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November 30, 2004
The U.S. government and Israel believe that is not enough....
No matter what Iran agrees to, the US and Israel will raise the demands. The objective is not disarmament but invasion, not safety but conquest, not peace but war. - M. R.
Alaska Recount 2004...
The protesters set up a styrofoam statue of Bush, and then pulled it down in a scene similar to what U.S. soldiers did with a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad following the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
As many as 5,000 protesters thronged the streets around Parliament Hill Tuesday, hundreds of them briefly scuffling with police as they demonstrated against visiting U.S. president George W. Bush.
In the Ukraine, citizens are in the streets protesting what they charge is a fixed election. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell expresses this nation's concern about apparent voting irregularities. The media give the dispute around-the-clock coverage. But in the United States, massive and systemic voter irregularities go unreported and unnoticed.
Mujahideen With Fresh Fighters Now Control 70% Of Fallujah...
Black Box Voting has filed a lawsuit to require Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Teresa LaPore to turn over the public records request filed by Black Box Voting on Nov. 2, 2004. The records request contains vital diagnostic audit documents which will be used to audit and verify the accuracy of the Palm Beach County election results from NOv. 2, 2004. Thirteen more Florida counties, and up to 80 Ohio counties, are scheduled for similar litigation shortly, if they fail to comply.
Protesters clashed with riot police in Ottawa briefly on Tuesday in a break from what has been for the most part a calm, orderly demonstration.
Corporate Takeover Of Government Well Underway...
Problems within TSA are legion. In the rush to hire a new workforce, 28,000 screeners were put to work without background checks. Some of them were convicted felons. Many were very young, uneducated, with little job experience. At Kennedy and LaGuardia airports in New York, police arrested dozens of TSA employees who were simply stealing valuables from the luggage they were assigned to inspect. Of course, TSA has banned locks on checked luggage, leaving passengers with checked bags totally at the mercy of screeners working behind closed doors.
A top US general called on Friday for bolder international action to stop the "spread of Muslim extremism", suggesting curbs were needed to prevent the Internet and other media from being used by groups like Al Qaeda.
Not to mention Americans who resent being lied to by the government.
- M. R.
Just days before a medical journal was to publish a Food and Drug Administration-sponsored study that raised concerns about the safety of the arthritis drug Vioxx, an FDA official took the unusual step of calling the editor to raise questions about the findings' scientific integrity, suggests e-mail obtained by USA TODAY.
So let me get this right. The FDA gets their budget from the taxpayer, yet when an FDA taxpayer-funded study indicates that taxpayers may be dying from Vioxx the FDA tries to suppress the results of the study????? - M. R.
Universities may bar military recruiters from their campuses without risking the loss of federal money, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
Citibank Japan Chief Apologizes...
As usual, Bush protesters will be hidden from his view......
Suicide bomber rams U.S. convoy on Baghdad's airport road as U.S. death toll equals monthly high...
RIDGE TO RESIGN...
Bush Visits Canada Amid Anti-War Protests...
Campaign Extra!: Beware of evil right-wing Lapto Plobbyists!...
Say that one three times fast!
- M. R.
The calculations indicate that the refusal to supply adequate voting machines to democratic and minority areas was a deliberate strategy. The information is worth reading in its entirety.
Ironically, the Democratic Party knows how to highlight election fraud and start national movements to bring down administrations that try to steal elections. A Party-affiliated group has helped do it four times in the past four years.
But not in Ohio, Florida, or anywhere else in the USA.
"They think destroying Fallujah will stop the resistance? We already see the resistance spreading everywhere now," he says, his cigarette waving about in the air, "Even if they bomb every city in Iraq, the resistance will continue to spread."
In a defeat for the Bush administration, the 35 countries of the United Nations nuclear agency board adopted a mildly worded resolution Monday welcoming Iran's freeze of a sensitive part of its nuclear program.
"Dammit, dammit, dammit, DAMMIT!!!" -- Voice heard from inside the White House.
- M. R.
Listen to audio from the Election hearings in Columbus and see the events at the polls from Columbus, Ohio on Election Day!
The Free Press on Election Day posted a disturbing story, later confirmed by the Columbus Dispatch. The Free Press reported that Franklin County Board of Elections Director Matt Damschroder deliberately withheld voting machines from predominantly black Democratic wards in Columbus, and dispersed some of the machines to affluent suburbs in Franklin County.
Student accused in slashings allegedly says God made him do it
Recent research has identified a genetic predisposition to religion. Many readers complained when I equated this with a genetic predisposition towards schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. But, looking at the symptomology on display, including religion-induced violence up to and including total war, all because one hears voices nobody else can ...
