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September 30, 2003

Job losses now at Great Depression levels...

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Iraqi defectors' weapons claims were 'false'...

MSN Money - Extra: Will your job move to India? Will your job move to India?...
But plenty of work if you feel like being a security guard. - M. R.

Yahoo! News - Consumer Confidence Plummets in September...

Beyond the considerable inconvenience caused to Palestinians living in the fence's vicinity, the assumption by almost everybody is that territory to the west of the fence will remain under Israeli control for the foreseeable future, eventually lying within the borders of the state of Israel.

How the Bush administration's propaganda machine -- with the help of Roger Ailes' Fox News -- distorts the truth in the Middle East and at home.

Judging by a flood of questions yesterday, the public is real interested in this story about the Bush administration leaking a CIA operative's name -- and the media are not looking too good in the process.

Telegraph | News | Germany's top neo-Nazis spy for ministry...
All these villains we are supposed to be afraid of work for the governments that claim to protect us from them. - M. R.

PAYING TWICE... PEOPLE LOVE DOUBLE TAXATION...
Read this carefully. This is the sort of dodgy bookkeeping that the US Governmnent has been using, forcing you to pay TWICE for the same service. - M. R.

Bush's big swindle of Americans and Iraqis to pay off corporations L. E. Miller...

allAfrica.com: PanAfrica [opinion]: We Will All Feel the Ripples From Fiscal Mess Created By Bush...

September 29, 2003

"Don't mention the war" will be one of the big themes of Labour's annual conference this week, if party managers are able to keep control of rebellious delegates.

That old colonialist racism is manifesting itself in all these remarks about our having to tutor the Iraqis in running their own country. The Iraqis can govern themselves. They've been a nation as long as Finland and a civilization longer than Europe.

Some, indeed much, of this nonsense comes from the myth-making intelligence service of Israel, which really does have weapons of mass destruction, although Engel’s imaginative intervention probably had its roots in the claim of a US intelligence officer in Baghdad last April. He went on insisting Iraq had transferred its non-existent WMD to Syria by rail — before being shown a map that proved the only railway line from Iraq to Syria passed through Turkey.

Investigators quiz White House over betrayal of CIA operative...

Thousands join renewed antiwar protests around the world...

JOHN PILGER: Bush's `war on terror' is a cruel hoax...

72pc in US want some authority to UN: poll...

The Magnificent 27...

Telegraph | News | America's founding fathers are Japanese...

US Said To Have Fabricated Evidence In Yugoslavia...
The US? Fabricate evidence to justify a war?!? Piffles! Piffles, I say! - M. R.

According to Cheney's own financial disclosure statements, he continues to collect a yearly Halliburton check in "deferred compensation" -- Cheney spread his last paycheck out over a period of years so he could pay less income tax to those sons-a-$#%@s in Washington like, um, himself. So he'll be pocketing about $150,000 or so a year from Halliburton through 2005. And, Cheney also holds hundreds of thousands of stock options, which gain in value as Halliburton grows fat, and fatter, on those shameless no-bid cost-plus contracts.

The Defense Intelligence Agency reported before the war with Iraq it had "no reliable information" that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons...

Pre-eminent among these was the decision announced recently that Secretary of State Colin Powell had been authorized by Bush to seek a U.N. Security Council mandate for postwar Iraq. At best, the effect was to signal the president's recognition that his U.S.-led liberation had failed and could only be legitimated - and salvaged - if those who had opposed it (in particular, the French, Germans, Russians, Syrians, Chinese and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan) were placated with U.S. concessions leading to new military and/or political arrangements. At worst, the signal was the United States was preparing, once again, to bail out on a difficult and costly international mission.

TIME Magazine: Mission Not Accomplished...

September 28, 2003

The results of the tests released Thursday included more than 300 security flaws in voting systems made by Diebold Elections Systems Inc.

Yen May Extend Advance Against Dollar This Week, Survey Finds...

Companies Kept Cutting Jobs in September: U.S. Economy Preview...

Full Disclosure on Full Disclosure...

Yahoo! News - I have no regrets over Iraq war, Blair insists...
I don't recall that you had to fight in it, Tony. - M. R.

The Observer | UK News | Final agony of RAF volunteer killed by sarin - in Britain...

