2/28/2003

2/28/03 Sept. 11 commission seeks classified papers from intelligence committees "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.

2/28/03 Agilent to Cut 4,000 More Jobs

2/28/03 Jabil cuts 200 local jobs

2/28/03 IBM Lays Off 1,000 in Software, Services

2/28/03 Global Eye -- Swing Blades

2/28/03 FBI Acknowledges Ind. Plane Is Monitoring

2/28/03 Pentagon tells reporters to get out of Baghdad I guess they don't want witnesses.

2/28/03 Police roadblocks symbolize loss of constitutional rights

2/28/03 Dr. Goebbels and his Successors in Spin

2/28/03 New York courtroom evacuated after white powder scare

2/28/03 Envelopes with white powder sent to four GOP lawmakers

2/28/03 Jewish group gets powder in the mail

2/28/03 U.S. Bill Lets NASA Fund Russian Craft

2/28/03 U.S. bases in Europe face more anti-war protests

2/28/03 Press Uses Actors in War On Islam

2/28/03 Baghdad says US violates airspace, fears tricks Iraq complained to the United Nations on Friday that U.S. helicopters had violated its airspace and raised concerns Washington might be trying to fabricate evidence that Baghdad possessed illicit arms.

2/28/03 Do you remember those Information Technology (IT) jobs that were going to take the place in the "new economy" of those outsourced manufacturing jobs? Don't bother to retrain. The IT jobs are leaving, too.

2/28/03 State Farm to exclude nuke attacks

2/28/03 Him and us - The spinners have spun, the plagiarists plagiarized: we are still opposed to Blair's war. "There is mass popular distrust about the American concern with oil and the hypocrisy of not acting against an aggressive Israeli regime with an extremely rightwing government that consistently defies the UN's edicts and denies fundamental human rights to Palestinians. There is disbelief that the US, rather late in the day, has decided that this is a crusade for human rights. What human rights, when the Kurds, for example, are specifically omitted? Why are they omitted? Because it would upset the Turks and a large number of Kurds live in Turkey, which is a valuable base. "

2/28/03 Michael Savage Sucks organizes anti-Savage boycott.

2/28/03 'The US and UK don't care about Iraqis - they've been killing them for years'

2/28/03 Do you feel a draft?

2/28/03 Sharpening the talons ARIEL SHARON has finished putting together a governing coalition in Israel that includes an extreme right-wing party and a rabidly extreme right-wing party. This won't do the cause of peace in the Middle East any good at all.

2/28/03 U.S. rejects Wheeling-Pittsburgh loan guarantee "Hey, we gotta bribe a few more countries!"

2/28/03 NASA chief: Shuttle saving efforts possible

2/28/03 Windows Update keeps tabs on all system software Evidence obtained by German hardware site tecChannel suggests a list of software installed on an XP machine is sent to Microsoft when users run Windows Update.

2/28/03 WE COULD HAVE DROPPED BOMBS ON PARLIAMENT! What this confirms is that the UK, like the US, knows there isn't really a major terror threat. It's just propaganda to support the conquest of the oil.

2/28/03 A US-led war on Iraq would start with a "large bang" before an invasion after which Washington would impose security until a new Iraqi administration found its feet, reports quoting US and British officials said Sunday Right about the same time Ariel Sharon agrees to an independent Palestinian state.

2/28/03 Patriot Act's Big Brother "The DSEA's treatment of expatriation and domestic terrorism are harbingers of things to come. Thus far, much of the war on terrorism has been targeted at foreign nationals and sold to the American people on that ground. Americans' rights are not at stake, the argument goes, because we're concerned with "international" crime committed mostly by "aliens." With the DSEA, however, the Administration seeks to transgress both the alien- citizen line, by turning citizens into aliens for their political ties, and the domestic-international line, extending to wholly domestic criminal-law- enforcement tools that were previously reserved for international terrorism investigations. "

2/28/03 Iraq agrees to destroy disputed missiles after UN report faults co-operation

2/28/03 US Winds Down Anti-Taliban Drive in S. Afghanistan IN other words, it was another wild goose chase.

2/28/03 Why Didn't You Do Something? The sad fact is that it is Anne's own people, who learned so well the tactics of the Nazis, who are destroying not only the lives of the indigenous people of Palestine but also their culture and their future.

2/28/03 Russia Ready to Veto Iraq War Resolution

2/28/03 Israeli soldiers sue over film Hey, if you don't want to be seen as a war criminal, don't commit war crimes.

2/28/03 France says Iraqi decision to destroy missiles is proof inspections are working. If the US invades now after the UN ordered Iraq to destroy the missiles, and the UN does nothing to stop the US, then the UN will be seen as complicit in the conquest for having destroyed a major part of Iraq's defensive capability.

2/28/03 Disagree at your own risk

2/28/03 US public turns to Europe for news Americans have figured out that the US mainstream media (aka the presstitutes) cannot be trusted. They are turning to foreign sources to find out what is going on.

2/28/03 FAIR AND BALANCED? A Florida appeals court judge rules that mainstream media can legally lie to you, and reporters who stand up for the truth can be fired for it.

2/28/03 Thinking Americans say NO to War!

2/28/03 The Radical Individualism of Paul Goodman

2/28/03 Western Allies Dismiss Iraq Offer on Missiles "We have it on good authority that Saddam still has a Swiss Army knife in his pocket. This weapon does not appear in the UN approved list and must be destroyed! Saddam's claims of cooperation are discredited by his failure to personally cook and serve a hot, tasty, and balanced breakfast to the UN inspectors! We invade the oil fields tomorrow. "

2/28/03 Germany welcomes Iraq's promise to destroy banned missiles Based on the above, it is clear that ABC no longer considers Germany part of the west! Note also that Germany has cut off aid to Turkey!

2/28/03 Blood Money

2/28/03 China says UN weapons inspections in Iraq "effective"

2/28/03 Maine teachers warned: Watch anti-war talk in classroom ATTENTION STUDENTS: This is a good time to remind you that your teachers are paid by the government and therefore teach you what the government wants you to know and ONLY what the government wants you to know. As this article illustrates, the public schools are not sources of facts, but merely echoes of the official lies used to rule. They are indoctrination centers, enforcing the will of the rulers, in this case, intending to trick you into desiring a war by removing all arguments for peace. It is your generation who will bleed the sand red if this war is not stopped.

2/28/03 How £1bn was lost when Thatcher propped up Saddam Seems the British taxpayers got suckered as badly as the US taxpayers.

2/28/03 Germany halts aid to Turkey

2/28/03 Peace pin designed to make anti-war statement at Oscars With security at the March 23 Academy Awards guaranteed to be tighter than Salma Hayek's dress, anti-war protesters won't get any closer to the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood than the parking lot of the In-n-Out Burger on Sunset Blvd. So peace activists have decided to aim at Oscar night's Achilles heel: fashion. An 18-karat gold Peace Pin — inspired by Pablo Picasso's Dove Of Peace and designed by jeweler Henry Dunay (in white or yellow gold, your choice) — has been commissioned by the umbrella activist organization Global Vision for Peace, to be worn on Oscar night by presenters and recipients.

2/28/03 War chronicle: Despite protests Bush trying to ‘control the world’

2/28/03 Bush Selects Zionist U.S. General To Run Iraq

2/28/03 Pentagon database to spy on Americans "They're ba-ack!!"

2/28/03 Public loses faith in Blair and New Labour One too many fake dossiers from Phony Tony!

2/28/03 Spain begs President to restrain Rumsfeld That left-over duct tape might work!

2/28/03 UK accuses Saddam of sabotaging inspections And they have a dossier to prove it!

2/28/03 Ex-Senator Fred Thompson films Bush war ad This will be interesting. The US mainstream media refused to run anti-war ads claiming a policy of not running "advocacy" commercials. If they run the pro-war ads, then it's just one more proof that the mainstream media are just presstitutes whoring for the war party.

2/28/03 All air travelers to be assigned a "threat level".

2/28/03 Karzai doubts voice on tape is bin Laden's

2/28/03 Israeli coalition not backing Arab state Admit it, you knew Bush was just blowing smoke with that comment about Palestinian statehood.

2/28/03 Senators Want FBI Info on Web Spying

2/28/03 Free Iraqi Resistance Calling on Jewry For Support in Quest to Depose Saddam Guess who will get the goodies from Iraq after it is conquered by your children?