- M. R.
"Expert": Osama comin' to GETCHA if'n you don't do what we say...
3 excerpts from mainstream news sites reveals that the big news organizations are still under-reporting the Ohio recount efforts. The Cincinnati Post is blatantly lying about it!!!
The dossier says NCO instructors demanded sexual favours from both male and female rookies in exchange for an easier life.
Girls who made rape complaints were ignored or threatened with disciplinary action.
Other female recruits said they were urinated on, made to swim in a cesspool or go running almost naked.
A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that Red Cross officials have "made their view known" that the indefinite detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amounts to torture.
"We don't use torture and I'll flog anyone who says we do!"
- M. R.
Security will be tight Tuesday and Wednesday for U.S. President George Bush's visit to Canada, but protesters insist their voices will be heard.
Christmas Less About Christ, More About Consumerism...
"Angels we have heard on high, tell us to go out and buy!"
Or hadn't you noticed that the lead story of the holiday season was the $8 billion shopping binge?
For myself, I miss the part about "Peace on Earth". I miss it a lot. - M. R.
The Ohio Democratic Party announced this week that it is supporting a third-party-led effort to force the battleground state to recount its presidential vote.
Members of Chile’s right-wing political parties are holding firm in their decision not to apologize for their part in human rights abuses during the Pinochet dictatorship, following the publication Monday of the Valech torture report.
Smiling Frowned Upon in Visa Photographs...
After all, they make sure you won't smile while traveling.
- M. R.
Disintegrating security in Baghdad was underlined in a sombre warning yesterday from the British embassy against using the airport road or taking a plane out of Iraq.
Lycos launches anti-spam zombie army...
This one includes a link to the download page.
- M. R.
Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail.
Lycos hopes it will make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out.
The net firm estimates that if enough people sign up and download the tool, spammers could end up paying to send out terabytes of data.
Hmmm, I have a couple old CPUs sitting here not doing anything...
- M. R.
To combat the Bush administration's penchant for secrecy, U.S. citizens have been forced to unearth new sources for information they once read in their daily newspapers. But thanks to a few dedicated individuals and not-for-profit groups – and the Internet – such material is easier to come by than ever before.
A Certified Public Accountant in San Jose, Calif., Banister has been telling his clients they don't need to file federal income tax returns because the 16th Amendment, which gives Congress "power to lay and collect taxes on incomes," was never properly ratified.
But IRS spokesman Anthony Burke insisted Banister's reasoning already has been thoroughly vetted.
Note that in years of this question being raised, the Federal Government has never once actually displayed the required bills of ratifications from the necessary states. Their reply is always "We looked at it and trust us, it's legal". In light of the assurances from this same government that Iraq had nuclear weapons, I submit that the burden of proof is on the government to PROVE the amendment was ratified, and the assurance of an authority figure will not suffice, especially a judge whose paycheck is paid from those taxes in question.
- M. R.
Amazingly enough, although many in our country would just as soon "forget" about Vietnam and the related events, the same modus operandi that led us into Vietnam has led us into war in Iraq; fabrication of information to justify preemptive attacks and further escalate these wars. We certainly have become the aggressor nation in violation of the Nuremberg Code.
AN AMERICAN P.O.W. -- IN AMERICA...
Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will today file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
"German law in this area is leading the world," Peter Weiss, Vice President of the New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a human rights group, was quoted as saying in Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper's Tuesday edition.
According to the group, German law allows war criminals to be investigated wherever they may be living.
U.S. Court Throws Out Discrimination Suit By Jewish Soldier...
Another Israeli spy gets caught, and screams "persecution".
- M. R.
THE MOTHER OF ALL SCANDALS...
Relinked in light of the latest story about an Israeli spy trying to claim his arrest was motivated by race and not espionage.
- M. R.
FLASHBACK: American Engineer Who Admitted Giving Classified Information to Israel is Back at Work...
Relinked in light of the Israeli spy trying to claim his arrest was racially motivated.
- M. R.
Anti-Berlusconi strike cripples Italy...
This is how a people take back their country from a corrupt ruler.
First the Ukrainians, now the Italians; when will Americans show such spine?
- M. R.
The rest of the world, which owns hefty portions of US stocks, bonds and dollars, is starting to question the long-cherished belief that American investments are inherently safer. US investors would be well-served giving their portfolios a closer inspection and asking themselves the same question.
The US military has prevented an aid convoy from reaching the besieged city of Falluja, a doctor based in Baghdad who accompanied the convoy says.