The Scotsman - Top Stories - Whisky of Mass Destruction - how the US spied on a tiny island distillery...
I just don't believe these idiots. Do they really think that someoner planning to make chemical weapons is going to leave their internal web cams running? - M. R.

Reuters AlertNet - Iran says Israel engineered arrest of ex-envoy...

Why the Media Don't Call It as They See It (washingtonpost.com)...
The media searches for a way to ease out of being seen as lying for the White House. - M. R.

September 27, 2003

The last tax cut enacted by the George Bush’s Republican-led Congress was supposed to create 1,000,000 (one million) jobs. The truth has been quite the opposite. Jobs have been evaporating from all sectors of the economy. More than 500,000 were lost in the last quarter alone.

Documents show White House and No 10 conspired over oil-fuelled invasion plan

Is Bush's War in Iraq A "Brain Fart"? Is Bush's War in Iraq A "Brain Fart"?
Is Bush's War in Iraq A "Brain Fart"? Is Bush's War in Iraq A "Brain Fart"?...
Retired General Anthony Zinni makes the obvious conection between Bush's Iraq WMDs and Johnson's Gulf of Tonkin Torpedoes. - M. R.

Who is behind the "Terrorist Network" in Northern Iraq, Baghdad or Washington?...

Thousands of veterans across the country are rising up in anger over the biggest overhaul of their vast medical care network since the end of World War II -- including downsizing at VA hospitals in American Lake and Walla Walla.

Thousands gather for Iraq demo...

London demonstrators demand pullout from Iraq...

September 26, 2003

Tony Blair has lost the argument over Iraq, and now seeks to evade the issue. But today's protest will hold him to account

FindLaw's Writ - Dean: Bush's Unofficial Official Secrets Act...

134,000 Lost Jobs in August 'Mass Layoffs' (washingtonpost.com)...

“The frustration we have here,” the congressman thundered at a senior State Department official at a packed hearing in Washington on Sept. 16, “is that 24 years after Lebanon was placed on the State Department’s own list of countries that support terrorism, we’re still playing the same old game with Lebanon.” Eliot Engel was still in full froth when someone gently reminded him who the target was supposed to be. “You know, we...” he was continuing to lecture the official, John Bolton, when a whisper and short pause were followed by “...oh, with Syria, yes, I’m sorry.”

statesman.com | Criticism of Patriot measure endorsed C...

Mixed reports cast doubt on US recovery...
Recovery? What recovery? Did we say "Recovery"? Oh no, we said "Discovery". he economy is in discovery. No, I don't know what that means, but that's what we meant to say. Now shut up and get back to work. - M. R.

US consumer confidence falls again...

Charleston.Net: News: World/Nation Report raises questions on Cheney ties 09/26/03...
There is no question that Cheney lied last Sunday when he said he had severed all ties to Halliburton! - M. R.

David Reinhard wrote in his Sept. 21 column, "The fact is the Bush administration never claimed over the last two years that there was a 'Saddam-9/11 link'." I stand slack jawed. Where has Reinhard been living for the past two years?

Air Force Analysts Feel Vindicated on Iraqi Drones (washingtonpost.com)...
Another Bush lie falls flat. The much-dreaded Iraqi drones were NOT designed to spread chemical and biological weapons. They were, as Iraq claimed, reconnaissance drones. - M. R.

Yahoo! News - 34.6 Million U.S. People in Poverty in 2002 - Report...

Crossed wires kept power off in Iraq...
The failure to get new equipment to Baghdad South more than five months after the first reconstruction teams arrived illuminates the dearth of planning, funding and coordination that has fettered the overall U.S. effort to rehabilitate the country. - M. R.

USATODAY.com - Arrested translator Ahmad Al-Halabi mostly a mystery...
It looks like the only reason he was arrested is that he can be linked to Syria. - M. R.

Who Is Ernst Zundel And Why Is He In Jail?...
Because it is againt the law to ask a queastion. - M. R.

Bush to face anti-war protests on November state visit...
Bush won't be able to shove those Brits into "free speech zones". - M. R.

On how to make enemies...

Inquiry ordered into recovery of Israeli missiles in Delhi...

