Other Resources, Army Continuity Of Operations (COOP) Program, http://www.wikileaks.org/leak/us-army-reg-500-3-continuity-2001.pdf, emphasis added. Cf. Tom Burghardt, "Militarizing the ''Homeland'' in Response to the Economic and Political Crisis: NORTHCOM''s Joint Task Force-Civil Support," GlobalResearch, October 11, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10534.
8Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), 183-87; cf. James Mann, The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush''s War Cabinet (New York: Viking, 2004), 138-45,
9Scott, The Road to 9/11, 183-87.
10Ritt Goldstein , "Foundations are in place for martial law in the US," Sydney Morning Herald, July 27 2002, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/27/1027497418339.html.
11Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11, 240-41.
12Scott, The Road to 9/11, 60-61.
13Robert Parry, "Henry Kissinger, Eminence Noire," ConsortiumNews, December 28, 2008, http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/122808.html: "Kissinger, ... -- while serving as a peace-talk adviser to the Johnson administration -- made obstruction of the peace talks possible by secretly contacting people working for Nixon, according to Seymour Hersh''s 1983 book, The Price of Power [p. 21].
14Hersh, Price of Power, 18. Cf. Jim Hougan, Spooks: The Haunting of America (New York: William Morrow, 1978), 435: "Kissinger, married to a former Rockefeller aide, owner of a Georgetown mansion whose purchase was enabled only by Rockefeller gifts and loans, was always the protégé of his patron, Nelson R[ockefeller], even when he wasn''t directly employed by him."
15Scott, The Road to 9/11, 93-118.
16Scott, The Road to 9/11, 82-87, 91, 104-05.
17"Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1," Army Times, September 30, 2008, http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/. Cf. Michel Chossudovsky, "Pre-election Militarization of the North American Homeland, US Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to ''help with civil unrest,''"GlobalResearch, September 26, 2008, http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10341.
18Agence France-Presse, December 17, 2008, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iTBOy3JF8pVAthIthq8C1NrMf4Cg.
20Remarks Of Sen. Patrick Leahy, National Defense Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2007Conference Report, Congressional Record, September 29, 2006, http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/092906b.html.
21Eliot Spitzer, "Predatory Lenders'' Partner in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States From Stepping In to Help Consumers," Washington Post, February 14, 2008; A25, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html?nav=hcmodule. Three months earlier, on November 8, 2007, Governor Spitzer and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo had published a joint letter to Congress, "calling for continued federal action to combat subprime lending practices" (http://www.state.ny.us/governor/press/1108071.html).
22David Johnston and Philip Shenon, "U.S. Defends Tough Tactics on Spitzer," New York Times, March 21, 2008.
23"Why Eliot Spitzer was assassinated: The predatory lending industry had a partner in the White House," Brasscheck TV, March 2008, http://brasschecktv.com/page/291.html.
24Greg Palast, "Eliot''s Mess: The $200 billion bail-out for predator banks and Spitzer charges are intimately linked," Air America Radio''s Clout, March 14, 2008,http://www.gregpalast.com/elliot-spitzer-gets-nailed/
25Without suggesting that the scandal was in any way centrally orchestrated or directed, it can be argued that the scandal was permitted to drag on so long because it was allowing profits from the illegal drug traffic to recapitalize the American economy and strengthen the beleaguered U.S. dollar.
26Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008). Cf. Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, "The three trillion dollar war," The Times (London), February 23, 2008, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3419840.ece: "On the eve of war, there were discussions of the likely costs. Larry Lindsey, President Bush''s economic adviser and head of the National Economic Council, suggested that they might reach $200 billion. But this estimate was dismissed as "baloney" by the Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. His deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, suggested that postwar reconstruction could pay for itself through increased oil revenues. Mitch Daniels, the Office of Management and Budget director, and Secretary Rumsfeld estimated the costs in the range of $50 to $60 billion, a portion of which they believed would be financed by other countries. (Adjusting for inflation, in 2007 dollars, they were projecting costs of between $57 and $69 billion.) The tone of the entire administration was cavalier, as if the sums involved were minimal."
