October 31, 2005
Noting that Israel is currently threatening world peace and security with its nuclear arsenal, the article said the fact that Israel possesses nine facilities for production of fission nuclear weapons as well as hydrogen and neutron bombs "is a real threat to the world and particularly the critical Middle East region."
stressing that millions of Muslims all over the world are in consensus that Zionism is the enemy of humanity, the paper said, "Indeed, it is odd that the world has remained silent about Israel's refusal to sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but opposes Iran's civilian nuclear activities."
What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made...Now it is paying the consequences of making those decisions in secret, but far more telling to me is America is paying the consequences.
Pixar has produced only CG features and nothing but blockbusters since it started producing movies in 1995, while many of the Disney-generated animated movies during the period were considered box office flops.
Cheney-Staffer-Turned-Reporter Now Covering Libby Indictment for NBC News...
After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.
U.S. senators -- who draw salaries of $162,100 a year and enjoy a raft of perks -- have rejected a minimum wage hike from $5.15 an hour to $6.25 for blue-collar workers.
Can you believe it?
The proposed increase was sponsored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and turned down in the Senate by a vote of 51 against the boost and 49 in favor. Under a Senate agreement, it needed 60 votes to pass.
All the Democrats voted for the wage boost. All the negative votes were cast by Republicans.
A new vaccine that protects against cervical cancer has set up a clash between health advocates who want to use the shots aggressively to prevent thousands of malignancies and social conservatives who say immunizing teenagers could encourage sexual activity.
This kind of thinking, to suppress medicine because it might ber a sin, is right out of the dark ages. - M. R.
The Bush regime told lies to get support for its pre-emptive war against a country that posed no threat to our borders. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, introduced a “Resolution of Inquiry to demand the White House turn over all white papers, minutes, notes, e-mails or other communications kept by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).”
Aspartame Gate: When Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle...
If we define Zionism as the struggle to create Israel, then complaining about Zionism is complaining about the struggle to create Israel. This has nothing to do with Jews, Catholics, atheists, or any other race or political party. Therefore, anti-Zionism is not anti-Jew.
If a group of Mormons decide to create a nation for themselves in New Zealand, am I required to provide financial, emotional, and military support? Is Cindy Sheehan required to send her children to New Zealand to help develop the Mormon nation? If I complain that I do not want to support the creation of a Mormon nation, am I anti-Mormon?
If a group of Catholics decide to create a nation for themselves in Palestine, am I required to provide them with financial, emotional, and military support? Is Cindy Sheehan required to send her children to Palestine to help develop the Catholic nation? If I complain that I do not want to support the creation of a Catholic nation, am I anti-Catholic?
A hundred years ago a group of Jews decided to create Israel in Palestine. Why should any of us be required to support their activities? Why are we anti-Semitic when we complain that we are tired of giving tax money to Israel? Why should Cindy Sheehan be required to send her children to die for Israel?
Many Jews have no desire to support Israel, and if they can oppose Israel, so can us goyim.
Or, if opposing the creation of Israel is "anti-Semitic", then there is nothing wrong with being anti-Semitic.
Antiwar protesters march on Common...
This is the story of how Erin Malloy, Irvington residents – and especially Susan Brenner-Morton – discovered the true depths of the national Republican strategy for "winning" elections by disenfranchising voters and turning perfectly good votes into bad votes.
A parade of FDA officials, Commissioners included, have hired
into the aspartame business. Every test endorsing it was paid for by the manufacturer. All independent studies say its toxic. The Italian researchers declared it's a Multi-Potential Carcinogen. Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D., author of Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills says: "This study should terrify mothers and all those consuming aspartame sweetened products. This was a carefully done study which clearly demonstrated a statistically significant increase in several types of lymphomas and leukemias in rats. Both of these malignancies have increased significantly in this country since the widespread use of aspartame." FDA has received more complaints on aspartame than all other food additives combined, so they stopped taking complaints.
Judge Who Gagged Edmonds Is Judge For Libby Case - Has Links To Republican Right...
ANTI-war demonstrators could be jailed for seven years under the Federal Government's proposed anti-terror laws, a doctors' body said today.
The US National Security Agency has kept secret a 2001 finding by its own historian that its officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence during the Tonkin Gulf episode that helped precipitate the Vietnam War.
The historian's conclusion was the first serious accusation that the agency's intercepts were falsified to support the belief North Vietnamese ships attacked US destroyers on August 4, 1964, two days after a previous clash.
To begin with, Shaler's office could not identify the three by name. That's because the 10 DNA profiles used to make the first matches were supplied by the FBI without names attached.
"No names, just a K code, which is how the FBI designates 'knowns,' or specimens it knows the origins of," Shaler wrote. "Of course, we had no direct knowledge of how the FBI obtained the terrorists' DNA."
Can you say "setup"?
- M. R.
"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
-Mark Twain
Firstly, the bill is so dangerous because as ever it hands over more power to the federal government and effectively brings local law enforcement agencies under it's control. Allowing a centralized power structure to determine what is and what isn't "hate speech" or a "hate crime" is akin to tin-pot dictatorship. It means that there will be a broad overarching definition of what kind of speech is against the law according to which federally protected groups become offended by the opinion of someone else.
Libby did not lie, commit perjury, and obstruct justice for no reason. As Fitzgerald made clear, these are serious crimes. For a high government official to commit such crimes, the crime being covered up must be very serious indeed.