2/28/03 US Troops Buying Chickens In Kuwait For Protection - Army Units Say Chickens Are Reliable Gas Attack Detectors

2/28/03 America Uses Israel's Words To Justify Occupation

2/28/03 US Unloads Arms Without - Turkey's Formal OK

2/28/03 US sending new crew to ISS via Russian shuttle

2/28/03 Nuclear security expert killed in Moscow, apparent victim of would-be robbers Those "would be robbers" seem to target some very interesting people.

2/28/03 O'REILLY THREATENS DISSENTERS

2/28/03 How The Press Has Buried The Truth Of Iraqi Disarmament

2/28/03 Iraqi Star Witness Said Weapons Were Destroyed

2/28/03 THOUGHT REFORM=BRAINWASHING=COERCIVE PERSUASION

2/28/03 WHY ARE YOU NOT GETTING THE NEWS? Because you're letting TV, radio, and newspapers feed you spin (biased opinion) and babble But then, that's why you're HERE, right?

2/28/03 Italian opponents of war block US military transports

2/28/03 Bush lays out his “vision” for the Middle East: US imperialism’s rendezvous with disaster

2/28/03 In a hole? Here's a shovel It seems strange how the Bush administration can cough up $15 billion in grants and loans to pay off the government of Turkey in return for letting U.S. armed forces use Turkey as a base for the conflict with Iraq but can't come up with a penny for the U.S. states in fiscal crisis.

2/28/03 10 obvious, but overlooked, questions on Iraq

2/28/03 Rockets Explode Near Offices in Kandahar

2/28/03 We WILL Each Pay $800 Per Person To Destroy Iraq

2/28/03 US expands its military presence around globe

2/28/03 Traces of poison Israel, not Iraq, holds that distinction of being the first country in the region to use weapons of mass destruction with genocidal intent.

2/28/03 Rumsfeld: 'Missile destruction no proof of cooperation'

2/28/03 STEALTHS ON WAY TO IRAQ Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

2/28/03 THE BOMB IS IN THE TREASURY

2/28/03 67 things you might want to know before the bombs drop

2/28/03 ‘Massive Ordnance Air Burst’ Bomb Set to Go if War Begins "But it's not nuclear, excuse me, 'nookular'. Honest! That EMP you picked up is from the E-bomb we exploded right next to this NON-nuclear, excuse me, 'nookular' bomb."

2/28/03 Focus: Inside Iraq - The Tragedy of a People Betrayed Wherever you go in Iraq's southern city of Basra, there is dust. It rolls down the long roads that are the desert's fingers. It gets in your eyes and nose and throat; it swirls in markets and school playgrounds, consuming children kicking a plastic ball; and it carries, according to Dr Jawad Al-Ali, 'the seeds of our death'...

2/28/03 George is right and the whole world is wrong Don't you understand that "the adults are now in charge" and if we "kiddies" don't shape up and stop mouthing off, we will be harshly dealt with? Can you say "gulag" or "concentration camp?" How about "firing squad?"

2/28/03 Years Ahead on OKC Cover-up Same here. What AP is reporting today was on this page years ago!

2/28/03 Group plans war strike

2/28/03 A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders : An Advisory to US Troops If you obey an order to commit a war crime, then you are a war criminal.

2/28/03 Ariel Sharon yesterday virtually ruled out the creation of a Palestinian state under his hawkish new government just a day after President Bush pledged to broker a peace deal once he has dealt with Iraq. How many times must Sharon publicly humiliate Bush before it is obvious that Sharon is really calling the shots?

2/28/03 Two faces, and no brain.

2/28/03 NO WAR FOR ISRAEL

2/28/03 Poll Suggests Public Support for Invasion of Iraq Would Drop if Saddam Destroys Missiles Saddam is destroying the missiles. What will Bush do to try to get those poll numbers back up?

2/28/03 Lightning puts hole in wing of plane carrying Jeb Bush to Orlando God: "Dammit, I missed!"

2/28/03 Intelligence dodge Third story down

2/28/03 September 11 hijackers body parts identified Let's see, the hijackers were on a plane full of jet fuel that crashed into the World Trade Towers and ignited a fire that was supposedly hot enough to melt steel an hour later. Then the whole shebang collapsed, killing a couple thousand more people as well, and mashing the remains together under tons of red-hot steel and concrete. And then, without having DNA samples from the thousands of other victims to check against, and without knowing who the hijackers really were, since even the FBI admits they were using fake IDs with stolen identities, we're supposed to believe that this particular smear off of the wreckage is proven to be a hijacker's DNA. If you believe this one, I have a war to sell you. And by the way, there is no DNA in hair, only in the follicle if the hairis pulled out, not cut. DNA is also destroyed by heat much lower than that of fire.

2/28/03 What Bush Isn't Saying About Iraq

2/27/2003

2/27/03 IRAQ AGREES TO DESTROY AL SAMOUD MISSILES If Iraq destroys the missiles, then the UN is obligated to prevent the US invasion. It's time for UN Peacekeepers to go in, Peacekeepers NOT under US Control. And I have to wonder if Iraq's agreeing to get rid of short range, non-nuclear, tactical missiles is because they have been assured by someone else of being given longer range missiles in the event actual war breaks out.

2/27/03 Judicial Jury Tampering: Why The innocent Are Convicted

2/27/03 Fox appears open to Chrétien's proposal So much for Mexico "swinging our way". Is it time for the Mossad to try to bomb the Mexican Congress again?

2/27/03 Canada will NOT send troops to Iraq.

2/27/03 US President George W. Bush broadened his case for war on Iraq late Wednesday, saying that toppling Saddam Hussein would spread democracy in the Arab world and speed the creation of a Palestinian state. To which Ariel Sharon replied that Bush should mind his own business, because it was up to Sharon when the Palestinians get a state.

2/27/03 High School Lockdowns

2/27/03 MORE READER PHOTOS FROM THE NEW YORK 2-15 PEACE MARCH

2/27/03 The retired general tapped by the Bush administration to oversee rebuilding of post-war Iraq was, until just a few weeks ago, an executive at a leading defense contractor working on missile systems that would be used to bomb Baghdad

2/27/03 U.N. Finds No Long-Range Iraqi Missiles

2/27/03 Caught on Film: The Bush Credibility Gap

2/27/03 Bush sells out the Kurds And we wonder why people in other nations do not like the US.

2/27/03 Russia and China join forces to oppose war in Iraq

2/27/03 ''Is the U.N. 'irrelevant' with regard to Israel too?'' Israel is in defiance of more Resolutions than Iraq is. But nothing is done.

And I'm not that sure about the one in the middle of North America.

2/27/03 Veteran U.S. Diplomat Resigns Over Iraq

2/27/03 North Korea tested a cruise missile

2/27/03 THE THIRD TEMPLE'S HOLY OF HOLIES: ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS

2/27/03 Support for Bush's re-election falls below 50 percent

2/27/03 Speaking of UAVs that can carry germs...

2/27/03 State Farm Cuts Nuke Damage From Coverage

2/27/03 A victory for government by stealth: US congressional arm abandons suit against Cheney

2/27/03 Australian legal experts declare an invasion of Iraq a war crime

2/27/03 THE DANGERS CAUSED BY A POLICY OF PREEMPTION

2/27/03 IDF shoots 14 year old boy playing in front of his house... with artillery fire!

2/27/03 Egyptians rally against war

2/27/03 Israeli Spies Aided Feds In Readying 'Jihad' Case "By way of deception..."

2/27/03 You're Not Crazy, The World Is Falling Apart

2/27/03 Congress Discovers The Perils Of Legislating In The Dark

2/27/03 Camps for US Citizens?: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision

2/27/03 Israel and the US War on Iraq

2/27/03 When Iraq's Al Samoud missile was tested in 2000, it was found to be within UN limits. New tests that found added 15 mile range used missiles with NO PAYLOAD.

2/27/03 Ari Gets Laughed Out of the White House Briefing Room

2/27/03 Jobless Claims Rise in Latest Week Economy still headed down.

2/27/03 ANTI-WAR MPs SHAME BLAIR IN BIGGEST REVOLT Student Paul Steedman, 23, said: "You said you were keen to go down the UN route. Quite clearly you don't give a stuff. We're going to war anyway." Mr Blair said: "Why did I go through the United Nations last year then?" Paul said: "I don't know - a fig leaf perhaps?"

2/27/03 More info on the Cryptome hack

2/27/03 Police give man a ticket for helping stranded motorists

2/27/03 IPS Releases Report on U.S. Arm-twisting Over Iraq War You cannot achieve a moral victory using immoral means.

2/27/03 Judge orders prosecutors to disclose payments in terror case It seems that a case arising out of the FISA "Star Chamber" may have resulted in an informant simply making up testimony for the money he was being paid, counting on the secret court proceedings to conceal the lies. Ashcroft's Portland "terror cell" just went bust.

