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January 31, 2005
Spacewalk thruster incident alarms NASA...
NASA Searches for a Snowball in Hell...
Another example of how elections don`t ever change anything....
US officials misplace $11.4bn...
"It was right here on my desk just a minute ago!" - M. R.
PRESS RELEASE: Prominent Statisticians Refute 'Explanation' of 2004 U.S. Exit Poll Discrepancies in New Edison/Mitofsky Report and Urge Investigation of U.S. Presidential Election Results
According to analysis by the group of senior statisticians, the new data just released by the exit-pollsters shows that the possibility that the overall vote count was substantially corrupted must be taken seriously. “Now we have statistical evidence that these reports were the tip of a national iceberg. The hypothesis that the discrepancy between the exit polls and election results is due to errors in the official election tally is a coherent theory that must be explored,” said statistician Josh Mitteldorf.
A federal judge ruled this morning that special military reviews the Pentagon has used to determine the likely guilt of most of the 500 men held at a prison in Guantanamo Bay -- and to justify their continued imprisonment -- are illegal.
The Bovine Excrement Meter just blew up....
Britain doesn't confirm claims aircraft downed.
"It wasn't an Iraqi surface-to-air missile, it was, it was, it was, it was ... Elvis in a UFO! That's it, it was Elvis. Not the Iraqis. The Iraqis love us." - M. R.
Videotape appears to show Hercules missile hit...
I note that the number of killed keeps shrinking. Yesterday it was 15 British and an unspecified number of Americans (with one report claiming 70 killed total).
Now, as if by magic, only ten British were killed in the crash, riding in an airplane that normally holds 128.
I get the feeling that Bush and Blair are being less than honest with us! - M. R.
Terrorist explosive blows up without flames...
Doesn't it strike you that this is pretty sophisticated stuff for your average political malcontent?
This material sounds like top-drawer spook-shop stuff; not the kind of thing you whip up in your garage. - M. R.
Thank you for your opinion......
... whatever the heck you were trying to say.
- M. R.
Voting in Baghdad was linked with receipt of food rations, several voters said after the Sunday poll.
A British military source told Reuters up to 15 British troops were killed --Britain's biggest single loss of life of the Iraq campaign.
President Bush said both U.S. and British military personnel had lost their lives in the crash. There had been no previous mention of US deaths Reuters noted. The Daily Telegraph mentions an ominous "maximum" of 70 special forces soldiers from both countries aboard the plane.
So, if there were 70 people on board, and 15 were British, then 55 Americans died yesterday.
So, when will ABCNNBCBS report this? - M. R.
The Legacy of George W. Bush...
Media Service had an agent, a Moscow-based company, which would select prettiest girls and send them to Russia's capital. In Moscow, girls would receive Israeli visas and leave Russia. In Tel Aviv, Russian girls would be sent to a slave market, on which they would be sold to pimps from China and Middle Eastern states.
Who's Dying in Our War?...
And why? - M. R.
After such respect, such humiliation...
Israel tears families apart, deports parts, in order to get rid of Israeli Arabs.
- M. R.
Neocons drive the nation toward ruin, Iraqi guerrillas kill our soldiers, veterans are ignored, and Americans fall asleep.
Iraq voter turnout lowered...
And, of course, if you don't really know how many people voted, you cannot know how many of the ballots are fakes.
- M. R.
The United States has essentially stopped trying to build a democratic order in Iraq, and is simply trying to gain stability and legitimacy.
The hawks who launched the Iraq war believed the deal-making exile when he promised to build a secular democracy with close ties to Israel. Now the Israel deal is dead, he's cozying up to Iran -- and his patrons look like they're on the way out.
“At best, Rangel’s bill merely plays into Bush’s hands,” said Galvin. “At worst, it’s a stealth measure intended to supply progressive political cover for pro-draft Democrats.”
...proving once again Democrats are the other side of the same coin... - M. R.
Nasa's mission to the edge of the solar system, and beyond...
U.S. Rebuffs Europe on Iran Nuke Talks...
"Dammit, Israel says, I mean, we wanna INVADE!"
- M. R.
Iran is a much bigger oil producer than Iraq. The surge in prices might be greater this time.
After almost forty years of following US foreign policy -- which included the Cuban missile crisis and Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, the Iranian hostage crisis, Desert Storm I, Kosovo, and numerous other coups, proxy wars, and interventions around the World -- I still can't figure out what good any of this has been for the average American.
How long will the statue last, I wonder?...
Pentagon fingers in corporate pies...oh...& visa versa!
Planners say Israel Apartheid Week will encourage discourse, but opponents insist it will stir hatred.
