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December 31, 2005
The Cult of the Bushling...
Sony to settle anti-piracy CD row...
Owners of a CD with the XCP program are being offered a replacement disc free of anti-piracy software, $7.50 in cash and a free download of a Sony BMG album from an online music service.
No word yet on how to get the root kit out of our machines. - M. R.
As Cindy Sheehan renews her vigil outside the Bush ranch, a group of "White Supremacists" have shown up just in time for the mainstream media to proclaim that the peace movement harbors racists and (shudder) anti-Semites!
The timing is just too cute to be believed, and in an age where Karl Rove has redefined political dirty tricks to a degree that even Dick Nixon would admire, one has good reason to be skeptical who the "White Supremacists" are and more to the point, who they work for.
The Bush administration is preparing its NATO allies for a possible military strike against suspected nuclear sites in Iran in the New Year, according to German media reports, reinforcing similar earlier suggestions in the Turkish media.
Yeah, just like the strikes on suspected WMD sites in Iraq ... all of which turned out to be nothing of the kind.
- M. R.
Critical Flaw Detected in Windows Metafile...
Mind you, this would not be an issue if it were not for assholes who think your computer should be their personal playground and profit center. - M. R.
It is acceptable to have religious beliefs, but if you use religion to deceive people, then you are committing a crime. This is what Jim Bakker was sent to jail for.
More mainstream media whining about the blogs...
Yet again another "pity us poor journalists" piece which evades the central reason readers are deserting the traditional media for blogs like this one.
Who told the public there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Mainstream media or blogs like this one?
Who told the public there were NOT weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Mainstream media or blogs like this one?
And therein lies the heart of the matter. - M. R.
Historian claims Stalin was poisoned...
Funny how governments always seem to hide the truth behind the assassinations of their leaders.
- M. R.
Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?...
Something to look forward to in 2006.
- M. R.
Ex-Zionist Benjamin Freedman speaks at the Willard Hotel, Washington D.C., in 1961...
Quality of Life in Hawaii Brought Down By State's High Taxes...
A problem hardly unique to Hawaii: working harder and having to make do with less so that the government may have more.
- M. R.
Say what you will about the mainstream media, but no industry agonizes more about how to improve its product, police its members and better serve its communities. Newspapers are filled with carpal-tunneled wretches, overworked and underpaid, who suffer near-pathological allegiance to getting it right.
I think Ms. Parker deserves letters from the WRH readership about the complete press duplicity and collusion in the selling of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to the American people. - M. R.
According to the VA's own data, people who call the agency's regional offices for help and advice are more likely to receive completely wrong answers than completely right ones.
There is a great divide and it is growing wider with each passing day. We have reached crisis proportions. Divided we will certainly fall. It is imperative that we look beyond the labels and the stereotypes. Jews and Gentiles alike are being manipulated by diabolically clever strategists. Perhaps a disproportionate amount are Jewish, I haven't counted. I only know that we must find a way to communicate with one another. I only know that our bigotry and endless finger pointing are perfect fodder for the "divide and conquer" strategy of our manipulators.
Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say
Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say...
Cat Stuck in Tree, Owner Asking for Help...
Ummm, folks, how many times have you seen the remains of a dead cat in a tree?
Cat's don't get stuck in trees. Cats come down when they are ready. Maybe it isn't when their owners wish it, but that is the nature of cats. If you want blind obedience, get a dog or a robot. - M. R.
Dear sir ( I know you prefer to be called Mr President ~ but I must remind you ~ you work for me and the American people )
You would think that Americans crafting a constitution would have created an electoral system based on the Greatest Democracy in the World, the U. S. of A. But you'd be wrong. Instead of a first-past-the-post system which encourages the formation of broadly based parties which distinguish themselves primarily on class, a system which would have forced Iraqis to compromise on sectarian issues in order to create a broad enough base to have a chance at winning power, the Americans appear to have looked around for the best system they could find and fastened their hopes on the system used by . . . Israel. Yes, they picked absolutely the worst possible system, one guaranteed to encourage the formation of many tiny parties based on religious or ethnic differences, with the tiniest microparties with the craziest extremists ending up holding the balance of power.
Check out the new WRH main index...
Beyond "Munich": The Ten Movies Steven Spielberg Has Yet To Make...
I notice the "Lavon Affair", in which Israeli agents bombed US and UK assets and attempted to frame Egypt for the attacks, did not make the list.
- M. R.
Net expert Nigel Roberts has won a landmark legal victory by chasing down a UK spammer and winning 300 in costs.
Okay folks, the legal precident has been set. Now it will be worth it to hunt down the spammers because you can sue them for $100+ per each and every spam message! - M. R.
The intelligence service at the centre of the row over eavesdropping tracked visitors to its website, despite US government regulations. Monitoring files, known as "cookies", were discovered by a privacy activist at a time when the White House is on the defensive about its use of the National Security Agency to monitor the communications of US citizens.