Telegraph | News | I'll have an avocado salad please, and make it extra large...
Posted for all the religious fanatics who insist that the theory of evolution cannot be true because we never see a new species just suddenly appear. Well, you just saw it happen. - M. R.

September 25, 2003

Report Raises Electronic Vote Security Issues...

Jeans maker Levi Strauss & Co. said on Thursday it would close its remaining North American manufacturing and finishing plants, putting nearly 2,000 employees out of work.

iafrica.com | news | world news Blair govt is lying - Kelly family lawyer...

Government Executive Magazine - 7/15/03 Microsoft chosen as exclusive Homeland Security contractor...
We are saved!!!!!! Homeland security won;t be able to function any better than the rest of us. - M. R.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israeli pilots refuse to fly assassination missions...
I guess even the Israelis are getting fed up with Sharon. - M. R.

Bush Fails to Gain Pledges on Troops or Funds for Iraq (washingtonpost.com)...
Bush ( Blair was notably absent from the UN during Bush's speech) lied to the world to manufacture a war of conquest out of thin air, and told the world to fuck off when doubts and cautions were expressed. Now Bush has gone back to those same nations and same UN he snubbed, hat in hand, asking for money and troops to clean up the mess Bush has made of Iraq. The rest of the world, understandably, has told Bush to clean up his own mess. But, the people telling Bush what he must do don;t take failure well, and have a reputation for doing "anything" to get what they want. So, expect Bush to call up more National Guard and reserves to pour into the quagmire of the Mideast, and to go on TV explaining to the American taxpayer why "we" are responsible to pay for Iraq's reconstruction. - M. R.

September 24, 2003

I'm not sure what upsets me most: The administration that produced the lies and innuendoes; the gullible public who swallowed them; or the supposedly free press that allowed so many outrageous half-truths to go unchallenged.

Scientists: No WMD in Iraq...

PM's aide ordered dossier change to boost war case, admits spy chief...
Does anyone here think that Blair's Chief of Staff took it upon himself to request the change? Or is it obvious that Blair gave the order to change the dossier? - M. R.

Bush to World: Drop Dead! - The president lays an egg at the U.N. By Fred Kaplan...

washingtonpost.com: Powell Calls U.S. 'Judeo-Christian,' Then Amends...
Too late, Colin. Your religious bias in on display before the world. - M. R.

Yahoo! News - A Vague Pitch Leaves Mostly Puzzlement...

Yahoo! News - Creature Thought Extinct Found in Cuba...

We have to stop military interventions by our government completely. We cannot permit more U.S. military interventions in foreign countries. We have to stop economic interventions. We have to cancel foreign debt that has enslaved most of the poor countries of the planet cancel it. So let’s organize through every effort and opportunity we have in our families, in our churches, in our mosques, in our synagogues, in our schools and at our jobs a massive coalition committed to end militarism and economic exploitation by our government. Thank you."

We're nowhere near ready to hand over the core of our democratic process—voting—to electronic systems.

Was the suicide of former World Bank Executive, George Klein, brought about by these hundreds of trillions of Dollars in Counterfeit Gold instruments suddenly hitting the World Bank?"

September 23, 2003

Scoop: Bev Harris: Diebold End-Runs Around Certification...

Her latest story subjected the slant of her reporting to new criticism, as it appeared that she was, once again, the "drop" of choice for a politically motivated leaker.

US-backed Iraq council bars Arab media...

Pilger uncovered video footage of Powell in Cairo on February 24, 2001 saying, "He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours." Pilger claims this confirms that the decision of US President George W Bush - with the full support of British Prime Minister Blair and Howard - to wage war on Saddam because he had weapons of mass destruction was a huge deception.

An open invitation to election fraud...
Not only is the country's leading touch-screen voting system so badly designed that votes can be easily changed, but its manufacturer is run by a die-hard GOP donor who vowed to deliver his state for Bush next year. - M. R.

Israel Official Says Jewish Extremists Planned to Attack Muslim Holy Sites in Jerusalem - from Tampa Bay Online...
OhmyGAWD, they actually used the word "terror" to describe these Israelis!!!!!! - M. R.

Why does America hate us?...
Because Sharon ordered them to. - M. R.

Newsday.com - Bush's poll numbers slip sharply in New York...

