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June 30, 2004
Inspector Gregory:
"Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the nighttime"
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
From "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" by Arthur Conan Doyle
An Interview with Sibel Edmonds...
Here is a copy of the letter retroactively CLASSIFIED by Asscroft relating to Sibel Edmonds' now classified testimony in the 911 investigation. It discusses her supervisor (monitor) who stymied pre-911 FBI investigations that were following the terrorists. Excerpt: "[Sibel Edmonds FBI] monitor may hold dual citizenship with the United States and a foreign country and may possess a valid passport issued by that foreign country."
And note how carefully they avoid saying just which foreign country that is. - M. R.
Section 1 in the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution states: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
PNAC-regime change Iran...
Just so you know what these war-mongers are up to. - M. R.
The Perth Observatory says it has had reports a meteor has crashed near Walpole in Western Australia's south.
Witnesses say they saw a large, fiery object zigzagging through the sky at about 5:30pm yesterday.
Zig zagging suggests an object with enough surface area relative to its mass for aerodynamics to play a major role in the trajectory. Hence, the object is most likely de-orbiting space junk, tumbling as it came down.
- M. R.
Vendors: Fireworks sales slow...
In Hawaii, fireworks are legal for the fourth of July, New Years, and certain Chinese festivals. Over the last 5 years, it has become obvious that enthusiasm for July fourth has waned considerably compared to the others. Therefore, it is not the eocnomy which is slowing July 4th sales of fireworks, but a loss of pride in what the US stands for, and of course, the dictator's mandate that fireworks no longer do much of anything except sit there and glitter a bit. - M. R.
Letter sent to the United States Congress regarding recent human rights issues in Iraq...
The British Indian Ocean Territory of Diego Garcia which belongs to Britain is being lined up in a joint US/UK project as a second Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
This is a 10-page summary of the revealing accounts of 18 award-winning journalists from the book Into the Buzzsaw, compiled by Kristina Borjesson. All of these courageous writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major news stories. Some were even fired or laid off. These journalists have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer. Join in building a better world. Spread this news across the land.
For Those Who Care About Our Future...
Good summaries of information. Bookmark this.
- M. R.
QUESTIONS FOR MICHAEL MOORE...
Relinked by reader request - M. R.
THE PART OF THE 9-11 STORY MICHAEL MOORE MISSED!...
Relinked by reader request - M. R.
"What has been happening over the years is a predictable routine of foreign visitation from the head of the Israeli government. The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington. The Israeli puppeteer meets with the puppet in the White House, and then moves down Pennsylvania Avenue, and meets with the puppets in Congress. And then takes back billions of taxpayer dollars. It is time for the Washington puppet show to be replaced by the Washington peace show."
One of the first things I did when I got back from vacation was to go see Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. It’s a brilliant piece of propaganda, entertaining and funny, and it skewers the president deliciously. But am I the only one to notice that in one critically important way, it entirely misses the boat and gets nearly everything wrong? Maybe this has been said before—I’ve hardly read all of the criticism of Moore—but if so, I haven’t seen it. Moore totally avoids the question of Israel.
You are not the only one.
- M. R.
FLASHBACK: Did Jewish Diamond Merchants, Israeli Arm Smugglers and Jewish/Russian Mobsters Finance Al Qaeda?
FLASHBACK: Did Jewish Diamond Merchants, Israeli Arm Smugglers and Jewish/Russian Mobsters Finance Al Qaeda?...
Defense Department Booklet Targets Holocaust Revisionism...
Truth needs no law to support it. Throughout history, only official lies have resorted to the power of the courts and the military to mandate and enforce belief.
When you are not allowed to ask a question, then you are a slave, and you live in a dictatorship by any reasonable definition of the word.
The extreme steps being taken to deter questions is the single most obvious sign that someone has something to hide, and that a terrible secret is being protected at all costs, even to the willing and eager destruction of the principles that this nation was founded upon. - M. R.
Dick Cheney Booed When Shown On Screen At Yankees Game...
FLASHBACK: PNAC - Targeting Saudi Arabia...
This is WHY I am concerned over the spin in the first half of Fahrenheit 9/11.
- M. R.
Networks Failed Americans with Their "Rah-rah, let's go to war" Crap...
Yes, they did. The presstitutes let the entire nation down. - M. R.
Today the United States government warned internet users to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) web browser citing critical security vulnerabilities, and recommended the use of alternative browser software such as Mozilla.
Britain Says Iran Forced Sailors Into Its Waters...
"They MADE me do it, mommie!"
- M. R.