Girl Is Fifth Child Shot While Inside School
Marine Who Came Home With Mysterious Ailment Fights For Life...
More depleted uranium symptoms?
- M. R.
The Best Damn Embassy Ever!...
Planned US embassy in Iraq to cost $1.5 billion!
- M. R.
The Iraqi Ballot, Translated...
The downing of at least two US/UK aircraft in recent days over Iraq --with record-setting casualties-- means a de facto no fly zone has been declared by rebels equipped with surface-to-air missiles.
As the Middle East conflict burns on, more Europeans are turning against Israel. A growing number subscribe to the belief that the impasse between the Israelis and the Palestinians is the wellspring of much of the world's ills today , and that the blame for all this lies squarely with Israel - and by extension, with its staunchest ally, the United States.
Don't you mean its staunchest SLAVE?
Look how much this war is costing the US not only in money but in international prestige and influence. This nartion will be decades recovering from the damage resulting from this war, which even Bush's own advisors admit was fought for Israel.
Israel has to be blackmailing the leadership of the US to coerce this nation onto such an obviously self-destructive path. - M. R.
Israeli Professor: Shoot Arabs in the Head...
What happened to "grading on the curve"? - M. R.
January 30, 2005
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash but the most likely explanation seemed to be that it had been shot down by insurgents.
Gilgamesh Tomb Believed Found...
Large portions of the Old Testiment, such as the story of the great flood, were copied from the Epic of Gilgamesh, a copy of which was in the library of Pharaoh when Moses/Akhenaton was inventing his new monotheistic religion.
- M. R.
Instead of attempting to ensure that the votes were counted correctly, however, Alameda County election officials engaged in a "going through the motions" exercise where they merely ran the same electronic vote data through the same counting machines and, predictably, reached the same result. They did not consult the machines' audit logs, redundant memories, or any other relevant materials.
Let's get a few things straight......
More on PNAC and that Bullet-Stopper Slavery Letter...
Simon George, co-director of an Assyrian satellite television station, says he received "at least 100 calls" from Assyrians complaining about being deprived of the vote in Christian villages around Mosul (MOH'-sul). He says Assyrian Christians were promised ballot boxes that didn't arrive.
FLASHBACK: War Launched To Protect Israel - Bush Adviser...
"You know, we had to protect Israel from all those Iraqi weapons of mass destruction the Israeli ... spies..... in that ..... Penatgon Office .... ummm.... told us...." - M. R.
Iraqis hadn't been able to choose their leaders at all in recent decades, even by some strange process where they chose unknown leaders. But this process is not a model for anything, and would not willingly be imitated by anyone else in the region. The 1997 elections in Iran were much more democratic, as were the 2002 elections in Bahrain and Pakistan.
U.K., U.S. Deaths Confirmed in Iraq Plane Crash...
Note that there is no number given, and again, confirmation that the wreckage was spread over a wide area, indicating the C-130 came apart high in the air.
- M. R.
Kinda sucks, doesn't it?
Iraq Electoral Commission backtracks on turnout...
Report of 72% turnout "was just an estimate". Actually, it was more like wishful thinking.
- M. R.
Lip implant tissue link with mad cow disease...
Ewwwwwww.
- M. R.
U.S. Court of Appeals Rules IRS Cannot Apply Force Against A Tax Payer Without A Court Order...
The United States is preparing a future invasion of Venezuela to control the petroleum of the South American country as it did in Iraq, said Venezuela's acting ambassador to Paraguay, Elmer Nino.
Ever stop to think how much oil Bush is burning up for all these wars? One flight by a military jet uses more fuel than most cars use in a year.
- M. R.
George Bush Inauguration Protest Video
Not quite the view of the inauguration the mainstream media fed you.
George Bush Inauguration Protest Video Not quite the view of the inauguration the mainstream media fed you....
Freedom in Wonderland...
John Mann, the Labour MP for Bassetlaw, said: 'We've got to be convinced it would work. As such, I'm prepared to book a room in the House of Commons so we can road-test it on politicians first.'
The company who created the chip — Applied Digital Solutions (ADS) — has announced that organizations in Brazil and Mexico have begun implanting the chips in children.
The practice of shuttering suspects and enemies in their own homes has a long and dishonourable history: it is usually the last resort of a regime without the evidence or stomach for a trial.
Activists at a leftist gathering where Microsoft is viewed as a corporate bogeyman urged developing nations Saturday to leap into the information age with free, open-source software.
Fantasy attacks before a fantasy election. Many Iraqis do not know the names of the candidates, let alone their policies.
Asia wary of new Bush doctrine...