This jibes with reports of chemical weapons being employed by the US. Clearly, no witness are wanted to the aftermath.
- M. R.
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and State Prosecutor Eran Shendar welcomed the Supreme Court's Monday conviction of Shimon Sheves, former director general of the Prime Minister's Office under Yitzhak Rabin, who was found guilty of fraud and breach of trust in what prosecutors called an important victory in the fight against corruption.
... forgetting that similar charges against Ariel Sharon and his son were quietly dropped.
- M. R.
One of two teenage girls arrested in the West Bank while stealing olives from a Palestinian orchard was found to have a message on her cell phone advocating the assassination of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Donor countries won't fund Israeli-planned separate roads for Palestinians...
The NERVE of those other countries, refusing to pay for a new Apartheid!!!
- M. R.
10,000 additional soldiers, Marines to secure elections
Are they handing out bullets with Allawi's name on them?
- M. R.
What people really need from employment is what the paycheck and money are supposed to buy: food, housing, clothing, etc. How to go about getting these and other essentials – without the middle man or the boss or the taxman – is the real revolution.
Prime Minister John Howard has defied pressure from Asian nations over his refusal to sign a non-aggression pact, saying Australia was not afraid to differ with its regional neighbours.
In setting limits on chemicals in food and water, the Environmental Protection Agency may rely on industry tests that expose people to poisons and raise ethical questions.
"Well, this stuff only killed 10% of the people we dusted with it, so, well, I guess it's okay to sell."
- M. R.
Chile Torture Victims to Get Compensation...
Left unmentioned in this article is that the United States Government supported Pinochet in his overthrow of Allende and subsequent use of torture on dissenters.
- M. R.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the U.S. military of using tactics "tantamount to torture" on prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
November 29, 2004
Iran agrees to a freeze on nuke programs...
Anyone care to bet what excuse George and Ariel comes up with to invade anyway?
- M. R.
U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Nears Record...
"I finally beat my father at something!!!" -- Dubya
- M. R.
'Spy' crisis souring Israel-New Zealand relations...
New Zealand at least has the courage to stand up to the spies!
- M. R.
Nearly a month after John Kerry conceded Ohio to President Bush, complaints and challenges about the balloting are mounting as activists including the Rev. Jesse Jackson demand closer scrutiny to ensure the votes are being counted on the up-and-up.
A Close Look at Fallujah Insurgents’ Lab
A Close Look at Fallujah Insurgents’ Lab
It looks like a shelf in an elderly lady’s bathroom, scattered with half-full and almost empty bottles so old the faded labels are peeling off. But Qassem Daoud, Iraq’s national security adviser and Prime Minister Allawi’s confidant, calls it a “chemical laboratory” where Fallujan insurgents supposedly made “deadly explosives and poisons,” including anthrax.
Noninsurgents probably have more chemical containers underneath the kitchen sink at home.
A columnist in The Washington Post recently suggested that nostalgia for paper ballots, in today's reliably computerized world, must reflect a Luddite disdain for technology in general or an Oliver Stone-style paranoia about the schemings of the political world.
Not at all. It can also arise from a clear understanding of how computers work - and don't. The more you know about the operations of today's widely trusted commercial computer networks, the more concerned you become about most electronic-voting systems.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says Ohioans should not stand for the way elections were run in Ohio Nov. 2, and he planned to bring his message directly to Cincinnati today.
As the dollar leaves behind the support in the 84 - 85 area on the index, the rate of decline is accelerating. The big questions now, of course, are "How far will it drop?" and "Are we in for a full-blown dollar crisis?" The simple answer to these questions is "a very long way" and "yes," respectively.
Web Won't Let Government Hide...
Quietly released Pentagon report contains major criticisms of administration.
Lawyers acting for a U.S. advocacy group will file war crimes charges in Germany against senior U.S. administration officials for their alleged role in torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Colombia's government on today backpedalled on a sensational claim made by the defense minister that Marxist rebels wanted to assassinate President Bush during a recent state visit.
"The professor said that a whopping 42% of listed stocks at the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and AMEX, and 47% of unlisted stocks in the OTCBB and Pink Sheets had persistent fails of 5 days or more with 4% being above the SEC's threshold limits for failures."
The industry sells shares without delivering them to the buyer. Although they show up in the buyer's brokerage statement, the buyer only receives an IOU. The SEC doesn't know how to fix it as it will cost the industry too much money to deliver what they owe, potentially bankrupting some firms.
- M. R.