United States terrified of tiny Carribean island, moves to starve them even more...
Courage is a willingness to face real risks—your neck, or at the very least, your job. The journalist with courage would have threatened to resign rather than repeat George Bush's justifications for invasion before it began. I don't remember anyone resigning last winter. The journalist with courage would threaten to quit rather than do a magazine piece about an advertiser's product, his fad diet book or his magic-bullet baldness cure. It happens every day, and nobody ever quits over it.
Presstitutes. - M. R.
International > Middle East > Insurgents: Abducted Marine Had Reportedly Deserted" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/30/international/middleeast/30MARI.html?ex=1089172800&en=ba6b5cbc4ecf7855&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE" target="_blank">Abducted Marine Had Reportedly Deserted...
Okay, so the "terrorists" (nudge nudge wink wink) want to behead a US Marine as a warning to the other US Forces to get out of town, and they grab a guy who has already quit and is on his way out of the country?
Suuuuuuuure.
- M. R.
Call Girls and Strippers Readed For Republican Convention...
Is al-Zarqawi a false flag operative?...
Considering that the man is dead... - M. R.
A Preview of Kerry Foreign Policy...
Justice Department Says It Can't Share Lobbying Data Because Computer System Will Crash...
Just when you think they can't get any more pathetic over there. - M. R.
Voting official seeks process for canceling Election Day over terrorism...
"Dear DeForest. If the opposition wins, that is an act of terrorism requiring the election to be canceled, the results ignored, and those bastards at Diebold who took our money and promised me a second term to be put up against the wall. P.S. Did you play the doctor on Star Trek?" -- Anonymous White House Phlunqui. - M. R.
US government’s unofficial defense of torture...
"Because we SAID so, THAT'S why!"
- M. R.
Iraqi children perish for want of medicines and equipment in Iraq’s under-funded hospitals while U.S. Treasury officials have billions of dollars of Iraqi oil revenues stashed away in secondary “slush funds” and U.S. Treasury bills.
The government needs to establish guidelines for canceling or rescheduling elections if terrorists strike the United States again, says the chairman of a new federal voting commission.
Under the cover of intense machine gun fire, Israeli tanks and bulldozers blocked roads in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday the start of what security officials said could be an extended reoccupation of some Palestinian areas to prevent rocket fire on Israel.
"Reoccupy" = "Fooled you suckers; we were never really going to give it up."
- M. R.
In an exercise codenamed Operation Summer Pulse 04, it is expected to arrange for an unprecedented seven aircraft carrier strike groups (CSGs) to rendezvous in waters a safe distance away from the Chinese coastline - but still within striking distance - after mid-July.
This will be the first time in US naval history that it sends seven of its 12 CSGs to just one region.
Israel Sought To Assassinate BBC Reporter In Gaza...
Editorial: Detainees/Bush butchered their rights...
Bush butchered all of our rights! - M. R.
French FM meets with Arafat despite Israeli objection...
U.S. still concerned about Iran...
"How do we pick a fight with them without making it LOOK like we are picking a fight with them?" - M. R.
U.S. Told British to Attack Iranian Forces, Telegraph Reports...
"The border is here."
"But the map says the border is way back behind us, sir!"
"Screw the map, son, the border is over there behind those Iranians!" - M. R.
"But the map says the border is way back behind us, sir!"
"Screw the map, son, the border is over there behind those Iranians!" - M. R.
The exclusionary policies of the Americans are likely to fade away when there are elections, unless they and Allawi continue to attempt to shape the political scene by trying to disqualify candidates on various pretexts. Should they do so, they will likely prolong the various insurgencies in the country. The price of the kind of political inclusion that might bring stability, however, may well be a complete American departure from Iraq.
The Foreign Press Association in Israel says a helicopter attack on offices in Gaza housing several media organisations demonstrated a "callous disregard" for the lives of journalists.
You were expecting Roses? - M. R.
Who is buying the US Congress?...
t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt | Tuck Tail and Run
Tuck Tail and Run
The American people are not comfortable dealing with words like "total failure" and "ruined credibility," but these are words that all of us are going to have to become accustomed to.
Not all of us. Those of us who knew this war was a mistake form the start have nothing to be ashamed of. We were right. The flag-waving morons were wrong. - M. R.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is hands-down one of the most corrupt politicians in the United States.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is hands-down one of the most corrupt politicians in the United States....
Tom Delay has taken $81,000 from AIPAC. - M. R.
