January 12, 2008
US President George W. Bush promised Israel's opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu that the United States will join the Jewish state in a nuclear strike against Iran, Israel Radio reported today.
Well, I have a few thoughts on the obvious vote fraud which has taken place in New Hampshire. This is directed at everyone, but especially those of you who have been struggling for truth for years now.
To those of you who finally started to see what all of us "kooks" have been screaming about for years since you've discovered Ron Paul in the last year or so, who have seen the truth in what Ron Paul says about government corruption, and have then witnessed the blacklisting of this one honest politician amongst a heap of drooling sycophants who call themselves the "media:" welcome to our world... We have been trying to wake folks like you up and it's been very difficult. Not so much to get through to folks logically, but to get people to care about something.
Nothing has been announced, but Variety is reporting that the last two major studios backing HD DVD — NBC Universal and Paramount — are opening the door for a switch to Blu-ray. These studios have commitments to release some discs this year in HD DVD, but both have ended their exclusive commitment to that format, which is backed by a group led by Toshiba.
The physician, Steven J. Hatfill, has not been charged with a crime and maintains his innocence. Hatfill is suing the FBI, the Justice Department and a handful of present and former law enforcement officials. He alleges that the leaks were illegal, damaged his reputation and violated his right to privacy.
For the past three or four years, computer scientists have been tampering with voting machines to prove it can be done. And they say it's actually pretty easy.
"We tried hard to present him the situation as we see it," Amos Gilad, reserve general and political adviser to Defence Minister Ehud Barak, told Israel's public radio. "From a professional point of view the situation is clear: there is an Iranian nuclear threat," Gilad said. Translation: Israel wants the US to strike Iran militarily before Bush leaves office, putting our sons and daughters in harm's way (again) to neutralize what it believes is an existential threat to its existence. Perhaps this is about time to let Israel go after all those countries it believes threaten its existence... on their own. - M. R.
US admits Mideast peace deal hangs on fate of Gaza
US admits Mideast peace deal hangs on fate of Gaza
The US official, who declined to be named, said the fate of Bush's targeted peace deal by the end of this year depended on Abbas taking back control of the Gaza Strip. "I don't think in the long term that an agreement is going to work if Hamas continues to control Gaza," he said. The question here is,will it be Fatah or Israel that winds up taking over Gaza? - M. R.
A House of Representatives panel yesterday released a damning report about a Transportation Security Administration Web site built to address grievances from travelers errantly flagged by the government's no-fly list. It conlucded that cronyism and a lack of oversight exposed thousands of site visitors to identity theft.
A top Clinton adviser faces charges of aggravated driving while intoxicated after city police caught him speeding through Greeley Park a day before the state primary.
OOOPS!...
WARNING !!!...
Trying to derail the NH recounts. - M. R.
I don’t pretend to know whether the U.S. Navy’s version or the Iranian version of last Sunday’s incident in the Straits of Hormuz is more accurate or whether the two versions may not even be mutually exclusive, but I think there are two interesting points worth making — the first, regarding the reaction (or, more precisely the lack of one) by the familiar clutch of hawks to what was depicted as an major provocation by Iran; and the second, the possibility that the Navy and the Pentagon chose to dramatize the incident not so much to isolate and embarrass Iran as to enhance the chances for a new “incidents- at-sea” agreement that they have been pushing on the White House without success for many months now.
Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to U.S. ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a "battle at sea", new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no U.S. commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats.
After the past week, it seems more and more likely that Blu-ray will be the movie disc format of the future. But with the exception of the Playstation 3, current Blu-ray disc players were built without future-compatibility capabilities, so come this October owners won't be able to take advantage of features like Internet connectivity or enhanced interactivity (whatever that means—details are sketchy). "One key Blu-ray developer told BetaNews that although he builds discs for studios including Fox and Lionsgate, he did not buy a Blu-ray player for personal use." Regarding current Blu-ray player owners, Blu-ray developers told BetaNews, "They knew what they were getting into."
Where Paper Prevailed, Different Results...
Political pundits in the corporate media and citizen journalists in the Blogosphere alike are all asking the same question: What happened in New Hampshire?
It's pretty easy to see what happened in New Hampshire: We had an election in which 81% of our ballots were counted in secret by a private corporation, and this resulted in an outcome that is called into question.
That's what happened.
New Hampshire to Conduct Recount of Presidential Primary...
If they rigged the election, they will have to rig the recount, and only YOU can stop them. - M. R.
Fujita Yukihisa,DPJ, asked the question regarding the truth of 9.11 to the current Prime Minister Fukuda. With the panel,he explained the conspiracy theory and made the pants of prime minister sweaty because he was the Chief Cabinet Secretary under Koizumi cabinet in 2001. He pointed out the fact that the 7th tower collapsed even though air plane did not hit it and there was the suspect of insider dealing that people benefit by using the Put Option.
If the attack was not done by Al-Qaeda,then the Iraq war cannnot be justified, so the decision of sending the Japanese self-defense force to Iraq cannot be justified as well. Thefore, the self-defense force does not need to provide the oil to the American military in order to support the operation in Iraq. It is China and Japan buying the large share of American Treasury bond,so if China and Japan stop buying the bond, America cannnot finance the war in Iraq anymore whoever become the President after Bush. Hopefully, Ron Paul will become the President and bring peace to the world.