2/27/03 LOSING FAITH - Has the FBI Cried "Terrorist" Once Too Often? The only crime Ashcroft's Portland "terror cell" actually committed was target practice in a gravel pit!

2/27/03 " The United States has promised to prevent Kurds from imposing a federation-style government in postwar Iraq that would ensure their continued autonomy and agreed to allow Turkish troops to enter northern Iraq and observe the disarmament of Kurdish militias once fighting has stopped, Turkish officials said today. Turkey's price for war was for the US to sell out the Kurds, which Bush did apparently without a moment's hesitation. Something to keep in mind while Bush goes on with promises regarding a Palestinian state.

2/27/03 FBI blows it again, mistaking harmless old man for dangerous crook and jailing him for 20 days.

2/27/03 Protest photos from Amsterdam

2/27/03 Sept 11 Suspect Moussaoui Wants to Torture Ashcroft If you read the actual statement Moussaoui made, he is trying to make a point that torture has become a way of life in Ashcroft's Department of Justice and that were Ashcroft tortured, he too would confess to being a terrorist. Which, should Ashcroft start singing again, I would have to agree with.

2/27/03 Missing U.S.-Iraq History

2/27/03 US think tanks give lessons in foreign policy Take a careful read of just who Bush is getting his "Kill Saddam" advice from!

2/27/03 Washington's Zionist hawks to reshape Mid-East for Israel

"We meet here during a crucial period in the history of our nation, and of the civilized world." -- Dubya (If our nation is uncivilized, it's because of the lust for empire.)

2/27/03 Hayek and the White House

2/27/03 The Surrender Of MSNBC Leaked report confirms Donahue was dumped for being anti-war.

2/27/03 Bush's economic adviser resigns

2/27/03 White House Press Bursts Into Laughter As Ari Tell Another Fib

2/27/03 CBS, White House Flap - Over Saddam Interview WH childishness hits a new high

2/27/03 Police To Shift 105 Officer Positions To Homeland Security Units Street crooks rejoice.

2/27/03 MICHAEL SAVAGE CALLS FOR ARREST OF LEADERS OF ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT. And MSNBC just hired this guy?

2/27/03 Mossad Link to First WTC Bombing Raises Eyebrows "By way of deception..."

2/27/03 THE MOTHER OF ALL TAR BABIES Remember in October of 2001, I warned that Afghanistan was not going to be the quick victory the US Government promised, and that controlling the cities was not the same thing as controlling the country (as the Soviets discovered)? Well, I'm telling you all again, that defeating 'B' units in worthless empty desert is one thing, fighting the Iraqis within sight of their own homes is going to be another. Bush does not have the support of the American people for this war, nor is the US economy able to sustain the costs of a prolonged war. We could easily find ourselves at war with Russia if Bush persists.

2/27/03 War: I'm not convinced

2/27/03 Bush: War means peace Dubya? Orwell's book is NOT a blueprint!

2/26/2003

2/26/03 Bush hands control of post-Saddam Iraq to Israel! "Despite the Zionist's attempt to put General Gardner's past down the memory hole, many Arab sources including Al-Quds al-Arabi and Washington Report on Middle East have revealed General Gardner's close ties to the Israeli Likud party."

2/26/03 Impeach Bush

2/26/03 Israel's 'Use' Of Its Nuclear - Weapons Against US

2/26/03 Lust for empire. Iraq is just the first salvo in Bush’s push toward U.S. global hegemony

2/26/03 Anti-war protesters flood Senate, White House offices with calls in 'virtual march'

2/26/03 Phil Donahue strikes back at MSNBC

THE SET-UP?

2/26/03 MEMRI: Islamist Website: An Imminent Terrorist Attack (Possibly by Al-Qa'ida) Within "About Ten Days" (Apparently in the U.S.)

2/26/03 Selective Memri A reminder that group providing this "news" of an Islamist terrorist attack is suspected of ties to Israeli Intelligence. So when the Bang happens, you can pretty much exclude real Arab Muslims as the perpetrators. "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.

2/26/03 Saddam Hussein, Reporter - After Exclusive CBS Interview, Iraqi Leader Quizzed Dan Rather Note how in the article when Hussein asks Rather about U.S. public opinion, Rather states "American public opinion was behind President Bush.". Yea right! That's Rather's usual accuracy. 

2/26/03 Rebel vote stuns Blair The US media is trying to spin it as a victory, but in truth Blair has greatly underestimated opposition to the war.

2/26/03 Cryptome was hacked the morning of 25 February 2003. All files were deleted. They will be restored later today.

2/26/03 PIONEER 10 SPACECRAFT SENDS LAST SIGNAL Designed by the "Old NASA" to last just 21 months, Pioneer 10 lasted 30 years.

2/26/03 Vets To Top US Military Commanders: REMEMBER NUREMBERG The Military are legally allowed to refuse to obey any order they decide is immoral or illegal. Therefore, when the war crimes trials start (despite US efforts to exempt themselves) soldiers cannot hide behind the "I was only following orders" defense.

2/26/03 Astronaut rails against Homeland Sec.: "no sense to restrict aerospace modeling"

2/26/03 E-mails foretold Columbia’s doom Note attempt to pin the blame on engineers, even though the article admits that supervisors were involved in the decision not to move the matter "upstairs". This is a large scale CYA in operation.

2/26/03 NASA announces recovery of Columbia cockpit video. The tape was recovered a week ago. NASA is reporting that the tape ends just before the time when the crew would have become aware there was a problem.

2/26/03 Reuter's: 'Virtual' War Protest Jams Congressional Phones Most callers are reporting busy signals and "all circuits busy" messages, so it is impossible to gauge the true size of the protest.

CNN REPORTS THAT THE VIRTUAL PROTEST HAS JAMMED UP THE PUBLIC SWITCHBOARDS AT THE CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE.

2/26/03 THE "DEAD ZONE" SCENARIO: What do we do when confronted by the certainty of evil?

2/26/03 Saudi Arabia denies report of U.S. deal on bases

2/26/03 Germany rejects Canadian proposal on Iraq

2/26/03 The Reign Of Terror Has Begun

2/26/03 Bush Six Votes Away From U.N. Approval of Iraq War Which is spin-eze for saying that the US, UK, and Spain haven't persuaded anyone yet, even with all the cash looted from our schools and pension funds.

2/26/03 CBS, White House in Dispute Over Saddam Interview The White House criticized CBS television on Wednesday over what a spokesman said was a spurned offer to rebut comments by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein during an interview to be broadcast on Wednesday evening.

2/26/03 Bush hands UN an ultimatum on Iraq war Going to take back that UN building, Dubya? I know it's facing one of those costly EPA-mandated renovations to remove hazardous materials used in its construction, just like the World Trade Towers were facing just before they got knocked down.

2/26/03 Argentine court halts IMF-demanded utility hikes

2/26/03 That missile defense system Bush wants to bypass testing on? Even the Pentagon says it's crap!

2/26/03 Key Iraqi opposition leader says long-term US presence in Iraq would be unwelcome

2/26/03 Labour MPs ready to desert Blair

2/26/03 Colin Powell's Blurry Pictures - Former CIA Analyst Asks: "Are Intelligence Analysts Still Free to Tell It Like It is?"

2/26/03 County official in Washington State states he has documents which detail FEMA plans for concentration camps in his county.

You can trust John Ashcroft. Those stories about concentration camps in the USA are just internet rumors.

Photo taken at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

2/26/03 You can catch Rather's interview of Saddam at this page.

2/26/03 US rejects Canadian suggestion

2/26/03 Western jets attack Iraqi military communications

2/26/03 Virtual March on Washington Headquarters

2/26/03 Iran, Libya, Syria are next? Israel sets the target list for the US

2/26/03 Patriot Act could turn car dealers and travel agents into informants

2/26/03 Santa Fe Police Arrest Attorney For Comments he Made In An Internet Chat-Room "Bush is out of control" is covered by the First Amendment.

2/26/03 Norman Mailer: Gaining an empire, losing democracy?

2/26/03 Israel Seizes Nuke Papers to Stem Media Leaks You see, with all this talk about Iraq maybe, kinda, sorta, might, someday have weapons of mass destruction with which to threaten its neighbors, Israel wants you to forget that Israel definitely, no question about it, no doubt at all, actually HAS nuclear weapons of mass destruction that DO threaten its neighbors.