In two years of contacts between the Bush administration and both Sharon governments, a strategy was consolidated that guided the Americans when it came time to deal with the `Israeli question' at the outbreak of the war - namely, that the U.S. would do everything possible to ensure that Israel did not have to do anything.
If only Bush had been as concerned about Americans not having to do anything. - M. R.
CASSINI-HUYGENS NEARING ORBIT...
Braking maneuver and orbit insertion around Saturn set for tonight. - M. R.
While we are still the "home of the brave," I have growing reservations about whether we are still the "land of the free," in the sense that the freedom of our choices and actions is more and more governed by our dependencies.
Is The US Military Preparing Another Massacre In Fallujah...
"Hey, it's Fourth of July weekend, and them there Eye-rackies look cool sailing across the sky with their asses on fire!"
- M. R.
What our enemies seek in the great Sunni Triangle from Rabat to Chechnya to Mindanao is what the Iranian Revolution achieved: to be rid of the Americans and of rulers that they view as vile puppets of the United States, to purify their societies and to unite their world against the West.
If this is indeed the ultimate goal of the radical Islamists, the U.S. invasion of Iraq was a strategic victory for the enemy.
In the film, Goss is shown discussing the Patriot Act. He mentions that Americans with concerns about U.S. intelligence can call an 800 number.
Moore informs viewers there is no such number and displays the number for Goss’ office across the street from the U.S. Capitol.
“We’re getting hundreds of calls,” said spokeswoman Julie Almacy.
The US military in Afghanistan is confronted with an embarrassing situation following the realisation that the two men in its custody were Afghan government officials from Helmand province rather than top Taliban commanders as claimed by it earlier.
"WE GOT THE TALIBAN! WE GOT THE TALIBAN! W GOT... What? Really? No shit?!? (ahem) NEVER MIND!"
- M. R.
Farting George Bush Doll...
Let's see THAT on the ten dollar bill! - M. R.
Smearing Pat Buchanan...
Note that this "review" does not actuallly address the contents of Pat's book beyond a quick summary, but simply tries to equate his views with those of Michael Moore. - M. R.
A Very American Coup" href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup" target="_blank">Scoop: Features > A Very American Coup...
June 29, 2004
An insider has revealed how false intelligence assessments led the United States, Britain and Australia into an unnecessary, unlawful and unjust war, writes Robert Manne.
Now who CREATED those false intelligence assessments? What foreign nation was always in the press proclaiming the dire consequences that awaited those who hesitated from the attack?
- M. R.
A senior figure in the Israeli government has said his country could wipe out the Gaza Strip in response to armed Palestinian groups' attacks on Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers.
An animal-rights group sued the state attorney general's office on Friday, accusing it of violating public records laws by refusing to release some documents about the slaughter of cows at one of the state's largest meatpacking plants.
Yesterday morning a letter from the teenager dropped on the doormat of the family home, full of plans for the future and excitement that he was due to come home within two weeks. Sadly, the arrival of the letter came less than 24 hours after his parents and two sisters had been told that he was the latest casualty in a conflict for which they believe he was too young and poorly trained to have been sent.
Ordinary Iraqis Say New Leader Is A CIA Man...
Keeping up the booga booga!...
Tony Blair suffered another blow over Iraq yesterday when it emerged that the inquiry into Britain's intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons will report on the eve of two critical by-elections.
Bush popularity falls to all-time low but Kerry fails to capitalise...
That's because Kerry is no better than Bush.
- M. R.
U.S. Expels 2 Iranian U.N. Guards...
U.S. Expels Two Members of Iraq's U.N. Mission...
Iran's foreign ministry slams US expulsion of two UN mission guards...
A small-town Alberta politician who sparked an international manhunt after disappearing on a trip to the United States was found guilty in Lethbridge court on Tuesday of fabricating a stalker and writing dirty letters to herself.
The Army is preparing to notify about 5,600 retired and discharged soldiers who are not members of the National Guard or Reserve that they will be involuntarily recalled to active duty for possible service in Iraq or Afghanistan, Army officials said Tuesday.
How Israel Created The Myth of Al-Qaeda...
This article appears to have been misattributed to Seymour Hersch on other websites.
- M. R.
Mickey Mouse battles Michael Moore...
If this latest Eisner epic tanks, he won't survive the next stockholder's meeting.
- M. R.
Mormon Church Leader Arrested In Internet Sex Sting...
Linked for those who claim I only pick on the catholics. - M. R.
Another reason to home school...
The father of an American civilian beheaded in Iraq accused President Bush and the U.S. media Tuesday of ignoring the "horrible face of war."
