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November 22, 2003
United States has dropped its demand for the U.N. nuclear agency to declare Iran in violation of a global nuclear treaty.
Evil flourishes because good people do nothing. - M. R.
Normally, I would expect the FBI to be chasing terrorists, murderers, hackers, and so forth, that being the job we the taxpayers pay them to do. But instead of chasing terrorists, murderers, hackers, and so forth, the FBI is spying on the anti-war activists. And, based on prior history during the Vietnam era, the FBI is not likely to confine their activities to merely watching. - M. R.
Just imagine - M. R.
It's fortunate for George W. Bush he has a mess on his hands in Iraq; otherwise, he might have to worry about a significant cover-up coming undone.
Not all the Warren Commissioners agreed with the "Magic Bullet" theory. - M. R.
Truth does not need editing, Gerald. - M. R.
The FBI used murderers as informants in Boston for three decades, even allowing innocent men to be sentenced to death to protect the secret operation, a government report has found.
There have been two official investigations. One concluded Oswald acted alone, the other that there was a conspiracy. After forty years, many of the key documents which could tell the whole story remain classified. Why, if it is an open and shut case? Why the secrecy, if Oswald was just a "crazed lone gunman"?
- M. R.
An autopsy Friday revealed he was killed by a gunshot to the neck, the Harris County medical examiner's office said. No weapons were found in the home.
Gee, Iraq IS becoming Americanized!!! - M. R.
Sounds like Project Aurora is being revived. - M. R.
If rogue nations are to be brought into line by the US, shouldn’t Israel be punished for ignoring UN resolutions?
And, of course, Israel actually HAS weapons of mass destruction. - M. R.
Israel shares the blame
Israel shares the blame
The public starts to stand up to Israel's propaganda. - M. R.
California's electrnic voting machines will not be required to have a paper trail until 2006. - M. R.
It's being called "Plan C" for Iraq. Establish security by June or sooner and transfer authority to a provisional Iraqi government by July.
Israel and Zionist organisations are becoming increasingly dependent upon the charge of "anti- Semitism" as a political weapon.
There are reports that the DHL plane was indeed hit by a missile. - M. R.
Israel has really begun to wear this gambit out. The scam is that since Israel never does anything wrong, the ONLY reason anyone could ever criticize Israel is because the critic just hates Jews. Like a spoiled child that has grown up without ever being punished for bad behavior, Israel reacts to criticism by throwing a tantrum and screaming, "You don't LOVE me! Frankly, the world is tired of hearing about it. - M. R.
Hundreds of eyewitnesses reported seeing a missile rise up and kill TWA 800. The government says the witnesses were mistaken and that TWA 800, after having the nose blown off by the still-unexplained center tank explosion, was climbing thousands of feet. But the government refuses to explain the science behind that claim. Now, the case goes to court. At issue; whether the government is legally required to support public claims with factual evidence. More on TWA 800 including why the same explosion that tore off the nose would have collapsed the wings, leaving TWA 800 unable to fly, let alone climb) is at http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/CRASH/TWA/twa.html - M. R.
This story is getting a LOT of play. But many uniforms don't have to be stolen, they can be bought. - M. R.
In another stupid move, the US puppet regime in Iraq may cancel a major oil contract with Russia.
The reason this is stupid is because prior to the war, the US assured Russia that their oil contracts would be honored, in order to persuade Russia not to intervene in Iraq. Russia is not only feeling double-crossed and that it cannot trust the US (who can?) but now sees a strategic threat to their own energy supply. - M. R.
US proves that Iraq contracts are favors to "friends". - M. R.
That guy writing you a speeding ticket may be a terrorist! - M. R.
November 21, 2003
Jennings carefully ignored the head-shot issue until almost the very end of the program, then dealt with it in the context of a lengthy debunking of the Oliver Stone film, "JFK." Here is the entirety of Jennings' explanation: "A bullet can throw a body in any direction." That's it. I kid you not.