2/26/03 Cancer victims protest at Israel's nuclear plant

2/26/03 Israel: Germs, gas and A-bombs The world's best-known and most efficient 'secret' manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction is not Iraq, not even North Korea, but Israel. Neil Sammonds looks at a nuclear, biological and chemical warfare programme that even the Israeli Knesset cannot get access to, let alone the United Nations.

2/26/03 Canadian in passport fiasco She was denied consular assistance and threatened her with jail. But wait there's more! She was photographed, fingerprinted, barred from re-entering the U.S. for five years and immediately "deported." Not to Toronto, but to India.

2/26/03 US will use "superbomb" in Iraq "But don't worry, even though it's as powerful as a small nuclear bomb it's not really a weapon of mass destruction because it's not really nuclear!"

2/26/03 Retired Air Force general takes Bush to task on Iraq

2/26/03 U.S. expected to win backing at U.N. "All we gotta do is close the rest of the schools, screw the pensioners, and we can afford to buy all the votes we need!"

2/26/03 Mossad Link to First WTC Bombing Raises Eyebrows Palestinian arrested for bombing was a Mossad mole.

2/26/03 Look Ma, I'm on MSNBC If you read carefully, you will see that the director of this show intended to portray the anti-war movement in the poorest possible light by actually asking them to "throw chairs".

And, speaking of an obvious coordinated media campaign to bash critics of the government, a reader sent in these two pages from the March 2003 Playboy.

2/26/03 Over 200 Pictures from 133 Protests around the World on February 15/16, 2003

2/26/03 UK rejects Israeli call for US to target Iran after Iraq "Oooh those British must be anti-Semites!!!!!"

2/26/03 Steven Seagal Takes Witness Stand at Mob Trial There is already lots of organized crime in Hollywood. Years ago a production I worked on was used to launder thousands of dollars in cash. Had we refused, the plug would have been pulled on the production.

BUSH SUFFERS FROM "VOTE-RIGGER" MINDSET

Despite his declaration that he does not need a UN vote to proceed with a war in Iraq, President Bush is still trying to get one anyway. Bush needs the UN "stamp of approval" to make the war palatable to more people.

But unlike a vote for high office, where winning means high office, power, and just how you win is not mentioned in polite company, a vote for symbolic value is a very different beast. It's HOW you get those votes that matters.

Bush seeks the UN vote to give moral authority to his war. Because of that, the vote itself must be seen to be moral. Votes that are acquired by bribes or threats are not viewed as valid by the world. Indeed a vote acquired by bribe or threat undermines the morality and credibility of the entire vote.

Bush and his cronies are working hard to get a positive vote on this latest resolution. But the truth is that even if they get such a vote, it will mean little, as the whole world is watching while Bush guts the US school and pension systems to offer small impoverished nations great riches for a vote for war. Add to that the threats to countries like France and Russia to "not interfere" and Bush's campaign for the second Resolution loses its moral high ground. Even if the Resolution is passed, its symbolic value is already voided by the means by which the US acquired the votes.

2/26/03 George Bush, you've got mail! Virtual anti-war protest today! president@whitehouse.gov

2/26/03 Protest moves to D.C. -- by phone Over 120,000 sign up for virtual march

2/26/03 Britain Try To Send Jets to Gulf Region

2/26/03 Muslim countries block British jets from reaching Gulf

2/26/03 Crop Circle anti-war message

2/26/03 Anti-war banners yanked from bridges

2/26/03 Anti-war protesters to march on Sunday

2/26/03 READING THIS WEB PAGE WILL HELP MAKE IT CRYSTAL CLEAR WHO TO BLAME FOR HIGHER OIL PRICES.

2/26/03 If the Iraqi president and his generals "take innocent life, if they destroy infrastructure, they will be held accountable as war criminals," President Bush said Tuesday.

2/26/03 Oil could be anti-war weapon The US reserves won't last a week if the Arab nations shut off that valve.

2/26/03 Blair faces huge anti-war backlash

2/26/03 Shin Bet chief canceled trip to Belgium fearing arrest

2/26/03 Less than a month after President Bush proposed a radical overhaul and expansion of individual retirement and savings accounts, the White House has abandoned the idea as a legislative priority. "Sorry folks, but we needed the money to buy some UN votes!"

2/26/03 It's under Bush's bed! This is how to locate the weapons, step-by-step:

2/26/03 British pensioner Derek Bond has been released from custody in South Africa after the FBI admitted that he was not the man they wanted in connection with a multi-million dollar fraud in the US.

2/26/03 Coalition of the willing? Make that war criminals The initiation of a war against Iraq by the self-styled "coalition of the willing" would be a fundamental violation of international law.

2/26/03 In Bush we trust not

2/26/03 Is it anti-Semitic to criticize Israel? Israel likes to claim it is, even when Semites do the criticizing!

2/26/03 A day after the Environmental Protection Agency expressed "growing concern" over the number of women of child-bearing age who have dangerous levels of mercury in their blood, environmental groups accused the Bush administration yesterday of undercutting steps to reduce exposure to the toxic substance.

2/26/03 Mr. Bush, where are your same sentiments for Israel? Israel stands in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council Resolutions. A further 32 resolutions against Israel has not seen the light of day thanks to your veto power on the Security Council. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that has nuclear weapons and furthermore Israel is the only country in the Middle East that refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections from its sites. How ironic, that Israel is also the only country in the Middle East known to have targeted American personnel and property for attack. In 1954, Israel blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and in 1967 attacked a US ship in international waters, killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors.

2/26/03 Bush ‘morals’ invalid All this moralizing is ironic because it is premised upon the dual notion that the United States is a very good, moral nation and that Saddam Hussein is a very bad man.

2/26/03 Peace Embassy for Brisbane

2/26/03 Arafat warns Israel will exploit any war

2/26/03 Inspector says Iraq starting to cooperate; Bush unswayed

2/26/03 Rockefeller: Bush decided 'long time ago' to go to war

2/26/03 US Lawmakers: Syria, Iran Are Threats to Israel's Security Ileana Ros-Lehtinen got $33,900 from AIPAC.

2/26/03 Bush says US can attack Iraq without new UN resolution

2/26/03 Blix asks for a few more months.

2/26/03 Text of threat letter released Looks like the CIA and Mossad are trying to scare Australians back into supporting the war.

2/26/03 Homeland Security Chief's background is in public relations!

2/26/03 Canada's plan threatens Iraq war

2/26/03 UNITED STATES ARMS SALES TO IRAQ

2/26/03 Saddam Dismisses Exile in CBS Interview

2/26/03 "Five to Ten Times Worse Than the Patriot Act"

2/26/03 Mahathir suggests Muslim oil strike to stop Iraq war

2/26/03 Rumsfeld : Iraq May Try to Hide Banned Weapons Don, allow me to say that I am getting tired of the bovine excrement pouring out of your yap! Kindly shut the hell up.

2/26/03 U.S. Doubts Russia, China Will Veto Iraq Resolution The usual anonymous source, of course.

2/26/03 US warns it will go to war alone Of course, it won't really go alone, it will take a few million of your children with it.

2/26/03 Newsmax proves it is a whore for the White House by trying to OPPOSE the virtual peace protest.

2/26/03 Requesting Anti-war video footage for a music video

2/26/03 Ari Fleischer gets laughed out of press room. Worth studying to see how he never has a direct answer for any question, and that he looks like he is on heavy tranquillizers right now.

2/26/03 Scarred shuttle tile 'very unusual' Heat deformations found on side of tile that would have faced inward. One tile shown has obvious gouge in surface.

2/26/03 Stop squirming says US

2/26/03 Bush hands UN an ultimatum on Iraq war

2/26/03 Imminent Iraq War Spurs Iran's WMD Efforts

2/26/03 Blair faces toughest test

2/25/2003

2/25/03 "You are not going to decide whether there is war in Iraq or not," the diplomat said U.S. officials told him. "That decision is ours, and we have already made it. It is already final. The only question now is whether the council will go along with it or not." Bush just killed the United Nations

2/25/03 Israel reportedly helping with U.S. war preparation

2/25/03 Israeli commando forces are reportedly operating in western Iraq where their mission could include creating a provocation to kick-start a war.

2/25/03 NBC FIRES ANTI-WAR HOST PHIL DONAHUE Personally, I think his numbers were "tinkered with".

2/25/03 Israel Sees War in Iraq as Path to Mideast Peace "Israel is so certain of the rightness of a war on Iraq that it is already thinking past that conflict to urge a continued, assertive American role in the Middle East." With the usual US bias in favor of Israel's agenda.