A Sheikh and the money trail...
Al Qaeda hijackers funded by known CIA/MI6/ISI asset! - M. R.

BBC NEWS | Business | Weak dollar sparks share rout...

MEDIA IGNORES BUSH ADMISSION THAT SADDAM NOT INVOLVED IN SEPT. 11...
So much for any recent pretense that the mainstream media had changed its ways. - M. R.

IOL : Blair's party hit by 'Iraq effect'...
The GOP is looking at the same thing. - M. R.

Of cats and rats -- a tale that's a brain-teaser...
This one eill make you take a second look at the little fur-ball. - M. R.

September 22, 2003

Top Ten Censored News Stories...

Under the guise of forcibly divesting Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, the US now sought to 'reshape' the entire Middle East, with this most richly endowed and pivotal of countries as the lynchpin of a whole new, pro-American geopolitical order. Witnessing such an overwhelming display of American will and power, other regimes, such as Hizbollah-supporting Syria in particular, would either have to bend to American purposes or suffer the same fate.

FBI is counting mosques, and law enforcement has asked hundreds of libraries about your reading habits. There are secret lists governing whether you can get on an airplane, secret surveillance of e-mail and the Internet, and new warrants allowing the government to search your home, your bank records and your medical files without your knowing it.

INDIANS VOWING TAX VENGEANCE...
New York did NOT lose $895 million. Legally it was not theirs to begin with. - M. R.

Odigo says workers were warned of attack...
This story is running TODAY in Ha'aretz. Why? Is Israel sending a warning to Bush that Sharon is still able and willing to blow open 9-11 if either Bush or the UN get on Sharon's way? - M. R.

The Colombia Space Shuttle disaster: science and the profit system Part 3--Political and economic causes underlying the accident...

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel seeks US support over fence...
Meaning Israel wants the fence AND the US money. - M. R.

Studies document housing disaster for millions in US...
Kiss it all good bye, folks. - M. R.

Iraqi economy up for sale: Entire enterprises -- except oil -- available to foreign investors...
The looting begins - M. R.

Christians Hail Rightist's Call To Oust Arabs...
So much for "Love thy brother as thyself". - M. R.

America puts Iraq up for sale...

September 21, 2003

For those who were most convinced that US military might would suffice in imposing Washington’s will upon the Middle East—the administration’s journalistic toadies—the crisis in Iraq has created extreme frustration and belligerence. Such is the case with Thomas Friedman, the chief foreign affairs columnist of the New York Times. Those familiar with his writings will hardly be surprised that his latest piece consists of smug lies in service of a bellicose US foreign policy. That is his specialty.

How Americans have fooled themselves about the war in Iraq, and why they’ve had to...
Present company excepted, of course. - M. R.

US denies Indonesia access to Hambali - www.smh.com.au...
Any patricular reason why, George? Is there something this guy knows that you don't want the Indonesians to find out, like who he really works for? - M. R.

Sharon Planning Massive Gaza Raid in Early October...

Hurricane Isabel granted President George W. Bush a brief respite this week from the constant stream of bad news coming out of the Middle East, its ravages on Washington and the mid-Atlantic states might pale in comparison to the gathering political storm over his war in Iraq.

Hungry in America...
I have no heart for somebody who starves his folks. --George W. Bush Neither do we, George. --Michael Rivero - M. R.

Bush questioning hard-line Iraq policies...
Indeed it does look like Bush is going to dump the political fallout from the Iraq war onto Cheney and replace him for the next election. What happens when Sharon realizes that his pet bulldog doesn't want to bite Israel's enemies any more? - M. R.

Tony Blair's Iraq WMD hunt also draws a blank....
Okay, one more time, BUSH AND BLAIR LIED ABOUT IRAQ'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!! How many times do you have to have this slapped in your face before you wake up and realize that the politicians lied to you to swindle you out of your money and your children for a war of conquest. - M. R.

Donor delay spells doom for Afghanistan...
This is a subtle bit of propaganda. The US invaded and the US is supposed to be cleaning up the mess, but they have dropped the ball in Afghanistan as they dropped the ball in Iraq, and are trying to shift the blame onto the other nations of the world who are "failing to chip in." The reality is that the rest of the world's nations did not approve of these wars and feel no obligation to bail out the US. - M. R.

