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December 31, 2003
You are a slave. When you live under a government that takes your wealth and your children and lies to you to keep you docile and scares you to keep you obedient, how can it be otherwise?
What don’t we know, and why don’t we know it?
New 'moon' found around Earth...
Russia moves closer to usable fusion power...
US data undershoot economists' forecasts...
The economic forcasts, like the public opinion polls, are devices to manipulate the public into a particular course of action. In this case the idea was to stimulate spending by the public during the Christmas retail season. It backfired because people don't have money to spend in the first place, and a lot of people (myself included) could not get enthusiastic about "Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward men" while the government is bombing the crap out of anyone living over a Mideast oil well.
- M. R.
Beagle 2 may be stranded within a crater in the middle of its landing site on Mars, scientists have said.
Israeli immigration hits 15-year low amid violence, stalled economy...
All that Israel was supposed to be has been destroyed by Sharon. - M. R.
2003 Media Follies!...
"I've been a Republican all my life, but I am so disgusted with George Bush and the Republican Party that I need to do something about it."
Desperation on the cusp of madness: Mowbray now trying to equate criticism of the Neocons with "Jew Hate"
Desperation on the cusp of madness: Mowbray now trying to equate criticism of the Neocons with "Jew Hate"...
The neocons are seen as promoting Israel's Mideast agenda, even at the expense of the American people, so according to Mowbray, opposition to the neocons is just more "anti-Semitism".
- M. R.
Dollar Hits Another New Low Against Euro...
FLASHBACK: Technology now exists that could allow a ground crew to override and direct the flight path of a hijacked plane.
FLASHBACK: Technology now exists that could allow a ground crew to override and direct the flight path of a hijacked plane....
Only weeks after 9-11, it was revealed that the technology to remotely control passenger jets was already in existence. - M. R.
A citizen's duty is to ferret out the truth...
You know that, or you would not be here.
- M. R.
Israeli MPs 'cheated on IQ test'...
The Israeli MPs lost out to high school students and lawyers, but beat the models and bodybuilders. Problem is, they cheated to do it! - M. R.
Comet Catcher Moves Into Position...
Garlic ingredient wipes out hospital superbugs in tests...
Most people do not realize that the majority of modern medicines are still extracted from plants, given fancy names and marketing campaigns, and sold in bottles for far more than the cost of raising (or finding) the plants yourself. Digitalis comes from Foxglove. Valium comes from the Valaria plant, and so forth. Garlic has been known as a "blood purifier" for hundreds of years, ridding the body of certain parasites and curing many of what are now known to be infectious blood-borne illnesses. (As a side note, this medicinal use of garlic is the origin of the myth of its effectiveness against vampires). So, the fact that garlic may help fight off bacteria resistant to synthetic antibiotics is not as strange as it may sound.
- M. R.
Israel Defense Forces troops shot and wounded at least eight people, including four Palestinians and two Israelis, on Wednesday, during a protest at a construction site for the separation fence in the West Bank
A member of the Swedish parliament was also reportedly injured.
Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin on Tuesday evening said Israel would pay a heavy price for its failed assassination attempt on Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip earlier in the day. "These massacres and crimes prove that Israel is seeking violence and not looking for peace, security and stability," he said.
Israel announced plans today to double the number of Jewish settlers living in the Golan Heights, a disputed region captured from Syria in 1967.
Three million burnt-out Britons abandon their high-flying careers in a search for the good life...
These last few years, people in Britain (and the US) have been taught a painful lesson that no matter how hard they work, corrupt government can taike it all away at a moment's notice. People are looking at forclosed homes, repossesed property, empty 401(K)s, and realize that they might as well not have worked so hard after all. Men and women who overworked themselves into ill-health now see their lives as materially little better than those who took life easy. The lesson learned (and don't for a moment imagine that the kids aren't seeing this) is that hard work doesn't improve your life, in the face of a government that is driving the economy into ruin with over-borrowing and over-taxation.
- M. R.
Parmalat funds siphoned for family use, founder admits...
Ten people, including members of the political and media elite in Portugal, have been charged in Lisbon with the sexual abuse of children, more than a year after the scandal broke.
There are some very sick people in government and media. - M. R.
Internet bullying...
Move over Mars. The ringed planet of Saturn, probably the most spectacular planet, will be the closest it has been to Earth in more than 30 years tomorrow.
Military helicopters to patrol Vegas Strip during New Year's Eve...
Like so much of the "security" we all pay for, it looks good but is really useless. Notice that the no-fly zone only applies to private planes and tour choppers. Commercial airliners are still allowed over the city, and commercial airliners were the device of choice for 9-11. A plane on final approach to the airport could divert to crash on the strip in less than one minute. What are the military going to do, shoot it down over the city anyway? - M. R.