27Charles R. Morris, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash (New York: PublicAffairs, 2008).
28Joint Vision 2020, http://www.dtic.mil/jointvision/jvpub2.htm; Scott, The Road to 9/11, 20, 24. "Full spectrum dominance" repeated what had been outlined earlier in a predecessor document, Joint Vision 2010 of 2005, but with new emphasis on the statement that "the United States must maintain its overseas presence forces" (Joint Vision 2020, 6). Cf. Joint Vision 2010, 4, www.dtic.mil/jv2010/jvpub.htm: "We will remain largely a force that is based in the continental United States."
29Project for the New American Century, Rebuilding America''s Defenses, http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf; Scott, The Road to 9/11, 23-24, 191-93.
30Rebuilding America''s Defenses, 51, 75.
31"War in Iraq," BarackObama.com, http://www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/ .
32See e.g. Andrew Bacevich, Newsweek, December 8, 2008, http://www.newsweek.com/id/171254: "In Afghanistan today, the United States and its allies are using the wrong means to pursue the wrong mission. Sending more troops to the region, as incoming president Barack Obama and others have suggested we should, will only turn Operation Enduring Freedom into Operation Enduring Obligation. Afghanistan will be a sinkhole, consuming resources neither the U.S. military nor the U.S. government can afford to waste." Cf. PBS, Frontline, "The War Briefing," October 28, 2008, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/warbriefing/view/.
33For the role of the Rhodes-promoted Jameson Raid in instigating the Boer War, see Elizabeth Longford, Jameson''s Raid: The Prelude to the Boer War (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982).
34Gordon M. Goldstein, Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam (New York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2008).
35John Newman, JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power (New York: Warner Books, 1992), 375-77, 434-35, 447; Peter Dale Scott, The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2008), 25-26, 28.
36Ofira Seliktar, Failing the Crystal Ball Test: The Carter Administration and the Fundamentalist Revolution in Iran (Westport, CN: Praeger, 2000), 52.
37Brzezinski later boasted that his "secret operation was an excellent idea. It drew the Russians into the Afghan trap" ("Les Révélations d''un ancien conseiller de Carter," interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel Observateur, January 15--21, 1998, http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html; French version: http://www.confidentiel.net/breve.php3?id_breve=1862; quoted at length in Peter Dale Scott, Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 35). For my negative assessment of what some have described as the CIA''s most successful covert operation, see The Road to 9/11, 114-37.
38George Santayana, Life of Reason, Reason in Common Sense (New York: Scribner''s, 1905), 284.
39Edward Wolff, "The Wealth Divide: The Growing Gap in the United States Between the Rich and the Rest," Multinational Monitor, May 2003, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/America/Wealth_Divide.html. Cf. Edward Wolff, Top Heavy: The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It (New York: New Press, 2002).
40Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (New York: Broadway Books, 2002), 422; quoted in Scott, The Road to 9/11, 3.
41Wolff, "The Wealth Divide."
42For McKinley''s mercantilist "large policy" as a response to depression, see Philip Sheldon Foner, The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism, 1895-1902 (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972).
43Barnett R. Rubin and Ahmed Rashid, "From Great Game to Grand Bargain: Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan," Foreign Affairs, November/December 2008, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20081001faessay87603-p40/barnett-r-rubin-ahmed-rashid/from-great-game-to-grand-bargain.html.
44Ahmed Rashid, "Obama''s huge South Asia headache," BBC, January 2, 2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7788321.stm.
45Cf. Zia Sarhadi, "America''s "good war" turns into quicksand," MediaMonitors, January 5, 2009, http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/58114: "Obama''s announcement to send 20,000 additional troops to the ''good war'' in Afghanistan has been greeted by the Taliban with glee. They regard it as an opportunity to attack a ''bigger army, bigger target and more shiny new weapons to take from the toy soldiers.'' American generals have talked in terms of 40,000 to 100,000 additional troops, levels that are simply not available. America''s killing of hundreds of Afghan civilians in indiscriminate aerial attacks has been the most effective recruiting tool for the Taliban. Even those Afghans not keen on seeing the Taliban back in power are appalled by the level of brutality inflicted on civilians."
Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. His most recent book is The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War, which can be ordered from the Mary Ferrell Foundation Press at http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/MFF_Store.Scott''s website is http://www.peterdalescott.net.
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Yesterday, Fed Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans, historically a proponent of monetary stimulus, said he would not rule out a decision to begin tapering in September. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney linked the monetary-policy outlook to unemployment for the first time. First Solar (FSLR) plunged 11% to $41.77.
Equities: The SEP13 E-mini S&P 500 (CME:ESU13) is down 11 points today to 1683. We believe the key line in the sand for this market is at 1693. It looks as though we are starting to see some profit-taking at this point from the incredible July rally, likely incited by not only yesterday's comments of Charles Evans (discussed a possible September tapering), but also IBM's decline in share price yesterday and today. We have key targets below these levels at 1670, then 1660, then 1648. We would not be surprised at all to see an August correction taking this market down to 1648, as investors brace themselves for a possible stimulus tapering later this year. We have had a tremendous rally in 2013 and perhaps this is the period of profit-taking.
Bonds: The SEP13 30-year bond futures (CBOT:ZBU13) are up 18 ticks to 133'23, once again above their key pivot level of 133'18. The bonds are in an interesting position because one might think they will have a nice rally on a potential August stock market correction, but at the same time how can the market have a significant rally if the Fed does indeed pull back stimulus in September? Overall, we believe in focusing on price levels as key indications of market sentiment. Therefore, as long as this market can hold above 133'18, we lean towards looking for a short covering rally, especially if equities continue to decline.
Commodities: DEC13 gold futures (COMEX:GCZ13) had a very brief dip below $1,275, but now are trading up $1 this morning to $1,283. Gold is also in an interesting position, having declined so much this year already, while having the markets now start to really consider various central banks being a bit more hawkish than they were at the beginning of the year, such as US Fed, BOE, and even the BOJ which has its announcement tomorrow, in which the market is expecting no new stimulus. We believe gold may have found its floor at the $1,200 level, and could actually rally if investors move some funds back into gold from their profit-taking activities in the stock market. However, we would not be surprised to see a short term decline in gold if and when the Fed officially announces a tapering plan. SEP13 natural gas is the big commodity loser of the day, down $.077 to $3.24. We have a key target on the downside at $2.90, which looks like an unfilled gap on the daily chart.
Currencies: The SEP13 USD (NYBOT:DXU13) continues its decline today, trading down 25 ticks to 81.40, while the Pound and Yen are having significant rallies today. The SEP13 Yen futures are up 107 ticks to 103.50, with our next key technical target on the upside at 104.70. 103.11 looks like initial support for the Yen. The BOJ releases their policy announcement tomorrow, and the market is expecting no new stimulus from the BOJ, which is perhaps why the Yen is rallying. The Pound is also rallying on more specific policy guidance from Carney and the BOE, trading up 145 ticks to 154.96. We have an upside technical target for the Pound at 1.57. If data from the UK, especially employment data, keeps surprising to the upside, we could see the Pound reach this target.


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Regional Reviews: San Francisco
The Room and
It was interesting to see the combination of both dramas. Mr Pinter wrote The Room in 1957 when he was 26. Celebration was written in 1999. I could see the elements of future Pinter plays in The Room. The playwright had not yet conquered his style when he wrote the first 60 minute drama.
The Room is set in a dingy post World War II one room flat in London. The opening is slow as Rose, played by Diane Venora, shuffles about in seedy clothes, fixing tea and breakfast for her husband who sits at a table reading a newspaper. The husband, played by Marco Baricelli, utters not a word but there is something dangerous about him. He is a big burly man who glares at his wife as she paddles on incessantly. This room is her security, it is the room where she cooks, eats and sleeps.
Rose continues to talk to her silent husband about how good the room is and how she looks after Burt on this cold winter day. "I look after you don't I Burt?" she says endlessly. Rose continues to drivel with increase apprehension since Burt must make a delivery in his van on the winter icy roads. She is a drudge of a woman and she continually repeats her themes.