Pupils Being Given 'Patriotism' Tests in Washington State Schools...
The former Bond star said: "I have nothing against Republicans but this government has made decisions which we are to suffer the consequences of for a long, long time.
Laura Bush More Popular Than Husband...
Name me one living American LESS popular than Bush! - M. R.
Cormier's response was to call me a "conspiracy theorist" and to tell me that the FBI had investigated Nick and "nothing was there."
This provided me an opportunity to inform him that the FBI, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from me, had lied and claimed that they had never investigated Nick Berg. I had requested that they disclose to me the true nature of the relationship between Berg and Moussaoui. Here is the letter in which they told this extraordinary lie. Readers might need to enlarge this with the mouse:
http://bellaciao.org/en/IMG/jpg/fbi.jpg
Cormier ignored this FBI lie. His final comment was sarcastic: "Have fun with your research."
BUSH AND the neocons already would be in Damascus and Tehran if it werent for you, was British MP George Galloways answer to a Los Angeles activists question on what more the peace movement can do.
People seem to forget that the Constitution is what spells out what we can and can't expect from the government we elect to represent us and defines our way of life. Only by and Act of Congress, and ratification by 3/4 of the state legislatures can the Constitution be changed. Mr. Bush is clearly operating outside of the law and should be stopped.
The White House said Friday its Web site will keep using Internet tracking technologies, deciding that they aren't prohibited after all under 2003 federal privacy guidelines.
The U.S. Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay and claimed to be a nationwide grass-roots organization, was funded almost entirely by corporations linked to embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to tax records and former associates of the group.
Gutful of War...
Secret Invasion: US Troops Steal into Paraguay...
The plea agreement would secure the Republican lobbyist's testimony against several members of Congress who received favors from him or his clients.
Okay Jack, now tell us why Mohammed Atta was hanging out on your casino ship right before 9-11.
- M. R.
Econo 101...
December 30, 2005
Police: Man Used Public Library To View Porn...
Like I said before, nobody cares that the President lied us into a war we probably cannot win, but we'll make damn sure the nation is safe from the threat of naked titties!
- M. R.
You're looking at the choice between regular and extra-crispy for all eternity so long as Bush and the Neocons, and indeed everyone who lied to start the war in Iraq remain in power.
Yessirree, regular, or extra-crispy! Kinda sucks, doesn't it?
THE FBI SHUT DOWN OF ARAB MUSLIM WEB SITES IN THE DAYS LEADING UP TO 9/11...
Region's snipers have no regrets...
Note that there is never any proof what the man they killed was doing, and frankly, it sounds to me like a guy whose car broke down trying to call a tow-truck. - M. R.
SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THAT AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE
EASTERN ATLANTIC HAS DEVELOPED INTO A TROPICAL STORM ABOUT 1000
MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF THE AZORES. A SPECIAL ADVISORY ON
TROPICAL STORM ZETA IS IN PREPARATION AND WILL BE ISSUED IN AN HOUR
OR SO.
The first document is a series of Telegrams that Craig sent to the Foreign Office, outlining his growing concern and disgust at our use of intelligence passed to the UK by the Uzbek security services.
The second document is a copy of legal advice the Foreign Office sought, to see if they were operating within the Law in accepting torture intelligence, and according to Michael Wood the FCO legal adviser; it is fine, as long as it is not used as evidence.
Faced with this heavy handed censorship by the FCO, in an attempt to cover up our use of and complicity in torture, Craig has decided to fight back, and has asked us all to publish this information, so it cannot be suppressed.
The word "zionist" comes from the 19th century, and it originally referred to the people who wanted to create a homeland for Jews.
There is nothing wrong with the concept of a homeland for Jews. The problem is that they wanted the area we call Palestine, but Turkey had control of it at the time, and most of the people living on the land were Arabs.
The Zionists decided to take the land by force. The Middle East has been a continuous fight between Israelis, Arabs, Americans, and British ever since.
2005 Top Ten Tactics to Influence Negative News: The PR Playbook...
Bush as the New Richard M. Nixon: Both Wiretapped Illegally...
Iran's foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Friday that remarks made earlier this week by the country's president that the Nazi mass murder of Jews during World War II was a "myth" was the official Iranian government's position on the issue.
Here is a wonderful chance for Israel to make a total fool out of Ahmadinejad. All they have to do is produce the provable facts that back the claim of an officially government sanctioned Nazi program that exterminated 6 million people targeted against just the Jewish people, and the whole matter is closed.
No confessions extracted under torture allowed, of course. - M. R.
Lobbyist Abramoff's `Equal Money' Went Mostly to Republicans...
Forget the "Republican" versus" Democrat" crap.