Airline passengers who use hand cream or aftershave are testing positive to explosives by an anti-terrorist security device at Melbourne Airport.
President George W Bush was sent a public manifesto yesterday by Washington's hawks, demanding regime change in Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style military blockade of North Korea backed by planning for a pre-emptive strike on its nuclear sites.
The manifesto, presented as a "manual for victory" in the war on terror, also calls for Saudi Arabia and France to be treated not as allies but as rivals and possibly enemies.
2003 was a bad year for truth. Will 2004 be any better?
Skies of Major U.S. Cities Off Limits for New Year's Eve...
Which means the staged terror attack will come by ship, truck, or train. - M. R.
Some words better left unuttered...
"There is no question we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical." "Mission accomplished." "So, what's the difference?"
"because God put him there."
"I knew my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real god and his was an idol."
"old Europe" "We know for a fact there are weapons (of mass destruction) there." "but they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities." "For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue -- weapons of mass destruction because it was one reason everyone could agree on." - M. R.
Discovery of mad cow disease in the US affects the entire food supply, not just beef or meat.
At Year's End, Signs Of Dictatorship Abound In Washington...
Israeli bus "bomb" turns out to be a burst tire.
Bus Tire Explosion Causes Brief Panic in Israel
Israeli bus "bomb" turns out to be a burst tire. Bus Tire Explosion Causes Brief Panic in Israel...
Pentagon to Washington Post Reporter Ricks: Get Lost
Pentagon to Washington Post Reporter Ricks: Get Lost
When George Bush’s Pentagon doesn’t like what a reporter writes, it attempts a preemptive strike.
In the case of Tom Ricks, military reporter for the Washington Post, the Pentagon took the attack right to the heart of the enemy. Defense Department spokesman Larry DiRita first sent a letter of complaint to the Post; then he met with the paper’s top editors to press his points.
Israelis against Sharon policies are right...
Sharon and his shills here in the US like to pretend that all the world's Jewish people are lined up in support of his policies. But nothing could be further from the truth. Support for Sharon is a media-generated myth, and even Israelis are willing to stand up (and risk being shot by the IDF) to stop him.
- M. R.
"Saddam Hussein is a guy who came to power through a CIA instigated coup."
Fetzer wrote that an FBI "recovery team" headed out to investigate the Wellstone plane crash BEFORE the plane went down. "I calculate that this team would have had to have left the Twin Cities at about the same time the Wellstone plane was taking off," Fetzer wrote.
The Agriculture Department's announcement yesterday of a ban on the sale of meat from ailing "downer" cattle marked a policy turnabout for the Bush administration, coming only a few weeks after the department and allies in the powerful meat lobby blocked an identical measure in Congress.
Time Runs Out for the Everglades...
Ranchers Fought Rules That Might Have Prevented Mad Cow...
It's lucky for George W. Bush that he wasn't born in an earlier time and somehow stumbled into America's Constitutional Convention. A man with his views, so deprecative of democratic rule, would have certainly been quickly exiled from the freshly liberated United States by the gaggle of incensed Founders.
Iraq tried to buy weapons just before the US invaded....
Big surprise, right? - M. R.
Israel is looking for ways to gag a whistleblower who is due to be released from prison in the new year, fearing that he may have more nuclear secrets to disclose that will embarrass the government, officials said yesterday.
Mordechai Vanunu is the whistle-blower who revealed that the only nation in the Middle East that actually HAS nuclear weapons is Israel.
- M. R.
The chairman walked out of the loya jirga on Tuesday as nerves began to snap on the 17th day of the grand council, gathered here to draw up a new constitution for Afghanistan.
Bush Seeking Ideas For Regime Change In Cuba...
The US-backed Batista fell from power in 1959 and still the CIA and Mafia hold a grudge!
- M. R.
The Bank of England has become the latest financial institution to have its name hijacked in hoax emails sent to hundreds of thousands of internet users over the holiday weekend.
The Bank urged anyone who had received the email from a sender purporting to be admin@bankofengland.co.uk to delete it immediately and ignore the attachment, antikeylog2004.exe, which the email claims can protect customers' bank account details.
December 30, 2003
Just one short year ago, at the start of 2003, the handwriting of an illegal and immoral war was being clearly scribbled on the wall. Just one short year ago, as New Year’s revelers were cheering, US and British troops were massing in Kuwait and George W. Bush was regularly lying through his teeth. Just one short year ago, the nation was divided, the world was horrified, and somewhere around that time, the America we had known simply disappeared.