Well, when you have a man screaming about nuclear (excuse me, "nookular") weapons while invading countries that don't actually have them, it's going to worry people.
- M. R.
There is a consensus that an attack on Iran would most likely be a very limited war "from space" in which selected targets would be bombed with long-range missiles, and that any possible military backlash would be countered by internal insurgency, in which the MEK would play a lead role.
This was the EXACT plan that led to the Bay of Pigs disaster.
- M. R.
A U.S. military official said the plane's wreckage was scattered over a large area but had no immediate word on casualties.
"Large area" = "Came apart in the air".
Following so soon on the heels of the helicopter crash that took 31 US lives, it is clear that this is not weather. The people of Iraq have acquired the ability to shoot down our aircraft. Having already lost control of the roads, US control of the air is now in doubt. - M. R.
What can we say? The search for Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” has finally ended. None were found, of course. Even the hawks who insisted that Saddam Hussein had
them aren’t demanding that we keep looking.
President Bush, not missing a beat, says the war on Iraq was still justified — even though the very justification he insistently gave for it has been exploded. He now talks as if he’d never believed it himself. He probably didn’t.
StarTek - Capitalism Without Conscience...
Life isn't all roses at the outsourcing companies. - M. R.
Iraqi election watch...
Many polling stations never even opened.
It's just as well; all those votes would just clutter up the process of re-installing the puppet. - M. R.
Researchers Who Rushed Into Print a Study of Iraqi Civilian Deaths Now Wonder Why It Was Ignored...
FLASHBACK: Top Bush advisor admits that Iraq war was fought to protect Israel...
As you prepare to kiss your kids and send them off to Iran, remember just who it is that wants all these wars.
- M. R.
A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.
The Russians Are Coming...
Talk about your double standards! TIME can proclaim the threat of Russian spies in their magazine, but never a mention of Israeli spies?
Everyone should write in to TIME and ask if those were Russian spies arrested while dancing and cheering the collapse of the World Trade Center. Ask TIME if those were Russian spies running the largest spy ring ever uncovered in the US, in the process of being arrested when 9-11 happened? Ask TIME of those were Russian "Art Students" caught penetrating US defense offices.
Ask TIME who at the editorial level made the decision that it is okay to talk about Russian spies, but that Israeli spies are off limits.
Then cancel your subscription. - M. R.
DRAFT LOOMS - Now That Election Is Over, Expect To See Conscription...
"I have a mandate to take your kids!" - M. R.
Losing Feith, by Jim Lobe...
As the investigation into yet another Israeli spy ring heats up, this time focused on the very office from which the lies that created the war in Iraq came from, the man who ran that office heads for the door.
- M. R.
PNAC starts hinting at a draft...
"Okay, so the war was a mistake, but we're in it now, and YOU have to help us finish it up, right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Right? Of COURSE right!" - M. R.
The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to provide hundreds of thousands of pages of documents sought by a government working group under a 1998 law that requires full disclosure of classified records related to Nazi war criminals, say Congressional officials from both parties.
Italy to air pogoing Pope cartoon shelved by BBC...
International Undercover Commando Brigade to Secure the Iraqi Elections...
"As in 'shoot the people who might vote against us'?" - M. R.
Following Hamas' sweeping victory in the Gaza municipal elections, a senior official in the Bush administration said Saturday the results were worrying.
A senior U.S. State Department official, reacting to the poll results, said that only Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' policy counted. The Hamas, he said, "are not people we have to work with."
So, even as the US tries to rubber-stamp its invasion of Iraq with elections, it will refuse to recognize the winners of the elections held in Gaza.
- M. R.
Boeing inks China sale, renames jet 787...
Bush draws advance fire...
'Forget about that war. Look at this cool new design for the Social Security checks!"
- M. R.
BBC backs off report that US killing more covilians than the insurgents...
"After careful reconsideration of the facts presented at an overnight conference held at Abu Ghraib, we have decided that the bad guys are doing 150% of all the killing of innocent civilians. Can we go home now?"
- M. R.
Six Marines killed in battles in Hit....
These new figures suggest 600 civilians are dying a month - which would equate to about 11,000 casualties in the past 18 months. The Foreign Office has refused to comment on the figures.
The United States has killed more innocent civilians in Iraq than were killed in9-11. The irony being that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 by the US Government's own admission.
- M. R.
A Brief Guide to the Iraqi Elections...
Check out number 4, and compare to the US media claims that 72% of the Iraqis voted.
- M. R.
About 5 percent of Arizona's voters - 101,536 of them, to be exact - had some trouble voting in the 2004 election, and 27,878 of them had their "provisional" votes thrown out.