In Central America, Negroponte left a trail of blood. In the '80s more than 200,000 people were killed in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala as a result of President Ronald Reagan's support of brutal military regimes in the area. More than 3 million fled the violence sponsored by Reagan, and continued by former President George H. W. Bush.
FLASHBACK: FEMA IN NEW YORK THE NIGHT BEFORE 9/11...
Sort of an "I told you so" in light of Giuliani's admission before the 9-11 whitewash.
- M. R.
"Now, you have never heard that Mohamed Atta had an American
girlfriend, because it never made the national press. Which
is itself bizarre. Because she was a stripper when she knew
him...so you would think, "Interviews with the Stripper
Girlfriend of the Terrorist Mastermind..."
People Against the Draft...
A lawsuit brought by relatives of a dozen firefighters killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, was tossed out Wednesday by a judge who said the families gave up their right to sue when they accepted federal compensation.
As one of the taxpayers who was forced to pay into the "hush money" fund, I am willing to waive the "no lawsuit" provision.
- M. R.
Long Debunked "Rumor" Validated by Giuliani...
FEMA was in New York City the day before 9-11, ostensibly for a terror "drill", which resulted in the FEMA command post being ready and in place when 9-11 happened.
- M. R.
HOMEWORK WAS NEVER QUITE LIKE THIS...
"It won't be long when you will see Iraqi oil flowing to Haifa," the port city in northern Israel, Netanyahu told a group of British investors, declining to give a timetable.
He's sitting next to me, so I reach out and touch his shoulder. "It's okay. You're okay," I say.
Turkey defence ministry blast not a bomb...
Dang those security cameras! - M. R.
Oddly, all the bad stuff occurs in the first 20 minutes or so, as if Moore just had to get the leftie clichés, the partisan Democratic tirades, and the cheap shots out of his system before he could get down to the serious business of telling how and why George W. Bush and his minions capitalized on 9/11 and lied us into war.
Contrary to continuing political spin, Iraq and Afghanistan both are running sores with little promise of even a long-term turnaround, and our world today is far more dangerous than it was before 9/11. Unless there's a 180-degree change in overall strategy, the USA is doomed to follow the same bloody path through these two brutal killing fields that the Soviet Union took in Afghanistan.
Three U.S. soldiers will testify that a former CIA contractor beat an Afghan detainee with a heavy flashlight 10 to 30 times and kicked the man so hard he came off the ground and later begged to be shot, a prosecutor said Friday.
Fahrenheit 9/11, deception by omission...
The president is a liar...
Yes. - M. R.
Rumors swirl of pending Olympic “ False Flag “ by Israel...
Monday's return of sovereignty to Iraq was, like so much else in the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, a surprise -- apparently driven by the deteriorating security situation. With the world awaiting some sort of grand farewell on Wednesday, U.S. occupation chief L. Paul Bremer agreed instead to a low-key transfer of legal documents Monday morning in the fortified "Green Zone" and departed Baghdad a few hours later.
On the eve of his recent sojourn in Europe, President Bush had an unpleasant run-in with a species of creature he had not previously encountered often: a journalist.
He did not react well to the experience.
AnySoldier.US started in August 2003 as a simple family effort to help the soldiers in one Army unit, thus our name. However, due to overwhelming requests, on 1 January 2004 our effort was expanded to include ANY Soldier.
We now include any member, of any of the Armed Services, in harms way.
This is nothing like, and has nothing to do with, the old DOD-sponsored "Any Servicemember" mail disaster of Gulf-I. Please read on...
It's bad enough our kids are stuck in Iraq in a war based on lies, but in many cases, they don't have basic necessities.
- M. R.
Foreign Hands Behind Iraq Blasts: Experts -...
Bush Approval Rating Falls to Lowest Point in NYT/CBS Poll...
I doubt his approval is even that high.
- M. R.
Canada's electorate appears to have confounded the pollsters. Weeks of speculation, number-crunching and supper-hour phone calls to more than 25,000 Canadians meant little in the end as the Liberals beat projections that they were headed for a sound thrashing.
6 comments on the situation...
My comment: We need those chairs in the White House, the Congress, and on every news program, with the data output from the chairs on 24/7 simulcast! - M. R.
The inside story of the official manual on how to torture without being prosecuted
Iyad Akmush Kanum, 23, learnt the limits of sovereignty on Monday when US prosecutors refused to uphold an Iraqi judges' order acquitting him of attempted murder of coalition troops.
Is the Rick Gibney Flight 93 Story a Hoax?...
Government plants try to create confusion to trick peace activists and truth-seekers into wasting their time and resources on pointless endeavors. - M. R.