The crime is the falsification of intelligence in order to deceive Congress and the American people.
To survive in the age of blogs, iPods and Craigslist, newspapers must capitalise on their credibility and local strengths while figuring out how best to make money from their new media ventures, a panel of industry experts said on Thursday.
Start by telling the people the truth. - M. R.
Since Saddam was toppled more than two years ago, the Bush administration has been waiting anxiously for both events as potent signals that Iraq was moving past dictatorship and toward democracy. The hope was the two events would provide inspiration not just in Iraq, but also in the entire Middle East, propelling people to seek more democracy in their own countries and to begin seeing some good out of a war most of them opposed.
Instead, both the Iraqi referendum on the constitution and Saddam's trial are likely to intensify the anger between Iraq's Sunnis and its Shiite and Kurdish populations and the dismay in much of the Arab and Muslim worlds. And that means we face the possibility not only of more sectarian strife in Iraq, but also increased chances that other countries and groups will join the fray as providers of arms and even fighters.
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was signed by the U.S. in 1992 and outlaws torture or degrading treatment.
State asked to remove ban on visits to Gaza on Muslim festival...
In israel, Palestinians have to go to court to see relatives on holidays - M. R.
There is no evidence that Addington has done anything outside the law, or that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has regarded him as anything other than a witness during the two-year probe that led to Libby's indictment. There is also no evidence that Addington was cognizant that Libby had allegedly leaked classified information on Plame to the media.
But Addington was deeply immersed in the White House damage-control campaign to deflect criticism that the Bush administration misrepresented intelligence information to make the case to go to war with Iraq, according to administration and congressional sources.
Syria has accused the United States of launching lethal military raids into its territory from Iraq, escalating the diplomatic crisis between the two countries as the Bush administration seeks to step up pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime.
A higher percentage of Texas households were at risk of going hungry over the past three years than in any other state, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
Key
U.N. Security Council members dropped the threat of sanctions against
Syria on Monday in a last-minute effort to get all 15 nations to back a resolution demanding that Damascus cooperate with an investigation into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister.
6 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq...
That's 90 for the month.
Why?
Why are they dead? What purpose did their deaths serve?
Why does it continue?
- M. R.
As an example the unnamed official told delegates that Tanweer argued with a cashier that he had been short changed, after stopping off at a petrol station on his way to the intended target in London.
The official told the seminar held in Preston, Lancashire two weeks ago: "This is not the behaviour of a terrorist - you'd think this is normal.
"Tanweer also played a game of cricket the night before he travelled down to London - now are these the actions of someone who is going to blow themselves up the next day?
"I've seen the CCTV footage of these people. They do not appear to be on their way to commit any crime at all. The Russell Square bomber [Hasib Hussain] is actually seen going into shops and bumping into people [prior to his attack].
"We have been told in the past that the normal age [for a terrorist] is about 30 ... that profile is totally wrong." Or, they were patsies.
- M. R.
Syria faces sanctions vote at UN...
... solely on the testimony of a convicted criminal. - M. R.
A local hospital doctor in the Iraqi town of Qaim said 40 people were killed and 20 wounded, many of them women and children, and a tribal leader said there were no guerrillas in the area.
The Secretary of Defense, the man who allegedly supported the use of contrived intelligence to justify the war on Iraq, is now poised to reap huge gains for a flu panic his Administration has done everything it can to promote. It would be useful to know whether the Pentagon’s successor to Douglas Feith’s Office of Special Plans developed the strategy of biowarfare behind the current Avian Flu panic. Perhaps some enterprising Congressional committee might look into the entire subject of plausible conflicts of interest regarding Secretary Rumsfeld.
Anita and Cara were considered model employees at Weyco, an insurance consulting firm outside of Lansing, Mich., both having worked at the company for years. The women sat side-by-side, sharing workloads – and after work – sharing the occasional cigarette.
But at a company benefits meeting two years ago, the company president announced, "As of January 1st, 2005, anyone that has nicotine in their body will be fired,” Anita remembers. “And we sat there in awe. And I spoke out at that time. ‘You can't do that to us’ And then he said, ‘Yes, I can.’ I said, ‘That's not legal.’ And he came back with, ‘Yes, it is.’”
Legally, there are no significant differences between the investor fraud perpetrated by Enron CEO Ken Lay and the prewar intelligence fraud perpetrated by George W. Bush. Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them. There is, however, a practical difference: The presidential fraud is wider in scope and far graver in its consequences than the Enron fraud. Yet thus far the public seems paralyzed.
India's nukes are not a problem for the US but an asset in the larger game of tethering China.
Best write this while I can, because the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005 has passed in the House (thus eliminating once and for all the First Amendment), and I will not be allowed to criticize the criminal state of Israel (or for that matter America) much longer…
IDF positions artillery near southern Gaza...
Shaul Youdkevitch, the Kabbala guru who drew Madonna to Israel a year ago, has been placed under house arrest by a court in Tel Aviv court on suspicion of extorting more than Ł28,000 from a terminally ill cancer patient.
US unveils new prison in northern Iraq...
Democracy on the march! - M. R.
How's that for a 'fresh start'?
President Bush, stung by the rejection of his first choice, nominated conservative judge Samuel Alito on Monday to replace moderate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in a bid to reshape the Supreme Court and mollify his political base.