Mystery pneumonia toll may be much higher...
Chronic exposure to low level radiation first manifests itself as respiratory problems. What the US Government is hiding is that debris from depleted uranium weapons is harmful, and your kids are breathing in that dust every single breath they take. - M. R.

Nine Israeli nationals -- who[m] CSIS suspects are possible foreign agents -- were arrested by Immigration and Ottawa police tactical officers last Friday, blocks from Parliament Hill....
The rest of the world picks up the story the US mainstream media ignores. - M. R.

Tel Aviv demo demands Israel withdraw from Palestinian territories...
A reminder that Ariel Sharon's actions and policies are NOT supported by all of the Jewish people. - M. R.

Stretched Thin, Lied to & Mistreated - On the ground with US troops in Iraq...
Bush needs to re-read his Roman history. In patricular the part about how the Praetorians killed the emperor Caligula. - M. R.

The nation's attorney general is on the ropes and swinging wildly....
Someone should throw a cloth over THAT boob! - M. R.

Yahoo! News - U.S. May Study Israel Occupation Tactics...
You mean those tactics which have resulted in Israel's condemnation by the rest of the world? Those the ones the US wants to copy? - M. R.

Eric Margolis: 'Bush's tame U.S. media may yet have teeth'...

September 20, 2003

Protecting Our Health: Cell phones cause damage to rat brains...

Cheney's Role In 911 Put On Center Stage By British MP...
I told you, Bush is going to dump all the negative crap on Cheney and then replace him as VP next year. - M. R.

CBS News | Don't Call It 'Patriot Act II' | September 19, 2003 11:54:35...
Okay, how does "Enabling act" grab you? - M. R.

Arafat Has an Offer and a Warning for the Israelis...

As we mentioned in May, we traveled to Las Vegas and smell of sulphur was strong

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Historic space mission nears end...

If we truly had an unbiased media, they would treat Israeli terrorists the same as Palestinian terrorists. The article title should read, 'Three Israeli Terrorists Found Guilty'. They tried to bomb a girls school for gods sake.

What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard...
Short version: When the money itself has value, nothing the government can do can change its worth. Control of the worth of your money remains in your hands. With a fiat monetary system, i.e. legalized government counterfeiting, the value of the money moves from your control to that of the government, and declines as the government prints up more empty money. - M. R.

Families Call for Release of 9/11 Materials - Forums powered by Reason and Principle...

"The United States campaign against terrorism will be lengthy," says Bush, and adds elsewhere in the report, "It is not possible to know at this time either the duration of combat operations or the scope and duration of the deployment of US Armed Forces necessary to counter the terrorist threat to the United States."
Translation: "War without end, Amen!" - M. R.

White House is ambushed by criticism from America's military community...
Good article, but Bush owes his office to vote fraud, not the military absentee ballot. - M. R.

If George Bush ever caught himself telling the truth he would have to tell a lie just to stay in practice.

The civilians, nomad women and children, died in their beds when a bomb landed on their tent in Zabul's Naw Bahar district on Wednesday night, Mohammad Omar, the deputy governor of Zabul, told Reuters on Saturday.

Al Kassar famous client's include Ollie North (Iran-Contra) , Mossad (The Achille Lauro "false flag" attack), Carlos Menen of Argentina (The "Iranian" Bombing of Jewish targets in Argentina) and the Pan Am 103 massacre.(Mossad and CIA)

"I personally feel it's not in America's interest to be the only game in town. It costs money and no one says thank you,"

"This was a mistake on our part," JetBlue chief executive David Neeleman said in an apologetic e-mail sent to angry customers.

U.S. Threatens To Use 'Every Tool' Against Syria...
Sharon to Bush, "You will attack Syria next." Bush to Sharon, "Yes...I...will...attack...Syria...next." (ahem) Okay, the US has just finished devastating two Arab countries, and right now every justification for those two invasions has been revealed to be a lie. Iraq, for example, did not have nuclear or biological or chemical weapons. So now Bush is turning on Syria because of their supposed nuclear or biological or chemical weapons. Iraq is already a proven political career wrecker. Tony Blair is still licking his wounds. And here Bush is ready to start another such politicaly upopular war, ahead of an election year, on a repettiion of the same pretexts for the war in Iraq. Does this sound like good decision making, or someone who is being told what to do by a blackmailer, a blackmailer holding a government-wrecking secret over Bush's head. - M. R.

