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November 30, 2005

The MadCowMorningNews has learned that California Republican Congressman Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham steered $500 million in defense contracts in less than a decade, according to the company’s own website, to a start-up San Diego software firm which—and here’s the beauty part—doubled as a lobbying firm.

Iraq’s capabilities, American support fall short of confident assessments.

A 43-year-old Brooklyn man was charged with criminal mischief and making graffiti after video cameras caught him carving a swastika in his own Gravesend apartment building, according to The New York Post.

For media elite, why U.S. went to war is a meaningless debate.
For media elite, why U.S. went to war is a conspiracy they were part of. - M. R.

Story Today...
Startup Podcaster in San Francisco - M. R.

FLASHBACK: 9/11 - WHAT DID THE GOVERNMENT KNOW AND WHEN DID IT KNOW IT?...

Are Most Terrorism Files Forged?...
Right after 9-11, the head of the FBI admitted that at least some of the 9-11 hijackers were using skillfully made fake IDs using identities stolen from Arab men.

So, clearly, some documents are forgeries.

Now, consider this; if one has real evidence, one does not need to resort to forgeries. Moreover, if one has real evidence, one does not risk adding forgeries to the pile because the exposure of a forgery casts doubt on the rest of the evidence, even if genuine. So, people who have real evidence don't risk forgery. There is too little to gain and too much to use. Therefore, the presence of a single forged document proves that the party doing the forgery KNOWS there is no real evidence. Hence the answer to the posed question is that the presence of the Niger forgeries and the fake IDs means that ALL of the "terrorists" documents are fakes. - M. R.


"See, this is a war, this is WWIII. Everyone watching today: this is WWIII! If these people get an atomic device, which Iran is making right now, they're going to set it off in America if they can. Wise up, let's knock this off, everybody should come together and do what we have to do to stabilize that country."

Pelosi will back Murtha Iraq pullout resolution...

CEO of media giant who sought to gag reporters has deep political pockets.

All serious and intelligent journalists today know that the U.S. government has massive media management brigades to carefully control what Americans see in the media and, thus, what they are very likely to believe about things of which they have no direct experience, such as high-level politics, finance and foreign affairs. They also know that the government is extremely effective in secretly censoring the news by using devices such as "embedded reporting" in nations like Afghanistan and Iraq which the U.S. government invades, occupies, and governs.

It is far too early to tell what kind of impact it will ultimately have on the Republican establishment, but the Jack Abramoff scandal could well be the most perilous of all the storms developing in Washington. And the cloud forming on the horizon is a dark one indeed.
I don't think so. As big as the Abramoff scandal is, it is nothing compared to the scandal of a government lying this nation into a war.

Nixon was forced out of office over an Obstruction charge, but that was the lesser scandal to conceal a greater one, the truth behind the JFK assassination.

This may be a repeat. Lying to trick the people into a war is a scandal that could (and should) bring down the government. But the Abramoff scandal may be a means to eject those responsible for the lies in a manner which does not threaten the government itself.

Now, normally, I would say that getting rid of the crooks while saving the government would be a good idea, except that I do not see such a path benefiting We The People. We will still be stuck with a government so deeply in debt that it has no choice but to drive us all into poverty to prolong its own power and privilege. - M. R.


It remains a mystery how the US plans to extricate itself from Iraq. As to how it got itself there in the first place, examine the occult rationale of the neocons, those ultimate bullies who set out to reorder the Middle East in a fashion that would fit their geopolitical agenda.

Perhaps at a seminal level of relating to this mess, there was always a foredoomed relationship between those ruthless neocon geopoliticians and the “uppity Arabs” they set out to subdue, whether Iraqi or Palestinian, Islamists or nationalists.

If that is the case, these neocons, who have sent young Americans to kill and be killed in Iraq, may have cut off the American people from all that is alive and decent about them, from their values and their culture, both beloved by people around the world, and alienated millions of Arabs, Muslims and Europeans against them.


It’s pathetic to see the world’s most powerful man, shunted into prearranged venues so he can pitch his snake-oil to college aged boys. That said, Bush’s appearance today at the Naval Academy has got to be a new low for the White House public relations team. Apparently the only people buying the huckster-in-chief’s bedraggled vision of a democratic Iraq are rosy-cheeked young men who dream of battlefields instead of girlfriends.
The best cure for dreams of battle is a real one. - M. R.

Israel imported twenty tonnes of Norwegian heavy water in 1959, pledging peaceful use and on-site inspection. This past March, Norway finally requested inspection after repeated reports that Israel was making atomic bombs. A week or so ago, Israel turned Norway down. Israel said it was too difficult to distinguish Norway's heavy water from other heavy water it had imported, and thus Norway's water couldn't be tracked. Israel refused to say who the other exporters were.

Israel has thus set a precedent. It has become the first country in history to break the inspection pledge on a nuclear import.


So, it is mission impossible that Bush has accomplished: A terminally inept U.S. occupation of Iraq now threatens to make the despot we overthrew look good by comparison. But don’t take my word for it; hear it from the United States’ No. 1 ally in that increasingly nightmarish land.