Lost in the hubbub surrounding the "outing" of Valerie Plame, is the story of Plame’s CIA front company, Brewster Jennings and Associates. B.J. & A was based in Boston and was "intended to infiltrate ties between groups involved in smuggling nuclear weapons. Since NOCs (CIA agents under nonofficial cover) usually work at companies set up by the CIA as fronts, it has been speculated that other employees of the company may have been doing work similar to Plame. If that were true, the damage done by leaking Plame’s name would be vastly multiplied, as all the other NOC’s would be compromised"
October 30, 2005
Lurking off Virginia are tens of thousands of mustard gas shells and hundreds of tons of radioactive waste in at least five ocean dump zones created by the Army decades ago.
The chemical weapons are probably harmless goo by now, but the radioactive waste is another matter entirely. - M. R.
There is a cancer on the presidency, and it cannot be exorcised by the resignation of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
OKAY FOLKS, HERE IS A CALL TO KEYBOARDS.
I want you to write the media, all of the media, every last one.
Send them Niger-gate, and Lie Of The Century and in your cover, point out that this is the scandal behind the leaking of Valerie Plame's name; that Valerie was outed to prevent Joe Wilson from calling attention to the fact that the Bush administration was using phony documents to create a case for war.
A concerted email campaign forced the Downing Street Minutes onto the front pages of America. We can do it again with the Niger forgeries and the lies that led to war.
Be a part of history. Shame the media into doing their job.
- M. R.
A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after grabbing a microphone while partially submerged, a church employee said.
"Just FEE-YUL the power of JEE-A-ZUS knock your ass across that room!" - M. R.
Some of the suspects apparently used the stolen identities of at least five Saudis who worked in the airline industry as pilots, mechanics and flight attendants — people who would have had increased access in airports, a Saudi government official told the Sun-Sentinel.
FLASHBACK: Iran, Syria Pact Raises Eyebrows...
Silence is the sound of surrender. The sound of fear. Creating fear is the quickest way to
achieve silence. Who benefits from the silence? Who would want to mute the mouths of
Americans? You ask yourself that question; don't run around asking everyone else until
you can answer it. It is not a trick question. It is a very simple question and has been
answered by generations of the past. Rome, Germany, Russia, France, and China are
prime examples of a people that were silent. As the past will prove, it is not an imaginary
organization that benefits from a nations silence. Indeed, it is the leaders of that nation’s
government which benefits from the silence.
THE fall-out from the Plame affair now engulfing Washington will extend to Britain. But there may be one significant difference in the way the two leaders, Bush and Blair, will be affected. Iraq has already severely damaged Tony Blair; his association with George W Bush and US foreign policy has already weakened him. Bush may still be expecting worse is to come. For Blair, Iraq and its fall-out has all but destroyed his legacy.
When does he get his trip to the tower? After all, what Tony Blair has done is as great a crime as that committed by Charles I. - M. R.
"In 2005-2006, The Tehran government has developed a plan to begin competing with New York's NYMEX and London's IPE with respect to international oil trades - using a euro-denominated international oil-trading mechanism. This means that without some form of US intervention, the euro is going to establish a firm foothold in the international oil trade." "Iran's oil bourse will start trading by early 2006" "One of the Federal Reserve’s nightmares may begin to unfold in 2005 or 2006, when it appears international buyers will have a choice of buying a barrel of oil for $50 dollars on the NYMEX and IPE - or purchase a barrel of oil for €37 - €40 euros via the Iranian Bourse. This assumes the euro maintains its current 20-25% appreciated value relative to the dollar - and assumes that some sort of "intervention" is not undertaken against Iran." "NEWSWEEK has learned that the CIA and DIA have war-gamed the likely consequences of a U.S. pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. No one liked the outcome. As an Air Force source tells it, "The war games were unsuccessful at preventing the conflict from escalating."
This was written in 2001. - M. R.
Syria has accused the US of launching lethal military raids into its territory from Iraq, escalating the diplomatic crisis between the two countries as the Bush administration seeks to step up pressure on President Bashar Assad's regime.
This is a repeat of Iraq, in which the US and UK carried out covert attacks on Iraq in the months leading up to the official invasion, hoping to provoke Saddam into making the first overt move in a war.
- M. R.
"This sends a message of business-as-usual and perhaps even grants legitimacy to a nation which demands the destruction of another state," Danny Gillerman, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, was quoted as saying.
See
HERE for Israel's humanitarian attitude towards other states.
- M. R.
Police arrest Sunday Shaul Youdkevitch, head of Kabbalah Center in Israel, on suspicion he extracted money from cancer patient, convinced her donations will make her recover from illness.
Records show that thirtyOhio contributors to President Bush's re-election campaign have received more than one-point-two billion dollars in state and federal tax dollars for their companies and lobbying clients.
UN's Mehlis report discredited :: International espionage over Syria?...
Unexpectedly high levels of radioactive contamination are being discovered in French Polynesia almost a decade after nuclear testing ended on Mururoa Atoll, says the territory's President, Oscar Temaru.
Up to five people a day are being sent to private hospitals in Auckland for diagnosis and treatment for what may be radiation-related illnesses, officials say.
Demand for grave diggers and coffins soars in Baghdad...
"We're gonna make you rag-heads Democratic if we have to kill every last one of you!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada...
