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June 30, 2005
Some Americans Ponder Impeachment for Bush...
Okay, challenge time. I dare anyone to write in and explain why they believe that it is okay for the President to lie to the nation to trick us into supporting a war of conquest. I want them to explain how this can be a Democracy when the people are lied to to manufacture their consent for things they otherwise would not consent to.
And I want the email to include how they would explain to their own children why it is NOT okay for them to lie about anything, but okay for the President to do so.
- M. R.
"Am I taking this seriously? But of course," said Charles Meany, Weare's code enforcement officer. "In lieu of the recent Supreme Court decision, I would imagine that some people are pretty much upset. If it is their right to pursue this type of end, then by all means let the process begin."
Unbelievable......
Scroll down... - M. R.
Baghdad's mayor decried the capital's crumbling infrastructure and its inability to supply enough clean water to residents, threatening Thursday to resign if the government won't provide more money.
And to hell with the press’s sanctimonious lamentations over First Amendment rights. If they were so fucking committed to the press being some kind of democratic tripwire, they wouldn’t behave like such craven hucksters about virtually every real issue that comes along. In particular, they would be critical of themselves about the likes of propaganda hacks like Judith Miller.
Titan dark spot may be large lake...
Governor Jesse Ventura Troubled By Official 9/11 Story...
I'm troubled too.
I'm especially troubled about that part where Bush just sits and sits and sits reading abut goats waiting for his speech, and the Secret Service just lets him sit and sit and sit and sit ... almost like they knew he wasn't a target all along - M. R.
University of California professor says UC press must publish Beyond Chutzpah....
In a free society, people are free to say or write, what they think. Other people are then equally free to debate the matter, challenge where the facts may not be accurate,and in this way advance human knowledge.
Dictatorships play differently. They simply block the publication of books they do not like, and punish those who ask questions to which the dictators do not have answers. The cases of Ernst Zundel and Norman Finkelstein show how far down the path towards dictatorship we have already been tricked by Israel's supporters inside the US Government.
Israel is pushing for laws in this country to make it a crime to even ask questions about the orthodox account of the holocaust. If they get their way it will be a crime to report that the "soap made from people" story is a myth. That is IS a myth will be no defense; one will face jail for daring to mention it, true though it is.
Freedom or dictatorship.
Which will you have?
Better decide while you still can decide. - M. R.
Americans buying more guns, sales up 11%...
"He's running scared," said Giblock, 63, a former Post 2500 member who lives in Anchorage, Ala. "His poll numbers are so low, he's got to say something, but the support is gone. It's gone. I don't think there's anybody in here who's behind him."
The Downing Street Memo, July 2002:
There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.
Space shuttle 'go for launch' on July 13...
Anybody got some Beeman's? - M. R.
A seller of online marketing tools said on Wednesday it sued Google Inc., charging that the Web search giant has failed to protect users of its advertising program from "click fraud," costing them at least $5 million.
Another reason we are glad Google no longer advertises with WhatReallyHappened.
Link replaced - M. R.
Years After Giant Flop, Online Media Take Hold...
FLASHBACK: "Bring 'em on!" - Bush's Legacy of Death in Iraq...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has finally admitted the authenticity of the so-called "Downing Street Memos" in an interview with the Associated Press which also viewed the memo, the New York Times reported yesterday.
J'lem gay pride parade halted after 3 participants stabbed by religious Jewish man...
Dear God, save me from your fan club!
- M. R.
Conyers and 51 Members File FOIA Request on Downing Street Minutes; Members Formally Seek Hearings in House
The Sacrifice Has Been Worth It!...
Zogby: 42% of americns in favor of impeachment for lying about Iraq....
This supposed 58% who thinks it is okay for the President to lie this nation into a war are welcome to march right down to the recruiting stations and sign up, if they think this war is so wonderful.
There can be no crime greater than when a government lies to their people to trick them into a war. And if we do not drag these liars out of office and throw them into the streets, they will continue to lie to create more wars, in which YOUR children will die.
And I don't for one second believe that half of America thinks it is okay for the President to lie us into a war. I do not believe Zogby's numbers.
On the other hand, we don't know what questions Zogby asked. Maybe that 58% checked the box for "should be drawn and quartered." :) - M. R.
AMD Sues Intel -- Alleges Unfair Trade Practices...
9/11 - US Complicity: Implausible, or Very Probable?...
Way to GO!!...
The Swedish government, moreover, had hired divers from Rockwater, a British-based division of the American Halliburton group, run between 1995 and 2000 by Dick Cheney, now US vice-president. They produced 13 videotapes showing the wreck, they said, from every angle. But one angle was missing and some Swedish politicians argued that the videos had been edited. As Lennart Berglund, chairman of the Foundation of Estonia Victims and Relatives, said after Bemis's expedition: "There's still a lot of evidence down there. Their major argument was that there was nothing new - now there is something new." The Baltic nations, however, remained firm in saying there would be no new inquiry.
It took a Brit to remind Americans turning on the evening news what it might be like to have an opposition party.