Israel Border police to demolish Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem to protect fence...
Yes, indeed, protecting the fence is extremely important for Israeli security. In other places houses are 50 and 80 meters from the fence, but here, it was decided the safe distance would be 500 meter. No, this is absolutely and positively NOT about getting rid of the Palestinians in Jerusalem or confiscating their land. Hand on the bible. Old Testament. (But for the US fundamentalists, it can also be the New Testament. Whatever. Just remember, we are the believers, they are the heathens. The Koran is dreck.)
The article does not mention what will happen to the people whose houses will be demolished.
A perfect day for making this announcement. The world is buy watching Iraqis die.... er gain democracy. - M. R.
Since ancient Rome, imperial republics have invariably felt a tension between cherished republican practices at home and distinctly unrepublican ones abroad; or put another way, if imperial practices spread far enough beyond the republic's borders and gain enough traction out there in the imperium, sooner or later they also make the reverse journey home, and then you have a crisis in – or simply the destruction of – the republic itself.
Deadline for Troop Withdrawal Ruled Out...
You're not surprised, are you?
- M. R.
US troops will never overcome insurgents, warns senior officer...
Iran and US have a nuclear fallout over dinner...
Looks like nobody wanted this dinner to work out.
- M. R.
An Observer investigation into the shooting has uncovered allegations of missing evidence, fabricated testimony and a military cover-up.
Venezuela has hailed the visit of Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong as a productive trip that will yield several multi-billion trade deals, mainly in the oil and gas sectors.
Two attempted US-backed coups will convince anyone to sell their oil elsewhere. The long term ramifications are clear. The US used the availability of Venezualan oil to dismiss Arab nations' threats to reduce oil supplies. With less oil available to the US from Venezuela, the Arab nations can now severely harm the US by cutting off their oil as punishment for US blind obedience to Israel. With the economy so weak, and confidence in the dollar already sliding, a spike in oil prices could be the final death blow. Far from making the US strong, the Bush/neocon foreign policy has made the United States highly vulnerable. - M. R.
Its time to take a closer look at First Brothers, Jeb, Neil, and Marvin Bush, and see how much they stand to benefit from W's presidency and his perpetual war on the world.
Your childrens' blood is their treasure.
- M. R.
General John Abizaid, America's senior military commander in the Middle East, has admitted that suicide bombers are likely to penetrate polling stations during today's Iraqi elections, despite unprecedented security measures.
The devices were not faulty, and fire department officials don't have a clear explanation for the initial high readings.
Nor was there a fire, though firefighters still don't know why some people reported smelling smoke near the office.
A classic case of crying wolf and self-induced delusions. - M. R.
Don't breathe words in public like "C4, dynamite, nuclear, dirty bomb" or doing something physical to some all-powerful, nameless figure in a public place. God forbid you do such a thing. Or even utter terrible, un-American comments like how much you love freedom. When you use any of these in public, heads will turn and glaring eyes will be upon you. Properly brainwashed sheeple will whisper to other sheeple across the table in a restaurant, "shhh..he's one of those conspiracy nuts. Shouldn't we call someone about him?"
Iraqi Defense Minister Hazem al-Shaalan told the Dubai-based al-Arabiya news channel at least 27 people were killed Sunday, but he insisted "we are satisfied with the current security conditions."
"They voted before they were killed."
- M. R.
Mister Scott is explaining to the young engineer how to come across as a miracle worker. He says something like: 'Tell the captain it will take you 3 hours to fix the problem, lad, when you know it will only take about 1. That way, when you leisurely fix it in 2, you'll still come across as a miracle worker!'"
January 29, 2005
White House Has High Stake in Iraqi Vote...
"See? It was all worth it! They had elections! See? Isn;t thatworth a couple hundred billion and a few thousand of your kids?" - M. R.
John West, president of Silver Creek Timber Co., said Friday he was just waiting for formal imposition of an appeals court order issued earlier this month that had cleared the way for logging some old growth reserve burned in the 500,000-acre Biscuit fire, which threatened 17,000 people in Oregon's Illinois Valley in 2002.
"It's incredible," said one official, voicing his dismay that Putin mentioned
the 600,000 Russian soldiers who died liberating Poland, and the 27 million
Soviets killed during the war, but not the 1.3 million Jews killed at Auschwitz.
There is just no making these people happy.
It's time to quit trying. - M. R.
Malga claimed the counterfeit-coin equipment seized by the police was to be used to make buttons.
Under pressure to start bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq after Sunday's election, President Bush said on Saturday that the U.S. mission must keep going to help the new government get its footing.
"We're gonna bring American-style democracy to those ragheads whether they want it or not!"