There is no evidence that the weapons-grade plutonium has been stolen or diverted for illegal purposes...
Suuuuuuuure. Remember where Israel got the fissionables for their first weapons? - M. R.

Howard Dean sucks up to the spies at AIPAC...
AIPAC should be the kiss of death to US politicians by now, but they still take the free trips to Israel, and whatever the heck happens to them while they are there then come back fanatics in service to a foreign government. - M. R.

In the past week, the issue of Jewish support for war has become a hot media issue.

The immediate trigger was Virginia Congressman James Moran.

He told a public forum that ``If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this. . The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going."

See "Who is sending your children off to war".

"Who is congress listening to?"

And "The Mother of All Scandals."

So, if you are reading this, and you are Jewish, please take to heart a warning I put out on this site years ago. Israel, in using you to hide their crimes behind, has made a target of you in the inevitable backlash. Israel does not care if you get harmed or killed, indeed they will welcome it and gleefully wave your bloodied body around to serve their political interests. - M. R.


Reports in the Dutch newspaper Trouw (2/21/00, 2/25/00) and France's Intelligence Newsletter (2/17/00) have revealed that several officers from the US Army's 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOPS) Group at Ft. Bragg worked in the news division at CNN's Atlanta headquarters last year, starting in the final days of the Kosovo War.
See story that follows. - M. R.

US paying Iraqi press to run favourable stories...

Zeev Rosenstein is suspected of involvement in distributing more than 1 million Ectasy pills in the United States, mostly in New York and Miami.

British scientists have developed machinery which they claim can drill the world's smallest hole. Cardiff University scientists said they can drill a hole "narrower than a human hair".
Unfortunately they've mislaid the screw meant for the hole. - M. R.

The CIA's Man in Hollywood...
This is an interview that was on ABC's Good Morning America yesterday, which I watched while waiting for some car repairs to get done. This is the same show where the people in the waiting area all laughed when Porter Goss said the CIA does not use torture. What was interesting (and unreported in this web version) is that the host pointedly asked Brandon if the CIA does "hits" (killings) in real life. Brandon pointedly refused to answer that question. - M. R.

In addition, border guards have been known to investigate the contents of a computer.

One report this year from a U.S.-based marijuana activist says U.S. border guards looked through her digital camera snapshots and likely browsed through her laptop's contents.

Keep those bikini shots encrypted! - M. R.

The difference between Randy "Duke" Cunningham and many of his Congressional colleagues is one of degree, not kind. He is an extreme manifestation of a corruption pervasive in Congress, a crookedness that spreads with the size of the federal government. Had Cunningham just waited a little while and become a defense firm lobbyist, he could have received his Rolls-Royce, yacht, and Louis-Philippe commode legally.

Bitterness grows within the military and intelligence establishment over Bush’s unwillingness to listen to reason on Iraq. Analysts called to the White House to provide intelligence briefings on the situation in Iraq dread the trip to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue where an honest assessment of the war brings anger and sharp rebukes from a President who doesn’t like to hear bad news.

“It’s a no-win situation,” says one longtime Pentagon operative. “If we provide an honest assessment of the situation the President blows his stack. He ignores our recommendations and then blames us when things go wrong.”


I hear it was garish display of rock 'n' roll idol worship for which the famously irascible CEO of DHB Industries, a Westbury-based manufacturer of bulletproof vests, sent his company jet to retrieve Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry from their Saturday gig in Pittsburgh.

38 page PDF document defining administration strategy for Iraq...
And totally divorced from the reality on the ground in Iraq. - M. R.

A man claiming to be a former Syrian intelligence agent in Lebanon has said on Syrian state television that Lebanese officials tortured him and offered bribes to persuade him to present false testimony against Syria to a UN commission investigating the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister.

Bush says Iraqis taking greater role in defense...
Bush lied to get us into Iraq. Anyone think he is not lying to keep us there? - M. R.

IRAQ: RUMSFELD BANS THE WORD 'INSURGENTS'...
Okay Don. We'll call them Freedom Fighters from now on. Happy? - M. R.

The studies are complementary. NATO's Secret Armies, Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele Ganser concerns terrorism sponsored by American and British intelligence in Western Europe and Turkey between the end of World War II and 1985. The War on Truth, 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed chronicles the cultivation and sponsorship of militant Islamic terrorism by the intelligence services of the United States, Britain and Russia from 1979 to the present. Both studies are models of scholarship -- meticulously documented and carefully reasoned -- but the world they reveal will boggle the mind of the most wild-eyed conspiracy theorist.

Sen. Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he can no longer be taken seriously. Yet, The Wall Street Journal published this nonsense. The Iraq War and occupation is too serious for any more arguments based on false information. The security of the world is at stake if the United States continues to handle this situation wrong. Not only are Americans and Iraqis dying, and billions being wasted but Iraq is becoming a destablizing force that attracts and trains terrorists. Elected officials like Sen. Lieberman are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Rescue efforts lead to arrest nightmare for N.O. businessman...
FROM A READER: You have to read this. It's a long read, but intriguing to say the least. I have seen this business man's trucks throughout New Orleans in the past. His crew even painted a house I was living in. His story is incredible and needs to be heard. The first few days account for him staying for Katrina and helping people. He is a Syrian that has been working in New Orleans for 12 years. He is also Muslim. Evidently, he is a hero of New Orleans, but when the military found him, he bacame a terrorist! This is so f*cked up. It infuriates me. I might try contacting him myself soon just to thank him. You might want to skip down the story about 3/5 of the way to bypass the rescue efforts and get to the oppressive behavior of our proud military. In our own backyard... damn! - M. R.