Rose is visited in the 60 minute production by her dotty landlord played superbly by Peter Riegert. It is unclear why he is there since he says "I just thought I would drop by." After Burt leaves for his work, Rose receives a succession of disturbing visitors: her landlord again, two strangers who would be tenants and finally an enigmatic blind man who has been waiting for her in the basement. All this helps to build toward an ominous and vicious climax. The whole of the act is paradoxical and discomfiting but it is finely acted. After all, this is Pinter and there are more questions than answers at the end of the one act production.
Celebration is as different from The Room as night is to day. This shorter play is more lighthearted and extremely funny. The setting is two tables at an expensive and fashionable restaurant, one table occupied by a bank manager and his wife and the other by two married couples celebrating an anniversary. The two brothers are married to the two sisters and they are the "nouveau riche" of London. They are loud and coarse. During the course of the play, everyone gets drunk, sings libidinous ditties and pounds the table for more bottles of wine.
Celebration is a thin piece but the skill of the actors is a real delight. The actors are faultlessly and selflessly in harmony with each other. This is an exquisite ensemble work that keeps the audience rolling in the aisles.
Peter Riegert gives a consummate performance as one of the brothers, transforming from the mousy landlord in The Room to the self-confident wealthy hoodlum in Celebration. Marco Barricelli also shifts - from the silent husband in the first act to a frolicking and boisterous gangster in the second presentation. It is also amazing to see the change in Diane Venora, from shabby Rose to a rudely confident Prue. Rene Augesen is sleek as the manipulative sexpot wife of Jason Butler Harner's smarmy, combative banker.
There are some wonderful characterizations by the restaurant staff played by Anthony Fusco, Melissa Smith and Gregory Wallace. Mr. Fusco plays the fey restaurant owner to the hilt. Ms. Smith is outstanding as the hostess as she tells the customers the story of her life and Mr. Wallace is an absolute scream as the waiter. He rises to surreal heights with his interjections about his grandfather's life and his intimate acquaintances with notable literary figures from Thomas Hardy to Ezra Pound to TS Eliot. He goes from table to table to interject names of celebrities that his grandfather knew. This is a name dropping feat.
Pinter's dialogue is wonderful. There is regular table talk, pleasant trivial talk and wildly funny conversation. Even the hostess becomes wildly funny when she says "You don't have to be English to enjoy sex. You don't have to speak English to enjoy sex. Lots of people enjoy sex without being English. I've known one or two Belgian people for example who love sex and they don't speak a work of English. The same applied to Hungarians." This is only a sample of Pinter's comedic writing.
The production closed on Sunday, October 14th. James Joyce's The Dead opens at ACT on October 25 and runs through November 25. Tickets run $16 - $66. Call 415-749-2ACT for tickets or go to act-sfbay.org.


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Standing in a crowd and watching the stage heat up is fun, it's true. But surrounded by a thousand other people expressing their approval, shock, or dismay as the competitors' flashes of brilliance and moments of indecision keep the audience in suspense—well, you might wonder just how hard or how thrilling the challenge really is.
At this year's Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament, the crowd got their hands dirty too. Handed a sheet of paper featuring the Star Player EV, some pencils and pens, and instructions to go wild, this year's crowd provided us with some immense designs. Hopefully, they will inspire you to do the same.
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TRURO - Chris MacDougall is doing what any father would for a son losing a battle. He's stepping in to help.
Only MacDougall is taking on cancer, which stole the life of his 14-year-old son Charlie in 2005. It's clear the disease has struck a devastating first blow, one that eight years has done nothing to heal. As MacDougall tries to speak about it, the lump in his throat cuts him off at "I lost." He raises his shaking 58-year-old hand to signal for a moment to fight back the tears before he continues.
"I lost my son eight years ago to cancer," the Truro resident said. "I don't think you can talk to anybody who hasn't been touched by it so whatever I can do, I'll do."
Chris, along with his 24-year-old son Dan and niece Meg MacDougall, 26, is pedaling 2,400km from Banff, Alta., to Boulder, Colo., Sept. 14 to 28 with Give to Live's Big Ride in an effort to raise money for cancer research.