Israel Is Concerned About Whistleblower...
Mordechai Vanunu blew the whistle on Israel's nuclear weapons. Now his prison term is up and he has more to say. But Israel wants to keep him silent. - M. R.
2. We know that Bush and his highest officials -- notably Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, and, to a lesser extent, Powell -- lied outrageously about Iraq's weapons capabilities in order to get their war plans endorsed by the Congress and the American people. The biggest of many whoppers involved were the made-up stories about nuclear "mushroom clouds" over America, unleashed by the Iraqi drone air force.
These lies may have fooled many Americans at the time, but other countries, especially in Europe, smelled the rotten evidence and the imperial ambitions and would have nothing to do with the invasion of Iraq, denouncing the Bush Administration to its face. Up to 10 million citizens (mostly organized via the internet) marched worldwide on the same day to try to stop the invasion -- before the war had even started! -- something that had never happened before in world history.
Powell admits policy errors...
"Look, I know we invaded Aqfghanistan and Iraq, and we're talking about invading Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and a bunch of others, but trust us, aggression isn't our policy!" - M. R.
Mr. Smith Leaves Washington...
From these antics, it is clear that the will of the people has ceased to be a factor in how the Congress makes decisions.
- M. R.
Early news reports portrayed a courageous Lynch fighting her attackers despite knife and bullet wounds. Military officials later conceded that Lynch was not shot but was instead injured after her utility vehicle crashed into another vehicle.
Lynch has resisted attempts to turn her into a hero, insisting that her weapon jammed and that she is unable to remember much about her captivity. The videotape appears to confirm her version of events.
Bush can relax, they found the planted videos!...
Remember the LAST video they tried to
swindle us with? - M. R.
Drug corruption taints the Canadian government...
Israel Government Suspends Acquisitions of Microsoft Software...
All jokes aside, Israel may have decided, after having penetrated the US data infrastructure so completely, that using software from the US risks the same thing being done to them.
- M. R.
Hawks tell Bush how to win war on terror...
"Kill everyone, let God sort them out!"
- M. R.
US attempts to reassure the rest of the world over the safety of America's beef after the discovery of its first case of BSE were dealt a major blow last night when Japan refused to discuss lifting its ban on imports with a delegation of agriculture officials from Washington.
Bush knew...
Another great commercial - M. R.
Israeli Copter Fire Hurts 11 in Gaza...
"Americans Seeking Shelter from Fascism"
FBI Agent: Cover-up Concerning Terrorist Activities In Los Angeles...
If I were a crooked incumbant DA, and I wanted to scare off candidates running against me, wouldn't "terrorists" make a great cover?
- M. R.
The Pentagon has frozen new funds approved for Iraqi reconstruction amid growing allegations of corruption and cronyism associated with the rebuilding process.
U.S. to ban Supplement Ephedra...
Attorney General John Ashcroft will recuse himself from an investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA operative, Justice Department sources said Tuesday.
The investigation will be headed by the U.S. attorney in Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald, who will report to Ashcroft's new deputy, James Comey, the officials said. It was not immediately clear why Ashcroft made the decision.
Dollar slips as consumer confidence falls...
Okay, we can't attack Iran now because the ^%$#^ quake made 'em look helpless, so let's find some way to stomp Syria instead.
Okay, we can't attack Iran now because the ^%$#^ quake made 'em look helpless, so let's find some way to stomp Syria instead....
He stood up to the War Party
Whither Cheney?" href="http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2003/dec/28/yehey/opinion/20031228opi6.html" target="_blank">Whither Cheney?...
As predicted in this web site some months ago, the GOP is getting read to dump the blame for the wars on Cheney and kick him off of the ticket, to save Bush's chances in 2004. In fact I will go out on a limb here and make a prediction that if Cheney is dumped, there will be an attempt to draft Colin Powell as the new VP in order to drag the black vote away from the Democrats.
- M. R.
The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.
A day after withdrawal, Israel sends forces back into West Bank...
An Israeli military court in the Gaza Strip today threw out a precedent-setting challenge to its authority to try a Palestinian-born Canadian charged in an alleged plot to kill Jews in North America.
Sounds like Jamal might have something to say Israel does not want heard in a public civilian courtroom. - M. R.
An Israeli soldier who three days ago mistakenly shot and seriously wounded a Jewish demonstrator in the northern West Bank has told interrogators that he thought he was shooting a Palestinian, not a Jew.
Shame On U.S.
Shame On U.S.
String of U.N. votes belies U.S.' own reluctance to give up WMD
Our So-Called Boom...