- M. R.
This election will change the world. But not in the way the Americans imagined...
Coalition and Iraqi troops may be responsible for killing 60% more non-combatants in Iraq than the insurgents, the BBC has learned.
Two Americans Dead in U.S. Embassy Bombing...
"If fiat money falters, we may have to go back to oxen as our medium of exchange. In that event, I trust, the Federal Reserve will have an adequate inventory of oxen."
- Alan Greenspan, The History of Money
Bill Gates, the world's richest person with a net worth of $46.6 billion, is betting against the U.S. dollar.
``I'm short the dollar,'' Gates, chairman of Microsoft Corp., told Charlie Rose in an interview late yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. ``The ol' dollar, it's gonna go down.''
The answer is Army Reservists and National Guardsmen such as Californian Patrick McCaffrey.
Insurgents hit the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad with a rocket, killing two Americans, set off explosions that killed eight Iraqis and a U.S. soldier and blasted polling places across the country Saturday.
Israelis don't understand...
Trying to deny that land is the underlying cause of the dispute.
- M. R.
Two Milwaukee men, including one who ran for the State Assembly, await trial on charges of election fraud in Racine County.
Damien Donnelle Jones, 24, and Robert Marquis Blakely, 24, are accused of registering voters they never talked to. The two men were working for Project Vote, and were assigned to Racine to register people to vote in the Nov. 2 election. They are accused of multiple counts of election fraud and misconduct in office; Blakely is also charged with forgery.
Springer Helps Boost Liberal Talk Radio...
And for you station owners out there, I did a little radio back in my college days...
:) - M. R.
Straw Fears UK Being Sucked Into Another US War...
In Armored Vehicles, U.S. Troops Tell Iraqis to Vote...
Jeffrey Parson of Hopkins was a lonely teenager who locked himself in his room, created his "own reality," and unleashed a powerful Internet worm, a federal judge said Friday in Seattle.
Let's see, this kid wrecks millions of dollars of computer systems, and gets only 18 months? How long would he have been locked up for smoking a joint?
- M. R.
A new report published by Human Rights Watch, “The New Iraq? Torture and Ill-treatment of Detainees in Iraqi Custody,” documents the systematic torture of prisoners in the hands of Iraqi police. As the headline of the report suggests, it questions whether the new force set up and trained by American advisers (including, among others, former New York City police chief Bernard Kerik) represents a significant change from the methods which prevailed under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.
"Of course this is better. This is DEMOCRATIC torture!"
- M. R.
Volunteers say paid Scout leaders have created fictitious "ghost units" for years to pump up membership numbers to trick donor groups and charities, including the United Way, into giving them more money.
"A scout is trustworthy..." (sigh).
- M. R.
The U.S. Air Force is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Iran's ayatollahs, flying American combat aircraft into Iranian airspace in an attempt to lure Tehran into turning on air defense radars, thus allowing U.S. pilots to grid the system for use in future targeting data, administration officials said.
"We have to know which targets to attack and how to attack them," said one, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"We'll come up with some lame excuse afterwards, of course."
- M. R.
Heavy Gunbattle Heard in Baghdad...
It is time Jews recognize that the old strategies no longer work.
Jewish organizations and advocates of Israel fail to grasp that they are no longer viewed as the voice of the disenfranchised. Rather, they are seen as a global Goliath, close to the seats of power and capable of influencing policies and damaging reputations. As such, their efforts to raise the alarm increasingly appear as bullying.
Normally I don't link to the New York Times, as it requires registration to read and most of the WRH visitors shy away from sites requiring registration.
But in this case, I felt it was worth it, as this editorial echoes the comments I have made here in recent weeks, that it is time for Israel's supporters to quit living in the 50s, and realize that the third millennium is a vastly different world. - M. R.
An appeal judge in The Hague has ordered the release of a Dutch businessman accused of supplying the chemicals to Saddam Hussein that enabled him to gas the Kurds.
Which makes sense because it's been established that the Kurds were actually gassed by Iran. - M. R.
With several cases of alleged vote-rigging and fraud under investigation and fears that many more are going undetected, the Electoral Commission is pressing senior police officers to take the issue seriously.
Oil Detected in Louisville Water Intakes...
"Instead of talking about how the hell we get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, we are talking about going into Iran.
Here we are headed for absolute disaster, yet the American public has no weapons left, legally. If an American citizen were really in trouble - I ask in all seriousness - to whom would he turn? He can't go to his Congressman, because he's helping out GM or whoever paid for his election. He can't turn to the executive branch, because they now run concentration camps and don't like dissent. The courts are pretty expensive and the higher courts are, shall we say, not on our side."