U.S., Britain split on Assad...
Bush tells Blair that "we" must go after Assad because of his opposition to Israel. Blair tells Bush, "Hold on mate, my party is a smoking crater because of the last war". The lesson? Blair isn't stupid, but Bush is still a slave to Ariel Sharon. Since when does the US send in troops to another country simply because they don't like Israel? - M. R.

JetBlue admits it shared data...
Behind the scandal of violating the privacy of their passengers lies a question. If the project did not involve travel safety, then just what was that government agency hoping to find by scanning people's travel data? - M. R.

Teflon Prime Minister Tony Blair has finally lost his veneer of invulnerability.

Mirror.co.uk - PETROL SET TO RISE 5p PER GALLON...

September 19, 2003

A culture of secrecy has descended upon the occupation authorities in Iraq. They will give no tally of the Iraqi civilian lives lost each day. They will not comment on the killing by an American soldier of one of their own Iraqi interpreters yesterday - he was shot dead in front of the Italian diplomat who was the official adviser to the new Iraqi Ministry of Culture - and they cannot explain how General Sultan Hashim Ahmed, the former Iraqi minister of defence and a potential war criminal, should now be described by one of the most senior US officers in Iraq as "a man of honour and integrity".

A Week in the Life of Baghdad...

What got Friedman's brain a-boilin' is the impertinent suggestion by French diplomats that, if the US invaded Iraq to bring democracy, then why not allow Iraqis to vote. Vote! Can you imagine! It's all that silly 'libertay, equalitay' stuff that unsophisticated Americans believed before the Patriot Act.

Warning! You Are Being Watched...

The UN General Assembly has demanded that Israel drop its threat to deport or harm Palestinian President Yasser Arafat....
This is also a slap in the face of ther United States for vetoing the previous resolution. - M. R.

A 30-year-old Illinois youth pastor faces sex and pornography charges after customs agents found a 16-year-old girl in the trunk of his car as he tried to cross into Canada. Police found videotapes showing the man and girl engaged in sex acts, said prosecutor Royce Buckingham.

Zionazi Minister Natan Sharansky Gets Pie in Face from JATO's Abe Greenhouse...

U-N Assembly passes Mideast resolution vetoed by U-S in Security Council...

Downsizings. Offshorings. Outsourcings. Insourcings. Plant closings. Maquiladora-ings. H1-B visa-ings. CEO nest featherings... Is anything happening that's good news for the American worker?

Halliburton's success prompts investigation call...

Families Call for Release of 9/11 Materials Families Call for Release of 9/11 Materials
An elected official and some relatives of those who died at the World Trade Center called yesterday on federal investigators examining the disaster to subpoena documents that New York City has so far refused to turn over — materials that include firsthand accounts from firefighters and audio tapes of 911 calls from people trapped in the twin towers.

Fifteen Arab League states have proposed a resolution condemning Israel at a meeting of the UN's atomic agency for not signing the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), diplomats said Wednesday. "There have been lots of developments (concerning suspected nuclear arms programs) in the Middle East, such as Iraq and Iran. Israel also has to be mentioned," an Arab diplomat told AFP.

We are facing death in Iraq for no reason - Forums powered by Reason and Principle...

An Occupied Country...
History repeats itself. That's what's wrong with history. - M. R.

"Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches." Mark Gaffney quoting Ariel Sharon in Dimona, The Third Temple: The Story Behind the Vanunu Revelation, 1989.

If Israel can ignore the IAEA, why should anyone else listen?...
Israel's possession and development of nuclear weapons threatens the entire world. - M. R.

It’s hard to believe that it was just a slip of the tongue rather than a calculated lie when US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz sullied the memory of those who died on Sept. 11 by exploiting their deaths for propaganda purposes. The brainwashing of Americans, two-thirds of whom believe that Saddam Hussein was behind the attacks, is too effective a political ploy for the Bush regime to suddenly let the truth get in the way.