The rich and the stores that cater to the rich had a Merry Christmas. For everyone else, times remain hard. - M. R.
Michael Neumann: Criticism of Israel is Not Anti-Semitism...
But better still, that foe should be sought out, threatened, and, when possible, annihilated. As numerous incidents in Europe, and lately on U.S. campuses demonstrate, Jew-hatred is in fashion as it has not been since Hitler's time, disguised in the mask of the pro-Palestinian cause. It is long past time to reinstitute Operation Wrath of G-d.
Job Vacancy at Selective Service System...
FOREX-Dollar hits new record lows after soft US data...
I've sat through CNN's Headline News for two entire cycles, and while I did get a cool New Year's recipe for a cherry and peach compote thingie I have yet to hear a single word about the plunging dollar.
- M. R.
Seriously!...
Rush Limbaugh: Hillary's publisher lying...
Boeing lands two fighter contracts...
I see we are polling the criminally insane these days....
"Who is Tim Osman? Ask Jeeves, he knows"...
Dollar Under Fire; New Record Lows Beckon...
What does a guy have to do to get a congressional bribe investigated?...
This article seems to have been pulled at the source. - M. R.
The names might sound familiar. Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, John Bolton, James Woolsley, Lewis Libby, Jeb Bush, Richard Perle, Frank Gafney, William Kristol, Elliot Abrams, Robert Kagan and many, many others. Think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) spew their ideology. Media such as Fox News and periodicals such as the Weekly Standard rant their propaganda. Like vultures waiting to feed off a dead carcass they surround the president, hissing commands and suggestions as to how the country will be run. This government behind the government is responsible for our quagmire in Iraq; it is responsible for our unilateralist foreign policy and our unyielding support for Ariel Sharon and the Israeli right-wing Likud Party. The neocons are responsible for turning the world against us.
Bush is steeped so far in lies and blood that his very grasp of reality has been effaced. This was evident in the rare TV interview he gave. Asked why he had claimed Saddam's possession of WMD was a "hard fact" when the intelligence showed nothing of the sort, when it was obvious now that Saddam had, at most, only the possible intent to acquire them again someday, Bush replied, with bone-chilling moral incoherence: "So what's the difference?"
1st January 2004...
If you wish your name to be added to the list of signatures then
simply e-mail Alanis at alanis_cartwright@hotmail.com with the words "PLEASE ADD MY NAME".
- M. R.
The War Party Versus Global Capitalism
The War Party Versus Global Capitalism
If anti-globalization radicals really want to tear down the world capitalist system they might want to go door-to-door next year on behalf of incumbent U.S. president, George W. Bush.
Investigation against Indymedia Israel has turned into intimidation, harming Freedom of Speech...
The two had tourist visas but also carried documents indicating they were soliciting funds for the construction of Muslim schools and mosques, Domingo said.
Wexler urges printers for touch-screen voting machines...
Twice as many US soldiers have been killed or wounded in action in the past four months as in the previous four, despite their commanders' claim to have made significant gains against the resistance.
Former U.N. Iraqi Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter discusses how he was personally involved in the MI6’s "Operation Mass Appeal" in the late 1990s to "shake up public opinion" by passing dubious intelligence on Iraq to the media.
Death Penalty Should be Applied to Corporations that Defraud Government Report Shows...
Technically, corporate executives are personally liable for criminal actions by their corporations. But, as we have seen with top executives who loot their companies and investors, actual prosecutions are rare. - M. R.
The British Prime Minister is again struggling to explain allegations that he has 'sexed up' information about Iraqi WMD. That much is familiar, as is the criticism being launched Blair's way by a cadre of former allies. What's different is how Blair landed in hot water again.
"If they thought I was going to go away after they raped my wife," said Wilson, "they were dead wrong."
Neil Bush, brother of the president and son of the former president, earned nearly $1.4 million in 2000 and nearly half of it came from simply introducing the executives of a Thailand-based conglomerate to the executives of a U.S. company that makes computer components.
Before America allows President Bush to take bows on the economy, let's take a closer look at this recovery. A simple thought experiment -- the kind former President Reagan used to like to do -- will help.
Imagine for a moment that you took all your credit cards and maxed them out. Now take your mortgage and borrow the maximum on it. Cash in the kid's college fund, your rainy day savings, your 401(k) retirement savings. While you're at it, stop paying for your health insurance and the maintenance on your house, your car and your yard. Now take all that money and spend it. Feeling pretty flush? Sure you are. You just pumped tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars into your pocket.
Daughter of slain Iraqi opposition leader says US helped Saddam in 1993 to quash coup attempt...
Saddam was a product of the US.