"It's a small thing we can do to help others," said Meg, a Truro resident.
The journey, which will carry the riders in and out of the Rocky Mountains through Alberta, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, should take 12 days to complete with riders cycling up to 200km per day.
The mountainous terrain is sure to provide plenty of challenges, but that's of no concern to Chris, who also lost his brother Donald to cancer last October.
"It's not hard and it's not much pain compared to what Charlie went through, so you just push through it," he said.
Charlie battled osteogenic sarcoma for three-and-a-half years. It seemed as if he had the disease beaten after eight months of treatments, but 15 months later it returned.
The times were trying on the MacDougall family.
"It was hell," Chris said.
In spite of a 70 per cent survival rate, Charlie lost his battle.
"Unfortunately he was on the wrong side of that 70 per cent," Chris said.
Since then, the MacDougalls have been heavily involved in fundraising for cancer research. Dan swam across the Northumberland Strait last year as part of Give To Live's Big Swim, raising more than $10,000 and all three rode Give To Live's Big Ride through the Cabot Trail in 2012.
Chris also took part in a ride from Vancouver to Austin, Tx., in 2010, raising $26,000 on that trip.
The entry fee for this year's Big Ride is $150 and riders are committed to raising $5,000 each. All of the money, which comes from donations collected by the riders, goes to the Canadian Cancer Society and the Livestrong Foundation, as riders pay their own meals and travel expenses. Typically they spend the night in sleeping bags in church halls along the route.
So far, 14 riders have signed up, but Chris said the goal is to have 40 participate.
"So there's room for lots more," he said.
Chris said although cancer research didn't save Charlie's life, it can save many others. He cited the fact Terry Fox had the same cancer Charlie did, but when Fox had it the survival rate was only 30 per cent.
"Without research this disease is never going to go away," he said. "Major inroads have been made. Childhood leukemia is very much curable now and without research it wouldn't be."
NOTE: Anyone wishing to donate to the MacDougalls for the Big Ride, or those interested in taking part, can contact Chris at 895-1396 or visit givetolive.ca/big-ride and click the 'sponsor a rider' tab.
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The state Assembly is gone for the day, wrapping up after a few hours this afternoon to remove a tax on out-of-state hedge fund managers from the budget and pass a contingency plan if $1 billion in federal Medicaid aid doesn't come through.
"We passed the budget. We passed the budget again," Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, told reporters after the session ended. He was referring to the initial budget vote in early July and the latest budget revisions today that took out the controversial hedge-fund tax.
Silver said he didn't think they were done for the year, but he said they are done with the budget. There's a general sense that lawmakers will be back after the September primaries to pass additional legislation.
The Assembly left without taking up the SUNY Empowerment bill that would give public colleges more flexibility to set tuition rates. The Senate started to vote on it this afternoon, but swiftly laid aside the bill when it was clear there wasn't the 32 votes necessary to pass it.
Reiterating concerns about SUNY Empowerment leading to big tuition increases, Silver said there is simply no deal on the measure, which has been pushed hard by Gov. David Paterson and the colleges.
"There's no agreement on it. We think the public universities of this state should be open and available to everybody. We believe affordability is important," Silver said.
"That SUNY empowerment bill is a tax on the middle class, and we are not prepared to provide that tax on the middle class," he continued.
The Assembly also left without taking up a property-tax cap that the Senate passed today 51-8. Again, Silver said that a tax cap is flawed and property-tax relief comes through increased school aid so districts don't have to raise taxes.
"There is not a majority of our conference in support of it. Plain and simple, " Silver said of a property-tax cap. "Certainly in a year when we are cutting back resources to localities and to school districts, for us to be saying to them and you need to cut back as well significantly. That's just part of the problem we have here."
Silver's stance, however, contradicts reports on school taxes and spending. Between 1993 and 2006, state aid to schools soared – from $12 billion to $22 billion, according to the Albany-based Rockefeller Institute for Government.
But during the past six years in particular, school property taxes rose an average of 5 percent, state records show. In the 2004-05 school year, for example, state spending on schools grew 6.3 percent — but school taxes grew by 8.3 percent.