It is a false dichotomy. There are those who took the money and those who did not, and more to the point, what Abramoff wanted in return and who Abramoff really worked for.
... And why Mohammed Atta was a guest on Abramoff's casino ship? - M. R.
Iranian Head Plans 'Holocaust' Commission...
Provable facts only, please. No soap, no "fragments", and no confessions extracted under torture allowed.
- M. R.
CIA Lost Its Way, Stopped Questioning Bush Admin. Requests...
Too many canoe accidents?
- M. R.
Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray is defying a gag-order and publishing torture memos on his blog relating to the coordination between the Uzbek, British, and American governments. As Kos says, it's brutal:
2005 will be forever seen as the year in which the US government managed to keep unilateral control of the internet, despite widespread opposition by the rest of the world.
However, while this very public spat went on, everyone failed to notice a related change that will have far greater implications for everyday internet users and for the internet itself. That change will see greater state-controlled censorship on the internet, reduce people's ability to use the internet to communicate freely, and leave expansion of the internet in the hands of the people least capable of doing the job.
The US has warned Israel it risks a serious escalation in a continuing artillery showdown with Palestinian militants by establishing a no-go zone in the northern Gaza Strip.
ROTFLMAO, like the US would ever have the balls to actually do anything about it.
- M. R.
Crude Oil Rises Above $60 Amid U.S. Gasoline Inventory Decline...
Shortages here. Shortages in Iraq. Where is it all going? The US did not conquer Iraq to let the oil sit under the sand. Reports are that Iraq's oil systems are operating at max capacity. So, where is it all going?
- M. R.
Russia on Wednesday successfully launched the first satellite for the Galileo navigation system, Europes ambitious $ 4 billion programme which seeks to end its dependence on US-controlled global positioning system (GPS) and put the use of the technology in civilian hands.
Israel rules out pre-emptive strike on Iran...
I guess those Russian anti-aircraft missiles arrived ahead of schedule! - M. R.
ABC's Woodruff set to broadcast from Iran...
"We want him there just in case there is a war, not that we are saying there is going to be one, because of there was going to be one we would tell you, but there isn't, so we're not saying anything, but we just want Woodruff there ... just in case."
- M. R.
Bush talks a lot about freedom, courage, transparent government and the rule of law. He talks, Abbott says. His speeches are carefully choreographed before audiences of his faithful -- often Christian fundamentalists or, to paraphrase Bush, Christian-fascists -- and they must sign loyalty oaths to Bush. He speaks before audience after audience of soldiers and sailors who cannot speak except as directed by the White House.
NBC exclusive interview: Iraqi policeman says it's just how things are done.
Oh yes, life is so much better under the American occupation.
- M. R.
Once would be a lame joke; twice, a symptom of a seriously impaired sense of humor. Three times, however, is suggestive of seriously malevolent intentions. In our system of government, which remains in form if not in practice a constitutional republic, chief executives simply do not joke about dictatorial ambitions.
In Bush's own words - M. R.
Corps pays $100K for retooled jeep...
It's not even a Jeep. It a hot-rodded golf cart, with no armor. It's available to civilians in kit form for just $7,500, but the government is spending $100,000 of your tax dollars for each one.
- M. R.
Sharon steals spotlight as Palestinian state shelved until further notice...
People tend to forget that the very same UN Resolution that created the state of Israel also created a Palestinian state. The present conflict all began when Israel refused to recognize the Palestinian state even as it demanded recognition of their own. The refusal by other nations in the region to recognize Israel was based on Israel's refusal to recognize the state of Palestine; a fact permanently left out of all discussions on the "right to exist" debate. - M. R.
US to spend 30million on Iraq prisons to hold insurgents...
... while homeless veterans sleep in the streets.
Take a good look at that photo. That sure looks like a concentration camp to me. - M. R.
Domestic spying: Be afraid. Be very afraid...
Actually, my council is DON'T be afraid. Don't even care. Don't pay attention. Let them listen. It's a waste of their time and money if they actually are doing anything.
Ask why this has become a scandal right now? There is no secret to the fact that the NSA, via ECHELON, has been spying on Americans for decades. Why is it a big scandal now?
Because Bush WANTS you to know you are being spied on, to discourage you from sharing what you know with friends and family. The government and the mainstream media are losing the PR battle to justify Iraq, explain away the lies used to start that war, let alone sell new wars in Syria and Iran. Despite paying journalists for positive propaganda, and literally ordering military on leave to "talk up" the war, support for the government is cratering. The government has failed to control or disrupt the Internet, so the only thing they can try to do is trick the people who are getting the facts from the blogs into not sharing what they know with people still getting their "reality" from ABCNNBBCBS&FOX. Hence, the "revelation" that the NSA is spying on all of our communications.
Oooooh, scary! Scary, scary NSA. Better not say anything, or write anything to your friends; the spooks might be peeking!