International > Europe > U.S.-Led Forces Would Back Martial Law, Bush Says" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/28/international/europe/28CND-NATO.html?ex=1089459280&ei=1&en=f93acaadd5282971" target="_blank">U.S.-Led Forces Would Back Martial Law, Bush Says...
So much for Democracy in Iraq. - M. R.
Fahrenheit 9/11: Questions for Michael Moore...
It's beginning to appear that the revenues from Iraqi oil---destined for the Iraqi people, in form of projects to benefit the population---have arrived elsewhere. At least in part.
The whole deal is murky, because, again, it's about records and who has been keeping them and how badly.
Senior MPs rounded on Tony Blair today for failing to answer key questions about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
A committee of senior MPs and peers has slammed the government's response to a previous report on its intelligence assessment of the threat posed by Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
"By placing the First Amendment Right to Petition issue squarely before the Judiciary, this lawsuit clearly and unambiguously presents the most fundamental legal question: Is the U.S. Government a servant government, limited by a written Constitution, or is it free to ignore the Constitution and do whatever it wants to do?"
Congress Overwhelmingly Endorses Ariel Sharon's Annexation Plans...
Remember Sharon's brag about controlling America?
- M. R.
Most disappointing was the way he accepts and perpetutates the official 9/11 story that it was orchestrated by Osama bin Laden via 19 Arab terrorists, mostly Saudis, who learned to fly jumbo jets at one engine, two-seater, flying schools. This is blatantly ludicrous and the information to expose such nonsense can, once again, be found at a long list of 9/11 websites and books.
I'm not the only one that noticed, I guess. - M. R.
VP Dick Cheney has set a standard for War Profiteering that others can only dream about.
US voting activists who fear an "electoral train wreck" worse than Florida 2000 if electronic ballot machines are allowed to determine the outcome of November's presidential election, are claiming a breakthrough victory after the scandal-ridden resignation of one of the country's most outspoken e-voting apologists.
French president publicly carpets the US leader for pressing Turkey's case for EU membership
More than 4,000 scientists have signed a petition accusing George Bush of twisting their work to further his political agenda.
Army Plans Involuntary Call-Up of Thousands...
Billions of dollars of Iraqi oil money have gone unaccounted for by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), according to a new report released Monday.
Turkish hostages released -...
Even as the government increasingly comes under fire from civil libertarians for using Patriot Act provisions to seek personal information without probable cause, some lawmakers are working to expand those powers.
U.S. Wants Hungarian Holocaust Suit Tossed...
How sharper than a serpent's tooth
to have a thankless child! - M. R.
Cassini quietly awaits ride in Saturn's orbit...
THE PUPPETS...
FLASHBACK: Breaking The Silence...
Bush has become increasingly unpredictable and erratic, the report said.
Maybe someone ought to take back that plastic card with all those rows of numbers on it?
- M. R.
A team of astronomers have found a colossal black hole so ancient, they're not sure how it had enough time to grow to its current size, about 10 billion times the mass of the Sun.
This is another indication that the "Big Bang" theory is in error. - M. R.
FLASHBACK: Mossad Agents Arrested In Attempt To Bomb Mexican Congress...
FLASHBACK: Five Israelis were seen filming as jet liners ploughed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 ...
As the World Trade Centre burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes.
Who do you think they were? Palestinians? Saudis? Iraqis, even? Al-Qaeda, surely? Wrong on all counts. They were Israelis – and at least two of them were Israeli intelligence agents, working for Mossad, the equivalent of MI6 or the CIA.
Paging Michael Moore. Michael Moore, white courtesy phone. - M. R.
Once again, users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser have been warned that digital evildoers have exploited a security problem with that software.
I have been testing out the alternative browsers. At the moment I am using Firefox, and it works pretty good. - M. R.
The US-controlled coalition in Baghdad is handing over power to an Iraqi government without having properly accounted for what it has done with some $20 billion of Iraq's own money, says a new report published by Christian Aid.
The three F-16s scrambled toward Flight 77 get airborne. [9:30, NORAD, 9/18/01, 9:30, ABC News, 9/11/02, 9:35, Washington Post, 9/12/01] The pilots' names are Major Brad Derrig, Captain Craig Borgstrom, and Major Dean Eckmann, all from the North Dakota Air National Guard's 119th Fighter Wing but stationed at Langley.
More indications that the story claiming Rick Gibney as the pilot who shot down flight 93 must be treated with caution. - M. R.