Legally, there are no significant differences between the investor fraud perpetrated by Enron CEO Ken Lay and the prewar intelligence fraud perpetrated by George W. Bush. Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them. There is, however, a practical difference: The presidential fraud is wider in scope and far graver in its consequences than the Enron fraud. Yet thus far the public seems paralyzed.
O'Reilly: closing public schools for Muslim holiday "absurd in a Judeo-Christian country"...
"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries."
-- Treaty of Tripoli.
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." -- Article VI, Clause 2, The Constitution of the United States - M. R.
Ahmadinejad has a violent solution. He cited the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: “Israel must be wiped off the map.”
Here Ahmadinejad words accord completely with the expectations of Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion:
Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader, I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure, God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, it’s true, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we came here and stole their country. Why should they accept that? [3]
Was Ben Gurion therefore anti-Israel?
Hariri was assassinated by a small group of professional assassins, headed by a man who calls himself either Robert H. Lewis, Robert Alan Lewis or Robert Hall Lewis. In actuality, his real name is Robert Lipschitz, born on June 23, 1935. He has two American social security numbers: 451-76-4488 and 114-07-8811. Lipschitz/Lewis, who holds Israeli citizenship although born in the Untied States, has very strong, albeit secret, connections with the U.S. Pentagon, in specific, a secret Pentagon committee, set up by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in October 2001
The secret committee, which prepares false or misleading information for Rumsfeld to use in his reports encouraging military actions in places other than Iraq, is called the Office of Special Plans, and initially was headed by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and other Pentagon hawks. Both this committee and its many and close friends in the Israeli Mossad determined that Syria should be the next target of Bush’s Imperial Expansionism in the Middle East and the removal of a very close and hostile neighbor, Syria, would be of great value to Israel.
BRITISH diplomats had a satellite phone stolen in Baghdad...and only noticed it was missing after a bill for FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS was run up.
"Can you hear me NOW?"
- M. R.
How a very smart and very loyal aide to Dick Cheney got indicted for allegedly lying about his role in defending the war
TIME continues in the proud tradition of presstitution.
Libby wasn't "Defending the war", he was defending a lie; the forged Niger documents used to trick this nation into a war. Joe Wilson was blowing the lid off of that lie, and his wife was outed as part of the campaign to convince the media not to report what Joe Wilson knew of the deception.
TIME, as usual, has missed the real heart of the story. - M. R.
Something has apparently agitated our nation's nasty gene, and we're off on a toot demanding free range for some of our ugliest impulses.
The Censored Article That Jewish Groups Had Pulled From A College Website...
"First Amendment? WHAT First Amendment! YOu have freedom of speech only if we like what you say!"
- M. R.
For the next 38 hours, the militiamen raped, tortured, mutilated and massacred civilians. The exact number killed is still not known. On 22 September the International Red Cross gave a figure of 2,400, but Palestinians claim more died.
One of the most controversial revelations in the film is the alleged extent of Israeli involvement in the preparation and execution of the operation, down to providing body bags before the killings began. 'You'll be needing these,' one of the militiamen is told by an Israeli officer. This is why Iran feels the way they do about Israel. - M. R.
The Sharon government is a giant laboratory for the growing of the anti-Semitism virus. It exports it to the whole world. Anti-Semitic organizations, which for many years vegetated on the margins of society, rejected and despised, are suddenly growing and flowering. Anti-Semitism, which has hidden itself in shame since World War II, is now riding on a great wave of opposition to Sharon's policy of oppression.
Sharon's propaganda agents are pouring oil on the flames. Accusing all critics of his policy of being anti-Semites, they brand large communities with this mark. Many good people, who feel no hatred at all towards the Jews, but who detest the persecution of the Palestinians, are now called anti-Semites. Thus the sting is taken out of this word, giving it something approaching respectability.
Another would authorize the death penalty for a person who gives money to an organization whose members kill someone, even if the contributor did not know that the organization or its members were planning to kill.
Everyone who paid income tax is now liable for the death penelty! - M. R.
GW: "We expect Syria to do everything in its power to shut down the transshipment of suiciders and killers into Iraq," he said.
This from the nation that can't keep illegals from streaming across their own southern border?!? - M. R.
President Bush used his radio address Saturday to warn again that the war in Iraq will continue and will cost more American lives.
"Cause I know nunya got the BALLS to make me stop! Hehehehehe!" -- Official White Horse Souse
(ahem) I thought we were already done!
 - M. R.
Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz has denied telling investigators that a maverick British lawmaker personally profited from the United Nations' oil-for-food program for Iraq.
The US Congress should have quit while they were ahead. Going after Galloway a second time, again using fraudulent evidence, makes them look not only criminal, but stupid. - M. R.
We have been warned. Prepare for a broader war in the Middle East, as plans are being laid for the next U.S. led regime change-- in Syria. A UN report on the death of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafig Hariri elicited this comment from a senior U.S. policy maker: “Out of tragedy comes an extraordinary strategic opportunity.” This statement reflects the continued neo-conservative, Machiavellian influence on our foreign policy. The “opportunity” refers to the long-held neo-conservative plan for regime change in Syria, similar to what was carried out in Iraq.
If we do not choose to fight against these people now, we will soon have no choice but to fight for them frmo now on.
- M. R.
Almost 70 Percent Of U.S. Casualties In Iraq Under Age 30...