JFK tried to pull the nation out of the grip of the Federal Reserve. His orders were simply ignored following his assassination.
- M. R.
Greens Relay Eyewitness Accounts of Miami Police Violence Against Peaceful Protesters and Violations of Legal Rights.
Israel is always telling OTHER people to get tough with Israel's enemies. - M. R.
The Intelligence Report Bush claimed supported his concerns about Iraq did not in fact do so. Bush LIED to the people of the United States and the US Congress when he initiated his war. Read your Constitution; the US Government is not authorized to lie to the people. When the government lies, it acts unconstitutionally and illegally. A government that lies to the people loses the moral right to rule, and indeed ceases to be the legal government of the nation.
- M. R.
Given Tommy Franks' comments about suspending the Constitution after the next big terror attack, this does not seem so ar-fetched. - M. R.
In an extraordinary move, four former leaders of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security force, gave a joint interview to Israel’s leading daily, Yedioth Aharanoth, criticising Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s suppression of the Palestinians.
After their indiscreet celebration on the roof of the building, the five Israelis headed down to a nearby parking lot where they mounted the roof of their truck and resumed their photographing and celebrating. Another witness called the police and told them that the men were smiling, dancing, and giving each other high-fives while viewing the destruction of the symbol of Free Enterprise in America.
It's our corporate ethics, rotting from the top down
Nice web presentation showcasing the best of the Hubble achievements, set to music. - M. R.
Are those creepy prescription-drug commercials on TV trying to kill you?
Although the "conquest" of Iraq has unraveled into murderous chaos, at least the Bush Regime is winning its ferocious battle against another dangerous foe: American soldiers who were captured -- and tortured -- by Saddam Hussein's forces in the first Gulf War.
I am not stupid, I know the reality of what happened and I know that war is sometimes necessary. But this is wrong.
It's these men, Bush and Blair, that are causing terrible problems for the world.
CNN had said they would not even bother covering the event, as the extent of opposition to Bush and the US occupation of Iraq had been exaggerated.
If it takes persian carpets, gold fixtures, sleeper seats, and surround sound to be productive – why don't they provide these for all workers?
Proving that money does indeed make the world go around, two Israeli nationals were arrested by Ocean City police early this week for allegedly spending counterfeit $100 bills at resort businesses.
Police believe the men, Guy Halperin and Oren Sabag, both 30, were laundering the ‘funny money’ for someone in Israel or the Russian mob and taking a cut of the proceeds for themselves.
Only because the governments they work for made them that way. - M. R.
Do the firebrands work for British Intelligence? - M. R.
David Kelly, giving evidence to the prime minister's intelligence and security committee in closed session on July 16 - the day before his suicide - made a comment the significance of which has so far been missed. He said: "Within the defence intelligence services I liaise with the Rockingham cell." Unfortunately nobody on the committee followed up this lead, which is a pity because the Rockingham reference may turn out to be very important indeed.
Turns out the Palestinians were telling the truth after all. - M. R.
Prediction or Warning? - M. R.
THE CHECK BOUNCED!!! - M. R.
Defense sources believe that the continued terror
in Turkey will not harm cooperation between that
country and Israel, but may lead to even closer
ties between them due to Israel's abundant
experience in foiling terrorism.
Translation: "Osama is already dead, nobody can make a fake tape of him anyone will believe, so now the US had to figure out a war to keep the war going without him." - M. R.
The choice is simple. Fight against the warhawks now, or your children will fight for the warhawks from now on. - M. R.
Even as its occupation of Iraq plunges further into disarray, the Bush administration is stepping up its drive for similar “regime change” in neighbouring oil-rich Iran. Ever since President Bush named Iran, along with Iraq and North Korea, as an “axis of evil” in his January 2002 State of the Union address, the White House has maintained a barrage of allegations and threats against the Iranian regime, repeatedly accusing it of conducting a secret nuclear weapons program.