June 28, 2004
The ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom has repeated claims of a link between Zionists and al-Qaeda terror attacks in Saudi Arabia.
Now I wonder why he would think THAT? - M. R.
QUESTIONS FOR MICHAEL MOORE...
THE PART OF THE 9-11 STORY MICHAEL MOORE MISSED!...
Zarqawi Voice Analysis - Results...
Examination of the various tapes suggests at least three different people claiming to be Zarqawi.
- M. R.
Derrig, Maj. Dean Eckman and Capt. Craig Borgstrom scrambled from Langley Air Force Base, Va., to protect the nation's capital. Maj. Rick Gibney took off from Fargo to fly the New York emergency management director from Montana to New York.
Plan Daisy...
Why even the most calm and reasonable internet discussions seem to go horribly off track. - M. R.
The first pre-emptive war in our nation's history and it was based on greed, oil, lies and forged documents. All this from a man not even elected, but selected when he went to the Supreme Court to stop the vote counting in Florida.
Israel Tanks Enter Gaza; Two Buildings Hit...
Iraqi militants kill U.S. marine hostage...
Needless to say, Maupin would be alive today, along with Nick Berg, hundreds of American kids, and thousands of Iraqis, if the government of the United States had not lied to the people to trick us into a war of conquest. - M. R.
Israel: A Conspiracy Here, A Conspiracy There...
Note the comments about ICTS, the Israeli company handling security at all three of the 9-11 airports. - M. R.
Iraq-Israel Pipeline May Be Canceled...
Maybe.
- M. R.
Military: Kidnapped Marine May Have Been Going To Lebanon...
AWOL?
- M. R.
Strong quake jolts North Coast...
More on the Alaska quake. - M. R.
Khiam prison was a detention and interrogation centre during the years of the Israeli occupation in Southern Lebanon. From 1985 until the Israeli withdrawal this May, thousands of Lebanese were held in Khiam without trial. Most of them were brutally tortured - some of them died.
U.S. administrator L. Paul Bremer has issued a raft of edicts revising Iraq's legal code and has appointed at least two dozen Iraqis to government jobs with multi-year terms in an attempt to promote his concepts of governance long after the planned handover of political authority on Wednesday.
THE unmarked military-style jet swooped down at high speed through the valley, twice circled the smouldering black scar where Flight 93 had careered into the ground just seconds earlier and then hurtled off over the horizon.
Posted in light of Alex Jones' report identifying the name of the fighter pilot. - M. R.
A courageous and conscientious citizen in Northern Minnesota who has tried repeatedly to get this revealing information out through the usual channels (FBI, NTSB) with little luck relates how mechanics heard Wellstone's plane circle the Eveleth Airport twice, a plane in distress with multiple systems failures. Meanwhile, CNN and the other media continue to disseminate the 'tired pilot-ice' red herrings. Why?
At first, it all seemed so obvious. It was those Islamic terrorists. Osama bin Laden. Mullah Omar. George W. Bush had nothing to do with it ... did he?
US refineries covet Libya’s high-quality, low-sulphur crude, which can be carried on tankers to the US in half the time it takes for shipments from the Persian Gulf. Libya has the world’s ninth-largest estimated reserves, reckoned at about 36 billion barrels. Currently, Libya cranks out about 1.7 million barrels per day.
BOMB 'EM! BOMB 'EM! BOMB 'EM! BOMB 'EM! - M. R.
Alex Jones called the Colonel this morning and he confirmed that Rick Gibney was the pilot who shot down Flight 93.
The Colonel's original comments from the interview back in February appear below.
KICKED OUT FOR HANDING OUT DECEPTION DOLLARS AT F9/11...
Will John Kerry Save Us From a Stupid Draft?...
No.
- M. R.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says it's "entirely possible" that U.S. troops could stay in Iraq for years to come.
Go suck a comb. - M. R.
For nearly a year now, evidence has been accumulating about the event that ended the life of this magnificent human being. Whatever caused the crash was not the plane, the pilots or the weather. In spite of what you may have heard, the plane was exceptional, the pilots well-qualified and the weather posed no significant problems. Even the National Transportation Safety Board's own simulations of the plane, the pilots and the weather were unable to bring the plane down.
Iraqi experts accused 'foreign hands' of being behind the deadly string of random attacks in the war-torn country in an attempt to stir unrest ahead of the handover of power to Iraqis.
"The current wave of car bombs targeting Iraqi civilians are surely carried out by foreign hands to blemish the image of resistance groups and impede the power transfer to the interim government," Rushdi Al-Ani, professor of history and Islamic civilization in Baghdad University, told IslamOnline.net on Sunday, June27 .