Fujita Yukihisa,DPJ, asked the question regarding the truth of 9.11 to the current Prime Minister Fukuda. With the panel,he explained the conspiracy theory and made the pants of prime minister sweaty because he was the Chief Cabinet Secretary under Koizumi cabinet in 2001. He pointed out the inconvinience facts showing the pannel. If the attack was not done by Al-Qaeda,then the Iraq war cannnot be justified, so the decision of sending the Japanese self-defense force to Iraq cannot be justified as well. Thefore, the self-defense force does not need to provide the oil to the American military in order to support the operation in Iraq. It is China and Japan buying the large share of American Treasury bond,so if China and Japan stop buying the bond, America cannnot finance the war in Iraq anymore whoever become the President after Bush. Hopefully, Ron Paul will become the President and bring peace to the world.
Fujita Yukihisa,DPJ,asked the question to the current prime minister Fukuda regarding the truth of 9.11. He was arguing whether Terrorism is crime or war. Some Japanese people were killed, so he believes this was a crime, so Japanese police should investigate the real suspect even though Japanese government assumed that the suspect was Al-Queda since Bush told Koizumi so and sent the self-defense force to Iraq. Can Japanese police arrest president Bush if he was one of the suspects?
One might think that given the experience with the USA PATRIOT Act and many other abuses of power, Congress would be leery about giving this president his biggest blank check yet to suspend the Constitution. But that would be naive. The new law was put in place in response to the debacle of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. There was no evidence that permitting a president far more power would avoid future debacles, but such a law provides a comfort blanket to politicians. The risk of tyranny is irrelevant compared with the reduction of risk of embarrassment to politicians. According to Washington, the correct response to Katrina is not to recognize the failure of relying on federal agencies a thousand miles away but rather to vastly increase the power of the president to dictate a solution, regardless of whether he knows what
he is doing and regardless of whether local and state rights are trampled.
Ex-Italian Prime Minister says 9/11 was carried out by CIA and Mossad...
Supporters of marijuana may finally have an excuse to smoke weed every day. A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggests that smoking pot can make the brain grow.
Though most drugs inhibit the growth of new brain cells, injections of a synthetic cannibinoid have had the opposite effect in mice in a study performed at the University of Saskatchewan. The mice are currently taking a degree in pure math. - M. R.
Precious metals sparkle as US dollar continues slide
Precious metals sparkle as US dollar continues slide
GOLD rose to a record and silver matched its highest level since 1980 as a weakening American dollar increased demand for alternative investments. The US dollar, meanwhile, was headed for a third weekly loss against the euro on speculation that benchmark borrowing costs in the United States would fall below those in Europe this month for the first time in more than three years.
In Israeli hallways yesterday, Bush was celebrated as the unwavering supporter of Israel's expansionist policies that he truly is, as he pressed ahead with a public relations campaign that began at Annapolis - talking future statehood for the Palestinians in theory, but backing occupation policies in practice - standing by as Olmert spoke of increasing settlements in illegally annexed Arab East Jerusalem. For the massive construction of Israeli settlements on expropriated Palestinian land over the last few years - illegal under international law and condemned by almost every country in the world - is only made possible by uncritical American financial, military and diplomatic support for Israel.
Hedy Epstein, is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor, born in 1924, whose parents were sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they perished. In 1948, Hedy Epstein went to live in United States. In 2003, she decided to make a trip to Palestine. Shocked by the oppression that the Israeli government is imposing on the Palestinians, she is, since then, devoting herself to make it known to the world.
The Central Intelligence Agency, backed by bodies including the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Defense Intelligence Agency, determined in August 1974 that Israel had nuclear "weapons in being," a "small number" of which it "produced and stockpiled."
Documents in the Nixon library confirm Israel had nuclear weapons in the 1960s, most of which were built using fissionable material stolen from the United States. - M. R.
The only US officer charged in Abu Graib scandal cleared of charges....
Rather, 75, says his employers made him a "scapegoat" to placate the White House after questions arose about a story on President Bush's Vietnam-era military service. His lawsuit seeks $20 million in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages.
Missing Marine’s burned bones believed found...
"Vote fraud? WHAT vote fraud?!? THIS is the important story! (And if it isn't, we still have O.J.)" -- ABCNNBBCBS - M. R.
A leading Saudi newspaper on Saturday ruled out any attempt by the United States to use the oil-rich Gulf kingdom as a launchpad for a possible war on Iran over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme. Two days before a visit to Saudi Arabia by US President George W. Bush, the pro-government daily Al-Riyadh said: "We refuse to be used to launch wars or tensions with Iran. Good! Let us hope that the governments of all the other Middle Eastern countries Bush is visiting are unanimous in this. - M. R.
“Burned Alive” is a best-selling memoir that recounts an Arab woman’s survival of an honor killing. It has been translated into numerous languages, is in school libraries, on university reading lists and recommended to anyone seeking the “truth” about Middle Eastern women’s life stories. Despite its wide circulation, “Burned Alive” has never been authenticated. Australian historian Thérèse Taylor describes how she came to doubt every word of it.
Celebrating the Age of Bush...
PayPal to begin giving the IRS PayPal users account information...
Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me
'cause I'm the taxman,
yeah, I'm the taxman
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'cause I'm the taxman,
yeah, I'm the taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet
Taxman
'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman
Don't ask me what I want it for (ha ha Mr. Wilson)
If you don't want to pay some more (ha ha Mr. Heath)
'cause I'm the taxman,
yeah, I'm the taxman
Now my advice for those who die
Declare the pennies on your eyes
'cause I'm the taxman,
yeah, I'm the taxman
And you're working for no one but me
The Tax Man -- The Beatles
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Tax his land,
Tax his wage,
Tax his bed in which he lays.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes is the rule.
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirts,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his booze,
Tax his beers,
If he cries,
Tax his tears.
Tax his bills,
Tax his gas,
Tax his notes,
Tax his cash.