Why did they die? For what noble purpose was their blood shed. What great cause was advanced by their sacrifice?
- M. R.
The Pentagon admits a breathtaking 250,000 tons of heavy ordnance (out of 650,000 tons total): aircraft bombs, artillery and tank shells, mines, rockets were allowed to be looted by our undermanned army in the 4-30 weeks after invasion through gross negligence at the top- equivalent to 1 million 500 lb bombs. At ten 500 lb. roadside mines or market closeouts a day, that's enough for 274 years of attacks.
Against every rule of occupation, almost no effort was made to secure the vast munitions stores of Iraq after the invasion; 250,000 tons, 40% of the ordinance was looted by insurgents and is killing our soldiers every day. - M. R.
While some sick individuals might get a "thrill" from moving into property stolen from a family expelled from their home at gunpoint by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), our observations indicate that fun and profit serve as the primary motivation for relocating to Occupied Palestine.
The Israeli government offers American Jews subsidized mortgages at interest rates far lower than anything available to non-Jews. The subsidies are funded by Israeli bonds and underwritten by U.S. loan guarantees. The new mortgage holders are allowed to sink their credit card debts into Israeli mortgages valued in shekels, which are practically guaranteed to depreciate relative to the dollar.
While these "ethically challenged" American Jews stay in Israel, they are offered free Hebrew classes and living expenses for up to one year, paid by the Israeli government. Paid for in turn by your tax money sent to Israel. - M. R.
Despite their smug superiority, characterized by the constant litany of insults in their public press characterizing us as redneck racists, I'm pretty sure their resentment of Alberta has a lot to do with a sense that they're kind of like the fat girl who wasn't invited to the prom.
We're at the party and they're not.
Uri Avnery warns that the campaign by Ariel Sharon to discredit, isolate and, eventually, eliminate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has begun in earnest. The reason? To prevent the possibility of an "imposed peace that would compel Israel to return more or less to the pre-1967 border". With a lame duck president in the White House, Sharon appears to have calculated that now is the time to move against Abbas.
The NY Times and the rest of the criminal corporate media are lying bastards! I can not repeat this enough: none of the information related to the Plame case that is being presented to the public by the corporate media is new. It is almost like they are visiting sites like TvNewsLIES.org, Buzzflash.com, Whatreallyhappened.com or the like and skimming through our archives. They are printing 2-3 year old news stories as if they are suddenly finding out new information during some kind of journalistic investigation.
"You would think this is the land of opportunity, but it doesn't seem that way if somebody can try and take your property away," McKinney said.
Karl Rove: Last-Minute Evidence...
The Magic Email: Explaining why the bigger fish got away.
How does Fitzpatrick know that the email isn't as phony as the Niger documents? - M. R.
October 29, 2005
While you were, ah, distracted, Congress was quietly renewing every major provision of the Patriot Act.
Blogs (short for web logs) are websites that can be as basic as an online diary, or as fully fledged as a political community. And when the latter variety seizes upon a topic - creating a blog swarm - the results can be overwhelming.
That's why politicians are eager to co-opt them - or, at least, engage them.
Today's British Medical Journal features an editorial on the bird flu in which they state the following: The lack of sustained human-to-human transmission suggests that this AH5N1 avian virus does not currently have the capacity to cause a human pandemic.
"Hey, no problem; that's why we dug up the 1918 Spanish Flu, just in case!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
Dude, you're getting a pink slip!!...
The Justice Department and the FBI both argued to the court that her lawsuit should be dismissed because much of the information needed to be considered for it was protected by the "state secrets privilege," which is meant to protect classified national security information from being disclosed.
U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton agreed with the government's position. U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton will be hearing Libby's case.
- M. R.
Libby's Arraignment Judge: Reggie Walton...
"Somehow", Libby's case has been assigned to a Bush appointee. I am NOT reassured by this writer.
- M. R.
The Bush administration formed the National Energy Policy Development Group to develop the nation's energy policy in 2001. However, in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, or the open meetings law, as it is better known, the task force refused to turn over information pertaining to who was involved and what was discussed. (This is same law conservatives accused Hillary Clinton of violating when she attempted to launch her secret government takeover of the nation's healthcare system in the early 1990s.)
House Panel OKs School Lunch Funding Cut...
"Hey, we gotta make sure that last check to Israel doesn't bounce!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
In 1951, the director general of the Israeli Health Ministry, Dr. Chaim Sheba, flew to America and returned with seven x-ray machines, supplied to him by the American army.
They were to be used in a mass atomic experiment with an entire generation of Sephardi youths to be used as guinea pigs. Every Sephardi child was to be given 35,000 times the maximum dose of x-rays through his head. For doing so, the American government paid the Israeli government 300 million Israeli liras a year. The entire Health budget was 60 million liras. The money paid by the Americans is equivalent to billions of dollars today.
"Unfortunately the Western countries have remained silent on the increasing inhuman activities of Israel," Mottaki said at the Tehran march.
A general strike shut down schools, businesses and transportation in the capital Friday in a protest of new laws restricting the media for criticizing Nepal's king.
UN's Mehlis report discredited :: International espionage over Syria?...
Belgian revisionist to be extradited from Holland to Germany...
Well that makes three historians arrested recently and extradited to Germany for questioning certain aspects of the holocaust. [Ernst Zundel, Germar Rudolf and now Siegfried Verbeke].