U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press...
Whereas here in the US, they can do it for free! - M. R.

The nation's top military man, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, said American troops in Iraq have a duty to intercede and stop abuse of prisoners by Iraqi security personnel.

When Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld contradicted Pace, the general stood firm.

Very revealing that the gap between the military and the civilian leadership is widening in public. - M. R.

Pentagon Black Ops: Abducting Peacemakers in Iraq...
Who wants the war to go on? THAT is who is abducting the peacemakers. - M. R.

Analysts believe the timing of the Administration's move is based on the need to counter domestic political pressure and shore up Mr Bush's sagging poll numbers. But they say it is also motivated by the need to head off two greater risks: a loss of public and congressional backing that might compel a politically devastating hasty pullout; and the need to prevent the serious damage to America's all-volunteer military that could occur with an open-ended commitment in Iraq.

The Iranian nuclear arms race has reached a point of no return, stated the head of Israeli intelligence, Gen. Ze’evi Farkash, at a meeting of the Knesset Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defense.
Remember when Israel was saying the exact same thing about Iraq? - M. R.

A judge has rejected an appeal by a former CIA station chief in Milan against an arrest warrant issued for his alleged role in the kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric, ruling that he was not protected by diplomatic immunity.

The basic premises of the plan are these: In order to survive Israel must become an imperial regional power and must also ensure the break-up of all Arab countries so that the region may be carved up into small ineffectual states unequipped to stand up to Israeli military might.
And what happens when perpetually-paranoid Israel decides that they are afraid of Russia, or Europe? Already in possession of the 6th most powerful nuclear arsenal (including sub-launched nuclear-tipped cruise missiles), and nominally in control of the US nuclear forces, will Israel only feel safe when the entire world is under their control, with present-day Palestine as the model for their perfect society? - M. R.

Free Speech Is For Everyone - Even David Irving...
If Irving is a nut case, the best thing to do is ignore him. You don't lock up people who claim Elvis is still alive, or who think they saw Bigfoot at the local A&P, do you? Of course not. You already KNOW nobody will pay attention to them.

But an organized program that exists to arrest and deport those who ask questions about the Holocaust is in effect a flashing neon sign that someone is very worried that the questions make sense, and that fear exists that the answers may be listened to and are a threat to the orthodoxy.

Not since Galileo have we seen such repression of inquiry and the free exchange of ideas. And it is this repression that advertises to the world that something very dark is being hidden from the public.

Freedom of speech must apply to all, or it applies to none. If Irving and Zundel can be jailed for asking about the obvious problems with the official story of the holocaust, how long will it be before we can be jailed for asking questions about the obvious problems with Iraq's WMDs, 9-11, OK City, TWA 800, the Kennedy assassination, the Martin Luther King assassination, or any of the other hundreds of obvious government lies and deceptions?

I don;t give a damn about the history of WW2 Germany. That's the middle of the last century and we have problems today. But when anyone with an opinion can be thrown in jail because of that opinion, then we live in a dictatorship by any definition of that word.

And that is what this debate is about, whether will will be free people with freedom of thought and freedom of speech, or whether we will live in a dictatorship, where one can be thrown in prison for refusing to believe as we are told to believe.

Make your choice. - M. R.


We are not alone: WE are the majority!...

Iraq's Armed Forces Sinking Into Sectarian Chaos...
Maybe it's time to give Saddam his old job back? - M. R.

CIA Director Porter Goss, saying his agency struggles to penetrate terrorist sanctuaries overseas, insists that "we know more than we’re able to say publicly" about Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Dear CIA ( I know you read this page). We already know Osama is dead. Quit trying to pretend otherwise. It's insulting.

PS, I watched the ABC Good Morning America interview of Porter Goss yesterday from the waiting room of the car repair shop. When Porter said the CIA does not use torture, everyone in that waiting room started laughing. You are not living a Tom Clancy novel; this is real life, and you are looking stupid. - M. R.


These photos are not intended to document what happened where; rather, they are part of the pleasure that the soldiers take in torturing. So while the Nazis were cold-blooded, US soldiers seem to get a kick out of war crimes. What does this "cultural" difference tell us?

Early withdrawal from Iraq would be a `terrible mistake': Bush...
"I'd look like a real idiot, and we can't have THAT! Besides, we need Iraq to invade all them other countries like Iran, and U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia!" - M. R.

Nearly three years into the war in Iraq, the Bush administration tells us that it wasn't about weapons of mass destruction or Iraqi ties to al-Qaeda, but about America's holy mission to spread democracy to the benighted regions of the Middle East. However, postwar Iraq is anything but a democracy. In fact, if Iraq manages to avoid all-out civil war, it is likely to end up with a government that is fiercely undemocratic - a Shi'ite theocratic dictatorship that rules by terror, torture, and armed might.