Tax him good and let him know
That after taxes, he has no dough.
If he hollers,
Tax him more,
Tax him until he's good and sore.
Tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays.
Put these words upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me to my doom!'
And when he's gone,
We won't relax,
We'll still be after the inheritance TAX!!
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Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Perm it Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),
Liquor Tax,
Luxury Tax,
Marriage License Tax,
Medicare Tax,
Property Tax,
Real Estate Tax,
Service charge taxes,
Social Security Tax,
Road Usage Tax (Truckers),
Sales Taxes,
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
School Tax,
State Income Tax,
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),
Telephone Federal Excise Tax,
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax,
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,
Telephone State and Local Tax,
Telephone Usage Charge Tax,
Utility Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax,
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax,
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compensation Tax.
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What happened? Can you spell 'politicians!'
- M. R.
First of all, a recount will NOT result in an examination of the computer logs, etc. What is needed is a court order to confiscate/examine the machines and paper ballots, based on the discrepancy between the paper and machine ballot counts.
Try to find a judge willing to risk bringing down the political system that pays (and promotes) him/her.
Because if it were proven that the elections are rigged just once, it calls all of the elections in recent memory into doubt.
Americans suffer high taxes and the loss of their loved ones because they believe that the government remains under their control via the ballot box. They stay silent in the face of abusive government because of the myth that no matter what happens, somehow they voted for it.
If that illusion is ever shattered, if there is a crisis of faith, the whole system falls apart.
No politician, no government employee will dare risk it. That is why even Hillary's worst enemies will work to protect her theft of NH.
"When peaceful revolution becomes impossible, violent revolution becomes inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy - M. R.
Food is running short for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the impoverished Gaza Strip, and more aid is urgently needed to prevent a humanitarian crisis, the United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday. Some 302,000 people need food aid in Gaza, equivalent to nearly two-thirds of the population not including refugees, WFP spokeswoman Christiane Berthiaume told journalists. "The situation is getting worse by the day," she added. Nearly 70 percent of the 1.5 million people in Gaza live on less than $250 a month, while food accounts for 60 percent of household expenditure.
Israel attacks E. Gaza, destroys poultry farm...
"But, but, but....that poultry farm was harboring 'Chickens of Mass Destruction'! " - official Tel Aviv Souse. - M. R.
Greenspan's Reputation at Risk as Recession Odds Grow...
Maybe they were suicide bombers, with a boat-load of high-explosives, intent upon ramming and sinking the USS Port Royal, as they very nearly did the USS Cole [DDG-67], in 2000, while in port in Yemen. But wait a minute. If they're suicide bombers, why are they wearing life jackets?
It is impossible for the Palestinians, whose land is occupied and whose lives are totally controlled by the most powerful military state in the Middle East, to make any concessions. To make a concession, you have to have something. They have nothing. They have no power. They don't control their land, their borders, their access to the sea or the air, the water or even their movements within the territories. Thanks to the American vetoes, they don't even have any recourse in the U.N. The only party, then, that can make concessions is Israel, and Israel is not making any concessions, since it far prefers land to peace with an enemy that is virtually powerless. In future dictionaries, when the words "catastrophic failure" are stated, there will be a note stating "see: Bush Administration". This man, and the people around him, have been a catastrophic failure not only for this country, but the entire world. - M. R.
what if 9/11 was the 'mother of terrorist attacks', a climax of terrorism activities that appears to have started with the 1996 Khobar Towers Bombing [1]?
And what if the purpose of all of these was simply to drag USA into 'endless conflict' in both Afghanistan and Iraq? Strangely enough at NO POINT did ANY GROUP publicly admit responsibility for all these atrocities (even Bin Laden refused responsibility for 9/11 [2], which is quite strange if he wanted to drag USA into Afghanistan and Iraq).
Computer hackers may have been behind Hillary Clinton's dramatic win in the New Hampshire primary, it was claimed yesterday.
Almost three million people have been affected by the norovirus stomach bug so far this winter, figures suggest
One statistic the BBC doesn't seem anxious to share is that of how many have died fromthe latest outbreak of this disease to date. - M. R.
Since a tiger escaped its pen and killed a person, a snow leopard has ripped a small opening in its wire cage and workers have had to dart a polar bear to goad it into its night enclosure, San Francisco Zoo officials said Friday.
Remember the stories about strange animal behavior just before big earthquakes? - M. R.
A State Department official in Washington told reporters Friday that the only set deadline is the one North Korea failed to meet on December 31.
So what precisely is the US going to do now? - M. R.
"Because the plaintiffs are aliens and were located outside sovereign United States territory at the time their alleged RFRA claim arose, they do not fall with the definition of 'person,'" the court ruled. The law provides that the "government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion."
Apparently, there is a relatively new graduate course mandated for lawyers and jurists called "Tortured Logic 101". - M. R.
As a former victim of the Diebold scam, John Kerry seemes to have found a way to strike back after the obvious NH primary vote theft, by endorsing Obama.
Ol' ghosts emerging?
Princeton University Reveals How the GOP Steals Election...
It's not just the GOP. New Hampshire raises serious questions about the legitimacy of the Democratic voting process as well. - M. R.
The walk-through metal detecting gates installed at the venue of former premier Benazir Bhutto's last election rally in Rawalpindi had stopped working shortly before she was assassinated due to a power cut, a top police officer has said.
Many Asian American voters faced discrimination from voting officials during 2006 mid-term elections in the US, a civil rights group has alleged.
Neo-cons are not Republicans. Ron Paul is a Republican.
Is the Constitution no longer a part of the GOP platform? - M. R.