German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau reports that US human rights organization CCR (Center for Constitutional Rights) files tomorrow (Tuesday) war crime suit in Karlsruhe, Germany against Rumsfeld, Tenet, Sanchez and other US officials:
German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau reports that US human rights organization CCR (Center for Constitutional Rights) files tomorrow (Tuesday) war crime suit in Karlsruhe, Germany against Rumsfeld, Tenet, Sanchez and other US officials:...
News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around the world.
One guy talked about guard duty in Kosovo one day and getting angry about being there, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of nothing. He saw a mentally ill child who always came to the gate, asking for candy. The soldier told him to come over, and then he punched him as hard as he could, over and over, just to see if the kid would come back the next day. When he did, the soldier beat him again, laughing.
One Month Later, Fight Over Ohio Continues...
To begin with, there was no Schindler's List.
MR. RUSSERT: Governor Kean, you said Americans are not going to be as safe. Do you believe if we don't pass this bill now, you, in effect, are risking lives?
MR. KEAN: I think you could put it just that way, yeah, because we know there's another attack coming. You and I can't say if it's next week or six months from now. But it's coming. And unless we take steps now--and 80 percent of the American people want this bill passed. Unless we take these steps now, it's going to be the new Congress going to come in; there are inefficiencies in the way the new Congress organizes, always. It's going to take at least six months. So six months where none of these things will happen: not better security at the borders, not more help for local people, nothing. Nothing. And I don't think we can wait that long, and I think it does, in essence, risk lives.
U.S. Says It Has Right to Report Iran Nuke Case to UN...
A single unknown source walks in with a pile of unverifiable documents that even US experts are saying are not reliable, but Bush is headed for the UN to try to get a rubber stamp for another conquest.
- M. R.
Challenge the Silence...
US dollar slide continues...
Sharon: European deal won't stop Iran's nuclear plans...
Remember when Sharon was cheerleading the US attack on Iraq, saying that Iraq had all these nasty weapons of mass destruction we should all be afraid of?
- M. R.
The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury fell, pushing its yield to a three-month high, on speculation foreign central banks and investors will reduce their holdings of the securities amid the dollar's decline.
Sworn statements from public hearings held at the Franklin County Courthouse November 15:
The 2004 US Elections: The Mother of all Vote Frauds...
Updated.
- M. R.
The Reichstag fires on February 27, 1933 were a disaster for Communists because they were blamed for starting the fires, but they were a dream come true for Hitler in his quest for power as they allowed him to transform Germany from a democracy into a dictatorship. The rest, as they say, is history.
New Zealand advises citizens against all travel to Saudi Arabia...
IDF dismantles `outpost' in Neveh Dekalim...
One hut. That's the illegal outpost that was taken down (and quickly rebuilt), just one hut.
- M. R.
The Cost of Virus Protection Rises...
Isn't it cheaper to shoot the virus writers?
- M. R.
For even the most trustworthy of organisations, operating the most trustworthy of web sites, can find themselves inadvertently spreading malicious software through its pages – through no fault of their own.
For the record, at this site all ads are limited to the banners shown and are hosted on our own server. No code other than the hyper-link to the advertisers' pages is allowed. Now, obviously we cannot vouch for the safety and security of sites we link to, either for advertising or for stories. But the ads themselves are safe. The occasional message you might get from our site asking permission to download a file is a known bug that happens when you try to load the web page at the same exact moment it is being rebuilt from the template. The "file" is just garbage, so refuse the download, empty your browser cache, reload and everything should be fine. We are soon to upgrade the system and hopefully that bug will go away.
- M. R.
Weaker-than-expected holiday shopping forced Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Saturday to cut its projected sales increase for November by more than half, an ominous announcement for retailers as their busiest time of year begins.
But that may not be all. Charles Grassley, head of the Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has said benefit cuts and tax increases also have to be considered. "Anybody who thinks borrowing money for the transition to personal accounts is going to solve the problem of the long-term solvency of Social Security doesn't understand the size of the problem," he said.
Which is what I have been saying all along. For decades, the Federal government has been "borrowing" Social Security money to balance the Federal books. As predicted, they cannot pay it back. So, benefits you have already paid for get cut, or you get taxed a second time to pay for the benefits again (with no guarantee that the Federal Government won't "borrow" that money and spend it as well), or both.
- M. R.
A mandatory draft is coming and it will come soon. Make no mistake about it. If you have a 'specialty' field such as health care worker or even computer skills (such as a degree in computer science), you could be 'drafted' into government service up to the age limit of 44 years old.
6,635 bodies in Baghdad mortuary: counting cost of crime and chaos...
Violent crime skyrockets under US rule.
- M. R.