Well, let them peek. Having an opinion is still not a crime in this country (yet), and the existence of elections, even if rigged, is tacit approval of holding an opposing viewpoint. If recent polls are to be believed, there are 200 million Americans who think Bush is full of USDA choice bovine excrement, and the NSA cannot possibly listen to all of them, no matter how many computers they have.
So, listen away, NSA. I guess it beats having to do real work to earn a living, doesn't it? Be a sneak, be a snitch, be a spy, spend your evenings jerking off to old James Bond movies, right? Only other choice was McDonald's for a person with your unique qualifications, eh? - M. R.
Journalists should be in the business of providing timely information to the public. But some -- notably at the top rungs of the profession -- have become players in the power games of the nation's capital. And more than a few seem glad to imitate the officeholders who want to decide what the public shouldn't know.
Sizeable Minorities Still Believe Saddam Hussein Had Strong Links to Al Qaeda, Helped Plan 9/11 and Had Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sizeable Minorities Still Believe Saddam Hussein Had Strong Links to Al Qaeda, Helped Plan 9/11 and Had Weapons of Mass Destruction...
Demonstrating that being American is not automatic proof against being a moron.
- M. R.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has admitted that he "ghosted" a detainee, meaning that he made the decision to hold a prisoner without keeping any records of the fact.
A prison spokesman declined to discuss the accident.
Accident? Or attempted silencing? - M. R.
Congress May Take Until March to Raise U.S. Borrowing Limit...
Not that there is any doubt they will do it.
- M. R.
The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation to determine who disclosed a secret NSA eavesdropping operation approved by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks, officials said on Friday.
i.e. turn a blind eye to destroying the Constitution, but stomp the hell out of the whistleblower.
- M. R.
Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox, wanted to move the Navy out and set up a defense perimeter around the islands. James Vincent Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy, also wanted to act defensively. According to Skeleton, what happened next is a claim that has never been made before (to my knowledge). President Roosevelt put Powell, Knox and Forrestal under armed Marine guard until after the Pearl Harbor attack. He sent a message to Lt. Col. Clifford M. Andrew, Intelligence officer at Army Intelligence in Hawaii, which read: "The Japanese will attack, do not prepare defenses, we need the full support of the American Nation in a war time effort by an unprovoked attack upon the Nation."
See also...
THE HISTORY OF PEARL: HARBOR THE BONES OF "STATION H"
The anti-crime division of Israel's national police was under pressure to produce answers this week after a Netanya neighborhood was hit by an anti-tank missile apparently aimed at a reputed organized-crime boss.
And these are the people who go around to other countries training their police?!? - M. R.
U.S. Nears Debt Limit, Could Default on Bills...
"Hey, no problem; we'll just raise the debt limit again and again and again and again and stick those sucker taxpayers with the bills. They don't even come CLOSE to having the balls to say 'no' to us!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
Children in Washington State are being given 'Patriotism tests' which are completely unrelated to their studies. The paper gauges whether or not the student shows fealty to the power of the state and whether the student believes in the right to overthrow a corrupt government.
Calif. Prof.: I Agree Wholeheartedly With President Ahmadinejad : No Such A Thing As The "Holocaust"
Calif. Prof.: I Agree Wholeheartedly With President Ahmadinejad : No Such A Thing As The "Holocaust"...
While Iraq burns, the president keeps playing the same old song.
Shultz is one of a growing number of young, otherwise healthy Americans who are being stricken by the bacterial infection known as Clostridium difficile -- or C. diff -- which appears to be spreading rapidly around the country and causing unusually severe, sometimes fatal illness.
Let's Stop a US/Israeli War on Iran...
Cartoon Network Contains 'New World Order' Propaganda...
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- M. R.
Bush Remark Reiterates Arrogant Globalist/Neocon "Crazies" Insane Lust For New World Order Prevalence And Power.
"on their journey towards infamy and obscurity all
dictators ride a wave of arrogance until hurled upon
the rocky shores of public dissent..." - M. R.
NSA spied on its own employees, other U.S. intelligence personnel, journalists, and members of Congress
WMR has learned that the National Security Agency (NSA), on the orders of the Bush administration, eavesdropped on the private conversations and e-mail of its own employees, employees of other U.S. intelligence agencies -- including the CIA and DIA -- and their contacts in the media, Congress, and oversight agencies and offices.
If Bush & Co. Declare Cybermartial Law Whats The Worst They Can Do To You?...
Foreign Office officials were so concerned about Margaret Thatcher's pro-Israeli sympathies when she became Tory leader they wanted her to break off links with local Jewish groups, according to newly-released official papers.
Files released to the National Archives in Kew, west London, under the 30 year rule reveal that diplomats feared she would be seen by Arab countries as a "prisoner of the Zionists".