- M. R.
Back In Time...
Remember COINTELPRO? It's ba-ack! - M. R.
Did the Philippine government bomb its own people to attract U.S. military might?...
Three minority extremist groups - the militant fundamentalist Islamists exemplified at the far edge by Al Qaeda, certain activist elements among America's reborn Christians and neoconservatives, and the most inflexible hard-line Zionists from Israel - have emerged as dangerously destabilizing actors in world politics.
There is only one flaw in this article. Al Qaeda may not be what we're told it is. - M. R.
E-voting firm reports computer break-in...
The E-voting firm is trying to play victim here, but the bottom line is that if they cannot secure their in-house systems, they sure as hell cannot secure their voting systems. I also note how quickly the FBI moved on this hacker attack, whereas it took them almost a year to start investigating hacker attacks on anti-war web sites. - M. R.
"Abe Foxman swears Israel has a “healthy democracy” because oppositional figures are heard all of the time. Sure, they are! Unless, of course, they are protesting its notorious Apartheid Wall, than they can be shot by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) with live ammunition, like Israeli activist Gil Naamati was last Friday (“Baltimore Sun,” 12/29/03)."
Iran toll 'may reach 50,000'...
Donating To Iran Earthquake Victims...
Public Broadcasting as Political Weapon?...
Bush hands donors two seats on the board for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But these two cronies have very dangeorus ideas about Public TV, including intervening in programming content they do not approve of. - M. R.
USDA Misleading American Public about Beef Safety...
Pogany's legal woes date from early October, when he returned to the United States from Iraq just days after arriving in the U.S.-occupied country and seeing a badly mangled body stuffed inside an open body bag.
Pogany could not purge the image from his mind and began vomiting, shaking and thinking about impending doom. After asking for counseling, he was put on a plane and sent home.
December 29, 2003
Didn't Rush Limbaugh used to be pro-law and order?
Now that the once conservative commentator finds himself on the wrong side of a police investigation, he and his lawyers are accusing prosecutors and other members of the law enforcement community of concocting a vast, politically motivated conspiracy against him.
U.S. blurs aerial shots of Washington...
DC is a city that stays awake at night wondering just exactly how pissed off the rest of the world is at them!
- M. R.
Iraq's interim trade ministry is investigating alleged corruption of up to $US40 million by members of the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority and senior ministry officials.
Internet-voting firm gets hacked...
A new 9-11 sign in Canada...
Bulletin Board Posters Beware -Prelude to Pending Class Action Libel Suit on behalf of large number - Forums powered by Reason and Principle
Bulletin Board Posters Beware -Prelude to Pending Class Action Libel Suit on behalf of large number
The independent Commission started by a small group of homeless people in the early 1990's is gathering evidence of person's who have been libeled by posters posing as public citizens but in reality are agents of the United States Government acting as counter intelligence agents often referred to as "Bashers".
French Journalists Arrested for Faking Evidence of Taliban in Pakistan...
Fresh controversy about Donald Rumsfeld's personal dealings with Saddam Hussein was provoked yesterday by new documents that reveal he went to Iraq to show America's support for the regime despite its use of chemical weapons.
The looting, he suggested, was "part of the price" for what the United States and Britain have called the liberation of Iraq.
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said he believes weapons of mass destruction will be found in Iraq.
You mean the ones you gave Saddam back in the 80s, or the ones your boys are planting now? - M. R.
Syria turns UN focus on Israeli nukes....
Syria Asks UN to Help Rid Mideast of Nuclear Arms...
Starting, of course, with the one nation that actually HAS them!
- M. R.
FLASHBACK: U.S. Officials Confident Iraq WMD Will Be Found...
That was then. Now it's "WMDs? What WMDs?!? We in Iraq to capture Saddam! What? WHEN? Okay, we're in Iraq to, umm, to ahh... I'll get back to you on that." - M. R.
Tell the Truth For Once, Mr. Blair...
If Blair ever caught himself telling the truth he would have to tell a lie just to keep in practice. - M. R.
Last week, Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon declared that if the Palestinians did not soon take significant steps to curb "violence", he would begin a unilateral "separation plan" to disengage entirely from any negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.
This ultimatum represents the summation of the Israeli government's skillful media strategy throughout 2003. Sharon is now testing the water, daring to say out loud what he has been working towards throughout his time in office: the consolidation of Israel's illegal seizure of 58% of land across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and with it, the total subjugation of the Palestinian people.