Far from being in technological nirvana, we are fast approaching a new dark age. That, at least, is the conclusion of Jonathan Huebner, a physicist working at the Pentagon's Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California. He says the rate of technological innovation reached a peak a century ago and has been declining ever since. And like the lookout on the Titanic who spotted the fateful iceberg, Huebner sees the end of innovation looming dead ahead.
Downing Street Is For Liars / Why aren't the media screaming about the latest proofs of Bush's war scams? Don't you know?
Why aren't the media screaming about the latest proofs of Bush's war scams? Don't you know?
Why are major American media not swarming all over the Downing Street Memos thing? Why is the entire nation not just appalled and disgusted and aghast at finding seemingly irrefutable proofs about what we all already knew, which is that BushCo planned to invade Iraq long before 9/11 and needed to find a way to justify it?
White House taking seriously allegations that Iran's president-elect was a former hostage taker...
"So we can invade Iran now, right? Right? Right? We can invade? Right? Hello? Anyone there?" - M. R.
Video Interview: Former IRS Agent Joe Banister...
Well, it’s official – the great minds in the Bush administration have solved our world’s biggest problems. Now, with war and injustice out of the way, with the energy crisis over, with nuclear proliferation ended, with deforestation licked, with homelessness and lack of access to medical care a thing of the past, we can finally get down to dealing with the problem of flag desecration.
Forget the documentary evidence (the Downing Street minutes) that the war on Iraq was fraudulent from the outset. Forget that the U.S. and UK started pulverizing Iraq with stepped-up bombing months before president or prime minister breathed a word to Congress or Parliament. Forget that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and his merry men – his co-opted, castrated military brass – have no clue regarding what U.S. forces are up against in Iraq. The president insists that we must stay the course.
Bush Lies to the Nation, (Again!)...
And again and again and again and again and again ... - M. R.
As an increasingly exasperated prime minister once again swept aside calls for a public inquiry into the failure to uncover banned Iraqi weapons, the former international development secretary accused Mr Blair of bypassing the cabinet to agree a "secret" pact with George Bush to go to war.
Teflon-making chemical 'likely' to cause cancer...
In a deceitful boost to Bush on the morning of his Iraq address, the Washington Post and ABC News released a poll of U.S. public opinion on Iraq. But the Post's numbers in their print version (in the body of the article) underestimates the "Out Now" position by more than 3 times. One has to look at their actual numbers (Poll Data) to see that support for "staying the course" is much smaller than the article suggests.
In view of the steady stream of bad news from Iraq - five dead Marines in Saturday's paper, two more in Sunday's, and four soldiers in Monday's, along with the Ba'athist element of the resistance so "weakened" it is now striking targets in Iran - it is easy to forget that we are fighting, and losing, not one Fourth Generation war but two.
As of today, after 25 years, I am no longer a Republican.
I take this step with deep regret, and with a deep sense of betrayal.
I understand this man's frustration. The only reason I haven't quit being a Republicamn is that the Democrats haven't shown themselves to be a viable alternative, and I am sick of choosing the lesser of two evils every election.
Actually, the Republicans and the Democrats taken together make anarchy look really good. - M. R.
FLASHBACK: Iraq Links Cancers to Uranium Weapons...
There is an interesting article in the New Yorker by Jeffrey Goldberg about the AIPAC spy investigation. It is interesting in that it is massively slanted to protection of AIPAC and Israel from the effects of the scandal. Goldberg's basic argument is to blame the whole thing on Larry Franklin.
Nearly 50 years before the war in Iraq, Britain and America sought a secretive "regime change" in another Arab country they accused of spreading terror and threatening the west's oil supplies, by planning the invasion of Syria and the assassination of leading figures.
Paging Sean Hannity. Sean Hannity, pick up white courtesy phone. - M. R.
The president had a chance to level with the American public Tuesday night in a televised speech at Fort Bragg, NC. Once again, the chance to come clean was squandered. Instead of addressing reasonable concerns of the public, he may now be remembered as the president who cried “9/11!” one time too many.
Officials deny civil libertarian claims that the group will monitor American citizens, which is prohibited.
“The reason I knew that Oswald could not have done it, was because I could not have done it,” said former US Marine sniper, Craig Roberts. Credited with numerous kills while serving in Vietnam , Roberts turned an objective eye on the shot heard ‘round the world. After he visited Dealey Plaza, after viewing the so-called “sniper’s lair,” on the sixth floor of the book depository, and after staring at the large oak tree overspreading much of Elm Street, Roberts said, “I walked away from the window in disgust. I had seen all I needed to know that Oswald could not have been the lone shooter.”
More about the JFK assassination HERE - M. R.
In the US, the New York Senate last week passed that would prohibit the administration of any vaccine containing more than a trace amount of mercury to children under the age of three or pregnant women.
Colonel Pinhas Zuaretz was commander in southern Gaza two years ago when I asked him about the scale of the killing. The colonel, who rewrote the rules of engagement to permit soldiers to shoot children as young as 14, acknowledged that official versions of several killings were wrong, but justified the tactics as the price of the struggle for survival against a second Holocaust.