"Truth needs no laws to support it. Throughout history, only lies and liars have resorted to the courts to enforce adherence to dogma."
- M. R.
Iraq's top Shiite cleric is considering demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops after a democratically elected government takes office next year, according to associates of the Iranian-born cleric.
As it stands now, Fitzgerald has Libby on 30 years worth of counts and he's got him cold. No wiggle room. Libby may not do 30 years, but he ain't doing 6 months. Scooter's screwed. It was the Vice President's boon companion himself, David Gergen, who said on MSNBC today that this is squeeze time. John Dean reiterated it later on. It really matters little to a man of 55 whether he is looking at 30 years or 60 -- he'd rather have 60 thrown at him if some of them were shaky and he thought he could use the wobbly ones to get out of the rest.
There is no wobble in the indictments handed down today. It's pretty clear. Libby can cut a deal with Fitzgerald or swing.
Bush calls Iran and Syria 'outlaw regimes'...
This from the President who lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to launch an illegal war of conquest against an innocent nation?
- M. R.
WITH THE indictment of Lewis Libby and possible indictment of Karl Rove, President Bush faces a fateful choice. Bush can adopt a bunker mentality and try to appease his base of social ultra-conservatives and military hawks who have brought him such grief. Or he can reach out to the broad mainstream, as he pretended to do when he ran as a ''uniter, not a divider" in 2000.
Or he can start "Dubya-Dubya-Three". - M. R.
With more than 38 million Americans too poor to buy adequate food, the US Congress has begun to take away the food stamps many of them receive.
But Israel still gets billions every year.
Do you get it? The US Congress is willing to starve Americans in order to continue to send money and weapons to Israel.
Who is the US Congress listening to? - M. R.
Many big investors keep a large portion of their wealth invested in US Treasury bonds. Over the past few weeks this previous safe haven for investment has started to slide on the back of rising interest rates. So is this the end of the long bond bull market?
Russia, China insist Iran has right to nuclear fuel cycle: vice president...
Are you getting it now? It isn't just Iran any more. It is Iran, Russia and China, together. If Bush attacks Iran because Israel says to, our kids will face a determined army equipped with modern weapons, while (to judge by our current situation in Iraq) the US forces will be rummaging in the trash for basic supplies. - M. R.
Tom Lantos 'outraged' at Iran's comments on Israel...
Hey Tom. Look down. What is that nation your feet are standing on. THAT is the nation you are supposed to be worried about. I know Israel's lobbies have paid you $107,000 to sell out your country, but maybe going into an election year you could be a little less obvious about it?
- M. R.
Congressional Pay Rises While Minimum Stays Same.
FEARS of a financial fallout in the hedge fund industry were fuelled today by a warning from Gartmore, one of London's biggest fund groups, that 'something is broken' in European equity markets.
Furious Blair takes aim at Iran...
Here is your rifle, Tony. Here are your baggy green jungle BDUs (Sorry, we ran out of the desert ones), and here is your parachute.
Go ahead. Attack Iran. Be my guest.
But don't take any of our kids with you to fight and die in another war just because Israel is offended that someone finally spoke to Israel the way
Israel speaks to the Arab nations on a constant basis.
- M. R.
Israel has launched fresh air strikes on the Gaza Strip after its defence minister dismissed the Palestinian leadership as a partner for peace and ruled out any foreseeable prospect of a Palestinian state.
Israel makes a great deal over their right to exist, yet denies that right for everyone else.
All this discord began when the UN created two states, Israel and Palestine, and Israel started out refusing to recognize Palestine. This prompted the other Arab nations to refuse to recognize Israel and the whole region has been going to hell in a hand basket ever since. If Israel would only learn to accord to other people the same rights it demands for itself, none of this would be happening. - M. R.
Why wasn’t Israel expelled from the UN as a result of these remarks, as Peres demands of Iran?
More of Israel's statements
HERE - M. R.
MP for Jewish community Morris Motamed said that all the true Jews and followers of the divine religion as well as those believing in Moses (AS) hate usurper Israel due to the barbaric behavior of the 'Zionist' regime.
A Syrian general told reporters touring the border with Iraq on Friday that U.S. forces fired across the frontier five months ago and killed a Syrian soldier during an American military operation.
"So, whatdya gonna DO about it? Huh? Huh? HUH? I dare you to step across this line. I dare you to knock this off my shoulder! Your mother dresses you funny! Tell your sister I said hello! " -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
The real reasons for regime change in Syria have less to do with Hariri’s assassin and more to do with oil and Israel.
"It’s widely known that Israeli Intelligence (Mossad) is already operating in Mosul where the pipeline will originate and have developed good relations with the Kurds in the area. The only remaining obstacle is the current Syrian regime which has already entered the US-Israeli crosshairs. Originally, the pipeline was the dream of the Israeli Minister for National Infrastructures, Joseph Paritzky, who said that it would “cut Israel's energy bill drastically - probably by more than 25 per cent - since the country is currently largely dependent on expensive imports from Russia.”
'It has long been a dream of a powerful section of the people now driving this administration and the war in Iraq to safeguard Israel's energy supply as well as that of the United States. The Haifa pipeline was something that existed, was resurrected as a dream, and is now a viable project - albeit with a lot of building to do.”
China replaces US to be Australia's biggest import source...