"No man (or woman) can serve two masters..."
- M. R.
Officials at Guantanamo Bay say doctors are force-feeding 32 of the hunger strikers with plastic tubes.
Think those people hate us "because we are free"? - M. R.
The Boston Globe doesnt necessarily want freedom of speech to extend to union rabble- rousers.
Globe executives recently offered beefed-up severance and health-care coverage for fired maintenance workers on condition that the Boston Newspaper Guild halt all union activity protesting the workers plights.
Long lines formed at gas stations in Baghdad on Friday as word spread that
Iraq's largest oil refinery had shut down in the face of threats against truck drivers, and fears grew of a gas shortage.
Where is all of Iraq's oil GOING? The Iraqis don;t get much of it. It certainly isn't coming home to the US to lower prices and ease the shortages caused by Hurricanes slamming into inadequately protected refineries. Does anyone here think the US invaded and conauered Iraq to let the oil sit under the sands?
WHERE IS IRAQ'S OIL FLOWING TO? - M. R.
Good soldiers follow orders and hundreds of American military men and women returned to the United States on holiday leave this month with orders to sell the Iraq war to a skeptical public.
"Spielberg's movie bears little resemblance to the piece of mushy leftist agitprop its critics describe. It does not suggest that terrorists and counterterrorists are morally equivalent...many of those [Israelis] in Munich are, if anything, slightly unbelievable in their constant self-interrogation and closely guarded humanism...'Munich' is about... vengeance and violence...necessary, justified violence...It's about the struggle to maintain some bedrock morality while engaging in immorality.
The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff...
Left unmentioned in this article is the fact that Mohammed Atta, supposed ringleader of the 9-11 hijackers, was a regular visitor to Abramoff's Casino Ship.
- M. R.
The NATO sources told Defense & Foreign Affairs that the attack was based on intelligence that then Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic was to have been in the Embassy at the time of the attack. The attack, then, was deliberately planned as a "decapitation" attack, intended to kill Milosevic.
Top level Republican operatives with ties to the White House' Senate Majority Leader William Frist and the Republican National Committee (RNC) not only engaged in the suppression of poor and minority voters in the 2004 Ohio presidential election' but they spun the election irregularities into a story linking blacks to cocaine and voter fraud. Bush allies in Ohio are now using this myth of voter fraud to pass a repressive "election reform" bill.
In the event of a national catastrophe that wipes out the top bosses, three undersecretaries would move up in the so-called doomsday line of succession. A little-noticed executive order signed by President Bush last week moves the three military service chiefs down a notch.
New claims for U.S. jobless pay rose by 3,000 last week while a separate gauge of longer-term unemployment posted a third successive weekly increase, the Labor Department reported on Thursday.
And once the post-Christmas retail layoffs commence, expect the number to jump. - M. R.
December 29, 2005
Hacker pleads guilty to computer attack on eBay...
Israel was built on a lie: Adelaide Institute director...
Iraq: Send in Kevin! Britney Spears, the Toxic star of Depleted Uranium...
The data breaches noted below have been reported because the personal information compromised includes data elements useful to identity thieves, such as Social Security numbers, account numbers, and driver's license numbers.
UK Torture Documents...
BUSH'S WAR ON PORN TARGETS HOLLYWOOD, THE INTERNET, AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT IN '06...
Never mind that the President lied us into an illegal war we may not be able to get out of easily, we gotta make sure Americans are safe from the threat of naked titties!
- M. R.
Police told her a field test showed that the powder contained opium and cocaine, according to the Inquirer. A lab test later proved the substance was flour and prosecutors dropped the charges, the newspaper reported.
December 28, 2005
How useful is US propaganda in Iraq?...
Israel Ex-commandos Training Kurds in North Iraq: Report...
Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say
President Bush and other top officials in his administration used the National Security Agency to secretly wiretap the home and office telephones and monitor private email accounts of members of the United Nations Security Council in early 2003 to determine how foreign delegates would vote on a U.N. resolution that paved the way for the U.S.-led war in Iraq, NSA documents show.
Marriott International Inc.'s time-share division said yesterday that it is missing backup computer tapes containing credit card account information and the Social Security numbers of about 206,000 time-share owners and customers, as well as employees of the company.
Fast forward to December 2005. Not one official in the entire Bush Administration has been fired or indicted, not to mention impeached, for the shedding of American blood in Iraq or for the shredding of our Constitution at home. As Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter put it--hours after the New York Times reported that Bush had authorized NSA wiretapping of US citizens without judicial warrants--this President has committed a real transgression that "goes beyond sex, corruption and political intrigue to big issues like security versus liberty and the reasonable bounds of presidential power."
See also "HOLIDAY RECIPE FOR LAME DUCK" lower down. - M. R.
NSA Spied on U.N. Diplomats in Push for Invasion of Iraq...