Pulitzer continued to promote investigative reporting. In 1909, the New York World exposed a fraudulent payment of $40 million by the United States to the French Panama Canal Company. The federal government indicted Pulitzer for criminally libeling President Theodore Roosevelt and the banker John Pierpont Morgan. However, Pulitzer won an important victory for the freedom of the press when the courts dismissed the indictments.

Nuclear Weapons Stealth Takeover...
Read the section "DEPOPULATION: 4th GENERATION NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND DEPLETED URANIUM" - M. R.

Cheney 'may be guilty of war crime'...

State prosecutor Rosemary Fernandes said that if information from the memo was likely to be disclosed in open court she would seek reporting restrictions. The attorney-general, Lord Goldsmith, has already warned newspapers they could be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act if they disclose further details about the memo.

Sensitivity surrounding the memo is such that Mr O'Connor's defence lawyer is not allowed to see it. It also raises the question of whether the attorney-general will ask for the trial to held in camera, with the media and public excluded.

"But trust us, we have nothing to hide!" -- Number 9 Downing Street - M. R.

For well over a year now, Human Rights Watch has been cataloguing Interior Ministry abuses and warning about a human rights catastrophe unraveling in "our" Iraq.

Funding a war in Iraq and providing tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans does more damage than Republicans in Congress care to admit. As they clamor on about patriotism, their funding priorities are costing America its future.

Bush to fight Iraq critics with speech on strategy...
"It may look like a total clusterfuck in Iraq but that's just to lull the enemy into a false sense of security!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.

Instead of being just critical, Secunia says that the unpatched hole is now 'extremely critical' which means that Microsoft were extremely stupid to sit on it for six months.

November 29, 2005

To most Americans, the slaughter of millions of Cambodians, Vietnamese, and Lao, as well as the destruction of their countries, seem unrelated to "Watergate." Henry Kissinger, one of the architects of the secret bombing of Cambodia, who had ordered his own dissenting staffers and several journalists illegally wiretapped to stop leaks, escaped indictment and would soon be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

As the war mongers in Washington see their web of terror in Iraq begin to unravel, they feel compelled to launch new attacks - on one another.

Corruption as a rule is certainly non-partisan. The argument is not there. It is with describing the recent onslaught of egregious corruption as non-partisan in an attempt to share the blame with both parties, when there is only one party in control. The larger problem though is with an alleged independent journalist hosting an hour long program with the sole apparent purpose of misleading Americans. That is what the true problem is.

"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations General Assembly Resolution, 10 December 1948.


As human beings, we're the only species stupid enough to actually poison ourselves.

A man has claimed on Syrian state TV that he was bribed to accuse top Syrian officials of the murder of Rafiq Hariri in his testimony to the United Nations commission into the former Lebanese premier's assassination.

Professor Steven E. Jones only was in the public eye for five days before BYU told him to stop giving interviews. Now the university has issued a public statement distancing itself from Jones and even discrediting his work. Critics suggest Bush administration had its dirty hand in forcing BYU to 'shut up' its professor.

Whites are genetically intellectually superior to everyone else. This is the conclusion of a recent "scientific" study entitled "Natural History of White Intelligence" that triggered several articles in popular publications such as New York Magazine, The New York Times and the Economist. In this study, Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy and Henry Harpending of the University Of Utah's anthropology department suggest a genetic explanation to account for this remarkable intellectual achievement.

Iraqi female detainees say that they have been illegally detained, raped and sexually humiliated by U.S. occupation forces.

Hollywood faces uncertain prospects for jobs and growth in 2006 due to slowing DVD sales, the loss of local film and television production and looming labor talks, according to a report issued on Tuesday.
A whole raft of pro-war movies and "The government is always right" propaganda films won't help. - M. R.

UPDATE 2-US existing home sales fall 2.7 percent in October...

President Bush may have committed a lot of crimes, but the most important criminals are Edgar Bronfman, Sumner Redstone, Samuel Newhouse, and other people who control Hollywood, television, school textbooks, and other sources of information.

After what has been described as the most foolish war in over 2,000 years, is there a way out of Iraq for President Bush, asks Brian Whitaker
Is Israel distancing itself from Bush? - M. R.

According to the police report, one of the passengers told the officers they had been on the West Side Highway in Manhattan "during the incident" — referring to the World Trade Center attack. The driver of the van, Sivan Kurzberg, told the officers, "We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem." The other passengers were his brother Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari. Eventually, The Forward, a respected Jewish newspaper in New York, reported the FBI concluded that two of the men were Israeli intelligence operatives.

The Portuguese government is being pressured to investigate whether the CIA utilized Portuguese airfields in the mainland and in the Azores Islands for 34 alleged secretive flights - possibly for transportation of terrorist detainees.

Dave McMichael, retired spook, speaks out about 9-11, the media, and what happened to our youth? Why aren't the students fighting?...