Want to avoid another holocaust? Try learning to get along with your neighbors instead of just killing them indiscrimanantly.
- M. R.
The respective media flaps involving Senate Democratic whip Richard Durbin and presidential consigliere Karl Rove invites a kind of admixture of awe and revulsion at the state of American political discourse and the media's inability to make the most fundamental kinds of distinctions to help citizens navigate it.
It's the lowest job-approval rating for a president in the Minnesota Poll in more than 12 years.
US Radiation In Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs There Are No Words
US Radiation In Iraq
Equals 250,000
Nagasaki Bombs
No sir-ee, putting Four Million Pounds of Radioactive Uranium Dust (RUD) on the ground in Iraq was a definitely "on-purpose" kind of thing. It was not "just an accident." We, the citizens of the United States, through our kids in the Army, did this on purpose.
As the Iraq nightmare deepens, Fox News and its cable competitors wallow in shark attacks and Natalee Holloway. If you don't cover a war, does it exist?
How a Jewish kid from the Bronx went from swimming naked with Allen Ginsberg to spewing the ugliest bile on talk radio.
US President George W Bush has ordered the creation of a domestic intelligence service within the FBI, as part of a package of 70 new security measures.
The White House says it is enacting the measures to fight international terrorist groups and prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
So... we're looking for foreign terrorists by peeking into my daughter's shower?
- M. R.
"To abandon this small and brave nation to its enemies, and to the terror that must follow, would be an unforgivable wrong," Johnson said. "To withdraw from one battlefield means only to prepare for the next." At that moment, only 400 American boys had died in the rice paddies.
Johnson also misled the nation into war, by using an erroneous report of a torpedo attack on the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin to get Congress to authorize the war.
Yes, Presidents lie to the nation to trick us into wars and they will go on doing so until We The People make them stop.
We have a unique opportunity here. For the first time in history, the lies used by a President to trick us into a war stand fully exposed to the public while the war itself still rages on.
If we fail to act to stop this war and bring the liars to judgment, then every single death in this war and every war that will follow are on our hands. We are responsible for the deaths of those young men and women dying in Iraq and soon to die in Iran just as surely as if we put the gun to their heads and pulled the trigger ourselves.
Parents, look at your children. Can you kill them? By your inaction, you are doing precisely that. - M. R.
President Bush's address to the nation, urging Americans to stand firm in Iraq, drew the smallest TV audience of his tenure, Nielsen Media Research reported on Wednesday.
Nobody likes a liar.
- M. R.
In his speeches, George Bush regularly calls for a return to or the reinforcement of traditional, even eternal, family values and emphasizes the importance of personal "accountability" for our children as well as ourselves. ("The culture of America is changing from one that has said, if it feels good, do it, and if you've got a problem, blame somebody else, to a new culture in which each of us understands we are responsible for the decisions we make in life.") And yet when it comes to acts that are clearly wrong in this world – aggressive war, the looting of resources, torture, personal gain at the expense of others, lying, and manipulation among other matters – Bush and his top officials never hesitate to redefine reality to suit their needs. When faced with matters long defined in everyday life in terms of right and wrong, they simply reach for their dictionaries.
To the extent that George Bush had retained the slightest shred of dignity through the whole ugly Iraq imbroglio, it was found in his refusal to fully embrace the biggest of the Big Lies told by his aides: the claim that Saddam Hussein had played a role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In short, sometimes people are already so far in debt that they don't want to take on any more damn debt and then have to listen to their wives or husbands whining and complaining that they can't afford to eat as it is, and borrowing MORE damn money to buy ANOTHER damn machinegun is crazy. Some people have called this the "puke point."
’’I’m from Hawaii, and I know you either ride the wave
or the wave rides over you," said Representative Neil Abercrombie, a Democrat. ’’Democrats would be well-advised to ride this one. It’s just a question of time for the party to realize that."
Jews Not Zionists...
Israel does NOT speak for nor represent the Jewish people of thw world. - M. R.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday that the "Downing Street memos" paint a distorted picture and insisted that the Iraq war was not predetermined by the United States.
The point is that the memos indicate we were lied to, and the memos are not the only proof. There is YOUR OWN DODGY DOSSIER, Tony, which you publicly apologized for, which is in and of itself proof of intent to deceive the public.
- M. R.
A neoconservative clique seeks to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interest.
June 29, 2005
In a debate with Rep. Charles Rangel last night, Sean Hannity called Rangel's assertion that the Bush administation wanted to invade Iraq before Bush even became president as a conspiracy theory.
The biggest government conspiracy of all is the claim that there are no government conspiracies. - M. R.
On Wednesday, as Mr. Bush's repeated use of the imagery of the Sept. 11 attacks drew bitter criticism from Congressional Democrats, there was a parallel debate under way about whether the troops sat on their hands because they were not impressed, or because they thought that was their orders.
In the days ahead, American politicians and pundits will talk a lot about “leveling” with the people by speaking the hard truth about Iraq, meaning an admission that the war is sure to rage for years and require an even heavier sacrifice in money and blood.