This pretty much proves that Bush's illegal spying had little to do with terror and everything to do with eliminating opposition to his war. - M. R.
U.S. President George Bush decided to skip seeking warrants for international wiretaps because the court was challenging him at an unprecedented rate.
December 27, 2005
WEBSITE CATALOG OF CD-R BRANDS...
A reader sent this in. It's a website (mostly German but this page is in English) that provides details on common brands of CD-Rs, including the dye process used in their manufacture. - M. R.
The US ambassador in London has been forced into an embarrassing retreat after his embassy clarified comments he made denying that the United States was involved in removing terrorist suspects to Syria.
Group sex legal in Canada...
I took my first wife to a wife-swapping party.
I got a VCR for her. - M. R.
Bloggers, Money Now Weapons in Information War...
Money? What money?!?
:) - M. R.
Even a much-hyped giant gorilla, a geisha and a schoolboy magician have not been able to create a happy ending at the US box office, as Hollywood ends its most disappointing year in nearly two decades.
This is a dishonest comparison. The facts is that the "much-hyped giant gorilla, a geisha and a schoolboy magician" did very well, by telling good stories and remembering that that huge screen is one feature still unique to the theater experience, and remains larger and clearer than even high-def.
The problem is, as the article briefly mentions, that this has been a year of remakes of films that worked in the times they were first produced. But it is a truism than remakes strive to be different from their predecessors and often that effort to be different drives the film away from that very essence that made the original work. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it is still imitation.
Hollywood's box office numbers are also carrying the weight of more than a few politically correct propaganda films forced onto the public and immediately rejected. Those losses, while garnering political favor, still have to be carried by the studios and distribution companies. Finally, with more of the revenue streams shifting away from theaters and towards DVDs, the ever growing problem of content piracy is also taking its toll. - M. R.
He stressed that a nuclear Iran would mean an existential threat to Israel, calling on the global community, under American leadership, to take steps to thwart the Iranian program.
Yeah, have our kids die again for Israel. And BTW, isnt this the same group of meatheads who were railing about Iraqs WMDs before we invaded? Thought so.
- M. R.
2.6 Trillion Missing from Pentagon prior to 9/11...
Fiddling with Formats While DVD's Burn...
President Bush poses a curious contradiction: He admits his decision to attack Iraq was based on faulty intelligence, but he insists that it was the right step to take.
Post 911 Patriot Gifts Are Found Under Trees All Across The Country...
News > Nation -- Illinois attorney general tells gas stations to donate to Red Cross or risk price gouging lawsuit" href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20051223-0718-gasgouging-illinois.html" target="_blank">Illinois attorney general tells gas stations to donate to Red Cross or risk price gouging lawsuit...
Nearly 50 people have been indicted in connection with a scheme that bilked hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Red Cross program to put cash into the hands of Hurricane Katrina victims, according to federal authorities.
THERE is a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the western project of bringing democracy to Arab-Islamic societies. Stripped of rhetoric, democracy is meant to be a procedure to elect representatives and rulers approved in advance by the principal arbiters in centres of global hegemony.
The White House is again demonstrating how it feels above the law, as it arrogantly has refused to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made six months ago by 52 Congressmen.
Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?...
And now there is open talk in the Senate of impeaching George Bush; the New York Times accuses him of "recklessness" and claims he "may also have violated the law". Tony must be finding it difficult to sleep. Yet he is able to get up in the morning unassisted! He is able to look at himself in the mirror, shave without damaging his throat, and go to work with every appearance of a man who imagines he's doing a good job.
This achievement richly deserves the Gary Glitter Cup. Well done, Tony!
You may ask why I include Katrina, which was a natural disaster. That is because through hate, greed and lies, United States forces were concentrated in Iraq ... and the end result was where innocent people were left behind.
Fundamentally the Newport News purchase seems to have been part of a backroom deal done to clean up some of the consequences of another dirty deal entirely: done during the spring of 1997 to get Windows NT into the Navy.
December 26, 2005
We once lived in a good place, but that was before the war. It got expensive after the war so we moved out. Now everything costs so much. The rents are too high. Food is not cheap. My husband cant find work, so we live here. This war did little to help us. We are worse now than before. And to make matters worse, I am pregnant again.
"Hey, but at least we got those weapons of mass destruction!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
Watch it crash: your health care, your pension, your house...
DO YOU SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION? YOU'RE A TERRORIST SUSPECT!...
A video shot by a documentary filmmaker suggests that an Ohio voting firm sought to thwart the recount of actual paper ballots, a source who has seen the tape tells RAW STORY....The film was made Dec. 20 when observers sought to recreate and explain what actually took place after a local election official signed an affidavit saying the company had tampered with the machines and posted a cheat sheet to allow those recounting the vote to bypass paper ballots. In the film, Triad says the purpose of the cheat sheet was so the counters would know if they missed an overvote.