Vice President Dick Cheney said, "Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interests. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had now, for over three years." That is the latest White House lie.

Since the breed is now being ripely abused as the sponsors of the US debacle in Iraq, we had better be clear about its political bloodlines. What exactly is a neo-con? The label was first stuck on those Democrats classed as liberals in the early 1970s who thought George McGovern, the anti-war Democratic nominee in 1972 crushed by Nixon, represented an unacceptable swerve to the left by their party, and who moved sharply to the right,advocating a tough coldwar posture, reassertion of imperial confidence after Vietnam, increased military spending and, above all, uncritical US backing for Israeli intransigeance.

It's a shell game, with money, companies and corporate brands switching in a blur of buyouts and bogus fronts. It's a sinkhole, where mobbed-up operators, paid-off public servants, crazed Christian fascists, CIA shadow-jobbers, war-pimping arms dealers -- and presidential family members -- lie down together in the slime. It's a hacker's dream, with pork-funded, half-finished, secretly programmed computer systems installed without basic security standards by politically partisan private firms, and protected by law from public scrutiny. It's how the United States, the "world's greatest democracy," casts its votes. And it's why George W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of the United States -- no matter what the people of the United States might want.

What happened to President Bush? What happened to President Bush?
George W. Bush came into the Oval Office an advocate of leaner, smaller government and then enlarged it by one humongous new Cabinet department.

China bluntly told the United States on Friday not to make it a scapegoat for its economic woes by pressing for a revaluation of the yuan at this weekend's meeting of the world's leading industrial powers.

Nine Israelis face deportation Spy agency suspects they may be foreign agents...
Get this, these "art students" are thought to be Mossad, but after arrest they are not thrown in jail, but given rooms at a hotel while waiting to be flown home to Israel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - M. R.

It is not clear if the Arab states will put aside fears of Iranian power and cooperate with Iran and follow suit to exit the international atomic agency that is seen to be an enforcer against countries selectively, while other countries of concern, such as Israel, who already have nuclear weapons are left alone from being harassed.

Israel Brings ‘Catastrophe’ to Palestine: UN...

US thinks bin Laden injured, dead or dying - www.theage.com.au...
Especially considering that the tapes shown last week appear to be at least 2 years old, I think it's a given that Osama is probably dead, and so is Saddam. But the US Government needs the villains to remain alive and at large to justify continuing the military operations. - M. R.

Now he tells us.

Compelling Evidence for Complicity

Mirror.co.uk - EXPERT SLAMS CASE FOR IRAQ WAR...
Blix comes out swinging at those who crafted a war out of thin air. - M. R.

By completing just 1 percent of the reconstruction required in Afghanistan to date, the United States and other donors are risking renewed conflict, if not disintegration, in the devastated country, says an unusually frank report released this week by the US relief organization CARE....
Let's not forget that Afghanistan would not be in the mess it is in had the US not invaded in the first place. - M. R.

Congress Declares War Against Disabled Veterans...
Something to remibd the kids before the recruiters can get to them. - M. R.

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief (director of communications, in the current parlance), once said that if you are going to lie, you should tell a big lie. That may be good advice, but the question remains: What happens when people begin to doubt the big lie? Herr Goebbels never lived to find out. Some members of the Bush administration may be in the process of discovering that, given time, the big lie turns on itself.

Israel Praises Bush's Anti-Arafat Broadside, Raids Jenin...
Mussolini used to cheer Hitler on, too. - M. R.

LABOUR HUMILIATED IN BRENT BY-ELECTION...
The voters let their anger be known by throwing Tony's boy out of office just ten days ahead of the Labour conference. - M. R.

Are You Syria-ous?, by Justin Raimondo...
Israel would love the US to stomp on another of Israel's eemies, and the claim that Syria has Iraq's mythical WMDs makes a good excuse. - M. R.

Whereto is Ariel Sharon leading Israelis and Palestinians?

The radical hand behind Bush's war moves...

A group of reserve pilots in the Israel Air Force is planning to publicly announce their refusal to participate in attempts to assassinate senior wanted men in the Palestinian Authority.

September 18, 2003

Opinion: Dave Zweifel: Bush would use mini-nukes, prof warns (captimes.com)...