81 protesters arrested at Supreme Court
Police Arrest 81 Protesters in Guantanamo Protest at Supreme Court
Demonstrators wearing orange jump suits intended to simulate prison garb were arrested inside and outside the building in the early afternoon. "Shut it down," protesters chanted as others kneeled on the plaza in front of the court. They were charged with violating an ordinance that prohibits demonstrations of any kind on court grounds. Those arrested inside the building also were charged under a provision that makes it a crime to give "a harangue or oration" in the Supreme Court building. You just have to appreciate the irony here. Apparently, in front of that institution which allegedly exists to protect citizens under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, peaceful free speech has been banned. - M. R.
Northern parts of Saudi Arabia are covered with snow with schools, mosques and administrative bodies paralyzed, local media reported Friday.
"But, but, but, Al Gore said we were all gonna fry if we don't pay the government a carbon tax to save us from ourselves!!!!!" - M. R.
US: Iranian bombs rise in Iraq...
"Okay, the 'They have nookular bombs' ploy didn't work, the 'Gulf of Tonkin' gambit didn't work, mebbe this will get the American people to back my conquest of Iran." -- Official White Horse Souse
(Ahem)
Fact is, they already FOUND the factory that makes these things, and it was right in the middle of Baghdad. - M. R.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa will charge Jackie Selebi, chief of the South African Police Services (SAPS) and President of INTERPOL, with corruption and defeating the course of justice, a NPA spokesman said Friday.
According to Zuroff, the notion that Jewish identity is “locked into” the Holocaust and causes resentment, coupled with the statement that “Israel and the Jews are the biggest players” in a “culture of violence [that] is eventually going to destroy humanity,” clearly amount to anti-Semitism.
“My name is Maha Abu Shatat. I live in Rafah’s football stadium with my husband and eight children. Our home was destroyed by the Israeli army. We lived near the Egyptian border and along with hundreds of others we are now homeless because our houses were considered a security risk by the Israelis. The picture shows me and my five-year-old Mohammed.”
Now that Dubya has solved all of the problems facing the Israeli and Palestinian people, he can concentrate on solutions to the economic crisis facing the American people….
So ... the American people are in second place behind Israel as far as Dubya is concerned? - M. R.
To put this UTTERLY ILLOGICAL FRAUD in perspective, it’s like someone claiming that he could murder every single man, woman and child in Montana and magically not leave a single trace of his crime!
The DoD is flirting with the idea of medicating soldiers to desensitize them to combat trauma -- will an army of unfeeling monsters result?
"Soma, Soma, Soma ..." - M. R.
Iraq to reinstate ex-Saddam supporters...
Well then what was the point of the damned invasion?!? - M. R.
January 11, 2008
ALREADY THERE ARE SIX ARTICLES IN THE WRH WIKI!...
Help Defend the Integrity of Our Voting System...
Dennis Kucinich is trying to get a recount of the Democratic primary votes in New Hampshire.
The Granny Warriors already have a recount going for the Republican primary NH vote. If we can get the entire primary recounted, the odds of finding proof of vote fraud double. - M. R.
IT IS OFFICIAL NOW!...
The "Granny Warriors" held a Press Conference today at 1:30 PM to declare they had raised enough money from Ron Paul supporters to pay for the NH Recount.
This means BOTH the Republican and Democratic votes will be recounted. Of course, there will be an attempt to rig the recount, like they did in Ohio.
So, total visibility at all points in the process. None of this "You wait here and we'll bring you a random sample of the ballots to check the totals with" crap they pulled in Ohio. None of this "We'll just run the cards through the scanners a second time", either. No "dangling chads".
Hand count all the votes, in full view of witnesses.
Tar and feather the first vote counter you catch cheating. The rest will suddenly discover that honesty really is the way to go.
- M. R.
Researchers have discovered that eating fat—a very specific kind—is actually one of the best ways to fight both subcutaneous and visceral belly fat.
The Turks and Israelis had planted “moles” in military and academic institutions which handled nuclear technology. Edmonds says there were several transactions of nuclear material every month, with the Pakistanis being among the eventual buyers. “The network appeared to be obtaining information from every nuclear agency in the United States,” she said.
They were helped, she says, by the high-ranking State Department official who provided some of their moles – mainly PhD students – with security clearance to work in sensitive nuclear research facilities. These included the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico, which is responsible for the security of the US nuclear deterrent.
Cleveland sues 21 banks over subprime mess...
Now the muckrakers are dredging up ancient, obscure newsletters written by some equally obscure ghost writing employee(s) of Dr. Paul’s way back in the early 1990’s. This only tells me that Ron Paul is a real threat to the political establishment, and they are pulling out all the stops in an attempt to stop the Ron Paul Revolution.
Without addressing the details of the alleged treatment, the judge said the officials could not be made individually responsible for it under the terms of the suit brought against them, since they were doing their jobs.
So let me get this straight: torture is just fine now as long as it is defined as part of one's job? So when does that trickle down to the cop on the beat, attempting to "extract" some info from a suspected perp? What about the questioning of suspected criminals in jails and courts? We are headed down a very slippery slope with this decision, and it is reminicient of the Nuremberg trials where consistently, the Germans told the prosecutors that they were "just following orders". - M. R.
Guess who's helping Bank of America pay for its $4.1 billion purchase of Countrywide Financial? Answer: The taxpayers of the United States.
a serious look at the Ron Paul platform a serious look at the RP platform...
Another Taser Death...
Taser: Police Brutality with all the modern improvements. - M. R.