As with the synagogue bombings, most of the victims were Muslim Turks
I wonder just who one arrests in a "suicide" bombing. - M. R.
The Yukos Oil Scandal links to Carlyle. - M. R.
Formal efforts are now underway to impeach President Bush over allegations that a pre-emptive strike against Iraq constitutes "high crimes and misdemeanors," Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, reported today.
And if Congress fails to deal with the treason, then it will have to be the responsability of We The People to clean up this mess. - M. R.
It's that part where he chuckles and rubs his hands together with glee that worries me. - M. R.
Well, I can tell you I saw enough of Jacko, but when it came to the bombing of the British Consulate in Turkey or the suicide bombing in Kirkuk or the demonstrators in London, if you blinked you missed it.
November 20, 2003
Organizers say 350,000 showed up. Even the police are admitting it was more than their original estimate of just 20,000. - M. R.
Yep, the next fake terror attack is about to happen. - M. R.
Somehow, the Iranian victims just sort of fell off of the US mainstream media reports. - M. R.
War, corruption, scandal, plummeting support for the war, staged terror attacks, and what does the media focus on? Michael Jackson. - M. R.
Sharon and his thugs would like you to think that they do, but they don't. - M. R.
The "anarchist" materials sound like props from a very cheap movie.
- M. R.
President George Bush blindsided the Pentagon in London Thursday, saying if more troops were needed in Iraq, they would be sent.
That contradicted earlier Pentagon statements claiming the goal was to reduce troop strength, and reportedly startled both National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell at the news conference.
I'll bet she misses the good old days when she could just send them to the tower! - M. R.
CIA to combat terrorism with Bin Laden video game
CIA to combat terrorism with Bin Laden video game
They don't need a video game to learn how Osama thinks. They trained him, after all. - M. R.
... or 30,000, if you believe the government.
- M. R.
Hmm, Israel defying the UN. Isn't that what we destroyed Iraq for? No, wait, it was for having WMDs, which as it turns out, they didn't, but Israel does. Oh, that's right, we destroyed Iraq because they were killing ethnic minorities in large numbe.... wait, that's Israel too! I smell a double standard here. - M. R.
"Advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool."
The occupying power is terming the Iraqi resistance forces as terrorists, but these resistance forces obviously see the American forces as terrorists on their soil. Indeed, in several open interviews by the BBC and CNN, ordinary Iraqis openly asked American forces to leave Iraq immediately.
A former Halliburton Company employee says even though he thought it was illegal—he helped complete the sale of mini-warheads to a Canadian explosives expert.
Why would real Muslims attack Great Britain? The British people are ready to tar and feather both Bush and Blair. A terror attack would only HELP Blair, and by extension, Bush. No real Muslim is going to do such a stupid thing. But a FAKE terror attack, framing Muslims (like the Anthrax letters) is a real possibility, because it gets Blair and Bush what they want, an angry population ready to go to war. - M. R.
Protesters, Police Clash At Miami FTAA Talks
Protesters, Police Clash At Miami FTAA Talks
Goodbye Mr./Ms. Hacker. Nobody will miss you. - M. R.
I know, it's Free Republic, but check the date. This was posted back when Free Republic was still free. - M. R.
It is increasingly evident that U.S. Army commanders in Iraq know nothing about guerilla warfare. Over and over, they are ordering actions that are counterproductive.
Show up and help make a great crowd for the photos!
- M. R.
The Defense Dept. memo allegedly proving a link between Al Qaeda and Saddam does nothing of the sort
A leaked Defense Department memo claiming new evidence of an “operational relationship” between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein’s former regime is mostly based on unverified claims that were first advanced by some top Bush administration officials more than a year ago—and were largely discounted at the time by the U.S. intelligence community, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials.
Iran built a nuclear reactor to generate electricity. Bush wants to claim that this is a weapons plant. But the two are not the same. - M. R.
Now admit it, isn't this better than that dumb "Aviator" doll? - M. R.
Actually, it's more like a rental deal. - M. R.