Ex-Secretary of State, assassin and war-criminal Henry Kissinger was almost arrested in France a few years ago, barely escaping being held accountable for his crimes against humanity. Now it seems that Donald Rumsfeld had to abandon plans to visit Germany after getting wind that authorities there planned to arrest him for his crimes. For people like these, it's becoming a small world indeed. No more European vacations, but Florida is nice.
"I urge you to support us; if you do, you will be sending a message to all around the world that the Jewish people did not survive attempted genocide to become the brutal oppressors of another people. Enough, no more, there is a better ethic, and there can be a better, safer, future for the Jews."
U.S. seeks any sign of success in Iraq poll...
"Get those #$%## Diebold machines over here!!!"
- M. R.
Insurgents are domestic, Sunni and nationalist...
These are the people of IRAQ, and they want their country BACK.
- M. R.
Iraqi forces expected to do little to stop election day violence...
Witnesses said on Saturday the 35-year-old man, who was said by witnesses to be mentally retarded, approached the Israel-Gaza border fence near the town of Khan Younis and was shot by troops on the Israeli side of the border.
Police uniforms go missing in Iraq...
Emerging Splits Over Occupation Policy Give Hope to Antiwar Activists...
Matthew Rothschild, political analyst and editor of The Progressive magazine, said that despite a growing number of Americans who oppose the war, the White House will continue to take advantage of a permissive Congress as the US further entrenches itself in Iraq. "The last thing the Bush administration wants to do is to pull out," Rothschild told TNS, "and it doesn’t frankly care about the human costs or the costs in the budget deficit."
- M. R.
U.S. Warns EU Firms to Stay Away from Iran...
"That's OUR private hunting ground!"
- M. R.
Ireland’s youth is so out of love with America that the number of students applying for a summer visa scheme has halved within a year.
WRH: THE MOTHER OF ALL SCANDALS...
Relinked at reader request.
- M. R.
Feith helped set up an Office of Special Plans in the Near East and South Asia desk of the Pentagon to cherry-pick Iraq intelligence and create a case for Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and having operational links with al-Qaeda.
An office now known to have been the center of yet another Israeli spy operation, this one tied to AIPAC.
The scandal isn't what information flowed from Feith's office to Israel, but what LIES flowed from Israel into Feith's office, then ot the White House, to trick the UNited States into war on Israel's enemies.
"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.
Coalition and Iraqi troops may be responsible for killing 60% more non-combatants in Iraq than the insurgents, the BBC has learned.
"Zakheim, whose place of birth is not given in Who's Who, has strong ties to Britain, where he was educated and lived for many years. Zakheim comes from a Zionist family and his father reportedly grew up in the "same small Polish town as Yitzhak Shamir" and "numbered Menachem Begin among his closest friends." Begin and Shamir are two of the most extreme Likud leaders in Israeli history. "
Following the attack, Israel promptly apologized and said military commanders mistook the Liberty for an Egyptian ship. But some surviving members of the Liberty's crew said the attack was intentional and the U.S. government has covered it up for almost 40 years to protect its ally.
"Our government allowed this to happen because of politics," Gallo said.
It is obvious, in light of other Israeli false-flag ops against the United States, that the goal of the attack on the USS Liberty was to sink the ship and frame Egypt for it, tricking the US into war on another of Israel's enemies. A. Jay Cristol's "research" for his book book consisted solely of reviewing the official story one more time, without looking at any contradicting facts or testimony, and his other writings reveal a pro-Israel bias.
- M. R.
Writing in the Houston Chronicle on Jan. 9, 2004, less than a year before his death, Adm. Moorer wrote: "Those men were betrayed, and were left to die, by our own government."
January 28, 2005
Congress proposes tax on all Net, data connections...
Tax on the air, tax on light, tax on sounds, tax on little furry things, tax on gravity, tax on ...
- M. R.
Pizza Palace...
Business > Lockheed Martin Wins $1.6 Billion Marine One Contract" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/business/28cnd-copter.html?hp&ex=1106974800&en=6ff90b663e4919ba&ei=5094&partner=homepage" target="_blank">Lockheed Martin Wins $1.6 Billion Marine One Contract...
$1.6 billion? Just how many helicopters does that buy, given that there is only one President?
- M. R.
Male monkeys "paid" in juice to view female hindquarters or high-ranking monkeys' faces, but required "overpayment" to view low-ranking monkeys' faces.
This explains a great deal.
- M. R.
There is a long delay in the delivery of international mail in Canada due to a backlog in clearing Canada Customs in Vancouver, according to Canada Post. Parcels are currently taking about five weeks to get through Customs.