January 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
LIKELY VOTE COUNT FRAUD IN IOWA REPUBLICAN CAUCUS UNDER INVESTIGATION.
Former FBI Division Chief, Ted Gunderson sent a private investigator to Iowa for the republican caucus.
This investigator discovered suspicious VOTE COUNT activity that may prove that Dr. Ron Paul and his supporters are victims of fraud. The investigation is continuing and a full report is forthcoming.
Five former Marine recruiters punished for fraudulently enlisting recruits from the Houston area said they were part of a web operating with tacit approval of some superiors. The scandal comes as the Marine Corps and other military services are under increasing pressure to find recruits as wars continue in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Marines are aiming to bulk up from about 184,000 troops to 202,000 by September. There will come a point, in the not too distant future, if we continue to pursue these "wars without end" that even these tactics won't begin to make a dent in the number of soldiers required for them. A draft/ excuse me/ "national service" bill is already sleeping in committee in congress, and it's only a matter of time before it gets activated and passed. - M. R.
No one will admit that the goal is to fudge financial statements, of course. With investors already nervous, the excuse that complying with the rule would cost too much is preferable to an explanation that the reported losses would be too high.
England 's reign as a world power actually began on Threadneedle Street . Then, no bank had its own building and bankers were but goldsmiths who lent money and rented space to do business. But after the moneylenders cut their bargain (and it was a bargain) with King William of England , things were never to be the same, either for England or the moneylenders—or the world.
I like this idea that was posted earlier.
"Bring cell phone cameras into the booth, take screen shots where their ID cards are clearly visible along with their vote choices, and then have them send the images to an independent website in the form of JPG image files. After the ballot counting this can be used as verification to challenge the electronic tabulation of these machines. If a county has zero votes for Ron Paul but you have 50 screen shots with photo IDs visible as JPGs saying otherwise, this is proof the election was rigged I have a better idea.
When you catch someone rigging the vote, hang them from the front of the polling place. After the first few bodies start to get ripe, I'll bet the election gets real honest real quick!
- M. R.
News that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has decided to stop the AdSense partnership with the Israeli company Incredimail (NASDAQ: MAIL) has sent Incredimail stock tumbling. The company said that Google is disabling ads to search result pages displayed through the Incredimail account, and in addition that the Company's AdSense account has been disabled.
Polls taken as late as the day before the Tuesday vote showed Obama up by 10 to 15 points over Clinton, whom he had just beaten the week before in Iowa, but when the votes were counted, Clinton ended up beating Obama in New Hampshire 39.4 per cent to 36.8 per cent. In a replay of what happened in Ohio in 2004, exit polling reportedly also showed Obama to be winning the New Hampshire primary.
When that's not what happened, shocked polling firms and surprised pundits, all of whom had been expecting a big Obama win, were left stumbling for explanations for the Hillary comeback from an 8 per cent drubbing in Iowa (even the Clinton campaign, whose own internal polling had predicted her defeat, were at a loss).
Most physician-owned specialty hospitals are poorly equipped to handle medical emergencies, federal investigators will report today, underscoring a long-standing concern about the rapid rise in the number of such hospitals. The report found that 55 percent of 109 physician-owned hospitals reviewed had emergency departments -- and that the majority of those had only one bed, wrote Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Unemployment Spreads As Foreclosure Storm Hits Major Cities...
Folks, here is the "sitch".
The US econ-tanic is down by the bow and taking on water fast. Desperate measures are being taken to keep the ships of state afloat but the ultimate outcome is inevitable (and has been known to be so for some time).
Bush knows that the economy is about to unravel, and he also knows that the people will blame the government for the melt-down and rightly so, seeing all the money that the government borrows without ever really thinking about how it will be repaid. The Social Security Trust Fund has been looted (along with many others such as the Native American Trust Fund and various Federal Employee Pensions). The Federal Reserve is just printing up new money as fast as it can to keep the liquidity up, but the problem has never been liquidity but solvency.
So, the big kaboinga is right around the corner and this is a major reason WHY Bush is pushing so hard to start a new war, because throughout the history of the United States, the government has ALWAYS distracted from domestic economic blunders by distracting the people with a major war. Most of us recall the connection between the Great Depression and WW2, but few recall that the US was in economic trouble just prior to WW1. In both cases, the fever of war masked the symptoms of hard economic times, and tricked people into lowering their living standards thinking it was for the war when in reality it was to salvage the economy. Capitalism only works when the vast majority of people are intentionally kept poor, and war is a great way to impoverish the people without getting them pissed off.
So, this is why that lame stunt with the speed boats and US warships was pulled. It was supposed to be another "Gulf of Tonkin" hoax to kick off a new war.
and as the economy deteriorates, expect Bush to do something, ANYTHING, to get the war back on track.
Because without a war to mask the economic hardships, the people will turn on the government. - M. R.
Bassem Youssef, the highest ranking Arab-American FBI agent, is scheduled to speak to the ALA on January 12. After receiving a warning on January 3, Youssef decided, on the advice of his attorney, to no longer give the originally planned presentation on what he calls "critical failures within the FBI's counterterrorism program," said to undermine not only Americans' basic constitutional rights, but counterterrorism efforts as well. Instead, he will answer prepared questions from audience members.
If you bought any diamonds from 1994 through March 2006, you can get cash back. The amount of cash you could get depends on how much you paid and the quality of the diamonds. The deadline to file a claim is May 19, 2008.
US Admiral Says Iran Risks Gulf Conflict
US Admiral Says Iran Risks Gulf Conflict
The top U.S. military commander in the Mideast said Friday that Iran runs the risk of triggering an unintended conflict if its boats continue to harass U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf.