But this “leveling” will be just the latest spin. What they won’t tell you are these two other hard truths:
The third hard truth... The US Government lied to the people to trick them into a war.
- M. R.
Why fiat money is being so irresponsibly exploited by the "first" world...
$5.4 million claimed for nine months' salary for the chief executive of an "event logistics" firm that received a contract before it was incorporated and listed its address at a post office box.
Plus all the titties you can grope! - M. R.
In Vietnam, by the spring of 1968, it was clear to just about everyone—including our intelligence agencies—that the war was lost. The Tet Offensive made it obvious that the combined forces of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong weren't being defeated or decimated. The United States insisted that it would never talk directly or negotiate with the communist North and their allied partisans in South Vietnam, insisting that the quisling regime in Saigon was the lawful government. So the war dragged on for another five years, killing tens of thousands more Americans and hundreds of thousands more Vietnamese.
Finally, during 1972-1973, the United States did what it had previously said it wouldn't do: it essentially abandoned its puppet government in South Vietnam and began direct talks with the Vietnamese communists. The communists were magnanimous enough to give the United States a face-saving way out, rather than forcing Washington to admit that it was surrendering. And we left.
The image of the U.S. slipped sharply in 2003, after its invasion of Iraq, and two years later has shown few signs of rebounding either in Western Europe or the Muslim world, an international poll found.
Yeah, well, you lie to start a war and people will talk.
- M. R.
So let’s try to get this straight. We invaded Iraq because Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, except he didn’t, and because he was tied in to the attacks of September 11, except he wasn’t. We’re staying in Iraq, President Bush said Tuesday night, because terrorists with the same ideology as those behind 9-11 have congregated there since we arrived.
The American general who commanded allied air forces during the Iraq war appears to have admitted in a briefing to American and British officers that coalition aircraft waged a secret air war against Iraq from the middle of 2002, nine months before the invasion began.
And six months before Congress voted authorization for the war. - M. R.
Hard enough to combat censorship in the corporate pres, but in some ways the "independent press" is just as bad. Indymedia, has been a gatekeeper of certain issues, depending on locality...
Only just a few minutes ago, I discovered that my article "Artists Illuminate 9-11 Truth More than the Official Commission" has been hidden/disappeared from the NYC Indymedia website by Chris because "nice contest, but links to sites babbling about controlled demolitions, 'Israeli saboteurs,' etc." Is this responsible censorship? I don't think so.
To paraphrase William Shakespeare, “Now is the summer of our discontent.” Nowhere is this more apparent than in the latest Zogby International poll (conducted June 20-22) which finds George W. Bush at the lowest ebb of his presidency.
Zogby's numbers appear suspiciously "generous" to Bush when compared with the numerous online polls. - M. R.
US suspected of keeping secret prisoners on warships: UN official...
Bush's speech blurs fact with propaganda...
Reporter shot to death in Iraq...
'I will pay to spend 7 nights in a hotel built on property seized from David H. Souter' - PledgeBank
'I will pay to spend 7 nights in a hotel built on property seized from David H. Souter' - PledgeBank...
The Nation Weeps as the President Lies; a detailed annotated review of each of the flood of lies Bush told.
The Nation Weeps as the President Lies; a detailed annotated review of each of the flood of lies Bush told....
A former Newsday publisher and education bigwig was busted yesterday on charges he collected kiddie porn on his company computer - and tried to destroy the files when the feds started investigating.
A New York state lawmaker says he's embarrassed, after he mistakenly sent out an e-mail message that referred to his constituents as "idiots."
Racism comes to America...
one busy fascist...
The white plane, with its baby blue striping, spends hours and days circling over Lodi. But the plane isn't from the city. It's not even from California.
The plane has traveled all the way from Delaware to move in slow circles over Lodi. It hasn't exactly blended in.
Bush's mission implausible...
Certainly, voters are in a more questioning mode now, and they are far less likely to accept the president's reassertion, or rather reimplication, that Saddam Hussein was behind September 11. - M. R.
Think joining the army will clear your student debt? Better check the fine print.
US weighs $1 billion post-pullout aid...
And the screams you are hearing are those of the U. S. taxpayer getting screwed -yet again- in behalf of Israel, while homeless vets die on the streets here.
- M. R.
The Anti-Defamation League’s new, tougher hate bill, “The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005,” HR 2662, if passed, will very soon end free speech and free speech talk radio. The ADL, through similar legislation, has already ended free speech in Canada. It wants to do the same in America.
The ADL was caught spying on Americans for Israel in 1993. Under their proposed law, it would be a crime to report that fact to you.
- M. R.
Previously undisclosed Defense Department audits reveal that Halliburton's overcharges in Iraq have skyrocketed. Under the company's two largest, multi-billion-dollar contracts - one to repair Iraq's oil infrastructure (RIO), the second to provide logistical support for American troops (LOGCAP) - Halliburton's overcharges now dwarf the amounts publicly disclosed by the Bush Administration. At this hearing, Senator Dorgan and Representative Waxman will release a report detailing these overcharges, and whistleblower witnesses will explain how Halliburton and the Bush Administration have overcharged the American taxpayer by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Bush's Speech: Let's Count the Lies...