2/25/03 Black Americans against Iraq war They know who winds up with those front line jobs.

2/25/03 US aims to win without firing a shot It would be impolite to mention all the bombing the US and UK are doing to Iraq right now.

2/25/03 Arafat: Those responsible for Rabin murder now in government

2/25/03 Niger denies selling uranium to Iraq

2/25/03 Bush Lies

2/25/03 Israel, U.S. discuss economic aid package

2/25/03 The "Deception Dollar"

2/25/03 Nigeria reports unexplained loss of nuclear material This is not weapons materials.

2/25/03 Americans abroad pressed on policies as world opposition rises to attack on Iraq

2/25/03 Oldest Human History Is at Risk "Nineveh, far to the north, the imperial seat of the Assyrian kings Sennacherib (about 704-681 B.C.) and Ashurbanipal (668-627 B.C.). Royal palaces with magnificent sculptures have been found, as have more than 20,000 cuneiform tablets from Ashurbanipal's library. The biblical prophet Jonah preached there. After the gulf war the excavated palaces were looted of sculptures. "

2/25/03 Consumer Confidence Nears 10-Year Low You cannot recover an economy if nobody is buying.

2/25/03 Ashcroft goes after the marijuana paraphernalia "You wanna get high, you buy the CIA's cocaine like any real American!"

2/25/03 ADL decides that they own the word "holocaust".

2/25/03 Today's White House briefing. Read that very last sentence by Ari. Note the laughter.

2/25/03 A Florida judge decided recently that it's technically legal for the media to deliberately lie or distort the news on a television broadcast. "The decision reversed a $425,000 jury verdict in favor of TV journalists Jane Akre and Steve Wilson, who sued WTVT-TV, a Fox affiliate in Tampa, for firing them because they refused to air false reports about the presence of synthetic bovine growth hormone (or BGH) in the area milk supply. The husband-and-wife reporting team asserts that Monsanto, maker of BGH, pressured WTVT to edit the story to be less damning to the company (some of the changes would've undermined the credibility of scientists and studies that link BGH in milk to cancer). Akre and Wilson refused, despite repeated attempts by the station to have the story altered and an offer to terminate them with full pay if they never spoke of their BGH findings. Finally, says Akre, when they threatened to report the station to the FCC for falsifying news, they were canned. The lawsuit was settled in August 2000 with the finding that Fox "acted intentionally and deliberately to falsify or distort the plaintiffs' news reporting on BGH" and that Akre's threat to blow the whistle on Fox's misconduct to the FCC was the sole reason for the termination. The station appealed and prevailed, the judge citing that there is no FCC rule or regulation that specifically makes it illegal to mislead, distort, or falsify the news." Which is, of course, why you come HERE to find out what's really happening.

2/25/03 Michigan Man Uses Junk FAX Law to Sue Sears Over Email Spam

2/25/03 The Facts About Rebellion Which political leader made war on his own people, killing 262,000 of them, burning their cities, destroying their food supply and placing the survivors under military occupation?

2/25/03 U.S. builds war coalition with favors — and money

2/25/03 NYC=JFK(24/7)

2/25/03 'My family could die in Iraq war'

2/25/03 Fleming Cos. Inc., the largest grocery distributor in the United States, Tuesday said it will slash 1,800 jobs because of the loss of its largest customer, the bankrupt discount retailer Kmart Corp.

2/25/03 Anti-war brigade accuses US of bullying

2/25/03 Was Stalin assassinated by his own associates to prevent a world war?

2/25/03 Natural gas prices rise 40% Heating oil costs also soar, up 50% from year ago

2/25/03 AN INTERVIEW ON THE WAR BEHIND THE WAR

2/25/03 Minnesota Poll: Support for Bush slipping

2/25/03 Deborah Cook Is the Typical Bush Judicial Nominee — So Watch Out

2/25/03 A war that lacks a financial strategy

2/25/03 The Project for the New American Century. The People versus the Powerful is the oldest story in human history. At no point in history have the Powerful wielded so much control. At no point in history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them, been more absolutely required.

2/25/03 Police cleared in shooting of 12 year old. The suspect had no gun and was running away when the police shot him in the back. The courts ruled that the police did not need to see a gun or be threatened to be justified in using lethal force.

2/25/03 Dick "Wanna buy a roll of duct tape" Cheney taking himself far too seriously.

2/25/03 Scientists say Homeland advice on filters is wrong

2/25/03 Bush offers governors sympathy, not cash Too bad, states, but Bush needs that money to bribe other nations into voting for war!

2/25/03 Mona Charen’s Assault on Public Dissent

PRACTICAL NECESSITY

  George Bush has a problem. His war is running out of steam. Even the pundits at FOX News are admitting that Bush and his buddies have lost the propaganda war. Bush assumed Saddam would never go for inspections. But Saddam did, and the UN inspectors have not found any weapons of mass destruction that Bush claimed Iraq had. Powell shot himself in the foot with that dossier plagiarized from 12 year old student papers, and the mere fact that Bush has waited this long for the UN to rubber-stamp the war proves that Bush does not really see Iraq as a dire threat requiring immediate action. Yes, the UN inspectors found some missiles able to fly 15 miles further than the UN allowed. That still  leaves a distance of several thousand miles before those missiles are a threat to the US. Bush wants those missiles destroyed. But with the US poised to invade Iraq, Bush is sounding a bit like Hitler demanding Poland disarm just in time for the Panzers to roll across the border. 

  But the main reason Bush has lost the propaganda war is that he has lost the trust of the American people. Only days ago, Bush claimed a report by top economists vindicated his tax cuts for the rich. It took only moments to confirm that the report Bush cited does not actually exist. As Bush himself would say, "Fool me once......................."

  Trust is a funny thing. It can take decades to build and only a careless moment to destroy. And Bush has trashed not only his own credibility with repeated lies about Iraq and the economy, but the credibility of the government as well. People don't believe Bush any more. They don't dare take the chance.

  So what's a war-monger to do? 

  It is clear that Bush still wants to start the war. He is not going to get UN approval. Too many nations are willing to veto the latest resolution. It isn't going to happen. Period. End of discussion. 

  Unless there is an "event". You know, an 'EVENT". Something that will scare the UN and the world into backing a war against Iraq. 

  Like another 9-11. Or another "Anthrax" scare. Only bigger. Scarier. Something so scary that people won't take the chance it ISN'T true. 

  When it happens, count on Iraq to be blamed for it. But why would Iraq do anything now? Iraq knows a war with the US cannot be won. Iraq has done everything possible to prevent this war. Why would Iraq now do anything that would guarantee a war? Why would Iraq, knowing that Bush's push for war has stumbled, do anything that would give Bush the push he so desperately needs?

  The answer is that Iraq would not. Even if it had weapons of mass destruction, Iraq knows it cannot defeat the US military machine. Certainly Iraq's missiles cannot threaten the USA. Even more certain is that Iraq cannot find, let alone destroy, the fleet of SSBN Nuclear Missile Submarines that prowl the world's oceans. Remember those? You and I are still paying off that $5 trillion the US Government spent on a nuclear deterrent supposedly able to destroy an attacker. Each SSBN carries 192 warheads, each warhead 5-10 times the power of the bomb that destroyed the city of Hiroshima. Those who scream for "pre-emptive" war in Iraq because of the "threat" Iraq poses are in essence claiming that we all wasted that $5 trillion dollars, because the threat of those MIRVs no longer will deter Iraq from attacking the US. 

  So, Bush is desperate for an event to kick off the war. The latest scarecrow propped up in front of us is Saddam's supposed fleet of drone aircraft ready to spray Anthrax all over us unless we follow Bush to war. It must be remembered that the last time there was an anthrax scare, it turned out that the Anthrax came from a US biological weapons lab, complete with letters written to frame Arab Muslims for the attack. That is a precedent to keep in mind. 

  Saddam does not want war. Bush does. Howard does, Blair does (maybe), Sharon does (definitely). But Saddam does not. Every decision he has made to date is that of a man terrified of the idea of a war. 

   But as desperate as Saddam has proven to be to avoid war Bush is even more desperate to start one. So when an "event" happens, be very careful when the same people who plagiarized a 12 year old student thesis and claimed it was current intelligence insist they have "proof" that the same people they have been wanting to attack for the last year are the culprits. Because history has shown that it is always those who WANT a war who commit warlike acts. 

  Bush wants a war. What is he prepared to do to get one?

2/25/03 MISSILE STORY FALLS APART! The missiles were tested for range WITHOUT CARRYING A WARHEAD! Of COURSE they would fly farther!