Vice President Dick Cheney was also there, delivering a speech on foreign policy. Sitting on stage behind Cheney, Zinni grew puzzled. He had endorsed Bush and Cheney two years earlier, just after retiring from his last military post, as chief of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees operations in Iraq. But he was alarmed at Cheney's words:
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Cheney said. "There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
Cheney's certitude bewildered Zinni. At Central Command, Zinni had been immersed in U.S. intelligence about Iraq. He was all too familiar with analysts' doubts about Iraq's programs to acquire weapons of mass destruction, or WMD. "In my time at Centcom, I watched the intelligence, and never — not once — did it say, '(Saddam) has WMD.' "
Though retired for nearly two years, Zinni says, he remained current on the intelligence through consulting with the CIA and the military. "I did consulting work for the agency, right up to the beginning of the war. I never saw anything. I'd say to analysts, 'Where's the threat?' " Their response was, "Silence."
Bomb Las Vegas, America's gambling Mecca and glittery playground built on desert sands by mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lanksy, and Frank Costello?
Only al-Qaeda, we are assured, would contemplate such a depraved act -- and it stands to reason because those varmint Muslims hate our way of life. They are envious of our freedom to play the nickel slots and idle away carefree hours perched over blackjack tables -- or get no fuss, no muss marriages at Circus Circus.
As it turns out, the ubiquitous al-Qaeda harbored no such plans to bomb Las Vegas -- or, for that matter, any other target in America over the most cherished and commercialized of holidays. Apparently, the whole thing was idle speculation on the part of the Washington Post.
Yet another sordid chapter in the murky annals of Halliburton might well lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney by a French court on charges of bribery, money-laundering, and misuse of corporate assets.
Israel Govt Shuts Down Indymedia-Israel...
The "Mideast's only functioning Democracy" shows its true colors. - M. R.
Religions Usually Espouse Peace and Goodwill, So Why Have they Sparked So Many Conflicts?...
Bush's 'weapons of mass destruction' just a 'monstrous lie'...
Finance Ministry Weaning Israel Off of Microsoft...
Proof that Israel has its good side.
- M. R.
And I just bought my copy of the 2004 Farmer's Almanac, too!...
In the beginning there was Microsoft. Then it exploded.
I love my LINUX box. :)
- M. R.
U.S. Soldier Back From Iraq: I Will Not Die For Oil, It's Not Worth It...
It isn't. And they shouldn't.
- M. R.
Blair's days are numbered...
And Bush is not far behind.
- M. R.
The nation's official jobless rate is 5.9%, a relatively benign level by historical standards. But economists say that figure paints only a partial — and artificially rosy — picture of the labor market.
Bush still eating beef despite mad cow scare...
Easy for him since he owns his own cattle.
- M. R.
US corporates are shifting more jobs abroad but attempting to keep the practice quiet...
I feel like a third class passnger on the Titanic, watching the first class passengers head for the lifeboats while the ship's officers assure us everything is fine, stay where we are, and they'll be back for us in, oh, a couple hours or so.
- M. R.
DynCorp, a private military powerhouse, fired two employees who complained that colleagues were involved in Bosnian forced-prostitution rings. The employees went to court -- and won.
DynCorp was handed the contract to create a new Iraqi police force. - M. R.
Two Years Gone...
Benemar Benatta has been cleared of all terror charges, yet the US Government still keeps him in prison. - M. R.
a Baghdad high school students writes about Bechtel, Bremer...
DynCorp, which has donated more than £100,000 to the Republican Party, began recruiting for a private police force in Iraq last week on behalf of the US State Department.
The awarding of such a sensitive contract to DynCorp has caused consternation in some circles over the company's policing record. A British employment tribunal recently forced DynCorp to pay £110,000 in compensation to a UN police officer it unfairly sacked in Bosnia for whistleblowing on DynCorp colleagues involved in an illegal sex ring.
The fish that threatened national security...
Hitler played the same game in Germany. He took unskilled people from the lowest levels of society and gave them power over others. These little people with a little authority quickly fell in love with being able to push other people around, people who prior to the time of the dictator would have paid them scant attention, and became Hitler's most ardent supporters and oppressors of the people.
- M. R.
Japan rejects U.S. request to lift beef import ban...
Serving any of those Washington steaks in the US Congress dining room?
- M. R.
Sharon "disengages" from peace...
'Gen attacks may have been stage-managed'...
Governments DO stage fake terror attacks to further their agendas.
- M. R.
If This Is Winning, I Couldn't Take Losing...
Tony Blair is a bigger liar than Profumo: Clare Short
Tony Blair is a bigger liar than Profumo: Clare Short
Tony Blair is a bigger liar than Profumo: Clare Short Tony Blair is a bigger liar than Profumo: Clare Short...