The Dixons have taken an interest in the sweetener after Peter did some research into the topic.
After cutting it from his diet drinks he found that he no longer suffered from headaches in the mornings and stomach related problems.
Debut for unknown Beethoven work...
U.S. military officials do not believe the helicopter was hit by hostile fire, Lt. Col. James Hutton said.
Suuuuuuuuuuuure. - M. R.
Feith Resigns Under Pressure of Investigations...
Details Of Resistance Victory In Hit, 14 American Soldiers Reported Killed...
The United States is preparing a future invasion of Venezuela to control the petroleum of the South American country as it did in Iraq, said Venezuela's acting ambassador to Paraguay, Elmer Nino.
"The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower," Robin Givhan, The Washington Post's fashion writer, wrote in the newspaper's Friday editions.
You just cannot make some people happy, no matter what you do....
Massive cow manure mound burns for third month...
For some reason, this seems oddly symbolic.
- M. R.
The Children of Iraq...
Don't it jus' make ya PROUDERNSHIT?
- M. R.
Few people really understand that China, right now, has the power to cripple this country without firing a shot. Why? Because they buy our debt. No, strike that. Because they buy our staggering debt, and if they decide to stop doing that, our economy will be mortally wounded.
MOCKINGBIRD - The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA...
The exposure that American mainstream media are taking payola from the Bush administration rips the cover off a decades-long secret; the mainstream media is an arm of the government.
Or did you think that they lied to you about Iraq's WMDs just for the heck of it? - M. R.
WRH: Media "Distortions"...
It is now known that at least three mainstream media personalities have been taking payola from the Bush administration,cash amounts of up to $240,000 to promote the government's agendas as "objective" news stories.
There is nothing new with the mainstream media lying to the public. The CIA has used the media to lie to the American people for decades. And, as a recent lawsuit against FOX News underscored, there is no law requiring the mainstream media to tell the truth.Indeed, the result of this lawsuit was the legal precedent that the mainstream media can fire any reporter for refusing to lie to the public!
So, looking back at the recent mainstream media attempts to bash the blogs, it is time to ask, who really does have credibility, and who does not. - M. R.
What If (It was all a Big Mistake)?
What if it was all a HOAX!
- M. R.
Stop hiring columnists, Bush orders Cabinet...
"The public is on to us."
- M. R.
On this day in history......
Another bit of history being short-changed by the obsession with WW2.
- M. R.
In Armored Vehicles, Troops Tell Iraqis to Vote...
"Vote early and often, citizens!"
- M. R.
George Bush was reinaugurated in Washington last week. Fittingly, the inauguration parade route was lined the entire way with armed guards — so many armed guards that they had to stand shoulder-to-shoulder. As with the rest of America, Washington, D.C. was in a state of siege.
The militant air of the entire affair was very much like a parade in the old Soviet Union or even in Nazi Germany.
'Big win for Hamas' in Gaza poll...
'Big win for Israel' in Gaza poll - M. R.
WHERE ARE THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?
Business > Economy Slowed in 4th Quarter, U.S. Report Says" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/business/28WIRE-ECON.html?hp&ex=1106974800&en=1b10fc668f2b9e17&ei=5094&partner=homepage" target="_blank">All those tax cuts and the economy slowed... are the rich hoarding??...
Bush sold his tax cuts for the wealthy with the promise that the wealthy would use the extra cash to create new jobs. The projected job creation was never achieved. This raises the possability that Bush's tax cuts have actually moved the money off shore. - M. R.
Get a LIFE already!...
"My wife and I were very shocked but we watched it until the end because we couldn't believe what we were seeing.
"And then we had to play it again, over and over and over, just to make sure we had really seen what we thought we saw!!!"
:) - M. R.
Unusual events "unheard of in the history of seismology" have been recorded in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, with more than 120 such events being recorded in the last one month, according to seismologists.
As one who himself lived through the Holocaust, first in Warsaw then in Bergen-Belsen, I will give an immediate example of the total ignorance of daily life during the Holocaust.
FLASHBACK: Computer disk drives from WTC could yield clues...
Moments before the planes crashed into the WTC, unknown parties sent in computer instructions for massive financial transfers. The computers recording those transactions were destroyed in the collapse, erasing the records. In effect,someone had "borrowed" millions of dollars, then erased the bill.
Then a company in Germany, using a new laser technique, started reading the drives recovered frm the WTC, to find out just who had had this advance knowledge of the 9-11 attacks.
Then something mysterious happened. The company was purchased, and the project to read the recovered drives was halted. - M. R.
Congress Puts Spyware on Hit List...