Vote Fraud 2004: How Ohio was "Delivered" to Bush...
At least five Iraqis and a U.S. soldier were killed in violence in
Iraq on Sunday as fresh street protests over election results kept up tension that has soured the mood after a peaceful ballot 10 days ago.
The honeymoon is over.
- M. R.
Following the breach, the company, based in Stone Mountain, Ga., said the hackers attempted to extort money by threatening to post the potentially sensitive user data on the Internet.
"But, but, we're trying to make the computer world a better place! Honest! Really! That's why we wreck YOUR computers instead of our own computers and why we flood your email boxes with porn spam and steal your credit card numbers. It's for your own good. Really!"
- M. R.
More than 100,000 Iraqi civilians, including women and children, have died in Iraq since the war was launched in March 2003, mostly as a result of airstrikes by the occupation forces, according Iraqi and U.S. public health experts.
President Bush has been summoning newspaper editors lately in an effort to prevent publication of stories he considers damaging to national security.
Too many editors say "yes".
- M. R.
The keyboard commandos who litter the partisan bulletin boards like cockroaches dont get it because they only want news that fits into their limited view of the world. They dont want truth, just partisan spin that conforms to their own political philosophy.
According to hotel records later obtained by the Milan police investigating Abu Omar's disappearance, two CIA operatives managed to ring up more than $9,000 in room charges alone. The CIA's bill at the Principe for seven operatives came to $39,995, not counting meals, parking and other hotel services.
Real James Bond stuff, isn't it. And YOU paid for it all!
- M. R.
No Date Is Set for Troop Withdrawal From Iraq...
Imagine my shock.
- M. R.
Desperately Seeking Victory in a War Already Lost...
The participation of the Sunnis in Iraq's recent election was hailed by the Bush administration and its supporters as a great victory for the war effort and solid evidence that the democratization of Iraq is a project worth pursuing but it turns out that Shi'ite majority doesn't agree. They have recently disqualified around 100 members of the Sunni party lists on the grounds that they were too close to the former Ba'athist regime. Imagine if the Republicans managed to grab hold of the judiciary, and got the Democrats thrown out of the race on the grounds that they are, after all, the traditional party of the Confederacy.
December 25, 2005
Humor .... maybe....
Emblem of Apartheid Resurfaces in Iraq...
A sign of how bad things really are.
- M. R.
More Americans growing weary of civil liberties sacrifices...
Speculations over US attack against Iran...
The US will attack when Israel tells them to.
See "Israel's War Deadline" - M. R.
Violence rages in post-poll Iraq...
So much for Bush's theory that the (rigged) elections would calm things down. - M. R.
Iraq strikes off 100 poll candidates...
"Never mind what the damned voters wanted, WE decide who gets into office! If it's good enough for America, it'll be good enough for Iran, I mean Iraq, well ... both of them." -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
All top Israeli officials have pronounced the end of March, 2006, as the deadline for launching a military assault on Iran. The thinking behind this date is to heighten the pressure on the US to force the sanctions issue in the Security Council. The tactic is to blackmail Washington with the "war or else" threat, into pressuring Europe (namely Great Britain, France, Germany and Russia) into approving sanctions. Israel knows that its acts of war will endanger thousands of American soldiers in Iraq, and it knows that Washington (and Europe) cannot afford a third war at this time.
Israel's plan is to attack Iran, knowing that American kids are stuck right in the path of any Iranian retaliation. - M. R.
U.S. spying broader than acknowledged: report...
This may explain that stinky man lurking around the hedges.
- M. R.
Is the Times protecting Israeli interests to the detrimnet of America, leading to censorship of important stories like the motives behind the Iraqi War, 9/11, the Patriot Act and NSA snooping on Americans.
Some GPS trackers constantly communicate their location back to the state DMV, while others record the location information for later retrieval. (In the Oregon pilot project, it's beamed out wirelessly when the driver pulls into a gas station.)
The problem, though, is that no privacy protections exist. No restrictions prevent police from continually monitoring, without a court order, the whereabouts of every vehicle on the road.
No rule prohibits that massive database of GPS trails from being subpoenaed by curious divorce attorneys, or handed to insurance companies that might raise rates for someone who spent too much time at a neighborhood bar. No policy bans police from automatically sending out speeding tickets based on what the GPS data say.
U.S. airstrikes in Iraq have surged this fall, jumping to nearly five times the average monthly rate earlier in the year, according to U.S. military figures.
"It's just insurgents. They are on their last throes. The mission is accomplished. They only hate us because we are free. It's foreign troublemakers. They will greet us with flowers. WMDs. Al Qaeda. Nookular bombs!" -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
Israeli Spy Group Criticizes White House Policy on Iran...