American policymakers are studying an unprecedented and bleak assessment of the deteriorating military situation in Iraq which contradicts many claims made by the Bush Administration.
It must be rough pissing off the rest of the world, then having a panic attack every time a leaf blows against the windows. - M. R.
The United States charges that Iran is secretly trying to develop nuclear weaopns. It wants the IAEA to declare Tehran in non-compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which would bring the issue before the United Nations Security Council, which could impose sanctions.
Smith, an accountant from Little Silver whose husband was killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, said she has reservations about the U.S. presence in Iraq, including doubts about that country's link to terrorism.
George Bush looked bored as the Queen showed him round American memorabilia in Buckingham Palace's picture gallery yesterday at the formal start of his visit to Britain.
He passed quickly from the prints of American wildlife to Queen Victoria's diary of watching Buffalo Bill's "Cow Boy" show. He barely glanced at the Rembrandt. Tiring of the exhibits, he looked briefly at the ceiling and headed out.
Better ask the Native Americans how well the US government manages other people's money.
- M. R.
Your memories of JFK
Your memories of JFK
"I was born about 10 years after his death. I feel it is about time that we are given the right to know the real truth behind his assassination once and for all."
It's not what you think. The Resolutioion actually passed was "softened" and Israel will only "allow" the United States to decide how the map is to be implimented. This means that the illegal settlements, originally a mandatory requirement of the roadmap, will probably now remain in place, as will the wall. In short, the resolution may have passed, but has effectively been de-fanged. - M. R.
A US lieutenant colonel went before a military hearing in Iraq yesterday charged with beating an Iraqi detainee and staging a mock execution to scare information out of him.
A 22-year-old female soldier who died last spring after getting multiple vaccines, including the one against smallpox, succumbed to an immune system disease apparently triggered by the immunizations.
The silence of the 41-gun salute and US national anthem at Buckingham Palace was broken by protester Joe Gittens who shouted anti-war songs which branded Tony Blair as a "poodle".
Making sure the kiddies don't leave school to protest the men who want to send them off to get killed. - M. R.
This has become typical of life in the US. A Canadian was jailed on terror charges and kept in jail until after his Visa had expired. Then, he was acquitted on the terror charge but kept in jail anyway because he was in the country without a current vias! - M. R.
During the days of Watergate and later the Iran-contra affair, if you wanted to know what was really going on, the mantra was, follow the money. Well it should come as no surprise that nothing has changed.
Bush in Britain
Bush in Britain
A map of where Bush is going to be. - M. R.
"Was confected" is yet another euphemism for "lie". - M. R.
Congressman Barney Frank will call for “the resignation of Paul Wolfowitz as Deputy Secretary of Defense, because of his outrageous effort to undermine democracy in Turkey.”
Doug Feith's article failed to reignote the wars and may have actually done more damage to the hawks. - M. R.
In her remarks honoring Mr. Bush at the state dinner last night, Queen Elizabeth unleashed a barrage of favorable references to the most dreaded words in the Bush-Cheney lexicon: "multilateral order," "trans-Atlantic partnership," "other allies" and "effective international institutions."
Admin supporters tout end to Saddam's mass graves but Saddam did not kill at this rate. Even if Saddam killed 300,000 as estimated by some that was 36 a month. Deaths now are 55 a month. Some savings.
Perle admits US acted outside international law, claims world opposition and "need" to get Saddam left no choice. Nice try Dick, but you are still a war criminal. - M. R.
And just in time for Bush and Blair to use in their speeches! And the only "Al Qaeda that would bomb the Muslims of a nation that REFUSED to allow the US to use their lands to invade Iraq from is the "Palestinian Al Qaeda". - M. R.
November 19, 2003
The financial scandal engulfing Lord Black's newspaper empire deepened yesterday after the US financial watchdog served subpoenas on Hollinger International.
New York taxpayers will wind up picking up the tab for the beef-up security measures provided for Vice President Dick Cheney's campaign swing across upstate New York.