- M. R.President Speaks to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee...
Reread his fawning words and realize that at the time he said them, Bush was already aware that the FBI had an espionage investigation running on AIPAC.
- M. R.
Stripped of the usual lies that have driven his Iraq policy from the start, President George W. Bush Tuesday went back to square one and played the big one – trying to tie the 9/11 terrorist attacks to his failed war.
"Many Americans did not watch the speech. Those who did were 2-to-1 Republican, so most were arguably already in the president's camp."
This is a surprising bit of honesty from CNN, admitting that since mostly Republicans watched Dubya's speech, that this inevitably skewed their polling results towards Bush.
- M. R.
Bush 'exploiting 9/11'...
As he has been ever since it happened.
How lucky for Bush that 9-11 happened just in time to kick off the already-planned war in Afghanistan. - M. R.
Bush Condemned for Bid to Link War with 9/11...
The Secret Service at Booker Elementary: The Dog That Did Not Bark...
Bush in his speech last night tried to exploit the memory of 9-11. Very well, let's go back and take a look at 9-11. Let's take a look at the one question Bush's supporters have no answer for.
With a supposedly unknown number of planes flying overhead and crashing into buildings, with Bush's presence at Booker Elementary announced in the media three days in advance, and with an airport just four miles away, how did the United States Secret Service Protective Detail KNOW that Bush was safe where he sat reading about goats, waiting until it was time to make a speech? How did the United States Secret Service Protective Detail KNOW that they did not need to throw Bush into his armored limousine and start driving. How did the United States Secret Service Protective Detail KNOW that they were not making targets of all those little children by keeping them in that room with Bush?
Please take a moment to send this article to all the media and dare THEM to try to answer that question. - M. R.
US newspapers have said President George Bush failed, in his televised Tuesday speech, to speak honestly about Iraq and should not have linked the US-led fight there to September 11.
Bush at Fort Bragg—fear-mongering, lies and desperation...
By upholding the FCC's March 2002 Declaratory Ruling that classified cable Internet as an unregulated "information service," the Supreme Court has paved the way for a privatized, tightly controlled broadband environment that will bear little resemblance to the open, diverse, and competitive Internet of the past.
This is the second time that law enforcement authorities have attacked Indymedia servers in the UK in the run up to a major event. Last October, just before the European Social Forum, Indymedia servers in London were seized in an "international law enforcement operation".
Blair Defends Iraq War, Dismisses Memo...
Nixon Dismisses Tapes - M. R.
Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.
The proposed development, called "The Lost Liberty Hotel" will feature the "Just Desserts Café" and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."
Does Bush Take US For Stupid?...
Yes, he does. He really thinks that he and his neocon buddies are really much smarter than you areand that you will continue to support his war even though you know he lied to start it.
- M. R.
“A few days ago, an American manned check point confiscated the driver license of a driver and told him to report to an American military camp near Baghdad airport for interrogation and in order to retrieve his license. The next day, the driver did visit the camp and he was allowed in the camp with his car. He was admitted to a room for an interrogation that lasted half an hour. At the end of the session, the American interrogator told him: ‘OK, there is nothing against you, but you do know that Iraq is now sovereign and is in charge of its own affairs. Hence, we have forwarded your papers and license to al-Kadhimia police station for processing. Therefore, go there with this clearance to reclaim your license. At the police station, ask for Lt. Hussain Mohammed who is waiting for you now. Go there now quickly, before he leaves his shift work”.
The driver did leave in a hurry, but was soon alarmed with a feeling that his car was driving as if carrying a heavy load, and he also became suspicious of a low flying helicopter that kept hovering overhead, as if trailing him. He stopped the car and inspected it carefully. He found nearly 100 kilograms of explosives hidden in the back seat and along the two back doors.
The U.S. military said Wednesday that hostile fire likely brought down a Chinook helicopter that crashed in eastern Afghanistan, and officials said the status of the 17 American servicemembers aboard was "unknown."
t r u t h o u t - Is This What They Call Democracy?
Is This What They Call Democracy?
t r u t h o u t - Is This What They Call Democracy? Is This What They Call Democracy?...
The Labor Department kept secret for more than a year government studies that supported Democratic opponents of the Bush administration's new Central American trade deal, internal documents show.
A Quick Way to End the Insurgency: Impeach Bush Now...
Days after Iraq's new Shiite-led government was announced on April 28, the bodies of Sunni Muslim men began turning up at the capital's central morgue after the men had been detained by people wearing Iraqi police uniforms.
Told no investigation had ever found evidence to link Saddam and 9/11, Hayes responded, "I'm sorry, but you must have looked in the wrong places."
I picture Hayes stamping his foot and screaming, "There is TOO evidence, there IS, there IS, there IS IS IS ISISISISIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - M. R.
FLASHBACK: U.S. Seeks Exemption from War Crimes Court...
FLASHBACK: US Wants One-Year Extension of UN Exemption from War Crimes Law...