Ukraine's eastern region to hold referendum on autonomy...
M7.1 quake hits Hokkaido; 14 injured...
Israel, purportedly our friend, has been spying on us all. And we're not talking about individual spooks like Jonathan Pollard, or small-time networks such as the 140 Israelis arrested by the FBI prior to 9/11, or the 5 who were arrested who were cheering and celebrating as the World Trade Towers collapsed.
Israel has had a potential wiretap on every phone in America for years, along with the ability to monitor and record who any person is calling, anywhere in America.
More Signs of a Military Unraveling...
Worries about the sustainability of the US economic recovery were stoked on Sunday after Wal-Mart, the discount retailer that is a bellwether for the country's retail sector, announced that sales grew by only 0.7 per cent in the year to November.
THE CAMPAIGN TO DECRIMINALIZE WORLD WAR II HISTORY...
Truth needs no laws to support it. Throughout history, only lies and liars have resorted to the courts to enforce adherence to dogma.
- M. R.
A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood.
Massive D.C. Counter-Inaugural Demonstration Jan 20...
Jesse Jackson demands Ohio presidential recount, blasts GOP election officials, and says Kerry supports the process
Preaching to a packed, wildly cheering central Ohio citizen congregation, Rev. Jesse Jackson blasted the presidential election back into the national headlines Sunday. Jackson said new findings cast serious doubt on the idea that George W. Bush beat John Kerry in Ohio November 2. A GOP "pattern of intentionality" was behind a suspect outcome, he said. At stake is "the integrity of the vote" for which "too many have died." "We can live with losing an election," he said. "We cannot live with fraud and stealing."
Killing the wounded and bombing civilians is policy from the U.S. top. How can this be denied, when we are told so up front? If we allow it, as in Abu Ghraib prison, a guilty few will be scapegoats for the acts of their leaders.
Nuclear Disclosures on Iran Unverified
Nuclear Disclosures on Iran Unverified
The information provided by the source, who was not previously known to U.S. intelligence, does not mention uranium or any other area of Iran’s known nuclear program, according to the official with access to the material. It focuses instead on a warhead design and modifications to Iran’s long-range Shahab-3 missile and a medium-range missile in its arsenal. The Shahab-3 has a range of 800 miles and is capable of hitting Israel.
The official said the CIA remains unsure about the authenticity of the documents and how they came into the informant’s possession. A second official would say only that there are questions about the source of the information.
The source makes a point of saying Israel is threatened and they wonder who the source is? Why is the word "Intelligence" used in connection with these bozos?
- M. R.
The source of intelligence used this week by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to suggest Iran is working on a nuclear weapons program may not be reliable, knowledgeable sources told CNN Friday.
No kidding. - M. R.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has criticized the United States for not taking measures to halt the slide in the dollar and insisted that China will not revalue the yuan under pressure.
Last month the Bush administration handed a multinational mining
company 155 acres of federally owned, prime mountaintop real
estate near a Colorado ski resort. The price? Just $5 an acre
(a total of $875), in an area where 1/10 of an acre fetches as
much as $100,000.
The head of a parliamentary commission investigating the September hostage seizure at a school in southern Russia said there is evidence of involvement by a foreign intelligence agency, the Interfax news agency reported Saturday.
Why Wasn't Osama Bin Laden Captured During This 1998 ABC Interview?...
Because the US Government needed Osama free to play the villain and help launch a US war of conquest?
- M. R.
US building army base near Iran border...
Sharon calls for stronger action against Iran...
Just so you know who it is your children are really being killed and crippled for.
- M. R.
The Bush administration continues its sheer hypocrisy with regard to his fantasy about WMD that began from Iraq. The existence of a tremendous stockpile of WMD in one Middle Eastern country is systematically ignored. Alone among its neighbors, Israel possesses an advanced nuclear capability and a sophisticated delivery system. “No country in the Middle East has more weapons of mass destruction than Israel and no other country other than Israel has escaped scrutiny of its nuclear arsenal,” reports the Center for Defense Information. Yet Israel is never publicly recognized as the largest producer of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East region.
November 28, 2004
The Ukrainian opposition gave President Leonid Kuchma an ultimatum on Sunday, warning that it would block his movements unless he fired Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich and fulfilled other demands within 24 hours.
The story of the last week has been the fall and fall of the dollar with the currency touching daily record lows against the euro.
There is a long way yet to fall. - M. R.
King Abdullah II stripped his half brother and heir apparent of his title as crown prince in an abrupt shake-up Sunday aimed at redeeming the full power the king inherited from his late father.