Now, who could THAT be, I wonder? - M. R.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a long-awaited ruling last week related to Vice President Dick Cheney's 2001 energy task force. It was a big disappointment for three reasons.
How many ducks had to die to keep Dick safe? :) - M. R.
4.5 earthquake hits Midwest, 6.7, Alaska...
Watch out for dem terrurust beer coolers!...
The Supreme Court Monday decided the case of a terror suspect Jose Padilla on narrow procedural grounds and ruled a federal court in New York lacked jurisdiction over the case, a decision that sidestepped whether President Bush has the power to detain him.
Terang man rocked by drop-in...
Maybe I'll add an official WRH hard hat to the store. - M. R.
Federal Reserve starts to turn the screws...
Neocon theorist Michael Ledeen draws more from Italian fascism than from the American Right.
It was the SISMI [(Italian) Military
Intelligence and Security Service] that came into
contact, between October and November 2001, with an
African dimplomat who was selling forged documents
(the six pages reproduced on these pages) about a
trade in "500 tonnes of pure uranium per annum, for
delivery in two installments," between Niger and Iraq.
A book review in today's of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily, exposes Algerian "Islamic terrorism" as being run by the Algerian security agencies, at least since the military coup there in 1991.
The "terrorists" are actually government thugs scaring the people into agreeing with the dictators.
- M. R.
US-led occupation authorities have come under fresh criticism for the way in which they have spent Iraqi oil revenues during the past year of occupation.
In a report due for release today, Christian Aid, the UK-based international development charity, says the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) has approved a flurry of spending commitments using Iraqi funds with few controls ahead of Wednesday's handover of sovereignty.
Sept. 11 panel finds long Bin Laden link to Iran...
"Bin laden is linked to Afghanistan" BANG!
"Umm, okay, wrong there. Bin Laden is linked to Iraq!" BANG!
"Sorry, our bad. Bin Laden is linked to Iran!" BANG!
"Maybe Saudi Arabia?" BANG!
"Hey, we'll get it right some day." BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! - M. R.
"Umm, okay, wrong there. Bin Laden is linked to Iraq!" BANG!
"Sorry, our bad. Bin Laden is linked to Iran!" BANG!
"Maybe Saudi Arabia?" BANG!
"Hey, we'll get it right some day." BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! - M. R.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party lost control of its Milan power base in local elections, in another setback for the conservatives following their defeat in European parliamentary polls.
Another pro-war politician takes his party down in flames.
- M. R.
Israeli shot dead by LA cops...
The man bolted after being stopped in a drug investigation, but the spin is that he was "confused".
- M. R.
Sharon convenes meeting after rocket attack...
How lucky for Sharon that HAMAS "attacks" just in time to distract the world from the UN's comments about Israel's nuclear weapons. - M. R.
China overtook the United States as a recipient of foreign direct investment in 2003 as companies broadened their strategies in emerging markets, according to a report published Monday.
This is what happens when a country turns its back on manufacturing in favor of trying to create wealth by shaking the money back and forth with great rapidity. - M. R.
Large Meteor Observed Over South East Texas
Over South East Texas
Large Meteor Observed Over South East Texas Over South East Texas...
In a new type of Web attack that could begin to spread, security experts estimate hundreds of thousands of Internet users unwittingly got their PCs compromised last week simply by clicking on a favorite Web page.
WRH is not using the OS and server software that is vulnerable to this attack. - M. R.
U.S. returns sovereignty to Iraq...
Sorta, kinda, not counting thousands of orders Bremer has imposed on the puppet regime, and of course, that huge army in Iraq still under US control. - M. R.
Earlier this week Secretary of State Colin Powell admitted that the State Department’s boast that terrorist attacks against America were down in 2003 was a fraud (it only looked at part of the year and in fact attacks were at a record high). Powell claimed that the earlier assertion that terrorism was down had been a mistake.
Some mistake.
'The liberation of Baghdad is not far away'...
As Bremer hands a stack of papers (and not much else) to the puppet regime, the Iraqi people start planning to take their country back. - M. R.
The UN has called on Israel to put an end to the imbalance of power in the Middle East by dismantling its own nuclear weapons.
"Nuclear weapons? WHAT nuclear weapons? We don't got to show you no stinkin' nuclear weapons! The UN are a bunch of anti-Semites anyway!" - M. R.
The 'evil empire' is next door, youth say...
From Canada. - M. R.