In a flurry of activity on both sides of the Atlantic, several so-called revisionists have been arrested on Holocaust denial charges in recent weeks.
I am going to hurl the defy on this. I dare the same people who orchestrated the arrests of Irving, Zundel, Rudolph, and Verbeke, to kidnap and imprison the International Red Cross for "Holocaust denial" because the Red Cross had complete access to all German camps during WW2 and their official report does not support the orthodox account of the holocaust. Therefore, they are equally guilty of "denying" the holocaust, as guilty as Zundel or Irving.

Likewise too, the curators of the Auschwitz museum must also be guilty of "Holocaust denial" because in 1990 the Auschwitz museum, working from the camp records, revised the estimated number of dead downward from four million to one and one half million. This new number directly contradicts the popularized orthodox account. So, if Zundel and Irving are guilty of "Holocaust denial" by looking at the actual available facts, so too are the curators of the Auschwitz museum.

Book 'em, Dano! - M. R.


An attempt to slip “hate crimes” legislation (S. 1145) into the Children’s Safety Act was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a victory for grass-roots America and First Amendment advocates. But Rev. Ted Pike, who spearheaded public opposition to the bill, cautions that the peril remains.

There are several “hate crimes” bills lurking in Congress and they are typically added to “must pass” legislation, such as major spending bills, as amendments.

Some have been dangerously close to becoming law as congressmen unwittingly voted on legislation, buried in foot-thick bills, without realizing the contents.


U.S. Attorney Carol C. Lam told reporters that Cunningham “did the worst thing an elected official can do - he enriched himself through his position and violated the trust of those that put him there.”

The question I have not seen asked very often is why was he given bribes? What did he do on his end?


Here's the deal. If you get it, send it to us and we will also publish it. We will also risk jail.

Stills from a secretly-shot video showing naked soldiers being pelted with eggs and wrestling in mud have been released.
The few, the proud, the seriously perverted!

Make sure to show this to your kids before the recruiters can get to them. - M. R.


U.S. reports JDAMS shortage in Iraq...

Reports that Prozac might be unsafe at any dose had Lilly running scared....

The Bush Administration's "Noble Lies"...
Is Bush preparing to sacrifice Cheney to save his own ass? - M. R.

EU threatens sanctions for states operating secret CIA camps...

Feds probing SunCruz links to GOP...
Will they probe the fact that Mohammed Atta was a regular visitor on Abramoff's casino ship? - M. R.

As the American military pushes the largely Shiite Iraqi security services into a larger role in combating the insurgency, evidence has begun to mount suggesting that the Iraqi forces are carrying out executions in predominantly Sunni neighborhoods.

The upside of an open-source encyclopedia is that anyone can provide detailed information. The downside of an open-source encyclopedia is that anyone can provide detailed information.

The latest email I just received from Newsmax, a far-right GOP-sucking online news-zine. The subject line of the email: WMDs Found in Iraq!

Uh huh.


The people behind Firefox are planning a big marketing push for the latest version of the open source web browser.

When people think of fascism, they imagine Rows of goose-stepping storm troopers and puffy-chested dictators. What they don't see is the economic and political process that leads to the nightmare.

Israeli Forgiven For Counterfeit $1.5 Million...
What is most damning about dropping the charges like this is that there is no reason for this man to reveal WHERE the phony money is being made. That means more millions in phony cash will flow into the US via Israeli operatives, who have no reason not to try to pass counterfeit money, since, like the "Art Students", nothing will happen to them even if they are caught. - M. R.

A former senior U.S. State Department official says he has come to doubt whether President George W. Bush's administration presented an honest intelligence case for the war in Iraq.
The man LIED. "L", "I", "E", "D", LIED. What is it with the US Mianstream media that this far into the scandal they still cannot bring themselves to say it straight, BUSH LIED TO THE COUNTRY TO START A WAR. - M. R.

Central to his call for additional investigation are FBI teletypes that were heavily redacted by the agency before their release some weeks ago. Although some sentences and many names are redacted, there was enough information contained in those documents to impress the former OKBOMB commander that more persons were involved in the attack.
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More about the OK City bombing HERE - M. R.


torture has produced no useful intelligence, and efforts to legalize it are "the worst thing we could do"

This is a classic Florida story. Remember those Florida-swampland-for-sale jokes you used to hear up North? Well, I've got an old gunnery range to sell.

"I am here to inform you that your son, Spec. John Kulick, was killed last night in Operation Iraqi Freedom," the officer said.

In the wake of President Bush’s recent trip to Asia, a coalition of U.S. business groups is assailing the administration for failing to press China to revalue its currency, which many say unfairly favors Chinese manufacturers and constitutes a violation of China’s free-trade obligations.

But the Witczak case, which may play out in court next spring, is likely to put SSRIs on trial as never before. For one thing, Kim Witczak has emerged as a formidable crusader. Poised and articulate, she has appeared at congressional and Food and Drug Administration hearings (most recently this month) to tell of her tragedy and the dangers of SSRIs. What's more, her suit is likely to spotlight disturbing information that drug companies and U.S. regulators have been aware of for years—but that most doctors prescribing the drugs have known little or nothing about.

Mr Day said the case was the strongest against a pharmaceutical company in 10 years, because it was supported by "gold standard" scientific studies showing a significant risk of adverse effects compared with similar drugs.