Iran Allegedly Builds Secret Facility for Nuke Program...
"Look, I know we lied about Iraq, and I know that everyone who has actually been to Iran says they are only working on civilian power plants, but trust me, this time I really, really, REALLY know for sure that those nasty smelly ol' Iranians (and they dress funny too) are a' cookin' up something really, really, REALLY nasty in that secret tunnel. Yep. Sure enough. Really. Honest. Cross my heart and hope... someone else dies."
- M. R.
Sharon: European deal won't stop Iran's nuclear plans...
"Bomb 'em. Bomb 'em NOW! God will love you for it. Trust me, they're bad people. Would I lie to you?"
- M. R.
Some of the largest anti-virus companies have virtually ignored the spyware problem because there is no profit incentive for them to do otherwise. Meanwhile, spyware companies make millions.
Iran Group Signs Up Suicide Volunteers...
Iran has halted its nuclear enrichment program, so the Neocons have to gin up another excuse to invade.
- M. R.
The disregard shown by the Democratic Party and the mainstream media for the serious questions and concerns about how private companies count our votes “smacks of complicity.” Despite their oft-repeated promise that “every vote” would “be counted,” before the ballots could even be tallied in the crucial swing state of Ohio, Sen. John Forbes Kerry had conceded defeat.
When the euro was launched in 1999, politicians in the single currency area predicted it would come to rival the dollar as an international currency.
Almost six years later, as the dollar spirals lower under the weight of US economic imbalances and talk of central bank selling, analysts say the euro may be finally emerging as a credible alternative to the ailing greenback.
The head of a parliamentary commission investigating the September hostage seizure at a school in southern Russia said there is evidence of involvement by a foreign intelligence agency, the Interfax news agency reported Saturday.
Articles in the NYT in the last two days demonstrate the inability of the American political culture to respond to its most pressing economic threats: out of control budget and trade deficits and threats to the dollar. Once the international community loses confidence in the dollar, the U.S. and the world economy is at risk.
India, China and other countries have started dumping US Dollar quietly and buying Euro. That put a very serious pressure on US Dollar. Chinese and Indian central bank officials denied such reports. But Foreign exchange traders say they are quite convinced of Indian and Chinese moves. According some traders, there are many other countries specially oil rich Middle Eastern countries running away from dollar.
Ship spills 30,000 gallons of oil near Philadelphia...
Electoral fix: never mind the Ukraine, both the UK and the US are anti-democratic states...
Killer Bullfrogs On The Loose In BC...
One bite and you'll croak :) - M. R.
Russia ‘will back force’ by Ukraine president...
U.S. uses napalm gas in Fallujah – Witnesses...
Ever since 22 percent of the country's voters said on Nov. 2 that they cared most about "moral values," opportunistic ayatollahs on the right have been working overtime to inflate this nonmandate into a landslide by ginning up cultural controversies that might induce censorship by a compliant F.C.C. and, failing that, self-censorship by TV networks. Seizing on a single overhyped poll result, they exaggerate their clout, hoping to grab power over the culture.
The use of eminent domain, especially when the land is being taken for a private business and not a highway or other public purpose, has come under fire across the country. Several lawsuits are pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, which is set to look at the issue in the spring.
If the neoconservatives want to fight imperialistic wars, their children should fight in those wars.
Ukrainian Police Use Tear-Gas Against Demonstrators...
Eta train bomb theory gathers pace...
This is rich. Aznar points in one direction and the FBI points in another. - M. R.
After 800 years, church leaders are still making bones over claim to saintly relics...
"Okay, I have a foot from St. Gregory; what have you got to trade?"
- M. R.
The dollar may drop for an eighth week and set a record low against the euro after the world's major central banks signaled they will allow the currency to extend its slide, a Bloomberg survey indicates.
FBI Finds Link Between 9/11, Madrid Bombs...
Suuuuure they did. Anyone remember how the taggants in the Madrid explosives pointed back to a company in the US?
- M. R.
Prison can breed surprising friendships.
Take, for example, anti-nuclear activist and Dominican nun Carol Gilbert and America's most famous fallen homemaker, Martha Stewart.
57 Rural Counties Affected - Vote Fraud Suspected
Rachelle Waterman had posted to an online journal dating back to February. In the journals, which she titled "My crappy life, the inside look of an insane person." She says she lives in Hell, Alaska, details conflicts with her mother and writes about a desire to commit violent acts against herself and others, KRBD reported.
One of her last entries was posted Nov. 14, hours after troopers say Arrant told her her mother had been killed. In the entry, she writes about her trip to Anchorage and having purchased some new boots, KRBD reported.