"If anyone is going to wreck America's computers with planted software, it's gonna be US!"
- M. R.
A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others -- on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this "unusual" event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor's door and arrested him.
They say communications are going to be cut off very soon. Telephones are often cut off and the mobile network is sometimes inaccessible for days at a time but we heard there also might not be web access. Students have a mid-year vacation right now but no one is going anywhere. Almost everyone is trapped at home because the security situation is quite bad and no one wants to be caught in an area where an explosion might occur. If the bomb doesn't kill you, the Iraqi security forces or the Americans might and if no one kills you then you risk getting a bag over the head and a trip to Abu Ghraib.
A CIA report predicts that American global dominance could end in 15 years....
Cost for the CIA to tell you this: $20,000,000.
Cost for What Really Happened to tell you this: $5.
Look on the face of the CIA analyst assigned to monitor this site: PRICELESS!
:) - M. R.
Washington > Bush Says Iraqi Leaders Will Want U.S. Forces to Stay to Help" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/politics/28prexy.html?ex=1107925200&en=e2b5d10ae5faf5c8&ei=5070" target="_blank">Bush Says Iraqi Leaders Will Want U.S. Forces to Stay to Help...
"... or we'll let the other guys win the election."
- M. R.
Gold Star Families for Peace....
I am one of the founding members of a group called Gold Star Families for Peace. Some of us families who have lost loved ones in this illegal and immoral war in Iraq have organized to use our collective voices to bring the tragedy of war to the fore front of America’s hearts and souls like it so tragically is in ours. We families are amazed that so few of our fellow citizens are touched by the horrors of the invasion and occupation of a sovereign country.
Growing number of soldiers oppose -- and refuse to report for -- the war in Iraq
Third columnist caught with hand in the Bush till...
This is why we call them presstitutes.
On a more serious note, it has been obvious in recent weeks that the mainstream media has tried to attack the credibility of the blogs. With the revelation that so many mainstream media "talking heads" are in the pay of the government, it is the mainstream media's credibility which lies in ruins, blended with the ashes of the claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. - M. R.
It seems clear now that the disclosure that two syndicated right-wing columnists were paid shills of the Bush administration posing as journalists is really just the tip of a grimy iceberg.
As of this writing, a third journalist has been exposed for taking money from the Bush administration to lie to the public. - M. R.
The Sad, Sad Face of Modern "Journalism"...
What Really Happened knows more than CNN. Osama is dead. - M. R.
Israelis have targeted ISMers for assassination. An Israeli sniper shot Tom Hurndall. "Accident," the murderer said. An American-made bulldozer from Caterpillar in Peoria slaughtered Rachel Corrie. Both of them died just days before I returned to the Middle East in 2003 to enter Baghdad and see the latest handiwork of the American imperium.
Beslan's increasingly restless residents were told yesterday that high-ranking Russian military officers who "were still at their posts" were suspected of helping Chechen militants seize the town's school last September.
Do you get it yet? GOVERNMENTS STAGE TERROR ATTACKS ON THEIR OWN PEOPLE TO TRICK THEIR PEOPLE INTO SUPPORTING AN AGENDA.
Now go back and read THIS - M. R.
Third Columnist paid by Bush Administration...
It is time to take a closer lok at the finances of all those talking heads who helped sell the lie about Iraqi WMDs, and see just who they get THEIR money from.
- M. R.
You Might Be A Constitutionalist If…...
I scored 29 out of 30.
- M. R.
Britain 'sliding into police state'...
Playing "catch-up" with us yanks again, I see. - M. R.
When more than 200,000 people died in a tsunami caused by an Asian earthquake in December, the immediate reaction in the United States was an outpouring of grief and philanthropy, prompted by extensive coverage in the news media.
Two months earlier, the reaction in the United States to news of another large-scale human tragedy was much quieter. In late October, a study was published in The Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, concluding that about 100,000 civilians had been killed in Iraq since it was invaded by a United States-led coalition in March 2003. On the eve of a contentious presidential election -- fought in part over U.S. policy on Iraq -- many American newspapers and television news programs ignored the study or buried reports about it far from the top headlines.
The media will denounce an act of God, but dare not speak ill of the President! - M. R.
So I again asked him if he would tell me if he knew
whether the will of the people was in favor of, or
against, voting for the confirmation of Condi Rice. He
told me that the constituent input that the Senator's
office received; that the people were strongly in
favor of voting against her confirmation.
Of course Senator Santorum voted in favor of her
confirmation.
They witnessed soldiers blown to bits and mourned the loss of others who killed themselves when they returned home -- often excluded from the government's official body count.