"You're supposed to kill them for us!"
See "Mother of all scandals". - M. R.
The U.S. currency had its steepest single-day fall [10 days before Christmas] against the yen since March 2002, after the Federal Reserve on Tuesday dropped the word "accommodation" from its policy statement, interpreted by some as a signal that its 18-month credit-tightening campaign was nearing an end.
It is now more than fifteen years since that fateful meeting on July 25, 1990 between then-US Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie and President Saddam Hussein that the Iraqi leader interpreted as a green light from Washington for his invasion of Kuwait eight days later.
Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
George Bush told the American people the reason we had to start a war in Iraq was because Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction. In addition, the President said Iraq had ties to Al Qaeda. Both of these assertions are false.
Why then, did the US invade Iraq? It turns out the main reason is Israel. Iraq was a potential threat to the Jewish state.
December 24, 2005
What Are We Waiting For? Christmas?...
Happy Holidogs!...
What it also means is that files may be started on innocent people in this country for no other reason that there phone call or email appeared in a batch of data or files that piqued the interest of the government because of others also in that file, again without any probable cause, or any notice to the customer or the approval of that customer. And that is where this can get really messy for Corporate America.
C.I.A. Chief Warns Allies to Prepare for U.S. Bombing of Iran and Syria...
Wayne Kyle was a sailor on the aircraft carrier the USS America, which was near the USS Liberty when it was attacked by Israel.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is not expected to shut down his investigation into the leak of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson when he finishes his inquiry of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's role in the leak, lawyers close to the probe said.
Letter From a Military Mom: Domestic Spying & Incident of Intimidation of Military Families...
Judge strikes down fees and restrictions on marches...
It has been calculated that Santa's team of nine reindeer would emit methane with a global warming impact equivalent to more than 40,600 tonnes of greenhouse gases on the 122 million mile Christmas Eve dash to deliver presents around the world.
Theres a possibility that the US Department of Defense (DoD) is hiding the US casualties under a disguise of 'Baghdad Boils, a disease plaguing the US troops in Iraq, claimed to be caused by the sand fly bites, but possibly by depleted uranium (DU) radiation.
The Tor-M1 system is capable of identifying up to 48 targets and tracing and firing at two targets simultaneously at a height of up to 6,100 meters.
Israel will have to attack before delivery or they will likely not be able to attack Iran successfully without using their nuclear weapons. - M. R.
U.S. Congress approves transfer of $600 million in aid to Israel...
While cutting social programs here at home.
- M. R.
Israel ready to strike Iran by end of March...
It was astounding enough for Washingtons political elite: last month they discovered that the man at the heart of a scandal over the planting of US propaganda in Iraqi newspapers was a dapper but unknown 30-year-old Oxford graduate who had somehow managed to land a $100 million Pentagon contract.
What is even more remarkable however, after an investigation by The Times, is that just ten years ago Christian Bailey, whose US company is under investigation for planting fake news stories in Iraqi newspapers, was a nerdy, socially awkward English school-leaver called Jozefowicz.
The editorial of Irans leading hard-line daily hailed the outcome of Iraqs parliamentary elections as the creation of the first Islamist state in the Arab world, and warned against American plots to prevent the formation of the new Iraqi government by Iranian-backed Shiite groups.
Congratulations Bush. You destroyed the only secular government in the region and created yet another fanatical theocracy that hates America.
Nice going. - M. R.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that two Chinese Uighur detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay could be detained there indefinitely even though their imprisonment was unlawful.
The date when M-3 will start being hidden also happens to be the exact month that Iran will declare economic war against the U.S. Dollar by trading its oil in Petro-Euros on its new bourse. But there is more. The Federal Reserve currently has three vacancies within the 19 top Regional Bank and Board of Governor spots. Why? Part of ongoing wholesale resignations.
his is where I grew up, and this is where I learned about politicians and the law, so nothing surprises me in
President Bush's declarations that he has the right and duty to ignore laws about spying on his fellow citizens.
For Christmas, let's give ourselves a present: A new government...
The federal government is responsible for issuing Social Security numbers, but it may not be doing enough to protect these critically personal pieces of information on its own Web sites. Acting on a tip, InformationWeek was able to access Web pages that include the names and Social Security numbers of people involved in Justice Department-related legal actions. It's a discomforting discovery at a time when identity theft and fraud are on the rise.
U.S. Soldiers Train for Iraq on Sheep Farm...
There just HAS to be a fat pork barrel defense contract behind all this. - M. R.
Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. once argued that the nation's top law enforcement official deserves blanket protection from lawsuits when acting in the name of national security, even when those actions involve the illegal wiretapping of American citizens, documents released yesterday show.
In the lengthy report submitted to Congress and being distributed widely across America for citizens signatures, Sen. Conyers said he took this drastic action to "save the country" after Pre