2/25/03 Mugabe: US must disarm Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has launched a scathing attack on the "born-again colonialists" of the United States and the United Kingdom.

2/25/03 Protesters occupy Spanish Embassy in Baghdad The 17 Spaniards posed for pictures and read their manifesto from the balcony, and have strung up white banners reading "No sanctions, No war"

2/25/03 Saddam Says Bush Lacks Manhood and Chivalry Well, we knew that.

2/25/03 Lack of Legislative Oversight = Death of the Republic

2/25/03 Web Wackos The paper media smears the internet. And get this, they had the ARTS EDITOR write the piece!

2/25/03 USA using bribes to gain 9 votes at the UN Now you know why our schools have run out of textbooks.

2/25/03 Fitzgerald: Bush talked of assassinating Hussein

2/25/03 Shays finds little support for war

2/25/03 More "Art Student" follies

2/25/03 War would uncover Saddam's weapons " Hey, we promise, as soon as we invade, there will be weapons of mass destruction all over Iraq. I mean, Saddam's. That's it, Saddam's weapons of mass destruction all over Iraq. That's what I meant to say!"

2/25/03 Threats, Bribes And Other US Diplomacy At The UN This is the reason for the "drone" story, so that Americans do not see what a disgrace the US has become.

2/25/03 Buying War Allies and 'Friends' with Foreign Aid It's your money the government is using to buy support for a war your children will pay and bleed for.

2/25/03 Iraq's WMDs were destroyed in 1995.

2/25/03 Europeans dislike, fear U.S. president I cannot imagine why, he's only trying to start WW3.

2/25/03 The latest from the Keystone Cops at airport security.

2/25/03 Israel urges U.S. help to bolster economy Israel claims to be an independent Jewish state. Measured against that Claim, Israel is a total failure. It has never been independent, never able to stand on its own feet. Every time Israel asks for more money from the US (now totaling four times the entire cost of the Apollo Moon Program) Israel advertises to the world that it is a DEPENDENT state, unable to survive without massive infusions of cash and weapons from the US. And, so long as the US keeps sending such vast amounts of wealth to Israel, Israel's government will never be motivated to learn how to be self-sufficient. Like an overage child still living at home with overindulgent parents, Israel will never grow up to be the independent state it proclaims itself to be.

2/25/03 Saddam to resist U.N. demand on missiles A missile that flies an additional 15 miles is hardly a threat to the United States. Bush is trying to make a mountain out of this mole hill to justify the conquest of the oil. But from Iraq's point of view, the missiles are part of their defense; the reason the UN allowed Iraq to keep them (albeit with the shorter range). The whole world knows Bush plans on invading Iraq no matter what. This insistence that Iraq get rid of short range missiles is equivalent to asking Saddam to tie his own hands and lie down in front of the Abrams tank that is about to roll over him. It would be a suicidal act of insanity to agree. The UN really cannot demand these missiles be destroyed over a difference in range of 15 miles unless the UN can guarantee to hold off the US invasion if Saddam complies, and it is pretty obvious that the UN is powerless against the US.

2/25/03 Colombia Rebels: U.S. Captives Are POWs More proof that US foreign policy is really screwed up.

2/25/03 U.S. Warns France in Struggle Over Iraq Somehow, I don't think France will be all that upset if the US takes back Euro-Disneyland.

2/25/03 Bush on Right Path to Re-election, Pundits Say Translation: The 2004 election is already rigged.

2/25/03 AN OPEN-SOURCE ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM. Every nation on Earth that uses electronic voting has laws making the source code available for inspection and the means to guarantee that the code on the machines is in fact compiled from the inspected source. Every nation but one. In the United States, the software to count how many times a button is pressed is declared a "proprietary secret" not to be shared with the public. Only three states require that the source code be kept for inspection in the case of a challenge, and no states take any steps to make sure that the software on the actual voting machines has anything to do with the source code shown to the courts in a challenge.

2/25/03 Record US trade deficit highlights global imbalances

2/25/03 The New York Times’ brief for war against Iraq

2/25/03 Russia’s Ace From the Sleeve Just what did Primakov promise Saddam?

2/25/03 US and Britain pound Iraqi defenses in massive escalation of air strikes It occurs to me that if those Iraqi missiles were a threat, instead of just an excuse for war, the US would have bombed them a long time ago.

2/25/03 Republican Leaders Encountering More Antiwar Sentiment

2/25/03 Case tests government's new spy powers The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court is not Constitutional.

2/25/03 USS Liberty: Facts or Peace and Quiet Dismissing the facts as "Israel bashing".

2/25/03 Split deepens in Security Council

2/25/03 How the news will be censored in this war A new CNN system of 'script approval' suggests the Pentagon will have nothing to worry about

2/25/03 US Army works at CNN

2/25/03 THE AMERICAN ARMY LOVES CNN Which is why free people get their news HERE!

2/25/03 Bush seeks to bypass weapons system tests "Trust me, it'll work as good as the Patriot!"

2/25/03 Iraq 'showing signs of co-operation'

2/25/03 PBS: The War Behind Closed Doors A lot of people are visiting this site to watch this show, so be patient.

2/25/03 Puppets, Ventriloquists and Dummies - Who is writing the script for war in Iraq? Thirty Palestinians have been killed in six days including unarmed civilians, one a medic trying to reach a sick patient, and this was not a response to "suicide bombing" or an attack by Palestinian gunmen in Israel. Inside Israel (1948 Palestine) the situation has been its calmest for months. Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN commissioner for Human Rights responded by saying that "such indiscriminate use of force in civilian areas can never be justified". Such are the atrocities by the Israelis and yet they say they want peace.

2/25/03 Turkish Parliament vote may not be a slam-dunk after all.

2/25/03 A U.S. university wants to slow the U.S. rush to war by unreeling a slate of films from Iraq, North Korea and Iran, countries President George W. Bush has placed on an "axis of evil."

2/25/03 U.S. Bombs Northern, Southern Iraq These attacks are what is undermining the authority of the United Nations. The UN has never recognized the "no fly zones". They are illegal under international law, and in this case, attacking surface-to-surface weapons is not an act of self-defense by the invading aircraft. Bush is running an undeclared war.

2/25/03 BLAIR GOES ON MTV "We bomb you, yeah, yeah, yeah, we bomb you, yeah, yeah, yeah..."

2/25/03 U.S. Army Trains Free Iraqi Forces in Hungary U.S. Army Trains Free Cuba Forces in Lake Ponchartrain

2/25/03 Turkey deal stalled

2/25/03 Fried politics: Restaurant serves 'freedom fries' Too bad what we call "French Fries" were actually invented in Belgium.

2/25/03 Blix Says Iraq Signals New Cooperation

2/25/03 Terrorism Danger Remains High That's why we spent all that money and manpower busting Tommy Chong!

2/25/03 Saddam seen using proxy groups to attack the U.S. You mean like the guy who wrote those phony letters that looked like they were from Arab Muslims and put them in the envelopes with the Anthrax form a US biological weapons lab?

2/25/03 Russert asks Perle about Israeli plans of destabilization of the middle east!

2/25/03 U.S. Officials Say U.N. Future At Stake in Vote "You are not going to decide whether there is war in Iraq or not," the diplomat said U.S. officials told him. "That decision is ours, and we have already made it. It is already final. The only question now is whether the council will go along with it or not."

2/25/03 US war on Iraq may begin on February 27

2/25/03 Critics decry dangers of U.S. nuclear arms policy

2/25/03 Iraqi radio station may be US 'black' propaganda Iraqi radio station may be US 'black' propaganda

2/25/03 Young and old march for peace Way to go, Myrtle!

2/25/03 A few words about Martial Law

2/25/03 Seniors speak out against Iraq war

2/25/03 Civil disobedience Folks, please remember that those who are suggesting violence are often undercover agents provocateurs sent in to make the peace movement look bad. Keep that in mind as things escalate.

2/25/03 Hitler on the Nile "Now the focus is on Saddam, and it's true that he has been brutal and threatening for 25 years — particularly in the 1980's when Don Rumsfeld was cozying up to him in Baghdad and the U.S. was shipping him seven strains of anthrax." "Israel also ran terrorist operations in Egypt, blowing up American libraries and cultural targets in an attempt to tarnish Nasser"

2/25/03 Blasts Rock China's Top Two Universities Note that "Muslim" gets worked in there even though nobody knows who planted the black powder bombs.

2/25/03 China against second un resolution on Iraq: spokesman Interesting timing with the above.