He said the failure to get funding for the case spelled "the end of litigation against drug companies in the UK," adding: "If this case can't get into the courts here, then I don't know what will.


Col Wilkerson has in the past accused the vice-president of responsibility for the conditions which led to the abuse of prisoners.

But this time he has gone much further, appearing to suggest Mr Cheney should face war crimes charges, our correspondent adds.


Maxell Introduces the Future of Optical Storage Media With Holographic Recording Technology...
300 GB disks by the end of next year! - M. R.

A Republican congressman pleaded guilty last night to taking $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for steering lucrative military contracts to business associates — the latest scandal to hit President Bush’s party.
For any taxpayer wondering how we can spend so much on defense and yet have such poor equipment show up for our kids on the front lines, this is it, right here. - M. R.

The Army would conclude that he committed suicide with his service pistol. At the time, he was the highest-ranking officer to die in Iraq.

The Army closed its case. But the questions surrounding Westhusing's death continue.

There is no reason for this man to have killed himself. - M. R.

When it comes to the format war, all the talk has been about Blu-ray and HD DVD, but another more advanced technology could actually replace both before they even really have a chance to make their respective marks. Holographic disks can store a ton of data and can read and write data faster as well...

Faced with European demands that the United States explain a newspaper report that secret detention centers to interrogate terrorism suspects were located in two unnamed east European countries, Rice intends to remind the Europeans that they are in a joint fight against an enemy that she says obeys no laws.
"You know, Al Qaeda!" - M. R.

UP IN THE AIR...
Is Dubya really planning to wind down the war? Or is it just election-year rhetoric? - M. R.

Diebold goes down to defeat in North Carolina...

Prosecutors in federal court decided to drop all charges yesterday against an Israeli man who had wanted to plead guilty to smuggling $1.5 million in fake U.S. currency into Maryland.
What is it about Israelis that they are immune from US law? If he was healthy enough to commit the crime, he is healthy enough to do the time. - M. R.

For many reporters, the bold coverage of the effects of the hurricane, and of the administration's glaring failure to respond effectively, has helped to begin making up for their timid reporting on the existence of WMD.
No it hasn't. Not by a long shot. When you cover THIS story, then you will have started to atone. - M. R.

Mainstream media goes into turd-polishing mode...

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff says President Bush was "too aloof, too distant from the details" of post-war planning, allowing underlings to exploit Bush's detachment and make bad decisions.

Realists Tighten Grip as Talks Open with Iran...
This is a trap. If Iran shows up to the talks, Bush will claim it is an admission Iran was behind the Iraqi insurgency. If they don;t show up, Bush will claim it is an admission Iran was behind the Iraqi insurgency. - M. R.

The use of WP by the Saddam Hussein against the Kurds in 1991 was cited by the US Defence Department in 1995 as an example of the dictator’s own infamy, and was one of the justifications for regime change. The US have also used thermobaric or “fuel air” weapons and depleted uranium shells. Really, if they wanted to turn public opinion against them, the occupying forces could not have done better if they tried.

November 28, 2005

With all that American taxpayer money to splash around Iraq, you would think that Aegis Defense Services would pay a little attention to the small details -- such as putting guns in the hands of locals who can aim straight.

Let's Ask the Iraqi People If U.S. Forces Should Leave...

The two police marksmen who shot dead an innocent Brazilian in the belief that he was a suicide bomber will escape criminal charges for murder or manslaughter, sources close to the inquiry believe.

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin's government has been ousted in a no-confidence vote.

Canada's three opposition parties united against his Liberal Party, which has been mired in a corruption scandal.


Miami police announced Monday they will stage random shows of force at hotels, banks and other public places to keep terrorists guessing and remind people to be vigilant.
The booga booga cranks up. - M. R.

The 9/11 WTC Collapses: You Want the Truth? You Can't Handle the Truth!...
A master index of WRH 9-11 articles. - M. R.

Neo-Con Bruce Willis is planning to produce a pro-war Iraq film that relates "the success" of liberating the Iraqi people. I won't limit my criticism to Bruce Willis, however. I don't know Bruce personally and for all I know he could just be another Hollywood whore who'll tell any story or push any script as long as he makes a buck. After all, he did star in Moonlighting. (barf) I looked up three different Bruce Willis bios and none of them mentions any military service.

U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a California Republican, resigned on Monday after pleading guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for help in securing Defense Department contracts.

For two years, the FBI has suspected AIPAC of spying for a foreign country, and for those two years (and for decades before) that group suspected of spying for Israel has been reshaping the US Congress for the benefit of a foreign government.

And THAT is the mother of all scandals.


So Abramoff dangled a carrot in front of his clients, advising them to donate to his philanthropic venture. Why not, it was for a good cause. Plus, he boasted, it would buy them access to Rep. Tom DeLay. It may indeed have bought them access, but what Abramoff's customers didn't realize was that a large portion of their money would never be spent on gearing up inner city kids to shoot some b-ball -- rather, their dollars were shipped overseas to help arm Israeli settlers in the occupied territories.