One lie is one lie too many. Liars must be removed from office. On the day that the people have the courage to make the cost of a lie outweigh the benefit, we will have honest government, and we will not have honest government one day before then. - M. R.
Truth, lies and Tony Blair's third way...
Milosevic elected to parliament in Serbian election...
This will be interesting. Didn't the Hague just say that officials in office could not be prosecuted for war crimes? - M. R.
The US-led war on terrorism violates international law and justice, and has encouraged various governments to ignore human rights in the name of national security, the Amnesty International has said.
"The war on terrorism has actually worsened global security. Far from making the world a safer place, the global security doctrine promulgated by the US has made it more dangerous," Irene Khan, the General Secretary of London-based human rights watchdog said here yesterday.
American Government Terrorizes America After 9/11 Attacks...
Who is working to keep you terrorized 24/7 with endless yellow, orange, peach, taupe, and mauve alerts? The US Government, aided by ABCNNBCBS. - M. R.
Exactly one year ago, Tony Blair told Parliament: "Saddam
Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programme is active,
detailed and growing.
There seems to be some general cognitive dissonance these days on who is doing the greatest damage to our state and nation. While some would like us to believe it is a disheveled 66-year-old man recently dragged out of a 6-by-8-foot hole in the ground, the evidence suggests otherwise.
The 9-11 Visibility Project...
Supporting the families' struggle for the truth. - M. R.
Bush hangs Blair out to dry over Iraqi nuclear claims - Prominent MPs call for Blair to resign...
If Blair goes, Bush will soon follow.
- M. R.
Blair lied our country into a murderous adventure. He has betrayed Britain, as he has always betrayed the truth.
Blair lied our country into a murderous adventure. He has betrayed Britain, as he has always betrayed the truth....
Now, I want you to think about this very carefully. Bush and Blair were partners in the war in Iraq. If Blair had to resort to lies, which is now incontrovertible, that means that he did not have any true facts to support the call for war. That means that Bush, who would have shared such true facts to help make the case for war with his buddy, did not have any true facts. Blair's exposure as a liar underscores Bush's lies as well. Both Americans and British face a hard question. Will they fight for the truth, or be ruled by lies? - M. R.
Only truth can heal, Mr Blair. Lies fester...
Phony Tony may be the first head of state brought down by "Friendly Fire", as Bremer's truth cuts the legs out from under Blair's lies!
- M. R.
ARE YOU ANGRY YET?...
If you aren't, there is something wrong with you.
- M. R.
FLASHBACK: What a Tangled Web We Weave . . ....
Yasir Abu Mghair lives in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Safafa. His wife of seven years comes from Yabta village near Hebron.
However, since Yasir is an Israeli resident, he cannot visit Yabta without prior planning and, due to an Israeli law passed last summer, his wife who holds a West Bank identity card cannot stay with him in Jerusalem.
UN resolutions Israel has not complied with
Resolution 250: "... 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem"
Resolution 251: "... 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250"
Resolution 252: "...'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital"
Resolution 267: "...'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem"
Resolution 271: "...'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem"
Resolution 298: "...'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem"
Resolution 476: "... 'reiterates' that Israel's claims to Jerusalem are 'null and void'
Resolution 478: "...'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'
Resolution 250: "... 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem"
Resolution 251: "... 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250"
Resolution 252: "...'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital"
Resolution 267: "...'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem"
Resolution 271: "...'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem"
Resolution 298: "...'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem"
Resolution 476: "... 'reiterates' that Israel's claims to Jerusalem are 'null and void'
Resolution 478: "...'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'
Remember when "defying the United Nations" was Bush's reason for bombing Iraq? - M. R.
List of Nations Banning U.S. Beef...
A little bird tells me that there is at least one more nation banning US Beef that for some reason is not showing up on the list.
- M. R.
Despite low unemployment rate, layoffs keep coming in NJ...
Activist's memory kept alive...
From weapons of mass destruction to Jayson Blair, we trusted them -- and they punk'd us. Why do we keep coming back for more?
Mundis vult decepi? - M. R.
FLASHBACK: Blair's Lies...
Worth a re-read in light of Bremer's admission that Blair's claims of "massive" evidence of WMDs is a lie. - M. R.
FLASHBACK: Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at U.S. Bases...
"It is undignified for the Prime Minister, and worrying for his nation, to go on believing a threat which everybody else can see was a fantasy."
A prominent Brooklyn rabbi has been implicated in a bribery scandal for allegedly helping to get inmates moved to country club prison camps from medium-security federal prisons.
Posted for those who complain I am always picking on the Catholics.
- M. R.
A Pox on Fox...