In reality, it wasn't so much a speech as an exercise in mind control, designed to pull the 'right' strings so as to keep the public on board the Iraq debacle, at a time when Americans are becoming ever more skeptical.
It clearly showed that the Bush camp is worried about increasing background chatter from not only Democrats but also GOP stalwarts: "Vietnam", "quagmire", "torture", "rising casualties", "terrorist breeding ground", "failure".
"lie", "Fib", "Hoax", "Fraud", "Deception", "Illegal war"... - M. R.
The Bush prime-time fiasco was the biggest presidential pratfall in the history of the office. Bush was expected to lay out a new vision that would soothe the jittery nerves of the country but, instead, ladled out the same tired bromides he’s used for the last five years.
Critics of the U.S. war in Iraq have condemned President George W. Bush for attempting to link the insurgency there with the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
GIs find it hard to predict which Iraqi soldiers will turn against them.
A hard fact of life on top of a President who lied to trick them into the far in the first place. - M. R.
Nearly 2,000 unemployed Iraqis were demonstrating in central Samawa because they had not been given jobs in the police in Samawa, 270 km (170 miles) south of Baghdad.
Bush made a big deal last night about how many Iraqis were joining up with the defense forces, but as this article shows, there simply aren;t anyotherjobs than police and army if the Iraqi people want to eat. - M. R.
President Bush made the sale last night - but only temporarily. His pitch for the Iraq war was about as good as it could be, but not good enough to hold broad public support for very long.
The bottom line is that the man lied to start this war.
He can talk all he wants about victory and the mission, but nobody knows what his mission really is, let alone how victory can be determined.
Bush lied. Our kids died. - M. R.
The President's speech on Iraq was aimed his political base. There's not much chance it will stop the broader erosion of support for the war
No chance at all, in fact.
Needless to say, the online polls and the media polls are opposites, with the polls run by the media showing improvement in support for the President, while the online polls show Bush cratered last night.
Given that the mainstream media helped Bush lie about weapons of mass destruction, I am inclined to trust the online polls more. - M. R.
June 28, 2005
If you haven't heard, the only applause during the Bush speech was started by a Bush staffer. When FOX News heard of this they had to spin the news so it wouldn't make Bush look like a clown. Fair and balanced my ass!
I tell them that they are saying to the Congress: "Well, ya know, our poor soldiers wanna stay and finish the fight in Iraq, but you people in Washington D.C. are undercutting their morale by bringing up this 'time table stuff'" and "What the hell are we doing in Iraq? Do we have a plan?" stuff.
When I tell this to my fellow soldiers, they immediately begin to laugh and then they get pissed off that such bullshit is being spouted back home, because we are the ones who are calling home and telling our families what a bunch of lies and crap they are telling the American people.
Washington Post and ABC News just released a poll of U.S. public opinion on Iraq. But the Post's numbers in their print version (in the body of the article) underestimates the "Out Now" position by more than 3 times. One has to look at their actual numbers (Poll Data) to see that support for "staying the course" is much smaller than the article suggests.
Words can't describe......
Enough is enough. Political correctness is no longer an option when discussing George W. Bush or the members of his administration. They are very simply lying bastards who have done and continue to do irreversible harm to the world.
Washington in crisis over opposition to Iraq war...
One more time...
Bush LIED to the people of the uNited States to send them to war.
Bush LIED to the US Congress to start that war.
There is nothing the man can say now that will change the fact that we all know he lied to get his war.
Bush lied.
Bush lied.
Bush lied.
Bush lied. - M. R.
America last night refused to back a United Nations protocol against torture because of fears that it could allow international monitors to visit terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Ann Coulter has already tipped her hand on how she sees history unfolding by unearthing Joe McCarthy and speaking of him in laudatory tones. But when we see how much damage George Bush and his madhouse gang have done to America and the world on so many fronts in four years, this could turn into a terrifying three and a half years.
Crude Oil Refinery Output and Products...
What comes out of that barrel. - M. R.
Bush: Bloodshed in Iraq Is 'Worth It'...
Worth WHAT?
What are we doing in Iraq?
Weapons of mass destruction? They were never there.
Saddam Al Qaeda link? Didn't exist. Al Qaeda is a Mossad front group.
Revenge for 9-11? Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 (See comment about Al Qaeda above).
It's easy for Bush to say the bloodshed is worth it; it isn't his blood. - M. R.
Mission Accomplished" Again? Over 1,600 Troops Have Died Since Last Prime Time Address...
President Bush's will ask more of Americans in tonight's speech. Haven't we sacrificed enough?
Haven't we been LIED TO ENOUGH? - M. R.
Traprock Peace Center - Scott Ritter on War with Iran...
US helicopter down in Afghanistan...
Why are U.S. troops still holed up in Iraq?...
Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.
The Bovine Excrement Meter just exploded....
Six partners, the United States among them, have chosen France as the site for a $13 billion experimental nuclear fusion reactor that, if successful, would open the door to cleaner and abundant energy, the partners announced Tuesday.