Cash Strapped Buffalo Pays Through the Nose - Expressways Closed at Rush Hour - All So Dick Cheney Can Add to the War Chest That Already Exceeds 2000.
The NTSB claimed that the eyewitnesses who reported seeing a missile rise up and hit TWA 800 had actually the 747 executing a zoom climb after an explosion in the center wing tank blew the nose off. The NTSB refuses to explain just how that theory was arrived at, despite a FOIA lawsuit. Now the case goes to court. - M. R.
The official story of TWA 800 is that an explosion of unknown origin in the center wing tank blew the nose off of the 747, which then climbed thousands of feet up, confusing the hundreds of people on shore who thought they had seen a missile rise up from an ongoing US Navy anti-missile system test and kill the passenger jet. There is only one problem with that story. The part the government says blew up first is the part that holds the wings on the plane. - M. R.
The intention is to mobilise people to disrupt publicity shots by gatecrashing photographs and other stage-managed media operations.
"We are trying to spoil the PR, so we are not doing anything directly, but encouraging people to protest by turning their backs in press photos so they can't be used," campaign co-organiser Mr Richard Wild explained.
Maybe, just maybe, the Iraqi people don't want the US there. - M. R.
In New York, police and fire officials were carrying out the first wave of evacuations when the first of the World Trade Centre towers collapsed. Some eyewitnesses reported hearing another explosion just before the structure crumbled. Police said that it looked almost like a "planned implosion" designed to catch bystanders watching from the street.
Ariel Sharon has sacrificed modern Israel on the altar of "Eretz Israel". Instead of a safe homeland for the Jewish people, Israel's policies have created a land more and more Jewish people no longer want to call home. - M. R.
Applications marketed as corporate security and parental control devices being used as illegal gateways to personal computers and corporate networks.
Relatively benign attacks intended to win attention by disrupting networks are being eclipsed by sophisticated attempts to steal passwords and other confidential information that can be used to deliver cash.
"The good old days of script kiddies and geeks are well gone," said Pete Simpson, manager of Clearswift's ThreatLab division. "These are criminal gangs, and the motive is clearly profit."
What planet did we all wake up on? - M. R.
Normally I don't plug books, because then feelings get hurt when you cannot plug them all. However, given the unique history of THIS book, I felt a plug is justified. Verso Books had a contract with Justin Raimondo for this book, then canceled without warning with the explanation that there was no "primary source" for the claim that Israeli spies were connected to the events of 9-11. Apparently, the official DEA report on the spies is not considered a primary source. Be that as it may, Justin has found a new publisher for the book. - M. R.
"Can you imagine? An animal of more than 10 meters was unknown to us even in the 21st century," said Tadasu Yamada of Tokyo's National Science Museum, the senior author of the study that appears in this week's issue of the journal Nature.
All those other pipelines keep getting blown up! What to do? Well, there's a pipline running right to Israel we can use! How wonderful!!! - M. R.
Only government stooges accept the Warren Commission version of fantasy land. As the population ages, with a majority having no direct recollection of that fateful day in Dallas, we are left with interpretive history. The facts are less important than the reality of what transpired over the last four decades.
This year's flu season could be brutal, and a new strain going around may not be covered by this year's vaccine.
World War III Has Already Started
World War III Has Already Started
Bush got suckered. - M. R.
Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11, by Chaim Kupferberg
There's Something About Omar:
Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11
A former London schoolboy by the name of Omar Saeed Sheikh was first exposed as the 9/11 paymaster, acting under the authority of a Pakistani general who was in Washington D.C. on September 11, meeting with the very two lawmakers who would subsequently preside over the "official" 9/11 congressional inquiry.
Limbaugh made between 30 and 40 cash withdrawals from his account at U.S. Trust in amounts just under $10,000, ABC News quoted law enforcement officials as saying.
But Doug Feith is still out there pushing his memo to justify the war. - M. R.