The Emergency Alert System was once an unavoidable reminder of Cold War threats, an unearthly buzzing sound that interrupted TV and radio broadcasts and ended with the iconic proclamation "This is only a test."
These days, the tests are much shorter, less obtrusive - and easy to miss. But the system, emblematic of the nation's emergency alert network, is a mess, says a group of leading state and local disaster response officials.
A mysterious Internet virus being spread Friday by possibly thousands of infected websites may be aimed at stealing valuable financial information, security experts warned.
Ah yes, the virus and worm writers, saving the world again.
- M. R.
A current Justice official who knows the memo's contents said it specifically authorized the CIA to use "waterboarding," in which a prisoner is made to believe he is suffocating.
Actually it's a forced drowning to just short of death. You know, college frat kind of stuff according to Pills Limbaugh. You wouldn't mind if it was being done to you, or to your kids while you were forced to watch, right? And after two years of such treatment of "detainees", no WMDs, no Osama, no 9-11 perps have been found. Which should prove to any reasonable mind that the US has been looking in the wrong places all along.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11. - M. R.
The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq summoned news outlets to photograph her son's flag-draped casket arriving at Sacramento International Airport to protest a Pentagon policy banning media coverage of America's war dead.
Axis of Logic - The Part of the 9-11 Story Michael Moore Missed!...
"Fahrenheit 9/11" becomes the most successful documentary ever!...
Disney stockholders, take note. - M. R.
The issue of whether British Prime Minister Tony Blair's staff tried to manipulate the media has become central to an inquiry into the UK's pre-war intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, newspapers reported today.
Lord Butler has dropped a bombshell on Downing Street by reopening the investigation into whether Prime Minister Tony Blair deliberately misled Britain over the claim that Saddam Hussein could use weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes.
The recent British elections proved that nobody bought the Hutton Whitewash.
Now then, about David Kelly's death... - M. R.
Khodorkovsky's got Nigerian wife...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky hired PR companies to manufactrure email letter writing campaigns to Putin, but now "Nigerian scammers" are flooding the net with hoax emails using his name as a lure. - M. R.
The false promise of missile defence...
The claim that the Ballistic Misile Defense system will aid the war on terroir is just snake-oil salesmanship. - M. R.
How has the US governmental apparatus become so powerful in the marketplace and what does it mean to the health of our economy?
A New Pseudostate...
Iraq will soon have its sovereignty, not counting several thousand imposed rules by the US enforced by all those soldiers. - M. R.
Billions of dollars belonging to Iraq is not accounted for by the Coalition Provisional Authority, which was given responsibility by the United Nations for the country's finances, British lawmakers and aid activists said Monday.
40,000 protest Bush in Turkey...
Based on prior performance, we can assume CNN is under-reporting the numbers. - M. R.
Fahrenheit 9/11: Why the Far Right is Trying to Keep Americans From Seeing It and the Lies, Frauds and Deceptions They're Using
Fahrenheit 9/11: Why the Far Right is Trying to Keep Americans From Seeing It and the Lies, Frauds and Deceptions They're Using...
I think we are past "right" and "left" on this film. I am a conservative, myself, a "paleo-con", middle of the road, vote the issues, not the hairstyles, and with one notable exception I also agree that Moore's film should be seen by everyone.
I think the real split isn't left-right, but war-profiteers versus everyone else. After all, the people pushing for war have millions of dollars to spend for professional public relations firms while those of us who oppose the war do so pro bono.
The issue isn't ideology, the issue is money. - M. R.
No wonder Bush is running scared - 25 years of neo-conservative ascendancy in the US is under grave threat .
Congress Passes Bill to Force Payment on Western Shoshone Land Struggle -- A Sad Day for the Rule of Law in the United States, but the Fight’s not Over Say the Western Shoshone.
Congress has "extinquished" the Shonone land titles. This is the new euphemism for "land grab". The Shoshone did not want their titles extinquished, nor do they think pennies per acre is a fair price. - M. R.
June 27, 2004
The World Trade Center was destroyed just days after a heightened security alert was lifted at the landmark 110-story towers, security personnel said yesterday.
Daria Coard, 37, a guard at Tower One, said the security detail had been working 12-hour shifts for the past two weeks because of numerous phone threats. But on Thursday, bomb-sniffing dogs were abruptly removed.
Arab TV shows tape of purported U.S. hostage...
And JUST in time for the start of the weekly news cycle.
- M. R.
The ambassador replies: "When you're under attack by people who come and kill your countrymen and visitors to your country, and you see at the same time an attack on the kingdom from the outside, from Zionist circles, it is natural to make a connection."
In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.
The House,