More than $140,000 of the foundation's funds, reports Newsweek, was used to purchase sniper scopes, night-vision binoculars, camouflage suits, thermal imagers and other material which Abramoff's foundation called "security" equipment.


6 EASY STEPS to Burying America's Students In Debt...

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will present evidence to a second grand jury this week in his two year-old investigation into the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson that could lead to a criminal indictment being handed up against Karl Rove, President Bush’s deputy chief of staff, attorneys close to the investigation say.

Scandal could take in at least a dozen in Congress...

As we have seen in the Larry Franklin spy case, you don't have to be Jewish to put Israel first. Franklin, a devout Catholic, and also a devout neocon, didn't need much prompting to hand over [.pdf] vitally important intelligence to AIPAC operatives Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who then passed it on to their Israeli controllers. Aside from that, you have only to listen to Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, or one of their brain-dead followers, to see the extent to which the contemporary conservative movement is imbued with the same loyalty to Israel as the Communists used to feel toward the Soviet Union. Neoconservatism, like Christian dispensationalism, is as much a theology as it is an ideology, in style if not in substance. Such a strongly held belief could easily lead anyone, no matter their particular ethno-religious identity, to break the law, betray their country – and worse.

The CIA uncovers a secret: how to look things up on the internet...
Wow! These guys don't miss a thing! - M. R.

Fears gas crisis is scam to raise prices...

Last May, David Edwards and David Cromwell of medialens.org posted a revealing correspondence with Helen Boaden, the BBC's director of news. They had asked her why the BBC had remained silent on known atrocities committed by the Americans in Fallujah. She replied, "Our correspondent in Fallujah at the time [of the US attack], Paul Wood, did not report any of these things because he did not see any of these things." It is a statement to savour. Wood was "embedded" with the Americans. He interviewed none of the victims of American atrocities nor un-embedded journalists. He not only missed the Americans' use of white phosphorus, which they now admit, he reported nothing of the use of another banned weapon, napalm. Thus, BBC viewers were unaware of the fine words of Colonel James Alles, commander of the US Marine Air Group II. "We napalmed both those bridge approaches," he said. "Unfortunately, there were people there.... you could see them in the cockpit video... It's no great way to die. The generals love napalm. It has a big psychological effect."

Moviegoers in the upcoming months will be bombarded by films about the Iraq war and 9/11. These movies will uniformly reinforce the official party line that 9/11 was carried out by 19 Arabs with box cutters and that the invasion of Iraq was a heroic act of liberation in the defense of America.
"And the 'Leni Riefenstahl' award for best fiction masquerading as historical truth goes to ... " - M. R.

The Bush administration is considering a plan to put America's awesome airpower at the disposal of Iraqi commanders, as a way of reducing the number of US troops on the ground.
The US tried that in Vietnam. The Soviets tried that in Afghanistan. - M. R.

Weekend's Sales Rush Largely Bypasses Smaller Stores...

America's loss is turning out to be India's gain. Within days of announcing 30,000 job-cuts in the US, automobile giant General Motors Corp will this week unveil plans to increase its workforce in India by nearly 30%.

Growing Trend Of New 9/11 Themed Movies…...
... and all of them propagandizing the official story. - M. R.

Anyone who has seen the parade of sales representatives through a doctor's waiting room has probably noticed that they are frequently female and invariably good looking. Less recognized is the fact that a good many are recruited from the cheerleading ranks.
I get nervous at the idea that the guy writing that prescription is thinking about T&A rather than what is really good for me. - M. R.

Egyptian vote could be bad news for U.S....
Soon the US will have no friends at all in the Mideast, except Israel, and Israel is a friend only so long as the US is useful. - M. R.

The bitter manner of the Government's defeat on this issue always meant that revenge against those who dared defy the Prime Minister was likely. Yet the way Mr Khan is being dealt with illustrates just how this administration has lost its bearings.

A recent report, entitled “Getting Ready for a Nuclear— Ready Iran,” [www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/ pdffiles/PUB629.pdf] published by the US Army War College, commissioned and partially funded by the Pentagon, argues that Iran’s nuclear weapon development cannot be stopped by any current military or diplomatic options.

The report instead recommends that the United States convince Israel to “mothball” its Dimona nuclear reactor and agree to international monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, something it has refused to do.


The White House is considering expanding the power of a little-known Pentagon agency called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, which was created three years ago. The proposal, made by a presidential commission, would transform CIFA from an office that coordinates Pentagon security efforts—including protecting military facilities from attack—to one that also has authority to investigate crimes within the United States such as treason, foreign or terrorist sabotage or even economic espionage.
For those readers too young to rememger, a brif history of COINTELPRO can be found HERE - M. R.

One of the most remarkable admissions by a banker concerning the mysteries of his profession was made by Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the Bank of England and the second richest man in Britain in the 1920’s. Speaking at the University of Texas in 1927, he revealed:

"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was every invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin …. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again …. Take this great power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in …. But if you want to continue to be the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit."


Who served and who sends others...

Her lawyers argued the government should not be allowed to use the "state secrets privilege" to silence whistleblowers, such as Edmonds, who reveal "national security blunders."