U.S. less sure about illicit weapons
U.S. less sure about illicit weapons
"Well gee, is our face RED!" - M. R.
Where Israel messed up is that instead of running the purported "security" wall along the border, they wound it deep into Palestinian lands, effectively annexing huge portions of land, including agricultural lands into Israel proper. This proved to the world that the wall wasn't about security, but was another attempt to shift the borders one more time and grab just a little bit more land. - M. R.
President Bush said Wednesday that war was a justifiable tool to ward off aggression and that the United Nations must be willing to enforce its demands to remain relevant.
Okay to bomb people who have done nothing wrong to deter them from bombing people who have done nothing wrong. - M. R.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me! Hey, don't take my word for it, listen to the President. - M. R.
While the White House's foreign policy has no shortage of critics, their points of view aren't included in U.S. News's report. Even when the magazine alludes to Bush's opponents, it does so in terms flattering to him.
And by definition, those who favor war are willing to do things those opposed to war are not, including things that kill people. So, get ready for a big bang to derail any chance at peace. - M. R.
Billions for bombs. Billions for Halliburton. Billions for Israel. Nothing for our kids except a rifle. - M. R.
"If, as we are told, Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security?"—Bertrand Russell
If Oswald was the "Lone Assassin" of JFK, why do so many documents about the case remain classified after 40 years? More about the JFK assassination HERE - M. R.
In August 2002, on instructions from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the folks from Feith’s shop went out to Langley to brief the CIA on what they’d come up with. And the professional analysts at CIA (and subsequently those in other branches of the intelligence community) didn’t think their work passed the laugh-test.
Doug Feith's memo falls flat on its face. - M. R.
Protesters in Trafalgar Square have dyed the water in the fountains red to demonstrate their anger over President George Bush's state visit to Britain.
A "Smattering"? Right. And Saddam has weapons of mass destruction that can be launched in 45 minutes. - M. R.
United States President George W Bush says French President Jacques Chirac won't be dropping by soon to his Texas ranch even if bilateral tensions over Iraq eventually melt away. Invitations to his beloved "Prairie Chapel" property are extended only to a handful of world leaders.
You're selling your house and your real estate agent claims that he's representing your interests. But he sells the property at less than fair value to a friend, who resells it at a substantial profit, on which the agent receives a kickback. You complain to the county attorney. But he gets big campaign contributions from the agent, so he pays no attention.
That, in essence, is the story of the growing mutual fund scandal. On any given day, the losses to each individual investor were small -- and that is why the scandal took so long to become visible.
Now, pay attention. The NTSB is saying that the pilots allowed the plane to slow down too much on the approach to the airport, stalling it out. Yet only a few paragraphs later, they claim that the plane "veered to the left" before crashing in the woods. Planes that stall don't veer. They plummet. If the Wellstone plane was veering, then it had lost attitude control, but there had to be lift on the wings. If you read the event by event description, it is clear that the aircraft was having control troubles, trouble with the landing gear, and trouble controlling airspeed. The NTSB's whitewash requires the entire flight crew to be totally incompetent in the exact same way at the exact same time. - M. R.
The more people pry into our communications, the more we will make our communications harder to pry into. Fighting crime makes a good excuse to limit encryption, but as the Seattle APEC scandal showed, law abiding business people have much to fear from profit-minded snoops! - M. R.
The British Broadcasting Corp., meanwhile, reported sharpshooters were posted on the roof of Buckingham Palace, where the Bushes are staying.
In Sedgefield, the northeastern English town Bush and Blair will visit on Friday, police used blowtorches to seal manholes and closed drains to secure the town.
As some people predicted even before it all started, America's war against Iraq proved so easy as to make one wonder why it had to be fought at all.
I have seen the light!!!!! - M. R.
... which the US as usual will veto, once again proving to the world that the US supports Israel's land-grab in Palestine. - M. R.
"Oh no no no, we never said 'two years', we said you have two ears. That was it. You just misunderstood us." - M. R.