A police officer appears to have been justified in fatally shooting a 15-year-old boy who did not have a weapon, said Doug Harcleroad, the Lane County district attorney.
To accomplish his objective, the developer will have to purchase about 254 homes, and raze them. He was prepared to pay 175% of their assessed value to acquire them. A bureaucrat for the local school district found this offensive, declaring, "I don’t think taxpayers should support an inflated project." But it is of the very essence of government that "taxpayers" should support whatever they are told to support – or face fine or imprisonment.
Most Americans now believe that
President George W. Bush's administration "intentionally misled" the public in going to war in
Iraq, according to a poll.
The word is "LIED". - M. R.
Three of the four broadcast networks had yet to decide late Monday whether they would carry President Bush's speech on Iraq Tuesday in front of soldiers in Fort Bragg, N.C. By then, only ABC had said it would carry the address.
When Morgan Reynolds called the official story about 9/11 bogus, it seemed like the whole world stopped for a moment to listen.
It seemed like a lighting bolt hit the heart of the government story, cracking it into a million unexplainable pieces.
Russia wants to construct up to six new nuclear reactors for Iran, despite U.S. criticism of its assistance to the Islamic republic, Moscow's top nuclear boss was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Private Warriors...
An undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world has developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, telecommunications officials said.
For decades the US has used submarines to plant tapping equipment on undersea cables of other nations. One such unit is on display in a Moscow museum. There have been cases where the taps interfered with the cables, leading to their discovery.
- M. R.
The Saudi oil bombshell...
George Bush has spent $300 billion (and climbing) in what may turn out to be a war for a desert full of dry holes.
Imagine if he had spent the same money on developing new energy sources. - M. R.
The list below contains many of the keywords the Government Spooks search YOUR email and chat for.
So, append the entire list to every email you send. Now if only we could find a way to trick the spammers into including these words in their spam emails.
How does bobexplosives@hotmail.com sound as an address to leave at the porno sites? - M. R.
The world is taking small steps at this time to rid itself of the dollar yoke that the Federal Reserve has strapped upon them. If you weren’t paying attention to the events of the world, you wouldn’t even notice. Fortunately for the Federal Reserve the US media plays a vital role in keeping up the illusion that all is going well for the US.
Need a washing machine? Buy it from an American company....buy a Maytag! Better hurry, though, because it looks like Maytag is about to be bought out by China's Haier Group. Rumor has it that the new Maytag Repair Man could be played by Jet Li.
WATCH THIS BEFORE YOU WATCH BUSH'S SPEECH TONIGHT!...
If the probe hits the bull's-eye, the impact could temporarily light up the comet as much as 40 times brighter than normal, possibly making it visible to the naked eye in parts of the Western Hemisphere.
The headline is a bit overblown. The comet is not being "blown up. It is being struck to see what debris flies off, which will reveal much about the interior. - M. R.
Iraq veterans, military family members, and other peace advocates will protest the visit of George W. Bush to Ft. Bragg on Tuesday, June 28, where he will deliver a speech justifying ongoing U.S. military action in Iraq.
Americans Feel Misled Over Iraq Intelligence...
Feel misled? We WERE misled!!!
Bush lied. Kids died. - M. R.
Bush asks EU to warn Iran on nuclear arms...
Dear Iran
I am warning you that you better get your hands on some nuclear weapons real quick because Bush is coming after your country.
(signed) EU - M. R.
The decline in economic and diplomatic standing that Americans have suffered under Bush is exceptional. How much longer will Americans support the incompetent Bush administration that is driving them and their country's reputation into the ground?
Five ... four ... three ... two ... - M. R.
Downing Street Memos Explained in Plain English...
THE GOVERNMENT LIED TO START A WAR.
- M. R.
Civilian truck driver Rickey LeBlanc, 28, echoed the support for Bush's policies: ``You can't go over there and say `Saddam's gone. Here's your country. Have a nice day.'''
``You don't have people there who know how to run a government,'' LeBlanc said as he entered City Hall to pay a tax bill. ``You don't want someone like Saddam to get back in power.''
The cradle of civilization doesn't "know how to run a government"?
- M. R.
"One sign of having arrived is when government regulators start wanting to poke their fingers into what you do."
US weighs $1 billion post-pullout aid...
Yet more of your money pours into Israel.
You didn't really need that school in your neighborhood anyway right? Your kids can ride a bus for 2 hours each way to get to the school in ... oh, wait, we had to shut that one down to make those loan guarantees to Israel last month. Okay, there's a school in... no, that one is gone too. Hey, Home schooling, now THERE'S a thought!
- M. R.
Iraqi MP killed...
And he blew up a hospital, too, JUST in time for Bush's speech! What an AMAZING coincidence! - M. R.
The government officials responsible claimed they were from the Attorney-General's Department, and spent a day trawling through her computers, looking for sensitive information. When they found any, they smashed the hard drives with a hammer to make sure it was really erased. They referred to the process as 'cleansing'.
A top US businessman and an international network of smugglers and academics are making millions of dollars through their illegal dealings in looted Middle Eastern artefacts, according to a leading stolen antiquities activist.