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With cannabis cultivation up 15% in the last year alone (and if that's only going on the amount of cannabis known about by police – given the incredible smarts of most cannabis dealers, it can only be the tip of the iceberg), thoughts are turning to what to do about it. One of the tactics settled upon has been to encourage people to grass up their local grass growers. Logical, you say, everyone loves a snitch. But how to make the request? Phone and you'll get an earful; knock on the door and you'll be ignored. The answer, as hit upon by cop-associated charity Crimestoppers, is more sophisticated: deploy scratch and sniff technology.
This week, 210,000 leaflets encouraging the dobbing in of drug farmers will be posted through the letterboxes of the English regions. Normally they might blend indistinguishably into the other metric tonne of bumf in our letterboxes, from takeaway menus, to two-for-one buffalo wing offers and appeals to call Susan the Mystic, who might just be able to help you with that terrible swelling. With the addition of scratch and sniff technology, however, everyone will pick the leaflet up, not just to see what blooming marijuana smells like , but also to gaze like the ape from the film 2001, at the remarkable technology that is scratch and sniff.
To my surprise, Crimestoppers' idea has not gone down altogether well. There's been scoffing in the press, and an interviewee on the Today programme yesterday disputed the likely effectiveness of the scheme (and he was only on to talk about the budget). Others, including the commenters on this article, will suggest that spending money on odour-enhanced marketing is not the best use of taxpayers' money in these straitened times. I will stop them there: first off, Crimestoppers is an independent charity so it can do what it likes; and second, you should never underestimate the British people's appetite for a gimmick.
Scratch'n'Sniff is, as you might expect, an American invention, conceived in the bowels of the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (now better known as 3M) in the early 1960s. It was looking for a way to copy documents without using carbon (hence carbon copy, hence "cc") and created a "micro-encapsulation" process that allowed for the stashing of teensy dollops of plastic on a piece of paper that would release ink or suchlike when pressed upon. This idea was then picked up by another researcher at the National Cash Register company, who switched the plastic for gelatin, and created the opportunity for scents to be stashed in there too.
It's fair to say that despite the best efforts of the American postwar culture of innovation, scratch and sniff never changed the world. But because it never proved particularly useful, its value as a cheap gimmick was never diminished. And this is where we come in. For, make no mistake, the British are receptive to gimmicks. In fact, there's an argument for saying that gimmicks are one of the things we do well.
Gimmicks are a form of creative output, just one with a limited use. Advertising is basically an industry built around gimmicks; I don't need to tell you we're a world leader in that. There's the Monster Raving Loony Party, limited edition Kit-kats, personalised goal celebrations, Red Nose day, Jaegerbombs, and the entire career of Simon Cowell. In fact, think about it: who's better at gimmicks than us? The Americans fell totally in love with an anthropomorphic gecko who sold car insurance. Not only is our anthropomorphic insurance salesman a meerkat, he's Russian and wears a cravat.
As a hardened drinker I did my calculations after yesterday's budget, and found that the 1p reduction on a pint of beer announced by the chancellor was something of a gimmick in itself. I would have to drink roughly 380 pints of Kronenbourg before I got a free one back. But, in this global race, where each country is scrabbling to find skills and industries that might set them apart from the rest, the British could do worse than to exploit their own appetite for gimmickry. UK PLC: the world leader in scratch and sniff technology. Has a nice smell to it, no?


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Natalie Portman's Cap Gets Another Feather
Is there any role that Natalie Portman can't master?
Harvard grad. Bald hottie. On occasion, human fire hydrant.
And now the Devendra Banhart squeeze is adding "director" to her résumé.
Portman's directorial debut, the 17-minute short film Eve, will receive its official unveiling at the Venice Film Festival, which opens August 27.
The movie, described as a "civilized comedy" by the festival organizers, stars the eternally youthful Lauren Bacall and Ben Gazarra. Though plot details are scarce, if there's any justice in this world, Eve will also include a make-out scene between Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz.
In fact, the MPAA should really just go ahead and make that a requirement for every film. That sort of thing would guarantee an audience for even the most unwatchable dreck.