Pentagon Plans Iran Attack Over Oil Euro Marker By Christmas 2005...
"Considering the extensive financial and national policy investment Iran has committed to its nuclear projects, it is almost certain that an attack by Israel or the United States would result in immediate retaliation. A likely scenario includes an immediate Iranian missile counterattack on Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf, followed by a very serious effort to destabilize Iraq and foment all-out confrontation between the United States and Iraq's Shi'i majority. Iran could also opt to destabilize Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states with a significant Shi'i population, and induce Lebanese Hizbullah to launch a series of rocket attacks on Northern Israel." "it appears increasingly likely the U.S. will use the specter of nuclear weapon proliferation as a pretext for an intervention, similar to the fears invoked in the previous WMD campaign regarding Iraq." "Pentagon sources confirm the Bush administration could undertake a desperate military strategy to thwart Iran’s nuclear ambitions while simultaneously attempting to prevent the Iranian oil Bourse from initiating a euro-based system for oil trades. The later would require forced "regime change" and the U.S. occupation of Iran. Obviously this would require a military draft. Objectively speaking, the post-war debacle in Iraq has clearly shown that such Imperial policies will be a catastrophic failure. Alternatively, perhaps a more enlightened U.S. administration could undertake multilateral negotiations with the EU and OPEC regarding a dual oil-currency system, in conjunction with global monetary reform. Either way, U.S. policy makers will soon face two difficult choices: monetary compromise or continued petrodollar warfare."
- M. R.
An anthrax treatment under development by the U.S. government could cause serious and even fatal complications, United Press International has learned.
Ah, but the government CAN use it with NO REPERCUSSIONS, as the vaccine makers have just been let off the hook for ANY liability for their products.
- M. R.
Russia's Islamic rebirth adds tension...
Pushing for war with Russia? - M. R.
Louisiana's public hospital system is on the verge of financial collapse two months after Hurricane Katrina and needs federal aid quickly, the head of the system said Thursday.
The Palestinians were trying to reach Jerusalem's Old City so they could pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Now his anguish at never being able to walk again has turned to anger that he and thousands of others are being sent to fight an immoral war for George Bush.
Anti-US platform unites Iraqi political parties...
The War Crimes Act of 1996, a federal statute set forth at 18 U.S.C. § 2441, makes it a federal crime for any U.S. national, whether military or civilian, to violate the Geneva Convention by engaging in murder, torture, or inhuman treatment.
The statute applies not only to those who carry out the acts, but also to those who ORDER IT, know about it, or fail to take steps to stop it. The statute applies to everyone, no matter how high and mighty.
18 U.S.C. § 2441 has no statute of limitations, which means that a war crimes complaint can be filed at any time.
The Death of an Iraqi Prisoner...
The pictures tell it all: THIS is now the way the world perceives the U. S. – grinning GIS positioned next to a battered body. Is THIS how we want to be known?
- M. R.
But like the uranium yellowcake claims—since determined to be fraudulent—that are at the heart of the CIA leak case, the administration's original allegations about Zarqawi's trip also seem to be melting away.
Scientists aim to beat flu with genetically modified chickens...
And as an unexpected side benefit, you get 18 to 23 drumsticks per bird!
- M. R.
Nearly three years after 9-11, after all the shake-ups and pledges to reform, we finally were inside Al Qaeda. Then the White House steps in and wrecks the operation. All in the interest of Bush's re-election.
Plame was not the only spy outed by the White House. - M. R.
Is Patrick Fitzgerald a Zealous "Independent" Prosecutor or Experienced Cover-up Artist?...
White House political director Karl Rove was identified yesterday as the shadowy official who blew the cover of CIA agent Valerie Plame.
Note that during his press conference, Fitzgerald refused to identify "Official A".
- M. R.
Dragging another pro-Israeli nuclear country into the mix?...
New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said Friday that the newspaper was far too slow in correcting its reports indicating
Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but the blame did not lie entirely with Judith Miller, the author of many of the stories.
Judith Miller, who held a government security clearance and was described as a "Charter Member" of the White House Iraq Group, clearly intended to help the White House mislead the public. The NYT (and all the other corporate media outlets) delayed admitting there were no weapons of mass destruction until after the invasion of Iraq had already happened and there was no turning back. This was NOT an 'Institutional failure', because nobody will believe that the corporate media, with their huge staff and multi-million dollar operating budgets, failed to see the obvious signs of deceptions that blogs operating on spare change found under seat cushions all saw.
That Mr. Sulzburger is trying to take the heat off of Judith Miller suggests they were working together on the lies that sent your kids to war all along.
- M. R.
The diplomat, Joseph Wilson, went to Niger in 2002 at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency to investigate allegations that Iraq tried to buy uranium to make a nuclear bomb. Mr. Wilson reported back that the uranium story was unfounded, and he later went public with that contention. But Mr. Cheney's team kept on pushing the claim, which was included in President Bush's State of the Union speech in 2003.
... As for Mr. Libby's case, the charges suggest that White House officials did, in fact, use Mrs. Wilson's classified CIA job as a weapon against a critic of administration policy - to smear his reputation or to warn off other dissenters. A jury will determine whether Mr. Libby broke the law as a result of that campaign. But it seems clear that he and other officials violated the public trust.