A mild late-autumn combined with extra imports of European oil and refined fuels, and withdrawals from our own strategic reserve, have held the gasoline prices down here in the US. But the northeast got a four-day cold blast over Thanksgiving, along with a substantial snowfall, and the furnaces are now cranking away, even as the WalMart shoppers commenced their first mad tramplings of the season.
The US Government has placed itself in a position of needing to conquer yet another oil nation just to keep from sinking any further. - M. R.

Video: US mercenaries randomly shooting Iraqi civilians...
You paid for this. - M. R.

Merck & Co. (NYSE:MRK - news) on Monday said it will cut 7,000 jobs and close five plants in a bid to save up to $4 billion in costs by 2010, marking the first steps by its chief executive to revive the drugmaker's fortunes.

A Problem Solvers investigation has discovered that several Web sites will sell the last 100 phone numbers you have dialed to anyone who knows your phone number.
Locate Cell also will sell all the long distance calls made from your land line as well. That means that anyone using either a cell phone or land line for their business can have their customers exposed to their competition.

I want to know if the phone company is selling our call records to these websites, or if they are just hacking into our phones. - M. R.


The CIA has refused to comment on the European investigation.

NASA receives clearance for Russian Soyuz spacecraft...
Unable to fly the shuttle, NASA is now buying spacecraft from Russia. - M. R.

A growing number of professionals in the health care field are reporting that a relationship exists between the epidemic in neurodevelopmental disorders of autism, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, and speech or language delay all across the country, and the use of thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative used in childhood vaccines.

Until very recently, Cheney continued to propagate the ridiculous notion that Saddam was involved in the planning and execution of the 9/11 terrorist assaults. This is no small retreat for a man who claimed that “It's been pretty well confirmed that [Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack.”
Maybe the Vice President would like to explain to us what Mohammed Atta, the alleged ringleader of the 911 terrorists, was doing on lobbyist Jack Abramoff's boat. How many of these CIA-connected "terrorists" is the public going to be presented with before the gig is finally up for Bush and Cheney? - M. R.

November 27, 2005

CHristmas time is here, by golly!...
You may need to save the media file locally, then play it. - M. R.

Xbox 360 crash fix found...
POWER SUPPLY OVERHEATS - M. R.

Why have US television stations refused to broadcast this documentary?...

Europe Seen Cracking Down on Holocaust Revisionists...
The interesting thing about the "crime" of holocaust denial is that the truth is no defense at all. You can be telling the absolute truth and even be able to prove it ... and still go to jail for several years.

Meanwhile, if Zundel, Irving, Rudolph and Verbeke are being sent to jail for challenging the orthodox story, then why hasn't the International Red Cross been arrested? after all, they had access to the German camps, both POW and labor, and their official reports do not support the orthodox accounts popularized in novels, TV shows, and films.

And, if Zundel, Irving, Rudolph and Verbeke are being sent to jail for challenging the orthodox story, then so too should the curators of the Auschwitz museum, for daring to revise downward the total number of dead at the camps from 4 million to1 1/2 million in 1990.

Nobody locks up people who claim to see Bigfoot, or who think Elvis is alive. People with such loony notions are simply allowed their freedom of speech, then ridiculed, then ignored. If Zundel, Irving, Rudolph and Verbeke are totally crazy, why the intense pressure to steal them from their homes and ship them to Germany for the crime of simply not agreeing with a particular spin of the history of WW2?

Truth needs no laws to support it. Throughout history, from Galileo to Zundel, only lies and liars have resorted to the courts to enforce adherence to dogma. More than anything else, it is the extreme tactics employed by the defenders of the orthodoxy that calls into doubt the accuracy of the history they proclaim to the world. - M. R.


President George W. Bush has asked US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad to reach out to Iran for assistance in subduing the unrest in Iraq — the first high-level US contact with Tehran in decades, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday.
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“I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of all that is good in the world. It turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them they are “heroes” when they master the art of killing.” --Conscientious Objector and Prisoner of Conscience, Sgt Kevin Benderman

Anticipating a Terrorist Attack on Congress...
If the entire Congress gets blown up, Bush would "have no choice" but to assume dictatorial powers to deal with the "emergency". - M. R.

Sen. Suggests Bush Use 'Fireside Chats'...
Desperation on the cusp of madness. - M. R.

Ummmm, yeah... sure....

Is An Attack On A US Airliner Imminent?...
Or is this the "extreme measure" Bush has planned to regain control of the American people? - M. R.

Col. Ted Westhusing, a military ethicist who volunteered to go to Iraq, was upset by what he saw. His apparent suicide raises questions.
And if you believe it was a suicide, I have some of Saddam's 'nookular' bombs to sell you. - M. R.

More than 200 biologists and other researchers in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirm that they have been directed to alter their official scientific findings, says a survey released last week. The scientists say business interests apply political pressure to reverse scientific conclusions that might interfere with profits, including timber, grazing, development and energy companies.

Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of bioterrorism.

A Japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid for a second time and scientists are optimistic that the probe has successfully collected the first-ever samples from such a celestial body.
I remember when the USA could do things like that! - M. R.