Neocons and Dual Loyalist Jews in Washington, D.C. Now Hold... The Reins of Power in U.S.A....
Dual? Are you sure about that? - M. R.

The Big Lie...

When two famous journalists complain about the pressure to self-censor, we ought to worry about the health of our media.

Growing World View US Govt Was Complicit In 911...
Otherwise, why would the US Government classify evidence linking arrested Israeli spies to 9-11, and turn such an obvious blind eye to the man actually caught entering the storage area where the Anthrax used in the letters was kept? - M. R.

Neo-Nazi leader 'was MI6 agent'...
Here we find yet another instance where the enemies the government tells us to be afraid of are created by the government itself. "Terrorists" try to bomb the WTC, then we find out the "terrorists" included FBI. "Militia's" are declared a threat to the nation following the OK city bombing, then we find out that most Militia's are being run by BATF informants. The founder and leader of Elohim City, a "hotbed of white separatism" at the time Tim McVeigh was hanging around, was also an FBI informant. "Neo-Nazis" are on the rise, and we find out the Neo-Nazi leaders are intelligence agents. "Al Qaeda" knows down the WTC on 9-11, then we find out that at least in the case if Palestine, "Al Qaeda" is actually a Mossad front. Do you get it yet? All this terror and terror group crap is a FRAUD by the government itself to scare you under control. - M. R.

You define a good economy by asking the right questions. Are there jobs for everyone who wants one? Can working people afford decent housing and adequate medical care on their salaries? Is the currency maintaining its value so that people can save for their retirement? Are taxes both low and equitable? Are usurious interest rates forbidden? Is the gap between the rich and the poor shrinking instead of expanding?

Blix: Saddam destroyed his weapons of mass destruction a decade ago...

USATODAY.com - Layoffs crank up again, chip away at economic growth...

Bangkok Post Thursday 18 September 2003 - What's all this about being anti-America?...
The US Government copies Israel's ploy of "you oppose us only because you hate us" and gets called on it. - M. R.

This timidity in criticising, if not condemning, Israel, the "only democracy in the Middle East", has long been a serious obstacle to reaching a fair solution for this decades-old conflict between Arabs and Israelis.

Mostly, we've been watching the president's rhetoric spring leaks in Iraq and Afghanistan. So perhaps we haven't paid enough attention to how many holes have popped open in his domestic socks. Joblessness that was supposed to be stanched by the Bush tax cuts. Urban food kitchens overwhelmed by the demand from people who are working but underemployed and end up out of money three weeks into the month. A domestic Peace Corps program (AmeriCorps) that is praised publicly by the president as admirable volunteerism but is being starved of money by the White House and congressional Republicans. But, still, you wouldn't think he would stiff children and their schooling. That's maybe the most disappointing thing this president has done here at home.

Bush deputy gets up to $1m from firm with Iraq oil deal

Romney eyes benefit cuts for jobless - Economy drains unemployment insurance fund...
Note the part of the plan to increase taxes paid by employers on the work force, whihc will of course reduce the number of new jobs. - M. R.

U.S. Newswire - 'Baby Hair' Study Shows Autistic Children Have Altered Response to Mercury; Reduced Excretion of Toxic Metal May Explain Autism Link...

Scoop: Dimona Reactor… a Mystery Threatening Middle East...
Latest satellite images of the Dimona reactor showed that its walls have cracks. - M. R.

With accusations relating to weapons of mass destruction having been a large part of the US pretext for invading Iraq and Iran now facing heavy pressure over similar claims, the double standard involving the Jewish state ­ which has steadfastly refused to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ­ has become too obvious to ignore any longer.

The coming first world debt crisis The coming first world debt crisis
The reckless financial policies of leading western powers in the last two decades make it likely that the next seismic debt crisis will be in America, not Argentina.

Blix attacks "spin and hype" over Iraq...

Former Merrill Lynch bankers indicted over Enron scandal...

8 American soldiers killed in heavy attack in Iraq...
We're winning this war. Really. It's going great. Just a bloody nose, right? We're tougher than that, right? The combat is over, really. Make that major combat is over. Maybe. But we need to show those Aya-rahbs that we're tough and just keep pouring your kids into that hell hole. The more of them that get killed, the stronger we look! - M. R.