In a final entry last Thursday, Waterman wrote that her mother had been murdered and that she would not have computer access for a few days because police were confiscating it, KRBD reported.
As Republican Guard strategists suck U.S. combat troops further north into unwanted urban areas like Fallujah, Samarra, Kirkuk and Mosul, America's supply lines from Kuwait in the far south become longer and thinner. Eventually those supply lines will be attacked by the Shi'ite Mehdi Army and cut completely, thereby starving the U.S. combat troops into surrender. To understand how and why this will happen, we need to travel back in time to March 1954.
Iraq war veterans face long-lasting mental health issues, official says...
You can't invade another nation on flimsy pretexts while gunning down a lot of innocent people and remain entirely cheerful.
- M. R.
SC orders more touch-screen voting machines...
Group Files Suit To Overturn Rejected Ballots...
MORE POLLING PLACE LOCKDOWNS...
It turns out that other polling centers in states with odd election results were also under "terror" lockdown, keeping the process unobserved.
- M. R.
The choice of Iyad Allawi, closely linked to the CIA and formerly to MI6, as the Prime Minister of Iraq from 30 June will make it difficult for the US and Britain to persuade the rest of the world that he is capable of leading an independent government.
Iyad Allawi, a former member of Saddam Hussein 's Baath party who worked with the CIA to topple him, was chosen as prime minister of Iraq May 28, 2004. (Sergio Perez/Reuters)
He is the person through whom the controversial claim was channeled that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction could be operational in 45 minutes.
THE PORT ARTHUR MASSACRE CONSPIRACY...
The Port Arthur Massacre happened just when Australian gun-grabbers needed such an event to push through their efforts to render the Australian people helpless. But there was one flaw in the plan. The gun used in the shooting was one that was supposed to have already been destroyed by police. - M. R.
"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots." --Barbara Ehrenreich
New Ohio voter transcripts feed floodtide of doubt about Republican election manipulation...
Rwanda's President, Paul Kagame, said his objective was to wipe out Hutu militants sheltering across the border, but there was evidence of an additional reason: protecting Rwanda's riches.
In a landmark judgment, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that European troops who are in control of a foreign country can be prosecuted under human rights law for breaching the civil rights of local people.
First US Retreat From Fallujah Reported Mujahideen Retake The Old City...
Washington > Bush's Social Security Plan Is Said to Require Vast Borrowing" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/politics/28secure.html?oref=regi" target="_blank">Bush's Social Security Plan Is Said to Require Vast Borrowing...
This requires registering to read but is well worth it.
This is the swindle I warned was coming. For decades, the Federal Government has been "borrowing" from the Social Security trust fund to balance the books. Clinton's supposed budget surplus was created by spending the Social Security set-aside money as if it were general funds. The "crisis" in Social Security is that there is little more than IOUs in the fund right now. And given that much of this "borrowing" took place during a supposedly booming economy, it was clear that the circumstances under which that money could be repaid would never exist. Therefore, as I predicted when I first raised this issue back in 1998, one of two things had to happen. Either the benefits we have already paid for would not be available, or someone was going to have to pay a second time over for those benefits. That's what this massive borrowing is for; to replace the money the Federal Government looted from Social Security over the years and stick our children with the payments.
- M. R.
Rights group sues over election results...
Republicans in the United States Congress have moved to block hundreds of millions of pounds in economic aid to foreign nations, unless they agree to shield American personnel and troops from any possible prosecution by the International Criminal Court.
Back when the US moved to shield US officials from the war crimes court I predicted the US was planning to commit war crimes. Time has confirmed that prediction. So, once again, if the US is trying to force other nations to exempt US officials from the International Criminal court, it is because they plan on being International Criminals.
- M. R.
Parliament does represent a country that is composed of an embarrassingly consequential number of what Dubya regards as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys."
Britain poised to send 1,000 more soldiers to Iraq...
Why? I mean, after all, Tony, there were never any weapons of mass destruction. Your infamous 45 minute claim was a hoax, and your dossier stolen from a decade-old student thesis paper. So why are you sending more kids to be killed and crippled?
- M. R.
The American defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, should be sacked, according to a growing chorus of conservative commentators who want him replaced by a figure with wider appeal.
You know, like Paul "lick lick" Wolfowitz.
- M. R.
U.S. Sends in Secret Weapon: Saddam's Old Commandos...
November 27, 2004
Osama bin Laden - A Weapon of Mass Convenience...
I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.