Members of the US Congress who toured Guantanamo Bay prison have said that conditions there are improving.
"They are keeping those thumbscrews spanky shiny clean!"
- M. R.
US 'stalling UN Guantanamo visit'...
"Hey, let's skip Camp X-Ray and cruise over to Havana and catch a donkey show, whatya say?"
- M. R.
Wal-Mart heir John T. Walton, who threw his considerable financial support behind efforts to educate low-income children, has died while at the controls of a homemade, experimental aircraft.
There is something a little disquieting when a key backer of the Right Wing believes that its work is done. The Olin Foundation's millions have fueled the Right Wing Propaganda Machine, which was the key manifestation of the "shadow government" that the Olin, Scaife, Coors millions built (along with Noble, Smith-Richardson and even Wal-Mart's John Walton).
Bush to Tell Why He Sees a 'Clear Path to Victory'...
"Victory?"
What "Victory"?
What is the goal? What is the mission? By what measure do we decide we have won?
Weapons of mass destruction? They were never there.
Saddam Al Qaeda link? Didn't exist. Al Qaeda is a Mossad front group.
Revenge for 9-11? Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 (See comment about Al Qaeda above).
Improving the lives of the Iraqi? Their lives are worse now than under Saddam.
You cannot have victory without an objective, and nobody seems willing to talk about the real reason we are in Iraq. - M. R.
At least two Florida counties are balking at paperless touch-screen voting machines — and risking lawsuits — as state and federal deadlines loom for buying equipment that allows disabled voters to cast ballots without assistance.
"You WILL use the machines that let us win, dammit!" - M. R.
FLASHBACK: The war on al-Jazeera...
aipac’s leaders can be immoderately frank about the group’s influence. At dinner that night with Steven Rosen, I mentioned a controversy that had enveloped aipac in 1992. David Steiner, a New Jersey real-estate developer who was then serving as aipac’s president, was caught on tape boasting that he had “cut a deal” with the Administration of George H. W. Bush to provide more aid to Israel. Steiner also said that he was “negotiating” with the incoming Clinton Administration over the appointment of a pro-Israel Secretary of State. “We have a dozen people in his”—Clinton’s—“headquarters . . . and they are all going to get big jobs,” Steiner said. Soon after the tape’s existence was disclosed, Steiner resigned his post. I asked Rosen if aipac suffered a loss of influence after the Steiner affair. A half smile appeared on his face, and he pushed a napkin across the table. “You see this napkin?” he said. “In twenty-four hours, we could have the signatures of seventy senators on this napkin.”
The AIPAC scandal is not about what classified information flowed from the Pentagon to Israel. AIPAC's spy, Larry Franklin, was working in the very office from which many of the now discredited claims about Iraq's threat were appearing. So the real scandal is the DISinformation flowing from Israel through AIPAC into the Pentagon, tricking this nation into a war that Israel wanted.
- M. R.
No Reason For Networks To Show Bush's Iraq Speech?...
"Blah blah blah stay the course blah blah blah insurgents blah blah blah September 11th blah blah blah September 11th blah blah blah September 11th blah blah blah war on terror blah blah blah weapons of mass destruction blah blah blah I did not lie blah blah blah Tony Blair made me do it. Oh yes, we're invading Iran." - M. R.
Most of Iraq is today a bloody no-man's land beset by ruthless insurgents, savage bandit gangs, trigger-happy US patrols and marauding government forces.
So kudos to Lloyd Grove, but this has to appear in a gossip column? When is the national news media going to pick up on this case of dishonesty involving an issue that's of the utmost national importance -- the heartbeat of the man who (all W. jokes aside for one fleeting moment) at least constitutionally is a heartbeat away from the presidency?
When Bush decided, prior to September 11, to attack Iraq, he committed himself to lies and deceit. As his British co-conspirators realized, only victory could save them from the consequences.
Is this why our kids are bleeding in Iraq, even after the lies that started the war have been revealed? Does Bush think that if he "wins" the war in Iraq, that all sins will be forgiven? - M. R.
Accusing the Bush administration of "carping" and "outside interference," China issued a sharp complaint Monday after Israel cancelled a controversial Israeli-Chinese arms deal under pressure from the United States.
A series of three-year-old British documents seized upon by those who think the Bush administration manipulated intelligence before the war with Iraq has demonstrated unusual staying power. That is due in part to declining public support for the conflict – but it also has much to do with an Internet campaign by war critics prodding journalists to talk about them.
Damn straight. - M. R.
"No doubt from the British point of view Iraq has been a strategic blunder -- not just a mistake, but a mistake that we're still paying for," said Clarke, of King's College. "Still, while no one in government would ever say it, the rationale from the British point of view is that our strategic relationship with the U.S. is more important than any single campaign we fight on its behalf. The basic calculation was: Right or wrong, it is in our interest to stand with the United States."
Multiple investigations affect more GOP officials.
Blair is 'unfit and drinking'...
Could you lie your nation into a war and stay sober?
- M. R.
June 27, 2005
Press Apologists for Torture...
Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.