Ever since Saddam's capture, Fox News has been trying to spin it as justification for the war. The problem is what they DON'T say!
- M. R.
Rabbi complains over Muslim kids name for football team....
It's just kids playing football. Get a life, already! - M. R.
Blair offers up red herring for 10,000 British Troops...
Okay, Brits, we're waiting to see what you do about Phony Tony. The man lied. Your kids died. - M. R.
Kucinich calls terror alert a government scare tactic...
TONY Blair is facing severe embarrassment after the US official running Iraq dismissed his claims that “massive evidence” of weapons programmes had been found in the country as a “red herring”.
FIRE THE LIAR! - M. R.
Fervent peace activists sort through complex emotions as they mourn a son killed in Iraq. He died a hero, they say -- a parents' contradiction.
According to their contracts, expectations and desires, all three soldiers should have been civilians by now. But Fontaine and Costas are currently serving in Iraq, and Eagle has just been deployed. On their Army paychecks, the expiration date of their military service is now listed sometime after 2030 -- the payroll computer's way of saying, "Who knows?"
U.S. POlicy on Iraq reconstruction bids is not justified, Canadians say...
The US Government is using YOUR tax mnoney to bribe othernations into support of the US agenda. This includes bribing countries to write off Iraq's debt, so that Bush's oil company buddies can make more profits from captured Iraqi oil. This effectively transfers the Iraqi debt onto the US taxpayers. This means that YOU are footing the bill for BOTH sides of this war. - M. R.
Troop morale in Iraq is low and getting lower. The reasons are very easy to understand....
From emails I receive from people who have actually served in Iraq, it is clear that our kids know this war is about conquest, and about grabbing oil and wealth for the masters. This does not sit well with the majority of our kids who were raised by you, their parents, to be moral and just human beings. - M. R.
Nine months after US invasion Fuel shortages, blackouts heighten Iraqi opposition to American occupation
Nine months after US invasion Fuel shortages, blackouts heighten Iraqi opposition to American occupation...
Reports Of Explosions Prior To WTC Collapses...
Note the CNN screen capture reporting an explosion. - M. R.
When US Central Command has good news to report in Iraq, as it did after troops from the Fourth Infantry Division captured Saddam Hussein on December 13, it adores the media. But journalists say that when there's bad news--a helicopter crash, a mortar attack--they are increasingly being blocked from covering the story by US soldiers, who frequently confiscate and destroy their film disks and videotapes.
DEA criminalizes pain management...
Doctors who are too "generous" in treating pain are being prosecuted. - M. R.
Lord of the Rings Racist???...
I mean, I was disappointed that the 'Scouring of the Shire' was cut from the final film, but claiming the film is racist reminds me of a recent Hollywood joke. It goes that if Herman Melville showed up to sell "Moby Dick" as a movie today he would be rejected because in his story all the minorities are in subordinate roles, the authority figures and even the whale are white, the film depicts cruelty to animals and there are no roles for women! - M. R.
Boone County Clerk Melinda Mulford heard from the Arkansas Secretary of State's office earlier this week. Mulford said Arkansas has chosen to file a waiver to Helping America Vote Act (HAVA) requirements.
HAVA requires the replacement of outdated voting systems, but Arkansas is among nine states that have decided to wait for more information before going ahead with plans for new equipment and systems.
Israel is a “thunderously failed reality” that “rests on a scaffolding of corruption, and on foundations of oppression and injustice.” Were these words spoken by an American leader, he would be denounced as an anti-Semite. But these are the words of a former speaker of the Israeli Knesset who cries for his country. “The countdown to the end of Israeli society has begun,” writes Avraham Burg, “the end of the Zionist enterprise is already on our doorstep.”
US Military Personnel Wounded in Iraq...
They are harder to ignore when you know their names. - M. R.
Kerry would guarantee accountability of voting results...
Two problems. He has to win first, and he's assigning the task to a legal team, who are not in a position to detect and deal with technological fraud. - M. R.
PHOTOS OF NUDE WOMEN ON WEBSITES OF PAKISTAN EMBASSIES...
This sounds like a hacker prank. - M. R.
December 28, 2003
The Saddam Stall...
A public trial for Saddam is going to be an embarassment for both Bush and Blair, so why rush?
- M. R.
Using the ancient Hegelian tool of manipulation known as Problem-Reaction-Solution, the Illuminati have precariously stacked the deck in anticipation of the next large-scale 'terrorist' attack that will dwarf the events of September 11th tenfold. This event is likely to be a nuclear strike on a major American city or a widespread biological apocalypse. The ensuing chaos will allow the easy passage and full implementation of the New World Order.