2/25/03 The American Gulf War Veterans Association, led by Joyce Riley, has issued a press release that accuses US forces of setting huge oil fires in Kuwait at the end of Gulf War One. There could be several motives behind a secret US special ops venture to burn the Kuwaiti oil fields. To further slam Saddam---blaming the disaster on him. To create the appearance of an oil shortage. To keep certain recalcitrant leaders in Kuwait in line---“see what we can do if you try to dump ‘US support?’”

2/25/03 Afghan pipeline project to continue despite tragedy

2/25/03 Zionists introduced terrorism: Mahathir

2/25/03 China dismisses latest draft resolution on Iraq Does that mean we have to boycott Chinese food now?

2/25/03 When Sharon Says Jump, Bush Asks 'How High?' "I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it." -- Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.

2/24/2003

2/24/03 CBS: Hussein Will Not Destroy Missiles With the US and UK ready to invade, and already bombing the bejeessus out of Iraq every day, Saddam would be an idiot to destroy those missiles.

2/24/03 Suspected Israeli spy gets security clearance back. "Hey, no problem, those secret files are still waiting on your desk!"

2/24/03 Russia: Latest U.N. resolution will fail

Presque Isle, Maine Peace Rally Speech
Before 150 Aroostook county residents from around the County February 15, 2003 - St. Mary’s Church

by XXXXXXXXXXXXXX  (12 year old girl)

When people think about bombing Iraq, they see a picture in their heads of Saddam Hussein in a military uniform, or maybe soldiers with big black mustaches carrying guns, or the mosaic of George Bush Sr. on the lobby floor of the Al-Rashid Hotel with the word “criminal”. But guess what? More than half of Iraq’s 24 million people are children under the age of 15. That’s 12 million kids. Kids like me. Well, I’m almost 13, so some are a little older, and some a lot younger, some boys instead of girls, some with brown hair, not red. But kids who are pretty much like me just the same. So take a look at me—a good long look. Because I am what you should see in your head when you think about bombing Iraq. I am what you are going to destroy.

If I am lucky, I will be killed instantly, like the three hundred children murdered by your “smart” bombs in a Baghdad bomb shelter on February 16, 1991. The blast caused a fire so intense that it flash-burned outlines of those children and their mothers on the walls; you can still peel strips of blackened skin—souvenirs of your victory—from the stones.

But maybe I won’t be lucky and I’ll die slowly, like 14-year-old Ali Faisal, who right now is on the “death ward” of the Baghdad children’s hospital. He has malignant lymphoma—cancer—caused by the depleted uranium in your Gulf War missiles. Or maybe I will die painfully and needlessly like18-month-old Mustafa, whose vital organs are being devoured by sand fly parasites. I know it’s hard to believe, but Mustafa could be totally cured with just $25 worth of medicine, but there is none of this medicine because of your sanctions.

Or maybe I won’t die at all but will live for years with the psychological damage that you can’t see from the outside, like Salman Mohammed, who even now can’t forget the terror he lived through with his little sisters when you bombed Iraq in 1991. Salman’s father made the whole family sleep in the same room so that they would all survive together, or die together. He still has nightmares about the air raid sirens.

Or maybe I will be orphaned like Ali, who was three when you killed his father in the Gulf War. Ali scraped at the dirt covering his father’s grave every day for three years calling out to him, “It’s all right Daddy, you can come out now, the men who put you here have gone away.” Well, Ali, you’re wrong. It looks like those men are coming back.

Or I maybe I will make it in one piece, like Luay Majed, who remembers that the Gulf War meant he didn’t have to go to school and could stay up as late as he wanted. But today, with no education, he tries to live by selling newspapers on the street.

Imagine that these are your children—or nieces or nephews or neighbors. Imagine your son screaming from the agony of a severed limb, but you can’t do anything to ease the pain or comfort him. Imagine your daughter crying out from under the rubble of a collapsed building, but you can’t get to her. Imagine your children wandering the streets, hungry and alone, after having watched you die before their eyes.

This is not an adventure movie or a fantasy or a video game. This is reality for children in Iraq. Recently, an international group of researchers went to Iraq to find out how children there are being affected by the possibility of war. Half the children they talked to said they saw no point in living any more. Even really young kids knew about war and worried about it. One 5-year-old, Assem, described it as “guns and bombs and the air will be cold and hot and we will burn very much.” Ten-year-old Aesar had a message for President Bush: he wanted him to know that “A lot of Iraqi children will die. You will see it on TV and then you will regret.”

Back in elementary school I was taught to solve problems with other kids not by hitting or name-calling, but by talking and using “I” messages. The idea of an “I” message was to make the other person understand how bad his or her actions made you feel, so that the person would sympathize with you and stop it. Now I am going to give you an “I” message. Only it’s going to be a “We” message. “We” as in all the children in Iraq who are waiting helplessly for something bad to happen. “We” as in the children of the world who don’t make any of the decisions but have to suffer all the consequences. “We” as in those whose voices are too small and too far away to be heard.

We feel scared when we don’t know if we’ll live another day.

We feel angry when people want to kill us or injure us or steal our future.

We feel sad because all we want is a mom and a dad who we know will be there the next day.

And, finally, we feel confused … because we don’t even know what we did wrong.

2/24/03 THE FACE OF THE ENEMY

2/24/03 And if you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you.

2/24/03 Perpetual Death From America

2/24/03 A threat on eve of U.N. vote Senior U.S. officials have been quietly dispatched in recent days to the capitals of key Security Council countries where they are warning leaders to vote with the United States on Iraq or risk "paying a heavy price."

2/24/03 Sex Trade Flourishing In The Holy Land

2/24/03 Tommy Chong raided!

2/24/03 Tommy Chong's company (Just in case you were curious what he did between movies with Cheech)

2/24/03 Cheech and Chong doing a new movie. I wonder if this is why the DoJ decided to raid Tom at this particular time. C&C have always had an anti-war stance to their humor.

2/24/03 MARCH 5TH OAHU PROTEST FLYER!!!

2/24/03 Wife to Alleged Jewish Terrorist To Testify Against Husband in Islamic School Bomb Plot This doesn't get the coverage the Palestinian professor's arrests did.

2/24/03 I am an orthodox Jew who is opposed to Zionism. Just a reminder that Israel does NOT speak for all Jewish people.

2/24/03 More NASA internal emails show concern about Columbia launch impact. Even the lightweight ET foam would have hit the wing with a force equal to a 500 pound weight moving at 75 MPH.

2/24/03 Denver City Council To Consider Anti-War Resolution

2/24/03 'Pledge of Allegiance Bill' Introduced In California

2/24/03 All the gold in the WTC was recovered after all.

2/24/03 U.S. PRE-EMPTIVE NUCLEAR STRIKE PLAN - It Keeps Getting Scarier and Scarier

2/24/03 Canada moving away from U.S. on Iraq issue

2/24/03 U.N. Won't Compromise on Iraq's Missiles "The range limit means Iraq is permitted to have missiles that could reach neighboring Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria and Jordan - but not Israel."

2/24/03 IDF soldier finally goes on trial for killing Canadian youth over a package of cigarettes.

2/24/03 Bowling for Terrorists. Actually bowling AT terrorists

2/24/03 Israel asks more US aid to cover war cost

2/24/03 B-52s begin training runs over Gulf region Dress-rehearsal for murder.

2/24/03 American State Terrorism

2/24/03 Review of "Pearl Harbor: Story of the Secret War"

2/24/03 Judge throws out lawsuit demanding the President obey the Constitution.

2/24/03 West Leaders Pilloried As Killers, Fanatics

2/24/03 Computerized vote-counting machines are sweeping the country. But they can be hacked -- and right now there's no way to be sure they haven't been.

2/24/03 Subway plans hid Iraq weapons "They're in the palaces! No, wait, they're in Syria. No? Okay, they're on 'terror ships'. Not there either? Okay, the subway. Would you believe the subway!"

2/24/03 Fewer plan to pay off card debts "I owe my soul to the company store..."

2/24/03 Saddam Challenges Bush To Debate

2/24/03 The Botswana Government has denied that an increase in diamond prospecting in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve is anything to do with the forced removal of thousands of indigenous people from their ancestral land last year.

2/24/03 U.S. Considers Conventional Warheads on Nuclear Missiles Oh yeah, I believe there's a drop-in replacement for the W-88 MIRV warhead that only uses conventional explosives. Really. I do. Yes.

2/24/03 ''The USS Liberty: still covered up after 35 years''

2/24/03 The Trouble With Corporate Radio: The Day the Protest Music Died Time for Pirate radio to return!

2/24/03 Protest photos from around the world.