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again! - M. R.
Ron Paul Responds to Racism Charge...
Israeli state attorneys argued that the patients do not need to enter Israel through Erez crossing, but should instead go to Egypt whenever the Egyptian border crossings are opened. However, Physicians for Human Rights argued, nobody knows how long it will be before either Kerem Shalom or Rafah border crossings will be open again. How can it possibly be that the children and grand-children of Holocaust survivors have developed a policy which can only be described is their very own "Final Solution" for sick Gazans, particularly for sick infants? - M. R.
The rate of Israeli attacks on, and killings of, Palestinians has doubled since the US-sponsored Annapolis peace summit, former Palestinian information minister and head of the Palestinian National Initiative, Mustafa Barghouthi, announced on Wednesday.
By using a little-known capability found in most Web browsers, Weaver can make a Web page launch a print job on just about any printer on a victim's network. The Web site could print annoying ads on the printer and theoretically issue more dangerous commands, like telling the printer to send a fax, format its hard drive or download new firmware.
"There is no way to know where this (radioed threat) exactly came from. It could have come from the shore... or another vessel in the area,'' Lieutenant John Gay of the US Navy Fifth Fleet in Bahrain said.
Tony Blair has taken a lucrative job with a U.S. bank which is profiting from the Iraq war.
JPMorgan is expected to pay him £1million a year as a part-time adviser.
While the mainstream press is widely reporting a new study "disproving" any link between autism and mercury-containing thimerosal in vaccines, no one has bothered to point out that the study was published in a medical journal stacked full of ads from the very same drug companies that manufacture and market vaccines.
Outcomes of many so-called "scientific" studies are driven by what the funding insititutions want to see happen. This isn't science: it's deception, pure and simple. - M. R.
State Representative Russell Pearce of Mesa Arizona has warned us:
“There is a massive effort under way to register illegal aliens in this country.”
The only way a recount makes any sense at all in New Hampshire is AFTER an assessment is made of the chain of custody issues. If the chain of custody isn't intact the recount won't be worth a cup of warm spit.
When vote fraud was exposed in Ohio in 2004, a recount was ordered. Far from being a random sampling it turned out that ballots were hand picked in order to produce a sample recount that matched the official results. The people who rigged the recount were convicted in court of rigging the recount, so we KNOW that rigging does not stop on election day. The people who rigged New Hampshire election IN BOTH PARTIES will be working just as hard to rig the recount UNLESS New Hampshire voters force the recount to be honest and accurate (see story below about McCain's attempt to steal the Arizona straw poll).
As far as I am concerned, the 2008 election has already lost all credibility. - M. R.
Mystery remains over where voice came from.
The GOP's 30-year-old fusion has unraveled, and that's what principally was on display last night in South Carolina. It no longer has a threefold base -- social, economic and national-security radicals -- but three bases. And there's a huge difference.
Free speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors? Welcome to the new homeland security campus. From Harvard to UCLA, the ivory tower is fast becoming the latest watchtower in Fortress America. The terror warriors, having turned their attention to "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism" – as it was recently dubbed in a House of Representatives bill of the same name – have set out to reconquer that traditional hotbed of radicalization, the university.
ou might ask what I see as humorous about this situation…. just think about it, a man who has backed EVERY evil move made by Israel since he took over the reins as President suggesting to another man whose hands are still dripping with the blood of the Palestinian people, cheered on by his hand picked ‘representative’ of those very people…. calling for an end to the occupation…
Rather than panic, I ran downstairs to the Bodega and asked if they had ‘Yahrtzeit’ candles…. Yahrtzeit candle was the Yiddish term used for memorial candles that came in a glass and burned for 24 hours. The shopkeeper was shocked that I (a Puerto Rican) knew the Yiddish name for those candles and asked how I knew that word. I told him in perfect Yiddish that it was the language spoken in my home by my parents. His response being ” So you are not a Puerto Rican?” I asked if that would make a difference as far as him watching every move I made while shopping in his store. “Of course it will”, he responded….
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees warned on Thursday that the isolation of Gaza was causing untold misery and fostering extremism.
This is precisely the reaction Israel wants to acheive in its growing collective punishment of Gazan Palestinians. If things become intensely violent here, Israel will have its "excuse" to go in and kill every Gazan left breathing, reclaiming this territory for "Eretz Israel". - M. R.
Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel
Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel
Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to US ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a "battle at sea," new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no US commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats.
Paulson Sees `No Evidence' Housing Decline Is Ending...
It will be at least 2009-2010 before it will be time to invest in a home again.
P.S. To all the bozos who kept sending me a story that Paulson had been shot dead, KINDLY STUFF IT!!! - M. R.
Another rocky day for the DOW...
Merrill Lynch is expected to suffer $15 billion in losses stemming from soured mortgage investments, almost double its original estimate, prompting the firm to raise additional capital from an outside investor.
The change of policy came as it became obvious that Gaza water, sanitation and health care systems were badly affected by the cuts. The medical services in Gaza's main hospital were particularly disrupted. Shifa Hospital director Hassan Khalef said: "We were forced to shut down vital systems in the hospital, and we could not clean the hospital, wash linens or operate the sterilization system."
The unblinking eyes of the world, and those of the people belonging to Israeli human rights organizations, will remain fixed the deterioration of the conditions in Gaza for the foreseeable future, and there will be no escape for the Israeli government on this in the court of world opinion, no matter how much they try to spin their actions as "self defense". - M. R.