And as absorbing as this criminal investigation has been, the big point Americans need to keep in mind is this: There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
A Texas prosecutor asked Thursday for all e-mail sent and received in 2002 by three indicted associates of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay as part of an investigation into an alleged campaign finance scheme.
October 28, 2005
“The Supreme Leader and his inner council see a window of opportunity for Iran right now, as the Americans are stuck in Iraq and the Europeans are divided over what to do”, he said. “They are telling everyone not to be afraid of threats of military action by the West, as this is only a bluff”.
Okay, here is a prediction.
Iran's game is to goad the Americans into invading Iran, knowing they are already weakened from Iraq. Then Iran will counter-invade, backed by Russia, and grab all of Iraq as well. Instead of the balkanized fragments of the Middle East, there will be a single United Islamic Republic, the very thing Israel sought to prevent.
And how many of your kids will die for this disaster?
- M. R.
Dozens of donors listed as 'deceased' have contributed $1.3 million to candidates for Congress, the White House and political parties.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday some of the documents used in the Volcker report on corruption in the United Nation's oil-for-food program were fakes, local news agencies reported.
Imagine my shock! - M. R.
Vote for Food: Confession and More Links...
Concerning the origins of the forged Niger documents, Patrick Fitzgerald’s office has recently received information and documents relating to this case from the Italian government. Yet there has been almost no investigation into some of the key players such as Rocco Martino, the Italian “security consultant” who attempted to sell the forged documents to a reporter in Rome in late 2002.
Rocco Martino has yet to be interviewed by the FBI because they claim that the Italian government has not allowed them to interview him, yet Mr. Martino has traveled to the United States twice in 2004 and still the FBI has not attempted to interview him. Just as the FBI has not attempted to interview Dr. Philip Zack, the man actually caught on the security system entering the storage area where the anthrax used in the letters was kept.
Interesting how the FBI avoids interviewing people who really should be interviewed.
- M. R.
Exxon Mobil spokeswoman Treacy A. Roberts said Thursday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation told the company that the shots administered were "definitely not the flu vaccine."
"Death to Israel, death to America," read many placards.
But Israel gets top billing, of course. :) - M. R.
It's almost laughable to watch various pundits and analysts focus so closely on the details of who leaked what and when, while completely missing the big, diabolical picture. Smearing Joe Wilson and leaking his wife's name to Judy Miller, Matt Cooper, Bob Novak, and the rest is just one small part of a much larger and prearranged plot orchestrated by the PNAC neocons since the first
Gulf War ended and Bush 41 lost re-election.
Sheehan heckled by man paid $60/hr by right-wing group...
At this point another man was brought into the case, who, according to Frontal, "was obviously supposed to be spared by the prosecution until then." On September 9, 1996, the very day the Berlin judge threatened to release Chraidi, Berlin public prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, Berlin police inspector Uwe Wilhelms and a Mr. Winterstein of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) met Musbah Eter in the Mediterranean island state of Malta.
Mehlis, eh?
- M. R.
An Iran-Russia-China axis?...
I repeat: Do you want to get into a nuclear war with Russia ... for
Israel's benefit?
- M. R.
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) has introduced a Resolution of Inquiry to demand the White House turn over all white papers, minutes, notes, emails or other communications kept by the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).
Stay out of small airplanes, Dennis. - M. R.
Suddenly, area's housing market favors the buyers...
"POP!" - M. R.
David Addington, Prof. John Yoo, Judge Jay Bybee Parsing Pettifoggers of Pain
These three lawyers wrote or joined with Gonzales in creating the memos with the trickle-down torture effects. Addington is vice president Cheney's counsel.
"Is the investigation finished? It's not over," Fitzgerald said at a news conference. "But ... very rarely do you bring a charge in a case that's going to be tried in which you ever end a grand jury investigation. I can tell you that the substantial bulk of the work of this investigation is concluded."
Translation: "We let everyone but the patsy off, but the gullible will still cling to the hope of eventual justice if we just string them along."
- M. R.
Chris Mathews confirms that the Fitzgerald investigation is broadening to the yellowcake documents....
I note that Fitzgerald did not mention this in his press conference. - M. R.
Kevin Benderman continues to be targeted by the Army for applying for conscientious objector status and refusing to go to Iraq for a second tour. While serving a 15 month sentence at the Fort Lewis stockade for "missing movement," he is being denied contact with his lawyers and he and other prisoners are forced to live under deplorable conditions.
Tom Noe, whose failed rare-coin deal with the state has triggered multiple investigations and rocked Ohio’s Republican leadership, was charged yesterday with illegally funneling $45,400 to President Bush’s re-election campaign.
Mortgage defaults in California increased for the first time in more than three years during the third quarter of 2005, according to newly released data.
We must open PNAC and 9/11 to public discourse because all roads may very well lead to or from 9/11.
9/11 is not the reason the Bush/PNAC agenda took shape, it is the
excuse for implementing it.
FLASHBACK: Marc Rich's White House Mole: Lewis Libby...
Rosa Parks to Lie in Honor at Capitol...
"Not that we are sucking up to the black vote as we head into the 2006 elections or anything like that." -- Official White Horse Souse
- M. R.
Reactions to the Libby indictment...
Top Cheney aide Libby indicted, quits post...
The designated scapegoat is handed his hat. - M. R.
Did the criminal Israeli regime murder Hariri to provoke hostilities with Syria? Take a look at the evidence and listen to the interview:...
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