2/24/03 Monkey's escape may sink biodefense lab Opponents of proposed UC Davis facility go ape over security breach

"You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and you're deeper in debt.
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store!"

  In the early 1900's, one of the worst abuses of workers involved what was called the "company town". This was a town wholly owned by a mining company in a remote location. Workers were attracted to move there by the lure of high wages. However, once there, they discovered that the cost of living was even higher, kept there by the "...company store", the only source for the necessities of life. The company was free to hand out high wages, knowing they would take that same money back in as profits at the company store. No matter how hard the workers tried, they could never make enough money to live on and would be in debt to the company store. As long as they were in debt, the company could legally prevent the workers from leaving. It was a form of corporate slavery, concealed in a bookkeeping trick. 

  The abuses of the company towns led eventually to the formation of labor unions, and threatened at one point to spark a communist revolution in the United States. The threat of such a revolution caused corporations to adopt more humane attitudes towards their workers. As word spread of what a trap the company towns could be spread through folk songs similar to the one quoted above, workers simply refused to sign up, and the company towns faded into history. 

  I have received a lot of email regarding the article "The United States Government is Dying". Most of it has been positive. The negative email always seems to point out the standard of living Americans have, usually defined in terms of the possessions we own. But for the most part we don't own those things we display to others for their esteem and admiration. The vast majority of Americans are deeply in debt for the items they buy, TV sets, cars, recreational vehicles, vacations, even supermarkets have credit card machines to purchase food with. Using credit for the basic necessities of life has become so ubiquitous that it is almost invisible. 

  The debt-based economy has turned the entire nation into a "...company town". Americans are living on borrowing, and when the economy slows down, the repayment of those loans becomes a trap. Eventually, the lenders acquire those few things Americans own that actually have any worth, namely their homes. And it is worth reminding to those readers who claim that our nation is still doing well that private ownership of homes has been in decline for quite some time. Whereas home ownership was the reality for most of our parents and grandparents, a far larger percentage of Americans are now renting. Americans are working their lives out, and at the end, they have little but a few status-icons to show for it. Our rear ends are well decorated with designer jeans, but if you think about it, blue jeans are pretty much what the workers  in those older company towns wore into the mines every day. Is there any difference between the blue jeans you wear, made expensive with a designer label, and their blue jeans, made expensive by the company store? Is it not really the same trap at work?

  During the "boom times" of the 90s, the media assured us that the economy was doing wonderfully, that the good times would roll on forever. In reality, 80% of the population suffered a decline in living standards, and to make up for it, they bought on credit, assured that eventually there would be money to pay for it all. Then the crash happened. People are losing their homes, their retirements, their businesses, all those things they had worked for that had real worth, lost to that "company store" called the debt-based economy. 

  The trap is that the US Government has been running itself pretty much the same way. Never able to balance its books the US Government just keeps borrowing and borrowing to make ends meet. The people get stuck with the bills. The interest alone now exceeds all the income tax paid by all the US citizens. You're not supposed to notice, of course, since taxed into near poverty you too are living on your credit cards. And never mind that the government borrows so much money that it drives interest rates up, making the money you do have to borrow more costly to repay. 

  So for those who claim that an economy based on debts rather than on worth is a good thing, it usually is from the point of view of the bank which gets to print up those debt notes at whim and then lend them out at full value. But for the people, who are as trapped into paying the interest on all those debt notes spent, the nation has been turned into one gigantic "company town", where prices are always kept just a hair above wages, where the people are kept in perpetual debt, so that no matter how hard they work, the vast majority of Americans can never buy their soul back from that company store.

2/24/03 Saddam Hussein's son-in-law says torture common in Iraq Just like in Camp X-ray!

2/24/03 Sci-Fi in DC A senior Iraqi nuclear scientist accuses the US and Britain of waging a "misinformation campaign" about his country's nuclear programme

2/24/03 U.S. assertions go beyond its intelligence That's a polite way to say that Bush is just making it up as he goes along.

2/24/03 A Universal No to the War of Fear

2/24/03 US Released al-Qaeda Terrorists To Pakistan You can't have a war on terror unless you make sure there are plenty of terrorists about!

2/24/03 Three nuns accused of missile-site raid

2/24/03 Are You an Anti-American Lone Extremist? The "" individual extremists perpetuating acts of anti-American violence in the United States" sounds a lot like agents provocateurs working for the US Government to cause trouble that can be blamed on the peace movement.

2/24/03 Hey, we gotta keep the suckers, I mean the taxpayers, afraid, right? The real terrorists are the mainstream media.

2/24/03 WAR PARTY STUMBLES - Their propaganda campaign is pathetic

"Sure, you can TRUST the Gov't. Ask any Indian."

2/24/03 Russia: 2nd resolution will fail It's already failed. Bush is too stupid to realize it.

2/24/03 The new American gulag: Hastert & Delay tighten control of the House House Speaker Dennis J. Hastert & Majority Leader Tom DeLay, saying they are fed up with independent thinking from members of their party, have turned the Republican side of the chamber into what some colleagues call "the new American gulag." "The speaker and his majority leader are making it clear: It’s their way or the highway," says on GOP House staff member. "You either join in lockstep with the leadership or you’re out of it. To drive home their point, Hastert and DeLay have dumped the traditional seniority system of the House, bypassing longtime elected officials to award committee chairmanships and other plum posts to party loyalists.

2/24/03 Losing battle to prepare the babies for war

2/24/03 Judge orders NYC to release Sept. 11 records

2/24/03 Americans were duped before; it could be happening again

2/24/03 New GoOFF website launches!

2/24/03 "Turkey's motivations for supporting a U.S.-led war in Iraq"

2/24/03 Documentary exposes US aggression in Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan: 21st Century Wars: Unseen wars by Sorius Samura for Britain’s Channel 4

2/24/03 Sept. 11 Research Limits Draw Fire

2/24/03 Perle Warns : UN Veto Will Not Stop US Attack On Iraq, Syria Could Be Second Target I guess Perle didn't get Sharon's memo yet confirming the target list.

2/24/03 Malaysian Prime Minister: War a pretext to dominate world

2/24/03 House Bill 253 - Authorizes Governor of New Mexico to impose curfews and seizure of all firearms in the event of an emergency. Somebody worried about an armed revolt?

2/24/03 Plane crash kills Afghan minister Lot of plane crashes these days... This one is blamed on low visibility, in broad daylight, over the ocean, in clear weather.

2/24/03 Big Brother US driven by 'fanatic fundamentalism': Iran When Iran thinks the US are religious fanatics....

2/24/03 Looks like CBS pulled a fast one at the Grammies Hey, National Geographic channel is more fun anyway.

2/24/03 Baghdad Snapshot Action

2/24/03 Homeless man hit with $6 million tax bill

2/24/03 Promotion for Scottish brigadier in Ulster murder probe rules out threat of prosecution The families of victims murdered through security force collusion with loyalist terror gangs have savaged the decision to relocate Kerr to the Gulf, saying that it proves he is protected by the state and will never face prosecution.

2/24/03 War protesters close fuel stations This sort of action can be used to make the peace movement look bad.

2/24/03 Australia balks at US plans for a postwar Iraq

2/24/03 BATTLE RAGES OVER ANTI-WAR TV COMMERCIALS

2/24/03 Bush Faces Increasingly Poor Image Overseas And here.

2/24/03 STARS' OVATION FOR ANTI-WAR MESSAGE

2/24/03 Bloody babies protest bid to halt US Iraq plans

2/24/03 Newsweek reporting that Iraq destroyed its WMDs in 1995

2/24/03 New Resolution to Say Iraq in Violation

2/24/03 Over 1 Million Iraqi Children Might Die in War - Secret UN Document

2/24/03 Moroccans protest against likely US-led Iraq war

2/24/03 TOTALITARIANISM FOR DUMMIES

2/24/03 The Hidden Wars of Desert Storm

2/24/03 'Horrendous': Nobel economist George Akerlof criticizes Bush administration's economic stimulus package " The additional debt repayment burden means that the current estimates of the government deficits are far too conservative. They have to be multiplied by a very large factor. Say the government has approximately $5 trillion worth of debt. Higher interest rates resulting from that very deficit will massively increase the repayment on that debt."

2/24/03 Protestors plan to block arms trains.

2/24/03 Silenced in court This is very dangerous. If abuses of the court system can no longer be reported in the press, the abuses will increase!

2/24/03 And So The Tax Shell Game Begins...

2/24/03 West: Bush's war plan 'absolute disaster'

2/24/03 Ellsberg: US may declare "human shields" to be "enemy combatants".

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