What I never would have imagined, however, is that as a result of the "democratization" of the station's governing process, the chair of the Personnel Committee which oversees the General Manager Hire Subcommittee would be the chief financial officer of KSFO, the right-wing San Francisco radio station that advertises itself as Hot Talk Radio, but whose racist, anti-immigrant, homophobic commentaries have led to it being slammed by its critics, and rightly so, as Hate Talk Radio.
There is no way to recount ballots manually in the current electronic, touch-screen systems used in South Florida.
So, if there is no way to recount, how do they know the discrepancies are "minor"?
- M. R.
A White House spokeswoman told North County News last Friday that citizens should embrace the Election Day results and dismiss recount efforts in Ohio that could hand Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts the presidency.
I'll just bet she did. - M. R.
The reports by the Daily Mail and ITV News came on the eve of the Queen's Speech on Tuesday and were seen as an attempt by the Government to justify the "safety and security" measures dominating its legislative programme.
A group of protesters and bystanders who were arrested during the Republican National Convention in late August and early September on Monday announced the filing of a class-action lawsuit against New York City, Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and numerous police officials.
Reports from across the country found that those attempting to cast votes at Black and Latino area polling sites on Election Day, Nov. 2, faced misleading phone calls, threats that they could face arrest while trying to cast a ballot, proof of identity demands, and attempts to have their votes disqualified.
Democrats claimed the challenges were Republican Party attempts to cause just enough chaos on Election Day to make voting lines grow unbearably long and make people become too discouraged—and too frightened—to vote.
Fundamental flaws put our voting system at risk...
Feds to Investigate Voting Irregularies...
"No need for any citizens to check into the vote fraud, we'll take care of everything!"
- M. R.
A watchdog group sued Friday to try to stop Cuyahoga County's elections board from rejecting thousands of provisional ballots until they are hand checked against voter registration cards.
Pakistan Backs Off Bin Laden Hunt...
Somebody leaked the definition of a 'snipe hunt' to them.
- M. R.
If Bush used the next four years to mend fences, he would be doing the best thing for all of us, including himself, but he will not do this. He is on a tear now, fully assured by his sycophantic staff that all American loves him and that God Himself looks down with great approval on the President.
In his second term, President George Bush appears invincible. That is precisely why his administration should be very, very cautious.
Lords of the flies...
WHAT’S THE LATEST ON THE RECOUNT?...
The Mysterious Murders of the ASM Clerics...
FLASHBACK: WRH: The United States Is In Deep Doodoo!...
Written in 2000, relinked today in light of the dollar's accelerating decline.
- M. R.
Dollar slides to a record low - China, other foreign banks show signs of disenchantment with U.S. currency
Dollar slides to a record low - China, other foreign banks show signs of disenchantment with U.S. currency...
While others with power in the United States (the power of position and wealth) are demanding democracy in the Ukraine, those with the power of numbers - and that means labor - must increase the pressure for accurate recounts and accurate recording of fraud and errors in the U.S. election, even as the corporate media buries the issue.
Imagine the FBI's dismay when it turned out that Adnan Bukhari was still alive, Ameer Bukhari had died a year before and Abdul Rahman Alomari and Amer Kamfar were both still alive and living in Saudi Arabia. It doesn't take a massive leap of imagination to work out that at least four of the five people on this manifest (Flight 11) were using the names and identities of the people listed above.
Israel has been deemed the largest recipient of U.S. military aid and a beneficiary of terms denied most other U.S. allies.
Dean website ‘Democracy for America’ hacked with Nazi imagery Saturday morning...
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Vote swings in Florida in counties with and without e-voting
Something unusual seems to have happened in Broward and Palm Beach counties in 2004. One possibility, as suggested by Hout et al., is cheating, possibly set up ahead of time (e.g., by loading extra votes into the machines before the election or by setting it up to switch or not count some votes). This explanation makes a certain amount of sense, in that, if someone wanted to cheat ahead of time, it would make sense to do it in Florida, and it would make sense to do it in the large-population counties where a 5%-or-so swing in votes could make a difference in the statewide total.
North Carolina's ballot blues...
In case you missed it, the Washington Post published an extraordinary, first-of-its-kind editorial in today’s Thanksgiving issue, denouncing the Bush regime and the anti-democratic forces that control this nation and praising the people in the streets who seek to dismantle the system that has brought so much misery to this nation and the rest of the world. Here is the text of the editorial:
To all the email writers; yes I know the NYT original is about the Ukrain, not America. But the point being made is that there is very little difference. The same stink of vote fraud taints both nations. Only how the people have reacted to the stolen elections marks the difference between Ukrainians and Americans.
- M. R.