Suddenly, a group of McCain supporters took the box to count the votes without anyone noticing but us! My Husband John followed them. They went to a corner to count the votes and John jumped in to help count. They informed him that they did not need his help. He pushed his way into the group and let them know that he too would be assisting with the counting. They chose reluctantly not to argue! My husband is a cowboy and was not taking no for an answer. The pile of votes for Ron Paul was so high, that the pile kept falling over onto the John McCain pile. Of course no one was going to recount them but John. He had to keep grabing the McCain pile to separate all the Ron Paul votes from it! It was obvious that they did not intend for him to be there helping! Thank goodness he was there.
To my mind, this disqualifies McCain as a candidate. If he cannot keep his own people in line, he sure as hell can't run an entire country!
- M. R.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert surprised participants at Thursday's working meal of Israeli ministers with US President George W. Bush when he said that it was not the appropriate occasion to discuss the
fate of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
There's also another, very clear and truthful way to characterize Johnathan Pollard, and that is as a traitor to the United States. - M. R.
The Turkish army has reportedly pounded areas across the border in northern Iraq with artillery fire, Iraqi officials say.
All because, after invading and occupying Iraq, the US cannot secure the Iraqi/Turkish border. - M. R.
China’s politically sensitive trade surplus for 2007 soared to a record $262.2 billion (£133.4 billion), a figure that is likely to fuel European and US pressure on Beijing to allow its currency to strengthen.
Investigations are curently being undertaken into about 250 alleged financial and sexual offences, highlighting the scale of possible impropriety afflicting the world body.
Politics is a cesspool. The really big chunks rise to the top. - M. R.
Giuliani staffers reportedly asked to work without pay...
Hey, Wal-Mart is hiring!
- M. R.
The missile, with a range of about 7,000 miles (11,000 kms), is said to be immune to any current and future U.S. ABM defense. It is capable of making evasive maneuvers to avoid a kill by the use of terminal phase interceptors, and carries targeting countermeasures and decoys.
So let me get this straight: the US "missile defense shield", upon with the US government has lavished megabucks, is now totally impotent against this new generation of Russian weapons? - M. R.
New Hampshire voters have chosen warmongers for their party's presidential candidates...
Or ... the war mongers simply stole the election. After all, they are war mongers. They like killing other people. What's stealing a few votes "for the greater good?" Remember, "All's fair in war and ... that other thing." - M. R.
The president's reflex to justify his right to use torture, even as he insists "we don't torture," illuminates how his psychology works and provides a glimpse into its dark potential.
History has shown that the teller of white lies will lose to the teller of black lies, who loses to the thief, who loses to the blackmailer, who loses to the murderer, who loses to the drug lord, who loses to the genocidal tyrant.
The important question in these dark times is therefore not what our government is capable of, but what is our government NOT capable of? - M. R.
US's triple-A credit rating 'under threat'...
You have to love that first sentence, breathlessly warning us that "The US is at risk of losing its top-notch triple-A credit rating within a decade unless it takes radical action to curb soaring healthcare and social security spending". So, what are we supposed to do, collectively throw this country's elderly, medically fragile, and poor under a bus? Hey, I've got a great idea: why don't we radically curb the billions we're spending on these "wars without end": that would have to make some kind of a dent! - M. R.
Many passengers flying from Tel Aviv, Israel, have been quarantined at Toronto's Pearson Int'l Airport after some got sick on board.
The symptoms sound like that orovirus they have been having problems with in Britain. - M. R.
Osama Bin Laden is dead since December 26, 2001. Translation of Funeral Article in Egyptian Paper...
This is the same article I had at the bottom of this page 5 years ago. - M. R.
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Friday the United States would have a long-term presence in Iraq that could "easily" last a decade, but that it would be at the invitation of the Iraqi government.
Translation: we are never leaving Iraq. And subsequent Iraqi governments, under US "protection" will be so weak that they can't "un-invite" us. - M. R.
Wal-Mart hires people on at mostly part-time positions. Most alarming is that Wal-Mart is our nation's largest employer . We no longer mfg the quality goods that America was known for. Now Wal-Mart is filled with Chinese goods of inferior quality. Ten dollars an hour is not a livable wage in these economic times of escalating prices.
"The U.S. has a long history of sailing into Iranian waters and otherwise provoking Iran," according Journalist Reese Erlich, the author the book The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis. He also recalls the incident where the USS Vincennes shot down an unarmed Iranian passenger plane and the US tried to cover up the incident. He further states, “In that context, the US version of events must be carefully examined."
Several commentators in the region have voiced strong misgivings about his intentions, amid fears Washington could resort to military action to halt Iran's disputed nuclear drive. Although Kuwait is welcoming Bush as a friend, officials have said the emirate will not allow the United States to use its territory as a launchpad for any strike against Iran. "Mr President, the region needs smart initiatives not smart bombs," the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai said in a front-page editorial. The Kuwatis are no fools. They too have read the article posted yesterday in "presscue.com" which stated unequivocally that "US President George W. Bush promised Israel's opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu that the United States will join the Jewish state in a nuclear strike against Iran, Israel Radio reported today." They will sip tea with Bush, smile, and offer....absolutely nothing in the way of support. - M. R.
Demand Corporate Media Cover Vote Fraud Story...
If there were ever a time to chase corporate media people down the streets with tar, feathers, and ropes, now is the time to do it. The talking heads openly admit that the exit polls in New Hampshire don;t match the official results, but even though it was the mismatched exit polls in Ohio in 2004 that exposed massive vote fraud there (and fraud in the recount as well), the talking heads are too timid to make the obvious connection here. They are more afraid of their corporate and political masters than of their audience and that is a state of affairs guaranteed to bury the truth of what is going on.
- M. R.
Kucinich Asks for New Hampshire Recount in the Interest of Election Integrity...
If he puts it THAT way then I would be worried that the people who rigged the election will also rig the recount (as they did in Ohio).
New Hampshire voters need to be standing right there when they recount BY HAND the optical scan ballots from every precinct where electronic machines were used. None of this "pick and choose" sample crap. We already caught them doing that in Ohio and the crooks wound up with probation instead of the jail they deserved. And despite Ohio's vote being found to be fraudulent, nobody dared take the next obvious step and point out that Bush could not have won the election if he did not in fact win Ohio.
It amazes me to see the abject cowardice on display by the mainstream media as they scratch their heads and wonder why the exit polls were so far out of skew in New Hampshire, when it was out-of-skew exit polling in Ohio that exposed vote fraud there.
- M. R.
Hinn and Dollar are among six televangelists being investigated by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley to determine if the high-profile preachers violated their organizations' tax-exempt status by living lavishly on the backs of small donors. They have denied wrongdoing.
If "the faithful" of these televangelists knew where their pledge dollars were really going, they might well be flabbergasted. - M. R.
US backs down over Gulf claims...
Once again we catch the US Government red-handed lying to justify a war of conquest.
You remain silent at risk of being judged complicit in the crime. - M. R.
YouTube - Ron Paul at the South Carolina Debate 1-10-08 Ron Paul at the South Carolina Debate 1-10-08...
After weathering nearly five years of war, Baghdad residents thought they'd pretty much seen it all. But Friday morning, as muezzins were calling the faithful to prayer, the people here awoke to something certifiably new.
For the first time in memory, snow fell across Baghdad. "Okay, okay, ditch the carbon tax, start pushing an ice tax. It doesn't really matter as long as we get more and they have less." -- Official White Horse Souse - M. R.
Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to U.S. ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a "battle at sea", new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no U.S. commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats.
President Pervez Musharraf warned that U.S. troops would be regarded as invaders if they crossed into Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan in the hunt for al-Qaida or Taliban militants, according to an interview published Friday.
One either wants to laugh at his naivete, or cry. It is almost as though he ferverntly believed that his very presence would whip the Israelis and Palestinians into a frenetic chorus of "Kumbyah", and a whirlwind of truly meaningful negotiations.
January 10, 2008
Philip Agee, former agent of the CIA, died in Havana, Cuba, on 8 January 2008 at the age of 72. He was the first agent to leave "The Company" and reveal its dirty secrets, having become disillusioned with its appalling practices in Latin America.
John Berlin: Why the US Wants the Collapse of Pakistan...
NEW! THE WHATREALLYHAPPENED WIKI PAGE!...
Wikipedia deleted their stories about whatreallyhappened.com, so as an experiment, here is a brand new wiki just for the readers of whatreallyhappened to play with!
- M. R.
Sir Edmund Hillary dies...
Today, where the top of Mt. Everest has become a regular tourist attraction (albeit still a hazardous one) it is hard to comprehend that when Sir Edmund Hillary reached the top of Mount Everest, it had the global impact of the first man landing on the Moon.
In the last Century, the map of the world still had bounds to it, lines to the north, south, altitude, and depth, past which humans had never gone. Everest represented the highest point on Earth man could walk to; once conquered there was no place left to go. The line of altitude had been forever erased.
The great explorers are few in number, and today they number one less.
- M. R.
Just last week, one of our organizers was at a town hall meeting for John McCain in Derry, New Hampshire. When an audience member asked him what he thought about President Bush's plan to keep troops in Iraq for 50 years, McCain answered, "make it a hundred."
Since our last update, we have received numerous tracking measurements of asteroid 2007 WD5 from four different observatories. These new data have led to a significant reduction in the position uncertainties during the asteroid's close approach to Mars on Jan. 30, 2008. As a result, the impact probability has dropped dramatically, to approximately 0.01% or 1 in 10,000 odds, effectively ruling out the possible collision with Mars.
It would appear that only Dr. Paul can make this request to the Secretary of State and there's a short time frame.
New Hampshire Election Fraud: Hillary LOST the paper ballot count but WON the optical scan ballot count. Obama WON the paper ballot count but LOST the optical scan ballot count.
The Meanest Thing Gizmodo Did at CES...
Geeks armed with a universal TV-off tool video tape their pranks at CES. - M. R.
NH Race: The OSCE consider an exit poll discrepancy to be prima facie evidence of tampering...
MATTHEWS: So what accounts for Hillary Clinton's victory in New Hampshire? What we don't know is why the victory is so much different in fact, then the polling ahead of time, including what we call the Exit Polls were telling us. Obama was ahead in those polls by an average of 8 points, and even our own Exit Polls, taken as people came out of voting, showed him ahead. So what's going on here?
YouTube - "Ron Paul left out of CNN pie chart" 08 Jan 08...
While on the plane, still full of rage, I wrote on every page in the magazines provided by the airline “I am a Holocaust survivor and I will ‘never again’ return to Israel.” I
California Toll Agency Wants Power to Seize Cars...
The last official act of any government is to loot its population. - M. R.
"Word Has It" - Dennis Kucinich Will Be Filing For A Recount In NH...
Remind the recounters that the recounters in Ohio who were caught rigging the recount have been sentenced to JAIL. - M. R.
Fed Is Ready to Cut Interest Rates Again...
I guess we're not saying that it absolutely came from the boats, but we're not saying it absolutely didn't." - Spokesperson for the US admiral in charge of the 5th Fleet.
Well, that just about sums it up! And remember: who has the most to gain in the region by creating a false flag op which causes a military confrontation between the US and Iran? - M. R.
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